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jay Z might have beef. We'll see where Black Friday came from. And if you love the Trump administration, then old boy, have I got some great news for you. So let's do these people. Let's I'm straight into today's headlines. All right. Before we get into the big stories, let's catch up on a few other things going on in
the world, starting with the Grammy Awards. Yesterday, the full list of nominations was announced and Beyonce is leading the pack with nine nominations, which, amazingly, which amazingly ties her with her husband Jay Z for the all time record of eighty three nominations. Yeah yeah, makes your hashtag marriage goals look like shit. Oh, and congratulations to Amanda Gorman, the poet who got her first nomination for Best Spoken
Word Album. That's pretty amazable with congratulations to her and to Joe Biden, who got a nomination for Best We Think Those Are the Words Album. Well done, sir well then. In tech news, Elon Musk is continuing his makeover of Twitter by telling employees that from now on, the work environment will be quote extremely hardcore. Yeah, and they should prepare themselves. But if anyone in salt shim, he'll call his mommy and fire them. That's not hardcore. It's just me.
And by the way, I don't know if he can afford to fire any more employees, and he's already fired half of the company. Pretty soon, you Musk is gonna be the only one working at Twitter. We're gonna be sitting there like, why haven't my tweets updated for like twenty minutes? And you would be like, sorry, I was taking a ship. It was so hardcore, all right? Where was i? Oh? In international news, NATO has announced that the Strame missiles that hit Poland yesterday were not fired
by Russia after all, as was reported. Yeah, they were actually Ukrainian missiles being launched against Russian attackers. So the good news is that nature doesn't have to go to war against Russia. The bad news is, you know, has to go against Ukraine. Yeah. Rules are rules, The rules are rules. I'm just glad it wasn't what we thought it was. And Poland is like we still got bombed. All right, Let's move on to the big story of the day. As you know, America's mid term election was
just one week ago. The votes in many districts are still be encountered. The runoff for Georgia's Senate seat is still three weeks away, and Wolf Blitzer is still waking up in the middle of the night shouting, you write alert, you write alert. My point is the mid terms are not over, which means now is the perfect time to start covering the election. There have been so many times over the last two years when people have said that
Donald jobless Trump was finished for sure. You know. They said he was finished when he lost to an ancient artifact. They said he was finished when he was impeached for throwing a house party without his parents permission, when he got his hand and stuck under the fridge trying to get a Cadbury cream eg that rolled underneath that just let go of the egg. Donald. I think people don't realize that Donald Trump doesn't care what anyone else thinks
about his political future. And you saw that last nights because he swapped out the buffet table at mar Longo for American flags and made a big announcement on stage at the South Florida's State Donald Trump announcing the White House run he's hinted at ever since his election defeat in order to make America graded glorious again. I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president at the United States.
The former president impeached twice, including for his role in the January six insurrection, placing himself at the head of a movement to take power back for his supporters. This is our country. Our government now at the center of multiple investigations. Mr Trump said a weaponized justice system is the greatest threat to the US. We must conduct a top to bottom overhaul to clean out out the festering rod and corruption of Washington, d C. And I'm a victim.
I will tell you I'm a victim. That's right, folks, and the biggest victim of all. Every time I do something illegal, they come after me. I've done thirty illegal things. They've come after me at least twenty times. It's so unfair. So I'm there, you know. As ridiculous as this is, I'm actually glad he's being honest about why he's running. He's running for the same reason every shirtless gown cops runs. The POPEO is chasing him. He said it. But this,
this is what Trump does. He's always the victim, the poor billionaire who only owns fifteen golf courses and got to run the world's most powerful country for four years. Oh whoa is me? If Trump was a prince in a fairy tale, the movie would suck and the princess would never get saved. Yeah, the dwarfs would be like, please, we need you to save snow White, and He's like, who is gonna save me? Do you know how many
scares right in my castle? I'm so tired. You know how hard it is typic from the lavish banquet my service prepared for me. I'd be like, but she's poisoned to eternal sleep, and like I wish I could sleep. You know how hard it is to get comfortable in a bed? Of coins so high. But that's right. Trump is getting the old team back together for one more run at the White House. And of course I say that metaphorically, since most of the old teams in jail.
The point is, though he's officially in the race, and you have to admit, this is an interesting way to kick off your presidential campaign. Vote for me. I'm a whiney piss baby, because that's what most of his speech was about. And apparently he's not the only victim. No. According to the Donalds, running America into the ground was also very hard on his family. And it hasn't been a joy ride for a great first lady either. I go home and he says, you look angry and upset.
I said, just leave me alone. I got hasn't been the easiest thing. In fact, my one boy, stand up. Eric. I think he got more subpoenas than any man in the history of our country. So unfair al Capone, you've heard of the great gangster. Al Capone got far less. Billy the Kid got almost done, Jesse James. Now Eric Trump got more subpoenas. He's he's a PhD in subpoena. As they come from Congress. They Yeah, that's right. No
one suffered more from the Trump presidency than the Trump family. Yeah, while the rest of you were living it up in your border cages and enjoying an endless buffet of COVID. Eric Trump was being asked to answer some questions what a hard life and look, to be fair, I will admit that Eric has gotten more subpoenas and gun slingers like Billy the Kid and Jesse James and those guys in the Wild West, or they got a lot of subpoenas. You know, we've all seen the movies. Yeah, I have
papers for Mr Ugly? Is Mr Ugly here? You know what? You guys look busy. I'll come back later. Yeah. By the way, By the way, that that story that he told that Trump told about him and Millannia was, was anyone else's surprised as I was to hear it was Trump telling Millannia to leave him alone. Yeah. Milannia was probably like, oh, no, anything but that. I'll give you
some space, how about forever. Now, you might be thinking the speech probably sucked, right because you're not a fan of Donald Trump, But it turns out even the people who were there to see him didn't exactly want to stay. Trump displayed a fraction of his si energy. The speech ran twice as long as scheduled, and for long stretches left his crowd restless and silent. This was a teleprompter Trump low energy, very very unusual. He started to get bored and started to add lib and it just turned
into a rambling mess. In my opinion, katedly, he was quite subdued, low energy. I thought this feature night was lame. I thought the crowd was lame. Reporters inside the ballroom at Moral Logo noticed a handful of Trump supporters attempting to leave before Trump was done speaking, but security won't let them. Oh damn, say what you will about Trump, but the man takes these bought of security seriously, nobody's gonna out. We're gonna build a wall, build a wall,
keep them in. But for really, you know what club is shitty When you need a bouncer to keep people in. That's where you know things are not going well. And actually feel bad for the crowd. They're probably scared as hell. They're like, oh no, we're trapped in here. Trump has us locked up. He's locked us up, He's locked us up, and you know Trump aside. I will say, I will
say it is a little strange. I'll be honest. I think it is a little strange that so many people in the news media with fixates it on how boring the speech was, like who cares. For years they were like, this is not normal, and now they're like, this is two normal. Say say something about the Mexicans. We need ratings. Donald Now. Despite Trump's triumphant return, the world on the streets is that he might not have the support that he needs to win. Yeah, apparently Republican elites are clamoring
for Rhonda Sanctis all right. Major Republican donors have announced that they won't back Trump this time, even if Anka released a statement saying she doesn't want to be a part of the campaign. Instead, she wants to focus on her family, which of course I understand. I mean, she's got that adorable little boy at home, and I think she has kids, you know. So, Yeah, a lot of major players in the Republican world are not thrilled that
Donald Trump is running again, although apparently many Democrats are happy. Yeah, including people like Bernie Sanders, who said Trump running maybe a horror show for the country. But I've got to say that as a politician who wants to see that no Republican is elected to the White House. In from that perspective, his candidacy is probably a good thing. And yeah, you know, Bernie, Bernie's probably rights. Democrats should be praying for Donald Trump to win the nomination so that they
can easily crush him in the general election. Here kind of thinking has never horribly backfired. Just ask President Hillary Clinton what could go wrong? But for real, people, are we really gonna do this again? We're gonna do everything to say the Democrats are gonna hope to face Trump. The media is gonna write him off because Republicans don't support him. Forgetting that Republicans didn't support him the first time. Then he got on stage, roasted Chris Christie, slapped Jim
Wech so hard his whole family felt it. And then all of a sudden, the whole Republican Party was like, you are our king now, and Ted Cruzer's wife is ugly. And before you say, but this time is different, we beat him already. Yeah, I remember that he only lost to Joe Biden by forty four thousand votes, and that was during a pandemic where Trump told everyone to bleach their lungs. He's probably not gonna do that again. Probably, And you're probably like, yeah, but but this year all
of Trump's mega election deniers lost. Yeah, but they lost by like one percent. Those are not round and find out margins, people, Those are kind of margins. Way, if anything is a little bit different next time, Trump could win those states, gas prices could be higher, the economy could be worse, Joe Biden could keep getting older. Anything is possible. But no, I guess everyone's gonna act out the same roles as the Democrats are gonna hope he wins.
Republicans aren't gonna stand up to him until it's too late, and the news will give him live coverage for every single word that he utters. I just pooped again, breaking news. But I'll tell you what, if we're all going to do the same things again, just let me know now, because this time I'll be prepared. I'll go visit all the ship whole countries before the borders are closed. I'll invest in tiki torches, and best believe, I'm gonna stock up on a ship ton of toilet paper because I'm
not using my socks again. You hear me, that's not happening again. All right, that's it for the headlines. But before we go, let's check it on the traffic without very on Royalo Junior. Everybody's got what is happening where? What is happening in the traffic? Well, what's happening in the try? Why do you want me to turn around and tell you the Trump like facing the wall, you tell me what's happen for you to tell me what to tell me what's happening. Not focus on the traffic
right now. I'm more focused on you telling us to take Trump serious, like Trump, don't take Trump serious. Trump don't take himself Si broke. He announced it from the crib. He announced he runs from president. Right. He was upstairs in his drawls, and it was like, let me go downstairs real quick and do this president thing. Rick. He needn't change his slogan. He's just doing this to get rid of all the old, the older, old Maga marks from last time. Man. Hell, if he said it all,
he might drop out. I bought three boxes of Maga hats for you know, for democracy, plus the other thing with this man Trump, deep down Trump though he can't beat the Santas keeping Look at the Santus. Look at that man. Look at that man, some bad bitch boots right there. Trump could never Trump can't think that man. He got all the phone he got to can serving to vote up top, he got the gay vote down low. The iron tracks, the the Santus look so good in
the boots. Trump might try to grab him by the pussy. It's all my boots. Okay, you know, let's just get Let's just get to the traffic. Traffic here. Here's the thing about Elon Musk. Can we keep me talking to him? Can we talk about Elon must supposed say, I mean traffic talking crazy to people in the emails every every day, Ellen doing something, send out the email telling all the employees to step it up. Also sidebar, if I worked at Twitter, I just wouldn't open my emails. Stop opening
your email. If you work at Twitter, it's like divorce. You got to hand me to pay us. You can't find me if I don't open my email. Email, Elon, I've been slinging them emails for two weeks, man, and there ain't been no good news. And something like you working Twitter, open your email and good news. Everybody strippers in the break room like, all right, thank you. Elon the emails, why did did you read the email? They
were insane. He had this whole thing he was He was like, from now on, we're gonna be extremely hardcore, working long hours. It was like high intensity. And then he said like an only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade. If you don't want to be part of the new Twitter, then you can get out. It's something crazy to be honest, Yeah, I mean, well crazy for a ceo. What do you mean not that? Like it's crazy if a CEO said that, that was Ellen's mistake.
You want to talk to people like that, fine, but you can't call yourself a CEO. If you wanna talk to people crazy, you got to call yourself ahead coach. Nobody nobody is more verbally abusive to their employees than a head coach. You have played a sport, you have that your coach coach always talking great, want want blood, I want pain. Water makes you weak. You can't have no water. If Ellen want to keep from getting in trouble,
run Twitter like a head coach. First off, stop emailing everybody, call a huddle, bring all your what easy in because everything in the Elon email. If everything Elon said in that email, if he said it in a locker room, it don't sound it's bad. Like Elon could be a Twitter coach. He just happens a little coaching and bring it in, Bring it in, Bring it in, Twitter, Team, bring it in, Okay, Twitter, Twitter Three. We're in a competitive world. We need to be hard core, long hours,
high intensity. Only the exceptional performance will constitute the passing great engineers, I need you to drive us. We are software and serve us company. If you are sure that you want to be a part of Team Twitter, then please click yes on the link below in the email, and you make sure that they remember forever the night they played the Titans. He's blue. Check on three. Don't look to three this check twt up engine there, Hi, don't go away because after the break, Desert Line is
gonna expose the truth about Black Friday. We'll be right back. I want to do it for Trap. I'm I'm proba gonna do tex I'm gonna go who do we go to? Tecad? What's to do? Who's going to Welcome back to the day to Show. Next Thursday Nights America celebrates the holiday that defines it as a nation Black Friday. But where did Black Friday come from? Mull you find out we turned to daisi Lin like another episode of why do
we celebrate this? Hey? Get back? This one's my You are ready to die for this flat screen because I am Hello, my shopoholics, Maxinista's small rads, coupon clippers, bargain bitches, capitalism warriors, and sales slugs. It's the holidays, then that means one thing family. No, I'm kidding, that means shopping family. What the fuck? Like many of you, I too will be going out on Black Friday, one of America's most treasured excuses to buy ship and Black Friday seems like
something that's been around forever. I mean, I can't remember a time when Black Friday didn't exist. Then again, my memory is a little fuzzy from all the head trauma from previous Black Fridays. The history of Black Friday is actually quite interesting. It started in the nineteen twenties when retail stores wanted to set a clear beginning to the Christmas shopping season, so department stores like Macy's created grand parades to signal to Americans it's time to start spending cash.
Although back then parade balloons weren't as cute as the ones today. You know classics like Puff the meth Fuel Dragon, Whimsical Drifter, Murderer, and Thick Daddy Superman. They were hoping to scare people to run inside the stores. I don't know. The point is, retailers dependent on a big Christmas shopping season, and we're willing to do whatever it took to make
it as long as possible. In fact, during the Great Depression, they even lobbied President Franklin Roosevelt to move Thanksgiving a week earlier to allow for more Christmas shopping, and after his cousin finished giving him a hand job, fdr agreed. Eventually they moved Thanksgiving back. But the retailers got what they wanted, because over the next few decades, more and more people began their Christmas shopping the day after Thanksgiving. But the first time the day was called Black Friday
was in the nineteen sixties. It was actually coined by the Philadelphia Police Department because the day brought tons of traffic and chaos, and for shopping to cause chaos in Philadelphia, it has to really be chaos. I once set fire to a mannequin at a Tzara in Philadelphia, and they didn't even kick me out at the store. They just
threw it in the burnt mannequin pile. Sorry. It was in the nineteen eighties that Black Friday finally went nationwide, and it was all thanks to America's obsession with the adorable little vegetable human monster hybrids known as the Cabbage Patch Kid. I got this one for three thousand dollars and I had to get punched by a lot of grandmas to get it, but it was worth it. The toys were in such high demand that it caused literal riots across America. People fought their neighbors tooth and nail
to pay for some lettuce shaped plastic. But all the violence was worth it for that precious Christmas morning when their kids would open the box, see the Cabbage Patch Kid, and then play with the box. The Cabbage Patch Kids set the standard for all sorts of Black Friday crazes throughout the nineties, from furbies to Beanie babies, to tickle Me Elmos to countless other toys bought by newly divorced dads trying to buy their way into their kids Hearts.
By two thousand two, nearly three quarters of all shoppers were in stores over Black Friday weekend. It was paradise for people looking for deals and robbers looking for unguarded homes. Black Friday was so successful that stores started pushing the start time back from Friday morning to Friday at midnight, and then all the way back to Thanksgiving night it's self.
They called the new holiday Gray Thursday, as a tribute to the moral gray area of abandoning your family on Thanksgiving to choke out a stranger for an instant pot Oh, that's ready. And throughout this time, Black Friday doorbuster sales became more dangerous as consumers turned every big box store
into a big octagon arena. It got so bad than in two thousand eleven, you were statistically more likely to be injured in a Black Friday sale than from a shark attack, unless that shark is also at the Black Friday sale, and then it depends on whoever wants that blender more. You get it. But sadly the good times
and horrific injuries couldn't last forever. With the dawn of online shopping, Black Friday became less relevant and the newer, shinier two day primier holiday that took its place along came Cyber Monday, an easier way to score deals while avoiding the mobs that in person stores. Just another way technology has pulled us further apart. I mean, sure, it's more convenient, but think of what we lose when we no longer have that one on one air frior to
skull contact sad. Also, in recent years, retail employees have begun pushing back on so called holiday creek, which is a term for stores expanding their holiday shopping periods into Thanksgiving. Not what happens when you're weird cousin hits the egg not too hard and tries to go f DR on your underparts. But even as it's golden days are behind it, Black Friday is still an American institution, standing tall beside
Thanksgiving and the super Bowl and the Purge. And now that you know its history, don't forget to keep it in perspective. Sure, saving money is great, but this season isn't about fighting some stranger at a store. It's about gathering your family and fighting with them. So happy shopping season now, if you'll excuse me, I gotta start practicing for the big day. Hey, step away from that dicen.
You think I won't pull out this pen, Well, guess what tiktop mother imrectate tuned because when we come back, Jonathan Major's will be joining me right here on the show. You know what I miss it? Open back to the m show my guest tonight as an Emmy nominated actor who plays the first black aviator in Navy history in the new film Devotion, which will be exclusively in Theater's November. Please welcome Jonathan Major's. Welcome to the show. Sai, this is uh am. I am I holding these for you?
Am I? No? No, no, no goes it for You's it for me? I think I heard you've got two weeks left maybe and so you you brought me my flowers from the culture. Oh man, this is your flowers. And I heard the South Africa. Yeah, this is beautiful. Yeah, it's amazing. Yeah. No, no one else has brought me flowers. Man, this is uh wow. Had questions to grill you on, but now and we'll take it easy. Now, we'll just we'll just take it easy. No, We're welcome. It is
an absolute pleasure to have you here. I mean obviously for the new movie, but for everything that you've been doing. You know, you you you hopped on too many people's screens for the first time. Last Black Man in San Francisco amazing film that I think everybody should watch. You know, the way you carry a character, and obviously love of Country,
which you got your Emmy nomination for. Congratulations on that, you know, and and now and now in this film, you know, it's it's it's amazing to be playing a character that more people should know about because of what they represented. But to be playing the first black pilot in the Navy. You know, many people talk about how black service members were fighting a war on two fronts. They weren't just fighting against what was happening outside America,
they were fighting against what was happening inside America. And you, you portrayed in this from Talk Me Through the Wise, I know you're very intentional about why why this movie and why this character. Um, well, I play a super villain and I thought this was an opportunity to play a hero. I love that When I saw I'm from Texas, Dallas, Texas,
um came up, came up a certain way. Jesse Brown is uh from Mississippi and was the son of a sharecropper and somehow he made his way from those sharecropping fields to the sky and became not just a black naval aviator but the best black naval aviator. Um And I thought, Okay, we've got stories about King and Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman, and we don't have a story about this guy. And this is his handshake. This is the first time they're gonna say, Okay, this is this
is Jesse. This is Jesse, you know. And I wanted to be responsible for that, and uh, I also wanted to fly some planes. What did you go on from that experience that helped you in telling the story? Well, it was access. I mean, that was the whole thing that was That's Jesse's saying access. It's it's quite poetic. It's a metaphor in a way. You know, if you can, if you can touch the sky in your life in that way, you know you can pretty much do do anything.
Truly can you truly can? What I what I love. What I what I love noticing is how many times the parallels will be drawn between characters that that that great actors are playing and the lives that they themselves are living. I think you're no different. You know you you you're sending at a rate that everybody is enjoying.
You know you you you truly are you. You're flying from you know, from indie films, you know, to to to a show that was beloved on on on HBO and then now, as you said, you're gonna be in a Marvel movie. In Marvel movies plural. You know, it's it's it's the the opposite end of the spectrum. You know, it's it's so big. How do you hold onto the small that you love in acting? Because I know that
about you. You love the minute, you know. But at the same time we saw you and you know, when you're in Loki, that was one of the best surprises you. You made a pretty kick ass villain. Yeah. You blow it up, you blow it up. I mean, I just, I just I love acting. It's thank you bro for me. It's um, it's my way of it's my way of healing. Yeah, I mean, you you see a character, you go okay, it's like getting to know somebody, you know, you go okay, cool.
And I though I am you know, pretty antisocial. Ye, I do love people. It makes sense. Yeah, clapping for that. That person's cool. People. I love people, but we love people. We love peopul uh And the cool part about people that is really you know, we're all. We're all the same in a way. You know, I'm not gonna get on soapbox, but we really are. And older I get the more you know, rearing a kid and building a career, you go, you go, oh, he's the same. It's like
everybody's hurting, you know. And and there's something about you know, find just finding purpose. You know, all the all the homies talk about it. I mean Momightly talked about purpose. You know, Nipsey Hus talking about purpose. You know what I mean, um um man search for meaning. That whole book is about people surviving this hard time because of purpose, you know. And I feel quite fortunate that this is my purpose. I I look at somebody and go, okay,
tell me where it hurts. What's going on? Like, okay, cool? Whereas that hurt on me? And you try and you grow that way. I mean you can make some really great friends that way too. Wow, And you tell you tell amazing stories that way. You know hopefully that yeah, because it connects to what people are experiencing, whether it is the housing crisis in San Francisco, you know, whether it whether it is you know, people being forced out of where they live with it it is you know,
civil rights in America where you know? And I think I think you show that in everything. People are so excited to see you, not not just in in in Marvel films, but you know, everyone was shocked and amazed. Not just that the fact that you're going to be in Creed three Trade looks amazing right directed directed by Michael b Joining. I'm not gonna be starting across from him. But then the images came out of you on men's health. Yeah, it was definitely here we go because I think we
have the image here. Ye, why why are you doing this to us? I'm doing this for us. You realize that, you realize there are normal men out there. We're living our lives eating bread and then and then you do, what is your body fat percentage? Yet? Right now? Three point six? Three point six six? I feel like athletes are like five. So what do you what don't you eat? What do I not eat? Can you eat? I can't? I can? How is it that everybody who gets a
Marvel movie gets a six pack. What is happening there? Why is Disney not not releasing I want to know what this is? How many hours? What do you eat? Like? What is your life? Uh? I mean what is my life? Oh so I woke up this morning? No, I want to know what I'm talking about. Man, just trained, Man, I trained, I trained, probably to train two times a day. Um. I stay away from carbs, you know what I mean, unless you need the car's on the morning. That's a car you can put some you know what I mean.
It's pizza carbs. It's like someone's like you want to come to a party and you're like yeah, and then like it's a political I see the game. Okay, hope it was like I thought it was a hack. Well about this? Um, I ate shake shock the day before. That's a secret you see. Now this is something I can do. Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna incorporate this into Yeah. Yeah. If once you've once you've gotten yourself to a certain point. Oh no, the deep before, man, before before I let
you go. I remember the first time I saw you on the screen and I was like, this guy, I don't know how he's doing it, how he's making it so you sucked me into your will. I promise you not you just everyone knows that you're gonna be the biggest star anyone who's ever seen, and everyone's gonna be giving you the flowers. Thank you for being here, thank you for joining me on the show. Thank you for
creating what you creates. Congratulations and everything you do. Jonathan Major's everybody, I want to think a break, but we'll go right back after this. For ELM, I mean it's we'll not start up tonight. Thank you so much for tuning in before we go. Before we go, I just wanted to remind you please consider donating to Forgotten Harvest. They collect food surpluses from grocery stores, markets, restaurants, and caters and they delivered free of charge to emergency food
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