Culture Club - Robots Infiltrate Fashion, Celeb Burner Accounts & Iced Coffee Debates

00:00:00.000 the generational interview debate so let burner accounts and why are robots infiltrating fashion

00:00:10.940 shows i'm maggie zell and i'm jasmine wallace and you're listening to culture club where two

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00:00:35.320 We've got long weekend energy buzzing through our veins right now. Like I am so ready. I'm hyped

00:00:42.280 and I just feel so good. I feel like spring has sprung. If people can see my outfit right now.

00:00:47.460 You're so spring. And by the time that this is out, our spring favorites episode is out in the world

00:00:53.520 and in it I say that I love a bandana for spring and now I'm walking the walk but I do feel like

00:00:58.280 that meme where it's like first time wearing a hat shy well it looks so natural on you it does

00:01:04.660 not yeah it looks really good thank you I don't want to offend you again with like my wig comment

00:01:09.500 we're not going to talk about it we actually brought it up with our friends when Jazz called

00:01:12.640 my hair thin and thought that was a neutral observation they kind of agreed with me it's

00:01:18.320 fine they saw both sides they saw both sides anyway your hair looks great and your bandana

00:01:23.140 looks great thank you compliments all around i feel like you've had a really nice week of eating

00:01:29.680 out martini vibes is that right yes last night laurie and i went to belasco which is a new

00:01:35.800 restaurant at the w hotel here in melbourne and it was so new york like we kept looking at each

00:01:40.460 other over the table being like are we in new york right now i'm walking here it was so fancy

00:01:45.320 laurie had a steak we had martinis i had a vodka pasta it was so delicious and so fun it was like

00:01:52.040 a jazz band playing like rick sinatra nora jones it was really lovely so that was a great way to

00:01:58.180 like it was wednesday but it feels like a friday being a long weekend so that was like a nice way

00:02:03.140 to ease into like long weekend vibes yeah and then i've got a few different like parties coming up

00:02:08.220 this weekend it's grand final here in melbourne for the afl i feel like all the invites are coming

00:02:13.480 out of like you know it's spring spring is here yeah i'm doing a very spring activity on grand

00:02:19.760 final day i am going to a tulip festival and jazz weekend two in one so i'll be like so offline

00:02:28.120 during the game which happened last year last year i was at a beach with no reception perfect

00:02:34.000 i actually have an update on something we spoke about a few months ago which was

00:02:38.660 man repeller's instagram account which became repeller while they were still working there

00:02:44.200 yes and for like the context for people started up by liandra medin who was a fashion blogger and

00:02:50.120 it turned into like a woman's lifestyle fashion publication but yeah what happened back then

00:02:54.580 the repeller account because like the publication folded and then it's the instagram account was

00:03:00.640 still active but just like no one was posting on it it then obviously got bought by like some ai

00:03:05.220 company or bot company and it was started posting like total ai slot and we found that we spoke about

00:03:11.000 on the podcast and there's a little update now they've started doing a foot finder account like

00:03:17.040 repeller is posting like beat finding pics on its account and i felt like i just had to give that

00:03:23.300 update because it's gotten even worse than the ai slot okay so i'm seeing the post it says guy

00:03:29.380 shoots his shot after seeing her instagram story but her response wasn't what he expected

00:03:33.800 and then if you scroll it's literally an ad for like feet finder oh my god stop i signed up for

00:03:42.480 feet finder i uploaded a few simple photos i set my own prices curate my content and make money

00:03:47.820 and the comments are like repella are you okay so yeah just an update just such like a

00:03:54.420 a sign of the times of like 2010s girlboss media is now an ai slop instagram account which is a

00:04:03.460 sad but hey in pop culture news i want to talk about taylor swift coming back again again

00:04:10.900 many a comeback we had her revival through toy story 5 what a sentence lol but she's got a new

00:04:17.980 song by the time this episode is published this song will be out already but it's called patient

00:04:23.420 zero her official instagram bio changed this week to read and baby that's show business for you with

00:04:29.940 each are replaced by zeros do we not already do the whole showbiz thing with life of a showgirl

00:04:36.140 well this is called the encore it's you know showbiz life of a showgirl part two yeah she's

00:04:43.820 got four new singles coming out right the picture is why like she posted this on instagram right

00:04:49.300 and the thing is i couldn't even find it on her feed because i was like oh like i'm picturing like

