The Daily Zeitgeist - ShrunkTrend Head Bob 10/22: Google Frightgeist, Polymarket, America PAC

Episode Date: October 22, 2024

In this edition of ShrunkTrend Head Bob, Jack and Miles discuss Google's Frightgeist, the election according to Polymarket, America PAC's paid canvassers only pretending to canvas and much more!See om...nystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:56 From Beetlejuice, Miles. Yeah, I love that character. I liked in the sequel, well, I don't want to, well, it's not really a spoiler. Spoilers. The little shrunken head guys, they're like his friends. Oh nice or maybe minions know yeah, or maybe like servants that Probably want to be freed from the shackles of being you know under the spell of beetle guys, but who knows It's really about colonialism in the end. It'll be yeah a lot of ways My name is Jack O'Brien. That over there is Miles Gray.
Starting point is 00:03:25 Oh. This is the episode where we tell you a couple of the things that are trending right now, uh, this very day, uh, Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024. And we, we are in person. We're sitting next to each other holding hands, uh, recording this podcast. My hands are very sweaty. Yeah. Miles is doing a good job dealing with it.
Starting point is 00:03:45 I'm well, I'm just dry heaving off Mike. That's fine. Um, we're, we're in New York, the big, the big, big Apple, the big construction site is there's always scaffolding. There's always scaffolding. You wake up and hear construction trucks backing up and moving forward. They just back up and move forward all day. Hey, so what do you do, pal?
Starting point is 00:04:08 Yeah, I like to back this truck up every five minutes, then I move it up about 10 feet. Bad hotels, like the hotels are really hit and miss in my experience. It's because every, well, I mean, it's a perfect example of America. It's either super expensive or kind of cheap and awful. Yeah. It ain't home alone too out here for all of us, you know? Yeah. Oh, in the presidential suite?
Starting point is 00:04:35 Yeah, man. It's tiny. My room is teeny tiny. Did you at least get like a ice cream sundae to your room service to go full Kevin McAllister. Yeah, made friends with a guy who brought it up. And you gave him some fruit striped gum as a tip. That's right.
Starting point is 00:04:52 Always. Always. All right. So it is that time of year when Google rips us off and does the Google Fright Geist. Yeah. Which is good. It's actually good for the brand. Yeah. Which is good. It's good actually good for the brand. You know, popularizing Zeitgeist. Yeah, also good for Google's
Starting point is 00:05:10 brand. Yeah. Associated with us. Obviously. But yeah, Fright Guys is where they take a look at their search data and say these are the costumes that are jumping out at us. This is the list of the top. So in the past, they've done the top costumes overall. Um, this year they're just giving us trending costumes. Yeah. Miles, they have taken my editorial feedback. They have, they have, they've, uh, so in the, all those letters filled with mysterious powder, weren't for nothing that you sent to Google.
Starting point is 00:05:41 Yeah. With my fingernail clipping And my dandruff. So the thing, what we've seen in the past is that they were just printing whatever the machine gave them. Right. Like it would be like number one costume, superhero, number two, Spider-Man, number three, Spider-Superhero. Which was just like.
Starting point is 00:06:04 Minion. Yo, couldn't you- And Yellow Pill Man. Couldn't you take a single editorial pass over this? And I'm proud to announce, I'm proud of Google, that they have taken what appears to be a single editorial pass over their results. And it's a little more interesting this time around.
Starting point is 00:06:29 Yeah, because before it would just be like, Cape guy, and now we're getting real things. Like number one, number one. Number one with a bullet. Are we really thinking this is the number one costume? It's the number one trending costume. Sure, okay. So I guess what we have to fucking revisit every day to see. They also give you a little summary. So number one,
Starting point is 00:06:50 as the name of this episode suggests, is Shrunken Head Bob, the Beetlejuice character Shrunken Head Bob. Their summation of this is, Beetlejuice Shrunken Head quotes is the top search shrunken head of all time. Excuse me, motherfucker. I want this list to reflect what I'm going to see out in the streets. You know what I mean? Not just Donald is the most shrunken head search thing ever. Okay. That's a costume.
