Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Trendlemania
Speaker 1: for twenty. It's actually it wasn't for twenty. That's just
Speaker 1: a funny number of miles. It was Trendlemania, otherwise known
Speaker 1: as WrestleMania forty.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I didn't know.
Speaker 2: I only know because I'm I'm as old as WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: Oh is that right? And it's an event. It's not
Speaker 1: like UFC where they just like, yeah, every couple of weekends,
Speaker 1: there's another one.
Speaker 2: No, I've been to one WrestleMania, WrestleMania fourteen.
Speaker 1: Well I am Jack. That over there is Miles and
Speaker 1: we are thrilled to be joined by super producer Ian
Speaker 1: Johnson in the house, who, as we were about to start,
Speaker 1: mentioned that this year's WrestleMania was one of one of
Speaker 1: the great, one of the great wrestles Mania that has happened.
Speaker 2: What happened?
Speaker 1: What happened? Okay, so three words describe wrestling.
Speaker 3: I'll give you the full little spiel. So depending on
Speaker 3: how far back we want to go. You know Cody Rhodes,
Speaker 3: son of the late great Dusty Rhoads, who's one of
Speaker 3: the greatest wrestlers of all time. You know he left WWE,
Speaker 3: and I believe twenty seventeen, came back two years ago.
Speaker 3: Everybody was hyped he had they like lined him up
Speaker 3: for a huge run. He got injured, so he had
Speaker 3: to take like nine months off like a real real
Speaker 3: world He got her really tourist nasty.
Speaker 2: I did that too, dude, just I get that shit
Speaker 2: due tenures.
Speaker 4: I shred my pecks every day he was.
Speaker 3: He missed like nine months and then he came back
Speaker 3: for Royal Rumble last year. One Royal Rumble. As you know,
Speaker 3: winner of the Royal Rumble gets championship match at WrestleMania,
Speaker 3: So that was the big story. You know, He's like
Speaker 3: didn't finish the story for his dad because his dad
Speaker 3: never won a championship in WW, so he wanted to
Speaker 3: do it for Dusty. Get to WrestleMania last year against
Speaker 3: Roman Reigns, who's been champions since like twenty nineteen, historic
Speaker 3: run loses. Everybody was pissed because they wanted Cody to win.
Speaker 1: But you know, oh, Roman Rains beat him last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he obviously Roman sheets he's a heel.
Speaker 2: He didn't win clean.
Speaker 3: So then that was the build up for the whole
Speaker 3: next year. Cody won the Royal Rumble again this year,
Speaker 3: so he challenged Roman again at WrestleMania. But then this
Speaker 3: is where the Rock came back. Because the Rock and
Speaker 3: Roman are cousins, people have been like wanting a Rock
Speaker 3: versus Roman fight for also a year, so the Rock
Speaker 3: comes back. Cody is like, you know what, I'll let
Speaker 3: you fight Roman at WrestleMania, and in the moment, everybody
Speaker 3: was like, oh, this is sick, but the reaction on
Speaker 3: social media was actually like horrible. People were pissed because
Speaker 3: they wanted Cody to have his moment.
Speaker 1: Sure, the real wrestling heads exactly so. And also the
Speaker 1: Rock just criticized social media by calling out woke culture
Speaker 1: and I applaud him. Really, you know this guy say
Speaker 1: that on Mike. He gets it.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, baby, you know. But so they smartly
Speaker 3: pivoted and realized, oh, okay, like people really want this
Speaker 3: Cody Roman fight, so they pivoted, which is really good storytelling.
Speaker 3: They turned Rock and he went full heel mode. He
Speaker 3: became the bad guy, joined Roman reigns. So now it's
Speaker 3: Cody versus Rock and Roman. It was just masterful storytelling.
Speaker 3: They we were back to like almost attitude air levels.
Speaker 3: The Rock is dropping f bombs on TV. There's blood
Speaker 3: on USA, like they haven't done blood on like a
Speaker 3: non pay per view event and forever. So we're like
Speaker 3: it's good, We're back. This is like peak and it
Speaker 3: just culminated at like an incredible, incredible main event Sunday
Speaker 3: Night where Cody spoiler alert defeated Roman Reigns. He ended
Speaker 3: his like The Rock wrestled against Cody tagging with Roman
Speaker 3: Saturday Night, which like set the stipulation for Sunday's match.
Speaker 1: So there were some stipulations.
Speaker 3: It was like Bloodline rules for Sunday, which meant like
Speaker 3: Roman could do whatever he wanted basically, so like his
Speaker 3: whole faction came out and fucked with Cody The Rock
Speaker 3: came out. But then all the it was like Avengers Endgame,
Speaker 3: like all the portals are opening up. So then like
Speaker 3: John Cena came out to help CODYO came out to
Speaker 3: help Cody, and then you know Cody Bear came from
Speaker 3: the dead, Yeah, and he beat Roman Reigns damn finally
Speaker 3: win this championship in w W.
Speaker 1: He damn for Dusty.
Speaker 3: It was just like masterful storytelling. I'm obviously giving you
Speaker 3: like the very abridged cliff Notes version of like.
Speaker 2: Two years the Bridge version.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it was masterful, masterful, masters and the rock
Speaker 1: did a whole ass. He'll turn in reality too. Going
Speaker 1: on Fox News with Michael Dougla's fun down.
Speaker 2: He's a he's a method dude, methods.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's like, I'm gonna be a bad guy everywhere now, amazing. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, super producer. Ian. Of course, of.
Speaker 2: Course I have something to talk about with my step son.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I've already got the sna jorts on, you know that,
Speaker 1: just to try and like kind of make him think
Speaker 1: that I'm cool, the Sena Geene shorts that like go
Speaker 1: down to my calves. All right, Miles, let's get into
Speaker 1: the eclipse. Happened yesterday and we're still here. We're still here.
Speaker 1: We survived it. I looked upon it through my eclipse glasses.
Speaker 2: And like I said, I gave I gave a couple
Speaker 2: of cheeky, cheeky no looks.
Speaker 1: Just a quick one. You took a cheeky glance, cheeky glance.
Speaker 1: You were apparently not the only one. It turns out
Speaker 1: a lot of people just raw dogged the eclipse with
Speaker 1: their eyeballs. This is according to Google search data, because
Speaker 1: they like along the path of totality, there were tons
Speaker 1: of cirt. There was a huge uptick in searches for
Speaker 1: things like why do my eyes hurt? And my eyes hurt?
Speaker 2: I love just treating Google like your fucking your mom
Speaker 2: or a kindergarten teacher. Yeah, Google, my eyes hurt, okay.
Speaker 2: And was it because of the clips? Hopefully not?
Speaker 4: Or Kenny clips hurt my eyes?
Speaker 1: That was another one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Kenny clips hurt my eyes. And it wasn't. It
Speaker 2: wasn't just the all the searches weren't just coming from
Speaker 2: North Hollywood, California, from one stupid guy who kept looking
Speaker 2: up me. It was actually I love how it just
Speaker 2: mapped like the path of like the part where you
Speaker 2: absolutely should not be looking at it. They're like, might
Speaker 2: have to, might have to do a quick glance here,
Speaker 2: and then it's why my eye hurts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we're in better shape, noted the path
Speaker 1: of totality, because it is still burn like, it'll still
Speaker 1: hurt your eyes to look at it. The problem with
Speaker 1: the path of totality is you feel like you can
Speaker 1: look at it and then your eyes get burnt. Or,
Speaker 1: as one search trend said, quote eyes hurt after looking
Speaker 1: at the eclipse question mark so normal? This normal? But yeah,
Speaker 1: unless you have presidential ocular immunity like Trump in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: you are not supposed to stare directly at the sun
Speaker 1: during an eclipse.
Speaker 4: So I don't know, and I knew that.
Speaker 2: I knew that. I knew that, and I didn't look
Speaker 2: for me chose to take the risk people have asked.
