Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of trend Manuel Miranda. It's it's been a long time coming that we give lin Manuel Miranda his his flowers on this trending. I'm jack that over there. Well that is TDZ writer J M mcnap. No, not much. We spent about thirty minutes talking about lin Manuel Miranda and like just how like no one has ever gone from like people think he's cool to just like being transparently corny, like so quickly, um, in such a brief period of time. But I couldn't
remember like how we got to that. We we started off at like as we were going through the trends talking about that his appearance on House. Were you a House fan? Jam, Yeah, I've seen it. I remember being one. I remember like people's parents watching it, but yeah I didn't. I know people loved Hugh Laurie, but I just remember thinking his American accents sounded kind of odd. Yeah, yeah, I might have to see it again, but I really want to watch this. I want to watch the lin
Manuel Miranda ar so liman. Like at one point House becomes addicted to vicodins or percocets, uh, and he is like in a rehab that, like that show was for for being ostensibly a medical drama, had like the most basic ass like five year old understanding of how like medicine works, because like the house goes to like a psych word for his rehab and like li Manuel Miranda is like pathologically annoying, is like that seems to be
what he suffers from. He's his roommate. Um. And he's also a rapper who like doesn't have his flow, like needs houses help to like get his flow back. Um and all very very embarrassed, like just so cringe, which I haven't seen it, but I'm a hundred percent sure someone gets cured with the power of music at some point. I believe he does have his flowback by the end. Um. But anyways, wrapped all the way around, we're looking for a sixth trend and lo and behold the Little Mermaid
teaser dropped. Um. And I believe Li Manuel Miranda is adding raps to this one because like all children, I think he just got like first whack at all children's content that has been made over the past ten years. I mean, I know he's he's a little embarrassing, and maybe he's not doing his best work, but the amount of times like I've pacified screaming children with the Moana soundtrack, I feel like earns some kind of award that's not
a Tony uh yes, but he yeah. He Also he also produced The Little Mermaid and uh, I guess he's he might be playing Chef Louis. It's like and like a testament to his character that he managed to stop himself from casting himself as Prince Eric, because that is like he is always putting himself in places in his productions where like Hamilton's. He made himself Hamilton's even though he was like the worst actor by far out of the bunch um and it showed. It was like all right.
When I finally saw it, I was like, wait, why is nobody talking about the fact that he's like he's so bad and like not charismatic but like that, so we just kind of let it slide um great ways. I was like, I'm not gonna sit here and pretend like I wasn't into Hamilton's when when it first came out, I was, I I am a horrible white like all
the rest was into it. Well, also, he has become just like the Disney guy now it seems like because he was in like the Mary Poppins that was another like low bar kind of uh job because he cast he was like the chimney sweep kind of guy. Yeah, which and he didn't have a great accent, but it was still like, you know, the bar was Dick van Dyke the worst accents. Uh. So, anyways, we got the
Little Mermaid teaser. I was very curious to see who they were going to put in the Prince Eric role because Prince Eric has always stood out to me as one of the least charismatic animated characters of all time. Like he for whatever reason, like he has like some real Pete samprasass energy, like and and he came out like Pete Sampras was like the the boring tennis star all like the boring answer to Andre Agacy, like in the early nineties, just like it's a it. But so
it was a Little Mermaid. So I mean, you're gonna tell me you know the Little Mermaid, but you don't know Pete Sampras. Yeah, um, it's a real boring ass person. So I was curious what they were going to do with that, because yeah, I thought he looked kind of like a young Bob Sagga. He's definitely got some sag it to him too, But yeah, also looks like he could smash aforehand. You know, they should just like when I intended it this, she was just had like a
c G I young Pete Sampras for this movie. But it's some guy I don't I don't even remember his name. I've never heard of him before. Yeah, just some twenty seven year old former Disney actor or maybe not. I don't even know. I just they wanted Harry Styles apparently, but he said no wisely. Anyways, it looks cool, Sure, let's do it. Um. I still don't know like what they're going to do with Sebastian or flounder, like be as the problem that we all saw with Lion King.
Although it made all the money in the world and his top ten most box office of any movie, it's still was not great. And it was because you couldn't have emotions coming out like these live animals. Like you can make it look like their mouths were moving, but you weren't going to make it look like they were suffering from the same emotions as Hamlet. You know, Yeah, Sebastian is a crab. Rights as a crab, Like, how are you going to make a crab charming? I'm disgusting.
Crabs are scary, man anyways, So they still haven't answered that. Um but like, I don't know, Ariel looks cool and ship and like the underwater stuff. I'm a sucker for underwater stuff. So that's been teaser corner. Raquel Welsh has died. I know that she was a famous actress in the sevent d s. What what what can you tell me? Jam?
