Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Speaker 1: Royal Caribbee Trend Cruise Line. The ninth cruise sounds like
Speaker 1: sounds kind of biblical if they if they had cruises
Speaker 1: during biblical time. I'm Jack and I'm Jack. I think
Speaker 1: Brian can I he correct me if I'm wrong, But
Speaker 1: I think that's the first time I've gotten my name
Speaker 1: wrong in the while introducing the show. My name is
Speaker 1: Jack and I'm thrilled to be joined by super producer
Speaker 1: Becca Rubber.
Speaker 2: It's been so long since I've done.
Speaker 1: The truck, so wonderful to have you. And as always
Speaker 1: when you do trends, you you're standing. I mean people
Speaker 1: can't see this, but you are standing on TikTok Corner
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: I have built a platform and it says TikTok.
Speaker 1: Corner and I'm got sunglasses and you're just like kind
Speaker 1: of asking people as they come by, who's this guy?
Speaker 1: This guy, What's what's the deal? What's going on over here?
Speaker 1: And one of the things that is bubbling on TikTok
Speaker 1: Corner is the nine month cruise from Royal Caribbean Cruise Line.
Speaker 2: Yes, it is so insane that a people embark on
Speaker 2: this and are not fearful. I know, I know there
Speaker 2: are people on this in our our TDZ community that
Speaker 2: are fans of cruising. It's not me. It'll never be me,
Speaker 2: you know. I remember Miles very distinctly being like I
Speaker 2: could fuck with a cruise, though, oh yeah, like I
Speaker 2: will never. You will not catch me on a cruise,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. So imagine a nine month cruise,
Speaker 2: you know, like like we haven't dealt with the fact
Speaker 2: that like cruises can be incubators, you know, like COVID
Speaker 2: nineteen running rampant on cruises, cruises sinking, you know, the
Speaker 2: shit flying on these cruises. You know, there have been
Speaker 2: multiple cruising incidents in the past few years, and people
Speaker 2: want to embark on a nine month cruise.
Speaker 1: Nine months is enough time to just state a whole
Speaker 1: ass baby. So literally you could get pregnant on the
Speaker 1: first day of the cruise and to give birth when
Speaker 1: you get to court. Yeah, that's wild. Uh, it's what
Speaker 1: what it just like goes everywhere. It's like the ulta
Speaker 1: is the final word in luxury?
Speaker 2: Is that what we're Yes, it's giving Titanic, you know,
Speaker 2: it's like this grand tour of the world. Basically, you're
Speaker 2: gonna hit all seven I like almost said the wrong
Speaker 2: amount of continents, Like I didn't have a college degree.
Speaker 1: I actually can't currently produce the correct number of continents.
Speaker 2: To be honest with, you hit all the continents. You're
Speaker 2: supposed to hit all the continents. You don't get off
Speaker 2: at Antarctica, but you're supposed to like wave hello at Antarctica.
Speaker 2: But you're supposed to get off at all the continents
Speaker 2: and spend like ample time in each of these places.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming like a month or two because it's nine months,
Speaker 2: so you're gonna spend like six weeks maybe per continent.
Speaker 2: I don't remember all the details, but they like fly
Speaker 2: you to Miami and they have this whole like welcome
Speaker 2: party in Miami and you get to do like these
Speaker 2: really fun restaurant things that have a gala. They make
Speaker 2: it a whole event, like you're part of this club
Speaker 2: to be on this cruise for nine months, which I
Speaker 2: guess I get it. You're gonna be with the same
Speaker 2: people like a small boat. I mean it's a big boat,
Speaker 2: but like a small community.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get nine months. Yeah, you're gonna get.
Speaker 2: A little village you're you're shipping around for nine months.
Speaker 1: With here's my pitch. Yeah, make it more expensive and
Speaker 1: then make this.
Speaker 2: A sixty k make it.
Speaker 1: Away for like the ultra wealthy and also the children
Speaker 1: of the ultra wealthy to just take themselves out of
Speaker 1: circulation for nine months, yes, and allow the world to
Speaker 1: get better. Maybe maybe like we create an Internet bubble
Speaker 1: on the cruise so they think that they know what's
Speaker 1: going on and that they're interacting with the world. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's actually like they're completely cut off from the world,
Speaker 1: like it when they're true show. Yeah, more Truman show show.
