The Daily Zeitgeist - Trend & M's 10/23: Kotaku Halloween Candy, Rugrats and Halfpints Play Centre, Donald Trump, L.A. Lakers

Episode Date: October 23, 2024

In this edition of Trend & M's, Jack and special guest co-host Jacquis Neal discuss Kotaku's Halloween candy ranking, UK parents being shocked by the Halloween decorations in a children's play center, a Trump update, LeBron and Bronny's first game together and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey friends, I'm Jessica Capshaw and this is Kamila Luddington and we have a new podcast, Call It What It Is. You may know us from Graceland Memorial, but did you know that we are actually besties in real life? And as all besties do, we navigate the highs and lows of life together. Big or small, we're there. And now here we are opening up the friendship circle to you. Listen to Call It What It Is on the iHeartRadio app,

Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Dr. Laurie Santos, host of the Happiness Lab podcast. As the US elections approach, it can feel like we're angrier and more divided than ever. But in a new hopeful season of my podcast, I'll share with the science really shows, that we're surprisingly more united than most people think. We all know something is wrong in our culture, in our politics, and that we need to do better

and that we can be better. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty and I'm the host of On Purpose. My latest episode is with Jelly Roll. This episode is one of the most honest and raw interviews I've ever had. We go deep into Jelly Roll's life story from being in and out of prison from the age of 13 to being one of today's biggest artists. I was a desperate delusional dreamer.

Be a delusional dreamer. Just don't be a desperate delusional dreamer. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Trust me, you won't call them M&Ms. I call them M&Ms. Mm-hmm. That's okay, right? This is little Marshall Mathers. Yeah, M&Ms. They've just been changed to be named after the rapper. I am Jack O'Brien and that is our guest co-host today, Mr. Jackie Sneo! Hello, hello Hello hello hello What up

Let's strand baby Let's trend a lot of hot news coming in off the wires Jackie's hot Such as Kotaku has ranked the best Halloween candy from worst to best I'm here for this

Maybe we should start with the most popular Because we also have that information Coming in hot off the wires from candy store Com who always delights us with their map of the u.s. With the most popular candy in each state We got a new winner this year The most popular Halloween candy nationwide Used to be Reese's cups has been since this show has been a thing the past seven years and Reese's Cups got a new winner M&Ms. M&Ms is the winner? M&Ms is number one in terms of

just sales I pulled a audible and decided we'd start with sales. Let's do sales. M&Ms number one, Reese's C one Reese's cups number two three sour patch kids good call America I love our kids okay Four skittles five star burst Six hot tamale. This is where I'm gonna have to disagree with you guys Yeah, hot tamales come on now the fuck out of here with those come on now number seven candy like Alright, they lost me. I'm lost out of here with those. Come on now. Number seven candy. Like. All right, they lost me.

I'm lost. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Candy corn. They had the good top five and then it just fell off a cliff here. Like everything six through nine is a disaster. Number six, hot tamales. Number seven, candy corn,

which I am a candy corn apologist. Like I don't mind it as much as if they're if you have absolutely no other option I like it better than hot tamales for instance It's just like icing. It's like eating little pieces of icing Which I am an icing bitch. I will eat the icing off the top of your cupcakes I love icing. I I don't think I've ever given candy corn like much of a chance because It looks so unappealing Right it's too waxy. It's like it's like icing mixed with wax. Yes, that is its problem

yeah, but I Actually prefer the candy corn pumpkins because those interesting bigger and like they the consistency I feel like they're like a little bit medium rare on the inside so they're like a little bit more liquidy in the middle sometimes and we need more can't we need more new candy me and miles talked about this once on an episode like a few months ago I think where there's no new candy being made anymore I know it's a travesty they did that that one that was like, whatchamacallit, but in the nineties and then gave up.

And Reese's Pieces was like the eighties, right? Reese's Pieces? Reese's Pieces. I say Reese's Pieces, but. Because I talked about candy so much as a child, it's just locked in all the ways to mispronounce yeah like Reese's, Peece's yeah yeah but anyways yeah I think that was the 80s I think 80s okay like the ET eating Reese's pieces was the first piece of product placement ever yeah an ET and yeah really and then Butterfinger had the

Simpsons like don't lay a finger on then Butterfinger had the Simpsons, like, don't lay a finger on my Butterfinger. They tried M&M's, and M&M's were like, no thank you. Although Tootsie Pops, Tootsie Pops also, how many licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? That's a classic commercial. That is a classic commercial. I feel like that candy, if I had to date it,

as to when it was invented, I'd be like the 1890s? Like, I don't know, there's just something, like the ads feel old as fuck. Number eight, Hershey's Kisses. Again, what the fuck are we doing? Number nine, Hershey mini bars. It just feels like the wood chips of like, in the can, you know, it's like the filler.

It's like the- I don't think I've seen a person eat a Hershey's bar in two decades. I've seen people use them for other things, but like just eating. And they're fine. They're fine. They're fine in a pinch, but Halloween night is not supposed to be a pinch.

They are, they're like the bread cereal in Lucky Charms. You know? They're the in-between. They're just filler. It's not the part we came here for. We didn't come here for the Luckies. We came here for the Charms. Yeah, I forget.

I think this dope boy talks about how they call the bread, the grain cereal parts of Lucky Charms the wood, which I always thought was funny. They get me back at number 10 with Butterfinger. All right, so those are the sales figures. Kotaku has come out, chest out, and said these are actually what are the best Halloween candies, and right off the bat,

they got me because at the very bottom of the list of 38, they've got Red Hots. Which, yeah. That feels right. Correct. That of 38, they've got red hots. Which I think- That feels right. Correct. That feels okay. You've got that correct. So they're really hard on nerds, I will say.

Yeah, nerds is like 32. I will say this too, Sour Patch Kids, not on this list at all. That's an oversight. That's an editorial- That has to be. That has to be. An editorial, someone called an editorial mistake. I would call it an editorial disaster

Yeah over good and plenty Yeah, that's slavery food, bro Like nobody eat good and plenty candy no more. Yeah crazy I Am happy to say they've put Milky Way at number five and I do really fuck with Milky Way recently. I think Milky Way are actually pretty good. See, I don't, I don't, yeah, not me. Especially over, but can I actually,

I know you wanna go through this list, but if you can name, off the top of your head real quick, your top five candies, like your, Jack's top five candies. My top five would be Reese's peanut butter cups, Butterfinger, peanut M&Ms, Yeah. Almond Joy, because I'm a freak. I am a fucking disgusting freak. Yeah.

And then probably nerds rope or nerds clusters. Nerds. Okay. I like both of those. Yeah. Okay. That's an eclectic, that's, that's an eclectic like list, I think. And also you got some new shit. cuz my shit is like mostly old candy

I you were saying you like vanilla wafers. I love candy dot. I love Werther's I love Straight from my grandma's purse. Yeah, I love Butterfingers Butterfingers I'll fuck with Chico sticks,, which is an old ass candy. Chico Sticks is my shit. Chico Sticks. Yeah man, little coconut sticks like coconut peanut buttery. It's kind of like a Butterfinger. Those are good.

They're so good. I also love a Babe Ruth, a Baby Ruth. Love a Baby Ruth. I like Reese's Pieces in my top four and to round it out, I think I would go with like either a Ners or a sour. Oh, no, Laffy Taffy Laffy Taffy Laffy Taffy and laughing Taffy Laffy Taffy is the wood for me in a candy Like kit Laffy Taffy is always left over at the end. Yeah, I love Laffy Taffy as long as it's not banana But yeah, anyways, I don't know we don't have to go through the whole list.

I'll just say, like, those are the ones that jumped out to me. Anything jump out to you that you think is being overrated, underrated on this list? Yeah, I think like, listen, man, you know, I know Almond Joy is in your top five, and like, I know objectively that it's a popular candy, so it has to be in the top 10. Controversial, though. Yeah, people who do not fuck with coconut are not happy.

And I do like coconut, but coconut and chocolate don't mix with me. I don't know why. Interesting. They put dots at number 10 and put dots at number 10. That's crazy. I miss crazy. They put dots at number 10. That's great. Over over starbursts and skittles and Twizzlers like absolutely insane.

So these are, and this is an editorially savvy move where you put one on the list that is just completely wrong to improve your engagement. So that people are like, look at these motherfuckers. Yeah. Skittles are good, man I think all those candies like other than nerds roper nerds clusters I think they're if you have if you have a candy that has that now has Multiple bags of different variants of your candy you have made it. Yeah, like so you've done it

So skittles has many type of skitt skills M&Ms have many type of M&Ms Like that alone puts both of those candies in the top ten easily easy All right, I want to talk just further on the Halloween conversation and then we'll like also talk about non Halloween news I swear to God what is too spooky is a question that is coming up. So parents in the UK had to complain because at a like indoor playground in the UK they decorated it for Halloween with Basically body bags hanging from their feet It really like that's that is why yeah the place is called rogue rats in half points it's in Gloucestershire and they just like put,

like you kind of have to see the image, but it's very grim. It's not, it is in no way spooky. It's just, it looks like you're stumbling across something you shouldn't see. Yeah. Yeah. I am a big fan of spookiness I'm a big fan of scaring children I'm a big fan of all these type of things but it has to be something that like at a certain point even if it's

to a kid and as an adult we know this that like oh this isn't necessarily real like you know like killer killer clowns aren't real. Big ass werewolves aren't real. So those are the things that like scare you, even if they scare the shit out of you. Okay. Well, you know, look, you know, I know, I know we grew up in the 80s, so we have,

but if it's something like that, I'm all for it. But body bags, especially in our current climate where we're seeing dead people on social media every day, maybe a little too much. Maybe a little too much. Yeah. My children were talking about a Halloween decoration they saw in our neighborhood where a little child,

my son said it looked like little orphan Annie, was stabbed to a tree. Jesus. Is how he described it. Like... That's wild. That's a lot. I actually didn't get that mad about that one because obviously he knew it was a decoration so it didn't freak him out that much.

They're not complaining. Our neighbors had a body parts tree last year where it was like a tree in the front yard decorated like a Christmas tree But just with like severed hands and heads and shit Do that I can do that Because that again like it it looks like a festive thing that has been designed It doesn't look like there are actual bodies being stored in your children's playground. Yeah in looking into this story,

somebody was complaining on Reddit a few years back about decorations being too scary for their kids. How do I take my kids around when there's a scary clown? Hey man, tell them kids to stop being pussies. Yeah, exactly. That was basically the entire response. But one of the responses was, there were actually multiple responses from people in Australia who were like I mean I agree it's too scary but

Doesn't matter because nobody here decorates Anyways, the most you get is like a stray spiderweb on the hedge and that like bummed me out like it bombed me out Yeah, yeah, I like the idea of a holiday This is what America America's like so fucked up and repressed that we have this one time of year where we like get to just turn our homes into like murder dioramas And everybody just like goes overboard. They just like go too hard. We just love it. I will say look if Burb I am sure there's many neighborhoods in

Los Angeles where we live, uh, that do Halloween well, but Burbank does Halloween very well, uh, especially in like our Equestria neighborhoods. Uh, and I sound so bougie right now, but in our Equestria neighborhoods, we have a lot of people that go all out because we have all the motherfuckers who work like on set design and shit and movies. We have a lot of people that go all out because we have all the motherfuckers who work on set design and shit and movies. So, like, we live in Burbank. Hidden perks of LA.

Yeah, so you just have just great ass homes decorated and people who go all out. And you can just drive around or walk around and just see a bunch of really dope houses and maybe even get some candy, even as an adult. There you go. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.

And we're back. A couple quick Trump updates. We're going to talk more about general Kelly getting into detail about Trump's like Nazi Hitler sympathies and love and interest on tomorrow's episode another thing he mentions that Trump raged at slain soldiers funeral bills and said you wouldn't spend $60,000 to bury a fucking Mexican, was one of the things that he was quoted as saying. He also is being sued by the Central Park Five, the men formerly known as the Central

Park Five, who were, you know, falsely accused of attacking a jogger in Central Park, and they were eventually exonerated. When they were first accused, Trump took out a full page ad in the New York Times, basically saying that they should be executed, even though they were children. Um, so, and then that came back to bite him in the ass, except not really, because he just never let that truth in. bite him in the ass except not really because he just never let that truth in and in fact like said during the debate that they had pled guilty when in fact they had just been coerced into being a false

confession so they're suing him rightfully and you know he defamed them in front of 67 million people also just this is probably nothing but there is this political journalist named Mark Halpern who? Is saying that he's been he was like all the Hitler Nazi stuff about Trump, you know, I'm sure is true Then he said I've been pitched a story about Donald Trump now for about a week that if true would end his campaign. Sure. And I'm just wondering, like, I can't, given what we've just said, like the stories that are coming out about him, what he's like, one of the stories is him

being like, I like Hitler, he did good things. Like, I wish we were more like Nazis. Like, what could this possibly be? I'm not gonna speculate, I'm not asking you to speculate. It's just why... Like, I don't even... Like, what... Like, I don't know a writer that could come up with the scandal

that would end his campaign other than like that he like murdered somebody in like this video or some shit. And even then, like, unfortunately, even then I'm like, he still might, he still could win. But yeah, at this point is like, what, what, what could you possibly say? Like this feels like you're just trying to get clicks and like views towards your name, but also if it is such a big story that it, that it could be the thing that ends his campaign out of the millions of things that did not end his campaign in the past nine years, then you are, it is a form

of malpractice that you are not publishing it. It's like, you know, so it's like, why, why even say this? Why even say this? Because one of two things are true. Either it's a non-story or you're hyping it up for clicks, or you are being severely irresponsible by sitting on a story for a week that is so big that it could end a campaign that has been Teflon for nine years.

Yeah, all right, let's do some happy news. Happy! Happy news, please, thank you. The new theme, the new theme for this portion of the training that we've been working on I don't think we fully nailed it to be honest, but we had to go live with something LeBron James yeah, the and the Los Angeles Lakers had their first game of the NBA season last night and LeBron and his son Brawny checked in to an NBA game together in the second quarter I don't know it's

just it's really cool I was watching it I was watching it and listen I'm a Chicagoan so obviously I love me some Michael Jordan I am NOT a LeBron hater I love I really like LeBron LeBron's place in history is set. There are fewer things that bring me joy in this world than Los Angeles fans being upset and sad. But I felt an overwhelming sense of like appreciation and coolness and just like, this is so dope. And this is like such a big moment just from like

a black excellency standpoint watching them check in together like father and son in the NBA on the Lakers not you know like not on like the Orlando Magic or you know the Indiana Pacers but like on the Los Angeles Lakers like it just strays Magic I you know, sorry. Sorry. Sorry magic fans but just like it just everything the perfect stone King Griffey jr. And Senior were both there and just like the perfect storm Like this is really fucking cool and it was like also their daughter's birthday on yesterday, too like it was like you can't appreciate this just from like a, a, a feel good standpoint, even if you're not a sports fan,

like it was really dope moment to see them check in together and to see Bron like get like a dunk, like throw it down hard and like year 22 and then his son not score a single point. It was all beautiful. and then his son not score a single point. It was all beautiful. It was all beautiful. It was also like, he was like barking out orders at him and stuff.

I was like, oh man. Yes. Working with your dad would be tough, but it's also very cool. He entered last season as the oldest player in the NBA. So very much the oldest player in the NBA this season and is still one of the best players. With his son now in the NBA.

And now with his son. Yeah, it's crazy, man. So yeah, kudos to the whole James family, man, that there are not many things that like athletes can say, like, this is the first ever to do. So to be the first ones in the NBA to ever do that as your family legacy and to be the first ones in the NBA to ever do that as your family legacy and to be a black family at that is pretty cool. Yeah, it is. I mean, being like one of the most

famous people in the world and like being able to raise a kid who is not a disaster, you know, like, I mean, I don't know. That's not always the case with like super famous people. So yeah, pretty cool. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine.

Get your flu shot. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Bye. Hey friends. I'm Jessica Capshaw.

And this is Camilla Luddington. And we have a new podcast, call it what it is. You may know us from Graceland Memorial, but did you know that we are actually besties in real life? And as all besties do, we navigate the highs and lows of life together. Big or small, we're there. And now here we are, opening up the friendship circle to you.

Listen to Call It What It Is on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Dr. Laurie Santos, host of the Happiness Lab podcast. As the US elections approach, it can feel like we're angrier and more divided than ever. Please stick to policy. Don't get personal. But in a new hopeful season of my podcast, I'll share what the science really shows,

that we're surprisingly more united than most people think. We all know something is wrong in our culture, in our politics, and that we need to do better and that we can do better. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty and I'm the host of On Purpose. My latest episode is with Jelly Roll.

This episode is one of the most honest and raw interviews I've ever had. We go deep into Jelly Roll's life story from being in and out of prison from the age of 13 to being one of today's biggest artists. I was a desperate delusional dreamer. Be a delusional dreamer. Just don't be a desperate delusional dreamer. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts. Trust me, you won't want to miss this one.