The Daily Zeitgeist - Trendsformers Uno 9/23: RFK Jr., Trump Coin, Georgia Election Board, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Transformers One

Episode Date: September 23, 2024

In this edition of Trendsformers Uno, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, RFK Jr. bragging about getting nudes from a NY Magazine reporter, Trump unveiling a $100 silver coin with his face on it, Georgia's election board requiring ballots to be hand counted, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice being boffo at the box office and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Did you see Beardlejuice Beardlejuice yet? I did not. I saw Transformers 1. Oh, did you see Beardlejuice Beardlejuice? I'm going tonight. Oh, day and night, tonight to go see. Transformers 1, they call it Transformers Uno down here. Oh no they don't.

And you thought it was Transformers 1, Uno up here as well. Oh, I can't wait to see the Transformers. Wait a second. There's two different Transformers movies out there. Yeah, there's't wait to see. Wait a second. Transformers. There's two different Transformers movies. Yeah, there's one and then there's Uno and one. Yeah, I thought it was a crossover with the, you know, the game. Yeah. Yeah.

Transformers. Uno. It is. Transformers. Just sit around playing, you know, for 90 minutes. I am. Now I'm like, I have to look up Transformers. Uno. It's got to look up Transformers.

Uno. It's got to be a Uno deck. Yeah. I mean, there's no flip. It's for there's start. There's uno for everything. They did the they monopoly that shit. They were like, well, we can do kids like your kids like they fuck with Uno.

Yeah. Good. I think that's like one of the few games that has the same adrenaline rush from childhood into adulthood, like in terms of just straight up kid card games. You do the like and reverse and take five and I'm out. Yeah, for real. To the point where I only I only play for the Biggest high in uno like I just fill my hand with just death cards like and I'll wait I'll wait because I just want to build a hand to just go out with a it's like my fucking favorite I don't know why I think it's like rope a dope in somebody. You know, I mean in a card game

Yeah, man, I just got so many of these dang cars. Yes Oh man, I just got so many of these dang cars. How many cars do you have? Sike! You only have three cars left? I have ten, no way! Draw four, reverse, blue, switch, fuck you, I'm out, uno, peace. That's that real shit. Cause you know why I think is adults would make, they would, I would cry when they would

do that shit to me that like I was forged in those fires that now, like when I do it, like, yeah, like younger family members. Well, I'm a fuck. I can all the adults, especially on my dad's side. There was no mercy for children in card games. Like they're like, we can go easy on them. They're like, yeah, no, they were it was like they were like, you know, my grandmother, we're going to not take their money. Jordan and shit. She's like, what's up, ho? He's like, oh, that's weak. Oh, get that shit.

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the episode where we tell you what was trending over the weekend. My name is of course, Jack. And that over there, well, that of course is my cohost, Mr. Miles Gray. Yeah. Nitrous oxide veteran, wanting to help the kids out really quick with a PSA. By telling them how to do it.

By telling them you're doing it wrong. Get a big ass balloon. Stop hitting it from the can. It's more fun with the balloon. More efficient. Anyway. Yeah. What a weekend. What a weekend for you. I'm 40 years old and one week old now.

I like to think of it like that. I'm just going to start doing this every week. I'm 40 years and two weeks now. Congratulations. You made it. Well, this is the episode where we tell you guys what is trending, what happened over the weekend. We also get to know you a little better by telling you what is something we think is underrated,

what is something we think is overrated. Miles, you wanna tell them something you think is under, over, dealer's choice. What do you want to start with? Let's do under rated. And I think the youth are under rating how terrible doing nitrous oxide is for you. Yeah.

On Friday, right, I was like looking at Twitter and SZA, you know, fantastic vocalist, shout out to the hilarious. She's just finding out about SZA's latest album very late, but there's some good bangers on there. Look, you gotta, look, there's a lot of music out there. We're not kids anymore. We're waiting on the Tuesday when music would drop and be like, did you go to Sam Goody and get the CD? Because it's like 70 things that come out every day. Anyway, she tweeted, sorry to be old and annoying, but is no one going to talk about how Galaxy gas came out of nowhere and is being mass marketed to black children The government is doing nothing since when are we selling whippets at the store somebody protect the children

Something about the childlike designs and marketing is so spooky like stars and bright colors you trying to entice the kids on purpose and at the time like I've been like in the UK, there's like a lot of soccer players get fucking, they get caught up doing laughing gas and shit like that. And I've noticed too, in a lot of like rap videos too, you see people like hitting cans or like fucking nausea,

like in different ways. Like it used to be those little Whippet cartridges for like a home, you know, whipped cream thing, that sort of like silver cartridge. Now this shit like Galaxy Gas, it is branded. It's so colorful, like the bottles and stuff. And it's stuff like mango smoothie ice cream. Like it's a great up. Flavors. Yeah. Wow.

Whereas like before, they're like, it's nitric, like whippet. The thing that used to be called 100 percentets. Yeah, it's 100%, 100%. But in bigger ass cans now, and with flavors, but they say like, oh, it's to help, it's like it's for culinary use only. But if you're using it for culinary use, like you don't need a flavored gas because potentially you're like,

your head is so in the game, you're flavoring whatever yourself that you need to inject with like banana chemical flavor. It's to power your Derby car. It's mango smoothie flavor. Yeah, exactly. What would it be for your kids? Derby car, their mouth. But anyway, just like looking at that and now seeing like how

there's definitely like a proliferation of articles more and more where people like the new trend, I saw a video like they're just like there's people doing shit on TikTok, making it look all fun and shit. I'm telling you, this as an old head, I will sound like an old person here. You do not. This shit is not good for you. It is not the fucking experience you want chemically or otherwise. And I just like again, I just need to tell the youth, leave that nitrous oxide alone, please, please. And what the fuck is this company doing with like all this flavored shit?

It's like it feels like the early jewel days, you know, yeah when it was like no this ain't for kids But it's called like like unicorn. Huh? Yeah, you know exactly Galaxy gas is what a dare officer would call it. Like, I feel like, you know, you know, when the dare officer came in and were like, yeah, weed, devil's devil salad and like, yeah, galaxy gas feels like I remember him like calling some drug like black ice and everybody just like laughing at him because we were 12. Yeah. No, what the fuck? You know, I'm like, you go to a head.

Like, I remember I was in a head shop, like to get some papers and like, they just had a bunch on the fucking walls there. I was like, wow. And it didn't really connect at the time. I was like, what's this big old galaxy guy shit? And now I'm like putting it all together and I'm like, it's everywhere. And yeah, just please talk to your kids about Galaxy Guests. And Halence is like one of the growing segments of like intoxicants for like

younger people. Do I didn't realize how much the kids were fucking with Nas like that and not the Virgo rapper. That's pretty scary. Yeah. I mean, I was associated with like the very early drugs that people did when you couldn't get Like you were too young to get drugs like the things that the kids that I grew up with did was Whippets and then like passing out

Just like took a bunch of deep breaths and then like made the person pass out. Yep. Yep. Yep Just some light brain damage, you know? Yeah, exactly. We just just please damage my brain. Yeah. Thoughts away from me. That's fucking crazy. Yeah. So my underrated. I got a couple like sweaters on the beach. Love these aesthetically. It looks good.

Like, yeah, it's always Cape Cod. I feel like there was no Atlantic seaboard when you were, when we went to like a tide pool beach, like, so not, not like a beachy day, but just like a low tide end of the day. Check out like what was left behind type beach, Leo Carrillo. Oh, also shout out. Like there's all these places around Los Angeles that are named for, like, actors who I think were, like, the George Clooney of their day, but then, like, nobody remembers

them at all. But, like, smart idea. You're like, you remember Will Rogers? Yeah. Will Rogers, I guess, is pretty well known. But, like, Leo Carrillo, I didn't know about him. Yeah. I didn't know either.

That's a guy? Yeah, that's a guy. I always knew it as, like, a place, like, you could go camp, like like as a teenager and no one would bother you and you could like Some good strategy find like an out-of-the-way spot that is very pretty and name name it after you Wait, who was this Leo Carrillo? I didn't do a lot of research But I know it's a guy. He's an American actor vaudevillian political cartoonist and Conservationist so I said Will Rogers also a vaudevillian political cartoonist and conservationist. So he- Was it Will Rogers also a vaudevillian guy too? Like around that same era.

Yeah, American vaudeville. What's with the vaudeville beaches and shit? Yeah, yeah. All right, anyway, SoundCloud rappers should be the next generation of entertainers that get their own beaches after this. I always assumed that like, why would you ever wear a sweater on the beach?

But we brought our sweaters to this beach. It was like in the sixties and the sun was going down and the Pacific is fucking freezing. So, um, it was chilly and it's just a, just a good look. Um, that's just a, a brief one, a little, uh, no, no family photos. We, we didn't, we weren't like coordinating or anything like that. We just but I got a lot of pictures of when I look at me, like starfish and anemones and oh, yeah. Come on, dude.

But the other my other underrated. So I watched this movie Rebel Ridge this weekend, which has been like near the top of like the Netflix charts. And I'm going to call it like a cabsploitation. Like it's like a guy getting fucked with by cops and repeatedly just like fucking the police up over and over again.

It's got like an uva bowl film. Like where like one guy is like, well done. Yeah. Okay. It's pretty well done it's like it starts out and you think it's just going to be like a remake of first blood like where the first rambo which is like a better movie than people remember because the sequels were so ridiculous but um in that movie like rambo is a vietnam vet and like he gets fucked with by a local sheriff and then like runs off into the woods and is just like killing cops from the woods the whole time. So in this, I was wondering like why they weren't doing that because after he gets fucked with one time, he just like continues to go back and like find the movie just like finds ways for him to interact with the cops but it's actually smart because it just

repeatedly like recreates these scenarios we've seen with like corrupt cops like right arresting someone finding different ways to like fuck someone up or at one point they like pull him over, but like don't use their lights. And then they explain like it's because if the lights flash, then their dash cam camera starts up and like they're like, and we're about to be corrupt. Right. And they're like, I'm lifting the hood of my car. Like that's the other thing cops do is like they pull the hood up to block.

Yeah. Like I got to work on something in the engine. I let the engine cool off a little bit. But it's yeah. So it's just seeing this these scenarios we've seen so many times in actual like police body cam footage, like played out in a way where the cops kind of get fucked up is very satisfying. And I feel like it could be its own genre of movie, of just like repeatedly showing people fucking up.

Hey, yeah. Yeah. You know, you know, it's better than real police reforms. Movies where they take it out of the cops and then that will act as a salve for us and our ailing society. Yeah. And then it'll give people ideas of what to do and they'll all get harmed. So maybe not a good idea, but it was very sad. I'm going to know.

I mean, like when you said, I'm like, I'm watching this. I mean, just seeing like a still photo, I'm like, why is this guy in tack gear, like fighting the cops? And I'm like, okay, I'll ask less questions and start watching more. the cops and I'm like, OK, I'll ask less questions and start watching more. Yeah. His backstory is like that he trains the military on how to like do hand to hand combat when you're unarmed and they're armed and like have like, yes, what a situation premise. Yeah. And so he's like anti weapon.

Like he's like kind of got Batman rules where he like won't use a weapon on somebody. He's just like disarming them over and over again. Oh, I love that. Yeah, it's a blast. Highly recommend. But yeah, it's just it was smart of them to be like, okay, these are the three or four scenarios we keep seeing over and over again. Yeah. What is, Miles, something you think is overrated?

Overrated, summer now, that it's fall. And I have to say, along with that is the food. I have two things. The first is just a parent thing that I think all parents experience, which is like, you get all these toys from relatives and stuff that are nice that you think your kid is going to play with. And they just want to play with a fucking tube of toothpaste for like days. And you're like, what about this nice thing? Grandma got you that's made of like wood and is like baby safe. And he's like, no, dude, I'm going to keep trying to eat this hand

sanitizer, hand spray bottle and like just like fuck with this forever. Very I mean, in a way, bless their bless their imaginations for making toys out of those things. But yeah, just like with the season change on paper, because it's still hot here. I did a thing last night, just like when we were talking with Lydia, just getting into I'm in Pea Paw fall right now. Yeah, such a nice pork stew last night. With I'm not and like these mashed potatoes, Jack, I put a fucking pound of butter. It was three and a half pounds of potatoes, one pound of butter. And it's just the perfect vessel for the stew to sit upon.

And I cut up some. It was just so fucking good. And anyway, I realized, too, how much like food helps like sort of in a sense, in a sensory way, bring you into the next season because like the mood. Yeah, yeah, because I did. I did. On Saturday, I like grilled. I was like, let me just get my last kind of grill.

And not that I won't all stop grilling, but like this felt like they're like, OK, this is kind of like, you know, we're getting into fall last summer grill. Exactly. Fully into the stews. So I just got to say summer, it's been great. You were very fucking hot this year in Los Angeles. And people who knows what fall will look like. But now I'm realizing I'm ready to wear sleeves. I'm wearing ready to wear a hoodie. I'm ready to wear

pants. And I want that very soon. And you're you're ready to wear sleeves, but you're just for the listener. You're not wearing sleeves right now. You're not wearing cut off. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. And I have like the crop. It's cropped to like I look like a linebacker from the 80s. Said Belichick chic cut off sleeves with the hoodies. Yeah. Well, is that what he called them? They're called give ups like I give up. Yeah. Like we're in like rocking the sweatpants and shit. I was like, yeah, I got my give ups on.

That's great. I'm like, yeah, I'll take that. I was listening to a sports podcast that was covering like one of the ringer NFL shows. I guess there's other sports podcasts besides my Jack on my boosties. So I was just, I just found out about this. So I was just checking them out, but they were talking about like coach expressions and like they were talking about how like Mike Tomlin is always

saying, cut your eyelids off. Keep your eyes open. Cut your eyelids off to his players. And what's his name from the chargers? Harbaugh was like, I'm going to die leaning on my staff like Moses about like his coaching staff. Moses about like his coaching staff. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. This is great.

Like high level coach poetry. He's the son of the other Harbaugh. Is that the deal? No, he's the brother of the other Harbaugh. Oh wait. So they were all Jim and John. Yeah. Okay.

Got it. Got it. Got it. Jim was the Michigan, right? Jim is Michigan and now Chargers and now Chargers. OK, OK. And people are like, so how do you feel about your like offensive coordinators decision? He was like, ah, you know, call me Moses,

because I'm going to die leaning on my staff. Yeah, I call them staff of the caucus because they're deadly to others. You know what I mean? You hear me? Our tactics, man, our plays, yeah, hell yeah. But yeah, I don't know if they have writers writing for them or if that's just like a part of, you have to have that like weird Jim teacher poetry in the brain to be a good coach.

Oh yeah, because you're kind of like a pimp, you know what I mean? Like, and like the least problematic sense of like, you gotta convince a group of people to like ride for you and put their bodies on the line and You kind of need the gift of gap to sort of be like, you know How like that old player shit that like you got to make sure your next move is your best move You know what? I mean, cuz I'm ready like, you know, like a referee with a whistle like that kind of shit

I feel like yeah You need those little isms that like kind of get it that connect because it's not enough to be like wake the fuck up Yeah, yeah, and you're like cut my eyelids off don't close your eyes forever yeah everyone's got terrible eye infections they're like anyway they tried it with my comes this weekend it didn't go so well a lot of pink eye in the house that That's right. My overrated is old bagels. I had bagels this weekend. Old place that like every couple hours. Old bagels are overrated.

Fresh bagels underrated. I guess I'm just an underrated kind of guy because it's clearly an underrated disguised as an overrated. But I yeah, my like having a fresh bag. I was like, I have not been having bagels until now. Like any bagel that's not freshly baked is such bad. Oh, it's subpar. Yeah. Yeah, it's so subpar.

It's such bad PR for the bagel brand. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I've been reviving them with the toaster here and there, but not close to what I experienced this weekend. Yeah. Well, cause you freeze them. Like do you get fresh ones and then you freeze them? That's what I do. Yeah. So we've done that before, or we get the kind of you buy in the grocery store. Oh, there's just like sponge and it's like mostly just

it's bagel shaped bread. That's not a bagel. But you should that you buy at the store like that. It has to come from a dude. I think there's a G from the preservatives. Have you had a sourdough bagel? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. From Laila, have you been to that spot? And so I just so I'm a novice to this.

