Nina's What's Trending - Smart Earrings, Evolving Raccoons & Taylor Swift’s New Word

From $250 “smart earrings” that track your sleep and brain activity… to raccoons evolving into cuter potential house pets… to Cambridge Dictionary dropping a Taylor-and-Travis, inspired Word of the Year, this trending roundup goes off the rails fast. Jubal, Nina, and the crew debate health tech, chaotic wildlife, and the surprisingly relatable meaning behind “parasocial.” If you love pop culture updates, viral tech news, and hilarious off-the-wall commentary, this episode of What’s Trending delivers nonstop entertainment.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for ninas. What's trending?

Speaker 2 (00:01):
The Cambridge has just announced it's Dictionary's word of the Year,
and it's inspired by Taylor Swifton. Travis Kelcey would but
but I haven't actually heard this word used at all,
So it'll be interesting to see if you guys can
guess what it is when we get to that point.
But first, smart earrings are now a thing. This is
going to be the world's smallest wearable smart device.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
So it's exactly what you think it is. It's two
hundred and fifty dollars.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
You put it on your ear, but it's cool because
it can track your sleep, your cycle, your blood flow.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
That's not what I thought it was.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
What did you think it was?

Speaker 4 (00:35):
I don't know. I kind of thought it was more
of like a SA tech like kind of like air pods,
but earrings so that what you like, listen to music,
you can hear text messages.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Now this one's like for your health, so it's just
nice tracking you. They say.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Because of its location being so close to your brain,
it's actually going to be able to give you instant
insight into how your blood flow affects your energy, focus
and mental clarity. That is kind of interesting, pretty cool
because I think hack yourself and know how to make
yourself the most productive.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
That's kind of cool.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
I mean kind of. I feel like I'm not a
very My mental clarification tools are not really there to
be in with, so I just wouldn't want to wear
the same mirring all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Also, is it golders at silver? Is it gonna have
my jewelry?

Speaker 2 (01:17):
I mean, not to see that girl. But if it's
a diamond, I mean, we're cool. We can wear that
any day. You know, you got those diamonds. It's just
that's every day where you get that super back so
it never falls out.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
That's what we're about. In other news, we all may
be able to have a new kind of pet in
our houses.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
And research is saying that raccoons are looking like it's
going to be it's a raccoon.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
No raccoon. Raccoons are evil.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Uh not her raccoon.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Hers is really cute and very sweet.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
The interesting thing they.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
All have not all a jeubel, and they all want
to eat you, not all of them. They are yours.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
They are very mischievous though if they have like little
masks on. But the weirdest part about all of this
is is the study that's calling raccoons new pet is
because their faces are starting to evolve and look cuter,
and so the cuter they get.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
I guess this happened with like mice and stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Over time they started to look cuter, which makes them
more likely to be a pet or something that you
would want in your home.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Evil changelings physically shape shifters. They're shape shifting into something cute,
so you won't think that they're going to bite you
in your sleep. Maybe we can get into their house
if our faces look different and they're magical, so they
can do that, then they'll attack you when you're asleep. Well,
they're not going to get anything over on me.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
I don't know what you did to raccoons to make
and I.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Was tormented by a raccoon for an entire three years
of my life. Are you really yes? There was this
huge raccoon. I used to live in the back of
this guy's house, you know, and every time I had
to walk out of the house to go to work,
I would have to walk down his little walkway and
go out the gate, and there was always this huge
raccoon that would lumber down the street. It looked like
a bear. And every single morning when I had to

(02:55):
leave it was very early in the morning, he would
always go into the bush right by where I had
to open the gate. No, not all like waiting to
attack me. So I always had to like kick the
door open and then jump over where the bush was
and run to my car.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Maybe he just really wanted to be your friend, wanted.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
To And then I had the other raccoon that stole
my slide out of my house.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Well, that's funny. It's funny. Also kind of on you
for your doggy door open house. That's funny. He's like, look,
I'm cute. She was like, gett here.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
That's kind of comes and eat my dog's food in
front of him and then just stares my dog down
while he eats the food slowly, like that's not cool behavior. Yeah,
just let my dog out. You know, he'll probably just
backhand him while he eats his food.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
But your dog also, like, it's like a bigger kind
of dog, so you think like he would do something.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Pointer, aren't they supposed to be Yeah, pincher, pincher, he
watches it, he watches it happen.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
He's supposed to be scary. But I mean, even if
he was a huge scary piple, I wouldn't put him
up against the raccoon. Raccoons have knives. I there somewhere
they're reaching to their fur with that little hand and
they'll pull out a knife. I don't trust them.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
So Jubile's not gonna have a raccoon anytime soon.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
No.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Meanwhile, they've got a parasocial attachment to him. That's the
word of the year, parasocial. Do you like, how are
you used to parasocial attachment? Parasocial is Cambridge Dictionary's word
of the year, and it's inspired by Taylor and Travis
Kelsey because what it means is it's that one sided
bond that people form with celebrities or people that they
don't really actually know but they become obsessed with. So, like,
Victoria has a parasocial attachment to Taylor Swift, Oh yeah, not.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Really, I mean kind of, but like that sounds weird.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Tate McCrae, then, oh, yeah, you do.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
You do have a parasocial attachment to her love of
Tate McCray And that's okay.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
He convinced me there's actually nothing wrong with it. There's
just actually a term for it now, and it's parasocial.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yeah, it just feels weird. So I do feel weird
having no own name.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
But also it's pair off the two words again they
put together.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
No, they're a pair p A R A social parasocial.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
That's sounds like fatah in Spanish. So like that, sofa
is like not a word.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Okay, now your parasocial? Can you have a placard to
park in a special spot?

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Maybe?

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Hey, I'll think it now, we'll take it, asked Cambridge,
I'll send you one a concert?

Speaker 4 (05:22):
Wait, how fun? Okay, Oh my gosh, I think I
like it. Now that's intending. That's not what it means though,
but that's okay.