Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of a trend through the Zach guest on a trend with nos like, it's been good to be out of the trends. Oh, that is courtesy of that song being in my head ever since Miles said.
That Neil Young banger dude.
But we all were thinking that that is by Neil Young.
Somebody else pointed out they were like, I actually always thought it was by America, which was a song that Neil Young was the lead singer of which I also thought. That was like how that mistake worked its way through my brain. Also, I was like, that's a Neil Young song. Oh it's by America. I didn't know Neil Young was in a song called America. That guy's a liar. He's actually Canadian anyways.
He because of GTA San Andreas that I first heard that song to begin with. That was that really? Yeah? Yeah, that's the first time I heard it was on one of the radio stations on Grand Theft.
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Are you pick? He's a different Yeah? Yeah, yeah, he's plugged into his Zoom Report.
Okay, sorry, leave it. Brian people need to oh shit right, oh damn. Yeah.
So the thing is, you know how Stephen Tyler likes to have a lot of scar scarbs wrapped around his mic I like to have a lot of loose SLRs.
Exlrs xlrs. I call him SLRs.
We're talking about a camera at that point, a single lens re.
I like to have single lens reflex cameras wrapped around my mic. Stand All right, Hey, I'm Jack. That's Miles and uh these are It's Wednesday, April twenty fourth, four two four two four yea four too far, tip hoar, and these are some of the things that are trending on fire tip tip. TikTok is banned. Nice try, assholes, but we're not calling for it.
Ban they shed you are TikTok here by banish it from the phones of our children, so that they may not disagree with us anymore.
It's the it's just make it. This is the creating all these status quo haters. I don't know what the fuck's going on with this TikTok machine. How are they doing it? It surely can't be a symptom of the system.
It's no.
But yeah, like so we talked about how the aid package was signed for aid for Israel Ukraine and then like people in the Allies in the Indo Pacific region. But along with that was the ban on.
TikTok ninety five billies.
Yeah yeah, and like in there, look it now has what they call conveniently has a new timeline that delays the ban until after the election, just in case that's gonna you know, energize younger voters. Again, well, it's not gonna happen until after and then plus there's are like
these possibilities of extension. The thing is, though this was always talked about being like it's going to be litigated in court, there's no way that they're just gonna be like okay, yeah, because you decided we will sell to another company.
Yeah.
So the TikTok CEO came out and was like we're pretty confident that this is unconstitutional. Quote, the facts and the constitution are on our side, and we expect to prevail. Which apparently last year Montana tried to ban TikTok getting out there. Hell yeah, Montana, Hell hell yeah, brother man. But the law was blocked by a judge who said that the government did not successfully show that their bill
was constitutionally permissible, whatever the fuck that means. Uh, And the judge justimated that it had more to do with targeting China than with protecting Montana consumers.
So similar similar vibes here, Yes, bill too, based on the hearings that we still.
Sounds like a Manchurian candidate. To me, sounds like the judge of Montana as a communist, as Montana judges are wont to be. So anyways, it's an unpopular policy that I'm just curious, like what is actually going on behind the scenes. Is he getting the pressure from the Pentagon? Is he getting it from Mark Zuckerberg?
Well, we talked about it, like when it first happened. There's a tremendous lobbying effort from American tech companies because you can tell. Look they're all chasing tick Yeah, like the what happened to Instagram? They're like, we can we have TikTok at home. It's called reels and just ignore the TikTok watermarks you see on your reels videos because it's people aren't just like transposing them from one platform to the other. And yeah, it's about a protecting American
tech interests American. Yeah, and you get you get a good dose of sinophobia and being like, well, China's looking at like, you know, who knows what their government's doing, who knows what our government is doing with our data? Okay, can you answer me that? And if it's about the data, we said, if it's about the data protection, why aren't you coming after Why aren't you cleaning up your own house first? Why aren't we talking about Twitter or Facebook
and all that shit. So there's a lot wrapped up into it. And then obviously with the you know, war in Gaza kicking off, that led to like an explosion of a lot of pro Palestinian sentiment. And then that also you started to see more politicians act as if there's like some massive syop going on with people that were somehow offended at the imagery of suffering innocent people.
China made me worried about the death of innocent people, and I will never forgive them for it.
Yeah, exactly, brainwashed me.
There's so much, so much in there. But yeah, it's like it's just like one of those purely it's like so transparently flawed. When you're like, dude, if you really gave a fuck, you'd do this, you'd go after the fucking companies that more Americans are actually using. And I get that a ton of young people use TikTok, but like, let's not pretend this is about data privacy when you've done fuck call to really do anything to shore up that kind of topic for consumers.
Yeah, and you know, tech companies are the number one spenders when it comes to lobbying efforts, so or they were fairly recently, they're.
They're up there at the very least. Yeah, let's talk.
About the London Marathon wine guy shoe table twenty five wines while completing the raith.
Yeah, at every fucking mile, Yeah, after every mile completed, he would be offered a glass of wine where he would challenge himself to identify not just the fucking like the grape, but the region and the fucking year. Yeah, and he wasn't like he got a few like spot On and other ones generally, right, So like enough for you, you're like, oh, yeah, that is a thing you can do with your mouth is learn how to taste the different old grapes juice.
Mixed in with presumably a lot of gatorade. That he was like drinking in between the.
Imagine it's all like a fedrin Like he's just like doping.
He's like, yeah, let me.
Try this one.
Yeah yeah, wait, and.
I'm going to get this blood transfusion to get some more some oxygen into my bloodstream.
But yeah, he did seem to be getting happier as the race went along. Yeah, so maybe this is going to be a new training method. I've I've run marathons. I've gone and supported. I've run, yeah, a couple of marathons. Woll gone and supported while she was running marathons.
I've seen the wife do the marathons recently. When was the last time you ran a marathon? Uh?
I ran one when we were about to have so, I guess twenty sixteen.
I ran weird before we started working out, okay, cool, yeah yeah yeah, yeh yeh. I ran a marathon too into like twenty fourteen, probably before we met.
Yeah, so you probably didn't hear about it.
You didn't hear about it. I actually won the La Marathon, Like I ran it over two hours.
I ran it, man, I said to like this guy stopped every mile to sample wine. I took a stop every mile to take a ship I had a real tough time and at the time I ran the La Marathon, it was like it's called the Trots. I won't dig into it too much, but yeah, it was not fun. Wow, Chicago Marathon, I had a blast. I had a blast in two literally literally metaphorically I had I did not metaphorically.
I had a fun time o the Chicago Marathon. But yeah, drinking and marathon running go together more than I would have expected before I got to know marathons.
They they like to have a good time out there.
Yeah, yeah, but like yeah, and I was like when I first saw it, I was like, this guy is so smug. And then I saw that he was doing it to like raise money for like this hospice charity like like that. His mom was like at and I was like, oh, there's there's some heart to this story. Wine woa line. You raised thirteen thousand hounds. Good for you and good for you, and also you get to flex your wine mouth skilled.
It seems like genuinely like buzzed. As the thing went along. At first, I was like, Okay, guys, we're gonna just believe everything. We're gonna believe that because he's drinking something that's that color that it must be wine because it's running out of a wine glass.
Twenty five of them.
Yeah, he just kept.
Going, and he did seem to be like getting a little drunker as the as the race went along, which I'm told is not typically how marathons work. You get more and more miserable.
And yeah, but again he was just sort of like, Hey, it helped to have the promise of a nice glass of wine at the end of every mile.
So this guy, for you, likes wine. It's nice to see somebody who liked something this much.
Yeah, you know.
Yeah, And like at first I was like, ah, whatever about this? I mean, like I because I saw the video, and I was again because I'm so I'm like the furthest thing from understanding wine that like I get hostile because I'm ignorant about it. I'm got a fuck it, you know what I mean. But then you know he's he's he's doing it for his mother and the people that took care of her at the end of her life. So sip your wine.
He really might not gotten away with this without that.
Like no, like the two most like annoying things for like ways people to like be smug and superior is running a marathon and being like a wine expert. Combined the two is like, oh, fuck you.
Have offset that with mother and hospice. And then they're like, ah.
It's like people are like booing him by the end, fuck you, fuck you.
Elite piece of ship. Yeah no my mother.
Oh okay, all right, fine, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
And we're back.
And George said, I didn't know he was staging a comeback.
Yeah, we purposefully, or at least I didn't bother mentioning because I'm like, we've given We've given this fucking freak enough oxygen. But I'm glad we're coming back to the end of this. I feel justified because he was like, I'm coming back and I'm running against this Republican. I'm getting my seat back. And he's like and the reason. And he's like, and I'm not a scammer and I'm not taking big donor money like it's gonna be real legit funds.
Bernie Sanders except a Republican discrossed.
Yeah.
So he has recently announced that he won't in fact be running for Congress against current Republican Congressman Nick Lalatta after all, because he doesn't want to quote split the ticket and be responsible for handing the house to Democrats.
Oh, is that what happened?
No, Actually, it might actually have to do with the fact that his campaign has raised day total of let me see if I got this right, zero dollars.
Oh, coco coco.
Zero is wild's. Yeah, that's a very low number.
That's like, that's a that's like the most violent zero every Yeah, when you're like, dude, I raise you couldn't even fucking ask just a random a rando on the street for like a fucking buck. At least you could say, like I raised a dollar. Yeah, but zero is like, ain't nobody fucking with you?
George?
I get it, and you you we're gonna be the petty congress person and we're doing your cameos, but like, let's keep it real, George. You also took a fucking plea deal in your fraud trial, which may also be reason why you can't quite campaign because you have a trial that you need to attend.
Hey, that doesn't stopped some of our greatest politicians from no continuing on.
And that's why No, he doesn't. He's not made he's not. He doesn't have the right stuff.
Man.
Yeah, his twenty twenty two campaign still has tons of debt.
It's six thousand dollar.
I was owed to his campaign treasure, who was still somehow his campaign treasure in this comeback bit. Uh, just a person who's like, nah, he's good for it. Check if that's a real person. Could you imagine?
It's like and this Jason D. Bowles character, he's not even a real person.
Yeah.
You touch them and their head rolls off. It's just a yeah, it's like a mask on her.
You weren't there that day when we were talking about it on trends, But like the woman who brought her dead uncle to the bank to get a loan in Rio in Brazil, and she wheeled in a corpse, like fresh off of death and like, yeah, he would like to apply for a loan please, And they're like, yo, his head is falling back in a way I've never seen anybody alive do it. It was. She was like holding his hand to be like come on, now, sign
the agreement, and she was like I'm sorry, he's like tired. Yeah, I supposed he didn't do that.
That happened in New York also a number of years ago, I was working at correct that was.
The story we covered a weekend at Bernie's loan applic Weekend at Bernie's loan Application. Yeah did they? I think the thing is that's vital. They gotta be wearing really thick dark sunglasses. Yeah, you can't just put somebody who looks like a dead body.
Wait, they didn't have sunglasses on, and.
No real it was just just like gray eyes, yes, like half open and I mean like I saw the blurred video because like obviously like we don't need to see all that, but there's a moment where like she like goes to like grab something from the bank person and she forgets to support the head and it just goes like flops. It was bad.
It was bad. That's all. That's a lot to deal with.
Yeah, but yeah, weekend at Bernie's in reality like that, I think that goes for like that's the movie premise that goes from like most fun in theory and movie form.
To like secretion to deal with.
Yes, no way, you can't like laugh off fucking around like Marionette a corpse.
I'm going to desecrate my loved one's corpse because I need money really bad?
Is that cool? Yeah?
Yeah, I guess a bigger critique on our world than anything.
But yeah, hey, speaking of needing money really bad, this is something I guess this was always a possibility, but so airlines will now be required to give automatic cash refunds for canceled and delayed flights that had never occurred. Like the idea that if a flight is delayed for too long that you would get money back had never occurred to me.
No, well, yeah, because we're so used to the abuse that you're like yeah, and then you just kind of tell them, Okay. I guess I'll just wait to see my family. Yes, and I will like it, as you said, and I yes, and I will like it. I am liking it. Thank you, thank you.
Like John Mullaney has that bit about like how badly he would like the let people treat him before he was married, and it's.
Like, okay, you're big, aren't you.
Yes, go over here, now go over there.
Okay.
Yeah, Like that's that is exactly how I let the airlines treat me. And apparently so, the Biden administration issued final rules Wednesday to require airlines to automatically issue cash refunds. For things like delayed flights and to better disclose fees for baggage or canceling reservation. Yeah, but I think it's great.
It's just like how they trick us.
Isn't that three hours pass considered now a massive enough delay for a domestic flight, six hours for international flights, And they can still be like, well, we can give you a flight credit, but consumers can reject the offer.
You can reject the offer. I know, actually no, thanks.
It's like it's like it's like, yeah, we have like the same deference or just here to like of airline policies like we do the police. Like I don't know if you can say that to a cop. Shit, it's not get trouble with the air I'm pretty sure my First Amendment rights protect don't fucking find out. Don't fucking find out. Just fucking go with bro go with the fucking abuse. Man can't do anything. I mean, yeah, good, a bunch of small victories too, because also working with
the FTC. Now there's also like the non compete bullshit. It's fucking gone.
Fuck is this guy doing over here?
Hey, he's doing everything but calling for an immediate ceasefire. Doing everything can and everything else.
But these are one for them, one for us.
These are great, Joe Biden, these are great. I like to hear that you're bringing also back, like the over the ability for people to have like log overtime in certain jobs.
Great.
You love to hear it. But there's also other things that we can also add to this too. And but hey, man, when one day at a time, man, I think you'll come around maybe hold hopefully before the I don't know, I don't know if you will. I hope you do. Please fucking please, please, sir.
Owen Wilson was trending this. Now I know me too.
That's really like, it's been a while, it's been a while.
Yeah, it's been a wow.
There, it's been a wow, it's been a while. My stomach the other day literally reminded me of Owen Wilson. I for some reason, I had a protein like smoothie before bed, and when I woke up in the morning when my stomach, yeah, well I had worked out and then like I was like, oh, I should like have
some protein. Uh and when when like when my stomach woke me up in the morning, I was like wow, wow, Like it was really just fucking me up, but Owen Wilson was trending because there So there's apparently an unfinished O. J. Simpson satirical thriller called The Juice Huh, which there's already a movie called Juice Idiots. But that's the only dumb thing about this project. It suggests that OJ might have
been innocent. It was going to be produced by Brett Rattner, who presumably has a vested interest in stories that tried to exonerate famous abusers.
For Wow.
So, according to the director of this terrible project, he met with Owen Wilson for the lead role of a real life attorney named Douglas McCann who got sucked into various conspiracy theories during simpsons nineteen ninety five criminal trial. And this was a serious enough film that they offered him at the at the end of the meal, they offered Owen Wilson twelve million dollars at the end of the lunch, and he got up and said, do you think I'm going to take the lead role in a
movie about how OJ didn't do it? You gotta be kidding me, man, Wow, Why I'm gonna take a back that.
Book presupposes is maybe it didn't.
Oh man, well, good, good for you, Owen Wilson. But you're the wrong side of history because OJ didn't do that shit.
Man. Come on with the wrong side.
Man, you fucked up, Owen, Come on, acknowledge the fact that it was to make good for Rodney King at the very least, you know, that's what.
We'll allow it. We'll allow it.
We allow murder here all right.
Those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday, April twenty fourth. We're back tomorrow with the who last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, behind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow.
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