Speaker 1: Hey, and welcome to what future. I'm your host, Joshua
Speaker 1: to Pulski. And it is the year, which, as far
Speaker 1: as I know, is not a significant year in any
Speaker 1: post apocalyptic science fiction work, either book or film. So
Speaker 1: I think we're in the clear. Hold on a second,
Speaker 1: let me just take a sip of this non alcoholic
Speaker 1: beer I'm drinking. Mm hmm hmm. That's good Athletic brewing
Speaker 1: company run Wild. I p a delicious just like a
Speaker 1: real beer. Oh yeah, whole family sick over the break
Speaker 1: and now it's dry January. So here's the thing about January.
Speaker 1: What it is is that like it's like a kind
Speaker 1: of a lame month, kind of a bad month following
Speaker 1: a really good one. To me, like October, November, December,
Speaker 1: three of the best months of the year, no question, right,
Speaker 1: Like in my opinion, I mean, in October, first off,
Speaker 1: it's Halloween, my birthdays in October, my anniversaries in October.
Speaker 1: October just jam packed full of great stuff. November is
Speaker 1: the month of Thanksgiving happens, and Thanksgiving is one of
Speaker 1: the best holidays I think, just the best. So much
Speaker 1: good stuff happening around Thanksgiving, very cozy holiday. And then
Speaker 1: you hit December and you're just you know, gliding towards Christmas,
Speaker 1: and the holiday season is super fun and exciting and
Speaker 1: there's gift giving and there's merriment and there's joy. And
Speaker 1: then January is the month where everything you'd like put
Speaker 1: everything away, where you rip everything down. It's the it's
Speaker 1: the boxing up of all of your joyful aspirations back
Speaker 1: for you know, until next year. And I find that
Speaker 1: to be uniquely depressing and kind of sad. And then
Speaker 1: I used to for many years, for long period of time,
Speaker 1: I would go to a trade show in January called CS.
Speaker 1: Do you know what CS is? Oh, the Consumer Electronics Show.
Speaker 1: It's the largest electronics trade show in the world. It
Speaker 1: takes place in Las Vegas. I was just reminded that
Speaker 1: people are there actually. For a long time, as a
Speaker 1: journalist and running teams of journalists who cover technology, we
Speaker 1: would have to go and cover it because it's usually
Speaker 1: the first week of January. So we would go right
Speaker 1: after New Year's out to Las Vegas and then set
Speaker 1: up this huge production that we would have a huge
Speaker 1: amount of people and would cover this show like crazy
Speaker 1: for days and days and days where it was like
Speaker 1: no sleep and eating really badly, and we had like
Speaker 1: a trailer that everybody would work out of that was
Speaker 1: absolutely disgusting on every level. So my associations over time
Speaker 1: with January became this kind of like stress and paranoia
Speaker 1: and dread of having to immediately put myself into this
Speaker 1: like very hardcore working situation. You know, you're you're all alone,
Speaker 1: and you're on a plane to Las Vegas, and you've
Speaker 1: got a blog about new TVs or something, and uh
Speaker 1: and and life just seems like all of its possibilities
Speaker 1: have ended. All of the all of the hope and
Speaker 1: the dreams and the and the beauty that you were
Speaker 1: just recently embracing have slipped through your fingers like like
Speaker 1: sand through an hour glass. And you look out across
Speaker 1: a crowded casino floor in Las Vegas at two in
Speaker 1: the morning, and all you're doing is drinking after working,
Speaker 1: and your body feels, you know, racked with whatever new
Speaker 1: virus is spreading from whatever, you know, part of the
Speaker 1: world it's it's come from to, you know, to be
Speaker 1: in Vegas, and and and what is there, really, you know,
Speaker 1: what is there? Just the blackness, just the yawning blackness
Speaker 1: of despair that you've been swallowed up by and so yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess January isn't that great of
Speaker 1: a month from me. I I was just wondering if
Speaker 1: you have any New Year's resolutions? Do you do that?
Speaker 1: I'm not like a New Year's resolution person, you know,
Speaker 1: like this is it, here's my chance, because to me,
Speaker 1: the passage from one year to another is not it's
Speaker 1: not real. I mean, that's not real. You know, the
Speaker 1: Jews have a totally different calendar that has a different
Speaker 1: date on it, and the Jews the Jews, Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: the Jews, as you know, the real I want to
Speaker 1: make sure I understood that. What did it sound like?
