Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Smokey
Speaker 1: Robins Trends that is courtesy of the beautiful golden brain
Speaker 1: of one Miles Gray oh Man.
Speaker 2: Massive mateen, Massive mates, It's massive, I'm Jack.
Speaker 1: That's Miles. Well, yeah, Miles, thank you. Wonderful to have
Speaker 1: you back.
Speaker 2: Great to be back.
Speaker 1: Smoking Robinson is in the news, uh for giving an
Speaker 1: interview where he just dropped some some some unnecessary heat.
Speaker 2: He's already has, like this album out called Gasms. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you know about.
Speaker 1: Have you heard? Have you?
Speaker 2: Have you seen this new Smokey Robinson.
Speaker 1: I have not.
Speaker 2: He is in crisis, okay, like in a way that
Speaker 2: you're like, if that's your grandpa, You're like, oh no,
Speaker 2: what fuck is he doing? Like it's him trying to
Speaker 2: be like old people fucked too. Like the tracks are
Speaker 2: called I Want to Know Your Body, No, Another one
Speaker 2: is You Fill Me Up? Another one is Jack Ready
Speaker 2: for this? I Fit in There? No Jack, I'm not lying.
Speaker 2: That's the name of a fucking Smokey Robinson track off
Speaker 2: this new album I Fit In There.
Speaker 1: Like the first two sound like romantic, like steamy love songs.
Speaker 1: That one just said, like that's like a ad lib
Speaker 1: from a porn hub video or something that's.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, chasms, baby, it's all gasms s gasms. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's a There's a lot of people have been like, oh,
Speaker 3: these these tracks are something else. Anyway, these tracks are
Speaker 3: something else, something I did not care to hear about.
Speaker 2: Anyway, He's trending because look, his album just came out.
Speaker 2: He's doing like the I'm guessing like outraised news cycle,
Speaker 2: or he's just on his Quincy Jones, like old black Man,
Speaker 2: who's just starting to be like, hey man, I used
Speaker 2: to get into some shit back in the day, and
Speaker 2: people were like, nobody fucking.
Speaker 1: Asked, Oh yeah, Ivanka Trump, Yes, oh yeah, I could
Speaker 1: have had that, could have had that.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. But I didn't because that's
Speaker 2: when God leaves the room. So he's come out recently
Speaker 2: and admitted he had an affair with Diana Ross like
Speaker 2: in the early Motown era. This is what he said quote.
Speaker 2: I was married at the time, we were working together
Speaker 2: and it just happened. But it was beautiful. She's a
Speaker 2: beautiful lady and I love her right till today. She's
Speaker 2: one of my closest people. Oh okay, smokey uh, talking
Speaker 2: about how he was married to his first wife at
Speaker 2: the time. Yeah, and he said this affair lasted a
Speaker 2: fucking year, and he said she was young and trying
Speaker 2: to get her career together. I was trying to help her.
Speaker 2: That doesn't sound fucking problematic story, friend, I brought her
Speaker 2: to Motown. In fact, I wasn't going after her and
Speaker 2: she wasn't going after me. It just happened. Sound the
Speaker 2: fucking alarm bels. What are you saying, Smokey Robinson.
Speaker 1: I mean, what this is? And does she know about that?
Speaker 2: You were about to come out here.
Speaker 1: With this ship. That's a great question. Yeah, it just happened.
Speaker 2: This is where he's telling on himself without realizing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean I usually go to elderly singers
Speaker 1: for my most progressive sexual mores, but Jesus.
Speaker 2: I mean it is wild. And then also it's like,
Speaker 2: you know I had that before Barry Gordy did. I
Speaker 2: just don't want to set the record straight, you know,
Speaker 2: because that's not a direct quote. No, no, but I
Speaker 2: mean Barry Gordy and heard also how to you know,
Speaker 2: had a relationship too, and a lot of people, you know,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of talk about colorism, even within the
Speaker 2: Supremes because of Diana Ross. There's all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 2: History of Motown is very interesting. I took a whole
Speaker 2: class on it in college, you know that thing where
Speaker 2: you spend money on to learn obscure facts about Barry
Speaker 2: Gordy's sex life. But anyway, yeah, Smokey Robinson, you've done it.
Speaker 2: You got your name in the headlines. But I don't
Speaker 2: know if it's in the best way. And again, I'm
Speaker 2: very curious who knew about this, Like, it's just a
Speaker 2: very odd story and it's rife with problems.
Speaker 1: Yes, I just found the lyrics for I Fit in there,
Speaker 1: Let Me in your life. So it starts out you're
Speaker 1: you're starting to think, like, okay, this is yeah, it's
Speaker 1: all a metaphor. Let me in your life, make some
Speaker 1: room for me. If deep down inside you're hoping to
Speaker 1: fill up an opening, I fit in there. I fit
Speaker 1: in God if empty fills up your private place and
Speaker 1: nothing and no one can penetrate. If you got an
Speaker 1: inner vacancy, baby, that make it a place for me,
Speaker 1: I mean private place and penetrate right there, It's been the.
Speaker 2: Third verses, let me fuck your whole and you're like, smoky, please,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Has he had his medication today?
Speaker 1: He feels like it really feels like he after a
Speaker 1: career of like love songs. He was like, my one
Speaker 1: note would be that they don't actually know what we're
Speaker 1: talking about with all this double entendra shit, Like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: we just need to make it, you know, a little
Speaker 1: less subtextual and a little bit more overtly sexual.
Speaker 2: I've been holding my tongue for too long, you know.
Speaker 2: Tears of a Clown was about getting blue balls, and
Speaker 2: they wanted me to change the lyrics. That's about thinking
Speaker 2: you're gonna fuck and not fucking.
Speaker 1: One for me and one for me. I'm eighty three
Speaker 1: years old. Fuck off.
Speaker 2: It's actually about begging for sex and coercing a woman.
Speaker 2: Just look at the lyrics and Tears for a Clown.
Speaker 2: But don't let my glad expression give you the wrong impression. Really,
Speaker 2: I'm sad. Oh I'm sadder than sad. You're gone, and
Speaker 2: I'm hurting so bad because I'm horny.
Speaker 1: Yay.
Speaker 2: But then they said, like a clown, I appear to
Speaker 2: be glad whatever it was supposed to be, I'm harder
Speaker 2: than concrete. But they didn't like that.
Speaker 1: There are so many sis. The seventies was just such
Speaker 1: a wild time, like the sexual politics of the seventies,
Speaker 1: Like the lyrics are just like of so many of
Speaker 1: these that are like classic love songs or just like
Speaker 1: men being like, yeah, we should fuck, but like I
Speaker 1: don't really think we should like be in a relationship necessarily.
Speaker 2: Also like you're fourteen?
Speaker 1: Yeah, is that weird?
Speaker 2: Is that weird? I don't know? Not in this song, yeah,
Speaker 2: picked her up at junior high.
Speaker 1: You're like, what the fuck show sixteen years old? Right?
Speaker 2: Leave her alone?
Speaker 1: What? Yeah?
Speaker 2: They say, Wait a new edition. Y'all got something to
Speaker 2: say about some of your songs? Nope, nope, nope, nope,
Speaker 2: don't know nothing about her.
Speaker 1: Steven Crowder, Uh, there's a nice companion video that was
Speaker 1: released to the one we talked about on one of
Speaker 1: the trendings earlier in the week where he was like,
Speaker 1: I guess they let women divorce you in Texas, which
Speaker 1: I guess I don't have to consent to that.
Speaker 2: Someone can just up and want to improve their situation
Speaker 2: on their own. I guess that's how wacky the laws are.
Speaker 1: So his ex wife dropped a ring camera video on
Speaker 1: the world and it's just him telling his she's like visibly,
Speaker 1: you know, eight months pregnant, telling her to feed the
Speaker 1: dog medicine that is like harmful to pregnant people, telling
Speaker 1: her to like go get his steaks and wood chips
Speaker 1: at the grocery store, or he won't let her drive
Speaker 1: the car until she starts doing her quote wifely duties. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, it's.
Speaker 2: Uh, it's fucking it's hard to watch, like the emotional
Speaker 2: abuse that he's putting her through. Like you can just tell,
Speaker 2: like as someone who's had a pregnant partner and knowing
Speaker 2: how taxing that is on you physically emotionally, to add
Speaker 2: some asshole being like, well you can't use the fucking
Speaker 2: car until you do your wifely duties is like it
Speaker 2: was making me fucking like I wanted to fucking explode.
Speaker 2: And the thing that he's talking about, he keeps saying,
Speaker 2: this thing is like put the gloves on, walk the dog.
Speaker 2: Put the gloves on, walk the dog. And he's referencing
Speaker 2: and this has happened in my house too, Like our
Speaker 2: you know, our pets use like one of those topical
Speaker 2: flea medicines or whatever. You put the liquid on neck
Speaker 2: and shit, and just out of good safe practice. I
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, I don't handle any fucking chemicals. We
Speaker 2: don't know what the fuck is up, Like I'll do
Speaker 2: that shit, I'm not pregnant. But this guy apparently was
Speaker 2: saying like, get over it and wear gloves then, because
Speaker 2: you need to do that, and also wears my stakes
Speaker 2: And on top of it too, Candice Owens is now
Speaker 2: involved in this whole feud. Uh, and it's just becoming
Speaker 2: a right old mess over there on the right wing.
Speaker 2: So even happened to the worst person, turns out these
Speaker 2: guys might be bad, might be bad people. He also
Speaker 2: his ex wife is alleging that his surgery that he
Speaker 2: got like right when his kids were born was elective. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He like just couldn't couldn't take the attention being off.
Speaker 2: Of what was his surgery exactly, I don't know.
Speaker 1: He he claimed it was like a chest surgery to
Speaker 1: fix the genetic defect, and she's like, actually.
Speaker 2: Actually he put a weird thing.
Speaker 1: He looks like he's wearing a muscle suit in the video,
Speaker 1: Like he looks like he wearing one of those Halloween Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't be surprised if he's got some implants
Speaker 1: in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be a mess. It's gonna be a mess.
Speaker 2: I mean the fact that she has, like I'm assuming
Speaker 2: she's the one that got this footage. I can only
Speaker 2: imagine what other things because he says something about he's
Speaker 2: like I'm gonna like destroy you or some shit. He's
Speaker 2: he's threatening her and ship too apparently. But then tail
Speaker 2: end of this video, so yeah, not not good, not
Speaker 2: a fun one.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break. We'll come back and talk
Speaker 1: about sludge content. What is it? And we're back. I
Speaker 1: thought that was like a pretty good that was like
Speaker 1: a local news tease right before the break and after
Speaker 1: the break. Sludge content you're kicking her into it? Is
Speaker 1: it killing them?
Speaker 2: Or is it the guns? Probably the sledge content.
Speaker 1: We're not definitely a sledge you know, you can't really
Speaker 1: make money off of sledge content. Guns a lot of money,
Speaker 1: So sledge content was you.
Speaker 2: Know what the sledge are pay coming in.
Speaker 1: So this is a genre of video that is just
Speaker 1: like sensory overload, like multiple split screen videos.
Speaker 2: It's taking it's you see a lot on TikTok people
Speaker 2: are talking about as a form of escapism that it
Speaker 2: gives solace in a very chaotic world, like the comments
Speaker 2: on these so picture of video. In our old people brain,
Speaker 2: a video is usually just one video playing it once.
Speaker 2: And these sledge content videos, we're talking about fucking three
Speaker 2: sometimes five videos like Mosaic Out on a single screen
Speaker 2: playing multiple things at once, so it'll be like someone
Speaker 2: playing gameplay, like gameplay footage of subway surfers, or like
Speaker 2: a am I the asshole Reddit post being read by
Speaker 2: like a robot voice, or people fucking scooping little ice
Speaker 2: creams or cutting soap and shit like this along with
Speaker 2: the scene from family guy. To me, it reads is
Speaker 2: pure chaos.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I.
Speaker 2: Can kind of understand how, like as someone who also
Speaker 2: would do the thing, whereas like I would listen to
Speaker 2: the radio, watch TV, and do my homework at the
Speaker 2: same time. Like I kind of know about splitting your
Speaker 2: brain into three different places at once, even though you're
Speaker 2: not taking it all in. But like when you look
Speaker 2: at the actual comments on these videos and people say
Speaker 2: like like soholeheartedly not enough stimulation, or other people saying
Speaker 2: like my mind feels whole, I'm like, oh no, Now
Speaker 2: I'm reluctant to say I'm like, is this what our
Speaker 2: damn social media has done to our attention spans? But
Speaker 2: what the F I can't get down with this?
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is I've apparently reached the stage of old age.
Speaker 1: I'm not at the tell people how horny I am,
Speaker 1: even though they visibly don't want to know about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I am at the stage where trends does seem
Speaker 1: like they're designed to harm me, because this is like
Speaker 1: an assault, sensory assault. Although it was kind of intrigued,
Speaker 1: Like the video I watched had like a really in
Speaker 1: depth long soliloquy on like Catcher and the Rye from
Speaker 1: American Dad? Is that? Or is that Family Guy? Is
Speaker 1: that a real clip from Family Guy? This Family Guy
Speaker 1: just do long political diatribes now, I guess.
Speaker 2: Every now and then. I mean I've seen ones too
Speaker 2: where someone's reading Marx right well over it and it
Speaker 2: was someone who's like like saying, like, I'm going to
Speaker 2: use a sledge video content for good. Maybe the kids
Speaker 2: will start realizing that they can read up a little
Speaker 2: bit on Marxism or some shit.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh. And it was sort of the same thing, except
Speaker 2: that differently, like the most audible thing being this like
Speaker 2: excerpt but I don't know. I think it speaks to
Speaker 2: like every generation we learn how to fuck around with
Speaker 2: media in our own way, and this seems like this
Speaker 2: is firmly the TikTok generations thing of Like you know,
Speaker 2: there were always like wild ass chaotic videos on YouTube,
Speaker 2: especially like Major League Gaming parody videos, which gave away
Speaker 2: to a lot of like hyper fucking aggressive edits and
Speaker 2: videos that I can see how this is just this
Speaker 2: the kids just dealing with the pieces they got in
Speaker 2: front of them. But yeah, let us know, this is
Speaker 2: this because of our diminished attention spans? Is it because
Speaker 2: our world is so fraught with fucked up things that
Speaker 2: just overloading our senses with nine videos at once is
Speaker 2: like a way to kind of create some piece. I
Speaker 2: don't know, let us know in the comments.
Speaker 1: Well, speaking of things that don't make sense to me,
Speaker 1: Rolling Stone dropped a list of the top twenty social
Speaker 1: media influencers right now, and I think it was producer
Speaker 1: Victor wanted to ask the question, can Jack name any
Speaker 1: of what Rolling Stone considers the twenty times?
Speaker 2: I think if you just dug deep, I think you
Speaker 2: could name at least two.
Speaker 1: So I got that is mister Beast on there, yep, okay,
Speaker 1: is Charlie Demillio.
Speaker 2: You know what Judges bing bing bing, Yes, the Damilio sister.
Speaker 1: Sisters. That's all I got.
Speaker 2: Okay. Another person who is the one who recently worked
Speaker 2: with bud Light.
Speaker 1: Oh uh Seth Weathers what Oh no that sorry, that's
Speaker 1: the uh that's the reactionary right wing version of that.
Speaker 2: Yes, Dylan mulvaney.
Speaker 1: Dylan mulvaney, yes, yeah, okay, doing Mulvaney's on there, like
Speaker 1: Seth Weathers. Okay.
Speaker 2: One of them is a descendant of the sordid marriage
Speaker 2: between Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.
Speaker 1: Wait what one of their springs?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Really North North Yeah, Northwest is the influencer I didn't know.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, because they had like a whole
Speaker 2: TikTok thing. I think they stopped making them recently, but yeah.
Speaker 2: And then there's like people like Logan Paul Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I know the Pouls. Oh yeah, you know, of course, dude,
Speaker 2: Logan Polls. Yes, what about Alex Cooper Jack.
Speaker 1: No clue that sounds familiar most of.
Speaker 2: The Call Her Daddy podcast. Okay, But another one I
Speaker 2: knew is Amelia de Moldenburg. That's only because she does
Speaker 2: Chicken Shop Date. I used to watch those videos a lot,
Speaker 2: and now she's blowing up. Have you seen Chicken Shop Date?
Speaker 2: I have not. She's like this woman from the UK.
Speaker 2: I think he's from London and she does like really
Speaker 2: awkward dates at a chicken shop. If you remember my money,
Speaker 2: don't jiggle jiggle? Yeah it folds. Okay, yeah that's from
Speaker 2: That's from Chicken Shop Date with Amelia de Moldenberg.
Speaker 1: All right, apparently Severance is a mess behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: Did you watch it?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got through two episodes and then my Apple
Speaker 2: Plus thing ran now, but then I realized I get
Speaker 2: it for free through my cell phone, so maybe I'll
Speaker 2: start watching it again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's intriguing in it, like it's like Season one
Speaker 1: I lost. It's like got all the fun mystery box
Speaker 1: stuff that I've yet to see a mystery box show
Speaker 1: pay off. But maybe this will be the one. Baby.
Speaker 1: But apparently the two show runners don't like each other.
Speaker 1: Oh and one of them wanted to quit, and then
Speaker 1: executive producer Ben Stiller convinced him to come back, which
Speaker 1: is kind of funny considering that is like basically what
Speaker 1: the show is like about people who keep trying to
Speaker 1: escape their workplace and end up being forced back. It's
Speaker 1: wild like Apple is leaking statements that Apple is disappointed
Speaker 1: and embarrassed about the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Oh first time, first time working and making things like
Speaker 2: making content. But okay, yeah, I hear you, I hear you.
Speaker 2: They should be embarrassed that, like a lot of their
Speaker 2: shows are just straight up els.
Speaker 1: But hey, some episodes reportedly cost twenty million dollars. But
Speaker 1: I mean it makes sense. This is the only one
Speaker 1: that really like connected, right, the only Apple Plus show
Speaker 1: that fully Now.
Speaker 2: Let's not leave old sedeikis out of it.
Speaker 1: Oh right last so baby, yeah, well we'll say along
Speaker 1: that lasts. That's right. That is going to do it
Speaker 1: for us all this we we are on Monday with
Speaker 1: the whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be
Speaker 1: kind 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 y'all on Monday.
Speaker 2: Bye by Bite