The Daily Zeitgeist - Taco Bell AI Zeit-Thru 8/1: Taco Bell AI, Despicable Me 4, Lil Yachty, Jay-Z, Ron Goldman, OJ Simpson

Episode Date: August 1, 2024

In this edition of Taco Bell AI Zeit-Thru, Jack and Miles discuss  Taco Bell rolling out AI drive-thru ordering, a NZ woman bringing her own snacks to Despicable Me 4 (feat. the cops), Lil Yachty finally listening to Jay-Z, Ron Goldman still waiting for O.J. to pay him and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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get your podcast presented by capital one founding partner of iheart women's sports hello the internet and welcome to this episode of taco bell ai zeitthrus taco trend nah it was fine yeah it was fine yeah do it live you said you it live, and then you bailed on it. Fuck it, Miles. We'll do it live. Do it live. I'm so mad at this teleprompter. God.

These words, they confuse me. I'm Jack. That's Miles. Wait, so I'm supposed to read it and say it at the same time? Oh, no, no. We're not doing this. We're not doing this. Reference to an old Bill O'Reilly video.

Bill O'Reilly was Tucker Carlson before Tucker Carlson. It was Tucker Carlson before Jesse Waters. Before Jesse Waters. I could care less about Bill O'Reilly struggling. I want to talk to you about Taco Bell.

Because they just announced they're rolling out their AI drive-thrus to hundreds of taco bell locations by the end of the year which is weird timing because the last time we checked in on ai drive-thrus mcdonald's had rolled them out to hundreds you know it was a number i it was more more than i had expected at this early stage uh they had already tried it and were scrapping it because it just kept fucking up. Kept the trip in as they,

that's the new way. It's not hallucinating. It's the audit is tripping again. Yeah. Drive throughs when they're doing like a search engine, like general intelligence work, they call it a hallucinations, but it's right through man.

It's tripping the reviews are terrible like it can't modify orders without just completely fucking up your order like someone said i want two chicken sliders at a different one um and like then like but purposely told the ai three and then tried to fix it so i said i want three actually can i get two and then instead the ai added a fourth yeah and then tossed in two orders of chicken rings chicken ring um this is the wendy's clearly this is the thing my order at taco bell pretty fucking convoluted especially because there are menu items i like to go off menu i like to modify so uh shout out to the human beings that i talk to currently who know what i'm putting down when i say i need that cheesy roll-up at

pico head beef and then i get my hacked maxi melt but yeah well done extra well done leave it on the burner a little extra longer i need a human to tell this too you know yeah otherwise it gets fucked up yeah you're not saving anything with this like have you had a an experience with an ai assistant with a like ai you know like on the phone on like a you know automated phone tree the answer is no already an experience the answer is no has impressed you in any way or made you feel like oh we've made a leap forward no right absolutely not i haven't i have not like i'll tell y'all i'll be like wow i actually had a good one it seems like they did like may like incorporate some of the promise of ai into these things it's not happened yet it's just a fucking mess and it's

a lot of like operator operate like i try i try speak with representative yes it's like yeah no they're like you didn't say that i'm like yes i did mother what how did it say you didn't you didn't say that you didn't say that fuck you. Fuck you. You sound frustrated. Everything okay at home? You little bitch. Like, whoa, what kind of saucy-ass AI is this? Fuck that. But anyways, Taco Bell isn't alone. White Castle also recently expanded its AI drive-thru system with a bot named Julia.

And once they name it, you know it's going to be good. Yeah, exactly. They're like like this one's more accurate than humans and that's the one that fucked up the chicken slider order yeah yeah that was the that was uh yeah julia was fucking that up the fun too is also like being silly not like you know harassing someone at the ai thing but just being stupid like flirting sometimes i remember doing that in high school there was like this one uh taco bell by my high school where like like though i love the voice of the woman at the drive-thru i'm like oh hey how you doing yeah they're like yeah

what's your order i'm like you know what i'm about to get they're like i don't know who you are like i would always try to be like you know it's me you know what just tell me your fucking orders i'm like my bad my bad my bad i'm sorry i didn't mean to waste your time. There has been, so we've been talking about AI a lot over the past couple years. Maybe too much, some would say. And specifically, you know, the fact that AI is not

where they claim it is. It can do some very specific things really well, but in terms of, like, the general intelligence, it seems like it's a lot of hype that isn't really headed anywhere and we have raised the question of like because a lot of like wall street value is pumped up by people's excitement about ai in the past couple like three years even like they've been like you know that google is has like a massive ai component

to their market valuation um the past week there's been a lot of talk that the ai bubble is about to burst on wall street and we've been wondering when that was going to happen because uh how do i someone who knows wall street how do who do i who do i bet on here you do uh big short it you're gonna want to uh big all right big short one yeah biggie shorty love that one character from pootie you're gonna need a million dollars laying around and what you're gonna want to do is you're gonna want to short the thing i've got a best buy gift card that's got at least 23 bucks on it still okay take that at wall street that's the start uh $23 on it still. Do they take that at Wall Street? That's a start. What I'm going to do

is I'm going to transfer you over to one of my analysts who's going to deal with you. Can you spot me? $999,999. I'm going to transfer you over to one of my automated analysts who is going to take it from here.

Hey, Julia, I got someone for you. Fuck, it's Julia. She's here too? You want three chicken rings. Fuck! But Wall Street investors have started to run out of patience according to this independent article.

Which, I guess, that's what it's going to look like. Grand opening, grand closing. There's a wild story out of new zealand a family went to see despicable me for and snuck in some snack baggage uh from home containing popcorn and candy um i don't know you mean bringing your own shit from the house to save money that yeah that time honor tradition i was i don't know that I like I guess there have been some times when I like haven't planned well enough but anytime that I think to

do it and have the time to like put the snacks in the bag I've brought a burger in my pocket yeah yeah of course I sometimes the food like I'm like I don't want any popcorn or fucking old nachos like I'm bringing a hamburger I'm bringing a burrito in there.

Go into a movie hungry and then you just have to fill up on popcorn. Eat that crap. Nah. But anyways, a theater employee spotted them, spotted the family, asked them to put the food away. They agreed, but the employee didn't believe them and insisted

on sitting next to them to monitor the snack situation so we're starting off aggressive here feels like a bit much then one of uh the kids ate a skittle that was already in their hand according to the family and the employee started shouting and the kids started crying what the fuck this is so not new zealand vibes i know i'm like even in new zealand people are this hype about despicable me 4 um but the article doesn't say how everyone else in the theater responded to this right i can't i can't imagine they were having a good time at the movies um so according to the family one of the asked, if you're calling the police, are they going to kill my mom?

Oh, my God. And the employee laughed and said, yeah, maybe we'll find out. Which is kind of, I guess, I don't know, hard to believe for New Zealand. But yeah, it did say mom. So it has to be real. This is, oh, man, were these people of color, too? This feels like the kind of shit like, you kind of shit people of color get policed on, but you're like, did you see the person who

brought in a whole pizza? Them? They're like, this was like a certain mint I had. That's my uncle, okay? And he's chill. He knows how to be discreet. They were taken to the lobby where four cops showed up. And yeah,

it just seems like a lot i i am definitely somebody who will bring in smuggling whatever i think i can get away with oh yeah i remember like as a kid too like sometimes there would be like a kid who would do like a like everyone we're gonna go see this all down we went to go see golden eye the james bond movie in the theater and my friend jeff her mom his mom put like one gallon ziploc bags filled with shit for us like i remember so vividly i'm like oh one gallon is so big yeah i was like yo barb barb came through with the fucking two capri suns a doritos bag the little the little uh cheese crackers with the peanut butter i remember so vividly because like yo i'm this is better than fucking anything i could have got at the concession

stand and that was that was the norm growing up yeah i respect it and i don't know like i i guess movie theaters make all their money from food and cinemas are going through a hard time uh but yeah but our sympathy does not move in that direction yeah my sympathy does not and maybe make better movies yeah and don't fucking call don't blame don't blame a family of four for sneaking in skittles it's like yeah don't freak out a life kid eats the fucking skittle that feels like it feels like you are a seven-year-old in that family yeah behavior we're like no, no, we said no. We said, mom said no. You can't.

How come Alice gets to eat one? Yeah, exactly. I'm calling the police. Such pedantic asshole shit, man. Yeah, yeah. Some people shouldn't be given a small amount of power because they can't handle it. You know what?

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say jay-z it seems like most rappers always want at least I just like I listen to the black album for the first time like three days ago god damn and then I listen to the reason the black album yeah just listen to it what do you think as a rock I think that the reason the album was better in my opinion obviously i love he's a insane lyricist yeah oh yeah name name another album that you just didn't listen to a few days ago now i don't look this is i think this is like a thing that a lot of older hip-hop fans talk about how these this younger generation of rappers like like we were sort of raised on understanding it's like for me to appreciate hip-hop like i'm gonna need to listen to krs1 big daddy kane like the beastie boys lo quote like i have to i have to

understand the the foundational elements of like hip-hop to be like a true fan and this sort of take is now like really cementing i think with older hip-hop fans because they see a lot of these younger artists who have like never listened to like some of like what we consider seminal rap albums right this motherfucker never heard you know what i mean and yeah it's just like wild too for like the cypher beat they're rapping over the cypher beat in this mob deep song yeah exactly no that's not what's happening um but like it is interesting i think because so many people like if you are carrying the torch for hip-hop like at least like understand where it's going but again this is i think inevitable with any genre art form changing like it's yeah they're doing what

their version is you're gonna have plenty of mcs who still respect like or you know are interested in like the joey badasses and things like that who are really kind of looking back and like oh this was like a golden era like something to be inspired by not necessarily to emulate but just to know that's where the art form would like was at a certain point um but yeah like this is causing a lot of stir on twitter people like you can't fucking speak for hip-hop like you haven't i mean i i've never claimed to be a hip-hop historian uh i'm not a famous rapper and that that is going to come to as a surprise to a lot of our listeners i'm not a famous rapper um but i didn't do like i just started listening to the rap that i liked which

