Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Who, What, Why,
Speaker 1: trend Where the major questions of journalism. I am Jack
Speaker 1: and I'm thrilled to be joined by super producer On as. Hey,
Speaker 1: your friend and the Toxic Avenger. What's up? I love
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Speaker 1: That was a conversation that happened before we started recording.
Speaker 1: Oh the show, Before the show, You guys simply must
Speaker 1: check it out sometime. I don't know how you would.
Speaker 1: We should do a live show. That's just us planning
Speaker 1: a show so you guys could get a real feeling
Speaker 1: of how much we actually really dislike each other. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, it is toxic. Speaking of toxic, all right,
Speaker 1: So there's a couple big piece of news happening in
Speaker 1: the world of reality television. Tomorrow's episode Our Guests Search
Speaker 1: History is about one of them. But you know, as
Speaker 1: we were starting to discuss what is trending in our
Speaker 1: various social media feeds, you were like, there's only one
Speaker 1: thing online and it is the vander Pump Rules love
Speaker 1: Pentagram type deal. Kind of seems like what's going on,
Speaker 1: a lot of cheating on one another happening. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: show is a very sort of incestual cheating messrs always been,
Speaker 1: like I think I watched certain I watched like a
Speaker 1: handful of episodes in the first couple of seasons, and
Speaker 1: it felt like that was always what was happening. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know what looks like it's continuing because Tom Sandoval,
Speaker 1: one of the Toms, there's two Toms, who was with Arianna,
Speaker 1: his Beyonce girlfriend I don't even know anymore, for a
Speaker 1: long time out he was having an affair with Arianna's
Speaker 1: best friends Raquel, and things really popped off because Arianna's
Speaker 1: found a video, a FaceTime video of Raquel, you know,
Speaker 1: in the sexual act on a fat FaceTime Yes, I
Speaker 1: guess he recorded the FaceTime of them like basically like
Speaker 1: having phone sex, which in my opinion, I want to
Speaker 1: do that. That's not okay. I hope she consented to that,
Speaker 1: and thus leading the breakup of the Bravo sentry. And
Speaker 1: I did see them live at Bravo Con in like
Speaker 1: a couple's panel, Tom and Arianna, and it made you
Speaker 1: believe in love. You said, no, you don't go to
Speaker 1: a reality television festival and go to the coupled panel
Speaker 1: and think, now, this is what love is. No, you
Speaker 1: think this is what's how storylines are made. Last time
Speaker 1: I was paying attention to this, Tom was getting cheated
Speaker 1: on by Jack. No he's no, no, no, He's getting
Speaker 1: cheated on by Kristen. He wasn't dating tracks Jack Christening.
Speaker 1: K slept with Jack or s Kristen on their couch
Speaker 1: while Tom was sleeping in their room. Yeah, yeah, sickening.
Speaker 1: So that it just keeps going. They maybe these people
Speaker 1: might not be the best at being loyal partners seems
Speaker 1: to be, but but it it keeps people seeing swept
Speaker 1: away with this in a way that you know, there's
Speaker 1: somehow they keep it fresh. We're listening it revived the show.
Speaker 1: Lisa is about to go on watch what happens live?
Speaker 1: Lisa Vanner public is going on watch what happened live?
Speaker 1: In two days, my whole Twitter feed are people now
Speaker 1: going back and rewatching the show and dissecting like every
Speaker 1: interaction Tom has with Arianna or like Raquel, like the
Speaker 1: three of them interacting, or with Tom Schwartz, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what happened here? It's like truly you know, I have
Speaker 1: a theory that these people are now because you've been
Speaker 1: on reality TV so long and your whole life exists
Speaker 1: around creating sort of storylines to keep you as a
Speaker 1: reality TV star relevant to the TV show so you
Speaker 1: don't get kicked off or fired, that they now exist
Speaker 1: in a world to create storylines for themselves, and thus
Speaker 1: they can't really live normal lives anymore without sort of
Speaker 1: blowing it up in order to maintain the sort of
Speaker 1: reality television show paycheck, right, Yeah, that absolutely tracks. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: you'll hear more about this on the full episode tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Steven Spielberg went on Colbert and great transition, Thank you
Speaker 1: very good at that. He said a thing that I
Speaker 1: don't know, I've heard like a bunch of times. But
Speaker 1: people are like, whoa Spielberg is saying aliens or people
Speaker 1: from the future. Basically, what if they're not from an
Speaker 1: advanced civilization three hundred million late years from here? What
Speaker 1: if it's us coming back to document the second half
Speaker 1: of the twentieth century and into the twenty first century.
Speaker 1: They know something that we don't know yet that has occurred,
Speaker 1: and they they're trying to track the last one hundred
Speaker 1: years of our history. The one thing he said that
Speaker 1: I continue to He says, I believe certain people. I've
Speaker 1: never seen anything I can't explain, but I believe certain
Speaker 1: people who have seen things that they can't explain. So okay, sure,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, but isn't that what we've been saying
Speaker 1: for the last few years, Like everything that's come up,
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, well, we know there are Like the
Speaker 1: universe is so massive, how could there not be aliens?
Speaker 1: And also, let's let's put this out there, technically war
Speaker 1: aliens to them, WHOA, well, you know what, stop the show. No,
Speaker 1: but for real, like, I don't understand how could there
Speaker 1: if the fact that like we as humans exist and
Speaker 1: like evolution happened, Like what is they're saying that evolution
Speaker 1: or of some sort did not happen elsewhere on another
Speaker 1: planet light years away or whatever. I don't really understand
Speaker 1: how the universe works. Yeah, I think the only thing
Speaker 1: that makes it unlikely is that our lifespan would line
Speaker 1: up with another intelligent life forms lifespan, just because when
Speaker 1: you look at how briefly humanity has been alive like that,
Speaker 1: that's just a blip on the cosmic scale, Like how
Speaker 1: long the Earth has existed as a blip on the
Speaker 1: cosmic scale. So like the idea that the other civilizations
Speaker 1: would exist at the same time feels like a thing
Speaker 1: that we don't take into account that often, right, I guess. Also,
Speaker 1: like what I'm saying is is this just an ad
Speaker 1: for like a reboot of ET? Right? Yeah, well you
Speaker 1: and I think aliens exist, and that's why next summer
Speaker 1: you can see Heat two in theaters. I'm just saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: when the guy made ET talks, I listen, all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's like, and jaw sixteen is coming to like
Speaker 1: what if? What if sharks are alien? He's just like
Speaker 1: clearly making it up because he goes a yeah, and
Speaker 1: he's like, and it's my life story. Actually, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a fableman's joke there. He's the story that came out
Speaker 1: that people who knew Steven Spieler was like, not true.
Speaker 1: He didn't have no girlfriend. It's just like, okay, he's
Speaker 1: allowed to write. It's like, nah, don't believe it. Not true.
Speaker 1: He was not like that. No one liked his ass.
Speaker 1: You're like, okay, oh my god, just as like the
Speaker 1: mean kids from his high school immediately coming back like,
Speaker 1: you're right, Dorc, that's Steven Spielberg. I would relax, Yeah,
Speaker 1: switch him back over to the world of reality TV.
Speaker 1: The Bachelor is not fucking apparently. Yeah, so The Bachelor
Speaker 1: one of those stories, like stories when they were everybody
Speaker 1: was paying attention to whether the pandas were fucking at
Speaker 1: the zoo. It's like, will the Bachelor fuck? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I guess in the app sorry the episode airs tonight. Wow,
Speaker 1: but there is a Fantasy Suits coming up, and four
Speaker 1: women go to the Fantasy Suits with him and in
Speaker 1: them Sorry, okay, go ahead, Yeah, he murders them all.
Speaker 1: In the coming up previews and uh from last week's episode,
Speaker 1: he reveals like, you know, people know this as like
Speaker 1: he's talking to the host of the show, Jesse Palmer,
Speaker 1: and he's like, people know this as sex week, But
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not doing that because there's more
Speaker 1: to like a relationship than sex, to which I say, yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's like a really big part of it. And
Speaker 1: if you're about to get engaged to someone, maybe you
Speaker 1: should see if you're sexually compatible. I'm just saying, I'm
Speaker 1: just say right, yeah, but I could also understand maybe
Speaker 1: he wants to only have sex with the person he chooses, right,
Speaker 1: And then you're saying that there's speculation that the fantasy
Speaker 1: suits when he was a contestant did not didn't go well,
Speaker 1: didn't go well, Like the vibes were all fucked up
Speaker 1: the morning after. Yeah, yeah it was. He was the
Speaker 1: contestant on Rachel and Gabby season and he was specifically
Speaker 1: with Rachel and the next morning, we all want to
Speaker 1: know what happened in that fantasy suite because they went
Speaker 1: in like vibing, and the next morning the vibe was
Speaker 1: so off, like it was as if these people did
Speaker 1: not even know each other, and it was there was
Speaker 1: a darkness there, and we gotta know what happened in
Speaker 1: that fantasy suite's because clearly it's his villain origin story. Sure.
Speaker 1: I mean, if he had like a bad experience or whatever,
Speaker 1: you know, like a lot of pressure and he just
Speaker 1: like they weren't vibing the first time, maybe now he's
Speaker 1: just like good, like a little bit scared. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to do the work for Zach here,
Speaker 1: So maybe he just needs to be honest with it
Speaker 1: instead of coming with a take that is like actually
Speaker 1: sex is fun picked up, and you guys are weird
Speaker 1: for even watching this show, So stop trying to get
Speaker 1: me to fuck Like, dude, literally just chill out. The
Speaker 1: only problem with him is he's so uptight. It's like,
Speaker 1: if you just chilled out a little bit, Yeah, like
Speaker 1: you would actually be really having a great time on
Speaker 1: this TV show that's all about you dating thirty women.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but it seems like a
Speaker 1: goddamn like treat you idiot men. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's probably the case with a lot of people on
Speaker 1: like reality TV who come off as villains. Is just
Speaker 1: like they it's a lot of people watching you, and
Speaker 1: like it's not a natural thing that you would just
Speaker 1: be like cool and chill and fun. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a or at least it's a it's not a thing
Speaker 1: you could take for granted that everybody would be able
Speaker 1: to like do. Right. Yeah, he just like can unwind.
Speaker 1: But like I'm assuming that they try and do something
Speaker 1: in the selection process like weed out people who are
Speaker 1: just like so stressful. You know, Well, clearly they didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: clearly because he's on the day as a bachelor is hectic.
Speaker 1: If you show any weakness he'll send you home. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you were saying that. He's like, he doesn't seem to
Speaker 1: have a lot of empathy, right, just like I gotta
Speaker 1: get get these numbers down. Yeah, he's like the women,
Speaker 1: they're like, so I'm really struggling with the fact that
Speaker 1: you're dating, you know, this many women and I'm getting
Speaker 1: zero time and I don't understand why I'm still here.
Speaker 1: And he's like, Okay, you're like that. Yeah, And it's
Speaker 1: a it's a tough show to watch anyway, to commercial break,
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and
Speaker 1: we're back. We're back. Finally, it was a long break.
Speaker 1: Titan meals are a thing apparently across the country. Special
Speaker 1: events are being arranged that allow you to eat meals
Speaker 1: that were served on the ship's final night, April fourteenth,
Speaker 1: nineteen twelve. One dinner is happening on April fourteenth, and
Speaker 1: like it's so what's happening at Titanic the artifact exhibition
Speaker 1: in Orlando, And like adults pay sixty nine dollars, children
Speaker 1: pay forty two dollars and you just eat like old food,
Speaker 1: like not not old food, but like old fishes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the food is from then it's all incredibly poisonous. Um No,
Speaker 1: it's just like chicken Versailles sirloin with burnet sauce twice
Speaker 1: baked potatoes which are bomb and green beans. Um. I
Speaker 1: don't know. There's just such a This isn't like news,
Speaker 1: but I guess it never ceases to amaze me how
Speaker 1: much Titanic hunger there is. Like there's a Titanic exhibit
Speaker 1: by my like in a strip mall in LA that
Speaker 1: I was like driving by. It doesn't look you know,
Speaker 1: it looks like a strip mall. Like somebody just was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I've got this model I put together the Titanic lego set.
Speaker 1: I'll open up a thing and make people pay to
Speaker 1: come see it. It doesn't look like very well put
Speaker 1: together and running this thing. I mean, the question must
Speaker 1: be asked, girl boss. Hell yeah, make that money. Girl.
Speaker 1: But I was like, all right, like I should take
Speaker 1: my kid like I was into the Titanic for a
Speaker 1: little bit when I was a kid, Like I should
Speaker 1: take my kids to go see it. And like it's
Speaker 1: sold out for like five weekends running not buy ahead
Speaker 1: of time. I mean, but it's just it is a
Speaker 1: it's a smash you know it's it's a hit. This
Speaker 1: Titanic strip mall exhibit. I feel like Titanic and King
Speaker 1: Tut's Tomb are like two things that just will never
Speaker 1: go away, Like they just are endlessly regenerating interest. He's
Speaker 1: not in there right, No, we're going to see that
Speaker 1: thing and being like this is whack. Right. I was
Speaker 1: in high school, I think I when I saw it,
Speaker 1: and I was kind of like, well, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Show me the body or call me a cap because
Speaker 1: I'm not really just look at it him anymore. That
Speaker 1: is your famous catchphrase, show me a body or call
Speaker 1: me your character was written out of stand by Me
Speaker 1: because you're just so adamant that you enough of this bullshit.
