The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekend Trending Report 7/24: Barbie, Oppenheimer, GOP, Kevin McCarthy, X

Episode Date: July 24, 2023

In this edition of Weekend Trending Report, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, Barbie's boffo box office performance and the Right's response, the GOP's efforts to expunge Trump's impeachments, Kevin McCarthy's "desert thirst" for power and acceptance, and Twitter becoming X?!?!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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the internet and welcome to week trend report weekend trending report oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah um the trend five like the fast five. That was what they called that one. I'm Jack. That's Miles. Yeah. It's Monday, baby. Yeah, we are.

But we did the barb of the Barbenheimer. We did the bar of the Barbenheimer. I saw two people rocking the barbenheimer's shirt at the barbie when i saw barbie it is it was a full-on cultural event yeah truly been a while since my only note is that the the movie's doing so well they're really churning through them do not expect the full 20 minutes of previews because you know we're we're stuck in a 30 minute line at the concessions and i was like yeah no we'll be fine like the last movie i went and saw it didn't start till like 40 minutes after the show time and we got in missed the first scene miles i had

no idea what the fuck was going on you missed the first scene yeah what so who's barbie so that's what this episode is gonna be yeah i'm just gonna be asking you quick yeah yeah You missed the first scene? Yeah. So who's Barbie? So that's what this episode's gonna be. I'm just gonna be asking you questions. Was the first scene the one was it the trailer? Yeah, it's the Helen Mirren narration with the girls playing with dolls. So I had seen it. So I wasn't totally

lost. But five stars, no notes from my end. I thought it was a full-on uh triumph i hated it and we'll get into that next and that's what this that's what makes this show fun yeah um all right so that's it oh we're gonna we're gonna talk about this oh man it's early uh yeah yeah no don't worry we're uh we're gonna talk about barbie more in the in the news section but first we like to kick off the week with a little over under from your boys uh miles and jack sure boys sure boys uh you want to kick us off you

want yeah oh you had underrated first. I'll do my underrated first. Underrated? Just a bowling date. Oh, yeah. I saw Hermadsey and I, we hit Barbie. We went to this mall that was kind of further out because that's where we could get tickets. And I hadn't really been to this mall. It's gigantic.

Okay? I've never been to a mall so big. Like in LA, I was kind of surprised that growing up this is the santa anita mall for full disclosure uh it was gigantic and there's like a davin busters and amc and like a bolero or some shit all in like the same spot so after we saw the movie we're like you know my mom was watching the kids so i was like let's let's like let's just do a little bowling wow there's something so fucking pure i don't know for me personally about bowling i think it's just good clean fun and i think it's i'd be getting nostalgic

for it because it's kind of like one of those places you go like you do a lot for like birthday parties when you're like in grade school like some kid has like a bowling birthday party and then naturally as you get older and you start going on dates bowling alleys are kind of like the first place you go to because because child because you're not getting in a bar or club or whatever so i don't know that had i had such a good time bowling and i fucking suck it's fucking disturbing i'm so bad. And I'm not joking. I threw a gutter ball every frame. Every frame?

Every frame. Like one gutter ball. Straight to the gutter. Then I hit a strike. Or I guess it's a spare at that point. Or eight pins, nine pins. I just, for whatever reason, I'm fucking wildly inconsistent. I need help, Zeitgang.

If you're bowling, Zeitgang, honestly, I need to be better at bowling because I've never seen such a tense bowling game between two people where the score that won was 58. But it was tense. Hey, man, bowling may be clean fun the way you do it, but I get dirty on the lanes, man. I get greasy down there in those lanes. You good at bowling?

No. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah. So I have, but I'm like inconsistent. I think anyone who doesn't bowl a lot, you can get on streaks where you're really locked in. And yeah, my wife and I went to a like but did a bowling date in the past year at like a retro bowling lane over in uh highland park i think oh yeah yeah yeah yeah highland park bowling yeah figueroa and yeah i had some good frames there i one time i went bowling

uh two stones back in my younger years and i couldn't even make it to the arrows on the lane like it would just go directly into the gutter like just like two inches like on the release just yeah there was just like some weird mental block that i had and i just like couldn't it like the people i was asking or i was bowling with were asking me like are you are you fucking serious yeah like how the fuck do you do that damn it were you doing the thing where you were like whipping it no i don't know what to do like you'll like you'll like between the legs like grandma get out of my own way yeah yeah i do every single time i bowl i try and do the thing where uh you roll one normal speed and then the other really slow and try and get a strike on

