Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Could We Be any More Trending? R I P. Matthew Perry. Uh that is courtesy of you current do that on television on the discord.
Shout out to that, did you.
I was reading this thing about how like most people found out, like Matthew Perry's friend, like even his family was finding out through tm Z before they were even notified, because there's such a fucking like operation to be able to break this kind of ship that's so fucking camped outside his house or whatever. Just like, yeah, it's whatever, anyway, cool, cool.
Bad turns out Yeah, very bad.
They're not They're not really it. They're not about ship.
No.
And then after the last couple of weeks anyway, Yeah, Hi, a.
Lot of problematic Could we Be any More Trending? Yeah? The dude really taught a lot of people how to overuse sarcasm, but very very good comedic performance and you know, rip to a real.
Oh, I thought you're talking about Harvey Levin.
Of Harvey Levin, a lot of people how to sip ice coffee with a like an asshole speaking of ice coffee, Miles, I got a Vietnamese one, right, here.
On DECKI matsui, what's up, Bromm.
You just took a sip? Feel the power? Is there any way to sense the caffeine from with sip? No? Right, it's like once it hits your blood.
Yeah, it's God. It's gonna take a little while, but like by the end of this episode, I should be vibrating. Oh yeah, so I'll let you know, or maybe just like crashing and you never know. Yeah, but yeah from a local eatery, one of the locals from near the TDZ studios that made it through. So shout out to them. Let's tell the people what's trending. Shout oh yeah, yeah. So there's a tale told of a group of women who are suing Airbnb after truly a fucking nightmare. It
happened to them at a home. This is a series of like, just listening to the description is like, oh yeah, you could. You couldn't write something like the worst dream for me to have.
It's the whole plot feels like like a pitch for a grim movie. It's a group of like they say, elderly, these women who were celebrating.
Their fiftieth high school reunion.
They said, let's get a house Oh, we found this Victorian style house. It's called the Castle. That's whimsical.
That's fun.
Then a few days into their stay, the fucking they realized this place was infested with bats that were quote pouring out of the attic into the bedrooms and hallway. When the women try to escape the house, they said they found this stair well consumed with bats and were forced to retreat into their bedrooms. They attempted to block the doors with towelsand pillows, the lawsuit said, but the bats still managed to find their way in through the old walls and gaps in the base boards.
God damn. Yeah, that's just pouring out consuming stairwells. Come on, they're getting bites that had to get rabies, shots and ship. These women are good writers. They're telling a hell of the tale here.
Yeah, gaps in the base like they're truly coming out of the base boards. That that's not a fucking At that point, you're actually not staying in a home. You were staying in a bat like facility that is not a home. That's the bats home that has just human beds in it for some reason.
Yeah, and they made that, they made that very clear. They had to cower under their covers and were still hit by bats. Yeah, one of them got bitten by bat. This this is the worst part. One of them had the animal entangled in their hair.
Animals, animal plural, bats in the hair.
Like, that's what do you do? You just I.
Don't have hair, so then it's not gonna be my fucking problem.
You just lose your mind at that point, because like you can't just you're like, oh, this is there for like three hours now, you know, like what do I do? Or I'm or I'm shaving my hear head, shaving my head while this thing is in there.
No, at that point, just embrace the symbiotic relationship you have with the bat.
To try and make it work.
For now you are part bat.
I'm a smote.
The owner gave them a refund, but also said the exterminator found just one bat.
Yeah, that's what the owner said. The exterminator said. The exterminator did not have the same words they said. The guy said, the fucking attict was covered with inches and inches of batshit.
Oh my god, guano. Sorry, he's just.
A snow storm of guano up there.
From one bat right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, very a bat that had just drank some Vietnamese coffee.
Yeah right, exactly, sneaking them somehow.
I love the landlord energy of the airbnb owner being like, dude, here's a refund find since you're complained. But the excreminade only said there was one bat in there, so I don't know the probmin.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also shout out to my uncle Barry, who was deathly afraid of birds and was walking on the Ocean City boardwalk one time eating a piece of pizza and a seagull came down for his pizza and got its talons tangled in his hair. No, yes, and it was. He's also like six ' four and it was one of the funniest things that had ever seen.
Was he just like completely, like mentally fucked after sounds.
Like someone kind of stammering. Ever since he.
Wears a big electrified sombrero. No, just in case.
It seems like there's a lot of like I've been seeing articles like pop Up that are just like Airbnb is fucked folks. Moving along, There's this an article from nerdwall at a while back that's just saying like Airbnb is basically like Facebook at this point, like it was a good idea. When it started, people wanted to be on board, and then it just became too big for them to like possibly police the vast universe that they had created. And there's just like so much spam and scams.
And they are staffed not like a giant real estate company, you know, or not like giant hotel chain. They're staffed like a small tech company. It's like, right, it's like the uber shit where it's just like yeah, and the the design, like the whole thing, the whole plan here is that nobody is minding the shop because the shop is too right. Like that's that's the whole idea. That's how we make our money, and that's how we make so much money.
Too big that failure would fuck people over so bad that we just got to ignore and just power right on through it. Cause like yeah, I mean we talked all the time about all the controversies, like whether it's like racism or like like sexual deviancy or assault that occurs. It's like you're never coming away with like yep, it's full proof. Like half the time you see stuff like on Reddit, there's like a whole subredit where people are like asking, like is this a camera in my Airbnb.
Right, and like the is this a camera in my Airbnb subreddit?
Yeah? Or is this a camera in MyBB.
There's a there's an article in Bloomberg from a couple of years ago that about their crisis team like Airbnb. So their model is basically they do have a team that is designed to swoop in when something goes like really badly. But it just has to get really bad for them to pay attention because it's so big, you know, because it's uh, I forget how many they said they have, like how many active listenings they have.
It's a big point six million or.
Some point six million listings, more than the number of rooms in the top seven hotel chains combined. So they just and they have a single team that is like the risk mitigation and like problem solving team, and it's full of like ex military people who wait wait, yeah, it's full of like x military like CIA former CIA agents and this one former like member of the Airbnb
crisis team that they interviewed. So the work can be so stressful that agents have access to cool down rooms with dimmed lighting to create a soothing atmosphere for answering harrowing calls and it can take a heavy toll. Some former agents say they suffer from the vicarious trauma, and one person who was a former CIA agent said I had situations where I had to get off the phone and go cry, that's all you can do.
So okay, I'm like, I'm trying to put myself in that, but I've definitely complained out of Airbnb because I'm like, this toilet is backing the fuck up, and like what the fuck is this? But I'm trying to put myself in a position where like the thing that I'm saying to them is making them fucking cry is so far outside of them that I could even conceive that it happen. Must be so fucked up. Like they're like, I'm I'm being murdered right now.
Yeah exactly. Like that's like they say, that's all you can do. That's all you can do when your business model is have more rooms than the top seven hotel chains combined, but pay for none of the upkeeper security that those hotels spend on. That shit.
We got the volume though, baby, Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, this whole economy that we're living through is just like yeah, I mean, it's just like scale the shit out of that scale.
It up, man, fucking scale that shit.
I'm but I think that's why it's like I feel like the sentiment now is starting to go the other way, where now people have had enough shitty experiences where they're like, man, at this point, a fucking hotel is way less stress.
Yeah, but it's still I mean, it's still out here. And people also point out like that there's not really a lot of competition, like VRBO is out there, but it has like all the same problems, but like even even more so.
Right right right, it's like home away. There's like all kinds of stuff.
Yeah, I mean, to that end, there really isn't a better way to be, Like, well, I can't if I have a group of people in a specific part of town something times, a rental home is actually the best option for everyone involved. But hey, man, we got we've got we're contending with the monopoly, so what are you gonna do.
It's like a cool idea that like it's one of those ideas that should be possible and like should be definitely usable, but it will never be like massively profitable, because if you make it massively profitable, it's going to be vastly like wildly understaffed and like you know, just not selective enough and not policed enough for them to catch all of the scams and you know, all of the.
Actually get the cops, Like, look, the cops aren't doing much.
Get to just get the right.
Yeah. Anyways, that that should solve everything. There we go, We solved Airbnb. Just get the cut next. All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back, and there's a new Beatles song, folks. We talked about it because it was being hyped in the stupidest way possible, and the media is still doing this like this is still the angle on this. It's basically like a Beatles song that John Lennon wrote and they cleaned up the track and then built a new
Paul McCartney song around it. Basically is what it sounds like, like you can kind of hear John Lennon in there, but the way they're hyping it and selling it is. A new Beatles song is set for release after forty five years with help from AI, The Beatles just released their final song that resurrects John Lennon's voice with AI, which is like so confusing because there are so many people who are using AI to like, you know, there was just an AI Johnny Cash covering a Taylor Swift song,
Oh which, oh you didn't know? Oh no, what have you been listening to?
Just a bunch of did listen to that Manson album? Charles Manson? It's pretty vibe?
But yeah, the only AI they utilized was a machine learning program that allowed the engineers to separate Lennon's vocals from his piano and other noises that leaked onto his demo tape in the sett.
You mean basically this is a fucking the AI marketing ship. You just mean used a fucking computer to isolate his vocals.
It basically brought him back to life miles with AI. Yeah, like I would say, as the head of this AI firm that this is playing like dancing with the devil and we should just let the man rest. But we've actually resurrected John Lennon with AI.
I mean John Lazarus right back from the dead.
So the song's out. It's pretty slow. It's a sad song, not I don't know said. People seem mixed on it, Like I, I only listen to it for this story. Like I don't. I wouldn't be like, I haven't heard every Beatles song like that they made when they were all making music together. So like, yeah, wah no.
He said, he literally, can you play him one second of any Beatles song he knows?
He knows? Yeah, I am not like Jack White. So this like for Jack White. So this is a news story that should be exciting to Jack White, and I congratulate him on this. But for people who don't have an encyclopedic knowledge or haven't heard every single Beatles song and to the point that they are like now tired of every single Beatles song, I don't know what the story's offering, because again it's not it's not a Beatles song.
It is a song that John Lennon wrote and kind of recorded and then Paul McCartney like built built the song, and it really sounds just like a later era Paul McCartney song. That's what it is.
Well, I don't know, just keep going meta with this with this ship. Oh, check out this new song that's kind of already out there.
But with AI.
With AI though, Paul.
McCartney just got the bike vocals.
So it's kind of a cool backstory. The song is called Now and Then. And the very last thing that John Lennon said to Paul McCartney before he died was think about me every now and then, old friend, which sounds like some I know I'm about to die, ask ship for someone to say, uh. But apparently that's what he said, and that the song is called now and Then.
So so John Lennon's death was an inside job, as what you're saying.
Thank you, That's why I didn't want to have to say it, Miles.
I mean, okay, allegedly, but I see what you're putting down. I'm picking it up.
Yeah, okay. Good. Young people would sacrifice other perks for a four day work week, which I don't. I don't know why.
What are the perks?
Like? I don't need healthcare? We hold on, hold on now, what are we saying here? What are we giving them? So some of the things that they're saying is like they would work fully in person if it like they'll give up remote work if it meant four days of work like for the work week, or would be, or they'd work longer hours.
Jesus, don't tell them that.
Do that, don't do that. That point point is not we.
Gotta talk baby.
Now, I know you never worked in an office and you like the feeling, and I get that being around people is fantastic. Don't say, well, then you'll get the same amount of toil out of us. No, no, no, no, no, no no, that's what we're trying to prevent. They said, even working weekends, or even y'all or taking a pay cut. No, don't say this out loud.
Yeah they can.
They can do it all.
Your employer can let you work for four days and keep you at the same pay and ship will still be running.
We know this.
It actually works for them. They've done the they've done the experiments outside of America, and it's just like it's better forever. But it's even better for them. So you don't need to be like, I don't know, man, Like you want me to be your family, like you keep talking about how we're a family. I'll be. I'll be. I'll give up my family, I'll be part of your family.
Change last name, no change.
It's been rumored for a while now Elon Musk's wants to turn like Elon Musks wants to turn X into the Everything app. But we didn't have like official confirmation but he just had all hands with the remaining staff and was like people, Yeah, he was like, we're doing it, guys. This is actually the best innovation, like the highest rate of innovation ever for an Internet company, which seems very easy too, like a very easy thing to test. I think this is the fastest rate of innovation maybe ever
for any Internet company. It sounds like people were like even though the subject matter was like very dreary and the mood heading in was very dreary, he seemed very like calm and confident. I think he was just high, guys. I think he probably just got a little high before the meeting.
But oh yeah or whatever.
Yeah, he smoked the blunt that blunt face like oooh wow, do you guys hee? I mean, we've seen like it was about financials. I saw the thing like trending this week that also a dating app like would be built for scam City, y'all, that's scam fucking city. You know how many these blue check Elon stand dudes are gonna get got on here? I don't even sure sure Elon. We also found out that this shit is worth fucking nineteen million now, which is less than half of what you fucking.
You're hemorrhaging value.
Elon, but go on, great innovator of technology.
Great innovator of technology who heading in. The one noted problem that he was willing to say Twitter had was like the bots are everywhere. There's too many bots. And since he's taken over, the one noticeable thing I've seen is that now it's like overrun by bots. Oh, it's just like completely unusable because of bots.
So telling you that's why, that's why I have to charge people one dollar a year or whatever the fuck to see if that'll help put people off.
And finally in news that this was news to me, cup noodles will be microwaveable for the first time in fifty years thanks to a new cup design. This was news to me because I have been microwaving cup noodles for my whole life. I think Jesus at least start using him in high school.
Yeah, I never in my life. We were talking about this.
Uh, Like you know, in a lot of tea drinking cultures, you typically have like a vat of hot water just ready to go at any time. So my mom we always had like a big ass thing of boiling water whenever. So that's always what I used to make a cup noodle, just hot water on deck, just boiling water right on there. So I never it never occurred to me to microwave the thing like put room temperature water in their microwave.
That might just be my Asian hot water privilege. You know that, I'm not acknowledging.
I didn't even have a plug in electric water kettle like at my house when I was Yeah.
Did you have like the little steel you know, the pot that would whistle and shit.
Be put on the stove. Yeah exactly, Yeah, thing you put on the stove that takes tish kettle. Yeah, yeah exactly. That's a if you only have a tradition kettle in your household, you are incorrect. You are that that is not that's right. That's that you should have a plugging kettle. They're very cheap. They heat the water so much faster. If you can't have the like hot water heater ready to go, like you need, you need the plugging kettle.
It's but it's just wild that like now that you're like it's micro because people on our team were like, oh yeah, I used to do that, but it's like this thing was styrofoam and they're like, don't microwave it.
So there's.
Of users who are like, but one of us that wore microwaveing the last that.
I have been. But I could imagine a world where some people were microwaving it mild. I just got a hot flash. I think the Vietnamese nice copy. I'm sweating like all of a sudden everywhere on my tour. So oh boy, goodbye, goodbye. Oh wow. Yeah, it's kind of a body.
It's nice body high, nice body panic. Yeah, but yeah, I guess everything they always said was like it was not suitable for the microwave. So again, if you're some kind of chemist and can tell us what how long of microwave use of cup noodles actually puts you in a bit of a danger zone, how often would you have to do that?
Yeah, if we had to. My middle name is danger zone, so it doesn't bother me. My other middle name is microplastics.
Did you ever like the I remember as a kid microwaving stuff that was in a styrofoam thing, and the first time I saw how fat like like fat in a like uh like in a sty oh yeah, just like it basically devours the styrofoam at a certain temperature.
That's like I remember, those are my early memories as a kid.
I'm like, that's not good, right, The thing is collapsing like structurally because of the microwave.
Well, yeah, maybe I've been microwaving like shin Ramen or like one of the other ramens and didn't really like thought I was doing cup noodle. But it's definitely I've definitely microwave cup noodles at one point and just chalked it up to Man, I guess, I guess that's just what happens. I guess that's how they designed it was for the cup to like start thinning when when it's in there for a minute or two.
The shin Ramen ones, I feel are microwavable.
They are microwavable. Those are for sure.
Yeah, yeah, because they're paper cups, right right right yeah, ye.
All right, Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't know nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow. I'm gonna go have a nervous breakdown.
No go levit tape.
You're gonna let while having a nervous breakdown.
Don't think of it as a nervous think of it as like your body entering a new look.
It's like what Joe meant, dude.
There's this Joe.
Rogan line who talked about getting high and he was like, it's not paranoia, dude, it's your It's like you're expanding into a new area and that that's the discomfort you're feeling. Bro.
The second time you quoted this week, I just knocked.
Over as Celsius. I was trying to drink an energy drink today. I didn't tell anybody, but I was just trying to do it.
After we kept talking about energy drinks and I got a free can at like this fucking like charity five K I did last week. She was like in the gift bag and I was like, oh, crack this open.
Tastes like the whole Selsius to the dome kind.
There's like there's like a thorough the flavors marsh mandarin marshmallow. Why it tastes like a demented fucking like orange cream.
Sickle yeah, anyone. I don't like that at all anyways.
But back to back, dude, best podcast out there bro, and that's Andy or Doggy.
All right, bye everyone, Bye bye,