The Daily Zeitgeist - Trend Stein 8/18: U.S. Soccer, Ben Stein, Leftovers, Starbucks, California, E-Hallpass

Episode Date: August 18, 2022

In this edition of Trend Stein, Jack and Miles discuss the U.S. Soccer Team jerseys, Ben Stein's hot takes, fast food chains selling us leftovers in a bowl, a federal judge enforcing the law in a Starbucks union case, California letting kids sleep a little later, and the E-Hallpass system!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of trendstein win trendstein's money money was it was kimball the co-host on that isn't that where he started we got a little jimma kimma jimma kimma i remember that was i go with calm that because when he was doing the when he kicked off the like lie to your kids on ha, telling them you stole all their shit challenge, there was one kid after who was like, why Jimmy Kimmel tell you to do that?

I was like, Jimmy Kimmel? You are Miles. I am Jack. And here's some things that are trending. U.S. soccer. Big news. Yeah. I don't know. This big big deal this is like a thing

i think for all soccer fans is in a world cup year like this is usually when a national team gets a refreshed uniform you know because like this is this is what you wear going into the fucking battle of the world cup and a dick sporting goods somewhere like errantly just put all like the new usa shit on the racks when like i think way too early and so someone was like yo this is the fucking jersey and a lot of people are just like this is yawning it's making me yawn is so tired this design is very simple um but it like kicked off this whole thing where then they're like people who are former nike employees are like you don't understand how like collaborating with like outside organizations is

sometimes like like u.s soccer is kind of like the client so like when they're like we like boring ass non-forward thinking designs that's kind of what we deliver but yeah you know me i love a jersey some kit this is they dropped the kit early mate yeah they call me full kit wanker don't i when i show up to sunday league football wearing a full kit constantly that's what they call dudes like who pull up wearing like the socks the shorts right the jersey the whole thing yeah like in pickup sometimes you'll see people pull up with the whole uniform and you're like full kit wanker in the building i like to wear an entire baseball team's uniform down to the

cleats and stretch tight pants when i go to a game game and you're just slipping down the cement steps because your cleats are oh shit um but yeah it's pretty so the the one shirt is just white with the logo on it and then the other one is tie-dyed blue and black yeah it's it's not great it's not great i just smashed my own heel against my leg oh no oh that fucking smarts it was like a direct blow like on the weak point of my heel bone oh you need a minute you want to just because i mean i could i could talk for about 15 minutes the fuck did i just do oh no fucking podcasting injury right now it happened you know all right go on man it'll be tough it'll be tough okay all right um it was like right on the like could you imagine like the thinnest part of your skin on your foot where your heel bone is like

where the bone is most exposed i just smashed the fuck out of that on my own shin i don't even know just yeah super producer brian called it the lego. Where you constantly... Just leave me behind, man. I'll do what I can from back here. You know that's Daily Zeitgeist's policy. We will leave you behind. Oh, yeah. We love to leave someone behind. They'll mute me in the whole next episode.

Be like, he needs to take a break. Alright, Ben Stein is trending. Trent Stein. He came with the hot take. I'm wondering if some of this velocity for the name of Ben Stein is coming from the fact that people hadn't been keeping up with him and didn't realize he was

like a libertarian in quotes, which where that just really means like he's a right wing. Yeah. Look, you're a speech writer. You're a Nixon speech writer. i don't care how slow you speak in a clear eyes commercial right that doesn't i mean okay cool which is funny like the irony too of like in um ferris bueller's day off when he's talking about the

smoot holly tariff act like it's actually the most like dumbest ideas economically. Anyone? Anyone? Anyone made the Great Depression worse. Because we're being retaliatory with tires. Anyway, all that. He's on like parlor. I don't know. It looks like discount Twitter, so I don't know which one it is. Could be Gab or any of them shits. But he tweeted with a very...

He's out here using his Ferris Bueller screen cap as an avatar no shade but okay ben i would too probably yeah i guess so he tweeted quote we have a media that is working night and day to demolish the idea of trumpism and trumpism is basically old-fashioned republicanism the original gop was started to free the slaves that is what the republican party was founded on now the democratic party has never done anything like this in its history why does the republican party not get credit for that why does the republican party not gather its nuts together and say we are the party of the greatness of america wow um so he doesn't see anything about like trumpism being just like the first time that

a presidential candidate was like we're racist out loud like that doesn't that's not worth remarking upon it would seem it sounds like he's talking to like some very ignorant audience who only is asking Ben Stein to explain everything to them and they need no other context. They're like, what do you say, Ben Stein? Oh yeah, we freed the slaves, kind of. But then we pretty much

went back on that very quickly after Lincoln died. Even this guy gets it. Ignoring the fact that he has got it and he was a nixon speechwriter who i guess there was a nixon speechwriter to hollywood pipeline uh during the the fucked up reagan era when right that was that was what was cool it was like oh all right we're gonna take our most charismatic young actor actor. What role should we put him in?

Alex P. Keaton. That's cool. Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, nice. I guess trying to get points, you know, I get the brand continues to fully become so toxic and radioactive. And you're trying to like, well, what about this time so long ago that we've completely lost track of? Leftovers is trending. The takeout

is asking the question, are fast food chains just putting scraps into a container and calling it a bowl? I think so. This feels right. This is from Dennis Lee at the takeout. We love the takeout.

On the heels of that fucked up papa bowl nonsense we were talking about yesterday right you know they're looking at that they're like you know kfc recently re-released a like mac and cheese bowl that's just like the mac and cheese side that you can get a kfc with a little popcorn chicken on top. Plus shredded cheese on top of that. Yeah. You're going to want shredded cheese on top of your mac and cheese. Fried chicken cereal bowl. Hey, maybe in Chicago.

Maybe going to Portillo's. And now they got beef bowls. Which is just loose meat in a bowl. Or Subway. They got no bready bowls. No bready bowls? They call it a no bready bowl like what is that a is that a play on something betty by betty by no bready bowls i don't know i remember that's

the closest thing that was a buddy type sound a bdb ready bowl ready bowl do they have like a ready bowl is that something i don't know. No ready bowls. That's what I'm saying. And that's just fucking loose shit in a bowl. Right. And I know they got and I know motherfucking Jersey Mike's got sub in a tub. Oh, yeah. Okay.

But that's just like the name is not conf founding me to the point that i can't think of anything else yeah um and in my lowest moments i've ordered them oh yeah sub in a tub yeah this was like when i was like rather than just like taking my health seriously i was like what if i just eat a bunch of jersey mics but not the bread rather than why don't get my shit together like holistically from a health perspective be like this one hack changed my life you were trying to live your life on the uh clickbait diet oh 100 like yo man you gotta just cut these three things out you're good and i'm like oh okay yeah yeah for sure i'll eat plastic sub in a tub because i had one of my old jobs i was right across the street from jersey

mike was your doctor mad at you because that's what they always promised. They were like, doctors are furious at this woman for the one secret she figured out. Yeah, a no-bready bowl. A no-bready bowl, baby. Yeah, I mean, it seems pretty clear that they're all jumping on this.

I also partially blame Taco Bell for being like, no, you don't need new ingredients. You just re combine four ingredients and they're all trying to do the same thing but unfortunately all they've got is what if we took those ingredients and threw them in a bowl no thought no thought into it at all that taco bell test case is like somebody's getting high in there right because this the from these other brands it's just like i don't know put that shit in a bowl where taco was like what if we took the cheese from that and then did this like this and then you're like okay i like that

but this is all everything that you already make already but you've repurposed it and now i think it's a new product when you got a name likereadyBowl sitting there staring you in the eye, you're going to come up with a way to use it. NoBreadyBowl. Yeah, it's... Again, I say BettyBuy because I felt like I had a friend who's like when their parents

were putting their younger sibling to sleep or something, like, it's time to go BettyBuy. I was like, what the fuck is that? I've heard BettyBuy. Okay, that's what I'm saying. I feel like that's the only, unless it's Biddy Biddy Bum Bum by Selena, they can't disrespect Selena like that.

No Breddy Breddy Bow Bow. No Breddy Breddy Breddy Breddy Breddy Bow Bow. I feel like there's an answer that listeners are screaming at their phones right now. And I would just ask them to uh put their eyes back on the road and continue yeah please please please come on you got a got a bus full of kids yeah um oh yo they you know what happened they used to call it a protein bowl and i guess the marketing genius is like this ain't working enough no No bready. I mean, still no explanation.

This is light year all over again. Yeah. This is light year all over again, Miles. I'm stuck, man. It's light year all over. Until I can get a rationale explanation. I watched the first 20 minutes of light year with my kids, and they were like, huh?

And just bailed on it. I tried, man man your wife's like what are you guys doing they're like dad's making us watch one of his shows i just like you don't get it either right they said it was andy's movie but like why where's andy dad let go of my collar all right now we'll actually take a break all right and then we'll be right back of my collar. Why is your shirt all stretched out? All right. Now we'll actually take a break. All right.

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Starbucks is trending. Yeah. Because they're just, they got a new product where they're putting bagels and coffee in a punch bowl. You're like, Bob for the... No, I don't know. Why is Starbucks trending? We were just talking about they're doing everything in any... They've got a scorched earth to try and bust these unions. Specifically in Memphis, there were a group of workers who were trying to organize a union.

I believe it was like seven of them. They all got fucking fired because they're trying to bust the union and intimidate everybody and set an example to everybody else in that Memphis area to be like, fuck around, find out. We want to unionize? We'll break the fucking law. We don't give a shit. Well, a federal judge just ordered Starbucks to basically be like, nah, out we want to unionize we'll break the fucking law we don't give a shit well a federal judge just ordered starbucks to basically be like nah i'm gonna fuck you in doing that like uh they're coming back reinstate them so that is that's great judge decided to uh enforce the law the law yeah hell yeah the bar is so low the bar is on the flow

um all right well that's good news hopefully starts a trend of some sort because starbucks is just out here you know john dillard during uh that that's what we live in we live in like the that era when like people were like we root for for criminals because they're allowed to get rid of it. Nobody can do shit, and they just do it. Except it's the people who just do the thing are corporations. And everyone's like, I love my Starbucks rapid-cheen.

California is trending. There's a new law that school can't start earlier than 8 for elementary schools and 8.30 for high school. I mean... Respect the sleep cycles. Is anybody talking about how this is all

the daily zeitgeist? Yes, we just read somebody else's opinion piece that said the same thing. Yes, we read other people's research. Amplification is what I'm talking about. I mean, look, I did go a step further and I was incorrectly claiming credit for that research study on my Instagram.

So I apologize to all the researchers there, but sometimes you get carried away. But yeah, this is like, when I saw that, I honestly got angry for a second because I was like, man, if I was allowed to fucking sleep, I would have gone to fucking MIT on a full ride or some shit. I think of how much the sleep shit affected me because I was a fucking sleeper. Yeah.

But you know what? That's what it's all about. Progress for the youth for the youth wait you were a teenage boy who needed sleep what did you nap like constantly in junior high like did you take naps during the school year i had a teacher compliment me once for how good i was at sleeping with my head like facing her like i was so tired all the time that i she was like wow you're pretty slick with that like right i was just asleep when she called on me but i had my head up and right um yeah man i was i remember high school and middle school being one long like head nod like

when you oh yeah head nods off and you snap back up. Oh that wasn't you weren't listening to WooHawk got you all in check with that head nod shit that makes you break your neck. I pretended I was. That was how I But yeah like it's based on studies because the American Academy of Pediatrics was like teen sleep deprivation

is a fucking health crisis we need to fucking address and shout out to the people of California for fucking doing that. My high school started at 745, but you had to get there early. Like, if you wanted to park, you had to get there at like 630. Right. And I'm going to sleep at like fucking 1130 because, you know, I'm watching some weird shit like a loose episode of seinfeld after the 10 o'clock news right lucy lucy you gotta catch a loose one on the other side of the 10 o'clock news i would either catch a loose seinfeld or a loose simpsons on the other side

of the 10 o'clock news all right and finally e-hall pass is trending speaking of schools okay so there's this company called there's this product called e-hall pass that was getting a lot like blew up yesterday because people like what the fuck is this e-hall pass thing and like a tweet that went out and then was deleted and then people started looking into it e-hall pass is basically this is from i want to make sure which article i'm looking at i think this was in vice but e-hall pass yes this was in was in Vice, is a, quote, digital system that students have to use to request to leave their classroom and which takes note of how long they've been away, including to visit the bathroom. And it's spread into at least a thousand schools around the United States. The system has some resemblance to the sort of worker monitoring carried out by Amazon, which tracks how long its staff go to the toilet for and is used to penalize workers for time off task. It also highlights how automated schools have led to increased surveillance of students in schools and employees in places of work.

Like this is affects LGBTQ kids, kids of color. Anyone who's not like white cis head typically have more scrutiny on like their bathroom use you know what i mean yeah um and also for a lot of time when you awkward as fuck teenager sometimes the bathroom is the most peaceful fucking place you can go you know like it's just like fuck it i'm just i'll pretend i'm taking a shit this whole nutrition period because i don't even want to fucking talk to anybody yeah and this is just you know like a lot of people who are in the like school safety thing like this is fucking dumb. Like and all this information served on a for profit server somewhere.

Like each child is tagged essentially and monitored throughout the day. Yeah. And they're saying it could be through a Chromebook, maybe digitally some other way or like they have their own mobile device. You can track them on their phone. But then like the people who are like building this tech are like but think of all the things you can you can uh avoid you know unwanted meetups uh stop tiktok challenges oh my god get the fuck out of here also you know rightly most people like like any situation stop spending the money on this shit and invest it in the fucking people that actually make the kids safe and smart not you're fucking come on we're looking at a teacherless future where uh everything is just

children are made to learn via automated books and laser guidance systems that make sure their eyes are going over the correct words at the correct time. Oh, my God. Yeah. Time off. I track like the eye tracking software like, oh, you're way off task right now. Yeah. You're not reading this book about. Yeah.

Warning. You are not reading your history book. The Civil War was over economic systems. Right. reading this book warning about yeah warning you are not reading your history book the civil war was over economic systems right um well shit it was nice to have that little moment of levity of the 830 yeah for high school students thing that was cool i felt like I got younger hearing that. Yeah. I did get mad. And I do not want good things for students that I didn't have access to. So at least it will be offset by the drones that are just buzzing down the hallways. Hey, move along.

Move along. Use the restroom. Piss or get off the pot, kid. Hey, freak show. What the fuck? You fucking around in there? Get out, you creep. What the fuck?

Why is it talking to me? It's all programmed by the gym teachers. Yeah, exactly. But, yeah. That fucking, man. But I get it. I was abusing the fuck out of a quote-unquote bathroom break in high school. You know?

Yeah. Damn, man. That is... And, like, there are parents who are like yeah hell yeah i mean i guess that's the the parenting philosophy of like your children are your adversaries and they're trying to get away with shit and they're trying to fucking kill you right um you gotta kill them first that's right emotionally i think we just need to use a instead of black mirror we need to go full those neck collar things that they had in that prison colony in that one action movie where oh yeah tried to escape your head because that's the only sort of reasoning that children

will respond to that or metal magnet boots from the offshore oil rig penal colony that they run in face off yes absolutely where it's like well you can't move because your shit is magnetized to the ground um all right those are some of the things that are trending on this thursday august 18th 818 got out of the valley bank back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourself. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to y'all tomorrow.

Bye. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, 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.

Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. 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 Jess Costavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me for I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me for I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's basketball. And on this new season, we'll cover all things sports and culture.

Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke.