In this edition of Funky Cold Trendina by Drone Loc, Jack and Miles discuss the upcoming Superman movie (featuring Superdog?), Hawk Tuah disappearing after her crypto rug-pull, Luigi Mangione's perp walk in NY, the Charlotte Hornet's giving a kid a PS5 and then taking it back off camera, the Hydroxychloroquine/COVID-19 study getting retracted, the never-ending war on Christmas and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Funky
Cold Trendina by Drone Low. That one courtesy of the
gross face dron loak is a good somebody needs to
do something with that. A recording artist, you know out
in a New Jersey rapper, the next Lauryn Hill Wow
(00:21):
through his dron loke. My name's Jack O'Brien. That over
there is Miles Gray and well, this is the trending episode.
It is the last episode of the year before we
get into some pre recorded holiday high jinks and the
top ten episodes of the year, which we'll be replaying.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
As we enjoy our eggnog.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Chestnuts roasting on estnut roasting on an open fire. Yeah,
just generally. Yeah, I've had a little bit of it.
It's not what I expected now what I know, kind
of like meaty.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm what I remember.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I always like, I liked the smell as a kid
because it was alo the street in Japan and shit,
and always asked my mom to get it.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Then you eat it, you like, what do you think
the biggest disconnect between smell and taste is because like,
oh Jesus, I don't smoking cigarettes. That was a big
one for me because I grew up you know, my
grandma smoked like a chimney. I loved the smell of cigarette.
Smelled like love, smelled like love, and then grandmother's love.
And then I ripped one and I was like, yo, oh, yeah,
(01:27):
tastes like dirt. Man.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, oh you know what it was? Well, I don't
know if it's yeah, it's not.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And that was a Marlborough light. I mean, I eventually
would come to love that taste, but whoa I was.
I was expecting it to just be the smell of cigarettes.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Was the first cigarette you ever smoked? A butt that
your grandma left behind?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
No, My my cool older sister brought me down to
the parking lot next to a public pool near our
house in Kentucky and we just sat there and ripped it,
ripped it sick.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah really, yeah, dude, love that summer night I was
smoking my grandma's left over.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
But yeah, I eventually got into that to that nasty business. Yeah. Yeah.
The coffee is also up there. Coffee smells like it's
gonna taste really good, and then it tastes like dirt,
dirt that I love.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Usually I'll say beer foam because I remember, I would
see it and then I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
What's the statute of limitations here? My dad would let me.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Sip the phone there if there.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Was like a big foam top on, because.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I don't want to do that, like dumb fucks, like
like bubbles, like the soap that you blow bubbles with
or some ship.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, completely wrong. Anyway, your foam never tastes good, like
even when I got real into drinking, when when I
became a big hobbyist when it came to drinking, never
liked beer foam. It's I don't I don't know. Everybody
was like, yeah, give me a nice foamy head on that.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Let me get a pint of foam.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, get his foam, Brian, the editors pointing out, not bad. Uh,
but it's not as good as guinness for sure.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Sure, okay, fair point, fair point.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Oh oh oh, it's magic. We've been doing that off
Mike for a while. We have to. We had to
do it for you one time. Oh ou ou so
we got one foot out the door people. I'm Jack,
(03:30):
that's Miles. We say that this is the trending episode
our show, A podcasts of some sort. We talked about
America's share consciousness.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
A lot to get through. We should get we should.
We'll leave you with a one you can chew on.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah, we'll leave you with a heavy one, nice heavy meal.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
That you can go to sleep, take a nice.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
All right, First, this is actually wild because this was
a prediction that I made on our Predictions episode that
that will be coming out of the beginning of twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, dude, Jesu's crazy wild. Yeah, what was the prediction again?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
So I predicted that a Superman movie would come out
in twenty twenty five, and they just dropped a trailer
no for a Superman movie coming out miles twenty five.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Fuck you, I know why do you keep charging me
for lottery numbers that fucking never win?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
You motherfucker. You could have told me about this bet.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
The signal wasn't clear that day. I am a Superman bitch.
I was like two or three when I first saw
the Christopher Reeves Superman, like the first one, and then
the Superman one and two with zod It was two,
I think, right, But yeah, those were big, like huge favorites,
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hugely influential. I used to run around with a cap
on in all settings like made out of whatever was
around tal newspaper didn't matter that I was. And when
I was doing that, I was pretending to be Superman.
It wasn't Batman. So I was at that time watching
the Adam West Batman, but Superman was my ship.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
What's what the fuck is what was Zod's crew called?
What were they called? Those one motherfuckers that pulled up
with Zod? I don't have like a gang name because
he was like a general, right.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Or something General Zod and the Funky Bunch. I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Then, because whenever I think of them, I always think
of like JD.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Vance because they were heavy with the eyeliner too.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, heavy eyeliner, kind of close cropped beards, yeah yeah,
really alien charisma, completely distant, like they've been living in
the Phantom Zone for uh an impossible amount of time. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
So the trailer, I saw it.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
The trailer is I did not see the dog coming.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I didn't, but if he'll James Gun.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It did feel James Gun. He like it starts out.
Superman's like battered. He's in the one of the poles,
whichever pole has the Fortress of Solitude, and he's like
spitting out chick lit. He's spitting out blood and then
he whistles and his little fun dog comes and like
drags him and and I was like, we got a
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hit on our hands. Yep, I think we got to his.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
And I'm like, everybody, this is you can already I
could already see.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
All the comic relief this little dog will provide. In
a James Gunnion way.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
It was very Gunnion, very Gunion.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I would say, a very Gunyian choice to have a
cheery little character that kind of helps offset the tension.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
But I think this is a new outback appetiser that
they're off right way. It's just a gun shaped, blooming onion.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
It's a deep gun. Yeah, it's actually they do not
bite it. It's a lot of they've had a lot
of accidental discharges. But the thing with the Superman, I
think because when I saw that and I saw the
trailer and then it said July, I was like, do y'all.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Got something to bar Surpenheimer this with? I don't know,
you might you have a half a barb here.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
You're gonna want a barber. I think you're gonna want
a Superman barbin Barbin Man Booperman. You're gonna want to
do something with this, because yeah, I feel like this
is gonna be a hit. You need something extra with Superman.
Not for me. I'm I'm the person who's like I
(07:26):
I actually liked Superman Returns. The Brandon Routh, Damn, Kevin
Spacey and Brian Singer was the fucking murderers Row of
Sex Crims it turns out, but I actually enjoyed those movies.
They felt like they were an homage. I mean there
was was. It wasn't an homage. It was like a
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straight up They made it a sequel to the first
two Superman movies, which were the I think the last
two that anybody really fully got right. And then they
gave it over to Zack Snyder, who scared.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
You want to you want to do a little just forecasting.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
This is what comes out in July of twenty twenty five,
the same month as Superman. So Superman's July eleventh, July
fourth of July, there's a Matt Stone, Mattstone, Trey Parker
July second, Jurassic World rebirth July eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I know what you did last summer the Smurfs, And then.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I know what you did last summer the Smurfs. It's
a mashup, mashup, an unlikely mashup because the Trey Parker
Matt Stone thing is a Kendrick movie. Like they're doing
that with Kendrick Lamar Like what it is?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yes, because they directed I think, or we're like behind
the heart part whatever where he kept morphing.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Yeah, wow, So who knows a Kendrick super mad That
could be fucking weird. All right, we'll see, well Superman, Drick,
will you be myke Kendrick Knight.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I don't know. It's yeah, No, that's something we'll be
worked in. That well shot that off Mike Crypto the
dog Man. I feel like we're gonna be hearing this
is gonna be the last we heard of this Crypto
to dog Man.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
You won't believe how much money the crypto lobby spent
to get this character to be called that this is
all part of a fucking full court press to normalized crypto.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Y'all. Don't fucking fall for it. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I know he's a beautiful little dog, but don't fall
for it.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Speaking of which, uh Hawk Toua has apparently gone full
Kaiser on all our.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Shout out to Kevin Spacey. Second, Kevin Spacey.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
We're going for and by the way, as it as
it's our custom for the final episode of the year,
we always go full Kevin Spacey. Every story we'll have
a Kevin Spacey reference somehow.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, gone for two weeks, dude.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
So as we've covered before, you know, charming uh said
you got a hawk two on that thing in that
one video and then underratedly when Bill Maher was like
do you like jay Z? Do you even know who
jays Z is? Uh, she was like, oh, yeah, I
(10:04):
like that one song Concrete Jungle Wet Dream to Mayoh.
And we were like, all right, I'm I'm here, I'm
here for it.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Give her a three picture deal.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
A star is born. So she then launched a podcast,
Uh talked to U and it was originally a hit,
and then I think it was more interest. Yeah, people
lost it a lot of interest, and then people and
then she did a she launched a crypto. She just
like went through all the stages of neo internet fame
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and over the course of a month and a half,
and then Rug pulled that crypto, which you know was
where you like sell all your chairs right before the
thing craters because you've sold all your shares, I think,
is the.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yeah, exactly, so then everybody else.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Massive vote of no confidence from the only person launch.
It's gotta be great.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Well look at the.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Line, what up fucking cell now? So soll uh and
so a lot of people left holding the bag since
she did that. She I mean, I think her company
released a statement being like they they haven't sold anything.
We don't know what you're talking about. She has not
appeared anywhere, no new episodes of talk to Us, and
(11:19):
like that she's gone. She just starts speaking with like
a British accent probably actually like South African would be like.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
The said, you know, you're not going to believe what
it says underneath my coffee mouth that wow, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yeah. So anyways, it's uh be interesting to see how
this story moves forward. But like I think the like
the thing, if they're lying and she really did like
sell all her shares, I think that's illegal. Like I
don't think you're able to do that. Maybe there's not
a lot of regular oh right, right right, you can see.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I mean, you know, there's also been stuff where like
Kim Kardashian got in trouble for doing a really weird.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Like you're seeing someone else's that she like, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
But it was it was sort of it was deceptive
because she was like, it's Ethereum max and people are like,
are they buying Ethereum or they're buying some weird bizarre.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Ship coin that you're that shares the same name.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Well, deceptive, kind of a Usual Suspects detective agent.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Never mind, Wow, doctor Burtiser, SUI I used to so much.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Dude, that was my face for whatever, Like this is
the best part or when maybe.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
When Billy Baldwin does.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Give me about yet that part too. It's also clippy
flippy for real. Yeah, yeah, that is movies that's also
burnt on my brain in a way. That and then
but that's one. So like, I go back and I
watched Superman one, the Christopher Reeves one with my kids,
and it was I it imprinted on me so early.
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I imprinted on it so early that I'm still like,
this is one of the best movies I've ever seen.
But I go back and I watch Usual Suspects and
I'm like, this doesn't hold up at all. Yeah, this
ship is not very good. It's again.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
It's that it's a very fine window where everything that
you hit in there will be like, bro, this this
is forever art.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yes, exactly. That and Teen Wolf are two movies that
already I can't believe how much I still love this
fucking movie.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
You're like me, You're like, you're looking your living room.
He can see this, he can fucking hoop you guys,
Get in here, Get in here.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, he just turned into the Wolf playing basketball. Oh
my god, how how does he do with all.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
That ship on?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I must have so much shit on me. All right,
let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll check
him with Luigi ben Lauden, and we're back. And I mean,
if they wanted to do a photo op to make
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this motherfucker look cool as hell, uh, they did it.
Luigi Mangioni pictured entering New York City with just like
a fucking main or some shit. Yeah, entire swat team
surrounding him with automatic weapons, all shackled up. It's wild.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
The thing is like everyone's like, oh, they're purp walking him. Usually,
like for super high profile stuff, it's like you might
catch a glimpse or something, but they try not to
do that. I guess it seemed as, you know, being
a bit prejudicial to be like, look.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
At this fucking guy with all the goons we need
around him.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
But a security analyst, I'm like CNN was saying, it
was like, I don't think they're doing this because like
they think someone's gonna like try and make a new
cool band photo Jack Ruby reference, but more.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
An indication that the police might think someone may try.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
To free him or interfere with him being taken into custody,
which is like, oh, interesting.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Prob'b be wild if like Jeff Bezos ran up and
shot out, like would assassinate the CEO as that.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
It's like, wait, why did you say neck bone? Is
that your that's a gangster name trying around?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah, but he got an incident free he's being Louci
Mangioni's being charged with first and second degree murder, a
bunch of weapons charges stocking. So some of the reports
indicated that he's been sort of on the tail allegedly
of Brian Thompsons's maybe August, And they also added a
(15:52):
terrorism I guess modifier bonus to that first degree murder
charge bonus, And yeah, that means means, you know, they're
basically saying that this was a crime intended to intimidate,
to terrorize the civilian population or part of the government,
et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
So it's like an anti terror law that came out
of nine to eleven.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Yeah, so yeah, his lawyers are like, they are really
piling it on here, thick. But yeah, we will see
the things will begin, I'm sure, and very quickly.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah, I mean Alvin Bragg is like, there's no place
for this kind of thing. And Eric Adams was like,
New York City, what.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
And what are your thoughts on the assassination?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
You could do anything.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
You could charge a young vigilante hit man with the
same anti terror laws we used to prosecute Al Qaeda.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Only in New York.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Let's see what else we got for the people. We
got the Hornets, the Charlotte Hornets of NBA fame, did
like a little fun give away thing where they hey.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Why why you why are you carrying their water right now?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Matt? It was fun And I don't see what this
kid's fucking problem is. So during a halftime, like you know,
on court game, I don't know exactly what the kid
did to deserve this, but uh, he was given by
the Hornets mascot a PS five. You can see from
(17:24):
the picture it is like cartoon like, oh boy, mister wow.
