Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season one ninety, episode
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Speaker 1: by my co host, Mr Miles g Bro. Come on, bro,
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Speaker 1: Christi Yamagucci, anyway, Vogue Madonna A k A. You love
Speaker 1: to see a shout out to all the Voguers from
Speaker 1: Paris is burning that helped bring in the Vogue era,
Speaker 1: like Willie Ninja shout out to Christi Yamaguchi made one
Speaker 1: more time, one more well, we are thrilled to be
Speaker 1: joined by the very funny and talented improvisers who are
Speaker 1: the creators and not hosts but talent on the new
Speaker 1: Big Money Players Behind Creative Force, behind uh the new
Speaker 1: show on the Big Money Players Network, Will Ferrell's Big
Speaker 1: Money Players Network. The show is called This Is Americans Live.
Speaker 1: It is a fully improvised satire on another lesser podcast
Speaker 1: you've probably never heard of. I've called This American Life.
Speaker 1: Please welcome Aristotle a Theorists and Andy Harris. Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you. That was nice. Do we need to sing
Speaker 1: our own intro like you guys did? Or if you
Speaker 1: want me you got uh? Andy? Um, I'll play the
Speaker 1: instrumental and you sing. Ready, okay, all right, here we go, ok,
Speaker 1: here we go. We're happened to be here. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about some stuff that you've decided we should talk about. Nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, I'm sorry you guys. Let me know that
Speaker 1: was thoroughly good. As as we were saying, that was George,
Speaker 1: that was George thoroughly good. Yeah, it was George thoroughly Yeah.
Speaker 1: What's new with y'all? Where you guys at? Where you
Speaker 1: out in the world? Los Angeles For me. Hey, he's
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles too. Where are you guys? Hey a
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, you know where else where else the podcasting
Speaker 1: capital of the Earth. I'm in Pittsburgh at my in
Speaker 1: law's house. So they hear me doing all of the
Speaker 1: ship that you just heard me do. Uh, lucky, lucky
Speaker 1: that they have no references to what you're doing. They're
Speaker 1: just like, they just hear you singing because I told
Speaker 1: them I'm a lawyer. Because so they're just like, why
Speaker 1: does he impress them? Yeah, you're you're on. I mean
Speaker 1: that that seemed to work in nineties movies. That song
Speaker 1: was always the best way to introduce anything. I also,
Speaker 1: my mother in law cut me up some Asian melon,
Speaker 1: and I just realized that that is a crunchy food
Speaker 1: that I should not be eating while recording. So apologies
Speaker 1: to anybody who's turned off by the sounds of my
Speaker 1: teeth crunching through firm melon. Yeah yeah, if he's eating
Speaker 1: rocks again, folks, it's like white yeah, right, white melon.
Speaker 1: Musk melon that's sometimes called I don't even yeah, I
Speaker 1: just know that it's always at the Korean grocery store.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's not even called Asian melon, and that was
Speaker 1: just jack apple. Yeah, tastes just like a Granny Smith.
Speaker 1: It was gonna show us like candied almonds. Because they
Speaker 1: call these candy culture. This is called that's popcorn being
Speaker 1: healthy today. So you guys have been homies for a
Speaker 1: long time. Is this the first project that you've worked
Speaker 1: on together or your backstory as a teen enemies for
Speaker 1: a while? Well, we were. We were in an improv
Speaker 1: group together a long time ago. He's performing a chuckled
Speaker 1: Let's do this at UCB and then also we did
Speaker 1: a lot of the cage matches there and whatnot, and
Speaker 1: then we student in. Yeah, we had a two man,
Speaker 1: two man team for a while, a two man group
Speaker 1: for a while for a short while. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: you know, things happened, people grow apart. You started making
Speaker 1: money doing his radio stuff, and then I started, you know,
Speaker 1: doing my thing, and we have and seeing each other
Speaker 1: in a long time. But as far as like outside
Speaker 1: of that, yeah, this is the first thing that we
Speaker 1: had done together. And what we we We've been toying
Speaker 1: with the idea for for a minute. You know, I'd
Speaker 1: come with I'd come to him with like podcast ideas
Speaker 1: and you'd be like, yeah, that works that doesn't work,
Speaker 1: We'll try some stuff out. We recorded, and you know,
Speaker 1: he would add his little flavor to it. Yeah. After
Speaker 1: after a while we reunited. When Ari had a he
Speaker 1: did a show with the improv as, um, who are you?