Speaker 1: You either show me this body or call me a
Speaker 1: cap so character. So the Daily Wires Jeremy Boring, there's
Speaker 1: like more and more people I know every time. But
Speaker 1: he's offering an alternative to Hershey's after what he called
Speaker 1: a controversial International Women's Day add But I just I
Speaker 1: don't know. I love how the Republican Party continues to
Speaker 1: go from like party of free market capitalism to like,
Speaker 1: eat only this knockoff brand chocolate that I made in
Speaker 1: my basement like it's it's very much like crumbling dictatorship vibes,
Speaker 1: like on drink only Trump bottled water, it's the only
Speaker 1: acceptable thing to hydrate your body with. I do love
Speaker 1: this sort of um, the grifter energy that just simply
Speaker 1: won't quit. Yeah, because who is he selling this chocolate too?
Speaker 1: It's great, it's a great question. This is actually an
Speaker 1: article that's like mainly being covered on Fox News and
Speaker 1: Daily Wire like because yeah, it's griff, It's just basically
Speaker 1: sponsored advertising. He's so more than three hundred thousand. Jeremy's
Speaker 1: he him nuts and Jeremy she her nutlass the fuck nice?
Speaker 1: So the women don't get nuts in theirs? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess not. That's the way God intended it. As
Speaker 1: a woman. It's like, I'm start, I'm a woman. I
Speaker 1: actually cannot eat nuts. It's like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: And finally, Walgreens is not selling abortion pills. Yeah, trash
Speaker 1: because they don't want to anger the right Hey start
Speaker 1: to break two but CVS for life? Yeah dog, I
Speaker 1: don't even go to Walgreens. But yeah, I mean this
Speaker 1: is this is how this sort of shit actually becomes dangerous.
Speaker 1: Is like there's the right wing outrage, and then corporations
Speaker 1: just get scared and backtrack and you know, say the
Speaker 1: right things in their press releases, but then they make
Speaker 1: policy decisions like this to just try and have a
Speaker 1: I don't understand, Like where's the what what pressure is
Speaker 1: on Walgreens. I'm sure there's like Walgreens for selling abortion pills.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a very loud like mail campaign and
Speaker 1: like social media campaign that is, you know, a very
Speaker 1: small number of people, but they effectively scare these corporations off.
Speaker 1: You know, that's like very surreal to me because who
Speaker 1: is Like is Walgreens run by conservatives? Like is their
Speaker 1: owner a conservative? Like I don't really get like why
Speaker 1: even like acknowledge something like that, Like you're Walgreens, You're
Speaker 1: a massive corporation. You're on like every corner. All of
Speaker 1: a sudden, like this matters to you. Yeah, like are
Speaker 1: you losing that much money? I'm gonna need to see
Speaker 1: some numbers. Yeah, pull up the numbers, all right. Let
Speaker 1: me just grab these numbers real quick and show to
Speaker 1: you in a chart here. So Republican attorneys in twenty
Speaker 1: states pressured Walgreens not to sell abortion medication and threatened
Speaker 1: legal action, so that like a conservative legal department that
Speaker 1: is like, well, we don't want to spend money on this,
Speaker 1: so yeah, which is like, how would that to like say,
Speaker 1: if you're like in a state that it doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: they can come for you for that, like say California. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Gavin Newsom saying that California will no longer do
Speaker 1: business with Walgreens or any company that cows to the
Speaker 1: extremists and puts women's lives at risk, We're done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that makes sense, But then why not come for like
Speaker 1: CBS the I think CBS didn't make the same decision
Speaker 1: based on these threats by the Republican lawmaker. But I
Speaker 1: actually don't know the answer to that. So um yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: like CBS may have actually already like done, leave us alone.
Speaker 1: I don't get. I don't understand like why it would
Speaker 1: lead to being further banned or to stop selling in
Speaker 1: states that don't give a fuck. It's doing the legally
Speaker 1: conservative thing, which also in this case is the conservative
Speaker 1: conservative thing, right. Yeah. Newsom's didn't. Anouncement came after Walgreen's
Speaker 1: on Friday said it will stop distributing method press Stone,
Speaker 1: part of the two drug combination commonly referred to as
Speaker 1: the abortion pill, and it just seems like they got
Speaker 1: threatened into obedience by legal action. So but yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean this seems to be how things are moving towards
Speaker 1: the right in general in the country, Like whether it
Speaker 1: be you know, Rolling Stone taking down their headline when
Speaker 1: somebody at Seepack, as we talked about on tomorrow's episode,
Speaker 1: like called for basically like genocide against trans people, like
Speaker 1: the Rolling Stone like wrote a headline of that, and
Speaker 1: then the person who said it was like, well that's libelous,
Speaker 1: and they like took it down because again like threatening
Speaker 1: legal action. You know, these these massive multibillion dollar corporations
Speaker 1: are not as brave as we want them to be
Speaker 1: all the time. I don't think they're going to save
Speaker 1: us in the end, and as neoliberalism head promised. So anyways,
Speaker 1: those are some of the things that are trending on
Speaker 1: this Monday, March sixth. Thank you so much for joining
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