The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekend Trends Update (For The Weekend That Just Happened ) 6/20: Titanic, RFK, Hunter Biden, Trump, Reddit, Box Office

Episode Date: June 20, 2023

In this edition of Weekend Trends Update, Jack and Miles discuss a submarine going missing on a Titanic expedition, RFK's Joe Rogan appearance, Hunter Biden getting charged with a couple of counts of crime, Trump's messy Fox News interview, an update on the Reddit situation (feat. John Oliver), and a box office report!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yeah, yeah. Before we get into the trends, Miles, let's do a little check-in with one another let's check in man let's check in from the weekend yeah um the only way we know how this is this is how i start all conversations in public with my family yeah what's something you think is overrated and underrated bro yeah it's never like hey how are you how you feeling it's always like what's something is over like when i was sad once i remember like what's something is overrated that was your way of getting me to kind of express myself in your heart it seems like there might be an overrated that you want to get out i guess if

we're putting it that way yeah uh yeah over under i got i have i got okay so let's start with overrated first okay because it was father's. I think fighting the inevitability of washed parenthood is overrated. Okay. You got to let that fucking wave hit you and just embrace it. You know what I mean? Like, fucking, I always bring this scene up from Deep Impact where Taya Leone is with her dad at Cape Cod and that fucking tidal wave is coming for them. And they're just like, fuck it. Let's go. I feel like that was my first father's day out the way thank you thank you very much thank you so much um congratulations her majesty bought me this big ass like woven rattan hat with

like the most garish ucla branding on it to be like and now you need your big sun hat because you a washed dad now yeah and it was like one of those things were first why my blood like normally would have curdled in rage like i would never wear some shit like that but the way i snatched that thing out of the bag and put it on my head immediately i was like this is where i need to be you need that sun protection you gotta have it you gotta have it you gotta have it uh so i've been i've been really leaning into that and like you know you haven't seen me my most latest fashion iteration jack we will see that soon as all cargo pants all cargo only cargo and full cargo pant pockets which is underrated i think a lot of people down to the ankles yeah the pocket goes from mid-th thigh all the way down to my really long and like make it put making use of those wide those big pockets oh yeah yeah

keys clattering like a yeah broomstick yeah i could put a broom in there meows when you move too much whatever i need a pack and play for the kid you know got it all uh i'm gonna do a dad dad related overrated as well my overrated is going to be uh bringing your five-year-old to a movie with a complicated time travel multiverse plot i did bring my five and seven-year-old to across the spider verse yesterday they really enjoyed the movie but in terms of their ability to self-regulate in a crowded movie theater the main thing that they don't get yet is the ability to regulate their volume to appropriate levels they're like drunk people you know like full voice scream questioning yeah

my five-year-old like i'll whisper in his ear then he'll put his mouth to my ear and then speak to me like i'm across the room um hey you liking it yeah but which why is this spider-man that color exactly but and the questions are like usually i'll be like oh well that's like you know you can just like kind of answer it in one sentence but this one he was like why did the spider machine take him back to a different timeline than the one that it usually and you know that you have to give at least a paragraph's worth of explanation for that right so that would be that would be my note um is maybe like or or just do the the first screening of the day which i think is you know no holds barge kids are allowed to run wild at the oh

is that kind of like 10 40 in the morning oh see as a parent i always look at the one time i did it was like when i was younger and that was to see a movie no one would bring their kids to because i was like i think the theater would probably be pretty empty yeah but i didn't think of yeah now as i think of like what your schedule is like you're like oh yeah we can hit that 10 30 a.m movie but then it's basically just a big daycare with a movie playing in the background yeah yeah all right what's your underrated what's your underrated sweeping as in the ground because the leg or the ground the leg yeah i know i know you i know you're in ralph macho mode right now but i so i stepped on a fucking b oh and i'm i liked look yall know me. You know how I don't like tough guys. You know, I got that energy sometimes.

