The Daily Zeitgeist - BaskTrend-Robbins 10/30: The Rizzler, "Brie My Guest", McDonald's Ice Cream, Kamala Harris, Larry Savage Jr.

Episode Date: October 30, 2024

In this edition of BaskTrend-Robbins, Jack and Miles discuss The Rizzler's Jimmy Fallon appearance, Baskin Robbins introducing the "Brie My Guest" flavor of ice cream, McDonald's finally being allowed to "fix" their own ice cream machines, Harris' Ellipse rally, a vulgar billboard featuring Kamala Harris, a MAGA candidate caught stealing ballots in Indiana and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Eve Eve. Eve Eve, and a happy Eve Eve to you as well. My name is Jack, that over there is Mr. Miles Gray. Oh, wow, this is like a normal show intro. I don't have an AKA, but I do know this. I still don't know what I'm gonna be for Halloween. Still figuring it out? I'm just, you know, it's for me. I just,

we're going to walk the baby around. I don't need the focus to be on me. It should be on the baby. Who's going to be zero from nightmare before Christmas. The little dog. Adorable. Yeah. I was going to say, man, you, you have to, cause I always need the eyes on me. So you have to work extra hard because people are like, uh, the kids are so fucking cute or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. You know, so like, what about me? You need to work hard to get those eyeballs up here.

I got a crop t-shirt and a wig on. What's this costume? I don't know, but look at least look at me, look at me, look at me. All right. Well, uh, it is October 30th. And these are some of the things that are trending. I finally asked, you know, for help on the subject that has been, I've been struggling with in silence for a while. I asked Miles to explain to me what the Rizzler is. I had seen the Rizzler, I'd seen him do his little facial things, his little facial expressions

with the hand. I'd even seen people make that at me. I think my young cousin was doing that. Whoa, was Rizzing you up? Okay. He was Rizzing me up. Okay. And hadn't bothered, but I think this is the point that probably the old and the washed among us, the not terminally online,

finally had to just say, okay, I'll bite. What is Rizler? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's, I think a third, I think he's in third grade. I thought it was going to be like one of the people who, you know, like Gary Coleman had that disease where he was like, Oh, sure, sure. No, no, no. He is, he is truly a 100% a child who is being forced to do stuff by their parents on TikTok because it's so sad. The answer I regret to inform you is much sadder than I could have possibly imagined. Yeah. Well, it's trending also too, because they went on Fallon and Fallon was like just disgusted in real time at like,

I think sharing his stage with Tik Tokers. Because there was also AJ and Big Justice, you don't know from their Tik Tok Costco reviews and food reviews. Which I had assumed in seeing them in passing, you know, that they were all part of a family of, you know, people of influencers? No, Rizzler descends from a different genealogical line, but not of that of AJ and Big Justice. But yeah, I don't know. It's just, this is where we're at, baby.

Just kids who do little gestures and they get millions of TikTok views, and then that means you're on a talk show. And these are our celebrities now, Jack. These are our celebrities. I'm fine with that. It does feel like weird for him to be this young and just kind of, I don't know, like what one of his pieces of merch is like Zen based. So he's like,

yeah, kind of put into like the world of like manfluencers like, yeah, clearly it's like the dad wanted to be some like manfluencer toxic dude type. And he's like, well, I got this kid who's kind of cute. So now I can make a, you know, Zin related merch and just other stuff. Go to the maybe it's like a maybe the parents are just like talent agents in L.A. and they're like, we just got to get in where we fit in. You know, our older son, Timothy Chalamet, had a look that more lent itself to Hollywood acting. This kid is I'm feeling Rizzler vibes. Yeah. Even though I don't know what this is a child. This is a child. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Sad state of affairs. It's just like, it's just yeah We're just watching because there is this era, you know of because of social media parents just making their kids stars Now does the Rizzo want to be the Rizzo for the rest of his life because I don't think this Continues into his 20s and 30s And if it does God bless you and I hope I hope you enjoy your, your fandom, uh, and your stardom. But I don't know. It's like just this thing. And like they, people talk about all the time about being like, Oh man, my parents posted this like embarrassing shit at me as a kid. And it's like people found it on Facebook and it just sucks. Um, but

I guess maybe because you're making money now and you got a little, you got your nice sneakers and shit on that. Maybe it's all worth it. I don't know, but I, Yeah. And I guess there's been child stars for a long time. It's just there's something about the fact like when you look at early videos of him, he's just like a kid. And now he's like, yes, this sort of mascot. And I don't know. I don't want to like, I'm sure everybody's having fun with it.

And I'm sure he's having fun with it right now. It just feels like weird to me. But I think it's gross. I don having fun with it and I'm sure he's having fun with it right now. It just feels like weird to me. I think it's gross. I don't agree with it. As someone who grew up with a lot of kids who acted as children and had a lot of attention on them as kids, like for a thing, it's very hard to transition to normal adulthood when you're so used to like aversion of the world treating you a certain way. And I think it's, it's I think it's just bad news.

And especially when it feels like parents are just so reckless and they're like, let's just wring this thing out for every fucking penny it's worth. Yeah. Feel like, and then your relationship to your parents changes because clearly, your success is tied to their happiness now because of the financial windfall. Mm-hmm. It's messy. It's messy. And AJ and Big Justice are just a father-son who say boom a lot, as far as I can tell,

and do Costco reviews. Yeah, nailed it. And they're, and they hang out in the same like fame group. Yeah. I mean, I think they met at like some charity basketball game or something. I don't know. Whatever. It's such a different different world You know from from the salons that I go to to have intellectual conversations, right? You know there's a different world from the celebrity basketball games that I play in that I would where I make all my friends. Yeah Anyways good luck to that young man And by the way, Jimmy Fallon don't act like you're above this. You're not above this Yeah, you you were tussling Trump's hair full shut the fuck up and get on with it And by the way, Jimmy Fallon, don't act like you're above this. You're not above this.

You were tussling Trump's hair full. Shut the fuck up and get on with it. You tussle Trump's hair and crack up for like, and break. But now the Rizzler. Okay, guys, we get it. Oh, boo, you're saying boom again? Okay. A lot of people are more focused.

They're like, what the fuck is this? It's just the interview was very odd. It felt like when Jerry Seinfeld had like YouTubers like on comedians and cars, he's like, and what do you do? Right. That's comedy. Yeah. But hey, now I know who the Rizler is. So work for them. And now you can finally talk to your kids.

I know you said I can't talk to them until I know who the Rizler is. Come on, man. Help me out here. Yeah, they're like, you're going to kick my ass. My pants, me, they're going to be in front of you again. All right. Well, we're a day away from Halloween. Yeah. And what comes after Halloween? But Thanksgiving All Saints Day. What?

Yeah. Well, obviously, we're all going to. All Saints Day. What? Yeah. Well, obviously we're all going to celebrate all saints day. Jesus Christ, Jack. And I'm sorry to use H I S name and no, you're not using that in vain. You're using that literally. Think about, think about Jesus Christ. Yeah. No, yeah. I guess immediately. It's almost like, I feel like some places are just going to go straight to Christmas somehow, but most the, the events calendar will turn the page to yes, Thanksgiving starting November. Does Mariah Carey do the thing where she like strikes the clock and it turns to Mariah Carey, all I want for Christmas is you,

Christmas. Does she do that on Halloween or at Thanksgiving? I feel like she starts, I think, isn't it called like the defrosting? Yeah, the defrosting. And she because I remember when she struck her fairy wand, like there was a Chucky and a Jason there. And then they turned into Chucky and Jason and Santa hats. Yeah, she defrosted on November 1st, I think last year.

Yeah. So it's. It's time. Yeah, honestly, like we don't need to acknowledge the history of Thanksgiving. We can just say, look, it's the time we get off to argue with family and not talk to family or whatever. But the food of Thanksgiving. Yes. Oh, the food, Miles. My stuffings.

So last year, Baskin-Robbins celebrated Thanksgiving by making its November flavor of the month Turkey Day, which I think they were just like, yeah, we've seen the attention that these ice cream brands get for making like ranch, Hidden Valley Ranch flavored ice cream. So we're going to head fake at that. But the thing was actually just sweet potato, cranberry and honey cornbread flavor. That works. Yeah, that works fine. It's not even that.

Like that, that is totally. It's not like sage and celery and you're like, oh, why'd you throw those last two in? Gravy. You must have it with the gravy. Just melt it. Yeah. So no turkey, no wine, no screaming at your uncle flavors. My uncle.

But this year, they're going a little bit more savory. They were like, ah, man, that didn't work out at all. But we fired Brian. So now we're going to try and move forward with this one that they're calling. And hold on to your ass, Miles. OK, I guess this one is the diarrhea is imminent. This one's going to make you laugh your ass off.

OK, it's already called a Brie, my guest. What? Oh, no. How did they do that? So my guest. Oh, how appropriate. Everyone loves Brie in America. Everyone loves Brie in America. It is the first thing we think about when we think about Thanksgiving is what about a cheese board?

And so that's what they they took from their brainstorm sesh. They've gone combination Brie and burrata flavored ice creams. And so that's what they took from their brainstorm sesh. They've gone combination brie and burrata flavored ice creams mixed with almonds, pistachio pieces and apricot swirls. So they're really, they're kind of pushing it a little bit further this time. You're pushing it Baskin and Robbins. Yeah, great.

I'm Baskin and Baskin your Robbins as much as you can. Baskin and or Robbins. Yeah, please, please, please, please, please. But great. I don't know. I'm just glad that people who want cheese based ice creams now have a flavor that they can now have a place to go. Yeah. All right.

Let's take a quick break and we'll come back with more ice cream. We'll be right back. I'm Julian Edelman. I'm Rob Gronkowski. Guess what, folks, we're teammates again, and we're going to welcome you guys all to Dudes on Dudes. I'm a dude. You're a dude. And Dudes on Dudes. I'm a dude, you're a dude, and Dudes on Dudes is our brand new show.

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Listen to Dudes on Dudes on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. And we will do a couple election updates for you sick fucks out there. Can't get enough of the election. Get enough of the horse race. But this is big news for a long time.

Listeners of the Daily Zeitgeist know that we have been tracking the story about McDonald's ice cream machines for a while. Always broken, always broken. The fact that McFlurry is rarely available because they can't get the ice cream out of the machine. Right. And why is that? All right. So the company that sold them the machines was like, ah ha ha, you did not read your

contract McDonald's franchise owners. I'm American. Yeah. We own the rights not only to these machines, but the right to repair these machines. And so you're not able, you're not allowed to repair them yourselves You have to pay our technicians aka us to come repair them for you basically instead of buying an ice cream machine you have bought the rights to License a song from like it's like it's like licensing rules around music

It's like yeah if you want to pay for that again you can have it again this year so it's kind of fucked up McDonald's franchises are yeah prevented from fixing their own ice cream machines but now they can legally hack the broken machines. There's a victory for you can now a small thing you bought. You can hack the thing you bought, aka fix it. Right. Yeah. Which it needs to be hacked to be fixed because they have put, you know, things in place to make it difficult to to fix. They there are things stopping you.

Like when you try to fix it, it's like, ah, ah, ah, you didn't say the magic word. Ah, ah, ah, I hate this hacker crap. But yeah, so the US copyright office was like this. This seems bad, right? This seems like a misuse of this whole operating system that we've designed our entire civilization around capitalism. Like that seems bad that they're like hacking it in a way that it makes it hard for people to get the thing they want.

It's been ridiculous since the moment we knew this was why it's like, this sounds like absolute dog shit. Yeah. Stinks like the shit. We we've said that from day one and you know, obviously not quite as headline grabbing, but this is also being done with hospital equipment. Oh, well, whatever. But the McFlurry thing. The thing that we're covering. The headlines are like, McFlurry thing. Like the thing that we're covering.

I know the headlines are like, McFlurry machine. Now what's that about ventilators? Yes, ventilators. In fact, we're pulling some similar shit where, you know, making simple repairs and doing simple diagnostics on ventilators and other medical equipment was being prevented. Yeah. Which led to perfectly good equipment being kept out of commission for weeks. More on that later though. The McFlurry machines are... More on that later. What's your favorite McFlurry flavor? Yeah. So I don't know. This feels like a pushback in the right direction.

And yet this system, this operating system that our civilization uses to run everything, anytime in my experience, having done this show with you for seven years, anytime there's a victory that's like, well, we should fix that, right? If there's money to be made in the opposite direction, it usually doesn't last that long.

So. No, no, no, no. Maybe not the final chapter in this story, but we will keep an eye on it. It's like we don't have rights, but the corporations do to continually just be like, no, you want to pay me to fix that? But anyway, so good for the vent, and obviously good for the ventilators as well.

Yeah, or whatever. Out of medical equipment. All right, couple of election updates. 75,000 people showed up at the ellipse, sight of the January 6th speech that Trump gave, where he was like, it was the most that have ever been seen I was a beautiful day of love Before they stormed the Capitol and started killing people. There was no there was no violence. There was no there was nothing bad, but

Kamala Harris gave a speech there 75,000 people showed up and a lot of people are just also being like, so many headlines like that's more than the people that showed up on January 6th. Like that's the take. Like we're just doing crowd measuring contests now. Well, yeah, because they let him. This is what the media does. They let him define the terms of everything.

They're just like, oh, well, if the currency is crowd size and not policy, then yes, in your face. Absolutely. Mr. Trump, you fuck you. But the speech was more just more of the thing that Democrats have been doing since Trump left office and MAGA had become like just like what the party is, which again is the gift and the curse to the Democrats, which is they don't have to talk about policy anymore. It just goes, well, we're not these fucking guys. We're not these guys. is the gift and the curse to the Democrats, which is they don't have to talk about policy anymore.

It just goes, well, we're not these fucking guys. We're not these guys. We're not Donald Trump. And I get that. I understand how you're framing it. Those are the stakes. But again, you also want to you also want people to vote for something too, not just against something.

You know, it's like going to a restaurant and they go in and you're like, oh, so what do you guys serve here? They're like, have you heard about the restaurant next door? The food tastes like shit. And I'm like, right, but I came in here, so what do y'all have in here? Oh, well not that, not that. I'll tell you that. I'll tell you.

Here, instead of showing you our food, why don't I show you a picture of their food and tell you about how shitty that is, because that's really your only other option. All right, fine. Let me just see your let me just see your food. Wait, this kind of looks like just a slightly better version of the food next door. Yeah, you know, but this there, there's that shit. Exactly. But that and that's how we know you're going to choose it over what they're choosing. Yeah, because you don't like saying to you, but just slightly less.

Like there's this poison. Yeah. I mean, look, it is it is you know for not wanting a Donald Trump presidency It's nice to see like a lot of there's clearly there's a huge enthusiasm gap It looks like but honestly, I we I we have no clue how this is gonna shake up I have no fucking either. I think it's really either gonna be it's a it's gonna be a blowout And Trump is gonna lose or it's gonna be super tight Which is probably the version of the race he wants so then he can do the like Everything's too close because he's already doing that like he's doing more of the Pennsylvania. They're cheating now. It's happening all right now

They're cheating. It's bad. Yeah, so they're set up for any eventuality I mean like the like the liberal take on Trump's recent like Pennsylvania stuff is like, oh, maybe his internal polls are looking real bad. But again, I don't think that matters because all of these Trump supporters have been fed a steady diet of like, we got this fucking thing.

And anything that's a deviation from that is an abomination that we will have to fight in the streets for. Meanwhile, a mega billboard in Ohio depicting Kamala Harris engaged in a sex act had to be removed. And this is, you know, Nikki Haley was like after the Madison Square Garden Nazi rally part two, electric boogaloo was just like, it's so like the toxic masculinity is like so overpowering. Yeah. And on that side, like it's, that is essentially what they've made this whole thing about.

Yeah. Well, think of like even the ads that are running during the world series. It's like the most transphobic trash ever. It's like, okay, get in front of these dudes and be like, yes, transgender people can get care, even though that's actually not what she's even said recently. They're like taking an old quote from Kamala and being like, she's for they, them. Trump is for us. And you're like, holy shit. Okay. Yeah.

The fate of the country is all based on whether or not human beings get fucking medical care is the distribution. And we want them not to is the message. And that's how we're motivated. That's what we can stand for. That's the state of our humanity at the moment. Also just election interference update in addition to Trump continuing to like spread misinformation that like there's voter fraud.

So we talked about how multiple ballot drop boxes were attacked with incendiary devices in the Pacific Northwest. We also had Larry L Savage Jr. Yeah. Who he ran for Republican office, I believe. Yeah. I think he finished like six out of eight in a Republican primary. So not the sharpest marble in the drawer, you know, or maybe too sharp.

Maybe you're just playing like 17 dimensional chess and it's just like, people weren't ready for it. Yes. But anyways, he was charged with like stealing ballots. He stole two ballots during a testing of local voting machines to try and suggest testing. Right. Like there are being they did this so people could see for their fucking own eyes of local voting machines to try and suggest. Like a public testing. Right. Like they did this so people could see for their fucking own eyes that they're like,

yeah, come check it out. You can see how this works. We're not fucking, like people aren't stealing fucking ballots on like what you've heard on your, whatever you're listening to. So he goes there, this is from the New Republic, quote, several citizens were permitted to run, quote,

test ballots through machines assigned to their county, including Savage who was spotted on camera folding the ballots into his pocket while confirming with an election official that they were quote, absolutely totally real ballots. Although they weren't official ballots, the ballots did not say fake or sample and were being tracked and counted by the state. After pocketing the ballots, Savage leaned over to a woman streaming the event on Facebook Live, telling her that there was a fucked up count. Upon exiting, Savage approached a man

outside the government facility and showed him the ballots in his pockets before the unidentified man patted him on his back. So he goes out there, steals all this shit, comes back. And then when he's arrested or like when they asked like what was going on, he was basically saying this is this is what he said, quote, when questioned by police Savage admitted that he

had taken the ballots but claimed that a woman at the facility had given him permission to do so. He insisted that he quote, wasn't trying to steal from nobody after being confronted with evidence revealing that he had never asked for permission to take the ballots. Savage admitted that he quote, wasn't trying to steal from nobody. After being confronted with evidence revealing that he had never asked for permission to take the ballots, Savage admitted that he had lied. And then he goes on quote, if you go to Payless or go wherever,

it says sample and usually can take a sample. What? So that is the way I took it. I thought they were fake fucking ballots. Okay. Are we talking about like a Costco type, like a supermarket? Dude, sample. I heard the word sample at one point that day. I can, I can then take the sample and then accuse the people that work in the store of

theft. If I hear the word sample within 24 hours, I am physically incapable of stealing some shit that passes through my hands. That's yeah, I can't. Those are the rules. You said sample. No fair. This is a felony.

Yeah, it is. So again, these people, they are the creators of the chaos that they point to that they say they are victims of and because everything has to be manufactured for feels bad. And also the Supreme Court is on their side. So yeah, we'll talk about in tomorrow's episode, which is why the yeah, I don't know the good God Almighty, we'll see what happens because I are, you can already tell that this all of this, especially the emphasis on Pennsylvania is to kickstart the outrage machine on election night. if there's like another blue shift kind of thing where it's like well the returns Trump was leading with only

15% of the ballots casted being returned, you know what I mean? And then be like what happened? I mean, we should just call it fuck. I'm gonna be like and we're able to call stop the cow. Yeah Anyway, take your time anyway take your time tuesday take your time tuesday jesus christ used to be november and now let's take your time tuesday we should have known miles we should have known that it would eventually be tuesday but um not me not the way my brain works that is the future and i don't like never gonna happen. Yeah All right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday, October 30th We hope if we don't talk to you before then we hope you have a great Halloween

We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show until then be kind to each other be kind to yourselves Get the vaccine get your flu shot don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. I'm Julian Edelman. I'm Rob Gronkowski. And we are super excited to tell you about our new show dudes on dudes

We're spilling all the behind-the-scenes stories crazy details and honestly just having a blast talking football every week We're discussing our favorite players of all times from legends to our buddies to current stars We're finally answering the age-old question. What kind of dudes are these dudes? We're gonna find out, Jules. New episodes drop every Thursday during the NFL season. Listen to Dudes on Dudes on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.