The Daily Zeitgeist - PokeTrend Shaped Cheeto 3/6: Pokemon Cheeto, Gen Beta, Cursive, Jaws, Taco Bell Keynote

Episode Date: March 6, 2025

In this edition of PokeTrend Shaped Cheeto, Jack and Miles discuss the Charizard shaped Cheeto, the dawn of Gen Beta, the Supreme Court rejecting Trump's request to keep billions in foreign aid frozen, Dems trying to kill cursive so kids can't read the Constitution, the 50th anniversary Jaws exhibit, Taco Bell's 2025 keynote address and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hi, listeners. It's Emily Tish-Sussman, host of the podcast She Pivots. This March, we're honoring Women's History Month with episodes from powerhouse Governor Gretchen Whitmer. I fell in love with public policy and that's kind of when I pivoted. Then later we dive into the rise of women's sports by hearing how sports investor Carolyn Tish-Blojit is shaping the industry. Come join us and listen to she pivots on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What would you do if mysterious drones appeared over your hometown? I started asking questions. What do you remember happening on that night of December 16th? It actually rotated around our house, looking as if it was peering in each window of our

home. I'm Gabe Linners from Imagine, iHeart Podcasts and Linners Entertainment. Listen to Obscura, Invasion of the Drones, wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Hey Will, do you ever get overwhelmed by how much science happens these days? Constantly. I'm like, ah, there's so much science I can't keep track of it all. Then it's a good thing our podcast, Part-Time Genius, is counting down the 25 greatest science ideas from the past 25 years.

That's right, Mango. We're talking animals. In a paper called, quote, chickens prefer beautiful humans. Right. This was actually the title of the paper. I like this. They all discovered that much like humans, chickens are beautiful humans. This was actually the title of the paper. They all discovered that much like humans, chickens are attracted to symmetrical faces.

We're talking medical miracles. He's an endocrinologist who found a way to stimulate insulin producing cells using, wait for it, the saliva of a Gila monster. There's no way to make that not sound crazy. We even talked to some of the experts behind these breakthroughs. It's a week full of fact-packed stories you won't want to miss.

So listen to the part-time genius countdown of the 25 greatest science ideas of the past 25 years, starting Monday, March 3rd on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Mark Seale. And I'm Nathan King. This is Leave the Gun, Take the Canole. The five families did not want us to shoot that picture. This podcast is based on my co-host Mark Seale's bestselling book of the same title. Leave the Gun, Take the Canole features new and archival interviews with Francis Ford

Kobla, Robert Evans, James Kahn, Talia Shire, and many others. Yes, that was a real horse's head. Listen and subscribe to Leave the Gun, Take the Canole on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Poketrend Shaped Cheeto. In honor of our first story, my name is Jack O'Brien,

that over there is Miles Gray! Oh, thank you. Oh my God. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you for thanking me. Oh, thank you. Right off the bat, Miles. Yep. Let's get to it. Have you heard about the rock pipe theory? Uh, uh, shout out Connor O'Malley. Great video that we'll be talking about in a moment. Probably forever, but forever for now and forever. But first we got to get to the top story of the day, which is that a Pokemon shaped Cheeto sold for nearly $90,000. According to CNN.com.

At first I was skeptical, you know, how could a Cheeto possibly look like a Poke main? Exactly. But so it looks like Charizard. It does. So I went it's in a it's in like a glass case that you would like keep a baseball card in. That's also inside another glass case that you would keep like the crown jewel inside of. So this is a fucking dead stock cheeto.

Yeah. This shit never saw the outside of a bag They were just like I feel yeah exactly dead stock cheeto dust on there, bro No, that's right transfer. No dust transfer even when this thing was being set yeah, but so yeah I was in first when I went and saw it though, so it has this combination of It actually looks like Charizard But it also looks like a cheeto enough that it looks accidental, you know, yeah Yeah, that doesn't just combination makes it one of the finest specimens. I've seen I still think they slightly overpaid at 90,000 I'd probably put the value closer to seven dollars and fifty cents, but a Remarkable specimen nonetheless. Yeah. Yeah. You know? Yeah. I mean I'm currently bidding on a cheeto that's

shaped like the Persian princess Shahrazad and it's not going for it's about 15 bucks right now. I think a much more seminal figure but yeah 90, whatever dude, if that's your shit and you have that much money to fucking piss away at, I don't know. Nothing, nothing means anything. So yeah, buy your $90,000 really matters. Um, God, I'm a good singer. That's, that's the second story. I'm a really good singer. Third story. Nothing really matters to me. That was all the same note.

I actually, I was singing it. It was all the same note. All right. Big news for us. I guess not us, right? So there's a new generation here. Like starting right now, babies born going forward. So babies up to this point have been Gen Alpha, Alpha, Alpha.

This generation, they've decided to just go straight up Gen Beta. They're calling them Gen Beta, which it feels like they're going to like to watch other babies nursing on their mom like whatever the cuck equivalent of a baby is, you know, I think that's what this generation is going to do. Yeah. And they're buying too much avocado toast and not buying enough engagement rings. So they're off on the engagement ring market has fucking collapsed since the generation started being born. Yeah. They don't have as much disposable wealth as past babies. It's quite frankly. They should just be calling this the, we're so, we're so, the generation, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. It feels like that's what this one's going to be called.

More and more screwed. Yeah generation these are the people that are like and like the younger gen alpha are the people that May live to see the 22nd century. You know, I mean like this is this is that people. Yeah Yeah, they should all things. I mean, I think on average they will at this point born in 25 They should they should get to 75 So I hope so because as we've seen health care in this country is progressive and just keeps getting better and better So yeah, surely lifespans will await. What's this about? Nobody regulating air pollution anymore. Never mind. We're all fun

Nobody regulating air pollution anymore. Never mind. We're all fun Boy, Jen beta though. Hey good luck out here. It's tough. She'll let you know Jim beta you come to me on this day of my daughter's wedding. I Don't know. Does it sound does it sound like it could be Jim beta? I like more bib fortuna from Star Wars. Ah, they wanna one guy Jim beta and like and then Jabba's like Yeah, sounds like a thing. It sounds like something that is what we have figured out we figured out that I'm a good singer and Jim beta sounds like something. It sounds like bib fortuna talk bib fortuna That is I need a bib fortuna talk bib fortuna That I need a bib fortuna fortuna

That's how much that's how much I'm gonna be housing these fucking poke bowls in a dang bib fortuna What a stupid joke you try and tell like some Star Wars fans and like dude shut the fuck up They just try and tell on your podcast They're tired of talking about Donald Trump. So we're just doing anything to fucking Well, look there is some news the Supreme Court did basically say like sorry assholes You got to pay that two billion dollars that you thought you didn't have to pay So that's that's that's that's a bit of nice. Nice. Wait, what? Yeah. What? They denied Trump's request to block the $2 billion foreign aid payment.

So they held up a lower court decision, a five to four vote. That's where Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts flipped on them to get that one to squeak by. But a lot of it too was just like, yeah, it's like Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts, the flip mode squad. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You did always say that. Yeah. John Roberts is like the split star of the Supreme Court.

This is a slowdown shot of Trump, Tony Barrett and her being like, God damn it. It is now. Here's here's my outside theory, though. Uh huh. Or DHS. No, she's praying for him That would be because so in the clip

She looks at him and then closes her eyes in a pained way Looks directly ahead closes her eyes again in a pained way I think a lot of people are like that is how I would act if I was like this fucking asshole But but you think she was trying to amuse him People I think she's just like dear Lord please protect him with the Holy Spirit your Lord please protect your Lord Donald Trump please protect your father to your father God please protect your father Donald and then there's some question on whether he's holding up the tariffs This is a genre of news story

I'm not crazy about where it's like they're trying to goad Trump into doing something that's gonna fuck everybody over Where they're like whoa what I thought you were tough with the tariffs, bitch What do you know what? I mean? Like I know you have to report on it But like the thing where they're like, oh, not such, not such a tough guy anymore about the tariffs or about like the deportation fucking police coming through and doing, they're like, wow, looks like he's not deporting as many people as Biden was. It was like, well yeah, Biden was a fucking monster.

What do you, yeah. Yeah. Anyways. Well, that's the other thing that he was, well, the other thing too was like, well yeah, Biden was a fucking monster. What are you? Yeah. Yeah. Anyways. Well, that's the other thing, he was, well, the other thing too, was like, they're talking about potentially taking away temporary protected status for Ukrainian refugees in the U.S. And then someone asked him in the Oval Office, he's like, the what? Like TPS?

He said, this is not true, he said GPS? And they're like, bro. Yo, he has my grasp of all of this shit. Like, just- I'm sorry, GPS? GPS? You talking about GPS? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Real bad.

Real bad stuff there. I hate it. Can't even tell me where to go when I say, where's toilet? When I'm just walking around. This is definitely a bit of pump faking, Trump faking on the- This is like everything. Just like the last time he's like, I got them to agree to a great border deal

where they're just like, yeah, we're just doing the same shit, what are you talking about? Like you didn't get anything out of us. And now the talks are that the tariffs will be delayed for about a month on a lot of exports to the United States coming out of Canada, Mexico, because they will exempt traded goods under the rules of the U S Mexico, Canada agreement that trade packed the USMCA from his first term.

And it's just all it's just a bunch of fucking chaos. It is my favorite mid major basketball college basketball tournament, USMCA. Shut up. He does seem to be like backing down. Uh, college basketball tournament, uh, USMCA. He does seem to be like backing down. He's like, I'm doing, I'm extending this nicety to Mexico because me and shine bomb are tight. She's cool. She gets me.

So I don't know. She continues to be good at her job. Uh, so that's cool. So we'll see. Uh, I have also been enjoying the memeing of JD Vance's big cabbage patch ass face. Uh, that's been awesome. Windmilling on him. These memes are, some of them are like fucking me.

Like visually they're hard to kind of digest JD Vance's pumpkin face. He's just such a like easy, uh, canvas to like, you know, with the cat fucking with just so many, like now a chairlift, can't get off a chairlift because he was fucking the chairlift. Like this one now I'm like, I can't picture him. I can only picture the big puffy face him. Uh huh. You know, that's all I see. Another one of them, like a minion. Yeah. Oh know, that's all I see. Is there another one of them like a minion? Yeah. Oh wow.

The old school Kate Gosling, can I speak to the manager haircut? Yeah. It all just works. He's got him. He should have been an actor. This guy could have been, could have done such a chameleon. Yeah. You know, he could look like a Senator, a vice president, a piece of shit, like whatever

you want, he can do it. Well you're welcome, I guess, on the Internet's muse. OK, so yeah, you're welcome for all the memes. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about the Piper Rock theory, the curse of conspiracy. We'll be right back. Have you ever looked into the night sky and wondered who or what was flying around up there? We've seen planes, helicopters, hot air balloons, and birds, but what if there's something else, something much more ominous that appears under the cover of night, silent, unseen, watching.

They may be right above your car late one night as you cruise down the road, or look like mysterious lights hovering above your home. Drones. Or are they? We used to work drone because it was comfortable to other people. One minute it was there, one minute it wasn't. Oh that is beyond creepy. We used the word drone because it was comfortable to other people. One minute it was there and one minute it wasn't. Oh that is beyond creepy.

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where I explore the inspiring pivots of women, dig deeper into the personal reasons behind them, and leave you with the inspiration you need to make your next pivot. Every Wednesday, I sit down with women like Kamala Harris, Vanessa Hudgens, and armchair expert host Monica Padman. This March, we are continuing to uplift women in honor of Women's History Month

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Constantly. I'm like, ah, there's so much science, I can't keep track of it all. Then it's a good thing our podcast, Part-Time Geniuses, is counting down the 25 greatest science ideas from the past 25 years. That's right, Mango. We're talking animals. In a paper called, quote, chickens prefer beautiful humans. Right.