00:04:53.780 some like fab photo that's gonna be this intro marketing photo but it is giving so bland i know

00:05:03.280 why is she in a gray building with gray walls yeah it's very corporate you you were so funny

00:05:10.140 you had a comment in our dog being like it's giving linkedin headshot yeah it's getting

00:05:14.020 corporate linkedin i'm so intrigued by this and i'm also intrigued by the fact it's like

00:05:19.060 four songs from life of a showgirl which came out nearly a year ago we did this when the toy story

00:05:23.760 five song came out but we want to both guess what do you think patient zero will sound like it's

00:05:29.440 also so humiliating because when people listen to this the song will be out so they can tell

00:05:34.120 straight away so patient zero what do we think it sounds like i can give it a go first something

00:05:39.680 like this like patient zero something hero so a little bit more of her reputation era

00:05:47.560 oh i agree with you i've seen a tweet going around that's like she's definitely going to

00:05:53.820 rhyme zero with hero for sure i actually didn't think of this get out of my limo

00:05:58.680 i'm like what else is relatable to her she's very sung about billionaire yachts you know

00:06:04.980 yeah patience what could it even mean patient zero though like um infestive uh hating women

00:06:12.960 virus yeah not coming out no jazz just give it two bars okay yours is good and i think you're

00:06:21.620 right so i'm not gonna humiliate myself also you were right with toy story five i was so wrong no

00:06:26.820 people said it's kind of a mix of both of ours you can go back and listen to check that okay well

00:06:31.180 if life of a showgirl was like no i don't want to sing why am i embarrassed i won't peer pressure

00:06:36.560 you but life of a showgirl was less reputation i feel yeah so maybe it will be less of that like

00:06:43.340 it might be more but i don't think it's going to be piano ballad no i feel like it will be poppy

00:06:48.840 yes though the picture kind of gives it could be anything because it looks so bad anyway we will see

00:06:54.940 is there a correct way to respond to burner account allegations I've been thinking about

00:07:11.100 this question this week and I'm not sure there is we're talking about this because Channing Tatum

00:07:15.980 has been kind of found out potentially for having a burner account where he is chatting

00:07:22.720 about other celebrities and himself this is a type of low-stakes celeb gossip I live for because like

00:07:29.920 no one's really getting hurt you know except except the guy at the center of it

00:07:34.620 how did this all come out into the press I I love fans fans who spend so much time online

00:07:42.240 who have a high screen time they are the sleuths who found this they found this account on

00:07:47.000 instagram its name none your business spell n-o-n-y-a-b-i-d-n-e-s-s and the bio reads

00:07:55.220 i'm nosy dot dot dot in private and he has one follower so like the person following them

00:08:02.200 is channing tatum and was the account public or private do we know i think he was private at that

00:08:07.740 time which makes it even more sus that it was channing because why would channing tatum

00:08:11.660 follow a random private account with no other followers some of the things that were found out

00:08:18.240 that he had said was under a dumois post about um zoe kravitz and harry styles this account said

00:08:24.600 just here for the hate because of course zoe kravitz is channing tatum's ex-fiance

00:08:30.640 so that's also kind of giving it away a little bit they also found nanya bidness

00:08:37.680 Commenting on Channing Tatum fan pages, one read,

00:08:41.620 He's so genuine, no false pretenses with this guy,

00:08:44.240 and funny as hell too.

00:08:45.820 I would sincerely just, like, leave the planet.

00:08:49.260 We did actually speak about this concept a few months ago

00:08:51.880 with Elena Tabor, who's an American influencer

00:08:54.700 who was sprung on the gossip Reddit threads for doing this.

00:08:59.640 So we kind of already talked about the awkwardness of it,

00:09:02.800 but this is a kind of, I think it's a more funny one.

