The Daily Zeitgeist - Coldplay TrendsCam 7/17: Coldplay KissCam, MAGA Crashout, State Dept., Tiny Chef, UNO
Episode Date: July 17, 2025In this edition of Coldplay Trends Cam, Jack and Miles discuss THAT couple on Coldplay's KissCam, Trump supporters burning their MAGA hats, job cuts at the State Dept., Tiny Chef getting uncancelled b...y Nickelodeon, UNO coming to Vegas casino tables (sort of) and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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                                         So what happened to Chappaquiddick?
                                         
                                         Well, it really depends on who you talk to.
                                         
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                                         Hello the internet and welcome to this episode of Coldplay Trends Cam.
                                         
                                         Don't don't want to get caught on that Coldplay Trends Cam because you might end up at the night
                                         
                                         iced. My name is Jack O'Brien that over there is Mr. Miles Gray. Hey straight I'm just right back
                                         
                                         from the Coldplay concert last night. It was a fucking movie y'all. Amazing. My life is like a
                                         
    
                                         movie for real. My life is like a movie for real
                                         
                                         there was some really awesome stuff and i'm glad everyone just i think people were fucking with
                                         
                                         the video i posted on tiktok um where the guys kiss yeah almost that video that's a great question
                                         
                                         they should they should win a that any or a i know p-bitty anyways, we are of course talking about the video
                                         
                                         That everybody's seen by now where the Coldplay concert gold look now look Coldplay cheating CEO
                                         
                                         Yes, the cold Coldplay has a kiss cam segment of their concert which hell. Yeah
                                         
                                         Yeah, good job. Coldplay. You want to be like a minor league baseball game exactly
                                         
                                         Exactly what you get when you come to a.
                                         
    
                                         You can also you can also get Coldplay Ice Cream Sundays and Coldplay baseball
                                         
                                         helmets. Yeah.
                                         
                                         It is the country's best.
                                         
                                         You know, they do that.
                                         
                                         CBY Chris Martin is an entertainer and he just riffs his way around the crowd
                                         
                                         and the kiss can we talk about this tomorrow,
                                         
                                         but we can't not talk about it in trends also.
                                         
                                         The Cam settles on two people who are for some reason,
                                         
    
                                         and this has to have something to do with them being
                                         
                                         just like high powered executives
                                         
                                         who nothing bad has happened to for the past decade.
                                         
                                         It has not crossed their mind that in this concert
                                         
                                         where they're going around showing different people
                                         
                                         like embracing and having romantic moments,
                                         
                                         that they will get shown on the camera.
                                         
                                         And when they do, the dude goes straight down the barrel
                                         
    
                                         of the camera, eyes go wide, she goes hands to face,
                                         
                                         and Chris Martin goes, uh, okay.
                                         
                                         Uh, they're either having an affair or are very shy, uh, because they're
                                         
                                         clearly having an affair.
                                         
                                         He's got his arms like wrapped around her from the back.
                                         
                                         Very high school couple.
                                         
                                         Yeah, bro.
                                         
                                         Exactly.
                                         
    
                                         They're, they're, they're, they're the goth couple from high school.
                                         
                                         Do and, and, uh and people having an affair.
                                         
                                         He actually got around the chest. He kind of going for it.
                                         
                                         You know, if we're going to be... This clip, this frame right here,
                                         
                                         this is the frame where they are now processing that they are on the screen.
                                         
                                         Like this is like the news of Pruderfilm, I feel like.
                                         
                                         You can frame by frame this shit.
                                         
                                         They go, oh, that's what she...
                                         
    
                                         Her hands go to her face to cover up
                                         
                                         He does the elevator move the going down a floor
                                         
                                         Goes to the ground like an MMA ground fighter
                                         
                                         Yeah, yeah
                                         
                                         It is interesting to imagine what he's doing down there on the ground. And also look, she then nudges this woman next to her right here.
                                         
                                         Oh, see before, look in tomorrow's episode, I haven't put together who this woman is they're
                                         
                                         interacting with, but we did a little bit of research.
                                         
                                         She nudges this woman, she elbows her and she goes, can you believe the thing got in
                                         
    
                                         my ass?
                                         
                                         And then this lady got her hands on her face like, girl, what the fuck are you doing?
                                         
                                         She's got her hand to the side of her face. Like, I don't know you.
                                         
                                         And this is her boss.
                                         
                                         This is her boss.
                                         
                                         She was just promoted to VP of people at astronomer,
                                         
                                         the AI infrastructure, come wherever the fuck they are.
                                         
                                         An important lesson for everybody to learn
                                         
    
                                         is one of the ways that you can like,
                                         
                                         grow your career in the corporate landscape.
                                         
                                         One of the ways is like doing, doing good stuff, making money for the corporation,
                                         
                                         selling your soul, just a little piece at a time.
                                         
                                         Another way is like knowing about the dirt.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Hell yeah.
                                         
                                         You know, going full Epstein on that.
                                         
    
                                         Oh, this is good.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         You know what I mean?
                                         
                                         I mean, I don't know.
                                         
                                         She was, she was when it was a secret
                                         
                                         Piece of capital. Yeah. Yeah
                                         
                                         It's and she goes a shade of red that
                                         
                                         Tier two for unseen on a human body
                                         
    
                                         You do see it on white people who get too drunk on a cruise to the Caribbean
                                         
                                         Yeah, and I've been in the Sun too long. That's kind of of the shade of red. She is drunk and sunburned red. There were some white people at Wimbledon
                                         
                                         who were practicing the, I don't know.
                                         
                                         I think they were probably drunk,
                                         
                                         but they were also just like not,
                                         
                                         they hadn't heard of sunscreen
                                         
                                         and were just being burnt to a crisp out there.
                                         
                                         But anyways, this is a story that is developing
                                         
    
                                         at the speed of the internet.
                                         
                                         The entire internet's eyes are upon this.
                                         
                                         People are like, oh my God,
                                         
                                         his wife just dropped his name from her Facebook profile.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Her husband, blah, blah, blah.
                                         
                                         We don't have confirmation that the person
                                         
                                         people are saying is her husband.
                                         
    
                                         The amount of articles though,
                                         
                                         who are pointing out every single person in this video
                                         
                                         is wild to me.
                                         
                                         And also LinkedIn, yo,
                                         
                                         their LinkedIn pages are a fucking mess
                                         
                                         because the comment sections,
                                         
                                         people are just fucking kicking their teeth in.
                                         
                                         So this woman who was caught with the CEO,
                                         
    
                                         she was the chief people officer.
                                         
                                         Someone just said,
                                         
                                         I'd like to apply for like to a post she put on LinkedIn.
                                         
                                         They come, I'd like to apply to the role
                                         
                                         of chief people officer.
                                         
                                         I spoke to you at the Coldplay concert
                                         
                                         and I understand the role will be opening shortly.
                                         
                                         Thanks again for the opportunity.
                                         
    
                                         Oh my God.
                                         
                                         It's can't people just look, I mean,
                                         
                                         they had too much dip on their chip.
                                         
                                         You know what I mean?
                                         
                                         People used to go to motels.
                                         
                                         Okay. Right.
                                         
                                         And we're like a fucking- They went to a corporate outing
                                         
                                         and we're doing this in front of employees. Yeah. Right. And we're like a fucking a corporate outing. And we're doing this in
                                         
    
                                         front of employees. Yeah. Like that's sloppy. Come on now. Loppy. Anyway, where were we?
                                         
                                         Well, so we are still investigating whether this was done to distract the internet from
                                         
                                         Epstein. Could be still on unknown Trump supporters are burning mega hats. Yeah. I wonder, do you think he's gonna come out
                                         
                                         and comment on the Coldplay scandal?
                                         
                                         If he's like, try and build it, you know,
                                         
                                         try and get people interested.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         You've seen these people, probably Democrat.
                                         
    
                                         What a mess out folks, very bad stuff.
                                         
                                         It's like, bro, you're also a serial,
                                         
                                         what are we talking about?
                                         
                                         That kind of looks like Gavin Newsom,
                                         
                                         I'm just saying over here.
                                         
                                         Makes you Bill Simmons, huh?
                                         
                                         Celtics fan people are burning MAGA hats after he dismissed the Epstein files as a
                                         
                                         as a hoax and
                                         
    
                                         It's jokes bro. It's a hoax
                                         
                                         but then Caroline Levitt had to do some cleaning up because she was asked, like, what part of the hoax was a hoax and what's not a hoax?
                                         
                                         Are these jokes?
                                         
                                         And Caroline Levitt's like,
                                         
                                         the hoax is that the Democrats have been sitting on this
                                         
                                         and they didn't do anything
                                         
                                         and they don't actually care about transparency.
                                         
                                         It's like, that's not a good, that is not a good defense.
                                         
    
                                         That's not a good defense.
                                         
                                         Yeah, this is bad, but I do think it's worth listening to.
                                         
                                         Do you wanna hear that one or do you to hear how hard it is to be president?
                                         
                                         Because that's where she she then follows up.
                                         
                                         I want to hear both.
                                         
                                         To be honest with you.
                                         
                                         Both. OK. Could we hear both?
                                         
                                         Well, we heard the person's question and her being like,
                                         
    
                                         like the Democrats would have done any better or something like it's.
                                         
                                         It's just so clearly like, yeah, we fucked up.
                                         
                                         So did the Democrats.
                                         
                                         They're bad too. Like, so how's that your answer with your mouth? Caroline, here we go. This is
                                         
                                         her asking what's the hoax and what's not the hoax. Caroline, there's been a lot of discussion
                                         
                                         about the Epstein files and president's comments yesterday calling it a hoax. Can you clarify
                                         
                                         which part of the Epstein hoax is the hoax part? The president is referring to the fact that Democrats have now seized on this as if they ever wanted
                                         
                                         Transparency as if to Jeffrey Epstein which is an asinine suggestion for any Democrat
                                         
    
                                         Oh make the Democrats had control of this building the White House for four years and they didn't do a dang thing
                                         
                                         When it comes to transparency in regards to Jeffrey Epstein and his heinous crimes
                                         
                                         Yeah, and his heinous crimes. I wish you said that was weird. Hey now and his heinous crimes
                                         
                                         Like those crimes look she's trying man. She's trying if they this one is like what they don't even care, dude
                                         
                                         Like if they cared they would have just dropped the fucking bomb
                                         
                                         Right. I think so you're saying in in
                                         
                                         Giving that explanation you are acknowledging that there is a bomb to drop
                                         
                                         Hold on I gotta where you going Caroline shit about the Democrats for not
                                         
    
                                         Releasing the Epstein files is that what people are mad about you not releasing right now.
                                         
                                         But they didn't even care either.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         Right, so like we don't fuck with them either.
                                         
                                         That's fine, we're here right now.
                                         
                                         What we're saying though is that you guys said you were gonna, you were like, there's files, we're about to drop the bomb, and then you didn't drop, you didn't release them.
                                         
                                         Neither did the Democrats. Yeah. Well, hey, I mean, like, could it be that maybe this scandal is so explosive that it's
                                         
                                         going to touch every part of the political spectrum?
                                         
    
                                         Maybe.
                                         
                                         Is that what it is?
                                         
                                         Could be that too.
                                         
                                         I don't know.
                                         
                                         This is her then going on to be like, you guys, like you guys are so fucking unfair
                                         
                                         to the president.
                                         
                                         Like what the fuck?
                                         
                                         Like now we're pivoting to what the fuck type defenses so hard the president has been transparent he has followed through on his
                                         
    
                                         promises to the american people but he doesn't like to see democrats and the mainstream media
                                         
                                         covering this like it's the biggest story that the american people care about the president i mean
                                         
                                         so it is it is right now it is because of the way he's reacting to it.
                                         
                                         Like it wasn't last week.
                                         
                                         And then he was like, uh,
                                         
                                         that story that you guys cared about,
                                         
                                         I'm going to act extremely suspicious and act like there's nothing to see here
                                         
                                         and just keep saying nothing to see here.
                                         
    
                                         Nothing to see here.
                                         
                                         People say they're like the building that you're standing in front of,
                                         
                                         there's like a fireworks shooting out of it and there's like
                                         
                                         smoke billowing out of it. You start saying that we're bad people and that we
                                         
                                         might be evil because we're saying that. Like, so that's where it like starts to
                                         
                                         get weird is where is your reaction. It's so, um,
                                         
                                         have you seen the Coldplay video because it's kind of, there's a metaphor here.
                                         
                                         It's like, there's a lesson.
                                         
    
                                         Wasn't, that wasn't a story when they were just like hugging.
                                         
                                         And then the way they reacted suggested to us
                                         
                                         that maybe there's something going on.
                                         
                                         I don't know.
                                         
                                         What do we think, Carolyn?
                                         
                                         Oh my God.
                                         
                                         I mean, it's like, I don't understand, like the biggest story
                                         
                                         that American people care about right now. You guys are't understand like the biggest story that American people care about right now
                                         
    
                                         You guys are treating like the biggest story they even care about like there's so many other things to be distracted
                                         
                                         It's like something unfair money how like as if this is where you even care about
                                         
                                         She's out of her depth cuz she's what 27 or something. Is that right? Yeah, 27. Good God
                                         
                                         I mean, this is what happens when you haven't been lying long enough.
                                         
                                         Like, yeah, you sound like you're in high school and you're like, yeah,
                                         
                                         there's like a part of her that she had to kill for this job that isn't all the
                                         
                                         way dead. I feel like maybe. No. But anyway, you guys are being so unfair.
                                         
                                         Let's hear, let's hear her out.
                                         
    
                                         The president has been working so hard this week on Tuesday. He went to Pennsylvania.
                                         
                                         I'm sorry. Are you about to cry?
                                         
                                         She sounded like she was about to cry.
                                         
                                         When talking about how hard the president is working. One more time.
                                         
                                         The job that it requires people to work hard.
                                         
                                         That's not.
                                         
                                         Right. Let's hear it again.
                                         
                                         How can people care about?
                                         
    
                                         The president has been working so hard this week.
                                         
                                         On Tuesday, he went to Pennsylvania where he secured $90 billion.
                                         
                                         Oh my God, on Tuesday, he went to a place to Pennsylvania
                                         
                                         Oh my god, he secured 90 billion crypto dollars for the Commonwealth Wow
                                         
                                         Wowie is he a pedophile? I think she has actually fully killed off the part
                                         
                                         I think I think that was actually genuine like full-blown
                                         
                                         Cult vibes actually she's like what blown cult vibes, actually.
                                         
                                         She's like, you don't know how hard it is
                                         
    
                                         for our dear leader.
                                         
                                         Oh, I mean, she might just be one of those
                                         
                                         serial people pleasers too, that it just, you know.
                                         
                                         It's just, oh, but she'll be 28 this year.
                                         
                                         So, you know, good for her.
                                         
                                         We love to see it.
                                         
                                         We love to see it.
                                         
                                         That is wild.
                                         
    
                                         That's like NBA age.
                                         
                                         We're like actually pretty,
                                         
                                         you should be in your peak.
                                         
                                         A big career after.
                                         
                                         But you're kind of, I feel like you probably hit your liar peak like in your 50s.
                                         
                                         Like if you've been doing it long enough, that's when you're like in the zone.
                                         
                                         You know what I mean? For spinning shit.
                                         
                                         But she's a rookie.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah, I like being good at it.
                                         
                                         She's a rookie.
                                         
                                         Yeah. You know what I mean?
                                         
                                         Because you start as a liar, but you still kind of suck at it.
                                         
                                         Exactly. You're still green, Rook. You're still green. Anyways, the the other big news in Trump world is that his feet are blowing up
                                         
                                         like you thought they would.
                                         
                                         Yeah. Blowing up like the world trade.
                                         
                                         He has undergone medical testing for leg swelling.
                                         
    
                                         And a story we're calling Menzel.
                                         
                                         It's that that's what the conditions called guys.
                                         
                                         Sorry, that's what the conditions called.
                                         
                                         I don't make the rules.
                                         
                                         I just have.
                                         
                                         That's the Latin I'm reading, okay?
                                         
                                         That's what's there.
                                         
                                         Yeah, this is like the hand bruising
                                         
    
                                         that they've also been clocking.
                                         
                                         Like that one camera guy was like,
                                         
                                         let me zoom in on your makeup bruise hand.
                                         
                                         Yeah, there's a lot of makeup on his hands,
                                         
                                         which is normal.
                                         
                                         We all wear tons of makeup on our hands.
                                         
                                         Exactly.
                                         
                                         I mean, this apparently, you know, it's not,
                                         
    
                                         don't get excited.
                                         
                                         It's a pretty common ailment and it feels like it's fine.
                                         
                                         It's fine.
                                         
                                         The one thing though that they said was that
                                         
                                         his hand was bruising because he's
                                         
                                         Handshaking so much is what Caroline Levitt said that seems abnormal to me
                                         
                                         Shaking with I mean, I know he goes hard when it comes to fucking handshakes fucking Thanos
                                         
                                         Javon curse. Do you all remember that commercial where he had the fucking ruler between his thumb and pinky?
                                         
    
                                         I mean, these are the people he's shaking hands with. Of course they're going around to the biggest hands in town.
                                         
                                         That one that one famous arm wrestler guy who's got just like the giant arm him. It's hard out here.
                                         
                                         Slowly wraps his hand around your hand.
                                         
                                         Before there was once a great deal of attention paid to his handshake tactics and like how
                                         
                                         he would like try and jerk your arm out of the socket.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         So maybe, maybe there's your problem, Mr. President.
                                         
                                         I don't know how that makes all the liquid in your body flood to your ankles, but we'll
                                         
    
                                         see.
                                         
                                         It's okay.
                                         
                                         It's okay.
                                         
                                         It's okay.
                                         
                                         It's okay.
                                         
                                         We're just wait, you know, we're praying over here on this, on this side.
                                         
                                         That's all we could do. There's nothing that can be done.
                                         
                                         I think we should actually, he should not go to the hospital.
                                         
    
                                         He should just let the Republicans pray for him,
                                         
                                         which is how they deal with any. Hold on science.
                                         
                                         We're not talking science now, are we?
                                         
                                         The fuck is this all of a sudden we're interested in what science has to say.
                                         
                                         So you want to go to H.E. double hell.
                                         
                                         Interesting.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.
                                         
    
                                         So what happened at Chappaquiddick?
                                         
                                         Well, it really depends on who you talk to.
                                         
                                         There are many versions of what happened in 1969 when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond.
                                         
                                         And left a woman behind to drown.
                                         
                                         There's a famous headline, I think, in the New York Daily News.
                                         
                                         It's, Teddy escapes, blonde drowns.
                                         
                                         And in a strange way, right, that sort of tells you.
                                         
                                         The story really became about Ted's political future, Ted's political hopes.
                                         
    
                                         Will Ted become president?
                                         
                                         Chappaquiddick is a story of a tragic death and how the Kennedy machine took control.
                                         
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                                         And fortunately there was one place that the Trump administration could leave the furor
                                         
                                         over the Epstein crisis behind by just cutting a shitload of jobs at the State Department.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         You know, 1,353 jobs at the State, uh, 15% of its Washington based staff, uh,
                                         
                                         largest reduction in decades, right? Right. Um, targeted foreign policy goals that don't
                                         
                                         align with mega values. So we're, you know, on the beam here.
                                         
    
                                         What are those things that don't align with mega?
                                         
                                         Eviscerating entire offices that promote democracy. We don't like that shit.
                                         
                                         Combat genocide and violent extremism.
                                         
                                         Love that.
                                         
                                         Not a thing that we care about in this administration.
                                         
                                         Hold on, they don't get exclusive rights
                                         
                                         over not caring, being indifferent towards genocide.
                                         
                                         I must say, as much as the MAGO thing.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah, yeah, yeah.
                                         
                                         So yeah, when the Democrats were doing it,
                                         
                                         they were like, God, I hope nobody sees that we're-
                                         
                                         Sees that there's an office for this.
                                         
                                         Least all this money. You know, helped resolve armed conflicts.
                                         
                                         Who cares? Like, let them resolve it themselves. Support women's rights. I think we can all agree.
                                         
                                         Oh, boy. Woke.
                                         
                                         Office to monitor and combat trafficking in persons. Moving past that.
                                         
    
                                         Wait, hold on. What did you say? Hold on.
                                         
                                         Office to monitor and combat trafficking in persons moving past that. Wait, hold on. What did you say? Hold on. Office to monitor and combat trafficking in persons.
                                         
                                         Trafficking in persons.
                                         
                                         So that's traffic a person is a human.
                                         
                                         It's just like, you know, the office.
                                         
                                         People stuck in traffic, I think is what it means.
                                         
                                         Oh, okay.
                                         
                                         I think they just like mix the words up.
                                         
    
                                         Someone described it to me as the office to combat human trafficking.
                                         
                                         Is that what that is?
                                         
                                         I think it's people in traffic, but I'm going to have to check with our dear leader.
                                         
                                         He's working so hard, Myles.
                                         
                                         Not with everything that's happening with Epstein.
                                         
                                         It couldn't possibly be that they absolutely just obliterated the office of human trafficking
                                         
                                         too.
                                         
                                         It can't be.
                                         
    
                                         Oh, it is be.
                                         
                                         It is be. It is be.
                                         
                                         It is be.
                                         
                                         That's exactly what they did.
                                         
                                         They're gonna have to buy more hats to burn right now.
                                         
                                         They don't even give a fuck
                                         
                                         about your human trafficking conspiracies.
                                         
                                         And like, they're, wow.
                                         
    
                                         They're obvious.
                                         
                                         Go ahead, burn the hats, more money for me.
                                         
                                         Oh, those are knockoffs?
                                         
                                         Oh, shit.
                                         
                                         Fuck.
                                         
                                         Burn them.
                                         
                                         Yeah, really bad, really bad timing, but also just. Fuck. Burn them. Yeah.
                                         
                                         Really bad, really bad timing.
                                         
    
                                         Uh, but also just terrible again, just generally everything they're just trying to pull the
                                         
                                         plug on.
                                         
                                         Hey, these are savings too, man, that they can just send right to the billionaires.
                                         
                                         So that's right.
                                         
                                         In the world of pop culture, this happened a couple of weeks back, but I do think it
                                         
                                         should be duplicated.
                                         
                                         Um, the makers of tiny chef was just a like stop motion animation show on Nickelodeon, the
                                         
                                         show got canceled and they just used the power of adorableness of their character to make
                                         
    
                                         the most passive aggressive, sad video where they just made a video of their adorable main character,
                                         
                                         finding out the show was canceled and like bursting into tears multiple times
                                         
                                         and being like, but what about Charlie? What about like all the people who were-
                                         
                                         Yes. Like straight up begging for his life.
                                         
                                         Then like getting it back together while he's on the call and be like, no,
                                         
                                         it's okay. I understand. I understand.
                                         
                                         Hanging up going back to the task he was doing
                                         
                                         and then bursting into tears again.
                                         
    
                                         Like he just got a cancer diagnosis.
                                         
                                         It's so fucked up.
                                         
                                         Nickelodeon, how fucking dare you?
                                         
                                         That's what I'm saying.
                                         
                                         That's what's brilliant about it because you watch it.
                                         
                                         When I saw it a couple of weeks ago,
                                         
                                         I was like, what the, like I had no idea what the tiny chef show was show was what I saw that I was like, how fucking dare you Nickelodeon?
                                         
                                         exactly
                                         
    
                                         How fucking so mad I'm so mad at Nickelodeon now
                                         
                                         I was a speech impediment and you're fucking you're just fucking him about
                                         
                                         unbelievable like
                                         
                                         some media executive was like
                                         
                                         like some media executive was like doing what the what the CEO and the Coldplay video did, just like diving for the ground.
                                         
                                         Yeah. The second they saw that.
                                         
                                         Fuck, fuck, fuck.
                                         
                                         I was the one who made that phone call.
                                         
    
                                         But like two weeks ago, they said that the show like they they had some crowd
                                         
                                         funding, so the show was like, quote, saved, but more that they were able
                                         
                                         to keep the social media accounts alive because they're trying to make a deal to keep the show going
                                         
                                         so
                                         
                                         We will see but yeah, the only thing I I wish
                                         
                                         The the tiny tiny chef had instead of being like hello nickelodeon had just been like hello ted, you know
                                         
                                         Whoever the name is of the executive who made the decision
                                         
                                         Oh zazlov. What's up, man? What's up? What's going on? Head of Skydance Paramount.
                                         
    
                                         Oh, is this you in this video?
                                         
                                         Yeah. At the Coldplay concert.
                                         
                                         And finally,
                                         
                                         Uno seems to be making a real
                                         
                                         having a having a real surge right now.
                                         
                                         And there's a news story that's going around.
                                         
                                         That's kind of a bullshit news story, but it did bring my attention
                                         
                                         to something that I was unaware of. So the new story that's going around is that Uno is being introduced in casinos.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah. I got it.
                                         
                                         As a thing that you can gamble on.
                                         
                                         When I saw that, I almost left my family and went straight to Las Vegas with every single dollar
                                         
                                         that I have left because I fucking love Uno and I was like, this is it bro
                                         
                                         This is my this is like my fucking this is it. I've nothing else to say
                                         
                                         Yeah, it's not even the case. It's not no nobody's gambling on uno the fuck
                                         
                                         It's like these these are like they're introducing dedicated uno social clubs at the palms in Vegas
                                         
                                         I don't is the thing where like so why would you need to go to the Palms to play Uno if it's not for money?
                                         
    
                                         Unless like this is just there like wink, wink, nudge, nudge thing.
                                         
                                         Where you actually turn it up. Yeah.
                                         
                                         I don't know.
                                         
                                         They said there's going to be a social club out to bars in Los Angeles, New York,
                                         
                                         Chicago, Atlanta and Austin this August. I'll be there because dude, Uno's just so, I get it though.
                                         
                                         It's one of those games where you could really fuck with somebody's head.
                                         
                                         Right.
                                         
                                         And cause like you, that's how you rope it up.
                                         
    
                                         People you think you're like, Oh my God, dude, look, they got fucking 10 cards.
                                         
                                         So I got two cards.
                                         
                                         And then you go surprise motherfucker.
                                         
                                         There was this clip recently that came out like in like the last year of this dad doing it
                                         
                                         to his daughter, like that whole thing of like,
                                         
                                         where she's like, I only have one card left.
                                         
                                         And the dad is like, fuck you thought.
                                         
                                         This clip is just so great.
                                         
    
                                         I'm right, you're wrong
                                         
                                         and there's nothing you can do about it.
                                         
                                         All right, let's do this. do about it reverse back to me okay don't move he said don't move draw for
                                         
                                         uh-huh hold on uh-huh one two three four uh-huh hold. The color is yellow Hold on. Mm-hmm. Oh no, I get to go again draw two. No Wow
                                         
                                         Her jaws on the fucking floor right now the color I get to go again. I get to go again draw four
                                         
                                         She just threw the cards and ran out of the room.
                                         
                                         This is why I can see absolute chaos breaking out if you have fucking money on it and somebody
                                         
                                         just like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
                                         
    
                                         hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
                                         
                                         hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
                                         
                                         hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
                                         
                                         hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
                                         
                                         hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
                                         
                                         hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
                                         
                                         hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
                                         
                                         hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
                                         
    
                                         hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey about it. Hey, hey, hey, hey.
                                         
                                         Is it bad?
                                         
                                         I'm cheering for the dead.
                                         
                                         No, that's not true.
                                         
                                         That was that was one of the most diabolical things I've ever seen.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         So, you know, said Uno's explanation for why you can't gamble on it is they said, we've
                                         
                                         been told that while they do have tight security, it's not robust enough for uno at this time.
                                         
    
                                         Implying that it's just like too rage inducing.
                                         
                                         Yeah. What do you need?
                                         
                                         Like the handlers from the first scene in Jurassic park when they're bringing
                                         
                                         the Raptor in it's like, that's what you need.
                                         
                                         If you're going to let adults play uno for money in Vegas,
                                         
                                         like there are board game cafes and people who work there are like, yeah,
                                         
                                         I don't have to look up.
                                         
                                         When I hear people like breaking up over a game,
                                         
    
                                         in our cafe, I know it's uno, like it's always uno.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Emotions can definitely run high, said May,
                                         
                                         co-founder of the Hexen Company.
                                         
                                         I mean, the thing is it's the rules too.
                                         
                                         Like even in that video with what the dad did,
                                         
                                         they're like, you can't throw a plus two on a plus two
                                         
                                         or a plus like a draw four on a plus two.
                                         
    
                                         You can't stack on stack on stack.
                                         
                                         Which I'm like, whatever.
                                         
                                         Again, this is what's fun.
                                         
                                         That's why I love Uno is like every family
                                         
                                         plays it differently.
                                         
                                         We played those rules and my, again,
                                         
                                         my grandmother who have beat the brakes off of me in Scrabble
                                         
                                         also did this shit to me in UNO
                                         
    
                                         Where she would always like oh, baby, that's good
                                         
                                         So I'm about to ruin your mother like fucking UNO life and I'm
                                         
                                         So yeah, that's one of the things like that
                                         
                                         You know does come out and give like official rulings on like what the actual rules are
                                         
                                         Mm-hmm, and one of their official rulings is you're not actually required to shout uno while playing your last card.
                                         
                                         Fuck you.
                                         
                                         Like that's the only rule that I've always thought was like consistent no matter where I was playing it.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
    
                                         Mattel is about to lose us like Trump is losing MAGA by trying to decrease shit suddenly.
                                         
                                         Like you don't have to do that.
                                         
                                         Like I can't stack a fucking draw for a while on
                                         
                                         A plus two fuck you right I'll do my shit
                                         
                                         So what are you supposed to stack on a plus two just like whatever you got?
                                         
                                         I think you just know they don't lose a turn. I think I'd imagine. Oh, okay
                                         
                                         So it's like back to them or I don't know I don't even know I've never had anyone tell me you can't do that
                                         
                                         And if they did I'd like fuck you you ain't even Uno. And I get out of there and I get real angry.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah. And in case you're wondering if Mattel is worried about causing
                                         
                                         families to end over their confusing rules,
                                         
                                         the company's VP claims that the kind of different house rules
                                         
                                         helps give players authentic emotions disguised as family fun.
                                         
                                         Whoa. Well, that's pretty fucking grim.
                                         
                                         Yeah. Authentic disguised.
                                         
                                         Damn. Disguised as family fun. Wow.
                                         
                                         Yeah. Brian, the editor is asking what happens if you don't say, you know,
                                         
    
                                         do you lose? Uh,
                                         
                                         no, you don't lose. You just have to draw. You have to draw cards, right? Yeah.
                                         
                                         Yeah, you don't.
                                         
                                         Different rules on exactly what the punishment is, but anyways, those are some.
                                         
                                         That's what it was.
                                         
                                         It depends.
                                         
                                         Again, everyone has their own fucking rules, but that's how we play Cider House rules over
                                         
                                         here.
                                         
    
                                         Cider House rules.
                                         
                                         Before you, instead of when you're down to one card you say good night you princes of Maine
                                         
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