The Daily Zeitgeist - Trendesota Zeitkings 9/23: McDonalds, NY/DoorDash, Samsung, FBI Hack

Episode Date: September 23, 2026

In this edition of Trendesotta Zeitkings, Jack and Miles discuss a couple of McTrends, the NY/DoorDash settlement, Samsung bricking their AI fridges with a new update, the FBI getting hacked and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Trenda Soda Zeit Kings. That one courtesy of Donagie Katerby on the Discord in reference to this morning's episode where I called you a Minnesota thigh king. And also, so our conversation about how the thigh A.K.A.s ended up becoming more about Blake and I than you. I think I was lumping myself in with Blake. Blake was obviously the starter, the beginning. I don't want to be claiming false valor here. Blake started the plumbers. I jumped on it. and because I love talking about my thighs, but Blake is the OG and any implication otherwise.

I've seen, I've seen on... Lackaroni was like, no, Jack, it was Blake. Yeah. I was like, yeah, no. Every time I introduce him, I say he's the coiner of the disgusting phrase plumpers. I think... How much clearer can I think. Because you just kind of let assumptions, you just didn't correct it.

You kind of got it there. Sort of like Rachel Dolejol. You know what I mean? Like, oh, you thought so okay. I mean, I won't correct you. I mean, I do have luscious size. I'm not saying I do. I'm not saying I don't.

But you know what? You're saying I do. He said it, not me. So do with that what you will. Anyways, how are you doing today? Great. Great. So good.

So fucking good, man. It's crazy. How could I am? It's fucking crazy, bro. All right. Let's talk about McDonald's, because there's two, there's two food pieces of food news in the past day. Let's kick it off with McDonald's because they have some exciting news. And I think these are related in some ways.

But McDonald's are like, we've decided to really invest in, you know, in. whom in themselves how you know that's the thing i i love i love reading things like this so like mcdonalds right they're trying to figure out how are we to get customers back in the stores you know sure and like any american company that's publicly traded they're thinking of everything except for the obvious way to bring customers back lower your prices so the original pitch of mcdonalds was our prices are cheap um you can get a meal here for less money

than should be possible. Yeah, yeah. Bring the whole family. So come through and then they, you know, got involved in the mentality that happened to basically all of late stage American capitalism,

which is like, what if we just like squeeze them for as much money as we possibly could? Every single penny out of them. So, yeah. What if we just held them by their ankles and just kind of Just shake the nuggets out of their pockets. This is from Business Insider because I love the way they read about this stuff.

McDonald's is spending big to bring customers back to its restaurants. Oh, really are they now? Well, okay. I'm like, okay, what's going on? The fast food chain plans to devote $8.5 billion over the next 10 years to improvements to its restaurants. Okay, it said on Wednesday, the plan called McDonald's Next includes adding more technology to Miles. I'm already on board.

I need to hear nothing else. McDonald's next. Oh, wow. Because when you can't afford what we have on offer, we're going to say, next. Not you, man. Get the fuck out of here, bro. This includes adding more technology to stores,

new training for employees, and increasing the burger chain's market share of chicken menu items. And look, I know as a busy parent, my first thought when feeding my family with a quick bite is how much technology is, How much technology is in the store? And also, what is their market share of chicken menu items?

Okay. Cool. The goal is to be, quote, the first choice for more customers more often while making our restaurants stronger and easier to run. McDonald's CEO, Chris Kempzinski, Kempzinski said, that was the guy who had their real cool. Kemsink. Burger bite that went viral last year.

He said, we were confident that executing across these components of Next will unlock stronger restaurant economics. Like, it's just all this Wall Street talk for being like, okay, if we can't get a bunch of people to buy it, how do we just make it appealing to people with cash that are like, ooh, shit, I don't know, McDonald's got a bunch of cool robots in here. Right. Sick. I just don't.

I feel like the introduction of technology has also never been a strong suit for them. So we're going to double down on the thing that has never worked for us. us. Dude, every time we try and do this, because they're like franchised, right? So it's not,

like they can't centrally incorporate a piece of technology and just be like, and it is so. They are trying to introduce this technology out to franchisees who then like, you know, it is American capitalism. So companies find ways to kind of insinuate themselves into that transaction. And soon you have the disaster that is the McDonald's soft serve machine, which is like, you have to pay to, like your franchisee has to pay some third-party company to use, yeah, to like hack the machine.

Yeah. So, I mean, they're improving everything except the prices. And are they? Yeah. And even then, it's like, it's like just all, I mean, I'm, I'm wondering how much the historians, when they look back decades from now, talk about like the C-suite psychosis that basically just brought everything. down as part of like this era of capitalism. We're in like where all these people are just have no idea even who their customers anymore.

Right. And it's just like, yeah, man, it's like we need more technology in the store. Everyone's telling you shit. They did us too much. Yeah, yeah. So you don't need something that then justifies you raising the price because you invested eight and a half billion dollars on McDonald's next. But I will see.

I mean, I will say even Wall Street is not falling for this shit because their stock price is going down. This is like they did a, we're like, we did, we pitched this whole thing directly at Wall Street and their stock prices, uh, taking a shit, it would appear, which is not something I, uh, really pay attention to other than when somebody makes a move that is this explicitly like, do you like us now? Yeah, right. Are you friends with us? Are you sure? I mean, we're going to improve our restaurant economics. You're not going to believe the way that we incorporate technology.

just like vague platitudes. Yeah. But generally, when you announce some shit like this line goes up, and if you lower prices, line go down. Yeah. And so it's a boy to do. Yeah. Maybe ignore the fucking line.

You know what I mean? Because I'd imagine if your prices get lower, you're going to have a higher volume of sales, which will make your own line go up. And yet, so much of the CEO's compensation package is tied up. Oh, God. Think of someone level of line.

Someone think of the Rizzless accountants that rose up to CEO. In other kind of big corporate food news, DoorDash just got brought to account in New York City. New York City, where Zoran just announced that there would be a big settlement,

like a $131 million dollar settlement because DoorDash was, according to them just whoops guys this is a big whoopsie on our end we've been underpaying our delivery drivers but the legal findings seemed to indicate

that there was nothing accidental about it but again also underpaying or stealing yeah it's good that money was we were actually holding onto that money for them

is how they're thinking about it kind of like escrow you know like a vibe grow. You know what I mean? It's just, it's very frustrating that the only way to protect for, for like, people to protect themselves from corporations in this country is like basically class action lawsuits, which are very slow and rarely make the company pay enough money to affect their behavior. Because again, as we said, like, line go up, line go down is the only thing that's going to affect their behavior. What's $131 million?

Yeah, $131 million is apparently not enough because their stock price has stayed about where it's not like, it's not flying high, but it's not doing great. And this is wage theft. This is the sort of thing. If somebody, if an individual stole 131 million dollars. The American system would officially, I believe you get your ass beat something like that. Around here. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I got a case of the Mondays?

Yeah, we'll kick your ass on Monday when I see you. Like, think about, just think about that. That's so wild that we are in a place where if an individual or a group of individuals tried to do this, they would all go to jail probably for the rest of the lives. I mean, I also think of it like this, too, like, you know, Americans are really good about complaining about service. You know, it's like, I think one of the all-time super. powers as a nation is like, we, we breed consumers who like to fucking talk to the manager. Well, I think more Americans should actually think that in the context of how your taxes are

paid, you're paying for, you can actually be like, this is what I'm getting for my money. Yeah. And really think about that too, because maybe you'll be a little bit more upset some people who maybe are kind of trying to figure out where they are and their sort of evolution of thought and like what my relation is to the government. Yeah, you should, you should actually, you should be in an active. set outrage about what's being done with your money because it's not

going to your school, it's not going to your health care, it's going to explode people and build other technologies that are going to destroy the earth or industries that are going to destroy the earth. So, you know, I encourage more, everyone should encourage their grandparents, their older relatives to think

about that to get outraged in that sense. This is what they're doing with it. Don't get mad at the DoorDash delivery driver who has to eat some of your French fries. get mad at the DoorDash Corporation that made it so they can't afford to eat because they're not paying them they're literally not paying them the money

that they erode. We just didn't, we forgot, man, you know. It's much easier. It is really a beautifully designed system by, you know, late stage hyper-capitalism. No, no. This is the guy you're mad at. Look, got fucking French fries on his breath.

Oh, man. Now we're going to have to put stickers on the bag so they don't open them. And then you'll know. I mean, although that is good for sanitary reasons. I will say, just in line with that, because it is, like, the fact that this is being announced in Zeran's New York City is good for the brand. And just generally the brand couldn't be stronger, it feels like. And it's funny to see, like, I was just noticing that a new poll. came out that, you know,

as we always say, can't trust polls, but this poll is generating some headlines because it says that Nithia Rahman, former guest on this show, candidate for mayor running against Mayor Karen Bath, is leading in the polls by quite a bit

like 10 percentage points. Which, all right, like we said, you can't trust polls. Another poll had, Karen Bass leading her by a wide margin. Unfortunately for Karen Bass's campaign, days after the poll that had her up was released, the company admitted they were just making shit up and permanently retired from doing polls.

So this is like the first more reliable poll. Pretty honest from pollsters because they love to take, you know, campaign money and be like, yeah, that's what I found, dude. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's great. But it's like, they're like, ah, yeah. That was a social experiment. we were fucking with you. We literally made those numbers up out of a whole cloth to see what it would do.

Oh, dude. Yeah, no, you're getting cooked right now. Anyway, so this is good news because, you know, we had Nitya on and she did not endorse my plan to take down L.A.'s golf courses

like I've always planned to and turn them into public parks just by... You better start getting those flyers, potting, man. So good news for that. But I was also noticing, like, a lot of the reaction to this news from the right, like Spencer Pratt is like, oh, what did I tell you? Look at, look at it at, read it and weep, guys, you're about to have a commie as your mayor. I'm just, no one was going to vote for you. Like, it's self-evidently terrifying. And it's like, buddy, you got it, you got to read the, like, look what's happening in New York. Like if Zeran had won and then come in and it had turned into fucking snake Pliskin escape

from New York. Like I would understand this. But they're acting like that's what happened. Maybe like I don't even know. Like are people generating a bunch of clips of like crime in New York to try and make that case? I'm not like the only thing I saw recently was somebody being like, this car is playing the call to prayer loudly on the streets of New York.

York at 6 a.m. This is what you voted for 25 years after 9-11. Yeah. It's like, wow. Been happening for a while, my man. But okay. Okay. Yeah, I mean, like, Karen Bass is just so wildly unpopular. So you just needed somebody, you know, that wasn't a Republican who actually had decent ideas for the city. And they were going to, they were most likely going to be a better candidate. Because again, Karen Bass wanted to run against Spencer Pratt. Oh, yeah. In fact, she knew. still she's still campaigning against it. Like there's footage of her like talking shit about Spencer Pratt. That's like the best she can muster up is like, yeah,

remember this asshole? Oh, God. And you know, like not on top of that too. Like there was a hearing recently where some activists were just like calling out the police commission because they were hiding the fact that there were like LAPD officers off duty were working for ice contractors. Right. And they're like, you said this wasn't going to happen.

And we're trying to get that information and you're hiding it. And again, this is under the watchful eye of Karen Bass's police commissioner. So, I mean, there's no matter what way you look at, there's just a lot of minus signs around. Yeah, yeah. But generally, too, there's just like, there's other good polling, too, where the Cook Political Report just moved a couple races over to the Democrat column, which, you know, the Cook Political Report kind of gives you this sort of like. wider sort of idea of like, okay, is this a district, like a Republican plus two district? Is it a Democrat plus one? And yeah, we've got a few more Senate districts that got put into the Democrat column in terms of just vibration. Where were they on? Where were they in 2024,

like in terms of, because I know that there were some people who were like Trump is going to win this pretty definitively. And then some people who thought Kamala had. more of a chance. Was Cook like kind of in the toss up range? Do do we remember? I'm just like I, this is stupid. This is like one data point, but I am like, you know,

burned by 2024 and like ever having hope in, uh, that Trump was pretty tight. He doesn't do a lot of like real hard prognosticating like that. Yeah. So it wasn't like general vibes. What it, would it, would a cook say about

that? But again, normally it's more of like he's looking at other data and just kind of switching what the tone is based on polling and other things like that. Sure, sure, sure. But again, polls, they don't put you there. We don't lay your head on them at night. However, they give you an idea like if it gives you an idea of like the weather you're about to enter. You know what I mean? It's not nailed on.

But you're like, okay, it'll be kind of a sunny day. We're not expecting full on rain. And this is a meteorological report before a dozer after. After. Oh, fuck. That's not good. It's bad. No.

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people's will. But again, this is just another thing. When the entire incentive structure in the C-suite is like, do the thing that Wall Street's going to like the sounds of, you're going to put, you're going to stick AI in fridges and results be damned. anyways we'd been hearing for a while about AI fridges

Samsung put some out and it's so first of all I will say that the AI fridge will give you

some recipes oh yeah if you ask it to it'll give you for some reason it has that option dude I haven't been keeping any of this food refrigerated in here man but you're yeah you're gonna get diarrhea

if you FYI but it'll tell you in like you know paragraph English you know it'll speak to you and tell you hey I fucked up they will give you recipes based on what's

inside your fridge which I don't know that sounds like it could be cool I'm sure it fucks up and does not do a good job of doing that but another big problem like with these I haven't tested that

yet. How good the recipes are that it's giving you. Where is it pulling these recipes from? Presumably the internet, but any, any, like, I, I've not had good success. Like, talking to people who have, like, tried to do AI recipes. They're like, no, I just

just Google recipes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That works much better rather than them trying to, like, average, like, in the same way that, like, it, when Google AI gives you the average answer from, like, five different sources. And it's like, well, this, paragraph is contradictory.

Yeah, yeah. You know, so they're averaging out recipes. It's like asking AI for like a recipe is like having a friend who's like on like in the middle of an acid trip, but also has like the ego of someone who won't admit they're wrong to tell you a recipe. And they're like, oh yeah, man, I got a recipe. Seven lemons. Cyan pepper.

Uh, chicken leg. and sugar sugar. It will do it with the confidence and sincerity of those. You remember that person who like was the fake ASL translator of the speech? Yeah. It was just like doing fake hand gestures in the back. And with all the integrity of that. Exactly.

Fake sign language translator. Anyways, one bad thing. And this is my, depending on how you use your refrigerator, this could be a major or minor thing. But a ton of these fridges shut down in South Korea after an update accidentally included internal test software that wasn't meant to be rolled out. As a result, the screens stopped working. So, okay. And then, and this is like the thing that has some people kind of pissed off. I don't know, I don't know how you use your refrigerator listener, but the fridge is also lost.

the ability to cool. Which that is how a lot of people, that's kind of the main thing that a lot of refrigerators do for people. Depending on who you are, how weird you. If you're a freak who's like, oh, I like to have

food, like I like to be able to have milk for my children. You don't put your sneakers in your refrigerator? Put them in a freezer, dude. Keep them nice and crispy. That shit on ice, bro. Yeah. Kill the mold. But the fix requires, speaking of McDonald's, this might sound familiar to McDonald's franchisees who are having trouble with their soft serve machine, the fix requires an engineer to visit in person.

Jesus Christ. Which seems extra annoying because this is all happening right before the national holiday chusok, which people are reporting that they can't book Samsung technicians until after the holiday is over and all the food they bought for chusok. is just going to spoil. Jesus Christ. That seems bad. Seems poorly timed. What's that? What kind of festival is that?

It's just kind of like a time where people just take off work, I'd imagine, it sounds like. Yeah. You got some half moon race. I'm just Googling it right now and trusting the answer

at the top of Google AI, but we don't do big chuso. I think this is like the Thanksgiving one. Autumn evening. Oh, okay, interesting. Autumn evening. I love,

love an Asian festivity period, especially one that's like, sacred, you know, because Asian people work so much. Like, there's only a couple times of year where they're like, dude, I'm fucking no. No one fucking does anything right now. And now the refrigerator is going down. Like, I need a fucking engineer. They're like, no. How about no?

How about Galby Gym? Which is one of my favorite foods in the world is a traditional way, which involves a lot of pork. Pork, I actually haven't looked into whether that needs to be refrigerated. and we're just going to keep moving and not look into it. You can get, there are definitely some fish dishes, which again, who knows if fish is supposed to be refrigerated? Not me, not you, you know, or remains to be seen.

Who knows? Who knows? I mean, this is like also, are you, this is how I feel about like so much smart home technology. Yeah. It's like, you're so, the second the thing, I'm like, cool, you can hit a button and every blight in the house goes to this very specific dimness setting or whatever.

But if the internet shits out or whatever, I know most of those bulbs can function, but there are so many other things that are tied to like the internet or whatever or that kind of connectivity where I'm like, dude, I should just, once I plug it in, it's over, bro. That's it. Is there power? Yes, then the shit should work. Not do I also have a fucking firmware update or over the air update or whatever?

We moved into a house that had like the person before was like a real smart home freak real smart home freak but also like obsessed with technology that was at me

you know was already he was the older white guy and so there like every room has like

dimmer switches in it and I just like don't like that is beyond me like how to operate even a dimmer because you have to get

like specific and they're like breaking down now you might have noticed that I'm always in studio this week because the dimmer switch in my home office is making a noise.

It's like making like a noise. No, no, like a click, click, click, click. Like it sounds like a fucking bomb counting down. And the lights in the studio have gone haywire and are like going up and down at random. So I'm like I have to get an electrician. I'm not up to it. I can't take the switch. It's actually pretty easy.

Is it? I'll come over and show you. to do it. Yeah. It took my best friend's dad who's an electrician, like, when I needed help with something to shame me when he's like, Miles, you can do this yourself. I'm like, dude, Robert, I don't know the first thing. He's like, watch this.

He just goes like, unscrew that. Don't let those wires touch. He's like, he's like, I'll show you how to do without going to the panel and turn it on. Wow. This seems like bad advice. This seems like advice that is going to get me. Maybe not. Yeah, yeah. Maybe that. Maybe not for you. Actually, I'm remembering who I'm talking to.

Yeah. I've been electrocuted 30 times. Just changing light bulbs. That's why I'm so jumpy. I think you die from, if you're electrocuted, right? Yeah. Or electrocution, right? It's like electricution. Electrified? What have I been? Electric shot? No, I just remember I, I remember at a random bar. I said something about being electrocuted. I remember that I think I was there because I remember

somebody was getting mad at us about the different. No, this is a different one. For sure, you weren't there because this is before we worked together. then that person was like, badgering me over electrocuted and electrified because they said they had been, they're like, no,

I've been electrified. And then I'll use that to hit on my friend's wife. Okay. Yeah, maybe I'm just remembering you telling me that story. I've been electric shocked. I'm like the guy in the great outdoors. Remember that character?

Anyways, how's everything going at the FBI? I do always just like to check him. Look, great stuff. We check them with the Beast, Shack was there. Yeah, man. Shack was there.

He was wearing shoes that were five sizes too big for him somehow. But also, I guess not, I mean, not a great day if you're an FBI agent

doing any kind of like undercover work or anything like that because 404 media has reported that the hacking crew known as shiny hunters has claimed

they have hacked the FBI's jobs portal and now possess the personal information of almost all FBI agents and most applicants. It had said, again...

That seems like a big one. That seems like one that... This seems like the knock list from Mission Impossible. Like, isn't that the whole thing that they're like always trying to preserve? And they're like, well, we're going to have to risk nuclear annihilation to get this because otherwise everything falls apart. Yeah, well, right now the FBI is like, we're looking into it and trying to pretend everything's fine. But the hackers showed 404 media, Reuters, a few other outlets, like what they call like a sample

of information and it was like 5,000 agents that they handed over and they kind of they they put that they basically you know researched all that information they got and were able to connect the names addresses sometimes and like they have social security numbers to people that were legitimately in FBI including cash Patel wow um and like they're saying this has every like names home addresses social security numbers they're assignments um and in some cases names of family members. So, yeah, pretty dire situation.

The hackers have said they were, they're not looking for a payout because they mostly usually like, we'll be like, hey, pay us or we won't totally pon your shit. They would rather, what they want to do is coerce the FBI into removing a report that the FBI put out

last year, or earlier this year, about the group that they say has false allegations about how they operate. And they're like, they're kind of, I guess, perspective on it's like, it's allowing other people to claim shiny hunt when they're not, whatever, like, this is bullshit. Either way, the FBI is, we're yet to really hear what they are saying.

Because, again, even if a fraction of this info is out there, that's bad news for the FBI. And it would be a dream for, like, foreign intelligence operations and criminals. But I guess this was always going to happen, but not just at the FBI, but all over the government with all the doge firings. Right. Because you have nobody now, like, all the people that, know what they're doing are gone or have been basically so put off by the way this administration is that they don't want to work for any branch of government at this point. And, you know, like,

it's all a bunch of wannabes at the wheel. There's no actual subject matter expertise. Like, if you look at the White House cabinet, there's no, there's not a single person that, like, working in there that has any kind of subject matter expertise. Like, you don't have a guy who's like, I know everything about all. I know everything about water or. Or, Yeah, or if you do it is, it's like an oil man who's like, hey, I know everything about old, how to make money off of it, how to move it around. So, get your money into my pocket. Yeah, just not an expert or scientist in any field, just a bunch of sycophant slap dicks.

And also people who play experts on TV, right? Yeah, yeah, of course. Pete Higgs, or, you know, even isn't Dean, like Dean Kane, they're always thrown on stuff just because he, I think he was Superman. Because he was Superman. And it's like, that doesn't mean shit. he's actually an out-of-work actor, which is one of the most terrifying people on earth.

So right now, the U.S., I think, is basically, we should look at this as a car being driven by a dog. And we are seeing those effects across everything. So what you're saying is the U.S. has that dog in us, and that's a compliment. The U.S. car has that dog in us, driver's seat. Parenthetical, they don't know how to drive. us will crash terribly because why it's a jog driving a fucking car.

At the very least, maybe the hackers can tell us who of the applicants who was looking for that bestiality carve out. There's that. But yeah, it's still mum from the FBI and slowly more and more outlets are reporting on it. I mean, like, this doesn't sound good. Not trying to get rich off it? Who is this general Francis X Hummel from the rock? My and his why.

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