The Daily Zeitgeist - RIP McTrendzie 1/24: Washed Baby Names, New Hampshire Primary, Netflix, WWE, The Daily Show

Episode Date: January 24, 2024

In this edition of RIP McTrendzie, Jack and Miles discuss baby names at risk of extinction, the New Hampshire primaries, the AI Biden robocall, Netflix winning the Streaming Wars? (feat. WWE), Jon Stewart returning to The Daily Show and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of RIP to the name McTrenzy. McTrenzy. Oh, shit. A baby name that USA Today is reporting

could be going extinct is the name Mackenzie for girls the washed name list at risk of extinction the washed name list my name is Jack by the way

that is Miles our names are not washed they were washed many years ago. That's right. My name was washed my entire childhood. There was nobody. Nobody. My shit is just kind of like, mine ebbs and flows.

I got this weird thing. I think I said it maybe on the show. I went to the local spot, and the dude working there, I had to give him my name, and they're like, oh, cool name. and they're like oh cool name and i'm like oh yeah and i was like wow what's your i didn't i didn't put together the guy was gonna be like yeah my name is miles too and i was like and i immediately how do you spell it and he's like with a y and i was like and i was like wait i'm sorry i shouldn't have been so dismissive like so they'd be like all right motherfucker yeah okay that's that yeah that's

a real name uh Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. Alright. These names. So, these are the girl names at risk of extinction. And how do they determine this? Because...

So, this is like the list of most common names according to Baby Center. Dun-dun-dun. Dun-dun-dun. The show that comes on before SportsCenter. Baby Center.

There you go. Thank you. Brooke, Blake, Mackenzie, Brooklyn, Charlie, Reagan, RIP to Reagan. Good riddance, you fucker. McKenna, Finley,

Amanda, Michelle. I love that McKenna's on here. These are all names that are down a significant number of spots year over year. Down at least a hundred spots in terms of popularity. Right. The biggest loser is Blake down. No, Brooke is down the most.

198. 198. Hey, but shout out to all y'all millennials with these names. You know what I mean? Just at the forefront. You know, that's really what I say. And then what about for the boys' names? For the boys' names, we got Julius, down 189.

Jaden, down 151. Like, this list is interesting because I've seen these fuckers come and go. You know? Yeah, yeah. Jaden, I've seen come and go. I remember when it was on the biggest risers list. Now, look at you.

Look at you, Jaden. Look at you. Johnny. People were naming their kids Johnny on their birth certificate. Raiden? I'm sorry, from Mortal Kombat? Yeah, the new Mortal Kombat movie sucked. Or Metal Gear.

I don't know which one you're into. But I like how there's both. All of them? Those are two Mortal Kombat names. There was Johnny Cage. Yeah. And then Raiden. So then, oh, that does not... Next Scorpion.

Next Sub-Zero. Sub-Zero. Oh. Please tell me Kano isn't there. Goro? And Motaro? I can't believe Motaro's on here man uh reptile uh brian the editor uh reptile um reed brady nasir ronan bradley clayton uh these are Ronan, Bradley Clayton These are droppers Alright, so let's look at the names

that are blazing in 2024 Nothing really surprising here Olivia, Isabella, Amelia, Sophia Emma, Charlotte Ava, Ellie Aurora, Luna These are a lot of vowel

enders You wouldn't fault Donald Trump For mistaking any of these names Because they start with a vowel And end with a vowel in a lot of instances So you know he's not In cognitive decline Just like Nancy Pelosi

Oh yeah he could confuse all these Aurora and Amelia But basically the same name. Same name. Anyway. Boy names blazing in 2024. Why do they have that in there? Blazing.

Blaze. Just blaze. Noah. Liam. Liam's been up here. Oliver. Elijah. Mateo.

Lucas. Asha. Ezra. Michael and James. Michael and James. I love that it ends with like two names from the fucking bible yeah just letting you know man yeah the good lord still shining down on us no matter what the good book doing its thing the good lord giveth and taketh away names on the blazing momentum list yeah uh all right homeboy nebid kanezer speaking of blazing momentum uh biden and trump are they they both won in new hampshire uh nikki haley said she's not going down without a fight um that pissed off trump pretty badly yeah who is mr

i refuse to go down without a fight sure for everything but he's like this asshole needs to fucking figure it it's like just uh i'm assuming she's gonna like stick around until we get an official ruling from the supreme court right or have they ruled her game her long game is i'm gonna just wait this dude out because you never know. You just never know. You just never know. We don't know. It could be the cognitive incline. Yeah. It could be the 91 felonies. Something might catch up.

But I think also, too, like, you know, it's until all the delegates are actually, you know, allocated. Like, you know, she can stay in it for a minute. The next thing, the next big one is going to be South carolina but like again the polls aren't great i think a lot of people were like her one shot to maybe begin to craft like a narrative or seemingly seem like the momentum was moving in the right direction would have been to win in new hampshire this was her mom's spaghetti moment and uh it was just all over her shirt and yeah yeah she's nervous she didn't come but on the surface she looked calm and ready but didn't didn't work out quite that way it's mom spaghetti yeah what he wrote down a whole crowd mom spaghetti um mom spaghetti hayley the campaign

rolls on uh but again it's really going to be a matter of like, our donors going to stop donning. Doning. Do you hear that? The donor party. Yeah. The donor. The donning party. Donor pass.

But yeah, I think she I mean, we'll see what happens. I just don't. I think most people are like, it's probably a wrap. And then again, Biden's name right in name campaign uh worked out so i mean nothing real nothing really surprising here nothing surprising uh my prediction that he was gonna like have a poor showing because he had to be a writing candidate and uh you know people would use that as an excuse did not come to pass he still won pretty handily so it's until we thought it was hayley's sticking around not she's not going to take trump out

like electorally she's sticking around in case something else does uh legally yeah or she yeah she said this thing she said the party that's first to ditch their 80 year old candidate is gonna win the presidential election wow nikki might have to start taking your texts again girl yeah what's up john you heard you like the spice i got coming out my mouth you know what i mean john you have to listen to this seriously john did you hear the burn i just laid down on trump and byron tell me you're on board for 50 bucks yeah uh the robo call i guess is not going to end up being a story but it is we did get our first instance of like an ai robo call um with as with a lot of examples of ai stuff that we've seen to this point it was not like very impressive technologically like just the writing was bad um yeah so basically they took a joe biden voice that i'm guessing was somewhat convincing and had it

say hey voting this tuesday only enables the republicans in their quest to elect donald trump again your vote makes a difference in november not this Tuesday. Jack, let the man speak for himself here. Let's let Joe Biden. Oh, you got it. Digital, digital, digital Joe Biden. Let's hear from him and see if your grandparents would fall for this. We know the value of voting Democratic when our votes count. It's important that you save your vote for the November election. We'll need your help in electing democrats up and down the ticket i mean look this sounds like shit miles yeah ai is bad but wow also believe because it sounds like when joe biden has like low energy though too and he's kind of like getting through

it um but yeah this is malarkey you gotta do... The delivery is so flat. Alright, Joe. Alright, Robo Joe. But it didn't work. People are saying... The president of Public Citizen declared that the political deep fake moment is here and Democrats wanted the DOJ to investigate the cause to see who might have done it.

Because we don't know. Yeah. But people are talking about the future of this. The FCC has been a little slow to take action on the issue. One thing that people think might actually be good at combating this is

basically an AI system, a program called RoboHalt. RoboHalt. Robocop, straight up. But it, shit, Robo cop straight up. Uh, but it's more, it's actually more like the blade runner test.

It's a AI virtual assistant that can answer phone calls from unknown numbers and ask it questions to determine whether or not the call is legit or not before sending it through. So yeah, I mean that, that makes sense to me. Like, uh, you know this also just feels like some like the perfect thing for the ai industry is like you know the only way to fight ai more ai more ai dude but yeah so we're basically headed for a world where phone calls basically have a captcha process on them um and do you ever fail at CAPTCHAs?

