The Daily Zeitgeist - Trend In The Place Where You Live 5/8: Trump, Utah Bathroom Law, Oscar Meyer, 65ft Hot Dog, Delivery Drones, Panera Charged Lemonade

Episode Date: May 8, 2024

In this edition of Trend In The Place Where You Live, Jack and Miles discuss Trump's documents case going nowhere, Utah's transphobic bathroom monitoring law, Oscar Meyer's new stuffed glizzies, Times Square's new 65ft confetti shooting hot dog sculpture, 2024: the year drone delivery pops off?, Panera getting rid of their charged lemonade and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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These are some things that are trending. The documents case against one Don Trump, trying to rebrand for him as well. Don. Yeah, Don J. Don J. Don John Trump. so that documents case where he had all those

documents in the toilet like right next to his toilet uh next to his like weirdly low toilet wasn't that yep the toilet was just like all the way almost all the way on the ground oh i don't remember that part yeah like it's like a preschool toilet or something? Yeah, but like golden. That document's case is basically dead at this point. Because he's got one of his own kind of running the show down there. Good thing he's got appointee Judge Cannon there. Postponed the trial indefinitely, basically. And her logic here was saying, it would be imprudent and inconsistent with the

court's duty to fully and fairly consider the various pending pretrial motions before the court and additional pretrial and trial preparations necessary to present this case to a jury. And then said, therefore, you know, I'm just going to have to take it off my calendar, said the court therefore vacates the current May 20th 2024 trial date to be reset by separate order following resolution of the matters before the court basically just saying there's just a lot of stuff like a lot of just a lot of pre-trial issues that have to get sorted out and you know this is this is the one thing when a judge at this level obviously has the ability to sort of dictate what their trial calendar looks like but most people

are saying like any judge worth their shit would obviously have these pre-trial motions argued and then they would move forward but again she's using just every technicality she can to give don j trump a nice fucking early christmas gift anyway so don's have we tried donge trump donge dude smoking the donge smoking that donja donja bro don't know trump bro it's just everything feels uh like we're just done yeah i mean i don't know why i ever thought maybe we'd see this guy see any kind of fucking consequences no it's it is interesting because like during his presidency people are like actually he's like really smart because he's doing all this like judge appointing across the board i just wonder if he was like nah i'm about to commit so many crimes like this is going to

come back like he was just doing what he knew would allow him to get away with the crimes that he was planning to commit yeah unfortunately that was just so smart that was the federalist society in his ear really yeah they're like yo but i don't put it or maybe he's a criminal mastermind and you can tell from the boxes of documents in his shower and by his tiny toilet can only get the farts down. Fart-sized dumps. There is a new state law in Utah that is unleashing transphobic bathroom monitoring. Basically in schools and other government-owned buildings, they're demanding that people use bathrooms and change rooms that, quote, correspond with their sex assigned at birth or face fines costing as much as ten thousand dollars per day for each violation the law

actually took effect in january but the fines started the other day and so now like people are fucking scared obviously yeah and uh the thing that the government did to help enforce this law is to open up a tip line for people to report on violations. Fortunately, predictably, it was quickly overrun with hoax reports. They've already received more than 10 000 submissions uh to the tip line and none of them seem legitimate uh both because people are trolling them and also because it's a fucking stupid law addressing a problem that doesn't actually bother anyone right it's just designed to bully people who are already some of the most bullied and victimized humans. I mean, this happens every time. There's some fucking weird, regressive,

you know, discriminatory fuck law on the books, and they open a snitch line. The snitch line never turns out to be fruitful. They're like, yeah, people are just, I don't know why we thought people were gonna fucking help us. And actually, people are just more outraged, so they'll do whatever the fuck they can

to gum up the tip line and it's funny because like the auditor who's like you know checking out all the complaints he's like and you know some of them are fake because like sometimes they like use my name like as they submit them and like obviously like i'm not submitting them so like yeah well i don't know man why don't you let us check? Yeah. Then he said, quote, no auditor goes into auditing so they can be the bathroom monitors. Oh. Damn, man. And we all feel very sorry for you.

Yeah, exactly. That sucks, man. Like, this isn't where I saw my career trajectory heading, you guys. So think about it from my perspective. Exactly. Yeah. Anyways, keep calling that line. exactly yeah uh anyways keep calling that line uh oscar meyer is dropping three flavors of stuffed hot dogs just in time for summer um this this really brought me back to i don't i think i have

like the memory wrong on this one but of a cheese stuffed hot dog or oscar meyer cheese dog yeah i had oscar meyer cheese dogs but like the consistency of the cheese in my memory is like liquid yeah it is it like almost like watery is that am i fucking that up it's more like oh god i don't i don't want to cheese whiz in my memory it's almost like an oil yeah it's a flavor so when you bite into it you do see a little bit of yellow in the middle yeah um and i remember just i remember my whole thing i will get home from school i will microwave one for like a minute and 10 seconds this shit would be molten i remember burning like i felt like i melted a tooth biting into one because it was just so fucking like unbelievably it defied the laws of thermodynamics yeah but now

but now you're gonna get i now i can melt my teeth with chili cheese or jalapeno cheese yeah so now we got cheese chili cheese and jalapeno cheese uh i unfortunately am going to have to try uh at least the jalapeno cheese that sounds good as fuck to me you know i was reading there's a there's a story about how jalapenos are like in in the u.s because like jalapenos are super popular but they're becoming less and less spicy to like sort of you know help out the little the weak the weak mouths out there becoming less yeah the genetics yeah like someone asked the like a genetics lab like there's like a pepper chili genetics lab in a university in new mexico and they're like yeah yep they're breeding them to be a little bit milder in the u.s which is a fucking shame

because god i love a spicy little spicy pepper you shouldn't have let us whites start eating them because then we're like it's like this could this taste a little more like mayonnaise i know i'm not saying it needs to be exactly like mayonnaise but colonizing a fucking chili pepper is like peak fucking white supremacy like okay we love what you're doing like down there but up here we um it's just too hot too much too much um yeah so when i say jalapeno cheese that i want to try that it's because i love mayonnaise and i think that's what jalapenos taste like that is yeah that is kind of the the cheese and the cheese dog is definitely more mayo level than anything all right uh more hot dog news miles a story that we're calling

hot dog in the city tonight because they built a giant 65 foot long hot dog in time square i'm just going to read the first sentence of this new york times story as the sun set on a cloudy evening in time square on friday a 65 foot long frankfurter cantilevered into the sky and spewed out a blast of rainbow confetti. So we were like, I mean, a confetti shooting hot dog, that sounds like vaguely phallic. It actually like bones up, like points up into the sky and then shoots the confetti out.

It becomes engorged and then ejaculates the confetti. Yes. Oh, wow. So New York, shout out to you new york i think i saw jamie saying she was going to visit or has visited yeah yeah she was like all right yes i've received all of your questions she's like yes thank you i am synonymous with the hot dog yeah but yeah it's an art project. They like gave Times Square to an artist or an art collective

and they've been doing Giant. This is part of their vision and it sounds fun. There's like also wrestling and yeah,

just... Wait, wrestling? What do you mean? They're... So, at the foot tail of its bun, drag wrestlers were finishing their match in an elevated boxing ring. Sounds like it was a wrestling ring. Asshole practically twerking on the road, cheered on by hundreds of spectators.

It was the first public event for hot dog in the city, an installation for Times Square Arts, the largest work that the organization has ever commissioned. So it's just basically, it's like mixed media, sculpture plus like human performers type. It's spectacle. It's spectacle. I see what they're doing now.

I was like, what is this? And it's actually, it's a commentary on Americana. That makes sense. Yeah, yeah. I thought it was just like, it's like, yeah, man, come on down, Nathan's, and check out the 70-foot glizzy that shoots out paper at the top.

Yeah. Which, I don't know. I respect it when you're going to do a commentary on Americana. Might as well go fucking huge. Make it ridiculous. Make me force the Americana down the audience's throat until

they feel nauseous. Anyways, let's take a quick break and we'll come back and tell you about the exciting future of delivery drones. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult.

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because you're going to want to use the most up-to-date aviation technology to get that Baconator a little bit faster. Oh, yeah. Heard that. Heard that. So it sounds like we're about to only get more and more companies offering drone deliveries. Some have proclaimed that 2024 will be the breakout year for delivery drones. Oh, fuck it all.

It's not just you know weird little startups amazon's been trying to make delivery drones happen for over a decade uh but the thing that's changed now is that some major regulatory hurdles have been cleared um so toward the end of 2023 the faa began allowing some drone operators who, you and me, Miles? Nope. People like, I don't know, Amazon, Zipline, Wing, which is owned by Alphabet.

So those drone operators are allowed to fly their machines beyond the visual line of sight. The rules in the past stated that drones had to remain in sight of a human operator which oh so now we're doing like full-on like u.s military style like people are just like a fucking mobile trailer just like in a dark room with headsets so like yep i've identified the

target if that i mean it feels like the whole idea behind this is that it'll be automated enough that you won't even need a individual operator to like right no humans at all right of course of course of course i mean like i get that there are positives to like drone deliveries like life-saving technologies like defibrillators or like medications or things like that if you live in a remote area and like yeah they they're using electricity so there's that part but like they're flying fucking over your homes and yeah like that's the the privacy issue i think is the one that do require cameras uh in order to navigate so you're going to have cameras flying over through past your homes, you know,

dozens of times a day, if Amazon has its way and you will get to opt in. This is something you get to do. You get to opt in to a little feature that they've already got a patent for where the drone cameras won't just be like taking pictures of your house to make sure not to crash into it. They'll also be taking pictures of your house to make sure not to crash into it. They'll also be taking pictures of your house to, you know,

gather a little information to, in case they want to like market something to you, you know? Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect.

I love that. Also for security purposes, uh, they're like, we'll offer security so that like if our drones see that your house is on fire uh we'll let you know yeah okay sure thank you i like it's like yeah surveillance as a service embrace it embrace it and you can have us just fly our fucking that's the other thing too like we've talked about how since amazon now owns ring camera, like they're also doing this thing where they're like,

yeah, man, if the cops want this footage, like we basically have a wide network of cameras that we'll just hand over footage to the police. No questions asked. Yeah. Just go to the website and say what you want and we'll,

we'll get it to you because we love the police. The more that this scales, the more delivery drones there are out in the world, the more, you know, they'll be able to track you the way they track you on the Internet. But now it will be with like a camera belonging to a fucking flying robot. Right. That's like the other part was like interesting about understanding what that like, quote, air rights are above like your property yeah like before planes it used to be like colloquially all the way to heaven or hell yeah like once you own that like you can't get near my i own the sky above it and everything uh but then once the faa was

created they're like all right if you fly above 500 feet, that's public domain. Unless it's Disneyland, in which case you cannot fly a helicopter over it. I learned that in that John Mulaney show. Oh, really? You can't fly a helicopter over Disneyland? A news helicopter was flying over Disneyland decades ago and caught all this footage of rides malfunctioning. Wow. So Disney lobbied Congress and it became restricted airspace wow above disneyland that would be nice if we could all just have that like i don't need it to be like i'll be all right with a

plane flying at like 10 000 like cruising altitude um i'll allow it but fucking police helicopters i feel like should be also should be an opt in service. Yeah. Well, and also they, they do fuck all for anything except to disrupt people. Yeah. It's funny. It's like,

well, you know, all this like medical life-saving technology that people are talking about delivering with drones. Like you could also do that with helicopters, but they don't. Instead, the police just fly them back and forth and like try and intimidate people with them and do fuck all so right i don't know it uh doesn't look promising to me and just no

having another thing just fucking making a shitty mechanical noise flying through the air doesn't seem that great yeah i wonder like if you have a like a hawk or corvids you train to take down drones yeah like what the liability is there you know what i mean or like you tell the crows you're like yo fuck anything if y'all come if y'all come through for me i'll come through for you yeah but fuck those drones up because yeah i that was the first place my thought my brain went as well is like let's just start training birds yeah there is somewhere like yeah i've seen videos that like people have trained like hawks to basically fuck drones up yeah um but like yeah

this feels like the like the sort of opening scene in a film about like just massive a massive surveillance state where it's like an ad for like the convenience of having delivery drones with cameras and like that's sort of like the Trojan horse aspect you're like oh yeah that could be cool that could be cool it's like now you have flying CCTV cameras everywhere that yeah just it's fucking wild yeah anyway I wish I could trust I wish I could trust meta you know and I think meta is good on this one we don't have to worry about meta or google right i think it's just no no actually they're well but google had that thing where they said don't be evil and sure they conspicuously took it out of they went from having the lowest bar

for not being an evil company possible which is don't be evil as their motto to not having that so they're like yeah sorry we can't promise to not be evil anymore exactly so that's a little unnerving yeah it happens yeah anyway that's where we are state of 2024 anyway panera we have sad news in the world of Panera. Especially for Miles, who is extremely tired right now. They're canceling the charged lemonade. They're fucking gone, dude. They're getting rid of the heart exploder lemonade. Again, the large contained up to 390 milligrams of caffeine. That's too much caffeine.

We've learned 200 seems to be like the maximum caffeination. Take that and double it. Yeah. Please for these. Yeah. I mean, we saw that people were having like cardiac events and they were like, oh, okay. I have a feeling that's probably why um you probably who knows i don't know who knows what like their lawyers told them like yeah this is kind of like

unheard of but okay that's oh also five and a half mountain dews in a single uh mountain dews worth of caffeine in a single right. Also, new Boeing news. Did you see the FedEx Boeing 767 that crash landed because the landing gear failed? No. Uh-oh. It was at Istanbul Airport.

It just was like a low-rider plane, it looked like. It was just scraping on landing so anyway good news for them still amazing but continuing to kill it and by it I mean whistleblowers

alright that's gonna do it for us this Wednesday afternoon we are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show until then be kind to each other be kind to yourself get the vaccine kind to yourself. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy and we will talk to you all tomorrow.

Bye. Bye. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray 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. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadson. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. There's a lot to figure out when you're just starting your career. That's where we come in. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice.

And if we don't know the answer, we bring in people who do, like negotiation expert Maury Tahiripour. If you start thinking about negotiations as just a conversation, then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history.

People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Listen to the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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