May 28, 2025 • 23 mins
In this edition of TrendPR Sues Donald Trump, Jack and Miles discuss the season finale of 'The Rehearsal', Kevin Spacey… still being around doing stuff, the first person to swim around Martha's Vineyard (for the sharks), NPR suing Donald Trump, 7-Up bringing back their Shirley Temple flavor, our new based anti-AI Pope, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of trend
pr Sues Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, well indeed indeed, fuck
the fuck protective speech, y'all. If you say something they
don't like, they'll take your money.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
That's right. My name is jacko obriand that over there
is mister Miles. Great.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
This is the episode where we tell you some of
the things that are trending.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Tell you say what's trending?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
How you say cucumber?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Now you say cucumber? Oh right, right?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yeh yeah, that makes sense because I grew up in
how you say Connecticut?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
How you say Massachusetts?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
It is Wednesday, May twenty eighth. Eh mmm. There so
a lot of people in my corner of the internet
anyways talking about that dang rehearsal, which we won't spoil
for you until tomorrow's episode. Yeah. Time finale happened over
the weekend, very very good finale. But superroducer Victor found
(01:05):
this old av Club interview with him from back in
the early like Nathan for you days that I feel
like is a good kind of Rosetta stone, like a
decoder ring for like his whole shit.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Was he like, Yeah, I'm about to fuck up the
aviation industry.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
He said I'm gonna be the comedy equivalent of nine
to eleven when it comes to the aviation industry, which
was a strong statement, I thought for him. No, it's
just he says, you know how the mortgage thing happened
in two thousand and eight, the housing market collapse, stock
market collapsed. I got really obsessed with it because it
was kind of the first big recession in my lifetime.
(01:50):
I started reading all these books about it, trying to
understand how did this happen? Because we're this culture of corruption,
but corruption that was just legal enough to squeak by.
It all came down to these minor interactions that people
would have with each other where someone would know something's
wrong or unethical, but the other person just wouldn't want
to speak up because the social environment wasn't conducive to that.
(02:13):
So all these terrible things that happened, these big world
events came down to basically two people in a room
with one person being too uncomfortable to speak their mind. Yeah,
I think is true. Yeah, a lot of ways. Yeah, Yeah,
as somebody who's just sat there and gotten a bad haircut,
that I knew was bad as it was happening.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Oh, just tears running down your face, you good, buddy. Yeah,
I fucking love it.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
These tears are tears of love.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I like that. He goes on, he said, maybe it's
more of a Canadian thing too, but I think it's everywhere.
People do that everywhere in Canada. Maybe people are even
less likely to rock the boat. Maybe starting there, I
picked up on that stuff. I find that a lot
of bigger things come down to the smaller moments.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, it's it's definitely common in the workplace. One of
the details that jumped out to me from the finale
that I don't think spoils anything, but I talked about
them tomorrow's episode. But the uh, the the he's like
gives the example of driving the back of an uber, Well,
the uber driver is just like looking like watching a
(03:16):
YouTube video or like scrolling through like a TikTok feed
and like not paying attention to the road. And I've
been in that situation. I have not said shit, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I remember once I've had I had a driver like
taking turns so hard and yeah at one like brouh,
we are right, we no, we don't we don't have
to go that fast. I'm feeling wild back here. He's like,
oh my bad, my bad, my bad, Like totally unaware.
I was like, oh, okay, because in your mind you
think they're gonna be like why don't you enjoy the
(03:48):
That's why you're like, okay. In your mind you're like,
I don't want that, and I will just roll the
dice with this. But this one was totally just oblivious
to being like, I get it, man, you got so
many people in the car. You're just trying to fucking
get these people.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Just trying to get the next thing. Yeah, I'm sure
a kind word and just like a little bit of
thought on my part of like, how's a good what's
a good way to sit subject with that.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Being like can I see it?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Can I see it the phone?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah? This is so cool. Yeah, I'll tell you if
there's a good one, I'm a skip to the next one.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I'll describe. How about this, You give me your phone,
I'll describe them to you. Oh you just go for
go forward like that what I do for a living.
Describe YouTube videos my whole ship.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Annoying passenger who's about to get a zero rating? No, nothing, nothing, nothing.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I'll just give you a good rating. I don't want
my rating hurt. The Yeah, the the whole season is
about like pilots being able to communicate to one another weirdly,
but it's very compelling if people aren't watching it, highly recommend.
Kevin spacey Is remains back in the news somehow, he
(05:01):
is so fresh out. We talked on a recent episode
about how he just won an award at Con that
was like a good human award, like I forget the
name of the thing, but it was like a It
was like humanitarian, great great dude award.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
No notes, the no notes award switch solid solid guy, no.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Notes, solid person who we can't say shit to. He rules.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Also because we also don't really talk about our own
sexual press.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
This is France. This is the film industry in France, Miles,
there's nothing shady to see there.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Do not google Gerard Depardu.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Okay, but he is now going to be directing a
new movie. This is going to be his first in
more than twenty years, and it sounds even worse and
more embarrassing than I would have expected, because I think
his last one, the last thing he directed, I thought
was that b Darren movie where he was just like,
(06:02):
I am going to be this singer because I think
I'm really good at should have been a crooner, Yeah,
should have been a crooner. He played Bobby Darren and
Beyond the Sea, a lifelong dream project who took on
co writing, directing, co producing, and starring duties in the
biography biographical musical about Darren's life. But yeah, that it
(06:26):
was just like a thing where people like, we really
don't want you in this yeah, and he was like, oh, yeah,
well check this shit out, and then nobody went and
saw it because nobody wanted to watch role.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
But anyways, this new one sounds like it's a new direction.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
It's called Hull of Guards. It's set in the future
in which humanity has been fractured by hidden supernatural forces
and the two rival war. Your group's wage a secret
war for control of humanity's fate. There's mind control. There's
a cosmic portal that can awaken an ancient force known
(07:10):
as the Prime. Presumably because he's trying to sell it strama.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
The Bazosians do triumph in the end.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Though it's it's why it's starring Dolph Lungren and Eric Roberts.
It's the most like to DVD ass thing that I've
ever heard, or I guess direct to streaming, Like it's
seems like unless it's like, yeah, we're actually taking those
movies and like doing a thing with the idea of
direct to streaming projects that like never make see the
(07:42):
light of day. But again, that's a bad idea. No,
this feels like nobody watches those this is such.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
A bad such a bad concept. And then like a
cast of people you could truly give a fuck less
about and they're like, yeah, man, this is this feels
like the movie equivalent of like one Last job. Yeah,
let's you know what, they say we shouldn't do it,
and maybe we're past it, and you know what, they're right,
but we're gonna do it anyway and no one's gonna care.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
My haters said I couldn't do it, and they were
right into them. Good called by my hate call by
my haters. Yeah, this feels like one of those, just
like just like his last directing project.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
There's the hol of Guards and the static guards who
wrote this.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Oh yeah, dude, the hol of Guards. It it feels
like something that like somebody wrote in a trapper keeper
when they were twelve.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Oh yeah, hollow holly, Like we're talking holographic shit. Yeah,
that's the seventies eighties. I'm sorry, we're past the hollow anything.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
All right. Big news for Jaws fans, an endurance swimming,
news for me, Big news for me, news in my life.
An endurance swimmer swam around Martha's vaneyard. It took them
like twelve days. It's a sixty mile swim. They never
said they were a speed swimmer. And just to be like.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I love Jaws, I'm swimming around Martha's vineyard.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
They were trying to make the point that like, hey,
look at this, I Am not going to be eaten
by a shark because that's shark blue.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Right, yeah, I mean yeah, we've always talked about on
the show how Jaws basically opened the door for like
just out of control of shark hunting. In Sharkfish, I
don't know if it's called shark hunting, shark fishing, shack
conte shock kind of. Oh this guy is okay, he's
fifty five. Oh so he was what five years old
(09:40):
when jos.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
When Jaws came out. I'm yeah, fiftieth anniversary of Jaws,
so yeah. They were five when it came out and
said they want to highlight the perilous plate of sharks
around the world. Look, how not eaten by a fucking shark?
I am At the end of this completed the swim
in a pair of speedo's, even though a skinny dip
(10:02):
would have obviously been the best way to honor the
film's legacy. It's reported he wasn't even drunk.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Again, like respect the source material.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Man, how am I supposed to believe that the shark
wouldn't have eaten you? If you you know, it's like
when I eat a Thanksgiving turkey, I don't put a
little speedo on it, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, that's true. Well, I wonder if he's he's a
British South African. I wonder if he swam over for safety.
Where Steven Spielberg bro he answer for this?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
He has this quote where he said, I truly and
to this day regret the decimation of the shark population
because of the book and the film.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Oh, the famous book.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
But I mean it was the book's idea.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Wow. Wow wow wow wow wow. I'm gonna blame Hitler y'all.
To be honest, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Gonna blame it all on nine to eleven, but it
certainly didn't help.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, I don't know if we'd be here if they
didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah, throwing the book in before the film, I mean great. Yeah.
Peter Benchley has always been like, I really wish I
hadn't unleashed this fear of sharks onto the world, because
sharks are actually amazing and like they don't attack people
the way they do in this fictional film. And Spielberg
was like, yeah, man, you shouldn't have done that shit,
(11:27):
You fuck.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So fucked up rude. Everyone when they hear dud dud,
they think of your book full and I'd be I'd
be pretty fucked up about it if I were you.
Not me, though, I'm fine.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
That's one of the things I still fear not to
get eaten by a shark. The sharks are somehow mad
at me for the feeding frenzy of crazy sport fishermen
that happened after nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
That's what Spielberg said.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, I'm not scared to get eaten by them because
they don't do that shit.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
But yeah, you know, but if they're mad at me,
that really breaks my heart if they're mad at me.
I hate to think that there's a group of just
like a.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Cartoon shark with frownie eyebrows, little steam puffs coming out
of its ears.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
They're like Shakespeare in Love should have won Best Picture.
I don't care what happened in ninety eight. I don't care.
That's that's tough. That's tough. Well, but it's I.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Mean it is. I don't know that you know, who
knows if it was specifically caused by the movie. But shockingly,
more than a third of shark species are now at
risk of extinction.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Damn.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
So that's where we're at. These are sharks have been
around forever. They've been around millions and.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Millions of years, millions years. Okay, yeah, I thought something
from the seventies or something they found out.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah, since at least the late seventies, seventies.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
What is this stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and
we're back.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
We're back.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
MPR over the weekend sued Donald Trump over funding cuts.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, you don't have First Amendment protected free speech anymore.
That's basically what all this is. It's like everything we've
seen from the Harvard defunding or and NPR stuff. It's
all just you said something I'm against or I don't like. Therefore,
if you disagree with me, you have no right to
and you now have caused damages by speaking differently than
(13:29):
what I believe.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Is even trying to like hide it or like present
an alternative motive, Like it seems like he's just being like, yeah, no,
that's what you get. Everybody will recall that I am corrupt,
right therefore will defund you for being mean to me.
I don't know that, Like it's he even bothering to
present an alternate explanation.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
There doesn't even need to be, you know. That's the
thing now with this, with that Supreme Court decision last
year and now this this guy and the whole administration
is like, but what the foho gonna check me? Boom Yeah,
but they're but then every fucking week they do something
that's somehow beyond the pale for the moment, and people
are like, what the fuck is actually no, no, no, that
was that. We didn't mean that. We didn't mean that,
(14:11):
we didn't mean that. It's like it is clear that
like there's a lot of momentum behind what they're doing.
They really feel like they can't be touched and yeah,
you talk against us, we will just straight up fuck
the constitution. It's nothing. This is just it has happened.
And then with the with the Harvard thing, they're like, oh,
so did Baron get rejected?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Is that? Why? Is that why y'all are man? Because
he is really highlighting Harvard specifically.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I don't know. I mean, like, you know, he's in
that school. You know people kind of end up going
to ivy leagues. I know that's like a big thing
with your school. But is that something? And you know, now,
mommy Milangnia had to come out and reply and said, no, quote,
Baron did not apply to Harvard, and any assertion that
he or that anyone on his behalf applied is completely false.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Okay, hmm okay, he's at NYU.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Is that where he went? Yep?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, interesting, all right. We talked to yesterday about how
the maga eras upon us in streaming and television that
everybody's like bending over backwards to take a positive read
on shows that can be phrased as like heartland or
like kind of right leaning, and we just wanted to
(15:21):
highlight that Duck Dynasty because one of the original people
from that show just passed away, but they were already
and talks about bringing that show back, and it's going
to premiere this summer summer of twenty twenty five on
A and COOL. I didn't catch Duck Dynasty the first
time around.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
No, it was repellent to people who like feared racists
or what they thought like a TV version of a
racist person.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
To me, it was just a reality show about racists, right.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
They looked like people who were hunting slaves. That's the
vibe I got from that fam with a little zz
top beards and shit say Zzy Top, like you know,
was easy top, but like their whole energy was like,
these are not the kind of people. If I was
in a like on a road trip through the Sala,
they'd like, excuse me, do you you know I'm gonna
keep it moving. I will keep it moving. But yeah, Duck,
This I think goes along with everything they're It satiates
(16:15):
the need to to regress culturally, to go to more
conservative kind of content, and also the sort of Hollywood
industry need to not come up with anything new, just
dust off something old.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, that's like a fucking just slam dunk Yeah, bitch
slam Duok. Guys, what if we brought dunk Duck Dynasty,
Dunk Dynasty, Hey, dunk Dynasty, that can be brought Dunk DNA.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I would rather watch Dunk Dynasty about people who were running,
like trying like a franchise ease of dunkin Dot. I
don't even know if those are franchises, but sign me
up for people talking about duncan. I don't care, Just
not Duck Dynasty.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Sorry, I was thinking Dunk Dynasty could be like about
the Lob City Clippers.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
It's got it, we got it, Jack, we're trying to
catch after that mag audience too. I think we can
agree Dunk dunkin Donuts.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
You're way off. You need to get your mind around
the new world that we.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Were Jack twenty twenty five, Man Dunk.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
You know white men who persevered around the discrimination that
they faced due to DEI and were able to launch
a successful dunkin Donuts. Is that better?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Um?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Or maybe it's just about Brent Barry.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
People were like this white boy can't win no dunk contract.
His dad shot free throws like a fucking grandma.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
It is a dynasty because his dad is an NBA player, and.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Uh Brent John Uh that's his brother. His brother was
John right, and then who was his dad? What was
the dad called Barry? Also Barry Barry, Barry Barry. But anyway,
Rick Rick, that's right, Rick.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Barry, ultimate white seventies guy named Yo Rick.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Just have it be about the berries. That's Dunk Dynasty. Okay,
fuck it, I'd rather that than anything.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Seven Up is confirming the return of a limited edition
flavor that was very popular when it was last and
that is Shirley Temple Flavor.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Oh wait, there was a legit Shirley Temple flavor.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Yeah, I guess so. I remember there was this cherry
seven up back in the eighties. Yeah, I still like
remember the color of the camp. It's like a very
light pink. Anyway, shout out to seven Up. I prefer
seven up to sprite. It's a little it's a little lighter,
a little bit crispier. You actually not crispier, but like
(18:38):
lighter for you prefer seven up to sprite, you said
to spray.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yeah, okay, So this is my last episode, y'all. Jack
should know that is I haven't had it in a
long time. Jack that's anti black to say you don't
like sprite.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I didn't say I don't like sprite. I said I
like seven up.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I said I don't like black, like if white.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I just said I like white people, and I think
they should have their own entertainment network.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Damn. I used to remember feeling so cool, like, you know,
like as a kid, you were ordering like a fucking
coke or whatever you like. Yeah, Shirley Temple roy Rogers.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, give me a roy Rogers over here.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
And I remember like that, I didn't realize you could
buy grenadine, like at the store. And when I remember
one day my dad brought him a bottle of grenadine.
My mom took this shit away because I was doing
like fifty fifties.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, I definitely you know, I was a Shirley Temple
roy Rogers bitch. I was like, yeah, can I get
a roy Rogers. Every time we would go to a restaurant, Oh,
just thick ass syrup poured into already impossible the syrup. Yeah, yeah,
another syrup filled drink? And could I get a Canadian
roy Rogers where you actually put some maple syrup in
(19:52):
there a topper? And finally, if we didn't already love
this new pope enough white Sox fan, Vance hater, Chicago
hates Vance, and he's American, which is implied by the
Chicago thing.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
So we can we can, we can forgive the homophobia.
Yeah for a pope, Yeah, exactly, just kind of guy.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Is also a little bit suspicious of AI.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
It sounds like yep yep. So the AI pope was
trending to was like, what the fuck it's like? Do
you get another like drippy AI photo of the Pope? No,
So it turns out quote in his first address to
the cardinals, he explained that he actually chose the name
Leo the fourteenth because of AI. I said, what the
is this like a Wu tang name generator? That's right,
(20:43):
like pope name generator. The name is a reference to
the previous Pope, Leo the thirteenth, who held the position
during the Industrial Revolution in the late nineteenth century. That
former pontiff weighed in on how rising capitalism and the
new technology of the day risked turning workers into commodities.
The Catholic Church argued should stand up for workers rights
and dignity. And then this is what Leo the fourteenth,
(21:05):
our boys said, quote in our own day, the church
offers everyone the treasury of its social teaching and response
to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field
of artificial intelligence that post new challenges for the defense
of human dignity, justice, and labor, and goes on to
be like again that the Catholic Church should assume this role,
to sort of be like, you can't turn workers into commodities.
(21:27):
There's even a reason why there's like we even say
there's a day you can rest because we're trying to
tell people to not be working all the fucking time.
Not to say that the Catholic Church was started as
a labor rights organization, but that's where Leo sort of
sees his tuition and everything.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah, yeah, see.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
What he does. See what you got, Leo, See what
you got.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Considering the last time we saw religion and AI intersect,
it was like an AI priest who would like take
your confessions, and it was really and like it was like,
you can confess directly to Jesus.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I think that's probably the thing. He's like, you're not
taking my fucking job.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
This is just pure job protection.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I mean, what do you think about the hallucinations? He's
like I don't know what you're talking about, but this
fucker will not take our jobs. That's where I'm at.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
These computers will not replace us.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Thank you, Pope, Yike Slippery Slope.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
For all right. Those are some of the things that
are trending on this Wednesday, May twenty eighth. We're back
tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then,
be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get
the vaccines where you still can get your flu shots,
don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
to y'all tomorrow. Bye bye bye.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
The Daily Zeite guist as executive produced by Catherine Law,
co produced by Bae Waang, co produced by Victor Wright
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Co written by j M McNab, and edited and engineered
by Brian Jeffries.
