Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Let's
Speaker 1: trend the zite to gether. That's the Rolling Stones, I'm Jack.
Speaker 1: That's Miles Bid. Are some of the things that are trending.
Speaker 1: Trendom trendom Darling you friend me, I'll tell you who
Speaker 1: doesn't friends me anywhere? And that's Chris Pratt. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: this guy fucking Mario trailer is out and everyone is
Speaker 1: bucking well. I mean the people who like we're really
Speaker 1: mad about it are even more mad. And I'm just
Speaker 1: because of like the outrage about it, I'm really curious
Speaker 1: if like this is the beginning of Chris Pratt's downfall, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, because we always talk about how we're like, dude,
Speaker 1: this dre's a cop, like he's just his whole thing
Speaker 1: is like yeah, just you know, his whole At first,
Speaker 1: he's like, I'm not a religious guy at all, and
Speaker 1: then suddenly he's like posting pics of him like taking
Speaker 1: a fucking cross up a mountain and ship and being
Speaker 1: like rins, God's golfing with his pastor. Yeah, but like
Speaker 1: it's interesting to see like how there's so much Hey,
Speaker 1: there's already a ton of anger. Like again, him being
Speaker 1: like it just sounds like Chris pratt Um And then
Speaker 1: a lot of people are like using this to like
Speaker 1: bring up all of his like sort of like evangelical,
Speaker 1: like gave me a healthy baby boy m Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he said about his new wife when his child
Speaker 1: with his old wife is uh having health problems. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he seems like an ass. I've just always had the
Speaker 1: sense that he seems like a bad person. And yeah,
Speaker 1: he he is very watchable in many a film, but
Speaker 1: his voice acting in this film, seeing like there's this
Speaker 1: term in sports where they say someone's replacement level, meaning
Speaker 1: that like they are as good as the person you
Speaker 1: can get on the open market, you know, just pick
Speaker 1: up off waiver wires or something like that, you know,
Speaker 1: like just the they're as good as the average person
Speaker 1: at their position. His performance as Mario seems like replacement level,
Speaker 1: as in what you would get if you pulled a
Speaker 1: random person off the street. Yeah, I think replacement level
Speaker 1: and that Y'll replace this motherfucker please with anyone, anyone,
Speaker 1: Because every single person is bigging up every other performer
Speaker 1: in this trailer, which is so wild. Everyone's like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, Jack Black, this is you know, these people
Speaker 1: sound so great, and then the Chris bratt One's like,
Speaker 1: this fucking guy, he's not even trying, right, So the
Speaker 1: whole thing is him being like, yeah, what's going on, Mario?
Speaker 1: What is a sa? Mario? And I got a brother
Speaker 1: named Luigi. It was crazy, but at one point he says,
Speaker 1: let's a go, like he does the Mario line, but
Speaker 1: he does it like because they're from New York, like
Speaker 1: in the lore. But then that became less of a
Speaker 1: real thing. I think really at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: what we're learning is when you when you're dealing with
Speaker 1: like something like Mario or just these like bigger these
Speaker 1: like you know, seminal franchises or concepts, just use fucking
Speaker 1: voice actors, you know what I mean, make it true
Speaker 1: to like what the idea of Mario is, because mostly
Speaker 1: a lot of the casting just looks like we're trying
Speaker 1: to stack a bunch of movie star names on the
Speaker 1: fucking poster to getting people to go, when really so
Speaker 1: many people like I'm actually I actually won't go because
Speaker 1: you put these people in it. I would much rather
Speaker 1: just see a really like because everything looks cool, just
Speaker 1: give us the Mario we love. Yeah, yeah, it feels
Speaker 1: like it feels like a very difficult needle to thread
Speaker 1: where the people casting this role like and they didn't
Speaker 1: even try, Like that's a that's a hard one because
Speaker 1: it's an iconic voice. The to me and let me
Speaker 1: are very iconic and also not sustainable a cross an
Speaker 1: entire movie like where this is your protagonist, but what
Speaker 1: they've gone with it's not the right to I was
Speaker 1: listening to um a podcast that was talking about the
Speaker 1: fourth Mission Impossible movie, because this is the sort of
Speaker 1: ship blank Check with Griffin and David, great podcast, but
Speaker 1: I was listening to an old one of those where
Speaker 1: they were talking about that, and they were talking about
Speaker 1: like the rise and fall of and then rise again
Speaker 1: of Tom Cruise's career, and they were saying that like
Speaker 1: I forget which one it was, but it was like
Speaker 1: while he was doing it was while he was doing
Speaker 1: publicity for War of the World, he had like all
Speaker 1: the like couch jumping and like all this ship where
Speaker 1: everyone was like, wait, what is going on with this
Speaker 1: fucking guy? But like it didn't hit that movie. It
Speaker 1: actually hit his next movie, like it had to like
Speaker 1: sink in people's like not liking him had to sink
Speaker 1: in and then his next movie was kind of like
Speaker 1: kind of took the hit and he needed to work
Speaker 1: his way back. I think the next one was Mission Impossible.
