The Daily Zeitgeist - The Royal CaribbeTrend Cruiseline 12/14: 9 Month Cruise, In'N'Out, The Arena Group, 2024 Movies

Episode Date: December 14, 2023

In this edition of The Royal CaribbeTrend Cruiseline, Jack and super producer Becca discuss the 9 month long Royal Caribbean "Ultimate World Cruise", In'n'Out coming to Idaho, The Arena Group getting busted for having a whole roster of AI "writers", and the upcoming glut of sequels, prequels, soft reboots, spin-offs, cash grabs and more in 2024!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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But I think that's the first time I've gotten my name wrong while introducing the show. My name is Jack, and I'm thrilled to be joined by super producer becca ramo it's been so long since i've done no so wonderful to have you um and as always when you do trends you um you're standing i i mean people can't see this but you are standing on tiktok corner right now uh i have built a platform and it says tiktok corner and i'm got sunglasses and you're just like kind of asking people as they come by who's this guy who's this guy what's it what's the deal what's going on over here and uh one of the things that is bubbling on tiktok corner is the nine month cruise uh from royal caribbean cruise line yes it is so insane that a people embark on this

and are not fearful i know i know there are people on this in our our tdz community that are fans of cruising it's not me it'll never be me you know i remember miles very distinctly being like i could fuck with a cruzo oh yeah no for sure yeah like i will never you will not catch me on a cruise you know what i'm saying yeah so imagine a nine-month cruise you know like like we haven't dealt with the fact that like cruises can be incubators you know like covet 19 running rampant on cruises cruises sinking you know the shit flying on these cruises you know there have been multiple cruising incidents in the past few years and people want to embark on a nine-month cruise yeah nine months nine months is uh enough time to gestate a whole ass baby so literally you

could get pregnant on the first day of the cruise and give birth when you get to port. Yeah. Um, that's wild. Uh, it's what, what it just like goes everywhere. It's like the ultimate, the final word in luxury. Is that what we're giving Titanic? You know,

it's like this grand tour of the world. Basically you're going to hit all, um, seven. I like almost said the wrong amount of continents. Like I didn't have a college degree. Um, I actually can't currently produce the correct number of continents,

to be honest with you. You're going to hit all the continents. You're supposed to hit all the continents. You don't get off at Antarctica, but you're supposed to like wave hello at Antarctica, but you're supposed to get off at all the continents and spend like ample time at each of these places. I'm assuming like a month or two,

cause it's nine months. Um, so you're going to spend like six weeks maybe per continent. I don't remember all the details, but they like fly you to Miami and they have this whole like welcome party in Miami and you get to do like these really fun restaurant things and have a gala. They make it a whole event.

Like you're part of this club to be on this cruise for nine months, which I guess I get it. You're going to be with the same people, like a small boat. I mean, it's a big boat, but like a small community of folks that you can't leave.

You're going to get to know everybody. Nine months. Yeah. It's a little village you're shipping around for nine months with. Here's my pitch. Yeah. Make it more expensive and then make this a way.

Yeah, that's actually not that much. 60K for the nine months? Make it a way for the ultra wealthy and also the children of the ultra wealthy to just take themselves out of circulation for nine months. Yes. And allow the world to get better. Maybe like we create an internet bubble on the cruise so they think that they know what's going on and that they're interacting with the world. Yeah. But it's actually like they're completely cut off from the world. Like when they're posting, they don't realize that nobody can actually hear or see what they're

posting or like their calls we just like you know do some ai stuff so that they're like i'm gonna put this on tiktok and we're just like yay we like your tiktok content rich person's son they don't realize they're all just getting served the same content on TikTok. Yeah, they're just getting all. And then we just put all the wealthy out to sea for nine months. And then when they come back, we have launched the revolution. And they're like, oh, wow. But it's too late for them.

Honestly, Jack, this should have been in our 2024 predictions. I mean, we just recorded our 2024 predictions. I'm not predicting it. I am manifesting it right now. That's, I mean, we just recorded our 2024 predictions. I'm not predicting it. I am manifesting it right now. That's what I'm saying. It should be your manifest for 2024. A manifest stage. That the Royal Caribbean

becomes the elite cruise line for all the rich and we ship them off for nine months on the craziest cruise. Probably need to create a new name for the cruise line that is like,

makes them think that it's like even more exclusive yes super exclusive like it's something only for them um anyways some other things are trending uh idahoans we gotta come up with a new name for you guys first of all uh idahoans lined up for eight hours of their first crack at In-N-Out Burger. That is crazy. That's too long. I'm sorry. It's a fast food burger at the end of the day.

It's a fast food burger. It costs under $10. It misunderstands. This is what happens with In-N-Out all the time. The point of In-N-Out is it is convenient and cheap. That's what is good about it. You're going In-N-Out. Going In, you're going Out, and you're not paying that much.

