The Daily Zeitgeist - PaddingTrend In Peru 12/12: Worst Fast Food, Trump, Doritos, Paddington, LAPD Helicopters

Episode Date: December 12, 2023

In this edition of PaddingTrend In Peru, Jack and Miles discuss The Takeout's 9 worst fast food items of 2023, Trump's phone records, Dorito's new nacho-cheese flavored booze, the new Paddington movie and stage musical, and the audit of LAPD's Air Services Division wonders "WTF are they doing up there?!" Fundraiser for Roger DeForest by Ryan Beck : Kenny DeForest's Recovery (gofundme.com) Fundraiser by Kyle Ayers : Help Kyle Treat His Trigeminal Neuralgia (gofundme.com)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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media, you know I love to cook or at least try, especially alongside some of my favorite chefs and foodies like Benny Blanco, Jake Cohen, Lighty Hoyk, Alison Roman, and Ina Garten. So I started a free newsletter called Good Taste to share recipes, tips, and kitchen must-haves. Just sign up at katiecouric.com slash goodtaste. That's K-A-T-I-E-C-O-U-R-I-C dot com slash goodtaste. I promise your taste buds will be happy you did. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Paddington in Peru. There's a new Paddington movie coming out um next year we'll talk about it a little bit later on uh i am jack that is miles and up top we wanted to uh let you know about a

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onto some trending shit. That is not as important as that. Let's see. The takeout released their list of the nine worst fast food items of 2023 and miles. One of the ones, one of the thing, one of the fast food items you like the best. Or at least you said a positive thing about. Which one?

Strawberry shortcake, strawberry shortcake, McDonald's, McFlurry made the list. Oh. Fucking Strawberry Plaza over here. Oh, no. What? April debut of the strawberry shortcakecflurry was a misfire on every level too flat too bland to one note too monochromatic to vanilla okay it stinks

thank you jay sherman um yeah i mean i'm not gonna lie about like it wasn't it wasn't the most exciting but i was like yeah this shit was fine like i say it's the worst fucking thing of all year of the whole year no no i wouldn't go there i wouldn't go there i wouldn't go there yeah they also like a lot of these are just look like fast food items that they got like a bad vert. Like they've got this Burger King's Mexican original chicken sandwich. And I don't know if the coloring, like if they didn't

get like a room tone or like a pan, like what, this shit looks terrible, but it also looks like it's just a poorly lit photograph. i mean i don't know it's they gotta look it they never fast food places don't expect you to open the bun and actually see what the fuck is going on the shit what is look at this shit yeah if you

look at this shit it's gonna look fucked up this definitely looks fucked up um and also i can't but who would have thought that the uh what is it the dunkin donuts breakfast tacos were an l oh i mean those look like absolute hell i don't those are ones that i could not i can't really tell what they were going for because it looks like pita bread instead of a tortilla and then the the contents. Look like a teaspoon. Of scrambled eggs. Peppers and sour cream. It's like so weird.

The ratios. There's corn in there. Are terrible. Basically with those ratios. You are not getting in the club. Sorry. And the tortilla looked like a fucked up gordita shell. Or something.

Anyway, that one does look terrible. Looks like shit. Strawberry shortcake, I'm still intrigued. Like most of these, I'm still pretty intrigued by. The Wawa pizza, yes please. I don't care what you say about it. I still need to go to Wawa and get the sandwich. The hoagie?

Yeah, gotta get a hoagie from Wawa. Oh yeah, you gotta go get a hoagie from Wawa. See, this is why we have to go to wawa and get the the sandwich the hoagie yeah you gotta get a hoagie oh yeah you gotta go get a hoagie from wawa see this is why we have to go we have to go on tour just so i can go have wawa yeah um y'all we're trying we're trying we'll see arby's bourbon barbecue sliders look like shit in the picture but not enough for me not to eat them. Yeah, Arby's looks like shit in real life. And that ain't... Bro, I'm fucking mainlining horsey sauce. Sorry. One that seems like a unmistakable misfire

is Panera's Cinnamon Crunch Bagel Breakfast Sandwich. I'm kind of impressed that the takeout did not put the charged lemonade that's killing people on the list easily right number one with a bullet yeah getting that charged lemonade killed multiple people yeah uh taco bell's vegan nacho sauce i don't know looks fine to me um but yeah

nowhere to be seen the lemonade that kills people. Because you got to take your hat off. You know, an effective viral stunt is an effective viral stunt. And people aren't talking about Panera less now. Tell you that much. Did you see? Oh, I'm pretty sure the CEO, just as a fucking lovely topper to it all, was saying that workers don't care about providing shareholders value anymore.

