December 11, 2025 • 28 mins
In this edition of Trendos… The Freshmaker, Jack and special guest co-host Blake Wexler discuss the Disney/OpenAI deal that will kill us all, a judge ordering the release of Kilmar Garcia… again, something something 6-7, the return of Measles, Variety's top movies of the year (NOT featuring 'Sinners') and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Trendos
The fresh Maker. That one courtesy of Nick Sepper Tranus
on the Discord. Nice little run of early nineties. We
had trend Shaka Laca of course yesterday, who could forget
Uh my name is Jack O'Brien. I'm thrilled to be
joined in our second seat by a brilliant comedium writer
(00:22):
actor coiner of the phrase plumpers. It's he's he's riding
for acumbent bicycle in short shorts. Just keep that in
mind as you listen to this episode. It's Blake Wexler.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
This is Blake x Storry. Kay, big booty boy, big
booty boy.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Oh I like that. Yeah booty boy, big booty boy,
Big booty boy. I was punctuated.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I'm bret now, big booty boy, question mark boy.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Let's kick it all right. Miles has once again been
led us and poisoned by our guest host. They're coming
at him from all angles. Andrew t Polonium Polaviganalin yesterday
and now, uh Snake Wexler, you know put I heard
you put hear'd you put a couple of asps in
(01:15):
his in his bedroom as he was trying to recover
from his previous illnesses. I was asked, I was asked, clapping,
you're an asp man as they say, all right, Blake,
we're thrilled to have you here, man, Yeah, thrilled to
have you On Monday's Icons episode. That was a lot
(01:39):
of fun. Uh yeah, let's talk about some trends, shall we.
Let's do it on the day that we found out
that Ai is the person is the person of the year.
God damn it. We'll talk about this on tomorrow's episode
a little bit more. But we we also got an
exciting new announcement from Disney, a little Disney Open AI collab.
(02:03):
Nice best the collab we've all been waiting for. But yeah,
AI slop is about to get disney fied. Disney and
Open AI struggle licensing agreement that gives Chat, GPT and
Sora access to Disney's characters and IP and they're investing
one billion dollars in the AI company. Becoming a major customer. Dude,
(02:24):
that's an official designation. They're a major customer. Now, how
that's capitalized, by the way, Yeah, so you know, no
cap capitalized. The deal means you'll see officially sanctioned AI
images and videos of Disney characters starting in early twenty
twenty six, which has always been a problem for me.
When people are inserting macho man Randy Savage into the
(02:46):
end of Star Wars, I turn it off, not because
it's AI slop, but because I can tell that it's
not officially sanctioned. I'm like, wait, did Disney sign off
on this?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I couldn't agree more. And Disney, like notoriously plays fast
and loose with its I P and.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
It usually pretty chill about it. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
My problem is that I don't remember because my brain,
like yours, is rapidly the kaying. I don't remember what's
the real one? You know it's the real one?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Is Randy Savage at the end of Revenge of the Sith?
Is abody else?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Is it the guy in the cape and the black helmet?
Or is it a wrestler? Is the main one? I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I might be getting your brother.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
No, no, Hulk, I am your brother.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
No brother No. Both those guys called each other brother, right.
W E n a f thing? Yeah, but Disney used to
be of the opinion that a I was a threat
to its IP. But once Bob Iger and other people
in the C suite got the news that you just
needed to partner with an AI company and line go up.
(04:07):
They were like, actually, this could be pretty cool. We
just want to make the stock price go up so
we get richer who gives a fuck about any user
experience or creative integrity, and so all these you know,
characters and shit that people created will now be just
made made into AI slop. But their stock price did
(04:29):
go up, thank god. Nice nice, nice, nice, nice nice.
That's what we stay on the daily site. Guys. There
are like so many shows. It's like the day's news
in the first thirty minutes is just like a report
of what stocks are going up that day. It is
just like, what the fuck is this? It's okay, a
completely different world. Yeah, so few people. Yes, I like that.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I think also, by the way, in all your reels
that you guys do, you should just have a stock
ticker at the bottom.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
A good idea. It's a great idea. I do feel
like that that would be fun to just like add
a mad money skin over the top of our whole show,
or or just like and Vidio just got a million dollar,
trillion dollar market cap and then we like, I like
start ringing a bell and then we're like, all right,
back to how bad it capitalism is anyways. Part of
(05:19):
the Disney deal, Disney Plus will feature a selection of
fan inspired Sora short form videos, meaning that people will
be paying fifteen dollars a month to watch like two
minutes of Winnie the Pooh shooting Grido first or whatever
the fuck that's like, it's yeah, not worth it. We
(05:40):
got a blake. We got a bit of good news.
A judge has ordered kill mar Abrego Garcia to be freed.
It's funny because you like read the judicial ruling has
like got all these you know, for this reason, the
court will grant Abrego Garcia has petitioned to immediate release
from ICE. Since our Brego Garcia has returned from wrongful
to tail, he has been redetained again without lawful authority.
(06:04):
ICE attention to effectuate third country removal apps in a
lawful removal order his request. It's just like all these
legal terms. It's just like, no, it's illegal. You can't
just kidnap somebody because you want to because you like
lost an argument.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You can't be wrong in that way. You can't be
so wrong. Yes, and this took so long to happen.
It's like, you know, this is the most glaring good God,
is this the worst thing you could possibly fucking do?
