Jessica SimpsTrend 2/2: Beyonce, Jessica Simpson, Groundhog Day, Quavo, Arkansas, James Cameron, Mispronounced Words

who I just gave all of my money too. But ticket are you comfortable talking about where you are in the process of Yeah, sure, I mean we at I heart maybe half perks. I'm hoping it's not a scam, but I did drop some Monday's. But the reason I'm stressed is because A I spent a lot of money on these tickets. But b if you're on the internet, you know you're seeing the UK tickets drop and they're like nothing, They're like sixty to four dollars, and I'm like,

huh uh. Not that I would go to Europe to go see the show, because I think, you know, Beyonce is historically like an American black icon, so I think the show dynamic is going to be a very different vibe here in the States. Especially I'm trying to go to the Houston show, which I think will be the best show the tour because it is hometown and it's

my hometown versus like the UK situation. But it is crazy to see like the regulations they have there for their citizens versus here where it's like from my understanding from from the whispers I hear the sources I have, starting prices are like seven for the nose bleeds and for the pit is you know, upwards of ten k in certain areas of the pits, depending on the venue. But you go online and if you go to like vivid Seats or seat geek or like all these reseilers

that aren't Ticketmaster, they're already selling tickets. So I just hope that people aren't going on those sites like already trying to buy from there, because it does to me. I'm like, I started panicking because I was like, these are way under the market rate then what I've been hearing what I've been seeing, So I hope people don't buy and then they end up being a scam. It did make me feel like did I get scammed? I

don't know. I feel like we won't know until I mean we're all universally scammed by the concept of tickets starting in the United States a se scamp. But is Tata Maaster? Does Ticketmaster operate in the UK? I'm actually not familiar with like do, but I think they just have different regulations over there for their citizens. Like I think Ticketmaster isn't allowed to do the dynamic pricing. Maybe

that the United States does. You know, that's the reason that the tailor Swift tickets went crazy is because they think have a certain subset of tickets, like they offer like ten to twelve percent the tickets to be dynamic pricing, so they can basically with the demand go up and then if people buy them, they're able to resell them, Whereas I think the Beyonce tickets are trying to curb some of that issue with the sectioned verified ticket selling. So it's like, if you want to go to these cities,

you register in this one. If you want to go to these cities, you register in the second one. So I'm so forth for the third section. And then also they do say on the website that they're not transferable tickets, So I think that's how they're trying to curb the

resell price hiking. But I just like wonder how they're gonna like nail that, especially if it's like, are they going to require people to pay for the extra service fee for the refundable in case they can't go to the show, And you know, I want to resell them just in that way where it's like I got the flu, I can't show up anymore, you know. I mean, I'm sure people with the flu are still going to go and give people the flu, but you know what I'm saying,

and that's what's important, and that's what's important. Yeah, we dig into this a little bit more tomorrow in a couple ways, because, like the the UK having regulations in place that make it such that this is not the same madness as also had a theme of tomorrow's episode because there's massive strike happening in the UK, not being that much in the US. But um, yeah, all right, well let's talk about why Jessica Simpson is trending. This mainly caught my eye because it's a Jack can't fathom

the concept of it. Well, it's a new unit of media that I wasn't familiar with. So Jessica Simpson's trending because she released an Amazon original short story titled movie Star. They always say they're single, which is It seems like it's a magazine article penned by Jessica Simpson, not affiliated with a magazine, just like being sold at like the

way somebody would sell an Amazon independent like book. You know. Um. But it was an effective hook because it's basically about a near relationship that Jessica Simpson had with a movie star who is referred to only as movie star and is trying to get Jessica Simpson to sleep with him, even though he is publicly in a relationship, and he's like, no, no, no no, no, we we actually broke up. It's just for the for the paparasis that we pretend we're together.

But then it was like trying to hide her and like have her stay in like separate floors of the hotel and stuff. So this is a real story. This is a real story. It's almost like a memoir exert. Yeah, yeah, but why go through all the trouble of yeah, why why go through all the trouble of having a memoir, writing an entire memoir when you just like do a short story. Yeah, yeah, So I don't know. People, people are now guessing seems pretty smart. I don't have any

guests as to who it is, but she said. She eventually realized that he was attempting to hide her from his chick, and so she she bailed, but not without stealing the pillow case that he slept on as a thing too, like, as a piece of proof that this happened in fact, um, which I admire just open creepiness. Um. But yeah, I also, I mean, anything you can do to give Amazon a little bit of shine because I'm

just a big fan of their media empire. Uh No, but it is always interesting to me if like people are creating content in a new unit, Like I've never heard of individual short stories being sold anywhere really, right, Yeah, I guess I really, unless it's a zine. But even then I feel like it would have to be like, uh, typically like a little animated zne like something that would be more of a comic style. Yeah, just like a random short story, unless it's in a magazine or something

like that. So I don't know, could I see you just because Simpson keep your name in those newspapers, what if this becomes like a new thing. Well, they're like, we can't get people to pay for articles, So I guess I'm gonna do this now, right This new trend in writing and authorship started by Jessica Simpson. Um. All right, it is Groundhog Day and we are being forced to ask the question, what does it mean? How many more weeks of winter if the ground hug dies? Because that's

what happened in Quebec. Oh Man, is this one normally we see our groundhog? I thought it wasn't like somewhere Pennsylvania or something. I think that any Yeah, No, there is punk Satani Phil. I think that is one of the main hubs. But this is there are small communities around the world that have big ground Hug Day celebrations that they've like built up a reputation for And I have a brand around and that brand has to be protected, which is what we're about to get into. It gets

a little strange. So this is apparently not the first so that this one. They went down to find the ground hug and they think he died sometime earlier in the year and it was just down there or did they already know that it passed when it passed? And I think I think it was just down there and dead. They discovered a dead groundhug. I don't, like, I don't think all the cameras were on, Like, I don't think

it was like that. That's the way I pictured at first, like they had the balloons ready to release, and then they like go down and pull out the Yeah, but um, it's yeah. They they realized it was dead when they like weren't seeing signs of it and then went down and bad news. But so this is not the first ground hug to die. Recently, Ontario's Warton Willie. So Wireton Willie died in but because of the pandemic, everything was online and the town tried to cover up the death

in order to protect the Wireton Willie brand. Um. Yeah, so he was replaced this year by some other ground hug. But at the time, uh, they were just like what, no, he's fine, everything's good, um and c Yeah, yeah exactly. It's it's a tough racket. Celebrity ground hug deaths are. I don't I don't know how how long ground hugs usually live. But one year Wireton Willie's to understudy animals were killed and they believe it was by wire Ton Willie.

The groundhog. Like the grown up ground hug that they were meant to replace, and like that. I think that was covered up. I did google. It says groundhogs live four to five years. And I don't know why. I was so traumatized when you said they found the dead groundhog, because I you know, I don't know why I thought they lived forever or something. I was like, I guess it never occurred to me that there have to be new groundhogs discycle. Yeah, but they really just like blast

through these things. In New York, Mayor Billed de Blasio fucking dropped their groundhog and the Staten Island Zoo tried to sweep it under the rug, but he dropped the ground hug on like on camera when they were posing for a photo op. And then the groundhog was quote unquote found dead in its cell on February nine, Oh my god, a week later. But it's like an an autopsy identified the cause of death as a cute internal injury. So um, I don't know why in autopsy. Oh man,

so many things, so much drama for groundhogs. Yeah. The first Willie appeared on the scene in the nineteen eighties. He lived to twenty two was found dead only two days before the Groundhog Day, a funeral was held, shocking a crowd of children who had not known Willie was dead. Oh so I guess Wait, that does spar the question, what how many more works of Winter if the ground Hawk dies? What do you think that? I think it's

nuclear winter, I think is what we're seeing here. Yeah, it's I think it's bad news would be my guess. But I don't know. I guess they die all the time and we've just been having it covered up, kept from us. And yeah, I think that's probably a good metaphor for something. Um, but let us know. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back, and Quevo is trending um because Quevo is going to perform a Takeoff tribute at the upcoming Grammy Awards, which, yeah,

I never know when the Grammy Awards are. I don't know. Either. Could have been six months ago. Well, since COVID, they've changed, because I think they used to be in February, and post COVID it's oh, it says Sunday, So it is this February Sunday. Okay, So that makes sense because I think at one point during COVID they ended up being in like May or something, you know, with everything that was happening and trying to do virtual and all that stuff.

But it seems like they're back to their regularly scheduled programming of February. So yeah, this okay, we'll see who wins. Um bad Bunny better win. That's all I want to say. Wow, that's an ultimatum. It's an ultimatum to the academy. There you go. Um, Arkansas's trending. So Sarah Hugabye Sanders is barely a month into office, but it looks like she's coming for the de santist culture war crown and doing just horrible, dehumanizing things. She's issued an executive order that

would prohibit critical race theory in Arkansas schools. Another executive order bands at the term latin X and official documents, and as soon as this week she could also sign a separate bill that would impose restrictions on drag shows, which could obviously have really harmful effects for the l

g B t Q community. There's also a Trump campaign video where he's like claiming that his platform is going to be to revoke gender affirming care, and it just feels like there's a real like race to the bottom going on in the right with how badly they can treat trans people and the l g b t Q community.

It is very sad and very disturbing to see like how quickly things can become reversed, because I would say, only in the past what ety years have like lgbt Q rights really accelerated and like become way more you know, open, less taboo, like there's more you know, helping the Supreme Court. I mean, I remember when it was like during Obama's first administration when gay rights were you know, affirmed by

the String Court. So that was not long ago. So it is really crazy and sad and scary to see how quickly things like the term latinos just got put into the dictionary in sen you know, that was not how long ago. So yis James Cameron has finally so there's some Titanic hype coming. The twenty five year anniversary of Titanic is in the offing. It's coming soon, uh, and so we're we're going to be seeing some Titanic stories.

I think Titanic is going to be re released at movie theaters and James Cameron has weighed in on the five year old debate about whether Jack's life could have been saved, and there's yes, he could have lived, but there's a lot of variables, James Cameron says, based on UM an interview he did for the National Geographic special Titanic five years later with James Cameron the anniversary, he said, in theory, yes could have lived, but it's going to

jeopardize the character of Jack. Might have lived, but there's a lot of variables. I think his thought process was I'm not going to do one thing that jeopardizes her, and that's in character. He is an all self sacrificing being Jack. So he could not risk the life of Rose if it meant that he was going to live her. Getting one toe frost bitten was not worth his life, not worth his life because the idea is that there there was room for him on the chest of There

for sure was absolutely. I mean, I haven't seen that movie since I was in high school, you know, not not the biggest Titanic fan. I think it's a little long for me, but some of the best dialogue of in film history. UM. And finally, as a public service, there's a new article that talks about like ten of the most mispronounced words, and five of them are foods um that you probably come into contact with. So we'll just go one through five. Here as um, which I

think is sometimes pronounced a kai. I definitely used to pronounce this is like, I feel like an attack on me this article as someone who frequently read s phonetically and can't say anything right. So I definitely was a kai at one point, and then I learned. I was like, huh, we all are we all were Yeah, we're We're I mean, I'm a complete idiot. I mispronounced things all the time, and that's that's what we do. We share this information and love and usefulness. The Greek soft bread sandwich the

I've been mispronouncing this one up until this moment. I was pronounced at the hero, but apparently it's either the zero or the euro. I didn't know it was a euro. I do feel like a lot of people do not pronounce it as hero. They pronounce as gyro, yeah and hero, I think, yeah, I don't. I don't know why I was miss pronouncing it that well. Genes can sometimes have h sounds if you're doing a Spanish pronunciation, like any sharkcuterie is not the way to pronounce that uh, and

is definitely how I've been pronouncing it. It's a charcuterie, don't It's the thing to remember shark cuterie isn't cute, so mind that. It also reminds me of I think I've told this story before, but when my first job out of college, we were at the ABC News like cafeteria, and I was with a person who had graduated from like an IVY League school, and I was like, crew, dight, what is that? And they were like, you, you must

be you must be joking. Um. I pretended I was, but um Nyoki, which I think when I'm feeling lazy, I pronounced as KNOCKI, but Niolki is the way to pronounce that. Nioki is such a weird I was thinking, I don't know why. When I read Nioki, I thought it was going to be the work of Nash because I'm dyslexic, so I feel like a Nash is also one that needs to be on this list. Gnash m okay, I'm not even sure how I've been pronouncing that word.

And then finally, worst share sauce is not pronounced that way. You never pronounced. The first are apparently it's either woost sheer or woosta shah. Okay, that last one seems like they're just fucking with us, doesn't it, because neither of these pronunciations are at all how I pronounce this. It's not worsha sire. Yeah, no, it's worster sheer. That is crazy. I feel dumb. Yeah, well, I think the correct pronunciations

in this case are dumb. Wooster Shaw seems like, yes, somebody decided that, and I'm gonna make everyone feel bad and be like, you don't know, that's crazy wooster Yeah. That that feels like a thing that was done to make fun of whoever was writing this article. They were like, yeah, uh worsh sauces wooster Shaw. There you go, buddy, um enjoy pronouncing it that way. Anyways, those are some of the things that have been trending on this uh February

second three. Happy Groundhog Day to all. Becca Ramos, thank you for joining me. Where can people find you and follow you? You can find me and follow me at Becks Ramos, B E. C. C. S. Romos on all the phones. Yeah, yeah, that's gonna do it. 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 do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow