Speaker 1: Hello Internet, and welcome to this Tuesday edition. Oh vull
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Speaker 1: I'm Miles. I'm joined by super producer Becca. What's up Becca? Hello, Hello, hello, hello, hello,
Speaker 1: Hello to you the listener. Uh, let's talk about what
Speaker 1: is trending. First thing is trending is easy Day because
Speaker 1: and look, that's not an actual national day because you know,
Speaker 1: I would have actually described it as such at the
Speaker 1: top of the Daily Show. This is just I think
Speaker 1: Adidas basically saying, yo, man, by all this easy ship
Speaker 1: we got, and I think that's you know, yeah, yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: but they don't have like a Jordan's Day. You know,
Speaker 1: we're clearly they're like because they're rolling out a bunch
Speaker 1: of easy stuff I guess today or whatever. And oh
Speaker 1: you did you? Okay, I just saw like the headlines
Speaker 1: and I was like, okay. But Kanye apparently was saying
Speaker 1: he does not he has nothing to do with this.
Speaker 1: Actually he's very upset about it. Yeah, he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say this DM that someone sad screen capped.
Speaker 1: I don't know where this is this real? Do we
Speaker 1: know this? I mean it keeps circulating, like many news
Speaker 1: sites have posted this DM so like it seems legitimate,
Speaker 1: but who knows, because I mean he does have problems
Speaker 1: with He's been talking about, like, you know, a little
Speaker 1: spicy about Adidas because he definitely felt slighted after like
Speaker 1: there were some images of some slides that came out
Speaker 1: that looked easy ish and he's like, this is me,
Speaker 1: y'all are just doing with my ideas? I need to
Speaker 1: have a conversation with the CEO yesterday. Um so this
Speaker 1: fits into what I see that being the tension between
Speaker 1: Kanye or Yea or Easy or Jesus Christ or whatever
Speaker 1: we're calling him, uh and Adidas. But yeah, part of
Speaker 1: me is like, I'm sorry, is that what your if
Speaker 1: your contract says that, sir you, I'm not really sure
Speaker 1: what the fun you can do? This is you may
Speaker 1: have got out corporationed by the massive corporation And it's
Speaker 1: like did you read it? You know, like it's like
Speaker 1: and look, I think that sucks, you know because I
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, ship your lawyer should have got that, um,
Speaker 1: unless you were to do behind the deal. You're like,
Speaker 1: I will be my own lawyer. Um, in which case
Speaker 1: who knows? But uh whatever, go ahead, but be mad.
Speaker 1: But the d M is wild, it's long. I don't
Speaker 1: want to read it. But there's like not one period
Speaker 1: in this DM and it ends with God step in,
Speaker 1: so you know, yeah, step in the name of love
Speaker 1: if you can't. Um. Actually it's not a good song
Speaker 1: to talk about anyway. Let's talk about w W three.
Speaker 1: World War three is trending because Nancy Pelosi is in Taiwan,
Speaker 1: and the build up to this trip, to lead up
Speaker 1: to this trip, like military visions at the Pentagon are like,
Speaker 1: we suggest not going there as the third highest ranking
Speaker 1: member of the United States government, only second to a
Speaker 1: vice president in terms of like chain of command or
Speaker 1: the succession because the last time a Speaker of the
Speaker 1: House went was and that was New Gingrich and he
Speaker 1: did that because Bill Clinton was the president, So it's
Speaker 1: hard to look like this was like a coordinated thing
Speaker 1: from the presidency. China, on the other hand, is like,
Speaker 1: you know, there were there was one Chinese official who
Speaker 1: was like, if she comes through with military planes, that's
Speaker 1: an invasion in our book, and a lot of people
Speaker 1: are like, this isn't why are you You don't need
Speaker 1: to do this. The the relationship is very complex, and
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, a lot of people
Speaker 1: are like the Republicans loved it because they're so anti
Speaker 1: anything outside of the US are like, yeah, you're not
Speaker 1: soft on China. Provoke them. I meanwhile, other people like
Speaker 1: this could mean, this could mean, this could give China
Speaker 1: a reason to do something a little bit out of
Speaker 1: step with things to sort of re estate say oh
Speaker 1: you want to puff your chest up. Okay, here's what
Speaker 1: we're going to do. Maybe we'll test some missiles around
Speaker 1: around Taiwan. See what happened there. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: um does That part mostly was people tweeting about World
Speaker 1: War three because they said I want to see I'm
Speaker 1: just hoping the world will end. And I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, come on, y'all listen to get to
Speaker 1: Emil right now. Twitter with the World War three takes. Honestly,
Speaker 1: Twitter is kind of a scary I mean, I am
Speaker 1: only on Twitter for the show, famously, but as I
Speaker 1: was looking at things for the show, I was like,
Speaker 1: it was like New York City trends gore, and I
Speaker 1: was like, is it Al Gore, let me click some
Speaker 1: of the most disturbing images I've ever seen in my life. Um,
Speaker 1: if you saw my Facebook like this, yeah, it's because
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I should have never clicked that.
Speaker 1: So you know, Twitter is a darkness? Yeah who thought?
Speaker 1: Who thought? Um? World is in a bit of a
Speaker 1: bit of emotional flux constantly. Another thing that's trending is
Speaker 1: immunity because guess what. Um it has to do with
Speaker 1: immunity and police, but not in the way that you'd
Speaker 1: like it. A federal judge in d C basically dismissed lawsuits.
Speaker 1: Refused to dismiss lawsuits brought by Capitol police officers against
Speaker 1: Trump because they were saying, I got sucked up on
Speaker 1: January six. I'm coming after this dude who set the
Speaker 1: whole thing off and told people to act goonishly. Uh
Speaker 1: and guess and Trump was like, I have absolute immunity,
Speaker 1: and this is like, no, no, they can, they can
Speaker 1: they this, I will let these lawsuits go forward. So, um,
Speaker 1: I'm sure Trump is not feeling that famously loves immunity famously,
Speaker 1: but not not this time. All right, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break. We'll be right back to tell you about
Speaker 1: some more stuff after this, and we're back. Airbnb is
Speaker 1: trending because I don't know if people heard about this.
Speaker 1: Maybe it did, maybe it didn't. You may have seen
Speaker 1: this viral TikTok video of this person calling out a
Speaker 1: very interesting Airbnb listing known as the panther Burn Cottage
Speaker 1: at Belmont Plantation, and people are like, huh okay. This user,
Speaker 1: I feel his name is Lawyer Winton, this black guy.
Speaker 1: He's start of green screening himself behind the Airbnb listing,
Speaker 1: and what this is is described as this. This is
Speaker 1: from the Airbnb listening quote. This particular structure, the panther
Speaker 1: Burn Cabin, is an eighteen thirties slave cabin from the
Speaker 1: extant panther Burn Plantation to the south of Belmont. It
Speaker 1: has also been used as a tenant, sharecroppers cabin and
Speaker 1: a medical office for local farmers and their families. Um
Speaker 1: this place has four point nine for like a four
Speaker 1: point nine rating, and this lawyer was going to be like,
Speaker 1: just look at his sixty eight reviews all from white
Speaker 1: people who are describing this structure, that that was how
Speaker 1: enslaved people. That's quote memorable. Highly recommend watching the Sunset
Speaker 1: enjoyed everything about our stay, the cottage, the history, the tour, breakfast.
Speaker 1: It was great, said Christen Um. Another one said a
Speaker 1: quote delightful place to step into history. And as lawyer
Speaker 1: Winston points out, this is just you know, or lawyer
Speaker 1: Winton apologies pointing out, this is more about like the
Speaker 1: you know, how do I put this Airbnb washing of
Speaker 1: terrible history, like to just reduce this slave quarters to
Speaker 1: be like, it's really great, it's part of your history.
Speaker 1: Slavery wasn't a brutal, awful thing that in my mind,
Speaker 1: this isn't a structure that has the worst energy in
Speaker 1: it anywhere in the country aside from a few places
Speaker 1: from history. Um, And I think that's I get why
Speaker 1: that would make a few people outraged, But the listening
Speaker 1: has been brought down. I mean, I'm looking at some
Speaker 1: of the images of the airbb inside. I'm like that
Speaker 1: because they of like basic yeah, well they like that
Speaker 1: they have the two bunks, and they've basically restored it
Speaker 1: to be like the slave quarters, but like a little
Speaker 1: bit nicer like it is that is so dark. And
Speaker 1: also I thought, maybe I'm misremembering news stories, but when
Speaker 1: Pinters had that big um pull out of all the
Speaker 1: plantations on the wedding boards or whatever, like they removed
Speaker 1: all plantations from winning boards. I thought Airbnb also acted
Speaker 1: and was like yeah, like we're taking plantations off Airbnb,
Speaker 1: but maybe I'm misremembering that. And this is bananas, this
Speaker 1: is uh. And Greenville, Um, Mississippi is like such a
Speaker 1: historic place in terms of like Southern history when it
Speaker 1: comes to like slavery, Like I actually remember learning about Greenville, Mississippi,
Speaker 1: like in my you know, youth of college of like
Speaker 1: learning about American history. So it's just so dark, like yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's a place where the like white people of
Speaker 1: America can go to have the history obscured and completely
Speaker 1: whitewashed and into like a fun place to check out
Speaker 1: the sunset rather than this was a structure that you know,
Speaker 1: created untold trauma for many people. But the ratings are great,
Speaker 1: though you really should you have to take a bath
Speaker 1: in the claw foot tub and check out the sunset,
Speaker 1: like I'm sure some of the previous tenants say. It's
Speaker 1: like I can't imagine the people that were like saw
Speaker 1: that listing was like lit went stayed put a positive review,
Speaker 1: Like who those people are? Like I can envision them,
Speaker 1: and they are quite and they are racist, but it
Speaker 1: is just such a wild like it is so crazy
Speaker 1: how history does not affect you. You know, it's like
Speaker 1: it's like this very disassociative like wow, like it is yeah,
Speaker 1: like what greater? Yeah? What what? What greater way to
Speaker 1: deny the atrocity of chattel slavery then to vacation in
Speaker 1: a place that was the scene of the crime and
Speaker 1: be like it's actually fantastic. It's to the point something
Speaker 1: that you founded by a ghost. I hope you did.
Speaker 1: Some sharecroppers that I'm sure had it real easy. They
Speaker 1: must have loved it. I wonder what the rent was
Speaker 1: for them, Like can you think about how bad the
Speaker 1: rent is or I live so actually to them a
Speaker 1: favor because they you know, they gave them that little house,
Speaker 1: you know, to live where they work, and they got
Speaker 1: paid like sounds like forty acres. But you know, like
Speaker 1: we're not going to have you know, just monumental change overnight.
Speaker 1: So anyway, um, don't please please don't have it. Don't
Speaker 1: don't get don't celebrate shit at a plantation unless you're
Speaker 1: watching it burned down. Sir Brian put A really good
Speaker 1: point in the chat here. These people have never thought
Speaker 1: for a second how terrifying it would be to a
Speaker 1: white person to actually be working on a plantation. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: just and I'll leave it at that. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: the yeah, I don't even know if they concept exists,
Speaker 1: and it must because that's like sort of helps drive
Speaker 1: like the idea that you know, there's everything is so fragile,
Speaker 1: like but what if we do what if we experience
Speaker 1: the things we perpetrated against other people? But then that
Speaker 1: would you wouldn't be putting those positive reviews to like
Speaker 1: like to them, it's like going to a haunted house,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like like the fantastical element,
Speaker 1: like the the mystery, the like, um, the fiction of it,
Speaker 1: right is how it feels to be showing up at
Speaker 1: one of those plantation homes. Like to them, it's like,
Speaker 1: who's go kokie? Like ghost stories are spooky, but not
Speaker 1: like this is actual history that has created like generational
Speaker 1: trauma for many Black Americans, all black Americans in this country. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there was something that like the people who
Speaker 1: like run the foundation of the former plantation or like,
Speaker 1: well we've identified some of the people who work there,
Speaker 1: and we dedicated a square to them. It's like and
Speaker 1: it's like, what give all your money to them? Literally
Speaker 1: you should be mainking, zero income and all of it
Speaker 1: should go to those people. Yeah, you should actually sell
Speaker 1: it to them. They have that back. M hmm. Not
Speaker 1: gonna do that. Can't do that, Just not when we
Speaker 1: got these reviews flying in that are so positive. Next up,
Speaker 1: monkeypok State of emergency. California just declared a state of emergency,
Speaker 1: joining Illinois and New York as well. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: still very very difficult for people to get vaccine appointments.
Speaker 1: The messaging around it is still very homophobic. The qualifications
Speaker 1: are oddly specific and exclude whole swaths of people that
Speaker 1: are equally exposed. We'll talk a little bit more about
Speaker 1: the naming quagmire that, like the World Health Organization is like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, monkey pox is like racist that too,
Speaker 1: But I just want to give a warning, like if
Speaker 1: you have prisis or exema or an autoimmune disorder, be
Speaker 1: like extra cautious. I have really really bad ex am
Speaker 1: out of my hands, Like right now I have like
Speaker 1: open blisters on my hands. Um, they say, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously monkeypox is transmitted through open sores, through skin to
Speaker 1: skin contact through pores. So like you having an autoimmune
Speaker 1: disorder like EXIMA or sirisis you are more susceptible no
Speaker 1: matter what l G B, t Q or not affiliation
Speaker 1: you have. So just be very cautious. If you live
Speaker 1: in a very highly populous city you take public transit,
Speaker 1: like try to not touch you know, use Clark's wipes,
Speaker 1: just stay vigilant. I know, I'm personally pretty freaked out
Speaker 1: for that reason, Like I'm like, where you to go
Speaker 1: to the gym or you know, be on public transit
Speaker 1: because like those are areas that are highly populous, and
Speaker 1: you don't have to be gay to be in those spaces,
Speaker 1: so you know, but you do have to be queer
Speaker 1: to get a vaccine in New York. So yeah, and
Speaker 1: just like that very overly myopic focus on like who
Speaker 1: gets vaccinated when it's like like many virologists are pointing to,
Speaker 1: it's like it's allowing things to spread a lot quicker
Speaker 1: and sooner, the like Biden can declare of national emergency,
Speaker 1: the better like funding that will be begin to flow
Speaker 1: to the operations that are trying to stem the wave
Speaker 1: of infections. Uh, and hopefully doesn't become endemic. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: went through the the I guess like Preventative Care on
Speaker 1: the CC the New York City c set website or whatever,
Speaker 1: and it was so wild, like from all the research
Speaker 1: I did and then reading that, I was like, this
Speaker 1: is so homophobic. It hurts. Like it's like basically like yeah,
Speaker 1: like try not to have sex partners, and like you know,
Speaker 1: it's like it's not labeled an s t I yet potentially,
Speaker 1: but like it's like everyone's like it's not an s
Speaker 1: t I ever and s t I like you don't
Speaker 1: need to be having sex to get it. Like obviously
Speaker 1: having sex you're exchanging lots of fluids of course, but
Speaker 1: like it is not requirement to get it. And it's
Speaker 1: like yeah, just like make sure you're wearing conda, Like
Speaker 1: if you have a sex partner that has monkey pop,
Speaker 1: just like make sure they're covered up. And I'm like none,
Speaker 1: like literally none of the preventative care talked about it,
Speaker 1: like it had nothing to do with not sex, Like
Speaker 1: all the preventatives like sex related, like it's s t I.
Speaker 1: It was so fucked up anyway, because you know, maybe
Speaker 1: if you could not have sex for a little bit.
Speaker 1: Maybe you wouldn't get it. When are you people? Like
Speaker 1: a whore? You are? Like that was the mind reading,
Speaker 1: like who wrote this? Someone's like the ghost of their
Speaker 1: conservative grandmother anyway. And then finally, Jake Novak is trending.
Speaker 1: Beck you put this and I said, what is Jake Novak?
Speaker 1: And what is happening? I feel like, you know in
Speaker 1: my little TikTok corner Internet news. So a few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: I think like six or eight weeks ago. Um, Jake
Speaker 1: Novak went viral on TikTok because he made this audition
Speaker 1: video for the next SNL cast member. It's very musical,
Speaker 1: like theater kid asked. It's like giving Linmo and Miranda
Speaker 1: like like um rap rhyming style. Um. It's a little embarrassing.
Speaker 1: It's a little cringe e but you know, harmless by
Speaker 1: all means, Like it's something that you watch the video,
Speaker 1: you go, oh, and it's him. It's him wholeheartedly of
Speaker 1: trying saying like SNL notice me yeah, and he like
Speaker 1: obviously he is a theater kid, like he enjoys the stuff.
Speaker 1: He you know, his videos are high quality content, like
Speaker 1: he it's clear he works very hard on them, like
Speaker 1: he has a really nice camera set up. He you
Speaker 1: know edits all of them and himself. So and I'm
Speaker 1: sure this children die in the school that's in that's
Speaker 1: from the video. Yeah, that's from Yeah. So he's talented,
Speaker 1: he can sing. It's just like he's definitely not for everyone,
Speaker 1: right and like is he for SNL? Probably not. But
Speaker 1: the way the Internet took that video and just destroyed him,
Speaker 1: it was so depressing. It's very reminisce of um, what
Speaker 1: was the story we were talking about early, not couch guy,
Speaker 1: but also couch guy. Like that's a great example too.
Speaker 1: It just goes into this history of many oh West Elm,
Speaker 1: Caleb Western, Caleb Couch and I similar things. It's different
Speaker 1: for those two because they you know, questionable on the
Speaker 1: morals of those men in those videos. But you know
Speaker 1: this kid simply you know, he has a passion. It's
Speaker 1: clear he's trying to make it as a content creator
Speaker 1: like many people are out there. But TikTok can be
Speaker 1: such a like toxic place and put you where Unlike
Speaker 1: old Internet, you could have your niche, you could stay
Speaker 1: in your niche area of the Internet and be praised
Speaker 1: in your niche. But like TikTok can be so expansive
Speaker 1: and viral that you end up on the wrong for
Speaker 1: you page and then all of a sudden, it is
Speaker 1: just like hate vitriol for no reason. And the Internet
Speaker 1: has made people so brave in a way that they
Speaker 1: never would have been if they were confronted in real
Speaker 1: life about the things they say online to other people. Right,
Speaker 1: it's just disturbing what has happened to him, since I
Speaker 1: feel really bad that, like people I've seen videos lately,
Speaker 1: people bothering him at work. He works at Disney. He's
Speaker 1: a cast member at Disney. Like people are harassing and
Speaker 1: being like SNL's next cast member and filming him while
Speaker 1: he's at work. People, according to this article he did
Speaker 1: with Vulture, I've been damn ng his family members telling
Speaker 1: them that he's dead or like other handful things like
Speaker 1: it's just like what did he do to you? Right?
Speaker 1: Just was a guy trying to make it as an
Speaker 1: SNLS next casser. Because there's like also the because the algorithm.
Speaker 1: It's like Twitter too, right, where like if you start
Speaker 1: talking about the topic to JR on the platform, it's
Speaker 1: an easy way to get more followers, like if you're
Speaker 1: because if someone like likes a topic and you're the
Speaker 1: one going off on like the Beyonce album or whatever.
Speaker 1: Just by virtue of the conversation. You can get a
Speaker 1: lot of traction by just commenting on what's happening. And
Speaker 1: you see that, like on TikTok. I noticed it a
Speaker 1: lot when people do at videos and things like that
Speaker 1: to be able to be like, okay, let me jump
Speaker 1: in on this trend and it just sounds like that's
Speaker 1: just that can just go completely out of whack and
Speaker 1: turns into oh okay, so now we're dog piling on someone.
Speaker 1: That's the way to get on the algorithm. I don't
Speaker 1: know who this human is. I don't give a fun
Speaker 1: because I'm trying to get my ship going because them
Speaker 1: they made this video saying can tell me why um
Speaker 1: children dying in the school? And it is catchy and
Speaker 1: like his content like and it is catchy, yeah it's
Speaker 1: and its content isn't like like it's high quality content,
Speaker 1: but and it's probably better than most of the things,
Speaker 1: like the people teaching him, you know, aren't making quality content.
Speaker 1: But just have anything. Leave this man alone, Leave people
Speaker 1: the internet alone. Sometimes you're if you're typing something, maybe
Speaker 1: think like three times about it before and then just
Speaker 1: delete it. So there's your voice is sometimes very much
Speaker 1: unnecessary in the comment section. Most can tell you of
Speaker 1: the time the it is unless you have something positive
Speaker 1: to say or whatever. But that's the nature of our like,
Speaker 1: you know, our world, where people feel increasingly powerless, and
Speaker 1: at times the most potent you feel is just to
Speaker 1: be able to dunk on somebody who's I get it, like,
Speaker 1: it's probably there's annym that what do you think you're
Speaker 1: going to get on? Motherfucking so fuck you? But man,
Speaker 1: people are just trying to live. Yeah, leave him alone.
Speaker 1: I came around to Jake Novak. But watch if this
Speaker 1: guy is on some like alright ship, like we find
Speaker 1: out he returns, it's like an al right commentator because
Speaker 1: of this this hurt that he's experienced. Get me off
Speaker 1: that train. But we'll see, let's hope not. He just
Speaker 1: seems like a you know, just a theater kid trying
Speaker 1: to make it working at Disney, and just let him be.
Speaker 1: Leave him alone. If you don't like his content or
Speaker 1: anyone on the internet that matter, unless it is hateful speech,
Speaker 1: just don't just let them be and do their weird
Speaker 1: ship and just move on to your life. It takes
Speaker 1: you know, costs you nothing to just role Yeah click exactly. Well,
Speaker 1: all right, that's gonna do it for today's trending episode.
Speaker 1: Thank you Becca for joining me. Until next time, which
Speaker 1: will be tomorrow morning, you will get a new episode.
Speaker 1: It's going to be fantastic, uh and hilarious. We've got
Speaker 1: a great guest. Um. Yeah, until next time. Take care
Speaker 1: of yourselves, take care of each other, get the vaccine,
Speaker 1: wear a mask. The wait still a pandemic, y'all and
Speaker 1: we're in it together. Also, don't don't stand idly by
Speaker 1: when some hate the ship is going on, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Let people know that you're a good
Speaker 1: person and let people know you think that ship is bad. Okay,
Speaker 1: Uh until next time. We'll see you then at the
Speaker 1: next time. Okay, bye,