Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of trend
Speaker 1: BA trend VP Joel trend Bead. Hey, it's courtesy of
Speaker 1: Paul Garaventa on a PG The Discover. You know, heay,
Speaker 1: we we gotta win against the Celtics. In game one
Speaker 1: we got the MVP and well we'll learn to be
Speaker 1: happy with that.
Speaker 2: Hey, what mean? Look like I said, just got a
Speaker 2: little dinged up in game two? Gallott dinged up just
Speaker 2: like we did. Yo, you had a thirty four ding up.
Speaker 2: What do we get twenty seven point ding up?
Speaker 1: We ing up? Yeah?
Speaker 3: But hey, those blots are good, like we were saying,
Speaker 3: those blots are good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those are good blowouts.
Speaker 2: That's a good blowout. Yeah, I like those.
Speaker 1: Yeah because a D and Lebron don't even have to
Speaker 1: play in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it just looks sore and sad.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sad. I'm sad. I'm an NBA sad boy.
Speaker 2: Uh okay, because that's a rapper name.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's my rapper name. That is permanently my rapper name.
Speaker 1: NBA sad Sixers fan. I'm Jack. That's Miles. There will
Speaker 1: be more games this weekend. We'll see And these are
Speaker 1: some things that are trending. King Charles is getting coronated.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh this looks cool. I'm wearing my jersey as
Speaker 2: a mask.
Speaker 1: Oh that does look cool. Oh she hooked that on
Speaker 1: your ears?
Speaker 3: On my ears because they stick out. Bro wow wow
Speaker 3: look this is my new balla clava. Look okay?
Speaker 2: Anyway, yeah, King Charles, sorry, sidetrack.
Speaker 1: King all of our after this weekend because we can
Speaker 1: all swear our allegiance through the TV. Cut your hands,
Speaker 1: put the put your bloody handprint on the screen. Let
Speaker 1: the King know that you're here for him. We love you, folks.
Speaker 1: His coronation will see more than a thousand people protesting
Speaker 1: in London's Trafalgar Square, and so in order to intimidate protesters,
Speaker 1: the UK Home Officer the Police Powers Unit will be
Speaker 1: granted new powers as outlined in an anonymous letter. That's
Speaker 1: usually a good sign, right when they when they keep
Speaker 1: it anonymous.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, you know what, anytime someone's granted new powers
Speaker 3: and it's not a fucking like a Pokemon or some shit,
Speaker 3: Yeah I'm not for that.
Speaker 1: So here here's a couple red flags on these new powers.
Speaker 1: They were rushed into law to prevent disruption and they
Speaker 1: were granted in an anonymous letter, so nobody wanted to
Speaker 1: sign their name to it. The also bad sign. Another
Speaker 1: flag popped, another flag on this one. The United Nations
Speaker 1: High Commissioner for Human Rights called the legislation deeply troubling. Ah,
Speaker 1: so we'll see how all of this goes. I mean it,
Speaker 1: we'll probably just you know, the mainstream media is not
Speaker 1: going to be covering them like arresting people four hours
Speaker 1: before the festivities begin.
Speaker 2: Dude, you know what these fucking powers are for? Old Bill?
Speaker 2: As they say over there.
Speaker 3: Under the new law, protests to interfere with key national infrastructure,
Speaker 3: such as blocking roads and railways, could face twelve months
Speaker 3: behind bars in unlimited fine. We're both, I'm sorry, unlimited fine?
Speaker 3: Is that like a spell from magic to gathering? Anyone
Speaker 3: quote locking on or physically attaching themselves to other people, objects,
Speaker 3: or buildings to cause serious disruption could face six months
Speaker 3: behind bars, an unlimited fine, or both, and police will
Speaker 3: be empowered to stop in search protesters suspected of having
Speaker 3: intent to yo.
Speaker 2: That's this is the fuck part.
Speaker 3: The police will be empowered to stop in search protesters
Speaker 3: suspected of having intent to commit an offense.
Speaker 2: I suspect of the intent.
Speaker 1: Yes, I have some suspicions about their intent, so I'm
Speaker 1: sure that will all be handled and used very responsibly.
Speaker 1: Yea in London which had missile launchers on like built
Speaker 1: rocket launchers onto their buildings during the twenty twelve Olympics.
Speaker 1: Uh is where it is, where they were at, so
Speaker 1: they keep it cool. Yeah, there's a grand coronation party
Speaker 1: scheduled to take place in Bob's historic Royal Crescient, which
Speaker 1: you might recognize as the filming location for Bridgerton.
Speaker 2: Called its crescent.
Speaker 1: That's how That's how British people pronounce crescent.
Speaker 2: Right, the Crescian.
Speaker 1: But somebody they got one off before before the letter
Speaker 1: was rushed through. H somebody mowed a giant dick into
Speaker 1: the lawn. Ah yeah, perfect, Like I don't how do
Speaker 1: they do it? Do they have a drone overhead that's
Speaker 1: giving them or like? Is this just?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: When you're back out and mow the perfect down, you
Speaker 1: can just.
Speaker 2: Do that with your eyes closed. If you mow enough,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: This shit's easy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, bro, the penis is easy man for that
Speaker 3: bell end Charles for sure, Charles in charge.
Speaker 1: Charles in charge those other days and are knights.
Speaker 2: Yeah truly K and I g HDS.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's right. The bad news East Wind Bookstore in
Speaker 1: where is it? Located in Berkleyanis and San Francisco, which
Speaker 1: opened in nineteen eighty two with two locations, is now closing.
Speaker 1: It's just a sad day local.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the oldest Asian American bookstore. Yeah, of all the
Speaker 3: months too, on Api Heritage Month. But yeah, it's uh
Speaker 3: that's the written word. Man, nobody's fucking with it like that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's wild too, Like it's it. Every time I see
Speaker 3: a new bookstore open up, I'm like heartened, and then
Speaker 3: the cynical side of me is.
Speaker 2: Like, please don't get fucked up by Amazon.
Speaker 1: Yeah hold on.
Speaker 3: But I think that's why it's you know, it's funny too,
Speaker 3: because I I fucking loved the bookstore as a kid.
Speaker 3: That was like the one place my mom might buy
Speaker 3: me some.
Speaker 1: Ship yeah books and the best that was like my favorite.
Speaker 1: Like I have memories of that store and no other
Speaker 1: just like a local bookstore where you just like go
Speaker 1: and read and fucking.
Speaker 2: I mean the local.
Speaker 3: See I didn't really have local because at that point,
Speaker 3: like everything was at the mall, like I'll go to
Speaker 3: Walden Books or like Brentano's.
Speaker 2: You remember that ship. Did you have Brentano's.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. They had the.
Speaker 3: Green bag, the green shopping bag, and then it became
Speaker 3: Bookstar on Ventura, and then that became Barnes and Noble.
Speaker 3: But anyway, I just there's something about going to a
Speaker 3: bookstore that I love.
Speaker 1: You remember clearly Canadian, those Sparta flavors. I would go
Speaker 1: to the local bookstore, get the clear get a clearly
Speaker 1: Canadian if I was lucky, and just chill man, those were.
Speaker 2: Wait, they had a clearly Canadian. They were just selling
Speaker 2: that at the bookstore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the bookstore. Oh man, very chill, very very chill times.
Speaker 2: Yeah, please buy from independent bookstops.
Speaker 1: Please. This makes me think of the fact that the
Speaker 1: film You've Got Mail, in addition to other things that
Speaker 1: make it dated, where they're like, you can fall in
Speaker 1: love over email. That's the craziest thing.
Speaker 2: And Dave Chappelle's your best friend, and.
Speaker 1: Dave Chapelle's your best friend, and you are like the
Speaker 1: CEO of Barnes and Noble. That's what Tom Hanks's character is,
Speaker 1: and he's like putting Meg Ryan's.
Speaker 3: Fox Books out of Fox Books. Yeah, Fox Books, Fox.
Speaker 3: That's what his brother would say, because his brother was
Speaker 3: his dad's latest son from his wife, who was like
Speaker 3: twenty years.
Speaker 2: Old or something.
Speaker 3: I remember.
Speaker 1: This is wow that They were like, this is cool, right,
Speaker 1: people like corporations. It's Clinton's America. We're all good here. Yeah. Anyways,
Speaker 1: speaking of nostalgia and things were all nostalgic for hm.
Speaker 1: There there's a new Oreo that's coming back. I didn't
Speaker 1: realize it was ever here, but people are like, I'm so,
Speaker 1: this is like such a great nostal to play by Oreo.
Speaker 1: They're bringing back the s'morrio, which was a limited edition
Speaker 1: flavor from twenty thirteen.
Speaker 3: I'm I don't like to hear that twenty thirteen was
Speaker 3: ten years ago. First of all, as a human being,
Speaker 3: it feels violent. Yeah, because to me that was just
Speaker 3: the other day.
Speaker 1: That's me.
Speaker 2: I'm about to meet her majesty at Yeah.
Speaker 1: Our producer Victor was like, oh, oh my god, I'm
Speaker 1: so nostalgic for this that.
Speaker 2: I was like, that was yes.
Speaker 1: I had been married for five years.
Speaker 2: Fuck Smorios doesn't do shit with me. I mean yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know, like, was this a vibe, Victor? Were
Speaker 2: you trying to get these smorios? Like, because I know
Speaker 2: it is like I missed this. Was it a wave?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I completely missed this?
Speaker 2: Oh, Victor said, I get all the Orioles.
Speaker 3: Okay, so shout out the Oreo gang because I'm like,
Speaker 3: I I only get him when I'm super high at
Speaker 3: like Ralph's and I remember to see if there's any
Speaker 3: lit oreoles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Smores Girl Scout cookies are really good, so
Speaker 1: I have high hopes Girl Scouts s'mores. They just called
Speaker 1: them s'mores, no fun play on the word. They've just
Speaker 1: packed every cubic centimeter of these cookies with as much
Speaker 1: sugar as it will take before just like bursting into
Speaker 1: a pile of like sugar granules. And that they're wonderful.
Speaker 1: So I don't know that's the one. That's the sandwich
Speaker 1: cookie one. I think there's a different version for the
Speaker 1: East Coast Girl Scout cookies.
Speaker 3: But oh right, because it's either you get it from
Speaker 3: one of two shops, right or we were talking about
Speaker 3: that when you're blowing the lid open on big Girl
Speaker 3: Scout Cookie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, that's it. Was the Watergate of the Daily Zeikeeist. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back. We're back, and Serbia is doing something.
Speaker 2: I just what this is. This is so that you
Speaker 2: can't do that.
Speaker 3: This is so difficult to read from the Washington Post.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna read you this fucking opening paragraph from
Speaker 3: this article quote Serbian president. Serbian President Alexander Vucic pledged
Speaker 3: to disarm the country, proposing gun control measures on Friday
Speaker 3: after two shootings, one of them out of school, killed
Speaker 3: at least sixteen people. The rampages this week shook the
Speaker 3: Balkan nation, where such shootings were relatively rare. It's just
Speaker 3: wild when you see they're like, oh my, like again,
Speaker 3: like a fucked up, terrible mass shooting, and then this
Speaker 3: one is all right, that's it.
Speaker 2: We're tightening up the gun laws.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Just it's very frustrating, such a.
Speaker 1: Very very hard I mean, I guess it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: it's possible. You know. We always point to Australia as
Speaker 1: the example of like, hey, it's possible, but maybe maybe
Speaker 1: this will remind people that it's possible.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's like the weird thing though too. You
Speaker 3: most a majority of Americans are like, bro, I don't
Speaker 3: give a fuck.
Speaker 1: I want to be safe. Yeah, but it's there's something
Speaker 1: about the way the messaging reaches people where they're just
Speaker 1: like it's impossible, right. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And also like I remember when Vin like I think
Speaker 3: I still remember when Vera Das came on, just talking
Speaker 3: about how like again we've we've made these things like
Speaker 3: sanctified to the point that they are rhetorically untouchable topics. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but yeah, this is anyway, Uh, congratulations.
Speaker 1: Things happened.
Speaker 2: But yeah, hope hopefully you get that, get that done.
Speaker 1: Yes, Uh, COVID is over, so that's cool, all right,
Speaker 1: let's move on.
Speaker 2: I guess it was this podcast.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, the World Health Organization just announced that COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen is no longer a global health emergency.
Speaker 2: Oh really, there's no more deaths. People aren't dying anymore.
Speaker 1: Uh just over threey five hundred people a week at
Speaker 1: this point, So when it was really bad, less people
Speaker 1: are dying. So that's good we can And it's also
Speaker 1: people are officially tired of paying attention to it, so
Speaker 1: they're they there is a big like graphic put out
Speaker 1: by the World Health Organization breaking COVID nineteen global health
Speaker 1: emergency is over.
Speaker 2: And the stock price shot through the roof.
Speaker 1: Yeah. They're also saying that officially seven million people die,
Speaker 1: but that the real number is probably closer to twenty million,
Speaker 1: and that the virus is still a significant threat. So
Speaker 1: it's interesting.
Speaker 2: Oh's over.
Speaker 3: But here's the thing about pandemics, as they said they
Speaker 3: truly end. This is from one of the people there,
Speaker 3: say they truly end when the next one begins.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So in this job that is has huge practical
Speaker 1: impacts on people's day to day lives. They're getting very
Speaker 1: theoretical here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I mean, like, what's I mean again? And
Speaker 2: you look at because you.
Speaker 3: Know, we're on the verge of announcing we've KOed COVID
Speaker 3: in this country. Yeah, from Joe Byron. So then that
Speaker 3: means we can end the emergency and end the considerations
Speaker 3: we're giving because of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So while COVID continues to kill thousands of people
Speaker 1: each month, the emergency is ending, But we're entering the
Speaker 1: twenty third year of the nine to eleven emergency. That's real. Yeah,
Speaker 1: still a national emergency period declared over September eleventh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's still in place.
Speaker 1: Hey, I still remain vigilant. I still am ready to
Speaker 1: say something when I see something, doesn't matter what it is.
Speaker 1: If I see anything, I will say it makes me
Speaker 1: feel like I have a purpose in this world. So
Speaker 1: workers are saying that they engage in productivity theater for
Speaker 1: over ten hours a week to appear by survey shows,
Speaker 1: which I think is being reported because people are like, wow,
Speaker 1: that's a lot. I feel like that is there being
Speaker 1: conservative there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to say what ten hours?
Speaker 3: That's if you work forty hours, that twenty five percent
Speaker 3: of your time is just fucking around.
Speaker 1: Three quarters of your time is spent doing actual work.
Speaker 1: Get the workplace the fuck out of here.
Speaker 3: No, I mean yeah, it I don't know. Depends on
Speaker 3: it honestly depends on what you do. Like if you're
Speaker 3: in an office type setting where you like it is
Speaker 3: about like just get these two things done the whole day. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but we act like it's a big deal. Then, Yeah,
Speaker 3: my ass is jerking around like a fucking clown. I
Speaker 3: was telling you off, Mike. If like I was the
Speaker 3: I was a Tony Award winning productivity theater artist, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: and I would I have knew how to fucking I
Speaker 3: knew how to not work.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: If I had a chatty boss, I get the chatty
Speaker 2: boss just going on some shit. I'd be like, what
Speaker 2: happened with your weekend when I met your daughter's soccer game? No?
Speaker 3: No, the ref Oh no, that wouldn't be me. That
Speaker 3: wouldn't be me, Diana, that would not be me. All right, man,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go outside real quick. And I got high
Speaker 3: in my in my Honda.
Speaker 1: They are included also, Like I think it's complete bullshit
Speaker 1: that it's that low. When you read their definition of
Speaker 1: what productivity theater is, they say it includes attending unnecessary meetings.
Speaker 1: We're spending excessive amounts of time on administrative task. That's
Speaker 1: that's of the American work.
Speaker 3: Yeah, week right there in these kind of like you know,
Speaker 3: what were those jobs we're talking what's that category of
Speaker 3: shop jobs?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, like when you do that, yeah, that's that's
Speaker 3: most of it. But the real part, in my mind,
Speaker 3: it's when you're not doing shit at all, not like
Speaker 3: trying to get the most out of like a task
Speaker 3: just so you can like you can just clock out
Speaker 3: of five, like I'm talking about like fake shit. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: like being like Yo, I had to. I'm sorry, I had
Speaker 3: to go fix something on the copy machine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I didn't. Yeah, said just take a little walk,
Speaker 1: nice little walk. Spend some time in the bathroom even
Speaker 1: though you're not going to the mic.
Speaker 3: Yo that time, just me time I had a I
Speaker 3: hada homie who would take I'm not joking, he was.
Speaker 1: He would.
Speaker 3: He would be shitting for two hours and watch a
Speaker 3: movie on his phone. Yeah, And I was like that
Speaker 3: that's some that's not even productivity theater. That's straight up
Speaker 3: just you're going to the theater in the bathroom stall.
Speaker 1: Yeah. At least shout out to them for recognizing that
Speaker 1: a lot of these meetings don't need to happen.
Speaker 3: And if you think about it, right, like, let's let's
Speaker 3: just I know, we say that's charitable, but we presume
Speaker 3: that if twenty five percent is bullshit, then get rid
Speaker 3: of twenty five percent.
Speaker 2: Of the work week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is why I think a lot of people,
Speaker 1: you know, the CEOs are reading this and being like,
Speaker 1: so that seems like we could pay them twenty five
Speaker 1: percent less. No, how do we use Amazon's technology to
Speaker 1: uh focus on how much time they're actually spending on
Speaker 1: task and then use that to uh save for savings
Speaker 1: purposes to deliver value to our shareholders.
Speaker 2: So you know what's funny.
Speaker 3: The most militant like type of asshole bosses I had
Speaker 3: was when I was a PA, when I used to
Speaker 3: like be a PA, when I was coming up like
Speaker 3: a production assistant on like TV or film sets or whatever.
Speaker 1: Oh damn, like film and TV producers or villains. I
Speaker 1: didn't get that from this week.
Speaker 2: But but it's wild though.
Speaker 3: It would be like a it would be like a
Speaker 3: fucking Coppo type situation where you would have somebody who's
Speaker 3: just like a couple of layers above you, not even
Speaker 3: a producer, like the head of.
Speaker 2: The PAS who's also a PA, and like, you need
Speaker 2: to be active all the time. I don't want to
Speaker 2: see a cell phone.
Speaker 3: You need to If there's a trash can that's even
Speaker 3: half full, you got to take the trash bag out
Speaker 3: when they when they wrap that section, you better make
Speaker 3: sure that whole thing is clean.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, yo, relax man.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The abuse of just people who want to work
Speaker 1: in a creative field, like by by people who are
Speaker 1: you know, are like, well, we can take a bit
Speaker 1: that vice Vice's twenty two rule, which I always come
Speaker 1: back to, But it's just they had a thing. They
Speaker 1: literally said, where we go by the twenty two rule,
Speaker 1: hire twenty two year olds, pay them twenty two thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a year, and work them twenty two hours a day.
Speaker 1: Judging cutching bro cut to company cut.
Speaker 3: Two it's collapsing. Yeah, it was their YouTube. Their YouTube
Speaker 3: kind of fucked them over. That shit blew up too hard,
Speaker 3: and then everybody was like, oh my god, yeah, give
Speaker 3: them billions of dollars. Yeah, not to say that the
Speaker 3: shit wasn't good.
Speaker 2: It was good.
Speaker 3: But I think that was the beginning of like a
Speaker 3: lot of just like, uh, that was the beginning of
Speaker 3: everyone being like, this is the most potent media brand
Speaker 3: on the earth.
Speaker 1: Yeah. They I had a feeling they might be in
Speaker 1: trouble when like they were they were still like creating
Speaker 1: good shit. They had like Jesus America and on their
Speaker 1: twice Land. Yeah, on Iceland. But they were also like
Speaker 1: there were these New York Times articles with the CEOs
Speaker 1: and like founders being like, we're actually more of an
Speaker 1: ad production studio.
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, that's when it does so.
Speaker 1: Your consumers and the people who actually make your brand
Speaker 1: valuable at all. Know that you're an ad production studio because.
Speaker 2: Right, exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, guys, let's not have too much critical
Speaker 3: commentary on that. They're they're an advertiser with us. Yes,
Speaker 3: but I'm talking about femicide in Mexico. Yeah, yeah, Well
Speaker 3: they buy a lot of ads if you don't mention
Speaker 3: their factory.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right. Those are some of the things that
Speaker 1: are trending heading into Coronation weekend. We are back on
Speaker 1: Monday with a whole ass episode of the show.
Speaker 3: Well are you going live when they do the Homage
Speaker 3: of the People, I'm going live.
Speaker 2: I'm going live.
Speaker 3: If y'all want to do the hit the Homage of
Speaker 3: the People with me, check me out on live.
Speaker 1: What time is the Coronation West Coast? Because I was
Speaker 1: going to do it on tape delay.
Speaker 2: But oh act, how dare you?
Speaker 1: It's just hard to like get the whole family up
Speaker 1: and in their outfits that I'm going to make them
Speaker 1: wear for the Coronation of the People to show their
Speaker 1: proper respect. So that's what I was thinking. But you're right,
Speaker 1: You're right. I'll wake up up at two in the morning.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 3: Let's see more prominent guest sovereigns Escort will assemble Bucking
Speaker 3: Palace Live Live.
Speaker 2: US coverage begins at five.
Speaker 1: Eastern that's two am Pacific.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The coronation service will take place at six a m.
Speaker 2: Eastern three Pacific. Oh hell yeah. And then it'll cut
Speaker 2: what I get.
Speaker 1: Up from my Mark Woolberg workout at ice.
Speaker 3: Bath Yeah yeah, and then the whole thing concludes at eight.
Speaker 3: So if you're up between three and five West Coast
Speaker 3: time or six and eight East coast, you can you
Speaker 3: can maybe.
Speaker 1: Do the homage of the people. Yeah, get your sabers ready,
Speaker 1: get ready to just cut your hand and put a
Speaker 1: big bloody.
Speaker 2: Foot, put your blood out.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And also, whenever we go back on tour, y'all,
Speaker 3: I'll better expect to do the homage of the Zei
Speaker 3: Gang at the show.
Speaker 2: We will make you pledge Fielty.
Speaker 1: All right, Uh, well back on Monday with the whole
Speaker 1: last episode of the show. Until they be kind to
Speaker 1: each other, be kind to yourself, get back, don't do
Speaker 1: nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to y'all
Speaker 1: on Monday. Bye.