The Daily Zeitgeist - Well, The Trends Start Coming And They Don't Stop Coming 5/20: Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump, Harrison Butker, Ebrahim Raisi, Sean Combs Apology, Megalopolis

Episode Date: May 20, 2024

In this edition of Well, The Trends Start Coming And They Don't Stop Coming, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, Rudy Giuliani getting served with an indictment at his 80th birthday party, Donald Trump's NRA speech, Harrison Butker's weird-ass commencement speech, the Iranian president dying in a helicopter crash, Sean Combs issuing an apology after a video surfaces of him brutally attacking Cassie Ventura, the Megalopolis premier at Cannes and much more! Gaza Aid Links: TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION FOR PALESTINIANS EVACUATING GAZA OPERATION OLIVE BRANCH PROJECT WATERMELON See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

i'm not gonna lie dude that scene where the when like she comes into their hotel room like obviously when i was saying light three-way part yeah like her majesty we were just like looking at each other like they're like yo they're they're somehow pulling off this like wild version of like young adult horniness that I don't know. It was captured in a way that I had not previously seen. Yeah, they're dynamic.

The Friends. Challengers, good, I would say. Overall, it didn't... I wasn't sitting there like, damn, this is one of my favorite movies, but it sticks with you. And like the music is so dope.

And my wife did, you know, I had to tell her at the beginning, you know, take a page out of my boy. Zaz is, but I was like, look,

if we're going to do this, I said this loud to everyone in the theater. I said, if we're going to do this, we're not, we're just staring straight ahead at the screen we're not looking at each other and you're not looking at my direction even if i'm making some weird sounds the thing though that was kind of wild though too is like

it sort of like what that f1 netflix show did for formula one i feel like this could do like it helped tennis be like sort of capture the intensity of tennis in a way that didn't feel like, hello, Buffy, let's go for a round of tennis. You know what I mean? It felt like a little bit more like,

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apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts hello the internet and welcome to this week trend edition of their daily bike guys it's a production of my heart radio uh i am jack that is miles over there yeah um over here that's the episode where we tell you what was trending over the weekend what's trending this morning uh first we tell you what's trending in our hearts we'll get to know you a little bit better by doing our own little underrated

overrated so should we kick it off underrated yeah let's do it I got a bit of a grab bag grabage as the French don't call it so first my kid went to a fire station field trip and came home talking about uh the power scissors that they have there and i got to be like

i got to be like uh i know you think that name power Power Scissors, is pretty cool. Do you want to know what that product is actually called? Really? I'm actually your kid after a fire station. It's called the Jaws of Life. And we just both kind of sat there in odd silence. Like, they absolutely did not have to go that hard on that name but they did and you know the world

is a more poetic place because of it did they like demo it in front of the kids? no they just like showed them and explained it and they also showed that he was like they have a new jigsaw for cutting through the roof of a burning building oh shit

yeah has there been a horror movie where someone gets cut in half by the roof of a burning building. Oh, shit. Yeah. Has there been a horror movie where someone gets cut in half by the Jaws of Life? I feel like Jaws of Life would be a good Jason kill, you know? I don't know. I mean, are there technically blades on it? Like, I guess there's a blade attached, because other parts, it's like, it

goes in and just separates, so it can kind of open up a roof, too. Yeah, there's multiple products that are like hydraulic uh there's hydraulic spreaders there's hydraulic punchers and then there's the hydraulic scissors so that's all underneath the umbrella of jaws of life basically these hydraulic tools and the people the guy who coined the phrase Jaws of Life has one that's like an all-in-one Swiss Army knife of Jaws of Life.

You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and then you have the Jaws of Life. The Jaws of Life. I wish they had made that a consumer product. Everybody needs some Jaws of Life in their back in the trunk of their car you need a jack in case

you have a flat tire and come on everybody remembers the hit show that premiered in 1979 but yeah i don't know they're like i couldn't i tried to dig dig into who named it and it was one of the innovators, the guy who has the all-in-one thing. He named it years after it was first invented for race cars, which makes sense because race cars is a spectator sport where thousands of people had to

sit around and watch someone watch them fail to cut someone out of a burning car. George Hurst. George Hurst is the name of the guy. Yeah, so George Hurst was the first guy, and then the guy who came up with it was someone like 10 years later who was working with it. Mike Brick.

Mike Brick. George Hurst and Mike Brick. Hey, Mike Brick. All right, Mike Brick. This guy's hard as bricks. But I don't know. There's something that sings in a man's soul when watching a product that can cut

the entire top of a car off in two minutes, like a fucking can opener. And they were just like, we're going big with the title of this. Honestly, shout out Power Scissors. Power Scissors is cool, too. That got a reaction out of

me too to be honest yeah i'm like fuck yeah power scissors yeah if you want to name your band that you have to pay my six-year-old residuals yeah yeah that is a pretty that would be like a pretty dope like a punk band yeah yeah power scissors like yeah like all female punk band or something yeah yeah uh my other was just uh the the original shrek like uh watched the original shrek with my family and a friend this weekend and uh there's just like some good jokes and yeah solid yeah like really like there's one joke i'm not gonna sit here and like describe shrek jokes to you or like but like it's one joke I'm not gonna sit here and like describe Shrek jokes to you or like but like it's the one with Princess Fiona singing

with the bird like Snow White and then the bird explodes and she like there's eggs in the nest you know that one yeah no I mean I actually I don't know I don't know what you're talking about it's just a solid joke

that just destroyed with ages 6 to 43 in the room. I think I just associated that movie with Smash Mouth. The whole thing is just... Every time they're cut to a new

scene, I would be like, Samba! And it was really annoying my kids yeah to leave because i'm a believer yeah yeah no no no that's the next one oh but all right yeah there and then uh so we started trek to last night and uh sucked shit yeah terrible it's really not good the crit yeah well we'll get to it but i got a lot of takes guys yeah all right but miles what is something you think is underrated underrated um after exchanging messages with a lot of listeners and talking about what's happening in gaza um i just think it's the the myriad of ways to help the people of Gaza is actually quite underrated. And I know while we talk a lot on the show about trying to end the military hostilities and that being key,

there are still, obviously, the people are in need of medications, medical supplies, all these other things. And I just wanted to take the time to share some of these resources for people that want to help. the time to share some of these resources for people that want to help um because they're obviously like many large aid organizations that are doing good work and helping people but there's also smaller operations that are trying to just amplify the voices of like palestinian families and their specific requests for aid like right you know when the rafa crossing was a little functioning a little bit you know better at all you know there were people obviously raising money to cross through and they but they would have to be paying like exorbitant amounts like you know like five to ten thousand per adult twenty five hundred per

child and can take one piece of luggage just to get out of gaza um and you know while and like a lot of these groups are tapped into a lot of these like familial networks, there are many Palestinians in America who are, you know, just engaging their own networks to find and amplify these voices of people that are in need. And a lot of these, you know, some of these campaigns really fucking hard. They're like run by fucking kids, man. campaign is really fucking hard they're like run by fucking kids man like they they're they are their own like fight last Financial recourse to get out of this situation um so I'm just well we're gonna link to some different uh organizations in the footnotes just so you know that way you can actually you can see like there are like all these different families that need have all kinds of

specific needs are also organizations that are focused on like you know perinatal care and things like that because obviously with you know the amount of small children that are there babies and things like that they also have very specific medical needs too outside of just food shelter and things like that so uh just gonna list those resources because i know obviously the a lot of the news right now is about the icc and they're looking to issue warrants um for israeli leaders and leaders of hamas um and you know there's just the obviously the humanitarian situation is not improving so i figured it'd be good good time just to connect people with additional resources so you can help people in a very direct way because yeah it's something that's very needed and i know there are many people who are feeling like they want to do something more aside from advocating for a ceasefire and things like that.

So we will have those in the footnotes. Yeah. You know, we've covered the news for seven going on eight years on this show. kind of recurring theme that always makes me feel like slightly better and more optimistic is just how people on a person-to-person basis respond to disaster and tragedy and just impossible situations and like that's the thing you see over and over again like going back through history and uh just people's ability to you know use their networks of friends and families and community um yeah because it's one thing yeah the red cross or other organizations are like you know barely do like the real work that helps people on the ground but yeah like to your point when it's when it's really connecting with people

directly it has such a different effect um yeah yeah there's just like something naturally when it's at a person-to-person basis like you hear this from people who are like have uh you know in the wildfires we can't we ran into it and uh just a bunch of stories where like you know communities break down all the laws you know in movies when this happens it turns into a lawless society and uh in reality when it happens everybody kind of like works together and um yeah and not only that i mean like it's a tremendous morale boost for the people there to to really understand that there are people outside of those borders that are focused on their well-being and want to help because i mean even like i mean i got so emotional just looking at the reaction from some of the people

in gaza when all the student encampments went up yeah the belief that they are feeling because they could see that you know people were rallying behind them um so anyway this is just a very just a good opportunity again to remind people that there are these resources out there that can that can help tremendously and uh do a lot of good well uh great underrated miles and uh for my overrated i'm gonna take it back to shrek keep it within the spirit of the show obviously yes obviously gotta go back to shrek on this one um but uh for my overrated i guess just the animation in the original shrek and Toy Story. Like,

I don't know. Have you gone back and watched the original Toy Story? Yeah. It's bleak. Yo, it looks like, did you watch Jerry duty? The,

the TV show. Oh, I was going to be like the Pauly Shore movie. Yeah. Yeah. I saw, I saw. Did you watch son-in-law bro? You watching the army now? My brain's malfunctioning um no i get the jury duty joke where like the defense attorney like does that reenactment

video that looks like a glitching video game like i kept feeling like oh shit like it's just the human faces they were not up to human faces yeah and so it with trek it's just wild because like princess fiona cameron diaz's character is like a main character she's all over the place and she just looks crazy yeah it's just such a wild um i don't know it's like why my kids were like why does she look like that with toy story it's like sid is the human that you see the most and sid looks truly just like a haunted doll yeah a haunted doll exactly but i don't know and it made me wonder like did they put extra effort into the writing because they realized it looked, it looked so bad because then by the time Shrek two comes around, they've like kind of figured it out and it looks like orders of magnitude

better than the first one. But like the jokes are terrible. Right. I don't know if it's because like Mike Myers is like falling off at that point or what, what it is, but Oh my God. Yeah.

I mean, it was just such a, not, not that the bar was low it's just an emerging technology form of animation and at the time we're like this shit is fucking amazing and then when you progress along with it you never you know it's like so many movies you look back at the effects and like what i used to think this shit was cool right although that's why i give it up to the first jurassic park yeah that shit being out in 1993 i mean like yeah there are parts obviously like seven years after

the original jurassic park and it looks like shit i know i know i know yeah um but anyways also uh phones for people with add i want to check the weather today when getting my kids ready for school like you know i have to pick out their outfits and figure out should they wear shorts or pants and like five minutes later i'm just sitting in their closet watching a video of like people getting swept away by a flash flood because that's what's on the home page of like the weather channel app why are you using the Weather Channel app? Now I'm like, wait, hold on, bro. You're using the Weather Channel app.

I fucked up. All right. It used to be, I was like, it has more information than the regular weather app. And then the regular weather app kept popping up whenever I would do it. So I deleted it from my phone. And now, I don't know. I just need to go back to that one. Yeah.

Yeah, the Weather Channel app sucks shit. It used to be better, and now it's got pop-ups and shit. That's why I just have the... I just have on my home screen, I just keep the little widget right there. So then I can click that, boom, it brings it up.

And then you got... got you have an hour by hour shit i don't know what the weather channel app that would have more than the native one yeah on apple but anyway yeah but you can watch like i don't want to watch patterns coming in and shit and then you can also watch giant tornadoes right take people away and you can also watch the new trailer for Twisters. Twisters. Which is a big Dodge Ram ad. Yeah.

Before Challengers, that came on and my wife was like, oh my God, that looks so bad. I was like, yes, yes, bad. Looks like shit. I have in no way, like I was in no way about to be like, holy shit, that looks awesome. Babe, babe, fucking twisters. Did you see there's an S at the end of the title? Now there's more than one. The trucks look so much better in this one.

Oh my God. Do you think there's going to be a new Dorothy? Oh, I can't even wait to see what that technology looks like. I do wonder like have, I wonder if people with ADD have just gotten like way less effective since like smartphones became just the like a lens that we all used through through which we like interacted with the world

yeah i mean i feel like it just makes time disappear for me occasionally especially if i'm like tired you know oh yeah yeah yeah to the time travel i do like in my twilight i'll be like looking at tiktok and then like her majesty's like fool you need to you're literally holding a phone with your eyes closed yeah and i'm like have you ever fallen asleep with your phone clenched in your hand the bed all the time all the time and i feel like such shit when that happens yeah that's why like now i'm really trying to do that shit where it's like dude when you get in that bed just be there to be in that bed it's like stop doing the fucking wind down yeah anyway uh anyways overrated for me traditional orchestral scoring say i say it's just a bit overrated not to say that it's like

useless but i think look i just watch challengers score oh okay like using an orchestra you know to like yeah strings and like a full orchestra frequently yeah like after watching challengers i'm reminded how exciting film scores can be when it's like it isn't just a conductor with an orchestra behind them like this shit is so traditional and i get it like it it's this this is care we've brought this into the entire age of cinema like that's why obviously like it works so well like it it's this this is care we've brought this into the entire age of cinema like that's why obviously like it works so well um and it's definitely given us some of our most memorable works of music but it's limited in its sonic palette and as someone who really loves music i'm like i'm just reminded how powerful music is and when you couple that with the moving

image it takes things to a completely different level um and i just think limiting ourselves like we're limiting ourselves when we don't consider like all the ways we make music and the genres that are music and obviously trent reznor and atticus ross aren't the first to use like synthesizers and a score um but like what the score did in challengers really helped just take things just gave it such a different texture and a different sense of like tension and excitement um and competition that i don't just don't think like a traditional like string arrangement would have done and you know i think as we move along like this path of like musical history like more people are used to hearing instruments other than the traditional

orchestral ones like i understand a hundred years ago those are the fucking instruments we had but we have so many new genres and ways of looking at music like think about how like quincy jones and isaac hayes changed the game even with their scores by like you like leaning into their unique styles like jazz funk and things like that and like soul and so i this is reminding me like i used to do this thing in college where i would get super high and just audition different albums underneath movies because like once you heard about like the dark side of the moon with the wizard of oz thing that right that was you yeah i invented that but like i remember when i got like i had a teacher a professor in college like talk about that earnestly i I was like, oh shit.

I sort of went on this quest to be like, I'm going to figure out the new dark side of the moon over the Wizard of Oz thing. Did you find it? I mean, look. It was a lot of hits and misses. Sometimes shit would overlay perfectly and other times an album would just go completely out of sync

with a film and weird moments. What is one combo that worked really well was watching star wars a new hope with radio heads kid a um wow and that one was like there were times it was like yo bro look at this shit um so that's cool yeah i can see that because yeah there's something it's such a specific genre of music that like the film scores are like yeah i mean it's amazing like there are definitely people working in that field who do like amazing things for sure but like it does feel like there's a way to open things up a little more and i i got that impression both from watching challengers and also uh so shrek has these like needle drops bro that are somebody

i've never heard anything quite like this it was it was pushing the paradigm has been shifted i will say i have this needle drop where it's uh like when they're going on the journey to save the princess and and they're like walking a long distance and they needle drop a proclaimer's song but it's not i would walk 500 miles but it like they got another song it's so close that it's like you know that it's the people who sang that so it like begs the question i am walking down a swampy road and i am walking straight like did the filmmakers want me to ask if they had the budget for five i would walk 500 miles did they want to pose that question in the viewer's mind yeah also it's entirely possible that was the original needle drop and they just like couldn't get it for amazon prime i don't know they just

i would walk for a long while and i would walk much longer yes yeah but anyway i was just i was just thinking of like yeah like the watchman that's a trent resner atticus ross joint like if the hbo watchman series had like traditional orchestral into the Anyway, I was just thinking of like, yeah, like the Watchmen. That's a Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross joint. Like if the HBO Watchmen series had like traditional orchestral the entire time, I don't know if that shit would have hit as hard either. I'm just saying. Social network. Fuck around. I always talk about how much I love the social network. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

And that even has like a little bit of. Yeah. Anyway. Yo, I feel bad about everything right now this guy just got dumped in a harvard bar i don't give a fuck but it's all right there everything was about to go wrong with our world anyways let's take a quick break and we'll come back and uh talk about rudy giuliani he back i'm jess casavetto executive producer of the hit netflix documentary series dancing for the devil the 7m tiktok cult and i'm cleo gray former member of 7m films and shekinah church and we're the host

of the new podcast forgive me Me For I Have Followed. Together, 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. Through powerful, in-depth interviews with former members and new, chilling firsthand accounts,

the series will illuminate untold and extremely necessary perspectives. Forgive Me For I Have Followed will be more than an exploration. It's a vital revelation aimed at ensuring these types of abuses never happen again. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months.

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. The story of one strange and violent summer. This is Rip Current, available now with new episodes every Thursday. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. How do you feel about biscuits? Hi, I'm Akilah Hughes, and I'm so excited about my new podcast, Rebel Spirit, where I head back to my hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school to change their racist mascot, the Rebels,

into something everyone in the South loves, the Biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? The Boone County Rebels will stay the Boone County Rebels with the image of the Biscuits. It's right here in black and white in print. They lying. An individual that came to the school saying that God sent him to talk to me about the mascot switch. As a leader, you choose hills that you want to die on. Why would we want to be the losing team? I'd just take all the other stuff out of it. On the segregation academies, when civil rights said that we need to integrate public schools,

these charter schools were exempt from that. Bigger than a flag or mascot. You have to be ready for serious backlash listen to rebel spirit on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back we're back and rui giuliani just had a big 80th birthday party in Florida. So that's that story. Moving on. Nope. Actually, something happened. So he was posting videos or pictures from his birthday party,

taunting Arizona authorities about how they couldn't find him. He was like, if Arizona authorities can't find me by tomorrow morning, one, they must dismiss the indictments. Two, they must concede they can't count votes. And he's smiling with a bunch of women around him. And the Arizona Attorney General's office showed up at his party to gift him his indictment in the false electors case. Poor guy. gift him his indictment in the false electors poor guy he did a live stream and everything and he thought he knew how to avoid the long arm of the law but it's funny because online this

story kind of took like a turn about a turn there was like a bit of misinformation at first like people were circling like a person at the party who was like singing happy birthday to him they're like that's the fucking process server he's fucking singing and it turned out that was just a lie i heard they popped out of the cake as a topless dancer but then she handed him the papers yeah but then it turned out they were just waiting outside the party like hi rudy here and he's like yeah you got me sorry i gotta go delete something from my uh twitter feed um from my brain from my memory but yeah the the suit alleges he quote pressured officials into altering the 2020 election results because of course he did i feel like we've all like seen him do that in speeches publicly yeah but they didn't do this just to be assholes they've

had a hard time finding him he's been hiding out and i mean i guess it's easier for him to hide out because his only job right now is basically the internet sweatiest youtuber wow he's just yeah he's just sweating on youtube for a living so it like, it's not like he has to be in court or like at a job. Yeah. Just kind of float around. I mean, I wonder for someone who's been like acting like what's that Fassbender film, Mr.

Policeman. Oh yeah. Like the snowman. Yeah. Like doing shit like that. This guy, he had his 80th birthday, like a prominent Florida Republican,

like operatives house. Right. And like to the point where like people got their hands on the invitation so this was not like not kept low enough uh for somebody who's trying to act like you know GOP bin Laden and trying to be like try and find me even your little vaccine program scam will not get me there you cannot find my dna man the dop bin laden you know exactly that's what i've been saying you know that's right been true yeah i love that he was like they must dismiss the indictment citing the landmark legal case of hiders v seekers on the matter of na na na boo boo

ah na na na boo boo yes yes yes yes yes of course yes i remember very well uh i think the warren court heard that case that's right yes in the world of donald trump uh he showed up at the nra's annual meeting to accept their endorsement and give a keynote speech and it was pretty unhinged oh yeah it had it all it literally this thing had it all i'm sorry where's stefan exactly uh he floated uh you know he he said you know fdr 16 years almost 16 years his four terms i don't know are we gonna be considered three term or two term i don't know which yeah i mean i like it's unclear textually what he's saying but i think like we all know he would run for a third term if you want not leaving yeah i'm not even fucking leaving it's not even a

term it's not even two terms he's basically i know in his mind he this is i mean if their fantasy world is comes to fruition it would him just be like refusing to ever let go of power and then that's just what it would be um i don't know that's where i'm like can't they like the big business people do something aren't they usually good at like snuffing people out like when they're hooking up the money but i don't know anyway november take your time take your time take your time uh he suggested they have drug tests before the debate because biden was high as a kite during the state of the union address the other day motherfucker that was in march that's like straight out of my mom's handbook the other day is anywhere from yesterday

to 17 years ago um okay but the fucking it's it's that brain pause that i think everyone was like oh what is happening here my lord yeah what's happening here my lord he went john cage on their ass and just did 33 whole seconds of silence um in the middle of his speech yeah it's now i'll just i'll pause it the people have probably seen this clip or maybe heard it but just so you know just so you can have this in your mind the campaign says it was actually like a sick ass dramatic pause he was doing uh but here you you you hear for yourself nation in the history of the world he looks like he opens his mouth to say something closes it again shaking his head shaking his head looking at the teleprompter making a whistling thing looking at the teleprompter

looking around the room making out where am i where am i speak again closes his mouth not really moving close the thing now he's like oh shit i look bad now he's stage left looks off like as if he said someone called his name and he's trying but he's oh oh and we're back oh and we back online okay okay dad whatever you say that that was no brain fart uh whatever that is and so the music yeah we should mention uh brian the editor was like is the music diegetic or did somebody add that no that so his campaign started playing a q anon anthem it's this instrumental piece called mirrors which got posted by a q anon person with a video and then everybody became like

a meme song within the world of q anon used without the right to use it by the q anon people and by donald trump but so he just i don't know if he was like distracted by the music or i don't know based on the video it also also seems like maybe he's just feeling himself so much that he can stop in the middle of the speech and let the music ride a little bit. Yeah. He's like, this is very standard in all my speeches. Okay. I mean, like, I can't.

Take a little nap in the middle of my speech. Either way. They're three hours, folks. What am I going to do? Both candidates are failing to impress right now what are you talking about no they're great yeah i mean i mean that uh biden gave a the commencement speech at morehouse and like a bunch of the students turned their chairs around in protest oh did it yeah yeah yeah and he was and he was like when the valedictorian

called for a ceasefire biden seemingly seemed to applaud that moment. And then he's like, I hear you, folks. He's like, I'm telling you, I'm working around the clock. You know, like your peaceful protests deserve to be heard unless it's an encampment. Anyway, peaceful is a sliding scale, depending on the mood of the. Anyway, peaceful is a sliding scale, depending on the mood of the. You got to be careful about the encampments with those professional terrorist bike chains. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah. Damn crypt. The kryptonite, man. They could kill Superman. These bike locks. Also in the world of Trump, we're still getting clarifications around crowd size. Yeah. So last week on the weekend trending episode we talked about how trump was talking all that shit in new jersey on the god bruce springsteen and he and

officials in wildwood new jersey were claiming between 80 and 100 000 people and we were i mean obviously everyone was dubious immediately even fox was was like, at best, maybe 30,000 at best. Well, most people that have brains and a memory looked at the images and had seen more people basically in line for a Black Friday doorbuster sale. So the journalists kept pressing Wildwood officials about how the fuck they got this number. And just let me just read these quotes from you this is from the new jersey insider quote wildwood officials who are the source for the associated press is reporting that former president trump drew between 80 000 and 100 000 to a beachfront weekend rally now say it was not the number on the beach at the rally per se but rather it was

the number of people quote in our town. Huh? So just our entire population? That's like 80,000 people in town. I don't know for the rally. I don't know that part, but that's how this goes on. Quote, this is from one of the spokespeople of Wildwood. Quote, as a tourist town, we speak in tourism numbers. When we see that that volume of people attending a beach event, we know that 80 plus thousand people are in our town.

So we see a quarter of a million visitors every weekend in the summer on our 1.89 mile boardwalk, not to mention our five mile island. So we know what that volume looks like. They were watching and listening from the beach and boardwalk in bars and restaurants, at hotels and second homes. People even lined up along the streets streets parade style we defer to the trump campaign for the exact count on the beach hot potato yeah yeah did that shit wow i can't believe they really said yeah man if you were just even if and the people who were driving through in their cars on the interstate people driving through who rolled down their window possibly to smell the uh salt air possibly because they wanted to get a better

earshot. Yeah, or maybe someone farted in the car. Yeah. That counts. That counts because they were near Wildwood when Trump was there, therefore they attended. Yeah. Anyways, congratulations to the Jersey Shore.

A lot of times I will say, and this is not the part of the jersey shore that i go to this is the part of the jersey shore that i go to uh this is like right next to ocean city uh just a couple islands over and it's basically they have like a lot of the same pizza places a lot of the same like sort of like cut and print sort of like copy and paste sort of vibe? Yeah, Ocean City is a little different because it's like a dry town. So it has more of a like children's feel to it. Except at night.

Except at night when people go absolutely fucking bonkers. And it's the leading drunk driving city in America. But yeah. city in america um but yeah also we skipped past the part where he uh trump stops during a speech and just plays a q anon song for like over his speech which like that was the thing he started doing fairly recently to rally them yeah it's very strange but I guess just a testament to like how authoritarians and like how this like sort of creep works where like something starts out and it's like, that is so strange. And then like three,

he does this three more times and we're just like, yeah. And then, so he starts playing a music during his speech that is a song favored by a weird cult that wants trump to kill their enemies like yeah that's it's called coalition building yeah that's what we do you know what i mean just letting people know where we're at you know just like how they play uh they not like us not like us at the rally just to let you know that trump's on the on the kendrick side of things that's right. All right.

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where he called Pride Month a deadly sin, criticized the tyranny of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and suggested that women will find, quote, more fulfillment through getting married and having children than by pursuing careers great culture war moment because everybody came out whether

it's to defend or be like what the fuck is this wasn't it the wife of the owner of the chiefs is like i agree oh really i think so yeah he i. He had some interesting allies that popped out after this controversy. Yeah. So people who seem to not ally themselves with his point of view, the NFL is now distancing themselves from Butker, which, how big

of a piece of shit do you have to be for the ethical dumpster fire that is the NFL to be like, ooh, hey man man we're good over here and there's been a lot of people just a lot of discourse online even condemned by a group of nuns who are a founding institution and sponsor of benedictine college um the nuns pulled up yeah so yeah too conservative for the catholic church is pretty wild that's wild yeah but so one outlet also reported that buckers mom is an accomplished physicist who works in the field of radiation oncology and we have so that was from page six so i had to get secondary confirmation and got it

from the only reliable source on the internet snopes um who found elizabeth butker is a medical physicist at emory university's winship cancer institute in a january 2020 article on emory's website harrison butker is pictured with his mother and it's like this, you know, workplace email where they're like, Winship medical physicist Elizabeth Keller Butker has a special reason to watch the Super Bowl this year. Her son Harrison Butker, a record-setting field goal kicker

for the Kansas City Chiefs, will go head-to-head with the San Francisco 49ers in the sports event of the year. Super Bowl, whatever that number is. 54. Super Bowl live. Live. Live Tyler.

Yeah. But he didn't go there. I'm not sure why they went with him as the commencement speaker. I don't know. I mean, is the school in Missouri? Yeah, maybe. Kansas.

It's in Kansas. Yeah, I don't know know like a local guy in the city is not even in kansas so right it's okay it's close it's close it's close it has it's good enough name look do you hate diversity equity and inclusion then you can speak at benedictine college that's the only thing we needed and plus you got a few followers on twitter we'll take that we'll take that but like the the nuns who like helped found the institution said we sisters have dedicated our lives to god and god's people including many women whom we have taught and influenced during the past 160 years so it's like yeah the women aren't just sent to

go home yeah i like the quote one of our concerns was the assertion that being a homemaker is the highest calling for a woman right yeah yeah the nuns the nuns yeah or even come on butker but i don't know just a when i saw his comments i assumed he was like homeschooled in some McMansion with survivalist parents, but he's just like, this is all willfully... I don't know the exact details, but

it's giving... When you see Iran before the revolution and everyone's wearing... all the women are like dressed professionally on their way to work like that's a picture of this guy's family tree if he had it his way like what do you mean like his mom is like this amazing professional and he's like no you're saying he wants place he's saying the world now is like

yeah he's like i don't know he wants to see a world where it's all all traditional roles for everybody sure i don't know i mean like this guy's such a fucking loser uh true it's like wild too like yeah even like the other students are like i like even though people were cheering there are like a couple students like some obviously applauded that shit. There were other people that were just mortified that whole time. Anyway, way to go, Butker. I wonder if it's that his mom is so impressive that he's... Oh, he's like, pipe down, ladies.

yeah like the way that tucker carlson is like motivated by his mom doing something awesome in his mom and tucker carlson's mom case it's leaving tucker carlson to go fuck people in france but in this case it's like harrison butker is emasculated by his mom being an amazing uh and it's like like an oncologist yeah physicist and oncologist it's like an oncologist. Yeah. Physicist and oncologist. It's like helping people with cancer. Yeah. Well, I kick a fucking ball, mom.

It's also like, I do wonder is field goal kicker. One of those things where like complexity of thought could actually be damaging when all you need to do is make the ball go through big yellow. Why? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, maybe. I mean, damaging when all you need to do is make the ball go through big yellow y yeah yeah oh maybe i mean yeah i don't know i just hopefully is he is he good like oh i'm guessing he's pretty good yeah he's on a super bowl winning multiple super bowl winning team so he's that's probably one of those things you're like yeah man butker's is kind of a fucking goon, but the boy can kick.

That leg kick hard. Yeah. The only person defending him is Bill Maher. All right. Right side of history. You're on the right side, buddy. Never mind. I take it all back.

Yeah. Says he's confused why anybody would take issue with the speech. Did you see that clip of when Bill Burr went on? Bill Burr just... Yeah. And he's like, what the fuck are you talking about? You don't know shit. You don't know anything. You're a fucking expert. Yeah. I'm with the kids.

That's childish. Bill, it's childish. You actually don't... I talk to a lot of people who know a lot of things every day. A lot of people, Bill. So of things every day a lot a lot of people bill uh so incensed by bill maher's nonsense he had a cool heavy metal t-shirt and black blazer on so it's cool yeah yeah um all right iranian president ibrahim raisi uh died in a helicopter crash yeah that's what it it from the beginning when i saw that i was like oh because after the was it the the pm of slovakia was like shot i'm

like we're getting like world war three vibes like all over the place right now like what's going on uh but it seems like at first oh there was a lot of you know a lot of interest like people like what exactly has happened was there some kind of is this some sort of uh uh what's the word i'm looking for um yeah yeah yeah but assassination yeah yeah yeah or just yeah some kind of covert something was being done was there some some foolery going on but it turns out I mean at least according to what's coming out of like the Iran too there are an officials there is like very just super foggy and the weather was terrible so I don't know I mean as I mean this like a lot of people are comparing it to like what happened with Kobe Bryant's helicopter going down too it's just like the conditions what it reminded me of because that's the last helicopter crash that i was you

know paying attention to there was also something with like uh an official in ukraine like recently too had like a helicopter crash too i think due to like inclement weather just goes to show you uh yeah that's very don't i guess don't try and fly a helicopter in the fog uh but also i think the helicopter that they were in was very very old um 45 year old helicopter yeah um and because of all the sanctions yeah yeah thanks to the sanctions that have frozen out their economy their president has to like fly around in a old helicopter but yeah i mean he he had been dubbed the butcher of tehran long before becoming president uh and was most mostly noted for brutally cracking down on protesters in protests that we talked about where over 500 people were killed so some iranians are celebrating the news

of his disappearance although reports that people are setting off fireworks and Tehran have not been confirmed. But yeah, people are suspicious about the crash. Yeah, a lot of intrigue. Yeah, and also, like, there's also internal things, too, because this guy seemed to be, like, the person that would succeed the Ayatollah. The supreme leader. Yeah, yeah.

So, yeah, just more wrinkles in our geopolitical landscape yeah at the moment all right did he uh issued an apology over the weekend for abuse now that he's been caught on tape like the weekend started with him being like that's it i'm no longer taking this lying down yeah like these false accusations i'm gonna fight them like just wait and then you know a video was released hours later and he was like okay look i'm sorry these allegations are not false and i take full responsibility yeah cnn aired this uh hotel footage from la where he is seen just just horrifically like physically assaulting cassie uh who was his then girlfriend and yeah i mean this apology video was fucking awful like i don't know who the fuck

tells these people to do these fucking videos especially too because the motherfuckers are never sorry no in the apology videos they're just like, I have to just do the things that you do in the apology video. Yeah. So now he's apparently disgusted by the behavior, whereas before he and his lawyer called the allegations baseless and outrageous lies aiming to tarnish Mr. Combs' reputation and seeking a payday.

But he did check all the celebrity apology video boxes looking Step 1, don't actually be sorry. Don't be sorry. Step 2, rustic wooden background of some sort. Step 3, be

waking up from a long nap like they was. I'm thinking ashton kutcher here and step forward just like a ratty t-shirt to remind everyone that you're just a regular person yeah oh it's just i mean like it's all of these allegations that have come out are fucking frightening it's wild though too like the video is now people like oh okay this guy's cooked it's on video it's on video now so that's right um so yeah we will see what happens there i mean like as of now i don't i don't know how many people have like severed ties since like the initial stuff had come out but surely have a reason now to do nothing have

nothing to do with this man yeah and then a quick update on megalopolis megalopolis we love it don't we folks we gotta see this shit i know uh so this might be so bad it's good francis ford coppola's long-awaited film that he like sold off part of his winery to finance you know sunk a hundred million dollars I think of his own money into the making of the movie and you know stories from the set include him

like spending all day smoking weed in his trailer while everybody well like the crew cast and crew just like wait ready to shoot and then you'd like come out and be like ah scrap it all I got a whole new idea that would be. Alright this character is actually

going to die now in this scene actually I think that'll be more cool yeah yeah so it premiered at Cannes elicited a mix of booze and cheers which is kind of what I was hoping for booze and cheers which is kind of what i was hoping for yeah like booze and cheers

but the moment everyone's been talking about and i guess this is a spoiler but so yeah spoiler alert if you really don't want the megalopolis experience to be spoiled and i say experience because it's not necessarily just the plot but yeah about midway through the movie an actor from the audience so the the movie cuts to like a black screen someone walks up onto a stage in front of the movie screen and then for a moment like everybody's like what the fuck's happening does that person have a bomb what is going on is this? But instead the person takes out a mic and plays the role of

a reporter asking Adam Driver's character questions at a press conference following a major disaster. And Driver, of course, is his character is on the screen and he answers the question and then the guy just like

goes back and sits back down um and everyone's like what the fuck was that definitely a high thought section yo 100 yo what if someone from the audience came up and then interacted with the dude on screen but what if the audience talked back to ferris bueller when he talked to audience it's like a choose your own adventure and based on the cheers we can we can we can switch out the tapes for what happens next right what what you're describing is fucking impossible no yeah yeah this does feel like uh brian the editor is pointing out like a good like midnight movie type deal yeah like the room if the room was made by francis ford coppola um one of the french distributors said that they're actually going to try and make this gimmick

happen by employing an actor for every screening even though it quote will not be easy yeah I mean in LA you will not have trouble people would be fucking busting down the door to play the audience journalist character yeah I'm in Megalopolis yeah I'm in Megalopolis oh really yeah yeah I've been Frank

that you can print for Coppola Frankie yeah oh you're so what scene are you in I mean okay Frank Prince or Coppola Frankie So what scene are you in? I mean okay Are you in the credits? I've acted opposite Driver Did you see the 9.45pm Showing on July 18th

At the AMC Burbank 16 Of Megalopolis Because I was the guy who emerged from the audience and then asked Adam Driver a thing and then went back to his seat after everyone started throwing drinks at me. That was me. Or it'll just be like the 16 year old

working the snack bar at the AMC. We'll have to like pop in and just like go through the motions. Yeah. Mr. Driver do you think Mr. President do you think there's i mean it would be so funny too like someone's so high at their job and they fuck because obviously like the timing has to be right or else the shit will look so janky yeah and then like i'm i don't know i mean this feels like it's

ripe for trolling too for someone who's working there to be like hey uh adam driver like fuck you what do you think about that like very good question when you suck my ass driver what do you think about ligma what ligma balls fool hold that um hold that although i like i having been to a lot of uh theaters where you know that it's a thing that happens that usually non-chain theaters like indie theaters the person the projectionist or you know somebody works the theater will get up and like tell you what you're about to watch like detail yeah they're never like under prepared or under committed to that job like that it's rarely half assed they're usually pretty

in it to win it so it's a moment to shine you know what I mean it's like we will be here for the first few moments to ensure the picture and sound quality are up to our standards and we hope you enjoyed this presentation of Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis and now I am the movies

so in your face this is actually part of the movie folks it's me again from earlier i'm going to ask a question oh man yeah we need we need to see this shit yeah i just i knew it like there was something it's just so it's just too high concept like literally now high concept yeah uh to be passed up and especially to know that this guy just dumped all of his own fucking money into a movie that it's i guess it's like is this the year of people taking big swings with their own money like j-lo francis ford coppola yeah who's next being like it's my vision and it's my vision. You'll be watching it in museums years from now. Yeah.

I mean, one of those shoot days, I smoked a dab for the first time. I passed out for about 40 minutes. And it shows up on the screen. You can see the day, which day it was on the screen. It's all out of focus. I thought it would be a cool little texture. It's bad. I didn't know you could throw up from smoking

weed, but it turns out you can. You can get that high. A lot. Yeah. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday morning. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other.

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