We were going to a place that last week, like a friend's house where my kids are like taking a class. And so last week they brought fresh bagels. So I was like, I've had these bagels from this place, courage. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I went there and the wait was 30 minutes to order. to order and then as I was waiting someone who had just reached the front was like oh also it's 50 minutes after you order for them to give you bagels so I went to a different place that was called calic I think okay and their whole thing is just like we bake new bagels every two hours like we bake new bagels every two hours. And the whole. They're good. Yeah. Oh, I think just like fresh baked, any bread product is such a, is so different. Like my, my favorite pizza place that I've talked about on here before is Manco and

Manco on the Jersey shore. And, but I've like realized that it goes bad within 10 minutes of like getting out of the oven. It doesn't like bad, but it just becomes pretty mediocre after that. And I feel like if I granted every other pizza place that same grace, I would probably still think Banco Omega is the best, but it's, I don't know. Like that makes such a difference. Like, because bread is a foam. So it's like naturally not going to be the same. It takes on its environment.

Yeah. Like 10 minutes after it comes out and achieves that form. So yeah. I like Courage. I like Bell's Bagels. I like Maury's Bagels. Layla Bagels. And Yeasty Boys.

There's a bunch of good bagels places. Have you had that track? Yeasty Boys? Yeasty Boys. Yeah. That's a good truck. That sounds great though. Yeah. I's a bunch of good places. You got that track. Yeasty boys. Yeasty boys. Yeah, that's a good truck. That sounds very. Yeah, I love a fun name. Also, quick overrated your ability to own a pig. Me hippo in my moodang research.

I was searching a pig. Me hippo size to like find out what their size would be full grown. And when I put pig me hipp s, it auto completed to sale. And that that worried me. So I would suggest not owning, not trying to go out and buy your own. Good luck trying to stop Polly V. I know, right. Thailand right now to smuggle one back. Yeah, they get to be up to like 600 to 900 pounds.

And I'm just going to say those plates. A pigmy one is 600 to 900 pounds? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, fuck. Okay, this is also a thing that I am now completely unsure of any research I do because I am realizing that the Google AI Assistant is so fucking bad at it yeah length four to six feet weight 400 to 600 yeah this thing force oh shit yeah it's not like I don't want nothing to do with that yeah yeah one of

them I was like danger pig me hippo danger and like one of them ate a antelope at a zoo in Ohio. I think like killed an ant. I don't know if it ate the whole thing, but yeah. Yeah. So. All right. Well, I guess I'll put that dream aside. So that that's all right. Those are our PSA's.

Yep. Leave the galaxy gas. Yeah. Don't don't try and buy a pig. Me hippo. Hey, always wisdom from this show. That's right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. ["The Last Supper"] Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist

who on October 16th, 2017 was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel de Lilla. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unearths the plot to murder a one woman WikiLeaks. Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption

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This is Lucha Libre Behind the Mask. in the ring. This is Lucha Libre Behind the Mask. Listen to Lucha Libre Behind the Mask as part of MyCultura Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream podcasts. And we're back. We're back. Man, I don't know. My kids have like a little bit of a cough and this weekend I was having like a couple moments where I was like, man, I've got RFK voice. Like my voice like has there's something on my vocal cord or something. Yeah. There was like something where I couldn't speak right for where I sound like, uh, like when I've, I was at a wedding, like maybe a few months ago and I completely lost my voice and I sounded like Funkhouser from Kirby enthusiasm, like Super Dave Osborne.

Like it was like Larry. Like it was my vocal cords were shot. Didn't quite get to our F. Just shred it. As though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Couldn't you could not get like a full bodied voice out. All right. Well, amazingly, speaking of RFK is being investigated for desecrating.

Yeah. And a PSA. So the PSA don't send nudes to RFK jr. Okay. Okay. And I know it sounds like a good idea. Yeah. And we were all tempted to do so. Yeah. But I'm going to explain why, why not too. Um, so he was being investigated for desecrating a whale carcass, uh, as we learned at the end of last week, uh, for the story where he chainsawed the head of a whale off and put it on top of his van. Um, that didn't turn out to be the biggest RFK junior scandal of the week because New York magazines's Olivia Newsy, Nuzzi, N-U-Z-Z-I,

Nuzzi was forced to take a leave after New York magazine discovered that she allegedly had a personal relationship with RFK Jr. A personal relationship. Just like they're friends. Yeah, sorry. All right. I'm not allowed to have friends. It was not physical, Like they're friends. Yeah, sorry. All right. I'm not allowed to have friends. Right. It was not physical, but it did involve the sending of nude photos, which have repeatedly been described as demure. Oh, very mindful, very demure. Very, very on point with the use of the word demure.

It's happened such a moment right now. Okay. So very demure, very mindful nude photos. Yes. But they weren't having a physical relationship. They were not having a physical relationship. She had written a profile of him called that was titled The Mind Bending Politics of R.F.K.

