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Speaker 5: Another very loaded topic has been the Grammys, of which
Speaker 5: were just held. A lot of viral moments came out
Speaker 5: of the Grammys. Of course, you saw Kanye's wife. You
Speaker 5: saw the reactions to war.
Speaker 4: No, no, we didn't see his wife.
Speaker 3: We saw every nookiing, cranny, crevice, dimple blimish.
Speaker 2: Nothing left to the imagination.
Speaker 3: For people don't know. She walked out on the red carpet.
Speaker 3: They weren't even invited to the Grammys. Kanye and his
Speaker 3: wife bianchis sin sorry. And she was wearing a nude dress.
Speaker 3: When I say nude, I mean completely new.
Speaker 2: There's nothing.
Speaker 5: I think she had a choker maybe around her neck
Speaker 5: that was it, just a necklace of some sort. And
Speaker 5: that's not the story that we're covering because we're not
Speaker 5: going to really give that that much attention. The story
Speaker 5: is about Grammy Award winning musical icon Babyface. Babyface who
Speaker 5: is Kenny Edmonds, longtime producer, longtime artist, amazing singer, songwriter,
Speaker 5: has written for everyone, Madonna.
Speaker 3: He's one of the most proliferents songwriters of the nineteen nineties.
Speaker 3: Second maybe maybe eclipsing Jimmy jam and Terry Lewis and
Speaker 3: David Foster.
Speaker 5: He's right there behind Diane Warren up there in that
Speaker 5: same class again an icon. He's on the Grammy's Red carpet,
Speaker 5: and on the red carpet people interview the ap associated
Speaker 5: press is out there. They sent a few of their
Speaker 5: reporters to do interviews and two women were on the carpet.
Speaker 5: As Babyface approached, they called Babyface over, and this is
Speaker 5: what happened.
Speaker 6: Can you talk about just this new trend that we're
Speaker 6: seeing an R and B where we're seeing more of
Speaker 6: a fusion. We're seeing people blend the genre with pop,
Speaker 6: blend the genre with hip hop and rock as well.
Speaker 2: Yes, so I think though it's interesting, Chapel chapel, you
Speaker 2: guys want to go through that.
Speaker 3: If they were interviewing Babyface, yes, they saw chapel Rong.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 4: They called out the Chapel Roll yes while.
Speaker 3: Interviewing Babyface mid answer, and Babyface was kind enough I
Speaker 3: would say to say, you know, go ahead and handle that,
Speaker 3: because obviously your attention is elsewhere, and they actually left
Speaker 3: him to start an interview with Chapel Rong.
Speaker 2: That is exactly what happened.
Speaker 5: And this interview, which was very cut, very short, as
Speaker 5: you can hear there, has gone viral because the Internet
Speaker 5: just went ballistic, and rightfully so, accusing these two AP
Speaker 5: reporters of being disrespectful to this living legend, Babyface, and
Speaker 5: saying that, hey, it's okay to want to interview the
Speaker 5: next hot thing, the up and coming hot thing, but
Speaker 5: you end one interview, especially with an icon, with this legend,
Speaker 5: and then you move on. You don't cut it short
Speaker 5: in the middle. Because this interview has gone viral, the
Speaker 5: two AP reporters have both issued apologies separately and through
Speaker 5: the Associated Press, and they were reported to be friends
Speaker 5: prior to this interview. They are apparently no longer following
Speaker 5: each other these two AP reporters on their social media pages,
Speaker 5: as one of the reporters specifically is trying to distance
Speaker 5: herself as much as possible from this fiasco. She's saying,
Speaker 5: you know, I never intended to interrupt Babyface. I respect him,
Speaker 5: I am very knowledgeable of his work, and I didn't
Speaker 5: mean for that to happen, Whereas the other one has
Speaker 5: continued being a bit dismissive, and so this has made
Speaker 5: just for a huge conundrum.
Speaker 3: Let me just say this, I don't know if I
Speaker 3: can think of a time where I, at least in
Speaker 3: recent memory, saw someone a part of a venerable organization
Speaker 3: like AP reporters.
Speaker 4: It's not like they're doing so and so's blog, yeah,
Speaker 4: YouTube channel two. It's the AP to show something.
