On this edition of Trenderbolts of Zeitning, Very, Very Frightening Me Jack and Miles discuss Scott Rudin being a 'monster', Shaq doing a good deed, Jordan Peterson being butthurt, Amy Poehler’s false fluids, and DoorDash workers gaming the algorithm.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of frind
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(00:44):
it all, every form of USB in multiple lengths. Yes. Anyways,
shout out to Box of Chords of Unknown Origins. Uh,
and Queen a little band that people should check out.
Little band from the UK. They got some bops. Gang. Uh.
Let's talk about Scott Rudin. I always had my suspicions
(01:08):
based on his name that this guy was not too cool.
Rude Dude. Scott Rude Dude was his nickname in Hollywood
assistant circles. He's like a legendary producer, um who it
has just been like it's an open secret that he's
(01:29):
an abusive dick to people who work for and around him. Um,
So a expose has come out where they're like, well,
now the me in the me too era, you're not
allowed to do things like uh. In this case, there's
a story in which he uh. One of his assistants
(01:54):
is not able to book him on a sold out flight,
and in a fit of fury, he smashed an Apple
computer monitor on the assistants hand. The screen chattered, leaving
the young man bleeding and in need of immediate medical attention.
I would have bucked Scott rutined up right there, it
(02:14):
would have been. And oh, I hate this ship. I
hate because man production is weird like that. Hollywood is
very fucking weird, where like asshole creative people can just
fucking flourish because of like their ability to make money
for a studio and ship like this, and like you
have these instances where it's someone who's so out in
(02:34):
the open with this ship. But because you know, that's
that's why I think it's so rampant, especially in entertainment,
because there's no recourse for anyone if you're up against
someone who has more perceived power or influence within the industry,
like there's just no there's no way to remedy it
because it's all built on like, you know, gathering around
(02:56):
people who are influential and powerful to have, you know how,
allow your own stock to rise. And I feel like there's,
especially in the executive side, there's more insecurity uh than
your typical industry because there's like it's not a job
that you can uh describing concrete terms of like what
you're bringing to the table. Uh, And it's easy to yeah,
(03:20):
just feel insecure in that job, and so it's easy
to bully insecure people. And also being insecure leads to
bullying behavior a lot of the time. So uh, Anyway,
everyone left work that day and was like fuck this,
But then they came back the next day and continue
to work for him, um and last bowl at a
(03:42):
colleague and just throw a potato with the yeah there
they say, like it's openly acknowledged that people would be
like going bald prematurely like getting yeah, just like working there.
The only thing I thought was interesting was Tatiana Seagal tweeted,
you know, several people I spoke to for the Scott
(04:04):
Ruden piece told me they spoke to the New York
Times last year for a for a similar expose. H
obviously it never ran huh New York Times. Uh. I
mean yeah, that's that mainstream media complex of you know,
sources and tightly woven web of sources and access and
(04:29):
financial Uh. You know, there's probably big studios that advertised
with the New York Times. Um. Anyways, funk this, dude, Uh,
this one like that would be wonderful if suddenly we
had a a sea change where people like this were
(04:49):
just no longer employable within any industry. Um. Yeah, I
think it just has to be. I don't for whatever reason,
you know, we just have to be better about take
allegations of this kind of fucking behavior and like learning
how to I mean, I'm not in a position to
hire or fire a studio executive, but like, there we
(05:09):
I don't know how we're going to arrive at that
point unless we can be open and not fear retaliation
and protect the people who are actually trying to bring
light to these kinds of topics rather than you know,
allowing like the culture of like, dude, it's career suicide
if you fucking say something. Man. Yeah, shack is trending
for better reasons. Yeah, a little little capitalism fairy tale exactly,
(05:33):
our favorite kind field good story, shack Oh, rich man
paid for this man's wedding engagement ring debt. So yeah,
it's just some guy was paying off like for his
engagement ring and shock. The clip is quite literally here
and guy was like, hey, thanks, Shaq just taps him,
(05:55):
like barely looks at him, tap him on his shoulders,
like all right, now he's off to do his own shopping.
So he said, He's just he's just trying to make
people smile, That's all. I mean. You hear that about Shock,
Like I feel like he's kind of like has these
Bill Murray esque tales too, of his acts of kindness. Yeah,
where he just like pays for an entire grocery store
is worth of groceries, like for the next hour or whatever. Exactly. Yeah,
(06:21):
you know, one of one of those things that probably
shouldn't need to happen, but the media loves to loves
to talk about. Yeah we love Oh my god, rich
person pay poor person. Still it works out in the end. Yeah,
exactly right. I'm sorry, but that those instances are one
in five billion. When the celebrity is like, hi, allow
(06:44):
me to extend my generosity towards you to get you out.
That's not that's but again that kind of gets your
head to like, maybe, you know, that's why it's okay
for us to not try and fight for something better.
Maybe Shock will pull up and pay for my medical bills.
Jordan Peterson is trending because he was like, wait a
second here. Uh, Tana Hesse Coates is writing a new
(07:09):
Captain America series and one Red Skull, who is a
classic Captain America villain. Uh, some of his schemes and
ideas resemble one Jordan Peterson's ideas, and he's like, is
he trying to say something about me? And people are
(07:31):
pointing out like, it's not. It's not so specific. It's
just like that what he what Jordan Peterson is doing,
is not original enough for him. Do even draw that conclusion.
There's so many people who have similar ideals and are
praying on unsuspecting young people on the internet. But uh, yeah,
(07:52):
I mean Captain America has always been anti fash from
you know, punching Hitler in the jaw from the early
days two now the people with the shield storming the capitol, right,
you know, you take from it what you need to
I get. Yeah, I just gonna this guy. It's just
(08:15):
so funny because he his whole ship was he rode
one of the first sort of outrage of culture war
waves into becoming this like fucked up self help you know,
like racist self help dude, because everyone's like it was
when he refused to like use students preferred pronouns. Yeah,
it was like, oh my god, yes, and then he
had all his just very wordy ways of being like
(08:37):
I am a total prick um that had everyone on board.
So yeah, yeah, good for you. But anyways, apparently that
series is supposed to be definitely worth checking out. I
did not realize that Coates was writing a Captain American series.
That's fucking dope. I don't really read comics, but I
might check that out. Well. His Black Panther series really good?
(08:59):
Is it? Yeah? I got it on um, that's why
I really I got into that. Like, there's like a
Marvel app where you can essentially read every Marvel comic
um known to man, just in an app, So it
makes for very fun, uh comic book reading. What's that
app called? Just the Marvel Unlimited Marvel and Marvel Unlimited
(09:19):
and Uh, the Amy Poehler's name is trending because she
there is a stripper who was Uh. There is basically
a fake story going around that a dancer I'm squirted
at a police officer in self defense. Uh, and the
(09:42):
mug shot kind of resembled Amy Poeller. The story is
fake though, just putting that out. They were trying to
say that this dancer was Amy Poehler bait because the
mug shot looked like her. No, they were just like,
oh wow, this woman looks like Amy Poehler. And it
was such a just sensational story they wanted they wanted
to spread it around, and it turns out it was
(10:05):
immediately debunked. The it is a mug shot from a
raid at a club that happened in two thousand and eight,
I think in Houston. Actually, Um, but it's yeah, I mean,
it's not that it's not that police aren't assholes who
you know, abuse and target sex workers. It's just that
(10:29):
this particular story is not true. And I don't think
it's how sporting works. I don't think it's if you know,
if you know Amy Poehler, you'd see that much shot
me Like that ain't right? Yeah, yeah, for sure. And
finally hashtag decline now is trending. What's going on? It's
these so these two um door dash drivers in you know,
(10:51):
the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, they had figured out a
way to game the algorithm of door dash in order
to secure better rates for themselves as delivery drivers. And
so they started this moving the decline now movement, which
essentially was saying like whenever a driver they were like, okay, look,
if a driver declines a delivery, like the algorithm then
(11:14):
shifts and offers the same delivery to another driver, but
incentivizes it by raising the fee a little bit more
so they'd make more funny. And so because they're independent contractors,
it's up to them. So they realize in mass they
just started basically being like, we're not taking anything less
than this amount, and if everybody does, it will decline
(11:36):
the funk out of every order until every they have
to pay us this rate. Um. So you know it,
it started a whole thing. It's I don't know how
long it's gonna last because they it's a smaller market
where they're doing it. Um. So that made a difference there,
but you know, who knows where else it could work.
If you're you know, using door dash or you're driving
(11:57):
for DoorDash, maybe give it a try. But yeah, they're
still trying to figure out. You know, at the end
of the day, I think it all boils down to
door dash needs to pay people more so they're not
you know, weaponizing your own draconian algorithm against you for
you know, humane pay. That's yeah, it's they're taking advantage
of the fact that they're being managed by a algorithm
(12:21):
that doesn't view them as humans, like take any of
their humanity into into account. That's pretty pretty raallyan and
also shouldn't be necessary. But yeah, shout out to decline. Now,
all right, those are some of the things that are
trending this Wednesday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with the
(12:43):
whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind
to each other, be kind to yourselves, wear a mask,
and don't do nothing about white supremacy. We'll talk acountable
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of frind
Or Boltovs eightening very very frightening me. That is courtesy
of Box of Chords of Unknown Origins, which is their name.
That's funny. I have one of those things. Oh yeah,
a box of Chords of Unknown Origins. I'm not joking yo.
(00:22):
That is that is most of our storage space is
just a random salad cables, unused cables and chords. Yeah,
you open it up. Just what is this electronic salad? Yeah,
it's almost like the thing where like her mat She's like,
do we have him check the cables box. He's got
(00:44):
it all, every form of USB in multiple lengths. Yes. Anyways,
shout out to Box of Chords of Unknown Origins. Uh,
and Queen a little band that people should check out.
Little band from the UK. They got some bops. Gang. Uh.
Let's talk about Scott Rudin. I always had my suspicions
(01:08):
based on his name that this guy was not too cool.
Rude Dude. Scott Rude Dude was his nickname in Hollywood
assistant circles. He's like a legendary producer, um who it
has just been like it's an open secret that he's
(01:29):
an abusive dick to people who work for and around him. Um,
So a expose has come out where they're like, well,
now the me in the me too era, you're not
allowed to do things like uh. In this case, there's
a story in which he uh. One of his assistants
(01:54):
is not able to book him on a sold out flight,
and in a fit of fury, he smashed an Apple
computer monitor on the assistants hand. The screen chattered, leaving
the young man bleeding and in need of immediate medical attention.
I would have bucked Scott rutined up right there, it
(02:14):
would have been. And oh, I hate this ship. I
hate because man production is weird like that. Hollywood is
very fucking weird, where like asshole creative people can just
fucking flourish because of like their ability to make money
for a studio and ship like this, and like you
have these instances where it's someone who's so out in
(02:34):
the open with this ship. But because you know, that's
that's why I think it's so rampant, especially in entertainment,
because there's no recourse for anyone if you're up against
someone who has more perceived power or influence within the industry,
like there's just no there's no way to remedy it
because it's all built on like, you know, gathering around
(02:56):
people who are influential and powerful to have, you know how,
allow your own stock to rise. And I feel like there's,
especially in the executive side, there's more insecurity uh than
your typical industry because there's like it's not a job
that you can uh describing concrete terms of like what
you're bringing to the table. Uh, And it's easy to yeah,
(03:20):
just feel insecure in that job, and so it's easy
to bully insecure people. And also being insecure leads to
bullying behavior a lot of the time. So uh, Anyway,
everyone left work that day and was like fuck this,
But then they came back the next day and continue
to work for him, um and last bowl at a
(03:42):
colleague and just throw a potato with the yeah there
they say, like it's openly acknowledged that people would be
like going bald prematurely like getting yeah, just like working there.
The only thing I thought was interesting was Tatiana Seagal tweeted,
you know, several people I spoke to for the Scott
(04:04):
Ruden piece told me they spoke to the New York
Times last year for a for a similar expose. H
obviously it never ran huh New York Times. Uh. I
mean yeah, that's that mainstream media complex of you know,
sources and tightly woven web of sources and access and
(04:29):
financial Uh. You know, there's probably big studios that advertised
with the New York Times. Um. Anyways, funk this, dude, Uh,
this one like that would be wonderful if suddenly we
had a a sea change where people like this were
(04:49):
just no longer employable within any industry. Um. Yeah, I
think it just has to be. I don't for whatever reason,
you know, we just have to be better about take
allegations of this kind of fucking behavior and like learning
how to I mean, I'm not in a position to
hire or fire a studio executive, but like, there we
(05:09):
I don't know how we're going to arrive at that
point unless we can be open and not fear retaliation
and protect the people who are actually trying to bring
light to these kinds of topics rather than you know,
allowing like the culture of like, dude, it's career suicide
if you fucking say something. Man. Yeah, shack is trending
for better reasons. Yeah, a little little capitalism fairy tale exactly,
(05:33):
our favorite kind field good story, shack Oh, rich man
paid for this man's wedding engagement ring debt. So yeah,
it's just some guy was paying off like for his
engagement ring and shock. The clip is quite literally here
and guy was like, hey, thanks, Shaq just taps him,
(05:55):
like barely looks at him, tap him on his shoulders,
like all right, now he's off to do his own shopping.
So he said, He's just he's just trying to make
people smile, That's all. I mean. You hear that about Shock,
Like I feel like he's kind of like has these
Bill Murray esque tales too, of his acts of kindness. Yeah,
where he just like pays for an entire grocery store
is worth of groceries, like for the next hour or whatever. Exactly. Yeah,
(06:21):
you know, one of one of those things that probably
shouldn't need to happen, but the media loves to loves
to talk about. Yeah we love Oh my god, rich
person pay poor person. Still it works out in the end. Yeah,
exactly right. I'm sorry, but that those instances are one
in five billion. When the celebrity is like, hi, allow
(06:44):
me to extend my generosity towards you to get you out.
That's not that's but again that kind of gets your
head to like, maybe, you know, that's why it's okay
for us to not try and fight for something better.
Maybe Shock will pull up and pay for my medical bills.
Jordan Peterson is trending because he was like, wait a
second here. Uh, Tana Hesse Coates is writing a new
(07:09):
Captain America series and one Red Skull, who is a
classic Captain America villain. Uh, some of his schemes and
ideas resemble one Jordan Peterson's ideas, and he's like, is
he trying to say something about me? And people are
(07:31):
pointing out like, it's not. It's not so specific. It's
just like that what he what Jordan Peterson is doing,
is not original enough for him. Do even draw that conclusion.
There's so many people who have similar ideals and are
praying on unsuspecting young people on the internet. But uh, yeah,
(07:52):
I mean Captain America has always been anti fash from
you know, punching Hitler in the jaw from the early
days two now the people with the shield storming the capitol, right,
you know, you take from it what you need to
I get. Yeah, I just gonna this guy. It's just
(08:15):
so funny because he his whole ship was he rode
one of the first sort of outrage of culture war
waves into becoming this like fucked up self help you know,
like racist self help dude, because everyone's like it was
when he refused to like use students preferred pronouns. Yeah,
it was like, oh my god, yes, and then he
had all his just very wordy ways of being like
(08:37):
I am a total prick um that had everyone on board.
So yeah, yeah, good for you. But anyways, apparently that
series is supposed to be definitely worth checking out. I
did not realize that Coates was writing a Captain American series.
That's fucking dope. I don't really read comics, but I
might check that out. Well. His Black Panther series really good?
(08:59):
Is it? Yeah? I got it on um, that's why
I really I got into that. Like, there's like a
Marvel app where you can essentially read every Marvel comic
um known to man, just in an app, So it
makes for very fun, uh comic book reading. What's that
app called? Just the Marvel Unlimited Marvel and Marvel Unlimited
(09:19):
and Uh, the Amy Poehler's name is trending because she
there is a stripper who was Uh. There is basically
a fake story going around that a dancer I'm squirted
at a police officer in self defense. Uh, and the
(09:42):
mug shot kind of resembled Amy Poeller. The story is
fake though, just putting that out. They were trying to
say that this dancer was Amy Poehler bait because the
mug shot looked like her. No, they were just like,
oh wow, this woman looks like Amy Poehler. And it
was such a just sensational story they wanted they wanted
to spread it around, and it turns out it was
(10:05):
immediately debunked. The it is a mug shot from a
raid at a club that happened in two thousand and eight,
I think in Houston. Actually, Um, but it's yeah, I mean,
it's not that it's not that police aren't assholes who
you know, abuse and target sex workers. It's just that
(10:29):
this particular story is not true. And I don't think
it's how sporting works. I don't think it's if you know,
if you know Amy Poehler, you'd see that much shot
me Like that ain't right? Yeah, yeah, for sure. And
finally hashtag decline now is trending. What's going on? It's
these so these two um door dash drivers in you know,
(10:51):
the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, they had figured out a
way to game the algorithm of door dash in order
to secure better rates for themselves as delivery drivers. And
so they started this moving the decline now movement, which
essentially was saying like whenever a driver they were like, okay, look,
if a driver declines a delivery, like the algorithm then
(11:14):
shifts and offers the same delivery to another driver, but
incentivizes it by raising the fee a little bit more
so they'd make more funny. And so because they're independent contractors,
it's up to them. So they realize in mass they
just started basically being like, we're not taking anything less
than this amount, and if everybody does, it will decline
(11:36):
the funk out of every order until every they have
to pay us this rate. Um. So you know it,
it started a whole thing. It's I don't know how
long it's gonna last because they it's a smaller market
where they're doing it. Um. So that made a difference there,
but you know, who knows where else it could work.
If you're you know, using door dash or you're driving
(11:57):
for DoorDash, maybe give it a try. But yeah, they're
still trying to figure out. You know, at the end
of the day, I think it all boils down to
door dash needs to pay people more so they're not
you know, weaponizing your own draconian algorithm against you for
you know, humane pay. That's yeah, it's they're taking advantage
of the fact that they're being managed by a algorithm
(12:21):
that doesn't view them as humans, like take any of
their humanity into into account. That's pretty pretty raallyan and
also shouldn't be necessary. But yeah, shout out to decline. Now,
all right, those are some of the things that are
trending this Wednesday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with the
(12:43):
whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind
to each other, be kind to yourselves, wear a mask,
and don't do nothing about white supremacy. We'll talk acountable
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