Avengers Trendgame 2/6: The Rolling Stones, NBA, Snoop Dogg, Even Flow

On this edition of Avengers Trendgame Jack and Miles discuss The Rolling Stones going back on tour, the NBA is in a trade frenzy, Snoop adds his 2 cents to the discussion of sexual assault, booster seat manufacturer Even Flow is making whack products. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this very special episode
of Avengers Trend Game. This courtesy of someone whose name
you've just told me to remember and I forgot it already. Dude,
it was Gabe, obviously. What's up, Gabe. Shout out to you,
Gabriel at Bold of Bronze, Look at you. Let's talk

(00:25):
about what's this fine Thursday afternoons. Yeah, I mean the
thing that all the kids are talking about, the Rolling
Stones to Baby. Yeah, I didn't. Apparently they are continuing there.
It's a continuation of last year's No Filter tour. And
that's about it. What I think. The big news that

(00:47):
came out is apparently of Keith Richards has said he
has given up smoking since October. Wow, that will affect
his playing? Yeah right, I mean I'm worried because I
feel like he's one of the people who lives off
of the abuse due to their body is in some
sort of weird abuse equilibrium, right where if that ends,

(01:07):
the whole system is thrown into disarray, chaos, and then
the real health issues. Yeah, I can see that. Um
shouts out to him, A real one. He's his book
was pretty good. Yeah, I mean, I didn't realize he
how long he's been like basically mostly clean, like no

(01:28):
booze because today's drugs not interesting? Is that true? Shout
out to a fucking God? Uh wait? Does he just
do heroin now? He says his only remaining vices rock
and roll and the occasional Pino Grigio prig I don't
know why I'm talking like that. Is it him? Or um?

(01:53):
What's his face? The other guy, Ronnie would isn't I
believe he is the first member of his family that
was born on dry land. Yeah, they're like he's like,
he's like comes from like fair and folks. Yeah, like
they live on the river or something like that. I
just feel like there's in the river. Yeah, man, it's

(02:14):
him Richards personal life. Yeah, he's born into a family
of quote English water gypsies. Probably a problematic term. Uh not,
probably is, And he has said that his generation was
the first in the family to be born on dry land.
Shout out to him, Shout out to a dry land God.

(02:34):
There was a time, like probably ten fifteen years ago,
when people were like, the only people who sell tickets
for live music are old like people who are dying
and not really making interesting music anymore. Like the Rolling
Stones and uh, Bruce Springsteen and stuff. Is that still
true or are there like younger musicians and artists who

(02:58):
are like selling out tickets. Jack, We're all looking around
the room in disbelieve. What do you mean that? Are
there still people who are selling massive amounts of tickets? Yeah,
like Taylor Swift. There's plenty of people. Yeah, that was
like conventional wisdom for a while. They're like, I don't

(03:19):
see I don't see cameos selling out the garden. That's right,
that's right. I guess Kanye. I do feel like Kanye. Uh.
I saw Kanye during graduation or no, not graduation, uh registration,
labor registration and uh he it was just like it
was a small theater like underneath medisone square garden like

(03:42):
he yeah, but like I feel like he really like
put it together in terms of ship suddenly had a
fake mountain. They still call it Madison Square Garden. It's
just you go and it's not the Mediicine Square Garden.
That's yeah. Yeah. I saw him at the House of
Blue was when he was doing college dropout. Really he

(04:02):
used to still rock the backpack. Yeah, I remember that. Uh,
let's talk about NBA trades. That was That's every trend,
that's basically it. Yeah, we got Andre Drummond going to
the Cavs. Don't care. I'm more upset. I don't. I
don't know why. The Lakers didn't really do any didn't
do anything. Sixers didn't do much either. They got two

(04:25):
young guns from the Warriors. I think the best thing
was the talk about j R. Smith having a workout
with the Lakers and all the meme responses that came
out of Twitter. To me, that was the highlight of
this entire trend of the NBA deadline. Yeah, that and
then all seeing Darren Collinson talked about the Clippers got better,

(04:46):
as if they needed more depth. They now have Marcus Morris.
That's why I'm matt. They're like looking at it like, hey,
we're trying to win something. We want to be serious.
I mean, I don't, look, I don't think we It's
right from you to assume that the Lakers should be
in contention just like that. I mean I think they should.
Definitely they should be, but I mean like, rather than
having the attitude I'm like, this is where we gotta be,

(05:08):
rather than being like, okay, let's let me give myself
a second rather than expecting the most right away. When
you look at that, it's like, what are the intentions here? Yeah?
Maybe we're looking at the summer. Who knows. Uh. The
Knicks were apparently demanding Cou's Danny Green, Danny Green and
another piece and return for Marcus Moore and then look
what they got from the Clippers, Like what what happened there?

(05:33):
Huh yeah maybe Clippers front office? Yeah. Uh, Which that's
what people have been saying for a while. That's not
just a new on my part, new hot take. They
got it together really smart. Uh. So we'll see if
they're able to put it together. Uh. Snoop v Gale

(05:56):
Gale King, in an interview with Lisa Leslie, brought up
the uh the rape allegations against Kobe in two thousand,
three thousand four um, and that became everyone was like,
from why is she bringing that up to? I didn't
want that in my piece like this. It caused a lot.
The reason though it's probably gotten most discussion is because

(06:19):
Snoop decided to enter the whole thing and was kind
of basically like, why are you bringing this up? He
can't defend himself. Also, Free Bill Cosby, which is kind
of it's usually Snoop and Bill Cosby that are trending
right now because he said free Bill Cosby, and most
people like, whoa, whoa, whoa. If you're the point you're
making is actually completely negated when you say free Bill Cosby.

(06:41):
That that pretty much. I mean, any point that you
can possibly make is negated if you end it with
end free Bill Cosby. The only time I think the
words free Bill Cosby makes sense if is if we
change the word money to Bill Cosby and then like, hey,
free Bill Cosby over here, free money. But yeah, uh,

(07:02):
you know it's it's I think Bernie would lose New
Hampshire if he went out in front of his supporters
and ended the speech free Bill Cosby. I think people
it could be that could be the one thing Trump
can't say, right, Yeah, I think you should try that. Yeah,
that would be amazing if suddenly they're like, oh man,
that was that was the one that was a lot

(07:23):
of people were like, it's really ironic that rappers are
defending Bill Cosby when he could give a funk about them. Yeah, yeah,
that's true. Bill Cosby was all about you know, look, look,
people in the eye and which Snoop wasn't good at
and his first music videos, but just very very much
like he got to be an upstanding young man and

(07:44):
pull your pants up, pull your pants up. Hmm, shake
my hand, give me a firm handshake. Yes, when he
was young, Calvin brotus, Yeah, he was just you know,
he's figuring it out. That was dope, though he made
not being able to make eye contact cool, these of
us who were head social anxiety. I was like, see,
he can't look at the first time I met you,

(08:06):
I asked her magic. I was like, does Jack, will
he do like an optic blast out of his eyes
if he looks at someone too long? That's what I thought,
was like, he's just trying to say, keep me safe. Man.
Even Flow? What even Flow? That's the name of a
children's booster seat manufacturer. Do do? Uh? Yeah? They so

(08:30):
pro public Pro Publica came out with an investigative piece
that essentially shows that the company who sells, you know,
one of the largest sellers of child booster seats for
you know, child safety in your car, they were told
by one of their struck like safety engineers to make
a change that they stopped selling the booster seat for
kids who weigh less than forty pounds. Yeah, and they

(08:53):
said that it would be safer for these children who
are under forty pounds that they use harnesses to hold
their like he's in place. So they would have to
like change how they manufacture the seat, and it would
have been unprofitable apparently, so the marketing executive a marketing
executive in charge of your engineering and pro pro publicly

(09:17):
as all these receipts. Uh. When the subject came up
again in that same year where it was vetoed, that
same executive was then by that time I had been
provoked promoted to VP of Marketing and Product Development, and
said in this email quote, why are you why are
we even talking about this? I have looked at forty

(09:37):
pounds meaning that seat for the US numerous times and
will not approve this. Yeah, And I mean, this is
your worst nightmare as a parent, Your worst nightmare as
you're like installing a car seat, putting it together, reading
through the manual, your worst nightmare is that there is
a corporation out there that is just like you know, well,

(10:00):
we could include this piece, but it would cost us,
you know, ten extra dollars per seat. So we're not
going to do that, and you know, we'll take whatever
hit it costs us, like the lawsuits. Yeah, and like
the real thing is what's damning too, is they also
have these test videos um showing in like the side

(10:21):
impact collisions, especially side impact collisions. A child with those
dimensions was like flopping around like like if you side
like k looking like that unless he's doing a freeze
in a b boy competition, But if it's a car accident,
absolutely not. Um, I'm looking at one of them. It

(10:42):
looks like a head. But apparently, according to their internal
safety like like testing, they all would only mark an
impact as a fail if like the seat itself like
broke apart or the dummy left the confines of the seat.
Anything else was like, yeah, that's a win. That's if
we can't find the dummy within thirty seconds after the test,

(11:03):
then it's a failure. Yeah, exactly. And that's just Yeah,
it's a really dark story because many there are many
injuries caused, and people are being like the whole thing
stems from these greedy assholes. We have the receipts. This
guy is saying, no, I'm not going to do that. That
That would not that would cost too much money. Um.

(11:24):
And then the legal like they're legal representation is like,
come on, how do you know that this isn't happening
with other manufacturers of these same products? And it's like
that is beside the point, like that the fact that
it's happening with yours like is shocking and horrifying. If
it's happening with others, that's great that we're learning this

(11:45):
about you guys, and maybe we can like stop it
from happening with others and you but like to to
be like, yeah, but your standards are generally pretty low
for this sort of thing, so really it's your fault
is not the answer. It's unbelievable saying this is one
of the things their legal council said when they were
asked to respond directly to some questions. No child restraint

(12:06):
or booster seat can ensure that a child will not
be injured in a car crash, especially a severe one,
just like no vehicle manufacturer can ensure that all occupants
will escape injury in every crash. Uh okay, and then says,
none of the questions or criticisms you lodge have been
raised by the NHTSA the National Highway Transportation Safety Authority,

(12:26):
I believe administration at any time. In addition, many of
the issues you reraise could be applicable to the millions
of belt positioning booster seats sold by other manufacturers. It's
just like the slippery ist bullshit. And this is the
kind of shipped too when like we talk about what's
at stake in the election and things like that. You
want leadership in this country who could look at this

(12:46):
and be like, I will fucking destroy your company. You're
sending your putting people at risk to save money. Why
so this VP of marketing can be like, hey man,
look at this surplus we got. Can I turn that
into a bonus? Or can I ask for more budget
next year? Which is also my sid It's just so
fucking cynical. And look, I don't even have children. I've
hooked the homies up and put their kids in car

(13:07):
seats before, and I was like, damn, Like this is
supposed to help them out. Like y'all are just putting
all your cope in this way. Do you help people
out by putting their kids in car seat? Yeah? I'm like,
hey man, you need help when you kid in the
car seats. Oh, I see what I'm saying. I thought
you meant like, can I get you in this car seat?
Take from what do you? What are your payments on
that car seat? Right up? You're upside down on this thing. Yeah,
you know, like all my friends with kids like him,

(13:29):
extra hands and like, whenever I see it, they look
I remember the ships like we were in, or what
I remember as a young child seeing like a baby seat.
I'm sure it's much better now, but I remember back
then it was just like rigid blastic with some foam
by the head. Yeah. Hey, we made it all right, guys.
That's gonna do it for this afternoon. We'll be back

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tomorrow with another podcast. We'll talk to you them by