The Daily Zeitgeist - Trend Shapiro's Fortnite Foray 5/26: Trump's Disapproval Rating, Starbucks' Tank Day Controversy, Ben Shapiro, Stephen Colbert

Episode Date: May 26, 2026

In this edition of Trend Shapiro’s Fortnite Foray, Jack and Miles discuss Donald Trump’s disapproval rating reaching an all-time high of 58%, along with Trump skipping Donald Trump Jr.&rsq...uo;s wedding. They also break down Starbucks’ latest advertising controversy, which echoes the company’s infamous 2002 “Collapse Into Cool” misstep, in which a poster promoting two new beverages drew criticism for imagery reminiscent of the September 11 attacks. The new campaign was tied to the release of a new oversized tumbler called The Tank, launched on May 18th and branded as “Tank Day.” The problem: May 18th is the anniversary of the Gwangju Democratic Uprising in South Korea, when the military-controlled government used tanks to suppress pro-democracy demonstrations. Next, they discuss the shooting outside the White House, which was covered by several media members who were filming at the time and the administration's use of the shooting as a justification for the White House ballroom. Next, in an effort to slow subscriber losses at The Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro streamed himself playing Fortnite for the first time. Finally, the day after the final episode of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert guest-hosted Only in Monroe, a public-access show from Monroe, Michigan, featuring guests Jack White, Jeff Daniels, and Steve Buscemi.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:02 The one thing that's fucking me up is Drake just bet a ton of money on Arsenal. Yeah, that's tough when your team is like... The biggest thing is when Drake bets on your team. You're like, get the fuck out of here! Is he the cooler? The international cooler? I mean, he's pretty hit or miss. Like there's times he announces big bets and then everyone's like,
Starting point is 00:00:24 I feel like that one year the Chiefs didn't win. Oh, right. He put a fuck ton of money on the Chiefs. Yeah, yeah. But whatever. That guy has bigger problems than this. And when I was talking to other people, I'm like, what are we going to do?
Starting point is 00:00:36 They're like, bro, this shit is bigger than fucking hip hop, bro. Shit is big. His biggest problem is what's he going to do with all these awesome songs? Yeah. I mean, three dang albums? Come on, man. Dude, he's got to put him somewhere. He's got these.
Starting point is 00:00:50 He's going to do with all these streams. Let's see if he's still dominating the top 20. Have you listened to any of the three albums? I'm breeze through Iceman. I haven't made it through all three. I just, I don't have the time for that much straight. You're right.
Starting point is 00:01:07 It is a breezy listen. Very easy. It goes down easy. Very good, right? Good point, Ian. Yeah, lyrics aren't very challenging. Oh, man.
Starting point is 00:01:18 But really a lock on the top. How's you doing on the streams there? Let me check for you here. Because that proves you're a better rapper than Drake. All right. I mean, the top five. Choosen, Texas has invaded the top 10. Drake is no longer.
Starting point is 00:01:36 What is Choosin Texas? Choosin Texas is a song that I am unfamiliar with, but has been, I saw like a little headline somewhere that said that Choos in Texas is like breaking records in terms of streams. And Ella Langley's Be Her has also broken into the top 20. That's also Ella Langley. this is choosing Texas oh yeah they're both Ella Langley bro this shit is kicking Drake's asses whooping Drake's ass I mean not really it's number five
Starting point is 00:02:10 Drake he's in hell over over this right now yeah yeah yeah but he loves he but he loves Houston what is he going to do he's always choosing Texas oh that's a good point my thing um Olivia Rodriguez has broken into the global top 20 fuck yeah yeah and uh Olivia was also wearing an arsenal kit recently. Guy named Michael Jackson is broken into the top 20. Oh, you didn't beat it or something?
Starting point is 00:02:36 Billy Gene. Oh, Billy Jean came back. Yeah. Billy Jean? Huh? Who knew? So that's just off the string of that movie? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:45 Have you heard of this guy? All right. I'll bite. Who's this Michael Jackson? Yeah. I'm got to check him out. He sounds like he's doing big things. It's because that beat, dude, the second that bit,
Starting point is 00:02:54 boot, cut, doot, got, got, dude. Bro, that already, you already know what time it is. I think the reason Michael Jackson is doing well is because Drake references his glove on the cover of his new album. Yeah, it was all Drake. That's viral marketing for Michael Jackson. It's not the movie either. It's not the movie. It's Drake putting the Michael Jackson glove on the cover in a very weird pop culture reference for somebody who's been accused of liking A minor.
Starting point is 00:03:28 Man, this is. I don't even know. I haven't even heard the other two albums. I'm just got Ice Man on Loop, dude. Yeah, that's right. Drake is fucking back, bro. Jack, you really got to get in, man. You don't want to miss this train.
Starting point is 00:03:43 A maverick to your Iceman. Go nose to nose with you and a towel in a steamy locker room. You know what I'm saying? Also, all I'm saying is, you know, Jared McCain famously huge Drake fan. He was really excited for Iceman. drop ever since those three albums came out thunder been losing i don't know i'm just saying that i blame them
Starting point is 00:04:06 i'm just saying i blame him and you know who i blame for uh the nicks being on a unstoppable 10 game stretch of the the most dominant 10 game stretch of NBA basketball ever Drake a little guy by the name is our mom donnie oh yeah yeah i mean he's winning bro between arsenal and the nix i know he's having a fucking summer what the fuck is going on with this guy. He's going to be having a fucking sum. That's who we need to look where he's putting his money. Yeah, bro. I want to see his polymarket account. I bet he's bet he's bet he's been like $20 at an OTB.
Starting point is 00:04:41 Oh, yeah. Just with the like jankiest disguise. They're like, yo, whoa, Mr. Mayor? Nah, no, no, man. Give me freaking 20 on the Knicks, bro. Hurry up. The fuck is going on, bro. Dressed up like a Hasidic guy like Bono. Oh, yeah. Wait. Why did Bono dress like a Hasidic Jew? what was it for just you know
Starting point is 00:05:00 be in Bono not wanting to be noticed yeah Bono Hasidic I think he like might have gotten to a bike accident
Starting point is 00:05:09 or something there was like some incident that happened and they were like wait a second that's no Hasidic Jew
Starting point is 00:05:15 that is Bono yeah oh it's because the edge said that he rides around on a bike like that that was on
Starting point is 00:05:23 K Rock wow I like that someone was like no he he is not his public of like, no, he's not doing that. Right.
Starting point is 00:05:31 Yeah, I mean, that is kind of problem. Yeah. Somebody should have said something. Yeah, hey, buddy. This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. You have the desire to help to make a real difference?
