The Daily Zeitgeist - MC Trend Shapiro 1/29: AMC, Dune, Mona Lisa Souped, Ben Shapiro, Jordan, Drone Attack, Taylor Swift, Super Bowl

Episode Date: January 29, 2024

In this edition of MC Trend Shapiro, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, AMC's special 'Dune'-themed popcorn bucket, a souped-up Mona Lisa, Tom MacDonald's newest song (feat. an actual feature verse from Ben Shapiro), the drone attack on US troops in Jordan, Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this week trend episode of The Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. It is Monday, January 29th, 2024, I believe is the year. My name is Jack. That is Miles. Yes. This is the episode where we tell you what was trending over the weekend. What's trending on this Monday morning.

Miles, you are out of pocket right now. You're in the great. Yeah. I'm in the great north, the bay area yay area uh we be to wrap what key be to lock um as the famous e40 flip sample says um it's beautiful i'm in japan town i was just up here obviously for the habituation room pod live show yeah for sketch fest it's always so funny dude like because it's a a comedy festival. Local people just buy tickets and show up thinking like, yeah, it could be funny.

And there are some people in the audience who are not ready for me talking about DNC text messages and how they were doing my head in or just any of the geopolitical stuff we were talking about. I feel like that happened even in our Daily Zeitgeist show a couple years ago, too, where you had people being like,

oh, cool, an interesting comedy show. And they're like, what is this political thunderdome I've wandered into? So it was nice. But also, shout out to everybody that was there. A couple people from Zeitgang, shout out to you all. Had some really nice conversations with you. So thank you for showing up, supporting. There you go. All right.

Well, this is the episode where we talk about what's trending. 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, do you want to kick us off with something you think is overrated? Sure. Just, you know, we were talking a little bit about, I think, in the trending episode about how Civil War was trending and all these governors are sending, you know, support to Greg Abbott as he causes some kind of constitutional crisis. And now we have reports of a new a new freedom truck fuck fest coming to the border near you next week. Yep. We got a convoy. The new convoy just fucking dropped. And guess guess the kinds of people that are

behind this one. You're right. Racist grifters. This will be a peaceful event with retired law enforcement, military, truckers, bikers. They're always throwing bikers, which I love for these kinds of things.

It's just another opportunity to grift. And, you know, especially from people that believe the solution to illegal immigration is to, like, just have a bunch of bikers pull up with guns doing Border Patrol cosplay. Right. And that's kind of like what this thing is. I think obviously this could have the potential to turn violent since the mindset of a lot of these people is that they are protecting our nation. And also there's a lot of military jargon being used by the people that are organizing it to describe what their plans are, how they're going to help out constitutionally sound law enforcement officials. So I don't think that part is overrated but however i know this is also part of like a larger scheme clearly to create a total crisis at the border while biden is in office and just pin everything on that because you know there's a border deal that's really super uh really great sweet deal for the conservatives uh that jo Biden is like, yeah, this could be good.

This could be good. Trying to put it through. So just get it off his plate, get it out of the headlines. He's getting dragged to the right on this. And Donald Trump is also begging other politicians, especially in the Senate, to not vote for this because he doesn't want anything to get fixed. So he can just point to the massive whatever rot that is happening or perceived rot at the border so you know i think while biden's primary rep weapon it looks like going into this is not talking about the future or sustainable economies or the climate or things

like that and just talking about roe the republicans it looks like they're going all in on a xenophobia counterpunch yeah um because it seems to be like they're for them in on a xenophobia counterpunch. Because it seems to be like for them to like, maybe if we can ignore all the other fucked up things you do and just make it about fear of a brown country, then that'll motivate people enough. The original conflict that got Civil War trending was they want to put, Texas has put razor wire on the other side side of a river it is causing people to you know die in the river and the supreme court ruled like that it could be taken down by federal

government employees and um that's that's the thing that they're they're on the side of let us keep razor wire up to drown the innocent people um yeah so that's what it's that's what it could all boil down to but i think it i feel like they're really trying to just test if this is unifying enough of you know a moment to be like okay we got something we can we can run on now just keep hammering away at the border because even with that one quote when we were talking about trump when he was like just describing like the iron dome and how that works like boom boom boom boom boom boom done big brains big muscles up here that was like when he was saying the southern border needed an iron dome system because we're like yeah because there's so much rocket fire coming

in from juarez or something? What are you talking about? He, yeah, just, the cruelty is the point with him. He wants to do Star Wars on people who are trying to enter the country out of desperation. Well, my overrated is a little less serious. I had a Sublime, aka this past week, so I was listening to that song,

What I Got, for the first time in a while. And I have to say, I feel like the riotousness of the guitar solo after he says he can play the guitar like a motherfucking riot is slightly overrated.

Yeah. It reminds me of like the devil went down to georgia where there's like all this build-up where the devil's like oh boy i'm gonna i'm gonna play this this here fiddle boy and it's gonna blow fire out your ass and then he like plays it it's like there's like a long rhythm guitar thing that opens it and then it's like five seconds of screeching fiddle like it's like the the guitar solo just sounds like i don't know it sounds to me like if raindrops keep falling on my head had a guitar solo in it it sounds like it sounds like some shit jack johnson would have thrown away in an idea pile. You know what I mean? It feels like surfer acoustic.

The fact that he's scatting along and doing little... While he's doing it makes it funnier. Yeah. I mean, also, too, because famously, riotous guitar solos are filled with background whistling, too. Because someone's also whistling along.

I think it might be Bradley or whatever. But it's just, I got a Dalmatian and I can still get high. I can play the guitar like a motherfucking riot. Riot! Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. But also, later that went in that after that rap verse he brings the riot theme back because he's like try and test that you're bound to get served loves what i got don't start a riot you'll be like when that dance gets hot um yeah i don't know it just feels like when you're you don't need to tell

people that you're about to unleash uh yeah hell on them with this upcoming guitar solo it really does remind me of i we always i always refer to this fucking will ferrell garth brooks sketch where will ferrell's like the devil um and he garth brooks is like trying to buy a song in exchange for his soul that will be a hit and the devil songs all suck they're all just like not good songs um because there's a lot of that where he's like big build-up where he's like it's hell cast Jack come on now open thine ears and sleek thy thirst on the music that could force kings to their knees and oceans to boil

behold the song that will take you to the top of the charts there's a guy named Fred and he's got a pair of slacks Fred's got slacks I'm sorry oceans to boil bill uh a little bit of false advertising but anyways uh it's a great song uh the sublime

song it's just funny i i hadn't really noticed how uh how big uh how hard he comes into that solo and then it's just like a little like jazzy acoustic guitar whistle number yeah i mean look this is this is the problem when that you're doing as much drugs and drinking as bradley was because sometimes the lyrics definitely get away from you like you know it's just so weird because like when you think about like the songs like i think wrong way was also like another that was like a huge track like on that album that they played um like that got a lot of commercial play you know and the first line to that song is and he's 12 years old and two more she'll be a whore and you're like oh no you were just talking about

playing the guitar like bradley what we love that last song dude check this next track i got and he's 12 years old you don't like that no no you don't like that riotous guitar solo behold about this um bradley, I will say that the exception, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, has some good guitar solos in it. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, sometimes you can talk that shit and back it up, but you just gotta make sure you do.

Most people do. Most people do. Most people do. They know you can't talk up a solo and then hit them with some Jack Johnson-y good times vibes. But look, no disrespect to that track because the shit goes yeah what's uh what's something you think is underrated miles uh i've

been watching i've just been watching a lot of local news clips over the weekend i went down a weird rabbit hole that just it's no need to really discuss it it started from me seeing something on reddit and then i just kind of like the algorithm on youtube just kept showing me like local news things but then i just started watching them with this like really weird feeling but i think it's just really creepy how local newscaster energy is like it's i i don't know it's like their on-air presence is like actually becoming more terrifying to me now. It feels like AI or something because there's something about having to sound and look a certain way when reporting the news in this sort of very specific way that just feels off. And I get like the professionalism, journalistic integrity or whatever, like you don't want to inject commentary by being like too emotional or whatever.

or whatever like you don't want to inject commentary by being like too emotional or whatever but it's like do you have to talk like people that don't exist at all on the planet right that's where it's just sort of this way that we found a way to deliver news that feels like this and it's just this i don't know there's something about it that i the more i watch it it just like was making me feel creeped out it just was not yeah me in this weird i think just because i think of like what what what's going on you know in the world and stuff like that but even like older news coverage like people would say like the most grim and then like pivot to some other story much like this show uh but in a way that's like so unaware and like meant to be super sanitized yeah and i just it's it's a lost art form honestly i

think it's it's very underrated how you kind of have to go out of body i think to be like that on camera yeah i i feel like now that we have YouTube things and podcasts covering the news and we've seen people like talk about it as humans reacting to the news, it now feels even weirder to like watch somebody do this yeah that that whole bit of like being a disembodied you know human who is like and i won't tell you how i feel about this but yeah here it is folks and then there's like especially with local news just such a barely concealed agenda you know the surface. Because they're like, local land developers believe the new affordable housing will affect local prices. That's why they are opposed to it. Meanwhile, these unprotected individuals are languishing in the street. Now, here's Rob Umeda with the weather.

Right. Very weird. Very surreal. All right. right very weird very surreal all right uh for my underrated i just i had this experience where i was outside my house and heard a what sounded like a ufo float past my house like uh you know it's an electric vehicle but like one of those highly choreographed sounds that electric vehicles make obviously i've heard them before but just without the visual it just re-emphasized how weird the whole thing is like i think the one that i heard was maybe a bmw but it was like this high-pitched choral crescendo like that

in another context could be out of a horror movie. Yeah. It's like the Yeah, but it's like a multi-voiced it's like there's like 16 pitches happening at the same time. I think there's someone when I've walked my dog and stuff in a Volkswagen electric

vehicle that has like this very weird harmonic pitch to it. Yeah. It might've been a Volkswagen. And even the Kia. I don't know. I've definitely like stopped some of the times when I've been like, what the fuck is,

and then like turned, it's been a Volkswagen for sure. I don't, I don't know if that was, I'm like, there's definitely some like Thurman, like UFO from a 1960s movie type things happening in the soundscape. It's just,

it's, it's an interesting, like I started doing research on it after this to just see like what the process has been like. And some people are just like, yeah, make, you know,

get a speaker that plays the sound of a fucking car engine, um, just roaring. And that's, that's how we do it. But then there's just this other world where they're like, yeah, man,

we got really fucking trippy with it. A BMW hired Hans Zimmer to create one. They made it sound like, uh, what they describe as an electrified orchestra warming up for a performance and said we conceived a sound to celebrate the car intended as a highly complex performative art installation. That is OK. Just fucking make it easier. So when I'm walking down the street, I know a fucking car is behind me or something because that like, I think like Teslas don't make a lot of sound.

No. I feel like. Yeah, but Teslas have like a weird like whistle sound. Can you turn it on? I guess it's only at low speeds that it has to become a problem. Oh, got it, got it, got it. Or that it has to like be engineered because at higher speeds you can actually like hear them whistling through the air. Right. But the, I'm kind of on board

with it. I think it's interesting that they didn't all just go sound of car engine like play that through a speaker. Some of them just decided to go in a really weird direction which I was thinking about the Harleyley like a harley davidson

drove past me on the highway and my cousin who drove a harley always told me he's like yeah man those that sound that like basically smacks you in the face it's so loud like getting smacked by a fucking car engine that that that actually saves lives. Cause it's like so loud that everybody hears it coming and resent it. So it's like in their mind, which that, that is like what kills people is they, they just like,

don't notice motorcycles coming. Hey, you got to respect, respect your cousin, man. He was riding a Harley man. He wasn't driving it all right right he's rides a harley that's right all the bikers out there you know on the freedom

convoy right now we're listening you know respect to you guys we don't want to we don't want to you know mess up what you do but i think there's also like i i honestly i feel like correct me if i'm wrong i feel like the cop cars and all the cars in Demolition Man kind of sounded like this. Oh, right. Yeah, they did. They were kind of like this high-pitched whir kind of sound. I think they might look. I think everything's just turning to Demolition Man, to be honest.

Yeah. Have you seen that clip of Will.i.am driving a Mercedes that he designed the internal audio for? No. the in like internal audio for no there's this clip of like apparently will i am i'd like worked on some sort of like sound design for this mercedes that when you drive it based on how quickly you're driving like a soundtrack builds based on what's going on so like when you're going at low speeds like it like brings in one layer of the track and then as you accelerate it's like adding more to create this like very interactive soundtrack. But it's like,

if you don't like fucking futuristic EDM, like you're going to be like, turn this shit off. But a lot of, as your only option. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

You don't like get to choose your own music. It's just like a will. I am a performance art sound soundscape. You get to do Molly with will. I.am as your chauffeur, basically, is what you get. There are reports that an electric car is 40% more likely to hit a pedestrian than a normal car. For a visually impaired population, the number jumps to 93%. That was early days, and they've recognized that and tried to but it

feels like one of the solutions instead of just being like yeah make a sound so people hear you is like we should evoke like existential dread

just like weird people out with our with our soundscape and maybe that's the point maybe that's the equivalent of the Harley the Harley engine

smacking you on the face as it drives by. Yeah, just give you existential future dread. That's right. Alright, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades.

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all right let's uh should we talk about this uh popcorn oh man it's popcorn collectible bucket please there's important things happening um but the drenching my bench over here. But the AMC is dropping a bucket on all of our asses that looks like a... People are saying a vagina dentata. Yeah.

Some people are saying butthole. Some people are saying haunted fleshlight like orifice. If the guy who designed if uh geiger designed a fleshlight this is kind of what it would look like 100 yeah so this is i didn't realize there was a trend of like overpriced popcorn fucking buckets like i can we. I completely missed, I didn't know there was some special edition Barbie Corvette you could eat fucking popcorn out of,

like when Barbie came out, that came with a Barbie, and AMC was charging $65. This seems like the exact kind of story we would have been covering on this show, so I apologize for it. There was a lot going on back in the Barbenheimer days. I don't know.

I don't think there was, man. I can't even think of one thing um but we fucked up there but also like i'm kind of mad at that barbie car design because it has like two rows of seats in it and i fail to see how you could actually eat any like substantial amount of popcorn out of it like it fails as a convey like a vessel for popcorn yeah good completely. A complete L on the design. I'm assuming that that part is removable because

it goes, like you can see a version of it where it appears to have a lot of popcorn inside of it. But Jack, you know that the doctor, that defies the laws of physics, that image. I don't think they have it stacked like that i think they

just cut and pasted but whatever anyway so now this bucket is what's like the name for the sand worm in dune brian what's it called shy hallooed bro that's what it is the fucking i i don't know why yeah anyway of the sandworm they're saying that's, they made a shy, hallooed fucking bucket where I, yeah, I don't know why they thought this could, this feels like a troll to be honest, but I mean,

I guess all the world's a troll these days. On the other hand, it does feel like, I mean, first of all, it's got the little like mouth fiber things around it, the thing that makes it look like a butthole being stretched out.

Like that is gonna keep your popcorn in, you know? But there are some aspects of this that make me think, wow, they've upped the popcorn bucket game a little bit i um i definitely like i like where we're going with this you know like but like the little mouth barnacles or whatever it feels like now as a parent like one of those like snack cups you give a toddler where like exactly goes in but the snacks ain't coming out if you turn it upside down kind of vibe. So I like that. I like the intersection of toddler snack technology with movie bucket. But yeah, I guess it also seems like it could be a trap because I like to get a real

big handful of popcorn and I don't know if my hands making it through that bad boy with all the popcorn I'm going to put in it. And how rigid are those like little things? Like, like, are you just going to like get blisters for like, from like repetition blisters from putting your hand in and out of this, as they call it a quote,

tight hole. Yeah. Hey man, the way I eat popcorn, maybe I might. Um, yeah. To quote this article,

it looks like a fleshlight or a puckered butthole or a vagina dentata, uh, whatever filthy little connection it makes in your mind. It has the unmistakable look of something people will try to stick their dick in. That is from the New York times. No, no,

I'm sorry. That's TMZ, but I mean, they interchangeable at this point yeah just a lot of jokes about dune fans fucking the thing right look like i get it it it's it doesn't look great but honestly i think it's about the idea man it's about the idea it's about where we're headed because i feel like this like part of me is like damn do we kind of fuck up here?

by not always having is what it feels like to me it feels like we should have been eating popcorn out of beheaded stormtrooper helmets like the ones the Ewoks are playing the drums on in Return of the Jedi or like the

mechanical rhinoceros Jimim carrey was in an ace ventura 2 region in the butthole yeah that was that's right there uh right there fucking it's for seven it's a cardboard box wow you know what's in the box it's popcorn yeah it's popcorn or your wife's or your wife's disembodied head. I don't know. Pulp fiction stories. I could have seen like making the shark deep throat your hand from Jaws. Oh, yeah.

That could kind of suck because it would have been rubbery and would have like kind of drawn attention to the fact that the actual shark in the movie is a little rubbery. I like how you really were like looking at the like the third rail ideas here for jaws you're like i don't know but i don't also want to like fuck up the perception of the beloved yeah but like i'm a couple design charts deep on this um yeah or could it just be the boat that they're on yeah the boat would have made sense that's probably better because then you can be like hey and if you want a little more popcorn you're gonna need a bigger boat hey you know the marketing this is why you're the best in the business this is um have you ever seen the jar jar banks uh like tongue lollipop yes yeah i feel like having again just making jar jar binks deep throat your fist every

time you want to scoop a popcorn would be fun that thing also looks like a fucked up sex toy yeah it does like and we don't need to expand on that further but just do or do not search jar jar binks lollipop and then figure out what how want to use it. The Mona Lisa got souped by climate activists over the weekend. Protesters from the group Food Counterattack is the English translation. I'll let you guys look up the French translation, so I'm not just blowing it on my French. They threw soup at the Mona Lisa, which not that you'd even know it because i don't know if you saw the picture of like before and after the attack

quit um the louvre staff swooped in and erected like the most inadequate cloth barriers you've ever seen it's so it like if you're over five feet tall you're like why they put that thing i can why is all the soup on the mona lisa like it wouldn't have yeah stop don't look at me i'm hideous um man and then the so they threw the soup on it they said then stood in front of the painting saying what is more important art or the right to a healthy and sustainable food um france's minister for culture claimed that there was no cause to ever target the mona lisa it belongs to future generations um it's not even a good fucking painting i know and i just watched that kevin hart movie on netflix that's so fucking terrible about fucking ripoff. Like, they have to jack, like, a whole bunch of gold from an airliner in midair.

It's terrible. The movie's so fucking bad. Do not watch it. But there's, like, a whole part where he's like, the Mona Lisa, man. Like, it got, it was only popular after somebody stole it. And that's what made it popular. So that's what we're going to do when we, they steal a fucking nft in like the first scene no it's so fucking stupid i can't even i can't get that and it's treated as like smart and like dude yes it's like it's so it's so

fucking off base it's so far off from reality but they they're like, I'm sure when they wrote this script fucking four years ago, they were like, oh my God, dude, stealing NFT to make the price go up. But yeah, like the Mona Lisa is whatever. I mean, I've, all I hear are bad things about it. I have not seen it in the flesh, but I hear it's one of the more underwhelming pieces of art that we sort of like laud as these masterpieces yeah I've I've been to see it uh many years ago and you changed you know just imagining having to tell my grandkids that they lost out on the ability to go have one of the most underwhelming cultural experiences of all time uh because museum officials got tired of cleaning soup off the bulletproof glass protecting uh the tiny painting is so tiny heartbreaking first of all the mona lisa not

even the size of a big screen tv bro yeah um that which is what i was loudly saying uh when i saw it um that's why i fuck with the guernica man yeah. Yeah. I mean, that thing's so fucking big. I'm like, dude, this is art, dude, because it's so big. I'm a Mac. I'm a size queen, you know? But yeah, I mean, if the Mona Lisa burned tomorrow, and also every piece of it was digitally erased from the internet, people would be able to repaint that shit from memory.

That's so burnt into our... But also, would anyone even be like we gotta let's let's recreate the mona lisa people like man shut up with that dumb ass painting nobody gives a fuck i do feel like the when the you know vicious cycle of hyper capitalism and climate catastrophe and the collapsing media you you know, communication, central nervous system of our civilization finally destroys the planet. The only thing that will be left is the Mona Lisa, like behind a piece of like protective cutting edge technology.

Yeah. Like that and the constitution. They're like, wow, these people are really weird about their pieces of paper. Yeah, exactly. Why didn't they, why didn't really weird about their pieces of paper. Yeah, exactly. Why didn't they save their planet?

This is the best you got. All right. So this piece of paper gets oxygen, but the people didn't? Oh, okay. Well, what a backwards place this was. Yeah. Let's take a quick break, and then we'll come back and talk about Ben Shapiro being my new favorite MC. We'll be right back. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series,

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And yeah, Ben Shapiro has topped the charts with a rap song that is, I don't know, it's with the guy from, he's like been famous. He made that song, so his name is Tom McDonald. Yep. He made the song Coronavirus, which warranted the, uh, Dallas observers headline rapper Tom McDonald song. Corona virus might be worse than the actual Corona virus. Oh man. Not fair.

Um, there that's a low blow low blow. Also. I have to respect somebody who has their face covered in fucking tattoos and you got your hair all braided up as shit trying to look like whatever, like Nightmare Travis Scott. And your MC name is just your fucking name. Tom McDonald. Yeah. It's not even like T-Mac or some shit like that.

And I'm Tom McDonald. I promised my mom I wouldn't change my name to something weird despite having all these head tattoos. Yeah. I feel like he has eyelid tattoos. He had Jack there for decoration. Yeah. No, I mean, I respect this.

It reminds me of that student who has a crush on Indiana Jones and writes love you on her eyelids. Oh, strong move by her. All right, dad. Anyways, it's the song is I was kind of a little taken aback. I've never listened to one of these this guy's songs, but it's just such straightforward Fox News talking points. I assumed they would have a different aesthetic or something, but he's complaining that people don't

put the American flag up anymore. Yeah, now it's all BLM and rainbows. Wow. What the hell happened to this place? I'm not going to lie. He's probably one of the the in terms of what i've seen for rap performance probably one of the better matt like he like 4g auto blow uh mr auto trader grandkid yeah that guy that guy ain't coming close to tom mcdonald i'd hate to admit

that but it's the featured rapper on this track that really has us all completely out of our seats. Just Big Benny S. Okay? Ben Shapiro, yeah. Super Ben Tender. Who has in the past been like, rap music isn't music? It's garbage. It's actually anti-music, and it is a disservice to people that listen to it.

It's not music, and it's disgusting. And that's all, it's a medium that's used to promote the degradation of society. Unless white people are doing it. Unless it's disgusting. And that's all, it's a medium that's used to promote the degradation of society. Unless white people are doing it. And then it's cool. Unless it's me. Right. And then I will fat shame and be racist and do a bunch of other shit. Yeah.

So how are you reviewing his, I mean, I will say, like, in the video, the, like, charismatic void coming off the screen from him is pretty wild like there are certain performances in the annals of filmed media that have to be cut around so much that it really like sparks my imagination of like how bad that performance must have been right right right some of the shots of like henry cavill in like in the early Superman movies where he was first playing Superman, they just cut around his face. They treat his acting like it's the shark in Jaws.

They're like, what if we just don't show him? That's kind of how they treat a lot of Ben Shapiro's bars. The whole point of this song is that ben shapiro's is rapping and at some points they like cut away from him to tom mcdonald like singing along to his verse yeah it's bad dude and he's so stiff the whole time yeah you know like if one if anybody who has rapped along to a song even like

from memory you get a little to get a little you get you start the gesticulations feel that that becomes part of it you got to have a little bit of a body rock this dude is so fucking stiff and I ate to me first of all I think we were kind of having this debate before, is whether or not he wrote this or he had a ghostwriter. Now, let me just. My assumption is Tom McDonald wrote it, but you. My feeling, my feeling on this is that this is 100% Ben Shapiro wrote this, because it feels like,

like when I first started recording rap songs in high school and shit like when like the kids who had no business wanted to rap were like I wrote something right and it's like this is a no way a compliment to him like to the quality of the rapper no no no it's just I feel like he wrote a very basic rap for Ben Shapiro horse listen listen to this cuz're not going to play the fucking song for you. We just can't go that far. But I will impersonate him for you. This is these reaction lyrics.

Let's look at the stats. I've got the facts. My money like Lizzo. My pockets are fat. Homie, I'm epic. Don't be a wap. Dog, it's a yarmulke. Homie, no cap.

Look at the graphs. Look at my charts. You're blowing money on strippers and cars. You're going to prison. I'm on television. Dog, no one knows who you are. Keep hating on me on the internet. My comment section all woke Karens.

I make racks off compound interest. There's like, he's doing like a triplet thing, which is very not good. Y'all live with your parents. Nikki, take some notes. I just did this for fun. All my people download this. Let's get a billboard number one. Yeah. for fun all my people download this let's get a billboard number one yeah and again the reason

why i think he wrote this is because he can't perform it it's like he knows his his shit is on the line and he it's just so wild to see someone so absolutely rhythmless and lacking charisma to try and get through an entire rap verse because this man is a robot. This guy has no... He's just a fucking robot. And I know this because he had to reroute all of his processing power to his mouth

just to get that performance off for camera while the rest of his body was in total paralysis. He had his hands in his pockets rapping. Right. Who the fuck does that? He's rapping a little bit like he's like embarrassed to be rapping it feels like the energy which makes sense i guess there's another one too where he's like sitting at his desk and it's clear it's like maybe we should just do it like the show where he

reads from a teleprompter and if we can get it to do it semi-rhythmically we can make it look like he's rapping yeah but then part of me just thought they were animating the mouth of like a still photo right that's how like rigid he was i mean we've talked before about the bad parts of the 80s being on a comeback and this is a suspiciously popular novelty rap song by a non-rapper, which was a thing that happened a lot in the 80s when rap first became a thing. And they were like, what if Rodney Dangerfield had a rap song?

Speaking of respect. Did he have a track about respect? I think so, didn't he? I have no idea. I mean, wait, when did he rap? Could be. Rapping Rodney? Oh, no. Oh, shit. I could be rapping Rodney. Oh no. Oh shit. I remember this album cover where he had the boom box and shit.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty good. It's all right. Pretty good. Um, and then like Nicki Minaj responded and was like,

Hey, actually pretty impressive because she was dropping something and, you know, could appreciate the attention, I think. Did you listen to that track? It's coming at Megan Thee Stallion? No. It's so fucking bad.

That's, like, we got hit with two absolute rap turds this weekend. Wow. She had dropped a thing called Bigfoot, because she's making, just talking about the fact that Megan Thee Stallion was shot in her foot. No fault of her own but being like

yeah because you got shot and it's like what? And it has like it's just weird the quality is like really bad a lot of people were like put the cocaine down Nikki. It's sounding a little too frantic but yeah I think that's where their Venn diagram overlapped

this weekend um all right uh in less fun news uh there was a drone attack um biden uh that that killed three uh u.s soldiers biden has vowed that the u.s shall respond um and uh you know dozens of people were wounded at a military base in Jordan or maybe Syria. Biden blamed the incident on Iran-backed militia groups and Iran said they have no connection to the attack. But yeah, the confusion over where it happened has to do with the fact that Americans don't want to admit that they are fighting in syria and so you know that this is

right on the border of syria um yeah i mean it's wild how like to the jordanians were like then this was that was not jordan right yeah like don't don't get us involved with this um but yeah it's just things are getting more tense it's just weird to see also like how the when i uh like as it was being reported a lot of people are saying like you know this is this marks like the first uh time that american soldiers have been killed since and i was like yeah and they're like in the middle east since and they're like october 7th and i was like oh right because i was like it hasn't been that long of a time like what are we like what are we using to say like how much fighting the u.s has been doing in the middle east and how many people have died and i was like

it continues our presence continues yeah but now it's uh it's just ramping up because now you have like fucking lindsey graham being like we just have to bomb iran now right immediately and they i mean immediately i think they recognize the the Republicans recognize that it would both be, you know, that they love a war, but they also, you know, recognize that people do not want,

Americans don't want to be involved, like to, to be bombing Iran. And so it'd be terrible for Biden, but it's also terrible, terrible for Biden. If they, you know,

keep being like, why aren't you doing anything huh what are you scared exactly does nothing um so i mean there's already a majority of people who are like yeah yeah a majority of americans don't even want to be arming the israeli government so if you want to take that a step further like should we just go into a hot war now in the middle east again i'm not sure aside from the raytheon crew of of voters you're you're gonna have much support yeah but hey man it's great scott you love a war during a during election don't you good times um and we do now have the Super Bowl coming up. We know who's going to be in it. Taylor Swift will be starting at quarterback for the way it's being covered. People are acting like this whole thing has been scripted to make it so Taylor Swift is going to be at the Super Bowl, basically,

just so they can get cutaway shots of her. They've scripted the entirety of the playoffs so that Travis Kelsey's team, her boyfriend's team, will be in the Super Bowl. Preston Pyshko, Jr.: But when she throws that that super bowl winning touchdown pass to travis oh my god because my homes gets injured in the game it's i'm telling you and then like she's gonna take her helmet off and be wearing a biden 2024 do-rag underneath that yeah that seems to be the theory it's wild how many people like it's scripted and also this is because bite like everybody's freaking out on the right yeah um the right it's i'm i'm strictly in the uh it would be really hard to script the nfl camp of this of this whole thing um yeah and also like the

conspiracy theories don't really hold together. Like some, some people were claiming that a Canadian TV station was given the info of who was in the Superbowl weeks ago. Um, because somebody said, uh, Reba McIntyre, Usher and Post Malone are slated to perform at San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl matchup on February 11th. But that isn't what ended up happening. There was also a piece of Aaron Rodgers had a theory about who was going to the Super Bowl. He also thought it was going to be the Baltimore Ravens because the logo for the Super Bowl had their color in it. And that has happened in the past that the color of the logo matches up with the team's. He's like, just look at the colors, man. Just look at, hey. Just look at, man.

Do your own research. I'm just saying. All I'm saying is, I'm a fucking expert when it comes to semiotics and breaking down symbolism and imagery. So just telling you the colors here, it's pre-saged everything. Cool, cool cool one conservative

commentator as you were referring to uh posted that it's all rigged in an effort to spread democrat propaganda and the halftime show will find taylor swift endorsing joe biden despite the fact that she's not actually performing at the halftime show um so i don't know i don't know who to believe here to be honest with you it's because dude vivek has dude the most disgusting people on twitter formerly known as x are like also chiming in uh creepy ass jack posobiec was like think just tweeted thinking about when taylor swift called out the sorrows family in 2019 for buying the rights to her music and then how she came out a super liberal in 2020. And then Uncle Viv chimed in and said, I wonder who's going to win the Super Bowl next month.

And I wonder if there's a major presidential endorsement coming from an artificially, culturally propped up couple this fall. Just some wild speculation over here. Let's see how it ages over the next eight months so it's just wild too because conservatives they modulate between she's irrelevant and talentless and like a loser and all or she's the biggest threat to the maga takeover right so again with all y'all just please pick one and just i mean i know it's you guys blow wherever the wind blows you but uh just stick to one can we just stick to maga downfall like that's what she is yeah it would just be helpful from our perspective for like narrative purposes and speaking of pick one taylor if you could tell

me who to vote for as soon as possible i'm just getting a little antsy over here i could use your guidance can you help me pick one prop bet I should go all in on too? Because you probably have the inside info, girl. The one prop bet that doctors don't want you to know about. All right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday, January 29th. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each

other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Cle Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me for I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me for I Have Follow followed on the I heart radio app,

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