Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Speaker 1: trend Body Problem or just trend.
Speaker 2: Is there the on the front of it?
Speaker 3: Not on the TV show? No, No, it's just it's
Speaker 3: just trend Body Problem.
Speaker 2: Trend Body Problem is the name of the show on Netflix.
Speaker 2: I feel like it would have been on HBO on
Speaker 2: a previous lifetime, but.
Speaker 3: I feel like it should have been you know.
Speaker 1: Reasons, reasons. My name is Jack. That over there is Brian,
Speaker 1: the editor. His last name is the editor. Yes, and
Speaker 1: these are some of the things that are trending. I
Speaker 1: mean the three Body Problem, three Body Problem is trending.
Speaker 2: That show is now out.
Speaker 3: I think it was at least briefly number one on
Speaker 3: the Netflix what can laughingly be referred to as.
Speaker 1: Charts the charts, but briefly number one does not hit
Speaker 1: make They've definitely been canceling some shows that were briefly
Speaker 1: number one, So.
Speaker 2: Honestly, yeah, I kind of loved doing that ship.
Speaker 3: I loves canceling. It's a popular show after the first season.
Speaker 2: I have not seen it yet.
Speaker 1: I have read the first two and a half books
Speaker 1: of the trilogy. I've read, I've gotten into the third
Speaker 1: one and just lost moment the yeah, momentum, I'll say
Speaker 1: the whole word. I lost the whole damn word of momentum.
Speaker 2: Have you read did you read the whole trilogy?
Speaker 3: I read, I read the whole series and part of that,
Speaker 3: part of that fan fic that came out after. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's it's a doozy. I have opinions. It's not it's
Speaker 3: not not perfect series, but man, the the high concept
Speaker 3: sci fi is top notch. Characters not so much, but yeah,
Speaker 3: good stuff. If you like sci fi.
Speaker 2: The show follows through your expectation.
Speaker 3: The show is a So I started watching the tencent version.
Speaker 3: They made a Chinese TV adaptation, and it's like the
Speaker 3: season is like thirty episodes and it's just covering the
Speaker 3: first book, and I have almost no patience for that,
Speaker 3: like something that's so drawn out, and I'm like, I
Speaker 3: might as well watch fucking anime if I'm gonna do that.
Speaker 3: But this this is a little more you know, palatable
Speaker 3: as far as like length. It's eight episodes, which is
Speaker 3: difficult to adapt. It's already difficult to adapt a book
Speaker 3: or a series. But yeah, I think they made some
Speaker 3: smart choices and you know, in adapting it for a
Speaker 3: Western audience who probably hasn't read the books or is
Speaker 3: even into like hard sci fi. You know, they added
Speaker 3: a little bit of character to it. They presented all
Speaker 3: the elements that you need to be aware of going forward.
Speaker 3: They set up the stuff they needed to set up,
Speaker 3: and I think it was pretty smartly done. Yeah, it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, I feel like it could have done with
Speaker 3: a little more budget or time, but.
Speaker 2: Little XO a little less Netflix.
Speaker 3: It looks like a Netflix show, Netflix in this current
Speaker 3: era where they don't really actually have the money to
Speaker 3: be dumping like a shit zillion dollars into each project
Speaker 3: like they did five six years ago. But it's it's
Speaker 3: effective that that's all I'll say. It's effective at getting
Speaker 3: the the concepts across. But it's obviously not a book.
Speaker 3: You know, there's gonna be some some simplifications and some
Speaker 3: some things left out. But it's definitely worth a watch.
Speaker 3: I burned through it over the weekend. It's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Nice, all right, Well that's a pre I we'll probably
Speaker 1: eventually watch it and covered on the show.
Speaker 2: But it's cool show.
Speaker 1: Definitely as somebody who's interested in, like, you know, possibilities
Speaker 1: of first contact. It has an interesting, some interesting ideas
Speaker 1: on what that could look like.
Speaker 3: Some yeah, some pants shittingly interesting ideas.
Speaker 2: Sometimes yeah yeah, yeah, they're not nice. They're not nice.
Speaker 2: It turns out all right. Other things that are trending.
Speaker 1: Another mega candidate or Republican candidate, I guess, I don't
Speaker 1: know if they were explicitly mega, but a Republican candidate
Speaker 1: lost a special election in al Alabama to quote Forrest
Speaker 1: Gump in Bama.
Speaker 2: In Bama.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so some people are concerned about that and think
Speaker 1: maybe this is sign of things to come.
Speaker 2: They did.
Speaker 1: The Democrats successfully made the election about abortion, though one
Speaker 1: could argue the Republicans successfully made the election about abortion
Speaker 1: by overturning Row. But it's uh, yeah, it continues to be.
Speaker 1: The Republicans continue to have that problem of their values
Speaker 1: being wildly unpopular. You know, as we talked about with
Speaker 1: Sarah Marshall, the pro life movement is pretty young, and
Speaker 1: it rests on a foundation of dust.
Speaker 2: There's not a whole lot there.
Speaker 3: They have a real boner for taking the same l
Speaker 3: over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: And it's the only thing that gives them a boner. Weirdly, yeah,
Speaker 1: unfortunately for them, which is another part of the problem. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they can only get weird boners, they can't get normal ones.
Speaker 1: That that makes a matt makes an old guy angry.
Speaker 1: All right, Harvard is getting rid of its book bound
Speaker 1: in human skin.
Speaker 2: This is one of those stories that they woke man.
Speaker 2: This is one of those stories that just pisses me off.
Speaker 2: You can't even.
Speaker 3: Find a book in human skin anymore without these fucking
Speaker 3: di initiatives.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they probably shouldn't have announced this. They probably should
Speaker 1: have just done it maybe a century ago.
Speaker 3: This is a streisand effect type thing where I'm like,
Speaker 3: I didn't even know you guys had books bound in skin, but.
Speaker 1: Well they had to put it in the most like
Speaker 1: corporate speak possible by being like, what did they say?
Speaker 1: After careful study, stakeholder engagement, and consideration, Harvard Library in
Speaker 1: the Harvard Museum Collections Returns committee concluded that the human
Speaker 1: remains used in the books binding no longer belong in
Speaker 1: the Harvard Library Collections that.
Speaker 3: Is inhuman All you have to say is, yo, what
Speaker 3: the fuck is this book? This is real?
Speaker 2: What the exists?
Speaker 3: Special leather.
Speaker 1: Origin story of the book is that somebody wrote a
Speaker 1: book about souls. A doctor friend of theirs then quote
Speaker 1: bound the book with skin from the body of an
Speaker 1: unclaimed female patient who had died of natural causes. Who
Speaker 1: knows what their definition of a female patient dying of
Speaker 1: natural causes was at that time, but his reasoning was
Speaker 1: a book about the human soul deserved to have a
Speaker 1: human covering. Alternate perspective on that might be then a
Speaker 1: book about the human soul might deserve a covering that
Speaker 1: isn't an affront to all laws of the human soul
Speaker 1: and like horror movie logic and ethics and humanity. That's
Speaker 1: I don't know, or you could say, well, a book
Speaker 1: about human souls, so you got to have human skin
Speaker 1: on it. Just a weird, weird perspective from somebody.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, it's it's particularly ghoulish. And I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm guessing this person didn't have a whole lot of
Speaker 3: like friends or anybody around him to tell him that
Speaker 3: that's weird and you probably shouldn't bind books in human leather. No,
Speaker 3: it's what do you think human leather feels like?
Speaker 1: I'm guessing it's like, hmm, waxy is what I is.
Speaker 1: How I've been imagining it since I've been reading about
Speaker 1: this story like waxy and dry, and.
Speaker 3: Do you think they have to like moisturize it periodically.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like a lot of the sarave.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like, hey, go loop up the special so we.
Speaker 1: Gotta lotion this bitch down. Yeah, it's just such a
Speaker 1: so Harvard's been sitting on this one for a while.
Speaker 1: They in twenty fourteen they confirmed that the book was
Speaker 1: bound in human skin, uh, and have now decided no
Speaker 1: longer belongs the library.
Speaker 2: It's it's just so like harfect question, So is this
Speaker 2: is this.
Speaker 3: A book that you can go to the library and
Speaker 3: and take out as a like a student or whatever
Speaker 3: the fuck like one of their private Is this in
Speaker 3: the private.
Speaker 2: Collect private stock?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, like like the library that they have
Speaker 3: at the Vatican where it's like, oh, we have all
Speaker 3: these books, but no one can fucking see them.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: This is just for people coming to the Harvard Collection museum,
Speaker 1: the Harvard Museum collections, and also for people presumably and
Speaker 1: like the secret Harvard fraternities that like do summoning spells
Speaker 1: and jack off into the skull of Geronimo or whatever,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever the Harvard equivalent. I think that was
Speaker 1: Yale or Princeton that Jack's off in like next to
Speaker 1: the dead body of Geronimo. But I you know, Harvard
Speaker 1: probably has their own analogue of thing to Jack off
Speaker 1: into to just make sure that you're you're completely untethered
Speaker 1: by the bounds of good taste that the rest of
Speaker 1: us concern ourselves with, so that you know you're a
Speaker 1: real Harvard man. Anyways, Harvard said that their handling of
Speaker 1: the book was often inappropriate, employing a sensationalistic, morbid, and
Speaker 1: humorous tone. So we don't we don't have the details
Speaker 1: on that just yet, but if they're coming out and
Speaker 1: being like, not only do we have this book bound
Speaker 1: in human skin, but we were like kind of like
Speaker 1: dicks about it. The way we referred to it and
Speaker 1: like talked about it, so our bad and we can
Speaker 1: move on correct.
Speaker 3: The way they talk about this, the words they have
Speaker 3: chosen to use are soap. But it's like we're now
Speaker 3: we're going to try and give the binding a respectful disposition. Yes,
Speaker 3: you mean regular binding. You're gonna bind it like a
Speaker 3: regular just like speak normal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everything is written like it is, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: being written by somebody by Harvard.
Speaker 2: If Harvard became a sentient. A.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the human remains will be given a respectful disposition
Speaker 1: that seeks to restore dignity to the woman whose skin
Speaker 1: was used. Yeah, Harvard, Harvard's got secrets that I'm sure
Speaker 1: we'll just you know, we'll hear about in the coming centuries.
Speaker 1: Uh and be like good God, the siege. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, Yeah, we'll be right back. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: seege Harvard. We'll be back after these messages, and we're back.
Speaker 1: And I think we mentioned at one point that Jerry
Speaker 1: Seinfeld is making his directorial debut with a movie about
Speaker 1: pop tarts, and I didn't quite know what that could mean,
Speaker 1: like what was that going to be? And then the
Speaker 1: trailer dropped for it, and I still don't know if
Speaker 1: my brain can quite wrap itself around what he's going
Speaker 1: for here, Like.
Speaker 2: What this movie is.
Speaker 1: It's like part one of those like movies like The Founder,
Speaker 1: but then it's also part like a Zucker Brothers like
Speaker 1: fantastical like slapstick comedy, but also it has like vibes.
Speaker 2: Of a Ron Howard Doctor Seuss movie, Like yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: Like this element of like whimsy and staginess to it
Speaker 3: that is really really I can't overstate how off putting
Speaker 3: the tone of.
Speaker 2: The film really feels weird.
Speaker 3: It's it's upsetting to me.
Speaker 1: He seems like this also feels related to me because
Speaker 1: so his origin story for this was, I was stuck
Speaker 1: at home watching endless sad faces on TV. I thought
Speaker 1: this would be a good time to make something based
Speaker 1: on pure silliness, and so we took my pop tart
Speaker 1: stand up bit from my last Netflix special, which we
Speaker 1: all loved and adored and.
Speaker 3: Watched and so I totally knew existed, yes, and.
Speaker 1: Exploded it into a giant, crazy comedy movie. I think
Speaker 1: I have seen his pop tart stand up bit, and
Speaker 1: it's like the shape is the same as the box.
Speaker 2: It's square.
Speaker 1: Like the fact that pop tarts are like tangular is
Speaker 1: seen as like weird by him. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: quite understand it, but anyways, it does feel like him
Speaker 1: being like hard.
Speaker 2: To look at all these sad faces on.
Speaker 1: TV just feels like it's coming from the same place
Speaker 1: as that Imagine video.
Speaker 2: Say that.
Speaker 3: I'm like, bro, you're so fucking out of with reality
Speaker 3: that Yeah, look, I mean, I guess I will give
Speaker 3: him just the like the modicum of grace here and say,
Speaker 3: like it will seem like it's coming from like a
Speaker 3: genuine place, But this is also a man who is
Speaker 3: completely out of touch with reality.
Speaker 1: It looks completely unhinged in the like and I mean
Speaker 1: that in the best way possible.
Speaker 3: Like it's got baz Lerman levels of unhingedness, but it's
Speaker 3: it's Jerry Seinfeld, who, despite being an actor for decades,
Speaker 3: has never gotten any better at it. And this is
Speaker 3: his directorial debut.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, I think he is a fine comedic
Speaker 1: act I've been watching real like signed rewatching old episodes
Speaker 1: of Seinfeld.
Speaker 3: I love Seinfeld the show. But he's not a good actor.
Speaker 1: No, he's not a good actor, but he's exactly as
Speaker 1: good as he needs to be for like some of
Speaker 1: the stuff that he's like written with Larry David. But
Speaker 1: so in this world, food mascots like the Quaker Oaths
Speaker 1: Guy and Snap Crackle and pop are real somehow, And
Speaker 1: we also see the pop tart testing process involves fatal explosions.
Speaker 1: There's at least one cgi anthropomorphic pop tart, although who knows,
Speaker 1: like that could be a dream sequence, as we've seen
Speaker 1: in snow Dogs and other films that promise a rapping kangaroo,
Speaker 1: say kangaroo jack, and then you know, uh, don't deliver
Speaker 1: on that. But this, this one seems completely unhinged, and uh,
Speaker 1: I'm just a strange.
Speaker 3: This smacks of private equity. Like, fuck, every single one
Speaker 3: of these movies going forward, I'm not going to engage
Speaker 3: with this like any like story they're just taking. They've
Speaker 3: literally run through every other like actual narrative based prop.
Speaker 3: They've made every fucking comic book a movie, and now
Speaker 3: they're doing fucking Bob Dylan and the Beatles and pop
Speaker 3: tarts and I'm not here for it at all.
Speaker 2: I'm here now.
Speaker 3: Look, I know you can't help yourself. I'm going to not.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's gonna pretend all this stuff doesn't exist,
Speaker 3: because yeah, like this is just I Like, I'm from La,
Speaker 3: I'm own many filmmakers and writers who are struggling to
Speaker 3: get to get their their actual original stories, and and
Speaker 3: this is what they've decided to do, uh instead, because
Speaker 3: it has like cultural cachet or something like people have
Speaker 3: heard of it, so it's woefully effective. I'll give them
Speaker 3: that it works. I've heard of pop tarts, so I'll
Speaker 3: go see this pop Tarts movie. I'm not blaming the people.
Speaker 3: I'm just like, this is gross by Ghostie. You will
Speaker 3: walk to your laptop and press play. This isn't even
Speaker 3: going on the server. I'm not Wow, No, I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm not entertaining this one. Iota yeah. Have but everybody
Speaker 3: else have.
Speaker 1: Fun with the pop tart movie, all right, everybody else
Speaker 1: have fun with drones. Door Dash has added drones to
Speaker 1: drone to livery to its menu in some places. So
Speaker 1: I haven't seen this anywhere. I feel like it's going
Speaker 1: to really be an upsetting experience the first time I
Speaker 1: see a drone, hear a drone, because you'll hear them
Speaker 1: before you see them, is what I'm told by people
Speaker 1: who've been attacked by them.
Speaker 3: Then you.
Speaker 1: The first time I hear a drone roaring through the
Speaker 1: sky to drop off like a basket of wings and fries,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be like even more upsetting than seeing a
Speaker 1: like fucking cyber truck on the street.
Speaker 2: It's just like, what this sucks? Right, Like this is
Speaker 2: gonna suck.
Speaker 3: The thing about like drone delivery in certain circumstances makes
Speaker 3: perfect sense, especially depending on the drone like rural areas
Speaker 3: you know, like you need like an insulin drop in
Speaker 3: the middle of fucking nowhere. God can be really effective
Speaker 3: like medical related things. But I'm like, this is just
Speaker 3: to like, I'm the logistics of flying this, you know,
Speaker 3: it's not it's not a little dji thing like it
Speaker 3: has to carry stuff, so it's gonna be pretty decently sized.
Speaker 3: It's going to be loud, and it's gonna be buzzing
Speaker 3: around under Like the FAA doesn't allow you to fly
Speaker 3: these things over four hundred feet, so it's gonna be
Speaker 3: relatively low to the ground.
Speaker 1: And I'm just dos of these coming down just Avenue
Speaker 1: New York City like it's maybe it won't maybe I
Speaker 1: don't know it just has anybody seen these, Like we
Speaker 1: have these like little wheelly guys that are like delivery
Speaker 1: bots that are, you know, always rolling around the streets
Speaker 1: of Los Angeles. You see them like probably once or
Speaker 1: twice a day. I've only pass them in my car.
Speaker 1: I haven't like had to walk past them. I feel
Speaker 1: like they just look so easy to kick over, you know.
Speaker 1: But I'd be curious to hear from anybody who has
Speaker 1: seen a drone delivery and just like what the experience
Speaker 1: is like what's the what's your impressionistic take of like,
Speaker 1: you know, seeing a door dash delivery drone like buzzing
Speaker 1: through the sky.
Speaker 3: Like I'm just trying to picture it because I've worked
Speaker 3: at like restaurants before, and I'm like, Okay, let me
Speaker 3: picture myself working at Chipotle and it's like, okay, I'm there,
Speaker 3: I'm making the fucking burrito and then I go out
Speaker 3: to like the helipad in the parking lot and look
Speaker 3: like I'm just like, how what are the nuts and
Speaker 3: bolts of this? How does this work in you know,
Speaker 3: a major city for something as trivial as like food,
Speaker 3: Like it makes a lot more sense for medical applications
Speaker 3: for like other things. But I'm just like people just
Speaker 3: flippantly ordering like onion rings and a milkshake. I'm like, yes,
Speaker 3: I don't know. It just seems like a lot when
Speaker 3: probably a scooter would suffice. But then you have to
Speaker 3: pay people. That's it. That's what this is all for,
Speaker 3: is they don't want to pay people to deliver this
Speaker 3: stuff because they have to like live, Yeah, but they're trying.
Speaker 1: They're trying, yeah, and it'll just be flying through the
Speaker 1: sky taking out birds, you know, like accidentally dropping, Like
Speaker 1: You'll just be walking down the street and a fry
Speaker 1: will like drop on your head.
Speaker 2: Like, I'm sure it's gonna be a very, very weird future.
Speaker 3: I would get inordinately excited for like a half a
Speaker 3: second if food started falling from the sky. I'm like, wait,
Speaker 3: it's happening.
Speaker 2: It's just it's happening.
Speaker 1: The cloudy with a chance of meatball. Yeah, I'm like
Speaker 1: cinematic uni, it's going down for real. Well that is
Speaker 1: what is trending on this Thursday afternoon. Thank you, Brian.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff.
Speaker 3: I'm on Twitter and Brian the editor and just go away.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, everybody, just go away. Stop at her people,
Speaker 1: all right, that's gonna do it until tomorrow. Be kind
Speaker 1: to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine,
Speaker 1: don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
Speaker 1: to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Fight bye.