Speaker 1: Three was like noticeably like way way down from Mission
Speaker 1: Impossible too, and people were like they need a moment,
Speaker 1: Like people need a full year to be like, all right,
Speaker 1: we're out on this guy. Right, we all agree we're
Speaker 1: out on this guy. And so I like your theory
Speaker 1: that maybe this is this is we're out. It's rumbling.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's because the difference is right,
Speaker 1: as long as the studios funk with you, he's not
Speaker 1: going anywhere. Well that because it doesn't matter how many
Speaker 1: people on the internet don't like him. But like you say,
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see because he's also apparently going
Speaker 1: to be voicing Garfield. Somebody's lying to you, that's being IMDb,
Speaker 1: get the funk out of here. Yes, I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess I can see Garfield like that was kind of
Speaker 1: his character on like monitone, like a Garfield asked, dumb guy.
Speaker 1: But it's like, I don't know if people are gonna
Speaker 1: be like we're done with Chris Pratt voice actor ship,
Speaker 1: because I think it's very next thing that's coming out
Speaker 1: is the next Guardians of the Galaxy, and there's no
Speaker 1: way I'm gonna be like yeah man and that Mark
Speaker 1: they better watch out that one's gonna be a big
Speaker 1: l because it won't be. But it's interesting to see.
Speaker 1: Like again, I think it's more about like how how public.
Speaker 1: At first, like the detractors were kind of like in
Speaker 1: a minority, and now more and more people were like
Speaker 1: making jokes like, oh, Mario on Rainbow Road, Chris Pratt
Speaker 1: wouldn't be caught on no rainbow road, you know, like
Speaker 1: just like that kind of stuff. Not on my watch, assholes. No,
Speaker 1: Now put your hands where I can see him. Um.
Speaker 1: The super ducer Brian was in the chat was saying
Speaker 1: that apparently there's a interview where he's talking about living
Speaker 1: in a van in Hawaii, smoking weed every day and
Speaker 1: wrapping ms verse from forgot about Dre and now he's
Speaker 1: a preacher cop. So someone's got needed more evidence that
Speaker 1: Pascal's wager is bullshit and that like, well you might
Speaker 1: as well be religious because the alternative is bad. Is
Speaker 1: that Nope, the Christianity can do a lot of harm,
Speaker 1: make the world a less cool place. I'll play three
Speaker 1: seconds of him rapping forgot about dre what a kind
Speaker 1: of gun? Uh huh what verse? Yeah? Give me like
Speaker 1: he's doing that, but I don't know he's because he's
Speaker 1: a comedian dude. Right. He sounded like he was doing
Speaker 1: it as a chicken. Um, here's another anyway, whoa, whoa,
Speaker 1: whoa you gonna say the b work what? Wow? Not
Speaker 1: my Chris Pratt. He said fuck you to be called
Speaker 1: the cops. I'm gonna kill you and I'm loud ass,
Speaker 1: motherfucking barking dogs. Wow. So he's also the animal cruelty. Okay, Wow,
Speaker 1: what a jerk. And I heard he wrote that first
Speaker 1: for Emina. I heard he's been writing ever since. The
Speaker 1: slim Shady Kim Jefferies is trending. He was voted in
Speaker 1: unanimously as demn leader, first black person to lead the
Speaker 1: party a party, a major political party in the US. Yeah,
Speaker 1: taking over for Pelosi won't hold my breath for super
Speaker 1: progress because you don't get to that position with takes
Speaker 1: like you know, like we're really we're really going to
Speaker 1: deliver on you know, universal health care and all these
Speaker 1: other things. But he's like a very anti left like that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember when he was like people want to boycott Israel.
Speaker 1: He's like, I'll fuck them up, and people like And
Speaker 1: then it's so funny though too, because on Twitter, like
Speaker 1: right wing Twitter is like again because they don't know
Speaker 1: anything about what like the political spectrum actually is. They like, ha,
Speaker 1: keep Jeffreies is a socialist, like smilitantly establishment. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I mean I guess yeah, they'll well, we'll see what
Speaker 1: those attacks look like because the GOP, you know, it's
Speaker 1: not like they're not going to go low on anything
Speaker 1: with this man. So yeah, we got a hold. It
Speaker 1: feels like he was like, oh, we're out, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna step back and let somebody else
Speaker 1: take take these next couple of years. It was funny.
Speaker 1: I overheard how MPR is covering this and they were like,
Speaker 1: and here's why Nancy Pelosi might be the greatest politician
Speaker 1: of the past century. They had that on all things considered,
Speaker 1: So tune in there. If you set the bar at like,
Speaker 1: you know, human suffering isn't a fact, doesn't factor into
Speaker 1: the policy decisions, then yeah, what about my suffering when
Speaker 1: the stock markets down? Buddy, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll come back and check in with our good friend Alexa. Yeah,
Speaker 1: sorry if that just set off your speaker and we're
Speaker 1: back and alex A, Oh no, that's too obvious. Let's
Speaker 1: call it Alexa al old al e x A. Uh
Speaker 1: So that product from Amazon is all right, you know
Speaker 1: that a lot of people, even if people in audio,
Speaker 1: we're like, this is the future. Get ready because smart speakers, smarts,
Speaker 1: smart speakers are the future. They are how people are
Speaker 1: going to be accessing your podcast content. Get ready. And
Speaker 1: apparently she is a ten billion dollar loser. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: say this year alone that the Amazon division that is
Speaker 1: responsible for building said Internet assistant on track to lose
Speaker 1: ten billion dollars this year. And I think this was like, again,
Speaker 1: this was a Bezos pet project because he was like
Speaker 1: a speaking echo in every home and they and you
Speaker 1: know what to When it first came out, people slowly
Speaker 1: were like, oh, let's see what happened. And then around
Speaker 1: two thousand eighteen like blew up and like many people
Speaker 1: had them, and like you just sort of became ubiquitous
Speaker 1: in the culture to say that name and then find
Speaker 1: out what the weather is, etcetera. But it just peaked
Speaker 1: there and it sounded like what they thought was gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Was like they built like this whole like Alexis skills
Speaker 1: thing to get more people to innovate and like developers
Speaker 1: to jump into like unlock all the potential of this device,
Speaker 1: and then it just like really wasn't Like now like
Speaker 1: most of the skills are like, yeah, unlocked this skill,
Speaker 1: so it'll play this radio station just with like less words. Um.
Speaker 1: So they're like the the ambition was a little too much,
Speaker 1: and now they feel that they have quote uh glorified
Speaker 1: clock radios. Yeah, I feel like they didn't keep pace
Speaker 1: or I I don't know if they if but like
Speaker 1: my my experience because my kids loved the ship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you know, it's a non screen way for
Speaker 1: them to look up things and get answers to things.
Speaker 1: But my experience is like I've just started using theory
Speaker 1: even in rooms that she the Amazon version is in
Speaker 1: because the other one, the Apple one on my phone,
Speaker 1: is better than the other one. It is. I think
Speaker 1: it's asking complex shit. A long time ago, like in
Speaker 1: the beginning, I would be like Joe who was the
Speaker 1: actor that you know, try and like test their gangster.
Speaker 1: But now I'm just like, what's the weather? Alright? Alright, right,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, the Amazon one seems to have
Speaker 1: installed out and like isn't getting any better. And the
Speaker 1: games that my kids found, like the kids will find
Speaker 1: the funnest, weirdest thing to do on any like technology,
Speaker 1: and the games they found are so weck that they're
Speaker 1: like they're like a math game maybe, and and they're like,
Speaker 1: OKAYU count how many times you hear a car horn?
Speaker 1: And then they play a car horn nine times, and
Speaker 1: and then like they'll say the right answer and the
Speaker 1: smart speaker won't get it right. It's it's a it's
Speaker 1: a meth well. And the other thing that's interesting is,
Speaker 1: like you think about Jeff Bezos was basically like because
Speaker 1: a lot of you know this, the shareholders like why
Speaker 1: is this fucking echoes so cheap? I mean, he's like,
Speaker 1: so I can get him. He said, quote, we want
Speaker 1: to make money when people use our devices, not when
Speaker 1: people buy our devices. So his idea was people would
Speaker 1: just be buying ship on Prime through this speaker, but like,
Speaker 1: little does you know that the experience will be like
Speaker 1: you'll you'll order something and then it'll read the description
Speaker 1: for like fifteen minutes, and you're like, fucking stupid thing
Speaker 1: on that fucking using this. And on top of there's
Speaker 1: all these other problems, like they don't have like their
Speaker 1: own operating system, Like they don't have all these other
Speaker 1: proprietary things that like Apple would or like Android, like
Speaker 1: Google with Android, Um, yeah, what are they They're not
Speaker 1: using their own search engine. They're just using Google or whatever. Well,
Speaker 1: but more than that, like the like sort of Alexa
Speaker 1: Echo ecosystem was never its own true like platform. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: oh ship anyways, Um, it's not because I mean you
Speaker 1: look at like even like their fire tablets and ship
Speaker 1: there that's using Android, you know what I mean? So
Speaker 1: like they don't. They're kind of like in this middle
Speaker 1: space that they just weren't able to guess workout. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think the main issue is the freaking thing stinks.
Speaker 1: All right, it's been our techground up. What about this
Speaker 1: freaking things stinks? Strike? Yeah, talking about another thing that
Speaker 1: freaking stinks. I don't like no rail strike. We gotta
Speaker 1: make it so they can't do no strike, and then
Speaker 1: the economy is they yeah, shout out to establishment democrats
Speaker 1: are being like, I don't know, Joe Byron just said
Speaker 1: we should probably not have a strike. So you know what,
Speaker 1: we'll force the workers to eat ship. Um. And then
Speaker 1: at the death, you know, you have Jamal Bowman and
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders introducing legislation to be like add seven fucking
Speaker 1: paid sick days and get that to a vote and
Speaker 1: let's see Republicans vote no on that in the House.
Speaker 1: So that passed. Um. But it's a very very rocky road,
Speaker 1: I guess, for lack of a better term there because
Speaker 1: it's just as it stood, it looked like the Democrats
Speaker 1: are just gonna completely fucking just shoot themselves in the
Speaker 1: foot again to business. Yeah, but then act like they're not,
Speaker 1: which is so funny because you have all these people
Speaker 1: like who were raw raw when they're you know again,
Speaker 1: this is all part of running for president, like like
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren, I mean, you shouldn't you shouldn't have been
Speaker 1: you shouldn't have backed that. You should have just said no, no, no,
Speaker 1: this is not good. Paid sick leave is just like
Speaker 1: at a minimum, what someone is owed if they're if
Speaker 1: you're extracting wealth out from their labor, that they're allowed
Speaker 1: to be human beings that gets sick and they have
Speaker 1: time off and they don't have to take a hit
Speaker 1: because of that um And I think the other thing
Speaker 1: that may be caused Democrats to panic was like something
Speaker 1: like Ted Cruise and Marco Rubio were like talking like
Speaker 1: fucking like Jimmy Hoffers. I'm ship they were just like,
Speaker 1: let me tell you about the workers. I would support
Speaker 1: anything the workers don't support, like holy shit, right, So
Speaker 1: they'll just accidentally hit on some like pro labor talking
Speaker 1: points as long as they're being opposed by Biden, like
