Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of friend BA opening Zeite. Mama, there go that man, Mama, there goes that podcaster. Ah that short show titled courtesy of one Miles Gray. Yeah, we still got it.
Ben yamaban Yama, he's gonna. I can't wait just seeing You saw that clip of Kevin Garnett and Paul Piers talking about him.
No, 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, don't know, He's like and he's seven five.
Yeah, he's got lable eight foot wingspan, seven foot five. I think the video that made me. We've talked about him before, but the seven foot five number one draft pick in the NBA. Uh French guy Victor wemben Yama, who has looked incredible in the preseason games, and I just saw a video of him like stretching. That was the one that. Yeah. Super producer Jabbari of our NBA show Miles and Jack on mat Boost, he sent over a stretching video. He's he's the flexible he is Limber,
Limbert Limbert. He yeah, he so that makes me feel better about his durability. Yeah yeah. The NBA season opens up with Lakers v. The defending champ Nuggets and who else? We got got the Suns, the the how you say, Golden State Warriors? Yep, yep. So exciting night of basketball, exciting week. I can't wait to watch webbing 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, Bill Simmons, like the probably the most famous, like you know, person covering the NBA. NBA writer was like, yeah, Wembiyama is an interesting wrinkle, like interesting rink 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, yeah, just put I get it. You're you're worried that your boy Jalen can't go left this season, so you're gonna cast his pursions on Victor web.
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 I'm going to get excited and I have given given myself fully over to my childlike wonder when the victory Webbin, Yuma.
Honestly know what, 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 Webbin. You're excited and happy about him on y'all let him live, let us be excited.
Yeah yeah, but anyways, very very interesting time for the trend b A on this opening site. I'm Jack, that's Miles. Here are 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 this works, if this is real, but there is a TikTok video that has millions of views where someone switches their mouth with cranberry juice spit out uh, and it looks like there's like stuff in the dish and then they pour yeah, pure alcohol on it, and the whatever's in the dish starts like squirming around.
Seventy percent ISO. Shout out to my people out there maintaining glass pieces. You know, you keep the ISO on you. But the narration or like the it's a parent with a child, so let's set the table here, and he's saying that, 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 isoprobe 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 one 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 medical 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, that's just what is going on in your mouth is the person who uploaded the video.
Yeah, and also I believe refers to themselves as a surveillance pro.
Cool.
Yeah, so again a lot of question marks here. Not exactly a science guy.
But 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 pleas 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 square around or like react weirdly by just pouring various substances on things. And famously, on a Friday at night, you're you're very known for doing that.
Pouring various oblish substances on me, I will start moving way like a bug.
Very Yeah, Taco Bell, their battle to free the Taco Tuesday trademark is officially over. They have been victorious. Wow, Taco Tuesday is free. Did we talk about 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, 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 bellm savvy move t Bell, and they just freed it in the last state.
So this is Oh, you don't think the United States is progressive? Come on, well, look at this Now you can say Taco Tuesday at any party, any bar you want, you know. So yes, every new 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 and had been for forty years. I can understand how Gregory's Restaurant and Bar would feel a certain type of way, have a little bit of
pride about being on the Taco Tuesday thing forty years ago. Yeah. Yeah, forty years before Lebron James was making it a big deal, Gregory was on that shit. You mean Gregory.
Gregory of Gregory's Bar and Grill. Of course, his name is Gregory Gregory.
That that has to be Miles. I think this is one of those AI replacing copy editors things. Conner Gregory, Gregory.
Summer's Point, New Jersey, Gregory Gregory, his fight Wow. His name is Gregory's greg greg Wow, Gregory greg.
You can't just put that in an article without commenting on its Conor Gregory Gregory, whose name is not a typo, played it looking like one's Gregory Gregory. Yeah, but double G, said Tago Tuesday brought a lot of pride over the past forty years. Relinquishing the trademark registration doesn't change that, but it does allow others in New Jersey the same opportunity to build their own tradition and helped spread Taco Tuesdays throughout New Jersey. Yeah, so it is.
Well because initially there are articles being like, here's the here's the guy fighting Taco Bell by himself, and it is like it's a David and Goliath thing. But really, when you're like, now, like they they went after a fucking Taco John's, 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 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 will 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 you know what Gregory look maybe yeah, I get it.
Oh yeah, man, those tacos look dry. Shitz dry. Sounds like a nice thing has been done for the people of New Jersey. Gregory, Gregory looks exactly like you'd expect. Seventy percent of the men in the state of New Jersey.
Yeah, who are retired hops and started at a bar and grill.
That's right, All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back. We're back, And the switch witch is causing a little bit of controversy. We're we are just digging into all of the top controversies on the internet. Yeah, you got your free taco Tuesday, you got your Cranberry juice challenge. The switch witch, which
is not a sandwich. Not a sandwich. Fortunately, if you thought it was just taking your switch and putting it between two pieces of bread, because that Nintendo's right, Yeah, you're Nintendo.
Or if you had an elderly grandmother, who would you know, hit you and switch to there's that too.
But anyway, that's where we've moved on. This is now, this is the Halloween tradition that parents are doing. Where it's from. Like a couple from Utah recently went viral for promoting the switch witch on social media. The idea is your kid gets to 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 one 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, 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 pillow case 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 Yeah, you know, going getting into trigger treating, It's uh, I don't know. My kids aren't like that into candy, but they still get very motivated to get as much candy as they possibly can and like hit as many doors and they've begun sprinting from from house to house quantity, not quality quantity. But it's so this
is apparently been going on for a long time. It it's very 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 it is a reason for buying more things, right, yeah, truly.
And there's like you don't need a doll for the again, sure, 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 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 the the idea of like and you get toy for candy feels.
Yeah, just 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 mm hmm, 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 can of 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 throught out exactly. They are selling like switch which toy 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, yeah the whole time. But the switch, which is just an extra toy to own, So that and the and then that toy then produces more toys, like a gremlin that you got wet after minute. Yeah, 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 Measter that you put up?
The fuck is that?
It's gonna 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 at Dwayne Johnson with just 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 eye 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 palist Dwayne john Smoover. So it's being uh changed.
Huh. Yeah, they're gonna The Rock noticed that it was going viral and was like, we're gonna reach out to them and see if we can't. Did you see the.
Lil Wayne one No that came out recently. Oh my god, it is so bad.
Dude.
He has one that's gonna be in a 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 people say to look like there's like all kinds of threats talking about how who he actually looks like, and none of them are a 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 do, you know, like draw litl Wayne from memory or some shit.
Yeah. Like this article where they're talking about like going in and fixing it has just like 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 reach out to see what we can do about that's just so just so wild.
Like, also, none of are any of these people like people of color, because I feel like You're first thing would be like I think we're nailing to me what I think is important.
About this guy too? Right?
Sure, it's this vague smile, oh so difficult to execute.
They have like there's a picture in the Washington Post article about them updating it showing painter Frank Bruno painting on his tattoo. And Frank Bruno is a white man, and he.
Will now be in charge of making him the painted man. That's they called Morgan Freeman and Robin Hood.
Oh yeah, they did call him that the painted man. All right, Cruz, 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 people were fucking in the autonomous taxis?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah.
Well, now, the one of the companies that has been operating in San Francisco twenty four hours a day, seven days of 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.
Oh 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 sprawled along at seven miles an hour for about twenty feet, then came to a final stop. The pedestrian remained under the car the whole time. No, 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 at nerd 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, because the because it's the one with the like spinny camera on top.
Right, it's got all kinds of yeah, I don't know, yeah, but yeah, they got all kinds of sensors, and Whack could do things.
Wack could do stuff just so you can get run over. Nah, yeah, run over and then dragged across concrete, literally dragged over concrete. All right, those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, October twenty fourth, the happy one week until Halloween. Wow, it'll be get ready to get get get your switch witches ready, folks.
Yeah, oh wow, I'm gonna have a wow. I'm not have ideas now, Okay.
All right, we're back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourself, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supriacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye bye,