The Daily Zeitgeist - The WeekTrend Update 7/31: Ron DeSantis, Trumpdictment, Taylor Swift, Arthur, Twitter

Episode Date: July 31, 2023

In this episode of The WeekTrend Update, Jack and Miles discuss DeSantis catching a fade from black republicans, a Trumpdictment update, Taylor Swift's (literally) earth-shaking concert, the Right coming for Arthur, Twitter (AKA X… or Ex?) and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Your daily zeitgeist! Rika, a production of iHeartRadio. Yeah. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness, and this is the one where we do... We tell the people what is trending. What happened over the weekend what's going on a couple days what the heck um i'm jack that's my thank you how are you doing miles um thank you that's how i'm doing just in the state of gratitude constantly consistently try to be i'm yes thank you sir please yes and i'm thank you so that's me. How was how's Joy-Z?

Joy-Z, baby. Joy-Z is great. Yeah. Been getting up early, going in the ocean. OK. Some Kendall floats. Wake my ass up doing some some Kendall Roy floats on my back in the ocean. Without anybody else.

I mean, we were texting about it earlier. That honestly, to to me i think is one of the purest human pleasures you can have is to just float on your back in the sea and like just yeah just take it in like that yeah it was pure until like i literally i told you i literally like as i was getting in the water pictured kendall roy you just saw yourself yeah yeah yeah um taking off a two thousand dollar t-shirt been been enjoying my something i talked about i think as an underrated recently of like the the beach as nature as like getting into nature i feel like we like my in my mind when i think about the beach i think of ken uh from from the barbie movies version of the beach oh yeah it's

like i do beach towel i am beach yeah i do beach good yeah very different but going down like real early you know before a lot of people get there there's like the sandpipers going in and out of the waves and it's a wait what's a sandpiper they're like this is what i've decided i actually haven't googled this okay the ornithological uh but but i think based on their movie they're little birds that oh yeah like when the wave washes back there's like little clams and they and then when the wave comes they run back you know this is so like sandpiper is just one of those words that is like anytime you

go near the coast there's something called the sandpiper and I never in my life gave it any thought until just now it never occurred to me that it was a bird I thought it was some kind of like thought it was some dude I thought it was some kind of old-timey

job that would be romantic. I was like, oh yeah, Bill's a sandpiper. What's the fuck? It was like the lamplighter. Yeah, that's a sandpiper. Beach Blanket Bingo. I'm known as the sandpiper.

You know what I'm saying? I feel like that. I was like, whose phone is ringing? It is mine. I'm known as the sandpiper. You know what I'm saying? I was like, whose phone is ringing? It is mine. That's okay. I'm very popular. It's okay. You're the quarterback. I was

body surfing. Body surfing I think is underrated, I would say. You don't have to have any balance to do it. I noticed that there was a wave going perpendicular to the other waves you know, cause you, you don't have to have any balance to do it. Um, yeah. And then I noticed that there was like a wave going perpendicular to the other waves.

And I was like, what is happening there? And I was like, Oh, something's something's in the water with me. And I, I briefly had the moment where I was like, am I gonna,

is this it? Your whole shit, I'm going to get my whole shit bitten. Uh, but it was a, it was a, a Ray. Um, okay i shot out right out of the water but i was like not this way the ocean um but yeah man real real good vacation just play you know building sandcastles with the kids i'd love to hear that chilling to hear that um yeah just i just see my son to sit upright we gotta we gotta

get to that milestone before i start building sandcastles he's still you know he's not even six months like child in the ocean though i thought i saw a picture yeah yeah her magic took him down to a little little little beach beach day kind of thing he's he fucking he's he spends more time at the beach than i ever have as a child i'm it's so funny because i'm not like i've talked about this i'm a fucking spoiled la person who's like if it's not it's not hot i don't go to the beach doesn't make sense and you know her majesty being from dc she's like oh i'll be there fucking every day i don't give a fuck uh yeah so a lot of the times when she has like a minute she'll be like yeah i'm just gonna go just go pop in real quick see what's up so anyway shout out all the water creatures yeah i was a beach baby and i was known for how much sand i ate um oh and that explains a lot i think i've talked about that i

was like dumb until the age of like eight i think i was just like oh yeah where you wait kid is slow you're not the one who put the floaties on your ankles right no but that seems like some shit i would have done i think i might have actually done that i'm getting a sense memory of floating upside down just sort of like this has got to work and it's like no you're just inverting yourself by putting it on your ankles yeah no uh yeah it happens it happened all right should we give them uh give them what they want overrated some underrated they want give them what they come here for not the news the people uh to quote jaylen rose quoting bob marley um should we what do you

want to start off with underrated yeah let's go under all right you want to kick it off yeah i will do uh karaoke i was at a karaoke birthday party over the weekend, and I have not been since two years before the pandemic. So it had been a minute, and I realized how fucking fun it is. And also, if people are open enough to want to sing, you really learn a lot about people based on their song choice based on how well they know a song finding out people are like sleeper vocalists which is always my favorite thing when like you kind of like it's like a mixed group it was like one of my really close friends

husband's birthday so it was like a lot of her friends but then a lot of his friends who i tangentially knew and some people were just coming like one dude killed corn freak on a leash wow like even with the that part killed it and everyone was like okay like okay sir gauntlet has been thrown down uh so yeah i just love it uh you know y'all know me i love i'm a i'm a tortured fake singer still the same og still the same og still singing off key you know me i love i'm a i'm a tortured fake singer still the same og still the same og still singing off key you know me uh but yeah i think it's just like again just it's it's truly like it's it's a great great birthday party and i think singing is one of those like it's so fucking cathartic it's like more cathartic than most like things you would do at a party i think aside from maybe

like abusing substances which isn't healthy but i think just belting out a tune full voice even if you can't hit the notes it's just liberation right there diet liberation perform what'd you go with uh i did roxanne by the police okay uh and then the high register yeah and then i did um oh kiss from a rose obviously gotta do c yes of course um and then you hit the high notes do you have one finger in one ear and the other hand kind of like riding the wave of the i'll do the thing where i go to me you're like a grown addiction that i can't deny and they're like this here's a harmony won't you tell me is it healthy baby and i'll do that line and people are like whoa he found he went he took the alternate off ramp on that i'm like i'm kind of insufferable when i sing that song because like i love it so much i'm like here's the harmony for the kids yeah uh but then also this fucking place

didn't have my fucking song which is monto jordan this is how we do it they did not have that on the fucking machine what i was i thought i was i thought i was like having some kind of like episode like i didn't know how to how the letters worked i was like it's not coming up like i'm spelling the whole song name really weird a staple right yeah that feels like a top 25 karaoke song they didn't have tina turner like there was no tina turner songs it was pretty yeah it was it was interesting but then they had like fucking like roddy rich the fucking box like yeah i'm like what yeah you gotta have the box i was like okay you got roddy maybe we're just old, but Montel Jordan, like that's a timeless classic. That's like a washed commandment.

I don't even know how to even express that, but it's in stone as something you must have. So yeah, anyway, shout out karaoke. Shout out Montel Jordan, who my friend Blake caught at the, I forget what state fair it was. He performed three songs. He performed, this is how we do it, something for the performed three songs he performed this is how we do it something for the honeys and then this is how we do it again there you go i was gonna say this is how we do it three times um all right uh my underrated is uh explaining inside jokes to your parents um my mom like maybe the third question she asked me upon arriving seeing her for the first time in many months uh she said i have a question i was

listening to the podcast i listened to like an episode a month ago and then i listened to a recent one and you guys kept saying this phrase and i didn't know what it meant oh no um what is grimace come no no no now for a little background about my mom she is the same wonderful woman and also happy birthday to her a couple days ago happy birthday mom i'm sorry happy birthday mom uh uh she's the same woman who when we went to see something about mary together um okay like leaned over and asked me what is he looking for at the part after he jerks off and is looking for oh no mom and i was like i don't know how to explain that um you had a fucking bizarre flashback oh no what did you tell her what do you say yeah scenario wait first of all i because you're you're obviously a funny guy you have uh your

your unbound sense of humor you you can find humor in many things does she know like what is your what is your you and your mom's relationship to like how funny you could be as a kid or what was like too blue of like the kind of comedy around your mom kind of thing i think listening to this podcast like i get a little more loose on this podcast than i've ever been around them so yeah probably i i did feel uh comfortable explaining the backstory of the great milkshake why we found it so strange that it was purple um and then you know it was just like and you you know what and it's his cum she's like oh yeah yeah yeah so it's his cum um is is the joke and then it be and then it became a viral trend it's actually one of the uh most

important things we've ever done on the on the podcast was actually like really impactful um she was like nah they probably just came up with that on their own that was no mom that wasn't you guys influence no mom it's because of us it's because we were yelling grimace come at the top of our lungs let me have this just give it to me uh and then they were doing like grimace shake cocky videos what what is what was that word you just said god oh boy oh so you really were like the the kid who just had a sleepover and is coming back saying all kinds of wild shit to your mom she's like wow that's right my mom is that person actually oh now after after having listened to our show

