The Daily Zeitgeist - The WeekTrend Update 1/22: Ron DeSantis, Trump, Davos 2024, Sundance, Ruby Slippers

Episode Date: January 22, 2024

In this edition of The WeekTrend Update, Jack and Miles discuss… their respective weekends, Ron Desantis dropping out of the Republican race, Trump's cognitive "incline", the 2024 Davos Conference, the pro-Palestinian protest at Sundance, the Great Ruby Slipper Heist of 2005 and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the Internet, and welcome to this week trend edition of DIRT DAILY NIGHT GUYS! It's Monday! Monday morning for us. Monday late morning early afternoon for you listening to it. I should have pointed this out but on I think Friday it was the 20th anniversary of the Dean Scream which is the thing I do at the top of every show when I go I'm doing the Dean. Most people I think have put that together by now, but that was

20 fucking years ago. The thing that ruined a fucking campaign where a guy was like, yeah, man, universal health care. Like, let's do some people against progressive politics for a generation. We will fucking destroy. Did you hear that fucking asshole you hear what he sounds like he said it was like a bad take of a WWE wrestler. Oh, 100%.

Like Macho Man Randy said. He was like, Sorry, I got choked up there for a second. Let me... Sorry, actually, could I take that over again? I need to... Let me get down in here. My register.

Dude, I just have this one time for posterity. Not only are we going to New Hampshire, Tom Harkin, we're going to South Carolina, and Oklahoma, and Arizona, and North Dakota. I just have just one time for posterity Come on baby to the DC to take back the White House. Yeah! Yeah! R.I.P. to that fucking campaign. R.I.P. to that guy. That was just after placing third in Iowa. Yeah! Oh, shit. Third in Iowa?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he was like a front runner in the polling, heading into the primary season, had a bad Iowa. Many campaigns have recovered from that his did not thanks to the dean's just that scream anyway i mean it is like we we've covered before how you know the media really first of all you have to like isolate the audio. When you hear it with the crowd, like in the room, nobody thought anything was weird.

If you just have both sounds playing, it doesn't really sound that weird. Because people are screaming like he is, but when you just isolate only his audio and dead the background noise, it sounds

unhinged. especially when it's the kids like oh hey i get it you're getting the cookie monster on our ass yeah one more time and they're like this guy's a mess get him him out of here. Get him out of here. Well, it is the weekend of get him out of here. We will be talking about Meatball, Ron, Rob, whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But before we get to the events of the weekend, this is the Monday morning trending episode

where we tell you what was trending over the weekend. But first, we tell you what's trending with us what's going on in our lives yeah um by doing an overrated underrated i can kick us off with my overrated the delete and report spam function on uh i message on my phone. Right. Uh, I clicked on a single Nikki Haley text. I don't know how she got my number and that's what I was going to ask her. That's why I clicked on it. No, I clicked on it because like,

I don't know. It was like a well-crafted cliffhanger of a, like, here's how we're going to beat Trump. And I was like, I'm a little curious, like what her campaign is messaging to her supporters, uh, at this moment.

And I had faith, it turns out, misplaced in the delete and report span function on my, you know, in messages because I clicked on that one message and learned nothing. Of course, you know, stupid curiosity is also over it. And now Nikki Haley is just in my life. She's like a person who texts me on a regular basis. Even though every single time I delete and report spam, we have a relationship, a partnership. She actually told me that she thinks I would be a good member of her uh campaign i think uh john hold on let me find this john you're doing so good buddy yeah i think you'd

be great fit for our team john can you take a look now uh with the link off to nikki 24 which is exciting and flattering and believe me i i checked on it and it turns out I'm not a good fit you guys are so close that you're on a first name basis of a name you don't use but anyways I don't know maybe they've like

bought their way out of that function applying to them or something but it is not working. I suspect it's just that number. And then they, that number just gets burned and then they still have your number. And then they just, they just hit you with a text from a new number because every day,

