The Daily Zeitgeist - ADB Headlights, Trump Valentine's Fundraiser, Madame Webb, Swedish UFO, Clueless 02.15.24

Episode Date: February 15, 2024

In this edition of Blinding Trendlights, Jack and Bryan The Editor discuss… these dang regulations keeping us from having safer headlights, Trump's Valentines Day love letter fundraiser, Madame Webb getting some last minute dialog tweaks, some BS news of the week and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Ameritrend Cars and Their Blinding Trendlights. I am Jack O'Brien, and I'm thrilled to be joined by a very special guest co-host, And I'm thrilled to be joined by a very special guest co-host, our headlights expert, man on the streets, peering into your headlights. It is Ryan, the editor. Hi, everybody. It's me. You're your friendly neighborhood headlight expert who can talk about headlights endlessly because I'm boring.

I didn't know. Had you talked about headlights before? Because Super Producer Victor was like, not going to lie to you, just saw this headline, knew that Brian was in today and threw it in there because once you get this guy talking headlights, there's no going back. I think I just have that kind of vibe.

Yeah. Has opinions on very specific shit. I have a really, really headlight kind of vibe. Yeah. Void? Voids. The voids are headlight. All right.

Well, let's start off with it. There is a article on America's foremost news source, CNN.com. Unclear if this went with the IDF. Yeah. Unclear if this has been filtered through the IDF. But it basically, the idea is our headlights are a couple years nay a decade behind the headlights in other parts of the world including europe china and canada the thing they've been working with and this this is news to me i i did not know about these headlights uh are called adb no not odb adb automatic ADB. No, not ODB. ADB. Automatic. I should have.

God damn it. I should have looked it up. Adaptable. Defense beams. Fuck. I don't know. Wait, let's just make the whole show guessing what ADB is. Automatic dimming bulb.

I don't know. Sure. That. So we have automatic dimmers. We have the thing on our cars where on some models of your car, where if it senses another car coming the opposite direction, it will go from high beam to low beam automatically. And then once the car has passed, it'll go back up to high beam.

Um, that is apparently broke shit. That is like way outmoded technology the real headlight technology these days is like it stays the high beams stay on except they sort of wrap themselves around the oncoming cars like they are able by being made up of a bunch of different LED pixels, they're able to project light in specific locations on the road so that oncoming driver is not blinded and you're able to see as if you're using high beams the whole time.

So producer Victor has entered a guess adaptive driving beam uh yeah nice try asshole no i'm just joking that i think that's the actual answer uh good guess victor will have to see if it's right no okay so they're adaptive driving beams and they are technologies available everywhere else i am suspicious of this article because it seems to suggest that the problem here is regulation and that we just need more deregulation on our headlights. Yeah, these regulations are getting in the way of us making it. It's like, okay, cool. Like, let's just get this out of the way first if safety was a concern for automakers this would this is probably not like the the first thing i would go with is dicking around with the headlights there's a lot

of ways to make cars and roads safer um this is definitely a problem sure but like i don't know it just this whole this whole thing stinks to me because it's coming from cnn i don't trust them uh and um yeah this is yeah and the idea that so they're saying basically they're saying that our beams are too bright but there's like all these regulations that say like it can't turn on too quick because there's a chance it'll blind people. But I feel like there's, I don't know. We,

we have really blinding headlights these days. Yeah. They, that's definitely an issue, but I'm like, I don't know. Like what? There's like science fictiony shit out there that you can,

you can put on a car like LIDAR or, um, you know know camera rays all sorts of things that can like see through fog like lidar can just see through fog uh infrared can just see through fog and i'm like okay you're talking about mercedes and it's not like this this technology they're gonna put this in a kia next year or something like this is this is fancy technology for fancy cars and i'm like just just put adsb and you know lidar in these cars so they can actually see through the dark and you don't have to just put more photons out there like it's cool technology but i'm like there's there are cooler, safer things out there.