00:09:05.440 also with an a-list male actor celebrity this is worlds away yeah yeah yeah channing responded to

00:09:14.660 the allegations on his instagram stories writing yo i truly can't believe y'all think this is what 0.52

00:09:20.740 i'm doing with my free time fucking hilarious also why would i follow a burner account if i 0.80

00:09:25.780 didn't want people to connect me to it wtf come on so this is where my brain was ticking right 0.93

00:09:32.320 because I'm like okay I don't know what to believe Channing Tatum follows over 8,000 people so he's

00:09:39.560 following a lot of accounts so there could be a like I don't know there could be a world where

00:09:44.340 he has randomly just followed this account who knows why okay is that being so naive no I mean

00:09:50.280 it's a possibility and then my other question was like oh my god like what would you do if this

00:09:55.020 story was going around because I feel like nothing you say feels right but I feel like people are

00:10:00.780 just laughing like not being like oh my god that's so lame they're kind of like classic

00:10:04.880 Channing I feel like because it kind of matches his personal brand of goofball like lovable goofball

00:10:12.920 funny jock vibe but the comments about himself I think are so earnest which is kind of a departure

00:10:20.720 from that oh I find it so funny though what would you do if you were accused of having a burner

00:10:27.960 account about yourself i would lay low be quiet you nah i feel like i'd have to make a statement

00:10:35.360 of some sort an instagram story statement and this is in the case that like it's true it is yours

00:10:40.080 okay like that's when i would lay low i think oh yeah if it was actually true i'd lay low

00:10:44.580 which is the theory right like if it was him surely you'd be so embarrassed that you'd just

00:10:49.560 be like yeah like alina did alina didn't say anything right it's time for some silly internet

00:10:58.880 discourse and this week it's asking would you bring an iced coffee to an interview

00:11:04.440 it's a question that's created a debate mostly generationally online this is typical internet

00:11:11.500 fodder when i first saw this taking over the threads i was like well of course we're arguing

00:11:16.300 about this another kind of low stakes thing that everyone has an opinion on hold on you actually

00:11:21.860 scroll threads i need to go back to this i go on the thread sometimes okay it's so do more on there

00:11:28.380 it's worse than x it's really bad i sometimes you know how instagram because threads is owned by

00:11:33.520 instagram sometimes i scroll through instagram and like a thread will like come up you can just

00:11:37.700 click through to it really easily and it's always so fear-mongering it's like the world is gonna end

00:11:43.360 in two weeks or like if you don't take your money out of the stock market now you are going to be

00:11:48.340 poor and I'm like you click it because you're like whoa wait what is this actually and it's

00:11:52.520 all just like fear-mongering worse than x no I know and I get sometimes like really bad AI slop

00:11:58.360 stories yeah sometimes they just hook me and it's really bad it's really bad like a heart like horror

00:12:03.380 stories or like inspirational stories it's really bad I need to be shamed for it so I'll stop

00:12:09.460 so this discourse lol began with a tiktok from the user at caitlin recruiter who's a recruiter

00:12:17.720 of over 16 years and her experience is mostly at fortune 500 companies she noted that a lot

00:12:23.360 of gen z job candidates are rocking up to interviews with an iced coffee which she says

00:12:29.160 isn't a great look this is something that would have never crossed my mind i've literally never

00:12:33.640 thought about this being one an issue or like a very recurring yeah thing that's happening

00:12:39.720 an epidemic it's an epidemic of ice lattes she said bringing a coffee to an interview makes it

00:12:46.600 look like quote a stop on your list of errands for the day it looks like you went to target

00:12:51.040 then you went to starbucks now you're stopping by your interview then you're on to the next thing

00:12:55.080 you know what would give me an ick as an interviewer if someone came in with an iced

00:12:59.100 coffee specifically though if there's like a fifth left just the watery bit yeah like if there's a

00:13:06.220 little bit left and it's yeah it's got the watery like top half that would send me

00:13:11.840 ew i don't want the milk to separate but the kind of big combo like that's kicked off mostly on x

00:13:19.120 and tiktok to be fair is this generational divide so a lot of younger people are not getting it

00:13:26.060 They don't understand why it's an issue.

00:13:27.840 And they're like, you're hiring me for my skills, not because I drink coffee.

00:13:31.480 But then the millennials are saying, no, you shouldn't do that.

00:13:35.300 Here's why.

00:13:36.020 So it's kind of a funny back and forth.

00:13:37.780 Okay.

00:13:38.400 And like, where are you sitting with it, Chaz?

00:13:40.960 I just think, just have your coffee before.

00:13:44.040 Yeah.

00:13:44.380 Have your coffee before.

00:13:45.160 It's not that hard.

00:13:46.500 Yes.

00:13:47.180 To not bring an ice latte to a job interview.

00:13:49.220 As soon as you get the job, bring your fricking ice latte into work.

00:13:52.960 Who cares?

