Hello, and welcome to this special edition of First Time Paratrend. That's the first time parents. That's me. Okay, that's a reference to me. Hello, I'm Miles Gray. I am joined to tell you what's trending by super Due Becca Ramos. Hello, are you back? Miles? Thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh, appreciate it. Thank you for that little little shoulder shimmy.
It's almost felt like a Harlem shake. Appreciate that. Yes, it's good to be back and talking to people about things that aren't you know, I don't know, like breast pumps or strollers, travel systems, Ergo, Omni three sixty carriers, baby burans, things like that. But I digress. We're here to tell you about what is trending on this beautiful Monday, March twenty seventh. First up, Jonathan Majors is in the news.
He was arrested this weekend on strangulation, assault, and hara estimate charges after the police were called to an apartment in New York and after allegedly assaulting a woman. Quote known to him as the police report says, his lawyers are like, he is innocent, and we have evidence to prove that, but he's not going to be in court officially until May, so I don't know what officially legally
is happening, but yeah, that's a oof city, sir. So many things swirling about this, all kinds of allegations coming on Twitter, from people being like we knew that from Yale,
and then other people are defending him. Other people are like trying to argue the merits of what strangulation may or may not be, which is you don't want to be on that side of Twitter, no, And then there was statements made, you know, obviously unsure how truthful they are, but his lawyer coming out and saying that the victim recanted her statement, which you know, not coming from the police department, so like, don't know if that is a rumor or if it is true that a recanted or
you know, if that's even true at all, like that the lawyer said that, So you know, all there is to say, in my opinion is believe women A and B. Just because you are beautiful and talented doesn't make you an not an abusive person. So yeah, platforms a lot of cognitive dissonance out there were people reckoning with these accusations and like, well, if it is true, or maybe it's not or whatever, this that and the other. I mean, what's what seems to be clear is that Marvel is
not saying anything. They're like, well, you know, we're gonna wait for that to play out a little. She's like in seven thousand Avengers movies coming up. So there's there's that part working with the MCU. But the US Army though not fucking around. They have pulled their entire new ad campaign which is starring him. They said, quote until the investigations into these allegations are complete. Wait wait, wait, wait, why was he in a US Army camp? That's all right.
I mean when I saw that, I'm like, that's why that is an l because in it there's like questionable. The whole thing though, like the whole like look of it is. He's like traveling through fucking wars to talk about the US military only get up to about World War two though, So okay, you know, whatever whatever hand you have in the revisionist history of the United States military policy is your back. But apparently they spent one
hundred seventeen million dollars on this shit. Um that is absolutely and say it doesn't shock me because a you know, the military is so much money and b you know, historically the military prize on like black and brown, you know, especially Poles, to put them on the front lines. You know, the people that are doing the cool jobs. That people are doing, the safe jobs, the tech jobs. Those are people that went to West Point. Those are people that
have you know, generational sergeants and their family. They are not the people the Offerer's Candidate school or something like that OCS. But yeah, it's I mean the what's really wild too is the army, they said again, because people are like beginning to be able to become a little more sober eyed about like being in the United States military, and it's like, what the Yeah, it's what. It's a force for around the world. It's not doing freedoms everywhere.
But apparently the reason they've chose majors was because quote his resonance with gen Z, Like yeah, just to add some insidious shit on top of it all, they're like, oh, let's a new batch of kids to enlist into. Uh you know, yeah, I guess. And that's what I was literally reading of, like how could you? And maybe he
does not have that self awareness. Obviously, he doesn't seem like a good person now, um to recognize like you as a reflection of like what they choosed you do, our community is and then like be the representation of that is yucky. So yeah, don't never accept the army's money. No, it just says you don't need no one needs that back. But again, this is uh, we'll see where this story goes, because it is it's like it's it's got every part of Twitter, like a light yeah, like Twitter everything. Yeah,
over the weekend, I was scrolling. I even had people tweet at me, um, just being like, oh my god, did you see I Like, yes, I obviously saw. I know I was thirsting after him over Creed, you know, but I can put that thirst away. There are many other men I can thirst after. I don't need him in my corner of people. Uh. But all that to say, yeah, I just think the conversation of a oh, well she's white, the implication kind of being deserved fucked up. Yeah, that's
not that's not a place to go with it. Yeah, the implication of well, also she's a liar because she's white, and that's historical, and it's like, yes, there is context of that, but there's also context of me. Two times up. We are not in an era pass those things very much. In Hollywood, if you are powerful, if they want you to succeed, they will ignore your bad behavior in order to propel you because you're a man at the end
of the day. Yeah, blanket, those blanket generalizations don't help anybody, but they're they're to definitely clawback progress. I mean, because it's just a very like attacking the victim is a time honored tradition in the parts of maintaining power and the status quo. Don't be a part of it. Don't be a part of it. You know, you don't have to say shit about it. You can just watch and read and then react in real time, don't You don't need to have a go out there with a take
next up Spotify, Um, how are they doing? You know, a lot of talk about we got this equity fun man, one hundred million dollars, were putting our money where our mouth is because this was what after Joe Rogan, they said, look, we know we're bad, but we're gonna remember they pulled all those episodes. They were like, oh my god, Yeah, he does say the N word a lot. That's crazy. Yeah,
oh that's wild. Okay, here's okay, we're telling you we're going to spend one hundred million dollars on diversity and that's in air quotes that are so airy. But how much they spent nine million already they spent. How much have they spent? Zero dollars? No? Ten percent? Which is like what wow? Million? Okay, but I've put the whole Okay, I mean, so what if you're distributing that, I know there suposed to do that over three years, you might
be a little bit behind on that. Such a little maths would be thirty three and a third Okay, Um, yeah, it is what it is. So I guess man, a lot of a lot of money being pledged all the time. Yeah yeah, yeah wow. Well and also the curious thing about this too is that the hundred million statement was supposed to be more of like a declarative statement of like, yeah, this is a big gesture, but in reality, they paid
Joe Rogan. It found out after they had made the hundred million statement as a representation of how much they paying Joe again double that, So it wasn't even giving the amount to diversity initiatives across a plethora of you know, shows and artists and things of that nature. Um, at the same amount as one person. They're literally doing half of what they gave that one person sprinkled that over like seven thousand things. Yeah, Yeah, there wasn't insult to injury.
I bet there. There's probably some real cynical accounting too, like did a did a person of color or any diverse people work on that show? Okay, let's put it literally, let's put that to there to the side. Uh, and then before we take a break. Um. In Nashville, Tennessee, there was another school shooting. Six people killed, three kids among them and three adults. Uh. It's like it does not stop. There was a video that's kind of going around now that a woman who survived the Highland Park
shooting in Illinois was around. I think she said she was visiting, like and she just was like she's like I've spoken to over like one hundred thirty some lawmakers to try and figure out how we do something to ensure have some semblance of gun safety, and we have nothing. And it's my god, I mean, like it's such a like a national embarrassment to be living in a place where you're looking at the statistics say guns are the biggest now killer of children, and and act doing nothing crickets.
But then you know, and I think this take has taken over like one million forms on the internet now. But if like plick of like art just completely skewed priorities where we're mad about, like tell us telling kids that Rosa Parks was black in a history book and we're trying to deracialize things like that, or get the head of TikTok up here because it's a Chinese spy machine and things like that, where we have real you can you can point to a legitimate, quantifiable body count
here and or we're in the same place. It's it's horrifying, it's really, it's really yeah, yeah, it's it's absolutely heartbreaking. And it's also interesting that Miles, when you were out just a couple of weeks ago, we had covered this viral video of this teacher demonstrating I don't know if it was a teacher or the company that's called Corner Wall things. It was like the four corner wall like blast shield. Yeah yeah, and it's like that's our solution
instead of I don't know, removing guns. Like it's like, there's so many things wrong with that there's so many systems that can make that fail in terms of there's not equity in the local state, you know, national whatever systems of schooling and budgets and what schools get those, everybody's going to get that. Yeah, I don't think so.
And here's the other thing too, is because whenever we have a problem societally in this country, if the solution is an industry has to make less for the greater good, we'll never do it, absolutely because money still has to be made. And it's like, well, well, if we dial that back, then somebody needs to make money off these like class room shields rather than substantive reforms around keeping
people safe. I mean, you know it's only now that like people were like, oh man, solar is kind of lucrative. Maybe looking into that, but it's just the yeah again, uh, for the consistent, consistent sickness that we're having to come up against living here, and yet my heartbreaks. Um, all right, let's take a quick break and we'll come right back to talk some more after this and we're back Waco, Texas. We talked about this going into the weekend, that Trump
was going to have a little rally there. You know what I mean, you know, he's like, you know what happened here right remember that? Well you know what I'm wearing right now, myles, look represent look represent where you're from. But you didn't go at a bay because you're down with the branch Davidians, unlike Trump, who's there to send a message because he's trying to get a slow motion riot going right now because he feels he fears he's
going to be he seems seemingly is shook. So now everything's talking about like, well, if you rescued me, then the people are going to turn up and get real violent. And it's already you've already seen with the DA getting a mysterious white powder and a death threat sent to him at the end of last week, that you're already seeing things happen. But the rally was some people showed up, but a lot of people left early from a lot
of the reports. I don't know if the weather was like over there, but I don't blame you can only you know, stand in the sun and hear someone just sundown on the microphone for yeah, NonStop. But he also said he also fit in a couple of good shoutouts to putin where he was like, yeah, he said he's gonna invade. He looks like he's gonna get a piece now of Ukraine or maybe the whole who knows. And it's like it's like, who are you talking to? I think the audience is even like good, They're like, where
are you getting this information from? Yeah, so i'd play the sound clip, but look, I'm slowly trying to get the bandwidth back to be able to report on everything that's happening in our country all the time. So I'll spare everybody that sound bite and we'll move on to our next topic, our next trend, which is Twitter. I've you friends from tech who are like, oh, the Twitter api leaked or the source code or the source code leaked. I'm like, yeah, I saw this, and I was like,
I'm like, is bad? Is bad source code? But yes, that is kind of like the entire that's like the instruction manual to like how to fuck up Twitter, because a lot of people are saying, like, the easy way to describe it is if a hacker like hacked in the main frange, Well, it's like a it's like a map where you can like see how the platform is built, but also you from there, you can look at any vulnerabilities that exist because you can play around with it.