Speaker 3: To be so demonstrably unprofessional very much so, I understand
Speaker 3: those interviews are never longer than two minutes, right, And
Speaker 3: if you're working together, one of y'all could have walked
Speaker 3: over there and tried to hold up chaperone and say, hey,
Speaker 3: we want to come to you next. I've been in
Speaker 3: that situation. I've done that.
Speaker 5: And Babyface has two He's forty years in the music industry.
Speaker 5: He understands what a red carpet is. He understands the
Speaker 5: perishableness of a red carpet, and that.
Speaker 2: You move along it's like a conveyor belt.
Speaker 5: But you don't cut it the way as you heard
Speaker 5: there in that audio they did, because it just makes
Speaker 5: you a target.
Speaker 4: He let the man finish his answer, did you cut it?
Speaker 5: There you go? There you go. The next story also
Speaker 5: has to do with some audio that came out of
Speaker 5: a viral moment, and let me set it.
Speaker 2: Up for you. First. There's a classroom. There is a
Speaker 2: teacher at this point.
Speaker 5: It is said to be a college classroom, so either
Speaker 5: college or upper high school by the looks of the
Speaker 5: video which has gone viral, and.
Speaker 2: This teacher or professor is at the front.
Speaker 5: He is responding to a question that may have been
Speaker 5: asked off of our out of our purview, and the
Speaker 5: answer that is given is very polarizing. Some might say
Speaker 5: that it is insensitive, and some might even call it
Speaker 5: racist or prejudiced.
Speaker 2: But after you hear this clip, I will.
Speaker 5: Tell you how the Internet has gotten their mass reaction wrong.
Speaker 2: Let's roll the clip.
Speaker 7: Why do we have.
Speaker 4: I don't want to be.
Speaker 2: With your kid.
Speaker 3: Anyway?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: So you hear in that clip this professor say why
Speaker 5: do we have gated communities? Because I don't want to
Speaker 5: be with your kind and a person says something, there's
Speaker 5: some response there, and the professor a teacher goes on
Speaker 5: to say not for long, insinuating that people who perhaps
Speaker 5: maybe not necessarily in this country legally would then be
Speaker 5: deported soon enough. That's kind of the suggestion of the clip,
Speaker 5: as well as removing oneself from maybe other minorities. But
Speaker 5: here's how the Internet got it wrong. Of course, when
Speaker 5: you first hear that, it is easy to categorize this
Speaker 5: as a racist tirade, but the devil was in the details.
Speaker 5: You go into the comments of this now viral clip,
Speaker 5: and what has been uncovered is that this teacher or
Speaker 5: professor was merely role playing, and he was giving kind
Speaker 5: of antithesis or an antithesis or an oppositional statement to
Speaker 5: students who were asking questions about how to interact with
Speaker 5: people in this current political climate, who may have strong
Speaker 5: opinions about race and diversity in their own neighborhoods. So
Speaker 5: this professor or teacher was actually arming them or preparing
Speaker 5: them in a debate style class for possible reactions to
Speaker 5: their statements or questions, and he was recorded and uploaded
Speaker 5: without context.
Speaker 3: Clearly, whoever uploaded it and whoever recorded it knew the context,
Speaker 3: and they were just trying to set them up exactly.
Speaker 5: And that is a huge issue when it comes to
Speaker 5: media literacy. You don't know the full context of a clip,
Speaker 5: it's very easy to draw conclusions, and it's very easy
Speaker 5: to supplant situations and create these situations so that people
Speaker 5: can come up with their own ideas that may not
Speaker 5: be rooted in fact. This is an example of that.
Speaker 5: This professor or teacher now is the target of a
Speaker 5: lot of vitriol. But what's happening is people in that
Speaker 5: class are coming up and explaining and saying, hey, that's
Speaker 5: not at all what was happening. Our professor is not
Speaker 5: at all racist or bigoted. He was merely role playing
Speaker 5: and giving us possibilities of what might happen in an
Speaker 5: interaction with people who are racist or bigoted.
Speaker 4: I hate the Internet.
Speaker 2: The Internet is a very tricky place.
Speaker 4: I hate the Internet. That I did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 3: Let's come back and do some more of the viral
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Speaker 5: What is fomo? Fom? Are you familiar with fear of
Speaker 5: missing out? Okay, a very popular acronym. You've seen it
Speaker 5: in social media. But have you seen poe bo?
Speaker 4: I've seen a f O.
Speaker 5: There's a new phenomenon on social media that is considered
Speaker 5: to be kind of like the evil brother of fomo
Speaker 5: and phobo.
Speaker 2: Is actually described as.
Speaker 5: Quote the anxiety that something better will come along, which
Speaker 5: makes it undesirable to commit to existing choices when making.
Speaker 2: A decision, is relationships or something.
Speaker 5: It is talking about anything that requires you to make
Speaker 5: a decision between one or more things, and it is
Speaker 5: the newest trend taking hold in the viral world of
Speaker 5: social media. There are lots of people who are saying,
Speaker 5: you know, hey, I'm caught between a rock and a
Speaker 5: hard place. I'm caught between two jobs or two relationships,
Speaker 5: like you talked about with the possible Will Ferrell Jennifer
Speaker 5: Aniston movie. I'm glad we're pitching them as actors for movie.
Speaker 3: And I want all credit if they get cast in
Speaker 3: at all the credit.
Speaker 2: Perfect casting for that.
Speaker 5: But if you're caught between two or more decisions, there's
Speaker 5: the idea of fear of better out there, fear of
Speaker 5: better out there, fobo that if you commit to one thing,
Speaker 5: oh no, you might in fact be missing out on
Speaker 5: something better.
Speaker 4: But this isn't that life, that's life.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And people are saying that it could include, of course,
Speaker 5: something as small as picking from a menu. Say you
Speaker 5: want the spaghetti or you want the pasta, but on
Speaker 5: the other side of the menu there's a great steak dinner,
Speaker 5: and now you're caught in the middle, and it cost
Speaker 5: there's so much anxiety.
Speaker 4: I figured that out. My OCD figures that out for me.
Speaker 3: When I have go to a restaurant that I have
Speaker 3: something that I know I love, I always get that
Speaker 3: because I know I'm guaranteed to have a certain level
Speaker 3: of enjoyment if I pick my favorite food off the menu.
Speaker 3: My fear is choosing something else and then having a
Speaker 3: lesser experience when I should have gone with my first
Speaker 3: mind and go with what I knew.
Speaker 5: So yours is more a fear of missing the greater
Speaker 5: experience versus.
Speaker 4: So the known experience. I know what you know.
Speaker 3: I know what I get when i'm let's say I'm
Speaker 3: going to Denny's, I'm gonna get my you know, French lam.
Speaker 4: I know that's what I'm gonna get.
Speaker 5: So fear of missing out on familiarity doesn't have the
Speaker 5: same ring as phobo.
Speaker 2: Right, I need these fun rings.
Speaker 3: Why am I going to complicate the decision get the
Speaker 3: stuff you want?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 5: The thing about it is, well where you are able
Speaker 5: to uncomplicate your life. There are people who are leaning
Speaker 5: fully into phobo as the newest acronym. You'll start to
Speaker 5: see it everywhere because people are saying, again, what if
Speaker 5: there's something even better out there? So you'll see this bagline.
Speaker 5: Phobo most likely popping up through twenty twenty five. Is
Speaker 5: one of the newer acronyms that's popular. It may even
Speaker 5: end up in the Dictionary at the end of the year.
Speaker 5: We'll see I was child of my lad exactly perfect
Speaker 5: that it could be called Phobo.
Speaker 2: To be honest, the movie could be called.
Speaker 3: Phobo, could be We better like copyright all this before
Speaker 3: someone tries to steal it and put it in a
Speaker 3: movie and have it star Will Ferrell and Jennifer Andiston
Speaker 3: and no one give us any credit.
Speaker 4: Underwritten Vio latter with mokel that's right. I want a
Speaker 4: producer's credit. Dammit.
Speaker 3: Giving all the way this good stuff, the least you
Speaker 3: can do is give me a producer's credit.
Speaker 5: Moving on to the next story, there's a really unfortunate
Speaker 5: social media trend. There have been lots of unfortunate social
Speaker 5: media trends that have gone viral, from the bucket challenge
Speaker 5: where people were dumping buckets of water on themselves, to
Speaker 5: other challenges that might have put people in harm's way
Speaker 5: or even got them locked up, perhaps maybe die. Your
Speaker 5: consequence says, well, this one falls within that latter category
Speaker 5: of stupidity and really harsh consequences if you should get caught.
Speaker 5: There is a new TikTok prank, and it is to
Speaker 5: go around asking children if they want to be kidnapped.
Speaker 2: And it's a prank.
Speaker 3: Okay, let me just stop right there. One you don't
Speaker 3: talk to other people's children period, ever, ever, ever, ever,
Speaker 3: You don't ever do.
Speaker 5: That kid in the grocery store who's crying and having
Speaker 5: a fit. No security, No, no, no, we're past those times. Yes,
Speaker 5: and we're certainly and we should have never ever been
Speaker 5: even in the vicinity of being in a place where
Speaker 5: we're asking kids if they want to be kidnapped. But
Speaker 5: but look, if you have to be scene asking a child,
Speaker 5: not your child, do you want to be kidnapped?
Speaker 3: And someone beats the hell out of you because they
Speaker 3: heard you ask that, I am all for it.
Speaker 5: And there's another acronym for thata f.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, there you go. Yep, all for that.
Speaker 3: Free ass Whippons. Don't talk to other people's.
Speaker 2: Kids, don't.
Speaker 5: And if you do, and you decide that you want
Speaker 5: to ask a child if they want to be kidnapped, no,
Speaker 5: it will likely result in your arrest. And that's what
Speaker 5: two teenagers in Texas have found out this week as
Speaker 5: they participated in this really stupid viral challenge where they
Speaker 5: went up to two kids ages seven and nine as
Speaker 5: they were walking home from school and approached these kids
Speaker 5: and said, hey, do you want to be kidnapped?
Speaker 2: The people who.
Speaker 5: Were the ones asking the question, Cain Villareal nineteen years
Speaker 5: old and Lane Birch, eighteen years old, both residents of Kyle, Texas,
Speaker 5: were arrested on charges of terroristic threats.
Speaker 2: Yes, terroristic threats.
Speaker 3: You can't kid around with words like a bomb or kidnap.
Speaker 4: You can't do that stuff. No.
Speaker 5: And their justification and when they were trying to defend
Speaker 5: themselves was saying, hey, no, no, no's we're not We
Speaker 5: don't mean any harm. We were just acting out a
Speaker 5: TikTok prank.
Speaker 4: I'm question.
Speaker 3: They didn't mean any harm, but it doesn't mean it's
Speaker 3: it's legal to do.
Speaker 5: No, And you're stupid if you think that that's something
Speaker 5: that's funny in the first place, very dangerous.
Speaker 2: Last story, really quickly.
Speaker 5: Men are flocking to female dominated yoga and pilates classes
Speaker 5: and women are outraged. They're saying, stay away from these
Speaker 5: female only classes. They're our safe space. It's where we
Speaker 5: go to do our stretching, where we go to do
Speaker 5: our cardio, and they're women only. For a reason, you
Speaker 5: stay out. And I'm not talking about a political statement.
Speaker 5: I'm talking about specifically men going into these women only
Speaker 5: or are women inclusive spaces simply to quote grunt and
Speaker 5: moan and make weird noises so as to interrupt and
Speaker 5: disrupt these classes just for fun.
Speaker 4: That sounds like something dudes would.
Speaker 5: Do, grunting, slurping and heavy breathing.
Speaker 3: And they should get their ass Well. I'd be okay
Speaker 3: with that too. I'm serious, because you're you're going in
Speaker 3: there trying to disrupt what is going on.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: I know that pilates and hot yoga and all that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff is much more popular among men now
Speaker 3: than ever before. Sure it's not my thing, but I
Speaker 3: hear more and more of my friends and colleagues participating
Speaker 3: in that. And I did always think, in the back
Speaker 3: of my mind, I wonder how welcoming or how appreciated
Speaker 3: that is, because historically it was mostly women on the
Speaker 3: space where they could be comfortable with themselves, their bodies, right, movements,
Speaker 3: all that kind of stuff without worrying about a leering
Speaker 3: man's eye right.
Speaker 5: And the reason that this story has gone viral is
Speaker 5: that people have taken to their social media pages, of course,
Speaker 5: TikTok being the main one to complain about this new
Speaker 5: kind of phenomenon of men coming into the spaces and
Speaker 5: saying that you know it is not anymore, It's not
Speaker 5: quiet and peaceful anymore, one woman said, and another said,
Speaker 5: why can't you be seen and not heard? Why do
Speaker 5: these men have to come in and do these kind
Speaker 5: of extra make these extra sounds, and be just disruptive
Speaker 5: deliberately so their responses their complaints are going viral all
Speaker 5: over social media, and people are involved in the you know,
Speaker 5: in the conversation where there are some accusations of sexism
Speaker 5: towards the women and men are chiming in. But this
Speaker 5: is one of the newest social media debates. Should men
Speaker 5: be in women's own spaces when it comes to exercise, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't mind if whoever's running the class says I
Speaker 3: think it's a safe enough space where men, assuming that
Speaker 3: you act right, can be in the space. But I'm
Speaker 3: also of the opinion if they want to make it
Speaker 3: a woman's only class, which I've seen in many places,
Speaker 3: I'm cool with that too. I think it's up to
Speaker 3: whoever's teaching the class whether he or she can maintain
Speaker 3: control of the environment.
Speaker 5: And if you're invited in, don't be a jerk about it. Right,
Speaker 5: be seen and not heard?
Speaker 4: Got that mark if you're invited in the.
Speaker 2: Next time, we know you have lobo.
Speaker 4: Okay, does it matter what I wear?
Speaker 7: By the way, I got to tell you, since you're
Speaker 7: talking about these online pranks, I keep on seeing these,
Speaker 7: especially on Reddit pranks where people on escalators going opposite
Speaker 7: directions will reach across and touch somebody's boyfriend or girlfriend
Speaker 7: in the face and then just get the absolute hell
Speaker 7: kicked out of him.
Speaker 4: I'm all for that. Is this proliferating?
Speaker 2: Yes it is. It's everywhere.
Speaker 3: All I know is if I'm in a public place
Speaker 3: and prank or not you touch my wife, I'm probably
Speaker 3: going to jail that night.
Speaker 4: I'm probably going to jail. How could it be any
Speaker 4: other way? What are these people thinking?
Speaker 3: There's only one response, and I'm not waiting for an
Speaker 3: explanation afterward, and that's probably going to make it worse.
Speaker 3: He's no, no, no, no, it's just from TikTok oh okay.
Speaker 7: I mean we used to see viral videos of people
Speaker 7: getting pranks, startled by somebody who would pop out of
Speaker 7: say a dumpster or a garbage can, maybe in costume,
Speaker 7: maybe not, And about every I don't know, sixth or
Speaker 7: seventh person would just jack them unconscious right there. They
Speaker 7: wouldn't feign a surprise or run or shriek. They just
Speaker 7: punched the guy out immediately reflexively.
Speaker 3: You may not say this, but I'm going to say this,
Speaker 3: and this is something which is culturally specific.
Speaker 4: Leave black people alone when it comes to those pranks.
Speaker 4: I feel like I need this. We do not respond.
Speaker 4: I'm being very serious.
Speaker 7: Well, you're right, it's always a black guy in the
Speaker 7: videos who punches the other person out.
Speaker 4: Leave us alone.
Speaker 3: We do not respond well to pranks, maybe because we
Speaker 3: come from usually from a more aggressive environment, so something
Speaker 3: like that is perceived as a threat and we respond accordingly.
Speaker 3: I know I'm being very you know, generalizing, but I'm
Speaker 3: just saying, leave us alone when it comes to those pranks.
Speaker 4: You're much safer that way.
Speaker 3: And to further that point, which is that's why people
Speaker 3: like me and Moe would not enjoy a Halloween horror
Speaker 3: next correct.
Speaker 4: Right there? Correct, Nah, don't try to touch me.
Speaker 2: Dog, we're going this year.
Speaker 7: We're not.
Speaker 4: We're not. No, No, we want to jail there, and
Speaker 4: I don't need to go to jail.
Speaker 2: Let me film it so we can go viral and
Speaker 2: be on the viral load.
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