The Daily Zeitgeist - Could We BE Any More Trending? 11/2: Airbnb, The Beatles, 92%, X/Twitter, Cup Noodles

Episode Date: November 2, 2023

In this edition of Could We BE Any More Trending?, Jack and Miles discuss a literal house of horror in a Michigan Airbnb, the new Beatles song, 92% of Gen Z willing to give up "perks" for a 4-day work week,  X: your new everything app, and Cup Noodles finally getting microwavable cups!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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R.I.P. Matthew Perry. That is courtesy of you. You can't do that on television, uh that is courtesy of you current do that on television um on the discord shout out to that did you i was reading this thing about how like most people found out like matthew perry's friend like even his family was finding out through tmz before they were even notified because there's such a fucking like operation to be able to break this kind of shit that's so fucking sick. They just had reporters camped outside his house. Or whatever, just like, yeah, whatever, anyway. Cool, cool, cool. TMZ bad, turns out. Yeah, I mean,

very bad. They're not really, they're not about shit. Let's be real. No. And then, yeah, for the last couple weeks, a lot of, anyway, yeah, hi. A lot of problematic shit. Could we be more trending? Could we be any more trending? Yeah.

That dude really taught a lot of people how to overuse sarcasm, but very good comedic performance and, you know, RIP to a real one. Oh, I thought you were talking about Harvey Levin. Harvey Levin taught a lot of people how to sip iced coffee with a like an asshole yeah um speaking of iced coffee miles i got a vietnamese one right here on decky on decky matsui what's up bro um you just took a sip can you feel the power is there any way to sense the caffeine from a sip no right it's like once it hits your your blood yeah it's got it's gonna take a little while but like by the end of this episode i should be vibrating oh yeah so i'll let you know or maybe just like crashing

and you never know yeah we'll see but yeah it's from a local eatery one of the locals from near the tdz studios that made it through so shout out to them uh let's tell the people what's trending shall we yeah yeah so there's a tale told of a group of women uh who are suing airbnb after truly a fucking nightmare uh happened to them at a home this is a series of like just listening to the description is like oh yeah you could you couldn't write something like a worst dream for me to have um it's the the whole plot feels like the like a pitch for a grim movie it's a group of like they say elderly these women who are celebrating their 50th high school reunion they said let's get a house oh we found this victorian style house it's called the castle that's whimsical that's fun then um a few

days into their stay the fucking they realized this place was infested with bats that were quote pouring out of the attic into the bedrooms and hallway when the women tried to escape the house they said they found this stairwell consumed with bats and were forced to retreat into their bedrooms they attempted to block the doors with towels and pillows the lawsuit said but the bats still managed to find their way in through the old walls and gaps in the baseboards god damn yeah that's just pouring out

consuming stairwells come on they were getting bat bites they had to get rabies shots and shit these women are good writers they're telling a hell of a tale here gaps in the base like they're truly coming out of the baseboards that that's not a fucking at that point you're actually not staying

in a home you were staying in a bat like facility that is not a home that's the bat's home that has just human beds in it for some reason yeah and they made that they made that very clear. They had to cower under their covers and were still hit by bats. Yeah. One of them got bitten by a bat. This is the worst part, though, Miles. Uh-huh. One of them had the animal entangled in their hair.

Animals. Animals. Plural bats in the hair. Like, that's... What do do you do i don't know i don't have hair so then you're not gonna be my fucking problem you just lose your mind at that point because like you can't just you're like oh this is there for like three hours you know like what do i do or i'm or i'm shaving my head shaving my head while this thing is in there? No.

At that point, just embrace the symbiotic relationship you have with the bat and try and make it work for you. Now you are part bat. I'm a symbiote. The owner gave them a refund but also said the exterminator found just one bat. Yeah, that's what the owner said the exterminator said.

The exterminator did not have the same words they said the guy said the fucking attic was covered with inches and inches of bat shit oh my god or guano sorry to use the just a snowstorm of guano up there from one bat right yeah yeah that yeah a very a bat that had just drank some Vietnamese coffee. Yeah, right, exactly. Had a sneak in him somehow. I love the landlord energy of the Airbnb owner being like, dude, here's a refund.

Fine, since you're complaining. But the exterminator only said there was one bat in there, so I don't know what the problem is. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Also, shout out to my uncle Barry,

who, uh, was deathly afraid of birds and was walking on the ocean city boardwalk one time eating a piece of pizza and a seagull came down for his pizza and got its talons tangled in his hair. No. Yes. And,

uh, it was, he's also like six, four. and it was one of the funniest things that boardwalk had ever seen was he just like completely like mentally fucked after that sounds like a nightmare thing for someone who's like kind of stammering ever since yeah he wears a big electrified sombrero now. Just in case. It seems like there's a lot of... I've been seeing articles pop up that are just like,

Airbnb is fucked, folks. Right. We're moving along. There's this article from NerdWallet a while back that's just saying Airbnb is basically like Facebook at this point. It started off fine. It was a good idea when it started people wanted to be on board and then it just became too big for them to like possibly police the vast universe that they had created right um and there's just like so much spam and scams and they are staffed not like a giant real estate company, you know, or not like a giant hotel chain.

They're staffed like a small tech company. It's like, right. Like the Uber shit where it's just like, yeah. And the design, like the whole thing, the whole plan here is that nobody is minding the shop because the shop is too too damn big yeah right like that's that's the whole idea that's how we make our money and that's how we make so much money um too big that failure would fuck people over so bad that yeah we just gotta ignore it and just power right on through it because like yeah i mean we talked all the time about all the controversies like whether it's like racism

yeah like like if sexual deviancy or assault that occurs it's like you're never coming away with like yep it's foolproof like half the time you see stuff like on reddit there's like a whole subreddit where people are like asking like is this a camera in my airbnb right and they're like yeah but is this a camera in my airbnb subreddit yeah or is this a camera in my airbnb there's a there's an article uh in bloomberg from a couple years ago that about their crisis team like airbnb so their model is basically they do have a team that is designed to swoop in when something goes like really badly um but it just has to get really bad for them to pay attention because it's so big you know because it's uh i forget how many they said they have like how many active listings they have it's like 5.6 million or 5.6 million listings more than the

number of rooms in the top seven hotel chains combined so they just and they have a single team that is like the risk mitigation and like problem solving team and it's full of like ex-military people who wait really yeah it's full of like ex-military like c wait, really? Yeah, it's full of ex-military, like CIA, former CIA agents. And this one former member of the Airbnb crisis team that they interviewed said the work can be so stressful

that agents have access to cool-down rooms with dimmed lighting to create a soothing atmosphere for answering harrowing calls and it can take a heavy toll. Some former agents say they suffer from vicarious trauma. And one person who was a former CIA agent said,

I had situations where I had to get off the phone and go cry. That's all you can do. So, okay. I'm like, I'm trying to put myself in that, but I've definitely complained at an Airbnb because I'm like, this toilet is backing the fuck up.

And like, what the fuck is this? But I'm trying to put myself in a position where like the thing that I'm saying to them is making them fucking cry is so far outside of the realm of what I could even conceive that it must be so fucked up. Like they're like, I'm being murdered right now yeah exactly like that's and like they say that's all you can do that's all you can do when your business model is have more rooms than the top seven hotel chains combined but pay for none of the upkeeper security that those hotels spend on that shit we got the volume though baby yeah exactly this whole economy that we're living through is just like yeah i mean it's just like scale the shit out of that scale it up man fucking scale that shit i'm i but i think that's why it's like i feel like the sentiment now

is starting to go the other way where now people have had enough shitty experiences where they're like man i at this point a fucking hotel is way less stress yeah but it's still i mean it's still out here and people also point out like that there's not really a lot of competition like vrbo is out there but it has like all the same problems but like even even more so right right right like home away there's like all kinds of yeah i mean to that end there really isn't a better way to be like well well, I can't, if I have a group of people in a specific part of town, sometimes a rental home is actually the best option for everyone involved. But hey, man, we got, we're contending with a monopoly. So what are you going to do?

what are you gonna do it's like a cool idea that like it's one of those ideas that should be possible and like should be definitely usable but it will never be like massively profitable because if you make it massively profitable it's going to be vastly like wildly understaffed and like you know um just not selective enough and not policed enough for them to catch all of the scams and all of the... Yeah, actually, get the cops. Look, the cops aren't doing much. Get them to just get the Airbnbs right. Yeah.

Yeah. Anyways, that should solve everything. There we go. We solved Airbnb. just get the cost um all right let's take a quick break and we'll be right back i've been thinking about you i want you back in my life it's too late for that i have a proposal for you come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. One session, 24 hours. BPM 110, 120. She's terrified. Should we

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We talked about it because it was being hyped in the stupidest way possible and the media is still doing this like this is still the angle on this it's basically like a beatle song that john lennon wrote and they cleaned up the track and then built a new paul mccartney song around it uh basically is what is what it sounds like like you can kind of hear John Lennon in there, but the way they're hyping it and selling it is a new Beatles song is set for release after 45 years with help from AI.

The Beatles just released their final song that resurrects John Lennon's voice with AI, which is so confusing because there are so many people who are using ai to like you know there was just a an ai johnny cash covering a taylor swift song oh shit which oh you didn't know oh no what have you been listening to um just a bunch of didn listen to that Manson album. Charles Manson. It's pretty vibey, dude. But, yeah, the only AI they utilized was a machine learning program that allowed the engineers to separate Lennon's vocals from his piano and other noises that leaked onto his demo tape in the 70s. So, you mean, basically, this is the fucking AI marketing shit.

You just mean, use the fucking computer to isolate his vocals. They basically brought him back to life miles with AI. Yeah. Like I was, I would say as the head of this AI firm that this is playing like dancing with the devil and we should just let the man rest. But we've actually resurrected John Lennon with AI. Sorry. I mean, John Lazarus. That's right.

Back from the dead. So the song's out. It's pretty slow. It's a sad song. Not, I don't know. People seem mixed on it. I only listen to it for the story. I haven't heard every Beatlesles song like that they made when

they were all making music together so like jack white yeah wait have you seen that clip of him no he said he literally can you play him one second of any beatles song and he knows he knows what it is yeah i am not like jack white so this like for jack So this is a new story that should be exciting to Jack White, and I congratulate him on this. But for people who don't have an encyclopedic knowledge or haven't heard every single Beatles song, to the point that they're now tired of every single Beatles song, I don't know what this story is offering,

because, again, it's not a Beatles song. It is a song that John lennon wrote and kind of recorded and then paul mccartney like built built a song and it really sounds just like a later era paul mccartney song right that's what it is well i don't know just keep going meta with this with this shit oh check out this new song that's kind of already out there, but with AI. With AI, though. Paul McCartney just got the vocals. So it's kind of a cool backstory. The song's called

Now and Then, and the very last thing that John Lennon said to Paul McCartney before he died was, think about me every now and then, old friend. Which sounds like some I know I'm about to die ass shit for someone to say uh but apparently that's what he said um and that the song is called now and then so so john

lennon's death was an inside job is what you're saying thank you i didn't want to have to say it miles i mean okay allegedly but i see what you're putting down i'm picking it up yeah okay good um okay good uh 92 of young people would sacrifice other perks for a four-day work week um which i don't i don't know why what are the perks you're like i don't need health care hold on hold on now what are we saying here what here what are we giving up so some of the things that they're saying is like they would work fully in person if it like they'll give up remote work if it meant four days of work like for the work week or uh would be or they'd work longer hours jesus don't tell them that don't do that don't do that no that's not the point the point is not.

Jensen, we got to talk, baby. Now, I know you never worked in an office and you like the feeling. And I get that being around people is fantastic. Don't say, well, then you'll get the same amount of toil out of us. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's what we're trying to prevent. They said even working weekends or even y'all or taking a pay cut don't no don't say this out loud yeah um they can they can do it all they can your employer can let you work for four days and keep you at the same pay and shit will still be running we know this it actually works for them

they've done the they've done the experiments outside of america and it's just like it's better for everybody but it's even better for them so you don't need to be like, I don't know, man. You want me to be your family like you keep talking about how we're a family? I'll give up my family. I'll be part of your family. I'll change my fucking last name, dog.

I'll change my last name. It's been rumored for a while now Elon Musk wants to turn Elon Musk wants to turn Elon Musk wants to turn X into the everything app, but we didn't have official confirmation,

but he just had an all hands with the remaining staff and was like, Oh, the three people? Yeah. He was like, we're doing it, guys. This is actually the best innovation, like the highest rate of innovation ever for an internet company, which seems very easy to like a very easy thing to test.

I think this is the fastest rate of innovation maybe ever for any internet company. It sounds like people were like, even though the subject matter was like very dreary and the mood heading in was very dreary. He seemed very likeary and the mood heading in was very dreary he seemed very like calm and confident I think he was just high guys

I think he probably just got a little high before the meeting but or whatever yeah he smoked that blunt face like oh wow do you guys hate I mean we've seen like it was about financials I saw the thing like trending this week that also a

dating app like would be built in scam city y'all that's scam fucking city you know how many blue check Elon Stan dudes are gonna get got on here I don't even sure sure Elon we also found out that this shit is worth

fucking 19 million now which is less than half of what you fucking paid. You're hemorrhaging value, Elon. But go on. Great innovator of technology. Great innovator of technology who heading in the one noted problem that he was willing to say Twitter had was like the bots are everywhere. There's too many bots. And since he's taken over, the one noticeable thing i've seen is that now it's like overrun by bots it's just like completely unusable because of bots uh so killing it that's why that's why i have to charge people one dollar a year or whatever the fuck to see if that'll help put put people off and finally in news

that this was news to me cup noodles will be microwavable for the first time in 50 years thanks to a new cup design this was news to me because I have been microwaving cup noodles for my whole life I think Jesus really

start using them in high school yeah I've never microwaved it in my life we were talking about this uh like you know in a lot of tea drinking cultures you typically have like a vat of hot water just ready to go at any time so my mom we always had like a big ass thing of boiling water whenever so that's always what i used to make a cup noodle just hot water on deck just boiling water right on there so i never it never occurred to me to microwave the thing like put room temperature water in their microwave it that might just be my asian hot water privilege you know that i'm not acknowledging i didn't even have a plug-in electric water kettle like at my house when I was growing up.

Did you have like the little steel, you know, the pot that would whistle and shit that you put on the stove? Yeah, exactly. The thing you put on the stove that takes 25 minutes to get going. Yeah. Yeah, tradition.

That's a, if you only have a tradition kettle in your household, you are incorrect. You are, that is not that's bad that's bad you should have a plug-in kettle they're very cheap they heat the water so much faster um if you can't have the like hot water heater ready to go like you you need you need the plug-in kettle um it's but just wild that now that you're like, because people on our team were like,

oh yeah, I used to do that, but it's like, this thing was styrofoam, and they're like, don't microwave it. So there's just a generation of users who are like, but what of us that were microwaving it the last 30 odd years? Not that I have been, but I could imagine a world where some people were microwaving it mildly i just got a hot flash i think the vietnamese uh iced coffee

i'm sweating like kind of a body. It's a nice body high. Nice body panic. Yeah. Have another sip. But yeah, I guess everything they always said was like, it was not suitable for the microwave. So again, if you're some kind of chemist and can tell us what what how long of microwave use of cup noodles actually puts you in a bit of a danger zone um how often would you have to do that yeah if we had to my middle

name is danger zone so it doesn't bother me my other middle name is microplastics did you ever like the i remember as a kid microwaving stuff that was in a styrofoam thing and the first time i saw how fat like like fat in a like uh like in the styrofoam container misshapen doesn't it just oh yeah just like it basically devours the styrofoam at a certain temperature that's like i remember those my early memories as a kid i'm like that's not good right no the thing is collapsing like structurally because of the microwave ah well yeah maybe i've been microwaving like shin ramen or like one of the other ramens and didn't really like thought i was doing cup noodle but it's definitely i've definitely

microwaved cup noodles uh at at one point and just chalked it up to man i guess i guess that's just what happens i guess that's how they designed it was for the cup to like start thinning when it's in there for a minute or two the shin ramen ones i feel are microwavable they are microwavable those are for sure yeah yeah because they're paper cups um right right right, right. Yep, yep. All right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday afternoon. 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.

Don't do nothing about white supremacy. Nope. And we will talk to y'all tomorrow. I'm going to go have a nervous breakdown. No, go levitate. It's all perception, dude. While having a nervous breakdown. I'm going to go have a nervous breakdown. No, go levitate. It's all perception. While having a nervous breakdown. Don't think of it as a nervous.

Think of it as like your body entering a new look. It's like what Joe Rogan said. He'd be a super producer. Dude, there's this Joe Rogan line. He talked about getting high and he was like, it's not paranoia, dude. It's your it's like you're expanding into a new area and that that's the discomfort you're feeling bro this is the second time you've quoted joe rogan to this week i just knocked over a celsius uh-oh i was trying to drink an energy drink today

i didn't tell anybody but i was just trying to do it after we kept talking about energy drinks and i got a free can at like this fucking like charity 5k I did last week it was like in the gift bag and I was like I'll crack this open taste like the whole selfiest to to the dome kind there's like there's like a thorough the flavor is marshmallow mandarin marshmallow why it it tastes like a demented fucking like orange creamsicle. Yeah. Anyway. I don't like that at all. Anyways. But back to that JRE dude.

Best podcast out there, bro. And that's JRE. Doggy. All right. Bye, everyone. 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-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts.

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