The Daily Zeitgeist - The WalkTrend 10/4: Trump, Kaiser Permanente, McRib, Fat Bear Week, Lady Gaga

Episode Date: October 4, 2023

In this edition of The WalkTrend, Jack and Miles discuss Trump NOT becoming the Speaker of the House, Kaiser Permanente workers going on strike, the resurrection of the McRib, National Fat Bear Week, and an update on the Lady Gaga dognapping situ!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of The Walk Trend. The Walk Trend. I went and saw live music last night from the band The Walk Men, and I am from the band the walk men and i am sleep deprived uh-huh uh i did not get my full 12 hours of sleep and i don't know weird things are coming out of my mouth shit is having to be edited out of episodes wait what are you what are you mad at what do you what are you swatting at right now you don't see those around you you don't see those bugs no they're kind of silvery and then they like kind of blink like christmas tree lights every once in a while every time i close my eyes they show up okay oh my god man there was there was a guy standing right in my right ear and he was singing at the top of his lungs every song he knew the words so he's a big fan

uh and just going over and over let's go no oh like that it's just like all right man i'm gonna move like this is this has been plenty but like when i look when i tried to look at him to give him yeah like a feeling of like yo this is this is not how one should act he just dapped me up and was like right brother i love that that gets it he's grabbing you every time oh yeah he's like he just he thinks i'm stealing him oh shit bro they're doing the rat come on bro yeah oh the rat was so good though man the rat was so good wait till angela surf city bro i'm ripping my shirt off also really good that drummer man whoo uh that when the when the drums hit on angela surf city i did have to uh you'd have to say that's it let's go dude there is something just so amazing though somebody getting that genuine

kick out of just being like here we are but at a certain point it starts to feel like he felt like he had to keep it there. You know, like it started feeling disingenuous. Oh shit. Like he's just like, yeah,

I got to keep these vibes up. Also. I got nowhere to go at this point. Cause I started at 10. Yeah, exactly. Oh man. He was so happy.

Anyways. A great show. Uh, great to see those guys back together again. Alright, should we talk about the Who are you? I'm Jack. That's Miles. What if people sat through that whole thing

and didn't know who we are? That's what I think. Honestly, I need that prompt to bring my brain online. Who are you? Who are you? Who are you, sir you who are you sir um i didn't have my 12 hours last night oh no um yeah it is wild how how much i got got the full

15 baby yeah it is more than how much sleep i need um yeah i mean i think i got like five hours last night and it is not like not like when i was it feels like when i was younger and pulled an all-nighter is what it feels like just yeah yeah yeah well you have these trends to keep you keep you that's right and keep me happy keep me focused because important things are happening like uh for instance this thing that is not going to happen donald trump being the new house speaker yeah i think people have been calling me about speaker oh yeah have they did you see the thing where he was like shouting at that fucking ice cream shop too no dude he's been all over the place he was at an ice cream store and he was just like just like ranting about shit it like and it's funny because people were like this is literally a

wendy's because it had the feeling like he was just screaming about his like legal troubles in a fast food restaurant but yeah he's ranting and raving um he's thinking he could be the he's like like you said he's not gonna be the fucking speaker. This is just everybody paying lip service because McCarthy's fucking out, which we, we, we make amends for on the tomorrow's episode. We know we may be sent a lot of people in the wrong direction when we said that the first motion failed to oust him. We fucked up big time. Yeah. Yeah.

I wonder how many people just went out there full confidence, chest out. Exactly. He's not, he didn, chest out. Yeah, exactly. He's in. He didn't get out. He's in. I just heard a news update. From five hours ago. That's right.

No, it's changed. But yeah, and we talk about this sort of weird fantasy from MAGA world that Trump could enter the Capitol, this time as the Speaker of the House. It's not, I think gain everything to lose. Sounds like a good deal. We should, we should see. Yeah.

We'll try it out. And also it's like many people have pointed out on the internet. It's a fucking job that he'd have to like show up to. Yeah. So that's not happening. He couldn't even be, he couldn't even be president. So good luck doing like the, they call the procedural shit. It'd be a mess. I don't even be president. So good luck doing all the procedural shit.

It'd be a mess. I don't even know what we're talking about because it ain't happening. It's not happening, but it does seem like Trump is... Cut to Trump as a speaker. Yeah. I mean, that'd be great. I hope so.

That would be great. It'd be fun for him, for everybody, and it would probably hurt his chances of being the next president because he's like i don't know he he seems stretched thin seems like he's got a lot going on yeah at the moment he just really his hair yeah you know stretched thin that that video or that picture you showed me it is the back side by side of the back of his head yeah with darth vader darth vader no yeah there's like man there's something there what must his skull look like i don't think it's good um he really just seems like he's you know like he in addition to things going worse and worse for him

in all objective by all objective measures it also feels like he is feeling himself more and more right like with each clip i see of him he's just like we're gonna go off prompter on this already off prompter riff and start talking about sharks and electrocution and which one would be uh would hurt worse like he's just totally yeah riding the roller coaster of his own brain chemicals which uh yeah you know i think are heavily engineered at this point apparently he was like you know going like like exasperated like size and shit during the court trial yeah so i mean it's who knows who knows where this ends up i just i just want it to be his worst nightmare yeah please we'll see we'll see might be like anything

involving turmoil is like the mainstream media is like now they got him and he just gets more comfortable he just like luxuriates in turmoil yeah know. Like he, he just seems like an unkillable, uh, slasher. Yeah. Like Michael Myers type dude. Yeah. Yeah. Well,

we'll see. It gets stronger. Um, Kaiser Permanente, uh, union workers are on strike, uh, mounting the largest us healthcare walkout on record.

So the, you know, the labor strength, the labor movement continues on keeps marching labor fall we were hot labor summer now it's hot labor fall hot labor winter hot labor spring and we'll do it all over again i love hot labor yeah good workout oh yeah oh yeah you get in there you pretended to give birth in a 90 degree gym room. It smells like feet. Yeah.

This is like an interesting one, you know, obviously because this is the largest ever. But I want to point something out last week. There was a bill potential that got all the way to the governor's desk in California, where I mentioned that California was on the precipice of signing a law that would extend

unemployment benefits to striking workers. Guess what Gavin Dickface Newsome did? Vetoed the shit. Oh, wow. Yeah, and is hiding behind a wage hike for fast food to be like, yeah, dude, I'm doing it all. And yeah, so

he's definitely putting down his big D establishment credentials there he's like yeah dude i don't give a fuck i knew i could have turned it up for labor right there but you know what he did like this whole thing like we can't we can't go into deficits right now i thought we had surpluses my man yeah i think uh i i think he'd be a really bad next president, if I had to guess. He'd be, I mean, he's like a media creature. So he knows how to work the camera. That's the one thing that I could see working in his benefit.

But I think it's just because he looks like Kirkland's signature Patrick Bateman. I don't know, bro. That ain't it. He's like the A--rod of politics to me like just very camera aware very polished and also did so many steroids so many steroids that things are things that night images of him from the internet of him taking a shit yeah um we've all been there uh the mcrib is returning to mcdonald's and i feel lied to i thought i thought we had a farewell tour last year i did we believed them jack i i i've been

talking to you offline about how i'm not liquid because i invested so much in mcrib farewell tour merchandise um you know it's this is i i've i've i'm fucked y'all most of my savings are in mcrib farewell tour uh soda cups i am upside down on this mcrib shit man i'm not gonna lie uh i don't know how to tell my kids what christmas is gonna look like can i also say that the people magazine uh story about this like people magazine is the one of the worst websites i've ever seen look at the framing like the frames on here what the fuck is a cluster of ad miles i think i couldn't read the story if i wanted broken yeah their ads are broken but this is wild this is like and then they have a mcrib ad inside of like the thing that it's like yeah the internet is like so badly broken it's such a great example yeah that is very very sick

