The Daily Zeitgeist - GoldTrendEye 1/26: FAST Recovery Act, ChatGPT, Alex Murdaugh, Tyre Nichols & Sucession

Episode Date: January 27, 2023

In this edition of GoldTrendEye, Jack & Miles discuss fast food companies successfully introducing a ballot measure to overturn a CA law that would create a fast-food regulatory council and raise the minimum wage to $22/hr, ChatGPT being put to the test against law students with surprising results, a proposal for a co-run AI center between the US and Israel, the opening day of the Alex Murdaugh murder trial, the 5 former Memphis police offers who killed Tyre Nichols have been formally charged with murder and the new teaser for the upcoming 4th season of HBO's Succession.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.

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of Fighter of the Nightman in the Discord. There it is. Remember that theme song? Coming back. What was the theme song? Tina Turner did the main song for GoldenEye. I was like, GoldenEye. And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I remember being so disappointed, too, because I think that was the first Bond film I saw in the theater.

And I was like, what the fuck is this fucking 15-minute credit sequence? Yeah. And I had no idea. Because my parents used to just fast fast forward the Timothy Dalton, James Bond, VHS. We had those. So I didn't even know.

Anyway, they really luxuriate in that, in those, uh, credit sequences sometimes. And that's always like, I feel like critics are always like, oh,

and just a gorgeous credit sequence with that. And I'm always just like, yo. What is this, 72? Like, what the fuck are we doing? It's very slow. Well, I am Jack. That over there is Miles. These are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday afternoon.

Fast food companies are trending. Fast food companies are trending. There's something happening in California where Californians will basically be voting on the FAST Act to possibly overturn the landmark new state law that could see the minimum wage for fast food workers raised to $22 an hour. Yep. So this was supposed to be a new law already in January. And then companies, including all your favorites, Chipotle, Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, McDonald's, Indian Out Burger, KFC owner, Yum Brands, spent millions of dollars opposing it by donating to the Save local restaurants coalition it's it's wild that these non-local restaurants are just so focused on a a campaign to save local restaurants

100 you know but they they know wait so tell me this if i sign this how do i save local restaurants you want me to i've signed it now oh so you're gonna push this to a vote in the next major election that's okay oh okay okay okay yeah so this is basically they began their signature gathering campaign back on labor day to stop the new law and basically framed it as a way to you you know, protect local restaurants from having to pay these high wages. Again, not being funded by local restaurants. It's being funded by fast food chains.

Well, $22 an hour is quite literally the bare minimum. Right. As for a living wage, like when you adjust for shit. And I'm sure in California, it would probably be even more, but like the irony of not the irony just they keep doing the same fucking tactics too like they're like you know if this law passes your hamburgers will be fucking nine hundred dollars

right because that's what's gonna happen no it fucking won't uh but anyway like the same kind of threats of you know your prices go up but really i think most people would be like yeah i actually know more people that would benefit from this than i than me thinking or believing that doing this is going to somehow make my life worse well all my friends are the ceos of mcdonald's and yum brands so i'm very concerned about their bottom line. Their mood when we're going on a yacht together. The council would also oversee health, safety

and anti-discrimination regulations. Can't have that. They want to get rid of that as quickly and efficiently as possible with a fun PR campaign about saving local restaurants and yeah the the talking points are fast food prices would skyrocket people would lose their job that's every time it was with rent controls it was with like helping dialysis centers it's with

clean energy like renewal like mandated renewables and It's always the same line of attack. Well, you do this woke thing. It's going to make everything more expensive because all it is, it just gives up the ghost that all of these things are about creating more equity. And what they're saying is like, well, if you tip the scale in favor of the workers, the only way we can offset that

is to pass that cost down to you because we're fucked if the bottom line shifts at some level the shareholders are going to be able to buy back as much stock as we did last year yeah you know yeah and we've seen better they will treat the workers as badly as they as the law will allow essentially is what we've seen so you know they this is something and they're the ones trying to fund the pushback on this you know what's i bet like we know what everything we need to know but in like the next few years right when is a fucking company gonna be like i'm not gonna i can't even run my business in california like target is no longer in california yeah because

the wages they're at they're saying we gotta pay it's too much too much folks you're gonna lose target you're gonna lose target okay if you if you vote for this like that's a threat down the line i'm sure which would be funny but yeah uh no one would do that but in the end who knows um there seems to be a little bit of backlash happening to chat gpt no smarty pants ass chat bot apparently according to a headline on i just made up a headline uh that matt drudge just made up not as smart as we thought folks uh chat gpt averaged a c plus when a University of Minnesota law professor used it to generate answers in four law school exams, while humans averaged a B plus. Okay. It's funny listening to people talk about this because there is this version of technology

that they have in their brain from the movies specifically like the movies that came out post iron man but just you know over the past 20 years like movies written generally by older people would have the you know it's the enhance enhance thing where technology can do whatever you tell it to and so so that's been the expectation, right? Is that technology, you just say pass this law exam and the technology will pass the law exam better than a human could. And so like the fact that it can get a C plus on the law professor's exam is, I don't know, that's pretty good. And then there's this other story that came out where democratic Congressman Jake, uh, Ochincloss, is that how we're going to try and pronounce it? I haven't, haven't, haven't attempted that one, but yeah,

let's go with that one. Let's go with Ochin otch and cloth uh delivered a speech about a new bill to create new artificial intelligence centers a co-owned co-run artificial intelligence center between the u.s and israel um a little bit more on that in a moment but it is funny because he like talked about how he had to refine the prompt several times to produce the text he ultimately read so again he's like this thing this thing kind of stinks but we gotta do it we gotta do it but again you know it's you you hear that a lot like as people interact with it they're like the thing's not writing good shakespearean sonnets for me the you know what's the what's the purpose of having like a joint israel us ai center every time there's joint can't be good anytime there's any joint us israel anything it's like yeah let's let's

here test out our fucking crowd control technology on Palestinians and report back. Yes. Is it really that easy to say that it's for weapons? We do know that Israel, if anyone's getting us closer to a Skynet situation, it would seem to be Israel up to this point. They recently unveiled AI-powered robotic

guns in order to shoot at Palestinian protesters. Jesus. Yeah. So shut that shit down right away. unveiled ai powered robotic guns in order to shoot at palestinian protesters so yeah yeah so shut that shit down right away uh don't need ai y'all we can't we can't even do normal intelligence on this fucking planet right let's you know but what are they gonna i'm a luddite now yeah google has been offering advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities to the Israeli government and then we're like, they later, quote,

worried that this will probably just enable further human rights violations. Did Google realize that? They later worried that. They did. They might not have fully realized it. They knew it.

Registered the concern. Again, y'allall just like western intervention not a good track record u.s and israel teaming up on some kind of technology shit yeah boy um all right let's take a quick break we'll be right back. 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 LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members

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Yeah. Big Al. Alex, your boy. He's on trial right now. Big Red, baby. There's. He's on trial right now. Big red, baby. There's a couple details that have come out. First, they took down his papa's painting in the courtroom. Wow. So he will no longer be a foreboding presence.

In the courtroom where he was being tried for murder. Exactly. Maybe this person's. Hey, you know what? Let's, yeah, take that down. And then apparently, you know, people who were talking like who are like looking at the trial, they said he broke down in tears during his murder trial as witnesses were describing the crime scene. You know, like when

I believe his wife and son were killed. Yeah. He was like very emotional. There's like a photo of him. Like you'd see like literal tears are like falling off of his face. But then the first officer arrived, his test of his, his testimony was, yeah, I mean, that guy was upset, but he wasn't like crying or anything when I got there,

when his, when his like, you know, and again, some people were like, well, you know, who knows what that means.

But when you put that against everything that this guy's done, you're like, yeah, yeah. It's like context. He's putting on a, I will say that yeah um completely judging somebody's response to a traumatic event that just happened probably isn't totally fair i don't know

i have to check with my um with with my uh two-sheeter from that one cop who claims that they can tell uh when someone is lying whenever they call 9-1-1 uh they can tell i i think they they put in something that like one in a in this like report offered by that cop they put in this claim that one in every three people who calls 9-1-1 is like actually a murderer like there's some wild ass statistic but yeah they claim that if somebody says there's blood instead of saying that someone's bleeding then they're the murderer or something like there's all these like telltale signs that are exactly the sorts of shit that like people want to believe in you know like that like or it's like if someone goes like i shot my brother on accident what right why is that

relevant right right now because because you didn't do it it's like what holy shit really yeah yeah it is like the same thing like with kind of and like paul t goldman type shit when your confirmation bias is set like this i think there was even a scene in paul wasn't there seen in paul t goldman where people like oh no he's lying i can tell like there was like some yeah there was like a focus group scene and people like immediately like oh this guy's full of shit or whatever but you also see people do this too and like we're so true crime brain too where you hear people be like did you hear the 9-1-1 call i know that's bullshit and we really act like it all fits into this neat fucking pattern

yeah and there's so many examples of people who were like victims of crimes and the police were like well you know the this is the telltale sign that i i remember seeing it there's one docuseries about a like serial rapist who got away with it for a long time because the cops just didn't believe what the victim who had like the best most evidence and like eyewitness account because she wasn't like crying when they came and she was like kind of matter of fact about it and then my favorite example is the amanda knox documentary uh where uh they like the cop was like she was covering herself in a comforter um which is the ultimate sign like he he smoked a pipe and had like a shake uh not shakespeare uh sherlock hat and he like had all these rules that he made up

that basically all came came back to, I don't believe women. I don't believe anything that women. But yeah. And she had a comforter wrapped around her, which we all know. It was malingering. Yes. When a woman does that, you see. Anyways, Tyree Nichols is trending.

Tyree Nichols is trending. That is the name of a citizen of Memphis who five now former Memphis police officers murdered, beat to death earlier this month. The cops have been charged with murder. And the video of the beating is expected to be released, I think, tomorrow. Or, yeah, it might be out. don't know it's i i can't bring myself to watch it just hearing like the reactions of people that have seen it yeah it's is uh fucking horrifying it sounds really fucked up um anyway so that's why we need to get rid of our police and figure out a more efficient way to deal with our crime by you know supporting

people and not having a fucking merry-go-round of funding that just incentivizes this shit and has basically turned like americans completely against each other no one can even the assumption is every single person is violent and will kill you and that's why you can get in a car accident and end up dead yeah by not from the car accident but from merely asking the police for help yeah the from yeah the the people who are arriving who are supposed to be helping you immediately assuming you know yeah it's uh this is yeah it's i mean yeah you need you need uh you need you need accountability and we need to see what

form that comes in but also real actual fucking it's like take this problem off we just keep doing the same fucking thing over and over and over and over again all the data suggests that this isn't the way to do it like but we have a real hard time letting go

of the status quo yeah and the other thing is i gotta say i have to say i have to say the amount look the officers that that perpetrated this attack they were black yeah and i've never seen quicker accountability for the police than when the officers were black i'm just gonna say that which is wild it should be across the board but what it was like only a couple weeks yeah yeah like that's the other kind of fucked up part and i'm not i'm not saying that that should excuse one thing or the other but my god like to even see the disparities even reflected on how quickly we take people to account or not take them to account right it's like another fucking grim reminder of this place we live in yeah because we're the blue lives matter people right now right you know i mean i'm sure they'd

have something to say if the people look different but again this is a this is a much larger issue but again it is the layers of shit in this one is really it's kind of fucking me up yeah you'll remember that the you know in the george floyd case that wasn't even a video that they were trying to release that was a video that got released because you know so a bystander yeah caught them uh succession is trending because there's a new teaser for season four that looks funny it looks yeah it looks like succession yeah they've not fucked up the formula which is we fucking hate our dad he's a fucking bastard yeah uh and now i mean it's because now they're diametrically opposed fully so it's we get to see them try and fight daddy uh and what

that happens looks like tom is scheming a little bit yeah tom is fully aligned with daddy and the kids are all you know together trying to bring it down and can't get him on the phone uh i believe is your father would like you to call him no he can actually there's a whole there's a you should watch the teaser but there's this a very succession-esque moment where like is it clearly the dad's assistant is trying to get the kids to call him and reach out but his ego won't allow it and they're like no you should call him like he needs to call us and like the best

I can do is I can get a text from him that requests a call from him oh shit well alright shout out to the what do they call it again what's that family oh Murdoch's

no wrong family the Roy's the Roy's thank you shout out to the Roy's and you know my brain started saying fuck off just generally like a few times a day lately which is usually you know that's how few times a day lately, which is usually...

That's how I know a new six season of Succession is coming. A new six season. You never say fuck off just in general? No, just in Logan Roy voice. When you're in your Logan mode? Yeah, it just starts bubbling up. Okay. Get Logan.

Get Logan. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending yeah on this thursday 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 and we will talk to you all tomorrow all right 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 Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. There's a lot to figure out when you're just starting your career. That's where we come in. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice.

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