In this edition of You Are Trendering… The TwiZeit Zone, Miles and special guest co-host Sofiya Alexandra discuss the new Harry Potter TV show, a quick update on Dear Leader, a new study on phone-induced overload, Bill Maher receiving the Mark Twain Prize for humor(???) and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to this Thursday, March twenty sixth edition
of You Are Trendering the Twice Night Song.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's David Lesser for that one on the discord.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I'm Miles. You know that because you listen to the
show and you know my voice. But guess who my
guest co host is. If you're a k one since
day one, you already know who's stepping up to the microphone.
But if not, please welcome Sophia Alexandra Heay.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
So excited to be here to be your Jewish Jack
if you will, please, no one tell me that.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Outside Jack swing.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yeah juwe Jack City babyness fun.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
All right, anyway, Sophia, you're here, Let's get into what's trending.
Everybody is talking about.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
The new Harry Potter.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
What is it like, the Book of the Philosopher's Poetry book.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
What's Believe?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
It's called a shadow of its formers the TV show.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
So there's a new HBO series. Oh shit, sorry, let
me just mute that tab really quick. So there's a
new HBO series that just released their first sort of
like teaser trailer for the you know, reboot Harry Potter
and the Sorcerer's Stone. Which was previously adapted as a
(01:23):
film back in two thousand and one.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
But this is just like I don't know, I love
the first one.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, sure, I've only seen three fourths of the first
one and then about twenty minutes of each subsequent one.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I've seen every single one. I rewatched them around wintertime
to meet. They're like cozy movies.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, everything's very like wooden you know, there's fire, people, porn.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
You know what I mean. It's like the school has
like the most incredible food and the candles are all floated.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Is the food good?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
There is that like a really fucking good.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Okay, looks.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I wasn't sure if like that's like a plot point
in the book where they always talk about and the
food books.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
No, I haven't read the books good.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
But I oh, right, because we're the we're that like
in between generation where either you were reading them when
you're like kind of an older teenager, and for me,
I was listening to like Rage against the Machine and
Smoking Weeds, So I was like, I don't know about
wizards right now, bro, People's History of the United States.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I mean I was reading you know, uh, like Easy
and Ship but also Kenkisy and like Yukowski, like Alan Ginsburg.
I was like, in my field.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Oh, you would have loved this, You would have loved
but yeah, I mean, I think for most people, because
of the jk rowling of it, all are like very
lukewarm on it. But even for like the people who
are like really into the series, I feel like most
people have been like, it's fine, and on the worst case,
they're like, it looks like a bizarro not goth of
(03:00):
the original in this weird way and uncanny way.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
It's out here being TMU Christopher Columbus.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
The color grading is so dark. It's like very very cold,
you know what I mean. That's not giving winter warm vibes, you.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Know, but hey, never cozy up with this.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Okay, good, good to know you have limits.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
But then like they're also like a lot of people
are like, if it's a reimagining, why does it look
exactly the same, Like this, that's the same. Well, and
I think that's where this is where a multinational corporation
comes in and goes, look, motherfuckers, we spend billions of
dollars designing like a coherent design language for merchandise, theme parks,
et cetera. If we start fucking with the form. Then
(03:46):
that means diagon Alley gonna look like shit if it
doesn't look like the one we already built in Orlando
and Hollywood. Okay, so that's probably why Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Hear me out. Okay, this is definitely something that I
think as a capitalists they should have thought of. Why
don't you develop a whole new visual language and like
a little you know, sidetred So then yeah, you fucking
build a different wing of Harry Potter Land. I guess
it's like it's like Harry Potter the New Generation and
(04:19):
then you do new shit there that's more shit to sell.
How are you so dumb that me someone that grew
up in the Soviet Union is telling you how to
make money.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
How to capital the capital. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I mean it's like I feel like with all these
sort of like cult like franchises, people just do not
you know what I mean, Like if they go too far,
people like, what the fuck is this like?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Because even with.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Star Wars they keep it kind of the same. Lord
of the Rings is kept the same Game of Thrones.
They're not going too far. But I guess whatever, I
don't know, what the fuck Harry Potter fans want and
if they're still fucking with it like that. But even
seeing that I did, when I saw that Snape was black,
I said, oh, I already know about this.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I already know where this is going.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
He's described the books as having pale, white skinned Oh
my god.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Real interesting that they're like, you know, we're gonna be progressive,
but like, how does it go in the other direction
where evil people are black. Let's do that one.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
We're gonna change something.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
It'll be that.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
What do you think? What do you think about this?
What'd you think about that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I mean there's also like that like John Williams score
is no more. They've swapped it in for Hans zimmer O.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I think so that's original score is iconic, but whatever, Yeah, exactly.
Do you like a spin off, you know, like they
did with Wednesday and shit, like do something different that yeah,
has the iconic shit but Bill Knew show.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Like Ron Weasley and his fuck Boy era, like they're like, oh,
now people are feeling wrong.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Okay, let's see or what was it? Oh no, Neville,
never long Bottom. That was the one. Everybody was like,
oh he glued up. Yeah, well let me see that.
I don't like he was.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
He's been looks maxing since the first.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
He's been looks maxing. Dude, he's Aura Farming And who
who what's that?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Lady? Who did?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
What's that? Show Girls? Lina Dunham, Lena Dunham. So Lena
Dunham needs to do like a fuck.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Boy, take on Nevill long Bottom post Hogwarts graduation and.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
He's just like a piece of shit. Fuck boy.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I just feel like that's all the Nevill long Bottom
stories and the o's and in bottom, our booties.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Our boobs. Oh okay, oh yeah, you know? Was he straight?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Do we know?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Because I feel like you could do a lot with
like long Bottom. Okay, okay, it was.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I mean, at the very least he liked women. I
don't know if he evolved.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
But see that's why you can work with that.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You know what I mean? I'm saying, was he experimenting?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
He'd a rival? We were with wizards?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Oh my god, meow, we should fucking do you know
what I mean?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
They're dropping the ball, dropping the ball, bro y'all.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
We can't keep giving you guys, very god, do we
have to think of everything? This is so stupid.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Call it hed alchemy. Yes, yes, he did wizardry. Oh
he did sorcery.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
You know how much road play you could do? Oh
my god, Oh my god, bro scarf and road play
a lot.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I don't want to know what they're doing with those wands,
or maybe I do.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I do.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Okay, you could summon some gnarly sex toys.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Some of them are rib for her pleasure. I've seen
them once. I have seen them.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
There's another thing, just a loose just a quick current
selection of hallucinations the president is experiencing. He thinks ice
being at airports. Airports is going well. Uh. He posted
this yesterday on Truth So she said, I'm so proud
of our ice potato patriots. They were unfairly maligned by
the lunatic Democrats for years, and now at the airports,
(08:05):
in addition to what they are supposed to be doing,
they're helping people with bags, even picking up and cleaning areas.
I haven't seen that at all, You fucking lie or
go on. He said, they're so proud to be there.
The fact is they shouldn't have to do this, but
they are rehabbing a fake image given to them by
the radical left Democrat politicians. The public is loving Ice.
(08:26):
So the Democrats unwittingly did us a favor. What are
you talking about, fool, I've.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Just seen videos of like bewildered teenagers walking one of
those two young Yeah, oh my god, you got them
out of a hot topic to come here. They were
so confused.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
You got them out of a McDonald's play place. These
kids were fucking children. I was like, bro, there's no
fucking way. And I'm like, okay, the Hitler youth. That
all comes back in some versions.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah, shock in their little faces. Yeah yeah, like most
still were processing that this is what they.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Do or also and they got they don't have those
masks on. Trump is really he's He's said a lot
of things where he was like, oh, well now they
don't have masks.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
This is actually gonna help a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
He's so a he's senile, so he doesn't actually understand
what's going on or the optics of it. He merely thinks, oh,
people just didn't like that they were wearing masks. No, no, no,
it's it's it's all the activity around it. It's the
breaking up of families and taking people away and then
caging them and fucking turning a blind idol that's the prior.
It's not that we want to see your faces. No, well,
(09:36):
we want to see their faces. So there's some accountability
for the fucker.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I don't think he will ever stop thinking like what
he is, which is like a reality TV star. Yeah,
and he doesn't think about the actions for him, it's
like who is portrayed as a villain?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Can we change the perception? He I think has devoted
maybe less than one thought to what Ice actually does.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
No, because he's like, Steven, what do you think it's good?
And but the there have been there's been a few
reports this week that he's really realized, like he's realized, oh,
maybe he needs to do something about the mass deportation
thing because he's maybe someone showed him pulling numbers that
weren't totally made up and they were like, oh yikes.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Maybe so to his favorite restaurant and he realized no
one worked there anymore because of his policies.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
And my favorite restaurant McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
McDonald's Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
He also said I sent Ice to the airports yesterday
and they've been great.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Uh. He said that the lines went from one airport.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
They had one line that was four hours yesterday today
was half an hour, big big difference side. Okay, where
is that true? And is it because of ice agents
or is it because more tsa people showed up to
work even though they're not getting paid and you're saying
no to a deal to get them paid.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Or did a lot of people cancel their flights because
they didn't want to get harassed by ice agents at
the air people?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
You know, what I read is that people are starting
to fucking sign up for clear in droves to try
and get through security faster because I seem to be
like the one thing that potentially.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Gets you through a little bit quicker.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
But anyway, then there's also he thinks Iran wants to
make a deal. He's still saying that. He said, the
Iranian negotiators are very different and strange. They are begging
us to make a deal, which they should be doing
since they have been militarily obliterated with zero chance of
a comeback, and yet they publicly say that they're only
looking at our proposal wrong. They better get serious soon
(11:33):
before it's too late. They better get serious soon.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Can we talk about which words were in quotation marks
and that I'm.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Strange begging pretty wild when they said they are begging us.
When you say they are quote unquote begging us, Oh
so they're ignoring you?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah, is begging sarcastic like it's wild. I'm like, the
president doesn't know how to use quotation marks. No, that's
a trope in like sitcoms from the nineties. I believe
Joey on Friends experienced that in like ninety six.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that was like a thing.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I remember Chris Farley had like a bit all the
time when I said not it was like.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I don't bathe or you know, these other things just funny.
It was funny then, but not when it's dealing with
a war.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
That's and also why is range in quotation marks?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Maybe he didn't want to like offend them.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Does that mean like brown, I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, I don't know a woman, he doesn't know. I
don't strange. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. It
doesn't matter because you don't.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
None of it makes sense.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
It's a senile old Yeah, it's a It's like trying
to make sense of a senile old man yelling racist
shit out of a car that's driving by and go
and then.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Be like don't worry.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I don't know the fucking guy's bab gonna crash on
his way to wherever the fuck he's going. All right,
let's take a quick break and we'll come back with
an interesting scientific study and also America's most insufferable comedian
getting an Honor Christ.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
All right, we'll be right. We're back, new study. So
phone induced overload may less be about total screen time
than we thought.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I feel like we're all in some kind of like
love hate relationship with our phones, and some people are
really good.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I'm fine, Actually we're I.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Don't quote unquote hate my quote unquote phone.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I don't quote unquote feel like this is an abusive
quote unquote situation. I feel good and fine, and my
relationships with people are good and fine, and so is
my attentions. Span am I bleeding out of my nose? Miles?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
You are? You are?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
You are?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
But that's because he keeps starting pixie sticks. I told
you what you're gonna do anything. Do you have good
phone hygiene like that?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Like?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Are you good?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Like do you have rules for if like, oh, I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna look at this app or
I try and limit the time there, I hide my
apps further in my phone to try and encourage.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
What I've done is I've stopped doing mostly social media,
which is why people are like, no, but seriously, when
are you performing? Yeah, so come back just to do that.
