America Trends On Dunkin’ 11/5: Blue Tsunami, Russell Brand, ’The Legend Of Zelda’, ‘Harry Potter’

0:00 Hello, the Internet, and welcome to this episode of America Trends on Duncan.

0:08 Is that true? I've heard that.

0:11 I've heard that, but I don't know if it's actually true. That one is courtesy of Vanadium Silver, who had America Trends on Duncan and voting.

0:23 Think about that. Now that makes it political.

0:25 Yeah.

0:25 Yeah. As a social commentary element.

0:29 Uh-huh.

0:29 And we did.

0:30 We ran to the polls. Zelda Ocarina of time to go to the polls. We heard Hillary Clinton say that and we went to the polls. I saw another good one. Uh, grand theft. Uh, you grand theft ought to go to the pole.

0:48 Um, these are fun.

0:49 These are like, uh, Valentine's day, elementary school, Valentine quality, uh, puns, but I, for one enjoy, uh, miles is out on assignment, uh, being, being cold and watching arsenal, uh, play a team that stinks is, is my understanding. Uh, What's the team?

1:13 Do we know? I don't even know. I'd never heard of them. Like, you know, I hear about... The Cotswold Chaswalsers we are. Cotswold Chaswalsers. The Footie Bangers. Well, that's what their fans are called.

1:27 The fans are called the Footie Bangers, but they are, of course, the Cotswold Chaswalsers. I'm thrilled to be joined in his place by a hilarious writer, comedian, podcaster, You know from Film Drunk, The Front Cast, Pod Yourself a Gun, Pod Yourself a Wire, Mad Yourself a Man.

1:44 Welcome back to the show.

1:45 It's Vince Mancini!

1:48 Man, my credits are getting to be like a never was Ted McGinley these days, aren't they? What does that mean? I just, I don't know. Well, Ted McGinley has like a million credits because he was like, he was the guy that they threw in when a sitcom needed a ratings boost. So he came in at the tail end of basically everything. And I'm like that for stuff that people have never heard of.

2:17 Wait, is Ted McGinley... Is he the guy from Scrubs? Or that's a different McGinley?

2:23 No. I think that's John. John C. McGinley or something. Maybe they're like distantly related or something. I feel like I looked this up one time. No, he's Mr. Scream from Wayne's World as Ted McGinley. Oh, yes. Of course.

2:37 And yes, also Jefferson from Married with Children. Jefferson from Married with Children. Um, anyways, uh, that's what we're talking about today. Uh, the McGinley family tree. No, we're talking about the election. Still, still high, still huffing the fumes of, of the election.

2:54 Um, a few races yet to be called.

2:57 I know, but we did, uh, I will say proud, proud to say, uh, We were the first on yesterday's episode, which I actually came out this morning. So, uh, we weren't the first, but we called the Nithya Raman race before anybody else did on this show. Um, the problem with having a news show that comes out almost 24 hours after you record it, uh, is that we don't get credit for doing stuff like that, but.

3:24 Um, yeah.

3:26 Also on that episode, we were talking about, um, I was just I was saying it would have been hypothetically funny now that we have all these Democratic wins. It was just like one scenario that I was kind of hoping for was that the only person who outperformed their polling in the Republican Party was. was the guy uh who trump's who's who's ass trump kept talking about john husted like it was just the trump ass bump yeah like if that had worked and like that was the the republican party just had to like move forward knowing that like that was the only strategy that they could use as like a toehold can you imagine them trying to like astroturf that as uh you know as like an asshole yeah exactly um we're having fun with puns

4:18 today fun with language Anyways, we're getting to see like the Wall Street Journal has some inside looks at like Trump in the run up to the midterms and basically calling it a month long spiral. But they did say that he had that same hypothetical scenario in mind as well.

4:44 Oh, sure. Yeah. He was, you know, he had it all figured out. He knew what was going to happen. I mean, he looked, he felt like he was on a downward spiral in 2024 also. I know. And then, yeah.

4:55 So that's why it was so surprising that it didn't work this time. But I think surprising to him too, you know, he's always been like, I trust my instincts and they've never steered me wrong. And, um, I just from this New Republic kind of summary of the Wall.

5:10 Street Journal, because we're not going to pay for the fucking Wall Street Journal.

5:13 The New Republic said the president's understanding of American priorities at times seemed so far removed from reality that it bordered on the absurd. At one point, Trump reportedly told his advisers that he believed his ceaseless commentary about Ohio Senator John Husted's ass was making Husted, quote, more interesting to Ohio voters.

5:38 Everybody in Ohio is an ass man, in case you're... What was his theory of the case there? I do.

5:45 I just want to hear like more. I could read an entire book about just like his thought process, you know?

5:51 Yeah. I don't even, I really don't know anything about this guy other than his ass now. Like that's the, that's the only thing that I'm going to take away from this. Yeah.

6:01 Like probably really good for him and his self-esteem. But anyways, it did not. Husted lost by a margin of nearly five percentage points in Ohio, which I had been accustomed to being one of those places where we're like, we just need to win Ohio. And I feel really good about it. And then like Democrats get blown out by 10 percentage points. Same as Texas.

6:22 Nope.

6:23 They actually Republicans lost in in Ohio. I'm going to say. Uh, and, and this is something I'm going to say. I don't think we need to feel like celebrating the defeat of MAGA is living out or like a guilty pleasure.

6:43 Sure.

6:44 Um, I feel, I've seen a lot of that and like, I get it. Uh, but I think we can feel good. Like we existed in a country that seemed like it was on an authoritarian path to hell, uh, the voters, you know, took the belt to the Nazi ass at the polls.

7:03 That's unmistakably good.

7:05 But it also, it doesn't mean that we have to like give up to Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer.

7:10 Yeah. Because like that, well, they were the biggest speed bump, like on the road, like they spent this whole, I mean, if you like the path of the democratic party, I feel like Zoran winning was a huge deal for everyone and it sort of gave everybody the like the opportunity to hope and dream again again you know and I think like they stood in his way at every every turn.

7:35 Yes and the politicians who won like were were paying attention to the Zoran thing and like yeah it like all of the narratives like in the past it's been like Oh, but like all the centrists win. And so now we have to like take a backseat and be like, will the centrist let us into the conversation? I was listening to John Ossoff give his election night speech. And like, I was struck by two things. One, how much he sounds like Obama. We're still doing that. We're still doing it.

8:06 They are still doing it. Same thought, had the same thought, listening to him, give his, like, it was all him, uh, Abdul, Syed, Ossoff and Tallarico all sound like, like I, I literally, I swear, like they have to have someone behind the scenes who is like the shot coach in an NBA franchise is just like, no, you have to actually like your inflection. Like they're, they're doing work on how everybody speaks to make them speak like Obama. Um, Or maybe it's just an unconscious thing. Everyone's like, that guy's a good speaker. Yeah, it's hard.

8:40 To kick that. I mean, in the right stuff, there's a thing about how for, I don't know, 50 years, every pilot tried to sound like Chuck Yeager. I kind of think it's just like, you know, you get a giant in the field and then everybody... I mean, Trump's still copying Reagan, so... Right. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, they do kind of.

9:02 have have a similar um but the the other thing i was struck by was just like how much it sounded like bernie sanders light like it really like the talking points that closed that like the democrats won with are taking on corporate greed endless wars and like billionaires and just going after them like it is straight up a leftist message that they won with and so like it's not.

9:32 We don't have to kowtow to the Blue Dogs after this one. This was not like whatever year that was where all the, you know, pro-gun, anti-abortion Democrats were. I mean, this was like, I feel like it was a repudiation of the mainstream Democratic Party as much as it was the Republicans. Yeah, it really was.

9:50 And like the, you know, they do still have like Hakeem Jeffries as the Speaker of the House. But like, there are things to be done. There's definitely work to be done. but like it just we could.

10:01 Vote against jeffries couldn't we i mean right couldn't they like kick that guy out of there and get someone who didn't stand in the way of progress these past like year year and a half who wasn't who wasn't like trying to tamp down enthusiasm at every uh every turn I do. Yeah.

10:18 They won by going against Israel, by going against billionaires and like Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are like pro Israel pro like tied to billionaires.

10:27 Yeah. The old school. I mean, the, like the very timid, the exact opposite of what one, the most Democrat classic that you can, that you can have.

10:35 Yeah. I'm not here to say it won't be annoying, but I do think like we're, there is a tendency or like, there's just sort of this knee jerk reaction that like, Well, fuck, here we go again.

10:47 And now the Democrats are in power.

10:48 And it's like they got there with socialist messaging.

10:53 That is exact.

10:54 And like the other thing that I will say is like as entrenched as, you know, some of those interests are in the Democratic Party, these people are opportunists. You know like that John Ossoff didn't start Start off talking like that You know he was Like kind of more of a centrist And now his messaging Sound like it Sounds like Bernie Sanders because that Is what's working because that's What people want like which is kind of How politics works.

