Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of trend
Speaker 1: in MS the name of the show because it is
Speaker 1: now the name of the most popular Halloween candy. I'm
Speaker 1: realizing I don't call them m and MS. I call
Speaker 1: them Eminem's. That's okay, right, yeah, they they've just been
Speaker 1: changed to be named after the rapper. I am Jack O'Brien,
Speaker 1: and that is our guest co host today, mister Jackie Snel.
Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, Hello, Wow, what up? Let's trand baby.
Speaker 1: Let's trend. A lot of hot news coming in off
Speaker 1: the wires hot such as uh Kotaku has ranked the
Speaker 1: best Halloween candy from worst to best.
Speaker 2: I'm here from this.
Speaker 1: Maybe we should start with the most popular because we
Speaker 1: also have that information coming in hot off the wires
Speaker 1: from candy store dot com, who always delights us with
Speaker 1: their map of the US with the most popular candy
Speaker 1: in each state. We got a new winner this year.
Speaker 1: The most popular Halloween candy nationwide used to be Reces Cups,
Speaker 1: has been since this show has been a thing the
Speaker 1: past seven years, and reces Cups got a new winner. Eminem's.
Speaker 2: Eminems is the winner.
Speaker 1: Eminem's is number one in terms of just sales I
Speaker 1: pulled a audible and decided we'd start with sales.
Speaker 2: Let's do sales.
Speaker 1: Eminem's number one, Recee's Cups, number two, Three, sour Patch Kids,
Speaker 1: Good Call America. I love Sour Patch Kids.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Four Skittles, five star Burst six Tomaly. This is where
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to disagree.
Speaker 2: With you guys to come on now the fuck out
Speaker 2: of here with those, Come on now.
Speaker 1: Number seven candy Like, all right, they lost me lost, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they had the good top five and then it just
Speaker 1: fell off a cliff here, like everything six through nine
Speaker 1: is a disaster. Number six Hot Tomali's number seven candy corn,
Speaker 1: which I am a candy corn apologist, Like I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't mind it as much as other people. If there,
Speaker 1: if you have absolutely no other option, I like it
Speaker 1: better than Hot Tomali's. For instance, It's just like icing.
Speaker 1: It's like eating little pieces of icing, which I am
Speaker 1: an icing bitch. I will eat off the top of
Speaker 1: your cupcakes.
Speaker 2: I don't love icing. I don't think I've ever given
Speaker 2: candy corn like much of a chance because it looks
Speaker 2: so unappealing.
Speaker 1: Right, It's too waxy. It's like it's like icing, mixed
Speaker 1: with wax, and that is its problem. But I actually
Speaker 1: prefer the candy corn pumpkins because those interest bigger and
Speaker 1: like they the consistency. I feel like they're like a
Speaker 1: little bit medium rare on the inside, so they're like
Speaker 1: a little bit more liquidy in the middle sometimes and.
Speaker 2: We need more? Can we need more new candy? Me
Speaker 2: and Miles talked about this once on an episode like
Speaker 2: a few months ago. I think where there's no new
Speaker 2: candy being made anymore, I know, it's a travesty.
Speaker 1: They did that one that was like what you might
Speaker 1: call it in the nineties and then gave up.
Speaker 3: Like the eighties, right, Rece's pieces. Rece's pieces, I say pieces,
Speaker 3: but because I talked about candy so much as a child,
Speaker 3: it's just locked in all the ways to mispronounce, yeah,
Speaker 3: like reces pieces.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah yeah. But anyways, yeah, I think that was
Speaker 1: the eighties. I think eighties, okay, like the et eating
Speaker 1: Reces pieces was the first piece of product placement ever
Speaker 1: again and.
Speaker 2: Really but for the Simpsons like don't lay a finger
Speaker 2: on and were like no, thank you, pops, tousy pops. Also,
Speaker 2: you know how many licks to get to the center
Speaker 2: of a tootsy pop. That's a classic commercial.
Speaker 1: That is a classic commercial. I feel like that candy.
Speaker 1: If I had to date it as to like when
Speaker 1: it was invented, i'd be like the eighteen nineties. I
Speaker 1: don't know. There's just something like the ads feel old
Speaker 1: as fuck. Number eight Hershey's Kisses again, what the fuck
Speaker 1: are we doing? Number nine hershey Mini Bars. Okay, it
Speaker 1: just feels like the wood chips of like in the candy.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like the filler. It's like the I've.
Speaker 2: Seen a person eat a Hershey's bar in two decades.
Speaker 2: I've seen people use them for other things.
Speaker 1: And they're just eating. They're fine in a in a pinch,
Speaker 1: but Halloween Night is not supposed to be a pinch.
Speaker 1: They are. They're like the bread cereal in Lucky Charms,
Speaker 1: you know, like they're they're the in between there is.
Speaker 2: They're just the fu we came here for. We didn't
Speaker 2: come here for then, come here for the for the
Speaker 2: luckies we came here.
Speaker 1: I think the boys talks about how how they call
Speaker 1: the bread, the grain cereal parts of Lucky Charms of the.
Speaker 2: Wood, which I was funny.
Speaker 1: They get me back at number ten with Butterfinger. All right,
Speaker 1: so those are the sales figures. Kotaku has come out
Speaker 1: chest out and said, these are actually what are the
Speaker 1: best Halloween candies? And right off the bat they got
Speaker 1: me because at the very bottom of the list of
Speaker 1: thirty eight they've got red Hots, which that feels right correct,
Speaker 1: that feels okay, you've got that correct. So they're really
Speaker 1: hard on Nerds.
Speaker 2: I will say, yeah, Nerds is like thirty two. I
Speaker 2: will say this too, Sour Patch Kids not on this
Speaker 2: list at all.
Speaker 1: That's a that's an oversight, that's an edibles that has
Speaker 1: to be that has an editorial someone called an editorial mistake.
Speaker 1: I would call it an editorial disaster.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Over Good and Plenty. Yeah, that's slavery food bro Like,
Speaker 2: don't nobody eat Good and Plenty candy? No more?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Crazy.
Speaker 1: I I am happy to say they've put Milky Way
Speaker 1: at number five, and I do really fuck with milky
Speaker 1: Way recently. See I think Milky Way are actually pretty good.
Speaker 2: See I don't, I don't know, not especially over But
Speaker 2: can I can I actually, I know you want to
Speaker 2: go through this list, but if you can, if you
Speaker 2: can name your off the top of your head, real quick.
Speaker 2: Your top five candies like your Jack's top five can
Speaker 2: My top.
Speaker 1: Five would be reeseent peanut butter cups, butterfinger M and
Speaker 1: M's Yeah, almond joy, I'm a freak. You are a
Speaker 1: fucking disgusting freak. Yeah. And then probably Nerds rope or Nerds.
Speaker 2: Clusters nerves like, okay, that's an eclectic. That's that's an
Speaker 2: eclectic like list, I think. And also you got some
Speaker 2: new ship, because my ship is like mostly old candy.
Speaker 1: Wafers.
Speaker 2: I love candy dots, I love worthers, I love straight
Speaker 2: from my grandma's purse. I love butterfingers, butter fingers. I'll
Speaker 2: funk with Chico sticks, which is an old ass candy.
Speaker 2: Chico Sticks is my shit. I also, yeah, man, little
Speaker 2: coconut sticks like coconut peanut buttery. It's kind of like
Speaker 2: a finger. Those aren't good, They're so good. I also
Speaker 2: love a babe Ruth, a baby Ruth, love a baby Ruth.
Speaker 2: I like Reese's pieces in my top four. And to
Speaker 2: round it out, I think I would go with like
Speaker 2: either a Nerds or a sour oh no, laffy taffy
Speaker 2: laffy taffy laffy taffy and laffy taffy.
Speaker 1: Laffy taffy is the wood for me, and a candy
Speaker 1: like laught type, he's always left over at the end.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love laffy type as long as it's not banana.
Speaker 1: But yeah, anyways, I don't know, we don't have to
Speaker 1: go through the whole list. I'll just say, like, those
Speaker 1: are the ones that jumped out to me. Anything jump
Speaker 1: out to you that you think is being overrated underrated
Speaker 1: on this list?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think like, listen, man, you know, I know
Speaker 2: all my joy is in your top five, and like,
Speaker 2: I know objectively that it's a popular candy, so it
Speaker 2: has Yeah, but people.
Speaker 1: Who do not fuck with coconut are not happy.
Speaker 2: And I do like coconut, but coconut and chocolate don't
Speaker 2: mix with me. I don't know why. Interesting they put
Speaker 2: dots at number ten, then.
Speaker 1: Put dots at number ten. That's crazy, I miss crazy.
Speaker 1: They put dots at number ten.
Speaker 2: That's great, over over star Wars and Skittles and Twizzlers,
Speaker 2: like absolutely insane.
Speaker 1: So these are and this is an editorially savvy move
Speaker 1: where you put one on the list that is just
Speaker 1: completely wrong to improve your engagement so that people are like,
Speaker 1: look at these motherfuckers. Yeah, Skittles are good, man. I
Speaker 1: think those all those candies like other than nerds, rubber nerds, clusters,
Speaker 1: I think they're It's good.
Speaker 2: If you have a candy that has that now has
Speaker 2: multiple bags of different variants of your candy, you have
Speaker 2: made it. Yeah, like so you've done it. So Skittles
Speaker 2: has many type of skills. Em and Ums have many
Speaker 2: type of m andelms. Like that alone puts both of
Speaker 2: those candies in the top ten easily easy.
Speaker 1: All right, I want to talk just further on the
Speaker 1: Halloween conversation and then we'll like also talk about non
Speaker 1: Halloween news. I swear to god, what is too spooky
Speaker 1: as a question that is coming up. So parents in
Speaker 1: the UK had to complain because at a like indoor
Speaker 1: playground in the UK they decorated it for Halloween with
Speaker 1: basically body bags hanging from their feet. It really like
Speaker 1: that's that as well. Yeah, the place called Rugue Rats
Speaker 1: and half Points. It's in Gloucestershire and they just like
Speaker 1: put like you kind of have to see the image,
Speaker 1: but it's very grim. It's not it is in no
Speaker 1: way spooky. It's just it looks it's like you're stumbling
Speaker 1: across something you shouldn't see that Like, yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: am a.
Speaker 2: Big fan of spookiness. I'm a big fan of scaring children.
Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of all these type of things.
Speaker 2: But it has to be something that like, at a
Speaker 2: certain point, if it's to a kid and as an adult,
Speaker 2: we know this that like, oh this isn't necessarily real,
Speaker 2: like you know, like killer killer clowns aren't real, big
Speaker 2: ass werewolves aren't real. So if those are the things
Speaker 2: that like scare you, even if they scare out of you, well,
Speaker 2: you know, look, you know, I know, I know, we
Speaker 2: grew up in the eighties, so we have. But if
Speaker 2: it's something like that, I'm all for it. But body bags,
Speaker 2: especially in our current climate where we're seeing dead people
Speaker 2: on social media every day, maybe a little too much.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe a little too much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my children were talking about a Halloween decoration they
Speaker 1: saw in our neighborhood where a little child. My son said,
Speaker 1: it looked like little orphan Annie was stabbed to a tree.
Speaker 1: Jase how he described it. That's wild. That's a lot.
Speaker 1: I actually didn't get that mad about that one, because
Speaker 1: obviously he knew it was a decoration, so it didn't
Speaker 1: freak him out that much. Like that, they're not complaining
Speaker 1: like our neighbors had a body parts tree last year
Speaker 1: where it was like a tree in the front yard
Speaker 1: decorated like a Christmas tree, but just with like severed
Speaker 1: hands and heads and shit.
Speaker 2: I can't do that. I can do that.
Speaker 1: I like that. Man like that because that again, like it,
Speaker 1: it looks like a festive thing that has been designed.
Speaker 1: It doesn't look like there are actual bodies being stored
Speaker 1: in your children's playground. Yeah, and looking into this story,
Speaker 1: somebody was complaining on Reddit a few years back about
Speaker 1: like decorations being too too scary for their kids, Like,
Speaker 1: how do I take my kids around when there's like
Speaker 1: a scary clown.
Speaker 2: To stop being pussy's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exist That was basically the entire response, but one
Speaker 1: of the responses wash. There were actually multiple responses from
Speaker 1: people in Australia who were like, I mean, I agree,
Speaker 1: it's too scary, but doesn't matter because nobody here decorates anyways.
Speaker 1: For the most you get is like a stray spider
Speaker 1: web on the hedge, and that like bummed me out.
Speaker 2: Like that bummed me out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I like the idea of a holiday. This
Speaker 1: is what America. America is like so fucked up and
Speaker 1: repressed that we have this one time of year where
Speaker 1: we like get to just turn our homes into like
Speaker 1: murder dioramas.
Speaker 2: And everybody just like goes overboard.
Speaker 1: They just like go too hard.
Speaker 2: We just love it. I will say, look if burb
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's many neighborhoods in Los Angeles where we
Speaker 2: live that do Halloween well, but Burbank does Halloween very well,
Speaker 2: especially in like our equestrian neighborhoods. And I sound so
Speaker 2: boogie right now, but in our questrian neighborhoods, we have
Speaker 2: a lot of people that go all out because we
Speaker 2: have all the motherfuckers who work like on set design
Speaker 2: and shit and movies like those living Burbank. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: you just have just like great as like homes decorated
Speaker 2: and people who go all out, and you can just
Speaker 2: drive around and walk around and just see a bunch
Speaker 2: of really dope houses and maybe even get some candy
Speaker 2: even as an adult.
Speaker 1: There you go, all right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back, and we're back. A couple of
Speaker 1: quick trump updates. We're gonna talk more about General Kelly
Speaker 1: getting into detail about Trump's like Nazi Hitler sympathies and
Speaker 1: love than interest on tomorrow's episode. Another thing he mentions
Speaker 1: that Trump raged at slain soldier's funeral bills and said,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't spend sixty thousand dollars to bury a fucking
Speaker 1: Mexican was one of the things that he was quoted
Speaker 1: as saying.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 1: He also is being sued by the Central Park Five,
Speaker 1: the men formerly known as the Central Park Five, who
Speaker 1: were you know, falsely accused of attacking a jogger in
Speaker 1: Central Park and they were eventually exonerated. When they were
Speaker 1: first accused, Trump took out a full page ad in
Speaker 1: the New York Times basically saying that they should be
Speaker 1: executed even though they were children. So yep, and then
Speaker 1: that came back to bite him in the ass, except
Speaker 1: not really, because he just never let that truth in
Speaker 1: and in fact said during the debate that they had
Speaker 1: pled guilty, when in fact they had just been coerced into,
Speaker 1: of course confession. So they're suing him rightfully, and you know,
Speaker 1: he defamed them in front of sixty seven million people. Also,
Speaker 1: just this is probably nothing. But there is this political
Speaker 1: journalist named Mark Halpern who is saying that he's been
Speaker 1: he was like, all the Hitler Nazi stuff about Trump,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure it's true. Then he said, I've
Speaker 1: been pitched a story about Donald Trump now for about
Speaker 1: a week that, if true, would end his campaign. And
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, like I can't given what we've just said. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like the stories that are coming out about him, what
Speaker 1: he's like One of the stories is him being like,
Speaker 1: I like Hitler, he did good things, Like I wish
Speaker 1: we were more like Nazis. Like what could this possibly be?
Speaker 1: I'm not going to speculate. I'm not asking you to speculate.
Speaker 1: It's just why, Like I don't even like what, I
Speaker 1: don't know a writer that could come up with the
Speaker 1: scandal that would end his campaign other than like that
Speaker 1: he like murdered.
Speaker 2: To murder somebody in like there's video or some shit
Speaker 2: like and even then, like unfortunately, even then, I'm like,
Speaker 2: you still might you still could win. But yeah, at
Speaker 2: this point, it's like, what what could you possibly say?
Speaker 2: Like this feels like you're just trying to get clicks
Speaker 2: and like views, torture name but also if it is
Speaker 2: such a big story that it that it could be
Speaker 2: the thing that ends his campaign out of the millions
Speaker 2: of things that did not end his campaign in the
Speaker 2: past nine years, then you are it is a form
Speaker 2: of malpractice that you are not publishing it, like you know.
Speaker 2: So it's like, why why even say this? Why even
Speaker 2: say this? Because one of two things are true. Either
Speaker 2: it's a non story or you're hyping it up for clicks,
Speaker 2: or you are being severely irresponsible by sitting on a
Speaker 2: story for a week that is so big that it
Speaker 2: could end a campaign that has been teflon for nine years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's do some happiness Happy happy news.
Speaker 2: Please thank you the new theme for this portion of
Speaker 2: the trending.
Speaker 1: That we've been working on. I don't think we fully
Speaker 1: nailed it, to be honest, but we had to go
Speaker 1: live with something. Lebron James, Yeah, and the Los Angeles
Speaker 1: Lakers had their first game of the NBA season last night,
Speaker 1: and Lebron and his son Bronni checked in to an
Speaker 1: NBA game together in the quarter. I don't know, it's
Speaker 1: just it's really cool.
Speaker 2: I was watching it. I was watching it and listen,
Speaker 2: I'm a Chicagoan, So obviously I love me some Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2: I am not a Lebron hater. I love a lot.
Speaker 2: I really like Lebron. Lebron's place in history is set.
Speaker 2: There are fewer things that bring me joy in this
Speaker 2: world than Los Angeles fans being upset and sad. Yea,
Speaker 2: but I felt an overwhelming sense of like appreciation and
Speaker 2: coolness and just like this is so dope and this
Speaker 2: is like such a big moment just from like a
Speaker 2: black excellency standpoint, watching them check in together like father
Speaker 2: and son in the NBA on the Lakers, not you know,
Speaker 2: like not on like the Orlando Magic or like you know,
Speaker 2: the Indiana Pacers, but like on the Los Angeles Lakers.
Speaker 2: Like it just you know, sorry, sorry sorry Magic fans,
Speaker 2: but just like just everything perfect storm King Griffy, Junior
Speaker 2: and Senior, we're both there and just like the perfect
Speaker 2: storm of like this is really fucking cool. And it
Speaker 2: was like also their daughter's birthday on yesterday too, Like
Speaker 2: it was like you can't appreciate this just from like
Speaker 2: a a feel good standpoint, even if you're not a
Speaker 2: sports fan, Like it was really dope moment to see
Speaker 2: them check in together and to see bron like get
Speaker 2: like a dunk, like throw it down hard in like
Speaker 2: year twenty two, and then his son not score a
Speaker 2: single point. It was all beautiful. It was all beautiful.
Speaker 1: It was also like he was like barking out orders
Speaker 1: at him and stuff. I was like, oh, man, yes,
Speaker 1: you know, working with your dad would be tough, but
Speaker 1: I'm sure so very cool. It's almost he he entered
Speaker 1: last season as the oldest player in the NBA, so
Speaker 1: very much the oldest player in the NBA this season,
Speaker 1: and it's still one of the best.
Speaker 2: Players with his son now and unbelievable.
Speaker 1: And now with his son.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's crazy, man. So yeah, kudos to the
Speaker 2: whole James family. Man that there are not many things
Speaker 2: that like athletes can say, like this is the first
Speaker 2: ever to do so, to be the first ones in
Speaker 2: the NBA to ever do that as your family legacy,
Speaker 2: and to be a black family at that is pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. I mean, being like one of the
Speaker 1: most famous people in the world and like being able
Speaker 1: to raise a kid who is not a disaster, you know,
Speaker 1: Like I mean, I don't know that's not always the
Speaker 1: case with like super famous people so yeah, pretty cool.
Speaker 1: All right. Those are some of the things that are
Speaker 1: trending on this Wednesday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with
Speaker 1: the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be
Speaker 1: kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine,
Speaker 1: can get your flu shot, don't do nothing about white supremacy,
Speaker 1: and we will talk to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Bye bye,