Trend Fu: The Legend Continues… 12/15: Bondi Beach Shooting, Rob Reiner, Merriam-Webster, Christmas Tree Farms vs. AI Farms
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🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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In this edition of Trend Fu: The Legend Continues…, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, the Bondi Beach shooting, the murder of Rob Reiner (featuring a truly unhinged Trump response), Merriam-Webster's word of the year: Slop, Virginia Christmas tree farms vs AI farms, and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | reminds me I looked up I looked up gung-ho the other day because I was like this got to be |
| 0:08.3 | racist the movie with Michael Keaton no no no no no the phrase I was like oh because I was |
| 0:13.7 | every time I come across like something that's just in our vernacular oh yeah yeah you got |
| 0:19.3 | that's like that's like kind of a nonsense. |
| 0:39.8 | Now I just look it up because it's like, I remember last, last time I did this, I looked up Cakewalk, which is racist. Yeah, yeah, right, exactly. Um, but gung-ho is, it's not necessarily racist, but it's definitely comes from imperialism. Yeah, it's a misinterpretation of a Chinese phrase. |
| 0:45.3 | But thank God, it's not like the most racist interpretation that you can think of. Yeah. |
| 0:45.6 | So I still feel like you can use Gung Ho. |
| 0:49.9 | It does feel very... |
| 0:51.3 | It is a good phrase. |
| 0:53.3 | Gung Ho comes from the Chinese phrase, Gonghi meaning work together, a slogan for Chinese industrial cooperatives in the 1930s. Gung Ho, I feel like when I hear it is like, man, that guy's really gung ho. Yeah. It's like... Yeah, like he, like, P. Diddy, that guy's gung ho. Guys, gung ho for his grind set. This is, I mean, it's wild, though, too, because when you said that, I was like, the Michael Keaton movie about the Japanese car maker in the Pennsylvania factory. And then I'm like, wait, they talk about a Chinese phrase to do some like 80s Japanese shit. Very, Did you, do you ever see that movie? |
| 1:28.2 | I don't even know the Michael Keaton movie. |
| 1:29.9 | 1986 movie where Michael Keaton is, he has to like get his auto plant going, |
| 1:36.4 | but these Japanese people come through to like show him how shit's done. |
| 1:39.4 | It's a very like, you guys do shit like this and we do it like this. |
| 1:43.3 | And then they find a harmonious middle meaning |
| 1:46.0 | they listen to geti wadenaabe they all like get together and have like drunk farmers |
| 1:53.6 | are the american version dude is it like oh you got a dog tale of amer Americans being fucking idiots. |
| 2:02.8 | Just two clashing cultures, man. |
| 2:04.7 | They learn from each other, man. |
| 2:05.6 | They learn from each other. |
| 2:09.0 | It's actually good when you forget to screw on some of the parts. |
| 2:10.6 | That's... It's the end-user something to do. |
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