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May 18, 2023 21 mins

In this edition of Trendy From The Block, Miles and super producer Becca discuss TikTok getting "banned" in Montana, Disney closing the Galactic Starcruiser experience, the Supreme Court ruling against the Warhol Foundation, Ron DeSantis' latest glut of anti-trans bills, the Dodgers uninviting the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from Pride Night, and Jennifer Lopez lamenting the hard life of her children!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everybody, and welcome to this special edition of Don't
Be fool By the Kids that I got. I'm still
I'm still trending from the block.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
That's a.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
That's A. That's that's Jay because we're gonna be talking
about Jo in a little bit. Uh. And I am
Miles and I'm joined here by Becca Ramos. How are you? Becca?

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Hello? Hello, I'm good.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Okay, were you naming there?

Speaker 3 (00:21):
I felt like you were moving.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
A bit of a like a single lady.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
I'm always dancing, And I'm like, I don't.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Know, are you always dancing?

Speaker 4 (00:30):
Yeah, I'm just always moving like I'm always yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Right right. Your dynamic, your dynamic, your.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Mercury pumping all the time.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Well, good to have you. Let's talk about some of
the trends that are happening right this moment. Montana is
trending because Greg Greg yeah you know Greg over, Montana
Governor Greg jian Forte, who I believe body slammed a
politician many years ago in a previous campaign, anyway, has
banned TikTok in Montana. Now what that means?

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yeah, I don't even think they're really possible.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Apparently it's going to take effect in January, and it's
naming Tiktoka. They're basically prohibiting the app from operating within
state lines. So it also outlines potential finds off ten
thousand dollars per day for violators, including app stores found
to host a social media application. I don't know, like
how you're gonna I don't know recalate that, and many
more than that. It's like, how are you going to

(01:25):
win a lawsuit that doesn't that for this is clearly
like infringing on people's like First Amendment rights.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yeah, I just have so many technical questions of say
you are someone who resides outside of Montana, you happen
to visit Montana, let's say on a bachel atte party,
because it does seem like ladies are going to Montana lately.
You go, and so you're not allowed to use TikTok
while you're in Montana even if you don't live in Montana.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Like is there any person visiting Montana?

Speaker 4 (01:54):
And or is it like the Apple Store will restrict
downloads in Montana?

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Like it won't have it on the Apple Store?

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Of if you like you're asking you to make technical questions,
this is just a drum up sends Yeah, it's just
to keep the steady beat of you know, Chinese suspicion
going in the government because, as he even says, it's
to protect Montanans, uh, their data from the Chinese Communist Party.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Sure, man, good luck with that. Man, Like your kids
hate you, that's pretty much what's going on there. Uh so, yeah,
good luck with that. I mean, like that's already like
a can of worms, like when we were talking about
even when they were talking like they had the dumb
idea in Congress to do it's like how yeah. Also
like people like people are making a living off of
that ship. Yeah, what the fuck are you doing? So

(02:47):
we'll see. I mean again, it just feels like more
you know, more red red state, red meat, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
Yeah, even the mommy bloggers, you know, they're making i'd argue,
very exploitative money off of talk.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
So yeah, yeah, exactly. So let's see what else is trending.
The star Cruiser is trending. The Star Wars Galactic Star
Cruiser in Orlando is closing this fall sometime in September.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Now I'm collapsing to his knees right now.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Is your dad also a Star Wars manchild?

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Like me, Oh, one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
That's believe.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Can I take your dad?

