Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of trend
Speaker 1: Gary Trend Ross, what is it? Coffees for Closers, and
Speaker 1: ABC Always be closing, Um, always be Trending. I am
Speaker 1: Jack and I'm thrilled to be joined by super producer
Speaker 1: Justin Connor. Hio. I don't know why I turned into
Speaker 1: like a morning zooga. I guess that's the vibe. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I've never seen Hio in my life. You
Speaker 1: always say Hio, don't Yeah, Hio. That's what we all
Speaker 1: say in Chicago in the season Hio, you say, Hio,
Speaker 1: you got the Jay Man. That's usually how you greet people.
Speaker 1: I don't know why you're pretending otherwise. It's Jay, It's
Speaker 1: Jay Rock. It's it's the Jay Rock. It's the Jay Rock.
Speaker 1: That's right. How are you doing doing? All right? I'm
Speaker 1: actually enjoying this rainy la weather. It makes me feel
Speaker 1: like we have seasons for a few hours. So that's
Speaker 1: always nice. As you were saying before we start recording,
Speaker 1: Jay Rock loves to get wet. Because what you were
Speaker 1: saying as you were passing, you were passing me that, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know you'd like to give wet Jay right, Um,
Speaker 1: all right, well, these are some of the things that
Speaker 1: are trending. Um. People do come here for our trenchant
Speaker 1: market analysis and who do we have it for you today?
Speaker 1: Because Silicon Valley Bank just cratered or got had to
Speaker 1: be taken over by the regulators. We know that's never
Speaker 1: good because regulators are the devil. But the FDIC took
Speaker 1: them over because of major problems that they're having. You
Speaker 1: know what, I would just realize, Jack, a music business
Speaker 1: degree really prepares you to talk about this kind of thing.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? I am I'm fully immersed
Speaker 1: in that. I'm kidding. I don't know what the fuck
Speaker 1: is going on. I guess this is bad. And you're
Speaker 1: gonna need to explain this to me because I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not a bank. Well that makes two of us.
Speaker 1: We're gonna need me to explain this to them. Uh
Speaker 1: some things. I know. It's one of the biggest bank
Speaker 1: collapses of all time. UM. I can understand that US history,
Speaker 1: so that it seems not good. UM. Jim Kramer, I'm
Speaker 1: like worried for his yes because he, like we saw
Speaker 1: how hard he took it when Facebook was like kradering
Speaker 1: and he had just told everybody to buy Facebook stock,
Speaker 1: and like he started crying on air. Well, unfortunately for
Speaker 1: Jim Kramer, Um, he is in an industry where he's
Speaker 1: just like it's a pre meteorologist time and he's just
Speaker 1: predicting the weather very confidently and at the top of
Speaker 1: his lungs on TV, like he just there. It's complete
Speaker 1: randomness and he goes on there and it's like, you
Speaker 1: gotta buy this stuff. So apparently a month ago, Kramer
Speaker 1: urged viewers to buy Silicon Valley Bank stock and yeah,
Speaker 1: this is all nonsense, that's all a fiction that has
Speaker 1: been concocted too. Didn't you go all in on crypto too?
Speaker 1: Like he was a super against it and then he
Speaker 1: was like really into it. Yeah, this isn't the first
Speaker 1: l that this guy has taken. Why does he Oh no,
Speaker 1: why why? Why is he revered in the financial world
Speaker 1: or is? I don't think he is. Okay, I think
Speaker 1: he's just like he's the stephen A. Smith of the
Speaker 1: financial world. He just like kind of screams a lot
Speaker 1: and takes really strong opinions. Failed comedian essentially, and he's
Speaker 1: just out here yelling opinions at people. Observations. Okay, cool,
Speaker 1: I compete with that. He actually went to Carnegie Mellen
Speaker 1: for drama acting. Um, that's very rare. I like that. No,
Speaker 1: that's the yeah that the financial world. Yeah, anyways, regulators
Speaker 1: had to shut down Silicon Valley Bank in the biggest
Speaker 1: collapse since two thousand and eight financial crisis. The tire
Speaker 1: stock market has not completely crashed yet, so that's good news.
Speaker 1: But I do think we're just generally seeing the US
Speaker 1: economy and the myth that like the market fixes everything,
Speaker 1: and the market like possesses some wisdom and it's all
Speaker 1: just a fiction to distract us from the reality that
Speaker 1: it is randomness and also like predatory and just is
Speaker 1: trying to make money off of people in any way possible.
Speaker 1: There's no real logic to it. But if you're if
Speaker 1: you turn it into this kind of weather system that
Speaker 1: you you think you can predict, like a meteorologist, then
Speaker 1: people feel at least safer. But nobody knows anything, especially
Speaker 1: in this world. Um. Yeah, so it seems like yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: Jenu Ortega might star and beetle just beetle just is
Speaker 1: that how it's pronounced. You got it? Beetle juice too,
Speaker 1: which is still happening. Apparently, um okay, they so. Last
Speaker 1: year it was reported that Brad Pitt's production company was
Speaker 1: working on a Beetle Juice too, And now there are
Speaker 1: rumors that Jenna Ortega will start in the movie as
Speaker 1: Oneona Ryder's daughter, which would make sense since she starred
Speaker 1: in Wednesday, which was partly directed by Tim Burton but
Speaker 1: apparently wasn't good. I don't know. I didn't watch it,
Speaker 1: but I think there's aspects of it I didn't, you know,
Speaker 1: I wasn't I didn't consume the full thing, but they
Speaker 1: were like aspects of it that went viral that people
Speaker 1: were really into. I think the school dance was one
Speaker 1: of them. Um, you know. And I'm all for letting
Speaker 1: things breathe a little bit sometimes, you know, the first
Speaker 1: season of a thing might be a little bit rocky.
Speaker 1: I need some time for things to flesh out a
Speaker 1: little bit. So I'm here for this. This seems to
Speaker 1: be a lane Jenna wants to occupy. I say, go
Speaker 1: for it. I want to see what this looks like.
Speaker 1: And I'm I don't know. I know there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people out there who are like, oh, there's too
Speaker 1: many sequels, and there's you know, all this original you know,
Speaker 1: or there's no more original ip. They're just you know,
Speaker 1: going back in the past and redoing stuff. It can
Speaker 1: be done. Well, I'm not a full hater of it,
Speaker 1: and that's it's bad. I haven't seen it yet though,
Speaker 1: so we'll see. Yeah. She has said, particularly that she
Speaker 1: had consistent dreams about Beetlejuice growing up. Okay, so, uh
Speaker 1: sounds like a real Burton head. Um. My main concern
Speaker 1: would be that it doesn't like it doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: Burton movies have been that good of late. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: especially not once he produces like from before, because he
Speaker 1: doesn't have really like a as He's not writing or
Speaker 1: directing or anything with this. It's just uh yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure, but okay. Also, there are rumors that Johnny
Speaker 1: Depp will be involved too. Well, then I'm not. One
Speaker 1: of the great things about the original Beetlejuice was that
Speaker 1: it was made before Timberton met Johnny Depp and put
Speaker 1: him in everything. They ruined each other. That is the
Speaker 1: perfect example of a toxic relationship right there. Like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Oscars are this weekend. This year's show. They were
Speaker 1: apparently really like thrown off by last year's show and
Speaker 1: the slap. So this year's show has been in the
Speaker 1: work since last June. Usually they would start planning in November,
Speaker 1: but this time they were like, let's spend even more
Speaker 1: time over determining this weird industry awards event. They need
Speaker 1: time to build all the false walls and ship they
Speaker 1: can hide the SWAT teams. In my god, they're gonna
Speaker 1: they're gonna overreact so hard. If anyone twitches, like God forbid,
Speaker 1: they be black. Oh my god. Right, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: So the things that they're changing, in addition to presumably
Speaker 1: like hoping that nobody slaps anybody on camera this year,
Speaker 1: is they are no longer giving out those awards during
Speaker 1: the commercial breaks that they did last year. They've scrapped that,
Speaker 1: and now they've added QR codes to direct people to
Speaker 1: behind the scenes videos, which feels like something nobody is
Speaker 1: going to do. Where are you making me do extra work?
Speaker 1: What the fuck? Yeah? But I don't know. I like.
Speaker 1: One of the things I like about the oscars is
Speaker 1: when they like these are the behind the scenes videos
Speaker 1: that like tell you more about the art of costume
Speaker 1: design or you know, like actually are like many documentaries
Speaker 1: about like how they did the work that is being nominated,
Speaker 1: and those are my favorite things about the Academy Awards.
Speaker 1: But I think I'm weird. Like a lot of people
Speaker 1: seem to really enjoy the speeches, which I don't care about.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's me. I always said, like, I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: not one for ceremony though either like I did not
Speaker 1: you know, I had the option to walk at my
Speaker 1: college aduation, I chose not to. I don't know, I'm
Speaker 1: just not really big into like ceremony and the idea
Speaker 1: of a bunch of millionaires handing each other golden statues.
Speaker 1: And then the first thing they say is I'm so
Speaker 1: humbled by this experience. It's like the least humbling thing.