This was actually the title of the paper. I like this. They all discovered that, much like humans, chickens are attracted to symmetrical faces. Got it. We're talking medical miracles. He's an endocrinologist who found a way to stimulate insulin-producing cells using, wait for it,

the saliva of a Gila monster. There's no way to stimulate insulin-producing cells using, wait for it, the saliva of a Gila monster. There's no way to make that not sound crazy. We even talked to some of the experts behind these breakthroughs. It's a week full of fact-packed stories you won't want to miss. So listen to the part-time genius countdown of the 25 greatest science ideas of the past 25 years, starting Monday, March 3rd on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Their past behind them. But they also have some unfinished business. The end of their break, eyes of love, was supposed to have been followed up by another app. It's a story about the liberating power of music, the American justice system, and ultimately, second chances. Listen to Soul Incarcerated on the iHeartRadio app,

Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. And we're back. The right is a bit into cursive these days. Yeah. Which feels counter to their whole shit. Like that seems like the sort of thing. They would be like, I don't even fucking believe in cursive, dog. Like, you know. I know. Why don't they say it's like, like, I'm surprised they never went around to like, that cursive is woke because they can't do it. It's like, well, I'm bad at cursive. So that's woke.

Yeah. No, they are fucking all screaming about cursive handwriting constant because recently the Idaho Senate introduced a bill that would require students to quote, be proficient at reading and writing in cursive by the end of fifth grade. But it's already taught in schools in Idaho, but it's now declared an emergency so they can assess students cursive next year.

What? Why? Yeah, man. But you already do it. We got to address this crisis. Wait, it sounds like, have you not heard cursive conspiracy? Piper theory? Hold on, hold on, hold on. We keep referring to this Connor O'Malley video.

Wait, hold on, hold on. You're talking about cursive theory? You're talking about Piper theory? This is a great Connor O'Malley video that you guys just need to go watch. Go to his Instagram. It's one of the first posts he has. It's fake.

They just nail the tone of 90% of podcasts or just that like pseudo intellectual roadshow. Yeah. Where it's like, it's always like, have you heard of this thing? What? Yeah, dude, I just checked it out. Anyway, I can't, we're't, we can't even adjust this. Just look at it.

Pipe, obviously. Dude, pipe. Pipe, obviously. Pipe, rock. So this one holds together about as well as the fictional Pipe Rock theory. Right. Their theory is, so Obama's common core,

the federal rules around public education that is still leave like a ton of leeway up to the States to determine like, you know, what their, what the civil war was about. Right. Exactly. But they did not require cursive at a time when people were starting to communicate almost exclusively through keyboards. Hold on, what? They're not required to learn cursive?

Obama? I'm just saying, I'm just saying. That caught my attention. So now we're thinking about what does Obama want to do? What does he want to do? Wants to tear up the constitution of this country So what's the constitution written in fucking english? English, okay, that's true, bro

But like the style of writing on the the old paper the old cop the old printer paper They wrote on what kind i've never seen it. I've only That's the thing i just use it to justify my transphobia it assumes that people only read the Constitution at the Smithsonian like translated from its original cursive into you know text on know, text on the internet, uh, text on, you know, you, you could get it as a book, which, uh, notably not written in cursive. Yeah. And they are still like, we got, we got this shit figured out. The whole, they're just trying to shut down the constitution by keeping us from reading the original document in the Smithsonian.

That's true because if you can't write cursive, then you can't read cursive, constitution in cursive. Therefore, you do not know about the constitution and there's no other way to read it except for going up to the little glass case and reading it through there. so it does like tie into a part of conservatism where they just like to I don't know They like rules that they like to be like told they're being like bad or good and like, you know, fuck free thought Let's just learn how to like make these shapes. Yeah So they're like, yeah, this is cool. Let's, let's focus on, uh, cursive again. And again, and I think that people were, it wasn't really being taught any more. It's like, I, man, have you tried to write cursive?

I know we were taught cursive, you know, but have you, what's, what's the last time you actually wrote in cursive? I'm Billy Madison status man. Oh, Raruto? Raruto. You asked me to connect it. Raruto's not a word, it's a player. I to two Zs, I'm fucked.

If anybody hasn't seen Billy Madison, he's asked to write Rizzuto in cursive. Phil Rizzuto, right. And his cursive Z is just a squiggly line. This is so fucking hard to do. Dude. Yeah. They're really a lot of work. I hated writing because I could,

I couldn't nail it. Uppercase like a capital G in cursive. And that's like, you know, fundamental to writing my name. And I just hate the way it looked. It looked like a weird, I don't know, like PJ masks character or something. Yeah. The fuck is this shit?

No. It's like that curls in all four corners kind of yeah No, it's tough. It's tough. So He is also weird. Wait, is the no the uppercase B's are right? Yeah, that's what's easier Yeah, but there's there's something you hit a cute any Q fucking talking about All right, whoa Please please. Thank you. Why did they make it? Why did they make the Q?

So complicated. Yep. I'm just saying. Actually, it's not that... That should look like a 2, nevermind. It just looks like a 2, but that's confusing. And what... Who's the second party? We're getting stupid or even trying to even think about how it's fucking connected.

Have you heard of Piper Rock theory? Yeah, I heard of Piper Rock theory, dude. It does seem like the Republicans have been trying to make this one of their culture war causes for a while. In 2013, North Carolina, Republicans bragged that they had reinstated cursive in a list of accomplishments that also included tax cuts, abortion restrictions and the right to carry a gun into a bar or a restaurant. And cursive.

Fuck yeah. Because kids need a little discipline. Yeah. I mean, again, there's like just study after study shows there's no fucking difference when you learn how to write in which one. There's no advantage to either and I don't know I mean like we writing evolves over time I mean I remember in an era where there was no cursive I think I don't when was that you remember an era I don't know

no I don't think so man yeah I think that's all I think you said yeah you're right I guess I keep it My mom has beautiful handwriting. I just wanna say beautiful penmanship. Yeah, cursive, all cursive. It is interesting to see, cause like you can almost, you can see, it's funny. I can tell like a Japanese person's handwriting in English because everyone learns to write in English the same way

that like I can look at it and go, this is a Japanese person writing in English. Cause like from my mother to, it's just the way to it's just the way it's just the way the shapes of the letters are and things like that. It's not necessarily that it's like beautiful, but it has like a distinct style. But it's also funny to think like what I think of my grandmother's cursive handwriting, it looks like the constitution. Right. Yeah. How the fuck are you? I'm like, I can barely write this fast or yeah.

My mom's penmanship is beautiful and completely impenetrable I don't know what any of it says It's not that i'm illiterate it's that this cursor is all fucking weird. Yeah. Yeah All right, two quick stories here. Okay close to my heart. I thought of you. I thought of you when I saw this All right, so on the oscars. Yeah the academy museum I thought of you. I thought of you when I saw this. Alright. So on the Oscars, the Academy Museum. Group Field Trip! Announced that they have coming for the 50th anniversary of a little film called JOLES. As my cousin said it.

They have the Jaws exhibition. Jaws. The exhibition. I mean... It's got everything. It's got everything. It's got the exhibition. I mean, it's got everything it's got everything It's got the the Finn. I think was one thing I said they got the In up there I Can't wait to see the news article about local man tries to get his whole shit bit by an electronic Jaws exhibit, but they do have jaws hanging in the museum already. Yeah, I mean, I've already been pretty, uh, you know, had your eye on that thing, corny

on main while touring the touring that museum. Jack Jack. Huh? Huh? Why are you looking at that? No, nothing. Let's just go. Let's go see the original Rosebud.

Why are you sweating so much? Um, I thought nothing when I saw that sled from citizen Kane. Is that real? They have the sled from citizen. There's like two. Yeah. Apparently they made two row rose buds is rose with the sled. Yay. Miles fucking spoiler, dude. I don't give a fuck and I don't know what the fuck that is. I ain't watching that shit. Yeah. I just know that. I just know it as line, but I remember it was there and I just remember like all right

Another I mean, I guess it just shows you how different people attach meaning to film like where I know it just sort of As a cultural thing never seen it not interested. It's black and white. Sorry. Sorry that movie isn't a movie Can't that's a historical doc. There's only one black and white movie. I know it's called eraser head Okay, and I will then i'm sticking to that but they showed you that before you had seen the color ones So you're just like is this what movies are I guess? But yeah, I don't know This looks like it. I don't know just from the ad for it It looked like they had so much of the original props and objects that, um, they, like the Godfather exhibit that they had was really solid. Like they had really

good footage of like people trying out for the various roles, the different sets they rebuilt inside. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Really cool. So like, this is going to be fucking level three gush for this guy. Yeah. Where he's like, I'm about to fucking hide in the Academy Museum, night at the museum, folks, me and Jaws. Yeah, well, September 14th, anyway. That's just like the most LA thing we could have said right now, like, do the Jaws exhibit?

Jaws exhibit, Jaws. Yeah. And then also Taco Bell had, so they do like a parody of Tech Conference Keynotes where they announce upcoming products. That's so funny. That's so funny. They did one. It's so funny. You guys are so funny, dude. Oh my God.

What this one, they like starting shitting on their old like chicken products while introducing some that like don't seem better than the old chicken products. Really? Yeah. They're like the, uh, they made fun of like the chicken biscuit taco. They're like, why, why of like the chicken biscuit taco. They're like, why? Why would we have done this?

I'm like, I don't know. That shit sounds good. I just like didn't have time to eat it. The new biscuit chicken taco. What was just crispy chicken in a burrito? Yeah, love it. Well, won't try it because I only eat the same four things. Yeah, sorry, Taco Bell. You won't get me. Sorry

You can't do it. That's good. That's gonna be their next move It's gonna be the equivalent of the like forced Obsolescence that Apple does where the food goes bad really quickly, right? Where you're like, oh, I can't eat this I better get the new thing. Sure All right, that is the episode for today, Thursday, March 6th. We are back tomorrow with a whole new episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other and be kind to yourself. Get the vaccines while you still can.

Get your flu shots while you still can. Don't do nothing about white supremacy and we will talk to you tomorrow. Bye. Peace. Hi, listeners. It's Emily Tish-Sussman, host of the podcast, She Pivots. This March, we're honoring Women's History Month with episodes from powerhouse Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

I fell in love with public policy and that's kind of when I pivoted. Then later we dive into the rise of women's sports by hearing how sports investor Carolyn Tish-Blojit is shaping the industry. Come join us and listen to She Pivots on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. What would you do if mysterious drones appeared over your hometown? I started asking questions. What do you remember happening on that night of December 16th?

It actually rotated around our house, looking as if it was peering in each window of our home. I'm Gabe Linners from Imagine, I Heart Podcast Podcasts, and Lennar's Entertainment. Listen to Obscurum, Invasion of the Drones, wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Hey Will, do you ever get overwhelmed by how much science happens these days? Constantly, I'm like, ah, there's so much science,

I can't keep track of it all. Then it's a good thing our podcast, Part-Time Geniuses, counting down the 25 greatest science ideas from the past 25 years. That's right, Mango. We're talking animals. In a paper called, quote, chickens prefer beautiful humans.

Right. This was actually the title of the paper. I like this. They all discovered that, much like humans, chickens are attracted to symmetrical faces. Got it. We're talking medical miracles. He's an endocrinologist who found a way to stimulate

insulin-producing cells using, wait for it, the saliva of a Gila monster. There's no way to make that not sound crazy. We even talked to some of the experts behind these breakthroughs. It's a week full of fact-packed stories you won't want to miss. So listen to the part-time genius countdown

of the 25 greatest science ideas of the past 25 years. Starting Monday, March 3rd on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Mark Seale. And I'm Nathan King. This is Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli. The five families did not want us to shoot that picture. This podcast is based on my co-host Mark Seale's bestselling book of the same title. Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli features new and archival interviews with Francis Ford

Kobla, Robert Evans, James Kahn, Talia Shire, and many others. Yes, that was a real horse's head. Listen and subscribe to Leave the Gun, Take the Canole on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.