November 11, 2025 • 30 mins
In this edition of What We Trend In The Showers, Jack and special guest co-host Andrew Ti discuss Democrats calling for Chuck Schumer to resign, Funko Pops going extict?, an update on ICE in Chicago, Fox News flipping on Trump? (not really) and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of What
We trend in the Showers. That one courtesy a new
Chris in reference to our conversation yesterday about what we
do in the showers and why that would be a
better show than what we do in the Shadows, where
you just find out, like what people are actually up
to in them showers.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Oh real quick, Yeah, just just as a pitch not
to pitch on yesterday's topic. Just feels like what we
do in the showers could be like in the way
what we do in the shadows is like a house
full of vampires, like a house full of creatures from
the Black Lagoon type, like like she has to be
in the showers. Yeah, everyone's yeah, they live in the showers.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Constantly living in the showers. I like that.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Those are the kind of ideas you're going to get
from our special guest co host today, hilarious and brilliant
producer and TV writer you know from the jozas Racist
podcast It's.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Andrew This and Can't Shu two.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
That wasn't even that wasn't even a reference to anything.
That was just like me trying to make up something.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, are you a daily show?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I'm just I'm just fucking pulling things out of the ether,
you know. Are you a daily that? So these are
the questions, are you a daily shower? And do you uh?
We had the guys from the No Such Thing podcast
on and they have they had an episode about showering,
and I do think showering is interesting because it's like
the one place where you are like you purely make
(01:33):
up your own routine and like you're not you have
to know nothing to pull from other than movies where
people in the movies, people turn on the shower as
they're in the shower, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I remember that from Psycho.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
They just like stand there in front of the thing
and then just get hosed with like ice cold water
for like five seconds, which is just an insane move.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I don't know what, like, hey, maybe the fifties.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Maybe the fifties is just you know, that's what we're
all trying to get back to, is racially justice and
instantly comfortable shower power temperatures.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I remember there's a time when America was great and
the showers were warm right away at the scene from
Psycho and I remember, like I'm still working off of
ancient like I remember my mom when I was very young. Yeah,
telling me you work from the head down, because because
the logic is like from the head, like dusting rules. Yeah, exactly,
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it's dusting rules.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
That's how white people end up not washing their legs, exactly.
They mentally have been told that you're just you have
the belief that, yeah, my dirty hair water has cleaned
my legs. Yeah, I'm it sounded like I was going
to tell you my routine. I'm off the mindset that
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there's no upside to telling anyone your shower routine.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Get outside, that's fine, and that is totally fun. Shower
every day.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I just use all Costco products, every single Costco product
in the in the thing. I recently got into a
relationship that has escalated to the point where the person
feels comfortable talking about what's in.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
My shower, uh huh and telling you the truth. I
may need to change about Yeah, Kirkland signature, body.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Wash, Kirkland everything.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, I don't scented, not as sexy as I personally thought.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
But that's right. What do I know?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
All right, Andrew, you got to get out of the relationship, man,
That's my immediate advice. You gotta get out of there.
They don't like you for your Kirkland brand shower stuff man.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Bad news. YEP, I agree. All right, Uh well, we're
thrilled to have you here.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
We're gonna go through some news stories because this is
the trending episode. Democrats are calling for Chuck Schumer to
resign for some for some reason, you know, I can't
please you want to know. They're they're citing a lack
of leadership, the fact that those eight Democrats caved on
the ACA subsidies in the shutdown at a time when
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it would seem that the progressive politics, the progressive part
of the party had momentum.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
They were were that wild? That was I genuinely I was.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I was at a dinner party, No big jo't just
flex for people. Yeah, And someone at dinner was like, oh,
it looks like the shutdown might be over, and I,
like a fucking idiot, was like, oh right. Obviously, with
the like sweeping mandate of the midterm elections, exactly the
Democrats found the leverage to get to, you know, do
(04:44):
the right thing and to hear the details of it
being literally the exact opposite of what the fucking elections
should have met, Like listen.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
You can also say it means nothing, But then.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Why were you waiting till after the election to clearly renegotiate.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Why would you cave?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
They got scared. I think they experienced progressive politics, yes, yes,
for the power of progressive politics, and immediately went back
to like their old boring X. They were like, oh,
that's that's that's too much. I can't I can't live
like this, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I think the thing that I think I probably trotted
this pov. Well, I probably initially have said things like
this on on my podcast, yos this racist, no big deal,
But I will say I probably said it to this
audience also, which is I think for years, I feel comfortable.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
You know, check the archives.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
The Democrats have just been a center right party our
entire lives, and we're moderately old. But like I think
no one's really wanted to say it, but like, yeah,
they're just right wing goons who want people not to
have healthcare in general.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah, now they're they're totally on board with this.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
They feel threat and when when progressive wins and there's
like some momentum and so they they went back and
just gave on all these all these things that the
shutdown was supposed to be about. Schumer himself didn't vote
to in the shutdown, but his leadership is being called
into question for the cave in happening under his watch.
(06:23):
Representative Rashida Clay said Senator Schumer has failed to meet
this moment and is out of touch with the American people.
So it's a lot of House members basically saying, this
guy sucks shit.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Let's let's wrap it up.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
You know, this is a Pelosi announced her retirement at
the end of last week. Representative Jai Paul speculator Schumer
either can't control his caucus or gave his blessing, And
I mean there are no there's no other options.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Those are the two options. Definitely no other options.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I feel pretty comfortable with saying very clearly he gave
his blessing.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
This is exactly what he wants and he's always wanted.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
It does sort of like break into a question why
the government was shut down at all. If this is
clearly what exactly, yes, what happened, like just fucking then
who gives a shit? We know, you know, I guess
they needed to do the theater of oh, we're trying
to protect the ACA subsidies.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
But surely yeah, I mean they've rendered it purely theater
at this point. Like I said, no Democratic senators have
publicly called for Chuck Schumer step down, but move On
pulled its members, which you gotta feel like this is
the Chuck Schumer stronghold right move on dot organ Isn't
that just like in twenty twenty five right move on
dog dot org. Uh and eight percent thought that Chuck
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Schumer should step down of move On people, people who
are still with the move On organization.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
And voluntarily clicking on polls right exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I'll tell you what I think.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
There's also this quote from Mark Kelly, because people are like, well,
somebody from the Senate might be willing to say something
brave or something something about how this guy fucked it up.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
So they asked Mark Kelly.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Who everyone was, you know, kicking the tires on as
a potential VP before they went to the walls. So
he was asked, and I just want to read his
rambling response because I think I see the future Democratic
nominee for president in his ability to say absolutely nothing.
(08:28):
So they asked, you know, if he would support.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Schumer stepping down.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
He said, so, Chris, again, we found ourselves in a
situation I don't think the Senate has found itself in before.
I think under any president, Democrat or Republican, they're going
to care about the American people's healthcare and care if
they're going to be able to put food on the
table and try to bring down costs, not to do
the opposite. So when I hear folks say things like that,
(08:52):
I understand their frustration, but I also hope they understand
that we all need to be on the same team here,
and what matters at this point is real storing these
tax credits. If we can do it in December, Oh
my god, that was the whole That was the thing,
the tax credit. Yeah you now you probably can't do it.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I mean, I guess also like being on the same
team here. Let me let me propose this, because I
don't want to be on the same team as these
people who give Trump everything he wants. Yeah, so he
doesn't want to be on my team.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Not I don't want to be on his team.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
If Andrew, again, we found ourselves in a situation anytime
it opens that way again, we found ourselves in a
situation like, let me take it back to so I
was born in Yeah, I know, And I feel like
that answer just made like the head of the d
n C so horny, just like I know, my god,
(09:50):
am I I'm seeing Kamala loser energy, ability to actually
not just an ability to say nothing, an inability to
say anything.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Yeah, and then you.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Know he's a white guy, which they've they've been really
worried about.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, fucking astronaut, Are you kidding me? Dude? An astronaut
who can equivocate like that?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
God?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
See, I mean, look, I guess the day. The thing
that has been remarkable is it doesn't matter who the
candidate is, like for president, it really seems it's just
always other factors.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah, yeah, it does.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
My My theory is that it's just going to go
back and forth until like something dramatic changes. It's just
going to go back and forth because like Trump is
as popular as he was the day after January sixth,
but the way he was able to recover from that
was that he was no longer the president. And because
both parties do not have the you know, best wishes
of the American people in mind, it will just go
(10:48):
back and forth between people being mad at whoever's in power,
because they're openly fucking them.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess it's the yeah, yeah right,
that's the only difference.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Fuck these people, God for these people.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break and we'll
come back and talk about Funko pops.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
That's fun and we're back. Yeah, and Andrew, are you
a collector kind of yet?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
In that paper brawls? What that is the correct answer?
I guess I'm getting into digital watches now. People remembered
I got a Casio and I got I have on
order a fairly insane upgrade kit.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
For the Casio, so we'll see how it goes. Digital
watches so much easier to read.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I had a moment where I was like, I haven't
wound any of my you know, including the automatic analog
watches in way too long. So my pretending there's a bracelet,
and I just have to acknowledge that it's a bracelet
because I am trapped.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
In the prison of gender and male bracelet.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I'm not comfortable apparently wearing a bracelet, and that's a
meat problem.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Sorry, what was that?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Jak So, Funko Pops are possibly going the way of
Beanie babies, you know, shelves behind YouTubers, ranch about Wilke
Star Wars movies maybe about to get a whole lot
emptier because of the Funko Company h which there. I've
(12:32):
never totally understood them, like they're just like little baby
cartoon versions of things.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
They're cartoon versions of things. I'm just gonna violate.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Possibly, I guess I never fought there's no way I
signed an NDA, or if I did, I that anyone
from here is going to hear this.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
But I'm still mad. I have on you know what
I have on.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
This show before trotted out various access to grind on
pitches that didn't make it in.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
So I'll just now reveal my fun.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Co pop pitch for Robot Chicken, which was I pitched
a Robot Chicken sketch where I think it's like a
haunted house and I don't remember the setup, but basically
someone goes into a situation where there's it's like a
house full of funk cop pops, and every it's like
sort of like a hanted house thing. But every time
he turns back to look at the funk cop pops,
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or every time the camera cuts to a new one,
their eyes are ten percent bigger until the fire screen
is swallowed in an inky blackness and it's an existential
horror sketch and that was rejected.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Their eyes are just big black dots. It's like they're
avoid of nothingness. It's fucking horrifier. It's like the worst
the scariest thing that can happen to someone in a
movie is like their eyes like to suddenly go black.
That's usually a bad sign, but here there just lonely
cute only that.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Anyways, they just admitted they may not survive another year
as sales slump and losses mount. Reportedly, they're at the
risk of defaulting on their loans, which total two hundred
and forty one million dollars UH, and have yet to
figure out some bullshit way to incorporate AI into their company.
I feel like, which which Wall Street's not gonna like that.
(14:11):
I think that is crazy to me, is that they
have like that. They have basically the pre AI AI aesthetic.
That's what these fucking things are.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Yeah, sure, just like churning is like could be the
number one thing.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
They're the reason the reason they're not AI is because
they I would imagine pay and partner for licenses to
ip as opposed, that's taking it.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
They just licensing.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
So the company started with one guy who had a
very specific thing. He really wanted a like Frish's Big Boy,
you know, the restaurant big Boy.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Hell yeah, problems those big boy statues.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
He wanted a like piggyback with a big boy Like okay,
so he made it happen.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah, and nobody bought that. It was a total little flop.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
And then he was like, all right, well, while I'm
at it, started licensing Cereal mascots and those were a
little bit more successful. Then he made Austin Power's bobble
heads and people were like, uh yes, please, And then
he sold it to like some aggressive capitalist who was
just like, we're gonna fucking put the pedal to the
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floor here and do this for literally everything.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I mean, look, this is the reason why AI has
any traction on on Wall Street is like the American people,
at least for some are globally. But I'll say the
American people, let's be real, have proven that they will
just chow down on slop if it hits the right.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Nerd Oh, give me that slop. It is just slop.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
It's just it's like the physical manifestation of slop.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
People have argued that the popularity to funkopops is due
to a lack of physical media in the streaming age,
Like they people needed a thing to buy or like
get as a gift or something like that, and like
in lieu of books and movies and CDs, they're just like, true,
here's the thing. Yeah that matter.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
It feels like eternally there was going to be a
need for something that costs eighteen dollars or less, right
that you can give someone as a last minute thing.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yes, exactly. Yeah, and funk pops do.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I thought, oh god, I literally just my kids for
my friend's kids birthday.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You did a Yeah. I was just like, I don't know,
fucking five minutes of Freddy's I think you've seen this before.
Here you go, and she fucking loved it, loved it.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
May Yeah, they have done everything from Jackie Oh awesome.
Fortunately they didn't do it in the like pink suit
with the bloodstains.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, they didn't do They didn't do JFK, which was
just like a bottle of jam.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
That's they did. Travis Bickell from Taxi Driver it's such weird.
They also did fucking Laura Palmer from like wrapped in plastic,
like seventeen year old murder victim Laura Palmer from the
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pilot episode, like such a haunting vision that it like
drives the entire creepy aesthetic of the show.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
And nothing cannot be cheapened. Yes, there's nothing that won't do.
There's nothing they won't do.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
The Travis Bigel one in particular, just looks like a
baby because like with a little mohawk, it just looks
like a little baby with a tuft of hair.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
But he's holding a handguy.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yeah, it's like Muppet babies for everything is kind of
the vibe.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
It is a little wild now that you say that
that they never managed to make a TV product out
of those fuckers.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I know they're blowing it. I mean I think, yeah,
Lego Lego jumped all over that, and you know the
huge missed opportunity by them. They have dipped their toe
into that idea by releasing little golden books. Do you
remember these, like the little like the ones with the
golden binding, and it's like, yeah, sort of a board
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book with.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
This is a me problem.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I just put together that's why they're called golden books
because of the Yeah, yeah, I guess, like on the bookshelf,
it's just like a cold golden exact shelf.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah, and like little golden books are you know, they'll
have like little engine that could and like all these
classic stories, but then randomly they'll just have like garbage
IP plays and in this case, uh so, the one
that our writer Jam included is a book of Funkco
Seinfeld characters called Seinfeld Who are these people? Oh my god,
(18:49):
what's in that book? It's so I don't know what's
in that one. We were given a version of this
for Friends. It was like, it's nice to have friends,
and I read it to my kids and it is
just it's just references to the show with no no
like lessons or interesting things happening. It's just for collectors.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
But it's obviously yeah, they don't know, truly psychotic for
reading it to any children.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I know, just like so Friends was a thing New
York nine to eleven never happened.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, I'd say the N words several times on the PA.
But it's a collector.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
It's very authentic, yes, so weird. One one of the
problems that this company is run into.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
In addition to like not jumping all over the ip
AI train, is that they have way too much shit
that no one wants.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Got too much shit on them.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
They announced that they were going to hire a third
party company to destroy between thirty million and thirty six
million worth of Funko pops in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
They just like.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
That's there, Like they have to spend a chunk of
air budget just to destroy these things in a way
that's not going to kill everyone within a twenty mile radius.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
This seems like the most print on demandable thing on Earth.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I think so, do not? I mean, I'm sure, how
did you end up with that much shit? And like
the internet is so vast, how could you not get
it snapped up on eBay? You know?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah, I guess it's build a Bear? Like, how is
this not the build a Bear model?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Why don't you guys have a bunch of like blank
plastic fucking heads.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I like that this is just devolved into us pitching Funko. Listen.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I will just say, you guys done a ton of research.
I'm looking at the document now. It is shocking to me.
I guess I just assumed this was entirely a tariffs
thing because this is the most like built in China
garbage product poss you could imagine.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yeah, they actually won't reveal what go pops are made of,
which is bad.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Like WECE tried to investigate.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
They're like, so you've said that you may not recycle these.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
The company hasn't confirmed it, but people do believe that
they're made of polyvinyl chloride AKAPDC, which is a real
problem to manufacture and a real problem then to dispose
of because the chlorine it puts into the waste stream.
This is the same substance that was in the Ohio
train that derailed in twenty twenty three, causing mass evacuations.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah yeah, Producer Brian points out, like I was sort
of suspecting I think there are human souls in there.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
So this company may not last the fiscal year, but
all of their toys will outlive every single person who's
listening to this stream.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
That's the forming a corporation. Their trash will never never die.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
That's right, They will never forget us. God just flooding
the earth all right. Elsewhere in the news, border patrol
agents were posing at the Chicago Bean, Oh Goshi is
very infuriating. They were taking a cute photo in front
of the Chicago Bean, led by ghoul Gregory Bovino, who
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has been pictured doing weird little salutes rock paper Scissors,
which some speculate is the new Nazi dog whistle, referring
to a paper beats rock Nazi meme which was briefly
sold as a T shirt by Walmart.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I didn't for anyone else. I don't know if everyone
listening to this already knows what this is. I didn't,
but instantly it's it's paper beats rock is like a sighile.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Beats up beats the path.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yes, good, openly embracing Nazism, you know what, No kidding.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
It's like, where's he going?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Well, what I will say is, yeah, obviously fucking every
ICE agent obviously believes this. So like, I mean, I guess,
you know what is sort of of the of the
version of like, I don't know, is it is it
news that an ICE agent is a Nazi?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
That's my question. I would know that it's not.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
It's not, but it is worth reiterating, I guess repeatedly.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Yes, you're you're right.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, they uh as they were taking the picture, they
took off their masks. Someone shouted say little Village, and
the group of agents were like, little Village, Like that's
their say cheese. This is a snide reference to the
Mexican American neighborhood Little Village, where the agents have been abducting,
tear gasing, and terrorizing residents.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I mean not that this is like super helpful, but
one thing that probably is worth like having this moment
and others remind you of is these people are powerful,
they're dangerous, but they are corny morons yea, And so
like remember that when it's time to do whatever.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
It is that you think is the right thing to do. Right.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
And then they noticed journalists and they were like, mask
up guys. Yeah, come, you never report on the work
we do to improve the community. I don't know who
you're shooting people pulling guns on people. You're like one
of them got arrested or like almost got arrested because
they like had pulled a gun on a woman who
was driving her car, and like the police were like
(24:21):
what the fuck, like that there's a carjacking happening, And
he's like, oh no, I'm like technically a nice agent.
So yeah, there's an additional details at the top level
of ICE in DHS. The Wall Street Journal reported that
like Corey Lewandowski and Christy nom are like feuding with
the other ghoul Homan.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
There's like a power struggle there.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
But there's a there's a good detail where people are
critical of Norman Lewandowski who have been using the one
hundred and seventy billion dollar infusion of cash from Congress
to do splashy things. Among the samples some ICE officials
have cited. A week ago, the pair ordered ICE officials
(25:04):
to buy ten seven thirty seven jets from Spirit Airlines
that they said would be used to boost deportation flights
and for their own travel. Once the officials looked into
the proposal, they learned the Spirit, which filed for bankruptcy
for a second time in August, didn't own the planes.
The planes also don't have engines. Yeah, I would need
(25:25):
to be pretty yeah, but you know that's a Spirit
flight maybe yeah. I mean yeah, listen again, I'm not
saying they're not dangerous. I am saying they're really dumb
and just do not forget that. Like they're powerful, but
you're smarter than them.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
And runs. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Yeah, and those planes are probably fine if you just
get like if you board them at the top of
the hill, you know, like a really big hill and
they get going downhill, you know, just about reaching.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
The right that's right velocity.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
And then people are remarking the Fox News actually asked
Trump interview questions in a way that they were like,
this feels tonally different.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
She brought up the controversy around the fifty year mortgage idea,
which I guess is the Trump administration being like, I
don't know, you can't afford houses, Well, why don't we
when we bust that thing out? And even further, yeah,
it's not my problem. Fifty years from now, countries probably
won't be around.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
So I'm saying this as someone who doesn't understand mortgages
or finance at all. We were talking about this a
little bit before we started recording. Fifty year mortgage just
means that you are eternally renting your house from the day.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
You're a renter at that stil renter, he said.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
He suggested it wasn't a big deal because most people
already have forty year mortgages, which they don't. He also
objected to Ingram saying that Mega folk weren't happy, but
his explanation was not like, yeah, no, I've been seeing
polling that says there. His rebuttal was Mega was my idea.
It was nobody else's idea. I know better than anybody else.
Mega wants to see our country thrive.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
She's wrong on that because he defines what maga folk
are and if part of being a maga folk is
being happy with Trumps, he's got her there.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
That's it's true. Also, he stole that from Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Let's stole it from like some other Nazi in the fifties, right, Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
I determined because I can remember like the Epstein thing
where he was like, if you're if you're still talking
about Epstein, you're not Mega essentially mean girl rules, girl rules.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Yeah, no true scotsman, No, true Mega man.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
He tried to shush her at one point, uh and
also asked if his She also asked if his gold
oval office decorations were from Home Depot, but I don't know,
and we went.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
I can't even unpack that.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Sorry, go ahead, And we shouldn't get Fox too much
credit because the way they put this on their website
was with the headline President Trump, the economy is strongest
it has ever been.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
He did say that, Yeah, he certainly did. So we're
good here. I can't deny that.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Yeah, so I'm not holding out hope that they're gonna
be It's like the there's a there's a genre of
story of like hope full middle Democrats who are like
Tucker Carlson's kind of making some sense, Marjorie Taylor Green,
like just like cherry picking details of people saying that's
what you're looking for.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
You are part of you are You're part of the
Probably you're part of the twenty percent who voted to
keep Chuck Schumer and you.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Have a move on account.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
I think these people might be coming around because that's
always been their thing. Is just like, you know, they're
probably the same like people Russiagate, people who are like, well,
nobody would have voted for him if they had the
truth and so exactly you know, well.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
I mean it's the same people that think the same
fucking electoral geniuses that think the endorsement of a chainey
yes is more important than fucking the enthusiasm of like
actual non right wing people.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah, it's just like which hermetically sealed bubble of delusional
people happens to be in control at this moment is
just the question that we can ask ourselves.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Oh god, all right.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Andrew, thank you so much for trending a little blast.
Where can people find you? Follow you?
Speaker 2 (29:28):
You know this racist I will say, Actually, we have
a new premium show on available on suboptimal pods called
Starter Trek. Tawny Newsom, my co host, who is Star
Trek Royalty, is walking me through. Currently we're walking through
all most of these Star Trek pilots. We're going to
be doing a lot of Star Star Trek episodes. I'm
a person who likes Star Trek but doesn't know shit
(29:50):
about what's happening, and that is the conceit.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
It's an interesting show.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
It's like a show that I wish I had an
excuse to like get into because it was one my
philosophy professors would always be like, you should.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Watch Star Trek. There's some really good shit in there. Yeah,
there are some really good shit in there. It's wild
that anyway. Yeah, you can find out my opinions on
Starter Track. Yeah, exactly. All right, that's gonna do it
for us.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Today we are back tomorrow with the whole last episode
of the show. Until then, be kind to each other,
be kind to yourself, get your vaccines where you still
can't get your flu shots, don't do nothing about white supremacy,
and we will talk to you all tomorrow. By The
Daily Zeite guys as Executive produced by Catherine Law, co
produced by Bae Wayne.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Co produced by Victor Wright, co written by j M McNabb,
and edited and engineered by Brian Jefferies.
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of What
We trend in the Showers. That one courtesy a new
Chris in reference to our conversation yesterday about what we
do in the showers and why that would be a
better show than what we do in the Shadows, where
you just find out, like what people are actually up
to in them showers.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Oh real quick, Yeah, just just as a pitch not
to pitch on yesterday's topic. Just feels like what we
do in the showers could be like in the way
what we do in the shadows is like a house
full of vampires, like a house full of creatures from
the Black Lagoon type, like like she has to be
in the showers. Yeah, everyone's yeah, they live in the showers.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Constantly living in the showers. I like that.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Those are the kind of ideas you're going to get
from our special guest co host today, hilarious and brilliant
producer and TV writer you know from the jozas Racist
podcast It's.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Andrew This and Can't Shu two.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
That wasn't even that wasn't even a reference to anything.
That was just like me trying to make up something.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, are you a daily show?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I'm just I'm just fucking pulling things out of the ether,
you know. Are you a daily that? So these are
the questions, are you a daily shower? And do you uh?
We had the guys from the No Such Thing podcast
on and they have they had an episode about showering,
and I do think showering is interesting because it's like
the one place where you are like you purely make
(01:33):
up your own routine and like you're not you have
to know nothing to pull from other than movies where
people in the movies, people turn on the shower as
they're in the shower, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I remember that from Psycho.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
They just like stand there in front of the thing
and then just get hosed with like ice cold water
for like five seconds, which is just an insane move.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I don't know what, like, hey, maybe the fifties.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Maybe the fifties is just you know, that's what we're
all trying to get back to, is racially justice and
instantly comfortable shower power temperatures.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I remember there's a time when America was great and
the showers were warm right away at the scene from
Psycho and I remember, like I'm still working off of
ancient like I remember my mom when I was very young. Yeah,
telling me you work from the head down, because because
the logic is like from the head, like dusting rules. Yeah, exactly,
(02:34):
it's dusting rules.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
That's how white people end up not washing their legs, exactly.
They mentally have been told that you're just you have
the belief that, yeah, my dirty hair water has cleaned
my legs. Yeah, I'm it sounded like I was going
to tell you my routine. I'm off the mindset that
(02:57):
there's no upside to telling anyone your shower routine.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Get outside, that's fine, and that is totally fun. Shower
every day.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I just use all Costco products, every single Costco product
in the in the thing. I recently got into a
relationship that has escalated to the point where the person
feels comfortable talking about what's in.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
My shower, uh huh and telling you the truth. I
may need to change about Yeah, Kirkland signature, body.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Wash, Kirkland everything.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, I don't scented, not as sexy as I personally thought.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
But that's right. What do I know?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
All right, Andrew, you got to get out of the relationship, man,
That's my immediate advice. You gotta get out of there.
They don't like you for your Kirkland brand shower stuff man.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Bad news. YEP, I agree. All right, Uh well, we're
thrilled to have you here.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
We're gonna go through some news stories because this is
the trending episode. Democrats are calling for Chuck Schumer to
resign for some for some reason, you know, I can't
please you want to know. They're they're citing a lack
of leadership, the fact that those eight Democrats caved on
the ACA subsidies in the shutdown at a time when
(04:08):
it would seem that the progressive politics, the progressive part
of the party had momentum.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
They were were that wild? That was I genuinely I was.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I was at a dinner party, No big jo't just
flex for people. Yeah, And someone at dinner was like, oh,
it looks like the shutdown might be over, and I,
like a fucking idiot, was like, oh right. Obviously, with
the like sweeping mandate of the midterm elections, exactly the
Democrats found the leverage to get to, you know, do
(04:44):
the right thing and to hear the details of it
being literally the exact opposite of what the fucking elections
should have met, Like listen.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
You can also say it means nothing, But then.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Why were you waiting till after the election to clearly renegotiate.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Why would you cave?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
They got scared. I think they experienced progressive politics, yes, yes,
for the power of progressive politics, and immediately went back
to like their old boring X. They were like, oh,
that's that's that's too much. I can't I can't live
like this, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I think the thing that I think I probably trotted
this pov. Well, I probably initially have said things like
this on on my podcast, yos this racist, no big deal,
But I will say I probably said it to this
audience also, which is I think for years, I feel comfortable.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
You know, check the archives.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
The Democrats have just been a center right party our
entire lives, and we're moderately old. But like I think
no one's really wanted to say it, but like, yeah,
they're just right wing goons who want people not to
have healthcare in general.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah, now they're they're totally on board with this.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
They feel threat and when when progressive wins and there's
like some momentum and so they they went back and
just gave on all these all these things that the
shutdown was supposed to be about. Schumer himself didn't vote
to in the shutdown, but his leadership is being called
into question for the cave in happening under his watch.
(06:23):
Representative Rashida Clay said Senator Schumer has failed to meet
this moment and is out of touch with the American people.
So it's a lot of House members basically saying, this
guy sucks shit.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Let's let's wrap it up.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
You know, this is a Pelosi announced her retirement at
the end of last week. Representative Jai Paul speculator Schumer
either can't control his caucus or gave his blessing, And
I mean there are no there's no other options.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Those are the two options. Definitely no other options.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I feel pretty comfortable with saying very clearly he gave
his blessing.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
This is exactly what he wants and he's always wanted.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
It does sort of like break into a question why
the government was shut down at all. If this is
clearly what exactly, yes, what happened, like just fucking then
who gives a shit? We know, you know, I guess
they needed to do the theater of oh, we're trying
to protect the ACA subsidies.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
But surely yeah, I mean they've rendered it purely theater
at this point. Like I said, no Democratic senators have
publicly called for Chuck Schumer step down, but move On
pulled its members, which you gotta feel like this is
the Chuck Schumer stronghold right move on dot organ Isn't
that just like in twenty twenty five right move on
dog dot org. Uh and eight percent thought that Chuck
(07:42):
Schumer should step down of move On people, people who
are still with the move On organization.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
And voluntarily clicking on polls right exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I'll tell you what I think.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
There's also this quote from Mark Kelly, because people are like, well,
somebody from the Senate might be willing to say something
brave or something something about how this guy fucked it up.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
So they asked Mark Kelly.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Who everyone was, you know, kicking the tires on as
a potential VP before they went to the walls. So
he was asked, and I just want to read his
rambling response because I think I see the future Democratic
nominee for president in his ability to say absolutely nothing.
(08:28):
So they asked, you know, if he would support.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Schumer stepping down.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
He said, so, Chris, again, we found ourselves in a
situation I don't think the Senate has found itself in before.
I think under any president, Democrat or Republican, they're going
to care about the American people's healthcare and care if
they're going to be able to put food on the
table and try to bring down costs, not to do
the opposite. So when I hear folks say things like that,
(08:52):
I understand their frustration, but I also hope they understand
that we all need to be on the same team here,
and what matters at this point is real storing these
tax credits. If we can do it in December, Oh
my god, that was the whole That was the thing,
the tax credit. Yeah you now you probably can't do it.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I mean, I guess also like being on the same
team here. Let me let me propose this, because I
don't want to be on the same team as these
people who give Trump everything he wants. Yeah, so he
doesn't want to be on my team.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Not I don't want to be on his team.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
If Andrew, again, we found ourselves in a situation anytime
it opens that way again, we found ourselves in a
situation like, let me take it back to so I
was born in Yeah, I know, And I feel like
that answer just made like the head of the d
n C so horny, just like I know, my god,
(09:50):
am I I'm seeing Kamala loser energy, ability to actually
not just an ability to say nothing, an inability to
say anything.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Yeah, and then you.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Know he's a white guy, which they've they've been really
worried about.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, fucking astronaut, Are you kidding me? Dude? An astronaut
who can equivocate like that?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
God?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
See, I mean, look, I guess the day. The thing
that has been remarkable is it doesn't matter who the
candidate is, like for president, it really seems it's just
always other factors.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah, yeah, it does.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
My My theory is that it's just going to go
back and forth until like something dramatic changes. It's just
going to go back and forth because like Trump is
as popular as he was the day after January sixth,
but the way he was able to recover from that
was that he was no longer the president. And because
both parties do not have the you know, best wishes
of the American people in mind, it will just go
(10:48):
back and forth between people being mad at whoever's in power,
because they're openly fucking them.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess it's the yeah, yeah right,
that's the only difference.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Fuck these people, God for these people.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break and we'll
come back and talk about Funko pops.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
That's fun and we're back. Yeah, and Andrew, are you
a collector kind of yet?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
In that paper brawls? What that is the correct answer?
I guess I'm getting into digital watches now. People remembered
I got a Casio and I got I have on
order a fairly insane upgrade kit.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
For the Casio, so we'll see how it goes. Digital
watches so much easier to read.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I had a moment where I was like, I haven't
wound any of my you know, including the automatic analog
watches in way too long. So my pretending there's a bracelet,
and I just have to acknowledge that it's a bracelet
because I am trapped.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
In the prison of gender and male bracelet.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I'm not comfortable apparently wearing a bracelet, and that's a
meat problem.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Sorry, what was that?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Jak So, Funko Pops are possibly going the way of
Beanie babies, you know, shelves behind YouTubers, ranch about Wilke
Star Wars movies maybe about to get a whole lot
emptier because of the Funko Company h which there. I've
(12:32):
never totally understood them, like they're just like little baby
cartoon versions of things.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
They're cartoon versions of things. I'm just gonna violate.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Possibly, I guess I never fought there's no way I
signed an NDA, or if I did, I that anyone
from here is going to hear this.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
But I'm still mad. I have on you know what
I have on.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
This show before trotted out various access to grind on
pitches that didn't make it in.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
So I'll just now reveal my fun.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Co pop pitch for Robot Chicken, which was I pitched
a Robot Chicken sketch where I think it's like a
haunted house and I don't remember the setup, but basically
someone goes into a situation where there's it's like a
house full of funk cop pops, and every it's like
sort of like a hanted house thing. But every time
he turns back to look at the funk cop pops,
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or every time the camera cuts to a new one,
their eyes are ten percent bigger until the fire screen
is swallowed in an inky blackness and it's an existential
horror sketch and that was rejected.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Their eyes are just big black dots. It's like they're
avoid of nothingness. It's fucking horrifier. It's like the worst
the scariest thing that can happen to someone in a
movie is like their eyes like to suddenly go black.
That's usually a bad sign, but here there just lonely
cute only that.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Anyways, they just admitted they may not survive another year
as sales slump and losses mount. Reportedly, they're at the
risk of defaulting on their loans, which total two hundred
and forty one million dollars UH, and have yet to
figure out some bullshit way to incorporate AI into their company.
I feel like, which which Wall Street's not gonna like that.
(14:11):
I think that is crazy to me, is that they
have like that. They have basically the pre AI AI aesthetic.
That's what these fucking things are.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Yeah, sure, just like churning is like could be the
number one thing.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
They're the reason the reason they're not AI is because
they I would imagine pay and partner for licenses to
ip as opposed, that's taking it.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
They just licensing.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
So the company started with one guy who had a
very specific thing. He really wanted a like Frish's Big Boy,
you know, the restaurant big Boy.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Hell yeah, problems those big boy statues.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
He wanted a like piggyback with a big boy Like okay,
so he made it happen.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah, and nobody bought that. It was a total little flop.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
And then he was like, all right, well, while I'm
at it, started licensing Cereal mascots and those were a
little bit more successful. Then he made Austin Power's bobble
heads and people were like, uh yes, please, And then
he sold it to like some aggressive capitalist who was
just like, we're gonna fucking put the pedal to the
(15:22):
floor here and do this for literally everything.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I mean, look, this is the reason why AI has
any traction on on Wall Street is like the American people,
at least for some are globally. But I'll say the
American people, let's be real, have proven that they will
just chow down on slop if it hits the right.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Nerd Oh, give me that slop. It is just slop.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
It's just it's like the physical manifestation of slop.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
People have argued that the popularity to funkopops is due
to a lack of physical media in the streaming age,
Like they people needed a thing to buy or like
get as a gift or something like that, and like
in lieu of books and movies and CDs, they're just like, true,
here's the thing. Yeah that matter.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
It feels like eternally there was going to be a
need for something that costs eighteen dollars or less, right
that you can give someone as a last minute thing.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yes, exactly. Yeah, and funk pops do.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I thought, oh god, I literally just my kids for
my friend's kids birthday.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You did a Yeah. I was just like, I don't know,
fucking five minutes of Freddy's I think you've seen this before.
Here you go, and she fucking loved it, loved it.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
May Yeah, they have done everything from Jackie Oh awesome.
Fortunately they didn't do it in the like pink suit
with the bloodstains.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, they didn't do They didn't do JFK, which was
just like a bottle of jam.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
That's they did. Travis Bickell from Taxi Driver it's such weird.
They also did fucking Laura Palmer from like wrapped in plastic,
like seventeen year old murder victim Laura Palmer from the
(17:13):
pilot episode, like such a haunting vision that it like
drives the entire creepy aesthetic of the show.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
And nothing cannot be cheapened. Yes, there's nothing that won't do.
There's nothing they won't do.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
The Travis Bigel one in particular, just looks like a
baby because like with a little mohawk, it just looks
like a little baby with a tuft of hair.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
But he's holding a handguy.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yeah, it's like Muppet babies for everything is kind of
the vibe.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
It is a little wild now that you say that
that they never managed to make a TV product out
of those fuckers.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I know they're blowing it. I mean I think, yeah,
Lego Lego jumped all over that, and you know the
huge missed opportunity by them. They have dipped their toe
into that idea by releasing little golden books. Do you
remember these, like the little like the ones with the
golden binding, and it's like, yeah, sort of a board
(18:10):
book with.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
This is a me problem.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I just put together that's why they're called golden books
because of the Yeah, yeah, I guess, like on the bookshelf,
it's just like a cold golden exact shelf.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah, and like little golden books are you know, they'll
have like little engine that could and like all these
classic stories, but then randomly they'll just have like garbage
IP plays and in this case, uh so, the one
that our writer Jam included is a book of Funkco
Seinfeld characters called Seinfeld Who are these people? Oh my god,
(18:49):
what's in that book? It's so I don't know what's
in that one. We were given a version of this
for Friends. It was like, it's nice to have friends,
and I read it to my kids and it is
just it's just references to the show with no no
like lessons or interesting things happening. It's just for collectors.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
But it's obviously yeah, they don't know, truly psychotic for
reading it to any children.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I know, just like so Friends was a thing New
York nine to eleven never happened.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, I'd say the N words several times on the PA.
But it's a collector.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
It's very authentic, yes, so weird. One one of the
problems that this company is run into.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
In addition to like not jumping all over the ip
AI train, is that they have way too much shit
that no one wants.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Got too much shit on them.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
They announced that they were going to hire a third
party company to destroy between thirty million and thirty six
million worth of Funko pops in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
They just like.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
That's there, Like they have to spend a chunk of
air budget just to destroy these things in a way
that's not going to kill everyone within a twenty mile radius.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
This seems like the most print on demandable thing on Earth.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I think so, do not? I mean, I'm sure, how
did you end up with that much shit? And like
the internet is so vast, how could you not get
it snapped up on eBay? You know?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah, I guess it's build a Bear? Like, how is
this not the build a Bear model?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Why don't you guys have a bunch of like blank
plastic fucking heads.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I like that this is just devolved into us pitching Funko. Listen.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I will just say, you guys done a ton of research.
I'm looking at the document now. It is shocking to me.
I guess I just assumed this was entirely a tariffs
thing because this is the most like built in China
garbage product poss you could imagine.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yeah, they actually won't reveal what go pops are made of,
which is bad.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Like WECE tried to investigate.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
They're like, so you've said that you may not recycle these.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
The company hasn't confirmed it, but people do believe that
they're made of polyvinyl chloride AKAPDC, which is a real
problem to manufacture and a real problem then to dispose
of because the chlorine it puts into the waste stream.
This is the same substance that was in the Ohio
train that derailed in twenty twenty three, causing mass evacuations.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah yeah, Producer Brian points out, like I was sort
of suspecting I think there are human souls in there.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
So this company may not last the fiscal year, but
all of their toys will outlive every single person who's
listening to this stream.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
That's the forming a corporation. Their trash will never never die.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
That's right, They will never forget us. God just flooding
the earth all right. Elsewhere in the news, border patrol
agents were posing at the Chicago Bean, Oh Goshi is
very infuriating. They were taking a cute photo in front
of the Chicago Bean, led by ghoul Gregory Bovino, who
(22:21):
has been pictured doing weird little salutes rock paper Scissors,
which some speculate is the new Nazi dog whistle, referring
to a paper beats rock Nazi meme which was briefly
sold as a T shirt by Walmart.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I didn't for anyone else. I don't know if everyone
listening to this already knows what this is. I didn't,
but instantly it's it's paper beats rock is like a sighile.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Beats up beats the path.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yes, good, openly embracing Nazism, you know what, No kidding.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
It's like, where's he going?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Well, what I will say is, yeah, obviously fucking every
ICE agent obviously believes this. So like, I mean, I guess,
you know what is sort of of the of the
version of like, I don't know, is it is it
news that an ICE agent is a Nazi?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
That's my question. I would know that it's not.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
It's not, but it is worth reiterating, I guess repeatedly.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Yes, you're you're right.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, they uh as they were taking the picture, they
took off their masks. Someone shouted say little Village, and
the group of agents were like, little Village, Like that's
their say cheese. This is a snide reference to the
Mexican American neighborhood Little Village, where the agents have been abducting,
tear gasing, and terrorizing residents.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I mean not that this is like super helpful, but
one thing that probably is worth like having this moment
and others remind you of is these people are powerful,
they're dangerous, but they are corny morons yea, And so
like remember that when it's time to do whatever.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
It is that you think is the right thing to do. Right.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
And then they noticed journalists and they were like, mask
up guys. Yeah, come, you never report on the work
we do to improve the community. I don't know who
you're shooting people pulling guns on people. You're like one
of them got arrested or like almost got arrested because
they like had pulled a gun on a woman who
was driving her car, and like the police were like
(24:21):
what the fuck, like that there's a carjacking happening, And
he's like, oh no, I'm like technically a nice agent.
So yeah, there's an additional details at the top level
of ICE in DHS. The Wall Street Journal reported that
like Corey Lewandowski and Christy nom are like feuding with
the other ghoul Homan.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
There's like a power struggle there.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
But there's a there's a good detail where people are
critical of Norman Lewandowski who have been using the one
hundred and seventy billion dollar infusion of cash from Congress
to do splashy things. Among the samples some ICE officials
have cited. A week ago, the pair ordered ICE officials
(25:04):
to buy ten seven thirty seven jets from Spirit Airlines
that they said would be used to boost deportation flights
and for their own travel. Once the officials looked into
the proposal, they learned the Spirit, which filed for bankruptcy
for a second time in August, didn't own the planes.
The planes also don't have engines. Yeah, I would need
(25:25):
to be pretty yeah, but you know that's a Spirit
flight maybe yeah. I mean yeah, listen again, I'm not
saying they're not dangerous. I am saying they're really dumb
and just do not forget that. Like they're powerful, but
you're smarter than them.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
And runs. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Yeah, and those planes are probably fine if you just
get like if you board them at the top of
the hill, you know, like a really big hill and
they get going downhill, you know, just about reaching.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
The right that's right velocity.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
And then people are remarking the Fox News actually asked
Trump interview questions in a way that they were like,
this feels tonally different.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
She brought up the controversy around the fifty year mortgage idea,
which I guess is the Trump administration being like, I
don't know, you can't afford houses, Well, why don't we
when we bust that thing out? And even further, yeah,
it's not my problem. Fifty years from now, countries probably
won't be around.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
So I'm saying this as someone who doesn't understand mortgages
or finance at all. We were talking about this a
little bit before we started recording. Fifty year mortgage just
means that you are eternally renting your house from the day.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
You're a renter at that stil renter, he said.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
He suggested it wasn't a big deal because most people
already have forty year mortgages, which they don't. He also
objected to Ingram saying that Mega folk weren't happy, but
his explanation was not like, yeah, no, I've been seeing
polling that says there. His rebuttal was Mega was my idea.
It was nobody else's idea. I know better than anybody else.
Mega wants to see our country thrive.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
She's wrong on that because he defines what maga folk
are and if part of being a maga folk is
being happy with Trumps, he's got her there.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
That's it's true. Also, he stole that from Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Let's stole it from like some other Nazi in the fifties, right, Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
I determined because I can remember like the Epstein thing
where he was like, if you're if you're still talking
about Epstein, you're not Mega essentially mean girl rules, girl rules.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Yeah, no true scotsman, No, true Mega man.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
He tried to shush her at one point, uh and
also asked if his She also asked if his gold
oval office decorations were from Home Depot, but I don't know,
and we went.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
I can't even unpack that.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Sorry, go ahead, And we shouldn't get Fox too much
credit because the way they put this on their website
was with the headline President Trump, the economy is strongest
it has ever been.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
He did say that, Yeah, he certainly did. So we're
good here. I can't deny that.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Yeah, so I'm not holding out hope that they're gonna
be It's like the there's a there's a genre of
story of like hope full middle Democrats who are like
Tucker Carlson's kind of making some sense, Marjorie Taylor Green,
like just like cherry picking details of people saying that's
what you're looking for.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
You are part of you are You're part of the
Probably you're part of the twenty percent who voted to
keep Chuck Schumer and you.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Have a move on account.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
I think these people might be coming around because that's
always been their thing. Is just like, you know, they're
probably the same like people Russiagate, people who are like, well,
nobody would have voted for him if they had the
truth and so exactly you know, well.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
I mean it's the same people that think the same
fucking electoral geniuses that think the endorsement of a chainey
yes is more important than fucking the enthusiasm of like
actual non right wing people.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah, it's just like which hermetically sealed bubble of delusional
people happens to be in control at this moment is
just the question that we can ask ourselves.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Oh god, all right.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Andrew, thank you so much for trending a little blast.
Where can people find you? Follow you?
Speaker 2 (29:28):
You know this racist I will say, Actually, we have
a new premium show on available on suboptimal pods called
Starter Trek. Tawny Newsom, my co host, who is Star
Trek Royalty, is walking me through. Currently we're walking through
all most of these Star Trek pilots. We're going to
be doing a lot of Star Star Trek episodes. I'm
a person who likes Star Trek but doesn't know shit
(29:50):
about what's happening, and that is the conceit.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
It's an interesting show.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
It's like a show that I wish I had an
excuse to like get into because it was one my
philosophy professors would always be like, you should.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Watch Star Trek. There's some really good shit in there. Yeah,
there are some really good shit in there. It's wild
that anyway. Yeah, you can find out my opinions on
Starter Track. Yeah, exactly. All right, that's gonna do it
for us.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Today we are back tomorrow with the whole last episode
of the show. Until then, be kind to each other,
be kind to yourself, get your vaccines where you still
can't get your flu shots, don't do nothing about white supremacy,
and we will talk to you all tomorrow. By The
Daily Zeite guys as Executive produced by Catherine Law, co
produced by Bae Wayne.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Co produced by Victor Wright, co written by j M McNabb,
and edited and engineered by Brian Jefferies.
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