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Hello

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Christ!

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I'm about to

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sin again. It's the Social Dose.

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The Social Dose is your go-to podcast for a gorgeous

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Brought to you now every Tuesday and Thursday.

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Today is Thursday, July 6th, and I'm Paris

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Nicholson, at ParisNicholsonOnSocials.

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And I'm Michael Judson-Berry, at MJudsonBerryOnSocials.

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And now, let's get into today's headlines.

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Today, an influencer pulls out

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the old ukulele to say she's sorry,

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but does the internet accept her apology? We

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cover the latest with Miranda Sings. Then,

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talk about crowd control. We

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get into the videos circulating online of concertgoers

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chucking objects at artists' And

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finally, we're going over our July horoscopes

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according to the memes. All this

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breaking social media news and more,

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coming up next on The Social Dose.

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We'll get right back into our timelines after

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this little break.

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I'm Paris. And I'm Michael. And

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this is The Social Dose. Let's

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get into these headlines, shall we? I

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would lerv that. Okay,

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besties. We recently

1:26

released our 4th of July episode. It was a very special episode.

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Go listen to it if you haven't already. But

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as a result, we had to pre-record that one.

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So it's been a minute since we've had a moment to catch

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up. And in that time, Michael,

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Twitter shit the bed. Elon

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Musk announced some bullshit that certain

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accounts are only allowed to see certain number of

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tweets in a day. There's a tweet limit, like a

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speed limit. You can only see 600 tweets

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a day if you're an unverified account. New

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unverified accounts only 300 a day. And verified

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accounts can see 6,000 a day. That

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was the statement he made on July 1st. Everyone

2:00

was livid. Everyone was making up memes

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of like me trying to see my 601 tweet. And

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I was very devastated. I was like, wow, this is actually shocking.

2:08

This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Oh, no,

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I agree. I was just like, why? Like,

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why would you limit people's use

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on here? Musk

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tweeted, to address the extreme levels

2:20

of data scraping and system manipulation,

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we have applied the following temporary limits. Verified

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accounts, the numbers that you just said. And so

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he said it's because of the data scraping and system

2:29

manipulation. That is his

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statement. His statement.

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I saw some information, allegedly,

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allegedly, that this conveniently

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synced up with a contract

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for like server some things. I don't really know.

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Once again, allegedly, that they had, that Twitter

2:46

had with Google. So basically, Twitter's

2:48

servers weren't able to handle as much traffic

2:50

as they normally would because Elon Musk let

2:52

a contract run out and like didn't

2:55

come up with a solution. Which to me, sounds

2:57

like the more likely outcome.

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But again, I have no idea here. I

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think we should bring in our

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guests to weigh in on this because this

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is a really fun topic. And I think we need another

3:07

voice in this conversation. Our

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wonderful dear friend, producer and writer, Christian

3:13

Banda is back with us today to weigh in on

3:15

this Twitter fiasco. Christian,

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welcome back. And did you have any trouble

3:21

on Twitter getting to look

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at things? First and foremost,

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Mr. Boys, good to see you. Thanks for having me on. I

3:28

love this show. You

3:30

too. And I had

3:33

existential

3:33

crisis when this was going on.

3:37

For multiple months. Oh my gosh, you did too. First

3:39

of which, just practicality. If

3:41

you're gonna do maintenance or claim site maintenance,

3:43

a heads up. Like and traditionally

3:46

in the past, Elon has been like on this date,

3:48

I'm going to do this thing and it's gonna

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suck. But here's the thing, here's the

3:52

date and time. And that just didn't happen.

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So there was that part and it coincided with,

3:58

I don't know if you guys are NBA fans, but the.

3:59

start a free agency

4:01

like happened this weekend. Uh,

4:04

and for those unfamiliar, that means, you know, all

4:06

of the most valuable players are, are being

4:08

signed to different teams across the league. And

4:11

so none of the reporters could tweet these signings.

4:13

So we're like impact a whole

4:16

industry. Wow.

4:19

It is like fully a news outlet. Yeah.

4:21

Oh my God. All the journalists.

