Tall Girl: Welcome back to sense, sensibility, and chaos. The podcast that once tried to be chronically online, but had to lie down halfway through a tiktok trend. Explanation.
Busy: I'm busy. I look up the lingo the kids use to make sure I could have conversations with my nieces and nephews.
WellRead: I'm well read. I once got ratioed for defending grammar on Tumblr, and still haven't recovered.
Tall Girl: Girl. Dinner is no joke. It's a lifestyle. And I say with pride, it's mine.
Tall Girl: Today. We're talking about the unhinged, the edible, the algorithm approved. The Internet trends that make you feel both 27 and 207, depending on whether or not you're eating feta pasta or trying protein ice cream that tastes like sadness.
WellRead: Hi guys.
Busy: Hello!
WellRead: How we do.
Tall Girl: Honestly. Last night, just as I fell asleep, I saw a woman who was like Paleo crack, and I was like
Tall Girl: she browned butter and laid it out like really browned butter. Put it out in parchment, put it in the freezer, and then she cracked it up like it was chocolate, and she's like it tastes just like caramel, and like.
WellRead: Know it.
Tall Girl: Think I fell asleep to. And I'm reading this, and I'm like
Tall Girl: no like the number of trend lies on the Internet. I was like, Oh.
WellRead: 5 min Hacks.
Busy: If you want, I am on board, if you are doing diet, or if you have a a restriction and you have to adjust, and you say it is like, or it is similar to, but for real. Let's stop lying to ourselves.
Busy: Just Browning butter, to whatever degree she did is like.
Tall Girl: It gives it a nutty flavor, but no way in hell would it ever taste like caramel, or like the actual crack with the chocolate and the caramel and the marshmallow like. It's just it. There is no place on earth even with massive brain injuries where those 2 things have like
Tall Girl: close your eyes, and it tastes just like it. I grew up on Vegan cheese. No, it does not.
Busy: Absolutely not.
Tall Girl: Oh, sorry! That one that was my trauma last night, and I was just like
Tall Girl: to share with the group to enrage, and she used like Kerrygold butter. I'm like this is a.
WellRead: Oh!
Busy: Somewhere. There's a leprechaun dying from that.
WellRead: Rude.
Busy: Horrible. Don't do that.
Busy: So what are your the Internet trends that you think.
Busy: or the the history of where the trends have been?
Busy: When you think of those.
Tall Girl: I am so glad planking came to an end, because if I saw one more person on this earth lying stiffly at some like, I used to work downtown Manhattan so like people. Planking everywhere was just like.
Tall Girl: what what are we doing like?
Tall Girl: I laid flat for 3 min - Yay
Tall Girl: like I just. I never got planking in my life.
Busy: I got it for like exercise purposes.
Tall Girl: But to just go to the World Trade Center and lie stiff for 2 seconds for a photo planking for physical fitness, noted.
Busy: Planking at like a national monument.
Tall Girl: I don't.
Tall Girl: I'm not traveling 45 min.
Tall Girl: Look, Parkour, at least you've climbed 2 floors up like there's an accomplishment at the end of Parkour.
Tall Girl: or at the very least, if it's bad Parkour I get to be entertained by it like Parkour runs into a brick wall. I at least got a laugh.
Busy: I think when I think about some of the earlier Internet, you know, up trends. Or also I would I would kind of include with that videos and memes that
Busy: her brain I don't know how many times
Busy: you know you're growing up where you're here to say so. This is ze world, and then, if you can't pick up and go
Busy: with, you know. But le tired, and take le nap and fire ze missiles.
Tall Girl: What's it? The Beauty Queen, like maps and stuff.
Busy: What?
Tall Girl: There was some like Miss America, and she gave the answer about maps and geography, and like continents. And I was just
Tall Girl: when I answer wrong.
WellRead: It was unintelligible answer.
Busy: For the.
Tall Girl: Really bad. It's like when I can't think of things like she runs through my head, and I'm like, Oh.
Busy: Who is it, Charlie? The Unicorn is that.
WellRead: Yeah, Charlie, the unicorn. Charlie bit my finger. That's another good one.
Tall Girl: See that kid who's now like 35? I'm like, no, no.
WellRead: Here's an oldie, but a goodie. Gonads and strife.
Busy: I don't know that one.
Tall Girl: I don't know.
WellRead: That was the squirrel that used to run around this there was a picture of a squirrel, and it like moved around the screen like the squirrel was running around, and yo, motherfucker wee.
Busy: Vaguely.
Busy: No, I feel like.
Tall Girl: We've lived relatively close to each other most of our lives, and yet, like
Tall Girl: the moose one you were talking about earlier.
WellRead: Yes, so that was, I think that was regional
WellRead: where we used to put our hands up above our heads and say, Catch it like. If you would drop the ball of the topic.
WellRead: I would say, catch it.
Tall Girl: Sound and assumed you guys were like crazy.
WellRead: No.
Busy: I think there was also, like, I think, the peanut butter jelly time.
WellRead: Peanut butter jelly time. Yep.
Busy: Oh, see, everyone just like Pops a little bit. So I think those were some of like the Og
Busy: trends or memes, or whatever you want to call it that everyone kind of.
Tall Girl: Harlem shake, which I still have. Ptsd, when a video comes up and the Harlem shake, music starts, and I'm just like No, no.
Busy: I remember that being like like, what was everyone just dancing? Or they just.
Tall Girl: Originally it was to get into the video people did. And then they actually invited people into the Harlem shake video to like be a part of it, and then it was just everywhere for that summer it was just like the trauma song.
Busy: I don't know about that.
Tall Girl: It's good, and I liked it. And then it was just.
Busy: I know the song. But I can't remember the.
Busy: But everyone did dancing.
Tall Girl: I mean, I can't, really. It's just. It's shaking your shoulders and then going crazy like there's no.
Busy: Hmm.
Tall Girl: It's not like the Macarena, which was pre-internet, but.
Busy: We don't. We don't want to speak about that one.
WellRead: Oh, the Macarena.
Busy: That's not cause. As soon as you say, Macarena, who's coming right behind that is Mambo number 5.
WellRead: Yes.
Tall Girl: Little bit of Monica in my life. Yeah.
Busy: Yeah.
Tall Girl: There's also what's the gangnum style like? He's still going.
Tall Girl: Oh, my God!
Tall Girl: I've never actually gotten really pissed at that one. It's like he is still going on stage and living that life, I'm like. You know what, sir. One good song.
WellRead: Good on you.
Tall Girl: For a lifetime. I personally love a rickroll. I will never not love a rickroll. There is never a moment where Rickroll will not make me ridiculously happy.
Busy: It doesn't. I'm like, meh, that never
Busy: correct. I'm like, if it happens, it happens. If, like, someone actually does Rick roll me
Busy: like, oh, okay, like props on you. But I'm like, Meh.
Busy: It doesn't.
WellRead: Know what I'm happy about ending.
Busy: What?
WellRead: Those ice bucket trends.
Tall Girl: I liked when people called out, like everybody they've ever met, it wasn't like, Oh, I'm gonna call out, you know, like I challenged Sally and Tom. It's like all the people I knew in high school by name, first, st last, and middle, and then, like all the people I've ever worked, and you're like this, video is 48 min.
Busy: The last 30 seconds. Is you getting iced.
Tall Girl: I don't know this. Many people I've never met this many people. How are we challenging everybody?
Tall Girl: But it did run like raise a ridiculous amount of money. I think it was like a hundred 1 million dollars, or something like.
WellRead: Yeah, but for the amount of people who are actually doing it.
Tall Girl: Oh, yeah, oh, no, I mean.
Tall Girl: but it's like those videos on Tiktok, like my grandmother taught me this. I'm like that is a definite sign of Never do. Whatever follows in this video.
Busy: What do you mean?
Tall Girl: But also, like the number of people who run around the neighborhood, running like raising money for Unicef like Unicef, would have solved the world's problems. If all the kids who are collecting for Unicef had actually turned in unicef money.
Busy: So what other trends have you seen recently that
Busy: maybe make you scratch your head or.
Tall Girl: Well, I mean Elon, and is meme. I'll never understand that.
Tall Girl: And then everybody else started saying, I is meme, and I'm like, I don't think he knew what he was saying when he said it. So when you're making a video saying I is meme, I know, even less.
Busy: I'm lost.
Busy: When did what did he do? I try not to pay attention to him.
Tall Girl: I think it was the day of the chainsaw. He got up on stage for something, and and
Tall Girl: vitamin K. That he was he just like with this full chest was like, I is meme.
Tall Girl: Nobody got it like I think he was expecting applause, and nobody clapped.
Tall Girl: and with his full chest. Did he say it? But now there are other people who create videos saying, I is meme, and I'm like, I get it even less.
Busy: Yeah, we could just not talk about that one that could just not be.
Tall Girl: I will say I'm still very attached to the pasta feta bake. I wasn't happy that Feta ran out for most grocery stores in Covid, but it was good.
Busy: Yeah, I I think sometimes I I think one of the things I both like and don't like with
Busy: some. If we're gonna go with recipe trends is everyone's need to just throw everything into one.
WellRead: Oh, one dish!
Busy: The one thing and bake it
Busy: or something, and I just sit there. Sometimes I'm like.
Busy: why, we do it like in some hands, on some, you know. I'm like, all right. Some of them make sense. Okay, this makes sense. We could do this, but the ones that they're like
Busy: they try to put everything into the pan that you know the casserole dish that they're going to use, and they're trying to save it to not mix, I'm like, but then you're mixing it, and things are getting outside the pan, and I don't understand why we are constantly putting raw pasta
Busy: and water or liquid, and then covering it and make like
Busy: that. One always gets me a bit hard
Busy: and and hard in a sense like hard to to manage, not hard, excited.
WellRead: Gotcha. Yeah. The the one dishes. I always end up using more than one dish and like 10 more ingredients than
WellRead: the recipe actually calls for, because there's not enough flavoring.
Busy: And you know.
WellRead: In any of these things.
Busy: But also some of them like. If you had just taken a second to use a bowl and mix some of the things together beforehand. It wouldn't look so separated and disturbing when it's done, because it looks like it didn't mix well, because that's the point of some of these items, and it didn't. And it's just like globs of like
Busy: cream cheese, or whatever they're putting in there together, and I just sit there and go. Please stop, please.
