Weird World Variety with Matt and Jesse
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Weird World Variety with Matt and Jesse
Rap Meets Politics with Tom McDonald and Ben Shapiro, Whimsical Spurs Heroics, and Pop Culture's Wildest Twists
Ever wondered what would happen if the worlds of political commentary and rap music collided? Well, buckle up, because we’re peeling back the curtain on the enigmatic pairing of Tom McDonald and Ben Shapiro, who’ve climbed to the top of the charts with a collaboration that's as unconventional as it is captivating. Discover the secrets behind their phantom-like production, where technology conjures up presence in absence, and get the scoop on the ghostwriting rumors that are haunting the music industry with a twist of irony.
Now, hold onto your seats—it's not just the music world that's serving up surprises. We're taking a detour through the realm of the whimsical, with stories that'll have you chuckling and shaking your head in disbelief. Picture this: the Spurs mascot, decked out as Batman, swoops in for a heroic bat capture that's as bizarre as it is brilliant. This episode isn't just about the laughs, though; it's a journey through pop culture's most unexpected turns, where even the animal kingdom can upstage the headliners. Tune in for an episode that promises to entertain, bewilder, and leave you with more questions than answers about the ever-surprising fabric of reality.
We have Tom McDonald and Ben Shapiro at number one in the world right now.
Speaker 2:What's that got to do with the phantasm?
Speaker 1:But OK it's a ghostly story. Let me tell you.
Speaker 2:Especially in this juncture, ready whip.
Speaker 1:The way you said. Whip is weird, whip how?
Speaker 2:are you doing today? Jess Hi is in pie without cool whip, whip, whip.
Speaker 1:How are you doing today, man? I am phantasmic, phantasmic. There's a lot of phantasms going on in the world, that's for sure. I think right now we have Tom McDonald and Ben Shapiro at number one in the world right now.
Speaker 2:What's that got to do with phantasms?
Speaker 1:But OK, it's a ghostly story Let me tell you. Ok, we'll have to wiggle it on that a little. So here's the phantasm. So here's the ghost. Ben Shapiro, if you look at the music video, was not in the music video, they did it remotely and then they programmed him in the scene. So, like they, they recorded video on three separate occasions. Nova, who's Tom's?
Speaker 2:girl.
Speaker 1:Yeah, tom's girl Waifu. Waifu, waifu Did the video did the video and when you look at the behind the scenes of the video, there was nobody in that warehouse with Tom. It was just Tom and his family. So they took Ben Shapiro and he'd made video and recorded, I guess, and then superimposed the video of him alongside Tom. Wow, I thought he was actually there and he's the one performing. He was there with Tom in that video.
Speaker 2:That's why I said it's a ghost Can you get him for real.
Speaker 1:What happened? No, they. I mean he was the one performing and they, you know he did the rap and everything. He just wasn't in the building when they did the video, so I got you. What's even funnier about that is that Ben Shapiro, who probably didn't even write the wrap Well, yeah, most likely. And then on top of the ghost writing, was a ghost himself wasn't even in the video.
Speaker 2:There's where the ghost is coming. Ghost writing potentially.
Speaker 1:He was a ghost in the video and ghost writing of he was the ghost, the video and they still top the charts at number one in the world, which is hilarious. It is the funniest thing and probably the biggest music troll of this industry. If you haven't checked it out, you got to go check it out, because no one ever pictured Ben Shapiro on a rap song ever. So it that's how you know. 2024 has arrived. The weirdness continues.
Speaker 2:It will continue. We will also continue to continue it.
Speaker 1:We have a lot of really cool things today. You want me to go first? You want to go first today? Jess, go ahead, all right, all right. So my first story is really funny. I think this is one of my favorite things ever. Last week we were talking about sports already, so I'm not going to talk about sports again this week, but I am going to talk about something that I think is kind of funny and ironic. And, yeah, it definitely is interesting, you know, because bats have this thing as appearing in the news and out of the news a lot. We had it with the COVID-19 thing. We've had it with horror stuff, covid, yep.
Speaker 2:Nine, that's news to me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's that's what began the whole COVID-19 thing. Anyway, go back and check it out. There was a lot of rumors going around. There was a lot of things going around Besides that poor bats. We've had a lot of bat related news on and off throughout the years. This one I find hilarious. This is Spurs mascot the coyote captures bat with a net.
Speaker 2:How the check? Do you say that name?
Speaker 1:I don't know, to the delight of Wimbanyama.
Speaker 2:When Wimbanyama.
Speaker 1:Wimbanyama sounds like I don't know. Sounds like a. Anyway, sounds like a fruity dish, ok. So what makes this even funnier? They have a picture of it and the mascot catches the bat with a net. Also, the mascot is wearing a Batman costume.