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, the Jews us Jews. And the truth
Speaker 1: is that, you know, going from December thirty one to
Speaker 1: January one is the only thing that's important about it
Speaker 1: is that Sci Fi runs a Twilight Zone marathon for
Speaker 1: twenty four hours, and that is all that matters, and
Speaker 1: that is all that is worth thinking about on New
Speaker 1: Year's Day. And as the passage of time, you know,
Speaker 1: moves from eleven fifty nine to midnight, all that you
Speaker 1: need to be thinking about is I can now put
Speaker 1: on the Twilight Zone Marathon on the Sci Fi Network.
Speaker 1: Did you see the Genie Lamp episode? Uh? I think
Speaker 1: I've seen it. I actually didn't watch that much Twilight
Speaker 1: Zone on the Sci Fi Network this year because I
Speaker 1: was busy, I don't know what, living doing other things,
Speaker 1: which is strange. I completely forgot about it for half
Speaker 1: a day. Also, I illegally downloaded all of the Twilight
Speaker 1: Zone episodes, and so if I want to watch the
Speaker 1: one about the Genie lamp, I can put it on
Speaker 1: any time I want. So it's not the same. It's
Speaker 1: a favorite in our house, is it? Can you give
Speaker 1: me a little bit of a synopsis of what happens?
Speaker 1: An old couple finds a Genie lamp in an antique
Speaker 1: store and it's kind of like, you know, making a
Speaker 1: deal with the devil. Each wish backfires until the ultimate backfire. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a classic Twilight Zone. I don't want to spoil it,
Speaker 1: but we quoted all the time in my house. Growing
Speaker 1: up in my house in Tennessee, we did watch the
Speaker 1: Twilight Zone on Sci Fi Marathon every year. It was great.
Speaker 1: This is no, we're not here to talk about Twilight
Speaker 1: Zone though. So yeah, I'm not a resolution guy as
Speaker 1: I was saying, because I'm not like, this is it.
Speaker 1: Here's my chance? You know, to me, every day is
Speaker 1: that is a chance. And also every day is a
Speaker 1: chance to blow it. So you know, I think it's
Speaker 1: like I'm on equal footing every time I wake up.
Speaker 1: You're like Penelope Cruise in Vanilla Sky. That's right. Does
Speaker 1: she say something like that or is that just her vibe?
Speaker 1: Every passing moment is another chance to turn it all around?
Speaker 1: That's right. That's how I That's exactly how I feel. Uh,
Speaker 1: just horribly optimistic about even the worst situations. Um like
Speaker 1: this all could get way better soon. So I did, however,
Speaker 1: write down a few things I'd like to do in
Speaker 1: the new year, you know, to improve my sense of
Speaker 1: well being. And they're very boring though, Like one is
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna try not to drink for January, which
Speaker 1: is everybody does dry January. It's like a thing, and I,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. I guess that my main
Speaker 1: reason would be because I want to see if, like
Speaker 1: I'll lose ten pounds or something more than anything, you know,
Speaker 1: because you really go crazy at the end of the
Speaker 1: year with the eating and the drinking. It's like I'm
Speaker 1: not like, wow, I'm an alcoholic or I need to
Speaker 1: slow down. It's more like, like, did I put on
Speaker 1: ten pounds in the last like a couple of months. Probably,
Speaker 1: And could I lose it by not drinking? Maybe? Is
Speaker 1: that easier than doing real work like exercising or eating? Well? Probably?
Speaker 1: So that's that's one. You know, they really aren't good.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're kind of person that we're kind of personal,
Speaker 1: you know. Um, some of them are sort of work related.
Speaker 1: They're really boring. They're so boring. They're like, be more
Speaker 1: present for work stuff. It's like fucking the dumbest ship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know, I don't know. I don't because, like
Speaker 1: you know, I think the reason my resolutions aren't that
Speaker 1: interesting is because I don't believe that. Like mean, I
Speaker 1: get I guess people are like, well, it's a new year,
Speaker 1: this is a great time because you're starting it's from scratch,
Speaker 1: you're starting from zero. I guess that makes sense. But
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I think you need a fake a trigger,
Speaker 1: you need Yeah, you need something to differentiate because it's
Speaker 1: very very difficult to make changes as an adult. It's
Speaker 1: really hard. I say, I'm going to go down a
Speaker 1: different path now. But then yeah, but then it's then
Speaker 1: it's like January second, you know, and it's just another day.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the problem with resolutions is that,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like on day one. It's like, especially
Speaker 1: after New Year's Eve, because people go pretty hard, which
Speaker 1: is always a mistake. I believe going hard on New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve huge mistake. Anytime you ever try to do
Speaker 1: anything on New Year's Eve, I feel like it's a
Speaker 1: huge mistake. Like the best thing to do is to
Speaker 1: not do anything. But you know, I think you get
Speaker 1: to January two and then you're like, Okay, it's another
Speaker 1: day in January three, and it's another day, And what
Speaker 1: does it take to real change? I feel like it's
Speaker 1: got to be something more than the calendar turning to
Speaker 1: a new day at the end of and maybe still
Speaker 1: a little bit at the beginning of. There has been
Speaker 1: a huge spike in people doing in and out lists.
