Trend, Bath & Buh-Bye 2/7: Bed, Bath & Beyond, Janelle Monáe, ChatGPT, BTS, State of the Union

DJ Daniel original thank you. They're thinking about filing for bankruptcy, yus are, and because of that, all the meme stalkers are buying it up, just chomping on those little b B b wise just going I'm gonna eat all these meme stocks up and hopefully get my portfolio into the positive.

Is that how that works? By by a company when it's about to for bankruptcy because the price is so low, it's just so cheap and free, and then hopefully other people buying it just shoots the stock up and then you just you know, that's how I don't know, Diamond hands something or other those coin I don't know. This is bad news for me because most of my wealth has tied up in those Bed bath and Beyond coupons.

I just invested heavily in those. I just have stacks and stacks that I thought I got for a good price, but um, hey, you know you'll go to the closing sales and you're going to clean up. Yeah, they were so nice about honoring those for this is actually from the late eighties and they're like the store doesn't even exist anymore. All right, So anyways, I don't know what what are your what are your thoughts on Bed Bath

and Beyond? I feel like I spent a lot of time They're getting ready to go to under be an undergrading culture. That's what it reminds me of always Jack literally co sign that one. I feel like as you get older and start shopping a little bit more, a little bit more smarts, you realize that Bed Bath and Beyond is like tier one. It's like the tip of the iceberg of home goods. Were like you need pillows, a need blankets and all the ship where it's just like, well,

you go to Bed Bath and Beyond. That's what it's for, right, You go there, and then as as super produce Rebecca so so smartly so geniusly put, it got to hit up that t J Max, What are you doing? Hit up some of these other places? Hit up your smart and finals, hit up your other locations where it's like, girl, you do not be needing to spend that much money on fucking these pillows or this shitty soap when you can get it for much cheaper at a different location.

So props Tobecca. But also that's just my stance on Bed, Bath and Beyond. It's like that's like tip of the iceberg, tier one of like where you want to get your ship, go one tier deeper, go to the go to the seventh ring of go to the second ring of Hell. But what if I want to after washing myself smell like a Yankee candle store in the mall for three days, then I feel like that Beth and Beyond is my spot, or just got an I key and get a Yankee

kondolov Ka Yankee kandall. I'm pretty sure that's what they're called. Yeah, I just made that up. It was terrible, Janelle mone uh so they we we talked about this on to Barrow's episode. It feels like for the Grammys have just the culture, the takes have burst forth the machine. The world was ready for a zeitgeist defining awards show when

these Grammys happened, because the ratings were up um. Based on social media response, it feels like everybody is like, yeah, well we all watched the Grammy's obviously, like we do every year. Um, which I didn't realize that was. I guess nobody in clued me in on our plans that we were all going to watch the Grammys. But it takes. The ben Affleck takes are fun, and there there was a fun Janelle Money take that it seems has backfired on Janelle Money fans. It's a bit backfired in the

best way possible. We were talking earlier about how it's it's it's fantastic when and the celebrity gets to clap back on some ridiculous take that somebody has ridiculous or not. Sometimes it's just a funny observation and then they get to go, oh, really, well guess what so um one Kimber Henry at go I don't know Golden Rays. I think it was how A G L D N R A E S I'm gonna go with Golden Rays had Golden Rays tweet Janelle Money finally showing off how fine

she is instead of dressing like the monopoly man. First of all, hilarious take. Second of all, Jenelle Money retweets that thirty five point seven thousand likes, no new tour, hope it was worth it, beloved kissy face, And that's just that's what we live for. That's the Internet and a nutshell right there. In case you ever forgot who has the power. Yeah, exactly in this, in this relationship, I will just withhold my presence, which you you seem

to enjoy that. Am I wrong withholding her presence? Like me holding onto all those hotels? You owe me money? Right, some monopoly reference kids? Yeah, okay, yeah, I I didn't get it, but that thank you? She Janelle Money. Does you know her? Her look is fairly consistent, you know. And so I didn't see her at the Grammys or anyone at the Grammys because I didn't watch. But my understanding as well, Yeah, I I enjoyed this. Take a take so hot it canceled a world tour? Um that

takes so hot? Yes, what if I craft? What if I were to tell you that someone crafted it takes so hot? It did the opposite of sail a thousand ships unsaled one world tour exactly. Microsoft put chat GPT into being Yeah, in a desperate attempt for people to start using being again. Yeah, this is this is how this works, right. It's like chat GPT is the hot new thing. We get the you know online I think pieces. Is this the end of creativity and humanity in general?

