The Daily Zeitgeist - Top 10 of 2024: #7 Cybertruck Bulletproof But Not Waterproof 02.16.24

Episode Date: December 26, 2024

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While we unwind here at Daily Zeitgeist, in addition to publishing our normal year-end episodes and Santa's University, etc., we've decided to take the opportunity to count down the top 10 episodes of the year published over the next 10 days. The 10 days that will be off, Monday through Friday, two weeks in a row. How, Jack, how did you guys determine the top 10 episodes? They were all equally incredible. Well, we used a little something called democracy. Ever heard of it?

Depending on when you listen to this episode, that might not be such a rhetorical question. But anyways, we let you vote on the you listen to this episode that might not be such a rhetorical question but anyways we let you vote on the most listened to episodes of the year to see what you liked best and you're about to hear your answers just 10 bangers right in a row we've got a trending episode in the mix we got a lot of good ones and at number one, well, let's just say you'll find out, especially if this is the number one episode. We're putting this same bumper at the start of all 10. So we hope you enjoy it.

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Nope. And it is Friday, February 11th, nope. And it is Friday, February 16th, 2024. Not a good start, guys. Ah, fucking up the date. That's when you know you're in for it. When I'm, can't even read numbers. The most basic thing to read. I think I learned that before reading numbers,

before reading words. Anyways, my name is Jack O'Brien aka Inspector Jadget. Inspector Jadget. Go. Sorry. Joe Jadget Joe. That is courtesy of Rezik on the Discord in reference to the fact that I pronounced Inspector Gadget with two soft G's and then tried to pretend that I'd done it on purpose on yesterday's show and just like believed that more words should be pronounced with a soft G. I'm not proud, it just seemed like a good idea at the time. I am thrilled to be joined in the second seat by today's just co-host, a brilliant, now I'm not gonna keep doing it,

a brilliant comedian, writer, actor, the hilarious, the chaotic, the riding a recumbent bike, in short shorts, it's Blake Wexler! Hey everyone, this is Blake Wexler, AKA happy girth day to my legs. Happy girth day to my legs. Happy girth day dear plumbers.

Happy girth day to my legs. Today is my birthday and I have a very exciting announcement. Is that real? My calf, yeah, oh yeah. Oh my God. I would never joke about that. I would never, I joke about a lot of things. I would never ever joke about that day.

Very serious about my birthday. Very serious, equally as serious announcement. My calf muscles have gotten so big and strong. They are no longer considered to be calves, but cows. I now have cow muscles. That sucks. It's good, no it's really good. No, that is actually really good.

It's very good. This is the type of humor you deserve. I just thought you were commenting on the fact that every day is leg day for you, and happy birthday to your plumpers is every day. But happy birthday to your plumpers and happy day for you. And you know, happy girth day to your plumpers is every day. But happy, happy girth day to your plumpers and happy birthday to you, Blake Wexler. What a treat.

Thank you. I know I came up with this bit, but it's still, it's starting to make me feel sick to my stomach hearing these words. What? Carmen, I'm so sorry. And by the way, we don't even have a word yet. If you're gonna say girth one more time, I still.

Yeah. But yes, girthy plumpers. Is that weird? Carmen, I'm so sorry. And by the way, we don't even know who our guest is yet. If you're gonna say girth one more time, I swear. Yeah. But yes, girthy plumpers. I wouldn't, I would never. Is that weird? Is that not a good combination? Is it girth day? Is it girth day?

Happy girth day to, yeah. Weird word. That has been paired with plumpers and also very weird words that- That's fine. Both, like, and I used to describe our lives. I'm not gonna add to that. I could add another word. I'm not adding.

Yeah, not adding. You don't have to. Who are you though? Who am I? Who are you? We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a brilliant writer, producer, vice columnist, journalist, podcast host, just all, all of the jobs. Sad them.

She's been good at them. She's done them amazingly. Her memoir, Why Don't You Tell Me, was called propulsive and explosive by Publishers Weekly. And she was called a master storyteller by a regional paper, The New York Times. I don't know if you've ever heard of them. Please welcome to the show the brilliant, the talented Carmen Rita White. Listen, does Carmen San Diego have a song? I don't remember.

You did Inspector Gadget and I was like, Carmen San Diego is like, where in the world is Carmen San Diego? The place my brain is at is that I couldn't even change the second word to San Diego. I said, da da da da da, Carmen Inspector. Duh duh duh duh, Carmen Inspector. So, Sandy. Oh, yeah, yeah. Jesus Christ, guys, what is going on? I don't know. How's everybody doing?

Good. Yeah? Right? Is it really your birthday, Blake? I still don't know. Blake, yeah, happy birthday, man. Aw, thank you, thank you so much. Yeah, it is Friday, February 16th, which is today. It's my birthday, man. Aw, thank you. Thank you so much. Yeah, it is Friday, February 16th,

which is today, it's my birthday. Yeah, so I feel good. I feel young again, in a way. I've done a 180. The earlier part of my 30s has been a slog, but now I've had some serums and some experimental medication and metal surgery, not even plastic surgery. And I feel I feel pretty good.

Yeah. Where are you at? Where I'm I'm in a closet. No, there's construction in my building all of a sudden. So I'm like, yeah, in the car. No, no. No, listen, I've had, I just had surgery like three months ago. So there you go. Speaking of surgeries, but they're taking things out, not putting things in. So it's all good. It is good. Yeah. I want to get fewer things as we get older, fewer things as you get older. Yes. Things start to now disappearing for good reasons.

A minimalist body is I think think, what we all want. Yes. With youthful blood, transferring the blood of the youth into yourselves as certain billionaires do. I'm glad someone said it. Can we just stop acting like having young people as blood bags is only for billionaires. Oh my God. I mean, it's a fun, earthy alternative to your morning coffee, is what I'll say. No, no, no.

Just get your blood. No, don't do it. Don't do it. All right. No, I was just- You vampires. Listen, I'll just be a vampire. It was a trial balloon.

It didn't go over well, so we're just gonna kind of- I'm sorry to hear that. Put that back and I'll bring it out in a couple more years. See how people respond to it. Well. Oh my God. Carmen, we're gonna get to know you. Well, well, well.

Look who it is. Yes. We're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about today. You may have seen headlines that Russia space nuke something, like the Russia's gonna nuke us from space was kind of the vibes I was getting from the headlines.

Russian nuclear space weapons. And yeah, Washington was kind of- You should read the rest of the article before you add it into the show rundown. That's all that you know. You may have seen Russian nuclear, the words aren't even in order in my head. Something about space.

But that's my impressionistic version of what it was like for me to see those words together is like, well, that's bad, right? Like that combination of words is bad. The truth of the story, a little less scary, so we're just going to talk about that.

Turn the temperature down a little bit on the Russian nuclear space laser bombs thing. We're going to talk about what it's like to apply for a job at McDonald's these days. Hint, it involves an AI blue space creature that you have to like answer existential questions about. It's very confusing. Positive story. Yeah.

It sounds like that's going to be uplifting in a lot of ways. Yeah. And then we're going to talk about Tesla troubles because yeah, we, I mean, we are an Elon Musk fan podcast, we love him and we feel like he can do no wrong, but God damn guy keeps fucking up. Tesla is, Tesla is having a worse quarter financially. You are not fans. No.

Stop. He's so smart and rich. What's that feel like? Oh God, stop. You guys are weird. If you were smarter than him, why don't you have $50 billion, bro? But Tesla, I didn't realize this.

I don't normally pay attention to the markets because I think it's like all bullshit But it is just interesting like the thing that he's famous for Is like making a lot of money for Tesla like with Tesla stock he Tesla is having a worse quarter a worst year so far than Boeing Twitter year so far than Boeing. Twitter. Yeah. No, literally them Boeing.

They are, Tesla is performing the worst out of any S and P 500 stock. Boeing has like, just to put that in perspective, Boeing had a window explode off of a plane they built, a door explode off of a plane they built. And we're like, yeah, that's, that's our bad. That one's on us guys. Uh, and we kind of knew it was a problem, but you know, you did, sorry. And Tesla's doing worse than that. Well, the cyber trucks can't fly is the problem. That's why he promised the cyber trucks could fly and they can't.

So that's going to hurt your stock. Oh my God. That is the tenor of the conversation of the cyber truck heading in is like, you literally can't be shot in this thing. Nothing can happen to it. And then the people who ordered their cyber trucks, the same people who are anxiously awaiting the latest email from Donald Trump, I have to assume, got the owner's manual. And the owner's manual was like, if a bird shits on this car, sell it,

or take it, or get like alcohol, like industrial strength alcohol wipes and clean that shit off immediately because it's it's bad for for your cyber truck if like just a if it gets like dirt on it yeah it's made of aluminum foil yeah it's amazing it's made of stainless steel and they were like oh the stainless thing die away turns out that doesn't mean it can't be stained and in fact it's like it is just drinking in everything that you put on it like a sponge So we'll talk about all that plenty more before we get to any of that Carmen We do like to ask our guest. What is something from your search history? Oh God, we're gonna start with that one. All right, so we can get out of the serious stuff

So on my search history you catching me right after lunch and once a week, it's my little routine because I need a little treat. Once a week with my lunch, I watch all the new movie previews. So my search was Godzilla and Kong. Is that for Godzilla and Kong? You can laugh at me. It's for listen. Godzilla was is my girl. All right, okay, let's be real I can be a very very serious person and intellect. However, when it comes to giant reptiles Who may be female? Trying to protect their territory

And they can shoot blue lasers out of their mouths. I am on board and they can shoot blue lasers out of their mouths. I am on board. So hard. So the thing, my pause was not just being staggered at your low brow taste. I wasn't like, God. It was not me picking up the monocle that had fallen from my eye when you said Godzilla Kong. Seriously? Oh, God. Damn.

Did you ever say Godzilla and Kong? I thought they made this one already. They did, but it's the trailer. It's the new trailers. It's the trailer for the new sequel. So they got a sequel. Godzilla and Kong are teaming up. So the first one was Godzilla, Godzilla versus Kong.

This is Godzilla X Kong, which means multiple. The sequel is there's an X. It's a collab. It's a collab-o. Yes, man. Yes. So I was not up on this. And Kong has a metal glove.

Why? This is so ridiculous. You know I'm gonna end up seeing seeing this in 4D, right? I'm going to go to the theater where the seats move and it sprays water on you and I'm just going to laugh my ass off. It's going to be wonderful. Did you watch the first, the Godzilla V-Kong? Yes.

And did you see Godzilla minus one, which was a masterpiece? These math equations, too much for me. Masterpiece. The Japanese, see Godzilla minus one, which was a masterpiece? I mean, these math equations too much for me. Masterpiece. The Japanese, the most recent one. I didn't know there was going to be fucking math here. Oh, yeah. Blake, sorry, I cut you off. You had a better... No, no, no. No, it's OK. No, I didn't.

It's so hard for me to watch these when I'm, you know, reading about Alexander Fleming and, you know, like the guy who discovered penicillin. It's just that's the type of stuff that I like. But I have heard that- I see, I see. No, but have you seen the Apple Plus show, Monarch, Legacy of Monsters? Yes, I watched a couple episodes, yeah.

I liked it, I like really liked it. And of course, the two Kurt Russells, it's Kurt Russell and his son. Yeah, Wyatt Russell I believe both play the same person Yeah, different ages obviously super similar. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it works They have the the Russell draw a jawline and yeah, I thought it was cool. I liked it It wasn't perfect, but I was I was into it. I Watched a couple of it was it was okay. It was okay

But yeah when it comes to the movies, I'm old school. This was my old, you know when I was a kid Yeah, yeah, you thought with big monster movies like big. Yeah. Yeah. What is your top? What's your number one like that? So my original introduction to movies and stick remains You know, my favorite movie was Jaws, which is a big monster movie. But I didn't take it in that direction. I then instead just got excited about Steven Spielberg movies. I think the thing that I followed up with was like a 70s King Kong, and it just as a kid wasn't really doing it for me.

