The Daily Zeitgeist - The WeekTrend Report 9/18: Lauren Boebert, Drew Barrymore, Bill Maher, Russell Brand, Auto Workers Strike, Meet The Press

Episode Date: September 18, 2023

In this edition of The WeekTrend Report, Jack and Miles discuss Lauren Boebert getting kicked out of the Beetlejuice musical, Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher NOT strike breaking after all, Russell Brand getting accused of sexual assault, the auto workers strike, Trump on Meet The Press and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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to a sketch from a 20 year old snl i think it's funny we keep going that's a reference to the uh garth brooks uh deal with the devil songwriting sketch from SNL. Garth Brooks was the host. Chris Gaines, the musical guest. I am Jack. That is Miles. Miles, how do you do? I do well. I do well. How doth do you do?

How doth end unto you, my good sir? Pretty good. Pretty good. You know, it's early. But we're here. It's early doors. Things could go left pretty good. Pretty good. You know, it's early, but we're, we're here. It's early doors. Things could go left pretty quick. Same. Yeah.

It's still early. Um, but we're here. We're going to be realistic. Um, for realistic times. Exactly. We are going to put our differences aside. Here's hear you. Um, we see you, you uh we apologize to you um so we're gonna

like the 13 drew barrymore apologies for yeah over the weekend uh that ultimately led her on a wandering path to arrive at the right decision talk Talk about Lauren Boebert. Talk about fucking, what's his name? Russell Brand. Piece of shit. Autoworker Strike. Trump on the press. All that. Plenty more. But first, Miles, we like to let

the listeners get to know us a little bit better and tell them something that we think is underrated or overrated um you want to you want to kick us off with an underrated stanzo brand fedoras um aka something i think is underrated is fucking tapping like tap pay for shit tapping pay for tapping paying for shit the ability to contactless Apple pay

Android pay yeah just tap it in you know what I mean or just like if you got that credit like I think most debit and credit cards have the little three like line thing where it's like just tap it on baby um they were a little bit more specific about where to tap

in some in some cases sometimes it was kind of vague yeah sometimes i've looked like an absolute buffoon uh like doing the underside and like just young checkout people have been like fam dude like on the screen where like the logo says like has the logo that matches with your card i'm like yeah right right right right right for the longest time i was always just you know doing the sliding or screen where like the logo says like has the logo that matches with your card i'm like yeah right right right right right for the longest time i was always just you know doing the sliding or putting the chip in and i i don't know why recently i've just embraced tapping more or using the phone and it is really underrated how much it takes you out of the act for paying for goods um like it used to be this process like i would dig in my wallet i will watch the number of like paper money bills begin to dwindle as i

bought shit throughout the day and that would have an effect on how i would spend money because you'll be like okay i had 60 in here and now it's 10 you'd check your wallet in the morning and say honey the paper money bills are dwindling they're dwindling what shall we do a little moth would fly out and but i think now like because we just tap or use a phone or whatever it's less if like mentally it's less about like what does this cost in relation to my money and more so is like does this shit have fucking apple pay or like can i double click my phone and wave it or wave my plastic rectangle at a thing and then pay for something so i think it is actually it's under is a brilliant way to keep consumers oh yeah

brilliant those thoughts you were having those realizations about how much money you actually had left and how much money was being spent at any given purchase those are called friction miles i don't like that slow you down from consumption and yes yes yes yes those are bad so it is good that we have invented a thing that soon enough we'll be able to purchase with our minds that will be the thing that we can... The way that we actually get telekinesis will only be used for being able to look at a thing and be like, purchased. I want paper towels now. Yes.

I am God. I have become God. Yes. But yeah, I think part of me wants to kind of go back to money but most places are like we're cash free and i'm like that's fucking backwards and also meant to you know obviously keep like poor people out because they're like oh you don't have this technology right then we can't take your money actually we don't even take stinky bills here yeah yeah i remember hearing that like in europe they were well on the like they were already tapping tapping tapping away and uh when people from like other countries would come here

they'd be like why are you guys still like swiping credit cards i know it's the 20th century they had that the chip reader thing going like i remember years before i'm like what the fuck is what is this newfangled technology here in europe yeah all right my underrated miles was going to be my overrated uh oh and then i so i'll take you on my journey so i i went to one of those instagram activation things like that are like, I like that you did it from such business speed. Like that's how like a company, one of those Instagram activations. Yeah.

Well that's, yeah, it's purely a, you know, like they, they usually pop up, they're like pop up museum exhibit type things. Right.

But they feel like if a museum exhibit was put on by the same people who do like local haunted houses right like that but a good one yeah yeah but like yeah pretty good one so the one i went to so i think what i experienced yesterday was kind of the lowest version of this. It was called Bubble World, which might lead you to believe that there were bubbles. Kids like bubbles. Love bubbles. There are no bubbles at Bubble World. What the fuck?

There are balloons. There is a giant ball pit. There are a bunch of different rooms with different experiences uh different lighting that are are highly photographable um they have put the least work into covering up the seams though like you look up and you see that you are in like they've put drywall walls in to like separate the rooms for purposes of instagram photographing um but they haven't like put a ceiling in and in fact like the air conditioning ducts are just like kind of draped from one room to the other um it's it's like pretty pretty rough in there it feels like they were charged with creating a museum exhibit and given like a two thousand dollar budget this all sounds terrible my kids i asked my kids this

morning and this is when it went from underrated or overrated to underrated I asked my kids like so what what do we think of the weekend like it was everyone's favorite part of the weekend right they were like oh death the bubbles man the bubble exhibit was

the best I went like my five year old literally said I wish it had never ended. Oh my god. It's... One of the rooms is just full of real big

weather balloon-sized balloons. You just walk through there and kick those. They bounce into other people, but it doesn't matter because they're balloons. Yeah, for sure. There's the biggest ball pit I've ever been in. Okay, so there were some superlatives attached.

You could say it is the biggest ball pit you've ever been in? Yes, I think that's definitely the biggest ball pit I've ever been in. Okay, so they got something over there, Bubble World. They got something. It's not clear how it ties into bubbles and then you you can purchase a bubble tea uh ahead of time that will be there for you uh miles the bubble tea is criminal it is in a big like purple can that looks like a monster energy drink. And it

was old. Oh, it's canned? Yeah, it was canned bubble tea. Oh, no, we don't do that. And they were like, no, we don't got straws. Just drink it. Take it to the dome. How do I open it? Oh, you don't have a can opener? Yeah, it's in one of those old-timey

cans. You're real prepared. But I don't know a can opener? Yeah, it's in one of those old-timey cans. You're real prepared. I don't know. These things are something. I don't know if they're overrated. I don't know if they're underrated. I feel like they are the most of this moment. Things, they didn't exist

when I was a kid. I kind of wish they did. Now, seeing it through my kids eyes like you know haunted houses were some of my favorite memories as a kid like i didn't notice the like the guy in the wolfman mask with a chainsaw was like mixing chainsaws with wolfman right right right it was a little bit drunk and they're a great opportunity to take cute pictures of your kids i'm my mainly i'm driven by cuteness i want i want cuteness in my life they've mashed it i mean before we're talking about like growing up in la

it was like fucking three things you could do as a kid like in the late 80s like you would go to travel town in griffith park where you just A train yard. Look at old ass trains. They didn't move. They just fucking were there and you could look inside. There was one little tiny railroad that would go around and then you would buy a injection molded plastic toy that you could make on demand from a

gigantic machine that smelled like wild fumes. And then you could go to the Brea Tar Pits or the zoo or the kids museum and that was about it and like now i love that they're like they know that they can get people to just spend money they're like dude this shit lights up your kids just run around look it's 48 bucks is it worth it to you you're like it's too expensive like you time would be better spent in nature for sure it is bleak in there but it's

bleak in a way that i think is appropriate right says important things about our time and our moment right right right the new york times like wrote an article about these like there's like a rose something the rose experience there's like refinery 29 had like a quote-unquote art installation that was like called 29 rooms that sounded like it sucked shit um but they you know like they have these high-minded claims of like pop mysticism like when we arrived at the bubble thing they were like and the bubble is the perfect shape and like you were always going to come here regardless like your fate was going to bring uh and like you you it's a great blend of like all the bullshit on instagram the weirdness

of our just like cultural moment um and also just like fun fun for kids but right it is bleak it's dark in there but you i i think it's important that everybody go and like stare into the dark void at the heart of our of our yeah so i recommend it it's like an escalation on the r like the way that like cannibalism or capitalism finds a way to become like yeah finds a way to just sort of find like a dead dying host and then like keep making money off of it like yeah back in our day a bank would go out of business and that became the halloween store that's right now the grocery store goes out of business and now it's bubble world that you can go into time and time and time again

and we're not going to have to pay that much to turn this old spooky market. They rebranded it as the Los Angeles Art Center. It's what this burnt out Ralph says. It's the Los Angeles Art Center where you can go see the Van Gogh projection thing. You can go see a dinosaur puppet show or you can go see the van gogh projection thing you can go see like a dinosaur puppet show or you can go to bubble world those those those that company's killing it because

like they're everywhere now they're like yeah man we just kind of license it and then we just do like our 3d light shows in cities across the world now yeah yeah exactly so i don't know it's the world now yeah yeah exactly so i don't know it's my kids seem to enjoy it uh and i i think everybody i i'm just curious like it do are other people experiencing this what are your thoughts on it like i i get the cultural criticism of it like but as long as you just take it as like a haunted house level attraction. I feel like, uh, and, and,

you know, as long as you don't mind spending way too much money. Yeah. This isn't something that's turning the art world on its ear. No, I guess that, yeah. Museum of ice cream is one,

uh, yeah, right. That's another color factory in New York, but coming soon to a Cream is one. Yeah, right. That's another one. Color Factory in New York. Coming soon to a town near you. They're dark. It's like little pieces of Las Vegas is what it feels like. Yeah, right.

Because these are very Vegas type things where you're like, I don't know, in between binge drinking at a blackjack table, take your kids to the ball pit where you can probably get I don't know, some kind of illness from touching the plastic balls that are not cleaned. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see if my family survives from being in this ball pit from over the weekend with air just haphazardly

piped from one location to another. Because if we do, then, then we're rebranding to MRSA world, not bubble world. That's right. So my overrated instead is just like,

I guess the structural integrity of raspberries. I always, I expect them to like hold together better than they do. And then I rinse them and I get like just raspberry confetti stuck in my strainer instead of uh some delicious what kind of using like a sort of like a bigger kind of strainer like with like like big stainless kind that kind of creates like a million little razor blade holes yeah i use all different ones they just can't even find mesh the fine mesh that's also coming apart? Fine mesh works. The plastic with a few holes, not that much. But it's always leaving a little bit of meat behind, huh?

By the way, do you eat popcorn? When you pop popcorn at home, do you eat it out of a colander? No. Okay. I don't eat popcorn at home. Oh, okay. Yeah. You looked at me like I'm a fucking monster.

That's disgusting. That's disgusting. Yeah. You looked at me like I'm a fucking monster. That's disgusting. That's disgusting, man. You know why? I think the reason is, too, we didn't have a microwave growing up until I was like 14. Okay. So early on, I remember in the 80s, my fucking dad inherited some fucking wild ass popcorn making machine that took way too long. And it tasted,

tasted nothing like the movie theater. So I was like, man, fuck this. And then I remember going to like other kids' houses. They would do the microwave popcorn. I'm like, this shit is fucking amazing.

But then I didn't have it at home. And then by that point, I was just eating Tyson frozen chicken patties, like teriyaki flavored. That was my thing. I kept eating out of a microwave. So we had a movie night the other night and I put the popcorn for the kids in a colander. And like we had some friends over and they were like, this is fun. Why are you putting it in a colander instead of a big bowl?

And I was like i don't know that's always what we did like when i was growing up we never ate it out of a big bowl it was always the colander i wonder because the colander won't break or like if you have like a ceramic bowl because i remember we had a ceramic bowl and i was like put it in the bowl and i do i do have a memory of maybe eating it out of a colander or something or like a stainless steel bowl be like no because i can't trust you to hold a fucking big ass bowl right yeah it might be that um anyways you got a you got an overrated yeah overrated uh what the fuck was oh man folding fucking i'm sorry this is turned into a dad cast over here folding tiny ass baby clothes man hermassy and i we used to

fucking fold these shits like we were auditioning to work at like abercrombie you know what i mean like just fucking oh yeah and put that there with this side and then you know and every it's funny every parent told us that like who would like look at they're like oh look at you folding the shit they're like see how long that shit lasts go ahead let me see let me come back in a few months to see if you aren't just fucking balling it up balling it up yeah and now like it's slowly devolving into now do like a half a fold but it ain't it's it's not like how it used to be um so it's it's it's all in the name of efficiency i've realized in the beginning the all the aesthetic part is all kind of part of the excitement and then you move into the sort of practical phase of parenting where you're like i this i do not need to fold up a shirt that is

smaller than my fucking hand yeah exactly it's like you you need like a one of those head head lamps and like a jeweler's loop to like fold some of these kids clothes like yeah fold the socks for a baby it's like oh man the disrespect of the socks the socks to the point we don't even fucking wear socks i'm like man i'm like anti-sock because yeah i think the fun of having a baby out is like a little baby's feet yeah they're the little baby feet you know i mean sometimes but yeah but but it's been the summer the whole time you know what i mean so like we're they're the little baby feet you know i mean sometimes but yeah but but it's been the summer the whole time you know what i mean so like we're we're only now moving into like i guess the time of the year where you would think of things like the air temperature being a little

too cold for baby feet yeah but i think shoes are up in one of those little sleeping bag things exactly shoes look stupid right now to me i I love shoes. Yeah. Baby shoes. Yeah. I mean, shout out to my boy, Ro, who got me little Jordans for the guy's child. And I put them on a few times. But then other times, we have these other shoes, and I'm like, man,

you don't even walk. So it's just like costumey. Yeah. Let's breathe the baby feet. Whenever you're going shopping for baby shoes, people are always trying to tell you heartbreaking six-word-long stories while selling them to you. Yeah, right.

I'm like, I don't care if they're lightly used, fam. I'm off that. That sounds spooky. Yeah. By the way, I had so many baby shoes to sell lightly used because babies grow out of their shoes really quickly.

I guess the story is never used. I have baby shoes to sell lately used because babies grow out of their shoes really quickly yeah half of the story is never i have baby shoes exactly never used yeah hit me up i got nike hirachis that i thought man i bought them like a like the moment i found out we were we were having a kid i was like i got the same shit you know what i mean yeah then cut to you're like man this i feel like this babe this looks stupid and it's like too much weight on my little baby's leg for people to wear shoes so anyway yeah that's me all right let's take a quick break and we'll be right back to talk about some Hello, everyone. I am Lacey Lamar. And I'm Amber Ruffin, a better Lacey Lamar. Boo. Okay, everybody, we have exciting news to share.

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being loud, just being enthusiastic, really enjoying the show, enjoying the show too much. I hadn't heard that her spokesperson had come back and vehemently denied the vaping allegation and said instead that people were confused because there was a fog machine that was part of the show. That happened to just blow

a plume right next to one person's head. Anyways, over the weekend, it turns out theaters have unnervingly good security footage. Oh my god. For real. Were like planning on using

this for like one of those commercials where they're like audiences can't stop enjoying you know like how the fuck was this footage so good it's creepy as fuck why are you guys watching us so closely they cut the fucking wild ass groping you The audiences love it. They can't contain themselves in Beetlejuice. They're like, wow. That's a full on smear campaign down there. But I mean, it really was interesting to see

how it went from, we saw her getting kicked out. And it was almost like maybe they were trying to fuck with the Bobert people to be like, look, we have video of y'all getting kicked out out you want us to go a step further okay here's a video from inside the theater of y'all getting kicked out you want us to go a step further here's a video of you vaping in the show and doing just uh getting really sexually active you know doing your thing apparently in the middle of beetlejujuice, which apparently has a,

like a, by the, like, there's like a Broadway musical, like advocacy group. They say the Beetlejuice, uh, musical is good for children 10 and up.

So presumably, uh, in a theater full of children, uh, they engaged in, I guess what could be described as mutual groping. Um, or as I would put it he was remodeling

her upstairs and she was remodeling his downstairs during the show life over the pants handy yeah yeah yeah there was a lot of frantic movement and it turns out that not only did she vape but we also

found out that her boyfriend not only is is he a democrat bar owner that of a bar that hosts drag shows but he's also not licensed to perform mammograms in dimly lit theaters so there's a lot of uh revelations that yeah i mean she so she has continuously railed against drag queens reading to children accusing them of sexualizing kids and you know so the hypocrisy on display of her giving her boyfriend a fleeting

over the pants handjob in the middle of a family musical is not great for her more on brand for I um more on on brand for or i guess maybe less on brand uh is that i guess i guess we'll go with more on brand uh for republicans is the not giving a shit about uh the rights of pregnant women because uh she was apparently vaping right in front of a pregnant woman who asked Bobert to stop vaping inside the theater. And she refused to do it.

Um, so yeah, yeah, you know, that's, you know, exactly. Just,

that's fine, man. You know what? The baby will grow stronger with this tiger blood vape juice. Cause this shit is bomb pierce mother right i bless your child in the name of the vape god that's uh yeah it's it's i mean again the hypocrisy is the point and it is their thing because it's never about what they're saying it's about again they just want to create a world that is violent towards people that are not like

sort of cisgendered hetero christian people so they got to say all this shit not because they actually give a fuck about kids or this that and the other so you know it is what it is i mean the backlash is not much as again as you as you'd expect ann coulter called her a bimbo. Megan McCain called her trash. And Boebert issued like a non-apology where she said she fell short and didn't want to blame it all on 9-11. But things have been tough since 9-11. And also, she said, with a very public divorce of her ex, who, if you don't know,

he exposed his pee-pee at a bowling alley i believe in previous years and also met more i didn't yeah met her when she was 16 and he was 22 that's when that love affair started um but they swear they did nothing until she was 17 which is the age of legal consent in colorado so stop asking questions stop being weird everyone stop being weird okay we know how to keep our hands to ourselves yeah i do feel like like part of the reason this video is has gone so viral is because like she is scantily clad and you know being that it there does feel like there's like an uncomfortable level of voyeurism in this one just oh yeah saying like people who like all right we we had our fun but

people who are still like posting about this like five days later being like look look right here you can see it's like look what's that move called like i don't know i think it should be more that like this person is unfit for to serve in office but we knew that before the vaping and you know unlicensed performance of a browser's video yeah in like a theater so truly like some performative uh just obnoxiousness that is almost impressive it's like cape the scene in cape fear like yeah right super producer victor called that he was like she's she's giving robert de niro and cape fear that's not something you want to be no ever ever being an asshole on purpose yeah that is who you are reminding us of right now yeah um all right well. Well, let's move on to Drew Barrymore.

People, this is kind of fun. Okay. It feels like there has been a change in how the public feels about unions. Oh, yeah. And the powers that be repeatedly are not ready for that, uh, change in how people feel about unions. And so they pull shit,

like trying to bring shows back, even though there's a strike on and, you know, they're like, and this happened, I guess, back in 2008, like Jay Leno actually brought a show back.

Um, some of these daytime shows actually brought their shows back during the strike. And I mean, mostly got away with it. Like I still thought Jay Leno was super cool up until I heard that recently. Um,

but, uh, it's not changing my opinion of him. Yeah. So Drew Barrymore brought her show back and then has faced swift backlash from people who are like, what's your fucking problem, man?

That does feel like the kind of shit people were saying. You're like, Hey, what's your fucking problem? Like, what's your fucking deal? You're very more. It's your major malfunction.

Um, so she posted an apology video. Like she just, she tried so hard to find the words uh you know in a way that makes it clear like she could really use some writers uh but find the magic words that would make her actions okay while still allowing her to have her show back. And she just never quite got there. No. Even in the four minutes and five seconds it took.

So we'll jump around and maybe hear the same thing being said over and over again. But here's Drew. I believe there's nothing I can do or say in this moment to make it okay. Cellar door. I wanted to own a decision so that it wasn't a PR protected situation. cellar door girl your teleprompter is too far off the eyeline for the camera and I would just take full responsibility for my actions

oh my god I know there's just nothing I can do that will make this okay oh there is yeah you're actually about to do it pull oh you're yep you're good hold on now you're on your way to something okay this is 30 seconds ahead just want everyone to know my intentions i've never been in a place to break a strike uh where people are trying to advocate for their own well-being well okay to be complicit in the crushing of labor and

the work uh force that has made my career possible uh let's jump ahead 20 seconds i don't exactly know what to say because sometimes who is is she talking to? The camera? Well, she's clearly has... She's doing the thing where she's reading off her laptop, but she couldn't... For whatever reason, there must be a slip of paper just off to the side, but beyond. Yeah.

I've also been in meetings where older people are doing this, and I think sometimes there's like the prompt like not the prompt or necessary but like their image of themselves is over to that side. Yeah they keep looking yeah they look at their checking both. So they're looking at themselves even though the camera is over on this side or

she's reading a statement and just. Because the angle yeah the angle because the other thing is sometimes people have a webcam that's completely off away from where their computer screen is so like everything's happening on one screen and you almost kind of look to the camera so you're like oh hi i'm acknowledging you but this it looks like a laptop setup and she doesn't strike me as someone with like a matrix style multi-screen setup um so anyway uh there's that let's skip ahead another 20 seconds i'll just stand out there and accept and be responsible

good good good and there's a huge question of the why why am i that's not what we care about no all right let's go ahead 20 seconds maybe are you going to keep doing it scales and i thought if we could go on during a global pandemic this is my part and everything that the world has experienced through 2020 why would this sideline us a strike it's a strike it's a labor action i want to just put one foot in front of the other and make a show that's there for people regardless of anything else that's happening in the world i'm sorry drew did you think your show was that oh all right well this is this i just wanted to make a show that was there for people in sensitive times.

And I weighed the scale. And I thought, if we could go on during a global pandemic and everything that the world has experienced through 2020, why would this sideline us? So I want to just put one foot in front of the other and make a show that's there for people, regardless of anything that's happening in the world because that's when i think we all need something that wants to be there for being very realistic in very realistic times so that is my why um oh okay now i get it did she end that by saying here did she end that by saying i'm not going to make the show or she was just saying sorry that video was just saying sorry no this was like one of a series of shows where she was looking for the magic words they were going to make it better um each one people were like shut the fuck up like what are you talking about just just quit and then on sunday she announced she was going to pause the

show's premiere until the strike is over. All right. So she finally made the right call. There's nothing I can do to... Yeah, no, you just did it. We're good. Yeah. Okay, good. We'll keep an eye on you, but that's...

Yeah, and then Bill Maher did the same shit. Yeah, and then Bill Maher did the same shit. He's going to suspend his plans to bring his show back, presumably after he, you know, did a run through and was just like, yeah. No, is he really? Really? Are we really? Yeah, I think so.

That's what, it's an alert that just came across as we were recording. Oh, wow. what it's an alert that just came across as a recording oh reporter bill maher holds off on real-time return as wga talks set to resume there you go bill to mar indeed he's he thinks actually oh the the talks are set to resume so we'll wait and see if their zany demands get met. I love, again, the likening of a global pandemic that's still raging on and comparing that to a writer's strike, too, where it's like

this writer's strike is like the new COVID. Meaningless, nothing we could do about it, has nothing to do with us. And it's so unfair to people, you know what I mean that I just wanted to provide like some glimmer of hope while these greedy monsters

you know split hairs over wages right yeah oh well I wasn't expecting Bill so is he gonna do a no he's not gonna apologize no he's going to do a monologue when the show's finally back

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And we're back. We are back. And Russell Brand has been accused of rape and has swiftly been defended by a who's who of people who, when they're defending you, you know you're probably wrong yeah yeah i saw there's like a very yeah like there was at the sunday times and there was like even like a documentary video piece i saw over the weekend yeah the sunday times the times and uh channel four uh have been looking into this for a while. And, you know,

the allegations, the details are really horrifying. Uh, one of the victims was just 16 at the time, uh, while he was in his thirties. Uh, and he allegedly nicknamed her the child,

asked her to read passages from the novel Lolita during their time together. Uh, once kissed her mother on the mouth and you know another person he sexually assaulted he then threatened to take legal action if she ever spoke about the incident publicly so um all allegedly of course but right and uh and who was what Voltron of cool upstanding men came to his aid? You got your Elon Musk. You got your Tucker Carlson. And of course, you got Andrew Tate all coming through.

Did Andrew Tate say it was the Matrix coming from? I think that's what he's been saying about this is what happens when you call out the Matrix. It comes for you. It's like being charged with murder and having OJ and the one-armed man from The Fugitive.

Hey, don't judge too swiftly. Let's hear him out. But Alex Jones is like, it's because he's come out against globalists because he like started embracing anti-vax shit during dude yeah

that right word tack from Russell Brand recently has been really fun to watch yeah and by that more like this guy's still around and also oh he's doing this kind of material now so what's going on things going well he he's the easter bunny and hop that's his voice is the easter bunny and hop

um how recent is that movie for someone who's ignorant too recent i think i don't i don't know yeah you know it's him and james marsden a two-hander between him and Marsden. But he claims he's the victim of a coordinated attack by the mainstream media. 2011. 2011, yeah. So he was deemed the best voice for a children's movie. And his personality is the... Well, people love this thing he was doing when he first came out. They're like, he's like Jack Sparrow, but the real life guy.

Real person Jack Sparrow. Yeah. Who wears tiny pants and is sexy. Yeah. It's like a cartoonish version of what it was to be a rock star back when those were still what those still existed is like mick jagger ish um but like that's what the the fucked up thing is like he was like i was merely very very promiscuous and my relationships were always consensual so he's like leaning it he's like weaponizing his

persona to be like that's all this is which is fucked up and you know he seems like he's using a character that he built his career on

was using it to be like a sexual predator and abuser. Right. Which, uh, the one conspiracy involving Russell brand that I do think is interesting was the one on our low stakes conspiracy theories from eight months ago that said Russell brand is moving to the right so that when the accusations finally come

out, he can claim it's a witch hunt. Oh, wow. They called that one from fucking outer space. Yeah. I mean, it makes it... When you go into that sort of media atmosphere,

that's precisely the one you want to be in because it's all predicated on not believing women or victims or anything. Yeah. This guy? Who's fucking hilarious? No. Let's see. So the United Auto Workers

are continuing to strike through the weekend. Negotiations are ongoing. But there's this Politico article that was all about how how this is the republicans chance to like actually side with union workers and labor or like it was all like very performative it was like this is their chance to seem like they're sympathizing with them although we know republicans will never actually side with labor uh because yeah and and so one of the key points of the strike is that electronic vehicles uh can be made by non-union workers right because you we we like

ramped into making evs during a time of like very weak unions and immense capital power over the last you know 10 15 years and so the easy answer is for the democrats in power to end that loophole and tell companies they need to like make all automakers you know part of the union uh but that option obviously isn't even mentioned or they could end the loophole that like the workers are bringing up that is like the main point so like yeah the the republicans are like what about this so they're they're basically weaponizing the fact that evs ev workers are treated like shit to be like well evs are bad then and like we need to go back to like making gas powered automobiles because those are union protected right um and it's it's just a wild article to read because there's no mention, no idea that either side can exercise the political power to make auto companies do their thing.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I loved your... Look, I loved someone editing this piece. I love the article. I love what you wrote about it, except for the part when you're saying that there's something that corporations could do to somehow make things easier, or that maybe some of the regulations need to be in that direction. Let's avoid any talk of that. Let's be realistic, Miles. Any action that the corporation Could take to make this better Because they don't we know they can't do that And we don't want to just

Look Evie bad Evie's bad Republicans here's your chance Yeah exactly And then Donald Trump went on meet the press Yeah on Sunday You know He's getting his at baths in the media

To say whatever the fuck he wants Yeah with Kristen Welker Who took over and you know he's good yeah he's getting his at-bats in the media to say whatever the fuck he wants yeah with uh kristin welker who took over and you know she she definitely pushed back on a lot of his answers but this a lot a lot it was made of this interview mostly for the fact that it just looks like we're sleepwalking into another 2016 in terms of covering trump where it's like don't talk about you don't need like what else needs to be known here um because we know that this guy's behavior is beyond the fucking pale but it's just like why are we now doing the thing where he's gonna go on tv he's like i went on msnbc he's gonna lie the people that follow him they're only gonna see him do lies on camera and not the part where he's getting checked and and even if they did see those

parts where kristen welker is pushing back they will use some combination of misogyny and racism to do maga alchemy on their own brain and be like, yeah, I didn't see nothing. And then for regular viewers of MSNBC, their minds are made up too. So this like platforming for platforming sake is just a really bad strategy going into the next election, but we get

it. It's all about fucking ratings and shit like that. And there have been a lot. Dude, there are a lot of pieces over the weekend being like, why is everybody attacking joel biden and not donald trump and it's like well people most people are have their minds made up about trump but wait what are you saying about joel biden and like a lot of it was being like they're calling him old and the mainstream media is not doing a good job of showcasing his accomplishments. And like, while I get that record, low unemployment is cool on paper. And it looks like we're avoiding a recession is a great talking point.

It's not, it's not, we say this all the time. It's not a metric that resonates with the everyday voter that is needed to win an election. And like, there is so much like banging of the heads against the wall from like the pundit class i'm like why don't they get it through their skulls that this shit is good this shit is objectively good and again they're not focusing on the things that actually make people feel like things are going well like is health care affordable is housing affordable do parents feel safe sending their kids to places that could potentially become scenes of like immense violence and tragedy is higher education

attainable without going into severe debt because the answer is no to a lot of these things and that's what normal like they're just so caught up in speaking their own language of policy and finance that they don't realize that this shit goes over people's heads and you know it's like it's like they all they felt was like going to 2024 we just need to be able to say record low employment we got inflation under control and like he's gonna walk right in he's just walk right back into the white house but you're not addressing these actual things that are experiential for people like we were just talking about the child fucking tax credit. Yeah.

Like that was helping keep the fucking, like half the child poverty rate. They let that shit lapse and went poof. And that could have been an easy win, but no. So it's shit like that. But yeah, keep yelling at people about why they're dumb for not knowing about like record low unemployment. Okay, but how many jobs do you need to be able to afford rent in any metropolitan area right now? Right. Exactly.

All right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday morning. Yeah. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy.

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