Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of trend
Speaker 1: Manuel Miranda. It's it's been a long time coming that
Speaker 1: we give lin Manuel Miranda his his flowers on this trending.
Speaker 1: I'm jack that over there. Well that is TDZ writer
Speaker 1: J M mcnap. No, not much. We spent about thirty
Speaker 1: minutes talking about lin Manuel Miranda and like just how
Speaker 1: like no one has ever gone from like people think
Speaker 1: he's cool to just like being transparently corny, like so quickly, um,
Speaker 1: in such a brief period of time. But I couldn't
Speaker 1: remember like how we got to that. We we started
Speaker 1: off at like as we were going through the trends
Speaker 1: talking about that his appearance on House. Were you a
Speaker 1: House fan? Jam, Yeah, I've seen it. I remember being one.
Speaker 1: I remember like people's parents watching it, but yeah I didn't.
Speaker 1: I know people loved Hugh Laurie, but I just remember
Speaker 1: thinking his American accents sounded kind of odd. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I might have to see it again, but I really
Speaker 1: want to watch this. I want to watch the lin
Speaker 1: Manuel Miranda ar so liman. Like at one point House
Speaker 1: becomes addicted to vicodins or percocets, uh, and he is
Speaker 1: like in a rehab that, like that show was for
Speaker 1: for being ostensibly a medical drama, had like the most
Speaker 1: basic ass like five year old understanding of how like
Speaker 1: medicine works, because like the house goes to like a
Speaker 1: psych word for his rehab and like li Manuel Miranda
Speaker 1: is like pathologically annoying, is like that seems to be
Speaker 1: what he suffers from. He's his roommate. Um. And he's
Speaker 1: also a rapper who like doesn't have his flow, like
Speaker 1: needs houses help to like get his flow back. Um
Speaker 1: and all very very embarrassed, like just so cringe, which
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it, but I'm a hundred percent sure
Speaker 1: someone gets cured with the power of music at some point.
Speaker 1: I believe he does have his flowback by the end. Um.
Speaker 1: But anyways, wrapped all the way around, we're looking for
Speaker 1: a sixth trend and lo and behold the Little Mermaid
Speaker 1: teaser dropped. Um. And I believe Li Manuel Miranda is
Speaker 1: adding raps to this one because like all children, I
Speaker 1: think he just got like first whack at all children's
Speaker 1: content that has been made over the past ten years.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know he's he's a little embarrassing, and
Speaker 1: maybe he's not doing his best work, but the amount
Speaker 1: of times like I've pacified screaming children with the Moana soundtrack,
Speaker 1: I feel like earns some kind of award that's not
Speaker 1: a Tony uh yes, but he yeah. He Also he
Speaker 1: also produced The Little Mermaid and uh, I guess he's
Speaker 1: he might be playing Chef Louis. It's like and like
Speaker 1: a testament to his character that he managed to stop
Speaker 1: himself from casting himself as Prince Eric, because that is
Speaker 1: like he is always putting himself in places in his
Speaker 1: productions where like Hamilton's. He made himself Hamilton's even though
Speaker 1: he was like the worst actor by far out of
Speaker 1: the bunch um and it showed. It was like all right.
Speaker 1: When I finally saw it, I was like, wait, why
Speaker 1: is nobody talking about the fact that he's like he's
Speaker 1: so bad and like not charismatic but like that, so
Speaker 1: we just kind of let it slide um great ways.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm not gonna sit here and pretend
Speaker 1: like I wasn't into Hamilton's when when it first came out,
Speaker 1: I was, I I am a horrible white like all
Speaker 1: the rest was into it. Well, also, he has become
Speaker 1: just like the Disney guy now it seems like because
Speaker 1: he was in like the Mary Poppins that was another
Speaker 1: like low bar kind of uh job because he cast
Speaker 1: he was like the chimney sweep kind of guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which and he didn't have a great accent, but it
Speaker 1: was still like, you know, the bar was Dick van
Speaker 1: Dyke the worst accents. Uh. So, anyways, we got the
Speaker 1: Little Mermaid teaser. I was very curious to see who
Speaker 1: they were going to put in the Prince Eric role
Speaker 1: because Prince Eric has always stood out to me as
Speaker 1: one of the least charismatic animated characters of all time.
Speaker 1: Like he for whatever reason, like he has like some
Speaker 1: real Pete samprasass energy, like and and he came out
Speaker 1: like Pete Sampras was like the the boring tennis star
Speaker 1: all like the boring answer to Andre Agacy, like in
Speaker 1: the early nineties, just like it's a it. But so
Speaker 1: it was a Little Mermaid. So I mean, you're gonna
Speaker 1: tell me you know the Little Mermaid, but you don't
Speaker 1: know Pete Sampras. Yeah, um, it's a real boring ass person.
Speaker 1: So I was curious what they were going to do
Speaker 1: with that, because yeah, I thought he looked kind of
Speaker 1: like a young Bob Sagga. He's definitely got some sag
Speaker 1: it to him too, But yeah, also looks like he
Speaker 1: could smash aforehand. You know, they should just like when
Speaker 1: I intended it this, she was just had like a
Speaker 1: c G I young Pete Sampras for this movie. But
Speaker 1: it's some guy I don't I don't even remember his name.
Speaker 1: I've never heard of him before. Yeah, just some twenty
Speaker 1: seven year old former Disney actor or maybe not. I
Speaker 1: don't even know. I just they wanted Harry Styles apparently,
Speaker 1: but he said no wisely. Anyways, it looks cool, Sure,
Speaker 1: let's do it. Um. I still don't know like what
Speaker 1: they're going to do with Sebastian or flounder, like be
Speaker 1: as the problem that we all saw with Lion King.
Speaker 1: Although it made all the money in the world and
Speaker 1: his top ten most box office of any movie, it's
Speaker 1: still was not great. And it was because you couldn't
Speaker 1: have emotions coming out like these live animals. Like you
Speaker 1: can make it look like their mouths were moving, but
Speaker 1: you weren't going to make it look like they were
Speaker 1: suffering from the same emotions as Hamlet. You know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Sebastian is a crab. Rights as a crab, Like, how
Speaker 1: are you going to make a crab charming? I'm disgusting.
Speaker 1: Crabs are scary, man anyways, So they still haven't answered that.
Speaker 1: Um but like, I don't know, Ariel looks cool and
Speaker 1: ship and like the underwater stuff. I'm a sucker for
Speaker 1: underwater stuff. So that's been teaser corner. Raquel Welsh has died.
Speaker 1: I know that she was a famous actress in the
Speaker 1: sevent d s. What what what can you tell me? Jam?
Speaker 1: I mean, I you know, her kind of height of
Speaker 1: fame I guess was a little before our time, but
Speaker 1: like I certainly remember seeing her and when I'd watch
Speaker 1: old movies with my parents, like you know, Fantastic Voyage
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Um, yeah, she was like, uh
Speaker 1: you know, an icon yeah, and uh and and she
Speaker 1: was great. I mean I think probably a lot of
Speaker 1: people our age remember her more from when she played
Speaker 1: herself on Seinfeld and I don't remember that. Oh she
Speaker 1: like she played herself and she wouldn't move her arms
Speaker 1: when she tap danced. And so the producers of the
Speaker 1: show tried to get Kramer to fire her because he
Speaker 1: had a tony for the show that he he got
Speaker 1: because he was a seat filler. Anyways, she was getting
Speaker 1: that unte and the third Oh yeah, that's the one film.
Speaker 1: I'm looking through all of her films and that is
Speaker 1: the one that I have seen. And I think I
Speaker 1: remember from that oh illegally Blonde, and I think she
Speaker 1: won a Golden Globe. I was reading for the Three Musketeers.
Speaker 1: I think like early in her career she was great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's uh yeah, that's sad to here, said loss Um. Less.
Speaker 1: Sad to hear that the Nazi guy from the Charlottesville
Speaker 1: White Power rally passed away by his own hand. It
Speaker 1: would appear in Missouri, h Teddy von Nukum. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: the main reason I'm bringing this up. I don't have
Speaker 1: much to say other than that a lot of people
Speaker 1: are posting the famous image has two very prominent Nazis
Speaker 1: in it, and one has like a white tennis polo
Speaker 1: shirt and looks like Beck Bennett and he's like gone,
Speaker 1: he like looks really angry, like a spoiled kid who
Speaker 1: just who's like give me back my porridge or like
Speaker 1: you know, like something poor. I don't price boil Bridge,
Speaker 1: kids don't have port but like, give me back my
Speaker 1: Ferrari Dady like that he has like that energy. Um,
Speaker 1: that's not the one who died, but I'm seeing a
Speaker 1: lot of people. It is the other one who just
Speaker 1: looked like a like blandly handsome member of Cobra Kai,
Speaker 1: like just you know, blond dude with a buzz cut,
Speaker 1: like a background kind of Yeah, exactly, that is that
Speaker 1: Von Newcombe? How how is like put the death on
Speaker 1: the backburner for a minute. His name was Teddy von Newcomb.
Speaker 1: He gave himself that. He changed his name to that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just to be like I want to be a fool
Speaker 1: Nazi bad guy um or maybe he that would just
Speaker 1: distract from the Nazi thing? Is it because of the
Speaker 1: video game? Though? Is that why he changed his name
Speaker 1: to that. I have to think so, Like the the
Speaker 1: Newcomb is not a word that I've heard otherwise. It
Speaker 1: is spelled n U k E M so um. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then Teddy Vaughan I'm sure came from like some
Speaker 1: Nazi he admired, and Teddy probably from famous Nazi Teddy ruxmen. Um.
Speaker 1: We have to assume if you ever listened to that
Speaker 1: second half of that cassette, it got really bad. Play
Speaker 1: it backwards. Um, this is how we got to Limon
Speaker 1: Well Miranda for a half hour because we were talking
Speaker 1: about how all the Nazis had macklemore haircuts, and then
Speaker 1: we were like, McLemore really had that moment like where
Speaker 1: he won Best Rap Album of the Year despite the
Speaker 1: fact that it was the good kid Mad City came out,
Speaker 1: and then somebody speculated that, like, does Limon Well Miranda
Speaker 1: follow McLemore on social media? I don't think we ever
Speaker 1: figured that out because we then just started talking about
Speaker 1: the house episode. Um, but it's all you know, the
Speaker 1: matrix is glitching all over the place because he's already discussed.
Speaker 1: So anyways, uh r, I p to Roquel Welsh, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break and we'll be right back. And
Speaker 1: we're back, and there's I don't know, there's like some
Speaker 1: standard news story like streaming in a historic first market
Speaker 1: tracker expects linear TV to account for less than half
Speaker 1: of daily viewing. I'm surprised that hasn't happened already, but
Speaker 1: mainstream media is making a big deal about that. Have
Speaker 1: you heard of the streaming stuff jams? Pretty wild? Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's well, it's weird to watch regular TV, like I
Speaker 1: don't have cable. I have an antenna that I sometimes
Speaker 1: use if it's something I have to watch live. And
Speaker 1: it's it's real wild to just see commercials. Like my
Speaker 1: when I plug that in and we watched TV, like
Speaker 1: my children are taken aback, like they don't know what
Speaker 1: it is. Do your children thrill two commercials? Though? My
Speaker 1: children like are desperate, like I want, I want to
Speaker 1: skip through commercials when like a sporting event is on,
Speaker 1: but they they only tune in for the commercials. They
Speaker 1: don't give a shit about the sporting event. But they
Speaker 1: and not just the super Bowl. Like when I'm watching
Speaker 1: a local broadcast of like the seventy sixers versus the
Speaker 1: San Antonio Spurs and it's the Spurs broadcast and so
Speaker 1: I'm looking at like San Antonio local restaurant commercials, They're like, whoa,
Speaker 1: this is fascinating. Dad, get the car, we have to
Speaker 1: go there now, pack a bag. Yeah, that's a fish
Speaker 1: restaurant in San Antonio. Yeah, I remember, like we caught
Speaker 1: at the riverwalk. I'm sorry. We were at like family's
Speaker 1: house or something and we watched TV and there was
Speaker 1: a toy commercial and it was like the first toy
Speaker 1: commercial they'd ever seen, and it blew their minds and
Speaker 1: they were like, we have to have this toy. They've
Speaker 1: never been had something advertised to them before in their lives. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, all we watch the streaming, that's why. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm surprised to hear that. You but I like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the mainstream media like making a big deal of it
Speaker 1: is of course you know they would. It's you know,
Speaker 1: it's their relevancy kind of slipping away. Yeah, that It
Speaker 1: is so wild to like when, uh, we we have
Speaker 1: one TV like doesn't have any streaming, you know, it
Speaker 1: doesn't have like Apple TV or anything, isn't a smart TV.
Speaker 1: And when we're near that, we have a couple of
Speaker 1: Nickelodeon shows that they like to watch that you know,
Speaker 1: I will try and fast forward through. But if I'm
Speaker 1: doing something else and the the toy ads are just
Speaker 1: so fucking insidious, It's like, how did we survive? It's there? Yeah. Anyways, Um,
Speaker 1: New York Times front page is all about the US debt,
Speaker 1: US on track to add nineteen trillion dollars in new debt. There,
Speaker 1: they always get real worried about debt when there's a
Speaker 1: Republican or a Democrat in the White House, and Republicans
Speaker 1: are making bad faith arguments. Like the whole front page
Speaker 1: of the New York Times is like the top above,
Speaker 1: the full section is all about US debt. Budget Office
Speaker 1: warns of possible default between July and September. Lawmaker spar
Speaker 1: over Social Security even as its costs are rising fast.
Speaker 1: So like just all of these things that are just
Speaker 1: playing to you know, fiscal conservative talking points essentially. Yeah, which,
Speaker 1: of course, yeah, this is this is our left leaning
Speaker 1: mainstream media in in the United States. It's complete horseship.
Speaker 1: And Matt gets is get sing away with it. That
Speaker 1: appears that he's not his his lawyer, says uh. An
Speaker 1: investigation that examined whether he broke federal laws focused on
Speaker 1: his relationships with women recruited online and whether he had
Speaker 1: sex with a seventeen year old girl. Justice departments decided
Speaker 1: to just let that one slide. There's yeah, so this
Speaker 1: person is a clear piece of ship. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: not a lot of evidence, to be fair, there's not.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's just a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: you know, testimonies and doctrines and things. Oh is that it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just you know, like things he's done and said
Speaker 1: that kind of thing write other than that. Um. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And finally, the thing that everyone seems to be talking
Speaker 1: about is Penn Badgeley. Um, who is the guy from
Speaker 1: Gossip Girl. I think, yeah, he's like damn from gossip
Speaker 1: Girl and he's in You, the Netflix show that he's
Speaker 1: in you right now. No, he will never be in
Speaker 1: you jam because he has come out now he's in
Speaker 1: this show that everybody's talking about. It's like about this
Speaker 1: really toxic, you know, sort of sociopath who's in a
Speaker 1: relationship and you're supposed to root against him, but they
Speaker 1: make him very compelling anti hero ship. Anyways. Um, he's
Speaker 1: come out and been like, I refuse to do sex
Speaker 1: scenes in movies because it's not fair to my partner.
Speaker 1: It's just like a thing that has been taken for
Speaker 1: granted for a long time when it comes to like
Speaker 1: actors like do that right, Like that's what we do
Speaker 1: as an actor, as you just pretend, and like it's
Speaker 1: kind of weird because like, on one hand, it's like
Speaker 1: good for that man, like if that's what is important
Speaker 1: to him. On the other hand, it like suggests that
Speaker 1: like other actors like like all perverts like, you know,
Speaker 1: we talk about Sean Bean who who was like intimacy
Speaker 1: coordinators spoiled the spontaneity, and if that's if that's the
Speaker 1: other side of the coin, then yeah, I would I
Speaker 1: would err on the side of Penn Badgley. But both
Speaker 1: of these seem to both sides of that coin. Seemed
Speaker 1: to suggest that like they're adding something out of the
Speaker 1: thing and not just acting, which is yeah, well it's
Speaker 1: it's weird. Yeah. When I saw that quote circulating, I
Speaker 1: had the thought like, oh, maybe he's been on some
Speaker 1: like bad sets or like where there wasn't like an
Speaker 1: intimacy coordinator, or you know, the filmmakers weren't being respectful.
Speaker 1: But then yeah, reading the interview, it sounds like it's
Speaker 1: more like a personal decision he's making, which you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's up to like, you know, obviously I don't
Speaker 1: think you would take a job in like an erotic
Speaker 1: thriller and then argue that he shouldn't have sex scenes.