Speaker 1: So I think that, uh, yeah, I don't know, I'm
Speaker 1: not really for this. I like, I do like to
Speaker 1: see the groundwork of the people putting on the production.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm also a weirdo, though I can fully
Speaker 1: admit to that. Like I like seeing how hard this
Speaker 1: tremendous effort is and then and then, um, I like
Speaker 1: the stories too, of like you know, back when I
Speaker 1: watched the Olympics, which I don't anymore, but like seeing
Speaker 1: the little like uh vinyest, the little like documentaries between
Speaker 1: the stuff of like their lives, in between the sporting
Speaker 1: events that total shit. Yeah Yeah. Instead, it feels like
Speaker 1: there there's more of a focus on like they've hired
Speaker 1: the some of the met Gala creative team, which I
Speaker 1: mean the met Gala is a monster social media event,
Speaker 1: and so they're trying to Met Gala eyes the Oscars
Speaker 1: red carpet and presumably make it even more gaudily alienating. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think people just poke fun at the met Gala
Speaker 1: at this point. And some people show up and show
Speaker 1: out and you're like, oh, okay, wow, you're one of
Speaker 1: the few people who understood the assignment, but most people
Speaker 1: are just being laughed at. I think, yeah, the bit
Speaker 1: one thing that they're talking about in this article is
Speaker 1: that expect much more star power, specialized lighting to make
Speaker 1: a process that happens in daylight seemed more like evening.
Speaker 1: And better integration with the theater's entrance. I've been I've
Speaker 1: been demanding better integration with the theater's entrance for my
Speaker 1: red carpet coverage, and I'm glad they're finally listening. It
Speaker 1: is always weird when I think it's just because in
Speaker 1: most of the country it's nighttime by the time it starts,
Speaker 1: but when the Red Carpet starts, it's obviously still daylight
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, and so it always feels weird that
Speaker 1: everybody's showing up during the day. But it also doesn't
Speaker 1: like feel like that is a material change that people
Speaker 1: were like, this bothers me and I won't watch it anymore,
Speaker 1: not once have I heard. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: even know who watches the Oscars anymore at this point,
Speaker 1: But I don't know. Man, it's not my thing. But hey,
Speaker 1: if they're gonna try something, I feel like they should
Speaker 1: swing for the fences and just go crazy with it.
Speaker 1: Right now, they're doing all these boring little changes that
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone's going to care about. Well, if
Speaker 1: you want to get a sense of like the brain
Speaker 1: trust behind the Oscars, So they started doing a marketing
Speaker 1: campaign on letterboxed like, which is a you know, movie
Speaker 1: fan website social media platform, and the people who work
Speaker 1: for the Academy like openly complained. They were like, we
Speaker 1: didn't have to do shit like this before, like we
Speaker 1: used to Janet Young, the Academy's president said in an
Speaker 1: interview at the organization's Beverly Hills office. We didn't have
Speaker 1: to before. We could rest on our laurels and just
Speaker 1: let it carry itself. Like, so they're like doing these
Speaker 1: moves to update it, like very like being dragged, kicking
Speaker 1: and screaming, which is just funny to me that they're
Speaker 1: just like they take themselves seriously enough that they'll be
Speaker 1: quoted at like on a marketing decision being like, uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: now we have to stoop to this level, like this
Speaker 1: is what you call work, Like you put on a
Speaker 1: TV show once a year. Yeah, you relax. They also
Speaker 1: are going up against the Last of Us, like the
Speaker 1: Last of Us finale m at the same time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's oh, I like the confidence of the because
Speaker 1: the Last of Us I think moved for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: But they're like the Oscars. We we sun them, bro,
Speaker 1: we don't give a fuck about it. We have we
Speaker 1: have no respect for them, and they shouldn't because they're
Speaker 1: one of the few shows, especially in this modern era,
Speaker 1: that has drastically increased their their viewership from the first
Speaker 1: episode to the eighth episode by a lot. I mean
Speaker 1: that's impressive. I think it's just the oscars being there.
Speaker 1: The Oscars were probably they were like, should we move it?
Speaker 1: And they were like, we actually won't even take a
Speaker 1: meeting with you, HBO. So I don't know that that's
Speaker 1: the impression I'm getting from. We didn't used to have
Speaker 1: to do this stuff like talk directly to film fan. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back,
Speaker 1: and we're back. And a couple of BBC stories, a
Speaker 1: couple of ways the BBC is behaving like one of
Speaker 1: the like the New York Times, a little bit like
Speaker 1: a name brand that people associate with m at least liberalism. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was the first thing I thought of, was the
Speaker 1: European New York Times. Yeah, so they had a hell
Speaker 1: of a two for one. They published a very misleading
Speaker 1: headline about pandemic related mental health crises. Mental health crisis
Speaker 1: from COVID pandemic was minimal dash study And I don't
Speaker 1: know they like, it's just misleading because the studies used
Speaker 1: for this review, we're all from high income European and
Speaker 1: Asian countries, didn't examine lower income countries or children and
Speaker 1: people with existing conditions, aka the groups of people who
Speaker 1: are most likely affected according to experts, which seems like
Speaker 1: kind of a big oversight, and even the study said
Speaker 1: there were data biases in this study, but like that
Speaker 1: fact was buried in the BBC's article and yeah, just
Speaker 1: experts really ripped it apart. And then same day there's
Speaker 1: a new story about how they're censoring David Attenborough for
Speaker 1: being two woke, and but it's not even this was
Speaker 1: his whole thing before woke was even in the zeitgeist,
Speaker 1: Like this is this is maddening to me because BBC
Speaker 1: also wants to gaslight everybody and say that this like
Speaker 1: they're not censoring dude, when this is the sixth episode
Speaker 1: and they're calling it a five part series. So it's
Speaker 1: what I actually didn't know this story before. So basically,
Speaker 1: you know David Attenborough's thing as he does docuseries about
Speaker 1: the beauty of things and then on the flip side
Speaker 1: will show you how that beauty might be in jeopardy.
Speaker 1: And then he tries to end it on a positive
Speaker 1: note of like, but here's how all hope is not
Speaker 1: lost and how we can help save this little creatures
Speaker 1: environment that you saw or whatever, and that's his whole
Speaker 1: general vibe for the many, many years he's been doing this,
Speaker 1: and for whatever reason, the BBC when other people in
Speaker 1: the press of asked them about this peculiar setup they
Speaker 1: have where there's this docu series that's coming out that
Speaker 1: he's doing, just like all the other ones he's been doing,
Speaker 1: but there's one that has I guess, some rumors, some
Speaker 1: speculation that BBC has put on their like obscure streaming
Speaker 1: platform called i Player instead of airing it on their
Speaker 1: their network is because it leans too heavily into environmentalism.
Speaker 1: And even though that aspect is in the other five episodes,
Speaker 1: they are relegating this to a place, yeah, to streaming,
Speaker 1: and and they're like, pretty much their excuse is that
Speaker 1: this was funded. This particular part is like a separate
Speaker 1: movie and it was funded by you know, wildlife organizations
Speaker 1: and whatnot. And as if that's a satisfactory excuse, It's like,
Speaker 1: why does that make it different? Why does that make
Speaker 1: it in a place where no one should be able
Speaker 1: to see it, you know, And it just doesn't make
Speaker 1: sense to me. And it's this kind of I guess
Speaker 1: the censorship aspect right now. And there's a difference between
Speaker 1: like liberals being like, oh, this thing is being censored
Speaker 1: because the right has co opted canceled and things being canceled,
Speaker 1: and there's this culture war happening about censorship and things
Speaker 1: that are being canceled. That's very interesting to talk about,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't seem like anyone has the right tools
Speaker 1: to really have an intellectual conversation about it. They're just
Speaker 1: either doing the thing where they're like cow towing to
Speaker 1: a certain group, or they are just outright accusing or
Speaker 1: blaming or whitewashing or whatever, and it's just it's maddening.
Speaker 1: So the BBC statement came out, I was like, this
Speaker 1: is totally inaccurate. There is no sixth episode. Wild Aisles
Speaker 1: is and always was a five part series and does
Speaker 1: not shy away from environmental content. We've acquired a separate
Speaker 1: film for eye Player. Anyways, it feels like there, you know,
Speaker 1: just being like, we don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: But like The Guardian has an exclusive where they're like,
Speaker 1: they specifically made this decision because they were worried about
Speaker 1: getting right wing backlash. And forgive me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: Don't you order a certain number of because there's a
Speaker 1: certain amount of resources allocated per episode to a thing
Speaker 1: and so why would they order six parts and then
Speaker 1: air five. It just seems like there this is not
Speaker 1: a you know, the satisfactory answer. But they're like, yep,
Speaker 1: that's it, dumb Fox. There you go, That's why we
Speaker 1: did it right. And we are just seeing a lot
Speaker 1: of quote unquote centrist adjusting of their position or what
Speaker 1: they do in response to like right wing outrage and
Speaker 1: just the idea has been planted in their brain like
Speaker 1: inception style that they can't get rid of. That is
Speaker 1: like you have to be in between the right and left,
Speaker 1: and they will not let go of that, even as
Speaker 1: the right becomes like outright Nazis. But the right it's
Speaker 1: not watching you. They're not your friend. You think people
Speaker 1: on the right are turning on the BBC like are
Speaker 1: you serious? Like it just does you want to appeal
Speaker 1: to everyone, so so you appeal to no one. I
Speaker 1: don't know how that strategy is supposed to work for you,
Speaker 1: but I guess do what you want? All right. Well,
Speaker 1: those are some of the things that are trending on
Speaker 1: this Friday, March tenth. We are back on Monday with
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Speaker 1: guys on Monday. Until then, be kind to each other,
Speaker 1: be kind to yourself, get the vaccine, don't do nothing
Speaker 1: about white supremacy, and we will talk to y'all on Monday.
Speaker 1: Bye bye