Summary of Podcasts

In the podcast, “Words, Words, Words”, Robert Tinajero talked about the misinformation regarding the COVID-19, commonly known as the coronavirus in his 34th episode. Most of the information were specifically about how the US federal government and the 45th president, Donald Trump handling the virus in control. He revealed that President Trump was downplaying the virus in press conferences since January. The president did this in two perspectives: 1) trying to not get the public panicking over the virus and 2) to protect his own numbers. However, Tinajero revealed that the President when delivering his conferences was being inconsident with his answers, saying things that weren’t factual or wrong. He was also insistent on calling COVID-19, “the Chinese Virus”, putting not only blame on the source of the virus’ origin (China) but using racial stereotypes.

Then, I listened to the Bodega Boys from New York City. They had just release their latest Podcast episode, EP. 194: Imagine. This hilarious episode has Denus Nice and The Kid Mero first parodying President Trump’s press conferences with the news media, especially how he talks. They then talked current celebrity news that was trending during the week of March 16th to March 20th. Most of the news they talked about were Andy Cohen of the Bravo TV channel tested positive for the Corona Virus and Tom Brady leaving the New England Patriots for some news. The R&B singer Keri Hilson promoted a theory on the Corona Virus was developed and caused by the 5G Network towers on her social media. Then they talked about Oprah Winfrey on a social media rumor that was trending on Twitter, stating that Winfrey has underground tunnels underneath her mansion that were used for child sex trafficking, conspired with Hillary Clinton and was arrested… which sounded very fake, jokingly mentioning that people definitely need to get out of the house immediately. What’s interesting that the two revealed that in New York, many people were getting sick and assumed having the virus months before the virus dominated the media and the shutdown. Other than that, they were basically parodying other jokes including how people react through social distancing and staying indoors.