Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of trendon
Speaker 1: M's Super Bowl commercial. Um, it was pretty dumb. I
Speaker 1: am Jack. That is super producer Becca Robas. What's happening?
Speaker 1: You know? I'm glad the super Bowl is over because
Speaker 1: we finally got to see what we all came here
Speaker 1: to see, which was Brihanna performed at the Super Bowl. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I can move on now. Yes, I don't know
Speaker 1: what I was expecting. I don't think I've ever seen
Speaker 1: Rihanna perform live, like just yeah, I don't think I
Speaker 1: had or even like thought about what a Rihanna performance
Speaker 1: would be like. And it was very fascinating. It was
Speaker 1: like exactly what I would want her energy to be,
Speaker 1: which is just like yeah, like I'll funk, you'll dance
Speaker 1: for me, like basically, Um, and like the dancing. The
Speaker 1: dancers were amazing, Like it were incredible, I mean choreograph dancers.
Speaker 1: The staging was dope, the songs were great, and like
Speaker 1: the fact that she was conspicuously giving people not very
Speaker 1: much was like what I didn't realize I wanted from Rihanna,
Speaker 1: but definitely worked for me. I mean, it was the
Speaker 1: most I feel like Rihanna thing of to do, which
Speaker 1: is like, as someone like Rihanna, you know previously you know,
Speaker 1: shooting on the NFL to come do the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: do it as like I don't give a funk as
Speaker 1: possible to not be dancing and then have all these
Speaker 1: rumors swirling where you know, if you were reading any
Speaker 1: news about Rihanna, like practicing to the Super Bowl, they
Speaker 1: were like she's not showing up to rehearsals like whatever, whatever.
Speaker 1: And to realize she's pregnant was a great reveal of
Speaker 1: like her just like not showing up to practice or
Speaker 1: anything like that because simply she cannot be dancing like
Speaker 1: that because she is big, big, pregnant. Um. And I
Speaker 1: loved the memes after of the experiences that I also
Speaker 1: shared of like you're watching it and you're like, is
Speaker 1: she pregnant? But I know she just had the baby,
Speaker 1: so like I don't want to assume that it's like
Speaker 1: like not just her post pregnancy body, like all bodies
Speaker 1: are beautiful, Like you're just these emotions and then you're like,
Speaker 1: oh no, no, she definitely is is pregnant. Yeah. The
Speaker 1: people I was watching work were like is she I
Speaker 1: don't want to say it alloud, like text came through
Speaker 1: and I was like, Becca confirmed she's pregnant. Everyone's like okay, great,
Speaker 1: I can feel free wondering now. Yeah, a Becca chant
Speaker 1: rang out spontaneous inside scoop. It was great, friends, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was dope. It was interesting that for
Speaker 1: the first non Pepsi halftime actually now the Apple halftime show,
Speaker 1: they did have her flying around on her end, like
Speaker 1: the band and backup dancers flying around on what appeared
Speaker 1: to be iPads. Yes, yeah, I was like, okay, that's
Speaker 1: that's pretty uh conspicuous us. But I like it. I
Speaker 1: did not miss Pepsi personally. Usually, I feel like the
Speaker 1: Pepsi the trademark of the Pepsi show was always like
Speaker 1: we start with like a teenager who sprints onto the
Speaker 1: field and like is like amazed by what's happening. And
Speaker 1: there's like always like a crowd like dancing right in
Speaker 1: front of the show. And this was just like all
Speaker 1: dancers dancing choreographed. Yeah, this is definitely giving like mini
Speaker 1: music video, you know, like it was just yeah, so
Speaker 1: that happened at the super Bowl trend and m's as
Speaker 1: as we mentioned the super Bowl commercial hit, there's the
Speaker 1: whole business about Maya Rudolph becoming the new spokesperson for Eminem's,
Speaker 1: which in turn got rid of like the politically divisive,
Speaker 1: sexually beguiling, anthropomorphic candy characters. And Fox News was all
Speaker 1: over it. It's like, let it go, Fox, like, we
Speaker 1: can never make you happy, I guess. But it did
Speaker 1: seem like we were like, so this must all be
Speaker 1: teeing up some super Bowl commercial. We were right. I
Speaker 1: think they actually even said that in the initial thing. Um,
Speaker 1: But it was the commercial itself was so strange, Like
Speaker 1: I kind of respected it that they went with for
Speaker 1: their like big thing that they had, you know, captured
Speaker 1: the zeitgeist with this very stupid debate about whether Eminem's
Speaker 1: are sexy or not. I guess um that they then
Speaker 1: like the payoff the punchline to that debate was something
Speaker 1: that felt like a like one of one of the
Speaker 1: SNL sketches that comes on between twelve thirty and one.
Speaker 1: You know, like that's kind of you're like all right,
Speaker 1: like that I can see them getting high and cracking
Speaker 1: up about this at the table read and like that
Speaker 1: that's fun. But like this was one of the ones
Speaker 1: that I feel like kind of missed. You know. It
Speaker 1: was very weird. I didn't even catch it during the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, Like I was watching TV and it was
Speaker 1: just a Hulu ad that I was like of something
Speaker 1: I was watching, and I was like, out of the
Speaker 1: context of the Super Bowl, I was so lost its
Speaker 1: clam what anyway, continued Jack. So the premise is that
Speaker 1: she has taken over, not just like as spokesperson, but
Speaker 1: like the control the candy design, and under her reign,
Speaker 1: Eminem's are now clam flavored for reasons that not answered
Speaker 1: in the commercial. Like I keep wondering, like, am I
Speaker 1: missing something about my rootolph that makes that lends it
Speaker 1: to the clam thing, or like is it I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm still not sure. I feel like I'm missing an
Speaker 1: obvious reason that they went with clam flavoring. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just the company immediately announced that the spokes candies
Speaker 1: are back after the thing, so it was like, the
Speaker 1: whole idea is and we're going in this new direction.
Speaker 1: Ha ha, It's a bad direction. Is this what you want?
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson? You filthy pig eat my clan flavored Eminem's
Speaker 1: And those weren't the exact words of it. But and
Speaker 1: then they immediately like go back to being Eminem's with
Speaker 1: uh spookes candies, the Tucker Carlson couldn't jerk off to
Speaker 1: or not. You know. But that's what's important, I think
Speaker 1: for for all of us, for America to move forward.
Speaker 1: It was it was so bizarre, And I want to know,
Speaker 1: as someone who used working advertising, who was the creative
Speaker 1: director and where they fired after this because it was
Speaker 1: so bad. I don't know, right, you do come from
Speaker 1: the world of advertising, so like, yeah, I'm just curious,
Speaker 1: Like frequently during the Super Bowl, during the Super Bowl ads,
Speaker 1: I have like my brain immediately leaps to the aad
Speaker 1: agency room when this is pitched, and like what what
Speaker 1: was going through everybody's mind? What was said that made
Speaker 1: people be like, oh, yeah, clam okay, right, so they're
Speaker 1: clam flavored. Yeah, no, I think I get it? Yeah yeah, um,
Speaker 1: you know, like what what I do wonder how far
Speaker 1: back this ad was pitched because depending on the client,
Speaker 1: this ad either got started last year like March, or
Speaker 1: if they were able to like steam roll a project,
Speaker 1: maybe January, but that would be like very much pushing it.
Speaker 1: I know most of the clients that I worked on
Speaker 1: that their ads were in the Super Bowl. We started
Speaker 1: those projects like immediately after the last Super Bowl, Like
Speaker 1: the number of people that have to approve an ad
Speaker 1: read for a podcast, let alone Super Bowl bad like
Speaker 1: shooting the ad like you gotta like have you have
Speaker 1: like a bunch of little like creative teams being like
Speaker 1: what if? And then they pitched it to the creative
Speaker 1: director and then the creative director pitch it to the
Speaker 1: clientate client has to prove it and then they decline it,
Speaker 1: and they prove it again, and then they got to
Speaker 1: go make the thing and the producer gets yelled at
Speaker 1: and it's a nightmare and it's eight months of work
Speaker 1: to get out there and then potentially of the worst
Speaker 1: out of the Super Bowl like this one. Some have
Speaker 1: speculated that this is perhaps a distraction for the company,
Speaker 1: seeing as Mars Wrigley was just fined by federal workplace
Speaker 1: safety authorities in conjunction with an accident in June in
Speaker 1: which two workers fell into a chocolate bet which they
Speaker 1: weren't supposed to be working on. Um No, which that's
Speaker 1: a that's gross. That's also like how Willy Wonka kills
Speaker 1: one of the kids, and um not to laugh. But
Speaker 1: oh man, so maybe they had like a Willy Wonka
Speaker 1: based like ed and then that happened. They were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll never know. We never will know.
Speaker 1: The actual state secrets are being leaked because the elderly
Speaker 1: presidents are how do I open email? Jack? But the
Speaker 1: you know, these these are the state secrets that will
Speaker 1: the earth will end and blow away in a cloud
Speaker 1: of dust before anybody knows what what actually happened with
Speaker 1: this that to make this had possible. Corporations, they're the
Speaker 1: they're the true are true rulers. Let's take a quick break,
Speaker 1: shall we. I'll come back and do a little trailer,
Speaker 1: watch super Bowl and dish and we're back. And so
Speaker 1: the Flash is coming out with highly problematic star as
Speaker 1: our miller, h just on wax victimizing people for months,
Speaker 1: like there's been multiple articles, multiple arrass uh and a
Speaker 1: history of violence as our miller for years, Like, you know,
Speaker 1: this is not their first time boyering into being a
Speaker 1: bad person. You know, they have been in trouble with
Speaker 1: the law before two. They got multiple arrest in two.
Speaker 1: But also you know before there have been rumors of
Speaker 1: you know, assault and battery, you know from prior partners,
Speaker 1: all sorts of things. So the fact that like Warner Bros.
Speaker 1: You know, canceled the background movie fully done, like it
Speaker 1: was a done movie. People were very excited for it.
Speaker 1: It had, you know, representation after Latino representation, like all
Speaker 1: the things that you know in this new modern era
Speaker 1: of filmmaking people wanted to see. They scrapped, but they
Speaker 1: are holding on for dear life of the flash I
Speaker 1: don't understand. I don't. The trailer was okay, you know,
Speaker 1: but they didn't recast like It's just it didn't seem
Speaker 1: to me to make sense. It feels like I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying, oh now I get it, and good
Speaker 1: decision by you Warner Brothers. But it does like they
Speaker 1: have a lot of narrative baggage tied up in this one,
Speaker 1: because this is apparently the one based on a comic
Speaker 1: called Flashpoint Paradox. I think super producer Justin was saying,
Speaker 1: um in which like the different universes crossover with this
Speaker 1: is their multiverse for sure, this is DC's multiverse. It's
Speaker 1: very clear they're bringing back all the Batman's. You know,
Speaker 1: they've got Ben Affleck, Matt Band, You've got Michael Keaton Batman,
Speaker 1: you're bringing in Supergirl like it is definitely a like
Speaker 1: merging of like Justice League vibes. But I just don't
Speaker 1: think they're like I'm assuming there. Thing is like, well,
Speaker 1: we already shot the movie and we have to make
Speaker 1: the money on it and setting up for other movies,
Speaker 1: and we'll probably recast Ezra Miller in you know, whatever
Speaker 1: we do with the flash Necks. But I just don't
Speaker 1: think they're going to make enough money off of releasing
Speaker 1: this version with Ezra Miller then they would have if
Speaker 1: they just recasting him and redid it, recut the scenes.
Speaker 1: I don't. Yeah, it feels like because I think people
Speaker 1: are very staunchly against as Rameller right now, and I
Speaker 1: don't think they're going to see it because people don't
Speaker 1: have confidence in d C as it is anyway, So
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna be like, oh, but I
Speaker 1: gotta figure out how it all connects so I can
Speaker 1: watch the next d C movie. Right It does feel
Speaker 1: like they're doing the thing that Spider Man Far from Home,
Speaker 1: No Way Home, whatever the last Spider Man is, with
Speaker 1: multiple multiple Spiderman spiders Man was, but they're doing it
Speaker 1: in a flash movie instead of a Batman movie, but
Speaker 1: they're doing it with the bat then. Anyways, very questionable
Speaker 1: decisions to producer Brian a little bit more of a
Speaker 1: DC head than I is saying, they literally made two
Speaker 1: cuts of Justice League for no reason with two different
Speaker 1: directors exactly. It seems like there's not a like the
Speaker 1: thing that Marvel is so good at, and it's not
Speaker 1: it's not great for cinema in general, but like just
Speaker 1: very consistent and feels like they're always on rails and
Speaker 1: they've got this thing thought out five years in advance,
Speaker 1: and d C is always there to just make that
Speaker 1: look extra difficult, you know. So Anyways, the other big
Speaker 1: trailer Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. So this one,
Speaker 1: I will the Dial of Destiny. So it like they
Speaker 1: had the Last Crusade, the Razors of the Lost arc Um,
Speaker 1: Temple of Doom, and then they've really just fallen off
Speaker 1: with the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and the Dial
Speaker 1: of Destiny. The Dial, like is the does dial do
Speaker 1: anything for you other than like an old timey like
Speaker 1: TV or um. I mean what I was thinking, which
Speaker 1: is probably incorrect, Like bias, I didn't get to watch
Speaker 1: the trailer before we hopped on. But my idea is,
Speaker 1: if you watch parts of the Kribbean, you know they
Speaker 1: had that like compassy thing. That's the vibe it's giving me.
Speaker 1: But I know that's a compass and not a dial,
Speaker 1: so I'm not sure compassite destiny might have made more
Speaker 1: sense to me. The dial of destiny just feel strange. Um.
Speaker 1: But anyways, I am been intrigued now that I found out.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, did they even get Spielberg for this?
Speaker 1: Because if not, they did not get Spielberg. They got
Speaker 1: James Mangold, who made Logan. And now I'm more interested
Speaker 1: in it than I would have been if they had
Speaker 1: gotten Spielberg, if Spielberg had gotten Spielberg, because he's still
Speaker 1: the executive producer. But you know, Spielberg took a swing
Speaker 1: and a miss with Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I
Speaker 1: think I never watched it because I couldn't find a
Speaker 1: single person who liked that movie. I think I watched
Speaker 1: it in theaters. Yeah, I think a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Did you know. My dad's a big Indiana Jones guy,
Speaker 1: so I've seen all of them. I'll probably see this
Speaker 1: one MS down around Christmas. I'll definitely see it with
Speaker 1: my dad. But I mean, I'm excited. I I love
Speaker 1: Indiana Jones. I think they're fun adventures. And so James
Speaker 1: Mangold made Logan, which is and I like Logan too,
Speaker 1: So yeah, Logan was great. And it's also like character
Speaker 1: in their old age being a step slow, um, which
Speaker 1: seems like you need that to be the plot the
Speaker 1: premise of an Indiana Jones movie at this point, especially
Speaker 1: if um, Harrison Ford is actually starring it, which he
Speaker 1: is because he is getting up there yeah and still
Speaker 1: looks so good. Just does what a what a face
Speaker 1: on that man? Truly? Um? Netflix made a reggaeton show
Speaker 1: and forgot to include Puerto Rican people in the production. Yes,
Speaker 1: so I some of the story shocker, But I actually
Speaker 1: had a friend send this to me and I did
Speaker 1: a little bit of a deep dive and I was
Speaker 1: kind of blown, to be completely honest. In November, Netflix
Speaker 1: announced show Neon, which is going to be focusing on
Speaker 1: three friends who move from a small town in Florida
Speaker 1: to Miami with the hopes of making it big in
Speaker 1: the world of ricketone. The show chronicles not only they're
Speaker 1: larger in life, dreams and the harsh comic realities of
Speaker 1: attempting to make it in the music industry. But with
Speaker 1: that being said, there are no Puerto Ricans in the
Speaker 1: writer's room. There are no Puerto Ricans really documented in
Speaker 1: the making of the show. The showrunner is se Serrano,
Speaker 1: who is a Mexican American writer, author and journalist, and
Speaker 1: then they have a white showrunner, Max Searle. So it
Speaker 1: is to me very perplexing and kind of hurts to
Speaker 1: say the least, because I just don't feel like there
Speaker 1: are a ton of Puerto Rican stories out there that
Speaker 1: are being told by and for Puerto Rican people. And
Speaker 1: I think not to like, I don't know much about
Speaker 1: che Serrano as a writer or anything like that, but
Speaker 1: it perpetuates this idea that it's like we as you know,
Speaker 1: Latinos Latin a latinox folks are this monolith of a
Speaker 1: culture and like Regaton itself specifically, is so rooted and
Speaker 1: not just like Afro Latinoism. It's rooted in like Puerto
Speaker 1: Rico in the d r in uh like Cuba like
Speaker 1: it is an Afro like like Caribbean style of music
Speaker 1: and originated in port Rico as a part of Puerto
Speaker 1: Rican's like protests with the US government and like creating
Speaker 1: its own separate culture from the U s as it's
Speaker 1: been colonized by the US. So it is just very
Speaker 1: depressing to hear this that they have been kind of
Speaker 1: covering it up by saying like, well, we're not going
Speaker 1: to be focusing on the Puerto Rico aspect of the story.
