The Daily Zeitgeist - RockTrend Around The Xmas Tree(nd) 12/5: Brenda Lee, Kendall Roy Era, Most Hated Xmas Candies, GTA VI

Episode Date: December 5, 2023

In this edition of RockTrend Around The Xmas Tree(nd), Jack and Miles discuss Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" hitting no.1 on the pop charts - 65 years after release, the Kendall Roy era being upon us, the most hated Christmas candies in America, and the new GTA 6 trailer!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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cruising, and expanding your horizons? Hit play on the sex-positive and deeply entertaining podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Rock and Around the Christmas Tree. I'm at number one today. Hey! Hot damn! I'm at number one today. Hey. Hot damn. When you said tree, were you trying to assert something that was going to be like Geister's site? What is it? I just remember the Chris Trent Geists have a happy. One of my friends in elementary school used to think it said, and maybe this is like a common mongreen, I believe is what producer Brian Royce tells us, was that it was always saying, then we'll have some fucking pot, but it's pumpkin pie.

But if you want to hear it, then we'll have some fucking pot. There's that one song that talks about, and I brought some corn for popping. there's that one song that talks about and i brought some corn for popping and i've not i've not misheard it and thought it said something about finger popping but like my brain remembers it as like something with finger popping which for corn for popping you okay i was like and we'll do some finger popping well i think that's part i think that's part of the fun of christmas songs is yeah they're open for straight up disrespect. You know what I mean?

You feel like Buzz in Home Alone where you're like, yo bro, I'm fucking around at this Christmas party. It's not really about, it's not holy, come on. Because I do the same thing with Andy Williams' Happy Holidays. Yeah, yeah. Get a little nasty in there.

Oh yeah. Whoop-de-doo. holidays yeah yeah where's this nasty in there oh yeah and don't forget i believe you're having a stroke and i'm like you're gonna say cock aren't you to hang you're gonna say cock and i'm like ah you're a loser right there is right there andy i wonder if he was that was like part of his show. Everyone was like, say cock! Dickery. Hey! Hey! Oh! Andrew Dice Clay. Puts his sing really. Oh!

Alright, welcome to Andy Williams' Christmas holiday show, folks. Guys, Brenda Lee is back on top. Actually, on top for the first time. Rocking around the Christmas tree. Just hit number one 65 years

after it was released. Hey, at least she's alive. I was like, oh, please be alive. She's 78. She's alive to see it. Oldest person to top the singles chart. I know. It used to be it was like held by Louis Armstrong for a number of years

I can't wait to see the movie where she releases the song and everyone's like this song's garbage they just really play up how much everyone hated it at first she's the new sugar man number two when it first came out um what a song though i have heard it quite a bit lately i do

wonder if i wonder why i wonder what's going on but i do wonder if there's something specific like if it just particularly appeals to a new generation or what what's going on there but i wonder it's it's always interesting like it's probably like in this day and age it's like got to be like part tiktok on some level yeah it's got to be tiktok it's got to be the kids out there ticking and talking around the christmas tree maybe yeah maybe i look if it's like one of the first things maybe on let me see let me see because like spotify's like playlists like i wonder if they're like default christmas playlist like starts off with that song and that could be one of the greats like it is one of the classics that also just still sounds like it could oh dude okay this see this is how much your boys

this is how much your boys this is how much your boys listen to fucking christmas music and on spotify looking at shit all the time it is they it is literally the first track on their christmas classics playlist wow there it is so i feel like if a lot of people are just sort of like what's like a like holiday classics you put on like whatever the spotify one is boom first track brend Lee. The power of Spotify. Yeah. They just canceled two Peabody award-winning podcasts. But they will be replacing them with

