IAT s08e27

Thu, 7/14 8:50PM • 26:57

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

good vibes, radioshack, vibes, people, tick tock, joe, tweet, check, twitter, noticed, showing, wearing, point, hear, day, nice, glow, molly, hockey players, picture

SPEAKERS

Tom Merritt, Molly Wood

Molly Wood  00:05

Hey everyone, I'm Molly wood.

Tom Merritt  00:06

And I'm Tom Merritt.

Molly Wood  00:08

Welcome to it's a thing that weekly podcast supported by you, which is perfect for capturing ideas, organizing thoughts, being creative, increasing productivity, and sharing thoughts with others. Thanks for joining us.

Tom Merritt  00:21

Just felt like that it was corporate music time again.

Molly Wood  00:24

I mean, 100% This one actually should be the corporate music from the office because it's the corporate statement of hammer Hill. Paper.

Tom Merritt  00:35

I know that hurt I know that name. Why do I Is that like the paper though? I'm

Molly Wood  00:39

sorry, hammer mill.

Tom Merritt  00:40

Is that the paper schools always use?

Molly Wood  00:43

I think it might be posted. Is it there's a bunch of posts. I mean, it has its own brands. I know. Yeah. Hammermill paper. It does sound really familiar with like a bond. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, I think it's offense. I bet it's like it's I bet it's that printer sheets. Bring the

Tom Merritt  00:59

hammer mill to your office hammer mill. for capturing ideas. All right.

Molly Wood  01:07

I know we're always just like right down the rabbit hole. Like whatever weird company. We're just gonna do this. We can do this. We have things I got good

Tom Merritt  01:15

vibes.

Molly Wood  01:16

Oh, vibes, vibes. Good vibes. Only. You might say good vibes. Only.

Tom Merritt  01:22

Have you seen the good vibes trend?

Molly Wood  01:25

We talked about vibes in general. Yeah, yeah. But I haven't seen that. Oh, there's signs merch I've seen

Tom Merritt  01:32

I've seen these in actual yards around my neighborhood most more often in June during pride month. But so I think there's there's kind of a loose connection there. But there's also a coffee shop over in Malibu that sells mugs you know to go with their coffee shop and they say good vibes only. It's it's definitely a thing. The good vibes good vibes only trend. Oh, hey, you know what, just subtly enough. Like, could we all just freak and get along?

Molly Wood  02:05

I'll just chill the hell out.

Tom Merritt  02:08

I really love good vibes only particularly because it's God.

Molly Wood  02:12

I have totally seen like the neon signs and stuff. Oh, yeah. You

Tom Merritt  02:15

see him sometimes on on restaurants, cafes, bars, places like that. Like if you don't have good vibes you're not welcome here.

Molly Wood  02:23

You're not welcome. It's a movement, right? Yeah, I looked it up. And it literally these people somebody some buddy Bournvita or something claims in 2015 that they started hashtag GVO. Okay. A movement commonly used to describe a positive way of living to ultimately live and achieve the good life. And this is in parentheses, hashtag T GL.

Tom Merritt  02:50

i Whoa, whoa, this is this is why you have a producer Richard Stroffolino points out that Apple has it in their corporate statement.

Molly Wood  03:00

No. Good, but wow. I mean, that is its its thing. tastic its thing or repik. But yeah, and you're right, though, because clearly it's been around for a while on app are all caught on. But like these signs, that's the merch that I think has gotten a lot more and you know what, frankly, I'm kind of happy to see the fact that people are like, I'm buying good vibes only crap. I can't take it anymore.

Tom Merritt  03:26

I mean, I'm not gonna lie as much as I want to roll my eyes at the sort of like, you know, TGU hashtag TGL Oh, for this. I'm 100% i We have two good vibes only coffee mugs from that place in Malibu. Really? Oh, yeah.

