Culture Shift w/ Brad and Ordy: This episode goes to 11!

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(01:00):
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This is the culture shift. How's everybody doing? On Brad
Slager getting ready to walk you down the Primson side
walks of Hollywood and point out the delicious sites for everybody,
but not doing this by myself every fortnight. Joining me

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amash individual. Ortie Packerd, how is everything tonight?

Speaker 5 (01:29):
It's fucking fantastic. It's a little overcast, little rady, so
nice and cool. I'm not making ball soup here. Weather
and traffic on the threes on Kaylordradio dot com. Jeff
love that new intro man, the graphics. Everything fucking awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
Very well done. Yes, indeed, Well, it has been kind
of a busy and hectic fortnight since we last talked,
that's for sure. There's just no shortage of crap going
on politically, culturally, entertainment wise. So we've got more than
enough to deal with on our plate.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
This week, we are just packed with jam again.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
It's it's always good to have content. I find that's
a favorable result when you have a show, yes, something
to talk about. It is always hopeful.

Speaker 5 (02:19):
How's everything out in America's wings?

Speaker 4 (02:21):
Oh, we're doing good. We're doing good. Been busy just
running around in between doing work and then finding time
to still put some shows on. So I'm kind of
excited to get a break from the mayhem and just
settle in and go over everybody else's mayhem.

Speaker 5 (02:38):
I guess, uh, dodging all the Canadians who weren't supposed
to come down here.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
Yeah, the ones in denial, that's what we're We're I'm
waiting to see. Actually, like around November, that's usually when
the massive influx of the Quebec Quah come into our area.
And that's gonna be the real tell whether or not
Canada's really pissed off of us or not. But hopefully

(03:06):
they are. I can stand to have a little bit
less congestion on the highway. But what do I know, I.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
Wish we could, we could piss off so cal up
here so we wouldn't get the fucking leafers has the
same problems.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yeah, it's rather comical that all these people from abroad
keep trying to insist you guys are suffering. Your tourism
is plummeting. You're losing twenty billion, fifty billion, one hundred
billion dollars. Okay, I'm glad you're upset about it, because
we're kind of happy to over here. But oh, do

(03:43):
your thing yourself out.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
Yeah, see any ever, Syrapian.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
The the real funny thing is how much Canada wants
us to be upset at them being upset at us.
I keep seeing articles in posts this effected. So first
for me to be upset about you guys not coming,
I would have had to first recognize that you were
coming here. So since I didn't, I'm not sorry, just

(04:14):
the way it goes. But yeah, I'm supposed to be distraught.
I guess if they really want to affect me, maybe
they'll stop exporting Shorsey to Hulu. And if I can't
watch that show then maybe, but we'll see. Yeah, that's

(04:34):
about it. But to get into the entire purpose, of
our show. I guess we should start off in theaters
because last time we spoke, the big news was Superman
and how it was going to perform. And I think
pretty much like we talked about, it was going to
do okay to well but not gangbusters, and so far

(04:57):
it has done well but not exactly gangbusters.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
Yeah, this one is I mean, I say you pictures
of a friend of mine up in the Pacific Northwest
was sending me all the the theater occupancy of the
opening Friday night, opening night right after we did the last,
you know, the last show, and there were maybe a
dozen seats occupied in each of the four biggest theaters

(05:26):
and these were all amcas and regally, you know, these
weren't just like little you know, this was on pre sales.
So yeah, it's three hundred million worldwide, three hundred and
fifty million worldwide right now, just shy for it's paid
for itself in production, but not quite an advertising yet

(05:50):
because the rumors have it between high two hundred to
low three seventy. I mean, it's not fine and seventy
eight million to make, but insiders saying no, add another
one hundred million onto that.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
But then also factoring, you have to double that to
account for only collecting fifty percent of ticket pricing, So
they do have a way to go. This could still
leg out, but my read on this is that it's
it's doing good as a standalone picture. It's not doing

(06:27):
good as one that's supposed to be relaunching the DC
universe and the James Gunn era of these movies.

Speaker 5 (06:37):
Much less when it has international much too. Guns Not
to contradict the director, but Superman has had worldwide appeal
for over one hundred years, and according to him, it's
not well known outside the United States's.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
I saw his quotes and it was rather I guess
the word I'm looking for is perplexing, because they basically
have turned over their entire comic book theatrical franchise to
a guy who seems functionally unfamiliar with the comic books.

(07:25):
He's trying to explain he's looking at the numbers right
now and saying that international box office is soft, and
then saying this is the fault of Donald Trump and
conservatives because they poisoned the well of this movie overseas
with a character that people are not familiar with. I'm

(07:49):
going to go out and just say it. I'm probably
going to contradict mister Gunn and suggest that of all
of our comic book characters, this is probably the most
recognized outside of the United States.

Speaker 5 (08:01):
Yeah, and he tried to pull the uh, you know
in this one, he walked back to jingoism, and you
know he's still meanwhile while saying talking out of both
sides of his mouth, saying that it's not that well
known overseas, and also it's very jingoistic, so it may
not play well overseas. I'm sorry. This time last year,

(08:21):
there was a movie that was just basically an American
boner shoved down your face and mock too that made
a billion dollars overseas.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yeah, the uh, long awaited sequel to Top Gun was
in its initial stage is very hotly contested. Oh, you
can't put these things on his jacket. It's gonna upset
the Chinese, You'll lose market share, and they brushed it out,
and then there was pushback, and then the production basically said,

(08:52):
screw it, we're gonna go all USA capital lever capitalized,
boldfaced USA, and it only went on. We're talking about Maverick,
of course, to become one of the most successful movies ever.
Just that stupid monster numbers overseas.

Speaker 5 (09:13):
Yeah, it almost rivaled if he had adjusted dollars, and
almost rivaled the original.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
I mean it was. It was quite a phenomenon, and
it just was in theaters forever. It seemed like an
overseas everybody ate it up and loved it. And here's
James Gunn saying, well, Donald's reel Brooding for America killed
our chances overseas with this movie.

Speaker 5 (09:39):
Uh uh No, everybody overseas wants to root for America too.
I'm sorry. I hate to break it to you. With
the exception of a handful of countries and some smug
fucks in European leadership, everybody wants American exceptionalism. I'm sorry,
but that's the way it is. If that wasn't the case,
not everybody who were trying to come here.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
Right, and the people that don't like America will not
go to an American movie period. So even if you
crap on the American flag on screen, they're not going
to show up.

Speaker 5 (10:13):
Yeah, because somehow America is getting that duller.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
Yeah, they're just as screwed. They're not getting my money.
So this has been the case and gun is now
he's trying to rewrite history a little bit. And no, dude,
and again, how did you turn the franchise over to
this guy when he doesn't seem to know the very

(10:36):
source material he's dealing with. I will say this, however,
I watched Superman, and I think the problem overseas is
this movie makes no damn sense.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
I see people raving about it like this is the
Superman we waited for it. It was like, really, you
waited for a Superman who gets his ass kicked through
off the film and then one of the secondary characters
is missed, you know, yeah he other characters seem to

(11:12):
possess more powers than Superman, like mister Terrific. He's got
his own personal flying hovercraft, but he also has a spaceship,
and he's got these hover orbs that can float around
and do anything that he wants him to. He's a
supreme hacker. Oh and he gets in a battle with
about four dozen people at a military site and kicks

(11:33):
everybody's ass. But the movie opens with Superman face down
in the snow and unable to get up, and his
dog has to drag him back to his lair where
he's repaired by robots, and then he's promptly re engaged
in a fight ten minutes later and goes face down

(11:54):
into the concrete and has to be pulled up by
a Schwarma street vendor king And.

Speaker 5 (12:04):
You know, let dug Joe crab juice will go a
long way.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
And the whole thing was just a muddle mess, and
everything was convenient. If they needed to do something, there's
a way to do it. They created a secondary portal
because lex Luthor recreated the Big Bang. Well that's handy, right,
And then you go into this second realm and he's

(12:30):
got about five hundred people jailed in glass boxes. Okay,
and if you need to get any other part of
the world, you walk through the portal in his office
and there's another portal to wherever you need to go
conveniently enough. I mean everything about there was like no

(12:52):
nothing organic to latch onto here. It was just like, well,
let's see we got to do something. Okay, how are
we gonna fly them over there? Well, how about Lois
Lane into his spaceship and she can just drive it naturally, you.

Speaker 5 (13:04):
Know, I mean, I mean it. Women can barely drive
a car. They can and The thing is they didn't
even have the courtesy of hanging the lantern.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
You know.

Speaker 5 (13:19):
That's because usually when something is just too convenient, one
of the actors will mention, well, that was convenient. That's
hanging the lander on of them. You meant it to
be that way, and then carry on. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:33):
The the only thing that came close to that was
Nathan Fillion playing the new version of the Green Lantern,
and he has the most ridiculous blonde haircut you can
possibly imagine. And the whole time you're watching looking at
this is like did how did this pass? How did
this get through? And finally Lois Lane actually makes a
crack at him about it, But even so that doesn't

(13:56):
repair that he's walking around with this stupid ass haircut.
The whole film, just this thing was a mess, and
the people that are raving about it, I don't understand
what they were going for there. It's just really this, Okay.

Speaker 5 (14:15):
Hey, can we talk about the whole Uh? I mean,
I guess in the way it is it is an
immigrant movie with the go forth and plant your seed
and eliminate anybody who stands.

Speaker 4 (14:29):
Yeah, that was something that a lot of people started
to notice, like wait a second, did Jorrell just say that?
And that is if I'm not mistaken. Isn't that what
they always complain about us doing as the nation going
out and you know, populating and doing things of this nature.

(14:50):
But now it's so k for Superman to doing what.

Speaker 5 (14:53):
Well, it's okay, I know that it's not completely free
of pann has been brought up a couple of times,
but it's pretty so. I mean for somebody who doesn't
seem to understand Superman. They dug deep into the worst
parts of Superman that have ever been put to an ink.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
Yeah, it was a film filled with curious choices, and
none of them really made sense overall. I mean, I
suppose if you were a true Superman fan, the fact
that they picked these disparate plot points from all over great.
But as a standalone film, sorry, not not quite working

(15:42):
for me there, But maybe I'm not the intended audience.

Speaker 5 (15:45):
But just foster Dad get sucked into a tornado. That's
always good too.

Speaker 4 (15:51):
Well. That was one of the other choices that bugged
me was his earthbound parents. They made them into absolutely
stupid back words hicks. Yeah, I do, we have no
respect for the material. I suppose. But I'm gonna dare
say this going forward, this movie's probably gonna have trouble

(16:13):
legging out because this weekend Marvel maybe got something right.
We'll have to wait and see it. Still on the fence,
but they're Fantastic Four reboot comes out tonight. As a
matter of fact, prospects so far look pretty good.

Speaker 5 (16:32):
Yeah, I mean we talked about the one sheet. Looks fantastic,
and despite the actors trying to go fucking.

Speaker 4 (16:40):
Snow white hob Goblin on it it.

Speaker 5 (16:46):
I haven't seen anybody who's like, no, fuck it, I'm
not going to see this. I mean, people want it
to be good. They have been clamoring for a good
Fantastic Four. They haven't had one. They have one mediocre
series and then whatever the fuck tried to do.

Speaker 4 (17:02):
Yeah, that the Josh Trenk version of the Fantastic Four,
to this day mystifies me. And I think what's got
people excited is wanted. They're setting this in kind of
a timeless past, like sometime in the nineteen sixties. It
looks like Yeah, and the fact that it's Disney Marvel's

(17:27):
first crack at the Fantastic Four, I believe has people excited,
and the advanced critics got this peg that in the
high eighty percentile I think on Rotten tomatoes.

Speaker 5 (17:40):
Yeah, it's it's just that it's just that ninety percent
certified fresh right now.

Speaker 4 (17:45):
Oh, it actually went up okay, and advanced ticket sales
and it such. They're projecting this to pretty much do
Superman's number about one to one twenty yeah, and then
overseas it's almost gonna match. So they're looking at about
a two twenty to two forty range global open. Pretty good.