And I don't even know how long it's been forever.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, yeah, and I mean that like months since he
was redetained, and he was it is just important to
note that, like he is somebody that everybody is like
aware of because he was detained back when they were
only detaining like a couple people at a time, and
so people were like, wait, this is illegal. There are
still so many people in detention for no reason other
(06:58):
than like how they came to this country, and they're
being held in conditions that are like, you know, we'll
go down in history books for the wrong reasons. That's
you know, we'll be the people in the history books
being like hmm, it seems like we're the bad guys.
Maybe on this one.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Whether the words internment, concentration, whatever word's going to precede
the word camp is how history will look back on this.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, So but we got one win, So hopefully he's
freed soon. The Senate Democrats are so a judge is
authorizing the unsealing of tons and tons of new documents
related to the Epstein case, and this is going to
be the first time in accordance with the congressional bill
(07:47):
that passed last month, Senate Democrats and Epstein survivors are
basically coming forward and being like, hey, can we look
at those real quick? Can we get like some idea
of what you've done to these documents, because we've seen,
like there's been reporting that as the documents came in,
(08:07):
like they had just entire hunks of like American law
enforcement and like intelligence people just going through and being
like not that, No, that makes us look bad, not that.
And so I can only imagine what the people who
know they're in these files are trying to do to
get Trump to like help hide their names.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
You know, their redaction marker has the width of like
a plunger.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
It's a redaction plunger.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, exactly, just plunge these names right out of these documents.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah. But anyways, Yeah, Adam Schiff is pushing for some
accounting of the chain of custody of the documents, which, yeah,
that would be cool to be like who worked on
this and who was you know, telling them to work
on it, and what were their instructions? And then the
survivors are also asking for independent review to see the
(09:05):
documents have been scrubbed, softened, or quietly removed from the
public record. Shift gets things done, so I get ship done.
He does is a shift kicker. And then elsewhere in
the world, Donald Trump, they're mad. They're mad about some
fonts they just issued in order halting the State Department's
(09:25):
official use of calibri. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that.
I've never said that out loud. Calibri.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
How many times have you read it? You've probably read
so many times, thousands of times. Yeah, and it's just
in there as calibri. How do you say a R
I A l are ri e l no al Ariel.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Say Ariel like I'm someone from Cincinnati talking about the
Little Mermaid Ariel. You know they are going to be
switching back to Times New Roman in order to restore
de quorum and professionalism to the Department's written work. Uh
so this is all that they're like, no more woke
fonts because uh I guess the Biden administration had changed
(10:15):
it to being sans serifs because that is easier for
people with reading disabilities to read, like the way like times,
and like all the seraphs are like kind of designed
to like guide your eye along. That only works if
you like read from left to right in an orderly fashion.
And some people's brains aren't good at that. So people like,
(10:36):
what if we just made it so that it was
easy for everyone to read? Uh, And they're it's just
like they're they're really just out of shit, you know. Yeah,
the you're telling me the website is going to be
sons sons, sheriff's.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Son son serah, okay, just checking. Yeah, it is just
so evil. Ever, it's it's just always so evil. Where
now if you were born with the with having trouble
reading for like no fault of anyone other than that's
like what you were born with.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah, what your brain's like Time's new Rome. It's so
it's such a loser energy. It's so crazy. Yeah, yeah,
exactly gives a ship. It's interesting for Trump to me,
I give a ship for those reasons. I mean, who
gives a shit?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Like No, I get it is too you're right, Lake,
You're right, Blake, it is. The fonts have gotten way too. Uh,
it's interesting for Trump, someone who himself is probably like
some manner of dyslexic. But you know has just has
everything read to him and who loves the live Laugh
(11:46):
Love font and put it outside of his uh the
Oval Office on like a piece of printer paper. He
wrote the Oval Office on it in like live Laugh Love.
He's also a person who hired a lawyer who used
comic songs in his official like a letter pertaining to
the impeachment, like or comic sans. I guess is, I
(12:10):
don't know. I don't know how to say any of
these fucking fonts. I've read them one hundred times. But yeah,
he literally used the comic sands font in an official letter.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
So I mean that is all that Giuliani types in. Also,
it's all it's the only thing that.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Can call them. He actually speaks in it. He does
speak in it as well. All right, let's take a
quick break, we'll come back. We'll talk about six seve
and in and outs war on six seven, and we'll
be right back and we're back. And like, you don't
(12:51):
have children between the ages of like eight and fifteen,
so you have not had sworture with this? Are you
aware of the six seventh thing?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I am in that Like it's one of these trends
that I had to pump my brakes on where to
be like, oh, so it means nothing. Now i can't
think about this anymore or else I'm going to bleed
out in my room. But yeah, it's it's one of
those so it means nothing. And it's kind of a
thing to trick like the oldest shit bastards like yourself
into thinking it's a the fun right.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Sorry sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry sorry sorry.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
So they're reading Times New rooman fund and I got
a little bit of it edch like me.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
You you've already said my brain is disintegrating and I'm
old as four brain, the brain that we share a
city over. That's right. But there's a video of an
in and out worker being filmed without permission by a
customer that showed that the number six seven has been
removed from the system, so customers orders skipped from sixty
(13:51):
six to sixty eight, and people are like, what happened?
And she said, because of people like you, Because apparently
they kid were going to in and out crowding around
and then just taking videos of when six seven came
up and everybody freaking out and be like chick seven
six seven.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Also, what the number they should get rid of is
the number after sixty eight?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Well they have also got kid of that one. Yeah,
because mind is in the fucking gutter.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah that's right. No, no floor thirteen you know in
certain buildings, Right, yeah, it's I get why not?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Why not remove six to seven? Why not on account
of it being annoying? This is a far cry from
other fast food chains that have attempted to profit from
the meme, like Pizza Hut, who had a whole six
seven menu based on sixty seven sent boneless uh wings?
But just did you have a bunch of kids being
(14:49):
so bored that they're doing something this stupid? Like this
is this is such a dumb like it just this
reminds me of the trends of like you know, you
see in history books that trends of like everybody trying
to cram as many of themselves into a phone booth
as possible, or like a pole sitting or you know,
(15:11):
dumb ship like that like uh swallowing bowl fish t
bowing bros. Right, Yeah, but like I get what could
be more boring at inane? Then like let's go down
to the local burger stand and like wait, until they
call the joke number and then like celebrate wildly, Like
(15:34):
this feels like it's from another era, and I kind
of like it. I'm like, yeah, let them do that,
Like that's that's fine, it's harmless. It's annoying. It's dumb
and annoying. But like, that's so that's what kids that
age are, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
It's it's not marginalizing a group. And I think that's
honestly a Win's a win for all of us. If
a group is not being marginalized. Let the kids be
weird about this number. It's like, who cares. I remember
we used to put joke names on orders, like fake names.
I'd like a Starbucks order, a Starbucks order, Yeah, that
(16:10):
would be our thing. And that's more harmful because you
make a person look like a fool. Yeah, you know,
it's like, do you think Rutherford B. Hayes is at
this Starbucks? No, he's dead, you fool.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Brian Metter said, broised to gamble and fight in middle school. Yeah,
I mean that too, But like when you're done beating
the shit out of each other and taking all the
money of the people around you, you got to do something.
Like I've talked before about the trend of like very
basic stupid activities that I like, I actually encourage on
(16:44):
the internet. There was people who were trying to make
chocolate chip cookies with those like trash grabbers, so like
you had to like crack the eggs using trash Grabbers's
people like getting out of the local metro and trying
to beat it to the next stop on foot and awesome.
There's a recent one where like people kids were like
throwing fruit over this like super tall lamp that had
(17:06):
a point on the top, and they were just like
they're like complaining about how they had been there all day,
and then one of them landed I think it was
an apple on top of the light. Running around like
they just scored in the World Cup. That's I feel
like six seven is basically a hyper pervasive version of that.
Just like being stupid for the sake of being stupid,
(17:29):
and it's like an opportunity to remove yourself from all
the complicated systems and just be like as dumb as possible,
which is I think.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
That was like I think why Jackass was so popular
almost where it's I mean there was actually like damage
to things that they did, but to other people but
it's core when they're only hurting themselves, you know, and
this is way more tame. All they're doing is wasting
their own time. There's no victim, no property is being damage. Really,
(17:59):
it's like, oh, there's an apple up up on that lamp.
It's like, yeah, that's funny, you know, purely based.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
The only excuse for being mad about this is like,
I don't get it, and that's and certainly that has
been enough for conservatives to like kill something in the past.
But literally, speaking of conservatives also getting in on the
anti six seven campaign, JD. Vance recently claimed that the
numbers should be banned because they're ruining his church time.
(18:28):
Yesterday church, the Bible reading started on page sixty six,
sixty seven, six seven on the missile, and my five
year old went absolutely nuts, repeating six seven like ten times. Now.
I think we need to make sure this narrow exception
to the First Amendment and ban these numbers forever. Which
he's trying to be cute, but honestly, I hope he does,
(18:50):
Like I hope he runs on this in twenty twenty
eight something. He probably won't be running back on measles
is back. Baby. Fuck yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I knew it would be matter of time, these RFKA
bringing it all back.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Yeah, vaccination rates in South Carolina dropped from ninety six
percent of people vaccinated to ninety three point five in
the years between two thousand and two thousand and five.
And I don't know what happened in there, but that
you know what people who believe in science say the
second it goes below ninety five, like you no longer
(19:26):
have heard immunity, and you're going to start seeing it
come back. And almost like clockwork, the people who believe
in science were onto something. And now there's a spread
of a disease that we had declared eliminated in the
year two thousand.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
It's amazing how the right just wants to keep bringing
these things back that we've valiantly defeated, like science defeating
these diseases, the Allied forces defeating Nazis. I just bringing
back these awful fuck It's like we should be proud.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
This is cool.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
This is when America like if you had a flag
on your car, you weren't a racist, right like it
was back with this was cool. Oh yeah, it's back baby,
where there's like a lot of measles. Yeah, and not
not to be compared to an even sillier name, the mumps.
