Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Taco
Speaker 1: Bell Trendolato I believe is how it's pronounced in Italy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm at this point. I'm at Italy is
Speaker 2: wearing off. I don't, I've lost power of my authentic accent.
Speaker 2: But I think it's helato.
Speaker 1: Helato and all right, so I mean we might as
Speaker 1: well kick off with this story. Anytime anything happens with
Speaker 1: I get notified.
Speaker 2: By ZE and sometimes we get shout out to the
Speaker 2: person who like tags both Jack and I on an
Speaker 2: Instagram DM for only Taco Bell things.
Speaker 1: I've gone through the history so consistently, You've got a
Speaker 1: little group going so immediate anytime. And it's not just
Speaker 1: like Taco Bell news. It's also a meme that a
Speaker 1: ball's Taco bell is going is going off. I know
Speaker 1: about that ship before you guys do f y Yeah,
Speaker 1: because of Zek, because of Ai. But anyways, full disclosure.
Speaker 1: You did travel to Italy like your stated purpose was
Speaker 1: trying to find a Baja Blast flavored gelato. Yes, you
Speaker 1: thought it must exist. It's just in the wild over there.
Speaker 1: I do, and I was wrong, and behold both low
Speaker 1: and behold. Yeah it came across the transbec here in
Speaker 1: the news.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, Baja Blast in gelato form coming to Taco Bell.
Speaker 2: It's I couldn't believe what I was seeing, but hey,
Speaker 2: it's here apparently right now. You can only get in Irvine.
Speaker 2: So if you're in Orange County, hit up. There's apparently
Speaker 2: like the one Taco Bell in the country is an
Speaker 2: Irvine that has it, and they're gonna have it for
Speaker 2: like two weeks. But then they say that is just
Speaker 2: before they roll it out across the Yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: This is like the It's everything I needed it to
Speaker 2: be to become the most insufferable human on the planet.
Speaker 1: It's got the old country, it's got Taco Bell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's got Baja blatht ha's got Baha blaf. You
Speaker 2: can do your with your bah with your just you know,
Speaker 2: cue the music, please, Daniel. When I'm having a gelato
Speaker 2: just looking at the sunset, I can only yeah, anyway.
Speaker 1: What do we think that? Uh? I just got real
Speaker 1: high there, like Jiminy glick. What do we think the content?
Speaker 1: What do we think the gelado's content is going to be?
Speaker 3: I don't know, because it's right.
Speaker 1: Is Baja Blast that caffeinated. I believe, so bah blah
Speaker 1: blast I mean, it's just the size of the bajas
Speaker 1: that I blast or is a large.
Speaker 2: Four and a half millies per ounce, so fifteen a
Speaker 2: twelve ounce has fifty four millies.
Speaker 1: So a normal mountain dew has seventy two per twenty ounce.
Speaker 1: And this bad boy's clocking in in eighties. So it's
Speaker 1: a little bit more. It's more sugar, it's more caloric,
Speaker 1: it's more caffeinated. They didn't name it lightly miles, They didn't.
Speaker 1: I know it's.
Speaker 2: Wild that I don't. I mean, I'm just caffeine insensitive,
Speaker 2: so I don't know why. I'm like, I barely perceived that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, damn no, it's they They said, we want
Speaker 1: to give you a rush on this one. We want
Speaker 1: you to feel feel the effervescence in your blood. We
Speaker 1: want you to feel the aquamarine entering your bloodstream.
Speaker 2: You know, that effervescence in your blood that's actually your
Speaker 2: arteries constricting.
Speaker 1: But I love the way that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just feel the black well, good for good for them?
Speaker 3: One more.
Speaker 1: I feel myself becoming uh Norm McDonald's impression of David
Speaker 1: Letterman as I age. That's to my personality to becoming.
Speaker 2: You're gonna start filing a just take a marker to
Speaker 2: make it like a fake gap in your front teeth,
Speaker 2: and like, just are you losing? He's like, yeah, I
Speaker 2: filed my teeth down to have that letterman gap.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh yeah, uh. Let's talk about cars keeping tabs
Speaker 1: on us. This is a headline that went went off.
Speaker 1: You ever you ever get back to your car after
Speaker 1: doing a weird little fuck sesh and you feel like
Speaker 1: your car is judging you. It's not just your imagination.
Speaker 1: It's not just the fact that they give cars faces.
Speaker 1: You know, you know how cars have faces in the
Speaker 1: front the grill that has the two eyes for the
Speaker 1: lights and then like a little mouth.
Speaker 3: Sometimes are you wait, are you sundowning?
Speaker 1: What's happening? You don't feel like cars have faces? Am I?
Speaker 1: Oh sure? I mean like in the sense that the
Speaker 1: eyes of the front of the lights or the right
Speaker 1: and they do have Yeah, sometimes people give them a
Speaker 1: little eyelashes, yeah yeah, yeah, and must as they do
Speaker 1: seem like they're judging me for being a nasty little pervert.
Speaker 1: All yeah, am I alone? Everybody else feels that, right? No,
Speaker 1: I didn't know how to make sense of this headline,
Speaker 1: and I still don't quite understand it, but it's The
Speaker 1: headline is basically, cars are keeping tabs on your sex life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Kia and Nissan were both named and shamed. Kia explicitly
Speaker 1: states it collects information about your race or ethnicity, religious
Speaker 1: or philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, sex life, and political opinions,
Speaker 1: while Nissan's fine print reveals it's keeping tabs on your
Speaker 1: sexual activity now and then. They also are willing to
Speaker 1: sell that information. Eighty in the data mining business, eighty.
Speaker 3: Four percent of the companies are selling them.
Speaker 1: So then also they mean me.
Speaker 2: Six percent of them are saying we'll help the feds
Speaker 2: if they ask about it, just so you know we can.
Speaker 2: We can hand it right over to the FEDS if
Speaker 2: they come knocking and wondering what you've been doing in
Speaker 2: your little car, trying to subvert democracy or something.
Speaker 1: So here's my question. What feature of my car am
Speaker 1: I not taking advantage of that? It knows your fat
Speaker 1: would allow it to have information about my sex life.
Speaker 3: It knows based on the way you sit down on
Speaker 3: your seat.
Speaker 1: Is what it is.
Speaker 2: It's just like, man, wow, you are if you are
Speaker 2: favoring one side.
Speaker 1: What happened legs seem tired.
Speaker 3: I think no.
Speaker 2: Apparently the way they essentially that it's happening is that
Speaker 2: you know it because we're connecting it with like our
Speaker 2: apps and shit like that.
Speaker 3: It's all just all of.
Speaker 2: This information is being fed directly into it, so like
Speaker 2: you know, you're connect you have connected services in the app.
Speaker 2: In the car, you have an app that is like
Speaker 2: the car app that you've probably downloaded, which then is
Speaker 2: like essentially the gateway to your phone info. It's like
Speaker 2: that's like the sort of back door to it, and
Speaker 2: then it can get even more information from like other
Speaker 2: apps that you can use using like car play and
Speaker 2: shit like that that go hand in hand with again,
Speaker 2: like your movements. It'll be like, Wow, this motherfucker drives
Speaker 2: real quick when he comes back from that nondescript motel,
Speaker 2: like on the edge of town type of thing. So
Speaker 2: I think what they're saying is like they're probably just
Speaker 2: trying to cover all their bases because they're also saying
Speaker 2: they're gonna.
Speaker 3: Infer things based on this data and then sell that too.
Speaker 1: You need a trench coat and a pair of sunglasses
Speaker 1: and a Derby cap for your trips to the motel.
Speaker 1: Is that what they're going to figure it out?
Speaker 2: And if you like, if you have like you know,
Speaker 2: if you're like part of like a like your doctor's
Speaker 2: office is connected through an app and shit like that, yeah,
Speaker 2: it means it can potentially have access to that shit
Speaker 2: and package it all up and then you know, say
Speaker 2: this guy is dumb and horny and have high blood
Speaker 2: pressure and.
Speaker 1: There you uh, it's fine. So this is a study
Speaker 1: by Mozilla. So Firefox always a real one, you know,
Speaker 1: they're like from the start they were like, we're about privacy,
Speaker 1: and then they stopped being able to make like a
Speaker 1: good browser for a while there. I think, still, i
Speaker 1: haven't used Firefox in a long time, but.
Speaker 3: I'm back on it.
Speaker 1: So they did this study and then they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're surprised, you fucking idiot. Everything is spying on you constantly.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 1: It just comes as a shock. Mozilla says, it really shouldn't.
Speaker 1: When we're saying that cars are computers on wheels, what
Speaker 1: we mean is they're packed with all the cameras, microphones,
Speaker 1: and internet connectivity necessary to bag a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: your personal data. So yeah, we should. It's our fault
Speaker 1: for not recognizing that when they create a product with
Speaker 1: cameras that it would seem to know, it would seem
Speaker 1: like it makes sense for the product to have cameras
Speaker 1: to make it better at not killing us and other people.
Speaker 1: We should assume that those cameras and microphones are actually
Speaker 1: being used to U spy on us, to sell our information.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean that's what it's all become. So
Speaker 2: you know, just buy, uh, buy like an old Honda,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, and just try and just
Speaker 2: work it out.
Speaker 1: Those are less safe. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's just it's one of those
Speaker 2: things where too what you're where your only recourse too
Speaker 2: that they mentioned is you can sign this petition Mozilla's
Speaker 2: put together.
Speaker 1: It's like what or you can in every case except Tesla,
Speaker 1: you can be like, hey stop doing that, Hey quit it,
Speaker 1: and granted they'll probably like start doing it, Like I'm
Speaker 1: sure they'll be like, we've just updated after you told
Speaker 1: us to quit it, and you have to ask us
Speaker 1: again to quit it, or we will keep doing it.
Speaker 1: You can do that with everything. You can tell them
Speaker 1: to quit it on everything except Tesla, where it will
Speaker 1: like fucking break your cars.
Speaker 2: Because it says that it's only these two car brands
Speaker 2: like that are in Europe, like Renal and Dosia, that
Speaker 2: actually say that as a driver, you have the right
Speaker 2: to have your personal data deleted.
Speaker 3: Everyone else is like.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, we're not going to delete it. We'll just stop,
Speaker 1: We'll just knock it off, just like we'll we'll like
Speaker 1: have our hand lightly over our eyes with a big
Speaker 1: dumb smile on our face, but like that and that's
Speaker 1: cool with you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But like that Patrick Stewart episode of Extras, I've
Speaker 2: already seen everything, so it's too late. I've already seen
Speaker 2: it all, so it's just too late. Wait where he's
Speaker 2: talking about how he like when he was playing Professor X.
Speaker 2: He's telling like Ricky Gervais's character, how he had like
Speaker 2: this new like concept he had for Professor X. He's like,
Speaker 2: I recommended this scene where I'm in the locker room
Speaker 2: and I make all the ladies clothes fall off and
Speaker 2: they're trying to put their clothes back on. But I've
Speaker 2: already seen everything. It's too late because that's what I
Speaker 2: use my power. And he's just like, what the fuck
Speaker 2: is this? And he's like every time he's like, or
Speaker 2: this other thing where I'm walking my dog in the
Speaker 2: park and my dog is going on the grass and
Speaker 2: then this police woman says, oh, no, you can't have
Speaker 2: your your dog on the grass. And then I make
Speaker 2: her clothes fall off and she's trying to over herself up.
Speaker 1: But it's too late.
Speaker 3: I've already seen everything just goes over and over. This concept.
Speaker 3: If it's too late, I've already seen everything.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. All right, let's uh, let's take so so
Speaker 1: it is too late. Your car has already seen everything,
Speaker 1: is what we're learning here.
Speaker 3: Or you can sign a petition where.
Speaker 1: You can move to Europe or Mexico, which might be
Speaker 1: a more attractive place to move. So, as we're about
Speaker 1: to explain, after these messages, and we're back, and we
Speaker 1: were just talking about that ABC jingle after these messages,
Speaker 1: we'll be right back, remember that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyways, moving on, Mexico's Supreme Court just decriminalized abortion. Yeah,
Speaker 1: ruled to federally decriminalize abortion on grounds that it is
Speaker 1: unconstitutional to do.
Speaker 2: Other Yes, it's wild. Can you imagine these words coming
Speaker 2: out of our Supreme Court? Because this is what the
Speaker 2: ruling was from the Supreme Court in Mexico that the
Speaker 2: quote criminalization of abortion constitutes an act of gender based
Speaker 2: violence and discrimination as it perpetuates the stereotype that women
Speaker 2: and people with the capacity to get pregnant can only
Speaker 2: freely exercise their sexuality to procreate and reinforces the gender
Speaker 2: role that imposes motherhood as a compulsory destiny.
Speaker 3: Damn son, where'd you find that?
Speaker 1: Take fucking bars?
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Supreme fucking hot fire.
Speaker 1: True fire. And this is of course coming at a
Speaker 1: time when the US is moving in the other direction.
Speaker 1: When Roe was overturned, a lot of Americans were forced
Speaker 1: to travel to Mexico for abortions. So, yeah, we're going
Speaker 1: to start seeing you know, a lot of lines at
Speaker 1: the border going the other way.
Speaker 2: They said, there was a one in one of the
Speaker 2: border towns. They said, like in the spring they went
Speaker 2: from a court order of their patients being from America
Speaker 2: and then to half like a few months later. So
Speaker 2: it's been trending upward. But yeah, it's it's like also
Speaker 2: just it's just interesting too. There's a an analysis that
Speaker 2: I was done like maybe like last year about like
Speaker 2: backsliding democracies, and you know the perspective here, they say
Speaker 2: we do curbs. Curbs on women's rights tend to accelerate
Speaker 2: in backsliding democracies, a category that includes the United States,
Speaker 2: According to virtually every independent metric and watchdog. In more
Speaker 2: degraded democracies, the effect is more extreme. Around the globe,
Speaker 2: the rise of right wing populism has been followed by
Speaker 2: extraordinary reductions in women's rights. So yeah, we're on it that.
Speaker 2: I don't know, honest, that's just like their opinion.
Speaker 1: That's just like their opinion, man. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: like their opinion. Man, I'm sorry you called me my honor.
Speaker 1: But then they said, and all right, whatever, no further answers,
Speaker 1: no further answers, your honor. Just a real quick rip
Speaker 1: to Danny Masterson as in rotten prison asshole.
Speaker 3: Yeah, holy shit, thirty years.
Speaker 2: Thirty years in pro life for multiple rapes. Yeah at
Speaker 2: thirty years, I think many thirty years to life baby.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So well, uh that was a I mean, man, that
Speaker 2: case went on I feel like a while. That started
Speaker 2: when like six years ago. I feel like in twenty seventeen, yeah,
Speaker 2: or eighteen was going.
Speaker 1: To have a giant or not giant, but giant seeming
Speaker 1: religious organization covering.
Speaker 2: That's wow, euphemistic description religious org Yeah.
Speaker 1: Tax entity tax entittis creature religion based tax entity. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: all right, Uh, the fallon, the fallon of it all, Miles,
Speaker 1: what about the fallon of it all? Though? There's a
Speaker 1: new article in Rolling Stone that that basically like we've
Speaker 1: been here in that Jimmy fallons, like not the most
Speaker 1: stable of individuals might have issues with booze. You know,
Speaker 1: We've I've been there. Man, it's not easy, totally awful
Speaker 1: to have issues with the booze. But this article, yeah,
Speaker 1: he seems very difficult to work for, and yeah, the
Speaker 1: whole institution seems like a true fucking nightmare.
Speaker 2: It's a weird article because it's like, sounds like a
Speaker 2: bad place to work with, like very sort of non
Speaker 2: specific allegations, Like it sounds like he's erratic, he has
Speaker 2: mood swings, he goes off on people. But it feels
Speaker 2: like there's a lot more to it than like what
Speaker 2: even we're getting from this article, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, So a quote from the article, Rolling Stone
Speaker 1: contacted more than fifty to Night Show employees past and
Speaker 1: present during the reporting for this story. After reaching out
Speaker 1: to representatives for Fallon and NBC, Rolling Stone reached out
Speaker 1: to an additional thirty current former staffers. While many of
Speaker 1: them praised Fallon's immense talent and comedic gifts, not a
Speaker 1: single one agreed to speak on the record or had
Speaker 1: positive things to say about working on the Tonight Show.
Speaker 1: Nor would any of the program's nine show runners since
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen comment about the program's namesake on the record.
Speaker 1: They wouldn't even give statements of support, as is common
Speaker 1: in the entertainment industry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when they're pulling up the ladders like that, they're like, oh,
Speaker 2: I don't know him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, sure.
Speaker 3: Nine showrunners in nine years, I think also says a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But also we're in a new environment. Maybe they recognize
Speaker 1: that it's a bad look to side with the boss
Speaker 1: over the workers, especially during a strike, right when he
Speaker 1: was like on Maine being unsupportive. But then there's the
Speaker 1: NBC statement. Representatives for Fallon would not comment on the
Speaker 1: record for this story. In a statement, a spokesperson for
Speaker 1: NBC defended the program, but notably did not mention Fallon himself.
Speaker 1: We are incredibly proud of the Tonight Show and providing
Speaker 1: a respectful working environment as a top priority. As in
Speaker 1: any workplace. We have had employees raise issues, those have
Speaker 1: been investigated, and action has been taken where appropriate. But
Speaker 1: it sounds like a yeah. I mean, it's like there's
Speaker 1: weird HR shit where like people are like, this is
Speaker 1: a really hostile, unhealthy place to work, and then HR
Speaker 1: is like forwarding those complaints to the showrunner and talking
Speaker 1: shit in the email forwarding it. So it's not like,
Speaker 1: you know, an isolated thing, it's just a seems like
Speaker 1: a real toxic, shitty environment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's why I'm like that seemed like it
Speaker 2: could be just sort of this generational change in production
Speaker 2: culture too, where they're like, yeah, we don't fucking do
Speaker 2: that anymore or stand for this kind of shit anymore.
Speaker 2: I hope that it's not worse than this, just for
Speaker 2: the sake of the people involved, and it's just having
Speaker 2: to deal with a just like ego driven prick.
Speaker 3: As the host.
Speaker 2: But there's also like this other story about how like
Speaker 2: Jerry Seinfeld made him apologize to a Q card because
Speaker 2: during like one of the episodes, he just went off
Speaker 2: on one of the people, like the stage hands, I
Speaker 2: was like, you know, like running the Q cards, and
Speaker 2: I got to a point where it's it was very
Speaker 2: awkward quote and Jerry was like, you should apologize to him,
Speaker 2: almost trying to make it a joke. It was one
Speaker 2: of the strangest moments ever, and so many people were there,
Speaker 2: so it's kind of hard to forget.
Speaker 1: And it did not think Seinfeld came. So there's an
Speaker 1: update to the story where Seinfeld came and was like,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? It was normal, we were
Speaker 1: just having a laugh. I always the best. I meant
Speaker 1: it in a funny way. He's not a bad guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so no surprise Seinfeld sided with Jimmy. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: The specifics that we get are like people saying he
Speaker 1: seemed like he was drunk at work a few times too,
Speaker 1: a lot of times that he's this these two paragraphs.
Speaker 1: According to most employees spoked Rolling Stone, it's common knowledge
Speaker 1: behind the scenes that found temperament, mood, and treatment of
Speaker 1: staffers is erratic. These employees say they've witnessed foulon snap
Speaker 1: at crew members express irritation over the smallest of things
Speaker 1: and brate and belittle staffers out of frustration. It was
Speaker 1: like if Jimmy is in a bad mood, everyone's day
Speaker 1: is fucked. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that feels like yeah, like that house you go
Speaker 2: to as a kid or like one of the parents
Speaker 2: is kind.
Speaker 3: Of a mess, Like yeah, let's not get outside today,
Speaker 3: and you're like, oh shit, all right, all right, all right.
Speaker 1: People wouldn't joke around in the office, and they wouldn't
Speaker 1: stand around and talk to each other. It was very
Speaker 1: much like focus on whatever it is that you have
Speaker 1: to do because Jimmy's in a bad mood and if
Speaker 1: he sees that, he might fly off. Like it's just
Speaker 1: like yeah, having to like exist in a workplace like
Speaker 1: that or yeah, like you said, in like a home
Speaker 1: life like that, Like it just sounds like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're one person kind of dictates the entire energetic
Speaker 2: flow of like a of a physical space is like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: well uh, and it sucks to have to be like
Speaker 2: have fucking Jimmy fallon go off on you.
Speaker 3: I've been like listen here, motherfucker.
Speaker 1: You know, Like yeah, he's like he like the stuff
Speaker 1: he says is just really he's like, is there something
Speaker 1: wrong with you? Like one of all the descriptions is
Speaker 1: like he keeps like concerned everything's and if there's something
Speaker 1: wrong with them, because he doesn't know.
Speaker 3: I'm just worried about their joke. I'm just worried about you.
Speaker 3: Are you okay? Are you good?
Speaker 1: Yeah? That's fuck that fuck out my face? All right,
Speaker 1: so cool guy, All right. Well, those are some of
Speaker 1: the things that are trending on this Thursday afternoon. We
Speaker 1: are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show.
Speaker 1: Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves,
Speaker 1: get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and
Speaker 1: we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye bye,