This just seems like maybe a scheme to deregulate the auto industry even more. Right. Yeah, it's suspicious to me that the EU is far more strict when it comes to selling foods that are considered poison, but they get skittish around headlights it just feels like yeah maybe this is a scheme where like detroit holds out on this one thing and is like i don't know guys you're gonna need to support some deregulation so that they can you know start selling cars that run on you know the blood of baby deer i don't know plus it's interesting because my understanding i have a thing with uh taillights taillights are confusing to me in north america because they just

sort of because of deregulation they let you put whatever colors you want like if you want just red and white lights in the back like you can can find a car that does that, but really it should be red for a break, yellow for turning white for reverse. That's what it should be on every car. Right. So that it's not confusing. It's not. Yeah.

I guess I have not in North America. It's not like it's a free for all, but there is certain models of cars that do not adhere to that. And it's confusing. And my understanding is this is not the case in europe that is something they've mandated that you have it has to follow this sort of scheme so it's it's interesting that they you know the eu would uh have regulations regarding the ass into the car and not the front yeah so i'm like i don't think this is that like serious

really like there's look there's like how many how many road fatalities are caused by temporary blindness as opposed to i don't know like your self-driving car who shit itself driving just running people over yeah like i don't know regulate that maybe or people looking at their highly addictive phones while driving yeah maybe having a 17 inch fucking tablet in your tesla is a little distracting it probably shouldn't be there so yeah how else am i gonna play my video games while driving i need no big how are you gonna make beats are you gonna make beats in your tesla because you can there is a da in tesla's by the fyi everybody there's a digital audio workstation oh in your tesla i thought you meant da like i'm gonna fight me da i want to fight me da

ah what i scream every time i get drunk i'm gonna fight me da shout out to matt lieb all right all right all right i'm i've talked enough about headlights it's been 45 minutes i've cut i've cut 20 minutes of audio already okay all right yeah let's do these other cut it off here um i just sometimes i like to poke my head into the somewhat depressing world of like people who are still receiving uh fundraising emails from donald trump and like uh you know still being like oh try he's he needs our support honey um they got a fake valentine money uh request from donald trump it feels like he might be running out of dumb ways to convince people to give him money.

So this latest attempt was a Valentine's day love letter to his wife, Melania. That was then emailed out to the public. But yeah, I don't know. I don't know exactly what the idea is here. The email begins dear Melania. I love you.

And then goes on to say, even after every single indictment, arrest and witch hunt, you never left my side. You've always supported me through everything. I wouldn't be the man I am today without your guidance, kindness, and warmth. You will always mean the world to me, Melania, from your husband with love, Donald J. Trump. I like how they're like holding our hands through it. Your husband from your husband, Donald J. Trump. From your husband, future president, Donald J. Trump.

Then it offers recipients the chance to send your love to Melania, which takes you to a page to send her personalized messages and donate to the trump campaign in amounts ranging from 20 and 24 cents 2024 to 3300 i don't know what that signifies i feel like this is like one step away from an only fans it really is like the only fans of vacation feels so close to only fans watch donald and milania fuck on valentine's day for the low price like truly it's just like yeah it really is just only fans man but it is truly just like to the degree that OnlyFans is like, you know, a cult of personality. Like you're just paying to have a parasocial relationship with somebody that feels like a lot of what has gone on with Trump and his supporters in a lot of cases. Yeah, I feel like he's going to be on. What's that one where you can get like a celebrity to give you a shout out?

Cameo. Cameo. Like, I feel like he's gonna hop on cameo with it just all revenue streams yeah it's just like he's i think on par for a lot of people with like that that is why it's somewhat interesting that the trump like supporter base react like the body rejected Taylor Swift because I feel like he's kind of Taylor Swift, like on the level of Taylor Swift,

like a religious figure to his supporters who are just kind of willing to do anything for him. And so them seeing that in someone else probably enrages them in the same way that, you know, the thing that you have wrong with you is going to really bother you when you see it in somebody else, you know?

Yeah. So, um, anyways, um, shout out to the lovely couple. I hope they made lots of money. Lots and lots of money.

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that my kids brought home from school. I've got one that says sweet. I'm showing it to you in the camera. I'm going to eat it now. I haven't eaten one of these in a long time. I will report back at the end of this story. Oh, man. After you've rinsed your mouth out?

Yeah. Wow, it really does okay his eyebrows are going folks his eyebrows are going they're furrowing just snowing off my face yeah you look it really does look like you're eating chalk just based off of your face alone it really is i think i expect it to be even more crumbly than it is. It's actually, it like hangs together too much. It really is. I think you said this before,

that it has the consistency of hardened toothpaste and kind of the flavor of hardened toothpaste. That was the experience that I just had. Combination of hardened toothpaste and like medicine. tab combination of hardened toothpaste and like medicine it has it like has the flavor of like the bright pink uh medicine but not the good ones like there there are some times when you can still taste the medicine a little bit too much yeah it didn't it didn't just just reading your face it didn't look like uh it didn't look like a good time well brian as you know i have a masterful poker face uh and it's impossible to tell what i'm thinking or experiencing at any given moment

brian and miles are always like oh i could tell you weren't a fan of that part of the show yeah yeah because i stare off into the middle distance and start weeping um big news in uh the world of madam webb that viral line where madam webb says he was in the amazon with my mom when she was studying spiders before she died i think i i don't think i got the order right but that is essentially what is said yeah yeah there's something something to that effect dude that's not even in the movie um he was in the amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died is the line that was in the trailer not in the movie uh the movie cuts it down to like yeah she was researching spiders or something well maybe they realized how fucking clunky that

line was and they might have be in any film yeah so someone got embarrassed by the fact that this went viral instead of being like we've done our job here. And now people are talking about Madam Web. They were like, Oh no, that line is bad, which is a bummer. Cause you like part of you wants to believe, Oh, this was some genius who just like has a sense of like fit.

What is going to go viral? But instead it was like somebody being like, they don't appreciate my dialogue. No, you gotta stand, you gotta stand on that shit guys. Like you really do. If people ever look it's

like one of the few things people were responding to like lean into the fucking camp uh because yeah because people are not gonna take this movie seriously anyway i mean how could you be embarrassed by that line but still release a movie in which the main character's name is Cassie Webb. And like, so her, her last, I don't know, unless like half the movie is spent talking about nominative,

nominative determinism. Like, how are you going to be like, yeah, no, this movie is not campy enough for that line. But then the character's name is web and she becomes a superhero that has something to do with spiders.

Well, well, you know, what's funny, Jack is, I think at this point that Sony has to have some, somebody with the name of web associated with a Spider-Man film, because the amazing Spider-Man and the amazing Spider-Man 2 were directed by a director named Mark Webb.

That's true. I mean, nominative determinism is interesting and it seems to be real in many cases. I just, it feels like you couldn't do this movie without that being the explicit subject of the movie. And maybe it is. Maybe I'm missing out on maybe i haven't seen it yet um well can't wait can't wait to see what other things were excised from the trailer um out of embarrassment pure embarrassment if you don't know what nominative determinism is

uh usain bolt was named usain bolt at birth and became the fastest man on earth. That's all you need to know about. It was just like he lived inside a name that suggested he should be incredibly fast and then turned into that. So Cassie Webb, she was just a regular old ambulance driver, but living inside that, that name turned her into, I don't even fucking know. I don't know what exactly is supposed to happen to her in the future. Somehow is she? Yeah. Is this, it's like that Nicholas Cage movie next.

I think, I think there's some next, there's some next in there. Yeah. It's next dish. Uh, all right. We want to do our quick check in with the bullshit news stories of the week.