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (03:26):
He would You're dad, okay cool because I know Dolly.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Kid himself, who is a Star Wars manchild. He would
love to go with you.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Just yeah. I mean because this is like to me,
I'm like, oh shit, the fucking clock is ticking because
I was like, oh shit, I want to do that.
I mean it's expensive. That's the only thing that I'm like, uh,
I don't.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
Know, Like, yeah, my parents went two years ago. It
was I think summer twenty twenty one, so they did
get the experience at least one more time before it
all ended.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh he's he's been on the star cruiser. He went
on the hotel thing.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Oh yeah, absolutely, I'll.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Dress up the whole time he was there. No board,
he didn't visit the whull time. Oh man, Uh yeah.
I mean he's not.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
That committed, you know, but he likes to go and
joy and take photos.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
I will say this. Holly, who hosts Stuff You Missed
in History Class, massive Star Wars fan. She describes herself
as a rabbid Star Wars fan. She says, I have rabies.
I think she's been on that ship like three times,
and every time I ask her, I'm like, yo, how little.
She's like, It's the best fucking place I've ever been.
And she dresses the fuck up. It's so weird. All
they're saying is like, we're closing it and we love

(04:31):
that we had this bespoke boutique experience and we were
going to apply what we've learned here to like other
experiences for people to know. Again, I'm like, I hate
when I become such like a hoe for Star Wars,
but I'm sorry, I want to live on a space ship.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
And I feel like they had a few because my
parents were a Disney family.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
I know, Sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Did you see that fight that happened at Disney? What
do you see that fight? That fistfight that broke out
where people want to take a picture in front of
like the little garden thing, like the little flower display.
You know, these people were scraping this one who beat
the brakes off another dad.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
Oh my god, no, my parents may go, or they
used to go, like every year every other year. It's
like the only family vacation we go on because my
dad hates traveling, so we always go to Disney. World,
and they do like the whole nine yards, like we
stand the property, we do the mail plan, we eat
at the restaurants.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
So you know, my parents are like all about this
kind of stuff.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
And I feel like they've had a couple of these
themed hotels that have been hit or missed, but I
feel like this is one of the ones that was
like it was a wait list to like get in
and like rent and yeah stuff. Because they have another
one that is over by Magic Kingdom. I don't remember
what that one is, and then they have like the
Polynesian right right, right, Yeah, So I'm shocked that they would,

(05:48):
after the anticipation of this star Cruiser to shut it down.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah, I mean it must, I'd imagine, knowing how businesses operate,
it's that they don't want to it's too expensive or something,
or it's not making enough money. But I can't believe
that because I feel like, again, there's whatever. I don't know,
unless you.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Think from a spectacle place, like they are transitioning to
more Marvel stuff and they might change it into a
Marvel hotel.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
I don't know why, Like you can still look, you
fucking capitalist, you can still make money off of us, literally,
we still throw our fucking dollars at you because we
want to pretend that we are fucking Han Solo and shit,
I don't know, man, I don't know. It's too much,
it's too much, too much zeigang. If you've been in

(06:34):
it's bullshit and underrated or overrated, let me know because
then that'll probably free me.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
My dad took pictures and he didn't stay at that one.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
They always stay at the one that is connected to
Epcot where they can like because they like that you
can take this little ferry to Hollywood Studios and oh yeah, yeah,
could walk to Epcot. Like it's the perfect location to
be the most central, I think to all of the
parks because it's like only a fifteen minute bus ride.
Too much Kingdom and obviously the uh Antal Kingdom is

(07:03):
the farthest way, but that's because it's like legitimately like
far away from everything.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, I don't remember which.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
One it is, because it's like Boardwalk or Broadway. There's
like it's on the Boardwalk one. They always stay there,
but I think they went and visited because you can
eat at the different restaurants. You know, there's a restaurant
in the Star cruisers, so they I think had reservations there,
so they like got it.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
I don't even think you can't even get a fucking
reservation now.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
Yeah, no, no, they stopped like after COVID and like
I think after my parents went that was the last
time that Disney's like customer experience is really good. Even
then my parents were like, we don't know if we're
going to go back to Disney for a while because
it was such a bad like customer experience. They had
taken away a lot of the privileges for people who
are loyal like Disney folks. I mean, we've talked about

(07:48):
in TDZ where they like, you spent all your money
going here, and now they're like having this expensive thing
for like the park passes, and like you can no
longer just like like get access to certain things up
paying an extra premium. They're not doing the meal plan anymore,
they're not doing reservations.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
It's just like a lot of stuff.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
All right, Well, it is what it is. It is,
you know whatever, whatever, I'll just I'll just get really
high and watch Star Wars or some shit. It'll be enough.
What else. The Supreme Court is trending because they've been
making some actually you know, decisions that make it seem
like people are onto them, that they are a fully
politicized body of bribe taking freaks. But this time they

(08:29):
came down on the right side of you know, the
photographer's copyright suit. So this is from a photographer by
the name of Lyn Goldsmith who took a picture of
print but Andy Warhol then use like that image to
make art and basically they ruled in Lyn Goldsmith's favor
this photographer seven to two that the that Warhol's images
did not constitute a fair use under copyright law. We

(08:51):
know about that as creators, you know, it's a transformative
et cetera. But this is going to reverberate through a
lot of creative industries because essentially what it's saying is like, yeah, man,
if you have copyrighted work and other people are trying
to like flip that shit, especially in the age of
AI and stuff, uh, you may be able to claim
some seek some damages there. So yeah, which is great.

Speaker 4 (09:12):
It's a great move I think for artists and creators.
Even though this is a case that is like from
the eighties question where I wonder what brought it to
the Supreme Court as of late or like, has it
been on the docket for that long?

Speaker 1 (09:26):
I don't know. It's probably just I wish I knew
how any of it worked. All I do is I
just make stuff up on the fly. I don't even
know who Clarence Thomas is. To be honest, I think
he's cool. I don't know. Uh, he's black, so he's cool. Right, No, folks,
oh no, he's not doing right. But oh no, wait wait,
skin folk and kinfolk, no please, Clarence, no, please, what

(09:48):
am I reading? Wait? I did a hole. I did
a hole behind the Bastards episode series on him. Yeah,
that's right, I remember now he sucks. Al Let's take
a quick break and we'll be right back to talk
about some other like one interesting thing and then two
psucky things. But I'm sorry, that's what's trying to We'll
be back back, and we're back. Let's start off actually

(10:16):
with Ronda Santis, because we were just talking about Disney
and Florida. Anyway, this man is on a tear of
anti LGBTQ bills right now. He went and signed like
a bill at like a liberal college, basically being like
man DEI is over in the state. Fuck it, it's illegal,
It's banned a few other terrible don't say gay bills,

(10:38):
and one of the worst transgender bathroom bills ever of
all time goes to Ronda Santis. The way this bill
is worded is that basically, if a CIS person is
in a bathroom with a transgender person and they they're like,
I don't know this person might be trans, an employee
can tell the transgender person to leave, and if the

(11:01):
person does not leave for any reason, they will be
charged with criminal trespass. This is like, it doesn't even work,
like what like essentially, it's like you can't even use
a bathroom if you're tramp. It's logic. It's absolutely fucking nonsense.
But again, he's on a tour right now because he's
really I don't again, because he's not like charismatic and

(11:24):
like he kind of looks dorky in pictures. He's trying
to go for full cruelty, full pain, as you know
how he's going to differentiate I guess from Trump. But
my god, like every every fucking bill that he signs
gets fucking worse and worse and worse, to the point
like when are you just gonna do like summary executions
in the strip.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
Yeah, I mean, and it's kind of the point. I mean, obviously,
it's been very much in the media of like Disney
battling Desantists right now, but an article as you were
talking about that just popped up of how Disney's shutting
down like a billion dollars worth of business in Florida
because of all DeSantis is bullshit. So you know, it's
like a weird battle that I'm glad Disney is fighting.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
You know, they could be doing more and others.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
But again, it's a bad situation, and you're like, who
do I root for? What the fuck? I feel like
Larry David in that Palestinian Chicken episode when I'm which,
who am what?

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Who?

Speaker 1 (12:25):
Why? Uh So? Yeah, I mean, oh my god, I
may may his reign last for not long? Please yeah,
get out of here. I mean, but it sounds like
a lot of democratic operatives are starting to feel a
little bit better about. You know, they're like potential for
wins in the States. I mean, I've seen those maps.
They are carved up and cut up against the odds.

(12:47):
But hey, whatever needs to happen, because I know it's
like like most states, you know, It's like it's not
everybody there is a DeSantis man. A lot of people
just fucking end up caught up in the fucking culture
wars that they're stupid ass governors to throw down because
they want to pump their little presidential peepees up before
they run for the primary.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, I mean it's the same.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
I would say Florida is in a similar boat as uh,
Texas has been with Greg Abbott for years and years
and years and years.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
There are a.

Speaker 4 (13:13):
Lot of people in Texas that are not his fucking
biggest fan, as they should not because he is absolute
fucking vile vitrial of Texas.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Again, it's like even too, like
I I know people live in Texas that are not
Abbot fans, and they're just kind of like, I don't
I this is fucked up, Like I don't even And now,
especially to a lot of people who you know latinx'
Hispanic people, they're like they the funk. They're like signing
bills that are trying to outlaw like brown people, like

(13:42):
do I should I live here? I don't know.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
He's actually horrifying for like to the level of the
santras Is for Florida for trans people. Greg Abbitt for
years has been terrorizing Texas.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Oh yeah, I mean think of how he just vilified
like those people who were killed by the guy who
was like shooting his gun. He's like, well they were
legal immigrants. Like wow. But again, they're they're speaking for
a rapidly dwindling audience of people, so you know, the
next step is just full scale fascism. What else The Dodgers.

(14:15):
I gotta say, La Dodgers, what in the fuck are
y'all doing? This is a fucking shame. It's a Shonda Rhymes,
the La Dodgers. On Wednesday, they're giving an award to
the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, which is like this group
of fundraising group LGBTQ activists. Like they dress up as like,
you know, sort of like campy Catholic figures and things

(14:37):
like this. But they're they do is they fundraise for
great causes. Uh, because of like the outrage of people
like Marco Rubio and they're like this is it. This
is an anti Catholic extremist group. And they they like
about indoctrinating your kids, et cetera, et cetera. You know,
like also you know, they're like a charity like drag group.
The Dodgers are removing them from their annual Pride night.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
That makes me sad.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
Because of fucking creep ass right wing pressure. This is
not fucking Florida, man, This is whatever I mean. I
wish I could say better about the owners of the team,
but that's clearly their decision and they felt it's not
worth it to us to I don't know, actually recognize
a group that's doing good simply because they're in drag
and you have enough fucking screaming Twitter avatars telling you

(15:24):
that this is bad, such a fucking bad look. And again,
like just on the heels of talking about Rohnda Santis,
like this is the time when if you have the
ability to do this to platform people or to align
yourselves with them, you should be doing it rather than
fucking caving to these these really really terrible people. Have
to put it lately, that's a euphemism. Really really terrible

(15:46):
people is a euphemism. That's the best I'm gonna do
right now. But yeah, so cool. We'll see what charity
or like what group they are going to replace for
like their sort of like community Hero Award which is
what the group, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were going
to receive. But yeah, we'll see what they do. Just
shows you, like, man, shit is going backwards. Me, it's sliding,

(16:09):
which is why we have to be very on top
of it as just like people to be able to
like call it out as soon as you can with
whatever voice we can. And then Jennifer Lopez is our
final trending topic. She she recently gave an interview about
how she is racked with guilt that her fame makes

(16:30):
her the life of her twins Max and Emmy just
so quote unquote hard, and she says, quote I did
that to them, which feels a little bit like you're
patting yourself on the back, and like that's how fucking
lit I am.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
My life is. My life is so good, I'm in
my kissler so hard.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
My brand is so fucking powerful that my kids are
like fucked up and miserable, and I feel bad for them,
you know, but I did that, you know how you
know me, I'm Jenny from the block. Shout out to
those kids, though, But I get it, she I overall,
it's more just like you know. The interview more reads
about like how she's just really as a parent, wants
to protect them, and like this is one thing because

(17:10):
being the twin children of Jlo and Mark Anthony, you know,
they got a lot of attention.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
I do wonder because I mean not that I am
following Jlo's social or anything like that or keeping like
super tabs with her. Besides like this stuff that goes
like incredibly viral. Yeah, I don't feel like her kids
are that much in the spotlight because me either not
to call Jayla or.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
Not Ja Loo, not to call Mark Anthony like a
deadbie debt.

Speaker 4 (17:37):
But he is a man who's had four ex wives,
who has six children, Okay, he is spreading his seed
far and wide, and is he that involved in all
his kids' lives right right? So it's not like they're
running on tour with Mark Anthony being bothered by Marc
Anthony's fame in life. Jlo I feel like, has so

(17:57):
many people on her team and she keeps it's a
pretty like low profile for her kids that I don't.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
I just I have a hard time imagining.

Speaker 4 (18:06):
Their kids' lives as hard as maybe like the psychological
terror that I'm worried about the Kardashians clan's children, you know,
right right right, Like, I'm like, what.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
Is North going to be like growing up?

Speaker 1 (18:17):
I don't know, Yeah, we don't know. I mean I
can only Matt. I don't know, man, I'll tell you this.
And I grew like I talk about this a lot,
like in the part of Vala I grew up in.
I know kids that were stars themselves as kids, and
I know kids who were the children of really famous people.
And sometimes, like some kids are able to be healthy

(18:40):
and have like their own way out of it. Sometimes
if you live under a shadow, it can do all
kinds of shit to your ability to like carve out
your own identity, and it can take you a very
long time trying to figure out who the fuck you
are because everybody's like your so and so's kid. And yeah,
I don't know. I mean I could see how it's tough.
But like at the end of the day, uh j
Loo did that, y'all did that? Yeah, that's what she said,

(19:03):
she said, I did that. I mean, like, it's just
so funny. Hell, Like, I love how that one line
is being like like and and I did that to
them by being so fucking famous, you know, what I mean,
I could have I could have stopped, but no, you
heard about I know and I and if the rumors
are true, I don't let the help look me in
my eye. And I did that to them too, And

(19:23):
I did that because I am that all right, j Lo,
you know, good for you. I'm glad. Uh, I'm glad
you did that though. Good luck to your kids, good
luck to them. Yeah, max Emmy, if you want to
come on the podcast, let us know. We'd love to
hear all the dirt or just you know, we can
just kind of have like a big open love fest
and just kind of we can we can be here
for you and here what's going.

Speaker 4 (19:44):
And there's still babies. They're not I think they're like
fourteen or something like that. They're pretty Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yeah, that is a weird. That is a tough age
though too, Like when people are like, yo, your mom
is fucking hot, Like can you imagine what people are saying?
You know what I mean, I don't know, or like
your dad's has creepy eyes.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
Your dad like really loves women. He's really just like
out here even I don't know.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah again, Max, E mean, call into the show. We'd
love to hear from you. Let us know do we
have it wrong because I'm look, I'm ignorant and I'm
wiving you know who? J Lo Yeah for are okay?
Let him know. Well, that's going to do it for
us today on the training episode will tell you what's
trending tomorrow obviously for that part, but we got a
whole episode coming up for you on Friday. Please enjoy

(20:34):
the rest of your Thursday and get ready for Friday,
because we're almost there and the weather looks great right now.
I love that, and I hope it is where you
are too. Until then, you know, be kind yourself, behind
each other, be safe, scientifically, medically, and stand up to
all kinds of discrimination. And that's including this damn fucking
homophobian transphobia that's running rough shot through the nation right now,

(20:56):
because it's it's nonsense, and I think most of us realize, like, well,
stop fucking around with our friends and neighbors, all right, y'all,
We will catch y'all later, and take care of yourself.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
Bye bye,

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