Nina's What's Trending - Taylor’s Big Drop, Cassette Comebacks & The Internet’s Slow Goodbye

Taylor Swift broke the internet (again), but this time she did it on Travis Kelce’s podcast — and fans are freaking out over her surprise album announcement. In this trending segment from The Jubal Show, the team reacts to Taylor’s mic-drop moment, a nostalgic return of cassettes, and... AOL dial-up internet finally calling it quits?! Plus, what's going on with the trade truce and TikTok's future?

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Nina's What's Trending is your daily dose of the hottest headlines, viral moments, and must-know stories from The Jubal Show! From celebrity gossip and pop culture buzz to breaking news and weird internet trends, Nina’s got you covered with everything trending right now. She delivers it with wit, energy, and a touch of humor. Stay in the know and never miss a beat—because if it’s trending, Nina’s talking about it!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Is time for Nina's What's Trending?

Speaker 2 (00:01):
A lot of you knew this was coming, but Taylor
Swift broke the internet again yesterday. She has made a
huge announcement and she did it all on her Man's podcast.
If you haven't heard it, this is what she said, crazy.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
I wanted to show you something. Okay, what do we got?
We got a briefcase. Yep, Mick Green, Yep. This is
my brand new album, The Life of a show Girl.
Everybody's freaking out.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
So on the New Heights podcast that Travis Kelsey does
with his brother, she made this announcement and I'm like,
I wonder who asked her to do that. Did he
want her to come on there and do that, or
did she decides she wanted to do that knowing that
everybody would be tuned in.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Probably her.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
I feel like that's nice to do for your significant other,
you know, like, hey, I'll throw you a bone. I'll
get you some views. You and your brother have that
little podcast. I'll come home, get you guys some views
real quick, and then you'll blow up any more.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Now the sofeties are listening to it.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, But if you haven't seen, the presale is on
now for the Life of a show Girl. Her website
kind of crashed last night at twelve twelve whatever Eastern
time when everybody went on to go see that the
presale was available. So they will ship before October thirteenth,
but the actual release date will be announced later. And
then on there there's an option to buy a cassette version.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Oh instead of vinyl'syl, there's a CD and there's cassette.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Okay, yeah, so we bring back those two. What are
those things all? They used to walk with them? A walkman?

Speaker 3 (01:35):
They made that easy to know, right, Yeah, it's probably
one of the most perfectly named things ever.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Honestly, Yeah, I agree. That's like, this is what it is,
and this is what you call it. The Walkman was legit,
especially if you wanted to run. But then the Discman
came out, and then it's like you'd be listening to
your CDs and you try to go for a run
and it would just skip the whole time. And I
was like, man, so a whack, you're forcing me to
walk when I'm trying to run.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Run with it, you don't it. So now we can
bring that back to Thank you, Taylor. Speaking of what
was old, I guess is now officially going away. If
you didn't hear the news, al AOL announced that the
dial up Internet is shutting down.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Oh wow, did you know that that was still available?

Speaker 4 (02:19):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:19):
I didn't.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
I'm surprised. I'm surprised it was still available. Who's using
dial up these days?

Speaker 1 (02:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
But apparently this fascination with retro things like the Walkman
sets all of this, including dial up Internet. There's the
younger generations that want to experience these things, and so
how to experienced internet. That's like when you would try
to go be on the Internet, it would.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Be like me, m, yeah, you have to Yeah, you'd
have to dial up the internet like it would be
like like a phone line type of thing, is how
it was, and it would literally make all these crazy
nois like and then if you wanted to go look
at anything, it would take like a half an hour.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Page start to load and you see part of a
picture but not the whole picture. It was.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
It was a wild time page very slowly.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Why would you want to use that rather than why
by because it wasn't a thing?

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Bro oh yeah back then that was it.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
That was all you had. So yeah, we were around
for the evolution of the Internet. I don't know why.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
I don't know why anybody would want to use dial
up now to be retro.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
It was just frustrated. It was well, AOL has decided
to pull the plug. It's gone bye bye. And lastly,
if you haven't heard, President Trump has extended the trade
truce with China for another ninety days. So that's good
as far as tariffs and all that stuff is concerned.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
They're going to take some more time to talk it out.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
I mean, TikTok lives for another ninety days.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, this wasn't even an exact TikTok okay, but the thing.
But yeah, I'm assuming that that's part of the deal too.
So here we are, and that's what's trying to