Speaker 1: What's going on the internet. And welcome to this afternoon
Speaker 1: edition of the Taco Bell. We're trendermant home. My name
Speaker 1: is Miles. I'm joined with Brian the editor. Hi Brian,
Speaker 1: Hi Miles Man. We're here to tell people things are
Speaker 1: not tense. I know some people think things are tense
Speaker 1: just because the way we're talking to each other. Things
Speaker 1: are not tense at all. It's t wendesdy do you
Speaker 1: even think that? Oh wait, it's not Wednesdays. Damn man,
Speaker 1: I don't even look. I have this typical this is
Speaker 1: the thing. I don't know what day it is. Ever,
Speaker 1: it's Tuesday, July ninth. Okay, twenty twenty four. Here are
Speaker 1: the things that are trending. As the title would allude to,
Speaker 1: there is a new development in the world of Taco Bell.
Speaker 1: They are they're launching a pop up retirement home for
Speaker 1: young people and presumably because eating Taco Bell for your
Speaker 1: whole life will make you prematurely feeble and incontinent, but
Speaker 1: for those of us that just want to be there
Speaker 1: for the vibes, myself included. They're calling it the Canteens
Speaker 1: like the fucking villages in Florida, and it's available to
Speaker 1: Taco Bell members or something reward members over the age
Speaker 1: of twenty one, and there'll be like a you can
Speaker 1: have a stay. There'll be activities like golf, aerobics, pickleball,
Speaker 1: and early bird dinners where you can eat your your
Speaker 1: case ida four thirty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as someone who has briefly been retired or lived
Speaker 2: as a retired person.
Speaker 1: What do you mean by that unemployment?
Speaker 2: Uh No, I just lived life real slow on a
Speaker 2: beach for a year.
Speaker 1: You live people, not moss okay?
Speaker 2: Uh and uh it's I don't know how people live
Speaker 2: like that, like.
Speaker 1: Rinton meat, the same thing over and over and over
Speaker 1: and over and over again.
Speaker 2: It's wild how quick the monotony sets in. So I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: you people won't Is there an age cap on this?
Speaker 1: No, they're not going to experience it because I imagine
Speaker 1: you get a bunch of Taco Bell freak out people together.
Speaker 1: The last thing they're doing is like we should cut
Speaker 1: in early. They're gonna be like, I'm fucking I'm doing
Speaker 1: molly at the pickleball court and I got a three
Speaker 1: layer burrito in my hand. That's what that feels like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, eating dinner at like four point thirty like, I've
Speaker 2: done that, and it's it's tough.
Speaker 1: What the fuck do you do with the rest of
Speaker 1: your doing? But you got to go to bed by seven?
Speaker 1: But get your ass in bed by saying there's nothing
Speaker 1: else to do? What are you a fucking tweaker? Because
Speaker 1: imagine going to bed at seven? I mean, look my
Speaker 1: grandma when she was like a hundred, she was going
Speaker 1: to bed at eight.
Speaker 2: I get when you're like, you're just but I'm like,
Speaker 2: there's this hundred.
Speaker 1: How do we end.
Speaker 2: Up at this culture where the goal is to toil
Speaker 2: for your entire life and not have any fun and
Speaker 2: save all your money to when you're old and you
Speaker 2: can't do shit. Yeah, and then you just post I like,
Speaker 2: I don't like trying it. I'm like, why do people
Speaker 2: do this? Why is this the goal? And why is this?
Speaker 2: Why do people physically.
Speaker 1: Found yourself kind of accidentally living in a retirement community.
Speaker 2: It's basically it was an accident. It wasn't on purpose,
Speaker 2: not like flex and you're like, wow, this crypto No,
Speaker 2: I was still working on But it's just like my
Speaker 2: life was the energy, yeah, the pace, Yeah, it was
Speaker 2: very slow, and it was a lot of old people
Speaker 2: around it's it's.
Speaker 1: Like, look, I love all things Taco Bell, and there's
Speaker 1: something like maybe pressing about this where obviously like everything's
Speaker 1: going to consolidate into like three companies and like conceivably
Speaker 1: we would be living in a Taco Bell retirement home.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, we've all seen Demolition Man. We know
Speaker 2: that franchise, the franchise Wars. We all know about the
Speaker 2: franchise Wars.
Speaker 1: God, that's it's so weird that we're that's probably the
Speaker 1: thing we're closest to and is the franchise Wars. It's like,
Speaker 1: of all the of all the movies, I'm like, they
Speaker 1: had something Marco Brambia bro Yeah, the Shell franchise Wars. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get it. Prescient, prescient. Next thing that's trending Disneyland. Now.
Speaker 1: It turns out that the largest bargaining unit of Disney
Speaker 1: workers in California. That means everybody custodians, ride operators, you
Speaker 1: selling merch whatever. No, that's a different union technically, just
Speaker 1: so you know, that is a different union. They're actually
Speaker 1: in the union. They voted to unionize with Actors Equity
Speaker 1: Association back in the goofy. Also under that bargaining unit,
Speaker 1: any character, okay, or someone who dances in the parades.
Speaker 1: Uh huh. Also Donald Duck union eligible huh mini two okay, alright,
Speaker 1: the whole roster. Like you're like bringing up like ancillary characters,
Speaker 1: the Crows from Dumbo. They're like, well, they weren't the best.
Speaker 1: But what about those racist Beyers? Yeah? Were they racist? Oh?
Speaker 1: In a song of the song on South, Yeah, splash Mountain.
Speaker 1: My shorthand for that is just calling it splash Mountain.
Speaker 1: I have to always remember it's called Song of the South.
Speaker 1: And I called them the Splash Brothers, this bargaining unit.
Speaker 1: They announced today that a strike authorization vote is scheduled
Speaker 1: for Disneyland cast members and the results are expected to
Speaker 1: be announced by July twentieth. This is fourteen thousand workers
Speaker 1: at Disneyland. This is Disneyland, California, Adventure, Downtown Disney, the
Speaker 1: Disney Hotels. They've been in negotiations since April, asking what,
Speaker 1: basically what all workers have been asking for since the
Speaker 1: dawn of capitalism, but especially in our hot union labor
Speaker 1: summers of recent memory. Fair wages, you know, fair attendance policy, seniority, increases,
Speaker 1: safe parks for cast members and guests, that one's a
Speaker 1: little bit like whoa you're advocating for the yes now
Speaker 1: is a n like these places need to be safe
Speaker 1: for the guests too. The guests, well right now, I
Speaker 1: mean the thing that they've definitely filed unfair labor practices
Speaker 1: is things like they can't wear like their union pins
Speaker 1: at work, or they're being intimidated like very normal, you know,
Speaker 1: clamping down on workplace unionizing kind of stuff. But this
Speaker 1: is what the one of the spokespeople from the bargaining
Speaker 1: committee had said, quote, we won't accept less than what
Speaker 1: we deserve because we know our value to Disney. The
Speaker 1: theme parks profits come from our hard work making a
Speaker 1: trip to Disneyland a magical experience for guests. By undermining
Speaker 1: our rights, Disney has only made harder our fight to
Speaker 1: help our guests and keep our parks safe, which is
Speaker 1: why we are compelled to take a vote next week
Speaker 1: on whether to authorize a strike after our contract expired.
Speaker 1: With this strike authorization vote, we will ensure Disney hears
Speaker 1: Disneyland's cast members voices. Damn they I don't think you
Speaker 1: can hand a little fucking strike that you like that
Speaker 1: that that ship runs on fucking cast member labor. So
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I'd imagine this will be solved quickly. I
Speaker 1: don't think Disneyland is that gangster with it. I know Disneyland,
Speaker 1: Disney is a company, is quite cheap, but I guess
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, you're just gonna get a
Speaker 1: bunch of You're gonna get a bunch of scabs in
Speaker 1: to bring the magic. I mean they probably would, but damn,
Speaker 1: that would be fucking wild to say, like you need
Speaker 1: an entire hotel staff, you need entire people to run
Speaker 1: downtown Disney like, and it's not like a factory or something.
Speaker 1: It's like there's a way to do things, like you
Speaker 1: can't be like, oh yeah, where'd you work before? It's like,
Speaker 1: oh I was a scabbin at the John Deere factory.
Speaker 1: It's like, great, well, you're in charge of doing Rise
Speaker 1: of the Resistance and launching all the rides safely and that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and ay ruining the magic, which is I assume
Speaker 2: a skill.
Speaker 1: Well, they just grimmed to think of like how expensive
Speaker 1: Disneyland is and how much people still like covet Like
Speaker 1: the Disneyland Fan only trip is sort of like the place,
Speaker 1: like the way to spend all of your hard earned
Speaker 1: money and then just having that with the backdrop of this,
Speaker 1: like this kind of unfair labor shit is very American.
Speaker 1: So again, much success to the Disney Workers Rising Bargaining Committee.
Speaker 1: I hope you get what you are owed and you
Speaker 1: get a fair contract. All right, let's take a break.
Speaker 1: We'll come right back to talk about some other stuff
Speaker 1: right after this, and we're back NASA. I want to
Speaker 1: talk about NASA. We're going to talk about Gladiator too.
Speaker 1: Don't worry, Brian, we are going to talk about Gladiator
Speaker 1: the trailer. But I did want to talk about this
Speaker 1: because I know you're you're a man of science. You
Speaker 1: like science stuff, and I do too. I like space stuff,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if you remember, like a little
Speaker 1: over a year ago, NASA was like, we are looking
Speaker 1: for people to pretend they're on Mars for a fucking
Speaker 1: years straight, no contact. You are in this fucking simulated
Speaker 1: Mars base because we need to understand what will happen
Speaker 1: to the human brain, the human body with certain effects.
Speaker 1: So it was called the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog.
Speaker 1: It just ended and this was where four crew members.
Speaker 1: I believe it's an engineer, an emergency room doctor, a nurse,
Speaker 1: and I believe another chief scientist. I believe I may
Speaker 1: have messed up one of those roles. Anyway. They live
Speaker 1: in a quote three D printed habitat with a twelve
Speaker 1: hundred square foot Mars like sandbox where they'll perform simulated missions.
Speaker 1: It's the longest analog that NASA has ever attempted. I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, but like, it's not space like, so
Speaker 1: you're not going to get that part. And then as
Speaker 1: I read more about it, I understand what they're saying.
Speaker 1: They needed. NASA basically wanted to learn how to establish
Speaker 1: possible conditions for future Mars operations and also, wait, where
Speaker 1: is the quote I was looking for? Also investigate how
Speaker 1: factors like die it available to astronauts might affect their
Speaker 1: immune systems, and how isolation might affect their health as well,
Speaker 1: and controlling the control of the crew's diets, environment and activities,
Speaker 1: the research team can understand how all these different factors
Speaker 1: affect each other. I turned, it didn't end with them
Speaker 1: killing each other?
Speaker 2: So where did they Where did they they had to
Speaker 2: simulate a barren wasteland?
Speaker 1: Where did they Where did this experiment take place?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: And in Houston Texas.
Speaker 2: Baby, Oh that makes that great space center.
Speaker 1: Well they're not even outside though. If you look like that,
Speaker 1: that barren wasteland of Mars is like a completely controlled
Speaker 1: tented with like printed on graphics to give you the
Speaker 1: feeling of Mars or someone's weird apartment with a lot
Speaker 1: of sand on the floor. It's really into a Mars aesthetic.
Speaker 2: Just somebody somebody who has like seven cats, and they
Speaker 2: just don't know how to keep that shit clean.
Speaker 1: Literally literally, maamn, bro it's fishy and here what the
Speaker 1: fuck is going on? But yeah, they it ended. It
Speaker 1: sounded like it was great. Uh. The doctor that was
Speaker 1: part of the mission said that flew by fast. Another
Speaker 1: one of the participants who was like the scientist said,
Speaker 1: it's like, wow, just hello quote, it's actually just so
Speaker 1: wonderful to be able to say hello to you all.
Speaker 1: So they came out all right. The thing I didn't
Speaker 1: know was that, like the other part is that to
Speaker 1: simulate it, their only contact with the outside world was
Speaker 1: through like a twenty two minute delayed like comms unit,
Speaker 1: which makes sense because that's how long it would take
Speaker 1: to transmit the messages. But I was like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: do you have a conversation then like, what's the if
Speaker 1: you just probably have to get it all out in
Speaker 1: one go and then wait, it's probably more like email
Speaker 1: like because you can't just be like.
Speaker 2: Yes up, yeah, you can't just be flipp it with
Speaker 2: your nothing with you nothing chilling on Mars.
Speaker 1: I'm waiting for them to respond, hopefully they think that's cool.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't have much success to figuring out
Speaker 1: how to live on Mars. Will it work? I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we won't see it.
Speaker 2: But fine, I mean, yeah, this is a very important
Speaker 2: thing that you have to sort of understand and lock
Speaker 2: down for long term space flight, is are these motherfuckers
Speaker 2: going to get space madness and kill each other? Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a very big concern before you even get to
Speaker 2: the physics of being.
Speaker 1: In space getting shipped there.
Speaker 2: It's like, can we lock four people in a tin
Speaker 2: can and sh it's going to be chill?
Speaker 1: But it's like, isn't it hard? When you know? It's like, bro,
Speaker 1: if I really wanted to get like, if I was
Speaker 1: really starting a bug out, they would probably let me out,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like the missions of failure,
Speaker 1: They're like, no, you're gonna have to deal with someone's
Speaker 1: violent outrages because they've they've they've succumbed to the experiment.