I know the momps, Where are you cute? What are
(20:24):
you a cutie pie?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Cutie pie disease? I got the months, the momps, Oh
the mom Yeah, dude, I think chicken pox also, Like
that's something in my lifetime has like they now have
a vaccine for it, because my kids don't get the
chicken pox. Nobody really gets the chicken pox anymore.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Brother, I got the chicken pox despite having the chicken
pox vaccine before my freshman homecoming, and I was undesirable.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I did not look good.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
So yeah, I mean, but I also had a much
more minor version of chicken pox, because that's how vaccines work,
where even though if you do get it, you get a.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Version that's not your body's like ready for it. Yeah. Yeah,
it was the last time my body was ready for anything,
and it was the pox. Damn. Brian Vedder got chicken
pox at twenty six at a Flying Lotus concert. Holy shit,
it's more solish if you get it older, right, Like, yeah,
I think so brutal. Finally, Variety has released their best
(21:30):
Movies Variety, who we've only covered this year when covering
like they're reporting on Baffo Bo, which they're usually in
favor of. The usually like, wow, this movie is pulled
in Baffo Bo a big box office in non industry terms,
and uh, except for one week, for some reason, there's
this one week for the movie Centers came out and
(21:52):
everybody was like, holy shit, everybody went to see this movie.
Except Variety was like, a I don't know, man, they
got a long way to go to profitability. It's how
they reported on Center's box office success. It's like kind
of weird. They seemed to be against the fact that
Ryan Coogler had like a really good deal where he
(22:16):
like bet on himself and was like, look, you don't
have to pay me that much. Just fun to the
movie and then if it does well. But because of
like some weird thing, every one of his movies has
done extremely well. He's like every single one. If for
some reason and people come to see this movie, I'll
just take like a portion of the box office and
(22:38):
then like, I just want the rights back in twenty
five years. And they were like, that's weird. That's too
much power for a director. Something that they didn't have
problems with on like other directors. I don't know what
it is about Ryan Cooler. I don't know what it
is about Oh, like I don't know, like Paul Thomas Anderson,
like people like that, but this guy seems to be
rubbing them the wrong way, and we can't really figure
(23:00):
out what it is anyway, it's the difference what I
can't think of it. They just release a variety just
released their list of best movies of the year, and
they're never a critic that I'm checking for. They're just like,
kind of very mid but their list includes movies such
as Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning, So they have two
(23:21):
critics who released top ten lists Mission Impossible, Final Reckoning,
Black Book, the Steven Sworderberg movie, which was critically acclaimed,
but no mention of Sinners anywhere. They're just like that
movie like, which is probably going to be one of
the top ten movies that gets on most year end
top ten lists, but Varieties like, we're actually not familiar
(23:45):
with that film. Huh oh you saw that movie. So
we trouble paying attention because we were just reading Ryan
Cougler's deal, the legal documents throughout the entire thing in
the dark see if we could punch holes in it.
Is there any loopholes where we could claw back the
rights to the intellectual property in twenty five years? Yeah,
(24:07):
very strange. Anyways, variety can continue to get fucked. Like
even Mission Impossible, fans were like, not his best work,
Like this was not a good one, not a movie
to put on these lists. You know. It's like, we
can't have a blast watching this. It doesn't belong on
this list. We had fun, but this is just a
(24:27):
little weird.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Like I love The Naked Gun, I don't think it belonged.
I don't see it. I'm not expecting to see it
on one of those lists.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Well that's where you're wrong. That's where you're wrong. It
definitely along there. Actually, they just did a I forget.
Maybe it was Vulture, I don't know, one of those,
uh you know, pop culture places that sometimes does a
good job today list of the best comedies of all time.
And I was like, all right, where the Apartment or
like some shit like that's going to be number like
(24:56):
some black and white movie is gonna be number one.
And they put Naked the Original Naked Gun at number one,
and I was like, you, you guys were right right.
The New Naked Gun. I really enjoyed. It is both
a movie that like made me laugh extremely hard and
(25:16):
also reminded me like what a fucking miracle. The First
Naked Gun is like the fact that it has is
this Naked Gun like through the first two acts is
really funny, like a lot of big laughs, and then
like a lot of comedies at the end is just
like I don't know, and then like this happens. This
(25:36):
happens like get everything else, you know, let's wrap this
ship up. The First Naked Gun, like is is that
funny throughout and then like ends with the best like
third act like the the the baseball umprorement is so incredible.
It's just like gets funnier and funnier. It's fucking amazing, but.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Under and then with the stakes of the number one
action movie of the Yeah, yeah, at the same time,
it's so good, it's great.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Yeah, it is so good. And the new one also
a lot of fun, a lot of bit fun. It's
definitely worth checking out, all right, Blake Wexler, is such
a pleasure having you. Where can people find you? Follow
you all that good stuff?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Likewise, thank you for having me at Blake Wexler on
all social media. On January sixteenth, I will be at
Little Field in Brooklyn. If you live in New York,
come out to the show. This is the one big
show I'll be doing in New York all year. Please
get tickets. Those tickets are in my bio. And then
I will be in March at Helium Comedy Club in Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
So yeah, let's go to two places, hik and pull up. Please.
Where are you gonna be on January sixth? Oh? January sixth?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
So, I I mean it's it's we can talk off
off Mike, But I like going down to the Potomac.
I love the area where the Potomac is, So yeah,
might check out.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Some little stroll along on the National Mall My Bodies,
Foulmouth Buddies. It's like, you know how people do Paul
Revere's Ride and stuff like that in Massachusetts on the
anniversary of that January sixth. We just like to go
down there and just stretch our legs a little bit. Yeah,
(27:20):
all right. Anyways, Blake was at January sixth for sure. Uh,
that's gonna do it for us this afternoon. We're back
tomorrow with a who last episode of the show until then,
be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get
your vaccines where you still can't get your flu shots.
Don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
to y'all tomorrow, Buddy.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
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Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Trendos
The fresh Maker. That one courtesy of Nick Sepper Tranus
on the Discord. Nice little run of early nineties. We
had trend Shaka Laca of course yesterday, who could forget
Uh my name is Jack O'Brien. I'm thrilled to be
joined in our second seat by a brilliant comedium writer
(00:22):
actor coiner of the phrase plumpers. It's he's he's riding
for acumbent bicycle in short shorts. Just keep that in
mind as you listen to this episode. It's Blake Wexler.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
This is Blake x Storry. Kay, big booty boy, big
booty boy.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Oh I like that. Yeah booty boy, big booty boy,
Big booty boy. I was punctuated.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I'm bret now, big booty boy, question mark boy.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Let's kick it all right. Miles has once again been
led us and poisoned by our guest host. They're coming
at him from all angles. Andrew t Polonium Polaviganalin yesterday
and now, uh Snake Wexler, you know put I heard
you put hear'd you put a couple of asps in
(01:15):
his in his bedroom as he was trying to recover
from his previous illnesses. I was asked, I was asked, clapping,
you're an asp man as they say, all right, Blake,
we're thrilled to have you here, man, Yeah, thrilled to
have you On Monday's Icons episode. That was a lot
(01:39):
of fun. Uh yeah, let's talk about some trends, shall we.
Let's do it on the day that we found out
that Ai is the person is the person of the year.
God damn it. We'll talk about this on tomorrow's episode
a little bit more. But we we also got an
exciting new announcement from Disney, a little Disney Open AI collab.
(02:03):
Nice best the collab we've all been waiting for. But yeah,
AI slop is about to get disney fied. Disney and
Open AI struggle licensing agreement that gives Chat, GPT and
Sora access to Disney's characters and IP and they're investing
one billion dollars in the AI company. Becoming a major customer. Dude,
(02:24):
that's an official designation. They're a major customer. Now, how
that's capitalized, by the way, Yeah, so you know, no
cap capitalized. The deal means you'll see officially sanctioned AI
images and videos of Disney characters starting in early twenty
twenty six, which has always been a problem for me.
When people are inserting macho man Randy Savage into the
(02:46):
end of Star Wars, I turn it off, not because
it's AI slop, but because I can tell that it's
not officially sanctioned. I'm like, wait, did Disney sign off
on this?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I couldn't agree more. And Disney, like notoriously plays fast
and loose with its I P and.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
It usually pretty chill about it. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
My problem is that I don't remember because my brain,
like yours, is rapidly the kaying. I don't remember what's
the real one? You know it's the real one?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Is Randy Savage at the end of Revenge of the Sith?
Is abody else?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Is it the guy in the cape and the black helmet?
Or is it a wrestler? Is the main one? I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I might be getting your brother.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
No, no, Hulk, I am your brother.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
No brother No. Both those guys called each other brother, right.
W E n a f thing? Yeah, but Disney used to
be of the opinion that a I was a threat
to its IP. But once Bob Iger and other people
in the C suite got the news that you just
needed to partner with an AI company and line go up.
(04:07):
They were like, actually, this could be pretty cool. We
just want to make the stock price go up so
we get richer who gives a fuck about any user
experience or creative integrity, and so all these you know,
characters and shit that people created will now be just
made made into AI slop. But their stock price did
(04:29):
go up, thank god. Nice nice, nice, nice, nice nice.
That's what we stay on the daily site. Guys. There
are like so many shows. It's like the day's news
in the first thirty minutes is just like a report
of what stocks are going up that day. It is
just like, what the fuck is this? It's okay, a
completely different world. Yeah, so few people. Yes, I like that.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I think also, by the way, in all your reels
that you guys do, you should just have a stock
ticker at the bottom.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
A good idea. It's a great idea. I do feel
like that that would be fun to just like add
a mad money skin over the top of our whole show,
or or just like and Vidio just got a million dollar,
trillion dollar market cap and then we like, I like
start ringing a bell and then we're like, all right,
back to how bad it capitalism is anyways. Part of
(05:19):
the Disney deal, Disney Plus will feature a selection of
fan inspired Sora short form videos, meaning that people will
be paying fifteen dollars a month to watch like two
minutes of Winnie the Pooh shooting Grido first or whatever
the fuck that's like, it's yeah, not worth it. We
(05:40):
got a blake. We got a bit of good news.
A judge has ordered kill mar Abrego Garcia to be freed.
It's funny because you like read the judicial ruling has
like got all these you know, for this reason, the
court will grant Abrego Garcia has petitioned to immediate release
from ICE. Since our Brego Garcia has returned from wrongful
to tail, he has been redetained again without lawful authority.
(06:04):
ICE attention to effectuate third country removal apps in a
lawful removal order his request. It's just like all these
legal terms. It's just like, no, it's illegal. You can't
just kidnap somebody because you want to because you like
lost an argument.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You can't be wrong in that way. You can't be
so wrong. Yes, and this took so long to happen.
It's like, you know, this is the most glaring good God,
is this the worst thing you could possibly fucking do?
And I don't even know how long it's been forever.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, yeah, and I mean that like months since he
was redetained, and he was it is just important to
note that, like he is somebody that everybody is like
aware of because he was detained back when they were
only detaining like a couple people at a time, and
so people were like, wait, this is illegal. There are
still so many people in detention for no reason other
(06:58):
than like how they came to this country, and they're
being held in conditions that are like, you know, we'll
go down in history books for the wrong reasons. That's
you know, we'll be the people in the history books
being like hmm, it seems like we're the bad guys.
Maybe on this one.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Whether the words internment, concentration, whatever word's going to precede
the word camp is how history will look back on this.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, So but we got one win, So hopefully he's
freed soon. The Senate Democrats are so a judge is
authorizing the unsealing of tons and tons of new documents
related to the Epstein case, and this is going to
be the first time in accordance with the congressional bill
(07:47):
that passed last month, Senate Democrats and Epstein survivors are
basically coming forward and being like, hey, can we look
at those real quick? Can we get like some idea
of what you've done to these documents, because we've seen,
like there's been reporting that as the documents came in,
(08:07):
like they had just entire hunks of like American law
enforcement and like intelligence people just going through and being
like not that, No, that makes us look bad, not that.
And so I can only imagine what the people who
know they're in these files are trying to do to
get Trump to like help hide their names.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
You know, their redaction marker has the width of like
a plunger.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
It's a redaction plunger.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, exactly, just plunge these names right out of these documents.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah. But anyways, Yeah, Adam Schiff is pushing for some
accounting of the chain of custody of the documents, which, yeah,
that would be cool to be like who worked on
this and who was you know, telling them to work
on it, and what were their instructions? And then the
survivors are also asking for independent review to see the
(09:05):
documents have been scrubbed, softened, or quietly removed from the
public record. Shift gets things done, so I get ship done.
He does is a shift kicker. And then elsewhere in
the world, Donald Trump, they're mad. They're mad about some
fonts they just issued in order halting the State Department's
(09:25):
official use of calibri. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that.
I've never said that out loud. Calibri.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
How many times have you read it? You've probably read
so many times, thousands of times. Yeah, and it's just
in there as calibri. How do you say a R
I A l are ri e l no al Ariel.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Say Ariel like I'm someone from Cincinnati talking about the
Little Mermaid Ariel. You know they are going to be
switching back to Times New Roman in order to restore
de quorum and professionalism to the Department's written work. Uh
so this is all that they're like, no more woke
fonts because uh I guess the Biden administration had changed
(10:15):
it to being sans serifs because that is easier for
people with reading disabilities to read, like the way like times,
and like all the seraphs are like kind of designed
to like guide your eye along. That only works if
you like read from left to right in an orderly fashion.
And some people's brains aren't good at that. So people like,
(10:36):
what if we just made it so that it was
easy for everyone to read? Uh, And they're it's just
like they're they're really just out of shit, you know. Yeah,
the you're telling me the website is going to be
sons sons, sheriff's.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Son son serah, okay, just checking. Yeah, it is just
so evil. Ever, it's it's just always so evil. Where
now if you were born with the with having trouble
reading for like no fault of anyone other than that's
like what you were born with.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah, what your brain's like Time's new Rome. It's so
it's such a loser energy. It's so crazy. Yeah, yeah,
exactly gives a ship. It's interesting for Trump to me,
I give a ship for those reasons. I mean, who
gives a shit?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Like No, I get it is too you're right, Lake,
You're right, Blake, it is. The fonts have gotten way too. Uh,
it's interesting for Trump, someone who himself is probably like
some manner of dyslexic. But you know has just has
everything read to him and who loves the live Laugh
(11:46):
Love font and put it outside of his uh the
Oval Office on like a piece of printer paper. He
wrote the Oval Office on it in like live Laugh Love.
He's also a person who hired a lawyer who used
comic songs in his official like a letter pertaining to
the impeachment, like or comic sans. I guess is, I
(12:10):
don't know. I don't know how to say any of
these fucking fonts. I've read them one hundred times. But yeah,
he literally used the comic sands font in an official letter.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
So I mean that is all that Giuliani types in. Also,
it's all it's the only thing that.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Can call them. He actually speaks in it. He does
speak in it as well. All right, let's take a
quick break, we'll come back. We'll talk about six seve
and in and outs war on six seven, and we'll
be right back and we're back. And like, you don't
(12:51):
have children between the ages of like eight and fifteen,
so you have not had sworture with this? Are you
aware of the six seventh thing?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I am in that Like it's one of these trends
that I had to pump my brakes on where to
be like, oh, so it means nothing. Now i can't
think about this anymore or else I'm going to bleed
out in my room. But yeah, it's it's one of
those so it means nothing. And it's kind of a
thing to trick like the oldest shit bastards like yourself
into thinking it's a the fun right.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Sorry sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry sorry sorry.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
So they're reading Times New rooman fund and I got
a little bit of it edch like me.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
You you've already said my brain is disintegrating and I'm
old as four brain, the brain that we share a
city over. That's right. But there's a video of an
in and out worker being filmed without permission by a
customer that showed that the number six seven has been
removed from the system, so customers orders skipped from sixty
(13:51):
six to sixty eight, and people are like, what happened?
And she said, because of people like you, Because apparently
they kid were going to in and out crowding around
and then just taking videos of when six seven came
up and everybody freaking out and be like chick seven
six seven.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Also, what the number they should get rid of is
the number after sixty eight?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Well they have also got kid of that one. Yeah,
because mind is in the fucking gutter.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah that's right. No, no floor thirteen you know in
certain buildings, Right, yeah, it's I get why not?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Why not remove six to seven? Why not on account
of it being annoying? This is a far cry from
other fast food chains that have attempted to profit from
the meme, like Pizza Hut, who had a whole six
seven menu based on sixty seven sent boneless uh wings?
But just did you have a bunch of kids being
(14:49):
so bored that they're doing something this stupid? Like this
is this is such a dumb like it just this
reminds me of the trends of like you know, you
see in history books that trends of like everybody trying
to cram as many of themselves into a phone booth
as possible, or like a pole sitting or you know,
(15:11):
dumb ship like that like uh swallowing bowl fish t
bowing bros. Right, Yeah, but like I get what could
be more boring at inane? Then like let's go down
to the local burger stand and like wait, until they
call the joke number and then like celebrate wildly, Like
(15:34):
this feels like it's from another era, and I kind
of like it. I'm like, yeah, let them do that,
Like that's that's fine, it's harmless. It's annoying. It's dumb
and annoying. But like, that's so that's what kids that
age are, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
It's it's not marginalizing a group. And I think that's
honestly a Win's a win for all of us. If
a group is not being marginalized. Let the kids be
weird about this number. It's like, who cares. I remember
we used to put joke names on orders, like fake names.
I'd like a Starbucks order, a Starbucks order, Yeah, that
(16:10):
would be our thing. And that's more harmful because you
make a person look like a fool. Yeah, you know,
it's like, do you think Rutherford B. Hayes is at
this Starbucks? No, he's dead, you fool.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Brian Metter said, broised to gamble and fight in middle school. Yeah,
I mean that too, But like when you're done beating
the shit out of each other and taking all the
money of the people around you, you got to do something.
Like I've talked before about the trend of like very
basic stupid activities that I like, I actually encourage on
(16:44):
the internet. There was people who were trying to make
chocolate chip cookies with those like trash grabbers, so like
you had to like crack the eggs using trash Grabbers's
people like getting out of the local metro and trying
to beat it to the next stop on foot and awesome.
There's a recent one where like people kids were like
throwing fruit over this like super tall lamp that had
(17:06):
a point on the top, and they were just like
they're like complaining about how they had been there all day,
and then one of them landed I think it was
an apple on top of the light. Running around like
they just scored in the World Cup. That's I feel
like six seven is basically a hyper pervasive version of that.
Just like being stupid for the sake of being stupid,
(17:29):
and it's like an opportunity to remove yourself from all
the complicated systems and just be like as dumb as possible,
which is I think.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
That was like I think why Jackass was so popular
almost where it's I mean there was actually like damage
to things that they did, but to other people but
it's core when they're only hurting themselves, you know, and
this is way more tame. All they're doing is wasting
their own time. There's no victim, no property is being damage. Really,
(17:59):
it's like, oh, there's an apple up up on that lamp.
It's like, yeah, that's funny, you know, purely based.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
The only excuse for being mad about this is like,
I don't get it, and that's and certainly that has
been enough for conservatives to like kill something in the past.
But literally, speaking of conservatives also getting in on the
anti six seven campaign, JD. Vance recently claimed that the
numbers should be banned because they're ruining his church time.
(18:28):
Yesterday church, the Bible reading started on page sixty six,
sixty seven, six seven on the missile, and my five
year old went absolutely nuts, repeating six seven like ten times. Now.
I think we need to make sure this narrow exception
to the First Amendment and ban these numbers forever. Which
he's trying to be cute, but honestly, I hope he does,
(18:50):
Like I hope he runs on this in twenty twenty
eight something. He probably won't be running back on measles
is back. Baby. Fuck yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I knew it would be matter of time, these RFKA
bringing it all back.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Yeah, vaccination rates in South Carolina dropped from ninety six
percent of people vaccinated to ninety three point five in
the years between two thousand and two thousand and five.
And I don't know what happened in there, but that
you know what people who believe in science say the
second it goes below ninety five, like you no longer
(19:26):
have heard immunity, and you're going to start seeing it
come back. And almost like clockwork, the people who believe
in science were onto something. And now there's a spread
of a disease that we had declared eliminated in the
year two thousand.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
It's amazing how the right just wants to keep bringing
these things back that we've valiantly defeated, like science defeating
these diseases, the Allied forces defeating Nazis. I just bringing
back these awful fuck It's like we should be proud.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
This is cool.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
This is when America like if you had a flag
on your car, you weren't a racist, right like it
was back with this was cool. Oh yeah, it's back baby,
where there's like a lot of measles. Yeah, and not
not to be compared to an even sillier name, the mumps.
I know the momps, Where are you cute? What are
(20:24):
you a cutie pie?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Cutie pie disease? I got the months, the momps, Oh
the mom Yeah, dude, I think chicken pox also, Like
that's something in my lifetime has like they now have
a vaccine for it, because my kids don't get the
chicken pox. Nobody really gets the chicken pox anymore.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Brother, I got the chicken pox despite having the chicken
pox vaccine before my freshman homecoming, and I was undesirable.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I did not look good.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
So yeah, I mean, but I also had a much
more minor version of chicken pox, because that's how vaccines work,
where even though if you do get it, you get a.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Version that's not your body's like ready for it. Yeah. Yeah,
it was the last time my body was ready for anything,
and it was the pox. Damn. Brian Vedder got chicken
pox at twenty six at a Flying Lotus concert. Holy shit,
it's more solish if you get it older, right, Like, yeah,
I think so brutal. Finally, Variety has released their best
(21:30):
Movies Variety, who we've only covered this year when covering
like they're reporting on Baffo Bo, which they're usually in
favor of. The usually like, wow, this movie is pulled
in Baffo Bo a big box office in non industry terms,
and uh, except for one week, for some reason, there's
this one week for the movie Centers came out and
(21:52):
everybody was like, holy shit, everybody went to see this movie.
Except Variety was like, a I don't know, man, they
got a long way to go to profitability. It's how
they reported on Center's box office success. It's like kind
of weird. They seemed to be against the fact that
Ryan Coogler had like a really good deal where he
(22:16):
like bet on himself and was like, look, you don't
have to pay me that much. Just fun to the
movie and then if it does well. But because of
like some weird thing, every one of his movies has
done extremely well. He's like every single one. If for
some reason and people come to see this movie, I'll
just take like a portion of the box office and
(22:38):
then like, I just want the rights back in twenty
five years. And they were like, that's weird. That's too
much power for a director. Something that they didn't have
problems with on like other directors. I don't know what
it is about Ryan Cooler. I don't know what it
is about Oh, like I don't know, like Paul Thomas Anderson,
like people like that, but this guy seems to be
rubbing them the wrong way, and we can't really figure
(23:00):
out what it is anyway, it's the difference what I
can't think of it. They just release a variety just
released their list of best movies of the year, and
they're never a critic that I'm checking for. They're just like,
kind of very mid but their list includes movies such
as Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning, So they have two
(23:21):
critics who released top ten lists Mission Impossible, Final Reckoning,
Black Book, the Steven Sworderberg movie, which was critically acclaimed,
but no mention of Sinners anywhere. They're just like that
movie like, which is probably going to be one of
the top ten movies that gets on most year end
top ten lists, but Varieties like, we're actually not familiar
(23:45):
with that film. Huh oh you saw that movie. So
we trouble paying attention because we were just reading Ryan
Cougler's deal, the legal documents throughout the entire thing in
the dark see if we could punch holes in it.
Is there any loopholes where we could claw back the
rights to the intellectual property in twenty five years? Yeah,
(24:07):
very strange. Anyways, variety can continue to get fucked. Like
even Mission Impossible, fans were like, not his best work,
Like this was not a good one, not a movie
to put on these lists. You know. It's like, we
can't have a blast watching this. It doesn't belong on
this list. We had fun, but this is just a
(24:27):
little weird.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Like I love The Naked Gun, I don't think it belonged.
I don't see it. I'm not expecting to see it
on one of those lists.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Well that's where you're wrong. That's where you're wrong. It
definitely along there. Actually, they just did a I forget.
Maybe it was Vulture, I don't know, one of those,
uh you know, pop culture places that sometimes does a
good job today list of the best comedies of all time.
And I was like, all right, where the Apartment or
like some shit like that's going to be number like
(24:56):
some black and white movie is gonna be number one.
And they put Naked the Original Naked Gun at number one,
and I was like, you, you guys were right right.
The New Naked Gun. I really enjoyed. It is both
a movie that like made me laugh extremely hard and
(25:16):
also reminded me like what a fucking miracle. The First
Naked Gun is like the fact that it has is
this Naked Gun like through the first two acts is
really funny, like a lot of big laughs, and then
like a lot of comedies at the end is just
like I don't know, and then like this happens. This
(25:36):
happens like get everything else, you know, let's wrap this
ship up. The First Naked Gun, like is is that
funny throughout and then like ends with the best like
third act like the the the baseball umprorement is so incredible.
It's just like gets funnier and funnier. It's fucking amazing, but.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Under and then with the stakes of the number one
action movie of the Yeah, yeah, at the same time,
it's so good, it's great.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Yeah, it is so good. And the new one also
a lot of fun, a lot of bit fun. It's
definitely worth checking out, all right, Blake Wexler, is such
a pleasure having you. Where can people find you? Follow
you all that good stuff?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Likewise, thank you for having me at Blake Wexler on
all social media. On January sixteenth, I will be at
Little Field in Brooklyn. If you live in New York,
come out to the show. This is the one big
show I'll be doing in New York all year. Please
get tickets. Those tickets are in my bio. And then
I will be in March at Helium Comedy Club in Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
So yeah, let's go to two places, hik and pull up. Please.
Where are you gonna be on January sixth? Oh? January sixth?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
So, I I mean it's it's we can talk off
off Mike, But I like going down to the Potomac.
I love the area where the Potomac is, So yeah,
might check out.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Some little stroll along on the National Mall My Bodies,
Foulmouth Buddies. It's like, you know how people do Paul
Revere's Ride and stuff like that in Massachusetts on the
anniversary of that January sixth. We just like to go
down there and just stretch our legs a little bit. Yeah,
(27:20):
all right. Anyways, Blake was at January sixth for sure. Uh,
that's gonna do it for us this afternoon. We're back
tomorrow with a who last episode of the show until then,
be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get
your vaccines where you still can't get your flu shots.
Don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
to y'all tomorrow, Buddy.
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