Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to this special edition of First Time Paratrend.
Speaker 1: That's the first time parents. That's me. Okay, that's a
Speaker 1: reference to me. Hello, I'm Miles Gray. I am joined
Speaker 1: to tell you what's trending by super Due Becca Ramos. Hello,
Speaker 1: are you back? Miles? Thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thank you for that little little shoulder shimmy.
Speaker 1: It's almost felt like a Harlem shake. Appreciate that. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's good to be back and talking to people about
Speaker 1: things that aren't you know, I don't know, like breast
Speaker 1: pumps or strollers, travel systems, Ergo, Omni three sixty carriers,
Speaker 1: baby burans, things like that. But I digress. We're here
Speaker 1: to tell you about what is trending on this beautiful Monday,
Speaker 1: March twenty seventh. First up, Jonathan Majors is in the news.
Speaker 1: He was arrested this weekend on strangulation, assault, and hara
Speaker 1: estimate charges after the police were called to an apartment
Speaker 1: in New York and after allegedly assaulting a woman. Quote
Speaker 1: known to him as the police report says, his lawyers
Speaker 1: are like, he is innocent, and we have evidence to
Speaker 1: prove that, but he's not going to be in court
Speaker 1: officially until May, so I don't know what officially legally
Speaker 1: is happening, but yeah, that's a oof city, sir. So
Speaker 1: many things swirling about this, all kinds of allegations coming
Speaker 1: on Twitter, from people being like we knew that from Yale,
Speaker 1: and then other people are defending him. Other people are
Speaker 1: like trying to argue the merits of what strangulation may
Speaker 1: or may not be, which is you don't want to
Speaker 1: be on that side of Twitter, no, And then there
Speaker 1: was statements made, you know, obviously unsure how truthful they are,
Speaker 1: but his lawyer coming out and saying that the victim
Speaker 1: recanted her statement, which you know, not coming from the
Speaker 1: police department, so like, don't know if that is a
Speaker 1: rumor or if it is true that a recanted or
Speaker 1: you know, if that's even true at all, like that
Speaker 1: the lawyer said that, So you know, all there is
Speaker 1: to say, in my opinion is believe women A and B.
Speaker 1: Just because you are beautiful and talented doesn't make you
Speaker 1: an not an abusive person. So yeah, platforms a lot
Speaker 1: of cognitive dissonance out there were people reckoning with these
Speaker 1: accusations and like, well, if it is true, or maybe
Speaker 1: it's not or whatever, this that and the other. I mean,
Speaker 1: what's what seems to be clear is that Marvel is
Speaker 1: not saying anything. They're like, well, you know, we're gonna
Speaker 1: wait for that to play out a little. She's like
Speaker 1: in seven thousand Avengers movies coming up. So there's there's
Speaker 1: that part working with the MCU. But the US Army
Speaker 1: though not fucking around. They have pulled their entire new
Speaker 1: ad campaign which is starring him. They said, quote until
Speaker 1: the investigations into these allegations are complete. Wait wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: why was he in a US Army camp? That's all right.
Speaker 1: I mean when I saw that, I'm like, that's why
Speaker 1: that is an l because in it there's like questionable.
Speaker 1: The whole thing though, like the whole like look of
Speaker 1: it is. He's like traveling through fucking wars to talk
Speaker 1: about the US military only get up to about World
Speaker 1: War two though, So okay, you know, whatever whatever hand
Speaker 1: you have in the revisionist history of the United States
Speaker 1: military policy is your back. But apparently they spent one
Speaker 1: hundred seventeen million dollars on this shit. Um that is
Speaker 1: absolutely and say it doesn't shock me because a you know,
Speaker 1: the military is so much money and b you know,
Speaker 1: historically the military prize on like black and brown, you know,
Speaker 1: especially Poles, to put them on the front lines. You know,
Speaker 1: the people that are doing the cool jobs. That people
Speaker 1: are doing, the safe jobs, the tech jobs. Those are
Speaker 1: people that went to West Point. Those are people that
Speaker 1: have you know, generational sergeants and their family. They are
Speaker 1: not the people the Offerer's Candidate school or something like
Speaker 1: that OCS. But yeah, it's I mean the what's really
Speaker 1: wild too is the army, they said again, because people
Speaker 1: are like beginning to be able to become a little
Speaker 1: more sober eyed about like being in the United States military,
Speaker 1: and it's like, what the Yeah, it's what. It's a
Speaker 1: force for around the world. It's not doing freedoms everywhere.
Speaker 1: But apparently the reason they've chose majors was because quote
Speaker 1: his resonance with gen Z, Like yeah, just to add
Speaker 1: some insidious shit on top of it all, they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: let's a new batch of kids to enlist into. Uh
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, I guess. And that's what I was
Speaker 1: literally reading of, like how could you? And maybe he
Speaker 1: does not have that self awareness. Obviously, he doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like a good person now, um to recognize like you
Speaker 1: as a reflection of like what they choosed you do,
Speaker 1: our community is and then like be the representation of
Speaker 1: that is yucky. So yeah, don't never accept the army's money. No,
Speaker 1: it just says you don't need no one needs that back.
Speaker 1: But again, this is uh, we'll see where this story goes,
Speaker 1: because it is it's like it's it's got every part
Speaker 1: of Twitter, like a light yeah, like Twitter everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: over the weekend, I was scrolling. I even had people
Speaker 1: tweet at me, um, just being like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: did you see I Like, yes, I obviously saw. I
Speaker 1: know I was thirsting after him over Creed, you know,
Speaker 1: but I can put that thirst away. There are many
Speaker 1: other men I can thirst after. I don't need him
Speaker 1: in my corner of people. Uh. But all that to say, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just think the conversation of a oh, well she's white,
Speaker 1: the implication kind of being deserved fucked up. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: not that's not a place to go with it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the implication of well, also she's a liar because she's white,
Speaker 1: and that's historical, and it's like, yes, there is context
Speaker 1: of that, but there's also context of me. Two times up.
Speaker 1: We are not in an era pass those things very much.
Speaker 1: In Hollywood, if you are powerful, if they want you
Speaker 1: to succeed, they will ignore your bad behavior in order
Speaker 1: to propel you because you're a man at the end
Speaker 1: of the day. Yeah, blanket, those blanket generalizations don't help anybody,
Speaker 1: but they're they're to definitely clawback progress. I mean, because
Speaker 1: it's just a very like attacking the victim is a
Speaker 1: time honored tradition in the parts of maintaining power and
Speaker 1: the status quo. Don't be a part of it. Don't
Speaker 1: be a part of it. You know, you don't have
Speaker 1: to say shit about it. You can just watch and
Speaker 1: read and then react in real time, don't You don't
Speaker 1: need to have a go out there with a take
Speaker 1: next up Spotify, Um, how are they doing? You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of talk about we got this equity fun man,
Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars, were putting our money where our
Speaker 1: mouth is because this was what after Joe Rogan, they said, look,
Speaker 1: we know we're bad, but we're gonna remember they pulled
Speaker 1: all those episodes. They were like, oh my god, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he does say the N word a lot. That's crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh that's wild. Okay, here's okay, we're telling you we're
Speaker 1: going to spend one hundred million dollars on diversity and
Speaker 1: that's in air quotes that are so airy. But how
Speaker 1: much they spent nine million already they spent. How much
Speaker 1: have they spent? Zero dollars? No? Ten percent? Which is
Speaker 1: like what wow? Million? Okay, but I've put the whole Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean, so what if you're distributing that, I know
Speaker 1: there suposed to do that over three years, you might
Speaker 1: be a little bit behind on that. Such a little
Speaker 1: maths would be thirty three and a third Okay, Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is what it is. So I guess man, a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of money being pledged all the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah wow. Well and also the curious thing
Speaker 1: about this too is that the hundred million statement was
Speaker 1: supposed to be more of like a declarative statement of like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a big gesture, but in reality, they paid
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan. It found out after they had made the
Speaker 1: hundred million statement as a representation of how much they
Speaker 1: paying Joe again double that, So it wasn't even giving
Speaker 1: the amount to diversity initiatives across a plethora of you know,
Speaker 1: shows and artists and things of that nature. Um, at
Speaker 1: the same amount as one person. They're literally doing half
Speaker 1: of what they gave that one person sprinkled that over
Speaker 1: like seven thousand things. Yeah, Yeah, there wasn't insult to injury.
Speaker 1: I bet there. There's probably some real cynical accounting too,
Speaker 1: like did a did a person of color or any
Speaker 1: diverse people work on that show? Okay, let's put it literally,
Speaker 1: let's put that to there to the side. Uh, and
Speaker 1: then before we take a break. Um. In Nashville, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: there was another school shooting. Six people killed, three kids
Speaker 1: among them and three adults. Uh. It's like it does
Speaker 1: not stop. There was a video that's kind of going
Speaker 1: around now that a woman who survived the Highland Park
Speaker 1: shooting in Illinois was around. I think she said she
Speaker 1: was visiting, like and she just was like she's like
Speaker 1: I've spoken to over like one hundred thirty some lawmakers
Speaker 1: to try and figure out how we do something to
Speaker 1: ensure have some semblance of gun safety, and we have nothing.
Speaker 1: And it's my god, I mean, like it's such a
Speaker 1: like a national embarrassment to be living in a place
Speaker 1: where you're looking at the statistics say guns are the
Speaker 1: biggest now killer of children, and and act doing nothing crickets.
Speaker 1: But then you know, and I think this take has
Speaker 1: taken over like one million forms on the internet now.
Speaker 1: But if like plick of like art just completely skewed
Speaker 1: priorities where we're mad about, like tell us telling kids
Speaker 1: that Rosa Parks was black in a history book and
Speaker 1: we're trying to deracialize things like that, or get the
Speaker 1: head of TikTok up here because it's a Chinese spy
Speaker 1: machine and things like that, where we have real you
Speaker 1: can you can point to a legitimate, quantifiable body count
Speaker 1: here and or we're in the same place. It's it's horrifying,
Speaker 1: it's really, it's really yeah, yeah, it's it's absolutely heartbreaking.
Speaker 1: And it's also interesting that Miles, when you were out
Speaker 1: just a couple of weeks ago, we had covered this
Speaker 1: viral video of this teacher demonstrating I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was a teacher or the company that's called Corner
Speaker 1: Wall things. It was like the four corner wall like
Speaker 1: blast shield. Yeah yeah, and it's like that's our solution
Speaker 1: instead of I don't know, removing guns. Like it's like,
Speaker 1: there's so many things wrong with that there's so many
Speaker 1: systems that can make that fail in terms of there's
Speaker 1: not equity in the local state, you know, national whatever
Speaker 1: systems of schooling and budgets and what schools get those,
Speaker 1: everybody's going to get that. Yeah, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: And here's the other thing too, is because whenever we
Speaker 1: have a problem societally in this country, if the solution
Speaker 1: is an industry has to make less for the greater good,
Speaker 1: we'll never do it, absolutely because money still has to
Speaker 1: be made. And it's like, well, well, if we dial
Speaker 1: that back, then somebody needs to make money off these
Speaker 1: like class room shields rather than substantive reforms around keeping
Speaker 1: people safe. I mean, you know it's only now that
Speaker 1: like people were like, oh man, solar is kind of lucrative.
Speaker 1: Maybe looking into that, but it's just the yeah again, uh,
Speaker 1: for the consistent, consistent sickness that we're having to come
Speaker 1: up against living here, and yet my heartbreaks. Um, all right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll come right back
Speaker 1: to talk some more after this and we're back Waco, Texas.
Speaker 1: We talked about this going into the weekend, that Trump
Speaker 1: was going to have a little rally there. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean, you know, he's like, you know what
Speaker 1: happened here right remember that? Well you know what I'm
Speaker 1: wearing right now, myles, look represent look represent where you're from.
Speaker 1: But you didn't go at a bay because you're down
Speaker 1: with the branch Davidians, unlike Trump, who's there to send
Speaker 1: a message because he's trying to get a slow motion
Speaker 1: riot going right now because he feels he fears he's
Speaker 1: going to be he seems seemingly is shook. So now
Speaker 1: everything's talking about like, well, if you rescued me, then
Speaker 1: the people are going to turn up and get real violent.
Speaker 1: And it's already you've already seen with the DA getting
Speaker 1: a mysterious white powder and a death threat sent to
Speaker 1: him at the end of last week, that you're already
Speaker 1: seeing things happen. But the rally was some people showed up,
Speaker 1: but a lot of people left early from a lot
Speaker 1: of the reports. I don't know if the weather was
Speaker 1: like over there, but I don't blame you can only
Speaker 1: you know, stand in the sun and hear someone just
Speaker 1: sundown on the microphone for yeah, NonStop. But he also
Speaker 1: said he also fit in a couple of good shoutouts
Speaker 1: to putin where he was like, yeah, he said he's
Speaker 1: gonna invade. He looks like he's gonna get a piece
Speaker 1: now of Ukraine or maybe the whole who knows. And
Speaker 1: it's like it's like, who are you talking to? I
Speaker 1: think the audience is even like good, They're like, where
Speaker 1: are you getting this information from? Yeah, so i'd play
Speaker 1: the sound clip, but look, I'm slowly trying to get
Speaker 1: the bandwidth back to be able to report on everything
Speaker 1: that's happening in our country all the time. So I'll
Speaker 1: spare everybody that sound bite and we'll move on to
Speaker 1: our next topic, our next trend, which is Twitter. I've
Speaker 1: you friends from tech who are like, oh, the Twitter
Speaker 1: api leaked or the source code or the source code leaked.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I saw this, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, is bad? Is bad source code? But yes,
Speaker 1: that is kind of like the entire that's like the
Speaker 1: instruction manual to like how to fuck up Twitter, because
Speaker 1: a lot of people are saying, like, the easy way
Speaker 1: to describe it is if a hacker like hacked in
Speaker 1: the main frange, Well, it's like a it's like a
Speaker 1: map where you can like see how the platform is built,
Speaker 1: but also you from there, you can look at any
Speaker 1: vulnerabilities that exist because you can play around with it.
Speaker 1: So that's not good. And apparently it leaked right after
Speaker 1: Elon Musk went on a firing spree, so god, oh no,
Speaker 1: how could that happen? And meanwhile, this dude is out
Speaker 1: here being like, oh my god, Twitter lost half its value.
Speaker 1: It's only worth twenty billion now, Oh my god, leopards
Speaker 1: ate my face? Why would they do that? Uh sir,
Speaker 1: this is all of you. You made it all happen, buddy,
Speaker 1: you can That's like, this is one of the times
Speaker 1: you can be like that was me. Maybe Tesla wasn't me.
Speaker 1: Maybe I was, you know, partnered with some smarter people
Speaker 1: on those other past projects. But this shit, oh me am,
Speaker 1: I want to be edge lordiness and lack of I
Speaker 1: don't know, being told no ever as a human being.
Speaker 1: So h yeah, tear tear, drop tears. I guess has
Speaker 1: your Twitter used changed it all since I've been going?