Speaker 1: You know, tired and wired, which is wired list? Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: kind of same thing. Hot or Not I guess is it? No?
Speaker 1: Hot or Not was like a site where you rate
Speaker 1: people's beauty and hot and cold. I feel like every
Speaker 1: magazine has some variation of this, but it plays. It's
Speaker 1: like Vandity Fair is like do they have the Matrix? No,
Speaker 1: that's New York Magazine. I feel like Vanity Fair is
Speaker 1: like Uptown Downtown or something like that. You know. At
Speaker 1: any rate, so have you have you looked at any
Speaker 1: in and outlist? I looked at the l A times.
Speaker 1: It might have just been the l A like food.
Speaker 1: I saw one and it was funny because they were like,
Speaker 1: what's out for the l A next year is Nashville
Speaker 1: hot Chicken? We have enough? Is that a thing to me?
Speaker 1: Because yeah, because Nashville Hot Chicken is everywhere, and it's
Speaker 1: as somebody who's from Nashville, you know, it's usually not
Speaker 1: Nashville Hot Chicken. But still it like became like a
Speaker 1: big trend and it just is like every place feels
Speaker 1: like they have to offer it anyhow, So everybody's speking
Speaker 1: is in an outlets as you just to discuss the
Speaker 1: l A food, something made it in an outlets? Is
Speaker 1: it very popular on Instagram? From what I can tell,
Speaker 1: I suppose it's popular in TikTok, but I don't look
Speaker 1: at that. I've seen a little bit on Twitter, and
Speaker 1: of course a lot on Mastered on my social network
Speaker 1: of Choice. Here's what I noticed about the inn and outlets.
Speaker 1: All of the in things I've seen are like things
Speaker 1: that normal people do that people on like Twitter or
Speaker 1: who are very online don't think normal people do. They're
Speaker 1: like in drinking a Coca Cola, It's like, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: people are drinking Coca cola like norm I mean, normal
Speaker 1: Core is like this in normal Core is this thing?
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I know it has previously been
Speaker 1: a thing, but I feel like there's I feel like
Speaker 1: gen Z is starting to adopt like the idea of normalcy.
Speaker 1: Like everything is just so fucking basic in the world.
Speaker 1: Everything is so mass market. You know, every idea of
Speaker 1: the second you have it, every it's like fashion concept,
Speaker 1: every interest in art, all of them just feel so
Speaker 1: broad and mass market to me. Now, you know, like
Speaker 1: people don't even want obscure stuff anymore, Like it's uncool
Speaker 1: to be into obscure stuff. So anyhow, So I saw
Speaker 1: people a lot of people doing these in an outlets.
Speaker 1: So I've decided to make one for the first episode
Speaker 1: of for What Future. I thought, maybe I will have
Speaker 1: some predictions of my own about the year ahead. Right.
Speaker 1: We ended the year with me talking about things I
Speaker 1: loved in So what what better way to begin a
Speaker 1: year than two? For me to you know, pre sage
Speaker 1: the year ahead. Would you like to hear my in
Speaker 1: and out list? I actually have it arranges out and
Speaker 1: then in. I feel like that's more dramatic. You hear
Speaker 1: the thing that is out and then you hear like,
Speaker 1: what's once we'replacing it right, for instance, out posting your take, right,
Speaker 1: people putting their thoughts online being like here's what I think,
Speaker 1: or they shouldn't have made the Chilier whatever, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever Taylor and I were talking about a few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: or you know, having an opinion online. I think that's out. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know it's in keeping it to yourself, just thinking
Speaker 1: you don't have to tell anybody. That's gonna be very
Speaker 1: a very hot trend, I believe alright. Number two, how
Speaker 1: do you say this? Is it? She? And is that?
Speaker 1: How you say the name of the fast fashion retailer shean?
Speaker 1: Is debt over? That ship's over? You know it's in
Speaker 1: nineties style good will halls. It's all about goodwill and
Speaker 1: housing works and whatever. Any thrift store, not the fancy ones,
Speaker 1: the cheap ones. Yeah, like it was in the nineties
Speaker 1: when things were good, when everything was perfect. Just incredibly
Speaker 1: bad fashion stuff going on right now, Like there's so
Speaker 1: much bad fashion that speaking of following trends that is
Speaker 1: like considered now considered to be like what is on trend,
Speaker 1: and it's all like late nineties early Choose House and stuff,
Speaker 1: which is like I get it, because we just are
Speaker 1: now recycling decades. Every like decade or two. We're just
Speaker 1: going like, hey, remember when remember this thing that looks
Speaker 1: sort of unfamiliar now because we haven't been staring at
Speaker 1: it for so long. And you know, it's like it's
Speaker 1: like Janko jeans, like baggy super I Giet, like braver
Speaker 1: pants like lyra if you have some on. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't want to like knock your personal style or whatever,
Speaker 1: but they're remarkably on flattering on every person who wears them.
Speaker 1: And and and I'm not sure like even in their
Speaker 1: heyday that anybody was like these are good looking. It
Speaker 1: was just like, you know, if you're fifteen and going
Speaker 1: to a rave, you probably don't think about it too much.
Speaker 1: A lot of room for dancing inside of those things.
Speaker 1: But it's just strange to me how we keep recycling
Speaker 1: these ideas over it over again, and I feel like,
Speaker 1: don't be really taking a step back and going like
Speaker 1: does this actually look good? Now? Of course this is
Speaker 1: one old man's opinion, you know, one ft in the grave,
Speaker 1: you know, like a it's the scale half skeleton voicing
Speaker 1: his opinions. But but you know, while I have a pulse,
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell people that I don't think like you.
Speaker 1: It's like people like wearing like basically bootcut like pants,
Speaker 1: like I don't know, like bootcut just bootcut jeans are
Speaker 1: not they don't look good. I'm sorry, I don't know, right,
Speaker 1: am I wrong? Do you think they look good? No?
Speaker 1: But I do think that they can look good if
Speaker 1: they're cropped and they're the right cropped. Let me think
Speaker 1: about what that means here crops you mean hemmed or
Speaker 1: they're high like they're you know, high waters flood chances.
Speaker 1: So so I'm more like a hem hemmed seven is
Speaker 1: a hemming down at the bottom. You can have a
Speaker 1: hem or they can have a raw hem raw him
Speaker 1: you mean, like do you think raw hems are in
Speaker 1: raw hems? Like where like maybe there's some thread or string,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like some thread hanging out. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: that it has. I don't know if it's on how
Speaker 1: close the ground it is, like, because if I see
Speaker 1: a thread touching the ground, that's it over the ground
Speaker 1: because it would be cropped, right. I think floods look
Speaker 1: best when they're when they're straight or taper personally, slight,
Speaker 1: taper straight. That's a classic look. That's a that's a
Speaker 1: never going to age out type of look. You know,
Speaker 1: that's a real nerd from the fifties kind of thing
Speaker 1: going on there that now, we'll never look wrong because
Speaker 1: it's frozen in time. You're ready, more ready, Vinyl is out,
Speaker 1: it's over, vinyls over. Unless you're basic, you know what's in?
Speaker 1: You probably know it's in. Do you know what's in?
Speaker 1: You don't. It's all about CDs. This year is gonna
Speaker 1: be everybody's me talking about CDs all fucking year. I
Speaker 1: can tell you right now, you're gonna read article after art.
Speaker 1: In fact, I has has the New York Times written
Speaker 1: the article yet, because it's coming, Mark my words, write
Speaker 1: it down, Jane very fourth. I believe within the next
Speaker 1: three months, three to four months, the New York Times
Speaker 1: will have an article about CDs and how they're cool
Speaker 1: and everybody's buying them. Now, okay, got that. Where are
Speaker 1: people are going to be playing their CDs on CD players?
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a big new market new CD players,
Speaker 1: old CD players that people a can be carrying around
Speaker 1: those CD those c D walkman, you know that are
Speaker 1: like the portable CD changer with the headphones that have
Speaker 1: the little foam things covering the little of metal headphones.
Speaker 1: The foam things that would be cool. That's gonna be
Speaker 1: very hot. Are those met the metal ones with the
Speaker 1: year buds you know what I'm talking about. They have
Speaker 1: like the things that go in your ears, but they
Speaker 1: were just like attached to a metal basically a hanger,
Speaker 1: a code hanger. You have to put like six double
Speaker 1: A batteries in the CD thing. It's incredible. No, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be great, alright. Out being real. Being real is
Speaker 1: out in looking at your friends in real life. That's right,
Speaker 1: that's right. You're not gonna look at the little picture anymore.