both of them oh and they both be end up curling around the other one yeah yeah that wasn't happening for me but anyway uh if you got tips please let me know i did everything i shifted boards i'm trying to just have my release go straight i don't know man i'm i'm i'm fucking wildly are you trying to put stank on it? Hell no! No. Yeah, I just go straight. There were these people in the lane next to me, right? These dudes were so aggro with it, they were just as shitty, but they could not get out

of their tough guy bowling style to just fucking whip it down the lane. Yeah. And like, with a wild ass spin. Like, one guy at one point hit a really clean strike with some wild spin on it. I was like, oh, maybe this motherfucker knows what he's doing. Then the next five were just like chaotic.

So like I tried to go much more like. Just bummed you out? Yeah, like I was much more conscientious about like where I was, what I was doing. Anyway, all that to say, shout out bowling. Shout out bowling. My underrated is personalized license plates. I'd never do it it but i'm never not intrigued by a personalized license plate um they like people just give us little puzzles to solve

while we're stuck in traffic yeah where you get to be like what sort of personality disorder does this person have what are you into yeah yeah what's this distillation of who you are what's the best one you saw recently well so i i saw one that just said big mad uh on a drive the other day i was like all right okay uh that's so i know where you're coming from i saw one that just said no wife fyi ladies hey just so you know no wife and then i went looking for uh personalized plates this morning on the internet and uh they found one that was uh jizz lord but people are assuming that it meant j is Lord, like Jesus is Lord, but they,

but they came through with the Lord, which I, you know, again, right. I would love to encounter that in the wild on these streets. Oh man. You got an overrated for me.

Uh, overrated, man. So getting drunk and fighting people at an exhibition soccer match. Yeah, you have a swollen shut black eye right now. Hell no.

So, over the weekend, there was an exhibition game between Manchester United and Arsenal. This was in New Jersey, like at the Meadowlands or whatever it's called now, MetLife Field or whatever the fuck it's called.

And Arsenal fans started fucking fighting each other in the stands. Each other? I guess they're hot, yeah, hot, drunk. So it didn't go well? Yeah.

I don't know what happened. I mean, yeah, we lost like 2-0, but again, it's a preseason friendly. Then yesterday, I went to the Rose Bowl to see AC Milan

play Real Madrid. And I was like, so AC Milan was up 2-0, and then Madrid came back and won 3-2. When that third goal, like, the last two goals that Madrid put in, this dude behind me was just whipping his full beer around everyone. Like, fucking everyone when they scored. The first time, I was like, whatever, this dude looks drunk as shit. He looks like this matters to him.

I was like, whatever, this is just the cost of it. Like I wasn't going to fucking, I wasn't start tripping. The second time he did it, I looked back and I was like, is this motherfucker for real?

And so were the other people in some of the other rows. When the third goal went in, everybody turned around to be like, motherfucker, don't. Yes. They're like, don't. And he was like, I don't give a fuck. He said, to be like, motherfucker, don't. Yes. They're like, don't. And he was like, I don't give a fuck.

He said, I don't give a fuck. Started whipping it around. Got it all over these little six-year-old kids and shit that were in front of me. And since the dad in that row and his homies, they were ready to fucking square up and just duff this dude out and his boys. Because they started jawing and shit. They started staying like, and I'm in, we, me and my friends were in the row in between. So immediately we stand up.

Thank God we were bigger than both of these groups of people. Cause we were just like, this ain't happening. Like there's fuck. This is, there's three minutes left in the fucking game. And then this one dude, he was getting so his kids his kid started getting upset and i was like hey man look at i had to be like bro i'm not trying to fight you but please look at your son like he is fucking upset like he's tugging at you being like don't do this and that's when like the guy had to be like you know then i was and then i saw the other guy i'm like look

what you're doing man you're getting this little kid upset you're throwing beer like what the fuck is this for luckily they deaded it but then the other guys were other guy, I'm like, look what you're doing, man. You're getting this little kid upset. You're throwing beer. Like, what the fuck is this for? Luckily, they deaded it. But then the other guys were saying, like, yeah, I'm going to catch you outside, whatever. I don't think that happened. But all that to say, I was just like, what the fuck is, like, people just getting too turnt up. Over a friendly. Yeah. And I think they were kind of, I think the guy was kind of being intentional because one of my friends had an AC Milan jersey.

But there was, like, AC Milan people all over it was just very odd and like anyway the temperature's hot y'all out there and it just seems like part and parcel now like every sports like anytime I've seen live sports pretty close to being like on the brink of always seeing people you know start scrapping but anyway Brian says my first soccer game I got hit in the face by a guy diving for a t-shirt from a t-shirt cannon so it's it's definitely a vibe of these yeah matches I think but also I think this is one of those moments maybe it's not really about the fighting but I think it was just I kind of had this adrenaline rush after because as like a new parent I definitely saw myself in this guy's position of like yo man you fucking throwing beer

like all over my kids and shit like whether or not you intentionally wanted to get it on my kids but like i'm gonna say like i'm not about to fucking not say shit like i'm gonna let you know that you've crossed the line but then watching him get like the kid get up so i was like oh my god this is so tragic i was like fucking i was i was, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I was a little excited after. Yeah. Parenthood, you have to make sure your kid knows you're not a punk and, you know, just hit the biggest guy who challenges you

as quickly as possible just to make sure. Knock the security guard out with his own mag light. But it was wild too because the cops, like people were like in the stands trying to get security because they could feel that someone was going to kick off and all this fucking cop did from like the field was like shine his light and be like hey hey hey hey i see you i see you i'm like i don't know if that's gonna stop but hey and you are you have the spotlight sir go yes go ahead

yeah i've always thought of soccer as being like more of a communal thing where everyone's singing together and stuff but i guess that's not always the case especially when it's not when there's not like a home team and it's just a bunch of there's a lot of tension man because there's a lot of fans who kind of like think they're on that like hooligan ultra type thing and like i don't think it's for, but it's an exhibition match and there's families there. And like, yeah, I don't know, man. It's just, just, just have a good time. Like we're here to see something that we wouldn't normally be able to see. So yeah. Well, I attended a live event and it's also my overrated miles. Ah, okay. So we weren't alone.

You know, being in Los Angeles, we don't get to the theater very often um you know we hear about it from people in new york um but i i rarely get to watch professional actors tread the boards finally made it to the theater what did you see uh venue known as crypto.com arena uh to take in a play called jurassic world live you saw that? Yes. I wanted to go see that shit last week. I think it was at the Honda Center in Anaheim last weekend and I was thinking about

going because I'm so Jurassic Park brained. Miles. How was it? I'm sorry Jurassic World but this is going to be a pan. It is a two act play in which puppet dinosaurs interact with human actors on motorcycles. Some things blow up. It is way too plot-driven.

Really? It is full of plot. So one of the big problems that you have... Wait, so for people who don't know the instagram ad of this thing which i was getting slammed with made it look like of the fucking t-rexes come out and you will walk with dinosaurs dope ass dinosaur show without much anything needed because like you're looking at like big ass t-rexes and shit but i'm trying to get my kids into dinosaurs because the star wars stuff is becoming a little overbearing like it's just wall to wall like john williams scores from the obscure like parts of

episode three where it's like oh yeah like this one really hits actually the battle between obi-wan kenobi and anakin he's like yo i got latest theme on loop yeah so i'm i'm like you know what i bet you'd like is dinosaurs they're pretty cool and like my kids aren't even into dinosaurs after seeing this you can't bro i don't know i think that you you fucked the sequence up yeah yeah i don't think you can go to star wars and then star wars nah because you just went to the future and then back to the caveman it's actually a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away but yeah i see your point um unless like the dinosaurs have lasers and shit shooting out of it because my progression was dinosaurs and then i was like yo what the fuck are these like light

swords and shit oh yeah i'm over here now um the big problem with jurassic world live is that it is a theatrical play where you're in an arena and they've they've constructed it so that it is like telling a story that has a lot of like back and forth dialogue between characters but you have no idea who's talking and there are um at times 20 people on stage is it like a play where the focal point is clearly like over here there's like dinosaurs meandering on one part of the arena floor and then people having a convo

like can you follow what's happening at all have you been to theater before so it's not like this it's like this the entire it's like the entire hockey floor you know an NHL ice size stage with dinosaur puppets and then human actors, normal sized human actors.

And you, you need to know who's talking at various points because like they've written it so that like five people are having a conversation. So the actors are asked to use their body language to communicate. I'm the one imparting this witty, tossed-off aside. When they say, I'm, are they doing the two thumbs? Yeah, they're doing the big hand gestures. I'm the one that is telling you, finger wave. As much as they can. But people generally don't raise and pump their fists

over their head when they're like casting off a witty aside so it's it's a real mess what is the plot if you can walk me through what is the narrative of this show so it takes place at jurassic world um they have like it's not like you're they've brought the dinosaurs to the arena you're watching a play about you're watching a play about Jurassic World. You're watching a play about Jurassic World. Oh, no. Yes. Oh, that's why it's Jurassic World Live.

Yes. Oh, no, no, no. They're working with a genius dinosaur named Genie, which is short for genius. It's a lot of like lab scenes with her and they're like wow the decoder seems to say she's having complex emotions and then um the t-rex breaks through and then n-gen wants to control this genius dinosaur for it's just way too much plot yeah for weapons which is always which is always the idea they've just taken the logic from the alien franchise and they're like that yeah this makes sense you would breed dinosaurs to use them

as weapons um the most unpredictable inefficient weapon that you could possibly imagine tactical nuclear weapons yeah we nah you ride a but think about how sick it would be if you were riding a fucking raptor yeah exactly um but yeah i mean it it has like five different settings like it goes from jurassic world to uh i guess three settings jurassic world new york city to a desert in south america back to jurassic world back to the abandoned island um and it's just they they put too much too much plot in there right i really felt for the actors having to be like i'm the one talking right now with their big like sweeping gestures and like pointing their thumbs at their shoulders and then the fight choreography is just you know there are these like long 15 minute like fights where like it's basically like you know child play fighting but if the

instead of children it was ballerinas um like because they they're all you know trained actors and dancers so they're like yeah yeah they do like spins and pirouettes and uh it's it's interesting but anyways uh the i think i can use this to just say the theater is not bringing it these days folks yeah all right i get that valid criticism that's why it's a dying art that's why you got to go to the movies um hell yeah we're gonna talk about the movies right after this. we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high-control groups and interview dancers, church members, and others whose lives and careers have been impacted, just like mine.

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And we're back. We're back. Boppenheimer was a success. A rousing success. People opt-in Heimer this weekend. So Barbie is like the most biggest opening weekend of the year, right ahead of Super Mario Brothers. It was like way, way more than anybody was expecting.

Did it like double? It wasn't each movie double the projection, basically? I think so. Yeah, it was wild like how many people went like the the theaters were teeming with people in pink um yeah i wore my i wore my pink yeah i wore pink pants and uh you know yeah i got pink pants what are those like some like like some pink cords oh wow okay okay um my wife wore a pink jumpsuit and uh we we went and saw it at man's chinese and oh wow okay

the and freddy krueger on the way out she said freddy and he said Barbie. So she was pulling it off. Anyways, I've only seen Barbie. I'm going to see Oppenheimer this week. Barbie's great. That's my review. It's awesome. I think I got to say, I saw Barbie too. I think Greta Gerwig and was it Noah Baumbach?

We'll give all praise to Greta. Did a really good job of just like threading what i felt was a nearly impossible needle to thread of like talking about the the topic of barbie wrestling with its place in like the concept of modern womanhood and patriarchy and all that while still being like a fun summer movie so fun that's where i'm like you did it really landed oh hell yeah like and again i'm not joking i i was so excited to go to the movies this weekend i've not felt like this i don't it's been a fucking long time since for some reason i i felt like the nicole kidman commercial like it feels good to fall in love in a place like this or get your heart whatever i got my cherry carby in there quick oh yeah i had my cherry coke

that first scene i got emotional yeah i don't know why as i mentioned i think maybe it could have been because i was like in the second row looking on a big ass screen and my eyes was watering from just having to be too close and like light sensitivity yeah it starts off great and then it's just such a it's a it's a fun ride and without spoiling anything i think there's so many good jokes that i'm sure we'll be talking about for a while for a long time yeah uh sorry am i eating something delicious because i'm seeing noms everywhere uh in this film oh really really? I already did that joke off. Yeah. Well, you workshopped it.

I had to. Yeah. And you didn't laugh. They got one laugh, one groan. All right. Ryan Gosling, I think, will be nominated for Supporting Actor. I think Greta Gerwig will be nominated for Director. What about Margot Robbie?

Yeah. I think she could definitely be nominated for lead but i think greta gerwig now is like in the conversation as like the best writer director working like she's three for three and just like three wildly different movies right i mean i haven't seen little women but i hear it's good yeah i've seen it's funny i've seen little i saw little women when it came out uh yeah don't know what it came out. Couldn't tell you what it was about, but it was good. And I just mind-meld, like Greta Gerwig used my favorite song, Push, by Matchbox 20 throughout. My go-to karaoke.

That song will never be the same again. No, definitely not. That song will never be the same again. No, definitely not. Yeah. Definitely not. I don't know. Like, I think there's like a lot of climate anxiety stuff in there that is interesting that I don't see a lot of people pointing out, like that you're waking up from an artificial

consumerist world to realize like we're all going to die. But it's right. I don't know. There's also like obviously like bumming other people out when you talk about it yes exactly what i know i mean i'm joking the barbie world is like plastic on the beach and right like plastic water um it like i i think that there's like interesting ideas in there like both textually and subtextually. I think it's really good. They did a really nice job. Not such a fan? Ben Shapiro.

I know what it is. I remember on Thursday or whenever the embargo was lifted, every right-wing person was like, this is a woke mess. I forget, Judge Jeanine, one of them people from Fox was lifted, every right wing person was like, this is a woke mess. I think I forget Judge Jeanine. One of them people from Fox is like, it's a Trojan horse for feminism.

I'm like, that shit is not a Trojan horse. They Kool-Aid man. Nothing hit through the fucking wall. Absolutely. Who's a fucking Trojan horse about this? I think there's a feminist subtext in here somewhere. I can't quite see it. Right, right right right no like all the jokes

are explicitly overtly like about feminism and uh yeah ben shapiro uh after he put so he posted a tweet complaining that his producers dragged him to see barbie uh he is of course by himself in the picture his producers are all holding-camera, but totally 100% real and presumably just out of frame like Nathan Fielder's friends. Wait, but why is he holding papers in front of the poster? Did you get the dossier

when you went to the Barbie movie? It's just so weird. He's in his... I love your tucked-in black tee into your black jeans, Ben. Love it. Standing in front of the poster with like, I don't know,

like three loose sheets of paper with this like disapproving look. Like what? My notes are scathing. Could you imagine him scribbling with pen and paper in a way? Ah, too woke, too woke. Uh,

it was, it wasn't the, I'm guessing it was the just in your face fucking messages about inequalities in our society so he released a 43 minute video devoted to nothing but barbie uh and appeared to try and spark mass protests against the movie that most of the world was already in the process of seeing and enjoying and disagreeing with Ben Shapiro about. And then he made his pitch to be Kid Rock's boy sidekick by setting fire to

Barbie dolls from the movie, which he had to go out and buy. He bought the movie merch Barbies? Yes. And then set them on fire and presumably inhaled all sorts of unholy chemicals into his lungs.

Right, right, right. Yeah. Nothing says alpha male like going full angry third grader and burning someone. Yeah. Then being Sid from Toy Story. Yeah. Real like Dennis the Menace shit. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. But he complained like his local movie theater's screening of barbie was full of moms and young girls can you imagine like what at the barbie movie no way i'm shocked go on he also claims that uh it's says it's a feminist claptrap and it features a trans actress um and this is true totally normally as if this is a female barbie with a voice deeper than my own which is completely not true like i had truly had no idea bar wait that went over my head yeah this is one of the barbies is a trans woman and oh okay what scene the um it's the barbie with kind of reddish hair i thought it was

because i don't really know which one do a lipa is it was do a lipa in it yeah do a lipa's in there there's just so many barbies to keep track of yeah yeah it was a lot of barbies and a lot of kens but yeah wow i like that he really i, he must have really done his transphobic research to fucking pinpoint that moment. Yeah, I think he did. And he was outraged. He claimed the film is explicitly designed to divide men from women, describing it as angry feminist claptrap that alienates men from women. He's an amazing, one of our foremost thinkers on uh absolutely gender and you know the politics gender equality inequality in general i think thank you i think that's very

yeah in line with his his philosophy for sure one thing that was kind of interesting though is like in dealing with a topic that is so inherently violent like patriarchy you know like in my mind like i'm i'm thinking of like the most violent manifestations of patriarchy that we have like in our in our culture like i was just thinking of like those women who were testifying in texas like as they're trying to sue ken paxton about their inability to get an abortion when they needed to but then like still finding a way to deal with something so inherently chaotic violent dark and make it work again i was always like that's that's a that's a hard thing to do although i feel like with other times i'm curious how like another topic may have been perceived like if it was dealing with like white supremacy if it was like flippant but i get that there is a way to do that like

already we have movies that like skew these kinds of things but yet i have it in a way that is has the right wing people panicked i'm like yeah you did a good job i'm sure they love the america ferreira monologue too that's probably when like conservatives walked out of the fucking movie oh i'm sure yeah where everybody at the theater i went to was cheering throughout and i yeah so harry neff is the um doctor slash dj barbie um dualipa is the mermaid according to anna um and yeah there's just a lot of a lot of barbie going around but yeah yeah yeah um a real a real good time at the movies i was thinking about like greta titleman's um american ambassador character from los espookys during the movie a lot just it

seems like it like has a lot of the same aesthetics from those scenes in the first season um but apparently the barbie aesthetic is like incredibly popular in Latin America for, you know, I guess similar reasons to the U S like there, there was a bunch of articles, like the AP wrote an article about how like Barbie mania invades Latin America. And they're like,

the doll was popular in Latin America because it was introduced at a time when other toys for girls were like mainly filling homemaker roles, which seems like it's true in a lot of places um but anyways the movie's been a huge box office success there and like you know in addition to that and like a bunch of tie-ins like an airline painting it's plain pink with a barbie logo uh it's also like pulled into it's been pulled into like some protests, like protesters in Peru who are calling for the immediate elections to be called to get the current president out of office. This created like this awesome looking Barbie doll outfit with like a pink machine gun and boxes labeled like Dictator Barbie and Genocide Barbie. barbie and in mexico a young woman started sewing outfits for searching mother barbie like modeled on the clothes typically worn by the families of the 111 000 people missing in mexico who are

you know forced to fend for themselves because the police have given up on them so it's being used in interesting ways and oh yeah around the country it's just like yeah to your point about like just the plasticity of it all and like kind of like what that the larger themes or messages are like i think when you pair that with oppenheimer like where you have you know barbie on one end and the fucking bomb on the other yeah it does put you in this weird in between because they are like like it even the bomb will induce like sort of this like existential dread and anxiety over like what we're doing what we've done like what the fuck

is going on so yeah i think it's just like a this is just like two really interesting i think pieces of film that just happened to come at the perfect time to turn into something like i don't know in any universe i'd have been like, yeah, Boppenheimer. Like, if you told me two years ago, I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about?

Like, those are just two movies that are coming out. But for some reason it's like, I don't know. I think it's embodying what a lot of us are feeling, whether it's, we want to, we want the,

maybe people seek the predictability and cleanliness of a Barbie world and ignoring the things that we dread. But I don't know. It's a lot of, it gives us a lot of things to, to distract ourselves with. And I enjoyed it.

And then ultimately end with the realization that we're all going to die. Yeah. Important. Yeah. Got to know that first and foremost. Yeah. All right. Uh,

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your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. And we're back. And what's going on in the world of politics obviously we talked about there on wednesday there's going to be some big uh uap ufo hearings on the house yeah coming up what what else are we seeing what else what else uh i don't know i mean there's there there's plenty going on i i think the one thing that's gonna take up a big chunk of stupid air in the house uh is the house gop's efforts to

expunge trump's impeachments like uh like really angry parents who are like don't worry honey we're gonna get that suspension taken off your record and then no one will remember it and yeah which is so fucking weird to me that they think just because it's taken off the record and then no one will remember it and yeah which is so fucking weird to me that they think just because it's taken off the record that that will somehow you know repair his reputation anyway so kevin mccarthy is caught in the middle because he suffers from what we have repeatedly called desert thirst when it comes to political power the man will do and say anything to try and like climb the ladder and last week he offhandedly mentioned that trump you know may not be the strongest candidate

what uh going yeah and then that has everybody clutching their maga pearls and he's like no no no i didn't i didn't that's not what i meant okay okay like here's the thing yeah i hear you guys want to take a vote to expunge his record okay then we'll i'll do that like sort of like as a make good but now he's now he's found himself in this place which he repeatedly finds himself in because he's always doing backdoor deals with people who have no moral scruples or are so inconsistent so the maga caucus people um are all like we need need this vote or else it's a fucking embarrassment. Moderates, however you want to call them, whatever that word means in the Republican Party, they've all pretty much said there's no fucking way I'm voting for that. I'm trying to get reelected and I can't be, I got to appear like some MAGA adjacent Republican, not big MAGA.

