The Daily Zeitgeist - Big Beautiful Trends 6/30: SCOTUS, Golden Bachelor, Big Beautiful Bill

Episode Date: June 30, 2025

In this edition of Big Beautiful Trends, Jack and special guest co-host Andrew Ti discuss their respective weekends, the SCOTUS enacting a bunch of BS, the newest 'Golden Bachelor', a 'Big Beautiful Bill' update, and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're opening this recording like the beginning of Top Gun Maverick. Just a lot of thumbs up. You're good to go. I got to assume that's the main part of F1. A lot of like thumbsing up. Yeah, I'd say. Yeah. If there's an overarching sentiment of F1, it's got thumbs up.

You're whoever did it in the 80s did it the best. That's right. Yeah, it's basically like what if Brad Pitt Days of Thunder? Yeah. Yeah. What if he was better than anyone else had driving cars because he did it the old fashioned way, but he didn't like. He gave so little of a fuck that he was like just doing it in shitty like he was like working at a bumper car stand. It's actually like, well, it's I mean,

there's obviously a market for this. I'm now realizing they really should have made him just like big on the bumper car circuit, like that's how that's where he started because he starts like doing these low profile like racing and like dune buggy races and shit. Like if they had just had him like really just in it for the bumper car, straight up, just straight up. Wait, did you see F1 of all the movies? We saw it as part of a sponsorship.

Oh, God, I got it. Yeah. Yeah. Did you buy the popcorn bucket? No, I didn't. What is it? Is it a helmet? Yeah, it's a helmet. How does the helmet have a mouth attached to it? Yeah, it's like this way.

It's it's a helmet and you open the visor and inside it's a it's a like cast of Brad Pitt's face, but mouth open mouth That's where that's where the popcorn goes. I'm in that's where popcorn goes I All those buckets are you're supposed to fuck them Is there a single one that you are thing? Like they seem to be going in that direction like obviously with the dune one. Yeah That one I guess though

that one's more about humanities deep-seated psychological need to Dream about things to fuck. Yeah, like from the movie from the movie. Yeah. Yeah from the start That is my yard. Yeah, Frank. Whatever just a big a big gaping desert hole. Yeah, just a big asshole in the desert just Swimming what if a big asshole was swimming through the desert? Essentially the edit gave you the most we got you high and it was gasoline All these movies are just about huffing gasoline, huh?

Is it gasoline? Does it give you gasoline? I mean, basically, a spice is a thing that allows commerce. And they wonder why this generation likes to eat ass. Did you? With this Dune movie, just pure ass eating propaganda. You know? Ass, yeah, the big desert ass.

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We take deep dive into America, share consciousness. This is the episode that record Monday morning, Pacific times 10. It's 10 Pacific. That's true. We are telling you what happened over the weekend. What's happening here on Monday morning where we are. My name is Jack O'Brien. I'm thrilled to be joined by special guest co-host, Mr. Andrew T.

What up? I have a surprisingly lifelike gun lighter. Ooh. That got left at my house. Is that how big that gun is? It's tiny. No, it's smaller than the real gun the real thing yeah, but it can't it's it's it is also I believe a

German Luger. Yeah. Yeah, if I recall so it's smaller than as depicted. It looks like one of the small guns that a Woman would pull out of her garter belt in like an action movie, you know? Yeah, yeah. It's teeny tiny. Derringer? Derringer. Derringer's derringer vibes. Anyway, this is the worst thing to light anything with, obviously, but it's just here. Here, let me get that for you, Mr. President. That that's the end of you.

Unfortunately, and that's the end of a cool, a cool, not so unfortunate. Well, we'll reserve judgment on the end of me being fortunate or unfortunate. But that is the energy you must know that Andrew T is bringing to this podcast today. Miles Gray is rushing back to get here for tomorrow's episode. But Andrew's bringing derringer energy. Can I just say, when we were scheduling this, it was like, just in case Miles can't make it back from the airport in time. And I was like, there's no way this... No one has ever made it back from the airport in time.

While traveling with a two-year-old? Yeah. I was just like, it's fine. I'm here. I'm ready. He's got this. Anyways, Andrew, thrilled to have you here. This is the episode where we tell you what's going on in the world. What happened over the weekend. We also get to know each other and ourselves a little bit better by telling you

stuff that we think is underrated and overrated. Andrew, is there something that you think is underrated? I think underrated, listen, this is obviously we're moving into deep fucking territory, but I think I just, something switched in me this weekend and I just had all the fries I wanted, which was admittedly too much. I actually woke up this morning not feeling amazing.

Yeah. But I just had like way too many fries. I don't know. I think I'm just in fuck it indulgence times. Yeah. Who cares? What am I went to the Alamo draft house. I think it's OK to do that again. I think they handled most of their labor disputes. There should be more up on that. And I just got fucking fries and I'll say not amazing chicken sandwich. But I watched 28 years later again, which I every time every day. Well, part of it is I have the like the equivalent of like the movie pass for Alamo. So it's not that I

necessarily wanted to watch the movie a second time, but it was one of those like someone wanted to see it. I was like, I have no like it's all no legitimate reason to not go. Yeah, really? Because it's free. I feel like those movie passes like turn you into what I used to be with movies. Want to just be like, what's on TV right now? Yeah, yeah. It's like what's on and it changes your relationship to movies because even if you don't actually end up seeing it again perpetually in your head, it's like, it doesn't matter.

I can just watch it again. So you know, frequent like not like frequent bathroom breaks, but like, I'm not even considering is this a good time to go to the bathroom? I just go. Yeah. Yeah. Cause who cares? I'll figure it out later. And the fries underrated is too many fries. Just go. And then I went to trivia night, did not do well at trivia night, but I just had a fuck. Man, I'm so sorry. You know, yeah, yeah. Just like who cares? And then I went to trivia night, did not do well at trivia night, but I just had a- Fuck man, I'm so sorry.

Fumble prize. You know, we were on a two week run of victories and this one we biffed it. Did you know Rodin had a different statue called the kiss? Not a medal. Yeah. It was part of a piece called, I think something about the gates of hell.

Wait, Rodin is thinker. Is that thinker? Yeah. I mean, I feel hit. I'm not like a fucking like, you know, I understand I'm not a deep thinker about art history, but you gotta, you gotta acknowledge your dance gotta be on the one hit wonders list as far as thinkers, thinkers so much above everything else is the kiss, just that same dude, but he's like leaning down and trying to kiss him. He just went, that's actually what you didn't know about the thinker was what he was thinking about. And it was, uh, trying to kiss. Could I, could I, could I kiss? Um, All right. Let's see my underrated.

Have you heard of the American lean? I whatever I'm about to say, I think American lean is American lean like Budweiser. It's like lean except for the extra sprite. It's mixed with Budweiser. I did see someone drinking a water bottle full of something purple, which was probably like a Kool-Aid thing they made, but it's very hard for me not to imagine

that was just full of Promethazine. So this is something I can't fully, I haven't been able to fully fact check, but according to the CIA, my favorite source for things, this is a real thing. Yeah, including the CIA, those socialist governments are coming to get you specifically. Exactly. Yeah.

So the CIA says America's lean left and we need to get them to lean more to the... No. It's this idea that when they prepare somebody to try and go undercover in another country and that person was raised in the United States. One of the things like they, you know, they're the standard things that like makes sense is just like custom differences. Like they wear their wedding rings on different fingers. They eat differently than we do. Like they cut, I guess, I don't know. It's something about us like moving the fork back and forth between hands, which I didn't even

know I was doing. I thought that was like a British thing. Yeah. But okay. And then the big one is that they say that Americans are slouchy and that like we're just always leaning on shit. Oh, as I read this on my phone, I was like, oh fuck, I'm like literally leaning against a wall like I'd been gut shot. Like, is I don't you then? Right. But can you train that out of someone?

I'm assuming when it's like life and death, like it's just a manner of awareness. But then so I read on I got I stood up I was like, I don't fucking do that. This is stupid. I was just doing that at the, in that moment by, it was a complete coincidence. And then they start talking about how the other thing we do is like, even when we're standing up and not leaning on something, we favor one leg or the other. I realized I was like doing that too. I was like basically only on one leg. How is that? I mean, yeah. How is that not, you know, I'm just trying to figure out the ways that that wouldn't be universal. Right.

Yeah. Like the reason I do is cause I'm so tired. Yeah. And isn't everybody else tired? Do they have more energy in other countries? I mean, I guess they have better healthcare and better access to days that they don't work. They're not just always working. Yeah. I guess potentially you'd be less tired. I will say when I like if you ever like go somewhere as a tourist and like the

other tourists there are European and they're like, yes, we're in like the middle of our six week holiday. And you know what I bet, I wonder if the training for this is something basically like you're doing a parody of a German tourist, right? Cause it's like, like, I'd like the bolt upright, like posture, just do the fielder method. It's like a, yeah, just follow a German around stand boldly too far. I, Just do the fielder method.

Follow a German around. I bet if you put on a fanny pack and then just put slightly too much weight in it, it would get your body compensating you the right way. Yeah. Try it. I will say, did you ever go live anywhere abroad where this is, I guess this is a weird thing to ask a white person where you like fit in because you fit in here. Um, my, but basically what happened was, you're at fit in everywhere. I did, I did a semester abroad in college. And that was my first time, certainly,

certainly the longest time I'd spent in Asia and also the first time by myself or on my own without my parents. I was with a bunch of clearly mostly American, a lot of Asian American, but a lot of white college students. Even when I was with just a couple friends or with all Chinese people, the way, but even when I was with just like a couple friends or with all all like Chinese people the way like street vendors would Like fucking like laser in on me and you're meeting me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah was like a little like come on guys I mean and so I finally asked someone and They said the way you can tell just visually that I'm an American and this

was like a long time ago. I'm like pretty old. So like there's also like just like a difference. This was sort of like pre China's recent big economic boom and I wonder if there was like, I don't know, like general like fucking nutrition and hormones and shit like that access. But basically the things that my friend, my Chinese friend told me that really made it impossible for me to blend in, where I was bigger than everyone else and I walked too confidently. That's right. There you go. You're not trying to like actively disappear.

Yeah. So maybe I could have tried to blend in. But like, yeah, they were just like, oh, yeah, we can tell you're American. And then the third one was like, your jeans are too nice, which I think wasn't true, but they were just trying to add something else that wasn't like physical to me. I think they were trying to get you to give them your jeans. I should have. Yeah. The other thing I'd,

I've definitely heard people talk about how hot guys like lean against stuff. Like, like, and I can picture it You know like famous like pop idols or like for some reason I can picture Patrick Swayze leaning against stuff Yeah, yeah, so I'm wondering if it's like a like James Dean I can picture leaning or like always like kind of being off to one side. Yeah, I'm wondering if it like is actually just a very Uncut like below the level of consciousness trends. So we're all level of consciousness. Yeah. So I don't know.

Let's make up a word here and call it subconscious. Yeah. Granted mine is more like a drunk guy who's barely staying upright and less like a, you know, hot guy putting his arm against the door jam. Jack, how are we going to fix this about ourselves? I don't know. Like we need to see, we need to join the CIA. I'm holding out. Jack, how are we going to fix this about ourselves? I don't know.

Like we need to see. I'm holding out. Well, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I need to join this. I'm holding on my arms on the zoom or try to balance myself out. Yeah. Just straight out. Creep. Yeah. We did this anyways. I'm curious to hear from the listeners. We're all going to have to learn how to blend in somewhere else. So have you ever? We can't get started now. As we learn that, you know, as we figure out that we're going to more and more. If you're listening to this and you're not one of the like 25 FBI agents that is forced to listen to this, you're going to have to learn to blend in abroad. So and if you're one of the 25 FBI agents, let us know how we're doing.

Yeah, let me know what you know about the lean. I'm curious like where it comes from. Is it just capitalism grinding us down to a fine powder? Or is it there? There's another chance that it is just like because I feel like a lot of like institutional knowledge like this was derived from just someone saying some shit off the cuff. Sure. It became. Yes, so just like, you know, someone just said this. It'd be total bullshit and everybody leans everywhere.

Or it has like some degree of veracity, but how rigorous could this be? Right. If anyone lives in another country and like notices people are just like bolt upright all the time, I want to hear about that. Or extra slouchy. Maybe it's just that we're we're we occupy a middle zone. Right. We're not committed. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Or it's all of our American dollars, our same size American dollars really fucking up the. That's right. Is it the wallet thing I do? I did. Did you ever hear about this? Well, we're really fucking just this is what the show is about today. Um, right. I this this feels like another piece of a potential other piece of pseudoscience

that I was always told is that like men's wallets in the back pocket like fuck up their power, like make their posture asymmetrical in a way that is unhealthy. I heard that in Seinfeld when George has a big wall. That's the only place that someone told me that maybe. Okay, good. Great. What's up? You think's overrated Andrew? I Should have been thinking about that I can go with mine. Mine's really dumb and quick. Okay, just brands attempted to cash in on memes

like just I was watching this product released from Heinz and Buffalo Wild Wings. Oh God. Atlantis Brett tweeted you guys really nailed the timing on this and it's Buffalo Wild Wings tweeting be the first to try the mustard only at Buffalo Wild Wings. order any beef item and get a free bottle of Heinz and then it's a bottle Heinz really released a limited edition mustard Chipotle, honey and

It's just so the timing so bad that not not the timing's bad It's just like so late and like dumb like it's just yeah It just made me wonder if specifically we like memes because they go bad Not the timing's bad, it's just like so late and like dumb. Like it's just so. It just made me wonder if specifically we like memes because they go bad. They're ephemeral. At the exact moment that like a corporation is like getting around to, you know,

having gone through all the packaging and design meetings to determine like the exact shade of yellow and like the number of A's to use and mustard. Um, like that at that moment it's, it's like perfectly time to for everybody to be like, Oh, fuck you. That sucks. The reason I'm like,

I think that can't be it is like, I feel like pretty famously we are in the most like corporation brain racing. That's true. Like culture humanly possible. But I feel like we're trying to fight. There's a part of us that's trying to fight back and recognize that this sucks shit. Not the main part of us. The main part of us just fucking loves it. I don't know. But bag bag, Buffalo Wild Wings.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the main part of us. But some part of us deep down is like, ugh, that sucks. I don't know. I mean, I think that's our age or cultural age showing. I genuinely think thinking that this sucks because a corporation did it is one hallmark of not even the old universally but a specific like young gen X young gen X are the only people that still think that there's an idea of selling out right and literally everyone else on the planet yeah

it's just like also young gen X also doesn't they think I want to be JD Vance And also Young Jen Hex also does it. They think I want to be JD Vance. That's right. Yeah, I don't know. It's cool. I think it's so bad that maybe it becomes funny. Here's why that is hard is Is that like no one remembers? Right. I think that's it.

Meem means just like really got us to like, I can't laugh for I can't enjoy this even for a second more. Right. I don't know what. And one thing I do like. All right. Let's let's contort this into my overrated. Yeah, let's, let's contort this into my overrated. Yeah, let's do it. I do like how I think I guess Twitter mostly and Tik Tok to some degree has turned everyone into like a joyless professional comedian as far

as like comedy goes. Heck. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's the hack of it, but there's also just like, like the way they respond, like the way I have not laughed. I don't like going to see stand up comedy that much anyway, but like the last couple times I've had to do something. The only time I laugh is when someone is fucking bombing and like, but when I genuinely enjoy something, I did this the other day, it was, you know, a very common experience. But like I was sitting with my friend, uh, uh, something that came up on the group chat

that we were both on, but other people were also on it. And my friend texted something funny. I joylessly gave it a little ha ha. And I genuinely found it funny, but I was sitting there right with him I could have left right I Think I think as consumers of comedy the internet has made us all dead inside the way that like Comedians are dead inside to comedy and I think it's great. So underrated is not that Underrated is everybody's

having the comedic joy drilled out, turning the world into the Simpsons writers room where like nobody ever laughs. Yeah, no, no. I the degree to which like even the most delightful joke in a writers room, especially after a long day, all you can say is that's funny. That's fun. It's going in and we move on is delightful.

Just like everyone, everyone just fucking hates whatever job they're in. And now apparently consuming comedy is everyone's job. That's right. That's what we do. And isn't joylessly consuming comedy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's take a quick. And isn't that right? Joylessly consuming comedy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. So they just ended their 2024 term. Unsurprisingly, just a ton of fucking garbage rulings. Yeah. They decided that Texas's porn ID law is good, is fine, despite the obvious privacy risks. And we've talked before about how. So basically, if you go to a porn website in Texas, they're like, yeah, that's fine. Just show us your, scan your license to us and we'll, yeah, that's fine. Just show us your scan, scan your license

to us and we'll hold onto that for you. Yeah. And people, in addition to that being weird, there are some concerns that this law would enable censorship of resources related to abortion, gender affirming care, safer sex and LGBTQ identity. Obviously. I am a little surprised that the lobbyists, but like, like, I mean, a lot of it is being enacted by courts and I guess it's they don't care, but I am a little surprised like how much Republicans are like really executing on this on on all the like, they're really dog who caught the car about culture war stuff that like, I would genuinely have thought that, and maybe, it is also true that they simply do not care, so maybe it doesn't matter, but I'm surprised that the like, corporatists who genuinely do not give a fuck about abortion,

fucking pornography, like, you know, sexuality, any of it. I'm surprised how much of this stuff they're enacting. Because I guess I just assumed, you know, it seemed like the gentleman's agreement was like, obviously, these will simply be cudgels that are passed back and forth. And like, you know, we the people who run the Democratic and the Republican Party obviously don't care one way or the other about this stuff. So I'm surprised at how much of this stuff they're actually enacting. Yeah. Um, it feels like they're, yeah.

I mean, in the past, like their whole thing was like, we're the rich guy party. We'll give you like tax breaks and all that shit. Well, you know, you, you buy us yachts and are like vacations on your yachts and we'll, you know, keep an eye out for your best interest. They are also the only, like, I think they do have a mandate to like, I think part of what people were responding to with Trump was like, well, just it can't be

like neoliberalism anymore. So like do something different. And yeah, they are getting away with this shit because yeah, it's like this is actually going to go through it. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. It's wild. But it does like I do think they have the courage of their convictions like they have like the Republican Party.

Yeah. That's the surprising part is I did not, I thought the K-fabe was like, oh man, it's just laws and the constitution. We would love to ban pornography slash abortion slash queer people, but like, I don't know, like, sorry, these laws. And now they're just like really running with it in a way that I'm just surprised.

I just I'm surprised that that they have chosen to abandon the kayfabe of it. It's just like it's just like they're they're they're doing this stuff. I'm also like a little curious. I mean, I would have you know, I know I'm sure they think that all of these like young Trump youth angry men will be down with this like anti porn stuff because they think that all of these like young Trump youth, angry men will be down with this like anti-porn stuff. Cause they think that they're all Instagram ads about like finding Jesus and whatever. And you know, not jacking off. But I, I, you know, I know that, I mean, this law hits their base harder than anything I've ever seen.

Harder than they realize. I would say. Yeah. Hell yeah. I'm curious how, what the popularity of this bill has been in Texas for the past year. In Texas. I mean, but also like, like to me, it's like, what is, what does neo-Nazi twitch think about this law? Right. Yeah. That's the, that's the thing that I'm like, these people can't like it. What is what is neo-Nazi twitch think about this law? Right. Yeah. That's the thing that I'm like, these people can't like it.

That's their main thing. Yeah. Yeah. Just like, let's give give the government our IDs. Yeah. As often as as we possibly can. Yeah. This is, by the way, the same case earlier that had justice Alito asking if porn hub features

the modern day equivalent of Gore Vidal essays. Yeah. Or William Buckley. He also mentioned why he'd have to contractually obligated to. Here's a bigger question that I a fucking moron should not even probably not even have the right to ask, which is that like, I feel like every time like the raft of, I mean, look, Supreme court rulings are going to be fascist for the rest of our natural lives. Seems like it. Yeah. So I am a little surprised at the sort of like reporting the constant report.

I mean the, everything in here, this was lost five to 10 years ago. Right. Like, like, like all of these were inevitabilities and they're just rolling in now. But like this, this was an issue a long time. It's and to keep it interesting, they have been telling these fucking crazy stories in the mainstream media about like, is Judge Amy Coney Barrett like going to turn around and surprise Trump and become like the new liberal justice? And yeah, it turns out.

Nope. Yeah, I just is it just that like the fucking media needs to have the credulity of a golden retriever to function? I don't understand every of these kind of neoliberal left-wing, not left-wing, sorry, center-left, which is actually center-right in, like publications, like they might as well just like print articles about like how like my dad says he has my nose but I can feel my nose right here. Like what the fuck are you talking about? Amy Coney Barrett might become liberal. Like she, there was a moment where Trump walked by her where she like kind of gave him, she was like servant cunt a little bit. Yeah.

And then she sneezed. So it might have been that she just had to sneeze. We're unsure. But our people are working through the implications at this moment. I guess I'm just asking. I'm like. I don't know and I don't understand, but like by far, the most predictive thing in our entire life is these act, these Nazis going to act like Nazis. Yes. And that's always been more correct than any other worldview that's

right so I'm just like why why do these people get to pretend like there's something to report about here yeah yeah sorry I'm just like I don't know why I it's probably just despair that's making me more frustrated with NPR than the fucking Supreme Court Did not see that one coming. Yeah, how could you not see this coming? Why do we listen to you if you couldn't see this coming you fucking idiots? Yes, that's the big one that a lot of people are talking about is ending universal universal or nationwide injunctions Which was one of the ways for the courts to push back against Trump, basically taking over and ruling as a autocrat, essentially,

which yeah, it's just, and that's places like NPR and the Atlantic have been talking about how Amy Coney bears actually like could be a secret liberal because of like some of her, uh, rulings. And this order just reveals that she's what we knew she was from the start. Like she has looked at the beginning of this administration with its, you know, many oversteps of, uh, you know,

everything that they're supposed to care about as conservatives that America is like supposed to be about, just arresting people for being brown. And her question was like, how do we get these activist judges to leave him alone and let Trump cook is essentially what we're like the Atlantic inventing a fantasy persona for, you know, any of the justices, but in this case, Justice Barrett, and then pretending to be surprised when that fantasy that they invented did not turn out to be true. Like, that's what like, that's like, that's like for a child. That's what a child believes. That's what like, that's like, that's like for a child. That's what a child believes. That's right. This is the, I, Oh God,

I'm so again, I don't know why I'm more angry with these, but it's like they're power hungry Nazis. They've been power hungry Nazis and they have never demonstrated anything other than they are power hungry Nazis. Why? Why do you write about them in any other way? Right. This episode is going to get me put on another list. Yeah, I think we're pretty safely on a list and it's just a matter of where the... Yeah. Where they...

