Hello Internet, and welcome to this very special edition of Taco Bells mex Trend Pizza. And we're going to get into why we're talking about the Mexican pizza in one second, but first let me introduce myself. My name is Miles and I'm here in the place to be with Becca Ramos. Hello, Becca, Hello, how are you?
I'm good. I wanted to give another update. I finally got my eyebrows eliminated, and I would.
Say, close, child, bring them close to the camera. Let me see these eyebrows. They look good. Oh good God, almighty lamination in the building.
Wow, worth it. It was worth every penny.
I what does that mean? I'm sorry, what does that mean?
So basically, like you know, when you perm your hair straight.
I wouldn't know about that. Not with these jeans.
The concept, though, you understand. So basically you perm them up like you would use I think a similar chemical compound.
And they say laminade because it's that's the look like they're.
Lad Yeah, like they're slicks up, so basically edges laid. Basically, Yes, fantastic. I did the same thing to my lashes. I don't think the lash treatment is as worth it as the brow.
Dreaming because straight lashes is that the new life?
Well, they curl them up, like basically they're.
Like, oh, so you don't have to use that thing. I remember my mom you come back and day put her eyelid and they were.
Like it basically is like a permanent eyelash curler essentially, and people do it, I think who like their normal lashes versus getting like lash extensions because we know the curlies who have the extensions.
Oh yeah, shout out the mink extensions.
Like a step behind it getting full extensions. It's like your own latches and they're just curling them up. And you can't use extensions if you do have them curled up because they're like really fragile in the state. So you shouldn't like curl them yourself because they shouldn't theory be curled up and like mascara only no falses.
And how much time?
How much information did higag give you? Because I remember when you're on your eyebrow journey, you felt like people were coming through.
Everyone was just like, girl, get your eyebrows laminated, like that's what they do. They're all lying to you on the internet and they're right absolutely. And then one girl emailed me this really great Korean brand that I really want to order because I do trust that. But I was just like, go, I'm going to a wedding this weekend. I was like, I want to look good and I'm disappointed with my eyebrows. I'm just gonna suck it up
and get them laminated. And that changed my life. I feel like a whole new woman.
And I and I hope to not offend you with this statement, but your eyebrows have never looked better.
Thank you. No, that is what I needed to hear. And but I do think like the eyebrow treatment wasn't that expensive. The last treatment was pretty expensive, and I think for like the results I got the last tree worth the money is not worth the money. I would regularly get my eyebrows laminated lashes. It's like maybe I if I'm having some money, I have some fun.
Yeah, I'll do it.
I'm glad I tried it. I'll be trying it again. The lady you know, obviously, have you ever thought about getting your lashes leamonade? I was like, girl, no, I know you're trying to get more money.
I'm out of here, and thank you for though.
I'm scammed and I will do it right now, but I don't.
Know if I'll do it again, one thing at a time, all right.
Well, aside, those just fantastic brows from another planet allow us to get into some sadder news, and I don't mean to be flipping about some actual deaths. I kind
of reworded this. I went to talk about this Taco Bell lawsuit because a very disappointed Taco Bell customer is finally a class action lawsuit against Taco Bell because he's saying, the Mexican pizza and the crunch wraps, they don't got that meat, not the same quote, unfair deceptive trade practices for falsely advertising the amount of beef and or ingredients in various quote overstated menu items.
And oh so there's a skimpin.
Yes, they're skimping.
But again I get you know, like obviously those things are measured out, like you know, you got the scoop that's like you would get one scoop of beef whatever or whatever. But the other day I had the five layer of burrito.
Felt skimpy, you know what I mean? But hey, I get it. Times are hard.
I'm not coming for the people that work. Now, I'm looking at people at the c suite.
Times are not hard for the c suite of talk about.
You know, I'm not.
Saying that, Yes, I'm saying in the general, sort of vague Wall Street sense of the word, as they say, like, well, that's why we can't hire more people or give raises at all. That's these times are hard. Oh me, Sorry, my phone wasn't working because I was in the Maldives
for nine weeks straight. But yeah, I get it, man, Like this is always we will always be fucking disappointed with the advertisements for fast food and then you unwrap a fucking gray ass thing and you're like, instance, fine, that's.
Someone who's worked in fast food. After where you you know, I worked on KFC.
Oh oh, I thought you met you worked at no fast food?
He was allowed to work at fast food. My dad was like, absolutely not. If you're gonna have a job, it cannot be in fast food. Because he was just, I think worried as like a girl I was going to get like attacked while working my past food job.
But you worked at that lumber mill.
I worked at the lumber mill, and I worked Apostle, but I worked on KFC. Marketing for a long time, and yeah, it's peak.
Yeah, of course, you know. I mean, look y'all, there's something called food stylists. They're brought in to make this shit look like you would never believe. And I remember working on like a food thing before, and like how expensive a food stylist can be, Like if they know what the fuck they're doing.
Friends of food stylists, Yeah, because that he.
Should be called what they call a hero shot of your product.
That's it. That's worth money right there anyway.
So I don't want to know how much that ad costs, like a thirty second ad, I don't.
Want to know. But and then I'm just gonna be like, why am I? Why am I talking on the internet? Why am I styling Hamburgers? But for real, some real sad news. So Angus Cloud, who was you know, one of the stars of Euphoria, passed away twenty five years old. Fescal for people who you know, trying to remember his specific name. I had no, I didn't know he was that young. Yeah, well, I mean because he's kind of had that like old sort of hit, an old soul.
But yeah, apparently you know, he was really struggling after the passing of his father, which.
Was like this past week, so it was like within a Ye, his father's passing.
Which is wild man so young, and then pee wee Herman too, he died at seventy. He was battling cancer.
Yeah, why battling cancer?
Anyway?
Life is precious, y'all. Uh it's and then we had I mean there's so many whatever. I mean, people are always passing away, but you know they come around in clumps, don't they.
Yeah, very sad. I think people are also very struck in with Angus Cloud, not just because he's obviously so young and was like beloved in Euphoria, but his resemblance to mac Miller's like uncanny, and a lot of people were like, at one point, oh my god, will he
play mac Miller in a biopic? And like he even said no, like I don't want to because I don't feel like I am a trained enough as an actor, like I'm pretty new to this and b it's too soon, which is like so you know, thinking about context, yea rest in peace to souls?
Look at that. All right, let's take a quick break and we're gonna come back around to talk some more trends after I guess this and we are back. Taylor Swift just wanted to shout out. Shout out Taylor Swift. I mean, I guess actually I want to shout out somebody who makes damn near a billion dollars on their tour and says, you know what, maybe I need to cut some checks for the other people that make this happen.
So as we know the Era's tour is, I think it's at this point become the highest grossing tour of all time.
It's more than Beyonce right now that.
Right now, while there's been more shows so that I think, no longer we can do that. But I mean, because what Taylor's doing, like to like five nights in LA and shit.
Oh yeah, you know what I mean, Like I'm tired.
She's like no, yes, yeah, She's like, look, get it in now. But here's the deal. I got to keep this thing moving anyway. It's expected to bring in one billion dollars with AB and we recently found out, according to you know TMZ, that she has been giving a hundred thousand dollars bonus checks to each trucker on the tour.
And these are the people who are like the long haul truckers who are moving all the stage infrastructure, all of the fucking like hardware that needs to go to venue to venue and be unloaded move to the next thing to keep the show looking the way it does.
It's a very difficult job.
She's like, you know what, I'm gonna give you a hundred thousand dollars fifty there's fifty truckers apparently working on the show, one hundred thousand each person.
So that's like five million right there.
That's the least do.
Yeah, and again I'm like, that's actually the least you can do. But we need to kind of normalize.
This shit to start expecting this, because I don't want to hear people being like, this is the highest grossing tour of all time. It's like, well, what did you get as a light technician? Oh, just got my usual rate, you know. And to her credit, the other sources are saying that it's not just the truckers. It's the band members, it's the dancers, it's the lighting and sound text, it's catering.
It's like other people who are there as part of like the critical infrastructure of the tour have been getting what they say, quote very generous bonus checks.
Uh so yeah, you love to see someone actually putting their money where.
Their mouth is. So yeah, And we were kind of talking to like, you know, we don't. This is the kind of shit that it should be fucking normal, right, I like, Wow, Taylor, good for you. It's like this, please have some fucking awareness about if you are at the head of a money making snake, like where is where, what happens, what happens to everybody who makes it happen.
So it's literally why everyone's striking right now.
Yeah, it's like truly have you seen there's like one graphic where they talk about the actual revenues that are generated by film and television and then how much of a fraction, Like it's even imperceptible if you even put it in like excel as a spreadsheet. Oh, I'm just saying, like what that percentages that goes to like crew and cast and all that shit.
Yeah, it's insane. I mean, like I've been seeing those viral tiktoks go around of actors who got negative residuals. It's like, how can it charge me?
Yeah?
How am I going to get negative thirty seven cents?
Wait?
This is fucking up my credit for being in this episode of CSHA.
How how make this make sense?
Uh?
And I guess moving on to somebody performer who might not be acting in a way that we may have expected. So we got this thing coming out about Lizzo and she's being sued and by some dancers for a toxic work environment. Yeah, like body shaming and all kinds of shit.
It's been going viral so heavy on TikTok. Maybe were my side of TikTok, but I read this.
And old people written news.
Well that's why the version of this, yeah, yeah, I caught the old people news version where it was a headline of the written word.
Well, because it's like Jack will ask me, you know, behind the scenes of Jack will be like, by, oh, what's trending on TikTok? But sometimes I got to like legitimize the source, right, Like it's like, well, this is trending on TikTok, but like is it real?
Like it's right, right, right right.
And then when I saw the MBASC articles, like okay, so this is like a legitimate claim. This isn't just like more celebrity gossip fever, you know, like you could say the Arna Grande Ethan whatever his name, spunch Bob Broadway of it all. You know, there's a lot of fervor online.
About that, and that is real, right, he just left his wife.
It is real, But there's a lot of rumors also surrounding the subject matter. Like I feel like a lot of people are like, oh, remember when she did this thing in like twenty sixteen, and like remember how like I saw a video today that was talking about how this Disney cast member, you know, like someone who works at the parks hopped on the train of being like, aren't around. Actually, I'm so glad we're talking about it. She is the worst cast member or the worst person
to come to the Disney park. She makes a shit down the whole park, you know. So I'm like, how much of this now is hearsay? Y'all? Just like want to be able to put your like you shut.
Down the whole frind I never I never been there. I'm like, sorry, Marion the Grande here today.
Yeah, apparently loves to shut down the rock and roller coaster, like no one's allowed to go in or out when she's riding it. So it's like shuts it down for three hours, and but who knows who knows?
All right, Yeah, there's all kinds of discussion. We don't know what from what, but this thing.
Hit the news.
So yeah, so three.
Former dancers now are filing a lawsuit against Lizzo, saying sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment. I saw that, like, there are some some of the hostile work environment is to do with like the person who leads the dance team, and there.
Apparently the captain of the dance team, which I when I was initially hearing it on TikTok, it was alleged that the head that the captain of the dance team was the one suing. But she is not. She's actually an or trader who is like prostatizing, which is like to try to recruit people into a cult of a religion of sorts.
Wait, but she was proselytizing like for Christianity or like she had her own okay.
The dance yeah yeah, but at the.
Same time I heard, but then she's also kind of also holy and yeah, doing a lot of weird sex ship with the dancers or making them uncomfortable.
So there's just like a lot going on. And apparently it was reported to Lizzo, Like they were like, hey, we don't like her, and it was like.
So mm hmmmmmm yeah, like talking about someone was like virgin, like publicly discussing the virginity of one of the plaintiffs. And then they said that the was it like Lizzo, Like Lizzo asked somebody to touch a new performer in Amsterdactly.
Yeah, that's what they're alleging, so we shall see behind scenes.
Wow, this is.
Look, guys, we just got to.
Just try and be okay, keep each other with each other with all of these this alleged behavior is not becoming of this though. And then finally, this is something we always like to keep our eye out on. We always talked about the work from home propaganda, always talked about the push to get people fucking back in the office. We had Joe Biden being like, the pandemic's over, y'all, it's not. And that's why we can go back and we can hopefully resuscitate the commercial real estate industry that
has been fucking suffering since people began working from home. Well, there's a new study talking to workers that have had to have like mandated return to office is not looking good. Nearly half forty two percent of companies with return to office mandates witnessed a higher level of employee attrition than
they had anticipated. Almost a third of companies twenty nine percent enforcing office returns are struggling with recruitment because now people are like, oh yeah, cool, I love the interview. So it's it's remote. No, you would have to come into the office five days a week and people are like, oh okay, so miss me with that and good day to you, and I will move on to find work
that suits me. They also say, quote, a staggering seventy six percent of employees stand ready to jump ship if their companies decide to pull the plug on flexible work schedules. I know that part y, yeahn not taking me back, No, I mean I go in every now and then, but it's.
I get the I understand that feeling.
If it's like becomes mandata where it's like Noah, you have to come back, it's like I'm sorry, everything's working as it should.
So a lot of these companies are not improving the office environment in order for you to come back. So speak right, like they have cut out the snacks. They cut out all these things and so it's like, okay, then what's the point you're gonna make me come back? And you're also is a miserable place.
To be an over air conditioned, fluorescent healthscape.
Yeah, pull up, like, I'm not I'm not doing all that.
I drop your pin.
Okay, you know where it's at, and now get your behind in here.
I will say even I personally, like, I had a offer come in that was like, hey, you want to come work for us? And I was like, nope, you want me to come in three days a week? Absolutely not, that's not happening.
I'm not look and I respect you as a Texan for not signing on with Governor Abbott's reelection campaign. You know what I mean, man an immediate. But here's the other thing too, uh they say more over employees from historically underrepresented groups are twenty two percent more likely to
consider other options. Of flexibility comes to an end, Yeah, because that's another part of like, if you are in you know, uh, you know, hedgemonic spaces, predominantly white office spaces, it's often not a pleasant experience being you know, part of again, a historically underrepresented group, to put it lightly, So I totally get that and also I totally get the fucking the privilege that I have to be able to work from home, but that.
Is absolutely it is.
It's a huge privilege. And I think it's one of these things too where we're just trying to as as a society philosophically understand like what is the nature of the kind of work that we're doing, and does it matter and what what is and is not fucking essential. I don't know, We're in a very we're in a very interesting period. I mean, just like looking around with all of the strikes that are happening, it's people are definitely like they understand like the boundaries that they want
to set for themselves. And yeah, you have companies doing it the old way or being like you better get in here else you can or else you will not have health insurance.
Well that's the frustrating part because there's a lot of these companies are asking it's you know, bottom line, to basically absolve them of the financial decision that they poorly made. Right Like I remember during COVID at one of my former jobs, won't name which one, but they had just resigned a lease for their office and it is where I worked, Like right when COVID hit, and so they were pushing the boundaries of like safety in the midst
of New York City. COVID August twenty twenty of making us come in the office because they didn't want the costs of their lease to be eaten up right. Like they were like, well, we just signed this expensive ass lease right in Manhattan. We need it to be used. And it's like, okay, well it's not my fucking problem.
Yeah, it's a pandemic.
Yeah. It's like literally vaccines were not out yet, and they were like expecting us to come in the office two three times a week wearing a mask. They're like, well, we put the plexiglass up. And it's like, I don't know. I'm not trying to.
Die for marketing.
Okay, well, where's my outbreak suit.
I'm not I'm not trying to die for marketing.
Oh okay, so y'all hear this beca not trying to die for this.
I'm not trying to die for this.
So I hate I hate to break it to you this way. We're not re upping your contract because you're not. And I was like, well, I down to you're not ready to I like the big album cover, so we're gonna move on.
Yeah, there was quite the moment where I realized I had left some stuff there in March twenty twenty, and then like you know, that wave came back in like November, December. Yeah, and I went back there and they decided to let us not have to come in again when the wave got really bad at the end of October. They were like, Okay, since holidays are coming up and stuff, you don't have to come in anymore, you know, until after the holidays due to the wave and like holiday time.
And I was like that.
I packed everything and was like I'm going to quit this job before I have to come back. And I did go for you, like December twenty twenty was like bye, I'm not coming back here.
Good for you, Good for you. You know, boundaries, boundaries, boundaries. But yeah, again, like to your point, like even with the actors strike, you know, like the talent and crew are paying for the network's insistence on going to streaming and a business model that was unsustainable, especially at the rate that they're going at, and then being like, Okay, well, I guess we can save some money by like completely fucking off and not paying these people for like what
they're whatever, it's there. It's their fucking their problem. We thought it was a good idea Netflix is doing. Everybody was at home. We thought streaming was a thing. Oh we fucked that part up. Yeah, it's so crazy, and now it's falling on them because they're not about to take the l in the C suite anyway. All that to say, work or power forever. Thank you so much for joining me Becca. We are going to be back tomorrow with a whole new episode.
You're gonna love it.
Wait, I have something to promote.
Oh what okay? What what up? What you're promoting?
It's that time of year again, y'all came through last year for my English teacher, miss Ortega. Yes, I have come back with her Amazon wish list for this new year. She's teaching English AP, high School English AP and Jewel Credit okay, which is what I took her her class for. She has a new list of books because she's trying to get creative considering Texas has been banning a lot
of the books lately. Yeah, so she trying to find new and more interesting books that's still within her limits of these very serious book bands, which is really fucked up. But I asked y'all if you can help miss er Taka out, that would be incredible.
Of course, I mean pulled through last year. Yeah, and a few of you actually hit me up and saying are you gonna do teacher wish lists again? Ask you fucking loutely, So again baby.
You'll see us.
We'll retweet obviously, uh, you know mis Ortega's list. And then if you're a teacher too, hit me up, stay on me because like I will, I will retweet your lists.
I will rethreat them.
Uh, and you know, we will try to help each other out as much as possible because again, just like we were saying last year, it is so fucking difficult to be a teacher, and it is again it's like one of the most fundamental jobs we have to message to children that they are valuable and that learning is something that is important, which it absolutely is. We were just talking to Alec Carritt Sanis on Tuesday and he was saying, you know, one of the biggest predictors of
like life outcomes is early childhood education. Yep, educate man, It all fucking so much comes from there. So I personally have such a deep sense of gratitude for teachers for what they've done for me, what I've seen it do for other people. And I fucking hate that these people are being systematically scared out of a job that they love to do. Uh. And yes, if we can contribute to making your classroom a little more comfortable, have
a little bit better equipment. You might need that pad for your chair because you're back hurting, whatever, please send us your wishless We fucking love y'all. We want to help y'all. A zeigang, I know you care for these people too, so please look out for those as they're being retweeted. And yeah, it's not always like us. They're not all big ticket items. Sometimes it's just a box of pencils, the's a couple of rulers.
Yeah, a lot of these items are literally one book.
Yeah, so for the price of a latte, you know, you could put a book that would helpfully subvert a white Supreme assist agenda in the state of Texas, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah, be on the lookout because we fuck with y'all and we love y'all. So anyway, yes, thank you for reminding that from reminding me and also, yes, be on the lookout again, brand new episode tomorrow. Be safe, Be kind to yourselves, be
kind to each other. Don't do nothing about white supremacy or homophobies, especially after that fucking hate crime that just happened in New York where the fucking young man was stabbed because he was voguing. Yeah, calm the fuck on.
I can't anyway.
This is where we're at, folks, These are the stakes. Please be a good person and don't let bullshit be uttered around you. Let that shit be known that you don't fuck with that kind of stuff, because that's the only way we're going to show people that there are more of us than there are them. Okay, until next time, we'll talk to you later. Bye bye,