The Daily Zeitgeist - The Trendt's Too Damn High 8/31: 8 Cities, Vaccine, Rotten Tomatoes, Alfredo, Winnie The Pooh

Episode Date: August 31, 2022

In this edition of The Trendt's Too Damn High, Jack and Miles discuss how unaffordable America is to live in, COVID vaccine news, 'LotR: The Rings of Power' reviews, the Great Alfredo Spill on I-55, and the 'Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey' trailer!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the trend too damn high yeah um that is for that guy miles gray and that guy who ran for mayor and everyone was like the rent's too damn high guy he's what a laugh right turns out jimmy mcmillan he was right how long was he when was he saying that shit like 2010 i feel like He was right. How long was he? When was he saying that shit? Like 2010. I feel like it was right around there.

Early, early Obama administration. I'm Jack. That is Miles. These are some of the stories that are trending on this Wednesday afternoon. This last afternoon of August. It's been a good run. What an August. eight cities is trending there's a cnbc article eight cities where at least half of millennials can't afford to rent a one bedroom the thing that it's showing really is that what they call like this sort of corridor from san

diego up to la is probably one of the worst places to live right because there's such a concentration of basically what they're saying is these eight cities where at least half of millennials can't afford to rent a one-bedroom. One, two, three, four. There's just this part of their analysis. The West Coast Southern California is pretty stark in terms of what is needed and what is actually out there in terms of the market. It's interesting because it's framed as here are eight cities where at least half of millennials can't afford to rent a one bedroom. And that suggests that these are the eight cities.

They don't say these are the eight cities. They say cities where at least half. And when you look at the stat, it's not even close. Annual income needed to rent a one-bedroom in Los Angeles is $72,000. And then the median annual income of millennial renters is $37,000, $36,600. So that's like half of what is needed. That's like half of what is needed. And then it goes all the way down to Riverside where it's 47,000 is needed and 31,000 is what they're making.

So it's still like a pretty large gap. So it seems like this is true in way more cities than the eight that they've selected. I mean, there's already plenty of stats saying like what it means to even like what if you're on minimum wage just start there don't go like what's the median right but like what start at the floor which is medium wage right or minimum wage and then then do your i mean because all that analysis like it's fucked if you're a solo minimum wage it's a fucking nightmare out there um and part of me like when you look at this like this isn't news to anybody who listens to this show or in general who is experienced on the other end of like getting gouged on rent prices but to me it feels

like because it's cnbc it's like almost be like hey fucking landlords who love our website just so you know yeah your rents have gone up exponentially in the last few years and y'all are having a fucking ball of it over there meanwhile just so you know you're running out of people to fucking rent too right i don't know there's something to that but i don't i don't really i don't count on cnbc to be like hey let's be more humane more than being like i don't know if you guys are getting it. You don't just rent a property and be like, rent will go from $1,800 to $2,400 to $3,500 in three years. And they have to soft pedal it to their CNBC readers

and people who are tracking the market. So they're like, what do we do? We just focus on eight and we put most of them in California and big cities that they already hate. So they can be like, California is out out of control they can read it as that the first line of this article is the west coast may not be the ideal place for millennial renters uh-huh yeah that's the story here is that california is out of california is out of control i mean the landlords the landlord

is definitely out of control uh but also where is control. I mean, the landlord's definitely out of control. But also, where is the... Well, look at people's incomes. Don't be like, man... Because it's almost like sort of accepting.

It's like, well, millennials will only make this much money. Yeah. And that's the reality. So this isn't a discussion on the other side of should the rent...

Should the incomes increase? It's also really strange. The article cites a new analysis by FilterBot, other side of should the rent should the incomes increase it's also really strange the uh article cites a new analysis by filter by which i assumed was like some real estate uh app or something that filters like you know apartments that you're looking for it's actually a website where you can buy air filters for your home. It's just a filter buy, and then you go to the homepage of filter buy, and it's like,

order replacement air filters here. One inch, and then just a series of dimensions of air filters. So the whole thing is very strange, but it's interesting to see CNBC find out reality and pretzel it around to being a story about how Californiaifornia and the socialists have lost control of the country and also selling air filters right um vaccine

is trending yeah uh and i've never heard that word before what's what's going on with vaccine the owie stick oh owie stick yeah yeah o sticks. Owie sticks are trending because the FDA authorized a new owie stick, the BA4-5 targeting COVID boosters this fall from Moderna and Pfizer. So, yeah, new ones out there. If you're able to get that booster, I mean, there it is for you. I feel like I'm not going to like this one either. You know? Ah, shit.

