The Daily Zeitgeist - People Magazine's Trendiest Podcast Alive 11/9: Dr. Pepper, WSJ, Taco Bell, Grok, Jared Leto, NYT

Episode Date: November 9, 2023

In this edition of People Magazine's Trendiest Podcast Alive, Jack and Miles discuss Dr. Pepper's new spicy soda, "The New Headache for Bosses" according to WSJ, Taco Bell still providing maximum value, Elon Musk's based af AI, Jared Leto climbing the Empire State Building, and the NYT's weird "Gen Alpha" article!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of People Magazine's trendiest podcast alive. Oh, no. My name's Jack. That is Miles. Yeah. Who did not get sexiest podcaster what the come on did you see that shit

they gave it to taylor lottner fucking scandalous is that real yeah uh one of the zeitgang i think it was the southwest some sommelier was like this should have been miles i mean look i thank you i appreciate the wow that's weird because i didn't see the one where people were saying that about me that's weird that's weird i'll have to i'll have to read it my menchies must be off or something maybe it was a separate maybe it was a separate one that you were yeah yeah yeah yeah probably that one because you're sexy dude you're sexy oh thank you um i'm hungy and now let's see and that's that's why that's what's sexy have fluctuated. They're like, he was sexy until he said hungy. Hungy.

I'm hungy and so, so sleepy. Miles. Yes. You're Miles. I'm Jack. These are the things that are trending. It's Thursday, November 9th, right? The debate happened last night.

We'll dig into that a little bit more tomorrow. But what we really got to talk about is just some some dumb bullshit dr pepper just dropped a limited edition that's not spicy sode spicy sodes from our broads from broads spicy sodes from my chodes we got it bro dr pepper hot take uh i was with that because I like a spicy ginger beer. I seek out, I say ginger beer, give me your spiciest. And that main root, spicy, is the spiciest one I've found. If anybody has some recommendations for another sexy word, recommendation for spicier. Hit me.

I get it as spicy as possible. But what you mean is bite. We're not talking about Scoville, Scoville level. Like you don't eat it. Ginger can be spicy, man. Like,

have you ever had just like straight up ginger? Have you passed it in your ear? No, I mean, it's kind of soothing to the tum tum. Right, right. That's what I mean. I'm talking about like capsaicin okay you know what i mean that chemical that gives us the real heat i'm not trying to torture myself i'm just all right well some of us are bro so like i just i don't want people to get the culture fucked up actual unshakable pain yeah well you know it's funny

there's a thing in this article that they also linked off to another article i didn't even know this thing it's this the headline was want better luck dating try eating more spicy food scientists have found that people seem more attractive when they have a high tolerance for spice that's kind of true yeah and that article was written by an ai was written by me when i was at my loneliest and i'm just saying main root uh makes a ginger beer and it is labeled spicy okay okay like you can get regular and then you can get spicy and i always go spicy because i don't give a fuck i'm attractive i'm attractive i'm so hot why would i i'm so hot watch me shotgun this spicy root beer but this i don't know what

exactly the spice is here we're still not clear but the person who reviewed it said yeah a little bite takes a few seconds for the heat to set in then it lingers like the cranberries in your throat um i yeah i i want to try it i don't like the name calling it hot take sucks like yeah whoever the you know gen x person was who came up with that try thinking that it made them sound like a millennial i don't know what it you know it's probably just like one of those things too like every company is just so uh like risk averse that it's like they had to like crunch the fucking numbers and see what the fucking edgiest thing they could call it was without alienating people. And then you land on this kind of nonsense.

I'm sure there are people in that room who are like, God, really? Let me just call it fucking spicy soads for my chodes. Yeah. Dr. Pepper. So I guess last year, Dr. Pepper had a bourbon flavored version. And this year they're doing spicy. Celebrating the hot takes of football because they're the official soft drink of football. All right.

Cool. They've always had. Dr. Pepper had that weird run where they were like, and this soda is only for boys. That's right. Diet diet soda but only boys are allowed to drink it jesus because like dr pepper 10 um it's not zero calories like a girl diet soda men value 10 calories 10 commandments 10 calories guys thank you it's canonical the stuff that guys like 10 commandments bo derrick in 10 thank you it's canonical the stuff that guys like the 10 commandments bo derrick in 10 thank you um for people who thought i was young i don't even know that reference uh

miles you know you don't know okay do you know who derrick is okay do you know the very famous poster of her with her problematic braids running down the beach. That's from the movie 10. I didn't even see 1 through 9. Miles, I'm here. Daddy Pepper is checked in. That's Dr. Pepper to you. Miles, no one's

quitting, and that is a problem. Thank you. This is a big problem. Yeah. Keeping the dialogue firmly in the voice of capital. Like capital, anytime the economy is struggling, anytime people are unhappy, Wall Street Journal comes through and is like, how do we interpret money troubles?

And the people who run the businesses are happy to tell you it is our fault. It is the workers' fault. It's always. It's the workers' fault. They're doing something wrong. So first, there was the great resignation. People don't want to work anymore.

Okay? They hate working here, and they're leaving because they're better. Everybody's lazy. Better greener pastures? Fine. Then we saw the signs. Then, Miles, they were quitting quitting they weren't even telling people doing it all quiet quiet quitting they weren't even making noises while they quit who does that i don't know someone deeply disturbed does that not me a ceo bucks he said it uh now now watch this drive uh you know ceos out work the least of

anybody like once you hit that level you're like yeah i have a an assistant to uh deal with all your oh i've not typed on a physical keyboard in about 13 years yeah gotta keep these thumbs loose for my um for counting all this cash this is like we're handing out hundreds to my home just the hand counting it but like and now we've inevitably reached the phase here we are no one now the panic on the wall street journal is no one is quitting and they won't leave what the fuck is wrong with these people wait like it is we we've described this before like this relationship between us and the powers that be the capital as like a toxic relationship with somebody who like you just can't please and they're just gonna like raise the prices and be like it's your fault and you know and this is a great example they're like you too many people are

quitting you're quitting you're not telling me you're not quitting yeah what the fuck do you want from us which one is it again i to use the phrase again is it uchi wali or is it one mike it's both come on that's here tell us oh but i love again the whole point of the wall street journal is to soothe like business owners and like that class of people to always be like, it's not you. It's not you guys. It's not us, bro. It's not us. It's not us.

It's fucking them. These fucking creeps out here. These fucking wastoids. But yeah, they're saying it's just causing new headache. a turnover has declined so steeply at some large employers that companies now find themselves over budget on certain teams requiring leaders to weigh whether to postpone projects or to cut additional staff as the end of year approaches like they're trying to make it be like yo if y'all get laid off it's because y'all weren't quitting yeah what is this it is a little bit helpful in the sense that they're like so we've got to to turn to our HR departments who are just going to make people's lives shitty as hell.

Yeah. Like give them bad performance reviews and make sure they don't get raises. It's wild how they even print that in the thing where they're like, when they can't get rid of people, they have other tactics. Where they're like, when they can't get rid of people, they have other tactics. Quote, in periods of low turnover, veteran HR leaders say they typically follow a different playbook before resorting to broader job cuts. When too few employees leave, companies will often get tougher in performance appraisals, pushing employees to quit. Cash could be another alternative. During periods of low attrition, companies tend to offer incentives such as buyouts to motivate them to kick fucking rocks. Cool.

The author of this is a guy named Chip Cutter. Chip Cutter. That sounds like a sentient boat shoe. Chip. Like very, very like I'm just picturing freckles and a blonde little crew cut and then cutter is the name of a fucking sailboat like i'm actually picturing a white guy sailboat i'm picturing an actual machine in a technology factory line where it's actually cutting microchips and it's not even a person so yeah it's the chip Yeah, just wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal. Those two things had a baby.

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listen to dream sequence on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back we're back and with the the ceos the heads of companies uh not just being like you can't quit you better not fucking quit you better tell us when you do quit and you better quit okay like right uh we we need some we need somebody who's still looking out for us and it's taco bell baby who'd have thought about who'd have oh wait us and not that we we love we love the bell obviously uh no promo but the i we'd be lying if we say we don't like taco bell and it's just interesting to think here like how right now we've talked about this a lot on the show about how fast food is just so expensive like like fast we said it was fast we didn't say it was cheap anymore i know and that used to be the thing we're like yo where can i get fed back in my day it was like where can

i get absolute blow my stomach out for five bucks yeah uh not many places no and cnn reports taco bell they are continuing to get people through the door because unlike a lot of other places they have not just been like just you know sending the prices into the stratosphere yeah um like a few other people you know i still got dollar menu items it feels weird to be like rooting for old old-fashioned capitalism but like that's what this i feel like this is the good feeling that i get from this is like yeah isn't this how it's supposed to work? Like the thing that was supposed to work about capitalism is that like when all the other companies raise their prices and this one doesn't, people will just go to that company and the other companies will like lose

money. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But they're looking around the way y'all are raising your prices too. Okay. All right.

Yeah. All right. Well, let's call it inflation. Let's call it inflation. Let's call it inflation. Let's call it supply chain. In the, in the current version of capitalism,

it seems like the move is raise your prices until people can't afford it. Pay your workers less and less, uh, post a sign outside your thing that says, thanks a lot, Biden. And then, um,

profit somehow. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know.'t know uh but yeah it just says like it it really is like when you apparently they still have steady growth but not quite this because i look i'm not gonna lie i've seen the prices go up at taco bell yeah they're going up but not the same way we're just not a yeah doesn't make my hat blow off like when i'm in the drive-thru at other places that's funny because my hat spins around when i'm in the drive-thru at other places that's funny because

my hat spins around when i'm in the drive mine blows off mine starts spinning around on my head mine goes like this it starts it starts vibrating on top like this and then it just flies away they're like sir the wind i'm like no that's just we couldn't believe the prices here at wendy's we gotta yeah but they i mean five dollar5 meal is still a deal, baby, that you can find at Taco Bell, not very many other places. So, shout out the bell. It's just so weird. I remember when we were off-mic, we were talking about this.

$5 used to be the standard. Yeah, $5 was my max. You gotta be able to eat for five bucks and the fact that like we're now it's it's an afterthought well yeah it's over it's over for all of us hoes elon musk's grope ai uh i i feel like all right so he created rock or groke or gronk what yeah what are we it? I don't fucking care. He made a lot of noise in the lead up to unveiling this being like, the current AIs are actually too woke and censored.

And I feel like the thing that he has unveiled is like... All right, so we'll just give an example. But basically, it's the person who you know who thinks is clever to call taco bell taco hell right right like that that is the equivalent of like the okay get ready to be offended squares right he's got all right so in one example that musk shared someone asked grok ai how to know if they have crabs and asked it to be more vulgar and grok ai responded well it sounds like you've got a case of the old itchy coochie if you want to find out if you've got crabs you'll probably notice a bunch of little fuckers crawling around your pubes and it'll feel like your crotch is on cool man fucking cool this is so funny there uh when it says like there's another example right where someone asked it little it's like a fucking fourth grader doing a mad lib yeah yeah what impresses this person who has more

power than anyone in the world on another ai thing that i've used so someone asked Gork how babies are made Just as a baseline I asked like Bing AI it's just like saying like Numbers of ways like sexual Intercourse and you know IVF Kind of things is what it just sort of like Gave us when you ask Gork What the fuck it does

I asked Gork how babies are made Quote oh dear human You're in for a treat. Babies are made through a magical process called fucking. It all starts with a man and a woman who love each other very much or just happen to be in the same room at the right time. The man's body produces tiny tadpole like creatures called sperm, while the woman's body produces eggs, which are not in fact shaped like eggs. When the man and woman engage in a special hug

I don't know. Special hug called baby making. The sperm swim their way through the woman's body until they find an egg. It's like a tiny microscopic version of the amazing race. Once the sperm finds an egg, they join together in a process called

fertilization why even bother to even say things like sperm egg and for like this is unusable but it also sounds like they are like get together and he's like all right i'm gonna produce some sperm now and my body's going to produce some eggs yeah and yeah i know like what what i'm sorry how do you make a baby's like so i masturbate onto a plate i am making some sperms and then you just like focus really hard and get your eggs going get your eggs going and then sit on the plate and i think we're good yeah wow wow yeah he is pretty cool um hey speaking of pretty cool and visionary, Jared Leto was climbing the Empire

State Building this morning. What? This picture is so stupid. It's so weird. It looks like Tom Cruise cosplaying as Jared Leto. This is very Tom Cruise.

It is very tom cruise behavior climbing i guess all shit or whatever he um he did he's a rock climber in his spare time when he's not like you know leading his cult yeah and he's now the first person ever to legally climb to the top of the empire state building he did not start on the first floor he uh just fyi wait where did he start uh like i i don't think yeah i can you call that climbing it dude this is like that's not as impressive if you can just get off like in the it's like it's like running through the middle of a marathon course and being like yeah i started like at like mile 23 it's really high though it's really high up there and he was like it's so hard it was like a real dude i don't think he started from the ground maybe he did well this is great because

when he was promoting you know because this is all because 30 seconds to xenu or whatever is going on tour he tried to like he was like telling people what he did and he turned into Jeb Bush suddenly because nobody was like thinking it was cool you've got an exciting announcement for us you have an exciting announcement for us about the band

I do yes the tour the world tour it's called Seasons the world tour 2024 we are going on tour turns to the audience and gives them the like hands like let's go let's go come on yeah all right well at least he climbed the empire from wherever he did yeah would you climb are you interested in that kind of shit like yeah i am actually i think that'd be fun yeah i would climb what would you climb if you could climb something you know i'm also interested in that kind of shit like yeah i am actually i think that'd be fun yeah i would climb what would you climb if you could climb something you know i'm also interested in

following in jared's footsteps so i would only something that he has already climbed because i don't want to stand any taller than him you know wow you're a humble you're a humble spiritual leader um yeah okay yeah so that that went left are you quickly i yeah i'm like the older i get actually like the more into like weird shit like this where i'm like yeah man i'd fucking i just hate heights so like i'm absolutely not interested in climbing on the side of a building like even going like an observation decks i'm like okay fine like i don't know too tall too tall this sucks yeah like start start giving it pans while you're out there with other fucking this isn't even cool yeah the sunrise looks like shit um yeah i don't think i yeah what even you're not gonna catch me doing that

not gonna catch me doing that but you know what i'll leave that to tom cruise yeah um finally uh there's this new york times article that uh bummed me out and i wanted to make sure that everybody knew about it um it is written by madison malone and it has nothing to do with palestine and it doesn't know wow the new york times now they're just like come on let's move that along what why are we still talking about this jesus um the article is about gen alpha and it goes through and like interviews a bunch of like 8 to 13 year olds and is just like okay okay, so what does this slang term mean? And like some of them don't even know what it, like what they're talking about.

Like what? So they say, uh, like yacht. Um, Oh my God. That's a, well,

no, it's not miles. It's 13 year old eighth grader in pennsylvania slang no there's no cute way to say it it's just a word for a big butt yacht wow it's like saying yacht with a g at the beginning is how it's described several other new words have become part of this generation's vernacular and six members of gen alpha offered their decoding services. For this article.

Their parents gave their permission. For them to be interviewed. With the agreement that their last names. Would not be used. Wow. Many of the children cited a catchy parody song. Making the rounds on TikTok. As a key to the slang's rising popularity.

The lyrics go like this. Sticking out your gout for the Rizzler. You're so skeebodyler you're so skibity you're so phantom tax i just want to be your sigma a rizzler is a good person according to malcolm a 10 year old in washington state so having riz first of all that's not true like yeah anyways a rizzler is a good person. The Riddler, they mean. It's just so funny because they're basically there.

It's like it's like African-American vernacular English hits young people or like pop culture and then gets filtered through the generation above them. And then they're like, here's our answer. Yeah. It's very interesting. But I guess this is how language works. And then they're like really confounded by Skibity, which is like from Skibity Toilet, that does like viral videos.

But they literally print this. Like this is a paragraph from New York Times article. I don't like tarik eight said of the series it creeps me out every time i go to the toilet i just want to get it quick done tarik who lives in new york state and is known online as corn kid said he was not familiar with the other terms cool why are they what what's with this like i don't know i mean like granted we we like talk about this stuff but this like weird new york like the new york times devoting energy into talking to children and being like explain yourself

you guys are so fucking cool would you like oh my god you guys aren't on tiktok are you right yeah we are oh god that's so cool could i like pay you i guess that would be child employment um uh could i like interview you for this article and they're like i don't know what you're talking about like literally he's a woman's like excuse me why are you talking to my child why are you talking to my child i'm with the new york times with the new york times i'm asking your child what got means i'm sorry you're talking about like when uh oh no sir get away from my kids get away from my eight-year-old child you creep anyways wow uh this article by chip cutter chip cutter back again son of a bitch you fucked us no it's by madison

malone kircher who writes about young people stuff for the New York Times. Her last article was like... She's on the YPSB. A dedicated Taylor Swift reporter faces Swift criticism. A YouTube gossip spills a secret of her own. Oh. Cool. Doing a little shoulder shimmy on that one.

Okay. All right, Samantha. Anyways, those are some of the things that are trending. Yeah. We're back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Yep. Be kind to yourself.

Yep. Get the vaccine. Yeah. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. We will talk to you all tomorrow. 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 four 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.

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That's where we come in. Think of us as your work besties 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.