Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to twelve, episode
Speaker 1: two of The Daily. Like guys, the production of My
Speaker 1: Heart Radio. This is a podcast were we taking to
Speaker 1: you drive into America's sharing consciousness. It's Tuesday, November, which
Speaker 1: is of course espresso day. Yeah, national et a Cranberry day,
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Speaker 1: band like one of the band members, Okay, yeah, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: in recognition of cannibalism and yeah or yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever whatever you're into. But I've noticed a lot of
Speaker 1: these days, like you can scroll down and you realize
Speaker 1: there's like they just submit to this calendar and you
Speaker 1: can get it. So I feel at some point maybe
Speaker 1: we will submit our own day. Maybe who knows International
Speaker 1: Daily as I guys, Well, my name is Jack O'Brien,
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's like because I say mo instead of moment
Speaker 1: or something. Maybe I don't know, but it was less
Speaker 1: obvious thing you thought it was and Jensen and uh,
Speaker 1: we appreciate you, man. And I'm thrilled to be joined
Speaker 1: as always by my co host, Mr Miles Grass of me,
Speaker 1: that's a red guest, too bad Facebook takes from White
Speaker 1: and Blue, And I think to myself, what the fun
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Speaker 1: And I think to myself, what the fuck? That was
Speaker 1: the original the original version of that song. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: like Louis Man, we might we might have to change that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we will get to it, but what the fuck. Indeed, well, Miles,
Speaker 1: We're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by
Speaker 1: a very funny TV writer, comedian, filmmaker, artist, and creator
Speaker 1: the viral web comics Bad Comics by Anna, currently a
Speaker 1: writer on the Apple comedy series Loot. Her half hour
Speaker 1: comedy pilot Inside Kunt, about a vagina that starts transmitting
Speaker 1: spy signals, was named to the Latin x TV Blacklist.
Speaker 1: Please Welcome the hilarious, the talented Ana Selena. I feel like,
Speaker 1: I thank you. I'm not on the show Loot anymore.
Speaker 1: That writer's remanded I'm on another show. I feel like
Speaker 1: if my co workers hear this, they'll be like, what
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Speaker 1: the Big Mouth spinoff. Oh yes, it's been announced, so
Speaker 1: it's not like secret, that's right. I mean it's about
Speaker 1: the monsters. Oh wait, what's I'm okay, I'm confusing many
Speaker 1: different Deadline articles. There is a storyline on Big Mouth
Speaker 1: where they follow Missy and stuff. M No, the show
Speaker 1: is called Human Resources and it follows like the hormone
Speaker 1: monsters and the anxiety mosquito and love bugs and stuff.
Speaker 1: That's right up, it's perfect. Did it was so crazy?
Speaker 1: I mean they definitely saw my comic and I was like,
Speaker 1: in the meeting, I was just like, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that is what my comic is. And it's yeah, it's
Speaker 1: interesting to see all the ideas I ever had about
Speaker 1: my comic explored in this show. And I'm like, okay, cool, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll figure out something else. Are you? I'm imagining you're
Speaker 1: excited because I couldn't. This seems like such a great
Speaker 1: creative fit for someone who regularly like will anthropomorphize or
Speaker 1: you know, manifest physical and our emotions into characters. I am.
Speaker 1: It's it's really fun. We're actually recording my episode right now,
Speaker 1: so it's great. I love it. And yeah, animation is
Speaker 1: so fun because you get to like immediately move into
Speaker 1: production so you get to be a part of it
Speaker 1: a little more. How's it turnaround for a show like that,
Speaker 1: because like, you know, like for people who I know
Speaker 1: wor work on like the like Fox anime shows are like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, it'll premiere in fourteen months. Yeah, this comes
Speaker 1: out in a billion years. So okay, I don't know
Speaker 1: how much I can say because it's not that much
Speaker 1: has been announced, but it comes out in like two years.
Speaker 1: What I am writing comes out of Okay, Well, the
Speaker 1: episodes of The Simpsons they're releasing this season, we're written
Speaker 1: in the late nineties. Here. Yeah, it's just the process.
Speaker 1: The predictions were spot on, predict to cover. All Right, Donna,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to know you a little bit better
Speaker 1: in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners a
Speaker 1: few of the things we're talking about. We're gonna look
Speaker 1: at inflation, which is becoming a big buzzword, and talk
Speaker 1: about like why why it's happening. Because I think generally
Speaker 1: people who aren't you know, ceo s and financial analysts
Speaker 1: who have done time on Wall Street firms tend to
Speaker 1: shy away from this because they're they're either they think
Speaker 1: it's their fault for earning too much money, which is
Speaker 1: what the corporate people tell us, or they feel like
Speaker 1: it's too complex and it's really not that complicated. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about that, and we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: the rapid test quagmire because you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: people are looking to be able to test themselves test
Speaker 1: relatives heading into Thanksgiving and that is not possible in
Speaker 1: these United States, which might be news to people in
Speaker 1: other countries. Since France, Germany, Belt, Great Britain you can
Speaker 1: just order a free test. Yeah. So we'll talk about
Speaker 1: all that plenty more. But first on it, we do
Speaker 1: like to ask eric guests, what is something from your
Speaker 1: search history? Okay, so the last two things I searched
Speaker 1: for were Randall Park wife and Catherine the Great husband
Speaker 1: and epic shipping going on. Honestly, I was recording with
Speaker 1: Randall Park and very creepily was like, this is a
Speaker 1: good looking guy. He seems so nice, what a great guy.
Speaker 1: He probably has a girlfriend or a white now let
Speaker 1: me just chat. I should just check, and I checked,
Speaker 1: and he very much does and seems happily married. There
Speaker 1: you but you know this answer was like why did
Speaker 1: I check? What was going to come of? That mean
Speaker 1: it's because you Definitely that sounds like you're like, let
Speaker 1: me just see. So at the very least you were
Speaker 1: he was a very charming seems like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: so charming. But I think in my head, I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, But anyway, yeah, and I sit on
Speaker 1: the records muted with my camera off, so I'm invisible
Speaker 1: to him, just like maybe he senses me, but he
Speaker 1: could sense the vibe for sure, And then I was
Speaker 1: looking up Catherine the Great Husband. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: less exciting, but have you guys been watching The Great
Speaker 1: the show on Hulu? It's so just dropped. And I
Speaker 1: feel like everyone I talked to who's seen the show
Speaker 1: loves it and thinks it's so good. And I feel
Speaker 1: crazy because I don't think it's that good. I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is about l Fanning, but it feels
Speaker 1: like a bunch of white women just like celebrating themselves.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it feels so white feminist, and I
Speaker 1: feel bad saying that because I I don't know. There's
Speaker 1: aspects of the show that are cool and I'm sure
Speaker 1: talented people made it, but it's just so pop feminism.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Nicholas Holt is the best part. And I
Speaker 1: was like, how much of this is based on real life?
Speaker 1: Let me look it up and spoiler alert, not a
Speaker 1: lot is based on real life. Did uh? What was
Speaker 1: Did the actual husband look camera ready? No? He was
Speaker 1: very not handsome. The actual husband was this like tiny,
Speaker 1: little squirrelly man who just looks like a goober, like
Speaker 1: a fucking goober. And she apparently when she took over
Speaker 1: his throne and forced him to abdicate, she like killed
Speaker 1: him right away, but there's all these rumors that she
Speaker 1: kept him prisoner, and it's like, of course the show
Speaker 1: is going to try to keep alive Nicholas Holt. He's
Speaker 1: the best part of the show. So I didn't know
Speaker 1: Nicholas Holt. Is he a little boy from About a Boy?
Speaker 1: Yes he is, and he grew up to be a charming,
Speaker 1: handsome man who probably is married too. He's also the
Speaker 1: main dude, or the not the main dude, but like
Speaker 1: the best character in Mad Max Fury Road. This is
Speaker 1: the first time I thought about Nicholas as a as
Speaker 1: a person other than being like, damn, that dude is
Speaker 1: really doing it in mad Max Fury Road. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he's also beast in X Men and pretty hand without
Speaker 1: a bunch of makeup. Onyeah yeah, and is he married?
Speaker 1: Did you look at I didn't. I'm sure, Like I
Speaker 1: don't even need to. He's too beloking not to be.
Speaker 1: That's kind of my take these days. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: if someone's a catch, they're taken, or if they're not,
Speaker 1: then you're like, okay, so what's going on here? Yeah,
Speaker 1: exam like something's wrong, which of course is me projecting
Speaker 1: on myself. But you know what I mean, something's wrong
Speaker 1: with me and I'm single, So then the thing and
Speaker 1: I'm I should I should stipulate I'm not single, but
Speaker 1: I was single for a little bit, so that mentality
Speaker 1: is still kind of there of just like you know,
Speaker 1: you want to check, you want to see people's status. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm in a very committed relationship and sometimes you got
Speaker 1: to do a quick heat check. What I mean, Like,
Speaker 1: am I just on fire right now? Let me see
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not good to know? Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I think anyone who's like going to act like
Speaker 1: this isn't the most universal thing, Like when you google
Speaker 1: anybody's name, like the very first thing that comes up
Speaker 1: with his girlfriend. Yeah. I've actually taken a lot of
Speaker 1: pleasure in following people I think are hot on TikTok
Speaker 1: and Instagram. Like I've really gotten into and now I
Speaker 1: get it. Like when I see someone really attractive on
Speaker 1: a TV show, I'm like, oh, I'm going to follow
Speaker 1: them and just like get there because it's you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I don't know why it took me
Speaker 1: so long to be this person who's, like, I guess,
Speaker 1: a creep, but I started following porn stars on Twitter
Speaker 1: because it's like why not live once? Yeah, there's nothing wrong.
Speaker 1: There's not an animal immoral about just this is another person.
Speaker 1: You're they're artists. You said, what's your art about? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know it's I think it's beautiful and simple and
Speaker 1: there's some sort of taboo around women doing it. But
Speaker 1: it's like, screw that. Yeah, I mean Nicholas Holt Space
Speaker 1: brings up Nicholas Hoult wife, Nicholas Hoult girlfriend, Nicholas Holt height.
Speaker 1: So oh he's tall. He's a tall man. Six to
Speaker 1: there you go, oh, definitely not single if it's six
Speaker 1: to because it's the online dating red flag height of
Speaker 1: five ten exactly where it's like, you know, they added
Speaker 1: on four Randall Park space. First thing that pops up
Speaker 1: Randall Park Wife then Randall Park net Worth. So they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: but maybe space. You know, if you do Randall Park
Speaker 1: and then put a space in, it starts auto completing. Right.
Speaker 1: I thought it got real heavy for a second. It's
Speaker 1: like Randall Park space. Yeah, we're all in space when
Speaker 1: you think about it, Miles just hurdling through the inky
Speaker 1: darkness on this blue marble that we call Earth. What
Speaker 1: is something you think is overrated on it? This is
Speaker 1: a little dark because of what happened recently in the news,
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna say it because I do think it's true.
Speaker 1: I think music festivals are very overrated. And I say
Speaker 1: that because I went to Outside Lands in San Francisco
Speaker 1: over Halloween and they're all these amazing acts, you know,
Speaker 1: like the Strokes, Tyler Glass, Animals. Nellie was randomly there,
Speaker 1: Lizzo was the headliner, and on paper that's really cool.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, I want to go see all those artists,
Speaker 1: but the shows suck because man, I feel like I
Speaker 1: figured out this scam and I'm pissed. So, like, Glass
Speaker 1: Animals goes on to perform at six pm, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: this music is pretty soft, and everyone is watching Glass
Speaker 1: Animals because they're really popular right now. So the whole
Speaker 1: like all fifty people in this park or however many
Speaker 1: it is, are crowded just to see fucking Glass Animals,
Speaker 1: while some pour acoustic singers on the other stage that
Speaker 1: no one cares about, and you couldn't hear. You couldn't
Speaker 1: hear the music, and that music is meant to like
Speaker 1: encircle you. And then lo and behold, Lizzo goes on
Speaker 1: at eight p m. And the music is blasting all
Speaker 1: through the park. So they have the capability to turn
Speaker 1: up this music so you don't have to squish yourself
Speaker 1: to the front. They could just turn it louder so
Speaker 1: people could fucking space out, but they don't, and that
Speaker 1: is a scam and I am not okay with it.
Speaker 1: And so because of that, I ended up not going
Speaker 1: to see a lot of these artists because I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to deal with the crowd and whatever,
Speaker 1: and I missed Nellie, which was maybe the whole point
Speaker 1: of going to see Nellie oh man, I guess they
Speaker 1: didn't hear a lot about him being in the news
Speaker 1: much recently. But hey, yeah that's always can't find a
Speaker 1: line up somewhere, we let our nostalgia dictate. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: curious was there? So in your mind is this a conspiracy?
Speaker 1: Like you're saying like they're turning Glass Animals down because
Speaker 1: maybe they are trying to help A not like I'm
Speaker 1: trying to pull up this that time to see like
Speaker 1: who was playing when Glass Animals was playing, because it's
Speaker 1: like the organizer's daughter was on acoustical Yeah, like the
Speaker 1: but like, yeah, because I really love outside Lands actually
Speaker 1: as the festival. I was just talking about that because
Speaker 1: we had a who was just there? But it's I
Speaker 1: like it because of the music festivals. It's like the
Speaker 1: most space and the most bathrooms and the most like
Speaker 1: and more of like the things that like trouble me
Speaker 1: about a That's what it was like. I got to
Speaker 1: hold my PM for nine hours because like the lines
Speaker 1: are too long and then you can't get a good
Speaker 1: spot whereas there you can be pretty like leisurely. But
Speaker 1: I'm I'm sticking moving my point. Yeah, that I went
Speaker 1: to the best of the best, the most space, the
Speaker 1: most bathrooms. They had a whole weed space where you
Speaker 1: go and buy there. Yeah, and still it fucking sucked.
Speaker 1: I was so tired and I tried so hard, and
Speaker 1: everyone was so drunk in college age and I have
Speaker 1: never in my life felt older. But let me tell
Speaker 1: you something. Look, it may be a scam, but I
Speaker 1: cracked the code. So they had this like club in
Speaker 1: a tent and the line was like three hours long.
Speaker 1: It was That's another thing. What there's been three hours
Speaker 1: at a music costival? A fucking line can you have?
Speaker 1: But so I was like, I was like, I'm never
Speaker 1: getting into that. But I went during Nellie and it
Speaker 1: was the only time that that tent was empty and
Speaker 1: you could go right in. So that was the price
Speaker 1: get into that. Stupid everybody who was playing man enough.
