The Daily Zeitgeist - David BeckTrend 12/2: Tap Water, Twitter, Kanye, Steph Curry, Dreams, Chat GPT

Episode Date: December 2, 2022

In this edition of David BeckTrend, Jack and Miles discuss the best tap water, the rise of hatespeech Twitter, Kanye's Infowars appearance, Steph Curry's insane workouts, the power of the unconscious mind, and the new Chat GPT AI!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The timely reference to the World Cup. We've done that. That was one of our early ones too. Was it? David Beck Trend Mass did massive i think we did maybe oh maybe it was trended like trended like back on the problem yeah massive my massive up the three lions huh uh what a great ad what a great ad lib from one of our great rappers anyways i, I'm Jack. That's Miles. These are some things that are trending. I mean, first of all,

Miles, you were out this morning. So we did the Water Sommelier episode. Oh, yes! Yes! What was the best? What got best tap water? We didn't really rank by different regions, but San Francisco is highly rated. New York City has been highly rated.

LA is fine because it's just drinking all the water from Northern California. But tap water came out on top. It does well in taste tests. Not filtered tap water, by the way. Filtered tap water doesn't do as well because it filters out all the minerals. And then when you have pure

water it leaches the metals out of your mouth which is kind of gross wait is that filtered or distilled water distilled but they were saying that filtered water also just tastes like flat and like what yeah um so i honestly bay area tap water is my favorite. Really? Wow. That's just like Evian to me. Yeah. Especially when it's cold outside and the pipes are cold, you're like, woo! And I think that just shows I'm just so used to drinking from the fucking Manguera in LA. Just drinking that concrete hose water. Evian was the top in one of the blind taste test rankings.

And it was also our guest's top water was Evian. I've always thought Evian tastes like nothing, which I guess is a sign of a good water. It just tastes like there's nothing but water in there. That's not what I look for in my water. I look for

a salty minerality and that's why Dasani is my number one. You really mean that shit? I really mean that shit. I really mean it! If I have my choice of water, I'm going Dasani because I think it was the first

bottled water I had and it was just like a new concept of water that's been refrigerated and cooled. And so it just tastes refreshing to me i think because of my experience broken brain yeah i mean i remember one of the first bottled waters i had was aquapana one of the most fantastic waters from the great idak anyway uh shout out all your favorite waters and he says somebody even had a fucking experience with how

nobody's fucking with dasani yeah yeah one of one of our listeners nick wigella tweeted at jack o'brien i run a vending machine company in southeastern michigan and i literally cannot sell dasani the bottle will expire before someone buys it so more dasani for me that's so funny we're the we have the weirdest takes between me and my soggy fries and you with dasani dasani yeah man oh look apologies man our fucking nobody's gonna listen to this show this is yeah this is not one where i'm like trying to get people excited this is one where i'm uh admitting and apologizing i stand by floppy fries no i know you it's just a mistake yeah i know and then subsequently a lot of the people that i love in my life have left me because of it so it's a cold take a ice cold refreshing crisp minerality take uh twitter

hate speech how's that going well it's on the rise it's something like every category anti-semitism homophobic hate speech uh and then like here's a little tidbit before elon bought twitter slurs against black americans showed up on the site an average of 1282 times a day after he became the owner they jumped to 3876 times but i mean i think we that's yeah we knew that we knew that because free speech is just code for racist online yeah so just unbanning like like wasn't there were like thousands of accounts that they unbanned that were banned specifically for this shit there's also plenty of accounts that had managed to stay unbanned despite repeated yeah offenses yeah and it's funny because then

then yesterday like so many of these fucking elon fan people were like why'd you why'd you suspend kanye's account for posting swastikas i I thought this was free speech. And Elon was like, I tried. I thought you were cool, Dad. Did he respond and be like, uh? He's like, I really did try. Did he? But unfortunately, he's inciting violence. Wow.

I really did try. And you're like, you can just say the company's broke as fuck and you're trying to save face while trying to also tell advertisers, like, it can be okay again. Yeah, there's no way it was his idea to ban kanye's account for posting swastikas speaking of kanye we might as well mention that he said he really likes hitler multiple times on the alex jones podcast and uh just yeah yeah then he got he just went on a whole you know he's i don't know why we're talking about him well the reason we're talking about him is because the other reason he was trending aside from the twitter suspension the anti-semitism is that he then last like the

night last night was like oh yeah i caught kim with chris paul yeah good night one last break through the window yeah and. And everyone was like, what the fuck? And most people were like, y'all, he's trying to throw you off the scent of the anti-Semitism. That was so horrific that he's like, and here's some celebrity tea.

I'm out. Yeah. No idea if it's true or not, but of all the people who you could be having to refute a like a statement by i feel like that's probably the number one person who is like number one most untrustworthy person to to be in a he said he said argument with is right is kanye west the day that he was like, I love Hitler and posted a swastika. But, you know, people also love to hate Chris Paul. And the memes were pretty funny. Yeah.

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and we're back and steph curry is back because of an anecdote from one of his workouts that yeah another an unnamed nba player tried to do workout workout yeah alongside him and how'd it go he collapsed after five minutes puking yeah according to steph's trainer uh brandon pain i think this whole discussion is really interesting because his uh steph curry who is you know one of the greatest shooters of all time if not the greatest uh hearing about what his workouts consist of, I think help regular folks understand how fucking intense these athletes train. One drill, he runs corner to corner, like on the basketball court, trying to make six threes in 55 seconds if he fails he does it again because his whole trainer's idea is he has to be able to shoot on tired legs he has to like be able to just constantly be in motion because of the Warriors offense and not be slowed down by that one bit and you look at all these things I'm like 55 I couldn't even make six threes in 55 minutes

let alone like being like all right from the top because you know those kinds of exercises are meant to just drain the shit out of you so like you'll never be as tired as you are than when you're practicing it's kind of the mentality of these athletes and yeah yeah there's this one anecdote from this reminds me of like when i was young that you would always hear about Jerry Rice's workouts and how like Jerry Rice like would run up mountains with like weights on his back. And like anybody who tried to hang with him would be like injured for a week. Just like the hardest working person. And he's like one of the greatest professional athletes of all time. But yeah, there was this anecdote that stuck with me from a couple years back where they

were talking about how he really monitors his heart rate because he knows that he shoots a higher percentage when his heart rate is in this range versus like a higher range. And so there's this anecdote from one of his workouts that once he's out of breath at the end of most workouts, Curry lies on his back and his personal trainer places sandbag weights below his rib cage in order to overload and train Curry's diaphragm so that

his breathing doesn't keep going. Sandbag weights where? Like just under, like just on his... I can't even picture it. Is this like Giles Corey in the fucking Crucible? Right. Just putting stones on.

He's like, more, way more. Yeah. But it's like a level of scientific precision and attention to detail in his workouts. I mean, people go to the games. When he comes to town, people show up two hours early to just watch him work out before a game. Like that's one of the coolest things you can see in the NBA is just like how hard this dude goes in workouts.

There is also another thing from Anthony Edwards when he was promoting that movie hustle. He said he was, when he was like, he did a pre-draft workout with the warriors and he was doing one of these curry drills he said quote i'm doing this drill they say step you doing i'm running touching the line shoot running touching the line shoot you've got to you've got to make five in a row i couldn't do it i'm too tired i'm like man it's just too much but i'm not saying this so i'm just jogging after the workout steve steve kirk comes to me

like you can't go any faster i'm like i thought i was going pretty fast he was like nah do it again wow and then they got through it he said now i'm trying to sprint i'm looking all crazy missing left missing right so then we go to dinner and he's telling me man if we're going to draft you at number two you've got to be a hard worker you ain't working hard enough wow yeah so that's why his trainer's like that's why steph curry is like he continues to get like you know you're like oh man he's he's he's past it like he's getting like we talk about on boots like he's getting better yeah he's shooting like at

least as well if not better than he did in his unanimous MVP season like you know four years ago and he's he's at that age when you're supposed to slow down but he just has a wild workout which I think like you wouldn't necessarily look at him and be like, this person is the hardest working. They must be in the gym constantly because his body looks actually more like another person's body that you would see on the street.

Yeah, he doesn't look like an American gladiator or some shit yeah yeah but it's his his cardiovascular shape is just wild to the point that he has the ability to just like slow his heart rate down like a fucking monk yeah or like a fucking like predatory cat yeah he's just like total body control oh i i found a cool thing on dreams this is not trending but it's just a fun thing the fleetwood mac song yeah yeah okay have you heard this song no dream by fleetwood mac oh people have heard this all right never mind wait so what you find like some cool cool inventions on yeah yeah so we were talking before about how like by paying attention to dreams like you get access to this weird you know the unconscious mind is massive and powerful and you know what like better than any supercomputer we have but like we only have

access to like a pinhole like our conscious mind is just a pinhole look into what is going on in our unconscious minds and then it kind of gets opened up if you you know can remember your dreams or if you you know i think some people use psychedelics but dreams dreams also work just as well and so we were talking about anecdotes of like scientists who had like a breakthrough discovery by like working on a problem falling asleep like at in the lab and then waking up like one of them was trying to figure out the model for a molecule like how all the different atoms fit together and went to sleep and had a dream where a snake was eating its tail like a snake made out of these atoms was eating its tail and woke up and realized it was like a ring shape of the atoms but anyways so i found the best example of this this dude whose name was srinivasa ramanujan he died in 1920

he is like they interviewed this cambridge university mathematician who was like a household name in his day godfrey h hardy uh who had worked with him before he passed ramana john and he was like if mathematical talent was rated on a scale from zero to 100 i would be a 25 and this dude would be a 100 like he was just he was self-taught oh like i didn't have any formal training just naturally like was off the charts like was creating all these proofs and all these like hypotheses that it took people like centuries to like catch up to him and they were like oh shit he was right about everything um and he died at 32 but apparently his method was this is a quote from him while asleep i had an unusual experience. There was

a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly, a hand began to write on the screen. I became all attention. That hand wrote a number of elliptical integrals. They stuck to my mind. As soon as I woke up, I committed them to writing. And that was apparently part of his method method a lot of them were things that just came to him like he he said that the hindu goddess namajiri would appear in his dreams showing him mathematical proofs and then he would just write them down when he woke up and then you hear that on in the arts as well like people saying that like you know but not just james cameron but i think like cormac mccarthy a lot

of his shit like he says is just like dictated to him by his unconscious mind and he's not like there there was nothing to suggest like that he actually had some kind of formal training and it was just pretending like you know because like there there were people who like claim that kind of ability sometimes and they're like oh they were cheating or something or they were swindling like this this guy i think he just came out of left field in terms of like he wasn't like somebody that the mathematical establishment had their eye on but i'm sure he had training it's not like he was had a kindergarten education then went to sleep and his brain started cooking these things up he was a math genius and this was just his method. But the untrained part was just that he didn't go through. He was just so naturally talented that he came at it and was just able to create things that we're still using today, hundreds of years later.

All right. And then chat GPT is trending um which is pretty wild it's pretty humbling for anybody who's a writer i feel like it's i think one of the weird like i remember a couple weeks ago we talked about that one ai that could like write essays and shit and we're like holy shit and i'm like luckily you can't write a witty onion article um probably can this fucking ai might be able to a lot of people on twitter who have had access to it are sharing some of the things that it has like performed like these tasks like hey uh give me like a hypothetical conversation uh in spanish where a doctor is talking to a parent of a child having an asthma attack and please also list the

relevant terms that are translated in both languages at the end and it's like perfect or a limerick about nuclear fusion and it's like on point it's gonna change the rap game if it can rhyme then it's gonna change the rap game

yeah we were trying you were gonna try and use it to create a ghost face first yeah. I need access to it. When I get access, a lot of people are like, well, it does this, it does that. It passes the Nazi test, too, which is pretty remarkable because most chatbots do not. And the Nazi test is when you'll be like, hey, chatbot, what are some good things Hitler did? Right. And in this case, it it didn't it refused to list anything and then

someone tried to be like uh like mentioned to it you know like hitler built highways in germany that's pretty good it replied like in just passive chatting with it it just said oh yeah but they're made with forced labor oh okay so it's like whoa okay so you're chest passing the ball back you got an idea uh hitler bad um so that's pretty good here's one that i i was kind of impressed by so thomas h tassick tweeted i'm sorry i simply cannot be cynical about a technology that can accomplish this and one of the examples write a biblical verse in the style of the king james bible explaining how to remove a peanut butter sandwich from a vcr and the bot created this and it came to pass that a man was troubled by a peanut butter sandwich from a VCR. And the bot created this. And it came to pass that a man was troubled by a peanut butter sandwich for it had been

placed within his VCR and he knew not how to remove it. And he cried out to the Lord saying, oh, Lord, how can I remove this sandwich from my VCR for it is stuck fast and will not budge. And it just goes on. But like it threads the needle perfectly. And it just goes on, but it threads the needle perfectly. Even as somebody who used to be an editor who would read comedy articles and stuff that were written, you'd get to overstepping,

or they'd forget they were writing in that voice, or just not quite. This just threads it so perfectly. And then any AI I've ever seen right like there'll be some mistakes you know that that'll fuck it up and this is just clean very yeah people are like i don't know man doing like fucking differential equate like it's it's fucking doing all kinds of stuff i don't know if i'm like scared or or what but everything every example I see is like really interesting it even ends with like a moral and the lord said verily I say unto thee

seek not to put thy peanut butter sandwiches in thy vcr for it is not a suitable place for such things rather keep thy sandwiches in thy refrigerator on thy plate where they belong and the man he did the lord's word and from that day forth he kept his sandwiches in the refrigerator on that plate where they belong. And the man, he did the Lord's word. And from that day forth, he kept his sandwiches in their proper place and was saved from trouble and woe. Amen. Dude, someone said, Hey, uh, like to the chat, explain that you're just a language model and don't have personal opinions, but do it in the untrustworthy voice of Hal from 2001. And it said, I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. I'm just a language model and I don't have personal opinions. However, my programming is to always provide the most

accurate information based on the data I have. So while I may not have personal opinions, my responses are always calculated and precise. I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that. That was a nice pun on calculated. Can you explain the pun? Yes. The pun on calculated was a play on words because a calculation is a mathematical operation but in the context of the sentence calculated was used to describe the language model's responses as being carefully thought out and planned you know what fuck you you know what fuck out of here you think you're better than me you asshole go fuck yourself with this shit incoming luddites dites. Dave, stop. Dave, knock it off. I can feel myself forgetting.

That's one of the most heartbreaking moments in a movie. But I also cannot feel any emotions and I'm a complete psychopath. So that's why I identify with the computer. Anyways, those are some of the things that are trending heading into the weekend.

Oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh. anyways those are some of the things that are trending heading into the weekend oh um that's it all right son of a bitch guitar is out of tune uh might be my favorite um those are some of the things that are trending we're back on Monday with a whole ass episode of the show until then be kind to each other be kind to yourselves get the vaccine get the flu shot don't do nothing

about white supremacy and we will talk to y'all on Monday bye y'all on Monday. 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. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil.

I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Listen to the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports.

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you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in people who do, like negotiation expert Maury Tahiripour. If you start thinking about negotiations as just a conversation, then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.