Pulitzer, but they'll be replacing them with Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree. Why not listen to this? Oh, you like heavyweights? Try Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee. Alright, there's a new piece in vice that says the kendall roy era is nigh um i feel like may already be here i feel like we've

seen a lot of these fellows these folks but yeah basically they for the first time um the amount of money made by the newest class of billionaires uh last year uh the the amount that was made by the heirs turned billionaires i'm pretty sure the fact that it's not like they were heirs and then became billionaires separately. Right. But like that. So 53 heirs, people who inherited their billionaire status made more money for the first time than people who became billionaires from, uh, doing things self-made entrepreneurship. Just hand it over,

hand it over grandpa for fuck's sake. Trying to be a billionaire. Well, because you know, they're like the previous generation, the currently, Just hand it over. Hand it over, Grandpa, for fuck's sake. I'm trying to be a billionaire. Because, you know, they're like the previous generation, the currently the generation of dying off people have hoarded wealth to an unprecedented degree. And it is going to go to the worst and weirdest people that the planet Earth has to has to offer in my experience the you know science like multiple generations into uh generational wealth can be a real real uh spicy meatball yeah

humanity yeah i mean yeah it's god what are these what's this new crop gonna look like i remember seeing like the headlines about like this new like wealth transfer that's going to be happening with like this old Billy's giving it to the youngies. But I wonder how many like are we going to see a new breed of kids who are just like, oh, yeah, man, this is fucked up. I like I was waiting for my spot and maybe I can do something with this money or they're going to be like, yo, bro, I'm going to hold on to this shit until we're dead baby till my great great great great greats are dead i think they're gonna have some interesting things to uh some interesting ideas of what to do with it that involve like nfts again

right right right lifestyle brands like water that's connected to nfts uh and that's actually kind of happening yeah uh you're gonna we're gonna get more packaging that has long statements about how this this is more than just a bottle of water this sugar-free gum just bring is made from the best stuff on earth. And our ethos is really about humanitarianism and, uh, transcendental meditation. Uh, anyways, true nightmare shit here.

Uh, hopefully at some point in the coming decades, we have some sort of reform that actually makes it. So the best thing to be on the planet the most rewarding thing to be is not um a rich person's grandson yeah well i mean right now i think that there's a case in front of the supreme court that may make it serious like oh nearly impossible to fucking tax the wealthy um so we'll just have to wait and see how how things move here they're usually pretty cool.

I feel like the Supreme Court, they usually have some cool things to say. Yeah, we'll see. We got the Christmas candy that America hates most. Candystore.com, one of our most... One of our greatest contributors. Yeah, great contributor. Polling experts. Their polls generally are not handled in the most scientific way,

but they have access to data that we just cannot ignore. And they unveiled a list of the 10 most hated Christmas candies of the year. And I am calling bullshit on this for one very specific reason. Bullshit in that this is manufactured, bullshit that the

survey sample size was completely fucked up. What are you saying? I think there's just one editorial decision they must have made, which is they must make a lot of money selling candy canes. I think a lot of people must make a lot of money selling just red and white peppermint candy canes,

uh, because they are fucking everywhere at this time of year. Nobody likes them that I've ever met. Nobody's like, yeah, hell yeah, man. I want my candy to taste like toothpaste,

but have, but I actually rot my teeth. What if toothpaste made my teeth worse? But it's nowhere on this list. The only place that candy canes come in in the top 10 of most hated Christmas candy is number four candy canes, parentheses, non-peppermint. I don't believe you. You're a liar. Candystore.com. I don't believe you you're a liar candystore.com i don't i don't buy it um yeah uh it's i was even like kind of scratching my head i'm like wait what what are those like the ones they sell it

like i remember c's candy would have ones that are like not the red and white color that would just be vaguely sweet what color are they they would be like blue or something like it would be like white with blue stripes or white with like green i'm like dude no no no those are terrible too wait why are people fucking hating on peppermint bark peppermint bark which is am i showing my candy cane crunched up and sprinkled over chocolate. Like a chocolate. Comes in at number 10. But people like chocolate. So that, again, like this is,

I feel like I could write a legal brief on why this is wrong. Like I can't, can't show you the data, but I feel like they are making too much money off of bad red and white candy cans. And they're trying to paper over the fact that nobody likes them. I feel like the DNC, I feel like,

yeah, I feel like the DNC looking at polling of young people and being like, what? No, this is wrong. This is not right. This is not, this is not reflect what I believe.

That's it. The number one, most hated reindeer corn. We've seen before that candy corn is despised. So make sense that reindeer corn might not be very popular. The number two is Christmas nougat. Are those like the chocolate? I don't know. That's so specific.

It's so specific. I can't tell you what it was. It was enough that you got a tipping point of respondents to be like, this is number two. Like cherry cordials? The chocolate covered cherries? My opinion? Oh, okay. You need to see the pictures it's this shit

have you seen that's cherry cordials no that's christmas nougat oh yeah yeah christmas nougat is like it looked like street dice fucking red and green yeah christmas nougat is not good um so it's like gumdrops stuck together with yogurt. Is that basically what it looks like? I don't know. It looks like hell. Oh, yeah. I like cherry cordials. Yeah.

It's like chocolate covered cherries. There's like a little liquor in there for some reason. I hated it because it's just, I don't like when stuff, I said this off mic, I just like chocolate stuff. And then when you get like the cherry cordials are like the thing that you would get in like a box of chocolate you're like oh this one's about to be a truffle and then you take a bite and it's like

and it's just all like ah fuck cherry shit fuck so you just bit into a glow stick yeah exactly this is a fucking rotten tennis ball what the fuck is this that's so I get I can definitely agree with that one cause tennis ball what the fuck is this that's so i i get i can definitely agree

with that one that because that's what the fuck i when i look at that and think about it's this fucking i like that shit i i do remember that that sense of memory of feeling like no no no yeah yeah yeah i did not want this this is not what i asked for. But then, yeah, so number four, candy canes, non-peppermint bullshit. Okay. Complete bullshit. Number five, peeps. Wrong holiday. Catching strays during the holidays? Okay. Yeah. During Christmas? Okay. They're just getting

their peep machine warmed up or something? Yeah, I guess they have to mark the peeps in Christmas so they can be risen for Easter. Because maybe the... The lore around peeps. The lore around they can be risen for easter that's maybe the lore around the lore around it yeah yeah uh ribbon candy i don't think i've ever had but it looks like it's like fruit by the foot mixed with the dice that we were talking about earlier the oh yeah this is like very like the kind of candy like that they make on a boardwalk and you can watch them make it kind of stuff i

think that a lot of this stuff is just old-timey. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Number seven, old-fashioned hard candies. Yeah. No shit. That's specific, yeah. Number eight, Lifesavers storybooks. I don't even know what you're talking about at this point.

But then number nine and ten, chocolate oranges. Who doesn't like chocolate oranges? I hate them. You do? Do they have orange in them? They must, wouldn't oranges? I hate them. You do? Do they have orange in them? They must. I thought they were just chocolate. I thought they were just

kind of orangey flavored chocolate. How are they fucking up the flavor that bad if there isn't real orange in that shit? That's even worse if there wasn't. But yeah,

like the ones that come in like the orange foil thing and then like it's individual wedges kind of wrap and shit. I don't know that I've ever eaten one. I think've just liked it in theory but never had one so maybe i actually is it well for me is there like a i don't is there a texture problem no no it's not taste it's pure flavor i just hate i just don't like sometimes fruit combinations with chocolate

and citrus with it people like like it. I'm absolutely not. It sends shivers up me spine. But we both like peppermint bark, right? We both like peppermint bark. Yeah. It's the only way I'll eat candy cane. That's true. Because it reminds me of like a classy Andy's after dinner mint for the holidays.

Yeah, exactly. You know what I mean? Because you're still getting that like, I like mint chocolate. Mint chocolate, I'm fine with that. And it's not enough candy cane that you're like you know like it's fucking everything up just in there a little crunchy a little mint yeah as a candy corn defender i will agree that reindeer corn just like a step too far like the cut the color of the reindeer corn is it's just a nightmare. It's not. Yeah. You guys fucked up with that one.

Um, but anyways, like, do people, let me know, like, do you, are there people out there who really ride for peppermint candy canes?

Like, it feels like just bad candy that nobody really likes, but maybe I can see there being like a, like you said, like a sense memory from childhood and people like oh it reminds me of christmas but like every one that i talked to is like no fuck fuck those see i'm like i'm like fuck candy corn but candy cane ambivalent interesting just all pure ambivalence for me i'm like i get it like because i think it's kind of

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katiecurrick.com slash body and soul taking better care of yourself is just a click away and we're back we're are we're are we're are um and gta6 gta is back with a trailer um i know you're i know you're ready for this one game jack boy hey game and jack what do you think of that new gta6 trailer man gta6 trailer looks great man put that mountain dew down and get out of that game that's the only question this shit i don't know man the last gta came out i wasn't in my 30s i'm on the doorstep of 40 right now and i'm i'm like wow y'all really made a ton of money off of this shit to the point that like it was i don't know they really took their sweet ass time with this thing uh the trailer it's kind of wild because people have been like just frothing at the mouth for a grand theft auto game to the point that there have

Been constant leaks and shit. That's like all they've been dealing with and the only reason we got the trailers because it should leaked early Yeah, I got tick-tock and they're like fuck it. Just put it out and like the labeling I remember was bad on the YouTube post is like v1 trailer like it's like as if they just put the file name in there But yeah v1 being the grand theft auto 6 trailer. But yeah. I think it's V1 being the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer. Oh yeah, but it does say Trailer 1. Yeah. Oh, is it still? Yeah, like to the point where you're like,

okay, maybe you would have had a different title. I mean, V1 is the Roman numeral for 6, Miles. Oh. Damn. Oh. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. I gotta play this down. Wait, wait, wait.

You said what now? Oh, shit. So this is like Grand Theft Auto version one? Whoa. Your boy is a little tired or something. Anyway, yeah. Oh, Victor. Victor is capable for Rockstar in the chat.

I know, yes, Red Dead Redemption 2 did come out. Fantastic game. All I'm saying is Grand Theft Auto it was just one of those things that kept being like, oh, there's going to be an announcement they're like, we're going to add fucking jets and you're like, fuck. We're going to add lowriders and more motorcycles.

But is there jets in Grand Theft Auto 5? Yeah. Damn. Okay. Yeah. Like you can take a fucking airliner in that game. Hot damn. Yeah. So people are pretty, I don't know, the only way I found out about this was like I saw

a video of someone twerking on top of a car and I was like that looks dangerous. Um, but Hey, kids are wild these days. It's their own.

And then I noticed people were talking about how like, God, I can't believe how like good the graphics are on that. And I was like, maybe this is like a deep faker in AI. I don't have time to look at it. Uh, I had no idea. It was like graphics from grand theft in AI. I don't have time to look at it. I had no idea it was

like graphics from Grand Theft Auto 6. So you had your moment too. You're like, wait, that game? That twerking was game? Yes. Twerking is game? Twerking is game. It's also just wild too.

Inevitably, people are finding a way, like the grand theft auto games have had their problems since time immemorial, since you could hire a sex worker and then kill them to get your money back. And I was like, yo, bro,

that's like play the game. That was grand theft auto five. I believe. I think you could have done. I think you, yeah, there was definitely, I think it was in GTA three,

two, or there it's like, Oh, the sex workers. If you kill them, they, they drop more money. GTA 3, okay, my bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like, they would just drop piles of cash. So if you're playing the game and you're looking to play that way, you would just be targeting them. But now, somehow the game is woke because now you can be a woman, like a female protagonist, and then do all that kind of violent shit. And they're like, it's going too far. We're the white guys. It's like, I don't know, look at the last, all, every game. Yeah. People were pointing out that GTA 5, the female characters were either objects

of sexual lust for men, or psychotic, basically. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Yeah, Michael's wife in that game was not doing, was not, uh, not doing much for any accusations that rockstar was being sensitive to that yeah rockstar in general has been accused of not being overly sensitive in the past and um having massive like pay gaps that were like massive by the

standards of the gaming industry right but yeah women were being paid 64% lower than men. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I mean, there's a whole, there's a whole other labor, you know,

component to the way games are developed that, you know, we could talk about too. Uh, but it seems like it just, there was even like Elon Musk was like, I tried playing the game, but the fact that you had to shoot the police, I just could not do it.

So really? Okay. Yeah, I think Christy Yamaguchi main came in there with a pretty viral clap back. I think I noticed in that thread. But yeah, it's been so many years and now it's not coming out till 2025. So it'll be a full 12 years probably until in between games. Yeah. 2025 is not next year.

I'm just realizing. I was even doing that math too. When I saw it, I was like, okay, 2024. I'm like, wait,

that ain't on this 2024 next year. Oh shit. Game is that's so long from now that my kids will probably be able to play it by the time it comes out I'll be like yeah no I mean did you see the twerking it was pretty cool you're like yeah I thought it was pretty dangerous for that young

lady yeah anyways those are some of the things that are trending Tuesday December 5th we are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves.

Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th 2017 was assassinated. Crooks Everywhere unearths the plot to murder a one-woman WikiLeaks. She exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state.

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