Really you know, he's like his mouth is open, He's
like what it really is that you have to say
mister too? You do have to say mister. Yeah. Yeah,
he's saying mister for sure. And then uh and then
(17:47):
they cut. You know, the JumboTron didn't stay on him
for that long, and it turns out that was by
design because then they took that ship right back and
we're like, here's a free Jersey kid get lost, And
so people caught wind of this. I don't know how
the Hornets thought they were going to get away with this. Yeah,
(18:07):
the kid, I guess or his dad like kind of
complained and was like, hey, you I don't know if
anybody was at the game and saw me get a
PS five. They took it back once the camera was off,
and so they had to issue this statement. During last
night's game, there was an on court skit that missed
the mark. The skit included bad decision making and poor communication.
(18:28):
Simply put, we turned the ball over and we apologized
how do we put this in terms the basketball fan
will all over We turned the ball over Like that's
not even a good Like that sucks the.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Most, Like it sounds like you tried to shoot like
a logo three and turned your back immediately and like
threw up like three like a tray with your hand
or something.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yeah, and it and it just like didn't even hit
the rim. Yeah. Come on. We reached out to the
family and are committed to not only making it right,
but to exceeding expectations. We will be providing the fan
with the PS five that he should have taken home
last night, along with a VIP experience to a future game.
Our goal is and will remain, to elevate the guest
(19:11):
experience for every person that enters Spectrum Center and to
show our fans how much we appreciate their relentless support.
But it's like the skit missed the mark, Yeah is
not no, the skit was a front for you, like
fake giving this kid a.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
There was no actually, there actually is no metaphor in
basketball for what this was.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Like, yeah it was. It's like it's it's just immoral.
It's just like what what are you doing? You mean, like, hey,
we're gonna make ourselves look good, like we just gave
this kid a PS five and then yoink it backstage.
It's while the dad. The way the dad talks it,
it's like it talks about what happened. He's like, we
got the PS five. The hornets dancer who actually gave
him the PS five. She starts to pack it up
(19:53):
for him in the back quote. Then we get kind
of like all the way back to backstage, and you know,
the guy who kind of found us in the first place,
he starts to kind of take it away, and everybody
thinks he's joking, because nobody would think he'd be taking
the PS five from the kid. It got pretty awkward
because eventually he had to make it clear that he
wasn't joking, Like what what the fuck was that?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Like that guy just wanted the PS five give me?
What the fuck? Come on, man, no, I'm fucking.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Given, fucking give it.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
And you know how much he cost? Yeah, yeah, that's
it's It is that thing where somebody does something baffling
and is like, okay, sorry, like I guess you guys
don't get it, Like they're trying to hide it as
like a joke. That you aren't getting in some way,
(20:45):
and it just like makes it clear that this is
a some some manner of sociopath who has never understood
a single joke in their entire lives, and they think
like a joke is saying you'll do something and not
doing it or something. Yeah, weird, it's again.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
And then they're like backstage, you're like, well here we
actually have a gift.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Here take it. What is a kemba walker jersey?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
He doesn't even plan that was played for them in
the twelve years. Fuck, this is so old.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Well fucking I just found it. Okay, Jesus christ Man,
you're kids.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Man, kids? Am I right? He's like looking at the dad.
Am I right?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
This fucker like this at home too?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
What sir? He's in tears. That's so wild?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
All right, I kind of missed the mark.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
I guess the joke didn't land.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
It sounds like, yeah, it sounds like some ship like
Michael Scott in the office would say after doing some
really something exactly like real off color racist ship or
something in the office.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Like Okay, theopathy mixed with like a bad sense of
humor and like a desperation to be perceived as funny. Right,
oh yeah, yeah yeah, and you could see Michael Scott
being like just really wanting the PS five yeah, and
he would and would insult the kid to his face, right, yeah, yeah,
(22:10):
all right, we have some bad news. Uh. You know,
people who've been listening to the show since the pandemic
know that we rode hard for hydrochloroquin Uh. Boy god.
So there was this one study one there. I would
(22:31):
say that our skit of us saying citing this one
study thousands of times and only this one study uh
missed the mark. So there, this was the thing that
so it got with withdrawn, right, it got retracted. This
study that said that hydroxychloro quinn was good for battling code.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
This is the one. They all were like, yes.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Right, because it was not the one that was officially
endorsed by the government, so it had that going for it.
It was like, see the government's lying and I'm scared
to die. Uh, so I need something that bridges that gap.
And they found there was a study that was like, hey,
this actually seems to work, Like this thing that people
(23:17):
started talking about on the internet first seems to work.
And uh three of the authors have since been like,
could you take my name off that ship. The methodology
like is really fucked up. It doesn't seem to wait,
this is one of the authors of the study. Oh
(23:38):
wait really yeah, you're the authors of the study have
called you guys don't like it? Oh boy, well no
longer wished to see their names associated with the article.
So what do you think happened?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Is like, do you think it's more like, oh, that
was such an l take we had, like we aren't
gonna work anymore, Like the grift is over. Like I
wonder if they got what they did out of this,
and now they're like, we don't want to be associated
with this anymore, Like you know what I mean, to
the point where they're they're they're they're dirty, they're sullied
in the medical field for even penning this thing.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I'm wondering they've probably I feel like, just this is
another case of the woke mind virus getting now. I
think it's probably there was a lot of people, even
in academia who like I remember there was a Stamford
study in the early days of the pandemic that like,
when we were all trying to figure out what the
fuck was going on, it was like a Stamford epidemiologist
(24:37):
and like basically libertarian like got together and we're like
the government is making way too big a deal about this,
Like this thing's gonna kill like twenty people tops, right, right,
and like there was an appetite for that take. So, like,
I don't know exactly how it came to be in
(24:57):
the first place that there were actual respect like medical
professionals who were willing to sign their name onto this.
I think it's actually like kind of surprising in our
country that there weren't more that, you know, like the
way that like what we've learned about how information moves
and how universities get funding and all that shit, and yeah,
(25:20):
and then like the gravity of the truth just kind
of eventually pulled them out of this delusion of like, yeah,
this is actually like kind of a tight It was
pretty sick actually, all right.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
You know those last couple of studies, they missed the mark.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
They might have missed them. They might have missed the
mark a little bit. Kevin Spacey reference for these past
two I'm trying to think, do you ever play a
character named.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
He pay it forward?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yeah? Pay it forward? So they forward and study conspiracy.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Well, Well we'll put a pen in that one, but
definitely fragile house of cards.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
That whole study was built them. It was built on
a fragile House of cards. And then the authors had
to come back and say, let me be frank.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Oh Jesus, is he gonna do those weird canceled there
not anymore because like people like the time has lapsed
in cancelation jail and Hollywood and they're like, Okay, it's
just more of a penalty box facey comeback.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Boxes is actually sounds even worse using minute minor anyway,
what else?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
What else? What else? Uh? The War on Christmas has
been pretty quiet this year, Like wonder what has barely
mentioned it? This has traditionally been their biggest like manufactured
seasonal controversy, and last year, like it was mainly focused
on target selling a gay nutcrack as they call the
(27:01):
black Santa Claus in a wheelchair, But that's really it.
It's like they're more focused on woke mind virus getting
its hands all over. Yeah. Yeah, they want to shut
the government down to you, and they also want to
pokem on shutting the government down, just like Kevin Spacey
and House of Cards. I haven't seen it.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Okay, he cannot throw a baseball, I'll tell you that,
but there's some weird scenes he's like throw like pitching
to like blow a steam off.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Anyway, I'm not talking about.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Vin Space in House of Cards. Yeah, yeah, it's like
it's weir. It looks it's it looks alien. Yeah, it
looks like a guy who's like a like a thespian
who's like, like I can mimic the motion of.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Throwing a ball. Yeah, like an alien like k Pax.
All right, according to.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
UH.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
According to a recent youga of poll, only twenty three
percent of Americans believe there is a war on Christmas
in the US, which is down from just a decade
ago where that number was around fifty percent, which is wild.
But now the thing that we're starting to see, it's
moving in the opposite direction, where now we're seeing people
(28:10):
uh start to take shots at the like standard Christmas
traditions for being not Jesus enough.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Oh that's gonna be a hard one to win, y'all.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah yeah, but Myles, I would love for this to
be the direction that they go. They just keep give
them an inch and they're just like and you know,
what else Santa is Satan?
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Yeah, uh huh oh that that's that Jack Black movie
that's out, Dear Santa.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Yeah, do you know you heard about this, folks.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
It's about who's writing a letter to Santa.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
But I think he's like slightly dyslexic, so he writes
Dear Satan. So the letter that he puts in the
magical mailbox ends up going to HG Double hockey Sticks
and he summons fucking you know, Bill's.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
A bub him Wow. And they become friends.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Oh, it's like cute, cute Satan. Yeah, he like feels bad.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
He's like, oh shit, this kid thinks I'm fucking Santa.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Wow. And it's played by Jack Black and Santa. Yeah,
it is played by Jack Black. Wow. Yeah that's fun.
I like it. That's a good premise. Is that out? Yeah? Yeah,
it's out already.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
It's like there's like seven hundred of these weird celebrity
facing Like there's a Ben Stiller one too, that's out.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Just look around, folks. There's Christmas shit everywhere.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Christmas everywhere. But yeah, they're mad at the hypocrisy of
people who quote pretend to be devoted Christians who care
a lot about Christ's birth when they really don't.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Oh no, y'all are in for a shock about a
lot of the other things that is in the Bible
that they don't care about.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Like they they still are weird, Like that's the thing.
Like the the Democrats seized on like they're weird, right,
and everyone's like, yeah, they're weird. Democrats were like, Okay,
I just wanted to point it out. We're not gonna
mention it anymore. But like that, they still haven't really
faced any consequences for how weird they are. So I
feel like they're going to continue to progressively get weirder
(30:12):
and weirder.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Oh yeah, to the point where it's like the least
fun person ever is like making all their rules and everyone's.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Like, dude, shut up, Yeah, yeah, exactly doing that. But
the fuck we we Trump. We won.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
It's like yeah, yeah, but I'm still I still need
to have my Santa Non Jesus Christmas.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
I'm sorry, what the fuck do you think this is?
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Anyways, Well, we'll keep an eye on it. But I
would love to be on the side of Santa Claus
and the War on Christmas man, Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
You know what I mean, you'd fight on Santa side.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I'd fight on Santa side for the like non overtly
Christian parts of the of the holiday celebrations, Santa and
fucking you know, Santa fucking and people getting a little
bit drunk. You know you all the time, from the food,
the desserts, the sweets.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
The fact that you would fight on Santa side again
demonstrates you were always against me because I will always
fight on the side of Christ.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Wow, that's well established on this show.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Well established anything else. We want to leave the people with.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
No just a general thank you for your your continued
support and you know, we were honored that.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
You continue to listen to the show. Post how much
you listen to the show.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
We are so heartened by the fact that you would
choose to listen to us talk nonsense time and now
so much we rest our weary brains for just a
few a bit of respite or respite depending on where
you are in the world. And yeah, just I think
we you know, Jack and I always grateful. Shout out
(31:50):
to everybody that works on the show. Shout out Brian
the Editor, shout out Justin, super produced Justice, super producers, Babe, Victor, Catherine, always.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Watch over in Spirit.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Uh you know, also Becca always watching over in Spirit.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
We see not they've moved on to other shows. But yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
But I mean like we're a lowly show and they
work on like ones that get like people like Ariana
Grande on and every time I ask arian for something,
of police officer shows up at my house the next day.
But anyway, yeah, I hope everyone has a RESTful holiday.
You get what you need out of it, you don't
get what you don't want out of it.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
And yeah, have a great, great year. And thank you Myles.
You're one of the great people to work with. I
couldn't do this get get on Mike with anybody else.
I don't think tis this week when I was six.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
I don't know what the fuck that's about.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Not this.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
You should have just canceled it. Not as off sick, no, no,
and the same show. I've loved doing the show since
day one. And you know what, Jack, it's like, it's
like it's like the first day. It's like our first date.
Every time every you know, yeah, where.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Guys, No, guy's not gonna make it to days. Shit
just sweat through an overcoat.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
I swear to god, he pulled a diaper out from
his under.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
All right, thank you guy, Yeah, I do just to reiterate, like,
thank you for listening, thank you guys for being such
a great community, and like that consistently the thing we
always hear from our guests, all of our guests. Returning
guests are always like you guys actually have the best listeners.
Like they come up to me at a show and
aren't weird and are like really nice and like are
(33:36):
you know, show great support, So we we really appreciate y'all.
We hope you have a great holiday. We will be
dropping holiday episodes all over the place. I think we've
got some really fun ones for you, So stay tuned
to the feed, but have a great, RESTful holiday and
we will see you in the new year with more
(33:58):
regular episodes. Will talk to you all there. Bye bye
bye h
Speaker 3 (34:09):
M hm.
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Funky
Cold Trendina by Drone Low. That one courtesy of the
gross face dron loak is a good somebody needs to
do something with that. A recording artist, you know out
in a New Jersey rapper, the next Lauryn Hill Wow
(00:21):
through his dron loke. My name's Jack O'Brien. That over
there is Miles Gray and well, this is the trending episode.
It is the last episode of the year before we
get into some pre recorded holiday high jinks and the
top ten episodes of the year, which we'll be replaying.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
As we enjoy our eggnog.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Chestnuts roasting on estnut roasting on an open fire. Yeah,
just generally. Yeah, I've had a little bit of it.
It's not what I expected now what I know, kind
of like meaty.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm what I remember.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I always like, I liked the smell as a kid
because it was alo the street in Japan and shit,
and always asked my mom to get it.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Then you eat it, you like, what do you think
the biggest disconnect between smell and taste is because like,
oh Jesus, I don't smoking cigarettes. That was a big
one for me because I grew up you know, my
grandma smoked like a chimney. I loved the smell of cigarette.
Smelled like love, smelled like love, and then grandmother's love.
And then I ripped one and I was like, yo, oh, yeah,
(01:27):
tastes like dirt. Man.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, oh you know what it was? Well, I don't
know if it's yeah, it's not.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And that was a Marlborough light. I mean, I eventually
would come to love that taste, but whoa I was.
I was expecting it to just be the smell of cigarettes.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Was the first cigarette you ever smoked? A butt that
your grandma left behind?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
No, My my cool older sister brought me down to
the parking lot next to a public pool near our
house in Kentucky and we just sat there and ripped it,
ripped it sick.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah really, yeah, dude, love that summer night I was
smoking my grandma's left over.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
But yeah, I eventually got into that to that nasty business. Yeah. Yeah.
The coffee is also up there. Coffee smells like it's
gonna taste really good, and then it tastes like dirt,
dirt that I love.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Usually I'll say beer foam because I remember, I would
see it and then I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
What's the statute of limitations here? My dad would let me.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Sip the phone there if there.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Was like a big foam top on, because.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I don't want to do that, like dumb fucks, like
like bubbles, like the soap that you blow bubbles with
or some ship.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, completely wrong. Anyway, your foam never tastes good, like
even when I got real into drinking, when when I
became a big hobbyist when it came to drinking, never
liked beer foam. It's I don't I don't know. Everybody
was like, yeah, give me a nice foamy head on that.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Let me get a pint of foam.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, get his foam, Brian, the editors pointing out, not bad. Uh,
but it's not as good as guinness for sure.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Sure, okay, fair point, fair point.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Oh oh oh, it's magic. We've been doing that off
Mike for a while. We have to. We had to
do it for you one time. Oh ou ou so
we got one foot out the door people. I'm Jack,
(03:30):
that's Miles. We say that this is the trending episode
our show, A podcasts of some sort. We talked about
America's share consciousness.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
A lot to get through. We should get we should.
We'll leave you with a one you can chew on.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah, we'll leave you with a heavy one, nice heavy meal.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
That you can go to sleep, take a nice.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
All right, First, this is actually wild because this was
a prediction that I made on our Predictions episode that
that will be coming out of the beginning of twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, dude, Jesu's crazy wild. Yeah, what was the prediction again?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
So I predicted that a Superman movie would come out
in twenty twenty five, and they just dropped a trailer
no for a Superman movie coming out miles twenty five.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Fuck you, I know why do you keep charging me
for lottery numbers that fucking never win?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
You motherfucker. You could have told me about this bet.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
The signal wasn't clear that day. I am a Superman bitch.
I was like two or three when I first saw
the Christopher Reeves Superman, like the first one, and then
the Superman one and two with zod It was two,
I think, right, But yeah, those were big, like huge favorites,
(04:49):
hugely influential. I used to run around with a cap
on in all settings like made out of whatever was
around tal newspaper didn't matter that I was. And when
I was doing that, I was pretending to be Superman.
It wasn't Batman. So I was at that time watching
the Adam West Batman, but Superman was my ship.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
What's what the fuck is what was Zod's crew called?
What were they called? Those one motherfuckers that pulled up
with Zod? I don't have like a gang name because
he was like a general, right.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Or something General Zod and the Funky Bunch. I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Then, because whenever I think of them, I always think
of like JD.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Vance because they were heavy with the eyeliner too.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, heavy eyeliner, kind of close cropped beards, yeah yeah,
really alien charisma, completely distant, like they've been living in
the Phantom Zone for uh an impossible amount of time. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
So the trailer, I saw it.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
The trailer is I did not see the dog coming.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I didn't, but if he'll James Gun.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It did feel James Gun. He like it starts out.
Superman's like battered. He's in the one of the poles,
whichever pole has the Fortress of Solitude, and he's like
spitting out chick lit. He's spitting out blood and then
he whistles and his little fun dog comes and like
drags him and and I was like, we got a
(06:17):
hit on our hands. Yep, I think we got to his.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
And I'm like, everybody, this is you can already I
could already see.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
All the comic relief this little dog will provide. In
a James Gunnion way.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
It was very Gunnion, very Gunion.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I would say, a very Gunyian choice to have a
cheery little character that kind of helps offset the tension.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
But I think this is a new outback appetiser that
they're off right way. It's just a gun shaped, blooming onion.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
It's a deep gun. Yeah, it's actually they do not
bite it. It's a lot of they've had a lot
of accidental discharges. But the thing with the Superman, I
think because when I saw that and I saw the
trailer and then it said July, I was like, do y'all.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Got something to bar Surpenheimer this with? I don't know,
you might you have a half a barb here.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
You're gonna want a barber. I think you're gonna want
a Superman barbin Barbin Man Booperman. You're gonna want to
do something with this, because yeah, I feel like this
is gonna be a hit. You need something extra with Superman.
Not for me. I'm I'm the person who's like I
(07:26):
I actually liked Superman Returns. The Brandon Routh, Damn, Kevin
Spacey and Brian Singer was the fucking murderers Row of
Sex Crims it turns out, but I actually enjoyed those movies.
