The Daily Zeitgeist - The AncTrend Egyptian Oralboros 8/10: Trump, Dobby, Greenland Energy

Episode Date: August 10, 2026

In this edition of Oralboros, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, the Trump admin sucking their own hog, Dobby’s Welsh grave site, next war: Greenland? and much more!See omnystudio....com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:02 I was thinking, dude, I, is it, is it, I don't know if this was going to be my overrated and it's not because I'm still, I don't know where I net out on this, but is it bad to pay an older kid money to deceive your child into behaving differently? You know how like younger, you know, what? feel like you're soft pitching a dog tooth situation when I go to pay kids this is what I mean so you know how like younger kid
Starting point is 00:00:40 they just automatically look up to older kids like I think so many things I change the way I did you just because like someone who's two years older than me was doing a certain way and right now dude my kid he fucking he hates like he hates quote unquote watermelon seeds, but feedless watermelons are
Starting point is 00:01:01 experientially seedless. Right. Even though there are those little flex of seed in there, like, not like So he, the seedless watermelons are not seedless enough for him. For him. He, if he's a speck, he goes, ah, it's a seed. Right. My man, you've been eating bite where all that
Starting point is 00:01:19 shit's been in there and you knew, you knew not. It's not a texture thing. I know it's like a visual thing. Because sometimes we'll just eat them without looking other times he gets particular. So then I'm like, after seeing how he was with your kids, I'm like, I need to get your kids to be like, oh, yeah, I love this watermelon.
Starting point is 00:01:36 Seeds. I'll send you their rate sheet. No, they're little bitches about watermelon seeds too. Even the little seedless ones? Yeah. I mean, no. You know, like when we were eating them and it was like the full black seeded water.
Starting point is 00:01:56 Yeah, man. And then you just made it into a machine gun. You're like, that was like, I don't know. That's part of it. I'm feeling old. I'm like, man, you're soft as hell, bro. Just eat it.
Starting point is 00:02:07 Oh, man. That's why I can't tell you. So if your kids are also there, then we need to find an even older kid. Yeah. To be like, oh, yeah, man. The way I'm a cool 12-year-old, it's because I eat the seeds. You crunch one of those black seeds, though?
Starting point is 00:02:24 And it like breaks apart in your mouth. I get that. Yeah, I get that, man. I mean, because I also get it too. Like, that was the shit I hated about eating, hated about eating like watermelon was the seeds. Like, I just wish, like, sometimes I would just swallow them because I was just so thirsty. I just remember the sensation.
Starting point is 00:02:40 Yeah, you were just like gulping. Get it down. Gulp in that watermelon. There was definitely like four seeds in that bite. Right. Rattling down my esophagus. Yeah. But the propaganda that said that you were going to grow watermelons in your belly
Starting point is 00:02:56 never was incorrect, has been debunked in my tireless research. Never saw a kid would that ever happen? No, bullshit. Yeah. I mean, I could believe, like, I remember, like, my parents would lie and then like, oh, you know, like that kid has an eye patch because, you know, they were eating their watermelon seeds. I'm like, oh.
Starting point is 00:03:20 Never saw no kid with a big watermelon growing out his belly. Never. That's right. don't make that face get an eye patch if you keep making that face part of me is thinking maybe it's a L because of arrested development
Starting point is 00:03:34 and that's what George Bluth was doing was paying that guy to teach lessons so effective it was a I mean those kids all turned out great Miles you always leave a note somebody had left a note if only somebody
Starting point is 00:03:51 fucking arm came off Yeah, I think as much as you can incorporate deception into your parenting strategies, I think, the better, you know? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's stuff that I'm not trying to be like, get over any sensory thing you have, like, I'm irritated by it. I'm just kind of like, I just know you need that example to sort of do away with this, like, thing in your mind. Because he loves fucking water, he loves watermelon. And if there's times I just see him, he'll look at the thing and I'm like, oh, here we go.
Starting point is 00:04:28 Yeah. I have a couple of things, I'll say. Not to completely validate your terrible parenting strategy here, but I have a couple things that were hangups for me as a kid that I wish, like my older sister could and would manipulate the shit out of me all the time. Like, she's just like playing on a like five levels high. than me and I was just like okay oh you did oh I'm in trouble oh no okay I'll do whatever you want but I wish she had manipulated me into what like not being so
Starting point is 00:05:05 afraid of walking I got stung by a bee when I was walking on the grass without shoes on at one point and then I was like no grass walking with it with bare feet and that really limited my ability to go out and touch grass and then my my no upside down policy of just never never diving into pools as was very anti being upside down no flips no flips diving in there like a like yeah oh yeah she could dive in i wish she had shamed me about that so that i could have then you know just enjoyed the experience now i like i'm diving every time every chance i get i'm like a 45 year 46 year old man just like dive in like a fool i'm like those no diving signs are a just an exception
Starting point is 00:05:51 they're a suggestion I'm a no dive in motherfucker too yeah I'm gonna try and work on that yeah it's fun this summer when I'm by a pool yeah it's fun although the first time I didn't realize I didn't realize how fast
Starting point is 00:06:05 you go down the first time I dove I scraped my face on the bottom of the pool oh god yeah never so you just got to have your hands out there you know see that's because I grew up like afraid of the pool so like
Starting point is 00:06:19 I never like I love being in the water now, but I didn't grow up, like, just fucking going head first diving. Yeah, me neither. I was a coward. Look at us now. Look at us now. Strengthen numbers, Jack. We go to a pool. I don't know about that dive. I wouldn't have done that.
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Starting point is 00:10:25 It's Monday August 10th. My name is Jack O'Brien. That over there is Mr. Miles Gray. Hey. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, all right. This is the episode where we tell you what was trending over the weekend and what's
Starting point is 00:10:37 trending this Monday morning. But first, we let them get to know us a little bit better by telling you guys something that we think is overrated, underrated. We always let the guests. We're so generous. Sick of the shit. Letting them say, have their say of what's overrated and underrated. their stand-up.
Starting point is 00:11:00 Yeah, we get it. In-N-Out fries suck. What about me talking about leaving the elderly to die in Costco? That's right. Much better. Anyways, this is our chance to get some over-underers off our chest. Yep. And Miles, let's kick it off with something you think is overrated.
