In this edition of Trend Shapiro’s Fortnite Foray, Jack and Miles discuss Donald Trump’s disapproval rating reaching an all-time high of 58%, along with Trump skipping Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding. They also break down Starbucks’ latest advertising controversy, which echoes the company’s infamous 2002 “Collapse Into Cool” misstep, in which a poster promoting two new beverages drew criticism for imagery reminiscent of the September 11 attacks. The new campaign was tied to the release of a new oversized tumbler called The Tank, launched on May 18th and branded as “Tank Day.” The problem: May 18th is the anniversary of the Gwangju Democratic Uprising in South Korea, when the military-controlled government used tanks to suppress pro-democracy demonstrations. Next, they discuss the shooting outside the White House, which was covered by several media members who were filming at the time and the administration's use of the shooting as a justification for the White House ballroom. Next, in an effort to slow subscriber losses at The Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro streamed himself playing Fortnite for the first time. Finally, the day after the final episode of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert guest-hosted Only in Monroe, a public-access show from Monroe, Michigan, featuring guests Jack White, Jeff Daniels, and Steve Buscemi.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The one thing that's sucking me up is Drake. Drake
just bet a ton of money on Arsenal.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah, that's tough when your team is like when Drake.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
The biggest thing is when Drake bets on your team,
You're like, get the fuck out of here.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
But is he the is he the cooler, the international cooler?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I mean he's he's pretty hit or miss. Like there's
times he announces big bets and then everyone's like, I
feel like that one year the Chiefs didn't win, Oh right,
but yeah, yeah, but whatever, the guy's that guy has
bigger problems than this. And when I was talking to
other people, like what are we going to do, They're like, bro,
this ship is bigger than fucking hip hop broke.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
The biggest problem is what was he gonna do with
all these awesome songs? Yeah, and then three dang albums
come on, man, dude, he's got to put him somewhere.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
He's got these he's gonna do.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
With all these streams. Let's see if he's still dominating
the top twenty.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Listening to one any of the three albums I breezed
through Iceman, I haven't made it through all three.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I just I don't have the time for that much
straight but right, you're right.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
It is a breezy listen, very easy, goes down easy,
very good, right, good, good pointing in.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, lyrics are very challenging.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Oh man, but really a lock on the.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
What's how's you doing on the streams there? Let me
check for you here, because because that proves you're better.
You're a better rapper than Drake?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
All right, I mean the top five. Uh, Choosing Texas
has invaded the top ten. Brake is no longer in Texas.
Choosing Texas is a song that I am unfamiliar with
but has been I saw like a little headline somewhere
that said that choosing Texas is like breaking records in
(01:51):
terms of streams. Uh. And Ella Langley's be Her has
also broken into the top twenty.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
That's also Langley. This is choosing Texas.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Oh yeah, they're both Ella Anglan bro.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
This ship is kicking Drakes, just whooping Drake's ass.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I mean not really, it's number five. Drake's in hell
over over this right now? Oh yeah, yeah, but he
loves but he loves Houston.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
What is he gonna do? He's always choosing Texas.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Oh that's a thing. Olivia Rodrigue is broken into the
global Top twenty fuck yeah and uh a guy. Olivia
was also wearing an arsenal kit. Recently, a guy named
Michael Jackson has broken into the top twenty.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Oh you didn't beat it or something.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Billy Jean.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Oh, Billy Jean came back.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, Billy Jean. Huh who knew? So that's just that? Yeahah,
have you heard this guy?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I'll bite. Who's this Michael Jackson?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, I'm gonna check him out. He sounds like he's
doing big things.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It has that beat, dude, the second that bit bro
that already you already know what time it is.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I think the reason Michael Jackson's doing well is because
Drake references his his glove on the cover of his
new album Yeah it was all Drake. That's viral marketing
for Michaels Drake.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
It's not the movie either.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It's not the movie. It's Drake putting the Michael Jackson
glove on the cover in a very weird pop culture reference.
For somebody who's been accused of liking a minor.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Man, this is I don't even know. I haven't even
heard the other two albums. I'm just got Iceman on loop. Dude.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Drake is fucking back, bro Jack, you really got to
get get in, man, you don't want to miss this track.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I'm maverick to your Iceman. You know, go nose to
nose with you and and a towel and a steamy
uh locker room. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Also, all I'm saying is, you know, Jared McCain famously
huge Drake fan. He was really excited for these for
Iceman to drop. Ever since those three albums came out,
Thunder been losing.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I don't know say.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I blame him. I was saying, I blame him. And
you know who I blame for the Knicks being on
a unstoppable ten game stretch, of the most dominant ten
game stretch of NBA basketball ever, Drake. Little guy by
the name of Zora Mom Donny Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I mean he's winning, bro, Between Arsenal and the Knicks.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I know, he's what is fucking summer, what the fuck
is going on with He's going to be having a
fucking sound. That's who we need to look. Who's where
he's putting his money?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
You know, bro, I want to see his polymarket account.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I bet he's been like twenty dollars at a OTB.
Oh yeah, just with the like jankiest.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
They're like, yo, whoa mister mayor.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
No, no, no, man, give me freaking twenty on the Knicks. Bro,
hurry up?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
The fuck is going on? Bro?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Dressed up like a hesthetic guy like Bono?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Oh yeah wait, why did Bono dress like a Hasidic Jew?
What was it for?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Just you know, being Bono not not wanting in the cut?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, Bono acid.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I think he like might have gotten to a bike
accident or something. There was like some incident that happened
and they were like, wait a second, that's no hasidic jew,
that is Bono.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Oh it's because the Edge said that he rides around
on a bike like that.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
That was on k Rock. Wow. I like that. Someone
was like, no, he he is not. His publicistm like, no,
he's not doing that.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Right, Yeah, I mean that is kind of problem. Yeah,
somebody should have said something. Hello the Internet and welcome
to this week trend edition of Guys, this production of iHeartRadio.
(05:52):
This is the podcast but you take a deep dive
into America's share consciousness and on the first recording after
the weekend, the long weekend. In this case, we do
like to dive in and tell you what was trending
over the long weekend and what's going on with us.
My name is Jeff O'Brien. That over there's mister Miles.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Thank you so much. You can call me supporter of
Premier League champions Arsenal Football Club Miles Great, Thank you
so much.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yes, I'm a champion, Jack. You're still floating on air.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Oh I'm gonna be floating on air for a while, okay,
because when you haven't won shit for twenty two years
and that shit comes, God bless. I actually had a
really good conversation with somebody who was a Cubs fan recently.
It was like I get it, man, you fucking get it.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And I'm like, thank you, thank you man. I appreciate it, man,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Just crying. Yeah, yeah, the past two weeks.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
And he was like, look, dude, I'm still not gonna
give you this pizza for free, just because.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
We're basically.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I forgot my wallet and everything.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, so we're gonna tell you some stuff that happened
over the weekend. We can talk about Donald Trump not
going to a son's wedding, a yet another assassination attempt.
An amazing story about Starbucks. Yeah, what get another weird
ad campaign that I had forgot? The collapse into cool posters.
(07:20):
I think we had talked about it here, But every
time I relearn about the collapse into cool nine to
eleven ad campaign from Starbucks, my brain goes on the
same journey where it's like this has to be fake.
Wait a second, this actually happened. Anyways, we're gonna get
to that, but first we like to let you get
to know us a little bit better by telling you
(07:41):
some things we think are underrated, some things we think
are overrated. Miles, let's kick it off with something you
think is underrated.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Underrated Arsenal Football Club.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Oh okay, yeah, let's speak on that. Because I've been
hearing some things about this, I.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Just have to say it. Couple things, okay. I've been
supporting this team since about two thousand and one, two
thousand and two, mm hmm. I was fortunate enough to
watch us lift the title the trophy twenty two years
ago in two thousand and four, and then the years
in between was like the first five years. We were
(08:20):
still riding off the high of winning within you know how,
like you can kind of still ride that high, like, yeah,
we did win a couple of years ago. Yeah, and
then a couple of years ago turns into five years
and turns to ten and turns to fifteen and turns
to twenty and by around ten years you people start
looking at you funny, being like, bro, stop talking about
when you lot you won ten years ago, Like you
guys aren't winning shit right now.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
But there's a picture of you like celebrating that win,
and you're wearing like a full gene outfit, like yeah, yeah, yea.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I got two head bands on crisscrossed on my head,
like three wristbands off my arm.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
You have a band aid under your eye, like, oh
yeah I have.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I have two white t's on one half on the
other on top of my other white tea. It was
it was a beautiful time. I was wearing jerbo jeans.
But like in that in that in that period, right,
we didn't do anything, and a lot of other teams
came up that were winning consistently and got a ton
of the fans, like a lot of people supporting them
in that era and the ones that still hung on.
(09:18):
We weren't No one could ever accuse us of glory hunting,
you know what I mean, or like bandwagoning, because we
weren't fucking doing shit functionally on paper, but there was
still this belief and the fact that it has come off. Now,
I'm telling you we are in the midst of seeing
a global mass Catharsis event. Okay, because people are celebrating
in India, Vietnam, Kenya, Japan, America, Okay, you name it
(09:44):
where this is.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I'm assuming this is common for any team that wins
this level of.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I will say, yeah, when Liverpool won it about six
years ago. Six years ago, it had been thirty years
since they won, and they fucking turned up and I
get it because it had been thirty years. That was
like the last time it's been at this level. The
teams that have other like this one team Manchester City,
they they have just been like using brute force of
(10:12):
economics and a bunch of like economic they're doing like
shit that they're getting in trouble for financially to get
signed the players that they do right. And so when
they win, they just had a parade for like their
legendary manager went bro. There was barely any people that
came out for that shit wow, And a lot of
people are lamenting. They're like, God, the culture just is
not there, and there's some there's just something about.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
This football brings us together culture and for the people
that laugh songs, the people that laugh and say, uh,
you guys are when we are fucking massive.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Look around you, you know, I'm sure you're seeing people
rolling up in they're red and white, and I too
will be soon.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I'm seeing it every I'm seeing people. I wouldn't have
recognized it otherwise, but.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Oh every time I wear something someone was like, oh yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
You guys are particularly international. You were saying, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I mean like because of the embrace of like international players,
of diversity, like we were. You know where Arsenal is
is like in some of like the blackest parts of London,
so the fan base like it's it's it's embraced the
support of like black fans, black players. We were the
first team to like field I think nine black players
on the field at once, which was like unheard of
(11:23):
in England at the time. And we've sat the reverse
Red Sox Verse Red Sox Reverse Boston teams. Yes, we're
Reverse Boston. We're David Stern's worst and best, worst nightmare
and greatest dream ever. Thank you so much, David Stern.
But like to that end, there's just been a history
of like giving players a chance and like allowing players
(11:46):
from Togo or the Ivory Coast or Nigeria to like
be part of our starting lineup, and that's created a
ton of interest from around the world. Arsen Benger, our
most legendary manager, came from Japan, which is how I
even heard of him, because he was really popular in Japan,
and that's when like all the Japanese people were like,
oh shit, Arsenal. So I'm just saying for all the
(12:06):
people that like, I'm gonna keep talking about this because
this is the this is the greatest with the.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Show in my life. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're this is Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I'm gonna have my dad back on podcas. I'm gonna
have my dad back on to keep talking about Arsenal.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Next time.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I'm like, gon say somebod Arsenal.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Right, now, is your dad a fan?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Fuck? No, he's a Laker fan. I mean, like that's
where I get my Laker fandom from my dad. But like, no,
he likes Arsenal because he knows that I've been waking
up at like four am to watch matches live for
twenty two years, sure and obsessed with it. So yeah, biasmosis.
He is happy that I have this thing saying yeah,
thank you, thank you, Danny.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I'm always I'm always rooting for Arsenal because I have
no reason not to.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Thank you, Jack, And it was because of you we
shared this with you. What's something you think is underrated?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I'm you know, I'm not gonna take all the credit,
but yeah I did. I did a lot of work,
a lot of heavy lifting. Definitely something I think is underrated.
Taken a hard turn. How how much human trafficking is
about labor?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Hm?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
When when I hear the phrase human trafficking, I picture
Liam Neeson's daughter being taken or you know the sound
of Freedom trailer, certainly the Epstein Files. You know, human
trafficking of wait teenagers from America is so routine in
(13:35):
the in these worlds that like Liam Neeson is able
to tell her, oh okay, you're about to be taken.
He's just like that was the drill. Some people broke
into your apartment. Oh yeah, you're about to be heroin
slaved on a yacht, Like that's that's just how those works.
And there I was reading a New Yorker article over
the weekend about human you know, human trafficking being a
(13:58):
massive problem in the United States, but you know, specifying
that it's rarely the blonde American women being kidnapped from
parking lots after someone put a zip tie on their
door handle. Yeah yeah, right, that meme over during the
pandemic and taken to foreign countries. It's actually mostly immigrants
(14:19):
from other countries being exploited and forced into doing labor,
serving people like those white ladies for little to no money.
It's the same reason America has been using slave labor
for centuries, because it's indicated to make money. Yeah, run
on slavery exactly. And you know, so there was like,
(14:44):
so this article is just about all the ways that
human trafficking is used to fuel cheap labor, and it
can be there's like an example of a twenty twenty
four pizza chain in Massachusetts was convicted of using forced
labor to make undocumented workers where fourteen hours a day, right,
and I have to imagine like it's like a point
(15:06):
that they make is like if something's prices are like
if a place's prices are too good to be true,
like you should maybe like think about how how that's happening.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Wait, so what's what's the what's like The examples are
like pizza place, massage place.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Well from the article. According to the Department of Homeland Security,
the majority of trafficking victims seventy seven percent, are forced
into labor in the US. Most of these labor trafficking
victims are immigrants working in a commercial enterprise such as
a hotel or a beauty salon for little to no pay.
But there's also you know, restaurants, restaurant chains, and then
(15:45):
domestic labor is also a big thing. Like the article
is about somebody who is, you know, a twelve year
old from Africa who is like brought to this rich
family's house and basically like lives in slavery until her
twenties in this wealthy suburb of Houston, and people are like,
(16:09):
seems weird, and they would like make individual complaints to
the police, but nobody would actually like act on it
until she finally just like started talking to people and
being like, hey, I think this is bad what's happy
to be as bad. Yeah, it's it's also just the
politics of the people who are you know, on the right,
(16:34):
who are afraid of non white people. You know, a
lot a lot of the anti trafficking fear on the
right is like these immigrants are gonna come in and
like take us and take us to other countries. And
it's like it's actually those politics that are making it possible,
because like the threat that is used to keep people
(16:58):
in these situations is basically like I've got your travel documents,
like what, you're gonna run away and get picked up
by ice? Yeah, that's for you.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
That was another thing people were saying about the ice
rads is that like this is this is making the
situation worse for the people that are already in these
precarious like not even like working relations in these like
forms of slavery indentured servitude. Yea that yeah, to have
that be like oh well, all it's gonna take now
is me to make one little call, then you'll end
up somewhere fucked up. Yeah yeah, well yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
It really like it feels like it's about a terrible
situation in America and it's mostly about pre this administration
like a version of America that existed before this administration,
and like everything that they've done has made the situation
like way worse, could get impossibly worse.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Well, yeah, because it's never about the what they say
it's about, right, you know what I mean. It's because
if it was, they'd be doing something different.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
But yeah, all these like affordable things that in the
US like a lot a lot of the time they're
being driven, like, you know, just doing the Steve Jobs
episode of the Iconograph, a lot of his you know genius,
like the the the ability to like do these big
drops of iPhones was made possible by like going to
(18:22):
horrible labor practices over in China. You know. So it's
a lot of a lot of the deals and a
lot of the increasingly unaffordable. But like the the ways
that America is affordable is through horrible labor practices or
you know, indentured servitude, and like these things that people
(18:43):
can't wouldn't believe are just like hiding and play in
sight all around us. Right, So that's something I was
personally under rating. And also the knicks I did not
realize that I did not did not realize the last
ten games was the most dominant stretch in the history
of the NBA. Yeah, what is something, Miles? Do you
(19:04):
think is overrated?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Manchester City? But I don't have to get into that.
You already know I hold that out overrated. How casual
we are as adults about the achievement of pooping in
the toilet? Hmmm, we just do our business.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
You deserve more credit coming.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I uh, you've always said this.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Look come out of the bathroom and you say I
did a big one.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
I go, I go, Jack, come check this out, and
you're like, nah, it's fine. I go, all right, Well,
then just at least clap please clap, ye please? Did
I do? Jeb Bush? I close the door, please clap,
and everyone goes, Miles, please flush and okay, one second,
I'll be.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Right back on. You just have to as soon as
you check it out.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Okay, clap though, and then I will do it. But no,
like the guys child across the Rubicon, I love to
say that of like potty training, where he's being going
peepee in the toilet, wouldn't go poop poo And last
night he did. Dude, he was so fucking happy. He's
(20:06):
happier than I am about arsenal wind and that brought
me to tears because his sense of it it was
so fucking pronounced. Dude, I couldn't ut him. He wanted
a fucking backflip. He was so like yeah in the toilet.
I was like yes. I was like, fuck, yeah, that's
what I'm talking about. Keep doing it, Keep doing that.
(20:29):
And then he then he got in bed and he
was like, oh wait, wait, hold on. He has like
a little Jack Skellington, like plushy kind of thing, and
he goes Jack, Jack has to go to the bathroom.
Jack got to go to the bathroom too. And I
was like, all right, we'll do that more. He's like, no,
he has to go to the bathroom. And I was
like all right, So I just like, you know, like
puppeteered the Jack Skellington over to his little mini to
I was like, okay, see, oh he's done. He goes, okay,
(20:50):
put his put his put his underwear on now, and
put his pajamas on. I'm like, okay, there you go.
And then he held it and goes, I'm so proud
of you, Jack, you went poop in the toilet.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I'm gonna tell. He's like, I'm gonna tell Nana, I'm
gonna tell blah blah blah. I'm so proud of you.
And he kept making his dolls go to the bathroom
and saying he was proud of them. I was like,
I was loving it, and part of me was like,
God damn, man, these small victories are just so great victories.
You gotta appreciate him, Yeah, you have to. My other
(21:20):
overrated is like habituation, I think is what the term
is called, where like you become so used to your
environment that it's not novel or anything like. It's just
like anything like you get exposed to something over time,
it's not interesting. Yeah, pooping in the toilet and other
and other parts. Was just like I was driving down
(21:42):
like the one oh one, like near Ventura County, where
like it's by the ocean, and I was like, God damn,
she is beautiful. Yeah, And I was like I really
don't give a fuck about the Pacific Ocean because I
grew up near it. And I was like, in any
other fucking context, i'd be like, well, the way, windows down,
check this thing out. This is a beautiful day. I'm
(22:03):
looking at the sea, and I'm realizing too, not that
it's like a bad thing, but like when you get
used to things like that, sort of magic goes away.
And it's just funny how like the juxtaposition of suddenly
you go on vacation you're like, well, look at this street.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I'm walking on.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
It's like blows your mind. And I think it's it's
important to like not that you have to fight against that,
but know that that's what's happening. Like this shit is beautiful.
You're just used to it so much that you can't
quite you know, like it's not novel anymore. Yeah, And
like that's just kind of a practice recently, just in
general of like things I feel like I've gotten used
to that should offer me a glimpse into like beauty
(22:40):
of humanity. Uh, trying to really like embrace those and
remind myself like in any other fucking context, this would
be like mind blowing to you. So at least appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Do you get yourself out? I don't.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I don't know how I'm still the way I am
doing it is like you don't think that's cool because
you're so used to it, and trying try and remember
that this is new, and I think that's the pooping
and the ocean and all I do think.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Yeah, I think that's one of the great things about
being around children, you know, is that they're like.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Whoa, you know that sense of wonder?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Yeah you don't you wanna. In my experience, like I
try to feed off their sense of wonder and their
sense of like what's new, rather than them just picking
up on my sense of like being over it, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
as much as possible.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Yeah, I got you got a yes and them, Yeah
that's Jack Skillinton taking the wow ship.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Too, I do. Yeah. There's that like meme of people
being like every time you drive by cow, you just
go col right right, right right, Like every time we
drive by the ocean, I'm like, guys, look at the
and they're just like, uh huh.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
At this point, Oh, I was looking at this shop.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
How big it is?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
It's I'm I can't lie. Interstellar had me thinking.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
About imagine that was in slow motion though.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Dude, imagine if we just went on the water for
two seconds and seventy years went by dog think like
that what anyway, So anyway, habituation, pooping in the toilet,
find the wonder.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
My overrated is my understanding of idioms? I came across
an idiom that I've been using wrong. So do you
know you know the phrase for all intents and purposes
that people say for all intents and purposes? Yeah, And
it's just like, now that we're on the internet and
writing everything down, everyone's like, oh, everybody think everybody thinks
(24:37):
it's all for all intensive purposes. I've always sat back
and laughed smugly at those people. And then my son, yourself,
my very inquisitive eight year old son. One of the
three thousand questions he asked this weekend was what what
does sight for sore eyes mean? And I said, Oh,
(25:02):
it's like when somebody like looks sorry or kind of
like messed up, Like you'd be like, oh, look at
this site for sore eyes.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Oh yeah, you're trying to do the eight year old
version of when someone looks like shit.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah, when someone looks like shit, like a group of
hungover people roll up and their boss would say, look
at this site for sore eyes. That's how I had
always used it, how I had always understood it. I
don't know that I used it that much because I'm
not a middle school gym teacher. But it's it is
a phrase that like I'm sure I've used and like
(25:32):
had a very firm understanding. And then my wife was
like that not only is it like not that, it's
not even it just means being happy to see someone
that you've missed.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
What the fuck?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yeah? No, Yes, a site for sore eyes is like,
your eyes are sore because you've missed them, and this
is a site that relieves well, I thought it was
looking like you thought I was looking like shit too.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Actually, a site for sore eyes, aren't you basically saying don't.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
You look like shit? Yeah, and you look it up online.
It's pretty ambiguous that there is like one Reddit thread
where somebody's like, my English boyfriend thinks that site for
sore eyes means you look like shit, and I'm I
don't know if he's I don't know if it's a
British thing or if he's like stupid, And everybody's pretty unambiguous.
(26:27):
They're like, oh, yeah, I think I might have heard
it that way once or twice.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
But the true meaning is it's something you it's like
longed to see. Yes, I've finally seen it.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
You're your parent you're coming home after a long time
away and your parents say, ah, you're a site for
sore eyes. I felt like mom was using it that way,
and I thought she just noticed that I was hung over.
Look at this site for sore eyes like expressing love. Yeah,
(26:57):
I'm like that, look like drink Southern comfort for the
first time. Oh man, Well yeah, I don't know, Man,
I now I'm on the lookout for like other idioms,
I've been missus.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
We've always been a UK podcast in it bro.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I know, in it brov. Yeah, but I don't know.
There are plenty of people in the reddit thread being
like I'm from the UK. I've never heard that ship
because it's just little pockets of degenerates, of insecure degenerates
being right, they can't miss me.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Like shit, no fucking wait this, I make your eyes
burned because I look like shit, that's what you mean.
I'm making your I'm an eye sore.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Yeah, but yeah, Zichang, I don't know. Are we are
we alone? Have you been misusing this?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Are you even using it? Still?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Nobody's using it?
Speaker 1 (27:53):
But yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Sometimes sometimes your eight year old comes at you with
a question. You answer confidently. He's just reading you know, dude,
this is the problem with books, man, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Man, Like, he's now able to fucking humiliate you.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
My wife is like, no video games, only reading. And
then he like gets these ideas.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
And he goes like, and why you're explaining? He just
got going.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
He knew what it was? What what? What?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Go ahead? What is it? He knew?
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Oh my god, guys, my dad, he's dumb. You're right.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Talking to his stuff. He's all right, let's take a
quick break.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Proud of you.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
We'll be right back. Ian. What did you have for
a site for sores?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Oh? I knew what it meant.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Yeah, you knew the correct version.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Yeah, I'm not an idiot.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
But the fuck like he didn't. Just yeah, no, I
believe the other version, he said. No, I had it right, Yeah,
I had it right.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
It's like, oh, it's like my eyes are sore, and
you're like a pleasant thing to look at. It's like
your relief for my sore eyes. You know, I thought
it was It must have come from I think because
like iesore. I think people must have mixed that up,
because I sore is.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
The Yeah, something that looks disgusting. It looks like shit
for me. It has to be the reason, because so
much TV and film has influenced my entire reality. I
feel like it had to have been like two movies
where it was said wrong and I go, yeah, that's
the fucking truth right there.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Yeah, maybe maybe I'll have to do further research.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
But but then I guess, you know, what it could
be is that it was being used sarcastically and I
didn't understand the sarcasm.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Which is humiliating. Yeah yeah, but they're like, oh, I
pride myself on getting the sarcastm.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
But I think but at my age, I didn't realize
the sarcasm him of looking like shit, right, yeah, with
someone being like, oh, aren't you a sight for sore
eyes because you look like shit?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
And happy to see you?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, yeah, you guys look great.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
So it is back to us looking like ship.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
All right, It's back to us looking like ship. But
they need it ironically that they want to see you
because you look like shit.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
That makes sense. Okay, Oh good god, I still look
like shit. I still look like people aren't happy to
see me. And we're back and uh. Donald Trump had
had quite the weekend. First of all, just big News.
He's hit his highest ratings. We know this man pays
(30:44):
attention to the ratings. Look at these ratings, highest ratings ever.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Outdone myself again, he's broken his own highest rating ever
for disapproval, You fucking losers. He's currently Fox News, their
own pole has him are around sixty percent disapproval. He's
currently averaging up. The average of all the major poles
is about fifty eight point three percent. The only reason
(31:11):
I'm bringing this up is because it's the worst it's
ever been, and it's actually lower. It's a lower rating
that he than he had right after fucking January sixth.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
That like when.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Everyone's like, ah, I can't fucking do this shit anymore.
He's there just right now because of his I need ballroom.
I don't care about gas. I love Jesus nuts. Yeah,
you're filling up your tank with peanuts.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
He might have actually thought he might just not know
how cars work and thought that you're, actually, dude, right
filling your car, or.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Maybe had like an old car where a squirrel was
hiding nuts in the gas tank and he's like, you
fill it up with acorns?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Right? Do I have this?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
But yeah, you're the lowest it's ever been, and I
think it based on like everything I said. He's not
doing a single fucking thing to like try and reverse course.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Hm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
He's just like having all the people in his cat. Oh.
Also forgot to mention Tulci Gabbard stepped down over the weekend.
I was almost like, wait, there wasn't someone left in humiliation.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Consequences for women only in this administration. But she was
kind of anti war. That was her, like the anti
war for being in the administration. So they're revin up
the engine.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Yeah, and I think when she had to be like yeah, Iran,
it was a threat. She's like, you even came up
here and said everything was obliterated last time. It's like,
I know, guys, I'm sorry, I'm I've debased myself. I
don't know what to do anymore. But yeah, anyway, that's
that's what has happened. But yeah, Trump is not fully
not focused on anything domestic.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
It's crazy that he's that despised because he has such
good instincts for doing likable things, like for instance, skipping
Donald Trump Junior's wedding weekend.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
It makes that SoundBite that we played where we're like
he's probably talking about his fiance. Most likely it doesn't
fit like where he goes and I've known him if
I've known them for many years, my own son, whose
wedding I could give a fuck less about.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Yeah, So, just to recap, he said he didn't even
want to go. When asked about it, he replied, he'd
like me to go, but this is not good timing
for me. I have a thing called Iran and other things,
which is so we talked about that. At the end
of last weekend, it was still unclear if he was
going to go or not. He said he was going
to get blamed for going to his own son's wedding,
(33:39):
which is it would not have happened. People I don't.
I don't think I've ever seen I've seen like people. Yeah, Like,
nobody's ever gotten blamed for going to their kid's wedding
like that.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
No, you get blamed for fucking around all the time
and not doing it a goddamn Thinger's president, that's yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
So he didn't go. The weekend happened, he didn't go,
and he you know, it was because of how busy
he was. He still somehow found the time to post
an onslaught of memes, including an AI generated video of
himself throwing Stephen Colbert into a dumpster, and a touching
tribute to Hulk Hogan, which is just a picture of
(34:17):
Hulk Hogan saying we all missed the Huckster instead of
the whole Oh.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Boy, he looks like shit in that picture, Hulk.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean he's just I think that's
after one of his more impressive wins, making it all
even funnier. The bride of Donald Trump Junior, which I
for some reason I haven't been keeping up. I thought
he was still with Kimberly Gilfoyle. Oh oh Jack, No, no, no,
he's married a socialite from Florida, but Tina Anderson, who
(34:55):
wanted to get married at the White House, but the
President didn't think it was a good idea.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Put the kibosh on that.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I'd rather have a UFC fight there. Yeah, this is
only for really important stuff. I do think that that's
a good indication that she's in it for love. That
she was like, can we get married at the place
where your dad works? That would be really cool for me. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Yeah, No, they got married in the Bahamas.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
It looks like yeah, hell yeah, man, look at.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Them thirty nine year old socialite got forty eight. He's
forty eight years youngs. Don't tell me drugs age you okay,
guy looks fucking great.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Dude, the most cocaine eyes that have ever been on
cocaine you think he was. I wonder if that was
in her vals. And you have the greatest little piss
holes in the snowbank eyes. Oh, I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
The way you make my stomach as if I were
the one snorting baby laxative. It's impressive and I love you, honey.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Let's talk Starbucks. Let's talk about the books. They have
launched a marketing campaign reminiscent of a real world tragy
for the second time, and I just it's it needs
to be repeated every time Starbucks marketing comes up. They
(36:29):
had a campaign in April two thousand and two, so
less than a year after September eleventh, and the picture
was two drinks with a dragonfly looking like it was
about to fly into one of the drinks, and the
copy was collapse into cool. Not a phrase, miles, not
(36:54):
a phrase, No, no collapse the wording collapse.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Into cool, collapse into cool, And I'm seeing two things.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Two things with a dragonfly looking.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Dragonfly in the background, like.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Kind of poised to fly right into one.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
A little bit of nine to eleven in there.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
It's like it feels like every time I see it,
I'm like that it has to be satire. And then
I'm like, okay. So the person responsible for that ad,
whether they were conscious or not, they were thinking about
nine to eleven right, Like, there's no way that you.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
I collapse into cool, collapse into Yeah, why would you collapse?
That's not a that's not a sensation I want associated
with something I want to like consume. Yeah, it's like,
oh yeah, collapse into a deep seated depression. Yeah, collapse
at a time, Yeah, you want to maybe embrace the
(37:55):
cool or something like that, you know what I mean,
not collapse. It was better than like the first draft
of like jet fuel into into yeah, yeah, jet fuel
into steel beams.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
What So in South Korea right now they've got there,
they're in a bit of hot water again. So that
that campaign was very controversial. More some people did say, hey, this,
I don't know, you're putting this everywhere and it just
feels a little reminiscent of the terror attacks. Yeah, and
so it got called out, they took it down. I
(38:30):
don't know if they ever apologized for it. It just
feels like so so so weird. So anyways, they've got
another campaign. They recently unveiled plans to start selling a
large drink tumbler called a tank on May eighteenth, by
declaring it tank Day.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
May eighteenth is the anniversary of the Guangxu Uprising, when
the military government deployed troops and tanks to suppress pro
democracy demonstrations and so and used tanks to kill people.
So they're calling it tank Day. Yeah, it's a known
(39:08):
anniversary of a massacre that happened using tanks. The promo
also used the slogan thwack it on the table, and again,
the slogan is really the thing. As with collapse into cool,
the slogan is really the thing that brings it home.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
That might seem like very strange wording until you just.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Generally you're never like, oh, a new new cup.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Flack it on the table, Shack this one on the table.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Whack what do you donald duff?
Speaker 2 (39:37):
It's seemingly referencing a nineteen eighty seven claim by police
that student activists Park Young Choi rather than being tortured
to death had died suddenly after investigators hit the desk
with a thwack. Oh so that word that word is
in the official like the canon of this event.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Yes, wow wow wow wow wow wow.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
What like.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Is like is like in the background just being like,
all right, how are we gonna are we gonna like
fit some just fucked up messaging, Yeah, into our campaigns
announcing weird little new new promotions.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
That is, I'm what's their explanation? Like the whack it
feels like hard you.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Can just be like slam it on the table or
is this.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Like a Korean translation that's mostly being transit. Oh, like
the English is like thlack it on.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
The table the English and yeah, the whole everybody immediately
was like the fuck he talk like wait what. It's
been condemned by the country's president. There have been boycotts
and public protests in which outraged citizens have smashed Starbucks
tumblers and mugs to smithereens, and the set of the
(40:56):
head of Starbucks in South Korea had to apologize like
multi both times, and he was like, everybody involved with
this has been fired, just so you.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Know, except I'm including the head of marketing. Who's okay, ad,
I'm curious, right, how big of a shake up we talked?
Speaker 2 (41:16):
They claim they removed all five employees involved in the marketing.
That seems like, dude, they are beating this shit out
of these cups. Also love how Asian this demonstration is
where like they put like a tarp down to be like, yeah,
we're going to smash the shit on the ground, but
like we're going to make it easier to clean this
up on Yeah. Yeah, I mean we'll clean up. We'll
be right out of your hair in one second here.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
But this is, man, that's not good for do you.
I mean, like one part of me is like, because
you know, the cynical American brain to me goes they're
doing like viral like outrage marketing. But there's you may
have fucked up and fully crossed the line into just
pure outrage now rather than like, oh, what's tank day,
rather than being like, yeah, man, remember all those pro
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democracy demonstrators were killed and tortured, right heay Starbucks cup.
I feel like we need to look at the sales
after the collapse into cool thing, Like maybe they just
saw sales like skyrocket and they've just been waiting to
play their next like outrage insane like subliminal evoking of
(42:20):
a horrible national tragedy card, and they just like did
it a little too hard. It was like too evidently intentional. Yeah,
that collapsed into cool.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
They were right on the edge.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, like clearly, look Starbucks
was able to shrug that one off and keep it moving.
But I'm trying to see him, like reading about it,
they're protests. I don't know, man, I don't know, We'll see.
I mean, there's so mad me. I feel like the
coffee game right now is so congested. There's already like
seventeen other coffee chains that are like fighting for power
(42:57):
as Starbucks to wane.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
So I feel I feel like every like the coffee
in particular is going in a direction of like the
more small, the less chain that the coffee place is,
the better. Like people, nobody is like I love big
chain coffee, you know, like you can get a great
cup of coffee from anywhere. Yeah, yeah, from from home,
(43:24):
even I got this crazy thing called a coffee maker
at my house. Let's take a quick break. We'll be
right back, and we're back. I'm still just talking about
(43:45):
the collapse and a cool thing. It's like the dick
in the background of the Little Mermaid poster. It's like,
I mean, at some level you may not have known
that's what you're but like that's what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
Yeah, and that you just like that just.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Came through your unconscious and somehow people weren't.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Like somehow that's less shocking though too. Yeah, I don't know,
guy hit a dick in there. Yeah, this was like
nine to eleven Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
Yeah, yeah, all right, we got confirmation from me, and
we're getting confirmation from me and during every Hey, I'm
not crazy, right, this is am I an idiot?
Speaker 1 (44:20):
Yeah? Yeah, I am?
Speaker 2 (44:21):
I an idiot on the first one. I was an
idiot on this one. Not No, no, let's see there was.
It's kind of wild that this is I think this
is appropriately placed. Like yeah, but this is like the
third story we're covering, which was that there was like
you know, I don't know how many shots were fired
(44:42):
at the White House, and a whole lot of them
sounded like a war broke out. A man with a
documented history of mental health conditions, who previously had told
secret Service agents that he was Jesus Christ opened fire
on the White House over the weekend and and killed
(45:03):
It's another day another like that, there's, yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
What could possibly be going on in this country? What
is going on in this country? The wild part is,
I mean, like like this is there's so many, so
many angles to talk about this story, Like whether it's
obviously the complete you know, are turning of the backs
of the government on people who need mental health support
(45:28):
or gun control or these other things are just like
the inequality that's driving people mad. But then it's just
also like how cynically this was immediately just turned into
more we need a ballroom. You need a ballroom. This
guy was shooting at the White House room.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Thought, oh I didn't know. Trump said that too. Oh good, Okay,
so we're on the same page. Yeah, yeah, you need
a billion dollar ballroom that uh will protect him.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Should we maybe maybe try and like prevent these things
from happening by like solving the issue at the sort
of no, no, we need ballroom on.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
The way to stop a bad guy with a gun?
Is a billion dollar ballroom that you buy for me
for my birthday? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (46:06):
So is there going to be a ball does? Will
every person have a ballroom in this.
Speaker 2 (46:11):
The president needs a ballroom slash bunker that will be
unable to be destroyed in an aerial attack, and You'll.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
Be hanging on with your fingers and I'll be stumping
on him as I stand.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
Just get off, get off, Get those little piggies out here.
It also got immediately turned into the I didn't do
it kid meme, Like it was that there was a
reporter outside the White House who was, you know, on
camera as the shots started bringing out, and she said
(46:42):
what is that? And everybody was like, we've got a
new queen. Look at this diva and started like, uh,
you know, putting her in front of the stay puffed
marshmallow scene from Ghostbusters and various things. Her cameraman initially
guessed the sounds were fireworks, uh, which is always He's like,
(47:06):
I don't know fireworks.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
Another journalist I think were they from like CBS where
like immediately she was like, oh shit, yeah, Like her
reaction was like what the fuck? Like she kind of
knew immediately where I think it's Juliet Szerkin, who is
this journalist? Was like she was almost like the fuck
is is that?
Speaker 2 (47:27):
And he said fireworks? And she said where she's like,
I don't see how fucking fireworks? What are you talking about? Yeah,
And then it was it was a massive gun battle
that happened right outside the White House. Fucking I just like,
I feel like they everybody. I don't think Trump openly
(47:50):
like wants to die, but I think like there are
people in the Trump administration who are like, this would
actually be really good for us. If he went out
like that, that would actually good.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
It's for our for our intents and purposes.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
For all intensive purposes. Yeah, this would be good.
Speaker 1 (48:09):
For the propaganda gift from heaven. I mean, yeah, it's
it's it's it's interesting to see them just that insistence
immediately into this that it's just not even working on
is like the like the the actual rank and file
GOP politicians, because they're like they're about to head into
break and they're not gonna they're not going to prove
(48:29):
this money for the ballroom, even though he's trying to
every day be like, this is what we need is
waiting for the safety. Initially at the White House correspondence dinner,
they were a little bit more unified and sort of
like demanding a ballroom, right, But I think now as
people are beginning to be like, we're paying for everything,
he's just cutting checks to himself from the government's coffers.
(48:54):
This isn't good. I don't think, well I am.
Speaker 2 (48:58):
I don't know. You say why you're saying it's not
it's perfectly fine. It just feels like that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Yeah, I mean, we're hollowing out the country from the inside,
and I mean, like there when the reckoning comes for that,
I'm I'm really concerned that not enough people are going
to be able to put together where all that money
has gone. Actually, and it'll just be time again to
create some Oh that shit's gone buggy man.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's but half shore account.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
I feel like, I mean, like now there's like a
mining company that the Trumps own that got like a
nine hundred million dollar line of credit through the US government.
Like they're just yeah, it's it's right, it's right. They're
they're fucking playing in our faces, guys.
Speaker 2 (49:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's all self dealing. It's uh, shockingly
out in the open. They don't really give Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
Oh, but the thing with his health though, he went
to Walter read again, did he Yeah, he was just
like He just said, oh, it's time for my six
month physical, after my thirty two week physical, my thirty
six week physical, my one hundred and ninety day physical,
all these weird physicals. He said, everything was checked out perfectly.
Just finished my six month physical at Walter Read Military Center.
(50:07):
Everything checked out perfectly perfect.
Speaker 2 (50:11):
Is that the one where he was bragging about how
they said sixty nine times two divided by thirteen plus
one thousand and thirty two got it immediately. I just
I wish somebody had been like, all right, what is that? Right?
All right?
Speaker 1 (50:25):
Go ahead, okay, go computer, go ahead, computer.
Speaker 2 (50:30):
That person the Secret Service would have taken out immediately, right,
all right, let's talk Ben Shapiro, because we do. We
are enjoying this latest act of the Daily Wire hero's journey.
Yeahpiro came from nothing, just a handful of billionaire backers
(50:55):
coming out from nothing, became this massive, massively popular social
media figure creates the Daily Wire is like, I'm about
to change the face of media. We're green lighting movies,
we're green lighting the next Game of Thrones, but all
for conservative people, all for people who are afraid of
(51:17):
people who aren't white. So as of late, as an update.
We talked about this last week, but it's not going
so well.
Speaker 1 (51:25):
Channel seven million subscribers.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
What's see up to, hemorrhaging subscribers, hemorrhaging viewers, hemorrhaging revenue. Yeah,
the guy who like put together the plan for Who's
like Vision. It was for the movies and for the
big picture takeover of Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (51:44):
Let's give him credit. Jeremy Boring, Jeremy Borr, just a
clever name, has left the building. He left the company
last year, and Ben Shapiro's just still here. But he's
got it looks like he's got a plan. He's he's
finding stride because one of the latest videos he just
posted at the end of last week was him playing
(52:06):
fucking Fortnite. Oh, as someone who has Jack, you're a
bigger gamer than Ben Shapiro is. Of course, Okay, that's rid.
That shouldn't That goes without saying. But he's now posting
it says Ben Shapiro tried Fortnite, it didn't go well.
This is what Ben Shapiro is posting. I'll just play
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (52:26):
This is from Ben Shapiro's account.
Speaker 1 (52:28):
It's from his channel where he's earnestly playing fucking Fortnite,
and like you can tell throughout the thing, he knows
how much of an l this video is. So's explained
to me what this game is, why it exists, and everything.
I know nothing about this other than I've seen a
bunch of dumb children doing a dance and they called
a Fortnite dance. Okay, okay, First of all, he starts off,
(52:48):
just I don't know anything about this time. I know
it fucking sucks and it's for babies.
Speaker 2 (52:52):
Dumb children, fuck all of you. Yeah. Fortnite is a
genre of video game called Battle Royal. This guy's like
explaining it to him.
Speaker 1 (53:00):
He's had a brain injury, and you pick up weapons
and you fight each other until there's only one person standing.
Speaker 2 (53:05):
Like even I know this is one of the.
Speaker 1 (53:06):
Most popular games to ever come out At one time
they recorded.
Speaker 3 (53:10):
I think it was like.
Speaker 2 (53:10):
Japiro is checking his producers to make sure that drop
them more popular than like, okay, before we starting Heavy
Draped Skin.
Speaker 1 (53:22):
Got Storm, SHIPPERDS Invader and Solo.
Speaker 2 (53:25):
Is he gonna say something racist?
Speaker 1 (53:26):
He's choosing I'm a big Star Wars guy. That's good anyway,
It's it's unbearable. He goes on, he's so fucking bad
at the game and he's just suffering through it, and
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (53:39):
In the back of the limousine team from Boogie Nights,
Oh wonder when ship has fallen apart.
Speaker 1 (53:44):
You're in the pickup truck. It's harder, faster. I'm going
as fast as I can. You know what I mean,
I'm going as fast as I can. Man, go faster
and go faster. They can't.
Speaker 2 (53:56):
Man.
Speaker 1 (53:57):
That's that's where we're at, because I like, what do
you think that? Conversations around making this video were like,
because obviously we talked about the thing he's losing the conservatives,
especially younger conservatives, because he was more like the voice
of like elder millennial gen X conservatives. Yeah, now with
gen Z, they're completely like, dude, this guy's a fucking dork.
That what they're like, Holy fuck, Ben, we are losing
(54:19):
younger conservatives. What do we do?
Speaker 2 (54:21):
What do they love?
Speaker 1 (54:22):
Video game? Yes, that's it, we'll do that.
Speaker 2 (54:27):
So let us describe the video game like nobody knows
what it is.
Speaker 1 (54:31):
Yet to the kids who are playing it more than
you could ever believe. Yeah, they want to see an
explainer video about Fortnite to your uncle who's uncool. Yeah, okay, okay,
it's not great. The comments are fucking they're brutal this
one person, but the falloff must be studied. Imagine you're
(54:52):
one of the Daily Wire employees laid off watching this.
Yeah yeah, this is like a family guy.
Speaker 2 (54:57):
Almost worth getting laid off for this experience of being like,
well now look at you. Yeah my god.
Speaker 1 (55:06):
So I mean Luckily grand Theft Auto six is coming
out later this year, so he'll be able to I'd
love to see him in one of the role play servers.
You pretending to be a cop or something?
Speaker 2 (55:16):
Yeah, why can't I be a cop? Can you play?
Can you play as a cop in grants? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (55:22):
I mean there are like roleplay servers where people go
and purely are just like I'm a cop, Like you're
a person, I'll pull you over. You have to respect
the law and like just do I don't know, man,
Like I part of me like if I didn't have
a child in real responsibilities, I could see myself trolling
on their fucking constantly. But luckily there are YouTube compilations
(55:42):
for that that I can watch secondhand.
Speaker 2 (55:44):
And finally, Stephen Colbert did a fun thing so late.
The Late Show ended on Thursday, and on Friday, he
guest hosted another talk show only in Monroe, a public
access show in Monroe, Michigan, with Jack White as his sidekick.
And people, I mean people were like, Oh, CBS is
(56:06):
gonna be so pissed that he did this. CBS actually
financed and produced the episode, but oh they did, Yeah,
I guess so wow. It's been approved for distribution on
The Late Show, Monroe Community Media in Colbert's personal channel.
(56:27):
I feel like Monroe Community Media is probably defeating The
Late Show in terms of views.
Speaker 1 (56:32):
But yeah, wait, but then CBS is also trying to suppress.
Speaker 2 (56:37):
No, that's just that's just what people were.
Speaker 1 (56:40):
Oh we're saying because I think it were uploading you.
Speaker 2 (56:44):
But I'm sure he like contractually had to have them
involved as a producer.
Speaker 1 (56:47):
Wait, there's Jeff Daniels and Steve Buscemi also appear in this.
Speaker 2 (56:52):
It's an hour long. I only made it fifteen minutes in.
But m R A Sasquatch.
Speaker 1 (56:56):
You never can never know he's talking. Have you guys
ever seen a cryptid of any kind? I love the
audio to it sounds like.
Speaker 2 (57:06):
It sounds like shit. Yeah, no. I mean, these are
the women who normally host the show, just like.
Speaker 1 (57:13):
The TV show, only this time you see the Wieners.
Speaker 2 (57:18):
Monroe's original has plenty of fans who.
Speaker 1 (57:20):
Say it, this is so funny. There's Jeff Daniels, where's BMI.
Speaker 2 (57:29):
Actually wasn't even supposed to be there. He was just
happened to be in Monroe, you know, walking by.
Speaker 1 (57:34):
Hey man, you know how it is back in those
Monroe Public Access TV studios, Man, they were bumping. You'd
have Jeff Daniels in one studio. You'd be walking the
halls having a hot magic. What's happening, man, It's.
Speaker 2 (57:46):
Like Capitol I was just down the hall doing a
different show. Yeah, all right. Those are some of the
things that are trending on this Tuesday, May twenty sixth.
We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of
the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be
kind to yourself, get your vaccines while you still can't
get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy,
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and we will talk to you all a morn. Bye bye.
The one thing that's sucking me up is Drake. Drake
just bet a ton of money on Arsenal.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah, that's tough when your team is like when Drake.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
The biggest thing is when Drake bets on your team,
You're like, get the fuck out of here.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
But is he the is he the cooler, the international cooler?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I mean he's he's pretty hit or miss. Like there's
times he announces big bets and then everyone's like, I
feel like that one year the Chiefs didn't win, Oh right,
but yeah, yeah, but whatever, the guy's that guy has
bigger problems than this. And when I was talking to
other people, like what are we going to do, They're like, bro,
this ship is bigger than fucking hip hop broke.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
The biggest problem is what was he gonna do with
all these awesome songs? Yeah, and then three dang albums
come on, man, dude, he's got to put him somewhere.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
He's got these he's gonna do.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
With all these streams. Let's see if he's still dominating
the top twenty.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Listening to one any of the three albums I breezed
through Iceman, I haven't made it through all three.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I just I don't have the time for that much
straight but right, you're right.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
It is a breezy listen, very easy, goes down easy,
very good, right, good, good pointing in.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, lyrics are very challenging.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Oh man, but really a lock on the.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
What's how's you doing on the streams there? Let me
check for you here, because because that proves you're better.
You're a better rapper than Drake?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
All right, I mean the top five. Uh, Choosing Texas
has invaded the top ten. Brake is no longer in Texas.
Choosing Texas is a song that I am unfamiliar with
but has been I saw like a little headline somewhere
that said that choosing Texas is like breaking records in
(01:51):
terms of streams. Uh. And Ella Langley's be Her has
also broken into the top twenty.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
That's also Langley. This is choosing Texas.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Oh yeah, they're both Ella Anglan bro.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
This ship is kicking Drakes, just whooping Drake's ass.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I mean not really, it's number five. Drake's in hell
over over this right now? Oh yeah, yeah, but he
loves but he loves Houston.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
What is he gonna do? He's always choosing Texas.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Oh that's a thing. Olivia Rodrigue is broken into the
global Top twenty fuck yeah and uh a guy. Olivia
was also wearing an arsenal kit. Recently, a guy named
Michael Jackson has broken into the top twenty.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Oh you didn't beat it or something.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Billy Jean.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Oh, Billy Jean came back.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, Billy Jean. Huh who knew? So that's just that? Yeahah,
have you heard this guy?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I'll bite. Who's this Michael Jackson?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, I'm gonna check him out. He sounds like he's
doing big things.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It has that beat, dude, the second that bit bro
that already you already know what time it is.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I think the reason Michael Jackson's doing well is because
Drake references his his glove on the cover of his
new album Yeah it was all Drake. That's viral marketing
for Michaels Drake.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
It's not the movie either.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It's not the movie. It's Drake putting the Michael Jackson
glove on the cover in a very weird pop culture reference.
For somebody who's been accused of liking a minor.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Man, this is I don't even know. I haven't even
heard the other two albums. I'm just got Iceman on loop. Dude.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Drake is fucking back, bro Jack, you really got to
get get in, man, you don't want to miss this track.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I'm maverick to your Iceman. You know, go nose to
nose with you and and a towel and a steamy
uh locker room. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Also, all I'm saying is, you know, Jared McCain famously
huge Drake fan. He was really excited for these for
Iceman to drop. Ever since those three albums came out,
Thunder been losing.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I don't know say.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I blame him. I was saying, I blame him. And
you know who I blame for the Knicks being on
a unstoppable ten game stretch, of the most dominant ten
game stretch of NBA basketball ever, Drake. Little guy by
the name of Zora Mom Donny Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I mean he's winning, bro, Between Arsenal and the Knicks.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I know, he's what is fucking summer, what the fuck
is going on with He's going to be having a
fucking sound. That's who we need to look. Who's where
he's putting his money?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
You know, bro, I want to see his polymarket account.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I bet he's been like twenty dollars at a OTB.
Oh yeah, just with the like jankiest.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
They're like, yo, whoa mister mayor.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
No, no, no, man, give me freaking twenty on the Knicks. Bro,
hurry up?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
The fuck is going on? Bro?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Dressed up like a hesthetic guy like Bono?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Oh yeah wait, why did Bono dress like a Hasidic Jew?
What was it for?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Just you know, being Bono not not wanting in the cut?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, Bono acid.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I think he like might have gotten to a bike
accident or something. There was like some incident that happened
and they were like, wait a second, that's no hasidic jew,
that is Bono.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Oh it's because the Edge said that he rides around
on a bike like that.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
That was on k Rock. Wow. I like that. Someone
was like, no, he he is not. His publicistm like, no,
he's not doing that.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Right, Yeah, I mean that is kind of problem. Yeah,
somebody should have said something. Hello the Internet and welcome
to this week trend edition of Guys, this production of iHeartRadio.
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This is the podcast but you take a deep dive
into America's share consciousness and on the first recording after
the weekend, the long weekend. In this case, we do
like to dive in and tell you what was trending
over the long weekend and what's going on with us.
My name is Jeff O'Brien. That over there's mister Miles.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Thank you so much. You can call me supporter of
Premier League champions Arsenal Football Club Miles Great, Thank you
so much.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yes, I'm a champion, Jack. You're still floating on air.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Oh I'm gonna be floating on air for a while, okay,
because when you haven't won shit for twenty two years
and that shit comes, God bless. I actually had a
really good conversation with somebody who was a Cubs fan recently.
It was like I get it, man, you fucking get it.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And I'm like, thank you, thank you man. I appreciate it, man,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Just crying. Yeah, yeah, the past two weeks.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
And he was like, look, dude, I'm still not gonna
give you this pizza for free, just because.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
We're basically.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I forgot my wallet and everything.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, so we're gonna tell you some stuff that happened
over the weekend. We can talk about Donald Trump not
going to a son's wedding, a yet another assassination attempt.
An amazing story about Starbucks. Yeah, what get another weird
ad campaign that I had forgot? The collapse into cool posters.
(07:20):
I think we had talked about it here, But every
time I relearn about the collapse into cool nine to
eleven ad campaign from Starbucks, my brain goes on the
same journey where it's like this has to be fake.
Wait a second, this actually happened. Anyways, we're gonna get
to that, but first we like to let you get
to know us a little bit better by telling you
(07:41):
some things we think are underrated, some things we think
are overrated. Miles, let's kick it off with something you
think is underrated.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Underrated Arsenal Football Club.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Oh okay, yeah, let's speak on that. Because I've been
hearing some things about this, I.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Just have to say it. Couple things, okay. I've been
supporting this team since about two thousand and one, two
thousand and two, mm hmm. I was fortunate enough to
watch us lift the title the trophy twenty two years
ago in two thousand and four, and then the years
in between was like the first five years. We were
(08:20):
still riding off the high of winning within you know how,
like you can kind of still ride that high, like, yeah,
we did win a couple of years ago. Yeah, and
then a couple of years ago turns into five years
and turns to ten and turns to fifteen and turns
to twenty and by around ten years you people start
looking at you funny, being like, bro, stop talking about
when you lot you won ten years ago, Like you
guys aren't winning shit right now.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
But there's a picture of you like celebrating that win,
and you're wearing like a full gene outfit, like yeah, yeah, yea.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I got two head bands on crisscrossed on my head,
like three wristbands off my arm.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
You have a band aid under your eye, like, oh
yeah I have.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I have two white t's on one half on the
other on top of my other white tea. It was
it was a beautiful time. I was wearing jerbo jeans.
But like in that in that in that period, right,
we didn't do anything, and a lot of other teams
came up that were winning consistently and got a ton
of the fans, like a lot of people supporting them
in that era and the ones that still hung on.
(09:18):
We weren't No one could ever accuse us of glory hunting,
you know what I mean, or like bandwagoning, because we
weren't fucking doing shit functionally on paper, but there was
still this belief and the fact that it has come off. Now,
I'm telling you we are in the midst of seeing
a global mass Catharsis event. Okay, because people are celebrating
in India, Vietnam, Kenya, Japan, America, Okay, you name it
(09:44):
where this is.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I'm assuming this is common for any team that wins
this level of.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I will say, yeah, when Liverpool won it about six
years ago. Six years ago, it had been thirty years
since they won, and they fucking turned up and I
get it because it had been thirty years. That was
like the last time it's been at this level. The
teams that have other like this one team Manchester City,
they they have just been like using brute force of
(10:12):
economics and a bunch of like economic they're doing like
shit that they're getting in trouble for financially to get
signed the players that they do right. And so when
they win, they just had a parade for like their
legendary manager went bro. There was barely any people that
came out for that shit wow, And a lot of
people are lamenting. They're like, God, the culture just is
not there, and there's some there's just something about.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
This football brings us together culture and for the people
that laugh songs, the people that laugh and say, uh,
you guys are when we are fucking massive.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Look around you, you know, I'm sure you're seeing people
rolling up in they're red and white, and I too
will be soon.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I'm seeing it every I'm seeing people. I wouldn't have
recognized it otherwise, but.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Oh every time I wear something someone was like, oh yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
You guys are particularly international. You were saying, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I mean like because of the embrace of like international players,
of diversity, like we were. You know where Arsenal is
is like in some of like the blackest parts of London,
so the fan base like it's it's it's embraced the
support of like black fans, black players. We were the
first team to like field I think nine black players
on the field at once, which was like unheard of
(11:23):
in England at the time. And we've sat the reverse
Red Sox Verse Red Sox Reverse Boston teams. Yes, we're
Reverse Boston. We're David Stern's worst and best, worst nightmare
and greatest dream ever. Thank you so much, David Stern.
But like to that end, there's just been a history
of like giving players a chance and like allowing players
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from Togo or the Ivory Coast or Nigeria to like
be part of our starting lineup, and that's created a
ton of interest from around the world. Arsen Benger, our
most legendary manager, came from Japan, which is how I
even heard of him, because he was really popular in Japan,
and that's when like all the Japanese people were like,
oh shit, Arsenal. So I'm just saying for all the
(12:06):
people that like, I'm gonna keep talking about this because
this is the this is the greatest with the.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Show in my life. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're this is Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I'm gonna have my dad back on podcas. I'm gonna
have my dad back on to keep talking about Arsenal.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Next time.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I'm like, gon say somebod Arsenal.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Right, now, is your dad a fan?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Fuck? No, he's a Laker fan. I mean, like that's
where I get my Laker fandom from my dad. But like, no,
he likes Arsenal because he knows that I've been waking
up at like four am to watch matches live for
twenty two years, sure and obsessed with it. So yeah, biasmosis.
He is happy that I have this thing saying yeah,
thank you, thank you, Danny.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I'm always I'm always rooting for Arsenal because I have
no reason not to.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Thank you, Jack, And it was because of you we
shared this with you. What's something you think is underrated?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I'm you know, I'm not gonna take all the credit,
but yeah I did. I did a lot of work,
a lot of heavy lifting. Definitely something I think is underrated.
Taken a hard turn. How how much human trafficking is
about labor?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Hm?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
When when I hear the phrase human trafficking, I picture
Liam Neeson's daughter being taken or you know the sound
of Freedom trailer, certainly the Epstein Files. You know, human
trafficking of wait teenagers from America is so routine in
(13:35):
the in these worlds that like Liam Neeson is able
to tell her, oh okay, you're about to be taken.
He's just like that was the drill. Some people broke
into your apartment. Oh yeah, you're about to be heroin
slaved on a yacht, Like that's that's just how those works.
And there I was reading a New Yorker article over
the weekend about human you know, human trafficking being a
(13:58):
massive problem in the United States, but you know, specifying
that it's rarely the blonde American women being kidnapped from
parking lots after someone put a zip tie on their
door handle. Yeah yeah, right, that meme over during the
pandemic and taken to foreign countries. It's actually mostly immigrants
(14:19):
from other countries being exploited and forced into doing labor,
serving people like those white ladies for little to no money.
It's the same reason America has been using slave labor
for centuries, because it's indicated to make money. Yeah, run
on slavery exactly. And you know, so there was like,
(14:44):
so this article is just about all the ways that
human trafficking is used to fuel cheap labor, and it
can be there's like an example of a twenty twenty
four pizza chain in Massachusetts was convicted of using forced
labor to make undocumented workers where fourteen hours a day, right,
and I have to imagine like it's like a point
(15:06):
that they make is like if something's prices are like
if a place's prices are too good to be true,
like you should maybe like think about how how that's happening.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Wait, so what's what's the what's like The examples are
like pizza place, massage place.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Well from the article. According to the Department of Homeland Security,
the majority of trafficking victims seventy seven percent, are forced
into labor in the US. Most of these labor trafficking
victims are immigrants working in a commercial enterprise such as
a hotel or a beauty salon for little to no pay.
But there's also you know, restaurants, restaurant chains, and then
(15:45):
domestic labor is also a big thing. Like the article
is about somebody who is, you know, a twelve year
old from Africa who is like brought to this rich
family's house and basically like lives in slavery until her
twenties in this wealthy suburb of Houston, and people are like,
(16:09):
seems weird, and they would like make individual complaints to
the police, but nobody would actually like act on it
until she finally just like started talking to people and
being like, hey, I think this is bad what's happy
to be as bad. Yeah, it's it's also just the
politics of the people who are you know, on the right,
(16:34):
who are afraid of non white people. You know, a
lot a lot of the anti trafficking fear on the
right is like these immigrants are gonna come in and
like take us and take us to other countries. And
it's like it's actually those politics that are making it possible,
because like the threat that is used to keep people
(16:58):
in these situations is basically like I've got your travel documents,
like what, you're gonna run away and get picked up
by ice? Yeah, that's for you.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
That was another thing people were saying about the ice
rads is that like this is this is making the
situation worse for the people that are already in these
precarious like not even like working relations in these like
forms of slavery indentured servitude. Yea that yeah, to have
that be like oh well, all it's gonna take now
is me to make one little call, then you'll end
up somewhere fucked up. Yeah yeah, well yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
It really like it feels like it's about a terrible
situation in America and it's mostly about pre this administration
like a version of America that existed before this administration,
and like everything that they've done has made the situation
like way worse, could get impossibly worse.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Well, yeah, because it's never about the what they say
it's about, right, you know what I mean. It's because
if it was, they'd be doing something different.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
But yeah, all these like affordable things that in the
US like a lot a lot of the time they're
being driven, like, you know, just doing the Steve Jobs
episode of the Iconograph, a lot of his you know genius,
like the the the ability to like do these big
drops of iPhones was made possible by like going to
(18:22):
horrible labor practices over in China. You know. So it's
a lot of a lot of the deals and a
lot of the increasingly unaffordable. But like the the ways
that America is affordable is through horrible labor practices or
you know, indentured servitude, and like these things that people
(18:43):
can't wouldn't believe are just like hiding and play in
sight all around us. Right, So that's something I was
personally under rating. And also the knicks I did not
realize that I did not did not realize the last
ten games was the most dominant stretch in the history
of the NBA. Yeah, what is something, Miles? Do you
(19:04):
think is overrated?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Manchester City? But I don't have to get into that.
You already know I hold that out overrated. How casual
we are as adults about the achievement of pooping in
the toilet? Hmmm, we just do our business.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
You deserve more credit coming.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I uh, you've always said this.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Look come out of the bathroom and you say I
did a big one.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
I go, I go, Jack, come check this out, and
you're like, nah, it's fine. I go, all right, Well,
then just at least clap please clap, ye please? Did
I do? Jeb Bush? I close the door, please clap,
and everyone goes, Miles, please flush and okay, one second,
I'll be.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Right back on. You just have to as soon as
you check it out.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Okay, clap though, and then I will do it. But no,
like the guys child across the Rubicon, I love to
say that of like potty training, where he's being going
peepee in the toilet, wouldn't go poop poo And last
night he did. Dude, he was so fucking happy. He's
(20:06):
happier than I am about arsenal wind and that brought
me to tears because his sense of it it was
so fucking pronounced. Dude, I couldn't ut him. He wanted
a fucking backflip. He was so like yeah in the toilet.
I was like yes. I was like, fuck, yeah, that's
what I'm talking about. Keep doing it, Keep doing that.
(20:29):
And then he then he got in bed and he
was like, oh wait, wait, hold on. He has like
a little Jack Skellington, like plushy kind of thing, and
he goes Jack, Jack has to go to the bathroom.
Jack got to go to the bathroom too. And I
was like, all right, we'll do that more. He's like, no,
he has to go to the bathroom. And I was
like all right, So I just like, you know, like
puppeteered the Jack Skellington over to his little mini to
I was like, okay, see, oh he's done. He goes, okay,
(20:50):
put his put his put his underwear on now, and
put his pajamas on. I'm like, okay, there you go.
And then he held it and goes, I'm so proud
of you, Jack, you went poop in the toilet.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I'm gonna tell. He's like, I'm gonna tell Nana, I'm
gonna tell blah blah blah. I'm so proud of you.
And he kept making his dolls go to the bathroom
and saying he was proud of them. I was like,
I was loving it, and part of me was like,
God damn, man, these small victories are just so great victories.
You gotta appreciate him, Yeah, you have to. My other
(21:20):
overrated is like habituation, I think is what the term
is called, where like you become so used to your
environment that it's not novel or anything like. It's just
like anything like you get exposed to something over time,
it's not interesting. Yeah, pooping in the toilet and other
and other parts. Was just like I was driving down
(21:42):
like the one oh one, like near Ventura County, where
like it's by the ocean, and I was like, God damn,
she is beautiful. Yeah, And I was like I really
don't give a fuck about the Pacific Ocean because I
grew up near it. And I was like, in any
other fucking context, i'd be like, well, the way, windows down,
check this thing out. This is a beautiful day. I'm
(22:03):
looking at the sea, and I'm realizing too, not that
it's like a bad thing, but like when you get
used to things like that, sort of magic goes away.
And it's just funny how like the juxtaposition of suddenly
you go on vacation you're like, well, look at this street.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I'm walking on.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
It's like blows your mind. And I think it's it's
important to like not that you have to fight against that,
but know that that's what's happening. Like this shit is beautiful.
You're just used to it so much that you can't
quite you know, like it's not novel anymore. Yeah, And
like that's just kind of a practice recently, just in
general of like things I feel like I've gotten used
to that should offer me a glimpse into like beauty
(22:40):
of humanity. Uh, trying to really like embrace those and
remind myself like in any other fucking context, this would
be like mind blowing to you. So at least appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Do you get yourself out? I don't.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I don't know how I'm still the way I am
doing it is like you don't think that's cool because
you're so used to it, and trying try and remember
that this is new, and I think that's the pooping
and the ocean and all I do think.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Yeah, I think that's one of the great things about
being around children, you know, is that they're like.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Whoa, you know that sense of wonder?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Yeah you don't you wanna. In my experience, like I
try to feed off their sense of wonder and their
sense of like what's new, rather than them just picking
up on my sense of like being over it, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
as much as possible.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Yeah, I got you got a yes and them, Yeah
that's Jack Skillinton taking the wow ship.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Too, I do. Yeah. There's that like meme of people
being like every time you drive by cow, you just
go col right right, right right, Like every time we
drive by the ocean, I'm like, guys, look at the
and they're just like, uh huh.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
At this point, Oh, I was looking at this shop.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
How big it is?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
It's I'm I can't lie. Interstellar had me thinking.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
About imagine that was in slow motion though.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Dude, imagine if we just went on the water for
two seconds and seventy years went by dog think like
that what anyway, So anyway, habituation, pooping in the toilet,
find the wonder.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
My overrated is my understanding of idioms? I came across
an idiom that I've been using wrong. So do you
know you know the phrase for all intents and purposes
that people say for all intents and purposes? Yeah, And
it's just like, now that we're on the internet and
writing everything down, everyone's like, oh, everybody think everybody thinks
(24:37):
it's all for all intensive purposes. I've always sat back
and laughed smugly at those people. And then my son, yourself,
my very inquisitive eight year old son. One of the
three thousand questions he asked this weekend was what what
does sight for sore eyes mean? And I said, Oh,
(25:02):
it's like when somebody like looks sorry or kind of
like messed up, Like you'd be like, oh, look at
this site for sore eyes.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Oh yeah, you're trying to do the eight year old
version of when someone looks like shit.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah, when someone looks like shit, like a group of
hungover people roll up and their boss would say, look
at this site for sore eyes. That's how I had
always used it, how I had always understood it. I
don't know that I used it that much because I'm
not a middle school gym teacher. But it's it is
a phrase that like I'm sure I've used and like
(25:32):
had a very firm understanding. And then my wife was
like that not only is it like not that, it's
not even it just means being happy to see someone
that you've missed.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
What the fuck?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yeah? No, Yes, a site for sore eyes is like,
your eyes are sore because you've missed them, and this
is a site that relieves well, I thought it was
looking like you thought I was looking like shit too.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Actually, a site for sore eyes, aren't you basically saying don't.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
You look like shit? Yeah, and you look it up online.
It's pretty ambiguous that there is like one Reddit thread
where somebody's like, my English boyfriend thinks that site for
sore eyes means you look like shit, and I'm I
don't know if he's I don't know if it's a
British thing or if he's like stupid, And everybody's pretty unambiguous.
(26:27):
They're like, oh, yeah, I think I might have heard
it that way once or twice.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
But the true meaning is it's something you it's like
longed to see. Yes, I've finally seen it.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
You're your parent you're coming home after a long time
away and your parents say, ah, you're a site for
sore eyes. I felt like mom was using it that way,
and I thought she just noticed that I was hung over.
Look at this site for sore eyes like expressing love. Yeah,
(26:57):
I'm like that, look like drink Southern comfort for the
first time. Oh man, Well yeah, I don't know, Man,
I now I'm on the lookout for like other idioms,
I've been missus.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
We've always been a UK podcast in it bro.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I know, in it brov. Yeah, but I don't know.
There are plenty of people in the reddit thread being
like I'm from the UK. I've never heard that ship
because it's just little pockets of degenerates, of insecure degenerates
being right, they can't miss me.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Like shit, no fucking wait this, I make your eyes
burned because I look like shit, that's what you mean.
I'm making your I'm an eye sore.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Yeah, but yeah, Zichang, I don't know. Are we are
we alone? Have you been misusing this?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Are you even using it? Still?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Nobody's using it?
Speaker 1 (27:53):
But yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Sometimes sometimes your eight year old comes at you with
a question. You answer confidently. He's just reading you know, dude,
this is the problem with books, man, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Man, Like, he's now able to fucking humiliate you.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
My wife is like, no video games, only reading. And
then he like gets these ideas.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
And he goes like, and why you're explaining? He just
got going.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
He knew what it was? What what? What?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Go ahead? What is it? He knew?
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Oh my god, guys, my dad, he's dumb. You're right.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Talking to his stuff. He's all right, let's take a
quick break.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Proud of you.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
We'll be right back. Ian. What did you have for
a site for sores?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Oh? I knew what it meant.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Yeah, you knew the correct version.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Yeah, I'm not an idiot.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
But the fuck like he didn't. Just yeah, no, I
believe the other version, he said. No, I had it right, Yeah,
I had it right.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
It's like, oh, it's like my eyes are sore, and
you're like a pleasant thing to look at. It's like
your relief for my sore eyes. You know, I thought
it was It must have come from I think because
like iesore. I think people must have mixed that up,
because I sore is.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
The Yeah, something that looks disgusting. It looks like shit
for me. It has to be the reason, because so
much TV and film has influenced my entire reality. I
feel like it had to have been like two movies
where it was said wrong and I go, yeah, that's
the fucking truth right there.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Yeah, maybe maybe I'll have to do further research.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
But but then I guess, you know, what it could
be is that it was being used sarcastically and I
didn't understand the sarcasm.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Which is humiliating. Yeah yeah, but they're like, oh, I
pride myself on getting the sarcastm.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
But I think but at my age, I didn't realize
the sarcasm him of looking like shit, right, yeah, with
someone being like, oh, aren't you a sight for sore
eyes because you look like shit?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
And happy to see you?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, yeah, you guys look great.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
So it is back to us looking like ship.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
All right, It's back to us looking like ship. But
they need it ironically that they want to see you
because you look like shit.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
That makes sense. Okay, Oh good god, I still look
like shit. I still look like people aren't happy to
see me. And we're back and uh. Donald Trump had
had quite the weekend. First of all, just big News.
He's hit his highest ratings. We know this man pays
(30:44):
attention to the ratings. Look at these ratings, highest ratings ever.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Outdone myself again, he's broken his own highest rating ever
for disapproval, You fucking losers. He's currently Fox News, their
own pole has him are around sixty percent disapproval. He's
currently averaging up. The average of all the major poles
is about fifty eight point three percent. The only reason
(31:11):
I'm bringing this up is because it's the worst it's
ever been, and it's actually lower. It's a lower rating
that he than he had right after fucking January sixth.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
That like when.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Everyone's like, ah, I can't fucking do this shit anymore.
He's there just right now because of his I need ballroom.
I don't care about gas. I love Jesus nuts. Yeah,
you're filling up your tank with peanuts.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
He might have actually thought he might just not know
how cars work and thought that you're, actually, dude, right
filling your car, or.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Maybe had like an old car where a squirrel was
hiding nuts in the gas tank and he's like, you
fill it up with acorns?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Right? Do I have this?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
But yeah, you're the lowest it's ever been, and I
think it based on like everything I said. He's not
doing a single fucking thing to like try and reverse course.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Hm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
He's just like having all the people in his cat. Oh.
Also forgot to mention Tulci Gabbard stepped down over the weekend.
I was almost like, wait, there wasn't someone left in humiliation.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Consequences for women only in this administration. But she was
kind of anti war. That was her, like the anti
war for being in the administration. So they're revin up
the engine.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Yeah, and I think when she had to be like yeah, Iran,
it was a threat. She's like, you even came up
here and said everything was obliterated last time. It's like,
I know, guys, I'm sorry, I'm I've debased myself. I
don't know what to do anymore. But yeah, anyway, that's
that's what has happened. But yeah, Trump is not fully
not focused on anything domestic.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
It's crazy that he's that despised because he has such
good instincts for doing likable things, like for instance, skipping
Donald Trump Junior's wedding weekend.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
It makes that SoundBite that we played where we're like
he's probably talking about his fiance. Most likely it doesn't
fit like where he goes and I've known him if
I've known them for many years, my own son, whose
wedding I could give a fuck less about.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Yeah, So, just to recap, he said he didn't even
want to go. When asked about it, he replied, he'd
like me to go, but this is not good timing
for me. I have a thing called Iran and other things,
which is so we talked about that. At the end
of last weekend, it was still unclear if he was
going to go or not. He said he was going
to get blamed for going to his own son's wedding,
(33:39):
which is it would not have happened. People I don't.
I don't think I've ever seen I've seen like people. Yeah, Like,
nobody's ever gotten blamed for going to their kid's wedding
like that.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
No, you get blamed for fucking around all the time
and not doing it a goddamn Thinger's president, that's yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
So he didn't go. The weekend happened, he didn't go,
and he you know, it was because of how busy
he was. He still somehow found the time to post
an onslaught of memes, including an AI generated video of
himself throwing Stephen Colbert into a dumpster, and a touching
tribute to Hulk Hogan, which is just a picture of
(34:17):
Hulk Hogan saying we all missed the Huckster instead of
the whole Oh.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Boy, he looks like shit in that picture, Hulk.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean he's just I think that's
after one of his more impressive wins, making it all
even funnier. The bride of Donald Trump Junior, which I
for some reason I haven't been keeping up. I thought
he was still with Kimberly Gilfoyle. Oh oh Jack, No, no, no,
he's married a socialite from Florida, but Tina Anderson, who
(34:55):
wanted to get married at the White House, but the
President didn't think it was a good idea.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Put the kibosh on that.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I'd rather have a UFC fight there. Yeah, this is
only for really important stuff. I do think that that's
a good indication that she's in it for love. That
she was like, can we get married at the place
where your dad works? That would be really cool for me. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Yeah, No, they got married in the Bahamas.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
It looks like yeah, hell yeah, man, look at.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Them thirty nine year old socialite got forty eight. He's
forty eight years youngs. Don't tell me drugs age you okay,
guy looks fucking great.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Dude, the most cocaine eyes that have ever been on
cocaine you think he was. I wonder if that was
in her vals. And you have the greatest little piss
holes in the snowbank eyes. Oh, I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
The way you make my stomach as if I were
the one snorting baby laxative. It's impressive and I love you, honey.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Let's talk Starbucks. Let's talk about the books. They have
launched a marketing campaign reminiscent of a real world tragy
for the second time, and I just it's it needs
to be repeated every time Starbucks marketing comes up. They
(36:29):
had a campaign in April two thousand and two, so
less than a year after September eleventh, and the picture
was two drinks with a dragonfly looking like it was
about to fly into one of the drinks, and the
copy was collapse into cool. Not a phrase, miles, not
(36:54):
a phrase, No, no collapse the wording collapse.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Into cool, collapse into cool, And I'm seeing two things.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Two things with a dragonfly looking.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Dragonfly in the background, like.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Kind of poised to fly right into one.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
A little bit of nine to eleven in there.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
It's like it feels like every time I see it,
I'm like that it has to be satire. And then
I'm like, okay. So the person responsible for that ad,
whether they were conscious or not, they were thinking about
nine to eleven right, Like, there's no way that you.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
I collapse into cool, collapse into Yeah, why would you collapse?
That's not a that's not a sensation I want associated
with something I want to like consume. Yeah, it's like,
oh yeah, collapse into a deep seated depression. Yeah, collapse
at a time, Yeah, you want to maybe embrace the
(37:55):
cool or something like that, you know what I mean,
not collapse. It was better than like the first draft
of like jet fuel into into yeah, yeah, jet fuel
into steel beams.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
What So in South Korea right now they've got there,
they're in a bit of hot water again. So that
that campaign was very controversial. More some people did say, hey, this,
I don't know, you're putting this everywhere and it just
feels a little reminiscent of the terror attacks. Yeah, and
so it got called out, they took it down. I
(38:30):
don't know if they ever apologized for it. It just
feels like so so so weird. So anyways, they've got
another campaign. They recently unveiled plans to start selling a
large drink tumbler called a tank on May eighteenth, by
declaring it tank Day.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
May eighteenth is the anniversary of the Guangxu Uprising, when
the military government deployed troops and tanks to suppress pro
democracy demonstrations and so and used tanks to kill people.
So they're calling it tank Day. Yeah, it's a known
(39:08):
anniversary of a massacre that happened using tanks. The promo
also used the slogan thwack it on the table, and again,
the slogan is really the thing. As with collapse into cool,
the slogan is really the thing that brings it home.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
That might seem like very strange wording until you just.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Generally you're never like, oh, a new new cup.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Flack it on the table, Shack this one on the table.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Whack what do you donald duff?
Speaker 2 (39:37):
It's seemingly referencing a nineteen eighty seven claim by police
that student activists Park Young Choi rather than being tortured
to death had died suddenly after investigators hit the desk
with a thwack. Oh so that word that word is
in the official like the canon of this event.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Yes, wow wow wow wow wow wow.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
What like.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Is like is like in the background just being like,
all right, how are we gonna are we gonna like
fit some just fucked up messaging, Yeah, into our campaigns
announcing weird little new new promotions.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
That is, I'm what's their explanation? Like the whack it
feels like hard you.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Can just be like slam it on the table or
is this.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Like a Korean translation that's mostly being transit. Oh, like
the English is like thlack it on.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
The table the English and yeah, the whole everybody immediately
was like the fuck he talk like wait what. It's
been condemned by the country's president. There have been boycotts
and public protests in which outraged citizens have smashed Starbucks
tumblers and mugs to smithereens, and the set of the
(40:56):
head of Starbucks in South Korea had to apologize like
multi both times, and he was like, everybody involved with
this has been fired, just so you.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Know, except I'm including the head of marketing. Who's okay, ad,
I'm curious, right, how big of a shake up we talked?
Speaker 2 (41:16):
They claim they removed all five employees involved in the marketing.
That seems like, dude, they are beating this shit out
of these cups. Also love how Asian this demonstration is
where like they put like a tarp down to be like, yeah,
we're going to smash the shit on the ground, but
like we're going to make it easier to clean this
up on Yeah. Yeah, I mean we'll clean up. We'll
be right out of your hair in one second here.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
But this is, man, that's not good for do you.
I mean, like one part of me is like, because
you know, the cynical American brain to me goes they're
doing like viral like outrage marketing. But there's you may
have fucked up and fully crossed the line into just
pure outrage now rather than like, oh, what's tank day,
rather than being like, yeah, man, remember all those pro
(41:58):
democracy demonstrators were killed and tortured, right heay Starbucks cup.
I feel like we need to look at the sales
after the collapse into cool thing, Like maybe they just
saw sales like skyrocket and they've just been waiting to
play their next like outrage insane like subliminal evoking of
(42:20):
a horrible national tragedy card, and they just like did
it a little too hard. It was like too evidently intentional. Yeah,
that collapsed into cool.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
They were right on the edge.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, like clearly, look Starbucks
was able to shrug that one off and keep it moving.
But I'm trying to see him, like reading about it,
they're protests. I don't know, man, I don't know, We'll see.
I mean, there's so mad me. I feel like the
coffee game right now is so congested. There's already like
seventeen other coffee chains that are like fighting for power
(42:57):
as Starbucks to wane.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
So I feel I feel like every like the coffee
in particular is going in a direction of like the
more small, the less chain that the coffee place is,
the better. Like people, nobody is like I love big
chain coffee, you know, like you can get a great
cup of coffee from anywhere. Yeah, yeah, from from home,
(43:24):
even I got this crazy thing called a coffee maker
at my house. Let's take a quick break. We'll be
right back, and we're back. I'm still just talking about
(43:45):
the collapse and a cool thing. It's like the dick
in the background of the Little Mermaid poster. It's like,
I mean, at some level you may not have known
that's what you're but like that's what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
Yeah, and that you just like that just.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Came through your unconscious and somehow people weren't.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Like somehow that's less shocking though too. Yeah, I don't know,
guy hit a dick in there. Yeah, this was like
nine to eleven Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
Yeah, yeah, all right, we got confirmation from me, and
we're getting confirmation from me and during every Hey, I'm
not crazy, right, this is am I an idiot?
Speaker 1 (44:20):
Yeah? Yeah, I am?
Speaker 2 (44:21):
I an idiot on the first one. I was an
idiot on this one. Not No, no, let's see there was.
It's kind of wild that this is I think this
is appropriately placed. Like yeah, but this is like the
third story we're covering, which was that there was like
you know, I don't know how many shots were fired
(44:42):
at the White House, and a whole lot of them
sounded like a war broke out. A man with a
documented history of mental health conditions, who previously had told
secret Service agents that he was Jesus Christ opened fire
on the White House over the weekend and and killed
(45:03):
It's another day another like that, there's, yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
What could possibly be going on in this country? What
is going on in this country? The wild part is,
I mean, like like this is there's so many, so
many angles to talk about this story, Like whether it's
obviously the complete you know, are turning of the backs
of the government on people who need mental health support
(45:28):
or gun control or these other things are just like
the inequality that's driving people mad. But then it's just
also like how cynically this was immediately just turned into
more we need a ballroom. You need a ballroom. This
guy was shooting at the White House room.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Thought, oh I didn't know. Trump said that too. Oh good, Okay,
so we're on the same page. Yeah, yeah, you need
a billion dollar ballroom that uh will protect him.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Should we maybe maybe try and like prevent these things
from happening by like solving the issue at the sort
of no, no, we need ballroom on.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
The way to stop a bad guy with a gun?
Is a billion dollar ballroom that you buy for me
for my birthday? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (46:06):
So is there going to be a ball does? Will
every person have a ballroom in this.
Speaker 2 (46:11):
The president needs a ballroom slash bunker that will be
unable to be destroyed in an aerial attack, and You'll.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
Be hanging on with your fingers and I'll be stumping
on him as I stand.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
Just get off, get off, Get those little piggies out here.
It also got immediately turned into the I didn't do
it kid meme, Like it was that there was a
reporter outside the White House who was, you know, on
camera as the shots started bringing out, and she said
(46:42):
what is that? And everybody was like, we've got a
new queen. Look at this diva and started like, uh,
you know, putting her in front of the stay puffed
marshmallow scene from Ghostbusters and various things. Her cameraman initially
guessed the sounds were fireworks, uh, which is always He's like,
(47:06):
I don't know fireworks.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
Another journalist I think were they from like CBS where
like immediately she was like, oh shit, yeah, Like her
reaction was like what the fuck? Like she kind of
knew immediately where I think it's Juliet Szerkin, who is
this journalist? Was like she was almost like the fuck
is is that?
Speaker 2 (47:27):
And he said fireworks? And she said where she's like,
I don't see how fucking fireworks? What are you talking about? Yeah,
And then it was it was a massive gun battle
that happened right outside the White House. Fucking I just like,
I feel like they everybody. I don't think Trump openly
(47:50):
like wants to die, but I think like there are
people in the Trump administration who are like, this would
actually be really good for us. If he went out
like that, that would actually good.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
It's for our for our intents and purposes.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
For all intensive purposes. Yeah, this would be good.
Speaker 1 (48:09):
For the propaganda gift from heaven. I mean, yeah, it's
it's it's it's interesting to see them just that insistence
immediately into this that it's just not even working on
is like the like the the actual rank and file
GOP politicians, because they're like they're about to head into
break and they're not gonna they're not going to prove
(48:29):
this money for the ballroom, even though he's trying to
every day be like, this is what we need is
waiting for the safety. Initially at the White House correspondence dinner,
they were a little bit more unified and sort of
like demanding a ballroom, right, But I think now as
people are beginning to be like, we're paying for everything,
he's just cutting checks to himself from the government's coffers.
(48:54):
This isn't good. I don't think, well I am.
Speaker 2 (48:58):
I don't know. You say why you're saying it's not
it's perfectly fine. It just feels like that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Yeah, I mean, we're hollowing out the country from the inside,
and I mean, like there when the reckoning comes for that,
I'm I'm really concerned that not enough people are going
to be able to put together where all that money
has gone. Actually, and it'll just be time again to
create some Oh that shit's gone buggy man.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's but half shore account.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
I feel like, I mean, like now there's like a
mining company that the Trumps own that got like a
nine hundred million dollar line of credit through the US government.
Like they're just yeah, it's it's right, it's right. They're
they're fucking playing in our faces, guys.
Speaker 2 (49:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's all self dealing. It's uh, shockingly
out in the open. They don't really give Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
Oh, but the thing with his health though, he went
to Walter read again, did he Yeah, he was just
like He just said, oh, it's time for my six
month physical, after my thirty two week physical, my thirty
six week physical, my one hundred and ninety day physical,
all these weird physicals. He said, everything was checked out perfectly.
Just finished my six month physical at Walter Read Military Center.
(50:07):
Everything checked out perfectly perfect.
Speaker 2 (50:11):
Is that the one where he was bragging about how
they said sixty nine times two divided by thirteen plus
one thousand and thirty two got it immediately. I just
I wish somebody had been like, all right, what is that? Right?
All right?
Speaker 1 (50:25):
Go ahead, okay, go computer, go ahead, computer.
Speaker 2 (50:30):
That person the Secret Service would have taken out immediately, right,
all right, let's talk Ben Shapiro, because we do. We
are enjoying this latest act of the Daily Wire hero's journey.
Yeahpiro came from nothing, just a handful of billionaire backers
(50:55):
coming out from nothing, became this massive, massively popular social
media figure creates the Daily Wire is like, I'm about
to change the face of media. We're green lighting movies,
we're green lighting the next Game of Thrones, but all
for conservative people, all for people who are afraid of
(51:17):
people who aren't white. So as of late, as an update.
We talked about this last week, but it's not going
so well.
Speaker 1 (51:25):
Channel seven million subscribers.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
What's see up to, hemorrhaging subscribers, hemorrhaging viewers, hemorrhaging revenue. Yeah,
the guy who like put together the plan for Who's
like Vision. It was for the movies and for the
big picture takeover of Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (51:44):
Let's give him credit. Jeremy Boring, Jeremy Borr, just a
clever name, has left the building. He left the company
last year, and Ben Shapiro's just still here. But he's
got it looks like he's got a plan. He's he's
finding stride because one of the latest videos he just
posted at the end of last week was him playing
(52:06):
fucking Fortnite. Oh, as someone who has Jack, you're a
bigger gamer than Ben Shapiro is. Of course, Okay, that's rid.
That shouldn't That goes without saying. But he's now posting
it says Ben Shapiro tried Fortnite, it didn't go well.
This is what Ben Shapiro is posting. I'll just play
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (52:26):
This is from Ben Shapiro's account.
Speaker 1 (52:28):
It's from his channel where he's earnestly playing fucking Fortnite,
and like you can tell throughout the thing, he knows
how much of an l this video is. So's explained
to me what this game is, why it exists, and everything.
I know nothing about this other than I've seen a
bunch of dumb children doing a dance and they called
a Fortnite dance. Okay, okay, First of all, he starts off,
(52:48):
just I don't know anything about this time. I know
it fucking sucks and it's for babies.
Speaker 2 (52:52):
Dumb children, fuck all of you. Yeah. Fortnite is a
genre of video game called Battle Royal. This guy's like
explaining it to him.
Speaker 1 (53:00):
He's had a brain injury, and you pick up weapons
and you fight each other until there's only one person standing.
Speaker 2 (53:05):
Like even I know this is one of the.
Speaker 1 (53:06):
Most popular games to ever come out At one time
they recorded.
Speaker 3 (53:10):
I think it was like.
Speaker 2 (53:10):
Japiro is checking his producers to make sure that drop
them more popular than like, okay, before we starting Heavy
Draped Skin.
Speaker 1 (53:22):
Got Storm, SHIPPERDS Invader and Solo.
Speaker 2 (53:25):
Is he gonna say something racist?
Speaker 1 (53:26):
He's choosing I'm a big Star Wars guy. That's good anyway,
It's it's unbearable. He goes on, he's so fucking bad
at the game and he's just suffering through it, and
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (53:39):
In the back of the limousine team from Boogie Nights,
Oh wonder when ship has fallen apart.
Speaker 1 (53:44):
You're in the pickup truck. It's harder, faster. I'm going
as fast as I can. You know what I mean,
I'm going as fast as I can. Man, go faster
and go faster. They can't.
Speaker 2 (53:56):
Man.
Speaker 1 (53:57):
That's that's where we're at, because I like, what do
you think that? Conversations around making this video were like,
because obviously we talked about the thing he's losing the conservatives,
especially younger conservatives, because he was more like the voice
of like elder millennial gen X conservatives. Yeah, now with
gen Z, they're completely like, dude, this guy's a fucking dork.
That what they're like, Holy fuck, Ben, we are losing
(54:19):
younger conservatives. What do we do?
Speaker 2 (54:21):
What do they love?
Speaker 1 (54:22):
Video game? Yes, that's it, we'll do that.
Speaker 2 (54:27):
So let us describe the video game like nobody knows
what it is.
Speaker 1 (54:31):
Yet to the kids who are playing it more than
you could ever believe. Yeah, they want to see an
explainer video about Fortnite to your uncle who's uncool. Yeah, okay, okay,
it's not great. The comments are fucking they're brutal this
one person, but the falloff must be studied. Imagine you're
(54:52):
one of the Daily Wire employees laid off watching this.
Yeah yeah, this is like a family guy.
Speaker 2 (54:57):
Almost worth getting laid off for this experience of being like,
well now look at you. Yeah my god.
Speaker 1 (55:06):
So I mean Luckily grand Theft Auto six is coming
out later this year, so he'll be able to I'd
love to see him in one of the role play servers.
You pretending to be a cop or something?
Speaker 2 (55:16):
Yeah, why can't I be a cop? Can you play?
Can you play as a cop in grants? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (55:22):
I mean there are like roleplay servers where people go
and purely are just like I'm a cop, Like you're
a person, I'll pull you over. You have to respect
the law and like just do I don't know, man,
Like I part of me like if I didn't have
a child in real responsibilities, I could see myself trolling
on their fucking constantly. But luckily there are YouTube compilations
(55:42):
for that that I can watch secondhand.
Speaker 2 (55:44):
And finally, Stephen Colbert did a fun thing so late.
The Late Show ended on Thursday, and on Friday, he
guest hosted another talk show only in Monroe, a public
access show in Monroe, Michigan, with Jack White as his sidekick.
And people, I mean people were like, Oh, CBS is
(56:06):
gonna be so pissed that he did this. CBS actually
financed and produced the episode, but oh they did, Yeah,
I guess so wow. It's been approved for distribution on
The Late Show, Monroe Community Media in Colbert's personal channel.
(56:27):
I feel like Monroe Community Media is probably defeating The
Late Show in terms of views.
Speaker 1 (56:32):
But yeah, wait, but then CBS is also trying to suppress.
Speaker 2 (56:37):
No, that's just that's just what people were.
Speaker 1 (56:40):
Oh we're saying because I think it were uploading you.
Speaker 2 (56:44):
But I'm sure he like contractually had to have them
involved as a producer.
Speaker 1 (56:47):
Wait, there's Jeff Daniels and Steve Buscemi also appear in this.
Speaker 2 (56:52):
It's an hour long. I only made it fifteen minutes in.
But m R A Sasquatch.
Speaker 1 (56:56):
You never can never know he's talking. Have you guys
ever seen a cryptid of any kind? I love the
audio to it sounds like.
Speaker 2 (57:06):
It sounds like shit. Yeah, no. I mean, these are
the women who normally host the show, just like.
Speaker 1 (57:13):
The TV show, only this time you see the Wieners.
Speaker 2 (57:18):
Monroe's original has plenty of fans who.
Speaker 1 (57:20):
Say it, this is so funny. There's Jeff Daniels, where's BMI.
Speaker 2 (57:29):
Actually wasn't even supposed to be there. He was just
happened to be in Monroe, you know, walking by.
Speaker 1 (57:34):
Hey man, you know how it is back in those
Monroe Public Access TV studios, Man, they were bumping. You'd
have Jeff Daniels in one studio. You'd be walking the
halls having a hot magic. What's happening, man, It's.
Speaker 2 (57:46):
Like Capitol I was just down the hall doing a
different show. Yeah, all right. Those are some of the
things that are trending on this Tuesday, May twenty sixth.
We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of
the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be
kind to yourself, get your vaccines while you still can't
get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy,
(58:07):
and we will talk to you all a morn. Bye bye.
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