TODAY: Alex vents about Teamsters president Sean O'Brien's most recent Prager U Grandpa arc and we try to figure out why a labor leader would spend this opportune moment podcasting with celebrities and criticizing pro-labor dems. ALSO: Trump's approval numbers sink--even among young men--as people are reminded once again what a Trump presidency looks like. MAGA voters somehow see this as an opportunity for a third term. FINALLY: Despicable feminist Greta Gerwig weighs casting an iconic actor to play Aslan is her Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe reboot, and a jewish conservative AM radio host bursts a blood vessel thinking about how the Christ he doesn't believe in has been defiled. Get a bonus episode every week by signing up at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult for only $5/month Music: Iron Lung - Perfect Ending
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Speaking of enemies here, Tony, gosh, I just love all the things my union president is doing.
Oh no, the tone you said that in.
Did you see Sean O 'Brien, president of the Teamsters, most recent tweet?
Well, now it's not his most recent tweet.
His most recent tweet is his podcast with a police commissioner or something who claims to have been hate-crimed, judging by the link.
I'm not exactly sure.
I really don't have time to listen to Sean O 'Brien's podcast, so who could know?
But it does sound like that police chief was targeted for...
Probably being too law and order-like.
See, the real problem with that is that hate crimes against police chiefs are at an all-time low, so it's not a good time to make stuff up like that.
We really need to get those numbers up, and if people think it's happening, they're going to think someone else is taking care of it for them.
You know, and so we can't have that false narrative around.
It really is a symbiotic relationship between the people who do hate crimes against the police and then the police who get to benefit.
Yeah.
One of the few classes of people that can actually benefit from being a victim.
It's not just from being a victim.
They have the union and the monopoly on violence behind them, but they can also turn their victimhood into cool tanks and stuff.
I don't know another race that gets tanks for being a victim.
Not yet.
We're working on it, though.
It's the only demographic that they can say that their feelings were hurt and they get millions more dollars.
They don't just get ridiculed and actually have the rights taken away from them.
Yeah, like I stepped off a curb wrong while I was trying to swing at an unarmed Palestinian protester.
Can I please have $245,000 a year for the rest of my life?
Yeah, I tweaked my name.
And your mayor, your Democratic mayor, is like, we weren't giving you that already?
Absolutely.
I am so sorry.
We'll do back pay, too.
No, the tweet from Sean O 'Brien, again, my Teamsters president that I'm talking about, is he reposted a New York Post article of Bernie Sanders and AOC.
You know, they're doing this anti-oligarchy tour.
They're going around saying how bad all these oligarchs are.
And yet, Tony, and yet...
They're flying on a plane.
The audacity.
They should be riding bikes.
They should be running from town to town.
Yeah, they should be rollerblading because they're gay for doing this in the first place.
I just immediately pictured Bernie Sanders in the speed skates and full lycra tucked.
Have you seen the guys train on the street like that?
He's got the long helmet that looks like a xenomorph.
Doing the arm swing thing they do?
Yeah, as a communist, he probably could sync up with a speed skating team of radical leftists and they would all be on each other's cycle.
They would all be skating in lockstep.
The fascist rollerblades, like a pin to your neck.
Kicking down your door with cute retro roller skates.
The only thing that's scarier than boot stomps is the boot stomp followed by the bearing roll, and you know they're moving faster than you are.
Yeah, instead of the thud of the jack boot, it's the thud of the fruit boot.
So Sean O 'Brien's all in on calling Bernie Sanders and AOC hypocrites or limousine liberals or something because...
He writes his own caption.
He did the clickbait podcaster thing of writing out his own caption for this New York Post article, and his caption reads, Socialists AOC, Bernie Sanders,
caught on video exiting $15,000 per hour private jet to attend, quote, fighting oligarchy rally.
Well, it's right there.
Before we get into the substance of it, I want to highlight the weird clickbait headline he wrote for this.
Did he even write this or did his social media manager turn this out?
I think he gave him a guideline.
I think he was like, hey, make sure you call him socialist.
Talk about the jet.
And then they handled the rest.
It's just like, what are you doing, man?
I have plenty of faults with AOC and with Bernie Sanders.
It's namely their endorsement of the foreign policy killing machine and then also their unwillingness to meaningfully challenge the Democratic Party.
I'd say that those two are my biggest issues with them.
It's not that...
As politicians on a tour, they need to get to places on that tour.
That's just politician shit.
If I had my way, no politician would be able to fly private.
We'd have a robust enough public transportation system that the private jet industry could be successfully banned from this earth.
But we don't have that.
You're already talking about bourgeois politicians.
You're already talking about a bourgeois electoral system.
There's a far more fundamental critique of their existence as senators and house members than there is of the transportation they use.
To actually critique the people in power in this country.
Yeah.
If anything, they should be obligated to fly at least business, so they have to be amongst their constituents.
They should have to fly in business, and they have to have to fly in the middle seat.
Yeah, exactly.
As populist Democrats, they're actually pitching this message towards people who make $500,000 a year instead of $10 million.
Exactly.
Yeah, no, it's extremely funny to level this criticism against Bernie Sanders, who's infamous for flying coach.
Like, how many photos are there of Bernie Sanders, like, disheveled Bernie Sanders in an aisle seat next to, like, somebody who recognizes him, you know?
That was the meme about Bernie Sanders, is that he was taking, you know, normal flights.
Yeah, just this...
Sean O 'Brien is like...
I just...
Sorry.
I don't want to make assertions on what is going on in somebody else's head.
This is somebody that I voted for as president.
This is somebody that I...
I appreciate the work he did on the contract he got for us.
We obviously helped, but the contract that we got, I thought it was a good contract.
Other people disagree, but I thought it was a good contract.
And then everything he's done since then has been extremely confusing to me.
Yes.
His support, tacit support for Trump.
And I'm not even talking about going to the RNC, although that obviously appears to be supportive of the Republicans, despite what he said while he was there.
I'm talking about his work with the Trump administration on their labor secretary.
I'm talking about his silence in the face of firing tens of thousands.
Of public sector union workers attacks on the NLRB.
Sean O 'Brien's silence and refusal to confront the people doing this is, in my mind, can only be explained by a couple things.
One, he is satisfied with what he's done for Teamsters and where Teamsters workers Are at in general and doesn't think it would be worth it to challenge an administration because maybe he's worried about what this administration could really do when it comes to fighting against labor rights and fighting against organized labor in general.
Theoretically, we're still trying to create new Teamsters.
Maybe he's worried that Trump could meaningfully impact our ability to get new Teamsters, but the thing that butts up against that in my mind, the reason I'm confused is because I don't know Sean O 'Brien personally.
I've met him at a rally, but I don't know him personally, but the way he won...
He won as a reform candidate.
He won as a candidate who was willing to confront the bosses, who was willing to use class politics to exert power over the company,
over the bosses, the people in control.
And that is, that seems to be gone.
That, that, that attitude now seems to be gone.
And it's,
He seems like a guy who wants to make something of himself.
He seems like a guy who is concerned with his legacy, who's concerned with his image, who maybe has some ambitions.
Right now, I'm looking at our moment in time where we couldn't Have, like, a more obviously oligarchical political system.
A system where the billionaires and millionaires have the control that they do.
Like, I don't know.
Not since, like, the 30s, I think, have we seen the system in this, like, lopsided of a shape.
The moment, in my mind, for...
Working people to do something and have massive support seems to be right now.
And so I don't know why a guy who seems to be ambitious seems to want to fight or at least comfortable miming, mimicking fighting, using the language, using the symbolism.
Why he's not willing to pick this fight.
Why he's not willing to fight what could be a historic movement.
Truly.
And so when I see that, I'm just like, do they have something on him?
Again, you don't want to speculate, but I'm just like, this is like a huge bag fumble.
For him, even in the most cynical ways of looking at this, if he's just self-interested or whatever, it seems like he's giving up leading a working-class movement of hundreds of thousands of Teamsters, not to mention everybody else who would join in,
all the other unions and all the other workers who don't have a union but know that unions are good.
He seems to be...
Giving that up to settle for being a podcaster.
For being somebody who gets to talk to Dana White once a week.
Or an aggrieved sheriff on his pod.
What are you doing?
I am so confused by this guy.
And the last thing I'll say about this is I hope it's worth it, bro.
I can't know why you're doing it.
I'm not going to...
Pretend I do know why you're doing it.
But I hope you just love podcasting enough to where you can do it full-time and be satisfied because we're going to fucking vote you out.
So many people are mad at him right now just because they think he supports Trump in general.
Just because they think he supports...
The Republicans in general.
I didn't see this much backlash against fucking Hoffa that we voted out.
Hoffa Jr. that we voted out for Sean.
It's not looking good for you, man.
And I don't know why he's doing this sub-PragerU smug grandpa posting instead of Doing something historic.
Well, yeah.
I think it sucks.
I think you said he has ambitions, but I think they're misguided.
I think that the most glaring evidence is the fact that he decided to start a podcast.
I think that the next person you have in, it should be in their contract.
They cannot start a podcast.
Yeah, absolutely.
We will change that at the convention.
We will change the Teamsters Constitution.
No podcaster.
Only for leadership.
Because leadership, it is a conflict of interest.
Yeah, but it...
Well, I mean, I have been told I'm something of an informal, de facto leader among men and women and non-binary pals.
That's true.
So we'll have to see if that counts.
I'm just going to suck when you have to quit your job.
But, yeah, it's...
I'll quit being a teamster so I can keep podcasting.
Hey, follow in Sean O 'Brien's footsteps, you know?
Yeah, it sucks.
A bit of it does feel like he sees the success of these podcasting grifters and is like, well, that might be an easier career.
And it's like, it sucks.
It sucks so bad.
Yeah, man.
Just like giving up actual power to be like a D-level pundit.
I don't fucking get it.
Maybe he has aspirations for office or something like that, which again, giving up real power to be essentially somebody who's going to rubber stamp whatever lobby or industry rights for you to rubber stamp.
Yeah, so I don't know.
Teamsters, just recently, especially Sean O 'Brien has been pushing this logo, this branding, Teamsters versus everybody.
And I think it's like a riff on some other clothing slogan.
It's like a sports thing.
I know a lot of sports embrace that.
Boston versus everybody.
Yeah, it's just like...
Okay, yeah.
So maybe that's where it's from.
That doesn't make sense for a union, man.
Not only does it not make sense for a union, it also seems to be...
O 'Brien versus everybody, except the oligarchs.
Except Elon Musk and Dana White.
Like, anti-union fuckers.
Actual union busters is who this guy is sitting on the sidelines to talk to.
Dana White is somebody who has been under a lot of scrutiny for the way he's been paying his workers, his fighters, and the lack of rights that a lot of them have and how you really have to be He's a union buster.
He literally has prevented the UFC from unionizing.
It's insane to have him on.
It's pretty fucking gross.
It's funny because...
Not to mention the hitting his wife.
That part too.
That shirt should say Teamsters for everybody.
That's what it should say.
To be versus everybody.
And if anything, it should be like...
Teamsters versus the oppressors, the big government, you know, whatever.
Anything but everybody.
Everybody's just not the right message.
Teamsters versus the bosses.
That's literally who you're against.
Teamsters versus the bosses.
Okay, yeah.
And you just had to get that off my chest.
I don't know.
I'm sick of this guy's shit.
He's fucking annoying as hell.
Yeah.
And I waited a long time to And this is like the final straw.
I can tolerate him going to the RNC and possibly speaking truth to power.
I cannot tolerate PragerU TPUSA grandpa posting.
That is beyond the fucking pale.
You've reached no man's land.
It's time to retire.
retire.
Okay, moving on.
Okay, you know, there's a lot of bad news out there, right, Tony?
Oh yeah, there's a lot of terrible news.
Yeah, and so it's just nice every once in a while to focus on the positives, focus on, you know, things that are going right.
And by that, I mean things are going very wrong for Donald Trump and his administration because he is currently underwater in the polls with just about fucking everybody.
It seems like everybody hates him, which is crazy because I thought everybody loved Trump and everybody just like they need a refresher every four years apparently about how much Trump sucks ass.
Yeah.
This new Harvard poll, Trump is like underwater with young men.
The people who got him a second fucking term.
According to a Harvard youth poll, Trump job disapproval with young men now at 59%.
59% disapproving.
Of Trump, of what Trump's doing.
40% say they're worse off under Trump versus 29% who say better off.
Who are the 29%?
Like, the specific people Trump plucked from, like, Mar-a-Lago to be in his cabinet?
Yeah, yeah, that, and it's like people who are still in deep denial.
Yeah, the 29% are Kash Patel and fucking J.D. Vance's immediate family members.
And someone who just really, like, their only joy in life is arguing with people online about how good he is.
That's been up for them.
They've had a lot to talk about.
47% say Trump will hurt the economy.
In January, 62% approved of Trump on the economy, so he's down on that.
The young men thing is just fascinating because, like, we're old now, Tony.
It's kind of weird.
So true.
Like, the...
The original Trump administration was, what, 10 years ago, almost?
Yeah.
So it, like, sucks to think about, but they're...
And it's not an excuse or, like, it doesn't make it necessarily make sense, but it's more understandable to think about it, I think, in terms of, like, well, these young men,
these 18 to 22-year-olds or whatever who voted him in...
Just, like, hadn't experienced a Trump presidency as an adult.
Yeah.
You know?
Like, their brains were much less formed back when he was president, and all they had was, like, this instant nostalgia machine, or this, like, nostalgia machine that is creating nostalgia for anything and everything,
you know, at all times.
I don't know.
There was a lot of overblown stuff from the first Trump administration that maybe you could say was like, oh, that was much ado about nothing.
The Russia stuff, right?
Things like that.
Well, nobody went to jail.
I mean, a couple people, I guess, didn't go to jail, but Trump didn't get indicted on it.
And so maybe you could be like, oh, people were losing their minds, and it was epic meltdown from libs, and we all got to enjoy it.
And wouldn't you like to see it again this time?
And then you get fucking laid off from your job.
Yeah.
Because Trump's intentionally triggered a recession for, like, the third time.
Yeah, it was tight when, you know, they were dunking on the libs, but they still had jobs.
Like, that's a good balance.
Which, yeah, if you have a woke president like Biden, he can just keep the whole industry on rails.
It's going to go off the rails eventually on its own.
But you could have somebody up there just greasing the wheels, to mix my metaphors, on behalf of capital.
And if that guy's woke, the guy doing that, then you can have the good email job.
And also get to make fun of the woke president.
Call him a queer black Latina or whatever you want to do.
That's why you should just vote for the woke guy.
Because the woke guy is still going to do neoliberalism.
Still going to just try to maintain the status quo, which is about as good as you're going to get.
Unless the whole thing is...
Totally restructured, and it's not going to be restructured in our favor by the people who are currently in power, i.e.
the capitalist class.
Yeah, absolutely.
More polling here from Pew Research.
President Trump approval.
Approve.
40%.
Disapprove.
59%.
Damn.
So that approval is down 19 points since the last time they checked it out.
It was inverse before.
And now it's 40-59s and the other way around?
Wow, even white people don't like this guy.
White people disapprove of Trump by two points.
Wow.
Welcome to the resistance, white people.
Amazing.
49% to 51%.
Good job, guys.
Black people are...
What is this down from?
Oh, sorry.
Okay, so that's not down from 19. That's like the percent difference.
That's why you said it flipped.
That makes more sense.
That makes sense, yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, black people approve of him at 14%.
That's down from like 18% at the election.
I'm real proud of this one.
This is a good one.
Good job.
Good job, black people.
We're doing great.
Yeah, that 14% is rough.
14%, every single one of them has a Twitter account with 20,000 followers.
Yeah, every one of them is a non...
Sorry, what'd you say?
Yeah, that's the whole 14%.
Two of them are twins.
Yeah, the 14% is just solely like unwoke rappers trying to get a PragerU contract deal.
Hispanic...
Americans.
27% approval to 72% disapproval.
I don't know what that's down from or if that is down from Asians.
I think that's pretty significant, actually.
I know there's been a big turnover with all the immigration stuff.
A lot of people have been walking back their support of him.
So I think that's actually a pretty big drop for Hispanics, if I remember correctly.
Asians, 29% approval to 69% disapproval.
Yeah, it's wild how just, like, when the guy's a racist, like, it's like, why can't you just pick which race to be a racist?
Like, just be racist against the black people, right?
They already don't like you.
Like, why do you have to go?
You're losing the Asians and the Hispanics.
You know, just, like, try to silo off your racism and you can make the tent bigger.
It's crazy because we don't even have, like, a pandemic that's...
You know, in the news right now that you can blame on Asians, you're just being racist in general.
Right, just for the love of the game.
You don't even have that type of racism in your back pocket anymore.
The people who are like, I love Trump, this is what I voted him in for, to be racist against everybody.
I'm not racist, I hate everybody.
It's good that his poll numbers are sinking.
That shows he's implementing my plan of being an asshole to everybody.
You see that drop among whites?
That means he's going against everybody.
Everyone can get it.
Yeah, those are the weak Diaspora rights.
Yeah, he's down.
He's negative 27 points with ages 18 to 29. He's negative 25 points, ages 30 to 49, negative 7 points, ages 50 to 64, and negative 14 points, ages 65 and plus.
He's lost the boomers.
You know, I haven't had a good conversation with my grandma since the beginning of the year.
It'd be interesting to touch base with her on how she's feeling about everything, because I know a lot of the stuff he's doing are things that she kind of was saying he hasn't done, so it's cool.
So I'm curious to see if she's one of the ones that might have lost the support.
The only group he's actually above water with in this Pew Research poll is the GOP.
The GOP and people who lean GOP approve of him by 75 to 24. Yeah, so he's got his own party.
Wow, he did a C. He did C average with his own party.
Good job, buddy.
Yeah, these are the headlines from Trump polling.
Just, Trump is getting negative marks on immigration.
Polls show Trump's immigration ratings turn negative, according to Washington Post.
According to AP News, immigration is Trump's strongest issue, but many say he's gone too far.
New York Times, voters see Trump's use of power as overreaching.
Times, Siena poll finds, and AP News, only about half of Republicans say Trump is focused on the right priorities.
He's a loser.
He's a loser who sucks ass because he's too full of hate to do anything that ever makes sense.
Even among your like, whatever, like technocratic, more technocratically inclined Republicans who like want to see actual results instead of just wanting to smite their enemies or whatever.
Not saying those people are any...
But the people who have a desire to wield power in a way that benefits at least them, even they are like, you're wasting time, man.
Why are you getting embroiled in deporting college students for criticizing Israel?
Like, this isn't good for anybody except Israel, and it's probably not good for Israel.
Makes them look even worse.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's pretty awesome to see.
A good sign of the times is when they start using bad pictures of him again in headlines.
Like the political one, he's not a very flattering picture of him.
He looks a little lost, a little disheveled.
And that's a good sign.
That's a good sign for us in the country that they're using those pictures again.
Yeah, 100%.
We got a good photo of him in the midweek bonus episode that I can't wait for you to see.
Trump is polling so badly that the idea of immigration is up.
Yep, it's backfiring.
Immigration itself has become more favorable.
Thanks to how shitty Trump is.
He's made people confront the reality of what they're talking about.
So many people are like, whoa, that's not what I meant.
That's not what I meant.
I didn't mean them.
And they're like, no, we don't give a fuck.
That's what you voted for.
And people are coming up against what they've been supporting.
Like, oh, this is not what I had in mind.
And it's backfiring.
Yeah, it's so bad what this administration is doing, and it looks so bad that even the people who...
I bet a lot of people who did want it and still want it can't admit publicly.
As bad as we've gotten as Americans, this is still too much.
This is still too far.
You cannot, in polite society, I don't think, condone this.
Even if you're a fucking Republican.
It got real personal for a lot of people real fast when all of a sudden their favorite co-worker who happens to be brown didn't show up to work.
That happened real fast and seeing all these stories of regular people, good people being punished does not sit well with folks.
Yeah, and just to link this back to our previous topic, I can't for the life of me Understand why you, as a union president, would want to tie yourself not only to an anti-union political party in general,
but one that's this unpopular.
Again, the moment has never been...
I think liberals have never been more critical of ICE.
I think liberals have probably never been more critical of oligarchs and the police state and of Israel.
There's so many things that we could change, I think, change about this country fundamentally if we had the right numbers and the right leadership.
In this moment specifically.
And it's so frustrating to see O 'Brien abdicate that role.
It's really pretty shameful.
Politicians are people we should absolutely be kicking while they're down and taking advantage of while they're weak.
And I mean that with everything in me.
Yes!
Yeah, more...
Bad news in polling here for Trump.
More Americans say U.S. should bring back Abrego Garcia.
Views mixed on other deportation issues.
The, like, hallmark case that they're trying to turn into the national conversation.
This dude who had the fucking Lucky Charms tattooed on his knuckles, and they were trying to say he was a terrorist.
Americans are still...
They were trying to say he was an MS-13 gang member, and Americans are still like, well, they're looking at a Blue's Clues smiley face tattoo on his knuckles and being like, well, I guess that could be MS-13,
but we need to bring him back and make sure, you know?
Yeah, and like we said, the importance of due process and what that really means has kind of been brought into the limelight right now, and that's really important and really good.
It sucks it took this to make it happen.
Yeah, like, I mean, you know, Stephen Miller did make a convincing case that this nautical star is actually a Latin King's tattoo.
But I think we just maybe need to get an expert witness and have a trial and all that.
The anchor, the mermaid tattoos, I admit, all these are really suspect, but we need to have due process.
What did he mean when he got the monster logo tattooed on him?
What did he mean?
Was he talking about the devil?
Is that the three sixes?
Is that the monster energy logo?
What did he mean by that?
Well, that's the M for MS-13.
That's too obvious.
I don't know why I thought about that twice.
Yeah, that's the M for MS-13.
And then the Jolly Roger he has on his shoulder blade, well, that's the S-13.
We all know the Jolly Roger, the Skull and Crossbones Black Flag stands for S-13.
I'm going to get the Monster logo, the Stussy S, and then like a 13 cue ball.
Do you remember I looked it up to make sure there was a birdhouse skate deck and it was like a turtle guy or a bird guy in a bumper car in like a racing bumper car and the bumper car was numbered 13 but it wasn't like It was just like a number on the front of the bumper car or
the race car or whatever it was.
And I remember seeing that as a kid and somebody being like, hey, that's for marijuana because M is the 13th letter.
Because the bird has like a cigar in his mouth.
And so when I looked it up, I was like, oh, remember?
I was thinking about the like...
MS-13 skate deck or the marijuana skate deck because there was a guy with a cartoon character with a blunt in a car that said 13 and it's just a cigar if you go back and look at it.
It could be a blunt.
The Toronto might be smoking a blunt.
Give them some credit.
That's like the level that these Fox News grandmas are operating at.
Like my same mentality as an elementary school student.
Trying to pierce the veil of this birdhouse logo is what they want to base domestic policy on.
For some reason, 13 is Penny's favorite number.
It's her lucky number.
And I was telling her that it's sick because a lot of people think it's a bad luck number.
And I think it's cool that you embrace it.
And she's like, yeah.
She's all stoked on it.
So now whenever there's a chance, we always do 13. All the golf carts are numbered.
And if I can get 13, I'll get 13 every time.
And then, of course, you've shown her all the live concerts of Bad Luck 13 where they beat each other with trash cans and baseball bats and set the venue on fire.
They throw the trash can full of weapons into the pit.
I'm like, look, isn't this cool?
This is what you're all about, babe.
She would actually love that.
What if she was like, hey, that's not cool.
Someone worked really hard to put those bleachers up.
Why would you make a mess like that?
I'd be so sad if she's like, Dad, why aren't they looking at security?
What's happening?
She would never.
She would never.
Yeah, from this ABC News article, there's about an even division, moreover, on Trump's efforts to deport undocumented immigrants in general.
48% said Trump is going too far in this regard, while 50% said he's either handling it about right, 34%, or not going far enough.
So there's the psychotic, the utterly psychotic section of Americans that he's not going far.
16% say that kicking down students' doors for writing a pro-Palestinian op-ed in their school newspaper isn't going far enough.
But, I mean, it's...
48% to a 34% slightly psycho America and then 16% ultra psycho America.
So if those two psychotic sections of America ever got their stuff together, I'd be scared.
But I'm just counting on their overall antisocial tendencies to prevent them from ever forming an effective Body politic that's not totally astroturfed by the capitalist class.
I do feel pretty confident that most of that 16% is composed of people who think that posting on Facebook is politics.
So hopefully we're good.
Hopefully they're like, no, I started a group.
I started a group called Trump's Not Going Far Enough and that's how we're going to change things.
So hopefully that's going to take care of that.
That result underscores animosity.
speaking of animosity towards undocumented immigrants as seen in contrast to views on deporting international students who have criticized US policy in the Middle East in this case support for deportation drops to 39% with
59% up to
So, very clearly, this country does hate college students and young people in general, but at least 59% of us don't hate them enough to deport them to an El Salvadorian death prison.
So that's good.
Okay, so if you're wondering how pro-Trump spaces are reacting to this overwhelming negative sentiment towards their guy, it's pretty funny because you can't find,
obviously, a lot of coverage of these polls in right-wing spaces.
But when you do, such as in this Fox News article, this is how they frame it.
Fox News.
Voters give their views on President Trump's first 100 days in office.
I love that.
Fox News poll.
The first 100 days of President Trump's second term.
And the thumbnail is him decisively pointing a finger and got his kind of swaggery squint on his face.
Wow, I'm just assuming people love him in these first 100 days.
Yes, sir.
Thank you for your service.
And if you go into the article, it's just, again, everybody hates Trump.
Awesome.
Yeah.
And it's funny because the way this title is, they're really trying to minimize it.
They're really like, Trump's having a little bit of a slump.
These first 100 days are tough.
This doesn't mean much.
The fucking sub-headline on this article is 82% are extremely or very concerned about inflation, down from 89% in January.
So that's good.
Seven fewer percent people think that Trump is better on the economy than Biden.
And what it really is is that people aren't thinking about inflation right now.
They're thinking more about the humanitarian stuff rather than the price of eggs when they were doing this poll.
No, I totally...
I disagree with that.
I think most people are way more concerned about inflation and immigration because 82% of people are still like, hey, this sucks ass.
Hey, inflation is fucking killing me.
I'm extremely or very.
Take your pick.
We're concerned about the price of shit because it's not going down.
And it's funny because I said this, I think, a couple episodes ago, but the economy was supposedly Trump's number one issue.
It's like the argument for getting him in there to replace Biden anyway.
And he's 82% down on just this question alone.
But I love that they frame it, oh, he's down to 82% from 89%.
That's their best.
Possible takeaway from this.
Sorry, it's just not on my mind because, like, honestly, tofu is still $2 and potatoes haven't gone up, so it hasn't really hit me so much.
And I siphon most of my gas, so this kind of takes care of that, too.
Now, is that the silken tofu, though?
Well, there's not much use case for silken tofu on my everyday.
That's a little treat, you know?
I get that straight from a market, you know, where it's on a flat wrapped in saran wrap.
And that's still pretty cheap.
Um...
You don't just, like, fry up some silken tofu?
No, if I'm frying it up, I'm usually doing, like, a regular firm.
You know?
Yeah.
Silken's too fragile for me.
Silken, I'm doing...
I'm mistressing it.
I'm eating it cold with some sort of, like, you know, sauces and fixings on top.
Some fried shallots.
I just...
Tight.
I just wanted to show off that I know the phrase silken tofu.
That's like one of the few things I know about tofu is that it can be silken.
It's also good in like smoothies if you're going to be blending into something.
Get a little protein in there.
Like I think I've eaten.
I bought silken tofu for honor.
Like I think I've eaten it.
I just I can't I can't remember if that's how she makes her like you know when she fries tofu for ramen and stuff like that.
If it's being fried probably not.
If it's like in a soup.
It might be.
It's the really soft, almost gelatin-like one.
Yeah.
It's good stuff.
But do you still have to squeeze it?
No, that one you don't want to squeeze because it's too soft.
You're going to compromise the integrity of the form.
Yeah.
You just squish it.
You don't want to squish that one.
It'll just smush on you.
Okay, we'll have to do more research into what I'm eating.
Start asking some questions.
Don't do that.
Don't start doing that.
That's what I do at many a Mexican food restaurant I've never been to.
I do not ask what's in the beans, what's in the rice.
I just go for it.
I go to a Mexican restaurant, but I go, excuse me, is there any red dye in your tortillas?
Is there red dye in the lard in your beans?
Are you using red dye lard?
Please, if you can hold the red dye off me, that'd be great.
I just play like shit roulette, you know?
It's like, if I gotta take a crazy shit later on, that's how I know if I can't go back to that place or not.
As President Donald Trump approaches the 100th day of his second term, a Fox News survey finds voters pleased with the job he is doing on border security, but displeased on most other issues, including inflation.
Trump receives his best marks on border security as a 55% majority approves.
That's the only issue where his ratings are in positive territory.
On immigration, a record high of 47% approve of Trump, 48% disapprove.
That's a record high?
47% approve of Trump on immigration?
Maybe I'm misreading that.
I don't know.
While a new low of 38% approve on the economy, his worst ratings are on inflation, 33% approve, followed by tariffs, 33% approve, foreign policy, 40% approve,
taxes, 38% approve, and guns, 41% approve.
Damn.
Dude, can't even fucking win on guns.
That's crazy.
It's very funny because he has, like, the worst, He's a loser.
And we gotta fucking deal with him for another three years.
It's great.
We probably have to deal with it for another three years.
Yeah, then we'll have to deal with J.D. Vance.
Oh, that's true.
Afterwards.
So funny.
My mom the other day just goes on a rant about how much she hates J.D. Vance.
And I was like, yeah, it's funny seeing him go from this liberal stance.
She goes, no, I don't know anything about him.
I just hate his face.
I just don't like the way he looks.
I'm like, that's good enough reason.
I'm okay with that.
She's like, he just looks evil to me.
Yeah, he's a phony.
He looks like a phony.
Because he is a phony.
I don't know, you know, he's just a fucking poser through and through, like all these new right guys.
And my mom loves everybody, so it's really funny for her to just be like, I hate him just for the way he looks.
Some replies on this Fox News.
Comment section.
Beautiful.
Kay Dawson.
Because again, this article, this post on Facebook for Fox News has 15.9 thousand likes and loves and then some laugh reacts.
But everybody again, all the Fox News viewers and Trump supporters are just seeing this flattering photo of Trump and an indication about what the article is about, not actually the conclusions or the data that is Present in the article,
but they're just like, oh, this must say exactly how I feel about Trump, which is that he's the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Yeah, because as we know, they do not click the articles and read them.
They just read the headlines and do what they want with it.
They read the headlines and the comments, but they're not reading enough comments.
That's the problem.
Uh, Kay Dawson says, doing more than the last, quote, crew did in four years!
Eight exclamation points.
I mean, if you're talking about, you know, damage, yeah, they did a lot of damage in 100 days than anyone thought possible.
Very impressive.
They're doing stuff.
Again, it's so powerful.
When guys do stuff, they can't be stopped.
Sure, sometimes the stuff is really bad, but it's there.
It's present in all our lives, and it's such an important part of all our lives when these guys do stuff.
You can't say the same about Biden.
He was mostly leaving this earth.
In real time.
Is he still alive?
Is he around?
I guess he is.
I guess he just snuck into Harvard or something and dropped an ice cream on himself.
I was listening to a Chapo episode about it.
I think that's what happened.
That sounds right.
Yeah, no.
He's the opposite of doing stuff.
He was dying.
Doing more than the last crew did.
Yeah, 12 months ago, Tony, we had Motley crew.
Now, we have Beautiful Cabin crew.
Yes, yes.
Which is to say, fake people doing fake things purely for your entertainment and distraction.
Loria...
Raiola says, he's running with the ball!
He's working with what was given to him, okay?
This is not his fault.
Yeah, I love that.
Again, the argument is just like, he's doing stuff!
We love it!
And I voted for him to do stuff.
And you know what?
When I think of Trump, I think of a big, masculine, powerful football player.
And he's going to take that ball and he's going to get it into the end zone whatever way he can.
It might go through your living room and over your wife who is in the process of getting citizenship, but he's going to score a touchdown.
It might be nothing but helmet-to-helmet contact with every player possible, but it's happening.
Tracy Tuck says, I'm pleased.
He's had a big mess to clean up.
Bob Sieg, I like this one, says, better than expected considering the depth of the swamp.
So I think, you know, I'm not exactly sure what Bob Sieg Heil meant here, but I do, I think he's saying like, oh, well, he's, you know, down his approvals at like 45% or something like that.
Well, that's still better than expected considering the depth of the swamp.
By which I mean every American in this country.
That is what the swamp is now.
The swamp has gotten bigger.
It has gotten to the masses.
The swamp is just the 60% of Americans who disapprove Trump now.
That is literally, I think, what they mean when they say the swamp.
Americans are just swamp creatures.
We need a hotline.
We need a hotline where I can report my neighbors for being swamp creatures.
I'm pretty sure I saw their eyes close horizontally.
I don't know what's going on there.
They seem like swamp creatures to me.
Anthony Wagner says, who'd they ask is my question.
Never once have I been asked for a poll.
He's like, if they asked me, I would change this whole thing.
If I was able to answer this, then I would be way up if I was able to do it.
I do want to point out real quick to the listeners.
This is one screenshot.
This is one organic stream of comments.
These are just all the top six comments.
These are not individually found, these ones.
These are all just stacked on top of each other just organically right there as the top comments in Fox News.
But yeah, this is how you can tell that somebody actually did click on the article when they're like, what is polling anyway?
You know?
It's fake.
Polling is a construct.
Scott Schwartz says, I'm loving it.
Space.
Dot, dot, dot, dot.
Just like Trump loves McDonald's.
Dot, dot, dot.
LOL.
You get it?
Do you get it?
What's funny is, I think he's being serious.
He is loving it.
And Trump liking McDonald's is a cool thing.
Yeah, it's a joke he made.
It's a funny, like, you know, he connected the two things.
I miss when they were able to, like, make fun of him and, you know, embrace it.
That was more fun.
This is good stuff.
I just, it's like, I'm loving it, just like Donald Trump really likes doing his hair, you know?
I'm loving it.
I don't know, it's just, it's like you're watching a guy...
Order the mass deportation and extrajudicial trafficking of human beings and you're like, yeah man, he sure likes fish fillets and I like him like he likes those fish fillets and everybody's looking at you like you're a demon.
They're also looking at you because they're like, do you know how much McDonald's is now?
When's the last time you were at McDonald's, bro?
It's just like, it's never been more clear that your association with Trump is so surface level, so based on memes and vibes and attitudes, and it's just the lowest point that Trump's ever been for actual policies and actual concrete material actions.
And so, of course, you're just like...
I like Trump and feel like doing the little dance that he does when he's on stage.
Wow, I feel like a macho man when I vote for Trump.
And people are like, liberals are gonna kill you.
You know there's like old dudes doing that dance at weddings.
And they're like, you get it?
Yeah, there was like some TikTok of a whole wedding party doing it.
Oh man.
It's so sad that the wedding parties that get destroyed are always overseas.
Scott Emhoff says, feel like I did when we were kids.
Scott Emhoff, by the way, yeah, like 45-year-old.
Oh, older than that.
He's older than that.
55-year-old man with sunglasses on his forehead, smiling for a photo.
Scott says, feel like I did when we were kids.
Safe, protected in a time when people took pride in patriotism, like an American in the home of the free.
Brought to you by brave people that gave it all without reservation.
Not all blue, not all red, but 100% made in America.
Eventually, even spoiled kids stopped crying.
LOL!
What?
What?
Like, it's so funny.
We don't even have like a...
We don't even...
To be like patriotic in the sense like, hey, you know, they're fighting for your freedom.
You better salute them.
What are you talking about?
What freedom fight is happening for our freedom?
What are you talking about?
It just took pride in patriotism?
What are you talking about?
It's funny to make that point now when this administration has never been more unpopular.
You're talking about a unified patriotic America?
We're so far from that.
The most unified patriotic America we had Recently was either under the Bush years, right after 9-11, or when Obama got elected.
Like, those are the only times in recent memory that we've, like, actually, quote, been united.
And we know that during the Obama administration, even in the very beginning, before he was inaugurated, Republicans were like, hey, we're going to divide the shit out of this place, right?
Yeah.
And they said it very loud and vocally.
They had a whole order about it.
Yeah, but to do that and just be like, wow, it's so beautiful.
To see Americans come together for the greater good while they hate what your president is doing by 80% or whatever.
Also, feel like I did when we were kids.
Like, fascism is never beating the I long for being a baby accusations.
How much more plainly...
Can these people make it?
Trump is my daddy.
He's going to spank my sister who really has been nasty and he's going to give us TV to watch and a prayer before bedtime.
Safe and protected.
Are you being swaddled?
What do you mean?
It gives air of non-independence.
You need to be taken care of.
It's pretty pitiful.
Yeah, I think...
What if these people are just like...
Because they know...
I don't know.
They know Trump is actually like a bastard, you know?
But they're like, hey, I feel safe around this guy.
You know?
They're like trying to get the bar to let Trump in with them because he's their wingman.
Yep.
Yep.
You know?
That's such a thing.
No, no.
He's cool.
He's cool.
I don't know you.
He was only convicted in civil court.
It's fine.
Yeah, so ridiculous.
Dan Parks says, the greatest incredible man who loves America that works sleepless hours to provide the best for everyone 100%.
I'm very grateful.
Thank you.
If Trump were a superhero, his name would be Incredible Man.
It would be.
I'm very grateful.
Because he is incredible.
And it's just because he says it.
That's only based on the fact that he says he loves America.
It has nothing to do with evidence or anything he's actually done.
It's just, no, he loves America.
I've seen the way he hugged the flag.
That is doing something.
True.
Hugging the flag is one of the most, I don't know, it's one of the most patriotic things you can do.
Jude Beauregard says, Losing my money, I thought I'd have a comfortable retirement.
Yep.
And Jeff replies, wait a little longer.
He's cleaning a lot of garbage that is built up for four years.
Garbage like your 401k and pension investments.
You know all that money you didn't lose?
You were going to lose it anyways.
And now it's happening.
So that's because of the last four years.
says, I'm too old to wait.
I worked hard my whole life for a company that had a different kind of pension that could not be left to anyone but a spouse.
I'm not married, so I invested my pension and I'm watching it be sucked away daily.
Meanwhile, he bragged how much money his rich friends made.
Yes, his rich globalist friends.
Clifford Jones replies, now is the time to buy.
Bye.
Did you not hear where I said I don't have any money anymore?
And Jude says, I'll buy food, utilities, and medical first.
And somebody's laugh reacted to this comment.
But yeah, I love being like, I'm a retiree with no income, and the income that I saved my whole fucking life is being destroyed by this maniac who can't even keep the basic premise of neoliberalism intact without, you know, spurging out and slicing it along the throat.
And he's like, well, yeah, but you should buy more stocks.
Now's the time to buy.
Oh, okay, I'll take my money.
I'll cash my money out of the stock market to then buy stock, to then put it right back into the stock market, you fucking genius.
And it's great.
He says it plainly there.
You know, no, I got to buy food, pay my utilities, and make sure my medical bills are taken care of first.
Like, that's life, brother.
Like, that's so real.
It's like, God dang.
Yeah, and I think Jude might be a woman because they have two lips for their avatar.
Well, I don't know if you do this, but Brother is genderless now.
For sure.
Yeah, so I just wanted to make sure that's clear.
But you did say he, though.
Oh, that also is in the context of Brother.
If it's attached to Brother, it all goes out the window.
David says...
Can't fix it without some pain.
Always better to have a husband.
And Jude replies, mine's dead.
Oh god!
David felt so good too.
David felt so good being like, maybe you shouldn't be an unmarried hag.
Uh, you know?
She's like, nope, my husband's dead.
She hit him with the mines dead.
Fuck.
Fuck.
Critical, uncritical support to Jude in this comment section.
Yeah, absolutely.
Man, she laid the husband's dead on your ass.
God damn, David.
I hope you feel like shit.
Oh, is it better to have a husband?
Because I thought it was cool that mine died.
Yeah, it was better.
It was better before my husband fucking died.
It's been really hard.
Oh, wow.
Is having the person you love in your life better?
Oh, wow.
Thanks, Einstein.
Yeah, last thing, J. Craig says to Jude, Relax, the market will be back.
It will boom when trade deals signed and big beautiful bill is passed.
You will be paying less taxes and have more money.
Gas has already come down.
Where?
Jude says, you guys are delusional or rich because he isn't doing anything for the poor or middle class.
And J. Craig responds again, calm down, it's less than 100 days.
A lot of positive things are happening.
Give it a little more time.
Unless you have TDS, then nothing will help.
And I think this Jude chick might have some serious TDS.
Some serious TDS, yeah, yeah.
Which is not covered by medical yet.
Wanting food and medicine instead of stocks?
This is a sign of a deranged mind.
What's so funny about this too is like, you know, Jay Craig, you're over here saying like, I know you lost a lot, but you're good.
It's going to come back to maybe what it was or a little bit better than it is now.
And they're going to be like, that's a W. It's not going to be better than it was a year ago.
It's just going to be not as bad as it was in the first hundred days.
And they're like, see, I fucking told you.
Yeah, I just love this excuse where it's like, it's only been a hundred days, and it's like, yeah, he shouldn't have been able to fuck up this bad in only a hundred days, and yet he made it his mission to do that.
A lot of jobs, that's like the probationary period.
You know?
They would have had a lot of conversation.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
It's just like...
Yeah, it's only 100 days.
That's like the excuse you give when there's just been modest achievements in the stock market.
Inflation's gone down, but only slightly or whatever.
It's just like, no, everything's getting worse.
Everything's actively getting worse directly as a result of his actions.
Yeah, I think this was a joke, but Isaac said, I think, if anything, egg prices are getting too low.
Get it?
I mean, he's right, though.
I think that we do take the life and energy that goes into making eggs for granted.
I think they should be more expensive.
So, yeah, I think he's right.
Yeah, why don't you and Ani start a podcast about all this vegan bullshit, alright?
Keep it off of MDC.
Yeah, it's going to be called Count Your Eggs.
Okay.
I consider this to be good news.
People having to reckon with how fucking unpopular these fascist right-wing policies actually are when they're implemented.
I'm still worried about what the Trump administration is doing and what they're capable of doing in the future and what they'll just do regardless of public opinion.
Arrest sitting judges for refusing to comply with ICE agents who apparently didn't even have an actual warrant.
They just had some sort of internal memo that grants them the ability in their minds to do whatever the fuck they want.
However, what this administration could do...
With the full support of the American population is worse, right?
I think that this is a good sign that Americans are sick of this shit, and I think that it will be some sort of check on what this administration will end up doing.
Of course, it's not going to just happen.
Accidentally, people will still have to organize and fight these things in real life and come to the real-life defense of their neighbors and of their friends and of their family.
But the willingness is there.
The opinion is there.
The willingness is there.
And even if we can't have labor leaders or specific labor leaders lead this moment, And I think it's just,
yeah, it's nice to have these, to highlight these positive things, even when...
You know, the world is miserable, and especially because the world is miserable, and especially, you know, I just wanted to get these positive things out there before we move on to our final topic, which is just so gutting and some kind of heart-wrenching news, which is that Jesus is being replaced by Meryl Streep.
You know, honestly, I'm kind of happy that a lot of people are finally getting on my level.
I replaced Jesus with Meryl Streep in my life a long time ago.
I mean, she's got more range.
I mean, honestly, infallible in my opinion.
plans for Nigel.
We only want what's best for him.
We're on the road.
Yeah, so this is Jason Rance, Seattle right-wing AM radio commentator that I think we covered him on one of our live shows.
Just a really kind of disgusting human being.
It was really funny.
I think we, like...
Showed clips of him when he burst blood vessels in his eyes while he was going on to talk about how bad the chop was or whatever.
He just had a blood-red eye.
Recently, one of his op-eds was about how awful it was for him to ride the bus because he had to see a homeless person with an untreated wound on their face.
And not only that...
Just when you think it couldn't get any worse, you look over and you see an unhoused person living on the street with untreated wounds on their face.
Then you freaking smell marijuana on top of it.
Too much.
What are we doing?
And as if I'm not supposed to connect the dots here.
As if I'm not supposed to tell that one is obviously the cause of the other.
This is his article about Meryl Streep being cast in the Greta Gerwig...
What is it called?
Lion of Narnia?
What's that?
Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe?
Is that the first one?
Yeah.
Rants.
Casting Meryl Streep as Aslan in Chronicles of Narnia is an affront to fans and C.S. Lewis.
And that's right, folks.
This...
Casting a woman as a lion, as a male Jesus lion, this is a humiliation ritual.
Christ is weeping.
You are doing nothing about it.
You are letting Christ and yourself be humiliated.
Activate, activate, activate.
We'll just wait here and see what happens.
No, this is fantastic.
And the thumbnail is, yeah, of Meryl Streep accepting an award.
Like, I think this is like the Palm Dior or something.
She's like accepting an award for her brilliant acting on stage.
And this is one thing that really pisses me off, Tony, is when they get a good actor in a movie.
It's furious.
It's like, what are we even doing here, you know?
Honestly, like, why get a good actor when you can just get, you know, a mediocre actor and then get AI to do the voice for him?
Yeah, you're telling me fucking what's-his-face from Sound of Freedom wasn't available for this?
Okay, if we have to get a woman, what about the Mandalorian lady who got fired for being racist?
What about her?
Or anti-vaxxer?
Yeah, she needs work.
What about her?
What about that Zoomer who has the TikTok show for the Daily Wire?
She wasn't available, I guess?
They didn't call the Hawk Tua girl?
They could have called her.
Okay, I'm reading from this Jason Rance article.
Meryl Streep is reportedly in talks to voice Aslan in Greta Gerwig's upcoming adaptation for The Chronicles of Narnia for Netflix.
I didn't even know it was for Netflix.
How fucking embarrassing.
Like...
I know she directed the Barbie movie and she was able to, I guess, make something valuable out of Mattel IP that earned a lot of money for everybody involved.
Well, the producers, at least, in the studio.
Is this even going to be in theaters?
Isn't Netflix doubling down on how much they hate actual real-life movie theaters?
Yeah, I think so.
I think that they're like...
Yeah, they're definitely trying to make it to where your experience is in home.
So it kind of sucks.
If it's going to be one of those movies, like a Chronicles of Narnia movie, it should be kind of like an epic, right?
You want to see it on a big screen, right?
In theory.
I don't know.
I watched The Fellowship of the Ring on my cell phone and I was transported just like I was watching it on a Dolby Digital IMAX.
Was it a Pro?
Was it an iPhone Pro with the big screen or was it just the regular screen?
Oh, it was the Pro.
Yeah, it was the big Plus, the iPhone Plus.
Yeah, that's having a theater in your hand, brother.
That's good stuff.
That's a really good point.
I'm not a big fan of this happening.
I think it kind of sucks.
I don't think we need to make another Chronicles of Narnia.
Right, they did it perfectly the first time.
They just nailed it.
I would love to see Greta Gerwig and Meryl Streep do something together.
For sure, that'd be cool, because I like both of them.
But I'd like to be a movie I can see in theaters, maybe.
That's the stuff I don't like about this, but the stuff they're mad about, of course, is not that at all.
It's just like, woman did woman.
Woman existed.
Yeah.
Okay, so did you read these books?
Like, did you read these books or see these movies?
Are you asking if I grew up Christian?
If I grew up believing in God?
Is that what you're asking me?
Yes.
Yes, I did.
Okay, wow.
So how many of the books did you read?
I think just only the first, like, two.
It's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the first one.
The Prince is the second one?
I think so.
I think those are the two I read.
What's it called?
I don't remember.
I was in fourth grade.
I read the first three or four.
I read The Silver Chair, but then that got me to start listening to Silver Chair.
Is that what the band's named after?
I forgot about Christian books.
I don't know.
Isn't that the name of the...
Hang on.
Let me look this up.
It's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian.
There you go.
Cool.
The Voyage of the Dawn, I don't think I read that one.
The Silver Chair, I don't think I read that one either.
The Horse and His Boy, The Magician's Nephew, and The Last Battle.
How many did they make when they did the series in the 2000s?
I think they only did the one.
No, I feel like they did Prince Caspian.
I feel like they did a couple, but anyway.
Okay, so what do you think of the, I mean, you don't remember the titles of these books, Tony, but you did get offended when I suggested you hadn't
I remember liking them.
Any type of fantasy thing like that was cool.
I remember being a big read from my young age.
I felt like I was reading a grown-up book.
But yeah, I like the whole fantasy aspect of it.
The whole being transported to another land and all that stuff.
Yeah, I remember liking it.
A bit of a battle going on.
Yeah, the line was cool.
Yeah, good things.
I remember we read it in class.
We read it in class at my Catholic school.
And we were able to be talked about the metaphors and stuff.
I think they suck.
I think the books suck.
Do they?
I don't think they're very...
If you're not fourth grader, they suck.
If you're not a fourth grader, they probably suck.
I just remember them being pretty boring.
I remember really having to work through to get through as many as I did.
And just like Aslan, I don't know.
That's who we're talking about.
I don't know.
I think he sucks.
I think he's not in many of...
Much of the book...
Doesn't he leave and then come back or something?
Isn't he gone for a while?
I don't know.
Maybe I'm confusing him with the lion that is King Richard in the animated Robin Hood movies or whatever.
But Aslan, he doesn't even have a Z in his name.
Did you know that?
It's like A-S-L-A-N.
I didn't know that, yeah.
Just like, what?
I read the real Christian conservative series, Harry Potter.
There you go.
The good one.
When I grew up.
It's not a real Christian series unless there's a little anti-Semitism in it.
And I don't think there really is much in the Chronicles of Narnia.
Right.
Anti-Semitism, the worship of money, the worship of police.
It's all good Christian activities.
Fans are questioning the decision to cast a female actress for a male character.
And you just can't...
Jesus was a man.
Santa Claus was white.
And Jesus was a man.
I will say that in the Shroud of Turin, there is no dick print.
We don't actually...
We're not sure.
I think we're told...
It's because Jesus wasn't...
He's a man.
He's a man.
Oh, that he's a man.
Yeah, he wasn't wearing the gray sweatpants in the tomb.
Who knows?
It's a mystery.
Fans are questioning the decision to cast a female actress for a male character that, as Gerwig is undoubtedly aware, was meant to be a manifestation of Jesus Christ.
We get it.
Feminism.
Or rather, sheer laziness.
How is it lazy?
What a lazy...
It's lazy because it's like they got an Oscar winner.
It's like, oh cool, you got an Oscar winner.
Who could have possibly come up with that idea?
Let's do some stunt casting.
Let's get a crazy guy who actually thinks he is the second coming of Christ to voice the lion.
Now that would be interesting.
I'd be into that, yes.
A real method actor.
She should have just cast a Muslim.
Well, I don't know what...
You know?
A Muslim woman.
And have the lion wear a hijab the whole time.
The very next paragraph.
Why can't Christ be female?
Well, because he wasn't female.
And this movie raises significant concerns about basic respect to C.S. Lewis' original vision.
I love how absurd this conversation has to be.
Well, the lion can't be...
Female because Christ was a man.
Yeah.
But he wasn't a lion either.
Like, we're talking about fantasy.
You're talking about a child's adaptation.
And like, you know, where and when you're willing to lay down the law about what can be creative license, all that's doing is telling us of your general proclivities, which is that you hate women.
You hate women more than you hate lions.
You know?
It's not insulting to depict Jesus as an animal, but it's insulting to depict him as a woman.
To have him be played by a woman.
Especially if you know anything about the Lion Kingdom.
The male lions are kind of like...
It's gender reversal.
The moms do a lot of...
They run the roost, you know?
Well, I don't know if they rule the roost, but they definitely do all the work.
Aslan and his symbolism is the most important piece of Narnia.
Aslan is not merely a character in the Narnia series.
He embodies the essence of Narnia itself.
Calm down.
Lewis described Aslan as the Christ of Narnia.
That's why this book sucks, dude.
I'm sorry, it was already clear that he was a Christ figure or whatever.
It's not like you're adding anything to the story.
I don't know.
It's just...
It's not even that much of a stretch.
Lewis described Aslan as the Christ of Narnia, imagining how Jesus might manifest in the fantasy world he so painstakingly created.
Aslan's male identity is integral to this portrayal, aligning with the biblical depiction of Jesus as a male figure.
I think like half of this was written by ChatGPT.
He's just like repeating his same points over and over.
This connection is important for many readers who see Aslan's actions, his sacrifice and resurrection as a direct parallel, parentheses, though no, not an allegory, to the story of Jesus Christ.
My favorite allegory is when that mouse pulled the thorn out of Jesus' paw.
Yeah, yeah.
Teaches you not to stab Jesus.
That's like the worst thing you could do is put a spear or a thorn in anywhere in that guy.
Well, they kind of had to do it, though, to make the whole prophecy come true.
But also, it's like, if you think that you need people to read the Chronicles of Narnia to come to Jesus, maybe you need to work on the whole Jesus pitch in the first place.
Absolutely, bro.
It's why the possible casting of Streep has led to backlash among fans.
Social media comments such as, quote, Aslan is literally a male lion.
He's literally a male lion.
Are we insane?
The talking anthropomorphic Christ is a male lion.
He just is.
It's true.
End quote.
Aslan is Jesus.
Jesus was a man.
Reflects an accurate sentiment that Streep undermines in the character's foundational and meaningful symbolism.
Saying Aslan was a man.
Listen to yourself.
You're so confused.
You are more confused about gender than any trans person or non-binary person.
It's funny too because is this line going to have a mane?
Because I think they're putting a lot of Wait on the lion having a mane.
As if they would see two lions in the wild and they'd be more scared of the one without the mane than the one with the mane.
Right.
Gurig claims to want to offer a bold take on Narnia.
Again, so embarrassing.
A bold, fresh vision on Narnia.
While maintaining the original spirit of the books, which are, again, boring.
However, altering a central character's gender, which was integral to the book.
That lion was fucking...
His dick was so important to the book.
Yeah, I mean, if you can pull up a document of Chronicles of Narnia and just search Red Rocket, it's referenced all the time.
Aslan's dick all the time.
And it feels like she's trying to make a political point about female empowerment.
Quote, Yeah, they shouldn't get the non-binary shaved head.
Biden cabinet appointee to play the White Witch.
I can't remember their name.
The one who was like stealing clothes, right?
Yeah.
Liam Neeson already played a brilliant Aslan.
Morgan Freeman has already played G. So he's...
So, is Rance Jewish?
Have you seen this?
The GD?
Yeah, that must mean that.
I think that might be what it is.
Yeah, because you can't type out God.
Yeah, I mean, if, you know, it's not, I don't know, you can't, you just don't, you don't want to.
It's disrespectful to type out God.
So, yeah, this is like a Jewish guy complaining that the Chronicles of Narnia isn't accurately representing Jesus because it's a...
Like, Jesus fucking Christ, guys.
This is...
And then let me finish this paragraph.
So, yeah.
Liam Neeson already played a brilliant Aslan.
Morgan Freeman has already played God.
Jared Leto looks like the historical Jesus.
Book one of them.
First of all, that's not what Jesus looked like.
If you're still pushing the white Jesus narrative, you're pretty far off base here.
But that's just not how it works.
Like, you can't be...
Hey, Liam, I know you did this role before for a totally different director and different project before.
Why don't you come on back?
Why don't you reprise this with us?
It's so funny that they're not content with us redoing a series that already had its light of day, that already got its big budget production, that all you fucking Christians and whatever Western history lovers or whatever you consider yourself It has to be the specific thing again.
It can't just be a reboot of the old thing that we don't need anymore.
It has to be the specific recreation of this specific thing again.
Again, it's like this push and pull between an already reactionary liberal centrism of remaking The Chronicles of Narnia, but we're going to put a lady as Jesus.
Isn't that cool?
Isn't that subversive?
Or isn't that feminist or whatever?
The push and pull between that and the psychos who want to go even further and just remake the whole movie exactly as it was.
Because that's what's right.
You're admitting you already got the thing you wanted.
You already have the thing you wanted.
Why are you upset?
Yeah, but I mean, I can't find it on streaming all the time.
It's hard to find.
I don't want to rent it on YouTube.
And it's going to be done by Netflix, so I know it's going to be there.
So if you could just remake it shot for shot on a place where I know I could find it, that'd be cool.
So here's the comments on the Jason Rantz show, and Claudia says exactly the same thing.
This would be horrible.
The other Chronicles of Narnia movies were so well done.
Can this please be stopped?
It's just like, I don't, it's like looking at a, like somebody's, like, you know, you got advertised a t-shirt online.
And it's got a logo on it.
And the logo's different from the t-shirt that you have in your closet.
And you're like, I don't fucking get it!
We already had a perfect t-shirt!
I have it!
It's in my closet right now!
Can we please stop this new t-shirt?
We can't leave these t-shirts to get out.
And it's not like this is gonna ruin the other t-shirt.
You know, it's not like this coming out.
It's going to negate the Narnia that you already love.
Just go watch that one.
Yeah.
I mean, honestly, like, yeah, we don't need a new Chronicles of Narnia, but also we didn't need the first one.
Yeah.
It's all just stupid, man.
Lynn Mullins Hamilton says, will not support it in any way.
Disgraceful.
Jerry Rees says, they are remaking the demon versions of what were good movies.
Yep.
Yep, that's what it is.
That's what it is.
The demonic Greta Gerwig version of Lion Witch and the Wardrobe where, you know, what?
We're gonna find out that there's a patriarchy in Narnia or something?
Yeah, yeah.
So stupid.
They're gonna have a prince, and the prince is actually gonna be kind of an anti-democratic figure.
Uh-oh.
Which is crazy.
Woke and crazy subversive to having an American movie.
I love they are remaking the demon versions of what were good movies.
I love that so much.
Linda Laritzen says, nope, not me.
Vicky Gruis says, so sad.
Anthony Finnegan says, I guess they like losing money.
Go woke, go broke.
Conservatives are not spending their money on liberal mental illness.
This person put the same exact comment under the Barbie movie?
Yeah.
And it did not work?
And it's funny.
Yeah, this is just, again, it's kind of the same thing I was saying about the fringe immigration people who think that we're not going far enough on immigration.
And same thing with like the overtly racist people who think like, oh, now it's time to like get rid of the pretense of like a multicultural anti-racist society or whatever.
And it's just, it's the same thing as these people.
Like the compromise in America between the Christian right and the secular centrist slash liberal slash left majority.
In this country, was we're going to make fun fantasy movies about your religion.
Is that okay with you?
And they're like, no!
You know, it's just...
I don't know, man.
I don't know who you think you are that you can demand this of everybody else.
Read the fucking room.
Or just read the book and leave us alone.
If this book is so good and so important, Changing who does the voice of one character should not negate the rest of it.
Like, if it's that good, don't worry about it, you know?
I met God.
She's a lion.
Brian T. St. Pierre says they're never going to make any money if they just keep on remaking anything that they have and not coming up with new ideas.
Haven't they learned beating a dead horse doesn't work yet?
And I wish they would have!
Brian, but for somebody who hates Hollywood and hates Disney, probably, you sure don't pay that much attention to them because they make so much money with these remakes.
The Snow White one, I think, is the first one to flop, and it's, I think, because it seemed like an awful movie.
It's had nothing but bad press for at least five different reasons.
Otherwise, all these other remakes make billions of fucking dollars.
So, yeah, it sucks.
I agree that they should be remaking all this stuff.
But the profit motive dictates that they must.
Also, the way the Netflix structure works, it's not like they're not worried about box offices.
Brian, I guarantee you have Netflix.
You're already paying for it.
You paid for Narnia.
You did it already.
It's done.
They're not going to lose money for that movie not being streamed that much.
Right, yeah, that's true.
I mean, this movie at worst will be a tax write-off for them.
Laurel Larson says, I guess it's a good thing, period.
I kept those good movies on my DVDs.
I'm going to give Laurel this comment.
This is a good comment.
We are fans of physical media.
On this podcast, it is important to buy the DVDs to have them on hand so they can't take away from streaming.
But I love that.
She's like, if I didn't have this on DVD, it would have ruined the first one.
Thank God I preserved mine.
You better hope Mayor Pete or Elizabeth Warren or somebody like that doesn't get into the presidential office in 2028 because ICE agents will be busting down your door to confiscate your Chronicles of Narnia DVD.
I am willing to keep ICE around as long as we only use it to deprive these people of 2000s movies that we're middling at best.
No, I guess it's a good thing I kept those good movies on my DVD.
There's definitely a case for keeping physical media and not trusting the streaming services to preserve media that is worth preserving.
However, I would bet money that Netflix, because they're remaking...
This movie that they have also got the distribution rights or the streaming rights for the original movies, for the ones in the 2000s.
Like, they're going to want to remind people constantly of the existence of this property.
That's the reason they're remaking it in the first place is because people already recognize it.
The more they can do to help people recognize the quote.
Because that's what it is.
It's not art.
It's not whatever.
It's just a...
What do you call it?
It's an item in their inventory that they can make money off of.
I would assume they're going to try to do that with the original as well.
They're definitely not doing this to destroy the original because the original existing is the only reason...
That they're making this movie in the first place.
It's the only reason they want to make this movie in the first place.
They're hoping for synergy.
They're hoping to recreate the success.
Laurel, they're...
Now, they definitely don't want you to own it because that means you don't need them to watch it, but that's another story.
Regina Rosendale says, No!
Leave it alone!
Don't touch it.
No, please.
Clarissa Jones says they are definitely, quote, had-beens.
Who?
Who?
Meryl Streep and Greta Gerwig?
Is that who you're talking about?
Maybe Netflix.
Yeah, absolutely Netflix.
Definitely has-beens.
People have already forgotten about what they thought was hardcore pedophilia on Netflix in the form of that movie about...
The child dancers or whatever, right?
Like, I don't see that.
Cuties, what was it called?
People forgot about cuties.
Yeah.
Already.
Absolutely.
They are definitely, quote, had-beens.
The, quote, wokeness the Dems are still trying to spread is over and not accepted by the vast majority of voters.
Again, like, this is like, you're kind of conceding already.
A liberal cultural victory in that the most popular depiction of Christ is a talking lion for babies.
That's pretty lit stuff.
And Carlos Guedes posted one of those little animated stickers of a stick figure bunny rabbit behind bars.
Lock him up.
And in the GIF, He's, like, dancing.
He's, like, holding the bars and kind of, like, dancing and rocking with him.
But it definitely appears that he's, like, in prison.
And I do think that's where Carlos wants to see Greta Gerwig.
Yeah, I don't think he was trying to depict, like, a bunny in, like, a go-go cage having fun.
I think it is, like, a prison cell.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
And you will not be rising in three days from this cell that we put you in.
No.
That is for damn sure.
Gotta lock her up for this one.
Yeah, okay.
Well, that's the episode.
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