Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of trend
Speaker 1: O Lefren. That is a trending title courtesy of Maniche
Speaker 1: in reference to the chemical from over the counter Colden
Speaker 1: sin Its medications that is supposedly a placebo. Uh and
Speaker 1: the cursed placebo episode that we did and then everybody
Speaker 1: involved got sick. Damn you the placebo or no cbo
Speaker 1: for infecting my brain with your inception illness. I am Jack,
Speaker 1: and I'm thrilled to be joined in our second seat
Speaker 1: by the wonderful, the talented Joel Money.
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 3: How you doing?
Speaker 4: We had some fun trends today. I'm excited.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we do. So.
Speaker 1: First off, some fun, some fun stuff is just Mitch McConnell,
Speaker 1: continuing to reveal himself to be a non playable character
Speaker 1: in NPC, froze mid sentence while delivering an answer to
Speaker 1: a question. This last time he froze for twenty seconds.
Speaker 1: This time it was for thirty seconds. I was a
Speaker 1: smaller gaggle. It was in Kentucky. And uh yeah it's
Speaker 1: it's either he's a non playable character or he is very.
Speaker 3: Old, just very just.
Speaker 4: Very very old.
Speaker 3: Oh he looks old.
Speaker 1: This man looks old. Anyways, he like got walked off
Speaker 1: and then they came back.
Speaker 3: And we're like, he's talking to his doctors. I think
Speaker 3: he's good. It should be. It should be.
Speaker 1: Back up in Adam soon enough, folks.
Speaker 3: But it's it's grim. It is grim as hell.
Speaker 1: It's just a weird struck, rual quirk of our political
Speaker 1: system where the incumbents have a massive advantage and people
Speaker 1: like power and.
Speaker 3: So uh, this shit just keeps on and should.
Speaker 2: Be weird to be his staff just puppeting him through
Speaker 2: the motions at this point in time. But Republicans have
Speaker 2: a long history of doing this.
Speaker 4: They're like, it's.
Speaker 2: Fine, as long as we continue to get our way,
Speaker 2: does not matter if this person is confident, just stand
Speaker 2: for the job. I think it's also wild for the
Speaker 2: doctor and listen, I'm not a medical professional. Let's just
Speaker 2: give that warning right now. But my grandmother had similar issues.
Speaker 2: She fell down, hit her head and then dementia increased
Speaker 2: after that. And for them to be like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: you know, concussion sometimes you blink out. Yeah, But also
Speaker 2: when you're old and you start having concussions and falling
Speaker 2: like that is a symptom typically of something much much
Speaker 2: larger like it's not a good sign, and it's.
Speaker 3: Why usually doesn't get bat Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then we have two folks on either side of
Speaker 2: the line, one on either side of the line with deep,
Speaker 2: deep memory problems and an inability to perform their job,
Speaker 2: like clearly an inability to perform like a very basic question,
Speaker 2: will you run again? What's the question that he was
Speaker 2: asked and he couldn't answer it.
Speaker 4: That's a problem.
Speaker 2: That's a problem, and I think we have to put
Speaker 2: in some new parameters, obviously carefully ordered, because we don't
Speaker 2: want ableism or even agism, Like I'm not agists. I
Speaker 2: don't think that there needs to be a max number
Speaker 2: of years and then like you're out. But I do
Speaker 2: think you should have to be able to be a
Speaker 2: level of competent in order to perform your duties. Otherwise,
Speaker 2: why are you here? What is the point? You are
Speaker 2: not the person that people elected. It's a problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's It's a bad, bad scene all over
Speaker 1: the all over the political power elite. Well, in some
Speaker 1: fun news, HBO Max slash just Mas has come up
Speaker 1: with their worst idea yet, which we're you know, we're
Speaker 1: always excited when they could top themselves. Uh so, Warner
Speaker 1: Brothers Discovery has announced they will introduce a twenty four
Speaker 1: to seven live streamed news service dubbed CNN Max.
Speaker 4: Not a second CNN app.
Speaker 1: Yes, they're just kind of hoping everybody forgets about CNN Plus,
Speaker 1: which they launched launched last year and like what, announced
Speaker 1: that they were giving up on it within the month.
Speaker 1: I think it was like it was a wild fast.
Speaker 1: It was fast. They were like psych about that thing.
Speaker 1: You know that press release that's like nine emails below
Speaker 1: this one in your inbox about how we're excited to
Speaker 1: launch CNN Plus.
Speaker 3: Uh, that was all bullshit. We're actually on this one.
