Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Give
Speaker 1: Trend back My Son or give me back my trend,
Speaker 1: whichever way you prefer um. That's courtesy of frog Eggs,
Speaker 1: who in the discord said, just rewatched Ransom last night.
Speaker 1: Whoa's watching Ransom right now? I'm wondering if it's on
Speaker 1: t NT or one of these channels. But even it
Speaker 1: feels a little old for that, right, Like TNT has
Speaker 1: moved on to other movies that they constantly replay, like
Speaker 1: they're not. They're no longer replaying Ransom? Are they rands trend? No,
Speaker 1: that doesn't really work anyways. Producer Brian says, Yeah, they've
Speaker 1: moved on to movies like Payback other Gibsonian classics. I
Speaker 1: am Jack and I'm throwed to be joined by TDZ
Speaker 1: writer Jim McNab. Hey, thanks for having me. It's great
Speaker 1: to have you. Let's tell the people what's trending, shall we.
Speaker 1: Chicago Mayor Laurie Lightfoot has lost her reelection. Bid did
Speaker 1: not get enough votes to participate in the April fourth
Speaker 1: runoff election, making her the first incumbent elected Chicago mayor
Speaker 1: to lose reelection since nineteen eighty three. I think that's
Speaker 1: at least partially due to the fact that Chicago is
Speaker 1: like the most corrupt, like machine run political city traditionally. Right. Yeah, like,
Speaker 1: how long was the penguin mayor for right a while
Speaker 1: the penguin Penguin was running shit, she ultimately fell behind
Speaker 1: because of running from the middle. Yea. One candidate ran
Speaker 1: decidedly to her right, another campaign far to her left,
Speaker 1: and it just feels like there's not really it's tough.
Speaker 1: It's tough time to like you can't really have a
Speaker 1: coherent position without picking aside and not because like things
Speaker 1: are so extreme on the left, but because the right
Speaker 1: has gotten so extreme. So by being in the middle,
Speaker 1: you're kind of mostly a fascist still, is kind of
Speaker 1: what it comes back to. Like, at one point, she
Speaker 1: raised the bridges in Chicago during the Black Lives Matter
Speaker 1: protest of twenty twenty to prevent people from being able
Speaker 1: to move around in the city. Yeah, I remember hearing that.
Speaker 1: That's messed up. I know, I was just joking about
Speaker 1: the penguin, But that kind of sound like something from
Speaker 1: bad It sounds like the Nolan Batman movie. Yeah, you know. Anyways,
Speaker 1: Brandon Johnson is one of the candidates who got enough
Speaker 1: votes to make it to the runoff. Brandon Johnson stumped
Speaker 1: on reopening mental health clinics, and Paul Vallis is the
Speaker 1: one who ran to the right, ran on a tough
Speaker 1: on crime platform backed by the cops. So it seems
Speaker 1: like Chicago has a pretty clear choice to make there.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but we shall see. We haven't seen
Speaker 1: the right wing scare craziness work to this point. But yeah,
Speaker 1: and technically I think they're all They were all Democrats running,
Speaker 1: like all the candidates where yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: matter of degrees. Yeah, Like I mean, La just had
Speaker 1: a similar showdown between two Democrats, one of whom was
Speaker 1: a billionaire mall developer who was a Republican as recently
Speaker 1: as like a year ago. But you just technically have
Speaker 1: to be a Democrat to even get people to pay
Speaker 1: attention to you. So anyways, let's talk about what's really
Speaker 1: on people's minds, and that is the stand up scene
Speaker 1: in Claw. If you haven't seen it, I thought what
Speaker 1: I was watching was yet another example of how movies
Speaker 1: are just hopeless at ever getting stand up comedy right,
Speaker 1: Like they're just will ever. And I don't blame movies
Speaker 1: for anything other than attempting to put stand up comedy
Speaker 1: in a movie like that, a non documentary or stand
Speaker 1: up special, Like it's just having an actor recite written
Speaker 1: words as a stand up comedian always, always, always is bad.
Speaker 1: So that's what I thought I was watching, was like, wait,
Speaker 1: they did it again with a movie claw that you
Speaker 1: just hadn't heard of, and that's what it is. Kind
Speaker 1: of for a while, I feel like it's just the
Speaker 1: actors is like, you know, just doing a bad impression
Speaker 1: of a stand up comedian. But her set is all
Speaker 1: about being chased by a raptor, and there's like some
Speaker 1: crowd shots thrown in in between, and like her friend,
Speaker 1: she's like my friend over here, he gets it, he
Speaker 1: knows and like he laughs at the top of his
Speaker 1: lungs and then audibly says mm as he takes a
Speaker 1: step of his drink. Ummm, he goes it's wild. Uh
Speaker 1: And then the laugh Factory too or something. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: could be confused with like they did a good job
Speaker 1: in terms of recreating like what footage from a stand
Speaker 1: up special would look like that took place at the
Speaker 1: laugh Factory until the very end, when a dinosaur bursts
Speaker 1: through the wall behind her, and apparently it is a
Speaker 1: dream sequence. So it's just a lot of strange choices happening.
Speaker 1: I don't excuse it for being a dream sequence. Dream
Speaker 1: sequences for me, I am a staunch anti dream sequence
Speaker 1: uh proponent in films. I really have your kids never
Speaker 1: seen the last like two minutes of the Wizard of
Speaker 1: Oz just like band, Yeah, where this all really happened?
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a Wizard of Oz truther. Uh, the
Speaker 1: whole thing happened and they just tacked that on to
Speaker 1: confuse us. But there is really a Land of Oz.
Speaker 1: So you saw this clip, and being the diligent internet researcher,
Speaker 1: you were like, I have to see this in context
Speaker 1: and went and watched the end of Claw. So why
Speaker 1: is any of this happening? Well, I don't know because
Speaker 1: I only watched the end of it. I did not
Speaker 1: if I was really diligent, I would have like set
Speaker 1: aside an hour and a half this morning and watched
Speaker 1: all of Claw. But I saw the viral clip like everybody,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to see it in context. So I
Speaker 1: found Claw It's on Toby and I watched the end
Speaker 1: of it, and yeah, it's like I guess after the
Speaker 1: whole movie is about like this, uh, this couple that
Speaker 1: are yeah, fleeing from a raptor and like a ghost
Speaker 1: town or some deserted town. And then at the end,
Speaker 1: yeah there's this it's like a year later and the
Speaker 1: woman's giving her stand up set. You know, it's the
Speaker 1: clip we see and then the dinosaur Perston the end.
Speaker 1: But then yeah, she wakes up and it was just
Speaker 1: a shream. But then she's like in bed with the
Speaker 1: guy and then just the same thing happens in their
Speaker 1: bedroom and then it ends and it's like, well, there
Speaker 1: was no reason that had to be a dream. It was.
Speaker 1: It was like better in the comedy club. It was
Speaker 1: more exciting and visually interesting, like you really didn't need it.
Speaker 1: Was like they were like, oh, you know, we promised
Speaker 1: it would be like eighty eight minutes, not eighty six minutes.
Speaker 1: I should really make this a dream. It feels like
Speaker 1: they saw the cut together footage of the stand up
Speaker 1: thing and we're like, Okay, this feels like a surreal
Speaker 1: bad acid trip, so we're going to make it a
Speaker 1: dream and then do a double scare, double fake out scare.
Speaker 1: But so yeah, it takes place in a world where
Speaker 1: raptors are real. So it is. Yeah, I'm very confused
Speaker 1: by it. Seems like it's just a shlacky B movie.
Speaker 1: I guess this is the answer to all my questions.
Speaker 1: It did make me want to see like the you know,
Speaker 1: the movies in between, like the Jurassic Park movies, where
Speaker 1: this would be stand up like you know, people would
Speaker 1: actually have bits about like the dinosaur attacks that routinely happen.
Speaker 1: That is the movie that I think the Jurassic World
Speaker 1: franchise really left on the table. Is just a movie
Speaker 1: that takes place in the livid day world where dinosaurs
Speaker 1: actually happen, and you were just like checking the like
Speaker 1: dinosaur report, like you would check the weather report to
Speaker 1: see if there were if the dinosaurs were out today,
Speaker 1: or if you could go to school, you know, right.
Speaker 1: That seems very interesting to me. They didn't do that,
Speaker 1: according to people who saw the last one that ostensibly
Speaker 1: like had the premise of like it's years later, dinosaurs
Speaker 1: are loose, but it was mainly like they found a
Speaker 1: way to like put it back on the island somehow.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they were just like, yeah, they had an
Speaker 1: interesting premise, and then like five minutes into it. They're like,
Speaker 1: two years later, we've created a new dinosaur park. It's like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing that? And what does the stand
Speaker 1: up special look like in this in this world? You
Speaker 1: exactly all right, let's take a quick break. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back, and we're back. And speaking of stand up,
Speaker 1: there was a rumor going around that Tom Brady was
Speaker 1: reportedly considering trying his hand at stand up comedy. I
Speaker 1: think this is just the world wants so badly to
Speaker 1: see this man humiliated that they invented this story like this.
Speaker 1: The news works that way sometimes sometimes, like the unconscious,
Speaker 1: just something is so urgently desired there that they create
Speaker 1: that reality in the news. Um and they people want
Speaker 1: to see Tom Brady try his hand at stand up.
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's happening, because you know that
Speaker 1: there was a report from Radar Online that like Tom
Speaker 1: Brady was considering stand up, his team, his inner circle
Speaker 1: hated the idea. And then it was immediately like TMZ
Speaker 1: came through with the not true, not true. Actually Tom
Speaker 1: is not trying going to try stand up. He just
Speaker 1: wants to spend time with his family and he might
Speaker 1: be doing a Comedy Central roast, right, which Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what if the article is like, he's got a type
Speaker 1: five about raptors, but he's not right, He's not going
Speaker 1: to perform it. Yeah, we blew it here. We should
Speaker 1: have responded to this not with derision, but with just
Speaker 1: friendly encouragement when we heard that Tom Brady was considering
Speaker 1: stand up so that we could get to watch Tom
Speaker 1: Brady try stand up comedy. Yeah, and then eventually watched
Speaker 1: Tom Brady become the joker when it doesn't work. Right,
Speaker 1: KFC is bringing back the double Down? Are are you familiar?
Speaker 1: Did the Double Down even make it to Canada? Yes?
Speaker 1: I think it did, Yeah, but I mainly heard about
Speaker 1: it through that Patton Oswalt bit. KFC. It was a
Speaker 1: cultural happening. I don't know why I asked it, like,
Speaker 1: it's you don't get the same news up there, right? Yes?
Speaker 1: So this is two pieces of fried chicken that are
Speaker 1: treated as the buns on a sandwich with like some
Speaker 1: vague is it just bacon like fast food bacon in
Speaker 1: between and a lot of mayonnaise. Um, But the idea
Speaker 1: is the chicken is the bun, the chicken is the bread,
Speaker 1: and then mayonnaise is the meat in the sandwich. Essentially. Um,
Speaker 1: it's yeah, I've always wondered, like, how do you eat it? Like,
Speaker 1: doesn't it isn't the chicken that's replacing the bread too
Speaker 1: hot on your hands? You think so, wouldn't you? Like
Speaker 1: that is kind of the structural conceit of a sandwich,
Speaker 1: is that the bread makes it so that you can
Speaker 1: eat the hot interior but bright, Yeah, you need double
Speaker 1: down gloves to they need to be off and double
Speaker 1: down gloves. I don't know. The gloves are also made
Speaker 1: of chicken. The gloves are made of the fried cristy
Speaker 1: chicken skin. Superducer Victor, who added the story to the
Speaker 1: dock is informing us it's bacon and cheese. There is
Speaker 1: also a sauce. I mean, I do remember there being
Speaker 1: like a orange red, pinkish sauce and that's also in there. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't think I tried it. This was also at
Speaker 1: an Arrow when Catsy had the bowls, which I was
Speaker 1: I was a big fan of um so I was.
Speaker 1: I was more into that. It feels like this is
Speaker 1: how nature is like balancing things out. Yeah, with vaccinations
Speaker 1: and everything, it's like, well people are getting a little
Speaker 1: too healthy. Let's bringing the double down back. Yeah, Elvis is.
Speaker 1: People were like that movie wasn't very good, and everybody,
Speaker 1: like so many people went to see it, and the
Speaker 1: lead actor got nominated. Elvis is apparently like going to
Speaker 1: be a cultural thing, and so Netflix just released a trailer.
Speaker 1: I mean, this probably was in the work long before that,
Speaker 1: but Elvis is powerful, powerful force in an American pop culture,
Speaker 1: and the people behind Archer are making an animated series
Speaker 1: in which the premise behind Elvis's drug fueled trip to
Speaker 1: Nixon's White House gets made into a reality. Yeah. That's
Speaker 1: so weird because it's also one of the creators or
Speaker 1: producers is Priscilla Pressley, right, who's in it, who plays herself.
Speaker 1: But it's like, yeah, this was just like a thing
Speaker 1: your husband thought when he was like at his worst. Yeah, So,
Speaker 1: for people who aren't aware, Elvis one time took a
Speaker 1: trip to Nixon's white House with a golden revolver into
Speaker 1: like gave a golden handgun to Nixon. You can see
Speaker 1: pictures of it. Nixon looks visibly uncomfortable, which I guess
Speaker 1: Nixon kind of tends to look visibly uncomfortable, but I
Speaker 1: have to imagine he was very nervous Elvis was presumably
Speaker 1: out of his mind on prescription drugs. But something that
Speaker 1: I didn't know before the story was that he was
Speaker 1: like all the drugs he did were prescribed to him,
Speaker 1: and he was very like staunchly anti street drugs, right,
Speaker 1: And so he went to Nixon and pitched that he
Speaker 1: would be America's undercover drugs are and like would help
Speaker 1: Nixon in like just be king Nark, be Nixon's undercover
Speaker 1: ever drug guy who takes out dangerous drug users like
Speaker 1: the Beatles. Like I think that was specifically a part
Speaker 1: of his pitch was that he will go undercover and
Speaker 1: like get the information that would allow Richard Nixon to
Speaker 1: take down dangerous countercultural forces like the Beatles. And they
Speaker 1: seem to have been like, yeah, what if that that
Speaker 1: reality actually happened and he was a secret agent? Yeah
Speaker 1: that's wild. Yeah, but yeah, he's like a super spy.
Speaker 1: He's not just like, yeah narking on Ringo or whatever. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it seems it's seems like they were just like, what
Speaker 1: if Archer was Elvis? Right? Yeah, I think one of
Speaker 1: the guys is as an Archer writer who did Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Elvis is voiced by Matthew McConaughey, so, um, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it could be good. I don't know. I watched like
Speaker 1: the first half of that Elvis movie and it was yeah,
Speaker 1: it was it was. It was a movie. I mean
Speaker 1: it felt like reading a Wikipedia article on whatever Elvis
Speaker 1: was on for ninety minutes and then I'd had to
Speaker 1: turn it off. Written by Elvis, well high. I feel
Speaker 1: like that was the other thing, because he also in
Speaker 1: the movie is like a civil rights hero instead of
Speaker 1: a person who was used as like a white figurehead
Speaker 1: for stealing rock music away from its inventors. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: there's that guy who I can't remember his name now.
Speaker 1: He co wrote, like he has a co writing credit
Speaker 1: on a lot of Elvis songs. The way Elvis would
Speaker 1: learn the songs was he would sing them and mail
Speaker 1: the tapes to Elvis. And when you go and when
Speaker 1: you listen to him, like there's a few recordings of him,
Speaker 1: like I think he was on Letterman in the eighties
Speaker 1: or something, and he sounds like Elvis. You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: even the thing Elvis did, which was his sort of
Speaker 1: signature style, the way he sang songs which just stolen
Speaker 1: from this guy who you know, I don't didn't get
Speaker 1: out for note. Yeah. Anyways, those are some of the
Speaker 1: things that are trending on this Wednesday, March. First, we
Speaker 1: are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the
Speaker 1: show Jam. Where can people find you and follow you
Speaker 1: and all that good stuff? You can find me on
Speaker 1: Twitter at jam McNab Again. Here you go, all right
Speaker 1: back tomorrow. Until then, be kind to each other, be
Speaker 1: kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about
Speaker 1: white supremacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow.
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