Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Ella
Speaker 1: trend Hof.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Oh, she's trending, folks, she's trending.
Speaker 3: We got m hop here, we got m Hoff see.
Speaker 1: The haw from now on. That's who I'm referring to
Speaker 1: when I say the Hof. My name is Jack, that
Speaker 1: is Miles Gray.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, and uh. These are some
Speaker 4: of the things that are trending.
Speaker 2: They are they are.
Speaker 1: Indeed, these are some of the things that may or
Speaker 1: may or may not be a trending. Trump just gave
Speaker 1: like another kind of sleepy speech where everyone's like, we're
Speaker 1: Fox News has to cut away and be like, well,
Speaker 1: there you have it, folks, another rebuke, another powerful rebuke.
Speaker 1: But we'll get more into his sleepiness tomorrow.
Speaker 5: It's just that, I mean, I will just play this
Speaker 5: one because he said, you can't even walk down a
Speaker 5: sidewalk no more anymore, just to give you a flavor
Speaker 5: because now he's speaking behind full on plate glass, like
Speaker 5: bulletproof glass. Now yeah, because obviously he's feel.
Speaker 3: And it's crime written and it's I mean, you can't
Speaker 3: walk down the sidewalk any war any It's just unbelievable.
Speaker 3: What I can't sign sidewalk anymore.
Speaker 1: Will will not correct himself because it's too shows too
Speaker 1: much weakness.
Speaker 5: Imagine the sidewalk anymore.
Speaker 3: Pick a war, any war, any war?
Speaker 1: What So that's the energy coming out of his side.
Speaker 1: The d n C was pretty god uh pretty turned
Speaker 1: up last night. Looked like people were having a fun
Speaker 1: time at the d n C. I think the role
Speaker 1: call somehow ended up stealing the show. I mean the Obamas,
Speaker 1: I guess stole the show. But the roll call was
Speaker 1: a whole new genre.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: Each time it's like we're from the Great Commonwealth of
Speaker 5: you know, Pennsylvany, know whatever.
Speaker 1: Is like the normal call guy on stage saying and
Speaker 1: what say ye west Virginia. And then like some old
Speaker 1: person stands up and is like West Virginia the home
Speaker 1: of mountains and rivers, you know, and just like said
Speaker 1: reads a prepared remark that ends with give our votes
Speaker 1: to Kamala Harris.
Speaker 5: This is when they so like California. They were playing
Speaker 5: California Love.
Speaker 1: They're playing there is a DJ on stage with the
Speaker 1: guy who was shouting out the various states.
Speaker 6: When they get to Georgia, this is this is what
Speaker 6: they hit when they get to Georgia.
Speaker 4: Going absolutely insane DNC it turned.
Speaker 5: Out for what and and also like not to add
Speaker 5: just like the coordination between that venue and then uh
Speaker 5: so for what's five Serve in Wisconsin where she was
Speaker 5: doing the rally portion like with Tim Walls, it was
Speaker 5: fucking the production was wild.
Speaker 1: He also dared through the windows to the walls, which
Speaker 1: you know you pick up on that meme.
Speaker 4: So the the mean game is on point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they know they're out here, they're out here,
Speaker 3: but like, yeah, it was definitely uh, I mean the
Speaker 3: comparison and energy is.
Speaker 4: Yes, starting linked.
Speaker 1: Somebody was like, by the way, for context, here is
Speaker 1: what the Republican National Convention role call went like, And
Speaker 1: it was, Yeah, it was what we were just talking about.
Speaker 1: It was like from the Great State of Tennessee. Tennessee
Speaker 1: a home of volunteers, smoky mountains, and a record number
Speaker 1: of rest stops where you don't feel safe going inside,
Speaker 1: Like what because you don't.
Speaker 3: Know the person should be using a urinal or a
Speaker 3: toilet stall?
Speaker 4: What shut up that? It was fun.
Speaker 1: Doug M Hoff spoke, Ye, seems to you know, get raves.
Speaker 4: From the people. I would expect him to get rid.
Speaker 2: I think. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean like Bernie spoke too, which felt a little
Speaker 5: odd because like, you know, Bernie is from the much
Speaker 5: more progressive side of the party. But then also like
Speaker 5: extolling the virtues of Biden. I mean, I get it, you're.
Speaker 2: At the d n C.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna be there taking a ship on the
Speaker 3: fucking administration. But it just was like odd. But then
Speaker 3: he'd call it for a ceasefire.
Speaker 5: Uh, and you know, did did said the things that
Speaker 5: Bernie Sanders does. But yeah, uh, the whole vibe there
Speaker 5: was it only got up and up and up because
Speaker 5: once the Obama spoke, like there were people who were
Speaker 5: like melting in the arena, Like whether it was like
Speaker 5: Michelle's speech or Barack Obama's.
Speaker 4: This was incredible.
Speaker 1: Barack Obama made a dick joke about Donald Trump and
Speaker 1: people were like, oh my god, can he do that?
Speaker 2: I think?
Speaker 5: And then Trump today was like he's making personalistic guy's
Speaker 5: making personal attacks and you're like, about.
Speaker 2: What what do you mean?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, like your penis? What are we talking about? What
Speaker 2: did you think he was saying?
Speaker 5: Because he was talking about crowd sizes, but they're doing
Speaker 5: the penis hand size gesture.
Speaker 2: But yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think the one thing that's just been
Speaker 5: kind of surreal, like watching all of these speeches and
Speaker 5: you know, like hearing talking about like and.
Speaker 3: Donald Trump, who doesn't respect the rule of law.
Speaker 5: Like again, like international courts have declared like there is
Speaker 5: an illegal occupation that we have a hand in right now.
Speaker 5: But I guess, but again that's a court that the
Speaker 5: United States will never acknowledge because they sometimes call out
Speaker 5: the United States on things and they're like, fuck you,
Speaker 5: We're gonna fucking make life hell for everybody that works
Speaker 5: for you. And then the party platform did come out,
Speaker 5: the Official Democratic Party Platform, and it's like the twenty
Speaker 5: twenty platform was talking about like stopping endless wars and
Speaker 5: things like that, and this this year's version was not.
Speaker 5: That was not the tone at all, Like it was
Speaker 5: not it was it felt like we're going backwards.
Speaker 2: And there was just you.
Speaker 5: Know, even like the talk of like what's happening in Gaza,
Speaker 5: it was very like just surface level, no talk of
Speaker 5: like any kind of leverage being able to be used
Speaker 5: to you know, stop the genocide. And I think just
Speaker 5: like it just feels very dystopian because like we clearly
Speaker 5: are seeing what is happening and what is happening at
Speaker 5: the hands of the United States government and as they
Speaker 5: assist the Israeli government just cause untold terror and pain
Speaker 5: and death. But then like you look at the DNC
Speaker 5: and it's like no, no, no, like it's just.
Speaker 3: A party, y'all. Like there's nothing to see here. It's
Speaker 3: all good.
Speaker 5: We're like we're we completely got everything sorted out, And
Speaker 5: it makes me really worried about like the future like
Speaker 5: this right now, like we are clearly failing an exercise
Speaker 5: and being able to like, well, at least we're we're
Speaker 5: succeeding in an exercise to completely like sort of in
Speaker 5: terms of like the mainstream of what American media looks
Speaker 5: like is just completely ignore preventable mass death. And it's like, yeah,
Speaker 5: all that shit you're seeing maybe not, I don't know,
Speaker 5: like don't don't listen to all these doctors who just
Speaker 5: returned from Gaza and are talking about like how awful.
Speaker 3: Everything they're seeing is over there.
Speaker 5: But then it's like what happens as the climate crisis
Speaker 5: worsens and we have real like mass movements of people
Speaker 5: who are looking for like a place to survive, to live,
Speaker 5: so they do not perish, and this.
Speaker 1: Feels like humanity just gets written out of the story.
Speaker 5: This feels like this like a really good warm up
Speaker 5: societally to begin like whatever this next awful phase is
Speaker 5: of like planetary death that we are not addressing properly,
Speaker 5: like just being like, well, we can just kind of
Speaker 5: roll our eyes back and ignore it. And that is
Speaker 5: very worrying because you know, being able to just like
Speaker 5: selectively declare people human or not in our minds.
Speaker 2: I don't think that leads to a good place.
Speaker 3: But anyway, all that to say, everything else very.
Speaker 4: Fun, okay, fun energy, very.
Speaker 3: Fun, very little John.
Speaker 5: And then also like Ella m Hoff has been another
Speaker 5: person who's come, like, you know, gotten a lot of attention,
Speaker 5: Doug m Hoff's daughter, the stepdaughter of Kamala Harris, and
Speaker 5: the right has become so obsessed with her because she's
Speaker 5: not like some cardboard cutout of like a Midwestern mom
Speaker 5: from the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 2: Like she's like she's.
Speaker 5: Got like armpit hair, and like this is like this
Speaker 5: is why we have a demographic crisis. And again they've
Speaker 5: just found another person to like transvestigate, even though she's
Speaker 5: like never implied anything other than like identifying as a woman,
Speaker 5: and she's also a model too, But anyway, it's a
Speaker 5: lot of a lot of weird energy flying around.
Speaker 1: Another person to make the people on the right feel
Speaker 1: very weird and not know what to do with those
Speaker 1: feelings and just convert them into rage and outrage and
Speaker 1: oh my god, this is everybody's worst nightmare. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think that's just you.
Speaker 2: I think that's just you, truly, truly.
Speaker 1: All right, this is probably going to be a big story,
Speaker 1: and hopefully it's not swinging the election, but it I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's it's not good. Our FK is playing
Speaker 1: to drop out, and as we feared, it seems like
Speaker 1: he's going to go ahead and endorse Trump because Trump
Speaker 1: has offered to, you know, give him a position in
Speaker 1: his cabinet, which you know he does. He has been consistent,
Speaker 1: like he's not pulling enough to like be a major
Speaker 1: spoiler in the election, but he is pulling it like
Speaker 1: five consistently, and so that five percent goes to Trump.
Speaker 4: That's that's bad, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, I mean it sounds like that.
Speaker 5: I mean it's like, because so many people are skewing
Speaker 5: Trump that are RFK supporters, that definitely helps more than hurts.
Speaker 5: But I guess like when you look at like what
Speaker 5: the margins are, it's yeah, it could it could mean
Speaker 5: a lot.
Speaker 2: Or it could mean a little.
Speaker 5: Uh, And that's to be determined, I think, especially if
Speaker 5: there are people who are just sort of turned off
Speaker 5: by the fact that he just like completely went all
Speaker 5: in for Trump. But you know, his running mate Nicole
Speaker 5: Shanahan has basically been like doing all kinds of press recently.
Speaker 5: She like first off like denied that RFK reached out
Speaker 5: to the Harris campaign to ask for a position, So
Speaker 5: basically brainworms mcdog eater has been reaching out to the
Speaker 5: various campaigns, first the Kamala Harris campaign, saying like, look, man,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna give you an offer you can easily refuse.
Speaker 5: What if I drop out and endorse you in exchange
Speaker 5: for a cabinet position so I can be Secretary of
Speaker 5: Health and Human Services?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 5: Yeah, So they predictably were like, please be.
Speaker 2: For real and never call it.
Speaker 1: It's not really on our list except for our list
Speaker 1: of like the very last people that we put in
Speaker 1: that position, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And because RFK is such a principled freedom fighter,
Speaker 5: he's just immediately just pivoted to Trump, and I was like,
Speaker 5: all right, here's the exact same offer. What if I
Speaker 5: drop out, endorse you, and I get a cabinet position.
Speaker 5: Trump has already said he's like, he's like, you know,
Speaker 5: I'm very open to respect to RFK a lot. So
Speaker 5: there's clearly something happening. I think even when we've heard
Speaker 5: that leaked.
Speaker 1: Video or that leaked video of their call it was
Speaker 1: talking about last week. Yeah, that that was what that
Speaker 1: whole call was about, was Trump being like, when do
Speaker 1: you drop out? I'd love to have you be part
Speaker 1: of the MAGA world baby.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I think this just all confirms the suspicions many
Speaker 3: people have had about this campaign. Like first it like
Speaker 3: was like, oh, this is supposed to be a spoiler for.
Speaker 5: The Biden campaign, but that is that ended up just
Speaker 5: actually taking votes from Trump. So then he's like, oh, well,
Speaker 5: now those GOP mega downers who have contributed so much
Speaker 5: to RFCRE, like whyne' he just you know, like, we're
Speaker 5: not gonna give you any more money, just just close
Speaker 5: up shop and money just aligned with Trump.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think a lot of his appeal is
Speaker 1: probably like people, you know, anti vactors who might lean Trump.
Speaker 1: But you know, when we were talking about the New
Speaker 1: Yorker profile about you know, him hiding that bear in
Speaker 1: Central Park, that article opens with like the zogby the
Speaker 1: guy behind zogbee pulling, being like, I was shocked by
Speaker 1: how popular this guy still is. And it's like just
Speaker 1: really off the strength of his name, and that name
Speaker 1: is so closely associated with the Democratic Party that it
Speaker 1: feels unlikely to me that all five percent are just
Speaker 1: going to be like, well now he said, dude, Trump,
Speaker 1: so we're going to do Trump. It is worrying, but
Speaker 1: it would be really wild if every you know, everybody
Speaker 1: who was behind him because he's a Kennedy then goes
Speaker 1: and just switches over to Trump. Like I also think
Speaker 1: this is going to be mean all at war from
Speaker 1: the Kennedy family, Like up to this point, they've been
Speaker 1: critical of him, but I think somewhat polite in their criticism.
Speaker 1: And now that he's going to be openly endorsing Donald Trump, like,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's going to be pretty you know
Speaker 1: on site, Yea or.
Speaker 5: His niece can write a nice article about him in
Speaker 5: the New York Times Where'd that darn bear come from?
Speaker 5: But the other thing that's also kind of funny is
Speaker 5: like his running mate Nicole Shanahan, Like she was picked
Speaker 5: pretty much because she had deep pockets, yeah, and like.
Speaker 3: Would help RFK get on more ballots.
Speaker 5: But now it's like almost just feels like she's just
Speaker 5: like pissed away millions of dollars just for RFK to
Speaker 5: try and be part.
Speaker 2: Of the Trump administration.
Speaker 5: Like what did you Okay, I don't know, maybe maybe
Speaker 5: you didn't have to spend too much of real money,
Speaker 5: but yeah, it's all the opportunities abound for these Yeah, so.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping like there's you know, we've talked to people
Speaker 1: who are like, yeah, in silver Lake, you will see
Speaker 1: RFK like stickers, people who are like openly we'll openly
Speaker 1: be talking about RFK. Like I'm assuming those people aren't
Speaker 1: gonna switch to Trump, right, Like that feels.
Speaker 3: Now, I think.
Speaker 5: I mean, I've heard RFK people are basically being like,
Speaker 5: I know, saying Trump is bad, but I could never
Speaker 5: say I'm voting for Biden for Harris.
Speaker 2: So RFK gives me.
Speaker 5: It's like, you know, like when you have like libertarians
Speaker 5: who are clearly like in it for Trump, they just
Speaker 5: know they're like smart enough to be like, I'm not
Speaker 5: gonna say I'm fucking Trump right right, I'm in this
Speaker 5: other space where I can have plausible deniability.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we will see.
Speaker 4: All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back,
Speaker 4: and we're back.
Speaker 1: We're back, and Starbucks is bringing back their puppet spice
Speaker 1: bullshit earlier than ever. In fact, it is out now
Speaker 1: as of August twenty four away, which is two days
Speaker 1: earlier than last year. So run, don't walk to your
Speaker 1: local Starbucks. And when you get there and you're all
Speaker 1: hot and sweaty from running through the eighty eight degree heat,
Speaker 1: slurp down a hot, thick slug of syrupy pumpkin flavored sludge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's emmy hitch. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think I think it was probably bad news when
Speaker 5: every time we're.
Speaker 3: Like, why are they pushing it up every year?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it just like keeps moving forward.
Speaker 5: There must have been a moment where it was hitting
Speaker 5: peak numbers, so they're like, okay, we can move it
Speaker 5: up a little bit, and then they probably saw it
Speaker 5: climb and they're like, fuck it.
Speaker 2: Dude, set it up further further. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: And I think that's where we're at because I don't.
Speaker 5: It doesn't seem like it's as opular.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's not. So.
Speaker 1: One of the other things that might be driving the move,
Speaker 1: just pushing further further into further and further into the summer,
Speaker 1: is that everyone else has their pumpkin spice off brings.
Speaker 1: Krispy Kreme has already been selling pumpkin spice lattes this year.
Speaker 1: Tim Hortons in Canada rolled out pumpkin spice flavors on
Speaker 1: the twenty first, same day as Starbucks. But a recent survey,
Speaker 1: as you were mentioning, indicates that people are probably sick
Speaker 1: of pumpkin spice. A survey down that fifty eight percent
Speaker 1: of US adults believe that there are better unsung heroes
Speaker 1: during the fall season.
Speaker 2: Is the quote, which is a weird sific question.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like, what did you come up with that?
Speaker 3: Do you agree or disagree with this statement? There are
Speaker 3: other unsung heroes during the fall season that we may
Speaker 3: be able to experiment within a flavor basis.
Speaker 1: So are tired of the basic pumpkin spice flavors? It
Speaker 1: feels like they're like tilting this a little bit, like are.
Speaker 4: You tired of that? Like basic ass pumpkin spice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll ldty viby version of a pumpkin spice right.
Speaker 1: Oh Weirdly, their top alternative flavor was cinnamon, which that's
Speaker 1: so much of pumpkin spice, Like pumpkin spice is basically cinnamon.
Speaker 2: But no nutmeg. Nutmeg.
Speaker 4: I'll get that nutmeg out of here.
Speaker 1: I feel like they could use some Michael Keaton beetlejuice logic, Like,
Speaker 1: as we talked about yesterday, Michael Keaton was like, one
Speaker 1: of my uh, you know, specifications for one of my
Speaker 1: conditions for coming back was that, like, beetlejuice is not
Speaker 1: just everywhere in the second film, because he wasn't everywhere
Speaker 1: in the first one. I know your instinct is gonna
Speaker 1: be like, what if more beetlejuice? And he was like,
Speaker 1: we can't do that. That's not that is not the
Speaker 1: equation that made the first beetle Juice work. I think
Speaker 1: they need that same thing, like a less is more,
Speaker 1: move it back, give the people less pumpkin spice. As
Speaker 1: we've covered, you can always make up a shortage exactly.
Speaker 1: The mainstream media loves a shortage. Could you imagine a
Speaker 1: story about a pumpkin spice shortage, Miles they would.
Speaker 5: It's like it'd be like the McRib, you know, it's
Speaker 5: gone away and the back dude, it's back, Like actually, we're.
Speaker 1: We're actually there's a national McRib shortage, so it's calling
Speaker 1: back for a very limited time.
Speaker 5: But like you know, to your point, too much of
Speaker 5: a good thing or a thing you like is a
Speaker 5: bad thing. And if it's available all the fucking time,
Speaker 5: you're gonna get sick of it. And as someone who
Speaker 5: doesn't drink pumpkin spice, whatever I get, like I know
Speaker 5: with other things, like I'm I have the kind of
Speaker 5: personality if there's like a thing I like, I will
Speaker 5: fucking I will go after that shit over and over
Speaker 5: and over again until I'm.
Speaker 2: Like sick of it.
Speaker 5: So when seasonal things come out, because they're seasonal, I
Speaker 5: appreciate them more.
Speaker 1: But anyway, yeah, you can have the joy of pumpkin spices,
Speaker 1: like memories we have of drinking it on a crisp
Speaker 1: day can if you're gonna just like jam it deeper
Speaker 1: and deeper into the summer, you're replacing those memories with
Speaker 1: people either like having an experience of like drinking it
Speaker 1: at a time when they're like, oh, this doesn't like
Speaker 1: I would rather be drinking gatorade and like slurping on
Speaker 1: a rocket pop right now. You know, Like that's just
Speaker 1: not it's you're you're harming like that. This is just
Speaker 1: like bad business. And also yeah, like I just feel
Speaker 1: like it would be such an easy layup.
Speaker 3: I love like stuffing on a Thanksgiving plate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: And well, now you can have it at fourth of July.
Speaker 5: If I had every fucking year or all year, I'd
Speaker 5: be like, yeah, dude, I'm fucking sick of it.
Speaker 3: I like it because like the anticipation builds up because
Speaker 3: I'm not even I'm not eating a roast turkey fucking
Speaker 3: all the.
Speaker 5: Time either, right, but when you do, you're like, yes,
Speaker 5: and I get that that's one day or whatever, but
Speaker 5: it's the same logic like if I'm presented with that
Speaker 5: all the fucking time.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we actually give out stuffing for trigger treaders at
Speaker 1: our house, and oh, you have a very watermelon salad
Speaker 1: at Fourth of July that is mostly stuffing.
Speaker 4: It's watermelon bill.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you just fill a watermelon rind with a bunch
Speaker 3: of stuffing and you're like, oh, let's slice. Oh, look
Speaker 3: at these stuffing slices.
Speaker 4: It's coming out nice, all right.
Speaker 1: Those are some of the things that are trending on
Speaker 1: this when day, August twenty one. We are back tomorrow
Speaker 1: with the whole last episode of the show. Until then,
Speaker 1: be kind to each other, be kind to yourself, get
Speaker 1: the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we
Speaker 1: will talk to yell tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Bye bye,