1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the 2 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: Trends of the Earth. We will go to the Trends 3 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:10,960 Speaker 1: of the Earth for you loyal y gang listener. I'm 4 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:16,119 Speaker 1: Jack O'Brian. That is DJ Daniel Goodman. Hellos going on? 5 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:20,440 Speaker 1: Man's not too much too? How you do? H you know? Uh, 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:25,759 Speaker 1: let's tell the people what is a trending, right, let's 7 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 1: do it. Starbucks is trending? Um, because uh so it's 8 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 1: boycott Starbucks is trending. That usually means that they have 9 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 1: put out a holiday cup that doesn't have a picture 10 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 1: of the Baby Jesus on it, or not Christian enough. Yeah, 11 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 1: not Christian enough. I want to cross on my Christmas 12 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 1: cup precisely your jerks. Um. But so this time, boycott 13 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: Starbucks is trending because they advised their employees that they 14 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 1: couldn't wear Black Lives Matter, uh support on their flare 15 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 1: on their uniforms. Is that basically? What? Right? Yeah, that's 16 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:15,680 Speaker 1: what I'm hearing. No Black Lives Matter where allowed by 17 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 1: the employees of Starbucks. Uh So, yeah, this is a 18 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 1: big It's a big turn for a company that to 19 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: this point has been mostly uh the corporate equivalent of 20 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 1: that celebrity video where everybody is like being really earnest 21 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: and wrongheaded about trying to uh and racism um because 22 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 1: they are. You know, they had that thing where they 23 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 1: closed the store for a half a day to uh 24 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 1: teach their employees about racism um after two black men 25 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: were arrested, uh for or I guess asked to leave. Um. 26 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 1: I think they were arrested actually for they were just 27 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,639 Speaker 1: being there and waiting for somebody. And then they also 28 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 1: had a moment where they I think they asked their 29 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 1: baristas to write let's talk about racism on cups or 30 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 1: maybe they had cups with that printed on it. I 31 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: I assumed that there was a anti racism thread there, 32 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: but it seems like it's more of a we hate 33 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 1: our barista's thread that is connecting everything um by just 34 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 1: putting them on the worst positions possible. But well, we'll see, 35 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: we'll see where where they go. I'm sure they will 36 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: probably backtrack when they realized that, they'll absolutely walk this back. Also, 37 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 1: the cup thing we were talking about was race together, 38 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 1: Raced against Together was written on a lot of Starbucks cups. 39 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 1: So that was that was attempt number one at solving racism. 40 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 1: Thanks for we are good friends at Starbucks. Shout out 41 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 1: to them. Shouting out to them. Maybe we can all 42 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: come together around the idea that Starbucks go to hell 43 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: am into that PS five is trending, as is WiFi 44 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 1: router um, because that's what the new PS five they 45 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 1: They gave us a glimpse of the PS five and 46 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 1: it looks like a WiFi router. It's like tall and 47 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: uh courvid curvid and has yeah, just the general body 48 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: design of a of a WiFi router very much. So 49 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: what does it do? Does it route WiFi? Um? There 50 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 1: were funny story. As a matter of fact, it does. 51 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 1: It routes routes WiFi from your other WiFi router to 52 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 1: the PS five itself. Um. Now yeah, this is you know, 53 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 1: PlayStations entry in the next round of Console Wars. It's 54 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: it's WiFi router versus refrigerator. When Xbox released, they're constantly 55 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: Xbox Series X. It's basically like a big, tall shoe 56 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 1: box looking thing, and so people were ready for so 57 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 1: Ney to release something in kind of like a similar format. 58 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: But the WiFi router a lot better, big fan looks great. 59 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 1: What what like that did? They just released the body 60 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: design of the console or did they show you guys 61 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 1: some games. They did. They announced twenty six different games, 62 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 1: and while I'm excited about all of them, I'm not 63 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 1: going to go through often right now. They'd be ridiculous. 64 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 1: But Capcom released the Kojima looking game, and the one 65 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: that I'm most personally excited about is the Horizon Zero 66 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 1: Down sequel, Horizon Too Forbidden West, made by French developer Gorilla, 67 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: and that one is going to be very special, very 68 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: excited love it. Yeah, So it just the graphics are 69 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: getting better, the engine is more powerful. What what are 70 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 1: we talking about here? What's that? What are the main 71 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,800 Speaker 1: things that you feel like going to make this worth owning? 72 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: The most noteworthy things, I think are the new hard 73 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: drive technology. They're changing to a much stronger solid state 74 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,160 Speaker 1: hard drive, So I think things that have played gamers 75 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 1: in the past, or things like long, long load times 76 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,919 Speaker 1: when games are getting you know, more graphically intensive. Uh. 77 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:19,359 Speaker 1: They advertised ray tracing, which is this technology that we 78 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: actually talked about I think, you know, almost a year 79 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:25,279 Speaker 1: ago that actually may have been undernificent, but like it's 80 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:27,720 Speaker 1: just kind of older technology that's finally making its way 81 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 1: to consoles. And how we render light and games. I 82 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: think everything's gonna look better, run smoother, be cooler. That 83 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 1: that's you know, that's basically where video games are going. 84 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: It's just the graphics are getting better. Things are running smoother, 85 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,360 Speaker 1: and things are running faster. So you're right in terms 86 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: of what it's offering. Better engine, better graphics, and that's 87 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:47,320 Speaker 1: what we're looking forward to and hopefully some very cool 88 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 1: Sony exclusives. Those are all my goals for this year. 89 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 1: I actually look better, run faster, and be smoother. Um. 90 00:05:56,360 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 1: Those were Amen to that, brother, Amen to that. List. 91 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 1: Statues are trending just all over the place, across the 92 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: whole week. Yeah. So uh, first of all, Andrew Cuomo, 93 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:13,239 Speaker 1: I think Andrew, it would be weird if Chris Cuomo 94 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 1: was coming out and saying this, But Andrew Cuomo said 95 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:19,840 Speaker 1: it's not time for the Christopher Columbus statue and Columbus 96 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 1: circle uh to be taken down. Um, and you would know, 97 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 1: as the most compromised person to possibly make that decision. Uh, 98 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 1: maybe let the people of your city decide. Um. But 99 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 1: there's also I've recently been made aware by very good 100 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 1: people on Twitter of some truly horrendous Confederate statues. Um 101 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: that people are actually suggesting get to stay up um 102 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:59,160 Speaker 1: as their better embodiment of the just completely corrupt uh 103 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: ideology that there's this one statue, this one statue I'm 104 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 1: okay with Nathan Forest. It's in Nashville. Uh, it looks 105 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 1: it looks like a if I were told to draw 106 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 1: someone on horseback in fifth grade. Uh, and I wasn't 107 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 1: allowed to start over when the proportions were like all wrong, 108 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: and so I just had to keep going because he's 109 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 1: like stretched out in a weird way. Uh. He looks 110 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: completely unhinged in a way that I would imagine wouldn't 111 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 1: be I wouldn't reflect positively on your ideology that you 112 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 1: have that this person is supposed to be representing. Uh. 113 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 1: Looks like a demon is possessing him. But it's a 114 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 1: demon in the world of like Tuned Town and who 115 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 1: framed Ridger Rabbit or something, because he's again just stretched 116 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: in a very strange way. Yeah, there's also some stories there. 117 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 1: There was a Washington Post article I had missed from 118 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen when we were first talking about removing 119 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: Confederate soldiers statues that apparently, uh, somebody had kind of 120 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 1: scammed the these southern towns by being like, yeah, we're 121 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 1: going to send you these statues of Confederate soldiers, but 122 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 1: like they were the same exact statues that they had 123 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 1: sold to northern towns as statues of Union soldiers. So 124 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 1: there's just like a you know, this was before the 125 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 1: only way somebody would catch you in that was if 126 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 1: they traveled by train up the east coast. Uh. So 127 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 1: I don't I don't know, It's it's a classic classic scam. Uh. 128 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 1: And finally, the stock market is trending. Uh. I like 129 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: that just the the internet at large is as stupid 130 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 1: about the stock market as I am, because that's those 131 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 1: are the words that are trending. It's not like you know, 132 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:09,560 Speaker 1: bear market or like some insidery term. It's just like 133 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 1: stock market market. Stock market had bad one, do bad 134 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 1: DoD bad day. Um, but it was it was a 135 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 1: bad day at the market, old boy. Uh. There were 136 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:24,439 Speaker 1: all these quick bouncebacks in the market after the original 137 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: shock of you know, all all the companies firing everyone. Uh. 138 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 1: And you know, these companies thought that they could just 139 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: float across the pandemic on their massive piles of cash, 140 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:45,439 Speaker 1: and then the dates that we're trying to open back up, 141 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:51,199 Speaker 1: like Florida and Texas are now reporting record hospitalizations. So 142 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 1: there was just kind of this idea, based on nothing 143 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 1: other than our president's history of being able to just 144 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 1: kind of bluff his way through through failure. This idea 145 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 1: that like, well, we'll just open back up in a 146 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:07,560 Speaker 1: couple of months and things will be good, because we 147 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: can't afford for them not to be. Uh. And now 148 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: like two of our biggest states have tried opening back 149 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 1: up and we're seeing horrifying consequences, and you know, it's 150 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: just there's we we were probably the worst prepared. Uh. 151 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 1: We we did the worst job of responding to this uh, 152 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 1: to this crisis because we have the worst leadership. Um, 153 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 1: and that's on us as a people. I guess I 154 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know what to tell people. The 155 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:48,439 Speaker 1: Steve Minuchin was like, we can't go back to closing 156 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 1: down guys. It's like, well, what do you okay, So 157 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 1: what else would you suggest? It's gonna happen. Everybody's gonna yeah, 158 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: I guess people are just gonna die. Um. It's just 159 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 1: you know, sad and revealing it's exactly it's another one 160 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:06,440 Speaker 1: of those moments where the numbers were so clear, the 161 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 1: goals were very explicit about how we would be able 162 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:12,840 Speaker 1: to handle this, and it was just, you know, people 163 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 1: got quote unquote tired of waiting and decided that it 164 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 1: was just okay when it's not. Yeah, that's all. Those 165 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 1: those numbers were a liberal conspiracy to try and hurt 166 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 1: the economy. Truly, truly, truly, truly. All right, Well, Dan'll 167 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 1: thank you for joining me. What is trending? We'll be 168 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 1: back to tomorrow with a whole another episode of the 169 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 1: podcast and we'll talk to you then. To care of yourselves, 170 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:48,680 Speaker 1: be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, don't 171 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:50,959 Speaker 1: do nothing. All right, talk to you that back