Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome to this afternoon edition of Metas Trends.
Speaker 1: That's a obviously reference to Threads, the new app, which
Speaker 1: we will talk about because a lot of people are,
Speaker 1: you know, dabbling, They're dipping their toe over in that
Speaker 1: toxic waste pond. The grass isn't always greener, folks. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm Miles and I'm joined by superducer Becca Rummos. Hello, Hello, hello, Hello,
Speaker 1: how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm all right. I have no idea what threads are.
Speaker 2: Can't wait to learn.
Speaker 1: What do you mean? You know what? Stop it?
Speaker 2: No, I have no idea what it is. I saw
Speaker 2: a TikTok for today and I was like what this is?
Speaker 1: Like when I was explaining another like TikTok trend to
Speaker 1: you and I'm like, there's no way this. You don't
Speaker 1: know about it? You know what Threads is?
Speaker 2: The busy Miles, I have not been on the internet today.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me tell you something. If you're busy, you
Speaker 1: better be on the internet. That's what I say when
Speaker 1: I'm busy. When I'm like I've been busy, that means
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm terminally online. I can't get off.
Speaker 2: That's why I app Okay, I'm online, but I'm not
Speaker 2: like terminally sc rolling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, doing my job. I get you, I get you.
Speaker 1: Well here, we're gonna get to that in a second.
Speaker 1: A bit of education, I guess for Becca Ramos and
Speaker 1: the uninformed public as well. But first let's talk about
Speaker 1: some of the trends. Heat records is trending because apparently
Speaker 1: the heat records have been like shattered around the globe.
Speaker 1: People are saying that, like it's very likely that these
Speaker 1: last three days were the hottest.
Speaker 2: Like on Earth all over everywhere.
Speaker 1: Like in certain spots, like the records that were being hit.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh this suddenly we this looked like a
Speaker 1: heat wave like we've never seen. Yeah. There was that
Speaker 1: heat dome over Texas yea where yeah.
Speaker 2: My parents said it was like one hundred and twenty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and your lovely Governor Greg Abbott decided to also
Speaker 1: take away water breaks from people, and I believe that
Speaker 1: led to like actual loss of life. Yeah, so there's that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, here we go. They're like this is part
Speaker 1: and parcel of climate change.
Speaker 3: And before we get fully bummed out, I'll just just
Speaker 3: want to let you know it's still the thing that's
Speaker 3: happening folks, and a lot of like environmental scientists or
Speaker 3: an atmosphere scientists are like, it looks like other parts
Speaker 3: of our ecosystem are also like on a tipping point.
Speaker 1: It's not just the climate.
Speaker 2: And you're like, oh, you're like, great, the world is ending.
Speaker 1: Can I go now? Please, uh somewhere else, But yeah,
Speaker 1: keep your eyes out there and if yeah, if you
Speaker 1: are in one of those places that's been effected by
Speaker 1: this like absurd heat, please stay safe out there, stay cool,
Speaker 1: and like American people do what like people who actually
Speaker 1: live in like super hot climates do. Don't be doing
Speaker 1: shit during the day. Yeah, Like it's that's really that's
Speaker 1: how the ship gets wobbly when you're like, oh, whatever,
Speaker 1: it's one hundred something degrees, I'm gonna go outside and
Speaker 1: start doing no, no, no, no, no no, stay your
Speaker 1: ass in the shade. Yeah, and then come out when
Speaker 1: the fucking sun's down and it starts to cool off
Speaker 1: a little bit. But anyway, that's that's my tip as
Speaker 1: someone who's not a scientist, but I am a paid
Speaker 1: spokesperson for Netflix, so maybe it's just sit down and
Speaker 1: check out what's new on networks rather th getting cooked
Speaker 1: by global warming. No, that's a joke. Next thing that's
Speaker 1: trending Karen's Diner. You heard about this, You've seen this. No,
Speaker 1: this is something that's opening in LA And I imagine
Speaker 1: this feels like some kind of national thing that might
Speaker 1: be happening because it's like it's a quote immersive dining experience.
Speaker 2: That has gone New York. But maybe it's not the same.
Speaker 1: I mean, is it the same? Okay, but again I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure it has to because it's like doing a tour. Uh.
Speaker 1: And a lot of people have been checking in on
Speaker 1: what this Karen's Diner is and what they expect. And again,
Speaker 1: the like logo is like a smiley faced emoji with
Speaker 1: like the John and Kate the care the Kate Goslin
Speaker 1: swoopy Karen hair from back from like seven. The event
Speaker 1: organized say you can expect quote good food, good fun
Speaker 1: in a dining experience like you've never had before. For
Speaker 1: the love of Karen, don't ask to speak to the manager. Uh.
Speaker 1: And like, apparently the food is good, but the services
Speaker 1: fuck up. And they said the diner says, you can
Speaker 1: expect to live out all your Karen fantasies and if
Speaker 1: your real name is Karen. They give you a free drink.
Speaker 2: This is like that one restaurant I think it's called
Speaker 2: Is it called Dick's Last Resort?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean there's a lot of people that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Texas. I remember. People always go to it
Speaker 2: where it's just like they just yell at you and
Speaker 2: they write shit on your face and like, yea, their
Speaker 2: mean to you. I personally, if I'm spending money in
Speaker 2: an establishment, I don't want to be yelled at. This
Speaker 2: is my own personal preference. If I'm gonna I can
Speaker 2: get yelled at all day in New York getting money
Speaker 2: to get yelled at.
Speaker 1: For free, I'll wear a Mets jersey if I want
Speaker 1: to get yelled at in New York.
Speaker 2: Okay, the wrong bodega corner and they'll go let me
Speaker 2: dil So you know I'm good.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, waiting for tonight, I see you whoa? But
Speaker 1: you could be here in my arm waiting for tonight.
Speaker 1: Whoa because you imagine someone hit you with the whole
Speaker 1: like I love that song. Sorry it got away from me,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I'm not sure the idea that a place
Speaker 1: is like expect to live out all your Karen fantasies
Speaker 1: is a place I want to be because that's what's
Speaker 1: living out your Karen fantasies in a restaurant. You're gonna
Speaker 1: call the police on me and some other people of
Speaker 1: color because we're laughing too loud.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is literally a white experience, like it's the
Speaker 2: color we're like.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I don't. I'd like I get when
Speaker 1: like the motherfuckers are rude to you, like ed de
Speaker 1: Bevick's and the Nicks Last Resort or whatever that kind
Speaker 1: of shit. I get it, that's part of your thing.
Speaker 1: But when you map it onto something that we're identifying
Speaker 1: as like these are usually the people that are the
Speaker 1: like transgressors and the pressors and disruptors of any kind
Speaker 1: of harmony that or piece that people of color often enjoy. Uh,
Speaker 1: it feels a little weird, but again, hey, hear the
Speaker 1: milkshakes they go hard, but not for me, not for me?
Speaker 1: What would be the kind like because then also like
Speaker 1: if your aren't you like saying like you're like I'm
Speaker 1: low key to Karen k.
Speaker 2: Does or that you get off and being yelled at
Speaker 2: b mean white ladies, Like I just don't. I don't
Speaker 2: understand why.
Speaker 1: They might not be all white. Oh I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying I'm just saying a little promo video
Speaker 2: I saw.
Speaker 1: It does yeah, spoiler alert, they might be okay. So
Speaker 1: we'll see if y'all have gone, let us know. Is
Speaker 1: it like, is it just people being problematic and like
Speaker 1: do they go up to like mixed race couples and
Speaker 1: they're like, so, what's going on here? Are you okay? Miss?
Speaker 1: Are you okay? Blink twice if you if you're in trouble.
Speaker 2: Is that your baby? Do I need a call? Is
Speaker 2: that your baby?
Speaker 1: Hold on? Whose baby is this?
Speaker 2: I don't I think you took that baby.
Speaker 1: It does not look like you're not this baby's mother.
Speaker 1: You're not this baby's mother. Man, you just fuck I
Speaker 1: just flashed back my childhood.
Speaker 2: Same same.
Speaker 1: People thought I was my mother's teenage lover.
Speaker 2: That is not that is so this Japanese, this.
Speaker 1: Pale ass Japanese woman is walking around with my blazing behind.
Speaker 1: And I remember we got on a plane and they
Speaker 1: were trying to like when I'm like, we were getting
Speaker 1: seat like ticketed to like be seated at the same
Speaker 1: part of the plane. The person asked like, and do
Speaker 1: you want to sit with your friend or partner. I
Speaker 1: was like, the fuck, I'm fucking fifteen, my fucking mom.
Speaker 1: Fuck you talking about anyway?
Speaker 2: So that's so crazy.
Speaker 1: These are the things that I think when I can
Speaker 1: be like weird misunderstandings or intentional ones. But anyway, check
Speaker 1: it out if you so are. But yeah, let us
Speaker 1: know how quickly it takes before they get to the
Speaker 1: veiled racism. Uh. Then finally before we take a break,
Speaker 1: threads is trending? You don't know, okkay? So you heard
Speaker 1: that Meta, the parent company of the facebooks, Yes, was
Speaker 1: talking about making a Twitter killer. No, I didn't that, Okay.
Speaker 1: So did you hear about how Elon Musk wants to
Speaker 1: fight Mark Zuckerberg in an MMA fight.
Speaker 2: I did hear about that?
Speaker 1: Okay. That is because Mark Zuckerberg said, let's make a
Speaker 1: Twitter but one that's sanely run, and Elon Musk became
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan in the last dance and said, So I
Speaker 1: took that personally and said, then let's fight about it,
Speaker 1: and I will get training from other macho men to
Speaker 1: fight you.
Speaker 2: We'll see what I'm not trying to fight.
Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg said, he just said name the local he said,
Speaker 1: send location. That is what he said, God drop a pin,
Speaker 1: send a location. I'm gonna pull up in that bulletproof spaceship.
Speaker 1: I think that was a lyric. Anyway, let's throw a
Speaker 1: two chain song. But yeah, they're going toe to toe now,
Speaker 1: and so I'm on it because like thirty million people
Speaker 1: as of this recording, at least over thirty some million
Speaker 1: people have already signed up for Threads because all it
Speaker 1: is it's an offshoot of Instagram and you can basically
Speaker 1: just you know, shift your handle over there, same followers boom,
Speaker 1: kind of like an easy, seamless way to get you
Speaker 1: know whatever, your ship popping again. But a lot of
Speaker 1: people we talk about on tomorrow's episode. Some people have
Speaker 1: had complications, and we'll talk about that on tomorrow's episode.
Speaker 1: They may have been solved by the time the episode
Speaker 1: comes out. Who knows because it's an app and it's
Speaker 1: like early release period. But the thing it's that's s
Speaker 1: trending now is that apparently Elon Musk had his lawyers
Speaker 1: send a letter to Meta.
Speaker 2: Like a season desist, yeah, basically being like stop.
Speaker 1: It, you're stealing our things, And I'm like, have you
Speaker 1: seen Meta? That's all they do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's like, you don't think they have enough
Speaker 2: lawyers to figure this out in y'all's weird legal battlegrounds,
Speaker 2: right exactly. Remember Snapchat to Instagram stories.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hello feels and TikTok close friends, yeah them on.
Speaker 1: Now we knew about this disappairing messages. We knew that
Speaker 1: what they do. It's what they do. So, uh, we'll
Speaker 1: see where that goes. That to me doesn't read as
Speaker 1: Elon Musk is confident in Twitter. That reads shook that
Speaker 1: know me?
Speaker 2: And you know, maybe my I was just like blissfully
Speaker 2: underwear because I already have never really been on Twitter. Yea,
Speaker 2: so I was just like that thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah audios. Yeah, so we'll see, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: It's just wild, though, like when you're like, I'd rather
Speaker 1: be on Meta, the other toxic dump of a social
Speaker 1: media company like.
Speaker 2: It's that owns almost all the other media companies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who has a fantastic track record of dealing with
Speaker 1: misinformation on its platforms whatever. So at least I mean
Speaker 1: you can you can post like nice little carousels of
Speaker 1: images and shit, So I'm not mad at that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess it's just one friend post the handle
Speaker 2: when I went to go look at them to go
Speaker 2: see some of our mutual followers to figure out an
Speaker 2: invite list for something. So I saw his bio that
Speaker 2: he had put this Threads thing, and I'm like, what
Speaker 2: the fuck? And I just ignored it. And then I
Speaker 2: saw TikTok this morning that was like social media managers
Speaker 2: be like and it was like talking about how to
Speaker 2: maximize threads and advertising, and I was like, yeah, no.
Speaker 1: I mean you worked in that. I mean I feel
Speaker 1: bad for the people that are having to run threads
Speaker 1: accounts right now, for all the fucking brands I'd be like.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god, every friend of mine
Speaker 2: in advertising is losing their minds because their clients are like,
Speaker 2: so we need to get on threads right now, and
Speaker 2: we need to figure this out, and how can we
Speaker 2: maximize this, and like we should make a social media
Speaker 2: roll out and how can we put Q three money
Speaker 2: into this?
Speaker 1: Right exactly? When what do we do? Like what's do
Speaker 1: we have a different voice? Like how are we doing this?
Speaker 1: It's just it's just like kind of the same voice
Speaker 1: you have on Instagram but just text based or and
Speaker 1: how many means, like do we do memes because like,
Speaker 1: are people do people do memes.
Speaker 2: On there's our approval process.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh
Speaker 1: my god, oh my god. They're saying the grim has come,
Speaker 1: is on is on threads now, it's everywhere. Uh so
Speaker 1: we shall see. But yeah, Also one quick note we
Speaker 1: talk about tomorrow. If you open an account, you can't
Speaker 1: deactivate it, like fully, you can't delete it unless you
Speaker 1: delete your Instagram. So just just something to think about, right, Wow,
Speaker 1: could it could be.
Speaker 2: It's a trap your Instagram too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll see. But anyway, it's a new place
Speaker 1: where everybody is kicking it so far. All right, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break and we'll be right back to
Speaker 1: continue this train of trends and we're back. Three year
Speaker 1: old is trending because this stupid ass TikTok trend is
Speaker 1: continuing of these like fake video or videos where people
Speaker 1: are seemingly tattooing children, like really young children and then
Speaker 1: being like either at the very be like nah, I'm kidding,
Speaker 1: that's not obviously not doing a real tattoo on them,
Speaker 1: or not saying anything and then only saying not was
Speaker 1: a joke. Once there's enough outrage comments like on the
Speaker 1: post just to get engagement, just chumming the waters. So
Speaker 1: now it's reached a new level, or not a new level,
Speaker 1: where we're seeing tattoo artists promote their businesses by doing this.
Speaker 1: So there was a TikToker who tattooed her toddler, like
Speaker 1: a three year old, and it went viral because we
Speaker 1: were like, oh my gosh, you're tattooing on the fucking baby.
Speaker 1: And then it was like it was a joke, but hey,
Speaker 1: check me out on my tattoo shop blah blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. And when like some journalists reached out for comment,
Speaker 1: the artists was like, I don't regret it. Actually it's
Speaker 1: been great for my business. Like what fuck?
Speaker 2: It's like, I just don't understand when your market is
Speaker 2: not children, why you think tattooing children would be a
Speaker 2: good idea? That right?
Speaker 1: I want someone with a sociopaths touch when they tattoo me, Like,
Speaker 1: what skill are you demonstrating? Yeah, when you do it.
Speaker 2: You can't demonstrate on regular people.
Speaker 1: Yeah that is a good that's not a great ad.
Speaker 1: Like if you did it, like you're like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do this tattoo on a like a four by four
Speaker 1: going on like a dirt track and shit with all
Speaker 1: these bumps and watch me kill this like single nine tattoo.
Speaker 1: Then you'd be like, whoa like that hand is so
Speaker 1: skilled and look if you swapped in a baby for
Speaker 1: the subject, then I might be like, and it was
Speaker 1: on a baby. But I'm not going to be impressed
Speaker 1: by you merely just debasing yourself.
Speaker 2: To a tiny hand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the line work is pretty good. I gotta say,
Speaker 1: no matter.
Speaker 2: I don't know. These clips look really simple.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and then the other thing that's trending. You know,
Speaker 1: Jack and I will be in Las Vegas for NBA
Speaker 1: Con where we hope to see the debut of the
Speaker 1: French basketball sensation Victor Webbin Yama, who's a seven foot
Speaker 1: three just looks like a generational talent. But we shall see.
Speaker 1: Someone who also understood how interesting this person was was
Speaker 1: Britney Spears. She apparently allegedly tried to get a picture
Speaker 1: this you know, like the new like phenom and basketball,
Speaker 1: came up behind him, poked him for a picture like
Speaker 1: could I get a picture, and allegedly his security backhanded
Speaker 1: her in the head. Her phone went flying and like
Speaker 1: was like get the fuck out, Like, you know, they
Speaker 1: had some kind of exchange and now there there's potentially
Speaker 1: like some kind of police investigation.
Speaker 2: It just feels like aggressive force. It just it feels
Speaker 2: a little like a I'm like, where's Britney's team be?
Speaker 2: She looks really disheveled. Here makes me sad. It sounds
Speaker 2: like a free Britney moment because see, there's been a
Speaker 2: lot of stuff on, you know, conspiracy theories of what's
Speaker 2: going on with Brittany, you know handlers. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: I think it's going back to like the whole free
Speaker 2: Britney thing, like her posts, like her marriage. A lot
Speaker 2: of things have been coming out like oh just another
Speaker 2: one of her handlers. Yeah, and like it's not really
Speaker 2: like a love marriage.
Speaker 1: Like conception handler but I'm your husband. Yeah yo, that's dark.
Speaker 2: So you know we obviously all speculation.
Speaker 1: I know, I get that, of course.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So there's just been and like her social media
Speaker 2: has been pretty dark lately and as.
Speaker 1: Dark as posting yeah okay, yeah, not grim.
Speaker 2: So there's just been a lot like speculating on, like
Speaker 2: is Brittany okay right now? So she didn't look okay,
Speaker 2: and these photos on top of that, which I think
Speaker 2: is the bigger story. But I'm like, where, like, Brittany
Speaker 2: is also a very famous and powerful person, Like why
Speaker 2: is she able to get smacked by, you know, a
Speaker 2: basketball player's bodyguard, someone.
Speaker 1: Who hasn't even done anything in the league, I might add.
Speaker 2: But yeah, like is this like to me, I'm like,
Speaker 2: this seems like it shouldn't have happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it is very strange. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's hard putting all the pieces together. But I bet that,
Speaker 1: Like I wonder if his security guard, because he's used
Speaker 1: to being like a big old man protecting like other people,
Speaker 1: he's got to protect someone who's like head and shoulders
Speaker 1: above him, make it feel all tiny, So he's just
Speaker 1: compensating and just fucking smashing anybody around him. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but yeah, that was all happening in Vegas. We'll see
Speaker 1: what happens. Jack and I may also make the.
Speaker 4: News when they say two disheveled gen xers, not even
Speaker 4: they're like two disheveled middle aged men surrounded Victor wembin
Speaker 4: Yama and they tried to get a picture.
Speaker 1: I don't know, we'll see. And then finally Marjorie Taylor
Speaker 1: Green is trending. You hate to see this the name
Speaker 1: anywhere get.
Speaker 2: To see her.
Speaker 1: But she's in a bit of She's in a spot
Speaker 1: of trouble, not legally, but just with her you know,
Speaker 1: other weirdo colleagues. She was booted from the House Freak,
Speaker 1: I mean, House Freedom Caucus, and they are some of
Speaker 1: the truly worst characters in Congress. Folks. These are like
Speaker 1: the bottom of the fucking barrel already. And apparently the
Speaker 1: band of fascists were real mad at Marjorie Taylor Green
Speaker 1: for being overly friendly with their arch nemesis, Speaker of
Speaker 1: the House, Kevin McCarthy. They're like, we're trying to start
Speaker 1: throwing deals with him because she's in pursuit of power.
Speaker 1: She doesn't give a fuck. That's why she's not gonna
Speaker 1: stay on cold.
Speaker 2: The whole part of the Republican Party is being a
Speaker 2: trader at all times.
Speaker 1: It's also just do what you gotta do. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. They're just like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get mine. What the fuck are you
Speaker 1: talking about? Yeah, I said, I believe in QAnon. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get mine. I don't believe that shit. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get mine. That's what most politicians are about.
Speaker 1: But then the final straw, apparently was when a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago she called Lauren Bobert a little bitch on
Speaker 1: the house floor. Uh, and they're like that is too far.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, She's like, look your little bitch. Yeah. Because this
Speaker 1: is where it gets here. They were both because they
Speaker 1: were both in line to see who could impeach Joe
Speaker 1: Brandon first, and Marjorie Taylor been was like, I was
Speaker 1: the first person who was trying to go with this
Speaker 1: nonsense impeachment process to just eat up a bunch of
Speaker 1: time in Congress. And then Lauren Bobert like recently, was
Speaker 1: like I'm about to, like, you know, I would like
Speaker 1: to impeach Joe Biden. And she's like, that's my fucking lane,
Speaker 1: say out my lane. And this is what happened. Apparently
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of tension, but I get it.
Speaker 1: These are all fucking freaks who are being ran by
Speaker 1: their egos, who got into Congress by shit posting racist
Speaker 1: memes all the way to DC. So I'm surprised this
Speaker 1: hasn't fallen apart sooner, like they've papped together pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: But you know, I feel like pretty soon we'll start
Speaker 1: seeing more back and forth, I guess from disgusting people. Anyway,
Speaker 1: that'll do it for us today. I hope you guys
Speaker 1: enjoyed your day to day. We're gonna be back tomorrow
Speaker 1: with a brand new episode, fantastic episode. And until then,
Speaker 1: First of all, thank you Beca for joining me. But yeah,
Speaker 1: be kind yourselves. Be kind to each other, but serious
Speaker 1: to be kind to yourself. It's a very underrated skill.
Speaker 1: Get the vaccine, do all that nonsense. Don't do nothing
Speaker 1: by white supremacy, of transphobia, none of that. You know,
Speaker 1: be a good person and let people know you're a
Speaker 1: good person. You don't have to get wild, but let
Speaker 1: people know. Okay, all right, we'll talk to you soon. Bye.
Speaker 2: By