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History is about one of them. But you know, as we were starting to discuss what is trending in our various social media feeds, you were like, there's only one thing online and it is the vander Pump Rules love Pentagram type deal. Kind of seems like what's going on, a lot of cheating on one another happening. Yeah, the show is a very sort of incestual cheating messrs always been, like I think I watched certain I watched like a handful of episodes in the first couple of seasons, and
it felt like that was always what was happening. Yeah, and you know what looks like it's continuing because Tom Sandoval, one of the Toms, there's two Toms, who was with Arianna, his Beyonce girlfriend I don't even know anymore, for a long time out he was having an affair with Arianna's best friends Raquel, and things really popped off because Arianna's found a video, a FaceTime video of Raquel, you know, in the sexual act on a fat FaceTime Yes, I
guess he recorded the FaceTime of them like basically like having phone sex, which in my opinion, I want to do that. That's not okay. I hope she consented to that, and thus leading the breakup of the Bravo sentry. And I did see them live at Bravo Con in like a couple's panel, Tom and Arianna, and it made you believe in love. You said, no, you don't go to a reality television festival and go to the coupled panel and think, now, this is what love is. No, you
think this is what's how storylines are made. Last time I was paying attention to this, Tom was getting cheated on by Jack. No he's no, no, no, He's getting cheated on by Kristen. He wasn't dating tracks Jack Christening. K slept with Jack or s Kristen on their couch while Tom was sleeping in their room. Yeah, yeah, sickening.
So that it just keeps going. They maybe these people might not be the best at being loyal partners seems to be, but but it it keeps people seeing swept away with this in a way that you know, there's somehow they keep it fresh. We're listening it revived the show. Lisa is about to go on watch what happens live? Lisa Vanner public is going on watch what happened live?
In two days, my whole Twitter feed are people now going back and rewatching the show and dissecting like every interaction Tom has with Arianna or like Raquel, like the three of them interacting, or with Tom Schwartz, and I'm like,
what happened here? It's like truly you know, I have a theory that these people are now because you've been on reality TV so long and your whole life exists around creating sort of storylines to keep you as a reality TV star relevant to the TV show so you don't get kicked off or fired, that they now exist in a world to create storylines for themselves, and thus they can't really live normal lives anymore without sort of blowing it up in order to maintain the sort of
reality television show paycheck, right, Yeah, that absolutely tracks. All right, Well, you'll hear more about this on the full episode tomorrow. Steven Spielberg went on Colbert and great transition, Thank you very good at that. He said a thing that I don't know, I've heard like a bunch of times. But people are like, whoa Spielberg is saying aliens or people from the future. Basically, what if they're not from an
advanced civilization three hundred million late years from here? What if it's us coming back to document the second half of the twentieth century and into the twenty first century. They know something that we don't know yet that has occurred, and they they're trying to track the last one hundred years of our history. The one thing he said that I continue to He says, I believe certain people. I've never seen anything I can't explain, but I believe certain
people who have seen things that they can't explain. So okay, sure, I mean yeah, but isn't that what we've been saying for the last few years, Like everything that's come up, it's like, Okay, well, we know there are Like the universe is so massive, how could there not be aliens? And also, let's let's put this out there, technically war
aliens to them, WHOA, well, you know what, stop the show. No, but for real, like, I don't understand how could there if the fact that like we as humans exist and like evolution happened, Like what is they're saying that evolution or of some sort did not happen elsewhere on another planet light years away or whatever. I don't really understand
how the universe works. Yeah, I think the only thing that makes it unlikely is that our lifespan would line up with another intelligent life forms lifespan, just because when you look at how briefly humanity has been alive like that, that's just a blip on the cosmic scale, Like how long the Earth has existed as a blip on the cosmic scale. So like the idea that the other civilizations would exist at the same time feels like a thing
that we don't take into account that often, right, I guess. Also, like what I'm saying is is this just an ad for like a reboot of ET? Right? Yeah, well you and I think aliens exist, and that's why next summer you can see Heat two in theaters. I'm just saying, Okay, when the guy made ET talks, I listen, all right, yeah, and he's like, and jaw sixteen is coming to like what if? What if sharks are alien? He's just like clearly making it up because he goes a yeah, and
he's like, and it's my life story. Actually, yeah, that's a fableman's joke there. He's the story that came out that people who knew Steven Spieler was like, not true. He didn't have no girlfriend. It's just like, okay, he's allowed to write. It's like, nah, don't believe it. Not true. He was not like that. No one liked his ass. You're like, okay, oh my god, just as like the mean kids from his high school immediately coming back like,
you're right, Dorc, that's Steven Spielberg. I would relax, Yeah, switch him back over to the world of reality TV. The Bachelor is not fucking apparently. Yeah, so The Bachelor one of those stories, like stories when they were everybody was paying attention to whether the pandas were fucking at the zoo. It's like, will the Bachelor fuck? Um? Yeah,
so I guess in the app sorry the episode airs tonight. Wow, but there is a Fantasy Suits coming up, and four women go to the Fantasy Suits with him and in them Sorry, okay, go ahead, Yeah, he murders them all.
In the coming up previews and uh from last week's episode, he reveals like, you know, people know this as like he's talking to the host of the show, Jesse Palmer, and he's like, people know this as sex week, But you know what, I'm not doing that because there's more to like a relationship than sex, to which I say, yeah, but it's like a really big part of it. And if you're about to get engaged to someone, maybe you
should see if you're sexually compatible. I'm just saying, I'm just say right, yeah, but I could also understand maybe he wants to only have sex with the person he chooses, right, And then you're saying that there's speculation that the fantasy suits when he was a contestant did not didn't go well, didn't go well, Like the vibes were all fucked up
the morning after. Yeah, yeah it was. He was the contestant on Rachel and Gabby season and he was specifically with Rachel and the next morning, we all want to know what happened in that fantasy suite because they went in like vibing, and the next morning the vibe was so off, like it was as if these people did not even know each other, and it was there was a darkness there, and we gotta know what happened in that fantasy suite's because clearly it's his villain origin story. Sure.
I mean, if he had like a bad experience or whatever, you know, like a lot of pressure and he just like they weren't vibing the first time, maybe now he's just like good, like a little bit scared. You know, I'm just trying to do the work for Zach here, So maybe he just needs to be honest with it instead of coming with a take that is like actually sex is fun picked up, and you guys are weird for even watching this show, So stop trying to get me to fuck Like, dude, literally just chill out. The
only problem with him is he's so uptight. It's like, if you just chilled out a little bit, Yeah, like you would actually be really having a great time on this TV show that's all about you dating thirty women. I don't know about you, but it seems like a goddamn like treat you idiot men. But yeah, I mean that's probably the case with a lot of people on
like reality TV who come off as villains. Is just like they it's a lot of people watching you, and like it's not a natural thing that you would just be like cool and chill and fun. You know, it's a or at least it's a it's not a thing you could take for granted that everybody would be able to like do. Right. Yeah, he just like can unwind. But like I'm assuming that they try and do something in the selection process like weed out people who are
just like so stressful. You know, Well, clearly they didn't. Yeah, clearly because he's on the day as a bachelor is hectic. If you show any weakness he'll send you home. Oh yeah, you were saying that. He's like, he doesn't seem to have a lot of empathy, right, just like I gotta
get get these numbers down. Yeah, he's like the women, they're like, so I'm really struggling with the fact that you're dating, you know, this many women and I'm getting zero time and I don't understand why I'm still here. And he's like, Okay, you're like that. Yeah, And it's a it's a tough show to watch anyway, to commercial break, Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back. We're back. Finally, it was a long break.
Titan meals are a thing apparently across the country. Special events are being arranged that allow you to eat meals that were served on the ship's final night, April fourteenth, nineteen twelve. One dinner is happening on April fourteenth, and like it's so what's happening at Titanic the artifact exhibition in Orlando, And like adults pay sixty nine dollars, children pay forty two dollars and you just eat like old food, like not not old food, but like old fishes. Yeah,
the food is from then it's all incredibly poisonous. Um No, it's just like chicken Versailles sirloin with burnet sauce twice baked potatoes which are bomb and green beans. Um. I don't know. There's just such a This isn't like news, but I guess it never ceases to amaze me how much Titanic hunger there is. Like there's a Titanic exhibit by my like in a strip mall in LA that I was like driving by. It doesn't look you know,
it looks like a strip mall. Like somebody just was like, oh, I've got this model I put together the Titanic lego set. I'll open up a thing and make people pay to come see it. It doesn't look like very well put together and running this thing. I mean, the question must be asked, girl boss. Hell yeah, make that money. Girl. But I was like, all right, like I should take my kid like I was into the Titanic for a little bit when I was a kid, Like I should
take my kids to go see it. And like it's sold out for like five weekends running not buy ahead of time. I mean, but it's just it is a it's a smash you know it's it's a hit. This Titanic strip mall exhibit. I feel like Titanic and King Tut's Tomb are like two things that just will never go away, Like they just are endlessly regenerating interest. He's not in there right, No, we're going to see that
thing and being like this is whack. Right. I was in high school, I think I when I saw it, and I was kind of like, well, here's the thing. Show me the body or call me a cap because I'm not really just look at it him anymore. That is your famous catchphrase, show me a body or call me your character was written out of stand by Me because you're just so adamant that you enough of this bullshit. You either show me this body or call me a cap so character. So the Daily Wires Jeremy Boring, there's
like more and more people I know every time. But he's offering an alternative to Hershey's after what he called a controversial International Women's Day add But I just I don't know. I love how the Republican Party continues to go from like party of free market capitalism to like, eat only this knockoff brand chocolate that I made in my basement like it's it's very much like crumbling dictatorship vibes, like on drink only Trump bottled water, it's the only
acceptable thing to hydrate your body with. I do love this sort of um, the grifter energy that just simply won't quit. Yeah, because who is he selling this chocolate too? It's great, it's a great question. This is actually an article that's like mainly being covered on Fox News and Daily Wire like because yeah, it's griff, It's just basically sponsored advertising. He's so more than three hundred thousand. Jeremy's he him nuts and Jeremy she her nutlass the fuck nice?
So the women don't get nuts in theirs? Yeah, yeah, I guess not. That's the way God intended it. As a woman. It's like, I'm start, I'm a woman. I actually cannot eat nuts. It's like, what are you talking about? And finally, Walgreens is not selling abortion pills. Yeah, trash because they don't want to anger the right Hey start to break two but CVS for life? Yeah dog, I don't even go to Walgreens. But yeah, I mean this is this is how this sort of shit actually becomes dangerous.
Is like there's the right wing outrage, and then corporations just get scared and backtrack and you know, say the right things in their press releases, but then they make policy decisions like this to just try and have a I don't understand, Like where's the what what pressure is on Walgreens. I'm sure there's like Walgreens for selling abortion pills.
I'm sure there's a very loud like mail campaign and like social media campaign that is, you know, a very small number of people, but they effectively scare these corporations off. You know, that's like very surreal to me because who is Like is Walgreens run by conservatives? Like is their owner a conservative? Like I don't really get like why even like acknowledge something like that, Like you're Walgreens, You're a massive corporation. You're on like every corner. All of
a sudden, like this matters to you. Yeah, like are you losing that much money? I'm gonna need to see some numbers. Yeah, pull up the numbers, all right. Let me just grab these numbers real quick and show to
you in a chart here. So Republican attorneys in twenty states pressured Walgreens not to sell abortion medication and threatened legal action, so that like a conservative legal department that is like, well, we don't want to spend money on this, so yeah, which is like, how would that to like say, if you're like in a state that it doesn't matter,
they can come for you for that, like say California. Yeah, so Gavin Newsom saying that California will no longer do business with Walgreens or any company that cows to the extremists and puts women's lives at risk, We're done. Yeah, that makes sense, But then why not come for like CBS the I think CBS didn't make the same decision based on these threats by the Republican lawmaker. But I
actually don't know the answer to that. So um yeah, okay, yeah, like CBS may have actually already like done, leave us alone. I don't get. I don't understand like why it would lead to being further banned or to stop selling in states that don't give a fuck. It's doing the legally conservative thing, which also in this case is the conservative
conservative thing, right. Yeah. Newsom's didn't. Anouncement came after Walgreen's on Friday said it will stop distributing method press Stone, part of the two drug combination commonly referred to as the abortion pill, and it just seems like they got
threatened into obedience by legal action. So but yeah, I mean this seems to be how things are moving towards the right in general in the country, Like whether it be you know, Rolling Stone taking down their headline when somebody at Seepack, as we talked about on tomorrow's episode, like called for basically like genocide against trans people, like the Rolling Stone like wrote a headline of that, and then the person who said it was like, well that's libelous,
and they like took it down because again like threatening legal action. You know, these these massive multibillion dollar corporations are not as brave as we want them to be all the time. I don't think they're going to save us in the end, and as neoliberalism head promised. So anyways, those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday, March sixth. Thank you so much for joining super Producer around Josie. You will be joining trending again
later taking over the whole damn thing. Oh yes, yeah, I was like, what are you talking about? Yes, I will for International Women's Day. Producer Rebecca will only really be talking about Magic Mike for International Day Amazing. So on March eight, on Wednesday, look for a very special trending episode. I don't know where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff. I am at Anna Hoosie on Twitter. I'm at selling host Nie on Instagram.
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