um what's she gonna tell all her homegirls she's like y'all try that grimace cum over at mcdonald's what you guys get it um you guys get it because it's like weird it's purple yeah but it did make me wonder were we not setting that up enough like are there confused people out there who i think some people would not fathom that we are going to just be so flippant about just just casually calling this milkshake the ejaculate of a storybook character from the mcdonald's universe yeah maybe if we had called it the grimace ejaculateulate, if we say Grimace, it's Grimace's semen. That may be, I don't know.

Zeitgang, let us know. Did we, was there, was that a, was that a bit of a misstep there? Did you guys come in confused as well? Yeah.

Or was it our incessant hammering home of that point for nine months straight? I don't know. Which one? Right in, right in, right in, right in. Let us know. Let us know.

All right. Well, what's something you think is overrated, Miles? So on good karaoke and this is an la thing gentrified karaoke because in los angeles koreatown is the fucking place to do karaoke okay there's things called like norebang which is like you know korea like those it's like a fucking full-on restaurant full-on bar with private rooms you can fucking do everything in there and it's got great food i went to this place and i i recognized it because it was in a basement and like there aren't too many like subterranean like karaoke spots in k-town that was the same spot that you went to that didn't have this is how we do it yes but when i went previously this place was so dark okay first of all when you go in now

like it's completely like revamped it's like we've got the like we're part of diners week and like we've got a great bar and like all these like fancy new remodeled rooms i'm like fine like i don't give a fuck about the room because it just needs to be dark and this needs to have my songs that's it i don't need fucking fancy wallpaper and shit like that to make it look like a hotel suite. Anyway, they've done that now and I'm like, wait, this is the same fucking spot

because the layout's the same. You come down, the right is the karaoke room, the left is the bar area. When I went in the past, it was all black. It was wild illegal shit happening in there. You could smoke cigarettes in there. You could smoke cigarettes in there you could smoke weed in there they didn't give a fuck okay now this shit looked like the lobby of a boutique hotel and this is the part that fucked me up there was no korean beer being served there

and i'm like this you're in korea town that's like a fuck. To me, they go hand in hand. Like, I want to see height. I want to be able to drink makgeolli, which is like the unfiltered rice wine. That's like, for me, part of the thing. And they did everything they could. This menu just made it feel like, oh, no, this is like a white people karaoke place. It just is in Koreatown. And I'm like, I don't know if that's going to do your business much better because the fun is to feel like you're you're doing something that's like a little bit more

diverse or different because did you google if there was a private equity takeover there's a infusion of venture capital cash or private equity takeover which is wild because like it was nicer so in a way it's like it's worse because it's nicer it's kind of like bizarro private equity kind of thing like people probably like objectively it's nicer and like the food is better blah blah i'm like no no no like keep the fucking crime keep the character anyway uh i was a little bit disheartened uh by that but anyway just just damn just keep koreatown korean okay you know what i mean like let not, we don't have to erase, like, the legacies of these neighborhoods. And I don't think it's going to change anytime soon.

But this place in particular, bit of a different vibe. Definitely keep this is how we do it on your rotation in fucking L.A. Yeah. Like, for a karaoke place. I mean, everywhere, but L.A. especially. It's about, it's our, it's we're hitting the shaw because we're faded thank you and i'm not talking we're talking about crenshaw boulevard now come please please and we all knew that and i knew that as a 10 year old singing along some it's some kids didn't those are

our inside jokes that's right all right my overrated is the auteur theory i just there are certain filmmakers who i really like as filmmakers and i just want them to get a co-writer um who is not their brother or their homie they grew up with a yes person basically from yeah yeah like wes anderson um his latest movie like i just is like has its moments looks very cool as a wes anderson movie should what would i come come for but he wrote it with roman coppola i think is his name you know like his uh and it's just like i don't know i i didn't think the the script was that great um nolan wrote oppenheimer by himself and you know it's based on a book obviously but it it is really good i like oppenheimer i'll say that first of all like

this should not keep you from seeing it but he there's just a there's spoilers with this criticism there there is a little bit of a spoiler is what one character there is a woman character who is like doesn't really make sense has mental illness and is holding the male protagonist kind of hostage with her madness wait are you describing every christopher nolan film right that's memento that's inceptionception it's Oppenheimer just off the top of my head and that like you just feel it in some of the scenes when it's like him

Oppenheimer talking to Florence Pugh's character like it just feels like a new movie like a scene from a new movie is spliced in and there's like this rat-a-tat like Hudsucker proxy banter oh my god what a fucking reference it's it's just like it just feels like wait that's not hell that's like

not some of his characters are really how people proxy yeah like it's coen brothers and they're like like i don't know if anyone ever talked like that but um right i don't know it's just nolan's very good at what he does right but just like hire a one like i we we've talked about that study where people who were forced to work on a problem in diverse groups of people with people who weren't like them right they thought they did worse and they did a better job on the problem they were trying to solve right um whereas when they were with people who were like them they thought they were way more confident and yeah they did way worse um and i just feel like that that needs to be told he needs to read about that about that stuff like your own

limits right yeah it's just there's always these moments not always but a lot of the time in his movies where a woman shows up and it's like the same 14 year old boy's inability to cope with women as human beings and as anything other than like an extremely powerful force that is like mysterious and could fucking destroy you yeah and could destroy you in some ways it's just like that it's a small moment small critique but i do just think in general there are some of our best filmmakers who could benefit from working with unlike minded people yeah or maybe just get up and get the fuck out of the way maybe too yeah you know you've done a lot no one you know but maybe you know bring somebody else up bring somebody pull somebody up pull so it's

funny because yeah like the rest of most of his films like why am i all screwed up because of this broad like the undertone of it so okay well yeah i'm uh looking forward to it i will i will let you know uh how i feel yeah it's very it's like i i really enjoy it i saw it on the big imax screen at uh oh shit the uh on hollywood boulevard it was yeah man chinese yeah isn't it i heard there's something like there's only like nine theaters on earth that can play it in 70 millimeter IMAX. Basically. That's fucking wild.

I bought the tickets like a week in advance and we were like, you know, pretty, pretty far up towards the screen. Holy shit. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

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Ron DeSantis continues to not have a very good time at the at the old presidential race the old fuck factory florida factory uh yeah man it's okay so if you recall a couple weeks ago the florida's department of education changed school curriculum to essentially say that like they um actually there were benefits to slavery like like job skills. So let's stop the crying.

Okay. Naturally, people are like, what in the fuck is going on there? This is a fucking just this is this is fucked. Like, there's no other way to describe this. And while many Republicans were like cheering this like literal like rewrite of history. Yeah. DeSantis faced some heat to like, like a few journalists are like yeah so is that what you believe like that's that's going on in your state that's what you you want people to be taught and he didn't think well that into account was very thoughtful about the critique

and of course well let me think about that well actually it was the department of education's call um if you and then and i have nothing you know that's just that's what they believe they wanted to do and i'm backing them to do that. If you recall, we talked about this motherfucker was signing bills left and right about what school curriculum can and cannot include. So miss me with the, I don't know what the fuck's going on. Anyway, so way to fold the slightest bit of questioning. Then the backlash came over the weekend from black members of the GOP. I don't know why it took this long but

hey it is it is here it has hit the shores of florida and it's there the the five black people in congress are not happy uh the five black republicans in congress uh new kid on the hill uh representative wesley hunt said quote as the direct descendant of a slave i have a hard time understanding governor desantis's position that that transferable skills learned in bondage are somehow a net benefit. If Ron DeSantis spent more time doing the job the people of Florida elected him to do and less time on his failing presidential campaign, perhaps Florida's curriculum on slavery would more accurately reflect the pain and heartbreak experienced by millions who suffered through the original sin. Which is... And this guy, guy like let's keep in mind none of these people who i'm going to read quotes from are like by any stretch of the imagination like on the right side of even like you know black liberation but right right they they know they do draw the line

at i'm not gonna let a white person say that slavery was a net benefit to people you know absolutely not that's where the line is uh another newcomer john james he said he said slate number one slavery was not cte which is like career technical education like you know what i mean like not they're not the chronic what is it something encephalitis encephalitis that the NFL players get. Nothing about 400 years of evil was a quote net benefit to my ancestors. Number two, there are only five black Republicans in Congress and you're attacking two of them. My brother in Christ,

if you find yourself in a deep hole, put the shovel down. You are now so far from the party of Lincoln that your education board is rewriting history and you're personally attacking conservatives like Tim Scott and Byron Donald on the topic of slavery you've gone too far stop uh byron donalds again uh who's a black man from florida said again just saying this is he did a fucking softball to desantis he said oh this is not he's like you know the new african-american standards i don't know are good

robust and accurate that being said the attempt to feature the personal benefits of slavery is wrong and needs to be adjusted. That obviously wasn't the goal, and I have faith that the Florida Department of Education will correct this. Tim Scott, who's been gaining on DeSantis in a couple polls, said, quote, There's no silver lining in slavery. The truth is whatever benefits you could have learned, you would have had as a free person. What slavery is really about is separating families, about mut mutilating him goes on and on and on and basically has like he also gave tim scott this moment to actually look like he's actually a better pick than ron desantis yeah like during this whole time um and again it's all all of their criticisms are valid although they don't practice

what they preach sadly uh but in this moment they all basically took their time to help just kind of bring desantis down a few pegs and he said listen people have bad days sometimes they regret what they say and we should ask them again to clarify their positions to be like so are you sure yeah you want to clarify your statement yeah oh i want to make sure you have the same energy from in the text thread right Right. Because if you don't, then what the fuck is going on? And like, people are saying all these comments

like Ron DeSantis, this is what fucking he said. Like, this was his defense from these, you know, comments from black Republicans. Quote, At the end of the day, you gotta choose. Are you gonna side with Kamala Harris and the liberal media outlets? Or are you going to, are you going to side with the state of Florida? Wait, what the fuck does Kamala Harris have to do with it? Because a black woman,

I'm honestly, I think it's just the laziest racism. It's like, you're just going to side with this black woman or, and a lot of people are like accusing these people of doing kamala harris's bidding i think just because she's the most visible like black democrat right now um jesus christ and you know other people are being like oh these people are supposed conservatives or rhinos and other shit so it's just a fucking disaster he can't he can't even he's fucking this up too it's kind of wild how bad it's getting yeah i've also seen some media from like the washington post being like sanchez is just being like take it there i've seen some like washington or not washington post out wall street journal stories trying to like take his side that like they're just mad that he like killed it so hard

during the pandemic um so i i I, I feel like he, there's going to be a resurgence and like a backlash to the backlash, uh, with them being like, is this, is this our best shot? Cause Trump looks fucked. Like,

and I don't know about these other people. They don't know. They don't know. This, this is not a, not a good look. I honestly, Trump is still their best shot.

Oh yeah. That's what, that's what's shot oh yeah even with everything wall street journal doesn't know that and they don't want to admit that no no you can't so go with me meatball ron three pudding fingers desantis it's no wonder the ocean's 101 degrees here because i've been taking some heat that's how i should have introduced it um anyways trump more charges more uh you know this is kind of more of the same this is the jack smith uh investigation into the document into uh mar-a-lago documents yeah um and we got some new new players new players have entered the game yeah there's one guy carlos de olivera is the newest the newest named defendant in this case

and remember okay so in june when jack smith first came out was like giving his speech and all that shit i don't know if you're we talked about this quote that was like in cnn about how someone had drained the mar-a-lago pool and tried to flood a server room where the surveillance footage was kept and we're like that's so sensational that sounds fucking dumb well it sounds like it's true because this guy basically was the person in charge of all this shit uh and not only was he like trying to fuck around the server room he then just went to like one of the it guys at mar-a-lago and was like yeah so uh i need you to delete all the security footage so the feds don't get their hands on it, basically.

And when the guy's like, I don't even know if I know how to do that or can do that, actually, this guy Dio Lavera is like, yeah, well, the boss wants it done. So, cool. I don't know who's the boss. Poor dude thought he was gangster,

Dio Lavera. He's also charged with lying to the FBI because because then they're like what do you know about this he said i didn't see shit no that's no comment up in the station that's all i know it's relaxation and but now this dude is looking at some gangster charges so we'll see if he flips that's the big thing now is like you got like this guy this dude a 56 year old employee of the hotel just getting caught up yeah I don't know if he's down for or whatever they're probably promising can be done if he keeps his mouth

shut but yeah it's uh it's more is happening and again like to our point that we keep saying I don't know if that's gonna change anything because I don't think he could still win he's still demolishing everyone in the polls right yeah yeah yeah because i mean if you look at the math like there's like just that 30 ish percent that is going nowhere right and then plus like uh 10 percent ish people like you know there's like other people just will never vote

for joe biden you can find a coalition there on some level uh depending how things go but you know another thing that was pointed out his trump's legal spending now outpacing his fundraising wow yeah i mean yeah that's got to be expensive right 40 million bottomless well 40 million in legal fees in the last quarter and in like apparently in one quarter yeah he raised only he raised a paltry 35 million in q2 the five million dollar difference there jesus so i'm guessing a new round of trump nfts is probably coming out or something oh yeah this one where he's like shaking hands with the aliens or whatever i'm sure no it's by him like doing like a fucking like tombstone pile driver on a fucking alien off the top rope to be like

when he shakes hands he like pulls your shoulder out of your socket and it always looks like it's the first step in a some jujitsu move that you want to see me choke slam an alien what's this shit um all right let's take a let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about taylor swift arthur and other pop culture bullshit we'll be right back 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,