11:26 Yeah And that's good you know celebrate Celebrate that like ride ride the wave When it's a wave of Good things I feel like the thing with Jeffries and Schumer is like... Even if you take their politics out of it, which are bad... Right. Jeffries also is. He's a bad speaker. Like he sounds like he, he, he acts like a, like a corporate, you know, like, like someone who's doing corporate doublespeak. It's like a country bear jam brew kind of guy doing corporate doublespeak. And even, even if, even if you, uh, agreed with him, like, I don't think he would be the ideal mouthpiece for anything. No, no, I don't think so.

12:06 Um, anyways, we'll keep talking about this tomorrow, but I just, uh, I, I do feel like there's an, uh, immediate response because for the past decade it has been like centrists win and we have a bad night for the left the left wins but it's a bad night for overall democrats and like is this was the one time that like they came together and basically stole stole the talking points from the left but it's like yeah we want them to steal the talking points from the left like that's the that's the idea.

12:35 They're They're moving in the right direction. That's all we wanted Kamala to do in 2024 was like, all right, pay a little bit of lip service so you can squeak by and she wouldn't do it. And now the opposite, you know, like that, the opposite is happening and that's good.

12:52 What a fucking blunt, like that whole campaign just looks so crazy now in retrospect, like so wild that they were like, I guess we've got to tack right away from what people seem to really want. And the only, you know, popular response to this authoritarian move is like.

13:13 I have to show loyalty to this guy whose brain is leaking out his ear and is historically unpopular for some reason. Just so like people think I'm a good person or something. Yeah, it was baffling. Even when it was happening, it was, what are you doing? It was so weird. Like lie to get what you want. Like you're a politician. You can't just say the popular thing, but no. I guess I'm glad she didn't do that.

13:38 And I will say like, maybe that's a good, maybe that's a good reason not to be doing an Obama impression because that is what he did. And that's how we got into this position in the first place is he came in with like, you know, America had not seen a leftist in a long time. And so he came in and just like made a gesture at leftist politics, but then he, you know, tacked directly to the center of, And like that now everybody hates the democratic party. It's like, I'm kind of glad she didn't successfully like fool people and then come in and be just another Biden, because I think we would have been in far worse shape in the end. Yeah. Proved successful. Like that would be a new blueprint. And that, yeah. Then we were really

14:24 close to that. It seems like. All right. Let's take a quick break.

14:28 We'll come back and we'll talk about Russell brand being found guilty of rape and sexual assaults.

14:33 We'll be back. And we're back.

14:46 Yeah, there's something refreshing about this story. Russell Brand has been found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault. And the judge told Russell Brand that he will receive custodial sentence of some length, which is a very British way of saying, Vince, that he may go to prison for the rest of his life.

15:08 Damn, I thought he would have to. clean the bleachers at the Chaz Walz's stadium. The Chaz Walz's, Mike.

15:16 He, yeah, this is, like, I feel like we keep hearing stories about known rapists and, you know, people committing sexual assault and just, like, getting away with it in the United States. It's kind of wild to see a story where, uh, somebody who is a known and apparently serial rapist, uh, just being caught. And it's like, oh, and there, there are actual consequences.

15:44 Yeah. You wonder when marriage meadow might, uh, get in trouble. We've all got our eye on shmarriage murder. No, I mean, and the other thing that's funny about it is I think Russell Brand may hold the record for like the most disingenuous born-again conservative turn. It's up there. I mean, it's up there.

16:11 It's pretty impressive how just, yeah, on the face shameless it was.

16:17 The fact that he Did that like as a very transparent strategy and then got convicted like the day after a massive blue wave. I mean, I know he's in England, but like it's it feels like something. It feels like the room. Yeah. Yeah. I did love the clip where he couldn't find.

16:35 The passage that he was talking about. And whoever was interviewing him just let him sit in it while he pretended to.

16:43 Try to find it. It's like, oh, I know I saw it here somewhere.

16:48 But apparently the jury didn't buy Brandt's defense team's argument that he was the real victim because the TV documentary made about his awfulness fundamentally corrupted his accusers. And this is the part that really I can't believe they. that didn't respond to this, that this didn't pull at their heartstrings, that the documentary had a truly devastating effect on his life.

17:10 Oh, man.

17:11 Oh, no.

17:11 Won't you think about poor Russell Brand?

17:15 You were saying that somebody posted a poster of Get Him to the Greek with.

17:21 well like diddy and russell brand jonah hill and then i feel bad for jonah hill for even lumping yeah i don't know that he's quite there i don't think he deserves that but uh yeah but two out of three like that those are the three leads of that movie yeah wow um anyways how did how did that happen Two out of three in prison is impressive. Yeah.

17:46 I guess how it happens is it's not that uncommon in Hollywood. Anyways.

17:53 Are you excited about Zelda, Vince? What's happening with Zelda? The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time.

18:01 Oh, yeah. So excited. It's getting raves.

18:07 It's got a 96 Metascore on Metacritic. which the original 1998 game has a 99, but that's based on fewer reviews. Yeah.

18:19 That was when it didn't come out. Like the first Nintendo Zelda wasn't before that.

18:26 So this is a remake of like one of the sequels that is considered to be the greatest video game of all time.

18:33 Okay. Got it.

18:35 By many people, people say it, it's like a big open world kind of sandbox thing. And people say it's like what it's like the Sopranos or, you know, like every movie or every video game that came before, it seems like completely different and like behind it and everything after it seems like kind of indebted to it. You know, it's just like, it is that game changer. And so they're remaking it for the switch with like, you know, I mean, remaking it is not quite right, but it seems like it's... Updating it, redoing it. Updating it, redoing it.

19:13 And it seems to... They seem to have succeeded. People are very excited about this.

19:18 Well done, Zelda guys. Well done, Nintendo. Upcoming.

19:25 iconograph on nintendo that's the only reason i knew that shit by the way i'm not i'm not a gamer but i'm doing a lot of research into the history of nintendo right now.

19:33 Where does the name nintendo come from was that was that just something that they made up or was there like somebody's name in there because like it's so glad you asked that i just accept as a thing but then i'm like wait a second that's not that wasn't a word before that.

19:47 There are multiple, there are different theories, but like the main theory is that it means, so they started as a gambling, like a card company. making making cards in the 1880s what and their the name can mean like luck house like so like luck heaven house or something like that so it's like a combination of like these different symbols that mean basically like a casino where you win and they named their card company.

20:20 After that is that just like a thing that you can do with japanese because of the way the alphabet works where it's feels like you get all these like uh portmanteau type things yeah yeah when.

20:30 People like explain that they're like it could be this but like there's a lot of questions over like the specific characters and like whether that was actually like how it came to be but um it makes sense to me i mean they were they were a card company and then a hourly hotel company Wow.

20:51 A taxi. Yeah. Like a, a fuck pad company, essentially.

20:54 Yeah.

20:55 Taxi cut.

20:55 They tried every, they, they've been in, uh, in business for a while trying different stuff.

21:00 Um, so. Shout out to, shout out to Nintendo. Just keep trying. If something doesn't work, you just, you pivot and you move, you keep going. It really is. It's crazy.

21:10 It's like, wow, that's, it would be like if Apple, you know how like Apple started as like the very first computer company and then like they became a gadget company would be like, If there was a prehistory to that where they were an actual fruit company, you know, it's just like, what about this? We took the apple crates and decided that to put some electronics inside it.

21:35 I like that the Nintendo has like a seedy edge with, you know, with the horny.

21:39 Yeah. Gambling.

21:41 Yeah.

21:42 Yeah. Sickos bunch of sickos.

21:44 And the, the president of the company was like their number one customer, uh, at the fuck pad place. Uh, and that guy remained president until like, this was in the forties and fifties.

21:57 He, he was like the president until 2002. Like unbelievable. Yeah. Uh, he's like the Larry Flint of, uh, pre pre, uh, video game. Yeah. Nintendo. I love that.

22:10 Hey, speaking of keep trying, uh, the white house saw the Zelda success and they posted a picture, an AI video of Trump as link, uh, which they already did back in September.

22:23 It is kind of funny.

22:24 Like he gave a speech yesterday that like Fox news initially cut to, uh, uh, because it was the day after like the midterm wipeout.

22:32 And like, he just like, didn't talk about it at all. Like didn't even acknowledge that.

22:38 Yeah.

22:38 They cut away.

22:38 They were like, Oh, I guess he's not going to talk about this like incredibly, uh, fraught moment for him.

22:45 Um, yeah. So they just cut away, which that is always like the, uh, I don't know if you want to call it the saving grace, but it's like, you're always wondering like how, how authoritarian was this administration going to get? But like the X factor was his attention span. It really was.

23:03 Yeah. We really, in some ways got very lucky because he is so incompetent. And so, and it was like hard to say that as it was happening, because he is very powerful and very cruel and like a fucking real psychopath who is like, does have some political instincts, but like, his ability to execute was like kind of our saving grace, his complete inability to execute.

23:28 I mean, he basically had goon squads out there, like watching the polls, like presumably, you know, it felt like, okay, these guys might do some voter intimidation and seem like they might actually steal this thing. And, you know, he uses his emergency powers for every dumb little thing. It didn't seem out of the realm of possibilities that he would, Yeah.

23:50 Steal the election. I mean, it is like the Supreme.

23:54 I was like, oh, thank God the Supreme Court ruled against them, like seizing those California ballots. And like that could have been bad. But like they got their ass beat so hard. Like, I don't know that it would have mattered even if they had tried to shoot.

24:07 Yeah. It also just felt like he, you know, he had his finger poised over the button and then he was like, oh, look, a bird. And then it was just.

24:15 Very well could be that. Um, maybe we put out a thing with me as link. Uh, but let me, let me get like five looks at my ass in that video. I want to make sure it looks real good, real tight.

24:28 Um, I can't tell if the memes are starting to feel low energy or if it, they always were. And we're just sort of like looking at it in a different light now. I mean, this one, they had already tried back in September. So they're just like, I don't know, maybe this again. I think, I think they seem, I think everybody over there is gassed. They're just like, yeah, they've been awake for two years in a row on like Adderall and fucking Sudafed. Like, you know, his drugs of choice. Uh, so I think everybody's just fucking probably, uh, on the last legs of their sanity yeah i mean like in 2024 i think there was that final press conference where he just sort of like ran out of gas in the middle of it and then he just

25:11 let the music play music play for a bunch of songs and stood there and everybody looked at that for a second here everybody's like oh well he's he's definitely losing look at this and then he won and he won by like.

25:24 I, again, like people said it was a landslide. It wasn't really a landslide, but, um, that is also the move that Fox news is trying to argue. They're like, there was no blue way. It's like, I don't, I don't know. Did you guys think you were going to lose fucking Texas? I mean, all the way up and down, get credit for a landslide. If they just don't lose the popular vote.

25:45 Yeah. Um, Let's talk Harry Potter. Where are you with Harry Potter? Oh, man. I made it to... I watched the very first Harry Potter movie when I was really high. And that sorting hat scene. I was like, whoa, look at that. And I had a great time. Look at that hat that's talking. And then I think I tried to recreate that experience with later... Harry Potter movies. And I think I made it like maybe one and a half more movies where I was like, I'm out. I'm tired.

26:14 I'm tired of this whole world. Don't care.

26:16 Yeah. I, uh, my kids like had heard about it through school, asked me to read it to them. I, we got like one and a half in and they were like, I don't really care about, Hey, just FYI. I know you feel like you're doing something by reading to us at bed. I don't care about this shit at all. I've been out for like a novel and a half here, man.

26:43 Um, and so it just turns into like tedious Britishness at a certain stage. And it feels like you're suddenly seeing the lines of code of the matrix and you're like, yeah, all right. I know what you do. And I, yeah.

26:53 And so we moved on to Percy Jackson, which is a perfectly fine, just Greek mythology grafting of the whole Harry Potter thing.

27:01 That's, only a little bit racist. So, you know, the vibes are like slightly white.

27:08 Supremacists where they're like, well, Western culture has been the, the peak, uh, and wherever Western culture goes, uh, the Greek gods are watching over. Um, but for the most part, it's not a terrible. And as far as I know, the author is not a huge transphobe.

27:27 Um, That is a benefit.

27:29 I do think it's an interesting media situation because I think people are more out on the franchise than all the money that's being spent on it would indicate, you know?

27:43 Yeah. I mean, a lot of the franchise money being thrown around feels like it's, it was like they greenlit it under 2019 rules or something when, uh, you know, man's massive franchises were still a thing and it just, Feels like there was a public exhaustion with the whole idea. Yeah.

28:03 Um, they just did the grand opening of London's flagship Harry Potter store. So they're like, this is like the new Disney. Like, this is like, we're going to have a whole ass Harry Potter store.

28:14 Like a store. Like, what does that mean? You buy like wands and capes and stuff. What don't you buy? What don't you buy?

28:21 Um, at least 10 cops had to be deployed because, uh, it was being protested by, you know, human rights activists. So they had to be deployed to handle the peaceful protest of a high-end plastic wand retailer.

28:37 Quidditch supplies, I guess. Yeah, exactly.

28:43 A lot of the protesters were big fans of Harry Potter, but argued the franchise is not worth the loss of human dignity, which I think is... I think that is the point that everybody is coming to. It's like, wow, she's really... like sticking to that, like she donates to anti-trans causes. Like she's, she's really that much of a bigot.

29:05 And like, and she doesn't, is not a good enough artist to like make anyone want to forget that part. Like if, I don't know if Harry Potter was, better you'd be willing to you'd be willing to overlook it i'm not i'm not saying we'd be willing to overlook you know how much we'd be willing i think think i think there would be um people more would be more forgiving yeah than they are but it's as it is it's like why what's the point of that what am i what am i getting out of this more of the i don't even know what world of Harry Potter we're on at this point. We're on the same fucking world. That's the thing.

29:42 Like, I think to your point, like where the new big moment is they're doing an HBO series about the telling the same fucking story.

29:52 It's just a new cast.

29:53 And like, I think people are just like, whoa, Like, they're not excited enough about it to overlook it. And, like, so everybody's protesting it. Nobody's, like, being like, well, I have to see.

30:04 Yeah.

30:05 It's also annoying that HBO now is like, we do IP only.

30:09 I was just going to say, is this a Zaslav thing? I think it must be, yeah. They had, like, a Chuck Lorre show on HBO for a bit there, too. And I was like, what are we doing? I thought this was supposed to be, like, of a premium quality. Like, this is the network that... Used to be. Yeah. They gave us all these great shows.

30:27 Yeah. They, I keep hearing like they did that, um, that Stephen King universe, uh, show that like, I don't know, didn't look interesting to me. And like the premise I heard was that like the, the clown from it was like made in a military lab to, uh.

30:45 To.

30:47 Like fight the Vietnam war or something like, it was like, just like such a.

30:52 Dumb, like, Is that Welcome to Derry? Taking the Batman... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Welcome to Derry.

30:57 It's like taking the Batman Begins logic to just an extreme where it's like, I don't know, man. It worked for Batman Begins, but I don't want all of my Stephen King monsters to have a scientific... It's kind of verging on midichlorian type shit. It's kind of annoying when it works because they had the Penguin show and it was really good. Really good. Yeah.

31:23 So you're like part part of me was like, oh, man, that was cool. And then part of me was like, oh, no, they're going to do everything like that. Constantly.

31:31 But anyways, people people are just really like out on the show. And it seems like the three child stars of the new show couldn't attend a Christmas late switch on promo event because they're shielding the kids from protesters. There is also a recent online backlash to Tim Horton's Harry Potter tie in products. Which consisted of some donuts that looked like they were covered in mold and a drink that looked like the blue shit that barbers keep their combs in.

32:00 Cool. Very, very good. Lines around the block for that, I'm sure.

32:06 Yeah. Yeah, it's just like that. And they're going to be like, oh, Woke killed this franchise. I was like, I don't know, man. I think they just kind of ran out of gas on this one. General fatigue.

32:17 Yeah.

32:17 But I do, you know, I think they're both great reasons to say fuck Harry Potter at this point. You know? Anyways.

32:26 Any support for the Harry.

32:27 Potter franchise at this point is like kind of hard to justify because she literally... funds anti-trans causes.

32:35 Like, yeah. And it does make you wonder like how involved she actually is in any of this stuff coming out. I mean, I'm, I'm, I know she's like profiting off of it, but like, is, you know, I don't know how involved she is in her vision. Right. Right. It's probably like Matt Groening and the Simpsons level involved at this point. Probably. Anyways, uh, fuck JK Rowling.

32:54 Yeah.

32:55 I think is, is where we net out on this one.

32:58 Yeah.

32:59 Um, but not even because I don't care about you. I don't want you, I don't want you to go away and I don't want to hear about you anymore.

33:04 Yeah.

33:05 Please. All right. Vince, thank you so much for joining. Uh, where can people find you? Follow you? Uh, you can find me at, uh, Fresno land food where I write fat city. I'm the food editor there. You can find me at Vince Mancini dot sub stack.com where I review movies and TV at the content report. And of course our podcasts, patreon.com slash broadcast where we watch bad men and we talk about movies and stuff.

33:30 Yeah yeah all right that's gonna do it for us this afternoon we're back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show until then be kind to each other be kind to yourselves get your vaccines where you still can get your flu shots don't do nothing about white supremacy and we will talk to you all tomorrow.

33:46 Bye The Daily Zeitgeist is executive produced by Catherine Law. Co-produced by Victor Wright. Co-written by J.M. McNabb. And edited and engineered by Brian Jeffries.