Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Hold
Speaker 1: On to the Zites, Hold On to the Trendories. That
Speaker 1: is courtesy of the Brew on Discord and one Richard Mark.
Speaker 2: Is he related to Carl Marx?
Speaker 1: Yeah, his work is heavily informed by the theory and
Speaker 1: teachings of Carl Marx. I'm jack that over there. Well,
Speaker 1: that is Miles Gray.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean do you remember his sophomore album Dos
Speaker 3: Capital was a fucking heat.
Speaker 1: Hit man, very controversial.
Speaker 3: I just remember that song when you sang that, I
Speaker 3: was like, I only know that part because it was
Speaker 3: always on those like commercials at midnight that were like
Speaker 3: get all the greatest hits from the eighties and seventies
Speaker 3: on one and you just get like just say a song, yeah,
Speaker 3: and it's like.
Speaker 1: Oh no, and a black void playing the piano, yeah,
Speaker 1: with just the greatest eighties hair of all time.
Speaker 2: And what's the other one is like black beam?
Speaker 1: That is just fully that song doesn't exist outside of
Speaker 1: those commercials as far as I Yeah, oh my god,
Speaker 1: now that Miles, that is what I call music.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you so much. Suproducer Victor came in with
Speaker 3: that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Uh, should we tell the people. What's trending. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the w GA, the Writer's Guild, is on strike. It's
Speaker 1: on strid ike, you know, getting fucked over by the
Speaker 1: corporations that are in chart that own the content that
Speaker 1: we watch. So, uh, you know, show solidarity with them anyway,
Speaker 1: you can.
Speaker 2: Don't scab and start writing for one of these shows. Listeners.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. Yeah, we talked about them more on
Speaker 1: tomorrow's episode. But another thing that might cause me to
Speaker 1: strike outside of Starbucks is they're gonna start charging people
Speaker 1: for no ice. What to charging people for ice?
Speaker 2: What the fuck is that?
Speaker 1: I don't don't know, something an employee said, but I
Speaker 1: get I guess the idea is that that causes changing
Speaker 1: the workflow and it's less filler, so you get more
Speaker 1: of what you're after.
Speaker 3: Like when I'll go to a place that has like
Speaker 3: lemonade and shit like that, they do it good. Whenever
Speaker 3: I see people putting half the like the sixty percent
Speaker 3: of the cup is ice, then I'm like, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: I want no ice.
Speaker 2: I'll ice stash it at home. Yeah, that's how I
Speaker 2: get down.
Speaker 3: Oh, so they're trying to come after the people who
Speaker 3: like us know how to.
Speaker 2: Try to get all yeah, yeah, yeah, we're volume hacking.
Speaker 1: I mean they see me coming from a mile away.
Speaker 1: I walk in with my pockets just packed with ice,
Speaker 1: and yeah just be like no way, sir, and take
Speaker 1: a big gulp and then just start dumping it in.
Speaker 1: Get some gum wrappers in there. But yeah, worth it.
Speaker 2: That's fucked just man, fuck that place forever. Just come
Speaker 2: on now.
Speaker 1: They're the best, hey, speaking of they're the best. But
Speaker 1: he is said to be headed for bankruptcy. Couldn't hand
Speaker 1: a better cup. As we talked about their hiring philosophy
Speaker 1: revolved around the twenty two rule. Hire twenty two year old,
Speaker 1: pay them twenty two thousand dollars and worth them twenty
Speaker 1: two hours a day. Am I right? Bro? We are
Speaker 1: progressive and cutting edge.
Speaker 2: And not racist or misogynist at all at all.
Speaker 1: Read any component hender is literally Gavin McGinnis.
Speaker 2: No, I mean yeah, but he left.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Their whole thing was the fashion dos and don'ts.
Speaker 1: That was like they had the fashion dows and don'ts.
Speaker 1: Everybody loved that.
Speaker 3: We should have known he was an issue when like
Speaker 3: one of his like more viral videos was and he
Speaker 3: was talking about like Gavin mcinness was talking about why
Speaker 3: he needs a beard, and he was just screaming about
Speaker 3: his weak chin, and I'm like, there it is, folks,
Speaker 3: there it is, y'all. This is this is the future
Speaker 3: of American masculinity right there.
Speaker 1: At least he's honest about that. Yeah, Drake like honesty,
Speaker 1: Drake like vulnerability.
Speaker 2: He should have been crying about his week chin.
Speaker 1: Yes, the Oscars have announced sweeping reforms of campaign rules
Speaker 1: in response to the Andrea Riceborough controversy. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this movie was seen by so few people. I don't
Speaker 1: even know if I'm pronouncing that correctly. But she was
Speaker 1: nominated for an Oscar for her work in a movie
Speaker 1: that I have definitely heard is good, but nobody saw it,
Speaker 1: which is usually a disqualifying factor when determining if something
Speaker 1: gets nominated for an Oscar. But she's like, has a
Speaker 1: lot of big A list friends who might you know,
Speaker 1: be wrapped by the same people as her, and they
Speaker 1: were throwing parties behind the scenes trying to get people
Speaker 1: to vote for her. It worked.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's again.
Speaker 3: I think at the time, I was likening it to
Speaker 3: arrest a development when Tobias is trying to get a
Speaker 3: job like on TV, and he keeps pretending to like.
Speaker 2: Get the buzz about.
Speaker 3: It's like you hear about this Fumeke guy was like
Speaker 3: what to get the whisper buzz going?
Speaker 1: It was that if Gwyneth Paltrow was the one doing
Speaker 1: the Whisper buzz, they.
Speaker 2: Funk ate her way to a fucking Oscar nomination. So
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 3: Now they're basically like they're like, you can post on
Speaker 3: social media, but don't tell people how to vote. Don't
Speaker 3: start ranking people's performances and saying this is better than that,
Speaker 3: or how many times you can host a fucking private
Speaker 3: screening for people for their consideration. So yeah, she got
Speaker 3: away with that one, but luckily she did not win.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, this is uh, like the rule about
Speaker 1: like not telling people how you voted. I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe that makes more sense when you know how
Speaker 1: like maybe people just copy off of other people's ballots
Speaker 1: or something, but that just seems like it's gonna be
Speaker 1: hard to like work around or I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think the biggest thing is they want
Speaker 3: to prevent celebrities from using their platform or like these
Speaker 3: bigger named actors and other people to just be like,
Speaker 3: this person is amazing, y'all need to consider them.
Speaker 2: And they're like, yeah, we're not doing that anymore.
Speaker 3: Like you can shout people out, but not not as
Speaker 3: aggressive as this whole like pr campaign was.
Speaker 2: It was pretty pretty aggressive, pretty pretty pretty pretty aggressive.
Speaker 1: Treasury Chief Janet Yellen says US risks default as soon
Speaker 1: as June first without debt ceiling increase. Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: basically the Republicans holding the country hostage at this point.
Speaker 3: That way they can take away all kinds of fucking
Speaker 3: like like less.
Speaker 1: They're like, we need less money for the VA. You're like,
Speaker 1: what the fuck socialism? Yeah, the veterans.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's definitely you know, this is this
Speaker 3: is what happens when they tell you. They've been saying
Speaker 3: they're gonna do this from the beginning. So I don't
Speaker 3: know why people are fucking shocked when like they get
Speaker 3: there and they're like, we'll fucking do it, man, We'll
Speaker 3: fuck the economy up so we can like, you know,
Speaker 3: cap this spending from Joe Byron, which is.
Speaker 1: Only an issue when Democrats are in.
Speaker 2: Office for one of them, they don't talk yet. Again,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's just what it is.
Speaker 3: The debt ceiling will always be like a political football
Speaker 3: based on who's in power and this, that and the other.
Speaker 1: So I don't know.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, all the normal people will have to suffer because
Speaker 3: then if like the economy goes to ship and people
Speaker 3: start you know, laying people off.
Speaker 1: M yeah mm hmmmm, but that wouldn't happen. Not not
Speaker 1: in America. Not in America. Dude. All right, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back.
Speaker 2: Now, we're back.
Speaker 1: Now, we are back. Then YPD wants us to bug
Speaker 1: our own cars. They're offering they're offering us the technology.
Speaker 1: They're like, hey, who wants some free uh air drop things?