4:24

And then, so that all sucks. And that's all the

4:26

practical. But as, as a human being,

4:28

I was like, I am so addicted to this fucking site

4:31

dog. And then I'm, I'm trying to, I'm on, I'm

4:33

on spill. I'm, I'm, I'm

4:35

crack heading, looking for blue sky invites.

4:38

I just look in the mirror. I'm like, what are you doing

4:41

dog? Are you about to just

4:43

like, so take like a personal sojourn

4:46

into

4:46

the woods and be like, I just need to find who

4:48

I am again. Yeah. Straight up. You

4:51

know who wasted no time capitalizing

4:54

on this Twitter moment? Our

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good friends at meta, allegedly, there

4:58

was a leak, quote

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unquote leak. Allegedly it

5:03

was leaked. A preview of

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a new app that they have coming called threads,

5:07

which will actually be out

5:09

as of the time of this recording tomorrow. So

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if you are listening to this episode now, it is out currently.

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Yes. Now some users like

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our friend Michael have received a private

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early invitation. Meanwhile, yours

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truly has not received such an invitation

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and I can't speak to anything because documents

5:25

have been signed. However, I am

5:28

rather disappointed in the neglect of

5:31

my invitation. I'm sorry,

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Paris. That was an awkward conversation.

5:35

Where I was like, yeah, I'm on. I was

5:38

like, neither of

5:39

us got our invites. I was like, you didn't get yours.

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I was like, no, I definitely got mine. But yeah,

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I think it's just interesting that all these other apps

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now are coming out, threads, spill. People are

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coming for Twitter's gig and it's like Twitter,

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this was not the time to mess up, which is probably

5:53

why they're backpedaling a little bit. So I'm curious

5:55

to see now that they're all jockeying for who's going to

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be the next Twitter, who's

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going to win. And I

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have a feeling it might be threads. Cause from

6:04

what I've seen, it imports over all of your

6:06

followers, your contacts and everything. So it's

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a very seamless transition if you already have an

6:10

Instagram, like following in platform,

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it's a smart move. It's a smart business move. As someone

6:15

who's not particularly tech savvy, which is the painful

6:18

irony that I host the show, the

6:21

thread was very, very user friendly. I

6:23

will say it made it very easy

6:25

to get on, to get set up. It took all of seven

6:27

seconds. Must be nice.

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Ha ha ha.

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He is.

6:36

Our next story, YouTube star

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Colleen Ballinger, better known as Miranda

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Sings, is facing some concerning allegations

6:43

from the internet. Colleen is being accused

6:45

of trying to groom teenage fans with some

6:48

followers even sharing screenshots of her odd

6:50

messages from former private group chats.

6:52

This entire situation is egregious,

6:55

but hey, that is just us. Michael

6:57

Judson Berry elaborates. Oh my

6:59

God, how much time do we have? This story

7:02

just keeps getting bigger and

7:04

bigger. It's like that time I had poison ivy and it

7:06

started just on my arm and then soon it was all

7:08

over my body. And I feel similarly

7:09

to the story as I did to that poison ivy

7:11

experience. It is deeply unpleasant and

7:13

I can't escape it. And I don't

7:15

know how to find a salve for this. Yes,

7:18

if you potentially live under a rock,

7:20

you might not have heard of this, but allegations against

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YouTube social media star Colleen Ballinger have just

7:25

been

7:26

building. And

7:28

she recently addressed it and

7:30

said that the only thing she has ever groomed

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is her two Persian cats.

7:34

I changed my behavior and I

7:36

took accountability. So

7:39

she is sticking that she's

7:41

innocent.

7:43

There's just so much

7:45

in here. The allegations

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include accusations from a fan who

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says that Colleen engaged in inappropriate conversations

7:52

with him and that she sent him a bra

7:55

and panties when he was only 13 years old. And

7:57

that was part of a live thing where she unpacks things and

7:59

says. sends crazy things to her fans. He

8:02

did request the bra and panties, apparently,

8:04

and she did send them to him. Was

8:06

this the best idea? Probably not. And

8:08

she admits to that. But

8:11

she recently created a video addressing

8:14

all of the most recent allegations

8:16

in a 10-minute ukulele song entitled,

8:19

Hi. In the song apology

8:21

kind of sort of apology, she strums

8:23

ukulele and addresses what she calls the facts.

