The Daily Zeitgeist - Put Another Trend On The Barbie 5/5: President Pope, Toy Tariffs, Lying Females, Australian Elections, 'Thunderbolts'

Episode Date: May 5, 2025

In this edition of Put Another Trend On The Barbie, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, Donald Trump's 'President Pope' dreams, Trump preemptively ruining Christmas for the kids, the Females lying to us Men, Trumpism failing in Australia, the release of 'Thunderbolts' and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I was I was at your old stomping grounds, Miles. I even asked Ultra Zone Big Party this weekend. I was so impressed. Young. Is that the owner of the place? Yeah, who looks like a character from Clerks who got like edited out of the movie. They were like, let's go, let's go find somebody who might have

like been here when he was here. And because I was like, yeah, my co-worker like used to do that. I think he did like your job. And she was like, what? No way. I didn't expect such a big response. And then she like went in the back and was like looking for old people, I guess. Yeah, they knew you. Yeah, I mean, you had to be working there. Fucking I was like, it was the early I kept you like it was the 90s. No, it wasn't. It wasn't the night I started working there. 2002, 2002. Yeah.

She was like, maybe the owner would. Oh, I didn't say this so that you could go find someone to like yeah, yeah, yeah I guess my story they respect their elders so much to like well I don't want to just blow this old guy off and say oh cool, man sure like oh, let me find someone for you They are so nice. They're really like It's a big bro like I mean the guy who owns that place, like he's really, that's why it was kind of a coveted job. Cause not any motherfucker could work at ultra zone.

No, you had to have, you had to be, you gotta have some more. Oh, you gotta have the risk. You gotta also be able to control some children in a way that doesn't come off like you're a dick. I learned so it's funny. I learned so much at that job for it being just a laser tech place. Like I learned how to like that's the first my crash course in dealing with celebrities. Yeah. Like in a weird way where they're going to treat you like shit, but you got to kind of

like Jedi mind trick them out of why they can't do something. They're like, well, I can't, I can't bring this hibachi grill into the room. It's like, no, this is a, you didn't rent the room long enough. They're like, we can order pizza. And they're like, but we need more. Anyway, shout out UltraZone. I was actually just in that, on Saturday, I was just up the street because I was at this place called the Candy Land Playground.

Wow. For my friend's kid's birthday. Fuck it, they were losing it in there. Yeah. Crazy place. Fuckin' paper. Who's in there? Yeah, crazy, crazy. Fucking crazy. Is that why whenever I started like going off on a rant that's unrelated to the show, you say, if you can hear me clap once, yep, if you can hear me clap twice. That was a new one.

It was every time we would just bro. It's funny. That's new because we would just shout. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll get it. I'd be like, shut the fuck up. That's how that's how we get it started. And then they'd be like, oh, and then I think you're ready to play some laser tag. They're like, yeah, and I'm always in this banana.

Yeah, hell, yeah. To do simple times. I mean, you might have had a more commanding voice. I still need the if you can hear me. Oh, yeah. It's a simple time. I mean, you might have had a more commanding voice. I still need the vegan hair. Me. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I can I can get the kids. Do you do the loud whistle? No, I can't.

I can spit on my fingers real nasty. Yeah, exactly. I can make a finger. You know, I can't like I feel like fingers real net. That's like the final boss of American masculinity that I haven't conquered yet is the loud fingers in the mouth. Lissle. Yeah, because my dad could do it. And I was like, as a kid, I was like, what the fuck is he doing?

He could do the one like two fingers. Yeah, the one like this. I still don't know what the I gave up on it. Like, I've never been able to figure that one out. I'm going to be like, I'm just going to be one of those like regular melodic whistlers. Yeah, I can I can whistle a melody pretty well, but I cannot do the loud whistle.

The hard stone to the horns. The harder I whistle, the less I can, you know, the harder, the harder I blow, the less sound comes out. Yep. It's, it's funny. Isn't it ironic that that isn't it ironic? Don't you think the harder I blow, the more miserable it becomes. Hey, my name is Jay Shetty and I'm the host of On Purpose and I'm excited for my next

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How do you even find the courage to trust again? Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello the internet and welcome to this week trend edition of Dirty Lezite guys. Usually I turn my head away but this time I want full barrel on the camera because I was writing the number of the time it was. I apologize for if I hurt anybody's ears. My name is Jack O'Brien that over there is my co-host. Mr. Miles Just yes What a weekend, what a weekend truly the

Yeah, you did all did it all hell yeah, man I can did it all fucking it all see I went out to see a Clippers game at a bar Cuz I thought oh Game seven. Yeah, I was like this game Narrators voice it was not it was not and I was we took on his hell do the third quarter even and we're like Man, let's go get some of the heat. Yeah. Yeah, but not that even I was like I was I just was hope I didn't care who won. I was like, I just wanted to see something like a game seven and a game seven was not.

I always make fun of like ESPN and like other sports outlets for the. They'll always do these stats that are, you know, the this team, the Los Angeles Clippers historically are, you know, 54 and 87 in Game 7, you know, like over the course of the entire franchise. And I'm like, this is like so pointless. Like those were different players. Like this is a different coach. Like, you know, the ship of Theseus, like, you know, this is just not the same team. Like, why are we even talking about like what a franchise has done historically?

And then you have teams like the Clippers that is just like, they're maybe the best team in the West or second best, and they still manage to fuck it up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because they're the Clippers, you know, and I'm and I'm not happy. I mean, I'm not happy. But yeah, I'm surprised you aren't there. Just, you know, like, oh, you had to say, oh, every, every, oh you weren't there. Just, you know, like carbon at the end of the every every.