(18:07):
Pretty we'll see how that legs out. But it's also
going to kill Superman this weekend, I think.

Speaker 5 (18:12):
So, oh, it's going to crater it. I mean, is
even if if this is like the Captain America Brave
New World Bad, it's still going to take the momentum
Superman had away from it because all week it's as
Superman has still been trending the number one movie all week.

(18:33):
It's not doing Gangbuster members but the only thing against
it right now is F one, and that's going into
Imax I think next week.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
So yeah, yeah, we're kind of starting to hit that
normal summer blockbuster cycle where every week or two another
tent pole drops. Something major is coming into theaters and
it's delivering. So that's kind of encouraging to see. We
haven't had that in theaters in quite a while.

Speaker 5 (19:05):
No, that's just before COVID, And that's the thing everybody
forgot about COVID too. You don't have the time to
let your movie marinate like you used to anymore. I
mean you through COVID in the last couple of years,
you would have a good two to four week run,
sometimes a full month and a half before the next
summer blockbuster came out. And if you didn't feel the

(19:26):
air quotes I put on that, I was laying them
on pretty thick. But it's this year you don't have
that opportunity. I mean, F one two years ago that
would have had Oppenheimer numbers.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
M hm. Yeah. This is, you know, starting to become
the feeling of appointment viewing, which means people are gonna
throng to the theater and if they can't get in,
you know, like let's say it's sold out, well they'll
settle for the other one. And it's looking good overall,
rising tide and all that, so it'll be, uh, it'll
be a pretty even dogfight. I think going into August,

(20:04):
I'll have to keep an eye on these numbers. Well,
I've got some good news already. Finally, finally, I think
I'm pretty confident about this. There's still hesitancy on my side,
but I'm eighty percent there. This could be the last
time we discussed Paramountain Skydance merger taking place.

Speaker 5 (20:28):
Our long national nightmare.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
I'm pretty certain it is finally a done deal. I
think government approval finally came in and this long gestating
baby of a corporate merger.

Speaker 5 (20:50):
For those of you who have any attentions show, I
haven't heard the show before. You haven't listen in a
while for one reason or another. We have had to
talk about this goddamn fucking merger for two years.

Speaker 4 (21:03):
I mean, yeah, it is. It has gone through, and
it's like, yes, it's going to happen. We have said
that I think about five different times. Yeah, stockholders are
on it. Oh, in a second, there's this coming up.
Oh nope, they just pissed.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
Off Donald Trump, So why did you do that?

Speaker 4 (21:30):
But looks like government approval has come so these two
are now going to be conjoined and the red Stones
get their money and can walk away. Yes, we've done it. Now,
this was a funny aspect of it. A couple of
weeks ago, it was the settlement with Donald Trump that

(21:51):
had everybody upset. Yeah, he's bribing them. Oh they're having
a cow to him. Okay, fine, say what you want.
But the funny thing is coming out of the settlement was,
you know, Trump gets sixteen million and they had to
spend a ton of money doing some other stuff. CBS
News division came out with all kinds of denials. No, no,

(22:13):
we didn't capitulate at all. We don't have to apologize,
we don't have to make any changes on our side
of the screw him. Well News comes out today sorry
that Skydance and Paramount have made the announcement that they
are doing sweeping not just like a couple of small

(22:34):
changes here, sweeping changes and removal of DEI throughout the corporation,
both Paramount and sky Dance and CBS.

Speaker 5 (22:44):
Yes, sky Dance made it pretty clear that hey, we
never had any DEI programs before. Well, we're going to
review everything to make sure that we don't even have anything.
And there's a sky Dance themselves, not about CBS, Paramount
or any of the properties that they just aired, but
we're gonna make a sweeping audit to make sure that
we didn't even have anything that smells a DEI. And

(23:07):
not only is it gone at Paramount and the CBS,
but this was my favorite part is that part of
the deal. I don't know if this was a deal
with the the FCC or part of the deal with
the lawsuit, or if it's just sky Dance, because I
mean sky Dance, they haven't really been this left leaning

(23:29):
modelis like you know, most of the other big tech
companies anyway, they're going to have an on Budsman. So
if you know, it's guaranteed for two years that it
will carefully review any complaints regarding its news division.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
Right, this is uh, This is being set up so
that if anybody comes to them with complaints of bias
or partisan reporting or anything of that nature, this is
an independent third party who will then review and make
alterations as needed. Which is it used to these kind
of standard fair back in the day, This is not unknown.

(24:18):
A lot of local stations and such would do this.

Speaker 5 (24:22):
This was actually common practice. This was best methods that
a lot of news divisions did before advocacy journalism took
over the trade you know, Yeah, I'm just gonna have
chat GPT fart me out of boilerplate complaint for him

(24:48):
with an auto pin filling. I'm gonna be like filling
out blank a generic.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
Complaints already has gotten madlibs for CBS News and sixty minutes.
This is this is encouraging. But I like the way
that they said when they go through the corporate structure
now that they're going to be hiring based on merit
and not doing quotas affirmative action, and they're shutting down

(25:19):
any and all DEI compliance offices and wow, get this
revolutionary idea. Hiring practices will be moved to.

Speaker 5 (25:27):
HR divisions where they used to be.

Speaker 4 (25:32):
You mean, like every other company on the planet that
doesn't suck at the seat of DEI.

Speaker 5 (25:39):
If you know, everybody complains about DEDI, but a lot
of people don't understand that DI IT, by its very virtue,
made sure to position itself between the employees and HR.
They were what I'm looking for. They were a firewall.

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They were the gatekeepers on if you could actually file
a complaint, and they weighed everything. And also in hiring
they were they were the gatekeepers on hiring too. I'm sorry,
we just you're just not diverse enough.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
So yeah, they basically they acted like almost a lock
on a river, where you had to go through them
first before you could properly enter, and they had to
make sure you met their vetting standards before you can
get into the companies. Like, I'm sorry, I thought you
hired me on my skills. Oh, aren't you mistaken? Right?

Speaker 5 (26:37):
So yeah, like filing HR complaints too, is that? I
mean they would they would gatekeep HR complaints. So I'm sorry,
maybe you're just not being racially sensitive enough.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
Yeah, I mean, let's let's just try to pretend what
would happen if you were a white employee with a
black manager and you had a complaint mm hmm or.

Speaker 5 (27:02):
Problem, Yeah, you know, if you were the you know,
the white woman complaining about the black man or the
you know whatever.

Speaker 4 (27:12):
And yeah, well one of the offshoots of this whole
fiasco for the last couple of months blew up last week.
Stephen Colbert of The Late Show was recording I believe
it was last Thursday, and then announced to the audience,

(27:32):
we've received word that the network is going to cancel us. Oh,
sobs weeping, clutching of pearls. All of this took place.

Speaker 5 (27:41):
Branding of clothes, gnashing of teeth.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
Hair was ignited, probably in the audience in a futuairs.
I mean, it was that bad. And the part that
I loved was the media reaction immediately was this is
Donald Trump's fault. They first tried to say this was
because of the lawsuit Stephen Colbert had absolutely nothing to

(28:09):
do with that, like, no connective tissue whatsoever with Colbert Show.
So well, Trump went to them and said he wouldn't
approved the merger unless they fired him because he's making
fun of Donald Trump. And you can basically hear the
fistbeing banged.

Speaker 5 (28:28):
On desk as of doing is yeah, completely, And.

Speaker 4 (28:34):
This was then censorship. And if you can cancel a
comedian for telling jokes and our democracies at risk. I
have a copy of the Constitution here on my desk.
I didn't see that, right.

Speaker 5 (28:49):
Can you point where in the.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
I'm sorry, I mean television aside, I was one of.

Speaker 5 (28:56):
The powers of one of the Article two powers.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
You're required to have a comedian making fun of the
president is basically what they were saying a couple of
things about that.

Speaker 5 (29:09):
Okay, go ahead, Well.

Speaker 4 (29:12):
They didn't fire every comedian for starters. I mean, there's
plenty out there, and there's plenty of them making jokes
about Donald Trump. And as I know it, looking back,
Stephen Colbert has been doing this for roughly nine to
ten years, I mean making fun of Donald Trump, which
would predate this administration, which would involve his prior administration,

(29:36):
at which point in time he never silenced Stephen Colbert.
And I'm starting to ask questions now, is where are
you getting this? Where's this evidence that you want to
point to? Of course it doesn't exist. And then while
they're bleeding, screaming everything else, word came out that the

(29:57):
reason for the cancelation the numbers are absolutely batshit insane.
Colbert himself makes fifteen million a year. This show costs
one hundred million dollars to put on.

Speaker 5 (30:15):
Two hundred people work on the show, apparently none of
them are comedy writers.

Speaker 4 (30:21):
But I'm this comes out to be two million dollars
a week, like half a million an episode to put
that show on.

Speaker 5 (30:35):
Right.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
Well, here's my.

Speaker 5 (30:37):
Favorite thing about all of the drama too. One it
comes out, oh, you know, the CBS fired Colbert because
of you know what? Yeah, because of what he said
about CBS on Monday Night's show, and then it comes
out the agent's like, no, I knew about that back
in June, just Colbert was on vacation, so I didn't

(30:59):
want to run by letting him know he was getting sacked.
And two, they didn't fire Colbert, they canceled the show.
Huge difference because the show has existed longer than Colbert
has been on it. Just like Johnny Carson went from
Jack part to Johnny Tonight Show went from Jack part

(31:19):
of Johnny Carson to look to John Rivers for a
little bit, then to Jay Leno and so on and
so on and so on. I think Jimmy Fallon's doing
it now. So when you get rid of the show entirely,
that's not getting rid of somebody for talking about Trump
or talking about the parent company. Because David Letterman used

(31:41):
to talk about NBC all the time and General Electric
and General Electric, and when he didn't get the Tonight's
Show job and he went over and started his own
shit over on CBS, he talked about CBS there too,
So that's not it. The whole thing has been canceled.

(32:04):
And here's why, y'all let politics creep into a non
political space. Yeah, it was fun to make fun of politicians,
but Carson and Leno did it across the board. That's
why they had long, fruitful careers in this field.

Speaker 4 (32:21):
Well, the analysis of this is what's been cracking me
up to because I'm yes, I was out traveling on Monday.
We were at somebody else's house for a spell and
they had the view on, So I got subjected to
that hen's hornet's nest for a while and they were
making the artwork. This is a lie that they lost money.
They have. They lose forty million a year on this program. Yeah,

(32:43):
what the hell are you doing? And they're trying to say, now,
we looked at the numbers and these shows make money.
This show pulls in sixty dollars a year. Okay, And
just thirty seconds earlier, you said it takes one hundred
million to put it on. You want to do that
math there, honey, that's negative forty.

Speaker 5 (33:05):
So you have one, you have sixty, divide by one
hundred or subtract one hundred carry the four. You know
what Fox math is Sunday nights thing. We're not doing
that here.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
So but like my favorite of course, has been Brian Stelter,
who was just married to this idea that this is
all Trump's doing and insisting upon this and just insisting
the silencing and democracy at risk. And then they did
an interview with people inside CBS even gave them anonymity.

(33:44):
You can tell us what, we won't use your name,
tell us what it's all about. And you're like, oh, yeah,
it's it's the money. This show is losing the ship. Well,
just to close it out, Stelter said, Okay, I know
they said that, but there's still people out there talking
about this being censorship. And so it's like, Brian, you

(34:06):
got the information from an inside source. Go with the
facts here, dude. But he couldn't.

Speaker 5 (34:11):
Right, you're being told, you know, the calls coming from insight. Yeah, hey,
can we talk about Steltzer for a minute, and that
CNN making up to their lack of diversity in prime
time by having him go all soul man at the
beginning of the week.

Speaker 4 (34:28):
Did I miss something here?

Speaker 5 (34:30):
Oh yeah, vacation. I don't know if he came back
from vacation or what. But he looked like the chip
on a giant cookie.

Speaker 4 (34:41):
Wow, I mean he was Yeah, I don't want use
the guy by choice. And then again, like I was saying,
I was traveling and stuff. So my schedule was shot
the first two days this week, so.

Speaker 5 (34:52):
It was on some prime it was on some primetime panel.
So you know, it's like Jake Tapper was, it's just
you know, all the you know, CNN's so white in
prime time, and it was. They had four of them,
and they had Tater on the end, who looked like
a baked potato.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
Unskinned. Yeah. Yeah, now I have to seek out these photos.

Speaker 5 (35:17):
They were like Robert Downey Junior and Tropic Hutner. No,
I'm not kidding. He was that dark Thomas Hollins small man,
Robert Downey, he was that dark. I have in comment
and I said, I'm proud of us CINNA addressing their
diversity from in primetime.

Speaker 4 (35:36):
Well that's it's been a tough go for him because
the facts are just ruining his narrative that he had
written three days prior. It really is this blatant that
they're insisting. They are just pounding this and like you said,
his agent had come out and said, well no, they

(35:57):
gave us notification of this in June. That's kind of
key because that predated the settlement.

Speaker 5 (36:05):
Yeah, and that predated the completion of the Uh, the
sale that just happened today, well allegedly happened today. So yeah,
I you know, what's what I'm loving is.

Speaker 4 (36:19):
That you cannot find any tangible evidence that he's connected
that one bit. It's just I mean, you.

Speaker 5 (36:27):
Want to talk about the sixteen million dollars lawsuit. They
forget that Trump wanted sixteen billion for the Kamala on
the sixteen minutes thing. So for him to walk with
sixteen million, that's not bribery, that's that's that's a fucking
tax break, is what that is.

Speaker 4 (36:45):
Well, we have one other bit of breaking news of
sorts that will not just torpedo this entire narrative, but
blasted into confetti.

Speaker 5 (36:56):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (36:58):
Just got word that South Park creators have renegotiated a
contract and they are now going to stay on and
produce the show to the tune of one point five
billion dollars.

Speaker 5 (37:16):
Yes, for a five year contract.

Speaker 4 (37:19):
That is absolute. That is just out of control. And
here is the lynchpin detail in this little story. The
contract they signed is with paramount.

Speaker 5 (37:38):
Right, Yeah, this is for paramount plus.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
If this is significant, why because South Park happens to
be slightly to vary too extremely more provocative than Stephen
Colbert has ever been.

Speaker 5 (37:57):
Right, just there, there's season twenty seven premiere last night.
Redid the whole bit of Saddam and Satan in Bed
with Trump, but made a big deal about Trump's tiny
dick the whole episode. They made a fake PSA commercial

(38:17):
on a website with a Trump impersonator walking through the
desert taking his clothes off, saying, you know, having an
extraordinary tiny dick and saying small dick, but cares for you,
lar or something along those lines. So, yeah, talk a
shit about Trump, ain't it.

Speaker 4 (38:35):
I As soon as that deal went through, I went
right to Brian Stelter's load thread and just said, a
Brian here to explain, I'm sorry, Donald Trump in bed
with Satan seems a little more provocative than Stephen Colbert
dancing with syringes.

Speaker 5 (38:53):
And yeah, that whole vaccine thing, you know, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (38:59):
And that's just.

Speaker 5 (39:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:01):
The bottom line of all of it is, if you
are successful, you'll get rewarded for it, not punished for
what you're saying. People want to see South Park and
Stephen Colbert is about clapter and that is saying something incisive,
not insightful about Trump, and then the audience goes, yeah, Mike,

(39:24):
he agrees with me. Oh, wait to go, Stephen. It's
not genuine laughter, it's not satire, it's not parody. It's pathetic.
And that's all this show.

Speaker 5 (39:36):
And that's the thing. When did you ever go to
a taping of like Carson or Leno or anything, or
any live studio audience taping.

Speaker 4 (39:44):
On a very small degree nothing national.

Speaker 5 (39:47):
Local, Okay, yeah, because I saw okay, so I when
I was a kid, I got taken to Morgan Mindy.
So the applause when like Jonathan Winters came on the set, yes,
there was an applause like for that, And they would
have a comedian before the show was being taped so
they could record a laugh track in case the show bombed.

(40:10):
But the point of or you know, in case of
joke bomb, you know, they would at least have a
different laugh track every for each episode. So but the
point being is that the idea behind late night television
you're supposed to get laughs, not applause, the applauses for
when the guests comes out. The laughs is for generally
fun genuinely funny content that's you know, not what you're

(40:36):
that's not what they're doing. I rarely watch late night
television anymore. I can finish the sentence there, but I'm
going to continue it with where it's it's laughter not applause.
And that's even on Saturday Night Live. You don't hear
a lot of laughter. You hear a lot of applause
oooh yeah a slave queen, but you don't hear a
lot of laughter.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
Yeah. Back in Johnny Carson's day too, it was actually
funny sometimes when his jokes didn't land. And yeah, he
got into the practice of making fun of himself when
he failed at a joke or he would, you know,
turn to somebody on the side. It's like, well, that's
a writer's room that's going to catch fire or something.
And then actually laughter would follow. And now audiences support

(41:20):
when a host bombs, so if he says something that's
genuinely not funny, they'll actually applaud instead of laugh, right.

Speaker 5 (41:30):
And that's I mean, yeah, I did. I was doing
a thing with GPT the other day because I wanted
to prove a point and I was a little bit
off with it. But what really surprised when was that
Colbert had a stand up career because I wanted to
prove that stand up comedians had a longer and better
run on late night television. Those who had their chops
stand up or vaudeville, you know, like Carson was in Vaudevillain.

(41:52):
So those who had their chops for years before getting
there lasted longer and did better. And you know, it's
like you know, and I said, comedy writers don't count.
I don't care if they were in the script room
for SNL or anything that's not you know. And like
I said, this is where I was surprised at Colbert did,
because uh, Kimmel didn't. And you can see that every

(42:15):
bit on his show.

Speaker 4 (42:16):
M hm.

Speaker 5 (42:18):
Kimmel had no I mean, yeah, he had a show
on Comedy Central, but he had no stand up career
prior to any of it. And you can tell when
he bombs because he gets mad.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
Yeah, And I mean it was kind of the same
with Conan because he came out of the Simpsons writers room, and.

Speaker 5 (42:37):
Yeah, he also had a stand up career too.

Speaker 4 (42:40):
Did you know? Okay, because like anytime he would bomb,
he would just like start aping and doing stuff, you know,
pantomime and things of this nature that were just kind
of goofy to get through it. That was kind of
his safety net, you know.

Speaker 5 (42:53):
He came up with Seinfeld. I remember seeing him on
the evening at the Improv back in the day on
any before came the Law and Order Network.

Speaker 4 (43:00):
Yeah, because when they gave him a talk show, I
remember like a lot of people are like, wait, who
is this guy? What are they doing this for? He
was like, well, he used to be a writer. He
was on the Simpsons, he was on this program, and
they're like, oh, okay, well I guess that counts. Yeah.
But it's it's remarkable that the level of defense that
has gone up for Colbert, because this tells you strictly

(43:23):
that he was purely of the left for the left.
I mean, I think it was I think it's the
account knee on Taster. I think it was him. He
put out a list of all the politicians he had
on his show in the last year, roughly twenty. Every
single one a Democrat.

Speaker 5 (43:45):
I'm my gob has been smacked.

Speaker 4 (43:49):
Yeah, and he'll have journalists on frequently, all of them
on the left.

Speaker 5 (43:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (43:57):
He had Madow, he had Caitlin Collin, he had MSNBC
folks frequently and he was just one of theirs.

Speaker 5 (44:08):
So for I bet, I bet Canton Collins cleans up nice.
I mean you know that she's like the head of
Scott Pressler.

Speaker 4 (44:17):
Now, actually it was. She had a big point of
embarrassment when she was on the show too, like everybody
was mine. They said something they thought was normal and
the she said, you know, because CNN is unbiased. I
think Colbert said that and the audience, his own audience
reacted to that and they were like oh, and then
she looked, She's like what what And like Stephen Colbert's

(44:39):
audience knew he was full of shit when he said
CNN is down the middle. Yeah, explaining so damn much
right there, right, and it's canceling again. He wasn't fired.
That's the other thing. You like, you said, they canceled
the show. But he's finishing his contract. It's not like
you're that's it, You're gone, see escape end of the week,

(45:00):
clean out your desk. No, he's going to be on
for another ten months.

Speaker 5 (45:04):
Yeah, the show goes into twenty twenty six. He just
came off Hyat, just came off vacation.

Speaker 4 (45:08):
So yeah, so they said, basically we're not renewing the
contract and we're in program see.

Speaker 5 (45:16):
And you know what's funny, though, is that this is
only going to make everybody who's all fucking losing their
shit about this even look worse because they're making it
sound like Colbert is off the air today, like there
won't be a Cobert next week. So that's going to
feed that's going to fall into a feedback back loop
where his ratings are going to plummet because everybody thinks
the show has been canceled. I mean, everybody thinks that

(45:38):
he's been fired.

Speaker 4 (45:41):
So and then, just to undermine the hollowness of their arguments.
Over at Comedy Central, John Stewart reacted to the firing
quote unquote, he put on a big literal song and
dance number. He started rapping and swearing at Donald Trump.

(46:02):
He had a black chorus behind him wearing robes and everything.
Nothing racist there, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (46:09):
You know he was. He was doing Southern Baptist preacher.
And the only thing that would have made it more
cringe is if he actually did it in blackface.

Speaker 4 (46:20):
Close, king close. But you know he's doing all this
and he's swearing at Donald Trump, and he's carrying on
and again undermined the argument because just before that he
was pointing out that I work here at Comedy Central,
which is owned by CBS. A few Donald Trump, Okay,
you're not getting fired John, You see, now that's not

(46:42):
the issue. Then you're undermining your own argument during your
little minstrel show. But that's the thing is, none of
this is rooted in logic and common sense. It's all
the emotion. You can't do that to us. We're on
their side, eh, I just all I got to do

(47:03):
is South Park one point five billion. Trump is sleeping
with Satan. These guys are retired for three lifetimes. Yeah,
it's amazing what they miss. Well, what do you think
we all take a break here?

Speaker 5 (47:20):
Yeah, we got the producer back, so let's go ahead
and uh take a break here and then come back
with uh because.

Speaker 4 (47:26):
We've got a lot and we got a lot to
get for. Why don't we do that. We'll reload and
everybody hit the lobby, go get your popcorn topped off
and get some more so than beer, and we will
be back here in about three minutes. On the cultures.

Speaker 6 (48:18):
The time locking the given, Okay, give it a.

Speaker 5 (50:23):
In the.

Speaker 4 (51:03):
Hey, welcome back. To the culture shift. I was just
corrected actually in our logo jab but we're gonna be
paying some rip in just a few moments here.

Speaker 5 (51:19):
Well, we got a three quick on that didn't we
why That's also good.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
But the whole reason I wanted to call a break
here is we've got another involved topic of sorts, and
it was one that has been long in the works
as well. But after months of debate and after generations
of battle over this, the Recession Bill was finally passed
last week, signed into law, and funding for public broadcasting

(51:52):
has been severed. I gotta say, I just never thought
I would ever see this happen.

Speaker 5 (51:58):
No, it's only been as long as I've been paying
attention to politics and want wait, we pay for this?
Why are they asking money for me? Every time there
is a doctor who marathon?

Speaker 4 (52:11):
I I'm just kind of curious is how many tote
bags can there possibly be in the world and how
much of a need for them is there?

Speaker 5 (52:19):
Well? At least three hundred and twenty five million. Now
the uh, nobody's brought up in this. Everybody's talking about
Sesame Street, you know, and that PBS hasn't had like
ten years. But where are people going to get tote
bags from exactly, and that did they see If you

(52:40):
wanted to have a legitimate argument, there's your argument.

Speaker 4 (52:45):
All of the tote bag manufacturers that are going to
be put out of work, Now, why didn't we use
that one? Damn it. But this has been just a
wealth of comedy for me over the last few years
because I've watched as the the begging and the pleas
for this funding to continue have shifted constantly. So they

(53:09):
used to come out and say, it's not a big deal.
I mean, federal funds only comprise two percent of our
budget at NBR, and you don't need it. What do
you bitching about. Then have one more fundraiser weekend or
something and you've probably cover that right if it's so meager.
But of course what they don't want to tell you

(53:31):
is that that's that's their direct budget from federal funding.
The bulk of it comes from all of the regional
stations that have to pay for their programming goes to NBR.
So for them to play Car Talk or Morning Edition
and all these other shows, they have to pony up

(53:53):
a licensing fee. Well that totals out to about thirty
five percent of their budget and that's why they're so much.

Speaker 5 (54:03):
And then for like PBS, you have a whole bunch
of right generous grants from Archer Daniels, Midland, the Chub Group,
the Chub Group, all of whom, when you get right
down to it, if you trace it pretty far enough back,

(54:23):
they're all military defense contractors.

Speaker 4 (54:27):
Which means tax right off.

Speaker 5 (54:29):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 4 (54:30):
They don't. They don't really care about BBS so much
as they do. But cutting down their.

Speaker 5 (54:37):
Oh fuck, PBS has their hand out again selling a
thirty five.

Speaker 4 (54:42):
And yeah, they they had to. It took them a while,
but they finally walked away from that argument because they realized,
oh crap, we're inspiring people to go look at our
finances gulp. So they did the normal fallback. Of course,
Republicans want to kill big Bird. Republicans want get rid
of it. I saw one Democrat asshole, I don't know,

(55:03):
a few months ago we talked about is it because
Elmo's read and read as Communist and that's why the
Republicans hate Elmo so much?

Speaker 5 (55:12):
No, it's because he's an anti Semitic, racist, shit bag dummy.

Speaker 4 (55:18):
And they kept trotting this out and to this day
this week, I was still seeing news outlets saying this, Oh,
they're trying to kill Sessam Street and kids can't learn,
and they're canceling Arthur some Democrat this morning I have like,
all right, I'm going to spell it out for you.
Arthur stopped production three years ago, so that's a non starter.

(55:39):
And they haven't had Sesame Street in housing close to
a decade. It's been over at Warner's HBO Max all
this time, and they just auctioned it off to Netflix,
where it's now gonna sit. Yeah, so no putting you
off ain't killing big bird at my point.

Speaker 5 (55:58):
I mean, I mean, yeah, Ken Burns's hardest hit, but
he'll do fine.

Speaker 4 (56:06):
So they had to then three or four months come
up with a brand new talking point, you can't get
rid of us. What are the rural people going to
listen to?

Speaker 5 (56:17):
Yeah, how are they going to get their news and
their weather?

Speaker 4 (56:20):
They actually claim that people in the hinterlands of America
are not serviced by any other media and therefore have
to rely on PBS and NPR, and if bad weather comes,
they're not going to get their emergency alerts. So you
need to fund us or people will die.

Speaker 5 (56:39):
Some people never die. Yeah, this is just okay. So
all of a sudden, Democrats care about poor rural whites
because this argument works so well in the election of
black people. Minorities have trouble getting on the internet.

Speaker 4 (57:02):
I have a I have another term for them to
use to describe the rural outback areas of America, and
that would be maga country.

Speaker 5 (57:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (57:14):
In other words, these are people you all make fun
of on the regular as being inbred, uneducated, too stupid
to gather politics, too dumb to read. But now you
are there, saving grace is what you're trying to tell me.

Speaker 5 (57:32):
No, I'm in an area that you cannot get hammer radio.
You cannot get broadcasts. You only serviced by satellite or
the internet.

Speaker 4 (57:45):
And your station.

Speaker 5 (57:49):
I'm told that's station my nearest one I can't get
because there's a fourteen thousand foot peak between me and it.
The other one I can get is in Reno, and
that's a different NWS, So I'm not getting my weather
from NPR.

Speaker 4 (58:11):
Yeah, and here's an interesting nugget that I covered about
a week or so ago. As they are, I mean
beating this drum hard. We have to save lives. You
have to preserve us well by cutting NPR and PBS.
They are not cutting NOAH. They're not cutting the Weather

(58:33):
service broadcasts that are still operational. Here's something for you
to just mull over a little bit. You can go
to the store and buy a weather radio for about
ten bucks and you're going to pick up NOAH broadcasts,
including up to moment weather alerts.

Speaker 5 (58:52):
I mean, if you really want to spend the money,
you can get a sea crane radio with a hand
crank on it, and you can get AMFM, shortwave and weather.

Speaker 4 (58:59):
So yeah, but a.

Speaker 5 (59:02):
Little cheaper than your cable would cost.

Speaker 4 (59:04):
To get your one time radio purchase would be lower
than your monthly donation required of your NPR at PBS stations.
But this came up as a result of the recent
tragedy in Texas. That would be the flash flooding that
took place. Sure the regional NPR radio station, they timeline

(59:30):
this when the first flood warnings went out. We got
severe weather alert and flood warnings. About four hours elapsed,
and then NPR put out a notice. Wasn't a weather notice, however,
it was warning the federal government is going to pull
our money. We need you to call your congressman and
tell them to keep paying us. That was like about

(59:53):
eleven am.

Speaker 5 (59:55):
Oh, sweet merciful crap.

Speaker 4 (59:57):
Throughout the day, other warnings came out, you know, flash warning,
be an alert, yetta. Still nothing from NPR. One o'clock
in the morning. That's when the flash flood warning were
really hitting. And then had a flash flood and in
four am it became a flash flood emergency alert went out.

(01:00:18):
This local radio station was playing fresh air at four
am to seven am.

Speaker 5 (01:00:24):
Yeah, because it's not like they've gotten live content with
that they're breaking into. These are all like you talked
about before, All these shows have to pay for their licensing.

Speaker 4 (01:00:33):
So they're playing national broadcast locally during a flash.

Speaker 5 (01:00:40):
They're not going to break in unless they're absolutely sure,
which at this point they should have been absolutely sure.
But the intern just flipped the switch and went back
to sleep.

Speaker 4 (01:00:54):
Now, I mean, you could make an argument, well, it
was the fourth of July. They probably had a skeleton crew.
They probably didn't you know, there might have been pre
programmed something like that. Okay, fine, but you were still
defying your need for emergency weather coverage for locals. You
didn't do it when they needed it. I think it was.

(01:01:15):
They determined the first time they made notice of the
flooding was nineteen hours after the first alert went out
and talked about the damage, and people had died already
at that point. So you will relying on NPR everybody else.

Speaker 5 (01:01:32):
Yeah, yeah, you're better off with an internet. You're better
off with an Internet connection and Twitter, pretty much. I'm serious,
I knew, yeah. So, And here's the thing too, everybody
has a cell phone. Now, I don't care how shitty
your reception is, because I've been in some pretty fucking

(01:01:54):
remote areas when there has been an amber alert, an
earthquake alert. Which how cool is that we live in
an age where you will get an earthquake alert on
your phone. I mean, yeah, it's a few seconds before
it's too early to do, you know, before you can
do anything about it. But still, you're getting an earthquake
alert before you feel the earthquake. How cool is that?

(01:02:17):
Flash floods I have been they still there is a
signal carrier that will get the message to the phone,
unless you are in the most dead of dead areas.
Like I said, I've gotten these out in the deep
desert where I couldn't make a call. I couldn't make
a text, but I've still got an emergency alert.

Speaker 4 (01:02:43):
It's yeah. I have a hard time thinking that there's
anybody out there relying on NPR or PBS for their
tornado warnings or something. It just it doesn't make sense
to me.

Speaker 5 (01:02:57):
I haven't betten who on ABS since they stopped showing
og doctor Who.

Speaker 4 (01:03:03):
Yes, I don't. I don't think I've ever used the
term relied on. When it came to PBS, it was like, oh,
there you twelve o'clock on a Friday, red Dwarf for
black Adder. But I wasn't like, you know, life depended
on it. It was more like, I'm too drunk to sleep,

(01:03:24):
put something on and entertain me. Hey black Adder, and.

Speaker 5 (01:03:27):
There you go Stone home from the bar at two am,
make yourself a cased and watch some red green.

Speaker 4 (01:03:35):
Exactly. I mean, it's not musty television is Oh hell,
that's on television. There you go. So yeah, this has
been Indian. Yeah, this has been a somber week for
our public broadcasters, and we now will wait to see
what will what will come of them going forward. And

(01:03:59):
this didn't help their cause at all. Last week ELMO
went full scale fascist.

Speaker 5 (01:04:11):
Yeah, if you're not on social media often and you
missed it, somebody hacked Almo's account and solved the Jewish problem.

Speaker 4 (01:04:24):
Yeah. Well, the part I loved about this was how
casual everybody took it like and not like, oh finally
Omo agrees with me. No, people looked at this and
was like, oh hell, they got hacked. This is funny,
and they just went on. It wasn't nobody was like,

(01:04:46):
oh my gosh, what is Almo saying? It was people like, well,
they got him, this is gonna be fun.

Speaker 5 (01:04:54):
They got Almo, the bastards.

Speaker 4 (01:04:57):
Yeah, and so yeah, then they cleaned that up and
the account went dark for a while, and then he
came back with his you know, happy happy joy joy
post to try to clean up, but it was too late.
Damage done. That was uh, that was hilarious and a
nice little coda to their defunding trauma. Well, I seem

(01:05:21):
to recall, wasn't it in twenty twenty three when we
went through like a rash of celebrity deaths and everybody
was like, holy hell. I mean it was like a
kind of a dark punchline. It was like, when is
twenty three gonna end? Before we lose this one or
that one.

Speaker 5 (01:05:37):
Yeah, yeah, you like Betty White and fucking yeah. It was.

Speaker 4 (01:05:40):
It was brutal. I mean it was like every other
week we'd lose somebody else significant, and it was everybody
was just like twenty three. It's the year. Damn it.
We're going through another space of that holy hell. I
mean in the last two weeks, in the last two days,
but I mean it began about a week or so ago.

(01:06:01):
Or Julian McMahon. You may not know him by name,
but if you ever saw Charmed, then I son of
a Bitch. I've seen it plays in this house frequently.
He was a prominent character demon. He was also on Niptok,
very big on that. I know him from the movie Bait, which,

(01:06:22):
if you don't know that one by name, is probably
the most successful shark in a grocery store movie that
you're ever gonna see.

Speaker 5 (01:06:34):
That the most successful because there were lesser successful.

Speaker 4 (01:06:38):
Ones, yes, but we won't mention them. We don't want
to sell you the good name of mister McMahon. But
he he kind of kicked things off by kicking off,
and then it has just been like the last week,
it's been a cavalcade then we found out THEO from

(01:06:59):
the Cosmmey Shit died Costa Rica got carried out to
sea on a riptide and drowned. Yeah, just this afternoon,
Hulk Hogan probably the biggest name in wrestling in quite
a while today. And you heard our outro music at
the break there, Chuck Mangioni he famed as I've been corrected,

(01:07:21):
Fugal hornised that is that the right one?

Speaker 5 (01:07:25):
Okay, that's it?

Speaker 4 (01:07:26):
Yeah, and this one was kind of a big, big
gut punch to a lot of people. What was it?
Just it was just a week or two ago we
had Black Sabbath put on their fail Royal Tour concert
right as he pretty much performed if you could say
that from a throne chair and never got up. Didn't
sound all that great, and now we know why because

(01:07:48):
he just passed away.

Speaker 5 (01:07:50):
Yeah, two days ago.

Speaker 4 (01:07:52):
Lead singer and solo artists such as he is.

Speaker 5 (01:07:56):
M hm.

