The Daily Zeitgeist - The WeekTrend Update 10/2: Diane Feinstein, Tupac, NYC Floods, Trump Shark, Trumpdictment, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Tom Hanks

Episode Date: October 2, 2023

In this edition of The WeekTrend Update, Jack and Miles discuss the passing of Diane Feinstein, the cops finally solving Tupac's murder (by watching a documentary), flooding in NYC, Trump's shark-tinged electric vehicle rant, a Trumpdictment update, the Sarah Huckabee Sanders lectern scandal, and the Tom Hanks/dental plan commercial!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's Monday This is the one where we talk about the weekend We talk about what happened over the weekend I am Jack That is Miles How was your weekend man? It was great I went to a one year old's birthday party

I went to a baby shower I What else did I do? I went to a one-year-old's birthday party. I went to a baby shower. What else did I do? I went to a community event, like a community picnic thing. It was slated to start from 11 and go till 6. And we're like, oh, okay, we can show up around 4 or whatever. We showed up so late that it was comically late. Nothing was happening. was hot like it was dead and we're like oh we completely fucked this up um but anyway just just learning cleanup crew yeah yeah yeah truly and like the like the like local sheriff's department

display that was like okay i guess we're gonna pack this up they're like there's some potato salad left i'm like okay did you get one of those stickers the badge stickers that they give out the cop no no they were my baby's first copaganda yo did you do you get those for your kid at yeah anytime there's like a public you know per or you know carnival or something like that and there's a cop there yeah the cops make a b line for the little boys and they're like hey you want a little you want a badge sticker right and then you teach your kids to say are you going to be like a cab a cab a cab get the fuck out of here oh hey what what do we say to police or what do we ask police when they ask you questions you say are you an

upholder of white supremacy and oppression and they're're like, what kid? Here, just nevermind. Take this pencil instead. But yeah, how was yours? Good? Blessed? Yeah, it was good. It was good. We have a friend in town who is one of my wife's friends who plays the ukulele and like plays

bedtime songs for my kids. And it's really lovely. Oh, is that why you were asking how easy it is to play ukulele yeah yeah how easy wailing on that thing you're like dad learned a little couple numbers too last night kids just start crying because it's so bad um yeah man shout out the ukulele spent a lot of time on a local college campus you were ucla college oh you're out west yeah just hanging out just seeing the sights you know are you uh no uh our seven-year-old is like involved in some courses there and oh okay all right we're there for like five five hours uh hanging out so i was uh walking the kid like one of them's just like his you know he's into chess

and so like for two hours he's like doing this chess thing and oh you're just killing some time just wandering the ucla campus listening to the book that we're talking about in our expert episode oh yeah yeah survival of the richest survival of the richest um if y'all want to go check it out early yeah and maybe you already have maybe already up on it yeah but it's uh yeah so i don't know but what a campus man holy shit what a campus what a campus brother i was so not focused on anything to remember being on that campus it's a bit of a tragedy i know you could have walked those you could have walked those same paths i did while smoking a cigarette covered in hash oil and security would ask me hey hey what are you doing i got nothing it was this guy it was this guy um yeah a lot of you know i was also smoking a lot of

ripping a lot of cigarettes and was told multiple times ucla is a tobacco free campus oh is it now yeah yeah wow lots changed since aught seven when i graduated yeah man yeah you could you used to be able to walk around ripping ripping a camel. Oh, yeah. Just suck one down outside of Royce Hall. Fucking amazing. Oh, that was one thing I meant to look up because I kept seeing people retweeting images of cigarette night from Disneyland,

and I couldn't tell if it was real or not. What the fuck is cigarette night? Like a night for cigarettes? Yeah, it was like in these like art installations or like little you know features that would have various characters swimming through cigarettes or like you know enjoying cigarettes i'm assuming it was a bit but oh wow dude i just googled it and there are so many articles is it real like what the real truth about it? And they say it's not real, but not real. Damn.

All right. Yeah. 50s were a crazy time. I mean, there were real commercials with Fred Flintstone talking about how smooth camel cigarettes were, or actually I think it was like Winston. Of course.

Yeah. They had to be. Yeah. Had to. Anyways, should we tell the people what people what's something that we think are overrated underrated yeah yeah um is there is there something you're you're itching to get off here sure because we were talking about last episode and when they were on dr john was talking

about appalachia ego appalachian brunch brunch in a jar, sipping cream And I vowed, I said I am going to find this shit John was like You're not finding that shit locally Like you have to order it Watch this, I'm gonna go to three places And then after that I will call it quits

The way I could not find this shit And also how confounded people were at various liquor stores and alcohol you know purveyors of alcohol like nobody knew what the fuck what fucking time it was and that seems appropriate to me to be absolutely that's that is them practicing uh appropriate boundaries with the world of consumerism. Yeah. But they're like, yeah,

ego didn't have to go meta on the alcohol like that. Yeah. And like when I said it, like, I think some people thought I was probably having a stroke because they were so confused by the combination of words. I kept repeating it. It seems like it's designed to have that effect to be like the strangest

combination of words that you almost right makes people think they need to 5150 you like yeah like ask like a right like a conspiracy theory you're trying to get out there in the world but when you say it out loud you're like yeah all right buddy let's uh here's here's your let's why don't we have a sedative and lay down over here yeah but yeah they're like what i'm like it's appalachian sipping cream but it's eggo waffle brunch and they're like so what is it i'm like it's eggo alcohol they're like i've never heard of that yeah i'm like god damn it fine i've never heard of that and i don't think it should exist yeah and i was like yeah you know what credit to you uh because yeah i also had to

take a long look in the mirror and be like is this what it's come to but i when it does hit my local you better believe i'm gonna have a sip of that i do want to just correct you quickly it was actually my tweet that brought up appalachian sip and cream ego it was a tweet that i enjoyed somebody being like so sorry so sorry but i do want to give a shout out to Dr. John because when I brought that up they had already done the research and they were like actually you can't get it there so amazing work

it takes a community how about you my overrated that's what we're doing right the like I guess they're called rebuses where you do like a picture to represent a word. Oh, yeah. I worship satin.

Exactly. You, light bulb, up arrow. My wife. But then with a minus for the W and plus L. Dude, the way I watched your hard drive trying to figure out my... My wife.

There we go. But, yeah, they've been... I don't know. I've been seeing them more lately on Twitter and my brain is not capable of turning off the desire to solve them and just not trying to figure it out. And then when I do,

they are never worth it. Hold on one second. I rolled over my headphone cable and I can't get up. One second. World, folks. What the fuck? I can't not... My brain is not able to not just try and immediately start solving them. Yeah.

They're never rewarding. The one that I think I've seen a number of times is like, well, damn, Jackie, I can't control the weather. It's like,

her, I'm cold. Me, well, damn, Jackie, I can't control the weather. Which is a quote from that 70s show like cool oh that's like that's like kelso talking to jackie yeah jackie yeah to who is he referring to jackie yeah yeah um which i i don't know like were people quoting that 70s show to one another? I never did. Probably like a very specific. I mean, shit, I was quoting Full House when I was a kid.

Yeah, right, right, right. It's just however, if you were 8 to 12, that shit probably seemed hilarious. But this other one you posted is infuriating. Yeah. you posted is infuriating yeah last night i and then it's like a outline of a state bitcoin some emoji laughing emoji dog face osu laugh puppy your sister and i guess that one is like a joke about these being stupid oh damn well then i'm even dumber. Fucks me up, man. I spent way too much time being like... Chrome Terminator skull giggle your sister basketball? Yeah.