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recovering your balance after slipping, thus preventing a fall in public. I think this is actually one of the more enjoyable small victories in life that you can have. One of the great feelings. It's you feel like a fucking Olympian. OK, when you do this. I slipped in a puddle in the parking lot of a grocery store and I skidded for a moment.

I said, whoa, then I like my hockey ice skating like balance things kicked in and I shifted my weight and I like, like I pivoted in this way. That was beautiful. Like I recovered with such grace. Okay. It was fucking, I was so nice. I audibly was like, oh fuck yeah. Like I was so nice. I got it. I was like, oh fuck. Yeah

Yeah, like you got this shit and then but the thing that I this is the reason why I say it's underrated is I just wish the one other fucking dude in the parking lot that saw that shit Right could have acted He acted like I fell down and shit myself and kind of ignored the beautiful like he didn't want to be like I didn't in the parking lot that saw that shit could have acted, he acted like I fell down and shit myself and kind of ignored the beautiful, like he didn't wanna be like, I didn't see that. I didn't see.

He like wouldn't look at you. He wouldn't make eye contact with you. He saw me skid and he saw the recovery and then just kind of was just shifted his thing to not be like, hey, I saw that. It's okay, man. You can just, you can just have, you can just suffer in silence.

No one has to know that you've beautifully recovered. I'll leave you to your private shame. I'm like, bro. No. Like I'm, I was proud, not embarrassed. You ran over to give him a high five. Yeah, I'm like, you should join me in that. And now I think when people do that,

we should applaud and say, hey, I saw that. That was fantastic. I would like to celebrate you and buy you all of your groceries today. Right. But we don't. So it's really a matter of moments because before the slip happens, it's like a, I guess like a net negative or just like a net neutral.

But as the slip is happening, you are on the precipice of a failure so embarrassing that like pulling out of that is a major victory. It's a huge... Yes. Just like with Donald Trump softening his stance on the tariffs, people should be celebrating this. Thank you. You could have brought us to the brink.

Instead of... That's right. But no, that's how it feels. I mean, anyway, it was so funny how I kept looking at that dude to see if I like, yeah, laser folk. He wanted nothing to do with it and find whatever. I don't, you don't need to give me your attention, but like, I think we just, even when you fall, cause like, even when I see people, someone's like, oh, you're right. Yeah. I like to hit people with one of those. I don't do the, I didn't

see that shit. Nice. Say I'm like, Hey, I'd'd be like I saw you and I care. Yeah, no shade. No shame. Absolutely not. I'm proud of you miles I for one I'm proud of you, man. I'm gonna be I'm gonna actually be going to the Ralph's on cold water Just doing a little set you might you might catch me fucking around and do some classic. You know what I mean? Damn, you almost slipped in a puddle. That's yeah, that's real bad. It's like falling in a puddle. It was like I didn't see it.

And my there was like a sound behind me that caught my attention. So I took a misplaced step. And it was just one of those things where like, you know, sometimes some sneakers can just be like feel feel greasy on concrete. Yeah, in the wrong situation. It was just one of those moments. And the way I got out of that shit, Jack. Man, fuck that guy in the park.

Man, fuck that dude in the park. That's your overrated. Is that guy in the fucking park? Fuck that guy. Yeah, for real. All right. My underrated is how much fun birds are having. I've always suspected that birds. I've always suspected the birds.

I've always suspected. I have. So like, I remember having this. This was like a high thought that I had. I think I was in, like, Ireland and watching, like, these birds just like there's like a puff of wind and they were just up there, like not moving, just like coasting, like kind of surfing on the wind a little bit, you know? It's like in place. Yeah.

So like there was no evident reason for them to be doing that other than they were just like having fun with it. It was like they were surfing. Yeah. Yeah. And so I've always been like, you know, that seems, that seems fun as hell first of all. And it seems like they appreciate how fun it is but I've never

been able to interview them about why they were soaring around like on a bump of wind so I could never prove it but I feel like I finally got proof in this social media video that I saw I think it was on nature's amazing or amazing nature or. And it's a bird that just flies straight up in the air and then like just starts spinning, dude, this is fucking crazy. Isn't this cool? What the fuck? This bird hit a sixty one twenty. That's 17 three sixties.

It just straight up goes like some X game shit like there's no feasible survival mechanism at all. It just flies straight up goes like some X game shit. Like there's no feasible survival mechanism at all. It just flies straight up. No one in the replies was like a triple axle and then pulls out of the spin just in time. I didn't even look in the replies. They're like, yeah, for someone to be like, that's actually a crisis mode there. Yeah, their pituitary gland is on the skits right there. It's just it's freaking out. I don't know.

I just, this is all the proof I need. And like, it also, I feel like applies to the rest of the species. You know, in my old age, I've turned into like a bird guy and like just all the, I've read people like trying to explain why they're always singing to each other like that all the time. And like the theories are like to warm up in the morning

and like mating calls, obviously, and communicating predator locations. And I'm sure like some of that stuff, but I also feel like it's partially, they just like have a song in their heart. And they're just, they just want to like sing. The answer is in the replies, Jack. The answer for why it did that?

Oh yeah, it's in the replies. What's it saying? I choose not to believe it. They said that's a roller pigeon having a seizure. No. Yeah. And they hit it. But as I look into it, it's not like a seizure, like a neurological condition.

It's just that they have a trait and it's called that. All right. So why are they doing it? What? It's involuntary. I don't know. There's another person says the version videos is likely a swift known for its exceptional aerial agility. Swiss can stay airborne for up to 10 months feeding, sleeping and even making fun.

