Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two oh eight,
Speaker 1: episode four of production of I Heart Radio. Somebody hit
Speaker 1: me on Twitter and said, it sounds like you're saying
Speaker 1: dir daily Zeitgeist at the beginning of the show. Every
Speaker 1: time I was like, huh, are you sure you're listening?
Speaker 1: Man was listening up a little closer. This is a
Speaker 1: podcast where you take a deep dive into American share consciousness.
Speaker 1: And it's Thursday October, which of course means it is
Speaker 1: Natal Internal Medicine Day. National. Oh, I thought, come on, man, yo,
Speaker 1: natal natal? I mean when when you when most of
Speaker 1: your interactions with the medical industrial complex, it revolved around babies.
Speaker 1: That's what That's how I'm gonna read that ship. Okay,
Speaker 1: that makes sense. No national Sorry, natal and internal medicine.
Speaker 1: I was like, wow, specific and depressing, but yeah, esational
Speaker 1: internal medicine. Of course, it is Natural First Responders Day.
Speaker 1: And I feel like this one happens maybe once a week,
Speaker 1: but it's National Chocolate Day. My name is Jack O'Brien
Speaker 1: a K. Jarko Brucker's ERG. Got that from the what
Speaker 1: your name would be if your name was Mark Zuckerberg
Speaker 1: name generator? Yeah, I have that. No, I just made
Speaker 1: that up. Can Zuckerberg, I fire your name if you're
Speaker 1: if you're interested. Uh, I'm thrilled to be joined as
Speaker 1: always by my co host, Mr Miles Gray, Markles grux Zanberg.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. It's Miles Gray. A k A.
Speaker 1: Springles are real crunchy, Gonna eat them with some res' is.
Speaker 1: Fringles are real crunchy, Gonna eat them with some reese
Speaker 1: Is for those reasons in my bag. Backing candies makes
Speaker 1: me gad, but a Starburst makes me frown though my
Speaker 1: teeth start to deck pringles and races every day. I
Speaker 1: hope that my friend will wanna. Okay, shout out to
Speaker 1: Jill of All Trays on Discord for that wonderful President
Speaker 1: of the United States of America. Peaches inspired a k A.
Speaker 1: I was beautiful. Yeah. I love that song so yeah.
Speaker 1: I love it when people hit me with that. I mean,
Speaker 1: if I was gonna offer a light critique, I would
Speaker 1: say that of the potato chips, I feel like pringles
Speaker 1: are the last one I would kind of pair because
Speaker 1: pringles turn into just like a soft potato meal once
Speaker 1: they're inside your mouth. But you know, nobody fucking asked
Speaker 1: me it feels like a like it's not it's like
Speaker 1: a like the communion away for sexy cousin. Yeah, Ringles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like that is definitely made from like a blended light
Speaker 1: blurry because when you take Eucharis, you know, you accept
Speaker 1: the body of Christ. That light and airy, you know,
Speaker 1: and that quarter reminds Pringle, which is no seasoning on it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's how they That's how they came up with it.
Speaker 1: I think it says that in the Bible, right, It's
Speaker 1: like Charis must be once you pop, you cannot stop.
Speaker 1: Comes to the BOC as they call it, the Big Christ. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But I think Pringle's got hit because they don't have
Speaker 1: much potato in them. It's a lot of star flower
Speaker 1: other uh file into the ingredient category of other Well Miles.
Speaker 1: We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat
Speaker 1: by one of the hottest young stand up comedians and
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Speaker 1: he filmed his first Comedy Central special in one. You
Speaker 1: may also know him as the winner of the title
Speaker 1: of wittiest in the Franklin County High Schools two thousand
Speaker 1: nine yearbook. Please Welcome the Brilliant, the talentick kit Libs
Speaker 1: sign out. Oh man, that intro. I it sounds like
Speaker 1: it's gonna be somebody better than me. It's just all
Speaker 1: and we started off with some religious talk because don't
Speaker 1: you have religious background. Oh yeah, my dad's a preacher. Preacher, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right, quite literally, boy, that song was not accurate.
Speaker 1: Up a big game for sixty years. They're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I heard about the sons of preachers. You're like not.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, I don't know if I can said tenderly?
Speaker 1: Is the reality is? Yeah, it's a lot of He's
Speaker 1: just like a real giving, tender lover. Is that the
Speaker 1: son of the preacher man? And that I mean, we're
Speaker 1: probably not even a lover, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's just like we're all we're all nice, but it's
Speaker 1: like it's not We're the guys you date in the
Speaker 1: first half of a romantic comedy before you meet the
Speaker 1: real guy that you need. Yeah. Yeah, the who is it? Who?
Speaker 1: Meg Ryan? Really? Fox Over? And Sleepless in Seattle? Is it?
Speaker 1: It's one of the Bills. I think Pullman maybe, yeah,
Speaker 1: Bill Pullman, Great Kenears, that's that's our that's that's who
Speaker 1: it is. Great. You don't end up with the son
Speaker 1: of a preacher, man, you. I always felt bad for
Speaker 1: that dude, Like all he did was like have gee
Speaker 1: and like he's really nice and also like the kindest
Speaker 1: person ever. When she was like, hey, so I'm kind
Speaker 1: of in love with this guy who's not you, who
Speaker 1: have never met, but I gotta go see and he's
Speaker 1: like do it. Yeah, absolutely, see what a good guy.
Speaker 1: What a good guy? Yeah? Why why don't people go
Speaker 1: after that guy? Yeah? Exactly. You're Caleb Signings of the
Speaker 1: of the World. You know. Yeah, we're out here. You know,
Speaker 1: we don't really have many skills, and but we're nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're nice, and we have a lot of guilt. So
Speaker 1: come on, come on by, come on by. Enough guilt
Speaker 1: for a three of us. I was just gonna say
Speaker 1: the thing, like I always heard about Catholic guilt and
Speaker 1: I was like that, like they're acting like, oh, we're
Speaker 1: the guiltiest, and I'm like, come on, man, I'm from
Speaker 1: the South to alright, I got Southern guilt. I got
Speaker 1: all of it right, Yeah, Catholics just there. They love drama.
Speaker 1: They want to be you know, persecuted, so they Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've had it with Catholics, am I right? Thank you?
Speaker 1: First we first we make fun of the BOC and
Speaker 1: then we uh then I talked about Catholics taking shots
Speaker 1: at the papal c what's up? All right? Well, Caleb
Speaker 1: or carbal Mack psychanserb. We are going to get to
Speaker 1: know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 1: we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of the things, uh,
Speaker 1: that we're talking about that we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: the hype dream, the ultimate pipe dream of America, the
Speaker 1: taxing of the rich, free guns for dogs that is
Speaker 1: actually way more accurate. We're gonna talk about Facebook, and
Speaker 1: dear Leader, if we have time, we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about fox Weather just launched everyone, Uh yeah, and uh
Speaker 1: it's it's interesting. It fits nicely into their portfolio because
Speaker 1: Fox News ignores and exacerbates climate change, which leads to
Speaker 1: horrifying storms, which then they get to cover on Fox Weather,
Speaker 1: which you know, it's a money making machine. So we'll
Speaker 1: talk about that vision, all of that plenty more. But first, Caleb,
Speaker 1: we do like to ask our guests, what is something
Speaker 1: from your search history that is revealing about who you are?
Speaker 1: A friend? Oh? Oh, it's so so horrific because I
Speaker 1: always forget about a question and so I looked back
Speaker 1: through it and then I'm like, okay, can't say that.
Speaker 1: One can't say just it's all very embarrassing, like can
Speaker 1: I microwave an egg? Like dumb dumb stuff where you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is revealing to him. One of them was Dennis
Speaker 1: Praeger Young, and I was like, this is no. It
Speaker 1: was like because he got COVID and he looked like ship.