Speaker 1: You were the drug lord Pablo Escobar? Yeah, and he
Speaker 1: brought me into play Ronald Reagan and uh, it was
Speaker 1: it was pretty It was a pretty bad Ronald Reagan impression.
Speaker 1: That was pretty good. Yeah, it was. Well. The the
Speaker 1: IRA glass on This is America Is Live? I think
Speaker 1: that's you are Stottle right, Yeah, it's so good man,
Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, I've heard a lot of IRA glasses
Speaker 1: in my time, and that's this is the best one
Speaker 1: by far. And yeah, this show is really funny that
Speaker 1: you guys are amazing together. And yeah, people need to
Speaker 1: go check it out. It drops uh this weekend, right,
Speaker 1: it did, it did already. Yeah, it just dropped. It
Speaker 1: dropped on the twenties and yeah, so you're a little
Speaker 1: bit Yeah, bad that. I was too busy celebrating uh
Speaker 1: father's father's showered with gifts. He was celebrated. He was
Speaker 1: celebrating the launch of This is americans Live on all
Speaker 1: podcasts platforms. Well, people can go check it out right
Speaker 1: now then, and they ought to. We are going to
Speaker 1: get to know you guys a little bit better in
Speaker 1: a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners a couple
Speaker 1: of things we're talking about. We're gonna talk about the
Speaker 1: US training of some of the assassins who killed Jamal
Speaker 1: k G. We're gonna talk about why young people don't
Speaker 1: own homes because Wall Street does Wall Streets buy and
Speaker 1: all the houses across the country. Obviously, the big story
Speaker 1: for the day on this show and in our lives collectively,
Speaker 1: Miles especially, there's new news about the subway tuna mystery.
Speaker 1: What is in subway tuna? The New York Times New
Speaker 1: York Times I think listens to the Daily ze geist
Speaker 1: because yesterday they had a big feature that was, like,
Speaker 1: you know, in depth reporting on the Britney Spears case,
Speaker 1: and now they just did an update on the subway
Speaker 1: tuna mystery. Uh and did not find any tuna present
Speaker 1: in the subway tuna sandwich. All that plenty more. But first, Aristotle, Andy,
Speaker 1: what is something from your search histories that's revealing about
Speaker 1: who you guys are. Well, I will say the most
Speaker 1: searched thing lately is this is a Americans Live, Andy Harris,
Speaker 1: so I can check on the reviews. And because I'm
Speaker 1: obseted with I'm obsessed with myself, right of course, of course, yeah,
Speaker 1: very honest answer. Also, that's the number one thing trending
Speaker 1: on Google right now. Yes, a lot of traffic coming
Speaker 1: out of l A on parlor. Yeah. My searchtory history
Speaker 1: was I was googling Andy, googling himself and Google. Should
Speaker 1: I be worried? Should I be worried? I was googling
Speaker 1: h you know, like side effects and like, you know,
Speaker 1: I've been obsessed with what's ahead of me in regards
Speaker 1: to like, you know, after the second I know, after
Speaker 1: the second dose, people get really kind of little boot,
Speaker 1: you know. So for those who don't know, I just
Speaker 1: I just got my second dose of the of the vaccine,
Speaker 1: and so I was just kind of research. I've been
Speaker 1: researching a lot of that. Yeah. And how are you feeling? Feeling? Okay? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: a little alethargically, a little bit of a headache, Not
Speaker 1: not really. It's funny, like I've had hangovers that are
Speaker 1: worse than this, So it's not like really anything. It's
Speaker 1: nothing like, oh, I'm really sick, like I actually if
Speaker 1: that part of my memory had been erased that I
Speaker 1: actually got the shot yesterday, I would just think today
Speaker 1: I was having an off day, right, So that's good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: My wife, My wife is a pain physician, and I
Speaker 1: was having this like weird phantom pain in my knee
Speaker 1: the other day and she was like, okay, well, like
Speaker 1: where is it on a scale of one to tend,
Speaker 1: like think about the worst pain you've ever had? And
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know what that is. I
Speaker 1: think it might be a hangover. I think my hangovers
Speaker 1: were that bad. That might be the worst pain on
Speaker 1: your knee. Well no, no, just like she was asking,
Speaker 1: like the highest point of pain that I've ever experienced,
Speaker 1: and like I would have twenty four hours where like
Speaker 1: my head would be in just the most pain I
Speaker 1: can imagine a headache causing and then also nausea is
Speaker 1: on top of it. So wait, what a fan home
Speaker 1: pain in your knee? I just thought I didn't know
Speaker 1: where it came from? Okay, yeah, and I thought that
Speaker 1: was so not cooler than unimaginary pain. But you knew
Speaker 1: like where in your knee it was hurting, right, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: so so it's not like a phantom phantom limb where
Speaker 1: like you felt like a second. Yeah, yeah, that's probably
Speaker 1: not the correct term. And you weren't referencing the Metal
Speaker 1: Gear Solid game either, right, No, I was referencing phantom Thread,
Speaker 1: the Paul Thomas and movie. But it makes more sense, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because I feel like I have phantom pains all the time.
Speaker 1: I don't know where they right right, Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: still and and then it just kind of went away.
Speaker 1: I think it might have been actually a cramp from
Speaker 1: being dehydrated, is my leading hypothesis right now. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: was referencing phantom threat because I think it also was
Speaker 1: caused by my wife poisoning me with mushrooms. A phantom
Speaker 1: thread for all the heads out there that happens, that happens,
Speaker 1: and that that happens. It's not like it's interesting. I
Speaker 1: did just watch an episode of Law and Order s
Speaker 1: VU where that happens too, So is it possible that
Speaker 1: phantom thread lifted that from an old episode of Law
Speaker 1: and Order s V. I think all the things that's
Speaker 1: an accusation I'm happy to make. Yeh. That's something that
Speaker 1: I think happens more than we think, Like people have
Speaker 1: pointed out that a lot of m Night Shamlan plots,
Speaker 1: or at least a couple of them, were pulled from
Speaker 1: Nickelodeon shows. Oh yeah, are you Afraid of the Dark?
Speaker 1: And yeah, I think either. Are You Afraid of the Darker?
Speaker 1: Goose Bumps had an episode that was like basically beat
Speaker 1: for beat sixth cents, like with the twists and everything.
Speaker 1: Oh no ship, yeah makes sense. I mean Annapurna Pictures
Speaker 1: has been just mired in controversy for the amount of
Speaker 1: concepts that they lift from different like Dick Wolf shows.
Speaker 1: Is that true? No fandom thread, I mean zero Dark
Speaker 1: thirty We all remember that episode of s VU. But
Speaker 1: if you if you are somebody who's a writer and
Speaker 1: like works in the realm of like plot, like you're
Speaker 1: always looking for like ideas, I'm sure, like whether you're watching,
Speaker 1: like reading a children's book or whatever. You know, sometimes
Speaker 1: an idea like just pops in your head. You don't
Speaker 1: even know where it came from, and sometimes it originated
Speaker 1: from something like that, And then yeah, of course, you know,
Speaker 1: I had this one idea where Arnold Schwarzenegger would play
Speaker 1: like a sideboard, right and come back from come from
Speaker 1: from being serious Comes from the Future was specifically Schwarzenegger.
Speaker 1: And then he teaches kindergarten. He teaches kindergarten class and
Speaker 1: yeah exactly, and he's cleaning up the chalkboard with an
Speaker 1: eraser and it's like you've been raised, you've been erased. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's pregnant. Yeah. Brother, we have this idea, this
Speaker 1: da before. I mean, what writer's room hasn't had that
Speaker 1: idea floating around? What is something you guys think is
Speaker 1: overrated social interaction? What sense? What do you mean? Like
Speaker 1: you're you're just over it, You're not You're not doing
Speaker 1: it again? Doing things, going and doing things because that
Speaker 1: was the that was the whole thing during the pandemic.
Speaker 1: It is like, oh, I can't wait to get out
Speaker 1: and go do stuff again. It's like then you gotta
Speaker 1: then you gotta go do stuff? Wait, what enjoy this
Speaker 1: while you can enjoy doing nothing? Right, I could never
Speaker 1: understand like every oh, I can't wait to go to
Speaker 1: a restaurant again, Like who has to go to a
Speaker 1: sit in a room with all these people eating? I do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's very overrated, infuriating, lee overrated, you look furious, man?
Speaker 1: I was that manifesto coming along, she eases. The best
Speaker 1: way to describe you know someone's bad when they describe
Speaker 1: it as he's I think he's got a gun on him,
Speaker 1: he said, Geez, Aristotle, you come up with anything, you
Speaker 1: think it's over it. I think Law and Order spoo
Speaker 1: because my because my wife watches it all the fucking time.
Speaker 1: She's seen every episode. But she watches it over and
Speaker 1: over and over again. It's like that, or like the voice.
Speaker 1: Her favorite shows run on this spectrum. It's like on
Speaker 1: one side, it's like singing competition or or murder and rape. Right,
Speaker 1: that's what she likes, all right, So why haven't Why
Speaker 1: haven't we talked about this? I am I'm not joking.
Speaker 1: I'm in the middle of binge watching all of the
Speaker 1: episodes of Law and Order SVU. That's why I was
Speaker 1: talking about it. Just now. I just got to have
Speaker 1: a talk because she stopped it. I just stopped at
Speaker 1: season twelve, when Stabler leaves the show because he shoots
Speaker 1: a girl. You don't I know, I know, I don't
Speaker 1: know anything to talk about spoiling things. I'm only on
Speaker 1: season eleven. Oh my god, she just watches it all
Speaker 1: the time. It's like I always tell her I was
Speaker 1: like if there was like and then and then she
Speaker 1: is so and then she likes like murder mystery shows
Speaker 1: and a lot of like just stuff that just heinous crimes.
Speaker 1: And like the joke is in the house is like
Speaker 1: if there was a show where you would see like
Speaker 1: somebody who uh. It's like it starts off as like
Speaker 1: a singing competition show and then the persons on stage
Speaker 1: and then they're like singing their heart out and there's
Speaker 1: like three chairs right with all the chairs like turn back,
Speaker 1: and the person on stage is like going uh and
Speaker 1: then and then and then all of a sudden you
Speaker 1: see like the buttons go and then the chairs turned,
Speaker 1: and then each one of the people have guns and
Speaker 1: they're like down the person and the person dies on stage.
Speaker 1: I'm like, that would be your favorite show. Arnold Schwartzenegger
Speaker 1: is one of the hosts. Yeah, yeah, were you guys
Speaker 1: Schwarzenegger or Stallone guys? I like both voids Jack. I
Speaker 1: think it is more Stallone because of Rocky was just
Speaker 1: because of like just by I think now I like
Speaker 1: Schwartzenegger movies better, But growing up I was full Rocky Rambo.