I don't know. What's it going to do to my balls and other things? Well, Jack, I told you, the thing with your balls has nothing to do with vaccines. And the sooner you accept that, the sooner you will be on the road to recovery. But the other reason it's trending is because a while back we talked about corbovax which was like the sort of like royalty free no patent covid vaccine

that two doctors had come up with um i believe it was from baylor university hey scratch them bears claw them bears i forget sick them sick and bears so they came up with this they're saying like hey we don't give a fuck about money people need the fucking vaccine and that was like great and at the time it was in trials and people were using it now a few months have passed and it turns out like a lot of people have began to use it and it's been effective and safe so like good news for people who like good news these These two people were like, yeah, here's some shit for people to use that they're not going to get absolutely

just taken apart by the high prices from the pharmaceutical company. Yeah, but the marketing team that they have behind the rollout of that vaccine is not nearly as slick as the Moderna, Pfizer, BA4-5 targeting COVID. That one they're delivering in a cool self-driving Tesla. Rotten Tomatoes is trending

because the Lord of the Rings show's reviews hit. The embargo ended. And so now you can see what people are saying about the Lord of the Rings show and you could go to Rotten Tomatoes and get a percentage of reviews that are arbitrarily rated good, bad or you

could go to Metacritic where they actually average the reviews of actual score. I have no skin in this game other than just purely Metacrit critic is a better better service um but anyways uh so on rotten tomatoes uh you will learn that it is in the 80s and on metacritic it's in the low 70s but still pretty good like higher than the latest season of game of thrones the house of

dragons so i don't know i may have been off on this one which has never happened before so people are kind of on the edge of their seat was wait what what were you saying that lord of the rings would be shitty just that the the first trailer that they dropped first trailer looks shitty the second trailer looked better yeah the second trailer actually looked pretty good and then i saw actually a trailer before a movie on the big screen and it looked very cool so things are looking up because first of all i'm never wrong about a thing and i have now been convinced that it might actually be good uh and second of all the reviews came through and people seem impressed but yeah i i would just say say my one takeaway from this story is Rotten Tomatoes, much easier to game. So go to Metacritic.

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Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And Alfredo is trending. Yes. For the best reason possible. Dude. It's funny that you were talking about tomatoes because a big tomato spill happened also. When you said rotten tomatoes,

I thought you were referencing the this like thing that happened in california there were like a ton like the road was on like just you could not navigate it because it's so slick with tomatoes just stinking rotten tomatoes yeah but this one i've never smelled a uh tomato so rotten that it that it was stinky um i don't think i've ever encountered a rotten i've seen like a tomato with a uh with like some mold on it but it wasn't it wasn't like reeking you know yeah i don't know i mean let us know if uh does it how does a rotten tomato smelling is it just kind of vinegary and just generally palatable or is it just straight like straight up garbage anyway people pelt me

with rotten tomatoes constantly so so I would know. I know, especially after our Mad Boosties episodes are out. Look, that's Jack and I's cross to bear. Back to the Alfredo news. Apparently, on I-55,

out in Memphis, or somewhere in Tennessee close to Memphis, a fucking tractor trailer just spilled just a shitload of Alfredo processes all over the freeway and i'm just looking at this footage there's just like a slow panning shot of this freeway the fucking road is just absolutely covered in alfredo sauce call me dave matthews because i

got so much to say okay uh first of all it looks exactly like a plate after you're done with fettuccine alfredo like that's oh like the fork scrapes yeah it looks exactly like you would expect it to if you've ever eaten a plate of fettuccine alfredo but those are broken jars yes but yeah the version of it and it's in like one of those box trucks that you see, just like a tractor trailer. I assumed that you would always have a liquid in a liquid tanker. You're telling me that this was so chock full of Alfredo jars that like... Because this is a normal transport of like a packaged good. I love though in your mind, you're like,

Alfredo needs to be shipped around in a fucking tanker truck. In an oil tanker. Yeah. And you just see somebody put a fix a hose to like another tank and be like, that's all Alfredo in there, man. That's all Alfredo in there. Pull's all the gas stations across the nation in this version too jack does the alfredo tanker truck pull up to like a supermarket and they'd be like y'all got your empty jars yes okay then let's get to filling absolutely um i didn't see the jars i thought it just they were just raw dogging a box container

and that's what it was because it don't worry you showed was uh added at such a distance that i couldn't got you got you got it all yeah yeah yeah yeah many broken jars of alfredo but i do love i love the idea that like tanker trucks don't always have water or like gasoline in them like that like that one all peanut butter that sounds really hard yeah man let me just take it take it well i i know that tropicana like they store their orange juice for years at a time and big airtight vats um i'm guessing they don't then transport it to grocery stores and big airtight vats and that they put it in the tropicana right but uh definitely a part of my

mind a very dumb part of my mind had been imagining that up until we just talked it out out loud that's what this show's really for just for me to reveal how dumb my imagination really is that's fun though like that that feels like it'd be very slippery and very hard to clean up i can't oh yeah i'm that's that's a fucking mess that is a there's a real mess and probably smells like alfredo for like into fall 2024 oh yeah yeah yeah yeah it'll be like a thing when friends from out of town come by and like you want to go by the alfredo overpass and you're like what the fuck is that it's like dude we're gonna get high just inhale bring some freshly baked bread um oh wow and somehow though in my mind a hot summer day road baked in alfredo somehow my first instinct is that's gonna smell like shit i'm like yummy

yeah exactly yes i mean that's the heat that alfredo wants to be it is you know 102 degrees like at a yeah like at a golden corral serving plate i've never had fettuccine alfredo anywhere except for um the kitchen that originated it Garden. I believe they were the inventors of the fettuccine Alfredo. But that was my go-to when I was a wee child, was a good fettuccine Alfredo. Yeah, you know what's funny? I grew up never having fettuccine Alfredo until I went with some white American friends of mine

who were like, we want an, we want all of them. What the fuck is... I always ate at home. We didn't really go out to eat at chain restaurants and shit. And he was like, oh, you got to get Alfredo sauce. In my mind,

there was only red... That's what Italian food was. And then I remember ordering a tuna. This is like just eating straight up cream. Yeah. And I'm like, yes. I think it's probably medically inadvisable for anyone over the age of seven to ever eat alfredo sauce oh yeah yeah it is like 100 every time that action

bronson raps about eating fettuccine alfredo i worry for him have you ever made your own alfredo sauce like no i had to do it it's like heavy cream cheese and egg yolks right when you make it you're like i'm gonna eat all this yeah i like it much better on a sloppy plate coming out of the cpk kitchen i think i somehow found out like what the fat content and cholesterol content was i think maybe there was like a usa today article about that in Fettuccine Alfredo. And that was all I needed. Winnie the Pooh. We talked about it when they did the first teaser trailer.

I think it was just some stills from the film. So there's a Winnie the Pooh slasher movie called Winnie the Pooh slasher movie, um, called Winnie the Pooh blood and honey. And, uh, they, they released the trailer. Um,

and so I had, I don't know. It's, it's confusing because it, the characters just look like Jason Voorhees in a bad boar mask or in a pig mask. It doesn't look like they've taken

Winnie the Pooh and made him into a slasher character. So I assumed that it was just tongue-in-cheek. They weren't going to actually. But the trailer starts out in the Hundred Acre Wood and Christopher Rob uh has a has a tough robin reunion you did it again christopher christopher turned into your dad yeah brett well

i i assumed they were gonna get brad pitts for this to play christopher robbins yeah but it looked better than i was expecting it to look it still looks very bad but um i just have no i just don't like slasher films in general so like yeah don't fuck with my winnie the pooh right you know i was i would like that's i like my little smacked out uh collection of animals in the forest that are all abusing their whatever form of drug they're on. Yeah. Like a fun grown up version of Winnie the Pooh would involve them just like having a party and just partying hard and like making it experimental. Like this is not, but people seem to be really responding to it for the novelty.

I'm sure. Yeah. Why not? I mean, there's one of the things you grew up being like, Oh, and then they're, you know,

dismembering people. Then you're like, wow, the juxtaposition of these things are people have also pointed out that like like oh Whitney and then they're you know dismembering people then you're like wow the juxtaposition of these things are people have also pointed out that like Disney owns the right like even though the original books have lapsed into the public domain Disney owns like the film rights to these characters so it feels like this movie will never be released and then you know three people will see it and be like it's a classic you have to see oh so it can't get released theatrically well i

don't know i mean they're planning on releasing it it would seem but like people pointed out like disney could stop them from releasing it and why wouldn't disney stop them from releasing it right right but maybe it's enough that, you know, Pooh is just a lumberjack and a boar mask and isn't even wearing his trademark red tee no pants. Maybe that's enough for them to... Yeah. I mean, I'd watch a movie about a guy

who didn't wear pants and was struggling because, like, society was like, dude, put some fucking pants on. So those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday, August 31st. Last day of August. We will be back

tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. September. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to each other. I even did it to each other. Things are melting upstairs. Be kind to each other. Be kind to each other's. I even did it to each other. Wow, Brad Fitz. Things are melting upstairs.

I've been Jack O'Brien. Be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. I'm Carrie Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports.

Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Listen to the making of a rivalryivalry, Caitlin Clark vs. Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports.

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. the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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 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.