The Daily Zeitgeist - TrendBA Opening Zeit 10/24: NBA, Cranberry Juice Challenge, Taco Tuesday, Switch Witch, The Rock, Cruise Taxi

Episode Date: October 24, 2023

In this edition of TrendBA Opening Zeit, Jack and Miles discuss NBA opening night, the Cranberry Juice Challenge, Taco Bell's "Taco Tuesday" battle coming to an end, the Switch Witch, the Rock's awful wax figure, and Cruise's driverless taxi service getting suspended (for being obscenely dangerous)!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Trust us, it's out of this world. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Trend BA Opening Zeit. Mama, there go that man. Mama, there goes that podcaster. That short show title, courtesy of One Miles Gray. Still got it. Still got it, folks.

Wenbing Yama. Wenbing Yama. He's going to foul. I can't wait. Just seeing. You saw that clip of Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce talking about him? No, I didn't see it. The way Kevin Garnett is so jealous of him.

I didn't see it. The way Kevin Garnett is like so jealous of him. And they're talking about how Thomas Bryant's reaction shows you what's about to happen in the league. He's like, no, no. He's like, and he's seven five. Yeah.

It's, he's got an eight foot wingspan, seven foot five. Um, I think the, the video that made me, we've talked about him before, but the seven foot five, uh, talked about him before but the 7'5

number one draft pick in the NBA French guy Victor Wemben Yama who has looked incredible in the preseason games and I just saw a video of him like stretching and that was the one that

super producer Jabari of our NBA show Miles and Jack on Matt Boost, sent over a stretching video. He's V-flexible. He is Limber. Limber. Limber. Ruby Limber. He, yeah, he, so that makes me feel better about his durability.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. NBA season opens up with Lakers V the defending champ nuggets. And who else we got? We got the sons V the, uh, how you say golden state warriors. Yep.

Yep. So exciting night of basketball, exciting week. I can't wait to watch when being Y yama in his opener it's it's weird there's a there's a thing like people aren't wanting to admit that like i don't think his first game is going to be nationally televised maybe oh like i heard like one of one of the nba people be like yet oh uh bill simmons like the probably the most famous like you know person covering the nba nba writer was like yeah one bm is an interesting wrinkle like interesting wrinkle

oh it is okay his first game is going to be on espn so that's okay that's the least exciting dallas san antonio espn tomorrow night, you know, us NBA heads. What a way to, but what if a wrinkle? Okay. Just put, I get it. You're worried that your boy Jalen can't go left this season. So you're going to cast dispersions on Victor Wimbanyama. We get it.

No, he's, I mean, everybody's pretty excited, but like, I think everybody wants to just be like cautious and be like i'm not gonna what oh i'm gonna get excited and i have given given myself fully over to my childlike wonder when it comes to victor weben yama honestly no one like i think if you're holding like why hold back especially just as a viewer unless your job is to be to get it right and again no one's gonna fucking be like oh you were right you were wrong about victor wemben yama you're too excited and happy about him on y'all let him let him live let us be excited yeah yeah but anyways uh very very interesting time for the trend to be a on this opening site.

I'm Jack. That's miles. Here's some of the things that are trending. Let's go. Cranberry juice challenge. Yeah. What the fuck? Swish it and then see all the bugs that are in your mouth.

Miles. Uh-huh. It's unclear how this works, if works if this is real but there is a tiktok video that has millions of views where someone swishes their mouth with cranberry juice spit out uh and it looks like there's like stuff in the dish and then they pour pure alcohol on it and whatever's in the dish starts like squirming around 70 iso shout out to my people out there maintaining glass pieces you know you keep the iso on you but the the narration or like the it's a parent with a child so let's yes we set the table here and he's saying

like you can see all the bugs that are in your mouth is what yeah like how it's sort of proposed and this little kid swishes some fucking juice around spits it on a plate they add isopropyl alcohol and like there's just like there's like just shit in like in the juice itself to me this looks like a kid who hasn't brushed his damn teeth is swishing his mouth around with juice and then like the shit he's spitting out is right there like i've never swished my mouth with anything and seen this shit come out is right there like i've never switched my mouth with anything and seen this shit come out like unless i like i don't know unless i just ate a bunch of like you know fucking food or something like that yeah it's gross like the the medical uh the the scientific

literature is unclear as of yet like basically the comments are split between people who think it's fake for one reason or people who think it's fake for another and then the only person who's like no that's just mouth bugs dog uh that's just what is going on in your mouth is uh is the person who uploaded the video yeah uh and also i believe refers to themselves as a surveillance pro. Yeah. So again, a lot of, a lot of question marks here.

Not exactly a science guy, but again, hide in someone's mouth and escape this guy's prying eye. Stop making it hot for the mouth bugs, man. Yeah, man. They're just trying to hide out in there. And if this is real,

somebody please with scientific knowledge, explain to us why. Otherwise I'm just going to say, this is a kid who just ate swishing their mouth around with cranberry juice and whatever. Or there's something else happening. But anyway. Yeah, because you can make stuff squirm around or like react weirdly by just pouring various substances on on things. And for me, famously on a Friday night, you're you're very you're known for doing that. Pouring various substances on me, I will start moving

wiggly like a bug. Taco Bell, their battle to free the Taco Tuesday trademark is officially over. They have been victorious! Taco Tuesday is free. Did we talk about this?