8:26

Moments of it, I found actually quite catchy. She

8:28

calls it the

8:29

gossip train anyway. The

8:32

little bits that she actually did sing, I thought. I was like, that's

8:34

a cute little song. That is like, oh, wait, no, this is a very serious

8:36

topic.

8:38

It's people have had a lot

8:40

of opinions about this because they're like, it wasn't really an

8:42

apology. I think it brings up a lot of interesting

8:45

conversations, though, around how social

8:47

media personalities interact with their

8:49

fans and bringing up things

8:51

from the past that they have acknowledged and move

8:54

on from. Have they changed? Have they not? So

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I think this is just a bigger conversation. How about you

8:59

guys? Have you seen this ukulele video? Did

9:02

you even know who Miranda Sings was? How do you

9:04

all feel about this whole storm

9:07

of stuff going on? So

9:08

I remember her as a YouTuber when

9:10

I was like, I don't even know, like early college end

9:12

of high school. Like I've seen her stuff. Yeah. I

9:15

watched a little bit of her show. Yeah, she's been around for

9:16

a long time. Yeah, a hot minute. This

9:20

is just gross. It makes me feel gross

9:22

talking about it. We do have to talk about

9:24

it. Yeah. It's just a fucking bummer

9:27

that this is even a thing. What

9:29

I will say is

9:31

that this ends the conversation

9:34

on ukuleles. Ukuleles should be banned in

9:37

general. They should only be

9:39

restricted to American Idol and

9:41

Hawaii. No more ukuleles

9:44

anymore. I'm done. I love

9:46

that you're like the biggest issue that the thing we've

9:48

learned here is that do not use ukuleles.

9:51

It is. That's such an important part of the

9:53

conversation because this is so twee.

9:57

I have a theory that Miranda sings.

10:00

can only exist when Tui

10:02

is happening in the culture, when Tui

10:04

is having its moment. And

10:06

I've always said that. I've never been a huge fan of hers

10:08

necessarily, because I hate Tui.

10:10

Okay. And remind us all, so I Googled

10:13

what Tui means and it means excessively

10:16

or effectively quaint, pretty or sentimental.

10:20

That doesn't come to mind when I think of her Miranda Sings

10:22

character. She just wore like crazy lipstick and was like, I'm

10:25

awkward. The

10:27

poster girl for Tui. So what do you mean by this exactly?

10:30

Is Zoey Deschanel,

10:32

chunky bangs, quirky, maybe

10:35

like little flats, ukulele for sure.

10:37

She's like, I'm different. I'm not like other girls.

10:41

It's like quaint. Quaint is a really good word for

10:43

it. And it's just like, it's so not my aesthetic.

10:45

And it also, at

10:46

least in my perception,

10:49

has sort of at the time when Zoey

10:51

Deschanel and Tui was very popping in like 2010, maybe, it

10:56

sort of made it cool for girls to be like

10:58

helpless and like awkward and like, ugh,

11:01

ugh,

11:01

I'm Tui, ugh, and just weird. And

11:04

I'm like, no, girls aren't, you don't have to, that's not cool.

11:06

Be competent, be incompetent. Is Amelia Bedelia

11:09

Tui, is she like the original Tui person?

11:11

I don't know who that is, but probably. Oh

11:13

my God, I just brought up Amelia

11:15

Bedelia in an improv the other day.

11:18

She stays on my mind. And no one knew

11:20

who I was talking about. And I

11:22

loved Amelia Bedelia when I was young.

11:24

And the girl, this seemed to be a very good clue what I was talking

11:26

about. I played a maid who destroyed a house. And she

11:28

was just like, what are you doing? I

11:31

was like, I was inspired by Amelia Bedelia. And she

11:33

was like, I don't know who that is, is that your aunt? Like.

11:38

A Paris, I'm surprised you don't know, yeah. I just Googled

11:40

it. She's Tui. It's an amazing children's book, so you

11:42

can confirm. She's Tui

11:44

and ridiculous. Yeah, I don't

11:46

know, I think an interesting thing with this, which I

11:48

found interesting because Paris, we've talked about this before.

11:51

I don't know, because in another one

11:53

of her apology videos, Colleen talked about how she loves

11:55

to employ her fans. She loves

11:58

to give her fans jobs and high. them

12:00

to run her social media and she really

12:02

loves like next level interaction with fans

12:05

and I feel like like I'm somebody who

12:07

whenever somebody DMS means stuff I always respond

12:09

and I say thank you but I keep it sort of at a like

12:13

that's basically as far as it goes like how

12:15

do you feel about somebody being like I'm gonna hire my

12:17

fans like not just her but any

12:20

social media personality. In that

12:22

video the reasons she gave seemed solid to

12:24

me like because her fans know the brand

12:27

she she loves her fans she thinks they're like super

12:29

creative whatever but I'm like

12:31

no that's insane hiring your fans is

12:33

an insane thing to do especially when your fans are of like a

12:35

younger demographic right teenagers

12:38

yeah and it's an ego

12:40

something she did hide that

12:42

you can you can present that as like a generous

12:44

thing that you're doing but then you're just

12:47

like surrounding yourself with sick of fans

12:49

and yes men all the time

12:51

so like it presents

12:53

one way but I feel like at its core it's

12:55

the other way. Fan

12:57

behavior to me is always so

12:59

cringe my best friend Coco has been like quote-unquote

13:01

internet famous for a long

13:03

time like she's a very sexy Instagram

13:05

girl but her fans

13:08

are wild and sometimes

13:10

she will like make friends

13:12

with people who already know her from social media

13:14

but the way they act they still act like fans

13:17

even when she's like oh we can we're friends like blah blah blah

13:19

but it's fan behavior and I'm like girl you have to

13:21

push that out you cannot you have to set strong boundaries

13:24

with people that behave that

13:26

way you know what I mean you gotta keep

13:28

the fans at a distance yeah this whole

13:30

thing also made me feel like nervous about what

13:32

I do I was like should I should I like honestly

13:35

maybe rethink a lot of the things that I've

13:37

posted I'm like wait what could potentially

13:40

be misconstrued

13:40

and be like used against me ten years

13:42

from now you know I

13:44

thought the same thing and then I was like you know what pretty

13:46

sure I stand by all of it that's

13:50

my dog right there I love you parents

13:56

amazing yeah

13:58

my fans don't know that I'm actually just a rock I'm a rotten

14:00

bitch. No,

14:02

they don't know that you're actually sweet-leveled by a nerd

14:04

who cares about people. Aww. I

14:07

haven't been accused of that, but I'll take it. And

14:09

with that, we'll also take a break.

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We're back. Okay,

15:10

I feel cleansed. Um, but

15:14

Paris, I'm still scared. Ew,

15:16

Michael, why? There seems to be a recent

15:18

surge of musicians getting clocked in the face

15:20

with objects. What do I do if that happens to

15:22

me when I'm performing on Broadway? I mean,

15:25

what if somebody just throws something at me?

15:27

The show must go on, right? I

15:29

mean, you just get a nose job like the rest of them. Oh,

15:32

that again. Anyway, I have my

15:34

own theories as to why this is happening, but Michael Judsonberry,

15:36

please give us some more details on this phenomenon.

15:39

Yes, in case you've missed

15:40

this, people are throwing

15:42

things at their favorite performers. This

15:45

has happened to country star Kelsey Ballerini,

15:47

pop stars B.B. Rex and Ava

15:49

max heartthrob Harry Styles,

15:51

and even icon capital letters,

15:54

icon pink. I mean, literally

15:56

no one is safe. People are getting phones thrown

15:59

at them.

15:59

candy chucked at their face, bracelets.

16:03

In Pink's case, someone gave her

16:06

their mother's ashes, as well as

16:08

a wheel of brie. This

16:11

is crazy. Have

16:14

y'all seen these

16:16

videos? Cause obviously people are videoing

16:18

concerts, so we have evidence of all of this. Yeah,

16:21

it's been crazy. It's a dangerous time to

16:24

be an onstage performer, specifically a woman,

16:26

really. The more recent ones have all been women, and

16:28

I think that's not

16:30

a coincidence. People, respect

16:33

is missing. There's a lot of respect missing from here.

16:37

Specifically, here's my thing. First

16:40

it was Bebe. Then

16:42

that was a huge story for like two days on Twitter.

16:44

It was all over Twitter. And then it was this

16:46

Miss Kelsey ballerini,

16:50

who significantly less famous,

16:52

I think we can say, than Bebe Rexha. My

16:54

theory, Bebe Rexha was sick

16:56

of everyone talking shit about her getting hit in the face. So

16:59

she went to a Kelsey ballerini

17:01

concert and said, I'm changing the narrative.

17:04

Take that bitch. And now

17:06

everyone's talking about Kelsey ballerini instead of

17:08

Bebe Rexha. What? That is my

17:11

theory. I have no evidence to support

17:13

this, but I do stand by it. Oh

17:15

my God. Them Sony lawyers

17:17

are throwing things across the

17:19

room now. They're throwing

17:22

things at you bears, you better watch out. Can

17:25

you believe I've never been hit in the face? Yeah,

17:29

I've been hit in the face.

17:30

I do not recommend. But what I will

17:32

say here is, I think there's a really

17:35

weird, kind of sick,

17:38

like on-lineness to

17:40

all of this. Like everything

17:43

is a bit,

17:44

you know, then that's like translated

17:46

to real life at these events.

17:49

And I think, I don't know, I'm

17:51

still thinking through it, but it

17:53

just feels like Twitter has come to life

17:55

in a weird way in the real world.

17:57

And I

17:58

don't like it at all. I don't know how to act.

18:00

It makes me

18:01

feel icky and I just like,

18:03

it sucks.

18:05

Yeah, I see that. Like it's

18:08

like this person's chance at 15 minutes because

18:10

they know that it's gonna go viral. So they're

18:12

like, I'm gonna chuck something at this person. Then

18:15

when it like blows up, they're like, I was

18:17

the person. Like, even

18:19

though it's not a good 15 minutes. Not something

18:21

you wanna be that person. No, that

18:24

BB Rexha dude is like public enemy

18:26

number one. Yeah. Yeah.

18:29

Oh my God. The irony of Harry Styles getting

18:32

hit in the face with candy during the song

18:34

Kiwi when he was literally singing hard candy, dripping

18:36

on me till my feet are wet. And someone shocked.

18:39

And it looks like a candy got him in the eye. And

18:41

he was just like, dudes. I

18:44

believe that was Chris Pine.

18:45

I like it. I'm getting back in. I

18:50

just love that. Paris has a celebrity

18:52

retaliation theory for every single one of these.

18:54

Like which celebrity gave pink ashes then? It's a vicious

18:57

cycle. Hurt people hurt people, Michael.

19:01

Also, don't you feel dumb as fuck with a Ziploc

19:03

bag ashes going into SoFi

19:06

Stadium?

19:07

Like what goes

19:09

through your mind being like, I'm bringing my mom's

19:11

ashes to the pink concert. Did your mom love pink?

19:13

Was your mom such a pink fan? And it was like, I want

19:15

you to scatter my mom. On her death bed,

19:18

she was just like, scatter my ashes on a pink

19:20

concert. Like. Yeah, over the crowd.

19:23

Well, I see. Could you imagine you go to that

19:25

concert and you're like, yeah, it's like your mouth

19:27

is open because you're singing like together a face full

19:29

of mom ashes. Like this sounds like

19:31

it's for you forever. I do not want to speak anyone's mom. Oh

19:33

my God.

19:35

Now you know who else is

19:37

very pissed about this and actually taking matters

19:39

into her own hands? It's

19:42

Adele. Yes. I

19:44

saw a video of Adele at one of her shows,

19:47

basically talking about this phenomenon, walking

19:49

around in like a black ball gown, gorgeous

19:51

hair, giving full Adele, holding like the

19:53

largest t-shirt gun I've ever seen. It looks

19:56

like a bazooka. Talking about how

19:58

if you throw shit at me, I fucking dare you.

