Speaker 1: What's going on everybody, And welcome to this wonderful afternoon
Speaker 1: edition of cup Noodles'mores rom trend noodles.
Speaker 2: Which we are going to talk about. And that is
Speaker 2: a very good title that I just came up with.
Speaker 1: I am Miles and I am joined by Thank you
Speaker 1: so much as.
Speaker 2: My guest host today.
Speaker 1: The wonderful guest host wagon continues as we go from
Speaker 1: show to show, so it's great having paulby.
Speaker 2: We're going to say what's trending on this wonderful Tuesday July.
Speaker 2: The two. I don't like to say second.
Speaker 3: That's just the thing I have because you're always first mile.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm always one, and I don't like two plays one
Speaker 1: but the But the episode title was in reference of
Speaker 1: cup noodles. There look, I love cup noodles. Cup noodles
Speaker 1: have gotten me through some really hard times. There's still
Speaker 1: a go to snack at time. I like to spice
Speaker 1: up my cup noodles the squeeze of lemon and a
Speaker 1: little bit of cilantro and you can take the chicken
Speaker 1: one to the next.
Speaker 2: Fucking level if you have to invessine very easy uns.
Speaker 1: I grew up, I grew up trying to just add
Speaker 1: my little things to things there, and that was one
Speaker 1: of them. But anyway, cup Noodles has definitely like they've
Speaker 1: had like this run of releasing all kinds of like
Speaker 1: wacky flavors.
Speaker 2: Like they had a caffeinated.
Speaker 1: Gaming cup noodle that was like, yeah, man, like this
Speaker 1: will give you heart palpitations, but at least you might
Speaker 1: you know, be killing it in a Battle Royal type game.
Speaker 3: That they included the four logo in it. You know,
Speaker 3: you used to have to drink that separately in one
Speaker 3: generation and now they just poured it right.
Speaker 1: In exactly boil the noodles, drain it, then use four
Speaker 1: Loco as your new face broth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like a nice.
Speaker 1: Four Loaks base when I get this really wonderful broth going.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the new one is Campfires'mores cup noodle as
Speaker 1: they call it a quote gooey sweet noodle experience. I
Speaker 1: do not like this, it says go on quote an
Speaker 1: unmistakable blend of decan and chocolate, marshmallow and Graham cracker
Speaker 1: flavors with noodles. Now I know what they're doing because
Speaker 1: they do this all the time. Is what we always
Speaker 1: talk about. This when brands do it. They're just trying
Speaker 1: to get us to talk about it. Congratulations, But sometimes
Speaker 1: we've got to talk about it because some of the
Speaker 1: ideas are so backwards.
Speaker 2: I can't believe that that's even a thing.
Speaker 3: I think jokes on them. We should buy the shit
Speaker 3: out of it and force them to make it forever.
Speaker 1: We're like, yeah, we're not eating the chicken one, the
Speaker 1: shrimp one. No, fuck that, I guess. Are marshmallows vegan friendly?
Speaker 3: There are vegan marshmallows, but they're tradition better that No,
Speaker 3: the traditional marshmallows are not vegan, but there are, But
Speaker 3: the vegan marshmallows I think are better than regular marshmallows.
Speaker 3: And other people who are not vegan have told me
Speaker 3: the same thing.
Speaker 1: Oh shit, I mean, I'm not like such a marshmallow
Speaker 1: fan where I feel like i'd be.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, these are vegan, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: How some people like that with certain foods.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I need an animal to suffer for this
Speaker 3: to taste.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 1: Just?
Speaker 2: Gelatin?
Speaker 1: Is?
Speaker 3: That's probably what I think it's like gelatin? Maybe, Like
Speaker 3: do they use like any egg or dairy products in it?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here's I know, everything in a marshmallow. It's a white,
Speaker 1: puffy sugar cloud. But it's by the like one of
Speaker 1: the executives at the parent company of cup noodles, Niching
Speaker 1: is I know, the Japanese company that owns them. This
Speaker 1: dude said, released a statement just like acting like just
Speaker 1: waxing poetic about how this s'mores cup noodle is quote
Speaker 1: transforming the classic flavor into a bold, unexpected experience that
Speaker 1: will capture the hearts and palets of consumers nationwide, which
Speaker 1: is why not a single fucking one of the freaky
Speaker 1: flavors has existed past the little bump you need in
Speaker 1: I guess impressions or something.
Speaker 3: If you capture a challette that enjoys that, let it
Speaker 3: go like releasing that the wild Yeah you don't truly.
Speaker 1: Next up is trending AOC impeachment, So on Monday, Alexandria
Speaker 1: Okazio Cortes said that she will submit articles of impeachment
Speaker 1: against members of the US Supreme Court when the House
Speaker 1: of Representatives gets back into session from their little summer break.
Speaker 1: As she said on Twitter, we don't call it x
Speaker 1: here quote. The Supreme Court has become consumed by a
Speaker 1: corruption crisis beyond its control. Today's ruling represents an assault
Speaker 1: on American democracy. It's up to Congress to defend our
Speaker 1: nation from this authoritarian capture. I intend on filing articles
Speaker 1: of impeachment upon our return.
Speaker 3: Now does that work?
Speaker 1: So it would be like anything, like you would have
Speaker 1: a trial and then like you, you know, you'd send
Speaker 1: it to the Senate for like a conviction. But the
Speaker 1: last time a Supreme Court justice was actually impeached successfully
Speaker 1: was the nineteenth century, So I'm not sure what will
Speaker 1: happen here.
Speaker 2: But again, also considering the fact.
Speaker 1: That the Republicans control the House that I don't think
Speaker 1: this has much of a shot unless there are other
Speaker 1: people who are just being like, well, I don't like Katanji,
Speaker 1: so maybe I'll vote for this because most of them
Speaker 1: have been celebrating the Supreme Court decision that gives Trump
Speaker 1: basic community for official acts.
Speaker 3: I think the best we can do. Sorry, my dog
Speaker 3: is growling right now because he hates the Supreme Court.
Speaker 2: No, I get no good those are good.
Speaker 3: Good job, Sammy. I'm training him to just buy uh
Speaker 3: for a bit. I think the best thing we can
Speaker 3: do is just somebody's gotta buite. Take one for the team.
Speaker 3: Promise Clarence Thomas, like a few yachts, you know, a
Speaker 3: year or whatever he needs, and then just pay them
Speaker 3: to get the fuck out of there if we can bribe,
Speaker 3: if they could be bribed to fake the.
Speaker 1: Ing that like saying like, I'll give you a salary
Speaker 1: that's bigger than the one you got to fuck off forever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, down with that.
Speaker 3: Well we need to do that with like a lot
Speaker 3: of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean or like again, this is just
Speaker 1: so wild too, because like on the heels of what
Speaker 1: Joe Biden was saying after this decision, He's like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm going to respect the limits like the scope of
Speaker 1: my power. That doesn't help anything. And you're basically saying
Speaker 1: I'm going to lay down and get just ripped apart.
Speaker 1: If you have someone coming in who's already been like
Speaker 1: I can't wait to exercise my power when there are
Speaker 1: no checks on my power, yay, uh, I know I don't, yeah,
Speaker 1: like do something with the Supreme Court I have.
Speaker 3: The best thing we can do is try to convince
Speaker 3: Joe Biden like the limits of his power are beyond
Speaker 3: what he actually thinks they are and just be like, yeah,
Speaker 3: you can assassinate people like that was always legal?
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Well number one is like, well I got some people
Speaker 1: from my childhood I want to check you Like, well, no.
Speaker 3: Not like that president, Yeah, some other people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what about Anita Hill? She was a real pill
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 1: During Clarence Thomas's confirmation, You're like, Okay, you know.
Speaker 2: What shouldn't I told you? Do not tell him about
Speaker 2: shit after six pm? He starts saying, some do some
Speaker 2: free associating.
Speaker 3: Shit him anything after six pm. It's like, don't get
Speaker 3: a grumlin wet.
Speaker 2: Or like doesn't buy any fact. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: And we're still after the only one anyway. And then
Speaker 1: also on the heels of that proclamation from the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court that Trump is God King of America, he's also saying, like,
Speaker 1: I should have my freak elector's entire case dismissed because
Speaker 1: of what the Supreme Court just did. Also, those thirty
Speaker 1: four felonies, those should also be thrown out as well.
Speaker 1: So you know, he's already completely gone full speed ahead
Speaker 1: with being.
Speaker 2: Like nothing can fucking touch me anymore.
Speaker 1: So we'll see a developing story as we watch the
Speaker 1: continued deterioration.
Speaker 2: Of the Nation. Hey, that rhymes deterioration of the Nation.
Speaker 2: New show coming fall.
Speaker 1: All right, we will take a quick break and we
Speaker 1: will be right back with some other trending stories.
Speaker 2: And we're back.
Speaker 1: The New York Post has a story out about how
Speaker 1: gen Z is quote sad phishing. It's a trend on
Speaker 1: social media. I did not know what this was, but
Speaker 1: according to a twenty twenty one research paper published in
Speaker 1: the Journal of American College, that sounds like a dubious.
Speaker 3: Journal American College, the School of Education.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, then there's a yeah. Anyway, there's another person
Speaker 1: who said on news. So I take this with a
Speaker 1: grain of salt, but I think this is something where
Speaker 1: people are like observing a trend and be like this,
Speaker 1: this could be something very interesting that The habit of
Speaker 1: quote sad fishing is defined as the tendency of social
Speaker 1: media users to publish exaggerations of their personality to generate sympathy.
Speaker 1: The research found that many sad fishers display anxious attachment.
Speaker 1: It concluded that this may quote may not be triggered
Speaker 1: by an acute perceived lack of social support, but rather
Speaker 1: it may be more strongly related to the persistent trait
Speaker 1: of anxious attachment, and I'm like sad fishing, Like I mean,
Speaker 1: I definitely know people who are like always like oversharing
Speaker 1: in stories.
Speaker 3: You know what, if you don't want to follow me,
Speaker 3: just say that.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm not really good at confrontation. I like to
Speaker 2: passive aggressively confront people using stories from then York, yea,
Speaker 2: from the Yeah, why don't you come on?
Speaker 1: But anyway, I've just read about this thing about the
Speaker 1: American Journal of College.
Speaker 3: I was bringing about this thing about how you don't
Speaker 3: invite me to dinner anymore?
Speaker 1: What the fuck is this about? Don't worry about the story. Man,
Speaker 1: Now we're talking you and me.
Speaker 2: What's going on with? What's going on with you? Would
Speaker 2: I say.
Speaker 3: Something I've definitely seen. I definitely have a lot of
Speaker 3: friends who will post like pictures of them crying and
Speaker 3: be like, my life is falling apart, and it happens
Speaker 3: like frequently, you know, and it's like whatever, life's hard,
Speaker 3: cope how you will. But I do think that, like
Speaker 3: it's just because it's social media. I feel like the
Speaker 3: housewives in the fifties were doing this. They were just
Speaker 3: like ominously like making the pies and being sad, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean, Like, I don't know if the
Speaker 3: expression of it is bad. I think like treat the
Speaker 3: symptom or the source rather than the symptoms.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Like one of these psychologists who us talking about it said,
Speaker 1: if you're putting anything on social media, what is your
Speaker 1: motivation for what you need or want people to know
Speaker 1: who are not in your closed circle?
Speaker 2: What is your reason for posting?
Speaker 1: What's your motivation for posting something for the whole world
Speaker 1: to see? Which is a very generational observation.
Speaker 3: Cherry Boomer sounding, That's like something my mom would say.
Speaker 2: Like why would you share that?
Speaker 1: I'm like, you come from a generation where people you
Speaker 1: you refuse to acknowledge that therapy is a thing or
Speaker 1: that outwardly expressing what your needs are or your regrets
Speaker 1: are is like that's actually healthy.
Speaker 3: Also, like, if you give me money, I'll stop expressing shit.
Speaker 3: But I can't. I can't. I'm not even kidding, Like,
Speaker 3: if you give me money, if you give me a house,
Speaker 3: what sadness am I going to express? Our generations and
Speaker 3: the generation below us don't have money. This is all
Speaker 3: we need, likes Okay, we need some form of currency
Speaker 3: that we can pretend we like will real value. We
Speaker 3: can't get actual currency.
Speaker 1: And so what Yeah, so what if I lie about
Speaker 1: pretending to lose my job for sympathy likes, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just gonna do it.
Speaker 3: We're or we're like, we have a job that's not
Speaker 3: paying enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah whatever.
Speaker 1: Well it's weird too, because, like I mean, obviously this
Speaker 1: is the New York Post, so of course they're going
Speaker 1: to go into like and something's wrong with those people anyway.
Speaker 3: Trouble I killed wine and gen Z killed sadness, like.
Speaker 2: Like authentic sadness. You know what happened to the strong
Speaker 2: silent type.
Speaker 3: When you go to your second wive's house, right, yeah,
Speaker 3: your secret family, secret family, right, and you're really sad
Speaker 3: because you're gonna miss your first skins birth.
Speaker 2: Shit, Yeah sad.
Speaker 1: I always love how like, But my favorite still are
Speaker 1: those the ways they try and like define or articulate
Speaker 1: just the disillusionment with capitalism that workers experience.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's resenteeism. It's uh, it's quiet quite quitting.
Speaker 1: Resignations and shit like that. It's like, no, it's called
Speaker 1: being alienated from your labor. And yeah, uh there's that story.
Speaker 1: So thanks American College of Journal and for giving us
Speaker 1: that the next thing trending is Carrine. Jean Pierre, White
Speaker 1: House spokesperson again, while people are still reeling from the
Speaker 1: debate performance, she was asked a pretty direct question about
Speaker 1: what is going on with Joe Biden?
Speaker 2: Is there some kind of cognitive decline that you know of?
Speaker 4: And this was her answer, does President Biden at eighty
Speaker 4: one years old, have Alzheimer's any form of dementia or
Speaker 4: degenerative illness that caused these sorts of lapses?
Speaker 1: And it's a yes or no question. And if you
Speaker 1: don't know, why don't you? As one of his senior
Speaker 1: staff members know?
Speaker 4: Guy's her answers for.
Speaker 1: You, are you ready for it's a note and I
Speaker 1: hope you're asking the other guy the same exact question. Yeah, fair,
Speaker 1: absolutely fair, But I don't expect her to be like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I got my theories.
Speaker 3: She's like, he's a decline. I'm in denial, but I
Speaker 3: didn't want a sad fish on you. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And also, you know Jen Saki left and already got
Speaker 1: the gig at MSNBC, so my.
Speaker 2: Options are kind of limited right now.
Speaker 1: I don't want to do a podcast quite yet it
Speaker 1: feels a little desperate.
Speaker 2: But the short answer is no.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's like at the very least, you know,
Speaker 1: you can be like, you know sometimes you know people
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't even know if I'm like asking,
Speaker 1: like can you acknowledge that he had a senior moment
Speaker 1: or whatever?
Speaker 3: But we're so fun like what like if she's like, no,
Speaker 3: his performance was still bad, So then it's like he's
Speaker 3: at the top of his game. And that's what we got,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean a follow.
Speaker 1: Up question, that's the top of his game? Was that
Speaker 1: so well, that was an off night? When is he
Speaker 1: at the top of his game when he's screaming about
Speaker 1: stuff that it's pretty good, it's pretty invigorating. I love
Speaker 1: how like like obviously Volte Blue, no matter who Twitter is, like,
Speaker 1: this was such a fantastic answer, like let's let's ignore
Speaker 1: all the warning signs and yeah, and I get it too,
Speaker 1: like obviously Trump is also spiraling before our eyes. But
Speaker 1: it's just so funny that the mirror the fact that
Speaker 1: he is in a more energetic version of decline. People
Speaker 1: are like Joe Biden's getting old, and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we are.
Speaker 3: That's the thing is that like Trump is such a
Speaker 3: bad candidate and the only person that is currently like
Speaker 3: beating him at like being horrible at campaigning is Joe Biden.
Speaker 3: Like if they had picked anyone else, it would have
Speaker 3: been like so much easier. Yeah, but they were like,
Speaker 3: let's resuscitate this man one more night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, see what we can get, See what
Speaker 2: we can get.
Speaker 1: And then finally, this is a topic very near and
Speaker 1: dear to my hearts and maybe millennials and younger Airheads
Speaker 1: the candy you used to love eating them. They would
Speaker 1: always sell them, like at the snack shop and like
Speaker 1: my junior high like you know, like you can buy
Speaker 1: a little snacks or whatever in the cafeteria in high school,
Speaker 1: and there was always this airhead flavor, white mystery flavor.
Speaker 1: And I was like, what the fuck, Like you never
Speaker 1: knew what it was.
Speaker 3: That was every guy in Utah growing up. You know
Speaker 3: what I mean?
Speaker 2: White mystery.
Speaker 1: Who will replace Joe Biden on the ticket? It's a
Speaker 1: white mystery. It's a white mystery.
Speaker 3: And in common one of the raisins in there, that's
Speaker 3: a white mystery.
Speaker 1: It's a white mystery. Some things are just white flavor mysteries.
Speaker 2: That we will not be able to suss out.
Speaker 1: But it turns out we've recently found out through the Takeout,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite food blogs because I like always
Speaker 1: they report on things that are important to me.
Speaker 3: It's apparently a combinations a food blog.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think if you're like, if you're like a
Speaker 1: millennial though, it's like one of those things.
Speaker 3: Right, you're like it's a food pyramid.
Speaker 2: Was yeah, just like, but what was it? What was
Speaker 2: mystery flavor?
Speaker 1: Like, what the fuck is supposed to be? And apparently
Speaker 1: it's a It might it's a combination of several flavors
Speaker 1: that might include cherry, strawberry, watermelon, grape, green apple, orange,
Speaker 1: and blue raspberry from one day to the next.
Speaker 3: It's the scraps. They put the scraps together.
Speaker 2: It's exactly that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 1: So they were kind of like, we shouldn't be throwing
Speaker 1: away the stuff when we're like switching flavors. So what
Speaker 1: we can do is take the mish mash parts and
Speaker 1: rebrand it as mystery. And now we've got a little
Speaker 1: bit of a marketing hit. We got a little bit
Speaker 1: of you know, intrigue for and like we're not we're
Speaker 1: not actually wasting the candy that we're making.
Speaker 3: You're also gas lighting everyone into thinking they're all tasting
Speaker 3: the same flavor.
Speaker 2: But this is all like cherry, grape, yours bot. I
Speaker 2: don't know. Do they all say the same to me?
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, maybe you should, maybe you should
Speaker 1: visit your neurologists or something. But apparently so like, they
Speaker 1: don't stop production in between making the different flavors, so
Speaker 1: like quote, instead of pausing and cleaning the machinery between
Speaker 1: rounds of say cherry and grape, it keeps.
Speaker 3: God forbid, they cast the inspection.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, serious, seriously, I think it's more just to
Speaker 1: be like to clean out all the flavor, you know what,
Speaker 1: I mean, to get it out to the next thing.
Speaker 2: So it just keeps churning out candies.
Speaker 1: But they don't put the food dye in it, so
Speaker 1: it just comes out and it's like natural, it's natural
Speaker 1: white state. So the mystery flavors quote are essentially mashups
Speaker 1: of whichever flavors are being produced at any hiveven time.
Speaker 1: That is really unsatisfying. But also like I feel like
Speaker 1: that webe meme.
Speaker 4: Wor Yeah yeah, okay, okay, I know about that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we've we've solved one of life's small mysteries.
Speaker 3: We did it. The answer was, thank you so.
Speaker 1: Much for joining me on this trending episode.
Speaker 2: We will chat.
Speaker 1: More tomorrow on the main episode. Spoiler alert, Aldy and
Speaker 1: I are taking over. We will talk to you then
Speaker 1: and until then, take care of yourselves, take care of
Speaker 1: each other, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy,
Speaker 1: and please just be well and we will see you soon.
Speaker 3: Okay, bye everybody.
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