Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of God trend Their Soul at His courtesy of Johnny Davis dropping
a bunch of rest based trending show titles. Although, to be honest, I have a song in my soul, a song in my heart, and it is Happy Birthday Pauli from Rocky four, because we were talking about Rocky four before we started, because superducer Brian needed to calm me down, so he started talking about pet topics of mine and he referred to Rocky four as the one with the robot, which is true technically, but it also suggests that Rocky
fights a robot. Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined by one of the writers on this show, mister J. M mcna hey. Thanks for having me. Hey, that just got me thinking, when are the Creed movies going to bring the robot back? That's the question. So they're on Creed three. If it follows the path you know, Creed for will be like ending a war and it will involve a robot. I guess like Rocky is the Polly equivalent in the Creed universe, right, He's like kind of the I don't know.
He fulfills a lot of I'm just trying to think of who would be turning the robot into a fuck bot, you know, because that is an important part of the story. That what when you go back, everyone's like that movie is so ridiculous, Like Rocky ends the Cold War by beating Ivan Drago and like convinces everybody that America rules because he's wearing America shorts. And what they forget is that they give Polly a robot for his birthday and the next scene he has brainwashed it into being a
sex robot. That it is heavily implied he is fucking. I think it's more of just like a companion, a romantic companion. Okay, do you know, I don't know. I mean, there's no fixtures on it, but it's it's very uh oh, Polly, you're you're my king, Daddy, give it to me. Um. I don't know if though that's a direct quote. Anyways. Uh, these are the things that are trending on this Thursday. Um,
the Oscars will have a crisis team. Jm Um. This is just impressive for the blandness and vagueness of the language that is used by the person who's announcing us the Academy CEO Bill Kramers made up. Yeah, also sounds made up, like they seem to be just trying to create a story that will evaporate, as it is like going through my mind as I'm trying to read it
to you, it just like stops existing. CEO Bill Kramer is now claiming the Oscars will have a cry this team at the show, which is quote something we've never had before. According to Kramer, they've run many scenarios. What the fuck does that mean? We've run many scenarios. So it is our hope that we will be prepared for anything that we may not anticipate right now, but that
we're planning for just in case it does happen. This sounds like a book report on a like when I would have a book report in school and I didn't read the book and someone asked me about it, and therefore and so forth. So it's like they they're worried that there will be another slap and so they had to create something to make it seem like they were doing something to prepare for it. But like, what could
this possibly mean? Like at the Crisis Team, Like I reading this interview like it wasn't even apparent to me if he meant like a security detail or like a team of publicists, Like sure, you know, I completely unclear. Yeah, And then like, what are they running any scenarios referring to Yeah? Is it? Like, are you talking about like a bomb threat? Are you talking about if a guy slaps another guy? Like it's so weird. There was never the possibility of a crisis before last year, Like, I
don't understand any of this, do you? You pointed out when you were writing this up, like do they run every different combination of movie star and presenter just slap one another like that? Because that seems like that does sound fun. It does sound fun, and it's also you respond to each different combination in completely different ways, right, Yeah. Yeah. If Natalie Portman runs up on stage and slaps Benicio del Toro, like that's fine. I think like nobody's nobody's
mad about that. Yeah. What if Julie Andrews slaps the rock like maybe you do nothing? I don't know, Hell yeah, hell yeah, sister, I feel like that's what he'd say. Yeah,
so weird. It does seem to be like they're just trying to maybe create this atmosphere of like anything can happen, Like they're trying to turn it into the their advantage, the fact that the OSCARS has this kind of renewed attention because no one cared about the Oscars at all really until yeah, you know, for years until what happened last year. And I feel like, yeah, they're maybe going to try to spin it because they also had like that promo with Jimmy Kimmel where they're like, he's an
unslappable host. It's like, Okay, I'm already sick of these jokes and we're still a month away from the show. All right, they're just continuing with this language because it's truly like it seems like a thing, like a series of words that was generated by an algorithm to put you to sleep. Because all right here, so he continues on, because of last year, we've opened our minds to the
many things that can happen at the OSCARS. But these crisis plans, the crisis communication teams and structures we have in place allow us to say, this is the group that we have to gather very quickly. What does that mean? This is how we all come together, This is the spokesperson, this will be the statement and obviously depending on the specifics of the crisis. And let's hope something doesn't happen and we never have to use these, but we already
have frameworks in place that we can modify. Oh word, all I have to be is like, yeah, we hired like a mall security guard in case someone slapped again, And that's I feel like they probably hired like some former massad agents, Like I like that just the way that Hollywood operates, Like there are probably there's probably a sniper team in the building that is ready to overreact