Molly Wood  03:42

Oh, that is hysterical. There's of course, like good vibes only Corp. Wow. Yeah. You know what? I'm here for it. I'm here for these vibes. Yes. Check. Good. All

Tom Merritt  03:54

the worry with something like this for me is that you overcorrect and you get militant about the good vibes. And you know, somebody can't isn't allowed to have a bad day because good vibes only. But I don't I don't feel like that's the problem right now. You know what I mean? Like, let's solve for the problem that actually has And if anything, that's the we could use a little overcorrection for when it becomes a problem, then we could deal with it.

Molly Wood  04:19

I'm picturing though, because I've seen this like tick tock a million times. Like there's a cat that hits like a seal like a huge sea lion comes up in front of it and the cat like wax it across the face. And I can imagine that being paired with a sound that's like good vibes I'm not saying

Tom Merritt  04:40

yeah, I'm only saying that Kevin's good. If you make that Bali you will go viral.

Molly Wood  04:50

There I had to do the sound I had to create the sound on the fly. That's fantastic. Oh, that's amazing. Love it. Oh, you're gonna get what's the thing

Tom Merritt  04:58

now has a new poll. See?

Molly Wood  05:02

vibes only. We're not even going to check the vibe.

Tom Merritt  05:06

Well, we're not gatekeepers for the vibes.

Molly Wood  05:09

No, it's not a vibe check. Now there's only one allowed and that's that I was so excited to see that this trend that I was noticing and was thinking was really funny and was seeing everywhere is actually pretty new. Perhaps you have seen on Twitter or you know on Tik Tok? The she's a 10 but, or he's a 10 but, so, like a common tweet construction would be actually there was one that made me laugh out loud the other day because it said she's a 9.1 But she's inflation

Tom Merritt  05:54

the exact same

Molly Wood  05:54

way that I was like this is reached peak and this is peak. Yeah,

Tom Merritt  05:57

yeah. The example when I Know Your Meme, if anybody doesn't quite get it yet is She's a 10. But she claps when the plane lands right. So it's it's like, this person is great and perfect. Except for this this flaw, which is kind of a you know, is it a deal breaker? I don't know. Doesn't really matter. It that's that's the joke. So she's a 9.1. But she's

Molly Wood  06:17

made me laugh so hard. But yeah, so it became it like literally arrived on Twitter, where people were playing it as an actual game. Like, I think kind of like the deal breaker game. So like, he's a six, but he drives a nice truck. What does that make him? Oh, and then one player says an eight and the other one says a seven and a half. And it was this tick tock or this seems to be the origin story. This tick tock or LEA Woods posted this where they're playing this game in the car. And then of course, you know, it went on and on and then it spread across tick tock with all these funny jokes, and then showed up on Twitter. And it would be like, easy like she's attend but she bites the skin off her lips when she's anxious. And then it just got even, you know, funnier, and then, frankly, just gone with it. Yeah. each other so, yes. And once I saw she's a 9.1, but she's inflation. I was like, that's the one right there.

Tom Merritt  07:10

Wait for the unemployment one.

Molly Wood  07:13

Oh, ouch. Yeah, exactly. I'm looking because my our Gen Z producer who is so funny. Had a really good one. And I'm literally gonna have to scroll through her Twitter to find it. Oh, yeah. He's like, it's so good. He's an eight, but he tweeted a tech billionaire pull out joke. Huh? Because those were all the rage a few days ago for reasons that we don't even want to explain. Also,

Tom Merritt  07:44

does it bother anyone that we're rating people with a number in this joke? No good vibes.

Molly Wood  07:51

Don't care good vibes on the banks. Exactly. Oh, my God.

Tom Merritt  08:04

I would like to this is canonization here. This one's been around for a while, but I I have noticed an uptick of use and that thing that makes something a special thing when you notice it creeping out of its core usage, right? Where you're like, wait a minute, that's a weird place for that phrase to show up. But the phrase is glow up.

Molly Wood  08:27

Did you do that on purpose?

Tom Merritt  08:29

I did. I absolutely saw it coming and leaned right into it. Urban Dictionary defines glow up as a mental physical and an emotional transformation for the better. You know, so it's like showing up but but, but getting better. You know, you know, I grow up. Well, it's been around. Yeah, I've seen more people using it over the past several months. And then this is hockey related, but that's not the point. A bunch of people showing up for a hockey players, weddings. And the tweet was our boys all glowed up for the shin nuptials. And it's a picture of everybody all dressed up nice, right?

Molly Wood  09:14

Oh, really? Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay, so it's evolving. It has a past tense now. It's a group application as opposed to a single. Okay, by hockey

Tom Merritt  09:25

player.

Molly Wood  09:26

It's you also used by hockey players, which is hilarious. Oh, I like that. That's good. Okay, I like it. That's good, actually, because blow up has been around and I don't know if we ever memorialized like Conero

Tom Merritt  09:42

but I think when I saw it, I saw it a couple other places and was thinking like Google glow up. I might have to go with that one. And then as soon as I saw the hockey wedding, use it. I was like, Oh, yep, that's, that now goes in the Hall of thing.

Molly Wood  09:58

Oh, yeah. Um, before I move on to my next thing, I just have to say that I searched Twitter briefly and found one that says he's an eight but he's working on being a van life guy. And in my opinion, that may be the perfect implementation.

Tom Merritt  10:13

That's that's a that's a litmus test, right? It's like a real one. Yeah,

Molly Wood  10:18

that's a really really real one. Like I want to see tick tock tick.

Tom Merritt  10:21

That's gonna that's gonna sort that's like a sorting hat. Like he's an eight but he's into he's working on being a van life guy. Does that make him a nine go to the right doesn't make him a seven go to the left.

Molly Wood  10:31

Yeah. I mean, these are funny. He's an eight but he doesn't know the lyrics to blender yet. These are funny. Funny. Funny. 10 is a 10. But I tell him his name because you can't give him that much power. Okay, no, I'm moving on. I'm on my good vibes only. And well, let me just say the next thing has vibes, that's for sure. So we have talked in the past about sassy corporate Twitter accounts. And I have a sassy corporate Twitter alert. That has definitely become a viral sensation. And that thing is radio Shack's Twitter feed.

Tom Merritt  11:08

Oh, because if people don't know RadioShack recently transformed

Molly Wood  11:14

into a sassy Twitter account well,

Tom Merritt  11:16

and and into a member of the crypto life.

Molly Wood  11:20

Right, exactly. So in keeping with its new cultural vibe, if you will. The RadioShack Twitter account has gone completely ape doodle. Like a picture of a woman and gloves making it Oh, that stinks. Smell and it says when someone has pickled Toots and tweets such as maybe it maybe if RadioShack made deodorant, my boss would start wearing it. And people from my this is from the RadioShack account. People from my high school are getting married and I'm being criminally horny on the official RadioShack account.

Tom Merritt  12:02

Idk why it formatted like that?

Molly Wood  12:08

I mean, they're just

Tom Merritt  12:10

this is moments after she shocked my read till I Oh,

Molly Wood  12:14

yeah. Yeah, that one happened. There was a tweet that just said p gifts. I mean, I literally I'm just like, this is a corporate account. If this tweet hits 10,000 likes I'll make it only fans account is what the official RadioShack account tweeted, like my childhood is dead.

Tom Merritt  12:38

You are blocked from following Japp will be a screenshot is with the following text journalist RadioShack bad RadioShack No, you journalists.

Molly Wood  12:53

And then some like super dirty ones. And then a bunch of like, of course, you know, not surprisingly like crypto listings and

Tom Merritt  13:01

well yeah, this all goes with RadioShack becoming a crypto platform right

Molly Wood  13:08

which is crazy. Yeah. Yeah. It's just crazy.

Tom Merritt  13:11

It's I mean, it's now it's now RadioShack swap. You can list your tokens.

Molly Wood  13:19

Yep. And if you and I'm just I'm also sort of warning you because like if you didn't if you're you know, Gen X slash Boomer if you're of a certain age and you just didn't know that this had happened and you went to the Radio Shack Twitter feed and it said if you bitch slap someone in the comment section doesn't make a sound Yeah, you could be confused and upset

Tom Merritt  13:43

radio shacks still exist. There are not very many of them left and they are not what they used to be they're usually just phone stores and stuff like that. So you could be in a situation where you live near RadioShack that's been there all your life you haven't really noticed that it changed from selling resistors to you know selling sprint Trac phones button it's there and then one day you can twitter and see this

Molly Wood  14:12

and it's all woke up feeling robbed but remembered I put a strippers kid through college last night we all good Yeah, and you were like wow.

Tom Merritt  14:20

And what what I think might will make it clear for everyone if you haven't looked at the account already is that the our logo from RadioShack is wearing emoji sunglasses. Yes, that is true. I mean that tells you everything you need to know Yeah.

Molly Wood  14:34

And put magazine thanks pretty so rich did a story of a meet to the guy behind radio shacks. Horni Twitter account Chief Marketing Officer April zoo poor is bringing the 100 year old company into this posting area Mara.

Tom Merritt  14:48

Good I left finally. I was great.

Molly Wood  14:50

Just what I needed. If you live long enough, all of your heroes will die.

Tom Merritt  14:56

Well, it's not like radio Zack wasn't on life support already, so

Molly Wood  15:03

yeah, I guess so. Anyway, sassy Twitter alert. Tassie Twitter alert. Like it's a thing.

Tom Merritt  15:09

It's definitely definitely a thing. We also get things from you through the email feedback and it's the thing that me Larry comes in with some hot takes on green bubbles and minions. All right. Larry did not get the good vibes only. Larry writes, I'm so tired of the idiotic green bubble blue bubble by never ending diatribes amusing the archaic definition from Merriam Webster dictionary. you rightly point out that Google picked up a nearly obsolete SMS replacement and demands everyone follow it. They can't build their own programs that succeed. And building on Android is only successful because they give it away. An easier interface would be nice, but why force the minority platform to comply? From other reports I heard regarding the people in suits at minions in some English theaters, I think there was more nuance to it. Having groups of people performing segments of the movie movie and filming Tik Tok clips at a show where parents are there with kids is at best rude. And worst they're thieves if they just had a late night showing dedicated those wanted to perform like the Rocky Horror Picture Show. All three sides could win.

Molly Wood  16:19

Are you given this crappy email? The good vibes read? Is that what's happening here? Exactly. Oh, that's amazing. I love it. It's like Get off my lawn. But like nice nice, though. But like,

Tom Merritt  16:29

I'm a reasonable person who just hates everyone.

Molly Wood  16:32

I'm just so tired of talking about all these things.

Tom Merritt  16:35

Yeah, you monsters?

Molly Wood  16:35

Yeah.

Tom Merritt  16:37

I will say I don't really have much to add to the the green bubble blue bubble thing, although, I don't think RCS is nearly obsolete. But yeah, it's all, you know, point taken. The Minions. I mean, that's kind of the point, right, is that there were a few bad actors who gave the other people who weren't acting bad a bad name. That's trends going back into the 1800s. So

Molly Wood  17:02

I mean, Americans are weird about movies. Like seriously, Americans want their movies to be church, and it's weird. So I guess I'm not surprised that teenagers showed up and had fun and everybody

Tom Merritt  17:11

theater has become churches.

Molly Wood  17:14

Nobody goes to the movies anymore.

Tom Merritt  17:17

The theater across from Brian Brushwood in Austin, went out of business and became a church. So really,

Molly Wood  17:25

that is actually an odd crossover although it sort of makes sense when you think about it. Okay, for now.

Tom Merritt  17:30

I got a cathedral lightspace Yeah.

Molly Wood  17:32

Joe hood wrote in with some music notes dear friends and thing this it's been a while and I have so many things that I feel like this could be a Fordo level email but I will ration myself because I'm not Fordo also wears Fordo It's been too long. This is what she does. This is just This is the eternal incredible mystery that is photo she goes off to like Morocco for six months or whatever and then pops back and is like I have a million things in Morocco. Alright, here's what Joe says though. Listening to the last couple of weeks as I came back from vacation, I need to share a nice thing convergence a thing vergence if you will. Every summer I make a summer playlist for the family. It's unveiled at pickup on the last day of school and is the unofficial soundtrack for our summer. Sidenote, this is adorable by the way, Joe? Oh my God. He says I was sharing this story with friends and when I explained it to them, and I explained to them that I burned it to C D. They looked at me like I had made wax cylinders to listen to music. But our cars still have CD players and we don't need to rely on phones to play it. Molly mentioned mix tapes as a cassette strong point but I think that the mix CD is overlooked and honestly can be easier to manage plus to get that super cool visor holder for your CD. Also on this playlist, I like to have that last song be something a little fun, upbeat and silly. And this year the choice was my money don't jiggle jiggle. So I basked in a double thing after hearing the episode and finally, I shared that story with my wife yesterday and when I explained to recent things she said those to do a public service with that accolade from a non listener I salute you Molly Tom enrich the heroes we deserve. Hey, thank you. Thanks, Joe.

Tom Merritt  19:08

Yeah, Joe That's awesome. Hi,

Molly Wood  19:10

Joe's wife thank you for the extremely high praise way higher kidding, right but it is amazing by the way how you cannot even hear the name of that song without needing to hear it and like viscerally

Tom Merritt  19:22

Yeah, it just it just forces you to search for it desperately on Chrome while Molly is reading the emails hoping you might die. You're gonna have to Joe also pointed out in the discord pre show that the beginning of his playlist for the summer is that that by sigh

Molly Wood  19:41

really? Yeah. You were surprised? We haven't heard more about that, but I'm gonna give it to you though.

Tom Merritt  19:48

All right. Let's move on to Jim on a color thing. He says Hey Guys, you were totally right about Matt Gray car colors. Another color trend I noticed is green clothing a shade of green. It's Similar to a green screen, a coworker came in wearing bright green pants the other day afterwards, I noticed a lot of people in New York City wearing the same color. Hmm, maybe they're all doing mocap did they have ping pong balls attached to them as well? Are they just wearing the green?

Molly Wood  20:17

Oh it's not that shade. No, that's the army green is okay. Yeah, it's army green for sure. And then Gabby Cohen wrote in with an inevitable thing virgins I'm looking at. I'm looking this up. She writes as I hear you talk about a snack or box and charcuterie and the combination of the two already exists of course and if you go to etsy.com and search up charcuterie on the go snack or snack box you will get it already done for you.

Tom Merritt  20:51

These

Molly Wood  20:52

are the best. These are so freakin cute.

Tom Merritt  20:56

I love the one that's got charcuterie spelled out with this syllable separated and then the pronunciation Shar qu ta re noun.

Molly Wood  21:08

They're actually on middleclass fancy today, which is so often following several months behind the things that we talked about on the show and I say that with respect I love that account. But they had posted a picture of like a cutting board and it said, Shark coochie Re and then underneath that it said because no one can pronounce that damn word. Shark outta mouths like You're like honestly, I didn't even send it to you guys because I was like first of all, already done it to death. And second, like not that funny like a wine pine that was like a wine time. Like come on.

Tom Merritt  21:42

Stephen in central Wisconsin needs to think check. Big Jack vailable for thing checkmate. I

Molly Wood  21:47

am available. I am ready. Bring it on.

Tom Merritt  21:49

Hello and salutations. It's a thing crew I have a thing check. I've been a fan and supporter of facial hair since I could first grow it from a shaggy style chin beard to a 90s Van Dyck circle beard to my current hipster lumberjack look. But while out this weekend, I noticed a few early 20 Somethings sporting trim mustaches is this becoming a thing? My first guess is this has been popularized by rooster stache and Top Gun Maverick. But I'm curious if this is more widespread and if there are other possible origins

Molly Wood  22:24

Well, while you were reading I conducted the thing check that I wish results I went to DuckDuckGo and I found an article on birdie be yrd.com which appears to be some site of good vibes only type site for hips darkness and style. And they wrote in May the thin mustache is back here's what you need to know. Apparently it is has often been referred to as the pencil mustache. It they right could until recently could hardly be considered an iconic style but now you've got Do you know everybody from the weekend to John Waters to Will Smith. Rockin the thin mustache. The pencil mustache.

Tom Merritt  23:07

The John Waters mustache.

Molly Wood  23:08

Sean Combs has won the weekend. Definitely has it. Yeah, Andy. Right. Well, SMITH Yeah, under it's everywhere. All right.

Tom Merritt  23:15

Well, there you go, folks. The mustache is back on Iron firm on ironically. We don't know. But it's back.

Molly Wood  23:22

It's back. But but a skinny one. Huh? Right on good catch. Good catch, Steven. Yeah, really? We probably should have noticed that. No, I

Tom Merritt  23:31

like good. Good. Good thing, Spot question. All right, let's get to the shout outs which are handcrafted in our laboratories by Professor Richard Stroffolino. For your enjoyment. If you are a patron at the very highest, most prestigious level of patronage, the shout out level.

Molly Wood  23:49

I mean, you can tell your friends. Oh, yeah, we're in a shout out. I know I would

Tom Merritt  23:53

you would you would lean over at a party. Right? And you'd say, I don't mean to brag, but I am at the shout out level.

Molly Wood  24:00

I don't mean to brag, but they said my name last week in a German accent. Yeah, I know. You're trying to imitate Bona talk.

Tom Merritt  24:06

I don't mean to brag, but my shout out was based on Descartes letter to Henry Moore February 5 1649. On if animals have souls.

Molly Wood  24:16

Okay, I do mean to brag your I do when

Tom Merritt  24:19

you say I don't mean to brag. We all know what you mean.

Molly Wood  24:23

We all know Okay, okay. Do our patrons have souls? Let's find out. There are two different principles causing our movements. Morris Jones is purely mechanical incorporeal and depends solely on the force of Benjamin forrest and the structure of Joe hood and can be called the corporeal Gabrielle Cohen. The other an incorporeal Lee price is the mind or that Kevin SIL which I have defined as a thinking Eric Duncan there upon I investigated very carefully whether In the movements of Jake Woods originated from both of these principles, or from Laura able only.

Tom Merritt  25:07

I soon perceived clearly that they could all originate from the Miranda, Janelle And Andrew Bradley principle and I regarded it as certain and demonstrated that we cannot at all prove the presence of a thinking Louis St. Jamar St. Amour in James C. Smith, but though I regard it as established that we cannot prove there is any thought in Mike Aikens, I do not think it can be proved that there is none since the human mind does not reach into his heart.

Molly Wood  25:37

For him, Mike you went there to patreon.com/ It's a thing you supported us on the shout out level and we just raised his heart is what is this highway from we praised his heart. Also,

Tom Merritt  25:51

we have a catch up. Apparently there was a little billing issue last week and Joe hood was left out of the Verner Hertzog shout out Oh no. So we must we must apologize to you Joe hood

Molly Wood  26:04

they must apologize childhood you are one of our most loyal patrons.

Tom Merritt  26:11

This was a card without credit Joe.

Molly Wood  26:16

Oh, behalf remitted it thank you so much for emailing us or supporting us for showing up and listening to us on the discord chatting with us. patreon.com/ It's a thing one more time and of course, we will see you back here next week.

Tom Merritt  26:33

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Molly Wood  26:41

I call it feedback bye bye