Speaker 1: Are you kind of on at the same amount? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I'm on it about the same amount. I mean really,
Speaker 1: I wasn't on it much before and then obviously you know,
Speaker 1: the Elon Musk of it all. I'm like Okay, well,
Speaker 1: definitely not trying to be on it now for sure.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm on it for the show. I get
Speaker 1: tweeted out for the show, So yeah, there's some discors
Speaker 1: yeah about it, all right, yeah, yeah, I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not there to like be like and how do you
Speaker 1: figure into all this? But I'm just as someone who
Speaker 1: quite literally just i mean, having a baby was so
Speaker 1: easy to be like, Man, I ain't looking at shit.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel very grateful that I never jumped
Speaker 1: into Twitter, you know, like back in the day, I
Speaker 1: was a Tumblr girly and I just never got on
Speaker 1: Twitter like that out of Twitter since high school. But
Speaker 1: I just you could probably see a total of like
Speaker 1: ten tweets before I started working this job, like I
Speaker 1: was not that. I'm sorry, and you know, yeah, and
Speaker 1: we're not responsible for the psychological damage that has done
Speaker 1: for Twitter, so don't use it. Uh. And then finally,
Speaker 1: Dolly and David are trending first because Dolly Parton she
Speaker 1: has a song with Maya Lee Cyrus called rainbow Land,
Speaker 1: and a first grade teacher in Wisconsin wanted to have
Speaker 1: like the tea the kids sing this like rainbow Land
Speaker 1: song for their spring concert. Because you know it's a
Speaker 1: great song. Let me really read the lyrics, because according
Speaker 1: to other people, this is like a terror, it's too controversial.
Speaker 1: It says living in a rainbow land where you and
Speaker 1: I go hand in hand. Oh, I'd be lying if
Speaker 1: I said this was fine. All the hurt and they
Speaker 1: hate going on here. We are rainbows, me and you,
Speaker 1: every color, every hue. Let's shine on through together. We
Speaker 1: can start living in a rainbow land. Living in a
Speaker 1: rainbow land. This guy's are blue and things are grand.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't it be nice to live in a paradise where
Speaker 1: we're free to be exactly who we are. Let's all
Speaker 1: dig down deep inside, brush the judgment and fear aside,
Speaker 1: make wrong things right, and end the fight because our promise,
Speaker 1: ain't nobody gonna win. Come on, that's so man, that
Speaker 1: isn't enough. Yeah, but again, people just have the conservative
Speaker 1: shit that's going on now that this is absolutely just
Speaker 1: a nightmare, just a nightmare. So uh sorry, sorry to
Speaker 1: those kids who had to I don't know, be subjected
Speaker 1: to something that was about being more inclusive. And then
Speaker 1: I also want to touch on the reason David is trending,
Speaker 1: because did you I don't know if you saw this,
Speaker 1: like this teacher in Tallahassee, uh, like showed a picture
Speaker 1: of Michelangelo's David to a group of sixth graders and
Speaker 1: like the like the principle had to step down because like,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, we did not alert the parents that they
Speaker 1: would see a little marble penis of Michelangelo's David. The
Speaker 1: frenzy around like sexuality of any kind and how that's
Speaker 1: like the gateway to de deviancy or being you know,
Speaker 1: taken or trafficked or something like that. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: at this point, they're probably just going to be showing
Speaker 1: people like in like art class is like just a
Speaker 1: text panel that's like describing the art, and they're like,
Speaker 1: and that's that's all we can show you because it
Speaker 1: will ruin your brain, not the amount of gun violence
Speaker 1: that is around you, but because you saw Michelangelo's David.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's yeah, I mean, hey, great time for
Speaker 1: great time to be a parent and think about Mike.
Speaker 1: I'll say that literally, like Okay, so I'm never moving
Speaker 1: back to the South ever again, Like it's just crazy. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well i mean it'll it'll eventually, it'll event I mean,
Speaker 1: who knows if if if the conservatives have their way,
Speaker 1: this could be a standard. But anyway, that's a reason
Speaker 1: why we have to keep an eye out because this
Speaker 1: has just man the culture war stuff is getting so old. Please,
Speaker 1: is getting so old? Please please. Eventually people might realize
Speaker 1: you're not doing anything with policy, but whatever, that's for
Speaker 1: a dream world where people are engaged. Um. Anyway, thank
Speaker 1: you for joining us. That's going to do it for
Speaker 1: it today. We're back tomorrow brand new, staying in an episode.
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining me, beck up, we'll talk soon.
Speaker 1: Until next time, make sure you know you're out there
Speaker 1: being kind to yourself, be kind to each other, get
Speaker 1: that vaccine if you haven't yet, don't do nothing about
Speaker 1: white supremacy, and take care of yourself. I already said that,
Speaker 1: but we'll see then tomorrow five