Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of I
Speaker 1: Trends twenty twenty four. Four more years, four more years.
Speaker 1: Just thought i'd keep the energy going that we had
Speaker 1: before we started recording. We'll talk a little bit more
Speaker 1: about it tomorrow. But back at your psych you were saying,
Speaker 1: you really, Oh thanks, Scot my years old.
Speaker 2: He's literally so old. I just I guess, as as
Speaker 2: a woman of color in this country, I don't know
Speaker 2: what it's like to have that type of power and
Speaker 2: to aspire to that type of power. It has never
Speaker 2: been modeled for me. So I just don't get the
Speaker 2: idea of not wanting to rest. You know, you get
Speaker 2: to a certain age and don't you just want to
Speaker 2: spend time with your grandkids, just be home. Yeah it
Speaker 2: does not work. Nope, what about that age says I
Speaker 2: want to be president again?
Speaker 1: Oh come on, man, I tried that, Jack, You're in
Speaker 1: the Trump administration is a boring man. I guess so
Speaker 1: Jill got on my nerves, kept falling off my bike. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's wild. It'll be interesting to see if he survives
Speaker 1: long enough. Literally a little dangerous. With the alternative being
Speaker 1: you know, it didn't really focus on whether Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: is going to be his running mate. But that is
Speaker 1: a pretty important question because he's so old. When he
Speaker 1: got sworn in, he was already the oldest person who's
Speaker 1: ever been president. We're four more years. Obviously, people are
Speaker 1: doing more stuff at older ages than they have historically
Speaker 1: been able to. But I don't know. It's just got
Speaker 1: a bad feeling about this one. The news that's trending
Speaker 1: now beyond Joe Biden is people are bidding a fond
Speaker 1: farewell to Harry Belafonte, rip to a real one. He
Speaker 1: passed away at ninety six from congest heart failure. Just
Speaker 1: kind of going back through his life. I knew he
Speaker 1: was an activist. I didn't realize that he supported Fidel
Speaker 1: Castro and Hugo Chavez and like, you know, he was real.
Speaker 1: He was like a true socialist, bankrolled nineteen sixties initiatives
Speaker 1: to bring civil rights to black Americans, campaigned against poverty.
Speaker 1: There's a cool story our writer jam was pointing out.
Speaker 1: There's a documentary called The sit In. Harry Belafonte hosts
Speaker 1: The Tonight Show. Apparently, like at the height of the
Speaker 1: popularity of The Tonight Show, Johnny Carson had to take
Speaker 1: a week off and had Harry Belafonte host The Tonight
Speaker 1: Show for a week. He's a hugely talented singer, actor, performer,
Speaker 1: so it makes sense. But also that week he had
Speaker 1: on guests such as Martin Luther King Junior, Bobby Kennedy.
Speaker 1: Just months before they were both a sad Martin Luther
Speaker 1: King Junior towards the end of his life was very
Speaker 1: much focused on, you know, poverty and fighting poverty. It's
Speaker 1: wild that this happened. It was like a rating success. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's just been completely memory hold. I think it's
Speaker 1: the thing that we talk about a lot on here
Speaker 1: that I always say is that like America is allergic
Speaker 1: to socialism. And I don't think it's necessarily the people
Speaker 1: themselves that are allergic to socialism. It's the institutions. And
Speaker 1: so even though a lot of people watched this and
Speaker 1: took it in like, there was no echo, there was
Speaker 1: no follow through because I'm sure it was just completely
Speaker 1: rejected by the mainstream media of what, Yeah, this never happened.
Speaker 2: Systems at large that stand to fall apart if we
Speaker 2: were to gather together in socialism. So yeah, that's incredible.
Speaker 2: I definitely want to check that out it seems to
Speaker 2: be on peacock.
Speaker 1: Seems to be on peacock. But yeah, it also reminds
Speaker 1: me of like when Bernie was having success then like
Speaker 1: these artificial barriers that stand in the way of people's
Speaker 1: interest in socialism just kind of rise up and then
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, see, you can't you can't do that
Speaker 1: in America because people don't have the appetite. And it's
Speaker 1: like do they not or is it just like institutionally
Speaker 1: and structurally built to keep any sort of idea of
Speaker 1: socialism at Bay. Yeah, people are unhappy. There's been some
Speaker 1: changes at McDonald's apparently they're they're introducing in certain select
Speaker 1: markets out west more onions seem to be the thing,
Speaker 1: which is just a wild Like I'm sure it just
Speaker 1: like taste tested well in their you know, laboratory kitchens
Speaker 1: or whatever. But they're they're putting onions on earlier in
Speaker 1: the process, so like grilled onions factoring more heavily in
Speaker 1: all of their burgers. And I don't know, like onions
Speaker 1: were the thing that I hated the most about food
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, Like I was just like, no,
Speaker 1: fuck onions, Like keep onions away from me. And this
Speaker 1: is like wow, right, like you you always liked onions.
Speaker 2: I've always been team onions since I was like a baby.
Speaker 2: I love onions to this day. I'll eat them raw cooked, saute,
Speaker 2: however you want to give them to me, I'll eat
Speaker 2: them whatever type. I'm gonna eat them.
Speaker 1: I love them now. But it's just for a food
Speaker 1: thing that's like sowed down the middle, like broad like
Speaker 1: to to be like our big change is gonna be
Speaker 1: like going real onion heavy.
Speaker 2: Well, it does seem that they want to cook the
Speaker 2: patties on the same grills as they cook the onions,
Speaker 2: and actually cook the onions, because I don't know. Every
Speaker 2: time i've been to McDonald's they are chopped white onions
Speaker 2: like they're not They're raw, they're not cooked. So I
Speaker 2: guess they're trying to cook the onions a little bit
Speaker 2: to get some flavor. But I guess some of the
Speaker 2: complaint not only has been the flavor, but maybe the
Speaker 2: cross contamination with onion allergies. I did not really think
Speaker 2: about that personally, as someone who gobble gobble gobbles onions,
Speaker 2: I did not think it was that common of analogy.
Speaker 2: But I guess when you go to somewhere like McDonald's,
Speaker 2: where a the food feels pretty artificial as it starts.
Speaker 2: You're not anticipating a food allergy when you walk into
Speaker 2: that type of environment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah. People who aren't fans of onions are like,
Speaker 1: it's just harder to get the onions off now. But
Speaker 1: they're saying it in a very measured way because it's
Speaker 1: on social media, so they're saying, uh, this is fucking disgusting.
Speaker 2: I'm t more onions. I want to. I mean, I
Speaker 2: try not to eat fast food. Luckily, I live in
Speaker 2: New York where it's like you're not running into fast
Speaker 2: food anywhere.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I love to cook, but I am a sucker for McDonald's.
Speaker 2: I am, you know. I grew up in the South,
Speaker 2: in the pit of all fucking fast food, and I
Speaker 2: will eat a you know, spicy McChicken and a spicy
Speaker 2: or not a spicy a whatever mcdouble put those things
Speaker 2: together makes a colloquially known mcgang bang. Yeah, fucking love
Speaker 2: that shit, and I might have to go get one just.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's hurt my jaw.
Speaker 2: It is not good for you in every facet of
Speaker 2: the way you eat it. How it feels going down
Speaker 2: the aftermath. None of it's good, but it feels good
Speaker 2: on the taste buds, and that's what matters to me.
Speaker 1: Feels good on them taste buds. There's new polling that
Speaker 1: suggests that the Mega movement is wildly unpopular, which I
Speaker 1: don't know. Well, we'll see, but the polls can't be
Speaker 1: it all mean yeah, exactly. It says that only twenty
Speaker 1: four percent of people are really on board for this.
Speaker 1: Just twenty four percent of Americans have positive views of
Speaker 1: the movement, while forty five percent voice negative views. The
Speaker 1: forty five percent number seems low to me, like that
Speaker 1: as wild.
Speaker 2: It does seem low.
Speaker 1: That was the focus of Biden's like announcement video is
Speaker 1: what's your alternative these guys? And it does seem like
Speaker 1: the popularity of the Mega movement is less than we
Speaker 1: thought during the mid terms, But we will see because
Speaker 1: it's like it underperforms at the polls, like with actual
Speaker 1: votes when it comes to anybody who's not Trump, but
Speaker 1: then it overperforms when it's Trump. He always gets more
Speaker 1: votes than anybody's expecting. So we have that to look
Speaker 1: forward to. Rematch rematches are reallys fun sequels are always fun.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back,
Speaker 1: and we're back, And a couple horrible pieces of news.
Speaker 1: There's a Texas school district that has voted to place
Speaker 1: armed civilians in schools.
Speaker 2: Love it, Yeah, I mean it says they would be
Speaker 2: school marshals, So think like, like you know, flight marshals. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: in essence, take the place of the hired off duty officers.
Speaker 2: They will not wear uniforms, but they will carry a
Speaker 2: concealed handgun and be a school district employee. According to
Speaker 2: the school board documents review by The Chronicle. Yikes, Like
Speaker 2: that almost feels worse because it's like, you, like, the
Speaker 2: students and the staff, are they going to be no,
Speaker 2: like notified who the marshal is. I think that's kind
Speaker 2: of like the point of a fire marshals that like
Speaker 2: you don't know who they are, but like they're not
Speaker 2: a cop, so they're just like a civilian dressed like
Speaker 2: a gun employee with a gun who could go row. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Just always want to introduce a person with a gun
Speaker 1: to your children's school day as much as possible.
Speaker 2: Love it.
Speaker 1: And then there's been like a battle taking place between
Speaker 1: the college board and right wing activists, and the right
Speaker 1: wing activists are getting their way. They are getting changes
Speaker 1: made to the ap African American Studies course after critics
Speaker 1: say the agency bowed to political pressure and removed several
Speaker 1: topics from the framework, including the Black Lives Matter movement,
Speaker 1: slavery reparations, and queer life. So but yeah, one of
Speaker 1: the things that I think a lot of people have
Speaker 1: fallen back on is like, well, it seems like young
Speaker 1: people have socialist values and like gun control values, since
Speaker 1: they had to like come up at a time of like,
Speaker 1: you know, now marshals in the school, like armed marshals
Speaker 1: in the school, and like having a safe room in
Speaker 1: your classroom, like seems like a good idea. So the
Speaker 1: right is really seems to be laser focused on finding
Speaker 1: ways to adjust that and churn out more right wing fascists.
Speaker 1: It all seems like it's part of a plan of
Speaker 1: like we gotta do some work on this generation, you know.
Speaker 2: Yikes. Yeah, that's my views.
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson, as we mentioned the past couple of days,
Speaker 1: fired at Fox News, but apparently welcome on Russian TV.
Speaker 1: This is something that yeah, I mean, he his show
Speaker 1: was always just heavily featured on Russian TV State TV
Speaker 1: because he's you know, constantly making America seem like the
Speaker 1: worst place on earth, like in ways that tie in
Speaker 1: nicely with Russian propaganda, and so RT the broadcast are
Speaker 1: formerly known as Russia Today, which is banned in dozens
Speaker 1: of countries because of its you know, it's just straight
Speaker 1: up propaganda. But from their English language Twitter account, Monday tweeted, Hey,
Speaker 1: at Tuger Carlson, you can always question more with at
Speaker 1: RT underscore com. So makes sense guessing he's not going
Speaker 1: to take that job. He'll probably find it like a
Speaker 1: podcast on Joe Rogan's network or whatever from which to
Speaker 1: fuck shit up. But I also, you know, in thinking
Speaker 1: about who is going to replace him, I was like,
Speaker 1: there's got to be like a shitty replacement that I'm
Speaker 1: just not thinking of. And somebody was like, oh, Jesse Waters,
Speaker 1: this is going to be the next Tuger Carlson, and
Speaker 1: that makes sense. Yeah, that guy's been just the worst
Speaker 1: for many years and is young and a misogynist and
Speaker 1: racist and smug and feels like he's definitely gonna get
Speaker 1: the job, So we'll say The Cut released their New
Speaker 1: York Girl issue, So the cut used to be New
Speaker 1: York Magazine. Yeah, and that they're the ones who did
Speaker 1: the etiquette rules where they started off with you don't
Speaker 1: have to read every one of your friend's novels, so
Speaker 1: like that just to give you an idea of like
Speaker 1: who who they are and how down to earth they are.