Occasionally. It's weird. Especially when it's like, yo, click all the depictions of a streetlight. Yeah. So the one I get is that it's multiple boxes on a picture of a guy on a motorcycle

and they're like, select all the boxes that have a motorcycle in it. And I don't know, there's one with a shoulder of a guy riding a motorcycle. So that's not a motorcycle, right? But I've tried it both ways, and I've not gotten it.

It's very confusing. I know what you mean, because sometimes they'll be like, well, that's the corner of the streetlight is in this one. The main attract, the real light up part is in this one. Right,, because sometimes they'll be like, well, that's the corner of the street light is in this one. The main attract the real light up part is in this one. And they'll be like, nah, you fucking robo fuck.

Get out of here. And I'm like, what? Try robot asshole. Alright, give me another one. The other one, I prefer the one that's like, slide the puzzle piece into place. Yes. That one I'm acing every time. I'm so good at that that i used to brag so much about how good i was at captions oh man i used to be my things man oh dude here here grandma give me

that real quick was this knock that shit out i ain't no robot hey you didn't raise no robot grandma at least you know that anyways it looks like we're headed for more of the same okay although there's been some like drudge the drudge report the kind of you know right wing uh link aggregator that is still extremely popular uh somehow is like really reporting on a lot of polling that seems to suggest not reporting on just reposting a lot of polling that suggests that like trump might be in more trouble than we think um who knows if it's true but well yeah the thing that has really been that a lot of people pointed out was like this sort of polling in iowa and in new hampshire of people who are haley supporters are like i'm in no

fucking universe do i vote for trump right whether that means they go to whoever like a third party candidate or sit it out or whatever remains to be seen but like i don't know like it's like with polling it's like okay i'll believe it when i see it and he is not actually being elected uh in a normal way but yeah who knows that's a lot of people like a lot of red flags in that win for trump it's like how many times have we been saying there's a lot of red flags right trump like i come on now we can't we can't we simply can't we mustn't yeah just start i don't know i think like the new york times today put out a piece it's like we're normalizing donald trump again and i'm like is that a critical piece or an announcement hey guys get in loser we're normalizing donald trump again again

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And we're back. We're back. We've talked about this being a process that started end of last year. It seemed like a lot of the other streamers were giving up and being like, we need money now? We like money yesterday?

So, they're licensing all their shit back to Netflix and no longer trying to create these other platforms. And we might be headed back to a world where you just need the one streaming service. It's Netflix.

It seems to be like, so they just announced their Q4 results and it was even better than people expected. Oh my God. Like they just have all the, all the shit now. They've got everything. And also like their exclusive shows or whatever.

This, that was crazy in terms of streaming. They had the number one show on streaming 48 out of 52 weeks last year yeah so as much as like we when the beginning we're like oh max is pulling up with hbo's catalog cut to sex in the city is now reportedly going to be on netflix in its entirety yeah and you're like oh shit that's like when you start seeing the other networks and you know studios begin to be like yeah man we'll license that shit to Netflix you're like oh

so you admit it so you admit it it's a problem or at the very least you're realizing it's better to like you're saying just have cash on hand from the licensing fees than to be like we're gonna grind it out against Netflix. Ah, they're fucked. They were fucked. Some of the big hits for Netflix this past year that are

in no way like Netflix originals are the Super Mario Brothers movie, Young Sheldon, Suits, obviously, which started on USA, the Batman, Dune, Ballers, band of brothers. I didn't realize. So Paramount plus has basically thrown in the towel, uh, or Paramount because Yellowstone is now on Netflix.

Yeah. That's a bad look. That's bad. When you're like, this is the one thing I got and I gave it to them. I don't have any money. Please. Do you want our golden goose of Yellowstone?

And I think that's the thing is now everyone's like, well, we still don't know what the downstream, pun intended, effects are going to be for these other platforms. Because the whole thing was being like, and you can only get it on WB streamers or whatever, and now everything's on Netflix, then what is the point? And I don't know if that's like a long-term strategy where they're like, yeah, we'll just get through this next five years and hope people won't completely abandon their nine stream package that they currently have. So I don't know. It's, it seems like it's beginning to sort of stabilize in the sense that netflix is just being like yeah this is what we've been doing in case you guys forgot how breaking bad blew up yeah so i don't know it like good for consumers i guess in the sense that like in the short term in the sense that like all these shows are gonna be like uh even disney seems to be giving up they're going to license lost and gray's anatomy to netflix

which those are like massive abc properties that are i could really see lost blowing up again um oh dude i'm yeah has gen z discovered lost yet they're about to if they haven't they're the way they would go i wonder if they were like oh my my God, like fucking John Locke is baby girl. So baby girl. So baby girl. John Locke's so baby girl. Jack is cringe as fuck. And Sawyer, I don't know.

I don't know how I feel about him. The jury's out. My parents actually named me after Jack from Lost. That's how I got my name. That's how, oh, my name? I don't know if you've heard of Jack Shepard.

He's a doctor from Lost, but that's my namesake. My full name is Dr. Jack Shepard O'Brien. From Lost. From Lost. Dr. Jack Shepard from Lost O'Brien.

Yeah. So maybe girl is trending. I don't know that I want to talk about it. It's a new Gen Z term that people seems to be trending from people using it and then people being like, and nobody knows what it means. It's a term of endearment, I guess. Yeah. I mean, isn't baby girls? That's everybody was baby girl.

Everybody was in the arts. Saying baby girl, but so baby girl. everybody was baby girl in the aughts saying baby girl but so baby girl uh again i love that gen z is just go picking through the garage of our of the popular culture of yesteryear i mean like hey what about this one baby girl oh my god that's so stupid i love it yeah also like look for uh wrestling to have a big year in the coming year. I guess it'll be 2025. Is that when they're doing it? Netflix is taking their first big foray into live sports entertainment.

Thank you. They're going in on Raw, the WWE thing. They spent $500 million per year, five billy over 10 years to have Raw. That, honestly, I'm like, I do not understand how you, like, how Raw, like, look, I was all into Raw's war back in the day on Monday nights and shit,

but, like, how that's worth 500 million a year but i guess when you zoom out you're like it's because netflix is now being like and we can put ads on that shit right and that i never associated wrestling i mean i never really watched wrestling but like when you watch wrestling like does it have like high value ads like i feel like it was always on like places that i wouldn't expect to have it to have like you know big car commercials and stuff like well i just remember watching back in the day like at the height when it was like stone cold versus the rock kind of thing and you they would just leave you on a cliffhanger a cliffhanger and then just go to commercial and you're like well fuck i can't I can't like, this shit is live.

I'm not going to fucking get up out of my seat or whatever, or maybe, you know what I mean? Like, so in that sense, I guess you can definitely absolutely have an audience there for the advertisements, but I think it's like, again, anything they're looking at ways to diversify and bring in even more obscene amounts of money. And for them, they're like, okay, this is something we could put ads on where that goes I'm not sure like I've been so out of the wrestling fandom game for a minute but that's maybe something worth asking Jackies next time we see him yeah absolutely and uh Jon Stewart is returning to

The Daily Show sort of he's agreed to host just one day a week through the 2024 election starting in February the rest of the time other daily show correspondents will host so the current format which has been sort of a revolving door host format isn't going away but Jon Stewart will be the host every Monday

after his Apple TV Plus show the problem with Jon Stewart suddenly ended following creative differences that apparently involved Apple not wanting them to cover topics like China and artificial intelligence. Oh, oh. So, yeah. Well, he back on the Daily Show. They came so. I mean, did you see at the Emmys when they when they won and roy wood

junior was up on stage and he just said hire a host i loved it oh roy roy apparently they were very close to hiring his homage and then that new New Yorker article came out and gave them cold feet. That became very contentious because I know he replied with his own thing. He's like, this is a stretch, y'all. But that's all it takes these days. And it could have been Roy Wood Jr. too. Yeah. Could have been.

But hey, look, maybe we'll have somebody from the show on pretty soon. Not making any promises, but it might happen. All right. show on pretty soon. Not making any promises, but it might happen. All right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday, January 24th. 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. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. I'm Carrie 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, Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. 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. 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. I'm Jess Costavetto, 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.