And I'm sort of coming back to do that, but
I'm no longer like making it my business to check
the ship. And I think I've diverted successfully my energy
to the long Reads subreddit. And all I do is
(14:28):
I just find articles, long form articles that are really
interesting to zone in.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah, like zone out. That's actually good. That's actually good.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Brian the editor got has no social apps on my phone.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
It's the best thing ever. I recently started.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Doing this fucking better than me, Brian.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I don't think he said that.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I'm just I know and I know, and we've we're
working on this, because you always think when someone says
that they're doing go But yeah, for me, I like
now I try use Reddit on the on the computer.
I try and use Instagram on the computer. I try
to use like those things like sit my ass down
at like old school and be like scrolling like this
(15:10):
ship was early Facebook. That helps me get over it
real quick. And then I'm like, I'm done. I still
have the apps on my phone, but I'm slowly gaining
the discipline to try and just look at shit on
the browsers.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
But anyway, here's my question though about the browser looking.
Aren't you on the computer like all the time because
you're recording? Yeah, yeah, I'm saying that not really is
a question because I know the answer. So how does
that work? You have more access.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
To well, like, it's more just like because I do that,
I'm not trying to have my ass in this chair
screaming into a mic all day.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
So I'm like, here's your time.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
If you want to see what's up, go look on,
Go look now, what's what they're saying on Twitter, fucking
Instagram or blue scraw Go look now. And then I'm like,
all right, fuck that, get my ass out of the chair,
and then I go on with my ic and then
I don't have like the I don't know. I think
the more you like reorer yourself to be like looking
at Instagram is a like I sit down and do
(16:06):
it at a computer thing, the less you're like, oh
I want to do that even to pass the time.
Because even when I'm bored in lines, now I just
fucking I just look around. I'm trying to I'm trying
to bring that skill back from ninety two. Yeah, you
know what I mean, just staring clock and shit, just
using my brain.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
And for me just establishing other routines, like sure, like
right now, I could just completely space out and like
go dead eyed and like just stare at my Instagram
for a while, or like why don't I or I
could or I.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Could engage and co host this podcast right now, yeah,
or I thank you for putting on my dog and
I can.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Go and you know, have a writing date with someone
like where it's like we sit across from each other
and we both write and it's like both talk.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
There you go so and you know, like and but
also Lesbie real, I also got to fight the doom
scroll demons. And I think a lot of us too,
are just freestyling with doom vibes constantly with the phone.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
No one's perfect.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah, don't think I'm doing I'm succeeding at this all
the time or anything.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
It's a problem.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
The problem is the second you're in, you're fucking in. Yeah,
that's the issue with that. Like you don't even notice
you blink and you're like, how long have I been
looking at this fucking random ass celebrity thing that I
don't care about?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Actually, you're like, Sydney Sweeney's brother got deployed.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
What the fuck do I give us this? Yeah, So
there was a study right that was saying that.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
The study track nearly three hundred participants over several months,
which combined usage data with self reported mental strain.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
What stood out during this period wasn't the heavy usage.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Rather, users who constantly pick up their phones for short bursts.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Reported higher levels of overlook.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Not to say that being on your phone a long
time isn't going to cause overload, but the people who
are constantly picking up, they say. This kind of behavior
that involves quick checks, app switching short interactions creates a
pattern of continuous interruptions. It appears to be more mentally
taxing than longer uninterrupted sessions like you on our long
reads look.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
At you quote.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Every time you check your phone, your brain has to
shift focus, process, do information, and re engage with whatever
you were doing before. Through that dozens or even hundreds
of times a day, and the cognitive loads start to
add up. The study calls this fragmented use which suggests
this pattern is what leads to feelings of being overwhelmed.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
My honor may approach the bench. You may, you may,
my honor. I believe it is because we're looking for
those little hits of dopamine and so picking it up
all the time. You're just like trying to get that
little hit. And I guess I don't know when I
do in our long reads, am I like shooting up
for like an hour? I don't know what that's oh
yeah equivalent of, but something.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
So yeah, you're not We'll see.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
It's like you're not doing bumps of cocaine, you know
what I mean, You're just doing big old fucking just just.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Shooting up black tar and just not not.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Sounds like it's not better when you say it. I
don't know if this study knows that.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
But I'm sure like to your point, right, Like, for
the people who constantly pick up a lot of that
may be tied to the specific like searching for likes.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
And comments and that kind of behavior too.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
And also I just.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Get to people like like, even if you're not checking
like specific your specific social media account, people just always.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Looking to be like, is there something new happening?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Is something new happening, like something fucked up happening, and
you got to give yourself some time because guess what, honey, fus.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Happening all the time, you know what I mean? That
ain't changing. Ah, that's how you free yourself.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I remember I asked my dad about that when I
was before I had a kid. I was like, man,
aren't you like worried, Like, weren't you worried about like
having a kid and like the world being fucked up?
And he's like yeah, and he's like, you know who
else a lot about that? Your grandfather and you know
who el's a lot about that, your great friends, like
that shit doesn't end.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
So that's true.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Accept that first, not to say that you can't do
anything about it, but except that there is a lot
happening that you cannot control.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Then within that, how can you navigate?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Wise?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Man?
Speaker 1 (20:06):
And I know Jack has been talking about him coming
on the show. Oh my god, I have him on
for a second. For a second. My dad just had
a really big art show. I'm like really proud of him,
and I'm like, I want to guess him up because
my dad wasn't always like like like a.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Popping artist, like he was a teacher for a long time.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Tell me about this? When is it? And can I go?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah, there's a he has a he has a show
that opened in La and then he's actually gonna be
in like a permanent installation at Lakhma in the new
building there, like the building.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah yeah, yeah, he has like amazing.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Like he's like he was chosen like each sub discipline
within the museum, like whether it's photography, painting, sculpture or whatever,
they picked an artist for a permanent installation, and like
they picked my dad to be like the photography installation.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
That is really cool and I we have to go
and we have to take pictures.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Well, there'll be an opening in April. Slash may zeitgang.
If you're in La, come through, take a picture with
the god my dad, and I'll be the proud son
off to the side.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I'm not even playing though. I'll fly back to LA
for this.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Okay, Well I'll tell you, I'll let you know. But
here's a guy who we don't need to fucking honor.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Bill Maher.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
The White House just announced that Bill Maher is going
to be the first recipient under the new Trumpenity Center management.
He'll be the first recipient under that regime for the
Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I couldn't think.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Of someone who is more fucking annoying and undeserving of
something like this, unless I don't know, unless Islamophobia is
I'm now fully defined as American humor.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
It might be based on this current administration.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
You don't think doing the same thing for like forty
years but increasingly being on the wrong side of history,
you don't think that deserves an award.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Nah, Nah, I mean maybe I don't know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
He did have dinner with Trump. Remember he came out.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
He was like, he was very like measured, and I
was very surprised in the beginning. That was when Larry
David penned that op ed that was like my dinner
with Adolph after Bill Maher was just like fucking glazing
Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yes, I love the shit out of fucking Larry David
and good for him. And the entire thing is incredibly
sad and reminds me of like Dennis Miller. M you
know why remember when we lost him to the right
wing side. Yeah, he used to be like totally different.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yeah, he was always kind of like it was in him,
but yeah, when he fully just became like switched up
right wing talker.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah, but it's funny.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Too because like just last month, Trump was talking shit
about Bill Maher and he's like, he's a highly overrated lightweight.
But I'm sure at that point probably.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Doesn't remember any of this. He doesn't probably even remember
who Bill Maher is. We're being honest. He probably thinks
Bill Murray's getting that ward and he's like, I love
I Love hedgehog Day.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Hedgehog Day, I love hedgehog Day, Spooky Busters.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
What else was he in? Uh? Transgender? Like what the
fuck is he talking about right now? They were all greats,
like King Sea Level? Was he in Life Sea Level? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Oh yeah, the Life Life Sea Level with Steve Zidan.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
That was great. That was great.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Maybe who knows, but it is in fact Bill Maher
and I think it was Vulture, And they're right up there,
like they rightly pointed out, it's like, isn't it quite
an inspired selection in that there are a few other
comedians who's so routinely anger people on both sides of
the political spectrum. So in that sense, I mean he
does have something.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Is it's not that he makes me angry. He makes
me tired. He's like a classic edge lord, like an
open mic where like they think they're saying the most
like brave and crazy thing that anyone's ever heard. The
truth is people say that all the time, but it's
not shocking, and I fucking hate that he thinks that,
like that's what he's doing. I'm like, no one is offended.
(24:17):
No one thinks you're like, oh my god, like he's
just presenting such new ship. We are not ready.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Chud I was smoking a blunt with DMX's brother in law.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Last sup Ahead gave me a dedication.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
In her memoir, Superhead said I could use the N
word low key right. I do sometimes.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Even before she said that, I said.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I was using it not retroactively, but pre act was
before the past. I was usually I always knew. And
that's what I told people when they would threaten to
beat me up, is that don't worry im. I'm gonna
get the N word pass worry. H Four years ago, Jesus,
and then there was this ship where like the White
(25:00):
House posted some weird videos on social media yesterday were
like there's this clip. It looked like it was like
the like the shot was of someone's feet, as if
they didn't know they were shooting a video. And then
you're a woman saying it's launching soon, right and people
are like, what what's launching?
Speaker 3 (25:17):
And people were like videos freaked me out.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah, they the first one that was like, yeah, I
don't know if the people were like, are they slow
rolling out a nuclear attack? Are they trying to send
out ominous videos? That feels a little too much intentionality
for the White House, considering the shit that they post.
Part of me is also like this might be like
some signal to like insider traders or something where they're like,
(25:45):
oh yeah that video went up and down.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Okay, so so at all, all right.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I know what I have to do on polymarket now.
Oh it was a grainy video of an American flag.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
That's the one that sealed the weirdness for me.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah, just a glitchy shot of the American flag, which
is like weird because you're like, it looks like the
US is in distress, because it is when you show
the flag like that.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
But sure, maybe maybe it's something really cool. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
It could also just be one of these inept fucking
people the White House does what the fuck they're doing
and posting weird shit.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
I mean, if someone just accidentally posted a video saying
a phrase and it's just a shot of feat and
it looks like someone was accidentally had their phone on,
I would have maybe excused it. But the line specifically
that she says, and the little caption that says like
sound on, sound on, that's purposeful, And then the second
(26:42):
one with the glitchy American flag. I think if I
was an unhinged monster, that is how I would like
tease my nuclear attack.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Jesus, I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
I mean, I just like, why would you be doing that?
It's just like a really bad music video rollout.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
There's something where like but another person's like, oh, that's
really cool because the way they said it, there's another
person saying it's cool. So I don't think it's like
sounds like a thing where something is like it's like.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Oh, well, it's like a.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Never before seen escalation and warfare in our modern era
versus like if it was like some website where you're like, oh,
that's really cool, and he goes, oh and it's launching soon.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Who is saying it's really cool?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
There's another person saying something about it, like you can
hear someone it's it's not it's not like the shot.
Yeah yeah, yeah, it's just to me like it. I
could also see them talking about something completely innocuous. But
typically if I feel like, I don't know, Trump likes
to just say shit on truth, So it's.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Like I might do it. I might. I might go
shroom cloud on you.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
I'm sorry, I'm gonna misuse quotation marks and be like,
I'm gonna bomb quote quote you wrote, Yeah, ship, what
does this mean?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
It means I'm gonna give up. Actually, it's the opposite
of what I'm saying. Oh man, all right, Well that's
gonna do it for these trending moments for today, Thursday,
March twenty six.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
We'll be back.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Tomorrow with a brand new episode, even more nonsense happening
all around the world that will touch on Thank you
Sophia for joining me. I might even see you tomorrow
for that episode because Jack is off on spring break.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
With this memory Jack.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Jack City, So we'll see you tomorrow. Until then, take yourselves,
take care of each other, get your vaccines, you know,
don't do nothing about Hey, that's transphobia, xenophobia.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
White supremacy.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Just just be a fucking good person and tell people
to knock that dumb.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Ship off, yeah yeah side, and introduce yourself to somebody
in your neighborhood, why.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Not community in the fuck up?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
All right, y'all, We will see you then, Bye bye bye.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
The Daily Zyke Guys is executive produced by Catherine Law,
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Speaker 2 (29:04):
Co produced by Victor Wright, co written by j M McNabb,
and edited and engineered by Brian Jeffries.