Starting point is 00:11:21 Over. Over-rated. I got to say-bitches. Yeah, you know, cunt off. The top. Here we go. First slice off the fucking, off the leg of the hamon. This is what I've got.
Starting point is 00:11:35 So the Dems are running a ton of anti-Data Center ads as part of like the midterm strategy. Can you get behind that? I'm like, yeah, I can get behind that. That's interesting thing. But then like, as I really think about it, I'm like, what a convenient adversary to funnel people's like working class outrage over the state of the nation into these inanimate objects, which rightfully are a. scourge and should be addressed. But like in talking about data centers, you sort of like tangentially, you're sort of implicitly talking about oligarchs, out of control energy costs, climate anxiety,
Starting point is 00:12:12 inequality, and you can personify that into a data center. And it helps make the conversation about something hyper-specific without messaging that is too radical. Like they could be like, and this data center is downstream of this much long. larger problem we need to do. It keeps coming back. And it's just better to go with the manifestations of the systemic issues.
Starting point is 00:12:36 I'm like, oh, that data center, we got to stop those. What about, let's go up a few levels. You know what I mean? Like, are we also going to talk about, I mean, there's like another huge thing of like the AI bubble and a lot of people's livelihoods via retirement funds and things like that being tied to the AI bubble.
Starting point is 00:12:52 Is that a thing? Is that worth talking about? No? We got a lot of money tied up in that miles. Let's just focus on this one specific data center. This is very politician, Republican Democrat, but especially Democrats because they like to always coalition build rather than be like, fuck you, you're a racist who hates women. Get hop in. I mean, that's sort of implicit too, but they're kind of like more, hey, man, oh, okay, this group looks like they've got some heat. Let's court them as part of our coalition of voters.
Starting point is 00:13:21 And then the second that that group loses a bit of power or influence, it's like, fuck them. Don't fucking need them, right? And so you seem to be doing a bad faith reading of the Democratic Party. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. This is an institution that rather than accepting the path forward being progressive politics, because of all the electoral energy and success that very progressive and DSA candidates are seeing, they're choosing to spend as much money as possible trying to destroy those candidates.
Starting point is 00:13:55 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that where your bad faith? Yeah, yeah. It's just that an understanding that both parties who are just, you know, in a chokehold, a communal chokehold with neoliberalism, I'm like, well, it's going to do what it do. And I think it's just also so on brand for them to have been courting AI money for campaigns. And then because AI spending, like, it's now, like their influence has diminished in an electoral sense. They're like, yeah, I guess we can fucking just be like, be like data.
Starting point is 00:14:27 or bad, but also not talk about how much money they were like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, we were also part and parcel of how we got here, too. So, anyway, good. Again, nothing wrong with pushing back against data centers. But I think when I'm, again, with my very cynical read of the Democratic Party, I'm like, this is like a nice way to just kind of like lightly push without really rocking the boat because, yeah, it's like a thing you don't have to educate people on a larger sort function of how our economy is
Starting point is 00:14:58 and you can just be like, damn, that data center that's like sending the energy prices sky high and like, it's all noisy is bad, right? Yeah, yeah, it's bad. I mean, it is just like a visual, like, symptom of a much deeper problem. So, like that, I get
Starting point is 00:15:15 why it's just like it's like Mark Zuckerberg's yacht just being like leaving everybody to leave a stranded vessel. It's just like, yeah, we, we, we have a reality that is producing fucking, you know, 1920s era level, unsubtle political cartoons on a daily basis, just the images that are created by our reality.
Starting point is 00:15:41 So I get why they're hopping on it, but it would be great if they paired that with like some willingness to think about the larger systemic problem. And I think that's kind of like where we're at sort of politically in this country is like, I think enough people are at that point where they go like, I don't think the parties are doing anything. Yeah. And it's like, yes,
Starting point is 00:16:00 okay. So now like, let's, let's begin to accept that. Next stop. A little more class consciousness. Yeah. To really understand,
Starting point is 00:16:07 like, to not do this thing over and over again where people are like, well, they said they were going to, what? Yeah. The rich people have class consciousness and solidarity, maybe.
Starting point is 00:16:18 Yeah. Um, hey, when people talk about Ouroas and they talk about a snake eating its own tail, it's just you're you're that's an hungry snake what why yeah why don't they talk about somebody self-sucking
Starting point is 00:16:32 that's also that's the same image I think we should just start instead of being like it's a real orabora situation just a guy sucking his own dick sucking himself off you know wait that's not that's not what people are referring yeah no well same
Starting point is 00:16:50 same concept you know yeah yeah yeah I mean like the gratification the guy's getting from sucking himself up. It's just, it's a, it's a wonderful feedback. I'm just gonna try and slide that into some corporate lingo instead of saying snake eating its own tail, be like, man sucking his own dick, you know? Guy sucking his own.
Starting point is 00:17:10 I'm wondering if there has to be like a graphic, like spoof image of this. Oh, don't search that. I was not going to. Wow. Wow. I saw some creative text. You've seen some pretty impressive stuff? Seen some pretty, yep, yep, yep.
Starting point is 00:17:27 Some people who are impossibly limber. My overrated is the late 70s, early 80s, sexual mores of mainstream American culture. I talked in the Weird Al notebook dump about this. We're a weird place for this point to come up. But you pointed out during our Weird Al iconograph that, My Sharona is a fucked up song and that the knack were just like all over These songs that are like can't get it up for the younger kind Yeah, just real
Starting point is 00:18:07 Predatory Pedophile shit only get it up for the younger kind You can only get it up for the young And this is at the same time that America was Like made Brooke Shields a 14 year old sex symbol and And the knack came out with an even like more perverted song like a year later that people were just like, all right, man, this is too, too much. But it's also like the time period when during our Indiana Jones iconograph, we were talking about this conversation between Stephen Spielberg and George Lucas where George Lucas is like, it would only be interesting if Indiana Jones was dating Marion when she was like 12 the first time. And Stevens Spielberg was like, I don't know about 12.
Starting point is 00:18:55 12 seems he's like, no, that's what makes it interesting. Right, right. It's interesting. What was this thing? Like if it's 15. It's 15 and it stops being interesting. And of course, Manhattan, I feel like is the craziest example, story of a 41-year-old writer who dates a 17-year-old girl. I was Googling around on the movie, The Drama, because I had a plain movie to spend.
Starting point is 00:19:21 And that's a Patinson movie. Yeah, that's a Pattinson movie. Love Pattinson's on a heater. Zendaya. I was talking about how we need more. How many movies are they in this? I know. Crazy.
Starting point is 00:19:32 That was the first of three. It's funny to just see these like pairings just kind of be consistent. Even if they're not, their characters don't interact. I'm like, wow. Okay. But I was like, who is this director? Because everyone's treating this movie like it was materialist, like some major filmmaker who was like blessing rom-coms with his.
Starting point is 00:19:51 talents. And I found, and so I looked him up and like the second result is this interview from when, like earlier in his career when he's 27 and he talks about how he decided to date a 17 year old because he watched Manhattan. He was 27 and he dated a 17 year old. And his friends were all like, don't do that. And he was like, but Woody Allen says it is just like the most straightforward example of what like the danger of what we were talking about like this period where everybody went completely insane and was suddenly like being pet being a pedophile is actually cool and mainstream right or it felt like this was the momentum right because you would see people have like child brides like in the 1800s the 20s the 30s yeah i mean it's not the only period but it does seem like
Starting point is 00:20:45 it's, there's a lot of still mainstream successful things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. People still are like Manhattan's a great film. It's black and white. And yes, it's about a 41 year old dating a 17 year old, but that might help me be a better director.
Starting point is 00:21:01 Yes. Somehow. I mean, it's like, it feels like the kind of thing, though, too. Like, if, if that's kind,
Starting point is 00:21:07 if you're sort of predisposed to that sort of like, in any interest, all you need is a movie or something to be like, yeah, dude. and that's the fucking sauce. Right. Because, like, I would even be like,
Starting point is 00:21:19 when I was, like, making music more, I would be like, yeah, bro, like you gotta get fucking high, bro, like the fucking art. And then I'd be like, bro, I'm actually terrible. Like, I'm really bad at this when I'm hot. I'm bad at composing when I'm high.
Starting point is 00:21:30 I'm good at jamming, like, when I'm just responding. But, like, if I'm trying to be intentional with music, like, that's not the thing. But all it takes is,
Starting point is 00:21:37 like, three weird rock documentaries to put that in my mind. And I go, yeah, dude, that's what I got to be doing, man. Rather than being like, yeah, it's because you're, you have unaddressed emotional issues as a young man. You need to fucking sort out. So anyways, I would, do not take your lead from the 70s and early 80s.
Starting point is 00:21:58 Or Norwegian directors. Or Norwegian directors who take their lead from those movies. What is something you think is underrated, Miles? Underrated. So Ennis, Cantor, Freedom, or whatever the fuck, he's calling himself. You know, he's, I don't know if you saw, he's declaring himself for the fuck. in WMBA draft because he's hopping in on all the transphobia. I'm like, well, if all you're going to do is say,
Starting point is 00:22:21 then what's stopping me, a professional NBA player, to get in there? And so with that, I got to say, what's underrated are all the men dedicated to winning sports by transitioning to female? So many. So many. Because, so as this was coming up, this McSweeney's piece has been coming up, and it's so fucking funny. It's by this writer, Lily Osler.
Starting point is 00:22:44 It says, I don't only, like, I'm bringing this up because this is just such an good take on the absurdity, right, of continuing to vilify trans people. Like, this idea that, like, they're just, like, all trans people are a monolith, that it's only, that trans person is a man waiting to fucking fuck somebody up on the court or the field or whatever. And that's, or a bathroom. And, and again, like, I just, God damn, like, just leave trans people alone. Like they're trying to live like anyone else And they have to do it with extra bullshit on their plate Because of a fucking target being put on their back For some fake ass non-existent shit
Starting point is 00:23:24 Like every story about a trans person As a quote threat is made up bullshit Because these are everyday fucking people trying to live And they and the pace at which these aren't like these fucking outrage pieces come out And granted too the country's in a fucking mess So it's always good to just raise the specter of some other thing that you can try and pin it all on. But it's a made up thing.
Starting point is 00:23:48 Just fucking nonsense and trying to be like, what's sports? We're yet to see this person that you keep fucking referencing. So anyway. McSweeney's article, so it's called, Guys, I swear I'm only transitioning so I can cheat at girls sports.
Starting point is 00:24:02 By Lily Osler. I'm going to read a little bit of it because it's so fucking good. This is how it starts. Guys, I know you've heard rumors around school. It's like written in the voice of like a high schooler. Guys,
Starting point is 00:24:11 I know you've heard rumors around school. and I'm sure you noticed that I wasn't at basketball tryouts. And I wanted to make sure you heard what's going on from the source. You've got to promise you won't breathe a word of this to anyone. I'm transitioning. No, not like that. I see why you'd be confused. Though I'm transitioning so I can join the girls basketball team and win everything.
Starting point is 00:24:30 Yeah, it's a totally normal thing for a straight guy with no gender dysphoria like me to do. That's for sure. Just bounce forward. It says, good, it says, hmm, okay, for those of you couldn't hear, Patrick just asked, Why would anyone want to give up their spot on the boys varsity basketball team permanently change their body, alienate themselves from all their male peers, and face a lifetime of discrimination just to get horribly vilified in conservative media on the off chance they make the JV girls team. I don't know what to tell you, Pat, to cheat at girls sports, obviously. It's a dream, man. Yeah, like it's just like on like put your, like what are they fucking saying.
Starting point is 00:25:11 I'm going to read this last part. It's again, we'll link off to it, but this is a great. This is sweet. Smeaty sweet. It goes on, unquote. That's a good question, Jeff. I mean, if I succeed at my plan and cheat at girls' sports, I'll get recruited to cheat at sports on a women's team in college. And then after that, I'll have lived as a woman for like six years, and it'd just be confusing to change back, right? So, yeah, I don't know if I'm going to transition back at any point.
Starting point is 00:25:33 Plus, like, girls just make more sense. Being around them just feels so natural. Do you guys not feel that? No. Okay, just me then? it's a normal thing for a boy like me to feel, parenthetical, I'm a boy. The absurdity of like this made up person, I think it's just like really well, it's just this piece just really sort of sums it up. Cheat sports, get a peek in the women's bathroom. The two dreams of every trans woman.
Starting point is 00:26:01 Again, absolute fucking nonsense. And yeah, I mean, like, and now the culture wars have just, you know, erupting even further in the WMB. with Sophie Cunningham. Yeah. And, you know, doing this thing. What an asshole. Posing with like Riley Gaines. And then now last week was like, I don't really need it.
Starting point is 00:26:17 I don't really want to talk about like politics. It's like full. You did. You started talking about politics. Yeah. So, and this is what's happening. You started talking about a political issue that is made up and that doesn't affect you in any way.
Starting point is 00:26:31 And trying to make it a thing. And then now that you're getting windmilled on, you're like, actually, it's, I don't want the smoke. So just shut the fuck up. This isn't a fucking thing. And just let people fucking live. Nobody's fucking hurting anybody. Like this fucking,
Starting point is 00:26:48 this country is already so fucking hard to live in, like just to wasted energy on trying to vilify people who have no absolute, no bearing on your shitty, like the shitty lives that we have to live. It's not because trans people exist. And like, fuck, man. It's just getting so fucking old.
Starting point is 00:27:05 And just this N. N.S. Cantor thing was just so, just such a fucking cynical, like, what about this? Nonsense. Royce White, too. And then Robin Lopez, the conversation between
Starting point is 00:27:21 Royce White and Robin Lopez has been pretty fun. All right, Royce White is a former NBA player who wasn't very good, who has also jumped in and been like, me too, I'm going to do the thing that he said he was going to do. Ha ha.
Starting point is 00:27:37 I'm entering my feminine era. Yeah, yeah, cheap. Got the fuck up. I'm going to stay in the world of sports. This phenomenon that we talked about, I believe very strongly. It's a stupid thing, but I really believe strongly in the, in the U.S. men's national team laying an egg after rich daddy president Trump gave them an illegal edge. And like I was like, my theory was that they went out and shit the bed because they got an illegal edge. And the narrative around the game, which is incredibly important to athletes, the narrative around the game was these guys are cheating to get an unfair advantage.
Starting point is 00:28:25 And it's going to be too easy for them to win. Bill Simmons, the sports guy, talks about a thing in sports called the nobody believes in us team where a team can like rally around a perceived disadvantage or a perceived slight and like,
Starting point is 00:28:42 you know, we'll come out of nowhere and like make it to the Super Bowl or the World Series or something. Leicester City won the Premier League in 2016. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:28:50 I remember it was like the Cardinals like made it to the Super Bowl a couple times when they were like, everybody was like, they shouldn't even be in the playoffs at the start of the playoffs. and they used that as fuel. I think the best illustration of it
Starting point is 00:29:02 that probably the most people have seen as Jordan in The Last Dance is revealed to be fueled by these petty perceived slights that he has created for himself. He's been like spinning this narrative in his own head where everybody is out to get him
Starting point is 00:29:20 and like everybody thinks he sucks. He turns as he going to enriched uranium. Yes. He like uses that to like fuel the greatest basketball career of all the time. So anyway, this is an important thing. And when you're given an unfair advantage by some rich guy who is not like part of your team, like I've seen people even be able to be like, nobody believes in us.
Starting point is 00:29:49 And everyone says that Barry Bonds is like doing steroids. But like he doesn't deserve all the scrutiny. And like you can like talk yourself in any. anything, but it feels like you can't talk yourself into like rich daddy owner guy coming in and saving you. And I, I'm bringing it up again because the Dodgers, the Los Angeles Dodgers were the best team in baseball, got a trade at the trade deadline that they basically got one of the two best pitchers in the league. And everyone was like, fuck, man. Like, they're, they're the best team already
Starting point is 00:30:27 and they just got the best pitcher and basically the conversation for a week was like Major League Baseball has become too easy for the Dodgers because their rich owner spends so much money for them. And they promptly lost seven games in a row. And I feel like the most...
Starting point is 00:30:48 Hey, we snap the streak though. They snap the streak and then lost again. So they're eight and nine over their last nine. And I just, I think that there's like something really powerful about that narrative, like being like powerfully damaging about that narrative of being, like getting an unfair advantage from your owner or like cheating in some way
Starting point is 00:31:11 in a way that you like kind of at on some level know is bullshit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I get that. Yeah, I just, sports is like there's so many different things and like, you know, It's like a fan base and like being in Philly, Philly is fucking crazy. Like the,
Starting point is 00:31:29 the devotion, the number of T-shirts you see for like the Philadelphia Phillies and the Eagles and now the sixers. Yeah, wrapping their shit. It is like a fucking cult. But like that. Is it like Pacific Northwest levels of fandom?
Starting point is 00:31:45 Because like that's the other place. Go around like, damn, bro. You're like, y'all fuck. I mean, I know Philadelphia sports fans care, but it's like,
Starting point is 00:31:52 you're just going to think about how that. manifests into how people wear it externally. Yeah. Like the Portland Trailblazers fans are some of the best fans I've ever experienced. And they're just like devoted whether the team is good or not. And they don't like engage in this toxic thing where it's like our teams, sucks. I'm out on this team. We should start losing and like try and get as many picks as possible. Dude, the Blazers fans I know are so loyal.
Starting point is 00:32:17 Or like, you know, like I remember like something like the Aiton drama too. And I'm like, oh, oh. And like, we'll see. you know, you never know. You never know. You never know. Like him. I don't like what he's doing. How the fuck are y'all so buoyant?
Starting point is 00:32:29 I love this. But I think, yeah, I think there's like something very specifically toxic about being in a situation where you feel like, oh, someone is intervening on my behalf. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not someone that I even know or respect, you know, it's like some asshole. It's like being seen naked, you know? Right. It's like before they're like, damn, they're so powerful.
Starting point is 00:32:52 But then all it takes is one invest. one thing to happen and people go, wait, what the fuck? What the fuck? Oh, this is like a, this is all just like smoke and mirrors because of the thing. Although I will say the Dodgers also had a seven game losing streak last summer. And yeah, this is just kind of like it's. It happens in baseball. But yeah, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:33:11 It's the second thing this summer that feels like it's a direct relation to, because that U.S. Men's National Team game. That was definitely felt like, everybody was just like, yeah, well, they're not as good. I was like, I've been watching this team. They've been good. Like, this was a different team that took the field and they just, like, were, had completely had the wind taken out.
Starting point is 00:33:34 They were outed as Mr. Francis, Francis from Peewey's big adventure. Exactly. Like, that is not who you want. And they didn't have. And they didn't have. They didn't have odd job answering the door like previous times to intimidate people to be like, oh, God, odd job. Francis must be important.
Starting point is 00:33:50 No, he's a little fucker taking a bath, like a, fucking kid. That's right. God, what a bathtub, though. Oh, what a bathtub. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. There's no shortcut for saving time, but saving money is simple. Just combine
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Starting point is 00:34:30 We've played a lot. lot of iconic characters over the years, but today we're showing up as ourselves to tell you about Podlandia, AEO rewatch, our brand new podcast. Each week, we'll revisit an episode of Portlandia from the very beginning, breaking down the sketches, exploring the backstories of our most iconic characters, revisiting the Portland locations you know and love, and opening up about our creative process. How did any of this get made? Why do we think that was a good idea? We're ready to talk about it. And we'll also be joined by the people who helped bring it all to life, guest stars, color, collaborators and friends, including director Jonathan Chrysall, the mayor himself, Kyle McLaughlin,
Starting point is 00:35:06 legendary musician Amy Mann, and many more. Kyle is going for it here. You fully improvised, not just words, but a song, a melody. I thought he was going to write. I thought you were all going to write a song. I remember you thinking that. Listen to Podlandia. Ayo rewatch on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, this is Hayes Davenport. And Sean Clements. We host the podcast. We host the podcast. Hollywood Handbook. Every episode we're trying to help our guests improve their careers by mainly focusing on how they can help us improve our careers.
Starting point is 00:35:39 The show is famously super accessible so you can easily jump into any of our 650 episodes and understand what's going on. We recommend some of our recent episodes with Ben Stillard. The definition of what is a movie has kind of changed anywhere too, right? What do you think it is now? It's images and words being spoken, captured by some sort of technology. Danny McBride. He loves Lowe. Oh, that's fantastic.
Starting point is 00:36:02 and you make it on, you make your own. That's great. I call him Terro Reed. It's a good name. They're all named after cast members of American Pie. Yeah. I call, I don't, I never looked up if she was in this, but I call him Leachy Sobieski.
Starting point is 00:36:17 Yeah, I don't think she was an American Pie, but I still like that. Haven't looked it up. She was prominent around the same time. Yeah. Then Mary Steenbergh. Why are you guys talking to me? I'm worried.
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Starting point is 00:37:32 and I'm out. Listen to you're the problem with Yamanika on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And we're back. We're back. And something we've been talking about for a little while is the confusion
Starting point is 00:37:56 inside the Trump administration where, like they get kind of, he is lying to everybody, but he's also lying to himself. And then everybody's lying to him. And so he doesn't have, sucking his own dick with lies. It's like a misinformation
Starting point is 00:38:11 or a boros. A man sucking his own hog. And being like, damn, bro. Let me see what my mouth do. What does my mouth do? Yeah, man. I mean, midterms creeping closer and closer.
Starting point is 00:38:34 Polls continue to not do a single thing for Trump except to trend downward every fucking time, a lot of Democratic bolsters are licking their lips, which I'm like, oh, fuck. I don't like when they're like, oh, I mean, what we're looking at, I mean, if we're looking at a nine point edge here on a generic ballot and we're looking at a nine point swing just based on what we've seen in the presidential, I mean, that's going to, we're looking pretty good. We're looking pretty good. We might not, we might not even have to say anything. We might just have to say data center bad. And it's going to be enough. We might not have to
Starting point is 00:39:09 go for the. are left than that. That's so frustrating. So, you know, as it stands, their predictions seem to be the Democrats will, at a minimum, take back the House. The Senate math is still very, very, very uncertain. And even then, things could change in the House. Who knows? But Trump is at that stage now just in his mind, like, just in his, because, you know, we're at end stage Trump, like, mentally, where he'll just like, now when he's asked a question, it's clear he's just regurgitating what his aides tell him to, like, to. keep him from losing it because Trump is not
Starting point is 00:39:42 engaged with anything. Not to say he's innocent, but he's like, this guy doesn't, he does, he's completely checked out. So like, he's getting caught up with these updates of lies from his AIDS. He's like, is everything good? Everything good. Okay, I'm going to go play golf and they're like,
Starting point is 00:39:57 when's someone going to tell him? I'm assuming. Yeah, it's the downfall scene. Like, I wonder, it sounds like sometimes the downfall scene from, from, you know, when Hitler finds out that the, military is actually losing and that they're fucked.
Starting point is 00:40:13 I bet that happens like maybe once a week. The famous moment when he's like, well, what happened to General Steiner? And he's like, they're like, oh, Feah, Steiner, no, he's not doing the counterattack that you thought he was going to rally the troops. They don't fuck with
Starting point is 00:40:29 anybody. The troops are fucking with it. Yeah. But I mean, just, I always check the silver bulletin because Nate Silver averages all the different polls and weights them and he's foolish it and bad, but if we're going to look at polling,
Starting point is 00:40:46 it is good to just have the overall metacritic results. And there are times when, like, you know, it looks really bad in some polls and then, but overall Silver will be like, he's actually holding pretty steady. The latest update on Donald Trump's approval rating, after rebounding slightly earlier in the month,
Starting point is 00:41:06 Donald Trump's net approval rating has now hit a new second term low of minus 20.6 points. All right. Dangerously close his disapproval dangerously close to breaking 60% while just 21% of Americans strongly approve of the job he's doing. I will say, Nary, there's Ocean City, New Jersey, where I go to do our family reunion every August. What are the shirts saying? there are the boardwalks were that like there are a couple stray trump t-shirts yeah but nobody's wearing them and there are no trump signs for the first time in a decade there are zero trump signs like what do you mean like in front of out of a business or like houses zero and that would be in like
Starting point is 00:41:54 oh right because you go every year so even in an off year so you're able to just like get a snapshot yeah no election right i mean this is closer to a midterm election than last year sure Last year, there were Trump signs. There's always been Trump signs. During Biden's presidency, there were Trump signs. Right. But, yeah, they say at this point in Trump's first term, his net approval rating was 9.3 points higher at negative 11.3. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:18 And it's now lower than any point in his first term right now. So it's the lowest it's ever been. Yeah. It's including January 6th. The day after January 6th, which people were pretty upset about that for some reason. So this is, I have a feeling this is kind of. what conversations sound like in the White House when Trump, when there's any kind of discussion
Starting point is 00:42:38 about polling, they go, the polling's bad and the A's go, sir, the polling numbers are bad because the voters are mad at Republicans in general. Not you, sir. You are doing great. And Trump goes, well, what are they mad about? Sir, we have no clue. It's just like,
Starting point is 00:42:54 they're just mad at like Republicans for some reason, sir. We actually don't know it's so weird. So weird, dude. It's like, but you're good. And Trump goes, are they mad at me? Oh, God, no, sir. No way, dude. They fucking love.
Starting point is 00:43:07 They just hate everybody fucking else that's a Republican for some reason that we are still looking into, but don't worry, sir, they love you. The Republicans, I don't just don't, we don't, we got to figure it out. So obviously Trump is also great at lying to himself, but it, again, at this stage of his mental acuity decline, Trump clearly relies on AIDS for synthesizing reality for him. So I'll play this clip. Did you, uh, just sorry, like a really good visual metaphor for this. Did you guys cover last week the clips of him golfing?
Starting point is 00:43:37 Oh, no, where the guy was just throwing the balls out? Yeah, he has like assistants who are just like ball placers who just like, he drives up and they do a backhanded, like they do a secretive no look toss of his ball. And they're like, there it is right there. You're on the fairway, sir. Yeah. Well, like he'll clearly be in like a sand pit or whatever and like they'll just drop it right outside of it. Yeah, right.
Starting point is 00:44:02 I think that was the one I saw. They're like about to go into this hazard and he's like, yeah, yeah, it's right there, sir. So he has, his life is built on staffs of people lying to him to make him think he's
Starting point is 00:44:14 better than he is. And at some level he knows, like he slows the golf cart down and that's their trigger to drop the ball there. That's where he wants to hit it from. Yes, sir. Of course. Right. So he just had this interview with Punchable News where he regurgitates this thing
Starting point is 00:44:30 where they're like, well, what are you going to do? You think people are going to come out? and vote for you guys? And he's like, and Trump's even like,
Starting point is 00:44:36 I don't know, I hope so. The question is, will they vote? Because a lot of them are very angry and Republicans, to be honest with you.
Starting point is 00:44:46 I don't know. I mean, they're angry Republicans, but they're not angry at me. They're not angry at me. That's an interesting thing. Everyone's always angry.
Starting point is 00:44:55 And there are some. What do you say? Everyone's always angry at Congress. Yeah. Sure. But it's just like, it's just like a, I don't know,
Starting point is 00:45:03 Punch Bowl. Are they right way? No, so Punchbowl is nonpartisan, but you know, they have, they get a lot of good, like they typically, they've gotten some interesting access like to stuff to conservatives. But yeah, like throughout this whole interview, he's also like, I think
Starting point is 00:45:21 Hakeem Jeffries, I could work well with him. It's like, are you already preparing for him to be Speaker of the House? Right. It's just a very, again, this is this, but this is the reality Trump sits lives in. You're finds her, everybody else is bad, which is, I'd imagine how
Starting point is 00:45:37 he's gone throughout his whole life. It's not you, sir, it's everyone else. It's everyone else. Also, the notion that they are, quote, angrier at Trump is also totally bullshit since he pulls lower than the generic Republican does. Right. So, yeah, I think there's a stat
Starting point is 00:45:53 from Harry Anton on CNN that says that voters want Congress, GOP to do more to, and 56% say stand up to Trump. and 35% say work with Trump. So it's like very evidently like they are like Congress is getting railroaded by Trump.
Starting point is 00:46:12 Yeah. And that is a bad thing. Yeah. That's what they say. So now like the one consistent message the GOP has that is coming from Trump, that he's only like the one consistent thing he's even said about midterms.
Starting point is 00:46:23 That isn't like money's not real. If you're rich, don't worry. Right. It's this old thing. It's like the Democrats are communists. You hear that? and Stephen Miller was also parroting this line last week. We talked about where I was just like,
Starting point is 00:46:39 oh my God, this guy can only talk like someone who thinks Joe McCarthy is the coolest person to ever live. So that's the state of things in terms of whatever strategy they have. I mean, that might be enough if you ask Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton was like, that's going to be a very effective way to combat Democrats. is they're going to call us communists and socialists.
Starting point is 00:47:05 The very thing that everybody wants. She's such an expert at losing elections to Donald Trump. We should just be like, yes, take, like, Trump is built to demolish mainstream democratic party politics. And she is like if the DNC came to life in the chamber from the fly. Like you put the party in there. And like she's just all of her instincts. We should just take her. scenes and do the opposite of Hillary Clinton becoming the DNC fly
Starting point is 00:47:36 Cronenberg show me that body horror get on it sir I mean his sense of reality like he there was a moment where he said uh she did a movie I think it was the number one movie of the year can you believe it about Melania oh yeah yeah he claimed that last week like spider man brand new day is making like it just earned a hundred and four $45 million domestically during its second weekend in theaters. It's the third biggest second weekend of all time. Like that's the big story. It's now the highest grossing Hollywood film of all time in India.
Starting point is 00:48:14 And he's like, I'm pretty sure Melania, they must be so excited that Spider-Man's almost catching up to Melania at the box office. Oh, yeah. I mean, because what? It basically did like $927 million the first week. Like all told.
Starting point is 00:48:29 Yeah, yeah. And yeah, That's because I think Melani did what like 2 billion? They're doing Melania numbers over there. Yeah. Well, did you see they're also, Amazon's going to do, is doing a docu series on her now. Oh, series? They just announced that.
Starting point is 00:48:43 This is not enough. The film? I don't know. Jeff Bezos clearly is trying to, you know, sock away as many favors as possible. So he can be like, but dude, I overpaid for the documentary. And then I, I did that thing. Isn't that enough, sir? Please.
Starting point is 00:49:00 I mean, they definitely see. that he's preparing for a fascist takeover and they're just like we're, you know, we're going to be here. We got to be ready for that eventuality. Yeah. The Trump administration also tried to glom onto Spider-Man's success with an AI propaganda post in which Spidey webs up
Starting point is 00:49:18 innocent people for friendly neighborhood ice agents. It shows a Spider-Man with Webb coming out of his wrist and then it says criminal illegal aliens will be caught and deported. And then it's just a bunch of people covered in. shitty looking spider webs. Yeah. Good. Oh, God. It's like, so half-assed.
Starting point is 00:49:37 I'm like, oh, this is pre-A-I. It looks like bad Photoshop. Like, I'm like, AI would do a better job doing this shit. It's just fucking terrible. I mean, again, every single thing, every day, it's just that like we have a old mentally unstable loser in office. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:56 And, yeah, get me off this crazy train. That's right. Called love. It is wild that they're doing that because I'm not going to spoil brand new day, but once you've seen brand new day and you see who the villain ultimately is, it's kind of wild, but... Oh, really?
Starting point is 00:50:11 They're like, and Spider-Man would be helping ice. Right, right, right. That much is clear. One thing we all know about Spider-Man is he would be helping ice because he hates innocent neighbors. One thing we know about Peter Parker is that he only hangs out with white people. That's one thing we do know.
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Starting point is 00:51:02 Tony and Candice, Nina and Lance, Spike and yes, the chicken. We've played a lot of iconic characters. over the years, but today we're showing up as ourselves to tell you about Podlandia, AEO Rewatch, our brand new podcast. Each week, we'll revisit an episode of Portlandia from the very beginning, breaking down the sketches, exploring the backstories of our most iconic characters, revisiting the Portland locations you know and love, and opening up about our creative process. How did any of this get made? Why do we think that was a good idea? We're ready to talk about it.
Starting point is 00:51:33 And we'll also be joined by the people who helped bring it all to life, guest stars, collaborators, and friends, including director Jonathan Chrysall, the mayor himself, Kyle McLaughlin, legendary musician Amy Mann, and many more. Kyle is going for it here. You fully improvised, not just words, but a song, a melody. Well, I thought he was going to write. I thought you were all going to write a song.
Starting point is 00:51:53 I remember you thinking that. Listen to Podlandia. Ayo rewatch on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, this is Hayes Davenport. And Sean Clements. We host the podcast, Hollywood Handbook. Every episode we're trying to help our guests improve their careers by mainly
Starting point is 00:52:12 focusing on how they can help us improve our careers. The show is famously super accessible so you can easily jump into any of our 650 episodes and understand what's going on. We recommend some of our recent episodes with Ben Stillard. The definition of what is a movie has kind of changed anywhere too, right? What do you think it is now? It's images and words being spoken, captured by some sort of technology. Danny McBride. He loves over. Oh, that's fantastic. Can you make it? on you make your own that's great I call him tarot reed it's a good name
Starting point is 00:52:45 they're all named after cast members of American pie yeah I call I don't I never looked up if she was in this but I call him Leachy Sobiesky yet I don't think she was an American pie but I haven't looked it up haven't looked it up she was prominent around the same time yeah then Mary Steenbergh
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Starting point is 00:54:17 And Dobby from Harry Potter, I read up to the point where Dobby is introduced. I do not know what ultimately happens to Dobby. I have to assume he survives and things are good. Oh. Not good. Tell me you knew. Tell me you knew, Jack. Tell me you knew what happened to our Dobby.
Starting point is 00:54:37 Dobby die. No. I didn't look I fucking I don't know shit about Harry Potter I know Dobby I know what Dobby looks like but I didn't know what came of Dobby
Starting point is 00:54:50 apparently Dobby was killed in the Deathly Hollow spoiler alert Damn But I didn't realize like How much Like people were so into Dobby
Starting point is 00:55:02 That they like lay offerings At his fictional grave site And treat it as an actual one this is just from and we'll get to why because people were so outraged about a construction project being near the gravesite that they actually got it to be changed
Starting point is 00:55:18 this from the Daily Beast quote the location has since become an unofficial memorial for fans who regularly leave stones inscribed with messages such as here lies Dobby despite the fact that the National Trust which owns the land discourages the practice because the beach is an ecologically sensitive area
Starting point is 00:55:34 they also used to leave socks because Harry Potter uses a sock to trick Lucius Malfoy into giving Dobby his freedom. So they're like, please, the elastic in the socks is like actually really bad for the environment. Like the stone's fine.
Starting point is 00:55:51 Dobby's not fucking real. Also, the ecological damage is. But wait, he like, so the books take, like, give a specific location where he's buried? Apparently he is buried in freshwater West beach in Pembrokeshire Wales. So because of that,
Starting point is 00:56:13 they're like, that's enough for us. Let's go lay some rocks for this little fucker. And these fans aren't fucking around because a utility company was planning on laying an underground cable to help move power from, I think, like the UK to Ireland, for the tune of like $580 million, like a huge infrastructure project.
Starting point is 00:56:30 But when fans found out, they acted quickly. So they got a quote from one of the people who worked at this utility company, said Ludlum, who admitted he initially had no idea who Dobby was, recalled how a colleague broke the news. Quote, apparently we're going to go straight through Dobby's grave. I said, Dobby, who's Dobby?
Starting point is 00:56:46 I don't know Dobby. I said, he's a fictitious character in a fictitious book. The whole thing is fictitious. What are you talking about? His colleague responded, no, it's very, very serious. We got back to the planners and we discussed exactly how to reroute the cable. So we wouldn't go anywhere near Dobby's grave. Wow.
Starting point is 00:57:04 And so now they are moving the location of this cable. Thank God. near a bronze age historical site. Yeah. So they're like, they're like, we've managed not to disrupt the bronze age historical dig site
Starting point is 00:57:20 or like remains from a bronze age site. What did the bronze age ever accomplish? You know, like this is the peak of humans, like cultural storytellate. Like they were like, we're going to take Jar Jar Jar Binks, but we're gonna like make him cute
Starting point is 00:57:40 and you know they fixed they fixed it they created a character so beloved that people can't can't imagine having his fake is there anywhere
Starting point is 00:57:54 I mean I'm sure there are right like where people lay like flowers at a fictitious grave site or like something I'm trying to think I'm even trying to think from like the shit people would care about I feel like are a lot of like fantasy things.
Starting point is 00:58:10 And that's why I think maybe with Harry Potter, like they fucked up by naming a real place or people could go put shit. But I'm like honestly, I'm grasping for an answer where people are like, no, this is hallowed ground from this children's movie.
Starting point is 00:58:23 Walter White fans play the mock headstone for the main character of Breaking Bad in Albuquerque. There's a pseudo medieval grave marker for Robin Hood somewhere in West Yorkshire. That feels... I mean, that feels...
Starting point is 00:58:37 kind of normal. Like that's like an old legendary tale. That's what I would expect. Right. Those are like on the verge of being like religious. They're so like old and... Or like maybe something or like...
Starting point is 00:58:49 Close to myth. Maybe there's that cliffside where they release Donnie's ashes from Big Lubowski. Yeah, that would be cool. Like I wouldn't be surprised if there was like one like thing there. But to the extent like the photos like of Dobby's grave. Like you'd think a real life person lost their life there.
Starting point is 00:59:06 Right. We're just like piles of rocks and socks and shit. All right, Dobby, you know you were a real one, apparently. Shout out to Dobby. Yeah. Yeah. The Harry Potter fans like go really. I remember him being introduced and it feeling a little jar-jar-ish.
Starting point is 00:59:22 And that was around the time I stopped. I'm not saying I stopped because of that, but is around the time that I did. And people do not appreciate that comparison. Harry Potter fans do not appreciate that comparison So I will stop making it You were definitely improved on Jar Jar You learned the lessons
Starting point is 00:59:43 And yeah Not quite as terrible Yeah exactly, Rob was that on Dobby Grave You know what I mean Dobby Grave You're not fucking around with somebody going And that's on Dobby's grave, homie Oh shit
Starting point is 00:59:55 So you're doing an Abu Grabe thing No, no, no Let's see Next War, maybe Greenland It's I see why it makes sense for the Trump administration. Okay, I get
Starting point is 01:00:07 where I see, you know, they're like, more Venezuela, you know, less Iran, more just like going into a place and being like, we drink your milkcake.
Starting point is 01:00:20 Yeah, they're trying to be like, where don't they have a military? Right. Exactly. But over the weekend, the Guardian reported that Greenland Energy
Starting point is 01:00:28 is preparing to start drilling for oil in Greenland. And by Greenland Energy, we of course mean the company based out of Texas that was established just last year. Ah, yes, yes, yes. The legendary company, yes, of course. Just a fucking fly-by-night, uh, Texas wildcatting, uh, business.
Starting point is 01:00:51 Uh, they're planning to spend $60 million to drill in the Jameson land peninsula, which they think contains $1 trillion in oil, uh, despite, quote, not having received permission from local authority. which seems kind of important. Right. They, so Greenland Energy appointed a director
Starting point is 01:01:14 who's also working on Trump's Golden Dome, which the president has said is vital to his plan to control Greenland. And the wife of the chair of Greenland Energy has visited Mara Lago this year. So people are just kind of like putting the things together
Starting point is 01:01:29 on their, you know, red string murder board of like, okay, how are they going to lay the groundwork for this? They already started bringing over equipment to Greenland, falsely claiming that they had permission, which prompted Greenland's government to issue a strong warning that no approval had been granted to land the kit. And the company was like, oh, sorry, our enthusiasm for the project led us to communicate
Starting point is 01:01:55 in a way that created confusion. Our bat. Greenland Energy has, for some reason, hired Dr. Phil to make a documentary series about their mission, which may or may not be a soft launch of a U.S. invasion, but they are actively shipping 300 containers worth of drilling equipment to Greenland on September 12th, and Trump's Greenland envoy, Jeff Landry, says that Greenland could be pumping oil next year, which, yeah, so that's great. So that's a positive.
Starting point is 01:02:27 But a historian pointed out, like, invasions often start with technical projects that justify the presence of operatives and technical experts who are also doing recon and advance prep. Yeah. And just taking a look around. Yeah, exactly. Refusal of permission could be used as a pretext for Trump to advance his, quote, imperialist agenda, but basically, you know, just take by force. Right.
Starting point is 01:02:53 I mean, he gave up on the pretext of the Venezuela invasion so quickly. Like, it was like day of. He was like, well, they have oil in their ground that I want. In our tanks. What's with like the boat? Wasn't that something to do? No, it's oil. I stay.
Starting point is 01:03:08 I'm taking it. Yeah, it was just fucking around. You guys actually believed that. You're stupid. It's just so fucking lazy. And like, it's just so funny.
Starting point is 01:03:18 I'm like, there was a quaint time when imperialism was a little more subtle. Yeah. And not just so mask off. Have a pretext. But like, my God.
Starting point is 01:03:26 Sending the company. Yeah. And just sort of doing that thing where it's like, it's like they're just like taking an inch every day an inch closer, inch closer, inch closer, inch closer, just seeing how close they can get until it creates another fucking crisis. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:41 And each time they get caught, golly, we're just so excited. Oh, about the opportunity here. We'll step back. We'll step back. We're going to. And your people here that don't want us. Greenland's government ultimately said it would not be proportionate to order Greenland energy to remove the drilling equipment,
Starting point is 01:03:57 which, you know, they're in a tough position. They're like, what do we do? They've got a gun trend on them, essentially. And I think that's where I'm sure. Yeah, more, well, I mean, it's running out of missiles. So who knows? It might be a good time to push back against the U.S. to be honest, because Trump is also completely in the dark with the amount of munitions that have been spent in Iran.
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