So if that happens, if they don't vote for it, that means the measure would fail, which would make Trump even angrier. Because again, this is all just like an optics exercise for this man's ego. And yeah, Marjorie Taylor Greene's like, I'm hoping that we will have something before the August recess. But good luck with that.

We'll be checking in with it every day just to see where they are with this because it's very important. It is so funny that they like have a, like they're not dealing with the media. They're just like dealing with one person's opinion of them. Like that, that's all they care about.

It's gotta be very like, I don't remember. Yeah. It's gotta be very surreal and weird where they're just like, okay, like has he sent me a mean email? Alright, then we're good. Yeah, so, I mean, we'll see where this goes.

But McCarthy is consistently walking a tightrope trying to please the unpleasable. Yeah, and then Twitter is now X or is going to become X. Oh my God! Elon Musk announced that Twitter will be replacing the Twitter bird with the letter X. And also I guess Twitter will just be called X now because I don't know,

man. I mean, if you go to x.com, it already redirects you to Twitter. Yeah. No. So he's obsessed with the letter X. Like you might,

you might remember his, one he's obsessed with the letter x like you might you might remember his one of his child with grimes i think has like an x in the name um there's like i mean it's not an x in the name like xavier i think i think it's like x is the first like it's a series of letters and x is the first right right right and he also like his cars like his car models like the tesla x model is a thing yeah he's space x yep and his banking service that he tried to launch was x.com which merged with another company and became paypal so that's like how we got this asshole in the first place. So he thinks the letter X is really cool.

It would seem. And that's where this is coming from. Yeah. It's, it's feels like also just in his like really sad, tragically uncool brain that he thinks that this is the move for twitter it's like make it the worst website then just change everything around apparently like they like i think they suspended the x videos account like a porn account because videos on twitter are going to be called x videos like

everything's eccentric uh and i i don't know i'm kind of like really enjoying watching him completely make like compound the all these compounding mistakes over and over like what x is only cool to people who are like of his age i feel like that he couldn't shake that idea of x being cool right i guess he is gen x right yeah yeah so he's just living the truth man you know x is fucking so sick man i just i because they want it to be like an everything website i don't know man it's pretty soon it's going to be just called like hometown buffet or some shit right we do everything back in may he had this statement where he was like uh my new ceo will help me transform this platform into x and i thought that was just like he accidentally released like a placeholder statement where he's like you know x y whatever

um but that's i guess that was his plan all along which he's previously stated he wants this to be an everything app not unlike China's WeChat which if you're not familiar WeChat is used by more than a billion people in China as an all-in-one social media instant messaging and mobile payment app used to order food

hotel cabs, find news and you know is creepy you know it's not about surveillance and shit used to order food, hail cabs, find news, and is creepy. It's not going to work. It's not going to work here. It's not going to work here. And meanwhile, fucking Mark Zuckerberg

and Meta are just laughing all their way to the top with threads. This does seem to be a thing that it's like a phase of billionaire megalomania where you have to like rename your thing you know like google became alphabet yeah facebook became meta which just seems i don't know completely counter but it is like a way to generate cheap heat about you and like make a what could be seen as like an aesthetic creative decision.

So he like gets credit for thinking about something and being a tastemaker of some sort. Yeah. Again, it just seems like a cynical move to do something with money. Kind of like when LeBron James is like, I'm going back to number 23. It's like,

what the fuck? You keep changing Jersey numbers. Glad I never bought the number six one, but yeah good luck to you elon and by that i mean fuck off uh and uh we'll we'll see where this thing goes but i don't it just it just looks weird right now too with like x at the top i feel like it's a website for like a janky like boutique hotel um sorry i'm just trying to figure out if elon musk has a child named just x or if that the it's the one that we all talked about when he and grimes had the kid right and it was like

x and then ae and a bunch of symbols that like weird a that i don't i'm stupid i don't know what that character is called and then like a through 12 you are stupid for not knowing what that character is called miles yeah sorry sorry folks oh but i think they changed it oh is it now it's why i think the baby's now why oh just why yeah it really is fully changed i guess i guess like it hadn't cached on my uh browser until just now but there is now just a dumb x at the top of the website dude react hey are you gonna react my my x from earlier like my x's dude i like my x's what um all right well those are some of the things that happened this weekend. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourself.

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