RockTrend Around The Xmas Tree(nd) 12/5: Brenda Lee, Kendall Roy Era, Most Hated Xmas Candies, GTA VI

Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Rock Trend Around the Christmas Tree. I'm No. Number one today. Hey hot damn.

Or you when you said tree, were you like trying to assert something that was gonna be likes?

I just remember Chris Chris trend Geist have a hap Bee.

One of my friends in elementary school used to think, is said and maybe this is like a common uh mong green. I believe is whats was that it was I saying, uh, then we'll have some fucking pot but sumpkin pie.

But if you want to hear, then we'll have some fucking pot.

There's that one song that talked about and I brought some corn for popping, and I've not I've not misheard it and thought it said something about finger popping, but like my brain remembers it as like something with finger pop him.

Which for corn for popping.

You Okay, I was like, and we'll do somethinger popping.

Well, I think that's I think that's part of the fun of Christmas songs is they're open for straight up disrespect, you know what I mean, Like because you feel like you feel like buzz in home alone where you're like, yo, bro, I'm fucking around at this Christmas person. I don't give but it's not really about it's not holy come on, because I do the same thing with Andy Williams. Happy Holidays, yeah nasty, oh yeah right, and don't.

Believe your stroke.

And I'm like, you're gonna say cock, aren't you to hang out?

And I'm like, ah, right, there is right there Andy.

I wonder if he was that was like part of his show. Everyone was like, say, cockeydude, you put sing really all right?

Welcome Nandy Williams Christmas Holiday show.

Folks, guys, Brenda Lee is back on top, actually on top for the first time around. The Christmas Tree just hit number one sixty five years after it was released. Hey, at least she's alive. I was like, oh, please be alive.

She's seventy eight, She's alive to see it old this person the top the singles chart. I know it used to be who was It was like held by Louis Armstrong. Louis Armstrong for a number of years. I can't wait to see the movie where she releases the song and everyone's like, this song's garbage, right right, Like they just really play up how much everyone hated it.

At first She's a New Sugarman.

Number two when it first came out. What a song. Though I haven't heard it quite a bit, I do wonder if I wonder why, I wonder what's going on? But I do wonder if there's something specific, like if it just particularly appeals to a new generation or what what's going on there?

But I wonder.

It's it's always interesting, like yeah, it's probably like in this day and age, it's like gotta be like part TikTok on some level.

Yeah, it's got to be TikTok. It's got to be the kids out there ticking and talking around the Christmas tree. Maybe yeah, maybe.

Kind of like if it's like one of the first things maybe on let me see, let me see, because like Spotify's like playlists, like I wonder if they're like the default Christmas playlist like starts off with that song and that kid is.

One of the greats, like it is one of the classics. That also just still sounds like oh.

Dude, okay, just see this is how much you fude, It's how much your boys listen to fucking Christmas music and on Spotify looking at shit all the time. It is a It is literally the first track on their Christmas Classics playlist.

Wow, there it is.

So I feel like if a lot of people are just sort of like, what's like a like a Holiday Classics you put on like whatever the Spotify want is boom first track Brenda.

Lee, The Power of Spotify. Yeah, they just canceled too, like Peabody Award winning podcasts, but they will be replacing them with Yeah Bullets, but they'll be replacing them with Rocking around the Christmas Tree. Why not listen to this? Oh you like heavyweights, try Rocking around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee. All right, Uh, there's a new piece and vice that says the Kendall Roy era is nigh. I feel like may already be here. I feel like

Just hand it over, handed over grandpa, for fuck's sake, trying to be.

A billionaire, because you know, they're like the previous generation. The currently the generation of dying off people have coarded wealth to an unprecedented degree, and it is going to go to the worst and weirdest people that the planet Earth has to has to offer. In my experience, the you know, scient like multiple generations into generational wealth can be a real real uh spicy meatball. Yeah, humanity.

Yeah, I mean yeah, it's god, what are these what's this new crop going to look like? I remember seeing like the headlines about like this new like wealth transfer that's going to be happening with like this old billies given it to the youngies. But I wonder how many like are we going to see a new breed of kids who are just like, oh yeah, man, this is fucked up, Like I was waiting for my spot and maybe I can do something with this money.

Or they're gonna be like, yo, bro.

I'm gonna hold onto this ship until we're dead, maybe till my great great great great greats are dead.

I think they're gonna have some interesting things to uh, some interesting ideas of what to do with it that involve like NFTs again right right right, lifestyle brands like water that's connected to n f T s uh, and that's actually kind of happening. Yeah, yeah, uh, you're you're gonna we're gonna get more packaging that has long statements about how this.

This is more than just a bottle of water.

This sugar free gum just bring is made from the best stuff on earth, and our ethos is really about humanitarianism and transcendental meditation. Anyways, true nightmare shit here. Hopefully at some point in the coming decades, we have some sort of reform that actually makes it so the best thing to be on the planet, the most rewarding thing to be, is not a rich person's grandson.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, right now, I think that there's a case in front of the Supreme Court that may make it serious like nearly impossible to fucking tax the wealthy. So we'll just have to wait and see how things move here.

They're usually pretty cool. I feel like the Supreme Court, they usually have some cool things to see.

Yeah, yeah, see, we'll see.

We got the Chris miss candy that America hates most, candystore dot Com one of our you know, most one of our greatest contributors. Great, yeah, great contributor. You know polling experts. Now, their polls generally are not handled the most scientific way, but they have access to data that we just cannot ignore. And they unveiled a list of the ten most hated Christmas candies of the year. And I am calling bullshit on this for one very specific.

Bullshit in that this is manufactured bullshit, that the like the survey sample size was completely fucked up.

What are you saying.

I think there's just one editorial decision they must have made, which is they must make a lot of money selling candy canes. I think a lot of people must make a lot of money selling just red and white peppermint candy canes because they are fucking everywhere at this time of year. Nobody likes them that I've ever met, Nobody like yeah, hell yeah, man, I want my candy to taste like toothpaste have but I actually roted my teeth. What if toothpaste made my teeth worse? But it's nowhere

Yeah, it's I was even like kind of scratching my head.

I'm like, wait, what what are those like? The ones they sell it?

Like I remember C's candy would have ones that are like, not the red and white color that would just be vaguely sweet.

What color are they?

They would be like blue.

Or something like it would be like white with blue stripes, white with like green.

I'm like, dude, no, no, no.

That is terrible too. Wait are people fucking hating on peppermint bark? Peppermint bark, which is cane crunched up and sprinkled over chocolate like it comes in at number ten, but people like chocolate, so that again, like this is I feel like I could write a legal brief on why this is wrong. Like I can't can't show you the data, but I feel like they are making too much money off of bad red and white candy canes and they're trying to paper over the fact that nobody likes them.

I feel like I feel.

Like, yeah, I feel like the DNC looking at polling of young people.

And be like, what this is wrong.

This is not right, this is not this is not reflect that's it.

The number one most hated reindeer corn. We've seen before that candy corn is despised, so it makes sense that rein deercorn might not be very popular. The number two is Christmas nougat? Are those like the chocolate? I don't know, Like that's so specific, it's so specific. I don't tell you what.

It was enough that you got to like a you know, a tipping point of respondence to be like, this is.

Number two, Like cherry cordials, the chocolate covered cherries, like those, Oh that's my opinion.

Oh okay, you need to see the pictures.

It's this shit. Have you seen this cherry cordials?

No, that's Christmas nugat?

Oh yeah, Like the white nugat is like it looks like street in red and greenish.

Christmas nugat is not good. So it's like gum drop stuck together with yogurt? Is that basically what it looks. I don't know, it's like hell oh Oh, that's like cherry cordials. Yes, like chocolate covered cherries. There's like a little liquor in there.

For some reason, I hated it because it's just I don't like when stuff. I said this off Mic, I just like chocolate stuff. And then when you get like the cherry cordials are like the thing that you would get in like a like a box of chocolate, you're like, oh, this one about to be a truffle, and then you take a bite and it's like yeah, and it's just like cherry ship.

So you just bid into a glow stick.

Yeah, like ship, it's a fucking rotten tennis ball.

What the fuck is this?

So I get I can definitely agree with that one, because that's what the fuck When I look at that think about it.

Like it's this fucking I like that ship. I do remember that that sense of memory feeling no, no, no, yeah, yeah, I did not want this. This is not what I asked for. But then yeah, so Number four candy canes non peppermint bullshit, complete bullshit. Number five peeps uh wrong, wrong.

Holiday praised during the holidays, Okay, yeah for Christmas.

Okay, they're just getting their peep machine or maybe something.

Yeah, I guess they have to mark the peeps in Christmas so they can be risen for Easter.

Maybe the lore around the around it.

Yeah yeah, ribbon candy. I don't think I've ever had, but it looks like it's like fruit by the foot mixed with the dice that we were talking about earlier.

This is like very like the kind of candy like that they make on a boardwalk and you can watch them make it.

Kind of.

I think a lot of this stuff is just old timey.

Yeah, yeah, you know exactly. Number seven old fashioned hard candies. Yeah, no, sh specific yeah, number eight Life Savers story books. I don't even know what you're talking about at this point. But then number nine and ten chocolate oranges. Who doesn't like chocolate? Orange?

I hate them?

You do the orange them? They must chocolate? They're getting that kind of orangey flavors?

Are they fucking up the flavor? That bad?

If there isn't real orange in that ship, that's even worse if there wasn't. But yeah, like the ones that come in like the orange foil thing, and then like it's individual wedges.

Kind of round. I don't know that I've ever eaten one. I think I've just liked it in theory but never had one, so maybe I actually is it well for me? Is there like a don't there a texture problem?

No, No, it's not taste, it's pure flavor.

I just hate I just don't like sometimes fruit combinations with chocolate and citrus with it.

People like it.

I'm absolutely not. It shivers up me spine. But we both like peppermint bark, right, we both like peppermint bark. Yeah, it's the only way I'll eat candy canes. That's true, because it reminds me of like a classy andes after dinner. Mint for the holidays, Yeah, exactly, you know what I mean, because you're still getting that like I like mint chalk, like mint chocolate.

I'm fine with that.

And it's not enough candy cane that you're like, you know, like it's fucking everything up just in their little crunchy little mint.

Yeah. As a candy corn defender, I will agree that reindeer corn just like a step too far, Like the color of the reindeer corn is it's just a nightmare. It's yeah, you guys fucked up with that one. But anyways, like people, let me know like, do you are there people out there who really ride for peppermint candy canes? Like it feels like just bad candy that nobody really likes. But maybe I could see there being like a like you said, like a sense memory from childhood. And people

Fuck candy corn candy cane ambivalent? Interesting, just all your ambivalence for me. I'm like, I get it, like because I think it's kind of an aesthetic thing too.

I'm like, yeah, I like that.

I'm like, I ain't eating that ship, but I like this ship like will make me feel when I look at it.

Let's take a quick break.

And we'll be back. And we're back.

Where are we? Where are and GTA six? GTA is back with a trailer.

I know you, I know you're ready for this one game in jack Boy, Hey game and Jack what do you think of that new GTA six trailer?

Man, GGA six trail looks great? Man, that mountain do down? That's the only question this shit.

I don't know.

Man. The last GTA came out, I wasn't in my thirties.

I'm on the doorstep of forty right now, and I'm like, wow, y'all really made a ton of money off of this ship, to the point that it was I don't know, they really took their sweet ass time with this thing.

H the trailer.

It's kind of wild because people have been just frothing at the mouth for a Grand Theft Auto game to the point that there have been constant leaks and shit. That's like all they've been dealing with. And the only reason we got the trailers because the shit leaked early. I got TikTok and the like fuck it just put it out and like the labeling I remember was bad on the YouTube posts like V one trailer, Like it's like as if they just put the file name in there.

But yeah, V one being the Grand Theft Auto six trailer. Oh yeah, but it does trailer one? Yeah?

Oh is it still yeah, Like to the point where you're like, okay, maybe you would.

Have had this rum roll for six.

Oh damn, oh hold on, hold on, hold on, I gotta play it. Wait wait wait you said what now.

Like Grand Theft Auto Version one?

WHOA your voice a little tired or something anyway, Yeah, oh Victor, Victor Caper for rock Star in the chat.

I know, yes, Red Dead Redemption two did come out. Fantastic game.

All I'm saying is Grand Theft Auto.

It was just one of those things that kept being like, oh there there's there's gonna be an announcement. They're like, we're gonna add fucking jets, and you're like, fuck lowriders and more motorcycles.

But again, jets and Grand Theft Auto five. Yeah damn okay.

Yeah, like you can fucking you could take a fucking airliner in that game.

Hot damn. Yeah. So people are pretty I don't know. The only way I found out about this was like I saw a video of someone twerking on top of a car, and I was like, that looks dangerous, but hey, every kids are wild these days their own huh. And then I noticed people were talking about how, like god, I can't believe how like good the graphics are on that, and I was like, maybe this is like a deep ficker in AI. I don't have time to look at it.

So you had your moment too. You're like, wait that that game thatking was game?

Yes, yeah, yeah it was his game is game.

Yeah.

It's also just wild too, like inevitably, they're like people are finding a way like the Grand Theft Auto games have had their problem since time immorial since you could hire a sex worker and then kill them to get your money back.

And I was like, yo, bro, that's like play the game.

That was Grand Theft Auto five. I believe I think you could have done.

I think you.

Yeah, there was definite and I think it was in GTA three too, where there it's like, oh, the sex workers if you kill them, they they dropped more money okay yeah yeah yeah, like they would just like they would just drop piles of cash. U. So if you're playing the game and you're looking to play that way, that you would just be targeting them.

But now the somehow the game is woke because now you can be a woman, like a female protagonist and then do all that kind.

Of violent shit, And they're like, it's far. Where are the white guys. It's like, I don't know, look at the last all of every game.

Yeah, people were pointing out the GTA five the female characters were either objects of sexual lust for men or psychotic basically Yeah.

Yeah, yep, because yeah, Michael's wife in that game was not doing was not doing much for any accusations that Rockstar was being sensitive.

Yeah, Rockstar in general has been accused of not being overly sensitive in the past and having massive, like pay gaps that were like massive by the standards of the gaming industry. But yeah, women were being paid sixty four percent lower than men.

Yeah, yeah, I mean, I mean there's a whole there's a whole other labor, you know, component to the way games are developed that you know, we could talk about too, but it seems like it just there was even like Elon Musk was like, I tried playing the game, but the fact that you had to shoot the police, I just.

Could not do it. Got it?

So really OK, Yeah, I think Christy Almagucci main came in there with a pretty viral clapback.

I think I noticed in that threat.

But yeah, it's uh, it's been so many years and now it's not coming out till twenty twenty five, so it'll be a full twelve years probably until between games.

Yeah, twenty twenty five is not next year.

I'm sure I was even doing that math too.

When I saw I was like, Okay, twenty twenty five.

I'm like, wait, I ain't know this is twenty twenty four next year. Oh shit, game is that's so long from now that my kids will probably be able to play it by the time it comes out. I'll be like yeah, no, I mean, did you see the twerking was pretty cool?

You're like, yeah, I thought it was pretty dangerous for that young lady.

Yeah. Anyways, those are some of the things that are trending. Yeah, Tuesday, December fifth, we are back tomorrow with a who last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white sopreancy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye bye,