Speaker 1: So what is their analysis of like who New York's
Speaker 1: it girl is? Or I guess they named one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty one women who captured the city's attention.
Speaker 2: They named over I think a century, so since like
Speaker 2: the nineteen twenties, all these different it girls of New
Speaker 2: York and as I was kind of like perusing the story,
Speaker 2: but I feel like they kind of purposely broke it
Speaker 2: up into like a bunch of different articles to make
Speaker 2: it a little bit confusing and maybe not highlight the
Speaker 2: fact that there weren't a ton of women of color,
Speaker 2: Like as I went through the main article, that was
Speaker 2: like the highlights they kind of gave you, like only
Speaker 2: from like the fifties to today in these kind of
Speaker 2: grouped decades, like they're like fifties to seventies, you know,
Speaker 2: seventies and nineties, nineties to early ATS, early ASA today
Speaker 2: that was like one article and then they have another
Speaker 2: article that starts from like the twenties, and another article
Speaker 2: that starts like today. So it was a little all
Speaker 2: over the place. But as I was skimming all of it,
Speaker 2: I kind of was like, what I of the beholder,
Speaker 2: is it to be a New York a girl? Which
Speaker 2: is I guess the interrogation that the articles trying to
Speaker 2: push of what does it mean to define a New
Speaker 2: York City girl and what that definition has changed over
Speaker 2: the years. And to me, it is a socialize obviously.
Speaker 2: It is the Paris Hilton's of the world. It is
Speaker 2: someone who has like a natural chrisma, who's very beautiful,
Speaker 2: very vivacious moving through the world, has an aura about
Speaker 2: them that just gets them in the door, and then
Speaker 2: they become something just based on their look, but not
Speaker 2: necessarily has to be a model or whatever. I did
Speaker 2: notice there was, you know, the woman a color, the highlighted.
Speaker 2: I feel like, we're like obvious, like very very famous women.
Speaker 2: Whereas I feel like I, as someone who enjoys and
Speaker 2: digests a lot of pop culture, did not recognize a
Speaker 2: lot of these white women. I was like, some of
Speaker 2: them very obvious. They did highlight Paris Hilton. They highlighted
Speaker 2: a couple other models that were very famous in the
Speaker 2: sixties and seventies. They also highlighted like mcjagger's wife and
Speaker 2: things like that. But I'm like, I feel like, why
Speaker 2: is it like Grace Jones, who's obviously so incredibly famous
Speaker 2: outside of being like a New York girl, and Patricia
Speaker 2: Cleveland also very famous outside of being a New York
Speaker 2: a girl, Like why aren't there more beautiful black and
Speaker 2: brown women? And also I saw no brown women, like,
Speaker 2: no Latinas, no other like ethnicities. It was like only
Speaker 2: black girls or white girls. It was so crazy. I
Speaker 2: was like dumbfound it because New York is such a
Speaker 2: diverse place, and I just feel like they're talking about
Speaker 2: a very specific scene that doesn't highlight the true culture.
Speaker 2: I think that is Noeva York. So give me a read.
Speaker 2: I'm very intrigued on your thoughts and your opinions on
Speaker 2: maybe the diversity or the lack of diversity. But yeah,
Speaker 2: and I mean, all the women are beautiful. Congrats women,
Speaker 2: You're beautiful.
Speaker 1: It's like New York magazine, like hipster editors, like Miss
Speaker 1: America pageant. It feels like for.
Speaker 2: The Yeah, and like at the end when they did
Speaker 2: this separate article about like then, what does it mean
Speaker 2: to be an itck girl now? Because it is kind
Speaker 2: of a word that's been thrown around TikTok like all
Speaker 2: the time, like oh my god, like in your era,
Speaker 2: trying to be an it girl in New York and
Speaker 2: it's like just like more like fun and silly and
Speaker 2: goofy nowadays, Whereas back then though, it was like what
Speaker 2: does it mean to be like an icon? Like you're
Speaker 2: at Studio fifty four, you are like in the scene,
Speaker 2: you are being invited to these parties. It is. It
Speaker 2: was way more elusive. I think back in the day,
Speaker 2: to be like a true it girl was like being
Speaker 2: a supermodel, you know what they considered like you know,
Speaker 2: the Naomi Campbells of the world. But even in their
Speaker 2: coverage of today's it girls, I felt like there weren't
Speaker 2: that many. Like it was a little diverse, but not
Speaker 2: as divers as I think it could be. And I
Speaker 2: especially think women of color are the forefront of what
Speaker 2: it means to be an IT girl in the city.
Speaker 2: Like we drive fashion, we drive culture, we drive movements,
Speaker 2: and I think a lot of white women, especially today
Speaker 2: with TikTok steal from black women's trends, so I just
Speaker 2: thought more black and brown women could have been highlighted. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's my take.
Speaker 1: Here you go. And finally, there's this video that's making
Speaker 1: the rounds of this guy whose real name is Nicholas Alaverdian.
Speaker 1: He faked his own death in America, moved to the UK,
Speaker 1: adopted just the worst fake British accent, changed his name
Speaker 1: to Nicholas Rossi, and like put a gas mask over
Speaker 1: his face to like, I don't know if it was
Speaker 1: like him trying to deal with the fact that he
Speaker 1: has a bad English accent, but it's just an amazing
Speaker 1: So he like went and did he did an interview
Speaker 1: with news group that's like what do you say to
Speaker 1: people who say you are clearly this guy and this
Speaker 1: is all bullshit? And at one point he's like, if
Speaker 1: I was that guy, would I be able to not
Speaker 1: stand up? And he like tries to stand up and
Speaker 1: then like falls backwards. It's like an amazing unintentional comedy performance.
Speaker 1: If you've ever witnessed a four year old lying and
Speaker 1: it just like kind of becomes amusing, that's what's happening.
Speaker 1: And they're just like doubling tripling down too. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is that, but it's okay to laugh. At the end,
Speaker 1: he sums it all up by saying that's a right
Speaker 1: low blow.
Speaker 2: Which.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's dressed like a cartoon of an English person.
Speaker 1: He's got a bow tie like.
Speaker 2: A little like little round glass little yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, you know, community theater level. Okay, you
Speaker 1: have to put together an outfit out of air, proper
Speaker 1: room that make you British guy.
Speaker 2: I cannot get over how he like falls into his
Speaker 2: wife's arms and he's like Hellen, like he just he's
Speaker 2: like so upset at the question that they're asking him
Speaker 2: that he's just like Hellen. And then she's like all
Speaker 2: right there, all right there. And it is I mean,
Speaker 2: it is very funny. I mean, obviously he's being accused
Speaker 2: of very serious cribs, but it is hard not to laugh.
Speaker 2: Yeah at this man. Like you can tell he's not
Speaker 2: using the mask like it's there, but there's no movement
Speaker 2: of air happening like it's on.
Speaker 1: But he's not inhaling any of it. But he is
Speaker 1: like doing like a weird like quick breath thing to
Speaker 1: make himself sound like he's hyperventilating, which is then like
Speaker 1: steaming up his glasses. I think his wife is like
Speaker 1: having a hard time believing him at the various.
Speaker 2: Point best that she can to stand beside him.
Speaker 1: But it's hard, yes, But like just the audacity of
Speaker 1: his bullshit is truly, truly incredible, in a great metaphor
Speaker 1: for America at this stage, so worth checking out. We'll
Speaker 1: link off to it in the footnotes. That is going
Speaker 1: to do it for us this afternoon. We're back tomorrow
Speaker 1: with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then,
Speaker 1: be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get
Speaker 1: the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we
Speaker 1: will talk to you tomorrow. Bye bye,