Speaker 1: My dad would go see the Rambo movies when they
Speaker 1: came out in theaters, and then tell me about them
Speaker 1: the next morning over breakfast, like it was the most
Speaker 1: detailed conversations we ever had. And then you let me
Speaker 1: go see Rambo three in the theater, which was I
Speaker 1: was way too young to do that. You kind of
Speaker 1: you kind of look like the guy who would be
Speaker 1: in the actor who would be cast a stallone son
Speaker 1: in a movie. Oh man, that means so much to me,
Speaker 1: Like I've really built my life towards that compliment. That
Speaker 1: means so much to me. You honor me, sir ye
Speaker 1: speaking of speaking of sylvest just alone. Coincidentally, that is
Speaker 1: my nothing gets me more cheese. There's a scene, it's
Speaker 1: the most upsetting scene, upsetting line in all of cinema
Speaker 1: is the Rocky movie where there where they go to
Speaker 1: Los Angeles if they're gonna fight club or lang whichever
Speaker 1: one that is, yeah, okay okay? And Bert Bert Young
Speaker 1: is that his name? Whoever? The whoever that that that
Speaker 1: guy the trainer maybe the yeah poll okay. So so
Speaker 1: they cut to their in Los Angeles, right and it's
Speaker 1: an exterior shot of the gym in Los Angeles and
Speaker 1: Pauli says, what the hell are we doing in Los Angeles? Rock? Okay,
Speaker 1: so I'm supposed to believe that they got him on
Speaker 1: a plane. They got him on a plane. They took
Speaker 1: the four or five hour flight from Philadelphia to Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: He never asked during that entire time why they were
Speaker 1: going to Los Angeles. He waited until now he was Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was passed that on the plane. He woke up
Speaker 1: with a cigar in his mouth. Yeah, they so, they so,
Speaker 1: they hop a flight, they get in a cab, they
Speaker 1: drive to the venue. Never did it cross his mind
Speaker 1: to ask why. Yeah, away anyway. But I feel like
Speaker 1: that is because I think Stallone wrote that movie. I
Speaker 1: think he definitely directed it, And it's just it's peak
Speaker 1: Stallone movie like logic, where it's the characters kind of
Speaker 1: know their movie characters like they're not doing anything that's
Speaker 1: remotely approximating realistic behavior. They know they're in a fucking
Speaker 1: training monte. That's why. That's why they keep doing the
Speaker 1: same race over and over again, multiple days in the
Speaker 1: same outfits. Well, even then he should know. So if
Speaker 1: he so, he knows he's a character, he's read the script. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he knows. He knows what happens in the third act. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he had the position that's like the great line
Speaker 1: in the Rocky Balboa film that we love on this
Speaker 1: show where the sporting board is telling him he can't
Speaker 1: box because he might die, and he accepts the ruling
Speaker 1: that comes back, well don't got any don't have got
Speaker 1: any rights, And they're like, oh, let us know, sir,
Speaker 1: what are your rights to die in the ring? Because
Speaker 1: you're so elderly, I don't know, but yeah, how did
Speaker 1: they not see already? It's like, I mean, he sounds
Speaker 1: like he has brain damage, Like have you listened to
Speaker 1: yourself we're talking about That's interesting though, because it fades
Speaker 1: in and out. It's it's very he He seems very
Speaker 1: damaged in Rocky one. In the beginning of rock he too,
Speaker 1: and then it kind of goes away for Rocky three
Speaker 1: and Rocky four, and then he's brain damaged again him
Speaker 1: Rocky five. It's a it's an interesting form of brain
Speaker 1: damage that just Yeah, I think it's being your money
Speaker 1: wise exactly. It's like, you don't have brain damage when
Speaker 1: you're Yeah, the more money he had, the less bran
Speaker 1: damagin you know, my my brain damage comes and goes
Speaker 1: you know, depends on im from using the h G H.
Speaker 1: You know, it makes my head bigger, so it makes
Speaker 1: my brain larger and less damage. Alright, that's all right,
Speaker 1: that's the that's the best one. That's the best one
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of truth in that. What is
Speaker 1: what something you guys think is underrated? I guess that
Speaker 1: Polly line was, Yeah, I've already I've already given films
Speaker 1: it's underrated. How it's setting that line is Andy go
Speaker 1: you always talk things that are underrated? Uh, preparations then
Speaker 1: preparation for for podcasts that's underrated. Yeah, I definitely I
Speaker 1: should have done that. M hm. Um Let what else
Speaker 1: I think that I think silence is underrated, especially on
Speaker 1: a podcast. Yeah, well yeah, having a little bit of
Speaker 1: space I think between between um words. M hm m hmmm.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many more answers you need out
Speaker 1: of me before already thinks of something. Oh I already
Speaker 1: I already know it's underrated. Oh yeah, well please, okay,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Jesus, I'm thinking. I'm thinking it's friendship is underrated.
Speaker 1: Friendship without ends? What do I have? What do I
Speaker 1: have without Andy? Freedom? What do I have without the
Speaker 1: ability to the ability to do whatever I want whenever
Speaker 1: I want. What have I been doing to you emotionally everything?
Speaker 1: Oh I'm kidding, get the cheese off our chest in
Speaker 1: the in the break so cheese all right? I yeah.
Speaker 1: Friendship I think I think people don't know how to
Speaker 1: be friends anymore these days. I think it's true try
Speaker 1: to make new ones after a certain age. Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1: Like I can't even get my like my wife when
Speaker 1: I've asked her. And by by the way, she is
Speaker 1: my fiance. I just don't hate the word fiance, so
Speaker 1: I just say wife, We're getting married in September. But
Speaker 1: I thank you so much I asked her. I feel
Speaker 1: like there's certain things that are just kind of a given,
Speaker 1: like when you're with somebody, And I think one of
Speaker 1: those things is is the airport rides? Right? Am I right?
Speaker 1: You should always be able to get right, Am I crazy? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just roped into doing a pick up pick up
Speaker 1: drop off for my partner her majesty. So yeah. And
Speaker 1: sometimes when I asked her, sometimes like let me see
Speaker 1: if I can fit that in. Yeah yeah, but I
Speaker 1: always I'm like airport shuttle for you, I know, but
Speaker 1: I have plans, and I'm like, that is the most
Speaker 1: specific to l A, Like it is the l A
Speaker 1: love language. The ride to the airport, because the airport
Speaker 1: sucks to get to and get out of, and then
Speaker 1: right back. It's just what do you do at that point?
Speaker 1: And then she's then she's like, what the hell are
Speaker 1: we do want at the airport? Yeah, because she is Polly,
Speaker 1: I just park at the airport. Wow. But it's not
Speaker 1: just yeah, I was gonna say, it's like almost a
Speaker 1: flight you cross your flight. Well, it's not just the
Speaker 1: significant other, it's the family members. It's the oh, my
Speaker 1: mother's in town, you gotta go pick her up, my
Speaker 1: you know, It's yeah, it's everybody, everybody that she knows.
Speaker 1: You have to because they have the most cursed airport
Speaker 1: in the country, with like no options for people to
Speaker 1: leave except by car, and if God forbid you need
Speaker 1: a taxi or uber, it's like, well then you can
Speaker 1: walk a little bit to this other part that we've
Speaker 1: sort of hastily planned maybe trying to escape from there.
Speaker 1: But they just like broke ground on like the connection
Speaker 1: from the metro to the airport in l A. So
Speaker 1: it looks like they're building the fucking city of the
Speaker 1: future in there. Man, It's like it looks like the
Speaker 1: jets And yeah, well when I look at the incomplete
Speaker 1: like track from the metro to the airport, I think
Speaker 1: of his speed because you see like these two concrete
Speaker 1: things that haven't been and I'm like, hell yeah, do
Speaker 1: somebody jump back? Hell yeah? When when are they planning
Speaker 1: on finishing that? You know, I think it's three or
Speaker 1: four or something like that. Jeu, No, that's never gonna
Speaker 1: get here, kidding. Remember remember the anticipation for the purple
Speaker 1: line when when it was and then you know, I
Speaker 1: don't really hear much about that anymore, Dina a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: completed internal line, the one that went to uh yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's only one line and it takes a long
Speaker 1: ast time. All right, anyway, anyway, more of this please,
Speaker 1: all right, we will be right back after a brief message,
Speaker 1: and we're back, and let's talk about the U S.
Speaker 1: We we love to spread information, share information with our friends,
Speaker 1: especially paramilitary tips and tricks with the Saudis in particular. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it turns out four of the people that were on
Speaker 1: the hushow g Hit squad received paramilitary training in the
Speaker 1: USA and not just that it was approved by the
Speaker 1: State Department. Hey, but you know this is they say,
Speaker 1: this is from a New York Times article, uh, saying quote.
Speaker 1: The training was provided by the Arkansas based security company
Speaker 1: Tier One Group, which is owned by Cerberust Capital Management.
Speaker 1: The company says the training, including safe marksmanship and countering
Speaker 1: an attack, was defensive in nature and devised to better
Speaker 1: protect Saudi leaders. One person familiar with the training said
Speaker 1: it also included work in surveillance and close quarters battle
Speaker 1: c QB. But they say nothing. They didn't do anything
Speaker 1: that would have been like this is how you take
Speaker 1: a dissident journalist and disappear them from an embassy. It
Speaker 1: was just this other stuff that we taught them, which
Speaker 1: I'm sure is fair. But you know, this is I
Speaker 1: think just goes to, you know, underline how sort of
Speaker 1: twisted and fucked up America's foreign policy is when it
Speaker 1: comes to relationships with these autocratic governments. And before you
Speaker 1: say I can't believe Trump did this, quick note this
Speaker 1: began under Barack Obama. Is one of these guys first
Speaker 1: took their trip over here. So this is you know,
Speaker 1: this is an anything new. This is what we do
Speaker 1: over here. But you need that, you need that special
Speaker 1: ops US military training to a take on a middle
Speaker 1: aged journalist when you're like nine armed military operatives just
Speaker 1: springing on him in a surprise attack. So well, I
Speaker 1: mean like in under Siege, they didn't know that the
Speaker 1: chef had all this training. Yeah, you know, it was
Speaker 1: so good with knives. You just a chef, which I'm
Speaker 1: sure he's probably sharing his tips with like in Russia
Speaker 1: with the KGB or something. We saw what he's capable of.
Speaker 1: But I mean, yeah, this is again, this is a
Speaker 1: long pattern of informational exchanges that the US does. I mean,
Speaker 1: they just look at the School of the America's where
Speaker 1: you know, we trained cadets from all kinds of governments
Speaker 1: in Latin America with like in things like counterinsurgency and torture, interrogation, assassination,
Speaker 1: and oh why don't you know that these people went
Speaker 1: on to fight the communist revolutionaries and in the civil
Speaker 1: wars that destroyed the countries that are now becoming the
Speaker 1: source countries from any migrants. I don't think there's a
Speaker 1: connection there at all, No, I don't, but just an unfortunate,
Speaker 1: unfortunate coincidence, right, capitalism is invisible army, see I Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they've now like they've had to do a lot
Speaker 1: of like rebranding with it, because I think it was
Speaker 1: in the like in two thousand one where they finally
Speaker 1: changed the name because people like everyone was like, isn't
Speaker 1: this like the Assassin school like for foreign governments that
Speaker 1: they send up? But now it's the Western Hemisphere Institute
Speaker 1: for Security Cooperation. Your new future starts today. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: what are you so? What are you waiting for? Get
Speaker 1: off the couch, you're probably asking yourself. You have some
Speaker 1: communist revolutionaries in your country that are trying to get
Speaker 1: fair are benefits and wages for the agriculture that's being
Speaker 1: exploited by a foreign government? And get up on this
Speaker 1: thing clouded quality. Check out the Western Hemisphere in Supersecurity Cooperation? WHOA,
Speaker 1: where do I get my bro? Share? Bro? Right here
Speaker 1: in Fort Benning, Georgia. Okay, hey, what the hell are
Speaker 1: we doing in Fort Benning, jog? We're learning how to
Speaker 1: put down a popular uprising chief. Let's go I like
Speaker 1: that now. Now, PAULI is being played by Humphrey Bogart
Speaker 1: in this rocky rock What do you say? Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: good yeah, I think this just goes I think for
Speaker 1: people who are still maybe have blinders on not to
Speaker 1: understand how the US government works with other countries. It's like,
Speaker 1: yet it's to always uphold these sort of systems of
Speaker 1: oppression that will always benefit US foreign policy or business interests.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the whole thing here. But yeah, not
Speaker 1: good news for the owner of Cerberus Capital Management, who
Speaker 1: I think wanted to get an appointment at the Pentagon
Speaker 1: and then this came up and he's like, you know what,
Speaker 1: never mind, we're not talking about this. You know what
Speaker 1: I want to I want to add. So I want
Speaker 1: to make an amendment to my underrated what what I
Speaker 1: think is underrated, and that is having the blinders on, right,
Speaker 1: because what what better way to preserve your own mental
Speaker 1: health and not then to not really kind of pay
Speaker 1: attention to the atrocities that are having around Durrance is bliss,
Speaker 1: you know, true words. But I think at the same time,
Speaker 1: you know, like, I think it'll be harder to be
Speaker 1: surprised if you inform yourself. So it's as I have
Speaker 1: a quick I have a quick question. I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: just curious, Okay, So when you hear the term ignorance list,
Speaker 1: and I think this might speak to our generation. What
Speaker 1: is the image that pops into your head? What you
Speaker 1: already know? I already know what you're asking, and it's
Speaker 1: Joe Pants, Joey pants and the Matrix. It's fucking Cipher
Speaker 1: from the Matrix eating a steak eating at Yes, exactly already.
