Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Beyonce
Speaker 1: Inflation trend that is courtesy of our first story. I'm Jack,
Speaker 1: that's Miles. Yeah, and Beyonce has caused inflation in the nation.
Speaker 2: Of Sweden, spared ye or I don't know how you
Speaker 2: said so. I always see it written like that in
Speaker 2: the Olympics.
Speaker 3: Sure you don't call it Sweden. What such a cool name.
Speaker 2: But like, yeah, she kicked off the Renaissance tour in Sweden,
Speaker 2: and I'm super producer Becka said she knew someone who
Speaker 2: flew to Sweden for the show because they could get
Speaker 2: better seats for the cost of going to Sweden than
Speaker 2: they in like a US show. So and I've a
Speaker 2: lot of people like apparently went there because it was
Speaker 2: like the first show, so it wasn't just like only
Speaker 2: people in Sweden. So I guess they said Beyonce started
Speaker 2: her world tour. Uh wait, Okay, how much the inflation
Speaker 2: went up? But probably point two to point three of
Speaker 2: a percentage point that hotels and slash restaurants have added.
Speaker 2: And they're basically saying, like the increase is caused to
Speaker 2: quote an increase in a broad set of goods and
Speaker 2: services for instance, hotel and restaurant visits, and recreational service
Speaker 2: services which include concert tickets. So like, the sheer volume
Speaker 2: of money and shit being spent was just like, okay,
Speaker 2: had a little bump in the inflation, but.
Speaker 1: None and just yeah, people can just charge more, Like
Speaker 1: that's what inflation is. It's like everyone's like, oh shit,
Speaker 1: we can charge people more money. They're spending that much
Speaker 1: money on this bullshit, not that it's bullshit. Beyonce tickets great,
Speaker 1: you know, seeing her Sweden or Beyonce tickets Sweden. You
Speaker 1: would be able to She'd be able to hear everything
Speaker 1: you shouted, because I like, I'm just picturing a lot
Speaker 1: of polite, like blondehaired people.
Speaker 3: Now up they went up.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, they were throwing meatballs.
Speaker 3: They went up like the price meatballs.
Speaker 4: Yo, wild Man offensive Lingenberry's flying. I'm sorry. All I
Speaker 4: know is Ikea and Freddy Yungberg.
Speaker 2: But anyway, yeah, I mean it just shows the power
Speaker 2: of the gravitational pull of an artist like that, and
Speaker 2: you know, a lot of people like to lean into,
Speaker 2: you know, co opting the gravitational pull of artists, which
Speaker 2: brings us to our next trend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we do love our divas on this show. We
Speaker 1: talked Pink on yesterday's trending, we were talking Beyonce, and
Speaker 1: now we're talking Lady Gaga. Oh yeah, Well, the real
Speaker 1: thing that's trending, I mean, Lady Gaga is always quietly
Speaker 1: simmering in the background on all social media platforms. But
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, Nerd tech ODT is trending because of
Speaker 1: a Lady Gaga ad that people are objecting to.
Speaker 3: I didn't know it was an ad.
Speaker 1: I thought she was just speaking truth, just kind of
Speaker 1: turning her proverbial chair around backwards and letsling with her fans,
Speaker 1: I mean monsters out there.
Speaker 2: The piser branding on her images was first. I was like, wait, no,
Speaker 2: this can't be it because the the caption on this
Speaker 2: Instagram post was was written exactly in her voice. I
Speaker 2: think most come to know, and I'll read this in
Speaker 2: the image is Lady.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there is a logo. You know what I've said.
Speaker 3: I have that.
Speaker 1: Permanently burned into my retinas, the way that like people
Speaker 1: who leave Fox News on their TV.
Speaker 3: Have that permanently burned. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When I'm closed my eyes, I have the Nerd tech
Speaker 1: O DT logo burned into my retinas.
Speaker 3: So that's probably why I didn't notice that.
Speaker 2: Okay, in fact, also by its drug name remegapant. But
Speaker 2: what yeah, just so you know, just so this caption
Speaker 2: makes sense from this lady go Instagram still image post.
Speaker 3: Who was remigapant for?
Speaker 1: Like they come up with that name first, and they're like,
Speaker 1: we'll let the marketing people come up with a better one.
Speaker 1: But is that really their rough draft or is that
Speaker 1: like those are all just like chemical compounds together exactly.
Speaker 2: I think it's yeah, it's it's remigapant, Jack, Come on,
Speaker 2: of course, I know. But here's what you wrote. Ever
Speaker 2: since childhood, I've dealt with my grain pain. When I
Speaker 2: tried nerd tech odt puts the parentheticalmig seventy five milligrams
Speaker 2: for the first time, I had founded sooner. That's why
Speaker 2: I'm proud to partner with nerd tech odt Purple Heart.
Speaker 2: We're in this together. If you're ready to speak to
Speaker 2: a doctor, ask about nerd tech odt today sounds like
Speaker 2: one of our ads intended for us audience's only individual.
Speaker 4: Result prescription only.
Speaker 2: Nerd tch OTT is for the acute treatment of migraine
Speaker 2: and the preventive of treatment of episodic migraine in adults.
Speaker 2: It goes on like and then the subsequent it's like
Speaker 2: a carousel like post. The subsequent two slides are just
Speaker 2: like all the legal ship that you have to put
Speaker 2: because you're you know, you're doing a cool pharma ad.
Speaker 1: But the OTT tell your health care provider about all
Speaker 1: your medical conditions, including if you have liver problems, have
Speaker 1: kidney problems. Yeah, are pregnant, plan to become pregnant?
Speaker 2: I like, yeah, one post, just comment on here. So
Speaker 2: many people are like no, want is just no, just
Speaker 2: know what the hell is this?
Speaker 4: Another one? Oh, rent is due?
Speaker 3: Rent is dude? Do okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I guess you know, look, even the obscenely
Speaker 2: wealthy they.
Speaker 4: Would like to add a little bit more to the bag.
Speaker 4: She's like, I need.
Speaker 2: Look, she's telling her managers, like, I wish I could
Speaker 2: just get Remiga pant for free. That would help me
Speaker 2: out for a really long time, if I could just
Speaker 2: get my Remiga pant for free.
Speaker 1: The perform the photo of the performance, she does have
Speaker 1: like one hand to her temple as if to suggest
Speaker 1: either this is like she's doing like a dramatic performative
Speaker 1: like II Captain or she's just like has it has
Speaker 1: a migraine right now, She's just like, oh no.
Speaker 2: She's like my migraine pain before taking nerd tech odt
Speaker 2: remega pants, seventy five milligrams was up to here, right,
Speaker 2: I think? Yeah, it's just hey, man, I really want
Speaker 2: to know what that costs, right, because it's see this
Speaker 2: all all the time. Celebrities and artists have the they
Speaker 2: have a price to do things like that you wouldn't
Speaker 2: expect them to. And there there's a there's a whole
Speaker 2: industry of underground performances and appearances by like artists to
Speaker 2: be like, yeah, I was in Azerbaijan like looking performing
Speaker 2: for this like best spot for three million dollars, but
Speaker 2: you'll ever hear about it.
Speaker 4: I really want to know what Lady Gaga got for this?
Speaker 4: Yeah I got for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, celebrities should not be viewed as individual people. They
Speaker 1: are like corporations disguised as human beings.
Speaker 3: And you know, I'm.
Speaker 1: Sure this is just like one of five thousand financial
Speaker 1: decisions that were made by the Lady Gaga, like boardroom.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's uh, it's dark all right.
Speaker 1: Jokic has betrayed those of us who are loving his energy,
Speaker 1: his uh.
Speaker 3: Not here for it? Miss yeah, is I've got a pararade?
Speaker 3: Are you fucking kidding me?
Speaker 1: Yea, he is behaving as though he just had the
Speaker 1: first alcoholic beverage of his life, and I know that's
Speaker 1: not true.
Speaker 2: He was, as I believe Anna said, like when he
Speaker 2: was first complaining about going to the parade, relatable king.
Speaker 2: You know, we thought of him about he had enough
Speaker 2: as a worker. It turns out when you win a
Speaker 2: national championship and you're the MVP, maybe it is nice
Speaker 2: to hear hundreds of or tens of thousands or however
Speaker 2: many thousands of people just scream at you.
Speaker 4: But here was him at the parade saying that he.
Speaker 3: Liked it, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 5: Though uh you know that I told that I don't
Speaker 5: want to stay on parade, but I fucking want to stay.
Speaker 3: On thy fucking light.
Speaker 5: This is this is amazing, this is uh. If we're
Speaker 5: all gonna remember, there's our whole lives and uh and
Speaker 5: when we see you guys that came out on the
Speaker 5: streets and actually this one is for you long Dan,
Speaker 5: or this one is for you, thank you guys.
Speaker 2: Shortened to the point I am this does for me.
Speaker 2: This is my Lady Gaga posting Nerd Tago.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because we were rooting for you, Nichole.
Speaker 3: We were all rooting for you, for you to be
Speaker 3: a joker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get it, but he's like.
Speaker 3: The joker when you know, when we all go one direction.
Speaker 1: He's a he goes the other direction, you know, following.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: There's a story that made the rounds this week about
Speaker 1: there's a new Beatles song coming out thanks to AI.
Speaker 1: Paul McCartney announced that a new final old Beatles song
Speaker 1: is going to be coming later this year and the
Speaker 1: it's it's all thanks to the Fifth Beatle Artificial Intelligence
Speaker 1: A right, and all the resulting headlines made it.
Speaker 2: Sound likely Preston, you don't disrespect Billy Preston now, right,
Speaker 2: all the real fifth Beatle.
Speaker 4: But we'll call this, we'll call AI. The six people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they all made it so.
Speaker 1: All the headlines made it sound like it was like,
Speaker 1: you know, Lennon bought three thousand will be singing.
Speaker 4: On this song all the computers.
Speaker 1: Yes, but it's actually like not as creepy as it sounds.
Speaker 1: The song is just a one of a series of
Speaker 1: recordings that John Lennon made for Paul McCartney back in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty and like it was just a very rough
Speaker 1: demo tape and then you know he was Paul John
Speaker 1: Lennon was assassinated, and so they are using the AI
Speaker 1: tech to basically isolate the audio on the on the table.
Speaker 2: Oh so just clean it up. Yeah, the background sounds
Speaker 2: so it feels like you have a clean vocal track.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Apparently he saw what they did on the Peter Jackson's
Speaker 1: Get Back movie with the audio on that which for
Speaker 1: for decades had been I guess unusable, and then suddenly
Speaker 1: it sounded like you were in the room with them,
Speaker 1: and you know, he was like, let's let's give it
Speaker 1: another go. Then, in terms of like people who are
Speaker 1: who have high hopes for this latest final you know
Speaker 1: Beatles song, Paul had already been trying to use this,
Speaker 1: Like when George was alive in the nineties, the idea
Speaker 1: like was bandied about that they were going to release
Speaker 1: this song, and George thought the song was quote fucking
Speaker 1: rubbish and refused to work on it. All right, George,
Speaker 1: there you go, keeping it real, always keeping it real,
Speaker 1: always had young Nikola jokicch energy not would it post
Speaker 1: pre parade tech Jokic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think is that is that just a
Speaker 2: term we're going to use now when people like turn
Speaker 2: heel out he you win nerd tach on.
Speaker 1: Him, are we going to start like is the concept
Speaker 1: of selling out going to start being a thing again.
Speaker 1: For a while, it was secure that bag oh yeah,
Speaker 1: my godhead Lady Gaga. But now it does feel like
Speaker 1: people are like, what the fuck?
Speaker 4: I think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think selling out would maybe just it all. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think coming back, I think we use it again. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it helps class consciousness.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break. We'll be
Speaker 3: right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back, And choo chow is trending because I
Speaker 1: was not aware this is a controversy.
Speaker 2: It's like a thing on the internet all the time,
Speaker 2: or recently it's come up a few times.
Speaker 1: So the question is how many chugga's do you put
Speaker 1: in front of a chow choo?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I feel like it's fully contextual right.
Speaker 4: In my mind, I'm a or chugg a type guy.
Speaker 3: Chug a chug a chugg a chug a choo choo.
Speaker 3: That feels like that's a proper build up.
Speaker 1: Adding more mmm, Okay, you know really making this about yourself,
Speaker 1: aren't you?
Speaker 4: Again, it's it's up to the user.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I'm saying anybody who gives it a fifth chugga,
Speaker 1: it's like.
Speaker 3: Okay, man, like what are you? What are we doing here?
Speaker 4: Someone?
Speaker 2: There are a lot of people who like all these
Speaker 2: comments around, like a post that's kicked off another debate
Speaker 2: like on Facebook about it. Like one thing that does
Speaker 2: seem clear is two seems too little, and odd numbers
Speaker 2: are just kind of weird. Mm hmm, Like you do
Speaker 2: a seven chugga chug a chugg it chugg it chug
Speaker 2: it chugg chugg chug a choo choo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that came out of nowhere? What the fuck
Speaker 1: was that?
Speaker 2: That?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that that could harm your children?
Speaker 3: Yeah, chug a chug a chugg a choo choo. I
Speaker 3: guess I could see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does need to be even for for some reason,
Speaker 1: chugg a chugg at choo choo feels right, chug a
Speaker 1: chugga chugg it chug a choo choo. But chug chugga
Speaker 1: chugg a choo choo feels like we've been interrupted and
Speaker 1: what are we even doing here?
Speaker 4: My SUPERDUCERD Brian's saying, the chu chuo gotta come first.
Speaker 4: You do it.
Speaker 3: Cheo choo, chug get chugga chug chugget, choking cho Yeah,
Speaker 3: you choo choose. Oh yeah, you gotta choo choo again.
Speaker 4: Look, you know again.
Speaker 2: My child is still very young, so we're not quite
Speaker 2: there yet where I will be able to determine how
Speaker 2: many is appropriate. But I just know in the culture
Speaker 2: I was raised in it is an even number, but
Speaker 2: at minimum four.
Speaker 3: Ask your doctor what's right for you and your family
Speaker 3: with the number of.
Speaker 2: Chuggers I suffered from odd number of chuggers of chu
Speaker 2: chu Yeah, thanks a nerd tech uh nerd tech Remiga
Speaker 2: pant seventy five milligrams I'm doing. I'm chugging away like
Speaker 2: it was Yesterdayear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Superducer Brian is correct that, first of all, the
Speaker 1: thing you're going to hear first when a train is
Speaker 1: approaching is the chow choo.
Speaker 3: That is the point of the chow choo.
Speaker 2: It's not okay, don't get a fucking trainologist on me
Speaker 2: here now, because.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it makes sense that you would do
Speaker 1: a chew choo, then there would be a very.
Speaker 3: Quiet build of chuggers.
Speaker 1: But yeah, just in terms of, you know, conversationally, like
Speaker 1: I do use this phrase pretty frequently when I'm talking
Speaker 1: to people, and uh, you know, I think just a
Speaker 1: chug a chugg at chugg at chug at chow choo
Speaker 1: is right. I think I'm before also, and I don't
Speaker 1: think I'm just influenced by you.
Speaker 4: That's fine again, whatever you want, we don't mean to
Speaker 4: chug someone's chew.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. Amazon drivers are on strike the first time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: eighty four drivers in southern California.
Speaker 2: Because again there you know, we know how these things work.
Speaker 2: It happens in small numbers and then hopefully we'll build
Speaker 2: something else. We've seen people at warehouse has gone strike,
Speaker 2: but this is the first time drivers have. And you
Speaker 2: know they're basically guess what they are advocating for, you know,
Speaker 2: not fucking dying of heat in southern California at a
Speaker 2: minimum and better wages.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: And Amazon is doing the predictable thing about being like, well, we.
Speaker 2: Like contract this out to our delivery service partners or DSPs,
Speaker 2: so this really isn't got.
Speaker 4: Nothing to do with us, although many people like that's bullshit.
Speaker 4: This is this. You absolutely need to come to the
Speaker 4: table to bargain over this. I don't. I We'll see,
Speaker 4: we'll see where we see.
Speaker 2: We'll see where they go, because Amazon has a amazing
Speaker 2: track record for union busting and doing everything they can
Speaker 2: to avoid sitting at the table to negotiate with workers.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we're not really a company. We're just like
Speaker 1: a group of people who like working together and hanging
Speaker 1: out with each other. And that's really and then we
Speaker 1: just take all the money of every transaction.
Speaker 4: It's wild.
Speaker 2: One of the drivers has basically like they talk about
Speaker 2: anyone who's lived in southern California and been through a
Speaker 2: heat wave, You've had the experience of entering a car
Speaker 2: that's been in the sun all day, you know, just cooking,
Speaker 2: and how like it's it's disorienting how hot it can be.
Speaker 2: These vans are like convection of and they're talking about
Speaker 2: like in the extreme heat, it can get up to
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty five degrees inside.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: And you know, one of the few.
Speaker 2: Drivers are saying, like you, I'll go through twelve bottles
Speaker 2: of water in a day and pee once dehydrated. I
Speaker 2: am not the draconian, don't peepee rules of Amazon. But like,
Speaker 2: that's how much fucking like hydration I'm losing. So yeah,
Speaker 2: here we are. It's all it's all coming together. But
Speaker 2: you know, are we gonna se business as usual?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean ups just you know, finally gave in to
Speaker 2: be like, all right, we'll figure out how to get
Speaker 2: you guys.
Speaker 3: Won't make drive a fucking oven around town?
Speaker 4: What about those oven mits we gave you to hold
Speaker 4: the steering wheel with.
Speaker 1: That's like I could honestly see that being we are nice,
Speaker 1: we are good bosses.
Speaker 3: We gave them for our workers.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And Twitter has some exciting news. They've been named
Speaker 1: the worst social media platform for LGBTQ users.
Speaker 3: Yeah, which is absolutely no surprise given what has happened
Speaker 3: in the past year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Glad does this every year.
Speaker 2: And you know, while they said they're like all the
Speaker 2: social media platforms are fucking up, They're like, no one
Speaker 2: is doing enough to TBTQ people on those platforms.
Speaker 4: But they're like, but Twitter, let me tell y'all about this.
Speaker 4: They're the only motherfuckers that saw their.
Speaker 2: Rating go down from the pred which obviously makes sense
Speaker 2: because Elon like fucking went scorched earth and got rid
Speaker 2: of anybody who was trying that thing from going full
Speaker 2: cess pit completely.
Speaker 1: And intentionally regressive. Oh yeah, on purpose was his business plan,
Speaker 1: which didn't make sense as a business plan, but it
Speaker 1: did make sense for him listening to his reply guys
Speaker 1: and getting more attention.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Did you see Linda Yakarino, the person who was supposed
Speaker 2: to come in to help CEO.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just a salesperson.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Did you see her tweets, like like on her first day. Dude,
Speaker 2: they were so fucking vague that like they frightened me
Speaker 2: because like I just can't like they don't like it's
Speaker 2: such here.
Speaker 4: Let me just tell you this.
Speaker 2: Some of the shits he said, Hello Twets, it's almost
Speaker 2: you know what. It reminds you of the Garth Brooks
Speaker 2: Facebook live thing. It's like, Hello Twitter. People keep asking
Speaker 2: me why Twitter, So I'll tell you and then goes
Speaker 2: on and say some shit about elons.
Speaker 3: But now we got to go into Twitter. Two points know, Hi,
Speaker 3: Twitter World?
Speaker 4: Yeah, one on that.
Speaker 2: Mission become the world's most accurate real time information source
Speaker 2: in a global town square for communication. That's not an
Speaker 2: empty promise, that's our that's our reality. When you start
Speaker 2: by wrapping your arms around this powerful vision. Literally everything
Speaker 2: is possible. You have to you have to genuinely believe
Speaker 2: and work hard for that belief.
Speaker 1: What Yeah, No, that definitely needed a well, I guess
Speaker 1: it's official at the beginning of it, and then yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's big Garth Brooks announcing he's on Facebook for the
Speaker 1: first time energy.
Speaker 4: Which fog I believe.
Speaker 2: I thought it was neat cool stuff, cool stuff. The
Speaker 2: success of Twitter two point zero is all of our responsibility.
Speaker 2: We need to think big, we need to transform, we
Speaker 2: need to.
Speaker 4: Do it all age.
Speaker 3: Shut up, I'm leaving my body. I'm physically yeah, holy.
Speaker 4: Yeah obi wand your whole outfa.
Speaker 1: Obi Wand now there's just a blue force ghosts next
Speaker 1: to my dead body. Uh, finishing this episode up.
Speaker 2: Rubbing samples because I have a migraine because you didn't
Speaker 2: take yeah, megapant.
Speaker 1: Megapant seventy five milligrams. I love throwing the milligrams. And
Speaker 1: into the conversational part, like, you know, that was a
Speaker 1: big legal conversation that had to happen, right, yeah, Well
Speaker 1: you know I.
Speaker 4: Wonder how much, like was there any pushback, which he's.
Speaker 1: Like, I know, this is the this is the part
Speaker 1: where I'm just addressing them in my voice. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: but we need we need the seventy five million. And
Speaker 1: actually that's kind of how people talk about it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I get that dosage like matters when you're
Speaker 2: totally thinking it, but like it's but again, it's so
Speaker 2: heavy handed that Now that's what's so funny is like
Speaker 2: these things will never come off as and no branded
Speaker 2: post comes, He's gonna come off as sincere, like unless
Speaker 2: you fully let Lady.
Speaker 4: Gaga be like yeah, man, I fuck with a megapant
Speaker 4: and like that was it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Like okay, all right.
Speaker 1: Now, all right, well those are some of the things
Speaker 1: that are trending on this Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 3: We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode, and
Speaker 3: then we are off on Monday for Juneteenth. Happy Juneteenth
Speaker 3: to everyone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then back on Tuesday with the big long
Speaker 1: weekend trending updates, and then Wednesday with the whole last
Speaker 1: episode and we will talk to you all then bye.