Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The Trend DFL's Big Game coming up on Sunday. I'm Jack. That is super producer Becker Robbo Hi. Um, big Game is indeed coming up. It's happening. It's it's a thing. It's there. Who's playing? Couldn't tell you, Brianna? Oh come on? Oh yeah. So that that is something that I want to talk about as a matter of fact, because this is something I've kind of been waiting for to happen. We've been on the edge of my seat waiting for
this development to happen. As Pepsi has become i don't know, less culturally relevant pop culturally relevant as the their gambit, Pepsi's add gambit like marketing gambit that like they're a lifestyle brand, seems to ring less and less true. Uh. You know, in the eighties, I feel like they could get away with it. It was they there was still the memory of like choice of the new generation with
like people from the sixties. I guess, isn't that when they were considered the hot new thing and the eighties they were associated with like Madonna, Michael Jackson music. They have been like such an icon in pop music for many years, and but such a strange like fit, like for them to just feel like we're you know, we're we're associated with popular music and dancing, US a behemoth of global commerce and consumerism and brown sugar water um.
And so I remember thinking at some point during the past couple of years when the Pepsi halftime show came through, I was like, Man, Pepsi's really punching above their weight at this point, with the half the like being it
being the Super Bowl halftime show brought to you by Pepsi. Like, Pepsi felt like a little just out of place there, I mean the whole sentence there right, Like the NFL Pepsi, I just feel like it's a very Americana esque idealism that is no longer the front face of American popular culture,
both the NFL M Pepsi. Yeah, And I don't I don't know why what it is about Pepsi specifically, that just felt like like because even if it was the Coca Cola halftime show like that would seem normal to me, But like Pepsi, I think it's because the the actual product of Pepsi is not a thing you ever see anywhere, like nobody drinks pepsi or pepsi by choice. Yeah, Like a lot of the branding in the past would I would say decade of Pepsi has really fall into the waistside.
Like Coca Cola has kept it very like tempered, and they have a way more international market. Like Mexican Coca Cola is like so famous, right, Like you go to a taco truck and you're like, I want a Mexican coke, like specifically, So I do think that Coca Cola has had a better brand presence over the past decade, whereas like Pepsi has made quite a few fumbles trying to
be this like lifestyle brand where brought the Kendle. Yeah, they did the brand logo redo and it failed, and they were like trying to modernize, and I think they were trying to appeal to this like gen Z millennial market that isn't drinking soda to be quite honest, Like they they are health conscious, they are not soda drinkers the way that older generations were. So right, yeah, yeah, So which is all to say, like I don't I don't care. I don't think like now that it's no
longer Pepsi. It's going to be the Apple halftime show. I'm like, that's no better, Like that's it just feels more appropriate and like the like the market has found. So it's officially next year going to be the Apple I believe it's this year the halftime show. R I P Pepsi. Yeah, this year it's the Apple halftime Show. Like I really, I feel like this should have been a bigger story. It was just like buried in this day. I was at googled because I wanted to make the point,
like why is Pepsi still doing this? Like I had that thought I forget what we were watching, But like something came through where once again they were like trying to pretend to be you know, they're like, well, if you like popular music from the past forty years, you're you're basically liking Pepsi. We're kind of all part of the same. Pepsi is synonymous with cool and it's like that pop girlies. Okay, we will never forget the iconic
Pepsicole ad with Beyonce, Brittney Spears and Enrique Lysias. That ad, it's in history top ten ads of all time. But like ever since they like took that shift, probably like a decade ago, away from pop stars and into lifestyle. People don't go fuck like, they're like, like and it doesn't make sense for them to be the halftime show for sure, because they're like not a representation of pop music anymore. I get Apple music being but I'm also like not another tech. I mean it would be Apple
is Spotify. I guess yeah, I can't think of like the brand that would work for me like that that I would be like, this is cool now, this is who I want to see, other than maybe if they wanted to have the daily like I sponsor. It feel like the Dorrito's halftime show makes sense to me. I don't know. Doritos does make sense because it's about like, it's a good reminder that this is all bullshit junk food concocted in a lab to be undeniable. But anyways,
so that's something that change. We're gonna talk on tomorrow's episode about the number of crypto ads from last year to this year. Also, Dorito's is apparently by Pepsi according to ian Um. Yeah, so Pepsi is a massive bohemia like they It's just funny to me that they kept the branding as like the Pepsi halftime show, and there it seemed like there was always like some cola based like visual like Dr dre playing the piano and like
the yeah yeah. It's like, I don't know, man, this just doesn't feel Pepsi doesn't feel up to the task as a as a product in particular. So there's just gonna be a bunch of tech, big tech branding all over the place. Big tech has had a hard year. Apple the only big tech company that hasn't had layoff so far. But another big tech thing that was supposed to happen and they had to pull the plug last second.
Avocados from Mexico, which is just always it's one of these brands that just randomly, you know, every year or so has a big Super Bowl head, you know, like
they're they are one of the standard Super Bowl advertisers. Um. And I'm not always sure why that is, because it seems it seems like advertising avocados from a specific place should be something that you are aiming at some business community, Like it's a business to business deal where you're like get your avocados from Mexico Kroger, uh, not like something like when I go to the store, I'm not necessarily choosing between avocados from one place or another. I'm just
feeling with my hands. I feel like we don't know where the avocados are from, like at the shop, like yeah, they just say like avocados, organic avocados, you know those two options, and you're not really like, Okay, is it the avocados from Mexico brand or is it unless you're I. I do think they do make like guacamole's and things like that, So that's more where I think the branding would be, like more iconography, where you would be like in that pre made food section and you're like choosing
between the different pre made gualks. But otherwise unsure it has not connected. I have not connected those ads to a specific purchasing decision. I can tell you that much. Um, but they were they got a lot of attention because they were planning to incorporate chat GPT in their ad um and then it was pulled at the last minute because they were not able to get the chat GPT feature together in time, so which raised like why, I'm just curious what the funk they had in mind, Like
what what were what were they planning to do. I don't know, but I'm sure. I'm sure I could have researched that. But it's it is just funny, like the chat GPT thing just seems like a lot of people confused about what this means and being scared of technology. Scared oh technology, which is you know, I think a standard mainstream media media trope. Are you planning to watch the Big Game? Becca? No, you know what I cannot? I Hey football, I think I've said that time and
time again here. I only used to watch it when I worked in advertising, and I used to have like spots in the Super Bowl. Which if you work in advertising, God bless you this week, good luck. I know this is a stressful week for you. I know, all those social media managers. I'm praying for you because it's gonna be a hard it's gonna be a hard weekend, very overworked weekend. Um, but no, I have no I feel blessed to be released from the shackles that is advertising
and the Big Game. Yeah, it's almost like the Super Bowl is the super Bowl of advertising in many ways. Um. Okay, let's take a quick break. We'll come back and we'll talk about some trailers and other stuff, and we're back. And actually, first another super Bowl story that is happening. It was very dumb. NFL fans believe that the Super
Bowl is secretly rigged. There was like a tweet that went viral featuring a screenshot of the leaked super Bowl script, including the final score in a video from some barstool podcast in which uh Aryan Foster, former NFL great also like pretty interesting person to like listen to on be interviewed, but he did a bit claiming with you know, dead pan seriousness, that the league is rigged and all the
players follow scripts. And I think some people are like buying into this because there is because everybody like has a financial stake now that gambling is legal, and it's like even if you don't gamble, like you know someone who gambles, or you at least like see it dramatized
and like gambling advertisements. So it's just like in the bloodstream now like gambling, and whenever there's gambling happening, there's going to be a conspiracy theory that like well is fixed and like they you know, when when you lose money on a game, it's it's hard not to start so do you believe it's it's really rigged though, Jack?
Oh no, no, no no, And like, so I think this is this is stupid, uh Like from a just perspective of like it doesn't make sense, but it also is stupid from the perspective of like misunderstanding our current like production and c g I capabilities, like the special effects, the acting by athletes, the like game choreography required to carry something at this level off is bonkers. It would have to be like the greatest film ever produced, and they would have to do it live. Wow, hundreds of
millions of people are watching. It would have to be like every other game leading up to it, right, like in theory to get to the big game where you are competing. So I don't think it's rigged like I think some some people's conspiracy theories are like that the refs are like pushing in one direction and you can see it like in a missed call here and there. But the the idea that there is a script that
they're following would require such advanced levels of coordination. Um I I kind of blame Jurassic Park for this because I think people still saw the effects in like Jurassic Park is like a blend of c g I and practical effects, but people assumed that the practical effects were also c g I, so they've assumed c g I was like way further along than it actually was and is and so every but he just thinks, how you can do anything with a computer, Like it's it's fine.
It's like, no, that's you can do like very limited things with a computer in with like camera tricks and making sure to hide them in clever ways. But I would hope that if it were c g I, right, like if if if the big game, let's say we're rigged, that we could prevent more like head traumas, you know what I'm saying, Like if if we could rig this game, players dying, you know, I just I don't understand. Also, like the how much legalization of sports betting has blown up.
Like I was watching that Lebron James game where he broke the scoring record and there was a gambling edge during that that featured Kevin Garnett gambling on an NBA game, I believe, which like he's retired, fired, But that just
feels like a line, Yeah that shouldn't be crossed. Yeah, like they major League baseball is like never recovered, Like they're still so scandalized by like that one of their great players, like having gambled on a game, not while he was playing, but while he's a manager, and I think, I don't know, maybe he also did it while he played. I don't I don't know. I don't give a ship. But it's just funny how how much it has changed. And this was actually one of the things that people
were pointing out. They were like, if we legalize gambling, and this was back in two thousand nine when people were trying to argue the merits of this and the government they were like, people like this will quote inevitably fuel speculation, distrust, and accusations of point shaving and game fixing. So I mean they know which it just happens always with gambling. All right, enough of the big game game
big enough? Uh, already, we don't need to we don't need to lend it and anymore flames, anymore gasoline on that fire. Let's talk about trailers. Trailer watch. Yeah, so we're I was like, we should just have a trailer that we talked about every trending episode, because why not. That's that's my favorite part. Of trending is when we get to watch a trailer today, we have to. We have a movie called Paint that I thought was going
to be a Bob Ross like biopic. Vibe. Yes, I thought it was Bob Ross biopic and it's got Owen Wilson playing Bob Ross. And then you notice, like, but he's still playing Owen Wilson with like in a bob Ross Wait yeah um, and then it like Bob Ross's career is derailed, and it's also the character's name is not Bob Ross. And then it becomes the thing about like him struggling with irrelevancy, and it just I don't know. I was ready for the Bob Ross thing, but this
also seems interesting. I am always up for some more Owen Wilson. What did you think same? I love Owen Wilson and I love if C films, so I'm intrigued about what it is. But I'm very confused as to what it is because you go into it watching it and you're like, and I think it was even served me the article and it was like bob Ross Paint, and I was like, okay, and you're watching it and it's like very clear that he's actually not Bob Ross, so you're like, okay, so then where is this story going.
Is it like an alternate universe of Bob Ross where it's like a Bob Ross were self involved or if Bob Barross were about the money. I'm not sure so, but I will be watching because I love Owen Wilson and it seems like very like quirky indie vibe, which is very much up my alley of film watching. Yeah, I think Bob ras was actually like he might have
so here let me I'm I'm fact checking live. So this is exciting for the listener that Bob Ross wasn't only a drill drill sergeant but would achieve the rank of master sergeant serving as a first sergeant at Ailson Air Force Base in Alaska. So like, that's an interesting Like, that's a question. I didn't know that prior to Uh. I think super producer Justin might have mentioned that as we were watching this, Like that's a like, how you get from drill instructor to the most zend out motherfucker
like to ever appear on television? Is an interesting story that I would be intrigued to watch unless the answer is just like he just took so much acid, like it was just his you know, cortexes were no longer connected to one another. And oh, I just did a quick google about the movie, though it says in two any ten the screen A Paint was written by Britt McAdams and was featured on the Blacklist of that year's most likely unproduced screenplays. So I'm curious where this will
go based on that. Yeah, so suproducer Ian is saying that, like, the reason he's so soft spoken in Chill is he hated how rigid the military was. Like, that's interesting to see someone go from drill sergeant two, the guy who talks like this, and it's like and then we're going to get a little bit of yeah, like it really someone like undergo a complete spiritual, psychic like change at that level is interesting. I would be curious about that.
But so, so what you're saying, it was originally a Bob Ross and then no, no, no, it was just an original screenplay that was put on a blacklist on for the years most liked produced screenplays. Yeah, the blacklist is great. They always pick out some gems. And then there's this other trailer called The Atwaters just gonna let you watch it yourself. Very scary found footage. So two
things that I just want to call out here. One is that it starts with like a fifteen second long upside down shot, which I've been seeing more and more, just like the shot is upside down. There there was like a video that I saw, I think it was like a TikTok transport to Twitter video of like somebody just shooting out the window of their car, but they were shooting it upside down and it was really like
kind of trippy and mind melding. But then like the show Fleshman's in Trouble that it was just on Hulu like opens with shots of New York City upside down and it like looks very cool and trippy, and this starts with a upside down shot. Um, it's just funny that like film, like the art of film is just now like all discovering at the same time the thing that like your kids discover when they put their heads between their head between their legs and they're like whoa
as wild. Um, But yeah, it's it's so this is like a trippy, uh found footage. It seems like there's like some Texas chainsaw massacre, some maybe some alien stuff happening, but in the desert. Uh, it looks very cool, Like the sound design looks very cool. I don't know, I'm here for it. Yeah. I listened to the trailer with these you know, big Sony headphones on my head, and
it was absolutely terrifying. Like the there's like this phone call element of this, like very distressed mom calling her kids being like I can't find you, where are you? Are you okay? And it is just like, oh my god, it is so so so so so so so terrifying. Um, there's like a little a bit of like a jump scare just in your ears towards the end, and I'm genuinely very terrified. I don't know if I'll be able
to go through with watching this movie. I like my scary movies more in the veil of like thriller, creepy, not like actual like I like cosmic horror, yeah, or like, um, I like things that are kind of like more superstitious or more like you know, fantasy. Like I don't like my horror to be rooted in like such reality because then it's like too real for me. I'm like, oh,
this could happen. To me, my favorite example is like the Haunting of Hillhouse series, like those some episodes of those get really really scary, but it's like all very
much like mystical, like very much not rooted in reality reality, right. Anyways, the other thing that this seems to like the it seems to be found footage in a world where people who shot the footage like actually carried like we're trying to take cool videos because like that's that's something that I feel like a lot of the found footage stuff, it's like, all right, so it's found footage, so it has to be they had to leave leave their camera on a rock and like it doesn't which probably makes
sense for like once the terror starts. But there's just like a lot of beautiful shots in there, which makes sense because some people just are beautiful cinematographers with their phones. So anyways, you know. The other thing, and I don't like, I'm not gonna go on about this for twenty minutes, but the trade deadline in the NBA has been mind melting.
I just want to say sorry, nets fans um. Although you know, maybe maybe this is the best thing for the future of the organization because they got a lot of picks. But Kevin Durant has been traded to the Phoenix Suns, which bums me out for some reason because I just like, never, I don't know, I can I've never been able to get even when they were like a really exciting team with like Steve Nash, Marie Stottomeyer, like,
I couldn't get excited about them, So I don't. I don't know if it's their uniforms, what it is, but I just this doesn't get me. It's like a super team that I'm not super excited about. And that's not fair. That's just a completely personal thing. People are gonna be like, oh, you're just a son's hair. Yeah, I have no good, good reason for it whatsoever. Um, it's definitely exciting. Then the n B A is you know, is wild for that? You're you're wild for this one. The NBA Kyrie obviously
we talked about how he got traded. Um, the the Lakers traded Russell Russell Westbrook and got some young pieces that might help them in the long run. But it's a it's a mess out there. It's going to be very intriguing to to watch. I feel like they were like, oh, you think that's the big game. Yeah. Um, anyways, Becca, your thoughts. I know you're a huge Sons fan. You know I agree with all your sentiments. Jack. Oh good,
Oh wow, that's amazing. Look at that. All right? Well, super producer, back A Ramas, thank you so much for joining to co host. Where can people find you and follow you? You can find and follow me at Beck's B E, C C S Ramos on all platforms and also I am on the Bechtel Cast today. Hey, I'm very excited. It is a little fangirl dream of mine. So if you are a Bechtel Head a Bectel Cast listener, go check it out. We covered Magic Mike x x L the opening night of Magic Mike's Last Dance, which
comes out today. Have you seen it or I'm clanning on going. I was gonna go tonight, but I have to wake up early to drive back to the city tomorrow, so I think I'm going to go this weekend on Saturday, Last Dance. I hope he doesn't die. I don't think he's gonna die, but I think he's gonna officially retire every movie. He's like, I'm done stripping, and then you know,
they make a new movie. So I think this is supposed to be like his final Swan song in London would sell mahiak and Rosalia that they will not talk that she's in it, but like she's in a couple of picks of the trailers, so I'm like, we're not gonna talk about Rosalie is in the movie. So we'll see it's in London. It's in London. Would sell sequel where they're just like, what if a new city? Yeah, what if a new city? We got rid of all
the guys. We just have Channing Tatum. It's gonna give you step up vibes and not like traditional stripper vibe, and we're gonna have Rosalia be in it, which makes me wonder if they're going to dance Flamenco strip because Rosalia's you know, traditional roots are Flamenco because you know, we love a colonizers. But's like hold the conversation. But she's originally a Flamenco singer, So I'm wondering if they're going to do a little Flamenco in London. We'll see, Well,
British Men dancing is a whole genre of movie. For whatever reason, they're like the full Monty and Billy Elliott, They're like, what if a British boy danced? What if? What if? What if the man dance? Though? Um, so that's funny that they were just like, well, we'll do that. Well, it'll be a crossover to the British man dance uh genre. All Right? That amazing. Go listen to the backdel cast for that and just always um, that is going to
do it for us for this Thursday, February nine. We're back tomorrow with the whole 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 supremacy, and we will talk to y'all tomorrow by stat spaces