"A Very Particular Set Of Trends" 3/2: Bluesky, Oscars Crisis Team, Zendaya, Shower Orange, Haunted Mansion

think most people know that one by now. But yeah, we were talking about how much better it would have been if every one of the movies was his daughter getting kidnapped over and over again, like just the most kidnappable daughter. Get it together. Anyways, I am Jack and I'm thrilled to be joined by superproducer backup Robbers. What's going on? Happy Thursday? It's women Women's History Month, one twelve.

Y'all get one twelfth of the year. You may have one half of the population, you get a twelfth of the year. Okay, and you'll be happy with it. But yeah, shout out to the Women's History Month. So yeah, Jack Dorsey has a new Twitter alternative. I guess he's been working on it for a while. It just launched in the app Store or as about to as an invite only app. And it is called blue Sky. And you can tell me that it's supposed to be pronounced blue sky, but you put all those letters in one word, and

I'm calling that ship blue sky. He should have capitalized the S. Yes, you had like capitalized the S. I really did read it as blue sky. And then I like saw the imagery the Tech Crunch article put with it, and it's a blue sky like they put the imagery

of skies. And I was like, oh, yeah, I guess yeah, that makes sense, And that is like some shit a tech company would think is a good name for an absolutely just the most annoying people like tech executives love to ask you to blue sky something and it always means a different thing. Well, yeah, just blue sky for me. Just give me the thirty thousand foot view of it. Just give me the Oh I hate that. I hate. No,

I don't even want the bird's eye. I want to the astronaut's eye, you know what I'm saying, The International Space Station's eye on on this thing. But just blue sky, just everything having to do with space and sky and H and Big Brain thinking like, you guys are suffering from amphetamine overload. Yes, I feel like all tech executives just have a spinal drip, a spinal tap of amphetamines just coursing through them at all times. But anyways, I'm

all for a Twitter alternative. So yeah, hopefully it's good. Yeah, I'm curious what it's gonna be like because I feel like, obviously, pre Elon Musk of Twitter, Twitter already had had a ton of issues from the audience and was known as like a vile you know space to begin with, right, Like I think before Elon Musk became the owner of Twitter, we were all like, yeah, this is a very toxic platform.

So I am curious as to like, how maybe in this new venture of Jack Dorsey, is he going to maybe curb some of that negativity or if it's going to just be the same thing just now it's called Blue Sky and it's not too far. Yeah, probably that probably the latter, although I do know that, like when Elon Musk fired everyone, it was shocking how big the teams were that were dedicated to like keeping things not toxic. So it was like just a constant battle, though never

enough fun and there's just not enough people. Because as we're talking about you, if you had enough moderators on any of these platforms, you will not be profitable. These not these are amazing public services that like are good to have if they're properly run. They will never be properly run as long as they're for profit institutions, like

they just need to be you know, subsidized, and yeah, absolutely, yeah. Anyways, a story that we talked about, i think last week when it first hit the news, was that the oscars have a crisis team in place, and the Academy CEO says, we've run so many scenarios came up again in our pre show conversation and I just I'm starting to like really wonder what the scenarios are and like what the slap combinations are, absolutely, because it's like, is it just

the idea that anybody can you know, rush the stage or is it like as we were chatting, is it is a B level celebrity allowed to hit an A level celebrity arcum? Absolutely not. They will take them out with a with a fucking sniper. But my question is is one of the scenarios Meryl Street apps a B lister, Like, if they're being honest, the answer is, we just pretend that shit didn't just happen, and we just move on. We just play the like the orchestra starts to swell

and we cut away, Yeah, cut the cameras. Yeah, we just move away to a sponsor. It just feels excessive to me. A whole team, dedicated. And also I was like, you already got rid of the problem in theory, like you told Will Smith he can't come back, So why do you need a whole crisis team. They because they I think they recognize that the slap is the best thing that's happened to the Oscars maybe ever. And so yeah, it's all anybody's talking about is the these Oscars come back.

Jimmy Kimmel will probably have quite a few fun jokes about the slap in his monologue. What if it's like a more famous person slapping a less famous person like Brian threw out the rock slapping Aaron Paul, But that is that's like the Rocks pretty famous, but in different categories, like totally different categories, you know. And also the rock could kill Aaron Paul, Like Paul is a tiny man. I would be like a little video game. Yeah, so

then like do you have to worry about that? Like what I think they would still just be like all right, movement moving along, which I kind of did in the first place. Like I also wonder, like when they're rerunning that scenario from last year, like what the fuck are you gonna do different? You're gonna like pull Will Smith off the stage or like stop him? I guess I wonder who is hosting this year? Do we know? Yeah, Jimmy Kimmel, Okay, Jimmy Kimmel. Yeah, I just don't imagine

anything like that's going to happen. Would Jimmy Kimple? Right? Right? But I mean the Chris Rock getting slapped by Will Smith, Like Chris Rock wasn't the host, was he was country? Oh? He was, yeah, the host for the whole show? Yeah.

Oh interesting, So that's I think what happened because he was like writing, I mean, and that's why there was a lot of controversy with it, because it was just like well, like you know, he had a whole team of people writing jokes, like it wasn't just like Chris Rock.

And then there was people being like, well, you know, no, Chris Rock went off script for that joke, So that was on him, you know, so right, yeah, yeah, Will Smith should have done what Hollywood celebrities have done for years and just made a note of it and then ended the career of anybody involved with writing that joke. Yeah, there go. You don't slap the other famous person. That's bad for your career. You just silently, silent assassinate everybody who had anything to do with it who isn't a

household name. Oh, because yeah, he can't destroy Chris Rocks. Speaking of silent assassinations, producer Brian is suggesting that the seat fillers are going to be massad. That's how that's how they're gonna deal with it, just going up behind people a little, putting them to leap with a chokehold. M Zendiah is getting one million an episode for you for ye and this is being treated as like, Wow,

they're really rolling out the cash truck. And my response is this is not enough, which I was like at first whenever the article, I was like, oh my god, yeah, incredible because of the frameming. But the second that you Jack pointed out that like at Friends's Peak, they were really doing that, So they were doing that for the whole cast on a show that was like you know, so oh yeah, and like so many episodes the season like this, yeah, each episode of the Only Cha there's

eight episodes. There's eight episodes, and each one is like a future film. It's like yeah, and also she is. I've only seen the first two episodes still, but her performance in those first two episodes are as good as any film performance I've seen. Like, she's so good all of it, and I will agree with you that she is absolutely. I mean, I am a fan. I'm a huge fan of Days because I think she's just such

an incredible actor slash. Everything she touches is like comes with so much poise and professionalism that it's just so incredible to watch her work. She's so clearly, like very

dedicated to her craft and what she does. Like the reason she even became an it girl on the scene is because she was so calculated that people would not take her seriously from her Disney days that she just started showing up to events looking good as fuck, and that was like absolutely calculated with her team, she was like, I want to be known as a fashion girl, so then they start taking me seriously. In other arenas and

she did it. She showed up and looks. People started booking her for modeling shoots and actually forgot she had a singing career, and she was just like, yeah, I don't feel like doing that anymore. And then she was like, I want to now be a serious actor now that they're taking me seriously as a model, and she did the damn thing. And now she's literally one of the youngest people to ever win an Emmy for producing at

twenty five. So because that was a part of her last contract, I think she's still an EP on this coming season, but last season, it was part of our contract to be an EP of season two and that got her the Emmy for being the youngest producer. And so now she's getting a million in episode and as an EP. So congrats and day. But like you said, Jack,

you deserve more. I will say as somebody who tried that strategy, you know, in between Cracked and starting the Daily Zeitgeist, I spoke to my team and I was like, I think my strategy, I just need to start showing up two events looking good as fuck, just like become a fashion boy. And they were like, first of all, why are you calling us, your team, this is your parents and wife, and we think you need help or

you need an audio media. Yeah yeah, yeah. So then we started this podcast that was Plan B. You're listening to Plan B. But easier said than done. I'll just say, in terms of fashion, just showing up and looking good in places, being a strategy is you have to have a a little bit of the riz as super producer on a Josie calls it. That's what the kids are calling it. She got it, Zendia got it. I'm gonna go ahead and say it. And this is, you know,

mark my words, breaking news. But she's got this it thing that people talk about it, that people talk about it. I'm my brain is melting. Anyways, let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about shower oranges. And we're back. And the concept of the shower orange seems to have caught on on TikTok. It has been a thing on Reddit for a while. Uh, there's a twenty fifteen Reddit post. You know, the millennials are angry at the at the TikTok kids. Now, yeah, oh, you're

just finding out about the shower orange. Okay, wow, But there's a twenty fifteen Reddit post about how great it is dat a orange in the shower that then became the shower orange subreddit. But basically the idea is that eating an orange in the shower is a very pleasant experience. I think it works on a few different levels. So there's the shower beer that people who drink too much are probably familiar with, where you drink a cold beer

in the shower and it's just extra good. See I've never understood that because I take really hot showers, so your beer's just gonna get warm really quickly. Well, so this is the thing is I think it's only popular with alcoholics because I liked it because I drank so quickly that the beer never had a chance to get yeah, yeah, at an astronomically slow pace, if you ask any single one of my friends. Right, So I think that was my issue. There was what or why it worked out

so good. It was cold and gone within a minute. But also, like everybody has probably experienced the like farting in the shower and it being of human rights violations, it's the worst smelling thing in the world. Oranges are some of the best smelling fruits, so it works on that level. And then Becca, as you were pointing out the stick, you know, no stick stick. Yeah, it's just

running running off of you. There. There's probably so they My one kind of potential like concern with the shower orange is the pulp getting in the I just I don't need anything that is going to end with me rooting around in the shower drain, because the shower drain is the most underratedly foul like yeah, locuses of like just dirt hair just it's it's not all making its way through the drain like it's it's free time. I'm like, please, please don't make me have to get in here later.

And then, as someone who has incredibly curly hair, I do at least once a month have to get in there and be like, yeah, it doesn't matter that I have a little hair catcher that I clean it out every day. It not fail. I got DRAINO, I got the giant jug. Oh yeah, no, there's a I mean my wife uses a lot of hair products that I think goop up the drain a little bit. It's uh, I will I will let a drain be slow until it's like getting up to my calves. And then I'm like all right, we need to we need to do

something here. This sucks. I can't see my feet because the water's cloudy. And yeah, anyways, shout out to the shower orange though, um, just be careful where you drop those seeds and the pulp and appeals. The Haunted Mansion

trailer dropped. This is just Disney. They had the success of the Pirates of the Caribbean movie and they're just like, I'd argue that this isn't use of the success of the Parts Security movies because they did have a Hana Mansion movie way back in the day, and maybe that original movie was during the height of the Parts of Curban movie that they were like, okay, a ride became a famous movie series, maybe we could try this with

a Hana Mansion. Because I remember the first one came out probably when I was oh it says in two thousand and three in our article here, So yeah, I was probably in like elementary school, and I remember seeing it and really enjoying it. So now this is just a remake. Because Disney's in this era of remaking almost all other content instead of making new ip They're like, well, we got a jillion things that we can remake so we're gonna we're gonna do it and they're modernizing. Yeah.

Somebody wrote about it as a remake of the other the Eddie Murphy film, and yeah, I was like, let's not remake because I mean that one just came out. Oh it was twenty years ago. Oh my god, I'm old. It's fun though. I really like the cast. Luckie Stanfield brings the right vibes to it. He had that haunted house episode of Atlanta that it feels like he's kind of channeling in this. Just yeah, Lackie Stanfield walking through a haunted house seems to be like it could be

its own genre of movie. Well, I'm curious, like the relationship of everybody, because it does seem like, I mean, to me watching Luckie Stanfield in the trailer, I'm like, he does not seem like a father material in this, Like he seems like the older brother slash fun uncle vibe. It seems like they hire him as a ghost hunter or that. But he was like fun with these ghosts

kind of in the trailers. So yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. Yeah, I mean, so Owen Wilson is a priest who pays Lacki Stanfield two thousand dollars to like go into the haunted mansion after Rosario Dawson and her family move in and seemed freaked out, and then Danny DeVito just shows up to beat any DeVito. Yeah, it seems like a lot as I'm gonna watch it, and it's made by the filmmaker who made Dear White People. Oh, that it's gonna be a blast. I really loved Dear White People. Yeah,

so I think it'll be fun. It's definitely gonna be a lot more lighthearted. I feel like the original one was actually kind of dark for like movie. Yeah, it

was a little bit. It was like because like the story from it was like the wife, like Eddie Murphy's wife was reminiscent of one of the women ghosts in the house, and so it was like this weird like she's trying to find out if she's related to this ghost, and like she is, and then there's like this prophecy kind of tell me if I'm wrong, y'all, because like this is just like me pulling from my memory watching

it twenty years ago in theaters. But it was just like this vibe where they like move in and then there's like this weird connection in the house between the family and the house, and then they realized that, like his wife is like a reinc nation of this ghost that's in the house and that's why it's like haunting them or whatever, and like they're all kind of like discovering what's going on and like ooh, whereas like this one feels more like a like a Clue vibe where

it's like people are coming in and they're like like or Scooby Doo more than Clue. Yes, where the ghosts are a little more scary than I remember them in the original cause CGI is just better today. But um yeah, the original one I think was a little bit more of a drama in terms of the storyline. So yeah, so anyways, interesting, that's that's our trailer watch for the day. Um Becca, where can people find you? Follow you all

that good stuff? You can find and follow me at x ramos, the ECCS Ramos on all platforms that out the Mundos in Bushwick every other weekend. Yeah yeah, all right, Well that is going to do it for us back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, Be kind to yoursels, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we'll talk to you all tomorrow. Bye, bye, m