The Daily Zeitgeist - Apple VisTrend Show 6/6: Vision Pro, PETA, LIV Golf, NYPD, Grimmace

Episode Date: June 6, 2023

In this edition of Apple VisTrend Show, Jack and Miles discuss Apple's new Vision Pro mixed reality headset, Pete Davidson vs. PETA, the PGA Tour agreeing to merge with Saudi-backed LIV Golf, the NYPD's pride month cars, and the triumphant return of Grimmace!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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 iHeart on the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast presented by elf beauty founding partner of iheart women's sports hello the internet and welcome to this apple this apple we'll start again hello the internet and welcome to this very special trending episode what how do i do this okay my brain this is this edition apple viz trends show instead of apple vision pro why why did why was that so hard what the fuck i don't know uh i'm jack that is miles yeah we're thrilled to be joined uh to our special

apple vision pro reporter on the street it's super producer brian jeffrey We're thrilled to be joined to our special Apple Vision Pro reporter on the street. It's super producer Brian Jeffries! Be right with me. It's Brian. What's happening? Is this the first time you're on mic? Sort of. Kind of.

Holy shit. The phones are lighting up. K1s, people listening to 420 Day Fiancé, they're going to lose it right now hearing your voice anyway it's only me don't worry guys it's great to have you first of all big fan first time long time you're in the band Lefemera right

yeah very briefly briefly I was there right before they imploded yeah I'm glad you asked the question that was on everyone's mind yes yes yes yes I played bass in that band um what else what else what else the vision pro the apple vision pro dropped um or didn't drop but they like showed us what it's going to look like what the what the features are um brian you immersed yourself you drenched yourself and all the coverage of you know people who have gotten their hands on it and who,

who watched the debut of our new reality that just dropped. Um, I was hoping to find it like stupid and easy to dismiss. And I found it, uh, stupid and difficult to dismiss. I found it like, this is our,

this is a glimpse of what our dark future is going to look like. Did you watch that 10-minute clip that Apple dropped? That was like the full sort of commercial presentation of what the headset would do? I think I just watched highlights. Oh, man. Because the second they switched it up to, like, first, it was like watching movies on it. And then when they started playing 2K, like, video games on it, I was like, ah. And Her Majesty was like and her majesty was like what i was like i think the vision pro is actually kind of cool for like one very narrow reason now

and i didn't think i would but that's it but that's it so the thing that i think i was underrating the thing that jumps out to me is it is and this makes sense of the name change because we thought it was like apple reality or something apple reality people didn't know until it was unveiled it seems like it's an improvement on vision like the eye tracking is crazy like you look at something and it just knows what you're looking at and like zooms in on that thing or like interacts with that thing um you have like 4k cameras for each of your eyes so it's like better than your actual vision the the wired demo they they let somebody do like a hands-on test drive of it and they were like so

then i went in and apple's on-site optometrist like check it so that's the other thing so it costs 3500 unless you have glasses, unless you need to wear glasses, then you need to have prescription lenses made for the vision pro in order to use it because it does not accommodate. Uh, glasses. Yeah.

Oh, but you can wear contact lenses. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That should be right. If you wear a stigmatism or something, you ain't fucking with that.

The other thing I read though, too, is is like it's only for one user at a time like it doesn't have like multiple use profiles kind of like how like an ipod would be or like an iphone even though they're calling it like a computer and people are like wait what it's not like i'm gonna buy eight of these fucking things i think that might have something to do with a it being apple and them being greedy bastards and also oh interesting the way this thing is set up so it's got an insane suite of sensors it's got six outer cameras it's got ir sensors depth sensors lidar um basically all the shit you would put on like an autonomous car All those sensors inside scan your face and learn how your eye movements work.

And I think that might be a tricky thing to be switching between for different users because it's set up for this one person. So I can see how that might be problematic to be switching it around if it's that tuned in to you in particular. I think it's problematic to be caping for apple right now but i know okay no here's the funny thing i hate apple products is the thing but i love technology you are the most notoriously anti-apple person i know actually i can't stand it doesn't even eat the damn thing but you stay up yeah i don't well the thing that makes this makes it like having only one user profile per thing makes sense to me is you were saying that like that they advertise the possibility of like virtual courtside tickets where I heard. Well, they didn't.

But I heard some people talking about that as a possibility. And that was something that sounded really cool to me because I would never be able to afford or have the inclination to spend that kind of money on courtside tickets but as you always talk about on miles and jack i've met boosties thank you um it's an experience being able to sort of see these people do their thing up close and yeah i might be able to i might be willing to pay for that kind of experience and that has been a thing you can like do virtual reality courtside tickets already but this seemed like the combination of like how like the fact that this is an improvement on vision as opposed to like all all the other like virtual reality stuff that i've seen it just doesn't i don't know it doesn't feel quite as

like this feels like a thing where you could buy one of these and if they didn't have the one user profile you could just like sell tickets like courtside seat tickets and like have people come through in your living room and just like one at a time one at a time yeah yeah i mean i at the end of the day i mean like i i still i don't see what it solves the only thing that i really is like, oh, they just made the most lit TV slash computer monitor I've ever seen. It is a little confusing because they are essentially billing it as it is a standalone computer with its own operating system. And they're billing it as you can replace all your Apple shit with it. replace all your apple shit with it but also conversely um you can tie all your apple shit you already have right to it and use it in conjunction with all this stuff so it's um

it begs a lot of questions yeah you mentioned the the possibility that like you can walk up to your macbook and yeah like look at the screen of your macbook and then like what's on the screen off into yeah like the reality of like your living room and just like yeah which is totally totally it sounds cool on its face but then you're like well what the fuck do i have a i don't know it's like what the fuck do i have a laptop for if i have this thing and i could just put a screen anywhere right yeah yeah because i like, I need to type. I don't need the voice. Once again, if you're interested in this, you probably are appled up

to your eyeballs. For sure. And now you'll be appled up into your eyeballs, on the inside of your eyeballs. It just seems like it could just be a neat trick. Even so, it's a very good trick. Like the stuff that they debuted with it. And it also feels like it's... The downsides that people are mentioning is that it's a very good trick like the stuff that they debuted with it and it also feels like it's

like the the downsides that people are mentioning is that it's like a heavy battery pack and it's fucking way way too expensive goes two hours um and it it lasts for two hours unless you have it like plugged in which i'm sure people will do this will just replace like any need to move anywhere because you just have all yeah all screens floating in front of you everything that you need access to floating in front of you it just feels bad for humanity also just a couple other things just real quick there is an oled screen on the front of it which projects yes an image of your eyes so that when you're doing ar it'll automatically just project what your eyes look like through the goggles almost as if it were transparent which is weird

because it's set a couple of inches off of your face so i have to imagine that would look weird the perspective person like the pictures that i've seen of it look weird they look like they've like done like a thing with shadowing so it looks like you're behind a shadowy yeah like the screen or something yeah and then also you can take 3d videos and photos which in the demo it's like this dad doing treasured moment shit but he's got these fucking ski goggles on and it's like okay that's you're really living in the moment there like yeah it's absurd then they like cut back to like that person enjoying these like 3d images like wow like my family left but i have these memories it's like your kids don't even know what the fuck you look like when you take off the goggles they see a stranger yeah

like the cool parts of it remind me of like minority report where he's like moving like screens around with his hand and just like filtering back and forth between different things the bad parts remind me of that black mirror episode where like the camera is inside your eyes and you're like using it to just like there is a version of this like a future iteration of this product of the technology from the entire history of you yeah where like where you're able to just keep these on when they have like a longer battery pack and then like run back through everything you've seen that day like because they just love that right yeah so it's it seems like a dark new direction for reality and,

uh, something that people are going to be super into. Very intoxicating hook though. I mean, cause like really, I think the people who would dish $3,500 out, it's not because they need like a more efficient way to like work while standing and they've always been waiting for augmented reality.

It's, I feel like the biggest hook right now is that it's this TV entertainment experience. Uh, but I guess that's specifically for me while others, reality it's i feel like the biggest hook right now is that it's this tv entertainment experience uh but i guess that's specifically for me while others they're gonna have to they're gonna have to change the one profile thing so that you can like have friends over and like show let them fuck with it if they're if they want it to so hopefully they don't change that and this just dies uh a quiet death but i don't think that's going to happen. I don't know. They're making contact lenses next.

Doesn't look good. All right. Thank you, Brian, for coming on, sharing your Apple fanboyism. We appreciate it. Love them apples. He's never owned an iPhone either. How about them apples?

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Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them. Why is that? I just come here to play basketball every single day and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game?

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PETA. PETA. Pete Davidson. That's Lois. The PETA. Yeah. The two PETs. Whoever wins, we lose. Yeah.

Yeah. I don't, this story seems made up by AI to me, but go ahead. No, I mean, it was just because because like he there was like some footage or someone snapped a picture him buying a puppy with like whoever he's dating now and then pita saw that and they're like wow you know should have fucking adopted blah blah blah and was like criticizing him for that so then pete davidson comes back with this like voicemail but just kind of being like here i'll just play this voicemail right now. Davidson, this message is for Daphne.

Thank you so much for making comments publicly that I didn't adopt a dog. I just want to let you know I'm severely allergic to dogs, so I have to get a specific breed. I'm only not allergic to Cabo food, those type of dogs.

And my mom's dog, who's two years old, died a week prior and we're all so sad. So I had to get a specific dog. So why don't you do your research before you create news stories for people because you're a boring, tired dog. You and my dick. End of message. End of message. Okay. Yeah. Coming at the, you know, for him

and he's like, what did he say he's only, what breed is that? He said a pop? Cavapoo? What's a Cavapoo? I'm not sure. Oh, is it like a King Charles Cavalier with a poo? Oh. That's probably what it is. Jack, you should know that. I only know that name because of you. Cavaliers? Thank you, Becca.

Just came through. Cavalier King Charles. Yeah, it is. I do love King Charles Cavaliers. So anyway, Cavapoo's. But it is wild where he's like, I like how he's so pressed, too. But I'm sure it's just stupid to be like, yeah, stop fucking coming. You know why?

My mom's fucking. I would probably be like that, too. Especially if my mom's dog died and I'm trying to do something like to cheer her up or cheer myself up yeah but i mean you should also know that they're probably gonna yeah to find a way to publish that is not not the best um no not a great track record at all um liv baby um the i don't know saudi-backed golf league um golf tour let's not let's not let's let's not use euphemisms let's say the saudi-backed sports washing operation for their public image um so they this is basically a competitor to the main professional golf association pga tour they like bought some of the best players and we're like

we'll pay you more than the pga and we'll have these events with huge prizes and uh we'll legally help you get out of your contract and so they'd just been the pga and this organization had been suing the shit out of each other for years and the pga just announced that they're gonna merge so after like a long hard-fought like publicity war where they're like these people are the worst they're like and we're gonna buy them so a lot of people are comparing it to the michael wait who's buying wait someone's they're doing a merge yeah yeah pga is merging with LIB. Right. And yeah, Michael Scott Paper Company is trending because Michael Scott started his rival company to Dunder Mifflin, but it was super incompetent. And then he got bailed out because they were like,

well, we better buy it. And that's really not the case, I guess. In this case, the company that owns or the the fund that owns liv is worth 600 billion dollars yeah and they just like used that money to spend the pga into having to merge with them which i didn't i wouldn't give a shit at all about this story. But yeah, like you said, it's a sports washing operation for the Saudi government. You know, when like the CEO of LIV Golf is this famous golfer, Greg Norman, and people are like, so like they're bad though, right?

And he was like, what about like Yemen? What about like Khashoggi? And he said he said look i think everybody learns from their mistakes my they're like oh but like how have they and he said yeah i don't know and he said way before any of this hoo-ha-ha erupted he had been uh yeah so i don't know how Fuck Greg Norman. How dismissive Greg Norman. Wasn't he of the dumb shark brand? Yeah, he was the great white shack. And he was not. Yeah, this is.

I thought he was cool in the 80s. He's on a tear, man. They own Newcastle United, the soccer team in the Premier League. And they're doing their thing. Just like open up the floodgates and this is like what this is how sports washing works you provide enough people with like good memories via sports it

helps erode all the terrible fucking things because people are caught in between the place like but I love golf so like I guess I can excuse some of this shit you know like once this guy Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea who was like a Russian oligarch to try and protect himself from Putin. Like people were like,

Oh wow. This guy who outwardly might not have a great sort of reputation because he's bringing all this like joy to this section of the country. Like it slowly helps, you know, again, obscure your crimes or your past transgressions. It's quite,

yeah, we're at the point in late stage capitalism or hyper capitalism i don't know how late the stage is to be honest because it seems like it's only ramping up uh i mean we're on fascism's doorstep so this is we're maybe we're transitioning to to just straight up fascism but we're at that stage where all morality has been taken out. It's just like whoever has the most money, we will find a way to come around to telling a positive version of their story. Right. Before all this hoo-ha-ha started

with children being killed. Before all this hoo-ha-ha started. What else? The NYPD debuted their Happy Pride Month cars, and people are pointing out that, so it says Happy Pride Month, and then underneath it says All Colors Are Beautiful, which people are pointing out that, so it says, Happy Pride Month, and then underneath it says, All Colors Are Beautiful, which people are pointing out, has the same initials as ACAB,

and it seems like it wouldn't be a coincidence. No, that's called being very clever. When you're hiding, because yeah, I mean, I don't think someone within the police force made that. But anyway, I think I saw Margaret Kiljoy she tweeted about it when I first saw this and I was like this is fucking amazing they're so like oblivious to this kind of shit

where it's like that's a cab fam you don't see that? they're like no oh is that bad? this is a squad car this isn't a cab at first we had all colors are beautiful, especially blue, as relates to

the thin blue line. But we made a quick change on that. So, is this bad? Yeah. And then Grimace is back. Like, not that any of our listeners need to know. And finally... And Grimace is back.