Speaker 1: We yes, we're gonna finally be real. It Actually that
Speaker 1: brings me to my next one out quote. The pandemic
Speaker 1: is over in masking all year. That's that's what's gonna
Speaker 1: be happening. So while you're looking at your friends, they're
Speaker 1: gonna be wearing cool, great masks they bought on. Nay,
Speaker 1: I hate wearing a mask. I just want to say,
Speaker 1: I'm not an anti masker. I will mask up. I'm
Speaker 1: happy to do it. I'm happy to do my part. Yes,
Speaker 1: but I personally don't enjoy I don't care that much.
Speaker 1: But I don't like it. And by the way, I
Speaker 1: think my face is terrifying. So it's actually a lot
Speaker 1: on a lot of levels for me as a as
Speaker 1: kind of a benefit. Oh, I absolutely I loved mask sunglasses, hat.
Speaker 1: Nobody's telling you to smile or anything. I know women
Speaker 1: are calling people constantly smile beautiful, Like they don't say
Speaker 1: ship to you when you get a mask on. No
Speaker 1: one knows I'm looking what I'm thinking. Yeah, I can't
Speaker 1: tell women to smile. It's very annoying. I've been walking,
Speaker 1: wandering around the city, dying to tell someone in a
Speaker 1: demanding manner that they should be smiling, but to no avail.
Speaker 1: But I think no one wants to. Nobody wants to
Speaker 1: do that. They want to go back to living like normal,
Speaker 1: like in a normal way. But I don't think we
Speaker 1: can do that now, Like not right now. I think
Speaker 1: we need whatever that spray is in um class Glass
Speaker 1: on You, which is I gotta say, one of the
Speaker 1: best parts of that film, the return is Sunday night
Speaker 1: appointment viewing. Everybody knows that that's already been happening all
Speaker 1: through the whole thing. With everybody's got hot prestige television
Speaker 1: that's dead. People want reliable, knowable Sunday night properties, you know,
Speaker 1: against all odds, House the Dragon delivered. It delivered for people.
Speaker 1: They gave them what they want. I know. I hear
Speaker 1: everybody talking about Yellowstone. Is Yellowstone on the fucking t
Speaker 1: NT or something like? It's apparently like the most popular
Speaker 1: show one and it's got three I think three spinoffs. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: that's is what people want. They want to go back
Speaker 1: to the golden age when it was like these network shows.
Speaker 1: It's like Netflix just canceled the show. It's some you know,
Speaker 1: it's made by the people who made Dark which I
Speaker 1: guess everybody loved on Netflix. You know, it's some kind
Speaker 1: of like Mystery at Sea with like time travel and
Speaker 1: drugs and who knows what. I only watched one episode,
Speaker 1: but that was the vibe. I Cott and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's interesting, Like I might watch more of that, but
Speaker 1: you know what, I didn't because it doesn't matter. There's
Speaker 1: no stakes. Like I think, yeah, prestige television is like
Speaker 1: it's going to return to a state of being a
Speaker 1: more rarefied commodity. You know, they can only be attained
Speaker 1: by a certain you know, sort of complex set of circumstances,
Speaker 1: right like it's on a net known network, it's you know, produced,
Speaker 1: got a certain kind of like leading men or woman
Speaker 1: with some gravitas. I don't know, although on the other hand,
Speaker 1: you think about the great prestige television of Yestery Year,
Speaker 1: mad Men, Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, those are all nobodies. Actually,
Speaker 1: maybe it'll be a return to nobodies, although there's so
Speaker 1: many nobodies hard to say there are a lot of
Speaker 1: there's so many nobodies. That's not a knock on them.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of actors, you know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people out there who want to act and and
Speaker 1: it's been honestly an incredible time for actors because there's
Speaker 1: just so many pieces of content being created. I do
Speaker 1: think we're in a we're overloaded on content. I think
Speaker 1: there's just too much of it. I know again I'm old,
Speaker 1: but yeah, at any rate, how's the Dragon White loadus.
Speaker 1: That's what's in. That's what's happening this year. I mean
Speaker 1: it was happening last year, but you could see the
Speaker 1: trend coming and now it's just gonna be that in
Speaker 1: Yellowstone all the way down. There's also the new there's
Speaker 1: a documentary produced based seth Regon that's airing on Sundays.
Speaker 1: Documentaries are out, actually, that's out for documentaries are out
Speaker 1: and over actually, and what's in is only films like
Speaker 1: American beauty style movies, serious adult dramas that are actually
Speaker 1: box office smashes. I believe there is an incredible waning
Speaker 1: of interest in superhero films. I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 1: They gotta bring Robert Downey Jr. Back and and I
Speaker 1: guarantee you. Right now at at Disney Headquarters, Bob Iger
Speaker 1: is sitting with Kevin how do you pronounce the last name?
Speaker 1: Is it? Fe? Was like giving it too much credit,
Speaker 1: you know, said, look, you want to say Kevin Fiege,
Speaker 1: but that's definitely a house prodouns. Let's find out fig
Speaker 1: figy is what is what? Wikipedia says Kevin Figi Anyhow,
Speaker 1: right now, Bob Iger and Kevin Figy, which may or
Speaker 1: may not be the way you pronounce his last name,
Speaker 1: are sitting in a room trying to figure out how
Speaker 1: much they have to pay Robert Downey Jr. To be
Speaker 1: Iron Man again, because if that doesn't happen soon, the
Speaker 1: whole thing is going to fall apart. And they can't
Speaker 1: even make a good Star Wars movie, and they can't
Speaker 1: even sell Star Wars. One of my predictions is that
Speaker 1: the entire like industrial complex of like franchises, particularly those
Speaker 1: that were precious to like jen X and Millennial to
Speaker 1: some degree, is going to wane hard, starting like right now.
Speaker 1: I think we're just we're going to reach the end
Speaker 1: of this cycle, which has been a long cycle of
Speaker 1: this known i P that has been out there being
Speaker 1: sort of like childishly, you know, regurgitated in an infantilized
Speaker 1: manner for an infantilized audience. And I say this as
Speaker 1: a as an enjoyer of many of the products that
Speaker 1: I'm denouncing currently. I think fresh original i P is
Speaker 1: gonna be very hot. I think original movies like you know,
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna write like a new die Hard, Like when's
Speaker 1: the last time we had a die hard right, I
Speaker 1: would say, what's the Keanu Reeves john Wick? John Wick
Speaker 1: was the last time there was like a brand new
Speaker 1: and it was huge franchise. John Wick four is going
Speaker 1: to be I think of disappointment. My gut tells me
Speaker 1: john Wick four is going to disappoint somehow. I think
Speaker 1: we're just at that point. It's too much, too many sequels,
Speaker 1: too many franchises. I think we're gonna be returning to
Speaker 1: um it's all gonna be like American Beauty. Every movie
Speaker 1: is going to be like American Beauty. You're with me,
Speaker 1: and we got a lot more to go through here
Speaker 1: out right wing boomers, in right wing millennials, big big
Speaker 1: wave coming, big red wave of right wing millennials. And
Speaker 1: I'm ready. I'm ready. I think we all have been
Speaker 1: waiting for this day. I think we all knew it
Speaker 1: was coming, and now it's gonna happen. In if we
Speaker 1: have a Republican president at the end of four, you
Speaker 1: can blame right wing millennials. You heard it here first
Speaker 1: out biking in rowing. Many of these are ripped from
Speaker 1: my personal headlines, by the way, for the record, although
Speaker 1: I will say, and maybe this is a new out
Speaker 1: and in. Even though I just said the biking is out,
Speaker 1: I believe Peloton is going to mount a big comeback
Speaker 1: in And I say this as a person who just
Speaker 1: turned on his Peloton bike for the first time in
Speaker 1: one year and contemplated re establishing a subscription to the service. Sowhere. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: they say that they have a great new ad campaign
Speaker 1: where they tout the sort of commitment rate of people
Speaker 1: who start on Peloton and like the new year, like
Speaker 1: stick with it. I don't know what their metric is.
Speaker 1: It's like maybe they stick with it till March, like
Speaker 1: I have no idea actually think it's like for a
Speaker 1: full year or something. Anyhow, Biking out unfortunately for them,
Speaker 1: rowing big, big time in right now. Huge, everybody's talking
Speaker 1: about it. Out Beans, beans are out, Beans are over.
Speaker 1: Yeah in nuts being a big year for nuts, Hugette
Speaker 1: switch up, huge year for nuts. Beans unfortunately are going
Speaker 1: to suffer staggering defeat this. It's very sad, but roasty
Speaker 1: Elon on Twitter that's out for roasted elot on mast
Speaker 1: and on that's in. That's a big end for me. Horrible.
Speaker 1: This is a horrible list. Uh, let's see what else
Speaker 1: I have on my list AI art that's out. That's
Speaker 1: out for artists who use AI is in, however, so
Speaker 1: huge distinction, in big difference. Pink, the color pink is out,
Speaker 1: Orange oranges in just just a fact. I believe that
Speaker 1: hot sauce is going to be out for I think
Speaker 1: hot foods. I think it's gonna be a big trend
Speaker 1: downward for hot foods, and mild food is going to
Speaker 1: make a big re emergence, big reappearance on the plates
Speaker 1: of many. I think people are looking for a more
Speaker 1: mild flavor, something that's less agitating to their gastro intestinal system,
Speaker 1: and they just generally want to take it easy, you know,
Speaker 1: when they're eating. I think they can be a lot
Speaker 1: of bananas, a lot of like bread products. I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you, my sixteen went old would completely agree with
Speaker 1: your whole list. Yeah. Well, I get a lot of
Speaker 1: my information from sixteen month old children. I gave him
Speaker 1: some beans yesterday. He was not a fan of He
Speaker 1: loves bananas. Okay, there you have, I mean, empirical, empirical
Speaker 1: proof that my list is matically accurate. I'll tell you,
Speaker 1: you know what's out for me buying crap? What does
Speaker 1: that mean it means that I got like addicted to
Speaker 1: online shopping and just just buying things thinking that they
Speaker 1: were going to like fix my life. Yeah, well it
Speaker 1: depends on what you buy, I guess. But like, well,
Speaker 1: give me an example. I bought a okay, this, I
Speaker 1: don't actually regret bad example the well, okay, here's an
Speaker 1: so I started returning anything I could, returning in, buying out,
Speaker 1: returning in. I love it. I love it. I got
Speaker 1: a I got this thing called a worky m h.
Speaker 1: And it's like a briefcase that opens up and it's
Speaker 1: a home for your laptop and it's got like dry
Speaker 1: it's just like the thing that is this like the
Speaker 1: thing that Nathan Fielder uses in his show that's like
Speaker 1: he straps no, but it could, I mean, it could
Speaker 1: go on that. But it has like you know, it's
Speaker 1: got like a ring light. It's like a little it's
Speaker 1: like a briefcase full of your workspace. Yes so, and
Speaker 1: then the ideas that can close it at the end
Speaker 1: of the day for the remote worker. For the remote worker.
Speaker 1: I bought it, and I and it just sat next
Speaker 1: to my desk for long enough that I took it back.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a nightmarish item. To be honest with you,
Speaker 1: is it workey with like two ease? It's working with
Speaker 1: a y. It's even worse. There are new sponsor work
Speaker 1: I love worky. It's a depressing idea that your whole
Speaker 1: little like a professional life is in this briefcase and
Speaker 1: then you you close it up. What was appealing to
Speaker 1: me is that you close it and then it's over.
Speaker 1: But it's never really over. I really live in a
Speaker 1: kind of Brazil world, you know, you know the film
Speaker 1: Brazil just kind of a nightmarish society of never ending
Speaker 1: pain and h and small amounts of weird suffering that
Speaker 1: all adds up over time, but isn't like on its
Speaker 1: own one terrible thing. It's like all these little things,
Speaker 1: you know, death by a thousand cuts. But it's like
Speaker 1: it's a worky here and and zoom call there and whatever.
Speaker 1: It is just tragic. Why don't you just ask me
Speaker 1: about things and I'll tell you if they're in or out? Um?
Speaker 1: Is target shopping at target hugely out? Question targets out hugely? Sorry,
Speaker 1: it's just not that's that's the kind of crass consumerism
Speaker 1: that America's rejected. But where am I going to get
Speaker 1: like poop bags for my dog. That's a different story.
Speaker 1: You'll order those on Amazon, where you do most of
Speaker 1: your Well, you should start because that's very in this year.
Speaker 1: Amazon's big time in targets, big time out unfortunately. But
Speaker 1: it's just that's those are the rules. Renting movies. Buying
Speaker 1: blue rays is in, Renting movies is out. I'll be
Speaker 1: honest with you. I was at Target the other day
Speaker 1: against my will, and I was looking at some of
Speaker 1: their blue rays and I thought, I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: start buying blue rays. And I feel strongly that a
Speaker 1: lot of people. Here's the thing, ownership. I think ownership
Speaker 1: is going to be a big deal in this year.