Hello, and welcome to this Thursday, March twenty sixth edition
of You Are Trendering the Twice Night Song.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's David Lesser for that one on the discord.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I'm Miles. You know that because you listen to the
show and you know my voice. But guess who my
guest co host is. If you're a k one since
day one, you already know who's stepping up to the microphone.
But if not, please welcome Sophia Alexandra Heay.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
So excited to be here to be your Jewish Jack
if you will, please, no one tell me that.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Outside Jack swing.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yeah juwe Jack City babyness fun.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
All right, anyway, Sophia, you're here, Let's get into what's trending.
Everybody is talking about.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
The new Harry Potter.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
What is it like, the Book of the Philosopher's Poetry book.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
What's Believe?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
It's called a shadow of its formers the TV show.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
So there's a new HBO series. Oh shit, sorry, let
me just mute that tab really quick. So there's a
new HBO series that just released their first sort of
like teaser trailer for the you know, reboot Harry Potter
and the Sorcerer's Stone. Which was previously adapted as a
(01:23):
film back in two thousand and one.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
But this is just like I don't know, I love
the first one.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, sure, I've only seen three fourths of the first
one and then about twenty minutes of each subsequent one.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I've seen every single one. I rewatched them around wintertime
to meet. They're like cozy movies.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, everything's very like wooden you know, there's fire, people, porn.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
You know what I mean. It's like the school has
like the most incredible food and the candles are all floated.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Is the food good?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
There is that like a really fucking good.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Okay, looks.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I wasn't sure if like that's like a plot point
in the book where they always talk about and the
food books.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
No, I haven't read the books good.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
But I oh, right, because we're the we're that like
in between generation where either you were reading them when
you're like kind of an older teenager, and for me,
I was listening to like Rage against the Machine and
Smoking Weeds, So I was like, I don't know about
wizards right now, bro, People's History of the United States.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I mean I was reading you know, uh, like Easy
and Ship but also Kenkisy and like Yukowski, like Alan Ginsburg.
I was like, in my field.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Oh, you would have loved this, You would have loved
but yeah, I mean, I think for most people, because
of the jk rowling of it, all are like very
lukewarm on it. But even for like the people who
are like really into the series, I feel like most
people have been like, it's fine, and on the worst case,
they're like, it looks like a bizarro not goth of
(03:00):
the original in this weird way and uncanny way.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
It's out here being TMU Christopher Columbus.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
The color grading is so dark. It's like very very cold,
you know what I mean. That's not giving winter warm vibes, you.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Know, but hey, never cozy up with this.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Okay, good, good to know you have limits.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
But then like they're also like a lot of people
are like, if it's a reimagining, why does it look
exactly the same, Like this, that's the same. Well, and
I think that's where this is where a multinational corporation
comes in and goes, look, motherfuckers, we spend billions of
dollars designing like a coherent design language for merchandise, theme parks,
et cetera. If we start fucking with the form. Then
(03:46):
that means diagon Alley gonna look like shit if it
doesn't look like the one we already built in Orlando
and Hollywood. Okay, so that's probably why Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Hear me out. Okay, this is definitely something that I
think as a capitalists they should have thought of. Why
don't you develop a whole new visual language and like
a little you know, sidetred So then yeah, you fucking
build a different wing of Harry Potter Land. I guess
it's like it's like Harry Potter the New Generation and
(04:19):
then you do new shit there that's more shit to sell.
How are you so dumb that me someone that grew
up in the Soviet Union is telling you how to
make money.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
How to capital the capital. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I mean it's like I feel like with all these
sort of like cult like franchises, people just do not
you know what I mean, Like if they go too far,
people like, what the fuck is this like?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Because even with.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Star Wars they keep it kind of the same. Lord
of the Rings is kept the same Game of Thrones.
They're not going too far. But I guess whatever, I
don't know, what the fuck Harry Potter fans want and
if they're still fucking with it like that. But even
seeing that I did, when I saw that Snape was black,
I said, oh, I already know about this.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I already know where this is going.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
He's described the books as having pale, white skinned Oh
my god.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Real interesting that they're like, you know, we're gonna be progressive,
but like, how does it go in the other direction
where evil people are black. Let's do that one.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
We're gonna change something.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
It'll be that.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
What do you think? What do you think about this?
What'd you think about that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I mean there's also like that like John Williams score
is no more. They've swapped it in for Hans zimmer O.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I think so that's original score is iconic, but whatever, Yeah, exactly.
Do you like a spin off, you know, like they
did with Wednesday and shit, like do something different that yeah,
has the iconic shit but Bill Knew show.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Like Ron Weasley and his fuck Boy era, like they're like, oh,
now people are feeling wrong.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Okay, let's see or what was it? Oh no, Neville,
never long Bottom. That was the one. Everybody was like,
oh he glued up. Yeah, well let me see that.
I don't like he was.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
He's been looks maxing since the first.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
He's been looks maxing. Dude, he's Aura Farming And who
who what's that?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Lady? Who did?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
What's that? Show Girls? Lina Dunham, Lena Dunham. So Lena
Dunham needs to do like a fuck.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Boy, take on Nevill long Bottom post Hogwarts graduation and.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
He's just like a piece of shit. Fuck boy.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I just feel like that's all the Nevill long Bottom
stories and the o's and in bottom, our booties.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Our boobs. Oh okay, oh yeah, you know? Was he straight?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Do we know?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Because I feel like you could do a lot with
like long Bottom. Okay, okay, it was.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I mean, at the very least he liked women. I
don't know if he evolved.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
But see that's why you can work with that.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You know what I mean? I'm saying, was he experimenting?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
He'd a rival? We were with wizards?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Oh my god, meow, we should fucking do you know
what I mean?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
They're dropping the ball, dropping the ball, bro y'all.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
We can't keep giving you guys, very god, do we
have to think of everything? This is so stupid.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Call it hed alchemy. Yes, yes, he did wizardry. Oh
he did sorcery.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
You know how much road play you could do? Oh
my god, Oh my god, bro scarf and road play
a lot.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I don't want to know what they're doing with those wands,
or maybe I do.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I do.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Okay, you could summon some gnarly sex toys.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Some of them are rib for her pleasure. I've seen
them once. I have seen them.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
There's another thing, just a loose just a quick current
selection of hallucinations the president is experiencing. He thinks ice
being at airports. Airports is going well. Uh. He posted
this yesterday on Truth So she said, I'm so proud
of our ice potato patriots. They were unfairly maligned by
the lunatic Democrats for years, and now at the airports,
(08:05):
in addition to what they are supposed to be doing,
they're helping people with bags, even picking up and cleaning areas.
I haven't seen that at all, You fucking lie or
go on. He said, they're so proud to be there.
The fact is they shouldn't have to do this, but
they are rehabbing a fake image given to them by
the radical left Democrat politicians. The public is loving Ice.
(08:26):
So the Democrats unwittingly did us a favor. What are
you talking about, fool, I've.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Just seen videos of like bewildered teenagers walking one of
those two young Yeah, oh my god, you got them
out of a hot topic to come here. They were
so confused.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
You got them out of a McDonald's play place. These
kids were fucking children. I was like, bro, there's no
fucking way. And I'm like, okay, the Hitler youth. That
all comes back in some versions.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah, shock in their little faces. Yeah yeah, like most
still were processing that this is what they.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Do or also and they got they don't have those
masks on. Trump is really he's He's said a lot
of things where he was like, oh, well now they
don't have masks.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
This is actually gonna help a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
He's so a he's senile, so he doesn't actually understand
what's going on or the optics of it. He merely thinks, oh,
people just didn't like that they were wearing masks. No, no, no,
it's it's it's all the activity around it. It's the
breaking up of families and taking people away and then
caging them and fucking turning a blind idol that's the prior.
It's not that we want to see your faces. No, well,
(09:36):
we want to see their faces. So there's some accountability
for the fucker.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I don't think he will ever stop thinking like what
he is, which is like a reality TV star. Yeah,
and he doesn't think about the actions for him, it's
like who is portrayed as a villain?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Can we change the perception? He I think has devoted
maybe less than one thought to what Ice actually does.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
No, because he's like, Steven, what do you think it's good?
And but the there have been there's been a few
reports this week that he's really realized, like he's realized, oh,
maybe he needs to do something about the mass deportation
thing because he's maybe someone showed him pulling numbers that
weren't totally made up and they were like, oh yikes.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Maybe so to his favorite restaurant and he realized no
one worked there anymore because of his policies.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
And my favorite restaurant McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
McDonald's Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
He also said I sent Ice to the airports yesterday
and they've been great.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Uh. He said that the lines went from one airport.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
They had one line that was four hours yesterday today
was half an hour, big big difference side. Okay, where
is that true? And is it because of ice agents
or is it because more tsa people showed up to
work even though they're not getting paid and you're saying
no to a deal to get them paid.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Or did a lot of people cancel their flights because
they didn't want to get harassed by ice agents at
the air people?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
You know, what I read is that people are starting
to fucking sign up for clear in droves to try
and get through security faster because I seem to be
like the one thing that potentially.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Gets you through a little bit quicker.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
But anyway, then there's also he thinks Iran wants to
make a deal. He's still saying that. He said, the
Iranian negotiators are very different and strange. They are begging
us to make a deal, which they should be doing
since they have been militarily obliterated with zero chance of
a comeback, and yet they publicly say that they're only
looking at our proposal wrong. They better get serious soon
(11:33):
before it's too late. They better get serious soon.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Can we talk about which words were in quotation marks
and that I'm.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Strange begging pretty wild when they said they are begging us.
When you say they are quote unquote begging us, Oh
so they're ignoring you?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah, is begging sarcastic like it's wild. I'm like, the
president doesn't know how to use quotation marks. No, that's
a trope in like sitcoms from the nineties. I believe
Joey on Friends experienced that in like ninety six.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that was like a thing.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I remember Chris Farley had like a bit all the
time when I said not it was like.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I don't bathe or you know, these other things just funny.
It was funny then, but not when it's dealing with
a war.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
That's and also why is range in quotation marks?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Maybe he didn't want to like offend them.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Does that mean like brown, I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, I don't know a woman, he doesn't know. I
don't strange. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. It
doesn't matter because you don't.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
None of it makes sense.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
It's a senile old Yeah, it's a It's like trying
to make sense of a senile old man yelling racist
shit out of a car that's driving by and go
and then.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Be like don't worry.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I don't know the fucking guy's bab gonna crash on
his way to wherever the fuck he's going. All right,
let's take a quick break and we'll come back with
an interesting scientific study and also America's most insufferable comedian
getting an Honor Christ.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
All right, we'll be right. We're back, new study. So
phone induced overload may less be about total screen time
than we thought.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I feel like we're all in some kind of like
love hate relationship with our phones, and some people are
really good.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I'm fine, Actually we're I.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Don't quote unquote hate my quote unquote phone.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I don't quote unquote feel like this is an abusive
quote unquote situation. I feel good and fine, and my
relationships with people are good and fine, and so is
my attentions. Span am I bleeding out of my nose? Miles?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
You are? You are?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
You are?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
But that's because he keeps starting pixie sticks. I told
you what you're gonna do anything. Do you have good
phone hygiene like that?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Like?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Are you good?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Like do you have rules for if like, oh, I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna look at this app or
I try and limit the time there, I hide my
apps further in my phone to try and encourage.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
What I've done is I've stopped doing mostly social media,
which is why people are like, no, but seriously, when
are you performing? Yeah, so come back just to do that.
And I'm sort of coming back to do that, but
I'm no longer like making it my business to check
the ship. And I think I've diverted successfully my energy
to the long Reads subreddit. And all I do is
(14:28):
I just find articles, long form articles that are really
interesting to zone in.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah, like zone out. That's actually good. That's actually good.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Brian the editor got has no social apps on my phone.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
It's the best thing ever. I recently started.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Doing this fucking better than me, Brian.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I don't think he said that.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I'm just I know and I know, and we've we're
working on this, because you always think when someone says
that they're doing go But yeah, for me, I like
now I try use Reddit on the on the computer.
I try and use Instagram on the computer. I try
to use like those things like sit my ass down
at like old school and be like scrolling like this
(15:10):
ship was early Facebook. That helps me get over it
real quick. And then I'm like, I'm done. I still
have the apps on my phone, but I'm slowly gaining
the discipline to try and just look at shit on
the browsers.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
But anyway, here's my question though about the browser looking.
Aren't you on the computer like all the time because
you're recording? Yeah, yeah, I'm saying that not really is
a question because I know the answer. So how does
that work? You have more access.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
To well, like, it's more just like because I do that,
I'm not trying to have my ass in this chair
screaming into a mic all day.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
So I'm like, here's your time.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
If you want to see what's up, go look on,
Go look now, what's what they're saying on Twitter, fucking
Instagram or blue scraw Go look now. And then I'm like,
all right, fuck that, get my ass out of the chair,
and then I go on with my ic and then
I don't have like the I don't know. I think
the more you like reorer yourself to be like looking
at Instagram is a like I sit down and do
(16:06):
it at a computer thing, the less you're like, oh
I want to do that even to pass the time.
Because even when I'm bored in lines, now I just
fucking I just look around. I'm trying to I'm trying
to bring that skill back from ninety two. Yeah, you
know what I mean, just staring clock and shit, just
using my brain.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
And for me just establishing other routines, like sure, like
right now, I could just completely space out and like
go dead eyed and like just stare at my Instagram
for a while, or like why don't I or I
could or I.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Could engage and co host this podcast right now, yeah,
or I thank you for putting on my dog and
I can.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Go and you know, have a writing date with someone
like where it's like we sit across from each other
and we both write and it's like both talk.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
There you go so and you know, like and but
also Lesbie real, I also got to fight the doom
scroll demons. And I think a lot of us too,
are just freestyling with doom vibes constantly with the phone.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
No one's perfect.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah, don't think I'm doing I'm succeeding at this all
the time or anything.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
It's a problem.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
The problem is the second you're in, you're fucking in. Yeah,
that's the issue with that. Like you don't even notice
you blink and you're like, how long have I been
looking at this fucking random ass celebrity thing that I
don't care about?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Actually, you're like, Sydney Sweeney's brother got deployed.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
What the fuck do I give us this? Yeah, So
there was a study right that was saying that.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
The study track nearly three hundred participants over several months,
which combined usage data with self reported mental strain.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
What stood out during this period wasn't the heavy usage.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Rather, users who constantly pick up their phones for short bursts.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Reported higher levels of overlook.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Not to say that being on your phone a long
time isn't going to cause overload, but the people who
are constantly picking up, they say. This kind of behavior
that involves quick checks, app switching short interactions creates a
pattern of continuous interruptions. It appears to be more mentally
taxing than longer uninterrupted sessions like you on our long
reads look.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
At you quote.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Every time you check your phone, your brain has to
shift focus, process, do information, and re engage with whatever
you were doing before. Through that dozens or even hundreds
of times a day, and the cognitive loads start to
add up. The study calls this fragmented use which suggests
this pattern is what leads to feelings of being overwhelmed.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
My honor may approach the bench. You may, you may,
my honor. I believe it is because we're looking for
those little hits of dopamine and so picking it up
all the time. You're just like trying to get that
little hit. And I guess I don't know when I
do in our long reads, am I like shooting up
for like an hour? I don't know what that's oh
yeah equivalent of, but something.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
So yeah, you're not We'll see.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
It's like you're not doing bumps of cocaine, you know
what I mean, You're just doing big old fucking just just.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Shooting up black tar and just not not.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Sounds like it's not better when you say it. I
don't know if this study knows that.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
But I'm sure like to your point, right, Like, for
the people who constantly pick up a lot of that
may be tied to the specific like searching for likes.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
And comments and that kind of behavior too.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
And also I just.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Get to people like like, even if you're not checking
like specific your specific social media account, people just always.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Looking to be like, is there something new happening?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Is something new happening, like something fucked up happening, and
you got to give yourself some time because guess what, honey, fus.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Happening all the time, you know what I mean? That
ain't changing. Ah, that's how you free yourself.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I remember I asked my dad about that when I
was before I had a kid. I was like, man,
aren't you like worried, Like, weren't you worried about like
having a kid and like the world being fucked up?
And he's like yeah, and he's like, you know who
else a lot about that? Your grandfather and you know
who el's a lot about that, your great friends, like
that shit doesn't end.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
So that's true.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Accept that first, not to say that you can't do
anything about it, but except that there is a lot
happening that you cannot control.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Then within that, how can you navigate?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Wise?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Man?
Speaker 1 (20:06):
And I know Jack has been talking about him coming
on the show. Oh my god, I have him on
for a second. For a second. My dad just had
a really big art show. I'm like really proud of him,
and I'm like, I want to guess him up because
my dad wasn't always like like like a.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Popping artist, like he was a teacher for a long time.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Tell me about this? When is it? And can I go?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah, there's a he has a he has a show
that opened in La and then he's actually gonna be
in like a permanent installation at Lakhma in the new
building there, like the building.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah yeah, yeah, he has like amazing.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Like he's like he was chosen like each sub discipline
within the museum, like whether it's photography, painting, sculpture or whatever,
they picked an artist for a permanent installation, and like
they picked my dad to be like the photography installation.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
That is really cool and I we have to go
and we have to take pictures.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Well, there'll be an opening in April. Slash may zeitgang.
If you're in La, come through, take a picture with
the god my dad, and I'll be the proud son
off to the side.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I'm not even playing though. I'll fly back to LA
for this.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Okay, Well I'll tell you, I'll let you know. But
here's a guy who we don't need to fucking honor.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Bill Maher.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
The White House just announced that Bill Maher is going
to be the first recipient under the new Trumpenity Center management.
He'll be the first recipient under that regime for the
Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I couldn't think.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Of someone who is more fucking annoying and undeserving of
something like this, unless I don't know, unless Islamophobia is
I'm now fully defined as American humor.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
It might be based on this current administration.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
You don't think doing the same thing for like forty
years but increasingly being on the wrong side of history,
you don't think that deserves an award.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Nah, Nah, I mean maybe I don't know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
He did have dinner with Trump. Remember he came out.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
He was like, he was very like measured, and I
was very surprised in the beginning. That was when Larry
David penned that op ed that was like my dinner
with Adolph after Bill Maher was just like fucking glazing
Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yes, I love the shit out of fucking Larry David
and good for him. And the entire thing is incredibly
sad and reminds me of like Dennis Miller. M you
know why remember when we lost him to the right
wing side. Yeah, he used to be like totally different.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yeah, he was always kind of like it was in him,
but yeah, when he fully just became like switched up
right wing talker.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah, but it's funny.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Too because like just last month, Trump was talking shit
about Bill Maher and he's like, he's a highly overrated lightweight.
But I'm sure at that point probably.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Doesn't remember any of this. He doesn't probably even remember
who Bill Maher is. We're being honest. He probably thinks
Bill Murray's getting that ward and he's like, I love
I Love hedgehog Day.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Hedgehog Day, I love hedgehog Day, Spooky Busters.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
What else was he in? Uh? Transgender? Like what the
fuck is he talking about right now? They were all greats,
like King Sea Level? Was he in Life Sea Level? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Oh yeah, the Life Life Sea Level with Steve Zidan.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
That was great. That was great.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Maybe who knows, but it is in fact Bill Maher
and I think it was Vulture, And they're right up there,
like they rightly pointed out, it's like, isn't it quite
an inspired selection in that there are a few other
comedians who's so routinely anger people on both sides of
the political spectrum. So in that sense, I mean he
does have something.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Is it's not that he makes me angry. He makes
me tired. He's like a classic edge lord, like an
open mic where like they think they're saying the most
like brave and crazy thing that anyone's ever heard. The
truth is people say that all the time, but it's
not shocking, and I fucking hate that he thinks that,
like that's what he's doing. I'm like, no one is offended.
(24:17):
No one thinks you're like, oh my god, like he's
just presenting such new ship. We are not ready.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Chud I was smoking a blunt with DMX's brother in law.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Last sup Ahead gave me a dedication.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
In her memoir, Superhead said I could use the N
word low key right. I do sometimes.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Even before she said that, I said.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I was using it not retroactively, but pre act was
before the past. I was usually I always knew. And
that's what I told people when they would threaten to
beat me up, is that don't worry im. I'm gonna
get the N word pass worry. H Four years ago, Jesus,
and then there was this ship where like the White
(25:00):
House posted some weird videos on social media yesterday were
like there's this clip. It looked like it was like
the like the shot was of someone's feet, as if
they didn't know they were shooting a video. And then
you're a woman saying it's launching soon, right and people
are like, what what's launching?
Speaker 3 (25:17):
And people were like videos freaked me out.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah, they the first one that was like, yeah, I
don't know if the people were like, are they slow
rolling out a nuclear attack? Are they trying to send
out ominous videos? That feels a little too much intentionality
for the White House, considering the shit that they post.
Part of me is also like this might be like
some signal to like insider traders or something where they're like,
(25:45):
oh yeah that video went up and down.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Okay, so so at all, all right.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I know what I have to do on polymarket now.
Oh it was a grainy video of an American flag.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
That's the one that sealed the weirdness for me.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah, just a glitchy shot of the American flag, which
is like weird because you're like, it looks like the
US is in distress, because it is when you show
the flag like that.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
But sure, maybe maybe it's something really cool. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
It could also just be one of these inept fucking
people the White House does what the fuck they're doing
and posting weird shit.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
I mean, if someone just accidentally posted a video saying
a phrase and it's just a shot of feat and
it looks like someone was accidentally had their phone on,
I would have maybe excused it. But the line specifically
that she says, and the little caption that says like
sound on, sound on, that's purposeful, And then the second
(26:42):
one with the glitchy American flag. I think if I
was an unhinged monster, that is how I would like
tease my nuclear attack.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Jesus, I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
I mean, I just like, why would you be doing that?
It's just like a really bad music video rollout.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
There's something where like but another person's like, oh, that's
really cool because the way they said it, there's another
person saying it's cool. So I don't think it's like
sounds like a thing where something is like it's like.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Oh, well, it's like a.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Never before seen escalation and warfare in our modern era
versus like if it was like some website where you're like, oh,
that's really cool, and he goes, oh and it's launching soon.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Who is saying it's really cool?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
There's another person saying something about it, like you can
hear someone it's it's not it's not like the shot.
Yeah yeah, yeah, it's just to me like it. I
could also see them talking about something completely innocuous. But
typically if I feel like, I don't know, Trump likes
to just say shit on truth, So it's.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Like I might do it. I might. I might go
shroom cloud on you.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
I'm sorry, I'm gonna misuse quotation marks and be like,
I'm gonna bomb quote quote you wrote, Yeah, ship, what
does this mean?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
It means I'm gonna give up. Actually, it's the opposite
of what I'm saying. Oh man, all right, Well that's
gonna do it for these trending moments for today, Thursday,
March twenty six.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
We'll be back.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Tomorrow with a brand new episode, even more nonsense happening
all around the world that will touch on Thank you
Sophia for joining me. I might even see you tomorrow
for that episode because Jack is off on spring break.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
With this memory Jack.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Jack City, So we'll see you tomorrow. Until then, take yourselves,
take care of each other, get your vaccines, you know,
don't do nothing about Hey, that's transphobia, xenophobia.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
White supremacy.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Just just be a fucking good person and tell people
to knock that dumb.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Ship off, yeah yeah side, and introduce yourself to somebody
in your neighborhood, why.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Not community in the fuck up?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
All right, y'all, We will see you then, Bye bye bye.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
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co produced by Bee Wayne.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
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