00:13:53.620 but interestingly as well the fact that it was someone who's worked at fortune 500 companies

00:13:59.140 is saying this because those are like your finance your banking you're like you know

00:14:03.500 more corporate job interviews you'd think it would be less of an issue than even in media like what

00:14:10.100 we do have you ever been an interviewer before like hiring someone yeah like at uni and like

00:14:15.700 internee things okay I've actually like oh you've been probably hiring people okay are people

00:14:21.140 bringing in drinks yeah I've actually hired people before but most of them have been interstate

00:14:25.660 so on camera I can't see any coffee but I will say that when you are hiring people you have like

00:14:33.240 a sea of resumes in front of you and you're like okay go to go through all the different piles

00:14:37.360 and then you whittle it down to like a few candidates then you're interviewing them and

00:14:41.900 it really does come down to like the tiniest things like when you have really strong candidates

00:14:45.620 and there's like four of them it is the tiniest things I think that's what people are like

00:14:50.880 millennials and recruiters are saying it's like if it's a choice between someone who seems more

00:14:55.360 organized because they had their coffee before they get a coffee after yeah versus bringing in

00:14:59.200 like a plastic cup oven oven iced lattes are also like dripping condensation might look you know

00:15:05.280 you're slurping yeah you know there's all sorts that like yeah it's not a deal breaker but when

00:15:11.420 you are like it's a hair between different people it is so it's just so funny you're right like i

00:15:18.680 I didn't I didn't have a strong opinion about this at all but now that we're talking I'm like

00:15:23.780 yeah if I had to pick yes or no I would say yeah don't do that

00:15:26.740 there's a new rom-com that's coming that we are so excited about this one is called still we met

00:15:38.020 and it is by Mary Beth Barone Mary Beth Barone of course is the writer actor podcaster and

00:15:45.520 internet personality oh my god and comedian her main thing that we love um and this is so exciting

00:15:52.880 this is her big like debut in the film world it's an original romantic comedy that's loosely

00:15:58.440 inspired by marybeth's own experience it follows a young woman who's at a crossroad and meets a

00:16:03.740 charming british stranger and spends one unforgettable night wandering new york

00:16:07.820 revealing more than either intended god it's the before sunrise oh yeah uh you know yeah

00:16:15.440 Yes, that type of rom-com.

00:16:16.980 One of the headlines regarding this, though,

00:16:19.980 was that before this news came out,

00:16:22.400 Mary Beth was being linked to Jo Alwyn,

00:16:25.400 an actor, famously, Taylor Swift's ex of like six years.

00:16:29.460 They were seen spotted together around town at dinners and things,

00:16:34.900 and, you know, celebrity gossip websites and Instagrams were saying like,

00:16:39.180 oh, they're dating, they're together, they've been spotted so many times.

00:16:42.500 And then she dropped this news on Instagram and said,

00:16:45.160 hard launching the project so kind of playing on the rumors and it was a number of photos with joe

00:16:52.300 her co-star i think that's so chic yeah that's so classy i will say i also saw some more pap shots

00:16:58.340 recently and it is marybeth with joe alwyn at a restaurant and they are with ella rubin who is

00:17:04.960 the star of sterling point and yeah my fave she is so gorgeous um i and i'm so excited because i

00:17:13.140 feel like that's a sign that they might be chatting to her about potentially being in this

00:17:19.100 you know or other professional things or maybe they're hanging out as friends

00:17:23.280 but kind of a random group dream blunt rotation yeah lena dunham is also executive producing

00:17:30.200 yeah so you know with sap already with sap also with this being loosely inspired by her own

00:17:35.880 experiences i am curious to know more about her personal dating history this did bring to mind

00:17:43.980 remember when she was loosely linked with and papped with lucas bravo earlier this year the

00:17:48.740 guy the french guy from emily in paris so i'm like oh what's that research is that maybe who

00:17:54.840 she is inspired by who knows between marybeth and amelia de moldenberg also getting into the

00:17:59.800 rom-com writing and producing i'm really excited to see more women's stories and of course the

00:18:04.980 og rachel sennett as well i love la season two must be coming soon so it's really refreshing to

00:18:10.880 see to see these young women creating their own shows especially given there was a report out by

00:18:16.020 the hollywood reporter this week that said there are less shows being made by women than there were

00:18:20.640 10 years ago and the top comment of that was very poignant it said actually no fewer of these shows 0.94

00:18:26.120 are being green lit women are still making these things but they're just not being produced

00:18:29.820 the hot new model taking over fashion week robots i can't believe we are saying that

00:18:39.300 but that is what is happening yeah at both vogue world in milan and london fashion week

00:18:45.000 robots took center stage and it's caused a bit of an uproar uh-huh let's talk about the vogue

00:18:51.160 world one first i feel like that's picking up the most traction number one you might ask what is 0.92

00:18:57.240 vogue world and you would be in the same boat as every goddamn other person nobody knows what this

00:19:03.160 is it's been around for five years um but still it's still so vague so we figured it out from

00:19:09.660 vogue themselves vogue world started in new york in 2022 it was a vibrant street fair that helped

00:19:16.340 to re-energize fashion week after covet 19 and it was also to celebrate 130 years of vogue it was

00:19:22.180 created by Anna Wintour. The following year it was in London and it consisted of a spectacular

00:19:27.620 evening of theatre in support of the city's performing arts. In Paris in 2024 Vogue World

00:19:34.300 celebrated 100 years of fashion and sport and then last year the event took place in Hollywood

00:19:39.840 where Vogue explored the rich conversation between fashion and film. So now this year they've headed

00:19:45.220 to Milan. Interestingly, 100% of ticket proceeds and profits from the collections that are shown

00:19:52.320 at Vogue World are donated to local cultural and performing arts organizations in the city that

00:19:58.220 Vogue World is hosted every year. So it seems like a good cause. People are kind of comparing it to

00:20:03.060 the Met Gala. Yes, it's kind of there. I would interpret it as their own take of the Met Gala

00:20:08.780 and it's usually this live streamed fashion show and like cultural event that's that raises money

00:20:15.280 for stuff and they also often have celebrities walking the stages I so Gigi Hadid was like the

00:20:21.380 big one and I don't know if I ended up leaving the comment on Vogue Australia's post because

00:20:25.840 they did a reel of it and she's kind of like looking around like gazing kind of thoughtfully

00:20:30.400 to like the sides and like going slowly and I'm like me at the grocery store trying to find the 0.65

00:20:35.260 white beans you're such a dork sometimes me i hated the walk like i did not enjoy watching that

00:20:45.440 so that's what i mean no that was that was cringe okay no it's cute it's cute i just like sometimes 0.98

00:20:52.280 your jokes are so cute next year vogue world is taking place in san francisco coincidence i think

00:21:00.680 not given text adoption of fashion yes let's read from a piece um from the cut it's called

00:21:07.440 why were there robots at vogue world that was written by olivia craighead and she goes into

00:21:12.320 this vogue world was split into five acts this year each one gesturing toward italian history

00:21:17.660 and culture in some way toward the end of act four the age of intelligence four uni tree robots who

00:21:24.560 weren't even wearing outfits made their way onto the runway the stage cleared for the bots that

00:21:29.600 then waved their arms in the universal gesture of, make some noise. Jennifer Lopez, sandwiched 1.00

00:21:35.860 between Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, clapped and smiled. So did Donatello Versace,

00:21:42.080 who was seated next to a thoroughly unimpressed Alessandro Michel.

00:21:45.540 Why did robots invade Vogue World? There seemed to be a couple of things at play here.

00:21:50.360 The show was sponsored by Metaglasses and the credits listed OpenAI as providing additional

00:21:55.680 support. The robots themselves were made by Unitary, a Chinese robotics company and the

00:22:00.300 world's largest humanoid robot maker. In short, it looks like Vogue wants to be where the money is

00:22:05.660 and the tech companies want Vogue's clout. The robots might also be a hint at what's to come

00:22:10.400 at next year's Vogue World, which is happening in San Francisco. Will Sam Altman make his runway

00:22:15.100 debut? Maybe. And honestly, we mentioned, you know, Vogue World has been in New York, London,

00:22:22.300 Paris, Milan the fact that they are going to San Fran which is not a fashion capital is just so

00:22:29.040 telling. So telling. Alongside Alessandro Mucha Prada who is the head designer of Prada and the

00:22:35.520 founder of Miu Miu also looked thoroughly unimpressed by said robots. They are the two

00:22:41.840 fashion design people who are going a bit viral online and you know their reaction pictures are

00:22:49.080 being made into memes etc because they showed their disdain to this to the tech overlords

00:22:56.420 essentially what I found interesting about this is that Vogue World Milano was conceived as an

00:23:03.300 ode to Italian craft and innovation it says quote offering in addition a broader examination of

00:23:09.240 human creativity and artistry in the age of artificial intelligence that was its like thesis

00:23:14.580 right but the robots weren't even wearing clothes like what does this have to do with fashion and

00:23:19.740 also like it's not italian craft because they're made in china so like i don't know what you're

00:23:23.480 trying to do there what are you talking like what do you mean italian craft and then these robots

00:23:27.580 come out and they're like raise your make some noise i feel like that jennifer lawrence meme

00:23:33.000 that's like what do you mean yeah what do you mean it's true i found it really interesting

00:23:38.840 because yeah Vogue published a story about this like explaining themselves the creative director

00:23:44.480 of Vogue World 2026 Milano Juan Costa Paz had comments about this let's just read them out

00:23:51.360 first so they say the robots came into the conversation to represent this very moment

00:23:56.800 that we're living through which is the beginning of robotics they're still very clunky you know

00:24:01.480 like how the first cell phones were suitcase size but the robots are meant to be an inflection point

00:24:06.820 in human history it's fun because robots are fun but it's also terrifying and is meant to say

00:24:12.880 ai is not going away and the robots are not going away scary this is so scary like what

00:24:20.180 but also like like almost say what you want to say with your chest because on one hand you're

00:24:26.800 like yes and we're at an interesting point in history and then the other time you're like

00:24:31.040 oh it's supposed to be fun oh but then also it's scary so what are you trying to say

00:24:36.460 you can't have like the best of all these worlds where you're self-aware enough that the public

00:24:42.420 reaction to this won't be positive but then you're also trying to appease your shareholders in these

00:24:48.460 like tech companies it's so hard also isn't this a theme in devil is proud of two companies like

00:24:53.960 take over the fashion magazine one thing i thought was so depressing as well is vogue magazine after

00:25:01.480 the show after vogue world vogue magazine posted a photo of the robots oh yes i knew this and just

00:25:08.380 says arrivederci tap the link in our bio to learn more about the vogue world robots that divided the

00:25:13.460 internet so they're playing into it as well because people are talking about it and there's

00:25:18.520 so many fashion insiders who are like commenting on this like big big influence of people like with

00:25:25.400 with power commenting how broke are y'all yeah that's enough bury them already internet is not

00:25:31.720 divided we all hate it desperate for engagement babes thanks for uniting us on equally hating

00:25:38.000 this it's just like clearly people are i just think it's so like why why at a time when you

00:25:45.500 know ai insiders are coming out and being like we're all gonna like there's a 10 chance that

00:25:49.880 AI is going to kill humanity and then even locally in Australia the Australian Prime Minister today

00:25:55.620 announced that an open AI agent hacked into our Medicare system and looked at private files and

00:26:02.080 then it took three months for them to notify the government and they emailed a public email address

00:26:07.260 to tell the government that like oh whoops our little AI robot agents accidentally like went

00:26:13.680 into the back end of this government website for Australia. I saw a comment on a post today that

00:26:18.320 I was like, surely this is terrorism.

00:26:20.240 Yeah.

00:26:21.360 It's literally...

00:26:22.180 It's cyber terrorism.

00:26:23.780 Seeing this headline this morning, I just, I couldn't even help but like laugh, but in

00:26:27.780 like a wild way because it's so farcical.

00:26:30.480 Like how are we, and we have a government contract with OpenAI, like we're paying this

00:26:35.120 company and now it's hacking our Medicare.

00:26:37.900 Fab.

00:26:38.580 Fab.

00:26:39.120 Awesome.

00:26:39.800 Bringing it back to the robots.

00:26:41.260 So this Vogue World incident wasn't the only one.

00:26:44.420 at london fashion week a label called talasi also did the same interestingly though this label is

00:26:51.000 um like specializes in this in their bio they say that they are a luxury women's wear label

00:26:56.960 that specializes in digital fashion creating garments to wear in real life and digital twins

00:27:02.120 to wear in virtual environments such as gaming we've been seeing this in the last i would say

00:27:07.020 at least like half a decade like a move into this digital space like metaverse yeah

00:27:14.320 Yeah. So they brought out like one robot who was wearing its clothes. Thank God it's covered up

00:27:19.780 alongside human models. Also earlier this year in Seoul, this was also a thing for a show called 0.98

00:27:29.080 Match 33 physical AI fashion show that was hosted by South Korean entertainment tech company called

00:27:35.720 Galaxy Corp had humans and robots in matching clothes. The CEO said, we realize that robots

00:27:42.540 too need to wear clothes just as every human being is unique we believe that every single

00:27:47.240 robot should be distinct how about no how about no sometimes I do wonder if we are I know like

00:27:56.220 everyone's kind of feeling the same way at the moment but I think it's an interest it is an

00:27:59.960 interesting time to be alive right now because sometimes I wonder if we're being like a bit

00:28:06.000 Luddite about it and are we being too overly cautious but then we have all these examples

00:28:11.360 all the time like insiders coming up being like there's a 10% chance the world's gonna end and

00:28:15.320 like all the data on data centers and what the AI is doing hacking into different you know

00:28:22.980 government systems it's like it's not looking good guys like I don't want to be a hater

00:28:27.820 because sometimes people's arguments I guess for utilizing AI or generative AI is like oh people

00:28:36.720 said the same thing about the internet like people were scared of the internet and what it could do

00:28:40.440 what it could bring how it would change the world and there's no denying that the internet changed

00:28:44.460 the world like everything that we do now is connected to the internet pretty much in some way

00:28:49.680 our jobs are so highly online so we can't really imagine a world without the internet so with our

00:28:55.520 children and grandchildren they won't know a world without ai and like how will it change the world

00:29:00.860 so much and influence their lives i think that's it is interesting to be experiencing it right now

00:29:06.080 yeah it's hard because we just can't predict the future we don't know exactly what's going to be

00:29:10.880 happening i just think with a situation that is so divisive with ai and robotics the way that

00:29:18.700 fashion culture and art is like helping push along the movement is what i'm super cynical about

00:29:25.920 so even um these robots so we keep mentioning this company unitree robots they're kind of like

00:29:31.140 the leaders in this space at the moment there's literally a group of them that are on America's

00:29:36.680 Got Talent right now they dance alongside human dancers but it's like on America's Got Talent yeah

00:29:42.180 oh this is what I mean it's just like we're at this point where we're seeing these robots

00:29:46.560 on our talent shows in our fashion weeks and they are building this soft power where we are

00:29:52.440 normalizing them in our life like they're not they're trying to not be this scary foreign thing

00:29:58.160 but it's like oh it's cute it's playful it's quirky like oh that's harmless and I think that's

00:30:04.240 where the danger comes in it also feels very dystopian because we're still fighting for like

00:30:08.700 basic human diversity on runways and in campaigns and just generally in the world and I think 0.95

00:30:16.580 seeing the stark difference from 2020 with plus size models curve models models of color I think 0.96

00:30:25.240 seeing that and then seeing the robots it just feels like wow the 2020s really have been like

00:30:32.360 revolutionary and like it's such a different time in just six years yeah I saw a comment that was

00:30:38.040 like they're letting a three-foot robot on but not like a five-foot model oh yeah I also just think

00:30:43.700 that I'm bored of tech infiltrating every single aspect of our lives I find it interesting when

00:30:49.780 I'm at work I like dabbling in different tools being like okay what is like what is useful what

00:30:56.160 is exploitative um how has tech changed my life but I am missing human touch in a lot of different

00:31:05.680 aspects and I think art fashion culture there needs to be still the handcrafted human-led

00:31:11.860 design and I think there will be a big I'm hoping there will be a big push for that in the 2030s

00:31:18.720 and on people are so sick of robots and they're so sick of ai and they're sick of questioning

00:31:23.020 whether it's something is real or not and they are going to go back to the basics i hope that's what

00:31:27.640 it's now time for bookmarked where we share something we've loved watching reading or

00:31:41.660 listening to this week maggie you are first up what do you have for us a tv show and a tv show

00:31:48.400 that is unexpected from me i would say a genre that i do not dabble in the show is called furious

00:31:54.400 and it came out this year had you heard of it of this one nope no this was like a tom suggestion

00:32:00.300 he's like i think we should watch it together and because it's like a thriller crime show

00:32:04.780 and like heavy on the crime which is so unlike me the the i guess the tagline um is that it follows

00:32:13.960 an FBI agent named Alice Black and she is on the hunt for a female serial killer I literally only

00:32:22.040 want to leave it at that because a lot unfolds as the season progresses but I will note also as a

00:32:28.760 content warning it does go into like DV and sex trafficking and it just builds in such a great way

00:32:35.580 like the storytelling of it unravels like you only only give you the information that you need at

00:32:41.300 that certain time and there's like so many like moments throughout it i'm only halfway through

00:32:46.500 the eight episode season but i was so shocked at like the end of the second episode i was like whoa

00:32:52.140 they build up these characters so well and i feel like i know so much about them in such a short

00:32:56.460 amount of time so it's been really fun to watch and as you know the guardian famously is a tough

00:33:01.920 critic but their headline review for this was messy clever and can barely conceal its rage

00:33:07.340 is Furious the most outstanding TV show of the year I didn't end up reading the whole article

00:33:12.640 because I didn't want spoilers yeah because they said the like the payoff in the finale is so good

00:33:17.340 you're like exit exit yeah I'm like I'm not reading that um but it's been great I will say

00:33:22.100 I have to chase it down with an episode of Colin from Accounts season three very sweet light-hearted

00:33:28.720 rom-com Australian TV show that I love also a mini wreck I guess so yeah it's like do one

00:33:34.520 episode of that and then watch Colin from account I just looked it up then and Emmy Rossum is the

00:33:39.760 star love her she's um the main character in one of the main characters in shameless oh awesome I

00:33:45.920 haven't seen it oh I don't know if you like it would you like it oh maybe it's pretty dark but

00:33:52.980 funny great writing um where can people watch this you can watch this one on Disney plus now

00:33:59.060 it's time for your recommendation what is it I feel like I've been discovering so much great

00:34:04.020 music recently oh wait i'm laughing sorry jazz hasn't said it yet just say the name of this

00:34:09.600 first matilda man and the album is kismet the funny thing is guess what i was gonna recommend

00:34:15.780 this oh my gosh yeah that's so cute i know so i'm so glad to bring you this up i thought you were

00:34:23.080 laughing because like you're like duh everyone knows matilda oh no okay no no i just really

00:34:28.760 like this album too but no go on okay okay yes if you're a lover girl I would highly recommend

00:34:34.900 Matilda Mann she's an English indie rock artist I followed her for a few years now maybe like five

00:34:40.340 years when she was so young she's only 26 now so she's been around for a little while and honestly

00:34:46.480 she just keeps getting better and better this is her second studio album and it was released at the

00:34:51.360 start of this month a few of the singles got served up to me by the algorithm and now the whole album

00:34:57.640 is out and i just keep returning to it and yes all a lot of the songs sound very similar but

00:35:04.380 that's an album and so sometimes i am like i know this is matilda man but which song is it but it's

00:35:10.940 just such a beautiful like cohesive album i feel and it's just the lyricism is so sweet

00:35:17.800 my favorite songs at the moment are chain reaction which is the like lead track make up and haunt me

00:35:25.380 yes all just like really sweet love songs and then she also has a song titled fig tree which

00:35:30.800 of course is about sylvia plath's famous fig tree analogy i'll read a little bit about what

00:35:37.340 inspired matilda matilda said kismet is defined as destiny fate the world is so chaotic full of

00:35:44.300 questions and a lot of the time most of us don't know what we're doing we want to make the most

00:35:48.580 out of the one life we've been given and mistakes are a terrifying thing but i like to think that

00:35:53.080 there's a comfort in leaning into what the universe has in store when you start to think

00:35:57.240 of every rejection as a form of being redirected to somewhere you're actually meant to be

00:36:01.540 it's hard to do but over time it's helped me appreciate the little things and people that

00:36:06.320 mean the most to me i hope this album can be your escape into seeing life a little brighter

00:36:10.760 i just i just think we all need a little bit of that at the moment so i'm so glad that you're

00:36:16.260 loving this album because i was going to say like this is actually so maggie if you you know so like

00:36:20.860 happy chilled sweet so i'm glad that you are loving it as well i love that for us it's kismet

00:36:28.720 it's kismet that we have mind as always always you guys wouldn't even believe it

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Culture Club - September 28, 2026

Robots Infiltrate Fashion, Celeb Burner Accounts & Iced Coffee Debates

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