If we did, I had totally forgotten. I don't know, but it's funny this i if we did i had totally forgotten i don't know but it's funny even if we didn't i knew about how everyone was getting mad about the taco tuesday trademark and how it's like it's bigger than us yes we can't squat on this trademark it has to be for the people in the past i feel like this would be a story about how taco bell was like trying to lock up the taco tuesday trademark right um but now that people are savvier when it comes to marketing and taco bell in particular what they did is they went around suing anybody who was holding down the taco tuesday trademark to free it so anyone could use it not just taco bell um savvy move t bell um and they just freed it in the last state so this is oh you you don't think the united states is progressive right come on well look at this now you can say taco tuesday at any party any bar you want uh you know so yes every new jersey rights and bodily autonomy not great but

yeah yeah new jersey was the last state the last holdout gregory's restaurant and bar in new jersey was still holding the trademark uh and had been for 40 years. I can understand how Gregory's restaurant and bar would feel a certain type of way. Uh, have a little bit of pride about being on the taco Tuesday thing 40 years ago. Yeah. Yeah. 40 years before LeBron James was making it a big deal. Yeah. Gregory was on that shit.

You mean Gregory Gregory of Gregory's bar and grill? Of course. His name is Gregory Gregory. That has to be Miles. I think this is one of those AI replacing copy editors things. It's owner Gregory Gregory says his fight is everywhere. His name is Gregory's Greg Greg. Wow. Greggy Greg. You can't just put that in an article without commenting on it. You can't just be like, it's a co-owner Gregory Gregory, whose name is not a typo, despite it looking like one.

He's Gregory Gregory. Yeah, but Double G said, Tago Tuesday brought a lot of pride over the past 40 years. Relinquishing the trademark registration doesn't change that, but it does allow others in New Jersey the same opportunity to build their own traditions

and help spread Taco Tuesdays throughout New Jersey. Yeah. So. It is wild, because initially there are articles being like, here's the guy fighting Taco Bell

by himself, and it's a David and Goliath thing. thing but really when you're like no like they've they went after fucking taco johns they're like nah man free taco tuesday and look you don't want to you don't want to bang with us in court we have more money this is so it is a wild way to go about it. And in a couple of decades, when people ask how the phrase let freedom ring came about, this is the origin story that we'll learn. Exactly. Oh my God. The tacos at Gregory Gregory's spot do not look good.

No. Like, I feel like in a way, maybe they should, they should not be calling these tacos. I think it, you know what, Gregory? Maybe. Yeah, I get like in a way, maybe they should, they should not be calling these tacos. I think it, you know what, Gregory? Maybe. Yeah, I get it.

Oh yeah, man. Those tacos look dry as shit, sir. They look real dry. Um, sounds like a nice thing has been done for the people of New Jersey. Gregory Gregory looks exactly like, uh, 70 70 of the men in the state of new jersey yeah who are retired cops and started a bar and grill that's right all right let's take a quick break and we'll be right back i've been thinking about you i want you back in my life. It's too late for that. I have a proposal for you.

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and we're back we're back and uh the switch which is causing a little bit of controversy we're we're just digging into all of the top controversies on the internet yeah you got your uh free taco tuesday you got your cranberry juice challenge the switch which which is not a sandwich not a sandwich yeah uh fortunately if you thought it was just taking your switch and putting it between two pieces of bread uh because that nintendo switch right yeah you're nintendo or if you had a elderly grandmother who would you know hit you with a switch too there's that too but anyway that's where we've moved on this is yes this is a halloween tradition uh that parents are doing where it's

from like a couple from Utah recently went viral for promoting the switch which on social media the idea is your kid gets keep around five pieces of candy from their trigger treat bag and the rest is left out for the switch which a literal witch who replaces the candy

with a brand new toy as witches are want to do this is so i don't understand the like i get that they're trying to like well this is how we limit incentivize our kids eating less candy but like do they not understand it's like like it's it's funny like adults really forget what it's like to be a kid at a certain point you just want like your whole sense of pride is based on how full your bucket is or your your pillowcase is with candy right not then being like and now i can use now i actually have fiat currency to now trade this in for a puzzle set yeah it's like your first lesson in just how like efficiency is you know going getting into trick-or-treating.

I don't know. My kids aren't that into candy, but they still get very motivated to get as much candy as they possibly can and hit as many doors. They've begun sprinting from house to house. Quantity, not quality. This has apparently been going on for a long time it

it's very um it's very consumerist like yeah it's very elf on a shelf consumerist like buy an extra thing for your house that then helps you like is a reason for buying more things right yeah truly and like there's like you don't need a doll for the again sure uh yeah maybe you're helping your kids or like nutritionists are saying you're actually gonna cause kids to like want those the candy more if this is the way you're going about it so yeah we'll see yeah and a lot of it yeah a lot of experts and health experts are like just making them choose five pieces of candy and then like give away the rest is probably you know suggesting that they're like secretive about their candy eating or whatever i don't know but it the the idea of like and you get toy for candy feels yeah Yeah. It's just, it's candy. If you're,

if this is a, if this appeals to you as a parent, I don't understand. Like this feels very, like you have some things you need to resolve more than like, like, no, I need to buy this witch so I can get them to eat less candy.

So I can trade it out for another expensive toy that I get. Like what? Because if they start eating, what, what, what? Just let them, that's the whole joy of it.

You know, just eat a bunch of candy and have your teeth rot out. Exactly. They are selling like switch, which toys or switch, which dolls that you like. Then I don't know why you would need that. Like the whole point of the elf on the shelf is the elf on the shelf is a

narc who is watching you the whole time. But the switch, which is just an extra toy to own so that and and then that toy then produces more toys like a gremlin that you got wet after a minute yeah yeah uh i don't know anyways stop with the fucking there's a toy for every fucking holiday by the end of it. Like, where's your Easter meester that you put up? The fuck is that? It's going to know if you're, you know,

you're actually being conscious about the resurrection. Yes. Okay. That museum. Did you see the Dwayne Johnson wax figure? Oh my God. Yeah. What a fucking shame.

Yeah. That shit was so bad. If you haven't seen it, you can go Google image search it but it's just they have robbed him of all melanin yeah it was like a creative player duane johnson with just uh they've turned him into a white man yeah if you if there was such a thing as like looking at a human and you turned your like you told your eyes to be like now dial melanin down to zero yes that's pretty much it's like a photoshop version of the palest duane johnson so it's being uh changed huh yeah they're gonna he the rock uh noticed that it was going viral it was like we're

gonna reach out to them and see if we can't uh yeah did you see the lil wayne one no that came out recently oh my god it is so bad dude he he has one that's gonna be in a like a you know wax museum in tennessee look at this shit what the fuck what is going they don't know how to do black hair yeah like what the fuck is his hair even and then also his face people say they look like there's like all kinds of threads talking about how who he actually looks like and none of them are little wayne yeah jesus yeah a mess so what happened i thought like the whole thing was like you went in and they fucking meticulously scanned your face and like you did molds and shit yeah This looks like someone tried to draw Lil Wayne

from memory or some shit. This article where they're talking about going in and fixing it has just a lot of quotes from the people who made the thing being like, yeah, we really nailed it, didn't we? So I used a

photo and the sample photo that was chosen where he had just a very slight smile on his face an expression that's quite difficult to achieve it was very subtle but that that was really the challenge of nailing this one and then uh yeah the rock was like yeah we're gonna uh reach out to see what we can do about this is so just so wild like also none are any of these people like people of color because i feel like your first thing would be like i think we're nailing to me what i think is important about this guy too right but sure it's this vague smile oh it's so difficult to execute they have uh like there's a picture in the washington post article about them updating it showing painter frank bruno uh painting on his tattoo

and frank bruno uh is a white man yeah so and he will now be in charge of making him the painted man that's right like they called morgan freeman in robin hood oh yeah they did call him that didn't the painted man all right cruise okay i'll bite what is cruise yeah tom no the autonomous taxi company owned by general motors i think we talked about it briefly about how like there was like autonomous taxi shit going are we have people were fucking in the autonomous taxis oh yeah yeah okay yeah well now the one of the companies that has been operating in san francisco 24 hours a day seven days a week they've had their operator license revoked by the california department of motor vehicles why because the dmv says well gm has been like lying about certain shit their fucking cars are dangerous.

Oh, and also GM withheld evidence from us when we were investigating an incident where a pedestrian was injured by one of their dumb fuck robo cars. So what happened was this car, apparently this was earlier this month. Now, the DMV says that a cruise vehicle initially came to a hard stop and then ran over a pedestrian. And after coming to a complete stop, it then attempted to do a, quote, pullover maneuver while the pedestrian was still pinned underneath the vehicle. The car crawled along at seven miles an hour for about 20 feet, then came to a final stop. The pedestrian remained under the car the whole time. Oh, no. So that's not. Yeah. I think it's a good call good call it's almost like you

shouldn't have ever given them the fucking license to begin with but hey no let's test it out what's the worst that could happen you know yeah well actually the thing that like san francisco like residents are doing where they would just put if you could put a parking cone on the hood of the car it would basically render the car inert oh wow like it would overload the fucking sensors and shit and then you just have a bricked car sitting in the middle of the road yeah cause the

it's the one with the like spinny camera on top right it's got all kinds of yeah I don't know yet but it yeah they got all kinds of sensors and wackadoo things wackadoo stuff just so you can get run over? Nah. Yeah. Run over and then dragged across concrete. Literally

dragged over concrete. Alright. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, October 24th. A happy one week until Halloween. Wow. It'll be... Get your Switch Witches ready, folks.

Yeah. Oh, wow. I'm gonna have a... Wow. I have ideas now. Okay. All right. We're back tomorrow

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