The Daily Zeitgeist - What's Trending On Boner Yelp 8/29: Euro Summer, Kris Jenner, Influencer Voice, Joe The Plumber, NLRB, Drones

Episode Date: August 29, 2023

In this edition of What's Trending On Boner Yelp, Jack and super producer Bryan discuss European summer (feat. Kanye West), Kris Jenner's OTT de-aging algo, the "influencer voice" phenomena, the tragic passing of "Joe" the "Plumber", Disney VFX workers unionizing, and a Mexican cartel's elite drone units!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game.

Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Listen to the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeart on the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast presented by elf beauty founding partner of iheart women's sports hello the internet and welcome to this episode of what's trending on boner yelp that is courtesy of case aiken uh i think quoting katie golden or uh inspired by katie golden we were talking about the the need for a boner yelp app on yesterday's episode today's episode now let me guess what that means is that is that a rating service rating of boners yeah yeah yeah okay yeah i Okay. Yeah. I'm Jack. That's Super Producer Brian Jeffries.

Hello. I have a deep voice because I'm sick. Yep. And I am also sick, so it is sick boy summer. Sick boy summer. We did an episode about the placebo effect this morning, and I am immediately sick. Fucking annoying. Anyways. Yeah. this morning and I am immediately sick fucking annoying anyways should we tell the people what's trending Brian shall we

shall we tell the people what's trending break it down to European summer that's where you're wondering where miles is he's taking part in the European summer along with Kanye West who was spotted on main in Venice summer along with kanye west uh who was spotted on maine in venice uh with his ass hanging out

of the split in the back of his blazer um just getting a blowy on a gondola yeah getting a blowy on a gondola which is i mean i'm it's the sort of thing you would brag about in a song but it doesn't it didn't look that cool actually it looked weird looked it looked awkward um he they he seemed way too concerned about it's that weird thing where it's like okay you're down enough to get a blowy on a gondola but you're also very concerned but you're concerned about who can see it's super weird. I don't get it. It's like, if you're going to do that,

just be out there. Yeah. Just like the super ego happening at the, at the same time. And also like in a nearby boat, I'm pretty sure one of their personal assistants was like having to just pretend it wasn't happening. That's the real crime against humanity on display here.

Anyways, speaking of that whole realm of humanity, there was a video with Kris Jenner. I guess it was posted by Kris Jenner's makeup artist. And Kris Jenner looks like she's in her early 30s in the video but also looks like partially computer generated and the makeup artist is like oh chris oh it's amazing it's beautiful you look wonderful um and i don't know people people are mad about it. They're like, she looks ridiculous. She looks like AI. I actually think she looks way better

than the de-aged characters in The Irishman. That is a fact that she absolutely does. Her de-aging algorithm on her phone or whoever's phone looks better than The Irishman. But I think people are genuinely mad about this i think they might be a little out of touch with like phone face smoothing in other cultures because this is very normal in asian countries to see this level of smoothing yeah for sure for sure it does look a little unnatural to the western eye but it's not like i think it's pretty good it's pretty

good i think they're nailing it anyways i mean also i i have heard tell that every shot in keeping up with the kardashians has some manner of face tunage going on 67 yeah looks great doesn't she yo she looks great doesn't she folks wow okay yeah i did not yeah i wouldn't have guessed that there's an article on dazed digital about uh why is everyone on tiktok talk like that uh aka influencer voice and i think i know influencer voice and i think i know this tone just from like videos making fun of it i think like we yeah yeah it's definitely a thing if you watch like you know uh you know influencers youtube personalities i notice it a lot there's a particular uh cadence and hey guys that's how it starts i do that i i have influencer voice and it's how i talk to my family it's i love the idea of influencer voice in like everyday life i just got some groceries that

i'm going to be unpacking right now um into the refrigerator so come on over here and watch we got some lactose-free milk because otherwise you guys are going to shit yourselves i don't know if that if i'm still influencer voicing it or not now something something i'm noticing in this article is like the uh the clips are all of women oh yeah which i think is interesting because people yes of course people like to pick on linguistic traits of women in particular create the trends that men then catch up to like a decade later like vocal fry it's like people like to think that vocal fry is something that only women do and it's it's just i don't know it smacks of uh you know sexism oh yeah well men aren't allowed to be expressive with their voices or like try new things they have to just talk in a monotone

so women get to like explore the space and have fun with their voice and then men catch up to it 10-15 years later but the whole time the 10-15 years that it's taking them to catch up to it 10, 15 years later, but the whole time, the 10, 15 years that it's taken them to catch up and like incorporate all of the innovations that women are making, they spend that entire time criticizing the women for talking that way. Yeah. If these are the only kind of examples they're putting out there, it's only women. I'm not really, I'm not really fucking with this, but it's according to Tony Thor thorn and dr christian illbury a sociolinguist at the university of edinburgh um he had that uptalk where people end their sentence with a higher pitch as if they're asking a question is another common characteristic of

tiktok boys i don't i think it's great that people like people people should have a new way of talking and be creating new ways of talking all the time. But yeah, it does feel like Tony Thorne and Dr. Christian Illberry are just basically creating ways for middle-aged men to retirement-aged men to complain about how women talk on the internet yeah because up talk is definitely like a lot of new zealanders uh white new zealanders have uh have an up talk at the end of their sentences and it never sounds like they're finishing their sentences and yeah and i always i always make fun of her for that it's always really interesting to me. But yeah, I mean, it's good that people are keeping, you know, track of this sort of thing, I guess. But yeah, I think as long as it's an observation. Yeah, it's a normal way of talking. Find a new angle.

Yeah. Asshole. We got to say R.I.P. to Joe the plumber who I had forgotten existed. Who's Joe the plumber? You don't remember Joe the plumber? 2008 presidential election. He got on one of the debate things.

I don't remember most of 2008. He got on a town hall with Barack Obama and asked him things about how he was going to pay for his tax plan. Which you always know when people are digging into the weeds of the tax plan. That they...

Gotta have a tax plan. They're always going to be good faith arguers. But anyways, the clip would have been totally forgotten. But John McCain kept referencing Joe the Plumber in the final debate. And then like, I think he like brought him out and like campaigned with him and it made this guy, Joe the plumber into a national celebrity.

And the attention led to the revelation that, uh, Joe the plumber, uh, hadn't actually paid all of his taxes and he wasn't, uh, a fully licensed plumber. Um um and his name wasn't joe that was my next question was like is he actually a plumber

short answer no demanded uh that he removed the designation from his own website and joe the plumber later said of john mccain he screwed my life up. McCain was trying to use me. I happened to be the face of middle Americans. It was a ploy. And he then tried to capitalize on his newfound celebrity, releasing a book fighting for the American dream that, um, yeah,

the cover is not great not the best cover design that i've ever seen yeah it's lacking it's definitely lacking he looks like he's on benzos he does look like he's on benzos a lot of the time um and uh he got in trouble for his campaign ads which suggested that gun control led to the holocaust so in case you were waiting for that other shoe to drop on joe the plumber that was it okay i'm not gonna do the math on that one yeah i'm just gonna leave that leave that to him well um you know truly one of the greatest to ever not be noticed by you yeah yeah never literally never heard of this guy so he ran for congress lost badly and then around the time of his death he he passed away from i believe pancreatic cancer but he was recently working for a company that uh makes steel barricades to protect students

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The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. And we're back. We're back back really enjoying my deep voice my deep gravelly voice enjoy it folks get it while it's here get it while the getting's good i feel like i could do a what's his name uh what's the conspiracy theory guy this is the other problem i have brain fuck i'm sick yeah but whatever the conspiracy theory guy who talks like this uh his name is jones alex jones yeah you could do a mean alex jones if i could remember his name and had ever listened to him disney uh special effects workers, VFX workers, have filed to unionize with the NLRB, which is a big deal for a number of reasons. Photorealistic talking lines don't just appear at the touch of a button. It takes a lot of labor.

uh at the touch of a button uh it takes a lot of labor and as we've talked about throughout the strike um vfx workers are like the last major you know part of a the making of a film that haven't been unionized and they've yeah they've suffered for it and we as film viewers have suffered for it um and that's why special effects seem to like there'll be one really good one and then a decade and a half of like yeah you know avatar will happen and then for a decade and a half like everything that is 3d will suck um life of pi will have like really cool special effects but then by the time they win an academy award for it the company that did the special effects will have gone out of business um because that's disturbingly common uh for vfx houses to put in uh an insane amount of hours and put in good work a lot of the time. And it's just,

it's not sustainable for them. Yeah. So the Disney news follows the news from last week that Marvel VFX workers filed to unionize and votes will be counted for that on September 12th. But there's just been a lot of reporting that it's a bad place to work. As VFX artists have explained in the past, they're the only major department currently working on every film set in America that is not unionized. And as a result, they have been taken advantage of. A 2022 survey found that 70%

of VFX workers report having worked uncompensated overtime hours for their employer, and 75% of them were forced to work through legally mandated meal breaks and rest periods without compensation and onset vfx workers reported working in conditions they felt unsafe in so killing it hollywood yeah this is why it's it's really important that the unions come away from the strike strong because when there's no union, this is how workers are treated. Yeah, they're not going to do the right thing out of the kindness of their heart. It has to be taken and maintained. It has to be forced on them.

Yeah, or just, you know, there needs to be they they will treat you as badly as they possibly can yeah um all right i want to talk about drones you are a drone pilot uh in your spare time in your free time you take some pretty cool videos um it's a weird it's like a fascination of the book the ministry for the future that we covered that's about like the near future of climate change and one of the threads that they predict in that book uh is like eco-terror attacks happened via drone and i don't know i could see a future where drones are like just crawling all over the air and the news but i'm just curious like what is so democratic about drones that's

different from like bomb building or you know like it seems harder to train yourself and become like precision with a drone as opposed to just learning to make a bomb or use guns, which are everywhere. But maybe like, is it easier to be anonymous? What is democratizing about drones, especially in 2023, is that they basically fly themselves at this point yeah that's one big thing is like you can pilot a drone autonomously by setting waypoints and stuff like that and um the imaging has gotten a lot better so it's like you don't need special skills to pilot this thing. You just need a little bit of practice. And the range is also insane these days, where it's like, you know, I can send my drone 10 kilometers out. And if you're only on a one-way trip, that's, you know, that's pretty handy, you know, not being detected.

Yeah, that makes sense. It's a lot of things. and they're also a lot more affordable than they used to be and uh yeah yeah there's there's just a convergence of a lot of different things that just makes this uh a lot more available a lot easier you can just go to you know best buy costco wherever just pick one up yeah so some of the news stories that we've seen over the past couple of weeks, like one of Mexico's, uh, most violent cartels has just created its own elite unit of drone operators,

um, which are like highly trained hit men that tweak commercial drones and turn them into flying bombs to use against rival cartels. So I don't know it it seems like that sort of thing what we'll see more and more of it maybe but um i'm surprised we haven't seen more of it domestically yeah i mean you know in the states uh just because just by way of when people see shit on the internet like they they want to copy it and it's like we've seen a lot in the past year we've seen a lot of um footage of drones in warfare

from ukraine doing really um innovative things with commercial drones i'll just leave it at that and it's just like no one's expecting like you know that kind of death from above yeah um are they getting quieter because the ones i've seen sound like fucking lawnmowers no they're getting they've gotten quieter well it depends like you know it scales up with with size but yeah there's a lot of work being done with material sciences and now with 3d printing you can design propellers that are a lot quieter than um than the stock ones and um you know i when i put my drone up it it only has to be about like maybe 50 feet in the air to where i can't hear it anymore. Wow.

That's not that high up. No, it's not. That's just stock. So yeah, it's terrifying. That's crazy. It's a terrifying prospect. There are these evolutionary biologist theories that one of the most at a gut level creepy things that like gives people goosebumps is like when a

shadow passes overhead and I think it's from back when like birds used to be like 20 foot wingspans and people were so like one of the big survival you know instincts that a human could have is like to

not be into death from above and to like have a innate sense of that but we've we've gotten soft we've been able to not worry that much about death from above for a while but i noticed with my cats is like that's still a very strong instinct with at least my cats where they will not be in the open at all they have to be underneath something when the door takes off no no no just in general like when they're outside on the roof like they they have to be underneath something they won't just like be completely out there yeah smart smart cat clever girl Alright. Interesting future you've got there. Be a shame if something

cool were to happen to it. Alright, Brian. That's going to do it for this Tuesday afternoon's trending episode. Thanks for doing it. My pleasure. Back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind

to yourself. Get the vaccine. Don't do be kind to each other. Be kind to yourself. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadson.

We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. There's a lot to figure out when you're just starting your career. That's where we come in. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in people who do, like negotiation expert Maury Teherry-Poor. If you start thinking about negotiations as just a conversation, then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer

of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Listen to the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports.