Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of What's
Speaker 1: Trending on Boner Yelp. That is his courtesy of kaith Aiken,
Speaker 1: I think quoting Katie Golden or inspired by Katie Golden.
Speaker 1: We were talking about the need for a boner yelp
Speaker 1: app on yesterday's episode. Today's episode, Now, let me guess
Speaker 1: what that means?
Speaker 2: Is that? Is that a rating.
Speaker 3: Survey rating of boners? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1: Jack that super producer Brian Jeffrey.
Speaker 3: I have a deep voice because I'm sick.
Speaker 2: Yep, and I am also sick, so it is sick
Speaker 2: boy summer.
Speaker 1: Sick boy summer. We did an episode about the placebo
Speaker 1: effect this morning, and I am immediately sick, fucking annoying. Anyways,
Speaker 1: shall we tell the people what's trending?
Speaker 2: Brian?
Speaker 3: Shall we?
Speaker 1: Shall we tell the people what's trending to European Summer.
Speaker 1: That's where you're wondering where Miles is. He's taking part
Speaker 1: in the European Summer along with Kanye West, who was
Speaker 1: spotted on main in Venice with his ass hanging out
Speaker 1: of the split in the back of his blazer.
Speaker 2: Just getting a blowy on a gondola.
Speaker 1: Yeah, getting a blowy on a gondola, which is I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm it's the sort of thing you would brag about
Speaker 1: in a song, but it doesn't. It didn't look that cool. Actually,
Speaker 1: it looked weird, looked it looked awkward.
Speaker 2: He seemed way too concerned about It's that weird thing
Speaker 2: where it's like, Okay, you're down enough to get a
Speaker 2: blowy on a gondola, but you're also very concerned, but
Speaker 2: you're concerned about you can see it's super weird. I
Speaker 2: don't get it. It's like, if you're gonna do that,
Speaker 2: just be out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just like in the super ego happening at the
Speaker 1: same time, and also like in a nearby boat. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure one of their personal assistants was like having
Speaker 1: to just pretend it wasn't happening. That's the real crime
Speaker 1: against humanity on display here. Anyways, Speaking of that whole
Speaker 1: realm of humanity, there was a video.
Speaker 3: With Chris Jenner.
Speaker 1: I guess it was posted by Chris Jenner's makeup artists,
Speaker 1: and Chris Jenner looks like she's in her early thirties
Speaker 1: in the video, but also looks like partially computer generated
Speaker 1: and the makeup artist is like, oh, Chris, oh, it's amazing,
Speaker 1: it's beautiful. You look wonderful. And I don't know, people
Speaker 1: people are mad about it. They're like, she looks ridiculous,
Speaker 1: she looks like AI. I actually think she looks way
Speaker 1: better than the daged characters in the Irishman.
Speaker 2: That that is a fact that she absolutely does her
Speaker 2: daging algorithm on her phone or whoever's phone looks better
Speaker 2: than the Irishman. But I think I think people are
Speaker 2: genuinely mad about this. I think they might be a
Speaker 2: little out of touch with like phone face smoothing in
Speaker 2: other cultures, because this is very normal in Asian countries
Speaker 2: to see this level of Yeah, for sure, for sure,
Speaker 2: it does look a little unnatural to the Western eye.
Speaker 2: But it's not like.
Speaker 3: I think pretty good, it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: I think they're nailing it anyways. I mean, also, I
Speaker 1: have heard tell that every shot in Keeping Up with
Speaker 1: the Kardashians has some manner of face tage going on
Speaker 1: sixty seven.
Speaker 3: Yeah looks great, doesn't she Yo's great? Doesn't folks?
Speaker 2: Wow? Okay, yeah I did not. Yeah, I wouldn't have
Speaker 2: guessed that.
Speaker 1: There's an article on Dazed digital about why is everyone
Speaker 1: on TikTok talk like that aka influencer voice? And I
Speaker 1: think I know this tone just from like videos making
Speaker 1: fun of it.
Speaker 3: I think, like we yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: It's definitely a thing. If you watch like you know,
Speaker 2: you know, influencers YouTube personalities. I notice it a lot.
Speaker 2: There's a particular cadence and hey, guys.
Speaker 3: That's how it starts. I do that. I have influencer voice,
Speaker 3: and that's how I talk to my family.
Speaker 2: It's I love the idea of influencer voice in like
Speaker 2: everyday life.
Speaker 1: I just got some groceries that I'm going to be
Speaker 1: unpacking right now into the refrigerator, So come on over
Speaker 1: here and watch. We got some lactose free milk because
Speaker 1: otherwise you guys are gonna shit yourselves.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that if I'm still influencer voicing
Speaker 3: it or not.
Speaker 2: Now. Something something I'm noticing in this article is like
Speaker 2: the clips are all of women, Oh yeah, which I
Speaker 2: think is interesting because people, Yes, of course, people like
Speaker 2: to pick on linguistic traits of women.
Speaker 1: Weate the trends that men then catch up to like
Speaker 1: a decade later.
Speaker 2: Like vocal fry. It's like people like to think that
Speaker 2: vocal fry is something that only women do, and it's
Speaker 2: it's just, I don't know, it smacks of you know, sexism.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Well, men aren't allowed to be expressive with
Speaker 1: their voices or like try new things.
Speaker 3: They have to just talk in a monotone.
Speaker 1: So women get to like explore the space and have
Speaker 1: fun with their voice, and then men catch up to
Speaker 1: it ten fifteen years later. But the whole time, the
Speaker 1: ten to fifteen years that it's taken them to catch
Speaker 1: up and like incorporate all of the innovations that women
Speaker 1: are making, they spend that in entire time criticizing the
Speaker 1: women for talking that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if these are the only kind of examples they're
Speaker 2: putting out there, it's only women. I'm not really I'm
Speaker 2: not really fucking with this.
Speaker 1: But it's according to Tony Thorn and doctor Christian Ilbury,
Speaker 1: a socio linguist at the University of Edinburgh. He adds
Speaker 1: that up talk, where people end their sentence with a
Speaker 1: higher pitch as if they're asking a question, is another
Speaker 1: common characteristic of TikTok boys.
Speaker 3: I don't I think it's great.
Speaker 1: That people like people should should have a new way
Speaker 1: of talking and be creating new ways of talking all
Speaker 1: the time. But yeah, it does feel like Tony Thorn
Speaker 1: and doctor Christian Ilberry are going are just basically creating
Speaker 1: ways for middle aged men to retirement aged men to
Speaker 1: complain about how people how women talk on the internet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because up talk is definitely like a lot of
Speaker 2: New Zealanders, White New Zealanders have a have an up
Speaker 2: talk at the end of their sentences and it never
Speaker 2: sounds like they're finishing their sentences. And yeah, and I
Speaker 2: always always make fun of her for that. That's always
Speaker 2: really interesting to me. But yeah, I mean it's good
Speaker 2: that people are keeping, you know, track of this sort
Speaker 2: of thing, I guess, But yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Think it's an observation. Yeah, it's a normal way of talking.
Speaker 1: Find a new angle, asshole. We got to say rip
Speaker 1: to Joe the Plumber, who I'd forgotten existed.
Speaker 2: Who's Joe the Plumber?
Speaker 1: You don't remember Joe the Plumber? Two thousand and eight
Speaker 1: presidential election. He got on one of the.
Speaker 2: Like remember most of two thousand and eight, be honest
Speaker 2: with you.
Speaker 1: He got on like a town hall with Barack Obama
Speaker 1: and asked him things about like how he was going
Speaker 1: to pay for his tax plan, which you always know
Speaker 1: when people are digging into the weeds of the tax
Speaker 1: plan that they gotta have a tax plan. They're always
Speaker 1: gonna be good faith arguers. But anyways, the clip would
Speaker 1: have been totally forgotten. But John McCain kept referencing Joe
Speaker 1: the Plumber in the final debate and then like, I
Speaker 1: think he like brought him out and like campaigned with
Speaker 1: him and made this guy, Joe the Plumber, into a
Speaker 1: national celebrity. And the attention led to the revelation that
Speaker 1: Joe the Plumber hadn't actually paid all of his taxes,
Speaker 1: and he wasn't a fully licensed plumber, and his name
Speaker 1: wasn't Joe.
Speaker 2: That was my next question was like, is he actually
Speaker 2: a plumber?
Speaker 1: Sure demanded that he removed the designation from his own website,
Speaker 1: and Joe the Plumber later said of John McCain, he
Speaker 1: really screwed my life up. McCain was trying to use me.
Speaker 1: I happened to be the faith of middle Americans. It
Speaker 1: was a ploy, and he then tried to capitalize on
Speaker 1: his newfound celebrity, releasing a book Fighting for the American
Speaker 1: Dream that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the cover.
Speaker 1: Is not great not the best cover design that I've
Speaker 1: ever seen.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's lacking. It's definitely lacking. He looks like he's
Speaker 2: on benzos.
Speaker 3: He does look like he's on benzos a lot of
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 1: And he got in trouble for his campaign ads which
Speaker 1: suggested that gun control led to the Holocaust. So, in
Speaker 1: case you were waiting for that other shoe to drop
Speaker 1: on Joe the Plumber, that was it.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm not gonna do the math on that one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna leave that, Leave that to him. Well,
Speaker 2: you know, truly one of the greatest too ever.
Speaker 3: Not be noticed by you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, never literally never heard of this guy.
Speaker 1: So he ran for Congress, lost badly, and then around
Speaker 1: the time of his day he passed away from I
Speaker 1: believe pancreatic cancer. But he was recently working for a
Speaker 1: company that makes steel barricades to protect students in the
Speaker 1: event of a mass shooting.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, it's the booming.
Speaker 1: Industry, America's gun problem. You might call it a problem.
Speaker 1: I call it a job creator.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it stimulates the economy.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break and we'll come back,
Speaker 1: and we're back. We're back, really enjoying my deep voice,
Speaker 1: my deep gravelly voice.
Speaker 3: Show it folks, get it, get it well to get
Speaker 3: in limited.
Speaker 1: Dude, I feel like I could do a what's his name? Uh,
Speaker 1: what's the conspiracy theory guy? This is the other problem.
Speaker 1: I have brain fog. I'm sick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but whatever the conspiracy theory guy talks like.
Speaker 2: His name is Jones, Alex Jones. Yeah, you can do
Speaker 2: me and Alex Jones.
Speaker 3: If I could remember his name and had ever listened
Speaker 3: to him.
Speaker 1: Disney Special Effects workers VFX workers have filed to unionize
Speaker 1: with the NLRB, which is a big deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for number of reasons.
Speaker 1: You know, photo realistic talking lines don't just appear.
Speaker 3: At the touch of a button. It takes a lot
Speaker 3: of labor.
Speaker 1: And as we've talked about throughout the strike, VFX workers
Speaker 1: are like the last major, you know, part of a
Speaker 1: the making of a film that haven't been unionized, and
Speaker 1: they've yeah, they've suffered for it, and we as film
Speaker 1: viewers have suffered for it. And that's why special effects
Speaker 1: seem to like there'll be one really good one and
Speaker 1: then a decade and a half of like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: Avatar will happen, and then for a decade and a half,
Speaker 1: like everything that is three D will suck. Life of
Speaker 1: Pie will have like really cool special effects, but then
Speaker 1: by the time they won an Academy Award for it,
Speaker 1: the company that did the special effects will have gone
Speaker 1: out of business.
Speaker 2: Because that's disturbingly common for VFX houses to put in
Speaker 2: an insane amount of hours and put in good work
Speaker 2: a lot of the time, and it's just it's not
Speaker 2: sustainable for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So the Disney News follows the news from last
Speaker 1: week that Marvel VFX workers filed unionize and votes will
Speaker 1: be counted for that on September twelfth.
Speaker 3: But there's just been a lot.
Speaker 1: Of reporting that it's a bad place to work. As
Speaker 1: VFX artists have explained in the past, they're the only
Speaker 1: major department currently working on every film set in America
Speaker 1: that is not unionized, and as a result, they have
Speaker 1: been taken advantage of. A twenty twenty two survey found
Speaker 1: that seventy percent of VFX workers report having worked uncompensated
Speaker 1: overtime hours for their employer, and seventy five percent of
Speaker 1: them were forced to work through legally mandated meal breaks
Speaker 1: and rest periods without compensation and on set VFX workers
Speaker 1: reported working in conditions they felt unsafe and so killing
Speaker 1: it Hollywood. Yeah, this is why it's it's really important
Speaker 1: that the unions come away from this strike strong, because
Speaker 1: when there's no union, this is how workers are treated.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're not going to do the right thing out
Speaker 2: of the kindness of their heart.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It has to be taken and maintained.
Speaker 1: It has to be forced on them. Yeah yeah, or
Speaker 1: just you know, there needs to be They will treat
Speaker 1: you as badly as they possibly can. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about drones. You are a drone
Speaker 1: pilot in your spare time, your free time, you take
Speaker 1: some pretty cool videos. It's a weird It's like a
Speaker 1: fascination of the book The Ministry for the Future that
Speaker 1: we covered that's about like the near future of climate change.
Speaker 1: And one of the threads that they predict in that
Speaker 1: book is like eco terrorists will have will start affecting
Speaker 1: things by you know, taking commercial airlines out of the sky,
Speaker 1: attacking billionaires. And all of these eco terror attacks happened
Speaker 1: via drone. And I don't know, I could see the
Speaker 1: future where drones are like just crawling all over the
Speaker 1: air and the news but I'm just curious, like what
Speaker 1: is so democratic about drones that's different from like bomb
Speaker 1: building or you know, like it seems harder to train
Speaker 1: yourself and become like precision with a drone as opposed
Speaker 1: to just learning to make a bomb or these guns
Speaker 1: which are everywhere. But maybe like is it easier to
Speaker 1: be anonymous?
Speaker 2: What is democratizing about drones, especially in twenty twenty three
Speaker 2: is that they basically fly themselves at uh. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: one big thing is like you can pilot a drone
Speaker 2: autonomously by setting waypoints and stuff like that, and the
Speaker 2: imaging has gotten a lot better, so it's like you
Speaker 2: don't need special skills to pilot this this thing, you
Speaker 2: just need a little bit of practice. And the range
Speaker 2: is also insane these days, where it's like, you know,
Speaker 2: I can send my drone ten kilometers out and if
Speaker 2: you're only on a one way trip, that's you know,
Speaker 2: that's pretty handy, you know, not being detected.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of things, and they're also a lot
Speaker 2: more affordable than they used to be. And yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: there's just the convergence of a lot of different things
Speaker 2: that just makes this a lot more available a lot easy.
Speaker 2: You can just go to you know, best Buy, Costco wherever,
Speaker 2: just pick one up.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So some of the news stories that we've seen over
Speaker 1: the past couple of weeks, like one of Mexico's most
Speaker 1: violent cartels has just created its own elite unit of
Speaker 1: drone operators, which are like highly trained hit men that
Speaker 1: tweak commercial drones and turn them into flying bombs to
Speaker 1: use against rival cartels. So, I don't know, it seems
Speaker 1: like that sort of thing what we'll see more and
Speaker 1: more of it, maybe, But.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised we haven't seen more of it domestically, you know,
Speaker 2: in the States, just because just by way of when
Speaker 2: people see shit on the internet, like they want to
Speaker 2: copy it. And it's like we've seen a lot in
Speaker 2: the past year. We've seen a lot of footage of
Speaker 2: drones in warfare from Ukraine doing really innovative things with
Speaker 2: commercial drones. I'll just leave it at that, and it's
Speaker 2: just like no one's expecting, like, you know, that kind
Speaker 2: of death from above. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Are they getting quieter because the ones I've seen sound
Speaker 1: like fucking lawnmowers.
Speaker 3: Now they've gotten quieter.
Speaker 2: Well, it depends, like you know, it scales up with size.
Speaker 2: But yeah, there's a lot of work being done with
Speaker 2: material sciences and now with three D printing, you can
Speaker 2: design propellers that are a lot quieter than in the
Speaker 2: stock ones. And you know, when I put my drone up,
Speaker 2: it only has to be about like maybe fifty feet
Speaker 2: in the air to where I can't hear it anymore.
Speaker 2: And wow, that's not that high up and those that's
Speaker 2: just stocked. So yeah, it's terrifying.
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: It's a terrifying prospect.
Speaker 1: Like there there are these evolutionary biologist theories that one
Speaker 1: of the most kind of at a gut level creepy
Speaker 1: things that like gives people goosebumps, is like when a
Speaker 1: shadow passes overhead, and I think it's from back when
Speaker 1: like birds used to be thunderbirds you have like twenty
Speaker 1: foot wingspans, and people were so like one of the
Speaker 1: big survival you know instincts that a human could have
Speaker 1: is like to not be into death from above and
Speaker 1: to like have a innate sense of that. But we've
Speaker 1: we've gotten soft, We've been able to not worry that
Speaker 1: much about from above for a while.
Speaker 2: But I noticed with my cats is like that's still
Speaker 2: a very strong instinct with at least my cats, where
Speaker 2: they will not be in the open at all. They
Speaker 2: have to be underneath something, whether takes off no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: just in general, like when they're outside on the roof,
Speaker 2: like they have to be underneath something. They won't just
Speaker 2: like be completely out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, smart, smart cat, Claby girl. All right, interesting future
Speaker 1: you've got. There be a shame of something cool. We're
Speaker 1: to happen to it, all right, Brian, that's gonna do
Speaker 1: it for this Tuesday Afternoons trending episode.
Speaker 3: Thanks for doing it, my pleasure. Back tomorrow with the
Speaker 3: whole last episode of the show.
Speaker 1: Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourself,
Speaker 1: get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we.
Speaker 3: Will talk to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2: By Hey