Like, I might be stronger than I actually am. But let me tell you something. When I step on a bee, I turn to jello. I screamed. I almost called Her Majesty Mommy. I felt like I was so, I did the thing where it was like a little kid. I didn't realize I stepped on it until I had my feet up. And I noticed a pain in my foot.

And then I just looked. And I just saw the bee on there wriggling. And I just went, ah! And I was just like, get it off, get it off, get it off. Oh, no. And so the first move I did, Iuck flinged it away so the body separated from the stinger but the stinger was still in there and that's when i was like scrims like i was like get it out get it out even though it was i could have easily gotten it out like it

was on the bottom of my foot i could have pulled it out right there i had fingers and everything but the way i really relied on my partner in that moment um it was beautiful and then dude she did carry you back into the house across her shoulders like Vietnam style 100% exactly flop me

on the bed she had to she tried to give me a Benadryl and I spit it out cause I go no cause I don't like I don't like pills so she had to mush it up into a paste and put in some gold with a banana yeah i had my benadryl and my advil and her majesty was like how many advil did you just take i'm like four i'm like because i don't really take i don't take advil or shit like that anyway so i was like fuck it like i'm like here we go and i don't know why I thought the pain was going to go be so bad. It's fine.

But hey, if you have tips, because now it's itchy as shit. Yeah. That's the phase I'm in now. And then just be sleepy. Sleepy pie for the next couple days. So please, y'all, sleep. The Benadryl should help. Well, look at the ground you're walking on.

Because unfortunately, I just feel like we're in this era of like more dead bees on the ground than ever in my lifetime prior to this we rake them into a pile and jump into them in the fall instead of no it's there's too many dead bees all over the place yeah it's horrible yeah so whatever hey i know i know we got bb expertise out here what what can i do to like help these motherfuckers to not die around me? If there's anything I can do. Because I don't, you know. Whenever I've had a hive or something, I always have it responsibly relocated and shit. But I just see the aftermath of whatever chemicals or whatever they say.

The cell type. Whatever the fuck is fucking with these bees. It's real. Yeah. whatever they say, the cell tap, whatever the fuck is fucking with these bees. It's,

it's real. Yeah. My underrated is the brain chemicals that our body naturally provides us with, particularly during sleep. Like this was something that I just, we were having some fitful sleep with our kids this weekend. So I was waking up a lot in the middle of like a dream and then you know going you know with my five-year-old back to his bed and then going back to sleep but like just the way i i guess the way i always think about sleep is like it's good it's like just the

off switch part of my day when i go bye bye and I'm not there. But like, I think there's something to like where we go away to like that. I don't know. Like, yeah, just fucking high. So I'll like remember what I was dreaming for like two minutes, but everything else is just like blacked out. Like, I remember my dreams for like 15 seconds after waking up and then it's just i don't know the older i've gotten the the more time i've gotten without like using any other like of the chemicals that i used to use like sleep is just really right uh wild ride it's

it's wild though too and like you see those like i remember reading about how it's like your brain like washes itself while you're sleeping yeah it's just dousing itself in like all sorts of chemicals that i feel like you know are it's like i i think there's like a lot of first of all like dream logic is this whole other world of logic that i think my waking brain has always just been like yeah it doesn't make sense it's nothing but i think it's also like what like there's these little like bouts of dream logic that have to do with like what i find funny and i think i'm still have we we record these a little early in the morning so i think i'm still half asleep which is why none of this is making sense like i i've been thinking about that a lot this weekend just because i had like weird fitful sleep and when i would wake up i would be on this like fucking cosmic journey like running

away from uh lightning storms and like this huge dramatic vision quests untethered from space and time and then you're like up and you're in your bedroom and then you go back and like you you just i don't remember much of it but it's uh the twilight is always very interesting like yeah especially when i like i wake up and i'm trying to fall back asleep. There's like this fine, tight rope. I feel like I walk. We're like, I'm about like I might just get over the line to fall back asleep. And then I just take like a deep breath out of normal. And then I'm like, oh, and like, I feel like I'm my body's waking itself up like that breath.

And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. And then I'm like, fuck, gone it's gone it's gone anyway i don't know how to make sense of this but let us know if you're a sleep expert too yeah sleep experts like i'm curious to hear more about that stuff like i've i've just always like i think the fact that donald trump never sleeps has like something to do with how he is like because it's just like an over over abundance of like waking logic without like any sort of dream logic or any any balance to that well he's this or he's in the dream logic the whole time right he just never sleeps and like he's half asleep at all times all right let's get into one story from over the weekend. Yeah. Now that we're caught up with each other, you're caught up with us.

Also, how are you doing? Good. How about you? Fine. You don't have to ask that. It's really uncomfortable, dude. You don't have to go there. How are you?

You don't have to go there. You don't have to go there. You don't have to go there. All right. Titanic tourism, son. Oh, dude. This is just such a weird story it feels like algorithmically generated but it's like tragically real a search is underway for a submarine that went missing while exploring

the wreckage of the titanic uh it's been days but the vessel's life support reportedly lasts for 96 hours so i think some people are holding out hope yeah but it's yeah and it just it seems like you know first of all this is why if you were like monitoring trends why like james cameron was trending on twitter twice because we can't like process reality nothing to do with him or the movie but the fact that there's a submarine titanic thing it's like james cameron james cameron james yeah um but yeah there are four passengers and one pilot on board one of the passengers was identified as a billionaire british explorer hamish harding hamish now hamish yeah you know we don't know how he pronounces it but yeah it's part of ocean gate expeditions a company that charges 250 000 per person for a private titanic expedition um yeah and it's like the privatization

i think a lot of people were immediately like well this must be related to the government or something uh no and it seems like maybe maybe it should be. Maybe that assumption is steering us in the right direction. There were a lot of articles and things over the last couple years talking about this company, and not one of them was like, this looks safe. This looks good. Smithsonian Magazine did one, and they were just basically being like, to your point, they're like you know most like submersibles that can go that deep are owned by governments that's just how it is but apparently

this company could do it because they're using carbon fiber composites which is quote far cheaper and you're like okay uh and then people pointed out that like it could be controlled by like what looks like a playstation controller it's just like a us be controlled by like what looks like a PlayStation controller. It's just like a USB game controller. And people are like, oh, no. Like, what is that? Other people I've seen other submersible experts like chime in. They're like, it's don't don't look at it that it's a PlayStation controller.

It's just like a very easy to use controller that makes sense for maybe not the most skilled pilots or whatever. But I'm still like oh okay sure sure um and then yeah like just the i i want to play this one clip because people were pointing out like cbs last year also did a profile on ocean gate which already sounds like some kind of version of water gate sadly right um and you know david pogue is like during this whole piece he's essentially being like yo this shit janky as fuck man like was his whole like sort of energy talking about everything and i'll just play a couple bits of this because in a way it's not like hey you should have known what you got into but it's clear that a lot of people sort of outwardly were looking at this and being like

this doesn't seem like totally safe right okay so right now he's gonna read the release that you have to sign to go into the submersible an experimental submersible vessel that has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body and could result in physical injury disability emotional trauma or death where do i sign? Oh, take your shoes off. And now they're like looking at the actual sub. Inside, the sub has about as much room as a minivan. So this is not your grandfather's submersible. We only have one button.

That's it. It should be like an elevator. You know, it shouldn't take a lot of skill. The Titan is the only five person sub in the world that can reach titanic depths. He goes on to be like, isn't some of this stuff from like Lowe's and like Home Depot that you're like using to like these ballasts and stuff? He's like, yeah, yeah, but it all works. It all works.

This one still has the sticker on it. Yeah, because I might take it back. It looks like it came from Party City. I might return it so I don't take the sticker back. That's how you save money. Next question. city i might return it so i don't take the sticker back that's how you save money next question but yeah again like you not to say that like this shit was doomed from the start but clearly there are a lot of regulatory things missing here and yeah it's true like privatization yeah in a lot of ways yeah exactly and another person like other people pointed out like the word death is like on

the first page of the release like six times, basically. So you know what you're doing if you get involved with this. The company's CEO has been all over the place saying that he wants to do for deep ocean exploration what

Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk are doing for space travel. Oh boy. Did Ron DeSantis sign a bill that would protect Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk are doing for space travel. Did Ron DeSantis sign a bill that would protect you in the event that one of your submersibles killed innocent people? I better hope so. Because then you're not like them. He also previously bemoaned the rigorous safety laws

that prevented commercial dives below a certain depth, which he called obscenely safe because there hasn't been an injury in the commercial sub-industry in over 35 years. Um, so famous last fucking words. And like right now the outcomes,

you know, there's been a few, I saw like an article on insider that was saying like, you know, take that for what, you know, what it's worth. But they were talking to a submersible expert and they're like the three

possible, like the reason why we don't know what happened is the best case scenario is that the like comms link or whatever just failed. And the Titan submersible is just like bobbing on the surface, like literally just being like, Hey, somebody come pick us up. Like we're not underneath the water at the surface.

Other than that, they said the reason that they might not have lost like contact is like a catastrophic implosion jesus christ or that the submarine has been tangled in the wreckage of the titanic itself my god so none of those are yeah uh sound good but you know i i hope there's a good outcome because it's i mean like, it's just my fucking worst fear. I think one of them would be, and when you saw the inside of that thing,

it's tiny. Like, the inside of it is just a tiny, bleak, metal capsule with a single button on it, it seems. And I'm glad that you take your shoes off before entering right that's customary that's like a little thing we like to do uh to make sure the inside smells

like absolute shit yeah and there's like one there's like a kind of toilet and by that there was like a canister that you could just like go to the bathroom in and like just store it underneath it's yeah anyway so please uh please find them well good energy out to the search for them hopefully it's not the worst case scenario um yeah all right let's take a quick break we'll come back we'll talk about rfk jr going on rogan uh trump hunter all that good stuff. We'll be right back. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks.

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And she paid the ultimate price. Listen to Crooks Everywhere starting September 25th on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And RFK Jr. made his rogan appearance joe rogan who when we've criticized him in the past people been like he actually does like a lot of research you know into his guests and it just seems like he he was like totally swayed by yeah by rfk jr coming on and being like and 4g is destroys the blood brain barrier and that's why hell yeah hope it happened oh yeah and he was like well i'm sold i looked into these five links that you sent me um well i'm sold jfk is your uncle yeah well i'm sold yeah we're good here with what i don't know whatever man you wouldn't lie you couldn't tell a lie but

yeah uh the very serious presidential candidate robert fitzgerald kennedy jr like i'd imagine the f is the same for all of them right probably yeah maybe like it's frank um but he goes on joe rogan to discuss very serious things like Like, okay, it was all horse shit. He said this, he goes on to find out what the CIA marked his uncle and that he might be next. He said, quote, well, I got to be careful. And I'm aware of that. I'm aware of that danger. I don't live in fear of it, you know, at all. But I'm not stupid about it.

And I take precautions. Okay. I mean, the CIA may have marked his uncle uncle but i don't think they give a shit about uh him what are you gonna do right what are your precautions right are your precautions basically to talk nonsense all day so they don't take you as a serious person at all right and a danger to anyone except yourself and the people who have the misfortune of hearing this is joe one of those precautions is coming on here and seeming like a completely unserious person but like i'll be real i know vaccines don't cause autism i say that

to protect myself from the cia hit squad okay okay um and he also goes on to talk about how like you know you know he had to talk about vaccines, but he brings up the fact that no one will debate him. No doctor expert will debate me on my completely asinine views on vaccines. And I do want to play this part because I've not really heard RFK Jr. talk recently, and I was a bit taken aback, but here we go. All these controversial opinions that you have have you had anyone debate you publicly about any of these nobody will debate me for 18 years in fact i've scheduled many many debates and i've asked hotas many many times to debate me

this is up there this is up there with muller and uh kushner for sure oh yeah he's got that like that raspy steve-o shit like you've been screaming to him i don't know anyway so he talked about peter hotez who uh obviously i think he's that from baylor out of baylor he's like he won't even debate me because they're like yeah because you're not a serious person and right you're what are you gonna do you're just gonna say nonsense like what the fuck is the point of that right uh it's so it's not a debate when you are just not tethered to reality right and you're just making up your own bullshit it's not a debate to just be like you're lying professional medical person and you're like and how do you know that because i don't like what you're saying right did i win the debate um and it should also be noted he also again to keep

the serious candidacy going he also uh hollered at uh our boy north of the border jordan peterson with him too so yeah yeah yeah okay this guy's running as a democrat and uh you know take that take that for what it is folks he's out here well some major developments in the presidential election i mean first of all obviously rfk jr uh which like it will be depressingly important to like keep an eye on his poll numbers after he goes on joe joe rogan and uh jordan peterson since those shows are fucking massive yeah so he i mean that but kennedy says his whole thing he's like he needs long form shows to rant on right and that's because he's like he's not good at talking in succinct sentences right um so um good he can spread his wings the

right is a buzz because hunter biden has been charged with some tax crimes and a gun crime. What did he do? So the tax crimes seem pretty straightforward. He like didn't pay his taxes for $1.5 million. Oh, no. The gun crime is interesting though. He taxes yeah okay go on but oh yeah

i think those are misdemeanors and then the gun crime was that wait hold on a million and a half dollars is only like it's not like a felony tax criming yeah that's so fucking nice for america i know it's a fucking misty when you got a fucking 1.5 million dollar tax bill okay i think i have those numbers right well but so the other one is that he lied on a form when buying a gun because the form asked him whether he was and didn't like check that box yeah so it's so like i'm wondering did they specifically choose these charges to make people just be like well i've never once told the truth on one of those forums or made a made any decision other than the one I was already going to make heading into signing off on paperwork. For sure.

I just like, are you addicted to drugs? Yup. Is that cool? Is that not what? Now, let me get my blamski. Right. Okay. I mean, definitely serious.

I mean, definitely serious. Like, I think that there was one point where the widow of his brother, like, threw the gun out in a dumpster. And like that, that was noticed. And like, that's where this charge, they then like traced it back. And like, just, you know, he's obviously in a horrible place in his life and like truly truly a mess and this is you know this all stems from a uh regional judge uh like in delaware who is a trump appointee or maybe a trump appointee like prosecutor but I don't know it feels like They got to man this is it's all hands On deck right now they have they

Need a fucking smoke bomb Like you wouldn't believe Like the Lakers need a point guard okay They need this shit To the point where now You have like these fucking politicians There's this whole thing about we got these Biden tapes they were saying this last week We got it on tape okay There's this whole thing about we got these Biden tapes. They were saying this last week.

We got it on tape. Okay. There's this whistleblower who says they got Joe Byron on wax talking about how he's going to work with this energy company and get Hunter like a deal and all this. And then fucking then Chuck Schumer recently came out like yesterday and was like, yeah, I'm not sure. I don't know if these I don't know if these tapes are real. It's like, bro, you were just screaming up and down the aisles that they were a few days ago. What the fuck? Like, what's going on?

Wait, Chuck Schumer was? I mean, Chuck Grassley. I'm sorry, Chuck Grassley. I'm mixing up my old white Chucks in the Senate. Sorry, apologies to Amy Schumer's cousin. Yes, Chuck Grassley was basically then just openly questioned if they even existed it's like it's really wild yeah how like the desperation is but

so i mean on the biden side they're hoping like this will just be the end of it and it'll be like oh he lied on a on a form and forgot to pay taxes on a bunch of money, but who, who among us, you know? Uh, but I think that's probably wishful thinking because on the front page of Fox news, it's like Hunter Biden probe grows or,

you know, it's, it's being treated as just the beginning. Hunter Biden probe engorged intensifies. Yeah. GOP probe intensifies is how they're describing it i like though too like at biden's rally that he did over the weekend like the his first rally for re-election his whole take was like the rich gotta pay their fair share man and by that i mean my son my son yeah

absolutely and then trump made made a couple appearances where he was in damage control mode he was he was damaged and out of control um is the best way to describe that but like yeah dude he went on fox and you know does an interview with brett bayer who looks like a lego man and they like the interview made a couple headlines first was like talking about like the the stolen documents thing like he can't even articulate a defense that sounds reasonable like it honestly sounds like me at 17 trying to explain why my mom found like cigarettes in my jeans or some shit please please could we have it back and they asked for because they have no we were talking no and they said can you give the documents and we would talk and then

they said they went to doj to subpoena you to get which they've never done before right and you know why not just hand them over them because i had boxes i want to go through the boxes and get all my personal things out i don't want to hand that over to Nara yet. And I was very busy, as you've sort of seen. Yeah, but accordingly, as you've sort of seen. So this whole thing was, I was so busy, man. Wow. They got all my shit in there.

So, of course, I'm not giving it back. Wait, don't say that part out loud, sir. But, okay. Okay. I make sure I get my personal stuff out of there. Like my social security. You need security, information security. Oh my gosh.

The wild shit too. Then they get on the fucking 2020, but not even. The question Brett Bayer asked has nothing to do with the 2020 election. He's basically giving Trump an underhander to crush out of the park by saying like all right next question what are you saying to independent women voters in the suburbs given the fucking you know lack of agency that you guys are advocating for as a party um what do you think of that and my man can't he can't even fucking help himself dude just listen to this shit and then it gets hot because brett bayer starts like pushing back on some of the bullshit what do you

say to that female independent suburban voter who feels that way to win her back first of all i won in 2020 by a lot okay let's get that straight i won in 2020 what do you say first of all i want if you look at everything that you want to look at, you take a look at Truth to Vote, where they have people stuffing the ballot boxes on tapes. Or let's go to recent. Wait a minute. Let's go to recent. FBI Twitter. Let's go to recent.

The 51 agents. All corrupt stuff, Brad. Understand about the Hunter Biden. All fair things. That's cheating on the election. You lost the 2020 election. Brad, you take a look at all of the stuff ballots you take a look at all of the things including things like the 51 intelligence agents there were recounts in all of the swing states there was not significant what's we're trying to get recounts real recounts

widespread corruption there was not then he goes on he goes you took an l in every single fucking lawsuit you brought to he's like even judges you appointed fam what what what yeah and he's like can we get back to the question he's like yeah yeah yeah i guess i would tell them his thing is like i'll just get to the part where he gets him back on track because like even then it's not even an answer that independent suburban woman voter we're off to winning an election and i think we're winning very well uh i got a poll just recently okay so that's what he said we're off to winning an election that's what i would say and we're winning it very clearly and i got a call uh i won i won yo he looks he looks like he looks a little off he looks a little he looks like he thinks things

are bad you know because you never there are times you see him like after you had covet i'm like this dude looked fucking fine i'm like what the fuck this time his comb overall fucked up and like windy and he's just looking like he's getting even less sleep than usual so you know we'll see what happens um and also another thing to point out uh i don't want this to get lost in all the news was there's also reports too that the fbi was resisting opening a probe into trump's orbit as it related to january 6th and they were dragging their heels for over a fucking year um so he's getting a lot of help from wherever he can get it but he's still unable to to make it right because that sort of centrist ideal of like we we don't want to appear to have bias so we get we got to

get these hunter biden charges on the books before we exactly yeah and honestly it's like are you now going to advocate for stricter gun control like if hunter biden can just lie on his app like is that is there a larger issue here or is this purely just about finding negatives about the bidens right it's probably just the latter all right let's take a quick break and we'll come back and do some pop culture stuff and we'll be right back this summer the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago, when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today.

And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president. One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. I always felt like Lynette was kind of his right-hand woman. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI in a violent revolutionary underground. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore.

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that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price. Listen to Crooks Everywhere starting September 25th on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. and we're back and uh you may have seen sexy john oliver pics floating around the internet so basically this didn't really fully make sense to me on first glance they were doing all the sexy on reddit um i was like how did they get those off my hard drive but it's spent hours making that image it's actually connected to the subreddit blackout that we talked about last week so uh you know a lot of moderators of some some of Reddit's most popular subreddits are like protesting and blacking out and just like not open for business.

They're striking. And Reddit CEO Steve Huffman went into damage control mode and basically made things a lot worse. His ultimate goal is to take the company public he was trying to play to potential investors by saying that these moderators are he compared them to like wealthy old-timey land barons um he is a actual like millionaire but he was like claiming that they were acting in their own interests and this isn't this isn't what the people want i know and i don't want to scare off my investors it's wild because a lot of the subreddits or all the subreddits who were like

continuing to black out past the initial couple days they were getting threatening messages from the administrators of reddit that are basically saying like open your shit or we're gonna open it and you won't be the admin like you're not gonna you're not gonna be touching this shit anymore so that is why a lot of these subreddits pivoted to more like protest content or like okay you want like we're one of the biggest subreddits and you think we're gonna give you that that new new no it's all john oliver shit now yeah and like there's a subreddit called like well that sucks where it's like just like instances where people like just do something and like something shitty happens like nothing terrible and now all they've been posting are just pictures of like vacuums like that's all they're doing now so everyone's

engaging it in their own way yeah yeah so and they did like actual votes they were like okay if you think that it's only moderators who are controlling this uh they put it up for vote like three of the biggest subreddits that were still dark our pics our gifs and our awe and the votes like weren't even they were like okay we could return to normal or only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy. And on our picks, it was like 2,000 people voted to return to normal. 37,000 people voted to do the John Oliver sexy picks protest thing. So the guy was completely off base and just saying exactly what he thought his investors wanted to hear so that's why you will see pictures of john oliver's head pasted onto

conan the barbarian's body the sexiest body it is i think we all agree it's fantastic yeah there's also i just saw the federalist just put an article out yesterday that said how reddit radicalizes the left and encourages political violence wow and it's i think maybe we'll do well i'll send it to you jackie it's worth reading because it's so funny like how it's written from this perspective with no self-awareness around radicalizations like how radicalization is happening but i just want to read this one part because it is kind of funny they're talking about the radicalization and like the free thinkers that they think they are on reddit quote a very common example of this is accusing republicans of being nazis and the idea that quote when someone from the left calls someone a fascist they are more

than often not seems to be one that many at reddit take seriously indeed in addition to republicans here's a list of things redditors have accused of being fascist andrew yang joe biden people who don't like pitbulls tolkien people who don't like antifa anyone who thinks kyle rittenhouse is innocent the supreme court second amendment supporters it goes on to these like really weird examples um but it also like in the way this whole piece also sounds like a hit piece to keep reddit from finding investors too like it's out of control man yeah it's toxic you don't like i know you're just hearing about it but like stay away but it also has this thing where you can tell like now the think tanks are really trying to figure out why kids don't like hate speech right you know and they're like it's reddit i think and it's radicalizing them they're calling landlords fascist right all right and

finally box office report the flash made 55 million dollars which is like one of those things that sounds like a lot of money but people who pay attention to this stuff say it was like well below expectations and well below what it needed to even have a chance of making its money back and also pixar's new movie elemental made 29.5 million dollars which is the worst pixar opening since the original toy story which actually like if you take inflation into account like it was earned way more than that i did not even really notice that this pixar movie came out i had to like take my kids to the movies and was just like not even didn't even like register that that was coming out this weekend what is this called elemental and it's like water being and fire being like going on an adventure together i remember the image yeah of like a flame creature and a water creature and all i could

think of was like the old world industry skateboards graphics flame boy and water boy yeah okay yeah it seems like a lot of like some of the inside out stuff but without the like kind of inherent organizing principle of inside out and just instead it's like there's earth and air land where water and water beings it just felt like a lot of lore to get people on board for. And then the movie apparently isn't very good. Like it's, I think, I think a big part of Pixar was that you always felt like they were going to deliver a certain level of quality and that has sort of fallen off.

And the past couple of years and like this one is in the 50s on metacritic and i think it was a bigger part than they might have realized that like there was quality to these movies right also they like really the fact that they're going wide in theaters with this one but didn't with turning red it just feels i mean obviously there were pandemic related uh questions with turning red it just feels i mean obviously there were pandemic related uh questions with turning red but it still just feels like a a big miscalc big miscalc at the old pizar factory part of me is like it has a very diverse cast like the main characters are like people of color and i'm like did y'all fuck up with the marketing there did Did y'all forget to market this one? Yeah. Well, on Fox News, they're like, Too woke?

This woke movie bombed because it's woke. Movies that don't do well are woke, and movies that do do well are like a rejection of woke culture. Right. And apparently the Flash movie's a complete fucking mess. Yeah. Yeah. i heard people groaning while walking out of the theater it's like uh why did i even pretend like that was gonna be good but hey you gotta i guess people had to see for themselves i wonder if i guess that's uh that

production man remember we're talking about that one person who worked on the movie was like the movie looks so good you're gonna forget all the terrible things ezra has done yes yeah you just completely forget what they've done because that's how good this movie looks cut to like how much did you say it made like 30 million or something 55 55 yeah and apparently you know jm uh our writer jm went and saw it and said that it's ezra miller and ezra miller like there's i you know if you saw the preview you probably picked that up but it's a lot of them playing in scenes against themselves so it's wait why because there's time travel stuff oh shit the flash is so fast that they like break holes in the time space continuum is my best understanding i can't do this yeah i can only do i can only go so far hollywood i can only go we hit peak

multiverse with everything everywhere all at once yeah and i can excuse into the spider verse because that shit bangs yes but if you're coming with it lazy come on now it's not enough to be like well we're mentioning something like this yeah they basically took the playbook from the other spider-man multiverse movie no way home or far yeah i think it's no way home um where it's tom holland spider-man and tobybey Maguire, Spider-Man and all these other. And so he did that with like Michael Keaton returns as Batman, but they don't like give him anything to do. He just like puts on the bat suit and says a couple of lines that like 40

year olds would recognize, but there's not really any emotional arc to his appearance. And apparently also, uh, the CGI looks like shit. The effect industry is a mess of underpaid, overworked artists. And yeah,

I don't know. I did like, that was the impression. It seemed like there were a lot of sky portals or, you know, a lot of like lightning effects happening in this one so god that must be so it must be so like soul crushing as a creative like if you get notes too or like can you just like copy avengers man yeah and you're like oh yeah

fine whatever this movie's fucking doomed anyway let's go on it yeah super producer victor says that they just like ripped off scenes from avengers endgame which yeah it seems like i i just feel like that period of superhero films they're like all right they they did that you know that's yeah i don't know how you can honestly not that they jumped the shark but that feels like peak superhero movies was Avengers Endgame shit. At that point

you just have to let that shit cool off. Let it cool. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday morning. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other.

Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Get your flu shot. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Bye.

In California during the summer of 1975, within the span of 17 days and less than 90 miles, two women did something no other woman had done before, try to assassinate the President of the United States. One was the protege of Charles Manson. 26-year-old Lynette Fromm, nickname Squeaky. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer, this season on the new podcast, Rip Current.

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