Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Speaker 1: last Trend on the left. It's Halloween, Baby, It is spooky.
Speaker 1: It is spooky climax season climax of spooky season, not
Speaker 1: spooky climate. It is that too, that too, Miles. You're Miles,
Speaker 1: I'm Jack, and we're throw the bad in our third seat,
Speaker 1: sticking around because we were a trend episode, a trend
Speaker 1: episode with a third person. I told him to be
Speaker 1: in a Halloween costume by superprucer on a hose. Dude.
Speaker 1: She pumped picked a ship out of me. She said,
Speaker 1: I was going to be on my costume I put,
Speaker 1: I threw a wig on and ethnically ambiguous T shirt
Speaker 1: and then I'll find out She knew, she knew how
Speaker 1: to fuck fool us, she said, and you better be dressing.
Speaker 1: I was like, you're right now. I gotta go look
Speaker 1: through the the interactions that we have, but I'm pretty
Speaker 1: cray it's possible without you saying that. She goes and
Speaker 1: sore and said this. She be like, watch these just
Speaker 1: to show up in a cost It's sore and b
Speaker 1: just happy to be here on sky spookiest of days.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite Halloween sound effects. It's so easy.
Speaker 1: So yeah, for sure. Man. Somebody the other day wrote
Speaker 1: on Twitter they did the snoring sound effect as hawk
Speaker 1: Shoe and I love it. I think about it all yeah,
Speaker 1: funk shoe. Me me me, me me MEI. Um. Well,
Speaker 1: Soren is dressed as Soaring for Halloween, which is actually
Speaker 1: very appropriate. Acclaimed television writer Sorn. Yes, I have a
Speaker 1: green Goblin costume. Put the mask on, Jack, all right,
Speaker 1: so hold on one second night? Oh my god, Jack,
Speaker 1: what the fund is that? So this is the green
Speaker 1: Goblin mask that came with my like green goblin body sock,
Speaker 1: and I'll wear it in the episode photo the selfie.
Speaker 1: If people want to go look on Instagram or Twitter
Speaker 1: to see what it, you can probably hear my lips
Speaker 1: being pressed down. So it's I assumed that there was
Speaker 1: some mechanism involved with this. It's just like one of
Speaker 1: those like heads of a body sock, you know, if
Speaker 1: you've ever seen one of the people in like the
Speaker 1: monochrome body sock thing where they're just like all yeah, yeah, um.
Speaker 1: I assumed that there was something like they had a
Speaker 1: thinner material where the eyes go that helped you see
Speaker 1: through it that that appears not to be the case.
Speaker 1: I can't see anything. It's clear to me that it's
Speaker 1: completely uniform in there because it's on crooked right now,
Speaker 1: and you have no idea. Yeah you have it. You
Speaker 1: have it so rotated, you like a cyclops, have no
Speaker 1: way of knowing that it's okay, it's okay, you look fine,
Speaker 1: you look fine. Anyways, I'm taking it off. It's uh,
Speaker 1: it's spooky season. We're about to go trigger treating. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go to my kids school do a little Halloween celebration.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go tricker treating. So my wife is Spider Man,
Speaker 1: I am Green Goblin, my other son is Batman, and
Speaker 1: then my other son, after my wife had ordered her
Speaker 1: Spiderman costume, was like, I'm Spider Man too. Uh So,
Speaker 1: so we have two Spider Man uh. And that's just
Speaker 1: how it's gonna be. But it's it is the year
Speaker 1: that the Spider Man with the multi Spider Man came out.
Speaker 1: So I think we can or they can point at
Speaker 1: each other and it can be a meme costume. Um.
Speaker 1: But what are we seeing out there in the holloway
Speaker 1: in the world, Oh, Halloween costumes. I don't know. I've
Speaker 1: seen it there's a lot of like meme ones that
Speaker 1: that work to varying effects. I think my favorite meme
Speaker 1: one is Nicole Kidman from the m c Intro like
Speaker 1: that that would get if I saw that in the wild,
Speaker 1: I would be going wild for it. The thing I
Speaker 1: like is that when Kim Kardashian went to Tracy Ellis's
Speaker 1: Ross birthday party over the weekend, she went as Mystique
Speaker 1: from the X Men and Tracey Ellis Ross like, this
Speaker 1: is just my fiftieth birthday girl. This is painstakingly painted.