Tall Girl: Every crock pot recipe that starts with 2 bricks of cream cheese is an automatic like. I will not make this. I'm sure it's delicious. I'm sure it's fatty and delicious, but like automatically, if your 1st ingredient is 2 bricks of cream cheese, I'm like I'm out. I cannot. I cannot.
Busy: There are dips that are good with that.
Tall Girl: No like crock pot recipes like a pound of chicken, 3 bricks of cream cheese. I'm like, what what are we doing? 6 cans of condensed Campbell's soup. I'm like, no, even your cardiologist feels through the force that you should not be making this dish.
Tall Girl: That is just way. Too much sodium per. Of course it tastes delicious. It's 8,000 milligrams of sodium. It's designed to make your body go. Yum, it's not good. It can't be good.
Busy: But there, there are some that make sense like, you know. I know we're kind of
Busy: tall girl, and I don't know if you've gotten into it as much, red. The the dense bean salads.
Busy: We love it.
Tall Girl: Busy can't wait for this trend to end, because, like
Tall Girl: Because, my God! Do I send her like 3 recipes a day.
Tall Girl: She is beaned out from me like.
Tall Girl: bless her! She doesn't say no, but like.
Busy: No, because I don't mind them, because I I enjoy
Busy: not always having to use meat as proteins and having other options. So, seeing what some people do, makes you think of things. So I get that for recipe
Busy: trends.
Busy: What other one.
Tall Girl: So, girl. Dinner.
Tall Girl: which I feel is just something we've done for forever. But it finally got a name, is now turning into the grazing plate.
Tall Girl: And honestly, I love the fact that everybody's like, Yeah, I don't always come home and cook a 4 course dinner, especially if I'm just a person, and I'm effing tired, and sometimes you just want, like in the summer cheese, some kind of a meat and a cut up apple.
Tall Girl: That is, that is fine. That is a dinner. That is exactly what I'm going to eat.
Tall Girl: I like the grazing plate because it kind of just like sets you up for the day. It takes one extra thing off your plate like in the morning. I just put some sweet stuff, some salty stuff, some carby stuff like together, and then for the rest of the day I got nothing to do.
Busy: Think, and that's also, I think.
Busy: you know not everyone has a big dinner in general for their life. Some people are more like a big breakfast, some people more big lunch. So I think, like the idea that you have to have this full meal and guilt it into at least from, you know here like you didn't eat any fruit. No, I had like I took some slices of Cheddar. I may had an apple when I was
Busy: living in Dallas. One of the ones that became
Busy: a regular rotation meal for me was like taking but
Busy: pre-made crescent rolls that you make at home.
Busy: and putting a slab of Brie in it, rolling them up, popping them in the toaster.
Busy: and then having some raspberry jam with them, and that would be my dinner, and I was completely fine with it. So I'm all on board with the this grazing trend. That's
Busy: cool. Let's do that.
WellRead: I think there's something to be said for trends from like a sociological standpoint. Yes, some of them are stupid.
WellRead: but also some of them are very validating.
Busy: Such as.
WellRead: Like you find out. Well, for instance, this girl dinner thing, you find out that you're not the only one who does this. And suddenly you feel, oh, okay, I'm not alone.
WellRead: I'm not weird, because a whole lot of other people do this thing as well.
WellRead: So yeah, I think they can be very validating when the trend goes well.
Tall Girl: I will say the one thing Tiktok's been very good about is like finding people with a commonality of like tiny pinky toenail, like
Tall Girl: people who thought they were completely unusual. Tiktok is like I've never seen your toe, but I know that you are of the tiny toenail variety like here are your people.
Tall Girl: It's
Tall Girl: yeah. It has been validating for a lot of people like that thing that I thought made me weird is actually the thing that, like
Tall Girl: 50% of the other people do have whatever
Tall Girl: I love the viral food terrors. When people like publicly post like it's not always perfect. It's not always instagrammable. It's not always like
Tall Girl: just getting a meal
Tall Girl: time burning down the kitchen like, Thank the Lord, because in a world of perfection the ones that are like, Yeah, this doesn't work or like, no, that doesn't happen.
Tall Girl: There's a guy and his girlfriend who like make those viral recipes and half their time. They're just like
Tall Girl: Don't, no. I wait for them to review it before I will try it, because I'm like.
Tall Girl: you know what? Yeah, go for. It.
WellRead: Yeah. It's it's the food taster. Right?
Tall Girl: So you don't get poisoned.
Tall Girl: You know how many people have like posted that they got sick from that trader Joe's raw salmon sushi hack, and I was like.
Busy: Oh, I, moving past.
Tall Girl: Didn't know
Tall Girl: but thank you for posting that you were violently ill for the past few days, because that that trend was not.
Tall Girl: and.
Busy: I also like sometimes when the trends are, you know, right now on Tiktok, I've seen the past couple of weeks a lot about the percolator
Busy: and.
WellRead: Oh, yeah. Stuff from.
Busy: When the when people under hold hold on, don't people under
Busy: 20 or like 23 are doing it, and they're doing it in some way, and I don't know why. And then people of the 40 45 or older generation are getting on here like, please sit down
Busy: and don't disrespect that which is sacred, and then come to find out. You know we grew up East Coast, that there is also a difference in like how it was done in Chicago. And also now it becomes again also like, Oh, okay, we have the regional.
