Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Rock
Speaker 1: Trend Around the Christmas Tree. I'm No. Number one today.
Speaker 1: Hey hot damn.
Speaker 2: Or you when you said tree, were you like trying
Speaker 2: to assert something that was gonna be likes?
Speaker 1: I just remember Chris Chris trend Geist have a hap Bee.
Speaker 2: One of my friends in elementary school used to think,
Speaker 2: is said and maybe this is like a common uh
Speaker 2: mong green. I believe is whats was that it was
Speaker 2: I saying, uh, then we'll have some fucking pot but
Speaker 2: sumpkin pie.
Speaker 3: But if you want to hear, then we'll have some
Speaker 3: fucking pot.
Speaker 1: There's that one song that talked about and I brought
Speaker 1: some corn for popping, and I've not I've not misheard
Speaker 1: it and thought it said something about finger popping, but
Speaker 1: like my brain remembers it as like something with finger
Speaker 1: pop him.
Speaker 3: Which for corn for popping.
Speaker 1: You Okay, I was like, and we'll do somethinger popping.
Speaker 2: Well, I think that's I think that's part of the
Speaker 2: fun of Christmas songs is they're open for straight up disrespect,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like because you feel like
Speaker 2: you feel like buzz in home alone where you're like, yo, bro,
Speaker 2: I'm fucking around at this Christmas person. I don't give
Speaker 2: but it's not really about it's not holy come on,
Speaker 2: because I do the same thing with Andy Williams. Happy Holidays,
Speaker 2: yeah nasty, oh yeah right, and don't.
Speaker 1: Believe your stroke.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, you're gonna say cock, aren't you to
Speaker 2: hang out?
Speaker 3: And I'm like, ah, right, there is right there Andy.
Speaker 1: I wonder if he was that was like part of
Speaker 1: his show. Everyone was like, say, cockeydude, you put sing
Speaker 1: really all right?
Speaker 3: Welcome Nandy Williams Christmas Holiday show.
Speaker 1: Folks, guys, Brenda Lee is back on top, actually on
Speaker 1: top for the first time around. The Christmas Tree just
Speaker 1: hit number one sixty five years after it was released. Hey,
Speaker 1: at least she's alive. I was like, oh, please be alive.
Speaker 2: She's seventy eight, She's alive to see it old this
Speaker 2: person the top the singles chart. I know it used
Speaker 2: to be who was It was like held by Louis Armstrong.
Speaker 2: Louis Armstrong for a number of years. I can't wait
Speaker 2: to see the movie where she releases the song and
Speaker 2: everyone's like, this song's garbage, right right, Like they just
Speaker 2: really play up how much everyone hated it.
Speaker 3: At first She's a New Sugarman.
Speaker 1: Number two when it first came out. What a song.
Speaker 1: Though I haven't heard it quite a bit, I do
Speaker 1: wonder if I wonder why, I wonder what's going on?
Speaker 1: But I do wonder if there's something specific, like if
Speaker 1: it just particularly appeals to a new generation or what
Speaker 1: what's going on there?
Speaker 3: But I wonder.
Speaker 2: It's it's always interesting, like yeah, it's probably like in
Speaker 2: this day and age, it's like gotta be like part
Speaker 2: TikTok on some level.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got to be TikTok. It's got to be
Speaker 1: the kids out there ticking and talking around the Christmas tree.
Speaker 1: Maybe yeah, maybe.
Speaker 2: Kind of like if it's like one of the first
Speaker 2: things maybe on let me see, let me see, because
Speaker 2: like Spotify's like playlists, like I wonder if they're like
Speaker 2: the default Christmas playlist like starts off with that song
Speaker 2: and that kid is.
Speaker 1: One of the greats, like it is one of the classics.
Speaker 1: That also just still sounds like oh.
Speaker 2: Dude, okay, just see this is how much you fude,
Speaker 2: It's how much your boys listen to fucking Christmas music
Speaker 2: and on Spotify looking at shit all the time. It
Speaker 2: is a It is literally the first track on their
Speaker 2: Christmas Classics playlist.
Speaker 1: Wow, there it is.
Speaker 2: So I feel like if a lot of people are
Speaker 2: just sort of like, what's like a like a Holiday
Speaker 2: Classics you put on like whatever the Spotify want is
Speaker 2: boom first track Brenda.
Speaker 1: Lee, The Power of Spotify. Yeah, they just canceled too,
Speaker 1: like Peabody Award winning podcasts, but they will be replacing
Speaker 1: them with Yeah Bullets, but they'll be replacing them with
Speaker 1: Rocking around the Christmas Tree. Why not listen to this?
Speaker 1: Oh you like heavyweights, try Rocking around the Christmas Tree
Speaker 1: by Brenda Lee. All right, Uh, there's a new piece
Speaker 1: and vice that says the Kendall Roy era is nigh.
Speaker 1: I feel like may already be here. I feel like
Speaker 1: we've seen a lot of these fellows, these folks. But yeah,
Speaker 1: basically they for the first time, the amount of money
Speaker 1: made by the newest class of billionaires last year, the
Speaker 1: amount that was made by the errors turned to billionaires.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure the fact that it's not like they
Speaker 1: were errors and then became billionaires separately, but like the
Speaker 1: so fifty three heirs, people who inherited their billionaire status
Speaker 1: made more money for the first time than people who
Speaker 1: became billionaires from doing things self made entrepreneurship.
Speaker 2: Just hand it over, handed over grandpa, for fuck's sake,
Speaker 2: trying to be.
Speaker 1: A billionaire, because you know, they're like the previous generation.
Speaker 1: The currently the generation of dying off people have coarded
Speaker 1: wealth to an unprecedented degree, and it is going to
Speaker 1: go to the worst and weirdest people that the planet
Speaker 1: Earth has to has to offer. In my experience, the
Speaker 1: you know, scient like multiple generations into generational wealth can
Speaker 1: be a real real uh spicy meatball. Yeah, humanity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yeah, it's god, what are these what's
Speaker 2: this new crop going to look like? I remember seeing
Speaker 2: like the headlines about like this new like wealth transfer
Speaker 2: that's going to be happening with like this old billies
Speaker 2: given it to the youngies. But I wonder how many
Speaker 2: like are we going to see a new breed of
Speaker 2: kids who are just like, oh yeah, man, this is
Speaker 2: fucked up, Like I was waiting for my spot and
Speaker 2: maybe I can do something with this money.
Speaker 3: Or they're gonna be like, yo, bro.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna hold onto this ship until we're dead, maybe
Speaker 2: till my great great great great greats are dead.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna have some interesting things to uh,
Speaker 1: some interesting ideas of what to do with it that
Speaker 1: involve like NFTs again right right right, lifestyle brands like
Speaker 1: water that's connected to n f T s uh, and
Speaker 1: that's actually kind of happening. Yeah, yeah, uh, you're you're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna get more packaging that has long statements
Speaker 1: about how this.
Speaker 2: This is more than just a bottle of water.
Speaker 1: This sugar free gum just bring is made from the
Speaker 1: best stuff on earth, and our ethos is really about
Speaker 1: humanitarianism and transcendental meditation. Anyways, true nightmare shit here. Hopefully
Speaker 1: at some point in the coming decades, we have some
Speaker 1: sort of reform that actually makes it so the best
Speaker 1: thing to be on the planet, the most rewarding thing
Speaker 1: to be, is not a rich person's grandson.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, right now, I think that there's a
Speaker 2: case in front of the Supreme Court that may make
Speaker 2: it serious like nearly impossible to fucking tax the wealthy.
Speaker 2: So we'll just have to wait and see how things
Speaker 2: move here.
Speaker 1: They're usually pretty cool. I feel like the Supreme Court,
Speaker 1: they usually have some cool things to see.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, see, we'll see.
Speaker 1: We got the Chris miss candy that America hates most,
Speaker 1: candystore dot Com one of our you know, most one
Speaker 1: of our greatest contributors. Great, yeah, great contributor. You know
Speaker 1: polling experts. Now, their polls generally are not handled the
Speaker 1: most scientific way, but they have access to data that
Speaker 1: we just cannot ignore. And they unveiled a list of
Speaker 1: the ten most hated Christmas candies of the year. And
Speaker 1: I am calling bullshit on this for one very specific.
Speaker 2: Bullshit in that this is manufactured bullshit, that the like
Speaker 2: the survey sample size was completely fucked up.
Speaker 3: What are you saying.
Speaker 1: I think there's just one editorial decision they must have made,
Speaker 1: which is they must make a lot of money selling
Speaker 1: candy canes. I think a lot of people must make
Speaker 1: a lot of money selling just red and white peppermint
Speaker 1: candy canes because they are fucking everywhere at this time
Speaker 1: of year. Nobody likes them that I've ever met, Nobody
Speaker 1: like yeah, hell yeah, man, I want my candy to
Speaker 1: taste like toothpaste have but I actually roted my teeth.
