Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Matrix
Speaker 1: Trends Directions. Uh, trends directions. I'm trying. I'm Jack, you
Speaker 1: are Miles. We are in the matrix. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you guys heard. I knew it all along. Was
Speaker 1: the matrix the whole fucking time. Yeah, yeah, so that
Speaker 1: is the first trend we're talking about, matrix resurrections. The
Speaker 1: trailer dropped. I think people are pretty excited, except for
Speaker 1: superproducer Brian. Yeah, not not feeling it, but I I
Speaker 1: thought it looked dope. I liked that there's like a
Speaker 1: full color palette this time around. It's very colorful. I
Speaker 1: mean so many films too, Like even people had complaints
Speaker 1: about like a lot of the Marvel films being really
Speaker 1: flat too, Like there's just been this look cinema, cinema
Speaker 1: to graphically whatever that adjective is. But yeah, that, um,
Speaker 1: there's there's not a lot of color for me. I
Speaker 1: just look the second I see fucking John Wick as Neil.
Speaker 1: Even though I'm look, I'm still having a little bit
Speaker 1: of trouble and not seeing John Wick when he's got
Speaker 1: that long ass hair and like the shaggy beard, but
Speaker 1: him and carry and moss that like last frame when
Speaker 1: like they're holding hands just jumping off the building, I
Speaker 1: was like, yes, bro, let's go, let's go, let's fucking
Speaker 1: dive into the matrix. Yeah, so it seems like they
Speaker 1: have an explanation for why they are older, which is
Speaker 1: this is a new matrix. They don't realize they're in
Speaker 1: the matrix at the beginning of the trailer and yeah,
Speaker 1: so they must have been out in reality they got
Speaker 1: red pilled and then put back into the matrix. And
Speaker 1: so now it's, uh, that's a smart move. I'm saying,
Speaker 1: get smart, move, sick move, sick move mate, way to
Speaker 1: get in done, Lana the Yeah, they look like they're
Speaker 1: they know that they've got a red pill problem. So
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see what they do with that. But overall,
Speaker 1: I'm I guess the one thing for me that is
Speaker 1: I guess a disappointment is like I wanted to see
Speaker 1: a new thing that completely flipped filmmaking on its head,
Speaker 1: but I think that's a little too Uh, that's a
Speaker 1: that's a big ask to make, Like, well, where's that
Speaker 1: bullet time, Like, where's y'all had twenty three years? What
Speaker 1: the fuck? But other than that. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: for the geriatric mollinials out there my friend group, we
Speaker 1: were all like, oh my god, let's go back. M
Speaker 1: I'm going back baby, Alright, Palin is trending. Why what?
Speaker 1: She's just fucking trying hard. You know. She's she's sort
Speaker 1: of like Donald Trump too, or like if she becomes
Speaker 1: a just slightly around event, she's got to do her
Speaker 1: damnedest to fucking, you know, make some headlines. And in
Speaker 1: this one, she made some headlines because she said, here,
Speaker 1: I'll just play the clip because we'll give her a
Speaker 1: little bit of oxygen, because she's in the depths of hell. Um.
Speaker 1: This is her, you know, realizing Hey, you know, you
Speaker 1: know what gets headlines if you talk about Alexandria Kasio
Speaker 1: Cortez take it away, Sarah, Wow, aoc, she's really milk
Speaker 1: in this isn't She has such a fake feminist that
Speaker 1: she would bring up an issue like this and try
Speaker 1: to use it to make some kind of political point
Speaker 1: that that's not that's not equality, right, it's oh man,
Speaker 1: I don't even get me started on this. I'm sick
Speaker 1: what she has done. She should be embarrassed to even
Speaker 1: have tried to bring up an issue like that and
Speaker 1: make her political point. She saw based politically but off
Speaker 1: base even in this analogy or whatever it is that
Speaker 1: she's throwing out there, she's she's milking the whole. Female,
Speaker 1: You're milking the whole. But do you know the topic
Speaker 1: she's talking about. She's like, I can't believe she's talking
Speaker 1: about this, talking about the fucking abortion band in Texas? Right,
Speaker 1: what is that? What could that possibly have to do
Speaker 1: with feminism? Oh? My god? And like I mean, but
Speaker 1: don't even when someone says don't even get me started,
Speaker 1: they have nothing to even get started on. That's almost
Speaker 1: always the case. That's like I'm trying to end, like
Speaker 1: please interject with now your words. This is me handing
Speaker 1: the baton, do you because I'm saying I have I'm
Speaker 1: just making it up as I go. No, seriously, don't
Speaker 1: don't get me started. Don't don't don't get me started
Speaker 1: because literally I can't sert. Don't allow me to start
Speaker 1: if you start me up, because then I can't start this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you know, came back back and forth alc.
Speaker 1: Just like like I don't know, like once you cry
Speaker 1: about it, just nonsense. But that's people love a good
Speaker 1: Sarah Palem sound bite. Mm hmm um, we'll shout out
Speaker 1: to her. Uh you know that is um, I don't
Speaker 1: know that. That was pretty like surprisingly ineloquent, even for
Speaker 1: Sarah Palin, which that's yeah, I mean, but that just
Speaker 1: shows you kind of where it's easier when you have
Speaker 1: to like bullshit around topics that make sense. But when
Speaker 1: your own party and platform is such a contradiction and
Speaker 1: has no like grounding and like even philosophically, like that
Speaker 1: isn't just a parody of itself, you can't really say
Speaker 1: things earnestly like and be really articulate because what is
Speaker 1: she I don't know what she could say, like as
Speaker 1: Sarah Palin's position that she's like, how dare you evoke feminism?
Speaker 1: Because we are as conservatives are the you know, guardians
Speaker 1: of of equality for you know, like what do you mean?
Speaker 1: Like I don't even know, like what's the position exactly,
Speaker 1: because it's more just probably likes and white supremacist. What
Speaker 1: do you what exactly? How can you say and whatever?
Speaker 1: All Right, the d o J is trending. O J
Speaker 1: is always trying to trend there, so thirsty, so thirsty,
Speaker 1: but they are suing Texas over the abortion ban, saying
Speaker 1: that the state enacted the law in open defiance of
Speaker 1: the Constitution, which seems to be true. Yeah see how
Speaker 1: that goes? Yeah right, it seems okay, that can't no
Speaker 1: lies detected here in open to find. Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: about that's yeah, yeah, okay, So what next? What are
Speaker 1: you doing here? Um? Yeah, this is you know, as
Speaker 1: they said, as Mark Garland said, they're they're gonna look
Speaker 1: at all their options to make sure that they protect
Speaker 1: people's access to abortions down there. So uh yeah, this
Speaker 1: is this seems like the obvious choice for try and
Speaker 1: have a permanent injunction, being like, uh, yeah, my honor,
Speaker 1: this uh is just an open defiance of the Constitution.
Speaker 1: I rest my case America out Going through the courts
Speaker 1: after the Supreme Court has sided against you seems hard.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, maybe maybe not. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I look, this is where we we let the ship
Speaker 1: go off into the night and say, oh, miss that boat.
Speaker 1: I'm not a legal scholar, but yeah, I know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think this seems like a winnable case from my
Speaker 1: very ignorant point of view. Um. But more than that,
Speaker 1: how about the things that you know Congress can do,
Speaker 1: like make these things fucking lost. How about you do that?
Speaker 1: You got the fucking votes. You're just not willing to
Speaker 1: really fucking put Joe Mansion's back to the wall and
Speaker 1: be like funk around and find out. But it seems like,
Speaker 1: especially as you know, as it relates to the infrastructure bill,
Speaker 1: people think he's gonna bend in that sense. But I
Speaker 1: don't know it's which way, like actually let it happen. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's that guy. It's not a good look when you're
Speaker 1: the senator from a state that has a lot of
Speaker 1: people in knee and you're openly saying people don't need ship.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you run like on that platform,
Speaker 1: but hey, this is America. Stranger things about. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and
Speaker 1: we're back, and perceived is trending. Mm hmm. Why because
Speaker 1: it's so stupid. Okay, So the reason perceived is trending
Speaker 1: is because of a larger quote from Chris Christie who's
Speaker 1: talking about like where the GOP is going. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're having a day right now. Uh. He said the
Speaker 1: GOP needs to be quote the party that's perceived to
Speaker 1: be telling the American people the truth. They just need
Speaker 1: to be perceived party. Everyone's like everyone goes perceived. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to hang onto that word because you mean
Speaker 1: just lie better, right? Oh god, that's I mean, that's
Speaker 1: just saying the the like focus groups, market speak, that
Speaker 1: is of the conversation that he has during his day
Speaker 1: to day life, just like using that to make a
Speaker 1: public statement. Look, it's all about perceptions, and we be
Speaker 1: perceived as telling the American people that we can't actually
Speaker 1: tell the There's a lot of the things we say
Speaker 1: that are the truth and end up really coming to
Speaker 1: pass or and then we just realize it's all fucking lies.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna have to fake a truth at some
Speaker 1: point to make this stuff seem like the because what
Speaker 1: do you do is change your whole platform around. If
Speaker 1: you're gonna be perceived as telling the truth, then in
Speaker 1: regards to anything, what what are you? How do you remedy?
Speaker 1: I'm I'm failing to understand how they do that. This
Speaker 1: is part of like when you google his name that
Speaker 1: they're like three kind of big news stories that are
Speaker 1: like Christie steps out of Trump's shadow and Stokes buzz X.
Speaker 1: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is reportedly launching a comeback tour,
Speaker 1: and his insight is, we gotta we gotta act like
Speaker 1: we're telling the truth out here, because that's isn't that
Speaker 1: like the the most fundamental like political principle. But they did.
Speaker 1: They put the pedal to the metal to the all
Speaker 1: the lying and ship and hardcore lying, like not democrat
Speaker 1: broken promises and like half truth line, but like straight
Speaker 1: up just being like, yeah, the fucking sky is green, y'all,
Speaker 1: let's go um when you go there, Yeah, just it's
Speaker 1: there's I don't know how you come back, So I
Speaker 1: guess they are. I don't know. I'm I'm still don't
Speaker 1: understand how you you turn from being completely full of
Speaker 1: ship and then saying we have to be more truthful. Now,
Speaker 1: does that mean that that's some kind of sub tweet
Speaker 1: at Donald Trump and saying we need to oust him
Speaker 1: from the party because we have no fucking credibility at
Speaker 1: all and the only people that we do have credibility
Speaker 1: with think that people are straight up slamming adren of chrone,
Speaker 1: adrene of chrome out of kids and ship. I that's
Speaker 1: kind of a problem. And also when you look at
Speaker 1: how other people are campaigning against Republicans, they're just mere
Speaker 1: they're just merely gesturing to the fucking others handed it
Speaker 1: and they're like, y'all this this fool over here, ok, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: go off, do it with the bear who said he
Speaker 1: didn't need a mask when he kissed his bear. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm yeah, maybe he'll be your governor. I don't know.
Speaker 1: By the way, this guy is green once you take
Speaker 1: the red pill, as the matrix showed us exactly. OSHA
Speaker 1: is trending because Biden's new COVID plan is finally mobilizing
Speaker 1: O Shoda provide for workers. Yeah, you know, mandatory vaccinations
Speaker 1: are testing for large employers and paid time off for
Speaker 1: workers to get vaccinated. Yes, this is him again. Strategies
Speaker 1: we're seeing governors use. There's places where you know, people
Speaker 1: like Gavin Newsom, uh Kroger Brand, Patrick Bateman. You'll hear
Speaker 1: more about that um later, but that he and other
Speaker 1: governors who are facing like tough races, they've actually been
Speaker 1: energizing independence because they've been stricter with vaccine and mask mandates.
Speaker 1: And a lot of the polling is starting to show
Speaker 1: that seems to be something that is really motivating people
Speaker 1: to vote um, because a lot of people have you know,
Speaker 1: gotten a vaccine, realized that a lot of the issues
Speaker 1: that we have are born out of just instability because
Speaker 1: we have large pockets of the country that are unvaccinated. UM.
Speaker 1: And we also have leaders who are willing to just
Speaker 1: be like, I don't know, y'o, let's fucking have a
Speaker 1: COVID party in my state. I don't give a fuck. Um,
Speaker 1: And that seems to be really unsettling with a lot
Speaker 1: of voters. So this this sort of seems like Biden
Speaker 1: kind of also seeing that, oh, people like this, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get tougher, because a lot of the time
Speaker 1: he was just sort of like pump faking about it. Um.
Speaker 1: But it seems like this is something that's going to
Speaker 1: be announced. The fact that the truth and vaccinations versus
Speaker 1: anti like anti scientific, anti vaxxcor ship is a political
Speaker 1: winner is honestly the best political news I think I've
Speaker 1: heard show in a year, Maybe because I mean, every
Speaker 1: time you think we've hit peak bullshit from conservatives like
Speaker 1: they managed to impress us. But we're clearly entering a
Speaker 1: phase where now the bullshit is so like, on its
Speaker 1: face dangerous that they've just put the bar on the floor.
Speaker 1: And again, like I said, all like, Yeavin Newsom is
Speaker 1: just like, oh is this your governor, Larry Elder? Have
Speaker 1: you heard what? Then they only just says like, this
Speaker 1: is gonna be Rhonda Santis, this is gonna be Trump
Speaker 1: and just those names are not for people to be like,
Speaker 1: oh my god. Yeah. And finally, Blues Clues was trending
Speaker 1: for the past couple of days because on the anniversary
Speaker 1: of that shows premiere, the original Blues Clues host Steve Burns,
Speaker 1: Steven Burns came on and addressed Blues Clues viewers from
Speaker 1: decades ago and it, um, I missed this show is
Speaker 1: it's just fun? Like when I saw this, I'm like,
Speaker 1: why are we talking about this? Jack? You know, both
Speaker 1: of us don't know about blues cos I know about
Speaker 1: Blues Clues, but I watched I watched the fucking internet
Speaker 1: be like, oh, Steve, like motherfucking Gandalf came back and
Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings of Ship and I'm like, come
Speaker 1: with the turning of this time. I'm like, I don't
Speaker 1: know this, motherfucker, and I don't care Air, but I understand,
Speaker 1: But also part of my struggle is knowing I'm older.
Speaker 1: I'm older now, so a lot of this ship that's,
Speaker 1: you know, that's popping off our memes based on a
Speaker 1: lot of ship that I just was too fucked up
Speaker 1: to pay attention to my teenage years. Like I was
Speaker 1: just there enough to know about Blues Clues and know
Speaker 1: about this face. But other than that, it doesn't It
Speaker 1: did nothing for me. I got more out of the
Speaker 1: fucking seeing yah Yah Matine uh a dressed as mate
Speaker 1: as Morpheus and the fucking Matrix than seeing Steve from
Speaker 1: Blues Clues. What is Morpheus like dead in the Matrix?
Speaker 1: Is that? What? That's a Look, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: they're saying, why is yahya abdul Matine? Is he made Morpheus?
Speaker 1: Is he young Morpheus? Is he not Morpheus? Is he
Speaker 1: a parallel Morpheus? Yea, yeah, exactly. Yeah. So, UH did
Speaker 1: a little research on the one thing I knew about
Speaker 1: the Blues Clues host was that he left under mysterious circumstances,
Speaker 1: and he addressed that and said, like, look, the truth
Speaker 1: is I just like went to college and needed to
Speaker 1: go to college when I was like, I didn't want
Speaker 1: to be a children's host, but then like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I did a little bit of research, and this is
Speaker 1: going to make probably a whole generation of listeners mad
Speaker 1: at me. But it does seem like what happened is
Speaker 1: he wanted to pursue a music career and then the
Speaker 1: music career like didn't really take off, and so he
Speaker 1: just like kind of pretended that that didn't happen, and
Speaker 1: which is like, you know, um, he also like keeps
Speaker 1: keeps making reference to the fact that he was going
Speaker 1: bald on TV and like that they wouldn't let him
Speaker 1: shave his head because that would like freak the kids out, um,
Speaker 1: which is kind of funny and weird, but for less
Speaker 1: washed millennials, this is the equivalent of like hearing that
Speaker 1: the guy from the Chichen commerce Shoal or Bobby mcphern
Speaker 1: like jumped out of an airplane or like all the
Speaker 1: all the wild urban legends about like what happened to
Speaker 1: various celebrities. Apparently there were like all sorts of rumors
Speaker 1: that he died of a heroin overdose, that he uh
Speaker 1: died in a car accident. Was is so weird that
Speaker 1: they that they thought that he like wrote himself out
Speaker 1: out of the show so he could like go die
Speaker 1: or something. Right, quite quite clear on that, but anyways, Uh,
Speaker 1: it is really um a strange thing to behold outside
Speaker 1: of the context of like what the zeitgeist that kind
Speaker 1: of made this so kind of culturally and like emotionally
Speaker 1: uh meaningful to people. I was just like, oh, like
Speaker 1: when I read the statement that he made, um and
Speaker 1: people are like I was crying so much when he
Speaker 1: said that. You know, it was sweet. Yeah, I get why.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was very easy for me to understand
Speaker 1: why people were so taken by his re emergence or whatever.
Speaker 1: Just for me as an old motherfucker now as I
Speaker 1: as I call people who aren't even forty yet, um
Speaker 1: that I just was just like, just I don't know,
Speaker 1: put Redman and method Man together, just tell me something like,
Speaker 1: I'm like red name, method Man and Steve from Blues
Speaker 1: Clues or who would it be. I'm thinking realistically, right,
Speaker 1: who would it be from my fucking childhood? Let me
Speaker 1: show up right now? And I'm like this, dude, for
Speaker 1: I think I used to get it when, you know,
Speaker 1: like when I would see fucking Christopher Lloyd and Michael J.
Speaker 1: Fox like team Up, you know in the latter years
Speaker 1: to be Marty and Doc Brown and Ship Burton, like
Speaker 1: coming on Jeopardy because Reading Rainbow was like such a
Speaker 1: for like younger people like that. Oh yeah, the Reading
Speaker 1: Rainbow revival that that hit different, um, but yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what shout out to if that gave you a
Speaker 1: dopamine boost. I'm jealous, okay, because I'm out here watching
Speaker 1: the Matrix trailer nine times over kind of figure out
Speaker 1: why why does Killing Reeves look all weird in his reflection? Right, yeah,
Speaker 1: that that is weird way he looks like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get I'm gonna be on like Stephen Crowder Show by
Speaker 1: the end of the years, like activating some weird ship
Speaker 1: in my head from left the building. You'll all right,
Speaker 1: that is going to do it for this Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 1: We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of
Speaker 1: the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be
Speaker 1: kind to yourselves, wear a mask at the vaccine, don't
Speaker 1: do nothing about white supremacy, and we'll talk to you
Speaker 1: all then, right right,