Starting point is 00:07:20 Again, this, this has to be AI like that. No human thought that was a OK thing to put down. Beetlejuice shrunken head is the top search shrunken head of all time. Therefore, it is the number one overall costume for Halloween. I'm surprised like election shit isn't in here. I know Georgia polling is the third most searched costume. Like, huh? So what else we got? We ray gun that number two I see more people doing meme
Starting point is 00:07:50 It's easy ray gun of course the break dancer. I just assumed it was like some anime character I didn't know about it first, but now ray gun, you know, probably one of the top five Characters from the Daily Zeitgeist this year, I would say. Yeah. And James Carville and James Carville. We don't, we don't get, get into it with that boy tomorrow. James Carville not on this list. I don't think it's accurate.
Starting point is 00:08:15 It's being suppressed and censored. I feel like you could just get a flesh tone, like one of those body, like monochrome body suits. Yeah. And then you'd basically be James James. Yeah. Call the put some beef jerky on it. There are some of these that make me feel old as fuck, such as number three. Most trending costume catnap.
Starting point is 00:08:34 Ah, catnap is the top search smiling critter of all time. Hmm. Again, like nothing about like this is the number one. The more we're reading the sub sub headline the more I'm convinced. This is not even close to what is a trending costume It's merely off of like why why isn't like catnap costume? Yes, you know, I mean Yes Some of them do say that lady Deadpool costume became a breakout search the day that Deadpool and Wolverine was released in US theaters That makes sense. That's what we're looking for here. Heartcore set is being searched more than ever in 2024 and Sabrina
Starting point is 00:09:09 Carpenter is the top person searched with it. Yes, that makes sense. Sabrina Carpenter is going to, there's going to be some Sabrina Carpenter costumes out there, but like. Chipotle burrito. Chipotle. It just says New Hampshire and Alaska are the only States searching Chipotle burrito over Chipotle bowlrito. It just says New Hampshire and Alaska are the only states searching chipotle
Starting point is 00:09:25 burrito over chipotle bowl in the last five years. That's just a fact about searching for chipotle dishes. What the fuck does it have to do with the costume? Like again, now you're getting some like anger from inside out. Man, I'm mad again, Miles. I'm not. I'm pissed again. They fucked up.
Starting point is 00:09:39 I gave them one simple trick to get people to like your fright guys and they fucked up. And I'm using Selson Blue. So I don't have, you know, the dandruff like I used to to sell in nondescript envelopes to them in a menacing manner. So we're going to we're kind of out of it. I have to take it up a notch like Wolverine. I get anything from these movies that have come out or like things that have happened like at the Olympics, I totally I'm like, OK, Ray Gun makes sense.
Starting point is 00:10:03 I've seen people already getting their ray gun shit together I've seen Deadpool Wolverine couple costumes yeah that one makes sense the stuff from inside out totally they're like five Beetlejuice Beetlejuice reference like Delia Dietz they've also got Dolores from Beetlejuice yeah Monica Baluchi's character which was kind of like a weak ass character in the movie. I don't know why the fuck people like, I mean, I get it. Because it's like you could be hot with staples in your face. Oh, yeah. And then you're Monica Bellucci from Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
Starting point is 00:10:35 And down to number twenty three, hot staple face. The is Lydia Deets. Lydia is a well-known writer. Yeah, we got Delia Dez. We got Lydia Dietz. So Beetlejuice Beetlejuice has four characters in the top 25. Whereas number 18? Uh-huh. Dune. Dune. Just Dune. Who are you for Halloween? Dune. Dune. What's your costume? It's Dune, man. I'm just I'm just fucking a bucket popcorn Is it it does say over the past year the top searched popcorn bucket was for dune that tells me absolutely Nothing about what we're here to talk about. Yeah, you motherfucker. I feel like also
Starting point is 00:11:15 I feel like they did this despite us miles. Yeah, I think they read our letters and we're like look at these assholes See, I'm gonna show my therapist because I'm telling you I got told her they're trying to piss me off me specifically Yeah, and I know it's it's not just some kind of error. It's a bitch targeted at me The other one that is really freaking me out number 24 just under the wire Soulja Boy Soulja Boy as in crank that Soulja Boy Superman that now watch me You you is number 24. A song that when I hear it, I still like it. Every fucking time I'm just like, God damn, this song goes.
Starting point is 00:11:51 You! Oh yeah, it has like a whole, it just gets everybody going. The thing that freaks me out is when you search it though, it's all these like white girls. White girls and Soulja Boy out there. I'm like no! And doing a very bad job of cranking that. Oh no, yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:06 They're cranking my chain, based on what I'm seeing the dance that I'm looking at. That you're gonna be so good at giving out candy when people are dressed as Soulja Boy and you say, you must be cranking my chain with that costume. With this? I can't get jiggy with that. Google does.
Starting point is 00:12:24 Google does helpfully tell us crank that is soldier boys most searched song of all time that tells me nothing Google yeah that not only is that unrelated to this it's also so fucking obvious yeah we all knew that was their number one soldier boy is known for the song crank that uh-huh what else now the other part though the other thing I do get gambit is number 17 I think with x-men 97 coming back. That's a huge. I think that's it. That was that was big for us gambit fans Yeah, although that's another hard ass costume to pull off. He got like a fucking Like he's has like a half a shy Steve with the top of the hair gone with a metallic headset
Starting point is 00:13:03 I don't know everybody can dress like that. How you get a shrunken head Bob costume? I gotta take a look at what people are pulling off here. How expensive is a shrunken head? Yeah, that feels very, like high level of difficulty. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no. The people, this is nonsense. I do like the spooky, but they've added new categories
Starting point is 00:13:21 like party themes or spooky foods. Yeah, what are we looking at? All right, party theme number one, miles. You're never going to guess this based on the last list. Beetlejuice. Oh, oh, and we have said it three times, so we're fucked. Oh, no. He owes me money. That's murder mystery. I like that. I love this holiday party theme skeleton as a skeleton.
Starting point is 00:13:41 It's a party. Just scales. Yeah. What is it? Hello. As you look like they've been up for three days, smoking masquerade masquerade. Isn't inherently a costume party, some kind of masquerade. I know what they're talking about though.
Starting point is 00:13:56 Like the fancy ones where you have like a little stick on the side of your head invited to a masquerade party. I've been to a gala for which was masquerade. Isn't that the one Jeffrey Epstein invited you to? He was there. I don't know that he wasn't his party. Right. Yeah. No, his girl invited me.
Starting point is 00:14:13 Wait, isn't that like the like the ceramic masks and shit? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, come on. Yeah, it's just like something. It's like Hello Kitty. School fundraiser favorite. Alice in Wonderland makes at least that's like a whole vibe. Ninety this one, I do believe nineties because we've that fucking. It's like a little kiddie fundraiser favorite Alice in Wonderland makes at least that's like a whole vibe
Starting point is 00:14:26 90 this one I do believe 90s because we've that fucking that loop has certainly come back into into popularity So this focus, you know monster mash. Yeah, that's kind of fun What is a monster mash theme party? I guess it would be you'd have like wolfmans like all the characters from the monster mash or you just Nick wikers Annual appearance on comedy bang bang He does a remake of the monster mash that is already Horribly pornographic
Starting point is 00:15:02 Well, I'm looking at the mummy, the foods. Number one is mummy hot dogs. What is a, again, is this a real thing? What is a mummy hot dog? Oh, okay. So you take a hot dog and you just put a bunch of dough around it like it's a mummy. That's okay. That looks, that sounds like a lot of fucking work. Sounds like a lot of work and it sucks. This is how I know this list is bullshit though. Party theme. Number seven, Scream.
Starting point is 00:15:27 Ah, yes. Why? Yeah. How? Because you're Nev Campbell. Oh, so you go as Nev Campbell? I don't know. Just wear like low rise jeans. Yeah. I'll wear my little short like blonde bob wig and I'll be Drew Barrymore. He's marked in the first scene. Yeah, because I feel like there's only one costume for Scream. You just have a bunch of ghost face walking around. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That sounds like a shitty party theme, man. Well, Google, you fucked it up again. Oh, you're this close, Google. D minus instead of an F this time because you like, at least, you made a head fake
Starting point is 00:16:01 like you were gonna actually try. Yeah. Dune. Dune is so funny. I'm Dune. You made a head fake like you're gonna actually try. Yeah dune Costumes it's probably costumes for like dads who are trying to find common ground or don't write anything. It's like hey, I'm dune man Hey, do you get it? I thought you'd like it. Well, just have like the breathing tube in the nose. It's like isn't that no Grandma's oxygen. Yeah to give that shit back to her What the fuck's what's up with your eyes? He's like I put blue ink in them. Is it cool? Mike ah, I don't know every word about the ad facing the wrong way All right, nice kitty
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Starting point is 00:21:53 And we'll get a little bit more into the polar coaster tomorrow. I think we're all, anyone with bad media consumption habits like myself, you might be freaking out a little bit about the polls. Now Trump's got a 51% chance of winning instead of Kamala had 51% last time. But the most easily manipulated audience for sure. Yes. Oh, that is me. I gotta check back.
