Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Somebody Rock and Knock trend the Boots courtesy of fire Conversation. Right before this episode started.
Whatever happened to h Town?
Oh man? Well, yeah, that's great.
Do you see the clip of Otown recently performing at no not not that they're the same band, but wait, are you for real? Somebody for me a clip of Otown performing at a like state Fair and it was sparsely attended.
Oh you hate to see it. You need to see it.
Yeah, I am Jack, that is Miles, I am back. Thank you for holding it down for me while I was out.
Oh of course, you know they call me a paperweight because I hold it down.
That's right.
Mm hmm.
Did not feel good for a couple of days at all. Was not was not consuming, getting slowly getting over it, slowly getting back.
Look, it's a hard week on the show. It's been a hard week on the show between my back and Jack's fucking wild illness. We pulled through. We pulled through for as I can so I got full custody.
All right, Well, these are some of the things that are trending big news in the world of nineties movies.
I guess.
A guy posted a video on Twitter of Jennifer Garner freaking out in the Michael Bay movie Pearl Harbor, and in the background among the frantic wounded soldiers, John McClain wanders by. Wait, undeniably John McClain from die Hard. Yeah, now, some might say it's definitely John McClain from the original die Hard, but Eagle Eyede listeners and one Miles Gray pointed out.
Telling you, I think it's die Hard with the vengeance.
I think it's Diar with a vengeance. He's in daytime.
Yeah, he's in sunlight, in a tank top. He's bloody. Although I've been looking closely right in the movie, he has a lot of like injuries to the left side of his face, so maybe they inverted it, but his arm is very bloody at a certain point when they're on that ship. I'm not joking, bro. Right before like we got on this, I scrubbed through the movie really quick because I tried to find it. I couldn't quite
find where this may have come from. But just with like the lighting and knowing that in the original Diehard, we don't see him in the in daylight looking messed up in a tank top right.
Now he is he is unmassed up when the night falls. Yeah, so unless it's the scene where the FBI shines the light on the building.
But yeah, they just so for anybody.
Wondering what the fuck we're talking about?
All sorry, he's very strange. People are debating, Like people are like, oh, this is this is just a you know, a fake coincidence aibs or like the guy looks like him, but you can, like when you go and watch it, and it's very clear that they have clipped a scene in which Bruce Willis is wandering past the camera badly injured, and just used it to cover up some cut or another.
Like that, like some weird editing trick.
Yeah, and because Michael Bay features fifty four edits per second, roughly, the brain just like doesn't notice it unless it's like isolated for you, right, but it's wildly noticeable if you just want.
Yeah, people been talking about it for years. Apparently there's like a fourteen year old YouTube video or like, yo, you see that? You see that? Yeah, And I don't know. So a lot of people are like, well, what does this mean? Like, what what's the message here? People like it's an Easter Egg. Other people are like they worked on Armageddon, like right before that. Potentially I'm looking at this as a warning about nine eleve. Interesting this movie
came out. This movie came out in May of two thousand and one, Yes, and it's about it's about an attack on America that maybe America knew a little bit about but just kind of let it happened.
America didn't see coming, didn't see coming at all coming.
Just like read the reports that were like this is about to happen.
Yeah, then in New Yorker, New York Cop there, you know, just as a as a fore warning. I don't know, but it's just it's just like so odd. I Like every time you read people try and explain it, it just seems weird. Either Michael Bay is being a dick or
he wants to put him in there. People speculate that like there was like a beef potentially that Bruce Willis and Michael Bay had because like Bruce Willis wasn't a isn't a big Michael Bay fan, and he's saying that he potentially would have like he said he didn't want him directing Diehard four, and then Michael Bay was like I was never gonna I was never gonna direct do it. I didn't even like, Oh that movie was even though he spliced it into my other movie.
Do you want to Fight?
Right here starts taking a wedding ring. It's yeah, it's interesting. The nine to eleven thing, very interesting theory, Miles. I think even put it together that the Pearl Harbor came out right before nine to eleven. Yeah, Also, Pearl Harbor happened in December. Who is more likely to be at the wrong place at the wrong time yea in December than John.
McClain involving the Japanese Yeah, Nakotomi.
I mean we shouldn't have to connect all the dots for you.
No, no, no, I don't even have my red string out. It's that easy. Yes, it's laid itself out for you. But yeah, if anyone else has interesting theories about it, I would love to hear it, because it's just honest, it's so weird. If you want to cover a cut in post, there's so many ways to do that, but this seems intentional. Or I'd love to hear the thing about their like no, like, that's just some dude who looks like Bruce Willis right, or was it Bruce Willis?
Yeah, I mean, I'm pretty sure it's got to be like it. I'm certain they just took like it.
I as a Diehard fan to know when Bruce when John McLean is on screen, and.
I've never seen Pearl Harbor before, so I don't have the baggage that a Pearl Harbor fan might have, right, Yeah, but yeah he might. Apparently he has been known to reuse shots from his own movies pretty pretty regularly. Yeah, so it's like I basically made this. I mean, I just made a movie with Bruce Willis, So why not? So he just grabbed grab some Johnny McLain, Yeah, anyway.
Why not? Why not? Well, anyway, that's just doing people's heads in on the internet right now.
Yeah, there's some interesting fan theories here though that I think people should should think about. Like, because so Diehard three happens in the summer, Pearl Harbor Day has the beginning of December. What's in between summer and December?
Don't make me get out of the calculator, like how many days? Okay, hold on, hold on now, don't think.
That I didn't do that, Miles, because I did.
So if you went from Christmas Eve back to September eleventh, and then went the same number of days back.
It would be May thirtieth, I.
Believe, which is entirely within the realm of possibility of when Diehard three takes place, because schools are still in session in New York City, I believe, if I'm not mistaken, right, isn't there a scene where all the kids have to be taken out of the school. Yeah, So I don't think they ever specify a date in that one, because they were like, all right.
Summer ish, because yeah, why are the kids in school? We don't know, we don't quite know.
Yeah, hot time, summer in the city.
All right.
So we've got this news story that falls under the category of is this a news story or is this a like some sort of tease for a Super Bowl ad?
Yeah, there's something afoot.
Here, right, Maybe I don't know.
So Snoop Dogg posted that after much consideration in conversation with my family, I've decided to give up smoke. Please respect my privacy at this time, posted next to a picture of him prayer hands and I don't know.
People people are speculating.
Like, was it he's talked about You know, he told Jimmy Kimmel back in two thousand and three that he had stopped smoking. Back in March, he said that he was cutting down now that he's grandfather.
That makes sense. This all makes sense.
It's yeah.
The reason I'm a bit dubious is just the esthetic, the way this is being presented. There's a there's a black and white image of him looking like he's like got his hands clasped together, like as if he's in prayer, and he looks conflicted, like really in an overly dramatic way, and then this text is on there after much consideration, conversation, I've decided to give up smoke. Please respect my privacy. At this time, it feels like too big of an announcement.
I feel like if you were seriously trying to stop using a certain substance or whatever a bad habit of advice you have, you're probably not going to announce it. And if you are, it either reeks of some kind of weird like weed cessation thing. He's gonna try to start fucking hawking or just something like I don't know, it just doesn't doesn't sound right.
Yeah, it's probably like not uh not the favorite post. If it turns out to be like some sort of marketing stunt like he's launching some non smoke weed product or you.
Know, like vasile.
Yeah, yeah, Like then it's probably like I would say, that's probably a bad taste for people who are struggling in.
Addiction, like to be like psych Yeah right, it's a bit.
But yeah, at the same time, like I don't know, I think we should grant him the oh, and I hope that he's actually, you know, doing whatever is best for him and and not a marketing stunt.
Calvin, we hope you're on the We hope you're on
the right path. And if this turns I mean, here's the other thing is that Snoop Dogg has sold his identity to so many brands over the last couple of years that like I know, like I just know he's he's making money, right, you know what I mean, Like I think he's doing something to make money, like he's in them Corona as he's been so many things like yeah, he's like he's honestly very successfully turned his thing into like Marta was the case that they gave me to
being like hey, like I'm just like this meme like lovable guy.
So we'll see what if it was just a corona hours Like instead I do alcohol?
Now, alcohol? Have you heard of it?
Yeah? Beer better than weed.
Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back.
We're back.
And it is a very specific genre of story that never gets old. Cheats, cheating on a specifically cheating on a distance race by jumping in a car.
There's so many examples.
Of this is so wild, this like I believe this, this I think is a Scottish marathon runner in this like Ultra Marathon basically has been banned for twelve months for using a car during a fifty mile race and allegedly, apparently and not allegedly, she's admitting to it. In the race, she hopped in the in her friend's car and then like finished somewhere up the road and placed third in this marathon. And then officials, after looking at the tracking data where they're like, this is kind of you five
for a whole strift, what's going on here? And she later admitted that it was quote a massive error to accept the third place trophy, something she attributed to fatigue and jet lag having arrived from Australia the night before, okay, and then said quote, I would never purposefully cheat, and this was not a target race. But I don't want to make excuses. M lady. You got in the friends your friend's car. What the fuck did you You didn't quit?
I mean, if you've got in your friend's car, like, yo, I'm done, Like I'm cooked, Like let's just go home. That's one thing. But then you're like, hey, drive me out for her driving. Okay, cool, Yeah, you have the reception later. Oh man, third place? Huh wow?
Yeah, not even first, Sorry to my haters. Yeah, how close your friend's car. You know, you didn't even come in first.
You couldn't come I guess that's probably how you do it, to not bring suspicion towards your performance. It's like, I'm not gonna win the race.
Yeah.
But one of the people who got caught doing this was one of the major marathons New York and Boston, and like hopped in a taxi and came in first, and everyone's like it's wild because like we've never heard of them before. Yeah, And they came in first by a lot, and they didn't even seem like they were in great shape.
I think it was Rosie Ruiz who that Boston and New York City, Like, I think the next marathon just got found out immediately.
Yeah, they were like, uh oh, yeah, keep an eye on this one. Yeah, let's talk about some polling that Republicans are going to ignore.
Absolutely. We were just talking this week about how they just can't give up abortion, like, you know, going after abortion rights. They can't give up attacking trans people. It's born out in the fucking results of their elections. We talked about how unsuccessful they were, like seventy three percent of candidates that were like running on homophobia or like healthcare rights denial. Uh, they lost seventy three percent of
their races. And now you're looking at a national poll asking about what do y'all think of people just going after you know, LGBTQ people, content whatever. Over half of American's fifty opposed federal legislation banning public schools, libraries, and hospitals from having programs, events, or literature that mentioned gay or transgender people.
Huh.
Fifty three percent are against federal legislation banning all federal agencies and facilities, including the military, from having programs, events, or literature that mentioned gay or transgender people.
Well, how many of those people opposed the interns that the GOP had, because that was the theory that I heard them working with, that they just had the wrong interns and staffers.
Oh oh yeah, I don't know.
They that's why they were losing elections.
I haven't seen the crosstabs on that, but I'll look into it. I'll look into it. But it's like, I don't know clearly they there. They see the evangelical side of things as being like a huge driver of like their support. But now you're it's fracturing in a weird way because you're like, I don't know, people, we live in a slightly more accepting society than thirty years.
Ago, but hey, huh, turns out keep.
Making it easier for people to not do anything about it, maintain the status quo. If you're running against a Republican.
All right, when you check in with LA after the horrible fire that damaged the ten freeway was going to take months to.
Repair, the day week, say hey, hey, come on, don't make Gavin Newsom look bad.
Oh is that right?
No? This is like it's just funny because a lot of people are like for someone who has political aspirations this some people may fucking point at this to be like and what happened down there? Just like you know how in Pennsylvania there was a huge fire and everyone's like, oh shit, this might fuck the roads up. They kind of fixed that. They fix that thing like way ahead of schedule, and there are a lot of props being
given to the governor there. But what happens with Gavin Newsom with this part where three hundred thousand people transit this part of the freeway at the time. Can he get it done in time?
Yeah?
So what one of the things they're offering is a push for better public transportation, free rides, faster.
Trains, more buses. Actually the faster trains.
One is the one that I'm interested in.
It's hilarious because yeah, Mayor Karen bass is like make the train that one train the E line go like ten percent faster. Is that that's what it is. They're going to boost the speed by ten percent and then like what they are doing is like adding more train cars. But it it has like I said, like on Tuesday they had a ten percent increase, like more people are I mean because the delays are obscene, like the streets around downtown or grid locked?
Have they like looked into what was going on, Like, I know that there was a whole bunch of wooden palettes underneath the ten that we're not supposed to be there.
Yeah, it was just it's like the story's wild because this was a program that the Department of Transportation caltrans like had initiated, I think during the pandemic where they were allowing companies to like use overpasses as like storage spaces, and this one company was like delinquent on all their
payments to like maintain this space, started subleasing it. So there was a ton of wooden pallets there and then apparently a ton of like leftover hand sanitizer that some company couldn't unload, So they basically had just fuel and fuel chilling there, and it was just a perfect mix for all that should happen. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, hard times, hard times.
Yeah a superducer Brian pointed out, it was a lot like that. Where was that explosion?
Yeah, it was just yeah, old fertile lier also storing fireworks there equals yeah, catastrophic shit, Yeah, this is I mean, yeah, I'm really curious to see how this plays out, because I know this could be like a real this, this could turn into a political thing, you know, or when people are like campaigning, and just in general, I just for everyone in LA's sake, please please fucking fix it. At least they don't have to tear any part of it down. That was like the big worry.
Yeah, so I guess it's three to five weeks is what they're estimating, so not months month.
Maybe we'll see, Yeah, we'll see.
And finally we have a report from rage room owners.
What a what a crew.
I always like to check in with them every once in a while, who are saying that growing number of customers are engaging in sex acts and intense makeout sessions in their rage rooms.
Yeah, so people are smashing shit and then wanting to literally smash smash after or in the room one person one and the said quote. Every once in a while, people do get a little handsy. I've had some customers lay down together in a room filled with broken glass, so maybe there's a danger aspect to it.
Mm hmm, I'm sorry, what speaking laid down to?
Is this a pastor who owns this ragel laid down to these customers. Were they laid. I had them lay down together. I caught them lay down together.
I don't know what they were doing, but they were trying to carnally know one another while also risking knowing the broken glass, right, which, yeah, you don't.
There's to know that glass.
In some cases, there's like some like they had some like sex therapists like also chiming in on what they thought was going on, and they're like, I could be like this, you know, safe form of domination where you're like dominating these inanimate objects, and then that carries over into this. Other people were like, I don't know, man, people just get fucking hornies, smash and stuff, and then you're in a room with someone you I guess are attracted to, and then that shit happens. I don't know.
I I've not explored the idea of breaking ceramic plates as an aphrodisiac.
Yeah, but the pictures of people like doing it, they have like full on like head coverings and like because it's just all about shredding.
Dude. Those are body condoms, dude, so hot that I'm fucking seeing and then all those gases that are released when they're smashing up e waste that's so hot when it carcinogenic particles get into your fucking ones.
But it is like, when I first care about this, I'm like, have they not heard of you know, boxing gyms or like something that allows them to hit something but doesn't require them to expose themselves to you know, e waste and broken glass and and horrifying chemical danger. I feel like it's the destruction in the same way that America responds like a war crime has been committed
when somebody damages a bank. You know, Like I feel like this is them committing one of the ultimate transgressions in America, in the American psyche, and so like that's why they to.
Like destroy the chains of consumerism.
Yeah hand destroy. Yeah.
Like one of the pictures of them like breaking a copier, which obviously is a potent image from off of space, but you know that seems like this is a lot of what they're doing is just breaking machines with hammers. So I just wonder if that like breaks something inside them and what comes out is just like all the shit that they've been bottling up in their day to day.
Yeah, you know, yeah, I look, I'm I am now I'm I'm intellectually excited by the prospect of this. I will say if I become physically excited. I don't know how they have around LA though. I feel like it's the things I think of immediately, like those axe clubs.
Right, what if he's just like move into office depots like after they close down.
Yeah, yeah, they do, like they're like actually rather than like shipping this stuff off, Like we can make a lot more money just letting people into the warehouse and breaking it a bunch.
Yeah.
Producer Brian points out copiers are full of ozone, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, and volatile organic compounds.
Okay, well that's just like your opinion, man.
Where would you rather lay with someone?
That's interesting? Because I can only get aroused unless I have a lung full of ozone, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, and volatile organic compounds. So yeah, yeah, my own all.
Right, Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday, November sixteenth.
We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show.
Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, gip vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy. We will talk to you all tomorrow, Bye bye,