Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Peanut Trend and M's. We will be talking about Eminem's later America's favorite candy.
Oh, I think California.
Eminem's are California's favorite in this year's candy map.
Yeah, the thing that was most frightening hot to Molly's was hot Rise. But again to the the analyzes there was suggesting that because they aren't as readily available in store just means it's feeling more online sales. That's so, don't worry. We're not losing not losing our ship over candy.
Like I think it's fascism. I think it's fascism.
Just people just need to feel something. Yeah, and it's their mouth subtly tingling.
When's the last time you heard someone call another person a hot to Molly ernest brother?
It was this morning. It was coming out of my own mouth. I was driving my kids to school. Yeah, now that that one's gone the.
I haven't heard that in a while.
Gone away. It really really shouldn't. He comes hot to BALI like, who are you talking about? All right, we're gonna do some social media misinformation up top. Yeah, in case it seems like things have gotten worse and less reliable.
They have. Yeah, so all the way back.
In twenty eighteen, five years ago, a study found that false news actually traveled faster than real news on Twitter by a substantial margin. Yeah, farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth in all categories of information.
And it said, and in many cases by an order of magnitude based magnitude, Twitters smoke in the competition in terms of getting the bad info out.
And now that platform, the one that they were talking about there as like this is a major problem. That platform has scrapped many of its pre existing guardrails. Yeah, and now like the big one being the verification system, which used to used to be a way to be like, this person has a blue check let me click on it. I es they are a reporter from the BBC, And now it is a way to be like, ah, yes, this person has racial slurs in their bio.
Yes, this person has some kind of fashion NFT thing going okay.
But yeah, so I mean taking the one verification, like the one sort of thing that was supposed to be unfakeable and obviously was not perfect, but taking that and making it a thing you could pay monthly for was really you know, I don't think unintentionally just dismantling the idea of this being any sort of reasonable source of information.
Elon Musk, who has been flirting with openly embracing anti Semitism for years now, personally recommended at the beginning of this conflict, I recommended two accounts for following the war in real time, but they happen to be accounts with a history of spreading false information and in the case of one of them, posting anti Semitic statements.
Oh perfect, Yeah, perfect, that's exactly what Elon Mulbitt wants to do. And also yeah, like, I mean, just he's found a way to make a little bit of money and also just set the disinformation dial to fucking fourteen by basically saying like, yeah, we'll use this thing you can pay for, and also the algorithm will favor you, so you have an even wider audience for whatever video game clip you want to post and say that it's actual wow war footage.
Yeah, but I mean one of the people he linked off to and his his post got eleven million views before he took it down. He argued with others over Israel and religion, posting a year ago that the overwhelming majority of people in the media and banks are Zionists and telling a correspondent in June to go worship a Jew little bro.
So like that's so he is platform yeah, yeah, and again like I think the one thing that a lot of people warned everyone about is like, you know, people autocratic leaders would love nothing more than to have Twitter turned into a thing where it's like you can see
anything anytime. It won't get checked or it'll take a like millions of people will see it before something's corrected, and now no one can really agree on what is happening over a given thing, which is very useful right now as Gaza is being leveled and just completely level and I like to be honest, like the talk of misinformation, it's it's like also like crowding out the discussion of like, well, what about these people who are now experiencing collective punishment
from the Israeli government, which is a war crime that it's taking up Like there's so many, so much shit has come out of this that it's like there's like seventeen different conversations happening while yea, like for Americans, I think we really need to be grappling with the fact of like where are our tax dollars going right now?
Because this is we're in another moment where misinformation has caused, like you know, pre first Iraq War and Second Iraq War, like this thirst for vengeance and blood that we're seeing awful shit happen in real time, and like there's barely any commentary on that, which I think is really the most is super fucked up now because beyond the tragedy that happened from Saturday's attack, now we're moving on to the destruction of Gaza and it's like sort of an
afterthought while we keep switching focus on things in the mainstream media.
Yeah, obviously Facebook has a history of allowing this information to thrive. One EU regulator told Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk in a letter that he has to fix the problem immediately, and he gave them twenty four hours.
To do so.
Like giving off police chief in an eighties action movie, vibes.
Right from like I need that on my desk yesterday.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's just the entire premise of these platforms, like they are too big to fact check reasonably at the in the economic model that in which they were built, if they were viewed as the public resources that they are and you know, staffed and funded by taxpayer dollars, so that there was you know, things that took advantage of like our current level of technology, that were accurately staffed and like fully staffed to be like responsible, that would
be one thing, But these are incapable, like fully incapable as long as they are you know, profit driven institutions.
Totally.
I feel like there are more people monitoring password sharing on streaming sites, and there probably are misinformation on social media because again that that endeavor actually helps create money, whereas this one, it's like, well, I mean, yeah, it's I guess it's like it's better for the common good to check this kind of stuff, but ultimately not a priority for X formally known as X.
Yeah, there's the SIFT method that some people are passing around is developed by digital literacy expert Mike Callfield and serves as a good baseline method for how to navigate social media in the middle of an unfolding crisis, and just it's not supposed to be like this replaces fact checking, but it's like for you to just be like, Okay, so you know, but here's the thing for me to like just a mental checklist to run through. And the
goal here isn't like again full fact check. It's just to make sure you're not just doing is it sharing something two seconds after you fucking see it right exactly? SIFT stands for stop yourself from immediately sharing something without fully considering. Investigate the source, check out that account sharing the info right, find better coverage. See if this info is also being shared entrusted news sources. Trace the source, see where the information can be traced back to, whether
that's a quote or a photo or a video. You know, a lot of the videos that are being shared are from you know, months ago, years ago, Are you know, just being taken out of context to make things seem more sensational?
And also callfield is.
Just like and look, you might not be the person to share information on this, You're you might not be the person to know what the fuck is going on? Like, can you personally translate the language being spoken? Are you equipped to research and analyze videos and photos from sources you've never encountered before? If you haven't encountered them before, don't just be like, well, seems seems good because this other person I trust, uh shared it.
Yeah, you know, it's it's but again, like this is kind of like our problem with just you know, not
just social media, but now journalists, especially in America. We've talked about this too, Like how like when we talk about other you know, like the New York Times or like CNN, we're like, why aren't they like able to talk about like what the fuck's actually happening in like any given fucking topic where it's like, yeah, why aren't they actually criticizing qualified immunity when we're talking about police violence and why do they only take quotes from the
police to do something? Or why aren't we talking about what corporate landlords are doing to the housing crisis? We're only focusing on like a very narrow part of a crime. Like because again, the people that are able to continue that sort of lack of thinking or at least questioning the status quo, those are the people that end up in the jobs because they they're like, Okay, you know how to do this, Yeah, you're right, you know how to not rock the boat.
And now when we.
Get they're confident and they make it go down easy, right, you know exactly.
Yeah, and now and now we're now we're at this point too with like like this like super contentious piece of reporting that's come out of the attack on Saturday, which is everyone has been talking about like how many babies were beheaded? Was it forty? Were they beheaded?
Were this?
I mean, like, look when the media gets like into like and this is justified vengeance, that's when it's becoming an issue. So like you talk like we've talked about this thing. Yesterday, Joe Biden said, like at the podium, this guy said, oh, I saw pictures. The actual quote is, I've been doing this a long time. I never really thought that I would see, how, you know, have confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children?
Right, And everyone makes it sound like that like that seems like okay, well, case closed. Obviously he got an intelligence briefing, right, right.
And that's what he's saying in his capacity as president. Wait a second, he makes up stories about knowing a guy named corn Pop with a razor blade and like a rusty drum, and then the White House had to come back and clarify that he in fact did not see anything. He was just saying like what he heard from other unverified, unverified.
News report that everybody else was quoting. Yeah, right, so it is unverified still just you know, some people were like, actually it has been verified, and no, no, it isn't.
And I think people have gotten hung up that like potentially I'm bringing this up to say, like and that therefore negates everything. No, no, no, no no. What I'm talking about is the sensationalism in media to manufacture consent where we look the other way when like horrific shit is happening, and now there's there's a connection to me as a United States citizen where I'm like, well, this is our government is here funding this. Yeah, and that is an
issue too. So we've talked about like how this has happened in countless conflicts of some kind of sensational piece of reporting that ends up getting coming out of it like in everyone's mind, and we blindly go into bloodier conflicts like the fucking last time we went on a fucking imperial mission into this region of the world off the back of WMD nonsense and things like that, and at the time, people were like, oh, yeah, like you
gotta do it. After a little bit of distance, and people took a breath, They're like, yeah, that was so fucked up and wrong. And what I would what I would hate is that we would repeat something like that when you know, even more horrific violence is being unleashed on people, innocent people, and you have no way in Gaza, no way out. There's no power, there's no electricity. People are now like sending like I'm I think I'm just
gonna We're probably gonna die here at this point. And I look on other I look on the like, you know, the the main front page of places like CBS News, and like their main thing isn't like, you know, people are pulling, you know, innocent bodies out of the rebel. It's US arranging flights to get Americans.
Out of Israel.
Right, Oh, well, there's also there's also Americans in Gaza. Yeah, and that's also not talked about it And so I think that's so for me, I'd rather take this time to talk about things that aren't being discussed enough because all the other atrocities, and that's what they are, atrocities
are being reported on. But I'm not seeing from especially this the media in the United States, you know, faithfully reporting on the other horrific things that are happening, which are also of the public interest and people to know what is happening.
And yeah, so again.
The misinformation plays a huge part in that because it's NonStop and again check out like every most of these news sites like Reuters and stuff, they have fact checking sub sections that you can check out, which is really important.
But anyway, along with all that, we just continue to see, you know, what everyone is calling, at lightly i think euphemistically, a humanitarian crisis happening and in a more you know, probably potent way of saying it is like you're potentially seeing, we're seeing the rhetoric of like mass death being bandied about, and you know that everything else is just kind of taking our attention other ways versus how things are covered on websites like you know, al Jazeero or at least
even like the BBC, like there's at least a humanity attached to what has happened to people in The.
Guardian has been good, BBC has been good. It's yeah, somebody proposed the thought experiment on social media, like in the aftermath of nine to eleven, like in retrospector do you feel like the problem was that people didn't emphasize the barbarity of al Qaeda enough, or that people didn't try and pump the brakes on the indiscriminate killing of people who are just the same color or from the same country as those people.
You know, Yeah, because when you look back, completely destroyed a part of the earth and hundreds of thousands of lives were lost off the back of not being able to like have any kind of real analysis. But again, I don't. That's a much larger issue of how the United States operates and our larger place than global foreign policy. So anyway, and I do, it's a lot of I just.
I think there's a way to stay committed to core values of you know, not supporting the killing of innocent people, like the importance of the truth, and also equality in terms of who gets talked about and when when innocent people are killed, Like are some of the innocent people being talked about and others are not? And right, So like why do we think that's the case?
Right? And it's the same you know, Yeah, we have these kinds of disparities in our own domestic media coverage too, and you just see this like bad hat that play out on another scale.
So yeah, there we are there.
We are all right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back with some actual good news. We'll be right back. And we're back. And a new study was just released documenting how a pioneering bionic hand has improved a woman's life. She lost her arm in a farming accident and continued to suffer from chronic pain.
Like there's a wild thing that happens to people who like lose a limb.
Oh, like phantom limb.
Yeah, phantom limb and like phantom pain.
So she had a neuro musculo skeletal implant which allows her to maneuver a prosthetic hand with her mind. It's just fucking crazy. And also like not from Elon Musk, so it sounds a lot cooler. Yea was tested on presumably hundreds of thousands of monkeys, but yeah, it's her description of what she was dealing with, Like before the bionic hand, it felt like I constantly had my hand in a meat grinder, which created a high level of stress, and I had to take high doses of various pain
killers before this. And then with the aid of the neuromuscular implant, the patient can maneuver the prosthetic hand with her mind, allowing her to pick up objects, and the titanium hand actually bonded with her bone matter through the surgical process.
Ok One time, bones and doll isn't a little bit freaky? Okay? I like this version of bone fusing with I mean because this is something that I've like, I feel like in the nineties we always saw like the promise of some like bionic prostheses, and I'm like, when is that happening? But I guess this is like the way I'm seeing it written about. This is pretty Uh, this is a pretty major breakthrough.
Yeah, and it is Star Wars and it is you know.
Now we just need them to do Lightsaber and we'll have I would start.
With maybe, you know, advancements in oncology, maybe.
Thing like Darth Vader pill to grow my hair back pill to grow hairback light safer on College World Hopper and the yeah you have your marching orders Eminem's Are you?
Are you a eminem king Miles? I don't know.
I'm an eminem popper. You're an eminem popper with them because I pop them, baby, But it's a double on, you know what I mean?
Oh?
Yeah, I mean I like. Yeah, look, look I love peanut eminems. I don't like almond eminems. I like the brownie eminems. I like the cookie Eminem's. Shout out Rex, Ryan, y, you.
Do want to fuck the green eminem you've always said off? Mic Oh? Is that? Where are we supposed to keep that off?
Mic?
Well, I mean, I guess guts out of the back. Sorry, Lola Bunny, you've been replaced.
But they are a logical promotion where you can get free candy delivered to your house on Halloween night if you're running out of Eminem's for trigger treaters, or presumably if you're you know, just getting high and watching Rocky horror and just you want some free candy exactly. But this is being done through So my first thought is bad time to be on the roads.
Yeah, okay, I gotta I gotta drop off this promotional bag of Eminem's kids get to the fucking.
Road, like to and to be like calling something like rescue squad. So it suggests like an emergency is taking place, like as children uh with diminished visibility or wandering around uh night darkened streets.
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know about this.
Also, this delivery is being facilitated by Go Puff.
You might wonder why they call Go Puff.
Yeah. I always thought it was like, are they selling weed?
And they never was.
No, but it was a hookah delivery service. That's how they started. Oh that's why they go Puff.
Holy shit. I love when like they're like, we're staying true to our fucking big clouds of hookah smoke roofs.
Yeah, Go Puff, uh huh.
But they have been called out in recent years for pressuring managers to not let their employees take bathroom breaks. Oh great, great, great, Greg, you have a emergency delivery from a rescue squad driver who have to pee real bad, and a bunch of children walking around with their witch mask on backwards.
You know, Yeah, I just don't love it. McDonald's. Don't love it as much as I love peanut Eminem's.
Wait, why'd you say McDonald's. Yeah, I don't love him mcd Oh, you're just giving them the reverse, Are you mean eminem's Eminem's Oh uh wait? Does Eminem's not stand for McDonald's and McDonald No, Jack, I keep damn it. Christ all right, all right, let's take it from the top. Hello, the uh mark three here we go.
Yeah, I don't.
Again, I think at first I was like, oh, I hope you can just like bring their business down. But now when you know that obviously this is going to be delivered off the back of someone who's just.
Been like, oh fuck, it's gonna have to.
Drive around town throwing one bag of Eminem's out.
Yeah.
I got my own emergency eminem delivery service and it's called my Children. Wow, go trigger treating and then deliver those eminems to me. The erotic thriller is back. Maybe I don't know. Are you an erotic thriller fan?
Oh?
Of course you like to get horned up with your scares? Oh man, disclosure disclosure disclothed.
What was the other one, dude? I was like, again, it was a Sharon Stone freak back in the day.
Deliver Aaron Stone free.
Yeah, man, Sliver, I was fucking with even Yeah, like I just remember all those movies back then for sure.
Well yeah, I mean pre internet porn.
Like when we were talking when we did our episode with Chelsea Davante's about our lack of horniness, is like those The reason it wasn't because I was like, I was just like I might see sex.
M hmm, so bringing.
See I'm gonna watch this because I might see might see sex.
How about that?
Anyways, Disclosure also just a great super realistic depiction of the future of technology, where wherein we all use virtual reality head pieces to do filing. You know, we file away our computer files in a virtual library and just like carry them around through hallways instead of saving them to a disc. But anyways, there's a new movie on Netflix. It's the number one movie on Netflix. It's called fair Play. Like okay, that title sounds like a thing that like
a horny guy says, like a fair play. It's about a woman Phoebe dinover de Never who knows from Bridgerton, and a man played by Lil Han Solo, the guy who played Han Solo.
In the uh thet Kid.
Yeah, yeah, no, I don't think it's el Gort, but it's the guy who I thought was They They occupied the same space my brain for a long time. Yeah yeah, yeah, Aaron Reich. Yeah. But they work at a hedge fund firm. Oh I can't wait, and they begin a steamy relationship huh. But things then go south when the woman gets promoted and the guy doesn't uh.
Oh so we're right back to the fear of the powerful woman.
Yes, yes, and what I'm hoping the woman is the protagonist. It's made by a woman filmmaker who said they loved Michael douglas movies. Chloe domont is the first time director who wrote and directed this and cites several Michael Douglas movies as influences.
So I'm hoping it's not.
Just like, man, this girl got too much power and then she was evil to the guy.
But we'll see.
Oh no, yeah, it sounds like after she gets promoted, Luke's resentment over not being promoted becomes increasingly apparent, leading to tensions.
Yeah, but okay, Yeah, it'll be interesting to see if this one takes off because there's been a lot of erotic thrillers that people have been wanting, Like, we like the idea of erotic thrillers making a comeback with like Don't Worry Darling, deep Water with ben A Fleck, and but those movies like I feel like they kind of came and went right.
Yeah yeah.
Yeah.
Well, also with Don't Worry Darling, if no one even talked about the movie, everything was like, does Chris Pine hate this motherfucker. Like it was like, all, like, that's the only thing I remember from the movie, and then something something Jason sidekaz Olivia Wild Divorce is like the all the only thing is I know about this about
that movie. But I think it's probably I'd imagine that the twenty twenty three version of an erotic thriller isn't going to fall into the same old weird shit like it's nineties predecessors did.
We'll see, maybe we can't. Maybe we'll watch it and review it for you on Monday. I got a lot of a lot of options. The Taylor Swift.
I saw the concert though I don't.
Know, but like so I didn't really know any of the songs. I still don't, but like now maybe i'd be like, oh yeah, okay, this sounds better the second time I'm hearing it.
I think I would go to see Taylor Swift on opening night, but I would bring a folding chair and I would put it at the front of the theater and I would face the audience. I don't need to see the screen. I just want to watch all of y'all react to this.
And just be like yeah, yeah, And I think that would be welcomed by the fans, and I don't think anyone would be freaked out by that at all.
No, by a man of color alone in the theater setting up and setting them.
Yeah.
Super producer Victor asked if I was going for a nostalgia because you know, I'm nostalgic for the two months ago.
It's because you blacked out.
Bro, you know your memory, you know, you know how Taylor.
Do you know what? You know what Taylor does to me? And a sugar rush you know. Anyways, those are and we'll get to Taylor.
On tomorrow's episode. Yeah, important question. Yeah, we have to ask about her.
That's going to do it.
Yeah, for this Thursday trending episode, we are back tomorrow with a whole ass.
Episode of the show. A whole it's not a.
Whole ass episode, it's a whole ass episode. Wow, episode is not ass. It's a pretty good one. Actually, I think I think.
Yo, this ship is ass.
That is as until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourself, get the vaccine. Yes, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow.
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