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Trends Like These

Oscar Nominations, Women's March, Nazi Punch, Inauguration/Week One

Trends Like These

Travis McElroy

Comedy, News Commentary, News

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2017

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Hello there Cool Kids! Welcome to a brand new week! We have a big episode for you! First, a quick look at the recently announce Oscar nominations! Then, we take a look at the massive marches that happened this weekend all around the globe. Richard Spencer got punched in the face and the internet is still wrapping their heads around it. It's week one of the Trump presidency and starting at his inauguration, their was controversy. That controversy then led to the release of "alternative facts". Also this week, Trump has signed a boat load of Executive Orders! All that, plus a much needed Wi-Five of the Week! Enjoy and be sure to share!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This week is punching Nazis right, Spicers Press Fight, and Marchers Unite.

0:06.0

I'm Brent Black. I'm Travis Macperoy.

0:09.0

And I'm vacuuming the hallway.

0:11.0

With trends like these. Hello Brent.

0:25.0

Travis, it is nice to hear that you are alive and well in this the first week of the cyberpunk future dystopia that is Trumpland.

0:39.0

Yeah, you know, it's interesting. We've ventured a new era I mean we've we've spent eight years

0:48.0

did it never occur to you how strange it is to be an age now where you're old enough now to compare errors of time

0:57.5

to others of errors of time in a very concrete way during which you were an adult?

1:03.0

Yeah, like I can remember the difference between when George W Bush took office and those eight years

1:10.1

versus when Obama took office in those eight years and now the week one of

1:16.8

Trump taking office like I I'm old enough now to be able to compare and

1:21.4

contrast those periods in a very concrete way.

1:25.4

It is a new experience for me.

1:27.8

It is super crazy the ability to do that.

1:30.5

I'm hoping that more than the beginning of a new era that like

1:34.8

Trump's reign, hopefully short and impeached as it may be, is like the final death throws of an era.

1:45.0

Maybe?

1:46.0

I mean we talked about it on Interabing this week and I had a realization this week

1:51.0

of like what we're in now. there's a lot of like people talking about like civil war and stuff in like you know lots of opposition I think right now what we're in is a very ongoing long-term like multi-decade war of PR of like having people say hey

2:11.1

let me rather than tell you why you should support me, let me tell you instead

2:16.3

why you should hate these other people and be afraid of them.

2:19.7

Sure, but I think we're all getting really tired of that though, like it just so happens that I think we're all getting really tired of that though like it just so happens that I think

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