Speaker 2: It'd be funny if somebody did get space madness in
Speaker 2: Houston and.
Speaker 1: They're just like, they're like, hey, man, sorry, man, just
Speaker 1: deal with them. Man, that's murders. Everybody with a murdered,
Speaker 1: everybody with a space ax. Yeah, it becomes like the
Speaker 1: New Stanford Prison experiment. Yeah, like analog and you're like, dude,
Speaker 1: that's not dude, we have to stop it after fourteen days.
Speaker 1: But yeah, cool, Uh would you do something like that?
Speaker 1: I mean, I love the Moen younger.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when I was younger, I might have been interested
Speaker 2: in something like this. Yeah, but I'm I'm a creature
Speaker 2: of habit and unless they're gonna let me bring my
Speaker 2: steam deck and some weed to Mars, like, I'm really
Speaker 2: not interested.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, they have weed on Mars. It's kind
Speaker 1: of it's kind of booty the weed kind of it sucks,
Speaker 1: but it's there. Yeah that I Meanwhile, they're like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, engineer Brian, we needed you to sort out
Speaker 1: how to grow crops on Mars, and it looks like
Speaker 1: you're curing a bunch of cannabis. It's like, yeah, got
Speaker 1: a pretty good yield, like three pounds off of these plants,
Speaker 1: so yeah, it would be good for a little bit.
Speaker 1: She last me a while. Next up Gladiator too, Gladiator
Speaker 1: to colon chronic shirtlessness, chronic shirtlessness and screaming. The trailer
Speaker 1: it's mostly shirtless dudes like that are either bloodied or
Speaker 1: sweaty's just going aah like with like fucking epic you know,
Speaker 1: trailer music behind.
Speaker 2: And as we know, shirtless dudes sweating and yelling is
Speaker 2: a draw for dudes, a lot of dudes. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: like like the the the beauty standard for men is
Speaker 2: enforced entirely by men.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, women are like very forgiving, like with looks.
Speaker 1: Dudes like you better look like joked Maximus mixed with
Speaker 1: fucking leonitis, dude, or get the fuck out you soy
Speaker 1: sponge man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so all the ancient Rome, ancient Greek dudes, all
Speaker 2: the uh you know, like I picture a lot of
Speaker 2: Joe Rogan fans going to see this.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, I mean look, I'm no Joe Rogan fan,
Speaker 1: but I'm this looks like a fucking spectacle. It looks
Speaker 1: like Gladiator with way more money. And there were some
Speaker 1: pretty gigantic battle scenes. This looks like some pretty gigantic
Speaker 1: battle scenes. I don't think this is gonna be good.
Speaker 1: But you got Denzel Washington. That's the one thing where
Speaker 1: my white man be my instrument.
Speaker 2: I'm like with Denzel because he's he's gotten to a
Speaker 2: well what's it? Okay, here's here's a question, Miles. Has
Speaker 2: Denzel ever acted? Not like Denzel? No, he's like even
Speaker 2: the category of movie star. Like I know, I know
Speaker 2: he's a good actor, but when you look at him
Speaker 2: in movies, he just he's he's never his character, like
Speaker 2: I don't know the name.
Speaker 1: No, it's just the characters that he plays. It's just
Speaker 1: Denzel Glory. Is Denzel in a Union Civil War outfit?
Speaker 1: Virtual Denzel like a pilot uniform virtuosity, He's like a
Speaker 1: cop fighting Russell whoa Russell Crowe virtuosity?
Speaker 2: Huh interesting, he's and but but in training day he's
Speaker 2: a bad, bad cop because he wears a beanie.
Speaker 1: He got a little Scully on, so you don't know
Speaker 1: what he's up to. And he smokes cigarettes. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: there he is. Gladiator too. Got to see it, should
Speaker 1: love it? Really, Scott, just go rest On your lourels, man,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? I honestly, it's funny. I really
Speaker 1: stopped checking out with really Scott after Gladiator, and.
Speaker 2: It's funny like hearing you checking him after Prometheus. That
Speaker 2: movie was so baffling. Why don't they just make the
Speaker 2: Aliens come to Earth? Am I the only one waiting
Speaker 2: for the aliens and alien to come to Earth? I
Speaker 2: want to see little Xeno mor running around a cul
Speaker 2: de sac.
Speaker 1: That's what kind of made the Drastic World the sequel wild,
Speaker 1: when that t Rex was busting up San Diego. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which I'm like.
Speaker 2: Dude, they keep making the same, essentially the same movie,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, dude, you originated this shit, and you're
Speaker 2: just you just reh old shit.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't get it. That's where everyone's resting
Speaker 1: on their laurels, as it were. But anyway, Gladiator to
Speaker 1: Shirtless Boogoloo coming to a theater soon and then finally
Speaker 1: Texas Spectrum is trending because Spectrum the second I believe,
Speaker 1: the second largest provider for Internet in the state of Texas.
Speaker 1: As of this recording, the entire Internet in the state
Speaker 1: from Spectrum has gone out like their service has gone out. Yah,
Speaker 1: you get better internet on Mars actually probably yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean shit, I'll take a twenty two minute delay, like
Speaker 1: even if it is something, because it is at least
Speaker 1: it's delayed, it means it's working. But yeah, this is
Speaker 1: obviously fallout from Hurricane Barrel. And yeah, I hope, I hope.
Speaker 1: I mean people have cell phones, so I guess they
Speaker 1: can kind of do something. They won't be totally bored.
Speaker 1: A lot of the memes that people are like posting,
Speaker 1: they're like it's like, fucking uh, what's that? What's that show?
Speaker 1: Little House on the Prairie, Like they're like, wow, Texas,
Speaker 1: right now, everybody's in the in the pre internet world.
Speaker 1: I think it'll be okay, but you expectrum. God, this
Speaker 1: is what happens when it's like you only got two
Speaker 1: fucking companies everywhere you go to do shit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty it's pretty wild how long this is
Speaker 2: been allowed to go on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have this ridiculous duopoly. Like I like that
Speaker 1: one guy said, I said a doctor's appointment, but they
Speaker 1: couldn't build me because their spectrum Internet is down. They'll
Speaker 1: figure that part out. They're likeye, don't worry, We're still
Speaker 1: going to make sure you pay us that money even
Speaker 1: though our internet's down. We'll do it on paper. So anyway,
Speaker 1: those are the things that are trending. Oh but quickly,
Speaker 1: will you watch Gladiator too? Just on the record.
Speaker 2: Uh, that is something I'm gonna skip in the theater
Speaker 2: and I will snatch it out of the air.
Speaker 1: Yep. That one scene though, when they were filling up
Speaker 1: the coliseum with water and then doing like ship battles
Speaker 1: that folk, that was cool to my like brain. I
Speaker 1: was like, dude, there's like a big bathtub and then
Speaker 1: but people, then they put sharks in it where they
Speaker 1: get sharks. Don't fucking you don't got to worry about that.
Speaker 1: Baby's Gladiator this show. These are Roman sharks that were chilling,
Speaker 1: And don't worry about what kind of irrigation system they
Speaker 1: had to flood the fucking base of the coliseum to
Speaker 1: turn it into some kind of ocean simulator.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna
Speaker 2: just wait on this one, and you're.
Speaker 1: Gonna watch it to wait till I text you and
Speaker 1: I go, bro this ship the first scene it because
Speaker 1: you know, the first thing's gonna be fucking stupid. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be some kind it's gonna be an absolute fucking spectacle.
Speaker 1: Not to again, not that it's the movie's gonna be good,
Speaker 1: but I'm like, damn, that's a funk. I spent a
Speaker 1: lot of money.
Speaker 2: I will it will admit it does look pretty wild,
Speaker 2: like there's a.
Speaker 1: Lot of shit going on. Like there was a like
Speaker 1: is there a Maximus exhibit at the museum, because at
Speaker 1: one point there's like, oh, this is Maximus's ship and
Speaker 1: it was like mounted on a wall like he was
Speaker 1: like like Michael Jordan or some shit, like a oh
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I was like a little shrine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know it's that part, but I was really
Speaker 2: more I was like, oh it zel, Like I just
Speaker 2: love that. He didn't even attempt a goofy accent. They
Speaker 2: just gave him a caesar and a couple of earrings and.
Speaker 1: He did like a dude from Brooklyn and he just yeah,
Speaker 1: he sounded like he was like from like he somehow
Speaker 1: has cigarette. He has like somehow has a cigarette that's
Speaker 1: even this pre cigarette like modern day cigaret. He's got
Speaker 1: a lucky strike, Yeah, just one behind his ear. Someone
Speaker 1: posted like a thing of him and said my Gladiator,
Speaker 1: and it's pretty much what we are going to see,
Speaker 1: but one of our great actors. All right, anyway, that's
Speaker 1: gonna do it for us. We will be back tomorrow
Speaker 1: with a brand new episode. Until then, take care of yourselves,
Speaker 1: take care of each other. You wear a mask at
Speaker 1: the vaccine. Don't you know about white supremacy? And we'll
Speaker 1: be back to talk about all kinds of sheet tomorrow later,
Speaker 1: but