Trend Gary Trend Ross 3/10: Silicon Valley Bank, Jenna Ortega, The Oscars, BBC

you got the Jay Man. That's usually how you greet people. I don't know why you're pretending otherwise. It's Jay, It's Jay Rock. It's it's the Jay Rock. It's the Jay Rock. That's right. How are you doing doing? All right? I'm actually enjoying this rainy la weather. It makes me feel like we have seasons for a few hours. So that's always nice. As you were saying before we start recording,

Jay Rock loves to get wet. Because what you were saying as you were passing, you were passing me that, yeah, I know you'd like to give wet Jay right, Um, all right, well, these are some of the things that are trending. Um. People do come here for our trenchant market analysis and who do we have it for you today? Because Silicon Valley Bank just cratered or got had to be taken over by the regulators. We know that's never good because regulators are the devil. But the FDIC took

them over because of major problems that they're having. You know what, I would just realize, Jack, a music business degree really prepares you to talk about this kind of thing. You know what I mean? I am I'm fully immersed in that. I'm kidding. I don't know what the fuck is going on. I guess this is bad. And you're gonna need to explain this to me because I don't know. I'm not a bank. Well that makes two of us. We're gonna need me to explain this to them. Uh

some things. I know. It's one of the biggest bank collapses of all time. UM. I can understand that US history, so that it seems not good. UM. Jim Kramer, I'm like worried for his yes because he, like we saw how hard he took it when Facebook was like kradering and he had just told everybody to buy Facebook stock,

and like he started crying on air. Well, unfortunately for Jim Kramer, Um, he is in an industry where he's just like it's a pre meteorologist time and he's just predicting the weather very confidently and at the top of his lungs on TV, like he just there. It's complete randomness and he goes on there and it's like, you gotta buy this stuff. So apparently a month ago, Kramer urged viewers to buy Silicon Valley Bank stock and yeah, this is all nonsense, that's all a fiction that has

been concocted too. Didn't you go all in on crypto too? Like he was a super against it and then he was like really into it. Yeah, this isn't the first l that this guy has taken. Why does he Oh no, why why? Why is he revered in the financial world or is? I don't think he is. Okay, I think he's just like he's the stephen A. Smith of the financial world. He just like kind of screams a lot and takes really strong opinions. Failed comedian essentially, and he's

just out here yelling opinions at people. Observations. Okay, cool, I compete with that. He actually went to Carnegie Mellen for drama acting. Um, that's very rare. I like that. No, that's the yeah that the financial world. Yeah, anyways, regulators had to shut down Silicon Valley Bank in the biggest collapse since two thousand and eight financial crisis. The tire stock market has not completely crashed yet, so that's good news.

But I do think we're just generally seeing the US economy and the myth that like the market fixes everything, and the market like possesses some wisdom and it's all just a fiction to distract us from the reality that it is randomness and also like predatory and just is trying to make money off of people in any way possible. There's no real logic to it. But if you're if you turn it into this kind of weather system that you you think you can predict, like a meteorologist, then

people feel at least safer. But nobody knows anything, especially in this world. Um. Yeah, so it seems like yeah, uh, Jenu Ortega might star and beetle just beetle just is that how it's pronounced. You got it? Beetle juice too,

which is still happening. Apparently, um okay, they so. Last year it was reported that Brad Pitt's production company was working on a Beetle Juice too, And now there are rumors that Jenna Ortega will start in the movie as Oneona Ryder's daughter, which would make sense since she starred in Wednesday, which was partly directed by Tim Burton but

apparently wasn't good. I don't know. I didn't watch it, but I think there's aspects of it I didn't, you know, I wasn't I didn't consume the full thing, but they were like aspects of it that went viral that people were really into. I think the school dance was one of them. Um, you know. And I'm all for letting things breathe a little bit sometimes, you know, the first season of a thing might be a little bit rocky. I need some time for things to flesh out a

little bit. So I'm here for this. This seems to be a lane Jenna wants to occupy. I say, go for it. I want to see what this looks like. And I'm I don't know. I know there's a lot of people out there who are like, oh, there's too many sequels, and there's you know, all this original you know, or there's no more original ip. They're just you know, going back in the past and redoing stuff. It can be done. Well, I'm not a full hater of it, and that's it's bad. I haven't seen it yet though,

so we'll see. Yeah. She has said, particularly that she had consistent dreams about Beetlejuice growing up. Okay, so, uh sounds like a real Burton head. Um. My main concern would be that it doesn't like it doesn't seem like Burton movies have been that good of late. Yeah, but especially not once he produces like from before, because he doesn't have really like a as He's not writing or directing or anything with this. It's just uh yeah, I'm not sure, but okay. Also, there are rumors that Johnny

Depp will be involved too. Well, then I'm not. One of the great things about the original Beetlejuice was that it was made before Timberton met Johnny Depp and put him in everything. They ruined each other. That is the perfect example of a toxic relationship right there. Like, Yeah, the Oscars are this weekend. This year's show. They were apparently really like thrown off by last year's show and the slap. So this year's show has been in the

work since last June. Usually they would start planning in November, but this time they were like, let's spend even more time over determining this weird industry awards event. They need time to build all the false walls and ship they can hide the SWAT teams. In my god, they're gonna they're gonna overreact so hard. If anyone twitches, like God forbid, they be black. Oh my god. Right, we'll see what happens.

So the things that they're changing, in addition to presumably like hoping that nobody slaps anybody on camera this year, is they are no longer giving out those awards during the commercial breaks that they did last year. They've scrapped that, and now they've added QR codes to direct people to behind the scenes videos, which feels like something nobody is going to do. Where are you making me do extra work? What the fuck? Yeah? But I don't know. I like.

One of the things I like about the oscars is when they like these are the behind the scenes videos that like tell you more about the art of costume design or you know, like actually are like many documentaries about like how they did the work that is being nominated, and those are my favorite things about the Academy Awards. But I think I'm weird. Like a lot of people seem to really enjoy the speeches, which I don't care about.

Yeah that's me. I always said, like, I'm just I'm not one for ceremony though either like I did not you know, I had the option to walk at my college aduation, I chose not to. I don't know, I'm just not really big into like ceremony and the idea of a bunch of millionaires handing each other golden statues. And then the first thing they say is I'm so humbled by this experience. It's like the least humbling thing. So I think that, uh, yeah, I don't know, I'm

not really for this. I like, I do like to see the groundwork of the people putting on the production. I guess I'm also a weirdo, though I can fully admit to that. Like I like seeing how hard this tremendous effort is and then and then, um, I like the stories too, of like you know, back when I watched the Olympics, which I don't anymore, but like seeing the little like uh vinyest, the little like documentaries between the stuff of like their lives, in between the sporting

events that total shit. Yeah Yeah. Instead, it feels like there there's more of a focus on like they've hired the some of the met Gala creative team, which I mean the met Gala is a monster social media event, and so they're trying to Met Gala eyes the Oscars red carpet and presumably make it even more gaudily alienating. Yeah. I think people just poke fun at the met Gala

at this point. And some people show up and show out and you're like, oh, okay, wow, you're one of the few people who understood the assignment, but most people are just being laughed at. I think, yeah, the bit one thing that they're talking about in this article is that expect much more star power, specialized lighting to make a process that happens in daylight seemed more like evening.

And better integration with the theater's entrance. I've been I've been demanding better integration with the theater's entrance for my red carpet coverage, and I'm glad they're finally listening. It is always weird when I think it's just because in most of the country it's nighttime by the time it starts, but when the Red Carpet starts, it's obviously still daylight in Los Angeles, and so it always feels weird that

everybody's showing up during the day. But it also doesn't like feel like that is a material change that people were like, this bothers me and I won't watch it anymore, not once have I heard. I don't know. I don't even know who watches the Oscars anymore at this point, But I don't know. Man, it's not my thing. But hey, if they're gonna try something, I feel like they should swing for the fences and just go crazy with it. Right now, they're doing all these boring little changes that

I don't think anyone's going to care about. Well, if you want to get a sense of like the brain trust behind the Oscars, So they started doing a marketing campaign on letterboxed like, which is a you know, movie fan website social media platform, and the people who work for the Academy like openly complained. They were like, we didn't have to do shit like this before, like we used to Janet Young, the Academy's president said in an

interview at the organization's Beverly Hills office. We didn't have to before. We could rest on our laurels and just let it carry itself. Like, so they're like doing these moves to update it, like very like being dragged, kicking and screaming, which is just funny to me that they're just like they take themselves seriously enough that they'll be quoted at like on a marketing decision being like, uh, yeah, now we have to stoop to this level, like this is what you call work, Like you put on a

TV show once a year. Yeah, you relax. They also are going up against the Last of Us, like the Last of Us finale m at the same time. Yeah, and that's oh, I like the confidence of the because the Last of Us I think moved for the Super Bowl. But they're like the Oscars. We we sun them, bro,

we don't give a fuck about it. We have we have no respect for them, and they shouldn't because they're one of the few shows, especially in this modern era, that has drastically increased their their viewership from the first episode to the eighth episode by a lot. I mean that's impressive. I think it's just the oscars being there. The Oscars were probably they were like, should we move it? And they were like, we actually won't even take a meeting with you, HBO. So I don't know that that's

the impression I'm getting from. We didn't used to have to do this stuff like talk directly to film fan. Um, all right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back. And a couple of BBC stories, a couple of ways the BBC is behaving like one of the like the New York Times, a little bit like a name brand that people associate with m at least liberalism. Yeah, that was the first thing I thought of, was the European New York Times. Yeah, so they had a hell

of a two for one. They published a very misleading

headline about pandemic related mental health crises. Mental health crisis from COVID pandemic was minimal dash study And I don't know they like, it's just misleading because the studies used for this review, we're all from high income European and Asian countries, didn't examine lower income countries or children and people with existing conditions, aka the groups of people who are most likely affected according to experts, which seems like kind of a big oversight, and even the study said

there were data biases in this study, but like that fact was buried in the BBC's article and yeah, just experts really ripped it apart. And then same day there's a new story about how they're censoring David Attenborough for being two woke, and but it's not even this was his whole thing before woke was even in the zeitgeist, Like this is this is maddening to me because BBC also wants to gaslight everybody and say that this like they're not censoring dude, when this is the sixth episode

and they're calling it a five part series. So it's what I actually didn't know this story before. So basically, you know David Attenborough's thing as he does docuseries about the beauty of things and then on the flip side will show you how that beauty might be in jeopardy.

And then he tries to end it on a positive note of like, but here's how all hope is not lost and how we can help save this little creatures environment that you saw or whatever, and that's his whole general vibe for the many, many years he's been doing this, and for whatever reason, the BBC when other people in the press of asked them about this peculiar setup they have where there's this docu series that's coming out that he's doing, just like all the other ones he's been doing,

but there's one that has I guess, some rumors, some speculation that BBC has put on their like obscure streaming platform called i Player instead of airing it on their their network is because it leans too heavily into environmentalism. And even though that aspect is in the other five episodes, they are relegating this to a place, yeah, to streaming, and and they're like, pretty much their excuse is that

this was funded. This particular part is like a separate movie and it was funded by you know, wildlife organizations and whatnot. And as if that's a satisfactory excuse, It's like, why does that make it different? Why does that make it in a place where no one should be able to see it, you know, And it just doesn't make sense to me. And it's this kind of I guess

the censorship aspect right now. And there's a difference between like liberals being like, oh, this thing is being censored because the right has co opted canceled and things being canceled, and there's this culture war happening about censorship and things that are being canceled. That's very interesting to talk about, but it doesn't seem like anyone has the right tools

to really have an intellectual conversation about it. They're just either doing the thing where they're like cow towing to a certain group, or they are just outright accusing or blaming or whitewashing or whatever, and it's just it's maddening. So the BBC statement came out, I was like, this is totally inaccurate. There is no sixth episode. Wild Aisles is and always was a five part series and does not shy away from environmental content. We've acquired a separate

film for eye Player. Anyways, it feels like there, you know, just being like, we don't know what you're talking about. But like The Guardian has an exclusive where they're like, they specifically made this decision because they were worried about getting right wing backlash. And forgive me if I'm wrong. Don't you order a certain number of because there's a certain amount of resources allocated per episode to a thing and so why would they order six parts and then

air five. It just seems like there this is not a you know, the satisfactory answer. But they're like, yep, that's it, dumb Fox. There you go, That's why we did it right. And we are just seeing a lot of quote unquote centrist adjusting of their position or what they do in response to like right wing outrage and just the idea has been planted in their brain like

inception style that they can't get rid of. That is like you have to be in between the right and left, and they will not let go of that, even as the right becomes like outright Nazis. But the right it's not watching you. They're not your friend. You think people on the right are turning on the BBC like are you serious? Like it just does you want to appeal to everyone, so so you appeal to no one. I don't know how that strategy is supposed to work for you,

but I guess do what you want? All right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Friday, March tenth. We are back on Monday with the whole last episode of the show justin where can people Will find You? Follow you all that stuff. You can find me on Instagram at j con The Smith J C O N t H E. S. M I T H. And yeah, all right, we'll talk to you

guys on Monday. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourself, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to y'all on Monday. Bye bye