The Daily Zeitgeist - Taco Bell Trendlato 9/7: Baja Blast, Car Surveillance Capitalism, Mexico, Danny Masterson, Jimmy Fallon

Episode Date: September 7, 2023

In this edition of Taco Bell Trendlato, Jack and Miles discuss the new Baja Blast Gelato, our cars keeping tabs on us, Mexico decriminalizing abortion nationwide, Danny Masterson getting 30 years in prison, and Rolling Stone's expose on Jimmy FallonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Taco Bell Trendalato, I believe is how it's pronounced in Italy. Que rico sabor. Yeah, at this point, Italy is wearing off. I've lost power of my authentic accent, but I think it's a hell. I thought. All right. So, I mean, we might as well kick off with this story. Anytime anything happens with Bahabla, I get notified by Zeitgang. It's like it's sometimes we get... Shout out to the person

who tags both Jack and I on an Instagram DM for only Taco Bell things. I've gone through the history. So consistent. We've got a little group going. So immediate. And it's not just Taco Bell news. It's also a meme that involves Taco Bell is going

off. I know about that shit before you guys do fyi because of zeitgang because of ai but anyways i full disclosure you did travel to italy like your stated purpose was trying to find a baja blast flavored gelato yes um you thought it must exist just in the wild over there. I did. And I was wrong. Low and behold. Both. Low and behold. It came across the trans

back here in the news. Yeah, exactly. Baja Blast in gelato form coming to Taco Bell. I couldn't believe what I was seeing, but hey, it's here apparently right now you can only get in irvine so if you're in orange county hit up there's apparently like the one taco bell in the country is in irvine that has it and they're gonna have for like two weeks but then

they say that is just before they roll it out across the nation yeah i don't i this is like the it's everything I needed it to be to become the most insufferable human on the planet it's got gelato it's got the old country it's got Taco Bell

yeah it's got Baja Blast it's got Baja Blast you can do you can do your Castellano with your with your

just you know cue the music please Daniel when I'm having a gelato, just looking at the sunset,

I can only... Yeah, anyway. What do we think the... I just got real high there, like Jiminy Glick. What do we think the gelato is going to be? What do we think the gelato's caffeine content is going to be?

I don't know. Because. It's got to have some, right? Is Baja Blast that caffeinated? I believe so. Baja Blast. I mean, I get it. Maybe it's just the size of the Bajas that I blast are so large. It is four and a half millis per ounce.

So 15, a 12 ounce has 54 millis. So a normal Mountain Dew has 72 per 20 ounce and this bad boy's clocking in in the 80s so it's a little bit more it's more sugar it's more caloric it's more caffeinated they didn't name it lightly miles they didn't i know it's wild that i don't i mean i'm just caffeine insensitive so i don't know why i'm like i i barely perceived that oh yeah damn no it's they they said we want to give you a rush on this one we want you to feel okay feel the effervescence in your blood we want you to feel the aquamarine entering your bloodstream. Yeah.

That effervescence in your blood. That's actually your arteries constricting, but I love the way that, yeah, just feel the blast. Well, good for, good for them.

More and more. I feel myself becoming a Norm MacDonald's impression of David Letterman as I age. That's who my personality is becoming. You're going to start filing a. You just take a marker to make it like a fake gap in your front teeth. And like, are you doing something? He's like,

yeah, I filed my teeth down to have that Letterman gap. Yeah. Uh, yeah. Uh, let's talk about cars, keeping tabs on us. Um, yeah, this is a headline talk about cars keeping tabs on us.

Um, this is a headline that went, went off. You ever, you ever get back to your car after doing a weird little fuck sesh and you feel like your car's judging you. Yep. It's not just your imagination. Yep. It's not just the fact that they give cars faces you know you know how cars have faces what do you mean like in the front the grill that has the two eyes for the lights and then

like a little mouth sometimes um are you wait are you sundowning what's happening you don't feel like cars have faces am i oh sure i mean like in the sense that the components of the front of the car... The lights are the eyes. Right, right. The bones are the money. And the lights are their eyes. They do have... Yeah, sometimes people give them little eyelashes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And mustaches, too.

They do seem like they're judging me for being a nasty little pervert all the time. Am I alone? Everybody else feels that, right? No. I didn't know how to make sense of this headline um and i still don't quite understand it but it's the headline is basically cars are keeping tabs on your sex life yeah kia and nissan were both named and shamed uh kia explicitly states it collects information about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical

beliefs, sexual orientation, sex life, and political opinions, while Nissan's fine print reveals it's keeping tabs on your sexual activity. And then they also are willing to sell that information?

84% of the company. 84% of the companies are selling them. What does that mean, Miles? 56% of them are saying, we'll help the feds if they ask about it, just so you know. We can hand it right over to the feds if they come knocking and wondering

what you've been doing in your little car trying to subvert democracy or something so here's my question what feature of my car am i not taking advantage of that it knows you're fucking would allow it to have information about my sex life it knows based on the way you sit down on your seat is what it is it's just like man you feel loose wow you are you are favoring one side what happened what happened legs seem tired i think no apparently the way they essentially that is happening is that you know it because we're connecting it with like our apps and shit like that it's all just all of this information is being fed directly into it so like you know you're connect you have connected services in the in the car you have an app that is like the car's app

that you've probably downloaded which then is like essentially the gateway to your phone info like it's like that's like the sort of back door to it and then it can get even more information from like other apps that you can use using like car play and shit like that that go hand in hand with again like your movements it'll be like wow this motherfucker drives real quick when he comes back from that nondescript motel like on the edge of town type of thing so i think what they're saying is like they're probably just trying to cover all their bases because they're also saying they're going to infer things based on this data and then sell that too you need a trench coat and a pair of sunglasses and a derby cap for

your trips to the motel. Is that what they're going to figure out? Because then if you have like, you know, if you're like part of like your doctor's office is connected through an app and shit like that it means it can potentially have access to that shit and package it all up and

then, you know, say this guy is dumb and horny and has high blood pressure and there you go it's fine so this is a study by mozilla so firefox always a real one you know they're like from the start they were like we're about privacy and then they stopped being able to make like a good browser for a while there i think still i haven't used firefox in a long time i'm back on it so they did this study and then they stopped being able to make a good browser for a while there. I think still, I haven't used Firefox in a long time. I'm back on it. They did this study and then they're like, oh, you're surprised, you fucking idiot? Everything is spying

on you constantly. That's true. If this comes as a shock, Mozilla says it really shouldn't. When we're saying that cars are computers on wheels, what we mean is they're packed with all the cameras, microphones, and internet connectivity necessary to bag a whole bunch of your personal data. So yeah, it's our fault for not recognizing that when they create a product with cameras, that it would seem like it makes sense for the product to have cameras to make it better at not killing us and other people um we should assume that those cameras and

microphones are actually being used to uh spy on us to sell our information yeah yeah i mean what the fuck it's that's what it's all become so you know you know, just buy a, buy like an old Honda. You know what I mean? And just try and just work it out. But those are less safe. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I think it just, it's one of those things where too, where your only recourse to that they mentioned is you can sign this petition Mozilla's put together.

It's like, what? Or you can, in every case except Tesla, you can be like hey stop doing that hey quit it and granted they'll probably like start doing it like i'm sure they'll be like we've just updated after you told us to quit it and you have to ask us again to quit right or we will keep doing it um you can do that with everything you can tell them to quit it on everything except tesla where it will like fucking break your car is that true because it says that it's only these two car brands like that are in europe like renault and dossier that actually say that as a driver you have the right to have your personal data deleted everyone else is like oh yeah we're

not gonna delete it we'll just stop we'll just knock it off just like we'll we'll like have our hand lightly over our eyes with a big dumb smile on our face but like that ian we hope that's cool with you yeah but like that patrick stewart episode of extras i've already seen everything so it's too late i've already seen it all so it's just too late wait what is that where he's talking about how he like when he was playing professor x he's telling like ricky gervais' character how he had like this new like concept he had for Professor X. He's like, I recommended this scene where I'm in the locker room and I make all the ladies clothes fall off. And they're trying to put their clothes back on.

But I've already seen everything. It's too late because that's what I use my power of telekinesis for. And he's just like, what the fuck is this? And he's just like, every time he's like, or this other thing where I'm walking my dog in the park and my dog is going on the grass and then this police woman says oh no you can't have your your dog on the grass and then i make her clothes fall off and she's trying to cover herself up but it's too late i've already seen everything it just goes over and over this concept of it's too late i've already seen everything oh jesus christ uh all right let's uh let's take so so it is too late your car has already seen everything

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Anyways, moving on. Mexico's Supreme Court just decriminalized abortion. Yeah. Ruled to federally decriminalize abortion on grounds that it is unconstitutional to do otherwise. Yeah. It's wild. Can you imagine these words coming out of our Supreme Court? Because this is what the ruling was from the Supreme Court in Mexico. That the, quote, criminalization of abortion constitutes an act of gender-based

violence and discrimination as it perpetuates the stereotype that women and people with the capacity to get pregnant can only freely exercise their sexuality to procreate and reinforces the gender role that imposes motherhood as a compulsory destiny. Damn, son. Where'd you find that tape? Fucking

bars. Yeah. Mexican Supreme Court. Just been fucking hot fire? Fucking bars. Yeah. Mexican Supreme Court. Just spitting fucking hot fire. True fire. And this is, of course, coming at a time when the U.S. is moving in the other direction. When Roe was overturned, a lot of Americans were forced to travel to Mexico for abortions. So we're going to start seeing, you know, a lot of lines at the border going the other way. They said there was a one in one of the border towns. They said like in the spring, they went from a quarter of their patients being from America and then to half like a few months later.

So it's been trending upward. Yeah. But yeah, it's it's like also just it's just interesting, too. There's an analysis that was done like maybe like last year about like backsliding democracies and you know the perspective here they say how we do curbs curbs on women's rights tend to accelerate in backsliding democracies a category that includes the united states according to virtually every independent metric and watchdog in more degraded democracies the effect is more extreme around the

globe the rise of right-wing populism has been followed by extraordinary reductions in women's rights so yeah we're on it seems like one that i don't know honestly that's just like their opinion that's just like their opinion man um but yeah i mean your honor that's just like their opinion man i'm sorry you you called me you're my honor but then you said man uh all right whatever no further answers no further answers your honor uh just a real quick uh rip to danny masterson as in rot in prison asshole yeah holy shit 30 years 30 years for life for multiple rapes yeah at 30 years i think 30 years to life baby yeah so we'll uh that was a i mean man that case went on i feel like that started when like in six years ago i feel like in 2017 yeah or 18 was to have a giant or not giant but giant seeming uh religious organization covering it that's wow euphemistic description religious org yeah uh tax entity

tax tax creature religion-based tax entity yes exactly all right uh Fallon, the Fallon of it all miles. What about the Fallon of it all though? There's a new article in Rolling Stone that basically like we've been hearing that Jimmy Fallon's like not the most stable of individuals, uh, might have issues with booze. Um, you know, we've,

I've, I've been there, man. It's not, it's not easy, totally, uh, awful to have issues with the booze,

but this article, um, yeah, he, he seems very difficult to work for. Yeah. The whole institution seems like a true fucking nightmare. It's,

it's a weird article because it's like sounds like a bad place to work with like very sort of non-specific allegations like it sounds like he's erratic he has mood swings he goes off on people but it feels like there's a lot more to it than like what even we're getting from this article you know what i mean yeah yeah so the a quote from the article rolling stone contacted more than 50 tonight show employees past and present during the reporting for this story after reaching out to representatives for fallon and nbc rolling stone reached out to an additional 30 current and former staffers while many of them praised fallon's immense talent and comedic gifts,

not a single one agreed to speak on the record or had positive things to say about working on the tonight show, nor would any of the program's nine showrunners since 2014 comment about the program's namesake on the record. Uh, they wouldn't even give statements of support as is common in the entertainment industry. Yeah.

Um, when they're pulling up the entertainment industry yeah um when they're pulling up the ladders like that they're like i don't know him okay sure nine showrunners in nine years i think also says a lot yeah but also we're in a new environment maybe they recognize that it's a bad look to side with the boss over the workers, especially during a strike when he was like on main being unsupportive. Uh, but then there's the NBC statement, uh, representatives for Fallon would not comment on the record for this story in a

statement, a spokesperson for NBC defended the program, but notably did not mention Fallon himself. You're incredibly proud of the Tonight Show and providing a respectful working environment is a top priority. As in any workplace, we have had employees raise issues. Those have been investigated

and action has been taken where appropriate. It sounds like there's weird HR shit where people are like, this is a really hostile, unhealthy place to work. And then HR is like forwarding those complaints to the show runner and talking shit in the email forwarding it.

So it's, it's not like, you know, an isolated thing. It's just a, it seems like a real toxic, shitty environment. Yeah.

And that's why I'm like, that seemed like it could be just sort of this generational change in production culture too where they're like yeah we don't fucking do that anymore or stand for this kind of shit anymore i hope that it it's not worse than this just for the sake of the people involved and it's just having to deal with a just like ego driven prick uh as the host but there's also this like this other story about how Jerry Seinfeld made him apologize to a cue card guy, because during one of the episodes, he just went off on one of the people,

the stagehands that was running the cue cards, and it got to a point where it said, it was very awkward, and Jerry was like, you should apologize to him, almost trying to make it a joke. it was one of the strangest moments ever and so many people were there so it's kind of hard to forget and

it did not make seinfeld came so there's an update to the story where seinfeld came and was like what are you talking about it was normal we were just having a laugh i was just teasing him because he's always the best i meant it in a funny way he's not a bad guy yeah uh so no surprise seinfeld sided with jimmy but i don't know the specifics that we get are like people saying he seemed like he was drunk at work a few times to a lot of times um that he's this these two paragraphs according to most employees spoke to Rolling Stone, it's common knowledge behind the scenes that found temperament mood and treatment of staffers is erratic.

These employees say they've witnessed Fallon snap at crew members, express irritation over the smallest of things and berate and belittle staffers out of frustration. It was like, if Jimmy is in a bad mood, everyone's day is fucked. Oof. Yeah. Yeah yeah that feels like yeah like that house you go to as a kid or like one of the parents is kind of a mess and you're like yeah let's not go outside today and you're like oh shit all right all right all right people wouldn't

joke around in the office and they wouldn't stand around and talk to each other it was very much like focus on whatever it is that you have to do because jimmy's in a bad mood and if he sees that he might fly off like it's just like yeah having to like exist in a workplace like that or yeah like you said in like a home life like that like it just sounds like well yeah where one person like kind of dictates the entire energetic flow of like a of a physical space is like yeah yeah well uh and it sucks to have to be like have fucking jimmy fallon go off on you i've been like listen here motherfucker like terrible yeah he's like he like the stuff he says is just really he's like is there something wrong with you like one of the descriptions is just really, he's like, is there something wrong with you? Like one of the descriptions is like,

he keeps being like, and if there's something wrong with them, because he doesn't know, I'm just worried about their joke. I'm just worried about you. Are you okay? Are you good? Yeah.

That's fucked up. Fuck up my face. All right. So cool guy. All right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending. Yeah.

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