September 16, 2021 • 13 mins
In this edition of I'm Not Trying To Ruin Anybody's Trend..., Jack and Miles discuss the disappearance of Gabrielle Petito, Nikki Minaj's ScroteGate saga, Newsmax cutting off a veteran for stating the truth, Tom Hanks' new movie 'Finch', a new development in the search for a 'Jeopardy' host, and CNN rigging the CA recall!?!?!??
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of I'm
not trying to ruin anybody's trend or be funny or
give them the worst sight of their job ever. But
I'm just asking, do any of these baser's ever come
down from the ceiling and have a worthless come shot?
(00:24):
That is courtesy? Is that courtesy? Oh my god? I
love it. The super tell that is for all the
uh I think you should be fans out there. The
Haunted House sketch one of the greats. I'm Jack, you
are my old whoops, world's upside down today. Let's tell
(00:50):
the people what's trending, shall we. Gabby Petito is trending.
She is. She was on a cross country trip with
her boyfriend. They were blogging it up. Everybody was, you know,
saying they seemed like the happiest like of travel bloggers.
And then the boyfriend returned to Florida without her um
(01:13):
and she hasn't been seen since, and the boyfriend is
not cooperating with police. So it's one of those It's
one of those. Yeah, that's I don't know. I mean,
I've watched enough Dateline that's usually not a good sign. Yeah.
This is the second of today's or well, I guess
(01:34):
tomorrow's episode also were we talked true crime, but there's
some wild true crime ship happening and in the zeitgeist.
And I hope she's not actually disappeared. I know the
stories wild because uh like, there was also another like
camping couple who disappeared, both of them like after texting
(01:56):
their friend that like a weird guy was camping next
to them, and then were found slain uh like days later.
So it's very very strange. Lots of um travel influencer
killings happening. Unfortunately, don't tell like city boy Miles out
as a child about getting murdered at a campsit. I
(02:18):
don't think it would have ever left the city. Yeah,
we're like to get murdered normally in this city concrete. Anyways,
I stand with Nikki. Is just a statement. I'm saying, Oh,
look at that. It's it's also trending. Oh look tweets
agree with me. Hum, maybe you should really think about that.
You should taken out of look at the science. We're
(02:43):
like in day five thousand of Big ball Gate because
of the Nicki Minaj tweet, And I think now it's
just more this is now turned into a culture war thing.
And now you see a lot of those avatars wearing
the wraparound shades and the selfie and out of a
pickup truck suddenly are now barbies. Yeah, they're all now barbs.
(03:06):
A really interesting evolution for them. But yeah, I mean
it's just continuing. This's just a lot of back and forth.
It's like anything when something like this trends, where it's
half like people being sincere and then mostly the other
people just like dunking on them. So but it's still
it continues to just sort of gain momentum and more
(03:27):
and more people are like starting to be like, I
I stand with her because she's telling people to not
be bullied. Um. But yeah, and this is uh, Tucker
Carlson's opportunity to not seem racist and other other people. Uh,
he's really and that's why he's really going for his show.
He keeps bringing up stuff like this is a moment
(03:49):
for left and right to realize the human dignity. And
he thinks that he can use the strength of her
profile to like try and like create more momentum to
get more people who might be Nicki Minaj fans to
come around to Tucker Carlson's side of the town. Yeah,
Fortunately her fans, she doesn't have like very strong or like,
(04:13):
you know, strongly willed fans. They're all pretty kind of
laid back, so I'm sure they'll just yeah like this one. Lie. Yeah,
it's it's super chill. I mean, there's like there are
rumors that people think, like on Twitter, people he's saying
that they're like Nicki Minaj fans outside the CDC in Atlanta. Okay, Yeah, no,
her fans got a lot of energy, a lot of
love for Nikki. So yeah, we'll see where this very
(04:36):
silly story takes us, which possibly, uh in a very
dangerous direction. News Max is trending, when are they not?
You know, these these folks always coming up with a
new way to uh bring the news to the Max.
Maybe they cut off a veteran who actually like knows
(04:58):
what's happening in Afghanistan because is he knows what's happening
in Afghanistan and that kind of contradicts their whole thing
of Yeah, this this moment is very very on the
nose for news Max because they're like, we won't we're
so against the truth in this rapid way that if
you start saying, like a collection of words that makes sense,
(05:21):
We're just gonna shut you down. And that's exactly what
happened when Grant Stinchfield really went off on this veteran
for merely stating things he's observed as someone who's served
in the military. And so I've got Americans there that
are stuck. To me, that's a hostage situation. But Joe,
I appreciate you working to get them out. I really do,
and I wish you we do respect her, and I mean,
(05:44):
like veterans, you know, being one right, and our friends
are over there. Um. We followed this closely from multiple administrations,
and we know the Tom's administration's efforts here were fairly weak,
that they were trying to limit the number of people
that would get out, So there was coordination of problems. Joe,
I'm gonna Joe, I'm gonna cut you. I'm already I'm
already weak. I'm already low on time, Joe, Joe, I've
(06:05):
cut him off. Please cut him off, now cut him off. Now,
you're not gonna blame this on President Trump on my show.
That's not happening. Now. I appreciate the work that you're doing.
God bless you for being a vest God bless you
for trying to get Americans out. But don't come on
this program and take the talking points to the left
and blame President Trump. That's not helping anybody. Uh huh okay,
(06:30):
So yeah, so slammed up. The veteran was just saying
that it's it's been a problem for a while, multiple generator,
multiple administrations, and when Trump was in office, No not
then it was the greatest time ever cut him off.
It was kind of revealing how quickly he went from yeah, okay, yeah, no,
(06:52):
I get just um talk about my dad on this show.
He's a cop. All right, Let's take a quick break
and we'll be right back. And we're back. And Tom
(07:19):
Hanks is trending because he has a new movie poster
that he that is debuted. It's called Finch, great Tom
Hanks character name, and it appears to be an Apple
original wherein he is trying to like protect his dog.
It's the Apocalypse. There's a big robot behind him, and
(07:44):
you know there's a there's a long standing rule in
movies that dogs are the thing you don't funk with, right,
Like I can have somebody be killed but not the dog.
Like the dog has to run out after the entire
city of Houston is annihilated by the aliens in Independence
(08:04):
Day and like prove that it's okay. The dog made
it a lot of outrage and I am legend, you know, yeah,
exactly too much. That's why the friend walk out mid
mid viewing when that scene happened, and I was like really,
And that's why John Wick makes sense as a movie
because every what he kills hundreds of people, they shoot
(08:31):
them all in their heads. Okay, cool, Like we figured
it out, baby, But this is interesting the way Amblin
talks about it, you know, Steven Spielberg's production company said.
Tom Hanks is Finch, the head of an unlikely family
on a journey to rediscover the joy and wonder of
what it means to be alive. And so I guess
his family is robot and dog. Um. I can see,
(08:54):
you know, how what the I can tell what the
message is going to be. But it feels a little
Graham right now. People are already kind of feeling like
it's the apocalypse. But sure, I guess topics can make
me feel warm about it. Yeah, what a voice on
that guy? You know, yeah, I could. Just I wonder
if chat does he does he is he always? He
(09:14):
the voice there, the Jamaican robot. He's like, sorry, nepotism,
y'all had to had to do something to them. Uh.
There are times when I'm reading books to my kids
where I'm like, God, I wish Tom Hanks was rooting
(09:35):
this instead. He would, he would really nail this. He's
got one of those voices that like exists between like
not too basy, but has enough like high tones to
it that it feels like whimsical to so much feeling. Yeah, well,
we've got a new development in the Jeopardy saga, Ken Jennings,
(09:56):
who was basically like Trebec's chosen like successor, to the
point that he left the cuff links that he wore
on camera for every episode to Ken Jennings, like clearly
being like, I want Ken Jennings to replace me, right,
I'm sure it's like the logic there, it's like that
(10:16):
he gave him that. He didn't give you the cuff links,
you probably would have. She knew me. Anyways, now that
the Mike Richards I think his name has been replaced,
they are going to give Ken Jennings the old one
year try so we'll see. I'm excited. You know. He
(10:38):
seems like he knows all the answers, so that's uh,
I know what if he starts really taking on a
new like direction as hosts, He's like, all right and
like this question blah blah blah. Someone answers like, are
you serious? No, dude, it's what is annibal? Wow? Okay? Uh?
Anyone else want to fucking embarrass themselves? Really, what are
(11:01):
you doing? It's like, I'm the best, Remember I'm the best.
It's really insecure about it. I mean that is how
like a lot of great like athletes are that, Like
they just can't get over I guess because they lose
their gifts with time, so then they like automatically get
insecure they get older. But so this is still like
it's like having nine or ninety seven. Michael Jordan's constantly
(11:25):
still just calling games, but in that same shape. I
can only imagine who is I am that you think
you are? I am? I'm sorry kids jep right again
he said them kids really loud, and everyone in the
audience heard, who do you think you are? I am?
(11:48):
That is one of the great brains firing on no cylinders,
just because of your masculine adrenaline. Yah uh. And finally, CNN,
at one point during their broadcast of the California election
results accidentally had the total vote for the recall race
in the yes column, giving an extra three votes to
(12:13):
the yes is because they had just put all all
votes in the S column, right. And of course this
is the sort of just natural error typo that is
bound to happen, that is going to be seized on
by the right to prove, probably like in a loose
change style video that the Democrats cheated the election. Right.
(12:36):
But thing, but if you're watching any other network, you
wouldn't have seen that, right, Like, but anyway, Well, but
CNN's in on it, right right right man. My heart
goes out to people watching that. Yeah, alright, those are
some of the things that are trending this afternoon. We
are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show.
(12:58):
Until then, be kind to each other there, be kind
to yourselves, get the vaccines, don't do nothing about white supremacy.
We will talk to you all tomorrow. I
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of I'm
not trying to ruin anybody's trend or be funny or
give them the worst sight of their job ever. But
I'm just asking, do any of these baser's ever come
down from the ceiling and have a worthless come shot?
(00:24):
That is courtesy? Is that courtesy? Oh my god? I
love it. The super tell that is for all the
uh I think you should be fans out there. The
Haunted House sketch one of the greats. I'm Jack, you
are my old whoops, world's upside down today. Let's tell
(00:50):
the people what's trending, shall we. Gabby Petito is trending.
She is. She was on a cross country trip with
her boyfriend. They were blogging it up. Everybody was, you know,
saying they seemed like the happiest like of travel bloggers.
And then the boyfriend returned to Florida without her um
(01:13):
and she hasn't been seen since, and the boyfriend is
not cooperating with police. So it's one of those It's
one of those. Yeah, that's I don't know. I mean,
I've watched enough Dateline that's usually not a good sign. Yeah.
This is the second of today's or well, I guess
(01:34):
tomorrow's episode also were we talked true crime, but there's
some wild true crime ship happening and in the zeitgeist.
And I hope she's not actually disappeared. I know the
stories wild because uh like, there was also another like
camping couple who disappeared, both of them like after texting
(01:56):
their friend that like a weird guy was camping next
to them, and then were found slain uh like days later.
So it's very very strange. Lots of um travel influencer
killings happening. Unfortunately, don't tell like city boy Miles out
as a child about getting murdered at a campsit. I
(02:18):
don't think it would have ever left the city. Yeah,
we're like to get murdered normally in this city concrete. Anyways,
I stand with Nikki. Is just a statement. I'm saying, Oh,
look at that. It's it's also trending. Oh look tweets
agree with me. Hum, maybe you should really think about that.
