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This week Trevor, Vida and Ken squad up to talk about the movie ‘Blink Twice’ and its relationship to the every day occurrences it attempts to depict.  A psychological thriller[5] film directed and produced by Zoë Kravitz (in her directorial debut) from a script she wrote with E.T. Feigenbaum. The film stars Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum, Christian Slater, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Haley Joel Osment, Kyle MacLachlan, Geena Davis, and Alia Shawkat. It tells the story of a group of people invited to the private island of a billionaire tech mogul as something strange happens with the attendees.

**THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS**

Links mentioned in this episode can be found at:

Blink Twice: Zoë Kravitz and Naomi Ackie on Making People the Right Kind of Uncomfortable and How Channing Tatum Helped Change the Ending 

• https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/blink-twice-zoe-kravitz-and-naomi-ackie-ending-spoilers-interview?srsltid=AfmBOoo7YLjsYzaUBkzc8I-Mw_oY_TJ86Tm_PXIt6jR_CBg9shP9gRCc

Blink Twice Director Confirms What We All Suspected About the Ending

• https://thedirect.com/article/blink-twice-ending

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This week Trevor is joined by guest Jacob Silverman to discuss Silicon Valleys role in politics and Elon/Zuckerberg’s interests in “getting” political.  Jacob Silverman is an independent journalist in New York, the co-author of the New York Times best seller “Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud” (Abrams, 2023), and the author of “Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection” (HaperCollins, 2015). Silverman is currently working on a book about the the reactionary tilt of Silicon Valley elites, which will be published by Bloomsbury in 2025.  You can learn more about Silverman and his writings at: https://www.jacobsilverman.com/

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This week Trevor and Ken sit down to chop it up about the over-inflated male ego and the beta-alpha relationship a “certain type” of fan likes to fall in to with a “certain type” of celebrity.  Continuing the fun fest of dragging drake for his inability to correctly handle any situation he puts himself in, the cult of personality around elon musk, the tech industry concept of “disruption”, trump coin and g6 priests stalling out; its all on the chopping block.

Links for this episode can be found at:

• Full Interview: Preacher Kenneth Copeland Defends Lavish Lifestyle – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LtF34MrsfI
• Why Rihanna Rejected Drake – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djMszSlOaMA
• smoking jacket drake – https://x.com/kirawontmiss/status/1886833369507410282?s=46&mx=2
• gettin goofy w/ lebron – https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1ue1mj/drake_meets_lebron_james_appears_to_be_very/?rdt=64390

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This week Trevor is joined by guest Dr. Jesse Smith to discuss his article ‘Sociology in the Age of Trump: The Clash of Deep Stories on the Left and Right’.  Dr. Smith received his PhD in sociology and demography from Penn State University in 2023. Prior to his graduate training in sociology, Dr. Smith obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work. He spent several years in south-central Indiana working in the fields of mental health, addictions treatment, and child services.

Dr. Smith’s research interests are diverse, focusing on such topics as religious nationalism, moral development, and the transmission of faith between generations. His work has been published in journals such as Sociology of Religion, Journal of Marriage and Family, Socius, and Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

Links in this episode can be found at:

• “Sociology in the Age of Trump: The Clash of Deep Stories on the Left and Right” https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2024/04/93081/
• “The Right Has Become Post-Religious” https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2023/07/89591/
• “Fear and Loathing across Party Lines: New Evidence on Group Polarization” https://sci-hub.ru/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ajps.12152
• “The Deep Story Beneath the Big Lie” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-deep-story-beneath-the-big-lie/

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This week Ken and Trevor open the show w/ a discussion on a new and rather odd production of Show Boat and how it’s another chapter of tragic presentism in todays entertainment.  Then, the focus turns to hip hop and updates on the downfall of Drake.  This episode is a patreons only feast for the ears.

Apologies for some audio issues we had with Kens feed near the end of this episode.

Links for this episode can be found at:

• Drake’s Alarming OBSESSION With Street Gangs & Violence – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3EhThQuYVo
• Drake’s Assault case on Producer ‘Detail’ has been Dismissed after Drake claims Detail has going MIA – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeerWAlmdYE
• Drake Sued For Assaulting Beyonce Producer, Detail Says Drake Let Bodyguard Chubbs Beat him Down – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdVsyTC4Qyo
• Bobby Brown ‘Girl Next Door’ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br-rvb0TAFU

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This week Trevor sits down with Alex Skopic to talk about his article on Vivek Ramaswamy, and what he means to the new political landscape.  Alex Skopic is presently Associate Editor at Current Affairs and you can find his writings both fiction and non-fiction on his website https://alexskopic.com/

Links for this episode can be found at:

• Alex’s article https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2023/12/the-lessons-of-vivek
• The Trump question with Mehdi Hasan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoGBZNe4YvU&t=899s&ab_channel=VivekRamaswamy
• The Tweet https://x.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1872312139945234507?mx=2
• The economic rant retweeted by Wall Street Apes https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/1877846116529558005?s=46

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This week Mario and Ken talk tech as elon lets it be known what he thinks of american workers.  The future of education and certain jobs both have a chance of disappearing with elon and trump coming in to power, and The Sharks got some thoughts about that.

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This week Trevor sits down with Nitish Pahwa (https://www.nitishpahwa.com/) and Mo Diggs (https://supculture.substack.com/) to talk about what to expect over the next 4 years when Trump jumps back into the oval office while comparing it to what we’ve had in the past.

Nitish Pahwa is an associate writer for business and tech at Slate.com. He’s also written for the New York Times and Passion of the Weiss, and he lives in Brooklyn.

Mo Diggs writes about tech, culture and legacy media. His Substack, Cross Current, looks at the intersection between the new media trends of today and the legacy media trends of yesterday. It has been mentioned in the New York Times and it costs nothing to subscribe — for now.

LINKS IN THIS EPISODE CAN BE FOUND AT:

• Cable TV Is on Its Very Last Legs. Next Year May Be the End. https://slate.com/technology/2024/11/nbcuniversal-spinning-off-msnbc-cnbc-spinco.html
• How the PayPal Mafia Looks Set To Dominate the New Administration https://www.investopedia.com/the-paypal-mafia-8759491
• The Last Days of Disco Liberalism https://supculture.substack.com/p/the-last-days-of-disco-liberalism
• The Death of the Liberal Media https://supculture.substack.com/p/the-death-of-the-liberal-media
• ABC Had Good Legal Reasons to Settle with Trump https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/12/21/abc-news-settlement-trump-media-threats-00195761
• MSNBC Reportedly Tells Two More Anchors To Take Pay Cuts Amid Ratings Tank https://www.yahoo.com/news/msnbc-reportedly-tells-two-more-163309834.html
• How the Paypal Mafia Looks Set to Dominate the New Administration https://www.investopedia.com/the-paypal-mafia-8759491
• The Quiet Political Rise of David Sacks, Silicon Valley’s Prophet of Urban Doom https://newrepublic.com/article/168125/david-sacks-elon-musk-peter-thiel

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This week Trevor sits down solo to discuss the scams being run on both sides of the aisle; but how they are ran are grossly different.  With a deep dive into examples, this episode looks into the concept that just because you cant see the grift, doesn’t mean its not there but now it appears the average American is hoping to get in on the con.

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This week Trevor, Ken, and Mario gather up and start the show with a breakdown on the current political goings on in the online discourse, then for part 2 the Sharks get into Drakes UMG petition that has only added fuel to his downfall. Its an extended session so get comfortable because the Sharks are feasting for the holidays.

Links mentioned in this episode can be found at:

• The Case for Myron from Fresh and Fit being closeted https://www.youtube.com/live/uE0MCTAfSvw?si=nqE4hmip-Ay6TSIP
• Xevi breaking down Drake’s petition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnTZoAxsqGE&ab_channel=Xevi
• Drake petition: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/files/2024/11/drake-petition.pdf

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