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Starting point is 00:08:05 Listen to the Radio 831 podcast on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this week trend edition of... Do you see? This is a production of IHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's Share Consciousness and on the first. recording after the weekend, the long weekend in this case, we do like to dive in and tell you what was trending over the long weekend. And what's going on with us? My name is Jack O'Brien.
Starting point is 00:08:41 That over there's Mr. Miles Gray. Thank you so much. You can call me supporter of Premier League Champions Arsenal Football Club Miles Gray. Thank you so much. Yes. I'm a champion, Jack. You're still floating on air. Oh, I'm going to be floating on air for a while.
Starting point is 00:08:57 Okay. Because when you haven't won shit for 22 years and that shit comes, God bless it. I actually had a really good conversation with somebody who was a Cubs fan recently. He was like, I get it, man. I fucking get it. I get it. And I'm like, thank you. Thank you, man.
Starting point is 00:09:11 I appreciate it, man. Thank you. Just crying nonstop for the past two weeks. And he was like, look, dude, I'm still not going to give you this pizza for free just because you got your wallet. I'm like, please, please. We're basically brothers. I don't have nothing. I forgot my wallet.
Starting point is 00:09:26 I forgot everything. Yeah, so we're going to tell you some stuff that happened over the weekend. Oh, yeah. Talk about Donald Trump not going to a son's wedding, a yet another assassination attempt, an amazing story about Starbucks. Yeah, what the f. Yeah. Another weird ad campaign that I had forgot the collapse into cool posters.
Starting point is 00:09:51 I think we had talked about it here, but every time I relearn about the collapse into cool 9-11 ad campaign from Starbucks. My brain goes on the same journey where it's like, this has to be fake. Wait a second. This actually happened. Anyways, we're going to get to that. But first, we like to let you get to know us a little bit better by telling you some things we think are underrated, some things we think are overrated.
Starting point is 00:10:17 Miles, let's kick it off with something you think is underrated. Underrated Arsenal Football Club. Oh, okay. Yeah. Now, speak on that. Because I've been hearing some things about this. I just have to say a couple things, okay? I've been supporting this team since about 2001, 2002.
Starting point is 00:10:36 I was fortunate enough to watch us lift the title or the trophy 22 years ago in 2004. And then the years in between was like the first five years we were still riding off the high of winning within. You know how like you can kind of still ride that high? We were like, yeah, we did win, like, a couple years ago. Yeah. And then a couple years ago turns into five years and turns to 10 and turns to 15 and turns to 20. And by around 10 years, you, people start looking at you funny being like, bro, stop talking about when you lost, you won 10 years ago. Like, you guys aren't winning shit right now.
Starting point is 00:11:13 But there's a picture of you, like, celebrating that win and you're wearing like a full gene outfit. Like Britney Spears and Justin Timberlick. I got two headbands on, crissed on my head, like three wristbands up my arm. You have a band-aid under your eye. I have two white teas on, one half on and the other on top of my other white tea. It was a beautiful time. I was wearing gerbo jeans. But like in that period, right, we didn't do anything.
Starting point is 00:11:41 And a lot of other teams came up that were winning consistently and got a ton of the fans, like a lot of people supporting them in that era. And the ones that still hung on, we weren't, no one could ever accuse us of glory hunting. You know what I mean? Or like bandwagoning. because we weren't fucking doing shit functionally on paper, but there was still this belief. And the fact that it has come off now, I'm telling you,
Starting point is 00:12:02 we are in the midst of seeing a global mass catharsis event, okay? Because people are celebrating in India, Vietnam, Kenya, Japan, America, okay? America? You name it. We're there. I'm assuming this is common for any team that wins this level of- I will say,
Starting point is 00:12:24 Yeah, when Liverpool won it about six years ago, six years ago, it had been 30 years since they won, and they fucking turned up. And I get it because it had been 30 years. That was like the last time it's been at this level. The teams that have other, like this one team, Manchester City, they have just been like using brute force of economics and a bunch of like economic. They're doing like shit that they're getting in trouble for financially to get signed the players that they do. Right. And so when they win, they just had a parade for. for like they're a legendary manager going, bro, there was barely any people that came out for that shit. Wow. And a lot of people are lamenting. They're like, God, the culture just is not there. And there's just something about this football club
Starting point is 00:13:05 that brings us together. Yeah, and for the people that laugh, the songs. The people that laugh and say, uh, you guys aren't winning, we are fucking massive.
Starting point is 00:13:14 Look around you. You know, I'm sure you're seeing people rolling up in their red and white. And I too will be soon. Thank you very much. That's been my time. I'm seeing people. Oh,
Starting point is 00:13:24 I wouldn't have recognized it otherwise. Oh, every time I wear something, someone was like, oh, yay, what's up? What's up? You guys are particularly international, you were saying off. Yeah. I mean, like, because of the embrace of, like, international players of diversity, like, we were, you know, where Arsenal is is, like, in some of, like, the blackest parts of London. So the fan base, like, it's embraced the support of, like, black fans, black players.
Starting point is 00:13:49 We were the first team to, like, field, I think, nine black players on the field at once. which was like unheard of in England at the time. And we've signed. You guys are the reverse Red Sox. Reverse Red Sox, reverse Boston teams. Yes, we're reverse Boston. We're David Stern's worst and best, worst nightmare and greatest dream ever. Thank you so much, David Stern.
Starting point is 00:14:10 But like to that end, there's just been a history of like giving players a chance and like allowing players from Togo or the Ivory Coast or Nigeria to like be part of our starting lineup. and that's created a ton of interest from around the world. Arson Venger, our most legendary manager, came from Japan, which is how I even heard of him because he was really popular in Japan. And that's when like all the Japanese people were like, oh shit, Arson. So I'm just saying for all the people that are like,
Starting point is 00:14:38 I'm going to keep talking about this because this is the greatest beach of my life. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're, this is, yeah. I'm going to have my dad back on. I'm going to have my dad back on to keep talking about Arsenal next time. I'm like, dad, say something about Arsenal right now. Is your dad a fan? No.
Starting point is 00:14:54 Fuck, no. He's a Laker fan. I mean, like, that's where I get my Laker fandom from my dad. But, like, no, he likes Arsenal because he knows that I've been waking up at like 4 a.m to watch matches live for 22 years. Sure, sure. And obsessed with it. So, by osmosis, he is happy that I have this thing. Same.
Starting point is 00:15:12 Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Danny. I'm always rooting for Arsenal because I have no reason not to. Thank you, Jack. And it was because of you. We share this with you. What's something you think is underrated?
Starting point is 00:15:24 You know, I'm not going to take all the credit, but I did a lot of work, a lot of heavy lifting. Definitely. Something I think is underrated taking a hard turn. How much human trafficking is about labor? When I hear the phrase human trafficking, I picture Liam. Neson's daughter being taken or, you know, the sound of freedom trailer, certainly the Epstein files, you know, human trafficking is of white teenagers from America is so routine in the, in these worlds that like Liam Niesin is able to tell her, oh, okay, you're about to be taken. He just like knows
Starting point is 00:16:14 the drill. Some people broke into your apartment. Oh, yeah, you're about to be heroin slaved on a yacht. like that's that's just how those works um and they i was reading a new yorker article over the weekend about human you know human trafficking being a massive problem in the united states uh but uh you specifying that it's rarely the blonde american women being kidnapped from parking lots after someone put a zip tie on their door handle yeah yeah right that that meme over during the pandemic um and taken to foreign countries it's actually mostly immigrants from other countries being exploited and forced into doing labor, serving people like those white ladies for little to no money.
Starting point is 00:17:01 It's the same reason America's been using slave labor for centuries because it makes it easier to make money. Yeah. Run on slavery. Exactly. And, you know, so there is like, so this article is just about all the ways that human trafficking is used to fuel cheap labor. And it can be, there's like an example of a 2024 pizza chain in Massachusetts was convicted of using forced labor to make undocumented workers work 14 hours a day.
Starting point is 00:17:33 And I have to admit, like, it's like a point that they make is like if something's prices are, like if a place's prices are too good to be true, like you should maybe like think about how, how that's happening. Wait, so what's the, what's like the examples are like pizza place, a massage place? This is a quote from the article. According to the Department of Homeland Security, the majority of trafficking victims, 77% are forced into labor. In the U.S., most of these labor trafficking victims are immigrants working in a commercial enterprise such as a hotel or a beauty salon for little to no pay. But there's also, you know, restaurants, restaurant chains. And then domestic labor is also a big thing.
Starting point is 00:18:20 Like the article is about somebody who is, you know, a 12-year-old from Africa who is like brought to this rich family's house and basically like lives in slavery until her 20s in this wealthy suburb of Houston. And people are like, seems weird and they would like make individual complaints to the police. but nobody would actually like act on it until she finally just like started talking to people and being like, hey, I think this is bad. Yeah, right. What's happy to be is bad. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:58 It's also just the politics of the people who are, you know, on the right who are afraid of non-white people. You know, a lot of the anti-trafficking fear on the right is like these. immigrants are going to come in and like take us and take us to other countries. And it's like, uh, it's actually those politics that are making it possible because like the, the threat that is used to keep people in these situations is basically like, I've got your travel documents. Like what are you, you're going to run away and get picked up by ice. Yeah. And that's for you. That was another thing people were saying about the ice raids is that like, this is, this is making the situation worse for the people to.
Starting point is 00:19:45 that are already in these precarious, like, not even like working relationship in these like forms of slavery and indentured servitude. Yeah. That, yeah, to have that be like,
Starting point is 00:19:55 oh, well, all it's going to take now is me to make one little call and you'll end up somewhere fucked up. Yeah. Yeah, well. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:20:02 well. Yeah, exactly. It really, like, it feels like it's about a terrible situation in America. And it's mostly about pre this administration. Yeah. Like a version of America that existed before. this administration and like everything that they've done has made the situation like way worse
Starting point is 00:20:21 right it could get impossibly worse well yeah because it's never about the what they say it's about right you know what i mean it's because if it was they'd be doing something different yeah all these like affordable things that uh in the u.s like a lot a lot of the time they're being driven like you know just doing the steve jobs episode of um the iconograph a lot of his genius. The ability to do these big drops of iPhones was made possible
Starting point is 00:20:52 by going to horrible labor practices over in China. So it's a lot of the deals and a lot of the increasingly unaffordable, but like the ways that America is affordable is through
Starting point is 00:21:08 horrible labor practices or indentured servitude and like these things that people can't wouldn't believe are just like hiding in plain sight all around us right so that's something i was personally under rating and also the nicks i did not realize that thank you for softening that with a sports ball thing i did not did not realize the last 10 games was the most dominant stretch in the history of the NBA yeah um what is something miles that you think is overrated uh manchester city but i don't have to get into that you already know uh hold that ill overrated how casual we are
Starting point is 00:21:43 as adults about the achievement of pooping in the toilet. Hmm. We just do our business. You feel like you deserve more credit. Well, I... You've always said this. You come out of the bathroom at work and you say,
Starting point is 00:22:00 I did a big one. I go, I go, Jack, come check this out. And you're like, nah, it's fine. I go, all right, well, then just at least clap. Please clap. That's what I do. Jeb Bush, I close the door. Please clap.
Starting point is 00:22:11 And everyone goes, Miles, please flush. And I go, okay, one second. I'll be right back. Yeah, one sec. You just have to, as soon as you check it out. Okay. Clap, though. And then I will do it.
Starting point is 00:22:19 But no, like the guy's child, we've crossed the Rubicon. I love to say that of like potty training where he's being going peepie in the toilet. Wow. It wouldn't go poo pooh. And last night, he did. Dude, he was so fucking happy. He did it. He's happier than I am about Arsenal winning.
Starting point is 00:22:40 and that brought me to tears because his sense of a... It was so fucking pronounced, dude. He was huge for him. He almost had a fucking backflip. He was so... He was like, we! I did the poopie in the toilet.
Starting point is 00:22:55 I was like, yes. I was like, fuck yeah. That's what I'm talking about. Keep doing it. Keep doing that. And then he got in bed and he was like, oh, wait, wait, hold on. He has like a little Jack Skellington,
Starting point is 00:23:06 like, plushy kind of thing. And he goes, oh, Jack, Jack has to go to the bathroom. Jack got to go to the bathroom, too. And I was like, all right, we'll do that in the morning. He's like, no, he has to go to the bathroom. And I was like, all right. So I just like, you know, like puppeteered the Jack Skellington over to the, his little mini tour. I was like, oh, okay, see, oh, he's done.
Starting point is 00:23:21 He goes, okay, put his, put his underwear on now and put his pajamas on. I'm like, okay, there you go. And then he held him and goes, I'm so proud of you, Jack, you went pooping the toilet. Oh, I'm so proud of you. I'm going to tell. He's like, I'm going to tell Nana. I'm going to tell blah, blah, blah. I'm so proud of you.