I spent 15 minutes yesterday just looking at my phone, giving myself a pep talk. Being like, come on, man. You can figure this out. While trying to learn ukulele. Do you remember that 80s... There was like an 80s game show that was all only these? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Rebuy? Is it Rebus's or Rebuy? It's Rebuzz McIntyre's. Rebuzz. Rebus McIntyre, I think is the. Right. Rebuzz McIntyre when pluralized is like Attorney's General. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. You know, I mean, yeah, yeah i guess i don't know is this like a thing where like younger people on the internet were like oh whoa we can do some shit like this and then just fuck with the elderly's need to solve puzzles they're spending so much time doesn't mean shit he's so mad um anyway stop it you kids you damn kids although I mean the person who spent the time to you know crudely photoshop together

a that 70s show reference probably isn't that young hey you never know you never know how much the office is loved by Gen Z that's right what's something you think is underrated underrated underrated

employees at kids toy stores so i was at the mall and i went there's like this kind of like high-end kids toy store that's got like quasi playground vibes in there like there's like shit to like run on but then there's like obviously toys for the kids to play with there's like a slime station and shit and the way parents were just letting their kids loose and then ignore the fucking chaos that would ensue yeah was like like it truly felt like parents are like i'm gonna stand at the door you go in there and then i'm gonna go on my phone while you're the employees problems right because kids were doing like razor scooter races like through the fucking store i got the geist child like on me and like i'm like trying to be like hey i'm trying to show my baby a soccer ball got that thing on you yeah yeah i got that thing on me and i was

trying to just let the kids know i was like yay i mean i didn't i never intervened but like in my mind i'm like god damn this shit is fucking wild in here and it was just like the enthusiasm of these employees i was like man bless y'all for like you must really like work at them i'm hopefully yeah yeah yeah because like the patience that they were exercising i was like couldn't be me couldn't be me and i used to work in a very like child-filled environment in high school when i used to do like why used to work at laser tag place and do kids birthday parties all the time like i was like the birthday host for kid the way my patients like the second i got through that break room door and my whole fucking energy shifted to like cynical like stoner kid versus like outgoing party guy oh man it couldn't happen

sooner so shout out to the people that work there i i see you being exercising a level of patience that um you know i i've i've never seen it's felt superhuman uh and to the parents that were just treating that place like a fucking like just like a spot yeah yeah i'm like come on now like engage with your kids but hey maybe i'll get to that level as a parent too i'm like yeah man i fucking just i just i just like just push the fucking stroller in there and i fucking turn my back yeah i had one day of like being a child care like professional um when i was in my 20s like you know in college i was working at a fitness club at the front desk just like scanning people's cards and

then there was a day where they were understaffed in the kids section oh and so i'd like go in there and i just remember there being a kid who was like a little too old who asked me to like go into the bathroom with him and like check his butt you know um for like wiping yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and i was just like yeah that's this is not for me man now you got this you got this i think is how i dealt with that how old are you 15 man um yeah you know i i'm gonna go i think i need to go wipe down some machines, man. That's right. Sounds like a YP. Sounds like a YP. Your parents' problem. YPP. I am down with YPP.

My underrated is the pickup line from The Golden Bachelor that Super Producer Anna Hosnier shared with us. Shall we play it? Yeah, I think we should play it. It's just a great execution of somebody

veteran work here. Yeah, there's an ancient wisdom about this pickup line. So the Golden Bachelor, if you missed the episode with Super Producer Anna, is the first Bachelor that is about people in their 60s, 70s so forth i'm sandra

from atlanta good to meet you i'm awfully nervous you know what i do when i get nervous i have this zin practice so i'm going to do that right now if you don't mind yeah okay i'll take a couple of breaths there you go and then he joins in with the fuck okay i feel better how about you very therapeutic quick in and out to the point she had a plan uh leave it leave them laughing leave them laughing i mean it also works i've been doing it ever since i uh saw that, just a little. Fuck. I guess I've been doing it my whole life. Is it the word fuck you think?

It's one of the more powerful words in my mind. Just from a lifetime of it being a taboo word. It has that hard consonance at the end. Right. Fuck.

Fuck. Fuck didn't get where it is by accident fuck is a pretty brilliant word yeah yeah it's one of the best but yeah now i do need to start watching the show because it is a level of just you know i feel like we can learn from these people lifelong oh yeah veteran uh experience of you know uh acknowledge your nervousness up front when you're feeling nervous turn it into an opportunity yeah and it also you know gives it gives you a chance to bond uh and then just solidify solidified herself as a real one right away. Yeah. I don't know. You love to see it. Show's got it all.