Speaker 3: Their tags. I'm glad you don't know what they're called,
Speaker 3: because fuck those things. Yeah, I mean they look they
Speaker 3: can be helpful if you lose your wallet, But then
Speaker 3: when you see people like use them so cynically, you're like, oh,
Speaker 3: you're tracking.
Speaker 2: An X with that now, yikes? Dot com.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: But I guess this is all because this has been
Speaker 3: a thing, right, because it's all from that TikTok shit
Speaker 3: that went down where people were showing viewers how to
Speaker 3: fucking exploit like the Hyundais in Kias, so you could
Speaker 3: basically start the car with a USB cable and shit,
Speaker 3: and it's had such an effect that apparently, like some
Speaker 3: insurers are like kind of bristling at insuring Kias and
Speaker 3: Hyundai's because they're stolen so fucking easily.
Speaker 2: And so Eric Adams.
Speaker 3: Is like, hey, look, I know these cars are fucked
Speaker 3: up and not easy to protect. So we got free
Speaker 3: air tags. Y'all want one, right, and we can track you.
Speaker 3: We'll track you, just won't. We won't track you unless
Speaker 3: I get stolen. Okay, does that sound good deal?
Speaker 1: Car thefts are spiking, and I think the fun explanation
Speaker 1: that the local news wanted to use was the that
Speaker 1: it was TikTok's fault. But it also probably has something
Speaker 1: to do with rising prices on cars, yeah, which makes
Speaker 1: it harder to buy.
Speaker 3: Let's not point out the fact that it's dumb as
Speaker 3: shit to have a car that's so fucking useless in
Speaker 3: terms of like protection of it from being stolen. That
Speaker 3: then the next thing is like, well, then we should
Speaker 3: surveil everyone, not what about your dumb fucking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these corporations did not make it so easy to
Speaker 1: steal their cars. Let's blame the Kia boys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the at Kia boys or the problem.
Speaker 1: Yes, super des or. Brian's pointing out his twenty year
Speaker 1: old truck does not have this problem. Also, another thing
Speaker 1: that people are doing is leaving their key fubs getting
Speaker 1: in their cup holders.
Speaker 2: One of my friends does that. I was like, what
Speaker 2: the fuck you're doing?
Speaker 1: Yes, Jesus Rice.
Speaker 3: I mean not on purpose. It's more like casual. It's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: I forget all the time, but like it's fine, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, no, it's not because you can open what. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know, man, I think people get things too easy.
Speaker 3: I'm over here like clutching my keys.
Speaker 2: I'm like, you'll never fucking know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you'll never know where I store these at night.
Speaker 2: I hide them all over town.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I don't even know of one hundred different holes
Speaker 1: dug in my backyard and you'll never guess which one.
Speaker 2: He's Okay, well we need to go to the store.
Speaker 1: I can't even know which hole it's buried in.
Speaker 2: That's how good this system is.
Speaker 1: So then ypd's handing out five hundred free air tags
Speaker 1: to help residents track their cars in case they've been stolen.
Speaker 1: They specifically said, help us, help you because have you
Speaker 1: seen this movie, this new movie Jerry Maguire, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I love a hot new movie.
Speaker 2: Hey, my grandparents are in that.
Speaker 1: They are that blew my mind.
Speaker 3: If y'all want to see my grandparents, watch the scene
Speaker 3: where fucking Cuba Gooding Junior gets hurt in the Big Game.
Speaker 2: And then my grandparents watching the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my grandmother and grandfather are like Regina King's like
Speaker 3: parents or something.
Speaker 2: Oh, girl, don't worri It's gonna be all right.
Speaker 1: Yeah it was. It didn't blow my mind because you know,
Speaker 1: like I fully expect you have the most interesting family.
Speaker 1: But I just didn't realize that those weren't real people.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. I guess that's when I found
Speaker 1: out about actors.
Speaker 2: And the magic, right right, Regina King's parents are there.
Speaker 2: They really can't.
Speaker 3: They're not two people who are retired with nothing to do.
Speaker 3: And one of their sons got really worried they'd be bored,
Speaker 3: so then got them into doing background work because it
Speaker 3: is a way to.
Speaker 1: Stay out of trouble. They were really good though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: class a they're iconic.
Speaker 3: They were like the old black couple, Like if you
Speaker 3: need an old black couple. They were they were in
Speaker 3: deep impact. They were blair underwards like family do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, shit was good.
Speaker 1: We probably don't need to say. Voluntarily helping the NYPD
Speaker 1: two surveill you seems like a bad idea. They're also
Speaker 1: a for the for the cars that inexplicably don't take
Speaker 1: them up on this. They've also just announced that they
Speaker 1: have developed a pneumatic gun that can fire a sticky
Speaker 1: GPS tracker at a moving vehicle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this comes in a few different forms. There's this
Speaker 3: gun that looks like a fucking grid aid launcher and
Speaker 3: it's like obscene. Like the whole point is like you
Speaker 3: just need something to launch this dart like at a car.
Speaker 3: And then they have another one that's built into the
Speaker 3: grill of cop cars, right James Bond, And you can
Speaker 3: like activate and like launch the thing to like track
Speaker 3: the car, like if you're close enough behind it and
Speaker 3: it just like shoots it out right at the fucking
Speaker 3: back of the car.
Speaker 2: But is that being used properly? Are there are there
Speaker 2: less chases?
Speaker 1: Probably?
Speaker 3: I don't know, because like with like LA right now
Speaker 3: we're having the same conversation where like the LAPD's policy,
Speaker 3: like people like you should not be chasing after like
Speaker 3: stolen cars and shit, it's just dangerous, right, and like, well,
Speaker 3: we're gonna we'll.
Speaker 2: Look at our policies.
Speaker 3: I know, like on paper, it's caused a lot of
Speaker 3: fucking problems and accidents, but you know it's that property
Speaker 3: that's stolen gets our cop boners going.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, that's the most The worst thing that
Speaker 1: can happen is damaging property in this country.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: And finally, Adidas is getting sued from investors who claim
Speaker 1: that Adidas executive knew about the problematic behavior of Yay
Speaker 1: before they dropped him, which them dropping him had massive
Speaker 1: impacts on their sales. Apparently, his gear account for ten
Speaker 1: percent of Adida's annual revenue, which has a big company.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a ten percent fucking deficit.
Speaker 1: True.
Speaker 2: I don't know who, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Maybe you could sign Drake's little son or something or
Speaker 3: push it to you. I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 3: how you do this. But it's also so funny that
Speaker 3: they're like they knew about the like yeah, everybody.
Speaker 1: Everybody from there talking about They also like made the
Speaker 1: decision super late, right, like they were the last brand
Speaker 1: they were holding on for dear life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just don't make us do this. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: it is what it is. And I think you know,
Speaker 3: people know that the roots of the company were you know.
Speaker 2: Card geting Nazis, so it.
Speaker 1: Isn't it is interesting that they took so long to
Speaker 1: uh wait after he was like Hitler was great and
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just saying all sorts of wild anti spoor.
Speaker 2: Is Like, I mean, the founder would agree with that
Speaker 2: if it isn't the spirit of this company. Addy Dossler
Speaker 2: loved the fure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's named after Audi Dossler, who Adolph Dostler. Adolph Dostler,
Speaker 1: who was a card carring Nazi. Yeah, people are like,
Speaker 1: but he wasn't as bad as his brother, who founded Puma.
Speaker 2: Was just like like, okay, it's just.
Speaker 1: Like two people who like created half of the shoes
Speaker 1: in the world. Uh, and they were both Nazis, but
Speaker 1: not anymore.
Speaker 2: They moved on.
Speaker 3: They don't they don't run the company anymore, but we
Speaker 3: do like to keep this their spirit alive when we
Speaker 3: kind of turn a blind eye to people's Nazi rhetoric.
Speaker 3: But it's just wild now because they have so much
Speaker 3: stock that they're trying to figure out what to do
Speaker 3: with and like does it unbranded or whatever. And I
Speaker 3: think that one of the first unbranded like yeasy shoes
Speaker 3: is gonna come out and it looks like a shoe
Speaker 3: you'd buy, like, oh, that's like a knockoff without the
Speaker 3: branding on it. You're like, oh man, watch cried here.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So hey, well those are some of the things
Speaker 1: that are trending on this Tuesday May second. We are
Speaker 1: back tomorrow with a whole last 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 2: Fight bye.