Speaker 1: What's up Internet? You got that lunch money on you? Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm joke. I'm not trying to pull you or anything
Speaker 1: like that. Hey, y'all, welcome, It's Thursday, August fourth. It's
Speaker 1: time to tell you what's trending this very special edition
Speaker 1: of Bridger Trend. The music coal that comes from Fighter
Speaker 1: at the Night Man who you know, obviously referencing Becca's
Speaker 1: pop culture moment from me yesterday's show It guess what
Speaker 1: is me in the Place to Be with b E. C.
Speaker 1: C A. Ramos. Okay, that didn't rhyme, but it is
Speaker 1: what it is. Beck Ramos, Thank you, super producer for
Speaker 1: showing up, pulling up and showing out. Hello, Hey, feeling
Speaker 1: good again. How's the weather in New York? Hot? It's
Speaker 1: too hot? It's like degrees outside document. Yeah yeah, wow.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, like, oh, did you put something
Speaker 1: like volume iizing conditions? That's the air? Okay? Alright, alright,
Speaker 1: I see you, uh and I guess I see the trends.
Speaker 1: We should let people know what they are. First up,
Speaker 1: Brittany Grinders been sentenced to nine years for drugs, smuggling
Speaker 1: in possession or whatever charges they're trying to bring for
Speaker 1: having like barely any like I guess hashlel Cartridges. This
Speaker 1: was I think predictable because I think the second that
Speaker 1: she was arrested, You're like, this is it's not gonna
Speaker 1: end with the Russian Corps being like, you know what, Oh,
Speaker 1: she has a medical marijuana prescription. Okay, that makes sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't want to use her as a pawn in
Speaker 1: a political war or anything like geo political conflict. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: you're free to go, because we know you're you know,
Speaker 1: you got a w NBA season ahead of you. But unfortunately,
Speaker 1: she's a queer woman of color finding herself in a
Speaker 1: very terrible country during a terrible conflict between Russia and
Speaker 1: you know, the United States, obviously through the Ukraine conflict.
Speaker 1: It's sucked up. It's sucked up on so many levels.
Speaker 1: The thing that really sucks me up, though, is that
Speaker 1: the one thing that I feel like I wish the
Speaker 1: NBA could reckon with also w NBA could reckon with
Speaker 1: or not that they need to, but the reason that
Speaker 1: many layers end up going to Russia, specifically in the
Speaker 1: offseason w NBA players because they don't make as much
Speaker 1: money as they could and they yeah, so they're offered
Speaker 1: pretty decent sums of money abroad and they go and
Speaker 1: they play in the off season. That's the only reason
Speaker 1: Britney Grinder would be in fucking Russia because they're not
Speaker 1: fucking cutting checks that feel suitable for what these people's
Speaker 1: talents are. So there's like so many layers of sad
Speaker 1: and to see like, i mean, fuck Trump, but like
Speaker 1: the way he acted when Asap Rocky was being you know,
Speaker 1: arrested abroad versus the lack of government action for Britney
Speaker 1: Griner being arrested abroad is so so so crazy and yeah,
Speaker 1: opportunistic on Trump's part. You know, they definitely weaponized the
Speaker 1: optics of him, not optics the truth of him being
Speaker 1: a racist to try and be like, hey, you could
Speaker 1: do this and maybe look less racist, and they say
Speaker 1: joint not gonna say thank you, but yeah, it's god,
Speaker 1: it's just really so. This isn't the end of it though, obviously,
Speaker 1: because there's been talks of a prisoner swap, and because
Speaker 1: the US considers her situation as someone who's being wrongfully detained,
Speaker 1: that means they're more like diplomatic options available. So i'd
Speaker 1: hope that with hearing that someone who's in the prime
Speaker 1: of their playing career could potentially be wrongfully fucking locked up.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe there'll be more pressure for something to happen. So, uh, police,
Speaker 1: stay strong, Britney Griner, Hopefully they can get you out.
Speaker 1: Brianna Taylor is also trending because the FEDS they charged
Speaker 1: four cops that were involved in her murder. Um. One
Speaker 1: of the big fish that they're also looking at is
Speaker 1: Joshua James, who is a former Metro like Louisville Metro
Speaker 1: Police Department detective. Who's the one who lied on the
Speaker 1: search warrant application that even allowed the raid to occur.
Speaker 1: I hope, you know, Brianna finds justice or family sees justice.
Speaker 1: But it seems like there is some developments happening, but
Speaker 1: the bare minimum, you know, thank god, but hopefully more
Speaker 1: can be done. Well, the guy who ended up firing
Speaker 1: the shots, like, I mean, he was like acquitted, you know.
Speaker 1: So uh, anyway, this is America. I think we all
Speaker 1: know what that means. Um, okay, And then before we
Speaker 1: go to break, Kavanaugh is trending mostly because of so
Speaker 1: Sheldon white House. He was asking FBI Director Christopher Ray,
Speaker 1: like you know, He's like, hold on you, I gotta
Speaker 1: I got some questions. I actually ask about what happened
Speaker 1: with that Brett Kavanaugh investigation, the one that during the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court confirmation hearing, we got all this word of
Speaker 1: these allegations against him, and we said, yes, here's a
Speaker 1: tip line. The FBI is going to investigate. Y'all came back,
Speaker 1: You're like, no, A lot of everything looks pretty good.
Speaker 1: So Sheldon white House is like, I'm sorry, Director Ray,
Speaker 1: can you can you explain exactly how this process worked
Speaker 1: with the tip line and how any of this works? Uh?
Speaker 1: And this was Christopher Ray his answer, And I'm just
Speaker 1: want to warn you it is a fucking frustrating as
Speaker 1: all ship that to put it lightly to hear this
Speaker 1: person's response to what did you do with the tips
Speaker 1: and allegations of Brett Kavanaugh's conduct as we were on
Speaker 1: our way to confirming him as a Supreme Court justice. Uh.
Speaker 1: We wanted to make sure that the White House had
Speaker 1: all the information we have. So when the hundreds of
Speaker 1: calls started coming in, UH, we gathered those up, reviewed them,
Speaker 1: and provided them to the White House without dustanation. UH.
Speaker 1: We reviewed them and then provided them to reviewed them
Speaker 1: for purposes of separating from tipline traffic, but did not
Speaker 1: further investigate the ones that related to Kavanaugh. Correct correct Um.
Speaker 1: Is it also true that in that supplemental BI, the
Speaker 1: FBI took direction from the White House as to whom
Speaker 1: the FBI would question and even what questions the FBI
Speaker 1: could ask, um? So it is it is true, consistent
Speaker 1: with the long sta ending process that the short answer
Speaker 1: is yes, what happened was they had a tip line.
Speaker 1: We just sent the ones you know that. You know,
Speaker 1: we just sent a couple to the White House, and
Speaker 1: they told us who we could talk to and how
Speaker 1: we could question them. Holy sh it. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: not like I don't think anyone thought that the investigation
Speaker 1: was thorough, because there were so many people who were like,
Speaker 1: here's an op ed, here's a real thing. I'm saying
Speaker 1: out loud in public about what I know or have seen,
Speaker 1: I mean, anything about that. I remember watching it in
Speaker 1: real time, obviously back in what was it twenties, and
Speaker 1: oh my god, it was the most frustrating thing ever.
Speaker 1: I just remember watching that whole process and you just
Speaker 1: wanted to vomit because it was just so clear nobody
Speaker 1: was doing the due diligence, and it was being rushed,
Speaker 1: it was being pushed through. And on top of that,
Speaker 1: his behavior and demeanor in the courtroom should have been everything,
Speaker 1: should have said it all, you know. It's yeah, like
Speaker 1: it's impossible for me to feel like a man who
Speaker 1: can be so enraged by being rightfully questioned for a
Speaker 1: job interview, to be so enraged like, how am I
Speaker 1: supposed to believe that you can give an impartial decision
Speaker 1: making on the most important aspects of our judicial system
Speaker 1: because you're yelling, because you're yelling about being accused of
Speaker 1: assault and drinking beer Like I don't yeah, um, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: this is secret service. We've seen the DHS, We've seen
Speaker 1: the funny FBI starting to see the funny anyway, fragile things,
Speaker 1: fragile thing this country. Will they do what needs to
Speaker 1: be done? I don't know. I don't even know what
Speaker 1: the needs to be done at this point, And Chris
Speaker 1: Frey is like, I don't know the way even Chris
Speaker 1: Fray was saying, it's like that's just the policy, Like
Speaker 1: when people ask us to do these investigations, the policy
Speaker 1: is to be like, all right, this is what we
Speaker 1: got who you want us to talk to, what leads
Speaker 1: you want us to follow. And if they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's all good, they're all captain, I guess then yeah,
Speaker 1: like it is. It's not necessarily impartial. It's more just
Speaker 1: like a custom campaign you're asking for, like an advertiser,
Speaker 1: and you're like, okay, thanks, I'm the client that the
Speaker 1: White House. No more to see here, All right, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break. We'll be right back. More news
Speaker 1: and what's trending. And we're back, and let's go to
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico. Oh. Um, governor former Governor Wanta Vazquez arrested
Speaker 1: for bribery. Yes, so I put this in here because
Speaker 1: I just do not believe we as the American state
Speaker 1: side people know enough what's going on in Puerto Rico. Um.
Speaker 1: So this is is I don't know if it's a
Speaker 1: big deal in the sense of like it's not a
Speaker 1: shock Binny means, but it is just like more proof
Speaker 1: in the pudding of the corruption that is happening in
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico and why the citizens of Puerto Rico feels
Speaker 1: so rightfully like lost and underserved in all these things
Speaker 1: for many, many, many years because Puerto Rico is operated
Speaker 1: truly is a functional colony of the United States. There
Speaker 1: has been so much internal corruption along with the external
Speaker 1: corruption from the States. So Governor Juanda Vazquez um is
Speaker 1: accused of engaging in bribery, a bribery scheme from December
Speaker 1: through June while she was governor with several people including
Speaker 1: venezuelan Italian bank owner, a former FBI agent and h
Speaker 1: Bank president, and a political consultant. So it sucks. It's
Speaker 1: not the mayor, I know. I saw a lot of
Speaker 1: comments being like, oh wow, like how come, Like she
Speaker 1: was so loud about um Maria, but now she's being arrested.
Speaker 1: Not the same person, the mayor and the governor. To
Speaker 1: different people, the mayor is actually great, the governor not
Speaker 1: so much. She's the one with the cool glasses, right
Speaker 1: m hmm, yeah, yeah, yeah. They say like her corruption
Speaker 1: was also you know, part and partial of obviously Trump
Speaker 1: is a racist. But on top of that, the slow
Speaker 1: movement for any sort of facilitation after her came Maria
Speaker 1: in seventeen So it just sucks. It's important to keep
Speaker 1: up what's going on in puot Rico. This is why
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of unrest in port Rico. A
Speaker 1: lot of protests in Puerto Rico because of her um
Speaker 1: governor reign when she was you know, governor through rights.
Speaker 1: It's wild too, because damn, you could probably clean up
Speaker 1: fucking half a capitol hill if you actually are looking
Speaker 1: at you know, I'm sure it's much easier to go
Speaker 1: after you know, uh someone in Puerto Rico then, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, we do get investigations in the US where
Speaker 1: we see UH politicians and things be brought up on
Speaker 1: corruption charges, but it is so fucking pervasive, and like
Speaker 1: you said, where there's corruption, that's that's the spaces in
Speaker 1: which all the bad ship happens where the actual people
Speaker 1: end up suffering, well the party's involved in it end
Speaker 1: up enriching themselves. So yes, that's what a lot of
Speaker 1: comments too, They were like wow, so like we can
Speaker 1: arrest the former governor Puerto Rico, but we can't arrest
Speaker 1: any of the Republican politicians in UH Congress. I don't
Speaker 1: understand exactly. It's like oh okay, oh so kay, right,
Speaker 1: and I get it that's also a crime, but and
Speaker 1: it's after she already did the damage, right, you know.
Speaker 1: It's like it's so frustrating. It's like yeah, it's and
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, you arrested her. Now what are you
Speaker 1: going to give the money back to the Puertorican people?
Speaker 1: Are you going to actually invest in the infrastructure post Maria?
Speaker 1: Are you going to you know, do more for like
Speaker 1: ousting more corrupt officials, because this has been years and
Speaker 1: years and years of like the corruption of the United
Speaker 1: States law system um against Puerto Rico making it a
Speaker 1: functional colony. And then the internal much like many South American,
Speaker 1: Central American, Latin American countries that deal with their own
Speaker 1: corrupt systems, like a lot of the internal politics within
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico are also super corrupt, so it's like they're
Speaker 1: getting hit on both sides. Like and also the domino
Speaker 1: effect of corruption from big bags of money starts with
Speaker 1: U S foreign policy in the Cold War. Anyway, look
Speaker 1: it up, all roads lead back to the US. And
Speaker 1: that's why it's always ironic and like, these people are
Speaker 1: coming from El Salvador, where we did the most to
Speaker 1: destabilize that motherfucker place. I don't know now they don't
Speaker 1: want to be there. What crazy? Let's not look at
Speaker 1: our own history to explain what is happening. That's that's
Speaker 1: the thing about history. It's pretty pretty clear explanation of
Speaker 1: things at times. Um next, De Santists got to talk
Speaker 1: about what we talk more about De Santists on tomorrow
Speaker 1: show for all the myriad of culture war things he's doing.
Speaker 1: But the latest thing is that he's suspended a state
Speaker 1: attorney who basically was saying, you know, as state attorney
Speaker 1: in Florida, like I'm not trying to enforce these ridiculous
Speaker 1: laws around abortion or like gender affirming care for children,
Speaker 1: like such a waste of time. And now De Santis
Speaker 1: has basically suspended this person. So you know, uh, I
Speaker 1: think historically those things kind of look like purges when
Speaker 1: you don't have the people that are playing ball with
Speaker 1: like your clearly terrible policies. So more to come on
Speaker 1: to Santis, but just another moment, I was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: so that's where that's the example you're trying to set now,
Speaker 1: is you enforce my draconian oppressive laws or you don't
Speaker 1: have a job. And then lastly, the kid Marrow of
Speaker 1: Jesus and Marrow of the formerly of the Bodego Boys.
Speaker 1: I saw, but he recently did an interview where he
Speaker 1: explains he's giving his side of what actually occurred in
Speaker 1: the split, and it sounds like it was an amicable
Speaker 1: business decision. I'm just gonna read this quote from you,
Speaker 1: he said. Quote. Jesus and I had a discussion, and
Speaker 1: we had been pursuing separate interests for over a year
Speaker 1: before the show came to an end. That conversation solidified
Speaker 1: for us in signing overall agreements that recognized our intent
Speaker 1: to break out independent of one another. So as far
Speaker 1: back as June of last year, we were both pitching
Speaker 1: or looking to join existing projects as individuals. It was
Speaker 1: a strategy. If you have to force a partnership that's
Speaker 1: coming to a natural end, it's not going to be
Speaker 1: the same. Knowing that we had a conversation, we had
Speaker 1: to sit down and we were talking about it more
Speaker 1: than a year ago. The intent was to go our
Speaker 1: separate ways in a way that was supportive of each other.
Speaker 1: That's nice. I have to say, you you do, you agree,
Speaker 1: you concur I'm so sad. Again, I'm just so sad
Speaker 1: that they're not making it together. And again I totally
Speaker 1: understand like that that last point is like, if you
Speaker 1: have to force a partnership that's coming to a natural end.
Speaker 1: That's true. God won't be in the room anymore if
Speaker 1: you're faking it like that, So I hope that's the truth.
Speaker 1: I'm really curious who you signed these overall deals with.
Speaker 1: That's very specific business language. Got an overall green Who
Speaker 1: where for? What? What's you doing? Let me know? And
Speaker 1: if not, look, Marian would love to co host daily's
Speaker 1: like guys with you and we can put Jack, you know,
Speaker 1: we can find we can find someplace for him to
Speaker 1: um but holler at me. Um. Yeah. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope that is the case. I wish
Speaker 1: them both much success because it's always nice to see
Speaker 1: regular people winning just off their own talents, not having
Speaker 1: to be like you know, my uncle owns William Morris
Speaker 1: Endeavor the agency, and that's how I got on. So yes,
Speaker 1: shout out to you. Did you get that note yet
Speaker 1: from ms Ortega? No, but she did send me an
Speaker 1: old letter that I had written her in high school,
Speaker 1: which was crazy to read and I was like, why
Speaker 1: do you still have this? And she said I hang
Speaker 1: it up in every class every year, and I did
Speaker 1: said a little tier um. It was just as cringe
Speaker 1: and embarrassing. As I thought reading a letter I wrote
Speaker 1: when I was seventeen would be oh amazing, But she
Speaker 1: still had I'm still trying to I want to hear
Speaker 1: her words. I know she's gonna get you get an extension.
Speaker 1: That's all right. Look, look we're giving her extension. This
Speaker 1: wasn't homework. She's got her homework. She's been, you know,
Speaker 1: readily setting up her classroom to get it ready. But
Speaker 1: I press her again to come on and say a
Speaker 1: few words. Yes. And please also, if you are a
Speaker 1: teacher and you got a wish list that you are
Speaker 1: looking to get some help on, please tweet it at me.
Speaker 1: I will retweet it. Um trying to help y'all out.
Speaker 1: I've seen a few lists now, but I feel like,
Speaker 1: come on, there's got to be some more teachers out here, right,
Speaker 1: all right, let me shout out to the teachers, and
Speaker 1: shout out to the teachers, honestly, shout out the funk
Speaker 1: out to teachers. All right, that's going to do it
Speaker 1: for us today. We will be back tomorrow. Please check
Speaker 1: in with us. Great guests, great topics, great conversation. Becca.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining me. Always a pleasure um,
Speaker 1: and I guess we'll talk to all y'all tomorrow again.
Speaker 1: Take care yourselves, take care of each other, get the
Speaker 1: vaccine mask up uh, and don't do nothing about white
Speaker 1: supremacy or any kind of hate. Okay, he's out by