dude, like I I've said before, my mom has given the Democrats my number as hers. So I get all of her fucking fundraising texts and yeah they get they're so desperate like it's to the point where i'm like oh shit trump's gonna win if the tone of these texts are like fucking please man no one wants to stop trump we will match your donation 400 if you send something in the next 20 minutes um it doesn't build great confidence within me so i'm like they're freaking me out a little bit so yeah

please let's let's at least have a more positive note there's pnc yeah yeah um what's your what's your overrated uh i think just this isn't new or whatever or novel, but just going out is becoming overrated in my mind. Aside from being really into dreams again and having them and also buying a long crossbody strap for my cell phone, being Japan has changed me in other ways, too. Just just, you know, what's the long crossbody strap? This strap right here, bro. Oh, okay. It goes around your head. It goes around my neck.

But sometimes it goes around your neck. I could be in the kitchen doing work. Oh, I've got to check my phone really quick. Oh, boom. Right back. Wearing your phone like a bandolier. You've got a baby on you, but you don't want to put that shit in your pockets. You can just have that shit dangling.

I also leave my phone on the table a lot in places and then forget about it. But it's got this big ass rope on it. Now there's no way I can miss it. Anyway, the other bullets are called the go crossbody bandolier. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, like, uh, like platoon style or like,

uh, like Pancho Villa, kind of like Mexican revolution sort of, I guess that's what they call it. I typed in bandolier to make sure I had the word right. And it's the bandolier phone case was the first thing that popped up. Oh, shit. Where you can put a bunch of little phones in it, too.

One phone and then a bunch of little phone bullets. A bunch of Nokia 3390s. A bunch of AirPods. It's so many. Dude, I lose them so much. I'm like that dude in BTS who lost like 40 pairs already. But anyway, the thing that i also is like it's just changed the way i look at going out like i love to eat especially things

that i don't normally cook for myself or cannot cook for myself or in or incapable of cooking myself but again that shit is getting it's like so again comparatively like when I went to Japan, I was eating my stomach till it rips open amounts of sushi and having a few beers. And I was still walking out there paying for Her Majesty and I for around $50. Yeah. You're going full seven gluttony on that ass. Oh, my God. Yeah. I thought the people who are running the sushi place were part of a Wu-Tang interlude.

The way they just kept feeding you and feeding you and feeding you. Okay. And so half the time I look at things, I'm like, God damn it. Like if I go to fucking Subway, like that's half of what this shit costs. If I got a foot long and I added bacon, you know? And so that's definitely like radicalized me a bit and also like just seeing like pretty much everywhere except the united states being able to eat and drink socially outside of the home is seen as something that isn't cost prohibitive

to do every now and then um so here is just a completely there's like such a barrier to entry with in terms of cost like so now i've been cooking more and more at home and i've been embracing like that part of it to a just be like this is actually typically less cost uh less of a cost for me but also trying to bring back this thing that i used to do with my friends called supper club where it was like me and a group of my friends like six of us we decided on a cuisine or theme every month and we all would contribute a dish to basically make like a five course meal potluck kind of thing but it wasn't like bring a casserole it's like no this week we're doing fucking italian

or this week we're doing americana or this week we're doing fusion or something and then it was an easy way to like socialize and share like the shit that you've made and like just begin talking without going to a restaurant because have you seen the prices out there have you seen these prices folks everything's 20 bucks it's really bad yeah um so what why if this is just a unavoidable fact of the market, why isn't there massive inflation in Japan? I don't get it. What's happening? Those are completely different sets of the way the economy is run there.

It's a pretty unique situation. I could get into the specifics of it, but I would have to read up more. But wages also haven't gone up either. It's sort of frozen in time ah so it's a bit of a yeah it's not like the most ideal situation either and i'm sure other people could explain that better than me you're not prepared to just give me a micro and macro economic no i and i wish this was the bloomberg uh economy finance hour but i'm a guy who's just barely starting to dream again so don't i'm just a guy's just barely starting to dream again. So don't take my analysis. I'm just a guy standing here barely starting to dream again. Here's my analysis of the Japanese economy.

Yeah. Mine kind of relates to that because I've been cooking more. I think everybody's just been cooking more because fucking going out to eat is cost prohibitive at this point, especially in LA, like you said. Time estimates for recipes is my underrated

like literally they are underrating the amount of time that it is going to take me to accomplish these recipes I'm slow in the kitchen I'm just like I'm not like a focused chef

you know I'm like cooking cooking and doing other stuff. So this weekend, we did a recipe where they hid 20 minutes in the recipe. They just assumed that you had cooked rice already. They were like, okay. And then the next step is take the cooked rice that we i was like what the that that was not a yeah but anyways i like they i feel like they're fucking with me um or i feel like i'm just really low and then i also i saw a New York Times recipe uh one of the few things I can make is a bowling ace uh oh yeah that is from a like you remember that old magazine real simple

oh yeah yeah this is all these are just like real simple like life hacks basically um I so I got a bowling ace recipe out of that um that that is estimated at like 50 minutes. Takes me three hours every time. Doesn't get any faster. I'm like, well, I'll get this down. You gotta cook it slow, though. But then I got an alert from a New York Times recipe this weekend

that was like, yeah, this is a Bolognese. It's gonna take you four to five hours. I was like, oh! Somebody decided to be honest about the recipes and like how long they take um so yeah i don't know i don't know if that's truly underrated or if it's just underrated for me but the the recipe timing feels like it is it it's it's like done in a way that it's like yeah if you cook like a fucking person who's on top of their shit right like if you have you know if you do sometimes it'll say like if the prep work is included or it's just the prep work or just a lot of time because if you're not quick on the

knives or other things it can take you a while to chop up a bunch or like peel and chop things or you know get all like all of your ingredients set so yeah i can see like if you're doing it where it's like as if you have everything ready mise en place you know then it's like boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom but if it's like oh shit that's right i gotta make the rice hold on let me fucking take this shit off the fire okay i gotta chop this uh i should have done this before yeah it takes three hours so i could yeah so i don't know i i am not a precision watch in the in the kitchen sure so uh what what is something that you think is underrated underrated i think is just how much generative ai is already in the content

that we're that is around us like i know that people are toying with it and tinkering with it and every now and then we get these like doctored images that are passed off as news. But I'm starting to see more and more AI-generated thumbnails, especially... I've seen it on basically those Twitter spam that are meant to look like news, kind of like clickbait, sort of total bullshit misinformation posts. It's taken the ad or like little tag off of those posts now right it would seem exactly and then there's now but like especially on youtube thumbnails for like controversial topics like immigration like i i saw one that was like immigrants come to nyc it begins kind of like weird thought like headline and on it they like this was clearly a mid-journey

image because like when you zoom in you're like okay that sign isn't even in english and that person's backpack has like five straps on the shoulders um but like they but from afar when you just look like it it could seemingly pass as an image that like as if people in new york are protesting immigrants like it was montgomery integrating their public schools right like yeah like mayhem around a bus and being like to just sort of paint this image as if people are behaving this way in new york it's just a very subtle thing that i'm seeing more and more especially on these sort of like political take a sphere kind of uh you know shit chatting youtube channels yeah they can use like a thumbnail to seemingly make it look like x y or z is happening just to sell you on the idea but it's very powerful because it took me a second like what fucking protest was this in new york

and then you have to like look closely like okay there's this is fucking mid journey or whatever another generative ai so um something that i've just been really noticing and before i thought it would be like it would be announced with more fanfare but no it's just like it's just trickling it's just there yeah yeah it's just there yeah that that is the main like the the ease with which people can just like create dumb bullshit images and the cloning of voices just like create dumb bullshit images and the cloning of voices are the two main things that feel like they've like are going to substantively impact what the world is like i mean the internet has been broken but it does feel like the internet uh like the idea of truth on the internet a lot a lot of the people who were on top of that have just given up at this point yeah we're basically yeah we're driving on rainbow road and mario kart it looks really cool but like

there's there's no guardrails on this fucking thing like you can just go right off the side and that's on you asshole because you chose this course it's rainbow road yeah yeah that seems to be the message um all right let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about ron desantis we'll come back and talk about Ron DeSantis. We'll be right back. In 1982, Atari players had one thing on their minds, Sword Quest.

