Hello everybody, and welcome to this edition of putting some Crystal Zite in My Water. And that's still water, folks. Even though I just added this sugar substitute to make it a flavored beverage, it is still water. Because that's a trend we're gonna have to talk about later on in the show. But first let's talk about the real news. And first let's introduce ourselves. My name is Miles, and I'm here with Decca. How are you Becca? Hello, I'm good.
How are you? I'm great, I'm great. Good, all right, Okay, raising the roof. Wow, you're raising. I haven't seen that in a minute. All right, let's tell the people what is trending. Monster Energy is trending, because this is fucking so stupid. Apparently, the Monster Energy drink company, they're like reportedly threatening legal action against an independent video game company because their game Dark Deception, Monsters and Mortals has the fucking word monster in it. And I'm like, what, how
do you You don't on that? You don't know? Shit. It feels like this is a weird, you know, bone to pick, because it feels like over the years a Monster Energy drink has existed, there have been many things with monsters in it. H So, yeah, Bryan's back. Monster Cables like Monster Cables have been around for a minute, the precursor to Beats by Dre headphones. Also the guy who owns that company, he like goes around on like a fucking hover around like um like barboard thing. Yeah, yeah,
segu segue scooter. I saw him at the jay Z four forty four show in Las Vegas, uh in twenty and seventeen, I think is when that was, and he was there. I was like, who is this old dude on a fucking segue going through the fucking Tea mobile center at the jay Z show? And like it turned out he's the Monster Monster Cables person anyway, so they do believe it. This like goes this is like that something that Monster has done a few times um accord.
Though according to the game company, they said Monster is telling them that they'll let them release the game as long as they quote agreed and never name any other game any variation of the word monster, and also never use green and white logos on a black background. The logo I kind of get, but like, but you can't just say green and white against a black background, then what you're gonna go after the fucking Celtics and like any other like rain and a white thing like let's again.
So this is apparently something they are doing a lot of in the past. Again, they're parsonaln by Coca Cola. Apparently they did this ship to a small Ohio restaurant for putting the word monster on a sign. Okay, a fucking restaurant. They also hit up a Georgia welder, fucking welder. Okay, you're like fusing metals together and shit for using an m they thought was similar to the one on their logo. Okay,
maybe you might have something there. But then they also got into another legal spat with some dude who had an aquarium hobby forum okay, aquarium hobby forum online called Monster fish Keepers. And they've also again, they've threatened video game makers in the past too. You might know a game called Immortals Phoenix Rising. Well, that game was called Gods and Monsters originally before Monster came through, and it was like, yeah, you know, the title would be too
easily confused with our brand. You got to come off back so confusing, are you for real? Um? So, anyway, it's like a mixture of like the weirdest greed and ego combined where you're like, you, yeah, really think you own that fucking word. Yeah. It's also like you think your brand chair isn't big enough to compete with a video game that has nothing to do with an energy during m also like, um, you're gonna go after Lady Gaga. Yeah, you're gonna go out you know the whole fandom of
little Monsters. You're gonna do that? Do you after the what happened when that album or that song Monster came out? Did y'all have someone to say then too? Because I scarify them? Yeah, but I'm a little monster. Okay, there you go. Anyway, Shout out all the people who have to fucking fight this literal monster of an energy of a company because they think they own the fucking word monster.
Another thing Nashville trend to see yesterday. Trump got a lot of the attention, especially with the news you know, of his fucking indictment and all that. But in Tennessee, more than a thousand students in Nashville staged a walkout, you know, basically to protest the lack of fucking action on gun control. And they did it exactly at ten thirteen am to Mark when a call came from the Covenant School when that shooting happened. And yeah, it was
a pretty large scale event. I mean a lot has been happening in that state, including you know, state representatives who were trying to protest the lack of action and then them basically voting to expel them. It's really fucking bad right now over there. And we've talked about the governor Bill Lee, who knew two of the victims personally, his wife was going to have they said they were going to have dinner with one of them that night. Okay, Yeah,
and he's done fuck all and still did nothing. Yeah. The only thing he's done in response is proposed one hundred and fifty five million dollars two lace an armed security guard in every Tennessee public school. Are y'all fucking kidding me? Like I as as a daughter of an
educator and my brothers also an educator. Like it just the shit makes me so infuriated because a like literally through time and time again, court case after courtcase, like cops and security guards are not legally bound to protect okay, like they are like they are for themselves, Like if they feel they can nope it out of there if they want, no, they can nope it out of there. No accountability. So why the fuck are we going to put more security in a school that it is obviously
not going to do anything. I thought we'd learned that from the Texas shooting. Hey, it goes to my buddy who owns a company of armed security guards, and it's a pretty lucrative contract for him. He also gave me two hundred fifty thousand last election cycle. Look, don't ask about it. I mean, okay, that's like we don't have enough joke but shooting examples, But so like the last, like not the last, I don't even know, there's so many.
But you know, Uvalde, that was like the big issue the Evalday shoating is that there were literally cops in the school and they didn't do anything. Like literally there was moms breaking into the school saving children before the cops, cops trying to site them from going in. Yeah, it's just it's heartbreaking. It's and excuse me if I've missed this, But has President Biden said anything about this? He did. He was like, hey man, you know it's Congress got
to do something. I've tried to do everything I can with this, that and the other. I mean, look at the end of the day, functionally, no, you know what I mean. Yeah, um, but whatever this is. This is the slow progress in this country. I mean really none at all. It feels like when it comes to something like yeah, I mean, throwing children's bodies on the fucking pyre to you know, worship the Second Amendment, it's fucking gross. Yeah. My heart goes out to those kids in Tennessee and
the families and everyone who went out to protests. You know. Also side note, the governor also hasn't said the word gun publicly since the shooting. Of course shook this person and his coward absolute melt behavior. And also I think there was news that there were people that were armed
at that school too, like you at all and in Tennessee. Yeah, but again what you know, we're the arguments for that, like and I get that they were probably having to protect like they're like students or whatever, but that that logic is not fucking sound. But whatever they need to do to keep screaming about guns. Anyway, justin long you
might remember him. He's the Apple guy. At one point, Um, you know that that was that was like, I feel like, was that his biggest check, like doing that massive Apple campus in check. Yeah, he was the Apple Dell guy for so long and then Dell when they try to make their comeback, brought him back and bought him off and he became right right right Uh Anyway, um, he's trending and Becca this is I like when I see these, was like, and I go, what the fun was going
on with Justin? Is he? Okay? But this because Justin Long way viral TikTok a while ago for posting this insane caption of his then girlfriend now fiance kpe Bosworth. I like how you said like you didn't know who Kate Bosworth was? Well, I almost said her name last name wrong, Like I had to take a beat old. I'm like, we know Kate, No, No, I know who kay, I just want to make sure I didn't say it wrong. Okay. So he wrote a captionly long caption like declaring his
love about her and all this stuff. I think it was for her birthday and people were just like, man, I want a man who loves me the way Justin long loves kpe Bosworth. Well, another insane caption has come into the mix as he has officially proposed to Kpe Bosworth, and I just I had to read a little bit of it because it is so long and honestly like, I've never seen a celeberty man really praise, you know, the woman in his life the way that Justin Long
be praising Kate Bosworth. And I've been a fan of History a long time. I've loved most of his stuff that he's been in. I think he's just a fun loving, goofy guy and I'm happy for him. But the Captain, I guess he has a podcast, and they talked about it on their most recent episode together. He said she says yes to being a guest on Life Is Short podcast and to the other slightly more life changing questions. Winky face, my favorite person is now also my favorite
guest on my favorite podcast. One day, the incredibly talented Kate Bosworth will be on this podcast and talk about her years of memorable acting performances, but on this episode, we mostly talk about the events that led up to her agreeing to spend her life with this very, very lucky podcast host. It felt like a leap to talk about something so personal so publicly, but I found that scary things become much easier when you commit to the truth dot dot dot and to the partner as loving
and safe as Catherine and Bo. We name this podcast Life Is Short because it's a dumb pun in parentheses. I love puns, but also because I liked saying it out loud and hearing this reminder to live each day as fully as possible. I feel eternally grateful that I found a partner who makes each day so full, whose mere presence is a reminder of the beauty and brevity of life, and who makes me laugh from one minute from the minute I wake up to the one I
begrudgingly fall asleep. I cherish these days we have had and the ones to come. Heart Ring listen to Life is Short wherever you listen to podcasts. Oh shit, I yeah, I'm happy for them. But I almost vomited. I almost vomited by by the end of it. I almost, I actually did. I vomited a little bit of my mouth. And that's my own cynicism coming out. And I should I should let them enjoy their life because they do.
He's got that vibe where like like his life may have been so shitty, and then like he like she really just got him to like really be invigorated again, because yo, Loki, I remember seeing this guy outside of like the UCB theater At times he didn't look too hot, I mean, and he was hitting on the homies and stuff, and I get it. It's justin long you know, you're taking your shot. This was like fucking eight years ago.
Seven years ago. Yeah, and at the time, I was like, I remember being like, oh man, what the fuck, what's going on with this guy. It's not that it was like problematic anything, but it looked a little bit like it did not have the energy of this like this person was not there from this. So I'm very very happy for you that you and Katherine Anne Bosworth have found each other and are and then you also turned
it into promo for a podcast. Goddamn. Yeah. I mean, I guess they talked about their love life on that episode, and honestly, it did get me to want to tune in. I might go listen because I'm like, I wonder what makes him love her so much, like, because to me, she is unlovable. Yeah, yeah, I wonder what it is like she laughs at his jokes or you know, like I think of like even you know, her majesty, like the things I appreciate the most, or how much she
inspired me to make myself better. I'm merely being herself and things like that, you know. And I could I could do a justin long type caption too right now. But you know, look, we love. The ladies are sick, they're posting, they're showing their boyfriends. This is the inspo. I need you to talk about me the ways in long times, about kape Osworth, because that is the love
I need to receive. Yeah, I mean, and I feel terrible if you are with you know, emotionally aloof people who you know might not be able to express the depth of their love for you, because that is very important. You know, we're people. We need to hear this stuff. We need to hear it, so shout out to love. Hopefully this doesn't, you know, turn into some weird story down the road. All right, let's take a break and we will be right back. And we're back. Um so
is water but the flavored kind and becta. Before we were talking about borgs, you know, we're talking about how these gen Z kids are, Like, you can't get too fucked up if you're drinking alcohol mixed with water. Um. You know a lot of experts have pushed back on this supposed science of that. But here we are now with a new trend we're seeing on the web, which is I guess we're calling a flavored water. It's flavored water.
I don't know. So if you've been on my slide, it's exactly which I don't even know how I got here, but I keep seeing these, you know, older I don't want to say why, but why women typically seeming from the South, that are on these fitness vibes. It's giving like skinny girl vodka, right, And so they're like, I'm on a weight lost journey. I'm on a fitness journey, and I am getting my water intake. I'm gonna drink three of these forty ounce Stanley cups of water. And
originally you're like, okay, good fitness plan, water hydration. But then it turns south real quick because they're using these like like they have these like what you would imagine a coffee cart, but like a drink making station of all these different like skinny flavors, so like zero cow
the zero of sugar like flavor. Yeah yeah. And then like these like crystal light like packages, but like from brands that are not considered healthy, Like there's like crushed soda and like starburs and like, let's just play the audio from one of these recipes where this woman sounds like she's hiding from someone. She's like, oh my god, because I'm making my fucking water. Anyway. She's about to put everybody on to what she calls pineapple passion fruit water.
It's the water of the day, real quick. It is pitch black outside steel. My husband just left her work, and my grand babies asleep, so I'm got to be super quiet ice fill her up. She's putting in a mason jar just like the pineapple upside down cake, except pineapple, she said, just like the pineapple upside down cake water. So that's one of her recipes. That's one of her that's pineapple crystal light shit um and then upside down cake.
Three pumps of wedding cake flavor. Okay, my life, Okay, go on, But what goes into this pineapple passion fruit quote unquote water. And she's holding one of those like pump like at the fucking coffee shop flavor bottle, pump of whatever the bottle, it shows a coffee cup. So it's like these are meant for coffee, they're not meant for water. Here we go, except for I'm using different
pineapple packet. Oh use the Skittles pineapple star fruit in Oh okay, Skittles, Oh good, Skittles brand powder, very healthy going pineapple packet. If you have okay, one of those will be great. Okay. And then I'm using vanilla almond. Two pumps of this. If you don't have vanilla almond, then you have vanilla that will work too. So two pumps of this. She's putting it in a water Kittles pineapple, passion fruit, and it's just blue powder. It's gonna be
pretty fake. Look at that. Okay. Now she's just made windex with ice. It looks like it's in a mason jar. This is nonsense. And then she goes on to drinks. She goes, I don't know, you call it juice. I call it water. It's water. Blah blah blah. I get it.
Some people have no ability to drink water. I guess because you need Yeah, I don't know if it's making hydrating fine, And I know over the years, like there's been so many ads of like drinking more water and like getting people to drink water and like using crystal light or whatever. I love water. I don't know about these people who who can't you know people like this. I know people like this who absolutely are like these They're like I just can't handle it, Like I don't
like the flavor. It's like there is not crazy to me. Are you a baby still? Like it feels like leftover energy from being a child and you only drink juice or something and you couldn't wrap your head around water. Yeah, Like my partner's family makes fun of me because I'm only drinking water for the most part. Like I drink water or coffee or like really that's it. Like those are my twin categories. And because I like functional drinks, I'm like coffee, energy, water, hydration, and you know my
skin hydrated. You know, I'm a dry person. You need water, humor, who can't just like drink the damn water. But well, there's another one you showed me where this woman put in she said, let's make birthday cake water. Yes, and she put in this like birthday cake zero sugar, calories, carbs, birthday cake syrup, like a pretty decent amount and then just topped it off with water and put a strawn and was like yama, yama, yemma, I simply don't understand
it is giving like sonic slushy vibes. But I would like to know from the ze gang, like have you heard of this A B? Is it water? Scientist? Who can tell us is it hydrating or not? Is it just juice? Well, yeah, there's a lot of talk of like artificial sweeteners. Yes, if you are trying to look after your amount of sugars and things like that, if you're deploying it, you know intentionally, yeah, that might help
you out. But to pound that shit all the time, there's like more and more studies like, I don't know if it's the best fucking thing for you. So i'd imagine just in general, if you're trying to be really healthy, the less processed shit you put in your body, the better bet, which is why great water is fantastic. You don't need to add again, like you're just being like, here's some blue dye and here's some fake as processed pineapple skittle flavor, and then almond syrup, like a hundred
milliliters of fucking right, and they're having it. They're like, they're like, this is my first water of the day, and you're like, but that's not water and what is right? Because I remember people saying this about carbonated carbonated water right in seltzers and things like that, and most people are like, yeah, there's not like aside from the flavoring, we can't say anything that it's not hydrating in that sense. And I can imagine, sure this is hydrating, but look,
nutritionist ZiT gang whatever water Z eight gang juice? Is that gang? Let us know? Is this is this like a turf war we're looking at right now, genuinely very curious, like I want to know the science behind it. I hope the women are happy and they're having a good time, but for me, I'm gonna be stay away. Yeah. I mean, I think there's look to each their own. But my philosophy is the healthy thing is not introducing overly processed things to your body. If that's like your main concerned.
If you're just like I just gotta get down one hundred and twenty fucking ounces of water day, How the fuck am I going to get through that? Oh? Fine, I'll just make it blue and have it, you know, sweeter than fuck it? Then fine, okay, whatever, we gotta keep on the frivolous TikTok shit, you know what I mean? Because this is just this is what we what we do. Now, we have to let some people know during the trending episode what else is happening out there in the culture
of TikTok. I don't know if people saw this video. I'd imagine if you're on Twitter, you did of this woman who was playing country roads take me Home in a fucking elevator like that was apparently stuck. Yea hacked stuck elevator. This woman's in the corner playing country roads. People are like what the fuck, and a lot of people on Twitter like this is my fucking hellscape. This is a nightmare. Then we also saw this video of
this same woman. She did it on a train with her captive audience, and also like an entire airplane where she was like our plane stuck on the tarmac because of Wins. Turns out this is all intentional and staged by this like singer songwriter person who like recently didn't an interview or she's like yeah, Like it's a lot of people like it's gotten me a lot of views, a lot of views, and you know, I'm a singer songwriter and I'm promoting my new band. Blah blah blah.
She's like, However, the problem has been that people just think I'm an asshole like and are completely ignoring like that I'm a musician or whatever. And the comments just like this is fucking bullshit. They're like miss me with that, kill me if that's me on the elevator type stuff. So, you know, you she might be an example of living by the algorithm and dying by it. Well, my question is, so a, was she's singing country road? What she's singing an original song? Okay, so be a you're not even
singing an original song? How are people gonna know that this isn't a joke If you're not going to sing an original song, like, people are gonna think it's a bit. Oh, like you're just some bus busking type situation doing like you're just pranking a bunch of people, you know, because
you're not original song, Like that's a song everybody knows. Hey, be like, if you're any normal human who wants to fucking be stuck with a new person, like if you've ever been in New York, right, you're on the train. Doesn't happen as often as it used to, but you'd be on the train and somebody's gonna be like, hey, so you know, I'm a dancer here in New York and we're coming up with this new choreography and I
really hope you like it. And then they put on their little boombox and they spin around, or someone will come around with their guitar and they'll sing, or you have the mariachi band come in and they have their hats out and they you know, so it's like everyone hates his experience. It's like universal that we all don't
want to be there. We're all like staring away, like because if you catch eye contact that needs you have to give them a verses like an evangelical and they're like, excuse me, I would like to tell you guys about my Lord and Savior. And I'm like I'm getting the fuck off. Yeah, now I'm like literally transferring trains, you know. Like it's just like, so, why would you think this would get you anything but hate on the internet. This is a universal experience. So this is this is her miscalculation.
She believes she's she's like, I have a satirical edge, Like I have a sense of humor. That's why I wanted to connect with people, because she knows captive that's why she like even told people look annoyed as shit because like the elevator one happened during a musician's conference, So these are like all people she knew, and she's like, you'll help me out, and even like all these other ones she got that. She was saying, I got the
consent of everyone there. So like you're like, all right, so these people are participating in some like weak ass viral marketing. But yeah, now she's like it just sucks because like I have like a fun spirit and it's being completely misinterpreted by internet rolls. And like she ended this like interview being like because they're like, okay, so
what's your next move, She's like, I don't know. She's like, quote, I'd love to somehow make it something that people cannot be hateful of, like her next like TikTok move, and she's like, quote, I'm not quite sure how to do that yet. Oh well, look you got us talking, but I will not be checking out the music unfortunately. And finally, Happy Birthday to one of my idols. Someone I thought I was. Mister Farrell Williams is turning fifty years old today, Like, no,
he's not. There's no way. I love this. We're looking younger and younger as a species, you know what I mean? She truly has not aged fifty is the new twenty nine. I'm like literally looking up another photo Farrell. I'm like Farrell Williams today, Like I want to see a photo of him. Let me tell you right now, let me tell you somebody who is not drinking crystal light mixed with vanilla almonds pumps in their fucking water. This guy, okay,
he's probably. I mean, we already know he already got a skincare brand and all this ship because people don't know the secret, which I feel is a little bit misleading, because ain't no way you're gonna look like Farrell. I don't care what the fuck's nothing you could for cosmetic surgery or something. Well, I'm like, did he get certain? You know? I'm just like, what did he do? Because he's so like, he looks so young, but he doesn't look like he's any work done. No, I don't know.
He may have. Now this is just this is just the Christian coming out of me. Now, I believe that he may have conspired with the devil to look like that, and that's just him and j Loo, you know, like that ass yeah is crazy. Yeah exactly, I conspired with the devil and look I look great. I look great. Twenty nine Dorian Gray. Shit, you know, it's like, what did he do to never age? He's got yeah, he's got a portrait of Calise in his attic. Yeah, literal,
he's wrong doing rotting? Oh Pharrell? Wow, anyway, fifty years old? What's your secret? Man? Is it water? Or is it just being massively wealthy and probably helping very little existential stress? Maybe whatever it is, let us know, because it's like Jennifer Anniston too, you know what I mean. But Jennifer Anniston,
to me, she looks like an older white woman. She looks fret she's now yeah yeah, but she's aging, she but gratefully yeah yeah yeah, but she she had that moment where You're like, what huh, Yeah, she storm white woman. I'm like, wow, Jennifer Arison looks great. Who is the who is the all time like time traveler face of people?
We were saying we're like they are. There's no way this person is that old, I think, I mean, is there anyone else besides for a Paul Right is a great one, Super producer Brian put in, Paul Red's a great one. Yeah, yeah, shot Day, Yeah she's sixty four. I saw a picture of her recently and I was like, hold the door, my groshod sixty four out here anyway? Yeah, Grace Jones, Yeah, Grace Jones. Actually another one time traveler,
Brian Brian with the pulling him pulling up the fucking receipts. Yeah, don't. Oh you actually you should. If you know the sportscaster Joe Buck who's on Fox all the time, he is classmates with Paul Rudd, and you can find a picture of the two of them in college where Joe Buck looks like younger and Paul Redd looks the same and it's fucking free anyway. Well, that's going to do it for us in this edition of Trending episode that's just the generic name. Thanks so much for joining us. Thank
you so much, Becca for joining me. Until next time, take care of yourselves, take care of each other, be kind to yourself too, and to each other, and you don't get the vaccine, and don't do nothing about white supremacy or any kind of other hate nonsense. All right, we'll see you tomorrow with a whole new episode and it's a fucking banger, so get your mash, all right, we'll talk to you soon. Bye bye,