Speaker 1: I think owning the things that you want instead of
Speaker 1: like borrowing them from Netflix, that's gonna be big. That's
Speaker 1: a huge trend. Line. C These you can own for
Speaker 1: very cheap, and that music is yours forever. No one
Speaker 1: can take it away from you. They can't, you know,
Speaker 1: swap it out on Spotify. They can't decide that they're
Speaker 1: you know, the deal fell through with the band and
Speaker 1: now there's no you can't listen to the song anymore.
Speaker 1: Ownership big deal in three running for exercise in or out.
Speaker 1: I think running is is permanently in. You know, running
Speaker 1: is one of the first things that we learned to
Speaker 1: do as as people, right, running from an animal, running
Speaker 1: towards an animal, right, trying to get an animal to eat,
Speaker 1: running away from an animal to not be eaten. I
Speaker 1: believe running is an intrinsic part of our human experience
Speaker 1: and it can never go out of style. Veganism, I
Speaker 1: mean it's obviously out. Obviously obviously veganism is out and over,
Speaker 1: and I think you'll see a lot of businesses that
Speaker 1: try to appeal to a vegetarian and vegan movement failing
Speaker 1: in twenty three, Like you know, all these meat companies.
Speaker 1: Although I'm a big I support veganism and vegetarianism at
Speaker 1: all in every form, I just feel like it's a
Speaker 1: popular trend line. Yeah, I've seen multiple no meat like
Speaker 1: fast food alternative places have popped up around me, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I just don't know if there's enough people
Speaker 1: who want no meat fast food alternatives. I mean, there
Speaker 1: may be a place, there may be a place, but
Speaker 1: I just feel like it's there's one that's here that's
Speaker 1: been super popular forever there's always a lying around the block.
Speaker 1: But have you had an impossible whopper? Yeah, they're amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean there is good as a regular walker. I
Speaker 1: think if you gave a person out an impossible whopper
Speaker 1: without telling them that it was not real meat, they
Speaker 1: would not know the difference. Though it does would have
Speaker 1: proved that, like the most important parts of something like
Speaker 1: a whopper are actually not the meat, it's like all
Speaker 1: the stuff around it. Yeah. I had my first ever
Speaker 1: Carl's Jr. Burger the other day and I can't stop
Speaker 1: talking about it because it was incredible. Wait, Carl's Junior
Speaker 1: doesn't impossible. No, I mean this was just a regular burger.
Speaker 1: But I just I've never gotten what I'm saying. I've
Speaker 1: never gone. No, I'm agreeing with you. It was the
Speaker 1: tomato slices were perfect. The lettuce, it was perfect, the sauce.
Speaker 1: Burger Burgers are in, Burgers are in. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a big trend scars having scars. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: think scars can be in or out. No one's getting
Speaker 1: a scar, you know what I mean. I mean, sure
Speaker 1: they're scarring as a body mod but I think you
Speaker 1: either have a scar you don't that exists at a
Speaker 1: kind of Schrodinger's cat situation could either be in nor out.
Speaker 1: Do you understand overhead lighting in or out out? It's
Speaker 1: always out out forever and should be ba and and
Speaker 1: banished from all existence. Overhead lighting is a pox and
Speaker 1: a curse on a society and humanity. And and anyone
Speaker 1: who tells you otherwise has bad eyesight or is lying
Speaker 1: to themselves and or you garbage disposals and are out,
Speaker 1: I mean in. It's a great convenience. Everybody should be disposaling. Wow,
Speaker 1: I thought you're gonna say out, No carbage disposals rock.
Speaker 1: If you don't. If you've lived in a world where
Speaker 1: you don't have one and then you get one, which
Speaker 1: I did, you'll understand very quickly how awesome they are.
Speaker 1: I've only had one once and it broke. The problem
Speaker 1: is people abuse them. People try to put all kinds
Speaker 1: of crazy ship down garbage disposals. They think like my
Speaker 1: parents come from a generation where they think it's like
Speaker 1: a magical whole that you could put anything into and
Speaker 1: it just disappears into some magical place. Like you have
Speaker 1: to understand there's a whole generation of people who were
Speaker 1: like when I throw something away, it's gone. It gets
Speaker 1: zapped out of existence by the langoliers or whatever. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you understand why, Stephen king Raffords, But
Speaker 1: that's fine. People can research it. You know. That is
Speaker 1: like the generations that have come before us believed the
Speaker 1: garbage just disappears somewhere. They didn't think about landfills are
Speaker 1: leaving the ground water or any of that. Ship they
Speaker 1: have a US is like