Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Fat Trendsday.
Speaker 1: I guess that makes it sound like it's Fat Wednesday,
Speaker 1: but it's Fat Tuesday. It's a play on Fat Tuesday. People,
Speaker 1: Happy Fat Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Hey you imagination.
Speaker 1: My name is Jack O'Brien. That is Brian the editor.
Speaker 2: It's me.
Speaker 1: Your vocals sound nice. Your mic sounds nice.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and and your mic unto you as well,
Speaker 3: sounds nice.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's my vocal warm up for the week.
Speaker 1: Because I didn't feel like I got to hear enough
Speaker 1: of it during the Super Bowl. I wish he had.
Speaker 3: Gone it works with once was not enough?
Speaker 1: Once not enough? All right? Should we tell the people
Speaker 1: what is trending?
Speaker 2: Let's do it.
Speaker 1: KFC is transmogrifying chicken into jewelry for Valentine's Day. It
Speaker 1: is Valentine's Day tomorrow, so fast food companies understand one thing,
Speaker 1: and that is the search for content. Brian, what were
Speaker 1: we doing right before we hit record? We were googling
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day content, give me Valentine's Day and finding, uh,
Speaker 1: not much. There's not a lot of Valentine's Day content.
Speaker 1: KFC knows that shit. They're smart. They step in step
Speaker 1: into that void. KFC Thailand, yes, of course, is KFC
Speaker 1: is a holiday treat for Christmas. I think in some country.
Speaker 1: I think in Japan maybe. I think Miles told us
Speaker 1: that at one point. But they're trying to get in
Speaker 1: on some other holidays because, uh they have created one
Speaker 1: of the weirder Valentine's Day promotions. Pizza Hut of course,
Speaker 1: as we were talked about, recently created the breakup pie,
Speaker 1: which is where you can order someone else a pea
Speaker 1: that tells them that you are breaking up with them.
Speaker 2: And it's spelled out in pepperoni, but it's not.
Speaker 1: Your name goes on the box and it's and then
Speaker 1: it like leaves a mean like a not a mean,
Speaker 1: like a silly message like I've chosen to go explore
Speaker 1: the forests or something like that.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right.
Speaker 1: And Kentucky Fried Chicken or KFC, I guess they're not
Speaker 1: called Kentucky Fried Chicken anymore. They believe in love, they're not.
Speaker 1: They're not this cynical Pizza Hut company. Uh wait, they're
Speaker 1: owned by the same company, nevermind, but they are the
Speaker 1: young brands imprint with whom Hope Springs Eternal and Love
Speaker 1: Springs Eternal. They're giving away fried chicken rings in Thailand.
Speaker 1: These are not, unfortunately, edible rings made of chicken. They
Speaker 1: actually have real gems because the fried chicken was transformed
Speaker 1: into a ring by a quote an organic matter conversion specialist.
Speaker 1: All Right, it's like kind of like the fly with
Speaker 1: chicken and jewelry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why.
Speaker 3: And plus, hey it'll be uh, you know, it'll be
Speaker 3: easy to get that ring on and off with your
Speaker 3: greasy chicken greasy fingies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean go together with yeah, and then yeah,
Speaker 1: right right off your finger. If you're not a fan
Speaker 1: of having a fried chicken diamond, so shout out to
Speaker 1: our Thailand listeners, go out get your fried chicken diamond ring.
Speaker 1: Or I think it's actually like part of a giveaway.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's one of eleven lucky fried chicken covered couples.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's hot, greasy fried chicken greasy bodies, you know,
Speaker 1: just coming to.
Speaker 2: Get covered in gravy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh man, the bowl. Did you ever fuck with
Speaker 1: the KFC Bulls?
Speaker 3: I did, actually, and I have to say I was
Speaker 3: I was a fan.
Speaker 2: I was a fan of the bulls. I always liked KFC.
