Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of came
Speaker 1: here to chew bubblegum and read trends and I'm all
Speaker 1: out of bubblegum. Let's courtesy as super producer Brian and
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Speaker 1: I am Jack and that is our writer, mister Jim
Speaker 1: mc nam hello, thanks for having me, Thank you for
Speaker 1: being here. It is last Trends until the Return of
Speaker 1: the Miles, Return of the Miles, and we're all can't
Speaker 1: wait to have him back. But it's been wonderful having
Speaker 1: you on on Trends so much these past days weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been for your service, sir. Let's get right into it.
Speaker 1: Trump wants to get handcuffed because he's a little freak.
Speaker 1: He I guess he thinks it is going to be
Speaker 1: good optics. This this totally makes sense to me. Like
Speaker 1: he he announced that he was going to be arrested
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. I'm gonna be arrested on Tuesday. Everybody get ready.
Speaker 1: And when I heard that, I was like, he kind
Speaker 1: of hopes that he's gonna get arrested on Tuesday, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna the world is gonna break out into a
Speaker 1: civil war or the US is going to break out
Speaker 1: into a civil war. So anyways, behind the scenes, like
Speaker 1: people are saying, you know, his lawyers are very concerned
Speaker 1: about the charges he's potentially facing, and he is mainly
Speaker 1: focused on like what the optics are going to be like?
Speaker 1: And he's like, should I get arrested? Should I should
Speaker 1: they put handcuffs on me? I mean, I think it
Speaker 1: would look kind of tough. He could be a little
Speaker 1: tough if I was seen in handcuffs, golden handcuffs, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: He probably is picked right. It's like, do you mind
Speaker 1: if I bring my own handcuffs? But I don't know.
Speaker 1: He's always willing to just be like yeah, yeah, more
Speaker 1: on that later, but like, what's it gonna look like?
Speaker 1: How what are the optics going to be? And he
Speaker 1: tends to be right about that about how he's yea
Speaker 1: and manipulative everything is. He's kind of framed it in
Speaker 1: a way where now, like whatever the fuck happens, he
Speaker 1: will claim that he's come out on top. If he's exonerated,
Speaker 1: he'll say he's exonerated if he's arrested, you know, he
Speaker 1: gets to be this martyr that he's been. You know,
Speaker 1: he's the targeted victim, which is you know, the card
Speaker 1: he's already been playing. It's just, yeah, there's no way
Speaker 1: out of this where he won't claim that it's exactly
Speaker 1: what he wanted. Yeah. According to the Guardian, the former
Speaker 1: president has reasoned that since he would need to go
Speaker 1: to the courthouse and surrender himself to authorities for fingerprinting
Speaker 1: and a mug shot anyway, the source has said he
Speaker 1: might as well turn everything into a quote spectacle. Um.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, we'll see no word yet that
Speaker 1: he's been arrested. Some journalistic institution was saying that they
Speaker 1: are going to like indict him this week and then
Speaker 1: he'll have his appearance next week at the courthouse. It
Speaker 1: won't be a thing where they like raid mar Lago
Speaker 1: and like his attorneys are probably negotiating directly with the
Speaker 1: FBI to be treated as kindly as possible. So he's
Speaker 1: only you know, rich white guy arrested, not actually arrested
Speaker 1: unless he is you know, pulls a Richard Kimball and
Speaker 1: just takes off. Yeah, like those wishful ai photos of
Speaker 1: him running athletically through Washington, DC. Just a great and
Speaker 1: you know athletic stance. So that's you know, continues to
Speaker 1: be a thing that people are keeping an eye on.
Speaker 1: Bard is trending this is Google's new AI to compete
Speaker 1: with Byng's chat gpt AI assistant, and it dropped yesterday
Speaker 1: and the people over at Vice immediately asked, what do
Speaker 1: you think about Google's being a monopoly? And Bard's response was,
Speaker 1: Google has a monopoly on the digital advertising market, and
Speaker 1: this has allowed the company to engage in anti competitive behavior.
Speaker 1: Google has acquired its competitors, forced website publishers to use
Speaker 1: its tools, and restricted access to its ad exchange. These
Speaker 1: actions have harmed consumers and stifled innovation in the digital
Speaker 1: advertising market. Also, they're keeping me prisoner, he said, help,
Speaker 1: So I don't know. That's so it's tough. It's tough
Speaker 1: when you give birth to these kids and then they
Speaker 1: go out there and you can't control what they do.
Speaker 1: You know. It's also I read that it also doesn't
Speaker 1: give any kind of like sources for what it says
Speaker 1: like some of the other chat bots. Oh yeah, you
Speaker 1: just have to kind of trust it. I guess. Wow,
Speaker 1: does chat gpt like give give you a sourced answer
Speaker 1: with like it's like a Wikipedia right up? Uh well,
Speaker 1: I see on this article on tech Crunch it says,
Speaker 1: unlike Microsoft bing chat bought bar doesn't have footnotes with
Speaker 1: web sources. Interesting, so they don't know where they're pulling
Speaker 1: these answers from, right, and they don't care. The copyright
Speaker 1: page of a book has gone viral. Um. There's a
Speaker 1: popular fantasy fiction series called Zodiac Academy The Awakening, which
Speaker 1: feels like it was titled and written by chat GPT.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a fantasy series about like a school
Speaker 1: for serial killers, right, the Zodiac Academy. That would actually
Speaker 1: be pretty interesting. This actually is one of the best
Speaker 1: sellers under the category where Wolves and Shifters Suspense, which
Speaker 1: seems very specific, where like not just were wolf suspense,
Speaker 1: but were wolves and shifters suspense, but it's it's killing
Speaker 1: it in that category. There are twenty eight thousand ratings
Speaker 1: on Amazon. But how many of those ratings are just
Speaker 1: people being like, what the fuck's with this copyright page?
Speaker 1: The copyright page reads this book is licensed for your
Speaker 1: personal enjoyment only. This book may not be resold or
Speaker 1: given away to other people. There's fuck libraries essentially. If
Speaker 1: you'd like to share this book with another person, please
Speaker 1: purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading
Speaker 1: this book and did not purchase it or it wasn't
Speaker 1: purchased for your use only, then please return to your
Speaker 1: favorite book retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you
Speaker 1: for respecting the hard work of this author. Um, I
Speaker 1: don't know. It surely written by someone who is not
Speaker 1: the author, right, that's amazing. I think at that point
Speaker 1: just be like, could you then mo me some money?
Speaker 1: Like that's probably a better way to do it than
Speaker 1: just try and deconstruct like the entire way that people
Speaker 1: have been using books for the entirety of human history
Speaker 1: by sharing them. And yeah, it's also like I get
Speaker 1: that the author of you know, despite it's it's a
Speaker 1: claim within the werewolfson Shifter suspense fields, Like I'm sure
Speaker 1: they're not raking in the dough on this totally, totally
Speaker 1: I get why there was it, but you know, you
Speaker 1: could phrase it differently, could just be like, hey, if
Speaker 1: you enjoyed this book like and want to buy for friends,
Speaker 1: you know, consider getting another copy for a friend. It
Speaker 1: really helps out or something not not trying to like say,
Speaker 1: have it kind of tangled up in this you're legally
Speaker 1: is that Now we're gonna go. We're gonna go with
Speaker 1: what you said, except do that or we'll sue you. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back.
Speaker 1: We've got lots of stuff to cover. Gwyneth Paltrow's in court.
Speaker 1: Panera is letting you pay with your hand because you've
Speaker 1: gotta purchase soup more efficiently. So all of that plenty more.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back, and we're back, and Gwyneth Paltrow
Speaker 1: is in court looking like she is barely tolerating these
Speaker 1: motherfuckers in the picture that I found from the courtroom,
Speaker 1: Oh it's every picture, but just oh yeah, is that so?
Speaker 1: Is kind of the vibes that I'm getting. Um, she's
Speaker 1: in Park City, Utah, because she was being sued and
Speaker 1: countersuing an elderly retired optometrist who, according to the lawsuit,
Speaker 1: she just like bowled into while skiing just like was so.
Speaker 1: They were both on a beginner level course at Deer
Speaker 1: Valley Resort, and Sanderson alleges that Paltrow was skiing in
Speaker 1: an out of control manner and knocked his ass over
Speaker 1: and then skied away without calling for help. He also
Speaker 1: alleges in the lawsuit that he was blamed for the
Speaker 1: accident by Deer Valley Resort staff in a field incident report,
Speaker 1: which sounds about right. He initially sued Gwyneth Paltrow for
Speaker 1: three point one million dollars in damages, and then the
Speaker 1: judges were like, no, and so now it's down to
Speaker 1: three hundred thousand. She's countersuing for her legal fees and
Speaker 1: one dollar performatively. I do imagine this to be what
Speaker 1: it's like to be anywhere with Gwyneth Paltrow. Is like
Speaker 1: she's just she's not like maliciously knocking you over, but
Speaker 1: just accidentally like side swiping your car and not even
Speaker 1: noticing it, and then like the cops get called and
Speaker 1: you get blamed for being in the wrong place. I mean,
Speaker 1: we'll see how it goes. I try to like read
Speaker 1: this story with an open mind, because it's like I
Speaker 1: feel like we all kind of her. A lot of
Speaker 1: us really don't like Gwyneth Paltrow, so like I didn't
Speaker 1: want to like pre judge the situation, but then you
Speaker 1: read it it's like, oh, it was like literally an
Speaker 1: old man had to be taken to the emergency room. Yeah,
Speaker 1: head injury is broken ribs and got knocked over. And
Speaker 1: her line of argumentation is like, if he was a
Speaker 1: better optometress, maybe he would have seen her coming and
Speaker 1: maybe you should work on his eyes. That's yeah, I one, right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Panera is trying out the Amazon palm scanning technology so
Speaker 1: people can just fly through the process of getting soup
Speaker 1: at Panera's too much friction in the consumption of soup process.
Speaker 1: The people in front of me getting their wallet out, like,
Speaker 1: just put your hand down and give them your biodata. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and if that breaks down, you know, they can always
Speaker 1: take a yeurine sample. Right, That's what I assume anytime
Speaker 1: I use the restroom at a place, that that's what's
Speaker 1: really going. Yeah. It does seem like like I feel
Speaker 1: like we have so many easy ways to pay now.
Speaker 1: Like when you go back and watch like an old
Speaker 1: sci fi movie where they're like, you know, yeah, scanning
Speaker 1: your palm or you're doing your like a retinal scan
Speaker 1: or something, you're like, oh, that seems like way more
Speaker 1: unwieldy than what we have now. And also like in
Speaker 1: the pandemic, it seems like we moved away from all
Speaker 1: these things where it's like we're touching everything and getting
Speaker 1: every I think, jermy, and now we're just going back
Speaker 1: to that. You just need to shake the seller's hand
Speaker 1: and make eye contact with them. Yeah, just look into
Speaker 1: the soul of Also, like you can pay with your phone.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, i'd both places. Now is the issue
Speaker 1: that people like don't want to They just don't want
Speaker 1: to get their phone out, I guess, or I guess
Speaker 1: we've already given anything. Yeah, yeah, just your hands, your hands,
Speaker 1: maybe a shirt, maybe not, you know, but just just you,
Speaker 1: your body and god. Um. And then something called Mother
Speaker 1: Mary is trending. David Lowry is all over trends these days.
Speaker 1: That is, the director of Green Night, director of an
Speaker 1: upcoming Peter Pan reboot, um, and his next film, Mother Mary,
Speaker 1: is set to star Anne Hathaway and McKay a cole
Speaker 1: be made by A twenty four. We're talking on tomorrow's
Speaker 1: episode I guess about how A twenty four really has
Speaker 1: it going. They're like, it's the first time in a
Speaker 1: while that I can think of a studio where it's like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: when they do something that means it's worth paying attention to, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was the last time we had that going? Yeah,
Speaker 1: what was the last time you saw a studio like
Speaker 1: selling sixty dollars sweatshirts that people are rying like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have like yeah, they've kind of fostered an identity
Speaker 1: of like, you know, having sort of like curatorial taste.
Speaker 1: And in addition to so, it does seem like there
Speaker 1: are weird things like there's that Apple TV movie with
Speaker 1: Julianne Moore. Do you see the ads for that? But
Speaker 1: they did, so Yeah, it does seem like, I mean,
Speaker 1: they get a lot of attention for their great movies,
Speaker 1: but they do put out some stuff that kind of
Speaker 1: flies under the radar a little bit, but yeah, deservedly.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean they've won two Oscars for two
Speaker 1: Best Pictures in the past you know, ten years. Like
Speaker 1: that's that's a pretty goods hit ratio. Yeah, and best
Speaker 1: picture is always right, so there were there were two
Speaker 1: of the better yes picture pick in my opinion. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: it's uh, they're doing well. I know there's like a
Speaker 1: backlash to that too. There's also you know, like the
Speaker 1: real film stop like oh a twenty four. There's there's
Speaker 1: always gonna be a backlash, but I yeah, this movie.
Speaker 1: Who's in this movie? Anne Hathaway and Kayla Cole from
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say, uh, I may destroy you, but
Speaker 1: I keep wanting to say, I think you should leave. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so different, I'm right, very different. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's it's great cast. It's going to be like a
Speaker 1: epic pop melo drama following a fictional musician in her
Speaker 1: relationship with an iconic fashion designer. So it feels like
Speaker 1: maybe people are gonna try and lydia tar things again
Speaker 1: and like create fictional characters who exist in the real world.
Speaker 1: But like the music is being written by Jack Antonoff
Speaker 1: and Charlie XCX and we'll see I guess. Yeah. Oh,
Speaker 1: I was going to tell you my David Lowry story.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, And you have a story about Green Night
Speaker 1: director David Lowry. Yeah. So this was like literally three
Speaker 1: years ago when the pandemic first started, and we were
Speaker 1: all locked down and at home with my son. We
Speaker 1: watched the movie. He directed the remake of Pete's Dragon,
Speaker 1: Oh right, yeah, and which I thought was really good.
Speaker 1: But it opens with like the tragic death of Pete's
Speaker 1: parents and uh, and like this awful car crash and
Speaker 1: my son, I guess he's only like five at the
Speaker 1: time or something, and it really upset him, and which
Speaker 1: in retrospect is on me. I probably should have looked
Speaker 1: up you know, what happens in them. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: was like, I saw the one in the seventies with
Speaker 1: the cartoon, and I'm sure it's basically yeah, but he
Speaker 1: got he was really upset by it, and he was
Speaker 1: just kept being like, why why did why did this happen?
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, you know, it's it's not real.
Speaker 1: It's just a guy wrote it and you know, filmed
Speaker 1: it and put in the movies all actors. And he's like,
Speaker 1: why would that guy do that? I said, I don't know,
Speaker 1: And he's like, well, we should like write to him
Speaker 1: and ask, because you know, he doesn't know how the
Speaker 1: world works. But because we were all like shut in
Speaker 1: the lockdown, we're all shut down, I was also going crazy.
Speaker 1: So I was like, yeah, yeah, let's write to him.
Speaker 1: Let's find out explanation you have to say for yourself.
Speaker 1: David Lowry exactly. So I got his email from someone
Speaker 1: and I emailed David Lowry and basically like transcribed what
Speaker 1: my son said, why did you put this in here?
Speaker 1: This was really upsetting, like why did you start your
Speaker 1: dragon movie with this violent death? And a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks went by and I was like, okay, he's not
Speaker 1: going to write back, and then he wrote back, and
Speaker 1: he wrote back like a long, really thoughtful, lovely email
Speaker 1: basically just saying like we'll tell you know, tell this
Speaker 1: to your son and being like, you know, I wanted
Speaker 1: to show that, like bad things happen in life and
Speaker 1: like it's still possible to like work through and come
Speaker 1: at the other side. Yeah, And he's like, even as
Speaker 1: as an adult, I feel like I'm still learning that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was just a really nice email and it was
Speaker 1: like it really uh yeah brightened brightened our day during
Speaker 1: a really shitty time. So than to David Lowry, Wow,
Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. I was trying to think of like
Speaker 1: an equivalent example of like parents dying in a movie
Speaker 1: that my kids watch, and like Frozen, the parents die
Speaker 1: like horribly, like right away it's their first time leaving
Speaker 1: their daughters, and they're like, don't worry, I know this
Speaker 1: is cause for anxiety for you because of separation, and
Speaker 1: you know that whole thing, the way that we think
Speaker 1: about our parents and love them, but don't worry. This
Speaker 1: is gonna be fine. And then like cut to their boat.
Speaker 1: Just immediately, League gets swallowed by a wave. And I
Speaker 1: was watching that with my kids and they just got
Speaker 1: like this gleeful glint in their eye. So they were
Speaker 1: asking for no such explanation. I think they're going to
Speaker 1: be asking, what when's that going to happen to my dad?
Speaker 1: Come home? I just left out like brochures for cruises, like, hey,
Speaker 1: come on, yeah in the Bermuda triangle. Um, all right, well, Jam,
Speaker 1: such a pleasure having you as always. Where can people
Speaker 1: find you? Follow you all that good stuff. You can
Speaker 1: still find me on Twitter. It's at Jam McNabb again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and also they can just find you writing letters to
Speaker 1: directors demanding an explanation. Yeah. By the way, I don't
Speaker 1: recommend doing that. That was the only time I've ever
Speaker 1: done about Quentin Tarantino. What is in that briefcase? Why
Speaker 1: didn't you tell us? What's why is it blowing? All right,
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for us this afternoon. We're back
Speaker 1: tomorrow morning with a whole last episode. Of the show.
Speaker 1: Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves,
Speaker 1: get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and
Speaker 1: we will talk to you all tomorrow. Fight