If you're going in expecting it to be the best thing you've ever had, it's not going to work out for you. The thing that is good about it is that it's the best thing you've ever had at that price. On the go. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty cheap, and that's what's good. yeah it's for like two like it's pretty cheap and that's what's good so like treating it like it's a fucking you know taylor swift concert you know is going to leave you disappointed i would

imagine um but maybe not really sad this it's like what have we come to and maybe i also have the privilege of growing up i mean privilege and also like there's something wrong with texas uh of a fast food plethora right like i grew up probably the heart of fast food in my square mile i can get to popeye's whataburger mcdonald's sonic uh in and out and chick-fil-a within five minutes of my house i didn't even realize i have an in and out in texas oh yeah they realize they have In-N-Out in Texas. Oh, yeah. They have In-N-Out in Texas. Okay. Congratulations, Texas.

Okay, I guess I should not say In-N-Out for Houston. The In-N-Out's a little far from me in Houston. But it's in Austin. It was in Waco, my college town. Yeah. Like, I had access. And the In-N-Out when it opened in Waco was not seven, eight hours, but it was like a big deal.

Like, I remember. But that's nothing. There was also, on the same strip as the In-N-Out, a Whataburger, eight hours, but it was like a big deal. Like I remember, but that's nothing. There was also on the same strip as the In-N-Out. Oh, what are Burger Subway? Papa John's, Jimmy John's, Jersey Mike's. I mean, you are flexing on people right now. You know, it's the fast food. It's plethora.

I can't imagine waiting more than 30 minutes for anything in fast food time. That's it. Yeah, that is nine months in fast food time that's it yeah that is nine months in fast food time waiting eight hours is the equivalent of nine months in fast food time um yeah it you could have just like to drive it home you could have in the time that you were waiting in an idling car uh you could have flown to california gotten in out, and flown back. Yes! Yeah. You literally could have. Like, how long is the flight from Idaho to California?

It's not that far. Yeah, because if you're going to Northern California, right, it should be, like, right there. Yeah. A hop, skip, and a jump. A hop, skip, and one jump. So, anyways, I don't know.

But we'll see how people feel. This is the sort of thing that people go nuts for. Do you see how fucking long the lines are? It's got to be a success. I want to hear from an Idahoan. Did you wait in the line? Did you go? And how was it?

Because I just want to know if you were disappointed at the end of those eight hours. And I actually don't want to hear from you. I just, you know, try harder. I'm tired now. Yeah. Maybe maybe it was worth it. Maybe like something about waiting eight hours for a meal. God, I would be so hungry by the time that I got to the front that I would be like ready to harm someone.

Yeah, exactly. As a hangry person. I don't think i could have done it so you don't bring a snack to a fast food restaurant um all right let's take a quick break and we'll be right back definitely caruana galizia was a maltaltese investigative journalist who on October 16, 2017, was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhearts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks.

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the arena group, um, for comments and all the ad generated authors disappeared from the website and all their content did. But it's just, again, interesting to look at the inoffensive, just pablum that they're producing,

that they're using AI technology. This is the bio of Drew Ortiz, who one of the writers from Sports Illustrated that didn't exist. Drew has spent much of his life outdoors and is excited to guide you through his never-ending list of the best products to keep you from falling to the perils

of nature. Nowadays, there's rarely a weekend that goes by where Drew isn't out camping, hiking, or just back on his parents' farm. Just, yeah. It's just like if a marketing company, like people spend money on outdoor shit, so if a marketing company could invent

a person, this is what they would do. when they do the um the audience brand uh deep i guess that's someone who used to work in marketing they used to have like little like this is who we're talking to his name is jim right loves to go yes marketers love to do that where they're like 10 days outside a week yeah yeah sorry he has one and a half kid, and the half one is in a lot of pain and just screaming, kill me. He spends this much on Nutri-Grain bars a week. Yeah, so they just did a very basic look,

and also the AI posts the stuff that they were writing. So this is used across the company's entire content library. They own a bunch of websites. And there's one. I just want to read this summary from the article of this other, one of their financial websites. It starts with the sweeping libertarian claim that your financial status translates to your value in society. But then the article is just like this, like vague people with strong financial status are revered and given special advantages everywhere around the world. Improve your financial status using these five tips.

So it's just like complete bullshit says nothing means nothing and then the list uh which includes headers such as educate yourself set and achieve goals use your time wisely shut up but uh each entry each one of those is numbered uh number one so number one educate yourself yeah number one set and achieve goals and of course number one use your time wisely so i don't know so anyways this was revealed a couple weeks ago the article was published a couple weeks ago and since then sports illustrators like had to fire a bunch of people and recently i think a couple days ago, they fired their CEO and replaced them with the interim CEO, who is the founder and CEO of Innovations Ventures, known for creating the five-hour energy drink.

So even the moves of who they hired feel like they were written by fucking AI. Yeah. of like who they hired feel like they were written by fucking ai yeah well of course and we like energy and therefore uh we are hiring the founder of five hour energy to run sports illustrated you know famously someone who definitely works in copy right he can run an editorial venture jesus christ um so anyways keep an eye on that but it really like the thing that's surprising and interesting to me about this is that it feels like everybody is doing this when you go and read like i was talking about how like one of the ap room review articles when you like read the headers or like the subheads of like some of the sections, it just reads like it is written by AI.

I, I think that the use of AI is like way more widespread. So it's interesting to me that they got fired. Like they had to like clean house over this because it feels like this is happening everywhere. Like it's all just like bland, inoffensive bullshit. Um,

and we're like, I don't know. We'll be keeping an eye on it. But, like, so much of, like, Wall Street value, like, a lot of the stock market growth is, like, based on the promise of AI. And when people get caught using AI, they get fired. I'm like, there's a contradiction there that...

They want to make more money yeah using ai but then they realize then they use shitty yeah ai is and also that that takes away maybe their job at the end of the day and they're like oh okay well this is getting a little too close i'm putting my feet to the fire yeah i i don't lose my job yeah so and then so something that was trending earlier today is the there's a new new Beverly Hills Cop movie coming. Beverly Hills Cop, Axel F, colon Axel F. It is coming in, I think, May or, like, coming this summer. And it's only coming out on Netflix.

Love. It's so. Ouch. That, like, oh, man. it's so ouch that like oh man like that would be i i would think that would be a big event film but i mean i guess it's just that i'm old um and who gives a shit but like that seems to be the trend in movies like coming in 2024 so i was just looking back through these are all like it's movies that you had assumed most of the people involved are retired like gladiator 2 yeah is coming crazy like which sounds bad on its surface but it's still directed

by ridley scott who like is incapable he makes bad movies very frequently now but they're always entertaining like he he is screaming us, are you not entertained? And I'm screaming back, you're bad, but yes, I'm entertained, man. You got me. But this one's got fucking Denzel Washington.

Yeah, that? Has Denzel ever been in a sequel? I guess the Equalizer films. Yeah. He's not a sequel guy really no um another one twisters uh so they're doing the alien aliens thing um no news whether they did the thing where the that james cameron did for pitching the alien sequel where he just wrote alien on a whiteboard and then wrote an s after and then turned the s into dollar sign uh but i i hope they did uh

um beetlejuice 2 uh sure you know equal to like the og beetlejuice or was there another oh no that's it it'll just do i'm tired uh mufasa colon the lion king yeah they're gonna let godfather to this shit which like that's what they it's like the origin story of mufasa and then also the story of like simba trying to be a parent to his uh offspring so it's um it's just and then there's of course like more ghostbusters with the original cast bad boys 4 so i don't like i feel like everyone was like you know uh okay well what we the lesson we learned in 2023 is people like original ip or like they like original you know they're like barbie they like uh super mario brothers one you know what and instead of kind of learning that lesson

they're just like no we're gonna go back to doing sequels to even older movies that you didn't think it is i obviously don't know how movies are run. So famously, you know, I don't work in movies. I'm an expert, so go ahead and ask. Is it cheaper to be producing these movies with older IP as they were having a downturn, right, in theory, in 2023, because of the strikes? So they're like, oh, shit, we didn't make as much money

as we normally would in, like, box office and, like box office and like whatever because like all the actors and writers thought they deserved fair wages which they did and so now they're like all right well we had a downturn year in 2023 we got to play safe in 2024 we know these types of things will bring us money because like who doesn't love a good sequel you know even though we know as like people who consume media, we don't want a sequel, but they're so focused on like, it has to be a sequel. Yeah. That's guaranteed dollars versus like new ventures.

Could be for sure. And I think it probably also fewer of the people who would say no are still around to say no, you know? Um, but I'm sure like most of these were in the works before the strike would be my guess. Is this Joker gonna be the new Joker

with the guy from Saltburn? No, this is gonna be Joker with Joaquin Phoenix. Oscar winning Joker plus Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga. Oh, this is Lady Gaga's Joker. gaga's joker it's a musical um folly dude i'm excited i mean i'm sold i'm in yeah but there's i mean there's a bunch more sequels coming out uh sonic 3 bad boys 4 rebel moon part 2 the scar giver i don't because everyone remembers part one i was like i don't know what

part one despicable me for like just a lot of a lot of movies where i couldn't tell you what number we're on like kung fu panda if i asked you which kung fu panda we were on nope i can't believe we're on number four yeah we're on four um inside out is getting a sequel because Pixar was like, we gotta start making movies people want to come see again. So that's happening. Lord of the Rings, they're making a Lord of the Rings animated thing. I just feel like we've reached peak Lord of the Rings.

Same. Yeah. I listened to Nicole Byer's newcomers podcast. There is so much Lord of the rings out there there's someone to reach all of it no they're not even close um all right well becca ramos thank you so much for joining us where can people find you follow you all that good stuff you can find me and follow me at b-e-c-c-s ramos at all platforms. I was like, oh my God, is there a dot in there? There's not.

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And that is going to do it for us on this Thursday, December 14th. 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. Don't do nothing about white supremacy.

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