Trendon Makes, The World Takes 4/29: Duck, Nicole Kidman, Chipotle, NFL Draft, Willie Nelson

On this edition of Trendon Makes, The World Takes Jack and Miles discuss Long Boi, the tallest mallard, Nicole Kidman as Lucille Ball, Chipotle giving free burritos to frontline workers, the NFL draft, and Willie Nelson turning 88.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Trendon
Makes the World Takes. Uh. That is, that's a little
bit insider. If you've ever taken the Acela Express uh
down the East Coast down to Washington, d c uh,
you go past a bridge that has a huge lighted
sign in Trenton, New Jersey that says Trenton makes the

(00:22):
World Takes. It's the most bitter uh like official slogan
I've ever seen put forward by anything. Like it's just so,
it's like, you fucker isn't just here to pick the
corpse clean, aren't you? Wow? It's on that Yeah, it's
big man. Yeah, that's courtesy if Kadi did Dent. I

(00:46):
did not think I could love k d did Dent anymore.
And then they come through with this very specific but
on point. Yeah, baby man, it means the longest I've
ever not been in New Jersey in my entire life,

(01:07):
and I'm miss it. Damn Yeah. I need that. I
need that, Uh that Mac and Manco's pizza, Manco and Manco.
Now soon enough, man, soon enough, get that vaccine in you.
You could eat all the people warm dirty assid Atlantic Ocean.
Give me there. Um wait, so that came oh ship,

(01:28):
that sign was built in nineteen yeah, bro oh wow,
came from came from a contest sponsored by the Trent
and Chamber of Commerce nineteen oh yeah. Uh. Just such
a such a very specific vibe that they're putting out there.

(01:48):
Um yeah, it's just it's like it's like a guilt
tripping Catholic mom, like just exactly mother makes the children
takes h just resigned to it. We're putting that the
fact that we're just getting picked clean by the world
here for posterity, for for good. Uh, this is just

(02:12):
how it is. Anyways, miles, your miles, I'm jack. This
this is some ship that is trending. Long boy is trending. Uh.
That is a a duck that is three and a
half feet tall. That is the tallest mallard I believe
they said in the in the world. Very strange looking,
very cool. Boy. Long boy. Oh long boy. Yeah duck. Yeah,

(02:41):
it's towering over the other ducks. How do they Yeah,
I guess so you're right. I'm always like, how do
you A dog's height is what the from there the
ground to the top of their head. It's not them
on their hind leg, right, right right, Okay, that's what
I like to measure. I'm like, how much are they
on two legs? Right? Right? Are you don't be It's
only three and a half feet. Don't be threatened. It's

(03:03):
not well, I'm famously insecure. So zone where I am
completely freaked out and want to show it, like, oh
my god, sir, Lucille Paul is trending because Nicole Kidman
is playing her and they've taken some set photos. Some

(03:23):
paparazzi's got some ball. Yeah, I thought Taylor Swift was
in a new looper. I really should does not look
like Lucile, but you know what, Okay, cool. So they
were like, she's the spitting image in this headline and
everyone was like, no, they should have got ever messing. Um,

(03:45):
this is the first time. Oh yeah, actually, yeah, this
is the first I had heard of this project. It's
a Aaron Sorkin written and directed uh film about a
week in the life of the I Love Lucy Show.
It's like a great subject matter for like, I think

(04:07):
a lot of people, whatever, this isn't explosive enough that
he didn't like what make it all weird? And yeah, yeah,
like the the story of them having it like trying
to get this show off the ground from radio show
on CBS Radio. Then CBS was like, would love to
make it into a TV show and she was like, great,

(04:29):
it's gonna be me and my husband playing the lead characters.
They're like, go funk yourself. So they had to go
make it a vaudeville show. The Volville Vaudeville Show was
a massive hit, so they had to So CBS was like,
all right, we'll make it into a show. She was like,
I want it to be filmed in front of a
live studio audience. They were like you're out of your
fucking mind. So she had to then negotiate and she

(04:53):
was like, all right here, I'll put like all the
risk on my end. All you have to do is
if it's not a hit, like no big deal. But
I want to own the show, like I want to
have all rights for the show. And she because of that,
she became this like massive media mogul. She was like
Oprah level for her day. Um and her company like

(05:16):
made uh the Dick Van Dyke Show, star Trek the Untouchables,
Like she was, uh, real deal, I love it. I
want to see that, you know, DESI lou Famous just
playing out there the first interracial couple on TV. I'm
sure that had nothing to do with CBS pushing back, Um,

(05:37):
what about this guy Blondie mcirian, But yeah, I think that.
I'm sorry, I just can't get over and we're not
looking like Lucy Ball Like I'm sure it'll hit because
tremendous performer, but I feel like Lucy's got such a
look to her. And I love this show, like I

(06:00):
watched it a ton because you could not escape it.
Um in like the nineties, like it was the one
of like is it, I'm guessing one of the most
syndicated shows every but like, yeah, I just have such
a strong idea of what Lucy's like. And then in
my mind if I said Nicole Kidman, but you know
what I'm I'm I will suspend my disbelief because the

(06:21):
wig was the right shade of writ I also feel
like Sorkin is good for this time period when uh,
I guess we just accept that everybody talked like an
Aaron Sorkin thing, just like really fast, like uh dialogue
back and forth and what the fun now? The best

(06:46):
supporting actor just made me cry? Uh yeah, but yeah,
this will be interesting. Poe lay is trending, and I
feel like it should always be trending. But there's a
specific reason why it's trending right now. Quarter of a

(07:08):
million free burritos to healthcare workers as a thank you,
and more than shout out to Chipotle. I just think
like this really needs to. I feel like corporations they
have the capital to like give healthcare frontline essential workers
who had to work through this pandemic fucking anything they want,

(07:29):
fucking anything they want. There's you know, like when you
look at the lack of actual like companies taking away
these hero bonuses and ship and all this other stuff,
um while still you know, there's still illness going out there.
Yeah that you feel like, yo, just come through and
be like, yeah, we got this program fucking sending all
these If you a nurse, you get to go on
this fucking trip blah blah blah. The doctors get this.

(07:51):
I just feel like there's uh, I don't know. I
feel like if I see anybody in scrubs on buying
them whatever the funk, I can't like out you know,
like in the open it's the new thing where it's
no longer like thank you so much for your service
to the armed forces. It's like, oh, ship, you worked
at it all. What you want? Yeah, I got you,
which is why I wear uh my wife scrubs all

(08:11):
over the place, just getting free ship all the time.
They don't fit me. But that's also I'm like you
you might. You're getting a different kind of attention with
them tiny yes scrub. It's a head turner though, and
that draws attention to uh, but it's not free drinks.
It's like can you leave? The people see me, They

(08:34):
noticed me, and they're like that person needs money because
the pants are bursting. Uh. Yeah. So there's like this
um like corporate thing that has been popular for a
couple of decades now where it's like we find ways
to delight our customers, um like the Honda Days or whatever,

(08:58):
where they'll like do a really nice thing for one
customer and then make a whole ass commercial about it.
I want to see more of this where they do
like they put their money where their mouth, like what,
we're gonna hook up a quarter of a million people.
We're gonna hook up a million people about that, rather
than hey, I heard you're having trouble keeping up with

(09:19):
your payments. Can we be your automotive savior in this
click baby fucking exploited commercial exactly? Yeah, I mean they
what they want, like anything they can do, Like it's
gonna be good for business to piss off the conservatives,
you know, like that that should just be the whole
new like pr strategy for Do you think they would

(09:40):
find a way to be like why are they giving
health care workers these kinds of cool benefits? Yeah? I mean,
I mean Carlson said wearing a child wearing a mask
is fucking child abuse? Like what? Yeah, I mean I
guess that's where this road does leave, which is like
our nurses the new mafia. Okay, I think we need

(10:04):
to do some reco investigations into hospitals. I mean yeah,
probably because they raise funds. But the NFL draft is
like the first and third trending subject on Google. This
happens every year. I always, uh can't even imagine giving
a ship about the NFL draft, Like there's just so

(10:26):
many Uh, you you have your moral stance on the
NFL that is the right stance. I don't know. I mean,
like I think it just intersected with like I didn't
really give a funk enough about that, and I was like, yeah, whatever,
it's not that much like the draft is wild because
there's so many positions and prospects and rounds and like
half the picks or obscure people playing obscure positions. Who's

(10:50):
like if they if they become Pro Bowl like the
best at their position, you still won't ever hear their names,
and like people really like get into the ship like that.
I've just been watching through Josiah Johnson's Twitter where he's
just been posting just memes about it, which is sort
of like when the NFL, here's you have a trauma,
like trauma and your childhood. Like they're like ESPN is

(11:13):
like always just wants to do a feature on that.
It's like part of the draft coverage or whatever. Um.
And then I saw a bunch of people like laughing
at how people they're running for. Um, sure, I guess it.
We're just harkening back to like tryouts and you get
to be the toxic kid like And finally, Willie Nelson

(11:35):
is trending turn eight and this was just a opportunity
for people to tell he's like one of those uh
Kanu Reeves style like mystical beings that is just spotted
around doing wild shit. Um and the like people just
had all these stories to tell about him. Uh that

(11:57):
I wanted to just run through a couple here. These
are what like someone put these anecdotes together, or these
are like verified tales of these are verified tales. This
was put together by bum chill ups ed sps on Twitter,
and then like he linked off to a couple of
articles that I had some good stories. Willie's house caught

(12:20):
fire and he ran back into his house to grab
a quote baale of weed before the Nashville UH firefighters
and cops found it. Uh. One time Whalen Jennings was
walking on the beach in Malibu and found Willie wandering around.
He wasn't living there at the time, and ended up
in Whalen's kitchen coloring with Whalen's kid. Wow. What. One

(12:41):
of the few times anyone has seen him mad was
when Owen Wilson was asking him about the rules of
dominoes and got so annoying with it that Willie yelled,
because those are the rules, damnit um the wow wow,
hey Willie? Uh? The I R S sees his ranch

(13:02):
a bunch of farmers. He'd helped via farm Aid got
together and bought it and gave it back to him.
Only only person who's ever outsmoked Snoop like Snoop has
gone on the record and been like I had hit
the time out button. He like basically smoked me under
the table. Yeah, dude, this one about this gunfight, that heat.
This is ridiculous. They're talking about like the calming energy

(13:25):
of Willie Nelson, says Stage manager Pooti Locke tells of
a ferocious gun battle in a parking garage and Birmingham, Alabama,
after a concert with cops squatting indoor jams and civilians
diving for cover. In the teeth of the chaos, Willie
calmly stepped down from the bus, wearing tennis shoes and cutoffs,
with two Colt forty five revolvers stuck at his waist
and inquired coolly is there a problem? In an instant,

(13:47):
all guns were holstered and Willie was signing autographs. What
he's got The kind of area to him that just
cools everything out. That's that's the cooler that I want
to see a movie about. Yeah, I guess you don't
want to. You don't want Willie to start popping off
if he goes he's there a oh ship, don't make,
don't make Willie busters going. I like that. So someone

(14:10):
flew down to New Orleans to like Willie Nelson had
bought one of this person's songs and was going to
record it, and so they flew down there to kind
of be there for the session his recording studio. They say,
it's pretty far out there, down at the end of
a long gravel road in New Orleans with open fields
on either side. And as we drive up, I see
this Camaro out in the middle of this field, just

(14:32):
cutting donuts and spinning around as fast as it could.
I said, God, what's going on out there? The driver said,
guess who's driving that car. I had no idea. B
Spears maybe who's like his basis? He said, no, that's
Stevie Wonder And I said, oh, this is gonna be fun.

(14:52):
Oh hell yeah, alright, well man, what a fucking time.
Yeah that's why not Stevie Wondering that? Yeah he likes
the feeling. Yeah yeah, yeah. Anyways, shout out to Willie Nelson.
A life eighty eight years well lived thus far as
far as I can tell, that is going to do

(15:13):
it for this Thursday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with
the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be
kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, wear a mask,
don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we'll talk to
you out tomorrow. Bye bye,