Leslie Jones, Ice Bucket Update, RNC

Trends Like These

Travis McElroy

Comedy, News Commentary, News

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Hello there Cool Kid! Come in, come in! Don't just stand there in the door way! Have a seat and let's talk about what's going on in the world! Did you hear about the trouble that Leslie Jones has had on Twitter and the punishment the lead troll received? We have some info on the long lasting effect of the Ice Bucket Challenge of two years ago. Folks, there has been a whole lot of news coming out of the RNC! From usage of a Queen song, the collection of speakers and Melania Trump's perceived plagiarism, there's been a whole lot of buzz on the social medias! All that, plus the Wi-Five of the Week! Enjoy!

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0:00.0	This week, Twitter Troll Incites Hate, Ice Bucket Updates, and Making America Not Great.
0:06.0	I'm Brent Black. I'm Travis McElroy.
0:09.0	And I'm Melania Obama.
0:11.0	With trends like these.
0:14.0	Hello, Branthe!
0:17.0	Hello, Branthe! Hello Brent.
0:25.0	Travis.
0:26.0	Travis, welcome to the dumpster fire that is 2016.
0:31.0	Yeah, you know, I want to get right on front of that and say that I think that a lot of it is real.
0:40.2	A lot of it is that there's a shit ton of shit going on right now.
0:43.7	But I also think there's something to be said about,
0:46.4	it's like when you're sick, when you're ill,
0:49.0	all you can feel is shitty.
0:50.9	And even when good things happen, you focus on the shitty because that's how you feel and I think right now
0:57.2	America at least because that's where we are feels ill
1:01.2	Yeah kind of an a bleak spot. Yeah, but like... But it's more about how it looks and feels really bleak right now. Exactly.
1:10.6	necessarily is. So everything rather than compounding, like, it seems to be happening exponentially
1:20.0	rather than like 1 plus 1 plus 1 plus, it's like one times two times three times four times five is right feels like
1:26.7	where I think especially I think a lot of it comes from just the air of the election and we're going to talk a lot about the
1:34.5	RNC but I think that the convention air of two very divisive candidates
1:41.1	good or bad,
1:43.7	however you feel about it,
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