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What's up everybody? Billy Gerwitz here for another 150 seconds. This week we got my friend Peter Lansky, associate director in our strategy department. We have a series that we do every month, a Trendy Now series. Peter's gonna walk us through the June edition of Trendy Now. Well, turning Now is like the staff picks at the bookstore record store from the strategy department. Stuff that's happening in creative culture or tech that we're thinking about and makes us stop, laugh, react, or something like that. Let's stop laughter, react and do something like that, right? Now here we go Peter. Let's see it. Alright, first up, Sidney Sweeney partnered with Doctor Squatch and released a limited edition soap infused with her real bathwater. All 5000 bars sold out in seconds, crashing their websites. The Taco Bell 50K hit Minneapolis. You have to consume one menu item at each of the seven stops. The rules allowed for Pepto vomiting and bathroom breaks. Wellness is meeting dance culture at popular sauna raves that are popping up across the country. Participants say it's about. Connection, presence, and reimagining party culture through Wellness. A recent article highlights the generational divide that location sharing on your phone provides. Gen. embraces as like Find My Friends as a casual way to stay connected. Millennials are more split, and Gen. X, of course, just doesn't care. YouTube is winning the streaming wars. In April, YouTube accounted for 12.4% of all UST viewing, beating Netflix, Disney Plus, and traditional networks. Ohio State University. Says all students will be required to train an AI. The new Unlocking Generative AI course will be offered and open to all majors. Open AI is likely moving towards including ads across ChatGPT, its hardware and search tools to offset its projected losses. AI text to video tools have made huge leaps and bounds in the last couple of weeks, with improved consistency, motion and cinematic effects, starting with Google's VO3. Also seen in bite dances text to video. Battle seed dance. It's positioned to compete with open AIS Soru to contrast with that trend. Real people are mimicking VO3 style video quirks to gain attention on social platforms. Was that the process? Take another one. No, please don't. Holy **** was that insane man. That was so much crazy. Cool trends. I really hope you enjoyed this, Peter. Excellent job, man. Excellent job. Alright, it's Billy Joel. What's 150 seconds? Peace out, man. Thanks Peter. Have a good one. See you later. Bye.