Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Now I Become Trends. Barbie of World. We are in the Poppenheimer universe. Wow, is upon.
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Yeah, let me see I will get that, uh attributione By By the end of the episode, was that on Discord? Yes, that was courtesy of Maniche on Discord m U H and E s H. Shout out to Maniche and shout out to So. I guess the reviews are coming in, but they're not being like officially collated or you know, they're not being officially graded on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic yet. But Oppenheimer seems like a giant operatic bummer, and Barbie seems like it's it's.
A bummer in that like it's gonna funck, not that it's bad and that's gonna fucking leave you all fucked up.
Yeah, I think I think it. Does you know it's an existent.
Or is it bad?
Yeah? Right right right, I can't I can't tell yet. There there's been some like kind of medium medium reviews up to this point, being like, should we grade it on a curve? Just because they got a toy company to put out a movie that asks all these like weird dark questions and is like has kind of deep, deep cut takes on feminism because yeah, they didn't seem that into it. But whatever. I think both both films seem worth watching, worth watching on the same day. I
don't know, that's your your personal decision. Worth watching on the same day as The Sound of Freedom. As we've committed we.
Got to do the Mike Box Office Bang Sounds of Freedom, Mission Impossible and Boppenheimer.
Boppenheimer gotta get up pretty early in the morning to pull that one off.
Oh my god, the.
Mission Impossible movie is like almost three hours long.
I'd probably I'd probably start with Oppenheimer Mission Impossible Sound of Freedom than Barbieppenheim. Yeah, that's the whole point. Jack. You're like, you're trying to you're trying to just be completely in a state of disarray. By the time you start watching Sound of Freedom that you're like, yeah, the Underground Railroad by.
Day well second, didn't I think they just fired the guy the Underground Railroads like that that he started. He said he left under because of his own reasons and as yeah, yeah.
Other people like he was forced out.
Who knows who knows. Barbie pre sales looking pretty good though.
That's trending. Yeah, the highest since Avatar too, Yeah, which is weird. We're just talking about that movie, but apparently this is like I guess that was significant.
Yeah there, Yeah, people are going to see this movie. It turns out.
Yeah, they said, people think it's around like one hundred some million already in pre sales.
Jesus h. So there seems to be a new trend in just open racism, Like it seems like it's becoming like a little more mask off in the mainstream culture in a couple of places. Then did you see that Charlie Kirk clip where he like I was talking about affirmative action and like made up this story about like like what if you were on a plane and like two guys like who'd never flown a plane before got to fly it because they were racist or because they
were black. But he was like doing voices in the clip and he was like, yeah, what Cadillac and quivalent?
What are you talking about?
Say?
No, I mean that's just that's Charlie Kirk's whole stick. But I mean he's just like he's just racist and stupid. So he's not really good at being nuanced about it.
And then there's this Jason al Dean music video that is too racist for the Country Music Channel or Country Music TV CMT, whatever the fuck that stands for Herntry Music Television, Manry Music Television. Come on, well, why isn't it CMTV.
Because then they you know why, Yeah, because then I'm just gonna think it's MTV.
But see before it anyway, Yeah, it's their answer to their own question of why there isn't w E T If there's BT, is that there is? It's called CMT, No, there is. It's called all everything else, all the channels. Yes, but for those of you who skip past CMT as fast as humanly possible and are but are still like going from channel to channel one by one for some reason.
The there's a song called try that in a Small Town, and it's basically a pro lynching song like oh how Jack how well, very evocative of vigilantism, race sun downtowns.
Okay, that's one part. Yeah, what else you got?
The video mixes actual news footage of BLM protests with lyrics like you think you're tough, We'll try that in a small town.
Well, they could just be talking about property destruction, you know, and you know that kind of stuff and rabble rousing.
And then there's the fact that some scenes for the video are seemingly shot in front of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee, which was the site of a infamous nineteen twenty seven lynching and also where a white mob gathered during the nineteen forty six Columbia race riot.
Okay, I didn't hear that last part, and I don't think it's probably relevant, but I still failed to see how this is racially What the fuck are you doing? You're you're putting the imagery of people who are protesting for racial equality, and you think you're tough. We'll try that in a small town because then because again, right, because a small town means that you guys can just do get away a mole violent things to people of color that are there at the wrong time of day or just there happened.