Speaker 1: Fuck that was a line up on that day. Krungben
Speaker 1: went on before Glass Animals, and then Kate Renata was
Speaker 1: after Glass Animals, and then that led into Tyler or
Speaker 1: you could have caused Sango at the house by wow,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find a conspiracy here, but it's a
Speaker 1: lot of heavy hitters to you should know that Miles
Speaker 1: is sponsored by Outside Lands, So this man, you're going
Speaker 1: to get anytime, got that because actually the savings in
Speaker 1: time alone make it worth the extra fos. Now, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just a fan, but shout out to Ranger Dave.
Speaker 1: I think that's absolutely true about music festivals. Based on
Speaker 1: my experience of going to Coachella once was that it
Speaker 1: was just like a total crap shoot And probably the
Speaker 1: most disappointing live music experience I've ever had was seeing
Speaker 1: Outcast live for the first time their first like reunion
Speaker 1: show on that on that Yeah you were there first
Speaker 1: week or second week, second week, because I was My
Speaker 1: strategy is always buy second week tickets because everyone wants
Speaker 1: the first week tickets or back. You know, when I
Speaker 1: used to go, so first week, the sound was all
Speaker 1: funked up for the Outcast show, like you really and
Speaker 1: then like I think Andre started getting like getting sort
Speaker 1: of assuming that the audience just wasn't into them, and
Speaker 1: like so he started like kind of yelling at the audience.
Speaker 1: But it was just like the sound fucking sucked. It
Speaker 1: was so bad like for their show, they just hadn't
Speaker 1: like dialed it in, and it's really tough. It's and
Speaker 1: it's a tough thing for an artist because unless you're
Speaker 1: the headliner and they blast that music and have it
Speaker 1: all figured out your set, plus you get the set
Speaker 1: up on stage, like Tyler was in a fucking bow
Speaker 1: on stage. That was really cool. But unless you have that,
Speaker 1: it is a lot of space to fill up with
Speaker 1: your presence. And Oh sevent Dy Shake, who I love,
Speaker 1: went up and I guess she goes by oh seven
Speaker 1: oh Shake, which I didn't know until I saw that show.
Speaker 1: But put on a great show. But it's like this
Speaker 1: big gas stage and it was at the very beginning
Speaker 1: of the festival, day one, so not a lot of
Speaker 1: people were there. And she did the same thing where
Speaker 1: she was kind of yelling at the audience like come on,
Speaker 1: be excited, and you just saw everyone just like not
Speaker 1: into it. And I was like, fuck this place, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go smoke some weed and Grasslands. Yeah, same stage.
Speaker 1: Kick Cuttie like at like one in the afternoon was incredible.
Speaker 1: It was just it was a total crapshoot, you know,
Speaker 1: they just like it. Also, he was out of his
Speaker 1: mind on I think the same drugs that the audience
Speaker 1: was on, so it worked out pretty well. That's perfect
Speaker 1: the scam, I think, Yeah, I mean, like I think
Speaker 1: what's the benefit is, Like I like the idea of
Speaker 1: like spending an entire like multiple days seeing just great
Speaker 1: live music. But I think that's where things get a
Speaker 1: little muddied, where like you run into the things that
Speaker 1: you know, like would plague any sort of profit driven operation,
Speaker 1: which is like they spent more money and like made
Speaker 1: it very comfortable for everyone. It would be such a
Speaker 1: great experience. But like, really it feels like the guiding
Speaker 1: principle for music festivals. How many fucking sweaty kids can
Speaker 1: we cram into this parking lot and and still pay
Speaker 1: the artists what they need and still for us make
Speaker 1: the money that we need to make as the organizers. Yes,
Speaker 1: And that kind of leads into the astra world thing
Speaker 1: where it's like that was just too many people with
Speaker 1: too few strategies for how to control yeah or not
Speaker 1: at all. Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break
Speaker 1: and we'll come back. And here you're underrated and we're back,
Speaker 1: and you know, we do like to ask our guests
Speaker 1: to bounce out in the overrated What is something you
Speaker 1: think is underrated? Well, there's no way to sound cool
Speaker 1: about this. But there have been some great period dramas
Speaker 1: coming to television recently. I did talk about The Great,
Speaker 1: which is technically a period comedy, and I don't put
Speaker 1: it on this list to The Great is something else,
Speaker 1: you know whatever. I did watch it, but I really
Speaker 1: liked this show on Amazon called Pursuit of Love with
Speaker 1: I want to say Lily James or I always confused
Speaker 1: the Lilies, but it's it's a beautiful period drama. This
Speaker 1: other one, Howard's End was on Stars just came to Amazon,
Speaker 1: and uh, I think period dramas had a bad rep
Speaker 1: for being like for old people are boring, but they're beautiful. Wait,
Speaker 1: Howard's End that was? That was like a film, right?
Speaker 1: They made that a series. I mean, I know it's
Speaker 1: a novel, but I mean, like they've really made it
Speaker 1: a series, and it's it's a Tom from Succession, isn't it?
Speaker 1: What I know? Yeah, it's hard for me to see
Speaker 1: him like him as him, like just doing roles where
Speaker 1: he's speaking with his like normal voice in a British accent,
Speaker 1: and I can only imagine what just having all that
Speaker 1: Tom stuff rattling through my head and trying to see
Speaker 1: him be like was he like Paul Wilcox and Howard's
Speaker 1: or something, you know, yeah, it acts, yes he was,
Speaker 1: and it works because he plays a snob in that too,
Speaker 1: and he has that snob energy because he wasn't Pride
Speaker 1: and Prejudice too as Mr Darcy, so he just plays
Speaker 1: like snob, like flogged snob. Very well. That was supposed
Speaker 1: to alight, Like when that pres and Prejudice came out,
Speaker 1: like it was a big deal and like it was
Speaker 1: posted that, people were like, He's the next big thing,
Speaker 1: and then it didn't really like blow up that way.
Speaker 1: His career didn't blow that way. And then now like
Speaker 1: just by being a British person who can see all
Speaker 1: the things that are wrong with America and like channel
Speaker 1: them as a business person. On Succession and another indie
Speaker 1: movie last year that I have now twice blanked on
Speaker 1: the name of. I think it's in The Assistant. He
Speaker 1: was great and again played kind of not in that right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, dope. Wait, so I'm sorry, what's Pursuit of Love?
Speaker 1: What's that about? I think it's based on a book,
Speaker 1: but it is this series and it's what's his name
Speaker 1: from the affair who had literally like had an affair
Speaker 1: on that show in real life too. Well, now I'm
Speaker 1: blanking on his name, but he's the male lead of
Speaker 1: the affair, right, Andrew Scott. I don't know from the wire? Yes? Yes?
Speaker 1: How can I forget the wire? Yes? So he isn't it?
Speaker 1: And it's just this very sweet, weirdly sex positive for
Speaker 1: a period drama show. But it's not like Sophy. It's
Speaker 1: just like really earnest and that ship made me fucking
Speaker 1: weep like a baby at the end. Yeah, and no
Speaker 1: one is talking about it, and I'm like, that was
Speaker 1: a great show. We're just gonna ignore it. Too many
Speaker 1: shows out like it's wild. When you said that, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I've maybe When you said these period dramas that are out,
Speaker 1: I was like, well, I think I've heard of what's
Speaker 1: out there, and I was just like, I have not
Speaker 1: heard of both of those songs. Now, if I come
Speaker 1: at you with an underrated show, I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: an underrated show. Which period are we talking about? Like?
Speaker 1: What part of history are we It is World War One,
Speaker 1: I believe between yeah that is, and I don't Howard's
Speaker 1: end is late eighteen hundreds, maybe the same or maybe
Speaker 1: a literal. I don't know. If I don't know, I
Speaker 1: get a little confused. You know, there's a time where
Speaker 1: all the clothes look like the same A little watch,
Speaker 1: we already got the yeah exactly. They got that big
Speaker 1: underskirt that they wear to make Oh yeah, that's World
Speaker 1: War one or something more. There. They got cars around there, right.
Speaker 1: Pursuit of Love does sound like a Netflix stating reality show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that. Somebody to talk about that and been like, oh,
Speaker 1: another Netflix dating show that love is Blind, that childless,
Speaker 1: loveless millennials on the brink of their forties. There you go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Pursuit of Love. Oh god, that's depressing. Well, speaking
Speaker 1: about depressing, let's talk about inflation. So it's the buzzword
Speaker 1: of the season that's been used to explain everything from
Speaker 1: the labor shortage to why turkeys are more ex sense
Speaker 1: of this year. And yeah, it's just a convenient. I
Speaker 1: mean it's happening. First of all, it is happening. Things
Speaker 1: aren't getting more expensive. So the explanation that we're getting though,
Speaker 1: is that it is all because of the labor class
Speaker 1: being paid more. Yeah, that's one if you if you
Speaker 1: follow Stephanie Rule or if you're watching Tucker Carlson, it's
Speaker 1: just to be like Joe Byron is trying to make
Speaker 1: you poor, or if and or that, you know, at
Speaker 1: the other at the other part of it. Corporations are
Speaker 1: also kind of loving it too, but on a much
Speaker 1: more subtle level because they're loving it because they're using
Speaker 1: this to actually just raise prices on people, because they
Speaker 1: can't because they see people are paying for it. Very cynically,
Speaker 1: nothing to do with stressed supply chains. They're just like, yo,
Speaker 1: let's reo good. Let's see if we can squeeze out
Speaker 1: a couple of percentage points. Because this is a very
Speaker 1: interesting statistic that was in the Wall Street Journal. Nearly
Speaker 1: two out of three of the biggest US publicly traded
Speaker 1: companies had larger profit margins this year than they did
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. Okay, and that means nearly one hundred
Speaker 1: of these massive corporations report profits that are fifty percent
Speaker 1: above profit margins from twenty nineteen, pre pandemic. So they're
Speaker 1: making many right now, and a lot of it is
Speaker 1: being revealed in this article in the New Republic. You know,
Speaker 1: people were sitting in on shareholder calls just to be like,
Speaker 1: I wonder how this is being message to the people
Speaker 1: that own the stock of some of these companies, and
Speaker 1: what they're hearing is things like from this article quote
Speaker 1: in these calls, business leaders employee fancy financial lingo to
Speaker 1: tell large shareholders how they are engaging in quote pricing
Speaker 1: improvements and quote successful pricing strategies. They tell you they
Speaker 1: are experiencing customer quote elasticities to price increases at historically
Speaker 1: low levels. When you decode what they're saying, it's nothing
Speaker 1: us than a U fork articulation that they're able to
Speaker 1: pass off price increases to consumers. We'll stop. And there's like,
Speaker 1: you know, on one hand, you'll have places like like
Speaker 1: in the stock prices are going up because of this.
Speaker 1: They're like loving, They're like, oh my god, wait what
Speaker 1: And you're making more profits. This is fantastic. You look
Speaker 1: at a company like Target who had come out and said,
Speaker 1: you know, we're actually not going to be raising prices,
Speaker 1: like we're able to kind of maintain what we have
Speaker 1: and have like a healthy financial outlook by not raising prices,
Speaker 1: and shareholders started dumping their stock and sending the stock
Speaker 1: price down. So people were like, well, I don't want
Speaker 1: to be on board with some company that's not going
Speaker 1: to raise their prices to make more money, You fucking dumb.
Speaker 1: And you know there's there's even on CNBC Jim Kramer
Speaker 1: was talking about how like home Depot and Lows, they're
Speaker 1: raising prices because they don't give a funk. And also
Speaker 1: they're literally in the mentality of who's gonna stop me? Boo,
Speaker 1: like who gonna check me? Because the two of us
Speaker 1: run the whole ship. This is from Jim Kramer talking
Speaker 1: about how these two companies, Lows and Home Depot can
Speaker 1: quote do no wrong because they're passing on rising costs
Speaker 1: to the public, and the public has no choice because
Speaker 1: these two chains have single handedly wiped out the competition already.
Speaker 1: So is what we're seeing, like the you know, the
Speaker 1: pandemic caused the government to send out age two people
Speaker 1: have lost their jobs, more people had more like government
Speaker 1: assistance than they've had in a long time. Is that
Speaker 1: where the quote unquote elasticity goes comes from. And like
Speaker 1: the government aid those payments that we're supposed to like
Speaker 1: help people get through rainy day, like the are just
Speaker 1: immediately getting like hoovered up by Walmart, and like all
Speaker 1: those corporations like yeah, yeah, but I mean, like, but
Speaker 1: you did have a lot of Benny's you know, benefits
Speaker 1: run out and for certain people all over the country
Speaker 1: starting months ago. So even now, like just even when
Speaker 1: we talked about that one dome see an npiece for
Speaker 1: like my milk's ninety bucks a gallon now and it wasn't.
Speaker 1: But I think they really like this idea that prices
Speaker 1: It's it's just like, that's the thing about this, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of nebulous data that is able to be
Speaker 1: sort of harnessed for the aims of at this point
Speaker 1: corporations because I think at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: more than like obviously the wealth extraction from consumers is
Speaker 1: a huge thing for them, but more importantly, this is
Speaker 1: feeding this narrative about what it means with Biden in
Speaker 1: office and what he aims to do with some of
Speaker 1: these infrastructure, like with build back better a lot of that,
Speaker 1: Like the financing from that is to be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we just gotta charge corporations like they're fair share and taxes.
Speaker 1: That's how we pay for a lot of this ship.
Speaker 1: So this is helping them create a little more instability
Speaker 1: and uncertainty and consumers by raising their prices so they
Speaker 1: make more money, while also saying, hey, man, if Joe
Speaker 1: Byron is going to start passing all these other laws,
Speaker 1: inflation is going to be even wilder. Hold onto your
Speaker 1: whole butt and pay a check. And so that's also
Speaker 1: their aim at sort of being like, now we can
Speaker 1: kind of stoke and anti infrastructure movement that will protect
Speaker 1: our tax rates. Right. It's like inflation has always been
Speaker 1: politicized because it's what they were saying before the stimulus
Speaker 1: path that first stimulus, like, oh, it can't pass the
Speaker 1: stimulus package because it will spike inflation and that's bad.
Speaker 1: And then all these economists were like, no, it's not
Speaker 1: really like that, like they're overblowing this risk, right. But
Speaker 1: I think that's where you see like sort of like
Speaker 1: the vested interests. When we have debates like this of
Speaker 1: like do we help people or do we raise corporate taxes,
Speaker 1: and there are many people who are just on the
Speaker 1: human ground level, we're like, yes, please, that sounds great. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the messaging and the access to all the levers of
Speaker 1: like mainstream communication have vested interests in the same way,
Speaker 1: we're like, we're not paying more fucking taxes. You're kidding me.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna talk about this inflation and start banging
Speaker 1: that drum and look the other way. Yeah, there's also
Speaker 1: just with regards to the supply chain. An explanation I
Speaker 1: actually heard on the it could happen here Daily showy.
Speaker 1: They interviewed somebody who works at a like soda manufacturing
Speaker 1: plant and has worked in various manufacturing jobs like over
Speaker 1: the past four or five years. They were talking about
Speaker 1: how the big change that's happened is that corporations have
Speaker 1: now embraced this thing called just in time production, which
Speaker 1: means that right, what, like you don't start producing something
Speaker 1: until there's a demand for it, and like you don't.
Speaker 1: It's it's like there's no there's no you're not like
Speaker 1: storing anything. There's no overhead. It's just like, okay, so
Speaker 1: they ran out of this and we're hearing they need more.
Speaker 1: Now we produce it, and like that basically creates It's
Speaker 1: cheaper for the companies. It gives them better margins because
Speaker 1: there's no overhead and there's no like producing something that
Speaker 1: then doesn't get sold. The problem is that there's no
Speaker 1: like elasticity in the supply chain, so like you don't
Speaker 1: have extras. If suddenly there's a a bunch of you know,
Speaker 1: this person worked as a casket manufacturer in the past,
Speaker 1: so if there's suddenly a need for casket suddenly, the
Speaker 1: way that they deal with that is they just worked
Speaker 1: people inhumanely around the clock until like they can get
Speaker 1: that supply met. It's once again, just the values of
Speaker 1: the market of quarterly earnings, calls of CEOs who have
Speaker 1: just extracted the humanity from the workers and from the
Speaker 1: laborers and turned it into just you know, values on
Speaker 1: a spreadsheet. And you know, that is what economics is.
Speaker 1: That's what the modern version of capitalism is. And like
Speaker 1: market logic is just like remove the humanity, think of
Speaker 1: everything as like the numbers are the numbers good? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's not great, But again it's it's just the
Speaker 1: overall system. It's the same overall system that we're talking
Speaker 1: about with regards to the inflation, right, And I mean
Speaker 1: at a certain point, you know, like you're you're slowly
Speaker 1: seeing more and more people take up for themselves and
Speaker 1: organize themselves to have a better outcomes for them you know,
Speaker 1: for them themselves. Yet again, to use that word, you know,
Speaker 1: as it relates to their employment and what benefits they get.
Speaker 1: And I can only see I don't think just in
Speaker 1: time production habits are going to necessarily extinguish those flames.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's I'm curious what they're looking at
Speaker 1: two like, because at this point, all the forecasting that happens,
Speaker 1: whether it's like risk they're worth taking because let's say like, well,
Speaker 1: this thing is faulty and we might get sued, but
Speaker 1: we can afford it as long as we make enough
Speaker 1: money up front. Like what kind of stuff they're already
Speaker 1: looking at in terms of the unrest will be like
Speaker 1: with their employees and how to navigate that and see like,
Speaker 1: well we could scab it up for this time, just
Speaker 1: skate through Q four and then calling the Pinkerton's Well,
Speaker 1: the really insidious thing that he was talking about is
Speaker 1: that by making it such a like flexible system where
Speaker 1: you need to like move move around and like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put this person on on this job, it
Speaker 1: actually makes like he was saying that he's in a
Speaker 1: union shop, but the people who are in a non
Speaker 1: union shop, actually we're in slightly better working conditions as
Speaker 1: of this moment because they had flexibility, but that's all
Speaker 1: because of the inhumane orders coming down, Like they're better
Speaker 1: able to deal with the inhumane orders coming down. So
Speaker 1: it's like the just in time production is creating a
Speaker 1: system where like it makes it harder for people who
Speaker 1: are unionized, which is fucking bullshit, right, Yeah, that it
Speaker 1: does feel like that's a trend though, Like I don't
Speaker 1: like it's harder to be unionized working for a corporation
Speaker 1: like Amazon. And I feel like Walmart was maybe the
Speaker 1: writing on the wall where it was like Walmart was
Speaker 1: union busting and people are trying to stop Walmart's from
Speaker 1: being built in their town. Now it's like, fuck it,
Speaker 1: we don't need stores in our towns. We can just
Speaker 1: have Amazon, right yeah, yeah, well this is uh. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're living in a very historic time, especially, like even
Speaker 1: more than ever. I can't. I just look at things
Speaker 1: and I'm like, how do these people with like who
Speaker 1: have all the capital really think that at a certain
Speaker 1: point like that, that you can just run someone down
Speaker 1: to the point they're like, Okay, I'll just die on
Speaker 1: the factory floor. Yeah, Like I mean, and it does
Speaker 1: happen places, absolutely, but at a certain point enough people
Speaker 1: are going to really, Like, I'm just it's it's always
Speaker 1: fascinating to see how disconnected those people can be from
Speaker 1: like what the what the actual reality is of the
Speaker 1: situation there. It's fascinating. But the show Succession exists for
Speaker 1: a reason and it's beautiful, well run TV. But I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like, you don't have exposure. That's our stratisy, like
Speaker 1: our stratified society where you don't have exposure to the
Speaker 1: working class if you're in that corporate right, Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: the poorest person, you know, is what? Greg? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Yeah, And you find his problems amusing,
Speaker 1: right right, right right, and you laugh about it. And
Speaker 1: he's only poor because his grandpa doesn't want to give him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like what one of the things that I've just been like,
Speaker 1: I'm continuing to think over. I'm reading that book Debt
Speaker 1: by David Graber, which is the history of its basically
Speaker 1: a new history of economic systems like throughout human history.
Speaker 1: Prior to this, most of my understanding of like how
Speaker 1: economics works was based on economists, you know, like people
Speaker 1: who study economics and like subscribe to that Adam Smith,
Speaker 1: the idea that like, well everybody is a financial actor
Speaker 1: who was like acting in their own self interest. And
Speaker 1: this book argues that like that is actually like that
Speaker 1: ideal of humans just acting in self interest, being like
Speaker 1: the most basic thing was like introduced by Hobbs and
Speaker 1: Leviathan was seen as like super cynical at the time
Speaker 1: that it was introduced and like not an accurate description
Speaker 1: of humanity because we existed in like small communities that
Speaker 1: helped each other out. But within like a hundred years,
Speaker 1: it was the default like assumption because it is so profitable.
Speaker 1: It's so it's so helpful to people to make money,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be assumed, and it like makes
Speaker 1: a sort of shrewd logic or a sort of shrewd sense,
Speaker 1: and it like feels like the sort of thing that's
Speaker 1: like tough and like realist, but it's actually not how
Speaker 1: humanity has been. For the vast, vast majority of our
Speaker 1: history is a species. For the majority of our history
Speaker 1: is species. We've been you know that the idea that
Speaker 1: you would just extract as much value from humans as
Speaker 1: he possibly can is rightly seen as like colonizing. It's
Speaker 1: the Yeah, it's the foundation of colonizing. Yeah, Oh, here's
Speaker 1: this group I can push him around. What's this now,
Speaker 1: they're they're they're making me money. Great, move on to
Speaker 1: the next town of weeks and I'll rinse and repeat
Speaker 1: and to dehumanizing the process. All right, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back.
Speaker 1: What an eventful break. We just had a superroducer Justin
Speaker 1: pitched us his predator or investing firm just in Time.
Speaker 1: That's all I'll say. I won't tell you all his blueprint.
Speaker 1: But apparently when your name is Justin, do you hear
Speaker 1: that pun a lot? And I didn't think, yeah, a
Speaker 1: look who it is? And just in Time? I just
Speaker 1: I there was actually, uh, there was a like a
Speaker 1: Stanford student who created like a streaming web video called
Speaker 1: just in Time. And I remember that's where you used
Speaker 1: to watch a ton of pirated sports. So it's definitely
Speaker 1: a well treaded name. Yeah. It's also the spec script
Speaker 1: for a sequel to Nick of Time that I've but
Speaker 1: I've written. Have you guys seen Nick of Time? That's
Speaker 1: the one Christopher Walking and his most over the top
Speaker 1: Christal something yeah or something. Yeah, it's a it's like
Speaker 1: my friends in college with the most quoted movie like
Speaker 1: back and forth, quoting Nick of Time constantly. That sounds
Speaker 1: like you guys were fun to hang out without a
Speaker 1: bar at the table who had not seen that movie.
Speaker 1: There's a group of dudes that are just like by
Speaker 1: themselves doing inside jokes the whole time. They're the hottest
Speaker 1: guys at this bar. Also, so, Miles, you were saying
Speaker 1: you got funny jokes about your name being Miles, Like,
Speaker 1: it's just it's colomb, It's just that it's just like
Speaker 1: metrics ship or or you hilarious. I have to say
Speaker 1: pretty good. Yeah, they are exactly and they're really effective
Speaker 1: because they're effective at demonstrating you don't know shit about
Speaker 1: being funny. Damn did someone go Miles, are you inches?
Speaker 1: And then you were like, I don't. I remember like
Speaker 1: in like third grade there was like they were like
Speaker 1: like witty teachers would begin to like do stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I don't even know. Dude's just go on with the
Speaker 1: lesson about how if I don't know, if I can't
Speaker 1: recite this Bible verse, I'm gonna get an as Yeah. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: as a child named Jack at a time when not
Speaker 1: many children were named Jack, I never got anything about
Speaker 1: jacking offer my uncle Jack. Did you ever experience fifth grade? Yeah? No,
Speaker 1: I'm joking. It was all anybody okay, good, good, because
Speaker 1: even I mean, they got creative with my name. They
Speaker 1: skipped my first name and went straight to my second name.
Speaker 1: My last name is said Selena' Selena's my penis, And
Speaker 1: I was like, but you know, it was it was.
Speaker 1: It was brutal out there. They can't even hit you
Speaker 1: with like a Selena type joke. Yeah you think, But
Speaker 1: I didn't get those jokes until I turned like twenty
Speaker 1: six and someone was like, anything for Selena? Yeah right,
Speaker 1: I wonder, Yeah, maybe that's like a since you're a
Speaker 1: little bit younger, because we were all in on anything Selena.
Speaker 1: But I feel like that wave took a second to
Speaker 1: come back around again. I mean, I was watching the
Speaker 1: j Lo movie on whatever, like VH one when it
Speaker 1: would play at three day, but no one got there
Speaker 1: until later in my life. And now I get it
Speaker 1: every few days. Every few days someone's like Selina's anything
Speaker 1: for Selena's And I'm like, please anything else with? Yeah? Alright, Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of our childhood's, many are returning to childhood homes,
Speaker 1: to our families from our childhood because Thanksgiving is coming up,
Speaker 1: just a reminder, but also the Thanksgiving season is highlighting
Speaker 1: that America does not have enough rapid COVID tests. That's
Speaker 1: the most sought after kind of Thanksgiving item this year,
Speaker 1: aside from all the liquor we need to deal with.
Speaker 1: That is things were already these were already hard to find,
Speaker 1: and now they're basically a tickle me elmo in levels
Speaker 1: hard to find. What the fuck? Someone was like begging
Speaker 1: themselves up on Instagram. They're like, fun, I got the
Speaker 1: last two of blah blah blah. I was like, what
Speaker 1: are you talking about? But I didn't realize it's really
Speaker 1: it's like that now. Yeah, And I mean it makes sense.
Speaker 1: We're going to see elderly relatives. They're they're coming to
Speaker 1: see us. You wanna you wanna get tested? They cost
Speaker 1: between fourteen and fifty dollars and often limited to just
Speaker 1: one per customer. Just tell that to my friend on Instagram.
Speaker 1: Yeah well yeah, but yeah. And then because there's a
Speaker 1: as with like the sneaker market, because people can't find
Speaker 1: them in the store, they're being listed for crazy amounts
Speaker 1: by third party sellers on so it's like Amazon has
Speaker 1: heard about that, which it's just you know, inexcusable. Also,
Speaker 1: like but it does seem like the very most basic thing,
Speaker 1: Like Okay, you guys claim this like market will solve
Speaker 1: all problems, so like solve that here here, Yeah, it
Speaker 1: at us and it's just not happening when it's such
Speaker 1: a basic thing to write. It's like, do you want
Speaker 1: to give the population the ability to know if they
Speaker 1: have COVID? Like, yeah, that's a I think that's a
Speaker 1: fundamental first step people were mean to take in their
Speaker 1: decision making with anything and to be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: we kind of dropped the ball on this, Like well,
Speaker 1: then this whole thing is a mistake. If I was president,
Speaker 1: I would send every single person a COVID test, just
Speaker 1: like did they send us all like something masks right,
Speaker 1: did a mask? I would do that. Everyone would get
Speaker 1: a COVID test right before the holidays, and it would
Speaker 1: be so easy if everyone had access to that. Yeah there,
Speaker 1: I know. And I say that as someone who just
Speaker 1: flew through l A X and the most crowded massless. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was just kissing people left and right. I had
Speaker 1: my dog, I was kissing her. She was kissing people.
Speaker 1: I would say of puting people's drinks on the flight
Speaker 1: just to make and then spidding them back out so
Speaker 1: they could drink them. Yeah, yeah, but I mean that's
Speaker 1: a like, that's a nice thought, but like that, what
Speaker 1: what is this twenty fifty like? Is? Is not? You're
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to send everybody a free rapid
Speaker 1: tests delivered to their homes unless you're in Britain right now,
Speaker 1: which is what they're doing. People can get a free
Speaker 1: rapid test delivered to their homes many parts of Europe.
Speaker 1: The tests are plentiful and cheap. So what the funk
Speaker 1: happened in the US? So the US policy was mostly
Speaker 1: focused on vaccination because we we love a you know,
Speaker 1: a big last minute save, a big like you know,
Speaker 1: solution that's gonna wipe out the problem, and other countries
Speaker 1: focused more on screening. But meanwhile, the FDA is approval
Speaker 1: process of these tests moved painfully slow. There are only
Speaker 1: twelve approved tests, even though the FDA received more than
Speaker 1: four thousand, five hundred emergency authorizations and related requests for
Speaker 1: COVID tests. That's way behind other countries. They have thirty
Speaker 1: nine rapid self administered antigen tests authorized in the EU.
Speaker 1: But I also want to just kind of put a
Speaker 1: note in here because I do feel like, well, the
Speaker 1: FDA sucks at their job. Brief note of explanation for
Speaker 1: the fiscal year defense budget was seven fifty three point
Speaker 1: five billion at a time with no major war, which
Speaker 1: just major wars we're trying to wind down, I guess
Speaker 1: during an unprecedented global pandemic. The f das budget is
Speaker 1: five point nine billion, nearly half of which is from
Speaker 1: user fees, which is the companies that they're supposed to
Speaker 1: be regulating paying them to their draft. All right, come
Speaker 1: up with those fees real quick, so damn yeah. And
Speaker 1: you know, critics argue that the high standards that the
Speaker 1: FDA is putting in place or odds with public health demands,
Speaker 1: which is true, but it's probably you know, they have
Speaker 1: corporate donors like everything in America. They want our tests
Speaker 1: to be too accurate in a pandemic. This is bullshit.
Speaker 1: It should be like one in one in like five times.