Speaker 3: Cut the cord, cut the core, We're out.
Speaker 1: Anyways, the company is reportedly going to try out a
Speaker 1: feature with this in which people watching shows and movies
Speaker 1: on Max will have their shows interrupted by breaking news
Speaker 1: from CNN.
Speaker 4: What are you doing?
Speaker 3: Which time? Do they not know?
Speaker 2: We have cell phones that will immediately learn to breaking news.
Speaker 3: Why who would want that? Why would you think anyone
Speaker 3: would want that? Joel?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Well, you're famously somebody who understands and
Speaker 1: can speak to the thought process of David Zaslov.
Speaker 2: Why the only thing I can think of is back
Speaker 2: in mind day we had twenty four to seven news channels,
Speaker 2: you know, that was CNN's height.
Speaker 4: People seem to really like that.
Speaker 2: Also, what if we gave people, you know, like that
Speaker 2: old TV watching experience, like done, here's news that you're
Speaker 2: the world is like, it's like they're not living on
Speaker 2: current planet Earth. It's very surreal to think that anyone
Speaker 2: would want.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Because that is that. Also, you have so much children's
Speaker 4: programming on there.
Speaker 2: If I'm watching like a Miyazaki film, and shouldn't they
Speaker 2: going to interrupt and be like the death of one
Speaker 2: of our very old presidents is happening right now?
Speaker 3: Like what right, Jimmy Carter has passed away?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like it's weird to me to be like, uh,
Speaker 2: you know what, they really hate ads, but I bet
Speaker 2: the love just being interrupted in the middle of their service.
Speaker 1: It's crazy, especially because half of your audience probably like
Speaker 1: will consider that a political act because they think CNN
Speaker 1: is like the communist manifesto.
Speaker 4: And I also think that.
Speaker 2: If you have like what's the real problem is capitalism?
Speaker 2: Here's why hbo X was a perfect app There's nothing
Speaker 2: wrong with it.
Speaker 1: I mean there's plenty wrong with it, but the content
Speaker 1: like through the real line.
Speaker 2: The only issues were sometimes it was a little glitchy,
Speaker 2: which we expected apps when they first come out. The
Speaker 2: only thing that's not glitchy when it first comes out
Speaker 2: as an Inintendo product. There's the only people who have
Speaker 2: figured out. Everybody else has issues. The first couple of
Speaker 2: months fine, but the content was excellent. The search engine
Speaker 2: was pretty supreme. I liked that they had it broken
Speaker 2: down in very specific categories, like CNN is already its
Speaker 2: own channel. They re air stuff from earlier in the day,
Speaker 2: but it's already running twenty four to seven.
Speaker 4: Like, it's not like Cartoon Network, where at some.
Speaker 2: Point in the date switches to adult swim at night, Like,
Speaker 2: what are they talking about? CNN is already twenty four
Speaker 2: so this doesn't compute. And if I'm on an app
Speaker 2: watching CNN, I can just watch it into Infinity. It'll
Speaker 2: just keep replaying different segments of news.
Speaker 4: This is clearly dumb. I'm glad the Internet read them
Speaker 4: for filth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're gonna want your TV to be more like
Speaker 1: your phone, which you're also already using.
Speaker 3: While TVTV. It's interesting.
Speaker 1: I do wonder like part of it, I think is
Speaker 1: probably like they're just trying to do cable TV again
Speaker 1: because that's where like these people probably made their millions.
Speaker 1: And like, in the same way that famous people still
Speaker 1: dress the same way they do when they won their
Speaker 1: Oscar or were at their peak of fame, business people
Speaker 1: probably still hold to all of the truisms that were
Speaker 1: true when they made their first couple million or whatever,
Speaker 1: you know. So it could be just that, or it
Speaker 1: could be like there's definitely this idea that is pretty
Speaker 1: funny to me that Elon Musk is subscribing to and
Speaker 1: that I wouldn't be surprised if Saslov is subscribing to that,
Speaker 1: like this should be your everything app that like one
Speaker 1: of them is going to create their the everything app.
Speaker 3: That is like.
Speaker 1: People just are like I just go I wake up
Speaker 1: and I go to HBO I mean Max, and then
Speaker 1: I just float there in a cocoon of content and
Speaker 1: it tells me when news happens, and this is where
Speaker 1: I do my banking, Like what we'll see if David
Speaker 1: Saslov's like also Max is entering the world of banking,
Speaker 1: offering an exciting banking Like I could see that in
Speaker 1: the next step in this it's.
Speaker 2: Such a botous idea, this idea because if you know
Speaker 2: anything about the American humer, what we love is choice.
Speaker 2: You're constantly searching for choice, and your app cannot have
Speaker 2: all the choices. Just by the decision that there are
Speaker 2: other apps, we're gonna have to go explore. I need
Speaker 2: to know what's on Netflix and Disney Plus and the
Speaker 2: Hulu and Paramount Plus and the ABC app whatever that
Speaker 2: one's called peacock. I think, sure, listen, I'm gonna float
Speaker 2: around see what's on, and then I'll make a decision.
Speaker 2: I'll come back to HBO frequently because y'all have again
Speaker 2: a really good selection. You have all the Warner Brothers classics,
Speaker 2: great films, so, you have the Miyazaki stuff, Bomb, you
Speaker 2: got Cartoon Network and adult swim content perfect that I watch
Speaker 2: any time of day or night. Plus you have everything
Speaker 2: in the HBO library. There's literally and you have Friends.
Speaker 2: There is no stoppage, like you're already at the top.
Speaker 2: It's wild to me that they're like, how else can
Speaker 2: we improve?
Speaker 3: You don't need to improve. Plus, when you're watching Friends,
Speaker 3: you can find out if Bob Barker.
Speaker 1: Just died, So that's important, helpful. All right, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break. We'll come back. We got some Taco
Speaker 1: Bell news, we got some Taylor Swift news. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back. And we're back and Taco Bell will be
Speaker 1: testing out a Baja Blast gelato. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Love that they've gone with gelato and not ice cream.
Speaker 3: You know so much ye have happened here.
Speaker 2: They're like, listen, we have the slushy. What is the
Speaker 2: next elevated form of that? And I respect that they
Speaker 2: were like, let's borrow from the Italians. I'm sure Mexicans
Speaker 2: have a bunch of frozen creamy desserts that we could
Speaker 2: apply to our Mexican branded store. But no, we're gonna
Speaker 2: go straight to Italy. We're gonna try gelato and see
Speaker 2: how people like it. I'm actually excited to try this.
Speaker 2: I hope they do take it national. It sounds like
Speaker 2: it could be tasty. I love the flavor of Baja Blast.
Speaker 4: Who doesn't it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's not it's like two ninety nine for
Speaker 2: three and a half ounces.
Speaker 4: That's great price. That's a good price on gelato.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean the the gelato uh selection lacks
Speaker 1: a something that is that color as does most food
Speaker 1: stuff like, there's not there's not an option that will
Speaker 1: be confused with this one.
Speaker 3: You know, it's true, It's true.
Speaker 1: Bubblegum is like a weird inhuman like bluish light blue
Speaker 1: color mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: And they do make a bubble gum ice cream flavor
Speaker 2: over at the Basket Robin. Yeah, there's also people like
Speaker 2: to do a cookie monster ice cream that.
Speaker 4: They die blue.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but none of them have.
Speaker 4: The flavor green of blue.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, Like, yeah, exactly, Baha, blast,
Speaker 2: You're like, this is blue.
Speaker 4: This this flavor is blue, and I love it.
Speaker 1: I think it's like the Taco Bell yeah, because so
Speaker 1: they have this like high high end Taco Bell chain
Speaker 1: concept that they've been trying to introduce and like the
Speaker 1: I haven't really been following it, so maybe they've already
Speaker 1: introduced it. But like the art that they created for
Speaker 1: like the world with high end Taco Bell like reminded
Speaker 1: me of like an alternate universe like that kind of
Speaker 1: reminds me of what we got inside the Barbie world,
Speaker 1: like and Barbie. I feel like they're you know, Taco
Speaker 1: Bell is the is the best at like finding these collaborations.
Speaker 1: I think they found the best brand collaboration with the
Speaker 1: Dorito's Local Taco Like, I feel like they could do
Speaker 1: something with some chains that are like explicitly because like
Speaker 1: this news that we're getting of the Taco Bell Baja
Speaker 1: Blast Gelato is in like the OC Register, like the
Speaker 1: Orange County Register.
Speaker 3: It's like a local local news in Orange County.
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, like, could they start creating Taco Bells
Speaker 1: that like feel like they are in that Barbie world,
Speaker 1: like you know, like that would be amazing.
Speaker 2: First of all, I love because then what you're doing
Speaker 2: is like dreaming up the old Barbie like ice cream shops,
Speaker 2: sort of like the Plato ice cream Shop.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2: And in the same way that the Barbie film is
Speaker 2: not necessarily four children but is accessible to them. I
Speaker 2: feel like Taco Bell does occupy that lane. I'm like McDonald's,
Speaker 2: which very much has to stay in it's Disney family
Speaker 2: friendly lane, and even Burger King is sort of like
Speaker 2: stonery but still.
Speaker 4: Like definitely children's fifteen year old stoners.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like Taco Bell has more range. I listen,
Speaker 2: Barbie branding can go on forever. Would absolutely take a
Speaker 2: trip to Taco Bell to experience a Barbie clock.
Speaker 1: But in the same way that like toy like Barbie
Speaker 1: food is not real food, like Taco Bell feels like
Speaker 1: it has a remove like what it is.
Speaker 3: One layer removed from reality as well.
Speaker 1: And this like suproducer Victor asked the good question, why
Speaker 1: isn't this Sherbert And the answer is because it is
Speaker 1: not an affront to God and reality to claim that
Speaker 1: you have a Baja Blast Sherbert. But you have to
Speaker 1: like go a step further and be like, no, this
Speaker 1: is Sherbet, or this is gelato. This is like the
Speaker 1: old style Italian ideal of what ice cream is, and
Speaker 1: it's it's just bright, gringing monstrosity, like that's that is
Speaker 1: the mission, you know, in the same way that Ken's
Speaker 1: job is beach, like Taco Bell's job is whatever the
Speaker 1: fuck they do? You know, Baha is baja?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: Did you watch the Ferrari trailer? I sure did so,
Speaker 1: dropped a couple of days ago. Adam Driver will be
Speaker 1: playing Italian sports car entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's edited together like a jewelry commercial.
Speaker 1: It's I don't know. The vibes on this trailer. I'm
Speaker 1: a Michael Man fan. The vibes on this trailer felt
Speaker 1: pretty sleepy to me.
Speaker 2: It felt like they were like, so, let's look at
Speaker 2: what Gucci did. We've got better accents here. There's no
Speaker 2: Lady Gaga to really give us the meme culture that
Speaker 2: the first Gucci trailer gave us. So we're gonna have
Speaker 2: to rely on older Adam Driver, which is such an
Speaker 2: interesting choice.
Speaker 4: He was like, screw it, I'll play fifty. I don't care.
Speaker 4: I'll be great.
Speaker 2: Penelope Cruz, who's twenty years my senior, will be my wife.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 2: I think they were trying to bring out that same
Speaker 2: level of like drama, which is not really Michael Man
Speaker 2: does great drama, but not the high end, commercialized, super
Speaker 2: glossy drama. He does like heat, gritty drama, yeah, which
Speaker 2: is great. I don't think the the trailer properly emphasized that.
Speaker 2: I imagine that's what the film will actually be when
Speaker 2: we get there.
Speaker 1: I just kept waiting for either you know, Ferrari himself
Speaker 1: or like one of his you know, kids or lovers,
Speaker 1: to have a moment where they're walking happily down the
Speaker 1: street and then in one second realized that the heat
Speaker 1: is on and flip a machine gun around from their
Speaker 1: back and start firing it, like like in that one
Speaker 1: scene with Val Kilmer, the coolest moment in any movie
Speaker 1: ever where he you know, proves out the thing that
Speaker 1: he's ready to rock and roll at a moment's notice.
Speaker 3: That part is cool. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it felt to me like there, like it could
Speaker 1: the trailer at least could have been achieved by saying,
Speaker 1: put a house of Gucci filter on the movie Ford
Speaker 1: versus Ferrari.
Speaker 3: And Adam Driver, like I kept waiting for.
Speaker 1: He looks fine in some of the shots, but in
Speaker 1: some of the shots he was giving me, Uh, there's
Speaker 1: too much shit on me.
Speaker 3: I don't want to I got too much shit on me.
Speaker 3: I got too much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I imagine we'll see you in oscar contention.
Speaker 4: Anyway. It's Michael Man. It's a stacked cast.
Speaker 3: It's stacked cast.
Speaker 2: I'm curious to see it. It's a movie where I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have to be like Dad. Let's go to the movies.
Speaker 2: Let's experience it's a.
Speaker 3: Dad, oh big dad movie. Energy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, this is four Dads by Dad's meant
Speaker 1: to be watched standing like in in the living room
Speaker 1: on your way to Arms Crossed.
Speaker 4: It's like, this are pretty good? Who's that? Who's that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the greatest compliment anyone could get. This one's actually
Speaker 1: pretty good from a death actually pretty good. And then
Speaker 1: finally Taylor Swift, The Era's Tour, a concert film will
Speaker 1: be coming to AMC theaters.
