In this edition of Trendymandering, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, the WSJ article that revealed that Trump may have sent a hand-written birthday card to Epstein, the memes of the Astronomer CEO's affair being outed at a Coldplay concert, gerrymandering and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Dude, I saw a meme that was it said.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Oh I love these, I and I and I love these.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
These are meme. He's gonna describe a meme, Tell me
a meme, all right, So you know Superman?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
It was this video of it was like shit, that
ship that dudes get into in their forties. And it
was a guy like he turned forty and he kept
seeing it would be like him, but dressed in different
ways and be like it would be like bespoke coffee
and be like come with me, and he's like ah,
and then he goes like to another thing and it's
just like all these like it'll be like like Emperor
(00:43):
Nero of Rome and he'll be like, whoa what is this?
And one of them jack was e birding E birding, Yeah,
using the Merlin app to fucking idellic. That was one
of the washed forty year old man activities. And I
was like, is this a fucking thing? Like really that.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It seems temable?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, holy shit. When I saw that, I was like, oh,
I didn't realize. I thought in my own way, I
thought you were cool, Like you're like, no, he'd be
doing that ship. Nobody's fucking with.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Every only forty year old white man. Oh shit, okay, shit,
I have found out about it at our meeting, the
forty year old white man meeting that I go.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
All right, let's look at our Yeah, let's look at
our agenda really quick. New e burning apps.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
This new e birning app that you're going to tell
people about. We we've it's it's really important that we
get the word out about this e birding app.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah. Animal anecdotes you can tell your kids at the zoo.
That'll be after that. If anyone's got any good ones,
that's what we'll be hearing those. We did elephants last week,
so this is we'll try and keep it to sort
of amphibious animals.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
A few good Wikipedia rabbit holes that we just discovered
that we're going to be sharing monks amongst ourselves.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And what what shorts are we wearing this summer? Boys?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Like, how short?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
What's the short man?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Honestly a real question that I have heading into every summer.
I've gone short the summer miles and yeah, oh really.
And the forty something white guy meeting is a buzz.
It's very controversy.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
How many wait are you wearing short shorts right now?
Short again? How many inches? But you don't got a show?
Oh oh that ain't nothing, bro. That what that looks like? Six?
That's six?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Five s?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Five? Walk back? You can't just lift your leg go
back there? You go, Oh nah, that's that ain't five bro.
Oh he's hiking them. Oh oh, he's showing jack showing
us parts that are part of the shorts.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Okay, it's it's aline, So for sure it's short for
me and I go out, I take a walk down
the street. I'm expecting people to be scandalized.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, fuck yeah, there's a I got a pair of
five and a half inch shorts, like in seam shorts
from like a sorry your house burned down like gift bag.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
When I wear those, I feel a little self conscious.
When I go pick my kid up, I'm like, I mean,
you know they can they can check out the thigh tat,
but it's it's definitely it's up there.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It's walking trap.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah. Like it feels a little histrionic when I when
I rock a five and a half, like like I'm
trying to be like, you know what time it is, y'all.
Look at these quads, baby, Yeah, those are tattoos on them.
Mm hmmmmmm hmm. Suy Dad, No, I'm a sludy. I'm
a slutty for dad, all.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Right, Your slutty dad T shirt doesn't help, dude.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
It's so there actually is a slut dad shirt that
Rosie got me.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
My brother in law got me a T shirt from
this co op in Brooklyn. Or it's like a grocery
store called Bad Bad Wife and or the Bad Wife.
And whenever I wear my my laws are like, it's
up with the shirt man, that's supposed to me?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah, I like to.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Be when people used to just say fuck you to
your face.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
You know, I guess we're putting it on a T
shirt these days?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Why am I catching stray? Is off your phrase T shirt?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
My guy, Hello the Internet, and welcome to this week
trend edition absurd. Oh my god, you got the Doppler effect?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
That was me?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, I was just fell by his microphone at Terminal Velocity.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I hit the fucking nose on my Honda Prey Lude
as I just came screaming by.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
My name is Shack O'Brien. That over there is mister.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Mid What a weekend? What a weekend gave her majesty diarrhea.
That's how bad that movie was which we saw, Jurassic Park.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Oh, I've heard that's a common side effect.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, I well, I was teasing her that I was
gonna say this today, but now that I'm in and
I have to go for it. She was just like
she didn't have to have diarrhea, but she said something
about her stomach when we left the movie, and I go,
oh my god, the movie was so bad it gave
you diarrhea, just like saying that very out loud, like
(05:34):
an idiot, and she's like, no, what are you talking about?
And then she kind of leaned into it as a
bit and I was just like I said on Monday,
I'm going to tell people that Jurassic Park was so
bad it gave you diarrhea.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
It wasn't bad times. It's good that you only referred
to her as her majesty.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah it was. It wasn't It wasn't terrible.
It was It's fine.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
It's like, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I think like it's somebody who because they love the
first Jurassic Park so much and have seen every subsequent
one and been like, what the fuck is what the
fuck's going on with this every time that I'm always
prepared to be like it's gonna be bad. So really
it's just about like the oh, it's gonna bite you.
It's gonna bite you. It's gonna bite you. It's gonna
bite you. That's like kind of what the like the
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sensation of watching these Jurassic Park movies are it's almost like, oh,
your legs dangling, it's gonna give Oh you got it
out in time. It didn't get a bit, it didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Get real Jaws energy. Yeah, it was like Jaws two
was just people like you're gonna with their leg dangling
being shot from underneath? Did it at all?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Thank god? Thank god? Anyway, so not worth it.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Where's the like the Lost World? What what's the I
don't know near the top or I don't even in
a drop in the bucket of Jurassic Park sequels, it's.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Just yeah, yeah, it's it's amorphous, leave no lasting memory
on the human brain except for this one. There's like
mutated ones, and I'm like, these are just monsters now.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
It's like a Jurassic Park flavored Lacroix. I guess in
a way, we're like oh comes and goes.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I think now. Yeah, No, I lost it trying to remember.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
This is the this is the podcast where we tell
you stuff that was trending over the weekend. We've got
a lot of stine ship to get through with regards
to president, the president of the United States and a
convicted sex offender who was his best friend for many years.
Uh weird, weird story. So we talked about that. But
(07:44):
first we like to get to know each other a
little bit better by telling you stuff we think is
underrated and overrated. And Miles, I'd love to ask you,
what's something you think is underrated?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Underrated? Oh dude, Okay, have you seen any Mets home
game broadcasts?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I think I saw a shot.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Okay, So the director of sn wise like broadcast director
of the Mets home games, this guy named John Demarcico,
and he does like very very cinematic sort of like
his directing, like doubling up shots. Let me just I'll
(08:26):
show it here. There's there. There's one video that can
kind of give you a flavor. If you haven't seen it,
I really suggest you check it out because he likes
to cover baseball games like they are like feature films
like see these cross dissolves he does like he does
like homages to westerns Brian de Palma, sort of like
multi layered shots showing you the picture the batter, a
(08:47):
wide shot. It's just like really really really dope.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
It's just like a steady cam coming in like it's yeah,
it's just tight, a tight zoom on some eyes.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Oh yeah, even do a little bit of a filter
just again, I think because when you watch baseball, you're like, yeah,
here's you see the same shot. It's from behind the pitchure,
here it comes, here's the wide shot after the hit.
Like he's just doing just that little bit of effort
because he's really enjoying himself.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I think he's really fantastic, just like because we're at
a Gopher Broke era of baseball where they're like, I
don't know, man, people just barely watch this shit anymore.
Let's see if we can't do something weird.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, Like there's this one shot he did someone had
a statue of Liberty hat and then he recreated that
like Planet of the Apes, like shot, Oh my god,
just with the baseball, you know. Like anyway, it's just
really fun and I think he's.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Getting classic cinema.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah, of the Apes, classic cinema. I think I think
we can anything anything before Look who's talking now we
will consider a classic cinema. But yeah, I just I
think it's really dope, And I'm I just love to
see somebody who's like, here's your normal, like a job
where you think there's really nothing you can do creatively
to make it cooler, and this guy's like, yeah, watch
(10:04):
this ship, I got cameras, I'm a director, watch this.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
There does seem to be a general idea that like
baseball is in its like waning days, and they're like
things that they need to try to spice things up
just across the board. I remember hearing that during the
offseason they were considering something called the Golden at Bat.
Did you hear about this, where like you could you
(10:28):
had one at bat in any game that you could
just like bring up whoever you wanted to from your team,
just like, oh you just like bring him up? Yeah, exactly, Like,
which is fun. I don't know, like for a sport
that's like so focused on like the purity of like
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historical data and all that stuff, that's kind of wild
to be like, and one of them has to do
a spinny bat in exchange for the golden You put
your head on the back spinny bat once and.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Then the picture is able to throw one thing that
is into baseball.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
And you don't know when, you know when it's gonna
oh cupcake, But if you obliterated, it's a home run.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I mean, yeah, it is. They talk all the time
about how like they're having so much like it's harder
to get younger people into baseball.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, this is a great This is my favorite way
I've seen anybody do it is just like get cinematic,
just be like, what if we made it? What if
we just like put a crazy amount of thought and
effort and artistic inspiration into this thing that you've been
taking for granted, exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
By the way, what one thing that's underrated is my
ability to remember.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Oh sorry, that was a clip of Andrew Schultz on
The Flagrant podcast wondering why everyone's blaming him that he
voted for Trump. Oh no, yeah, he's having a really
hard time right now.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Fuck man, you really hate to hear that. Well, just
because I heard him on like this and smiled and
said he was cool and said I was voting for
him no matter what. Yeah, but one thing that's underrated.
I forgot to turn on my recording, so my audio
just picked up four minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Oh that's like when TV broadcast went to color and
now we flipped the switch and here's your good mind.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Now you can actually hear me. Or maybe it didn't
sound like anything at all. Shout out to super producer
Ian on helping make up for my mistakes my underrated Wikipedia.
My nine year old discovered Wikipedia this weekend. He's going
through like a real military worship phase, and I answered
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one of his questions by going to Wikipedia, and he
was immediately like WHOA, what was that? What is this?
I think he was like what is that app? And
then like immediately was like how long has that existed?
Who made it? And like can I just like have Wikipedia?
Which is a good idea. Like if someone just had
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like a kindle that was just Wikipedia and you could
just go anywhere you want it on Wikipedia and just
like sell it door to door like a fucking Encyclopedia Britannica.
I feel like that would fucking kick ass.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I wonder if there is I think, can you get
it on on the on the kindle? I don't know. Yeah,
figure that out. I mean, because they have the app
like you could just use like a you could just
like make a like an iPad have very little functionality
except for have.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Wikipedia on it, right, yeah, yeah, just like block all
the apps.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Or Jack, I don't know. You got a printer and
a shitload of paper.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
That's right, That's well, that's how I go through, you know,
our our show doc as you know, I just have
an assistant printed out for me all emails, you know,
put some style.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Jack's assistant is Jack puts on a backwards base bocket.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah yeah, and skateboard around but usually fall badly. But yeah.
Right now we're trying to hold at three Wikipedia searches
a day, which is kind of fun because then we
get to like talk about which ones we should look
up and like have conversations about, because otherwise it would
(14:19):
just be that's all we'd be doing, is here, could
you look up this? And could you look right right
this battleship and what the armaments were?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Like, I can't wait to see your kids. I'm like,
you know, it's really cool, guys chat GPT watch this.
I'll just ask it. It's like your dad, you just
ask it to look it up. Stuff. Wait, so what
is he He's just looking up military stuff now, like
that's those are the main sort of pieces of information
he was after.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, yeah, like military ships, World War two military ships.
There's this show on I think it's like the History
Channel called Drain the Ocean, where they're imagine if we
could drain the ocean, look at these like military risks,
and yeah, yeah, take a look back, and they.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Probably a lot in the Pacific theater.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Are a lot of Pacific theater. He's got a whole
book of Japanese naval ships.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I too, were a boy who loved battleships in the
Pacific theater.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yes, he's he's up the Midway Islands.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Can we go?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
No, I don't think may not be what you think
it's gonna be. But yeah, and then just as always
wild that the only truly great thing created by the
Internet is like completely divorced from all of the bullshit
and like banner ads, and.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
It's just like community driven.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yeah, they just beg for money and our community driven
because like that's the only way for this, given money
and good.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Things on the Internet. You're like, yeah, you're I've I've
used you for many many A paper.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I'm telling you, if they just sold a device that
was called wicked, like Wikipedia, and it was just you know,
a blot, like a a iPad shaped thing only had Wikipedia,
I feel like they do really well. I feel like
some of those.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
What's wrong with just the old fashioned encyclopedia just because
it doesn't have the breadth of knowledge container and like that.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
So he would go down to the armaments that that's
what he's like, what what did the guns look like?
What the guns do on that thing? And we'd go
down and then like you could click on that and
go to a whole page about those guns.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Right, and it's developments and yeah, yeah, exactly, just go deep.
Then you can click on the ammunition and then now
you've got side like cross diagrams. So yeah, yeah, yeah,
So I'm gonna tell my kid there were no wars
and there are no wars, just to avoid those conversations.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Tell the kids the truth. Also, Alex g is a
musician I like, just a kind of earnest one. But
he's he just dropped his major label debut after like
a date of and and he's young. Is an indie artist.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
He was like a baby when he did that. Frank
ocean stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I feel like, I know, yeah, yeah, he worked on
Blonde like I found it, I forget, like I just
heard this one song called uh.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Immunity, Oh my god. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
He's like still a chime baby, yeah, and has been
making music since he was like fifteen, and a lot
of like the songs he made when he was like
fifteen and sixteen are like still the most listened to ones, right,
presumably because by other fifteen and sixteen year olds, And
it's like good, it like kind of has like an
Elliott Smith vibe.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeh yeah, so bedroomy. His new album's uh good but yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Also yeah, it was it was wild, like I was
getting really into him, and then randomly like learned that
he worked on Blonde on and I was like, oh,
what did he like, you know, work on a He
worked on self Control and White Ferrari, like two of
the best songs.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
On that album. I was like, God, damn, Hey, he's
playing at the Greek in September tech is he twenty
six and twenty seventh?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I gotta go.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Maybe we have to go and pray they don't do
a kiss cam at the show.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
A lot of people had some questions about that and yeah,
that we should of us on the m Sorry, we
will talk about the immediate ruining of that new reference
by Corporate America. But first, Miles, what is something you
think is overrated?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Overrated? I think I may have mentioned this maybe not
an overrat or underrated. If I have, I apologize, But
kids acting like they're middle aged adults during summer break
is there's so I live near this like cafe that's
just a very sceny type of place in LA and
like you know, it's like where people in the industry
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will go to do lunch and shit, me too there
really do they got everything you do gook coffee or
you want, like whatever you want, like wine, they have
it too. And since school's gotten out, they're always like
these young kids, like mostly like twelve year old girls
who are like doing lunch, like they're like acting out
this sort of like very adult behavior of like they're
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sitting there, they're on their phones, they're talking loudly on
their phones, but they're like, oh, I'm at lunch with
Hannah and Melissa right now. Yeah, yeah, like let me
call you back at lunch we're doing yeah're at lunch, Yeah,
like talking like.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
High school deals.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, like that kind of energy, you know, like really
embodying that. And I can tell that's what they're doing
because like they're drinking like Pelligrin. You're drinking Pellegrino at twelve, Yeah,
no you aren't. You like to look like you don't
give a fuck. Pellegrino tastes like shit when you're twelve
years old. Don't give me that you you are dying
for orange Gina. Let's be real, Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I'm Pellegrino at twelve as wild.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
It's just like you know what I mean. So I
see them and I see this and the like, then
I'll see like these other kids like then they're like, dude,
like I'm gonna actually go get a coffee next door.
I don't like the coffee here. What the fuck are
y'all talking? So when I see it, I'm just like
part of me, I'm like whatever, that's just like la
for some kids. But I remember like kind of wanting
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to kind of be like a hot shit kind of
teenage or whatever. But that didn't really hit to like
maybe I was like seventeen or something when I was like, Yeah,
who's go fucking over here to fucking be seen or.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Whatever earlier and earlier every day, myles, I know, talking
about this that my white person.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yeah the other day, and so I'm just like, I'm like,
y'all just should be acting fucking goofy. You know, like
you will have plenty of time to look unhappy while
eating an overpriced lunch in your adult years, drink a
fucking bucket of soda, fucking throw a bunch of water
balloons at each other, go do that shit. Like pretending
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you're already washed at twelve and like you got shit
to do is so fucking whack to me. Go go
fucking go be goofy. Please.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yeah, I'm really trying to like steer my kids in
that direction, like I like completely away from social media.
But also, like I I do feel like there's a
certain type of parent that like wants their kids to
be cool and not like the cool of like just
deeply like cool and appreciates like has interesting interests and
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stuff like that, but like be accepted by their peers
kind of you know, what seem cool. And I'm just like,
that's I don't know, that is not what cool?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Exactly? I think that's what you people fundamentally misunderstand when
people are like, oh, that person's cool or whatever. People
usually like that they don't give a fuck about what
you think. Yeah, that's actually what you're reading into. Like, really,
people who are like damn that person, they're not fucking
they're not trying, they're not democratic partying it up their
whole swag to be like, let me triangulate how I look.
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Some people do, obviously a lot of people do. You
can tell because people look like like the five versions
of fashion that exist on TikTok or like Instagram, and
people like subscribe to those sort of styles. But just
teach your kids to not give a fuck, you know
what I mean, be you that's a kid. I fully
agree with that.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I feel like I've seen that more in LA than
other places. I'm wondering if like that is as common elsewhere.
But like kids wanting to be like their parents kind
of like wanting to act older, it feels like kind
of an LA thing more so. But I guess it's
also like there was that joke on Girls five EVA
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about like lonely Brooklyn boys, like children who are like
raised in Brooklyn and just like immediately have the soul
of like a forty seven year old New Yorker reader.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I mean at least you can
there's a little bit of depth where they're like I
was reading Faulkner at nine or something, you know what
I mean. Like these kids are like I was looking
at a cell phone drinking espresso at eight, and you're like,
that's not going to help you with anything.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
My overrated Again, I think I've done this one before.
But everything they use AI for until they fix spell check,
Like we insist on like making it right screenplays or
you know, answer questions in a conversational manner, and yet
like they my spell check insists that I'm trying to
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type ducking over and over again. Yeah, but then has
no clue what I'm trying to say. When I say
they want in a lang slide, They're like, what lang slide?
No suggestions over here?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah? What the fuck else? Could it be?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Right?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Google? What on Google? Is absolute tracks?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Sucks? Ship we're reading this, I'm reading this off of
a Google doc that still has a red line under
lang styled and.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
It could make maybe things. It's it's you're talking about
like a city in Scandinavia.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Right, that's probably what it is. But it does it's
just like a thing that it's it's a good reflection
of the thing we talked about a lot on here
that nothing is built for people. It's all built for
corporate investorality.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yeah, Like the the use of spell check, Like spell
check being able to tell what you meant and like
filling that in quickly is a thing that would make
actual people's lives so much easier, more convenient, and instead
they're ignoring that and busily like trying to create a
thing that will automagically write a screen play exactly.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
There's times like when I'll misspell like the with like
th h r or something like a key that's maybe
just next to the E, and it'll be like, huh,
what the fuck do you think I'm trying.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
It's obviously the right whatever it can it can anticipate
what you mean well enough to like hold a conversation
with you, because that is like monetizable, but it can't
do it. And when it comes to spell check, because
that doesn't really like makes free, We've we've taken that
one for granted. All right, let's take a quick break.
(25:03):
We'll be right back, and we're back. And it was
a it was a news full weekend for people who,
for whatever reason, are still paying attention to this Epstein thing.
(25:27):
The So I remember seeing like on Thursday night, somebody
being like, there's a there's a bombshell coming from like
a major paper, a major news organization, And that bombshell
was a story from the Wall Street Journal that was like,
we've seen this note that Trump may have written for
(25:49):
Epstein's fiftieth birthday, which included an imaginary conversation. It's just
like very very strange.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Yeah, it's freaky. It's so freaky. You're like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that should probably happened. I don't know, yeah, yeah, sure, sure.
These are the two fucking creepiest people in America in
recent memory. But I guess there, I wish they showed
the card.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I know, I don't know why they're not showing the card.
It's yeah, anyway, for ten billion dollars, there's a for
a libel lawsuit.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
There's a story on the front page of the New
York Times on this Monday morning being like this is
the thing that turned the tide for Trump because it's like.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
You guys shut up over there at the New York Times.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Because I guess they're like his followers are like a
letter this this all seems too silly to like it.
It has the energy of like something that they could
call fake news, and so it feels like that is
what they were, just desperately looking for an excuse to
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stop paying at ten to this. And the thesis of
the New York Times article is like this is the
thing where they're like, oh, okay, a birthday card. Get real.
It was like enough for them.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
That's that sounds like it's written in the voice of
Donald Trump, Right, Oh wow? What else? What else is next?
A little that I wrote that showed that I bought
all these whatever incriminating items that you can tie to
a case. I mean, the thing was like it was
a drawing of like a naked lady and his signature
was meant to be like the pubic hair, and then
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like it was signed happy birthday and may every day
be another wonderful secret, along with a really creepy soport,
like weird back and forth.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Yeah, piece of dialogue between Trump and Epstein that is voiceover.
There must be more to life than having everything, Donald, Yes,
there is, but I won't tell you what it is.
Like it's a fucking like Brookshield jeans ad like which
machines are I know, well, that was like, that's one
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of the most startling works of like just straight up
sexual like pervert pedophilia ever. But anyway, yeah, I don't
know what it is, nor will I since I also
know what it is, says Jeffrey Donald. We have certain
things in common, Jeffrey. Jeffrey, yes, we do, come to
think of it, Donald, enigma's never age. Have you noticed that, Jeffrey.
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As a matter of fact, it was clear to me
the last time I saw you, Donald, a pal is
a wonderful thing. Happy birthday, and may every day be
another wonderful secret.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yikes dot com backslash. These guys are fucking pedophiles.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Yes, I never wrote a picture in my life. Was
the definitive, you know retort from Donald Trump that the
New York Times is like case closed. This guy's turning
the tides of this argument. So anyways, that that was
like one of the stories that got a lot of attention.
But there's other things that came out that are like that.
(29:02):
That And by the way, I will say, that seems
like very damning to me. I don't know, like it's
weird that they didn't print the image, and like, I
don't know how they're going to prove that it definitely
was him. So but if they actually go to court
on it, but like that definitely feels, oh yeah, that
(29:23):
that ship was him.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
And that's like, well, especially when he's like I don't
He's like, that is not what I do. That's not
the language I use. I don't you. I never draw,
I don't like draw rings. I'm not good at draw rings.
And then everyone's like, look at all these fucking weird
of cities whatever I mean, I think again, I think
(29:45):
it's just more like, yeah, I know, you don't have
to prove to me that he he knows Jeffrey Epstein
by being like and here's a card, or like, yeah,
we've seen fucking video and there's like video testimony.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Yeah, so uh. Dick Durbin sent a letter specifically referring
to the fact that FBI agents reviewing the Epstein case
were quote instructed to flag any documents that mentioned President
Donald Trump and that was like recent, hm, that was
like so basically the timeline on that is that Pam
(30:18):
Bondi said like, we are looking at these files, people
had questions and then they brought a bunch of people
in to review the Epstein files and flag anywhere that
his name was mentioned.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
How about it might be easier to flag the pages
where he's not mentioned?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Could we do that?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
That would just just sort of like a work smarter,
not harder kind of thing, if if that's okay, miss
or miss Bondi, Director Bondi, Attorney General Bondi please.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
After intense blowback from this incident, Attorney General Bondi then
appeared on another Fox News show, Life Liberty Levin, and
claimed that a whistleblower told her that the US Manhattan
as Attorney's Office sitting on thousand was sitting on thousands
of pages and documents and that we will get everything,
and she was assured there is more in that the
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country would eventually see the full Epstein files. Durbin said
his office had learned that after that, the FBI was
pressured to put approximately one thousand personnel one thousand people
in its Information Management division on twenty four hour shifts
to review approximately one hundred thousand Epstein related records in
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order to produce more documents that could then be released
on an arbitrarily short deadline. That's like that's the most clear, straightforward.
She said, we've got them, we're going to share them.
Somebody was like, oh shit, the presidents in them. Go
find the ones he's in and flag those.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
This is it's Look, it's not that big of a deal,
but I need one thousand human beings on twenty four
hour shifts going through these fucking pages. Jesus. I mean,
I mean that's what. As much as they want to
do stuff like in the New York Times, we're like, oh, yikes,
this was a whiff. Sorry rip the Epstein story. I
don't know. I mean, like sure, eventually the momentum is
(32:15):
going to die down, but I don't know what exactly
they're what they could possibly release, because I know Trump
still keeps kind of making gestures as if he wants
to unseal grand jury stuff. But their base, especially like
they want to see Bill Clinton's name. Yeah, yeah, that's
like what they want. That's really this whole party's about
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him and Barack Obama. They're like, give us that part
so we can do the Guantanamo Bay. We can guantanamo
bay them, like we've been promised.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
There was also just a bunch of like profiles of
Trump and Epstein's friendship that came out over the weekend.
One of the anecdotes that really jumped out to me
was there was this calendar girl competition, is what they
were calling it. So it's like there's that nineteen ninety
two video where it's like a mar A Lago party
where Trump's like dancing with women and like Epstein's there, Yeah, yeah,
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he's He's telling Epstein little jokes that cause Epstein to
like fall over laughing, clearly like the best of friends.
So months after that, Trump hosted a party at mar
A Lago for young women in a so called calendar
girl competition. Mister Epstein was the only other guest. According
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to George Horaany, a Florida based businessman who arranged the event,
I said, Donald, this is supposed to be a party
with VIPs. You're telling me it's just you and Epstein?
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Yep what Yeah, Yeah, there's every there. I don't know, man,
it just seems like like it Yeah, it really doesn't.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
There's also so now there's a guy like I do
feel like this is just going to keep coming out, Like,
I don't know how this doesn't lead to bigger and
bigger things unless everybody who supports Trump just like gets
on the same page and is like, nah, this everything's
everything these people are saying is a lie. But like
(34:18):
it's just like one after another. Like there there's a
guy who used to be his like pit boss in
Atlantic City who was like had to stop them from
bringing somebody on the because she was nineteen. Yeah, because
and the only reason that they knew that was because
she was like the number three ranked tennis player in
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the world, and like one of the people who worked
there was like a big tennis fan and so like, yeah,
that's so who knows like what the other ages were.
That's but like that's a thing. He was like, Yeah,
but as far as I knew the entire four years
that I worked there, they were straight up best friends.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Right, Yeah, I mean there's this We'll see what's gonna happen,
because right now there's clearly a lot happening behind the
scenes with Fox News and jd. Vance went to visit
like Rupert Murdoch in Montana or wherever the fuck he
lives last week before this story came out, and then
it came out, and now you know, there's a lot
(35:25):
of talk of like well then there's his son Lachlan,
who really has more of like control over Fox News,
and whether or not, like the like, there's gonna be
warring factions within the family of people who were like, well,
this is like stuff we're gonna publish. We don't give
a shit, and other people who are like, we we
want Trump to be number one, so we'll do what
we can, because we already saw how everybody started switching
(35:46):
up on Fox to the point where like people on
you know, uh like Newsmax and other channels were like, oh,
they're bending the knee. So I don't know, I don't
know what this means. I'm sure at some point, like anything,
there'll always be like people who start making noise on
the fringes and then they kind of start pressing them,
(36:06):
and then they're like, okay, okay, we'll stop, we'll stop,
We'll support this. But I hey, look there's another week ahead,
so we shall see how they react to all the
fucking terrible, terrible things that come to light.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
But I like the idea that the New York Times
just like posted the stories was like Trump is turning
the tides. It's like, according to him, like he came
out and was like my popularity has surged to unseen.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Heights, ungodly levels.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Yeah, it's the Epstein hoax.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
We said stuff like ninety seven percent approval rating.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Yeah, it seems reasonable. That seems right to me.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
I'm like, would you pull one person and then you
did them with a margin of era era of three percent?
You're like, well, okay, so that's ninety seven. There were
fay killing it string music, you hear chamber music. No,
that's just this, that's just the net going wish.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Anyways, those are those are the ones. I mean, there's
all sorts of just fucking horrifying, like anecdotes of like
a Epstein like brings in somebody who's working on a
project who's like a you know, I think a woman
in her like early twenties, and Trump immediately like starts
groping her, and like Epstein's like, yo, no, no, no, no,
(37:23):
Like that's that's not the context here. She's she's not
for you. But like clearly just like an animal relationship,
was that, like Epstein just like brings women to him, right.
I also like assumed that there was some better explanation,
like something somebody had looked into, like why he was
(37:46):
given like complete control over that guy's finances. The Victoria's
secret like one hundred millionaire billionaire, and there's just like
the New York Times like brings that up now and
they're like, yeah, nobody really ever figured it out.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Oh, like why he assumed financial control guys.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
It's just like the whole thing seems very clearly like well,
it's like the first appeared to be and it's like
the I think I think there probably is some ass
covering happening from the New York Times just being like, yeah,
we were ignoring this shit for a long time.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Well, I think because nothing stands up to any kind
of scrutiny like this second you look at you're like,
oh yo, yeah, and again that sort of lays bare
the absolute failure of this country to bring anyone to justice,
especially when it comes to stuff like these kinds of
sexual crimes and assaults. Yeah, and now it's like only
because maybe there are other powerful people that could potentially
(38:42):
think that this could make Trump less powerful than now
that it matters. There's like just so many levels of
like fucked up. When you look at this thing, you're like,
oh my god, Like people only care about it now
because it could be a weapon, not because like as
a legal case, you could have actually brought people to justice. Fine. Uh, hey, anyway, America, cool, swish.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Swish, let's talk about Coldplaygate.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
I mean, there's really nothing to see here, Jack, I mean,
let's just you know, I feel like I really turned
a corner here a woman. Yeah, I think there was
a fake that I saw a letter that he wrote.
I wasn't sure if it was real when I was
quoting Coldplay at the end, I'm like this, this smacks
of like a dumb joke one. But then there was
(39:31):
it's looked like the real one from Astronomer doc or whatever.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
There was like an impersonal statement from astronomer dot com
or astronomer or whatever. Yeah, astronomer dot com, fucking whatever.
That was like, you know, he didn't live up to
our corporate standards of behavior and is resigning. And also
like he didn't release that statement where he was like,
(39:57):
but Coldplay shouldn't be like putting people on blast like that.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yeah the heck, cold Play?
Speaker 2 (40:03):
What the fuck? But anyway, it it did really seem
to unite the country.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Yeah, and that because it was everywhere it got like
it really was a flash in the pan kind of
thing where it like it got it took on like
near levels of like the energy that the sun radiates,
like for a meme, and then immediately went just like
just fizzled out after Yeah, everyone.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Not with certain people. With certain people, they're gonna be
making references to this for.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Oh of course. Yeah. Yeah, Well it takes time for
it to reach the highest echelons of c suites or
people go, oh, this one's good. We can doing this
for a year now.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Yeah, people who complain a lot about Mondays at work
and stuff, I feel like they'll be like still talking
about this one. You see this, But yeah, I mean so,
multiple sports teams introduced Coldplay cams instead of kiss cams.
In Philadelphia, the Philly Fanatic recreated the moment and like
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they were busted by kiss cam.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
I hate to see it.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Somebody made a Coldplay Canoodlers video game in which you
play the cameraman at the concert and you're just like
looking around trying to spot the couple. But it should
be noted it was a shitty game that was vibe coded,
meaning that AI did the actual coding, and then somebody
was just like it's.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
That's the most story of all time is someone made
a shitty video game app with ai of the meme
moment that no one's going to give a fuck about
in two weeks at most, but hey, yeah, vibe code
that thing, man, just vibe code that.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
And then every pop culture fandom had had their own
kind of spin on it. They had Peggy from King
of the Hill.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
With Peggy Hill, Yeah hit a bag of charcoal, not
mispro paane household. Absolute shame that is that. There was
the fucking Trump and Epstein one too.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
Yeah, that little but up hard. But like any online joke,
it immediately became unfunny as soon as brand started doing it,
like I'll allow the MLB to do it because they
kind of kicked off the kisscam thing. Sure, and also
it's like it has the energy of like local fans.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
And yeah but they did that, yeah, not like a
but not a ship post. When brands start ship posting
with it, that's when it becomes insofferable.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
I think I'm realizing it's starting to see it like
with the uh, you know, shout outs to the Mets
broadcast and us being like it's okay when the MLB
does it, it's starting to seem like we're part of
the that Simpson's conspiracy where it's like the world is
run by Major League base.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Yep, yep, don't look too don't look too deep into it.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
But like companies like I Keia, Globe Air all tried
to do, even Tesla tried to do.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Oh god, a shitty thing, good luck.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
Yeah, yeah, the Tesla one was real sweaty. Posting a
pick of you enjoying your loner Tesla while your own
one is in service is the equivalent of taking it
to a Coldplay concert. Your car will know. Oh shut up,
swish dunk shot the fuck god run from way downa shot.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Fuck you. Even like, I even saw clips from subsequent
shows where Chris Martin I was even like, all I relaxed.
Chris Martin, Yeah, he referenced. He's like, all right, we're
gonna do a camera that's gonna come around now.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
I hope you know, just be warned.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
It's like, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
Apparently like their songs, a bunch of their songs have
entered the Spotify like top fifty chart. People are just
it's like all right, oh, oh bite, yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
What is this cold Play?
Speaker 2 (44:06):
Everyone's talking about the go hold on, wait a tick.
Oh okay, you know that new song you've been looking for,
that new sound you've been looking for.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Can you imagine someone, some person in their like middle ages,
discovering Coldplay now because of this, and they go, oh
my god, honey, get in here.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Have you wondered if like CEOs are going to show
solidarity and be like, fuck Coldplay, not you guys.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
Not Now?
Speaker 2 (44:34):
This guy was.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
He was a startup CEO. He's not part of like
the dynastic full on olive arc class yet, you know
what I mean, where like they'd all have each other's back.
He's a sacrificial millionaire.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
I think in their eyes, the conspiracy goes all the
way to the top.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
Oh yeah it does.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
You don't think he was sacrificed with the altar of
Epstein Exactly home on private jet charter service Globe Air
reposted the viral clip U by saying the quickest escape
after a cold Play concert, and then featured a Boston
to Hawaii flight.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
They I feel like that's a flight that like sordid
couple would actually take, Like they'd like, let's just look,
your wife knows my partner, Like, let's just go to Hawaii,
Like we said, we are fuck.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
That one's like just too realistic. Yeah yeah, yeah, literally
we advertise to an audience of like three people.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
Yeah exactly. You get caught cheating? Are you a millionaire?
You want to go to Hawaii right now to escape everything?
Go ahead here, globe bear.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
All right, we're gonna take a quick break. We're gonna
come back and talk about Jerry Mandarin, the old old
fashioned political fuckery. Oh yeah, we'll be right back, and
we're back back. And you know, Trump seems like he
(46:01):
is planning for there not to be a democracy around
the next time that he's up for election. We don't
know exactly how he's planning to pull it off. Well,
one favorite, one old standby of the Republican Party is,
of course, Jerrymanderin just rat.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
Fucking, just some form of rat fuckery, because we've heard
about how there are people reaching out to states from
the party to be like, we'd like to take a
look at your voter data and machines, and you're like,
oh boy, what do you what do you what are
you up to over there? And along with that, again,
like to your point, everything is like, dude, the polls
keep going down and in any normal universe. You're like
(46:42):
gonna have to do something about that because you know,
like elections, that doesn't help you if it's kind of
a democracy. Uh so, yes, along with just the general
like sort of voter suppression tactics that are going on.
He's now called on states like Texas and for others
to redistrict, do some redistricting to generate more Republican seats
(47:06):
in the House and so on. Like we were talking
earlier about how Trump was like, I've seen polls recently
that I'm like ninety seven percent, ninety eight percent in
some places, and I don't know if that's like again,
I don't know if that to me. Do you think
that's his his staff showing him fake shit just to
keep him from fully going off the rails, Like he
(47:27):
will have a cardiac event if you show him any
real polling, or he's gonna get so mad at us
it's not even worth my time. Just just fucking photoshop
something that says ninety nine percent approval just so we
can get through the fucking day because he's.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
Not feel like he will take anything right. Like you
could just conduct a like poll those like you sent
via email to twenty of your friends, and he would
take that as like scientific.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
Yeah, he's like, oh, have you seen the latest Bazuka
Joe polls, mister President, No, I haven't Bazuka Joe. Great amitica.
Oh wow, ninety eight percent? Very good, very good. Let's
keep this going. But anyway, again, like you said, they're
in any serious calls to upend the elections, so we
need more seats. So Texas is actually beginning that process
(48:14):
today in a special session of their state legislature, where
the agenda includes many other high priority items like flood
warning systems. Yeah, that's probably, yeah, that's definitely something abortion important. Yeah, abortion, sure,
but I guess more in their sense to probably restrict
access sadly and quote protecting women's privacy and sect segregated spaces.
(48:38):
So they're doing there, they're really going after the real high,
top of the list kind of stuff, high priority stuff. Yeah.
But this whole call for adding seats has now sort
of begun like a gerrymander race between states. Gavin Newsom's like, oh,
you rang, you want to fucking carve up maps. He's like,
(48:58):
because we also have a very blue fucking majority in
the state of California, we can also carve up some
good eating if we're trying to add some more like
safe seats to the mix. And as as of you know,
as it stands, there are other states like Minnesota, New Jersey,
New York, and Washington that are kind of like beginning
to eye that sort of tactical like is that what
(49:19):
is that we're doing, because we.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
Will do that eventually, just gonna be like blue states
are all blue, blue district just like wild patterns.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
It's gonna be a race to the bottom probably in
that they're like, if it's an arms race to just
create more seats. Sure, and you know, the blue states
tend to be more populous populated than others, so maybe
they're able to seek an advantage there. But uh yeah,
I don't know. Very it's just showing you they're like,
oh yeah, these are sort of like these like anti
(49:50):
bellum moves where they're like, oh yeah, everything's nothing matters, great,
fuck it, they're fucking these are made up seats too,
that we're gonna create just to create some some majorities,
uh in the house. But yeah, that's that's that seems
to be the easy sort of solution to the tanking
poll numbers right now, is to just create more safe
Republican seats.
Speaker 2 (50:11):
So midterms, for the midterms and then for the presidential
election tbd, TBD.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
Maybe some kind of false flag, maybe some kind of
overreaction to mundane events to then say we actually have
to suspend all functions.
Speaker 2 (50:27):
War happening right now because this building was attacked or something.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
Yeah, yeah, they're like someone paints, someone egged it, someone
egged the motorcade. That's it. Martial law Jesus.
Speaker 2 (50:41):
Yeah, I mean they're willing to go martial law right away,
drop of a hat Los Angeles and on on that
uh fucking bridge over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (50:54):
It's not yeah, it's they're they're looking for anything. But
uh yeah, they will continue to find creative ways to
try and offset their lack of performance. I mean the
end of the day, I mean they're they're definitely making
everybody in the Federalist Society and all the you know,
Heritage Foundation, those people are loving it. But again, you know,
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maybe they can just figure out a way to nullify
the will of people to continue the agenda.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
I have faith that they will do that.
Speaker 1 (51:26):
I have faith that they will, yeah, find ways to
skirt accountability. Is literally any mainstream.
Speaker 2 (51:32):
Media that like that is clearly the plan, Like you know,
skate where the puck is going, Like, well, clearly this
is what they're planning to do. Like how might they
do it?
Speaker 1 (51:42):
Yeah, because they're not going how are we going to
win back the voters? No? There, it's like whatever, fuck it.
How do we nullify people's displeasure with what's happening here
and pretend like their vote still has some kind of impact.
Speaker 2 (51:55):
Yeah all right, those are some of the things that
are trending on this much day morning. We are back
tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then,
be kind to each other, be kind to yourself, get
your vaccines way you still can't get your flu shots,
don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
to you all tomorrow. Bye bye,
Dude, I saw a meme that was it said.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Oh I love these, I and I and I love these.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
These are meme. He's gonna describe a meme, Tell me
a meme, all right, So you know Superman?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
It was this video of it was like shit, that
ship that dudes get into in their forties. And it
was a guy like he turned forty and he kept
seeing it would be like him, but dressed in different
ways and be like it would be like bespoke coffee
and be like come with me, and he's like ah,
and then he goes like to another thing and it's
just like all these like it'll be like like Emperor
(00:43):
Nero of Rome and he'll be like, whoa what is this?
And one of them jack was e birding E birding, Yeah,
using the Merlin app to fucking idellic. That was one
of the washed forty year old man activities. And I
was like, is this a fucking thing? Like really that.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It seems temable?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, holy shit. When I saw that, I was like, oh,
I didn't realize. I thought in my own way, I
thought you were cool, Like you're like, no, he'd be
doing that ship. Nobody's fucking with.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Every only forty year old white man. Oh shit, okay, shit,
I have found out about it at our meeting, the
forty year old white man meeting that I go.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
All right, let's look at our Yeah, let's look at
our agenda really quick. New e burning apps.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
This new e birning app that you're going to tell
people about. We we've it's it's really important that we
get the word out about this e birding app.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah. Animal anecdotes you can tell your kids at the zoo.
That'll be after that. If anyone's got any good ones,
that's what we'll be hearing those. We did elephants last week,
so this is we'll try and keep it to sort
of amphibious animals.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
A few good Wikipedia rabbit holes that we just discovered
that we're going to be sharing monks amongst ourselves.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And what what shorts are we wearing this summer? Boys?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Like, how short?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
What's the short man?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Honestly a real question that I have heading into every summer.
I've gone short the summer miles and yeah, oh really.
And the forty something white guy meeting is a buzz.
It's very controversy.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
How many wait are you wearing short shorts right now?
Short again? How many inches? But you don't got a show?
Oh oh that ain't nothing, bro. That what that looks like? Six?
That's six?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Five s?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Five? Walk back? You can't just lift your leg go
back there? You go, Oh nah, that's that ain't five bro.
Oh he's hiking them. Oh oh, he's showing jack showing
us parts that are part of the shorts.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Okay, it's it's aline, So for sure it's short for
me and I go out, I take a walk down
the street. I'm expecting people to be scandalized.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, fuck yeah, there's a I got a pair of
five and a half inch shorts, like in seam shorts
from like a sorry your house burned down like gift bag.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
When I wear those, I feel a little self conscious.
When I go pick my kid up, I'm like, I mean,
you know they can they can check out the thigh tat,
but it's it's definitely it's up there.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It's walking trap.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah. Like it feels a little histrionic when I when
I rock a five and a half, like like I'm
trying to be like, you know what time it is, y'all.
Look at these quads, baby, Yeah, those are tattoos on them.
Mm hmmmmmm hmm. Suy Dad, No, I'm a sludy. I'm
a slutty for dad, all.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Right, Your slutty dad T shirt doesn't help, dude.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
It's so there actually is a slut dad shirt that
Rosie got me.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
My brother in law got me a T shirt from
this co op in Brooklyn. Or it's like a grocery
store called Bad Bad Wife and or the Bad Wife.
And whenever I wear my my laws are like, it's
up with the shirt man, that's supposed to me?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah, I like to.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Be when people used to just say fuck you to
your face.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
You know, I guess we're putting it on a T
shirt these days?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Why am I catching stray? Is off your phrase T shirt?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
My guy, Hello the Internet, and welcome to this week
trend edition absurd. Oh my god, you got the Doppler effect?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
That was me?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, I was just fell by his microphone at Terminal Velocity.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I hit the fucking nose on my Honda Prey Lude
as I just came screaming by.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
My name is Shack O'Brien. That over there is mister.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Mid What a weekend? What a weekend gave her majesty diarrhea.
That's how bad that movie was which we saw, Jurassic Park.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Oh, I've heard that's a common side effect.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, I well, I was teasing her that I was
gonna say this today, but now that I'm in and
I have to go for it. She was just like
she didn't have to have diarrhea, but she said something
about her stomach when we left the movie, and I go,
oh my god, the movie was so bad it gave
you diarrhea, just like saying that very out loud, like
(05:34):
an idiot, and she's like, no, what are you talking about?
And then she kind of leaned into it as a
bit and I was just like I said on Monday,
I'm going to tell people that Jurassic Park was so
bad it gave you diarrhea.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
It wasn't bad times. It's good that you only referred
to her as her majesty.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah it was. It wasn't It wasn't terrible.
It was It's fine.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
It's like, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I think like it's somebody who because they love the
first Jurassic Park so much and have seen every subsequent
one and been like, what the fuck is what the
fuck's going on with this every time that I'm always
prepared to be like it's gonna be bad. So really
it's just about like the oh, it's gonna bite you.
It's gonna bite you. It's gonna bite you. It's gonna
bite you. That's like kind of what the like the
(06:19):
sensation of watching these Jurassic Park movies are it's almost like, oh,
your legs dangling, it's gonna give Oh you got it
out in time. It didn't get a bit, it didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Get real Jaws energy. Yeah, it was like Jaws two
was just people like you're gonna with their leg dangling
being shot from underneath? Did it at all?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Thank god? Thank god? Anyway, so not worth it.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Where's the like the Lost World? What what's the I
don't know near the top or I don't even in
a drop in the bucket of Jurassic Park sequels, it's.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Just yeah, yeah, it's it's amorphous, leave no lasting memory
on the human brain except for this one. There's like
mutated ones, and I'm like, these are just monsters now.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
It's like a Jurassic Park flavored Lacroix. I guess in
a way, we're like oh comes and goes.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I think now. Yeah, No, I lost it trying to remember.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
This is the this is the podcast where we tell
you stuff that was trending over the weekend. We've got
a lot of stine ship to get through with regards
to president, the president of the United States and a
convicted sex offender who was his best friend for many years.
Uh weird, weird story. So we talked about that. But
(07:44):
first we like to get to know each other a
little bit better by telling you stuff we think is
underrated and overrated. And Miles, I'd love to ask you,
what's something you think is underrated?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Underrated? Oh dude, Okay, have you seen any Mets home
game broadcasts?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I think I saw a shot.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Okay, So the director of sn wise like broadcast director
of the Mets home games, this guy named John Demarcico,
and he does like very very cinematic sort of like
his directing, like doubling up shots. Let me just I'll
(08:26):
show it here. There's there. There's one video that can
kind of give you a flavor. If you haven't seen it,
I really suggest you check it out because he likes
to cover baseball games like they are like feature films
like see these cross dissolves he does like he does
like homages to westerns Brian de Palma, sort of like
multi layered shots showing you the picture the batter, a
(08:47):
wide shot. It's just like really really really dope.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
It's just like a steady cam coming in like it's yeah,
it's just tight, a tight zoom on some eyes.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Oh yeah, even do a little bit of a filter
just again, I think because when you watch baseball, you're like, yeah,
here's you see the same shot. It's from behind the pitchure,
here it comes, here's the wide shot after the hit.
Like he's just doing just that little bit of effort
because he's really enjoying himself.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I think he's really fantastic, just like because we're at
a Gopher Broke era of baseball where they're like, I
don't know, man, people just barely watch this shit anymore.
Let's see if we can't do something weird.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, Like there's this one shot he did someone had
a statue of Liberty hat and then he recreated that
like Planet of the Apes, like shot, Oh my god,
just with the baseball, you know. Like anyway, it's just
really fun and I think he's.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Getting classic cinema.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah, of the Apes, classic cinema. I think I think
we can anything anything before Look who's talking now we
will consider a classic cinema. But yeah, I just I
think it's really dope, And I'm I just love to
see somebody who's like, here's your normal, like a job
where you think there's really nothing you can do creatively
to make it cooler, and this guy's like, yeah, watch
(10:04):
this ship, I got cameras, I'm a director, watch this.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
There does seem to be a general idea that like
baseball is in its like waning days, and they're like
things that they need to try to spice things up
just across the board. I remember hearing that during the
offseason they were considering something called the Golden at Bat.
Did you hear about this, where like you could you
(10:28):
had one at bat in any game that you could
just like bring up whoever you wanted to from your team,
just like, oh you just like bring him up? Yeah, exactly, Like,
which is fun. I don't know, like for a sport
that's like so focused on like the purity of like
(10:48):
historical data and all that stuff, that's kind of wild
to be like, and one of them has to do
a spinny bat in exchange for the golden You put
your head on the back spinny bat once and.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Then the picture is able to throw one thing that
is into baseball.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
And you don't know when, you know when it's gonna
oh cupcake, But if you obliterated, it's a home run.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I mean, yeah, it is. They talk all the time
about how like they're having so much like it's harder
to get younger people into baseball.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, this is a great This is my favorite way
I've seen anybody do it is just like get cinematic,
just be like, what if we made it? What if
we just like put a crazy amount of thought and
effort and artistic inspiration into this thing that you've been
taking for granted, exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
By the way, what one thing that's underrated is my
ability to remember.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Oh sorry, that was a clip of Andrew Schultz on
The Flagrant podcast wondering why everyone's blaming him that he
voted for Trump. Oh no, yeah, he's having a really
hard time right now.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Fuck man, you really hate to hear that. Well, just
because I heard him on like this and smiled and
said he was cool and said I was voting for
him no matter what. Yeah, but one thing that's underrated.
I forgot to turn on my recording, so my audio
just picked up four minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Oh that's like when TV broadcast went to color and
now we flipped the switch and here's your good mind.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Now you can actually hear me. Or maybe it didn't
sound like anything at all. Shout out to super producer
Ian on helping make up for my mistakes my underrated Wikipedia.
My nine year old discovered Wikipedia this weekend. He's going
through like a real military worship phase, and I answered
(12:43):
one of his questions by going to Wikipedia, and he
was immediately like WHOA, what was that? What is this?
I think he was like what is that app? And
then like immediately was like how long has that existed?
Who made it? And like can I just like have Wikipedia?
Which is a good idea. Like if someone just had
(13:03):
like a kindle that was just Wikipedia and you could
just go anywhere you want it on Wikipedia and just
like sell it door to door like a fucking Encyclopedia Britannica.
I feel like that would fucking kick ass.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I wonder if there is I think, can you get
it on on the on the kindle? I don't know. Yeah,
figure that out. I mean, because they have the app
like you could just use like a you could just
like make a like an iPad have very little functionality
except for have.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Wikipedia on it, right, yeah, yeah, just like block all
the apps.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Or Jack, I don't know. You got a printer and
a shitload of paper.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
That's right, That's well, that's how I go through, you know,
our our show doc as you know, I just have
an assistant printed out for me all emails, you know,
put some style.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Jack's assistant is Jack puts on a backwards base bocket.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah yeah, and skateboard around but usually fall badly. But yeah.
Right now we're trying to hold at three Wikipedia searches
a day, which is kind of fun because then we
get to like talk about which ones we should look
up and like have conversations about, because otherwise it would
(14:19):
just be that's all we'd be doing, is here, could
you look up this? And could you look right right
this battleship and what the armaments were?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Like, I can't wait to see your kids. I'm like,
you know, it's really cool, guys chat GPT watch this.
I'll just ask it. It's like your dad, you just
ask it to look it up. Stuff. Wait, so what
is he He's just looking up military stuff now, like
that's those are the main sort of pieces of information
he was after.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, yeah, like military ships, World War two military ships.
There's this show on I think it's like the History
Channel called Drain the Ocean, where they're imagine if we
could drain the ocean, look at these like military risks,
and yeah, yeah, take a look back, and they.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Probably a lot in the Pacific theater.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Are a lot of Pacific theater. He's got a whole
book of Japanese naval ships.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I too, were a boy who loved battleships in the
Pacific theater.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yes, he's he's up the Midway Islands.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Can we go?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
No, I don't think may not be what you think
it's gonna be. But yeah, and then just as always
wild that the only truly great thing created by the
Internet is like completely divorced from all of the bullshit
and like banner ads, and.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
It's just like community driven.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yeah, they just beg for money and our community driven
because like that's the only way for this, given money
and good.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Things on the Internet. You're like, yeah, you're I've I've
used you for many many A paper.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I'm telling you, if they just sold a device that
was called wicked, like Wikipedia, and it was just you know,
a blot, like a a iPad shaped thing only had Wikipedia,
I feel like they do really well. I feel like
some of those.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
What's wrong with just the old fashioned encyclopedia just because
it doesn't have the breadth of knowledge container and like that.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
So he would go down to the armaments that that's
what he's like, what what did the guns look like?
What the guns do on that thing? And we'd go
down and then like you could click on that and
go to a whole page about those guns.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Right, and it's developments and yeah, yeah, exactly, just go deep.
Then you can click on the ammunition and then now
you've got side like cross diagrams. So yeah, yeah, yeah,
So I'm gonna tell my kid there were no wars
and there are no wars, just to avoid those conversations.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Tell the kids the truth. Also, Alex g is a
musician I like, just a kind of earnest one. But
he's he just dropped his major label debut after like
a date of and and he's young. Is an indie artist.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
He was like a baby when he did that. Frank
ocean stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I feel like, I know, yeah, yeah, he worked on
Blonde like I found it, I forget, like I just
heard this one song called uh.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Immunity, Oh my god. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
He's like still a chime baby, yeah, and has been
making music since he was like fifteen, and a lot
of like the songs he made when he was like
fifteen and sixteen are like still the most listened to ones, right,
presumably because by other fifteen and sixteen year olds, And
it's like good, it like kind of has like an
Elliott Smith vibe.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeh yeah, so bedroomy. His new album's uh good but yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Also yeah, it was it was wild, like I was
getting really into him, and then randomly like learned that
he worked on Blonde on and I was like, oh,
what did he like, you know, work on a He
worked on self Control and White Ferrari, like two of
the best songs.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
On that album. I was like, God, damn, Hey, he's
playing at the Greek in September tech is he twenty
six and twenty seventh?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I gotta go.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Maybe we have to go and pray they don't do
a kiss cam at the show.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
A lot of people had some questions about that and yeah,
that we should of us on the m Sorry, we
will talk about the immediate ruining of that new reference
by Corporate America. But first, Miles, what is something you
think is overrated?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Overrated? I think I may have mentioned this maybe not
an overrat or underrated. If I have, I apologize, But
kids acting like they're middle aged adults during summer break
is there's so I live near this like cafe that's
just a very sceny type of place in LA and
like you know, it's like where people in the industry
(18:49):
will go to do lunch and shit, me too there
really do they got everything you do gook coffee or
you want, like whatever you want, like wine, they have
it too. And since school's gotten out, they're always like
these young kids, like mostly like twelve year old girls
who are like doing lunch, like they're like acting out
this sort of like very adult behavior of like they're
(19:11):
sitting there, they're on their phones, they're talking loudly on
their phones, but they're like, oh, I'm at lunch with
Hannah and Melissa right now. Yeah, yeah, like let me
call you back at lunch we're doing yeah're at lunch, Yeah,
like talking like.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
High school deals.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, like that kind of energy, you know, like really
embodying that. And I can tell that's what they're doing
because like they're drinking like Pelligrin. You're drinking Pellegrino at twelve, Yeah,
no you aren't. You like to look like you don't
give a fuck. Pellegrino tastes like shit when you're twelve
years old. Don't give me that you you are dying
for orange Gina. Let's be real, Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I'm Pellegrino at twelve as wild.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
It's just like you know what I mean. So I
see them and I see this and the like, then
I'll see like these other kids like then they're like, dude,
like I'm gonna actually go get a coffee next door.
I don't like the coffee here. What the fuck are
y'all talking? So when I see it, I'm just like
part of me, I'm like whatever, that's just like la
for some kids. But I remember like kind of wanting
(20:09):
to kind of be like a hot shit kind of
teenage or whatever. But that didn't really hit to like
maybe I was like seventeen or something when I was like, Yeah,
who's go fucking over here to fucking be seen or.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Whatever earlier and earlier every day, myles, I know, talking
about this that my white person.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yeah the other day, and so I'm just like, I'm like,
y'all just should be acting fucking goofy. You know, like
you will have plenty of time to look unhappy while
eating an overpriced lunch in your adult years, drink a
fucking bucket of soda, fucking throw a bunch of water
balloons at each other, go do that shit. Like pretending
(20:45):
you're already washed at twelve and like you got shit
to do is so fucking whack to me. Go go
fucking go be goofy. Please.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yeah, I'm really trying to like steer my kids in
that direction, like I like completely away from social media.
But also, like I I do feel like there's a
certain type of parent that like wants their kids to
be cool and not like the cool of like just
deeply like cool and appreciates like has interesting interests and
(21:15):
stuff like that, but like be accepted by their peers
kind of you know, what seem cool. And I'm just like,
that's I don't know, that is not what cool?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Exactly? I think that's what you people fundamentally misunderstand when
people are like, oh, that person's cool or whatever. People
usually like that they don't give a fuck about what
you think. Yeah, that's actually what you're reading into. Like, really,
people who are like damn that person, they're not fucking
they're not trying, they're not democratic partying it up their
whole swag to be like, let me triangulate how I look.
(21:47):
Some people do, obviously a lot of people do. You
can tell because people look like like the five versions
of fashion that exist on TikTok or like Instagram, and
people like subscribe to those sort of styles. But just
teach your kids to not give a fuck, you know
what I mean, be you that's a kid. I fully
agree with that.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I feel like I've seen that more in LA than
other places. I'm wondering if like that is as common elsewhere.
But like kids wanting to be like their parents kind
of like wanting to act older, it feels like kind
of an LA thing more so. But I guess it's
also like there was that joke on Girls five EVA
(22:26):
about like lonely Brooklyn boys, like children who are like
raised in Brooklyn and just like immediately have the soul
of like a forty seven year old New Yorker reader.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I mean at least you can
there's a little bit of depth where they're like I
was reading Faulkner at nine or something, you know what
I mean. Like these kids are like I was looking
at a cell phone drinking espresso at eight, and you're like,
that's not going to help you with anything.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
My overrated Again, I think I've done this one before.
But everything they use AI for until they fix spell check,
Like we insist on like making it right screenplays or
you know, answer questions in a conversational manner, and yet
like they my spell check insists that I'm trying to
(23:15):
type ducking over and over again. Yeah, but then has
no clue what I'm trying to say. When I say
they want in a lang slide, They're like, what lang slide?
No suggestions over here?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah? What the fuck else? Could it be?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Right?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Google? What on Google? Is absolute tracks?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Sucks? Ship we're reading this, I'm reading this off of
a Google doc that still has a red line under
lang styled and.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
It could make maybe things. It's it's you're talking about
like a city in Scandinavia.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Right, that's probably what it is. But it does it's
just like a thing that it's it's a good reflection
of the thing we talked about a lot on here
that nothing is built for people. It's all built for
corporate investorality.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yeah, Like the the use of spell check, Like spell
check being able to tell what you meant and like
filling that in quickly is a thing that would make
actual people's lives so much easier, more convenient, and instead
they're ignoring that and busily like trying to create a
thing that will automagically write a screen play exactly.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
There's times like when I'll misspell like the with like
th h r or something like a key that's maybe
just next to the E, and it'll be like, huh,
what the fuck do you think I'm trying.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
It's obviously the right whatever it can it can anticipate
what you mean well enough to like hold a conversation
with you, because that is like monetizable, but it can't
do it. And when it comes to spell check, because
that doesn't really like makes free, We've we've taken that
one for granted. All right, let's take a quick break.
(25:03):
We'll be right back, and we're back. And it was
a it was a news full weekend for people who,
for whatever reason, are still paying attention to this Epstein thing.
(25:27):
The So I remember seeing like on Thursday night, somebody
being like, there's a there's a bombshell coming from like
a major paper, a major news organization, And that bombshell
was a story from the Wall Street Journal that was like,
we've seen this note that Trump may have written for
(25:49):
Epstein's fiftieth birthday, which included an imaginary conversation. It's just
like very very strange.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Yeah, it's freaky. It's so freaky. You're like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that should probably happened. I don't know, yeah, yeah, sure, sure.
These are the two fucking creepiest people in America in
recent memory. But I guess there, I wish they showed
the card.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I know, I don't know why they're not showing the card.
It's yeah, anyway, for ten billion dollars, there's a for
a libel lawsuit.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
There's a story on the front page of the New
York Times on this Monday morning being like this is
the thing that turned the tide for Trump because it's like.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
You guys shut up over there at the New York Times.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Because I guess they're like his followers are like a
letter this this all seems too silly to like it.
It has the energy of like something that they could
call fake news, and so it feels like that is
what they were, just desperately looking for an excuse to
(26:59):
stop paying at ten to this. And the thesis of
the New York Times article is like this is the
thing where they're like, oh, okay, a birthday card. Get real.
It was like enough for them.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
That's that sounds like it's written in the voice of
Donald Trump, Right, Oh wow? What else? What else is next?
A little that I wrote that showed that I bought
all these whatever incriminating items that you can tie to
a case. I mean, the thing was like it was
a drawing of like a naked lady and his signature
was meant to be like the pubic hair, and then
(27:30):
like it was signed happy birthday and may every day
be another wonderful secret, along with a really creepy soport,
like weird back and forth.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Yeah, piece of dialogue between Trump and Epstein that is voiceover.
There must be more to life than having everything, Donald, Yes,
there is, but I won't tell you what it is.
Like it's a fucking like Brookshield jeans ad like which
machines are I know, well, that was like, that's one
(28:04):
of the most startling works of like just straight up
sexual like pervert pedophilia ever. But anyway, yeah, I don't
know what it is, nor will I since I also
know what it is, says Jeffrey Donald. We have certain
things in common, Jeffrey. Jeffrey, yes, we do, come to
think of it, Donald, enigma's never age. Have you noticed that, Jeffrey.
(28:28):
As a matter of fact, it was clear to me
the last time I saw you, Donald, a pal is
a wonderful thing. Happy birthday, and may every day be
another wonderful secret.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yikes dot com backslash. These guys are fucking pedophiles.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Yes, I never wrote a picture in my life. Was
the definitive, you know retort from Donald Trump that the
New York Times is like case closed. This guy's turning
the tides of this argument. So anyways, that that was
like one of the stories that got a lot of attention.
But there's other things that came out that are like that.
(29:02):
That And by the way, I will say, that seems
like very damning to me. I don't know, like it's
weird that they didn't print the image, and like, I
don't know how they're going to prove that it definitely
was him. So but if they actually go to court
on it, but like that definitely feels, oh yeah, that
(29:23):
that ship was him.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
And that's like, well, especially when he's like I don't
He's like, that is not what I do. That's not
the language I use. I don't you. I never draw,
I don't like draw rings. I'm not good at draw rings.
And then everyone's like, look at all these fucking weird
of cities whatever I mean, I think again, I think
(29:45):
it's just more like, yeah, I know, you don't have
to prove to me that he he knows Jeffrey Epstein
by being like and here's a card, or like, yeah,
we've seen fucking video and there's like video testimony.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Yeah, so uh. Dick Durbin sent a letter specifically referring
to the fact that FBI agents reviewing the Epstein case
were quote instructed to flag any documents that mentioned President
Donald Trump and that was like recent, hm, that was
like so basically the timeline on that is that Pam
(30:18):
Bondi said like, we are looking at these files, people
had questions and then they brought a bunch of people
in to review the Epstein files and flag anywhere that
his name was mentioned.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
How about it might be easier to flag the pages
where he's not mentioned?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Could we do that?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
That would just just sort of like a work smarter,
not harder kind of thing, if if that's okay, miss
or miss Bondi, Director Bondi, Attorney General Bondi please.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
After intense blowback from this incident, Attorney General Bondi then
appeared on another Fox News show, Life Liberty Levin, and
claimed that a whistleblower told her that the US Manhattan
as Attorney's Office sitting on thousand was sitting on thousands
of pages and documents and that we will get everything,
and she was assured there is more in that the
(31:11):
country would eventually see the full Epstein files. Durbin said
his office had learned that after that, the FBI was
pressured to put approximately one thousand personnel one thousand people
in its Information Management division on twenty four hour shifts
to review approximately one hundred thousand Epstein related records in
(31:32):
order to produce more documents that could then be released
on an arbitrarily short deadline. That's like that's the most clear, straightforward.
She said, we've got them, we're going to share them.
Somebody was like, oh shit, the presidents in them. Go
find the ones he's in and flag those.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
This is it's Look, it's not that big of a deal,
but I need one thousand human beings on twenty four
hour shifts going through these fucking pages. Jesus. I mean,
I mean that's what. As much as they want to
do stuff like in the New York Times, we're like, oh, yikes,
this was a whiff. Sorry rip the Epstein story. I
don't know. I mean, like sure, eventually the momentum is
(32:15):
going to die down, but I don't know what exactly
they're what they could possibly release, because I know Trump
still keeps kind of making gestures as if he wants
to unseal grand jury stuff. But their base, especially like
they want to see Bill Clinton's name. Yeah, yeah, that's
like what they want. That's really this whole party's about
(32:36):
him and Barack Obama. They're like, give us that part
so we can do the Guantanamo Bay. We can guantanamo
bay them, like we've been promised.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
There was also just a bunch of like profiles of
Trump and Epstein's friendship that came out over the weekend.
One of the anecdotes that really jumped out to me
was there was this calendar girl competition, is what they
were calling it. So it's like there's that nineteen ninety
two video where it's like a mar A Lago party
where Trump's like dancing with women and like Epstein's there, Yeah, yeah,
(33:10):
he's He's telling Epstein little jokes that cause Epstein to
like fall over laughing, clearly like the best of friends.
So months after that, Trump hosted a party at mar
A Lago for young women in a so called calendar
girl competition. Mister Epstein was the only other guest. According
(33:32):
to George Horaany, a Florida based businessman who arranged the event,
I said, Donald, this is supposed to be a party
with VIPs. You're telling me it's just you and Epstein?
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Yep what Yeah, Yeah, there's every there. I don't know, man,
it just seems like like it Yeah, it really doesn't.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
There's also so now there's a guy like I do
feel like this is just going to keep coming out, Like,
I don't know how this doesn't lead to bigger and
bigger things unless everybody who supports Trump just like gets
on the same page and is like, nah, this everything's
everything these people are saying is a lie. But like
(34:18):
it's just like one after another. Like there there's a
guy who used to be his like pit boss in
Atlantic City who was like had to stop them from
bringing somebody on the because she was nineteen. Yeah, because
and the only reason that they knew that was because
she was like the number three ranked tennis player in
(34:39):
the world, and like one of the people who worked
there was like a big tennis fan and so like, yeah,
that's so who knows like what the other ages were.
That's but like that's a thing. He was like, Yeah,
but as far as I knew the entire four years
that I worked there, they were straight up best friends.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Right, Yeah, I mean there's this We'll see what's gonna happen,
because right now there's clearly a lot happening behind the
scenes with Fox News and jd. Vance went to visit
like Rupert Murdoch in Montana or wherever the fuck he
lives last week before this story came out, and then
it came out, and now you know, there's a lot
(35:25):
of talk of like well then there's his son Lachlan,
who really has more of like control over Fox News,
and whether or not, like the like, there's gonna be
warring factions within the family of people who were like, well,
this is like stuff we're gonna publish. We don't give
a shit, and other people who are like, we we
want Trump to be number one, so we'll do what
we can, because we already saw how everybody started switching
(35:46):
up on Fox to the point where like people on
you know, uh like Newsmax and other channels were like, oh,
they're bending the knee. So I don't know, I don't
know what this means. I'm sure at some point, like anything,
there'll always be like people who start making noise on
the fringes and then they kind of start pressing them,
(36:06):
and then they're like, okay, okay, we'll stop, we'll stop,
We'll support this. But I hey, look there's another week ahead,
so we shall see how they react to all the
fucking terrible, terrible things that come to light.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
But I like the idea that the New York Times
just like posted the stories was like Trump is turning
the tides. It's like, according to him, like he came
out and was like my popularity has surged to unseen.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Heights, ungodly levels.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Yeah, it's the Epstein hoax.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
We said stuff like ninety seven percent approval rating.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Yeah, it seems reasonable. That seems right to me.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
I'm like, would you pull one person and then you
did them with a margin of era era of three percent?
You're like, well, okay, so that's ninety seven. There were
fay killing it string music, you hear chamber music. No,
that's just this, that's just the net going wish.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Anyways, those are those are the ones. I mean, there's
all sorts of just fucking horrifying, like anecdotes of like
a Epstein like brings in somebody who's working on a
project who's like a you know, I think a woman
in her like early twenties, and Trump immediately like starts
groping her, and like Epstein's like, yo, no, no, no, no,
(37:23):
Like that's that's not the context here. She's she's not
for you. But like clearly just like an animal relationship,
was that, like Epstein just like brings women to him, right.
I also like assumed that there was some better explanation,
like something somebody had looked into, like why he was
(37:46):
given like complete control over that guy's finances. The Victoria's
secret like one hundred millionaire billionaire, and there's just like
the New York Times like brings that up now and
they're like, yeah, nobody really ever figured it out.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Oh, like why he assumed financial control guys.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
It's just like the whole thing seems very clearly like well,
it's like the first appeared to be and it's like
the I think I think there probably is some ass
covering happening from the New York Times just being like, yeah,
we were ignoring this shit for a long time.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Well, I think because nothing stands up to any kind
of scrutiny like this second you look at you're like,
oh yo, yeah, and again that sort of lays bare
the absolute failure of this country to bring anyone to justice,
especially when it comes to stuff like these kinds of
sexual crimes and assaults. Yeah, and now it's like only
because maybe there are other powerful people that could potentially
(38:42):
think that this could make Trump less powerful than now
that it matters. There's like just so many levels of
like fucked up. When you look at this thing, you're like,
oh my god, Like people only care about it now
because it could be a weapon, not because like as
a legal case, you could have actually brought people to justice. Fine. Uh, hey, anyway, America, cool, swish.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Swish, let's talk about Coldplaygate.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
I mean, there's really nothing to see here, Jack, I mean,
let's just you know, I feel like I really turned
a corner here a woman. Yeah, I think there was
a fake that I saw a letter that he wrote.