was around the time of like wuang and Nas and early 90s. And when I went back and listened to some of the shit in the 80s that is foundational, I didn't like it as much. So I don't go deep in 80s hip-hop. No, and again, this isn't to say this is what... I think this is where people are overly rigid, right? People are going to engage with a genre in the way that they want to there's no right or wrong way but like i think this is where my biases come out where i'm just sort of i because i'm a lover of history generally like i always like to hear

everything i mean i'm not bumping those old albums now right like i did my duty to be like i remember in the source they're always referencing this album or like double XL. They would always reference in this album. So I'm going to listen to it. I'm like, okay, whatever. But yeah,

I mean, I think it's, you know, it is wild though. I think there's a lot of like these newer rappers, like old rap heads are like, this is a rap. This is mumbling.

It's like shit evolves, man. People thought the bling bling era that will like a lot of us hold on to that was bullshit to a lot of the people that were coming out of the 80s so things are gonna evolve you have to accept it but on twitter it's definitely a lot of people are like trying to be like little yadi is not a rapper if he's not heard the fucking the jay-z album and i get why you feel like that but little yadi is also a very talented songwriter uh and very talented artist so it's like you know the do do with that what you will but my old head ass like i'm looking at my avizu jeans and tilted brim on uh 20 inch rims feeling like jay-z and i i do feel i have to

i have to remind myself people are on their own journeys and that's fine not everyone has to do it the way you do it like the black album to lil yadi would be like to me the like when i was getting to hip-hop in the early 90s it would be like um like the big bopper you know right it's like five decades because i mean like you think of i mean like with what lil yadi with how old he was he was like a young kid probably when like the black album came out but it could also speak to the way we were also listening to music through the years like before us pre-internet it's like everything that was on the radio was just committed to memory uh because you know you weren't buying albums all the time and now like it's much more selective. Like you can go like seek out what you want to hear.

And if like the black album isn't popping at the time that you're doing that, then yeah, you might miss something like that. But yeah, I guess the black album did come out in like the two thousands. I was thinking the nineties for some reason. That's stupid. Um,

yeah. I mean the blueprint came out on 9-11 so yeah so what he's born in 97 the black album came out what 2003 yeah so he was six so he should have been into that shit but he's he's built different yeah he is built different like i could imagine him being like yeah i was just into you know something that i've never heard of like that was his favorite music growing up yeah and also like little yadi's the kind of guy he's like doing features with like you know fred again like he's doing things that jay-z never would do either so i think that's where we have to have a reckoning with like what we how a genre evolves and being like look there's still people that make the kinds of rap you like but don't also like you know it doesn't have to be like

i have to really suppress that part of me that is about to be 40 years old brian the editor just fucked me up he just wrote in the chat 36 chambers came out closer to the moon landing than now. Fuck you, man. That's not true. And even if it's true, I don't want to believe it. Even if it's true, I don't like it. Not a fan of that piece of information.

We are washed. Alright, a couple other things. There was a story, Fred Goldman, the father of Ron Goldman, still hasn't been paid the money he's owed following the civil suit that found OJ Simpson responsible for his son's death. OJ just kept

not paying it. And it's now ballooned to $117 million with interest. Started out as just over $33 million if he had just paid it then yeah look what you did gosh man look he did oj man talk about another old head story people like what the fuck y'all talking about fred goldman who the fuck is fred goldman big mustachioed guy yeah that's wild though that he really was able to just just look that's what's

so fucked up about this whole ecosystem is like you like nah yeah you can be like oh okay there's no yeah it feels like a very i don't know for some reason this story feels related to trump to me it's just like people well first of all fred being a name associated with Trump and just the possibility that people are just like, yeah, I'm just not doing that. How about that? So maybe fuck you. When I do that, I get red letters in the mail that they actually fuck up my ability to rent things at Blockbuster, which is something that happened to me in college. Now there may be an auction of OJ's junk, including his Heisman trophy, in order to maximize the estate's value for creditors and interested parties.

I feel like there's probably value in that now that he's gone because you can capitalize on the morbid side of it. Yeah, like that group who it's like, I have people who have John Wayne Gacy art. That's the guy who did the clowns, right? John Wayne Gacy. Yeah, like that group. I have people who have John Wayne Gacy

art. That's the guy who did the clowns, right? John Wayne Gacy? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, like that kind of thing. I actually don't know anything about the clowns. I'm just a fan of his artwork. I've always been a fan. There's something about it. The eyes are so alive when I look

into them. Yeah. Alright, those are some of the things that are trending on this August 1st. 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. Don't do nothing about white supremacy.

And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Bye. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadson. 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 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. People are talking about women's basketball

just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's basketball. And on this new season, we'll cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke.