The Daily Zeitgeist - Japan vs. Trendzil 6/29: 'Celebrate 250', Supreme Court, Texas Reading List, Noah Kahan/Poopgate, Great American State Fair, 'Supergirl'

Episode Date: June 29, 2026

In this edition of Japan vs. Trendzil, Miles and special guest co-host Pallavi Gunalan discuss their respective weekends, the start of 'Celebrate 250' and how everybody's feeling about the American dr...eam, the Supreme Court pretending to rule on stuff, Texas' mandatory reading list (feat. The Bible), Noah Kahan's 'Poopgate' controversy, views from the Great American State Fair, the disappointing release of 'Supergirl' and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:38 Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Oh, hello everybody, and welcome to this edition of Japan v. Trendzil in the World Cup, because, yes, Japan is playing Brazil in the World Cup. This is like, I grew up loving Brazilian soccer since the 94 World Cup, and just seeing them play Japan. I feel great, but also terrified that maybe Japan hasn't ever really lost or ever won a knockout stage game. So we'll probably lose. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:03:10 That's fine. It doesn't matter. But here I am, Miles Gray on this Monday, June 29th, just sweating. Well, I keep an eye on that score. We need those Maglev feet in Japan. Come on. Let's do it. Just get them floating.
Starting point is 00:03:26 Get them floating and get them moving. Anyway, I'm joined today. Actually, a few days this week by my guest co-host, Paula Vee. Hello, Pahlavi. Oh, my goodness. Hello, I have not been paying attention to the World Cup. That's fine. They don't need to.
Starting point is 00:03:42 Give me a quick blowdown, and I will tell you all about Love Island updates. Oh, wait, what happened in Casa? How did they, what happened when they re-blended? Is Corbin? Re-coupled. Re-coupled. Melanie. I hate Corbin's hairline.
Starting point is 00:03:59 Oh, that's fair. You know why. I think you're talking about sincere. Are you talking about, no, Corbin. Corbin is like the robotic. Like, Melanie. You know, he is bringing, if you look, he is really taking it to the extremes, like where his actual hair line is to have that lineup going.
Starting point is 00:04:16 There's a lot. Really? There's a lot of. A lot of bar. Not even in denial. It's just a very aggressive lineup that he's got for his hair line. Like on the side. It's not even like he's balding.
Starting point is 00:04:26 Oh, I see. I don't even notice that. A lot of barber talk. A lot of black barber. talk on Instagram I'm being fed where people like, it's like dudes watching with their girlfriends like, pause. They're like, what's wrong with this dude? Nah.
Starting point is 00:04:36 No, no, this is bad. This is bad. Yeah, sincere just has like that. He's got that like hippie wave thing going. You know what I mean? Yeah. And then he, he's kind of a fuck boy. He has a pretty good vocabulary for how dumb I think he is.
Starting point is 00:04:52 Since he likes doing this thing where he has a metaphor about women like there's some sort of pie or objects. It's, it's this like pseudo-intellectualism. Sudo-like fuck boy pseudo-intellectual. You know what challenge I want to see? I want to see these men read out loud. That's what I want to say. Do not do that. Do not do not do not write reciprocity on a, on a name card. I want to see candy go through nursing school again. Oh, you mean, uh, Rekapaciti? Yeah. Hell yeah. What's up with that dude, gal? Like that guy also, he, He looks like such a weird, like little, he looks out of place for all the...
Starting point is 00:05:34 I don't like it. I feel weird with his vibes are weird. Um... Ah! Ha! Ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Ha! ha! Ha! ha! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Yata! Gamma! Okay, so, um... There we go. One goal. One goal. One goal. One goal. I still think... My, my prediction is this could go to penalty. but anyway, I like that we struck first. Sorry, we're here to talk about what's trending. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry, sorry.
Starting point is 00:06:08 This is just like when Carl popped out of the cake for me. Like, I love it. We're back, baby. Anyway, we're here to tell you what's trending. Before we do that, we got to tell you what's trending with us. And by that we mean, give you something from our hearts that's overrated and underrated. You ready, Pahlavi? Absolutely not.
Starting point is 00:06:28 Okay. Well, let's do it anyway. because either was Brazil for that outside the... Oh, ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho. Son oh my gosh. Okay, anyway. What's something you think is underrated? This is crazy.
Starting point is 00:06:45 Something that I think is underrated is... This is so weird, but this is what's around me. Moistrising in every capacity. I have eye drops and like I have to use them all the time. And as I've noticed as you get older, all you're trying to do is just suck the moisture back into your body. Like that's, it's face masks,
Starting point is 00:07:06 it's drinking as much water as possible. It's eye drops. It's like Vaseline on your lips. It's everything. What's up with your eye drops? Okay, you want to hear something so fucking lose, it makes me feel like such a dork.
Starting point is 00:07:23 I appear I don't blink all the way properly to like reset the moisture. in my eyes. So like when I blink, my eyes don't like fully close and rehydrate. So my eyes are like constantly dry. Wait, so like you're only getting like like 70% blink moisture on your eye. Like is that I'm picturing like a equatorial band on your eye from where your eyelids don't touch. Yeah. Pretty much. Yeah. Oh, great. Great. Okay. So yeah. Okay. So I feel like this is something that like if you had good parents they were like slathering you in lotion as a child.
Starting point is 00:08:02 Can't teach good blinking though. You can't teach good blinking though. You can't teach good blinking. Can't teach good blinking. I wasn't blessed as a blinker. Yeah. Hey, I get it. I get it. We all have strengths and weaknesses. Yeah, my mom when I would sleep, she would always, she would pinch my eyelids close just to make sure I was
Starting point is 00:08:19 blinking good. Yeah. That's what she said. I don't know. That sounds like something my mom would say and it would be a total life. She's like, go to sleep. Don't watch me. I kind of, I kind of, I don't really close my eyes when I sleep. My, my, my shit's, like, kind of have, like, my eyes aren't fully closed when I sleep. You're powering down.
Starting point is 00:08:36 Yeah. And your eyes are just open. Yeah. Yeah. I know, that's not like, they're not open. It's just that, like, they're not fully, they're not shut. Like, there's a little bit of daylight between my eyelids. Oh, because you got to, you got to make sure you can see those sleep demons.
Starting point is 00:08:51 Exactly. You got to keep that, those eyes open. I don't want my fucking, my Ryan Coogler's sleep paralysis demon showing up, pulling up on me. And I got involved with that. And I got involved with that. Wait, where is it? So I had to get involved with that. No. Why the ominous music about soda? Because you gotta have the sleep paralysis demon piano keys going. Melanie!
Starting point is 00:09:17 My underrated, my underrated, the purring of a cat. No, it's so good and it heals your bones. It's one of these things. It's not often like that nature gives you a like a piece of feedback like a cat purring like that's not distress you know what I mean like you know they're good when they purr I have two cats and I grew up with a lot of like I grew up with cats too I have two cats now too and like even big cats do it like I love that big cats are just babies too and they just come up and they're like yeah and my imagine like a tiger purring in your lap That's got to be.
Starting point is 00:09:58 That's kind of crazy. Well, like, imagine you're one of those, like, white people who raised it from it from it being a baby and you have no fear around anything bad ever happening to you. Yeah, right. And then a tiger purrs. Yeah. But you have no. Oh, oh, right, right. If that's just not, yeah, I get that.
Starting point is 00:10:15 On your radar? Yeah. Why not? Why not? That's one feature I wish dogs had because that's such a good feature. Yeah. I mean, dogs, I mean, they got the tail wag. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:10:24 But there's something. It's a tail wag too. Yeah, but there's more, there's like, they're more like, it's vibe. You know what I mean? The dog's like, you know. Yeah. But there's something about a cat purring.
Starting point is 00:10:36 I just, I got to say, I give it the edge over the wagging tail. And that's just, I do wish the dogs could like vibrate on you like that. You know, it's like so sweet. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:46 And it's supposed to be like really good for like, like the fact that cats do that and apparently like it heals you, like the vibrations or whatever. What? No, what Instagram account did you see that on? Wait, I thought I, hold on. Wait, so like what, like the frequency of the purring is somehow like resonant with our body or something? Kat's pur.
Starting point is 00:11:06 Don't look at no AI summary. What? I'm looking at it. The AI's like, you're right, Paula, exactly. You're on to something. Is it bullshit? This is what it. Hold on.
Starting point is 00:11:17 Healing. Between 25 and 150 hertz. It improves bone density. I mean, it's like probably one of those things like, like, like, dark. dark showering is good, quote unquote, good for you? What the fuck is dark showering? That's like when people take a shower in the dark, like with very low light. No.
Starting point is 00:11:32 At the end of the day. That's for predators. I don't like that. I do that shit. It's great. That scares me. You don't let, really? You don't turn the light on while you shower?
Starting point is 00:11:40 No, it's not like full darkness. I keep a little light on, like tiny one, like a night light. Like a tiny little big light? Because if I'm trying to, because I like to shower before I go to sleep. It helps me go to bed. So I don't like, I don't like, I don't want bright light as I shower like to wind down. I'm like to wind down. my restless leg. It helps my legs.
Starting point is 00:11:57 Late shower or low light shower. Yeah. Showering before bed. It like calms me down. Yeah. It's a big thing. I mean like in, you know, Japan, like you always take a bath before. It was like really important. You get your body temperature up before you go to sleep is the quote unquote science behind it. I don't. Don't ask me. This is from the journal of the Acoustical Society of America. The fielded per healing mechanism question mark. And? Hold on a second. Every feel is between 25 and 150 here. It's per frequency. Correspondies correspond to vibrational electrical frequencies used in treatment for bone growth fractures, pain, edema, muscle growth, strain, joint flexibility, dyspemia, and wounds. Domestic cats, servels, oscelots, and pumas produce fundamental dominant or strong frequencies at exactly 25 to 50 hertz.
Starting point is 00:12:39 The two low frequencies that best promote bone growth slash fracture healing. But what does that even mean? Like, so you could put a fuck an oscillot on your lap with a broken femur and then you're going to be right after like three minutes. No, and that's not what they're saying. I don't like that you jump to extremes. Well, I'm just trying to say like that. It's potentially helpful, which I think is sweet that, like, an animal that you love can, like, try to help you back. Yeah, that's true.
Starting point is 00:13:04 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just think it's cute. And probably there is some sort of, like, intuition they have to be near you when you're not feeling well and trying to, like, help. Yeah, cats always know when you're fucked up. Yeah. Dogs will, like, run you the fuck over while you're saying. I remember how to, like, I had, like, a breakup and I went to my mom. mom's house all bummed out and then my my mom's cat just immediately came up to me and just got just got just got in my lap and I was like, how does she know? And you and your cat and the cat was like,
Starting point is 00:13:31 look, this bitch is nothing. She's a mess. She's a mess. She's not even a good actor. Look at that short film you saw. I can't even believe you mustered the strength to act like that shit was good. All through purrs. Isn't that incredible? Yeah. All through per's healing, healing, healing. Paula, what's something you think is overrated? Fuck, every time you ask me one, I'm like, finally, I passed the test. And then you asked me the next one. And I'm like, how did I forget again? Guess who? Um, you know what? I think, I think, I guess this could be translated as an underrated. But I think like, uh, day jobs are overrated. Let's go back to night jobs. I've been like doing standup and just like being chill during the day. And it's the best fucking feeling. I think my dogs think I'm
Starting point is 00:14:14 fully unemployed. But, oh, you're like literally day, like, like, a job during the day. During the day. That shit sucks. I like night jobs. I like, that's why I'm a stand-up. What, what is it about during the day that you don't like? Too early. I'm just like, my whole thing is, like, I'm a night person and I'm like, my brain is the best at like 1, 2 a.m. So like, it's so much easier for me to just kind of like relax during the day, go to like appointments or whatever and then like get my shit together by like four or five p.m. after doing all my like online promotional shit and then go out do my shows and stuff and come back. What time do you go to bed? Hell of late. Yeah. What are we talking? Four? I would say like three, two, three. Yeah. Yeah. It also
Starting point is 00:15:02 depends because sometimes if I have to like I have had to go to Fresno and back the same day, you know, like San Diego and back like for shows. You know, so like it depends on like how tired I am from the drive. But. Damn. But it's nice to come back at night because there's no traffic. That is true. And there's like something I remember when I used to work late like in production, I'd come home late and usually people like, I'm going to fall asleep to second at home.
Starting point is 00:15:25 Like I would get home. I have to now like reclaim all these hours that I was working. I got to take a shower in the dark. Take a shower in the dark. Yeah. You know, scream into my old yearbook from high school as a healing thing. Whatever. I don't have to get into it.
Starting point is 00:15:39 I also like I like doing all like a lot of my like when you have that. schedule and you live in an apartment building, your laundry schedule is off of everybody. So that shit's free. You have time to do stuff outside. So I am very privileged in that way. My overrated, it's in the world of drinks. It's twofold. One is that like every cafe, like all coffee shops now just serve like milkshakes and
Starting point is 00:16:07 shit. Like it's not even like like coffee drinks. Don't exactly. There's like really sweet drinks that have coffee in them. but okay but I like that that's fine I'm just saying like this is just something I'm noticing I'm like Jesus Christ fine you want to go back to the
Starting point is 00:16:22 coffee basics a little bit the foundation it's not even like that I want to go back it's just an observation that I'm like I because I'm not really like a huge coffee drink like I'll drink coffee but I'm not like a person who's like I need it or I'm going to have a headache so when I go in and I'm like what the fuck is like is everything
Starting point is 00:16:38 some kind of wacky mix drink and it's not even like a chain coffee shop like I just see it just like a general trend with that. And then the other part of that too is with bars, I went to like, just putting a chunk of frozen fruit doesn't change a cocktail
Starting point is 00:16:55 and make it worth like 10 more dollars. They open a can of pineapple medley. Yeah, just, but it's frozen actually. They have like the plastic cups of peaches. Dude, I would, I love that. Wait, that sounds sick, actually. Make that affordable and you've got me as a customer.
Starting point is 00:17:14 Like, hey, like, we know that's not real peaches. That shit is from a can. They were put there by a man in a factory downtown, according to the presence of the United States of America song. But give me just, again, I don't like all the, I guess what it is. It's all like upselling, right? Because everything, it's like, well, coffee is too cheap. What if you just put half a gallon of ice cream and like ice and macho and Dubai chocolate in it? And now it's like way more.
Starting point is 00:17:39 Or now this like other cocktail, it's not a margarita. It has froze. It has a big chunk of fries. frozen watermelon in it. And now I've up so I don't need. Maybe we need to do like a froyo place where you, but for coffee, like where you could just get the basic coffee,
Starting point is 00:17:54 but then you could add whatever you want. And then you weigh it on a scale after and then they can charge you. Wow. I like to. So you could get the watermelon chunks or whatever. There's a way to hack it. They're like just barely any coffee. Just go.
Starting point is 00:18:13 you actually get your money's worth if you go all toppings. If you go all toppings. I had a friend who was convinced that was the hack. Was they like, though you've to throw your ways more. No, Sammy does like, Samuel Bade has a bit now where he talks about getting all those
Starting point is 00:18:28 toppings and it's really funny. Oh, man. Anyway, great overs, great unders. You know a little bit about us. Now we're going to talk about some news right after this. We'll be right back.
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Starting point is 00:23:46 of our semi quintennial i believe is what you how you describe the 250 50th birthday of America. A lot of discussion about national pride, the American dream. And what even is that? There's only one kind of pride I want to hear about this month. Okay. I was at D.C. Pride.
Starting point is 00:24:04 It was so funny how so many corporations, because it's like at the nation's capital that like a ton of corporations like are just there to like virtue signal in it. And it's just funny to be like, oh my God, the Nestle pride float. Like, oh my God. The Kaiser. Permanente Pride. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:24:23 Your water is gay, but now costs everyone, everything. It's, yeah, and now it's like, and we're stealing it. We're stealing it from indigenous people. But anyway, there's a lot of, like, polls that have just come out this week, and you'll be shocked to hear that multiple polls are showing that Americans are not that into America and what it stands for. She's not just, or not that into you. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:24:45 She has had it. It said pride in American democracy has dropped 14 percentage points since 2017. when it was measured at 42% it is now at 28%. And I'm like, go lower, lower. It should be lower. It should be lower. I mean, I must mean like these 28% of people
Starting point is 00:25:04 are living very, very comfortably. If you're like... But also, it's so crazy because the whole MAGA movement is like, like the whole Republican movement is like patriotism. But then they also, like, the MAGA part is like, make America great again because it sucks now,
Starting point is 00:25:20 because of brown and black people and stuff. Right. So then it's like, what are you, then you also aren't proud. Like, what are you proud of? It's, again, that's like, and that's an interesting point about like what even, what do we even,
Starting point is 00:25:34 how are we even defining pride or the American dream? This survey goes on. It says, also found that a majority of Americans are, you'll be surprised, disillusioned with the American dream, they are not confident in their current financial situations. Do not believe they can find a good job in the current market. Do not believe they have the ability. ability to purchase new homes if they want and do not believe they'll have enough money to
Starting point is 00:25:54 retire when the day comes. Meanwhile, 70% of Republicans said they were extremely proud to be an American. I'm proud to be an American. If you are confident in your financial status, please give me your address and whether you leave the windows open because I do want to rob you. Right, right, exactly. And whether or not you have weapons in the house. And if you're a deep sleeper, you know what I mean? Yeah, or if you sleep with your eyes open, like, Miles. I don't, I'm not proud and I sleep with my eyes open, okay? Because that's why, because I'm not proud. I know I got to keep my eyes open.
