The Daily Zeitgeist - Daily Frightgeist 10/28: Meta, PETA, Ted Lasso, Jada, David Beckham, 26 Points, Merriam Webster

Episode Date: October 28, 2021

On this edition of the Daily Frightgeist Jack and Miles discuss Zuck changing Facebook's name to Meta, PETA asks MLB to change bullpen to the Arm Barn, Mitt Romney dressed up as Ted Lasso, Jada is still talking about her and Will’s relationship, is David Beckham tarnishing his legacy as the brand face of the 2022 World Cup, the Lakers blew their first 26-point lead in 25 seasons, and Merriam Webster announces they’re adding 455 new "words" to the dictionary. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I don't know what that means. Sounds delicious. Sounds like a sloppy steak. I am Jack. You are Miles. Yes, exactly. Miles. And here are some things that are trending.

Meta is trending. That's what Facebook has decided to change their company name to. Just anything to get out from under the reality of their situation. Cool. Meta, that sounds elegant. Everything is forgotten now. What's meta? That's the thing i mean the like mark zuckerberg i think like three months ago was like facebook's future is as is not no longer a social media company it's at as a metaverse company um and

people were like huh and then he did a today show stunt where he did a meeting in like virtual reality yeah so gail and then he like he's just like okay now now we can change our name to that uh i yeah man uh look it's still facebook sorry yeah i i don't i don't accept your new name but good luck i mean the problems are still the same and yeah maybe that will help uh investors i don't know uh but yeah it's sure you just changed the fucking name to meta yeah um people are pointing out ron artest is probably pissed because that was his idea first to change his name to meta yeah i would sue honestly i would too if i was on our test yeah i don't think facebook has many lawyers either so he should be good um yeah i don't think it's actually all they are is lawyers uh ready to defend themselves

against any lawsuit of any sort one big lawyer what big lawyer you have pita uh is trending because they are asking major league baseball to um change the name of the place where pitchers warm up uh from bullpen to something that is not a bullpen and i don't know man pita you know they've done it again what's a what is a bull like is that like where like does it have like something to do like slaughtering an animal or something that's like why they're like it's just it evokes just such terrible things that by merely evoking the word is violence towards animals or is it just because it has an animal name i because they're they're suggesting uh that they changed it to arm barn no you're no they're not they did they are so this is from peter's website you're fucking me around right now

i'm just gonna read you their press release which is like usually their pr department just writes a couple paragraphs that are uh worried over for months and months, and then come out and nobody pays attention to them, unless they're really embarrassing, as is the case with this one. So PETA's call to the bullpen. Rename outdated term to armbarn. As the World Series turns into a pitching duel, PETA is pitching a proposal to the baseball world.

Strike out the word bullpen, which references the holding area where terrified bulls are kept before slaughter in favor of a more modern, animal-friendly term. PETA's suggestion? The arm barn. So, I don't, like, is that the only time bulls are kept in a pen is right before slaughter

i i don't know i mean like i'm also looking like that they it was also like prisoner of war camps they would call bullpens too yeah it's pretty like central like people call lots of things bullpen yeah i don't know so then there's a cockpit bad too i mean by that logic that evokes really uh scary things for the some really cool stuff some really cool stuff i don't know i guess i'm so torn like i'm not i'm torn i'm just like i don't have energy to give a fuck about what the part of the pit stadium is where they warm up. It's not like they're like, and then we gotta slaughter the bull. Again,

I'm very ignorant to the etymology of bullpens. So, yeah. We live to fight another day though, PETA. We live to fight another day. I mean, PETA is you know, like they get a lot of shit from the right. And like some of the stuff that they like, they are against keeping animals as pets because they think it's like human supremacist.

Yeah, exactly. Jack, have you seen how how well little toy poodles do in the wild? Silver Lake. They would be flourishing right now. jack have you seen how how well little toy poodles do in the wild in silver lake they would be flourishing right now release your pets into the coyote infested hills of los angeles yeah anyways they are very litigious so we will move on from uh you know what they do to back up their uh their theory that humans shouldn't have pets they're like footnotes you should stop saying that because it evokes like look i don't all right let's move on i don't want i don't want any pita smoke i will now no longer by the way be able to hear the word cockpit without thinking of

a ball pit full of cocks um isn't that what it is full of uh those like balloon dicks that from bachelor parties like okay because i mean a cockpit is where fucking cockfights happen right you know i mean like that like okay that's so that's why i'm like where like by this logic right isn't pita shouldn't pw also be going after cockpit right yeah whatever this is so the world is falling apart okay and we're we're wondering what we have to call the part of the the stadium yeah um ted lasso is trending thank you something worthwhile now yes because uh mitt romney uh who i'd imagine views himself as a bit of a Ted Lasso type. 100%.

100%. He put together a nice little Ted Lasso costume for Halloween. And people are, you know, it's like maybe this is officially the end of Ted Lasso being cool. Yeah, when Mitt Romney's like, isn't this is officially the end of, of Ted Lasso being cool. Yeah. When Mitt Romney is like, isn't this the coolest thing folks? Huh? Right.

Me giving Kirsten cinema, some whatever the, what is it giving her cookies or some shit in that picture? Right. Um, yeah. Cool. I guess it's like that thing where like,

all it took was like one, like white woman to say like on fleek. And then they're like okay and we're burying it and that's done all right pour the cement right over it right over here now yep uh same thing with ted lasso uh yeah i mean i i'm not like part of that uh just super fan following i mean right i thought it was fine enough i don't know i think there's also a point where you could be dead inside enough where Ted lasso won't help you at all.

Right. You know what I mean? And that's a good indicator of maybe your cynicism when you're like, I cast my eyes upon this and I felt nothing. You think Ted can't even get his lasso around Mitt Romney? Bring that guy in the warm, the warm center. Somebody also pointed out that is um damn i need to i need to find this because i don't want to not give them credit uh it was a

great observation but they they pointed out that his costume actually looks more like the guy who gets caught eating ass on um white lotus more than it looks like Ted Lasso. Oh, spoiler alert. Ted Lasso also does get caught eating ass in a later episode. Yeah, in the finale when he's just off his face on drugs. Lasso fans are saying Ted Lasso would never vote for Romney, which he's I Southern football I don't know you know that's always been argued

right what his politics are whatever y'all it's a fucking TV character let's yeah the TV character in a universe where Santa Claus is real right right and be upset with the real-life Mitt Romney and cinema are yucking it up as people like we

need things like paid family leave yeah and higher taxes for the world yeah but now let's focus on this yeah yeah yeah this this is this is this um yeah but watch out if you if you have a halloween costume that involves a fake mustache uh or a real mustache just you know check out what you look like with a mustache before you, uh, you know, decide on one. Cause you might,

you might not look like who you think, like I looked like the pervert from something about Mary instead of Magnum PI. Oh, oh, you looked like, uh, Matt Dillon's character. Yeah.

Yeah. Which, yeah. Who also wears a Hawaiian shirt. So I just unbuttoned my hawaiian shirt and yeah it was good pat healy legendary character pat one of the greats oh my god are these damn nepolese he was such a scumbag yeah i do love that character oh it's my he's one of my favorite characters in that whole thing because he's such a transparently self-absorbed, reptilian-brained liar piece of shit.

And it's just amazing. Jada is trending in the world's ongoing fascination with their She and Will sex life. Sex life. sex life it's like what they were open and honest about their sex life once and ever since they've had to like come out and like make statements correcting the previous statement correct like it's yeah let me let me set the record straight now i know i said we could we don't really have a healthy sex life what i meant to say by that is we never had problems in the bedroom right okay uh as the a recent tweet said is it uchi wali or is it one mike please which one is it and also who gives a shit like really i can't think of a couple i care less

about who like sex life yeah because will smith has always presented himself as like this disney character type celebrity. Like he never really had edge to him. Right. So like you're never even like can imagine what what his intimate sex life is. He's not like a sex idol. Speak for yourself. But yeah, I get that.

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just a couple a's were being typed well i'll tell you what is trending is david beckham uh because right now everyone is concerned about his legacy uh well i mean whatever his legacy was like always being like the ambassador of global sports soccer but now he's like the face of like the 2022 world cup in cutter and everyone's like jesus dude really that's like the don't don't don't fucking don't this is like there's so much attention on this for the wrong reasons and you're gonna use your like shreds of reputation to shield the world cup for more scrutiny so i think a lot of people are like what went wrong with david beckham i'm like you know at a certain point when it doesn't matter like who you rub elbows with uh and checks are being put in front

of you i don't think people i don't think we should ever really be expecting people to have like any semblance of character at that point yeah like it's hard to i'm like i don't know dude this guy's so wealthy it's like a business deal like he's not looking at it as like i'm ignoring all of the slave deaths that have occurred in in trying to build the infrastructure for this world cup um more just being like hey i like the world cup y'all and i got a badass check legacy by the way like because he kicked the ball with his leg is just a thing i was thinking while you were doing that story what is like a title pretty good like his life pretty good yeah i don't know i'm just saying think about it think about that okay uh is that all you know about david beckham dude he's got legs he kicks his legs kick stuff posh spice his wife posh um so you know all

this stuff uh 26 points is trending hey man i didn't put this on here you did i did i have to it's just for my own therapy i want to say out out loud, yeah, the Lakers blew a 26-point lead. It's like never happened. They're 23, like they're 230 and 0 when they lead by 25 points. I think going into the half or something like that, it's, I don't know. Not great. Yeah, not great. LeBron was out, correct? Yeah, LeBron was out.

Russell Westbrook looked not, he looked all over the place. was out russell westbrook looked not he looked all over the place um you know it is i we only have three players returning from last season so we've got a real old guy patchwork of a team uh but as i said we have a terrible record when we put together super teams so so it might just be fun. I might just start laughing at a certain point. Like I honestly, I kind of would find it really funny if we were laughably bad this year, like with all that talent.

And I'd kind of be down for like a meme season. But I think it's just, it's a matter of time. Like I, it's hard for me to think that you can have all of these people together and they don't figure it out yeah but they might not who knows on the other hand it could have been that people were tweeting at halftime damn the lakers look better without lebron and he was like got got got in there and was like hey you guys have to uh you guys have to lose this one he went into the thunder locker room and got him fired up. That's right.

He's like, you can't let him do this shit to you. They're like, Ron? And finally, Merriam-Webster, mostly known for their dictionary, has announced they're adding some new words. I think it's like 455 new words. um 55 455 new words and like it's just a lot of you know tbh uh i think is oh tb to be honest yeah okay i know there's like oh to be honest fuck okay that makes sense that makes a lot more sense i thought it was totally based homer i guess not uh yeah i saw like some stupid ass articles like i'm a millennial and i don't even know any of these words in here yeah let me let

me read that one uh the the words that they're calling out which i mean in some i understand like they're a little more specific based if you're not reading the internet all the time, but yeah. So like zero day is trending, um, a vulnerability that is discovered and exploited by cyber criminals before it is fixed. Okay. Um, sure.

I didn't really know that blank check company, which is a special purpose acquisition company. Didn't know that, but I probably could have like guessed it. that could have guessed that this, but this, like, guessed it. I could have guessed that. Yeah. Special purpose. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPAC, yeah, yeah. D-platform is one that they're claiming they don't know, which I think everybody knows what D-platform means, unless you're not- Are you avoiding all things about, like, social media as it relates to, like, the decay of our society? Right. It seems like yes um uh which is a uh type of slime inspired by dr seuss uh and teraflop they're claiming they don't know that a teraflop is a unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal you knew that dude because you were we were going back and forth about teraflops when we were talking about

the x the new xbox versus ps5 dude constantly non-stop yeah teraflops flopping never stopping yeah yeah but i think also fluffernutter like made it in there this year that seems like it's been a long time coming right yeah it's good to see fluffernutter made it in there this year. That seems like it's been a long time coming. Right. Yeah. It's good to see Fluffernutter finally get in there. Dad bod, air fryer. Air fryers.

That makes sense. It's a good kind of, they're plugged in to the. Yeah. Certain things like makes it, but then it's like, oh, I guess that people do need, like it has to be defined in the dictionary. Right. You know, like to say that you couldn't just put two and two together but yeah air fryer chata is just being added now it seems like that's been around for hundreds of years it took whatever the stuffy old librarian who sits on the panel who's like have you guys had this horchete drink right this is brilliant

but yeah anyways uh so we we can all now start using these words now that we can look them up and i know we've been we've been holdouts here at the daily zeitgeist but uh we you know once if it's good enough for miriamam Webster, good enough for us. Good enough for us. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending. We are back tomorrow with a 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. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Talk to you all tomorrow. Bye.

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