Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Trendsy Graham ah V pro life. I'm very pro life. Is he's a very pro life. Good for you, Lindsay good good winning message. I think he says it is, although I haven't seen it win anywhere yet anywhere. It doesn't seem to be actually be counter democratic. Um, I am jack, I'm back. That is my old he's been here. These are some things that are trending. Yeah, the Dali Lama is trending. Guy's always good for a laugh. What's one?
What's going on with him? What's dude? There's this fucking video of him where he's kissing like he's at some event, and like this young kid comes over and like gives him a kiss and then asked to like have his tongues, like suck my tongue, and it's the kid doesn't ask right, no, no, the I'm sorry, the Dali Lama is asking this of a child. He's kisses this boy on the lips and then ask him to suck his tongue. And now everyone's
just like whoa, I mean, here's it. This is like again, looks like religion when you get high up in a certain point you just fucking you have completely left earth and you are just allowed to do whatever the fuck you want. He put out like a really really weird apology that wasn't He's like, I'm sorry if that upset someone, right, yeah, yeah, non apology apology, Sorry if you were offended, because he's
got the religious leader thing. I also feel like you always see him hanging with like Hollywood, like at like a Goop launch party that that's probably not an exactly true, but like that's just the general vibes of like the DOLLI Logue always seems to be like in weird celebrity settings also, so it's just a strange stew of influences that I feel like can't be good for someone learning accountability. I mean, look, we're all the talk of like grooming
and shit, look at this video is fucking obscene. Like I don't, I don't, I don't know how he's trying to make it look like this kid is so uncomfortable and he's like sticking his tongue out. It's anyway, all I keep thinking about is how I watched that Nexium documentary and the Dali Lama was meeting with keeping hearing and I'm like, hold on, why the are you even giving him an audience? Um, but here we are, y'all. Super producer Brian said, he's on the flight lugs. I
could have believed that. Yeah, I mean again, that whole thing, just to reveal that it's like, yeah, powerful people, they have the capacity to be absolutely disgusting and vile. So it's like so unsetting, like for because people like the way the deference that's paid to him, and then you're like starting to see this and you're like, oh, I don't know how the fuck you square this at all, Like he's assaulting this kid, but he's like, I'm just teasing him, is what he said in the in his
like quote unquote apology. Yeah, anyway, it's really upsetting. Don't look at it if you don't have to not and I appreciate you. Just it's just enough to read the headline you like want to be sent plenty. I think I got it all right. So the GOP has a little problem. They've been firing up their base for decades being like we're gonna overturn Roe v Wade. Just wait, just you wait, We're gonna do it if you just
keep voting for us keep funding us. And then they did it, and it's wildly unpopular and it's losing them lots of elections. Yeah, recently Wisconsin, that's Supreme court race lost by ten fucking points in a place where that shit just does not happen. Well, I mean, if they had maybe had like I think a conservative could have won if their whole thing wasn't about being like yeah, and right now we've got a lawn the books that
predates the Civil War. Yeah, on abortion, that's not a winning message, and they tried to clean it up like in the build up to the election. It just wasn't enough. Because at the end of the day, it's clear even like Republicans aren't so like as a plurity and like, yeah, we should restrict people's right. So like, man, dude, let fucking people get abortions if they fucking want, because that's healthcare.
So one thing you've seen a lot of is like conservatives who have like really been panicked after what happened in Wisconsin. They're like, we gotta stay on this, Like we can't keep doing that making the same mistakes. They think our policies are extreme with pro life, we need to embrace Lindsay Graham's fifteen week ban and that's the way out of this. It's still a fucking ban, okay. And so I don't know why they think it's like, but it's it's kind of more humane. I'm just gonna
play that. He was on Fox News talking about like his cred as a pro life Republican, but also like goes on to say, just a bunch of lies and stuff from you know, like think tanks that are here to just vilify you know, gay people or people want abortions. Anyway, Lindsay Graham take it away, well, very pro life and being pro life is a winning message. Oh, I oppose late term abortions. I have a bill to set a national minimum standard of fifteen weeks. Fifty of the fifty
three European nations ban abortion at fifteen weeks. I have an exception for rape, insist in life of the mother. In Wisconsin, you had an eighteen forty statute that banned abortion pretty much across the board, and the Republican Party did not put an alternative on the table. If you're pro life, you need to explain what that means. And then he goes on and be like, I want to
protect as many babies as possible. Please completely gloss over the thing I've said about fifty of the fifty three European nations are like what because a thing that you don't realize is like, it's much easier to have an abortion in Europe for the most part. And then he also goes on to be like, if we do this, like have you know this other well worn line attack line of like tax funded abortion, like on demand or up to the moment of birth. Again, other complete fabrication
to kind of get people on board. But yeah, it's just it's interesting to see how much like a lot of pro life evangelicals and people who are like who are lobbying for that, how much they're freaking out right now because they're like, we're about to lose this abortion issue if the GOP doesn't know how to properly message it. But you're like, the end, at the end of the day, the message is you have no control over your own
fucking body. Yes, that's that's kind of the core of your It's not so much you want to dial that back body autonomy, it's that anyway. So they continue to scream at full voice in a panic and they're like, we gotta get behind Lindsay Graham's one, Lindsay Grant. The thesis seems to be of the Lindsay Graham plan seems to be have we tried lying? Have we tried just lying about what we actually want? Absolutely? Yeah, absolutely, And he's like, I'm trying to like phrase it. It's like
we're gonna We're gonna be like Europe. You know. It's like, no, dude, just can let it go. But again, it's just wild to see how how cynical they are in certain policies where you know, they know what they're doing, what they're trying to get after, and this one is like one of those like the dog caught the car kind of moments, or like it was great to just ring that bell and see who came to feed on it. But then
once it happens and you're like, oh shit, it's a loser. Yeah, sho shows you that some things might work better, as you know, in the rhetorical sense than the I R L sense. Yeah, for them at least, it's also not good because it's winning Democrats elections without Democrats actually having to do anything for the people that they represent. They
love that. Yeah, it's like what if we like because this is the one time they're like, what if we correct the status quo, like and bring it back to the status quo rather than like blowing it up in which case like that, I don't know about about that. Yeah. Um, Louisville is trending because unfortunately it is the site of another mass shooting. Um. And this is yet another instance
where a governor has a personal relationship with victims. Yeah, so some people are speculating this might mean that more people are expelled from the state legislature. You know, Christ,
we could see some action at some point. No. Yeah, it's super bleak, as all the mass shooting stories are, because it feels like we've it's just one of those issues that stays bad, stares us in the face, and the majority is pretty on board with doing something about it, but systemic political problems cause it to just be a fucking stalemate. I mean it's you know, a lot of this stat's been going around. This would this would be the one hundred forty six mass shooting in one hundred days,
like one hundred calendar days of this year. Yeah, and like again, like even with the shooting in Tennessee, the governor wouldn't use the word gun in the aftermath of it, even though he even said, I was, oh, yeah, my wife was gonna have dinner with the principle of that school that night. And then you have there was a projectile event that occurred there, Yeah, a dynamic projectile event
with high velocity dynamic projectiles. And then Governor Andy Basher he was you know, he got choked up talking about he said, I have a very close friend that didn't make it today. And I'm curious. I mean, he's a Democrat, so I don't think he's going to be less like. I mean, he'll talk about gun control, but I'm curious when the political will lines up with what most Americans are feeling that they just like everywhere feels so fucking unsafe when you have all these guns everywhere, and the
solution is always just like to shrug it off. Yeah, there's a shooting in Los Angeles recently, and you know, massive like helicopter swooping all over the place, and it was somebody picking up their gun accidentally firing and it like went through the wall and hit somebody in apartment next door. But it's just you know, the presence of guns. Yes,
fucking that's all it takes. I remember when I like and when I was growing up, I had friends who whose family has had guns, you know, and like that was my first interaction to seeing like guns, Like like someone's parents had guns or whatever and they were responsible gun ors or whatever. But I remember going home and asking my dad, I'm like, why don't we have guns? And he's like, we'll never have a gun in this house. And I was like, but why, Like what about for protection?
And he always says, like, you have guns, you have gun problems. That's what comes with it. And to him, it was easier for him to just have like a bat, you know what I mean by the bed and just go like that's what we'll use. But it's yeah, it's it's really unfortunate. I mean, I know, I've a friend of mine growing up, like his high school classmate tragically like ended up accidentally killing his sister because he like thought he was a little gangster type dude and he
was playing with a gun in his room. It went
through the wall and hit his sister. And yeah, just like just the fucking presence of them already opens it up to so much fucking destruction, and then on top of it to now see like so wild to see all these younger kids like gen Z who grow up only knowing that school shootings are a possibility, that they're now feeling like they're absolutely they're completely being unheard, that they're like, I don't want to have like the stress of being in a mass shooting when I just want
to go to school. That they're pulling up in full force to like really advocate for themselves, And I feel so bad that these young people have to do that when it's such a fucking clear issue and all you need are the people who legislate to fucking just do something that resembles, you know, action. Why do we think they're so unhappy? Do we think it's their phones? More on this more than that later? Why are their hair green? Like what? No? There they only know violence like that,
that that's a reality. I'm I look at my own privilege of being like fucking Columbine happened when I was in eighth grade, right, and then I was out of high school by two thousand and three, When I mean there were mass shootings here and there, but not to the place that it is now, And like it's all so fucking like you can see all the interconnectedness of it, all of like the lack of you know, ability to like support people who might actually need mental health support,
or our ability to like wrangle with domestic abusers who have access to guns and using the second amendments like well, that's his right to be like a violent person, or this person, that's their right to be a violent person and have firearms. Only there was some legislation that had worked in the past, such as an assault weapon ban that yeah, yeah, all right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, And we're back, and so is the box office bafo PO for the Super Mario Brothers movie.
Who um, people can boffing it up? Yeah, an air I guess did pretty well for uh what people were expecting. But Super Mario Brothers the story, I mean it made like three hundred million dollars world crazy. I mean, this is one of the most recognizable video game characters. And aside from my own anger at Chris Pratt's voice, uh, many people were able to overcome that. Yeah, the trailer, they did a nice job with the trailer. I haven't I haven't seen the movie. But other than his voice
being like let's go. Sorry, let's go, Let's go. Yeah. I think the best thing to come out of Air though, is the new round of Ben Affleck speaking Spanish videos. Is there a new round of those? Oh my boy, just take a look at this. He's Ben Affleck is saying Jack and the story Michael Jordan, Michael Jordan, Istan magnify. No, no, I'm actor Mundo. It's Michael Jordan. It is out here. There was there was one where he went on, I think on a Spanish like sports show and they were
talking about like, oh, look, you're from Boston. What do you think about? Like, uh, you know, are you like Celtics reds Just I just want to hear him him, like like getting down on sports talk to Celtics lost, Red Sox lost Patriots. So my man is fucking checked in. I hear he's like he's he's a real polyglot. Someone was saying, he I think he also speaks Arabic or like knows a bit of Arabic as well. Okay, Ben? Yeah, So anyway, so that was again that was my favorite
part takeaway from air. Yeah, it's like, yo, Ben Affleck, just drop him in. He's hanging with the boys. It's always interesting. Like obviously the Super Mario Brothers returns are like, Okay, that's astronomical. That's like an event. That movie clearly connected the Air one is like it made twenty million dollars. Um. I don't know, maybe'll like go on to like build some steam, but I could have seen like the reaction
to that going either way. But even the reaction to Air is like makes me feel gross in the same way the movie does that. It's like the underdog tail of the marketing scheme. Like this quote from I Think It's Deadline is like, kudos to Amazon's marketing and publicity team. Are rated adult dramas haven't been easy to find audiences, and getting Air to twenty million is a great feat the movie buy and for people who respect the hell out of marketing, right right, seriously, Hey, oh man, a
marketing triumph, and that's what we're looking for. We're looking for those feel good stories. It makes feel good about America marketers winning Biden twenty twenty four. Yeah, the story nobody's been waiting for. But it's kind of the thing that well, when you'll hear about it, when we talk about the no Labels Party in tomorrow's episode. But it's funny.
And when the No Labels Party talks about why they think a third party ticket could win, it's because they're like sixty four percent of Democrats don't want Biden to run and sixty one percent of Republicans don't want Trump to run. Yeah, And it's what's funny is both sides are saying they're not going far enough in their respective directions, right like, and we got to be in the middle. It's like, no, you're not. You're not understanding why they don't.
But he's saying Biden, like when he was asked about, you know, if he's gonna what the deal is, he's like, he's like, yeah, I'm planning on it. He's like, but I'm quote not prepared to announce quite yet. But one thing that is coming into focus is his digital strategy, his media strategy, because it sounds like he's just going to go with kind of what was happening with like his COVID stuff is like hire an army of digital influencers to counteract Trump's massive media following. So he's going
He's going straight for the hearts of the youngs. And how did that work with COVID. I don't I don't remember that that being I mean, I think the most you remember is like Olivia Rodrigo went to the White Okay, you know what I meant it, and it was like one of those moments. But the way they look at it too is they're gonna have digital staffers now on the campaign or something like that, where some of these
influencers will have like a line to the White House apparently. Uh. And then but in the more like camp painway, it's more like when he's doing a campaign, stop and there's an influencer that's local and can actually get like get some turnout through that, like collaborating with them to get more people to show up to hear the old man goal? Where am I? What day is it? Who am I? My popcorn? Where's it? There's popcorn? I smell popcorn. I having a stroke. I don't know. I gotta go. How
do you open? Pdf? Jack is still the best understand Joe Biden didn't eating that ice cream? So at b how do you open pdf? Jack does not understand, doesn't care to understand. It seems to be the best thing he has going for him when it comes to digital marketing. But maybe one day we'll be watching This is my hope for America. One day we'll be watching an underdog tale about the digital marketing team that A Biden elected
in twenty twenty four. You know, all right, Well, those are the things that are trending on Monday, April tenth. You're back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourself, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye bye,