Miss Understood No. 7 — Slapping Back At Woke Culture
Summary
Kat and Nat discuss the aftermath of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars, Jada Pinkett Smith's open marriage to Will Smith, and why they think Will and Jada might have been cheating on each other for years.
Transcript
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Hello and welcome to Misunderstood, the show for the politically and culturally misunderstood
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lady or gent. We are your hosts. I'm Nat. And I'm Kat. And today we're going to talk about so
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many things, including but not limited to social media and influencers and woke culture. Is it
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good? Is it bad? Bad? Probably. But why? We're going to get to that right after our patented pat patented.
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That's a hard one. Patented. We should change that. Our patented culture shock moment of the week.
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Take it away, Nat. So I know none of you watch the Oscars. We're just going to come out of the gate
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saying that. But many of you have probably seen the most dramatic, arguably thing that ever happened
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at the Oscars, which was Will Smith slapping Chris Rock across the face. So I don't think
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we're going to talk about it much, uh, to preface it. We're just going to let you watch for yourself.
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Oh, wow. Wow. Will Smith just smacked the s*** out of me.
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Will Smith's wife's name out of your f***ing mouth. Wow, dude. It was a G.I. Jane joke. Keep my wife's name out of your f***ing mouth.
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Keep my wife's name out of your f***ing mouth. I'm going to, okay? Okay.
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Oh, okay. He has to like pull it together now. That was a greatest night in the history of TV.
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So we are here to give a documentary out to give an Oscar
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Well then I would like to say that Chris Rock handled that very well
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Like he is a comedian and so he has to be quick on his feet
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On a global stage in front of all the elites of the world
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Apparently the police asked him if he wanted to press charges
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And then everyone in the audience is just acting
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I know that there were some reactions and stuff
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And then Will Smith won his first ever Academy Award later that evening
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And it's like, shouldn't he have won like for Ali or In Pursuit of Happiness
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Or like on a night that he didn't like assault someone publicly?
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Yeah, I think probably the assault was not great
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They could have like scratched out his name and written someone who's not a criminal on there
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I mean, I personally think that Andrew Garfield should have won for his performance in Tick, Tick, Boom
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Andrew Garfield like hugged Will Smith later that night
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We're going to talk about Andrew Garfield a little bit later
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The short timeline of Jada and Will's relationship
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I think I'll condense it because there's so much to talk about
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And then in 2011, basically, it's just like year after year
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So it starts with like they have an open marriage
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I mean, if there's rumors consecutively for like a decade
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Yes, and eventually she has this pretty public relationship with this guy, August Alsina
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And they went to the BET Awards together in 2017
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And at the time, she was like, oh, we're just friends
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But there were all these rumors that they were having a relationship
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And then in 2020, she eventually admits like, yes, there was a relationship there
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It's like very confusing because it's like you've been saying to yourself
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Like no, nothing's happening, nothing's happening
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And then you're like, okay, well, that one was true
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Yeah, I mean, obviously there's some weird tension going on in their relationship
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I mean, even going back to the joke that Chris Rock had made
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But I mean, just the fact that it sparked such outrage
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And I mean, even what you see in the clip before
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But it's not like we've never made fun of bald men
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And I mean, if she were really so embarrassed by it
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For best reaction to getting smacked in the mouth
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Actually way more influential things than the Oscars
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Let's talk about some social media and some influencers
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So this is a huge topic that Nat and I wanted to discuss
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And we will be posting sources as we discuss them
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I made a list of what's good about social media versus what's bad
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So there's one thing on the what's good about it
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It has created new income streams for untalented people
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So more untalented people have more disposable income
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It's like the whole page going on to the next one
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And I think like one of the biggest things about these social media influencers
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Because social media does tend to skew a little bit younger
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I think it's something like 94% of teenagers in the U.S. have an iPhone
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I think it's like 74% or something are on Instagram
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Which means they are being influenced by these people
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Because if your kid is being influenced by a stranger
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And how finding community on Tumblr can be detrimental for women
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Especially when it comes to the whole gender ideology stuff
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Like there's so many rabbit holes for our youth to go down
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I wouldn't want to be growing up in this generation
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And when we're kind of like known as the participation medal generation
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And I'm like, how has that affected the world that we live in today?
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Well, I mean, Will Smith slapping someone for making a joke is a great example
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It's like my feelings, hurting my feelings is basically violence
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If the woke culture decides that what you're saying is worse than what I'm doing physically to you
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Gen Z, so they're growing up wanting to be YouTube stars
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Like how is that going to affect like public policy when they're running the world?
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Yeah, there was like a poll or something that what they think most people want to be
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And you would assume, like most people assume that most people want to be famous
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But we're given this like kind of, that's the narrative that's being pushed
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Is that we all just want to grow up and be famous, that's it
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Well that's what the UCLA study that you're referring to literally illustrates that seven
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Years ago it was, or up until a few years ago, the dominant themes
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They asked middle school kids about what they wanted to be when they grew up
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There's only so many people that can be famous YouTube stars, guys
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And I mean, we should also talk about the fact of just how like
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How much more social media really affects women, like young girls
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I mean, Facebook has an internal research that showed that
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So this results in loneliness, stress, and even depression
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And nearly half of all teen girls on Instagram feel they often or always compare their appearance to others on the platform
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And I mean, you talked a bit about how we, when we were growing up
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I would forget, but it was like, oh, like clearly
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Like the same kind of person over and over again
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And then you're like, well, I don't look like that
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And that's one of the things that I kind of noticed too
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Like a lot of these social media influencers and celebrities
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They like post all these really amazing versions of themselves
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And it's like, that must actually negatively impact you too
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Because you don't even look that good in real life
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Well, we talked about that with the TikTok auto filter
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But then that one girl did a video where she like
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And I mean, I think Instagram is more transparent about that
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So when you see Kendall Jenner and her fake puff lips
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You know it's a filter because it's credited above
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You know, especially in the wake of all this plastic surgery
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But I've heard rumors that like someone who's like 11
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They find their plastic surgeons on social media
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And it's like Instagram ads and stuff will be like
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Yeah it looks like he has like little skinny electric legs
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She looks like the red woman from Game of Thrones
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She looks like they had a very serious conversation in the car
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So I feel like we should not go through all of them
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And maybe just cause we did that deep dive last week
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You're not seeing all the silly animations I do