I mean, I you know, her kind of height of fame I guess was a little before our time, but like I certainly remember seeing her and when I'd watch old movies with my parents, like you know, Fantastic Voyage and stuff like that. Um, yeah, she was like, uh you know, an icon yeah, and uh and and she was great. I mean I think probably a lot of people our age remember her more from when she played
herself on Seinfeld and I don't remember that. Oh she like she played herself and she wouldn't move her arms when she tap danced. And so the producers of the show tried to get Kramer to fire her because he had a tony for the show that he he got because he was a seat filler. Anyways, she was getting that unte and the third Oh yeah, that's the one film. I'm looking through all of her films and that is the one that I have seen. And I think I remember from that oh illegally Blonde, and I think she
won a Golden Globe. I was reading for the Three Musketeers. I think like early in her career she was great. Yeah, it's uh yeah, that's sad to here, said loss Um. Less. Sad to hear that the Nazi guy from the Charlottesville White Power rally passed away by his own hand. It would appear in Missouri, h Teddy von Nukum. So, I mean,
the main reason I'm bringing this up. I don't have much to say other than that a lot of people are posting the famous image has two very prominent Nazis in it, and one has like a white tennis polo shirt and looks like Beck Bennett and he's like gone, he like looks really angry, like a spoiled kid who just who's like give me back my porridge or like you know, like something poor. I don't price boil Bridge, kids don't have port but like, give me back my
Ferrari Dady like that he has like that energy. Um, that's not the one who died, but I'm seeing a lot of people. It is the other one who just looked like a like blandly handsome member of Cobra Kai, like just you know, blond dude with a buzz cut, like a background kind of Yeah, exactly, that is that Von Newcombe? How how is like put the death on the backburner for a minute. His name was Teddy von Newcomb.
He gave himself that. He changed his name to that. Yeah, just to be like I want to be a fool Nazi bad guy um or maybe he that would just distract from the Nazi thing? Is it because of the video game? Though? Is that why he changed his name to that. I have to think so, Like the the Newcomb is not a word that I've heard otherwise. It is spelled n U k E M so um. Yeah. And then Teddy Vaughan I'm sure came from like some
Nazi he admired, and Teddy probably from famous Nazi Teddy ruxmen. Um. We have to assume if you ever listened to that second half of that cassette, it got really bad. Play
it backwards. Um, this is how we got to Limon Well Miranda for a half hour because we were talking about how all the Nazis had macklemore haircuts, and then we were like, McLemore really had that moment like where he won Best Rap Album of the Year despite the fact that it was the good kid Mad City came out, and then somebody speculated that, like, does Limon Well Miranda follow McLemore on social media? I don't think we ever figured that out because we then just started talking about
the house episode. Um, but it's all you know, the matrix is glitching all over the place because he's already discussed. So anyways, uh r, I p to Roquel Welsh, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back, and there's I don't know, there's like some standard news story like streaming in a historic first market tracker expects linear TV to account for less than half of daily viewing. I'm surprised that hasn't happened already, but
mainstream media is making a big deal about that. Have you heard of the streaming stuff jams? Pretty wild? Right, Yeah, it's well, it's weird to watch regular TV, like I don't have cable. I have an antenna that I sometimes use if it's something I have to watch live. And it's it's real wild to just see commercials. Like my when I plug that in and we watched TV, like my children are taken aback, like they don't know what
it is. Do your children thrill two commercials? Though? My children like are desperate, like I want, I want to skip through commercials when like a sporting event is on, but they they only tune in for the commercials. They don't give a shit about the sporting event. But they
and not just the super Bowl. Like when I'm watching a local broadcast of like the seventy sixers versus the San Antonio Spurs and it's the Spurs broadcast and so I'm looking at like San Antonio local restaurant commercials, They're like, whoa, this is fascinating. Dad, get the car, we have to go there now, pack a bag. Yeah, that's a fish restaurant in San Antonio. Yeah, I remember, like we caught
at the riverwalk. I'm sorry. We were at like family's house or something and we watched TV and there was a toy commercial and it was like the first toy commercial they'd ever seen, and it blew their minds and they were like, we have to have this toy. They've never been had something advertised to them before in their lives. Yeah, I mean, all we watch the streaming, that's why. Yeah, I'm surprised to hear that. You but I like, yeah, the mainstream media like making a big deal of it
is of course you know they would. It's you know, it's their relevancy kind of slipping away. Yeah, that It is so wild to like when, uh, we we have one TV like doesn't have any streaming, you know, it doesn't have like Apple TV or anything, isn't a smart TV. And when we're near that, we have a couple of Nickelodeon shows that they like to watch that you know, I will try and fast forward through. But if I'm doing something else and the the toy ads are just
so fucking insidious, It's like, how did we survive? It's there? Yeah. Anyways, Um, New York Times front page is all about the US debt, US on track to add nineteen trillion dollars in new debt. There, they always get real worried about debt when there's a Republican or a Democrat in the White House, and Republicans are making bad faith arguments. Like the whole front page of the New York Times is like the top above, the full section is all about US debt. Budget Office
warns of possible default between July and September. Lawmaker spar over Social Security even as its costs are rising fast. So like just all of these things that are just playing to you know, fiscal conservative talking points essentially. Yeah, which, of course, yeah, this is this is our left leaning mainstream media in in the United States. It's complete horseship. And Matt gets is get sing away with it. That
appears that he's not his his lawyer, says uh. An investigation that examined whether he broke federal laws focused on his relationships with women recruited online and whether he had sex with a seventeen year old girl. Justice departments decided to just let that one slide. There's yeah, so this person is a clear piece of ship. I mean, there's not a lot of evidence, to be fair, there's not. I mean, it's it's just a lot of you know,
you know, testimonies and doctrines and things. Oh is that it? Yeah, it's just you know, like things he's done and said that kind of thing write other than that. Um. Yeah. And finally, the thing that everyone seems to be talking about is Penn Badgeley. Um, who is the guy from Gossip Girl. I think, yeah, he's like damn from gossip Girl and he's in You, the Netflix show that he's in you right now. No, he will never be in you jam because he has come out now he's in
this show that everybody's talking about. It's like about this really toxic, you know, sort of sociopath who's in a relationship and you're supposed to root against him, but they make him very compelling anti hero ship. Anyways. Um, he's come out and been like, I refuse to do sex scenes in movies because it's not fair to my partner.
It's just like a thing that has been taken for granted for a long time when it comes to like actors like do that right, Like that's what we do as an actor, as you just pretend, and like it's kind of weird because like, on one hand, it's like good for that man, like if that's what is important
to him. On the other hand, it like suggests that like other actors like like all perverts like, you know, we talk about Sean Bean who who was like intimacy coordinators spoiled the spontaneity, and if that's if that's the other side of the coin, then yeah, I would I would err on the side of Penn Badgley. But both of these seem to both sides of that coin. Seemed to suggest that like they're adding something out of the thing and not just acting, which is yeah, well it's
it's weird. Yeah. When I saw that quote circulating, I had the thought like, oh, maybe he's been on some like bad sets or like where there wasn't like an intimacy coordinator, or you know, the filmmakers weren't being respectful. But then yeah, reading the interview, it sounds like it's more like a personal decision he's making, which you know, it's it's up to like, you know, obviously I don't think you would take a job in like an erotic thriller and then argue that he shouldn't have sex scenes.
But he'll probably you know, choose steer. Yeah, and you know that's you know, it's up to his comfort level. But which is fine. But it was when I read the quotes that did a little sound like I don't want anyone falling in love with me. Um, but I'm sure that's not what he meant. Uh. Yeah, it is weird because, yeah, I feel like we're at a time where I keep hearing two different conversations going on online, one being that's Hollywood needs to deal with sex scenes differently.
The way they're filmed and the way like the power is distributed on sets is not always equitable or or or handled sensitively. But there's this also the sense, I think from the audience standpoint that has nothing to do with how you know something's filmed. It should always be done in a respectful, fair manner with someone who's profession it is to to oversee that, like absolutely. But on top of that, I've seen a lot of people talking about like how movies don't have much sex anymore in general,
Like it seems as though that kind of genre has thriller. Yeah, you know, I want to see these like erotic thrillers from like the eighties and nineties get like the Star Wars treatment now where it's like a legacy sequel where like someone someone finds Michael Douglas and you know, he takes them under his wing or something as the like investigator of a erotic serial killer. Yeah, or like Sharon stone is you know, yeah, has to mentor someone and
a new ice pick killer. That's right, it could be fun, very fun. Pem Badgley will not be starring in that reboot, um problem, or he will and it'll just be a totally different thing. But yeah, it does. It does feel like a lot of the Internet and a lot of the reaction from young people has been like, thank you, no more sex in our movies. And I think that's fine. Like that people who are like, we're going in this puritanical direction, Um, I don't know that that's fully the case.
I don't know that this is the the canary in the coal mine that we that we necessarily think it is. No And to be fair, like I was just talking about movies, like TV is filthy, Like, yeah, that's true. TV is pretty fay. It is. It is crazy to like turn on TV and see the amount of like nudity and violence on there. Like when I was a kid, I had to sneak into con Air because I wasn't old enough and like to think of what you can just see turning on a TV. Now, my con Air
was Lethal Weapon three. That's what I and then my dad got in trouble with the theater because he bought me the tickets and then was like, all right, I'm taking your little sister to see fern Gully. Uh, you guys going to Lethal Weapon three. And we went in and the fucking like some narcass usher came in and it was like, you guys need to get out of here. So that's how young we were. Was that, like we were ruining someone's enjoyment of late the Weapon three by
just being there. So then I went and saw the second half of fern Gully probably holds up better to be honest, Yeah, oh yeah for sure. But I thought that soulful Eric Clapton sting song from the Lethal Weapon three soundtrack was really cool at the time. I have bad taste, Like I think we've established that like that and Hamilton's or my jam. Anyways, J m McNabb, such a pleasure having you. Where can people find you? Follow you?
You can follow me on Twitter if it's still around when you're listening to this, it's uh at J m McNabb again. There you go. All right, that's gonna do it for us this afternoon back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourself, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Fight