You should taken out of look at the science. We're
(02:43):
like in day five thousand of Big ball Gate because
of the Nicki Minaj tweet, And I think now it's
just more this is now turned into a culture war thing.
And now you see a lot of those avatars wearing
the wraparound shades and the selfie and out of a
pickup truck suddenly are now barbies. Yeah, they're all now barbs.
(03:06):
A really interesting evolution for them. But yeah, I mean
it's just continuing. This's just a lot of back and forth.
It's like anything when something like this trends, where it's
half like people being sincere and then mostly the other
people just like dunking on them. So but it's still
it continues to just sort of gain momentum and more
(03:27):
and more people are like starting to be like, I
I stand with her because she's telling people to not
be bullied. Um. But yeah, and this is uh, Tucker
Carlson's opportunity to not seem racist and other other people. Uh,
he's really and that's why he's really going for his show.
He keeps bringing up stuff like this is a moment
(03:49):
for left and right to realize the human dignity. And
he thinks that he can use the strength of her
profile to like try and like create more momentum to
get more people who might be Nicki Minaj fans to
come around to Tucker Carlson's side of the town. Yeah,
Fortunately her fans, she doesn't have like very strong or like,
(04:13):
you know, strongly willed fans. They're all pretty kind of
laid back, so I'm sure they'll just yeah like this one. Lie. Yeah,
it's it's super chill. I mean, there's like there are
rumors that people think, like on Twitter, people he's saying
that they're like Nicki Minaj fans outside the CDC in Atlanta. Okay, Yeah, no,
her fans got a lot of energy, a lot of
love for Nikki. So yeah, we'll see where this very
(04:36):
silly story takes us, which possibly, uh in a very
dangerous direction. News Max is trending, when are they not?
You know, these these folks always coming up with a
new way to uh bring the news to the Max.
Maybe they cut off a veteran who actually like knows
(04:58):
what's happening in Afghanistan because is he knows what's happening
in Afghanistan and that kind of contradicts their whole thing
of Yeah, this this moment is very very on the
nose for news Max because they're like, we won't we're
so against the truth in this rapid way that if
you start saying, like a collection of words that makes sense,
(05:21):
We're just gonna shut you down. And that's exactly what
happened when Grant Stinchfield really went off on this veteran
for merely stating things he's observed as someone who's served
in the military. And so I've got Americans there that
are stuck. To me, that's a hostage situation. But Joe,
I appreciate you working to get them out. I really do,
and I wish you we do respect her, and I mean,
(05:44):
like veterans, you know, being one right, and our friends
are over there. Um. We followed this closely from multiple administrations,
and we know the Tom's administration's efforts here were fairly weak,
that they were trying to limit the number of people
that would get out, So there was coordination of problems. Joe,
I'm gonna Joe, I'm gonna cut you. I'm already I'm
already weak. I'm already low on time, Joe, Joe, I've
(06:05):
cut him off. Please cut him off, now cut him off. Now,
you're not gonna blame this on President Trump on my show.
That's not happening. Now. I appreciate the work that you're doing.
God bless you for being a vest God bless you
for trying to get Americans out. But don't come on
this program and take the talking points to the left
and blame President Trump. That's not helping anybody. Uh huh okay,
(06:30):
So yeah, so slammed up. The veteran was just saying
that it's it's been a problem for a while, multiple generator,
multiple administrations, and when Trump was in office, No not
then it was the greatest time ever cut him off.
It was kind of revealing how quickly he went from yeah, okay, yeah, no,
(06:52):
I get just um talk about my dad on this show.
He's a cop. All right, Let's take a quick break
and we'll be right back. And we're back. And Tom
(07:19):
Hanks is trending because he has a new movie poster
that he that is debuted. It's called Finch, great Tom
Hanks character name, and it appears to be an Apple
original wherein he is trying to like protect his dog.