Busy: because I, you know.
Busy: saw it as one way. And then, you see, people regionally from other. I was like, Okay, you know. And now people regionally of the older generations are having like throw downs. I'm like.
Busy: Okay, I'm down for this. I could. I can get behind. But sometimes the dance trends when they take
Busy: a song like you had you know, Twyla had a couple of songs. Am I saying her name? I think that's it. The water dance trends and they do stuff. And I'm just like I'm trying to understand?
Busy: It's not based off their music videos. It's not dance based on maybe choreography they're doing during a concert.
Busy: How are you come like one person creates a a choreography
Busy: for. And also it's a trend. And everyone's sweeping. And it's also like, Okay, why not.
Tall Girl: I personally enjoy the younger generation that's like everclear.
Tall Girl: This looks interesting.
Tall Girl: And then you watch them basically die. And you're like, Oh.
Tall Girl: oh, at least you'll understand a reference when you know.
Busy: Or when people.
Tall Girl: Dog. It looks like such a pretty blue color like
Tall Girl: you know what we all have to make the same mistake we all have to you should experience this. It's sold in the liquor stores. It's perfectly legal. Yes.
Tall Girl: it's jet fuel. Enjoy.
Busy: Yeah, my, my body was one that was okay. They were clear, like, people would die. And I just.
Busy: I've if it's going to help people. It probably won't help me. And if it's gonna hurt others, my body's like we got this so like, I was one of those people that could drink the ever clear. I was fine.
Busy: and then and I mean like straight, not just like in a punch, like I would take it straight sometimes and be fine.
Busy: And but yeah, no, when when kids are trying stuff, or
Busy: or recently, also, I've seen a lot of kids listening to their parents music, and they think that like
Busy: Wap is bad, or what is it.
Tall Girl: The thongsong and a few others. They're like, this is terrible. I'm like.
Busy: Wait!
Tall Girl: This is what we listen to at our 5th grade dance.
Busy: That's right. The thongsong, or.
Tall Girl: Although you'll now hear parents who like sing the thong song to their baby.
Tall Girl: We're just like rock if I pay, I'm like what? No, no, this is not a soothing no, no, any other song.
Busy: What was the other one has? I could hear.
Busy: Put it in your mouth, and kids are listening.
Tall Girl: Thank you.
Tall Girl: No.
Busy: And they're looking at their parents horrified, and I just had tears laughing like before your parents made you. They were getting down, my child, and I like seeing some of those when the kids are right now listening.
WellRead: Yeah, those are funny.
Tall Girl: A mother daughter. She showed her daughter. Hello, by Lionel Richie! And she's watching the music video with her mother, and she's like stalker.
Tall Girl: Stalker vibes like she is so viscerally upset. How is this legal?
Tall Girl: Oh, when you look at it through the modern lens? Yes, it is terrifying that this was romance.
Busy: I mean, a lot of that is.
Tall Girl: I will say it broke my soul when I saw the video of the kids trying to figure out a rotary phone.
Tall Girl: I was like. Just give it a best effort. You have to at least try the spinny spin like how could you not?
Tall Girl: How could you not try to just spin the dial.
Busy: Or there's 1 this was maybe a year or 2 ago, woman
Busy: teenager, or whatever saying, you know, it'd be great if you had like a cell phone that was stuck in, you know, that was in the house
Busy: that never
Busy: gets taken out, and anyone can use it, and like someone cuts them like, oh, dear, God! Is she talking about a rotary phone like a home phone? It's a landline. Is she talking about a landline? Oh, my God! And so some of that stuff, I think.
Busy: it's funny. It's younger generations finding out
Busy: what older generations had and older generations finding out explanations to current.
Busy: I will say the entire teacher community is doing us a service by breaking down slang for us.
WellRead: This is true.
Tall Girl: This is like in the moment it's not like Oh, it became cool, and the Kid is saying riz! And then, like 6 months later. There are teachers in real time who are just like this is the word. It's existed for 2 days in my school. Let me break down for you how it's used in a sentence. It's a noun, it's a verb. It's an adjective. And I'm like.
Tall Girl: Oh, thank you.
Busy: They'e doin the lord's Work. God bless them!
Busy: I mean, they're doing the lord's work in general, but.
Tall Girl: I mean, we're we're not paying you enough as teachers. But for this alone we should be sponsoring you because you are the reason parents can talk to their kids. Still.
Busy: Like you should get like sponsorship from like urban dictionary to just.
Tall Girl: Like per entry. And at this point it's per day. I was like, we never use this much language. But oh, my gosh!
Busy: I mean, we may have, but it wasn't as accessible as quick.
WellRead: It was. It was highly regionalized.
Tall Girl: Okay, like moose. I never saw moose. So like fair enough.
Busy: It was.
WellRead: But dag. Everybody used.
Busy: What?
WellRead: Dag DAG no.
Busy: Yes.
Tall Girl: You grew up like 20 miles from us. What is going on?
Tall Girl: I feel like we're gonna have.
WellRead: I heard I heard Dag on television.
Busy: Yeah, I mean, dag. I mean it was around. I don't think I use it as much.
Tall Girl: I don't.
WellRead: I just broke tall.
Tall Girl: We're going to have this Brooke. Just no.
Tall Girl: Outside of this, podcast. We are going to sit down one day with a list of trends, and you're going to fill in all the things that I
Tall Girl: I don't.
Tall Girl: That's 2 for 2 that I don't know. This is bothering me.
Busy: Do you think sometimes the Internet trends are created just because someone wants to be popular and make something happen?
WellRead: Yeah. Oh, yeah, I think that there are. There are Internet trends that happen. For that reason. There are Internet trends that happen to
WellRead: like debunk a certain generation like the whole tide pod thing, the Tide Pod
WellRead: people eating tide pods never really happened.
WellRead: We were lied to about a lot of those things like maybe one person did it. 2 people did it, but the whole teenagers are doing this now.
WellRead: It never actually happened. The whole, the whole fervor over it was
WellRead: entirely manufactured by the news media for.
Tall Girl: If you hear about it on 6 o'clock news, just know it's just know it's not.
WellRead: Yeah, I mean, people are people will deliberately do things like that in order to make an entire generation seem stupid
WellRead: so that they can dominate them in some way.
WellRead: right? And that's always occurred. That's that's nothing new. But
WellRead: I think it happens much more insidiously now with the the Internet.
Busy: Hmm.
Tall Girl: The Tiktokers, who like make the entire dinners, and then, you know, they're throwing it out because they intentionally screw it up. It's like this is 2, $300 worth of food like this. This breaks my heart like the number of people who could eat the number of people who would have taken these ingredients and turned it into like a community dinner
Tall Girl: for whatever clicks to try to get famous like the clickbait kind of stuff that you know they're just trying to anger you. I'm like, oh, please don't.
WellRead: And I'm seeing a lot more of something that was going around around like 1015 years ago.
WellRead: On Tiktok. Now, which is like.
WellRead: I'm bored. Tell me the most recent TV show you just watched.
Tall Girl: Oh, the stuff that lets you put up pictures. Show me pictures of your cats. I'm like, Okay.
Busy: Be careful.
WellRead: Yeah, like guys, they're they're trying to mine. You for data.
WellRead: Watch out for this.
Tall Girl: Out the year I was born, like what song came out the year you were born like, and can you include your social security number?
Busy: I do enjoy some of the ones where you might get like, you know.
Busy: I'm an ER nurse. Tell me some of your most unhinged stories, and I'm not talking about like you had to strap someone down who was high on meth like some of your most unhinged
Busy: stories, and then you go into the comments, and you could just sit there for hours with popcorn and read them. And I'm just like, Oh, my God! And sometimes it's a lot of them are funny. But sometimes I'm saying, I'm like, Oh, okay, I could see where that's a problem. Or you know, whatever.
Busy: Or you know, how can you be passive, aggressive to someone.
WellRead: Yeah, no, those those trends that are not obviously like trying to steal your passwords.
WellRead: Right? The those can be fun. But the ones that are like, what's your favorite Disney character?
Busy: Or you know what is the you know what is a book? That you
Busy: are a great fantasy book. That's not the mainstream normal books that people look for, or.
WellRead: Yeah.
Busy: What is something that
Busy: you did not learn in history that has really changed your perspective on things like that sort of stuff love those because they can be really educational too. And
Busy: you can also get more history in one. Tiktok and.
WellRead: Than you did for your entire education.
Busy: Holy crap! Am I just unlearning so much right now?
Tall Girl: My conspiracy theory that nobody can ever prove or disprove is authors no longer go by book sales, because it's all like kindle and online, and whatever I swear they all get onto Reddit. And the one who writes the worst am I the a-hole, Reddit?
WellRead: If you want that.
Tall Girl: Then gets carried.
WellRead: Like.
Tall Girl: How, if you're a great author, how bad can you write? Am I? The a-hole stories and the one that's most popular on Reddit is like how authors prove whether or not they're a great writer, because it's no longer like in a world of kindle, unlimited like. You can't get book sales. You can't buy, like, you know, by signing events. You can no longer measure authors on some of those metrics, because, you know, Amazon has killed so much of it.
Tall Girl: but I swear to God, like some of them, are so well written, but so terrible, but, like the punctuation is perfect. So you're like, I swear to you this is somebody with an English degree who just is trying to write a bad. Am I the a-hole story.
WellRead: 100%.
Tall Girl: It's just.
WellRead: I.
Tall Girl: Something that lives in my head like some of them, are too good to be bad.
Tall Girl: It has a plot, it has a build, it has like a resolution. I'm like, this is somebody who learned how to write stories is writing these
Tall Girl: welcome to the things I think about.
Tall Girl: Oh, okay. So who has tried an Internet trend? Because I'll say I did feta bake .
WellRead: Oh, yeah.
Tall Girl: Stuff I stick away from, because I'm just like.
Busy: I tend to do more. I think all this big of a big shock. If anyone's been paying attention to our podcast we're all cookers and bakers. So anything with recipes, you know, I'm gonna be on track, like, you know, I love trying where you're seeing people
Busy: try to show.
Busy: You know, if it's a a cultural cuisine or regional cuisine trying to learn about.
Busy: you know, bring stuff down like that. So that sort of stuff I'm definitely for have I tried to do.
Busy: will I? 1st of all, I don't really post anything for Tiktok. But will I try and see how much of a dance I can or can't do in the privacy of my bedroom to see
Busy: like where my rhythm is lacking, or you know.
Tall Girl: In my head. You have a flashdance outfit on when doing this, so keep telling your story, but just know in my head right now I have put you in your bedroom in a flashdance outfit, just.
Tall Girl: Continue.
Busy: That is something that is, that is an image. But that is not what's going on. Trying to see what
Busy: movement. And also, it's kind of like you're like, all right. Can I do? I need to work on stretching to what do? Okay?
Busy: Or sometimes it's like, then you go down, I'll I'll look at one video video and then, like they're going so damn fast. Can we please break this down? For those of us who did not take any dance classes when we were younger, and then you find people like you do. 1, 2, and they break. I'm like, Oh, bless you, give us a second to catch up, and then, you know, so some of those, some of the
Busy: fitness checks like the equivalent of plankings, and seeing what you could do. I've done some of those just as again, just to check in with
Busy: how?
Busy: Not so much to post or see. Like, yeah, I can do it, but just.
WellRead: Check in with your body.
Busy: Yeah, checking with my body.
Busy: Also, before we started recording, I was talking about yesterday. I was with
Busy: my friend and my 2 nieces, and my older niece braided her sister's hair for track meet, and she's sitting there, and she's saying, yeah. She she braided her hair and and friends, her sister's friend's hair. She's like I ate.
Busy: and she's like low key I ate, and my friends like you ate. She's like, Wait, what did you eat? And I'm like no, she ate, and my friends look at me like I grew 2 heads. I'm like she left no crumbs, and my niece is like exactly thanks, like I think sometimes for me. Like, I said in my intro. I want to understand words and lingo that's happening.
Busy: because not that I'm trying to stay cool in a sense of to be cool. But I'm doing it in a sense to be
Busy: to understand
Busy: what my nieces and nephews are saying what's important to them, but also to be somewhat aware of what things might be out there that
Busy: might not be the best and healthy.
WellRead: Harmful might be, yeah.
Busy: Okay? So sometimes it's that. But sometimes it's just so that they can feel that they can talk
Busy: as they do now.
Busy: like the lingo that they use and don't have to break up the story constantly. Be like, can you explain that? Can you explain that? What does that mean?
Busy: So, you know, like, anyways, we just want people to in general want to understand who we are at any.
Busy: you know, point in our lives, or whatever subdivision we're in.
Busy: I think that's just trying to understand. So yeah, I will absolutely look up the words and what these mean and
Busy: use it as an educational tool.
Tall Girl: How about you guys?
Tall Girl: Not coworkers, Internet dances for which they're always like? How do you know I'm like.
Tall Girl: I don't. I don't understand how you don't know. But like, okay.
Tall Girl: And then I realized, like, we see it on Tiktok very early on. And then, like a month later, does it make it to Facebook. And I'd be like, Oh, because then they would come back with like, Oh, my God! I saw this video and I'd be like, okay.
Tall Girl: but like you're so trendy, I'm like, Oh, I am so not Trendy. I just happen to be on ticktok.
Busy: Right.
Tall Girl: But yeah, like the dances are fun, although I do wonder the what's it? Samba, right now is really big. The hip action, whiskey kind of thing like I'd love to see the number of people who are tearing hip muscles trying to like
Tall Girl: what else have I done? A lot of it's like around the house like little hacks of like. Did you know you could do this?
Tall Girl: And I'm like, Oh, my God! Like, yep, that works. Yep, yep, that works like hmm.
WellRead: Yeah, little things like that, I think, are
WellRead: the things that I tend to try myself.
WellRead: Little household hacks and stuff like that.
WellRead: although it it does drive me a little bit crazy when you see vinegar and baking soda as a quote unquote hack.
Tall Girl: And you're like.
WellRead: You clearly never took 3rd grade science class.
WellRead: You never made a volcano, and that some of y'all have never made a volcano in your living room, and it shows.
Tall Girl: Oh!
Busy: You didn't paper mache a volcano
Busy: and then paint it, and then put a plastic cup in the center of the volcano, put baking powder and added vinegar. I'm just saying not that that's very specific, but I'm just saying it might be specific.
WellRead: Some of y'all have never shoved a mentos into a bottle of Coca-cola at its shows.
Tall Girl: Oh.
Tall Girl: I do love it when you bring stuff around for the kids like. So the guy from Cheers died the other day.
Busy: That his name?
WellRead: Norm.
Tall Girl: Norm norm died. I don't think I know his name in real life.
Tall Girl: But now there's all these kids on the Internet like, oh, you know I was watching the show because everybody is like he's so beloved. I start. Have you seen cheers? And I'm like.
WellRead: Listen. The Internet is the only place where time collapses.
WellRead: It is the only thing where you can where you can live. Watch wibbly, wobbly, timey, wimey stuff, because there is a 17 year old watching cheers
WellRead: and a 47 year old, who just discovered what a thirst trap is like. Let's be honest.
Busy: Sure I also love when one of the trends is what like you'll see a mother
Busy: saying like the year is 20 like 30 whatever, and my daughter is watching, you know Gilmore girls, or
Busy: ER. Or Grey's Anatomy, and there, or like, I just watched a series where a bunch of
Busy: friends all watch Lord of the rings for the 1st time.
Busy: and like they've never seen it. And they're like, Oh, my God! What's gonna happen, you know, like.
Busy: and they're saying stuff. And people in the comments are like, Oh, my God, don't let them, you know, for, like Grey's anatomy.
Busy: let us know when you hit to this season this episode like, have the tissues ready. Have this ready, you know, or like
Busy: people making fun of twilight lately, is hysterical when they're like
Busy: they take a blue gel to put over their camera.
Busy: Yeah, the TV, like they seem when they're at school, like, Oh, now I'm in an episode of twilight
Busy: and.
Tall Girl: Did you see the actresses from Grey's anatomy? Her daughter was making fun of somebody to be like? Oh, my God! She's such a pick me.
Tall Girl: and then I think her name is Meredith is the character from Grey's anatomy. Had to like break it down for her daughter like, do you know where that came from. Do you know what a pick me girl is? Do you know that the house we're living in right?
WellRead: Love me!
Tall Girl: I'm a.
WellRead: Be with me.
Busy: Yeah, I have the track.
Busy: Like.
Tall Girl: It's fun to see it like come around to be like the very home you live in is because of pick me, and you have like. No, let me break it down for you.
Busy: Please sit. Schools in session.
WellRead: It's like we wore our parents bell-bottom jeans.
Tall Girl: Oh, the 2 thousands outfits that are out for Halloween costumes. I was like, Okay.
Busy: Oh!
WellRead: Yes.
Tall Girl: Okay, it'll be interesting to see what comes out in 2020, like the great Snuggie Covid.
Busy: Everyone's in just.
Tall Girl: Just go in pajamas, and it's not even ironic.
WellRead: I have daytime pajamas and nighttime pajamas.
Busy: And there is a difference.
WellRead: There's the 2020 s. In a nutshell. Folks.
Tall Girl: I mean, so I will admit my favorite thing tends to be like the annoying sounds or trending music, because it'll get stuck in my head for forever. I will walk around my house all day with a song stuck in my head for whatever, until, like the new trend I'm like, come on new trend, please, new trend, come on, because I cannot sing this song one more time.
Busy: Yeah, that that is, that's also fun. I think. Also with the trends is when
Busy: something kicks up and everyone's making videos to a song that is.
Busy: 1015, 2025 plus older. And kids are like, Wow, where's this song from? And you're just like.
Busy: I'm going to go die now in a cave.
WellRead: I actually really love those videos. There's a Youtube trend of people listening to albums from
WellRead: like the seventies, eighties and nineties. And it's hearing it for the 1st time, as
WellRead: Gen. Z. And Gen. Alpha, and they make like reviews of those things. I really enjoy that particular trend. That's 1 of my favorites.
Busy: Or also, yeah, no, those those are good. We're especially where
Busy: there's a couple. I think there are a couple I'm not sure if they're siblings. I think they're a married couple.
Busy: and they listen to all different types of genres of music. And all of a sudden they're like, oh.
Busy: the! And they're breaking down the lyrics. They're breaking down.
Busy: The the artist's artists is no, that's not right.
Busy: Artists, thank you. Their their sound quality there and all that. And they're like, Oh.
Busy: oh, okay, I understand now why X is
Busy: a big deal, and that's always cool to see. But yeah, the kids listen into stuff
Busy: you're like, Oh, yeah. Or if you notice when like,
Busy: what was that series? Stranger things
Busy: had so much music from, I guess. What is the eighties is that.
WellRead: The eighties. Yeah.
Tall Girl: Hmm.
Busy: So that's always a good deal.
Tall Girl: Heard of like this like this band, I'm like.
Tall Girl: yes, yes, everybody. Everybody who isn't your age has heard of this band. They were a global sensation for like for like, what's her name?
WellRead: They're still making music.
Tall Girl: Yeah, then we call it like.
WellRead: Do you know.
Tall Girl: Her dad's like a drummer like.
Tall Girl: Yes, yes, pretty much. Everybody knows who Phil Collins is, even you, even you. If you've ever seen a Disney film. You know who Phil Collins is like. This is not new.
WellRead: Have you heard it in the air tonight? Then you know who Phil Collins is? Calm down.
Busy: My friend's husband. Yesterday I explained to their youngest, who, weird Al Yankovic, was.
WellRead: Oh!
WellRead: Oh! My goodness!
Busy: I never got the appeal with him like I he like. He can be funny, but.
WellRead: It's clever, it's clever, like. Yes, he can. He can be funny, but most of the time it's just he had his thumb on the pulse of trends. For a very long time. He he was the guy who made fun of them.
Busy: Yeah. So I I let the husband know I'm like, Hey, there's a movie that recently came out
Busy: with, you know about him like.
Busy: And he's like, Oh, I'll have to look for that. But
Busy: explaining to his daughter there was one video he did, and he so he made her watch Nirvana's teen spirit first, st
Busy: and then, whatever your weird Al does for it
Busy: and trying to see she's like, Oh, that video looks like like, yep. That was the point. Like.
Busy: so yeah, trying to it is, it's some of the times do
Busy: reintroduced. I mean, there's stuff that gets reintroduced. That's like hundreds of years old people, you know, different
Busy: canning and farming or medicinal uses that people in different parts of the world do that have just been lost to mainstream, and unless you're not aware of it, you're like, oh, so that is also, I think, very
Busy: might not seem as a trend. But I think of it as a trend where you're being able to be re-exposed
Busy: to knowledge lost.
Tall Girl: Hmm!
Tall Girl: You also have, like cottagecore like it then gets hyperlabeled. So like I know how to can and stuff. And people are like that's like prepper I'm like.
Tall Girl: no, that's like, just like I know how to.
WellRead: Basic knowledge.
Tall Girl: And like those are just like those are life skills. But it's like, Oh, so you're like cottage core garden core sewing core. And I'm like.
Tall Girl: no like I feel like we don't need to make it a whole aesthetic. But like
Tall Girl: then you find out that people are like, you know, living like it's 14, something or other like they have. Their entire lives are like 14th century core. And you're like, Whoa.
Tall Girl: okay.
Busy: That's not.
Busy: I don't have the patience to do
Busy: blessings on you if you can. I am not to that dedication level.
Busy: I enjoyed fun.
WellRead: It's it's forever larping.
Busy: Right now. I think.
WellRead: That's all it is.
Busy: I think there is
Busy: understanding how things like, because there have been times. I'm like, how did we get here from there? And you could see the evolution of how tools techniques have all you know come about. So that's
Busy: but yeah.
Tall Girl: And I think it's also like some of these trends, also just expose you to something that then it's educational whether or not you realize it like a lot of these trends are because you're whether or not you realize that you're learning something, be it a dance, be it a word, be it a something like it is actually learning. And I know people kind of make fun of it. But like you've come out of it with information hopefully that information is true and not false, but
Tall Girl: it's kind of at the end of it, you know. The reason I think people are stimulated is because they're they're getting a skill. They're getting a something or other.
Busy: Get a knowledge.
Tall Girl: Hmm.
WellRead: Engaging their brain.
Tall Girl: Learning is fundamental.
WellRead: Star.
Tall Girl: How do you know
Tall Girl: I mean, my favorite trend is like just, you know, for no reason whatsoever. If you plant an endangered species on top of a grave. It's like
Tall Girl: these are some of my favorite ones.
Busy: Follow me more life tricks.
Busy: I'm not.
WellRead: I'm not saying you should.
Tall Girl: If you have a body.
WellRead: Yeah, I'm not saying you should do this thing. But if you, if you have a reason to do this thing, and you'd like to do this thing. Here's here's the thing you can do.
Busy: That's right.
Tall Girl: I love those like in the end, with the more, you know. And I was like, oh.
Tall Girl: this makes me happy.
WellRead: Shooting, star.
Tall Girl: I always feel weird bookmarking them. I'm like someday in court. This is going to be brought up that I have an entire folder of just, you know, if the situation arises.
Busy: It's when you then involve us, and you send the the video to us. And now we're all discussing. So now you not only have a bookmark, but now we have a chat discussing and
Busy: figuring which endangered species would be better to our region and climate, and then we could like go really down the rabbit hole, and
Busy: someone come, find us.
Tall Girl: Hmm, I mean.
Tall Girl: we we wouldn't necessarily be discussing future crimes on a podcast. So obviously, we're all very innocent and have never researched, endangered.
WellRead: Oh, obviously, no, we've never asked Siri where to bury a body.
Busy: Absolutely not.
WellRead: I feel like she would rat you out like of all the people.
Tall Girl: You girls? I would ask, asking Siri, I feel just leads directly to a 911 phone call.
WellRead: It was a trend for a while of asking Siri where to hide a body so.
Busy: Really.
WellRead: Yeah, it was.
Tall Girl: Oh, is we are gonna sit well one day, and we're gonna go trend by trend. And I
Tall Girl: how do you know these trends that I know nothing about. Ugh
Busy: So far.
WellRead: I've I've been online for a really long time.
Tall Girl: Same age. I don't under - ugh.
Tall Girl: Oh.
Busy: Think, in the sense of. Not that she's been on the Internet longer, but I think maybe
WellRead: Where you've been.
Busy: Yes, it's where I've been.
Tall Girl: Corners that you've been in, that I know nothing about.
Tall Girl: Show me your world.
Busy: She's more introverted.
WellRead: I can show you the world.
Tall Girl: I want to be where Rod has been.
Tall Girl: So show me your trends so I can ask some questions.
Busy: Oh, God, I think we've we've week.
WellRead: We've devolved here, folks. Sorry about that.
Tall Girl: End of the trend.
Busy: Is that it? I know the term. Yes.
Tall Girl: Well, in that case that is probably it for this episode, whether you're stuck on pinterest boards or just pretending to understand channel for flying. Remember, you're still cool.
Tall Girl: and might I say, hashtag Rickroll forever.
Busy: Even if your meme references are 2 years.
Busy: Late, join us next time, when we discuss why we get so attached to fictional characters.
WellRead: New episodes drop every weekish. So follow us wherever you listen to podcasts and maybe send this episode to someone who still thinks dabbing is niche.
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WellRead: See you next time.
Tall Girl: Until then stay sensible.
Busy: Or embrace the chaos.
WellRead: Preferably both.
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