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