To pass through.
Yeah, oh man, he's and what he's being like, Yeah, you guys, got you guys. Damn right, that's what this video is about.
No, he's saying, isn't it you have a racist bone in my body?
I don't have a racist feather in my cowboy hat.
Yeah. In the past twenty four hours, I've been accused of releasing a pro lynching song, a song that has been out since May and was subject to the comparison that I direct quote was not too pleased with the nationwide BLM protests.
Uh.
These references are not only meritless but dangerous. There's not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to it. There's a single video clip that isn't real news footage.
That's fucking so stupid as a defense, right, Like, it's not that I made this stuff up. It's that black people really did this shit, right, Like, what are you fucking saying? Wow? I mean again, it's funny too, because that's kind of like the refrain of like tough guys who are not in the game, where they're like, yeah, I like to see them try that around here, yes, like for what E've been doing shit. Yeah, so shut
the fuck up. But I know you like to hear these songs because they help you feel potent in like this, uh, an environment in which you feel that you are the bad guy because it's because I'm white.
Yeah, come on, man, But yeah, he looks I wasn't that familiar with Jason el Dean, a writer, Jam pointed out, he looks like a West World robot played by Fred Durst. Seems to be the overall vibe. But yeah, pulled it, so.
Yeah, I like again, just like how he's so being so obtuse about it and he's like, the lyrics don't even mention race. The visuals, oh yeah, they're blatantly.
Racially charged, right, and the implications yeah.
Yeah yeah yeaheah, oh yeah it's bad. But the song, I mean, wait, what are we talking about the video or the song?
Right?
Because it sounds like his text. It's like he's not defending I guess he is defending the video, but he's kind of like, that's it's a pro lynching song, wink, because I did a pro lynching video, right, Yeah, but yeah, I guess it's not real news, foot it's none of it's none of it's fake news, folks.
Yeah, and then uh, Netflix is uh they really want people to watch their ads. They want to get into this ad ad business. They're a whole like a big part of their argument for like why they're they should be able to treat writers like shit was like we changed the game, like this is there's the before Netflix times and now there's like this new world that we created that's not ad supported. It's this totally different market and.
Not sustainable one fucking bit, which is why they keep cutting costs to the point that now they're revolting.
Yeah, but anyways, they seem to be at the time that they're having to lean on this argument in the labor dispute, they seem to be trying to push really hard to getting into that like ad supported content business because they just basically got rid of their cheapest ad free plan. The basic nine ninety nine plan is now no longer available. If you have it already for now, you can keep it, but no one can select it as an option, and they didn't make any kind of announcement.
They just like quietly yanked it and replaced it with a six ninety nine per month subscription with ads, where you also like don't have access to everything, and like there's a huge gap between like the ad supported ones six ninety nine and then the next one is almost ten dollars more. It's the next one's fifteen forty nine for the version without ads, So screazed.
They're like, please, yeah, please please think buy these ads. We're we're doing so bad right now. Yeah, such nonsense. Well, I mean this is again, this is like what this is part of what happened with streaming. They've tried to do this singer. It's like, we can spend fucking billions on content and then tell people they only pay us nine ninety nine a month, and sure we'll make we'll make profits in the short term because we don't know
any people residuals. But then like what after that? Yeah, and now they're like fuck fuck, we're.
Just kind of focused on the next earnings report. Ads, ads, ads ads, Please all right, let's take a quick break and we will be right back. And we're back.
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And there's a controversy or a question being raised online. What exactly is the flavor of Swedish fish?
Yeah, I I didn't know. I've always said vaguely read.
Yeah, it's read how I.
Described Yeah, And I never knew how to describe it. And I always just thought it's like its own thing. Remember, it wasn't that like a Swedish fish oriole that we talked about a while back.
Yeah, there was and We're like, what the fuck are you gonna do it? That ship?
And I don't know if it was good. Victor, did you try it? I know Victor tries every oriole.
Oh, we tried it. I think I think I tried it for sure. I think you did. Yeah. It was the before Times and we bought it for the office and it tasted it was probably the most clear like that. It sets up an expectation in your mind. You're like, well, that shouldn't be very good, but I'll try it because maybe there's something there, and it's it tastes exactly like what you expect it to be, right, and it's not really that good for the reason that you would expect.
Okay, I like Victor and the CHA said, it's fucking weird.
It's weird. Yeah, it's I mean the one thing that they I think they should have instead of called it calling it the Swedish fish oreo, they should have called it like dirt cup because you know those like oh yeah, yeah, yeah, like that is what it evokes, like gummy kind of fruit, gummy can ye chocolate. Yeah, I got that gave me the context I needed.
Do we now we now have evidence of what like what the fuck is Swedish fish intended flavor is?
I feel that that was one piece of context I didn't need, by the way, for the oreo, I didn't need to be like, and what is Swedish fish flavoring? Right? Just like, No, it's Swedish fish flavor. That's it's one of the It's on the elemental chart at this point, Swedish fish fish. But there. You know, most people had assumed fruit punch, but the flavor is actually lingonberry, a very popular berry in Scandinavia. Oh yeah, I'm not familiar. Have you had Lincoln berries?
Have the Lincolnberry pancake? Okay, I know it from the Big Lebowski when the Nihilists go to I hop they is a lincolnberry pancake. I have the Lincoln Berry pan cake.
They look like cranberries.
Yeah, I've had. Well, when you go to Ikea, because you know, I love the fucking Ikea fucking food court, the punch, they have lingenberry punch right there that comes out the fucking fountain, right, so, and I always drink that because that shit is like vaguely red fun flavor, uh that I really like. And sometimes I even bought like the concentrated shit that the little Ikea mark like on the way out. But I guess it didn't. It's one of those things that I've only had. Honestly, this
is how American I am. The only time I've had lnnberry flavor is that Ikea Right, So then when I'm not in that context, I'm like, what the fuck is this flavor? Like Swedish fish?
Yeah, I'm wondering, like what a raw lingenberry tastes like, because I'm assuming there's a reason that it hasn't like become a an ingredient as a berry itself, Like it seems like lingenberry flavor is its own thing.
And yeah, yeah, it seems like it's tart, right, so like you kind of need to process it to like get it to that flavor that the little children's like like meat, you have an immature Yes.
Anyways, Uh, mystery solved, I guess, But thank god we were. We were pretty pissed over here when we couldn't come up with a solution.
Seen my family in three weeks Jack, because I was trying to get to the fucking bottom of.
The deep dive. TikTokers are warning people not to participate in the quote lazy girl jobs, trench brag about their lax work days so they don't unintentionally out themselves and get fired.
Yeah, were we talking about this on mic or off Mike yesterday?
I think I think maybe.
Off Mike, Yeah, because when I saw you, I was like, the fuck a lazy girl job? And again, gen Z, I love y'all, you know, but a lot of the words that y'all come up with are just descriptions of shit that have been happening since time immemorial. So like this quote lazy girl job was coined by this one influencer and she talked about these jobs were like you can basically not do shit all day, like when you're there,
like you know, especially when you work remote. And she she made it clear, she's like, look, I'm when I talk about those lazer girl jobs, those are jobs I had. I'm not snitching on myself right now about how little I'm working, only for my employer to be like, wait, what the fuck? Like, how many edibles are you cramming in today? The fuck again? So from that aspect, yes, it just sounds like a bullshit job where you can it's just kind of performative and we've all had those.
That was a day. Like David Graber wrote a whole book called bullshit jobs. Those just like most jobs, actually don't need to exist. They're kind of there to give people someone to order around and you know, create motion that creates the illusion that something is happening within the economy. Like if you look at day to day what everybody's doing, a lot of the jobs, I think he estimated like over half the jobs don't really need to exist, but they do because.
Capitalism and we have to keep reinforcing this thing that the worst thing you can be is unemployed. Yes, so we got to keep the fucking charade going, which is like again, you know we got we've become so efficient, yet we can't use that efficiency to work less.
Okay, impossible? All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday, July nineteenth. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. 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 how tomorrow.
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