So that's not good. And apparently it leaked right after Elon Musk went on a firing spree, so god, oh no, how could that happen? And meanwhile, this dude is out here being like, oh my god, Twitter lost half its value. It's only worth twenty billion now, Oh my god, leopards ate my face? Why would they do that? Uh sir, this is all of you. You made it all happen, buddy, you can That's like, this is one of the times you can be like that was me. Maybe Tesla wasn't me.
Maybe I was, you know, partnered with some smarter people on those other past projects. But this shit, oh me am, I want to be edge lordiness and lack of I don't know, being told no ever as a human being. So h yeah, tear tear, drop tears. I guess has your Twitter used changed it all since I've been going? Are you kind of on at the same amount? Yeah? I'm on it about the same amount. I mean really, I wasn't on it much before and then obviously you know,
the Elon Musk of it all. I'm like Okay, well, definitely not trying to be on it now for sure. You know, I'm on it for the show. I get tweeted out for the show, So yeah, there's some discors yeah about it, all right, yeah, yeah, I'm not I'm not there to like be like and how do you figure into all this? But I'm just as someone who quite literally just i mean, having a baby was so easy to be like, Man, I ain't looking at shit.
I mean, I feel very grateful that I never jumped into Twitter, you know, like back in the day, I was a Tumblr girly and I just never got on Twitter like that out of Twitter since high school. But I just you could probably see a total of like ten tweets before I started working this job, like I was not that. I'm sorry, and you know, yeah, and we're not responsible for the psychological damage that has done
for Twitter, so don't use it. Uh. And then finally, Dolly and David are trending first because Dolly Parton she has a song with Maya Lee Cyrus called rainbow Land, and a first grade teacher in Wisconsin wanted to have like the tea the kids sing this like rainbow Land song for their spring concert. Because you know it's a great song. Let me really read the lyrics, because according to other people, this is like a terror, it's too controversial. It says living in a rainbow land where you and
I go hand in hand. Oh, I'd be lying if I said this was fine. All the hurt and they hate going on here. We are rainbows, me and you, every color, every hue. Let's shine on through together. We can start living in a rainbow land. Living in a rainbow land. This guy's are blue and things are grand. Wouldn't it be nice to live in a paradise where
we're free to be exactly who we are. Let's all dig down deep inside, brush the judgment and fear aside, make wrong things right, and end the fight because our promise, ain't nobody gonna win. Come on, that's so man, that isn't enough. Yeah, but again, people just have the conservative shit that's going on now that this is absolutely just a nightmare, just a nightmare. So uh sorry, sorry to those kids who had to I don't know, be subjected
to something that was about being more inclusive. And then I also want to touch on the reason David is trending, because did you I don't know if you saw this, like this teacher in Tallahassee, uh, like showed a picture of Michelangelo's David to a group of sixth graders and like the like the principle had to step down because like, I'm sorry, we did not alert the parents that they
would see a little marble penis of Michelangelo's David. The frenzy around like sexuality of any kind and how that's like the gateway to de deviancy or being you know,
taken or trafficked or something like that. I mean, yeah, at this point, they're probably just going to be showing people like in like art class is like just a text panel that's like describing the art, and they're like, and that's that's all we can show you because it will ruin your brain, not the amount of gun violence that is around you, but because you saw Michelangelo's David. But yeah, it's yeah, I mean, hey, great time for great time to be a parent and think about Mike.
I'll say that literally, like Okay, so I'm never moving back to the South ever again, Like it's just crazy. Yeah, yeah, well i mean it'll it'll eventually, it'll event I mean, who knows if if if the conservatives have their way, this could be a standard. But anyway, that's a reason why we have to keep an eye out because this has just man the culture war stuff is getting so old. Please,
is getting so old? Please please. Eventually people might realize you're not doing anything with policy, but whatever, that's for a dream world where people are engaged. Um. Anyway, thank you for joining us. That's going to do it for it today. We're back tomorrow brand new, staying in an episode. Thank you for joining me, beck up, we'll talk soon.
Until next time, make sure you know you're out there being kind to yourself, be kind to each other, get that vaccine if you haven't yet, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and take care of yourself. I already said that, but we'll see then tomorrow five