It's the Apocalypse. There's a big robot behind him, and
(07:44):
you know there's a there's a long standing rule in
movies that dogs are the thing you don't funk with, right,
Like I can have somebody be killed but not the dog.
Like the dog has to run out after the entire
city of Houston is annihilated by the aliens in Independence
(08:04):
Day and like prove that it's okay. The dog made
it a lot of outrage and I am legend, you know, yeah,
exactly too much. That's why the friend walk out mid
mid viewing when that scene happened, and I was like really,
And that's why John Wick makes sense as a movie
because every what he kills hundreds of people, they shoot
(08:31):
them all in their heads. Okay, cool, Like we figured
it out, baby, But this is interesting the way Amblin
talks about it, you know, Steven Spielberg's production company said.
Tom Hanks is Finch, the head of an unlikely family
on a journey to rediscover the joy and wonder of
what it means to be alive. And so I guess
his family is robot and dog. Um. I can see,
(08:54):
you know, how what the I can tell what the
message is going to be. But it feels a little
Graham right now. People are already kind of feeling like
it's the apocalypse. But sure, I guess topics can make
me feel warm about it. Yeah, what a voice on
that guy? You know, yeah, I could. Just I wonder
if chat does he does he is he always? He
(09:14):
the voice there, the Jamaican robot. He's like, sorry, nepotism,
y'all had to had to do something to them. Uh.
There are times when I'm reading books to my kids
where I'm like, God, I wish Tom Hanks was rooting
(09:35):
this instead. He would, he would really nail this. He's
got one of those voices that like exists between like
not too basy, but has enough like high tones to
it that it feels like whimsical to so much feeling. Yeah, well,
we've got a new development in the Jeopardy saga, Ken Jennings,
(09:56):
who was basically like Trebec's chosen like successor, to the
point that he left the cuff links that he wore
on camera for every episode to Ken Jennings, like clearly
being like, I want Ken Jennings to replace me, right,
I'm sure it's like the logic there, it's like that
(10:16):
he gave him that. He didn't give you the cuff links,
you probably would have. She knew me. Anyways, now that
the Mike Richards I think his name has been replaced,
they are going to give Ken Jennings the old one
year try so we'll see. I'm excited. You know. He
(10:38):
seems like he knows all the answers, so that's uh,
I know what if he starts really taking on a
new like direction as hosts, He's like, all right and
like this question blah blah blah. Someone answers like, are
you serious? No, dude, it's what is annibal? Wow? Okay? Uh?
Anyone else want to fucking embarrass themselves? Really, what are
(11:01):
you doing? It's like, I'm the best, Remember I'm the best.
It's really insecure about it. I mean that is how
like a lot of great like athletes are that, Like
they just can't get over I guess because they lose
their gifts with time, so then they like automatically get
insecure they get older. But so this is still like
it's like having nine or ninety seven. Michael Jordan's constantly
(11:25):
still just calling games, but in that same shape. I
can only imagine who is I am that you think
you are? I am? I'm sorry kids jep right again
he said them kids really loud, and everyone in the
audience heard, who do you think you are? I am?
(11:48):
That is one of the great brains firing on no cylinders,
just because of your masculine adrenaline. Yah uh. And finally, CNN,
at one point during their broadcast of the California election
results accidentally had the total vote for the recall race
in the yes column, giving an extra three votes to
(12:13):
the yes is because they had just put all all
votes in the S column, right. And of course this
is the sort of just natural error typo that is
bound to happen, that is going to be seized on
by the right to prove, probably like in a loose
change style video that the Democrats cheated the election. Right.
(12:36):
But thing, but if you're watching any other network, you
wouldn't have seen that, right, Like, but anyway, Well, but
CNN's in on it, right right right man. My heart
goes out to people watching that. Yeah, alright, those are
some of the things that are trending this afternoon. We
are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show.
(12:58):
Until then, be kind to each other there, be kind
to yourselves, get the vaccines, don't do nothing about white supremacy.
We will talk to you all tomorrow. I
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