They felt like they were an homage. I mean there
was was. It wasn't an homage. It was like a
(07:46):
straight up They made it a sequel to the first
two Superman movies, which were the I think the last
two that anybody really fully got right. And then they
gave it over to Zack Snyder, who scared.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
You want to you want to do a little just forecasting.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
This is what comes out in July of twenty twenty five,
the same month as Superman. So Superman's July eleventh, July
fourth of July, there's a Matt Stone, Mattstone, Trey Parker
July second, Jurassic World rebirth July eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I know what you did last summer the Smurfs, And then.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I know what you did last summer the Smurfs. It's
a mashup, mashup, an unlikely mashup because the Trey Parker
Matt Stone thing is a Kendrick movie. Like they're doing
that with Kendrick Lamar Like what it is?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yes, because they directed I think, or we're like behind
the heart part whatever where he kept morphing.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Yeah, wow, So who knows a Kendrick super mad That
could be fucking weird. All right, we'll see, well Superman, Drick,
will you be myke Kendrick Knight.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I don't know. It's yeah, No, that's something we'll be
worked in. That well shot that off Mike Crypto the
dog Man. I feel like we're gonna be hearing this
is gonna be the last we heard of this Crypto
to dog Man.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
You won't believe how much money the crypto lobby spent
to get this character to be called that this is
all part of a fucking full court press to normalized crypto.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Y'all. Don't fucking fall for it. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I know he's a beautiful little dog, but don't fall
for it.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Speaking of which, uh Hawk Toua has apparently gone full
Kaiser on all our.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Shout out to Kevin Spacey. Second, Kevin Spacey.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
We're going for and by the way, as it as
it's our custom for the final episode of the year,
we always go full Kevin Spacey. Every story we'll have
a Kevin Spacey reference somehow.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, gone for two weeks, dude.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
So as we've covered before, you know, charming uh said
you got a hawk two on that thing in that
one video and then underratedly when Bill Maher was like
do you like jay Z? Do you even know who
jays Z is? Uh, she was like, oh, yeah, I
(10:04):
like that one song Concrete Jungle Wet Dream to Mayoh.
And we were like, all right, I'm I'm here, I'm
here for it.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Give her a three picture deal.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
A star is born. So she then launched a podcast,
Uh talked to U and it was originally a hit,
and then I think it was more interest. Yeah, people
lost it a lot of interest, and then people and
then she did a she launched a crypto. She just
like went through all the stages of neo internet fame
(10:37):
and over the course of a month and a half,
and then Rug pulled that crypto, which you know was
where you like sell all your chairs right before the
thing craters because you've sold all your shares, I think,
is the.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yeah, exactly, so then everybody else.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Massive vote of no confidence from the only person launch.
It's gotta be great.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Well look at the.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Line, what up fucking cell now? So soll uh and
so a lot of people left holding the bag since
she did that. She I mean, I think her company
released a statement being like they they haven't sold anything.
We don't know what you're talking about. She has not
appeared anywhere, no new episodes of talk to Us, and
(11:19):
like that she's gone. She just starts speaking with like
a British accent probably actually like South African would be like.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
The said, you know, you're not going to believe what
it says underneath my coffee mouth that wow, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yeah. So anyways, it's uh be interesting to see how
this story moves forward. But like I think the like
the thing, if they're lying and she really did like
sell all her shares, I think that's illegal. Like I
don't think you're able to do that. Maybe there's not
a lot of regular oh right, right right, you can see.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I mean, you know, there's also been stuff where like
Kim Kardashian got in trouble for doing a really weird.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Like you're seeing someone else's that she like, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
But it was it was sort of it was deceptive
because she was like, it's Ethereum max and people are like,
are they buying Ethereum or they're buying some weird bizarre.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Ship coin that you're that shares the same name.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Well, deceptive, kind of a Usual Suspects detective agent.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Never mind, Wow, doctor Burtiser, SUI I used to so much.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Dude, that was my face for whatever, Like this is
the best part or when maybe.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
When Billy Baldwin does.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Give me about yet that part too. It's also clippy
flippy for real. Yeah, yeah, that is movies that's also
burnt on my brain in a way. That and then
but that's one. So like, I go back and I
watched Superman one, the Christopher Reeves one with my kids,
and it was I it imprinted on me so early.
(13:15):
I imprinted on it so early that I'm still like,
this is one of the best movies I've ever seen.
But I go back and I watch Usual Suspects and
I'm like, this doesn't hold up at all. Yeah, this
ship is not very good. It's again.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
It's that it's a very fine window where everything that
you hit in there will be like, bro, this this
is forever art.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yes, exactly. That and Teen Wolf are two movies that
already I can't believe how much I still love this
fucking movie.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
You're like me, You're like, you're looking your living room.
He can see this, he can fucking hoop you guys,
Get in here, Get in here.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, he just turned into the Wolf playing basketball. Oh
my god, how how does he do with all.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
That ship on?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I must have so much shit on me. All right,
let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll check
him with Luigi ben Lauden, and we're back. And I mean,
if they wanted to do a photo op to make
(14:22):
this motherfucker look cool as hell, uh, they did it.
Luigi Mangioni pictured entering New York City with just like
a fucking main or some shit. Yeah, entire swat team
surrounding him with automatic weapons, all shackled up. It's wild.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
The thing is like everyone's like, oh, they're purp walking him. Usually,
like for super high profile stuff, it's like you might
catch a glimpse or something, but they try not to
do that. I guess it seemed as, you know, being
a bit prejudicial to be like, look.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
At this fucking guy with all the goons we need
around him.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
But a security analyst, I'm like CNN was saying, it
was like, I don't think they're doing this because like
they think someone's gonna like try and make a new
cool band photo Jack Ruby reference, but more.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
An indication that the police might think someone may try.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
To free him or interfere with him being taken into custody,
which is like, oh, interesting.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Prob'b be wild if like Jeff Bezos ran up and
shot out, like would assassinate the CEO as that.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
It's like, wait, why did you say neck bone? Is
that your that's a gangster name trying around?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah, but he got an incident free he's being Louci
Mangioni's being charged with first and second degree murder, a
bunch of weapons charges stocking. So some of the reports
indicated that he's been sort of on the tail allegedly
of Brian Thompsons's maybe August, And they also added a
(15:52):
terrorism I guess modifier bonus to that first degree murder
charge bonus, And yeah, that means means, you know, they're
basically saying that this was a crime intended to intimidate,
to terrorize the civilian population or part of the government,
et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
So it's like an anti terror law that came out
of nine to eleven.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Yeah, so yeah, his lawyers are like, they are really
piling it on here, thick. But yeah, we will see
the things will begin, I'm sure, and very quickly.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah, I mean Alvin Bragg is like, there's no place
for this kind of thing. And Eric Adams was like,
New York City, what.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
And what are your thoughts on the assassination?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
You could do anything.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
You could charge a young vigilante hit man with the
same anti terror laws we used to prosecute Al Qaeda.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Only in New York.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Let's see what else we got for the people. We
got the Hornets, the Charlotte Hornets of NBA fame, did
like a little fun give away thing where they hey.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Why why you why are you carrying their water right now?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Matt? It was fun And I don't see what this
kid's fucking problem is. So during a halftime, like you know,
on court game, I don't know exactly what the kid
did to deserve this, but uh, he was given by
the Hornets mascot a PS five. You can see from
(17:24):
the picture it is like cartoon like, oh boy, mister wow.
Really you know, he's like his mouth is open, He's
like what it really is that you have to say
mister too? You do have to say mister. Yeah. Yeah,
he's saying mister for sure. And then uh and then
(17:47):
they cut. You know, the JumboTron didn't stay on him
for that long, and it turns out that was by
design because then they took that ship right back and
we're like, here's a free Jersey kid get lost, And
so people caught wind of this. I don't know how
the Hornets thought they were going to get away with this. Yeah,
(18:07):
the kid, I guess or his dad like kind of
complained and was like, hey, you I don't know if
anybody was at the game and saw me get a
PS five. They took it back once the camera was off,
and so they had to issue this statement. During last
night's game, there was an on court skit that missed
the mark. The skit included bad decision making and poor communication.
(18:28):
Simply put, we turned the ball over and we apologized
how do we put this in terms the basketball fan
will all over We turned the ball over Like that's
not even a good Like that sucks the.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Most, Like it sounds like you tried to shoot like
a logo three and turned your back immediately and like
threw up like three like a tray with your hand
or something.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yeah, and it and it just like didn't even hit
the rim. Yeah. Come on. We reached out to the
family and are committed to not only making it right,
but to exceeding expectations. We will be providing the fan
with the PS five that he should have taken home
last night, along with a VIP experience to a future game.
Our goal is and will remain, to elevate the guest
(19:11):
experience for every person that enters Spectrum Center and to
show our fans how much we appreciate their relentless support.
But it's like the skit missed the mark, Yeah is
not no, the skit was a front for you, like
fake giving this kid a.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
There was no actually, there actually is no metaphor in
basketball for what this was.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Like, yeah it was. It's like it's it's just immoral.
It's just like what what are you doing? You mean, like, hey,
we're gonna make ourselves look good, like we just gave
this kid a PS five and then yoink it backstage.
It's while the dad. The way the dad talks it,
it's like it talks about what happened. He's like, we
got the PS five. The hornets dancer who actually gave
him the PS five. She starts to pack it up
(19:53):
for him in the back quote. Then we get kind
of like all the way back to backstage, and you know,
the guy who kind of found us in the first place,
he starts to kind of take it away, and everybody
thinks he's joking, because nobody would think he'd be taking
the PS five from the kid. It got pretty awkward
because eventually he had to make it clear that he
wasn't joking, Like what what the fuck was that?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Like that guy just wanted the PS five give me?
What the fuck? Come on, man, no, I'm fucking.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Given, fucking give it.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
And you know how much he cost? Yeah, yeah, that's
it's It is that thing where somebody does something baffling
and is like, okay, sorry, like I guess you guys
don't get it, Like they're trying to hide it as
like a joke. That you aren't getting in some way,
(20:45):
and it just like makes it clear that this is
a some some manner of sociopath who has never understood
a single joke in their entire lives, and they think
like a joke is saying you'll do something and not
doing it or something. Yeah, weird, it's again.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
And then they're like backstage, you're like, well here we
actually have a gift.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Here take it. What is a kemba walker jersey?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
He doesn't even plan that was played for them in
the twelve years. Fuck, this is so old.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Well fucking I just found it. Okay, Jesus christ Man,
you're kids.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Man, kids? Am I right? He's like looking at the dad.
Am I right?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
This fucker like this at home too?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
What sir? He's in tears. That's so wild?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
All right, I kind of missed the mark.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
I guess the joke didn't land.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
It sounds like, yeah, it sounds like some ship like
Michael Scott in the office would say after doing some
really something exactly like real off color racist ship or
something in the office.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Like Okay, theopathy mixed with like a bad sense of
humor and like a desperation to be perceived as funny. Right,
oh yeah, yeah yeah, and you could see Michael Scott
being like just really wanting the PS five yeah, and
he would and would insult the kid to his face, right, yeah, yeah,
(22:10):
all right, we have some bad news. Uh. You know,
people who've been listening to the show since the pandemic
know that we rode hard for hydrochloroquin Uh. Boy god.
So there was this one study one there. I would
(22:31):
say that our skit of us saying citing this one
study thousands of times and only this one study uh
missed the mark. So there, this was the thing that
so it got with withdrawn, right, it got retracted. This
study that said that hydroxychloro quinn was good for battling code.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
This is the one. They all were like, yes.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Right, because it was not the one that was officially
endorsed by the government, so it had that going for it.
It was like, see the government's lying and I'm scared
to die. Uh, so I need something that bridges that gap.
And they found there was a study that was like, hey,
this actually seems to work, Like this thing that people
(23:17):
started talking about on the internet first seems to work.
And uh three of the authors have since been like,
could you take my name off that ship. The methodology
like is really fucked up. It doesn't seem to wait,
this is one of the authors of the study. Oh
(23:38):
wait really yeah, you're the authors of the study have
called you guys don't like it? Oh boy, well no
longer wished to see their names associated with the article.
So what do you think happened?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Is like, do you think it's more like, oh, that
was such an l take we had, like we aren't
gonna work anymore, Like the grift is over. Like I
wonder if they got what they did out of this,
and now they're like, we don't want to be associated
with this anymore, Like you know what I mean, to
the point where they're they're they're they're dirty, they're sullied
in the medical field for even penning this thing.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I'm wondering they've probably I feel like, just this is
another case of the woke mind virus getting now. I
think it's probably there was a lot of people, even
in academia who like I remember there was a Stamford
study in the early days of the pandemic that like,
when we were all trying to figure out what the
fuck was going on, it was like a Stamford epidemiologist
(24:37):
and like basically libertarian like got together and we're like
the government is making way too big a deal about this,
Like this thing's gonna kill like twenty people tops, right, right,
and like there was an appetite for that take. So, like,
I don't know exactly how it came to be in
(24:57):
the first place that there were actual respect like medical
professionals who were willing to sign their name onto this.
I think it's actually like kind of surprising in our
country that there weren't more that, you know, like the
way that like what we've learned about how information moves
and how universities get funding and all that shit, and yeah,
(25:20):
and then like the gravity of the truth just kind
of eventually pulled them out of this delusion of like, yeah,
this is actually like kind of a tight It was
pretty sick actually, all right.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
You know those last couple of studies, they missed the mark.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
They might have missed them. They might have missed the
mark a little bit. Kevin Spacey reference for these past
two I'm trying to think, do you ever play a
character named.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
He pay it forward?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yeah? Pay it forward? So they forward and study conspiracy.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Well, Well we'll put a pen in that one, but
definitely fragile house of cards.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
That whole study was built them. It was built on
a fragile House of cards. And then the authors had
to come back and say, let me be frank.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Oh Jesus, is he gonna do those weird canceled there
not anymore because like people like the time has lapsed
in cancelation jail and Hollywood and they're like, Okay, it's
just more of a penalty box facey comeback.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Boxes is actually sounds even worse using minute minor anyway,
what else?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
What else? What else? Uh? The War on Christmas has
been pretty quiet this year, Like wonder what has barely
mentioned it? This has traditionally been their biggest like manufactured
seasonal controversy, and last year, like it was mainly focused
on target selling a gay nutcrack as they call the
(27:01):
black Santa Claus in a wheelchair, But that's really it.
It's like they're more focused on woke mind virus getting
its hands all over. Yeah. Yeah, they want to shut
the government down to you, and they also want to
pokem on shutting the government down, just like Kevin Spacey
and House of Cards. I haven't seen it.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Okay, he cannot throw a baseball, I'll tell you that,
but there's some weird scenes he's like throw like pitching
to like blow a steam off.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Anyway, I'm not talking about.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Vin Space in House of Cards. Yeah, yeah, it's like
it's weir. It looks it's it looks alien. Yeah, it
looks like a guy who's like a like a thespian
who's like, like I can mimic the motion of.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Throwing a ball. Yeah, like an alien like k Pax.
All right, according to.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
UH.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
According to a recent youga of poll, only twenty three
percent of Americans believe there is a war on Christmas
in the US, which is down from just a decade
ago where that number was around fifty percent, which is wild.
But now the thing that we're starting to see, it's
moving in the opposite direction, where now we're seeing people
(28:10):
uh start to take shots at the like standard Christmas
traditions for being not Jesus enough.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Oh that's gonna be a hard one to win, y'all.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah yeah, but Myles, I would love for this to
be the direction that they go. They just keep give
them an inch and they're just like and you know,
what else Santa is Satan?
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Yeah, uh huh oh that that's that Jack Black movie
that's out, Dear Santa.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Yeah, do you know you heard about this, folks.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
It's about who's writing a letter to Santa.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
But I think he's like slightly dyslexic, so he writes
Dear Satan. So the letter that he puts in the
magical mailbox ends up going to HG Double hockey Sticks
and he summons fucking you know, Bill's.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
A bub him Wow. And they become friends.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Oh, it's like cute, cute Satan. Yeah, he like feels bad.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
He's like, oh shit, this kid thinks I'm fucking Santa.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Wow. And it's played by Jack Black and Santa. Yeah,
it is played by Jack Black. Wow. Yeah that's fun.
I like it. That's a good premise. Is that out? Yeah? Yeah,
it's out already.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
It's like there's like seven hundred of these weird celebrity
facing Like there's a Ben Stiller one too, that's out.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Just look around, folks. There's Christmas shit everywhere.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Christmas everywhere. But yeah, they're mad at the hypocrisy of
people who quote pretend to be devoted Christians who care
a lot about Christ's birth when they really don't.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Oh no, y'all are in for a shock about a
lot of the other things that is in the Bible
that they don't care about.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Like they they still are weird, Like that's the thing.
Like the the Democrats seized on like they're weird, right,
and everyone's like, yeah, they're weird. Democrats were like, Okay,
I just wanted to point it out. We're not gonna
mention it anymore. But like that, they still haven't really
faced any consequences for how weird they are. So I
feel like they're going to continue to progressively get weirder
(30:12):
and weirder.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Oh yeah, to the point where it's like the least
fun person ever is like making all their rules and everyone's.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Like, dude, shut up, Yeah, yeah, exactly doing that. But
the fuck we we Trump. We won.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
It's like yeah, yeah, but I'm still I still need
to have my Santa Non Jesus Christmas.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
I'm sorry, what the fuck do you think this is?
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Anyways, Well, we'll keep an eye on it. But I
would love to be on the side of Santa Claus
and the War on Christmas man, Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
You know what I mean, you'd fight on Santa side.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I'd fight on Santa side for the like non overtly
Christian parts of the of the holiday celebrations, Santa and
fucking you know, Santa fucking and people getting a little
bit drunk. You know you all the time, from the food,
the desserts, the sweets.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
The fact that you would fight on Santa side again
demonstrates you were always against me because I will always
fight on the side of Christ.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Wow, that's well established on this show.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Well established anything else. We want to leave the people with.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
No just a general thank you for your your continued
support and you know, we were honored that.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
You continue to listen to the show. Post how much
you listen to the show.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
We are so heartened by the fact that you would
choose to listen to us talk nonsense time and now
so much we rest our weary brains for just a
few a bit of respite or respite depending on where
you are in the world. And yeah, just I think
we you know, Jack and I always grateful. Shout out
(31:50):
to everybody that works on the show. Shout out Brian
the Editor, shout out Justin, super produced Justice, super producers, Babe, Victor, Catherine, always.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Watch over in Spirit.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Uh you know, also Becca always watching over in Spirit.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
We see not they've moved on to other shows. But yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
But I mean like we're a lowly show and they
work on like ones that get like people like Ariana
Grande on and every time I ask arian for something,
of police officer shows up at my house the next day.
But anyway, yeah, I hope everyone has a RESTful holiday.
You get what you need out of it, you don't
get what you don't want out of it.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
And yeah, have a great, great year. And thank you Myles.
You're one of the great people to work with. I
couldn't do this get get on Mike with anybody else.
I don't think tis this week when I was six.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
I don't know what the fuck that's about.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Not this.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
You should have just canceled it. Not as off sick, no, no,
and the same show. I've loved doing the show since
day one. And you know what, Jack, it's like, it's
like it's like the first day. It's like our first date.
Every time every you know, yeah, where.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Guys, No, guy's not gonna make it to days. Shit
just sweat through an overcoat.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
I swear to god, he pulled a diaper out from
his under.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
All right, thank you guy, Yeah, I do just to reiterate, like,
thank you for listening, thank you guys for being such
a great community, and like that consistently the thing we
always hear from our guests, all of our guests. Returning
guests are always like you guys actually have the best listeners.
Like they come up to me at a show and
aren't weird and are like really nice and like are
(33:36):
you know, show great support, So we we really appreciate y'all.
We hope you have a great holiday. We will be
dropping holiday episodes all over the place. I think we've
got some really fun ones for you, So stay tuned
to the feed, but have a great, RESTful holiday and
we will see you in the new year with more
(33:58):
regular episodes. Will talk to you all there. Bye bye
bye h
Speaker 3 (34:09):
M hm.
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