So, there's that. What happened with Grimace? Wait, was Grimace gone?. So there's that. What happened with Grimace? Wait, was Grimace gone? The big purple fucking monster? Never left my heart. But I think they had steered their branding away from Grimace on the grounds that he's kind of gross looking. And so they're bringing back the character of grimace because of nostalgia. And in case you're like,

don't realize that nostalgia is what it's about. Their image of like bring grimace back is him driving a DeLorean. I'm in personalized plates that say grimace. And it's all part of an attempt to like, I guess McDonald's birthday parties are a nostalgic, a thing that people talk about on social media nostalgically. Right. But people don't do anymore, even though they're available.

Everyone's like, yeah, we wouldn't do them. The stories we're telling when we're nostalgic about McDonald's birthday parties are of people getting badly injured or getting E. coli from a ball pit. or getting E. coli from a ball pit. We're talking off mic about how people had their whole faces rearranged from terrible impacts from falling down at a play. I mean, I remember we talked about on one episode just about the terrible track record that McDonald's Play Places has for safety. Yeah, yeah.

They have just a whole legal team dedicated to making McDonald's Play Place cases go away. But yeah, so there's going to be a Grimace birthday meal featuring a purple milkshake, also a Grimace video game and merchandise. Just to like capitalize on this this always works out.

Yeah, I'm sure it'll be fun. Wait, what's the purple milkshake? I'm curious. Is it ube? If someone can make like a ube like a potato like a sweet you know like a taro one or is it just purple the way that that like mountain dew flavor was just like the most purple ass shit that anyone's ever tasted in our minds purple would just be grape right like if we as a kid purple is grape cherries red

like and that's sort of what red flavor was either that between strawberry and cherry would be red but grape milkshake doesn't seem right oh no it sounds terrible that's a mess there's no real reason that it should be such a like such a problem for me but there yeah there's just something about the grape that only works in certain contexts like i don't want a purple grape milkshake. Did you ever eat yogurt-covered raisins and shit? Oh, yeah. So what the fuck are you saying?

You're kind of mixing grapes with the dairy right there. I don't know. Raisins, in my brain, raisins aren't grapes. I know they are, but they're totally different. I would never eat chocolate-covered grapes, but I, I know they are, but like that they're totally different. Like I, I would never eat chocolate covered grapes, but I've fucking love raisinets, you know? Yeah. Yeah. I just, yeah. I just can't the grape with dairy. It's weird. I feel like it's like one of the few fruits that I just could never, like, I could see like a vanilla with Kiwi kind of thing, even, but like grapes. Yeah. Like it it works with is there another fruit that works

so badly with with like as a milkshake flavor apple would work and this doesn't make any sense yeah apple i feel like you kind of need it to be apple pie like apple a la mode type thing yeah yeah yeah it can't it can't just be like this tastes like uh red delicious yeah yeah yeah no that are like shit i'm really i'm really hard-pressed to think. Because even people like orange apple, like orange chocolate shit. I can't stand that kind of stuff. Yeah, watermelon. Superfood producer Victor made the good point that watermelon milkshakes don't work.

I mean, they could because if it's like watermelon candy-flavored milkshake. No! Like a Jlly rancher yeah something about that feels i guess if you want to fucking like get the truth out of me torture me by making me eat watermelon jolly ranchers i cannot fucking stand that flavor like it always tasted like gasoline or something to me like i don't know what part of my palate it was hitting, but nah. I'm glad our listeners got a peek into what it's like when I pitch something

and you don't like it. Off mic is usually going, what? Watermelon? No! Make a good throwing up sound. That's a good little window. Super producer Brian does make a good point.

It could just be Grimace cum flavored. Grimace is all purple everything. I'm assuming. I think you said secretions. I'm saying cum. I'm taking it up a notch.

Welcome to the new Daily Zeitgeist. We're drinking Grimace cum, folks. Grimace cum. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, June 6th. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show.

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Be kind to yourself. Get the vaccine. Get your flu shots. Get all your shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we'll talk to you y'all tomorrow. Bye. 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. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jemay 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. 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. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's basketball. And on this new season, we'll cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke.