JG Trendtworth 9/12: Captain America, Trump, Russia, The Little Mermaid, King Charles, Plymouth Rock

In this edition of JG Trendtworth, Jack and Miles discuss Captain America: New World Order, Trump in D.C., the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the new 'The Little Mermaid' teaser, King Charles getting angry at a pen tray, and how dumb Plymouth Rock actually looks!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of J G.
Trend Worth. Yeah you've never heard of that? I never
heard j Wentworth? How I've heard reference in passing like
it hit my brain as though there were a J. G.
Wentworth shape a little divot in there. So I've heard

(00:22):
it before. I just don't. I couldn't pull the ad
that you were talking about. What the I feel like?
This is so I that jingle has existed for years,
but it's always like these weird versions of people doing
a musical somewhere whatever. If you if you like you're
making that shut up, and I don't fully believe. I

(00:42):
think you're trying to get me to be like, yeah, yeah, no,
I've seen it two miles obviously I get it. And
then they're so fucking proud of them that they're even like,
check out our award winning fucking commercials from the J. G.
Wentworth Academy of Advertising Academy Award. They're they're really feeling

(01:05):
eight seven seven cash. Now, how many times has that
been stuck in your head over the years? Ye didn't
we They've become cult classics. Our our iconic Wagnerian opera
is that Nazi Anyway, moving on, moving on to isn't
that guy in Nazi Captain America? nWo, So, the next

(01:28):
Captain America movie has the subtitle of New World Order,
which is an anti Smitic conspiracy theory. Um, they cast
a Jewish actor as the arch villain of of the film.
Like so, even even the old old timey comic books

(01:49):
where Captain America was fighting something called the New World Order,
the head of the New World Order was a Nazi
scientist goblin named Red Skuld. Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
just switch that up. Yeah, just switch that up a
little bit real quick, real quick. Like, um, it's the
actor who played the guy with the mirror helmet in

(02:12):
the Watchman. Um, the kind of thin dude you know
in Watchman HBO show. Who's the mirror head dude? What
are you talking about? Mirror head? I don't know, I
don't even know what which actor we're talking about. He
was one of the cops on the fourth in the
local town that they followed, oh the entire Oh the

(02:33):
dude who put the fucking weird mask on that big
discal ball thing. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Looking Glass
that's what his name, looking Glass, not mirror Head should
have been his name. Um. I don't know if they
couldn't get like if that was trademarked or something, but
it should have been Mirrorhead. Anyways. Uh, they've added a

(02:56):
protagonist superhero, um I think from comic books, but that
character is Israeli. Um, so it could it could just
get all. I mean, nobody's seen the film yet, but
it's just it seems like it's setting up to be
pretty tone deaf at a time where tone deafness is

(03:18):
probably not what we need. I it sounds like it's
going to be a fucking interesting one, with many kinds
of analysis that we might need and much that we don't. Um. Wow, well,
good luck with that film, guys, good luck over there
with that. As we found, he can't judge a book
by its cover or a movie by its trailer. According

(03:42):
to the reviews of Don't Worry Darling, I was on
board heavy based on based on the trailer, and yeah,
the reviews are pretty pretty rough, not not kind. I'll
watch it eventually on an airplane. I will promise you that,
Olivia Wild and I will watch it on that same airplane. Yeah.

(04:04):
The last thing I do trump in d C air
planes are. Former president took a little airplane trip up
to Washington, d c our nation's capital in his golf outfit. Yeah,
he's rocking his golf outfit, went out his golf course,
not partaking in golf, but just driving his little golf
cart around the golf course and presumably making little room

(04:26):
room and too sounds with his mouth. Yeah, it's everyone's like, okay,
what are you turning yourself in? What do you sick?
And you're going to what do you? What do you what?
Are you a tough guy? Oh? Real tough? Okay, so
you're tough guy. Okay, you want to come to your
own golf course? Okay, tough guy? What do you for
you real quick? Um? Yeah, I don't. I think the

(04:49):
fantasy versions likes far are we going to be arrest?
Just like no, not, he's if anything, as he says,
it's a working trip. And I'm like, yeah, what do
you are you trying to like lean in on Jenny
Thomas and ship and being right? I gotta it's getting bad. Yeah,
Like I don't know what the folk I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna need you guys to do some ship or

