Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Trendless Shrimp.
Speaker 1: The Summer of Treendless Shrimp, Trensless Shrimp, Full Ultimate Trendless Shrimp,
Speaker 1: Various offers that put Red Lobster out of business. Yeah
Speaker 1: for five hundred, Alex. My name is Jack, and that
Speaker 1: over there, well that is Miles. Yeah, man, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm excited, eancited to see you.
Speaker 2: Great, thank you. No, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Not excited. The Red Lobster may have to file for
Speaker 1: bankruptcy because we are did you are going to say?
Speaker 2: Are you doing the slip and fall thing again? In there?
Speaker 2: You can't wait too many Red Lobsters on that slip
Speaker 2: and fall SCA.
Speaker 1: That's right, hey man, on your endless shrimp and slide
Speaker 1: the next offer that they were going to make shrimp.
Speaker 1: So Red Lobster is considering found for Chapter eleven bankruptcy
Speaker 1: in order to restructure it's mounting debt, which would obviously
Speaker 1: be devastating for America's generic seafood and mountain dew based
Speaker 1: cocktail industry. True, very true, but it's not shocking considering
Speaker 1: the company reported an eleven million dollar operating loss last year,
Speaker 1: which their CFO partly blamed on us, specifically how hard
Speaker 1: we went on their endless shrimp deal. Yeah, they've been
Speaker 1: doing this like as long as I can remember, all right,
Speaker 1: Like I still remember seeing red lobster ads that were like,
Speaker 1: all you can eat shrimp for a limited.
Speaker 3: Says to me at that time, I would get so
Speaker 3: fucking waved and go and be like watch me, Like
Speaker 3: so many people are like, oh, endless shrimp. Defensive shrimp
Speaker 3: can be when you want to eat it endless and
Speaker 3: you do it for our twenty Let's go.
Speaker 1: Watch me eat a Pacific ocean's worth of shrimp here
Speaker 1: in front of just mouth glistening with butter.
Speaker 3: But just love a CFO being like it's that it
Speaker 3: was the endless shrimp. It's like, aren't you the CFO. Yeah, Like, yo,
Speaker 3: it's not. Did your models not suggest that some people
Speaker 3: would come in there literally eat you out of business?
Speaker 1: I mean I'm sure that like this, this feels very
Speaker 1: private equity ish. I'm getting pe vibes off the whole
Speaker 1: thing with them, Like, you know, we're operating an eleven
Speaker 1: operating loss. We're gonna have to restructure a debt. Like
Speaker 1: I feel like there's a private equity company involved somewhere
Speaker 1: that like came in, got that like bought a big
Speaker 1: chug of the company and then is like renting the
Speaker 1: company back to them or whatever. But you know, when
Speaker 1: in doubt, blame the American people, I think is always
Speaker 1: what works in these unit states. They said, apparently the
Speaker 1: twenty dollars all you can eat shrimp deal was meant
Speaker 1: to increase traffic in the restaurant, So yeah, I get that,
Speaker 1: but it soon went viral on YouTube and TikTok. If
Speaker 1: you've heard of these two places with people trying to
Speaker 1: show off how much shrip they could eat for twenty dollars,
Speaker 1: and they ended up giving away just way more shrimp
Speaker 1: than they had expected. So I hope you're all happy.
Speaker 1: This is why we can't have nice things.
Speaker 3: No, And you you're spot on with the private equity part.
Speaker 2: I think it was sold like eight years ago.
Speaker 3: To private area.
Speaker 2: Hey went in doubt, just be like I been what
Speaker 2: private equity do? What it did?
Speaker 1: Ancient beloved corporation, like ancient by corporation corporate standards. But
Speaker 1: like this company that's been around and successful with everybody
Speaker 1: I know for a long time, why is that going
Speaker 1: out of business. Ah when in.
Speaker 2: Doubt yep, just changs too.
Speaker 1: Also, now it turns out people just don't like toys, man,
Speaker 1: kids don't like toys anymore. So that's why that's going
Speaker 1: out of business. You guys fucked it up.
Speaker 2: Not us.
Speaker 3: The thing was apparently prior to the pandemic, like the
Speaker 3: private equity owned red Lobster was was wobbling bad wi wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so like they've been doing this forever, but
Speaker 1: they're gonna blame it on us and like their deals
Speaker 1: being too good instead of.
Speaker 3: The gradual husking out of a business for and breaking
Speaker 3: it up for parts so you can walk away with
Speaker 3: all the money.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, We've seen this hundred times.
Speaker 1: And companies will just report it credulously because they don't
Speaker 1: want to like get into the financials because that she's boring.
Speaker 1: But they'll just be like, yeah, it turns out of
Speaker 1: his endless shrimp. Probably not probably private equity. We live
Speaker 1: in a bad country and bad system. This version of
Speaker 1: capitalism doesn't work. The work this one. This one certainly
Speaker 1: does not Give.
Speaker 2: Me a second. Let me go back in the lab.
Speaker 2: I'll come up with another version that you might dig.
Speaker 2: Give me a second, Give me this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the one with that like isn't uh, you know,
Speaker 1: completely allergic socialism and just trust every corporation to do
Speaker 1: what they say they will, you know, Like that that
Speaker 1: worked out at at various points on a couple of things.
Speaker 1: This one really really bad. Doesn't even work at the
Speaker 1: things it claims it's supposed to work at. They're supposed
Speaker 1: to be like capitalism, strong suit.
Speaker 2: Putting the L in capitalism.
Speaker 1: That's right. But we've got some good news, Miles, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got some good news that even the Wall Street
Speaker 1: Journal is willing to, oh, we're.
Speaker 2: Still fall and hit their head.
Speaker 1: We're seeing a massive drop in murders this year, which
Speaker 1: is kind of what we were expecting to see, like
Speaker 1: hoping definitely to see based on our theory of the
Speaker 1: case that we've talked about on this show that the
Speaker 1: cause of the murder's rising was not police having hurt
Speaker 1: feelings about Black Lives Matter protests, but was actually all
Speaker 1: the small institutions and programs and you know, public schools
Speaker 1: that were in place and literally disappeared overnight during the pandemic.
Speaker 2: Wait, they're saying they're copping to it now.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, no, not not the Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal. But it's just like there's no other way
Speaker 1: to frame like, so yeah, all right, So here's what
Speaker 1: happened that during the pandemic, when everything was closed and
Speaker 1: all those programs were closed, crime and murder went up.
Speaker 1: When those programs came back, crime and murder go way down.
Speaker 1: Nothing changed. Like the one thing that didn't go away
Speaker 1: during the pandemic the police were still there, like like
Speaker 1: they people made a point about how like they're defunding
Speaker 1: the police, like they funded the police like slight, Fine, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've been funded real good, real good. They were funded,
Speaker 1: really funded up, real nice up boys. So it's just
Speaker 1: that didn't change during during the pandemic, and yet the
Speaker 1: murder rate went way up and then now coming way
Speaker 1: back down, and the police were not. They never got defunded,
Speaker 1: never went away, haven't been refunded significantly in a way
Speaker 1: that would make this pattern make any sense as part
Speaker 1: of a police related trend. But the Wall Streets are
Speaker 1: so first of all, just with regards to the trend, nationwide,
Speaker 1: homicides dropped around twenty percent in one hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: three cities from the beginning of the year through the
Speaker 1: end New York so far besides are down fifteen percent
Speaker 1: through early April, falling at the fastest pace in decades,
Speaker 1: bringing them close to levels that they were at before
Speaker 1: the pandemic era jump. So it is significant, as was
Speaker 1: the rise. Right, Yeah, but I just want to read
Speaker 1: this part from the Wall Street Journal thing because so
Speaker 1: it doesn't like it. It seems like there's no explanation
Speaker 1: where this makes sense as a police related trend, and
Speaker 1: it seems like they're going to acknowledge that. But this
Speaker 1: is the quote. Researchers and authorities attributed the upward spike
Speaker 1: to several factors, including crime prevention programs, courts and prisons
Speaker 1: being unable to operate normally when COVID was spreading, young
Speaker 1: people not in school due to shutdowns, and law enforcement
Speaker 1: pulling back after social unrest, the high profile police killings
Speaker 1: of George Floyd and other black people. So it's like
Speaker 1: fourth on the list. But yeah, it's like, all right,
Speaker 1: well that's better than I've ever seen someone like the
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal do is like putting it forth. Usually
Speaker 1: they'll just be like, and that's why, right, But then
Speaker 1: follow up graph the police went to sleep, said Dean Dabney,
Speaker 1: a criminology professor at Georgia State University in Atlanta. The prosecution,
Speaker 1: the courts went to sleep, and the jails and prisons
Speaker 1: let people out. So you had an ideal situation for criminals.
Speaker 1: So it was just that the good guy cops were not.
Speaker 1: U had hurt feelings and also sleepiness.
Speaker 3: I was you came so close to actually just doing
Speaker 3: a little bit of analysis and figuring it out. I
Speaker 3: was hoping the Wall Street Journal would give us a.
Speaker 2: God a moment, but no, we were denied.
Speaker 1: We were denied, denied, but hey, at least they gave
Speaker 1: the three possible reasons before going with their bullshit reason
Speaker 1: and fleshing that out with a quote from a bullshit source. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hadn't heard sleepiness.
Speaker 2: Sleepy they were so sleepy.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break, and is the
Speaker 1: cousin of death? Yes, and that's why I never sleep
Speaker 1: me or Donald Trump. That's why we're both just railing
Speaker 1: and headbutting microphone. Yeah, and we're back. And a Martin
Speaker 1: Scorsese project to come that I'm a little bit more
Speaker 1: excited about than his Fox Nation show. Is that what
Speaker 1: the name of the streaming thing is. He's gonna make
Speaker 1: another movie about Jesus kind of into Jesus, but then
Speaker 1: he's going to direct a biopic about Frank Sinatra.
Speaker 2: Movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's making another.
Speaker 2: Jesus and all I can say to that is Jesus.
Speaker 1: We don't Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3: Biopic about Frank So DiCaprio as Sinatra.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're saying DiCaprio as Sinatra, which seems like we're
Speaker 1: just gonna continue to ignore the size of Leonardo DiCaprio's
Speaker 1: head at this point.
Speaker 3: It seems like I'm like he's using hgh Man. We're
Speaker 3: going Barry Bonds levels check that hot size.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be DiCaprio is Sinatra. Jen Lawrence as
Speaker 1: his first wife, Yeah, Jen, okay, Yeah Jen?
Speaker 2: You don't know Jen? All right? I don't not like that,
Speaker 2: bro yeh.
Speaker 1: Jen's a friend. No, Jay law they're bringing it back
Speaker 1: together from uh don't look up? Oh yes, yes, who
Speaker 1: can forget that one? I forgot to watch it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's we'll leave it at that. Uh. But it's so
Speaker 1: people that this is getting people's attention. Ronan Farrow was
Speaker 1: trending on Twitter because people are like, he should play Sinatra,
Speaker 1: not Leonardo DiCaprio, which I might be on board with
Speaker 1: the not Leonardo DiCaprio, but uh, well, Ronan Farrow is
Speaker 1: not an actor. No, as far as I know, right,
Speaker 1: he's not an actor. But people, you know, just any
Speaker 1: excuse to be like that is definitely Yeah, Frank Sinatra's
Speaker 1: boy's father. Yeah, I mean, Ronan Farah was recently on
Speaker 1: RuPaul's drag Race and was like, I think I might
Speaker 1: need a paternity test, and everyone laughed, And I don't
Speaker 1: blame him, you know, growing up to realize you're not
Speaker 1: Woody Allen's biological child has to be a you know,
Speaker 1: one of the all time great celebrity bullet dodges. But
Speaker 1: I have I'm starting to develop a loose theory here,
Speaker 1: Miles that he has to have like him saying I
Speaker 1: should probably get a paternity test, Like he hasn't gotten
Speaker 1: a paternity test, Like everybody has access to those DNA sir,
Speaker 1: you know the twenty three and me like all.
