Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of trend pr Sues Donald Trump.
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This is the episode where we tell you some of the things that are trending.
Tell you say what's trending?
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It is Wednesday, May twenty eighth. Eh mmm. There so a lot of people in my corner of the internet anyways talking about that dang rehearsal, which we won't spoil for you until tomorrow's episode. Yeah. Time finale happened over the weekend, very very good finale. But superroducer Victor found this old av Club interview with him from back in the early like Nathan for you days that I feel like is a good kind of Rosetta stone, like a decoder ring for like his whole shit.
Was he like, Yeah, I'm about to fuck up the aviation industry.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
He said I'm gonna be the comedy equivalent of nine to eleven when it comes to the aviation industry, which was a strong statement, I thought for him. No, it's just he says, you know how the mortgage thing happened in two thousand and eight, the housing market collapse, stock market collapsed. I got really obsessed with it because it was kind of the first big recession in my lifetime. I started reading all these books about it, trying to
understand how did this happen? Because we're this culture of corruption, but corruption that was just legal enough to squeak by. It all came down to these minor interactions that people would have with each other where someone would know something's wrong or unethical, but the other person just wouldn't want to speak up because the social environment wasn't conducive to that. So all these terrible things that happened, these big world events came down to basically two people in a room
with one person being too uncomfortable to speak their mind. Yeah, I think is true. Yeah, a lot of ways. Yeah, Yeah, as somebody who's just sat there and gotten a bad haircut, that I knew was bad as it was happening.
Oh, just tears running down your face, you good, buddy. Yeah, I fucking love it.
These tears are tears of love.
I like that. He goes on, he said, maybe it's more of a Canadian thing too, but I think it's everywhere. People do that everywhere in Canada. Maybe people are even less likely to rock the boat. Maybe starting there, I picked up on that stuff. I find that a lot of bigger things come down to the smaller moments.
Yeah, it's it's definitely common in the workplace. One of the details that jumped out to me from the finale that I don't think spoils anything, but I talked about them tomorrow's episode. But the uh, the the he's like gives the example of driving the back of an uber, Well, the uber driver is just like looking like watching a YouTube video or like scrolling through like a TikTok feed and like not paying attention to the road. And I've been in that situation. I have not said shit, yeah, yeah.
I remember once I've had I had a driver like taking turns so hard and yeah at one like brouh, we are right, we no, we don't we don't have to go that fast. I'm feeling wild back here. He's like, oh my bad, my bad, my bad, Like totally unaware. I was like, oh, okay, because in your mind you think they're gonna be like why don't you enjoy the That's why you're like, okay. In your mind you're like, I don't want that, and I will just roll the
dice with this. But this one was totally just oblivious to being like, I get it, man, you got so many people in the car. You're just trying to fucking get these people.
Just trying to get the next thing. Yeah, I'm sure a kind word and just like a little bit of thought on my part of like, how's a good what's a good way to sit subject with that.
Being like can I see it?
Can I see it the phone?
Yeah? This is so cool. Yeah, I'll tell you if there's a good one, I'm a skip to the next one.
I'll describe. How about this, You give me your phone, I'll describe them to you. Oh you just go for go forward like that what I do for a living. Describe YouTube videos my whole ship.
Annoying passenger who's about to get a zero rating? No, nothing, nothing, nothing.
I'll just give you a good rating. I don't want my rating hurt. The Yeah, the the whole season is about like pilots being able to communicate to one another weirdly, but it's very compelling if people aren't watching it, highly recommend. Kevin spacey Is remains back in the news somehow, he
is so fresh out. We talked on a recent episode about how he just won an award at Con that was like a good human award, like I forget the name of the thing, but it was like a It was like humanitarian, great great dude award.
No notes, the no notes award switch solid solid guy, no.
Notes, solid person who we can't say shit to. He rules.
Also because we also don't really talk about our own sexual press.
This is France. This is the film industry in France, Miles, there's nothing shady to see there.
Do not google Gerard Depardu.
Okay, but he is now going to be directing a new movie. This is going to be his first in more than twenty years, and it sounds even worse and more embarrassing than I would have expected, because I think his last one, the last thing he directed, I thought was that b Darren movie where he was just like, I am going to be this singer because I think I'm really good at should have been a crooner, Yeah,
should have been a crooner. He played Bobby Darren and Beyond the Sea, a lifelong dream project who took on co writing, directing, co producing, and starring duties in the biography biographical musical about Darren's life. But yeah, that it was just like a thing where people like, we really don't want you in this yeah, and he was like, oh, yeah, well check this shit out, and then nobody went and saw it because nobody wanted to watch role.
