The Daily Zeitgeist - Barstool Leftists? Our Phones ARE Listening To Us? 09.04.24

Episode Date: September 4, 2024

In episode 1736, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, Pallavi Gunalan, to discuss… Kroger They Admit It, Schools Banning Phones More and More Places, Phones Listen to Smart Phone Microphones Using AI to Capture Real Time “Intent Data”, Reagan Movie Is A Huge Hit (But Only With Old White People) and more! Kroger They Admit It Kroger Egg Pricing Turns Merger Trial Into Inflation Fight A Kroger Exec Admitted To Price Gouging, Fixing Prices On Milk And Eggs, Far Above Inflation FTC, States Sue To Block Kroger's $24.6 Bln Albertsons Deal Phones Listen to Smart Phone Microphones Using AI to Capture Real Time “Intent Data” Reagan Movie Is A Huge Hit (But Only With Old White People) Box Office: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Crosses $600M to Rule Labor Day, ‘Reagan’ in Close Race for No. 3 ‘Reagan’: Critics Hate, But Audiences Love Dennis Quaid’s Ronald Reagan Biopic Reagan Triggers Progressives, but Movie Audiences Love It LISTEN: Song for Winners by Nick WaterhouseSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I just remember at the time I wasn't fucking with Elton John I'm like damn this fool just wrote a new song for Princess Diana wow wow wow and it's a hit this was like in the era like immediately they'd be like by the commemorative Elton John I miss you Diana box set where he get it on a collective plate yeah no for no, for real. That you could also play as a record. And if you'll turn your attention to this glass case right here, you'll see that I have all of the Diana commemorative editions.

We don't have enough commemorative plates nowadays. I want one with like ice spice. You know what I mean? Yeah, remember that. Just like a cereal cabinet. Remember that? Yeah, that should be yeah. Is she showing a panty? That would be like a new kind of merch people should bring back. You know what I mean?

Where it's like, oh, I don't do t-shirts anymore. I do commemorative plates from now on. Yeah, I want something difficult to carry in the parking lot. Yeah, exactly. This ice spice commemorative coin minted at the U.S. Mint. An official state coin of ice spice? Holy shit.

She beats Harriet Tubman to the currency as a black woman? Oh my God. Watch, Kamala's like, I swear to God, we are going to put ice spice on the quarter. Honestly, at this point,

I'll give her my vote for anything. I'm like, listen, if that's the best you can do, at least it's something. You think you the shit, bitch? You're not even the fart. Grah. Ice spice. You think you a dime? You're not even a nickel.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 354 episode 2 of Dirt Daily's like guys I couldn't believe it Keep it in Keep it in Season uh it's a production of iHeartRadio I'm not gonna give them a clean take that's No no that is what it is Tis what it's this is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness And it is Wednesday September September 4th, 2024.

Yeah. Yeah. Tell us what that is. Who? Me? Okay. Well, guess what? 9424 is National Macadamia Nut Day.

Shout out macadamia nuts. One of the more expensive ones, but they're not my favorite. Really? It's a bit about the consistency. They feel like two. I love it because they're greasy. I love them. And a bit about the consistency they feel like i love it because they're greasy i love them they're like oily that's what they break apart oh nice not not a fan but you like cashews i like cashews i like pistachios also national spice blend day we were just talking about ice spice

National Newspaper Carrier Day Shout out to all the people that deliver the paper And National Wildlife Day Get your paper here Yeah Shout out the newsies Man Newspaper delivery boys in the 80s

So bad They always throwing that shit all over the place Yeah Throwing them through windows According to John Hughes movies Oh yeah And the video game Paper Boy. Yeah. That was a bit that

like just America's film goers in the 80s could not get enough of. Yeah. Delivery boy on bike throwing paper in a wild way. A 12 year old having a 90 mile per hour pitch. Yeah. Goes clean through a kitchen window.

Somehow. You're like what the fuck who is that it's funny because it's true you're like the movie should actually be about this strong-armed child just threw a fucking whole newspaper through my window he actually like kills somebody next door you just like see what they do in the background like now it's like somebody just smacking you in the head with a newspaper. Yeah, that's right. That's how I'm woken up every morning.

All right. My name is Jack O'Brien, AKA cut this whale into pieces and stick it on my car. Damn it. Wrap my kid's dang head in plastic. Don't give a fuck. If I upset some traffic, man, that is courtesy of E Seeger full 1229 on the discord shout out to you

i feel are we am i mispronouncing your name as the sc careful i don't know maybe look just wait for the update just wait for the pronunciation guide to show up on the discord and i'm like shout out arrow except three year old it's less than zero, Miles. Less than zero. Jesus, man. Have you never been in a forum before? No, no, no. Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Miles Gray, a.k.a.

Got a whale on the hood. Got his juice all in my eyes. It smells like a dumpster My dad makes me cry We're getting the finger From all the cars around And then there's the roadkill So much fucking roadkill. Gagag.

Damn it. Gagag. Cause whale juice reeks. Leaks in the window. Suffocate my giz in here. Plastic bag headwear. Okay, that was actually a two-hander. So shout out $1 William for the verse.

And then my homie, my closest homie, who we go way back on Hacker Forums, Less Than Zero came through with the chorus. And together, you got that wonderful AKA thank you to all on Discord who participate and give us such creative gems. That was beautiful. I was proud.

They need to put that over the trailer for like the Apprentice, the new Donald Trump movie. Oh, Jesus. Right. Paula, you saying that actually reminded me. I was at a like we did like karaoke with my family, like a bunch in Japan. So, you know, you do karaoke in Japan. And my friend, she sang Cre, a bunch in Japan. So, you know, you do karaoke in Japan and my friend, she sang creep and made like our aunt cry.

Cause it was so beautiful. But I was like, it was one of these weird things where she just kind of pulled it out of nowhere and like really embodied it. And my aunt, who's like not really a fluent English speaker was like, it was just beautiful. And I was like,

what the fuck was she even saying? That's I mean, the song has, there's an emotion to that song that I think is underrated. Yeah. Anyway. That's why it got famous in the first place. My least favorite thing about Radiohead is that they don't like that song. They're like very dismissive of it. They'll never play it live.

I'm like, come on, man. You should have better taste than that. You're Radiohead. Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a hilarious stand-up comedian, writer, actor, improviser. You can catch her on stage at the monthly facial recognition comedy show, which she also produces. It's Pauly Gunawi! Pauly! Pauly!

Pauly! Pauly! All right. I prefer the Steve Winwood version. That is a shot directly at me. I didn't even know you guys were referencing the dance track. I was like, what is that? Michael McDonald?

Who is that? Steve Winwood. The classic. Oh, some classic Winwood? Y'all look high enough too.wood well done what was his backstory is he a good guy steve winwood i don't know i looked him up and uh related names included eric clapton and i just stopped looking because i was like well he is one of those other guys where like you hear it and you're like oh shit like i forgot this guy was white because sometimes he had those soul songs you're like oh hold on steve winwood hold on what a name for an

artist you know for a musician winwood yeah just take the woodwind and flip it and reverse it on flute or a neighborhood in miami yeah it's all there it is all there how are you doing paula b it's good to see you great i Great. I didn't realize the whale... When I heard Jack's whale song, I was like, that's interesting. And then I realized it was about RFK Jr. Once Miles was talking about his dad.

What is it with weirdo Republicans? Remember Mitt Romney's dog and then the other lady with her dog? What... They're like, oh, one of the signs of sociopaths or whatever. Remember Mitt Romney's dog and then the other lady with her dog? Like what? You know how like they're like, oh, one of the signs of sociopaths or whatever is that they kill animals. Oh, yeah.

Like I think you've answered your own question. I think that's like a test to become Republican. It's like, what would you do if you found a bear cub? Do this puppy. They hand you a handgun. Yeah. weird let's go splash this motherfucker what recently paint or what was it paint them or paint the walls or whatever absolute paint job trump recently was asked in some interview i can't remember what it was what he liked about his sons and what he said about don trump jr was that he was a good hunter like that's such a fucking weird thing to say about your kid

he kills good yeah he loves the blood and guts well that's like shows how involved a father you are when you sort of you just reference gifts that your assistant bought for them to be like that's what i love about them he loves hunting he's a good hunter my other boy he loves katan settlers of katan that's what i know about him he's no it's not even gifts it's like things he found mounted on his like around the room and his wall yeah like the shitty version kaiser's so saying looking around at pictures on his desk that he has to keep there for appearances. He's very good at lying. He loves lying.

He loves lying. He's great at smiling. He has a crooked smile. And saying cheese, he's very good at. I love Don Jr. He's very good at cocaine. Oh, I'm not supposed to say that one. He's very good at being an owl or a street lamp with his cocaine.

I just learned that from a friend theovon be a damn owl man out there on the front porch that was really good and this is good no no no no not at all oh okay it's so funny it's like nothing else huh all right polyv we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of the things we're talking about today. Kroger admitted they admitted that they raised prices without the costs demanding it in a leaked email that they're having to answer for. Weirdly, not really getting picked up by the Washington Post, which mocked Kamala Harris for suggesting corporate greed played a significant role in inflation. So we're just going to look at that. Check in with that story. Check in with the latest. Paul, when you were filling in for Miles, we talked about schools banning phones.

Some schools in England are just like straight up buying their students dumb phones and being like, here, just just do that and then stop. Stop asking us for your phones back. This is getting more and more widely adopted in the US, specifically a ban on smartphones. because The Daily did an episode about that. I thought it was kind of weird where they landed it. They kind of landed it as like, I don't know, both sides really have some interesting points here. So I want to talk about that. I want to talk about that we now have proof that said smartphones are listening to us and using AI to capture what they call real-time intent data,

which basically means that they're able to brainwash you in real time about the things you're talking about. Yeah. We'll talk about the Reagan movie also, which was a huge hit with very old white people. All right. And based on an artificially lowered standard. Is this the Nancy Reagan porno?

Is that what this is? Throw Goat? No. That one hasn't hit theaters yet. It's pretty good. It's getting raves. It's hitting imaginations everywhere. Absolutely. It's getting raves in the comment section of Pornhub.

It's getting raves on ChatGPT as people try and recreate it. Yeah. All of that, plenty more, but first, Pallavi, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Oh, wait, I had this. One sec, one sec, one sec. What was it?

Too late, moving on. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Please come back. Please. No, no. I did search the word corvids um no i i looked um i've been looking up a lot of references okay i'm i'm re-watching or for the first time i'm watching the real housewives like i watched all of salt lake city and then i watched all of beverly hills and then i watched all of beverly hills

and now i'm in the middle of atlanta so i've been watching like i've been looking up different references and i and uh one of the characters was throwing this icons uh black female icons of hollywood party and she was like assigning everyone a dress in certain ways and she assigned like one person like diana ross and one and one person Tina Turner and then she made her enemy be Halle Berry from BAPS and so I just needed a refresher because I remembered like some of the outfit but then I looked it up and then that person refused and then she kicked her out of the party so I've just been looking up like all of these references from like season five of the Real Housewives of Atlanta. Are you doing like a rewatch?

Like you're just. I had never seen them before. Oh. But I am like I am watching that. It is like historical for me because I'm like, oh, my God. Like this was what people were saying on TV like 12 years ago. And it's OK for people to say that's insane that is like like this I don't know there was the only white woman who was cast on the first few seasons was

like yeah I'm a singer and she's like the worst singer of all of them and then she kept saying she was black on the inside and all of this shit that like, this is from like 2009. Oh, we're talking about Kim Zolciak? Zolciak? Oh, yeah, buddy. Yeah, we are. Yeah, we are. We are.

We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are.

We are. We are. Yeah. It's something. But yeah, I had never seen any of it. So I'm like, oh my God, this is fascinating. And like, there are all these like cameos from people and like guests. Like I saw Tommy from Martin was on an episode for like no reason

i don't know why he was on there they were planning this event and he just was at a meeting about it i'm like what is tommy doing in this show everybody wants to be in this show just letting you know it's serious it's serious real move i know yeah passed away r.i.p to time i know it was sad all right what is something you think is underrated okay posting entire movies to social media i fucking love it i love that there's like you can watch like all like uh full mean girls on tiktok or like everybody put keep posts the keeps posting like the B movie to Twitter. I love it.

I love that you can just stumble on entire movies in TikTok format. Yeah. Out of order, too. I've always said, you should just watch these movies out of order. Or with the TikTok branding in between as though it's a commercial at the end of every clip. Right. Victor's saying that's how he saw Detective Pikachu. I love it. I like just being like you're

scrolling tiktok you're like hold on now i was only here for maybe bite-sized content but you know what i'm gonna throw this thing in landscape and watch a long call here yeah i think it's beautiful because like everybody's like oh our attention spans are so short and it's like okay i can watch 30 second clips for eight hours yeah that counts i don't know if that's a short attention span but also right how come i watch this 40 second video eight times in a row and how come it was all just my instagram story does it fuck up like so i mean I guess there's like little spaces Like built in Does it just like come mid sentence?

Is it just like every 30 seconds? It depends on like what you're watching on Right like on TikTok It's got like the TikTok branding at the end Of every clip but on Twitter You could post a whole movie Like just on Twitter So it just depends

Like I remember when Dune 2 was up for a fucking like a week. Yeah. It's just really funny because like social media is such a shit show and they don't have any control over like what is happening or they're like removing regulations from it. So I just think it's really funny when you can just post an entire fucking movie. Right. People are like, this is how I consume media now. It takes Elon 70 years to do anything about it. You're like, damn, man, it's all up there.

Everything. He's like, I watched all of that Apprentice documentary on what he calls Twitter. That's right. What's something you think is overrated? Okay. Going on walks, depending on where you are. I love a walk. I love a walk i love walking i love walking my dogs but i live in a neighborhood i'm not gonna live but you might get it from the

you might know beverly hills you might name it you coward casa blanca no um it's from It's in a neighborhood where there's just a lot of trash on the ground and there's a lot of glass on the ground. And literally there's a parking spot near my apartment where I've seen so many cars burned to a crisp.

Fully burned cars. And I'm just like to my boyfriend, I'm like, you can't park there. You cannot park in that one spot. boyfriend i'm like you can't park there you cannot park in that one spot they don't like you different dishes but it will come back we don't know i don't know so it's just like it really depends like i have to go to the the next neighborhood over to like walk my dogs in a nice neighborhood so i think like we need to bring we need to make walks great again. Wow.

Go on. We need to bring them back. I like where this is headed, Pallavi. Ambience. You know what I mean? What is this? Mwaga. Mwaga.

It's like the gremlins. What is it? The gremlins? Wait, what do you mean? Aren't they like- Mogwai. Mogwai. Yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

much less threatening much less but walks suck now depending on where you are and like if it's hot and shit i'm like oh yeah why is outside bad yeah where we were supposed to graze yeah the advice to go touch grass is going to get less and less feasible as i'm like yeah they're like someone has grass in la you're not special well and also too like we just have just we always we always lament our lack of good parks too in la and how like you know this is very is very early on. We're saying like, make all the golf courses, parks, give us our nice green spaces because yeah, we're so much of the city is just so fucking, you know, it's just concrete. It's just black copper. I get so mad when I see like really giant hedges. Cause I'm like, what rich people,

you're hiding all the grass in there. Let me in, let me in rich people. Let me touch that grass. Let me touch that fucking grass. Doctor said, okay, it was somebody on YouTube. in there. Let me in. Let me in, rich people. Let me touch that grass, motherfucker. Let me touch that fucking grass. My doctor said okay, it was somebody on YouTube. I'm literally there's like literally a website that I'm going to use because like my dogs don't have places to run

so I literally am going to rent a yard. I'm like, this is how bad it's gotten. We're like, I'm renting a yard for my dogs to run in. Is that a real website? Yeah, it's a we're like i'm renting a yard for my dogs to run in is that a real website yeah it's a real thing no i forget what it's called but it's for pets like in big and that's a huge problem with my like my dog rescue is a lot of people want to have big dogs but they can't because of the housing crisis and they don't have yards and stuff so i'm so literally they're monetizing like

green space for animals and i'm gonna have to do it because i don't i can't take them to dog parks because my big one's humpy and like i i need my big one's humpy the big one's humpy the little one's dumpy um and uh so like i have to go rent a yard i have to rent a rich person's yard wait how what how much does it cost it's not that much i don't think i think it depends on where and for how long that's why are they just there in the window like making weird grunting noises what do you like yeah i like how your dog runs the big one's humpy huh he's h, whoa, what the fuck? What? Why?

It's okay. You don't have to clean up after him. I'll handle that. Okay. I'm like, wait, can I monetize this? Can I sell you my dog's shit? Oh, I didn't even think about that. I mean, yeah, usually I'm afraid of asking because it's embarrassing.

There's a whole forum for us. Yeah. But yeah. Amazing. That's wild that that exists. You're going to have to report firsthand to a man on the street for us. I know. I know. I'm going to be like, I'm here in this yard. I found a dead body. I'm just going to keep playing ball with the dog.

Okay. I pay for my time. Oh, man. Oh man. All right. Let's, uh, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente. And I'm Jemay Jackson Gadsden.

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All right. Tino. All right. Well, we did want to check in with a story about what actually causes inflation. We had speculated idly on this podcast. Wildly speculated. Yeah, that, you know, as inflation is happening, you can listen to the earnings calls of corporations

whose price is going way up and hear them talk about how they're having record profits all during the pandemic and when inflation was this out of control weather pattern that the global markets were dealing with and if you suggested such a thing that like they were doing it on purpose because it was causing record profits you would be ridiculed it's like but where'd the profits come from you also said you had lower costs it's not because it's because we're doing so good

yeah i don't know about you guys i've never heard of a corporation being bad never okay for greed never never never never never never never excuse me well it's just wild because only because kroger and albertsons are trying to have a merger that like you know know, the feds are like, ah, way to tick here that we got some testimony from one of the Kroger executives or they bring up this fucking email where in an email it is discussed that said, quote, on milk and eggs, retail inflation has been significantly higher than cost inflation. And then goes on to say, our objective is to, quote, pass through our inflation to consumers. And they're like, oh, wait, you mean you're charging them more?

That's what it sounds like. You're passing the inflation on to us. And again, other people commenting on this, this was no secret that was happening, especially when it comes to milk and eggs. A lot of people who were defending this are like, they just cherry picked a couple comments here and like make it seem like that's like this is an email from a top executive at Kroger who is talking to other executives about how they're saying right here, retail inflation has been significantly higher than cost inflation. Right. So the retail price is going up higher than what our costs are going up. Oh my God.

I like that this is like the grocery store version of the jinx where he's like, I did it. Oh, I raised all the prices. I do it again. Yeah. he's like i did it oh i raised all the prices i'd do it again yeah yeah but i the response from economists a lot of economists not all economists but a lot of economists who who coincidentally seem to usually work for uh or be you know speaking to or being interviewed by mainstream media outlets that are owned by corporations it seems to to be like, yeah, it's just like one or two bad actors. And it like, there's no correlation. But like, so again,

just the bottom line thing is like, how are when inflation's at a record high, their profits are at a record high. Like those are the two things that like, I need an argument that's going to dispel those things but like you said miles meanwhile kroger's fighting the government for their right to merge with albertson like two massive grocery chains which again like a big problem with this and the reason they're able to do that is not enough competition so they're able to raise prices and not be worried that you know another retailer is going to lower the prices which is how the whole system is supposed to work but because these massive corporations got so much

power they can now just kind of fix things yep so a lot of places are picking it up but it's like not really mainstream like business insider picked up the story this is weird bloomberg but not the washington post which absolutely mocked kamala harris for suggesting corporate greed played a significant role in inflation which is not like you're getting that from some like far left extremist person just being like yeah i'm pretty sure they're going up because they're making a ton of money like no yeah no and then i just they're going up because they're making a ton of money. No. Yeah. No. And then I just I just searched their website. There's nothing like where they're headlining that this executive like they have a headline like that's referencing what this Kroger executive mentioned sharing this testimony.

But hey, this cherry picked. It's just a tiny little cherry. I don't know what you guys are talking about, but I'm going to continue hiding eggs under my mattress, okay? Because that's where the gold is. Always look under the mattress. Ignore the sulfur smell. It smells pretty bad.

Yeah, it's pretty sulfuric, I would say. But, like, the wild part is, too, I was, like, searching, like, the news search function on Google. Who's covering this? Like, is it only jacobin it's like not even dude barstool sports bar even barstool sports i want to just read something from barstool from barstool sports about this okay they're talking about the the this guy groff who andy groff who's the Kroger price guy.

He said, he spilled the beans during an FTC hearing. His internal email, a masterpiece of corporate honesty, revealed their strategy. Pass through our inflation to customers. Translation, let's squeeze those poor fucking plebs for every penny we can. The American way. Kroger's defense, oh, that email was cherry picked they say their decades long business model is all about lowering prices okay mother theresa this is what's barstool sports this isn't barstools dave port noise at the end they were like and bitches got

titties just to like yeah exactly that's why i should be allowed to sexually harass my co-workers now check out the nasty 10 nastiest strip clubs in bogota columbia but like where the cost of the buffet is too high yeah right they go on it says quote this revelation isn't just about kroger it's a symptom of a larger disease plaguing corporate america companies across the board have been posting record profits while consumers struggle with sky-high inflation. Remember those, quote, supply chain issues we kept hearing about? Sure, they played a role. But let's be honest.

Some prices were elevated simply because businesses knew they could get away with it. It's the American way, right? Profit over people. This is in barstool sports. Hey, comrade. way right profit over people this is in barstool sports comrade you know how like climate change has made like like seattle is like having less rain than la but like la is having more and like everything's shifting that's what it feels like with media like remember when teen vogue was like doing hard-hitting pieces and we were like wait we forgot to pay attention to teen vote like all of

the world has gone so upside down that all of the so-called hard-hitting journalists are doing the dumbest shit. So now Barstool Sports has to step up to fill that need. I was a little curious about this because I was like, who's writing this? And I found the author's Twitter feed. And it does not strike me as someone who is out here with their like critiques of capitalism. Like, there's another paragraph says, and even this is all this is capitalism. After all, you and your work is worth what somebody is willing to pay. And but then like their Twitter feed is like Kamala misinformation.

RFK video quotes have been like, well, this is weird. This is an interesting take about Russia. And then like weird stuff. Again, that's where I got the strip club stuff. It was a video about strip clubs in Columbia. And I'm like, what? And then also George, old George Carlin stand up about class consciousness. So I'm wondering if this person got like rat like quasi radicalized

because at the bottom of this barstool sports article is a george carlin clip yeah the illusion of choice so it feels like a dude who may have been on the barstool wagon caught some carlin got some class consciousness got momentarily radicalized and then went back to their regularly scheduled programming like this is the hottest pole vaulter in the pac-10 i mean the political world has been caught has been talking about republican like barstool republicans for a long time now being right you know people who are like i define myself as masculine and therefore i hate democrats and i love republicans because dave portnoy says things that make me laugh sometimes but but like i didn't realize that that included like economic populism i don't think it does generally i'm just yeah that's what i'm like i want to know

more about whom like like if this is just a cobbled together with ai they're using some guy's name to attribute it to it or if this is just kind of or maybe i'm i'm not reading enough barstool and i'm realizing i do think it's i i think things like that are super believable because i do think that like now more than ever people's beliefs are in like a blender and it's more of a grab bag. Like you'll find people who are really like socially like liberal who are anti-vaxxers or, you know, like that's where it started. But now it's like, you really like, if you're out in the dating scene, you have to ask like all of the questions. Because at any point could someone be like, yeah, this is, this is normal. This is normal. Sound the is normal sound the alarm sound the

alarm right right because people are like that with like just the most random random beliefs like it's no longer like okay like this party believes this and this other party believes this right like kind of a general divide sure it's like you could be insane and like all sorts of things i think there's also like this other thing too where regardless of maybe what you're like sort of you know registered voting political beliefs are that the world you interact with a world where like your observations are like why the fuck is all this shit so expensive and they're making money and just on your own through just existing you kind of arrive at this conclusion, too. Yeah, you're like accidentally right.

Yeah, even though you're like, I thought you're supposed to be like one of these free market, like conservative type people. But at the end, you're like, no, I write for Barstool and it's expensive. So this is kind of fucked up. But anyway, here are the top strip clubs in Bogota. It's like how that like there was like that article is really good, by the way, that you can. It is really good. It is really good. Like they go deep. it's actually about a universal

health care no um there was there was actually like somebody in like indiana or something like i remember like listening to all these interviews during the last election cycle about how people are like pro-trump but they actually do believe in the tenets of universal health care but they hate they like don't want obamacare like so they don't people don't fully understand necessarily like the labels or the the so-called theory like they're not like marxists you know what i mean but they do they do still have that feeling that you were describing i'm like something isn't right here and like we should all be able to afford food and rent but but I don't want to call it that. It'd be funny.

Yeah. Like the end, it really is like, sincerely, I was like, I don't know about you guys, but it's like, I clock in for a job where like,

they take the work that I do and they get rich off of it. And I just feel so disconnected. I just want to own the means. Whatever I'm creating, you know, it's just odd that I feel so disconnected and isolated from it as a working person. Ah, whatever.

Anyway, here are the top strip clubs in Bogota. I think we should all rise up and break down unions. Like, fuck! No! You were so close! Dude, you got off the exit too soon. Eat what you kill, man. Eat what you kill. Oh, okay. Like a carnivore.

Or like somebody, a worker who's trying to... Yeah. It's just wild that there's a policy position that's so popular on both sides that neither major party will openly agree to take and when one does like with kamala harris's you know very economic. It's pretty tame and it gets absolutely destroyed by mainstream media outlets for being like extremist and unrealistic. And she's not a real adult. Right, right, right. Sorry, miss. We're adulting here. We're three economists. Anyways, let's talk about phones in school. I guess i didn't realize that kids were on their

phones in classes as much as they are there's this episode of the daily today that is just i i didn't realize like they're they're saying like people came back from the pandemic and they were just like everybody's like on their phones they got so used to interacting with each other and school via screens so like now that's just like impossible to take away and now they're trying to institute these bans but there's like mixed messaging on how popular that is or how successful or even feasible it is uh we talked a few weeks back about the fact that the most posh prep school in London has banned smartphones and given students dumb phones instead.

They're like those phones with bubble gum in them from when we were kids. Exactly. You're like, you're so idiots, it doesn't even work. They're like, now there's gum everywhere. Yeah. And I can't call my mom. Yeah.

That was the thing that they were fighting against when I was in school was gum chewing. That was all they had to contend with. This is a type of friends I had. My science teacher had to impose a Magic the Gathering tax because so many of my friends were playing it and she also knew how to play it. So she would take, she was like, if I see those cards out, I'm going to take your best cards and she did. That's amazing. I'm going to take your best cards.

She was like really good at Magic the Gathering so she was just building her sets. Holy shit. Yeah, ours was just playing like Drug Wars on TI-83. That was like the biggest distraction we had at the time but yeah it is it is funny though too like jack both when you said that both you and

i like damn like kids are like on their phone like just like as if we couldn't conceive a world where that was even possible we're like it used to be you get big trouble for chewing gum. Yeah. We're old as fuck. I'm enjoying watching you to continue parenting. Yeah. We're like, kids, phones, they don't seem to like those. What? But, I mean, they like them too. I don't know.

So the Daily Episode lands in a place in between being like, we get why they're banning it, but we don't have the data to support whether this ban is good or bad it really feels like i don't know how how are you not just taking the commons like i mean come on we we know it's fucking bad for kids like the anecdotal evidence includes watching kids walk around like zombies watch it like seeing their mental health deteriorate like in this generation the way they react like addicts when you take away take away their phone the fact that the people who design the phones and the software don't allow their kids to use the shit right everything about

the software being designed to make money and surveil and manipulate their behavior and nothing has to do with like any anything that's good for them and the detail they use to question whether it's bad is like but there are these like learning applications on phones and we don't know if those are like canceling out all the other shit and it's like right okay here's a compromise that i think will be really good. I think, sure, you take away the kids' phones, whatever, but in every class, the funniest kid gets to keep their phone just so that they get to be the racist teacher monitor and pull it out anytime the teacher is doing some sus shit. You know what I mean?

I can't lose those TikToks where the teacher just goes off and you're like, are we living in the 50s what it's funny too like those teachers like someone was videotaping that yeah yeah but they're with us being like they're allowed to have phones in class oh no i didn't see them use a crank and put a sheet over their head. Sorry, what I meant to say about the trail of tears, it wasn't that. You're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, easy, easy, easy. Some people do have tears of laughter. I'm just saying it's possible. It's possible.

It's possible. But this is happening as we just got new evidence that phones are listening to smartphone microphones and using AI to capture real-time intent data. Yeah. This felt like a thing we would talk about a lot early on in the show. Yeah. Like, I've just been like, our phones, we're like,

I think our phones are listening to us. How come a thing I've never searched for, talked about, but never even interacted with anything in my browsing history i'm suddenly being served ads for this thing and because miles we recorded the show in person and had out loud conversations yes about what we were going to cover on the show yes and then as we were like putting the doc together we would be like weird now it's like serving me a ad for lawnmowers, even though like I was randomly talking about lawnmowers in the office.

Miles is only obsessed with like Casper and blue apron. And he's like, why do I keep getting ads for that? That even though that's all I ever wanted in life. What do you mean? Yeah, I love Casper mattresses or loved. But like, you know, even like when you would search, right? Like all the time, I remember we'd be like, this, this can't be. And like all the articles you'd get when you searched for like the question of like, are our phones listening to us? There was some techie breakdown about how like algorithms figure out that you're in proximity to someone that you're friends with and they know you are via Facebook and therefore it may be relevant to you. So that's why the ad will show up or whatever. But even then I'm like, okay, that seemed feasible. At least it was feasible

enough that I was like, all right, that totally could be. And then we kind of moved on. But then this leak came out from Cox Media Group and And there was a pitch deck that they were... Brian Cox's Media Group. Brian Cox, yes, exactly. Fuck off. Fuck off. Fuck off, Media Group. So in this leaked pitch deck to prospective customers,

and they were one of Facebook's marketing partners, although now, like after this, Meta and a few other companies have began to distance themselves from Cox. It talked about how it listens to users' smartphone microphones and advertises to them accordingly. The TV and radio news giant Cox Media Group claims that its so-called, quote, active listening software uses AI to, quote, capture real-time intent data by listening to our conversations.

That's why I'm always like, oh, my God, you know what I could really go for right now? capture real-time intent data by listening to our conversations. That's why I'm always like, oh my God, you know what I could really go for right now is healthcare or like lower gas. Right. Or it's just suddenly it's like, hey man, come through to mobile where it's way expensive, but we heard you needed gas. Sorry. I don't know what else to tell you. And then it says, it goes on quote, advertisers can pair this voice data with behavioral data to target in-market consumers. That's what the deck said.

That all sounds perfectly non-sinister to me. At some point, the technology is going to be like, girl, dump him. You know he's been visiting a Rite Aid that's way out of the way from y'all, right? I don't know what for, but based on what I'm seeing from this map view, there's a corner of the parking lot where it's not visible to cameras or people on the street.

Anyway, I don't know. Let me check that out. Our FBI agent's like really DMing. The FBI just uses this software to just find people. That's how they found Bin Laden, actually. It wasn't even the CIA. It was just this Facebook app man come on nobody likes volleyball and whitney houston this much except for bin laden we got him the pacer so then like apparently this is the third time in the last

year that cox has gotten media attention for their active listening feature. They also deleted a blog, Cox Media Group, they deleted a blog post from their own website from last year that was talking about active listening. And you can see it through the internet archive. Thank God. It said, there's one section like, is it legal? You know, is active listening, like this is their active listening FAQ.

Is active listening legal? That is so funny. Answer. Are we doing war crimes? Yeah, right. Oh, wow.

Is selling human organs that you've procured outside of, you know, normal channels illegal. Well, allow us to answer that. This says, quote, we know what you're thinking.

Is this even legal? It's so crazy. Oh, funny. There's no, he said this this the short answer is yes it is legal for phones and devices to listen to you when a new app download or update prompts consumers with a multi-page terms of use agreement somewhere in the fine print active listening is often included and you're like oh holy shit okay that's what that's another thing in there yeah

your part read you could become widowed by the way you could be i just want to say it's not your fault that that's the thing that's like unspoken we all like for a long time we're like yeah we just agree to this shit who cares like what are we gonna do read it but like kind of being like ha ha ha we're idiots no it's impossible to live life without agreeing to that shit like or yeah unless you're like fuck these apps that's like when the when disney tried to like invalidate that lady's lawsuit by being like well you watched the tv yeah right you got disney plus right oh well well well asshole look who doesn't read the fine print because you gave up your right we couldn't kill you the plus stands for negative rights right yeah yeah so this is funny also like really fucked up of them to call it active listening after everything i learned in school about how

important right yeah right right they're like they're doing a woke is up you guys very smart they're therapy speaking their way through surveillance states well they've been active listening in all those classrooms so they heard the teachers teaching kids that active listening is good so that's how they got the idea they're like yeah you're just you're just sitting there like on your phone and the phone's like oh that's nice you're like what the fuck they're like i hear you i bob get over here i've got a new idea what the fuck but yeah so these are the people that the daily episode is like we don't it's too soon to tell but i don't know it just feels feels like it's not too soon to tell if having smartphones

in school is better than not having them in school i I just don't. Yeah. And I'm sure, Hey, I know there are people who are educators that listen to the show. I feel like even people who I know who are teachers and stuff, they always talk about how much of like a distraction it is. And depending on the school, you have policies where they're like, just let's like lightly discouraging,

or it's like a huge problem if your phone comes out, but it just feels like a thing where it's like, if it's an emergency, there are ways for you to be contacted at school. Yeah, no, no, no, for sure. And it's probably, you know, enforced in a really fucked up way where like the teachers being the front line

are just forced to deal with kids who are addicted to their phones. Hey, try and get these guys to cold turkey heroin in your yeah exactly in your in your 80 minute class yeah they're acting like the students are the problem when i'm sure the teachers are like please don't make me give up my phone they're like please yeah no we shouldn't have phones in classrooms but they should all be in my drawer. I'm on a candy crush streak, okay?

Hey, someone hooked me up with some credits. You can transfer them. You can transfer them if you have my email. Who needs extra credit? Yeah. Oh, my God. I had a teacher like that. Did you ever have a teacher who was like- You want extra credit?

I need some extra credit. Dude, we had a teacher, my biology teacher, sophomore year, said we could get like a half letter grade adjustment upward if we donated to the cross country running team. That's fucking insane. And we were like, yeah, yeah, say less, say less. Because I'm not fucking with cell respiration. So yeah, how much you

want 10 bucks and i remember and then it then i remember like at the time i was like this is great dude 10 bucks and i don't have to study and then a student who was much smarter like went to the school and was like uh they're saying if we give them money they'll change our grades and like the teacher had to give us all our money back but then also had to keep our grades like with the adjustment too. And everybody got mad at that student. Wow. No, no. No, you got the grade.

Yeah, we got the grade and our money back. And we're like, there you go. Thank you. Let's go. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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And we're back. We are. And are we? Oh yeah, we are. Are we back? Hold on. Are we? Yeah, we are back we are and are we oh yeah we are are we back hold on are we yeah we are we are we're so back you guys we're so fucking back dude oh man i'll tell you who is back ronald reagan oh no whale uh so the ronald re Reagan movie came out this past weekend, and it did whale at the box office. It did pretty well. What was the bar low? They're like, what? There's like maybe 600 people who would actually get off their ass to see this.

So what do we call it? A 10 grand? So what are we calling it? 10 grand? So it made $10 million, which exceeded their expectation of $6 million on a budget of like, I think it was like $50 million. So it's not great.

I wouldn't, especially it's like just production budget. It doesn't see, like if they did the thing that all movies do, which is like spend as much on marketing as you do on production they probably are not going to make their money back but okay jack you just got to wait for the trickle down budget okay that's coming in and it's gonna make it all better that's right i don't even know oh this is why dennis quaid was trending yeah dude i mean one of the reasons.

When you first mentioned this, like, there's a fucking Reagan movie? I know. I saw like one clip. Is my phone listening? I talk about Ronald Reagan all the fucking time. And you didn't serve me one ad. Cox Media Group. Yeah, yeah. So it's a $25 million production budget.

And you usually assume that it's double that for marketing budget. So it might make its money back to if it gets if it gets to 50 but the level they set the bar at is so low it came first of all it came in third behind deadpool and wolverine which for not three weeks now right yeah it's been spent out for weeks and alien romulus or alienulance, which is what my kids call it because they're obsessed. Did you take them to see Alien Romulance? No, no. Oh, I was like, yo. But they are.

And I remember this actually from when I was a kid. I would know what movie my dad went to see. And then I'd be like, tell me everything. Yep. And then pretend you saw it. Like an alien came out of Ronald Reagan's chest. Sorry, I was pretty drunk. Yeah.

And then he tore off Gorbachev's balls. I still remember like where I like sitting in my kitchen and tear off my balls. Mr. Gorbachev, tear off my balls. Yeah, I still remember where I was when my dad just explained First Blood to me, like recapped the movie Rambo First Blood to me when I was six. I was like, yo, this is the best movie-going experience I've ever had. But anyways, Reagan came in third and it it might actually drop down to fourth once all the once they figure everything out but it

exceeded expectations uh the expectations were somehow even lower than that terrible result and conservative outlets are spiking the football forbes says reagan critics hate but the audiences love dennis quaid's ronald reagan biopic national review reagan triggers progressives but movie audiences love it because yeah critics do not do not think this is a good movie they're like is this even a movie it's just like a real's just like a love letter to Ronald Reagan. Homelander's not even in it. I thought it would be a really cool Quaid movie. Yeah, other ones are like, Dennis Quaid's Reagan is the worst movie of the year.

Wow. Oh my God. Okay, triggered much? Triggered by, yeah. Triggered by the homelessness you see in the year 2024 much draw a straight line back to ronald reagan okay literally the only audience seeing this movie are old white people uh 85 percent of ticket buyers were over the age of 35 which is like unprecedented and then the this might be released at november 5. That would have been awesome if they could just do that.

Yeah, just that meme of which button to press to vote for MAGA or go see the Gipper movie. This might be a new record. 66% of people were over the age of 55. Like, that's never happened with a movie before. 80% of the film's entire audience was white, which no no no no no no no yeah i know we're we're all pretty surprised so uh i think miles this is a hit so we're gonna have to go see it it'll be so terrifying to be there and then you look around and it's all old white people and you're like uh you're like could like, yeah, being a young,

like, like black woman remove reviewing the movie. Right. Right. And everyone's kind of looking at you and raising their eyebrows. Pretty good. Right. I'll get it.

Right. You seem like a nice person. Yeah. What? Yeah. I mean, like one of the good ones. Right.

They need their wins where they can get them you know yeah sure uh well hey maybe they'll get it in november you know who knows who knows who knows who knows the sound of freedom was a legitimate hit it seems like that one made a lot of money even with the people buying the tickets to give away for free yeah yeah depending on i don't know how many people actually saw it but their donation-based marketing strategy really i remember i did watch it when we had sarah marshall on uh to talk about the her human trafficking episode yeah and i just remember subjecting myself to the movie and being like oh god this it's just truly like it's like freak out porn for people who don't like foreigners.

There's new news about that guy that we'll have to update y'all on pretty soon. He seems like not as cool as everyone thought. Sounds like you got an agenda. Yeah. You said that so smooth. It scared me. I know my my deadpan is sometimes a little too believable. Sorry.

A little too dead in the pan. Pallavi, what a pleasure having you, as always. Yes. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? You can find me in the Reagan movie. No. I play, no, I play the Gipper, his alternative personality. Right. I play, no, I play the gipper, his alternative personality. I'm at PaulaVeganAllen, P-A-L-L-A-V-I-G-U-N-A-L-A-N, everywhere.

I run that monthly show at the Comedy Store called Facial Recognition Comedy. Our next one is September 20th at 10.30 p.m. Please come through. It's going to be an inverse Reaganagan movie it's going to be a lot of brown people okay his worst nightmare yeah so come through and get tickets at the comedy store it's the belly room show it's going to be really fun awesome and is there a work of media that you've been enjoying besides the reagan movie no um have you guys been watching the Paralympics? Yeah.

That shit's so cool. I love, like, all those swimming. The swimming was wild. Okay. This was... Okay. I... It was insane.

There was a guy who had no arms who was, like... Yeah. The Chinese swimmer? Yeah. And he, like, had to hit the end of the pool with his head. The wall with his head. Yeah. And, like, he would have won if he had

he was so far ahead it's like not fair yeah it's wild to see but that's what i'm like that as i learned more about how they break things down based on like disabilities too i was like shouldn't he maybe not compete against somebody who could like lengthen his body but then the other guy i think uh was like had his legs amputated so maybe he didn't have the same kicking power yeah i think they like rate it different but that it was just like so fucking impressive to watch him just like how fast he could go without arms and then also like the archer who didn't have arms from india who like shot it was so i don't know it was just like so cool to see and like i'm sitting on my couch like god damn yeah this is crazy it does kind of make the regular olympics

just look like shit yeah yo hold on bro are you saying what these people are doing now yeah it's crazy also like i do think it's like like there are runners who are like blind and so they have like runners with them yeah and i'm like so both of you have to be like in like first position for that person to win like that's crazy like you have to have it's like a relay but you're both running at the same time yeah it's wild awesome miles where can people find you is there working media you've been enjoying uh find me on twitter and instagram and the like wherever they have the at symbols at miles of gray you can find jack and i on the basketball podcast miles of jack you can find me talking 90 day fiance on 420 day fiance check me out on scam goddess i was on a

recent episode i was also on a recent episode of black people love paramore uh so you can there's many ways to hear me talk about things that aren't so news-centric. Some tweets I like. Man, I got a few funny tweets. It was a good weekend for me not finding things that just made my spirit die because I got so cynical. And I laughed at some funny things. You laughed. You had some laughs.

Past guest Mohanad El-Shiki tweeted at Mohanad El-Shiki, tweeted, I love when someone is like, I'm funny because I have trauma. And it's a coping mechanism. And it's like, okay, not to add to your trauma, but you're not funny. So fucking wild. Just think about that shit. Another one, at J underscore Cooper, tweeted, Got so drunk last night, I messaged the Ting Tings on Instagram.

The fucking Ting Tings. I haven't thought about them in so long. That's not my name. And then also Big Boy from OutKast at Big Boy tweeted, hey, we're on the tour bus in Cali, right? We stopped for breakfast. Why this lady asked Sleepy Brown, are y'all migrants being dropped off bitch oh my god what wow you see the dungeon family and you're like what the fuck y'all migrants being dropped off or what holy shit so funny sleepy brown who looks like like a isaac hayes like parallel universe isaac hayes uh yeah anyway

fun big big bus presumably so she's yeah she's making some assumptions tweets i've been enjoying at you wouldn't post tweeted a picture of scatman crothers from towards the end of The Shining when he arrives on a flight and it says the original flight raw dogger because I always remember that he was just staring straight ahead on the whole flight. Just like, yeah, that's how I do it. And then

shell at shell arena underscore tweeted, hey, stupid, I'll see you in court. The food court. We are friends. You can find me on Twitter at jack underscore or tweeted, hey stupid, I'll see you in court. The food court. We are friends. I thought that was cute. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist.

On Instagram, we have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes. We'll link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, what song do you think people might enjoy? I was listening

to this, again, I love music that I thought was from yesteryear and it turns out it's just some guy who's younger than me from Huntington Beach. And this track is, I was listening to it and I'm like, is this like an Eric Burden or like Van morrison track

i've never heard winwood is this and i was like really curious because it's all clearly recorded on tape and the microphones are all like of that period um and it turned out it's an artist called nick waterhouse um who i was not familiar with and i'm getting much more familiar with. And it's called Song for Winners by Nick Waterhouse. Sounds like you're fucking him, Miles. Yeah. Oh, my God.

He's so good. I'm getting a lot more familiar with him. Do you guys want to go to his show? He's going to be playing at the Echo later. And he said he can get me on the list. I don't know. I don't know. He says we're just talking, but I feel like there's more going on.

But anyway, it's called Song for Winners, Nick Waterhouse. but I feel like there's more going on. But anyway, it's called Song for Winners. Nick Waterhouse. If you like, you know, like I said, Van Morrison, Eric Burden, you know, Wilson Pickett kind of stuff. His voice is super raspy and interesting.

So Nick Waterhouse, Song for Winners. Also does a great job securing those Oscar ballots. Yeah. Of Waterhouse Cooper. I love coming on here and like listening to you guys plug these songs because I never know what you're talking about. So like Nick Waterhouse Cooper. I love coming on here and like listening to you guys plug these songs because I never know what you're talking about. So like Nick Waterhouse Cooper

just sounds like a law firm to me and I think it's fun. All right. We will link off to that song in the footnotes. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio,

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