to any situation. Or they could just be like, oh, you know, going forward, if someone attacks someone else, we're going to ask them to leave, you know, Like they don't have to be like, well, we have a crisis team, and the crisis team in charge is going to select the emergency committee who will be in charge of nominating like you right, Just I'm just hoping that that I am insulated by multiple layers of bureaucracy from any important decisions that are made. What he is saying over and
over again, um, let's see what else is trending. I mean mainly that with with the hotness of the takes there um so a v Club put out their best Netflix shows of all time ranked, and it's uh, they like sad cartoons. It would appear um bo Jack Horseman is the number one of all time according to them, um, which feels like a very like that's critics critics love that shit. I don't. I didn't dislike it. I thought
it was very good, but yeah, I don't know. I would definitely put I think you should leave over that. Put a number of shows over that. I don't know what I like bow Jack, Yeah, I wasn't like. I know some people absolutely love it, but I think I mean it has like that kind of emotional depth that kind of surprises you that sure, that's why people love it so much. I mean Stranger Things is number two, yeah, which was also for the first season, But it seems
you didn't like it. I only won't only watch the first season. Miles stuck with it. Miles has that portion of pop culture covered for us. Yeah, no, I I like it, but you know, I think there were peaks and valleys. I think the last season was strong. But yeah, I mean in terms of popularity, it would be number one. I guess that's their main thing. I was happy to see Russian Doll is up there because I'm a big
fan of that show, never seen it. These are the ones that like stand out to me as like, oh, that's higher than I expected, um higher or lower Russian doll higher than I expected. Number four. Yeah, American Vandal at number eight. Did you ever watch that because I'm talking about that on the show a long time? Yeah. I liked the first season and I couldn't really get through the second season. But to put American Bandle above
I think you should leave is I think malpractice. But that's what The Unbreakable Kimy Schmidt at number twenty one feels low. Black Mirror at twenty feels like I definitely agree that show like fell off. But when that first hit, it was like, wow, this is you know, it was really prestige, the most prestige of prestige TV shows. Yeah, but also and it was yeah, House of Cards is higher than Black Mirror. It's at nineteen and that show.
I never really liked that show. But also it just ended and like they kept going despite Kevin Spacey being fired and it just right completely spiraled out of control. Yeah, I didn't really. I don't think of too many people thinking of that as like a great work of television beginning to end. But no, it was. It was bad to begin with in my opinion. But yeah, and Kimmy Schmidt, Yeah, that's way too high for that show in my opinion. Yeah, do you put it lower in the numbers or lower
in in your esteem? H lower in my steam. I'm not a huge fan of that show of Kimmy Schmidt. Kimmy Schmidt. Yeah, and and oh yeah. The thing that struck me when I first looked at it is the last ranked in these fifty was Cobra Kai, which people love. Yeah, I think it's a good show. Definitely, like started very strong. I think I think that's true of a lot of these. I would say a lot of these start very strong, and they're not giving any extra points for just staying
strong the whole time. It feels like it feels like they're maybe just ranking it by the heights that it reached. Um, because I think you're right, that makes sense. But Bridger Tenant being pretty low. When that first season hit, that was the real cultural event. I know, people loved it. I thought it was fine, and now it like is the in retrospect is everyone just like, yeah, that wasn't shit. Yeah, it seems like it a little bit, because it is
at number what do we got here? Thirty eight and The Babysitters Club is at thirty four, So yeah, the Witcher is ahead of Bridge or ten. Yeah, and Sweet Tooth, which is a surprising one because I never hear anyone talk about that. That was a show that's based on a comic by a Toronto guy. Actually, and and I was interested in it because I read the comic, But I've never heard anyone talk about that in real life. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Multiple hauntings of various locations sprinkled throughout the list. But yeah, all right, let's take a quick break. We'll be back to talk about other shit that is trending. And we're back, and maybe nobody does out Pizza the Hut. The takeout is saying that Pizza Hut is set to overtake Dominoes. Yeah, that doesn't. I don't think I know anybody who is eating Pizza Hut in the last thirty five years. I didn't. I didn't believe that they existed people who still eat
Pizza Hut. I'm pretty sure the last time I eat Pizza Hut, I was given a collectible toy for the movie Casper's like, that's what. So there must just be a whole different, like generational thing happening for Pizza Hut. I guess, I guess I should say. I haven't like ordered pizza from Pizza Hut or had like a piece of pizza. I have had personal pan pizzas in various airports or truck stops on the Jersey Turnpike, but nothing
in the traditional pizza delivery context. I think it could be like the nostalgia thing too, right, that's what they were doubling down on nostalgia. They were introduced in like the Big New Yorker. Yeah, exactly, and like the logo is more like you used to be. They need to. Okay, so, Pizza Hut, I'm gonna stop making fun of you if you will start opening old like pizza hut shaped pizza huts, like pizza palas, and like bring back the cups, bring back the pizza buffets, and like do that for us.
I will forgive you. I'll even maybe order your pizza once or twice, but I can't. I don't know if this just doesn't doesn't track with me. A forty two year old man the impression of the world. I'm the target demo, right. I think this war between Dominoes and Pizza Hut has been brewing ever since, uh the home
video release of Ninja Turtles. Because speaking of being old men, like, I don't know if you remember this, but when the Ninja Turtles video came out, Dominoes paid for product placement in the movie, but somehow Pizza Hut paid to have like an ad put before the movie starts, like a commercial for Pizza Hut. So there's this conflicting messaging troubling. Yeah, so I yeah, I feel like I've been caught between these two pizza chains ever since that that happened. Who
who did you side with? Because that that's like you're not my real dad, Pizza Hut like type thing. Yeah, I stuck with Dominoes. I do like that. It's not my favorite pizza, but also my kids had Dominoes and and it's their favorite now, so they always want Dominoes. Yeah, that's my kid's favorite pizza too, and like of all the pizzas, like, there's good pizza in Los Angeles, I swear, And yeah, they don't believe me. They're like, no, I
would much rather have Dominoes. And this is, by the way, the thing that got me started on a on a run where because superducer Brian was like, nobody likes Dominoes. Dominoes is bad pizza, and I like a spark started like firing off behind one of my eyes, and I just started glitching out. And then he had to be like Rocky four Jaws gas study. But uh yeah, I just I don't know. I think Dominoes is a superior product. But I again, I have only the foggiest of recollections
of what Pizza Hut pizza taste like. I think it. I think it's the nostalgia. I think it's the image of Pizza Hut that like people who are our our age have from like commercials. Like when I think of Pizza Hut, I think of like a happy family that wasn't my unhappy family sitting in like a nice restaurant having a pizza that looked perfect. Yeah, the family in the booth over the exact feel like man and they look happy. M Yeah. The last time that I was
at a Pizza Hut, kale was merely a garnish. That was what kale was primarily used for was Pizza Hut, Pizza Buffet garnishes, and it also like it felt like Pizza Hut was always on the vanguard of some new pizza technology, Like they're putting cheese in the crust, Like what are what are these wizards contacting over at Pizza Hut HQ cheese in the cheese It's a fucking crazy
man just forms a black hole and cheese. Yeah. So, anyways, I think the real secret is that Dominoes and Papa John's both raised their prices because I don't know, kids don't like to work anymore, or everybody raised their prices
and they did not get away with it. So that's like one of the good piece of news is all the other things are you know, oil companies being like, yeah, so we raised our prices by sick steep percent and h wouldn't you know it, we broke our records for profits and um, this is the one instance where the there isn't a monopoly, like Dominoes has not acquired Pizza Hut or vice versa, and therefore we still have competition
between the pizza chains. And so it really doesn't just Dominoes raise their prices and Pizza didn't and now people want pizza. God wouldn't be awful if like Disney bought the concept of pizza and it was just all owned. Yeah, it's gonna corpor uneventially. Yeah, they're doubling down after so they're like, you know what people want clearly in the in the year twenty twenty three more Lord of the Rings.
Um after after they spent like a lot of money on that Prime show, like billion dollars I think was the rumor um and it doesn't exist as far as I know that show, Like I don't, I don't know anybody who watched it and is like what I'm excited about is the Lord of the Rings show on Amazon. But anyways, they just announced that they're doing more movies for Lord of the Rings, like unrelated to the Amazon Prime show. Like Warner Brothers is like, we're we're bringing
it back baby. Well yeah, because I think the Amazon deal, which was so ludicrous that price they paid was just for the TV rights, because I think the film rights there was some complicated legal thing where no one was even totally sure who owned the rights and they were up for sale at one point, so that was like, yeah, totally different from like the TV thing, which is nuts. Yeah, I don't know. I think that that show which I did,
I watched like half of it. Yeah, that's about the record as far as i'm as far as I understand, the record for the most of that show anyone watched was half of it. Yeah, And it wasn't even bad. It was just like, I don't know, it was hard to watch. It was hard to get through. Yeah, it was just kind of a slog like I don't understand why they didn't just get the idea. The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit and all that is a quest.
It's like a guy has to go put a thing somewhere or get a thing, and you know, goes in a journey, and this was just it was more like Game of Thrones or something, and it's plotting, whereas a bunch of you know, different spread throughout intrigue. Between that and the Hobbit movie, it's like it does just seem like it was just kind of one series of books that people liked, and you know, attempts to turn that into more TV and movie content hasn't really worked so far.
So it is kind of surprising to hear Warner Brothers. Yeah, it felt on this one stretched out guys, thank you and hate to see Hollywood billionaires make a mistake and not have all their money. But you know that being said, it could be great. They could bring in the robot from Rocky four. Thank you, and that is what we were talking about. Please Happy birthday, ganned Off. I don't know. I'm not a big Lord of the Rings person. All right, those are some of the things that are trending on
this February twenty third. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, Be kind to yourself. Damn where can people find you? Oh at j m McNab again on Twitter? Okay, cool. Also get the vaccine if you haven't done that already. Also, don't do nothing about what supremacy. And we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye.