Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of BBL Trendy.
Speaker 1: BBL Trendy that is courtesy of Brian the editor, and
Speaker 1: it is no, it's timely. It's because we got BBL
Speaker 1: trending again thanks to Inside the NBA always there for
Speaker 1: us in a pitch. Yeah, yeah, so BBL Chuck is
Speaker 1: trending because there's this moment I think it was after
Speaker 1: the Minnesota game where they were talking about Chuck the ass.
Speaker 1: For some reason, you had all that ass back there, Chuck,
Speaker 1: BBL Chuck, and then they all laughed as they faded
Speaker 1: to commercial break. Fortunately, the other piece of news about
Speaker 1: Inside the NBA is that Chuck has said that if
Speaker 1: the show goes away, he might put the crew back
Speaker 1: together himself with his own production company.
Speaker 2: Hmmm, how does that work?
Speaker 1: Well, so somebody was pointing out that like Inside Stuff,
Speaker 1: that NBA show was on NBC in the nineties, ABC
Speaker 1: and the Oughts and NBA TV in the twenty tens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, with a motor shot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I mean there's been shows where they're
Speaker 1: able to like keep the crew together in different Yeah,
Speaker 1: but wouldn't.
Speaker 3: You still have to have some kind of like licensing
Speaker 3: agreement with the league to like play footage and do
Speaker 3: all that kind of stuff or I guess not.
Speaker 1: I mean, well, I guess Inside stuff was able to
Speaker 1: do it, right, Yeah, just spread it around. I mean,
Speaker 1: if there's a good product that makes sense and is
Speaker 1: good marketing for the league, then it would be wild
Speaker 1: if they chose to like no longer have Inside the NBA. Like,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's widely agreed that that's.
Speaker 3: One of the best things about the NBA's like TV
Speaker 3: covers like, yeah.
Speaker 1: The best sports show on television, it's one of the
Speaker 1: best shows on television.
Speaker 3: But hey, look, I wouldn't count out a major network
Speaker 3: to even though that may be true, then be like, nah,
Speaker 3: we know better.
Speaker 1: We actually know better. We're going to put Steven A. Smith,
Speaker 1: Reggie Miller, and Bob Costas and move together and along
Speaker 1: with watch.
Speaker 3: A Spark Yeah Ai Michael Jordan's dad, and I think
Speaker 3: we're really going to have a really interesting show that
Speaker 3: people are gonna want to tune into.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, people.
Speaker 1: Know what Inside the NBA is, right even though this
Speaker 1: isn't our sports our NBA podcast, yeah, our sports podcast.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, no, No, I mean, look, it's if you're ever
Speaker 3: watching TNT and you see Shaq talking and Charles Barkley,
Speaker 3: that's that show.
Speaker 1: That's that show. It's a lot of fun. They're just
Speaker 1: it has the vibe of a podcast, but it's a
Speaker 1: TV show. Yeah, for some reason, they're the only people
Speaker 1: who have been able to pull that off.
Speaker 2: I mean, credit to Charles Barkley.
Speaker 3: I mean, despite the fact that he has an answer
Speaker 3: for throwing in poor immigrant man through a window and
Speaker 3: nearly killing him, but he is very conscious of morale
Speaker 3: on the set, which I can only imagine, like for
Speaker 3: all the people, like the talent will be fine, they're
Speaker 3: going to land on their feet, but like they've been
Speaker 3: doing the show so long, it sounds like Charles Barkley
Speaker 3: is also concerned, like all the crew that make the
Speaker 3: show possible being in limbo.
Speaker 2: So it feels like he's.
Speaker 3: Trying to make do good by them to be like,
Speaker 3: we're gonna find a way to keep this thing going,
Speaker 3: so you.
Speaker 1: Know, we shall see, we shall see the real blunder
Speaker 1: if somebody wasn't able to figure out a way to
Speaker 1: keep it going. But anyways, just another the lasting impact
Speaker 1: of that was it Metro who put up BBL Drake.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, well BBL drizzy metro Boomy. He made the
Speaker 3: beat and then said, this is a free beat for
Speaker 3: everybody to make their own.
Speaker 2: Drake distract.
Speaker 3: The best one gets ten thousand dollars and a beat
Speaker 3: from me or something like that. But it all started
Speaker 3: with a AI comedian guy who made this like fake
Speaker 3: soul track that was the basis for the sample.
Speaker 2: That metro Boomin used. Yeah, yeah, it's sillonious.
Speaker 1: It is probably the best thing AI has done yet
Speaker 1: to this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, next to the concept of what that Willy Wonka
Speaker 3: experience in Glasgow, that's a close second.
Speaker 1: Say yeah, is that one? That one? That one's a
Speaker 1: whole like concept art, Yeah, performance art, just amazing cluster
Speaker 1: fuck of like meaning and human sadness and all these
Speaker 1: different layers. So many layers to this ship, so many layers. Hey, well,
Speaker 1: speaking of AI, let's move on to something that isn't
Speaker 1: the best thing that AI has done. The wearable startup Humane.
Speaker 1: You might have heard of this. This was like a
Speaker 1: pin that projected ship onto your hands.
Speaker 2: And had AI launched in.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It was basically like a star Trek, you know, chest
Speaker 3: communicator module that like used magnets to like kind of
Speaker 3: like attached to your clothes, and you could do all
Speaker 3: kinds of voice prompts like you could you could have
Speaker 3: it interpret what you're hearing into languages or what you're
Speaker 3: saying into other languages. It could, you know, basically do
Speaker 3: anything chat GPT can do using voice prompts, like you know,
Speaker 3: give you a summary of like what are the best
Speaker 3: fucking exercise habits is a long distance, right, you're describing
Speaker 3: is what it could do, and in the in the demonstrations,
Speaker 3: it would do this stuff right, but then like you
Speaker 3: start digging into the details and that's where it, you know,
Speaker 3: kind of this is where it kind of started falling
Speaker 3: apart because the second reviewers got their hands on it,
Speaker 3: this ship was dead on a rival because they were like,
Speaker 3: what the fuck is this? It's like seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: You need a twenty four dollars a month subscription fee
Speaker 3: because it needs to be on Wi Fi all the time,
Speaker 3: So if you're not on a Wi Fi network then
Speaker 3: you need to get this SIM card. And then if
Speaker 3: you leave the country, that's an extra fee. Which for
Speaker 3: people who are like, oh, that interpretation interpreter thing would
Speaker 3: be cool if I travel, it's like, well then there's
Speaker 3: like a roaming fee.
Speaker 1: Yeah, actually I can't do that, sorry.
Speaker 3: And the second you don't pay for a subscription, that
Speaker 3: basically you basically brick the thing and it's useless. So
Speaker 3: I mean, like there was a lot of hype because
Speaker 3: like again it was it was promising really interesting things.
Speaker 3: But yeah, like again, once people started using it, they're like, yo,
Speaker 3: this ship is so heavy, Like I can't wear a
Speaker 3: T shirt and like have this heavy ass thing on.
Speaker 2: It's like pulling my collar down.
Speaker 1: What if an Apple watch just had to be pinned
Speaker 1: to your T shirt anything watch?
Speaker 2: Because that's the thing. They're like, well, what's the display?
Speaker 3: There was like a seven to twenty p sort of
Speaker 3: like you know, a projector that you would project onto
Speaker 3: your hand and you would use gestures to like select things,
Speaker 3: and it looked pretty intuitive, but again, the ship did
Speaker 3: not work well in daylight, so you're like, oh, I
Speaker 3: need to go to a shadowy corner so I can
Speaker 3: see the projection on my hand.
Speaker 2: And again a lot of people are.
Speaker 1: Like, you're going to use this thing in daylight? Come on.
Speaker 1: I feel like most of the time, I just I
Speaker 1: feel for reasons to criticize it, where other people are
Speaker 1: calling it a dead on arrival. You know, it's like
Speaker 1: they nailed the arrival so hard it's dead on dead,
Speaker 1: And that is what that means. You're just looking for negative.
Speaker 3: To I don't know if you remember the film by
Speaker 3: Danny ville Neve Arrival, you remember how like that one
Speaker 3: dude was like babbling and shaking because he was so
Speaker 3: thrown off by being near the aliens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what this shit is.
Speaker 3: You're going to be dead on arrival because you've never
Speaker 3: you can't even fucking fathom what this thing does.
Speaker 2: So anyway, cut to this being like a total l.
Speaker 3: The company is now the people who are behind the company,
Speaker 3: who are like former Apple guys, they're trying to flog
Speaker 3: the company now for a sale price between seven hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty million and one billion dollars.
Speaker 1: But okay, this is their only We all know, Miles,
Speaker 1: We all know that. You know, like, if you don't
Speaker 1: succeed at first, that doesn't mean like that your next
Speaker 1: product that you have in the shop that you're kind
Speaker 1: of ticking and away at right right right, you know,
Speaker 1: the just because the Apple Adam didn't work didn't mean that,
Speaker 1: like the iPhone wasn't good so like, obviously you got
Speaker 1: a price point of like close to a billion dollars.
Speaker 1: They have something in the lab that like is gonna
Speaker 1: blow ourn is.
Speaker 2: The thing that was kind of like our one big idea.
Speaker 1: They have no other ideas, this shitty one. We were
Speaker 1: all in on this all they had and they're like,
Speaker 1: all right, fine, you twisted our arm. We'll give it
Speaker 1: to you for a billion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, any other ideas one, na, Just you guys make
Speaker 2: it work for a billion.
Speaker 3: Now. Anyway, that AI you're up, you're down, you're up,
Speaker 3: you're down. With a down up, You're down, you're up,
Speaker 3: you're down.
Speaker 1: The other AI gadget, the rabbit R one, was part
Speaker 1: of an nf T scam. Some people are saying, Brian
Speaker 1: the editor is.
Speaker 3: Stop stop shining light on this stuff, man, you know,
Speaker 3: just let's just be happy we got these cool like
Speaker 3: a transponder device from the side.
Speaker 1: When will you guys be happy? They're saying it's a.
Speaker 4: Dead on this thing, dead on No, Like it doesn't
Speaker 4: even work selectively quote dead on asterisk.
Speaker 2: Arrival at the bottom of final.
Speaker 1: All right, there's this new I think Reuters or AP
Speaker 1: story about fact. Yeah, it's from the AP they're talking
Speaker 1: about the fact that Laura Trump is basically the second
Speaker 1: in charge of the r n C or the top
Speaker 1: person like the depending on who you ask. And I
Speaker 1: think I knew that, but I just like, hadn't it
Speaker 1: just like hit me again processed Eric Trump's wife, Like yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: television producer, not of like Peabody Award winning tech like
Speaker 1: not a just like somebody who worked in media is
Speaker 1: now the head of the Republican Party co chair, you know,
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, second the number two after a lot.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it just like hit drove home again, like
Speaker 1: how much you know?
Speaker 3: Hold on, dude, you know what she was, you know
Speaker 3: what the show she produced right inside edition, So like.
Speaker 2: She's got a fucking head on, you.
Speaker 1: Know what I mean?
Speaker 2: You remember that story about the lady who.
Speaker 3: Says she couldn't be that cheerleader who couldn't walk, who
Speaker 3: couldn't walk normal after she got a flu shot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I don't know if that.
Speaker 3: Was actually the one she worked on, but that's the
Speaker 3: that's the level of journalism that she was working on,
Speaker 3: if you want to call it that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it really feels like nothing, like what would
Speaker 1: he have to do at this point for everybody to
Speaker 1: stop and be like, wait, what the fuck is happened? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, like it's I always talk about, like, you know,
Speaker 1: the German people in media were all about talking about
Speaker 1: the Nazis when they first came to power, and then
Speaker 1: ten years later when they actually like came to power
Speaker 1: and like took over, like everyone was like, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: we get it, we know, no, we know about these guys.
Speaker 2: We know they're creating weird.
Speaker 1: So like if Trump had tried to make Eric Trump's
Speaker 1: wife the head of the Republican Party during his first administration,
Speaker 1: that would have been a major scandal, Like there would
Speaker 1: have been think it's like all anyone would talk about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know we freaked out when he fired James
Speaker 1: Comey for not being loyal, but he didn't like try
Speaker 1: to replace him with Eric Trump.
Speaker 3: Well, you know those aren't political appointees, so maybe the
Speaker 3: weight is a little bit different. But yeah, it's so cynical,
Speaker 3: right because the head of the head of the RNC,
Speaker 3: the chairman is Michael Wyley, who used to run the
Speaker 3: North Carolina Republican Party, and he's like a huge stop
Speaker 3: to steal guy, so like it makes sense. He's a flunky,
Speaker 3: like he'll do what he's told. But the co chair specifically,
Speaker 3: like the chair person is the one who's like doing
Speaker 3: all the day to day operations, like actually making sure
Speaker 3: it semi functions. But the co chair is like the rah, rah,
Speaker 3: let me get get them check books out person, which
Speaker 3: is where Laura Trump comes in. And you know, the
Speaker 3: whole thing was, I'm I'm in there because now I
Speaker 3: can direct all of the funds that the RNC generates
Speaker 3: just to Donald Trump and to offset all these legal costs.
Speaker 3: And you know, it's a double edged sword because everyone,
Speaker 3: anyone who isn't Donald Trump who would rely on funding
Speaker 3: from the RNC is like, uh, like, we're also running.
Speaker 2: For office as Republicans.
Speaker 3: And good use catch Like yeah, more on that later, dickhead.
Speaker 3: We got to pay for his fucking lawyers fucking lunch.
Speaker 1: She calls so many people point dexter while bouncing things
Speaker 1: off their forehead when talking to.
Speaker 2: Them, Yeah, flicking.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it just it feels like this is working.
Speaker 1: Like as his behavior gets more flagrant, it's just because
Speaker 1: we have more flagrant behavior in the rear view, it
Speaker 1: gets harder for people to be like, wait, what the
Speaker 1: fuck is going on, you know, yeah, yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: the insurrection, like a straight up impeachable offense that he
Speaker 1: like got impeached for and then like nothing really happened,
Speaker 1: uh the successful overturning of Roe V. Wade, Like, uh,
Speaker 1: like we have all that in the rear views. So
Speaker 1: now it's just by the way, I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: proud to I was like, maybe we might need to
Speaker 1: come up with a new word for what he has here,
Speaker 1: like a neptocracy, a nepotocracy, like some where someone like
Speaker 1: tries to use like past power just via familial ties.
Speaker 1: And that I realized that's called a monarchy. That's just yeah.
Speaker 3: Or you know all the people like look at the Bushes,
Speaker 3: the Kennedys, like the fucking you know, uh, what's who
Speaker 3: is the who is Darth Vagington?
Speaker 1: Yeahlinton, Yeah, I guess it's not that abnormal. Who the fuck?
Speaker 2: Who is the Cheney? You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like everybody's it all goes downstream. Look at it, like,
Speaker 3: you know, Ronni McDaniel was Mitt Romney's niece.
Speaker 2: That's what you're still on the RNC.
Speaker 3: So it's a neptocracy wrapped in a monarchy. Wrapped in
Speaker 3: a kleptocracy and all of it's everything. It's everything, It's everything.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's wild. When you go to the rn
Speaker 2: C page and you click donate, it goes to Trump's website. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're like, you're giving me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why shouldn't it. You got a problem with that man?
Speaker 3: Nine out of ten, you know, it's ninety percent goes
Speaker 3: to Trump, ten percent goes to whatever.
Speaker 2: The RNC needs.
Speaker 1: More on that later. Let's take a quick break. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back, and we're back and we have an
Speaker 1: update on Graceland.
Speaker 2: The saga is, so what happened?
Speaker 1: Democracy dies in the darkness? We shined a light on
Speaker 1: this and they got to the bottom of it.
Speaker 2: Boom. You heard about it earlier today in the episode.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that the whole thing between Riley Keo, the
Speaker 3: granddaughter of Elvis, and this like weird ass company like
Speaker 3: Nasony Holdings or whatever the fuck that company was called,
Speaker 3: who claimed like we gave a three point eight million
Speaker 3: dollar loan to Lisa Marie Presley and basically she owes
Speaker 3: us money.
Speaker 2: So now we own Graceland.
Speaker 3: And obviously, when we're talking about episode, like the documents
Speaker 3: stunk of a forgery, especially when the notary was like,
Speaker 3: that's I was never here for that and this has.
Speaker 1: Never met baith Mary Presley. I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: recognize these documents.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Plus these documents are made of crackers. Hey, hey, those
Speaker 1: are tickets.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so apparently you know, the judge ruled in Riley
Speaker 3: Kyo favor, surprise, surprise, and then Nasity now said in
Speaker 3: an email to the Associated Press that it would be
Speaker 3: quote withdrawing all claims with prejudice, and told the AP
Speaker 3: that it was dropping the case because both the loan
Speaker 3: and a critical document had been filed in another state,
Speaker 3: meaning the company would have.
Speaker 2: To take legal action in multiple states.
Speaker 3: Like, rather than just taking the l and being like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: we we swung and a big old fake actually.
Speaker 1: Right, decided we're actually withdrawing it for other reasons that
Speaker 1: have nothing to do with the fact that it's fraud.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what you guys are freaking out? Okay,
Speaker 1: what everybody needs to shut the fuck up.
Speaker 2: Well, the court said there were no validity to your claims.
Speaker 2: Is that maybe the reason why? That's probably why.
Speaker 3: No, it's because the documents were in other states and
Speaker 3: so like, I'm gonna have to like talk to my
Speaker 3: other friend in like Mississippi, Florida's.
Speaker 1: Just trailed off.
Speaker 2: Are you saying I just said I'm gonna own it.
Speaker 1: Did you walk away from your phone for a second?
Speaker 2: No, hold on, dude, my mom's calling me. Dude, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: she's old. Dude. I gotta go, I gotta go.
Speaker 1: But at least we learned that Elvis Presley Enterprises exists
Speaker 1: and gets tax money from the city of from the
Speaker 1: very poor city of Memphis for upkeep and eventually building
Speaker 1: a stadium and a warehouse and factory Chia pets, so.
Speaker 2: Oh Man shut out to Chias.
Speaker 1: Fuck the lapd t shirts have sold out thanks to
Speaker 1: police threat. So this is the latest example of streisand effect.
Speaker 1: A leftist T shirt company called the Kola Corporation recently
Speaker 1: started selling shirts that read fuck the lapd but in
Speaker 1: the style of the Lakers logo. YA very cool shirt.
Speaker 1: I highly recommend people check it out. The shirts led
Speaker 1: to the company receiving a legal threat from IMG Worldwide.
Speaker 1: The entertainment company represented UH the popular entertainment brand the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Police Foundation, who claim to hold the rights
Speaker 1: to the lapd ip Hey, the LAPU is the lap
Speaker 1: d's secretive, multi million dollar private funding arm, which has
Speaker 1: purchased surveillance tech, robots, drones, volunteer licenses, all sorts of
Speaker 1: nice little gifts for the LAPD. And the way that
Speaker 1: they get all that money that they can fund that
Speaker 1: shit with is partly through the sale of merchandise.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hell yeah, hell, hell yeah. That's what it's all.
Speaker 1: You know, my one hundred and five dollars LAPD ash
Speaker 1: trays a real thing for sale that you can get.
Speaker 3: What about for those of us who celebrate the birth
Speaker 3: of Jesus Christ, have about a bullet ornament.
Speaker 1: It's just it's like a peer remid of six bullets
Speaker 1: stacked on top of each other, like with with L
Speaker 1: a p D like a little LAPD tag on it.
Speaker 3: For some reason, it's a little grim because like these
Speaker 3: are spent shellcasings, Like they're not full bullets, like spent
Speaker 3: shell casings. So it's like, what are these Like these
Speaker 3: all represent a life of a person who is needlessly
Speaker 3: killed by the police. Yeah, but I don't know, I
Speaker 3: don't know. I mean, it only cost twenty bucks, so
Speaker 3: it might be. But yeah, like it's it is just
Speaker 3: wild to be like, why why does the LAPD have
Speaker 3: like a brand division, you.
Speaker 1: Know what, so that they can sell more l a
Speaker 1: p D branded surfboard coins with guns for fins, which
Speaker 1: is a word that's a real product that I couldn't find,
Speaker 1: but that is in the description of of like their
Speaker 1: branding offerings. An l a p D branded surf board
Speaker 1: board with coin with guns for fins.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool? Cool?
Speaker 1: Yeah there cool Miles. Yeah, I'm glad you agree. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 1: In New York, the NYPD logo has been branded on
Speaker 1: officially licensed T shirts sold in stores like Nordstrom and
Speaker 1: a graphic apparel brand T and Cake. Who Uh. There's
Speaker 1: a great Instagram post that our writer Jam found where
Speaker 1: the NYPD hoodie was being sold on Instagram with the
Speaker 1: message Freeze You're arrested for loving our NYPD sweat so much?
Speaker 2: Oh fuck off Freeze.
Speaker 3: And it just it's like the doofiest looking hoodie.
Speaker 2: It just says NYPD on.
Speaker 1: It, Like I mean, the internet is just full of like,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fake like weird merchch that it just appears with
Speaker 2: letters on it. But yeah, I guess this.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize that this was kind of a new thing,
Speaker 3: like of like turning a police department into a commercial
Speaker 3: entity to generate revenue.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the formal commercialization of police departments is a
Speaker 1: relatively started with the LAPD when they registered their name, badge,
Speaker 1: and motto with the US Patent and Trademark Office in
Speaker 1: ninety eight, and that city was inspired by the fact
Speaker 1: that the FBI and NSA both already held trademark registrations
Speaker 1: for their logos, which rose like which sparked the question
Speaker 1: in my mind, are those female Body Inspector t shirts
Speaker 1: making money for the actual FBI?
Speaker 3: Maybe I'd imagine there's parody law that would apply there,
Speaker 3: because you're not okay, you're explicitly saying this FBI is
Speaker 3: not the Federal Bureau of Investigator. You're saying it's female.
Speaker 3: I don't know who knows. Maybe it's a fucking op
Speaker 3: and we're all just being like, dude, fucking you're giving
Speaker 3: money the FEDS with that female Body Inspector shirt you
Speaker 3: put on the boardwalk.
Speaker 1: Like, I tried to google it and I couldn't find
Speaker 1: anything other than a web page for very stupid people
Speaker 1: asking is.
Speaker 2: That really what FBI stand for?
Speaker 1: Then being like, no, FBI doesn't stand for Female Body Inspector.
Speaker 3: It might in a new Trump term, though you never know,
Speaker 3: you never know, you never know.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so I don't know. So I mean the
Speaker 1: like these are taxpayer funded organizations, they don't have like
Speaker 1: you're not supposed to be able to sell branded products
Speaker 1: for anything that like has no competitors. Yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: not a business like yeah, exactly not just NOA doesn't
Speaker 1: know what do they need the copyright protection for. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The one place that we've seen this be used very
Speaker 1: lucratively was the New York City Fire Department, who registered
Speaker 1: with the Patent and Trademark Office in you're never going
Speaker 1: to guess.
Speaker 2: Well, let me guess. So if LAPD did in ninety eight,
Speaker 2: I don't know, like ninety.
Speaker 1: Nine, November two thousand and one, what happened, Well right
Speaker 1: after the summer of the shark wow, yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: right after nine to eleven they realized they could cash in,
Speaker 1: so that holiday season they were a gear. It just
Speaker 1: like manufacturing and selling gear ny or f ypd n
Speaker 1: Y fd gear all over the place.
Speaker 3: F d n Y actually fdn Y yeah, respect respect.
Speaker 3: That's just so funny. How like I mean it makes
Speaker 3: total sense too. They're like, oh, we can cash in
Speaker 3: on this because apparently I get it too. Like this,
Speaker 3: they were probably seeing other people. They're like, yo, other
Speaker 3: people are selling fucking shit with our fucking name on it.
Speaker 2: Now you need to fucking elbow them out the market.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's exactly what happened. So the FDNY was like,
Speaker 1: we're seeing so many people like so their official merch
Speaker 1: only come comprised like one quarter of the market. So
Speaker 1: the government started sending out seasoned assist letters, and then
Speaker 1: the vendors like kind of we're like, what the fuck
Speaker 1: are you talking about? And in this case, in the
Speaker 1: LAPD thing, the like it's not even in the font
Speaker 1: of the LAPD right, so like they're claiming ownership of
Speaker 1: the letters LAPD.
Speaker 2: Right right right, you can't copyright.
Speaker 1: For letters like that's The lawyer for the T shirt company,
Speaker 1: by the way, responded with a letter that simply read,
Speaker 1: lol no will common No, no.
Speaker 2: You're ce desist letter.
Speaker 3: Well ah fuck, And then now I think they're called
Speaker 3: our bluff shit, what do we do now?
Speaker 2: Oh no? Tom Morello retweeted the guy who owns the
Speaker 2: company's tweet about the LAPD Ceason desist letter. Is that good?
Speaker 1: H It's good for them because, uh, not only was
Speaker 1: the threat from the lawyer's total bullshit, it completely backfired
Speaker 1: and the fuck the lapd shirt got way more clicks
Speaker 1: than it ever would have otherwise totally sold out. The
Speaker 1: site is now struggling to keep items in stock as
Speaker 1: a result, chalking the success up to the Streisand Effect.
Speaker 3: So, man, love love a good that's are your weekly
Speaker 3: I guess Gina Reinhart effect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Gena Rhinehart.
Speaker 2: We're trying hard. We're trying hard to take it back.
Speaker 2: We're trying hard.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna happen because I couldn't even
Speaker 1: I'm the one who raised the idea of changing the
Speaker 1: art effect. I couldn't even pull that name. It's going
Speaker 1: to be the Strisand effect, folks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're like, it's the Earnhart effect.
Speaker 1: E three. All right, those are some of the things
Speaker 1: that are trending on this Thursday afternoon. We are back
Speaker 1: tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then,
Speaker 1: be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get
Speaker 1: the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we
Speaker 1: will talk to you all tomorrow, Bye bright