Speaker 1: And I was like, did he always look like Ship?
Speaker 1: So I like I wanted to see him, but I'm
Speaker 1: just like, this is how I'm spending my time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of them were just me to see what
Speaker 1: was online about me. So yeah, it's just a horrible,
Speaker 1: horrible search history. It's very, very embarrassing. Was Dennis Prager
Speaker 1: a snack speaking of microwaves egg? I mean like a
Speaker 1: microwave egg. I mean he looks the same he looks
Speaker 1: to say. I just Temple of Doom shirtless was on there.
Speaker 1: I just for some reason I can't remember, probably at
Speaker 1: a bar and I was like, oh, no, one was
Speaker 1: Hotter and Harrison Board in the eighties and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: Ryan Gosling. And then it was just like no, I
Speaker 1: don't know why I was in a fight that I
Speaker 1: had to prove who had the best the best argument
Speaker 1: was their argument Ryan Gosling in the eighties, because well, yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's why we googled Dennis Prager Young after cleanse
Speaker 1: that timeline. Yeah, what is something you think is overrated work?
Speaker 1: That was a no brainer. I there's a lot of
Speaker 1: For some reason, my algorithm got a bunch of this
Speaker 1: hard work posts where it's like it'll be a picture
Speaker 1: of of Jeff Bezos like pointing at the camera and
Speaker 1: it's like work hard, do push ups, start a business,
Speaker 1: turn off your phone, read a book, build a house,
Speaker 1: fuck you. And it was just like like like did
Speaker 1: you wake up boor today? Bitch? And I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: I hate work I've done. I'm glad more people realizing
Speaker 1: it's a waste of your life and get out of
Speaker 1: here with all that workship none. Yeah. Yeah, So that
Speaker 1: that sub right is popping the hate work subrate the
Speaker 1: anti work one. Yeah. I mean, because I think as
Speaker 1: more people become so disillusioned with, you know, like the
Speaker 1: just vile reality of like living in capitalism. It's like
Speaker 1: you really do, like, wait, why the fuck what's the
Speaker 1: work for? In horrible? The first day I had, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so, it's so sad. I can't I remember literally,
Speaker 1: I was fifteen the first day I like worked somewhere.
Speaker 1: I think I was just about to turn six, and
Speaker 1: whatever the law was, I was that day at midnight.
Speaker 1: But my parents were like, get to work, and I worked. Yeah,
Speaker 1: come on, it's not illegal anymore. So I went to
Speaker 1: work at this grocery store and it was it was
Speaker 1: like I had an hour left in my shift and
Speaker 1: I went to the bathroom and I just like looked
Speaker 1: out the window at the moon, like this just can't
Speaker 1: be what life is? Work? Oh, Like I was so sad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah I can't do it. Yeah, no more work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: fun work did it's all right? Off the mics, dude, Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's get out of here. Well, I mean, so well
Speaker 1: this doesn't work, this is fun. Yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 1: that's the blessing. Man. I got to see this guy
Speaker 1: every day, you know, well, fucking can't believe this ship.
Speaker 1: This guy says you have to cut out the show
Speaker 1: any what you're saying, Yeah, we love me. Here know
Speaker 1: anything you can do over zoom. I don't consider when
Speaker 1: I think of work, I think of stacking stuff, picking
Speaker 1: something up that's heavy. Oh yeah, trust me. I constantly
Speaker 1: in my mind, I'm like, I'm like thinking of what
Speaker 1: my ancestors on both my Japanese and Black sides think
Speaker 1: of me being a podcaster, and I'm like, they're laughing
Speaker 1: their asses off. They're laughing, And then my therapist is like,
Speaker 1: don't you think that they would also be like relieved
Speaker 1: that you don't have to engage in the labor they
Speaker 1: had to, like that's part of their hope for their
Speaker 1: future generation. I'm like, yeah, maybe, but like I still
Speaker 1: hear my grandfather. They don't like me. No, they think
Speaker 1: I'm stupid. They're mad at me. They're mad. But your
Speaker 1: grandchildren are gonna be like talking you up like crazy,
Speaker 1: like like, oh, he came to this country with eight
Speaker 1: thousand dollars in his Patreon in a dream, and he
Speaker 1: had him and his co hosts. You know, they were
Speaker 1: doing ad reads before you could, man, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: and they were improvising ad reads when they used to
Speaker 1: be Verbatim reads, it's great, anyway, we should mercy kill
Speaker 1: grandpa before the climate war start that I was talking
Speaker 1: about telling my friends, like about to become a father.
Speaker 1: I'm like they were just thinking like how they might
Speaker 1: have to put us out of, like put us to
Speaker 1: pasture to survive, like just comes to show for like
Speaker 1: sixty years. Yeah, I'll be in the pasture. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be doing enough. I'll be like, look me
Speaker 1: and that pasture. Baby, I'm gonna go with the other.
Speaker 1: Grandpa's up to the mountain's gonna watch old YouTube clips
Speaker 1: till we die. It would be fine if you need me,
Speaker 1: I'll be out behind the barn with a gun in
Speaker 1: my mouth, just waiting for you guys to come through,
Speaker 1: just in case you know, it's your call. We gamed
Speaker 1: it out to the point where like, well, what if
Speaker 1: you just had a cyanide capsule and like when you're dentures,
Speaker 1: So then like when that moment came, you could look
Speaker 1: at your kids and be like, I'm doing this for me,
Speaker 1: and then you're like and then they don't have to
Speaker 1: live with having to put their louly grandparents to Honestly,
Speaker 1: that's that's polite. That's what grand parents should do, getting
Speaker 1: that cyanide capsule and your reverse mortgage and side dentures mortgage.
Speaker 1: I do wonder what the what having seen the baby
Speaker 1: boomers growing old as badly and as selfishly as they
Speaker 1: have will do to like future generations of people like
Speaker 1: the elderly. If we're just gonna be like man that sucked, Like,
Speaker 1: just don't right the elderly brand because people like the
Speaker 1: predominating memory is gonna be of boomers, not like the
Speaker 1: silent generation where like some of our grandparents like oh grandpa,
Speaker 1: and then that hatred looks into the elder the truly
Speaker 1: geriatric mouse, and I'm like what I'm I was born
Speaker 1: in the eighties. There's a there's like a counter narrative
Speaker 1: in mental health that like talks about how the like
Speaker 1: people's happiness generally improves with with age, and but like
Speaker 1: we don't attention to that because they like actually get
Speaker 1: you know, they turn into things that like capitalism can't use.
Speaker 1: So we just kind of chunk them off to uh
Speaker 1: rooms where we don't have to look at them. But
Speaker 1: they're happy about that. They're definitely happy. Secret I was
Speaker 1: putting a boom pil out of it, like you figure
Speaker 1: out how to work your brain and ignore the things
Speaker 1: that you need to ignore to be happy. I guess,
Speaker 1: but I do. I do feel like that's definitely not
Speaker 1: coming through with the baby boomer generation as they all
Speaker 1: just like descend into you know, fox poisoned brain territory.
Speaker 1: I know. I just it's not a good time. Like
Speaker 1: what I remember when old people watch Mattlock and mash
Speaker 1: and and like some some don knots thing. You didn't
Speaker 1: know why that was on, And now they're they're mad.
Speaker 1: They just go to sleep mad every night. Like what
Speaker 1: are you doing listening to Mark Levin yell at you
Speaker 1: for five hours this day? Well? I love it. You're like, really,
Speaker 1: are you? So watch something nice? You know? Go to
Speaker 1: the beer? Yeah, what are you gonna do about it? Yea?
Speaker 1: Go to the beach. You can see these socialist teams
Speaker 1: dressed up like god knows what these kids. These kids
Speaker 1: are confused, they don't know what's going on anymore, can't
Speaker 1: go anybody. It's like they they think they they work
Speaker 1: at Congress. They're like, oh, I gotta listen to these
Speaker 1: this bill. Let me read this bill. It's like you're
Speaker 1: you worked your whole life. Why don't you chill out?
Speaker 1: Are you retiring the watch boxes? Well, every other indicator
Speaker 1: has shown me I'm completely out of control. So this
Speaker 1: is the one thing I've tricked myself into thinking I
Speaker 1: can control. Yeah, I wish they would read the fucking bills.
Speaker 1: They instead they just you know, take Tucker Carlson's word
Speaker 1: for it, or dude on Facebook, what is uh? What
Speaker 1: is something you think is underrated? Oh? I've been talking
Speaker 1: about this, um. This is the best discovery I made
Speaker 1: during lockdown was the people always talking about, Oh is
Speaker 1: it is John Lennon better than Paul McCartney, And it's
Speaker 1: the whole thing is a smoke screen. George Harrison has
Speaker 1: been better than all of them this whole time, and
Speaker 1: nobody knows, nobody knew, but yeah he is. He is
Speaker 1: the best by a lot. And check him out. He's
Speaker 1: on Spotify wherever you listen to music. This guy is great.
Speaker 1: We're check him out. The other guys that was dangerously
Speaker 1: close to a like he's a branded content for George Harrison, Like,
Speaker 1: yeah he had that, even the tag wherever he is
Speaker 1: long dead? But check him out. Yeah, the songs that
Speaker 1: he uh that he wrote I Feel Like Something, which
Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra called the greatest love song or the twentieth century.
Speaker 1: While my guitar gently weeps. A lot of great bangers
Speaker 1: and yeah, check him out. Let it be. I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he did that, but I just
Speaker 1: did George George Harrison Beatles songs. It's like all of them. Wow,
Speaker 1: hey ju Yeah he did that one. Me and Yoko
Speaker 1: and the Bed for a while, right, I'm the drummer,
Speaker 1: all those, all those classic peoples. Yeah, but he's uh
Speaker 1: he very relaxing. Yeah, Here Comes the Sun very good
Speaker 1: for a shower, nice for evening stroll, but uh yeah,
Speaker 1: very relaxing if you're stressed out there in these tough,
Speaker 1: tough times. Give George Harrison a listen, long, long, long
Speaker 1: from the White album. Yeah, these are these are among
Speaker 1: their best. Here Comes the Sun is my kid's favorite
Speaker 1: Beatles song at the moment. So good. Yeah. I always
Speaker 1: watch um from the concert for Bangladesh, Rellie Preston comes
Speaker 1: out to do That's the way God planned it. I
Speaker 1: think that's one of the one of my favorite like
Speaker 1: live performances of a musician ever. But it's weird. You
Speaker 1: can YouTube took it down years ago, so alas if
Speaker 1: you like daily motion to just catch that slip. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's hard to find that album anywhere. Yeah what yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, well let's take a quick break and we
Speaker 1: will be right back. And we're back. And the second
Speaker 1: pipe dream of America, the one that's in second place
Speaker 1: between giving dogs free guns, is the idea that one
Speaker 1: day we might be able to tax the rich and
Speaker 1: use that money to help the rest of the country.
Speaker 1: And it's actually it's actually being discussed right now. How's
Speaker 1: that huge? And no one, no one's fucking on board
Speaker 1: with anything, these democrats. So Joe Mansion recently made it
Speaker 1: clear that he is just he's hearing about this new
Speaker 1: thing is like taxing billionaires. He's like, I got concerns
Speaker 1: about that. I don't know, I don't know about targeting people,
Speaker 1: as he said, because it's the seven wealthy eist individuals
Speaker 1: in the country. I just wanted his actual quote around it,
Speaker 1: because he's OMG various here quote. I don't like it.
Speaker 1: I don't like the connotation that we're targeting different people.
Speaker 1: That's a very interesting statement. And you know, we have
Speaker 1: Kirsten cinema who has told I think we discussed lobbyists
Speaker 1: out loud to their face straight up, I will. I'm
Speaker 1: not interested in raising taxes on corporations and things like that.
Speaker 1: But there seems to be some movement because Senators Widen,
Speaker 1: Warren and King have introduced two bills to help pay
Speaker 1: for a potentially transformational agenda. And I say potentially because
Speaker 1: like anything that starts out as a bill being introduced,
Speaker 1: can be completely stripped away down to absolute nothing, or
Speaker 1: it'll get held up in courts where they will have
Speaker 1: to redefine things like income or accountants can just find
Speaker 1: even better loopholes. But putting that aside, let's pretend that
Speaker 1: for this moment of positivity, that this could potentially go
Speaker 1: through the way it is. So, the first bill is
Speaker 1: aimed at taxing the wealthiest companies, who you know, they've
Speaker 1: been afforded the luxury of an absolutely nonsense tax code
Speaker 1: that allows them to basically pay nothing on their profits.
Speaker 1: So what this bill specifically would do would apply to
Speaker 1: companies that report more. Again, so before you start grasping
Speaker 1: your small business pearls, we're talking about companies who have
Speaker 1: been generating more than a billion dollars in profits each year.
Speaker 1: This is who we're talking about, the super wealthy companies,
Speaker 1: and this is over a three year period, and would
Speaker 1: impose and across the board fifteen percent tax right on
Speaker 1: those profits. Now, when you consider things like Amazon, how
Speaker 1: they effectively pay less than five percent on their profits
Speaker 1: through all the legal fuor like tax trickery, going to
Speaker 1: I think would be pretty good place to start. And
Speaker 1: so that's sort of the first dimension is to go
Speaker 1: after companies. The second is to go at individual earners.
Speaker 1: And this is where Joe Mansion doesn't like the idea
Speaker 1: of just singling people out, like the seven hundred wealthiest
Speaker 1: fucking Americans in the country. Well might hurt their feelings.
Speaker 1: That hurts people feeling like what I know and and
Speaker 1: listeners and I'm sure you, I'm sure all the listeners
Speaker 1: know someone like this. We all have a friend who
Speaker 1: makes more than a hundred million dollars per year and
Speaker 1: they have more than one billion dollars in assets for
Speaker 1: three straight years. We get that. We're like, dude, that's
Speaker 1: my neighbor. Relax on, relax on this guy. So this
Speaker 1: thing would essentially be like, look, this is who need
Speaker 1: who we really need to make sure are paying the
Speaker 1: fucking taxes. It would require them to give the I R.
Speaker 1: S a detailed account of how much of the assets
Speaker 1: they own or gain lost each year. It's called mark
Speaker 1: to market apparently in Lingo terms. So, like the way
Speaker 1: that we we talked before about how they avoid is
Speaker 1: that it's a lot of their money is tied up
Speaker 1: in stocks, right, and so just like keep it in
Speaker 1: the stock markets and in real estate, and then they
Speaker 1: don't have to pay taxes like the rest of us.
Speaker 1: And but they can borrow against the fact that they
Speaker 1: have three hundred billion dollars, you know, like that they'll
Speaker 1: still get any loan at the best possible rate, which
Speaker 1: enables them to just have basically unlimited money. Isn't that
Speaker 1: the That's the funniest excuse I've ever heard. Like I
Speaker 1: can't be paying all my money is tied up in stocks.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm gonna do. It's like like
Speaker 1: I can't pay taxes. All my money's in my pocket.
Speaker 1: What do you want me to get it out there?
Speaker 1: I didn't even use it. Someone took all my money
Speaker 1: and put in stocks. I don't know how I'll ever,
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm gonna do because you're not
Speaker 1: paying capital gains until they're realized, right until you sell
Speaker 1: your stocks or you sell your real estate. That's when
Speaker 1: capital gains come in. So again, like you're saying, Jack,
Speaker 1: you need some some fun money, some funny, fun fun
Speaker 1: money to go fucking p jet around and funk the
Speaker 1: earth over and spend you know, your your luxurious lifestyle.
Speaker 1: You just take loans out against your already massive wealth,
Speaker 1: and then now you can take the interest payments that
Speaker 1: you from that loan to offset any other income taxes
Speaker 1: that you would have. So it's just a fucking it's
Speaker 1: a beautiful setup. And the way the really the easy
Speaker 1: way to sort of put this into perspective is right
Speaker 1: because they're able to do these things like say, I
Speaker 1: parked my money in the stock market so I don't
Speaker 1: have to pay anybody fucking anything, and it just chills there.
Speaker 1: For example, in eighteen, the top twenty five individual earners
Speaker 1: in the United States were over worth over one trillion dollars.
Speaker 1: It would take over fourteen million just wage earning Americans,
Speaker 1: not to say that you're on hourly wages, but people
Speaker 1: who aren't, just like hyper wealthy fourteen million over fourteen million,
Speaker 1: just normal people to create that wealth, to to get
Speaker 1: to one point one trillion dollars. Now, the tax bill
Speaker 1: for wage earners was one hundred forty three billion dollars
Speaker 1: from those people, from just the wage earners in the
Speaker 1: in the United States, the personal federal tax bill for
Speaker 1: the top five one point nine billion. Hmm. Because of
Speaker 1: all this, all these loopholes to exploit, and we wonder why,
Speaker 1: like all these we have no money for like you know,
Speaker 1: transformational programs, because we're more and more accommodating class of
Speaker 1: people to find ways to just keep their money very safe.
Speaker 1: So again, this would be a very interesting move forward
Speaker 1: because I think it will force I'm sure people find
Speaker 1: new loopholes, but to not engage in at least the
Speaker 1: beginning of trying to lock this thing down and try
Speaker 1: and get a handle on income inequality or just inequality
Speaker 1: in general. Wow, we gotta stop calling them loopholes. That's
Speaker 1: a cute see name for an evil crime. You're lying
Speaker 1: your Hey, come on, look what I found. It's just
Speaker 1: like stop. People are dying, people are starting and sleeping
Speaker 1: on the street. The little I R S TAXI Loopi's
Speaker 1: people in my community aren't dying because of lack of
Speaker 1: reasons just because it's a little loophole. Come on, I
Speaker 1: didn't put the loophole there. And I think, and we
Speaker 1: saw through the Pandora papers just exactly how this is
Speaker 1: all working. Like there's so much wealth out there that's
Speaker 1: not being taxed, and they're laughing their asses off because
Speaker 1: it's so easy to get. It's not even hard to do,
Speaker 1: because we're not even taking the initiative to be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna can't be this easy. It has to
Speaker 1: be just slightly easy. Yeah, dude, I got bumped up
Speaker 1: to first class for the first time a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago on a light And let me tell you,
Speaker 1: I've never been so mad at rich people the fact
Speaker 1: this is just their life all the time. Yeah, pay
Speaker 1: your taxes, you get to fly first class. It's the
Speaker 1: nicest thing that's ever happened to me. Well, then it's
Speaker 1: also like whenever you think about like I remember that
Speaker 1: the time I got upgraded on an international flight, I
Speaker 1: thought I was the fucking cloth from Toy Story was
Speaker 1: coming to take me away. Like yeah, and when you
Speaker 1: go there, I'm like, I'm like ship, Yeah, I'm in
Speaker 1: the fucking seat that costs thirty five hundred dollars for
Speaker 1: a one way ticket too, And then you look around
Speaker 1: and you're like, I'm like almost want to like rob
Speaker 1: the person next to you. Pay this you real quick.
Speaker 1: It's also and also it's like kind of does your
Speaker 1: head and in that sense too, because you you'll be
Speaker 1: in the proximity of like you're just like, holy shit, man,
Speaker 1: this is a different reality. Is like I spend these
Speaker 1: people spend thousands of dollars to just even go to
Speaker 1: like New York, and I'm like, where's the fucking update
Speaker 1: alert when I can get it for like two d right,
Speaker 1: And what are you doing? Okay, if flying to New
Speaker 1: York and for a thousand bucks, it's nothing to you.
Speaker 1: What are you making in New York? They're about to
Speaker 1: go to New York and like burned down an entire
Speaker 1: neighborhood for for rate beon or whatever evil people do.
Speaker 1: Yeh man, that's crazy to me. I test crowd disbursement technology,
Speaker 1: Get off my back. So I work for the people.
Speaker 1: I work with people. That's what's yeah. Working like just
Speaker 1: finding out like just specific people's pain points and like
Speaker 1: working through those I create. I create terror weapons and
Speaker 1: evil Carstoral technologies invented water boarding in nine Yeah, kind
Speaker 1: of a goof with me and my friend brothers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one of them ended up at the CIA and asked
Speaker 1: if he could kind of pay me for the intellectual
Speaker 1: property on that. And yet now I'm here toward your
Speaker 1: techniques came like directly pipeline from Yale. Fret hazing, like
Speaker 1: almost positive. It's like mostly just skull and bones. It
Speaker 1: that they're like, oh, remember that time when we did
Speaker 1: that to Bushy. Yeah, Like I remember that time we
Speaker 1: we got that al Qaeda cell and then we put
Speaker 1: them in that CIA Black Site interrogation room, put an
Speaker 1: eight ball of cocaine on the table and said you
Speaker 1: don't come out until this is done, and then we
Speaker 1: m yeah, they were all over the place. Huh. So,
Speaker 1: I like this story just made me like because the
Speaker 1: outrage isn't there, like the it doesn't feel like we're
Speaker 1: mad enough about just the overall state of like how
Speaker 1: little these assholes pay. And I wonder if like one
Speaker 1: of the things that we've talked about that is unique
Speaker 1: about the American tax system is that like we have
Speaker 1: to do the taxes like in other countries, they just
Speaker 1: send you a bill and they're like, hey, this we
Speaker 1: figured out how much you owe. This is what you owe,
Speaker 1: so just send us a check. In America, we have
Speaker 1: these like forms they basically put the like mindless, just
Speaker 1: awful bureaucratic work on it on us so that we
Speaker 1: have to do it. And I'm just wondering if they
Speaker 1: do that so that when like the subject of taxation
Speaker 1: comes up, we're like our brain just turns off. We're
Speaker 1: just like fuck like or we're also like more empathetic
Speaker 1: to other people who have to pay taxes, Like paying
Speaker 1: taxes is such an awful thing that we're just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they don't, don't tax them more like that's that's me.
Speaker 1: And taxing tax is bad, you know, like because it
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense other than just that turbo tax is
Speaker 1: like lobbying them. But like I feel like that like
Speaker 1: the the way that we'll never get medicare or medicare
Speaker 1: for all because they you know, like being able to
Speaker 1: make people feel like they die if they left their job.
Speaker 1: Like that's you know, I think there's like psychological coal
Speaker 1: conveniences at work in a lot of this ship that
Speaker 1: they do that kind of keeps the system in place.
Speaker 1: That's one thing that's so weird with to figure out
Speaker 1: where you're like, oh, I if I don't work, I'll die.