Speaker 2: I didn't look for more than like maybe a third
Speaker 2: of a second. I literally just try to be like.
Speaker 1: Which I'm done. It's to the regular son, like I've
Speaker 1: done to the regular son, you know, give it a
Speaker 1: quick little yeah up there, like oh oh I can't,
Speaker 1: Oh I can't.
Speaker 2: Mom. If I got a sneeze on a knife's edge,
Speaker 2: that's when I hit That's when I do it. I
Speaker 2: give it because I'm you know, I got a little
Speaker 2: photo sensitivity.
Speaker 4: When I do that at you, when do you have
Speaker 4: to sneeze on a nice edge.
Speaker 2: Like you know you can kind of like, oh man,
Speaker 2: I can feel the sneeze coming on and it ain't coming,
Speaker 2: then you gotta Then I just give it a quick
Speaker 2: sung glance.
Speaker 1: I'm like Arah, Okay, I gotta gotta get it, yeah,
Speaker 1: just just like get it out before you like walk
Speaker 1: into a quiet room.
Speaker 2: Or something like that, before I deliver a eulogy. Yeah, Jesus.
Speaker 1: Other eclipse stories. First of all, like some of the
Speaker 1: mainstream media, like these are some of the I think
Speaker 1: it was wired. There was some aggregation of like the
Speaker 1: best photographs from the eclipse. There. There was some really
Speaker 1: cool footage from like Dallas. I feel like I saw
Speaker 1: where it just the they just turned the sun off
Speaker 1: down there. It just.
Speaker 2: Was gonna come back.
Speaker 1: It was really spooky. Yeah, And like the video footage
Speaker 1: was really cool. But then like these aggregators of like
Speaker 1: best eclipse photographs, maybe like photographs aren't the best media
Speaker 1: for capturing the eclipse, because this one collection that I
Speaker 1: saw I Think it was wired, was just photo after
Speaker 1: photo of only the Sun's identical over and over us,
Speaker 1: just like, yo, what is no way? Yeah this looks
Speaker 1: exactly the same every single time. But anyways, some cool pictures.
Speaker 1: I shout out to the people who you know, took
Speaker 1: videos and shared the path of totality with us. That
Speaker 1: was all my kids school let them do, was just
Speaker 1: like watch videos of it because they didn't want their
Speaker 1: ass out there looking directly at the sun, so they
Speaker 1: just watched it on YouTube. I guess a bunch of
Speaker 1: people got engaged mid flight on one of those Delta
Speaker 1: eclipse passing. Oh yeah, those Delta eclipse flights.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: A couple took off from Austin on Monday to witness
Speaker 1: a total solar eclipse from thirty thousand feet in the air.
Speaker 1: Landed in Detroit, happily engaged.
Speaker 2: Ah that's cute. Happy, Good for you and your path
Speaker 2: of totality. Flighty many many happy.
Speaker 1: Returns to you. Cincinnati, there was like a mass wedding,
Speaker 1: all right, hippies you know.
Speaker 4: So yeah, that spaghetti.
Speaker 1: All right. Uh, let's take a quick break and we'll
Speaker 1: come back and take through a bunch of other things
Speaker 1: that are trending.
Speaker 4: We'll be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 2: We're back, baby.
Speaker 1: And twenty five million is trending. There's a couple of
Speaker 1: numbers trending twenty five million.
Speaker 2: I feel like we're doing five million. Yeah, here's some numbers.
Speaker 2: By the numbers, real quick. Twenty five million. What's that?
Speaker 4: Do you think that means?
Speaker 1: That's the amount of money that Biden is hoping to
Speaker 1: or no, that's the amount of people who's Biden's hoping
Speaker 1: to forgive?
Speaker 4: Is that? Do I have that right?
Speaker 2: Miles? I think you got it right, man, And we're
Speaker 2: never wrong about this stuff.
Speaker 4: Who's this guy, Bernie fucking Sanders?
Speaker 2: Who is this guy? Who is he running for a
Speaker 2: re election or something? Yeah?
Speaker 1: He is?
Speaker 2: And I guess yeah, like perfect, yeah, great, I love
Speaker 2: that forgiveness. I hope it is able to happen, because,
Speaker 2: as we know, the sort of ebb and flow of
Speaker 2: this is like, yeah, we're going for it till someone
Speaker 2: sues and then well we'll see, then we'll see.
Speaker 1: It's nice when the people empowers like transform into like
Speaker 1: rich divorced dad who's like, how about I buy you
Speaker 1: a trip to Disneyland here, kiddo, right because they need
Speaker 1: our support. So yeah, I mean that, on one hand,
Speaker 1: that is democracy working.
Speaker 2: Right Yeah, yeah, yeah exactly where it's like, okay, I
Speaker 2: need the people to like me. What do they want?
Speaker 2: I will do that. Okay. Now apply that same logic
Speaker 2: to many other policies that people are screaming about, and
Speaker 2: some are actually resigning from your state apartment, gos. So yeah,
Speaker 2: this one is like, you know, looking at all kinds
Speaker 2: of things like up to twenty thousand dollars of a
Speaker 2: crude interest could be forgiven. There's just automatic loan discharge
Speaker 2: for forgiveness eligible borrowers, for long term borrowers. It's a
Speaker 2: pretty robust effort. Yeah, so hopefully this can go through
Speaker 2: and it's not just to be like, oh man, we
Speaker 2: fucking wanted to dude. Then there was an exeal and.
Speaker 1: This will be challenged in court. Like all the timelines
Speaker 1: that are being mentioned where it goes into effect before
Speaker 1: the election are almost certainly purely theoretical because the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court's last ruling on this basically said that student debt
Speaker 1: relief would have to come from Congress, and that probably
Speaker 1: isn't happening. So there's going to be a legal battle.
Speaker 1: But good that he continues to put pressure on this policy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and hopefully it's not calculated and purely symbolic gesture at
Speaker 1: this point.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, okay, because there's a lot of pump faking
Speaker 2: that as we know that politicians like to do. And
Speaker 2: then you're like, oh no, but I pumped though, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I could have shot it.
Speaker 1: I didn't, right. Elizabeth Warren is talking about genocide, Yes,
Speaker 1: saying that legally, she thinks the actions of the Israeli
Speaker 1: military and the Israeli government are do qualify for genocide
Speaker 1: and will be legally found to fit the description of
Speaker 1: genocide by the International Court of Justice.
Speaker 2: Someone asked at a like a town hall meeting it
Speaker 2: was I think it was at the Islamic Center of Boston,
Speaker 2: and one of the people might imagine like a constituent
Speaker 2: or someone who is there specifically, was like, Okay, the ICJ.
Speaker 2: You're like, you think it's plausible Israel has committed active genocide,
Speaker 2: And then she's like, quote, if you want to do
Speaker 2: it as an application of law, I believe that they'll
Speaker 2: find that it is genocide and they have ample evidence
Speaker 2: to do so.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: That's pretty unequivocal from somebody who's first response to this
Speaker 2: was I'm fully behind whatever they do. But we're starting
Speaker 2: to see a lot of people peel off now, and
Speaker 2: I'm we will see where that ends up, and I
Speaker 2: hoping that as soon as possible. Obviously, this is this end.
Speaker 2: This is some kind of end to the hostilities, But
Speaker 2: as it stands, I think right now there's some there's
Speaker 2: still back and forth between Hamas and as they describe
Speaker 2: but very stubborn Israel, because, as Mos puts it, they're
Speaker 2: like they anything we put forth, they just out of
Speaker 2: hand reject. So it doesn't feel quite like a negotiation.
Speaker 2: But again, this is how these kinds of things work.
Speaker 2: I know nothing about diplomacy, but I'm glad to see
Speaker 2: that a senator is able to look at the situation
Speaker 2: there and be like, yeah, that's bad, and yeah, that
Speaker 2: that might meet the legal definition of genocide. I'm smart
Speaker 2: enough to make that observation.
Speaker 1: Again, it does seem like democracy working, where the public
Speaker 1: pressure and the public opinion on this subject has made
Speaker 1: it so that people can actually be like, yeah, that
Speaker 1: is really uh genocide, that's fun.
Speaker 2: That looks bad. Yeah, yeah, looks bad. I wasn't sure
Speaker 2: how to move based on I had to look at
Speaker 2: polling first. You have to forgive me. But okay, okay,
Speaker 2: it looks like it's safe to say the truth out love.
Speaker 1: We do have an opinion from an AMC executive who
Speaker 1: you know, I'll just read the quote. We continue to
Speaker 1: learn and evolve, Miles. We would have never imagined the
Speaker 1: dune thing. We would have never created it knowing it
Speaker 1: would be celebrated or mocked. It came out the Dune
Speaker 1: thing about the overwhelming response to the Sam Warm.
Speaker 4: Bucket, which the fuck bucket the fuck buy?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, with the soft tendrils driving people to go
Speaker 1: crazy with demand for shy Lussie shaped vessels.
Speaker 2: Oh my god man. Yeah, it's just like it's fun.
Speaker 2: Need to see that. Like that, the the evolution of
Speaker 2: like a corporate idea. Then the Internet gets does their
Speaker 2: or their like pervert thing and they're like.
Speaker 4: God, guys, guys, what's not Grimace?
Speaker 2: Come, it's not Grimas. But I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 2: y'all are fucking with it. So I guess maybe canonically
Speaker 2: it is if it helps sell things. And now they're like,
Speaker 2: oh god, I wonder what the next thing they're gonna do.
Speaker 2: It's like everything just can't I don't know. I fine,
Speaker 2: don't make the Dune fuck bucket anymore. But honestly, I
Speaker 2: think you did a good job with it, AMC.
Speaker 1: Who cares if people and the you know, shy Helosi
Speaker 1: shaped mouth just to accept it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think. Yeah. Producer Bab puts it very equently.
Speaker 2: Quote but the bucket was so obvious, Yeah, to anybody
Speaker 2: who's ever seen a sex toy, that's meant to be penetrated.
Speaker 2: You're like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a that's like
Speaker 2: a fleshlight with a bucket on the end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So ill will be interesting to see if people.
Speaker 1: I guess this one was pretty obvious. Grimace shake. There's
Speaker 1: not much people could do. We did that, They did that,
Speaker 1: We did cause that, and I do blame us and
Speaker 1: less McDonald's. McDonald's couldn't have although the fact that it's
Speaker 1: purple and he's purple and.
Speaker 2: It's McDonald's doesn't have the balls. They say that it's grimace.
Speaker 1: Come all right, thank you. Eighteen point seven million figure
Speaker 1: of the day, eighteen point seven million.
Speaker 2: Yep, my proposed salary. Yeah, I'm asking for next year.
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens. I don't say it's fair, but yeah.
Speaker 2: This is actually the number of people who tuned in
Speaker 2: to watch the women's NCAA College Basketball Championship game between
Speaker 2: Iowa and South Carolina. Apparently this was This is like
Speaker 2: the most watched sporting event, not including football or the Olympics,
Speaker 2: I think, which is fair since the NCAA Men's Championship
Speaker 2: between Virginia and Texas Tech in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: So it's prettyep the most watched basketball game in five years.
Speaker 2: Also, I mean it's wild though too. You got it,
Speaker 2: like you, My heart goes out to South Carolina because
Speaker 2: all the cover like there were a few headlines that
Speaker 2: were like just centering Caitlyn Clark and you know, I
Speaker 2: get it. That was her last stab at getting it.
Speaker 2: But like also South Carolina went undefeated the whole fucking season. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like that's no, that's no easy feat. Like only ten
Speaker 2: or nine other teams have done that.
Speaker 1: And speak for yourself, man, oh it's easy. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we got undefeated. We get two hundred episodes
Speaker 1: of the show Undefeated.
Speaker 2: What was that one I said I could do that
Speaker 2: Luca Luca did in that the hooks hook. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: could do that. Shiit same arrogance. Yeah I could do that.
Speaker 2: Shit fine, I could hit I could hit a left
Speaker 2: handed hook. Just give me for like three hundred try.
Speaker 2: But yeah, but this is you know, like rightfully, you know,
Speaker 2: Caitlyn Clark got a lot of interest in like women's
Speaker 2: basketball college.
Speaker 1: Clark is the reason that this was so popular, I think.
Speaker 2: For sure, for sure, but I just feel abad like
Speaker 2: the team that actually wins and does also something remarkable.
Speaker 2: Like the reason they won too, is like Caitlin Clark
Speaker 2: was basically the whole Iowa team and South Carolina was
Speaker 2: way deeper. You know, they have a lot of fucking options,
Speaker 2: so you know, shout out to them, shout out to
Speaker 2: don Staley. And I think that's her third title. That
Speaker 2: she's one.
Speaker 1: Third title, first time undefeated. Pretty wild. Yeah, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a It was a hell of a run for
Speaker 1: just basketball in general, like a really cool like the
Speaker 1: whole women's tournament was a really cool event for basketball fans.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: Well, and it was full of like revenge plots too,
Speaker 2: like LSU knocked out Iowa last year and then this year,
Speaker 2: Iowa knocked out LSU and then Iowa knocked out South
Speaker 2: Carolina and then this year South Carolina is not going
Speaker 2: to ie. It's like just there was a great, great
Speaker 2: back and forth. The real question now remains whether or
Speaker 2: not she is going to be headed to the draft,
Speaker 2: But I think she is.
Speaker 1: Clark, Oh, she's definitely, Yeah, She's definitely going.
Speaker 2: She said she was. Yeah. I remember it was like
Speaker 2: is she going to take that big check from the
Speaker 2: Big three or And I'm like no, no, I'm sure.
Speaker 2: First I compete.
Speaker 1: You're like, yeah, I guess that one is also uh
Speaker 1: an option, right that she goes to the Big Three.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean I think that's the thing is
Speaker 2: you you want to go and compete with the other
Speaker 2: people who are the best in the sport, regardless of
Speaker 2: because I'm sure Kaitlyn Clark will be have many many
Speaker 2: opportunities to make money. That is, if just from the
Speaker 2: league maximum, which is like I think only like a
Speaker 2: two something two hundred something thousand, which is wild. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and hopefully this will bring in more, you know, more
Speaker 2: revenue to the league and people can get paid like
Speaker 2: an actual good salary for being the best at what
Speaker 2: they do.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'd be interested. The question that's been on
Speaker 1: my mind is when is whether don Staley goes to
Speaker 1: the w NBA, because it's like, you know, she's had
Speaker 1: an incredible run at South Carolina. But now I think
Speaker 1: the interest is going to turn up on the WNBA
Speaker 1: now that Caitlin Clark is going there, and you know,
Speaker 1: after probably after next season, Juji Watkins is going there,
Speaker 1: if not this season, I actually don't know what her
Speaker 1: decision is there, but like there's a ton of really
Speaker 1: great players that are going to be joining the league
Speaker 1: pretty soon.
Speaker 2: And I think you meant like Dancti is like, yo,
Speaker 2: you know I'm suiting back up.
Speaker 1: She she was like a top pick, wasn't she. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can do it, you can do all right. Those
Speaker 1: are so this has been a sports episode. We got wrestling,
Speaker 1: we got women's college hoops. That are a list of
Speaker 1: some things that are trending. That our list. We are
Speaker 1: back tomorrow with a whole lest episode of the show.
Speaker 1: Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves,
Speaker 1: get the vaccine built, stare at the sun with your
Speaker 1: bare eyes, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we
Speaker 1: will talk to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Bite Bite,