And then we also get corporations just you know, swiping wildly at the story to to try and be I I too, end chat GPT. I can see how this would work. Like this does seem like the best use of chat GPT is um do you do you ever use like the out loud the um haste feature on your phone that sorry, I shouldn't have done that. I apologize, I just activated my own you know, or or the Amazon equivalent. Uh so sorry, so we'll we'll bleep that out,

thank you, super producer Ian. But the you know, the out loud applications where you say a person's name and that that is the name of your phone and answer it for you. We use that a lot around this household because it's like kind of a cheat for my kids to get at like a little screen time all they all they want. It's just a NonStop negotiation around screen time with them, where they're like can just one more? And like can I hear a computer? Which I just

heard a computer. What if I just interacted with the computer, but like had my eyes closed and yeah, so and the the answers are not not always very detailed, not always what you're looking for when you ask a question to one of the virtual assistants that Apple and Amazon offer. So chat GBT when I heard of it, I was like, Oh, that that could be a fun thing. Like it seems like it will offer better, more cogent, more coherent, uh

sort of conversational answers. Sure, we're looking for information, so I could see this working. This, This feels like the right move for bying. I've also been a big you know, I've I've been gambling on bying since day one. It's been you know, half of my money specifically in bing, not not even Microsoft stock, just on Bing, uh and being the other half on coupons that bed Beth and beyond. There's a big day for us, might it's a big

It's a big day, the Bing day, Diamond hands, etcetera. Now, I mean, I think all these kind of like upgrades to search engines are ultimately probably a good thing. I mean, I think, you know the way that chat GBT will manifest itself in terms of these or in terms of its usage in being is kind of similar to if

you've ever searched anything on Google recently. Sometimes it will just give you a text box answer to your question at the top, and whether or not that is generated from a website or is something that Google generates itself. I have a feeling that bing is going to act similarly. So if anything, this is probably just while it is using this technology and might give I don't know, more detail answers or whatever. I think it's just catching up to a Google kind of already offers. Um. I don't

think it's gonna be anything like mind blowing. But that said, open Ai, the company that makes chat GPT, is like really working on it. And I think that the the the I don't know, software device, whatever you want, the intelligence, I think it has like a long way to go. It's gonna get much much, much smarter and how that's going to help you in terms of what you're searching. If you're searching for Yankee candles at Ikea, you know, maybe it'll be like, that's not what we were talking about.

Daniel was making a bad joke on that episode of TDZ. But I don't know, I don't think. I don't think it's gonna be anything sort of like revolutionary in terms of search. Yeah, that's just me. Yeah no, probably not just like Slate a Slate improvement. But it got in on the AI game right at the right time when everybody was like, oh, it's also funny, like the so

this the Verge article that's announcing it. They're like, and all you have to do is make Microsoft your home browser, the main like your core operating system on all of your things, and then you can get it for free. Great, super great. And they're not just using chet GPT, they're using a next generation open AI large language model that's even more powerful than chet GPT. What yeah, it's even more powerful. Yeah, strike everything I said. I'm on board, baby.

All you have to do is actually have a it's actually an in and out medical procedure like general anesthesia, where you just have the words Google removed from your rain exactly like any memory thereof You just have it like neuralized out and then with your being yes and get being tattooed onto your forum. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back, and just a thing that we do every once in

a while we like to let people know. Most days a thing that is trending is some something having to do with BTS. Oh, I mean we need to we stand, of course we do. We had a BTS dance party before school this morning. Yeah, a little dynamite. Of course. My eldest is one of his after school activities is k pop um and yeah they're doing a little dance and learning the lyrics, uh and learning the history of the industry. I don't know, but a little bit more of a darker part, but yes, you got to learn

at some point. Constantly there is some message being sent by millions of people to one member of BTS. Usually it's just like we we love you. The fans are the army, and BTS is the army that they are on their uh voluntary military, on their service that we do it. Uh. So it's something that's always happening in the background. We just have to update you. We're not we're not missing that and you are not you know, going crazy or seeing things when you look on trends.

When you look at Google trends, and the top three things are various messages from fans to BTS. UH. That that is the thing that is happening. We just it's it's like gravity, It's just always there and it's something that we all live with. And um, it's correct, it is. It is the right order of things. Hey, speaking of the right order of things, hold onto your butts, because tonight is the State of the Union. I'm ready for this thing to have a revamp, ready for them to

jazz this baby up. It's like it's like we're getting the Big Game a few days early. Am I right, yes we are. Where are the fun ads around the State of the Union. I feel like they should be debuting the Big game adds at the State of the Union. Go birds more like go Biden, come on gang, Yeah, the my number one bird. Um. So just some things to you know, some things the mainstream media is saying

about the State of the Union. Any York Times is like, get ready for President Biden to go full Bernie Sanders on that ass. Tell yeah, brother, he is going to be talking about generally representing a policy of like tax the wealthy and uh spend spend money like on on people's lives. Um soccer wild. I mean, I am shocked if that really becomes a thing that he acts on. Yes, yes, exactly,

it's the it's the acting on part. I was gonna say, I think we've heard this this dog and Pony show a few times, but I'd like to see that come to a fru wish if you will fru wish, I want. I want to see some fruish over exactly, please? Yeah, can we get some fruish? Actually? Could I get a

quick fruish? Check? Had a blueberry fruish yesterday? Cops. Tops People are also mentioning that he is entering this state of the union and a remarkably weakened position because most people don't want him to run for a second term, which is almost never the case when somebody is doing president for their first term and then their their party usually rallies around them to keep doing president. Do you be president again? Keep going? Most people are like, you're

very old, sir, um. So I think that that's the issue there. But I do wonder if maybe the lack of support from his party might make him feel like he has to kind of keep hammering the core principles of the left a little bit more than he might have otherwise. When he was saying that he was going to pivot to the center, or maybe that was the mainstream media narrative. Who knows one thing. We can say for sure that we're gonna be getting more of the State of Union. We the Royal we I will not

be watching. But people say that um Sarah Hugby Sanders, new governor of Arkansas, will be delivering the ops rebuttal to Biden's State of the Union address, And it seems weird considering that she's mostly known for lying. I still can't believe that she's the governor of Arkansas. What a miserable state to have that happened. Yeah, so well, but she's like real unapologetic about lying. So that seems like a killer bonafides for a Republican politician. So we'll we'll

all tune in for that, We'll all be there. I just don't understand what I mean, Like, what do you even what do you even say? What? I just I don't know. It's just like none of that's happening. And guess what, gang that's not happening either, and these people not happening. I mean, she seems to be really operating out of the round De Santis playbook, where she's just

taking culture war things and regurgitating them. Like at her swearing in ceremony, Um, she just regurgitated Republican talking points that in no way we're real. She mentioned how Arkansas had endured hardships such as shuttered schools during the pandemic, even though Arkansas schools were notably not shutter during the pandemic. They were But you know, she's just pulling from grasp of straws. Yeah, like the way that De Santis is always like running on on national political talking points even

though he's a local politician. And also I you know, we keep hearing and so we you know, we keep hearing. But like there's this like promise that eventually we're gonna get a Trump that's just smart and like will you know, be able to take the GOP in a more radical direction, and like just saying still not scared of that. I'm not really worried about that stuff about smart Trump. Yeah, not seeing it, not seeing it even a little bit.

It's yeah, it's interesting when he whenever he speaks off the tell the prompteries just like goes dead behind the eyes, and like that people are like this is the night that he became president or he's like now he's using he's doing what his advisors tell him, and like his

his entire power. The thing that they are talking about like runs completely contrary to hit the thing that gives him power, which is like him just saying things that seem like he just thought them up right, because it's like wow, the messages so the same over and over that. It's like, I don't know, I don't I don't see any sort of like evolution here. That's making me worried about some sort of smart person coming from this camp and ruining everything in a possible way, or ruining everything

and an even more negative way. Rather, Yeah, it seems like they are just going steering more hateful. There's this like thought experiment or like this you know, logical fallacy that the mainstream media is insistent on where they're like if like what just wait, if he starts saying things that appeal to us, then we're all in real trouble.

It's like, no, he liked, by definition, is saying things that don't appeal to you and pushing it further and further in the direction of things that will make you spit out your tea Like that that is what his whole mode, his whole reason for being is and so like this idea that he's going to moderate and like be be smart politically savvy Trump is Yeah, it's just

it's just incorrect. It's a fiction. It's a fiction. They and that would actually be great if he did decide to do that, because then he would lose a bunch of his power. But unfortunately, it seems like the much more realistic and much more dangerous possibility is he is going to just get more and more hateful and uh, continue to have sway over the people who he has sway over. Um, I think he retweeted somebody saying that it was time for a civil war yesterday or he

reached that's right, calling for civil war. At this point, just when he stops doing that and get smart and savvy, that's when we really yeah, that's what's like. No, he's saying that we should be murdered. All right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with the whole last

episode of the show, a good one. 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 y'all tomorrow. Bye bye,