Yeah.
But anyways, this new one sounds like it's a new direction.
Okay.
It's called Hull of Guards. It's set in the future in which humanity has been fractured by hidden supernatural forces and the two rival war. Your group's wage a secret war for control of humanity's fate. There's mind control. There's a cosmic portal that can awaken an ancient force known as the Prime. Presumably because he's trying to sell it strama.
The Bazosians do triumph in the end.
Though it's it's why it's starring Dolph Lungren and Eric Roberts. It's the most like to DVD ass thing that I've ever heard, or I guess direct to streaming, Like it's seems like unless it's like, yeah, we're actually taking those movies and like doing a thing with the idea of direct to streaming projects that like never make see the light of day. But again, that's a bad idea. No, this feels like nobody watches those this is such.
A bad such a bad concept. And then like a cast of people you could truly give a fuck less about and they're like, yeah, man, this is this feels like the movie equivalent of like one Last job. Yeah, let's you know what, they say we shouldn't do it, and maybe we're past it, and you know what, they're right, but we're gonna do it anyway and no one's gonna care.
My haters said I couldn't do it, and they were right into them. Good called by my hate call by my haters. Yeah, this feels like one of those, just like just like his last directing project.
There's the hol of Guards and the static guards who wrote this.
Oh yeah, dude, the hol of Guards. It it feels like something that like somebody wrote in a trapper keeper when they were twelve.
Oh yeah, hollow holly, Like we're talking holographic shit. Yeah, that's the seventies eighties. I'm sorry, we're past the hollow anything.
All right. Big news for Jaws fans, an endurance swimming, news for me, Big news for me, news in my life. An endurance swimmer swam around Martha's vaneyard. It took them like twelve days. It's a sixty mile swim. They never said they were a speed swimmer. And just to be like.
I love Jaws, I'm swimming around Martha's vineyard.
They were trying to make the point that like, hey, look at this, I Am not going to be eaten by a shark because that's shark blue.
Right, yeah, I mean yeah, we've always talked about on the show how Jaws basically opened the door for like just out of control of shark hunting. In Sharkfish, I don't know if it's called shark hunting, shark fishing, shack conte shock kind of. Oh this guy is okay, he's fifty five. Oh so he was what five years old when jos.
When Jaws came out. I'm yeah, fiftieth anniversary of Jaws, so yeah. They were five when it came out and said they want to highlight the perilous plate of sharks around the world. Look, how not eaten by a fucking shark? I am At the end of this completed the swim in a pair of speedo's, even though a skinny dip would have obviously been the best way to honor the film's legacy. It's reported he wasn't even drunk.
Again, like respect the source material.
Man, how am I supposed to believe that the shark wouldn't have eaten you? If you you know, it's like when I eat a Thanksgiving turkey, I don't put a little speedo on it, you know.
Yeah, that's true. Well, I wonder if he's he's a British South African. I wonder if he swam over for safety. Where Steven Spielberg bro he answer for this?
He has this quote where he said, I truly and to this day regret the decimation of the shark population because of the book and the film.
Oh, the famous book.
But I mean it was the book's idea.
Wow. Wow wow wow wow wow. I'm gonna blame Hitler y'all. To be honest, I'm not.
Gonna blame it all on nine to eleven, but it certainly didn't help.
Yeah, I don't know if we'd be here if they didn't happen.
Yeah, throwing the book in before the film, I mean great. Yeah. Peter Benchley has always been like, I really wish I hadn't unleashed this fear of sharks onto the world, because sharks are actually amazing and like they don't attack people the way they do in this fictional film. And Spielberg was like, yeah, man, you shouldn't have done that shit, You fuck.
So fucked up rude. Everyone when they hear dud dud, they think of your book full and I'd be I'd be pretty fucked up about it if I were you. Not me, though, I'm fine.
That's one of the things I still fear not to get eaten by a shark. The sharks are somehow mad at me for the feeding frenzy of crazy sport fishermen that happened after nineteen seventy five.
That's what Spielberg said.
Yeah, I'm not scared to get eaten by them because they don't do that shit.
But yeah, you know, but if they're mad at me, that really breaks my heart if they're mad at me. I hate to think that there's a group of just like a.
Cartoon shark with frownie eyebrows, little steam puffs coming out of its ears.
They're like Shakespeare in Love should have won Best Picture. I don't care what happened in ninety eight. I don't care. That's that's tough. That's tough. Well, but it's I.
Mean it is. I don't know that you know, who knows if it was specifically caused by the movie. But shockingly, more than a third of shark species are now at risk of extinction.
Damn.
So that's where we're at. These are sharks have been around forever. They've been around millions and.
Millions of years, millions years. Okay, yeah, I thought something from the seventies or something they found out.
Yeah, since at least the late seventies, seventies.
What is this stuff.
Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back.
We're back.
MPR over the weekend sued Donald Trump over funding cuts.
Yeah, you don't have First Amendment protected free speech anymore. That's basically what all this is. It's like everything we've seen from the Harvard defunding or and NPR stuff. It's all just you said something I'm against or I don't like. Therefore, if you disagree with me, you have no right to and you now have caused damages by speaking differently than what I believe.
Is even trying to like hide it or like present an alternative motive, Like it seems like he's just being like, yeah, no, that's what you get. Everybody will recall that I am corrupt, right therefore will defund you for being mean to me. I don't know that, Like it's he even bothering to present an alternate explanation.
There doesn't even need to be, you know. That's the thing now with this, with that Supreme Court decision last year and now this this guy and the whole administration is like, but what the foho gonna check me? Boom Yeah, but they're but then every fucking week they do something that's somehow beyond the pale for the moment, and people are like, what the fuck is actually no, no, no, that was that. We didn't mean that. We didn't mean that,
we didn't mean that. It's like it is clear that like there's a lot of momentum behind what they're doing. They really feel like they can't be touched and yeah, you talk against us, we will just straight up fuck the constitution. It's nothing. This is just it has happened. And then with the with the Harvard thing, they're like, oh, so did Baron get rejected?
Is that? Why? Is that why y'all are man? Because he is really highlighting Harvard specifically.
I don't know. I mean, like, you know, he's in that school. You know people kind of end up going to ivy leagues. I know that's like a big thing with your school. But is that something? And you know, now, mommy Milangnia had to come out and reply and said, no, quote, Baron did not apply to Harvard, and any assertion that he or that anyone on his behalf applied is completely false.
Okay, hmm okay, he's at NYU.
Is that where he went? Yep?
Yeah, interesting, all right. We talked to yesterday about how the maga eras upon us in streaming and television that everybody's like bending over backwards to take a positive read on shows that can be phrased as like heartland or like kind of right leaning, and we just wanted to highlight that Duck Dynasty because one of the original people from that show just passed away, but they were already and talks about bringing that show back, and it's going
to premiere this summer summer of twenty twenty five on A and COOL. I didn't catch Duck Dynasty the first time around.
No, it was repellent to people who like feared racists or what they thought like a TV version of a racist person.
To me, it was just a reality show about racists, right.
They looked like people who were hunting slaves. That's the vibe I got from that fam with a little zz top beards and shit say Zzy Top, like you know, was easy top, but like their whole energy was like, these are not the kind of people. If I was in a like on a road trip through the Sala, they'd like, excuse me, do you you know I'm gonna
keep it moving. I will keep it moving. But yeah, Duck, This I think goes along with everything they're It satiates the need to to regress culturally, to go to more conservative kind of content, and also the sort of Hollywood industry need to not come up with anything new, just dust off something old.
Yeah, that's like a fucking just slam dunk Yeah, bitch slam Duok. Guys, what if we brought dunk Duck Dynasty, Dunk Dynasty, Hey, dunk Dynasty, that can be brought Dunk DNA.
I would rather watch Dunk Dynasty about people who were running, like trying like a franchise ease of dunkin Dot. I don't even know if those are franchises, but sign me up for people talking about duncan. I don't care, Just not Duck Dynasty.
Sorry, I was thinking Dunk Dynasty could be like about the Lob City Clippers.
It's got it, we got it, Jack, we're trying to catch after that mag audience too. I think we can agree Dunk dunkin Donuts.
You're way off. You need to get your mind around the new world that we.
Were Jack twenty twenty five, Man Dunk.
You know white men who persevered around the discrimination that they faced due to DEI and were able to launch a successful dunkin Donuts. Is that better?
Um?
Yeah?
Or maybe it's just about Brent Barry.
Okay.
People were like this white boy can't win no dunk contract. His dad shot free throws like a fucking grandma.
It is a dynasty because his dad is an NBA player, and.
Uh Brent John Uh that's his brother. His brother was John right, and then who was his dad? What was the dad called Barry? Also Barry Barry, Barry Barry. But anyway, Rick Rick, that's right, Rick.
Barry, ultimate white seventies guy named Yo Rick.
Just have it be about the berries. That's Dunk Dynasty. Okay, fuck it, I'd rather that than anything.
Seven Up is confirming the return of a limited edition flavor that was very popular when it was last and that is Shirley Temple Flavor.
Oh wait, there was a legit Shirley Temple flavor.
Yeah, I guess so. I remember there was this cherry seven up back in the eighties. Yeah, I still like remember the color of the camp. It's like a very light pink. Anyway, shout out to seven Up. I prefer seven up to sprite. It's a little it's a little lighter, a little bit crispier. You actually not crispier, but like lighter for you prefer seven up to sprite, you said to spray.
Yeah, okay, So this is my last episode, y'all. Jack should know that is I haven't had it in a long time. Jack that's anti black to say you don't like sprite.
I didn't say I don't like sprite. I said I like seven up.
I said I don't like black, like if white.
I just said I like white people, and I think they should have their own entertainment network.
Damn. I used to remember feeling so cool, like, you know, like as a kid, you were ordering like a fucking coke or whatever you like. Yeah, Shirley Temple roy Rogers.
Yeah, give me a roy Rogers over here.
And I remember like that, I didn't realize you could buy grenadine, like at the store. And when I remember one day my dad brought him a bottle of grenadine. My mom took this shit away because I was doing like fifty fifties.
Yeah, I definitely you know, I was a Shirley Temple roy Rogers bitch. I was like, yeah, can I get a roy Rogers. Every time we would go to a restaurant, Oh, just thick ass syrup poured into already impossible the syrup. Yeah, yeah, another syrup filled drink? And could I get a Canadian roy Rogers where you actually put some maple syrup in
there a topper? And finally, if we didn't already love this new pope enough white Sox fan, Vance hater, Chicago hates Vance, and he's American, which is implied by the Chicago thing.
So we can we can, we can forgive the homophobia. Yeah for a pope, Yeah, exactly, just kind of guy.
Is also a little bit suspicious of AI.
It sounds like yep yep. So the AI pope was trending to was like, what the fuck it's like? Do you get another like drippy AI photo of the Pope? No, So it turns out quote in his first address to the cardinals, he explained that he actually chose the name Leo the fourteenth because of AI. I said, what the is this like a Wu tang name generator? That's right, like pope name generator. The name is a reference to the previous Pope, Leo the thirteenth, who held the position
during the Industrial Revolution in the late nineteenth century. That former pontiff weighed in on how rising capitalism and the new technology of the day risked turning workers into commodities. The Catholic Church argued should stand up for workers rights
and dignity. And then this is what Leo the fourteenth, our boys said, quote in our own day, the church offers everyone the treasury of its social teaching and response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that post new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice, and labor, and goes on to be like again that the Catholic Church should assume this role, to sort of be like, you can't turn workers into commodities.
There's even a reason why there's like we even say there's a day you can rest because we're trying to tell people to not be working all the fucking time. Not to say that the Catholic Church was started as a labor rights organization, but that's where Leo sort of sees his tuition and everything.
Yeah, yeah, see.
What he does. See what you got, Leo, See what you got.
Considering the last time we saw religion and AI intersect, it was like an AI priest who would like take your confessions, and it was really and like it was like, you can confess directly to Jesus.
I think that's probably the thing. He's like, you're not taking my fucking job.
This is just pure job protection.
I mean, what do you think about the hallucinations? He's like I don't know what you're talking about, but this fucker will not take our jobs. That's where I'm at.
These computers will not replace us.
Thank you, Pope, Yike Slippery Slope.
For all right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday, May twenty eighth. We're back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccines where you still can get your flu shots, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye bye bye.
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