Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of never
Speaker 1: Going to Friend you up, Never going to Dot you
Speaker 1: down home. That's all I got this courtesy brducer Brian
Speaker 1: uh and Rick Astley, my vocal coach. I am Jack
Speaker 1: and I'm sure to be joined by our writer and researcher,
Speaker 1: mister J. M mc nah good. Good better now that
Speaker 1: I heard the Rick Astley. Yeah, pah man. You remember
Speaker 1: when someone would just rick roll you and you would
Speaker 1: just want to kill yourself? Uh man, just the shame,
Speaker 1: the shame. I'm still recovering from the shame of being
Speaker 1: rick rolled. Fucking whiplash man. Anyways, let's tell the people
Speaker 1: some things that are trending, shall we? Shall we do that?
Speaker 1: Let's do it. So there's a I don't know where
Speaker 1: was this article, Hollywood Reporter. Maybe somebody's writing that millennials
Speaker 1: are rewatching girls. I think it's the New York Times,
Speaker 1: the New York Times. There is that real yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's funny. The New York Page. That's so that's so
Speaker 1: perfect because the New York Times is like they've just
Speaker 1: Lena Dunham is their reason for getting out of bed
Speaker 1: in the morning and has been since they went to
Speaker 1: a cocktail party at her friend's house or at her
Speaker 1: parents house in their early nineties, and she like told
Speaker 1: them funny jokes as a three year old, and um god,
Speaker 1: there do you remember those articles like when Girls first
Speaker 1: came out, and it was like all these articles were
Speaker 1: like I used to go to cocktail parties at her parents'
Speaker 1: house and she was such a delight she would sit
Speaker 1: there and entertain us. So of course, like the second
Speaker 1: that there is an upward trend in metrics of like
Speaker 1: people watching Girls on HBO, they're like, we've got we've
Speaker 1: got a front pager for you, maybe, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I do always like this is definitely a phenomenon that
Speaker 1: we see where a show from the past that we
Speaker 1: think we're like done with becomes very popular with people
Speaker 1: who didn't watch it the first time around. And Girls is,
Speaker 1: according to a spokesperson for HBO, viewership doubled between November
Speaker 1: and January compared with the previous three months. And there's
Speaker 1: just been a lot of TikTok chatter on Girls. And
Speaker 1: there is the good Soup meme, which is Adam Driver
Speaker 1: eating soup and then saying in a very Adam Driver
Speaker 1: serious way, good soup. I think is how he says
Speaker 1: it good soup and then gives the aok hand gesture
Speaker 1: to his bowl of soup, which there's a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, it was we met Adam Driver. I'm a
Speaker 1: fan of his weird intensity and just very singular personality
Speaker 1: on screen charisma. So I watched Girls Didn't always love it.
Speaker 1: Definitely felt like a lot of the criticism was earned
Speaker 1: with regards to it being a show made by people
Speaker 1: whose parents paid their rent, who hadn't fully grappled with
Speaker 1: the fact that they existed in a weird world where
Speaker 1: their parents paid their rent that was different from the
Speaker 1: rest of the world. But it was it was still
Speaker 1: like worth watching. I would say, oh yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I do think, like to reading through this article, it's
Speaker 1: not just people discovering it for the first time. It's
Speaker 1: probably people that watched it and are kind of going
Speaker 1: back and you know, sort of reinterrogating share their feelings
Speaker 1: around it. Sure, which makes it and I feel like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that happens every so often. Like I feel like Friends
Speaker 1: came out on Netflix, people kind of did a similar
Speaker 1: thing where they all went back and we're like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: this doesn't hold up as well as you know it
Speaker 1: did when I was fifteen or whatever. Sure, it makes
Speaker 1: sense to do that. And I wonder if because because
Speaker 1: it spiked last fall, Like I wonder if it was
Speaker 1: just like when everything started disappearing off of HBO Max,
Speaker 1: people were like, well, this is our last chance to
Speaker 1: watch Girls before, right, some executive just takes it away forever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just put it in his private basement collection, right like Ursula.
Speaker 1: He just takes all the HBO shows the rest of
Speaker 1: us used to be able to watch and keeps them
Speaker 1: in his little dungeon. Yeah. Anyways, so if you hear
Speaker 1: if you're at the diner and over hear someone saying
Speaker 1: good soup at their bowl of soup, now you know
Speaker 1: why because Girls is on the on the comeback trail.
Speaker 1: Choopa is a new movie coming from Netflix that was
Speaker 1: clearly I was et ever on Netflix. I don't remember
Speaker 1: it being there, but this movie feels like it was
Speaker 1: algorithmically generated by a machine that you know was fed
Speaker 1: et and something else. Um, but like the man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were like, okay, the two biggest hits of our childhood. Um,
Speaker 1: it's there are shots that are like, not only is
Speaker 1: the plot, but there are shots that are very reminiscent
Speaker 1: of BET, Like the whole thing is heavily influenced by ET.
Speaker 1: But the idea is a child meets a chupacabra and
Speaker 1: instead of being horrifying creature of myth that sucks all
Speaker 1: the blood out of the bodies of goats, which the
Speaker 1: name chupacabra is goat sucker, like, instead of going in
Speaker 1: that direction, they're like, what if adorable? You know? Which, sure, um,
Speaker 1: there is unfortunately a controversy over the data though. Yeah
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's because it's just called choopa, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: just choopa. Well they say it, I mean they say
Speaker 1: it in the in the trailer, like they decide to
Speaker 1: call the choopa cabra, they adopt chupa, right, and one
Speaker 1: of the other kids is like, you know that means sucker, right, right,
Speaker 1: but I guess it also you know, people who speak
Speaker 1: Spanish are like, well, it also means suck, as in
Speaker 1: you know, he don't make me say it, right, sucker
Speaker 1: like the Little Candy that. Yeah exactly, but I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's extra bad because it's a family movie, Like you
Speaker 1: don't want to have any any sexual innuendo in the
Speaker 1: title of a family movie, one would assume, yeah, where
Speaker 1: you do you know who? Maybe Netflix's algorithm told them that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what they were. Like. The two things people want
Speaker 1: that we can see in the algorithm is Christian slave
Speaker 1: later and titles that mean blowjob. Right yeah up halfway
Speaker 1: through he seems to be shown up a lot of
Speaker 1: different places. It still looks like Christians later. So and
Speaker 1: that was always the main thing I felt like he
Speaker 1: had going for him. Looks like Christians later. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the creature and this the Choo p Acabra is like
Speaker 1: this adorable, fluffy winged uh teddy bear. Yeah basically, but
Speaker 1: like the Choo p Acabra myth like I remember reading that,
Speaker 1: Uh it was it was inspired by I guess, like
Speaker 1: coyotes and also the movie, uh what was the movie species? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and people discovering mutilated livestock like that had been
Speaker 1: disanguinated like for reasons that nobody has fully been able
Speaker 1: to explain. But the like image you have of it
Speaker 1: is is horrifying. Yes, something that can like suck just anything,
Speaker 1: having all the blood sucked from its body rapidly, that's
Speaker 1: scary to me. And call me a weirdo, but that
Speaker 1: is something that scares me a little bit. That's that
Speaker 1: was the nice thing about et. He didn't suck anyone's
Speaker 1: blood at any point. He downed a few cans of beer,
Speaker 1: you know, in the middle of the day, but he
Speaker 1: wasn't we all drinking a Yeah, we knew he was.
Speaker 1: He was telling Elliott, this is your ass if you
Speaker 1: don't do exactly what I say. For some reason, this
Speaker 1: story made me think of the article we did back
Speaker 1: at Cracked, which was Insults from around the World. Ian
Speaker 1: Cheeseman wrote that one, and one of the very first
Speaker 1: one that we put at the top of the list
Speaker 1: was chupe montequilla damikolo, which has sucked butter from my ass.
Speaker 1: And I always thought, I've always been impressed by the
Speaker 1: Spanish languages willingness to go there, because I've I've had
Speaker 1: the thought of telling somebody to suck butter from my
Speaker 1: ass before. But it was it was a scene in Girls,
Speaker 1: I think, right, Yeah, that's right, that's the butter scene. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That was another thing that Girls like kind of put
Speaker 1: on the map for mainstream culture was ass eating Adam
Speaker 1: Driver and ass eating and both showed up in Star
Speaker 1: Wars soon after. Yeah, let's take a quick break. We'll
Speaker 1: come back and we'll talk about peeps. And we're back,
Speaker 1: and peeps are going to be everywhere. I feel like that.
Speaker 1: I started to notice this last year when there were
Speaker 1: peeps flavored oreos. So you were saying that Canada doesn't
Speaker 1: really have peeps as much as the US. I thought
Speaker 1: we didn't, and then I looked it up and you
Speaker 1: can get peeps, but I don't think there's the beam everywhere. Yeah, no, No,
Speaker 1: it definitely feels like one of those foods that is
Speaker 1: probably banned by nations with functioning health, like you know
Speaker 1: regulators who look at what the content of food is
Speaker 1: and is like this is marketed towards children and is
Speaker 1: mostly radioactive dye and sugar in various forms. Um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: there was like a Peep's flavored oreo that hit the
Speaker 1: market last year, a couple of years back, twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: Got I'm old. But that always confused me because peeps
Speaker 1: don't have a flavor that is in any noticeable way
Speaker 1: different than like normal oreo filling, which is just sugar.
Speaker 1: They are. Their flavor is if you take a teens
Speaker 1: teaspoon of sugar, like raw sugar, put it in your mouth.
Speaker 1: That's that's Peep's flavor. But I do love Peeps as
Speaker 1: an icon like I like the Peeps crocs, um, I
Speaker 1: like Pee, Like there's like Peep's artwork and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I think it's a cool iconic design, but anything where
Speaker 1: it's Pee flavored feels misguided to me. Although they so
Speaker 1: they do have flavored Peeps, which is like sour watermelon
Speaker 1: flavored Peeps, and that sounds great to me. I never
Speaker 1: tried it, but like that's what Peeps should have been
Speaker 1: doing that all along, because they don't have anything other
Speaker 1: than sugar flavoring at this point, but like to then
Speaker 1: also have Peeps flavored other things, it's very strange. Then
Speaker 1: they have the Peeps Pepsi right like you can get
Speaker 1: peep well, so they have doctor Pepper flavored Peeps, good idea,
Speaker 1: and then Peeps flavored Pepsi, which doesn't make any fucking
Speaker 1: sense to me. Um, Peeps Mike and Ike flavored pop.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the takeout casually using pop
Speaker 1: instead of soda, but I think no, that must be
Speaker 1: like a popsicle of some sort. But yeah, so like
Speaker 1: that's gonna be My rule for the people all the
Speaker 1: IVY League graduate to who or in the boardrooms making
Speaker 1: these decisions. Peep flavored anything doesn't make sense. Adding flavor
Speaker 1: to Peeps does make sense. And then you can do
Speaker 1: anything with the shape of Peeps. Because the shape of
Speaker 1: Peeps is great and iconic and fun. It should not
Speaker 1: be fed to us. But I guess we're okay with that.
Speaker 1: Nothing that bright yellow should ever be edible. I don't think.
Speaker 1: But right, we've gotten over that and it's iconic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you can take it intravenously, I assume. Yes, Peep's
Speaker 1: Ivy Drip new this year. Yeah, I'm just looking through
Speaker 1: this list. It's like, the things that are new in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three are the mic and Ike Pop, the
Speaker 1: Doctor pepper flavored Peeps, Peeps kettle corn flavored marshmallow Chicks. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: but we're flavoring the marshmallow chicks. Great, these are all new,
Speaker 1: all these flavors, So the three that I just mentioned
Speaker 1: are new. And then they're bringing back the sour watermelon
Speaker 1: but not the blue rasberry. So it's a bummer. It's
Speaker 1: that sad day. And then there are sorry I'd missed
Speaker 1: this part of the article the other edible licensed Peep
Speaker 1: offerings this year, which demonstrate the breadth and depth of
Speaker 1: this candy's influence in twenty twenty three. So yes, we
Speaker 1: have Peep's flavored PEPSI bad idea, Peep's Cake, sure, I mean,
Speaker 1: if it's just like a marshmallow cake, fine, Peeps cereal
Speaker 1: bad idea, Peep's Way Protein that is a Peep's collab
Speaker 1: with Vitamin Chop. For only thirty five dollars, you can
Speaker 1: take a protein supplement that tastes like peeps um. And
Speaker 1: then for health nuts right, for all that health nuts
Speaker 1: out there. And then Peep's Bunny slides Katy Perry Collection's
Speaker 1: funny slides like their shoes, I think, which I'm fine,
Speaker 1: okay to Katy Perry collabo with Just Born. I'm here
Speaker 1: for any Peep's design things. I think they have a
Speaker 1: cool design right all right. Christina Ricci is trending because
Speaker 1: she was on the View and spoke about working with
Speaker 1: her younger co stars on Yellow Jackets and talked about
Speaker 1: how they're more empowered to set boundaries for themselves in
Speaker 1: a way that her generation was never allowed to and
Speaker 1: specifically recounting recounted that she was once threatened with a
Speaker 1: lawsuit for asking to do a sex scene in a
Speaker 1: certain way, and so we think we know what this
Speaker 1: is all about. But first of all, it's just a
Speaker 1: good reminder that history is a nightmare. We're all waking
Speaker 1: up from very recent history in some cases. But the
Speaker 1: suspicion would be that this is her role in Buffalo
Speaker 1: sixty six, the Vincent Gallo movie. Um, it's just a guess,
Speaker 1: that's my my suspicion I'm saying that. Yeah, my suspicion,
Speaker 1: tier is it's Vincent Gallo now. But you're not saying
Speaker 1: that because you know, apparently he likes to go around
Speaker 1: saying he's gonna sue people, oh does he? Oh well,
Speaker 1: allegedly he's especially who filmed himself getting an actual blow
Speaker 1: job on camera and Brown Bunny proudly even bragged about
Speaker 1: it and made that like kind of the selling point
Speaker 1: of the movie. And then and then got into a
Speaker 1: huge fight with Roger Ebert, Yeah whatever, that this movie
Speaker 1: is bad, and he was like he's like, I hope
Speaker 1: your cancer gets worse, yeah, or something, which is cool.
Speaker 1: And then he's like gone on to be just like
Speaker 1: a real right wing piece of shit. But anyways, she
Speaker 1: didn't like really go into details. But it's just I
Speaker 1: don't know every detail about what was like to be
Speaker 1: an actress in movies in the very recent like up
Speaker 1: until now and even into the future. But like it
Speaker 1: used to be so just wild, over the top, no protections,
Speaker 1: no power on behalf of like these very famous women.
Speaker 1: Christina Ricci was seventeen when she made Buffalo sixty six
Speaker 1: and Vincent Gallo called her a raving lunatic and barred
Speaker 1: her from bringing her mom to the shoot again when
Speaker 1: she called him a raving lunatic, Oh okay, sorry, but
Speaker 1: he yeah, he would, he wouldn't let her mom come
Speaker 1: to the production and she was seventeen. Yeah sorry. He
Speaker 1: called her an ungrateful sea word. Yeah, so my bad,
Speaker 1: and also said she was basically a puppet. I told
Speaker 1: her what to do and she did it, So my bad,
Speaker 1: it's bad. Yeah. Yeah. Did you watch Yellow Jackets? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yellow Jackson is great. She's great, amazing and yellow Like truly,
Speaker 1: I was like, why has she not been in everything
Speaker 1: ever since? Like the last time that she was in everything,
Speaker 1: you know, for a long time, And between that and Wednesday,
Speaker 1: I think people are realizing yeah, yes, how great she is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so great to have Christina Ricchi back. Horrible to hear
Speaker 1: about how she was treated for a long time. And
Speaker 1: finally Meg White is trending because like this is a
Speaker 1: controversy that happens a lot where people are like Meg
Speaker 1: Wahite is a bad drummer from the White Stripes. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a controversy that happens a lot twenty years ago,
Speaker 1: but it just like keeps cycling back. I remember like
Speaker 1: five years ago that this was a controversy again where
Speaker 1: people were like Meg White was actually a bad drummer,
Speaker 1: and it's just like really it was like the point
Speaker 1: of the music was its simplicity, and Jack White's music
Speaker 1: has never been as good as it was when he
Speaker 1: was collaborating with Meg White. But anyways, I don't know
Speaker 1: people are pointing that out. Other people are standing up
Speaker 1: for make White. This is like inside drummer talk or something,
Speaker 1: you know, like people who are real into drum solos, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the thing. If we'll care about this, if you're
Speaker 1: not a like a music critic, I don't even think
Speaker 1: you know, anyone would notice or care. Yeah that there
Speaker 1: weren't enough fills or right whatever. Yeah, yeah, that was
Speaker 1: always the thing. They were like Ringo, Like there were
Speaker 1: sometimes the like Paul McCartney needed to fill in for
Speaker 1: Ringo Star on the drums because like he wasn't a
Speaker 1: good drummer. And it's like, well, guys, maybe our definition
Speaker 1: of what a good drummer is does not match up
Speaker 1: to what makes music that people enjoy, because it seems
Speaker 1: like they had a good thing going there for a
Speaker 1: little while. Yeah, it's also about like, yeah, the chemistry
Speaker 1: and like, yeah, how you perform and also yeah, no,
Speaker 1: she she was a fine drummer. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: get this. I do think like it's it also seems
Speaker 1: like it's kind of blown out of proportion, Like it
Speaker 1: seems like it was one guy tweeted something shitty and
Speaker 1: it's just like now Jack White like wrote like a
Speaker 1: poem to defend her and stuff, and it's like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I kind of need to drop out of
Speaker 1: the story now that Jack White poems are surfacing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's always a great and it's one of the five
Speaker 1: things that tell us it's time to drop out of
Speaker 1: a story on the day. Yeah, this is Jack White
Speaker 1: poems up here. All right, well, those are some of
Speaker 1: the things that are trending on this Thursday, March sixteenth.
Speaker 1: We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of
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Speaker 1: until tomorrow, be kind to each other, be kind to yourself,
Speaker 1: get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and
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