Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Intrend
Speaker 1: Miami FC. Oh boy, for of course I don't have
Speaker 1: to say that, explain this. You didn't have to explain
Speaker 1: this to me bright before we started recording, and of
Speaker 1: course inter Miami FC being the club that we're about
Speaker 1: to start talking about right now, because I'm.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I think it's inter Miami CF. Woos you? Oh shit,
Speaker 2: Sam bagged me? Fuck, my bad, my bad?
Speaker 3: Thank you? What do those stand for? Football club or
Speaker 3: club football?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think they're doing like I don't know if if
Speaker 4: they're doing it the exact way they would like in Spain,
Speaker 4: they'll do CF instead of FC.
Speaker 2: Uh so, I mean, like you and obviously you know
Speaker 2: you've studied it.
Speaker 4: I mean you were in obviously, but yeah, it's it's
Speaker 4: but I think what they're doing is club Internacional the
Speaker 4: football Miami.
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Lionel Messi is the greatest to ever do it,
Speaker 1: and I knew.
Speaker 3: That is coming to the MLS.
Speaker 2: Reportedly, this is this is like when Pele came to
Speaker 2: the US.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is like, this feels much different than anything
Speaker 1: that we've experienced in our lifetime because like we've had
Speaker 1: the only one that like I remember crossing into my
Speaker 1: like non futbol, you know, following radar was Beckham. He
Speaker 1: he was like, first of all, he was never as
Speaker 1: good as Messi was, right, and then he was also
Speaker 1: like thirty percent of his former I was seven years
Speaker 1: old when he came to the La Galaxy. His hair
Speaker 1: was still good, which was what was important. His hair
Speaker 1: is still good, man, can't There is still good.
Speaker 2: Shit, Shit's still going strong.
Speaker 4: But yeah, this is like I Meanlanel Messi just won
Speaker 4: the fucking World Cup and like just good won the
Speaker 4: World Cup, captain the Argentine into the World Cup. He's
Speaker 4: now leaving Paris San Germain pairs Saint Jermain to move
Speaker 4: to the MLS and right apparently there was like a
Speaker 4: couple offers on the table. One was for him to
Speaker 4: go back to Barcelona where it all started and he was,
Speaker 4: you know, made all the fantastic memories as a footballer.
Speaker 2: And another was from a Saudi.
Speaker 4: Club, oh Al Hilal, which we know about their attempts
Speaker 4: at sport washing. They wanted because they have Cristiano Ronaldo
Speaker 4: playing in Saudi Arabia right now, and they what their
Speaker 4: idea was, if we can get Ronaldo and Messi playing
Speaker 4: in our league.
Speaker 3: That's some wonderful sportswa washing.
Speaker 2: Reportedly, this Saudi club was going to offer him one
Speaker 2: and a half billion dollars.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what the deal was going to look like.
Speaker 4: All told with everything was one and a half billion dollars.
Speaker 4: Messi was like, nah, I don't know for whatever reason.
Speaker 4: I think he probably just wanted like a fun new
Speaker 4: challenge come to the US. And the this deal is
Speaker 4: wild because it's being fun fun by Apple and Adidas basically.
Speaker 2: Because the thing is like.
Speaker 4: Apple has like the I don't know if you have
Speaker 4: Apple TV, you've seen that. They're like they have all
Speaker 4: the MLS games, so they own all the MLS coverage,
Speaker 4: and then Adidas makes all the uniforms for MLS and
Speaker 4: so what the deal looks like is they're like, you're
Speaker 4: gonna get a cut of the TV profits and any
Speaker 4: cut of like if the profits in general of like
Speaker 4: MLS go up, you're gonna get.
Speaker 3: A taste of that too. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And you know, anybody who is watching who knows anything
Speaker 2: or even just a little bit about soccer, and you
Speaker 2: have all these you're like, now people who live in
Speaker 2: you know, the Midwest or whatever will have Lionel Messi
Speaker 2: coming to play in their town, and that's gonna bring
Speaker 2: fucking like I feel like every game is going to
Speaker 2: be a sellout.
Speaker 3: Yeah. That's big money, big money, big money players, right,
Speaker 3: A big deal for me.
Speaker 1: Finally I will be able to convince myself to start
Speaker 1: watching MLS.
Speaker 3: I have been to a couple of games when they're
Speaker 3: they're a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, LAFC though all day, We're LAFC all day, is it?
Speaker 1: I mean, this completely changes the power balance of the league,
Speaker 1: I'm assuming right.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, enter Miami.
Speaker 3: I think they're like bottom of the league right now.
Speaker 4: So you know, maybe they'll put some pieces around him
Speaker 4: that make it a competing club or you know, he
Speaker 4: can just I think even Messy, like a twenty percent
Speaker 4: of like using twenty percent of his brain, is still
Speaker 4: going to be lighting it up.
Speaker 1: So be fun to see the air quality on the
Speaker 1: eastern US seaboard. Uh, just every everywhere in the eastern
Speaker 1: US is really like you go. You can go to
Speaker 1: the front page of the New York Times. They have
Speaker 1: like some time lapse photographs of like what the sky
Speaker 1: look like this morning, late morning, afternoon, and then it.
Speaker 3: Just goes full hellscape like some.
Speaker 1: Of the stuff that we were seeing in San Francisco
Speaker 1: last year and in La like it's like the sky
Speaker 1: is bright.
Speaker 2: Over Orange Ranch.
Speaker 4: As my neighbor would say, it is orange, it's orange out.
Speaker 4: It looks like, I don't know, like like a move,
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just unreal to see and.
Speaker 4: All because look at all the terrible catastrophic forest fires
Speaker 4: happening up north in Canada, which.
Speaker 2: Is why, like it's just so stupid. Man.
Speaker 4: I didn't I honestly, I knew that there were some wildfires,
Speaker 4: but then when I saw this store and actually looked
Speaker 4: at the amount of wildfires that are happening in Canada's like, oh,
Speaker 4: my fucking god. I hope y'all are okay up there,
Speaker 4: because this shit sounds ridiculous. And apparently the reason why
Speaker 4: the smoke travels as far is because these forest fires
Speaker 4: are able to send so much smoke into the atmosphere
Speaker 4: that like it's traveling in like atmospheric winds that will
Speaker 4: carry it thousands of miles. So now you're seeing it
Speaker 4: in places like Minnesota and fucking everywhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so we'll just get more and more common
Speaker 1: because climate change is not a thing in the future.
Speaker 3: It's happening now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and look outside New York. It's not Blade Runner,
Speaker 4: it's climate change. Yeah what that looks like. It does
Speaker 4: look a lot like Blade Runner.
Speaker 1: That is a movie that keeps popping into my head,
Speaker 1: for sure, Vivian. Yeah, but yeah, get get some face
Speaker 1: masks that I'll protect you. Like, obviously we're a little
Speaker 1: more familiar with face masks these days than we were
Speaker 1: four years ago. But the K ninety five masks can
Speaker 1: and ninety five should work, So hopefully you have some
Speaker 1: of those laying around.
Speaker 4: We're actually out here being like, hey, y'all, the air
Speaker 4: is so fucked up. Here are your masks that you wear?
Speaker 4: Like we're there, Like we're we're there. Yeah, And like
Speaker 4: to take a line from Dumb and Dumber when they
Speaker 4: finally get Aspen, but yeah, we're there.
Speaker 1: An update to a story that we covered in our
Speaker 1: Weekend round up, because we were talking about how there
Speaker 1: was this new profile unprecedented access in the Atlantic, I
Speaker 1: believe to CNN's new CEO, Chris licked where he was
Speaker 1: just you know, he was like, yeah, you can, you
Speaker 1: can just hang with me. Fettered access twenty four hours
Speaker 1: a day. I got nothing to hide. And it turns
Speaker 1: out he should. He had some things he should have hidden,
Speaker 1: because just thirteen months into his tenure he is no
Speaker 1: longer CNN's new CEO. He is now CNN's old CEO.
Speaker 3: He will be moving on.
Speaker 4: So I mean, yeah, he was there to go, you know,
Speaker 4: fucking sniff out the libs. Yeah, and yeah, it just
Speaker 4: apparently like when that piece came out in the Atlantic,
Speaker 4: like it it.
Speaker 2: Was just like like to your point, the piece came
Speaker 2: out and it's like, oh, yeah, you're fired.
Speaker 3: By a couple of days later.
Speaker 2: So that fucking bad.
Speaker 1: It was a bang bang play, as they say in baseball.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but despite their like strategy to like improve ratings
Speaker 4: or profits, none of that happened. Yeah, and so he
Speaker 4: I didn't realize he was like the guy who took
Speaker 4: over Colbert and like turned that program around. And you know,
Speaker 4: the insight seemed to be like go really hard on Trump,
Speaker 4: which I'm not sure if Colbert needed to be told that,
Speaker 4: but and then his insight at CNN seemed to be
Speaker 4: like go really hard with Trump, Like his whole thing
Speaker 4: seems to be man.
Speaker 1: People seem to really respond to this Trump guy, right,
Speaker 1: which genius.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't see how you fail when you
Speaker 3: have that level of you know, observation. Yeah, there's just there's.
Speaker 4: So many that I was just reading a little bit
Speaker 4: of that Tim alberta piece in the Atlantic about him.
Speaker 2: It's just so fucking everything is bad.
Speaker 4: Like there's not a single thing you're reading like oh,
Speaker 4: maybe he knew what he was doing, or like oh,
Speaker 4: he's so self absorbed, he's so obsessed with Sucker and
Speaker 4: like like he like moved like a Zucker's old office
Speaker 4: used to be on the seventeenth floor apparently like you know,
Speaker 4: like where everybody like just up in it, right, like
Speaker 4: you know, sort of connected to the room. Then he
Speaker 4: went up to you know a few like lights up
Speaker 4: to the twenty second or something where they said, quote,
Speaker 4: most staffers didn't know how to find him. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: well smarty, smart, they're lifting the bar. They can't fire
Speaker 4: you if Sucker could can't find you. Yeah, lifting a
Speaker 4: bar and saying I bet Zucker couldn't do this is
Speaker 4: such a strong move. Has there been a profile that
Speaker 4: was this impactful?
Speaker 3: Like this is the profile.
Speaker 1: Like they'll do a profile like a politician and you'll
Speaker 1: be like, man, that should be the end of their career,
Speaker 1: but it never like actually happens, right, Yeah, this.
Speaker 3: Is I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I mean there are times like that have
Speaker 4: been like laughable ones like I think of like the
Speaker 4: betto Auroric Vanity fair cover, Like, yeah, but.
Speaker 3: That one that certainly wasn't what they were going for.
Speaker 4: No, no, exactly, Like, yeah, I'm not sure because this
Speaker 4: is truly like it was. Look, pride comes before the
Speaker 4: fall here. Yeah, So I don't know. Maybe maybe that'll
Speaker 4: happen with like Harlan Crow and maybe the Atlantic will
Speaker 4: maybe do some more damage there, or maybe they'll just
Speaker 4: carry water from I.
Speaker 2: Don't know, but I can't. I certainly can't think of
Speaker 2: something We're like a profile like this came up.
Speaker 3: Taken down within a week, within a week.
Speaker 4: Of publication, You're gone. But I think it was a
Speaker 4: losing battle trying to run CNN. However the fuck those
Speaker 4: creeps up in the C suite wanted.
Speaker 1: It ran right because he wasn't the He wasn't the
Speaker 1: guy who like came in and was like, I'm a conservative,
Speaker 1: we need to make it more conservative. That was like
Speaker 1: a pre existing idea that he then was working with right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was that was from like one of their
Speaker 4: over that guy, this guy I think we talked about
Speaker 4: like Robert Malone, who was like we talked about how
Speaker 4: he was like saying he said shit like I would
Speaker 4: like to see CNN evolved back to the kind of
Speaker 4: journal like that was the beginning of seeing the right
Speaker 4: word creep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right, let's say a quick break. We'll
Speaker 1: come back and talk Martha Stewart and other shit and
Speaker 1: where sure back and Martha Stewart had some good political
Speaker 1: capital going after her sports illustration. I was I was
Speaker 1: just saying, okay, Martha, we were all rooting for you, We're.
Speaker 2: Rooting for you, making me get I'm becoming Tyra Banks suddenly.
Speaker 2: But now she's opening her mouth talking about she's on it.
Speaker 2: She said she's on a rampage to get the people
Speaker 2: in the United States to go back into offices because
Speaker 2: she hates like work from home shit. She says that
Speaker 2: people cannot quote possibly get everything done working three days
Speaker 2: a week in the office and two days remotely. Mm
Speaker 2: hm oh. Then she went on to say she.
Speaker 1: Would know because I mean, she's famously has worked lots
Speaker 1: of office jobs.
Speaker 3: Correct, oh or oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: She's like, when I was doing work, when I was like,
Speaker 4: you know, behind the walls, you know, I would make
Speaker 4: at least eighty.
Speaker 2: License plates a day, and I was doing that with
Speaker 2: my bare hands. I don't know.
Speaker 4: She goes on to say she compared the state of
Speaker 4: in person work in the United States to France, calling
Speaker 4: France a quote not a very thriving country. Quote look
Speaker 4: at the success of France, but they're stupid, you know,
Speaker 4: off for August blah blah blah. That's not a very
Speaker 4: thriving country. Should America go down the drain because people
Speaker 4: don't want to go back to work?
Speaker 2: Please leave, please go back.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, we're not here to you know, advocate
Speaker 4: for prison, but maybe let me just shut up go
Speaker 4: back there. Like, are all your friends these like Goldman
Speaker 4: Sachs people who are like, yeah, you know, the corporate
Speaker 4: fucking real like that's all they're talking about. Because she's
Speaker 4: only talking to like these business owner like property owning maniacs.
Speaker 4: And that's the thing that all they all are obsessed
Speaker 4: with right now is like, what are we gonna do
Speaker 4: with all this fucking like corporate real estate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she just hasn't had a conversation with anyone who
Speaker 1: is worth below fifty million dollars in probably decades, or
Speaker 1: at least not a conversation where she was actually like
Speaker 1: respecting the other person and taking in what they have
Speaker 1: to say. So you know that that's where we get
Speaker 1: these things where they come out with their chest out
Speaker 1: and are like and I mean we all agree, right,
Speaker 1: France is the pits and we just need to get
Speaker 1: back to work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look at how they're all.
Speaker 4: Look at how they're turning up trying to fight the
Speaker 4: you know, raising of the retirement age and going all
Speaker 4: out anyway, it's not.
Speaker 3: A very thriving country. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Uh, It's like it reminds you of like when that
Speaker 4: that Willow and Jaden Smith article came out a few
Speaker 4: years ago, and like they were talking people like.
Speaker 3: What the fuck are y'all talking about? Right?
Speaker 4: And clearly, Like when I read, I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: so he's around some trippy ass adults who are just
Speaker 4: saying this shit all the time and they're just regurgitating
Speaker 4: this nonsense thinking that it's their own thoughts.
Speaker 2: And like it feels like how Marth is like, look,
Speaker 2: you're she's around these takes I'm sure. Uh so, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's going to be a mirror for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, just to check him with a box
Speaker 1: office because I do just want to comment on like
Speaker 1: Spider Man Across the Spider Verse is like a genuine butverse.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's it is crushing. It's doing incredibly. It's like, Miles,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. Ring the bell, It's time to
Speaker 1: declare the box office for Spider Man Across the Spider
Speaker 1: versus Baffo the Mafo bell. Oh shit, he's ringing in
Speaker 1: my god, but I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's very exciting.
Speaker 1: Uh the So there's also a new Transformers movie coming,
Speaker 1: and also the Flash DC movie coming. It feels like
Speaker 1: none of them are gonna do like what what Spider
Speaker 1: Verse is doing.
Speaker 2: They thought they could cross swords with the animated Spider Man.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think anybody knew it was gonna
Speaker 3: be this good, like this, but you knew how good.
Speaker 2: Everyone knew how good the first one was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what I mean, Like, you can't be like,
Speaker 4: hey man, you know our fucking terribly cursed Flash movie
Speaker 4: with the lead like performer who's an absolute piece of trash. Yeah,
Speaker 4: let's go toe to toe with the beloved Spider Man
Speaker 4: animated version.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, go ahead, and they're trying to. I will
Speaker 1: say I think the Flash Movie is gonna kind of
Speaker 1: eat shit a little bit, because like there were some
Speaker 1: early things I think they must have had, like a
Speaker 1: marketing campaign where they're paying I think Stephen King came
Speaker 1: out on Twitter and was like, just saw the new
Speaker 1: Flash movie. It's the great Like this isn't a superhero film,
Speaker 1: this is like one of the greatest.
Speaker 3: I think they like had some.
Speaker 1: People that they were working to try and get the
Speaker 1: word out that like this this one's special, folks. But
Speaker 1: it seems like, you know, the reviews have dropped and
Speaker 1: they're pretty kind of middling. They're not They're not the
Speaker 1: sort of thing that you would need to get past
Speaker 1: all the problems that this movie has. Also, like the
Speaker 1: last DC movies like really eh shit At box office,
Speaker 1: the Shazam Fury of the Guys has grossed one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty three zero point four million worldwide like to date,
Speaker 1: which is the lowest DC Cinematic Universe movie in history,
Speaker 1: even with like inflation and all that shit, it's.
Speaker 3: The worst in history.
Speaker 1: And then like Black Adam, Like you know that that
Speaker 1: was the hardest the rock has ever like worked to
Speaker 1: promote a movie, and like that one went well under
Speaker 1: like what people were expecting, and like people think it
Speaker 1: was probably under profitability. So like the Flash and like
Speaker 1: box office trackers are saying that, like these sorts of
Speaker 1: movies like that have a shared cinematic universe, like this
Speaker 1: kind of influence each other. And so if the past
Speaker 1: couple haven't done well, it's pretty damning.
Speaker 2: Zachary Levi like in some controversy too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that hasn't he ambled on some.
Speaker 1: Bad horses man, Jesus Zachary Levi was, Yeah, he's just
Speaker 1: like no, I'm just like a libertarian and like, oh
Speaker 1: is that what it was? Came through with some really
Speaker 1: spicy takes. I will say that this new Transformers movie,
Speaker 1: which seems completely baffling to me, like I don't know
Speaker 1: why the robots need to be animals and vice for no, no,
Speaker 1: I don't either, but for all its logical problems in
Speaker 1: my brain, it makes the hell out of some sense
Speaker 1: to my kids' brains. Yeah, that is I'm like trying
Speaker 1: to get them. We just watched the first Spider Verse.
Speaker 1: They loved it. I'm like, we can see the next
Speaker 1: one in theaters. And yet every time we pass a
Speaker 1: Transformers movie poster, they're just like, ooh, Transformers. Are there
Speaker 1: other Transformers movies? Like why is that big damnit robot animal?
Speaker 3: Like so pissed? Is he a bad guy? Like? Wait there?
Speaker 1: And now I'm gonna like maybe have to show them
Speaker 1: the Michael Bay Transformers.
Speaker 4: Why don't you just go to Spider Man and see
Speaker 4: if they figure it out? Because it's so good you
Speaker 4: can be like, yeah, you know this is good in
Speaker 4: the wrong we walked in the wrong theater.
Speaker 2: Myight bad? What just transform but doing Spider Man today? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know that. I was.
Speaker 4: I know what you mean, because like you want to
Speaker 4: be like, well they started, you don't understand, because they
Speaker 4: start off as auto bots and the whole thing was
Speaker 4: they transformed from these these things that were among us
Speaker 4: into these robots.
Speaker 2: But that's just a fucking gorilla robot.
Speaker 3: Yeah what was that the platform into.
Speaker 2: I don't even know. I don't even know. I don't
Speaker 2: even care.
Speaker 4: But again, but these films aren't even for the US anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they make all their money over pre in China.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in the fifties domestic, but like huge numbers overseas.
Speaker 3: So yeah, and I get it.
Speaker 1: Like one of the cooler things, like just when we
Speaker 1: were at the beginning of like CG and like.
Speaker 3: Cool special effects.
Speaker 1: Like one of the movies that seemed to me like
Speaker 1: would have the most promise was a Transformers movie, and
Speaker 1: like watching the robots like transform on screen like that
Speaker 1: five seconds as cool as fun. Like that's like yeah, man,
Speaker 1: like that's that's cool as hell. Like yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: what movies. That's why I would.
Speaker 3: Go to movie.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, man, hell yeah brother. That's all right, all
Speaker 2: right right there, man, Yeah, I am a very.
Speaker 3: Vocal film viewer.
Speaker 1: For the Transformers film, just go to everyone and kind
Speaker 1: of give give a lot of high fives out huh.
Speaker 3: But yeah, they fuck up and give it to Michael Bay.
Speaker 1: So anyways, Spider Verse seems to be the big winner,
Speaker 1: which is good. It seems like a case of art
Speaker 1: actually resonating and winning out.
Speaker 3: It's in the Popular Forum.
Speaker 1: Well, those are some of the things that are trending
Speaker 1: on this Wednesday, June seventh. We are back tomorrow with
Speaker 1: a whole ass episode.
Speaker 3: Of the show.
Speaker 1: Until then, be kind to each other, Be kind to yourselves,
Speaker 1: get the vaccine, get.
Speaker 3: Your shots, get your blue shots. Don't do nothing about
Speaker 3: white supremacy, and we will. Okay, hell tomorrow, fight fight
Speaker 2: Mhm.