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of trend
pr Sues Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, well indeed indeed, fuck
the fuck protective speech, y'all. If you say something they
don't like, they'll take your money.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
That's right. My name is jacko obriand that over there
is mister Miles. Great.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
This is the episode where we tell you some of
the things that are trending.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Tell you say what's trending?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
How you say cucumber?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Now you say cucumber? Oh right, right?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yeh yeah, that makes sense because I grew up in
how you say Connecticut?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
How you say Massachusetts?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
It is Wednesday, May twenty eighth. Eh mmm. There so
a lot of people in my corner of the internet
anyways talking about that dang rehearsal, which we won't spoil
for you until tomorrow's episode. Yeah. Time finale happened over
the weekend, very very good finale. But superroducer Victor found
(01:05):
this old av Club interview with him from back in
the early like Nathan for you days that I feel
like is a good kind of Rosetta stone, like a
decoder ring for like his whole shit.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Was he like, Yeah, I'm about to fuck up the
aviation industry.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
He said I'm gonna be the comedy equivalent of nine
to eleven when it comes to the aviation industry, which
was a strong statement, I thought for him. No, it's
just he says, you know how the mortgage thing happened
in two thousand and eight, the housing market collapse, stock
market collapsed. I got really obsessed with it because it
was kind of the first big recession in my lifetime.
(01:50):
I started reading all these books about it, trying to
understand how did this happen? Because we're this culture of corruption,
but corruption that was just legal enough to squeak by.
It all came down to these minor interactions that people
would have with each other where someone would know something's
wrong or unethical, but the other person just wouldn't want
to speak up because the social environment wasn't conducive to that.
(02:13):
So all these terrible things that happened, these big world
events came down to basically two people in a room
with one person being too uncomfortable to speak their mind. Yeah,
I think is true. Yeah, a lot of ways. Yeah, Yeah,
as somebody who's just sat there and gotten a bad haircut,
that I knew was bad as it was happening.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Oh, just tears running down your face, you good, buddy. Yeah,
I fucking love it.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
These tears are tears of love.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I like that. He goes on, he said, maybe it's
more of a Canadian thing too, but I think it's everywhere.
People do that everywhere in Canada. Maybe people are even
less likely to rock the boat. Maybe starting there, I
picked up on that stuff. I find that a lot
of bigger things come down to the smaller moments.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, it's it's definitely common in the workplace. One of
the details that jumped out to me from the finale
that I don't think spoils anything, but I talked about
them tomorrow's episode. But the uh, the the he's like
gives the example of driving the back of an uber, Well,
the uber driver is just like looking like watching a
(03:16):
YouTube video or like scrolling through like a TikTok feed
and like not paying attention to the road. And I've
been in that situation. I have not said shit, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I remember once I've had I had a driver like
taking turns so hard and yeah at one like brouh,
we are right, we no, we don't we don't have
to go that fast. I'm feeling wild back here. He's like,
oh my bad, my bad, my bad, Like totally unaware.
I was like, oh, okay, because in your mind you
think they're gonna be like why don't you enjoy the
(03:48):
That's why you're like, okay. In your mind you're like,
I don't want that, and I will just roll the
dice with this. But this one was totally just oblivious
to being like, I get it, man, you got so
many people in the car. You're just trying to fucking
get these people.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Just trying to get the next thing. Yeah, I'm sure
a kind word and just like a little bit of
thought on my part of like, how's a good what's
a good way to sit subject with that.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Being like can I see it?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Can I see it the phone?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah? This is so cool. Yeah, I'll tell you if
there's a good one, I'm a skip to the next one.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I'll describe. How about this, You give me your phone,
I'll describe them to you. Oh you just go for
go forward like that what I do for a living.
Describe YouTube videos my whole ship.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Annoying passenger who's about to get a zero rating? No, nothing, nothing, nothing.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I'll just give you a good rating. I don't want
my rating hurt. The Yeah, the the whole season is
about like pilots being able to communicate to one another weirdly,
but it's very compelling if people aren't watching it, highly recommend.
Kevin spacey Is remains back in the news somehow, he
(05:01):
is so fresh out. We talked on a recent episode
about how he just won an award at Con that
was like a good human award, like I forget the
name of the thing, but it was like a It
was like humanitarian, great great dude award.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
No notes, the no notes award switch solid solid guy, no.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Notes, solid person who we can't say shit to. He rules.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Also because we also don't really talk about our own
sexual press.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
This is France. This is the film industry in France, Miles,
there's nothing shady to see there.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Do not google Gerard Depardu.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Okay, but he is now going to be directing a
new movie. This is going to be his first in
more than twenty years, and it sounds even worse and
more embarrassing than I would have expected, because I think
his last one, the last thing he directed, I thought
was that b Darren movie where he was just like,
(06:02):
I am going to be this singer because I think
I'm really good at should have been a crooner, Yeah,
should have been a crooner. He played Bobby Darren and
Beyond the Sea, a lifelong dream project who took on
co writing, directing, co producing, and starring duties in the
biography biographical musical about Darren's life. But yeah, that it
(06:26):
was just like a thing where people like, we really
don't want you in this yeah, and he was like, oh, yeah,
well check this shit out, and then nobody went and
saw it because nobody wanted to watch role.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
But anyways, this new one sounds like it's a new direction.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
It's called Hull of Guards. It's set in the future
in which humanity has been fractured by hidden supernatural forces
and the two rival war. Your group's wage a secret
war for control of humanity's fate. There's mind control. There's
a cosmic portal that can awaken an ancient force known
(07:10):
as the Prime. Presumably because he's trying to sell it strama.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
The Bazosians do triumph in the end.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Though it's it's why it's starring Dolph Lungren and Eric Roberts.
It's the most like to DVD ass thing that I've
ever heard, or I guess direct to streaming, Like it's
seems like unless it's like, yeah, we're actually taking those
movies and like doing a thing with the idea of
direct to streaming projects that like never make see the
(07:42):
light of day. But again, that's a bad idea. No,
this feels like nobody watches those this is such.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
A bad such a bad concept. And then like a
cast of people you could truly give a fuck less
about and they're like, yeah, man, this is this feels
like the movie equivalent of like one Last job. Yeah,
let's you know what, they say we shouldn't do it,
and maybe we're past it, and you know what, they're right,
but we're gonna do it anyway and no one's gonna care.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
My haters said I couldn't do it, and they were
right into them. Good called by my hate call by
my haters. Yeah, this feels like one of those, just
like just like his last directing project.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
There's the hol of Guards and the static guards who
wrote this.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Oh yeah, dude, the hol of Guards. It it feels
like something that like somebody wrote in a trapper keeper
when they were twelve.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Oh yeah, hollow holly, Like we're talking holographic shit. Yeah,
that's the seventies eighties. I'm sorry, we're past the hollow anything.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
All right. Big news for Jaws fans, an endurance swimming,
news for me, Big news for me, news in my life.
An endurance swimmer swam around Martha's vaneyard. It took them
like twelve days. It's a sixty mile swim. They never
said they were a speed swimmer. And just to be like.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I love Jaws, I'm swimming around Martha's vineyard.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
They were trying to make the point that like, hey,
look at this, I Am not going to be eaten
by a shark because that's shark blue.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Right, yeah, I mean yeah, we've always talked about on
the show how Jaws basically opened the door for like
just out of control of shark hunting. In Sharkfish, I
don't know if it's called shark hunting, shark fishing, shack
conte shock kind of. Oh this guy is okay, he's
fifty five. Oh so he was what five years old
(09:40):
when jos.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
When Jaws came out. I'm yeah, fiftieth anniversary of Jaws,
so yeah. They were five when it came out and
said they want to highlight the perilous plate of sharks
around the world. Look, how not eaten by a fucking shark?
I am At the end of this completed the swim
in a pair of speedo's, even though a skinny dip
(10:02):
would have obviously been the best way to honor the
film's legacy. It's reported he wasn't even drunk.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Again, like respect the source material.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Man, how am I supposed to believe that the shark
wouldn't have eaten you? If you you know, it's like
when I eat a Thanksgiving turkey, I don't put a
little speedo on it, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, that's true. Well, I wonder if he's he's a
British South African. I wonder if he swam over for safety.
Where Steven Spielberg bro he answer for this?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
He has this quote where he said, I truly and
to this day regret the decimation of the shark population
because of the book and the film.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Oh, the famous book.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
But I mean it was the book's idea.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Wow. Wow wow wow wow wow. I'm gonna blame Hitler y'all.
To be honest, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Gonna blame it all on nine to eleven, but it
certainly didn't help.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, I don't know if we'd be here if they
didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah, throwing the book in before the film, I mean great. Yeah.
Peter Benchley has always been like, I really wish I
hadn't unleashed this fear of sharks onto the world, because
sharks are actually amazing and like they don't attack people
the way they do in this fictional film. And Spielberg
was like, yeah, man, you shouldn't have done that shit,
(11:27):
You fuck.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So fucked up rude. Everyone when they hear dud dud,
they think of your book full and I'd be I'd
be pretty fucked up about it if I were you.
Not me, though, I'm fine.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
That's one of the things I still fear not to
get eaten by a shark. The sharks are somehow mad
at me for the feeding frenzy of crazy sport fishermen
that happened after nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
That's what Spielberg said.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, I'm not scared to get eaten by them because
they don't do that shit.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
But yeah, you know, but if they're mad at me,
that really breaks my heart if they're mad at me.
I hate to think that there's a group of just
like a.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Cartoon shark with frownie eyebrows, little steam puffs coming out
of its ears.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
They're like Shakespeare in Love should have won Best Picture.
I don't care what happened in ninety eight. I don't care.
That's that's tough. That's tough. Well, but it's I.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Mean it is. I don't know that you know, who
knows if it was specifically caused by the movie. But shockingly,
more than a third of shark species are now at
risk of extinction.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Damn.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
So that's where we're at. These are sharks have been
around forever. They've been around millions and.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Millions of years, millions years. Okay, yeah, I thought something
from the seventies or something they found out.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah, since at least the late seventies, seventies.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
What is this stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and
we're back.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
We're back.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
MPR over the weekend sued Donald Trump over funding cuts.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, you don't have First Amendment protected free speech anymore.
That's basically what all this is. It's like everything we've
seen from the Harvard defunding or and NPR stuff. It's
all just you said something I'm against or I don't like. Therefore,
if you disagree with me, you have no right to
and you now have caused damages by speaking differently than
(13:29):
what I believe.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Is even trying to like hide it or like present
an alternative motive, Like it seems like he's just being like, yeah, no,
that's what you get. Everybody will recall that I am corrupt,
right therefore will defund you for being mean to me.
I don't know that, Like it's he even bothering to
present an alternate explanation.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
There doesn't even need to be, you know. That's the
thing now with this, with that Supreme Court decision last
year and now this this guy and the whole administration
is like, but what the foho gonna check me? Boom Yeah,
but they're but then every fucking week they do something
that's somehow beyond the pale for the moment, and people
are like, what the fuck is actually no, no, no, that
was that. We didn't mean that. We didn't mean that,
(14:11):
we didn't mean that. It's like it is clear that
like there's a lot of momentum behind what they're doing.
They really feel like they can't be touched and yeah,
you talk against us, we will just straight up fuck
the constitution. It's nothing. This is just it has happened.
And then with the with the Harvard thing, they're like, oh,
so did Baron get rejected?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Is that? Why? Is that why y'all are man? Because
he is really highlighting Harvard specifically.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I don't know. I mean, like, you know, he's in
that school. You know people kind of end up going
to ivy leagues. I know that's like a big thing
with your school. But is that something? And you know, now,
mommy Milangnia had to come out and reply and said, no, quote,
Baron did not apply to Harvard, and any assertion that
he or that anyone on his behalf applied is completely false.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Okay, hmm okay, he's at NYU.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Is that where he went? Yep?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, interesting, all right. We talked to yesterday about how
the maga eras upon us in streaming and television that
everybody's like bending over backwards to take a positive read
on shows that can be phrased as like heartland or
like kind of right leaning, and we just wanted to
(15:21):
highlight that Duck Dynasty because one of the original people
from that show just passed away, but they were already
and talks about bringing that show back, and it's going
to premiere this summer summer of twenty twenty five on
A and COOL. I didn't catch Duck Dynasty the first
time around.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
No, it was repellent to people who like feared racists
or what they thought like a TV version of a
racist person.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
To me, it was just a reality show about racists, right.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
They looked like people who were hunting slaves. That's the
vibe I got from that fam with a little zz
top beards and shit say Zzy Top, like you know,
was easy top, but like their whole energy was like,
these are not the kind of people. If I was
in a like on a road trip through the Sala,
they'd like, excuse me, do you you know I'm gonna
keep it moving. I will keep it moving. But yeah, Duck,
This I think goes along with everything they're It satiates
(16:15):
the need to to regress culturally, to go to more
conservative kind of content, and also the sort of Hollywood
industry need to not come up with anything new, just
dust off something old.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, that's like a fucking just slam dunk Yeah, bitch
slam Duok. Guys, what if we brought dunk Duck Dynasty,
Dunk Dynasty, Hey, dunk Dynasty, that can be brought Dunk DNA.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I would rather watch Dunk Dynasty about people who were running,
like trying like a franchise ease of dunkin Dot. I
don't even know if those are franchises, but sign me
up for people talking about duncan. I don't care, Just
not Duck Dynasty.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Sorry, I was thinking Dunk Dynasty could be like about
the Lob City Clippers.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
It's got it, we got it, Jack, we're trying to
catch after that mag audience too. I think we can
agree Dunk dunkin Donuts.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
You're way off. You need to get your mind around
the new world that we.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Were Jack twenty twenty five, Man Dunk.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
You know white men who persevered around the discrimination that
they faced due to DEI and were able to launch
a successful dunkin Donuts. Is that better?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Um?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Or maybe it's just about Brent Barry.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
People were like this white boy can't win no dunk contract.
His dad shot free throws like a fucking grandma.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
It is a dynasty because his dad is an NBA player, and.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Uh Brent John Uh that's his brother. His brother was
John right, and then who was his dad? What was
the dad called Barry? Also Barry Barry, Barry Barry. But anyway,
Rick Rick, that's right, Rick.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Barry, ultimate white seventies guy named Yo Rick.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Just have it be about the berries. That's Dunk Dynasty. Okay,
fuck it, I'd rather that than anything.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Seven Up is confirming the return of a limited edition
flavor that was very popular when it was last and
that is Shirley Temple Flavor.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Oh wait, there was a legit Shirley Temple flavor.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Yeah, I guess so. I remember there was this cherry
seven up back in the eighties. Yeah, I still like
remember the color of the camp. It's like a very
light pink. Anyway, shout out to seven Up. I prefer
seven up to sprite. It's a little it's a little lighter,
a little bit crispier. You actually not crispier, but like
(18:38):
lighter for you prefer seven up to sprite, you said
to spray.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yeah, okay, So this is my last episode, y'all. Jack
should know that is I haven't had it in a
long time. Jack that's anti black to say you don't
like sprite.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I didn't say I don't like sprite. I said I
like seven up.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I said I don't like black, like if white.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I just said I like white people, and I think
they should have their own entertainment network.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Damn. I used to remember feeling so cool, like, you know,
like as a kid, you were ordering like a fucking
coke or whatever you like. Yeah, Shirley Temple roy Rogers.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, give me a roy Rogers over here.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
And I remember like that, I didn't realize you could
buy grenadine, like at the store. And when I remember
one day my dad brought him a bottle of grenadine.
My mom took this shit away because I was doing
like fifty fifties.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, I definitely you know, I was a Shirley Temple
roy Rogers bitch. I was like, yeah, can I get
a roy Rogers. Every time we would go to a restaurant, Oh,
just thick ass syrup poured into already impossible the syrup. Yeah, yeah,
another syrup filled drink? And could I get a Canadian
roy Rogers where you actually put some maple syrup in
(19:52):
there a topper? And finally, if we didn't already love
this new pope enough white Sox fan, Vance hater, Chicago
hates Vance, and he's American, which is implied by the
Chicago thing.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
So we can we can, we can forgive the homophobia.
Yeah for a pope, Yeah, exactly, just kind of guy.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Is also a little bit suspicious of AI.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
It sounds like yep yep. So the AI pope was
trending to was like, what the fuck it's like? Do
you get another like drippy AI photo of the Pope? No,
So it turns out quote in his first address to
the cardinals, he explained that he actually chose the name
Leo the fourteenth because of AI. I said, what the
is this like a Wu tang name generator? That's right,
(20:43):
like pope name generator. The name is a reference to
the previous Pope, Leo the thirteenth, who held the position
during the Industrial Revolution in the late nineteenth century. That
former pontiff weighed in on how rising capitalism and the
new technology of the day risked turning workers into commodities.
The Catholic Church argued should stand up for workers rights
and dignity. And then this is what Leo the fourteenth,
(21:05):
our boys said, quote in our own day, the church
offers everyone the treasury of its social teaching and response
to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field
of artificial intelligence that post new challenges for the defense
of human dignity, justice, and labor, and goes on to
be like again that the Catholic Church should assume this role,
to sort of be like, you can't turn workers into commodities.
(21:27):
There's even a reason why there's like we even say
there's a day you can rest because we're trying to
tell people to not be working all the fucking time.
Not to say that the Catholic Church was started as
a labor rights organization, but that's where Leo sort of
sees his tuition and everything.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah, yeah, see.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
What he does. See what you got, Leo, See what
you got.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Considering the last time we saw religion and AI intersect,
it was like an AI priest who would like take
your confessions, and it was really and like it was like,
you can confess directly to Jesus.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I think that's probably the thing. He's like, you're not
taking my fucking job.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
This is just pure job protection.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I mean, what do you think about the hallucinations? He's
like I don't know what you're talking about, but this
fucker will not take our jobs. That's where I'm at.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
These computers will not replace us.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Thank you, Pope, Yike Slippery Slope.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
For all right. Those are some of the things that
are trending on this Wednesday, May twenty eighth. We're back
tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then,
be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get
the vaccines where you still can get your flu shots,
don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
to y'all tomorrow. Bye bye bye.
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