Speaker 1: What if toothpaste made my teeth worse? But it's nowhere
Speaker 1: on this list. Candy the only place that candy canes
Speaker 1: come in in the top ten of every most hated
Speaker 1: Christmas candy is number four. Candy canes parentheses non peppermint.
Speaker 1: I don't believe you. You're a liar candystore dot Com.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't buy it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I was even like kind of scratching my head.
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, what what are those like? The ones
Speaker 1: they sell it?
Speaker 2: Like I remember C's candy would have ones that are like,
Speaker 2: not the red and white color that would just be
Speaker 2: vaguely sweet.
Speaker 1: What color are they?
Speaker 3: They would be like blue.
Speaker 2: Or something like it would be like white with blue stripes,
Speaker 2: white with like green.
Speaker 3: I'm like, dude, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: That is terrible too. Wait are people fucking hating on
Speaker 1: peppermint bark? Peppermint bark, which is cane crunched up and
Speaker 1: sprinkled over chocolate like it comes in at number ten,
Speaker 1: but people like chocolate, so that again, like this is
Speaker 1: I feel like I could write a legal brief on
Speaker 1: why this is wrong. Like I can't can't show you
Speaker 1: the data, but I feel like they are making too
Speaker 1: much money off of bad red and white candy canes
Speaker 1: and they're trying to paper over the fact that nobody
Speaker 1: likes them.
Speaker 3: I feel like I feel.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, I feel like the DNC looking at polling
Speaker 2: of young people.
Speaker 3: And be like, what this is wrong.
Speaker 2: This is not right, this is not this is not
Speaker 2: reflect that's it.
Speaker 1: The number one most hated reindeer corn. We've seen before
Speaker 1: that candy corn is despised, so it makes sense that
Speaker 1: rein deercorn might not be very popular. The number two
Speaker 1: is Christmas nougat? Are those like the chocolate? I don't know,
Speaker 1: Like that's so specific, it's so specific. I don't tell
Speaker 1: you what.
Speaker 2: It was enough that you got to like a you know,
Speaker 2: a tipping point of respondence to be like, this is.
Speaker 1: Number two, Like cherry cordials, the chocolate covered cherries, like those,
Speaker 1: Oh that's my opinion.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, you need to see the pictures.
Speaker 1: It's this shit. Have you seen this cherry cordials?
Speaker 3: No, that's Christmas nugat?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Like the white nugat is like it looks
Speaker 2: like street in red and greenish.
Speaker 1: Christmas nugat is not good. So it's like gum drop
Speaker 1: stuck together with yogurt? Is that basically what it looks.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's like hell oh Oh, that's like
Speaker 1: cherry cordials. Yes, like chocolate covered cherries. There's like a
Speaker 1: little liquor in there.
Speaker 2: For some reason, I hated it because it's just I
Speaker 2: don't like when stuff. I said this off Mic, I
Speaker 2: just like chocolate stuff. And then when you get like
Speaker 2: the cherry cordials are like the thing that you would
Speaker 2: get in like a like a box of chocolate, you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: this one about to be a truffle, and then you
Speaker 2: take a bite and it's like yeah, and it's just
Speaker 2: like cherry ship.
Speaker 1: So you just bid into a glow stick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like ship, it's a fucking rotten tennis ball.
Speaker 1: What the fuck is this?
Speaker 2: So I get I can definitely agree with that one,
Speaker 2: because that's what the fuck When I look at that
Speaker 2: think about it.
Speaker 1: Like it's this fucking I like that ship. I do
Speaker 1: remember that that sense of memory feeling no, no, no, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I did not want this. This is not what I
Speaker 1: asked for. But then yeah, so Number four candy canes
Speaker 1: non peppermint bullshit, complete bullshit. Number five peeps uh wrong, wrong.
Speaker 2: Holiday praised during the holidays, Okay, yeah for Christmas.
Speaker 1: Okay, they're just getting their peep machine or maybe something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess they have to mark the peeps in
Speaker 2: Christmas so they can be risen for Easter.
Speaker 3: Maybe the lore around the around it.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, ribbon candy. I don't think I've ever had,
Speaker 1: but it looks like it's like fruit by the foot
Speaker 1: mixed with the dice that we were talking about earlier.
Speaker 2: This is like very like the kind of candy like
Speaker 2: that they make on a boardwalk and you can watch
Speaker 2: them make it.
Speaker 1: Kind of.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of this stuff is just old timey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know exactly. Number seven old fashioned hard candies. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: sh specific yeah, number eight Life Savers story books. I
Speaker 1: don't even know what you're talking about at this point.
Speaker 1: But then number nine and ten chocolate oranges. Who doesn't
Speaker 1: like chocolate? Orange?
Speaker 3: I hate them?
Speaker 1: You do the orange them? They must chocolate? They're getting
Speaker 1: that kind of orangey flavors?
Speaker 3: Are they fucking up the flavor? That bad?
Speaker 2: If there isn't real orange in that ship, that's even
Speaker 2: worse if there wasn't. But yeah, like the ones that
Speaker 2: come in like the orange foil thing, and then like
Speaker 2: it's individual wedges.
Speaker 1: Kind of round. I don't know that I've ever eaten one.
Speaker 1: I think I've just liked it in theory but never
Speaker 1: had one, so maybe I actually is it well for me?
Speaker 1: Is there like a don't there a texture problem?
Speaker 3: No, No, it's not taste, it's pure flavor.
Speaker 2: I just hate I just don't like sometimes fruit combinations
Speaker 2: with chocolate and citrus with it.
Speaker 3: People like it.
Speaker 2: I'm absolutely not. It shivers up me spine. But we
Speaker 2: both like peppermint bark, right, we both like peppermint bark. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's the only way I'll eat candy canes. That's true,
Speaker 2: because it reminds me of like a classy andes after dinner.
Speaker 2: Mint for the holidays, Yeah, exactly, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: because you're still getting that like I like mint chalk,
Speaker 2: like mint chocolate.
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that.
Speaker 2: And it's not enough candy cane that you're like, you know,
Speaker 2: like it's fucking everything up just in their little crunchy
Speaker 2: little mint.
Speaker 1: Yeah. As a candy corn defender, I will agree that
Speaker 1: reindeer corn just like a step too far, Like the
Speaker 1: color of the reindeer corn is it's just a nightmare.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, you guys fucked up with that one. But anyways,
Speaker 1: like people, let me know like, do you are there
Speaker 1: people out there who really ride for peppermint candy canes?
Speaker 1: Like it feels like just bad candy that nobody really likes.
Speaker 1: But maybe I could see there being like a like
Speaker 1: you said, like a sense memory from childhood. And people
Speaker 1: are like, oh, it reminds me of Christmas. But like
Speaker 1: every one that I talked to is like, no, fuck
Speaker 1: fuck those see I'm like the.
Speaker 2: Fuck candy corn candy cane ambivalent? Interesting, just all your
Speaker 2: ambivalence for me. I'm like, I get it, like because
Speaker 2: I think it's kind of an aesthetic thing too.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I ain't eating that ship, but I like
Speaker 2: this ship like will make me feel when I look
Speaker 2: at it.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break.
Speaker 5: And we'll be back. And we're back.
Speaker 1: Where are we? Where are and GTA six? GTA is
Speaker 1: back with a trailer.
Speaker 2: I know you, I know you're ready for this one
Speaker 2: game in jack Boy, Hey game and Jack what do
Speaker 2: you think of that new GTA six trailer?
Speaker 1: Man, GGA six trail looks great? Man, that mountain do down?
Speaker 1: That's the only question this shit.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Man. The last GTA came out, I wasn't in my thirties.
Speaker 2: I'm on the doorstep of forty right now, and I'm like, wow,
Speaker 2: y'all really made a ton of money off of this ship,
Speaker 2: to the point that it was I don't know, they
Speaker 2: really took their sweet ass time with this thing.
Speaker 3: H the trailer.
Speaker 2: It's kind of wild because people have been just frothing
Speaker 2: at the mouth for a Grand Theft Auto game to
Speaker 2: the point that there have been constant leaks and shit.
Speaker 2: That's like all they've been dealing with. And the only
Speaker 2: reason we got the trailers because the shit leaked early.
Speaker 2: I got TikTok and the like fuck it just put
Speaker 2: it out and like the labeling I remember was bad
Speaker 2: on the YouTube posts like V one trailer, Like it's
Speaker 2: like as if they just put the file name in there.
Speaker 1: But yeah, V one being the Grand Theft Auto six trailer.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but it does trailer one? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh is it still yeah, Like to the point where
Speaker 2: you're like, okay, maybe you would.
Speaker 1: Have had this rum roll for six.
Speaker 3: Oh damn, oh hold on, hold on, hold on, I
Speaker 3: gotta play it. Wait wait wait you said what now.
Speaker 1: Like Grand Theft Auto Version one?
Speaker 4: WHOA your voice a little tired or something anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 4: oh Victor, Victor Caper for rock Star in the chat.
