Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of trend PCs. Oh,
Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell is a clearly a trend PC.
Speaker 2: Yeah, mister will is like is schemic whatever episodes like,
Speaker 2: he is glitching out.
Speaker 3: We live in the fucking matrix, moving people.
Speaker 1: Move along, find a new angle, clear PC. That short
Speaker 1: show title is courtesy of Moniche on the discourt been
Speaker 1: killing it on the short show titles of late I'm Jack.
Speaker 1: That is Miles, thank you, and these are some things
Speaker 1: that are trending today.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: In between this morning's episode and this trending episode, we've
Speaker 1: been digging in a little bit more on on the UFO,
Speaker 1: like people's responses to the UFO hearings yesterday stuff. As
Speaker 1: this guy said, Yeah, David Grush, maybe less uh less
Speaker 1: just bulletproof than we might have thought at first. So
Speaker 1: I need to dive into some of the takes of
Speaker 1: the skeptics on tomorrow's episode when we get a little
Speaker 1: more research. But I will say I'm still cautiously intrigued.
Speaker 2: Oh this is I mean, all all I'm saying is like, sure,
Speaker 2: I'm like this is interesting. But again, I'm not going
Speaker 2: to cross the bridge until I want to see a
Speaker 2: fucking cube in an ORB spinning around and shit, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like I want to see a
Speaker 2: video clip or some shit where they're like this is.
Speaker 1: Evidence, sang, you know what, I'd take an ORB in
Speaker 1: a cube at this point, all right, you know, like
Speaker 1: that's where I'm making Yeah, that's all I need.
Speaker 4: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I will say, like the scientific orthodoxy isn't all just
Speaker 1: going to sit down together and agree the data is overwhelming,
Speaker 1: Like people resist up until the last possible moment. So like, yeah,
Speaker 1: even though there's going to be some skepticism, I I'm
Speaker 1: taking a look at like my own reason, like why
Speaker 1: I want to believe that I might not be the
Speaker 1: most sober minded person about this. But also I think
Speaker 1: just from a broad historical perspective, it's important to keep
Speaker 1: in mind like this is how big you know, revolutionary
Speaker 1: changes and how we view ourselves in the universe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like think about how hard it was for heliocentricity
Speaker 2: to fucking go.
Speaker 4: Around, Like this would be on par with that.
Speaker 1: So I guess that's because one of the things that
Speaker 1: I kind of kept checking for I was like, so
Speaker 1: this is now not on the front page of any
Speaker 1: of the major papers, not even Drudge. The Drudge Report,
Speaker 1: which is usually like we'll be able to sniff out
Speaker 1: a big story regardless of whether it's true or not,
Speaker 1: is not like has like one minor headline about it
Speaker 1: at this point and Thursday afternoon, so you know, part
Speaker 1: of me is like, do they know something that we
Speaker 1: don't and like this is all bullshit and being cooked
Speaker 1: up to distract from something or is this just how
Speaker 1: big revolutionary piece of information get digested where at first
Speaker 1: people are like I get this guy said this thing,
Speaker 1: but right who the hell knows?
Speaker 2: It is wild though too, because even like the Family
Speaker 2: Research Council, which is a really euphemistic name for a
Speaker 2: fucking hate group. Uh, they're even like they wade into
Speaker 2: like obviously this can't happen because Jesus, okay, let's move
Speaker 2: the fuck on, thank you stop, but like we do
Speaker 2: have a take, and it's that it's it's all explained
Speaker 2: in the Bible, folks, And then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because Jesus, all right, never mind, Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know about that.
Speaker 2: Jessee Waters had a dude on yesterday who's like this
Speaker 2: guy who says he can summon orbs, like and I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 3: He was obviously making fun.
Speaker 2: Of this guy, and he's like, yeah, it started happening
Speaker 2: like after nine to eleven.
Speaker 3: I was kind of going through a hard time. I
Speaker 3: started seeing these orbs and you're.
Speaker 1: Like what, no, but that I mean that is probably
Speaker 1: the most effective way to discount this story would be
Speaker 1: to just start having like, there's no shortage of people
Speaker 1: out there who are like, yeah, I also believe in
Speaker 1: UFOs and here's why, because I had a thirty year
Speaker 1: romantic relationship with an alien species that was visiting me
Speaker 1: every night in my house, and like you just blend
Speaker 1: all of that together like as part of the yeah
Speaker 1: UFO cause, and then like that kind of diminished.
Speaker 2: Let's stay focused on the non human biologics, folks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. That phrase really really stuck.
Speaker 3: It's it. It's different. It's like starry it does. Dude.
Speaker 1: McDonald's seems to have noticed the hearings because they are
Speaker 1: now teasing a new spinoff restaurant brand called cos Mix
Speaker 1: cos and then Capital mc.
Speaker 3: Yeah they are, and yeah they are.
Speaker 1: The company will test Cosmics in a handful of sites
Speaker 1: in a limited geography. In early twenty twenty four, a
Speaker 1: little backstory. Cosmic is an allien from outer space who
Speaker 1: craves McDonald's food and a kid, and it's advertisements decades ago.
Speaker 4: So the space ages upon us.
Speaker 3: Yeah that?
Speaker 2: Or like, are they also just feeling like that Grimace
Speaker 2: vibe too? They're like, man, people fuck with these dumb
Speaker 2: ass character Like what's going to happen when the Cosmic
Speaker 2: meal comes out?
Speaker 3: Like what's TikTok going to do with that one?
Speaker 4: Maybe? Like will they start?
Speaker 1: We already were asking the question like did they do
Speaker 1: the whole Grimace thing with the idea? Like knowing they
Speaker 1: were like, Okay, there's actually this one podcast The Daily's
Speaker 1: like ice, you know, strong space, strong listener base and
Speaker 1: like very very low and all of our readings suggest
Speaker 1: that they are going to start talking about how this
Speaker 1: is grimmouth come and then uh, that idea will also
Speaker 1: be reflected on TikTok and then people like these videos
Speaker 1: like were they onto us before?
Speaker 4: Did we just fall right into their trap?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Will we get some food that seem like it's alien?
Speaker 3: Come? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Or the Cosmics it's gonna be like fries or like
Speaker 2: eat his pubes.
Speaker 3: They're like, what's like a.
Speaker 1: Basket like down in that area of the body. And
Speaker 1: why are you using this opportunity to sell curly fries?
Speaker 1: Such a weird choice.
Speaker 2: You know, I love the thing with this cosmics things like,
Speaker 2: I still have no idea what the fuck it is
Speaker 2: that the only thing they said is that it's a
Speaker 2: small format concept with all the DNA of McDonald's, but
Speaker 2: with its own format concept.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, it's an s f C Okay, okay, okay, it's.
Speaker 1: An sc with with the DNA of m d's of course,
Speaker 1: said CEO Chris comes in s f C MC DNA
Speaker 1: like that's that was what they wrote on the board,
Speaker 1: and then they added an S at the end and
Speaker 1: then turned it into a dollar sign just because James
Speaker 1: Cameron did that with Aliens and boom. People think that's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Anyways, I'll be there winding up just that shit.
Speaker 3: Do a bank play moonshot, I have straight to.
Speaker 1: Com double click on that for me, give me all
Speaker 1: the data, uh just full download deep dive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, let's five x that ship and do a
Speaker 4: bank play.
Speaker 2: Okay, bank play, maybe bringing some of the hedge homies
Speaker 2: see what happens there and then just go fuck it.
Speaker 3: Book our tickets to the moon.
Speaker 1: Could we set up a call with like some higher
Speaker 1: up at iHeart and be like that TDZ bank play
Speaker 1: and just try and like bullshit business phrase our way through.
Speaker 2: I think we could, Yeah, because there it's it's sort
Speaker 2: of like, you know what, I'm really curious about this now,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna start saying some shit like that in meetings.
Speaker 2: I think we're kind of missing, dude, We're missing the
Speaker 2: force for the trees here, guys. Yeah, we need to
Speaker 2: fucking hyper fuck this rocket ship. Load it up with
Speaker 2: straight up profit rockets, go to the fucking outer reaches
Speaker 2: of our universe.
Speaker 3: Come back.
Speaker 2: Obviously we're all going to be in santrope three X
Speaker 2: that ship, I don't know, call up the IMF boom.
Speaker 3: Here we are where everyone that's right.
Speaker 1: Fulton County is trending. So this is part of you know,
Speaker 1: We've been reading the tea leaves on Trump's social media
Speaker 1: suggesting that he feels uncomfortable about some pending UH charges that.
Speaker 4: Might be coming his way.
Speaker 1: People are like, is it coming from Jack the Giant Killer?
Speaker 1: Is it coming from the Fulton County? You know, all
Speaker 1: the stuff he did illegally on wax, like during the election,
Speaker 1: and we we just got another symptom. We're not sure,
Speaker 1: but barricades are being erected outside the Fulton County Corps roll.
Speaker 3: I think it sounds like it.
Speaker 2: There's also reports that Fannie Willis the DA basically said,
Speaker 2: like to clear the court schedule for the first two
Speaker 2: weeks of August.
Speaker 4: Clear the schedule five x that ship.
Speaker 3: Five x that ship.
Speaker 2: Dude, take take some moon rocks, lick the baggy boom
Speaker 2: eyes go like dinner plates, roll away like a rollerblade.
Speaker 3: I think, I mean, there's that.
Speaker 2: And also like the chat like Lindsey Graham may get
Speaker 2: indicted too. Let's not forget that he also had a
Speaker 2: part like and he also was being investigated as part
Speaker 2: of this investigation. So I don't know if old dear
Speaker 2: old Lindsay also gets caught up in this mess, damn it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it seems like it.
Speaker 2: And also the other reports say that the January sixth
Speaker 2: grain jury thing is also heating up, and apparently like
Speaker 2: trump stelayers have been told it's like.
Speaker 3: Get ready, get ready over there to cheating up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well, we will keep our eyes on
Speaker 1: the skies and on that story. Absolutely we're gonna take
Speaker 1: a quick break and we'll come back and hear about
Speaker 1: the cool stuff the studios are doing. We've been focusing
Speaker 1: so much on these dang striking people. We haven't focused
Speaker 1: on like all the cool stuff the.
Speaker 4: Studios are up there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like hiring AI scabs. We'll be right back, and
Speaker 1: we're back. And while writers and actors are striking, according
Speaker 1: to the Hollywood Reporter, studios have been quietly posting.
Speaker 4: AI related jobs.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how you loudly post jobs, but they've
Speaker 1: been doing it. Disney posted a bunch of AI positions
Speaker 1: technically under the umbrella of their theme park imagineering team,
Speaker 1: but one job, for example, requires having the quote ambition
Speaker 1: to push the limits of what AI tools can create
Speaker 1: and understand the difference between the voice of data and
Speaker 1: the voice of a designer.
Speaker 4: Writer, or artist.
Speaker 3: Oh fuck off, yeah that is that's so fucking gnarly.
Speaker 2: When they're like, yeah, man, we need you to figure
Speaker 2: out how to fucking just smoke out the fucking humans
Speaker 2: so we can just.
Speaker 3: Just turn set this fucking thing to five X man.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Actually, all right, so here's a crazy idea six Like
Speaker 1: we've been saying five, I just I was just sitting
Speaker 1: back there thinking, well what about six You.
Speaker 2: Know what, get Bob Pittman's name off the door. Put
Speaker 2: Jack O'Brien's up there.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Netflix is similarly looking to fill a number of AI
Speaker 1: based jobs, including AI Product Manager, a job that will
Speaker 1: pay up to nine hundred thousand dollars because kids are rough,
Speaker 1: you know, it's the got to think about profitability at
Speaker 1: a time like this, and these writers are really screwing
Speaker 1: it up for themselves and everyone else, except for this job.
Speaker 1: We're gonna pay nine hundred thousand dollars a year that
Speaker 1: has to do with AI.
Speaker 3: That is fucking wild.
Speaker 1: Like one of the interesting things in kind of researching
Speaker 1: before Adam episode, like how the AI conversation came about
Speaker 1: the negotiations, Like in the early talks between you know,
Speaker 1: the writer's guild and the studios, like somebody brought up
Speaker 1: like maybe we should have some AI protections in there.
Speaker 1: Like ten years ago, the last time we had a
Speaker 1: labor dispute, we brought up streaming and like that they
Speaker 1: completely stonewalled us. And that's how we realized, oh, they
Speaker 1: think streaming is the future and right, so they put
Speaker 1: very distant like AI protections in for writers, like you
Speaker 1: still need writers right on a project. You can't just
Speaker 1: completely try and replace writers with AI. And they stonewalled them,
Speaker 1: like the studios were like, we're we will not engage
Speaker 1: on that, and it was like, oh, so, like it
Speaker 1: was like they were having a conversation about like being friendly,
Speaker 1: like you know, you're like you're not going to do
Speaker 1: the worst thing possible, and they were like, well, we
Speaker 1: can't commit to not literally stabbing you in the back
Speaker 1: by the end of this right dinner meeting.
Speaker 4: Sorry, that's just like we just can't.
Speaker 1: Commit to that, and we hope you understand, like that's
Speaker 1: obviously not in our best benefits.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's also funny that there's a for AI
Speaker 2: ethics engineer that pays one sixty.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: If you learn how to fucking turn these fucking computers
Speaker 2: into like human impersonators that are decent enough, you get
Speaker 2: nine hundred thousand.
Speaker 3: But if you want to fucking help ethics, motherfucker, don't.
Speaker 3: I'm even surprised that's six figures.
Speaker 1: That's a yeah, that's a sony position. The description is, uh,
Speaker 1: they want this position to quote advance AI so that
Speaker 1: it augments and works in harmony with humans to benefit society,
Speaker 1: which truly sounds like it was written by someone being
Speaker 1: held at gunpoint by a terminator.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just straight up thank god if you have
Speaker 2: this most shit ideas though, like in these studios, but
Speaker 2: you know what they're gonna do, Like it's gonna be
Speaker 2: I'm sure someone has been like how many times we
Speaker 2: just think of like a pitch and we're like, that
Speaker 2: would actually be better iFIT this, you know, but we
Speaker 2: can't go back to them because and then they owe
Speaker 2: that IP. So then what we can do is we
Speaker 2: can just go to this fucking AI and be like, hey,
Speaker 2: shit me out of script about this idea I just
Speaker 2: came up with on my yacht.
Speaker 3: Yeah boom.
Speaker 1: Like if you read so, it's like augments m DASH
Speaker 1: and works in harmony with m dash humans to benefit society.
Speaker 1: Like if you take the end works in harmony with
Speaker 1: like the sentence fragment they threw in there, and between
Speaker 1: m dashes its advance AI so that it augments humans
Speaker 1: to benefit society.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's crazy.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're just trying to augment you to benefit society.
Speaker 2: You horn that in because it was written like that.
Speaker 2: It's a little too on the nose. They're going to
Speaker 2: know where we're headed with this, okay, and work in harmony.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we do like to, you know, keep our eye
Speaker 1: on any bullshit shortage panic stories. Yeah, you know there
Speaker 1: there was in years past, the Christmas tree shortages annual.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Now now it's candy because it becomes.
Speaker 4: It's huge, huge pickup.
Speaker 1: Well, now the Wall Street Journal is reporting that we
Speaker 1: might be in for a whole lass sugar shortage.
Speaker 3: Oh god, really why? Why?
Speaker 2: Import restrictions, international competition, climate change.
Speaker 3: Which is interesting to see that mention that part, like yeah.
Speaker 2: Crop yields and things like that, That to me seems
Speaker 2: like the most believable thing. Obviously, I'm like, well that
Speaker 2: you can't that's happening. So yeah, I can imagine where
Speaker 2: that's going. But it's still like but the tone of
Speaker 2: it is still just worried to know if there's just
Speaker 2: gonna be enough candy.
Speaker 3: For the twenty twenty three Halloween season.
Speaker 4: Oh, candy for the children.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then all all of these shortages of the past.
Speaker 1: You know, the companies have totally made it work. I've
Speaker 1: knowed somehow there's never been a rear looking how did
Speaker 1: this candy shortage come to pass. It's always something that's
Speaker 1: prognosticating out into the future and trying to make people
Speaker 1: panic and panic buy stuff and be okay with price hikes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well it's this is shortage, you know. Sorry, yeah, what
Speaker 1: do you want us to do? Our hands are tied.
Speaker 1: And finally, Ice Cube, Oh.
Speaker 3: My god, this, I mean, this isn't surprising.
Speaker 2: The right wing has been courting black men for the
Speaker 2: last couple cycles now. But Ice Cube, who obviously you know,
Speaker 2: he's got his own fucking weird views. He's out here
Speaker 2: with Tucker Carlson doing like a drive through the Hood
Speaker 2: type segment.
Speaker 3: He was doing Pierce Morgan show. He's going on Joe
Speaker 3: Rogan and a lot of people are like, what the
Speaker 3: fuck is this?
Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, first of all, that's that is
Speaker 2: kind of that's where Cube is at. But also this
Speaker 2: is part and parcel of like the way to try
Speaker 2: and siphon off black votes to more conservative candidates is
Speaker 2: by sort of normalizing this shit visa VI people like
Speaker 2: Ice Cube or Kanye West and all this other shit.
Speaker 2: So it's a very this is so wild to see
Speaker 2: him in Tucker Carlson, like in a fucking car and like, yeah,
Speaker 2: just it seems like a joke, but when you zoom
Speaker 2: out and understand, like what this what the move is
Speaker 2: towards it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot to say for the right to
Speaker 4: make this happen.
Speaker 2: Because they know, like black women, they are solidly voting Democrat,
Speaker 2: and then they see that I don't know if we
Speaker 2: can siphon off that vote. But with the men, you know,
Speaker 2: we got that got some like regressive policies and ship
Speaker 2: that kind of aligns with other shit, so maybe that could.
Speaker 3: Be a reason.
Speaker 2: And yeah, and you just see it more and more
Speaker 2: and more, and uh, this is like the same thing
Speaker 2: you say, even with Trump too, like although he was
Speaker 2: handing out pardons, it's all part of just sort of
Speaker 2: an optics fucking operation here to just make it seem
Speaker 2: like it's all right, it's all right to vote red,
Speaker 2: you know, even though these people are vile racists who
Speaker 2: will stab you in the back.
Speaker 3: Actually won't, they'll stab you in the front.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, those are some of the things that
Speaker 1: are trending on this Thursday afternoon. We are back tomorrow
Speaker 1: with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then,
Speaker 1: be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves, get
Speaker 1: the vac teams. Don't do nothing about white to premisey
Speaker 1: and we will talk to y'all time.
Speaker 3: Fight fight
Speaker 2: M hm.