Starting point is 00:22:19 I gotta check back. I am just holding my hands up in the air for the next month. But there's been a lot of talk also. Two weeks, not even the next month. Remember that, two weeks. There's been a lot of talk. In addition to the polls, people are like, actually the really good predictive factor is Polymarkets,
Starting point is 00:22:40 which sounds like an investment firm for people in open relationships, but is actually a blockchain based prediction market that utilizes the stable coin USDC for trading. Okay. All right. Cool. And that all made sense to me and went into my brain and my brain knew what to do with it. It's a crypto betting market. But in addition to sports you can bet on almost anything One of the hot items right now That people are wagering on is whether or not RFK jr. And Cheryl Hines will divorce by the end of 2024
Starting point is 00:23:16 That's Yeah, that's that's an interesting one. Yeah, I can I would first say no because she's already been through so much Yeah, but now the stuff where it's like he wanted to impregnate that journalist. Yeah. He was telling her shit like that. I'm like Cheryl. Yeah. How much can you take? Divorces take a long time though. I feel like you know divorce by 2024. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Like if it's announced that they're splitting. Right. Maybe. But then the fine print is like no when the actual divorce is actually, the settlement has happened. Like, oh, a lot of, I mean, and that would be the problem with a betting market that is
Starting point is 00:23:51 all focused on day to day life is it's like, first of all, it's messy. Second of all, it turns everybody into those creepy mask guy orgies from squig game. Yeah. Um, and yeah, so the, obviously the most popular betting market involves predicting the outcome of the 2024 presidential election and Trump supporters have been very excited to report that. Then the poly markets with the poly market.
Starting point is 00:24:22 Markets are saying this thing Trump is gonna win laughing He's now has a 64 percent chance of winning Kamala Harris is a 36 percent chance of winning. Uh-huh So and why wouldn't you bet big if you're probably over leveraged in crypto and hoping that the Trump administration? Will bring like a financial boon to you. And also this is the thing, this just reeks of like another poll manipulation kind of thing to create the perception just like with the red wave it was a lot of partisan shit that was getting people like the red wave is coming. The red wave did fool the betting market. They were like
Starting point is 00:25:02 Blake Masters is a shoe in and he ended up having like literally no support. Yeah, it was actually a red wedding. Right. Is what happened. And I know the wave in a wedding are so close. They start with the same letter. But no, no. The company literally suggests that you should bet on your beliefs. So it's not even saying like fuck is that? Yeah. Which by the way, one of them is whether or not Kamala Harris ever worked at McDonald's. They have like a market for that. But so Polymarket did hire Nate Silver back in July. Wow. So they're trying to, you know, pull in all the people.
Starting point is 00:25:39 Yeah. I think again, this that that whole thing reeks of everything else the GOP is doing to get people primed to say This was stolen Exactly the event that Donald Trump doesn't win. Yeah, you have all this stuff for people going well Look, I mean we had this it was in the bag for this thing right we had all the we had all the momentum in this state because they're already doing the thing where if Like something happens in Pennsylvania where on election day
Starting point is 00:26:06 It's like Oh Trump's winning and they're like they haven't counted the absentee ballots ass right right and then and then it swings it the other way Like a lot of the people who are like observing the sort of like fuckery about the election Like they're priming people again for it's gonna be so absentee ballot swings to be like this is bullshit. This is stolen I just put for it's going to be so absentee ballot swings to be like, this is bullshit. This is stolen. I just put $70,000 in the polymarket for this. Right. Fuck. Yeah. I mean, so Trump's position in the market, like the P his percentage chance of
Starting point is 00:26:36 winning skyrocketed when Elon Musk started pointing to Trump's polymarket lead as a more accurate representation of the race, and it had absolutely nothing tied to polling or the real world. It was just basically, he said he's leading in the prediction markets and those actually matter. And suddenly, you know, the people who follow Elon Musk and Donald Trump started paying attention to the poly markets and it fucking blew up. It's also backed by Peter Thiel. Interestingly, Peter Thiel was heavily involved in Blake, like Blake Masters was just like Peter Thiel's like
Starting point is 00:27:16 errand boy for a long time. And like, that's the only reason Blake Masters was a political candidate was because he was in with Peter Thiel and Peter Thiel decided to like, you know, just create from whole cloth a political candidate. And he was performing well in the betting markets and people were like, I think this kid might do it. And then it turns out because of things like him being a physical void of charisma, it didn't go so well for him in the actual election. Oh, Blake. So, I don't know. Our writer, JM, is pointing out that these public betting markets on elections have existed over much of US history. They're technically illegal right
Starting point is 00:28:05 now, but these are able to function because they're like overseas and the internet exists. But they actually go back to the election of George Washington. There were like a lot of people gambling on that and they were originally made illegal because they can actually sway elections. I love that. I love that. And I think along with that, there's this other thing that's true, their trending story about how people that were hired by America pack, which is the pack that Elon Musk, yeah. Um, that canvassers are using apps to just avoid door knocking. So this one canvasser who's hired by the pack posted a video online outlining how
Starting point is 00:28:48 to use GPS spoofing to make it seem as if they're doing the work of going out to turn out the door door knock. Yeah. And like going like house to house when it's like, but the thing is you can do this and claim the money. Uh, and you don't have to do a single thing. He also has tips as to how to do it slowly enough so it doesn't look shady to whoever's supervising this. This guy is devouring block after block in a matter of minutes. They're like, oh, call the Pentagon. I think it's soldier boy.
Starting point is 00:29:19 But yeah, so I think now this is a huge thing that calls into question, how many people are they actually reaching? If you have people because these are all paid canvas There's a lot of the time in a traditional campaign you have volunteers, right? And I've worked on campaigns where you pay canvassers or people to gather signatures a lot of the time when it's there's it's usually Not tied to like a quota. Yeah, this is out there. I'm like, oh, yeah, I did the work I could only get this much
Starting point is 00:29:44 Let me have my check now, which makes sense because like if you don't believe in it or give a fuck about it, then what incentive do you have to go through with it? Yeah. So I think with this, like a lot of people are like, yeah man, they're paying us and like also, our whole economy is a scam,
Starting point is 00:29:57 so why don't I just scam these fucking people too and just say I door knocked. Yeah. But this is the other thing too, we talked about, I think on Monday, how America pack is actually most of the Trump campaigns like ground game. The deal on mosque one. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:12 The one that just buys Facebook ads that are just right screen caps of Elon Musk. So he's just throwing money out at people that are, you know, conceived, not, not to say that everyone is doing that, but potentially there are people just being like, yeah bro, I'm just fucking skimming the money off of this shit. Then it's really hard to know how many people they've actually talked to and what the turnout will be.
Starting point is 00:30:34 But anyway, interesting wrinkle. I for one am shocked and appalled that people who support and idolize Donald Trump would be grifters. That's fucked up, man. I know, I know, I know. You hate to see it. I know. And you do hate to see it. Hey, dry your eye, man. Dry your eye. I can't.
Starting point is 00:30:49 Just keep coming. Um, all right. Well, fuck, fuck those people. But also like good, good on them. Take the money. Yeah, please take the money. Take the fuck. Maybe. Yeah, maybe they're actually, maybe it's an op and they're just like pretending to be Trump supporters. Yeah. Uh, but Kamorknockers don't fucking do that. You dumb-dumbs. Just do the... I feel like Kamala supporters wouldn't do that, right? Well, again, it's a difference between paid people and volunteers. Right, right.
Starting point is 00:31:17 Like, you want... Like, that's the whole lifeblood of like a campaign, is you want volunteers who are like engaged and are willing to go to neighborhoods where most people are like, Are you a lib? And they'll be like, yeah, yeah. Shout out to John. I have a friend who's flying to Georgia this weekend. Knock on doors, man. Yeah. Shout out to him.
Starting point is 00:31:39 What's going on? There's a lot going on. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, October 22nd. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Get your flu shot.
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