Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Jessica
Speaker 1: Simps Trent. I am Jack and that is super producer
Speaker 1: Becca Robbo. Hello, Hi, how are you doing. You know,
Speaker 1: I am a little stressed because Fyance got me stressing,
Speaker 1: but you know, I'll survive. You can use the inspirational
Speaker 1: message from her new album to just get over the
Speaker 1: stress of the fact that you won't break my soul. Ticketmaster,
Speaker 1: who I just gave all of my money too. But
Speaker 1: ticket are you comfortable talking about where you are in
Speaker 1: the process of Yeah, sure, I mean we at I
Speaker 1: heart maybe half perks. I'm hoping it's not a scam,
Speaker 1: but I did drop some Monday's. But the reason I'm
Speaker 1: stressed is because A I spent a lot of money
Speaker 1: on these tickets. But b if you're on the internet,
Speaker 1: you know you're seeing the UK tickets drop and they're
Speaker 1: like nothing, They're like sixty to four dollars, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: huh uh. Not that I would go to Europe to
Speaker 1: go see the show, because I think, you know, Beyonce
Speaker 1: is historically like an American black icon, so I think
Speaker 1: the show dynamic is going to be a very different
Speaker 1: vibe here in the States. Especially I'm trying to go
Speaker 1: to the Houston show, which I think will be the
Speaker 1: best show the tour because it is hometown and it's
Speaker 1: my hometown versus like the UK situation. But it is
Speaker 1: crazy to see like the regulations they have there for
Speaker 1: their citizens versus here where it's like from my understanding
Speaker 1: from from the whispers I hear the sources I have,
Speaker 1: starting prices are like seven for the nose bleeds and
Speaker 1: for the pit is you know, upwards of ten k
Speaker 1: in certain areas of the pits, depending on the venue.
Speaker 1: But you go online and if you go to like
Speaker 1: vivid Seats or seat geek or like all these reseilers
Speaker 1: that aren't Ticketmaster, they're already selling tickets. So I just
Speaker 1: hope that people aren't going on those sites like already
Speaker 1: trying to buy from there, because it does to me.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I started panicking because I was like, these
Speaker 1: are way under the market rate then what I've been
Speaker 1: hearing what I've been seeing, So I hope people don't
Speaker 1: buy and then they end up being a scam. It
Speaker 1: did make me feel like did I get scammed? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I feel like we won't know until I
Speaker 1: mean we're all universally scammed by the concept of tickets
Speaker 1: starting in the United States a se scamp. But is
Speaker 1: Tata Maaster? Does Ticketmaster operate in the UK? I'm actually
Speaker 1: not familiar with like do, but I think they just
Speaker 1: have different regulations over there for their citizens. Like I
Speaker 1: think Ticketmaster isn't allowed to do the dynamic pricing. Maybe
Speaker 1: that the United States does. You know, that's the reason
Speaker 1: that the tailor Swift tickets went crazy is because they
Speaker 1: think have a certain subset of tickets, like they offer
Speaker 1: like ten to twelve percent the tickets to be dynamic pricing,
Speaker 1: so they can basically with the demand go up and
Speaker 1: then if people buy them, they're able to resell them,
Speaker 1: Whereas I think the Beyonce tickets are trying to curb
Speaker 1: some of that issue with the sectioned verified ticket selling.
Speaker 1: So it's like, if you want to go to these cities,
Speaker 1: you register in this one. If you want to go
Speaker 1: to these cities, you register in the second one. So
Speaker 1: I'm so forth for the third section. And then also
Speaker 1: they do say on the website that they're not transferable tickets,
Speaker 1: So I think that's how they're trying to curb the
Speaker 1: resell price hiking. But I just like wonder how they're
Speaker 1: gonna like nail that, especially if it's like, are they
Speaker 1: going to require people to pay for the extra service
Speaker 1: fee for the refundable in case they can't go to
Speaker 1: the show, And you know, I want to resell them
Speaker 1: just in that way where it's like I got the flu,
Speaker 1: I can't show up anymore, you know. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: sure people with the flu are still going to go
Speaker 1: and give people the flu, but you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: and that's what's important, and that's what's important. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: dig into this a little bit more tomorrow in a
Speaker 1: couple ways, because, like the the UK having regulations in
Speaker 1: place that make it such that this is not the
Speaker 1: same madness as also had a theme of tomorrow's episode
Speaker 1: because there's massive strike happening in the UK, not being
Speaker 1: that much in the US. But um, yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: well let's talk about why Jessica Simpson is trending. This
Speaker 1: mainly caught my eye because it's a Jack can't fathom
Speaker 1: the concept of it. Well, it's a new unit of
Speaker 1: media that I wasn't familiar with. So Jessica Simpson's trending
Speaker 1: because she released an Amazon original short story titled movie Star.
Speaker 1: They always say they're single, which is It seems like
Speaker 1: it's a magazine article penned by Jessica Simpson, not affiliated
Speaker 1: with a magazine, just like being sold at like the
Speaker 1: way somebody would sell an Amazon independent like book. You know. Um.
Speaker 1: But it was an effective hook because it's basically about
Speaker 1: a near relationship that Jessica Simpson had with a movie
Speaker 1: star who is referred to only as movie star and
Speaker 1: is trying to get Jessica Simpson to sleep with him,
Speaker 1: even though he is publicly in a relationship, and he's like, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, we we actually broke up. It's just
Speaker 1: for the for the paparasis that we pretend we're together.
Speaker 1: But then it was like trying to hide her and
Speaker 1: like have her stay in like separate floors of the
Speaker 1: hotel and stuff. So this is a real story. This
Speaker 1: is a real story. It's almost like a memoir exert. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but why go through all the trouble of yeah, why
Speaker 1: why go through all the trouble of having a memoir,
Speaker 1: writing an entire memoir when you just like do a
Speaker 1: short story. Yeah, yeah, So I don't know. People, people
Speaker 1: are now guessing seems pretty smart. I don't have any
Speaker 1: guests as to who it is, but she said. She
Speaker 1: eventually realized that he was attempting to hide her from
Speaker 1: his chick, and so she she bailed, but not without
Speaker 1: stealing the pillow case that he slept on as a
Speaker 1: thing too, like, as a piece of proof that this
Speaker 1: happened in fact, um, which I admire just open creepiness. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I also, I mean, anything you can do
Speaker 1: to give Amazon a little bit of shine because I'm
Speaker 1: just a big fan of their media empire. Uh No,
Speaker 1: but it is always interesting to me if like people
Speaker 1: are creating content in a new unit, Like I've never
Speaker 1: heard of individual short stories being sold anywhere really, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess I really, unless it's a zine. But even
Speaker 1: then I feel like it would have to be like, uh,
Speaker 1: typically like a little animated zne like something that would
Speaker 1: be more of a comic style. Yeah, just like a
Speaker 1: random short story, unless it's in a magazine or something
Speaker 1: like that. So I don't know, could I see you
Speaker 1: just because Simpson keep your name in those newspapers, what
Speaker 1: if this becomes like a new thing. Well, they're like,
Speaker 1: we can't get people to pay for articles, So I
Speaker 1: guess I'm gonna do this now, right This new trend
Speaker 1: in writing and authorship started by Jessica Simpson. Um. All right,
Speaker 1: it is Groundhog Day and we are being forced to
Speaker 1: ask the question, what does it mean? How many more
Speaker 1: weeks of winter if the ground hug dies? Because that's
Speaker 1: what happened in Quebec. Oh Man, is this one normally
Speaker 1: we see our groundhog? I thought it wasn't like somewhere
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania or something. I think that any Yeah, No, there
Speaker 1: is punk Satani Phil. I think that is one of
Speaker 1: the main hubs. But this is there are small communities
Speaker 1: around the world that have big ground Hug Day celebrations
Speaker 1: that they've like built up a reputation for And I
Speaker 1: have a brand around and that brand has to be protected,
Speaker 1: which is what we're about to get into. It gets
Speaker 1: a little strange. So this is apparently not the first
Speaker 1: so that this one. They went down to find the
Speaker 1: ground hug and they think he died sometime earlier in
Speaker 1: the year and it was just down there or did
Speaker 1: they already know that it passed when it passed? And
Speaker 1: I think I think it was just down there and dead.
Speaker 1: They discovered a dead groundhug. I don't, like, I don't
Speaker 1: think all the cameras were on, Like, I don't think
Speaker 1: it was like that. That's the way I pictured at first,
Speaker 1: like they had the balloons ready to release, and then
Speaker 1: they like go down and pull out the Yeah, but um,
Speaker 1: it's yeah. They they realized it was dead when they
Speaker 1: like weren't seeing signs of it and then went down
Speaker 1: and bad news. But so this is not the first
Speaker 1: ground hug to die. Recently, Ontario's Warton Willie. So Wireton
Speaker 1: Willie died in but because of the pandemic, everything was
Speaker 1: online and the town tried to cover up the death
Speaker 1: in order to protect the Wireton Willie brand. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he was replaced this year by some other ground hug.
Speaker 1: But at the time, uh, they were just like what, no,
Speaker 1: he's fine, everything's good, um and c Yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: It's it's a tough racket. Celebrity ground hug deaths are.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know how how long ground hugs
Speaker 1: usually live. But one year Wireton Willie's to understudy animals
Speaker 1: were killed and they believe it was by wire Ton Willie.
Speaker 1: The groundhog. Like the grown up ground hug that they
Speaker 1: were meant to replace, and like that. I think that
Speaker 1: was covered up. I did google. It says groundhogs live
Speaker 1: four to five years. And I don't know why. I
Speaker 1: was so traumatized when you said they found the dead groundhog,
Speaker 1: because I you know, I don't know why I thought
Speaker 1: they lived forever or something. I was like, I guess
Speaker 1: it never occurred to me that there have to be
Speaker 1: new groundhogs discycle. Yeah, but they really just like blast
Speaker 1: through these things. In New York, Mayor Billed de Blasio
Speaker 1: fucking dropped their groundhog and the Staten Island Zoo tried
Speaker 1: to sweep it under the rug, but he dropped the
Speaker 1: ground hug on like on camera when they were posing
Speaker 1: for a photo op. And then the groundhog was quote
Speaker 1: unquote found dead in its cell on February nine, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, a week later. But it's like an an
Speaker 1: autopsy identified the cause of death as a cute internal injury.
Speaker 1: So um, I don't know why in autopsy. Oh man,
Speaker 1: so many things, so much drama for groundhogs. Yeah. The
Speaker 1: first Willie appeared on the scene in the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1: He lived to twenty two was found dead only two
Speaker 1: days before the Groundhog Day, a funeral was held, shocking
Speaker 1: a crowd of children who had not known Willie was dead.
Speaker 1: Oh so I guess Wait, that does spar the question,
Speaker 1: what how many more works of Winter if the ground
Speaker 1: Hawk dies? What do you think that? I think it's
Speaker 1: nuclear winter, I think is what we're seeing here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I think it's bad news would be my guess.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I guess they die all the
Speaker 1: time and we've just been having it covered up, kept
Speaker 1: from us. And yeah, I think that's probably a good
Speaker 1: metaphor for something. Um, but let us know. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and
Speaker 1: we're back, and Quevo is trending um because Quevo is
Speaker 1: going to perform a Takeoff tribute at the upcoming Grammy Awards, which, yeah,
Speaker 1: I never know when the Grammy Awards are. I don't know. Either.
Speaker 1: Could have been six months ago. Well, since COVID, they've changed,
Speaker 1: because I think they used to be in February, and
Speaker 1: post COVID it's oh, it says Sunday, So it is
Speaker 1: this February Sunday. Okay, So that makes sense because I
Speaker 1: think at one point during COVID they ended up being
Speaker 1: in like May or something, you know, with everything that
Speaker 1: was happening and trying to do virtual and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But it seems like they're back to their regularly scheduled
Speaker 1: programming of February. So yeah, this okay, we'll see who wins.
Speaker 1: Um bad Bunny better win. That's all I want to say. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's an ultimatum. It's an ultimatum to the academy. There
Speaker 1: you go. Um, Arkansas's trending. So Sarah Hugabye Sanders is
Speaker 1: barely a month into office, but it looks like she's
Speaker 1: coming for the de santist culture war crown and doing
Speaker 1: just horrible, dehumanizing things. She's issued an executive order that
Speaker 1: would prohibit critical race theory in Arkansas schools. Another executive
Speaker 1: order bands at the term latin X and official documents,
Speaker 1: and as soon as this week she could also sign
Speaker 1: a separate bill that would impose restrictions on drag shows,
Speaker 1: which could obviously have really harmful effects for the l
Speaker 1: g B t Q community. There's also a Trump campaign
Speaker 1: video where he's like claiming that his platform is going
Speaker 1: to be to revoke gender affirming care, and it just
Speaker 1: feels like there's a real like race to the bottom
Speaker 1: going on in the right with how badly they can
Speaker 1: treat trans people and the l g b t Q community.
Speaker 1: It is very sad and very disturbing to see like
Speaker 1: how quickly things can become reversed, because I would say,
Speaker 1: only in the past what ety years have like lgbt
Speaker 1: Q rights really accelerated and like become way more you know, open,
Speaker 1: less taboo, like there's more you know, helping the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember when it was like during Obama's
Speaker 1: first administration when gay rights were you know, affirmed by
Speaker 1: the String Court. So that was not long ago. So
Speaker 1: it is really crazy and sad and scary to see
Speaker 1: how quickly things like the term latinos just got put
Speaker 1: into the dictionary in sen you know, that was not
Speaker 1: how long ago. So yis James Cameron has finally so
Speaker 1: there's some Titanic hype coming. The twenty five year anniversary
Speaker 1: of Titanic is in the offing. It's coming soon, uh,
Speaker 1: and so we're we're going to be seeing some Titanic stories.
Speaker 1: I think Titanic is going to be re released at
Speaker 1: movie theaters and James Cameron has weighed in on the
Speaker 1: five year old debate about whether Jack's life could have
Speaker 1: been saved, and there's yes, he could have lived, but
Speaker 1: there's a lot of variables, James Cameron says, based on
Speaker 1: UM an interview he did for the National Geographic special
Speaker 1: Titanic five years later with James Cameron the anniversary, he said,
Speaker 1: in theory, yes could have lived, but it's going to
Speaker 1: jeopardize the character of Jack. Might have lived, but there's
Speaker 1: a lot of variables. I think his thought process was
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do one thing that jeopardizes her,
Speaker 1: and that's in character. He is an all self sacrificing
Speaker 1: being Jack. So he could not risk the life of
Speaker 1: Rose if it meant that he was going to live her.
Speaker 1: Getting one toe frost bitten was not worth his life,
Speaker 1: not worth his life because the idea is that there
Speaker 1: there was room for him on the chest of There
Speaker 1: for sure was absolutely. I mean, I haven't seen that
Speaker 1: movie since I was in high school, you know, not
Speaker 1: not the biggest Titanic fan. I think it's a little
Speaker 1: long for me, but some of the best dialogue of
Speaker 1: in film history. UM. And finally, as a public service,
Speaker 1: there's a new article that talks about like ten of
Speaker 1: the most mispronounced words, and five of them are foods
Speaker 1: um that you probably come into contact with. So we'll
Speaker 1: just go one through five. Here as um, which I
Speaker 1: think is sometimes pronounced a kai. I definitely used to
Speaker 1: pronounce this is like, I feel like an attack on
Speaker 1: me this article as someone who frequently read s phonetically
Speaker 1: and can't say anything right. So I definitely was a
Speaker 1: kai at one point, and then I learned. I was like, huh,
Speaker 1: we all are we all were Yeah, we're We're I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm a complete idiot. I mispronounced things all the time,
Speaker 1: and that's that's what we do. We share this information
Speaker 1: and love and usefulness. The Greek soft bread sandwich the
Speaker 1: I've been mispronouncing this one up until this moment. I
Speaker 1: was pronounced at the hero, but apparently it's either the
Speaker 1: zero or the euro. I didn't know it was a euro.
Speaker 1: I do feel like a lot of people do not
Speaker 1: pronounce it as hero. They pronounce as gyro, yeah and hero,
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I don't. I don't know why I
Speaker 1: was miss pronouncing it that well. Genes can sometimes have
Speaker 1: h sounds if you're doing a Spanish pronunciation, like any
Speaker 1: sharkcuterie is not the way to pronounce that uh, and
Speaker 1: is definitely how I've been pronouncing it. It's a charcuterie,
Speaker 1: don't It's the thing to remember shark cuterie isn't cute,
Speaker 1: so mind that. It also reminds me of I think
Speaker 1: I've told this story before, but when my first job
Speaker 1: out of college, we were at the ABC News like cafeteria,
Speaker 1: and I was with a person who had graduated from
Speaker 1: like an IVY League school, and I was like, crew, dight,
Speaker 1: what is that? And they were like, you, you must
Speaker 1: be you must be joking. Um. I pretended I was,
Speaker 1: but um Nyoki, which I think when I'm feeling lazy,
Speaker 1: I pronounced as KNOCKI, but Niolki is the way to
Speaker 1: pronounce that. Nioki is such a weird I was thinking,
Speaker 1: I don't know why. When I read Nioki, I thought
Speaker 1: it was going to be the work of Nash because
Speaker 1: I'm dyslexic, so I feel like a Nash is also
Speaker 1: one that needs to be on this list. Gnash m okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure how I've been pronouncing that word.
Speaker 1: And then finally, worst share sauce is not pronounced that way.
Speaker 1: You never pronounced. The first are apparently it's either woost
Speaker 1: sheer or woosta shah. Okay, that last one seems like
Speaker 1: they're just fucking with us, doesn't it, because neither of
Speaker 1: these pronunciations are at all how I pronounce this. It's
Speaker 1: not worsha sire. Yeah, no, it's worster sheer. That is crazy.
Speaker 1: I feel dumb. Yeah, well, I think the correct pronunciations
Speaker 1: in this case are dumb. Wooster Shaw seems like, yes,
Speaker 1: somebody decided that, and I'm gonna make everyone feel bad
Speaker 1: and be like, you don't know, that's crazy wooster Yeah.
Speaker 1: That that feels like a thing that was done to
Speaker 1: make fun of whoever was writing this article. They were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: uh worsh sauces wooster Shaw. There you go, buddy, um
Speaker 1: enjoy pronouncing it that way. Anyways, those are some of
Speaker 1: the things that have been trending on this uh February
Speaker 1: second three. Happy Groundhog Day to all. Becca Ramos, thank
Speaker 1: you for joining me. Where can people find you and
Speaker 1: follow you? You can find me and follow me at
Speaker 1: Becks Ramos, B E. C. C. S. Romos on all
Speaker 1: the phones. Yeah, yeah, that's gonna do it. We are
Speaker 1: back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show.
Speaker 1: Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves,
Speaker 1: get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and
Speaker 1: we will talk to you all tomorrow