Speaker 2: I know, yes, Red Dead Redemption two did come out.
Speaker 2: Fantastic game.
Speaker 3: All I'm saying is Grand Theft Auto.
Speaker 2: It was just one of those things that kept being like,
Speaker 2: oh there there's there's gonna be an announcement. They're like,
Speaker 2: we're gonna add fucking jets, and you're like, fuck lowriders
Speaker 2: and more motorcycles.
Speaker 1: But again, jets and Grand Theft Auto five. Yeah damn okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you can fucking you could take a fucking
Speaker 2: airliner in that game.
Speaker 1: Hot damn. Yeah. So people are pretty I don't know.
Speaker 1: The only way I found out about this was like
Speaker 1: I saw a video of someone twerking on top of
Speaker 1: a car, and I was like, that looks dangerous, but hey,
Speaker 1: every kids are wild these days their own huh. And
Speaker 1: then I noticed people were talking about how, like god,
Speaker 1: I can't believe how like good the graphics are on that,
Speaker 1: and I was like, maybe this is like a deep
Speaker 1: ficker in AI. I don't have time to look at it.
Speaker 1: I had no idea it was like graphics from Grand
Speaker 1: Theft Auto six.
Speaker 3: So you had your moment too. You're like, wait that
Speaker 3: that game thatking was game?
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah it was his game is game.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's also just wild too, like inevitably, they're like people
Speaker 2: are finding a way like the Grand Theft Auto games
Speaker 2: have had their problem since time immorial since you could
Speaker 2: hire a sex worker and then kill them to get
Speaker 2: your money back.
Speaker 3: And I was like, yo, bro, that's like play the game.
Speaker 1: That was Grand Theft Auto five. I believe I think
Speaker 1: you could have done.
Speaker 3: I think you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was definite and I think it was in
Speaker 2: GTA three too, where there it's like, oh, the sex
Speaker 2: workers if you kill them, they they dropped more money
Speaker 2: okay yeah yeah yeah, like they would just like they
Speaker 2: would just drop piles of cash. U. So if you're
Speaker 2: playing the game and you're looking to play that way,
Speaker 2: that you would just be targeting them.
Speaker 3: But now the somehow the game is woke because now
Speaker 3: you can be a woman, like a female protagonist and
Speaker 3: then do all that kind.
Speaker 2: Of violent shit, And they're like, it's far. Where are
Speaker 2: the white guys. It's like, I don't know, look at
Speaker 2: the last all of every game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people were pointing out the GTA five the female
Speaker 1: characters were either objects of sexual lust for men or
Speaker 1: psychotic basically Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, because yeah, Michael's wife in that game was
Speaker 2: not doing was not doing much for any accusations that
Speaker 2: Rockstar was being sensitive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Rockstar in general has been accused of not being
Speaker 1: overly sensitive in the past and having massive, like pay
Speaker 1: gaps that were like massive by the standards of the
Speaker 1: gaming industry. But yeah, women were being paid sixty four
Speaker 1: percent lower than men.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean, I mean there's a whole there's
Speaker 2: a whole other labor, you know, component to the way
Speaker 2: games are developed that you know, we could talk about too,
Speaker 2: but it seems like it just there was even like
Speaker 2: Elon Musk was like, I tried playing the game, but
Speaker 2: the fact that you had to shoot the police, I just.
Speaker 1: Could not do it. Got it?
Speaker 2: So really OK, Yeah, I think Christy Almagucci main came
Speaker 2: in there with a pretty viral clapback.
Speaker 3: I think I noticed in that threat.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's uh, it's been so many years and
Speaker 2: now it's not coming out till twenty twenty five, so
Speaker 2: it'll be a full twelve years probably until between games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty twenty five is not next year.
Speaker 3: I'm sure I was even doing that math too.
Speaker 2: When I saw I was like, Okay, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, I ain't know this is twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four next year. Oh shit, game is that's so long
Speaker 1: from now that my kids will probably be able to
Speaker 1: play it by the time it comes out. I'll be
Speaker 1: like yeah, no, I mean, did you see the twerking
Speaker 1: was pretty cool?
Speaker 3: You're like, yeah, I thought it was pretty dangerous for
Speaker 3: that young lady.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyways, those are some of the things that are trending. Yeah, Tuesday,
Speaker 1: December fifth, we are back tomorrow with a who last
Speaker 1: episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other,
Speaker 1: be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't do nothing
Speaker 1: about white sopreancy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Bye bye,