The Daily Zeitgeist - Yevgeny PrigozTrend 6/26: Yevgeny Prigozhin, Fox News, RFK Jr., Gradey Dick, Lance Armstrong, Box Office

Episode Date: June 26, 2023

In this edition of Yevgeiny PrigozTrend, Jack and Miles discuss Yevgeny Prigozhin's coup d'etat ending up a coup d'eNOT, Maria Bartiromo's theory of what is ACKTUALLY happening in Russia rn, RFK Jr. getting his mail forwarded to Shredsville, the undeniable 'riz of Gradey Dick, Lance Armstrong having the audacity to lecture anyone on "fairness in sports" and "the transgender question" in the same breath, and a Box Office update!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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going to get into some of the things that are trending over the weekend. But first, Miles, we like to check in with each other, check in with ourselves, and do a little overrated, underrated. Yeah, yeah. Should I go first? Yeah, why don't you kick us off? Okay, I'll go first. Overrated canapes. I was at a restaurant lounge that had, on their finger food menu, they had canapes i was at a like uh like a restaurant lounge that had like on their finger

food menu they had like canapes yeah you were and class you know it was her majesty's birthday we're thinking all right let's do something interesting i'm like i know that word and i know it's like a or like an appetizer and then it comes out that makes one of us right it's this shit it's you know and i okay so anyway all this to say is you know a canapé is like anytime a little bread type hors d'oeuvre with some shit stacked on top finger food it's like you know the one of the most common hors d'oeuvres but the reason i don't like it is because in my mind it sounds a lot better than what you actually get when it comes out. I'm like,

man, it's just some shit on a slice of bread. I don't know why I thought it was like a more elevated thing. Um, and I didn't realize, how are we getting to canapé? Because it's a French word for, I believe couch.

So the food is just resting upon it like a couch, like a canapé. Or they're inviting you to rest your weary soul upon these delicious i guess but then when you think about it right i started looking into it right like i think the origins may have come from the same place where i forget which spanish king basically was like y'all need to be serving food with alcohol and that's how we got tapas and then from there we move on yeah that's why for me tapas way better than canapes that's what i like less less specific right tapas are just small yeah yeah yeah i like i have miles have you ever done small before yeah because we're uh you might want to get out of a pen because quick maths really quick we like

to say 2.63 dishes per three people what we do things a little different uh oh yeah like things tapas style in the world of like easy foods i prefer like tapas with like a smaller just a portion or pinchos like in the north of spain which their shit is just a more fucking like you know just a wild ass canapé because it's a lot more shit stacked on a piece of oh my god we get it you've been to europe uh okay cool actually that brings me to another thing if you go to the north of italy completely okay okay here we go but i think it's one of the things the word yeah no just the word i think and i think just canapé yeah yeah like like it feels like rich people finger food we're really like i'm down for just like a fried massive onions

you know i've never gotten a canapé and been like man this is a big piece of food. No, it's overpriced. They seem to be in an arms race similar to early mobile phones where they're trying to make it as small as possible. Right, right, right. It just gets smaller and smaller. I feel like it's hard to make, too. So my overrated, also from this weekend, is Beach Without Pulp. So at some point when i like i'm using the tropicana fresh squeezed orange

juice uh richter scale as a metaphor here but at some point when i was a kid i like decided that the platonic ideal of the beach was sand as pure as the driven snow and like ocean water without anything in it because like rocks hurt feet. Um, and, and seaweed is nasty, but as an adult, like been taking my kids more to like beaches that have,

uh, all the shit on them, like have rocks and like kelp, uh, you know, animals in the water. I was at a beach this weekend that had a tide pool and

just the gnarliest shit going on. It's like a fucking lobster and crab horror film slaughterhouse. Oh, wow. Birds doing dirt. There were sea slugs like just beautifully colored sea

slugs um just that as super producer brian just beach so nasty oh that beach is so nasty slugs but it yeah it's you know some beaches you can go to and they it's just all the stuff from nature documentaries like the the remnants of that washed up on shore and it was pretty cool and it gives you a lot of things to like talk to kids about and there was oh so versus like a not a bunch of wild shit at the beach you kind of just go and that's the beach kids and there's the beach two ingredients to my beach what's that what's that what's this what's this why is that why is it eating this yeah can i eat that a little smart making making up answers to questions that seem right would you freestyle i think this one's right but there there were a lot of these seaweeds there were seaweeds with the bubbles in them and yeah yeah yeah they i was

explaining that they are usually anchored to the ocean floor and then the bubbles float them up to the surface so that they can take advantage of photosynthesis yeah yeah i mean that seems right right i'm pretty sure i heard that uh Rogan at one point. Yeah. I'm just, that feels like one of those answers that it's logical enough that if someone said it with enough confidence, I'm like, yeah, exactly.

That's what I was going to say. Yeah. But anyways, beach with pulp, try them out. Beaches without pulp. They're also more crowded. Cause that's what everybody's looking for.

What is a free? Like, is there like, is there a list? Like list like you know like the pulp free beaches versus the ones like most of the more popular like the ones where people swim and because you can't really swim in the tide pool so so like we went and there was like the tide pool area and it was pretty sparsely populated with people and then like over a little bit was where everyone was like swimming and surfing and doing that stuff so oh god you can find one with both then then you're in business thank you you want me to go with my underrated yeah what you got

underrated i tried the grimace shake it was not i did not go out of my way to try the grimace shake and you're alive and i i'm i survived okay my my underrated is not necessarily the grimace shake itself so much as how little the grimace shake tastes like come or alternately how much grimaces come tastes like blueberry milkshake um i've never tasted grimace it's very blueberry oh okay and like a little vanilla like hint of creamy or just more like a blueberry smoothie yeah yeah like a blueberry uh somewhere between a milkshake and a blueberry smoothie got it which you know there there are reports that certain fruits do uh you know affect the flavors yeah affect the flavor of cum so i don't know maybe grimace is just a real blueberry hog it's really just superfoods yeah but there's there's also some

disturbing reports about what the grimace shake is doing oh my god who was it shout out to the young people oh who the i'm sorry i gotta shout you out uh Ched Earthling Tagged us in a fucking TikTok thing on Twitter That was just a bunch of videos of kids Trying the Grimace Shake And it was just smash cutting to them In like terrible physical condition Like passed out on the ground

Like in the woods naked One kid was like holding his dead friend Just like I'm trying the milkshake Cut to come on man wake up yeah oh shit really well done most of them it's just you know they cut and then the person's in the same location with their shirt off and grimace shakes splattered all over them but one of them they like cut and it like looks like it's a location from the first season of true detective the person's just like half naked leaned up against

a tree with like dribbling yeah so congratulations to those young people um is there something you think is i'm a little disappointed that it's it wasn't like not yeah or like yeah it like caused you to have like like your blood vessels and your eye burst on one side or something yeah just too crazy but okay it's also who knows you know who knows what like whether the grimace shake has is using me as a host is just like speaking through me right now i'm trying to throw people off at like you know i've partaken some like last of us type shit everyone becomes part of like a cordyceps network yeah like intelligence um for me oh underrated kind of more spiritual of just being able to like forgive yourself when you're stressed out uh i like i go through like cycles of stress and you know people like you're so chill like no i like i'm like i can get i can get stressed baby let me tell you what goes on inside this mind uh Uh, but about like when you get to that point, usually when you're stressed out, you'll like,

most of us have this idea of going like, why am I stressed out? I shouldn't be stressed out. I don't want to be stressed out. I don't like being stressed out. Why am I stressed out? I don't like this. This is not good. This is not.

And then you're just stuck in that shit versus being able to just say, I'm stressed. Okay. But also I'm gonna forgive myself for being stressed because i don't need to beat my own shit up for being stressed because i have to have some level of self-awareness to know that it's a pattern i have and then moving through it from that side rather than like the fighting it like why the fuck you just be like yo chill chill chill chill chill chill stop that fucking pattern of rumination for a second give yourself a little break put your hand on your heart on your heart and say i forgive myself it's okay you're going through it but just cover your heart um also like your brain is it was not

designed for this world and it like hijacks itself all the time but yeah i do that so much where i have a bad feeling and then get mad at myself or like some part of my brain like blames myself for having the bad feeling and then that compounds on itself because you get like the high school football coach's way of problem solving it's like come on o'brien get over it where's your mental toughness yeah and i'm like what and then you get all fucked up because you're like yeah that's right this is bullshit and then rather than just like acknowledging it's really just about acknowledging first and then moving from it there it's resisting baby it's the resistance that hurts yeah what you resist will persist uh am i in therapy you decide for yourself um you look at my bills all right let's talk uh the

russian rebellion wow um yeah russians are just over there doing their thing vying for our attention like the messy little bitches they are um but yeah you need to be more about you. Yes. Jeez. What a cycle. We went from, we went from, uh, you have Gany Pergozhin, Putin chef. It turned like, you know,

mercenary warlord who, you know, does a lot of work for the Russian military abroad, not just in Ukraine, but like places like Syria and Africa, et cetera. Uh, basically you just saw like,

wait, they, I remember seeing one article come up about being like, potential coup in Russia? And I was like, wait, what the fuck? Then you look and you're like, oh, they took over Rostov, which was home of the Southern Military Command, which is

basically running the war in Ukraine. A lot of the decisions are being made there. And then marching towards Moscow, and you saw saw like planes being shot down yeah like trenches being dug up people like opening their arms to the wagner mercenaries being like yes please you are our new overlords and other people getting mad at them it was quite a thing and then suddenly next thing you know he was like okay you know what uh we don't want to we don't want to shed blood so we're going to go back because that was the plan so we were just faking we were pump faking a coup interesting yeah yeah he's very very odd and now yeah so it definitely feels like that so So the explanation for what happened here

is the official or unofficial explanation that seems to be prevailing on Monday morning or most of the weekend was that Prigozhin had negotiated a soft landing for himself in Belarus and that Putin... So it just feels like i don't know not very strong man out of character with putin like the guy who normally puts plutonium in your tea if you cast out on his professional hockey like scoring records right um you'd expect him to

have like more of a response and instead it feels like the the story is that he was just like yeah okay okay no okay okay you i mean let's continue to work together i love this energy from you um let's just you know uh focus it on ukraine okay i get it you actually kept that same energy from the telegram group chat and you weren't fucking around. OK, note taken. But again, yeah, like it is it is wild because Pergosian apparently allegedly cut a deal for all of the people that were involved in the uprising and saying that they would not face prosecution for fucking treason or whatever. And then also the ones that didn't participate would also get military contracts. We don't know if any of that's happening and again like you said progozhin was like i'll exile to belarus right um but you're like wait what what you like you were just going like so hard on like

we like we need to fucking kill all the ukrainians and all this shit and they're like all right i'm gonna exile in belarus who knows what's gonna happen to the wagner group now because you'd imagine putin would probably do a lot to start dismantling that based on what the fuck just happened um but the one thing a lot of people are pointing out is that people have not heard from progosian or like the official wagner like telegram group like a lot of it has gone silent so a lot of people are like oh maybe that's how you fucked up is by thinking that putin would make a deal with you after all that so again it's hard to know because we don't know where things have landed because we just don't know so we don't know um somehow like if putin disappeared progosion i feel like people would

like feel like the world is safe again they're like yes back to a world where putin is murdering people mysteriously and not acknowledging it because yeah like nobody's heard of him from him they're uh saying he might have been disappeared yeah i think it but it goes to show too like how used to his like autocratic fucking iron fist approach to rule that like suddenly like wait what like you're getting they wait you just you just ran out of moscow because you were so shook that progoshen was coming to town that's very unlike like is that is that confirmed that he left moscow when it seems to be in a lot of the reporting was that he left uh like as this was all happening and so did many other people were trying to leave moscow too like the flights were like tripled

in price almost um but what that's what's kind of interesting is like he this is a situation where putin has his back to the wall like domestically right like where it's like dude they're apparently they're coming for your ass yeah and then somehow it all kind of settles and everything's okay nothing to see here but also like he didn't handle it in a way that people would have expected which is like super violent or whatever the fuck it is and i think it's also it's having effects all over like at the time a lot of other countries in the former soviet bloc were like yo is this our shot right now right while they're all fucking on the back foot and then in china too i know the government is also like the perception there is that russia has been like in fact like you know strong as shit like nobody's taking putin down and then

to see this news a lot of people were like what wait wait what i thought huh so their state sponsored media has been mainly telling the story of like russia is just rolling on ukraine and yeah and i mean it is true like all the while that was happening like they were still fighting in ukraine and like you know there's some pretty gnarly counter-offensives happening but uh i don't know it's i think the really confusing part is like how how did you go from we're marching on moscow to something like okay i'm actually in bella i'm gonna go to belarus exile yeah yeah something it's like the kg or not the kgb the fsb were going around to some of the families of like progosian's top people and being like yo you can get got right now right yeah yeah kind of thing so i don't know that makes sense because

it didn't seem like whatever his strategy was like there was a noticeable thing that got in the way so yeah presumably something happening behind the scenes nina khrushcheva was on democracy now and she's a nikita khrushchev's granddaughter yeah um she was saying like this is a really interesting kind of conflict because in russia when you have these kinds of events it's typically reformers coming out against like the old guard and this feels like a group that is like full a full-on militarized fascist group trying to come after the very militant putin regime and it's like whoa from that side they're like full military that yeah that's a little bit uh that's that's a little bit new around yeah yeah it's a little bit new around here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a little scary.

All right, so those are all theories of what happened, but actually Fox News knows what's going on here, and we'll get into their explanation for what's happening in Russia in a moment. Hey, I'm Bruce Bozzi. On my podcast, Table for Two, we have unforgettable lunch after unforgettable lunch with the best guest you could possibly ask for.

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of what's actually happening here. Is it that it's a complicated geopolitical thing is an internal struggle between the the warlords and the military and not agreeing on ukraine strategy do you work for the biden administration miles because it sounds like you're just kind of spitting their um talking points i mean i'm not gonna lie i have taken money from them in the past um but that's neither here nor there but let's check in with maria does it break through and become a real problem the white house wanted to give the media something else to cover and this is the mo this is exactly the way they do things in fact on friday i said wow what a blockbuster what's that message

i'm sure there will be an enormous story over the weekend that the White House is going to be pushing to take this story off of the front page. And sure enough, we've got the State Department drumming up all the drama that took place over the weekend in Russia. So I don't know if it's going to break through. The mainstream media has has an excuse again not to cover it. They're covering everything about Russia and the Wagner group. Yeah, it's true. if it really yeah okay as if he said as if it really matters yeah i don't know a coup in a nuclear armed state the most nuclear armed state um by uh like just off their rocker maria with francis military i don't know what she's trying to say that the u.s like and through the deep state and i don't know what i guess presumably like cia operatives were able to get the wagner group to actually go through with an attempted armed insurrection or it's all crisis actors

and it's all visual propaganda and that's why or maria how just how does it work again who called who to make this happen i'm just i'm trying to figure that part out i want to believe you i just need a little bit more vague insinuations this kind of seems to be how this is working this is also after uh senator marshall blackburn suggested that the missing titanic sub was also just a calculated distraction from the case against hunter biden um so the biden administration's been very busy yeah i know putting people on submarines and that was the whatsapp message is he was like leaning on somebody to pay him by saying like my dad's the president don't you know who i am is that kind of the idea yeah okay i guess that but i don't know

i've pretty sure i've been seeing that fact that like people recognize and have made peace with the fact that hunter biden is like the greatest uh most elaborate fail son that we've ever seen and yes yeah or like it's like yeah i mean it seems like biden knows he's a real fuck up or the or the biggest threat to america is hunter biden the way all this energy is being put on it it's like y'all have more energy that for hunter biden the fucking al-qaeda right now yeah like it's again everything is in service of hunter biden right now okay he has the the gravitational pull of the sun the son mr beast said he declined to join the submersible trip did you know did you see that that makes sense oh like he was like was he offered a ride on it on that one yeah see because another youtuber

did it and said it felt fucking jank when he went on it and i don't know if they went to fucking titanic depth but again i think that just shows you the kind of like pr campaigns man it's like from remember that thing anna shared in the group text she in yeah so what was that i actually didn't oh that shit is wild so she in which is like huge fast fashion company like i think they're probably the biggest now they sponsored these influencer trips to go to their factories in china and like it was total propaganda like the concerns are like what are the working conditions in these factories like what are the fucking like materials being used like what's the process to do all this stuff like i hear there's child labor and like they were just brought to these like pristine factories that are like not

crowded everyone's like smiling and like the tone of a lot of this influencer content was like i'm even talking to some of the fact the factory managers right now and i asked you guys post some questions you want me to ask and i said what about the working conditions and he said they have really good wages that that's really competitive and that they don't use bad labor practices so and from what i saw it looked really clean and you're like we've been fucking played but again every like it just it's funny how much the sort of pr propaganda campaign is so much a part of everything we do now from every company that was one of the strategies that the uh sugar magnates used is like they invited a journalist who was even like just threatening to maybe be critical of them they like invited them to the factory like this pr tactic of like we can have a single good location where we're not abusing people look at this one

harming people yeah at this very carefully cultivated uh specific press op that we've put and also i gotta say i love the fucking five-star accommodations they gave me during this this trip the food was excellent right it's just so wild how when you look at it you're like do you not see what they're doing to you yeah and but again i'm sure they know kind of what the deal is and that's why they accept the trip uh did you see the picture of jfk jr uh or rfk jr being shredsville dude i honestly thought someone used ai to make it look like he was like a surreño in fucking pelican bay or some shit it looks like a jail yard yeah he's built like he's been he's been you know locked down for fucking 20 years yeah he's he's big he's got it's a shirtless photo black and white he's he's got big muscles

um and it also like made him make more sense to me somehow because he's like hanging out with, first of all, he's hanging out with like LA personal wellness people. It seems like, uh, who have always had some interesting questions around vaccines, I feel like.

And then also just like that scene in succession, like the, I love you, but you're not a serious person thing. Like scene in succession, like the, I love you, but you're not a serious person thing. Like he's just, you know, because of his name, people like lend gravity to whatever he says and have since he was like a

child, but he's mainly an idiot who like gravitates towards the most provocative thing he thinks will make him sound as smart as people expect him to be. Well, yeah. And he's like one of those broken clocks where he's like right about a couple things yes and then you're like oh well i mean like he is like anti-war like he's he's he is talking about how we have like misplaced emphasis like in

our economy and things like that but then he goes back to being like the wi-fi though you're like okay shut up dude yeah please this puts him in the category that people will now be like who are you gonna trust on your medicine this pencil neck dip shit like picture of a doctor or this like i've seen it with like joe rogan before or this guy who's you know who's fucking carved out a solid granite Yeah He's like yeah RFK Jr. can do a bunch of steroids Doesn't even get the back knee That's how next level he is Dude his forearms look like fucking Christmas hams

I know I shared this picture with you mainly because I figured you'd be They look like Christmas hams Trump is terrified He drops out of the race he's like before i've seen the other guys christy not really worried about him tim scott kind of feathery spaghetti arms but rfk my god biceps like christmas hams I got nothing for this. Forearms like also Christmas hams.

All the way through. I don't know. If his forearms are Christmas hams, I don't even know what to call those biceps. Oil drums. All right. Let's take one more break, and we'll come back and talk about

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energy. He was drafted 13th, which I think is he's really giving big you know the husband from righteous gemstones energy and you know he was drafted 13th which i think is like not far from where he was expected to but i people were like oh man like could you imagine if you just like just sat there being unselected wearing that jacket rubbing his mitts all right with the 27th pick here we go here we go um but then uh yeah i mean just so now that i know who he is like you you shared a reel of him on social like dancing talks man oh man what a kid got the riz, man. He's got the Riz. You also. Go ahead.

I'm like, is it? Okay. Is it that his is it? I don't think his Riz comes, you know, let me put on my spinny Gen Z cap really quick. Like, is his charisma from the fact that he is just has it coming off his skin, his pores? You just like get out of this man's way or is it because he owns who he is so well because it's not the he's not the coolest looking guy or the best dancer but he loves what like he can tell he loves doing it yes and i think that's probably

what it is like you're like oh this guy's in his joy zone go ahead i'm not gonna get in the way the name is not hurting either grady dick is it just sticks in your brain i'm not going to get in the way The name is not hurting either Grady Dick is It just sticks in your brain I'm not going to confuse that with Porzingis I'll tell you that much Pagosian, try a new name Drop the Pagosian Just call yourself Porzingis

But yeah, Grady Dick I mean it's like close to Gravy Dick Which is an image that just kind of Burrows down into the dark recesses like did did that go through your head gravy dick gravy dick no yeah it was not like gravy specifically but i it did sound like a description of a dick like all them grady dicks you know so i didn't quite go gravy but i did think of it as an adjective i think gravy dick uh i don't think grade e dick like it's below an f oh god which would be not great

no grade e for excellent yeah grade e like when you're in kindergarten excellent um his neck is also the longest neck i've ever seen on a human being i'm hoping the raptors aren't going to bring him in and be like whoops he's actually a 5 11 guy with a two foot long neck um because he kind of appears when you look at a picture of him like that might be what's going on right the turtleneck is the cover that he's all neck yeah no man he ain't that tall it's all neck man if he like if he ran into if he didn't see a screen coming from that blind side he might fucking his head might snap off from the impact yeah so wobbly up there a little wobbly when they asked him about the suit he said quote i'm just being goofy and myself people are going to think i'm crazy but the mentality was that i'm gonna wear this suit probably once in my entire

life so i might as well just go all out love it and there you love it for him you did it grady you did it never stops wearing that suit the shoulder pads also are important an important yeah statement that i'm hoping this brings them back to nba draft suits i think in some cases these are uh long lanky men who could use a little shoulder pad action to yeah fill out their frame absolutely wimpy yama looked pretty good in his teal suit i gotta say yeah but this took the fucking this took all the energy yeah i don't care about wimping yama anymore maria barnaromo should be asking why grady dick pulled up like this that's right because honestly more than other really you know relevant news things i spent a lot of energy talking about this guy's suit yeah um and that's an easier op to run i think maria all right uh

lance armstrong is back and he is concerned about fairness in sports um despite the fact that literally lance armstrong uh he seems like he's going in an oj direction um like the oj zone where like your public persona is having the gall to say something that like people just can't oh i think that one man murdered his ex-wife. That's just me. I'm OJ. Now watch this swing. And I know a thing or two about the carceral system. Oh, right. So, you know, most famous cheater in the world, Lance Armstrong. Yeah, one of them for sure.

Just went real hard in his career. Like, I still remember that Nike ad where he came out like tried to get ahead of the story and was like a lot of people say he couldn't win the tour de france without being on something he must be on something yeah i'll tell you what i'm on i'm on my bike on this bike five in the morning i'm on my fucking grind son um yeah okay that's that's what i'm on um and then yeah he's he's just and then it turns out he was doing all like cheating in every way possible

it was like that scene and is it spies like us where he's like got the answers like in his mouth, in his watch, in his glasses. He was a very gifted cheater, I would say. The level of complexity that was going on was pretty intense and impressive once you heard all the details. But anyways, he's trending on Twitter now after he posted a promo video for a podcast series he's making with caitlin jenner all about trans women competing in sports um and armstrong claims to be uniquely positioned to talk about this since he's a cisgender disgraced cyclist yeah yeah yeah as someone who's taken testosterone to cheat people on the right in the athletic world i guess like what the fuck are we talking about yeah it's fucking wild too like his whole that whole

announcement too he's like i think it's worth talking about it's worth the spirited debate or some shit is what he said and then don't i was like i think you can be supportive of the transgender community but also what about the transgender question like then you like pivot to like this very grim talk about like right like the fairness of it you're not there to talk about the fairness of shit you're again you want to talk about unserious people it's this man talking about his concern with the fairness of fucking anything and then caitlin jenner using her you know a trans identity her her like just her her the the clout that she has or i guess the notoriety she has as a trans woman and athlete to be like and hey we're the authorities on this in a time when there's so much

rampant homophobia and transphobia i just to me it's like if you're going to actually if this is like a threat assessment right if i'm being really charitable about his motivations and you're trying to say i'm doing this because it's worth talking about because i'm i'm thinking that these athletes are maybe going to be victims but i'm i'm only seeing a handful of athletes that are picked out very intentionally to to sort of perpetuate this narrative about the danger of trans athletes uh and if i'm actually looking at people that are in danger it's actually trans people yes exactly have a fucking spirited debate about the fucking like legal vilification and dismantling of their lives yeah that's probably worth talking about

rather than your fucking five people like who lost a swim meet and you're like this is we gotta start talking about this even though on these people what a lot of research shows them feel for 15 minutes after that yeah um it's also he's like pretty openly misogynistic he's never this is the first time he's ever commented on women's sports at all. The cynic in me is like, if he does, it's just a beat up talk about it. Like, this isn't as good as the NBA. This is as good as like the fucking MLS or some shit.

Yeah. He in 2003, when his team's Sognor. Is that how we're pronouncing that? Dude, I saw that fucking word and I started talking about canapes it fucked me up i have no idea what the fuck i looked at your team masseuse it's like oh it's actually a swange swange um swange swange was one of the first to go public with doping allegations and he demonized her and called her a quote whore and then

wait when someone brought up the fact that this motherfucker might be cheating yes in 2003 somebody worked for him and then when another woman the wife of one of his teammates made the same totally accurate allegation he called her a quote crazy bitch um but specifically

reiterated to her and the press that he never called her a quote fat crazy bitch uh which i don't know the details of that game of telephone but it just you know truly uh a piece of shit who's never given any thought to uh women's sports of any sort no if anything he's just he's just outing himself as a fucking idiotic transphobe yes and he's using it's this fucking it's just concern trolling oflling and walking your way into transphobia. Being like, it's not that I'm saying anything's wrong. I'm just concerned. Yes. I'm concerned. That's why I'm talking about it.

But your concern is misguided and misdirected and isn't even reasonable. Because if you're concerned to be with people who are absolutely facing a terrible outcome because we're legislating against them being able to live their fucking lives how about that get on your bike and go do that one uh yeah seems like a real piece of shit um also like just his his whole energy is so like he i i feel like he's going to be i haven't looked at his clothing his wardrobe in this but i feel like he's definitely frozen in like the late night like when he was at his peak fame right oh yeah it's probably yeah it's like odds tight t-shirts yeah he's wearing tight t-shirts skinny jeans itty bitty jeans slick back hair and finally we like checking with the box office uh the big story from this weekend's box office

was that uh the flash declined 73 percent in its second weekend so first weekend was a big disappointment yeah powered by morbid curiosity yes and then this weekend 73 decline because everybody who saw this movie and wasn't involved in the marketing campaign that they apparently had going steven king i'm still i'm still a little so steven king called it like one of the best movies he's seen in a long time on twitter i still remember that like it was like a couple months before it came out steve and i was like huh so are we what's is this are you are you bad um can be bought turns out but uh yeah it's just there's absolutely no appetite for this movie because they like the dc universe was like all right we're not doing this anymore so these are just kind of left over this is like a lame duck uh

movie from like a lame duck franchise so and then it turns out it's also bad so there's not there's not much to power people wanting to go see it so across the spider verse return to the top slot um pixar'sal was in second, and then right behind The Flash was No Hard Feelings, starring Jennifer Lawrence, as a woman willing to have sex with an introverted 19-year-old just for a used Buick is kind of the premise. We looked at the trailer, I think, when it first came out. But it's like a raunchy R-rated comedy

that they don't make anymore ribald even ribald can we even bring that word back i remember that was the way when i was at the video store looking at 80s comedy movies and trying to figure out where there'd be naked ladies i don't see if they called it ribald yeah like is this a ribald comedy yeah yeah yeah okay okay yeah kid it's ribald oh yes it's r and r for rivaled right jm our writer uh went and checked it out and said it was genuinely weird being in a packed theater full of people like laughing and groaning in discomfort at various parts it's like the first one of those movies that come out

in the theater since bridesmaids there's a scene where jennifer lawrence's character maddie beats the shit out of some teenagers on a beach while completely naked she's naked beating up teenagers yeah and this is basically being sold as like jennifer lawrence is funny the movie which yeah it makes sense like she does seem funny and like that's a big part of her public persona but it doesn't feel like it's ever been like fully uh the premise of one of her movies like I even saw on on social over the weekend people were like I work at a movie theater and the way you can tell someone is an actual movie star is when people come up to buy it,

they don't even like know the name of the movie. They're like, I'll take two tickets for Jennifer Lawrence, please. Oh, really? And they were like, you get it with her and Tom Hanks.

And that's basically it these days. Yeah. Oh, I mean, I think I'm like trying to think of when she's ever had a bit of a bit of comedy in her role or like a role that's a little bit comedic. And I'm like trying to think of when she's ever had a bit of a bit of comedy in her role or like a role that's a little bit comedic. And I'm like, I,

I can't remember. Yeah. I mean, you always see her like do stuff like on like, I don't know, like was she on SNL? I'm sure doing stuff here and there, but like,

I guess maybe, I wonder if that's like her thing. Like, she's like, I want to be a comedian, like telling all her reps. She's like, I'm done with this fucking acting shit. I want to do rivaled comedy.

Yeah. And it did like kind of middle of the road. It's like it did well for an indie comedy, but it's actually a big studio comedy because it has her in it. And yeah, what's that fee like for her to be in it? I think they said 25 million maybe um so the budget is reportedly actually around 70 million dollars there's there's your problem there it is oh yeah but i guess like i get why so many people are talking about it because we've kind of lost this genre of film you know and people are like i don't know if this does

good maybe we'll see it come back yeah but yeah i don't know so there i mean there's another r-rated comedy coming with uh will ferrell voicing a like dog with uh i think jamie foxx it's called like strays maybe strays oh yeah yeah people are kind of looking to for uh keep the r-rated comedy alive in theaters um why do you do you think is there a reason you think it died is it probably because it's just like a marketing like potential like disaster zone where you like you could go all in and then some people like man people aren't going to the movies for that right now like all those people we used to sell american pie tickets to now are parents yeah i don't know i don't know it's probably just like hard to gauge

and also they all seem like i don't know first of all you don't get any respect in hollywood for having like a successful like you don't get any of the awards or any of the self-serious people seem to respect in in hollywood and then um like what weren't we saying like in a more revisionist version of the academy awards like bridesmaids should have won more awards yeah yeah i mean especially considering what was out there the performance categories like those are the hardest roles to pull off but comedies get ignored at award season and probably like when it comes to like whether you're hired or fired but like of the like box office phenomenon in our lifetime like you know the hangover was wild like that was one of the last times i remember a movie that's like opened wide and like done well and then like the next weekend did like

even better like it kept like growing and growing just on like word of mouth right there are these examples of hits so it doesn't totally make sense that they would just be like gone completely but i think it's just the version of hollywood that we have right now that is like well but when's the part where there's a uh lightning portal in the sky so that's the only way people know they're watching a movie otherwise i just release it on streaming how come the dad didn't get hit in the balls a bunch what no it's why like when you look at that like when you search highest grossing quote-unquote comedies first one minions the rise of crew yeah yeah that i mean that is where comedies have gone, is to D-rated

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