Speaker 1: Biden again, an easy way for Biden to trick them
Speaker 1: into being you know, like put forward something and then
Speaker 1: jiujitsu them into like thinking that they're going to support it,
Speaker 1: and then I don't know, it feels like he could
Speaker 1: easily be more helpful to the labor party. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be the pro most pro labor presidents since f DR. Wait,
Speaker 1: what do they want? A better life? Not enough? Well
Speaker 1: what about this gas industry? Yeah? Well yeah, let me
Speaker 1: leave some land real quick, uh in Alaska if you
Speaker 1: want to be drilling. But I think looking at this, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it just shows you, like truly where a lot
Speaker 1: of people's heads are at, like where they're like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I guess we'll just fall online with the
Speaker 1: party or whatever, and only a few people, like people
Speaker 1: were humane enough to like try and pump the brakes
Speaker 1: and say this isn't good. So we'll see what happens
Speaker 1: in the Senate though, Yeah, because now we got that
Speaker 1: whole fun thing. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: like you got to think that. I think that one
Speaker 1: of the reasons rail strike was going on is because
Speaker 1: prior to that happening, people are like, y'all just fuck it, Like,
Speaker 1: don't let them do this thing where the railroad companies
Speaker 1: are going to try and blame the workers for an
Speaker 1: economic downturn because they're not willing to fucking make a
Speaker 1: few less bucks so people canna have time off. Um,
Speaker 1: gaslighting is trending because Miriam Websters have chosen that as
Speaker 1: the word of the year. It's just Mirriam Webster. But
Speaker 1: I'm calling a Mirriam Websters because I am old as daddy,
Speaker 1: Yeah daddy, Brad Pitts and Miriam Webster, Miriam's Webster, Miriam's
Speaker 1: Webster dictionary. Um, speaking of old as fuck, this feels
Speaker 1: like a word that has been pretty popular for seven
Speaker 1: years now, but I guess they saw a big spike
Speaker 1: this year. Uh, in terms of how many people were
Speaker 1: searching it on their miriam Webster dot com in two
Speaker 1: they saw its spiked by one thousand seven. So maybe
Speaker 1: it's just like kind of hitting the rest of the world,
Speaker 1: um right, I don't know. It's also like the when
Speaker 1: you google, like the Google gas lighting word of the Year,
Speaker 1: and it says gas lighting is the act or practice
Speaker 1: of grossly misleading someone, especially for one's own advantage. That's
Speaker 1: just lying, like misleading someone is lying. Like there's something
Speaker 1: more specific right about gas lighting, isn't it like creating
Speaker 1: sort of a false reality and like telling a series
Speaker 1: of lies. Well yeah, and also to undermine someone's sense
Speaker 1: of reality. Yeah, undermine their sense of reality and the
Speaker 1: sense their sense of their own sanity. Like that's just
Speaker 1: misleading someone. That's not sufficient. But I think, well, people
Speaker 1: just use it as a verb for like you're lying,
Speaker 1: and like that's how I see it, like on Twitter,
Speaker 1: like you know, when people are just like there's like
Speaker 1: a buzzword, and then you see like mental health advocates like, uh,
Speaker 1: a lot of people are using gas lighting wrong. Uh
Speaker 1: you know, myself included for like a while too, And
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh yeah, like you know, so many times
Speaker 1: like people use it as just like shorthand for like bullshitting, right, yeah, yeah, exactly. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, well those are some of the things that
Speaker 1: are trending on this Wednesday, November, last day of November.
Speaker 1: Get all your November ship in because it's about to
Speaker 1: not be November anymore, folks. Oh shit, and then y'all
Speaker 1: can nut again. Yeah, I forgot about that. Oh man,
Speaker 1: it's been so long I got about games to those memes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like I felt like every year you see
Speaker 1: them people levitating and ship I stopped noticing I was
Speaker 1: not even making contact with the chair that it looks
Speaker 1: like I'm sitting in just hovering three inches off the ground.
Speaker 1: All right, Well back tomorrow with the whole last episode
Speaker 1: of the show. Until then, be kind to eat sho other,
Speaker 1: be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, get the flu shot,
Speaker 1: don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
Speaker 1: to you all tomorrow. Bye bye,