(05:09):
it's a rap for me but then I feel like
I don't know. We'll see, we'll see what it is
it's all about. But this man is not known for
his working so it feels like more of a panicked
trip than if anything. I will say, the maralogal sweatfest continues.
I just don't know what the reason for the sweats
are with this. Yeah, hard to know in the moment.
It's interesting. Remember when he fired, like the guy was

(05:32):
basically running his campaign for him, y Lewandowski, No, not
Notanda par Scale car Scale got fired, and like, now
there's us that that was part of a attempted take
over to get Kushner out um and bring in uh Bannon,

(05:55):
And like that there's new book coming out from one
of his little henchmen from the campaign basically saying that
like everybody was trying to maneuver to get Bannon in.
So it's it's like the true story behind all the
what what was bubbling to the surface of the mainstream media.

(06:16):
But it hilariously sounds like it came down to he
was too afraid to fire Jared because he thought his
daughter would be mad at him, So he just like
avoiated Jesus avoided it. You fire him you should do
it that, yeah, can you, which is so funny to
someone who like like so to everyone else, so transparently

(06:37):
insecure and frightened as a man and just has to
overcompensate with all this like bluster and ship, like watching
him panicked, like being like watch this, Pool's gonna say
he doesn't want to do it, but he's not going
to say he doesn't want to do it, and he's
gonna lose his ship about some other thing, insisting that
we have to fire him. He's like that, there's no
point in me to do that. I can't do that.

(06:58):
It doesn't make sense to me. But what I do
that you should do. Probably I'm like, damn, well, I
thought you were about it. Nope, Nope, not about it.
Would rather lose the presidency than faith a you know,
confrontation with his daughter and finally Russian soldiers they're trending

(07:19):
because um, they are apparently running for their lives. That's
as one Yeah journalist puts it. I mean, I think
a lot of the news has been focused on this
like counter offensive that Ukraine has launched and just reclaimed
just amount untold amounts of territory since this invasion began
in late February and to the point where a lot

(07:41):
of people are pointing to the fact that like the
chain of command is just breaking down because they were
so caught off guard by this counter offensive that you know,
people are pointing to the just sort of one of
the biggest differences with the Ukrainian Army and the Russian
Army is just how the culture of how like how
autonomous the soldiers can be. The Russian Army is still
very much you know, like they just everything has to

(08:01):
go through like the highest echelon of people to make
decisions and they wait on the ground. Yeah, okay, you know,
you've seen it, You've heard you know, whereas Ukrainians like
in the field, they're they're given a little bit more
autonomy to be flexible in the battlefield. And they're saying
because of that, it's the bottleneck of lack of orders
plus the potential for these Russian soldiers to be captured

(08:22):
or whatever. They're just ditching tanks and rivers and like
dressing a civilians and trying to flee. Um. I mean
a lot of people say this is this is a
pretty huge turning point in this conflict. But over the
weekend or this is like kind of been going on
for a while. It's started about the end of last week.
Basic they took one of the major cities, right, yeah,
in the weekend in main reagions and like then, like

(08:45):
I think they Russians are like trying to tell the
u N They're like, this isn't fair what they're doing.
It's like, what are you serious? What the are you
talking about? You invaded a fucking country. Um So yeah,
there's I mean, there's definitely images of these people who
are so relieved to see like other Ukrainian you know,
our soldiers like in their town after being occupied. But

(09:09):
that this is an ongoing story obviously. All right, let's
take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk Little Mermaid,
we'll talk our new king and and we're back. So

(09:33):
the Little Mermaid dropped a teaser on our ass. The
performance is amazing. It's so good that TMZ wrote a
story saying, are they are the fans shading the original
Arial Jody Benson Like, because they're like she's because the

(09:57):
original Aria, Oh my god, it's and day. I mean
obviously as vocal, they're just they're not even comparable as vocalists.
But this is late eighties Disney or whatever, I think,
because they were just pointing at the fact that people
are like, holy shit, like they're like Hallie Bailey is
gonna fucking eat with this role. And people are like, well,
what are you trying to say about Judy Ben's like,

(10:18):
nobody saying it about her. Yeah, said that Hallie Bailey
is fucking fantastic. Some people were like, you know, putting
putting side by side clips and people like, oh, that's shady.
I'm like, no, no, no, TMZ. Why don't you focus
on the tons of people like on social media who
are like finding other weird things to critique it because

(10:39):
it's a not white aerial rather than being like our
black people shading the white woman who's saying they're excited
that this woman can say I don't think so. So
I had the thoughts and uh that it looks unnatural.
It just doesn't seem like that should be the mermaid.
She does not look like aerial like a mermaid does.

(11:02):
And what does a mermaid look like. We've all pictured
a mermaid in our mind. Blonde hair, blue eyes, you
know that. Um no. I had the thought that it
does look like it is taking place in the ocean
in a Zack Snyder Justice League movie. Like it looks dark. Um,

(11:22):
But people have pointed out that the scene where she
is singing part of a part of that world. It
happens at night, so they're just lighting it. She she's
singing in a sea cave. There's being lit by fireworks
that are above at nighttime on the surface. Um so

(11:43):
I stand corrected. The rest of the Internet does not
stand corrected. The stand fuck you. This is bad. People
are like, shouldn't like even look like that under water?
What dude, all I could think about when I saw
it was the my skin turning into that of a
chickens because of all the goose bumps, or I guess

(12:06):
that of a goose. If I'm going to be you know,
accurate here with how good her fucking voices, and to
hear someone singing like these like iconic melodies with just
that little bit more artistic swag on it, that little
bit more of you know, being a powerhouse vocalist, it
just like elevated it immediately. I'm yeah, I'm very excited.
And this is being made by uh the premiere UM

(12:30):
filmmaker of musicals the person who brought Chicago to the
big screen and all lew Us all the way. I
have not seen any of his movies, but that is
because I, um man, I remember when Chicago won all
those Academy Awards. I was like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Chicago was great. I didn't see that. Rob Marshall love

(12:56):
his work. I have not seen a single one of them.
Oh you know what, I saw the new Mary Poppins. Hey, okay, okay,
so get off my back people, Okay. It's also funny
every time I read Hallie Bailey's name that my mind
brain is so conditioned to go, well, I know Hollie,
and if there's a B, it's only one other name,

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rather than like every even though every single letter falls.
It is like, I'm like, okay, to the point that
my brain makes me think I have seen the name
halle Berry, like I I can close my eyes after
seeing him be like okay, that was halle Berry. Nope, Nollie.
There are more nerves going from your brain to your
eyes than from your eyes to your brain. Your your

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brain is using your memory to fill in most of
what you think you are seeing. F y, I oh,
then and it just came through the fact that the
director Mr Rob Marshall also Tony nominated choreographer. So we'll see,
let's see he's choreo with someone with one leg in
the form of a mermaid. Yeah exactly. You know that's

(14:04):
not a I guess because they aren't ped They don't.
It's not bipedal, or they're not a quadruped. I guess
they just are a fish. They're not they don't have Yeah,
they're pods there something pods? Okay pod Yeah exactly, Thank you,
King Charles the Third. I think that there was just

(14:26):
that one three second clip that went viral over the
weekend that it was just the reminder I needed. Um. Well,
first of all, they're the p of his hands, his
little dusting that pen tray, the funk out of his way, uh.
Telling telling his servants was just like yes, you are

(14:48):
born to it, aren't you. You were just the snoodiest
little bit in all of England. Uh, and like that
that is your gift. He's just like move it, move
it now, Like yeah, did you feel did you empathize
with William though? Did I empathize with Williams s wrong
with that left hand? What I I didn't there was one.

(15:10):
It looked like he was struggling being left handed and
signing like these like very inky proclamations. Yeah yeah, yeah,
And I was like, that's a left hand or if
I've ever seen Yeah, did you have to like curl
it up to the oh yeah yeah yeah. Yeah. He
thought he was putting a ghost in the headlock the
way yeah right, yeah, it looks like I have something

(15:33):
very wrong with me, but it is actually all just
you don't want to spear that in getting anyways, um
oh yo, did you there's another thing too? Over like
so they canceled all the Premier League games, you know,
and to say like, yo, we're obviously just still like
two more in the Queen. And on top of the

(15:54):
obviously like police issues because police resources like all over
the UK. They're like, yo, like we gotta kind of
put we gotta put our resources in different places. What
can you explain that a little further so the games
so because of like all of these these things, these
events that are happening across the UK with the death
of the monarch, like it's just strained the police, sing

(16:15):
like the ability for the police to be present for
these large scale events and have them properly secured. So
to add like huge soccer games on top of that,
like further sort of strains, like like local police departments.
So they felt that you know, it might not they
might not have the adequate amount of people there to
ensure the safety of the matches, which makes sense and
all that, But then more journalists were kind of saying

(16:37):
like there was also a dimension to this argument that
they didn't want to cause scenes at halftime with fans
not respecting the moment of silence and it's just being
a terrible look that they're like, yo, you know what,
don't even give them a fucking shot, just dragging this
ship down like just forever. Yeah, but I was like

(16:58):
that'll win them over. Um, it was just all you know,
still got to maintain the the prestige even after the
fact by saying like the reason we can't play games
if we do celebrate it, we're not going to have
adoption of you know, being quiet or not howling or whatever.
Soft power. That's how many I mean, it's why it's

(17:19):
so it's so interesting that Jeff Bezos was team Queen.
You know, like this guy who counts on us not
deciding to there was someone who tweeted something very interesting
about that too, is like the reason those people are
so aghast at that is they're like, oh shit, like
when you're dead, they will they'll just bring up all

(17:41):
the realities of who you are and and reckon with that.
And that's very frightening for people who pay lots of
money to like obscure the media or elections or things
to keep themselves in like out of the eye. That
to see that, you're like, wait, they flame you in death,
like yeah, motherfucker's fit roast mhm. And finally, Plymouth Rock. Um,

(18:05):
somebody took a picture of Plymouth Rock and man, this thing, uh,
to quote the great Jamie Loftus looks like yeah, looks
like ship. So this person just like it was Lawrence
Right just tweeted, let me just show you the picture
because it's just so dumb looking, Like what then are

(18:27):
we doing? I've never been here to Plymouth Rock where
you know as as uh this twitter you Lawrence right,
he said, Plymouth Rock has to be one of the
most unremarkable artifacts of American history, and I'm like, yeah,
I think so. But then people are like debating it,

(18:47):
like a lot of people are like I believe Malcolm
X said it best when he said, we didn't land
on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us, or like
people talking about, well this is bullshit. I don't give
a about Plymouth Rock. Then other people were my parents
came over on the Mayflower, and I think it's shut
the fuck up anyway. So it's where they Yeah, it's

(19:13):
where the Mayflower Mayflower, right, isn't that where they got
off the fucking boat. I guess yeah, I think that's right.
Plymouth was like the town they got off on and
took it over, and you know, the entire population of
that town had just been wiped out by plague, and
so they just moved into the empty houses, dead Native

(19:34):
Americans houses, used their cookware, they're like dishes. Um took
all their stuff basically. Um. They just it was It's
like a post apocalyptic movie that they where they just
like got to come moving. What do you I mean?
It's and it's also like the dumbest fucking thing, like
what it symbolizes. It's not like the Brian over here

(19:58):
is all said the Liberty Bell gets a shout to
for the dumbest thing. I'm like, yeah, but at least
that looks like a bell, and I've seen like that
the iconography of the Liberty bells like in my head,
Plymouth Rock not so much a fucking rock where that's
like And this is when it all started getting fucking
weird for everybody who lived here. But anyway, shout out

(20:19):
to that rock. Shout out to that rock. What date
does it have written on it? Sixteen? Anyways that they
founded Plymouth Colony in December of sixteen twenty. Yeah, good times, man,
good times in sixteen twenty. Thank you came over anyway,

(20:39):
I could talk about this prop I can talk about it.
I can, I can throw it dates. What else you
want to know? At sixty six? The Battle of Hastings?
What else you guys got? Three? A d most important date?
Thank you? Want to talk to you about that sometime.
Oh what about seven thirty three? And Linda's far now
huh um ended up up right on your alright. Those

(21:06):
are some of the things that are trending on this
Monday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with the whole last
episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other,
be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't do nothing
about white the premisey and we will talk to you
all tomorrow by fight