I wasn't sure if it was real when I was
quoting Coldplay at the end, I'm like this, this smacks
of like a dumb joke one. But then there was
(39:31):
it's looked like the real one from Astronomer doc or whatever.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
There was like an impersonal statement from astronomer dot com
or astronomer or whatever. Yeah, astronomer dot com, fucking whatever.
That was like, you know, he didn't live up to
our corporate standards of behavior and is resigning. And also
like he didn't release that statement where he was like,
(39:57):
but Coldplay shouldn't be like putting people on blast like that.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yeah the heck, cold Play?
Speaker 2 (40:03):
What the fuck? But anyway, it it did really seem
to unite the country.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Yeah, and that because it was everywhere it got like
it really was a flash in the pan kind of
thing where it like it got it took on like
near levels of like the energy that the sun radiates,
like for a meme, and then immediately went just like
just fizzled out after Yeah, everyone.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Not with certain people. With certain people, they're gonna be
making references to this for.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Oh of course. Yeah. Yeah, Well it takes time for
it to reach the highest echelons of c suites or
people go, oh, this one's good. We can doing this
for a year now.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Yeah, people who complain a lot about Mondays at work
and stuff, I feel like they'll be like still talking
about this one. You see this, But yeah, I mean so,
multiple sports teams introduced Coldplay cams instead of kiss cams.
In Philadelphia, the Philly Fanatic recreated the moment and like
(41:06):
they were busted by kiss cam.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
I hate to see it.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Somebody made a Coldplay Canoodlers video game in which you
play the cameraman at the concert and you're just like
looking around trying to spot the couple. But it should
be noted it was a shitty game that was vibe coded,
meaning that AI did the actual coding, and then somebody
was just like it's.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
That's the most story of all time is someone made
a shitty video game app with ai of the meme
moment that no one's going to give a fuck about
in two weeks at most, but hey, yeah, vibe code
that thing, man, just vibe code that.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
And then every pop culture fandom had had their own
kind of spin on it. They had Peggy from King
of the Hill.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
With Peggy Hill, Yeah hit a bag of charcoal, not
mispro paane household. Absolute shame that is that. There was
the fucking Trump and Epstein one too.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
Yeah, that little but up hard. But like any online joke,
it immediately became unfunny as soon as brand started doing it,
like I'll allow the MLB to do it because they
kind of kicked off the kisscam thing. Sure, and also
it's like it has the energy of like local fans.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
And yeah but they did that, yeah, not like a
but not a ship post. When brands start ship posting
with it, that's when it becomes insofferable.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
I think I'm realizing it's starting to see it like
with the uh, you know, shout outs to the Mets
broadcast and us being like it's okay when the MLB
does it, it's starting to seem like we're part of
the that Simpson's conspiracy where it's like the world is
run by Major League base.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Yep, yep, don't look too don't look too deep into it.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
But like companies like I Keia, Globe Air all tried
to do, even Tesla tried to do.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Oh god, a shitty thing, good luck.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
Yeah, yeah, the Tesla one was real sweaty. Posting a
pick of you enjoying your loner Tesla while your own
one is in service is the equivalent of taking it
to a Coldplay concert. Your car will know. Oh shut up,
swish dunk shot the fuck god run from way downa shot.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Fuck you. Even like, I even saw clips from subsequent
shows where Chris Martin I was even like, all I relaxed.
Chris Martin, Yeah, he referenced. He's like, all right, we're
gonna do a camera that's gonna come around now.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
I hope you know, just be warned.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
It's like, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
Apparently like their songs, a bunch of their songs have
entered the Spotify like top fifty chart. People are just
it's like all right, oh, oh bite, yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
What is this cold Play?
Speaker 2 (44:06):
Everyone's talking about the go hold on, wait a tick.
Oh okay, you know that new song you've been looking for,
that new sound you've been looking for.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Can you imagine someone, some person in their like middle ages,
discovering Coldplay now because of this, and they go, oh
my god, honey, get in here.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Have you wondered if like CEOs are going to show
solidarity and be like, fuck Coldplay, not you guys.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
Not Now?
Speaker 2 (44:34):
This guy was.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
He was a startup CEO. He's not part of like
the dynastic full on olive arc class yet, you know
what I mean, where like they'd all have each other's back.
He's a sacrificial millionaire.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
I think in their eyes, the conspiracy goes all the
way to the top.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
Oh yeah it does.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
You don't think he was sacrificed with the altar of
Epstein Exactly home on private jet charter service Globe Air
reposted the viral clip U by saying the quickest escape
after a cold Play concert, and then featured a Boston
to Hawaii flight.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
They I feel like that's a flight that like sordid
couple would actually take, Like they'd like, let's just look,
your wife knows my partner, Like, let's just go to Hawaii,
Like we said, we are fuck.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
That one's like just too realistic. Yeah yeah, yeah, literally
we advertise to an audience of like three people.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
Yeah exactly. You get caught cheating? Are you a millionaire?
You want to go to Hawaii right now to escape everything?
Go ahead here, globe bear.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
All right, we're gonna take a quick break. We're gonna
come back and talk about Jerry Mandarin, the old old
fashioned political fuckery. Oh yeah, we'll be right back, and
we're back back. And you know, Trump seems like he
(46:01):
is planning for there not to be a democracy around
the next time that he's up for election. We don't
know exactly how he's planning to pull it off. Well,
one favorite, one old standby of the Republican Party is,
of course, Jerrymanderin just rat.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
Fucking, just some form of rat fuckery, because we've heard
about how there are people reaching out to states from
the party to be like, we'd like to take a
look at your voter data and machines, and you're like,
oh boy, what do you what do you what are
you up to over there? And along with that, again,
like to your point, everything is like, dude, the polls
keep going down and in any normal universe. You're like
(46:42):
gonna have to do something about that because you know,
like elections, that doesn't help you if it's kind of
a democracy. Uh so, yes, along with just the general
like sort of voter suppression tactics that are going on.
He's now called on states like Texas and for others
to redistrict, do some redistricting to generate more Republican seats
(47:06):
in the House and so on. Like we were talking
earlier about how Trump was like, I've seen polls recently
that I'm like ninety seven percent, ninety eight percent in
some places, and I don't know if that's like again,
I don't know if that to me. Do you think
that's his his staff showing him fake shit just to
keep him from fully going off the rails, Like he
(47:27):
will have a cardiac event if you show him any
real polling, or he's gonna get so mad at us
it's not even worth my time. Just just fucking photoshop
something that says ninety nine percent approval just so we
can get through the fucking day because he's.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
Not feel like he will take anything right. Like you
could just conduct a like poll those like you sent
via email to twenty of your friends, and he would
take that as like scientific.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
Yeah, he's like, oh, have you seen the latest Bazuka
Joe polls, mister President, No, I haven't Bazuka Joe. Great amitica.
Oh wow, ninety eight percent? Very good, very good. Let's
keep this going. But anyway, again, like you said, they're
in any serious calls to upend the elections, so we
need more seats. So Texas is actually beginning that process
(48:14):
today in a special session of their state legislature, where
the agenda includes many other high priority items like flood
warning systems. Yeah, that's probably, yeah, that's definitely something abortion important. Yeah, abortion, sure,
but I guess more in their sense to probably restrict
access sadly and quote protecting women's privacy and sect segregated spaces.
(48:38):
So they're doing there, they're really going after the real high,
top of the list kind of stuff, high priority stuff. Yeah.
But this whole call for adding seats has now sort
of begun like a gerrymander race between states. Gavin Newsom's like, oh,
you rang, you want to fucking carve up maps. He's like,
(48:58):
because we also have a very blue fucking majority in
the state of California, we can also carve up some
good eating if we're trying to add some more like
safe seats to the mix. And as as of you know,
as it stands, there are other states like Minnesota, New Jersey,
New York, and Washington that are kind of like beginning
to eye that sort of tactical like is that what
(49:19):
is that we're doing, because we.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
Will do that eventually, just gonna be like blue states
are all blue, blue district just like wild patterns.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
It's gonna be a race to the bottom probably in
that they're like, if it's an arms race to just
create more seats. Sure, and you know, the blue states
tend to be more populous populated than others, so maybe
they're able to seek an advantage there. But uh yeah,
I don't know. Very it's just showing you they're like,
oh yeah, these are sort of like these like anti
(49:50):
bellum moves where they're like, oh yeah, everything's nothing matters, great,
fuck it, they're fucking these are made up seats too,
that we're gonna create just to create some some majorities,
uh in the house. But yeah, that's that's that seems
to be the easy sort of solution to the tanking
poll numbers right now, is to just create more safe
Republican seats.
Speaker 2 (50:11):
So midterms, for the midterms and then for the presidential
election tbd, TBD.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
Maybe some kind of false flag, maybe some kind of
overreaction to mundane events to then say we actually have
to suspend all functions.
Speaker 2 (50:27):
War happening right now because this building was attacked or something.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
Yeah, yeah, they're like someone paints, someone egged it, someone
egged the motorcade. That's it. Martial law Jesus.
Speaker 2 (50:41):
Yeah, I mean they're willing to go martial law right away,
drop of a hat Los Angeles and on on that
uh fucking bridge over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (50:54):
It's not yeah, it's they're they're looking for anything. But
uh yeah, they will continue to find creative ways to
try and offset their lack of performance. I mean the
end of the day, I mean they're they're definitely making
everybody in the Federalist Society and all the you know,
Heritage Foundation, those people are loving it. But again, you know,
(51:15):
maybe they can just figure out a way to nullify
the will of people to continue the agenda.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
I have faith that they will do that.
Speaker 1 (51:26):
I have faith that they will, yeah, find ways to
skirt accountability. Is literally any mainstream.
Speaker 2 (51:32):
Media that like that is clearly the plan, Like you know,
skate where the puck is going, Like, well, clearly this
is what they're planning to do. Like how might they
do it?
Speaker 1 (51:42):
Yeah, because they're not going how are we going to
win back the voters? No? There, it's like whatever, fuck it.
How do we nullify people's displeasure with what's happening here
and pretend like their vote still has some kind of impact.
Speaker 2 (51:55):
Yeah all right, those are some of the things that
are trending on this much day morning. We are back
tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then,
be kind to each other, be kind to yourself, get
your vaccines way you still can't get your flu shots,
don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
to you all tomorrow. Bye bye,
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