Speaker 2:Over the coyote, so how they got that.
Speaker 1:So was this scripted?
Speaker 2:because like it Because he just decided to.
Speaker 1:How is it a coincidence that he's wearing a Batman costume and he actually has to catch a bat during the game? That is hilarious. January 28th 2024, san Antonio. A bat descended on the court and delayed play after Victor Wimbanyama made a three pointer two minutes into San Antonio Spurs one 13 to one 12 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves. On Saturday night, dressed in a Batman costume, the Spurs mascot, the coyote, captured the bat with a net after numerous failed attempts, much to the delight of Wimbanyama and the Spurs teammate, jeremy Salkin. I want to say so can Salkin the coyote previously corraled two bats while former Spurs star Manu Jim no, jim, nobly some tough names swatted another to the court with his bare hand in November 2009.
Speaker 1:But it just so happens that he was wearing a Batman costume the night that he had to corral some bats and if you look at the picture, everybody in the audience is laughing hysterically. It was probably one of the funniest things to happen during an NBA game. So so he's just running around with his net trying to catch a bat, which is hilarious. The Spurs scattered each time the bat buzzed the court, except for Socon Socon, whom Popovich had to pull back at one point. Others hit, like Kelton Johnson. I know my lane. Johnson said kid, seriously, like I'm borderline scared of the dark. So the bat, that's something like nah, they ain't really up my alley. I was the most scared and the bat is so small. Dude, look at this little thing. He's the.
Speaker 2:I would totally keep one of those as a pet bats are hilarious.
Speaker 1:If you live in the country, you're not afraid of bats. I've been. I've been hit of with bats multiple times. Really, somebody hit you with a bat not aluminum bats, but like the bat the flying bat, the flying they hit with it. They don't see very well.
Speaker 1:So, when they use echolocation right. So when you have a bright light on and I was up in the barn and they circle around, they'll run into you because they don't see very well. So and what it feels like? It feels like a Nerf ball. They don't care about biting you, they only care about hunting bugs and stuff they. They could care less about you.
Speaker 2:So I pick it up you like hi, little guy, they're very, yeah, they're very like they're very Nonviolent and when they hit you it doesn't hurt at all.
Speaker 1:It's just like a softball, like a little Nerf ball.
Speaker 2:Are you fine with me? Oh, it's hilarious. I wish a bat would crash into me, so it's.
Speaker 1:It's not as scary as people think. People have blown it up with horror movies. Here and you know, just like black cats. We talked about the black cat. I love black cat. Um, people have blown that out of proportion. That's why, the same way, they're really not that scary and when they run into you, this, it's soft as heck and they just fly off. They're like a little they're trying to get their dinner like they're not worried about you.
Speaker 2:Just accidentally crash into you or something. Yeah.
Speaker 1:So human, oh man, yeah, pretty much. When Mniana went up to score nine points over the next two minutes, the French rookie finished with 23 points and ten rebounds. So it just stopped the game for a minute, looks like it said, but he finally caught the bat. That little thing is dinky too, you can see it. It's smaller than his hand.
Speaker 2:So that costumes creepy. Yeah, I mean the eyes. At least eyes are a little bit weird.
Speaker 1:I was a little bit weird yeah. The funny part is the fact that he just was wearing a Batman Costume. That's, that was stage.
Speaker 2:That's hilarious.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're all laughing. You can tell like the whole audience is cracking up. I would be laughing. Man, that's funny, that's like you know. And animals interrupting any professional game is hilarious. I'd let birds in intentionally. Oh man, have you ever seen those games like that? Let's say, a rabbit or something runs onto the field during the game. It's, it's the funniest thing ever. And they're trying to corral the rabbit or animal off the field while they're trying to play.
Speaker 2:Nope, yeah, I would like it.
Speaker 1:Well, there you go. So there it is, batman with the bat Bat.
Speaker 2:Yodi bat, Yodi Kayabat. I'm trying to think of a little.
Speaker 1:So, speaking of animals, we're gonna do some more weirdness another super weird title.
Speaker 2:Here you go, very surprise, and theft suspects pocket a tiny blue-eyed puppy.
Speaker 1:No, when I when I heard this, I had this, this image in my head of the dog being the thief, and I was like, oh, I read that wrong.
Speaker 2:Like Wait a minute, the puppy could be though.
Speaker 1:It'd be like snatching things out of his pocket. Is the dog the mastermind? What if the dog was the the mastermind behind all the thefts like?
Speaker 2:you know like ratatouille.
Speaker 1:You know, like ratatouille he's like he's controlling him. Yeah the dog is like hey over there, hey, hey, bone, give me bone. All right, let's see what this is about. What is this about?
Speaker 2:man in Roseville, michigan Officers in a Detroit suburb found a furry surprise as they patted down a theft suspect a tiny blue-eyed puppy zipped inside the man's jacket pocket. Roosevelt police discovered the blue pit bull on January 16th while arresting a man accused of stealing money from a bank customer. The palm-sized female, about five weeks old, was taken to an animal shelter where staff nicknamed her bandit Until they learned her name is frappy. According to Jeff Rendezo, Frappy bandits way better.
Speaker 2:Come on now frappy bandit, maccom County's chief animal control officer. Then she was transferred to foster care before being returned to her 24 year old owner Once he was released from jail and paid an impound fee. Rendezo said that he met with the thrust theft suspect, offering to help with vaccines and microchipping so that they can keep an eye on this dog. Animal control is hoping to take a bad situation and make it better, he told the Detroit Free Press on Tuesday. Frappies owner is charged with larceny from a person accused of stealing the customer's bag, and they're about $5,200. He was arrested Hours later and his attorney, robbie Lang, doesn't believe the dog was in his pocket at the time of the alleged theft.
Speaker 1:All right, so hold on there Microchipping the dog because he's with a Suspect owner right, or they do that for every dog.
Speaker 2:As far as I know, they're doing that with any dog that they want to keep a fine I.
Speaker 1:Because I was thinking, you know I didn't like the microchipping part, but it makes sense if we're talking about well, they don't.
Speaker 2:They don't trust his owner. You know what I mean? Yeah, well, that's mainly why.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I was thinking because I was like, well, they don't just microchip animals, as far as I know, which they could, but like, unless there's a purpose, right, because like they used to do that with dolphins and sharks and things, to kind of study them. Yeah, tags, though like it's a microchip, it's the same thing in there, yeah. Same thing. So they would do this, probably because his owner is kind of a a jerk, probably okay. Yeah, why was he in his pocket? Yeah, that's a little messed up.
Speaker 2:I got a dog, a Puppy, that young being in a guy's pocket can't be good for.
Speaker 1:No, I don't think it wasn't all. That's probably why they were frustrated.
Speaker 2:Freakin returned it to him, like yeah.
Speaker 1:I thought they were more. They can easily put like something out online to be like hey, this guy's a, this guy's a thief, so he's got a dog, a little puppy. Somebody would adopt him immediately. Yeah are you kidding me? I?
Speaker 1:Wouldn't have given it back, given the dog back to frappies owner is charged with larceny from a person accused of stealing Okay, I'm tainty about fifty two hundred dollars. It was arrested hours later and his attorney Doesn't believe the dog was okay. So the dog wasn't in his pocket at the time of the theft. Is what I'm getting then why they microchip? I don't know, maybe they just don't trust the guy that is thieving from people.
Speaker 2:Well, they should put shit in it. We don't keep track of you like hitman style, like we're keeping trapping you.
Speaker 1:That that would probably be the end of the world. Yep, yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 2:That's probably I don't want to see those days when they're actually microchipping humans, which we're getting very close to. That would be, seems like it's heading that way, I Ain't. No, I mean look at his face.
Speaker 1:Would you adopt him? I would adopt him. Look at him, he's adorable. It's a five week old people puppy.
Speaker 2:I like dogs, but not enough to own him. Oh he's. I know people that would bring. I'm gonna own cats once I'm, once mine's gone.
Speaker 1:So I mean, yeah, that's true, you're switching the spiders.
Speaker 2:It's either gonna be a spider or snake. It'll be a spider or snake, spider, snake. I said that wrong if it's not, it'll be a spider. No, I'm less. It's none, it's gonna be, a spider or snake or bearable. Would you own a scarab blue beetle, blue beetle, that one I would.
Speaker 1:Man.
Speaker 2:The weirdest on booby-doll?
Speaker 1:yeah, I haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 2:It's on out on DVDs and whatnot, now already. So there you go.
Speaker 1:We've got a Bat that was caught during the NBA game. You could all tell your friends now that Batman caught a bat. Finally took him forever, but he caught it Now you're just splitting hairs and Next time you catch a thief you could get a furry surprise. Make sure you change your body for puppy. Yes, make sure to check his pockets for puppies, because you don't know what these thieves they'd be out there. They'd be acting crazy, man, be acting crazy. Well, we were talking about squirrels earlier.
Speaker 1:He could have a squirrel, he could have anything in his pocket. Oh man, all right, that's it for now.
Speaker 2:Well, there's pretty, there's lint in his pocket Most likely in since he was trying to steal and puppy lent didn't succeed. Oh yeah, I got fur too. Puppy, puppy wits oh.
Speaker 1:All right, all right, we'll see you all next time from the WWE Bay Weird.