Starting point is 00:23:37 And he kept making his dolls go to the bathroom and saying, he was proud of them, I was like, I was loving it. And part of me was like, God damn, man. These small victories are just so great. Small victories. You got to appreciate them. Yeah, you have to. My other overrated is like habituation, I think, is what the term is called,
Starting point is 00:23:57 where like you become so used to your environment that it's not novel or anything. Like, it's just like anything. Like you get exposed to something over time. It's not interesting. Yeah. Pooping in the toilet. and other parts was just like I was driving down like the 101
Starting point is 00:24:14 like near Ventura County where like it's by the ocean and I was like god damn shit is beautiful. And I was like I really don't give a fuck about the Pacific Ocean because I grew up near it and I was like in any other fucking context I'd be like
Starting point is 00:24:30 roll the windows down. Check this thing out. This is a beautiful day. I'm looking at the sea and I'm realizing too not that it's like a bad thing but like when you get used to things like that sort of magic goes away and it's just funny how like the juxtaposition of suddenly you go on vacation you're like whoa look at this street i'm walking on it's like blows your mind and i think it's it's important to like not that you have to fight against that but
Starting point is 00:24:54 know that that's what's happening like this shit is beautiful you're just used to it so much that you can't quite you know like it's not novel anymore and like that's just kind of a practice recently just in general of like things i feel like i've gotten used to that should offer me a glimpse into like beauty of humanity trying to really like embrace those and remind myself like in any other fucking context this would be like mind blowing to you so at least appreciate that how do you get yourself
Starting point is 00:25:22 I don't I don't know how I'm still the way I am doing it is like you don't think that's cool because you're so used to it and try and remember that this is new and I think that's the pooping and the ocean and put all together I do think yeah I think that's one of the great things about being around children, you know, is that they're like, whoa, you know. That sense of wonder.
Starting point is 00:25:44 Yeah. You don't, you want to, in my experience, like, I try to feed off their sense of wonder and their sense of, like, what's new rather than them just picking up on my sense of like being over it, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah, as much as possible. Yeah. I got, you got a yes and them. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:02 That's what I'm like, yeah, Jack Skellenton taking a wild shit too. I do, yeah. there's that like meme of people being like every time you drive by a cow you just go cow right right right right like every time we drive by the ocean i'm like guys look at the ocean and they're just like uh-huh at this point oh i was looking at this shit how big it is it's i i'm i can't lie interstellar had me thinking about the ocean too what i'm imagine if that was in slow motion though dude imagine if we just went on the water for two seconds in 70 years Years went by dog.
Starting point is 00:26:39 And they're like, what? Shut up. Anyway. So anyway, habituation, pooping in the toilet. Find the wonder. My overrated is my understanding of idioms. I came across an idiom that I've been using wrong. So, do you know the phrase for all intense and purposes that people say for all intensive purposes?
Starting point is 00:27:00 Yeah. Yeah. And it's just like, now that we're on the internet, I'm writing everything down. everyone's like, oh, everybody thinks it's for all intensive purposes. I've always sat back and laughed smugly at those people. Uh-oh. And then my son, my very inquisitive eight-year-old son, one of the three thousand questions he asked this weekend was what does sight for sore eyes mean? and I said, oh, it's like when somebody like looks sorry or kind of like messed up,
Starting point is 00:27:38 like you'd be like, oh, look at this site for sore eyes. Oh yeah, you're trying to do the eight-year-old version of when someone looks like shit. Yeah, when someone looks like shit. Like a group of hungover people roll up their boss would say, look at this site for sore eyes. That's how I had always used it, how I had always understood it. I don't know that I used it that much because I'm not a middle school gym teacher, but it is a phrase that like I'm sure I've used and like had a very firm understanding.
Starting point is 00:28:05 And then my wife was like, not only is it like not that. It's not even, it just means being happy to see someone that you've missed. What the fuck? Yeah. No. Yes. A site for sore eyes is like your eyes are sore because you've missed them.
Starting point is 00:28:24 And this is a site that relieves. Well, I thought it was looking like, shit you thought it was looking like shit too aren't you a sight for sore eyes aren't you basically saying don't you look like shit yeah and you look it up online it's pretty ambiguous that there is like one reddit thread where somebody's like my english boyfriend thinks that sight for sore eyes means you look like shit and i'm i don't know if he's i don't know if it's a british thing or if he's like stupid and everybody's pretty unambiguous they're like oh yeah i i think I might have heard it that way once or twice. But the true meaning is it's something you've longed to see and have finally seen it. Your parent, you're coming home after a long time away and your parents say, oh, you're a sight for sore eyes. I thought like your eyes are so.
Starting point is 00:29:18 Yeah. We're using it that way. And I thought she just noticed that I was hung over. Like, look at this sight for sore eyes. Like expressing love. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like, I look like shit.
Starting point is 00:29:29 I know, look like shit, Mom. Leave it alone. I drink Southern Comfort for the first time. Oh, man. Well, yeah. I don't know, man. Now I'm on the lookout for like other idioms of misused. We've always been a UK podcast in it, bro.
Starting point is 00:29:46 I know. In it, brov. But I don't know. There are plenty of people in the Reddit thread being like, I'm from the UK. I've never heard that shit. Oh, shit. It's just little. pockets of degenerates
Starting point is 00:29:59 of insecure degenerates being right right they can't miss me they must be saying I look like shit there's no fucking way this I make your eyes burned because I look like shit that's what you mean I'm making your I'm an eyesore
Starting point is 00:30:15 yeah but yeah Zygang I don't know are we are we alone have you been misusing this also are you even using it still nobody's using it but yeah sometimes sometimes times your eight-year-old comes at you with a question.
Starting point is 00:30:30 Where did you answer it confidently? He's just reading, you know? Dude, this is the problem with books, man. That's what I'm saying, man. Like, he's now able to fucking humiliate you. My wife is like, no video games, only reading. And then he like gets these ideas. Yeah, he's all smart.
Starting point is 00:30:49 And he goes like, and while you're explaining, he just goes, going, he knew what it was. What? What? No, go ahead. What is it? He knew. Oh, my God, guys.
Starting point is 00:31:00 My dad is dumb. You're right. Talking to his stuffies. All right. Let's take a quick break. I'm so proud of you. We'll be right back. You have the desire to help
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Starting point is 00:31:47 big news. What's the news? Huge news. We created our own podcast called,
Starting point is 00:31:52 Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to do podcasts.
Starting point is 00:31:58 Pretty, wide range of podcasts throughout there. But, This one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember.
Starting point is 00:32:08 I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band. Before Jonas Brothers was... This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, where people could call in and say, hey, Jonas.
Starting point is 00:32:28 And then I wrote down on my little notepad, hey Jonas. and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Another podcast from some SNL, late-night comedy guide. Not quite.
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Starting point is 00:33:08 Me. Is there anything to the idea that because you're from Harvard, you only got in because your parents made a huge donation. The group. The yard birds, right? That's the name. The Harvard yard, but they're open. Do you have a name suggestion?
Starting point is 00:33:23 We're open. Since you guys are middle aged. One erection. Listen to you. Humor Me with Robert Smigel and Friends on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Humor me! I need some jokes to make me seem funny. Imagine an Olympics where doping is not only legal, but encouraged. It's the enhanced games. Some call it grotesque. Others say it's unleashing human potential.
Starting point is 00:33:53 Either way, the podcast's Superhuman documented it all, embedded in the games and with the athletes for a full year. Within probably 10 days I'd put on 10 pounds, I was having trouble stopping the muscle growth. Listen to Superhuman on the I-Hard radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ian, what did you have for a site for sore eyes? Oh, I knew what it meant. Yeah, you knew the correct version. Yeah, I'm not an idiot. Fuck.
Starting point is 00:34:30 I like he didn't just say, yeah, no, I believe in the other version. He said, no, I had it right. Yeah. not had it right it's like oh it's like my eyes are sore and you're like a pleasant thing to look at it's like your relief for my sore eyes you know
Starting point is 00:34:45 I thought it was it must be I think because like eyesore I think people must have mixed that up because the eyesore is the eye something that looks disgusting that looks like shit for me it has to the reason because so much TV and film has influenced my entire reality I feel like
Starting point is 00:35:02 it had to have been like two movies where it was said wrong and I go yeah that's the fucking truth right there. Yeah, maybe. Maybe. I'll have to do further research, but. But then I guess, you know what it could be is that it was being used sarcastically and I didn't understand the sarcasm, which is humiliating. Yeah, yeah, but they're like, oh. I pride myself on getting the sarcasm. But I think, but at my age, I didn't realize the sarcasm of looking like shit, right? Yeah. Was someone being like, Oh, aren't you a sight for sore eyes because you look like shit? Oh, I'm so happy to see you.
Starting point is 00:35:39 Yeah, yeah, yeah. You guys look great. Yeah. So it is back to us looking like shit. All right. It's back to us looking like shit, but they mean it ironically. That they want to see you because you look like shit. That makes sense.
Starting point is 00:35:52 Oh, okay. Oh, good. Thank God. I still look like shit. I still look like shit and people aren't happy to see me. And we're back. Mm-hmm. And Donald Trump had quite the weekend.
Starting point is 00:36:08 First of all, just big news. He's hit his highest ratings. We know this man pays attention to the ratings. Dude, he's done it, bro. Hey, look at these ratings. Highest ratings ever. Outdone myself again. He's broken his own highest rating ever for disapproval, you fucking losers.
Starting point is 00:36:28 He's currently, Fox News, their own poll has him around 60%. dissapproval. He's currently averaging, the average of all the major polls is about 58.3%. The only reason I'm bringing this up is because it's the worst it's ever been and it's actually lower, it's a lower rating than he had right after fucking January 6th. Like when everyone's like, ah, I can't fucking do this shit anymore. He's there just right now because of his, I need ballroom. I don't care about gas.
Starting point is 00:37:01 I love Jesus. He nuts. You're filling up your tank with peanuts. He might have actually thought he might just not know how cars work and thought that you're actually filling your car up. Or maybe I had like an old car where a squirrel was hiding nuts in the gas tank. And he's like, you fill it up with acorns, right? Do I have this? But yeah, the lowest it's ever been.
Starting point is 00:37:22 And I think it, based on like everything I said, he's not doing a single fucking thing to like try and reverse course. He's just like having all the people in his cat. Oh, also forgot to mention Tulsi Gabbard stepped down over the weekend. I was almost like, wait, there wasn't someone left in humiliation. Consequences for women only in this administration. 100%. But anyway. She was kind of anti-war.
Starting point is 00:37:48 That was her anti-war for being in the administration. So they're revving up the engine. Yeah. And I think when she had to be like, yeah, Iran, it was a threat. She's like, you even came up here. here and said everything was obliterated last time. I was like, I know. Guys, I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:38:08 I've debased myself. I don't know what to do anymore. But yeah, anyway, that's what has happened. But, yeah, Trump is not fully not focused on anything domestic. It's crazy that he's that despised because he has such good instincts for doing likable things. Like, for instance, skipping Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding this weekend. It makes that sound bite that we played where we're like, ah, he's probably talking about his fiance.
Starting point is 00:38:37 Most likely, it does fit like where he goes. And I've known him, I've known them for many years. My own son, whose wedding I could give a fuck less about. Yeah. So just to recap, he said he didn't even want to go. When asked about it, he replied, he'd like me to go, but this is not good timing for me. I have a thing called Iran and other things, which is. God damn.
Starting point is 00:39:01 We talked about that at the end of last weekend. It was still unclear if he was going to go or not. He said he was going to get blamed for going to his own son's wedding, which is, would not have happened. People would, I don't, I don't think I've ever seen, I've seen like people,
Starting point is 00:39:15 yeah, like nobody's ever gotten blamed for going to their kids wedding. No, you get blamed for fucking around all the time and not doing it a goddamn thing as president. That's, yeah. So he didn't go. The weekend happened.
Starting point is 00:39:27 He didn't go. and he it was because of how busy he was he still somehow found the time to post an onslaught of memes including an AI generated
Starting point is 00:39:37 video of himself throwing Stephen Colbert into a dumpster and a touching tribute to Hulk Hogan which is just a picture of Hulk Hogan saying
Starting point is 00:39:48 we all miss the Huckster instead of the Holkester Oh boy Freudian slip he looks like shit in that picture Hulk? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:59 Yeah, yeah. I mean, he's just, I think that's after one of his more impressive wins, making it all even funnier, the bride of Donald Trump Jr., which for some reason I haven't been keeping up. I thought he was still with Kimberly Guilfoyle. Oh, no, Jack. No, no, no. He's married a socialite from Florida, Bettina Anderson. Yeah, yeah, yeah. who wanted to get married at the White House.
Starting point is 00:40:27 But the president didn't think it was a good idea. Put the kibosh on that? I'd rather have a UFC fight there. Yeah. This is only for really important stuff. I do think that that's a good indication that she's in it for love, that she was like, can we get married at the place
Starting point is 00:40:45 where your dad works? That would be really cool for me. Yeah. Yeah, no, they got married in the Bahamas, it looks like. Yeah. Hell yeah, man. Look at them. 39-year-old socialite.
