Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Trands.
Speaker 1: How many of them are there? Six? Courtesy of super
Speaker 1: producer Brian. Um. Yeah, I'm Jack and I'm thrilled to
Speaker 1: be joined by a super producer back a robot. What's happening?
Speaker 1: You know? It's chilly here in New York City. It's
Speaker 1: gonna snow apparently, but it's not sticking. It's just windy
Speaker 1: and cold night. That's the worst kind. Please give me
Speaker 1: something the show for it. Yeah. If you're gonna snow,
Speaker 1: fucking snow, have us people to get a picture new rules?
Speaker 1: Um yeah, all right? Uh should we tell the people
Speaker 1: what's trending? Let's do it. I think we must. I
Speaker 1: think we must. Of course, one that I brought to
Speaker 1: you and had to explain to you, iconic stylist to
Speaker 1: the stars, law Roach has announced his retirement. Question mark
Speaker 1: question mark question mark question mark. Well, I you know
Speaker 1: I'll take it, Jack, even though you you graciously explained this,
Speaker 1: So I explained it to you, So why don't you
Speaker 1: just I want to see how well you learned it?
Speaker 1: So yeah, law Road, status of the stars, famously on
Speaker 1: that HBO Max legendary, but also I think most famous
Speaker 1: for styling Zendeia, but also Meg the Stallion, Hunter, Schaeffer,
Speaker 1: are In a Grande, Kerry Washington, Selene Diant, Banca Chopra,
Speaker 1: Lindsay Lohan, and many more. He announced his retirement over
Speaker 1: Instagram over the politics and quotes, lies and false narratives
Speaker 1: of the industry. People think it's has so many to
Speaker 1: do with what happened at the Louis Vuitton show this
Speaker 1: past week, but unclear what I went down, but that
Speaker 1: was the area. Of course. I looked at the video
Speaker 1: or I was trying to find the video, couldn't find
Speaker 1: anything about it. I just hearing rumors about this, like
Speaker 1: snub at the Louis Vuitton show, like Zendea was sitting
Speaker 1: front who's now a brand rep for Louis Utan and
Speaker 1: like had to pull up a chair to have law
Speaker 1: Roads sit with her front row. So I'm not sure
Speaker 1: what's going on there, but I would say I'm very
Speaker 1: sad to see him go in the industry. I think
Speaker 1: he's really broken barriers into what is the beauty standard
Speaker 1: of Hollywood. I think he's really been a you know,
Speaker 1: fashion architect, as he likes to describe himself. But he's
Speaker 1: also just like I think a stylist that really understands
Speaker 1: the lexicon and history of fashion. He really loves to
Speaker 1: bring back vintage looks. He's really attuned to what the
Speaker 1: person he's styling wants, but also the historical moment that
Speaker 1: they're participating in. And just I don't know, he makes art.
Speaker 1: I like, look at some of these red carpet looks
Speaker 1: and they are you know, they're pretty women in pretty dresses.
Speaker 1: But when law Road style somebody, it is truly art.
Speaker 1: So I will be sad to see if he really
Speaker 1: is officially retiring. It seems like the comments everyone is like,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? Like all his select friends
Speaker 1: are like no, no, no, notably Naomi Campbell's like, Apps,
Speaker 1: we're not doing this. So hopefully Naomi can bring him back.
Speaker 1: I will be really sad to see him go. I
Speaker 1: hope that means he'll still be on another season A Legendary.
Speaker 1: I love Legendary and for the people so they know
Speaker 1: what is legendary. Legendary is a show on HBO Max
Speaker 1: like the famous show Ryan Murphy's Pose. It is that
Speaker 1: except competition show. Yeah, like a reality competition show. Law
Speaker 1: Roach is a judge. K Palmer has been a judge.
Speaker 1: Mag Stallion's been a judge. They have a couple of
Speaker 1: famous ball queens of the era as judges, so definitely
Speaker 1: a fun show. It's bringing ball to I think the
Speaker 1: popular culture. If you're not a part of the queer community,
Speaker 1: you probably don't know too much about ballroom culture. But
Speaker 1: it's really fascinating, interesting, amazing art and you should look
Speaker 1: at it. But I also want to say, last thing,
Speaker 1: goa check out Magda Stallions look from the Vanity Fair
Speaker 1: party at the Oscars. It was his law Roach's latest
Speaker 1: styling choice and it was perfection. Truly. I will say
Speaker 1: I looked through you know this is this is not
Speaker 1: necessarily the thing that I am the most up on.
Speaker 1: I looked through some iconic looks created by celeb stylist
Speaker 1: law Roach from an outlet, journalistic institution BuzzFeed dot com
Speaker 1: and uh known theirs. The work is great, the like
Speaker 1: I've very very cool iconic looks that you know, I
Speaker 1: don't always get fashion. Fashion doesn't always get me um,
Speaker 1: but law Roach and I yes, mutual appreciation. He's a
Speaker 1: big fan of mine. Also love that law Roach like
Speaker 1: the out loud sounds like it's gonna be French. But
Speaker 1: it's just the word law and the word roach law.
Speaker 1: Roach Scream six has arrived, dropped on all of our
Speaker 1: asses this past weekend and brooke the records for the
Speaker 1: screen franchise. So I was curious to see what was
Speaker 1: going to happen here because in the trailer it broke
Speaker 1: some age old slasher movie conventions, some things that to
Speaker 1: me seemed like lots like the slasher movie villain usually
Speaker 1: isn't pulling a gun out like I've always thought it
Speaker 1: was funny to like just imagine Jason Vorhees just holding
Speaker 1: a handgun a revolver, right, I never really thought about
Speaker 1: that they don't really hold like automatic weapons and the
Speaker 1: other thing that has always been confusing to me. And
Speaker 1: I think also it's very interesting to try and puzzle
Speaker 1: out why this is the case, because so the majority
Speaker 1: of the film going population lives in cities for the
Speaker 1: most part, like that just because of the majority of
Speaker 1: populations in the United States, I think live in cities,
Speaker 1: or at least a huge sizeable chunk. Now I'm getting
Speaker 1: nervous that I have that wrong, but I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: like that's who you're trying to reach generally with your
Speaker 1: film are those cosmopolitan young people, and yet the movies
Speaker 1: are never set in cities, and horror movies set in
Speaker 1: cities generally like don't do that well, Like my explanation
Speaker 1: is always like there's just something spooky about the woods
Speaker 1: or even the suburbs. They'll let you do the suburbs,
Speaker 1: but it just like doesn't translate to the city generally.
Speaker 1: But Scream six seems to have gone city and both
Speaker 1: of those conventions may not hold up anymore for this
Speaker 1: new generation because in the trailer he pulls a shotgun
Speaker 1: out and also it happens on a New York subway,
Speaker 1: like there's a scene on a New York subway train.
Speaker 1: So interested to watch this one. Also, one of the
Speaker 1: reviews for the film made the claim that the Scream
Speaker 1: franchise is like the Fast and the Furious franchise, that
Speaker 1: they've gotten better each installment, which is shocking to me.
Speaker 1: I stopped it too. I assume that they got worse
Speaker 1: like other horror films, So the idea that they've only
Speaker 1: gotten better since Scream two, I'm intrigued and people people
Speaker 1: seem to really be enjoying this one. The reviews are solid.
Speaker 1: The bo is boffo. So I got to hand it
Speaker 1: to the folks that scream they're they're really doing it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I definitely want to see it. I'm a
Speaker 1: Jenny or take a fan. I definitely feel like watching
Speaker 1: this trailer looked really good. I have not seen I
Speaker 1: think the rest of the screams are might I have
Speaker 1: seen them in passing. I definitely have seen all of
Speaker 1: the scary movies, like I saw. Scary movie was introduced
Speaker 1: in my life before Scream was so yeah. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I'm intrigued. I heard it was good. I had
Speaker 1: Frank go see it this morning. My partner saw it
Speaker 1: on Saturday. He really liked it. He was like, I
Speaker 1: gotta go watch screm five now. So and he's also
Speaker 1: a big, fast and Furious fan, so maybe there's a
Speaker 1: correlation there. Interesting anyways, I'm looking forward to seeing that
Speaker 1: and happy as a movie go or someone who one
Speaker 1: of my favorite things to do in the world is
Speaker 1: to go and sit in a movie theater and watch
Speaker 1: a movie. I am happy anytime movies are doing well
Speaker 1: at the box office too. Yes, Ranch ice cream there. So.
Speaker 1: There is a company called Van Lewen. It is spelled
Speaker 1: Van Leeuwin l e e u w e n. But
Speaker 1: I've been told very forcefully that it's van Lewin and
Speaker 1: not van Leewin. Like I pronounce yes, but they want
Speaker 1: you to pronounce it. They have that conversation built into
Speaker 1: their name. They're like, we're going to spell it so
Speaker 1: that not only do you are you intimidated by us
Speaker 1: like seeming a little like avant garde with our ice
Speaker 1: cream flavors, but someone is correcting you when you try
Speaker 1: and sear name, so they feel worse about yourself. It's giving,
Speaker 1: it is giving French, and it is spelling French as
Speaker 1: opposed to law roach um. So Van Lewin has been
Speaker 1: making these challenging flavors. They've made gray pupan, they have
Speaker 1: made pizza flavored ice cream, they have made mac and cheese,
Speaker 1: and now they're dropping the Hidden Valley Ranch on us
Speaker 1: and since disrespectful at this point. So I have to
Speaker 1: suspect because you you said that you go to the store.
Speaker 1: I do. They have them in New York. They're a
Speaker 1: big chain in New York. There's a few in the
Speaker 1: Brooklyn area where I live. I love the Marionberry ice cream.
Speaker 1: If I'm at a corner store and they have than luin.
Speaker 1: I'm checking for the Earl Gray Tea. Oh, that's such
Speaker 1: a good flavor. And the Marion Barry those are the
Speaker 1: two I rotate between. Oh and also the honeycomb. Those
Speaker 1: are the three OR rotate between. But I never see
Speaker 1: these crazy flavors, not even in store. So Earl Gray Tea,
Speaker 1: that sounds very subtle to me. It's like a it's
Speaker 1: it's got the really strong hint of the Earl Gray
Speaker 1: tea flavor, but it's like kind of like if you
Speaker 1: were to have um, a London fog latte, like an
Speaker 1: Earl Tea latte. It's got that creaminess but like subtle
Speaker 1: tea flavor, and it almost is like refreshing because of
Speaker 1: the way the tea hits like almost like a mint.
Speaker 1: Isn't in the feeling, not in the taste. So that's
Speaker 1: not for me. That's I'm gonna need a I'm gonna
Speaker 1: need chunks of something. You gotta put some tea bags
Speaker 1: in there and that are made out of made out
Speaker 1: of honeycomb, yeah, or something like that. But anyways, I
Speaker 1: suspect that we saw Jenny's do this a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago with the everything Bagel ice cream flavor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that one was they were actually putting that out.
Speaker 1: I have tasted it. It does taste good because it's
Speaker 1: cream cheese flavored and very sweet, with a little bit
Speaker 1: of the everything Bagel seasoning in there to kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, confuse the senses a little bit. But this
Speaker 1: sounds like they'd make one batch of each of these. Yeah,
Speaker 1: put out the press release. Everybody gobbles it up because
Speaker 1: there are a bunch of shows like this out there
Speaker 1: that are just suckers and nobody has to taste it
Speaker 1: and they don't even need to make it taste good
Speaker 1: would be much. Do you think it's like a brand
Speaker 1: partnership vibe? I mean the Hidden Valley is involved. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like because it was kraftmac and Cheese. So is it
Speaker 1: like these brands are like, Okay, we know Van Luen
Speaker 1: is very famous and also very good at making ice cream.
Speaker 1: What if we, you know, increase our brand chair by
Speaker 1: doing a brand collaboration with Van Luin? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's what it are. Getting the brands to collaborate, then
Speaker 1: I'm guessing they have to make it taste good, and
Speaker 1: so my theory is shot and I'm happy to be
Speaker 1: wrong about that. I would love it. If somebody ice
Speaker 1: cream is amazing, I would be down with that as
Speaker 1: opposed to mac and cheese pizza. Pizza, for some reason,
Speaker 1: sounds like the worst one to make. Yeah, Like, just
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not a huge fan of cold pizza.
Speaker 1: I know you can eat it, but why would you
Speaker 1: when Okay, see I do. I know that I love
Speaker 1: a cold pizza, But I'm just such a pizza sa
Speaker 1: that I'll eat pizza like any form get on the
Speaker 1: counter for a day, I'll eat it like. If it's
Speaker 1: in the fridge, I'll eat it. If it's warmed up,
Speaker 1: I'll eat it like I will eat pizza any So,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It just reminds me of frozen pizza.
Speaker 1: Like eating frozen pizza that's doing that. Yeah, when I'm
Speaker 1: fending for myself on the weekend, I'll eat a frozen
Speaker 1: pizza without cooking it. But that's not something I'm proud of.
Speaker 1: Do you think it tastes like a lunchable? Well, I've
Speaker 1: never tasted the pizza lunchables, so you know, because this
Speaker 1: very because of this very thing, I've seen pizza made
Speaker 1: and I'm like, that doesn't look good. Until it comes
Speaker 1: out of the oven. I guess if it tastes like
Speaker 1: a lunchable, I'd eat it because I did eat those
Speaker 1: many unable Yeah, stay tuned for tomorrow's episode where we
Speaker 1: talk about how lunchables are coming to school cafeterias starting
Speaker 1: next school year. All right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We do have a new Little Mermaid trailer to talk about. Um,
Speaker 1: a couple other things will be right back, and we're back,
Speaker 1: and new Little Mermaid trailer is out. It's dark when
Speaker 1: we're underwater. They were like, the thing that we were
Speaker 1: going to make realistic is you can't see shit. Have
Speaker 1: you ever been to the bottom of the ocean? Very dark? Um,
Speaker 1: So we're gonna we're gonna stick with that. Um. And
Speaker 1: then the parts that aren't at the bottom of the
Speaker 1: ocean not as dark. So they're just like, wait, we're
Speaker 1: choosing to not suspend disbelief around this one issue Sebastian.
Speaker 1: We finally get to see Sebastian speak. Um, it's it's
Speaker 1: not that there's nothing has been done to assuage my
Speaker 1: nervousness about how this character is going to come off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they gave you just a very brief moment of Sebastian
Speaker 1: and a um pelican. Is that is that the bird
Speaker 1: it was? I'm not sure what. Yeah, seabird of some
Speaker 1: sort a sea bird of sorts. We do believe that
Speaker 1: they have kind of tried to learn from the past
Speaker 1: few movies of how do we animate uh animals to
Speaker 1: make them look realistic but also talk like humans, And
Speaker 1: I think they are closer than ever with this trailer.
Speaker 1: It felt like they looked like animals, but they looked
Speaker 1: like animals I could emote, and that's you know why.
Speaker 1: I felt like the bird looked like it emoted, is
Speaker 1: giving some attitude. Sebastian seemed like they were cutting around.
Speaker 1: They were not seeing a lot of like close up
Speaker 1: shots of them, like reaction shots where they get emotional. Um.
Speaker 1: They seem to be compensating for Sebastian's lack of facial
Speaker 1: emotion with a over the top voice. That is, of course,
Speaker 1: which we are worried about, but we'll just have to
Speaker 1: see it to believe it when it comes out. I
Speaker 1: felt like nails some McCarthey looked really great as Ursula
Speaker 1: um Hallie Bailey looked incredible. I felt like she was
Speaker 1: looking really great and seeming like she was going to
Speaker 1: nail this role. Jabier Barden as Kim Triton. Sure, let's
Speaker 1: do it fun and we both agree. Prince Eric is
Speaker 1: ugly not okay, I did not say that. I said
Speaker 1: he does not look enough like Pete Sampras, which is mine.
Speaker 1: For some reason, I've always associated Eric with Pete Sampress
Speaker 1: because they were famous, they were at their peak at
Speaker 1: the same time, and I just feel like he should
Speaker 1: look more like Pete Sampres. But yeah, he doesn't. He's not.
Speaker 1: I don't enough. I'm sorry. It does feel like there
Speaker 1: needed to be a larger hotness quotient. He's not giving
Speaker 1: prince you know what I'm saying. He's giving like youth,
Speaker 1: like a young adult, but he's not. Yeah, we're going
Speaker 1: to find out this person is like fourteen years old him.
Speaker 1: I know, I'm gonna feel really gross that I ever
Speaker 1: even compared to be not. I'm like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: don't cancel me. Please. I know Hollie Bailey's over a team.
Speaker 1: Please don't make it a weird h but I just
Speaker 1: think there are like very regal, like in theory. If
Speaker 1: you're gonna be a Disney prince, like there's a regalness
Speaker 1: to it, and he's just not giving regal you know. Yes,
Speaker 1: he seems spunky, seems like a young kid. You're like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: he seems like he like could be played by Tom Holland.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, not worth giving up your tail four okay
Speaker 1: and your voice? Yes, probably the originally animated Prince Eric
Speaker 1: also not worth that. But finally, Google has announced an
Speaker 1: AI feature in Gmail, Google Docs, and more to rival Microsoft.
Speaker 1: Um is, there's named bard is that what they're calling
Speaker 1: their's or by the wayside. Uh so, I don't know
Speaker 1: Clippy it'll do. It will be a paper clip that
Speaker 1: pops onto your the side of your Maybe I'll switch
Speaker 1: back to Microsoft. That's the case, I need Clippi's help. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's uh yeah. I have experimented with chet GPT,
Speaker 1: and by that I mean asking it five questions and
Speaker 1: apparently it's all about how smart you are at interacting
Speaker 1: with the chat GPT, and I am not smart at
Speaker 1: interacting with chat GPT. So send me some queries that
Speaker 1: I should be hitting chat GPT with. That'll provide good reads.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it seems like in our team chat here
Speaker 1: that I was the only one with the existential dread
Speaker 1: of what it means to be ruled by AI. But
Speaker 1: you know, I would love everyone to prove me wrong.
Speaker 1: I just think in terms of the future of art
Speaker 1: and reading and writing, I don't like chat GPT. I'm
Speaker 1: worried that we're going to become more literate. People aren't
Speaker 1: going to write anymore, and I don't like it. Probably true, probably, Yeah, Like,
Speaker 1: write me a dating profile. Let me see whatever journalism degree. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, but I just don't like that.
Speaker 1: I worked really hard on that degree and now people
Speaker 1: can just like input papers in chat GPT. Write me
Speaker 1: a dating profile. I think that's the only useful way
Speaker 1: to use it, to do the dating profile. Okay, and
Speaker 1: then they wrote a dating profile for themselves. Hi, I'm
Speaker 1: chat GPT and I'm here to tell you a little
Speaker 1: bit about myself. This is not gonna work, but anyways,
Speaker 1: I'm not as nervous as I was one that one
Speaker 1: person was like it tried to get me to kill
Speaker 1: my wife and leave my wife for her. So yeah, well, becau.
Speaker 1: It's been a pleasure having you as always. Where can
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Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for us this afternoon, 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'll
Speaker 1: talk to you all tomorrow. E peop