Yeah. Got to move these guys up the list again. What's my dear FBI agent? Do you think it's an FBI agent? I think thankfully when it comes down to shit that is boring and that they don't want to listen to, they thankfully, I imagine have offloaded a bunch of this to AI. And so an AI FBI agent. Yeah. FBAI.

FBAI agent. If you're listening to this, hit us up. Yeah. Let us know where we are in the power rankings. I like to imagine a world where the FBI agent that was put on this show, it doesn't find If you're listening to this, hit us up. Yeah. Let us know where we are in the power rankings. I like to imagine a world where the FBI agent that was put on this show, it doesn't find it boring and actually falls in love with us and like comes around. And Amy Coney Barrett, they then talk to Amy Coney Barrett and then she like starts a revolution from inside the Supreme Court. I just imagine, I imagine a world where the FBI agent,

of course, just buys, I want to say a Casper mattress. Oh, GDZ. And just sleeps a little bit easier at night. That's my main concern. When I ask how do they sleep at night, I really want to know how do they sleep at night and should we get them involved in some sort of sleep study?

But yeah, anyways, Trump called it a monumental victory to the constant for the constitution. Yeah. Uh, yeah. Yeah. I mean it's really bad, but anything, anything out of the Supreme court, I think it's just like this weird thing where none of us, like human normal people have kind of, I mean, cause it's like, we constantly are like, Oh my gosh, like human timescales, human minds, we don't understand. Like I think the fact that this basically operates on a five

to 10 year cycle. Yeah. Should be. Or longer. It makes it so hard to get your mind around. Cause people are like, what can we do about this? And the thing we can do about it is, I don't know, go back in time. Like it's done and it's been done and it's been an inevitability.

So like there is nothing you can do about this and there won't be for quite some time. Right. Asterisk, obviously don't consider the other options. Right. I'm not advocating any of the other options. No Pelican Breed. Legally. Shit.

Yeah. No, you know what I mean? I'm just like, yeah, this is it. This and this, everything that's happening here was a dead bang, a hundred percent certainty. The second they got confirmed. Yeah. Yeah. So like, I don't know. What are you going to do? Wait, what? Amy Coney Barrett? Yeah. From Notre Dame, Amy Coney Barrett, the one who's like part of a part of a weird cult that thinks Catholicism is too lax. That one. Thanks. Yeah.

Oh, oh, she's a yeah, we're going to pin our our Aaron Sorkin as hopes on her. It's really Aaron Sorkin fan fiction. Her her fucking integrity, the integrity and pinning it Aaron Sorkin ass hopes on her. It's really Aaron Sorkin fan fiction. Her fucking integrity, the integrity, impending it on the integrity of these loathsome Nazis is what that's it. That's the damage folks like, like Sorkin, not to say a lot of Sorkin, but just like all Sorkin's fault personally, just kind of like this like like kind of whatever centrist Democrat media It's like we're all people we can appeal to the integrity and we can sink our way out of this by the rules

It's like I'm so sorry This is where we are. This is where that goes. You can't and you never have been able to Do you see that Sorkin is writing social network to I did And feels like directing it The boat has been missed Yeah, I feel like we're gonna be less surprised by the sinister undertones of Facebook this time around yeah, it's like Yeah, good good. I guess I can't know. Yeah, good. Good.

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Did not realize the first one was a hit certified dead bang hit baby. Yeah. Was that a when when did Golden Bachelor come out? Twenty twenty three. OK, twenty twenty three. And then the following year, the Golden Bachelorette, which was less

of a hit because America is fucked up. Yeah. Yeah. But I think the lesson they learned from the first one was they just want to make this a fantasy of old of old guys. So their bachelor this time is a 66 year old. So the first time it was like a 72 year old. This time they're like, let's bring it. Let's make them a little bit younger. And then the guy they picked is a former NFL linebacker, Mel Owens. And he made headlines for a podcast appearance where he said

that he would only be interested in contestants between the ages of 45 and 60 Yeah, specifically saying if they're over 60, I'm cutting them Which I mean the the real like obviously fucked up part about this is I do Sort of believe that in his mind. He is stating Above what he would generally have considered his dating. He's actually being like, he thinks he's being cool about it. Right. I think there's a strong chance. Oh, for sure. Of that.

There's a chance also that he just thinks the golden bachelor is about piss play. That's, you know, it's, they, they should be more specific and this is about kidney health. That's right. piss play. find it very hard to get invested in any of this stuff. Cause you're such a romantic or you just can't deal, deal with the shit. I just need narrative and laser guns, apparently cause I'm a fucking child. I don't know. I, I, I guess it's just the, the like drama of it feels. Part of me too is like for a couple of years, I, I, not even a couple years, probably a year, I was like working for like, like this, like unscripted producer, but reality

TV producer. Sure. And so I don't know if like seeing even a little bit behind the scenes because like, I don't, I don't know, that can't be it. No, no one's under the illusion that this is real. Um, but like, but is it like more scripted than like people might expect? Are they like, okay, let's take that again. And in this time you say these specific words. I don't think it's, it's not that it's more cause I do think people people's real personalities. I think it's really just like watching a process that I personally did not

enjoy very much. Like the producer kind of feeling like a writer, storyteller, which is what they are. I understand that, but it's not the way I like to write. And so I just found it very unpleasant and now I find it hard to watch. But I think there's a me problem we're describing. Yeah, it couldn't be the Golden Bachelor. It is pure as the name suggests, the first two soulmates who got matched up on the first one

got married for three months. So, you know. Would you, what's your, in your past dating life, what was it, what's your like blind date situation? Have you ever done anything like that, Jack? Gone on a blind date, I don't think I had. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think I ever did that. That feels right. But what about a blind date with like a fucking two month clock where you had to

get married at the end? I did do that. Yeah. And that's how I met my wife. You know what this is? This is like a real, like, speaking of America's like unbelievably conservative, like underbelly, this is really just getting us back to arrange marriages. This is, this is what America yearns for is folks in hierarchical transactional patriarchy. And good clock with a clock on it. You good. You're getting married, right? I guess, I guess good. I guess I enjoy this. It does. I mean,

seems to have a hold on the Supreme Court. Like there's they are definitely pulling us in a fucking handmaid's tale direction that you're saying is one of the first times that we've seen them resist the pool of capital to be like, yeah, I don't know. We know that the thing that is like a little odd. Well, I mean, maybe it's not, but I'm like, eventually the global market is going to realize this at some tipping point. And I think there's a chance we're past it.

Like investment in America is completely untenable. Right. Like when I guess not soon because it hasn't. investment in America is completely untenable. Right. Like, like when it, I mean, I guess not soon because it hasn't, but obviously, once this starts, the shits, this, all this cultural shit starts losing people money, then someone will have to like come and step into it. We'll step in and be like, I'm going to be America's McKinsey consultant. Yeah. No one's losing money yet. So, so nothing will change.

The pornographers are losing money and I'm surprised there cause they're not pornographers. They're big data companies. I'm sure that they don't have better lobbyists that could win this case. That's sorry. That was the section. One thing I was going to say, you're up guys. Although I guess on some level they like this a fucking ID porn stuff. because yeah, it's just more data. Like that, I guess that would be the answer, right? Is that if you realize that all these porn companies are just collecting data about people, then yeah, this is just more data for them to collect in like a smaller sandbox of like a smaller sandbox, but one that you really

have. Yeah. Right. I guess. And that has been the trend and data is that like, because right. It feels like we're going away from big data scraping to like deep data scraping of a smaller audience. Yeah.

Is that possible? Let me know. Let me know. Let us know. People in Texas, what's it like jacking off in exchange for giving the government your driver's license? Is that weird? Does it come back to bite you? Does that mean there's a, is there a new market opportunity for half a torn up hustler that you found in

the woods by the crick? I feel like it must be right. Right. Like just otherwise. Oh my God. We're going back to those days. Yeah. And isn't that what we all wanted anyways? Yeah. Yeah. That's when America was great. Speaking of when America was great, uh, and about to be the Senate, uh, voted to open debate on Trump's bill with only a Rand Paul and Tom Tillis voting against it. Um, other GOP holdouts were persuaded during a quote series of closed door

negotiations with JD Vance. Just fucking chilling. Oh my God. Imagine being trapped in a room with that fucking freak. The smell alone. For some context on why they're having to like really twist some arms here. The bill is very unpopular with people. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, again, it like no one actually likes any Republican policy. Broadly speaking. Yeah.

Yeah. Nothing holds well broadly, though. Yeah. And also a bunch of Republican policies billionaires, this is what I was talking about in part one, there's a bunch of shit they do not care about one way or the other, any of the culture war stuff. So yeah, this is, I mean, it's just, I don't know why, I feel like so naive saying surprising. But yeah, I guess I'm just a little surprised that like the ham handedness with which

they're doing all this business. But yeah, no one, no one likes this. It's going to happen. It was inevitable. Yeah. Neo-liberalism really did not hold up. Like a lot of the things that I think part of me was like, well, they'll always like recognize that it's profitable to target, have like pride merchandise and stuff like that. They'll always recognize that it's not good to side with the Nazis or in this case, like it's not good to side with the people who have the really unpopular economic agenda that only

helps rich people or in the case of the Supreme Court that it's not popular to you know demand that people tell you their Social Security number before they can jack off but all that stuff really didn't hold up. It crumbled fast. It went fast. Yeah well it didn't crumble fast as much as the thing that was good was always the edifice that was never there before. Right. Yeah. Yeah. It was just the appearance. Yeah. So the appearance crumbled, but there was nothing there anyway, which is like, God, true. But yes, you're right. It's depressing. I guess the only teeny teeny teeny tiny silver lining to this is as we've seen many times, like these, but the billionaires who are making these decisions with their guts are no more smart than anyone else. In fact, often they're very stupid. So, you know,

and when there's this little pushback for what they want, it's, yeah, I think it's going to lead them in a continue to lead them in a direction that's going to be more and more unpopular. So we'll see. I, yeah, I mean, we'll just see, but yeah, this is going to be bad, but it was inevitable. So I guess what it is is like so much of like modern liberal hand wringing is griping about the inevitable. And I guess I just wish there was a little more action. Yeah.

No, no. Well, because it's inevitable by the rules that they play by, right? And so that's, they're just, they have to write fan fiction where Amy Coney Barrett like comes and saves the day. Yeah. But just back to the big, beautiful bill and where it's polling, it currently has approval ratings between 19 and 29% underwater.

Like it's 29% more unpopular than it is popular, which is bad. And so this was one thing that gave me a little bit like a silver lining. The White House is attempting to smooth things over with the most like Dem ass thing. They posted a cartoon of Trump at McDonald's with like a scroll of like all the things

that the big beautiful bill does well, like off to the side of it, just like real taking a thing that people liked about him and putting it next to like really ineffective bullet pointed propaganda. Just text scrolling being like, you know, it restores fiscal sanity, permanently secures our borders, modernize their traffic control. Next to a cartoon of him doing the fries at McDonald's being like, remember this? Remember when you like this? Yeah, feels like the Democratic Party. Yeah, I think the thing that is consistently like a little heartening is how much like I think I feel like conservatives, especially feel like conservatives especially

feel like, I think one of the reasons why they love AI art so much is they are so bad at creating that they think, first of all, that this is good and good enough. This is the best. Yeah, this is the best it can be. This is like what really bridges the gap. This was the thing they were like, creative people hate us, but now we have a robot that can do it badly. Right. bridges the gap.

because their claims are false and they couldn't find the documentation of it because it doesn't exist. That's right. So I don't know. Tiny silver linings is that reality does not comport with their beliefs. Yeah. Hey, we still got that. I feel like we'll have that for a while. And we'll take that to our unmarked graves. Just clinging to that as we're buried alive. Baby. Yup.

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they're too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart. That's Kurt Vonnegut. And I think that describes a lot of what's going on with AI. Until it isn't, I suppose. Yeah. All right. Well, Andrew T thank you so much for joining us on this Monday morning trends episode. Where can people find you follow you? All that good stuff. I don't know. Yo, this is racist. Andrew T I started blue sky and tweeting more

for no good reason. It's the best reason from my phone. Twitter, you know? Yeah. Oh, no. Yeah. Yeah. I've been off Twitter basically. Hey, mostly it was that I had a bunch. I watch and or and I wanted to tweet a bunch of very stupid jokes. Is it really good? And or must watch? It's good until you think about I don't don't look at it for as like political anything. I think that's there's a there's a big kind of like, oh, in these times, what a what an important thing. I'll just say I'll paraphrase my my tweet, which was my blue sky tweet, which was essentially that this is in season one of and or two. But there's a character named Mon Mothma, you may remember her as the leader of the rebel alliance

in the first Star Wars movies. And her story is played out pretty fully in Andor season two and one. And I just did realize that like, such a big part of Andor depends on the idea of a rich, like rich white senator sacrificing everything to create a resistance. And I'm like, oh, that's the part. That is less believable than a man that can use telekinesis to

wave a laser sword around. It's like, what if Amy Coney Barrett or what if, what if it's literally that with Nancy Pelosi? Like, yeah, what if to lead the socialist revolution? What if Nancy Pelosi was doing what conservatives accused George Soros of doing? What if Nancy Pelosi was secretly taking her money to fund armed freedom fighters? Wow. And I'm so sorry. No, I'm going to be waiting for that.

That's where I'll be. If you need me, I'll be waiting for that to happen. Save us, Nancy. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves. Get your vaccines while you still can, which as we'll talk about tomorrow might not be too long. Get your flu shots.

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