Speaker 3: That shit, Like what, well, I'm just you you would
Speaker 3: need you would need someone with that fan like you can't.
Speaker 2: I don't think you could do it one way right
Speaker 2: unless his Yeah maybe not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it could just be that I mean,
Speaker 3: I mean it would be wild, like so many Sinatra
Speaker 3: people have done twenty three and me, he's like, way.
Speaker 2: Talk can do it and it'll probably be a hit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, that's what Like, that's how they caught the
Speaker 1: California whatever that serial killer, Golden State killer is because
Speaker 1: like so many people in his extended like you just
Speaker 1: you can just kind of assume that you know you'll
Speaker 1: take it, and there are enough people in your extended
Speaker 1: family who have done it. You kind of know where
Speaker 1: you're situated.
Speaker 3: So you think he may have did a swing in
Speaker 3: a miss and he's like even turns out any of
Speaker 3: my dead.
Speaker 1: My theory is that, yeah, like so everybody always just
Speaker 1: does his picture next to Sinatras and yeah they look similar,
Speaker 1: but have you seen me a pharaoh? Like his mom
Speaker 1: has perfect bone structures for days, just beautiful bone structure her.
Speaker 1: He could just take after her. I just I do
Speaker 1: wonder it.
Speaker 2: Feels like I eye and brow area. That really sells
Speaker 2: it for me.
Speaker 1: I definitely see it.
Speaker 3: Like my conspiracy theory, if I may, is that he
Speaker 3: has done a patternity test. He is Frank Sinatra's child,
Speaker 3: but the estate is telling him to be mum about
Speaker 3: it and then he'll get his peace.
Speaker 1: Oh I my. My only other theory would be that
Speaker 1: he's just such a savvy media creature that like he's
Speaker 1: just like, no, I'm gonna hold this in my back
Speaker 1: pocket until it's time to drop that shit, you know,
Speaker 1: until it's time to like write my book about finding
Speaker 1: out that I'm Frank Sinatra's son.
Speaker 2: Oh got it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, right right, you gotta hold oh right, keep the
Speaker 3: powder dry.
Speaker 1: But were like Sinatra is one of those characters that
Speaker 1: would be interesting to see like a words and all biopic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like because.
Speaker 3: Isn't there there's like a lot of intrigue around him,
Speaker 3: like being mobbed up in a too fully.
Speaker 1: Mobbed up like he's supposed to be the singer character
Speaker 1: and the godfather was Sinatra like at one when he
Speaker 1: was like in Vegas, Like he was a huge deal
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas at a time when every part of
Speaker 1: Las Vegas was like mob run, right, and that was
Speaker 1: a time when he, like I'm pretty sure like got
Speaker 1: beat up pretty badly.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: That's like being big in Miami in the late seventies
Speaker 3: and eighties and you didn't.
Speaker 2: Know anybody in the cocaine drafting business at all. You
Speaker 2: never counted those people, Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So anyways, it'll be an interesting film.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it. Uh Scorsese, like the guy
Speaker 1: is not lost his fastball in old age. Another another
Speaker 1: food story. There are thousands of everyday snacks. They're facing
Speaker 1: a ban in multiple states because their ingredients are linked
Speaker 1: to cancer and.
Speaker 2: All the good stuff. Folks.
Speaker 1: The first three that they listen are like, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: those are the ones that as I was eating them
Speaker 1: or drinking them, I was like, yeah, it was probably good.
Speaker 2: Mouth.
Speaker 3: As you were reading the article with no, you were
Speaker 3: eating your bowl of Lucky Charms, but you subbed out milk.
Speaker 2: For blue gateorades.
Speaker 1: That's right, And you had to down my spoonful of
Speaker 1: Lucky Charms with blue gatorad. And then to counterballance it,
Speaker 1: you gotta have some flame and hot cheets.
Speaker 2: I just had flaming hot.
Speaker 3: I thought they were called sour cream and cheddar, but
Speaker 3: they're called cheddar and sour cream.
Speaker 2: I'm having a.
Speaker 3: Bit of a Berenstain Bears moment here. What you had
Speaker 3: them reversed on the bag it says cheddar and sour cream. Conversationally,
Speaker 3: I've been calling them sour cream and cheddar for the longest.
Speaker 1: Time, and Miles, we've all been laughing at you.
Speaker 3: I fucking knew, And I asked what you were laughing
Speaker 3: at the other day when I was eating him. You said, nothing, man,
Speaker 3: eat up your sour cream and chips. I had flaming
Speaker 3: hot ones though, because I saw him at the at
Speaker 3: the store and I was like, you.
Speaker 1: Know, flaming hot sour cream and cheddars are flaming hot.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, but yeah, like there's something about
Speaker 1: the flaming hot Cheetos when it's like on your fingers,
Speaker 1: there's like a a texture to it that feels different. Carcinogenic, Yeah, carcinogenic,
Speaker 1: Like it's like is there, like what what what's in this?
Speaker 3: Can cause DNA muta Obviously, like this is a very
Speaker 3: like click baity article that's talking about sort of the
Speaker 3: things that are linked to it. But obviously we've talked
Speaker 3: about like how Skittles like are not available in the
Speaker 3: normal form in Europe because they're like, oh yeah that
Speaker 3: food dye.
Speaker 2: Hell no, we're not giving that treat people where.
Speaker 3: America is like with arms right over, we fucking were like, yeah, baby,
Speaker 3: get it.
Speaker 2: That proper color.
Speaker 3: So obviously this will just lead to you know, these
Speaker 3: companies being like, all right, fine, I guess we have
Speaker 3: to kick the cheap food dye. That's carcinogenic habit that
Speaker 3: we have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems like it's a lot of food dies. Uh,
Speaker 1: just to like, anytime I'm drinking gatorade, I'm like, that
Speaker 1: color is unnatural like this, can't you know why why
Speaker 1: does this appear to glow in the dark?
Speaker 2: Why continue to glow in the dark?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then the Lucky Charms marshmallows are not marshmallows,
Speaker 1: like they're unnatural.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this makes I mean, obviously like the FDA needs
Speaker 3: to look worse, but like, come on, y'all up on it.
Speaker 3: But also this is like a broader story, Like if
Speaker 3: you really want to talk about why the FDA is
Speaker 3: unable to contend with this, you can talk about the
Speaker 3: massive lobbying efforts that occur to basically like, man, why
Speaker 3: don't y'all like shut the fuck up about it and
Speaker 3: ignore what those euro trash motherfuckers are saying about our
Speaker 3: beloved Lucky Charms?
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, but yeah, here we are, here, we are Yeah,
Speaker 1: like all the all the cereals that you suspected we're
Speaker 1: giving you cancer, like fruit loops, tricks like all those
Speaker 1: are on the list, A lot of movie theater candies,
Speaker 1: Swedish fish, Sarah Patch kids, Eminem's nerds, uh, pop tarts.
Speaker 3: Remember we go to the movies, we call it salad
Speaker 3: bar and we empty all of those into a big
Speaker 3: tub that meant for the popcorn, and you just enjoy
Speaker 3: them at once.
Speaker 1: Well, you're telling me funfetti is.
Speaker 3: Uh look bro with the jet lag, I told you man,
Speaker 3: one wrong email could fucking send me right now, So
Speaker 3: don't tell me fun.
Speaker 2: I need the fun fat bro.
Speaker 1: Have fun fetti.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: They say it's fun in the thing. Yeah, in the thing,
Speaker 1: don't for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyways. People are also on TikTok freaking out after discovering
Speaker 1: that drumstick, like the the ice cream cone drumsticks. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: don't melt, which I've never I don't know, Like what
Speaker 1: accident led to someone discovering this, Like were they pinned
Speaker 1: under a boulder while the thing was just out of
Speaker 1: arms reach? How you have one of those out long
Speaker 1: enough without eating it to find this shit out? But yeah,
Speaker 1: the drumstick frozen treats don't melt. It's like those videos
Speaker 1: where they put a you know, McDonald's hamburger and fries
Speaker 1: in a thing.
Speaker 3: Next I found it in his jacket pocket kind of thing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: exactly twenty years later.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's just like smells exactly the same, has
Speaker 1: the same consistency.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh. I mean I think the other thing too,
Speaker 2: people point.
Speaker 3: Out is like it's not ice cream, it's dairy flavored dessert.
Speaker 3: Like you know, like when you look on the side
Speaker 3: of a fucking thing, some say ice cream and some
Speaker 3: say frozen dairy dessert, and that typically tells you about
Speaker 3: how much actual milk is in there. But also, yeah,
Speaker 3: I just don't like the idea of someone realizing that
Speaker 3: like those are meant to be eaten, you know, don't
Speaker 3: fucking don't. Don't awaken my consciousness around all the chemicals
Speaker 3: that I consume. Please it sometimes it's literally the only
Speaker 3: thing I have left at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these are good things. I'm glad we're learning this
Speaker 1: so that my children. Yeah. Yeah, like, yeah, these things
Speaker 1: have all been illegal for a while, and you're in
Speaker 1: various European countries. It's good because, like we we were
Speaker 1: talking about before we start recording, Like, my kids eat
Speaker 1: so much better than I do. I'm glad that, like.
Speaker 2: Because you have so much more knowledge, you know too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, but they'll they'll eat like shit when
Speaker 1: they have the opportunity, and I'm glad that they won't
Speaker 1: have the option of eating some of these things like
Speaker 1: I did. Right, But there's still such a huge part
Speaker 1: of me that is just response to these stories by
Speaker 1: being like, well, you think you're better than me?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, truly, I'm the dude, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. Well, that's just like.
Speaker 1: Your opinion opinion, man, the scientific research. You think you're
Speaker 1: better than me. Delish dot com. Okay, fuck you.
Speaker 3: I want to come over there and flip your fucking desk.
Speaker 3: Bro trying to scare me off eating lucky charms by
Speaker 3: the handful. Yeah, I haven't had cereal in a minute though,
Speaker 3: so yeah, I guess that's less of a shock.
Speaker 2: But the gatorade, the gatorade.
Speaker 3: A loose gatorade every time, you know, go to the
Speaker 3: gas station to get a Gato Gato.
Speaker 1: Like it's really the blue color that looks like miniature
Speaker 1: golf adventure golf.
Speaker 2: Yeah, bake water yeah, or barbicide.
Speaker 1: Yeah, barbecide, barbecides flavored, they should just have to be barbecide.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And is barbicide cool to drink?
Speaker 1: Then? Probably? Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: At this point, eure upe, you guys don't even drink
Speaker 1: barb side you all right. Those are some of the
Speaker 1: things that are trending on this Wednesday, April seventeenth. We
Speaker 1: are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show.
Speaker 1: Until then, be kind to each other, ye, be kind
Speaker 1: to yourself, get the vaccines, don't do nothing about white supremacy,
Speaker 1: and we will talk hell tomorrow. Fight Bye.