In case any of these crossed your radar. Um, Alright, we want to do our quick check-in with the bullshit news stories of the week in case any of these crossed your radar. There was UFO footage that was apparently coming out of Sweden. It looked

like a 1940s UFO photograph, but put into motion I don't even understand how a photo this fucking bad exists in 2024 what camera did they use it's so bad well it was a

night vision camera I don't know our writer JM thought it was pretty convincing looking that explains the grain okay unfortunately like when you do a reverse image search it is sourced back to a designer on instagram whose previous posts include mock-ups of race cars and star wars characters um so it's a 3d artist so um i think in motion it looks a little bit better than just the still image but it had it people fooled. Didn't, didn't hit my radar,

but I, yeah, I don't think the first thing we hear about UFOs is going to be somebody captured, like snapping a pic with their, with their phone. And I don't think UFOs are going to follow popular human conventions of what UFOs are going to look like. They're going to look like a

pie tin. Yes, they are. They're going to look like a pie tin. Can we please move past this? Like, have some fucking imagination people. Why? Why would it look like this? It is a classic UFO. But I mean that is what the people, like the

astronaut and the air force pilots said they looked like back in the 40s when they saw them uh now it seems like people are more likely to see tic tacs i've known people who've seen tic tacs orbs um you know light arrays stuff like that like my mom saw saw a tic tac in the uh how old was she early 60s i guess oh wow yeah and she she claims her whole little town saw it uh and uh yeah spooked people out so i'm like i like you know i want to believe okay i believe the truth is out there but not like this not like this not like this guys speaking of not like this uh that a movie poster was making the rounds for a clueless reboot june 2024 you've got uh don draper's daughter from madman up front uh kiernan shipka is that it? yeah looks like and then you got

Alicia Silverstone and Paul Rudd in the back standing next to a pink convertible the poster could not look more badly like it just looks like a child's photoshop project

and like it's nothing about it looks real pretty low quality um i don't think this fooled any of our listeners but it in case you hear oh did you hear there's new clueless movie coming out june 2024 uh there is not would love would love to see it you know why not uh this does not appear to be happening. I do wonder if this was, like, the studio or the agency. Testing the waters. Yeah, being like, huh?

Well, I mean, people are talking about it. Because, I mean, yeah, it's like, it's not that, you know, Barbie was a hit. Who's another affluent blonde white woman who took the world by storm exactly so why not yeah I mean it's probably coming

but just not like this as we said up top and then the Texas megachurch shooter was not a trans woman there was in case you didn't notice this particular mass shooting there was on Sunday a shooting at Joel Osteen's megachurch in Houston,

and a number of right-wingers, including Ted Cruz and Donald Trump Jr., promoted the false rumors that the shooter was a trans woman, even though the police themselves plainly stated otherwise. The shooter had previously used male names as aliases and that was all they needed like fox news straight up published the the claim as fact even putting it in the headline of their article um and yeah it's it's been contradicted and, you know, there's absolutely no evidence that it's true. But the right has been doing this, desperately trying to convince people that, you know, the shooter in a big mass shooting is trans. Like with Uvalde in 2022.

I remember that. Philadelphia in 2023. They got a real fixation on this. remember that uh philadelphia in 2023 they got a real fixation on this it's almost like there's some uh you know statistic at the core of mass shootings that they don't want to pay attention to uh such as that it's almost always males uh it's almost always cisgender males guys um yeah yeah yeah or you know yeah or like they want to come up with a narrative distraction from the fact that you know the the real story is that guns should not be as available as they are this person had a history that should have made it impossible for them to buy guns uh but they had bought an ar-15

legally that they used in Sunday's shooting so well yeah what if the king of England comes stomping up to your house that's true then what do we do never mind I take it all back I rest my case your honor

alright those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday, February 15th. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Whole ass. Brian. Whole ass. Brian, the editor.

Where can people find you, follow you, hear you? You can find me on Twitter. Brian, the editor. That's Brian with a Y. And don't talk to me. Leave me the fuck alone. Yeah. You can find me at Jack underscore O'Brien on the same place.

Back tomorrow. Till then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye.

Bye. tomorrow. Bye. Bye. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of

the new podcast, Forgive Me for I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion,

and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Listen to the making of a rivalry.

Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadson. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. There's a lot to figure out when you're just starting your career. That's where we come in.

Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in people who do, like negotiation expert Maury Tahiripour. If you start thinking about negotiations as just a conversation, then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.