Speaker 1: It's right, That's like good enough, dude. Then you can
Speaker 1: buy five fucking tests and I'll make more money. But
Speaker 1: that is that I I guess that's kind of the logic,
Speaker 1: and I kind of agree with it. That like that
Speaker 1: they are being too withholding and too slow on like
Speaker 1: people are like, if you just had enough tests, then
Speaker 1: like some tests that are you know, accurate, are better
Speaker 1: than no tests that are zero. You know, I guess
Speaker 1: that's true. Yeah, but God, at the very least, why
Speaker 1: aren't we we have to Like it's like at every time,
Speaker 1: every turn, we just ignore like the wisdom gained by
Speaker 1: other countries and how they've battled the pandemic, like like
Speaker 1: with especially when you watch that pandemic documentary that came
Speaker 1: out last year that was like on Hulu and like
Speaker 1: everything under control or whatever, and they talked to like
Speaker 1: the Korean epidemiologist who was like in charge of like
Speaker 1: South Korea's response, and he like was living with the
Speaker 1: pain that like like something like less than forty people
Speaker 1: died and during like a previous outbreak, and he was like,
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna I'm not I didn't sunk around this time,
Speaker 1: and like testing, like the testing regime became a huge
Speaker 1: factor and at least understanding what was going on, whereas
Speaker 1: here it's just like the vibe strategy of just like
Speaker 1: I don't know, I like, do you feel like you
Speaker 1: have it? If not, then like you don't come like
Speaker 1: for sure and like, don't test if you don't want
Speaker 1: to ruin your plans. You know, that's ship I hear
Speaker 1: right now of like, well, I don't know that if
Speaker 1: I test positive that I can't go to this thing.
Speaker 1: I'm like, then what are you doing? Then fucking don't
Speaker 1: do anything to ensure your safety. Don't just do the
Speaker 1: thing because you're like, I don't want to be verified
Speaker 1: that I'm now a contagion. There's a lot of It
Speaker 1: sets off a lot of weird stuff too, I think
Speaker 1: because we're so we don't know our own status after time,
Speaker 1: because testing isn't How did I How was I allowed
Speaker 1: to fly across the country on one of the busiest
Speaker 1: days of flying without having to show any proof of
Speaker 1: a test or vaccine? Like what I have to show
Speaker 1: proof of vaccine to get into my movie theater, and
Speaker 1: I don't have to show it to travel across the country. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's where we see that tension between the
Speaker 1: state and the film. Oh my god, yeah, no, I'm I'm.
Speaker 1: I went to a Chinese restaurant and I got my
Speaker 1: ship checked up like right away, and I forgot we
Speaker 1: were in that new phase in l A where it's
Speaker 1: like no, nasty too, they're not around yeah, and I
Speaker 1: was like damn. And then like one dude, I remember
Speaker 1: another customer, they're like their their name was like a
Speaker 1: shortened version of their full name, and they're like is
Speaker 1: this you And they're like it's yes, and they're like yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, I Like I love it. I fucking love it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: strict like check the name really good. They're like calling
Speaker 1: his name from over his left shoulder to see if
Speaker 1: he turned around check bring it on. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it. It makes sense as like just generally a
Speaker 1: part of this broad American value of like, you know,
Speaker 1: finding out that your COVID positive bad look. You know
Speaker 1: a lot of not like people testing positive for COVID
Speaker 1: bad look for the government. So but like getting vaccine,
Speaker 1: it's almost like America as a corporation is like trying
Speaker 1: to pass our quarterly earnings reports like with you know,
Speaker 1: the with voters in the world, and we're just like,
Speaker 1: al right, so let's justil this vaccine and it'll all
Speaker 1: be done. But like we're finding that the vaccine is
Speaker 1: an ongoing process that we need to like keep getting them,
Speaker 1: and that there's going to be ongoing outbreaks, and it
Speaker 1: sucks that America's all He's going to be lagging behind
Speaker 1: because of this just half past system that doesn't give
Speaker 1: a shit about the humans and the Yeah. But the
Speaker 1: thing I don't understand is like, even when Trump was
Speaker 1: president and Biden too, they had these big things where
Speaker 1: they're like, I'm with the people of Walmart and Target.
Speaker 1: Now we're teaming up to fuck COVID straight up. There's
Speaker 1: gonna be out of here because we were gonna make
Speaker 1: sure they can get tests whatever you need. And I'm like, right,
Speaker 1: I remember that was said. But now we're talking about
Speaker 1: a situation where it's like, I don't know, you can
Speaker 1: knife fight over a fucking at home kit at a
Speaker 1: Walgreens now. So in September, the White House announced the
Speaker 1: bold plan to make testing more available to the masses,
Speaker 1: proclaiming that Walmart, Amazon, and Kroger would sell COVID nineteen
Speaker 1: tests at cost for the following three months, So three
Speaker 1: whole months of not being screwed by some of the
Speaker 1: largest corporations on Earth until the pandemic ends it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be done in three months, and also for
Speaker 1: most of the first two months the tests were sold
Speaker 1: out in stores and were sold at heightened prices by
Speaker 1: third party sellers on sites like oh Amazon and Walmart. So,
Speaker 1: oh my god, this self owned because people can like
Speaker 1: use their e commerce infrastructure, yeah, or not cell pwned
Speaker 1: or like that's how it was supposed to work all along. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the FDA process, you know, it's not just that the
Speaker 1: FDA has high standards. There have been reports that their
Speaker 1: approval process processes arbitrary and opaque. One company submitted a
Speaker 1: rabbit test to FDA in February and didn't hear back
Speaker 1: until June, at which point the FDA sent them a
Speaker 1: list of questions with a deadline of forty eight hours
Speaker 1: to respond. They didn't make the deadline, and the application
Speaker 1: was quote sent to the back of the line, which
Speaker 1: sounds a lot like, you know, any like wildly underfunded
Speaker 1: government bureaucracy, any sort of you know, if you want
Speaker 1: to get any sort of government aid, you have to
Speaker 1: like basically become a bureaucrat and like make it your
Speaker 1: full time job to get the help that you already need,
Speaker 1: even when not working a full time job as a
Speaker 1: fucking government bureaucrat. And this sounds like the same thing.
Speaker 1: They don't have enough people, they don't have enough money
Speaker 1: going into this massive, fucking global catastrophe, and so everyone's
Speaker 1: everyone in the government is shitty. Hum all right, that
Speaker 1: was eye opening. Wow. Yeah, I don't know. I happy Thanksgiving? Yeah, Thanksgiving? Hey,
Speaker 1: you know. And also I'm selling bootleg tests. Hit me
Speaker 1: up on Twitter. Yeah. Yeah, they only tell you what
Speaker 1: you want to know. It's there. I'm like, what do
Speaker 1: you You're trying to get out of this thing. You're
Speaker 1: trying to go. Oh, you're trying to go. You're good.
Speaker 1: Negative pregnancy tests you just stick in your mouth and
Speaker 1: they're like, yo, Miles, you having me spit on a
Speaker 1: fucking comes with your very own COVID mood ring. That yeah,
Speaker 1: except if it's purple. It's unclear which it is. That
Speaker 1: were I feel like we're not far off from that
Speaker 1: kind of ship, you know. I mean, well, are you
Speaker 1: already see the Apple? Just bath in this bathe in
Speaker 1: this borax? I think I think Apple watches and order
Speaker 1: rings were like helpful in determining because heightened heart rate
Speaker 1: was a symptom of COVID. They actually were a diagnostic tool.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, that's on me. Tim that's on me.
Speaker 1: But you know, just one last point of comparison. Other
Speaker 1: countries not only approved more tests, they also contracted companies
Speaker 1: in order to provide millions of them free of charged individuals.
Speaker 1: And that's just not something that the US has done
Speaker 1: until now that they're getting pushed back in the Biden administration.
Speaker 1: The company that is like the main provider of these tests, Abbot.
Speaker 1: So this is a a good example of the you know,
Speaker 1: need based, just in time production model. So when COVID
Speaker 1: cases in the US dipped in the springtime of this
Speaker 1: company literally throughout a bunch of their products, stuffing them
Speaker 1: in garbage bags. And then they laid off two thousand
Speaker 1: people because, according to one of their managers, numbers are
Speaker 1: going down. This is all about money. That that's a
Speaker 1: direct quote. When cases surge, not long afterwards, the company
Speaker 1: was scrambling to hire back hundreds of workers. The company
Speaker 1: was going through trash, yeah, to dig up those tests.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. So the market is logical and it
Speaker 1: answers all the problems in a timely manner. Yes, But yeah, then,
Speaker 1: and we're still begging to any any regular person who
Speaker 1: would turn on the TV if the media would even
Speaker 1: have a reckoning with this kind of thing, Like the
Speaker 1: story would be like this is scandalous, how how greed
Speaker 1: is running rough shot through the country and creating completely
Speaker 1: But again, like I already sound like someone who would
Speaker 1: be laughed off of a CNN segment, which just shows
Speaker 1: you how well people are conditioned to even hearing things
Speaker 1: of like very logical, like impassioned, Please to like be
Speaker 1: like not immoral just sounds like you're you've got birkenstocks
Speaker 1: growing off your hands or something. Look, people make fun
Speaker 1: of gratitude Burke, but all she's doing is being like
Speaker 1: what the fuck are you guys doing? You know, let's climate,
Speaker 1: but still like it's just a passion, please to not ruin. Hey, child,
Speaker 1: you're like, I don't know if you heard what she said.
Speaker 1: The clock is fucking ticking, and in that building they're
Speaker 1: just circle jerking laughing it up because they're not gonna
Speaker 1: be around to see the worst of it. Like, Okay,
Speaker 1: she's so fiery, are turn her into a meme? Anna,
Speaker 1: It's been such a pleasure as always having your pleasure,
Speaker 1: truly pleasure. Where can people find you and follow you?
Speaker 1: You can find me on Instagram and Twitter at bad
Speaker 1: comics with an X by Anna with two ends and
Speaker 1: the shows The show'morgan now won't be out for a while.
Speaker 1: But I wrote on a show called Flatbush Misdemeanors on
Speaker 1: Showtime and you can watch that now came out a
Speaker 1: little bit ago. Nice. Yeah, so I was like two
Speaker 1: shows behind in my intro. No, no, no no, just one.
Speaker 1: That show just happens to be out right now. I
Speaker 1: gotta gott you know what I mean? So you could
Speaker 1: go see episode seven, that's the one I wrote. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, don't just watch. You should watch them in
Speaker 1: order or it won't make sense. Nah, my parents only watch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like my favorite was okay, but it was a little confusing,
Speaker 1: Like you should have told us the plot for the
Speaker 1: right set up. Yeah, if you have an hour, I'll
Speaker 1: go through a series you can understand. But no, I
Speaker 1: want to see the one you did. Yeah. Yeah. Is
Speaker 1: there a tweet or some of the work of so
Speaker 1: media you've been enjoying? Yeah, you know, gosh, I have been.
Speaker 1: I have to Okay, I don't remember the handle, but
Speaker 1: I'm going to find it. There's an Instagram that puts
Speaker 1: cat faces on different animals, and in a dark world,
Speaker 1: it has been bringing me a lot of simple joy.
Speaker 1: Like I was literally looking at it on the plane
Speaker 1: and I laughed out loud, and that's so stupid, Like
Speaker 1: I'm getting so old that I'm laughing at cat faces
Speaker 1: on giraffes. But it's beautiful, man, it's beautiful. I like
Speaker 1: that too. Yeah, my cat faces on giraffes. Every animal
Speaker 1: is better with a cat face. That seems like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: or it's definitely worth that just quick thought experiment. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: it's it's she's Russian, I guess, so it's hard to pronounce.
Speaker 1: It's Cody. That's it's spelled ko t y underscore v
Speaker 1: e z d as in dog e. There it is,
Speaker 1: all right, check it out. Yeah, And it's just cat
Speaker 1: faces on other animals. That's the whole thing. It's the
Speaker 1: simplest thing sometimes, you know. Yeah, Miles, where can people
Speaker 1: find you? What is the tweet you've been enjoying? Oh? Man,
Speaker 1: you can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles
Speaker 1: of Gray. Uh. And also the other show for Twenty
Speaker 1: Day Fiance, We're Sophia Alexander and I talk about off
Speaker 1: of that herb do you feel me? Uh? Some tweets
Speaker 1: that are like this one is from at Joshua Potash,
Speaker 1: whose displain name is read Pedagogy of the Oppressed by
Speaker 1: Paulo Prairie fantastic. And in this one, it's just a picture.
Speaker 1: It's like, he says, God, this is bleak, and it's
Speaker 1: a photo of apparently an ad that is on like
Speaker 1: an outside of a Burger King, and it's a bunch
Speaker 1: of like old senior citizens and it says, who says
Speaker 1: you have to retire at Burger King? We welcome your
Speaker 1: variance in leadership. If you're energetic, friendly and service oriented,
Speaker 1: we have a full or part time position on your
Speaker 1: on our team. And they're just like so cool. They
Speaker 1: sounds fun I mean like and this like it's funny
Speaker 1: though too, because this group of elderly people, it looks
Speaker 1: like what I like, I remember when I was like
Speaker 1: applying to college is what college brosures used to look like, Like,
Speaker 1: you'll get the most diverse motherfucker's at this school on
Speaker 1: the front of this motherfucking book. And it's like it's
Speaker 1: like a Benetton ad but for people that were adult
Speaker 1: diapers shout out to them. Look I'm not mad at him,
Speaker 1: but oh no, the tweet, I like, God, taken down,
Speaker 1: so okay this, but the other tweet I like is
Speaker 1: from at Underscore Underscore Incandescent, and she tweeted What I
Speaker 1: love about gen Z is they'll take an ell and
Speaker 1: immediately post a TikTok about it. It's very good for
Speaker 1: my love of mess. And damn this tweet that was there,
Speaker 1: so I was they linked to a TikTok video that Twitter.
Speaker 1: I guess they got the video down, but it was
Speaker 1: this girl sitting outside of a like an apartment hallway
Speaker 1: with her luggage next to her, and she goes like,
Speaker 1: my stupid ass went to go visit, like visit this guy,
Speaker 1: and he's like and a woman answered the door and
Speaker 1: just beat the ship out of me. Now I'm stranged.
Speaker 1: Was like, but she was like someone was filming her
Speaker 1: and she like had like a track going on and
Speaker 1: it was very like making a TikTok out of your
Speaker 1: like terrible mistake. And I was like, this is so real,
Speaker 1: but yeah, credit to that. What I love about gen
Speaker 1: Z is they've taken out and immediately posted TikTok about it.
Speaker 1: It's so true. There's so many crying TikTok's of people
Speaker 1: just being like these are my tears. This is what happened,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, for me, someone who my foregut reaction
Speaker 1: to people crying in public is to be uncomfortable. It
Speaker 1: helps me softened, you know, my terrible habits around compressing
Speaker 1: myself that. You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore.
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