Speaker 1: And it's like, but you you can't do that when
Speaker 1: you're talking about Regaton specifically, like Regaton is puor Rican,
Speaker 1: like inherently those are two synonymous pieces of culture. You
Speaker 1: cannot take por Rico recatone and you cannot take Regatona
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico. So, you know, it just it feels icky
Speaker 1: that they're having this like, you know, Puerto Rican lead actor,
Speaker 1: they're shooting it in puot Rico, but the showrunner is white,
Speaker 1: the writer's Mexican, and it seems like they're kind of
Speaker 1: hushing any Puerto Rican voices that are on the set
Speaker 1: that like they they are exclusively not seeing out Puerto
Speaker 1: Rican writers, Puerto Rican folks to be a part of
Speaker 1: the creative process. It's Ikey, It's Ikey Boon Netflix on
Speaker 1: this one. I'm gonna watch it, but I I am
Speaker 1: curious to see how they are going to somehow separate
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico from Regaton because it's just not possible. You cannot, Like,
Speaker 1: we just watched the fucking Grammys with that bunny on
Speaker 1: that stage representing Puerto Rico, and so it's just shooting
Speaker 1: in Puerto Rico. Is It's wild, especially because it's based
Speaker 1: in Miami. So I don't get why they can't shoot
Speaker 1: in Miami. Not that I like have anything wrong with
Speaker 1: shooting in putric but given what is going on, um,
Speaker 1: you know, politically between Puerto Rico and America in terms
Speaker 1: of trying to get its statehood or trying to you know,
Speaker 1: become more independent and being supported by the economy, like
Speaker 1: to be shooting in Puerto Rico and then like spit
Speaker 1: in their face about like not having any Puerto Rican
Speaker 1: support on this team. It's just it's kind of ikey
Speaker 1: for also, schae Serrano, like, is you the creator coming
Speaker 1: up with this idea? You did not feel inclined like
Speaker 1: him because you know he's a he's a podcaster and
Speaker 1: a good solid writer. But yeah, that's yeah. My friends
Speaker 1: smited this article from hyper Allergic. They're an independent um
Speaker 1: Brooklyn journalists uh hub and they do a lot of
Speaker 1: like news on like the arts and um. They reached
Speaker 1: out to Toronto. He didn't comment on anything. They've reached
Speaker 1: out on Netflix. They haven't really commented on anything, but
Speaker 1: they did interview um let the Rebels, which is like
Speaker 1: a really cool independent Latino like activists journalist group UM
Speaker 1: and Yeah, they they interviewed a bunch of the Puerto
Speaker 1: Ricans that are are like, you know, like the lower people.
Speaker 1: They have like because it's in Puerto Rico, they have
Speaker 1: you know, Puerto Rican you know, assistant producers and things
Speaker 1: like that, and they're all saying like they're trying to
Speaker 1: you know, skirt around the idea that they're not including
Speaker 1: a lot of Puerto Rican representation in the filmmaking process.
Speaker 1: And I don't know. I just I hope to hear
Speaker 1: from Chas Serrano on his perspective when this movie starts
Speaker 1: or not this movie the show starts to actually get
Speaker 1: through promo and like goes live and kind of hear
Speaker 1: why he decided to make those decisions. But as a
Speaker 1: Latino in filmmaking, I find it disappointing that we're still
Speaker 1: especially like this is a black like Latino story, like,
Speaker 1: these are a Latinos that you're not seeking out to
Speaker 1: represent their voices, especially during Black History Man, where you're
Speaker 1: finding this out and you're not going to reach out
Speaker 1: to Afro Latinos and Black Latinos and actually represent them
Speaker 1: as they are authentically. So disappointed here to please if
Speaker 1: you know more, let me know, Yeah, hit us up.
Speaker 1: And finally, Megan Fox and m g K. I mean there,
Speaker 1: it's not not we don't know much. This is a
Speaker 1: kinetic situation, but the rumors are flying that there their
Speaker 1: love has ended, they've broken up. Megan Fox apparently deleted
Speaker 1: all our pictures of m g K and I g
Speaker 1: followed Eminem, which is the ultimateness to m g K.
Speaker 1: Do they feud Eminem and mg K? Okay, So when
Speaker 1: people were saying that I didn't understand, I was like,
Speaker 1: is this an allusion to like Eminem and Rihanna's song
Speaker 1: together or is it something about people like comparing Eminem
Speaker 1: and mg K. I could see both. I'm not verse
Speaker 1: enough and Eminem's universe to understand the significance, but it
Speaker 1: seems to be significant according to the internet and pop
Speaker 1: culture that he followed Eminem unfollowed him, took all his
Speaker 1: photos down, posted Beyonce lyrics. Um, if you listen to Lemonade,
Speaker 1: which generally people understand Lemonade as a brick up album,
Speaker 1: but pray you catch me that song like hurts and
Speaker 1: your soul. Um. So it's clear that he probably cheated
Speaker 1: on her based on that choice of song. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm here for Megan Fox getting her lick back. She
Speaker 1: needs to leave that man. I've been not about it.
Speaker 1: The backstory of them and m m g K feud,
Speaker 1: by the way, is just further solidified that he's just
Speaker 1: like a fun boy. Uh. So mg K tweeted about
Speaker 1: Eminem's daughter. Okay, so I just saw a picture of
Speaker 1: Eminem's daughter and I have to say she as hot
Speaker 1: as fuck. Okay, well that's kind of gross. So then
Speaker 1: I think there's been some dis tracks. Uh yeah, there's
Speaker 1: well well deserved feud. I love this for Megan. I
Speaker 1: always want to say, Megan Kelly, Megan Fox to just
Speaker 1: be spurned and say fuck m g K, because I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people were like, we want this
Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, It's just it was a creepy love.
Speaker 1: I mean it felt very you know, press ish like
Speaker 1: from the beginning, but also there was just like so
Speaker 1: many moments that you would see them on the red
Speaker 1: carpet and she looked like so over it, right, like
Speaker 1: He's just like like all over her, and she's just
Speaker 1: like like he like had no like like rapport on
Speaker 1: any sort of public display. It's like, I know, some
Speaker 1: of it was like obviously they were both indulging in it,
Speaker 1: but sometimes it was just like, bro give her some space.
Speaker 1: You're like in her, like you're like sucking her air,
Speaker 1: Like can you like a step back like I was
Speaker 1: giving me like plastrophobia watching them? All right, Well, those
Speaker 1: are some of the things that are trending on this
Speaker 1: Monday after the super Bowl. We're back tomorrow with the
Speaker 1: hole Lasque episode of the show Becca. Where can people
Speaker 1: Find You? Follow you? You can find me and follow
Speaker 1: me at bex B ECCS, Ramos on all platforms and
Speaker 1: at mel Mundo's in Bushwick every other Saturday. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is going to do it until tomorrow. Be kind
Speaker 1: to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine,
Speaker 1: don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we'll talk to
Speaker 1: you all tomorrow. Bye bye,