The Daily Zeitgeist - The Zeitmare Before Trendmas 12/3: Phones In School, Financial Success By Generation, Apple Airpods, South Korea

Episode Date: December 3, 2024

In this edition of The Zeitmare Before Trendmas, Jack and Miles discuss how these teens won't get off their dang phones, how much money each generation thinks means financial success, Apple's "new" feature for the AirPods Pro 2, South Korea briefly declaring martial law and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Oh, Tim Burton's just presenting it is made by other guy whose name. If I really wanted to drive this home, I would have remembered his name. Fuck. It's like a French French name, I think. Who? The actual director of a Nightmare before Christmas is not Tim Burton. Oh, oh, yeah, he just presented it. He's like hey, I just saw this movie It's like pretty sick Henry. I'm really selling Thank You Victor anyways

Also same deal with James the Giant Peach I believe My name is Jack that over there is miles. This is the morning zoo. Now this is the afternoon episode where we tell you some stuff that is trending and we're going to start off with kids, teens and their dang phones. Oh, also speaking to dude, Eminem's mom died. Kim, no, Debbie, Debbie. Fuck you, Debbie. Kim? Debbie! Debbie!

Fuck you, Debbie! Yeah, Debbie passed away. I just thought about that. Iconic, I think everyone was yelling fuck you, Debbie for years, but yeah, Debbie Hath passed away. Just wanted to add that for all the millennials who are listening to Eminem and being like, shit's tight, dude, I hate my mom too, kinda.

I would, does Eminem, dude. I hate my mom too, kind of. Does Eminem, like is Eminem popular with a younger generation? How has Eminem? I don't think so because they like a fine one. Like bananas. I saw, no, they're like, well y'all were just letting them say the F word a bunch and like kept it moving. They're like, yeah, you know, here's the thing kids. Different time. We were pieces of shit. Didn't know nothing. Yeah, but anyway, yeah.

Lung cancer, unfortunately. Sorry to hear it, Eminem, who I know is a big listener. All right, should we talk about these dang teens and their dang phones? Yeah, yeah. So there's an article in NPR about teens being hard to get off their phones during school. And a couple things jumped out to me about this article. First, it starts with the eyewitness testimony of a teacher who had to quit because it was

just so awful to try and teach children at this school where they're allowed to be on their phones. And he said, most of the people in the class they've got their headphones in they've got their phones on they're not actually listening huh like I just I I didn't realize it had gotten to that place where the schools were like yeah I don't know if you got to be on your phones then like maybe maybe try and listen to like a good podcast or something. As long as like in the same, I know this is science class, so like maybe you can listen to like maybe RFK on Joe Rogan or something.

That can be an episode you guys listen to. So it's tangentially. I don't know. Headphones in, in class is so disrespectful. I know. I think we both have the same sort of reaction to that, whereas I remember when, like, in the dawn of the iPod, kids were, that's when like kids started bringing, like wearing headphones at school and shit, and even like on Walkmans and stuff like that.

But teachers took that as straight up like, oh, you wanna say fuck you? And I took that as disrespect. Yeah. No, absolutely. They're like, and you're gonna wear fucking headphones? And I was like, yeah, man, it's their fucking they don't exist. I don't even know who I'm talking at in these classes. Battle has just been being waged like out of my site.

And like, apparently the kids just want they're just like, well, fuck you. I don't care what you say anymore. I mean, it makes sense to ban the phones in that case when you're quite literally being like, I'm sorry, all my senses I need to learn are being occupied by nonsense. There's also this line from an English teacher that bummed me out. And I, again, from the teacher's perspective, I like totally get why this is a bummer. But the way it's being framed, the English teacher said, nobody goes in education in order to become the

phone police. We want to be able to focus on our content. Oh, no content. No curriculum. They're calling a curriculum that they're teaching in class content. Oh, like how do you compete with all these content creators? Uh, By being a content creator myself. Check this one out. Let's talk about verb tense agreement. One of my favorite pieces of content from the last 700 years. So fucked up. That's fucking tough.

That is really tough. Yeah, that makes me more and more wonder. I mean, like, yeah, as I think about my own kid and like the screen shit now, you know, cause like, man, I was at the, I was at the grocery store the other day. I saw a baby, I could not believe how young they were, were just on an iPad. Like I'm talking like, like maybe eight months old.

It was sort of jarring to kind of see that. And I get a lot of times you need to get a break. Yeah. No, just like looking at it, a bunch of shit going by on the screen. I'm yeah, I'm like starting to be like damn How do you how do you protect your your wee little ones from fully going overboard? Yeah with the screens, but yeah case by case basis, you know, I mean, I'm not feel like this Yeah Feels like this will be the part that they show in movies like the madmen about this era to be like, look how fucked up it is.

Like the kids were allowed to smoke in class, you know, that's basically what they're happening here. Yeah, there's zeroing out vape hits, as they call it. Like I'll hold it in my lungs for so long. I will not blow anything out. So try and catch me. Oh, yeah. The articles about like how this battle was like being waged on a classroom by classroom basis. And finally the schools are like, all right guys,

I think we're going to have to take the phones away. And so now they're basically treating the schools like a Dave Chappelle show and just like everybody has to hand in their phones when they arrive. And then you get them back at the end of the day. The other other day, Chappelle show. Other places are taken away before class. But that feels like that's not going to happen. You got you probably have to take it away at the beginning.

But yeah, like we've said before, the really like posh British boarding schools are actually like saying you are not allowed to come on campus with smartphones and issuing kids flip phones that they're like allowed to use. But nothing else. Yeah. Well, yeah, that kind of goes along with like this other article I saw where so many college students are using like AI now for everything and yes, like it's just getting harder to detect And it's just like I don't know dude I guess I have to come here to get the piece of paper that says I can like enter the middle class

Is that still a thing guys? Is this a thing? No. All right, then I'll use AI fuck it All right also having to do with the Young's There's a new article in Axios that just it has this one chart salaries Americans say they consider the minimum to be quote financially successful and So you got boomers who on average say? And so you got boomers who on average say 99,000 nine you Soft ass motherfuckers really boomer. You did it all didn't you? Okay. Let's be nice

Gen X $212,300 Probably a little bit more realistic than the boomers who are like, yeah, I just had, I kept my paper route up through my mid forties and I have a great home. Yeah. Yeah. Paid 100% of my salary. Millennials are down at $587,000 is what they think is the bare minimum to be financially successful.

Wow. That seems unrealistic in the other direction. But what are we considering? So Gen Z includes, according to this age range, 12 year olds. So that's maybe that's skewing it is like all the 12 year olds being like, I mean, minimum I wanna be making. 12 to 27. Yeah, 12 to 27.

So maybe it's like all the people who are 12 to 16 being like minimum I should be making a mil. Like, otherwise I'm a fucking loser, dude. Yeah, that's tough. I mean, that's what, for these kids who are coming of age with cell phones and social media like in their face and you're just seeing like all this influencer shit, like you would be like, okay, so what's that?

That dude's in a Lambo, okay? And they live in a fucking impossible mansion and they have all this stuff. Yeah, I think 600 to be successful. I mean, I guess realistically, like, yeah, to like own a home in like most, or at least like in California, they say you need to make all like,

the household income needs to be around 190 something. Yeah. I feel like, is that the bar? Like, what is the bar? Is the bar, I think millennials would probably describe it as home ownership and full stop. That that's it that's a success and Gen Z this this astronomical figure does feel like oh yeah financial success is Lambo right yeah yeah Lambo or fucking nothing dude but yeah that's a failure do like

my fucking owning a house dude fucking reach higher yeah but this is also the reason why I was like, there was a survey about like why like younger people are, they say their financial woes are feeding into their interest in like other political parties, like specifically Trump, uh, because they're probably having a hard time even getting close to $100,000. Right. Um, yeah. So it's like, that's the biggest gap between what is actually available to them and what they're what they think is realistic. Yeah. Yeah.

And that's got to be tough. I remember like for me, I was just like, I just want to, I want to, I want to live outside of my house, my parents house. Like, right. I'm like, that's good enough, baby. But yeah but yeah, well, we all learned, we all grow and we all realize it might not be 600K. I would be interested to see like what, if this was 18 and up, like Gen Z, what, what that number would look like. Probably a little more realistic, but I know a lot of like those Tik TOK street interviews. I see when people, when I hear younger people talk about finances, like they think a broke person makes a hundred thousand dollars. Right. Yeah.

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Anyway. This will be our most successful YouTube video. Look out for the Easter egg. If you want to see a fucking straight up just dangler off my nostril tip. There it is. I felt that I was like, oh, no. And I just looked at the video like, fuck, dude,

this is why I should not be on camera anyway. I actually think six million dollars in to digitally remove it. Like frame by frame. Yeah. Kevin Costner's hairline in water world. Yeah. Henry Cavill's mustache. Exactly. So AirPods pro two released a while ago, we thought.

Yeah. But there's a new video from Apple. It's a new feature. Yeah. A new feature being introduced where they can serve as a clinical grade hearing aid pending regulatory approval. But that doesn't stop them. They're not waiting for the regulatory approval to drop the sick video in which a dad is hearing impaired and doesn't know it up to this point. And like so he's just like watching his daughter open Christmas presents and it's all like muffled.

point. And like, so he's just like watching his daughter open Christmas presents and it's all like muffled. You pointed out it. It sounded like he landed on Omaha Beach, Dog Green sector on June 6th, 1944, to give a Saving Private Ryan reference. It's just like, yeah, he's got a private Ryan hearing. Yeah, shell shock, saving private Ryan hearing as his daughter up as the president and he can't hear anything. And then I think he gets the AirPods Pro 2 for Christmas and they try and frame it as like,

and then he like hears his daughter for the first time ever. I don't know if he just got it for Christmas because his wife's like, hey, jackass put in your AirPod. Like it's not even that, did he even open? I don't think he unboxed it. Oh, he was just sitting there. That's what's so weird. It's like, so you knew and you were just choosing to check out on Christmas Day while your daughter was playing an acoustic guitar composition. He's just not a fan. Yeah. So there's a honey put it in.

It's like, oh, oh, dang. All right. Yeah, that's tight. But it like goes back through all his memories and he can't hear her and like all the memories and he can't hear her and all the memories of her childhood. So it really has this... We've seen the Apple commercial before where Mother Nature shows up to an Apple board meeting and is like, you guys are fucking up. And then Tim Cook directly addresses God and is like, actually, we're not. And here's all the ways that we're contributing to sustainability.

So the kind of a similarly striking, a similarly self-important note. They are like, and now thanks to Apple, this guy can hear his daughter sing for the first time, so weird to this. This Tim Cook tweet from a few days ago when he like posted the video, all these blue check fucking freaks are in here being like, this is one of the best ads of all time. And is Apple finally back to being non woke? Like because there's a white family.

Yeah. White family where the dad could give a fuck about his kids or what? I think that's the deal. Like, yeah, yeah, a real family. Yeah. White family where the dad could give a fuck about his kids or wife. Thank God. A real family. Yeah. I want some fucking girl dad who's like, oh, babe, I love your talents. No, check the fuck out. You can't even hear shit because you were fucking rocking too hard to Metallica in the fucking nineties. And yeah, now you're fucking, you're hanging out on Christmas day. There is so much family is back. Great commercial touching family oriented and not woke. Thank you for not forcing DEI down consumers like this is all fucking weird bot.

I just don't even I think it's because Elon Musk fucking replied to it and said, this is cool. Hey, this is kind of cool. I know. Thanks. You guys, you guys, you guys. Elon likes this new Apple commercial. This is also cool and not woke and does not suffer from the woke mind virus. There was a brief declaration of martial law, a brief kind of coup by the president in South Korea. What if that was in America?

We're like, there's apparently, I don't know, Trump declared martial law. That is so possible where it's like he did it. And then like the army is like, dude, no. And he's like, no, you know, never mind. Or the army is like, sure. And then so everybody is just like, oh, we're so tired of this guy. Yeah. So you and so you'll the president has been like in a waning in popularity is putting it lightly.

He's one of the like more hardcore authoritarian presidents. I guess I went a little over the top with tailspin. I also described the moon as I'm like the light of the moon is in a tailspin going full moon until barely a crescent cratering. What are you gonna do? And anyway, so- I've been on the internet too long. The opposition party has been like

voting against his legislation. They've tried to impeach him. And then in a recent election, like lost his majority to the opposition party and like their aligned parties. And then yeah, declares martial law for saying like these people were like doing activities Against the state and like we're North Korean like sympathizer leftist coups sort of how he's painting it You're like, is there evidence and like nah, nah

Hmm. Hmm. Nah, not really, but we got to stop this And anyway, like the police were out the videos are wild with like tanks and helicopters and shit at the National Assembly But luckily the members of parliament were able to convene completely vote down the mark like the the declaration of martial law like unanimously and then slowly it was like well is the president going to acknowledge it and did it until finally it has been acknowledged and they are, it is no longer in effect. Um, but yeah, it's, it's just, it's, I think, honestly, probably it seems wacky to us in America, but I feel like we are very close to seeing this kind of, like, I mean, we already kind of have in like very small moments, but like something this K I feel like hold onto your whole butt.

The whole one. Cause sometimes you tell me to hold on your butt and I just hold on to half of my butt. Yeah. I know. I know. I know. And I want to be clear. Your whole butt now. Okay. Orders received. Yeah. But again, this, this like tactic of declaring martial law, a lot of people pointed out has been like, it's always been under like authoritarian sort of leaning presidents. Yeah. And so. Feels like just where we're at, where they're, I mean, everybody's watching each other.

They're like, oh, okay. So that authoritarian tried to like claim that the election was stolen by the rival party. So I'm going to do that too. So this is all part of the same thing. And I'm sure Trump will learn from this. And if there's a wipe out in the midterms, there will be all sorts of interesting fuckery. Yeah. So we'll see. This could lead to, I mean, a lot of they've been calling for his resignation for a while. Like last month, there were professors that told him to resign. Like he's Catholic and like a group of South Korean Catholic priests, like you should resign, bro. No. yeah, yeah. Yeah, it be own. As he said, I think that's what he quote tweeted that thing. It be own. It really do. Huh?

All right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, December 3rd. 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 shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. We want to speak out and we want this to stop. Wow. very powerful.

I'm Ellie Flynn, an investigative journalist, and this is my journey deep into the adult entertainment industry. I really wanted to be a player boy, my doll. He was like, I'll take you to the top, I'll make you a star. To expose an alleged predator and the rotten industry he works in. It's honestly so much worse than I had anticipated. We're an army in comparison to him. From Novel, listen to The Bunny Trap on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever

you get your podcasts. Join iHeart Media chairman and CEO Bob Pitman for a special episode of the hit podcast, Math & Magic, Stories from the Frontiers of Marketing, as he interviews the iconic and prolific Martha Stewart in front of a live audience in celebration of her 100th book. Did you ever think you were gonna wind up writing 100 books?

Yeah. You did? Yeah, it's just a minor goal. Listen to Math and Magic on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey everyone, it's John, also known as Dr. John Paul. And I'm Jordan or Joe Ho. And we are the Black Fat Film Podcast.

A podcast where all the intersections of identity are celebrated. Woo chat, this year we have had some of our favorite people on including Kid Fury, T.S. Madison, Amber Ruffin from the Amber and Lacey show, Angela Carrasco and more. Make sure you listen to the Black Fat Fam podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Have a podcast or whatever you get your podcast, girl.

Ooh, I know that's right. Welcome to Decisions Decisions, the podcast where boundaries are pushed and conversations get candid. Join your favorite hosts, me, Weezy WTF and me, Mandy B. As we dive deep into the world of non-traditional relationships and explore the often taboo topics surrounding dating, sex and love. Every Monday and Wednesday, we both invite you to unlearn the outdated narratives dictated by traditional patriarchal norms. Tune in and join the conversation. Listen to Decisions Decisions on the Black Effect Podcast Network,

iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Dani Shapiro, host of the hit podcast, Family Secrets. How would you feel if when you met your biological father for the first time, he didn't even say hello. And what if your past itself was a secret and the time had suddenly come to share that past with your child? These are just a few of the powerful and profound questions we'll be asking on our 11th season of Family Secrets. Listen to season 11 of Family Secrets

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