Speaker 4 (01:07:58):
So it's been, uh, it's been kind of dire.

Speaker 5 (01:08:01):
Yeah, it's rapid fire, it's.

Speaker 4 (01:08:05):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:08:06):
And was it earlier this year we lost Dolly too?
Or was that last year.

Speaker 4 (01:08:12):
Dolly?

Speaker 5 (01:08:13):
Dolly Parton.

Speaker 4 (01:08:16):
Didn't know we lost her. Yeah, Oh, where have I been?

Speaker 5 (01:08:23):
I don't know, man, I mean, this is what you
do entertainment, so I know, but.

Speaker 4 (01:08:27):
I don't usually do the like celebrity gossip stuff. So
that's that's me.

Speaker 5 (01:08:31):
Yeah, no, I know, I know we don't do that
we generally. But yeah, it's been a spade for sure.
And I'm oh, it was her husband the past. Oh okay,
my bad, Okay, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:08:41):
Now, seeing you made me feel like inadequate and all
this stuff and you were the problem the whole time.

Speaker 5 (01:08:46):
Yeah, okay, so we need to protect Dolly at all costs.
She is the new Betty White.

Speaker 4 (01:08:52):
Yeah, exactly. We're we're in the repeat of twenty twenty
three here, gasp.

Speaker 5 (01:08:57):
Going going back to the NPR thing real quick. I
gotta give props for it's to you. I didn't get
to see the full context of the story, but they
were talking about how donations have increased due to the
cut and funding, and I saw Aggie's reply of, well, gee,
didn't we tell you to do that all alone?

Speaker 4 (01:09:15):
So yeah, yep, that's my girl staying on top of
things like she does good stuff. Yes, but that is
exactly it.

Speaker 6 (01:09:25):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:09:25):
I hit some other guy today. I think it was
said that, oh, you people have done it now because
you're gonna pull their funding, They're just gonna go further
to the left. I didn't know it was left and
mal Well, that means I'm going to turn to the
right and see if they come over the horizon because
there's not a lot of room over there. And secondly,

(01:09:46):
we're not complaining about them having that content. It's having
to pay for that content that was the problem is.

Speaker 5 (01:09:54):
I mean, it worked so well for America's voice. What
could go wrong?

Speaker 4 (01:10:00):
Yeah? I mean, if you want to go and do that, fine,
you don't need my money to do it. Go do
your own thing. I think you're talking about Air America.

Speaker 5 (01:10:06):
Are you America?

Speaker 4 (01:10:08):
Yeah? That was just man. I love that so much.
This is like the al Gore inspired answer to Rush Limbaugh.

Speaker 5 (01:10:19):
Didn't he buy like a chunk of Al Jazeera to
do that too?

Speaker 7 (01:10:26):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:10:26):
I think there was some kind of connective tissue there,
Like you brought up a number of their stations. I
think like they had forty stations or so when he
took like twenty off their hands or something like that. Right, Yeah,
But this was the thing with Air America. It was
a prefab network, so it wasn't like they had a
couple issues. We're gonna go after one ball, and instead

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they built the entire network up from donations basically have Democrats,
and then they bought stations across the markets in the
country so they could broadcast start to finish, and we're
gonna go after him this way, and you know, like
John Fielgel saying, and just a whole bunch of leftists

(01:11:12):
and comedians and stuff, we're doing this sort of thing.
What cracked me up is in New York City, of
all places, one of the most leftist towns in America,
they bought a Caribbean music station that was sitting at
like number twenty two in the ratings, bought them out,
took them, over played their America, and they went down

(01:11:35):
in the ratings.

Speaker 5 (01:11:37):
Hey, you know, don't do not underestimate the power of
Caribbean music.

Speaker 4 (01:11:44):
Hey man, I love it.

Speaker 5 (01:11:45):
Still drums and collipse goes a long way, my friend.

Speaker 4 (01:11:49):
That's my teing mon move bit.

Speaker 5 (01:11:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:11:51):
But yeah, the fact that they couldn't improve on a
Caribbean station in New York City with Air America is
what just slaid me. So this lasted about two for
years before they ran out of money and went completely
broke because nobody wanted to listen to them. That's the
same thing, the same thing as Colbert's. You go out
there out of the gate intentionally making leftist fair and

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they don't show up. That's the I don't get it.
They don't.

Speaker 5 (01:12:18):
Which is what gets me is every every time they
take an I P and they want to change it
to oh, you know, we're just giving the fans what
they want. No, you're not. Nobody's paying attention to you.

Speaker 4 (01:12:28):
Well, no, you're taking from other fans to get your way.
When you do this, when when they actually go out
and make their own what happens Madam Webb.

Speaker 5 (01:12:39):
Yeah, she Hulk, yes, or the Micael or the Marvels.

Speaker 4 (01:12:46):
Yeah, then and they don't.

Speaker 5 (01:12:50):
The Force is female and it's lesbian space witches because
that just crushed it count women.

Speaker 4 (01:12:57):
But just to put a closing on it, would I
absolutely love this. There were people complaining yesterday because they
found out that Ozzie actually supported Israel and would do
concerts over there. Yeah, he supports Zionists. Screw that guy,

(01:13:22):
all right, I have a question. You're sure you're you're
cool with him supporting Satan but putting on a concert
in Jerusalem that tears it for you.

Speaker 5 (01:13:37):
Yeah, I mean by the transit of property. Isn't he
bringing Satanism to Israel? Wouldn't you applaud that?

Speaker 4 (01:13:47):
Yeah, I mean he's kind of proselytizing for Lucifer there
would wouldn't you be in favor of that? Yeah? It's
I mean, no, I'm fine with the devil, but as
soon as he supports the Jews, I'm out of here. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:14:01):
I mean, if anything, you know, if anything, he was
a pilgrim's.

Speaker 4 (01:14:09):
Knock on your door. I wanted to talk about my
want some teeth, come and stick down. Let me listen
to your inmphlets.

Speaker 5 (01:14:20):
Yes, you know, to subscribe to your news.

Speaker 4 (01:14:24):
People just don't operate.

Speaker 8 (01:14:31):
Well, I'm coming to the conclusion that every force, the media, well,
hang on, I've come to a conclusion that everybody, except
for the media and the terminally online and awfuls, we
all live.

Speaker 5 (01:14:45):
In a world with in a universe that causality exists.
They are completely into causality.

Speaker 4 (01:14:54):
Yes, causality and accountability. They're just this, this crap doesn't exist.

Speaker 5 (01:15:00):
It just doesn't operate in everything a vacuum.

Speaker 4 (01:15:05):
And then when it actually visits upon them. They're oppressed
and offended. Yeah, what do you mean I have to
pay for my actions? What did this start?

Speaker 5 (01:15:17):
So they were talking about Yeah, while we're talking about Brits.

Speaker 4 (01:15:26):
That was your segue. I was going to go with,
speaking of deaths, one show that's dying on the vine.

Speaker 5 (01:15:32):
Well, look at this, we got to chew for for it.

Speaker 4 (01:15:35):
We are see what happens when we both study Latin.

Speaker 5 (01:15:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:15:40):
Well, because we're America and we foisted off the shackles
of royalty decades ago, and in fact, just a few
weeks ago we had people out there protesting against no kings.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 4 (01:16:00):
For some damn reason, we still have to deal with
the Duke and Duchess from brut Sussex. Yeah, I'm see.
I'm confused because I thought she wanted out of this
royalty trap, and yet she still retains the title.

Speaker 5 (01:16:17):
Not only she retained the title, but she uh she
low key always goes do you know who I am?
Kind of thing with it?

Speaker 4 (01:16:26):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 5 (01:16:27):
I've you know, we've renounced, but still I am technically
the Dutchess of Sosses.

Speaker 4 (01:16:34):
I mean, I hate royalty, but I'm still a drama
queen God, so what are you? Yeah, we're talking about
of course, Prince Hank and his wife Megan. This is
about as grifting a couple as you're gonna get, maybe
short of the Obamas themselves, but just you.

Speaker 5 (01:16:57):
Know, every time I look at who he was before her,
and then I look at who he is now, I
just have to remind myself And no pussy is that platinum.
I mean unless it has the kung fu grip and
a mouth too, nothing is worth all of this.

Speaker 4 (01:17:19):
Yeah, this is a case where I always get called
back to that episode of Cheers when Nick Tortelly came
on and found out Sam was screwing with him by
going after Carla just to make him Sam I thought
she was cool. Same thing with Hank. He he was
in the military, he played sports. He was a badass
almost even though he was a ginger. It's like, way

(01:17:39):
to go, man, you're rising above it. Wait to do it?

Speaker 5 (01:17:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:17:42):
Yeah, And now he's more whipped than his polo pony
just meager as it gets, and he's a custard crem Verleigh.
I saw her second episode wi she Yeah, these two
have just been they forced me them on them news

(01:18:06):
cycle all the time.

Speaker 5 (01:18:07):
We just want to be left alone. So we're gonna
do another series on Netflix.

Speaker 4 (01:18:11):
I think the one that cracked me up the most
was somebody thought it was Banner headline Superport. Why Megan
and Henry were not at the super Bowl. You're reporting
on something that did not occur with them. It's yes,

(01:18:32):
what audience are you feeding at this point? Seriously?

Speaker 5 (01:18:35):
But I mean there's a section I get, I do get,
you know, the people who are really into the royal family.

Speaker 4 (01:18:46):
I get, I do.

Speaker 5 (01:18:47):
I understand it.

Speaker 4 (01:18:49):
Oh no, I know that it is going to be
one of my co hosts is that way.

Speaker 5 (01:18:52):
But I was gonna be nice and not mention it.
But you know, you know, I was speaking in broad
terms abroad.

Speaker 4 (01:19:01):
I'm gonna tell.

Speaker 5 (01:19:04):
She's in the chat. She'll chankle me through the chat.

Speaker 4 (01:19:09):
But I just.

Speaker 5 (01:19:12):
These two, well, what at least at least Die had
some class and she tried to do some good. These
are just two of the most insufferable, spoiled, fucking entitled
twats I have ever encountered in my life. Off from Twitter.

Speaker 4 (01:19:34):
I mean, I get that there are people that have
some vested interest in them, you know, for who they
are in their celebrities like people magazines caters to this great. Okay,
there is a subset that cares. This is not a
lucrative market, however, and it has proven out by the
fact that this couple has engaged in a number of busines,

(01:20:00):
entities and have almost systematically failed at all of them.
They got they signed a contract on Spotify for podcasting,
got a huge sum. I don't think it was up front,
but it was, you know, got fifty million for their
show for a couple. She produced twelve episodes I think
before she lost interest. Yeah, she's already had a program

(01:20:23):
on Netflix that didn't go anywhere. She had a children's
program slated on Netflix that was canceled before it showed.
He's got his invictis games that everybody reports on it.
I don't think anybody ever watches. It's like I hear
about it, like, oh, the Victors games went off? Cool?
The hell is that?

Speaker 5 (01:20:45):
And it's they constantly because I don't get.

Speaker 4 (01:20:50):
The little side note. The other day, we're at the
bar and the show was on, and you know where,
the place has like thirty televisions for every baseball game
as such, one back television head on the PFC, and
I made them put it on the main screen with
the sound up Pillow Fight Championships nice, and everybody's like,

(01:21:15):
are you kidding? Is this a real thing? And then
the third bout comes up and it was a guy
from like one town over.

Speaker 5 (01:21:25):
Did they do the finish hobby horses on the O Show?

Speaker 6 (01:21:29):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:21:29):
No, they I've seen slippery Stairs, Kickball, of course, freestyle Pogo,
my favorite which is slippery stairs. You have to basically
go up three flights of plastic stairs while they're pouring
soap on it and throwing beach balls at you.

Speaker 5 (01:21:46):
That's fantastic.

Speaker 4 (01:21:48):
And if the lead guy slips and comes down, he
takes out the entire field and they have to start again.
That's magnificence, you.

Speaker 5 (01:21:55):
Know what I'm subscribing.

Speaker 4 (01:21:58):
They've had the cow chip throwing company Titian I think
years ago.

Speaker 5 (01:22:04):
Scottish games are on too, at least they used to be.

Speaker 4 (01:22:08):
But yeah, I mean this is actually getting more publicity
than his Invictus Games, which is some sort of battle competition. Okay,
I'm reaching here, I'm sure could be what are you sorry?
The Yeah, the whole reason we bring this up is

(01:22:29):
that Megan has her own line of goods that are
out there. She's trying to fashion herself into the home
goods high end market, but she wants to be the
next Martha Stewart.

Speaker 5 (01:22:45):
I thought she was going for the the British Gwyneth Paltrow.

Speaker 4 (01:22:51):
Not quite there.

Speaker 5 (01:22:53):
Does not have Vagina candles.

Speaker 4 (01:22:55):
No, No, she didn't sold out by the way, she
hasn't gone that far off arection.

Speaker 5 (01:23:01):
Yeah, something I would want. No, it's not something I
would want, Okay, just.

Speaker 4 (01:23:07):
I would love to have company over while you're burning
a Gwyneth Vagina candle and have somebody like, I know
this Aroma. Where do I know this sent from? It's like, Tom,
you might want to ask your wife some questions, all.

Speaker 5 (01:23:22):
Right, Yeah I feel yeah, yeah, that's you know, just
put a part as the fleshlight kit.

Speaker 4 (01:23:32):
But she's she's trying to do this high end home goods.
Like she was selling a jam that was supposedly locally
sourced and produced by her, and then they found out
some farm was mass producing it like three hundred miles away,
like sticking a doily on the cap and then calling
it hers. This kind of crap. Well, in March, she

(01:23:55):
started a new program on Netflix m m with love.
Comma Megan, Okay, I'm I'm sold this. This is the
name of the show, and it's her and her kitchen
and her gardening. And because of course she doesn't have

(01:24:18):
landscapers picking her fruit, she does the Yeah, I got
into chicken coop and I stand in my high heels
and the chicken crap and I harvest my own eggs
bull crap.

Speaker 5 (01:24:29):
The The official description of this program is inspiring and
reimagines the genre of lifestyle programming.

Speaker 4 (01:24:41):
Reimagines it. I'm gonna stand in the kitchen and talk
to the camera while I cook.

Speaker 5 (01:24:47):
Nobody's ever done that before.

Speaker 4 (01:24:49):
You just turned television on its side. You my god,
where did this inspiration come from? Just again, my gobs
a your ideas? Dare I say it? Are delish? Anyway,
she started this program too well, I mean not thunderous popularity,

(01:25:11):
but it began and there were some interest in it.
I think it made the top ten at one point. Currently, however,
she's not at such lofty perches with her viewership. She
did not even crack the Netflix top three hundred.

Speaker 5 (01:25:27):
No, and she's sitting really close to four hundred. She
is on par with season two of Peaky Blinders and
season four of Suits.

Speaker 4 (01:25:40):
Yeah. Suits, such is about fifteen years old. Yeah, that's her.
That's her trending competition right now.

Speaker 5 (01:25:49):
And what gets me is that Netflix, who we have
spoken about at length, how they will cancel a show
by its third episode while it's the top ranked show
on Netflix. Yes, this Drek has already gotten a second season.

Speaker 4 (01:26:10):
I'm yeah. That's the amazing part is are you obligated
or what photographs of the CEO does she possess?

Speaker 5 (01:26:20):
Oh shit, Jeff, I didn't know that she actually was
on season four of Suits.

Speaker 4 (01:26:25):
Yeah, yeah, exactly so her.

Speaker 5 (01:26:29):
So her show is doing slightly worse than her show.

Speaker 4 (01:26:33):
Yes, she's barely staying above the four hundred level. This
is basically the Netflix Mendoza line if you're a baseball fan.
Back in the day, there was a joke. But yeah,
this this is hilariously pitiful. First couple of episodes, people
are like, is this it is that all? And then

(01:26:55):
by the third episode they forget it's on and now, yeah,
this is sinking faster than her jam being made in
a factory.

Speaker 5 (01:27:06):
Right, this is sinking faster than the uh.

Speaker 4 (01:27:10):
My artisanal preserves. You mean that jelly that Tom is
making out there. Who we got like four more bottles
of the one? We're done? Man?

Speaker 5 (01:27:20):
Yeah they do. They do contract jellies for Knots two.

Speaker 4 (01:27:26):
So hey, the jam's ready? What stick are we putting
on this? The smuckers are that expensive one?

Speaker 6 (01:27:35):
Hey?

Speaker 5 (01:27:35):
That reminds me I've been meaning to ask you. I mean,
you guys got Universal and Disney out there. You got
Knots too. Have they put a berry farm out there?

Speaker 1 (01:27:42):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:27:43):
No, not that I know. We do have Lego Land
and uh yeah, I think they closed the Tumperware Museum
in Orlando.

Speaker 5 (01:27:54):
I'm just curious because if that's the one thing that
California still has over Florida, then that's because you know,
it's coming in a not scary farm season.

Speaker 4 (01:28:03):
So yeah, we don't have anything like that out here.
We're all big in corporate, that's what we do. But
uh yeah, if you want to go catch Megan Markle,
what is it August or September season two beginning?

Speaker 5 (01:28:19):
Who cares?

Speaker 4 (01:28:22):
In case somebody listening, we spent more time on this
than it deserves. Uh, it's just me basking and her failure.
That's all this is.

Speaker 5 (01:28:29):
Well, Yeah, which I do appreciate because I do. I
enjoy that as well.

Speaker 4 (01:28:36):
Now this is a bit of breaks. This one kind
of conflicts with both of us. I think we're both
it's content we like and at the same time, do
we really want to go there? They've announced a sequel
to Spinal Tap.

Speaker 5 (01:28:57):
Yeah, this is the first trailers dropping night at San
Diego Comic Con, and I'm gonna I was talking with
Jeff about this before the show too. This is a
Mandela effect for me because I thought they made a
sequel in the early nineties.

Speaker 4 (01:29:11):
Oh really, No, yeah it was, but I did.

Speaker 5 (01:29:15):
I did some last minute research. They released an album
in ninety one called break Like the Wind, and I
thought that that was actually the title of the next movie.

Speaker 4 (01:29:26):
Ah so you got caught up in a slight misdirection,
I guess, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:29:31):
No, But it still is Mandel effect because I swear
I saw Spinal Tap too. I worked in video stores
and I can see the cover.

Speaker 4 (01:29:38):
Okay, well, Spinal Tap. I mean it's one that I
think anybody with an edgy sense of humor or indoors
cool loves the movie. But it was like the original mockumentary,
you know, a false, fraudulent documentary that they make for
comedic purposes was great. It was well executed. I think

(01:30:01):
the thing is they shot it on the cheap for
the most part and just winged it, you know, And
these were just brilliant comedy minds. And this is before
Rob Reiner was an insufferable bloated ass and you know,
just great comedy all around. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:30:18):
I mean, if you're not familiar with that, you've got
Michael McKeon, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer they played the
three band members and it's just a comedy of errors
and it's you know, they're like this huge you know,
wanting to be a huge British band going on their
first American tour and everything that goes wrong. Fran Dresser's
in it, a lot of people. Rob Reiner was in

(01:30:41):
it too, and yeah, so but it's funny, it's fantastic.
It's you know, like you said, it's one of the
first mockumentaries. Another one fantastic one is best in show,
but that's not by them, and uh yeah, so I'm
on board with it. But why are we making all
these sequels to forty year old movies?

Speaker 4 (01:31:03):
Are Yeah, this is what I'm I'm kind of leery
about is that when he you know, like History of
the World. Yeah, just recently had a sequel with it
on Hulu. I believe mm hmm fell very short of yes.

Speaker 5 (01:31:21):
And you know you've got Spaceball's Too coming out.

Speaker 4 (01:31:25):
Yeah, we just announced that a couple episodes ago, and
it's like, I don't think you need to go there, guys,
unless you really knock it out of the park, You're
probably gonna actually damage the brand if anything.

Speaker 5 (01:31:39):
Which is angry as I've seen Michael mccannby on social
media about Trump, I don't see this being good. I mean,
he's not Mark Hamill angry, but he's a little bit
angrier than uh John Cleese, or at least he was. Yeah,
we talked about that last week too, Kevin. We got
Happy Gilmour too coming out as well, which I finally

(01:32:00):
saw this shooting McGavin spots.

Speaker 4 (01:32:02):
So yeah, that's that's very different though, you know, like
Happy Gilmore is not one that people hold in a
cherished place in their heart. It's like, oh, yeah, I
was going through puberty when I watched that. Yeah, it's
kind of funny day.

Speaker 5 (01:32:20):
No, Happy Gilmore's background one for me when it's on.
I'll turn it on.

Speaker 4 (01:32:25):
Yeah, it's like, okay, he plays hockey. Okay, they're fighting
on a golf course. So he calls the Wheel of
Fortune guy a bitch. I'll go over that. But that's
all it is. It's not you know, you're you're not
calling it a high heart, You're not quoting it incessantly
this sort. It's just kind of like it hangs there.
We all have seen it, and nobody wants to admit

(01:32:46):
it out loud, but we know it.

Speaker 1 (01:32:47):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:32:47):
It's that kind of thing. This is, well, we'll see.
It could be good. I'm not pre judging, but I'm
very hesitantly judgment.

Speaker 5 (01:33:00):
After what they did to time bandits on Apple, which
fortunately nobody saw it because it was on Apple. Do
we need to do this?

Speaker 4 (01:33:14):
I would say, if you have the same people involved
and they do it with a handicam and they treat
it in the same fact, like just sketch out scenes
and then ed libbitt, it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:26):
Could yeah, if it's if it's over, if they if
they do it all in like uh you know, uh
cell phone footage, I'm you know, or like a TikTok okay,
I'm you know, and like you said, because the beauty
of spinal tap was they would have, like you said,
they would have a scene roughly hammered out, this is

(01:33:46):
what we're doing in the scene, or this is the
point of the scene, and most everything that happened in
it was in character ad lib, which was just that's
what made it funny because even they didn't know what
each other's line was gonna be or what they were
gonna do that whole This one goes to eleven bit
you know and shit like that.

Speaker 5 (01:34:06):
Yeah, because they had the knobs with eleven on it,
but the whole interaction with that, But this one goes
to eleven that you know.

Speaker 4 (01:34:15):
Anyway, I'd like the scene when they were unboxing their
album for the American release and they had like a
sexually provocative album cover and then they found out that
it got censored, so the album was just black. That's it.

(01:34:35):
I almost wonder if they told the guys they were
gonna do the unboxing and didn't tell them that part,
because the way they reacted to it, they were like, well,
what was the broad Well, shit, there's no niked And yeah,
they may have just you know, said okay, you're open
up and there's no broad or it's just black. But
then they you could tell that whole scene was just framework.

(01:34:57):
We're going to the record, we're open the boxes. You
guys react, go and they did it brilliantly. It was
just the way they reacted was perfect. Do that. Please,
don't don't have like eighty seven cameos like they did
with History of the World Part two. You know, every
media had to be in it. Everybody had to have
their scene, and no, just you three a couple surrounding

(01:35:18):
and do it and it might work.

Speaker 5 (01:35:21):
Yeah, well we need to have a couple of people
in the scene. Don't throw Bill Murray in for Joe,
you know, don't you know? Just just keep do with
it what you did before. Please, if you're if you're
gonna do it, do it right, and just don't do it.

Speaker 4 (01:35:38):
I beg I'm the subject of people too dim to
realize their lack of popularity. Forced segue. Former President Joe
Biden has just announced see what I did there? He
struck his post presidential book deal.

Speaker 5 (01:36:02):
Don't you have to have a memory to write a memoir? No?

Speaker 4 (01:36:09):
If you uh, if you're unfamiliar with the auto pen,
it could be pretty much like most of his presidential career.
Somebody else can do it. M that's fair, got it
pretty much the way of work. What what I get
out of this is he has signed this book for

(01:36:33):
uh ten million dollars mm hm. Not what many people
would consider an exorbitant fee for a presidential memoir. No.

Speaker 5 (01:36:47):
I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:36:49):
When Barack Obama left office, the Obama's pocketed sixty dollars
for their book deals after the president. And this was
I think Obama's third or fourth book.

Speaker 5 (01:37:03):
Yeah, okay, so everything with Obama was hope. I can't
I'm trying to remember what's the prevailing theme with Biden's books.

Speaker 4 (01:37:19):
He's using.

Speaker 5 (01:37:21):
Jack or No, it's in the title, I know you.

Speaker 4 (01:37:28):
I'd have to catch the title. Then the promises to
keep on life in politics. Oh no, that's one of
the previous ones.

Speaker 5 (01:37:37):
No, I know, but his promises, you know, because the
other one was promised me, Dad, I.

Speaker 4 (01:37:44):
I mean it, maybe whatever the thing is this.

Speaker 5 (01:37:51):
Myself is gonna be this one.

Speaker 4 (01:37:55):
Or who grabbed himself? I promise it wasn't me. Yeah.
Bill Clinton got twelve million for his memoirs and that
was about twenty years ago. Yeah, So I just I'm
curious who the hell wants to read this book.

Speaker 5 (01:38:14):
Well, you can tell nobody if he's only getting a
ten million dollar front.

Speaker 4 (01:38:19):
I mean, I.

Speaker 5 (01:38:24):
Promises from the Crypt the White House hears, did we
lose Brad? I think we lost Brad.

Speaker 4 (01:38:37):
Brad dat it?

Speaker 5 (01:38:41):
Brad?

Speaker 4 (01:38:42):
Yeah, I think we lost them.

Speaker 5 (01:38:44):
Okay, so we're just gonna skip by that ten million
dollars not a lot of mone police force. So head,
Oh he's back. All right, there we go, Brad. We
lost you for a minute.

Speaker 4 (01:38:56):
Yeah, yeah, I had opened a brilliant on a lugged tangent.

Speaker 5 (01:39:03):
We'll recreate it for us.

Speaker 4 (01:39:06):
When did you lose me? I guess is the question?

Speaker 5 (01:39:09):
Right after? This will be easy? No, I had Actually
I was actually interrupting you because Jeff made a comment
of tales from the Crypt.

Speaker 4 (01:39:19):
Really, my whole boy is who the hell wants this book?

Speaker 5 (01:39:23):
That's my question, because I obviously nobody.

Speaker 4 (01:39:30):
I was reading the tab book and it just gritting
my teeth the whole time, because these assholes are pretending
they were breaking news and discovered things that we did know.

Speaker 5 (01:39:39):
For you, you're fading in and out? Are you going
through a tunnel?

Speaker 4 (01:39:54):
Yeah? That was weird? Yeah, yeah, that was weird.

Speaker 5 (01:39:56):
He came back and then he was gone, and then
he came back and he was gone. So we're just
gonna shoot right into the top ten on streaming. So okay,
starting with original. Okay, you're back.

Speaker 4 (01:40:08):
I think, uh, I think somebody's trying to silence me
for some reason. So yeah, I think it might be
Jake Tapper because every time I bring him up, that's
when I start to go out weird.

Speaker 5 (01:40:18):
Yeah, it's you know it's funny is that you drag
him all the time. He shows up in your DMS.
I drag him all the time, and he doesn't. I
really want that fucker in my DMS for a minute.
I will share that like it's fucking Christmas.

Speaker 4 (01:40:33):
Yeah, he jobbed me when he did it, because he's like, hey, good,
no we speak off the record. I was like, oh yeah, sure,
a professional courtesy, you son of a bitch. I should
never have done.

Speaker 5 (01:40:43):
Yeah, you got me, but professional, Curtsey. The thing is, Jake,
you're not a professional.

Speaker 4 (01:40:50):
So all right, so we got the niels and you
want to take it go ahead in case I get
bombed out of here.

Speaker 5 (01:40:56):
Well, I was just kicking it off. We are back
to squid game, crushing it not even close.

Speaker 4 (01:41:04):
No, we are at.

Speaker 5 (01:41:07):
Three three billion, two hundred million minutes watched in the
week of June twenty three to June twenty ninth, leading
into the holiday just twenty Yeah. Yeah, now that we've
reserved math for Sunday nights, I don't do the uh
that way. If one person was continuously watching it, that

(01:41:28):
would be x x thousand years. So yeah, that's you know.
I remember when these numbers were huge. Now, I remember
when we broke a million and we were just completely like,
oh my god, a billion minutes. Now we're at three
point two. Were like, yeah, that's respectable.

Speaker 4 (01:41:42):
Yeah. I think squid Game pretty much owns the three
billion plateau. That's like their thing, it really does.

Speaker 5 (01:41:49):
Yeah, that that's there, that's their rarefied air, that's their
Mount Everest.

Speaker 4 (01:41:54):
So uh yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:41:56):
Next is Love Island, USA on Peacock. Good for you
Peacock getting in the top five. Waterfront Jenny, George the Bear.

Speaker 4 (01:42:08):
Have you seen any of these brad anything Jinny and Georgia.
I have caught some because the wife watches that one.
The Bear. I have none. That's a big hit for Hulu.
I'm kind of.

Speaker 5 (01:42:18):
Shocked by follow up on the Dicaparo movie.

Speaker 4 (01:42:23):
It is not actually this is a takes place inside
of a New York eatery and not a five star
one at that. Okay, but supposedly great acting and good
quasi comedy, I guess is the way it goes. People
love it. I just know it gets Emmys. How about that?

Speaker 5 (01:42:41):
It's Emmy bait. But yeah, they're wearing the iron Heart.

Speaker 4 (01:42:44):
Go ahead, iron Heart? Really that made the top ten
three episodes, I mean, I get Okay, So this was
we talked about it. They dropped this in three episodes,
in three episodes, so it might be interesting to see
if it drops on the next chart.

Speaker 5 (01:43:03):
Well, this was the week that it came out, so
this was everybody watching the three episodes.

Speaker 4 (01:43:08):
The initial post. Yeah, people realized, oh this is dog crep.

Speaker 5 (01:43:14):
Yeah, yeah, one. I was supposed to have two seasons,
got three episodes. Now eat the Acolyte Disney Congratulations.

Speaker 4 (01:43:28):
With fewer episodes and slightly less money. Okay, good? Yeah
this now was apparently a new documentary series called train Wreck. Yeah,
because I first saw this and it was entitled poop Cruise,
and I'm sorry that's the opposite of clickbait for me.
Had no interest in this. But there's like a whole

(01:43:50):
run of documentaries that begin with train Wreck. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:43:54):
Yeah, they're they're like, you know, like Disaster TV, like
True Prime, but for disasters.

Speaker 4 (01:44:01):
And you know, basically it's the chive in documentary form
pretty much. Is that?

Speaker 5 (01:44:10):
What is that still around?

Speaker 4 (01:44:13):
I'm not sure, But on Pluto they've got Failed Nation,
which pretty much does the same thing. Right, Okay, now
the chime is still round. There's the couple of bars
I go to that have it on a loop in
the bar. I think they likens out that kind of thing. Yeah,
America's Sweetheart Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader is gonna have to check
this out.

Speaker 5 (01:44:35):
Jeff and I were talking about earlier. He on discord
he dropped the picture of a I think it was
Sidney Sweeney's mm yeah, yeah, for American Eagle. And then
you know with the uh the doctor Squatch soap things
she did and everything. You know, it's nature's healing because

(01:44:58):
the youth, the utes are starting to appreciate the female
form again. And while I may be getting Sidney see
Sydney see Sidney Sweeney fatigue, I'm here for it. And
if we're bringing back the Dallas cowboys cheerleaders is America's sweetheart.
I mean, you don't get more eighties than that.

Speaker 4 (01:45:20):
Yeah. I think this is when you're starting to see
the Trump effect hitting our culture, where you know, under
Biden or any other Democrat rule of this kind of
thing that's like, oh, you're ejectifying women. You're not allowed
to do that. That's simply you know, these women have minds.
Why are you looking at them and not me with
the blue hair and the cowering in my mouth, the

(01:45:43):
tack rooms on my face. Yeah. Basically, Trump has brought
the mindset that it's now okay to enjoy the female form.
And I'm sorry that the fact that our social media
now has copious amounts of very hot women in stars
and stripes bikinis America. Yeah, I'm for it.

Speaker 5 (01:46:07):
I'm not good that motherfuckers not real girl out. Yeah, no,
I'm I'm good with it. So if if it is
the Trump effect, then that would mean that that is
the opposite of Bibart's law, that we finally are seeing
culture downstream from politics.

Speaker 4 (01:46:28):
Yeah. I think so, because the result is this is
I'm trying to say, this is the result of them
overly politicizing entertainment. Therefore politics now becomes a driving force
in it.

Speaker 5 (01:46:48):
I was gonna say, ironically, they invented this game, m
and like with everything, like with council culture and everything else,
we just we constantly tell them, you don't want to
do this, You're not gonna like it when we start playing.
We are you not to play this game.

Speaker 4 (01:47:01):
Just and if I can.

Speaker 7 (01:47:05):
The Sydney Sweeney American Eagle thing. The amazing part is
American Eagles evaluation has already gone up plus one hundred
million since just the previal Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:47:17):
And you know the other thing, you and I were
talking about it on discord too, you know, because that's
very similar to the Megan Fox and Transformers. Look in
that American Eagle ad and we could have done this
a decade ago or a little almost two decades ago
when Megan Fox, but she crawled up her own ass
and ruined it for everybody.

Speaker 4 (01:47:39):
Yeah, this this is basically it's a pendulum swing. You know,
they had it pulled so far out and you had
to not only accept but worship feminism as such and
anything less than feminism you were hateful and part of
the problem.

Speaker 5 (01:47:58):
Well, and that's if those of you who follow my
Twitter feed if you saw it. The first thing I
posted this morning was I was talking about how the
how the left has taken this neo puritanical movement of
trying to remove porn from everything. It was in relation
to this, uh, this activist group who bitched it V

(01:48:21):
so long enough for them to convince net not Netflix,
uh Steam to remove a bunch of adult themed games
from their platform. So and my comment was, they've they're
the group of people who have been sex worker positive
for so long have now adopted this neo puritanical view

(01:48:45):
because they realize all the awfuls I can't find a
man because they would rather just watch porn than put
up with your bullshit.

Speaker 4 (01:48:56):
Exactly. They've they've created men that don't want to talk
the feminists, and now the feminists I've seen accounts all
the time saying stuff, what's the matter with men? Men
don't even want to cope and talk to us anymore.
I wrote to the one girl yesterday had.

Speaker 5 (01:49:08):
Said this, why a drink touch a boob? That check.

Speaker 7 (01:49:12):
Look at the in the gaming industry with Marvel rivals,
how well that is doing because the the Asians sell
sex and it's done great.

Speaker 5 (01:49:29):
Yeah, and it's like, I mean, so there is this account,
this activist account had to shut their account down on
x because of all the blowback. I'm like, well, be
onto you. Who gets between a dude and his weave?

Speaker 4 (01:49:42):
Yeah I did. One of them was barking yesterday about it.
It's like, you know, how come men will are too
scared to come up and approach a woman and talk
to her or something to that effect. And I just said,
you're not describing a man. Yeah, you know that's somebody,
because how do your feminist agenda? You know, they're scared

(01:50:03):
of you or notthing like that. Real man doesn't give
a rat ask I'll come up and talk to you,
and then you'll get offended and he's like, all right, cool,
you saved me to cost of buying you a drink
and go and have a bat.

Speaker 5 (01:50:13):
That's that only that only cost me one drink and
I didn't have to cuddle. I'm okay with that.

Speaker 4 (01:50:18):
Yeah, they're they're complaining about an environment they created, is
what it comes down to. And when it comes to
the culture now that what Trump is brought to the table,
and it's not me, you know, Trump is my God
or anything of the sort. It's just that he's made
it permissible once again to be politically incorrect. You don't

(01:50:40):
have to apologize for going out and drinking, or for
watching a game or having fun and enjoying vices in life.
And that's what people are doing now. It's like it's
a liberation thing. People are like, I'm sick of you're
telling me what not to do. Well, I'm gonna go
do it.

Speaker 7 (01:50:59):
He there's the rumor is that she was paid twenty
million to be the spokesperson for American Eagle and they've
already made that much money. And yet the other side,
who bitches and complaints, spent twenty million on missus job
of the Hut to try to reach out the men,
which one succeeded, right, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:51:18):
Or look at what they dropped on the Acolyte one
hundred plus million on their activist show that knewbody wanted
to watch. You give a hot broad with some cans
twenty million and people show up for it.

Speaker 5 (01:51:33):
Well, I saw that during the Super Bowl too, and
everybody was like, fuck yeah, America's back when Carls Junior
brought back there. If it don't get all over the place,
you know it does belong in your face, you know thing.

Speaker 4 (01:51:43):
So yeah, but I mean, I'm I've noticed that when
there are now the women are willing to go out
and do this. They don't have to be cowed for
wearing a bikini on their timeline. And if somebody comes up,
like when you have to seconalize everything, it's like, well,
why do you have to be mad? Because I've got brusts,
you know, that's the answer. Now people are no longer

(01:52:05):
cowed by their repression. You're like, you go and be miserable.
I don't need your help, go and do it on
your own. That's that's the prevailing attitude on the culture now,
and it's it's kind of glorious to see in numerous fashions.

Speaker 5 (01:52:20):
Fantastic yeah no, And that's you know, yeah, And I
know Elon isn't popular with a lot of the right
right now, but you're talking about where it's okay to
be politically incorrect. You wouldn't be able to say retard
on Twitter if he hadn't said it, because there's your
race and hole against support. So you know, in using

(01:52:44):
the whole thought train of hey, if you want to
be a communist, go live in another country and stop
using your iPhone. Hey, if you want to be mad
at Elon, stop saying the word retard because he gave
you that right, you know. So it's kind of yeah,
I am absolutely no fan of Elon still because my
account is always getting fucked with. But it's like, I

(01:53:07):
don't hate the guy. I'm just I mean, you know,
I'm not mad at him because of his little tiff
with Trump, and.

Speaker 4 (01:53:14):
You know that's between them. It has no bearing on me.
So it's like, why would I be bothered one way
or the other.

Speaker 5 (01:53:20):
And really, if it is for d Chess, I mean,
you notice how the burnings of Tesla's stopped. Immediately, make
a couple of arrests and say he's on the Epstein list,
and then all of a sudden that shit stops, and
make sure you know he's going to go back to
what he was gonna do anyway when he went and
did it. So, I mean, if it's a fake feud,
it's effective, and if it's not, I don't give a

(01:53:42):
shit because neither of them, you know, sign my paycheck
or suck my dick.

Speaker 4 (01:53:46):
So looks like I said last week, wait, it's gonna
be kind of it'll be a cruel hit on the
guy that's now spending time in jail, and he comes
to find out his side now likes Elon again. Right,
I'm doing twenty years for throwing a Molotov cocktail and
now the guy's cool. Shit.

Speaker 5 (01:54:08):
Yeah, I always find yourself on the outside sooner later.
That's why it's something worth playing the game. So we
were wires number nine for twenty Why.

Speaker 4 (01:54:17):
Does Stranger Things come back? That's my question.

Speaker 5 (01:54:20):
Season five is about to drop.

Speaker 4 (01:54:23):
I was at it prep for the new one, got
it all right? Then on the acquired side of things,
Animal Kingdom that comes in at one point seven billion
on Netflix, followed up by blind Spot and Blue tumbles
from the number one position to number three. So still there,

(01:54:47):
Gray's Anatomy, Bob's Burgers, ncis, Family Guy, Criminal Minds basically
at CBS and Fox from this point. Now Gun Smoke.

Speaker 5 (01:54:57):
Nineteen, Yeah, it's not a new one. Seen fifty five,
four hundred and four episodes on both Paramount and Peacock.
How does that one work? That is CBS and NBC.
I mean I get it when it's like, you know,
Hulu and Paramount or Netflix and Peacock. But Paramount and Peacock,
that's oil and water.

Speaker 4 (01:55:19):
I have a there's no bridge there. It's it's a stretch.
It's a big stretch.

Speaker 5 (01:55:25):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:55:27):
Maybe what happened was them around Easter a lot of
people went to visit their parents, found out they weren't streaming,
got them hooked up so the kids would have something
to watch while they were visiting, and then explained to
mom and dad, hey, they got a bunch of old
shows that are still and now they're finding out they're
on there.

Speaker 5 (01:55:46):
Is that? Is that your head cannon?

Speaker 4 (01:55:49):
It's like I said, it's a stretch, but I'm gonna
go with them.

Speaker 5 (01:55:55):
I mean, you know, it's plausible, but it should have
happened sooner. I'm just talking about why is it? I'm
just asking why is it on both Paramount Plus and Peacock.
That's what baffles me, not the fact that it's up there,
the fact that it's on both those networks.

Speaker 4 (01:56:12):
Well plus gun Smoke is it's available everywhere. I think
it's got its own channel on Pluto and what's that
other to I n SP that network. That's just all
and you know it's everywhere, But okay, it's to correct.
The top ten is baffling. That's the part that gets me.

Speaker 5 (01:56:34):
But okay, and it really baffles me with it. I mean,
correct me if I'm wrong, But I want to say
Gunsmoke was on ABC back in the day too, So
there's just there's that's where the mind is completely.

Speaker 4 (01:56:47):
Well, consider me a blind spot here. As we get
into the movie side, K Pop Demon Hunters, Hang, I
can get movies.

Speaker 5 (01:56:59):
I've never been you know what fucking I'm watching it.

Speaker 4 (01:57:02):
I never even heard it. I love it.

Speaker 5 (01:57:05):
I understand what all three of those words mean. I've
never seen him arrange that way, and I'm in.

Speaker 4 (01:57:09):
Yeah. Okay. The Minecraft movie, which was huge in theaters,
is now huge on HBO Max. They finally cracked a
top ten somewhere. Then we got The Intern on Netflix.
That's a bit older. Yeah, that's a while and everybody's
into it. The accountant is still doing some monster business
for Prime. Figure that out. Playing with Gerard Butler, no

(01:57:36):
explanation needed, of course he's in the top five.

Speaker 5 (01:57:38):
Hey are we We're coming up on Gerard Butler month,
aren't we?

Speaker 4 (01:57:42):
It is about Butler Month? Yes, August nice, so excellent,
stay tuned for disasters into making this. Paul and I
will be venturing down that path for sure. At number six,
we got Miracles from Heaven, No Idea, Sonic the Hedgehog
three surprise. Snow White is still lingering.

Speaker 5 (01:58:01):
They really want, you know what. I'm pretty sure that they. Yeah,
I have a free three day hopper if you watch
snow White.

Speaker 4 (01:58:09):
On But I'm looking at at this point though, on
the chart, you're down to one hundred and sixty one million,
I mean, pretty meager numbers, barely beat out straw And
then you have Frozen, the hit Broadway musical at number ten.

Speaker 3 (01:58:26):
Was it a hit?

Speaker 4 (01:58:29):
Well, they said it is. They wouldn't lie to us,
would they.

Speaker 5 (01:58:32):
Okay, if you're putting that in your title, yeah, you
could have just put fro Nicole or Frozen in the Broadway.
But you're over selling it. I'm sorry. Yeah, just just
me does some marketing for you guys over at Disney.

Speaker 4 (01:58:49):
When you hype like that, it's kind of turn off,
wasn't u It wasn't made for you?

Speaker 5 (01:58:56):
Ording well, and you know, Brad, you don't know my life.

Speaker 4 (01:59:02):
True, But I'm thinking from the marketing perspective, I doubt
that they're thinking of what's a weird guy in the
Valley in northern California think of us. But yeah, all right,
in the overall chart, I think we already know the winner.
It would be Squid Game nearly doubling Love Island.

Speaker 5 (01:59:21):
Yeah yeah, and you had Animal Kingdom, Blind Spot, Waterfront.

Speaker 4 (01:59:27):
Shitty, and Georgia the Bear Bluey makes the cut, Gray's
Anatomy still getting in there, and then, uh, well, ortis
K Pop Demon Hunter Movies.

Speaker 5 (01:59:37):
The time I have to watch it.

Speaker 4 (01:59:39):
I'm just I am. I'm on the record demanding a
review in two weeks.

Speaker 5 (01:59:44):
Okay, you know what, I'm just gonna I gotta follow.
Hang on, we can't go anywhere yet.

Speaker 4 (01:59:50):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (01:59:50):
I didn't even have to finish the word k Pop
and K Pop Demon Hunters auto completed. Okay, it's from
South animation. Never mind.

Speaker 4 (02:00:03):
Oh so they only did voice over work. They're not
true actors, damn it.

Speaker 5 (02:00:08):
Yeah, they did it in the uh Rebels animation style.
So the stretched face, you're not the not the the
Pixar method with that.

Speaker 7 (02:00:25):
No South Korean campers, No, no South Korean campers.

Speaker 5 (02:00:30):
I'm gonna have to catch those live on YouTube.

Speaker 4 (02:00:33):
Wow. Look at the disappointment watching over the show as
we close things out.

Speaker 5 (02:00:38):
You know what you'd think it? Yeah, between that and
chuck me, I'm just you know what, I can't go on.

Speaker 4 (02:00:47):
It's a tough day. It's a tough day culture. Sorry already.
Why don't you let everybody know where they can find
some more of your content?

Speaker 5 (02:00:55):
Oh, thanks for asking, Brad. If the if the the
Mother's sp is able to retain power. This weekend you'll
find me on Juxtaposition Saturday night and try to do
the makeup show that we've tried to do the last
three weeks. Sunday you will find me on the Vincent
Charles Project and it's with Jeff and Vincent Charles and
Mickey Blowtorch and Janelle Laws and we will be covering
the nineteen eighty five cinematic it was at eighty five

(02:01:18):
or eighty six cinematic masterpiece Clue. And then next week
you can find me on Tuesday night on Rank or
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Rick and Aready on Wednesday Night. How about you work?
If people find some of your magnificence, Oh you can
fussle find me as Ordnance Background on Twitter. I keep

(02:01:38):
forgetting that I still have that account, so nobody's more surprising.

Speaker 4 (02:01:43):
You're still pre conditioned to think you're banned. I love that.

Speaker 5 (02:01:46):
Yeah, I just you know I'm coded for ban.

Speaker 4 (02:01:51):
As for myself, you can check me out daily. I'm
at town hall dot com, where I got a media
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into the dysfunction that is our mainstream media complex. Also
on the front page of Red State on the regular,
where I've got a twice weekly podcast called Liable Sources,
going even further into the swampland of the outmoded media

(02:02:14):
of our country. And you can hear more of me
also on this very network. Next Thursday, I'm here with
Paul Yong from Screen Rant. He and I go through
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into Making, and every Tuesday evening, I'm here with the
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(02:02:38):
basically distractions from the screwed up political social nature of
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Martini Shark. Well already, I think we may have set

(02:02:59):
a record here our longest show yet.

Speaker 5 (02:03:02):
Uh you know, uh, we've done one twenty before, but
we had to vamp a little bit. We had more ramp.
This one was just packed full of jam. We hit
all we hit all the content, but it was close.

Speaker 4 (02:03:16):
That's why I said, the episode goes to eleven. See
what you did perfect? Alright, Well, we are going to
sit back and collect more of the vital entertainment info
for you folks, and we'll be back here in two weeks.
On the Culture Shift, hel Hydra