Jessica is the new Karen?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
I've got the new apparently the new Karen. So okay,
this is this is the changing of the guard for
modern times. And you know how we call people Karens. Yeah,
which is which is the Karens. And we've got lovely
karen listeners yeah, and Karen friends. But it is what
it is like. We don't shoot the message you here.

(00:31):
And also to the new name that I'm about to announce,
I'm just getting the facts that are being put down.
It's not my opinion, Okay, just that disclaimer, because yeah,
I don't want to face an angry Jessica. Jessica a
new name apparently Jessica or Jessica's our younger Karens. But
instead of asking you to speak to the manager when

(00:52):
they think that they're being wronged, they'll air their complaints
on social media or something like that. Jessica is the
Karen of the digital, entitled, annoying at always thinking she's right.
So how did she get there? Or how did we
all get there? In the same way, Karen was chosen
to represent a certain stereotype of middle aged woman who
act out with overgrown pixie cuts because it was one

(01:15):
of the most popular names given to girls born in
the nineteen sixties. Jessica has been given the honor because
it's what everyone, it seems, was naming their bundles of
joy in the eighties and nineties. Okay, timing, And the
other point that they did make was and now for
the younger people coming through, Yes, Jessica is in a
name that is often used for babies. Now yeah, okay,

(01:38):
I'm not like like for that generation. So that makes
it even more so. They're saying that Jessica is the
new Karen. I feel relieved for Karen's.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
I'm going to stand firmly. Yeah well yeah, okay, but
they're not going to be Jessica's. Do we have to
have a name at all? My daughter, her name is Jesse.
She's half No, she's not, she's not, but we all
just call her jest. Actually I call her booie, but
I would be.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
If boo is it?

Speaker 3 (02:12):
I just call a boo boo boo, but I would
be if her full name was Jessica, which it isn't.
And I'm just look at me defending it now. It's
like she's definitely not Jessica. Was I would feel very
upset for her. Yes, and yes, so so I'm coming
down hard. No, there's no new Well, I don't even

(02:34):
like this sync.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
But you're not the word, you're not the name police.
I'm it was. She's coming down. I don't know if
stands up in court, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
So when do you think about this? Would you agree
that Jessica?

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Well, again, again, it's not it's not something that I'm
thinking of. What's the new caring going to be? So
I'm just reading what they're telling us. Yeah, okay, okay,
So if this is the space that it's going to be,
I feel like we need proof. I feel like a
couple of times some Karens have let the Karens down
and then there's a little body of evidence. But don't

(03:08):
you I haven't had any proof that there's a Jessica
yet that is this person.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
How often you on social media?

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well, a little bit a little bit of doom scrolling
every now and again, don't you.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Think though, I mean, every single name there's going to
be a version of a rotten one, like there's going
to be a few polls out there.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
No, absolutely not.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
They're all perfect?

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Are they perfect? Paul? Don't get me started on perfect, Paul. Listen,
we're going to be talking about now Jessica. So we
would love calls from Jessica's. Yes, if you're upset about this,
or if you've got a daughter Jessica.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Or you know, or you refute that Jessica's.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Are we want calls from Karens who might be relieved.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, maybe that got some advice for Jessica.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Exactly, or upset for Jessica's that they're going to have
to go through that. Or I would love if we
can get someone that is a Karen that has a
daughter Jessica.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Double five seven one oh one oh two nine. Are
you a Jessica? Are you worried about this new label?
I suppose Karen's.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Are you relieved?

Speaker 1 (04:15):
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