In this edition of Trenda Yaccarino, Jack and Miles discuss "Tampon" Tim Walz being chosen as Kamala Harris's running mate, X filing a lawsuit against the World FederatIon of Advertisers for not advertising on X (and also closing their flagship office), The New Yorker's expose on RFK, Olympic swimmers getting hospitalized after swimming in the Seine and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Trenda
Yakarino Trenda Trenda that courtesy of Brian the Editor Return.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Return.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Yeah, there you go. That was Elvia.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yeah, that's an Elvia song that seems like it should
have been an early Beatles song.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I feel like, I mean what because they were both
like probably stolen by a black artist.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
And about the mail, I feel like they always like
to do things about the mail anyways. I mean the
big news is from the window to the walls, to
the wall, till the sweat dripped down my ball walls walls. Yeah,
(00:50):
we were we were wrong. Uh, and we'll get into
a little bit more why we're so surprised why we're
pleasantly surprised on tomorrow's episode.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
But you mean wrong that were like the Democrats instinct
would to be do the thing that everyone's center.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
They seem to not be responding to the normal mainstream
media narrative of like, well, so the thing that you
need to do is be extremely apologetic for any progressive
ideas that you've ever held, any progressive things you've ever said.
You need to run away from that and then pretend
like you never said it and then apologize and then
(01:29):
nominate Mitt Romney for your presidential candidate. But instead they
seem to be just like, no, we kind of like
this guy's politics, and he seemed to be good at talking,
so yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
He's got a lot. Again, I was like, you know,
you want to talk about Midwest cred this guy again.
We talked about this in tomorrow's episode. A lot of
people like, well, Mark Kelly's an astronaut. Tim Walls was
a high school football coach. The team he coached had
lost twenty seven executive games before he arrived. Then quote,
we said, this is nonsense. Let's turn this thing around.
(02:06):
Three years later, they were state champions and now a
powerhouse school.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Just like that.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah, and he was on like I think Pod Save
America or something. People been posting this clip of him
talking about, like, you know, just defensively, how to set
his team up, like reading the guards and stuff like that.
I'm like, just if you Juxtaple, like have JD Vance
even trying to talk about sports, I would probably die
of discomfort even listening to Jdvans do that. But yeah,
(02:35):
just like it just feels again, there's something very sincere
about Tim Walls that I think appeals to a lot
of people. And in an era of like, you know,
like just very polished you're like, are you human or
are you dancer? The era of politics, it's nice to
have a guy who you know, is also providing feminine
hygiene products in all school bathrooms, which is.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
All that like something to mock him about Miles tampon.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Tim is also trending because the rights like, oh, dude, for.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
You launched Tim? What what for children?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Cares about the kids? Tim? Disgusting?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Wait, so he provided tampons for people, and they're making
fun of him for doing that.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, for making it like a thing that was like
mandatory in bathrooms. It's like, oh, this guy likes tampons.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
You're like, what, yeah, sure, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
He likes tampons, folks. What roast, dude, what else do
you have?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
But yeah, I mean in an era where the you know,
especially with the selection of JD Vans, the Republican side
seems to be getting like obviously weirder, which it was
the phrase that he came up with, but just like, yeah,
insincerity is really the big JD Vance issue, right. He
seems wildly insincere. He seems like he's just saying whatever
(03:57):
will garner him more political power, and you just no,
because you can like find him completely contradicting himself from
like five years ago, like so reasonly exactly he.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Sold his own brain out, folks. So this is what
it's always like.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It seems smart for them to like lean into authenticity
here and not lean into, uh, trying to apologize and
be centrist and pro Israel at a time when again
that is wildly unpopular, like a lot of the things
that I'm seeing like the Strategic Galaxy mind d NC
(04:36):
people talking about like why they should have gone in
a different direction. They're talking about apologizing or trying to
tack away from things that are popular policies like abortion
rights and opposing the genocide in Gaza.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
You know, yeah, this is we'll see again, that's not
the eff see if this is the administration's official platform,
if they will speak on Gaza.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
But yeah, they didn't lean into the guy who was
yeah yeah, well espawn record. Yeah, but protesters who protested
what is was doing were white supremacist here.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, or like like KKK members. But yeah, I'm I'm
excited that I've more for the fact that I've never
seen like in an election year people be like, all right,
this this looks like something that could maybe like appeal
to people, like for mostly good reasons. Obviously it's still
(05:43):
very much like the status quote ticket and that obviously
like it. We're not things aren't going to change based
on who the president is. But like you know, we
talk a lot about it in tomorrow's episode, but I
think it's been at least since twenty fifteen, where like
most people were like looking at a Democratic ticket like, huh.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, two in a row, like we've gotten two good
decisions from the Democrats in a row.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yes, Pelosi this summer.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, the Pelos is loose.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
She says she hasn't spoken to Biden in weeks.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
She pressured Biden out and then was also a Walls supporter. Yeah,
allegedly behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
We shall see where this goes. But yeah, the vibe market,
the stocks are up.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yes, the vibes are high.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
In addition to tampon Tim, the more formal annals of
the conservative media have they're attacking him for being a
socialist again, a thing that like I think is very
popular with young people, probably still scary to the elderly.
But this headline from the Wall Street Journal was pretty wild.
(06:56):
Harris running Mate teases his own project twenty twenty five socialism.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Because he wants he wants kids to have lunch for.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Free at school.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Unfortunately, I do not pay for a Wall Street Journal account. Yes,
so I don't know what specifically they're saying there, but
that's great.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Well, by that, I mean like he's done a lot
for like, you know, like voting rights, you know, where
like kids get like registered or like they're they there's
a list for mail in ballots and like there's sixteen
and seventeen year olds could pre register to.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Vote, you know, like those are like a communist you mean, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, yeah, like a like a common social old social
avoid Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
So he's stalin Minnesota, Stalin, all right, exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That'll stick, that'll stick, yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Right, But back to trendy Yakarino X on Tuesday filed
a federal anti trust lawsuit against Advertising Coalition, an average
hausing industry coalition and its members including CBS, mars or Stead, Unilever,
basically saying like we we sue you for not advertising
(08:12):
with us.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah exactly. This is like a group that was created
by the World Federation of Advertisers again for their like
we need to set like a standard as advertisers around,
like what's brand safe? Like what does brand safety mean
to us? Is it stoking race riots in the UK
and around the country with miss it rife and using
(08:34):
a platform that's rife with misinformation like X? Is that
safe for our brand? Do we want our soap ad
to go up next to a video of a Nazi
talking about just genociding people? Is that? Is that brand safe?
Oh no, well hmm, then maybe this isn't the place
for us. Which is really interesting, right because when when
Elon Musk bought X his whole thing like it's free speech,
(08:56):
and a lot of people like, well, there go your
fucking ad dollars, you know, like a like fucking CVS
doesn't want to be in there, like weird berther shit
or whatever the fuck is like the conspiracy d jour
on X. And I think it's important to remember how
when like like early on, when people were like, dude,
like remember like the anti semitism this like right after
(09:18):
the anti semitism shit that was going on with him,
he had to go have this like weird uh new
York Times like roundtable discussion where he told the advertisers,
He's like, they're not gonna strong arm me for like
spreading misinformation. I just want to play this back because
this is sort of what he said to the very
people that are like, yeah, then we're not going to
advertise on X. This is Elon. We talked to Bob Iden.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Stop do you hope it don't advertise?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Oh? Okay, you don't want them to advertise? No, what
do you mean.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
If somebody going to try to blackmail me with advertising,
blackmailing with money? Fuck yourself, Go fuck yourself.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Turns out, Elon, you just fucked yourself with all this
tough talk. So again, basically he's suing them to be like,
they stopped advertising on us because we don't meet their
standards for brand safety, and that's there. They're that's not right,
that's not fair.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
No fair.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, I object to this capitalistic interaction on the grounds
of no fair.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
What's a free market if companies have the freedom to
do whatever the fuck they want?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah, not a bullshit.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah. So it's very Linda Yakarino has like this video
or it's very uncomfortable. You can tell you've completely been
consumed by like being part of Twitter for too long
in this new phase of whatever late stage Twitter. But yeah,
go ahead. I mean, like this follows up like too.
Like a lot of conservatives have been like screaming about,
like specifically conservative media like the Daily Wire, being like
(11:02):
they're not buying ads on like our racist content, Like
what is this?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
They used to Yeah, that's tough and we hate to
see it. And you do hate to see it for.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
What is it? Is it freedom of speech or mandatory
advertising on my caustic rhetoric?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, they should have to give me money. Yeah, because
I'm all about freedom. All right, let's uh, let's take
a quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back,
(11:42):
and uh, the RFK Junior New Yorker article that he
was trying to get ahead of did come out. I mean,
the bear thing seems like he kind of like it.
They it goes so quickly that they like they it's
(12:02):
not even the focus of the article. It's a couple
paragraphs where they're like, I'll just read it real quick.
One day in the fall of twenty fourteen, Kennedy was
driving to a Falcon reouting in upstate New York, when
he passed a furry brown mound on the side of
the road, pulled over discovered that it was the carcass
of a black bear cub. Kennedy was tickled by the find.
(12:24):
He loaded the dead bear into the rear hatch of
his car and later showed it off to his friends.
In a picture from that day, Kennedy is putting his
fingers inside the bear's bloody mouth, a comical grimace across
his face. When I asked Kennedy about the incident, he said,
maybe that's where I got my brain worm. Yeah, Actually,
people have gotten parasites for meeting bear meat. After the outing, Kennedy,
(12:45):
who was then sixty and recently married to Haines, got
an idea. He drove to Manhattan, and as darkness fell,
entered Central Park with the bear and a bicycle. A
person with knowledge of the event said that Kennedy thought
it would be a funny to make it look as
if the animal had been killed by an errant cyclist.
The next day, the bear was discovered by two women
walking their dogs, setting off an investigation by the NYPD.
(13:06):
This is a highly unusual situation, A spokeswoman for the
Central Park Conservancy told These Times it's awful, and a
follow up piece for the Times, which was coincidentally written
by Tatianas Schlosberg, one of JFK's granddaughters, a retired Bronx
homicide commander, commented, people are crazy and that's the end
of it.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, then goes on to like describe all the other
weird and fucked up shit about really things.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
One of his wives, one of his ex wives, killed
herself after what her family alleges was like a lot
of mental abuse, emotional abuse from him. They then sued
to have her buried in Westchester, where the family was from,
(13:55):
and Kennedy, like countersued to bury her on the Kennedy
family plot on Cape Cod. And then he a month later,
after waiting this right to be.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Like your daughter, your daughter's body has to be buried
where ice is mine.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Uh, he exhumed the body and moved it to a
separate part of the cemetery because he said it offered
more space. And that was like a lot of his
friends were like, that's wait, that's fucking evil, man.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
What's the there's another one where one at the uh,
someone who was an editor at Rolling Stone. Uh uh.
The magazine spoke to former Rolling Stone managing will editor
Will Dana, who recounted an incident which Kennedy visited the
magazine's office carrying a bucket with a little injured baby bird.
(14:46):
So then we have our meeting and we do our thing,
and suddenly he's like, I gotta go. Can you go
get one of your interns, like take the bird to
the vet, Dana recalls. While Kennedy claimed that dana story
is a lie, Rolling Stone executive editor Sean Woods backed
up as the anecdote and said, fact Jack true. He's
got a whole fucking weird like this is like, was
he fucking around with dead animals like as a kid,
(15:07):
Because I think we might be this might just be
the tip of the old fucking iceberg.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
He's been a real big animal guy for his whole life.
But yeah, hanging out with dead ones. Yeah, like he's
sticking his hand in the mouth of dead like roadkill
on the side of the road.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah, he's he's very strange.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I mean, we have a whole episode about it in
our upcoming Kennedy show. But he's it goes way darker
and deeper and stranger.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Than you would expect.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Uh, our junior is a very weird guy.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I mean, who would expect from a guy who saw
his uncle and own dad get murked? Yeah, just probably
And I don't know what kind of you know, what
he did to sort of address that trauma, but I
can it's like in a weird way. I'm like kind
of makes like I understand if this motherfucker's been through
a lot. But this is also to act like this
any of this is like normal or like yeah, this
(16:02):
guy could run the country, right, come on, now, come
on now.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
All right, we have a new story in the if
only someone had seen this coming department. Swimmers have been
legit hospitalized after swimming in the Seine. Yeah that they're
not saying this like a definitely led to b but
the athlete, like two athletes who previously swam in the
(16:27):
sin fell ill amid ongoing concern about high levels of
bacteria in the water. And again they're not being like
that was definitely caused by that. But the like the
whole Belgium team withdrew from the triathletic I thought.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
The Belgian team when they're like our mixed triathlon team
like has been vaporized because Claire Michelle, who was supposed
to who did the swim last time, is in the hospital.
I thought it was like e coli specifically, the thing
that everyone was like, the E coli levels are pretty
bad in this river, and then someone is hospitalized with
like an e coli infection. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I
(17:05):
guess they can try and dance around it. But I
wonder what happened to the American dude who's like wiping
his own bare ass and then eating burritos.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
If not washing his hands to prep for yeah, for
the show. He's taking a victory lap over this shit.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
He's like they said, I was a fucking Weirdoh but
I don't have E coli. I have another gastro intestinal
thing that I think is happening completely unrelated. Don't want
to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
A Swiss athlete also had to pull out of the
mixed relay triathlon due to a gastro intestinal infection, and
he had swam in the sin during the men's triathlon
on July thirtieth.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I mean, is there something too, Because the other thing
that we're hearing a lot more now is in the
Olympic village that they were like worms in the food.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Oh really yeah, yeah, I haven't seen that.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
But yeah, this a British swimmer said, quote, the catering
isn't good enough for the level of athletes that are
expected to perform. We need to give the best we
possibly can. They said. The food in Tokyo was incredible,
but in Paris, he said, there was enough protein. Long
queues waiting thirty minutes for food because there's no queuing system. Wait,
where's the worm part? This is where it gets um.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Oh like you said you want a protein man, yeah,
said the.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Narrative of sustainability has just been pushed on athletes. I
want meat. I need to perform. That's what I eat
at home, So why should I change. I like my fish,
and people are finding worms in the fish. It's just
not good at m.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Worms in the fish is not good.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Soccra Blue, y'all come on now, I know one thing
athletes needed to suck oose oh my sock rate, and I.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Will write your headlines for you the New York Post.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, socc Ra poo about the Send river, about the food.
But yeah, like I mean, anyone who's been around, anyone
who's even like been like I'm gonna start lifting. It's like, dude,
how many eggs are you eating? How much meat are
you eating? Right? Then you then you have to extrapolate
that to a bunch of high performance athletes and worm fish. Now,
(19:16):
I don't know if they're just taking shots or whatever,
but it's pretty it seems like a pretty consistent complaint
that the lodgings are ship the food is shit. This
is the river is full of shit.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah, all right, you go fishing miles, what do you
what do you use? What's the bait? Worms? Okay, sorry,
if some of them ended up in the meat, just.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
They ate the worm. That's how I got it on
the hook for you to have your little protein.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I'm sorry, prepared to have protein.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I went fishing when I found out that's what you
guys wanted.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yeah, I use dog turns. I put right on the
end of the hook, and that's how I catch my fish.
That's the bait I get.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I would actually work in the scent. That's one of
a key part of the ecosystem in the sun as
dog turds. All right, well, those miles are some of
the things that are trending on this Tuesday, August sixth.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
We are back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
With a whole last episode of the show until I know,
do you believe it? Until then, be kind to each other,
be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, get your flu shots,
don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Bye bye,
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Trenda
Yakarino Trenda Trenda that courtesy of Brian the Editor Return.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Return.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Yeah, there you go. That was Elvia.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yeah, that's an Elvia song that seems like it should
have been an early Beatles song.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I feel like, I mean what because they were both
like probably stolen by a black artist.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
And about the mail, I feel like they always like
to do things about the mail anyways. I mean the
big news is from the window to the walls, to
the wall, till the sweat dripped down my ball walls walls. Yeah,
(00:50):
we were we were wrong. Uh, and we'll get into
a little bit more why we're so surprised why we're
pleasantly surprised on tomorrow's episode.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
But you mean wrong that were like the Democrats instinct
would to be do the thing that everyone's center.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
They seem to not be responding to the normal mainstream
media narrative of like, well, so the thing that you
need to do is be extremely apologetic for any progressive
ideas that you've ever held, any progressive things you've ever said.
You need to run away from that and then pretend
like you never said it and then apologize and then
(01:29):
nominate Mitt Romney for your presidential candidate. But instead they
seem to be just like, no, we kind of like
this guy's politics, and he seemed to be good at talking,
so yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
He's got a lot. Again, I was like, you know,
you want to talk about Midwest cred this guy again.
We talked about this in tomorrow's episode. A lot of
people like, well, Mark Kelly's an astronaut. Tim Walls was
a high school football coach. The team he coached had
lost twenty seven executive games before he arrived. Then quote,
we said, this is nonsense. Let's turn this thing around.
(02:06):
Three years later, they were state champions and now a
powerhouse school.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Just like that.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah, and he was on like I think Pod Save
America or something. People been posting this clip of him
talking about, like, you know, just defensively, how to set
his team up, like reading the guards and stuff like that.
I'm like, just if you Juxtaple, like have JD Vance
even trying to talk about sports, I would probably die
of discomfort even listening to Jdvans do that. But yeah,
(02:35):
just like it just feels again, there's something very sincere
about Tim Walls that I think appeals to a lot
of people. And in an era of like, you know,
like just very polished you're like, are you human or
are you dancer? The era of politics, it's nice to
have a guy who you know, is also providing feminine
hygiene products in all school bathrooms, which is.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
All that like something to mock him about Miles tampon.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Tim is also trending because the rights like, oh, dude, for.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
You launched Tim? What what for children?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Cares about the kids? Tim? Disgusting?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Wait, so he provided tampons for people, and they're making
fun of him for doing that.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, for making it like a thing that was like
mandatory in bathrooms. It's like, oh, this guy likes tampons.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
You're like, what, yeah, sure, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
He likes tampons, folks. What roast, dude, what else do
you have?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
But yeah, I mean in an era where the you know,
especially with the selection of JD Vans, the Republican side
seems to be getting like obviously weirder, which it was
the phrase that he came up with, but just like, yeah,
insincerity is really the big JD Vance issue, right. He
seems wildly insincere. He seems like he's just saying whatever
(03:57):
will garner him more political power, and you just no,
because you can like find him completely contradicting himself from
like five years ago, like so reasonly exactly he.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Sold his own brain out, folks. So this is what
it's always like.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It seems smart for them to like lean into authenticity
here and not lean into, uh, trying to apologize and
be centrist and pro Israel at a time when again
that is wildly unpopular, like a lot of the things
that I'm seeing like the Strategic Galaxy mind d NC
(04:36):
people talking about like why they should have gone in
a different direction. They're talking about apologizing or trying to
tack away from things that are popular policies like abortion
rights and opposing the genocide in Gaza.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
You know, yeah, this is we'll see again, that's not
the eff see if this is the administration's official platform,
if they will speak on Gaza.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
But yeah, they didn't lean into the guy who was
yeah yeah, well espawn record. Yeah, but protesters who protested
what is was doing were white supremacist here.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, or like like KKK members. But yeah, I'm I'm
excited that I've more for the fact that I've never
seen like in an election year people be like, all right,
this this looks like something that could maybe like appeal
to people, like for mostly good reasons. Obviously it's still
(05:43):
very much like the status quote ticket and that obviously
like it. We're not things aren't going to change based
on who the president is. But like you know, we
talk a lot about it in tomorrow's episode, but I
think it's been at least since twenty fifteen, where like
most people were like looking at a Democratic ticket like, huh.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, two in a row, like we've gotten two good
decisions from the Democrats in a row.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yes, Pelosi this summer.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, the Pelos is loose.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
She says she hasn't spoken to Biden in weeks.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
She pressured Biden out and then was also a Walls supporter. Yeah,
allegedly behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
We shall see where this goes. But yeah, the vibe market,
the stocks are up.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yes, the vibes are high.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
In addition to tampon Tim, the more formal annals of
the conservative media have they're attacking him for being a
socialist again, a thing that like I think is very
popular with young people, probably still scary to the elderly.
But this headline from the Wall Street Journal was pretty wild.
(06:56):
Harris running Mate teases his own project twenty twenty five socialism.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Because he wants he wants kids to have lunch for.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Free at school.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Unfortunately, I do not pay for a Wall Street Journal account. Yes,
so I don't know what specifically they're saying there, but
that's great.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Well, by that, I mean like he's done a lot
for like, you know, like voting rights, you know, where
like kids get like registered or like they're they there's
a list for mail in ballots and like there's sixteen
and seventeen year olds could pre register to.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Vote, you know, like those are like a communist you mean, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, yeah, like a like a common social old social
avoid Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
So he's stalin Minnesota, Stalin, all right, exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That'll stick, that'll stick, yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Right, But back to trendy Yakarino X on Tuesday filed
a federal anti trust lawsuit against Advertising Coalition, an average
hausing industry coalition and its members including CBS, mars or Stead, Unilever,
basically saying like we we sue you for not advertising
(08:12):
with us.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah exactly. This is like a group that was created
by the World Federation of Advertisers again for their like
we need to set like a standard as advertisers around,
like what's brand safe? Like what does brand safety mean
to us? Is it stoking race riots in the UK
and around the country with miss it rife and using
(08:34):
a platform that's rife with misinformation like X? Is that
safe for our brand? Do we want our soap ad
to go up next to a video of a Nazi
talking about just genociding people? Is that? Is that brand safe?
Oh no, well hmm, then maybe this isn't the place
for us. Which is really interesting, right because when when
Elon Musk bought X his whole thing like it's free speech,
(08:56):
and a lot of people like, well, there go your
fucking ad dollars, you know, like a like fucking CVS
doesn't want to be in there, like weird berther shit
or whatever the fuck is like the conspiracy d jour
on X. And I think it's important to remember how
when like like early on, when people were like, dude,
like remember like the anti semitism this like right after
(09:18):
the anti semitism shit that was going on with him,
he had to go have this like weird uh new
York Times like roundtable discussion where he told the advertisers,
He's like, they're not gonna strong arm me for like
spreading misinformation. I just want to play this back because
this is sort of what he said to the very
people that are like, yeah, then we're not going to
advertise on X. This is Elon. We talked to Bob Iden.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Stop do you hope it don't advertise?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Oh? Okay, you don't want them to advertise? No, what
do you mean.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
If somebody going to try to blackmail me with advertising,
blackmailing with money? Fuck yourself, Go fuck yourself.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Turns out, Elon, you just fucked yourself with all this
tough talk. So again, basically he's suing them to be like,
they stopped advertising on us because we don't meet their
standards for brand safety, and that's there. They're that's not right,
that's not fair.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
No fair.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, I object to this capitalistic interaction on the grounds
of no fair.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
What's a free market if companies have the freedom to
do whatever the fuck they want?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah, not a bullshit.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah. So it's very Linda Yakarino has like this video
or it's very uncomfortable. You can tell you've completely been
consumed by like being part of Twitter for too long
in this new phase of whatever late stage Twitter. But yeah,
go ahead. I mean, like this follows up like too.
Like a lot of conservatives have been like screaming about,
like specifically conservative media like the Daily Wire, being like
(11:02):
they're not buying ads on like our racist content, Like
what is this?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
They used to Yeah, that's tough and we hate to
see it. And you do hate to see it for.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
What is it? Is it freedom of speech or mandatory
advertising on my caustic rhetoric?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, they should have to give me money. Yeah, because
I'm all about freedom. All right, let's uh, let's take
a quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back,
(11:42):
and uh, the RFK Junior New Yorker article that he
was trying to get ahead of did come out. I mean,
the bear thing seems like he kind of like it.
They it goes so quickly that they like they it's
(12:02):
not even the focus of the article. It's a couple
paragraphs where they're like, I'll just read it real quick.
One day in the fall of twenty fourteen, Kennedy was
driving to a Falcon reouting in upstate New York, when
he passed a furry brown mound on the side of
the road, pulled over discovered that it was the carcass
of a black bear cub. Kennedy was tickled by the find.
(12:24):
He loaded the dead bear into the rear hatch of
his car and later showed it off to his friends.
In a picture from that day, Kennedy is putting his
fingers inside the bear's bloody mouth, a comical grimace across
his face. When I asked Kennedy about the incident, he said,
maybe that's where I got my brain worm. Yeah, Actually,
people have gotten parasites for meeting bear meat. After the outing, Kennedy,
(12:45):
who was then sixty and recently married to Haines, got
an idea. He drove to Manhattan, and as darkness fell,
entered Central Park with the bear and a bicycle. A
person with knowledge of the event said that Kennedy thought
it would be a funny to make it look as
if the animal had been killed by an errant cyclist.
The next day, the bear was discovered by two women
walking their dogs, setting off an investigation by the NYPD.
(13:06):
This is a highly unusual situation, A spokeswoman for the
Central Park Conservancy told These Times it's awful, and a
follow up piece for the Times, which was coincidentally written
by Tatianas Schlosberg, one of JFK's granddaughters, a retired Bronx
homicide commander, commented, people are crazy and that's the end
of it.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, then goes on to like describe all the other
weird and fucked up shit about really things.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
One of his wives, one of his ex wives, killed
herself after what her family alleges was like a lot
of mental abuse, emotional abuse from him. They then sued
to have her buried in Westchester, where the family was from,
(13:55):
and Kennedy, like countersued to bury her on the Kennedy
family plot on Cape Cod. And then he a month later,
after waiting this right to be.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Like your daughter, your daughter's body has to be buried
where ice is mine.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Uh, he exhumed the body and moved it to a
separate part of the cemetery because he said it offered
more space. And that was like a lot of his
friends were like, that's wait, that's fucking evil, man.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
What's the there's another one where one at the uh,
someone who was an editor at Rolling Stone. Uh uh.
The magazine spoke to former Rolling Stone managing will editor
Will Dana, who recounted an incident which Kennedy visited the
magazine's office carrying a bucket with a little injured baby bird.
(14:46):
So then we have our meeting and we do our thing,
and suddenly he's like, I gotta go. Can you go
get one of your interns, like take the bird to
the vet, Dana recalls. While Kennedy claimed that dana story
is a lie, Rolling Stone executive editor Sean Woods backed
up as the anecdote and said, fact Jack true. He's
got a whole fucking weird like this is like, was
he fucking around with dead animals like as a kid,
(15:07):
Because I think we might be this might just be
the tip of the old fucking iceberg.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
He's been a real big animal guy for his whole life.
But yeah, hanging out with dead ones. Yeah, like he's
sticking his hand in the mouth of dead like roadkill
on the side of the road.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah, he's he's very strange.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I mean, we have a whole episode about it in
our upcoming Kennedy show. But he's it goes way darker
and deeper and stranger.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Than you would expect.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Uh, our junior is a very weird guy.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I mean, who would expect from a guy who saw
his uncle and own dad get murked? Yeah, just probably
And I don't know what kind of you know, what
he did to sort of address that trauma, but I
can it's like in a weird way. I'm like kind
of makes like I understand if this motherfucker's been through
a lot. But this is also to act like this
any of this is like normal or like yeah, this
(16:02):
guy could run the country, right, come on, now, come
on now.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
All right, we have a new story in the if
only someone had seen this coming department. Swimmers have been
legit hospitalized after swimming in the Seine. Yeah that they're
not saying this like a definitely led to b but
the athlete, like two athletes who previously swam in the
(16:27):
sin fell ill amid ongoing concern about high levels of
bacteria in the water. And again they're not being like
that was definitely caused by that. But the like the
whole Belgium team withdrew from the triathletic I thought.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
The Belgian team when they're like our mixed triathlon team
like has been vaporized because Claire Michelle, who was supposed
to who did the swim last time, is in the hospital.
I thought it was like e coli specifically, the thing
that everyone was like, the E coli levels are pretty
bad in this river, and then someone is hospitalized with
like an e coli infection. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I
(17:05):
guess they can try and dance around it. But I
wonder what happened to the American dude who's like wiping
his own bare ass and then eating burritos.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
If not washing his hands to prep for yeah, for
the show. He's taking a victory lap over this shit.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
He's like they said, I was a fucking Weirdoh but
I don't have E coli. I have another gastro intestinal
thing that I think is happening completely unrelated. Don't want
to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
A Swiss athlete also had to pull out of the
mixed relay triathlon due to a gastro intestinal infection, and
he had swam in the sin during the men's triathlon
on July thirtieth.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I mean, is there something too, Because the other thing
that we're hearing a lot more now is in the
Olympic village that they were like worms in the food.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Oh really yeah, yeah, I haven't seen that.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
But yeah, this a British swimmer said, quote, the catering
isn't good enough for the level of athletes that are
expected to perform. We need to give the best we
possibly can. They said. The food in Tokyo was incredible,
but in Paris, he said, there was enough protein. Long
queues waiting thirty minutes for food because there's no queuing system. Wait,
where's the worm part? This is where it gets um.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Oh like you said you want a protein man, yeah,
said the.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Narrative of sustainability has just been pushed on athletes. I
want meat. I need to perform. That's what I eat
at home, So why should I change. I like my fish,
and people are finding worms in the fish. It's just
not good at m.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Worms in the fish is not good.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Soccra Blue, y'all come on now, I know one thing
athletes needed to suck oose oh my sock rate, and I.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Will write your headlines for you the New York Post.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, socc Ra poo about the Send river, about the food.
But yeah, like I mean, anyone who's been around, anyone
who's even like been like I'm gonna start lifting. It's like, dude,
how many eggs are you eating? How much meat are
you eating? Right? Then you then you have to extrapolate
that to a bunch of high performance athletes and worm fish. Now,
(19:16):
I don't know if they're just taking shots or whatever,
but it's pretty it seems like a pretty consistent complaint
that the lodgings are ship the food is shit. This
is the river is full of shit.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah, all right, you go fishing miles, what do you
what do you use? What's the bait? Worms? Okay, sorry,
if some of them ended up in the meat, just.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
They ate the worm. That's how I got it on
the hook for you to have your little protein.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I'm sorry, prepared to have protein.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I went fishing when I found out that's what you
guys wanted.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yeah, I use dog turns. I put right on the
end of the hook, and that's how I catch my fish.
That's the bait I get.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I would actually work in the scent. That's one of
a key part of the ecosystem in the sun as
dog turds. All right, well, those miles are some of
the things that are trending on this Tuesday, August sixth.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
We are back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
With a whole last episode of the show until I know,
do you believe it? Until then, be kind to each other,
be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, get your flu shots,
don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Bye bye,
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