Nothing. Nothing. Even their explanation of a seizure is like it's not even a seizure. It's like they just have a skill they do. And they just call it sounds like a bird hater being being like that's a seizure. That's a seizure. They're like it's a 61 20 17360s that shit was so dope Pulls out just in time. Oh, but you just saw this clip It's like you saw a bird doing that and you're like what the fuck you came upon this clip and then I There I And you're like what the fuck you came upon this clip and then I have also up there I

Just generally I've always felt that way though Like when you see birds flying around like they're like playing with each other and they're just having fun And like we always when it's an animal I feel like there's part of us that because of how horribly we treat animals. We just want to Turn them into survival robots. And so we take all of the joy or like artistry out of it and just turn it into, well, the reason they're doing that is to practice evading predators in the most, you know,

aggressive way, you know, like we always just want it to be one step closer to propagating their the survival of their species where I just feel like sometimes, you know, I think I think it's a mixture just like it is with humanity, you know, there's a book called the evolution of beauty that explains why they look so colorful. And I mean, it makes sense. But also, like, I don't know. They just seem persistently artistic in all aspects of their existence

in a way that I think is pretty cool. Yeah, people would see my slip in recovery in the parking lot is just some kind of just a human having bounce. That's actually a mating call. That's right. And the one man that was in the parking lot who could have been on the receiving and chose to ignore it. And that's called peacocking.

And my and my lineage would have ended there. That's amazing. What, Miles, is something you think is overrated? Fuck, man. I think I've said this like three times in the last year. But like the Phoenix effect of Trumpism that it's having on like neoliberalism right now, it's y'all need to, people need to, people really need to be reporting on this

in like a broader context, because we've seen two elections in the last week where a barely staying afloat neoliberal party have been saved by the mere sight of Trumpism. And the latest election was in Australia, we'll probably talk about that a little bit more, where conservatives looked like they were about to pull up in force, but their candidate was way too hot for Trump.

Anyway, Albanese didn't have to do too much, and he played his hand right. He just sort of let the Trump wannabe look like a fucking creep. And then, you know, they ended up getting a huge majority, a historic win. And I think for the conservative liberal party, it was like a historic loss. The other side of that is that he did not pitch voters on any kind of transformative change. He was just like, the guy who won.

The deal. The Albanese did not. Just sort of like doing what, you know, the Democrats did here. They're kind of like, I mean, you see what he's doing over there, right? I mean, if that's what y'all want, that's fine. But we do our thing our way over here. So again, Australia has a very similar situation like many other countries, a severe cost of

living crisis. And it seems like the pitch in this election is again, like I said, like the US election last year, it's like, you can vote for rapid decline or slow incremental decline like you're used to. Right. Now, which one? Yeah. Cause you've seen them do the rapid line

and it's not going very well. So overall, I have a prediction. These governments that have benefited from Trumpism, like as a counterpoint or juxtaposition will lose again if they fail to address the thing that makes right wing extremism palatable, inequality. Yeah. Neo-liberalism, the very thing that they stand for. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah. Because even the stuff that Albanese is pitching that would help first time home ownership really didn't upset the balance of power in terms of like the real estate industry or landlords and things like that. It's all meant to happen like where it's like, oh yeah, we can carve off a little piece that feels like it's doing something big

when really it's not. Yeah. And that's, I'm just like, this is, watch the next cycle, if things only get worse, we're gonna see a resurgence again and you're not gonna be able to be like, but the status quo! Sure.

Yeah, I wonder where, because I feel like the Democratic Party's looking at this and being like, yeah, see, we still got it. Like, this is what's gonna happen in America again. They're like Marvel with thunderbolts right now. Right? Oh, yeah. As we're gonna talk about.

We got this. Yeah, still got it, baby. No, you don't. Look at the. Talk about we got. Yes. Still got a baby. No, you don't. Look at them. What about this says you do? But I do feel like America in this one respect is ahead of the rest of the world. And that is we did the mistake.

The country is completely out on neoliberalism and is like not going to come back to the Democratic Party. You know what I mean? That's the thing is like, I don't think enough people, they're pissed. I don't know how many people have yet quite, rightly analyzed the situation and said, okay, anyone who comes in talking that neo-lib nonsense

is gonna get us right back to where we started. The thing that we're yearning for is to unburden ourselves with the status quo, which is violence. So if we're not talking about that, then that's not gonna happen. Where I think a lot of people, just because Trump is back, they're willing, they're gonna be open to someone coming back to just say something more sane,

but maybe not as transformative. That's where I think, that's where like the war for the soul of this voting base is gonna happen. How many people can be convinced? I feel like the people, like the people are the ones showing up to the Bernie Sanders and like AOC rallies and shit. And the people are the ones who are like frustrated

with the Trump stuff. And the people are the ones who fucking just didn't vote for Harris and what a lot of people thought was like a shocking underperformance on her part. I feel like they, maybe they don't like understand it in like the exact words, but like I feel like it's just the mainstream media apparatus that is like not hasn't like refuses to wrap their mind around it, you know. I think the thing that we'll see is like when there's a candidate, right,

and they their platform is like, well, I'm not Trump and we got to like we got to look out for each. And it does seem very different, but they're not going all in on like, and I'm going to raise the minimum wage to $25 an hour. And having people be like, yes, that's that shit. If someone goes back and is just like, and we can get minimum wage to 17 or something. And people are like, great,

that's where I'm worried that it's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Right. Right. The reason we're so fucked is because we're not our minimum. Like we there's so many things we should all be advocating for justice seriously. But again, it'll be interesting to see what kind of campaign Pete Buttigieg runs. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. That's what the thing that is helping mainstream

Democrats get to sleep at night is Pete Buttigieg. They're just like, yeah. Pete Buttigieg is great with facts, great on like, you know, Fox News debate. And again, and I think that's where I'm like, please don't just get intoxicated by like pwning the Fox people. Right.

Like we need to be pwning the billionaires, like seriously, like that's really, that's gotta stay focused. And I love the Fight the Oaires like seriously, like that's really, that's gotta stay focused. And I love the fight, the oligarchy tour, but if like we can't really have a fundamental agreement across the board on which oligarchy we're fighting and in what way we're fighting it, this is gonna be, it'll be a slow creep

back again to the norm. Yeah, norm. Norms. Love that guy from Cheers. Yeah. Norm Norm. Love that guy from Cheers. Yeah, I love him. My overrated is my ability to figure out where on the machine to tap my credit card. You did it underneath.

Sometimes, sometimes it's underneath. Sometimes it's like at the top. Sometimes is that a place that like you can't get the card to hit because there's like a thing in the way. Right. Like, right. I don't know. It's, it's just there's no uniformity. And so I'm just like moving my card all over it. And yeah, the person's like, Hey buddy, buddy, buddy. Yeah, it's right here. Well, they know. So I should copperfield. Yeah. I just need to like me.

Copperfield, what do you give that over here? Is this your car? I think you're fucking magic. I feel like a complete fucking idiot every time because there's like just so many variables. It's like, where are you tapping it? And so like I give up too soon on the right location because it's also not a tap, it's a hold, you know?

And it's just I I just need like some uniformity in the machines where I should just be like, all right, where do I tap? Just show me on the machine. Yeah. And they know they know their own machine. But instead, I like try unsuccessfully like three times, and then they're either like, but instead I like try unsuccessfully Like three times and then they're either like no just like give it to me or they're like insert the card Just like get this over with yeah, bro Look, I'm just gonna I'm gonna have you insert this man because you're struggling way too much for this man They were not all meant to be tappers. It's cool. Look, I didn't just looking at you your age

You seem like an insurer not a tapper It's definitely makes you feel like a sniper. I had a young person at Person, what do you yeah? I had a young man at the ice cream shop that I was paying with our lure He like told he was like no tap it the other way So I was tapping it with the whole other side of the card that I've never tapped with before. Yeah. The one with the chip in it. Yeah. You're leading with the chip end.

That's what I was this time. Yeah. Leading with the chip end. You don't normally lead with the chip end? No, the other side has the little thing on it. Oh, my God. Yeah. I don't know. Maybe I don't even know either. Yeah, to be honest.

That's why I shout out to anybody who works a register and knows their POS system is a literal POS system. Yeah. Yeah. They're like, you're they'll even tell you like, you got to put it right here. I know. Just just right here. Yeah. You're on the back. Yeah. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense.

And I'm like, thank you. Let's I'm already in a panic by the time we get to that point. Yeah. You're looking at like the back. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. And I'm like, thank you. Let's- I'm already in a panic by the time we get to that point. Yeah. You're looking at like the Jordan Peele sweating gif. Like when you pull up. It's all right. It's okay.

No, no, no, it's okay. Oh God, sir. You're sweating all over the POS terminal. Hands shaking uncontrollably. All right. Those are some of the things that we think is overrated and underrated. We're gonna take a quick break

and then we're gonna come back and tell you what was trending over the weekend. We'll be right back. Hey, my name is Jay Shetty and I'm the host of on purpose and I'm excited for my next episode with Chloe Kardashian. Next episode with Khloe Kardashian. God, I've been through so many things that at this point I would rather not feel than feel because feeling is too much for me to handle. All right, we're ready. I am Khloe Kardashian. Khloe Kardashian, everybody.

Khloe Kardashian. No one understands how it's, I'm not just a TV show. There would be times that I was like, I don't even wanna go out to the grocery store because I feel like I know what they're thinking about me. And that was scary to me because I've never been in a dark place for that long. You've always taken care of others. Have you discovered anything about why you've seen yourself take on that role in so many

relationships in your life? How do you even find the courage to trust again? Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. And I mean, so Donald Trump had a weekend.

You know, we were talking last week about how his approval ratings are incredibly low, not as low as the Democratic Party, but like still the lowest that any president has ever had 100 days into his term. Any president. Since the dawn of polling. Yes, since the dawn of polling. Yes, since the dawn of polling. He is not the dawn of polling. I'll tell you that, that dang much.

He's, yeah, so he's struggling. And then this weekend, you know, he doubled down on the Pope thing by sending out a AI Slop meme of him dressed as the next Pope, like with pope stuff on, which like, it is a fit. You know, aesthetically, like Donald Trump being so into like gold and all the shit that he's into, it is a fit. There's something about it that actually makes a sort of sense. Who is enriching themselves from slave labor in the new world.

Exactly. Yeah, like everything's gold embossed and you know. It's like someone who is enriching themselves from slave labor in the new world Like everything's gold embossed and you know The hat like that I can see him wearing some of that shit I can see him starting to like rock a gold scepter you think his mental state like health declines the mental state declines He's gonna start being like where's my pope hat? They're like sir. We're not we can't wear a pope. What? Yeah, we talked before on here about how, like as you age, it's not like the bad parts of your personality get fixed. It's like you become more the thing you are.

It's just like all the stuff that is you're unable to hide it. Yeah, it just like gets ramped. The volume gets turned up on your personality disorder. And I feel I feel like that would be Up he's like I want to look like Donatello from the Ninja Turtles Two katanas on my back in an X shape. Let's go. But anyways people some people thought it was disrespectful I don't know what their problem is. I would say let's let him be pope I mean you can't be president and pope at the same time. So maybe we's let him be pope. I mean, you can't be president and pope at the same time.

So maybe we just let him be pope. And he gets to like make little papal decrees for from his desk. I feel like that's ultimately like he would take that. You know, I think he'd hate hanging out with a bunch of cardinals, though. That's true. Yeah. Like because they're all going gonna be like, what dude? Like, what the fuck is this guy saying? He's like, none of them laugh.

They're all, they're all, they're all dorks. All the Cardinals. I don't like them. I don't like them. He also posted on Sunday for May the 4th, Be With You, they posted a Star Wars AI image where he was a fucking Sith Lord. Did you see that one?

No. Oh, Jack. So they're going like dark Brandon on it, on our ass. Oh yeah. I mean like a lot of people are like, do you know what the red saber means? Um. Yo. Look at those.

Miles, let's show me the image. First of all, it's Donald Trump holding a red lightsaber, but then he's just so shredded. It's. He's fucking Jacked O'Brien over. Thank you. Why is he so strong? Nobody in the Star Wars universe has ever been that strong. No, maybe like in some of the the expanded universe stuff.

But holy shit. Anyway, so that's he's having a lot of fun with AI. I wonder what that whole thing is when someone shows him he goes when did I take that? No, yeah, I remember when my arms looked like that I was a young man with this just matching year olds face Matching the inter his internal image of himself. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah matching the his internal image of himself. Yeah, yeah. Anyways, the Catholic Church probably regretting their decision to put him in the front row at the at the Pope's funeral. Right before that, he made headlines for preemptively ruining Christmas. A great, a great New York Post headline.

One of the greats that they've come up with during this administration. But yeah, so toy companies are sounding the alarm that tariffs would mean 80% of the toys will be twice as expensive this Christmas. 80% of the toys will cost twice as much as they did last year. And there will be toy shortages, which as we've covered

frequently on this show, that is one of those stories that even when it's not true and it never has been up to this point, the media will find a way to freak out about it. So this is a story that like they will just make up whether it's true or not. So to actually make it so Christmas is canceled because there's a toy shortage is a really a mind boggling own goal. Yeah. They just said, I mean, like the other thing they were saying was fireworks also huge thing

that comes from China. So the fourth of July could be real shitty or people, I guess, will just blow themselves up with their homemade fireworks. Or and then now because they say it's not just the toys, it's the decorations, too. Like all the cheap, all the cheap plastic shit. Yeah. It's now going to cost a lot of money. And it's going to hit. But you know what?

It's only going to hit those greedy fat cat children and fireworks enthusiasts. So, you know, they've had it too good for too long. Exactly. Children at Christmas. Well, now they will be interested to see how the Democrats manage to fuck this up, because it seems like a pretty easy layup that like he's enriching his, you know, billionaire friends at the cost of children being able to have toys for Christmas. Well, maybe you don't need 30 dolls, Jack. Yeah, so his response was kids should just get less toys, like maybe two dolls instead

of 30 dolls. Hmm. Sounds familiar. We'd never ask his own kids to put up with that or, you know, the kids of, again, this is just, uh, children who aren't rich, like rich children will still get the 30 dollars. So, yeah, exactly. Yeah. Just again, like a thing that it feels like such a layup for the Democrats to just point out.

But the New York Post responded to that statement by going full blast front page picture of Barbie next to Trump with the words skimp on the Barbie. All right, mate. All right, Bobby. I mean, all right. A little poetic allusion to the Australian election happening. Also, what Barbie is that? Yeah, I don't know why they have a Barbie that looks just like, it's like, doesn't even look special. It looks like an eighties, like something you found in the bottom of a toy chest.

It looks like the, yeah, it looks like the Barbie that's been at the bottom of the toy chest of a preschool, you know, just like worked over. And it was there. Given a haircut with children's scissors. Oh, yeah. With with fucking I don't even know. Yeah. Like plastic, those safety scissors. Yeah. Yeah. But also it was so far below in the Bezard in the toy chest that it's like from the 80s because there's like a denim vest. It looks like denim vest and like a mini skirt, mini dress. Like a lot of Barbie or something. Denim vest it looks like denim vest and like a mini skirt mini dress like lot

Barbie or something The fuck is anyway, whatever New York Post that was probably the in the you know The royalty-free image you were able to use good. I love it. Good for you But you know a Republican pollster said it sounded like Marie Antoinette saying let them. I mean, that was more to do with food, but yeah, I get, I get what you're saying. It's pretty out of touch. Pretty out of touch, pretty, you know, why should the children, you know,

we've seen his attempts to interact with children around the thing, around subjects like Christmas joy, where he was like, and what are your thoughts on the Santa situation? You're at a age demographic where that appeals to you Is that correct? so And then the market forces that bar that affects your your toy buying decision. What I don't know I like Elmo. Yeah, and then in case there were any like movie lovers who aren't Catholic and don't have kids

That were weren't angry yet, on Sunday he randomly announced that non-American movies would receive a 100% tariff. I think he means American movies that are made in other countries. As he said, quote, produced in foreign lands. He really is the Pope, dude. Foreign lands. He's talking like this is the fucking 15th century or some shit. Anything produced in far off foreign lands

will be a hundred percent. Over many seas, they travel over many, the long seven seas. Exactly. If they took the spice road through the Orient to get here, then yes, it will be tariffed. I don't, how are you, what are you tariffing exactly? The films.

The product that's distributed. Films cost money and that, that, we would tariff that, Miles. Oh man. He said it's a national security threat, which is a weird way to describe M. Night Shyamalan making trap in Toronto. I mean, yeah, another Shyamalan movie, maybe.

Maybe a national security. I guess what he saw in this weird, in his senile brain made in foreign land means it's being shaped into anti-American propaganda. I don't know. Yeah, maybe. He said it's a concerted effort by other nations and therefore a national security threat. And in this case, it's concerted effort to get movies to shoot in other countries. And so it's just, it's just again going against the idea of global free trade and towards the idea of like, we'll protect

America and make it so America can both be mediocre and still get all the business. Right. I mean, this is like another example where what he's saying isn't the fucking solution to any of this. You know, like you think about, we know so many people in LA whose lives have been upended by the strikes and now just the film industry is dying in LA. That's undeniable. A very fast death, said Donald Trump. One time I'm like, oh, you know, you heard about that Donald Trump?

You know about that? That's how you don't care, because it's like, call me fornia or whatever. But, you know, one of the big reasons too is that production costs are high. They're like, well, it costs so much money in LA because A, you have to pay crew a lot of money. Why?

Because their cost of living is so high in Los Angeles. That's what's driving it. So then they go to other states and then the same thing plays out. And then they're like, well, fuck it, we'll go to Canada. Now we'll go to Eastern Europe. But a lot of this has to do with the fact that just the inequalities that exist for the people that do the labor of making films has balloons costs.

And without getting a real handle on that, it's easier for them to be like, ah, well, it's just costs. There are people who are just, they're like shooting stuff in Eastern Europe that's like meant to be like somewhere in America now. Or like we'll do like a reality show tell-all episode where it's easier to fly everybody to wherever, Hungary, and shoot than it is to crew up in New York and just shoot on a sound stage.

And you're like, wow. The way that this used to work, the reason that's not happening anymore is like those countries are able to offer huge, you know, like amounts of money to the productions to get the things made there to build a mini industry. New York, L.A. like used to have those sorts of things. They used to have like tax breaks and things like that. And now they don't like the government no longer gives you money for doing that because they're just saying she's you know, it's coming back. Well, we'll see what happens. But like I'm I'm still shocked to see how little work there is in L.A. And yeah, for people who know it's especially on if they're doing like

physical crew, like labor, stuff like that, it's super fucked up. And I're doing like physical crew like labor stuff like that It's super fucked up and I know I already know people who like work in post-production They've had to just leave out like they're just yeah done. They're like, why would you be in LA? Nothing? Yeah, it's really nothing the It does seem to be an overall Like his internal philosophy I feel like is driven by him being a mediocre Nepo baby, you know, where he's just like, we need to make it so that American businesses don't have to compete with other like we just have to make it so that they're forced to so they have an advantage over.

Can I just get my dad to make them do it? Yeah, exactly. It really is. He thinks that the ease at which he was able to accumulate money from coming from wealth is just how the world works. So he thinks everything is solved as frictionless as his problems were.

So like that time I killed my nanny, my dad just made it go away. Can we do that? Allegedly. But that's like his mentality with so many things. At the time I killed my nanny, my dad just made it go away. Can't we do that, allegedly? But that's like his mentality with so many things. It's, yeah, very true. All right, out of the world of politics, once again, women are lying to us, Miles.

I love to say, once again, dude, these females are lying to us, the males. Thank you. There's this tweet where somebody tweeted, uh, a picture of himself and it was like, I, I, you know, did all the stuff that like men's health tells you to do and here I am before and after. And like on the left, he looks like a normal person and on the right, he just like, is like, you know, muscled and very kind of emaciated and looks like he could be on the cover

of a men's health thing. You know, like all muscles are visible and- Just to be an anglophile, that's Olly Murs. Olly Murs, of course. He was on the version, the UK version of America's Got Talent, is how it got to be. Okay, got it, got it, got it. He's like he he was on like Like the version like the UK version of America's Got Talent is how okay gotta gotta get a singer Yeah, and he so somebody posted and said do you think he looks better before or after? and then also are you male or female and

The men all thought he looked better after he it was it was the biggest Portion of responses was men being like, it looks better after obviously, what are you talking about? Right. Like 43% to 24%. And then women thought he looked better before 27% compared to after 7%. So like pretty huge margin. And somebody on Twitter responded to that poll and said, Why are women lying about this?

Like, what's the actual cause? Jesus Christ. I'm so frightened for this person. Why are they lying about this? Holy shit. Way to like way to show everybody so publicly your worldview has just been shattered by a poll on Twitter. What's once again?

Women lie. Yeah, but I don't know. It just feels like I see how the self-reinforcing idea of like, well, this is what men think looks cool. And therefore, it's the ideal would happen because men have been in charge of media for so long that like that's the male bodily archetype that men find. I guess it's like the that's the body that men find attractive.

Right. And that so that's the one that has gone mainstream and been reflected back to us over and over again. Yeah, yeah. It's just been like boiled down to just one body type in everything. And there's the same thing happens to like when like there are like women in bikinis or whatever. And like, you know, it's like not someone who looks like a model or whatever. And people are like, yeah, that's hot. They're like, you think this is hot? What? No.

What the heck, dude? She has like body fat. That's disgusting. And you're like, you think this is hot? What? No. What the heck, dude? She has like body fat. That's disgusting. And you're like, what are, do you, does anyone live in the regular world? Yeah. I mean, this, this is so funny. I mean, like just to see,

I was looking at some of the other replies and the way people are trying to rationalize again, A, that they still know better than the women who are telling them what they're attracted to. It's so strange to me where it's like, nah, not gonna believe it. This person isn't real or this is fake. I will no longer consider this opinion from this person

who I'm also trying to be attractive to. It's just very, I mean, yeah, just doubling down over and over. Nice try to trick me, but I have to put myself through pain to make you attracted to me. Right. Right. Like, well, what if? No, what if you were just like kind of cool to hang out with? And yeah, man, I mean, thought of me as a person. Aren't all these like blue check dudes on Twitter like aren't they into

pick up artistry, too, because as somebody who dabbled, you know, when the economy was very low and my self-esteem was also very low, like in really reading the game, I mean, not that it's like a manual, but like there's these pick up artists always talk about shit. It's like, dude, men are attracted to like they're attracted by what they see. Women by what they hear. And they use that as an entry point to sort of begin like this is why you need to talk up like a woman or whatever.

When really, I think if you, if you distill that down, it's looks don't matter to women. Right, right. Like they do to men. And if that's a truth that they're ingesting, even from like through pickup artistry stuff, to think that it's like, what the fuck? We're on to a new generation where it's all just like

grind set, like optimization, and everybody wants to look like Joel. I said, I said optimized to my therapist last week. Yeah. And they were like, they kind of flagged it to sort of be like, what do you mean when you see optimized? Like, do you see yourself as like a human or like a like a sort of a computer program or some kind of like machine that can be optimized. Like how do you when you use that word?

And I was like, oh, fuck. No, I merely said that to like in the context of like being more adventurous. Like, I don't want to close myself up. I want to optimize my ability to experience adventure. Yeah. It's so funny that they're like, OK, just making sure you're not on some like I am a machine. I must optimize. Right.

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And as mentioned earlier, Australia, like Canada last week, just had an election. And first of all, judging from the photos that American outlets went with, Australians typically vote while wearing Speedos. And that's actually part of the process. You have to wear speedos. Yeah, it was just I saw I saw one of these headlines with like the dudes in the speedo at the polling place. And I was just like, oh, I didn't realize every fucking outlet

had some form of the dudes in the speedos voting to be like Australian elections are happening. Yeah. So them even had swim caps on like, yeah, this guy had a boomerang in his pants. So, uh, these were actually all from the same polling station at a surf club. Um, but you know, it is the same dude's ass too. It is a great image. Yeah. Guys got guys caked up. Uh, not

enough for the camera. Arbiters of male attractiveness on Twitter, but he's, he's pretty good. This isn't attractive. Stop lying. This guy has love handles. Stop lying. This is the hottest shit you've ever seen. That guy should be the only vote that matters. Look at the definition on his delts. But yeah, the Labor Party and current prime minister, Anthony Albanese, staged a, quote, dramatic comeback against once resurgent conservatives. And people think it's because of the influence of one US president, Donald Trump.

Yep, that tracks. So basically what just happened in Canada happened again in Australia. We were the canary in the coal mine of Earth. Right. But, well now will you listen? Now will you listen? If you think that's bad, then do everything you can

to prevent right-wing extremists to rise to power or be resurgent. Right. But yeah, the leader of the conservative liberal party of Australia, so I'm just flagging this in case you get confused, because conservatives are called liberals there because they're south of the equator.

Exactly. And so I think that must be it. But he had previously called Trump a big thinker and praised the art of the deal after Trump suggested that the US should invade Gaza. When he was talking about settling it and making it like Caruso malls, you know? Right, right, right.

Yeah, Trump, Gaza, number one. But yeah, I don't know. It's pretty wild how unpopular he is everywhere. Yeah, and he's also like the dude in Canada. He lost his seat too. Yeah, lost. Not only did he lose, he lost his seat also. Because it's funny just how much like corporations,

politicians are so similar. Like they just copy each other. They're like, oh, you doing layoffs? All right, we're doing layoffs too. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, what are you doing? You just kind of like let the freak who copies the other freak just do their thing. Okay, cool, cool, cool. We'll do the same.

We'll do the same. We'll do the same. It's like just the amount of people who want to copy Trump's style, the amount of people on the other side of that end of the spectrum who are just like, let them freak everyone out, okay? Let's just play possum or opossum.

However it's pronounced. Wherever you are. They had been leading in opinion polls in February. Like, so it was that quick, but it was like kind of assumed that the conservatives were going to be part of this like Trump wave takeover across the world. And then everyone was like, Whoa, this seems, this seems kind of like, they don't know what the fuck they're doing. Yeah. They're like, hold on.

They're modeling themselves after the guy up in America who's stabbing people in their face, like allies even. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. And finally, uh, Marvel is back Marvel is back maybe like I don't know it's this is the exact same thinking of like wow the neoliberals pull it off again are they right that so is thunder I'm first of all I just want to say I'm mad at Thunderbolts because there were no more fucking sinners screenings in IMAX because a stupid-ass Marvel every time and now everything was Thunderbolts because there were no more fucking sinners screenings in IMAX because a stupid-ass Marvel movie coming back. Yeah, everything was Thunderbolts.

I was gonna go over the weekend just to see an hour on a regular screen and my friend convinced me He's like if you really want to do it wait for the re-release on IMAX so you can really... In 25 years? No, no, no, they said this month. It's gonna come back. So I think once Thunderbolts phase is out, they'll bring sinners back and I will be there anyway But I'm back. So you went to see Thunderbolts instead and what'd you think? Uh, Didn't see it didn't see it. What didn't see it, you know, I'm with Marvel movies It's there's too many too many too many going on like this one seems particularly like I know I saw it like there

There was good word of mouth. Yeah I know I saw it like there was good word of mouth. Yeah, everyone said it was good. I didn't hear that. The Julia Louis Dreyfus thing is very interesting to me, though I didn't like get any of that from the marketing. I didn't get that like she's in it and like just getting to be fun. I know, yeah.

And be all Julia Louis Dreyfus-y. But it made $76 million of the box office, which is being like pitched now in the media as a win, even though it's like the second worst Marvel Cinematic Universe opening. That's I'm saying, bro. They're fucking they're trying to change. They're just like, I don't know, we need a win for the industry.

OK, so it's less than like Captain America, Brave New World, which came out earlier this year and everyone's like already basically forgotten about. And weren't people shitting on that too? Like for how low it was, even though it was more than 70 or 88 million, I guess is what it made. Yeah. I guess it's just like, it's not, it's no longer cool or like interesting to shit on Marvel. You know, it's just like, yeah, I mean, that's the default story is like Marvel

is over. And this one actually has like some narrative momentum. And so people are like, like the the ringer article was Thunderbolts gives Marvel movies their momentum back for the first time in years. The multiverse saga seems to be going somewhere. So that's not exactly like being like, you know, it's it dominated the box office. But again, it just didn't. It also just didn't like the I don't know, with the marketing, I'm assuming they decided like they're playing with scared money now.

And so they like decided they needed to like be safe in the marketing. But like the marketing was like, I don't know, it was completely indistinguishable to me, like who the characters were, like like the marketing was like, I don't know, it was completely indistinguishable to me, like who the characters were, like what the point of this was. Scared money, exactly. Looking like JJ Reddick's coaching at game four. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just don't, don't just,

you don't care if it ruins everything. Yeah, I mean, it is, it is just funny to see like, when you compare it mathematically to other openings. Nah, you know, we don't we're not. It's not back. And I don't want to hear that, especially when they were shitting on Sinners for making like, you know, like, you know, 40 some million or whatever to be like, oh, a little bit. Oh, and this juggernaut thing.

Don't look now. But Sinners is going to destroy the movie industry. Shut the fuck up, man. Right. This juggernaut thing is back. Don't look now. But Sinners is gonna destroy the movie industry. Shut the fuck up, man. Right, because I feel like it's, they are rooting for the old model of Hollywood, to come back, and so everybody's like, well, we gotta do this,

because we need wins for Hollywood. IP. It's all these people who just do not wanna develop a new movie, like they don't wanna put money behind original ideas. They're just not ready for Hollywood. IP. It's all these people who just do not wanna develop a new movie, like they don't wanna put money behind original ideas. They're just not ready for that. There's so many status quo. What's the plural of status quo?

Quosies? I would say status quo. Your first two guesses were crazy. I think status quo letter. Status quo and status quozis is. I don't know what it is exactly, but those feel way off base. Status quo.

Status quo. Status quo. Status quo would dictate. Let's go with that. Yeah, but I mean, like just even again in the film industry, it's just like, to your point with this, they're praying that the thing of like, is there something that already exists

that we can just green light and not really take a swing on an original film? Even again, in the film industry, it's just like, to your point with this, they're praying that the thing of, is there something that already exists that we can just green light and not really take a swing on an original idea? Want this to happen. They fired all the writers and gave all the power to the marketing team. So that's all they got, is how do we do some-

People who are probably criminally habitual chat GPT users to start coming up with original ideas to re-energize the film market. Yeah, good idea. What happened with the other big opening? Cause I remember on Friday we were talking about like, oh, let's not forget about Rust opening this weekend. Rust, that's right.

So that made slightly less money. That's gonna be slightly harder to spin as a win. It made $25,000. 25,000? 25,000 from 115 theaters. So. Did they do the thing at least like they did for Sound of Freedom and the other Jesus movie?

Like where they bought a bunch of tickets? I'm trying to think, like where they bought the tickets. I'm trying to think of like what church or like organization, because like I'm assuming the NRA doesn't want to be involved in that shit. I don't even have money anymore. I don't think maybe just like the production team of his reality show. It just sucks, man. Like it like what a cursed movie. Like it's like even the thing, like even even though it's done and all the people that worked on it, it's like even the thing, like even even though it's done and all the people

that worked on it, it's still marred by the fucking killing. Yeah. And just feels very accidental shooting that happened on the set of a movie about an accidental shooting. Yeah. It's just fucking crazy. Yeah. Anyway, it'll be interesting to see if Thunderbolts holds well or not. It's got an 88 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, but on the more specific Metacritic, it's got a 68. So Rotten Tomatoes is like thumbs up or down and then we'll give it a percentage, whereas Metacritic actually gives numeric scores.

Like if somebody gives it two and a half stars and Rotten Tomatoes like, that's a thumbs up, that's a pass, you know. Oh my God, that's what Brian, the editor just put a clip out of context said spider bite incident. And I'm like, what the fuck was this on the set of Rust? One of the crew members, like a pipe rigger lamp operator got bit by a Brown recluse and had to do like multiple

surgeries to prevent amputation. So this thing has just been, it's, this is like Jodorowsky's dune, bro. Jesus. Truly cursed. All right. Anyways, I'll be holding my review of Rust for a little while until I see it

Oh, I thought you're like it's under embargo. Yeah, it's under embargo for now All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday May 5th We're back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Oh shit out about that We did forget about Cinco de Mayo. It is easy to do my oh, I Don't know about you is it's like the less What since you don't drink anymore and I drink less and less or am I just have completely abandoned quote-unquote drinking holidays? Yeah, yeah, like these just literally go by like before but dude what's going on Cinco de Mayo, bro? Yeah, but like what what are we doing for Cinco de Mayo is the question

You email everybody while you're drunk on st. Patrick's Day. Yeah While you're drunk on May 6th. Yeah You mean yesterday? Ah shit Brian the editor who Works on this show from Mexico City has informed us fun fact not a holiday in Mexico from Mexico City has informed us. Fun fact, not a holiday in Mexico, only in Puebla. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday, May 5th.

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