Junior Spoiler Campaign. And it wasn't like particularly flattering. I would say like he seems kind of like an asshole. Like he seems like real angry throughout the profile. At one point they like hop in his van and she's like, I honestly like couldn't stop from gagging. Like this van is just like covered in dog hair and smells terrible. I don't know if it's the same van that transported the whalehead

all those years ago, but it sounds like it could be. Dude, I'm gagging in your van. It's just like the fucking wildest shit. Yeah. I love that he drives a van though. There's just something. RFK Jr. with his like wacky anti-vaxxer shit whale chainsawing love of you know life He should be riding around this stinky ass van with no seat belts because the dogs have chewed all the seat belts off He just like runs around with a wild pack of dogs But like that come also like comes off as somewhat he kind of like so the drawing that goes with the

He kind of like so the drawing that goes with the article makes him look like he's having some kind of emotional breakdown inside a Dr. Seuss book and like he's crying and there's like dogs but it's like a you know a fun illustration. A Susie and dogs. That's because he does just like burst into tears throughout the profile piece. Oh. And he just seems, yeah, like somewhat unstable. I remember reading it and being like, wow, this guy seems like he's got a lot going on and shouldn't be the president. Yeah, yeah, no, not at all.

That's not the kind of guy I don't even want to hang out with him. So I don't. I mean, I wouldn't trust him with anything outside of leaving me the fuck alone and not having to do intersect with my life in any way. Yeah. Wait, so then she got fired. Is she fired? She's been put on leave. Because they said it like poorly reflects on their impartiality and all the stuff that

journalism is supposed to care about. Although she said it happened after the profile so the way that this apparently came out is that she sent him the demure nude photos and he Proceeded to brag about that to so many people that it got back to the editor of New York magazine Who they do? ragi So did you I who they did like ragging. So did you? I this is going to seem weird. And based on your reporting, I can't imagine it's true. But yeah, you and then you denied it, denied it and then came clean.

You know, Holly from H.R. Right. That's why she's here. So that's why I'm just going to ask this to you. This is I'm asking you this in the most objective sense. Right. Did you send nude pics to RFK Junior? I can say that, right? Yeah. I mean, that makes sense. That's so when I read that, like, like she only got busted because this dude was bragging about it. Like immediately I was like, wait, there was something about that in the vanity

fair. This guy eating a dead dog profile too and I went back to find it and then this is another part this is from that Vanity Fair piece quote when Kennedy was married to his second wife Mary Richardson he was known to text other damning images to friends as well of nude women those friends assumed Kennedy himself had taken the pictures but they didn't know whether the subjects had consented to having their genitalia photographed, let alone shared with other people. When one friend lost his phone, he panicked that somebody might discover the images. So yeah, this is all, this is, I know lies detected at this point. Yeah. His campaign for the most part is like he only met Olivia Nutsi once in his life

for an interview, which turned out to be a hit piece. And if she wants to send him some demure nude photos, right. You know, what can he do? Hit piece. And now I want to rag about them to everybody. Um, yeah. So he, he is married to Cheryl Hines from curb your enthusiasm. Still, huh?

Yeah. Any update on that? As of no updates as of yet, babe, they were very demure, very mindful nudes. Okay. That, that should count for something. Yeah. I was annoyed by the whole demure thing just because it seemed like people were really forcing it.

But now it just seems like people are going to use it more in their vocabulary. And it's a very fine word. So yeah, but I think I would say like at least a solid 60 percent of people don't know what Demure means. Right. Like it's just a way to describe a vibe. But I hope people understand the the modesty aspect of Demure means. Right. Like it's just a way to describe a vibe. But I hope people understand the the modesty aspect of Demure. Yeah, that's what I hope comes back to our society. Well, speaking of the Trump campaign, because R.F.K.

Jr. did endorse Donald Trump, we do like to check in with the Trump campaign from, first of all, from the perspective of what's he selling these days? Yeah. What's what's What's he grifting on? Hell yeah. What do you got for me, man? How can you unburden me of my dollars, Donald Trump? So every week it feels like there's some sub-QVC merchandise being sold and ridiculed online. So he has recently announced that he's selling coins, claiming that it's the only official coin designed by me.

I love I love the idea of Donald Trump taking graphic design courses and like learning Photoshop. Oh, and what a design. You won't guess what's on it. So you're never going to I mean, this is pretty wild. Like this guy's doing some next level thinking. It's on one side. It's the White House with his signature with a big flag, big, big flag over White House. It's like that half the width of the White House is about how wide this fucking American flag is above it.

Yes. Yeah, it's it's it would be a illogically big flag where it Actually size that way and then like the it's in God we trust is written above the top But it like doesn't it looks cheap and weird because it only has like it doesn't have all the detailing of even a Nickel, you know, right? Like there's a lot of empty space in it, which makes it weird. And then on the other side, the moneymaker, we got Donald J Trump across the top. And then a picture of Donald Trump that looks like Ted Koppel. Yeah.

If Ted Koppel was like flattened by a steamroller. Yeah. Yeah. That's what this is. This is exactly what this looks like. Very unflattering. So that's very, very unflattering. Very demure. Very mindful. He's selling the coin for $100, even though it contains around $30 worth of silver. And perfect.

Yeah, this is not, you know, as as you might have noticed from his sale pitch that this is not the only Trump coin. This is just the only official coin designed by him. There are other Trump coins, these ones in gold, because he knows that his followers love gold, love a bag gold now. Astros can not made of real gold. Yeah. But these ones are like even more unflattering somehow. Yeah, like, so he should never be shown in profile. Even if it is for a coin that's like meant

to pump your own dick up and pretend you won the election. There's like a Trump one challenge coin and his profile, he looks like boss Nass from Phantom of the Venice episode one. He looks like a toaster. I said Phantom of the menace. Where am I? Yep.

Phantom of the Phantom of the Opera menace. Yeah. And the other one is just yeah, troubling the boat all the images of him the what the silver one looks nothing like him and then the gold ones are seem like they would be like very Unflattering likenesses and perhaps the reason that he felt the need to put his own coin out And the other one it looks like he's taking the Elvis shit that seals your destiny

That's like what it's basically like. It's like, like, is this you have taken the Elvis shit that seals your destiny? Oh, thank you. So anyways, just we wanted to share this exciting yeah, opportunity, investment opportunity with our listeners. Now let's soften that with a bit of polling. Well, and also explain why this might be the official coin of the realm. Pretty.

Yeah. Right. Right. Because he, so he is surging in polls according to the latest New York Times polling, uh, he's going up in Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina. And if Democrats lost all those states, it'll be bad. Like it would be much more difficult for them to win. He loses Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona.

Kamala must win Pennsylvania, must win Wisconsin, must win Michigan. Yeah, yeah, it's there's it's it's it's a it gets tricky there. It gets tricky there to get to two seven. And if he's actually doing really well in those states, he's probably doing much better than expected in other states is usually how election results work. You know, the like the states aren't completely distinct from one another. So this is this is the first really bad polling for Harris in a number of weeks, but the New York Times

polling has been a little bit to the right of the overall averages over the past, you know, since before the debate. And then this is the first poll that like kind of seemed to return to that rightward lean since the debate. I've also I just want to like note how I'm reading polls these days because there's this guy and Ed in German, are you familiar with him? He's like a poll reader who is one of the few people who got the polls right ahead of the midterm.

He was like one of the few people who was like, I don't think it's going to be a red wave. And one of the things that he was able to pull out was basically that there's all these polls and you've mentioned this offhandedly before, but I just wanted to like kind of focus in on it. There's all these holes that are basically designed to generate the appearance of support for Republican policies and Republican politicians because they know it's like absolutely guaranteed that Fox News will pick those up like or, you know, one American news confirmation

bias baby who's got it for me. Yeah. So So basically even though these are polls that are like, well, they will give them a C or like a C plus or B minus in like, like five 38 takes all polls into account and just grades them differently. And this guy basically predicted the midterm results by being like, you actually shouldn't take those into account at all. You should just leave them out. So his read has been that she's like in a good position heading into the final 42 days. Jesus.

Why? That's giving me fucking anxiety. I just had diarrhea, dude. Yeah, yeah. Just. I've been telling this motherfucker to take its fucking time. And now we're 42 out. All right, Jackie Robinson. That's right. But yeah, there's just all these garbage polls. So even since the midterm,

there's a bunch of Twitter personalities and what he calls politics obsessed teenagers getting into polling as a hobby. And all of their polls get averaged. They have a small weight on it, but they have enough of a weight that they affect what like 538 averages and models look like. Right. And so he was able to get a more accurate read by just ignoring all of those.

Yeah. Well, I mean, cause what Nate Silver, he left 538, right? He's like doing his own weird thing that people are like, what's up with his polling? But yeah, I mean, I know like in Newsweek, they were saying, you know, like, they're like Nate Silver's model has Kamala Harris winning four swing states, but it's not the swing states we were just talking about. It was the ones that like Michigan, Pennsylvania,

Wisconsin, Nevada, that are must-wins in the event that, you know, North Carolina and Georgia aren't gonna turn out the way it will. But yeah, I mean, I think there's like, like you were saying, there is, there's a lot of confirmation bias at play with polling and like how people hire pollsters.

Like, so if you're working on, you know, like a ballot proposition and you have like a consortium of wealthy donors who are the ones bankrolling the entire thing, you need to check in with them to show them how their money is being well spent. And by that, I mean, you show them polls that look good. And be like, oh my God, thanks so much.

I know we asked for that extra 100K, blah, blah, blah. That's how that translated this. Like, here's some latest polling, da, da, da, da, da. And they go, oh, okay, here's more money. Here's more money. So guess what? You will hire pollsters that can help shape the reality a bit, you know, to keep your dollars flowing or you know, getting to, you know, you know, covered on

Fox or Ameri- what American news or whatever. So it's always like, there's a there's definitely a bit of it. It's not the most objective thing, because sometimes polls aren't necessarily for us or to indicate to us what's happening. Sometimes like you need polls that are just meant to message things for other purposes too. But yeah, yeah. And they have an effect. They have an effect in the sense that they like give people confidence that, oh, the Fox News narrative that they're talking about is actually reflective of how people out there feel, you know? Yeah. And you also, I, you did for considering how deflated conservatives have been since the beginning of Brat summer and all the weird shit, right? They need, they need to see something that

tells them they're still in the game and nothing weird about those numbers. Yeah. And by all measures, like I just in the same way, like Democratic voters are being told that a lot is on the line, a lot is at stake, the same as being told to conservatives in a much freakier fucking way. But they're also trying to tap into, they're like, this, it's all on the line this November. Get your ass out there.

So, you know, we'll see. 42 days though, and Georgia is gonna make it fucking very difficult. So speaking of Georgia, we've talked about the Georgia elections board and the MAGA members of that election board that like Donald Trump like called out by name at a rally. He's like, we love them Dodie folks. They're gonna completely fuck the rat for us when it comes to these election results and they've altered the rules to the point that like essentially this election board can decide whether or not to certify election results.

Oh, and now it got worse somehow because over the weekend it was reported. They've changed the rules now. So millions of ballots will have to be fucking hand counted. Jesus. Hand counting. The hand count will quote, requires the poll manager and two sworn poll officers to unseal ballot boxes, remove and record the ballots, and have three poll officers independently count them.

And it's not like that they're saying like, you need to record the results, just purely the number of ballots casted is what they're trying to go after. And the process is so fucking convoluted. It's like pointless to describe, but essentially three people at each polling place are gonna hand count ballots independently

to make sure like all three arrive at the same number. They're like, what'd you get? What'd you get? Like, ah, it's off by two. Uh-oh. Start over again. Start over. Three million.

Yeah. Or another, like if it's taking too long, which is the point, the elections board will take over and determine if and when to certify the results of a given precinct or county. The elections board, which is very pro-Trump. Yes. They have a Trump majority who is, they are doing things that are extra legal. They are doing, they are not a legislative body. They are an administrative body. So they're, but they're saying like, oh, well now we're gonna decide,

you know, like we are the be all end all. And everyone's like, you can't do that. And that's, I'm like, our system's so fucking flimsy if three assholes can just be like, no, we're changing it and now I'm in charge and fuck you. And there's no remedy to that. Then this. Holy shit, I thought, you know, that this was going to get sorted.

But no, here we are. And, you know, I think we've we've said this before, because there's Republicans like we need a hand count or whatever. That is one of the most. I mean, like, I guess the most inaccurate way to to count something, unless you were like blindfolded and on acid or something. And you were told these were snakes you were handling. Maybe you get a more like a less accurate count.

But machines, so I have machines fucking work here. And there were no issues with these existing systems previously. But again, this is all happening because this is the playbook for this election. And there is a murky figure behind This elections board like sort of that like a group of very willing elections officials across the state of Georgia She was like she's like very close to Trump She was actually on the line on that same phone call when Trump was asking Brad Raffensperger to find some more votes Yeah, so there's like an entire cheat on this.

Make me president. Yes. She was like on the phone for that call. Like, right. Like on the Trump side. And now she has an entire infrastructure in place of elections official that will basically do whatever they can to cause as much chaos as possible and delay the results. The attorney general of Georgia is like, this seems like a little bit too far. But whether or not that is going to translate to any kind of legal remedy, I'm not sure.

Forty two days away. Jesus. Yeah. In other countries, like they know the results the night that the election happens. In real time. Yeah, they're just like, oh, and yeah, we have a winner like right away. But in the US, yeah, this is going to George is going to take days, like maybe like weeks by design, because they want to give the rats as much of a chance to fuck. I think they have a six day period to count Jesus Christ. And the fact that it's not happening sooner, again,

is because if you slow down the map from turning blue or red in certain places for an audience that has been fed a steady diet of election result denialism, it's just gonna, it'll help put roots down in their minds that wait a second, is it happening again? If it isn't an out, if it isn't a total blowout, or if Trump just drastically overperforms too, and it's, we got 2016 Michael Jordan cry face on the right home app.

I do feel like he's gonna do better than the MSM narrative of the past 20 days would suggest. It's too cocky. It's weird. I know that they're terrible at covering Donald Trump, but they also are so dismissive to be like, and we've won. Look at them. They're a mess. Yeah. Yeah.

Also, like, don't count out the fact that there are a lot of wealthy people that are putting tons of money and also to make to try and help Trump win. And add to that all these fucking creeps out here who are just like, yeah, man, I'll fucking I'll put my finger on the fucking scale. I don't care. Yeah. And if I am indicted. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like I don't know.

But either way, like, it's important to stay focused on the information that actually matters and not a smokesc screen of like people who are just horny for Hannity to say their name or the name of their polling outlet. But yeah, like the stuff with the Georgia election board feels like it's gonna matter. And then like the actual polling that seems to be suggesting he's doing better than expected.

Probably need to pay attention that too. Yeah, well, it's just tough too, because like he, and I think you were alluding to this in something you're reading that I wrote is that like, his playbook isn't to appeal to anyone, aside from like the, like the biggest lowlifes. Yeah. Whereas like Democrats are like, they're not doing the thing that energizes Progress like their entire base of voters. They're like if we just fucking curl up into a ball Maybe no one will notice anything that we're not changing the situation in the country and we can just get through this Rather than like Joe Biden even was you You remember when they're like, yo, this motherfucker FDR to electric Boogaloo when he was running in 2020 with like some of the policies like these policies

aren't even fucking close. They're like, yeah, man. Yeah. More money for the cops, baby. Less money for people. All right. Any questions? Yeah. All right. Great. Yeah. See you November. The stuff that the mainstream media like points to as like disqualifying, Yeah. All right. Great. Yeah. See you November.

The stuff that the mainstream media like points to as like disqualifying, like his racism, willingness to say anything just seems to strengthen his appeal with a lot of the people who are already interested in voting for him. And then, and then the mainstream media pointing it out, like, I don't know what you're supposed to do in this case, but that also seems to make people happy because it's like triggering the libs. But yeah, on the democratic side, it just feels like we're watching them try to like balance

between different positions that won't offend this party. And you know, like, because they are for a status quo that the people voting for them aren't actually happy with. And so it just it's a disadvantage. On a macro level, like, this is where I'm like, these people are so stupid. Ask any normal person who has a regular existence, like a job and a family or debt or whatever. I would tell, I'd wager 80% of people are like, man, this shit can't continue the way it's going.

Like the way my life, how chaotic my life feels, how, you know, stretched thin I feel without any help, without any kind of relief, this isn't sustainable. And the fact that that is so, that's permeating throughout the zeitgeist and through people's like minds and not being addressed in sort of like you can activate something that a huge, a large amount of people are feeling right now that quite can't articulate it.

But the fact that like to your point, it's like, well, we're kind of here to defend that shitty status quo. It's like, dude, you're this is it. It's not energizing. This fucking freaks out here being like they're eating pats and they're fucking jacking off to this nonsense. It's fucking wild. And like here, it's like, hey, man, we have like,

like the most regressive immigration plan we've had as a party in a long time. Sure. Yeah. Excited. Yeah. Trump is also, by the way, for a status quo in all the important ways that would impact people's day to day lives. Like he's going to do things that benefit the extremely wealthy. But just for that group of people. Yeah. Yeah. For that group of people, they don't care. He they just he can say whatever wild ass thing pops into his head

and they're going to enjoy it as long as it makes people say that's terrible. That's a terrible thing to say. Exactly. Because, again, those people are also dealing with their stressed out, unhappy lives, too. But it's the remedy to that is manifesting in a very different way, which is like, yeah, man, fuck it. Everyone's going to cry. And that's that sort of level of destruction. Like, I mean, we'll be who will come to pass if things don't. Anyway, yeah, we'll see.

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We're back. And at the box office, let's check in with the B.O. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice continues to be Bofo. Oh, it's number one. Still still so Bofo. I'm going tonight. It's legging out. It's it's got legs. Oh, shit. It's a wall trades. Is it are they saying it's legging out?

Oh, it's a leggy box office. Oh, OK. So it was number one of the box office for a third weekend in a row. Topping the new Transformers movie, Transformers one, which our writer, J.M. was like, wait, what? There's a new Transformers movie. Yeah. But usually my kids were acutely aware. They were locked in on this shit. Yeah.

It's live action. No it's animated. And it's like computer animated. That's why your kids know about it and the fucking drug using adults don't know about it. That's right. Yeah. Which isn't fair because I'm sure it would be fun to watch on drugs.

The animation is pretty cool in moments. Oh really? Yeah. Like Spider-Man level interesting? Like fucking with the, okay. No, just like a- No, no, no, not like an Academy. It kind of has a unique style and it sticks with it. And there's just like some cool action sequences

where they take advantage of the fact that they don't have to like make this look like it's happening in reality. It's made by the director of Toy Story 4, which, you know, that movie, I really enjoyed that movie. And the overall. Yeah. All right. Yeah. So I took my kids to see it this weekend. Only fell asleep for like 15 minutes. Your kids? Yeah, my kids absolutely loved it. I thought they fell asleep. It's like, oh. No, no, I only fell asleep for 15 minutes.

Was it a, did they wake you up or did you do that thing where you're like, oh shit, I've been asleep for 15 minutes? Yeah, it was the latter. And when I told them that I was asleep for a portion of it because they were asking me a question that I couldn't answer. Oh, about what happened. Like that didn't happen. Like gaslighting them. But I yeah, it's a very good execution of what it is.

But I expected this movie to do badly from the second I saw the first trailer, because it like takes place on their like the Transformer home planet, like in a Transformers world where they like, it's just like Transformer V Transformer fighting like bug aliens mixed in. And there's just like a ton of moving parts and like, it's not even clear like what the stakes are or like what's happening. You kind of have to be familiar with transformers lore and the animation does take like a little getting used to my kids fucking loved it I ate too many jalapeno peppers

with my popcorn and haven't felt right since one with each kernel with each kernel oh man that I don't recommend that. Like as much as I enjoy it, I need to stop doing it because it really fucks me. As it is fucking your stomach. Oh, yeah. Like just from the, yeah, the pickle. But it does. It does feel like a movie where the IP is weighing it down.

Like if they had taken a similar story and like put it in a world that wasn't Transformers and just simplified it without all the lore and the things you have to do because you're telling a Transformers movie, I feel like it might've done better. I wonder how it did in China though, which I felt like has become the biggest audience for Transformers films, like the last few ones. Or at least a lot of people are noticing.

I think it was disappointing both in America and overseas. I don't know if it's opened in China yet. I can't imagine Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is doing well in China, right? Because don't they not fuck with ghosts? Oh, I don't know. Yeah. I always heard that as an explanation for why the Star Wars movies don't do well in China. Yeah, yeah. But Beetlejuice is like a fucking, you know, a creep.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's true. He's a piece of shit. You know, who's that? Yeah. Real piece of shit. But yeah, not now. My kid like I fucked up basically. I shouldn't have taken my kids to see this movie because now they're like

all they want to do is see the Michael Bay Transformers movie which I had managed to not see a single like one of those end to end. Then they'll have a formative memory that of Megan Fox working on a old car. Yeah. Oh wow to be young again and have that be the movie or like and I had I had a crush on Megan Fox this old Transformers movie, right? Oh, what an age what an age what an era? Um, anyways, it does feel like I don't know the the IP stuff is obviously working in some cases right inside out to Beetlejuice 2. It's like a real Juice 2. It's like a real summer for part two movies. I feel like parts two are killing it, but it does feel like we're at some end point and like movies made by independent filmmakers on like cheap budgets are going to have to start coming out and replacing what is being lost in the current studio system.

It's just a matter of like where people are going to go see those because now like Sony owns the Alamo Drafthouse and like even the independent theaters are kind of being owned and you know that there were there were monopoly laws about like distribution and studios owning distribution methods and those are kind of gone away. Losers man. Yeah. The paramount decrees man. Yeah.

Yeah. Fuck the paramount. We can all agree. I think we can all agree on this. I think I think look MAGA Democrat. We can all agree. I'll I'll agree. We can all agree.

A Cree agree. Fuck the paramount. I gotta go. That's been our time.. Fuck the paramount. I got to go. That's been our time, folks. I got to go. Our brains shutting down. It's early. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show.

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