You do love to see it. Yeah. All right. Should we take a break and come back and talk about some news? Yeah. We'll be right back. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult.

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Listen to Señora Sex Ed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And Senator Dianne Feinstein passed Thursday night. We just missed it. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

Got in there right at the buzzer and then the weekend started. Yeah. She was 90 years old um and i think we were all thinking the same thing the last few years which is just please please resign please just finish your days out like with family rather than being paraded around like i don't again it's like the whole time i was thinking was like how much did she want to do this how much was she you know i'm sure people behind the scenes are like hey you don't got to do this but right i i don't know i it was all just kind of it was just gross especially the last couple months when we saw her like kind of come back to the senate and we're like this is not this is this isn't what we need to be doing uh ever uh when it comes

to employment let alone representing the interests of people who we need to be doing uh ever uh when it comes to employment let alone representing the interests of people who are going to be on this planet for a few years longer um so yeah this is kind of the interesting thing i think the biggest story around this too was also around gavin newsom because like earlier on he basically had said he's like i'm going to pick a black woman like i will name a black woman to the seat should diane feinstein leave before the end of her term um but then also at the same time was saying but i also like if anybody's like in the race i don't want to put like my thumb on the scale and tip the balance because at the time a lot of people were thinking

like oh okay barbara lee who fits the criteria of a black woman who would be fit for this post um like was like okay great but when she announced and then feinstein died people were like okay so is it going to be barbara because you were kind of in sort of implied that it could be her um and now it isn't quite the case uh barbara lee was also was sort of like not very interested on just like kind of like this like ceremonial interim appointment she said quote the idea that a black woman yeah she's like the idea that a black woman should be appointed only as a caretaker to simply check a box is insulting to countless black women across the country true and right fucking gavin newsom didn't have to say that shit like to so anyway but

he loves to qualify those kinds of things doesn't he um so yeah now uh you know the the what's even like really more ridiculous was just the fucking rumors that like yeah had been swirling to make it way worse uh the rumor mill uh yeah that newsom would pick megan markle um huh yeah you know i'm sorry she has firsthand experience going along with the farcical procedures of collapsed western empires is the only thinking that i can kind of identify in there and she and she famously moved to northern california yeah um probably hangs out with gavin newsom but oh yeah yeah yeah big big fans big fans uh but yeah then also like even like tmz was dubious because like obviously there's no i'm sure the daily mail is having like a bit of

racist tongue-in-cheek fun there um but then he actually did pick someone uh he's tapped lafonza butler who is the president of the you know pro-abortion group emily's list uh also like uh worked uh with kamala harris and was like the head of the california seiu um so she will also become like so like it's now been confirmed she will become the only black woman in the Senate and California's first openly LGBTQ plus senator. Yeah. So, yeah, we'll see. I guess Gavin dodged a bullet there. But like, yeah, at the same time, it just don't.

It's so weird when Democrats are like, and it's going to be a person of X group. Right. when democrats are like and it's going to be a person of x group right just don't say that and make it the person of that group because they are qualified and that's what people always anyone they want to take credit for it right yeah they want to steal the credit of course because it's no longer about the fact that barbara lee or lafonza butler Butler, they're wholly qualified for the role. It's like, but I'm the white person who is now shining the light upon the marginalized and oppressed. Therefore, I should be president one day. We'll see about that, Gavin.

All right. Well, Tupac Shakur, murder was solved finally this weekend by good old-fashioned you know just beating the pavement police were oh sorry no read reading a memoir it was solved by anyone who read a memoir someone who's been screaming this shit for the last fucking five years yeah so the press conference was pretty brutal with regards to the cops out here just like really feeling themselves uh like be like 27 years that's how the guy like opened it he was like 27 years 27 long years that the family of tupac shakur have been waiting without an answer. Well,

we've recently made an arrest. Um, they went through like the evidence that put the suspect at the scene of the crime or like involved them. And it's just, you know, the, he,

the person has been confessing to the murder for years, um, was the head of the rival gang of Suge Knight. Tupac and Suge had beaten up his nephew earlier that night. Like it was the thing that everybody, every Tupac documentary around it was like, and then it was this fight that led to the shooting. Yeah.

Like they go, they like showed the lobby video of Tupac and the death row group like beating up the suspect but like all these things that are like iconic to at this point yeah because i felt like it's weird because like a lot of for a long time people were pointing out about this dude keith d and how he was been saying like he's doing it and it just like i guess wasn't taken seriously because the cops never did anything because they're like i don't i guess he's just claiming that shit but you're like assuming that they well if he was really the killer like they would have done something by now right like and maybe did he also be like man i'm just saying this shit and they're not doing anything cares i might be the

oj of this whole fucking tupac thing Yeah. Like just getting away with murder and just being like, man, this is really weird. Right. Like he's like, the matrix, because this doesn't make any sense. I've just written a memoir where I confess in detail,

like, right. That he is, uh, in his memoir, he writes that he and his nephew and others had like gone armed themselves waited in the nightclub parking lot that tupac and suge were going to um hoping to confront them and then when they like didn't show up they decided to go back to their hotel and then saw Tupac and Suge Knight, like, stopped at a red light talking to fans.

Yeah. And as they sat in traffic, they, like, slowly rolled past the long line of luxury cars they had in their caravan, looking into each one until we pulled up to the front vehicle and found who we were seeking. Like, so he basically. Those are his own words. Yeah. Yeah, those are his own words yeah the the secondary shit that's happening now too or a pair i don't know like you know on the like black gossip sites it's all like and it's starting i don't know how many like

mainstream people picking up that he's like trying to implicate pd now oh he is yeah yeah again unfounded that's like just what people love to say because obviously at the heart of this was the East Coast, West Coast, bad boy, death row beef. But people were like, hey, man, he says, the rumors are saying he said, did he, he got a million dollars to do this shit. And now that he's in trouble, he's like, maybe, maybe has like a card up his sleeve.

But I, yeah, we'll see about that. Yeah, but it's so funny to watch the press conference and the cops are like, and at this time, we ascertained and have been looking into this heretofore using police language, and they never, it could have been a five-minute press conference where they're like, yeah, he confessed to the killing in a book that came out in 2019.

So if you're wondering like why now we like read that book, took us a while. Uh, we finally read the book. We did a raid on his property, found some evidence that would be admissible in court. And that's, and here we are.

But instead it's like all you know police talk and bravura uh yeah i love the energy of like the the police doing the like we got them like yeah like i gotta play this video because it's my favorite when they catch saddam hussein oh yeah this is the cops coming out tapping their own back they're like all right y'all ready for this bomb get ready what do y'all got police ladies and gentlemen we got him it's like you read a book you read a book you read you read the book where he said he did it yeah yeah we read the book where he said he did it. Yeah, yeah.

We read the book where he said he did it. I do love, there are multiple moments where, both in the ladies and gentlemen, we got them Saddam thing, and also in the Tupac press conference, where it seems like they're pausing for applause. Like, yo, this is a media event they're not right right right 100 yeah um all right uh what else was happening this weekend there was some terrifying footage coming out of uh

new york city of flooding um whirlpools which i'd assume would be happening constantly because the city is just like full of trap doors and underground tunnels like but yeah yeah it truly the thing I took away from the whole story is like other than that climate change is going to you know make this more and more common and more and more people's lives uh difficult and tragic is uh new york city is like so fucking resilient it's crazy yeah every time i'm like oh that's that's gonna destroy everything yeah and then people like no it's back to normal ish yeah i mean again i don't know what the fate is of those like those basement dwellings i'm sure that's when you yeah that's like where the real fucking uh damage is being done but yeah like even like

talking to like you know becca who like on the team who like lives in brooklyn i was like everything good like yeah yeah it's bad it's bad but i think it'll be all right we had to like go help some people out who are stranded in a train station yeah um but yeah the older i get the more amazed i am that like new york city exists like it really is just a miracle of like human ingenuity and i don't know it's crazy i call it yeah i call my sister like on saturday morning being like oh how is it and she was like yeah yesterday was really bad right now i'm at a street book fair with my kids. Just being like, yeah, yesterday was wild though. But it's mostly drained.

