Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Americ Trend Cars and They're Blinding trend Lights. I am Jack O'Brien and I'm thrilled to be joined by a very special guest co host, our headlights expert man on the streets peering into your headlights. It is Brian the Editor.
Hi, everybody, it's me, your your friendly neighborhood headlight expert who can talk about headlights endlessly.
Because I'm boring.
I didn't know had you talked about headlights before, because super producer Victor was like, not gonna lie to you. Just saw this headline, knew that Brian was in today and threw it in there. Because once you get this guy talking headlights.
I think I just have that kind of vibe.
Yeah, has opinions on very specific shit.
I have a really really headlight kind of Yeah.
Vobes, the vobes are headlight. All right, Well, let's start off with it. There is a article on America's foremost news source, CNN dot Com. Unclear if this went with the idefs. Yeah, unclear if this has been filtered through the idea, but it basically the idea is our headlights are a couple years, nay a decade behind the headlights in other parts of the world, including Europe, China and Canada. The thing they've been working with and this is news
to me. I did not know about. These headlights are called ADB, No, not ODB, ADB automatic that I should have God damn it, I should have looked it up. Adaptable to events beams. Fuck, I don't know.
Wait, let's just make the whole show guessing what automatic dimming bulb showing that?
So they we have automatic dimmers. We have the thing on our cars where on some models of your car where if it senses another car coming the opposite direction, it will go from high beam to low beam automatically, and then once the car has passed, it'll go back up to high beam. That is apparently broke shit. That is like way outmoded technology. The real headlight technology these
days is like it stays. The high beams stay on, except they sort of wrap themselves around the oncoming cars like they are able by being made up of a bunch of different LED pixels. They're able to project light in specific locations on the road so that oncoming driver is not blinded and you're able to see as if you're using high beams the whole time. Superproducer Victor has entered a guess, adaptive driving beam. Yeah, nice, triasshole. No, I'm just hiking that. I think that's the actual answer.
Good guess Victor will have to see if it's right. No, okay, so they're adaptive driving beams, and they are technology is available everywhere else. I am suspicious of this article because it seems to suggest that the problem here is regulation and that we just need more deregulation on our headlights.
Yas are getting.
In the way of us making It's like, okay, cool, Like, let's let's just get this out of the way first. If safety was a concern for automakers, this would this is probably not Like the first thing I would go with is digging around with the headlights. There's a lot of ways to make cars and roads safer. This is definitely a problem, sure, but like, I don't know, it's just this whole this whole thing stinks to me because it's coming from CNN. I don't trust them. H And yeah, this is.
Yeah, the idea that so they're saying basically, they're saying that our beams are too bright, but there's like all these regulations that say, like it can't turn on too quick because there's a chance it'll blind people. But I feel like there's I don't know, we we have really blinding headlights these days.
Yeah, they that's definitely an issue.
But I'm like, I don't know, like what there's like science fictiony shit out there that you can you you can put on a car like lightar or you know, camera raised all sorts of things that can like see through fall like light ar can just see through fog, infrared can just see through fog.
And I'm like, Okay, you're talking.
About Mercedes and it's not like this this technology They're going to put this in a Kia next year or something like this. This is fancy technology for fancy cars. And I'm like, just just put ADSB and you know, light are in these cars so they can actually see through the dark and you don't have to just put
more photons out there. Like it's cool technology, But I'm like, there's there there are cooler, safer things out there, and this just seems like maybe a scheme to deregulate the auto industry even more.
Right. They're like, yeah, it's just it's suspicious to me that you know, the EU is far more strict when it comes to selling foods that are considered poison, but they get skittish around headlights. It just feels like, yeah, maybe this is a scheme where like Detroit holds out on this one thing, and it is like, I don't know, guys, you're gonna need to support some deregulations so that they can, you know, start selling cars that run on you know, the blood of baby deer. I don't know.