Speaker 1: But had to tell Blude up from the shoes up,
Speaker 1: it's just hey, you know what happens. P Diddy as
Speaker 1: the Joker was also really weird too. Yeah. The other thing,
Speaker 1: the one thing I do want to point out is
Speaker 1: in Japan we have this thing called Jimmy like Halloween.
Speaker 1: Jimmy means like super normal, super dull, super like just boring,
Speaker 1: not exciting, And there's a tradition of just going as
Speaker 1: like really specific Jimmy like moments like normal ship from
Speaker 1: our lives, and I just want to go through a
Speaker 1: couple of them. Um. This one is a woman holding
Speaker 1: like a t M thing and her costume is shop
Speaker 1: attendant trying really hard to look away as you enter
Speaker 1: your pin numbers, just holding it. Another one is left
Speaker 1: the artment right at the same time as the next
Speaker 1: door neighbor and ran back inside to wait until they leave.
Speaker 1: It's just a guy waiting by a door, listening. Um.
Speaker 1: This is another one. Where is it? Where is it? Oh?
Speaker 1: This is like super Japanese. It says next in line
Speaker 1: to offer incense at the funeral, but unsure of the custom,
Speaker 1: so trying to peek at the person in front. So
Speaker 1: like when you go to offer a thing, like there's
Speaker 1: a way where you're like do these like little pinches
Speaker 1: and hold them in front of your head and like
Speaker 1: throw this like it's the whole process. And if you're
Speaker 1: rusty on your ship, you will be looking ahead tore
Speaker 1: like how many are they doing? How many? Okay'll be
Speaker 1: all ready. I'll be ready for that. Uh. And another
Speaker 1: one that's is didn't really want anything from Ikea, but
Speaker 1: my friend insisted on driving us there. And it's a
Speaker 1: person with an Ikea bag but just got like one
Speaker 1: little thing, just like a little stuffed animal. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: I I love just these hyper specific uh you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: those are all right. Well, let us know what you're
Speaker 1: costumes were. What the best thing you saw was. We're
Speaker 1: about to get a thousand trick or triers in my house,
Speaker 1: so i'll I'll come with my zeitgeist for report. So
Speaker 1: we're in every every year we get a thousand trick
Speaker 1: or treers, and I make all my decisions about what
Speaker 1: pop what's trending in popular culture based on what everyone
Speaker 1: shows up as you like, Guys, the Republicans are gonna
Speaker 1: take the house in the Senate based on that's a
Speaker 1: good way to keep your finger on the pole. That's right.
Speaker 1: The kids are the ones who were in touch. Hey,
Speaker 1: I knew the Joker was going to be a big
Speaker 1: hit before. Well, I guess everyone knew the big hit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you believe it? No? Yeah? Yeah. I think the
Speaker 1: sequel might be a hit too. I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: going out on a limb, all right. In the in
Speaker 1: the world of news, Lula one in Brazil, the world
Speaker 1: exhaled very big for climate human rights. Uh. He defeated Bolsonaro,
Speaker 1: who was like openly a fascist. It was like a
Speaker 1: leftist populist leader verse is the rightest populist fascist leader. Um.
Speaker 1: And it was super fucking narrow. Um. Probably not helped
Speaker 1: by the fact that Bolsonaro had a lot of pro
Speaker 1: Bolsonaro police forces out like trying to prevent people from
Speaker 1: getting to the polls in major cities where he was unpopular. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they pulled it up. The one thing that's
Speaker 1: interesting is like all the reports that Bolsonaro just shut
Speaker 1: himself away, like in a room after it didn't take
Speaker 1: any calls and like just turned off the lights, and
Speaker 1: people like what the fund is going on in there?
Speaker 1: Which doesn't make me confident. What the fuck is he
Speaker 1: doing right now not talking to anybody because he hasn't conceded. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everyone is just sitting back being like he's going to
Speaker 1: pull a Trump, Right, He's definitely gonna pull a Trump.
Speaker 1: That kind of feels like like that is what they're
Speaker 1: calling it, the Trump playbook. But um, his supporters are
Speaker 1: crying though in the streets. Yeah, so you know, you
Speaker 1: hate to see that. I hate to see that. I
Speaker 1: hate to see people on board with fascism crying. Huh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right. Julia Roberts MLK, did you see the clip? No?
Speaker 1: I didn't. Okay, So Julia Roberts, like in September, did
Speaker 1: a talk with Gayle King, and Gayle King clearly did
Speaker 1: her homework because like, I don't like and you could
Speaker 1: you actually have a connection to, you know, Dr Martin
Speaker 1: Luther King and the King family. And she was like
Speaker 1: oh yeah, um, yeah, that's true. And she's like right that,
Speaker 1: like the he they paid for your hospital bill when
Speaker 1: you were born. So she's like, well, so what happened?
Speaker 1: So apparently, um, her family was like unable to pay
Speaker 1: the hospital bill when she was born, and Coretta Scott
Speaker 1: King and Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Paid for the
Speaker 1: bill and they're like so Gayl King's like, uh so
Speaker 1: what was he just going by and like throwing cash
Speaker 1: out at the hospital or something. And it turns out
Speaker 1: that her mother, her family ran a drama school in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and Coretta Scott King was trying to find a place
Speaker 1: for the kids to get in the drama because they
Speaker 1: really wanted to, but because of racism, nobody was taking
Speaker 1: black children, but her mother did and then they had
Speaker 1: a connection with the King family. So when it came
Speaker 1: to this moment, they were like, oh yeah, we got you,
Speaker 1: We got you. That's how Julia Roberts I know exactly
Speaker 1: because At first it felt like this sounds like the
Speaker 1: most fucked up backwards privileged ever, like and Dr Moley
Speaker 1: King paid my bills, cool guy. Where it was like
Speaker 1: she really wanted to get her kids in and the
Speaker 1: only way to do that was to help pay for
Speaker 1: this baby. No, so a kindness was done prior to
Speaker 1: that from from her family. So I like the first
Speaker 1: time I heard it, till like this is this going
Speaker 1: to either be some weird shit like or gonna make sense?
Speaker 1: And luckily yes, as the story evolves, you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I see, I see what happened. That's wow that that's
Speaker 1: not a thing that she has publicized before. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean part of me was like, what is she doing
Speaker 1: like with her activism, like what is is she paying
Speaker 1: it forward? Maybe not? I don't know. A little murky
Speaker 1: there Wikipedia page under philanthropy. There was this other debate
Speaker 1: where they're like, well, you know, she could be doing
Speaker 1: it giving anonymous donations because you know so and so
Speaker 1: gives anonymously too. I'm like, yeah, they'd give anonymously quote unquote,
Speaker 1: but still tell people they do that, so their name
Speaker 1: might not be there, but it's known that they do that,
Speaker 1: So she could be she could not be all that
Speaker 1: to say. I got no problems with Julia Roberts, but
Speaker 1: glad to see that, uh you know, her family was
Speaker 1: doing something right. Mhm alright, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll come back. There is a new voodoo flavor of
Speaker 1: mountain dew. I have it here. I'm going to taste
Speaker 1: test it, and I guess, give you my guess. I
Speaker 1: don't know. We'll be right back and we're back, and
Speaker 1: so our money. You say what you just said, people,
Speaker 1: it was embarrassing for you to go by that mountain
Speaker 1: for me to go buy mountain dew voodoo a national phenomenon, indubitably,
Speaker 1: sir um no. I mean it's something that I'm not
Speaker 1: embarrassed by. I don't think my wife feels super great
Speaker 1: when I'm drinking. Do at like a party where other
Speaker 1: people are having like white wine. But it's who I am,
Speaker 1: like a secret of the US green that. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: the only thing it can be is mountain dew. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: I like that. The idea of people like, oh, we're drinking,
Speaker 1: what is he? What is that old man drinking over there? Hey,
Speaker 1: you knew I grew up in Kentucky. When you married me.
Speaker 1: You know, like, hey, I'm drinking it out of a
Speaker 1: wineglass to fit O god class my nose. You're smelling
Speaker 1: like it's just fizzy as you spin the glass. Shock. Okay,
Speaker 1: So he's opening the new Mountain dew voo do d
Speaker 1: d W and I do want to say interest prompt
Speaker 1: On the website, it says back by popular demand, It's back,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. It says the limited time unidentified new
Speaker 1: flavor will leave you screaming for an answer to what
Speaker 1: the flavor could be. And so they say, what's your guests?
Speaker 1: Are you screaming for an answer? I'm not screaming necessarily,
Speaker 1: maybe my heart and solar screaming for an answer. It's
Speaker 1: definitely challenging. So last year was Fruit Candy Choose, which
Speaker 1: is pretty vague. I think it. I think it's Starburst basically,
Speaker 1: but they didn't want to officially like licensed Starburst or something.
Speaker 1: This here feels like it has notes of like ginger beer,
Speaker 1: but also like kind of a fruity or finish. So
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of like what that could be.
Speaker 1: That's like, is there a burn to it? Is there
Speaker 1: that ginger burn? No, it's like that's it. It sends
Speaker 1: you down that direction that this might have a ginger
Speaker 1: beer burned, but then it has more of a fruity finish,
Speaker 1: which is interesting, more so more ginger ale than ginger beer.
Speaker 1: Then what if it was just ginger ale? Like these
Speaker 1: fucking idiots are so hopped up there so do brained.
Speaker 1: If we just changed the color and put a weird
Speaker 1: label on it, they're gonna be like, um, ginger snaps. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we can convince people to drink ginger ale anywhere other
Speaker 1: than on a plane or when they're sick. It's a
Speaker 1: hole on that market. The fact that fruit candy was
Speaker 1: last year's is sending me down it. It could be
Speaker 1: a fruit candy flavor. But I guess all Mountain dews
Speaker 1: could be fruit candy, right, Like they all kind of
Speaker 1: taste like candy, that's for sure. There's all some citrusy adjacent's.
Speaker 1: It's like a it's not like a breakfast cereal. Like
Speaker 1: that's an interesting idea, Like maybe maybe it's yeah, like
Speaker 1: feeling pebbles or something. On Twitter, people's guesses are Swedish fish.
Speaker 1: Swedish fish, that is that's pretty good. Yeah, yeah, it
Speaker 1: does taste a little Swedish fishy. Another one said black
Speaker 1: cherry vanilla. Another person said it feels like it descends
Speaker 1: from the red, white and blue bomb popsicle. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I could see that, like those are all yeah, and
Speaker 1: I think Swedish. I was when I couldn't tell if
Speaker 1: fruit candy Choose was sending me the direction of like
Speaker 1: chewy fruit candy, but I kept thinking of Twizzlers. But
Speaker 1: I was like, it's not Twizzlers because Twizzlers are like
Speaker 1: more of a dull sweetness and this is like a
Speaker 1: little bit sharper and more kind of puckery sweetness. Well,
Speaker 1: shout out Klea Bailey on Twitter because she's like, I
Speaker 1: know a Swedish fish flavored soda when I taste one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and definitely a better execution of a Swedish fish highlighted
Speaker 1: like crossover if it is that because the Swedish fish
Speaker 1: oreos were one of the first things we ever reviewed
Speaker 1: on this podcast, and that was that was a problem.
Speaker 1: This is just like we're seeing as I look at
Speaker 1: these tweets like the Last Days of Innocent Twitter, like
Speaker 1: this black woman was one saying like I know Swedish
Speaker 1: fish flavor, so do my taste one this random white
Speaker 1: dude in the replies who was like his avatars like
Speaker 1: taking a photo, like really, like, and I'm a photographer.
Speaker 1: This guy's like that's what I thought too, had one yesterday.
Speaker 1: They don't follow each other, they were just cruising from
Speaker 1: their wedding pictures. Yeah, if you've got the early taste,
Speaker 1: because it may bee sour Patch kids because those have
Speaker 1: like a very Swedish fish. It's yeah, it's it's more
Speaker 1: Swedish fish than sour Patch kids. I would say, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: but could you really, like, as a self respecting company, PepsiCo,
Speaker 1: could you do fruit candy shoes and then sour Patch
Speaker 1: kids the next year? No? But I am curious how
Speaker 1: they're going to like label it. If it is Swedish fish,
Speaker 1: what are they gonna call it? Because they can't like
Speaker 1: if they don't Scandinavian swimmers. We didn't, we didn't red
Speaker 1: fruit chooes at this time. Yeah, it probably not going
Speaker 1: to be that. I wonder. I wonder if it is
Speaker 1: like a ginger beer type thing, but but they wouldn't
Speaker 1: call it ginger beer because that's kind of niche, So
Speaker 1: they would probably have to call it ginger ale which
Speaker 1: would be so weird this one. We did a sprite
Speaker 1: this year. Anyways, I just drank half a bottle of
Speaker 1: mountain dew and we'll be crashing, like right when my
Speaker 1: kids are hitting their sugar. We gotta get through the
Speaker 1: stories before you crash. Dude. It's it's really a clock,
Speaker 1: my miles nose. That's a very short countdown to. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't have another bunk Halloween where you have another
Speaker 1: Dow crash. Alright, affirmative action trending because enough right wing
Speaker 1: donors have invested in making this a case that the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court thinks they need to reverse racism. I tells
Speaker 1: you it looks like they're set to cut this you know,
Speaker 1: massively successful so social policy, and like you said, enough
Speaker 1: backing from donors that it made its way to the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court. The argument that's being made, there's a couple,
Speaker 1: but one of them is that it's negatively impacting A
Speaker 1: A PI students, which there is an argument for that, absolutely.
Speaker 1: But the lack of space to enroll those students isn't
Speaker 1: because of like black kids or brown kids an affirmative action.
Speaker 1: It's the wacky admissions policies of places like fucking Harvard
Speaker 1: that keep thousands of spots open for a l d
Speaker 1: c s. A l d c s are athletes, legacies,
Speaker 1: people on the Dean's list, and then children of faculty.
Speaker 1: They make about five percent of applicants, but thirty percent
Speaker 1: of the admitted class miles. How do they get on
Speaker 1: the Dean's list. It must be through academic achievement. Let
Speaker 1: me just look this up. It's actually frequently on there
Speaker 1: because of family donations. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah. So, I mean this is I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just wild to see this happening. But yeah,
Speaker 1: like the other thing with Harvard, the admissions rate is
Speaker 1: about already five percent compared to the normal rate of
Speaker 1: less than five percent. That's for the l d the
Speaker 1: a LDS two. Yeah, wait, why is that You can
Speaker 1: just be like legacy, like it's just nepotism, is like
Speaker 1: the best reason you get to go to college. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: that's straight up, Like they don't even but I guess,
Speaker 1: I guess they created a fun acronym that makes it
Speaker 1: sound like something else. But yeah, it's just legacy. It's
Speaker 1: just legacy athletes, legacies, those on the Dean's list, because
Speaker 1: their family gave a bunch of money and then children
Speaker 1: of the faculty. So those A L d c s
Speaker 1: constitute five percent of applicants of the admitted class. Just
Speaker 1: ruminate on that and again while they like completely hijacked
Speaker 1: a group of people who are like raising a real
Speaker 1: concern about like the wacky admissions problems that exist in
Speaker 1: schools that exacerbate you know, inequality and things like that.
Speaker 1: And there was like, you know what, let's go really narrow,
Speaker 1: use this case to blow the whole thing up. And
Speaker 1: it's just a really again, like everything we're seeing through
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court, it's not because of one aggrieved person
Speaker 1: taking a stand. It's because about just a massive operation
Speaker 1: of people who are like, nope, trying to make sure
Speaker 1: everyone's in as much pain as we can sanction legally
Speaker 1: as possible. Yeah, alright, well those are some of the
Speaker 1: things that are trending on this Monday, October thirty one.
Speaker 1: Happy Halloween, everybody, Sore and Buie, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for joining us, uh the rare guest on a trending
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can follow me on Twitter at sore and Underscore Ltd.
Speaker 1: You can follow our podcast I Do with Daniel O'Brien
Speaker 1: at Quick Question with Soren and Daniel. You just just
Speaker 1: watch American Dad. Yeah yeah, amazing. Um, all right, that's
Speaker 1: gonna do it for us. Back tomorrow with the whole
Speaker 1: last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to
Speaker 1: each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, get
Speaker 1: the flu shot. Flue season is out here. Uh, don't
Speaker 1: do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to
Speaker 1: y'all tomorrow. Bye Bye. The Doctor Paper Pat