Speaker 1: But he'll probably you know, choose steer. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: know that's you know, it's up to his comfort level.
Speaker 1: But which is fine. But it was when I read
Speaker 1: the quotes that did a little sound like I don't
Speaker 1: want anyone falling in love with me. Um, but I'm
Speaker 1: sure that's not what he meant. Uh. Yeah, it is
Speaker 1: weird because, yeah, I feel like we're at a time
Speaker 1: where I keep hearing two different conversations going on online,
Speaker 1: one being that's Hollywood needs to deal with sex scenes differently.
Speaker 1: The way they're filmed and the way like the power
Speaker 1: is distributed on sets is not always equitable or or
Speaker 1: or handled sensitively. But there's this also the sense, I
Speaker 1: think from the audience standpoint that has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with how you know something's filmed. It should always be
Speaker 1: done in a respectful, fair manner with someone who's profession
Speaker 1: it is to to oversee that, like absolutely. But on
Speaker 1: top of that, I've seen a lot of people talking
Speaker 1: about like how movies don't have much sex anymore in general,
Speaker 1: Like it seems as though that kind of genre has thriller. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I want to see these like erotic thrillers
Speaker 1: from like the eighties and nineties get like the Star
Speaker 1: Wars treatment now where it's like a legacy sequel where
Speaker 1: like someone someone finds Michael Douglas and you know, he
Speaker 1: takes them under his wing or something as the like
Speaker 1: investigator of a erotic serial killer. Yeah, or like Sharon
Speaker 1: stone is you know, yeah, has to mentor someone and
Speaker 1: a new ice pick killer. That's right, it could be fun,
Speaker 1: very fun. Pem Badgley will not be starring in that reboot,
Speaker 1: um problem, or he will and it'll just be a
Speaker 1: totally different thing. But yeah, it does. It does feel
Speaker 1: like a lot of the Internet and a lot of
Speaker 1: the reaction from young people has been like, thank you,
Speaker 1: no more sex in our movies. And I think that's fine.
Speaker 1: Like that people who are like, we're going in this
Speaker 1: puritanical direction, Um, I don't know that that's fully the case.
Speaker 1: I don't know that this is the the canary in
Speaker 1: the coal mine that we that we necessarily think it is.
Speaker 1: No And to be fair, like I was just talking
Speaker 1: about movies, like TV is filthy, Like, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: TV is pretty fay. It is. It is crazy to
Speaker 1: like turn on TV and see the amount of like
Speaker 1: nudity and violence on there. Like when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: I had to sneak into con Air because I wasn't
Speaker 1: old enough and like to think of what you can
Speaker 1: just see turning on a TV. Now, my con Air
Speaker 1: was Lethal Weapon three. That's what I and then my
Speaker 1: dad got in trouble with the theater because he bought
Speaker 1: me the tickets and then was like, all right, I'm
Speaker 1: taking your little sister to see fern Gully. Uh, you
Speaker 1: guys going to Lethal Weapon three. And we went in
Speaker 1: and the fucking like some narcass usher came in and
Speaker 1: it was like, you guys need to get out of here.
Speaker 1: So that's how young we were. Was that, like we
Speaker 1: were ruining someone's enjoyment of late the Weapon three by
Speaker 1: just being there. So then I went and saw the
Speaker 1: second half of fern Gully probably holds up better to
Speaker 1: be honest, Yeah, oh yeah for sure. But I thought
Speaker 1: that soulful Eric Clapton sting song from the Lethal Weapon
Speaker 1: three soundtrack was really cool at the time. I have
Speaker 1: bad taste, Like I think we've established that like that
Speaker 1: and Hamilton's or my jam. Anyways, J m McNabb, such
Speaker 1: a pleasure having you. Where can people find you? Follow you?
Speaker 1: You can follow me on Twitter if it's still around
Speaker 1: when you're listening to this, it's uh at J m
Speaker 1: McNabb again. There you go. All right, that's gonna do
Speaker 1: it for us this afternoon back tomorrow with the whole
Speaker 1: last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to
Speaker 1: each other, be kind to yourself, get the vaccine, don't
Speaker 1: do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to
Speaker 1: y'all tomorrow. Fight