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fucked up a fault like they activated enough it was enough that there was seismic activity equivalent to a 2.3 magnitude earthquake. So, you know, like Jurassic Park shit, like when the T-Rex takes a step. Yeah. You know, you're a couple blocks away and you're looking at a glass of water and it's trembling. You're near Lumen Field and your glass of Chardonnay is wobbling somehow. What is going on out there? So supposedly it was a combination of her fans, the sound system during Shake It Off, which I don't know Taylor's full catalog, but it's interesting to hear that's as hard as it goes is Shake It Off.

Yeah. Is that like the most turned up song of Taylor Swift's? It's probably the one that is most danceable for everyone yeah all all because even i'm like okay all right yeah okay because the players want to play play play be contributing play on play it um the same site or at least the same city was responsible for another seismic activity when uh it was called the beast quake in which Seahawks fans, Seattle Seahawks fans went nuts following a famous last minute touchdown by Marshawn Lynch.

That was 2011. The Swift concert shook the ground twice as hard. Oh, wow. Conservative media is going to love that. Yeah, they are. What do you think about that, Marshawn? You Berkeley, you Bay Area lib.

In 2022 alone, people like Garth Brooks and Florence and the Machine made headlines for similarly causing measurable seismic activity. I feel like this might be just one of those stories that PR teams get going to just be like, this is such a wild event. It happens every World Cup too. When Messi scored there was an earthquake in Argentina or when Mexico scored there was an earthquake in Mexico

City. Which yeah you get it. People are fucking losing it. Yeah. I have always been interested in human induced seismicity. That's actually a Wikipedia page that you can go look up. It's a good time.

A little bit terrifying. In case you thought I thought you were making up that word. Yeah. Seismicity, okay. I was going to say seismic activity, but they went ahead and collapsed that for those of us who use fewer words. I remember hearing that that dam in China,

I think it was the Three Gorges Dam, made the earth wobble on its axis. Oh, yeah, right. I didn't feel, so I don't believe it. Just like I don't believe in dinosaurs. Or the stock market. Yeah, or the stock market. But yeah, I just, I can't comprehend an event

that's so big that it causes, like earthquakes and seismic activity, I've always thought belong in the, like something that just comes down from on high. Right. But it's apparently not all that uncommon for dams, like man-made reservoir and then a bunch of other like energy industry bullshit like fracking, carbon capture, wastewater injection to actually cause earthquakes. Like a lot of people think that that's why Oklahoma has so many earthquakes today. Because the fracking. Yeah, fracking and just it's a state that's run by energy extraction industries and right it's a fucking mess but um all of which to say i'll be impressed when taylor swift concerts make the wikipedia page for uh human induced seismicity oh i like

that the that the u.s geological survey clears up that most induced earthquakes are actually not directly caused by hydraulic fracking. The recent increase in earthquakes in the central U.S. primarily caused by the disposal of waste fluids that are a byproduct of oil production. Okay, so let's not give all the credit to fracking. Okay, it's from old school oil production for the reason. We're just fucking the earth with oil industry garbage juice yeah and it's trying to be like get the shit off of me yeah wow the one thing i would love to know is like i would love to be like just outside the stadium to be like yo yeah because you're not gonna feel that shit jumping up and down like in the fucking building but i would

if you're saying it's a 2.3, like I'd lay down on the ground, just my, just my face on the concrete, just to see like, can I feel the earth vibrate? Feel the earth breathe. Yeah. Feel that man.

Like that Triceratops in Jurassic park. Yeah. That ate those bears. The parking lot does that. Yeah. Just lay on this big tummy and go, Oh, there's a little paragraph in the Wikipedia page on human-induced seismicity that I found refreshing.

It says, during the beginning of the Vagiant Dam in Italy, there were seismic shocks recorded during its initial fill. After a landslide almost filled the reservoir in 1963, causing a massive flooding and around 2,000 deaths. It was drained and consequently seismic activity was almost non-existent. Like for some reason that feels refreshing, unfortunately, like they fucked with the earth. The earth killed a bunch of people and they were like, Oh, Oh,

okay. Fuck that. Then, uh, we'll, we'll move along here. And the earth stopped killing people. And a lesson was learned that day

and then quickly forgotten yeah exactly i just needed a 2000 body sacrifice fear that's right that's what it demanded the earth is hungry today folks um the right is coming for arthur now um the the latest book to be challenged in florida schools is arthur's birthday um i mean there there's been a lot of dumb efforts to ban books made by a small number of The latest book to be challenged in Florida schools is Arthur's birthday. I mean, there's been a lot of dumb efforts to ban books made by a small number of highly mobilized bigots. But it's fucking Arthur, guys. Yeah. Come on.

Well, what's going on? They're having a rainbow party or something. Yeah. Arthur's having a rainbow party. He's got yellow lipstick on sucks like three dicks and like you see the yellow ring on the now i'm gonna have to explain what a rainbow party is you know watch oprah oprah yeah google rainbow party oprah because it's thank you it's damaging the nation the book in question scandalously involves a reference to playing spin the bottle

which one guy thinks will result in students damaged souls you know and so you're assuming okay so there's a game spin the bottle Arthur goes in the closet there's like a bunch of sucking and fucking that happens like for three or four pages

no it just ends with him like he's I, nervous about it. And then he gets a spin the bottle bottle for his birthday, like as a present. But the guy complaining about the book is the Florida chapter president of No Left Turn in Education, which is one of those right-wing groups

that has tried to ban thousands of books. And last December, he said that he had compiled a list of over 3,600 titles that I believe have concerning content, including porn, critical race theory, social emotional learning, which is like their favorite thing. It's wild that that's thrown in there. And fluid gender. Fluid gender. Not gender fluidity. Yeah. Fluid gender. thrown in there and fluid gender fluid gender not gender fluidity yeah fluid gender what look i'm confused here man you're making me uh sweat i am flender druid i'm not a flender

druid okay yeah i'm here saving damaged souls from learning so it's and the book is just like by the end there's no spin the bottle you just got it's referenced there's nothing aside from referencing the cultural phenomenon that is spin the bottle that is mainly from the baby boomer generation that's not yeah you know like that's that's your euphoria they ain't playing spin the bottle on that show. Exactly. They're just getting right to it, folks. But Arthur has actually traditionally been very bipartisan. Oh, really? So both sides, motherfucker? He collaborated with both Bush administrations and also Obama.

And there's an episode of Arthur in which he grabs pizza with an aardvark version of Bill Clinton. Wow. So, I don't know akab may include arthur but uh also when mark brown was collaborating with uh george w and laura bush he traveled to russia where he got drunk with putin um and then but then he did draw the line at trump so uh he said uh not only did he not want to work with trump when he was president he illustrated political cartoons featuring a nude trump sitting on a golden throne so his days since then have been numbered with the maggot crown yeah i'm guessing i get it but just a reminder that these

banning pushes are from a small number of people organized as part of mr uh flood the zone with shit steve Bannon's plan that we covered when he said this was going to be his plan and now we were living through the fallout of this plan to make school boards the next battlefield for the MAGA Wars. His first plan was

he was in gamer forums and being like, these are our people. There's a lot of unhappy alienated white children in here. Let's go. Let's convert this into a fossil fuel. And, you know, in this case, though, I feel like his plan, like,

they are effective at drinking up media attention, causing, you know, librarians and parents and, you know and school board stress. But anecdotally, it doesn't seem to be gaining grassroots momentum. It still seems like when you hear about these movements, it's like, yeah, there were six people from not our school district who came to our school board meeting and just fucked shit up. With regards to the book banning like

washington post has done a lot of reporting on this the majority of the 1000 plus book challenges analyzed by the post in one case were filed by just 11 people and yeah so it's it's very it just shows you guys do you put your fucking heads together you can cause untold stress for people across the country but these are the people who are using insurgency tactics you know it is like a testament to how much shit can be raised by a few idiots now imagine if the people who were fighting for progressive causes yeah i mean turns out i think we could probably get more than 11 people together yeah i think just with the listeners of this show we'd probably be more effective organizing tool

than some of these fucking creeps yeah last week counted there were 13 of you so let's go yeah hey but we appreciate y'all we appreciate y'all each and every one of you thank you for this um and then finally just you know an update that uh still burning the twitter slash x dumpster fire uh continues to rage yeah um so yeah a couple updates from this weekend uh word came that yay's account is being reinstated because he personally promised elon musk that he'd stop posting nazi shit um that's cool no he said he said he's cool um twitter is also apparently still twitter on apple's app store uh because they have a policy that apps require at least two characters so this is another way he just didn't think about this shit.

And then finally he's got that big giant X sign on top of the Twitter HQ, um, which sparked an investigation from the city for lacking proper permits. And then when an inspector showed up to take a look at the sign, Twitter staff told him that it was a temporary lighted sign for an event, uh, which is clearly bullshit. Like he's been talking about how this is his, like,

he's been screaming at it to his millions of followers. Right. But yeah, that is why, like, there are people who live in the apartment building right there, right across from the sign, and it's just a constant 24 hours a day strobe light

into your, like, unless you have blackout shades drawn that's what you're looking at fucking loser i and i over the weekend he was really tweeting some emo ass shit like he's like i've been you know san francisco is fucking dying and like people are begging me to move the headquarters out of here and i've been getting some pretty good offers you know to move this thing out of here but i think we're gonna stay and then and this is somebody you know who your real friends are i'm like dude please just you're you're flailing so bad um and it just sucks that people who are like counting on this as a job have to just like be just you know no we like you man yeah have a passenger seat to this fucking plane

crash but here we are because one man's ego is doing untold amounts of chaos god it's like no one even likes me right now i don't even care might as well like move and like i could dude because like people like they're like telling me to come to their house dude and i could and they're like rich dude they have like baller, like, telling me to come to, like, their house, dude, and I could. And they're, like, rich, dude. They have, like, baller-ass houses, too. My girlfriend in Austin, like, wants me to move there. And, like, she likes me more than you guys. Yeah, the one that used to do porn, but then I told her to stop because if she loves me, she won't do that.

Yeah, her. Yeah, she stopped. Because she loves me, dude, and that's what love is, dude. That's what kind of control I have. You know what I mean? Yeah. So I'm going to Austin, dude. Fuck San Francisco. Yeah, we'll see where I have. You know what I mean? I'm going to Austin. Fuck San Francisco.

Yeah, we'll see where this goes. I just really do not know. I don't know what the next fuck up is going to be. Because you know we're looking at some kind of... He's going to have to double down on something again soon. And it's going to be... I don't know. He's already got yay back on the thing and people who post child

abuse images. I don't know what's's already got yay back on the thing and people who post child abuse images. So I don't know what's next. It does feel like I think we said about a year and a half ago that like he has entered as the new person that is just drinking up all the oxygen. Like we need a main character on the Internet. And like he has been in now for like a year and a half. on the internet yeah and like he has been in now for like a year and a half and he just manages to find a new way to you know ruin shit and you know provoke media attention every single day but it's it's amazing but it's not really to any benefit to his businesses no like everything we're talking about is like yeah he's fucking up twitter it's a garbage fire it's the brand value has halved and then it's like oh tesla yeah they have a fake fucking

department to like gaslight you into thinking you're an if you're a fuck up for driving their cars yeah yeah oh you're a bad driver let me just run the diagnostics real quick oh yeah yeah there's your problem what oh yeah says you're gonna have a foot and it turns out you're an idiot it says you know how to read okay i'm getting it i'm getting an lw lw yeah are you seeing that in your dashboard lw yeah loser warning yeah because that's what i'm seeing oh you're not getting okay so that's what's the problem here you're a loser dude and then ring the bell. Another service appointment canceled.

Saved Elon another thousand. Saved Elon Musk. Thank you, Elon. Thank you, Elon. Yes, sir. Let me play the... It's so stupid. That fucking...

That one quote from that story about how there's a metal xylophone, like a metallophone in there, where they go... Where they're like running it up the side it's like in a birth word where they the sound they play when a new child is born they do that when they cancel another person's service appointment making their life a little bit worse can you imagine that there someone's like terror like something happened to someone as a result of

being turned away for service on their car and then that that set off some kind of chain reaction or something i'm sure i mean yeah i'm sure that that's happened you know hopefully nobody none of the heat tourists drove to death valley in a tesla uh thinking that they had 350 miles of range you know yeah oh god that would be the most 2023 story i know is heat tourists in a tesla misreading how much battery they had and then succumbing to our terrible climate catastrophe oh boy it's like it writes itself and then elon musk is like evading media questions because he's on a self-made submarine looking for the wreckage of an alien spacecraft. Yes.

Boom. Boom. It turns out it was us the whole time. That's right. We are the aliens. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday morning the 31st. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the things that are trending on this Monday morning, July 31st. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show.

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