Speaker 1: I'll start and then I'll die. Yeah, go ahead and
Speaker 1: leave your job and then you won't have health insurance
Speaker 1: and you could die and in dying, bankrupt your family
Speaker 1: in all future generations. And then they gotta go, we know,
Speaker 1: we gotta have taxes. So they've they've managed to convince people, Okay,
Speaker 1: we need taxes. Who should we get it from the
Speaker 1: people with money or the people without it? And they've
Speaker 1: actually convinced people like, no, the people without it should pay,
Speaker 1: not the people I'm a job creator. Yeah, you take
Speaker 1: it from you? Like what how how do we not
Speaker 1: take it from the rich guy? What do we do it?
Speaker 1: They're like a thousand bucks to someone who makes like
Speaker 1: a you know, forty k or that's nothing to take
Speaker 1: away from them. But then if I gotta pay a
Speaker 1: million bucks, have so much money? Serious, think about that?
Speaker 1: Don't and don't think of it it being a pro
Speaker 1: portion of my overall wealth either just a million dollars
Speaker 1: objectively as a numbers too high, stupid not doing it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's just all also very complicated and yeah,
Speaker 1: like it's it's it's funny you talk about like just
Speaker 1: the barbaric nature of like capitalism too, because you see
Speaker 1: all these like memes now that are people like quitting
Speaker 1: on their bosses, like tax capture threads, and like so
Speaker 1: many of the replies from when they're like hey, you
Speaker 1: gotta come in, this person is not coming in. They're
Speaker 1: like no, I like I told you I needed this
Speaker 1: time off. Their first sort is like think about your
Speaker 1: health insurance or like some weird ship like that, and
Speaker 1: you're like, of course, because that's the like they're just
Speaker 1: articulating the whole grift here, which is, yeah, so it's
Speaker 1: the threat of death if you don't give us your labor. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They call it a taught labor market versus a like
Speaker 1: labor market with some slack in it. And we currently
Speaker 1: are giving them a taught labor market where you know,
Speaker 1: they can't find enough laborers to fill all the jobs,
Speaker 1: and that is they're like, what the funk is going?
Speaker 1: They will be taught as I used to have to
Speaker 1: every job I had where I'd have to go buy
Speaker 1: and get the check on payday when I wasn't working
Speaker 1: I would always make sure to wear something that was
Speaker 1: impossible to work in in case they were like, oh,
Speaker 1: well you're here. So I would wear like a Hawaiian
Speaker 1: shirt and flip flops and you know, like a cowboy hat.
Speaker 1: You know you're not getting me to work today, right, all.
Speaker 1: I used to just run in and out, like I
Speaker 1: would call it like you're like on that Friday, Like
Speaker 1: you're the checks in there? Like yeah, yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: They're like, atom will come up real quick. I'm like,
Speaker 1: is like, is Mark there? Like the owner? They're like no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm like all right, yeah, because I have I thought
Speaker 1: of it, like the boss was like half teacher, half parents,
Speaker 1: Like I thought I had to like if they say work,
Speaker 1: I gotta do it, so I gotta. I can't let
Speaker 1: them even ask, right, And uh, it's funny like if
Speaker 1: are we taught that from an early age, you know,
Speaker 1: to be as subordinate as possible. Hey, depends on what
Speaker 1: what party you're in. The reasons could be different, but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but other countries, I feel like I have healthier relationships
Speaker 1: and the big differences that their bosses don't hang the Hey,
Speaker 1: think about your health insurance, think about your family getting
Speaker 1: sick and making it so you have to but move
Speaker 1: that coersive ships everywhere though you know for sure it's
Speaker 1: just the laws there don't don't allow that for the
Speaker 1: most right. Or you could be like in the case
Speaker 1: like Japan, where they're like, we actually need to legislate
Speaker 1: to get people to work less hard because it's destroying
Speaker 1: the population. Yeah, wow, let's talk Let's talk Facebook. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about the boss Mark, who are all trying to
Speaker 1: avoid because I don't want to work to they Mark.
Speaker 1: You know, the company seems like they've lost control of
Speaker 1: the product they There are thousands of pages of internal
Speaker 1: documents that were provided to Congress that provide like they
Speaker 1: they basically have all this data on the harms they
Speaker 1: cause with all of their products, and like it's it
Speaker 1: just shows exactly how they document the harm. They pretend
Speaker 1: to do something about the harm, but then they slow
Speaker 1: walk or sideline efforts to address real harms that you
Speaker 1: know they've caused or created or magnified. And there's a
Speaker 1: good example. There's this New York Times story about their
Speaker 1: decision to or like they they started to test the
Speaker 1: idea of removing the like button from Instagram. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people remember that, and it's just like
Speaker 1: it's a great example of how this was a front
Speaker 1: page New York Times story. The New York Times just
Speaker 1: covered it as though, hey, Facebook was trying to like
Speaker 1: address these harms that they saw. They just took the
Speaker 1: like button away from Instagram and people didn't like it
Speaker 1: for some reason. And it's like that is a terrible,
Speaker 1: like halfass solution that was designed to fail improve that
Speaker 1: they have no choice but to like people and make
Speaker 1: them angry. It's just like over and over in all
Speaker 1: these papers, in every example where there is harm that
Speaker 1: is being caused by Facebook, but that is also making
Speaker 1: Facebook a more effective like ad platform, which is essentially
Speaker 1: what they are. They will like the energy is behind
Speaker 1: making the money and rising raising the stockholder prices. There's
Speaker 1: no energy behind the people who are bringing solutions to
Speaker 1: the table. So they'll hire these really experienced people with
Speaker 1: great ideas, and then those people will either you know,
Speaker 1: they'll never fire them, but those people will just immediately
Speaker 1: realize like what a load of ship it is and
Speaker 1: how much they don't give a funk about any of
Speaker 1: this and quit and then become whistleblowers, which is a
Speaker 1: part of their plan that hasn't exactly worked out, but yeah,
Speaker 1: and and their stock price. You know that. It was
Speaker 1: also report last week that they are giving a global
Speaker 1: platform to you know, anti BAX doctors who are spreading disinformation.
Speaker 1: Their accounts have grown by like thirteen thousand percent and
Speaker 1: that's percent since Facebook identified it as a problem and
Speaker 1: like banned the So they these like anti BAX doctors
Speaker 1: have like grouped together, they had an organization. Facebook banned
Speaker 1: the organization's page, but they didn't ban any of the
Speaker 1: like members of the page whose accounts than just like
Speaker 1: exploded and have resulted. Like one of the leaders of
Speaker 1: the group is a PhD and immunology from the University
Speaker 1: College Dublin, who instructed people on like, oh, she's like
Speaker 1: stepping into the realm of like legally advising people on
Speaker 1: sovereign citizen bullshit. She was apparently consulting the people who
Speaker 1: stole a COVID patient out of the hospital. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: they were like, cut, you guys are killing him, We
Speaker 1: need to like here. He's like, come with us, come
Speaker 1: with us, And then that guy died. Yeah, then that
Speaker 1: that guy was rushed back to the hospital a day
Speaker 1: later and died and don't steal patients videos. Fucked up, dude.
Speaker 1: This guy is so desperate and confused this He's like,
Speaker 1: no, no no, come with us. And they're like, sir, like
Speaker 1: the doctors, like we really are telling you should not leave.
Speaker 1: And he's like and he's like, come with and the
Speaker 1: guys that come with us if you want to live.
Speaker 1: It's like, what do you fucking Arnold Schwarzen, Yeah, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? Ah? Whatever happened to idiots? Staying home?
Speaker 1: Stay home and be a fucking moron. Don't go stealing patience,
Speaker 1: keep your the internet happened many because you can find
Speaker 1: an audience. Maybe I'm not wrong, right because these other
Speaker 1: people agree, Oh, let's bring back laziness. Be a lazy
Speaker 1: queue and thank you. Stay home, stay retired. And you know,
Speaker 1: as all of this information is coming out, you know,
Speaker 1: Facebook has been having one of the worst weeks in
Speaker 1: company history, like as in the history of any company.
Speaker 1: Fifty news stories have laid out Facebook's utter failures to
Speaker 1: believe its own platform, and their share price was rising
Speaker 1: at the beginning of this week. So it's exactly like
Speaker 1: the central problem is that all they care about the
Speaker 1: shareholder prices and all the shareholders care about is the
Speaker 1: things that are driving the price of them. They don't
Speaker 1: give a funk that they're you know, breaking the world. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we that movie about them came out eleven years ago.
Speaker 1: We've known like by all Facebook is turns out and
Speaker 1: I'm like, turns out that was the number one movie
Speaker 1: was company and that was a long time ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good lord. It's also really it's i mean, people haven't
Speaker 1: even begun or slowly the conversations just coming out about
Speaker 1: like Facebook as it relates to India, because India is
Speaker 1: actually the largest user base for the company, but the
Speaker 1: United States gets like seven per cent of the company's
Speaker 1: like global budget in terms of like time spent on
Speaker 1: like battling you know, misinformation. And when you look at
Speaker 1: what's happening in India and the things that have proliferated
Speaker 1: on Facebook, they're like, this is a whole other fucking crisis.
Speaker 1: But right now there's it's like there there there's so
Speaker 1: many bad things happening that I'm like, I'm hoping legislators
Speaker 1: can keep track of it all because you know the
Speaker 1: effects are just so far reaching. Shut it off? Can
Speaker 1: we just shut it off? Like there's got to be
Speaker 1: something that one Monday, shut off, turn off this website.
Speaker 1: What does what's that have to do to get shut off?
Speaker 1: Keep the good parts of connecting people, like with like
Speaker 1: a WhatsApp or like the commerce things where people can
Speaker 1: actually support themselves, but this whole other shit. It's like,
Speaker 1: that's why we'll see what happens. I mean this whole week.
Speaker 1: You know, the Senate is speaking to a lot of
Speaker 1: people in text, so we'll see what they what they
Speaker 1: make of that. We need we need the social network too,
Speaker 1: because the that movie made him look like an asshole,
Speaker 1: but like a fun asshole you were kind of like
Speaker 1: not rooting for. But it was like, you know, you
Speaker 1: saw the seeds of like what we're seeing come to
Speaker 1: fruition now. But like what that's a that's a great movie.
Speaker 1: And it's also like you need to, for the record
Speaker 1: show like all the awful ship that has happened since then. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he I think that branded him is just like
Speaker 1: he's a law college student, he's working a hoodie. He's
Speaker 1: not a super villain. He's just he's just in his
Speaker 1: dorm room being in college. But it's like, yo, he's
Speaker 1: a full grown man who's evil and rich, and destroying
Speaker 1: the planet. Oh, he wears the same thing every day
Speaker 1: to drink snapple in his dorm room. Okay, he's he's
Speaker 1: on his way to fucking the earth, right on my
Speaker 1: way to destroy every other just wore a hoodie he
Speaker 1: could bring he would, he would be like, oh, come on,
Speaker 1: he's got a hoodie on. Come on, it's Michael Jordan's mustache.
Speaker 1: He's like just a bullets fan. Probably come on, I relaxed.
Speaker 1: There needs to be like a downfall type treatment of Facebook,
Speaker 1: like you know, look at the last day, like a
Speaker 1: Hitler and stuff where you can just be like, dude,
Speaker 1: it's a mess, it's pathetic, it's dangerous. There's nothing good
Speaker 1: going on here, Like there's no there's no cool track
Speaker 1: from Garbage doing like a cover of Hotel California or
Speaker 1: something playing to like make it kind of offset how
Speaker 1: grim everything is. Like people really need to see just
Speaker 1: how you know, sadly that's the only way people know
Speaker 1: how to communicates, Like is there a movie that kind
Speaker 1: of explains how democracy is backsliding across the earth because
Speaker 1: of Facebook? I mean movies and you know, prestige TV
Speaker 1: shows are incredibly important for like giving people the imaginary
Speaker 1: or imaginative vocabulary to understand things, so you get it done.
Speaker 1: But we don't need it to be you uh fucking
Speaker 1: what's his name? Writer? Yeah, Sorkin does not does not
Speaker 1: need to be a Sorkin joint, although you know they're fun.
Speaker 1: But I just feel like we would get some revisionists.
Speaker 1: You own the fence to? What would sell me a
Speaker 1: fense to? And I'll make this all go away type
Speaker 1: ship from from him? Yeah, he completely doesn't understand it.
Speaker 1: Like Mark Zuckerberg's talking to like Novendra Modi in India
Speaker 1: and he's like, yes, sell me a fence. They like,
Speaker 1: all right, dude, click, I mean, like you see that's
Speaker 1: how it happened, don't. Don't. Who would be the best
Speaker 1: director for that? For the writer writer director maybe, well
Speaker 1: it needs to actually be to get the information out.
Speaker 1: It should be a real average director who's popular. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you want people to see it, get get who's
Speaker 1: the guy that makes Fast and Furious? What's that? That's
Speaker 1: a guy's name? Do that? That guy? The Asian director? Yeah? Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: what is it? James something? Justin justin lynn on it.
Speaker 1: We'll see it. But but no, I think you know
Speaker 1: Sam Mendez because he does like really good like America
Speaker 1: is so fucked up movies. Yeah, Like and there's like
Speaker 1: like also like their gutshot silent evil people. I feel like,
Speaker 1: is yeah a specialty. Oh yeah, yeah, that might be
Speaker 1: interesting case. I just think of like what's um like
Speaker 1: Revolutionary Road. Oh god, that was a fucking neck breaker.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh fuck, dude, Yeah that was tough.
Speaker 1: That was hard to right, and even like treating like
Speaker 1: Michael Shannon's character, who was like the like more aware
Speaker 1: than anyone in that time, like portraying like how everyone's like,
Speaker 1: oh he's off, he's disturbed. He's kind of seeing the
Speaker 1: matrix while all you are fucking shoving your heads anyway, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you see the matrix, you gotta win. You can't
Speaker 1: come in second. Or the wachowskis fuck it. Just to
Speaker 1: give enough that people are like fun, just to turn
Speaker 1: it up so you really understand what the is going on. Well,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back. And fox Weather just launched R I
Speaker 1: P to the Planet Earth. They dumped ten million dollars
Speaker 1: into fox Weather, which is a free, had supported twenty
Speaker 1: four hour channel you can get either on TV or
Speaker 1: through an app, and hold onto your butts, guys, because
Speaker 1: this weather app uses cutting edge three D radar and
Speaker 1: the unprecedented technology future view that allows you to check
Speaker 1: the weather several months ahead, fucking months. It's just amazing.
Speaker 1: Like the entire like the pitch that they're like launching
Speaker 1: this thing on is just such a blatant lie. It's
Speaker 1: just a total lie. Like that's impossible. That's several months ahead.
Speaker 1: Is like when the butterfly flapping its wings outside my
Speaker 1: window right now has created a monsoon, and like, and
Speaker 1: we're not gonna tell you what it feels like either.
Speaker 1: We don't care about your fucking feelings. Were what temperature?
Speaker 1: He is? That's it. Yeah, no agenda for why your
Speaker 1: home was lost in a terrible mud slide due to
Speaker 1: torrential downpours that could have been anyway. No politics, just
Speaker 1: numbers and circles. Yeah, but meteorologists say, like anything outside
Speaker 1: of two weeks is not feasible, And George Soros paid
Speaker 1: them to take their your weather information from you. That's
Speaker 1: what he did. The forecast devolve into where it's like now,
Speaker 1: if you're living in New York, you already know Soros,
Speaker 1: You're on whatever he's deciding is going to happen up there.
Speaker 1: Now when we go into the southeast, It's like, what
Speaker 1: funk is this? I do all the Black Lives Matter
Speaker 1: rallies have created a heat wave? Is it just me?
Speaker 1: Or is that cloud look like a jew? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm just a weather man for Fox Weather.
Speaker 1: I can't tell, just a meteorologist anyway. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the clan hood for the the like this is happening
Speaker 1: at a time when the Weather Channel is like more
Speaker 1: openly agned, knowlledging the effects of pollution and global warming
Speaker 1: and the apocalyptic situation that we're all in the midst
Speaker 1: of right now, and they've even like stated that, like
Speaker 1: they're fully going to cover that as a main part
Speaker 1: of their weather narratives of like the nine sickest tornadoes
Speaker 1: that through a fucking tree at a house, which is
Speaker 1: what I see every time I go to the Weather Channel.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, they have a long history of
Speaker 1: spreading or at least Fox News has a long history
Speaker 1: spread and climate related misinformation. They have been dismissive of
Speaker 1: the crisis. One climate scientist argued Fox News has been
Speaker 1: the greatest promoter of climate change disinformation over the past
Speaker 1: two decades, which is a hell of a hater ship, dude.
Speaker 1: I mean, but that's there's a lot, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of contributors to that. That's like, yeah, groups, because I mean,
Speaker 1: you look at it, because the United States has such
Speaker 1: an oversized role in, for whatever reason, leading the Earth
Speaker 1: into its own destruction that when you have one channel
Speaker 1: that's speaking to one half of the government being like nah,
Speaker 1: spake yeah, Like yeah, I guess it is probably yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe it does deserve that title. A little over a
Speaker 1: month ago, Fox News literally cut away from an emergency
Speaker 1: briefing on the deadly storm in New York because the
Speaker 1: topic of climate change came up the Fox News like
Speaker 1: it was a Thursday morning New York briefing on the
Speaker 1: deadly storms and floods. Uh, and a Democratic congressman site
Speaker 1: a climate change is a factor, and they immediately pulled away,
Speaker 1: and anchor Bill Hammer grumbled, Well, that turned political quite quickly,
Speaker 1: so which isn't like Also, you know, in the aftermath
Speaker 1: of Hurricane i'da, only four percent of major network coverage
Speaker 1: even mentioned climate change, So it's not like they're alone
Speaker 1: in this but they do seem to be coming at
Speaker 1: it from an angle of, you know, actively dismissing it
Speaker 1: as opposed to just politely ignoring it. Right, that's amazing
Speaker 1: to you pointed a camera at Congress and you're like,
Speaker 1: so political today? Where they that's going on with this politics? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it might get to the point where the
Speaker 1: accepted wisdom is that it is climate change, and then
Speaker 1: there's just gonna be like, oh, there's a fire, now
Speaker 1: we can't show that fire. That's too political. There there's
Speaker 1: a hurricane, not a political hurricane. That's where I feel
Speaker 1: like eventually that that's gonna have be other coverage is dictated.
Speaker 1: If they're trying to ignore everything at all costs, we
Speaker 1: should start naming the hurricanes after Fox News anchors. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that'll shame him. Yeah, that they would just like take
Speaker 1: that as a point of pride. That was the best idea,
Speaker 1: maybe my worst ever. I'm in fact honored the distinction
Speaker 1: of a massive weather system with the potential to alter
Speaker 1: the lives of them. But our writer Jam was pointing
Speaker 1: out that like, because they so they're they're claiming like
Speaker 1: we're not gonna not cover it, So Fox Weather, we're
Speaker 1: not gonna not cover it. But even if they acknowledge
Speaker 1: it, it it kind of creates this dystopian strategy where Fox
Speaker 1: News perpetuates climate change, which leads to more extreme weather,
Speaker 1: which in turn increases viewership for Fox Weather. Like when
Speaker 1: you think about how this project was launched, there's almost
Speaker 1: no chance that they weren't like, well, the future of
Speaker 1: weather is going to be really bad because the climate change.
Speaker 1: Hence there's gonna be a lot of eyeballs there, you know,
Speaker 1: mm hmm. I mean you look like they said, there's
Speaker 1: a picture of a what is it a burning building?
Speaker 1: Just fucking stay on it. Yeah, you know, just that's
Speaker 1: similar strategies. But I'm curious to see, like what the
Speaker 1: what this weather coverage like? Yeah, because yeah, right, the
Speaker 1: Weather Channel like at least has you know, like they
Speaker 1: I like how they've sort of been evolving over the
Speaker 1: years to really help people like get like not have
Speaker 1: such an abstract idea of what like terrible weathers. Like
Speaker 1: when you're like, okay, you know what a flood is
Speaker 1: and they're like, here with with the computer graphics, I
Speaker 1: will show you what six foot of flooding looks like,
Speaker 1: what eight ft of flooding looks like relative, like to
Speaker 1: a street sign. And then people are, oh, so for
Speaker 1: sort of dumb people like me who don't like like,
Speaker 1: we're bad in science classes tremendously and me, I need
Speaker 1: a movie like Moonfall to make it all right. Clicking
Speaker 1: click into place at about the heat wave today. It's
Speaker 1: already up and running, and I think people were like, well,
Speaker 1: they didn't actively say climate change isn't real in the
Speaker 1: first six hours, but you know there they haven't blamed
Speaker 1: rainstorms on immigrants yet. But that doesn't mean that they're
Speaker 1: like foe a political posturing will be any less harmful
Speaker 1: in the long run. Hurricanes they come right up from
Speaker 1: the border. These hurricanes coyotes. That's that's what you gotta do.
Speaker 1: You gotta stop at the force. They start in Honduras
Speaker 1: and they take a very tumultuous journey with their children
Speaker 1: all the way. Somebody say these hurricanes are bad parents,
Speaker 1: putting theirs at risk. We need these walls to be
Speaker 1: damn ten miles high block these these storms. They can't.
Speaker 1: I want storms to come legally through our wall into
Speaker 1: our country. You know what was the thing Louie Gomert
Speaker 1: said the other day about he was talking to a scientist,
Speaker 1: and he just had the most had the most ass
Speaker 1: and I in suggestion, and they're like, that's not even
Speaker 1: physically possible for I mean, I think we're we're very
Speaker 1: quickly approaching these kinds of just idiocracy solutions to climate change. Yell,
Speaker 1: can we just stop the heat? Right? What make a
Speaker 1: like a big sunshade? Like, gosh, ship, what if we
Speaker 1: all leave our fridge door open for for ten years?
Speaker 1: Build the shade, Build the shade, Like what the fuck,
Speaker 1: you idiot? Aarasol over Florida is gonna stop our hurricane.
Speaker 1: That book Freakonomics like literally made me buy something very similar,
Speaker 1: like I think I read it in like high school
Speaker 1: or you know, and they were like, yeah, you know
Speaker 1: a lot of problems seemed really bad, but then like
Speaker 1: somebody solved it. Like people thought horse poop was gonna
Speaker 1: like overwhelm our cities back before the invention of the car,
Speaker 1: and so like one of the things they're probably gonna
Speaker 1: do is just like put a bunch of particulate matter
Speaker 1: in the atmosphere year that will like block the Sun's
Speaker 1: raise a little bit and like help us regulate temperature.
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, so I don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about this for like six months. Turns out block
Speaker 1: the Suns raise. Yeah, man, you see this is bad
Speaker 1: because we're all going to tune into Fox what just
Speaker 1: because we're like curious, and then they're gonna last forever.
Speaker 1: That first day, everybody's gonna be like, what's this racist weather?
Speaker 1: Gonna be like too late? Made too much money? Do
Speaker 1: you imagine? Like they just go too hard, and even
Speaker 1: their own viewers like, look, I just want the weather man,
Speaker 1: like I watched Fox News for like my like to
Speaker 1: get my racist mouth watering. Just I just want to
Speaker 1: know if it's going to rain tomorrow. Please don't say
Speaker 1: critical race theory. Caleb A is always such a pleasure
Speaker 1: of having you, Man, where can where can people find you?
Speaker 1: Follow you? Watch you while that? Yeah, you can find
Speaker 1: me on Twitter. I had to start over on twite
Speaker 1: Twitter because of some uh I got banned, So follow
Speaker 1: me at dumb Caleb. This is a good account. I'm
Speaker 1: not impersonating anyone. I didn't know you could pretend to
Speaker 1: be presidential candidates. I thought that was fun and funny
Speaker 1: and really yeah, you know, I saw other comics doing it.
Speaker 1: It was just fun. You change your profile picture in
Speaker 1: your name, and you're like, hey, I'm Trump, I'm buying
Speaker 1: and I thought it was fun and then I got
Speaker 1: it took that, but so now I'm dumb Caleb and
Speaker 1: it's just me on there. And I got a podcast
Speaker 1: called What's it Called? With Dave Ross and it's really
Speaker 1: dumb and fun, but I love it, and so listen
Speaker 1: to that. And uh, we renamed stuff a lot, and
Speaker 1: we don't know what our podcasts called, and it's just
Speaker 1: it's an excuse to riff. Like we renamed Titanic, changed
Speaker 1: the name to boat, and then we photoshop, you know.
Speaker 1: Then we get on Twitter and we're like, hey, if
Speaker 1: you have a dumb name, like uh for home improvement,
Speaker 1: and then like someone tweeted in how about man? You know,
Speaker 1: it was home Depot. We were like home Depot, that's
Speaker 1: someone renamed Man's Labyrinth and we laughed for eight days.
Speaker 1: It's just super fun, and give it a list, give
Speaker 1: it a list. A lot of funny people tweet what's
Speaker 1: it called? Again? At the show what's it called? Hey? Uh?
Speaker 1: And is there a tweet or some of the work
Speaker 1: of social media you've been enjoying? Oh uh, So Twitter
Speaker 1: is like the you know, it's the worst website. It's
Speaker 1: it's amazing how Facebook just is the worst. And then Twitter, like,
Speaker 1: I guess a lot of people just don't have it.
Speaker 1: But I saw a tweet one of the tweets that
Speaker 1: makes me laugh so hard I think about it sometimes.
Speaker 1: I love Steve Martin on there. I know he's an
Speaker 1: old guy, but uh, one of his that made me
Speaker 1: laugh is it was a quote tweet and from like
Speaker 1: NASA or something that was astronomers just found twenty new
Speaker 1: moons around saturny And he said I knew about him
Speaker 1: last year, but who the hell is gonna listen to me?
Speaker 1: I just think he's the funniest. He's still the funniest guy.
Speaker 1: But it's so funny. Man. Yeah, Twitter can be a nightmare,
Speaker 1: but he's funny on there. Yeah, it really can. Miles,
Speaker 1: Where can people find you as a tweet you've been enjoying?
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles
Speaker 1: of Gray. Also the other show for twenty Day Fiance
Speaker 1: with Sophie Alexandra talking ninety day Beyonce. Let's see a
Speaker 1: tweet that I like. This one is from Jason Candor
Speaker 1: at Jason candor just since we're talking about taxes, He's tweeted,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk, be aware if they can tax a billionaire
Speaker 1: like me, they can tax you regular people too, regular people.
Speaker 1: We've been paying our taxing this whole time, bro, which
Speaker 1: is very much like the like billionaires are realized, like yeah,
Speaker 1: that doesn't work. We've been here, that's amazing. Should we
Speaker 1: just call it like the best at capitalism? Tax? Is
Speaker 1: that just like complement in there that the war not
Speaker 1: just stop saying it's gonna be like the most baller
Speaker 1: is called who's paying this tab? Baller's only club? And
Speaker 1: every week the baller's only club as to gathering like
Speaker 1: because you know, like what is it the u N
Speaker 1: or something? Food scarcity sort of subdivisions like you know
Speaker 1: like two percent of Elon Musk's wealth could wipe out
Speaker 1: global hunger, but whatever, you know, and then you you
Speaker 1: do it like that, you're like, okay, man, who's got
Speaker 1: the tab on global hunger? Who's got the tab on
Speaker 1: like modernizing like irrigation and like up saleran Africa? Who's
Speaker 1: got that tab? And then it says all ballers making
Speaker 1: it rain? You know that's what they Yeah, if there's
Speaker 1: a rapper that could brag like if dj Kalet was
Speaker 1: like I solved you know this bridge came from me.
Speaker 1: I'm I was the guy that made that, then it
Speaker 1: would be cool. It would be cool to be like, oh,
Speaker 1: hell yeah, my taxes do ship right. It's all about brand. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Balling isn't about having three rolls Royces. Balling is about
Speaker 1: giving people educational financial choices. Yeah, hell yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean proving the post office? Can we just
Speaker 1: honeypot them, like put somebody who they're interested in romantically
Speaker 1: in there, like Brian's should have done this, but like
Speaker 1: and then just like street sign right, and then just
Speaker 1: be like hey, like it's kind of fucked up that
Speaker 1: you haven't ended world Hunger yet today, Like that's oh right,
Speaker 1: like Megan Fox or something. Yeah. I feel like Elon
Speaker 1: Musk secretly loved Megan Fox because he thinks Transformers is
Speaker 1: like the best film ever. It's like, I don't know, Ellen,
Speaker 1: are you weed? And He's like, yeah, I'm Weed. I
Speaker 1: you can find me on Twitter at jack Undersquirrel. Brian,
Speaker 1: let's see some tweets have been enjoying. Maggie Winters tweeted,
Speaker 1: oh great, here comes James and his giant fucking peach.
Speaker 1: Fun that guy and Brodie Google Google to tweeted I
Speaker 1: could change logan, Roy, that's great, just groaning. Uhh, it's great. No,
Speaker 1: you're right, it's huge, huge, man. You don't have to
Speaker 1: bring it every time. It's all people, you know, like
Speaker 1: they know that's the best we've ever heard. I can
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Speaker 1: and our foot notes where we link off to the
Speaker 1: information that we talked about in today's episode, as well
Speaker 1: as a song that we think you should go check out.
Speaker 1: Maybe Miles, what's the song that we are sending people
Speaker 1: to go check out? Two days? So this is a
Speaker 1: you know, a rapper sort of multi hyph in an
Speaker 1: artist Milon Chunky No from the UK but via Zimbabwe,
Speaker 1: and you know, like it's in the grime scene and
Speaker 1: just like all kinds of different music scenes. But this
Speaker 1: is a really dope track called meth m e h
Speaker 1: because it kind of sums up the vibe right now.
Speaker 1: But the track is anything but meth. It's very you know,
Speaker 1: it's just like that uk rap. I love the accent,
Speaker 1: I love to lingo, I like the production and I
Speaker 1: think you will too. So go check out Meth by Chunky,
Speaker 1: Yeah met by Chunky? All right? Well, the Daily Zike
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