May 22, 2025 • 24 mins
In this edition of Trends of Theseus, Jack and special guest co-host Blake Wexler discuss Wendy's crazy new burger (available in Canada only), a quick check in with the box office, the upcoming 'Skibidi Toilet' film (directed by Michael Bay), the US treasury ending the penny next year, Sesame Street moving to Netflix and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Trends
of Theseus.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
H It's like ship of Theseus.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
But if you break down the trends and put them
back together, are they still.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The same trends? Blake?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Is a question that I that one courtesy a vanadium
silver love love A nice ship theseus? O, God, God,
I know you are fucking love that so much love that.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hey man, it's like the ship with theseus. What am
I anymore? You know, Blake, I'm Jaz Broke. I'm stuck
like this now. I can't do anything else.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Man Friday, Man, Thursday, goddamn afternoon man, Brian, Hey, come
on man, anyways, Blake, Yes, long weekend coming.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You got the plans. What you're doing getting up on the.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Stages, entertaining the people's nah? You know, you know the
week memory real days, my sabbath. It's the one day
I take off a year, and and I'm taking it off.
So no stages, no podcasts, no no dance, just BBQ,
just b BQ.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Getting the getting the thighs out.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I'm gonna take these thighs out and just yeah, I
have special shorts that I wear for me. Yeah, the
flags they're made of flag. They are made of actual flags.
Yeah that I that I climb up the pole. That
I that's pre greased. Then I grabbed the flag off.
It's all wave.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Goes flags fell up? Is what is what the sailors
all say, it is what are you doing the same
exact thing I figured? Yeah, my flag shorts, climb up
the pole, waving the waving my booty around and getting
whistled at by sailors.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, I'm taking it easy man, he a little travel Hello,
Dan travel do man tired?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
It's just I don't know, you don't Jack?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Is this all your presidents in one impression? Is that
this basically w h W Biden? That's right, Yeah, well
just those three.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, my favorites.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Weird, weird taste for just like do nothing ship presidents
who are ye blandly genocidal anyway.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
That's the good type. Yeah, that's what. That's what I like.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
They don't seem to realize how evil they are. Blake,
we I don't stop talking about this unimportant stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
We got to talk about Wendy's. We got to talk
about Wendy's.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
There's a new cheeseburger that's been announced for Wendy's Canada,
and I'm pissed. This is okay, Like you know, Trump
was talking about, well, we're gonna make them the fifty
first state and all that. Razmataz. This is war. This
is the less straw they're taken. So they what they've
(03:05):
done is they've put grilled cheese sandwich on top, grilled
cheese sandwich on the bottom, and hamburger in between, cheeseburger,
chee burger in between.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And how it took this long to get here? I
will never know.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
If they steal this from us, Like how did these
Canadian food scientists steal American food scientist ideas and bring
it up north? That's what I'm wanting, because this is
not a Canadian idea. They're not smart enough to come
up with something like this. Yeah, yeah, no, this is
the sophisticated. There's a mole, there's a there's a weak
we got leak.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
This is the plot of the Late the Yeah, the
new mission of Possible movies coming out this weekend. Uh,
and this is the plot. How did Canada get the
idea for the most American food? I will say that
in description it sounds better than what is pictured. Even
in the like you know, fake photo where they're like,
(04:03):
this is the best that it could possibly look.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
It's they're still using Hamburger buns.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
It just looks like hamburger, but like it looks like
a grilled cheese sandwish that somebody made in the microwave.
You know. It doesn't have that like buttery crustiness to it.
So it's like, shit, yeah it does kind of look back.
Just use a different bread.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, you suck. Oh my god, this is the maddest
I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I'm grinding my teeth furious. I have a wake ap
near right now. I'm so pissed off about this. This
is infuriating. Do you ever eat shit like this? Like,
do you ever like the weird? Like, will you get
something like this? Or you just at the age now
where it's like, well, this is kind of ruin my month,
ruin my.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Whole day if I eat something like this. But yeah,
I do still sometimes, Like there's the occasional. It's usually
when I'm in charge of the kids. Yeah, Like I
did a I did a trip up to uh State
Park and you know, planned out lunch, packed a nice
little lunch for us, healthy lunch. Got out of the
(05:09):
park around six pm and was like, oh, no, we've
got we got three hours until right at home. Uh,
And so we we did some McDonald's and there was
a Taco bell nearby, so we did a bang bang
and uh it was you know, it was wonderful. It
was lovely. I got to introduce my children to taco bell.
(05:33):
But it's pretty it's pretty rare that I'm like off
on my own, just eating for for pure enjoyment and
without any regard for the future.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Right.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
The closest thing I've had this something like this is
KFC did some I think it's called the Double Down
or something, and.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Know it was called the Double Down, man, But brother,
I know what I said it is. I think it
was called Connie. I love it was called the double Down.
It was like two fried chickens.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Chicken fried chickens were the bread, right, and then was
it a cheese and a bacon in the cheese and
a cheese.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I like that like a Somalia a.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Cheese, a cheese from the year twenty sixty five is
somehow in the middle of it, and then a shard
of bacon and it was, Yeah, it was great, you know,
made a fun dusty but yeah, no, that was the
only time I've ever I think, had like a food challenge.
And then there's like off menu things where when I
(06:39):
was in Cincinnati, they do a thing where they take
a pizza and then wrap like a chili bowl that
you can eat or something in the or it's some
sort of chili and wrap a chili bowl that you
can take. The best way to describe that, no, it is, I.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Don't know what you're describing.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Whatever you just said, you take, you're describing you it's
a huge slice of pizza, so that's like the tortilla.
So it's basically that's the burrito outside.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I can't talk anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
And then there's some disgusting thing in the middle of it.
Maybe it's like a chili dog and then you eat that.
And I was attempted to do that. Yeah, yeah, but
I had to do stand up that night.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
But Cincinnati is avant garde in the chili arts.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yes, they really pushed the push boundaries. They really have,
did you.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
By the way, see Tom Cruise eating This is what
we talked about this on trending. I don't give a fuck. Okay, people,
there's not that much news. We're gonna talk about handcuffs
or off. Did you watch Tom Cruise eating popcorn? Because
I was just about to say the place where I
get my like junk food binges out of my system
is usually going to the movies. It's like that's when
I will eat you know, a full day is worth
(07:52):
of calories and just popcorn and Sara Patch kids. But
I don't eat the popcorn by uh throwing a fastball
one at a time of the popcorn at my face
the way that Tom Cruise does.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
There are people who are just so tightly wound that
you would say like, oh, yeah, of course that's how
that guy eats popcorn. Where I've even seen it where
my wife will like take a video of me without
me knowing, of just me sitting and like my like
like fist is clenched for some reason. I like watching
a TV and it's like, what is going on in
(08:29):
that guy's life? And it's going on up there, buddy, Yeah,
that guy's got to go back to therapists.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
But with your life, then like print it out and
like kind of circle it for you and be like right,
you seem like you're holding an attension.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Right here where your knuckles are turning bright white, and
then right here where.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
The thing that you're holding in your hands just disintegrated
into dusk. I have been like stressed out while eating
something with a plastic fork and broken the snap the
fork in half, and then snapped it in half a
second time, like this, the shorter thing that seems like
it would be structurally impossible to Yeah, and managed to
(09:12):
snap that in half, because yeah, sometimes I'm a bit
tightly wound.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Yeah, And you know what, it gets flagged and I
work on it, and then I forget, and then it
happens again.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
It gets flagged by my CEO, the chairman of the board.
In my heart, she says, uh FYI, let's let's take
a second look at this.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
So this sucks to be around, So work on it,
please if you want this to continue your marriage. But no,
I did watch the video and he is, like you said,
throwing reverse fastballs into his month. He's I would say,
violently eating popcorn.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, and just strike after strike though that just going boom.
But he also yeah, shamed somebody for eating all their
popcorn before the movie started, which how dare you if
you're gonna be a fan of If he's supposed to
be the like ambassador to movies, like, don't be shaming
people for what they do in the privacy of their
movie seat.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
God, yeah, I do that, by the way, every time
I go to the movies. Yeah, polish went off.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yeah, Oh, you're a human being, unlike Tom Cruise, who's
a fucking alien who just manages to Yeah, that's the sound.
It makes the sound of a fucking rifle recoiling every
time he needs a piece of popcorn.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
The Colonel's rattling off his vig ears sound like just
bullets hitting the side of like a cyber truck.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Other movie news, So, by the way, we're supposed to
have our biggest film going weekend at the we're here
in Baffo for the.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Box office this weekend.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I'm not predicting big things for the Mission Impossible movie,
but my my touch on box office predictions hasn't been
great lately. But I just feel like the last one,
the last Mission Impossible movie, was a box office disappointment,
and this one is like getting worse reviews than that one.
(11:13):
So I'm curious if if it's gonna fall through or
if people were just like, oh, this is part one
of a two part movie.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Like maybe fuck off with that. Well, we'll see.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
But then Lelo and Stitch the live action is coming
this weekend, which is probably the one I'll end up
going to see, though I still haven't fucking seen Sinners,
and I will be that swearing under my breath the
whole time I'm taking my kids to be like, I
haven't even seen Sinners and I'm watching this bullshit.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
God damn, I'm wanna laugh at Tim Robbinson. I haven't
seen that one either.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I did see Friendship and it's great, great, it's so fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
ily recommend. But other film news, besides the baf O
bio that we were hoping for to help save the
film industry is the Skippity Toilet movie. We so we
talked before about how this was in the works and
(12:09):
that Michael Bay was loosely attached, but it's all it's
like one of those things that I don't know, like
there's they always announce a movie project and then like
nothing really like ever comes of it. It's like, oh, yeah,
you know, they were supposed to do, uh you know,
a slat bracelet movie, you know what I mean, like
(12:31):
just like some trend and then it doesn't really make sense,
and you never hear of it again.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
The Skippity Toilet movie is in.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Production and Michael Bay is directing a Skibbity Toilet being
the like YouTube franchise that started with just like a
an unnerving guy's head and a toilet yeah, and then
it's just like, yeah, it's like a weird thing that
almost feels like it was designed to make people. Like
(13:01):
my first read on it being an elder millennial, like,
my first read on was like, oh, this is like
a thing that's like, you know, just designed to make
people be like, hah, I have a thing that like
weirds my parents out, and it's so weird and unnerving.
And then you like look at like I assumed the
first video in the series would be the most popular video.
(13:24):
It's like they have like fifteen minute long like epic
sagas where like TV head guys versus toilet heead guys
are like fighting one another in a dystopian future and
there's all sorts of lure and stuff. So this is
just you know, we're rocketing into a future that no
longer makes sense to my brain. This is the world
(13:47):
that will be going on around me as I slough
off this mortal coil forty years from now.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
I wish I still didn't know about this. Like I
didn't know about this until you just brought it up,
and then I looked at it. I'm like, this is
this blows. I hate this. And that's not a comment
on whatever artistic angle anyone's taking it. I just I
hate I hate whatever this is.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I hate.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
It's not for me, and I hate it. My parents
probably hated it. Their parents probably hated it. Yeah, there's
a long line. Yeah, my genetics aren't made up to
watch whatever the hell this.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Is how we feel about this is like how like
forty something people felt about, like the Beatles in the sixties. Yeah, well,
this is just being done to make us feel uncomfortable.
Nobody can actually like the way this sounds. This is
like Elvis moving his hips for me. I can't and
you're still uncomfortable with that with Elvis movings. Yeah, you
(14:44):
like a more leg locked Elvis. I want you like
him to do like Lurch. Yeah, I want an FDR
style Elvis.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Just laving his hands on his lap with the blank
flas exactly. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
And we're back and we we have managed to not
cover any news thus far.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
It's it's the end of the week, guys. What can
I say? It's the best. It's the end of the
end of the week.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
R I p the US penny. We will say that
is a news story that's happening. The Treasury Department UH
will reportedly stop producing the penny next year, at the
behest of Donald Trump, who called them wasteful. I think correctly,
He's probably not wrong about this. Other countries have you know, Canada,
our superior neighbor to the north, who you know, has
(15:50):
better ideas for cheeseburgers this now than us. All of
a sudden, uh, they got rid of their penny. Norway,
New Zealand, Finland, Australia and the Netherlands have transitioned to
a penny free state. And it sounds glorious. The penny
does have some defenders, though, this group called Americans for
(16:10):
Common Sense like that, and it's run by a lobbyist
for the zinc industry. Fantastic, I love it. What a
bad country And then sesame Street. This was news earlier
this week, but after being screwed over by the Trump administration,
(16:31):
David Zaslov and all those letters and numbers that never
paid a dime for their sponsorship deals. Sesame Street has
finally found a way to pay the bills by moving
to Netflix, and Netflix kind of I don't know, somehow
did something cool. They won't be exclusive to subscribers, Like
(16:51):
the episodes will air on PBS on the same day
that they drop on Netflix, whereas with HBO, new episodes
like came to PBS like months after premiering on cable,
which like didn't seem like that big a deal to
me because I don't feel like I don't feel like
Sesame Street is super topical.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Right, I up to date a big bird coverage on
the tariffs. That's right. How they're being rolled back and
frozen and then rolled back out again.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yeah, the number of this week, well that was the
week like five weeks ago. I don't know what the
number of the week actually is. This is funny bullshit.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yeah, that is good that they're letting it air. I
love that.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I feel like, on the one hand, it's like, you know,
a good thing that they're doing. On the other hand,
I feel like Netflix is so far from feeling like
they're competing with PBS in any way, you know, any
sort of cable in any way, because they're just like yeah, no,
like it's we're we're a totally different universe, and nobody
who has Netflix watches PBS. It's the least they could do,
(17:53):
like literally the least they could do, the very least.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah. Yeah. Also, like this just like this should be
a fucking public service. It's so frustrating to me.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Like the statement for the like with the announcement, like
talked about how they think communities across the US should
continue to have free access on public television to the
Sesame Street they love and like mentioned that it's like
research The Sesame Street Workshop is excited to bring our
(18:22):
research based curriculum to young children around the world. Like
that nothing has ever been more clearly something that should
be a public service, you know, like research based children's
entertainment as opposed to like all of the slop that
is being just dumped into children's minds via like YouTube
(18:43):
that's just like, hey, kids, eyes light up when you
like show them a frog that has a dick that
does a remix of a like popular eighties hit. That's
a real thing, like the Crazy Frog. Do you know
the crazy Frog song from years and years ago.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
I don't think I I probably do there anyways, there
there are multiple iterations of that dick.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah, the frog just like started like showing up with
a dick and balls like.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
In later videos like great, yeah, market research.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Hey, it just the kid's eyes like lit up, and
so we have to keep going in that direction.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah, no, I I know if I saw Frog with
the dick, I would just act like that's normal, and
my heart rate would not change whatsoever in my eyes
would just it's funny. I totally agree with you that
that that Sesame Street should be a public service, and
yet the last hands in the world I would want
Sesame Street in is this current administration. So it's like,
(19:42):
oh cool, like Zaslob and Netflix are you know, they
look like the Knights and shining Armor compared to these people.
So it's just like, all right, well, don't you just
take care of it for a little while and then
hopefully you know, the government can yeah, if it ever
gets right again. Yeah, it's I mean, so it's run
by a nonprofit and the Sesame Street Workshop, and they
(20:03):
like laid off a bunch of employees last year. They
claimed it was due to the company's financial difficulties, but
it suspiciously happened immediately after more than two hundred employees
announced their plans to unionize. Like literally, they were having
a block party celebrating the unionization effort, and then they
were like like received an email it was like, hey,
(20:24):
we have a zoom meeting coming up that you should
come attend that I think like the subject line transition plan.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
And then we're told.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
That they were being laid out, like one hundred of them,
and yeah, so I don't know, maybe now that they're
flush with all that cash, they will hire the employees back.
I mean, Sesame Street Workshop also has a rainy day
fund that reported net assets of four hundred and thirty
nine million dollars for the end of twenty twenty three,
and none of that was touched and instead they fired
(20:58):
hundreds of employees. But the good news is that despite
you know, those efforts, Sesame Workshop were successful in certifying
their union a couple of weeks ago, voting seventy four
percent in favor of joining the ope i U Local
one fifty three. So I don't know, it's it's a mess.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
But yeah, it's never all good. It's usually not good
at all, but exactly.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
There's like slight silver linings though yeah, yeah, I don't know.
They did all sorts of like shady boilerplate union busting shit,
and obviously, like you know, Sesame is read is good
about teaching children about literacy and vampires with OCD, but
they actually don't have a great record on labor rights.
(21:48):
Lest we forget the time that Oscar the Crouch became
a scab during the nineteen seventy five New York City
sanitation worker strike, residents of Sesame Street just tricked us
the Crouch and do becoming a scab because they were like, well,
you like garbage, why don't you help us collect all
this trash and take it to the dump.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
That's your favorite place.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
So you know, we should have known back then that
Sesame Streets up to no good.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I don't blame Oscar for that, by the way, Like
you dangle some trash in front of that guy like that,
They knew what number to dial up to get that
guy to scab, So yeah, I'm sure I'm sure he
regrets it.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
That's right, all right. Those are some of the things
that are trending on this Thursday. May twenty second. We
are back tomorrow with the whole ass episode of the
show Blake. Where can people find you, follow you, go
see you all that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah, there's a whole ass.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
There's a humongous ass of an episode tomorrows Ass, massive
ass speaking of.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Apple Asses co hosting it.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
You'll see his charge.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Oh my god, oh boy, oh Jesus.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Brother at Blake, Lexlord social Media.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I'm gonna be in Philly doing stand up on August first.
I'm going to be in Philly doing stand up again
on August twenty second. I'm sure that won't affect the
audience to either shows, putting them so close together. And
then on August twenty ninth and thirtieth, I'm gonna be
in Wilkesberry, Pennsylvania, also doing stand up. But yeah atlic
Lexnor and social media. And this was fun. I'm on
(23:23):
the behind the Bastards. I'm on this week and next week.
I think what you guys talking about, you know we're
talking about Alost, said Carl Reiner. Bryan, motherfucker, Carl Reiner.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
No, it was Carl.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Schmidt, who was the basically the designer of fascism. And yeah,
Robert unbelievable. He breaks it down as he always does,
so it's really interesting.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Great, all right, well we are back tomorrow. Until then,
be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves. Get
the vaccine while you still can, get your vaccines, while
you still can't get your flush, you still can. Don't
do nothing about white supremacy.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
And we will talk to y'all tomorrow. While The Daily
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Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Trends
of Theseus.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
H It's like ship of Theseus.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
But if you break down the trends and put them
back together, are they still.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The same trends? Blake?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Is a question that I that one courtesy a vanadium
silver love love A nice ship theseus? O, God, God,
I know you are fucking love that so much love that.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hey man, it's like the ship with theseus. What am
I anymore? You know, Blake, I'm Jaz Broke. I'm stuck
like this now. I can't do anything else.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Man Friday, Man, Thursday, goddamn afternoon man, Brian, Hey, come
on man, anyways, Blake, Yes, long weekend coming.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You got the plans. What you're doing getting up on the.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Stages, entertaining the people's nah? You know, you know the
week memory real days, my sabbath. It's the one day
I take off a year, and and I'm taking it off.
So no stages, no podcasts, no no dance, just BBQ,
just b BQ.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Getting the getting the thighs out.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I'm gonna take these thighs out and just yeah, I
have special shorts that I wear for me. Yeah, the
flags they're made of flag. They are made of actual flags.
Yeah that I that I climb up the pole. That
I that's pre greased. Then I grabbed the flag off.
It's all wave.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Goes flags fell up? Is what is what the sailors
all say, it is what are you doing the same
exact thing I figured? Yeah, my flag shorts, climb up
the pole, waving the waving my booty around and getting
whistled at by sailors.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, I'm taking it easy man, he a little travel Hello,
Dan travel do man tired?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
It's just I don't know, you don't Jack?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Is this all your presidents in one impression? Is that
this basically w h W Biden? That's right, Yeah, well
just those three.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, my favorites.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Weird, weird taste for just like do nothing ship presidents
who are ye blandly genocidal anyway.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
That's the good type. Yeah, that's what. That's what I like.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
They don't seem to realize how evil they are. Blake,
we I don't stop talking about this unimportant stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
We got to talk about Wendy's. We got to talk
about Wendy's.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
There's a new cheeseburger that's been announced for Wendy's Canada,
and I'm pissed. This is okay, Like you know, Trump
was talking about, well, we're gonna make them the fifty
first state and all that. Razmataz. This is war. This
is the less straw they're taken. So they what they've
(03:05):
done is they've put grilled cheese sandwich on top, grilled
cheese sandwich on the bottom, and hamburger in between, cheeseburger,
chee burger in between.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And how it took this long to get here? I
will never know.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
If they steal this from us, Like how did these
Canadian food scientists steal American food scientist ideas and bring
it up north? That's what I'm wanting, because this is
not a Canadian idea. They're not smart enough to come
up with something like this. Yeah, yeah, no, this is
the sophisticated. There's a mole, there's a there's a weak
we got leak.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
This is the plot of the Late the Yeah, the
new mission of Possible movies coming out this weekend. Uh,
and this is the plot. How did Canada get the
idea for the most American food? I will say that
in description it sounds better than what is pictured. Even
in the like you know, fake photo where they're like,
(04:03):
this is the best that it could possibly look.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
It's they're still using Hamburger buns.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
It just looks like hamburger, but like it looks like
a grilled cheese sandwish that somebody made in the microwave.
You know. It doesn't have that like buttery crustiness to it.
So it's like, shit, yeah it does kind of look back.
Just use a different bread.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, you suck. Oh my god, this is the maddest
I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I'm grinding my teeth furious. I have a wake ap
near right now. I'm so pissed off about this. This
is infuriating. Do you ever eat shit like this? Like,
do you ever like the weird? Like, will you get
something like this? Or you just at the age now
where it's like, well, this is kind of ruin my month,
ruin my.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Whole day if I eat something like this. But yeah,
I do still sometimes, Like there's the occasional. It's usually
when I'm in charge of the kids. Yeah, Like I
did a I did a trip up to uh State
Park and you know, planned out lunch, packed a nice
little lunch for us, healthy lunch. Got out of the
(05:09):
park around six pm and was like, oh, no, we've
got we got three hours until right at home. Uh,
And so we we did some McDonald's and there was
a Taco bell nearby, so we did a bang bang
and uh it was you know, it was wonderful. It
was lovely. I got to introduce my children to taco bell.
(05:33):
But it's pretty it's pretty rare that I'm like off
on my own, just eating for for pure enjoyment and
without any regard for the future.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Right.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
The closest thing I've had this something like this is
KFC did some I think it's called the Double Down
or something, and.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Know it was called the Double Down, man, But brother,
I know what I said it is. I think it
was called Connie. I love it was called the double Down.
It was like two fried chickens.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Chicken fried chickens were the bread, right, and then was
it a cheese and a bacon in the cheese and
a cheese.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I like that like a Somalia a.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Cheese, a cheese from the year twenty sixty five is
somehow in the middle of it, and then a shard
of bacon and it was, Yeah, it was great, you know,
made a fun dusty but yeah, no, that was the
only time I've ever I think, had like a food challenge.
And then there's like off menu things where when I
(06:39):
was in Cincinnati, they do a thing where they take
a pizza and then wrap like a chili bowl that
you can eat or something in the or it's some
sort of chili and wrap a chili bowl that you
can take. The best way to describe that, no, it is, I.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Don't know what you're describing.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Whatever you just said, you take, you're describing you it's
a huge slice of pizza, so that's like the tortilla.
So it's basically that's the burrito outside.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I can't talk anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
And then there's some disgusting thing in the middle of it.
Maybe it's like a chili dog and then you eat that.
And I was attempted to do that. Yeah, yeah, but
I had to do stand up that night.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
But Cincinnati is avant garde in the chili arts.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yes, they really pushed the push boundaries. They really have,
did you.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
By the way, see Tom Cruise eating This is what
we talked about this on trending. I don't give a fuck. Okay, people,
there's not that much news. We're gonna talk about handcuffs
or off. Did you watch Tom Cruise eating popcorn? Because
I was just about to say the place where I
get my like junk food binges out of my system
is usually going to the movies. It's like that's when
I will eat you know, a full day is worth
(07:52):
of calories and just popcorn and Sara Patch kids. But
I don't eat the popcorn by uh throwing a fastball
one at a time of the popcorn at my face
the way that Tom Cruise does.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
There are people who are just so tightly wound that
you would say like, oh, yeah, of course that's how
that guy eats popcorn. Where I've even seen it where
my wife will like take a video of me without
me knowing, of just me sitting and like my like
like fist is clenched for some reason. I like watching
a TV and it's like, what is going on in
(08:29):
that guy's life? And it's going on up there, buddy, Yeah,
that guy's got to go back to therapists.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
But with your life, then like print it out and
like kind of circle it for you and be like right,
you seem like you're holding an attension.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Right here where your knuckles are turning bright white, and
then right here where.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
The thing that you're holding in your hands just disintegrated
into dusk. I have been like stressed out while eating
something with a plastic fork and broken the snap the
fork in half, and then snapped it in half a
second time, like this, the shorter thing that seems like
it would be structurally impossible to Yeah, and managed to
(09:12):
snap that in half, because yeah, sometimes I'm a bit
tightly wound.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Yeah, And you know what, it gets flagged and I
work on it, and then I forget, and then it
happens again.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
It gets flagged by my CEO, the chairman of the board.
In my heart, she says, uh FYI, let's let's take
a second look at this.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
So this sucks to be around, So work on it,
please if you want this to continue your marriage. But no,
I did watch the video and he is, like you said,
throwing reverse fastballs into his month. He's I would say,
violently eating popcorn.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, and just strike after strike though that just going boom.
But he also yeah, shamed somebody for eating all their
popcorn before the movie started, which how dare you if
you're gonna be a fan of If he's supposed to
be the like ambassador to movies, like, don't be shaming
people for what they do in the privacy of their
movie seat.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
God, yeah, I do that, by the way, every time
I go to the movies. Yeah, polish went off.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yeah, Oh, you're a human being, unlike Tom Cruise, who's
a fucking alien who just manages to Yeah, that's the sound.
It makes the sound of a fucking rifle recoiling every
time he needs a piece of popcorn.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
The Colonel's rattling off his vig ears sound like just
bullets hitting the side of like a cyber truck.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Other movie news, So, by the way, we're supposed to
have our biggest film going weekend at the we're here
in Baffo for the.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Box office this weekend.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I'm not predicting big things for the Mission Impossible movie,
but my my touch on box office predictions hasn't been
great lately. But I just feel like the last one,
the last Mission Impossible movie, was a box office disappointment,
and this one is like getting worse reviews than that one.
(11:13):
So I'm curious if if it's gonna fall through or
if people were just like, oh, this is part one
of a two part movie.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Like maybe fuck off with that. Well, we'll see.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
But then Lelo and Stitch the live action is coming
this weekend, which is probably the one I'll end up
going to see, though I still haven't fucking seen Sinners,
and I will be that swearing under my breath the
whole time I'm taking my kids to be like, I
haven't even seen Sinners and I'm watching this bullshit.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
God damn, I'm wanna laugh at Tim Robbinson. I haven't
seen that one either.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I did see Friendship and it's great, great, it's so fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
ily recommend. But other film news, besides the baf O
bio that we were hoping for to help save the
film industry is the Skippity Toilet movie. We so we
talked before about how this was in the works and
(12:09):
that Michael Bay was loosely attached, but it's all it's
like one of those things that I don't know, like
there's they always announce a movie project and then like
nothing really like ever comes of it. It's like, oh, yeah,
you know, they were supposed to do, uh you know,
a slat bracelet movie, you know what I mean, like
(12:31):
just like some trend and then it doesn't really make sense,
and you never hear of it again.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
The Skippity Toilet movie is in.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Production and Michael Bay is directing a Skibbity Toilet being
the like YouTube franchise that started with just like a
an unnerving guy's head and a toilet yeah, and then
it's just like, yeah, it's like a weird thing that
almost feels like it was designed to make people. Like
(13:01):
my first read on it being an elder millennial, like,
my first read on was like, oh, this is like
a thing that's like, you know, just designed to make
people be like, hah, I have a thing that like
weirds my parents out, and it's so weird and unnerving.
And then you like look at like I assumed the
first video in the series would be the most popular video.
(13:24):
It's like they have like fifteen minute long like epic
sagas where like TV head guys versus toilet heead guys
are like fighting one another in a dystopian future and
there's all sorts of lure and stuff. So this is
just you know, we're rocketing into a future that no
longer makes sense to my brain. This is the world
(13:47):
that will be going on around me as I slough
off this mortal coil forty years from now.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
I wish I still didn't know about this. Like I
didn't know about this until you just brought it up,
and then I looked at it. I'm like, this is
this blows. I hate this. And that's not a comment
on whatever artistic angle anyone's taking it. I just I
hate I hate whatever this is.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I hate.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
It's not for me, and I hate it. My parents
probably hated it. Their parents probably hated it. Yeah, there's
a long line. Yeah, my genetics aren't made up to
watch whatever the hell this.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Is how we feel about this is like how like
forty something people felt about, like the Beatles in the sixties. Yeah, well,
this is just being done to make us feel uncomfortable.
Nobody can actually like the way this sounds. This is
like Elvis moving his hips for me. I can't and
you're still uncomfortable with that with Elvis movings. Yeah, you
(14:44):
like a more leg locked Elvis. I want you like
him to do like Lurch. Yeah, I want an FDR
style Elvis.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Just laving his hands on his lap with the blank
flas exactly. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
And we're back and we we have managed to not
cover any news thus far.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
It's it's the end of the week, guys. What can
I say? It's the best. It's the end of the
end of the week.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
R I p the US penny. We will say that
is a news story that's happening. The Treasury Department UH
will reportedly stop producing the penny next year, at the
behest of Donald Trump, who called them wasteful. I think correctly,
He's probably not wrong about this. Other countries have you know, Canada,
our superior neighbor to the north, who you know, has
(15:50):
better ideas for cheeseburgers this now than us. All of
a sudden, uh, they got rid of their penny. Norway,
New Zealand, Finland, Australia and the Netherlands have transitioned to
a penny free state. And it sounds glorious. The penny
does have some defenders, though, this group called Americans for
(16:10):
Common Sense like that, and it's run by a lobbyist
for the zinc industry. Fantastic, I love it. What a
bad country And then sesame Street. This was news earlier
this week, but after being screwed over by the Trump administration,
(16:31):
David Zaslov and all those letters and numbers that never
paid a dime for their sponsorship deals. Sesame Street has
finally found a way to pay the bills by moving
to Netflix, and Netflix kind of I don't know, somehow
did something cool. They won't be exclusive to subscribers, Like
(16:51):
the episodes will air on PBS on the same day
that they drop on Netflix, whereas with HBO, new episodes
like came to PBS like months after premiering on cable,
which like didn't seem like that big a deal to
me because I don't feel like I don't feel like
Sesame Street is super topical.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Right, I up to date a big bird coverage on
the tariffs. That's right. How they're being rolled back and
frozen and then rolled back out again.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yeah, the number of this week, well that was the
week like five weeks ago. I don't know what the
number of the week actually is. This is funny bullshit.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yeah, that is good that they're letting it air. I
love that.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I feel like, on the one hand, it's like, you know,
a good thing that they're doing. On the other hand,
I feel like Netflix is so far from feeling like
they're competing with PBS in any way, you know, any
sort of cable in any way, because they're just like yeah, no,
like it's we're we're a totally different universe, and nobody
who has Netflix watches PBS. It's the least they could do,
(17:53):
like literally the least they could do, the very least.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah. Yeah. Also, like this just like this should be
a fucking public service. It's so frustrating to me.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Like the statement for the like with the announcement, like
talked about how they think communities across the US should
continue to have free access on public television to the
Sesame Street they love and like mentioned that it's like
research The Sesame Street Workshop is excited to bring our
(18:22):
research based curriculum to young children around the world. Like
that nothing has ever been more clearly something that should
be a public service, you know, like research based children's
entertainment as opposed to like all of the slop that
is being just dumped into children's minds via like YouTube
(18:43):
that's just like, hey, kids, eyes light up when you
like show them a frog that has a dick that
does a remix of a like popular eighties hit. That's
a real thing, like the Crazy Frog. Do you know
the crazy Frog song from years and years ago.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
I don't think I I probably do there anyways, there
there are multiple iterations of that dick.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah, the frog just like started like showing up with
a dick and balls like.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
In later videos like great, yeah, market research.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Hey, it just the kid's eyes like lit up, and
so we have to keep going in that direction.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah, no, I I know if I saw Frog with
the dick, I would just act like that's normal, and
my heart rate would not change whatsoever in my eyes
would just it's funny. I totally agree with you that
that that Sesame Street should be a public service, and
yet the last hands in the world I would want
Sesame Street in is this current administration. So it's like,
(19:42):
oh cool, like Zaslob and Netflix are you know, they
look like the Knights and shining Armor compared to these people.
So it's just like, all right, well, don't you just
take care of it for a little while and then
hopefully you know, the government can yeah, if it ever
gets right again. Yeah, it's I mean, so it's run
by a nonprofit and the Sesame Street Workshop, and they
(20:03):
like laid off a bunch of employees last year. They
claimed it was due to the company's financial difficulties, but
it suspiciously happened immediately after more than two hundred employees
announced their plans to unionize. Like literally, they were having
a block party celebrating the unionization effort, and then they
were like like received an email it was like, hey,
(20:24):
we have a zoom meeting coming up that you should
come attend that I think like the subject line transition plan.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
And then we're told.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
That they were being laid out, like one hundred of them,
and yeah, so I don't know, maybe now that they're
flush with all that cash, they will hire the employees back.
I mean, Sesame Street Workshop also has a rainy day
fund that reported net assets of four hundred and thirty
nine million dollars for the end of twenty twenty three,
and none of that was touched and instead they fired
(20:58):
hundreds of employees. But the good news is that despite
you know, those efforts, Sesame Workshop were successful in certifying
their union a couple of weeks ago, voting seventy four
percent in favor of joining the ope i U Local
one fifty three. So I don't know, it's it's a mess.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
But yeah, it's never all good. It's usually not good
at all, but exactly.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
There's like slight silver linings though yeah, yeah, I don't know.
They did all sorts of like shady boilerplate union busting shit,
and obviously, like you know, Sesame is read is good
about teaching children about literacy and vampires with OCD, but
they actually don't have a great record on labor rights.
(21:48):
Lest we forget the time that Oscar the Crouch became
a scab during the nineteen seventy five New York City
sanitation worker strike, residents of Sesame Street just tricked us
the Crouch and do becoming a scab because they were like, well,
you like garbage, why don't you help us collect all
this trash and take it to the dump.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
That's your favorite place.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
So you know, we should have known back then that
Sesame Streets up to no good.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I don't blame Oscar for that, by the way, Like
you dangle some trash in front of that guy like that,
They knew what number to dial up to get that
guy to scab, So yeah, I'm sure I'm sure he
regrets it.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
That's right, all right. Those are some of the things
that are trending on this Thursday. May twenty second. We
are back tomorrow with the whole ass episode of the
show Blake. Where can people find you, follow you, go
see you all that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah, there's a whole ass.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
There's a humongous ass of an episode tomorrows Ass, massive
ass speaking of.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Apple Asses co hosting it.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
You'll see his charge.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Oh my god, oh boy, oh Jesus.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Brother at Blake, Lexlord social Media.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I'm gonna be in Philly doing stand up on August first.
I'm going to be in Philly doing stand up again
on August twenty second. I'm sure that won't affect the
audience to either shows, putting them so close together. And
then on August twenty ninth and thirtieth, I'm gonna be
in Wilkesberry, Pennsylvania, also doing stand up. But yeah atlic
Lexnor and social media. And this was fun. I'm on
(23:23):
the behind the Bastards. I'm on this week and next week.
I think what you guys talking about, you know we're
talking about Alost, said Carl Reiner. Bryan, motherfucker, Carl Reiner.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
No, it was Carl.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Schmidt, who was the basically the designer of fascism. And yeah,
Robert unbelievable. He breaks it down as he always does,
so it's really interesting.
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Great, all right, well we are back tomorrow. Until then,
be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves. Get
the vaccine while you still can, get your vaccines, while
you still can't get your flush, you still can. Don't
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