Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of God
Speaker 1: trend Their Soul at His courtesy of Johnny Davis dropping
Speaker 1: a bunch of rest based trending show titles. Although, to
Speaker 1: be honest, I have a song in my soul, a
Speaker 1: song in my heart, and it is Happy Birthday Pauli
Speaker 1: from Rocky four, because we were talking about Rocky four
Speaker 1: before we started, because superducer Brian needed to calm me down,
Speaker 1: so he started talking about pet topics of mine and
Speaker 1: he referred to Rocky four as the one with the robot,
Speaker 1: which is true technically, but it also suggests that Rocky
Speaker 1: fights a robot. Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined by
Speaker 1: one of the writers on this show, mister J. M
Speaker 1: mcna hey. Thanks for having me. Hey, that just got
Speaker 1: me thinking, when are the Creed movies going to bring
Speaker 1: the robot back? That's the question. So they're on Creed three.
Speaker 1: If it follows the path you know, Creed for will
Speaker 1: be like ending a war and it will involve a robot.
Speaker 1: I guess like Rocky is the Polly equivalent in the
Speaker 1: Creed universe, right, He's like kind of the I don't know.
Speaker 1: He fulfills a lot of I'm just trying to think
Speaker 1: of who would be turning the robot into a fuck bot,
Speaker 1: you know, because that is an important part of the story.
Speaker 1: That what when you go back, everyone's like that movie
Speaker 1: is so ridiculous, Like Rocky ends the Cold War by
Speaker 1: beating Ivan Drago and like convinces everybody that America rules
Speaker 1: because he's wearing America shorts. And what they forget is
Speaker 1: that they give Polly a robot for his birthday and
Speaker 1: the next scene he has brainwashed it into being a
Speaker 1: sex robot. That it is heavily implied he is fucking.
Speaker 1: I think it's more of just like a companion, a
Speaker 1: romantic companion. Okay, do you know, I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's no fixtures on it, but it's it's very uh oh, Polly,
Speaker 1: you're you're my king, Daddy, give it to me. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't know if though that's a direct quote. Anyways. Uh,
Speaker 1: these are the things that are trending on this Thursday. Um,
Speaker 1: the Oscars will have a crisis team. Jm Um. This
Speaker 1: is just impressive for the blandness and vagueness of the
Speaker 1: language that is used by the person who's announcing us
Speaker 1: the Academy CEO Bill Kramers made up. Yeah, also sounds
Speaker 1: made up, like they seem to be just trying to
Speaker 1: create a story that will evaporate, as it is like
Speaker 1: going through my mind as I'm trying to read it
Speaker 1: to you, it just like stops existing. CEO Bill Kramer
Speaker 1: is now claiming the Oscars will have a cry this
Speaker 1: team at the show, which is quote something we've never
Speaker 1: had before. According to Kramer, they've run many scenarios. What
Speaker 1: the fuck does that mean? We've run many scenarios. So
Speaker 1: it is our hope that we will be prepared for
Speaker 1: anything that we may not anticipate right now, but that
Speaker 1: we're planning for just in case it does happen. This
Speaker 1: sounds like a book report on a like when I
Speaker 1: would have a book report in school and I didn't
Speaker 1: read the book and someone asked me about it, and
Speaker 1: therefore and so forth. So it's like they they're worried
Speaker 1: that there will be another slap and so they had
Speaker 1: to create something to make it seem like they were
Speaker 1: doing something to prepare for it. But like, what could
Speaker 1: this possibly mean? Like at the Crisis Team, Like I
Speaker 1: reading this interview like it wasn't even apparent to me
Speaker 1: if he meant like a security detail or like a
Speaker 1: team of publicists, Like sure, you know, I completely unclear. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And then like, what are they running any scenarios referring
Speaker 1: to Yeah? Is it? Like, are you talking about like
Speaker 1: a bomb threat? Are you talking about if a guy
Speaker 1: slaps another guy? Like it's so weird. There was never
Speaker 1: the possibility of a crisis before last year, Like, I
Speaker 1: don't understand any of this, do you? You pointed out
Speaker 1: when you were writing this up, like do they run
Speaker 1: every different combination of movie star and presenter just slap
Speaker 1: one another like that? Because that seems like that does
Speaker 1: sound fun. It does sound fun, and it's also you
Speaker 1: respond to each different combination in completely different ways, right, Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If Natalie Portman runs up on stage and slaps Benicio
Speaker 1: del Toro, like that's fine. I think like nobody's nobody's
Speaker 1: mad about that. Yeah. What if Julie Andrews slaps the
Speaker 1: rock like maybe you do nothing? I don't know, Hell yeah,
Speaker 1: hell yeah, sister, I feel like that's what he'd say. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so weird. It does seem to be like they're just
Speaker 1: trying to maybe create this atmosphere of like anything can happen,
Speaker 1: Like they're trying to turn it into the their advantage,
Speaker 1: the fact that the OSCARS has this kind of renewed
Speaker 1: attention because no one cared about the Oscars at all
Speaker 1: really until yeah, you know, for years until what happened
Speaker 1: last year. And I feel like, yeah, they're maybe going
Speaker 1: to try to spin it because they also had like
Speaker 1: that promo with Jimmy Kimmel where they're like, he's an
Speaker 1: unslappable host. It's like, Okay, I'm already sick of these
Speaker 1: jokes and we're still a month away from the show.
Speaker 1: All right, they're just continuing with this language because it's
Speaker 1: truly like it seems like a thing, like a series
Speaker 1: of words that was generated by an algorithm to put
Speaker 1: you to sleep. Because all right here, so he continues on,
Speaker 1: because of last year, we've opened our minds to the
Speaker 1: many things that can happen at the OSCARS. But these
Speaker 1: crisis plans, the crisis communication teams and structures we have
Speaker 1: in place allow us to say, this is the group
Speaker 1: that we have to gather very quickly. What does that mean?
Speaker 1: This is how we all come together, This is the spokesperson,
Speaker 1: this will be the statement and obviously depending on the
Speaker 1: specifics of the crisis. And let's hope something doesn't happen
Speaker 1: and we never have to use these, but we already
Speaker 1: have frameworks in place that we can modify. Oh word,
Speaker 1: all I have to be is like, yeah, we hired
Speaker 1: like a mall security guard in case someone slapped again,
Speaker 1: And that's I feel like they probably hired like some
Speaker 1: former massad agents, Like I like that just the way
Speaker 1: that Hollywood operates, Like there are probably there's probably a
Speaker 1: sniper team in the building that is ready to overreact
Speaker 1: to any situation. Or they could just be like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, going forward, if someone attacks someone else, we're
Speaker 1: going to ask them to leave, you know, Like they
Speaker 1: don't have to be like, well, we have a crisis team,
Speaker 1: and the crisis team in charge is going to select
Speaker 1: the emergency committee who will be in charge of nominating
Speaker 1: like you right, Just I'm just hoping that that I
Speaker 1: am insulated by multiple layers of bureaucracy from any important
Speaker 1: decisions that are made. What he is saying over and
Speaker 1: over again, um, let's see what else is trending. I
Speaker 1: mean mainly that with with the hotness of the takes
Speaker 1: there um so a v Club put out their best
Speaker 1: Netflix shows of all time ranked, and it's uh, they
Speaker 1: like sad cartoons. It would appear um bo Jack Horseman
Speaker 1: is the number one of all time according to them, um,
Speaker 1: which feels like a very like that's critics critics love
Speaker 1: that shit. I don't. I didn't dislike it. I thought
Speaker 1: it was very good, but yeah, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: would definitely put I think you should leave over that.
Speaker 1: Put a number of shows over that. I don't know
Speaker 1: what I like bow Jack, Yeah, I wasn't like. I
Speaker 1: know some people absolutely love it, but I think I
Speaker 1: mean it has like that kind of emotional depth that
Speaker 1: kind of surprises you that sure, that's why people love
Speaker 1: it so much. I mean Stranger Things is number two, yeah,
Speaker 1: which was also for the first season, But it seems
Speaker 1: you didn't like it. I only won't only watch the
Speaker 1: first season. Miles stuck with it. Miles has that portion
Speaker 1: of pop culture covered for us. Yeah, no, I I
Speaker 1: like it, but you know, I think there were peaks
Speaker 1: and valleys. I think the last season was strong. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean in terms of popularity, it would be number one.
Speaker 1: I guess that's their main thing. I was happy to
Speaker 1: see Russian Doll is up there because I'm a big
Speaker 1: fan of that show, never seen it. These are the
Speaker 1: ones that like stand out to me as like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's higher than I expected, um higher or lower Russian
Speaker 1: doll higher than I expected. Number four. Yeah, American Vandal
Speaker 1: at number eight. Did you ever watch that because I'm
Speaker 1: talking about that on the show a long time? Yeah.
Speaker 1: I liked the first season and I couldn't really get
Speaker 1: through the second season. But to put American Bandle above
Speaker 1: I think you should leave is I think malpractice. But
Speaker 1: that's what The Unbreakable Kimy Schmidt at number twenty one
Speaker 1: feels low. Black Mirror at twenty feels like I definitely
Speaker 1: agree that show like fell off. But when that first hit,
Speaker 1: it was like, wow, this is you know, it was
Speaker 1: really prestige, the most prestige of prestige TV shows. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but also and it was yeah, House of Cards is
Speaker 1: higher than Black Mirror. It's at nineteen and that show.
Speaker 1: I never really liked that show. But also it just
Speaker 1: ended and like they kept going despite Kevin Spacey being
Speaker 1: fired and it just right completely spiraled out of control. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't really. I don't think of too many people
Speaker 1: thinking of that as like a great work of television
Speaker 1: beginning to end. But no, it was. It was bad
Speaker 1: to begin with in my opinion. But yeah, and Kimmy Schmidt, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's way too high for that show in my opinion. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you put it lower in the numbers or lower
Speaker 1: in in your esteem? H lower in my steam. I'm
Speaker 1: not a huge fan of that show of Kimmy Schmidt.
Speaker 1: Kimmy Schmidt. Yeah, and and oh yeah. The thing that
Speaker 1: struck me when I first looked at it is the
Speaker 1: last ranked in these fifty was Cobra Kai, which people love. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's a good show. Definitely, like started very strong.
Speaker 1: I think I think that's true of a lot of these.
Speaker 1: I would say a lot of these start very strong,
Speaker 1: and they're not giving any extra points for just staying
Speaker 1: strong the whole time. It feels like it feels like
Speaker 1: they're maybe just ranking it by the heights that it reached. Um,
Speaker 1: because I think you're right, that makes sense. But Bridger
Speaker 1: Tenant being pretty low. When that first season hit, that
Speaker 1: was the real cultural event. I know, people loved it.
Speaker 1: I thought it was fine, and now it like is
Speaker 1: the in retrospect is everyone just like, yeah, that wasn't shit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it seems like it a little bit, because it is
Speaker 1: at number what do we got here? Thirty eight and
Speaker 1: The Babysitters Club is at thirty four, So yeah, the
Speaker 1: Witcher is ahead of Bridge or ten. Yeah, and Sweet Tooth,
Speaker 1: which is a surprising one because I never hear anyone
Speaker 1: talk about that. That was a show that's based on
Speaker 1: a comic by a Toronto guy. Actually, and and I
Speaker 1: was interested in it because I read the comic, But
Speaker 1: I've never heard anyone talk about that in real life. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Multiple hauntings of various locations sprinkled throughout the list. But yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break. We'll be back
Speaker 1: to talk about other shit that is trending. And we're back,
Speaker 1: and maybe nobody does out Pizza the Hut. The takeout
Speaker 1: is saying that Pizza Hut is set to overtake Dominoes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that doesn't. I don't think I know anybody who is
Speaker 1: eating Pizza Hut in the last thirty five years. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't believe that they existed people who still eat
Speaker 1: Pizza Hut. I'm pretty sure the last time I eat
Speaker 1: Pizza Hut, I was given a collectible toy for the
Speaker 1: movie Casper's like, that's what. So there must just be
Speaker 1: a whole different, like generational thing happening for Pizza Hut.
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess I should say. I haven't like
Speaker 1: ordered pizza from Pizza Hut or had like a piece
Speaker 1: of pizza. I have had personal pan pizzas in various
Speaker 1: airports or truck stops on the Jersey Turnpike, but nothing
Speaker 1: in the traditional pizza delivery context. I think it could
Speaker 1: be like the nostalgia thing too, right, that's what they
Speaker 1: were doubling down on nostalgia. They were introduced in like
Speaker 1: the Big New Yorker. Yeah, exactly, and like the logo
Speaker 1: is more like you used to be. They need to. Okay, so,
Speaker 1: Pizza Hut, I'm gonna stop making fun of you if
Speaker 1: you will start opening old like pizza hut shaped pizza huts,
Speaker 1: like pizza palas, and like bring back the cups, bring
Speaker 1: back the pizza buffets, and like do that for us.
Speaker 1: I will forgive you. I'll even maybe order your pizza
Speaker 1: once or twice, but I can't. I don't know if
Speaker 1: this just doesn't doesn't track with me. A forty two
Speaker 1: year old man the impression of the world. I'm the
Speaker 1: target demo, right. I think this war between Dominoes and
Speaker 1: Pizza Hut has been brewing ever since, uh the home
Speaker 1: video release of Ninja Turtles. Because speaking of being old men, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember this, but when the
Speaker 1: Ninja Turtles video came out, Dominoes paid for product placement
Speaker 1: in the movie, but somehow Pizza Hut paid to have
Speaker 1: like an ad put before the movie starts, like a
Speaker 1: commercial for Pizza Hut. So there's this conflicting messaging troubling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I yeah, I feel like I've been caught between
Speaker 1: these two pizza chains ever since that that happened. Who
Speaker 1: who did you side with? Because that that's like you're
Speaker 1: not my real dad, Pizza Hut like type thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I stuck with Dominoes. I do like that. It's not
Speaker 1: my favorite pizza, but also my kids had Dominoes and
Speaker 1: and it's their favorite now, so they always want Dominoes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my kid's favorite pizza too, and like of all
Speaker 1: the pizzas, like, there's good pizza in Los Angeles, I swear,
Speaker 1: And yeah, they don't believe me. They're like, no, I
Speaker 1: would much rather have Dominoes. And this is, by the way,
Speaker 1: the thing that got me started on a on a
Speaker 1: run where because superducer Brian was like, nobody likes Dominoes.
Speaker 1: Dominoes is bad pizza, and I like a spark started
Speaker 1: like firing off behind one of my eyes, and I
Speaker 1: just started glitching out. And then he had to be
Speaker 1: like Rocky four Jaws gas study. But uh yeah, I
Speaker 1: just I don't know. I think Dominoes is a superior product.
Speaker 1: But I again, I have only the foggiest of recollections
Speaker 1: of what Pizza Hut pizza taste like. I think it.
Speaker 1: I think it's the nostalgia. I think it's the image
Speaker 1: of Pizza Hut that like people who are our our
Speaker 1: age have from like commercials. Like when I think of
Speaker 1: Pizza Hut, I think of like a happy family that
Speaker 1: wasn't my unhappy family sitting in like a nice restaurant
Speaker 1: having a pizza that looked perfect. Yeah, the family in
Speaker 1: the booth over the exact feel like man and they
Speaker 1: look happy. M Yeah. The last time that I was
Speaker 1: at a Pizza Hut, kale was merely a garnish. That
Speaker 1: was what kale was primarily used for was Pizza Hut,
Speaker 1: Pizza Buffet garnishes, and it also like it felt like
Speaker 1: Pizza Hut was always on the vanguard of some new
Speaker 1: pizza technology, Like they're putting cheese in the crust, Like
Speaker 1: what are what are these wizards contacting over at Pizza
Speaker 1: Hut HQ cheese in the cheese It's a fucking crazy
Speaker 1: man just forms a black hole and cheese. Yeah. So, anyways,
Speaker 1: I think the real secret is that Dominoes and Papa
Speaker 1: John's both raised their prices because I don't know, kids
Speaker 1: don't like to work anymore, or everybody raised their prices
Speaker 1: and they did not get away with it. So that's
Speaker 1: like one of the good piece of news is all
Speaker 1: the other things are you know, oil companies being like, yeah,
Speaker 1: so we raised our prices by sick steep percent and
Speaker 1: h wouldn't you know it, we broke our records for
Speaker 1: profits and um, this is the one instance where the
Speaker 1: there isn't a monopoly, like Dominoes has not acquired Pizza
Speaker 1: Hut or vice versa, and therefore we still have competition
Speaker 1: between the pizza chains. And so it really doesn't just
Speaker 1: Dominoes raise their prices and Pizza didn't and now people
Speaker 1: want pizza. God wouldn't be awful if like Disney bought
Speaker 1: the concept of pizza and it was just all owned. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna corpor uneventially. Yeah, they're doubling down after so
Speaker 1: they're like, you know what people want clearly in the
Speaker 1: in the year twenty twenty three more Lord of the Rings.
Speaker 1: Um after after they spent like a lot of money
Speaker 1: on that Prime show, like billion dollars I think was
Speaker 1: the rumor um and it doesn't exist as far as
Speaker 1: I know that show, Like I don't, I don't know
Speaker 1: anybody who watched it and is like what I'm excited
Speaker 1: about is the Lord of the Rings show on Amazon.
Speaker 1: But anyways, they just announced that they're doing more movies
Speaker 1: for Lord of the Rings, like unrelated to the Amazon
Speaker 1: Prime show. Like Warner Brothers is like, we're we're bringing
Speaker 1: it back baby. Well yeah, because I think the Amazon deal,
Speaker 1: which was so ludicrous that price they paid was just
Speaker 1: for the TV rights, because I think the film rights
Speaker 1: there was some complicated legal thing where no one was
Speaker 1: even totally sure who owned the rights and they were
Speaker 1: up for sale at one point, so that was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: totally different from like the TV thing, which is nuts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think that that show which I did,
Speaker 1: I watched like half of it. Yeah, that's about the
Speaker 1: record as far as i'm as far as I understand,
Speaker 1: the record for the most of that show anyone watched
Speaker 1: was half of it. Yeah, And it wasn't even bad.
Speaker 1: It was just like, I don't know, it was hard
Speaker 1: to watch. It was hard to get through. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was just kind of a slog like I don't understand
Speaker 1: why they didn't just get the idea. The Lord of
Speaker 1: the Rings and the Hobbit and all that is a quest.
Speaker 1: It's like a guy has to go put a thing
Speaker 1: somewhere or get a thing, and you know, goes in
Speaker 1: a journey, and this was just it was more like
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones or something, and it's plotting, whereas a
Speaker 1: bunch of you know, different spread throughout intrigue. Between that
Speaker 1: and the Hobbit movie, it's like it does just seem
Speaker 1: like it was just kind of one series of books
Speaker 1: that people liked, and you know, attempts to turn that
Speaker 1: into more TV and movie content hasn't really worked so far.
Speaker 1: So it is kind of surprising to hear Warner Brothers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it felt on this one stretched out guys, thank you
Speaker 1: and hate to see Hollywood billionaires make a mistake and
Speaker 1: not have all their money. But you know that being said,
Speaker 1: it could be great. They could bring in the robot
Speaker 1: from Rocky four. Thank you, and that is what we
Speaker 1: were talking about. Please Happy birthday, ganned Off. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not a big Lord of the Rings person. All right,
Speaker 1: those are some of the things that are trending on
Speaker 1: this February twenty third. We are back tomorrow with the
Speaker 1: whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind
Speaker 1: to each other, Be kind to yourself. Damn where can
Speaker 1: people find you? Oh at j m McNab again on Twitter? Okay, cool.
Speaker 1: Also get the vaccine if you haven't done that already. Also,
Speaker 1: don't do nothing about what supremacy. And we will talk
Speaker 1: to y'all tomorrow. Bye.