Speaker 1: That was a period of my life, like when I
Speaker 1: was just you know, in my early twenties, and I
Speaker 1: was really trying to stretch, Like I was paying a
Speaker 1: lot of attention to the number of calories I could
Speaker 1: get per dollar, And that was I think one of
Speaker 1: the best bangs for Buck that I ever came across
Speaker 1: was the ball. The density of the bull was absolutely
Speaker 1: no joke. You know, fried chicken, great mashed potates, corn
Speaker 1: off the cop you know, it was a blast. Anyways,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do it all. We're going to do the
Speaker 1: it's a we're hitting for the Young Brands cycle. On
Speaker 1: this episode, we talked about the Pizza Hut, talked about
Speaker 1: the KFC. Well, guess what, Taco Bell is out here
Speaker 1: creating a new type of content, ushering in a new
Speaker 1: era wherein you don't have to be Apple to have
Speaker 1: like a keynote where you reveal a new thing. You
Speaker 1: fan be Taco Bell. And so they debuted new menu
Speaker 1: items at a keynote that was seemingly designed. It was
Speaker 1: like if a Apple keynote took place inside the world
Speaker 1: of Demolition Man.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, where they won the franchise Wars.
Speaker 1: They won the Franchise Awards and defeated Apple, and this
Speaker 1: is like what we have instead of the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: We just.
Speaker 2: I'm like, dude, did they win?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, they won and we all won two. So
Speaker 1: the first half hour was like, you know, the CEO
Speaker 1: of Taco Bell coming out being like, as this tweet says,
Speaker 1: Taco Bell is one of the last great melting that
Speaker 1: transcends class in the United States that somebody had tweeted
Speaker 1: as a joke, and the CEO took it seriously. There
Speaker 1: were some guys playing acoustic guitar love songs to Taco
Speaker 1: Bell got off to uh not promising start, and then
Speaker 1: they started to reveal products and it went from underwhelming
Speaker 1: choosed swhelming, like definitely some people were whelmed in the audience.
Speaker 1: So Taco Bell wants to and plans on making its
Speaker 1: popular nacho fries permanent menu items.
Speaker 2: Whoo.
Speaker 1: But they're still trying to figure out how.
Speaker 2: It's hard. It's hard out here.
Speaker 1: It's just like, I don't know, man, Like it's hard.
Speaker 1: We have to like worry about supply chain shit.
Speaker 3: As a massive fan of sloppy, sloppy fries of any kind,
Speaker 3: this is this is to my.
Speaker 1: Ears, it's good news for sure. Like on the broad
Speaker 1: scope of history humanity, this is good news. The fact
Speaker 1: that they haven't figured it out yet doesn't mean they're
Speaker 1: not going to figure it out yet, especially given that
Speaker 1: Taco Bell Keynotes appear to be here to stay. Because
Speaker 1: this was a, you know, huge success. I feel like
Speaker 1: they're not going to go up there next year and
Speaker 1: be like, we almost got it this time, guys. So
Speaker 1: I feel like we're we're gonna get these permanent fries.
Speaker 1: But maybe that's not the one I would have opened
Speaker 1: with because they're still trying to figure that one out. However,
Speaker 1: they announced a new cheesy chicken Crispada Crispanda.
Speaker 3: I feel like the article that's a typo in the
Speaker 3: article because I feel like it should be cris Banada.
Speaker 1: Maybe chris Banada.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, maybe it's I think that's just the type.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, people don't have what do you think
Speaker 1: they have time for that money for a fucking.
Speaker 3: It's genuine hard to like, we don't give a fuck.
Speaker 3: How it's spells Crisponda whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Chris over here. It's a shredded cheese filled chicken
Speaker 1: stuffed and Panada. Yeah, so it's got to be Chris Binanda.
Speaker 2: It's got to be right.
Speaker 1: People were gasping in the audience, which that just helps
Speaker 1: me know that I'm not alone out here.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure those are just farts.
Speaker 1: Just loose assholes. Yeah, a collection of the loosest assholes
Speaker 1: in America at Yeah, you would think so. They're also
Speaker 1: redesigning the sauce packets, which I personally am going to
Speaker 1: go out and grab all the existing packets because you know,
Speaker 1: they are a piece of nineties design that I don't
Speaker 1: want to I don't want to say goodbye to quite yet.
Speaker 3: The new design for an exorbitant price.
Speaker 1: Exactly the new design is, you know, exactly what I
Speaker 1: would expect the design to look like. It looks like it.
Speaker 1: It looks like an Instagram filter of some sort.
Speaker 3: It's pretty clean, it's it's very veratable, Yeah, for sure,
Speaker 3: instantly recognizable.
Speaker 1: They're going to bring chicken nuggets to the menu. You know,
Speaker 1: they can't all be winners. I personally don't go to
Speaker 1: Taco Bell for this unless they're like, you know, you
Speaker 1: could throw these on your grilled stuff burrito and then
Speaker 1: you know, if there's like some pricing magic. I could
Speaker 1: work out where if I do a grilled stuff burrito
Speaker 1: without the chicken, but then I can stuff some chicken
Speaker 1: nuggies in the grilled stuff burrito and it actually comes
Speaker 1: out to cheaper than a grilled stuff chicken Burritoh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the menu hacks are gonna be insane this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like chicken nuggets seem specifically designed for menu hacks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, TikTok is gonna go nuts with the menu hacks.
Speaker 3: So I look forward to the reporting on that from
Speaker 3: a super producer Beca and Miles and people who keep track.
Speaker 2: Of that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: I am not. I am a fan of Baja Blaft.
Speaker 1: My heart does pump Baja Blast. That is the color
Speaker 1: of my blood. That is my blood type. They announced
Speaker 1: Baja Blast ice cream not here for it. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't give a shit. Yeah, I don't care. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't want Baha. I don't take my Baja Blast
Speaker 1: with cream unfortunately. Yeah. Superroducer Victor said, why is it
Speaker 1: not sorbet? And That's what I would say exactly. I
Speaker 1: take my Baha Blast black like my coffee, you know,
Speaker 1: like just give it to me straight up. Don't give me,
Speaker 1: don't get me cream with my Baja blast. So the
Speaker 1: big one, the thing that like really captured all the
Speaker 1: headlines all the attention was the crunch rap where the guy, So,
Speaker 1: the guy opens his like looks like a regular crunch rap, right,
Speaker 1: and there is your first clue that this guy's about
Speaker 1: to try and trick you. Someone says, hey, this just
Speaker 1: looks like a regular loaf of bread. That ship's got
Speaker 1: a handgun inside it, but in this case, it has
Speaker 1: a giant cheese it inside. Brian, you've been Brian the
Speaker 1: editor for a long time on this show. Yes, I
Speaker 1: have we covered this ship, didn't we? Like years ago?
Speaker 1: I found a like news release where they were like
Speaker 1: test kitchening this ship like a year and a half ago.
Speaker 1: I was like, why do I have a very specific
Speaker 1: sense memory of a giant cheese it because like a
Speaker 1: giant cheese it being revealed via X.
Speaker 3: Ray it was it was like a taco, right, it.
Speaker 1: Was there's a costada and then there was also this
Speaker 1: like specifically giant cheese it inside a crunch trap supreme.
Speaker 1: But I guess that had escaped people like I don't
Speaker 1: know what was wrong with America that they missed but
Speaker 1: they did. I feel like.
Speaker 2: Their food science might take a while.
Speaker 3: I feel like, if you'll remember during the the chicken
Speaker 3: sandwich wars, I can't remember which chain had some shortages,
Speaker 3: but they had to take a few months to nail
Speaker 3: down their foods. Yeah, I think it was Popeyes, where
Speaker 3: you guys had some inside baseball or somebody somebody from
Speaker 3: Zgang was like, yo, my dad's such and such, and
Speaker 3: it's like they're refining and tweaking and doing all this
Speaker 3: stuff and making sure Popeye. But I think, yeah, like
Speaker 3: you know, from idea to fruition, might take a while
Speaker 3: to uh to get all this quite up to Taco
Speaker 3: Bell standards. So yeah, maybe they were just you know,
Speaker 3: doing a little pilot pilot program of uh yeah, of
Speaker 3: cheese at products and they finally found one.
Speaker 1: They finally found the consistency, the density. I'm I'm pretty
Speaker 1: excited about that one. I'm excited that it's going now
Speaker 1: in the spring. I'm excited about a lot of these.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to trying them. I'll probably even try
Speaker 1: the Baha Blast ice cream, but we'll see. Let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break to kind of wrap our minds around
Speaker 1: this no, this new future that we've entered into the
Speaker 1: future of Taco Bell keynotes, and we'll come back and
Speaker 1: we'll talk about other things. We'll be right back.
Speaker 4: Okay, and we're back.
Speaker 1: We're back the Golden Bachelorette. So the Golden Bachelor was
Speaker 1: not just a one off experiment. It was very popular.
Speaker 1: It is very successful. People enjoyed it. It was a
Speaker 1: reality show event that even caught my attention. They don't
Speaker 1: always do that, and.
Speaker 3: That fuck boys never grow up like Peter Pan.
Speaker 1: That's right. And now we are going to get to
Speaker 1: see a whole bunch of elderly fuck boys because The
Speaker 1: Golden Bachelor Urett is coming Fall twenty twenty four. So
Speaker 1: I don't think they've announced who it is quite yet,
Speaker 1: but exciting news for fans of reality TV. I'm sure
Speaker 1: Miles will have more to say about this when he
Speaker 1: is back tomorrow. Let's see Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is
Speaker 1: back in the hospital.
Speaker 2: Because it's just so chill there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is he's the person who like didn't
Speaker 1: want to tell anyone he had to go to the
Speaker 1: hospital and people freaked out because they're like, you're there's
Speaker 1: Donald Rumsfeld from years past, like you have an important job,
Speaker 1: you got to tell us, and you know, so he
Speaker 1: didn't disclose his previous hospital stay. It was actually related
Speaker 1: to a prostate cancer diagnosis. And now there's like a
Speaker 1: real strike and effect going on here where you know,
Speaker 1: he didn't want to disclose his medical situation because he's
Speaker 1: such a private person. But now there's heightened attention to
Speaker 1: his hospital stays as a result of that controversy, which
Speaker 1: is a total bummer for him and for us. I
Speaker 1: just wish him the best with his You know that
Speaker 1: that disease is no joke. And finally this is you know,
Speaker 1: we try and keep an eye on box office to
Speaker 1: see what people are watching. We say, you know, the
Speaker 1: movies have a pretty important impact on how people view,
Speaker 1: how people picture things that they haven't experience for themselves.
Speaker 1: This is going to be our first box office report
Speaker 1: where we're talking about what people aren't seeing. Because it
Speaker 1: was complete dismal weekend for movie theaters.
Speaker 2: Was was it expected to be?
Speaker 3: I mean, what were they projecting because it is February.
Speaker 3: It's February traditionally, this is not.
Speaker 2: Like a huge month for movies. Is that correct?
Speaker 1: No, leading the witness, but you are correct. Your Honor.
Speaker 1: It was not expected to be big. The other thing
Speaker 1: they're dealing with is the like they people really spaced
Speaker 1: out there release schedule because of the strikes and you know,
Speaker 1: production shutting down for a while last year. So nothing
Speaker 1: came out this weekend other than Lisa Frankenstein from Diablo
Speaker 1: Cody of Juneo Fame. That one made about three million.
Speaker 1: They were hoping that it would be like counter programming
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl and didn't quite work out that way.
Speaker 2: Lisa Franken Bowl, Lisa Franken Bowl.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's not the Puppy Bowl, it's not the
Speaker 1: bud Ball, It's the Lisa Franken Bull. Get Ready. The
Speaker 1: number one movie was Argyle, despite the fact that nobody
Speaker 1: in the world seems to actually like Argyle came in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: spoiler alert, people don't.
Speaker 3: Know plane or you know, Yeah, I feel like.
Speaker 1: It's a great plane movie.
Speaker 3: While you're falling asleep in a hotel room or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah. That being said, it was actually a good weekend
Speaker 1: for independent films. Several movies that are nominated for Best
Speaker 1: International Feature at the Oscars got a lot of baffo bio.
Speaker 1: There were some art house movies there's a new Harmony
Speaker 1: Corinne movie Aggro Drift.
Speaker 2: With a one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that that Drift's gonna have a one that grows
Speaker 1: a g g r O and then Drift with a
Speaker 1: one because it's the future. But it's a experimental action
Speaker 1: narrative shot in infrared that if you just like go
Speaker 1: look at a trailer, it's actually kind of cool looking.
Speaker 1: But that that amassed forty six thousand three dollars in
Speaker 1: five shows over four days. Madam Webb we'll talk about
Speaker 1: on tomorrow's episode. But Madam Web is coming out this weekend.
Speaker 1: That is like the thing that's coming through to hopefully
Speaker 1: save the box office. And the reviews are in, they're
Speaker 1: not great. We'll talk about it. But like the reason
Speaker 1: Madam Web is even even exists is because Sony needs
Speaker 1: to like keep their claim to Spider Man ip alive
Speaker 1: while making a movie that doesn't have Spider Man in it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the tone of everything around this film has
Speaker 3: been very strange. Dakota Johnson's press tour has been very strange.
Speaker 1: Like impressively, so I'm actually a huge fan.
Speaker 3: Now this is just like a weird like tax thing
Speaker 3: essentially or something that's.
Speaker 1: The thing, so like there's gonna be all this media
Speaker 1: that's like the movies are dying. But like you know,
Speaker 1: as Jam pointed out, there was a good weekend for
Speaker 1: independent films. Obviously they're not making like trillions of dollars,
Speaker 1: but they did pretty well. I just feel like we
Speaker 1: can't be surprised when the studios and the big corporations
Speaker 1: who are in charge of making the big budget movies
Speaker 1: are treating them like fucking tax right offs and like deleting.
Speaker 1: Like they just announced that that Wiley Coyote verus Acme
Speaker 1: movie is being shelved and deleted because like they didn't
Speaker 1: want to sell it for like seventy million dollars. So
Speaker 1: it's just a tax right off for David z As
Speaker 1: left the whole. So when big budget movies are made
Speaker 1: and released to like keep an ip alive and not
Speaker 1: because anyone thinks it's going to be good or entertaining,
Speaker 1: or you know, when interesting movies are deleted as a
Speaker 1: tax right off, we're gonna get shittier and shittier movies
Speaker 1: at that tier, and then you know it's going to
Speaker 1: be up to lower budget movies to be good, I guess,
Speaker 1: And I feel like we're going to see more people
Speaker 1: going to independent movies hopefully, or the whole thing's just
Speaker 1: going to die off. But I don't like the narrative
Speaker 1: of like man, movies are fucked because it doesn't feel
Speaker 1: like that's true. I don't think it's the movie's fault.
Speaker 1: I think it's the corporations who use movies as a
Speaker 1: fucking tax shelter like that. I think that might be
Speaker 1: the issue.
Speaker 3: It's like, traditionally, like this is less true probably in
Speaker 3: recent years, but it used to be that if you
Speaker 3: had a real fucking stinker that you were going to
Speaker 3: take an l on you dump it in January of February,
Speaker 3: as a matter of course, and that's when all the
Speaker 3: trash movies come out that no one wants to see.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3: They're they're definitely keeping in with that tradition because there's
Speaker 3: a lot of Spider Man love out there. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: that's very apparent. People fucking love Spider Man. And I'm
Speaker 3: really not seeing the excitement in those communities online. People
Speaker 3: are confused by this canonically. I mean, I think they
Speaker 3: understand business wise what's going on here, but canonically, what
Speaker 3: the fuck is this?
Speaker 2: Is what I'm getting from people.
Speaker 1: Yeah. When we got off done recording tomorrow's episode, to
Speaker 1: producer Justin was like, you guys like, don't really understand
Speaker 1: Marvel And I was like, oh shit, were we unfair
Speaker 1: to Madam Webb? He was like, no, not at all.
Speaker 1: Madam Webb is a fucking mess. So yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I guess they can all be winners. Maybe that should
Speaker 1: just be we'll give it. We'll give Sony a pass
Speaker 1: on this one. But yeah, we'll talk more about this
Speaker 1: on tomorrow's episode, specifically Madam Web. But go see an
Speaker 1: independent movie this weekend. How about that if you're not
Speaker 1: going to see Madam Web.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Curny Karen is fucking weird. Check that out. Let
Speaker 2: us know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this shill looks interesting. All right. Well, Brian the Editor,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. Where can people
Speaker 1: find you? Follow you, come surprise you on your doorstep
Speaker 1: in person?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can find me on Twitter.
Speaker 2: Brian the Editor's Brian with a y.
Speaker 1: I'm at Jack underscore. O, Brian, that is gonna do
Speaker 1: it for this episode. We are back tomorrow with the
Speaker 1: whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind
Speaker 1: to each other, Be kind to yourself at the vaccine,
Speaker 1: don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
Speaker 1: you out tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Bye bye