My first girl crush by the way Jessica lang. Yeah She's pretty Yeah, lordy. I was like i'm confused Yeah What's your number one big monster movie? Um, listen my first which by the way, I watch all kinds of like i'm a movie freak so i'll watch anything and quite obsessive, um, but alien was kinds of like I'm a movie freak so I'll watch anything and quite obsessive um but Alien was

everything for me that movie I will watch over and over and over and over again like the whole concept of all of it Alien Predator big monster movie like I just I love them they're cool they're a blast Terminator is he a monster monster? I think so. He is. I think so. The man is. Arnold Schwarzenegger is. He's a monster. No, you've seen that video of him traveling to Brazil for a carnival, but he's... No.

It's wild. What? It's like he was the host of a travel show in the 70s, and he is out of control. He can't be stopped. in the 70s and he is out of control. He can't be stopped. He talks about like, sasses and things like that. Things of this nature. Picks up a dancer one time and it's like, you're worried that somebody's going to be ripped to shreds.

Yeah. So, alien. Yep. Aliens. Twister. Twisters. Thoughts. Youens? Twister? Twisters? Thoughts?

You excited? I mean... I think it's too many. I could barely handle one. And now there's multiple, now there's multiple twisters. Did you ever go to the Universal, the Universal Studios in LA where, sorry, Studio Studio, where they would have the King Kong, the massive King Kong,

but they would give him banana breath? Like they would have a scent of bananas. And I just looked it up, it turns out this is, I'm not, this isn't the beginning of my brain decaying. I hate, I would vomit. That's disgusting. It was disgusting. You would be like a kid in scale. I hate bananas, so I would instantly throw up.

Wait, does this imply that the cinematic universe of King Kong's contains massive bananas to go with the mass of King Kong? Otherwise he would just have to be eating bushels, right? True. Which is not sustainable. Not sustainable. Not sustainable.

King Kong does not need food. No. I mean. I'm a monster. His food is excitement. I don't know. I have no idea. I don't like to think about my monsters like eating and pooping.

Like it just really destroys the image in my head. His food, like a late night talk show host, food is our adulation and applause. King Kong's food is our fear and terror. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah. What is something you think is overrated? You know what? Okay.

Let's bring it back down to, I think you said something, you said that, you know, the markets are bullshit, right? Jack, you just said that. All right. So let's, let's bring ourselves back there for a second, because I was thinking a lot about this because some sports star just started some nonprofit about I did. I do. All right. So let's bring ourselves back there for a second because I was thinking a lot about this because some sports star just started some nonprofit about financial literacy. I covered financial literacy for 20 plus years. I gave financial advice. I was an editor of

Money Fortune. I had a TV show, all this stuff. And I can tell you, I retired from it, I want to say seven, eight years ago, and I'm so glad I did, because one of the things is the realization that you cannot financially literate yourself out of a real f'ed up economy doesn't pay you. You can't, the system, what I found out in covering the business for so long, covering the banks, covering how everything has made the government, the laws, the rules, you are up against. Of course, you need to know the basics, especially women and marginalized people. You have to know the basics and how to protect

yourself and how to be on timeable. But the idea that so many of these things are set in motion or beyond your control, like credit scores or like, you know, overdrafts or like the market, where by the way, most of the market is only 15% of American people have access to the stock market. Right. So how can you now when I started back in financial literacy, it was, it was a different ballgame. And now it's like, you can't sit there and teach people out of the fact that, for example, my first apartment, let's see, my first job, I was making $35,000 a year, New York City, Manhattan. Yeah.

I could afford a studio apartment walking distance from my job. Wow. Oh my God. Yeah. It was $750. $750, yeah. And thank you by the way for having the geriatric on your show. Now. No. It's not age is good. I'm alive. I'm alive. Age is good. But let me give you a perspective. Now I've got young people telling me that they're starting at $35,000 a year and a studio apartment in midtown is going

for 3000 plus dollars. How can you possibly be literate enough to get yourself out of the fact that they were just not paying people what we should be paid? Just got to learn more from. Yeah, one thing I recently learned. Bootstraps mostly. a heart. You have bootstraps, mostly. No boot, let me tell you, there ain't no bootstraps that gonna get you out of this. There ain't no boots you can put on your feet and get you out of this. Yes, you can all sit there and grind, but the fact of the matter is that the system is set up so badly against us.

That I just hope it's so overrated. When you see financial literacy, when you see experts now, back when I started, there were very few experts Because you actually had to be an expert. Yeah, okay now It's about selling things. It's about selling information is about selling you a program It's about it all does it just be very very careful Yeah, and then we've got to get some we've got to make some changes

Period the I mean there there's definitely like a real time, almost food chain, like proliferation of scams that are like aiming at you. And like, that's definitely good to familiarize yourself with. But yeah, when I learned that financial literacy was like a pet project of big banks, Yeah. I was like, Oh, wait a second here. Yeah. Like they're, because it helps their narrative that like, no, the problem, the reason there's inequality has, it's not systemic. It's not this system that is like just funneling massive amounts of money hour

away, it's actually, uh, you guys are too dumb and we're, right. We're willing to help you with that. If you just like pay us for these financial literacy programs. Yeah. It's the whole, like you're all so bad because you use straws, but we are just gonna suck all the oil out of, you know what I mean? It's that whole, it's all personal responsibility BS. Cause they want to distract you from the fact that it's all happening upstairs.