Starting point is 00:26:30 You're like the bulldog in Tom and Jerry. I'm trying to make sure the eyes are closed. I'm just assuming, like, to your point, like, being proud of being an American is just you're measuring that in like lib tears, probably. I think, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I think that's sort of like, I have a feeling that like for Republicans who are like, oh, I'm very proud to be American. It's because they're like, we're in the cultural driver's seat allegedly just because
Starting point is 00:27:05 they have the presidency. But also like Republicans will never be in charge of culture, but I get what you mean. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Like more so that they, that the perception that because a Republican is in office that like they're running things, even though everything we've seen like the fucking carnival. or the Great American Fair, which we'll touch on later, is not going well and terribly attended. But I feel like it's also like one of those things like they can't also admit that they're kind of feeling the squeeze of this shadow recession.
Starting point is 00:27:30 So they're just like, yeah, but despite that, like, at least Trump makes my neighbor ill. So yes, I'm doing well. I know. It's like your taxes aren't or like your financial status isn't like improved at all. But at least you've like owned each other and the libs. Like at least, even if eggs cost you that much, at least everyone's miserable. But at least I have Trump in the end who won't help me. Sure.
Starting point is 00:27:59 Then a Reuters, Ipsos poll revealed that one in five Americans will not mark Independence Day this year, including a quarter of Democrats and 8% of Republicans. Furthermore, quote, two in five respondents doubt the nation's ability to endure another 250 years. Do you think a lot of people aren't going out for, July 4th just because most of our generation has dogs instead of kids. Right. Like, no.
Starting point is 00:28:24 I'm giving my dog my volume for the fireworks. And we're just going to go. We're going to slip into a K-hole wrapped in blankets. Me and my dog are going to Burning Man. Yeah, I mean, like this year, like, uh, I have no, like, I was talking to my friends this weekend. I'm like, wait, what are you doing? We're like, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:28:45 We'll just eat or something. We'll just like barbecue. But like, I have not worn red, white, and blue, like, with any intention since I was maybe 11 or 12 years old. It feels like almost racist to wear an American flag. But it sucks because it is like when you have an American flag bikini, that shit's a banger. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:29:05 That's America right there. It sucks. I mean, that's the other thing too is like, you know, I see people who were like, when I was just in D.C. talking with some family and people that live out there, they're like, well, look, America isn't just Trump isn't America. and like there is something larger than that. But I also like part of me is just like, yeah, I mean like if we're really being real about like the history of it all like it's fine. It's fine. I like to get together with people.
Starting point is 00:29:29 So I'll use it as an excuse for that. Yeah. I do think I mean like if you are part of any nation and you're celebrating their holiday like Thanksgiving for us is like horrific or you know. So it's kind of I kind of just look at it as an ability to connect with your community. a day off from the rat race that this country is giving you to pour back, you know? Yeah, exactly. Be like a good American and, you know, embrace the multiculturalism, the diversity of it all. And I don't eat a, you better not eat no fucking hot dog unless it's wrapped in bacon.
Starting point is 00:30:06 It came from somebody on the side of the street. Unless it's like from like a coffee shop and it's got all of the toppings on it. It's like hot dog milkshake. Yeah, exactly. Dude, the secret is no, no dog. in it, just the bun and then all the toppings. And you save more money. I got a two pump caramel hot dog.
Starting point is 00:30:23 Also, a few Trump L's briefly. The Supreme Court just rejected Trump's E. Jean Carroll appeal to try and duck the lower court verdict. Quote, the Supreme Court on Monday rejected an effort by President Trump to toss a $5 million civil verdict that found he sexually abused and defamed writer E. Jean Carroll.
Starting point is 00:30:42 Obviously, like, this is something Trump's been trying to get thrown out for a long time. and it's always like that she was making lies up that a court found to be true but uh she's a hater so i need to throw out i just feel like i don't know much about her as a writer her personal life other than this and that like makes me sad in and of itself that she she's like in her 80s and having to deal with this and carry this and like also carry the hatred of the right as a result of like standing up for herself and for everyone that he's violated in that way.
Starting point is 00:31:19 It's crazy. Yeah, it's yeah, yeah. It's the norm. And I think luckily for her, she's not a woman of color, so she's less easy to identify instantly by MAGA people. You know what I mean? Like they're not,
Starting point is 00:31:34 they're not going to be like low IQ. Yeah, they're like, Ionapest me. They're like something like that. They've, you know. They know, they know. Also, the Supreme Court said that the Trump just can't willy-nilly fire the Fed governors of the Federal Reserve
Starting point is 00:31:50 because he tried to do that. Last August, he tried to fire, or he did fire Lisa Cook, who was a Biden appointee, who she's on the Reserve Board of Governors that was going to keep her there until 2038. Trump tried to just do one of the stupid, she was doing mortgage fraud like she tried, like he tried to do to Letitian James and James Comey. that didn't work. So she basically was like, okay, I'm suing the administration saying I was fired without cause. So now the Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump's firing of Lisa Cook was unconstitutional.
Starting point is 00:32:27 And, you know, basically showing limits the president's authority over the central bank. We're taking away his ability to say you're fired. Wow. Yeah, yeah. Without cause. That's the thing. That was the thing like, if you're going to do, you can't. just be like, here's a bullshit thing
Starting point is 00:32:43 fired. So basically try again, babe, cook up maybe something that actually resembles cause and then we'll try again, babe to drop is so cute. Try again, babe, okay? And then also, most importantly, Supreme Court also ruled that ballots
Starting point is 00:32:59 that arrive after election day, but are postmarked by election day can be counted. This was another... Oh, wow. The law. That's been the law. That's been how mail-in ballots have been working. Incredible. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this is the Mississippi law that was challenged by the RNC. The court was like, this does not unlawfully conflict with federal election laws.
Starting point is 00:33:22 So take hold that. What a fucking waste of our courts? I'm just, this is insane. Well, there's still, I mean, look, we still got a couple more rulings this week that go, who knows what direction with birthright citizenship and trans rights. But I hope they make gay marriage mandatory. We'll see. We'll see. I mean, that's, that's, this pride, you have to marry someone of this thing says. Right now.
Starting point is 00:33:47 Or you're going to jail. Do it. And you're not going to go to the nice one, Galane Maxwell's. Yeah. Meanwhile, though, also in Texas, the State Board of Education there reportedly has now approved a, quote, new statewide reading list for schools. Oh, my God. That includes books like Hamlet to kill a mockingbird, Bible verse. verses. A lot of Bible verses. So yes, stories from the Bible will, quote, become mandatory
Starting point is 00:34:16 reading for more than five million public school students. Look at this veggie tales ass state. Yeah, I know. It doesn't take effect until 2030 when the staggered rollout kicks off with elementary schools. So this all happened in 2023 with a law requiring state education officials to designate at least one literary work for every grade level. And guess what? It just so happened that some of the literary work selected are the book of Jonah and the book of Psalms, which will be mandatory for seventh graders, and the book of lamentations and the book of Genesis will be part of the high school curriculum. Okay, cool. And I'm going to go down there and start book clubs for the Quran, okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. I haven't read it yet, but you're forcing me to do this.
Starting point is 00:35:00 This is so, what's wild is that basically they're using like this loophole because there's a a 1963 Supreme Court decision that next quote state sponsored devotional reading of the Bible in public school classrooms but it didn't legally remove it from schools which meant that like in the sense that it was allowed for quote
Starting point is 00:35:21 academic study of the Bible so I guess you could just be in there like nah this is all cat bro I don't like this shit I remember this book was mid as fuck teacher yeah you could this is my analysis who the fuck wrote this shit Um, my 11th grade English teacher, like, I didn't understand some reference to the Bible in, and so she marked me down on something. And then I was like, hey, like, why did I get marked down on this? She was like, oh, you should know the Bible. And I was like, oh, okay. All right. I see how it is. Utah. Man, uh, although everything wasn't actually biblical. Um, in the high school curriculum for English students, they,
Starting point is 00:36:04 will have to bone up on the great literary work. That is Margaret Thatcher's eulogy for President Reagan. I thought it was just going to be like the fucking N-word sections of what was the book. Tom Sawyer or something. Yeah, yeah, Mark Twain, all redacted except for the N-word. That's going to be required reading. What do you think he was trying to say here? What do you think was going on there?
Starting point is 00:36:32 Yeah, very, I mean, I mean, that. makes sense. You have one terrible leader who loved austerity just, you know, are seeing the praises of another one. So that that kind of tracks, since Reagan is the god of the neocons. But wasn't it like one of Reagan's judges
Starting point is 00:36:48 that did the Eugen care or one of the rulings this week? It was like a, or something, there was like Reagan appointed judges that were like denying Trump. And I was like, this is so crazy that like Reagan's America was more pro immigrant, pro whatever.
Starting point is 00:37:04 event. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then, like, they were like, I think they were like, we like subtle white supremacy, you know, like so at least like we can go out in public and be like, I don't know what you're talking about, honey. Not this. This is too much racist dip on their chip. Noah Kahan, you know this artist?
Starting point is 00:37:23 Oh my God, stick season. So there was, did you see this like shit that went viral over the weekend? So, okay, so not because of the music on stage, but because of fan captured allegedly what they believed to be another fan who was taking a shit in in the fucking at the show okay so this video comes out is like there's like there's like yeah it's just it's it's it's smeared on the floor thanks fans to go to the back yeah so someone on reddit was like i saw this video like i was there this is how this person described it quote okay so the person
Starting point is 00:38:02 So this is what happened. Apparently, someone took a shit during the show. In Philly. In Philly. And then just kind of like shook the shit out and just acted like they didn't do nothing and they tried to just kick it away. Okay. It's a certain type of stick season.
Starting point is 00:38:20 This is what the person on Reddit who allegedly was there said, quote, okay, so the person who did this was one row in front of me in section A,A. I guess they didn't want to miss a couple songs used a bathroom. So they just straight up shit themselves. They started picking. actual pieces of poop out of their butt and put it on the floor. She started trying to waffle-stomp
Starting point is 00:38:39 the turds. What a phrase. Waffle-stom? Waffle-stomp the turds and acted like nothing happened. But we flagged down security. One of the most unreal concert experiences I've ever witnessed. Wait, no, come on posting. I pooped my pants as much as the next 29-year-old,
Starting point is 00:38:56 but you guys got to understand there's a venue worker out there with a thousand-yard stare after dealing with that. Yep. Exactly. If you have to poop, better show, please, do God, just go to the bathroom. I shit myself on stage in Charlottesville, but that's because I'm dedicated to my craft. I'm like, wow, this do much shit a lot. I mean, what is, what is norm?
Starting point is 00:39:16 When you say, I've shit as much as the next 29-year-old. How many time we, I haven't actually shit my pants in a minute. Yeah. It's something to be studied. You mean in that, like, it's running on poison? We're all made of microplastics and lead. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And no fiber.
Starting point is 00:39:32 No fiber, guys. That's the secret. Don't fuck with fiber, bro. What's the secret ingredient? Not fiber. Not fiber. I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what I'm not having.
Starting point is 00:39:42 Fiber. Don't want that. Fiber. Up your butt. That's from Street Fighter. I've peed myself at a concert. I fainted. I passed out.
Starting point is 00:39:53 Oh, I fainted at a concert too. Yeah. I peed. Not pooped, though. I did that at Jay-Z Coachella 2020. The yellow album? I did it so slick, though. I took a knee and I was wearing shorts.
Starting point is 00:40:07 You took a knee for a pee? Yeah, yeah. Colin Pipernik? No. No. I took a knee and just kind of went out the side of my leg, got right up, nobody knew. Not even my friends I was with.
Starting point is 00:40:25 And they're like, what happened? I'm like, I peed myself. And they're like, I could see the stain. And I'm like, yeah, yeah. Because I, we were so close to the front. And I was like, man, if I leave here, there's no way I'm getting back to my friends. That just means you didn't want it enough. You have to learn how to weave through.
Starting point is 00:40:45 Victor said, what do you mean nobody knew? All right, people knew. But it wasn't, it wasn't like, people were like, oh, I kept it low key. Nobody was getting hit. I was just standing in my own urine. Yeah, I kept a low key. Nobody got hit. I was just standing in my own urine.
Starting point is 00:41:01 My old. Victimless crime. Victimless crime. You know, I did what I had to do. I did what I had to do. And now you're... No, this is also similar because did you see that Olivia Rodrigo clip from this last week too? I thought something about it.
Starting point is 00:41:13 What happened? She was saying, she's like, bruh, people are wearing diapers at my shows. That's insane. And I can smell. I can smell it when I'm near the front. I can, I can, I can, I can, I can, I can sense with my nose. People are in diapers. What is wrong with us?
Starting point is 00:41:29 What is wrong? Go to the bathroom. Make the bathrooms accessible. Also, I don't understand, for like men, I can understand why they wouldn't go to the bathroom as an incentive. But girls in the bathroom at concerts is like one of the best experiences of your life. It's girlhood to the max. You got to go to the bathroom during a concert.
Starting point is 00:41:50 What do you do there? We bond. You mean just like in line for the border body? In line for, like, not the board of money. But at a festival, it's not like a women's room. You know what I mean? Everyone's just in line to ship a plastic body. festivals or?
Starting point is 00:42:02 Oh, I don't know. You're right. You're right. I'm speaking for myself when I. Is that the palladium? He's shitting in the front row. When I urine blasted myself for Jay-Z. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:42:13 This was 14 years ago, okay? I've moved on. You were still a legal adult. I was still, yeah, I was 27 years old, if you must know. You peed yourself as much as the next 27-year-old. Yeah. Yep. Almost throughout my shoes, too.
Starting point is 00:42:28 But I lost my glasses and. my, one of my shoes at a Lupe Fiasco concert. It got crazy. I was like, I came out like beat up. I was like, what happened? You lost a shoe? Yeah. My adidas.
Starting point is 00:42:46 Yeah. Were you like moshing or something? I wasn't. I was trying to get out of there. They were moshing. Oh, so, but that's what I'm saying. It was during them, it was during a shoe. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:55 It just got crazy. People in Utah do not fuck around with Lupe Fiasco. They're moshing. to kick push and shit. You're like, what the fuck? This isn't even like a song like that. Help me.
Starting point is 00:43:08 Losing. It's so funny. You're like, my shoe. I know. So you're just doing that like shoeless lip when you're walking out like, wow.
Starting point is 00:43:15 Wow, wow, wow. All right, let's take a break. And when we come back some more news, we got to check in with the Great American State Fair because that's going terribly.
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Starting point is 00:48:34 We talked about Trump kicking off the event with a very poorly attended speech and very not, I mean, just middling national anthem, performance by Cash Patel's girlfriend. Wait, really? That was Cash Patel's girlfriend? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was her. That was her. That'll never beat Fergis. No. You're talking about for the All-Star game?
Starting point is 00:49:03 You're saying it. Built an echo. That ship is still the That's, and she wasn't on drugs or anything. She talks about it. She was like, I just thought that was like the vibe. I just thought I was on a wave. The players try not to fucking laugh. Yeah, Steph Curry, I think, is one where he's just like... He could not hold it in.
Starting point is 00:49:24 It was... No, I'll give it to... I think her name's Alexis Wilkins. She's, like... She's saying it straightforward. She's not, like, a bad singer. She's just not, like, a dynamic or powerhouse singer. So I was like, oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:49:37 Just a horrific person. Yeah, yeah. I just, I was praying to be like, please be shit. And I was like, nah, no, no, all right. I can't hate. I can hate the politics. But anyway, so Freedom 250, it's happening, not going well. Surprise, surprise.
Starting point is 00:49:56 For starters, despite the fact that Trump has claimed the event has been packed to the brim with 45,000 guests, detendance looks beyond sparse. It looks like it ended like a week ago and people are just like being like, oh, the shit's still up. poop from last week. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just like what's great is some of the best evidence we have of the poor attendance actually comes from the right.
Starting point is 00:50:23 Like when Fox News, they were broadcasting like live from the Great American Fair. But it's just, again, I'm just going to, I'll play the audio and listen to them pretending that this is, this is a vibey event. Happy early birthday America. We're celebrating already
Starting point is 00:50:42 at the Great American State. fair man we've got thousands of people celebrating this birthday with us Tommy you and I had a chance to go out we got to see some of the exhibits I'm sure you got what I got which was a lot of people going hey love to watch it on Fox I hope a lot of them left look at they're don't even saying anything I bet you got what I got which is people saying I like to watch you the TV show because there's so many people here they said thousands they're panning across 12 people I'm not joking maybe total if you go if you like for the entire show maybe all the way like 300 yards back, maybe 800 people.
Starting point is 00:51:18 That seems like a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to presume there's people inside those weird little tombs, mausoleums that people go in and out of that are like the event spaces for each space. Yeah. Caroline Levitt even posted a picture. She's like, oh, we're having a great day. Fucking nobody around, except for that bum-ass Ferris wheel.
Starting point is 00:51:37 Dean Kane, he got it. He went there. He's like, check out the view from atop the Ferris wheel at the Great American say fair. I feel like I can take the ice course again, man. I can literally count one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, fifteen, sixteen,
Starting point is 00:51:54 seventeen, sixteen, nineteen, eighteen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, seven, seven, eight, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, he's like, he's not even saying numbers. It's like a cat's per, I'm doing it at twenty five hurts. Yeah. Um, it will actually help. It'll heal you, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll,
Starting point is 00:52:14 helps with bone density to hear me count the fucking attendees from Dean Cain's Ferris wheel photo with the Great American States. And then in addition to that, Vanilla Ice, one of the few artists who did not pull out of the event had his concert canceled just at the last minute due to inclement weather. But here's the thing. A lot of people are like, now that explanation doesn't count. That doesn't really track for us because that severe weather actually needs. never came to pass. Some people were like, it's probably because the attendance was so fucking low
Starting point is 00:52:48 that they canceled and just use the excuse that it was the weather. Because even on the website for Freedom 250s like Great American State Fair, it says the events will go on rain or shine. And there wasn't even the shit that they were saying was happening wasn't happening. This is a weather forecaster for DC's NBC Force. I quote, and this is the day of like the supposed canceled concert. Tonight, a few. Few evening storms. Not everybody sees rain tonight. It's not like widespread thunderstorms moving through.
Starting point is 00:53:19 We're really not having any concern for severe weather. Scattered showers probably in a possibility of lightning in the early morning hours. So they're like, nah, not really. I don't think low attendance is any reason for vanilla ice to worry. Like, what does he have that's high attention? You know him, he was like, how many people out there, 80? Oh my God, bro. Get me out there, bro.
Starting point is 00:53:42 I'm killing it. I'm sure it's probably because of the regime is like, no, we cannot have, we said these concerts were going to be fucking insane and look like, you know, Coachella 2012 when you have 41 year old men peeing themselves for it. No, that's not what was going on. The Ferris wheel was also having troubles. They had a faulty generator. So that's just stuck up there. He's still up there now. Fly down, Superman.
Starting point is 00:54:07 If you can't, bitch. Hello, please. Is this part of the cool? Is this part of the ice? All right, I give up. I don't want to be an ice if I have to be up here. I don't want to do it. This is scary, guys. Uh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:21 So, nothing has been working well. People said, like, there's, like, the Trump arc thing that was there. It's, like, just falling apart. It's, like, made of plywood. Everything is just, like, has, it's, like, very American. And that, like, from far away, you're like, oh, that's interesting. You get up close. I'm like, oh, this shit is brittle.
Starting point is 00:54:37 And, like, chipping away. And just a sad projection of what, what they want. want us to think it is. Yeah. It's just representative of the entire administration. Yeah. Mitch McConnell's hands. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:54:51 Then you have like the booths that every state was like setting up a booth, but a few blue states, Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, well not like blue, but blue governor states. Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington. They didn't send official booths. So what happened was they were like, those states had empty unstaffed rooms with just like photo murals and chairs, but on some, they, like, for Massachusetts, like a volunteer,
Starting point is 00:55:18 like a Republican lady was like, oh, I'll set up the Massachusetts booth. They said, quote, on display were some maple candies and syrup. It's the only thing I could think of to get quickly and get here, the volunteer said. And I think maple syrup really does represent Western Massachusetts. I'm pretty sure Vermont gets to claim that one. But, okay, okay. You got candies. I think Neko Wafers might be from Massachusetts.
Starting point is 00:55:46 Maybe you got some Neko Wafers and maple syrup. But also, quote, on the table was a flyer and a picture of the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk. But Ms. Chabit, who's the volunteer, said, this whole event is nonpartisan. Okay. Wait, are they trying to have you, like, prove the maple syrup wrong? Like, are you supposed to be debated? Is that why the picture was there? Prove me wrong.
Starting point is 00:56:12 Western Mass is the maple syrup capital of New England. Prove me the fuck wrong. Move me wrong. Yeah, it's just all very, very weird. And then the North Carolina book, our booth, also there was like a video that was playing in there that had an image of like the Confederate flag, like overlaid the state flag. And then someone was like, oh, this wasn't approved. Yeah, we're taking this down.
Starting point is 00:56:37 I'm surprised they even had that to say not to do it. That's crazy. The thing that really, really, I think, sums it all up, though, at one point,
Starting point is 00:56:48 quote, a MAGA social media influencer, who is known as Jan Racteli, or also known to people as Manny, he was arrested for allegedly performing lewd acts during a performance by female acrobats all while dressed as Uncle Sam. The way this is such a fucking direct,
Starting point is 00:57:11 heavy-handed metaphor. Uncle Sam is jerking off to acrobats performing for free. It said, this is from the Independent quote, one witness told police they were standing behind Racteli while he vaped and filmed the female acrobats before observing him place his hand inside his pants. He was wearing an Uncle Sam costume and overalls at the time of his detention. It is wild, like the whole thing is it sparsely attended. no one likes it.
Starting point is 00:57:42 The people that do go are like degenerate. There's guys jerking off in an Uncle Sam costume. Great event. Great event. Uh, 10 out of 10. And meanwhile, Dean Kane has a view of it all. Yeah. And we got, and we have what, like 10 more days of this shit.
Starting point is 00:57:59 So I, I have a feeling. Are they just doing this during the entire World Cup? Like, what? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Why are they doing this? It's crazy that like when you look at the, the actual images. from like the event like it'll be like seven at night like on a Friday when you think people like yeah I don't have shit to do or like if there's like a free thing going on check it out and nobody's
Starting point is 00:58:21 going it's probably because of the polls you know people don't yeah nobody wants to go in proud not for this shit not for pedophiles and fucking people jerking it in public Jesus Christ dude what the fuck and then yeah there's just like every day there's like some new report new headline of someone who just got like who actually went in and just got closer to something where someone was like, this thing's falling apart, the food sucks. I got to read this thing about like the...
Starting point is 00:58:50 Their own fire fest. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where is it? Oh yeah, so like the whole, like, the whole arc to Trump thing that he wants to build that he's like shown the renderings that it's like it's going to be the biggest arch ever than fucking anywhere than the Arc de Triomp.
Starting point is 00:59:05 Fuck it. So one of the, a journalist like went up to it and just really, just looked at it and they're like it's made from plywood and people are like all the architectural sheets are features is just vinyl sheeting that's stapled on to the surface so like there's not there's not actually any like uh sculpting or anything like close to like the actual designs it's like yeah just print out that filigree and then staple it on the plywood arc why do we think anyone
Starting point is 00:59:36 competent would have anything like i'm surprised they haven't lost people in this fair Right. I'm surprised they haven't had a situation from the movie Us where people's identities were switched. Yeah, I'm sure, look, it's only a matter of time. There's still time. There's still time. And then we got to check in with the box office one last time because you'd like to do that on Monday. Supergirl came out.
Starting point is 01:00:06 Just made $30 million, which is well below expectations. and there's like apparently like a bit of an inquest happening there or they're like, wait really? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I need to go. I love it. Do you, do you, do you, have you been paying attention to the, like, the rollout and stuff? Or you just, but you just fuck with super rule generally.
Starting point is 01:00:27 I fuck with, like, hard with Superman. Mm-hmm. The recent iteration. It's interesting because people said that this was better than the Superman movie. But as Victor just pointed out, a terrible cursed stat. that Morbius made more money than Supergirl opening weekend. Super Dog. No.
Starting point is 01:00:48 They're not going to cancel Super Dog. If I know anything about America, dogs are just above women and people of color. I have seen a comedy lineup where there were more dogs than women on the line up. Shut the fuck out. I mean, so for real. How is there a comedy lineup with fucking dogs on it? because one of them was like the Conan dog. Oh, like triumph?
Starting point is 01:01:17 Like Robert Smykels? And then there was like another dog and there was one woman on the line. That's so fucking ditched. It's so bad. Holy shit. Anyway, I've heard anecdotally, I mean, one of my friends went to go see it and they're like, yeah, yeah, it was fine. but I'm not sure
Starting point is 01:01:41 Brazil just equalized Okay Boo Okay Okay Okay Right boo Yeah
Starting point is 01:01:47 Boo? This is what I felt This is what I felt though This is what I thought I'm saying 2-1 I think this is going to be 2-1 For me personally For Japan?
Starting point is 01:01:56 Yeah Yeah I think we're gonna go Okay Look we got to just wake up We gotta just wake up And then we're gonna do it But you know what
Starting point is 01:02:02 The problem was You're trying to go up Against the fucking behemoth That is Toy Story 2 because that motherfucker is not going away. I thought you were still talking about the World Cup. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Toy Story 5.
Starting point is 01:02:14 I thought you were still talking about the World Cup. You're like, Japan is going up against Toy Story 2. Japan should have known better going up the behemoth. I'm like, damn. I should be more attention to sports. Oh, yeah. Toy Story 5 just scored a great header. And by that, I mean, Casimirio, Casamiro, because he's wearing number five. Yeah, Toy Story is just, it's not stopping.
Starting point is 01:02:34 And a lot of people apparently are mad at a needle drop in the Supergirls. film, which I'm not going to talk about on here, because if you're going to see it, apparently it'll hit either really good or not at all. So, okay, yeah, I want to go much. Leave that. Anyway, so that is going to do it for us this morning. Hope you enjoyed hatching up with us. We're going to be back tomorrow with a whole new episode.
Starting point is 01:02:55 Brand new for that ass. Get ready. All kinds of fucking weird news and funny shit for your earpieces. Until then, take care of yourselves. Take care of each other. Get your vaccine. don't do nothing about white supremacy. Keep your chin up.
Starting point is 01:03:10 Oh, there's a Japan fan crime. Wait, it's 1-1, and it's the 56 minute. Gotta keep hope a lot. So yeah, we'll see you then. Bye-bye. Bye. Listen to my podcast. Bye.
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