Speaker 3: Soon.
Speaker 1: It's coming in October. I like, I assume this would
Speaker 1: be happening, like, you know, a year or two down
Speaker 1: the road. It's coming like as the Era's Tour is
Speaker 1: still happening, Like the Aras Tour is happening through twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four.
Speaker 4: This is late twenty twenty four two, I think like November.
Speaker 4: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: This is hitting theaters in October. I feel like this
Speaker 1: is being done like like the government like was like
Speaker 1: we need to get this tour to people, like like
Speaker 1: it's like Operation Warp speed, like getting this thing into theaters.
Speaker 4: That now I feel like, one, this is brilliant.
Speaker 2: So Beyonce really changed Not to make everything about Beyonce,
Speaker 2: but Beyonce really changed the game when she did her
Speaker 2: Coachella tour and she was like, Okay, I'm gonna come
Speaker 2: to Coachella. I'm gonna do it for a million instead
Speaker 2: of four so that I can can retain the rights
Speaker 2: to my show, and then I'll sell my show for
Speaker 2: I think sixteen million, don't quote me on that to Netflix.
Speaker 2: Then everyone was like, oh, we should all be doing this.
Speaker 2: So then you see I think Demila Fado does one,
Speaker 2: Selena Gomez does one. I think Taylor also did one
Speaker 2: for that, Lady Gaga five foot two did one, so
Speaker 2: that becomes a big thing. So then Taylor clearly was like, okay, guys,
Speaker 2: but what if we did theatrical releases?
Speaker 4: And I just think it's.
Speaker 2: Such a stroke of genius because there's so many people
Speaker 2: who cannot afford the price, especially in America, and your
Speaker 2: A concerts are much more reasonable, and I think I
Speaker 2: can say the same with most other nations, like in Africa,
Speaker 2: South America, you can go to concert for a very
Speaker 2: reasonable price. In America, tickets are very expensive. Ticket Master
Speaker 2: as cornered the market. Obviously they're the devil. But if
Speaker 2: you can get a twenty two dollars to eleven dollars
Speaker 2: ticket depending on your theater, to go see Taylor Swift,
Speaker 2: you can still fan out with your girls. Also, people
Speaker 2: who already went to the concert are gonna want to
Speaker 2: re experience it. Am I in the movie, Oh, I
Speaker 2: was there at that show. I remember this, like the
Speaker 2: nostalgia they are a recent nostalgia of it. I think
Speaker 2: it's also gonna fuel tickets. It's crazy to me that
Speaker 2: people are already saying like this is gonna say movie
Speaker 2: theaters falls.
Speaker 4: But the show has been doing well, so maybe it will.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, we'll see. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean some of the people even forgot that they
Speaker 1: had gone because they had like Taylor Swift aras Tory amnesia,
Speaker 1: as we talked about. So maybe they'll just need to
Speaker 1: go to remember what the fuck happened. I did go
Speaker 1: to the Air's tour, so I have to imagine I'm
Speaker 1: in there right, Like it would be weird if they didn't.
Speaker 2: Shure you fan girling out in all her Taylor gears,
Speaker 2: so the camera would have been drawn to you.
Speaker 4: Of course.
Speaker 2: Of course, I look forward to Beyonce's announcement that she
Speaker 2: will be doing a theatrical run of her show.
Speaker 4: I'm sure it's coming.
Speaker 3: That would be Yeah.
Speaker 1: I would like a Beyonce one because the Netflix one
Speaker 1: was really cool, but it would be cool to have
Speaker 1: the theatrical option as well, right, Hell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and listen go big around.
Speaker 2: Two weekends, so four shows, she had one big costume
Speaker 2: changer which she goes from pink to yellow and a
Speaker 2: now iconic scene that's also a meme.
Speaker 3: I know it'll a costume change.
Speaker 2: She has a new costume every show for this at
Speaker 2: least one new costume each show for this tour, So
Speaker 2: look forward to all of the fun, editing and the
Speaker 2: joys of Beyonce.
Speaker 1: Amazing. Well, Joel Monique, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you and follow you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And Joel Monique, you guys can follow me all over
Speaker 2: the internet at Joel Monique is j.
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Speaker 1: All right, that's gonna do it for us this afternoon.
Speaker 1: We're back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show.
Speaker 1: Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves,
Speaker 1: get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and
Speaker 1: we will talk to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Bite eh.