and dying and we're just like yeah, this is just how websites work now. There's just ads breaking through into the articles. And they say Van Vought instead of Vince Vaughn. But we know who they're talking about. Tom Hain. Tom Hain and Uncle Bus. Yeah, we watched the Uncle Bus thing. The AI-generated trailer um as with most ai oh yeah shout out to

freelance fiends who sent that to me on twitter yeah the thing that i was picturing in my mind when people were like yeah they did an ai trailer was far superior to what it actually was the ai trailer um stunk oh it's not good stinky stinky totally uh they didn't even so like they had a voiceover from somebody from ai tom but it didn't really sound like tom hanks and it was was not in the style of a trailer voiceover in any fashion no it was just like a thing being said it is me your uncle i am bus you must do you must race against devil for keep everyone from being bus and then the the big moment where they like showed the movie poster which feels like the thing that you should be able to entrust to ai is like, okay, there are fairly finite number of these movie posters. Like we know what the title is.

We know what the content is. You're going to nail this. Um, it said Tome Hain. Yeah. T O A M H A N E. It's Marissa Tome Hain. We loved her.

My cousin Vinny. You dumb. My cousin Vinny, huh? AI sucks. AI is so fucking bad at its job. It sucks. You suck. You're a fucking idiot. How Facebook Messenger was doing AI-generated stickers you can use? No.

Dude, it fucked up immediately because they were testing it out. Some people who have Facebook Messenger could use a because like you could they were testing it out like some people who have facebook messenger could like use a generator where you could be like hey man like you can like invent your own sticker and people were just doing shit like child soldier and it would make like a child soldier meme or like uh like carl marx with huge boobs yeah and like it would just make these that one's actually pretty good i've tried that one those are pretty good those are pretty good uh but yeah it is like one of those things where again it's like yeah it can do it it can do anything you're forgetting that it can do

anything so including just the most upsetting shit like ted cruz as like a penis character you know there's there's just too much it's too much yeah carl marks is like a penis character, you know, there's, there's just too much. It's too much. Yeah. Karl Marx is like a penis character or like, I don't know. Charlie Brown is a penis character. Um,

all right. Uh, let's take a quick break. We'll come back. And we looked at what national fat bear week is. So you don't have to, if you've been seeing these headlines and they made you tired like they made me,

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And we're back have you had you seen a headline or two about national fat bear week no i've never fucking when you brought it up like moments ago uh when we were figuring out what to talk about i was like what the fuck are you even saying yeah so producer justin assured me that this was not just something that was happening because i have a brain bleed from rocking too hard from rocking way too hard brother when the drums come right man oh when those drums come in um but it's a it's a thing i've seen on we have this little alexa in our kitchen and uh it has a screen on it and so like i see headlines it's like oh god having a perpetual usa today headline machine in in our kitchen and so i saw it there and then like as we were looking at like what is trending i kept seeing national fat bear week yeah and you know it made

me want to be dead a little bit it made me want to go on a like not a shooting spree but like a pushing spree where i just like walk down the street and like push some people over or like fuck up an uber uber eats robot real quick yeah man that that's what that's what i want they need to just put create the robot so we can push them over uh so i dug in miles uh-huh did the hard work for the people so they don't have to i found a article gpt what it was i i found an article i asked google i went old-fashioned and just googled national fat bear week yeah and then it floated to the top results that earn them money so they can have a unclosable profit loop. Yes.

I was just reading about that. Yeah. Robert Evans retweeted a thing about how like all there were so many of the results, especially if it relates to shopping, just like, yeah, we float the ones that people pay us for to the top.

And then, Oh yeah. Google ads is massive, massive mate. Uh, it, the sort of thing that not uh too long ago like if you found out that the service that you paid to like recommend things to you like objectively uh was actually like taking money and lying to you about what the the best thing was would be like a ding in the negative category but now we're just like too busy we're just too busy to like worry about that shit so instead we just need to be on to the next thing and find out what

national fat bear week is so what it's like it's like a national park in alaska that has a ton of these bears and you vote for like who the hottest bear is fat yeah the fattest hot fat bear the and it's based on our article says chunky and they know it voting starts in fat bear week um the article then specifically mentions they don't know it the bears are not aware that they're being photographed you you fucking idiots at mpr it's actually don't know it they don't know it they're they're preparing for hibernation yeah they just want to survive the fucking winter the article also i i think the quality of like writing on the internet has been going down for a while but like now i'm

always like half wondering if it's ai because like it opens it's like boating is now officially open in the 2023 fat bear week competition celebrating the ability of brown bears to pack on weight for their hibernation cycle in alaska to do that they must gobble tons of fish m dash and luckily they live near a thriving sockeye salmon run it's like it it switches to this like who what what the fuck are you talking about like is it all bears no it's the small like they don't make it clear they're talking about a small group of bears you know yeah you expect more from npr huh no i don't but like we know the name name them bill chapel bill chapelle chris gpt exactly um but anyways i don't know i don't it's that's what it is it's like in a specific park they've like created this little thing where they keep track of these certain like 16 something bears and then you track how well they've stocked

up for winter and people vote on who the fattest bear is it seems like a thing that could be objective i feel like it's probably taking off now because like i think all of all of us are like in some phase of life or be like yeah i'd like to just fucking disappear in a cave and then like wake me up in a couple months yeah to see where we're at that's like i feel like it's like a hybrid like i see the hibernation fantasy hibernation yeah we're just a hibernation exactly and should we talk about the lady gaga doesn't have to pay the person who stole her dogs right so this is the so the lady so lady remember lady gaga had the dog stolen then like the dog walker got like shot right yes yeah and then didn't like

lady gaga not pay for like wasn't there like a thing it's like i'm not paying for the medical bills are like barely did but then someone had the bulldogs yeah return them as like all right where's my fucking half million dollar reward but then she was in on it yeah she was in on it the person the person who had the bulldogs yeah right who returned them all right where's my reward uh yeah oh where'd i get them oh from the homie that fucking stole them yeah exactly so and i'm splitting this money with him yeah so fucking come on criminals on the other hand it's like usually those reward things say like no questions asked yeah sounds like some questions are being asked lady gaga yeah um sounds like you're asking a lot of questions and this person put in some hard work to uh no it's it's it's not fair the judge said you can't claim the war because quote you have unclean hands that prevent you from profiting from your actions yeah wow well that's that's right fair that's gutsy

though to be in on like a dog napping thing for the for the reward and have it be so sloppy that it's tied back to you and then you still bother to be like oh i'm suing to enforce this right but then in future dog napping situations will they even return the dog is my question i guess they won't do the dog napping because they're saying that i don't have i don't have five hundred thousand dollars lying around to yeah fucking even you know bring anything back so yeah i don't know i just i can't relate but i get it i love my dog and i would offer at least five hundred dollars in in cole's cash yeah this story feels like one of those stories that would get forwarded around by your q anon relatives being like you see how people are trying to make money now these days they expect a free

handout you know is that a style of email like just new schemes like this is what they're up to like that this was being posted by people who want to prove like the whole place going to hell in a handbasket like that's what i said yeah hell in a hamburger anyways hell in a hamburger is my favorite combo at mcdonald's uh until the mcrib come back. I just called your nurse so they're going to wheel you back to your room. But you didn't miss pudding. You didn't miss pudding time. I do love pudding. Alright, those are some of the things

that are trending on this Wednesday October 4th. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourself. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy.

And we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Bye-bye. Good God. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadsden. 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 Costavetto, 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.

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