The Panera CEO? Yes, dude, Mr. Murder Mix. Yeah. With the fucking, the killer lemonade, allegedly. Quote, this is the headline from Business Insider. Oh, sorry, Panera founder says, employees aren't motivated by the idea of making money

for shareholders. Quote, nobody cares. You fucking loser. Are you serious? Oh, no. Nobody cares about making... Nobody cares. I hope him in the uh the jewelry billionaire like who who says he's

losing sleep because he thinks people are coming for the extremely wealthy yeah the cartier uh air i hope they both you know go live in a bunker together and it's yeah it's just so funny like guy who has massive uh fortune based off of the extraction of wealth from workers says like they don't care about making me money no more yeah what the fuck is wrong with you dude go have fucking nine lemonades bro but the panera cinnamon crunch bagel like i love the cinnamon crunch bagel it is a like it's a donut and to put scrambled eggs on it is a mistake i will take ham on a sweet ham oh yeah ham works as well with sweetness but eggs not so much for me like i yeah i will riddle is kind of the limit for me yeah i don't yeah you don't fuck with the mcgriddle i do fuck with the

mcgriddle i guess i'm wrong here i guess i guess i guess i'm lying again i guess it does sometimes work and i'm a fucking liar because the mcgriddles uh the mcgriddles which is you're supposed to use the plural sorry sorry does work um all right let's talk about trump's phone data uh because it may be used against him in court this story like gave me real whiplash yeah like okay reported the special counsel jack smith is planning to call an expert witness who has extracted and processed data from phones belonging to trump and one unnamed person um which i was like yo this is the silver bullet he's old.

He doesn't know how to use technology or like, you know, he's the sort of person who would like text someone and ask them if they could commit a murder for him. He's like, which bomb to leave outside of DNC. Right. Yeah.

Like it just feels like dumb Watergate is very possible if you have access to his phone. But then people are saying that it may not be like a real slam dunk because it remains unclear how much access he actually has to Trump's phone. The data may just be able to show when Trump's phone was unlocked. And if Twitter was open, suggesting whether or not he approved or sent the tweet attacking Pence during the January 6th riot. So I don't know that it goes for me being like,

oh yeah, like they got his ass to wait. They're just trying to prove he knew about tweets that were sent from his account. Like we're fucked. It's not good guys. The the only potentially maybe i don't know sexy is even the word at this point we can barely get aroused for jack smith anymore these days but um you know one of the big things is you know trump's defense is like the constant in the

constitution that i have immunity as president for what i do as president and that's been a huge defense to the point where jack smith has appealed to the supreme court to be like y'all need to fucking weigh in on this like let's just nip this in the bud because this has ramifications for like everything if someone some asshole can be like yeah man as president i can do whatever the fuck i want um we have to really figure that out figure that out they have said that they would agree to consider it along with other things that people have wanted to have the court here on an expedited basis but they're also like well but and part of them's like well you know maybe you should probably get it like have it circulate through the lower courts before it gets to us and he and he also

went to i believe the district court in dc to also get them to make a decision to just try and let's go guys fucking crank this thing up because it's crank it soldier boy so we'll see and trump didn't like that but he doesn't like anything that looks like accountability yeah and he is winning in a landslide in the polls um so uh doritos thinks we want nacho cheese flavored booze and they may not be wrong. It's so I'm feel like such a fucking loser when I'm like, huh? Doritos flavored poison liquid. Yeah. I'm like, okay, go on, go on. But I don't know.

It's like anything. It's the nostalgia. It gets me. You it it it's like anything it's the nostalgia it gets me you know it's like just it looks like a cologne bottle with the doritos logo on it um empirical uh and it's a danish company yeah a danish company i like you gave it a little yeah you gave it a little spanish flavor a danish company. That's the only accent I know how to do. Do Danish. Yeah, but do you...

I don't know. Apparently, this company that does it, they do a lot of wonky flavor combos and shit like that. It's just like, in a way, I like the idea. And I don't mean that I that i want it but i'm like okay sure let's be stupid and make yeah doritos into an alcohol but then i'm like do i

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the paddington franchise is like a thing that exists independent of the filmmaker who made those first two movies they've got a third movie coming out called paddington in peru um and i was like oh shit that director has been busy uh turns out he's not back the guy who directed the wonka thing and the director of this film's previous work includes uh cold play concert films and a movie called let me get this right. I think it's AT&T colon train, like T-R-A-I-N. What? It appears to be like a piece of viral. Or is it a commercial? Yeah, I think it might be a commercial.

Oh, no. Yeah. It's a commercial. It's just SponCon. Anyways, they're also announcing a stage musical opening in the UK. So, first of all, Paddington in Peru doesn't come out until 2025 in the US. It comes out in 2024 in the UK. But as payback for the Revolutionary War, they're holding it for a couple months before they give it to us.

Oh, dude, he did the... Whoa, this just took me back. He directed the music video for Benny Benassi's Satisfaction. Satisf... You know that song? Mm-mm. Oh, man.

I'm pretty sure the video was just women using jackhammers and stuff and their bodies jiggling and wiggling and shit. Wow. So that's what we're getting. Yeah, he's got a very interesting, like, in a way it might, the crazy son of a bitch just might pull it off. I don't know. If you can do that video.

But anyway, well, it'll be interesting to see you know is the matt paddington magic does it still hold when you put him on stage that they had a paddington on ice show where the way they realized paddington in the flesh was just like a baggy teddy bear costume so but people seem to enjoy that so maybe maybe it's enough you know maybe they'll be able to build on top of those first two movies and make some charming stuff uh taking paddington to peru um that is not a danish word right peru not that i'm aware of okay oh no okay so i don't know what video the original video is not the one i'm talking about maybe i saw like a weird fan edit whatever he hasn't he hasn't done like a feature right like that i'm having trouble identifying a thing that is a feature here

yeah all right and then the LAPD helicopters. So this is a thing. If you live in Los Angeles, especially if you don't live like west of the 405, you have the thought at least once a day. What the fuck are they doing up there? There are helicopters strafing you constantly. They're a helicopter like you encounter how many helicopters would you say like on a regular basis like i i probably see a dozen helicopters every single day and hear probably twice that i shit i mean in north hollywood it's a pretty regular occurrence yeah like especially like having like a spotlight like cut through your yard or something yeah like so you're like what

the fuck is that uh but yeah there's all i don't know i mean i feel like if you're not living in like beverly hills or some shit you'll always there's always going to be some shit we're like what the fuck is a helicopter doing right now it's non-stop and then there will be times when they're just like circling really close to your house and it's stressful you're like wait what the fuck's happening what's going on what's that uh oh nothing but after after the first couple of times you're like oh wait nothing's happening nothing's ever happening there the helicopters don't do shit if they needed like so if something important was happening they would not use the helicopters because the helicopters

like that's the thing that I'm I've always wondered I'm like what are they doing other than psychologically applying pressure on the entire city and it turns out that's basically it a new report shows that they cost

people who live in LA 50 million million a year in tax dollars. I bet that's like an undercount, by the way. But it's the first ever audit of the LAPD helicopter program. The LA City Controller's Office found that 61% of its flight time is spent on low priority incidents, costing LA taxpayers nearly $50 million a year, and some transportation and ceremonial flights are

like some of the things they're like, what the fuck are you guys doing? Dude, so dumb. A passenger shuttle flight for a chili fly-in? What the fuck? A chili fly-in. Not like we needed to take a helicopter to get to the chili cook-off the like the helicopter was part of the thing yeah the yeah we make chili and in a helicopter

or some shit all this fucking fuel for the chili fly-in yeah also like not to mention horrible for the environment in a city that already is polluting the fuck out of the environment. You have to drive 19 million miles in a car to get the kind of pollution that the helicopters produce through the helicopter program each year. So? So?

So? So? This is the sort of thing that if there was actual representative democratic politics like a government that did the will of the people like this would be a thing that you could run on it would just be like okay uh my platform oh my platform yeah fucking no helicopters for the lapd and the nicest parks in the city will no longer be private golf courses. They will be public

parks that you can play in. Have your birthday there. Have your kid's birthday there. Have your little party there. Not some fucking people doing fucking deals on the links. This is the funny part. All of the evidence that reinforces the quote-unquote

need for police helicopter programs, the research is fucking dubious at best. Yeah, just self-provided. Dude, a lot of the times, they're pointing at shit from the 60s and 70s. And they're still using those fucking... that analysis to try

and buttress their arguments that they need to have more fucking helicopters, or that they're to have more fucking helicopters or that they're needed because here's the deal la is unique because we have the most helicopters and let's just take a trip down memory lane why that is it's a lot of it has to do the shit changed with in with the watts riots okay and and the civil rights uh movement and things like that that is the beginnings of the lapd being like what if we could just fucking hover over this shit and see everything and now what we see is that it's like

a lot of the data suggests and i feel like even anecdotally if you've lived in la it's happening mostly in black and brown neighborhoods yeah and that's what makes it even more like just the visual of it is so fucked up because you're like, we need like actual services. Yeah. We're pissing away 50 million on these fucking things. So you can go to the chili fly in and shit like that. And yes, producer, super producer, Brian's point drones, you know, yeah, take it, take a note out of Obama's playbook. They were okay.

They also work and are not loud. But the point is that it is, this is what it was designed to do. They're not doing this by accident, like accidentally making a bunch of noise while going to the chili fly-in. They are trying to send a message to everybody on the ground. Right. They are trying to send a message to everybody on the ground. Right. Like this is a surveillance police state.

And like we are the most powerful people like just tearing around the skies all day. Like that is one of the unmistakable like features of life in Los Angeles. And it's it's fucking terrible. It doesn't need to exist. And most. Yeah. And a lot of places don't need them either. But a lot of people point to the example of LA to be like, and that's why we need them in this state or this small city or whatever. It doesn't do shit.

It just wastes money and intimidates people. Well, what's the DOD going to do with these decommissioned helicopters? Yeah, that's that great question i don't know put them on playgrounds i don't know don't fucking make them in the first place you didn't fucking need them yeah i'm sure there's yeah i'm sure it's like so much of the u.s economy is just like propping up you know look at how much money is spent how much money is made by these private companies with these government contracts. Like it's just such a,

well, yeah, because it was, it was huge aviation. That was a huge push in getting police departments to begin purchasing helicopters, you know, uh,

because they're like, damn, like all of our wartime efforts are kind of over. Maybe we can give them the cops now. They'll buy it? Anyways, fuck helicopters and fuck golf courses. I feel like we can run

for office. The Daily Zeitgeist ticket. It's so narrow. What about other things? Just that. I'm sorry. Did you not hear me fuck helicopters? Fuck golf courses. Thank you.

But what about mental health services? Y'all not hearing me. Fuck helicopters. Okay, I think this person is not fit for this. They have anger towards golf courses and helicopters. But the budget for the helicopter program larger than agencies such as cultural affairs, civil and human rights and equity, cannabis regulation,

community investment for families and animal services. Animal services. Come on, LA. Y'all love to fucking protest a puppy mill and shit like that. Animal services. It's just like people helping when there's a

fucking coyote in lawson neighborhood like no send a helicopter up and they shoot it right no it's taking our job come on y'all like like please let's let's move past this and i we love it when we love a police chase don't we folks in la and that's another reason why and that's the other thing the police chases have been shown statistically like they don't do like they they are not worth it they're not worth the danger that you put people's lives in uh milwaukee after like a bunch of people died in police chases and died from getting hit by police cars chasing uh they like outlawed them and nothing happened it's not like milwaukee's like crime didn't explode uh it's just people are like yeah well we we got your license plate we'll get

you later yeah we'll figure it out well lapd i know like you you got your worst nightmare in city controller kenneth mejia because his whole campaign was basically when he was running for office, he just bought billboards and put up police budgets on it and was like, here's how we get more stuff for us because look how much they get in our overspending on chili fly-ins and we don't have the services for

the people that are directly beneath them that they're terrorizing in their whirlybird. Oh, so you don't think there should be any police? Oh, okay. you don't think that okay okay no no no we're just saying this is how much you're spending on it and this is how much you're spending on schools

no I'm even saying that I'm like yeah I'll go narrower I'm saying for 50 million dollars we ain't getting shit back how about that oh so you just you think it's okay if people come and break into your house then? That's not what I said, but that's such a bad faith argument. I wouldn't expect anything less

from someone from the benevolent police society or whatever it is. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, December 12th. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other.

Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Yeah. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years.

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