Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Killy
Speaker 1: Trend Murphy. It's not sweaty at all. It is what
Speaker 1: we're talking about. I'm Jack and that right there, well
Speaker 1: that is super producer backa rubber. Have we done that
Speaker 1: one before? Who knows? It's actually silly, silly trend Murphy. So,
Speaker 1: Killian Murphy, this photo was being sent around in our
Speaker 1: group chat of him standing next to a little bit
Speaker 1: behind Justin.
Speaker 2: Timberlake and Amanda cipher and next.
Speaker 1: To Amanda Siphery and looking very tiny, looking like a
Speaker 1: very short short man. There were a couple of moments
Speaker 1: in Oppenheimer when I was like, in that shot, he
Speaker 1: looks a lot smaller than I think they tend him
Speaker 1: to scene and that. So there's this photo of him
Speaker 1: from the end Time premiere, suggesting that my eyes were
Speaker 1: not playing tricks on me. Christopher Nolan was playing tricks
Speaker 1: on all of us and using some Lord yeah a.
Speaker 2: Few times in his movies.
Speaker 1: So the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing
Speaker 1: us all that Killian Murphy is tall and lanky. It
Speaker 1: would appear that my internal image of Killian Murphy was
Speaker 1: based on some Lord of the Rings style force perspective shit,
Speaker 1: like you have you seen how they made Lord of
Speaker 1: the Rings, like behind the scenes pictures, like it would
Speaker 1: be like because they needed people to be all different heights,
Speaker 1: so they would actually have somebody like shoot someone with
Speaker 1: like a deep angle or deep focused lens and they'd
Speaker 1: actually be like twenty feet away, but like you wouldn't
Speaker 1: know it, and like that's how they were made to
Speaker 1: look as small as they were supposed to. I don't
Speaker 1: know how they were doing what they were doing to me.
Speaker 1: And you know, everybody who thought of Killy Murphy as
Speaker 1: like sort of a tall, lanky fellow, like lanky would
Speaker 1: be that was the phrase or the word that you
Speaker 1: used when we were because.
Speaker 2: He looks like Okay, so I have seen images of
Speaker 2: Murphy forever, it feels like because he was in what
Speaker 2: Peaky Blinders, and yeah, he was an inception and now
Speaker 2: this and I'm sure other I know horror movies in
Speaker 2: the past, like that one on the plane twenty eight
Speaker 2: days later. Yeah, he's always to me felt like Slenderman vibe,
Speaker 2: like really tall, really lanky, slender And seeing this image
Speaker 2: has tickled me to my core.
Speaker 1: Of the Dublin slender mans, yeah, because.
Speaker 2: He looks so tiny. But also, I know iconically I
Speaker 2: have a really bad gauge of height because I'm really tiny.
Speaker 2: I'm five to two, and everyone to me is tall. Interesting, Yeah,
Speaker 2: oh everyone's tall, like they're definitely six foot and Becca's
Speaker 2: and people are like, no, Becca, that person's five to seven,
Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh they you know, six foot to me,
Speaker 2: I bower heels, They're still gonna be taller than me.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't know that. This is always fascinating
Speaker 1: to me, and it's not from a perspective of any
Speaker 1: like shaming or anything like that. It is purely like
Speaker 1: a an exercise in movie magic. I'm never impressed when
Speaker 1: somebody who I have seen in one hundred different contexts
Speaker 1: turns out to just not be the shape that I
Speaker 1: thought they were. Absolutely so killy Murphy, I think, is
Speaker 1: maybe the biggest example of this that I would like
Speaker 1: My internal you know, seisometer for how tall he was
Speaker 1: was was way off.
Speaker 2: Well, we kind of went down a rabbit hall before
Speaker 2: we started recording on all these different charts that people
Speaker 2: had developed of men in Hollywood's heights, And I would
Speaker 2: argue I feel that way about all the men on
Speaker 2: these charts, like it's like I would have never I
Speaker 2: mean it's when you put them all together in a row,
Speaker 2: you're kind of like, of course, this makes sense to
Speaker 2: me now, But when you're in the movies and you're
Speaker 2: watching them, I would never think these men are this short.
Speaker 2: I feel like Hollywood always is like, no, everyone's six
Speaker 2: foot plus.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, everyone just is made to look like they
Speaker 1: are a little bit taller than six foot Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so.
Speaker 1: Jamie Fox is like, you know, five foot ten, and
Speaker 1: this is like listed height, you know, so that's it's
Speaker 1: not always going to be the truth. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: would have never thought Jamie Fox was under six feet tall.
Speaker 1: Antonio Benderis is like five to nine. Sylvester Stallone famously,
Speaker 1: but that was one that kind of threw me for
Speaker 1: a loop. He's listed five to ten, but he's not
Speaker 1: five ten.
Speaker 2: Like they say. George Clooney is five ten on this list.
Speaker 1: Would never thunk, Yeah, George Clooney really reads as like
Speaker 1: a six two at least. Yeah, stallone or sorry, Kevin
Speaker 1: Hart is And this this one got me because I
Speaker 1: knew Kevin Hart was short, like he makes jokes about it,
Speaker 1: but he's two inches shorter than Joe Pesci, Like he's
Speaker 1: very he's five foot two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, we're the same high crazy.
Speaker 1: And then Danny DeVito is actually six foot six that is,
Speaker 1: believe it or not. Yeah, they know.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Anyways, hit us with your the ones that surprised you
Speaker 1: the most. Yeah, yeah, let's talk about everyone's favorite movie
Speaker 1: from this summer, The Sound of Freedom. The Sound of Freedom, Like,
Speaker 1: as I was doing research on the Sound of Freedom
Speaker 1: and like how bad it's fucking up people's ability to
Speaker 1: actually address trafficking like that. There are these articles that
Speaker 1: just give it the benefit of the doubt in like
Speaker 1: such a weird way, I guess, because they're like, well,
Speaker 1: it made money, so there must be it must be
Speaker 1: doing something right. But like there's this USA Today article
Speaker 1: where they say, like this guy is like credited with
Speaker 1: saving all these children, and then they like later point
Speaker 1: out that, like Vice Media contradicted that with their reporting.
Speaker 1: But it's just anyways, we've mentioned before that human and
Speaker 1: sex trafficking doesn't look like it does in movies like
Speaker 1: Taken for instance, Like it's not it's not just the
Speaker 1: Sound of Freedom. Taken, you know, uh also portrays a
Speaker 1: world in which like human trafficking is something that it
Speaker 1: could happen to any of us, you know, the wrong
Speaker 1: midwestern thirty something finds a zip tie on their car
Speaker 1: door handle and they're like whisked away and they wake
Speaker 1: up and they're on a yacht where like entertainment executives
Speaker 1: and Barack Obama are like bidding on like the right
Speaker 1: to own them. And the truth is like the exploitation
Speaker 1: and trafficking that actually happens and that actually like fuels
Speaker 1: that they're like really troubling stats about like how common
Speaker 1: it is and still in this world is not fueled
Speaker 1: by abduction. Data suggests that just three percent of victims
Speaker 1: of trafficking are actually the victim of abduction. Like there's
Speaker 1: economic ways and like familial like things that are done
Speaker 1: to put people in these situations where in order to
Speaker 1: survive they're like forced to you know, basically live in slavery.
Speaker 1: And so three percent, like a tiny, tiny portion of
Speaker 1: it looks like what these people think it all looks like.
Speaker 1: And there's this like weird statistical like wandering thing that
Speaker 1: is happening where they take these statistics about how common
Speaker 1: it is that are driven by inequality and racism and
Speaker 1: like racist immigration policies, and they ignore that part and
Speaker 1: then make it seem like this is a danger to
Speaker 1: you and your family. So I don't know, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: But there's an article Advice Today that was a couple
Speaker 1: days ago that was like, this is becoming a problem
Speaker 1: for organizations that actually work to help people who are
Speaker 1: the victims of trafficking, and like they talk about one
Speaker 1: group in North Carolina that like, at a recent meeting,
Speaker 1: a volunteer was just like, actually, what you're saying is
Speaker 1: a lie. Do your own research. I've like seen Sound
Speaker 1: of Freedom and I've seen Facebook, and therefore here's what
Speaker 1: it actually looks like. And it's becoming like a real issue.
Speaker 1: Like the chair at the United Nations Fund for Victims
Speaker 1: of Human Trafficking and Contemporary Forms of Slavery says the
Speaker 1: movie does not raise awareness. They say, it's not awareness.
Speaker 1: This movie is full of assumptions and it's a dangerous
Speaker 1: portrayal of what trafficking is. And so's it's a.
Speaker 2: Mess, big mess.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's take a quick break and we'll come
Speaker 1: back and talk TikTok. And we're back. And Becca, you
Speaker 1: are famously on TikTok.
Speaker 2: Famous famously very on TikTok not viral, but I'm chronically
Speaker 2: online and I wanted to bring attention to the Sandy
Speaker 2: Lang Bagoo drop. I feel like those who are fashion girlies,
Speaker 2: those who are Bagoo girlies, they were very upset about
Speaker 2: this drop. Not the collaboration, but the drop. I feel
Speaker 2: like the collaboration had a ton of hype. I personally
Speaker 2: was very, very excited about it. I did get a
Speaker 2: bag slay, but it went so poorly from a marketing
Speaker 2: standpoint and a logistics standpoint that I feel like it
Speaker 2: was notable to talk about a little bit. I think
Speaker 2: as the rise of this hype pieast culture has come
Speaker 2: to this I feel like capitalist culmination point where I
Speaker 2: feel like we're having a reckoning with like sustainability and
Speaker 2: resale culture and the economy because Bagoo in and of
Speaker 2: itself is recognized as this like sustainable brand, right it's
Speaker 2: all about reusable bags. Their price points, I would say,
Speaker 2: are pretty affordable. They do like travel bags, they do
Speaker 2: carry ons, they do like packing cubes, all in the
Speaker 2: name of like sustainability, Like these are things they're supposed
Speaker 2: to last at a pretty good price point. They partner
Speaker 2: with any Ling who is a very much popular new
Speaker 2: you know, I don't want to say new Nupe, but
Speaker 2: you know luxury designer here in New York who is
Speaker 2: Asian American. I feel like she's become kind of beloved
Speaker 2: and has this cult following. And so her drop sold
Speaker 2: out within minutes. It malfunction in the sense that they
Speaker 2: sold everything in the pre sale, so those who didn't
Speaker 2: get the pre sale texts didn't even get a chance
Speaker 2: to buy things in the regular sale. They're having a
Speaker 2: second drop because they fucked up so bad it was
Speaker 2: like a whole thing. And now all the people who
Speaker 2: got bags in the original drop are reselling them on
Speaker 2: deepop and other resale sites for like triple quadruple what
Speaker 2: these bags are, which I think is such a oxymoron
Speaker 2: of what the original purpose of the bag u sand
Speaker 2: a laying drop was was to make this expensive brand accessible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean this is very common sneakers too,
Speaker 1: and yeah, it just do you wonder if like sometimes,
Speaker 1: you know, we've talked before about how streaming services like
Speaker 1: will have of things like what when a big show
Speaker 1: is premiering, there will be like an outage and then
Speaker 1: that will become a story you really love.
Speaker 2: The mind that happened, Like they're trying to do the
Speaker 2: live stream on Netflix for the first time, it like
Speaker 2: went so poorly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an interesting question of like whether it's intentional
Speaker 1: or whether things are just broken and like it's just
Speaker 1: nobody on on the infrastructure side is like an incentivized
Speaker 1: to make it work, because then it's actually just like
Speaker 1: a marketing win for them. Yeah, exactly, all right, should
Speaker 1: we talk to baby names? So yes, take a look
Speaker 1: at baby names. This is from nameberry dot com, which
Speaker 1: we use one of our leading sources. We probably the
Speaker 1: most linked to sites that we have are the ap
Speaker 1: Reuters and then name Barry close behind. But these are
Speaker 1: supposedly the twenty most controversial baby names happen right now,
Speaker 1: And I just want to I just want to go
Speaker 1: through a couple of them because so Adonis is one
Speaker 1: that I don't know. It's it's the name of a
Speaker 1: character in Creed, right, it's the name of the character
Speaker 1: in Creed. But it feels like a good movie character name,
Speaker 1: great name for a god, for a mythological character. But man,
Speaker 1: what a it's a lot of pressure to put on
Speaker 1: a kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess because it says the name of a
Speaker 2: handsome young lover of Aphrodite in Greek myth, the name
Speaker 2: has become synonymous with masculine beauty and the way this Artokonker,
Speaker 2: the article kind of writes it is like they might
Speaker 2: not live up to that, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have Blair for some reason as being uh controversial,
Speaker 1: but uh, Dixie also caught my caught my eye.
Speaker 2: That makes sense to me a little as a or
Speaker 2: as a no no as on the controversial name.
Speaker 1: Yes, I just yeah, please don't name your child. It
Speaker 1: would be my advice. It's like, you know, Scarlet, Savannah, Clementine,
Speaker 1: Like you hear those types of names and you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I think I see what you're doing there. But Dixie's
Speaker 1: like a whole And again it's it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: Adonna's being just the most on the nose squarely, like
Speaker 1: whoa we're really going for it. Also, like Gunner is
Speaker 1: one that I have actually heard in the wild Like
Speaker 1: it seems like again a step up, like it's in
Speaker 1: the same family as Wilder or Maverick, uh, which are
Speaker 1: names that I've heard, But like Gunner feels like it's
Speaker 1: like whoa you have gun right there in the in
Speaker 1: the name cult I've heard, I've heard, yeah, and like that.
Speaker 1: I think it's accomplishing the same thing without putting a
Speaker 1: gunner there in the name. And then finally, just shout
Speaker 1: out to anyone who named their child Harvey, because they're
Speaker 1: pointing out that prior to twenty seventeen, it was like
Speaker 1: part of the you know, old timey name revival like
Speaker 1: that went along with you know old names like Howard
Speaker 1: and you know, stuff like that. But twenty seventeen not
Speaker 1: a good not a good year for people who.
Speaker 2: Know between Weinstein and hurricane Hurricane Harvey.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know. And it's also not one
Speaker 1: that like has a easy nickname.
Speaker 2: No Harve, Harve, RV, come mere.
Speaker 1: Har just go RV on them. Anyways, those are some
Speaker 1: of the things that are trending on this Thursday, August tenth.
Speaker 1: We are back tomorrow with a whole episode of the
Speaker 1: show with Miles and with one Chris crofton. So get
Speaker 1: right hold on to your butts for that, folks. Becca.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff?
Speaker 2: You can find me and follow me at bex b
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Speaker 2: so yeah, shout out to all the teachers. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: shout out to my mom for retiring this year.
Speaker 1: Hey, great, amazing. All right, that is going to do
Speaker 1: it for us this afternoon tomorrow. Until then, 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 will talk
Speaker 1: to you all tomorrow. Fight heye,