It's interesting because my understanding, I have a thing with tail lights. Tail Lights are confusing to me in North America because they just sort of because of deregulation, they let you put whatever colors you want, Like if you want just red and white lights in the back, like you can find a car that does that. But really it should be red for a break, yellow for turning, white for reverse. That's what it should be on every car, right, so that it's not confusing. It's not, yeah, I guess
not North America. It's not like it's a free for all, but there are certain models of cars that do not adhere to that, and it's confusing. And my understanding is this is not the case in Europe. That is something they've mandated that you have. It has to follow this sort of scheme. So it's it's interesting that they, you know, the EU would have regulations regarding the ass end.
Of the car and not the front.
Yeah.
So I'm like, I don't.
Think this is that like serious really Like there's look, there's like how many how many road fatalities are caused by temporary blindness as opposed to I don't know, like your self driving car who shit itself driving?
Just running people over? Yeah, Like, I don't know, regulate that.
Maybe are people looking at their highly addictive phones while driving?
Yeah, maybe having a seventeen inch fucking tablet in your Tesla is a little distracting.
It probably shouldn't be there.
So yeah, how else am I going to play my video games while driving? No?
No, no, how are you going to make beats? Are you going to make beats in your Tesla? Because you can? There is a DAW in Tesla's by the FYI everybody, there's a digital audio workstation.
Oh in your Tesla.
I thought you meant DAW like I'm gonna fight me da and.
I wanna fight me da?
Ah what I scream? Every time I get drunk, I'm gonna fight me. DA shout out to Matt Leeb.
All right, all right, all right, I've talked enough about headlights. It's been forty five minutes. I've got twenty minutes of audio already.
Okay, all right, yeah, cut off here. I just sometimes I like to poke my head into the somewhat depressing world of like people who are still receiving fundraising emails from Donald Trump and like, uh, you know, still being like, oh, he's he needs our support, honey. They got fake Valentine money request from Donald Trump. It feels like he might be running out of dumb ways to convince people to
give him money. So this latest attempt was a Valentine's Day love letter to his wife Milania that was then emailed out to the public. But yeah, I don't I don't know exactly what the idea is here. The email begins, Dear Milania, I love you, and then goes on to say, even after every single indictment, arrest, and witch hunt, you never left my side. You've always supported me through everything. I wouldn't be the man I am today without your guidance,
kindness and warmth. You will always mean the world to me Milania from your husband with love Donald J. Trump. I like how they're like holding our hands through it. Your husband from your husband, Donald J.
Trump, from your husband future President Donald Day Trump.
Then it offers recipients the chance to send your love to Milania, which takes you to a page to send her personalized messages and donate to the Trump campaign and amounts ranging from twenty dollars and twenty f four cents twenty twenty four to threey three hundred. I don't know what that signifies.
I feel like this is like one step away from an only fans.
It really is like the only fans of theation, so close to only fans watch Donald and Malania fuck on Valentine's Day for the low price, Like truly, it's just like, yeah, it really is just only fans, man, But it is truly just like to the degree that OnlyFans is like, you know, a cult of personality, like you're just paying to have a parasocial relationship with somebody. That feels like a lot of what has gone on with Trump and his supporters in a lot of cases.
Yeah, I feel like.
He's gonna be on what's that one where you can get like a celebrity to give you a shout out cameo cameo Like, I feel like he's gonna hop on cameo with it just all revenue streams.
Yeah, it's just like he's I think, on par for
a lot of people with like that. That is why it's somewhat interesting that the Trump like supporter base, like the body rejected Taylor Swift, because I feel like he's kind of Taylor Swift, like on the level of Taylor Swift, like a religious figure to his supporters who are just kind of willing to do anything for him, and so them seeing that in someone else probably enrages them in the same way that you know, the thing that you have wrong with you is going to really bother you
when you see it on somebody else, you know.
Yeah.
So anyways, shout out to the lovely couple. I hope they made lots of money.
Lots of lots so much money.
Yes, all right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back. Speaking of Valentine's Day, Brian the Editor, I have tiny conversation hearts made by Brocs that my kids brought home from school. I've got one that says sweet, I'm showing it to you in the camera. I'm going to eat it now. I haven't eaten one of these in a long time. I will report back at the end of this story.
Oh man, after you've wrenched your mouth out.
Yeah, wow, it really does.
His eyebrows are going, folks, his eyebrows are going their furrow way.
Just snowing off my face.
Yeah, it really does look like you're eating chalk, just based off of your face alone.
It really is. I think I expect it to be even more crumbly and than it is. It's actually it like hangs together too much. It really is. I think you said this before that it has the consistency of hardened toothpaste and kind of the flavor of hardened toothpaste. That was the experience that I just have combination of
hardened toothpaste and like medicine. It had it like has the flavor of like the bright pink medicine, but not the good ones like there there are sometimes when you can still taste the medicine a little bit too much.
Yeah, it didn't. It didn't.
Just just reading your face, it didn't look like, uh, it didn't look like a good time.
Well, Brian, as you know, I have a masterful poker face. Uh, and it's impossible to tell what I'm thinking or experiencing at any given moment. Brian and Miles are always like, I could tell you weren't a fan of that part of the show. Yeah, and start weeping. Big news in the world of Madam Webb. That viral line where Madam Webb says he was in the Amazon with my mom when she was studying spiders before she died. I think I don't think I got the order right, but that is essentially what is said.
Yeah, yeah, there's something to that effect.
Dude, that's not even in the movie. H he was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died. Is the line that was in the trailer, not in the movie. The movie cuts it down to like, yeah, she was researching spiders or something.
Well, maybe they realized how fucking clunky that line was in that.
They might have film. Yeah, so someone got embarrassed by the fact that this went viral. Instead of being like we've done our job here and now people are talking about Madam Webb, they were like, oh no, that line is bad, which is a bummer, because you, like part of you wants to believe this was some genius who just like has a sense of like that what is going to go viral? But instead it was like somebody being like they don't appreciate my dialogue.
Now you gotta stand on that shit, guys, like you really do. Yeah, people were look, it's like one of.
The few things people were responding to, like lean into the fucking camp yeah, because yeah, because people are not gonna take this movie seriously anyway.
I mean, how could you be embarrassed by that line but still release a movie in which the main character's name is Cassie Webb and like, so her her last I don't know unless like half the movie is spent talking about nominative nominative determinism, Like how are you gonna be like, yeah, no, this movie is not campy enough for that line. But then the character's name is Web and she becomes a superhero that has something to do with spiders.
Well, well, you know what's funny, jack is I think at this point that Sony has to have some somebody with the name of Web associated with a Spider Man film, because the amazing Spider Man and The Amazing Spider Man two were directed by director named Mark Webb.
That's true. I mean, nominative determinism is interesting and it seems to be real in many cases. I just it feels like you couldn't do this movie without that being the explicit subject of the movie. And maybe it is. Maybe I'm missing out on I haven't seen it yet.
Well, can't wait, can't wait to see what other things were excised from the trailer out of embarrassment, pure embarrassment.
If you don't know what nominative determinism is. Usain Bolt was named Usain Bolt at birth and became the fastest man on Earth. That's all you need to know about, you know. It was just like he lived inside a name that suggested he should be incredibly fast and then turned into that. So Cassie Webb, she was just a regular old ambulance driver living inside that that name turned her into. I don't even fucking know.
I don't know what exactly it's supposed.
To happen there in the future, somehow, is she?
Yeah? Is this It's like that Nicholas Cage movie. Next.
I think I think there's some next.
There's some next in there.
Yeah, it's next dish, all right, we want to do our quick check in with the bullshit news stories of the week in case any of these cross to your radar. There was UFO footage that was apparently coming out of Sweden. It looked like a nineteen forties UFO photograph, like, but put into motion.
I don't even understand how a photo this fucking bad exists in twenty twenty four.
What camera did they use? It's so bad?
Well, it was a night vision camera. I don't know. Our writer Jam thought it was pretty convincing looking.
That explains the grain, Okay, yeah.
Unfortunately, like when you do a reverse image search, it is sourced back to a designer on Instagram whose previous posts include mock ups of race cars and Star Wars characters. So it's a three D artist. So I think in motion it looks a little bit better than just the still image, but it had it had some people fold didn't. Didn't hit my radar, but I yeah, I don't think the first thing we hear about UFOs is going to be somebody captured like snapping a pick with their with their phone.
And I don't think UFOs are going to follow popular human conventions of what UFOs are going to look like.
They're going to look like a python. Yes, they are.
Going to look Please move past this, like like, have some fucking imagination, people, Why why would it look like this?
It is a classic UFO. But I mean that is what the people, like the astronaut and the Air Force pilots said they looked like back in the forties when they saw them. Now it seems like people are more likely to see tic TACs.
I've known people who've seen ticktacs orbs, you know, lighter rays, stuff like that. Like my mom saw a tiktak in the hell? Was she early sixties? I guess, oh wow, yeah, and she claims her whole little town saw it, and yeah, spooked people out. So I'm like, I like, you know, I want to believe, Okay, I believe the truth is out there, but not like this, not like this.
Not like this, guys speaking of not like this. That a movie poster was making the rounds for a Clueless reboot June twenty twenty four. Or you've got Don Draper's daughter from Madmen up front, Kiernan Shipka is that it, yeah, looks like And then you got Alicia Silverstone and Paul Rudd in the back, standing next to a pink convertible. The poster could not look more badly, Like it just looks like a child's photoshop project, and like it's like
nothing about it looks real pretty low quality. I don't think this fooled any of our listeners, but it in case you hear, oh did you hear there's a new Clueless movie coming out June twenty twenty four, Uh, there is not. Would love would love to see it, you know, why not? This does not appear to be happening. I do wonder if this was like the studio or the agency, yeah, being like huh, well, I mean people are talking about.
It because I mean, yeah, it's like it's not that, you know, Barbie was a hit. Who's an Who's another affluent, blonde white woman who took the world by storm exactly?
So why not?
Yeah, I mean it's probably coming, but just not like this, as we said up top, and then the Texas megachurch shooter was not a trans woman. There was In case you didn't notice this particular mass shooting, there was on Sunday a shooting at Joel Austin's megachurch in Houston, and a number of right wingers, including Ted Cruz and Donald Trump Junior, promoted the false rummers that the shooter was a trans woman, even though the police themselves plainly stated otherwise.
The shooter had previously used male names as aliases, and that was all they needed. Like Fox News straight up published the claim as fact, even putting it in the headline of their article. And yeah, it's it's been contradicted, and you know, there's absolutely no evidence that it's true. But the right has been doing this desperately, trying to convince people that, you know, the shooter in a big mass shooting is trans, like with Uvalde in twenty twenty two,
I remember that Philadelphia in twenty twenty three. They got a real fixation on this. It's almost like there's some you know, statistic at the core of mass shootings that they don't want to pay attention to, such as that it's almost always males. It's almost always just gender males guys. Yeah, but yeah, or you know, yeah, or like they want to come up with a narrative distraction from the fact that, you know, the real story is that guns should not
be as available as they are. This person had a history that should have made it impossible for them to buy guns, but they had bought an AR fifteen legally that they used in Sunday's shooting.
So well, yeah, what if the King of England comes stomping up to your house?
That's true, then what do we do? Never mind what? I take it all back, I rest my case your honor. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday, February fifteenth. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Whole as Brian, whole ass, Brian the Editor. Where can people find you? Follow you, hear you?
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