The Daily Zeitgeist - Deep Sea Trending 12/8: Golden Globe Noms, Netflix/WB Merger, FIFA Peace Award

Episode Date: December 8, 2025

In this edition of Deep Sea Trending, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, the Golden Globe noms & snubs, Netflix planning to buy WB (feat Paramount's David EllIson), Trump "winning" the inaugural FIFA Peace Award and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello the internet and welcome to this week trend edition of DirtyEly's Eye Geist. Yeah. It is Monday, December 8th. My name is Jack O'Brien. That over there is Mr. Miles Gray. Hey. Wow. Wow.

Monday. We're here. Monday vibes. Am I right? Hell yeah, man. I believe I got a case of the Mondays. Self-diagnosed. And I believe you get your ass kicked.

I believe I'm going to kick my own ass. Some shit like that. How's it going, man? How are you doing? Oh, you saw the arsenal result? Is that why you're asking? I'm okay. I did not.

Did they not do well? Well, we lost a lot of all the other fans are cheering because they like to watch us lose. But no, we're still in first place. We're still in first place. Oh, okay. When's the, like, big. When's it come? It's all, there's no, like, postseason.

It's all based off of building up points throughout the season. So it's basically off your record by the end. Like NASCAR. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. It's exactly.

That's what they formatted. And football fans appreciate when I say, oh, yeah. football is like the NASCAR of Europe. Yes, exactly. It makes more sense than college football does because all my other text read with my friends who watch college football are like, what the fuck is this? How does Miami

get with the fucking weak guys schedule? What about fucking Alabama? They lost me. I'm like, I don't know what the fuck this is. I thought it used to be the writers and coaches used to decide this. They did. And now there's attorney, which I'm just saying the better money, huh? Your European football should

give it a try. I'm just saying. Take a page from the original football. Don't worry. Americans are slowly infecting European soccer with like the way they're doing deals and shit, like long-ass contracts that people are like, what the fuck is this? These are like NFL deals you're signing people to. It's a matter of. You're welcome. You're welcome, man.

Now you can pay attention to it every day of your life. Exactly. You have to like learn about business to be a sports fan. Play your matches in other countries to maximize. profit, fuck the fans. That's right. Get you thinking like a real capitalist. All right, this is the episode where we look at what was trending over the weekend, but first we let you get to know us a little bit better by telling you some things that we think are overrated and underrated Miles.

What is something that you think is underrated? It's just, it's, I don't know how to describe this. It's a texture and it's also an aesthetic that I think has a stranglehold on men of a certain age. specifically like white dudes but sideline fashion and what I mean is the clothing you see coaches, coordinators wear on the sidelines

of football games. I don't know what you're talking about when you wrote this down. That's so funny. It's a look, right? It's like kind of business casual. You're wearing like khakis or like a dry fit zip up

quarter zip sort of thing that like is like saying I'm not all business. I still rep the Titans, baby, or whatever the fuck it is. But it's just interesting to see because you, like, when you look at all like the companies like the Adidas, underarmors, Nike's that like make all the uniforms, they also sell a fuck ton of this like sideline geared so you can look like you are one of the coaches.

And it's funny when you see people wear that shit in the wild. Like it really, it's like the elevated, like me, I'm still wearing a jersey of someone who's 20 years younger than me. I don't give a fuck. Yes, this is a child's name on my jersey. I am a fan forever. I just like, I'm still a jersey kid at heart. But there's like a moment where I've seen other people be like,

I got to put the jerseys down, man. I'm a fucking man. Okay. Now I wear the sideline golf polo of the North Carolina tar heels. Yeah, they all look like they're golfing. It's just all, it's like golf culture has taken over the sidelines. Yeah. And it's just like a, it's a look that it feels,

it's also so American that I can't, it's like, It is part of the texture of American culture, sideline fashion. Yeah, it's kind of a bummer, man. The, like, NBA coaches used to wear suits on the sideline. Yeah. And you could, like, judge them by their fashion. And that, that feels like the most recent change in trends that also feels the most an acronistic.

Like, I can't imagine an NBA coach now switching back to suits. The suits, yeah, yeah. But they should. But, like, it just feels. feels like it's, they might as well have like a fucking bowler hat on and like a cane. I think it's generational, you know, because you see this also like in England too, like where the old school look was wearing a suit and now you're seeing more and more people wear like the training gear or like more casual like no longer a suit. I'm going to wear like a nice sweater

or something. It's just it's, I think it's also like one of those things too. Like just with how like as millennials become like the managers and work. workplaces. The culture sort of changes because like, man, that's the shit I was subjected to. And I don't want to do that shit anymore. Like, I don't want to wear a fucking suit. I'm going to wear a fucking hoodie or whatever, which doesn't look great. But look, Dietro. The football has always been this sideline fashion, as you describe it, of like, you know, you have like a warm up on. You're wearing like a golf warm up with pants on. But the NBA was like the last holdout. And of course, baseball has the amazing.

oh yeah you wear the jersey like the athletes you wear the same thing as the athletes and it's the most form fitting of the uniforms oh yeah like there's nowhere to hide i remember when tommy lasorta towards the end of his reign as the dodgers manager would just be out there and i was always been like i always as a kid i was like is he gonna what that's not a good look but fine i like it i like it but yeah like i said sideline fashion shout out to y'all shout out i think honestly it still makes the ultimate gift for the insert team name here fan in your life.

Yeah. Is get them a little's quarter zip sideline joint. Yeah, especially if they're a man of a certain age. You got, you got to. Yeah. The kids, you still get the jersey. Still get the jerseys. What if the kids were like, I just want to

I want to rock that Popovich. You know what I'm saying? Why not? Why not? My underrated is how exhausting it is to be on the sea. I took the kids fishing this weekend into the Pacific. Great day. Caught a lot of fish.

Did you? My oldest is, like, most kids, they get a couple fish on there. Like, I get it. And then they're off, like, eating snacks. They were playing with their friends. Right. And my oldest is just like a fish terminate. Like all those hats that are like, I love them.

respect all human beings, but if you are a fish, I will take you from your family. That's kind of his energy. Like, he loves fish. He's like, great. Energy is he's trying to break up fish family? He's just non-stop. He's not happy unless he's got a fish on

his line. Oh, so he's got that. Jordan and up. Like, man, he's a machine. Holy shit. Yeah, but he caught, get that kid on the pro circuit. So he caught so many fish. Is he like also asking to go like is he like can we go fishing yeah yeah wow wow there's got to be zite gang out here

that could hook it up bro i know i know one of y'all are some deep sea fish fucking freaks man take us on yeah there's a lot of downtime for podcasts if you're a deep sea captain yeah yeah but i i was gonna like we were we were only out from like seven to one oh a half day yeah half day i come home it was it was the type of tiredness that has more in common with being drunk than being like sleepy i was like yeah yeah yeah i was wrecked yeah i was and and so i'm like trying to puzzle out why i'm always so tired after being uh on the sea for more than a couple hours and i'm also noticing that the ground is still like rocking under me yeah yeah and it occurred to me like there are workout classes in los angeles i'm assuming there everywhere where people pay

to like stand on an unstable surface what do you mean like a janky floorboards no No, like they have like plates that you stand on that like move you around so that you can like work out. But I think the logic is that it strengthens your core. Like you're working out in a weird way. Like your body, the workout people are like body muscle confusion. Yeah. And your training. Beat their shit out of your body.

Using muscles you don't use. But I feel like that's what I'm feeling when I call it. It's like a six hour long. your body's just trying to fucking stay upright for so long that's my theory I don't know if people and I did do some light googling

and it's like that's one of the explanations the other ones are like boat exhaust and being out in the sun but this was a mostly overcast day and I only spent like 15 minutes huffing direct fumes from the engine so I feel like probably the lack of stability oh is that what's I was like what's on your face

I think you still have soot all over your cheek. No, that's... The exhaust. Yeah, no, the circle that goes from under my eyes to under my... Because you're putting your face in the exhaust again. Yeah, yeah. So you need to, you need to, like, get something that will just put it all directly in the year. I think you must have used a towel because you don't have the same burn marks from the heat from the exhaust pipe and a ring on your face.

Yeah, I've got it down to a science everybody. Yeah, it's good shit, though. Meanwhile, your kids is like, hey, where's your dad? He's over by the exhaust. again. I suck. Every time you bring it up, I always think of how shit I was at fishing as a kid.

I don't know why. Does it require skill? No. I mean, what it requires is... I think these fish just fucking hate me, Jack. That's why I hate fucking going, Dad. I mean,

if you're going and other people are catching fish on the boat at the same time as you, like, that's basically love. They're catching my fish. Yeah, they're just catching you or fish. Dude, to spite you i'm not joking i went on like two deep sea fishing like kind of trips

yeah like with like a kid the kids from my like when i played hockey which was like i was always doing like weird shit i would never do but with these kids i played on hockey with they're like hey we're going out deep so i'm like okay twice bro i didn't catch shit did everybody else cut yeah wow and i was like it that shit that was like trump at the fucking white house correspondence dinner i was like okay y'all think it's a fucking game huh I took it personally. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I took that personally, and you know what I did?

Never fished again. So it's not like I really realized my power after that. There is a weird, like superstitious, like kind of some people are lucky with fishing. Some people aren't. Like, I had a similar thing. Like, I think the thing that got me on fishing is when I was in preschool, there was a summer camp. There was a summer camp where we, in Wheeling, West Virginia, where we went down to this,

like, muddy Wheeling River. and we're just like throwing in hooks without like some people were putting a little bread on it and I caught a fish without anything on the hook and I was immediately like I got it yeah yeah you've got it yeah um and then my yeah my oldest has just insane good fish and luck just every time I turned around I'm gonna go with him and I'll be like give me that fucking pole he gets it on like instead of the thing where you know because I'll put it down and then hand it to him and then like instead of doing that you're like hey

hey give me that shit I caught it you see this dad your dad's not here I'm sorry you see this jack what is something Miles you think is overrated just again rage bait was a term of the year

and I it's rage bait articles that are so fucking stupid that I've just like because right now we're in the era of like year end lists and there's so many lists that feel like they are just like putting shit or like putting shit on there or omitting things to get into the discourse and get engagement and it's like so disingenuous like you'll see like lists put like fucking not put sinners on there but put some other stupid fucking movie on there just so people go how is sinners not on that list or like there was like a rap like a top rap album's list that was like completely fucking stupid and they were placing things things above like Wutang clan people like this shit above Wooten like you know like the

kind of shit that used to get us maybe used to be yeah that was that was buttered our for a while yeah that was buttered our bread you'd be like this chance the rapper album over 36 chambers and it's the wedding one it's the bad it's the bad chance the rapper my wife um but i think there's something it's it's just so fucking obvious and to the point now that it's really damaging because we're completely rearranging society around engagement and it's making people less intelligent because the least intelligent takes are being put out there for the sake of engagement. Yes. And no. And they're winning. They're succeeding. Yeah. Like it used to be like, damn, I like this person's takes. Like this person has like, I like what the fuck they're on. Now it's now

like the people that you're going to look up to are, are going to make you look so stupid. or just normalize these kinds as dumb takes because I think some people might see it for what it is and other people might be like, oh, this is actually interesting and now I'm going to be thoughtlessly contrarian for the sake of quote unquote engagement. So it's a net loss for humanity.

And I'm just like, there's just like so many obvious rage baity year-end lists now that I'm just my heart aches for the people who actually take the time to like think about things and articulate it rather than taking the short road. and being like, yeah, man, just say some shit that is going to come off wild inflammatory and then you get your name out there.

The wronger you are, the better the better it does. Right. I mean, which I'm sure like there's, you look back and like it's not always great journalism throughout history, but they're, yeah, like they had inflammatory shit

on the front page of like tabloids, but then I don't know. That does seem to be the main currency. Yeah, because everything is so algaary so algorithmic like it's it's it's it's social media content it's all of it's just purely that's we're rearranging everything to can you look if i can't inspire you see what's like motherfuckers are saying yeah it's like the human urge like when you can't when you realize you don't have the power or skill to create then the next most alluring option is destruction

because you can't create so like the rage bait is firmly in that sort of mindset of like well i can't create so i'll destroy by doing inflammatory takes Anyway, yeah, the second I get, like, the second I get a hint of it, I'm like, fuck. Oh, this is bullshit. Yeah, yeah. Oh, they're just trying to, they're just trying to get me. Yeah. It's like a bad guy in a movie just like poking someone's chest.

Yeah, right. Don't do it. Right. Watch Miracle on 34th Street yesterday. I was like, don't do it, Santa. The new, the Mara Wilson one. Oh, shout out Mara Wilson. It's fine.

It's pretty good. I just didn't like it because I'm like, I don't. give a shit about Santa being real or not real. Right. I don't even fucking care. I don't even care, dude. As long as a presence are fucking real. That's it. I watched, I made my kids watch both Miracle on 34th Street

and the Santa Claus this weekend for our upcoming Santa icons episode. And? Did they like the Santa Claus? Yeah, I think so. They sat through both of them. So I mean, picking their nails and shit. The Santa Claus is

not my favorite. Well, it's one of those things where it's purportedly seems like it's for children, but it was written by like an unhinged divorcee. Yes. And you're like, what are you saying about people? Most of the like observational stuff is like, and then divorced dads are at Denny's on Christmas night. Here's your fucking wife who's a fucking greedy fall. Sorry, it's your mother. It's your mother.

That's right. All right. My overrated is just lead singers who do charades, hand gestures. I was reminded of this watching the David Byrne tiny desk concert and noticing how great he is, how much he doesn't do this. He has his own weird energies, kind of dancing and interacting with the backup singers. I went to see an indie rock band. I'm going to leave unnamed.

And their singer was like, like when he would sing the word money, he would do a money hand gesture with his fingers. And like when he would refer to himself, he would like point at himself. And it's just like, it's just a weird affectation that I was I don't know man it just like makes the whole thing feel so much stupider than it felt before it's like an act amount I'm like that's not what I came here for I didn't come here to see you like I feel like yeah because like oh if you have if you're at a mic stand because rappers like doing rappers are very they like to just they're just to yeah you know what I mean but I guess too and that makes sense because that's that's kind of the swag of, like, rapping.

Whereas, like, Rock, you're used to just seeing a guy, like, two-hand clutch the mic and just belt out the lyrics. Yeah. Kind of a thing. So... There's something with that energy. I think that's where hip-hop culture has bled into. They're like, let me sauce up my singing.

Yeah. Rap, they're good at it. And it, like, works with the rhythm of the performance. Whereas, like, I don't know. With some, with some, like, performance is just too slow. And so it just seems, like, very much, like, child like paddy cake type shit. I think it's like, yeah, I think

when people do that, they're insecure that they're not dancing. Right. I think that's exactly what it is. So let me do it. Let me put a little flavor. This means money. This means square. This means check. This means pistol. Just just fucking sing, man. It's something to do. It gives you

some business, but it's just like the worst business to do. Just like take up smoking or something. Yeah. It's the same way like DJs, when you see DJ sets, like there's a lot of knob twisting. that's pretty inconsequential. Yeah, yeah. But you got to be performing.

You got to be performing. We're not to be doing something. Got to keep the eyes on you. That's what you see. And I just have like a real humpy bassist who's out there. Like, have you seen Zach Fox DJ? No. He's pretty minimal.

Like he's purely like, I already know what I'm going to, how I'm going to mix this in. I'm just, he's like, I don't need to do a ton of performing. Like some of his early stuff, he's just kind of vibing along, which I really like, because everyone's so busy. But anyway, got to justify the paycheck. This needs money, folks. I'm going to make a heart with my fingers. And you, I'm pointing at you, y'all.

All right. We're going to take a quick break. We're going to come back. We're going to talk about the Golden Globe nominations, big snub for Ben Shapiro. Oh, they're going to say for us. For us as well. Thanks, Mom. We'll be right back.

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of people were expecting that one to do uh pretty well uh sentimental value which is a foreign film or maybe no i guess it's not a foreign film but it's by the guy made a worst person in the world a few years ago which was really good. I haven't seen it yet. And then sentimental value in sinners

I think are tied in second for the most noms. Okay. Nom, nom, in line with expectations. Yeah. The TV category,

I don't even know anymore, man. White Lotus earned six nominations. That was the only show that I watched from beginning to end. I don't know. Do they, are they not allowed to watch

the last episode when they're making these nominations? or um but uh it's like lazy it's just sort of like one of those things where it's like yeah off the strength of the other ones yeah yeah those are good i mean there are some great performances in there so uh but i did not yeah but as it's the landing i think we were all watching it out of habit basically we're like yeah i mean it's white lotus but fine yeah tooth acting is right then yeah some good tooth acting in there which they still refuse to make its own category one day i mean look the golden globes have been malleable you know they they did the like

what if we did like a box office award and even fucking podcast of the year which i know we've added podcasts uh real quick on more snubs sidney sweeney wasn't nominated for that boxing movie that no one saw uh wicked for good wasn't nominated in the best comedy or musical category i don't know what to make of that is that good that feels like they just forgot I don't know. This is like exactly our shit. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, box office success.

It was nominated in that weird cinematic a box office achievement category that nobody really understands. But those movies are Avatar Fire and Ash, which hasn't come out yet, F1, K-pop demon hunters, Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning, sinners, weapons, Wicked for Good,

Zootopia, which feels like, I don't know, Zootopia too, sorry. It would be weird if they did the original Zootopia. How can you give out an award for cinematic and box office achievement without the box office performance being something to consider? That's a great question, Miles. Nobody knows this is more art than science. Box off achievement, Avatar Fire Nash, which hadn't come out yet.

Right. They're just like, oh, this one's going to do good though, right? Yeah, he looks. You got to give Jimmy C, got to give Jimmy C his flowers, baby. Jim C, don't miss. But this was, as you mentioned, first year that the Golden Globes is awarding podcasts. They did have a short list of nominees. I think they had like 25 nominees.

And Joe Rogan, Tucker, Carlson, and Ben Shapiro were on there. And of those, the six nominees included none of them. hey clean sweep of no right wing shit has there was no politics podcast uh unless you count what's it called up and npr's up first yeah yeah yeah got some searing takes on that it's interesting they went npr is up first over new york times the daily um right first is just they're like i don't know here's some shit that's going on today it's more yeah more like us without talking about how many crispy cream is i know the pod save America was also eligible

I think as another one and I think in Candice Owens show was also eligible but good to know that the elderly people in the HFPA and their new members were smart enough to be like they're not Ben Shapiro let's maybe not do that one call her daddy armchair expert

with Dax Shepard good hang with Amy Poehler the Mel Robbins podcast NPR's up first and something called smartless by Will Arnett J's and Babe Marathon. They did the big ones. Yeah, it's the, oh, you want to listen

to a podcast? Starter Pack. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. And for a good reason, there's some good shit in there. No, Jack, I'm hating on all this bullshit. Yeah, this is bullshit, okay? First of all, for the real heads. My frigging mom can vote in these, and how the fuck are we not here?

Mom! And apparently, to be eligible. You have to be among the top 25 shows out there. Oh, I'm sorry. Number 117 on the news charts isn't good enough. I do. She was always against me, though, for the record. She was.

That's fucked up. She couldn't tell her friends to subscribe enough to get us into the top 25. Jack, I've been working on them for years. Years, man. Nikki Glazer is hosting, though, again this year. Yeah, Nicky Glazer did a great job last year. Yeah. The big loser here, Ben Shapiro, who spent so, so much money for a FYC.

This is the thing you see all over L.A. is like, for your consideration. And some of these are embarrassing. Some of the for your consideration campaigns are like, yo, nobody thinks that's happening. This is embarrassing because 99% of the members don't live in New York City. So who the fuck is going to see this except for your fucking ego where you're like, we got you that ad. We got this ad for you.

That ain't doing shit. Ben Shapiro's ass took over Times Square with just five different pictures of him looking. Like they've like basically recreated. They must have paid somebody who does like GQ photo shoots like a ton of money because they're just like he's just like a normal cool guy. Look at him wearing a cool. jean jacket. You got a suede jacket.

Would he wear suede if he was backwards ideologically? I don't think so. Would he lean against this wall all relaxed and shit? Would he wear Prada shades if he were an abomination of a person? No. It really feels like all over. There's even a photo shoot where he's like in his suit, but like his hair's kind of messy. And he's like leaning against a wall in a like dirty boxing gym, which like it really

feels like they were like what this is this is our chance to watch ben into the mainstream right yeah totally and did not take yeah which i'm sure he'll have some some interesting takes on curious did you did you look at the the quotes for the four year golden globes consideration sort of ad that we have here in the dock no first one okay so there's one says a very nice guy joe rogan a foe of extraordinary potential agility which said the washington post and it says number one rap digital song sales iTunes what the fuck is this

is this is this like a joke ting number one rap digital sales what is that the other ones make sense conservative fire brand number one conservative podcast in America did he have a rap song that went number one

I mean that would be amazing if like he was like used as a like on Kendrick's DNA when he has like that the Fox News quote that he's like rapping over but like you're talking about Ben Shapiro

Ben Shapiro he did have a song with Tom McDonald I do remember him having a rap song with Tom McDonald if he didn't hear that oh I think we covered it actually it does ring a bell he did have a rap song that did happen

and then one just says quote quote not bad Nikki Minaj I think Nicky Minaj did comment on that rap song and said it wasn't bad. Yeah, I think that's what they're talking about. But he, but he, but he, but he hated WAP.

How could, how could he, how could you say those things about WAP and then have Nikki Minaj? Well, Nicky Minaj is he didn't hate Wap, Miles. He was confused by WACC. He was concerned. He was, he was concerned about hyperhydrolysis that they might have a medical condition right because their pussy got wet. Because I've never, I don't see this at home. He's never, he had no idea that that happened.

The greatest cell phone of all time, which is crazy. Do you know, did any, I don't see this mentioned anywhere, did any of his movies get nominated in the movie categories? No. Oh, damn. Yeah, what, I wonder what even the state of Daily Wire Plus or whatever the fuck they were doing is. Remember, that was like, oh, they were really. Wire Studios.

For fucking 2025 with the new regime. All right. Let's talk about very impactful entertainment industry news. which is that Netflix is planning to buy Warner Brothers of the three different terrible options as we were reviewing the different people who were throwing their hat in the ring to purchase Warner Brothers Studios.

The worst option has won out, and that is Netflix. Or have they won out? So they won the initial bid, like Warner Brothers accepted their bid. Right. Which would be selling to the streamer for $72 billion, a deal value to $82.7 billion.

I don't know what the fuck the difference between those two numbers is, but... What's $10 billion, Jack, you know, in the... Aside from David Zaslov's yacht salesman. Yeah. I can't imagine there is anyone who's happy about this, other than, literally other than the moguls who are benefiting off of it. This is demonic consolidation at the highest order. Yeah.

The guilds and the unions were all just like, the outcome, eliminate jobs, push down wages, worsening conditions for all entertainment workers, raise prices for consumers, reduce the volume and diversity of content for all viewers. Yeah. There was a letter written by anonymous Hollywood A

listers that warned Congress about a, quote, potential economic and institutional meltdown in Hollywood if Netflix succeeds in its efforts to acquire Warner Brothers discovery. The big takeaway here, though, is that, like, Netflix doesn't just like not put a lot of movies

and theaters, it seems like they're trying to kill the movie going. Yeah, they're like, they view people, every time a movie does well at the box office, whether it's a Netflix movie or not, they view that as a loss for them. They want to kill

all forms of entertainment that aren't sitting in bed with your phone five inches from your face, just like watching shit by yourself without anybody around. that's that's what they want right the quotes coming from ted sarandos i assumed that ted sarandos the CEO of netflix or whatever president one of those the main guy at netflix i assumed he would

be in um damage control mode where he's like guys we i love going to the movie theater movie theater you mean like a when like a conservative supreme court nominee is going through the confirmation process like i thought of course i want to protect the sanctity of marriage and of course Of course, Roe v. Wade is settled long. Of course. The day after the news broke, he said that he expects to release Warner Brothers movies in theaters, but said the long

exclusive windows are not consumer friendly. And I just want to mention the latest Knives Out movie in the context of what he's saying there. Because the first Knives Out movie earned $313 million at the box office.

Wow. The second one came out in the pandemic. A lot of people saw it, but it didn't, you know, do well at the boxoff. Movies are back. People are going to the theater. They could have put this out. Somebody did an analysis. A box office expert was like, had they just put this out and actually marketed it as like a full theatrical run, we think it would have made about $275 million worldwide.

Wow. Like, I'm a movie fan. I enjoy the first two movies. I barely realize this movie was in theaters. Right. Right. Well, that's $275. They would have had to share with the movie theaters.

Right. And it's just, again, they don't give a fuck. Like, they would rather lose that money and make it so that people don't think about going to the movies. They think about just like staying home and watching Netflix. They're pulling the oxygen out of the room. They just don't want it to survive. It feels like another, like, fundamental misread of culture from C-Suite people again. Yes.

Where they think that this is what. everyone wants that no one wants to go to the movie theaters anymore one of the big things is affordability that would make people going to the movies a lot easier again but people aren't being like i fucking hate the movie theater no anything you hate what it costs to go to the movie theater but still the act the the whole thing of going to the movies there is still a bit of magic in that for people yeah just like being around other people we don't do that anymore like this is our one the one thing. When's the last time you laughed in a room full of seven or more people all together? You know what I mean? Like, that's kind of what you get. And I think these, I think for them,

they just look at how profitable it is and figure that's what people want. You remember when like there was the CEO who got caught cheating or like the CEO who stole that kid's hat at the tennis match? And like the first statements that were released by them were like, fuck you, I'm allowed to cheat whenever I want. I'm going to sue you for even saying that I cheated. And it was like, you know, these were internet trolls writing fake statements for the, like that's what this feels like. It's just like the worst case scenario initial statement is just like, yeah, I just think that they shouldn't like really have to be in theater. No, expensive theater costs aren't consumer friendly. It's not the idea of going. Right.

And I think that's what they're trying to just use that language for people like, oh, it's better for me if I don't do a thing that I like. Thank you, Ted. some things that he said in the last year about the difference between Netflix and movie theaters like it just it's clear it's like a fucking Cruella Deville whose main thing is hating movie theater that's what it feels like like last year

he told the New York Times that Barbie and Oppenheimer would have been just as big on Netflix as they were in theaters oh get the fuck out of here exactly not true that's so obviously not true it was a like cultural event and everybody was going out and enjoying the experience of like going to the movies together.

That was what that entire thing was about. He should be ousted from the C-suite for saying something like. It's such a wild statement. Okay. In another interview, he said, there's no reason to believe that the movie itself is better at any size of screen for all people. My son's an editor.

He is 28 years old and he watched Lawrence of Arabia on his phone. Oh my God. First of all, way to just throw your son under the fucking butt. My son works in film. He's a fucking idiot. He doesn't respect to the art form. I got him a job at Netflix. Right.

I mean, he's going to be fine, but... What the... The interviewer says, oh, no. And then he says, but it is just an interesting thing. At every new development of technology, there's wins for the audience. Is that what every new development of technology has been these past years? Jack, names for the audience? Name like three Netflix.

films that are going to stay with you for the rest of your life exactly miles miles exactly i got you know what i mean i got i've got the irish only because of uh the way that robert denaro like when they age him down but he's still in an old man's body i think about that all the time because i sometimes feel that way i'm like they're they can all see the way i'm lumbering around if i just i just think there is a different kind i think and look netflix has these huge things like stranger things or squid game where people watch it and it's sort of like we kind of becomes I don't know it's just like it's it's it's very um it's like unintentional almost because it's just there like you can watch it because it's on and people are talking about it going to see a film

is so much different and engages a different part of your brain that I think for him just be like I don't know my kid watched a movie on his phone and then this other thing and the people and based on watch time data I'm seeing it could be just as big you're fine fundamentally missing, like, how just like the sort of the wow, the spectacle of it. Yeah. And thinking that's the same thing. I don't know. I mean, like, and I look, I don't get me wrong.

I love when I can watch a movie that I missed in the theater. But also, it's because no one leaves fucking movies in the theater long enough where it's like, hey, you got two weeks, three weeks to see this shit. Yeah. And then it's off to streaming. They sent an email to subscribers announcing the Warner Brothers deal referencing popular franchise like Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, and Casablanca. So we might see like a Stranger Things finale where like CGI, Humphrey Bogart comes in.

Oh, that would be sick. So, and then this is like, I guess good news for like a, you know, as somebody feels like the Netflix takeover is the worst case scenario. Paramount has come in and launched a hostile takeover. David Ellison is basically going directly to shareholders. and being like, this will ruin Warner Brothers. Let me take it over and it'll be better for the entertainment industry and better for the value of this company.

And because David Ellison is Trump's buddy, Trump's now suggesting the Netflix Warner merger could be a problem. But it's just, I don't know. Oh, really? Really now? For what reason? You know, because my friend said it's not good. They bought everything right now. They're owning everything right now.

and okay okay okay okay because i know i think netflix wasn't gonna buy cnn like they were more interested in like the theatrical properties and things like that whereas like paramount's like yeah we'll take the news too we will we will create just one mind one take on how things are going for people to consume through the news yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yeah they're like if you think we can't ruin casablanca just wait guys hold on to your but yeah in case you weren't convinced yet they were living in a shitty version of the gilded age where people were all like relying on the beneficence of like ultra wealthy assholes to fix society like we're now being forced to root for Trump Ellison team Trump Ellison to save

theatrical movie going because yeah laws of monopoly and antitrust protections and shit like that are so toothless that they're only enforced when they can like make one of the president's friends richer yeah and also for the president be like can you change the discourse around how we talk about everything happening. Yeah, yeah, great. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. If a Lenovo gaming computer is on your holiday list,

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Yep. Our president won the coveted FIFA Peace Award. Yes, yes. First ever, first of its kind. That which makes it even more better. It's the first of its kind. It's most better, actually. It's the most better that it could possibly be.

I've won the first one. The statuette itself looks like a tortured metaphor for like the age we live in where like these contorted hands are like trying to grasp at a world that used to be or something yeah there's disembodied hands reaching up from hell is how i'm picturing it trying to grab the earth the hands are really big compared to the earth in my mind the hands were the the downtrodden trying to participate but now that i think about it it are it's demons from hell coming from the subterranean realm and trying to drag the earth down that's what i'm getting mild is demons from hell.

It's a real Roershack test, folks. I really encourage you to look at it. They look like the hands from the cover of Run the Jewel's albums. Yeah, yeah. They're a little snarled. But anyway, so this all happened on Friday because the World Cup draw took place.

This is where they pick all the names out of the hat and say, these are the teams that are going to play each other in the World Cup. That's how they figure out who's on the World Cup team? They just pull names out of that. Did you get on? Yeah, no, no, I didn't get drafted this year. Next time.

Hopefully, hopefully. But it was, wow, there's like, Lauren Hill performed lost ones. I was like, Lauren, you got Lauren Hill to show up on time. Wayne Gretzky sounded like he had taken too many pucks to the head as he struggled to say names like Curacao and Macedonia. And to Trump's delight, like he said, he won the first ever FIFA Peace Award.

And Johnny Infantino, the guy who runs fucking FIFA, what a malignant scumbag, dude. This guy knows, this is what he said, this is your prize. This is your peace prize. There is. There is also a beautiful medal for you that you can wear everywhere you want to go. Like you're talking to an incapacitated child.

There's a beautiful metal for you that you can wear everywhere you want to go. That shit might as well be a yo place like yogurt foil top on a string. And he's like, thank you. This is mine. My medal. Okay. And this gold piece is for me. FIFA said the prize is for, quote,

individuals who help unite people in peace through unwavering commitment and special actions although they have not disclosed details of the selection process the selection process is so funny like I like the journalist being like so could you just like give us an idea of

the field that you were choosing from? Oh yeah yeah yeah it was one narcissistic freak who gets so excited at the site of gold objects that look guys we're playing him let us do anything he's dumb he's a fuck wet okay uh when trump got the word he called it quote one of the great honors of my life yes

and then he said i've saved millions and millions of lives the congo is an example over 10 million people killed and it was heading for another 10 million very quickly india and pakistan so many different wars we were able to end and in some cases just before they started you'll have to trust me you'll have to trust me that i stopped them exactly probably me i trust my my generals that i stopped them and you have to trust me. Yep. Then he gave props to Infantino for setting new records on ticket sales and

then he said, quote, the world is a safer place now. We're the hottest country anywhere in the world. Okay. So anyway, this dude is again so incapacitated. It's right now. It's clear to everyone that all you need

to get Trump to agree to a proposal is just preface the ask with the presentation of some golden object. Yeah. And you're good. Like everyone's doing it now and it makes sense. To this point, I was talking to

Jamel Johnson and I was just joking. I was like, pretty soon, the bars and get so low, they're going to give them like the plastic shit for that you get a chucky cheese for like one ticket. Yeah. You know, and just spray painted gold. Like someone's going to give him like a plastic spider ring and be like, here you go, sir.

This is it. Now can you... This is your decoder ring from the CIA, correct. What is this? Spider? Yep. and it's gold, sir. Wow, wow, wow, wow, this is great. I saved many lives with this ring. A lot of people don't realize.

One of the most, it's one of the great moments of my life is so funny. And even the way Infantino says it, this is your prize. This is your piece. Like, he's walking this senile guy. Just right along the path to the ending, right? There is also a beautiful medal for you

that you can wear everywhere you want to go. to go. Like you're talking to a four? Yeah. It's like, yeah. But can I wear my Frankenstein? You can wear your Frankenstein costume anywhere you want to go, honey.

Wow. Thank you. I was just going to say four year olds being sold on their Halloween costume. Yeah. And you look so strong in it. You look so good. And this is mine? Yes.

This is your Frankenstein costume. And no one else. It made it just for you. Nobody else has it. It's beautiful. All right. Well, that's,

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