Speaker 1: They don't realize that nobody can actually hear or see
Speaker 1: what they're posting or like their calls. We just like,
Speaker 1: you know, do some AI stuff so that they're like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to put this on TikTok and we're just like, yay,
Speaker 1: we like your TikTok content. Rich person's son.
Speaker 2: You don't realize the same on TikTok.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're just getting all and then we just put
Speaker 1: all the wealthy out to see for nine months. And
Speaker 1: then when they come back, we have launched the revolution
Speaker 1: and they're like, oh wow, but it's too late for you.
Speaker 2: This should have been in our twenty twenty four predictions.
Speaker 1: That's I mean, we just recorded our twenty twenty four predictions. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm not predicting it. I am manifesting it right now.
Speaker 1: That's going to yeah, yeah stage.
Speaker 2: The Royal Caribbean becomes the elite cruise line for all
Speaker 2: the rich and we ship them off for nine months
Speaker 2: yea on the craziest cruise.
Speaker 1: Probably you need to create a new name for the
Speaker 1: cruise line. That is like makes them think that it's
Speaker 1: like even more yeah, super excluded, like it's something only
Speaker 1: for them. Anyways, some of the things that we're trending Idahoans,
Speaker 1: we got to come up with a new name for
Speaker 1: you guys. First of all, Idahoans lined up for eight
Speaker 1: hours of their first crack at in and out Burger
Speaker 1: is crazy.
Speaker 2: That is I I'm sorry. It's a fast food burger.
Speaker 2: At the end of the days, it's a fast food burger.
Speaker 2: It costs under ten dollars.
Speaker 1: It misunderstands. This is what happens with in and out
Speaker 1: all the time. The point of in and out is
Speaker 1: it is convenient and cheap. Like that's what is going
Speaker 1: in and out? Going in, You're going out and you're
Speaker 1: not paying that much. If you're going in expecting it
Speaker 1: to be the best thing you've ever had, it's not
Speaker 1: gonna work out for you. The thing that is good
Speaker 1: about it is that it's the best thing you've ever
Speaker 1: had at that price.
Speaker 2: Ag.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, it's for like two Like it's pretty cheap,
Speaker 1: and that's what's good. So like treating it like it's
Speaker 1: a fucking you know, Taylor Swift concert, you know, is
Speaker 1: going to leave you disappointed, I would imagine.
Speaker 2: But maybe this it's like what have we come to?
Speaker 2: And maybe I also have the privilege of growing up
Speaker 2: I mean privilege and also like there's something wrong with
Speaker 2: Texas of a fast food plethrap right, Like I grew
Speaker 2: up probably the heart of fast food in my square mile.
Speaker 2: I can get to Popeye's, what a Burger, McDonald's, sonic Uh,
Speaker 2: in and Out, and Chick fil A within five minutes
Speaker 2: of my house.
Speaker 1: I didn't even realize that I have it in and
Speaker 1: out in Texas.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they have. They have it in and out
Speaker 2: in Texas.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I mean not okay, I.
Speaker 2: Guess I should not say in and out. For Houston,
Speaker 2: the in and out's a little far from me in Houston,
Speaker 2: but it's in Austin. It was in Waco, my college town. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like I had access and the in and out when
Speaker 2: it opened in Waco was not seven eight hours, but
Speaker 2: it was like a big deal, like I remember, But
Speaker 2: that's nothing. There's also on the same strip as the
Speaker 2: in and out, a Whaterburger subway, Papa John's, Jimmy Johns, Jersey, Mike.
Speaker 1: You are flexing on people right now, you know, You're like, it's.
Speaker 2: The fast food, it's plethora. I can't imagine waiting more
Speaker 2: than thirty minutes for anything in fast food time.
Speaker 1: That's what you can't do. Yeah, that is nine months
Speaker 1: in fast food time. Waiting eight hours is the equivalent
Speaker 1: of nine months in fast food time. Yeah, you could
Speaker 1: have just like to drive it home. You could have
Speaker 1: in the time that you were waiting in an idling car,
Speaker 1: you could have flown to California. I gotten in and
Speaker 1: out and flowing.
Speaker 2: Yes, you literally could have. Like how long is the
Speaker 2: flight from Idaho to California.
Speaker 1: It's not that not that far. That's one.
Speaker 2: It's if you're going to northern California, right, it should
Speaker 2: be like right there, a hop skip and a.
Speaker 1: Hop, skip and one jump. So anyways, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but maybe, well we'll see how people feel. Maybe like
Speaker 1: this is the sort of thing that people go nuts for,
Speaker 1: is like, did you see how fucking long the lines are?
Speaker 1: It's gotta be a success.
Speaker 2: I want to hear from Idahoan did you wait in
Speaker 2: the line? Did you go? And how was it? Because
Speaker 2: I just want to know if you were disappointed at
Speaker 2: the end of those eight hours.
Speaker 1: And I actually don't want to hear from you. I
Speaker 1: just you know, try harder. I'm tired now. Yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe it was worth it, maybe like something about waiting
Speaker 1: eight hours for a meal. God, I would be so
Speaker 1: hungry by the time that I got to the front
Speaker 1: that I would be like ready to harm someone.
Speaker 2: Exactly as a angry person. I don't think I could
Speaker 2: have done it.
Speaker 1: To bring a snack to a fast food. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll be right back,
Speaker 1: and we're back and Sports Illustrated. We talked about, I
Speaker 1: think a few weeks back they got busted by futurism
Speaker 1: dot com, which is a website that I'm a I'm
Speaker 1: a fan of now because they are paying attention. They
Speaker 1: seem to be written by real humans, and they noticed
Speaker 1: that Sports Illustrated, famed legendary uh you know journalistic institution,
Speaker 1: was not written by humans anymore. They had bylines from
Speaker 1: people who had no history writing any sort of journalism.
Speaker 1: So they asked Sports Illustrated parent company, the Arena Group,
Speaker 1: for comments, and all the generated authors disappeared from the
Speaker 1: website and all their contented But it's just again interesting
Speaker 1: to look at the inoffensive, just pablem that they're producing,
Speaker 1: that they're using AI technology. This is the bio of
Speaker 1: Drew or Tees, who one of the writers from Sports
Speaker 1: Illustrated that didn't exist. Drew has spent much of his
Speaker 1: life outdoors and is excited to guide you through his
Speaker 1: never ending list of the best products to keep you
Speaker 1: from falling to the perils of nature. Nowadays, there is
Speaker 1: rarely a weekend that goes by where Drew isn't out camping, hiking,
Speaker 1: or just back on his parents farm. Just yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just like if a marketing company like people spend money
Speaker 1: on outdoor shit. So like if a marketing company could
Speaker 1: invent a person, this is what they would do it.
Speaker 2: Like when they do the the audience brand deep I
Speaker 2: guess as someone who used to work in marketing. They
Speaker 2: used to have like little like this is who we're
Speaker 2: talking to. His name is Jim.
Speaker 1: Jim Marketers love to do that where they're like, yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: he's one and a half kid, and the half one
Speaker 1: is like in a lot of pain and just screaming
Speaker 1: kill me.
Speaker 2: He spends this much on nutri green bars a week.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I mean they just like did a very
Speaker 1: basic look and it was like that, and also the
Speaker 1: AI like posts the stuff that they were writing. So
Speaker 1: this is used across the company's entire content library. They
Speaker 1: own a bunch of websites and like there's one I
Speaker 1: just want to read this like summary from the article
Speaker 1: of this other like what one of their financial websites. Uh.
Speaker 1: It starts with the sweeping libertarian claim that your financial
Speaker 1: status translates to your value in society. But then the
Speaker 1: article is just like this, like vague people with strong
Speaker 1: financial status are revered and given special advantages everywhere around
Speaker 1: the world. Improve your financial status using these five tips.
Speaker 1: So it's just like complete bullshit, says nothing means nothing.
