The Daily Zeitgeist - Benny And The Trends 9/19: Twitter, Muppets, Russell Brand, Ray Epps, Personal Voice, Tom Hanks

Episode Date: September 19, 2023

In this edition of Benny and the Trends, Jack and Miles discuss Elon finally deciding to kill Twitter (by charging all users a monthly fee), the new Muppet's Pickle Milkshake, Russell Brand getting demonitized on YT, Ray Epps (whoever that is) getting charged for his participation in Jan. 6th, Apple's new "Personal Voice" feature, and what's REALLY going on with Tom Hanks!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of B-B-B-Benny and the Trends, courtesy of Johnny Davis. I am Jack. That's Miles. These are some things that are happening. What is that, your Kermit voice? That's my Kermit voice. This is my Kermit voice. It's like if Kermit was a little less confident. Yeah.

He's just like the real cock of the walk out there you know i love that you're like alpha you know who could get knocked down a couple fucking pegs this fucking frog man i can't stand this cocky asshole alpha and shit i'm tired of his alpha a frog trying to be the biggest baller in the world um so what's going on what's happening man you're miles i'm jack yeah uh sorry just trying to reset my software here to remind myself where i am all right um doing a podcast kermit is your friend kermit is your friend elon musk is going to kill twitter it would appear it's been kind of the deal right he's gonna do the whole damn thing so he's he's gonna start to uh charge a small monthly payment for use of twitter um which will be the thing that makes me stop using it don't pay for things like that already giving you data you fuck yeah let me just monitor all the other creeps on here

and stress myself out he's just like doing it out of spite it feels like it's yeah it's kind of wild though too that this dude is like saying that like the anti-defamation league is like the source of the downfall of his business and just like tap dancing into anti-semitism and then he does a live stream with benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister and he's like yeah man so revenues are down i'm not gonna blame it i don't know you know who but uh we're gonna start charging we're like what what fucking universe are we in he doesn't care man he's not he's not specific he's as long as he is on the wrong side of an issue he will be there right now he's like to be with a guy who's on the wrongest side of many issues in history like just a couple of guys who are on the wrong side of history most of the time

here's my new idea a monthly fee do we know is is there was there like a date yet set or not i haven't read anything about a date um i just he i have just read his excuses which is the single most important reason we're moving to having a small monthly payment for use of the x system it's not called that is it's the only way i can think of to combat vast armies of bots he was claiming he was claiming bots before he even bought the before he even bought the wow and people were like yeah no they've had the same number of bots as like other social media networks and it's fine and it doesn't really make sense as a reason why not to buy a thing or why it's less profitable than you think but that's always going to be his excuse yeah oh it's interesting but while he was meeting with netanyahu he was like can you please cut down on the anti-semitism and then yahoo did yeah but he still did it in a way where he's like

i hope you find within the confines of the first amendment the ability to stop anti-semitism or roll it back as best as you can but also any collective hatred of a people like the one anti-semitic it's wild just like this conversation is wow everything everywhere all at once cool so anyways his revenue is down 60 percent since he bought the company um so i guess he so i guess we are going back we are on threads again maybe yeah i guess i mean look i already got my room booked at threads you got a room booked at threads i i got a room at threads yeah i get I don't yet have my backup room at Blueski. Yeah, Blueski. That's how you pronounce it.

Having a couple of Brewskis over with my boys on Blueski. Blueski. Brewskis on Blueski. But yeah, hit me with an invite. Every time that shit like this has happened in the past, and I've been like, all right, now I'm going to actually join Blueski. People have sent me an invite, and then blue sky has not been ready for the wave of traffic that was hitting them

at that wait but isn't it i thought if you have the invitation can't you isn't that the whole deal like that's how they're able to keep it from yeah but every time i've tried like i've had it in front of me the like it's been one of the times when elon musk is like fucking something up so badly that everyone's like yeah like their servers are overwhelmed for like four days and then i forget about it and go back to twitter um like i'm in an abusive relationship or something anyways uh really hate this guy i hate that he's just won't be happy until this thing is broken. Yep. Excuse me while I hate this guy.

There it is. Um, so Gizmodo has an article today. We tried the Muppets pickle milkshake at wall, Walt Disney world. Um, pick a nickel.le what no yeah that's how i found out that there was one yeah um yeah that's just i don't know feels weird like i

understand when like van whatever uh that that ice cream brand like has to make ranch ice cream yeah van loon they like they need to make a name for themselves they need to get people's attention so they're gonna do some some wild shit but disney world doesn't need to do this i mean that's i'd argue van lewin is also there they've been doing their thing you know so ice cream lover but uh yeah this is just weird it's it feels like just wait weird for weird sake like at least with grimace come we we liked conceptually where we were going with that right you know we bought in and there was a whole mythos behind it this just looks like a from there was like the one review that they got from this gizmodo writer was that it just tasted like they said irish spring soap mixed with like ice cream that it just tasted like they said Irish Spring Soap mixed with

ice cream. Well, now I'm back on board. Okay. Irish Spring Soap is part of my heritage. You gotta cut it with that knife, though, too. There's no Brian. Yeah, putting a milkshake next to a pickle does bring us back to

Grimace Cum territory. Putting it in the context of the Muppets. Again, you know, a fictional group of characters that are just giving off intense alpha energy. Oh yeah.

Yeah. That like, you know, well, where's my brain supposed to go? You know? Yeah. They look sexy.

I'm sorry. I'm just like, again, I'm looking at the two scientist characters and I'm like, all right, you've got my attention now. Okay. You have my attention. So producer Brian said, is this exclusively for pregnant women?

And when I was trying to think of the name of that ice cream, he said Van Vought. I said Van Vought. Oh, you said Van Vought. What the fuck? Well, he said van vat too just you and brian my fucking gating on the microphones taking my fucking shine man uh yeah well hey good luck just just make shit people want to drink just take a flavor like that exists that people will like and then just call it some other shit

you're just you know kermit come like that's what people would correct my god no too much all right that's the problem is i see grimace is like that that family member we didn't see much of so it's easy to like sort of attach these like sort of like interesting stories kermit like we know Kermit. The last thing I need to do is imagine Kermit and I, we've been close since day one. He's been sexually active since day one, I feel like, as a character.

Anyways, Russell Brand is no longer making money on YouTube. So it weighs. In the wake of the Times article, Scotland Yard is reportedly investigating him following yet another allegation of sexual assault that took place in London in 2003. And now YouTube has demonetized his channel,

which has more than 6.6 million subscribers, suspending his ad revenue for violating the site's creator responsibility policy. Oh, wow. So, with the demonetization, he now joins the ranks of disgraced YouTubers like PewDiePie, remember that name?

Logan Paul, and Donald Trump. My favorite. All my favorites now. uh i'm sure this is going to be important news for a lot of our listeners he has postponed his upcoming comedy shows so he had tickets to the bipolarization in it tour um oh wow there was that's really clever really clever wrestle it's also it's wild though too how many clips are resurfacing too again like the second things like this there are like people who have had their eye on this guy for a minute they're like

allow me to point you to these nine clips of where it was pretty clear this guy was up to no good from the beginning but yeah all right all right well no more money for you on youtube yeah yeah all right let's take a quick break and we'll be right back i've been thinking about you i want you back in my life it's too late for that i have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. One session.

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because he was at January 6th. It was one of the dipshits who was trying to overthrow the government or whatever. But then his name vanished from the FBI's website of most wanted rioters.

And Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan were like, names don't just vanish from the FBI website of most wanted rioters. Even if maybe they just like found the guy, but names don't vanish from most wanted lists, especially not names that are as well known as Ray Epps. So that must mean that Ray Epps has been a government co-conspirator all along that day. So like for their theory,

he had to, he like accidentally, they accidentally put his name up in the first place. Is that the idea or they did it i mean i don't jack i don't know it's it's because we're already starting from the place that january 6th was is all orchestrated by the feds and it was nothing to do with normal people um but yeah i mean i think yes yeah Because they just move the fucking goalposts every time. Even when he was charged, they're still like, oh, he just got this little charge.

That's wild. But when you compare it with other people who started cooperating very early on, they were sort of hit with the same light shit that this guy is. Yeah. Yeah. So it turns out his name disappeared because they found him and he began cooperating right away and just like turning states out like just immediately being like yeah whatever you want like i'm i that thing got out of hand i'm not really about this uh because i'm an idiot like the rest of these fucking dipshits boy did he look about it though

on the day i'll tell you something he really he did not keep that same energy when the feds knocked on his door so hey so he quit being a co-conspirator and ended up being just somebody who helps the government and they are in turn giving him like a much lighter sentence and charlie kirk is like not suspicious at all nearly three years later and he's finally charged with quote disorderly conduct hmm yeah yeah no it appears that's exactly what happened yeah

and also like Charlie Kirk don't be so surprised when the white guy gets a lighter on the wrist what the fuck are you doing, man? Keep it, keep it. I mean, I'm not, I can't imagine you

keeping it consistent, but that's what's happening, sir. I wonder, does Charlie Kirk still have his baby teeth? I feel like he still has his baby teeth as kind of the look.

Have we seen him do like a full ear-to-ear smile? I don't know. I just, there's something about him that gives me like really small baby teeth and i like i've always been trying to figure out like i think he has a small face like he who's that uh dick tracy character i guess baby face what wasn't that a character

where he had a giant melon but then tiny face i feel like oh yeah no yeah yeah he had baby face looked he was off i think he was the most off-putting one i prefer prune face to baby face i mean like if you look at this picture he looks like a character from the wallace and gromit universe yeah yeah yeah he does look like the farmer from wallace and gromit um anyways shout out to charlie kirk i guess um personal voice yeah the new ios update there's a feature uh that people haven't really been talking about because nobody wants it or asked for it uh called personal voice you can get your own texts read back to you in your own voice yes and maybe i think you could maybe use it for siri too so you can just be like hey self what's the weather and you can

hear the i don't know um yeah dude the weather's good uh is does the weather like does the voice like when it talks back sound as unconvincing and unauthoritative as i do uh i don't know actually um you don't know i guess it's like sunny yes well what would you like it to be does it do up speak yeah sunny i think let me actually check and then just like is like one sec and then gets distracted it's creepy like the one example we see uh i was it's pretty creepy and i guess you have to feed it like 15 minutes worth of like like it prompts you to say a bunch of shit so it can build the voice model it's like the thumbprint thing or the uh face id thing where it's like from all the different angles yeah but 15 minutes

of saying some probably you know boilerplate statement over and over don't need it don't ever want it i can't even you know like most people who record their own voice don't often like to hear my own voice when not absolutely necessary so in that context i don't need it well thanks no thanks uh let's talk about tom hanks and what's really going on here oh my god yeah jack what's really going on what's really popping i've got some some new context that i've just learned about tom hanks uh one there's this video of him being a stage mom at a like toddlers and tiaras type show he's doing like silly faces telling the girl to do silly faces and he's calling her sexy baby as he's cheering for her um this is his own child and this is real life it's i mean the production value would suggest

that it's almost definitely a comedy sketch but people are sharing it as if it's just a video of Tom Hanks in the wild being caught at a Toddlers in TR thing. It is actually a clip from a sketch from the Jimmy Kimmel show.

Not very funny. I can see how they'd be confused but it's... It's just so wild that it's not so i can see how they'd be confused but it's i love how it's just so wild that like yeah this it's shot like the fucking office and they're like i don't know man what's he saying in this video fuck he's saying it on camera it's like he knew the cameras would be there so he could just put this on display um and then there's this other so i was just like i was like wondering why why is tom hanks trending is it like one of those things where it's like his birthday

and the world loves a tom hanks and so they're just like happy birthday tom hanks i hope you see my tweet i love you wake up people but no you go you look it's not his birthday it's your death day you get too close to him um because this guy is fucking twisted man the other thing that you can find what tom hanks trending is somebody pointing out that in the shot in forrest gump when jenny's riding away on a bus from our nation's capital where they have a lovely couple days together, Forrest and Jenny. She gives him a peace sign out of the back of the

bus window and he gives her the peace sign back. Or does he? Oh shit. When you look at his so yes, his one hand is giving the peace sign. His lower hand also appears to be doing the peace sign. That hand also appears to be doing the peace sign that's not normal you think that's fucking normal hell no peace sign both hand peace sign wow that's not normal upside

down peace sign that's not normal but it's also in peace to the devil dude you're throwing deuces down to hell is that what's good? Is that what you think it is? And like the video before it has like a picture of like a goat devil Baphomet character doing a peace sign with like two fingers down below. Not even. But it's not even the same one. No. It doesn't look at all like the Forrest Gump clip.

And they're like, do you really think that this is normal? What he's doing with his fingers? Because it's not. Baphomet's doing finger guns, okay? Because he's like okay, it's party time. What's up my people? What's up y'all? Satan is all about indulging baby.

And then that's what Tom Hanks is doing you mean Lucifer thank you okay do I have to spell everything out for you dipshits you idiots coming here to wish Tom Hanks happy birthday

when again you should be wishing yourself happy death day in the mirror. And then just a couple things. So this is what these Q people are focused on. Meanwhile, so the guy who shared the Tom Hanks video, the Jimmy Kimmel sketch, was suspended back in July from Twitter for sharing actual like child abuse sexual imagery on Twitter. He was briefly suspended

and then because he's like a right-wing influencer with 500,000 followers, they all shouted at Elon Musk. He was like, whoa, my bad man. I didn't realize this dude was cool. So he was brought back and free to uh accuse tom hanks of being a uh sexual predator i guess and then um also just in terms of them

maybe have made their nose for the truth being slightly off uh one of the guys from sound of freedom i guess one of the producers or is it the main guy from sound of freedom both okay so one of the producers from sound of freedom is being investigated for sexually abusing underage children um and then the main guy tim ballard this is we should just read this directly right yeah this is from this is from vice because yeah this other guy one of the producers on these like you know we talked about this operation underground railroad shit they would do like it on these busts like he was inappropriately touching like a trafficking victim in one of their own documentary footage things and then on top of that tim ballard this is about him he He has like allegations of sexual assault against him for when they would go take these trips.

So this is who Jim Caviezel was playing. Yes, exactly. It says, quote, sources familiar with the situation said that the self-styled anti-slavery activist who appears to be preparing for a Senate run. Yeah, I think he's he's going for Mitt Romney seat, invited women to act as, quote, his wife on undercover overseas missions ostensibly aimed at rescuing victims of sex trafficking. He would then allegedly coerce those women into sharing a bed or showering together, claiming it was necessary to fool traffickers.

So he's doing the same fucking scam from True Lies. Bill Paxton's character, Simon. Yeah. Yeah. He's doing this. Wow. He literally is doing the simon i got a little dick it's pathetic that's from the movie okay well thank you for out of context

miles always has to pop in and remind people that when i just whimper i've got a little dick it's pathetic that and i'm navel lint um and I'm like, it's okay. It's okay. From the movie. I mean, it just goes to show like that there's so much smoke in these other places. Yet again, we have people like we're going full queue and be like, Tom, hey, apparently in that thread, a lot of people are talking about the last shot in Back to the Future three, two. I don't know what Tom Hanks have to do with the last shot. No, they're just talking about like kind of satanic shoutouts to Satan

embedded in film. And they're like, you should really check out the final departure scene. What's the child's hand doing? There is weird shit with the child in that scene, but we were just pointing out, at Cracked, I remember that being one of the things of like weird stuff that you can like look for from characters or like weird things that got left in movies

wait so what are they doing Satan I don't remember at all but it's I just remember the child is like doing weird hand gestures to the camera or something oh that's tight dude yeah right oh you don Oh, that's tight, dude. All right. Oh, you don't think that's satanic?

Okay. Yeah. I can't even see like where they're throwing up fucking signs. Yeah. Oh, the kid has like middle finger. Nah, whatever. Anyway, it's not worth our time because Back to the Future 3 is not good. All right.

Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy.

And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. We'll talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Hey, fam. I'm Simone Boyce.

I'm Danielle Robay. And we're the hosts of The Bright Side, the podcast from Hello Sunshine that's guaranteed to light up your day. Check out our recent episode with Grammy Award-winning rapper Eve on motherhood and the music industry. No, it's a great, amazing, beautiful thing. There's moms in all industries, very high stress industries that have kids all across this world. Why can't it be music as well?

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