Yeah, just shake it off. Just shake it off. Yeah. Also, we got our first nonfiction Pixar movie as Sally the sea lion at the Central Park Zoo used the flooding to escape her enclosure. Oh, really? And go on a bit of a fuck about around the park i she didn't actually ever get out of the zoo but it really but she did get out of the enclosure she did get out of the

enclosure it does really open some possibilities of like a gritty you know let sea lion gets lost in the subway tunnels get right right drugs gets clean you know and then like befriends like the humans that were oppressing her yes on some level and they see the light at the end of it yeah this is this is good ip man you own this you own this ip yeah it's all mine i did it i was busy all weekend reaching out to sally to try and get her to sign the rights yeah uh well we we did mention briefly last week uh speaking of flooding and you know water danger we did mention last week that donald trump is trying to use like a weird fear he has of battery-powered

boats to argue against electronic vehicles. He did it towards the end of last week, and then over the weekend, he went on a weird rant about how if your boat was sinking and you had a battery like you you would

be fucked but also if there was a shark close by i don't know here let's just play it for people yeah this is and it's funny because this is a thing he said in michigan earlier so he's really workshopped this yeah this is i guess this is his second bite a bite of the apple here but here we go but if i'm sitting down and that boat's going down and i'm on top of a battery and the water starts flooding in i'm getting concerned but then i look 10 yards to my left and there's a shark so i have a choice of electrocution or shock you know what i'm going to take which one Electrocution or shark, you know what I'm going to take? Which one?

Electrocution. I will take electrocution every single time. Do we agree? I will take electrocution. I will take electrocution. Okay, which form of the death penalty would you like, sir? I will take electrocution. Yeah, we do need to include that as an option for the death penalty,

being fed to a shark but yeah hey but it may it may it may actually you know be a benefit to some sick fucks out there who want to get their whole shit bit so i don't know if you want to be out here wishes might motivate some killings because it's actually hard to find a way to get eaten by a shark like you can't like just on the open market it's hard to find people i went to the shark to the shark experience at mandalay bay it's hard to get in there like into the part where the sharks are it's like damn impossible on the grounds of you you have to do a little more work than just telling them you want to get your whole shit bit but yeah they're like sir but just in terms of i don't know the the obvious question of what the fuck is he even talking about? Like he, he seems to be trying to make an argument about like how dangerous electric vehicles are,

but then he's talking about how that's the preferable way to go as opposed to get eaten by a shark. I like that he's choosing certain death in his mind over like a shark being 10 feet away. Yeah. Sharks are not interested in eating people. Usually like you have to work hard to get eaten like a shark being 10 feet away yeah sharks are not interested in eating people usually like you have to work hard to get eaten by a shark trust yeah like they won't just eat you it has like the logical momentum of like a drunk person arguing like something really complex at a

bar yeah we're like electric vehicles and then you're going to get what you're going to get, and then you're going to get electrocution. But what if there's a shark there? I prefer electrocution. The thing it most reminds me of is if somebody put a microphone into my brain as I was drifting off to sleep. It's just complete logic meltdown just like stray thoughts kind of blowing through like tumbleweeds yeah yeah yeah it's really um that's actually my favorite time to talk for some reason like you ever just wake up and write something down that occurred to you then notes on my phone i'm like what the fuck is this

yeah it's like you said you put a r e the word r and then x3 yeah like r r r like what what was i what was that three yeah and then or like it'll be the thing too where like her majesty will think i'm awake and then like people say like hey what do you think about blah blah blah and i just go rrr like what i'm like i'm sorry i was like i'm half asleep uh yeah no rx3 rx3 rrr um the mazda rx3 thank you new branding all right uh let's take a quick break and then we'll uh come back and talk a little bit more about the person who we just heard from and what's going on with in his world. Just today. Just quick.

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Yeah. We got Donald Trump. He's in New York for a fraud trial. Oh, yeah. Today is the beginning of the find-out phase because last week we talked about how the judge was basically saying like nah man this is a it's gonna be a fucking bench trial i don't even need a jury we don't need a jury to determine if you did it's so clear that you did it we're just gonna go straight

to the fucking punishment phase here um and right now like we said last week it's like you know leticia james is like seeking like 250 million dollars in damages how will trump do that that's kind of like the part a lot of people like rubbing their mitts over it's like oh is he gonna have to fucking sell trump tower is he going to have to sell this or that or whatever um and you know as it stands right now he him and his kids can absolutely not do business in the state of New York. Like, that's, like, that's done. That's, like, that's off the table now.

So now it's like, okay, what else is going to happen? And when you consider that this trial or this judge who's, like, now presiding over this next phase of the trial has, like, been so pissed at Trump and his lawyers for the antics. You're like, oh oh it's hard to imagine that he gets out of here with like light touches obviously knowing trump can appeal and you know draw this out however he wants to but it seems like it's going to be a hard uh hard thing to try and do a 180 on uh the attorney general is basically saying like they're seeking a disgorgement of profits from the trump family meaning that they have to give up profits they made off of the fucking dubious uh you know financial statements

they were making so like his entire net worth a ton yeah at least at the very least they're saying like you know because he was saying like oh my i'm going to 3X the size of my apartment to get this loan, those loans were made to secure the purchases of properties like Trump Golf Club in Miami, Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, the old post office building that he bought in Washington, D.C. And so basically any profits from those, they're like, yeah, these were made off of lies. So we're coming for that. Wow. But hey, a little bit of good news uh donald trump the supreme court has also just said they won't be taking up the case that would potentially bar you from running for president even though you're you're big on insurrection so maybe that make good we were talking about it's not happening not quite yet although uh and they said across the board or

just like there was a specific case being there's a specific case they're like we're not we're not going to hear that this session yeah yeah so there's going to be it doesn't mean the end of it but that one that seemed on the precipice of maybe being heard by the supreme court no but uh clarence thomas did recuse himself from uh john eastman um uh case which is very interesting which is the first time we've seen that is one of he's one of his clerks used to be one of his clerks who is like one of the like legal architects of like the insurrection like the january 6th shit okay um oh right and so yeah and people are like and also your wife like you should why the fuck are you involved in like this time he's like yeah yeah i'm gonna recuse on this one so for easement not my wife but yeah yeah we'll see

what happens we'll see what happens because like you know i'm pretty sure clarence thomas name was like in some of the evidence that was given to the january 6 committee which was getting appealed to the point that it got to the supreme it's all very it's so intricate it's a rat king of fuckery rat fuckery rat king there you go um all right uh sarah huckabee sanders podium gate scandal all right i was not familiar with it and it apparently just got worse um her office bought a lectern that costs nineteen thousand dollars jack 18 475 dollars okay let's not call it i don't mean to call 19 000 okay yeah um 18 475 dollar custom podium wow with travel case with travel case oh okay yeah oh i didn't know it had a travel case yeah yeah yeah okay that actually that math's out, actually. Yeah. 1847. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

With a custom travel case? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a flight case. It's flight ready. But it was purchased from a company called Beckett Events, which, not coincidentally, probably, was founded by a former lobbyist with connections to her. And so the Arkansas Republican Party party then paid sanders back

for the lectern seemingly to save her from the growing scandal but it seems like it's just i don't know that doesn't help that they're acknowledging that this was fucked up um the invoice for the pricey item lists it as a podium when it is clearly a lectern. And the company's website doesn't mention the sale of equipment to clients. So it's... So how do you get that?

They don't sell that. It's just wild also, too, because after that, or right before that, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is like, like yeah here's a law that will limit what kind of information you can get from a freedom of a freedom of information act request right um interesting what yeah so is this like a weird like kind of grease pain what the fuck what is this and also what is the going rate for a fucking lectern i can't imagine it's more than a couple hundred dollars would be my guess i could see

like based on the materials if it's like wired for like like microphones and shit i feel like we're looking at like maybe a bulletproof one we looking at a bulletproof one? I don't know about bulletproof. Yeah. LaRue. Yeah. We'll see. But I mean like, cause if,

look right now you can get like a real janky one for 270 bucks, but that's not the kind of governor would stand at. Right. Uh, and then, you know, ones with sound built in. Does it come with the little things that they project the speech

onto? Oh, those little plexiglass cue card things. I always thought they were the most ill-advised, the most incomplete bulletproof protection. They're head-sized.

You put them at angles off to the side. If you're directly in front of your target, not not not very good doesn't offer a lot of protection and it's also just been reported that an anonymous whistleblower is claiming that her office improperly altered and withheld public records related to ongoing scrutiny of the office's spending so um yeah oh no to say it ain't so a lot of a lot of shit um piling up over a single lectern yeah all right and finally uh just beware of what tom hanks tells you um specifically and that's it yeah just beware i'm just saying i'm not gonna get any more specific than that yeah don't don't listen. This guy is trouble. He actually took to Instagram to warn his fans to beware

of a dental plan promo video featuring an AI version of Tom Hanks, which he actually wasn't involved in, which I know is very surprising that Tom Hanks isn't lending his A-list Hollywood credibility a random dental plan commercials.

Um, Oh, but it's the, the image that he shared with it is he looks way better than anything in polar express. So the, the AI is learning. He also looks about 20 some years younger.

Yeah. Yeah. Based on like what he looks like. It looks like a early aughts version of Tom Hanks. But I wonder if he was like, guys, like he, he realized he kind of looks good in the AI and he's like,

guys, we, I had to share this. So, so that you don't check this stud out used look at this guy i know you're probably gonna think it's actually me because of how fucking good he looks um this isn't the first time tom hanks likeness has been turned into an ai creation without his permission there's also an uncle bus do you know do you know about the ai generated trailer uh for a movie about a man who magically gets turned into a bus and only his nephew timothy chalamet can save him by driving the bus in a race with the devil on halloween night are you

familiar with this one wait what the fuck that sounds wow uncle Wow. Uncle Bus. Uncle Bus. Yeah. My Uncle Bus. My Uncle Bus. But yeah, I don't know. There's a lot swirling. Tom Hanks is in the zeitgeist for so many reasons. I like Uncle Bus being like a succubus. Uncle Bus succubus. Yeah.

Yeah, that seems a little... Rather than being like it's That, that seems a little, rather than being like, it's, you know, like a bus, that's an uncle. It's like this demonic uncle who like seduces people with his sex power. Yeah. The thing that we all know uncles for their sex power.

Um, the image of his face on the front of the bus is pretty cool. Gotta admit. It's pretty cool. I'd take a ride on that one. Hell yeah, man. Because it's got a nose coming out of it, too. It does. It looks like it's just been painted, airbrushed on there, but then there's a nose coming out.

Test the limits of what we know about three-dimensional space. The entire windshield is his face, so I'm not sure how Timothee Chalamet is going to be able to maneuver it and or see out of it. No, it's Uncle Buzz. Yeah, so he's behind the wheel, so the eyes are his...

Wait, then what the fuck is the point of Timothee Chalamet? The windshield is his eyes. Timothee Chalamet got his spellbook wet, spilled stuff on his spellbook book and that's how he became uncle bus um i don't know how he is helping in the race against the devil on halloween night okay for people who think he just made that up that's actually in the description of the film it just sees him as the magical uncle of timothy chalamet who accidentally spills a drink on his spell books

yeah so it's like a laptop oh you got water on your spell book well can't exchange it now got water damage on there oh man can you imagine what's gonna happen when they digitize and like give ai the power over our spell books like come on jack you tell me you're not scared of ai yet no i don't i'm ready bro fucking show at the necronomicon i don't give a fuck um but yeah people you know last week tom hanks was trending because uh people people were like positing conspiracy theories where he is you know one of these of these Hollywood sickos and who's been in league with Satan and Epstein

and the way you know that is because of hand signals he was doing in Forrest Gump. He's been cluing us in all along. Yeah, exactly. He holds a special place in the heart of America and and as america's

heart rots in its chest you know weird weird things are going to start coming out so uh but uncle bus a true missed opportunity for the world of entertainment shout out uncle bus man all right well those are some of the things that were trending over the weekend are trending now. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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