Yeah. It's really indicative and fucked up of how bad the system is, that beyond to your point, basic understanding, you're supposed to be like, you know what, actually, you probably should be ignorant to what's going on, because it's going to make you way more upset

if you actually know how fucked up the system is and how it's actively screwing you. It is so upsetting. That is not what the banks consider financial literacy is like knowing what they're doing to fuck you over. Their version of financial literacy is like, here are all these financial products that we can offer you to. Which is why we need Elizabeth Warren to stay where she is and do more because of her that

things have changed and are continuing to change. And we got to change that because if you don't change the rules. They're just gonna do whatever they can Right, whatever they can like it seems like it's similar I don't know if it's exactly the same mechanism, but the reason that taxes are So complicated in the u.s. Like doing your own taxes Not like I feel like if you talk to people in other countries about financial literacy they'll be like what the fuck are you talking about like I just like I know how much money I have and I try not to like spend more than that and like that but it's so complicated

in the US because yeah it's profitable for corporations to make it complicated. It's possible they the government knows how much you owe in taxes. All right? Yeah, they can fucking send you a bill. You don't need a company to pay a company. So anyway, that's another one of the fights that's happening on Washington now to kind of outlaw the whole tax prep stuff

and have people be like, why is everybody paying for this stuff? Yeah, it does seem like people are kind of catching on to that one. Yes. Carmen, what is something you think is under of catching on to that one. Yes. Carmen, what is something you think is underrated? Oh, this is more fun. Do you know what I love? Love love love. Let's go back to the capital punishment. No, I'm kidding. Don't get me mad now. Losiento, Losiento. I'll spare you. Oh, wow. I didn't know you spoke Spanish, Blake.

That's right. Losiento. Losiento. Losiento. Losiento. Un poquito. No, this is mucho más fun, okay? So on shows, I love,

cause of course I'm a writer too, but I love mashup words. I don't like, I'm not talking about those TikTok kind of stuff like Riz and stuff. I'm talking about mashup words. Cause right now the word I'm not talking about those TikTok kind of stuff like Riz and stuff. I'm talking about mashup words. Because right now the word that I can't get out of my head, which I love so much is corpsicle. Is anyone watching True Detective?

It is the idea and I come across a couple more of these words and I just love, they make me so happy. And they're just corpsicle. Like the power to be able to create a word that instantly makes your brain go corpse. Know exactly what that is. And you know exactly what it is. And it's a nonsense word. Brilliant.

By the way, love the show. Yeah. You love True Detective. That's a great underrated. That's one of honestly my favorite underrated. It's that's such a good one because it's something that you appreciate subconsciously, but then hearing you say that, I wanna keep an eye out for more,

more corpsicle type words. It's so fun. And then every time I hear corpsicle, I'm like, oh, I just love it. Okay. Ha ha ha ha. By the way, so that you know where I'm at, I tried to write corpsicle.

I wasn't quite sure how to pronounce, uh, how to spell it and my auto correct change it to crop circle. Sure. So you know what? That's another fantastical thing. You love science. So there you go. I love science.

Is that what you said? Yes. I love science. Science, science, the M. Night Shyamalan movie. Yes. Signs up and science class. That's I think that's in another M. Night Shyamalan movie where Mark Wahlberg is a science teacher and he's like, just written on the board, he's like,

where'd the bees go? Oh, God. That wasn't science. Which one was that one? That was, I remember that one. Oh my God, I remember that one. What about the bees though, bro? That's science. Don't spoil it, don't spoil it. Don't tell us where the bees went. It was anything else, it was good. It was a huge plot point.

Oh my God. It's a good one. It was a good one. Yeah, that is a good one. True Detective season four, or yeah, season four, has one of the most, that corpcicle, it is the corpcicle to end all corpcicles, by the way. It's a bunch. Yeah.

It's a real cluster. And if you like this season, look at me, I'm not doing promo for her, but I do adore her. The director, Isa Lopez, right? Chicana from Mexico. Her horror movie, Tigers Are Not Afraid, was beautiful and fresh. You know, when you see a movie, it's not like, you're not like, wow, that was so great and epic, but when you see it and you go, okay, that's new.

Yeah. Like how hard is it to see, to watch something today and be like, okay, that's new. I haven't seen that. That's her. And it is brilliant. So I'm not surprised that she produced a Corsicle. Because if you watch that movie,

you can see on your like, this lady's brain is different. Yeah. Me likey. Oh, that only has a 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. That's all it has. Which one, Tiger's Not Afraid? Yeah. Oh, I'm so happy for her, yay.

Writing it down on my movies to watch list. Me too. Mm-hmm, so good, so good. By the way, Ethel Laveo, Laveo, okay, moving on. She's a big fan, as are all great, brilliant, you know, directors who think different. They are huge fans of the David Zyckist. And will hit. It fits.

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You do. The Drudge Report is, like, gets more traffic than the New York Times, and it is only one page. It has, like, as many page views as the New York Times, and it's just a bunch of links that this strange man puts up on his weird conservative website. And yesterday it was all about Russia space nukes and how, you know, just in like big font, red lettering, that's usually when he's like, this is the one that everybody should be paying attention to. So I have to assume that this anxiety, the anxiety over Russian space nuclear weapons has entered the American bloodstream. So I just wanted to kind of take a quick look at how this came about.

It started with a person in the US House Intelligence Committee, who Mike Turner, some name that is just like two very common names sandwiched together, very plain. But he's, he's someone who like when I mentioned him to people who I don't think are even that politically active, they're like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Mike Turner. So I just might not be totally up on this person. But he got briefed on something and was immediately like, Oh my God, like you need to like, let us know what is happening here. You need to let it like declassify this whole thing and like dropped hints that it was involved Russia and nuclear weapons and space and that's a scary combination. I can see how that is a scary combination. Jackpot. So the reality of the situation is that, I will just read directly from the article

that people were able to put together using actual sourcing. US intelligence shows that Russia is discussing the possibility of basing a nuclear weapon in space. So they're discussing the possibility of basing a nuclear weapon in space. So they're discussing the possibility. But we did not discover that Russia has a nuclear missile in orbit pointing at our head. They are, we are reporting on a conversation that we think might be happening in Russia.

And why would they have a nuclear weapon in space? Because it could be used to threaten our satellite communication. So another detail that made me less stressed out about this. Like thinking about basing a weapon in space that could fuck with my wifi and cellular signal. Well. Wait, no, now I'm freaked out. No, now I'm freaking out.

Sorry, sorry, sorry. Well, actually, I think that's absolutely horrifying. Yeah. That is a nightmare scenario. That is a nightmare. Truly. Truly. It also feels like not the way you would attack someone's communication is to just blow all

of the satellites out of the sky with a nuclear weapon. Like it does. That's where you're wrong. That's where you're wrong. It's not going to blow it. They're actually going to just have it ram into the satellites and break them. So no explosives. It's going to orbit around bumping into satellites.

I believe it's what Mike, Mike Turner or whoever this third baseman is. I was going to say, Blake, were you in the room? What the hell? You know, a lot of details there Blake. I'm in a lot of circles. You know, a lot of details. So it's a bumper car. New nuclear power bumper car.

It's a bumper nuke. A bumper nuke. Yeah, yeah. It's terrifying. Look, I mean, it's a conversation, but with the idea of knocking out satellite is terrifying. Yeah. But because everything runs on everything runs on it now.

Yeah, for sure. I guess I. Planes. Yeah, trains. Automobiles. Yeah. I just saw all the water come out of Jack's body when he had to say automobiles. Automobiles, yeah.

Like you're all skin and teeth. We had to say it. Yeah, I'm sorry. Come on. I'm sorry I put you in that position. I thought this was already happening. I just figured there were already were nukes in space. That we had them.

That they had them. Same. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like there's going to be lots of satellite based warfare happening in the near future. It just, it feels less scary than the idea of that. The headline was communicating to me that a nuclear weapon was going to be shot from space at us and we wouldn't have any warning and everything go boom. People are pointing out like, so everyone was like,

so why did he just like leak the scariest possible version of this story that we've known about for many years that has been like an ongoing, you know, piece of information that the intelligence committees were aware of. And people think it's possible reasons have to do with trying to make people more scared of Russia to get the Ukraine-Israel funding bill through the House where it is currently stalled out. There's also a bill coming up that affects the government's ability to spy on us. And so if they can get people scared enough, they feel like maybe, you know, they need a good scare around every time that thing

is getting ratified or re ratified. Feels very smoke bomb me. Yes. Yeah, yeah. You know, it's just very much like just throwing out smoke. Don't look over here. Look over there. Yeah, the fire is over there. No, wait, the fire is over there. Yes. My ex-husbands used to do that. Right. With literal smoke, you've mainly been married to. I would be like, I'd be like, there's a smoke bomb. You're like, look over there.

And I'm like, I'm still right here. I'm not moving my gaze, man. My gaze stays right here where it should be. But is that that's the tactic. And it's just really stupidly tried and true type of typical tactic. Yeah. Even representative Andy Ogles, which that can't be a real name, but we'll go with it. On Thursday, accused Turner of having ulterior motives, citing the battle over both funding for Ukraine and a bill to reauthorize the nation's warrantless spy powers, each of which has raised some opposition.

By the way, Andy Ogles is a Republican from Tennessee. So he's like in this guy's party. And he's like, guys, this is for real. This is dumb. And they said, yes, for real, this is dumb. But you got to assume that there's always some truth in these things. Yeah. I mean, the intelligence. It's still smoke. Like there's still something happening. It definitely, it created a new action movie in my mind. Oh, boy.

Where we're like blowing each other satellites out of the sky. And it's like satellite wars. And it is Tyrese and Ludacris in a car that has been... Ha ha! Charlize Theron is the villain. Yes. Like something similar happens in one of the Fast and Furious movies. But they, instead of blowing a satellite up with a nuke,

they drive into space in a car. Yes, yes. It is still a car. It's important to note, it's not a plane. It's not a satellite. It is a car, so it still fits in. It is vital. That is vital information.

It's vital. There's a show on, by the way, I love that you have me as a co-host and all my expertise is from someone who just got an Apple Plus subscription. But there's a show on Apple Plus. Congratulations honey. Season two where it's called For All Mankind.

Yes, it's a good one. And the premise is if the Soviets won the space race. Yeah, we've had it recommended on the show before. Yeah. I really, really like it. And it's kind of a vehicle to, there are some like corny parts where like Ted Kennedy becomes president

because Chappaquiddick doesn't happen because of like a scheduling issue. Yeah. God. But it is a similar premise. I think like later in the show, there might be a nuke in space situation or whatever, but it is a similar premise. I think later in the show, there might be a nuke in space situation or whatever, but it is a good show.

It sounds like a total bullshit, boring premise, like, okay. Can I Netflix you though? But it's good. Did you see Leave the World Behind? Yeah. The Obama movie? No, but we talked about it. The Obama movie.

It is, I'm sorry. I actually had to look up the name because I just know it as the Mahashara Ali, that beautiful man and the Obama movie. And that's exactly the premise. The satellites are out and it throws the world into complete chaos and planes fall out of the sky and it's horrifying.

Yeah. Is that what would happen if the satellites went out? They would just be like, well, there goes that and planes goes that and plans guys we were really dependent on the satellite up here in the flight deck so we're just gonna take her down rapidly we don't know how to fly this thing here for to make y'all feel better yeah I don't know the satellites are magnets that keep the plane up in the air. Right. Is my understanding of it.

That movie seems like it was very full of shit to me, but maybe I'm not scared of it. Yeah, well, yeah, but it's still scary. Still scary. Don't belittle the fears. All right. So speaking of the difference between real fears and bullshit fears. We got this new glimpse of the future with AI where America is using AI to continue to innovate new and exciting ways to make life miserable for the most vulnerable people in our country. And that in this instance, that means soul crushing hurdles for

people to jump through in order to simply apply to work for McDonald's. So companies like FedEx, McDonald's and Darden, who is the company, the restaurant group that, you know, has Olive Garden, et cetera, are all clients of Paradox.ai, a tech startup that helps them out with the hiring process. And it's got, so it asks applicants to go through a lengthy and completely baffling personality test starring a blue humanoid alien named Ash. And as one applicant complained on Reddit, quote, man, I just want a dishwasher job.

Why this? Why is this a part of it? What is this shit? So as outlined in an article in 404 Media, the test consists of images featuring Ash in a variety of situations. And you have to click on one of two boxes, either me or not me. And some of the images,

like, make sense within the context of a job application. Like, there's one in which Ash is being yelled at by a customer, also a blue humanoid alien. Kind of looks like if Pixar made an Avatar movie set entirely inside an olive garden and it was like the year 1991 because the You know humanoid aliens aren't I don't like that second what you just said. Yeah, I would I would watch that But so you have to answer, it's like, what does it say?

Not much bothers me, me or not me? I think we know the answer to that one, right? Like that's, yes, if you've had to just like ace a personality test for a job interview before, yeah, no, that's me, nothing bothers me. I like, actually, people screaming in my face, that's my food, that's actually how I, you know, how King Kong survives off of our screams. And yeah, so.

We have no bananas. Yeah, right. No need for gigantic bananas because you just feed me your customer's derision and that is what gets me through the day. Give me all your Karen Yeah, third option. Mmm. Yes and listen, but you have bottomless Karen's Yes, yeah other images are like kind of existential, and just like kind of random feeling.

Like one where Ash has fallen off a bicycle that is like a sci-fi bicycle. Like one of the wheels doesn't have spokes on it, it seems like, and hurt his knee. Accompanied by the caption, things happen to me. Me? Not me? his knee accompanied by the caption, things happen to me. Me, not me.

I mean, I don't know how you could possibly take an answer to that question and hold it either against someone or like for them. Like, I can, it's very clear. So if you, you don't want to hire someone who just shit happens to them all the time. Like it's a liability. People can fall off bikes. Like when something happens to you, Jack, it's your fault. Does that make sense?

So you're messing up. So things don't happen to me. I go through the world dominating everything I see. And that is what's going to make me a good dishwasher at Olive Garden. And you're not going to call it sick because you fell off your bike. That's correct. You don't fall off bikes.

Things happen to me. It's like such a philosophical question. We know all this is bullshit, right? These personality tests, all of them. Yes. We will get to that test, all of them. Absolutely. Yes, we will get to that. It is complete garbage. But it's just like I'm just trying to put myself in the position of like the poor fucking people. And also like you're going to a website that says like.ai. So you're like, oh, this is like some next level like computer mind shit where it's like judging me and telling me like I'm worthy

or not worthy and like somehow there's a blue humanoid alien involved. It's just it's like this extra little mind fuck to make the thing seem impressive, I guess. Dot AI means smart. Yeah, like that's that's what. Oh, so I'm actually done. It makes you feel even more inadequate, probably, because there's also, you know, speaking like financial literacy, also internet literacy, and these questions where these poor applicants are going to get just so in their head.

And not only is it going to be a nightmare experience to get the end goal of getting a job, they also are going to not a nightmare experience to get the end goal of getting a job? They also are going to not feel as good about themselves and it's going to cause more stress in an already stressful situation. This is a bummer. That's what they're trying to do. Big brother is always watching you. That's what they're trying to make you feel like. It's all a sigh-op. You just made big brother sound cool though. You called him big brother. Oh man, it's a sigh-op-Op. You just made Big Brother sound cool though. You called him Big Brother. Oh man, it's a Psy-Op, man.

Yeah. Big Brother. It's a play stuff. Hey brother. Hey Big Brother. The images are probably AI generated and that's basically all that is AI about this because the test seems to be just a good old fashioned

personality test relying on the Ocean model, which was created back in the 80s and the big five categories they say matter. Like why it's called ocean is openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. You don't want to score big on the neuroticism scale. I'll tell you that one. Oh, yes you do if it's a detailer into job. Oh, you do?

Oh. Shit. Yes. Yeah. I've just that no wonder I have I need No wonder I was the worst waiter of all time I was actually pretty good dishwasher though and a pretty good butler but could not Yeah fucking sucked at being a waiter You're being too hard on yourself. I'm sure you're fine You I was gonna say if you were could be a good butler, you had to have been a good server. I was a better butler than a waiter, but not very good at that either.

There was one time where a woman was like, all right, we have a wedding. I need you to iron this for me. And I brought it back. And she was like, could I need you to iron this for me. And I brought it back and she was like, could you bring me the iron? And then let me watch her do it. She was like, you should watch this. So you're being better at this.

Yeah, you suck at this. Oh, well, look. You were a butler. Because I just accepted that as a normal answer that you were a butler and then decided not to. It's basically concierge. Yeah, same like. But at a British hotel. I was just like, sure, of course it was a butler and then decided that's it's basically concierge yeah same like but at a british hotel of course yeah it's like a belhap at a british hotel

he has butler face understood yeah but the butler face right i do have resting butler face i have my mouth is always like in a little yes at a quasi frown it's a different rbf and he's got it It's a different RBF and he's got it. Correct. But yeah, so the actual AI offered by the company is actually a chatbot named, other than the cool ash pictures that accompany the test, a chatbot named Olivia who takes applicants through the application process, helps hiring managers filter through applicants and schedule interviews, and you're going to be shocked to hear this.

If you've ever used like a non-human assistant is fucking terrible at their job. Yeah. I'm sorry. I didn't understand that. I'm sorry. I didn't understand that. I'm sorry.

I didn't understand that. It's just the same message you get over and over and over again. God forbid you have a person a job. Yeah I'll start believing in this technology when I'm on a phone tree and like my brain doesn't immediately Be like operator operator. Okay, let me speak to a human. Please. Could I speak? Yeah, I've just never Things are happening to me. These things are happening to me right now This is what I'm talking about. I listen. It's this two things. Psych. It's it's Bia and this. This is not smart. This is not smart stuff. Come on, people. Come on. Look, there's a sales guy from the tech

company who goes to Mickey D's headquarters and goes, guys, I got this new technology and you really need to, and it'll really help you with your bottom. Blah, blah, blah. And it's all a bunch of BS numbers. And they're like, oh, that's cool. Sign us up. This is all it is. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. It's amusing, but sad. To that point, Paradox is valued at $1.5 billion. And yet most of these hiring chatbots are not even as advanced or elaborate as chat GPT. They are rudimentary and can only ask basic questions. So, brutal.

Yeah. It's just a blue humanoid alien gloss on the same shit that's been happening. And everybody has recognized if you throw AI on it, it's going to sell. Your salespeople are going to have a much easier time selling it because everybody's just like, wow. If you want me to not like you right away, do one of the say, oh, what's your personality test? Or what's your ocean?

Or what's your blah, blah, blah? That's actually happened. I've actually had people do that. Yeah. I'd rather you ask me my goddamn sign. Yeah. Like just don't. Yeah.

Bad. I'm sorry. Yeah, no, it's all bullshit. And there is like interesting stuff being done in AI. Like, I think right now they're trying to like, they figured out the folding of how proteins are folded. That is still the thing that I'm going to, AI has solved a scientific medical issue

that is going to help scientists cure disease. So great, it was all worth it. But once it gets into the level of, if a salesperson is trying to sell it, then you're probably fucked in some way. It's not like trying to solve a existing problem. Like, I don't know. Death. Yeah, that's not gonna be good. Disease. good. There's also a new one that I just read about where they're trying, an AI is trying to figure out how to translate smell. Like a computer can like evaluate a smell of bananas so they can create more realistic banana breath for kinch conch.

Exactly. Someone has to do it. Yeah. But like that smell is actually like like have you ever seen dogs who can like smell cancer and like like various diseases have sense and so it would be like an amazing breakthrough would be like basically what Theranos was promising with like just a tiny bit of blanks if you don't need any blood it just like comes up and kind of you get sniffed by a robot it seems a little unnerving but I like it where yeah that's a good point yeah that's a good point that's an excellent I take it back long as it's not anthropomorphized robot yeah. Come here, come here, let me get a whiff of you. Why'd you give it that voice? You could have just made this as a thing. As an object.

Why'd you make it a person? Get over here, let me get a good whiff of you. Why's its voice so low? It's the smell like it smokes cigarettes. Yeah. All right, let's take a quick break, and we'll come back and talk about Tesla. We'll be right back. We'll be right back.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And so Cybertrucks are already, you know, they finally shipped about a month and a half ago. Thank God. Started selling to a lot of Elon fanboys, and a half ago. Thank God. Started selling to a lot of Elam fanboys, uh, started selling above sticker being traded on StockX. Like they were a pair of sneakers, but now people are pointing out, like now, now they've had a little time to spend with them that this machine that was

supposed to be able to handle torrents of gunfire cannot stand up to a little bit of rain. Unfortunately, they've been complaining on forums about small orange flecks cannot stand up to a little bit of rain, unfortunately. They've been complaining on forums about small orange flecks appearing on the car after driving it in the rain for, oh, but this is, I mean, how was a car supposed to be able to stand up for it? They were driving in the rain for two days.

I mean, come on guys. No, no, no. Cars can't hold, oh wait, no, I was thinking that's a, that's a tissue box. Can't stand to be outside for two days. You make that mistake all the time. God. Tissue box, man.

It's trying on our friendship. Yeah. I need to put the poster back up that has car, tissue box. But yeah, so this is as a result of its unusual stainless steel exoskeleton, which it also has trouble with stains. The owner's manual mentions the possibility of corrosion with a surprisingly, quote, fussy maintenance guide for a car that looks like it belongs to RoboCop, requiring drivers to immediately remove corrosive substances like grease, oil, bird droppings, tree resin, dead insects, tar spots, road salt, industrial

fallout, et cetera. Sure. So never leave the garage. Yes. This is like, this feels like, have we ever like gotten a really expensive like pair of shoes or like Like a really nice shirt and then you're just like terrified to wear it like that It's that if you were like driving that shirt driving around with that shirt on the outside of your car

Well done it's supposed to be well made it could last you forever Yeah, that's the whole point right? There's this substance on the exterior of cars. That's called the orange peel That is like this thick layer of wax and plastic that is The thing that makes your car glossy and it's the thing that keeps your you know the metal on your car separated and it's the thing that keeps your, you know, the metal on your car separated from the elements. And it's one of those things that I'm sure Elon Musk didn't fuck with because he wanted the car to look like it was from the future, but it existed all

these years for a reason, it turns out. Like you can't just have the Metal that's inside the car just on the outside of the car. It's going to look like a rusted out Piece of shit pretty soon I mean is that what it is? Maybe you know, yeah Some some may say some may say it says you have to like remove the, like remove a dead bug immediately from your car. It's like so stressful. I can't imagine having... Pull over, pull over, pull over!

I'm gonna fucking fly, pull over! This is gonna bankrupt my whole family. The splat happens. Splat! Pull over. Rub it off. Listen, nobody looks cool in that thing. Nobody. I think they look. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I, if I did a couple sit ups, I think I, if I drove it shirtless, I could probably pull it off.

If you listen, if you're gonna get a car like that, you had better be full on looking like freaking matrix. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Like please, to have a car that falls apart in the rain, but yeah, something about bullets, just dress for the occasion, please entertain us please with the full picture. That's all I have. That is funny that it can repel bullets, but not water. Yeah, yeah.

It is a very, yeah. It is like signs. Not bugs. The aliens in signs. Bird poop. Bird poop. Thank you. There you go.

Everything has a weakness. Yeah, that would be a good, that should have been the aliens in signs weakness, not water, bird poop. I thought you were gonna say they should have all been aliens and signs weakness, not water. I thought you were going to say they should have all been cyber trucks. They should have all been driving around in cyber trucks. That would have been fucking cool. Yeah. Oh, that would have been crazy.

Oh my God. But yeah, now the cyber truck owners are having to take maintenance tips from people who owned another doomed stainless steel vanity car, the DeLorean. And it's like, no, actually, if you like do Windex, like the second after you drive it for five minutes, you can actually keep it looking pretty good. But you have to like keep Windex with you and stop every two miles. Oh, my God. Yeah. What a waste.

There's no passenger seats in it because it's the loneliest fucking people in the whole world who drive those goddamn things. No need. It's a repellent. It's a repellent. But also, you know, you want to see some badass bulletproof cars, all you got to do is go to South America, man.

They are everywhere. I mean, I've seen them. They look fire. And trust me, they're gorgeous. The leather's fabulous and the driver's like buff and everyone looks fly. So that's all you need. I like that.

Yeah. I'm in. Count me in. Don't ask that in another life. It's also just worth noting Tesla had the worst performance of any S&P 500 stock this year. So, you know, I don't know. It just feels like he's like the, the stuff that has been evident to a lot of

us who are paying attention for a long time, like even the fanboys in the financial industry are starting to be like, wait, but like, what if he doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about? What if this is all, yeah. So anyways, so anyways, we'll keep our eye on it. I have nothing good to say. This is market watch and.

Market watch. Yeah. Finally, the podcast has made this pivot, the pivot that it needed to be the whole time. Pivot we've all been waiting for. That's what I'm talking about. There is a ticker. Let's do it.

We're gonna have someone reading a ticker throughout the entire. Oh, I would have so much fun. You don't even know. I would give you the backstory of every CEO. So I'm one of my favorite pastimes CEO jerk. That's too interesting. What you said was too interesting. Yeah, just numbers.

Can you give us the craziest or most interesting story about an anonymous US CEO? Well, there's no anon because everybody knows if I say anything, but it's all playing out. Look, go look at who was on the cover of Forbes. Forbes even has its own thing about how many people were on the cover of Forbes that were criminals. Wow. Right? Criminals. Bitcoin, Thranos, right?

We work, like we've seen all this stuff. And one of the biggest signs is when somebody comes in like Mr. You-Know-Who and says they founded a company that they own. That's right off the bat, you know, this is trash. Interesting. Right. Trash, because anybody with a personality, let's go off the bat, you know, this is trash. Interesting. Right. Trash. Because anybody with a personality, let's go back to personalities.

Anybody with a personality that says something like that is a dangerous person. Meaning dangerous, like they'll take your money and they won't give a shit. So be careful people. Keep your head on a swivel out there people. While you're out there in this market, in this market world of ours. Carmen Rita Wong, what a pleasure having you on The Daily Zeitgeist as always. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? Always happy to be with you guys, Blake.

So nice to be with you. Same, nice to meet you. Yeah, you can get me at Instagram, off social, all that, CarmenRitaWong.com. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? That I've been enjoying? Yeah. Let's talk about something you've been enjoying. More media? OK, this is this is my wheelhouse.

I am a dune freak since the book. Dune freak. I will absorb anything dune related. Wow. So should people what where should people start? Oh wow. It was my brother, my big brother and I, it's a real tattoo, my big brother and I were we were the biggest Dune heads when we were kids. So yeah

that's for him. Not for Denis Villeneuve the director or the bad movie from the 80s but it's just great stuff. Did you like part one? I did like it a lot. Yeah, it was cool. I like anything the director does, but this one, the buzz on the number two is that it is insane,

like way above number one. Number one was like cool, but it felt like, I think I also didn't know how much of it like how to what degree it was like the first half of a movie, you know, yeah, yeah, it was it was but the second one is supposed to be bonkers. So I've got seats on the first night. I cannot wait. Yeah, it's coming up. Yeah, it's coming up. Love it. Love it. And if you want to laugh a lot and have some fun, do it while you're inebriated. Watch the first movie done with Sting in a tiny little metal bikini pants.

Oh, yeah. David Lynch. Great, bad. Yeah, yeah. Good, good, good, bad. Good, good, bad. Blake Wexler, Happy birthday to Blake. Happy birthday to Blake.

To you. Thank you both. Where can people find you, follow you, wish you happy birthday, all that good stuff? People can wish me happy birthday for the rest of the year until my next one, to be completely honest. At Blake Wexler on all social media. This is his food, folks. He lives off this.

This is my food. Nourish me with your birth, with my own birth. I don't know what that, and milk me. So also, some standup dates. March 15th, I'll be at Strongrope Brewery in Brooklyn, New York, Gowanus. April I'll be in Cincinnati, Bristol, Tennessee, and Pittsburgh in May.

And in June I'll be in Austin, Texas. Austin, Texas, the capital of standup comedy. The capital of conservative standup comedy. Nah, not Austin. Nah, Austin's blue, Austin's blue. Austin's blue. You'll have a blast. The food is great. I love it.

I do like going to Austin. Yeah. Is there a work of media you've been enjoying? Yes. Apple Plus, no. So Dave, the whole catalog. Sponsored by. 7.99 a month.

Like, birthday sponsored by. Dave Ross, who's a very funny standup comedian. His Instagram handle is Dave to the Ross. He's been doing this thing where he takes stock, like sports team logos that you would see like a high school use or like a beer league or something. And then instead of the team name, he edits it to like these very, like these very funny lines.

So there'll be one with like a, like a guy about to hike a football and it just says, do you know a good therapist? But in a team, you know And there's another one where it's like a guy with a skull wearing a football helmet, you know kind of like a Raiders logo, but a little Halloween and it just said I died playing football and Angry ball saying I'm always afraid like it it's very, very, I'm describing an image based work of media, which I probably shouldn't have done.

But if you go to at Dave Tothoros, it's very, very, very funny and silly. That's great. Smart too, yeah. Yeah, it's great. I love it. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. Tweet I've been enjoying

Just saw a dopey the dumb fuck on Twitter at Pete underscore irons 87206 usually I'll just do the at but his was so long convoluted I just had to use what he wrote his name as dopey the dumb fuck tweeted getting a question wrong at trivia and faking a hamstring pull. Oh, shit. Damn it. Just rolling around on the ground. Then Austin Heimer tweeted, what if instead of the 60s, the new Fantastic Four took place in the 70s,

and instead of Pedro Pascal, it started Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe. And instead of being superheroes, they were both private detectives. Oh, what a great movie. I love that movie. That movie was fun. That movie was fun. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist.

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There's some gorgeous falsetto and vocal work going on here. It's really chill and vibey. So check out this song. It's called Watching You by Charlotte dos Santos. And you can find that song in the footnotes. Footnotes? All right. We'll look off to that. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio

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