The Daily Zeitgeist - Street Zeiter 2 TURBO 3/2: Flavor Flav, Potatoes, Wendy’s Breakfast, Valorant, Trader Joes

Episode Date: March 2, 2020

On this edition of Street Zeiter 2 TURBO Miles and DJ Danl discuss Public Enemy and Flavor Flav parting ways over political differences, a new medical treatment involving potatoes and your butt, Wendy’s launched breakfast items, the newest tactical FPS from the makers of League of Legends shows a little gameplay, and the founder of Trader Joes has passed.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Turbo. Turbo. Or Marvel versus Trencom. No, forget that one. Trencom 2. Yeah. Oh, man. I was just playing Capcom versus Marvel on like a arcade cabinet that had like an exciting game in it.

Nice. But I was like actively trying to play that. I was playing with Her Majesty, and I gave her that work. Good for you. Good for you. No mercy. I just told her, look, she was fighting with Chun-Li. I just said, yo, hit the fierce kick as hard as you can.

If I get near you, you're probably going to fuck me up. Hit that spin. Yeah, it's over. She got it. Chun-Li delivers the work. It me, Miles Gray, and that DJ Danil over there. And let's just get into some of the things that are trending. Public Enemy, Flavor Flav, trending because, I mean, I'm not really up on what the relationship is between everybody in Public Enemy at the moment. in Public Enemy at the moment, but Flavor Flav is apparently no longer a part of the historical legendary rap group Public Enemy.

As they said, they are permanently moving forward without him. After 30 years. Dude, after more than 35 years. Damn. A lot older than me. Damn. Older than Prince Harry. Damn.

And so this comes just a few days after Flavor Flav, through his lawyers, sent a cease and desist letter to Bernie Sanders over Chuck D performing at the Bernie rally that happened in L.A. yesterday. Which is hilarious on the surface. Yeah. I mean, they're literally there. Fight the power. This campaign is.

Yeah, it seems like most people are aligning that message with Bernie's campaign and then Flavor Flav. I mean, it must have been, the answer to 99 out of 100 questions is always money. So I'm curious what was going on there. But this statement from Public Enemy says, Public Enemy and Public Enemy Radio

will be moving forward without Flavor Flav. We thank him for his years of service and wish him well. Wow. Yikes. Wow, wow, wow. Apparently they said they didn't want, like, there was something going on with some of the imagery, maybe promoting the show or what they felt was going to be at the show. That was going to be using the hype man's, quote, unquote,

unauthorized likeness image and trademarked clock, end quote, to promote the rally. So that was, you know, I think that was a bit of the mix-up. And also Flavor Flav is for Michael Bloomberg. Washed. Washed. No, actually, he has not endorsed any political candidate. Come on, Flav. I mean, if he's not endorsed Bernie, he's washed.

So there you go. I mean, he could be voting for, I don't know. I don't know. He's running don't know. I don't know. I don't know what skin in the game Flavor's got politically. But I'll vote for Flavor to have another Flavor. No, actually not. When you watch him with modern eyes, you're like, maybe not this show. You'd be surprised that someone with clocks around their neck isn't with the times.

I'm going to ask you to put in a bomb sound after that after the fact because you're not at your sound yeah that one landed quite well on its feet um what else do we have okay there's also a thing the new york post people were searching potatoes butt or potatoes ass because the new york post uh was saying that there was like a group of people who are unable to seek medical help for hemorrhoids who have been using the internet and some of the internet tips have been saying to put raw potatoes in their in their b-hole um okay we're science science zeitgang either back this up well so i don't laugh a lot of the people who thought like, here we go. Here's another fake story.

There seems to be a lot of people on the Internet saying to try the little slices of cold raw potato to soothe your inflamed tissues. But again, I think like most of these things, this is born out of people not being able to afford medical care. So you go to the Internet and this is where shit like put taters in your butt comes from. So, I mean, I understand. I've tried a few methods on the internet before for things that I thought would work. Turns out, maybe it did. Maybe it was a placebo effect. Wow.

But, yeah, just, you know, no need to, please put the potatoes down. They say, look, just go for like a preparation H type thing. And witch hazel, tux pads. They say, look, if you've got to do it, just don't leave the potatoes alone. Yeah, use the real shit that's made for it. Thank you. Protect your butt. At all costs, really, really, really underrated.

Really, really underrated. I just also, we were talking about Wendy's breakfast. That's also trending today because it launched today, and they are just giving away free whatever. Oh, yeah. I know McDonald's basically said, I think today McDonald's was like, oh, Wendy's is launching a new breakfast menu? Well, guess what?

Today's National Egg McMuffin Day. Come through for a free sandwich. And now Wendy's is saying, hey, baby, come on by and maybe we'll give you a little hookup. Bow. Yeah. You can get a free honey butter chicken biscuit. Oh, I love that combination of words. I'm definitely a fan.

Do you eat Wendy's though regularly? No, but just honey butter chicken biscuits in general. I am a fan. How many years passed before you actually ate Wendy's for the first time? You ready? It was 19. You were 19? I was 19.

I was 16. Wow. Because there weren't a lot of Wendy's in the Valley. Correct. And you had to kind of drive a little bit, or the one that was sort of deeper in North Hollywood, and I was never going out there unless I was trying to cop, you know what I mean? If I had to re-up real quick. On Wendy's? Yes. Yes. was like sort of deeper in North Hollywood. And I was never going out there unless I was trying to cop, you know what I mean, if I

had to re-up real quick. On Wendy's? Yes. Yes. Well, first two letters are the same. And yeah, then I started, like a couple of friends of mine who had come from places where Wendy's is more prevalent put me on. I actually enjoy the burger.

Yeah. I mean, it's not bad. Look, fresh beef, spicy chicken sandwich, not bad. Having that spicy chicken is good? I mean, yeah. It's acceptable. Maybe we'll go test that. It's acceptable.

Later on. Let's see. Another thing that's trending is Valorant. Okay, here... Now you're talking my language. Now you're talking my language. Here comes Gamey McGamerson. I mean, not to say that I don't fuck with games too

But you know I'm casual I'm a casual What the fuck is Valorant? So Riot Games The company that made League of Legends Their company is Riot Games Who are you running that bot lane

In League of Legends? You know right now I'm running that Miss Fortune Maybe that Lucian Anyway Just want to know No more Sona Taric Unfortunately that meta is out.

Also, what about Tarek, dude? Does he have new skin yet? No new Tarek skins right now. Oh, my God. So not Obama was president last time Tarek had a new skin. I mean, something like that. Anyway, so Valorant is the first game that's not made within League of Legends, made by Riot Games. So they've made a couple other games that are kind of variants of League of Legends.

Valorant is a first-person shooter that kind of plays similar to Counter-Strike, if you're familiar. Yep. I went to many internet cafes. There you go. That's what I like to hear. So some elements of games like Overwatch, but it's more a team-based tactical shooter like Counter-Strike. They just released a two-minute and 40-second teaser video of some of their in-house dev testing gameplay and people are already stoked really yes wait well i mean here this is how i look at it right i like i'll play a first person shooter i'm not quite the you know fanatic for first person shooters for sure uh i typically will play the campaign mode in a call of duty totally um but online no miss me with that because

i'm so terrible. No problem. I don't enjoy being completely gone within the minutes of the game starting. Yes. Aren't there enough of these games? One would think, yes. Totally. So, okay.

Overwatch, I know, is huge. People love and overwatch. Love overwatch. Is that less tactical? That's like just every man for himself type of thing? No, it's definitely very tactical, but I would say the main difference between over Overwatch and this game we're talking about here is a focus on the specific shooter elements of the game. And that's where the Counter-Strike comparison comes in.

Because Counter-Strike has been the hands-down gold standard for team-based tactical shooters in esports for generations and generations. Ever since original Counter-Strike, 1.6, and now Counter-Strike Global Offensive, it is the gold, gold, gold standard for shooters. And so what Riot Games, the game that they're trying to get into, is the kind of realistic shooter world, where Overwatch owns the cartoony, tactical abilities. Yeah, flying around and all kinds of shit. Yeah, where you're not necessarily concerned about using guns as much.

Counter-Strike is still a specifically guns game. So more like Valorant is more a specifically guns game like Counter-Strike. Interesting. And are you stoked? I'm extremely stoked. Yeah. I mean, I love Riot Games. They make awesome games. Their company is obviously in hot water for a lot of inappropriate behavior towards their female and non-gender identifying employees. Oh, really? Yeah. I mean, it's been pretty gross. Their higher-ups have been really inappropriate towards a lot of the employees, and there's lawsuits that are currently in action.

However, those people are not the people who are making Project A, which is now known as Valorant. And I'm excited for this game, and I'm excited for all of these people involved in these trials to get justice. Dude, 128 tick servers, at least 30 frames per second? That's a really big deal. Almost like min-spec computers. I can't really stress how important 128 tick servers is

because it is huge from a competitive standpoint. What's a tick server? It just means how quickly everybody's information is getting to each other. Oh, got it. So a lot of games used to do this thing where they would guess what the other player was doing before it would happen on your screen.

Oh, right. Sort of like extrapolating. Exactly. And it's actually why Counter-Strike is the biggest first person or the biggest competitive shooter in the world because they have 128 tick rate servers and it's super quick.

Dude, love it. You love to see it, dude. 60 to 144 frames per second on modern gaming rigs, Brad? Bro, let me tell you something. You're getting your frames. You're getting your frames, dude. I mean, dude, a global spread of data centers aimed at like less than 35 milliseconds for players in major cities around the world.

And that could be obsessing over for years. And it could move to Andy Chief from day one. I mean, guys. I mean, with that, I don't know where else to go. Also, just a side note. Apparently, the dude who started Trader Joe's, he passed away on Friday. I know. That's so sad.

Is it? I mean, I didn't know him. But Joe's, he passed away on Friday. I know. That's so sad. Is it? I mean, I didn't know him, but how old was he? He was old, right? He was old. He was like in his 80s. Okay. Well, then he lived a good life. His business was successful.

I mean, and then I think Germans own it now. It's like a German company owns it now, which is why I think the snacks have gotten better. Don't tell him that. Okay. All right. Well, thank you, Dan, for teaming up with me on this one. Thanks for having me. And look, now I won't look stupid when I go hang out with my FPS crew later.

Yeah, you just let them know. 128 tick servers. Yes. Dude, 128. I'm going to get that shit tatted right now. Yeah, baby. All right. We'll see you all tomorrow in the morrow because we'll have a very special episode.

You'll want to tune in for that. We'll talk to you then. Bye-bye. Bye. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do.

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