Starting point is 00:41:01 Got 48, he's 48 years young. Look at him. Don't tell me drugs age you. Okay? This guy looks fucking great, dude. The most cocaine eyes that have ever been on cocaine. You think he was fucked up at that. I wonder if that was in her vows.
Starting point is 00:41:19 And you have the greatest little. piss holes in a snowbank eyes that I've ever seen. The way you make my stomach churn, as if I were the one snorting baby laxative. It's impressive, and I love you, honey. Let's talk Starbucks. Let's talk about the books. They have launched a marketing campaign reminiscent of a real-world tragedy for the second time.
Starting point is 00:41:49 And I just, it's, it needs to be repeated every time Starbucks marketing comes up. They had a campaign in April 2002, so less than a year after September 11th. And the picture was two drinks with a dragonfly looking like it was about to fly into one of the drinks. and the copy was collapse into cool. Not a phrase, Miles. Not a phrase. No, no. Collapse.
Starting point is 00:42:25 The wording. Collapse into cool. Collapse into cool. And I'm seeing two things. Two things with a dragonfly looking. A dragonfly in the background. Like kind of poised to fly right into one. A little bit of 9-11 in there.
Starting point is 00:42:45 It's like it feels like. every time I see it, I'm like, it has to be satire. And then I'm like, okay, so the person responsible for that ad, whether they were conscious or not, they were thinking about 9-11, right? Like, there's no way that you collapse into cool. Yeah, why would you collapse? That's not a, that's not a sensation I want associated with something I want to, like, consume. Yeah. It's, it's like, oh, yeah, collapse.
Starting point is 00:43:17 into a deep-seated depression. Yeah. Collapse? No, no. At a time, yeah. You want to maybe embrace the cool or something like that. Yeah, you know what I mean? Not collapse.
Starting point is 00:43:28 It was better than like the first draft of like jet fuel into cool. Jet fuel into steel beams. What? So in South Korea right now, they're in a bit of hot water again. So that that campaign was very controversial. or more, some people did say, hey,
Starting point is 00:43:49 this, I don't know, you're putting this everywhere and it just feels a little reminiscent of the terror attack. Yeah. And so it got called out. They took it down. I don't know if they ever apologized for it.
Starting point is 00:44:01 It just feels like so, so weird. So anyway, they've got another campaign. They recently unveiled plans to start selling a large drink tumbler called a tank on May 18th by Declays.
Starting point is 00:44:15 declaring it tank day. Okay. May 18th is the anniversary of the Guangzhou uprising when the military government deployed troops and tanks to suppress pro-democracy demonstrations. And so,
Starting point is 00:44:31 and used tanks to kill people. So they're calling it tank day. It's a known anniversary of a massacre that happened using tanks. The promo also used the slogan, Thouac it on the, table. And again, the slogan is really the thing.
Starting point is 00:44:49 As with collapse and to cool, the slogan is really the thing that brings it home. Yeah. That might seem like very strange wording until you just generally though. You're never like, oh, a new new cup, thwack it on the table. Thack this one on the table. Thack?
Starting point is 00:45:05 What are you? Donald Duck. It's seemingly referencing a 1987 claim by police that student activist Park Jong-Choi, rather than being tortured to death, had died suddenly after investigators hit the desk with a thwack. Oh, so that word? That word
Starting point is 00:45:21 is in the official Like the canon of this event. Yes. Wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. Who? At Starbucks is like is like in the background just being like
Starting point is 00:45:37 all right, how are we going to how are we going to like fit some just fucked up messaging? Yeah. into our campaigns announcing weird little new promotions That is
Starting point is 00:45:52 What's their explanation? Like the thwack It feels like hard You can just be like slam it on the table Or is this like a Korean translation That's basically being transit Oh like the English is like Thwack it on the table
Starting point is 00:46:05 The English and yeah The whole Everybody immediately was like The fuck he talked Like wait what? it's been condemned by the country's president. There have been boycotts in public protests in which outraged citizens of smashed Starbucks tumblers and mugs to smithereens. And the head of Starbucks in South Korea had to apologize like multiple times.
Starting point is 00:46:30 And he was like, everybody involved with this has been fired. Just so you know. Except I'm including the head of marketing who's okayed it. I'm curious. How big of a shakeup we talk? They claimed they removed all five employees involved in the marketing campaign. That seems light. Dude, they are beating this shit out of these cups.
Starting point is 00:46:53 I also love how Asian this demonstration is. They put like a tarp down to be like, we're going to smash the shit on the ground, but like we're going to make it easier to clean this up when we go. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? We'll clean up. We'll be right out of your hair in one second here.
Starting point is 00:47:06 This is, man, that's not good for, do you, not, I mean, like, one part of me is like, Because, you know, the cynical American brain to me goes, they're doing like viral, like outrage marketing. But there's, you may have fucked up and fully crossed the line into just pure outrage now rather than like, oh, what's tank day? Rather than being like, yeah, man, remember all those pro democracy demonstrators were killed and tortured? Right. Day. Starbucks Cup.
Starting point is 00:47:33 I feel like we need to look at the sales after the collapse into cool thing. Like maybe they just saw sales like skyrocket. and they've just been waiting to play their next like outrage, insane, like subliminal evoking of a horrible national tragedy card and they just like did it a little too hard. It was like too evidently intentional.
Starting point is 00:47:59 Yeah. Clabs into cool. They were right on the edge. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, like clearly look, Starbucks was able to shrug that one off and keep it moving. but I'm trying to see I'm like reading about it there are protests
Starting point is 00:48:13 I don't know man I don't know we'll see I mean there's so many I feel like the coffee game right now is so congested there's already like 17 other coffee chains
Starting point is 00:48:25 that are like fighting for power as Starbucks Oh yeah And so I feel like coffee in particular is going in a direction of like the more
Starting point is 00:48:36 small the less chain that the coffee place is the better. Like people, nobody's like, I love big chain coffee, you know? Right, right, right, yeah, yeah. Like, you can get a great cup of coffee from anywhere. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:48:52 Yeah, from home even. I got this crazy thing called a coffee maker in my house. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. You have the desire to help do have a real difference? The College, the City, you offer the program,
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Starting point is 00:49:42 called, Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast. Podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special. So how did we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys?
Starting point is 00:49:57 I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Oh, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band. Before Jonas Brothers was... This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, where people could call in and say, hey, Jonas.
Starting point is 00:50:19 And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Another podcast from some SNL, late-night comedy guy, not quite.
Starting point is 00:50:39 Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends, me and hilarious guests from Jim Gaffigan to Bob O's, to David Letterman, help make you funnier. This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day and headwriter, Streeter Seidel, help an acapella band with their between songs banter. There's the worst singer in the group. The worst? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:50:58 Me. Is there anything to the idea that because you're from Harvard, you only got in because your parents made a huge donation. The group. The yard birds, right? That's the name. The Harvard yard, but they're open to change. Do you have a name suggestion?
Starting point is 00:51:14 We're open. Since you guys are middle-aged, one erection. Listen to humor me with Robert Smygel and Friends on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Humor me! I need some jokes to make me seem funny. Imagine an Olympics where doping is not only legal, but encouraged. It's the enhanced games. Some call it grotesque.
Starting point is 00:51:41 Others say it's unleashing human potential. Either way, the podcast, Superhuman, documented it all, embedded in the games and with the athletes for a full year. Within probably 10 days, I'd put on 10 pounds. I was having trouble stopping the muscle growth. Listen to Superhuman on the I-Hard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. I'm still just talking about the collapse into cool thing.
Starting point is 00:52:14 It's like the dick in the background of the Little Mermaid poster. it's like, I mean, at some level, you may not have known that's what you're doing. But like, that's what you were doing. Yeah, yeah. And that one is like, that just came through your unconscious and somehow people weren't like. Somehow that's less shocking though too. Like, yeah, I don't know. A guy hit a dick in there.
Starting point is 00:52:32 Yeah. This one's like 9-11 Starbucks. Yo, what the fuck are we doing? Yeah. All right. We got confirmation from Ian. We're getting confirmation from Ian during every. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:45 Hey, I'm not crazy, right? Am I an idiot? Yeah, yeah. Am I an idiot? On the first one, I was an idiot. On this one, not an idiot. No, no. Let's see, there was, it's, it's kind of wild that this is, I think this is appropriately placed.
Starting point is 00:53:01 Like, yeah. But this is like the third story we're covering, which was that there is like, you know, a hundred, I don't know how many shots were fired at the White House. Yeah. A whole lot of them sounded like a war broke out. a man with a documented history of mental health conditions who previously had told secret service agents that he was Jesus Christ
Starting point is 00:53:23 opened fire on the White House over the weekend and was shot and killed. It's another day, another, like there's... What could possibly be going on in this country? What is going on in this country? The wild part is, I mean, like, like, this is, there's so many, so many angles to talk about this story, like, whether it's obviously the complete, you know, our turning of the backs of the government on people who need mental health support or gun control or these other things are just like the inequality that's driving people mad. But then it's just also like how cynically, this was immediately just turned into more.
Starting point is 00:54:06 We need a ballroom. Yeah, yeah. We need a ballroom. This guy was shooting at the White House. That was my first thought. Oh, I didn't know Trump said that too. Oh, good. Okay, so we're on the same page.
Starting point is 00:54:15 Yeah, yeah, everyone immediately. We need a billion dollar ballroom that will protect him. Should we maybe try and like prevent these things from happening by like solving the issue at the source? No, no, we need ballroom. We need ballroom. The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a billion dollar ballroom that you buy for me for my birthday. Thank you. So is there going to be a ball?
Starting point is 00:54:34 Will every person have a ballroom in this? Does that we all stay safe? The president needs a ballroom slash bunker that will be unable to be destroyed. in an aerial attack. And you'll be hanging on with your fingers and I'll be stomping on them as I stand. Just get, get off, get off. Get those little piggies out here.
Starting point is 00:54:55 It also got immediately turned into the I didn't do it kid meme. Like it was there was a reporter outside the White House who was, you know, on camera as the shots started bringing out and she said, what is that? And everybody was like,
Starting point is 00:55:12 we've got a new queen look at this diva and started like you know putting her in front of the stay puffed marshmallow scene from Ghostbusters and various things
Starting point is 00:55:25 her cameraman initially guessed the sounds were fireworks which is always he's like I don't know fireworks another journalist I think were they from like CBS where like immediately
Starting point is 00:55:41 she was like oh shit. Yeah. Like her reaction was like, what the fuck? Like she kind of knew immediately where I think it's Julie Zirkin, who is this journalist was like, she was almost like, the fuck is, is that? And he said fireworks and she said, where? Like, she's like, I don't see any fucking fireworks.
Starting point is 00:55:59 What are you talking about? Yeah. And then it was a massive gun battle that happened right outside the White House. I just like, I feel like. they everybody I don't think Trump openly like wants to die but I think like
Starting point is 00:56:19 there are people in the Trump administration who are like this would actually be really good for us if he went out like that man that would actually it's for our for our intense and purposes for all intensive purposes yeah
Starting point is 00:56:35 this would be good for the propaganda gift from heaven I mean yeah I it's it's it's it's interesting to see them just that insistence immediately into this that it's just not even working on is like the like the the actual rank and file GOP politicians because they're like they're about to head into break and they're not going to they're not going to approve this money for the ballroom even though he's trying to every day be like this is what we need is what you need for the safety initially at the white house correspondence dinner they were a little bit more unified and sort of like
Starting point is 00:57:07 demanding a ballroom right but i think now as people are beginning to be like we're paying for everything he's just cutting checks to himself from the government's coffers this isn't good I don't think I don't know you're saying why you're saying it's not good
Starting point is 00:57:27 it's perfectly fine just feels like we're like that sort of thing yeah I mean we're hollowing out the country from the inside and I mean like when the reckoning comes for that I'm really concerned that not enough people are going to be able to put together where all that money has gone, actually,
Starting point is 00:57:42 and it'll just be time again to create some of her. Oh, that shit's gone. Boogie man. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's but offshore accounts. I feel like, I mean, like now there's like a mining company that the,
Starting point is 00:57:53 the Trump's own that got like a $900 million line of credit through the U.S. government. Like, they're just, it's, it's right. It's right. They're fucking playing in our faces, guys. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's all self-dealing.
Starting point is 00:58:08 It's, uh, shockingly. out in the open. They don't really give a fun. Yeah. Oh, but the thing with his health, though, he went to Walter Reed again. Did he? Yeah. He was just like, he just said, oh, it's time for my six-month physical after my 32-week physical, my 36-week physical, my 190-day physical, all these weird physicals. He said everything was checked out perfectly. Just finished my six-month physical at Walter Reed Military Center. Everything checked out perfectly. Perfect. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Is that the one where he was bragging about how? They said 69 times 2 divided by 13 plus 1,00032 got it immediately. I just, I wish somebody had been like, all right, what is that?
Starting point is 00:58:51 Right, right, right. Yeah, go. Go ahead, computer. That person, the Secret Service, would have taken out immediately. Right. All right, let's talk Ben Shapiro because we are enjoying this latest act of the Daily Wire. Oh, hero's journey.
Starting point is 00:59:13 Yeah, what part of the heroes? Piero came from nothing. Just a handful of billionaire backers coming out from nothing became this massive, massively popular social media figure, creates the daily wire,
Starting point is 00:59:31 is like, I'm about to change the face of media. We're greenlighting movies. We're greenlighting the next game of throne. but all for conservative people, all for people who are afraid of people who aren't white. So as of late, as an update,
Starting point is 00:59:48 we talked about this last week, but it's not going so well. Just checking out his channel, seven million subscribers. What's he up to? Hemorrhaging subscribers, hemorrhaging viewers, hemorrhaging revenue.
Starting point is 01:00:00 Yeah. The guy who like put together the plan for, whose like vision it was for the movies and for the big picture takeover. over of Hollywood. Let's give him credit. Jeremy Boring. Jeremy Boring.
Starting point is 01:00:15 Not just a clever name. Has left the building. He left the company last year. Ben Shapiro is just still here. But he's got, it looks like he's got a plan. He's, he's fine in his stride because one of the latest videos
Starting point is 01:00:29 he just posted at the end of last week was him playing fucking Fortnite. Oh. As someone who has, Jack, you're a bigger gamer than Bench. Ben Shapiro is. Of course.
Starting point is 01:00:41 Okay, we knew that. That's, that goes without saying. But he's now posting, it says Ben Shapiro tried Fortnite. It didn't go well. This is what Ben Shapiro is posting. I'll just play a little bit. This is from Ben Shapiro's account. It's from his channel where he's earnestly playing fucking Fortnite.
Starting point is 01:00:59 And like, you can tell throughout the thing he knows how much of an L this video is. So you have to explain to me what this game is, why it exists and everything. I know nothing about this other than I've seen. a bunch of dumb children doing a dance that they call the Fortnite dance. Okay, first of all, he starts off just, I don't know anything about this. I know it fucking sucks and it's for babies.
Starting point is 01:01:19 Dumb children, fuck all of you. Yeah. Fortnite is a genre of video game called Battle Royale. This guy's like explaining it to him, like he's had a brain injury. And you pick up weapons and you fight each other until there's only one person standing. Like even I know this shit.
Starting point is 01:01:33 One of the most popular games to ever come out. At one time, they recorded, I think it was like 45 million. That Jepiro's checking his producers to make sure that that's accurate. He's like, am I right? More popular than like Monopoly. Okay.
Starting point is 01:01:46 Before we start, we're gonna have you drop it. We're gonna have you drop it. I think you should choose your skin. I see you got Stormtroopers. You got Vader on solo. Is he gonna say something racist? Does he's choosing his name?
Starting point is 01:01:54 I'm a big Star Wars guy. Yeah, no, me too. So that's good. Anyway, it's unbearable. He goes on. He's so fucking bad at the game and he's just suffering through it.
Starting point is 01:02:05 And I don't know. The back of the limousine scene from boogie nights. Oh, This is when shit has fallen apart. You're in the pickup truck. It's harder faster. I'm going as fast as I can. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 01:02:16 I'm going as fast as I can, man. Go faster. Go fast. I'm going to space. I can't, man. That's where we're at. Because what do you think the conversations around making this video we're like? Because obviously we talked about the thing, he's losing the conservatives, especially
Starting point is 01:02:33 younger conservatives because he was more like the voice of like elder millennial gen X conservatives. Yeah. Now with Gen Z, they're completely like, dude, this guy's a fucking dork. That he, what are they like, holy fuck, Ben, we are losing younger conservatives. What do we do? What do they love? Video game?
Starting point is 01:02:51 Yes. That's it. We'll do that. So let us describe the video game like nobody knows what it is. Yes. To the kids who are playing it more than you could ever believe. Yeah, they want to see an explainer video about Fortnite to your uncle who's uncool. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:08 Okay. Okay. Um, it's not great. The comments are fucking, they're brutal. This one person, but the fall off must be studied. I said, imagine you're one of the daily wire employees laid off watching this. Yeah. Yeah. This is like a family guy cutaway gag. Almost worth. Almost worth getting laid off for this experience of being like, well, now look at you. Yeah. My God. So I mean, luckily, Grand Theft Auto 6 is coming out later this year. So he'll be able to, I'd love to see him in one of those. the role play servers. Pretending to be a cop or something.
Starting point is 01:03:44 Why can't I be a cop? Can you play as a cop in granddad? Yeah, I mean, there are like role play servers where people go and purely are just like, I'm a cop, like you're a person, I'll pull you over, you have to respect the law and like just do, I don't know, man. Like part of me like,
Starting point is 01:04:01 if I didn't have a child in real responsibilities, I could see myself trolling on there fucking constantly. But luckily there are YouTube compilations for that that I can watch secondhand. And finally, Stephen Colbert did a fun thing. So the late show ended on Thursday. And on Friday,
Starting point is 01:04:20 he guest hosted another talk show only in Monroe, a public access show in Monroe, Michigan with Jack White as his sidekick. And people, I mean, people were like,
Starting point is 01:04:32 oh, CBS is going to be so pissed that he did this. CBS actually financed and produced the, the episode but oh they did yeah I guess so wow um it's been approved for distribution on the late show Monroe community media and Colbert's personal channel I feel like Monroe community media is probably defeating the late show in terms of views but yeah wait but then CBS is also trying to suppress no that's just that's just what people were oh we're saying because like maybe people were uploading you but I'm sure he like contractually had to have
Starting point is 01:05:14 them involved as a producer wait there's Jeff Daniels and Steve Wuchemy also appear in this it's an hour long I only made it 15 minutes in but you might run into a Sasquatch you never know never know what have you careful out there he's talking have you guys have you guys ever seen a cryptid of any kind I love the audio too it sounds like sounds like yeah yeah These are the women who normally host the show. Just like the TV show, only this time you see the weaners. Monroe's original has plenty of fans who say it. This is so funny.
Starting point is 01:05:51 There's Jeff Daniels. Where's Bouchemmy? Show Bouchemmy, you cowards. Bouchemie actually wasn't even supposed to be there. He just happened to be in Monroe, you know, walking by. Hey, man, you know how it is back in those Monroe public access. TV studios, man. They were bumping. You'd have Jeff Daniels in one studio. Bouchem you'd be walking the halls, having a hot dog.
Starting point is 01:06:11 Magic was happening, man. It was like Capitol Records. It was just down the hall doing a different show. Yeah, yeah. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, May 26th. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourself. Get your vaccines. Well, you still can. Get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. We will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye.
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