Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Taco
Speaker 1: Bell AI zite Throughs Taco trend. Naha, fine, it was fine,
Speaker 1: It was fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do it live. You said you'd do it live
Speaker 2: and then you bailed on it.
Speaker 1: So so mad at this teleprompter.
Speaker 3: These words to confuse me. I'm jah that's Miles.
Speaker 1: Wait wait so I'm supposed to like read it and
Speaker 1: say it at the same time.
Speaker 3: Ah, no reference to an old Bill O'Reilly video. Bill
Speaker 3: O'Reilly was.
Speaker 4: Uh, Tucker Carlson before Tucker Carlson, was Tucker Carlson before
Speaker 4: Jesse Waters, before Jesse Waters. I could care less about
Speaker 4: Bill O'Reilly struggling. I want to talk to you about
Speaker 4: Taco Bell because they just announced they're rolling out their
Speaker 4: AI drive throughs two hundreds of Taco Bell locations by
Speaker 4: the end of the year, which is weird timing because
Speaker 4: the last time we checked in on AI drive throughs,
Speaker 4: McDonald's had rolled them out to hundreds.
Speaker 1: You know, it was a number. I it was more
Speaker 1: more than I had expected. At this early stage, they
Speaker 1: had already tried it and were scrapping it because it
Speaker 1: just kept fucking up.
Speaker 5: Kept the tripping as they that's the new way. It's
Speaker 5: not hallucinating, it's the add It is tripping again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, drive through.
Speaker 1: When they're doing like search engine like general intelligence work,
Speaker 1: they call it hallucinations. Put it drive through, man, it's tripping.
Speaker 5: The reviews are terrible, Like it can't modify orders without
Speaker 5: just completely fucking up your order. Like someone said I
Speaker 5: want two chicken ciders at a different one and like
Speaker 5: then like but purposely told the AI three and then
Speaker 5: tried to fix it. So I said, I want three, Actually,
Speaker 5: can I get two? And then instead the AI added
Speaker 5: a fourth yea, and in two order of chicken rings.
Speaker 3: Chicken ring.
Speaker 2: This is the thing.
Speaker 5: My order at Taco Bell pretty fucking convoluted, especially because
Speaker 5: there are menu items.
Speaker 2: I like to go off menu. I like to modify.
Speaker 5: So shout out to the human beings that I talk
Speaker 5: to currently who know what I'm putting down. When I
Speaker 5: say I need that cheesy roll up at Picohead Beef
Speaker 5: and then I get my hacked MEXI melt.
Speaker 1: But yeah, well done, extra well done. Leave it on
Speaker 1: the burner a little extra longer. I need a human
Speaker 1: to tell this too, you know, otherwise gets fucked up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not saving anything with this.
Speaker 1: Like, have you had a an experience with an AI
Speaker 1: assistant with a like AI, you know, like on the
Speaker 1: phone on like a you know, automated phone tree.
Speaker 3: Dancers, an experience the answers.
Speaker 1: Has impressed you in any way or made you feel like, oh,
Speaker 1: we've made a leap forward.
Speaker 3: No, right, absolutely not. I have not.
Speaker 1: Like I'll tell y'all, I'll be like, wow, I actually
Speaker 1: had a good one. It seems like they did, like
Speaker 1: may like incorporate some of the promise of AI into
Speaker 1: these things. It's not happened yet. It's just a fucking
Speaker 1: mess and it's a lot of like operator operator, like
Speaker 1: I try, I tried.
Speaker 5: Representative. Yes, it's like yeah, no, They're like, you didn't
Speaker 5: say that. I'm like, yes, I did, mother, what how
Speaker 5: did it say? You didn't you didn't say that?
Speaker 1: You didn't say that? Frustrated everything? Okay at home a
Speaker 1: little bitch, Like whoa what the little But anyways, Tago
Speaker 1: Bell isn't alone. White Castle also also recently expanded its
Speaker 1: AI drive through system with a bot named Julia. And
Speaker 1: once they name it, you know it's going to be good. Yeah, supposedly,
Speaker 1: they're like this one's more accurate than humans.
Speaker 2: And that's the one that fucked up the chicken.
Speaker 1: The yeah, yeah that was that was uh yeah, Julie
Speaker 1: No was fucking that up.
Speaker 5: The fun too is also like being silly, not like
Speaker 5: you know, harassing someone at the AI thing, but just
Speaker 5: being stupid, like flirting sometimes. I remember doing that in
Speaker 5: high school. There was like this one Taco Bell by
Speaker 5: my high school where like like the I love the
Speaker 5: voice of the woman at the drive to I'm like, oh, hey,
Speaker 5: how you doing And they're like, yeah, what's your order?
Speaker 2: I'm like, you know what I'm about to get. They're like,
Speaker 2: I don't know who you are. Like I would always
Speaker 2: try to be like you know.
Speaker 3: It's me, you know it just tell me orders.
Speaker 2: Bad, my bad, my back.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: I don't mean to waste your time.
Speaker 3: There has been so.
Speaker 1: We've been talking about AI a lot over the past
Speaker 1: couple of years. Maybe too much, some would say, and
Speaker 1: specifically you know the fact that AI is not where
Speaker 1: they claim it is. It can do some very specific
Speaker 1: things really well, but in terms of like the general intelligence,
Speaker 1: it seems like it's a lot of hype that isn't
Speaker 1: really headed anywhere, and We have raised the question of
Speaker 1: of like because a lot of like Wall Street value
Speaker 1: is pumped up by people's excitement about AI in the
Speaker 1: past couple like three years, even like they've been like
Speaker 1: you know that Google has like a massive AI component
Speaker 1: to their market valuation. The past week, there's been a
Speaker 1: lot of talk that the AI bubble is about to
Speaker 1: burst on Wall Street, and we've been wondering when that
Speaker 1: was gonna happen, because how.
Speaker 2: Do I someone who knows Wall Street? How do who
Speaker 2: do I? Who do I bet on? Here?
Speaker 3: You do a big short?
Speaker 1: You're gonna want to a big short the one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna need a million dollars laying around, And what
Speaker 1: you're gonna want to do is you're gonna want to
Speaker 1: short the thing.
Speaker 5: I got a best Buy gift card that's got at
Speaker 5: least twenty three bucks on it.
Speaker 2: Still take that at Wall Street.
Speaker 3: That's the start.
Speaker 1: What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna transfer you over
Speaker 1: to one of my analysts who's gonna deal with you.
Speaker 5: Can you spot me nine hundred ninety nine thousand, nine hundred.
Speaker 1: Ninety can it transfer you over to one of my
Speaker 1: automated analysts who is gonna take it from here.
Speaker 2: Hey, Julia, I got someone for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, she's here too.
Speaker 2: You want three chicken rings?
Speaker 3: Fuck? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But Wall Street investors have started to run out of patients,
Speaker 1: according to this independent article, which I guess that's what
Speaker 1: it's going to.
Speaker 2: Look like, grand opening, grand clothing.
Speaker 1: There's a wild story out of New Zealand. A family
Speaker 1: went to see Despicable Me for and snuck in some
Speaker 1: snack baggage from home containing popcorn and candy.
Speaker 3: I don't know, you.
Speaker 5: Mean bringing your own shit from the house to save money?
Speaker 5: That yeah, that time honor tradition side.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I've like I guess there have
Speaker 1: been some times when I haven't planned well enough. But
Speaker 1: anytime that I think to do it and have the
Speaker 1: time to like put the snacks in the bags, a
Speaker 1: burger in my pocket, yeah, yeah, of course.
Speaker 5: I sometimes the food like I'm like already, like I
Speaker 5: don't wanty popcorn or fucking old nachos, Like I'm bringing
Speaker 5: a hamburger.
Speaker 2: I'm bringing a burrito in there.
Speaker 1: I'm going to a movie hungry, and then like you just.
Speaker 3: Have to like fill up eat that crab.
Speaker 1: No, I feel like but anyways, a theater employee spotted them.
Speaker 1: Spotted the family asked them to put the food away.
Speaker 1: They agreed, but the employee didn't believe them and insisted
Speaker 1: on sitting next to them to monitor the snack situation.
Speaker 1: So we're starting off aggressive here. Feels like a bit much.
Speaker 1: Then one of the kids ate a skittle that was
Speaker 1: already in their hand, according to the family, and the
Speaker 1: employee started shouting and the kids started crying the fuck.
Speaker 2: This is so not New Zealand vibes.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm like then, in New Zealand, people are
Speaker 1: this hype about Despicable me for But the article doesn't
Speaker 1: say how everyone else in the theater responded to this,
Speaker 1: But I can't imagine. They were having a good time
Speaker 1: at the movies. So, according to the family, one of
Speaker 1: the kids asked, if you're calling the police, are they
Speaker 1: going to kill my mom? The employee laughed and said, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe we'll find out, which is kind of I guess.
Speaker 1: I don't know, hard to believe for New Zealand, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it means like mom, so it has to be real.
Speaker 2: This is man, Were these people of color too?
Speaker 5: This feels like the kind of ship, like, you know,
Speaker 5: like people of color, get policed on. But you're like, uh,
Speaker 5: did you see the person who brought in a whole pizza?
Speaker 5: Right yet them they're like I this was like a
Speaker 5: sweet nose smint. That's my uncle okay, and he's chill.
Speaker 5: He knows how to be discreet with his.
Speaker 1: They were taken to the lobby where four cops showed up,
Speaker 1: and yeah, it just seems seems like a lot. I
Speaker 1: am definitely somebody who will bring in smuggling whatever I
Speaker 1: think I can get away with.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I remember like as a kid too, Like
Speaker 5: sometimes there would be like a kid who would do
Speaker 5: like a like everyone, we're gonna go see this out.
Speaker 5: And we went to go see Golden Eye, the James
Speaker 5: Bond movie in the theater and my friend Jeff, her mom,
Speaker 5: his mom put like one gallon ziploc bags filled with
Speaker 5: ship for us.
Speaker 2: Like I remember so vivid im like.
Speaker 3: All this gallon.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like Barb Barb came through with the two Caprice sons,
Speaker 5: a Dorito's bag, the little cheese crackers with the peanut butter.
Speaker 5: I remember so vividly because like, yo, I'm this is
Speaker 5: better than fucking anything I could have got at the
Speaker 5: concession stand and that was just that was the norm growing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I respect it, and I don't know, like I
Speaker 1: guess movie theaters make all their money from food and
Speaker 1: cinemas are going through a hard time.
Speaker 3: But yeah, but wanting to stop moving in that direction.
Speaker 3: Sorry he does not and.
Speaker 2: Maybe make better movies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and don't fucking don't.
Speaker 2: When my family of four for brick sneaky and skittles, it's.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, don't freaking like kid eats the fucking skittle.
Speaker 1: That feels like it feels like you are a seven
Speaker 1: year old in that family.
Speaker 3: Yeah, behave They were like no.
Speaker 1: We said no, We said, mom, no, you can't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to.
Speaker 2: Such pedantic asshole ship man.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, some people shouldn't be given a small amount
Speaker 1: of power because they can't.
Speaker 2: Can't you know what, I'm gonna sit right here.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, shut up. All right, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break and we'll be back. And we're back.
Speaker 3: And Lil YACHTI, oh my god, just said never.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's just play that.
Speaker 5: I've never felt so fucking old, like the old head
Speaker 5: take incoming. This is Little Yachty talking about the first
Speaker 5: time he listened to Jay Z's Black album.
Speaker 3: I'm surprised you didn't say jay Z.
Speaker 2: It seems like most rappers always want at least I
Speaker 2: just like I listened to a Black album for the
Speaker 2: first time, like three days ago.
Speaker 3: God, dam and God. You just heard the Black album?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just listened to it. What do you think
Speaker 2: has I think that the reasonable that album was better?
Speaker 2: In my opinion?
Speaker 1: Obviously I love He's insane.
Speaker 5: There is this yeah, oh yeah, name name another album
Speaker 5: that you just didn't listen to a few days ago. Now,
Speaker 5: I don't look this is I think this is like
Speaker 5: a thing that a lot of older hip hop fans
Speaker 5: talk about how these this younger generation of rappers like
Speaker 5: like we were sort of raised on understanding It's like
Speaker 5: for me to appreciate hip hop, like I'm gonna need
Speaker 5: to listen to KRS one, Big Daddy Kane, like the
Speaker 5: Beastie Boys, l cool, like I have to. I have
Speaker 5: to understand the foundational elements of like hey pop to
Speaker 5: be like a true fan. And this sort of take
Speaker 5: is now like really cementing, I think with older hip
Speaker 5: hop bands because they see a lot of these younger
Speaker 5: artists who have like never listened to like some of
Speaker 5: like what we consider seminal rap albums, right this motherfucker.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. And yeah, it's just like
Speaker 2: wild too.
Speaker 1: For like snipher Beat, they're wrapping over the sipeher beating
Speaker 1: this mob deep song exactly.
Speaker 2: No, that's not what's happening.
Speaker 5: But like it is interesting, I think because so many
Speaker 5: people like if you are carrying the torch for hip hop,
Speaker 5: like at least like understand where it's going. But again,
Speaker 5: this is I think inevitable with any genre art form changing,
Speaker 5: like it's they are doing what their version is. You're
Speaker 5: gonna have plenty of mcs who still respect like or
Speaker 5: you know, are interested in like the Joey Badasses and
Speaker 5: things like that, who are really kind of looking back
Speaker 5: and like, oh, this was like a golden era, like
Speaker 5: something you'd be inspired by, not necessarily to emulate, but
Speaker 5: just to know that's where the art form like was
Speaker 5: at a certain point. But yeah, like this is causing
Speaker 5: a lot of story on Twitter, people are like.
Speaker 2: You can't fucking speak for hip hop.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I I've never claimed to be a
Speaker 1: hip hop historian. I'm not a famous rapper, and that
Speaker 1: that is going to come to as a surprise to
Speaker 1: a lot of our listeners.
Speaker 3: I'm not a famous.
Speaker 1: Rapper, but I didn't do like I just started listening
Speaker 1: to the rap that I liked, which was around the
Speaker 1: time of like Wu Tang and Nas and like early nineties.
Speaker 1: And when I went back and like listened to some
Speaker 1: of the shit in the eighties that is like foundational,
Speaker 1: I didn't like it as much, so I didn't. I
Speaker 1: don't go deep in like eighties hip hop.
Speaker 2: No I don't. And again this isn't to say this
Speaker 2: is what I think.
Speaker 5: This is where it like people are overly rigid, right,
Speaker 5: Like people are going to engage with a genre in
Speaker 5: the way that they want to.
Speaker 2: There's no right or wrong way.
Speaker 5: But like, I think this is where my biases come
Speaker 5: out where I'm just sort of because I'm a lover
Speaker 5: of history generally, like I always like to hear everything.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm not bumping those old albums now, like
Speaker 5: I did my duty to be Like I remember in
Speaker 5: the source they're always referencing this album or like Double
Speaker 5: Xcel they would always reference this album.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna listen to it.
Speaker 5: I'm like, okay, whatever, But yeah, I mean I think
Speaker 5: it's you know, it is wild though, I think because
Speaker 5: a lot of like these newer rappers like old rap
Speaker 5: heads or like this is.
Speaker 2: A rap this is mumbling.
Speaker 5: It's like shit evolves, man, people thought the bling bling
Speaker 5: era that will like a lot of us hold on
Speaker 5: to that was bullshit to a lot of the people
Speaker 5: that were coming out of the eighties. So things gonna
Speaker 5: are gonna evolve. You have to accept it. But on Twitter,
Speaker 5: it's definitely a lot of people are like trying to
Speaker 5: be like loul.
Speaker 2: YACHTI is not a rapper if he's not heard the fucking.
Speaker 5: The jay Z album, And I get why you feel
Speaker 5: like that, But Liula Yati is also a very talented
Speaker 5: songwriter and very talented artist.
Speaker 2: So it's like, you know, the do do with that?
Speaker 2: Which you will.
Speaker 5: But my old head ass like I'm looking at my
Speaker 5: Ivizu jenes and tilted brim on a twenty inch ro
Speaker 5: feeling like jay Z, and I do feel I have to.
Speaker 5: I have to remind myself people are on their own journeys,
Speaker 5: and that's fine. Not everyone has.
Speaker 1: To do it the way you do it, Like the
Speaker 1: Black Album to Lil YACHTI would be like to me
Speaker 1: the like when I was getting to hip hop in
Speaker 1: the early nineties, it would be like like the Big Bopper,
Speaker 1: you know, right, it's like five days.
Speaker 3: So well you do.
Speaker 5: It's crazy because I mean, like you think of I
Speaker 5: mean like with what Lil Yachty, with how old he was.
Speaker 5: He was like a young kid probably when like the
Speaker 5: Black Album came out. But it could also speak to
Speaker 5: the way we were also listening to music through the years,
Speaker 5: like before US, pre Internet, It's like everything that was
Speaker 5: on the radio was just committed to memory because you know,
Speaker 5: you weren't buying albums all the time, and now like
Speaker 5: it's much more selective, like you can go like seek
Speaker 5: out what you want to hear, and if like the
Speaker 5: Black Album isn't popping at the time that you're doing that,
Speaker 5: then yeah, you I missed.
Speaker 2: Something like that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I guess the Black Album did come out
Speaker 1: in like the two thousands. I was think in the
Speaker 1: nineties for some reason. That's stupid. Yeah, I mean the
Speaker 1: Blueprint came out on nine to eleven, so yeah.
Speaker 5: So what he's born in ninety seven, the Black Album
Speaker 5: came out what two thousand and three?
Speaker 1: Yeah he was six yeah, end of that shit. But
Speaker 1: he's he's built different. Yeah, it is different, Like I
Speaker 1: could imagine him being like, yeah, I was just into
Speaker 1: you know, something that I've never heard of, like that
Speaker 1: was his favorite music growing up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and also like Lil Yacht, he's the kind of
Speaker 5: guy he's like doing features with like you know Fred again,
Speaker 5: like he's doing things that jay Z never would do either.
Speaker 5: So I think that's where we have to have a
Speaker 5: reckoning with like what we how a genre evolves and
Speaker 5: being like, look, there's still people that make the kinds
Speaker 5: of rep you like, but don't also like, you know,
Speaker 5: it doesn't have to be.
Speaker 1: Like what the fucking.
Speaker 2: I have to really suppress that part of me that
Speaker 2: is about to be forty years old.
Speaker 3: Brian the editor just fucked me up. He just wrote
Speaker 3: in the.
Speaker 1: Chat thirty six Chambers came out closer to the moon
Speaker 1: landing than now, fuck you man, that's not true. And
Speaker 1: even if it's true, I don't want to give.
Speaker 2: Even if it's true, I don't like it.
Speaker 3: Not a fan of that piece.
Speaker 2: Were wash all right.
Speaker 3: A couple other things.
Speaker 1: There was a story Fred Goldman, the father of Ron Goldman,
Speaker 1: still hasn't been paid the money he's owed following the
Speaker 1: civil suit that found OJ Simpson responsible for his son's death.
Speaker 1: OJ just kept not paying it, and it's now ballooned
Speaker 1: to one hundred and seventeen million dollars with interest. Started
Speaker 1: out as just over thirty three million.
Speaker 2: If he had just paid it, then yeah, look what
Speaker 2: you did.
Speaker 3: Gosh man did Look he did?
Speaker 5: Oj Man talk about another old head story. People like,
Speaker 5: what the fuck about Fred Goldman?
Speaker 3: Who the fuck is? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Fred Goldman, big mustachioed guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's wild though, that he really was able to
Speaker 5: just but just look, that's what's so fucked up about
Speaker 5: this whole ecosystem, is that you like, nah, yeah, actual be.
Speaker 2: Like oh okay, there's no Yeah.
Speaker 1: It feels like a very I don't know. For some reason,
Speaker 1: the story feels related to Trump. To me, it's just
Speaker 1: like people, well, first of all, Fred being a name
Speaker 1: associated with Trump, and uh, just the possibility that people
Speaker 1: are just like, yeah, I'm just not doing that.
Speaker 3: How about that? So you maybe fuck you?
Speaker 5: When I do that, I get read letters in the
Speaker 5: mail exactly. They actually fuck up my ability to rent
Speaker 5: things at Blockbuster, which is something that happened to me
Speaker 5: in college.
Speaker 1: Now there may be an auction of OJ's junk, including
Speaker 1: his heisman trophy in order to maximize the estate's value
Speaker 1: for creditors and interested parties. I feel like there's probably value.
Speaker 3: In that now that he is gone, because.
Speaker 1: There you can like capitalize on the like morbid.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like that group who it's like I had, like
Speaker 5: people who have like painting by a series John Wayne
Speaker 5: Gacy art. Yeah, that's the guy who did the Clowns, right,
Speaker 5: John Wayne Gacy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like that kind of thing.
Speaker 5: Because I actually.
Speaker 1: Don't know anything about the Clowns. I'm just a fan
Speaker 1: of his art work. I've always always been a fan.
Speaker 2: Just there's something about it. The eyes are so alive
Speaker 2: and I look into them.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, those are some of the things that are
Speaker 1: trending on this August. First, we are back tomorrow with
Speaker 1: the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be
Speaker 1: kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine,
Speaker 1: get your flu shot, don't do nothing about white supremacy,
Speaker 1: and we will talk to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Bye bye.