Speaker 1: And then the list, which includes headers such as educate yourself,
Speaker 1: set and achieve goals use your time wisely. Shut up.
Speaker 1: But each entry, each one of those is numbered number one,
Speaker 1: So number one educate yourself. Number one set and achieve goals,
Speaker 1: and of course number one use your time wisely. So
Speaker 1: I don't know. So anyways, this was revealed a couple
Speaker 1: weeks ago. The article was published a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and since Nsports Illustrators had to fire a bunch of people,
Speaker 1: and recently, I think a couple of days ago, they
Speaker 1: fired their CEO and replaced them with the interim CEO,
Speaker 1: who is the founder and CEO of Innovations Ventures, known
Speaker 1: for creating the five hour Energy drink. So like, even
Speaker 1: the moves of like who they hired feel like they
Speaker 1: were written by fucking AI. Yeah, well, of course, and
Speaker 1: we like energy and therefore we were hiring the founder
Speaker 1: of five Hour Energy to run Sports Illustrated.
Speaker 2: You know, famously someone who definitely works in copy. I
Speaker 2: can run an editorial venture.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. So anyways, keep it an eye on that.
Speaker 1: But it really, like the thing that's surprising and interesting
Speaker 1: to me about this is that it feels like everybody
Speaker 1: is doing this when you go and read, like I
Speaker 1: was talking about how like one of the ap year
Speaker 1: and review articles. When you like read the headers or
Speaker 1: like the subheads of like some of the sections, it
Speaker 1: just reads like it is written by AI. I think
Speaker 1: that the use of AI is like way more widespread.
Speaker 1: So it's interesting to me that they got fired, like
Speaker 1: they had to like clean house over this, because it
Speaker 1: feels like this is happening everywhere, Like it's all just
Speaker 1: like bland inoffensive bullshit, and we're like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: we'll be keeping an eye on it, but like it's
Speaker 1: so much of like Wall Street value, like a lot
Speaker 1: of the stock market growth is like based on the
Speaker 1: promise of AI, and when people get caught using AI,
Speaker 1: they get fired. I'm like there's a contradiction there that
Speaker 1: they want.
Speaker 2: To make more money be using AI, but then they
Speaker 2: realize and they use shitty AI is and also that
Speaker 2: that takes away maybe so their job at the end
Speaker 2: of the day, and they're like, oh, okay, well this
Speaker 2: is getting a little too close. I'm putting my feet
Speaker 2: to the fire. Yeah, I don't lose my job.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then so something that was trending earlier today
Speaker 1: is that the there's a new Beverly Hills cop movie
Speaker 1: coming Beverly Hills cop AXILF colon AXILF. It is coming
Speaker 1: in I think, or like coming this summer, and it's
Speaker 1: only coming out on Netflix.
Speaker 2: Love.
Speaker 1: It's so ouch that like, oh, man, like that would
Speaker 1: be I would think that would be a big event film.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I guess it's just that I'm old
Speaker 1: and who gives a shit? But like that seems to
Speaker 1: be the trend in movies like coming in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: So I was just looking back through these are all
Speaker 1: like it's movies that you had assumed most of the
Speaker 1: people involved are retired, like Gladiator two Yeah, is coming
Speaker 1: like which sounds bad on its surface, but it's still
Speaker 1: directed by Ridley Scott, who like is incapable. He makes
Speaker 1: bad movies very frequently now, but they're always entertaining. Like
Speaker 1: he is screaming to us, are you not entertained? Uh?
Speaker 1: And I'm screaming back, you're bad, but like, yes, I'm entertained. Man,
Speaker 1: you got me. But this one's got fucking Denzel Washington. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That that's Has Denzel ever been in a sequel? I
Speaker 1: guess the Equalizer films, Yeah, Blake, he's not a sequel guy. Really?
Speaker 1: Another one twisters. Uh, so they're doing the Alien Aliens thing.
Speaker 1: No news whether they did the thing where they that
Speaker 1: James Cameron did for pitching the Alien sequel where he
Speaker 1: just wrote alien on a whiteboard and then wrote an
Speaker 1: S after and then turned the S into a dollar sign. Uh,
Speaker 1: but I hope they did. Uh. Beetlejuice too, sure.
Speaker 2: You know, equal to like the O G beetlejuice?
Speaker 1: Is there another No, that's a beetle just too. I'm tired.
Speaker 1: Mufassa coland the Lion King. Yeah, they're gonna let Godfather
Speaker 1: to this ship, which like that's what they like, the
Speaker 1: origin story of Mufasa and then also the story of
Speaker 1: like Simba trying to be a parent to his offspring.
Speaker 1: So it's it's just and then there's of course, like
Speaker 1: more Ghostbusters with the original cast Bad Boys four. So
Speaker 1: I don't like, I feel like everyone was like, you know, uh, okay,
Speaker 1: well what we the lesson we learned twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: is people like original ip or like they like originally
Speaker 1: you know, they're like Barbie, they like Super Mario Brothers.
Speaker 1: Won you know what? And instead of kind of learning
Speaker 1: that lesson, they're just like, no, we're gonna go back
Speaker 1: to doing sequels to even older movies that you did.
Speaker 2: Do you think what is I obviously don't know how
Speaker 2: movies are run so famously, you know, I don't work
Speaker 2: in movies, but I'm an expert, So go ahead and
Speaker 2: ask it cheaper to be produced. Seeing these movies with
Speaker 2: older ip as, they were having a downturn write in
Speaker 2: theory in twenty twenty three because of the strikes. So
Speaker 2: they're like, oh shit, we didn't make as much money
Speaker 2: as we normally would in like box office and like whatever,
Speaker 2: because like all the actors and writers thought they deserved
Speaker 2: fair wages, which they did, and so now they're like,
Speaker 2: all right, well, we had a downturn year in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three, we got to play safe. In twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: We know these types of things will bring us money
Speaker 2: because like who doesn't love a sel, you know, even
Speaker 2: though we know, as like people who consume media, we
Speaker 2: don't want a sequel, but they're so focused on like
Speaker 2: it has to be a sequel. Yeah, that's guaranteed dollars
Speaker 2: versus like.
Speaker 1: New ventures could be for sure, And I think it
Speaker 1: probably also fewer of the people who would say no
Speaker 1: are still around too, so now you know. But I'm
Speaker 1: sure like most of these were in the works before
Speaker 1: the strike would be My guess.
Speaker 2: Is this Joker going to be the new Joker with
Speaker 2: the guy from Saltburn?
Speaker 1: Know? This is going to be Joker with Joaquin Phoenix,
Speaker 1: Oscar Winning Joker plus Lady Gaga.
Speaker 2: A lady, Oh, this is Lady Go Joker.
Speaker 1: Lady Gaga's Joker. It's a music hall folly. Dude, do
Speaker 1: you excited?
Speaker 2: I'm I'm sold. I'm in.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But the I mean there's a bunch more sequels
Speaker 1: coming out, uh, Sonic three, Bad Boys four, Rebel Moon
Speaker 1: Part two, The Scargiver. I don't because everyone remembers part one.
Speaker 2: I don't know what part one is.
Speaker 1: Despicable me for like just a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of movies where I couldn't tell you what number we're on,
Speaker 1: Like Kung Fu Panda. If I asked you what which
Speaker 1: Kung Fu Panda we were on?
Speaker 2: Nope, I can't believe we're on number four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're on four. Inside Out is getting a sequel
Speaker 1: because Pixar was like, we gotta start making movies people
Speaker 1: want to come see again. So that's happening. Lord of
Speaker 1: the Rings. They're making a Lord of the Rings animated.
Speaker 1: I just feel like we've reached peak Lord of the
Speaker 1: Rings now. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I listened to Nicole Byer's uh Newcomers podcast. There is
Speaker 2: so much Lord of the Yes out there to reach
Speaker 2: all of it.
Speaker 1: No, they're not even close. All right, Well, Beck Ramos,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. Where can people
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Speaker 1: going to do it for us. On this Thursday, December fourteenth,
Speaker 1: we are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of
Speaker 1: the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be
Speaker 1: kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about
Speaker 1: white supremacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Bye bye,