19:59

dare you to throw something at me, I'll fucking

20:02

kill you. And then just like launches around

20:04

into the sky. Some fan got

20:06

a t-shirt out of that. But I'm like,

20:08

Adele

20:08

fighting back is exactly what we need to

20:10

change the behavior of people in

20:13

concerts. But Adele is the perfect person

20:15

for this. Like even wearing, I believe it's like a Schiaparelli

20:17

gown. And she's just like, I fucking

20:20

dare you, dare you to throw something

20:22

at me, I'll fucking kill you. And you know,

20:24

like Adele is that person who will be like in

20:27

a couture gown, and be like you and me round

20:29

the theater now, I'm taking you out. Like,

20:32

she could be like, I kept that Rocky statue

20:35

for a reason. I will want to punch you. Like.

20:38

Yeah,

20:38

I know she got hands. I believe,

20:41

I feel like she grew up in like one of the more hood

20:43

parts of London too. I think that's like one of her

20:45

things. Well, Christian, I saw a tweet that said, it was a quote

20:47

of that video. And somebody said, don't mess with Jamaican

20:50

women. Yeah. It was just

20:52

like, no. For the, that, yo,

20:54

as soon as the Bantu knots and the Jamaican

20:57

flag bikini. That was a day. She'll

20:59

never live that down. Never, never.

21:01

She should just make it her next album cover. And that'll.

21:04

I'd almost like. Just own it. She should have just

21:06

claimed it was AI. It was just like, like generated,

21:08

you know, like the Pope and the jacket.

21:11

She could have easily, cause I don't believe that image exists.

21:13

Even I've seen it thousands of times and I still don't believe

21:15

it's true.

21:16

No, even Adele still, it feels like the person who's

21:19

like, yeah, I did that. And what? Like,

21:21

again, she's gonna be like, and? Like,

21:24

I'm Adele. Again, you got

21:26

a problem. I'll see you around back the theater. I'll take you out

21:28

right after them. Like. Point blank

21:30

t-shirt gun to the face. Yeah. She's like, line

21:32

up everybody's taking me on first. Like,

21:35

it just almost makes me love Adele more. You

21:38

know? For sure. Then she's like, bring

21:40

it.

21:40

It was hot. I won't lie. And

21:43

listen, besties, crazy shit happens at concerts

21:45

all the time and nobody doesn't have their phone

21:48

out. So it's always documented, but we want to know

21:50

here at the Social Dose, what is the craziest thing that you

21:52

have seen at a concert? Let us know at the socialdosepodcast.com.

21:56

Mine was a drunk guy projectile vomit blood

21:59

all over the people in front of me.

21:59

in front of him. Oh, shit.

22:03

Yeah. And then not get escorted

22:06

out. It was amazing. He came back for the second half.

22:10

Damn. I personally don't do live music, so

22:12

I have no stories. Sorry, Christian, this is such a dark

22:14

episode today. It's okay,

22:16

it's almost done. Okay, Paris,

22:19

let's talk about fun things after this.

22:23

Let's take a quick break and then come back with something

22:25

just a little bit more buoyant. Let's.

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tech 23.

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Oh

23:30

my God, we're back. Yeah.

23:34

Now we may not be real scientists here at the Social

23:36

Dose,

23:37

but we'll be damned if

23:39

we aren't at least pseudoscientists. And our favorite pseudoscience

23:41

here, especially when Paris Nicholson

23:44

is in the house, astrology. Isn't

23:46

that right, Paris? That's right,

23:48

Michael. We love pseudoscience

23:50

and so does the internet. Astrology on social media

23:53

has always been for the girls the game of chess.

23:55

But we're back. Astrology on social

23:57

media has always been for the girls, the gays,

23:59

and the.

23:59

but now astrology influencers

24:02

are even on the Today Show.

24:04

Michael Judson Barry reports, we're playing volleyball

24:06

with the series. No, I was gonna say, why don't you just

24:08

keep on? This is so much your area

24:10

of expertise. Guide

24:13

us into the stars, Paris. Third star to

24:15

the right and straight on till morning. You're

24:17

done. So

24:20

a person named Channy Nicholas was on the Today

24:22

Show. She is at Channy

24:25

Nicholas, not hard to find on Instagram and TikTok.

24:27

She is the founder of the Channy Astrology App, which

24:30

has gained quite the following in recent months. So

24:32

it makes sense that the Today Show

24:34

would want her. And she has a great video on her TikTok

24:36

talking about Venus in retrograde.

24:39

So she is definitely one of the more popular astrologists

24:42

to follow, but the

24:44

best astrologists are online. And

24:46

some examples include Sanctuary

24:49

World. I'm gonna list off a couple

24:51

of my faves, real quick besties.

24:53

If you're looking for fun. Follow

24:55

trash bag underscore astrology, follow

24:58

not all Geminis and follow.

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I'll give you one more from my personal collection.

25:03

Follow, damn it.

25:06

Astrology, oh, follow

25:08

Astro Wonders and my chemical

25:10

Capricorn. Okay, there's a handful besties. There's

25:13

so many. Whoo, Paris,

25:15

well done.

25:18

I will say I'm one of those people who, part of the reason

25:20

I love following astrology apps is because

25:23

I, you know those days

25:25

where you're like in a funky place, and you're just

25:27

sort of looking for a sign to be like, just

25:29

to give you that little boost for the day. Sometimes

25:31

these just either like make me feel better about

25:34

decisions that I've made or help me sort

25:36

of like get myself together. And

25:39

especially recently when I Googled, which star

25:42

sign makes the best influencer. And

25:44

I'm proud to say that Gemini, I found

25:47

multiple articles about this and Gemini

25:49

consistently came in number one as best

25:52

personality influencers. And Paris, I hate to

25:54

say, you know what consistently came in last? Capricorn

25:56

probably. Capricorns. I believe that because

25:59

we don't care.

25:59

and I always have to force myself to care

26:02

and post and make content and all that, because

26:04

I'm like, who gives a shit? I don't even give a shit. But

26:06

that's not how the business works. So I believe that, that

26:09

very much tracks. I enjoyed these things.

26:11

Now, Paris, you said you could already guess what sign

26:13

Christian was without knowing.

26:15

Not guess, but I have

26:17

everyone's Zodiac sign saved in my phone, so Christian

26:20

has a little Libra symbol right

26:22

next to his name.

26:23

Oh, because he told me. Yeah,

26:25

I did tell. I think I told you at first meeting,

26:27

so it's amazing that you noted that down. Yeah,

26:30

as like a single man dating in New

26:32

York, I have to know my

26:34

whole chart. That's the

26:37

question. But is

26:39

it good? Because I don't give a

26:41

fuck. I think it is. I remember

26:43

there was this beautiful fine lady that

26:45

I was seeing for a while, and I was so smitten.

26:48

And I was just like texting

26:50

my mom harassing her to go check

26:52

the birth certificate

26:53

so I could see what time I was born,

26:56

608 on a Thursday, by the way. So I

26:58

had my chart ready for this girl. And

27:00

I was like, I had another come to Jesus moment. I was like, brother,

27:03

what are you doing? What's the...

27:07

That reminds me of that meme where it's like somebody texting

27:09

their mom. It's just like a screenshot. And it's like, hey, mom,

27:12

what time I was born? And the mom responds,

27:14

get out, she's insane.

27:18

That's amazing. That's

27:22

amazing. That's exactly how I fucked it up. Anyway,

27:25

it didn't work out. But that's my

27:27

take on astrology. It's purely a dating mechanism

27:30

and an affirming... My personal take,

27:33

once again, besties, very little

27:35

evidence to support this, but I stand by it. I

27:38

believe, and I read a book one time, it was like a metaphysical

27:40

woo woo type of book. But it was saying that like...

27:43

I know, I had to learn.

27:46

Thank you, Hooked on Phonics. But I

27:48

read this book that talked about how the planet Earth

27:51

is currently shifting from a historically

27:53

masculine vibration or whatever frequency,

27:57

whatever you want to say to a feminine one. And with that, I think

27:59

comes a...

27:59

sort of distancing from like sort of

28:02

science slash technology and more of an embracing

28:04

of like sort of mysticism and pseudosciences,

28:06

which are inherently feminine. And

28:09

I think that's why it has such

28:11

a feminine energy to it and why men are like, no, that's

28:13

not real facts or facts, science, science,

28:15

science, but it's like, okay, astrology isn't necessarily.

28:18

That's exactly what you sound like. But

28:22

it is not based

28:25

on nothing. It's based on the planets

28:27

and where they are. And there is science behind

28:29

it, but I also hold true

28:32

to the fact that

28:33

astrology, I think can only ever be

28:37

indicative or descriptive of your nature

28:39

and not necessarily how you were raised. So

28:41

it could at most compensate

28:44

for maybe half of your personality. But if you read

28:46

a tweet that's like, Capricorns love

28:49

big dicks, it's like, yeah, that might apply to

28:51

me, but it also might not. And that's okay too.

28:53

As long as you're having fun with it and

28:56

not taking it too seriously, that's where

28:58

I think we should have to land as a culture. And I love

29:00

that it's on the Today Show now.

29:03

Yeah. But isn't that taking it too seriously? The

29:05

fact that it's on the Today Show? Listen, if

29:08

the moon getting closer to the planet can

29:11

move the oceans, I think where Jupiter

29:13

was when you were born probably has something

29:15

to do with something.

29:17

Fair enough. Yeah, that's quite possible. I respect this

29:19

a lot more now after listening to you. Thank you, Paris. I

29:21

know, now I want to go back to that sanctuary

29:23

world and like read more into

29:25

these potentially what I thought were just

29:28

humorous posts, but. I

29:30

just think it's super fun. And some of the memes are so

29:32

funny, especially when they like drag you for your qualities.

29:35

Yes, wait, I'm looking to see if there's like

29:37

a fun one right now. And the

29:39

gem and I want is I give myself permission to

29:42

feel. And you know what? I

29:45

am now here in front of you all

29:47

proudly going to give myself permission

29:50

to feel. Thank you.

29:53

That was power. Thank you, Michael, thank you so much, Mike.

29:56

Paris, yours is I am creating

29:58

space for magic. So

30:01

if you don't straight up Harry Potter it in the next 24 hours, I'm going to be

30:03

very upset because we're giving you space for magic. I

30:06

will make the space.

30:07

I'm currently going through my archives, looking

30:10

for the last Capricorn meme I shared. Because

30:13

if y'all follow me, it's a Capricorn meme on my

30:16

story, at least once a week. And of course I can't

30:18

find

30:18

any. If you don't follow one of these accounts, just

30:20

follow Paris and watch out

30:23

for the weekly astrology posts. And Christian, I think you need to know

30:25

that yours is, I give myself

30:27

permission to ask for help. So

30:29

I give you that space now. Okay.

30:32

Yeah.

30:33

Especially if you run

30:35

into a gel in a back alley. Just strapped

30:38

with t-shirt guns. Yes. Wow.

30:42

That is all for today.

30:44

Christian, thank you so much for coming and joining

30:46

us today. Remind all of our friends at home where

30:48

they can find you. Thank you

30:50

guys for having me.

30:52

And you can find me

30:54

on Instagram at that boy Banda.

30:56

And yeah, let's chat. Let's hang out. Let's

30:59

make funnies. Yes. Great. Where

31:01

can they find you on spill Christian? I

31:03

don't know if I'm going to tell

31:05

people that yet. Oh, okay. I'm

31:07

going to give it a second. I'm going to give

31:10

it a second. Yeah. And besties, don't forget

31:12

to catch up with us on our socials or leave us messages

31:14

at the socialdosepodcast.com and

31:16

we might just share them on the show. Now with that

31:18

being said, I need to go start a campaign to banish twee. And

31:21

I need to hop back on thread

31:24

and continue exploring this fun

31:26

new world. Threads. Threads. Oh,

31:28

I don't even, oh man. Oh boy. I

31:31

give up. Only because you're like kind of an

31:33

official partner. Yeah, you're an ambassador.

31:35

I'm on the up. Okay, sorry. Zuckerberg

31:38

going to be outside. And I need to hop. Oh no. He's

31:42

going to challenge me to a fight. All right.

31:44

Yes. I'm going to hop back on threads.

31:47

And I'm going to give up. Yes. I'm

31:50

going to hop back on threads and continue

31:52

exploring. Happy scrolling, friends.

31:56

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