This wasn't just a new game. Atari promised 150 grand in prizes to four finalists, but the prizes disappeared. And what started as a video game promotion became one of the most controversial moments in 80s pop culture. I just don't believe they exist. I mean, my reaction, shock and awe. That sword was amazing. It was so beautiful. I'm Jamie Loftus. Join me this spring for The Legend of Sword Quest, a podcast about the fall of Atari and the disappearing Sword Quest prizes. We'll follow the quest for lost treasure across four decades. It's almost like a metaphor for the industry and Atari itself in a way.

Listen to The Legend of Sword Quest on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president. One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. I always felt like Lynette was kind of his right-hand woman.

The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI in a violent revolutionary underground. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer. This is Rip Current. Available now with new episodes every Thursday. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Substance use disorder and addiction is so isolating.

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for Mental Well-Being, Shatterproof, and the Ad Council. And we're back. And Ron DeSantis and we're back and ron desantis uh has dropped out of the republican presidential primary um immediately gone back to his comfort zone of kissing trump directly on the center of his asshole um he you know in in the same breath dropped out and was like and i and that's why i'm endorsing donald trump be president okay cool like ah he was just like so uncomfortable like trying to run for president oh of course like he probably had he probably had stress diarrhea

when like oh yeah politico started analyzing his boots. He's like, oh, they're onto me, Casey. I feel like he's had stress diarrhea the entire time that he's been a public figure. I've never seen somebody be more uncomfortable in the spotlight. He just gives the unspoken assurance that he is suffering from IBS at all times. I, yeah, I hate that.

How awkward he is somehow makes me feel like I'm like relieved for him. And I'm like, oh, yeah. I'm like, that's probably better for you, man. You know?

And like, I hate that. I'm like, oh, it's okay, Rob. No. Yeah.

You fucking tried it and you you had this whole fucking fake ass tough guy act and it just didn't work because everyone can tell you're meatball rob old pudding fingers the whole pudding fingers meatball rob um yeah there's just something that to do with like the mirror neurons in our brain where it's just like god i just want to make it stop i don't want to see another human be this uncomfortable and inauthentic um so many so many moments so many highlights from the like i feel like he averaged a dean scream a week but because the mainstream media had like kind of doubled down on him being the great hope the great like non-trump hope for the republican party right they you know they didn't make a huge deal of it you just kind of had to go seek it out and you know twitter was great at highlighting

all of the attempts at smiling and yeah like a dean scream per week was more like a desantis smile or laugh per week where everyone's like oh look at this dude trying to fucking connect to other human beings like oh wow all right should i massage your clavicle as a way to be affectionate or just pat your uh i'm gonna rub my nose and then wipe it on your sleeve somebody's operating this human body like a puppet from a car some alien creature um but yeah i like how he he really just said the whole thing like the beginning of his whole like concession was sort of talking about how he's a badass and you're like i'm sorry is this a concession speech but then when he goes nobody worked harder and we left it all out on the field now following our second place finish in iowa we have prayed and deliberated on the way forward and then is like

and i'm suspending the campaign yeah um you prayed on it yep and hey we left it all out there on the field do you know like a lot of people been talking about the amount of money that was spent they say that um like combined reporting of spending from his campaign and the never back down pack of 53 million dollars it means that basically that was a an average of 2263 dollars for each vote that was cast for him. Just to fucking peace out. Killed it, my man. He could have done better if he gave people, without even advertising,

just $1,000. Right. Just cash. What do you think? Wow. Want to vote for me? We good here? It's clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give

Donald Trump another chance. He has my endorsement because we can't go back to the old Republican guard of yesteryear, a repackaged form of warmed over corporatism that Nikki Haley represents. Um, so yeah, I mean, first first of all lay off my friend um yeah you motherfucker nikki haley and i are tight uh but yeah uh it's just so wild like you know trump was so dismissive of him so humiliating That's what like was so infuriating about the primary.

We're like, who's this going to go kind of softball on Trump the whole time? Cause inevitably they're going to have to fall in line and just be like, yeah. And he is number one. God, we love him. He's number one.

Yeah. And like for all the talk that he did, like where he was like, all these people who want to kiss the ring of Trump, then cut to him swallowing the ring. And being like, I don't know what you guys are talking about. I guess I got, you know. Sorry.

Got the ring in my throat. Come on, dude. But hey, this is, we expected nothing less. Yeah. People were speculating on it. It's just like a nice glimpse into the life of working someone working in politics people like he started canceling events and everyone's like oh so you're definitely stepping out of the race they're like no no he's uh there's just a scheduling issue

no we're good we're still good he just has to like get ready for New Hampshire You know he's just focused on that Guy who peed his pants and had to Hurry into a stall to figure out what to do That kind of energy Hey you alright in there? What's going on? Nothing just uh Just scheduling something

Chilling chilling chilling Okay well we need you out here to Do that runway walk of those new pants that you're wearing yep just one we'll be okay just give me one second just scheduling something that's just not that i ruined the pants i'm just in here scheduling what it's the all purpose just like doing business uh sorry just have a schedule thing i know that really is some weird corporate speak like vague bullshit thing yeah just some a schedule just a scheduling thing i gotta work out right now sorry so one second one second one

second um yeah but he had just like days earlier been like everybody he would endorse the most worthless Republican as long as they kiss the ring. And then he immediately went back to deep throating the ring. Well, the ring all it calls to us in different ways, you know, and for him, he just couldn't. He just had to back down, although he told people he would never back down um and but it's interesting because meanwhile winston churchill yeah oh that or not quote okay fine it wasn't said by winston churchill but yeah but i like to say it was said by winston churchill and people believe it oh yeah sounds churchill-esque anything is possible winston churchill one of his great quotes um but yeah meanwhile donald trump was showing off how you know he's top of the field and actually he has not cognitive decline

but cognate cognitive incline because nobody's ever seen anything like it my brain's getting stronger yes um he's already begun the birther attacks on nikki haley as uh i mentioned last week calling her nimrata and like trying to be like i don't know if she can actually run folks because uh you know she's ethnic um and he's also absolutely unable to speak clearly about her he repeatedly kept confusing her with nancy pelosi um in new hampshire and let's just let's just hear it from the goat's mouth on this one um where he's clearly just anyway the guy's the guy's sharp as fuck y'all find a new angle this guy's mind is sharp as a tack never reports the crowds you know by the way they never report the crowd on January 6th. You know, Nikki Haley.

Nikki Haley. Nikki Haley. Do you know they destroyed all of the information, all of the evidence, everything? Deleted and destroyed all of it. About January 6th? Because of lots of things. Like Nikki Haley is in charge of security. We offered her 10,000 people.

Oh. Nikki Haley is in charge of security of the capital as speaker is that what you meant and you offered nancy pelosi is that like the net anyway so that's what we've got that's wild on deck nicky haley nicky haley it's the wild thing is too this basically like it was going around Twitter because, like, all the Trump watchers were posting, like, the clip. But it didn't get press coverage that he was misspeaking until Nikki Haley herself pointed out. There's, like, this fool can't even, he can't even, he doesn't even know who I am. He's like, and this is what you're going to get with an 80-year-old person in office.

The line only goes down yeah and you're like and then they started talking about it which michael tomaski i think in the new republic was basically saying like imagine if biden had misremembered someone from his cabinet like a cabinet appointee from from his administration with his biggest political opponent in congress i mean he's definitely got a gaffer to him but like i think it's just interesting how i think in the media we're just so used to him never making sense that it's like yeah fuck it this guy has totally lost the plot i mean that's not real news right rather than being like uh hello dean scream proof yeah Yeah. The Overton window, man. It's a fucking Overton French door now. Is he like glistening in sweat in that clip?

He looks like very moist. Jack, he's glowing. Glowing. Yeah, he's definitely glistening. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back to talk about Davos, folks. In 1982, Atari players had one thing on their minds.

Sword Quest. This wasn't just a new game. Atari promised 150 grand in prizes to four finalists. But the prizes disappeared. And what started as a video game promotion became one of the most

controversial moments in 80s pop culture. I just don't believe they exist. My reaction, shock and awe. That sword was amazing. It was so beautiful.

I'm Jamie Loftus. Join me this spring for The Legend of Sword Quest, a podcast about the fall of Atari and the disappearing Sword Quest prizes. We'll follow the quest for lost treasure across four decades. It's almost like a metaphor for the industry and Atari itself in a way. Listen to The Legend of Sword Quest on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president. One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. I always felt like Lynette was kind of his right-hand woman. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI in a violent revolutionary underground. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore.

The story of one strange and violent summer. This is Rip Current, available now with new episodes every Thursday. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Substance use disorder and addiction is so isolating. And so as a Black woman in recovery, hope must be loud. It grows louder when you ask for help and you're vulnerable. It is the thread that lets you know that no matter what happens, you will be okay. When we learn the power of hope, recovery is possible. Find out how at startwithhope.com.

Brought to you by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, Shatterproof, and the Ad Council. And we're back. We're back. All right, Davos happened last week yeah this is where all the richest people in the world get together do ted talks at one another um you know yeah host panels speculate about the future to a large degree that seems to be like the main thing that the mainstream media takes away from it is what they what do what does the illuminati say

is half is going to happen um they said that there's not going to be a recession this year which is the first time i feel like they haven't predicted a recession in a couple years uh oh they've decided yeah they've decided no recession this year uh last couple years there was a recession coming that didn't technically come it was more like forecast it's like we're gonna say there's a recession we're gonna lay a bunch of fucking people off and then we're gonna absorb all that money as profit yeah yeah exactly but. What would this call a recession? Yeah, fucking go do it, do it, do it. One telling thing was that Alex Soros, who's George's son,

said that according to the people, the business leaders and billionaires and philanthropists at this thing, it's basically a done deal that Trump is going to win the election this year um oh okay and then he pointed out that that is probably a good thing because they're always wrong about everything um he said they're always wrong about like presidential elections oh he's saying whenever these assholes get together and they're like

it's in the bag y'all they're like bag for trump he's like all right well that's good good news for biden so there's like a davos curse like the ted cruz curse kind of yeah yeah okay all right i can get behind that yeah like i was looking at the review of like what came out of it i guess there was a lot of ai stuff and like some of it was people being like very scared of ai some of it was people being very optimistic about ai right somebody pointed out that last year everybody was still talking about crypto at davos so it's like pretty late in the game to not realize that was a scam how how are we letting them run the fucking board on us economically yeah um i mean it just shows you what capital that what all the protections that offers

shows you what capital that what all the protections that offers but i think like it also has like um cop vibes like cop 28 like where all these like leaders get together and they're like we clearly know what the problem is but let's just fucking ignore that um because like during that during the davos uh gathering there was a a group believe it or not of ultra wealthy people that believe they absolutely should be taxed more. And they released the findings of a survey that showed that a decent amount of other hyper wealthy people are also down for a little less yacht this year. And the poll, this poll was conducted by a firm, uh, servation on behalf of the patriotic millionaires, which is an advocacy group that

campaigns for a more progressive tax system they pulled over 2300 millionaires and billionaires in g20 nations and found that 74 support higher taxes on wealth to help address the cost of living crisis and improve public services more than 70 of the respondents said they believe wealth quote helps buy political influence and a majority see extreme concentrations of wealth at the very top as corrosive to democracy. And there was also an Oxfam analysis that showed the world's billionaires have gotten $3.3 trillion richer since 2020 as 5 billion people across the globe have lost ground. Yeah, just a very interesting painting. And Abigail Disney, who also gave a comment on this report, I'll give you a few guesses as to who she's related to.

Gates, right? Any guesses? Bill Gates? Bill Gates? Exactly, exactly. Bill Gates' daughter. Pointed out that traditionally people would reach for pitchforks in times of great inequality,

but now it's populism that has taken over. And the best way to stabilize things is for them to get taxed properly. Right. They're like, I don't know what else to do. People are falling by the wayside, but we're all basking in this system that allows us to hoard all of this wealth without having to do anything with it. That would, you know,

generally benefit the less fortunate. So yeah, they were just like, yeah, yeah, get out of here, man. This is,

we're going to talk about how cool these fucking Pokemon NFTs are that we're about to go all in on. Yeah. You guys are millionaires. That's disgusting. That's so gross. Brandon, whatever from talking about Lindsay Loh lohan she has seven million dollars which is basically disgusting disgusting um yeah hobo

money that's right you need you want it you want to get my attention get some billionaires exactly talking about this um but yeah i feel like the the whole vibe at Davos is billionaires buying into the Illuminati conspiracy theories about them and then not being in control enough to actually make correct predictions. And really all they're doing is conspiring with one another to protect their wealth from taxation, essentially. Yeah, and probably like swap picks of their bunkers and shit oh yeah yeah the billionaire how much bunker flexing is going on at davos they're like dude you hear about all this stuff but at night people are doing straight up slideshows in their hotel rooms of their bunkers see this bad boy look at this one dude underground missile silo that looks like the Maldives, right?

That's all screens. That's all screens. And a wave machine. Yeah. See that movie, Leave the World Behind? Pretty tight, right? I'll send you my VR beach guy. Yeah.

Fuck with him, dude. He's cool. Yeah, that shit only costs like 25 mil. There was a huge pro-Palestinian protest at Sundance, the Davos of the entertainment industry. at Sundance, the Davos of the entertainment industry. And it shut down Main Street and was pretty well attended. There was the Melissa Barrera, India Moore, among some pretty well-known actors, you know, entertainment figures. But it,

the way it was covered, like by the, you know, Hollywood reporter was kind of crazy. It was just like the, the entire article just felt very bad faith. They basically like kick off with like, how can you protest on behalf of innocent Palestinians?

You're, you know, LGBTQ and you'd be killed there. And then you're, you know, LGBTQ and you'd be killed there. And then like that, you know, just putting that argument in, like in the voice of the article, they were like,

though members of the LGBTQ community often face violence, persecution and death in Palestine. More offered a counter by saying, this is about life. That's why I'm here. I'm trans, right? It's about like, just like giving a, yeah, palestine more offered a counter by saying this is about life that's why i'm here i'm trans right it's about like just like giving a yeah that that logic should be applied rather than like

saying like i'm sorry that doesn't preclude me from looking at the needless killing of innocent people and also like and also like the current like there's a ton there's a huge struggle too in israel with people fighting their far-right government over like a supreme court that just wants to like claw back all kinds of rights for lgbtq people that they've they've won over the last you know a few decades so a lot of yeah of course very bad faith i i expect nothing less from a penske owned outlet um you know, PMC, Penske Media Corporation. They own, like, most of the industry rags in Hollywood. Oh, really?

I'm not familiar. Yeah, that's from Penske Trucks. Oh, really? I was going to say, oh, the trucking company? Yes. Yes. Telling it all those Hollywood reporters deliver people's bodies. You know how many industry rags they own?

They own Billboard. They own Variety. They own The Hollywood Reporter. They own The Golden Globes. They own Rolling Stone. They own Rob Report. South by Southwest. Like, these are all brands under this media umbrella.

IndieWire. Fucking Deadline. Like, fucking everything. I wonder what the logic is that like you know how michelin became the restaurant authority because it was like well back then it was like the you know right you're trying to get people out of the house and like driving on tires to like go out to restaurants so they started like covering different restaurants around the world and that's how they became the authority i wonder like what

the logic is of like the truck rental company yeah i mean if you look on it just like on the air on our principles as a thing it says what began as a handwritten promise on november 5th 2004 has grown into a global media organization built on superior content from the industry's brightest, talented, and superior. As far as the film festival stuff, the thing that's making headlines so far is a film about a Sasquatch having sex, vomiting, and farting starring Jesse

Eisenberg and Riley Keough. I mean, great. It's just interesting because people are like, this is uncalled for like the entirely inappropriate protests presumably before heading into a theater playing the movie where bigfoots fuck each other holy shit i didn't realize the film follows a family of yetis over the course of a year the film which has zero dialogue or narration wow plenty of grunts captures an immersive quote

true depiction of the daily life of this assquatch true depiction they've done the research folks i love that and this reminds me of like swiss army man when it came out and people like yeah yeah dude similar harry potter's like a farting corpse in this movie. I don't know what the fuck's going on. Cut to, we get everything everywhere all at once a few years later. So, yeah, great. Give us something, like, honestly, let's watch the Jedi, Yetis, Jack off and vomit and fart, and let's celebrate that through the language of cinema.

Yes, please. I'm here for it. All right right and we have an update on the story that has been kind of in and out of headlines since 2005 all right i remember this being a story back then so the um judy garland's iconic ruby slippers from the wizard of oz were stolen back in 2005 okay um they were then recovered in 2018 but the man responsible for the theft wasn't charged until 2021 um and then we've just gotten like additional information on who he is and his motives uh thanks to newly released court documents apparently the slippers were stolen by an aging mobster who had gone straight but was talked into one last score.

No. That is a quote. One last score. Stealing the ruby slippers from the Judy Garland Museum in Duluth, Minnesota because he believed that the slippers contained actual rubies.

Because they were insured for $1 million. You fool. You thought they were fucking actual. Oh, my. See, you aging mobster. They call ruby slippers in the movie. Can't do that. That's illegal, actually.

Oh, my God. Dude, we got to steal the ring of power. You saw how fucking lit that thing was in the movie imagine if we had that shit we could just walk into a bank all invisible and shit and walk out with the monies yeah that's if that's the name of it and there's no way they would make something that expensive for something that's on camera that's like when you think like they use actual cash like in scenes where like they're doing bank robberies like dude how much cash is that like actually they had to get for that yeah they're called fucking props and they're only insured for that much money because of its like cultural significance right fuck it's

it's rough uh he only found out the slippers were covered with glass not rubies when he took them to a fence uh it must have been a tough day because i feel like fences aren't that into a cultural legacy and no you know no so that must have been a bad day uh and he's he apparently had no idea about the cultural significance of the ruby slippers because he had never actually seen the wizard of oz the fuck he just heard tell this poor fucking guy what a fucking rube he must have been to get talked like to do the he went straight and then was talked into quote one last score yeah yeah who's got the rights to this i know well it needs to be the coens or the people who make fargo the tv show because

or the yeti fuck film yeah that just give them a try with it yeah yeah but i mean it takes place in minnesota and it involves bumbling mobsters oh right because the museum is in duluth the museum is in duluth so okay assuming he's from Minnesota, I think we'd be... Well, you know, give it a little Fargo vibe. But yeah, this is definitely headed for the big screen. I know. Definitely.

For whatever reason, I just hear Lyle from Escape from Dannemora. Like, Lyle? I thought that ruby slippers had rubies in them. They don't. Oh, fuck Lyle. I thought that ruby slippers had rubies in them. They don't. Oh, fuck Lyle. Why? They say rubies on them right there.

You know? They're called ruby slippers. Why wouldn't they have rubies in them if they were called ruby slippers? Oh, well. Okay. Well, fuck around and find out, I guess, for your swan song. Yeah. All right.

Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this monday january 22nd yeah we are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show until then be kind to each other be kind to yourself that's like a kind of a quiet uh dean spring sounds like a muppet yeah it sounds a little like a Muppet. Yeah, it sounds a little like a Muppet. Or like Yoda a little bit. Like Yoda kind of agreeing with something. Yeah. Yeah. Like he's like I can get behind that

kind of. Maybe. Should we order a tie, Yoda? I like that tie. I like that tie. I like a tie. All right. Be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves.

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