Speaker 1: I already knew where you're going to this and I'm
Speaker 1: eating it too. Just go on, But ignorance, he takes
Speaker 1: that bite, and I remember, I think it's like fourteen fifteen,
Speaker 1: and puberty just makes you like an insatiable eater of food.
Speaker 1: You're like, don't want that beat? Yeah, yeah, because ignorance
Speaker 1: is bliss and in the harp, Yeah exactly. Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 1: That's not what pops into my head at all. But
Speaker 1: I also don't have a real like cinematic image. I
Speaker 1: guess Forrest Dump maybe. And I'm like about five years
Speaker 1: older than you guys. I think so probably that might
Speaker 1: make sense because I think that movie came out five
Speaker 1: years before The Matrix. Oh but in your mind, you're like,
Speaker 1: that's the ignorance that was blissed to be Forrest Gump. Yeah, yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: even though he seemed like he was smart enough to
Speaker 1: realize that I'm sing that one line in a movie
Speaker 1: where there's like all that martial arts and the guns
Speaker 1: and like, yeah, no, yours is much cooler mine. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure is I have to go pee. Have you
Speaker 1: read have you read the Forrest Gump book? No, I've
Speaker 1: read about Forrest Gump. Have you have you read this sequel,
Speaker 1: the Forrest Gump that was in development until eleven, Like
Speaker 1: that day after nine eleven, they were like, maybe we
Speaker 1: shouldn't make a sequel to Forrest Gump where he's like
Speaker 1: in the back of O J's Bronco and just like
Speaker 1: taking a tour of the nineties and like having hilarious
Speaker 1: mishaps with the mainstream news there. Maybe that doesn't work
Speaker 1: so well in a postm Forrest Gump in the c
Speaker 1: I A crack epidemic. Nice to meet you, Freeway, Ricky Ross.
Speaker 1: That would be that would be a great parody movie,
Speaker 1: like a Forrest gun type character who's like who happens
Speaker 1: to be in the background of all these like major Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's funny. I like that a lot. That's hilarious, just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're like the most the most awful government backed atrocities
Speaker 1: on Earth. He's just there somehow. That's hilarious. All right,
Speaker 1: let's talk about why these young's don't own home. So
Speaker 1: top five reasons avocado toast spend too much on avocado
Speaker 1: toast to not eating enough canned tuna. As we'll get to.
Speaker 1: These are both Wall Street Journal articles. Uh No, So
Speaker 1: I just want to say out up front, people were
Speaker 1: complaining in the comments, or at least one person. I
Speaker 1: think it's a value criticism on some level that like
Speaker 1: they're like, you complain about capitalism, but then you cut
Speaker 1: to ads for products, like what's what's going on? And
Speaker 1: you can tell I think it's valid criticism because I
Speaker 1: gave them that stupid voice when I was impersonating their comments.
Speaker 1: But I also want to say that, like the I think,
Speaker 1: assuming that the modern state of what is defined as
Speaker 1: capitalism is just the only possibility for capitalism is very
Speaker 1: like narrow minded and shortsighted, and is like the result
Speaker 1: of just a number of like historically terrible decisions over
Speaker 1: the past forty years by the people in power in America.
Speaker 1: And so I want to talk about real estate in
Speaker 1: that context. So in this week's John Oliver segment about
Speaker 1: the pace government loan program being kind of predatory on
Speaker 1: homeowners and just utterly mismanaged. They open the the segment
Speaker 1: being like, oh, by the way, if you're thirty five,
Speaker 1: you don't need to watch this because you don't know
Speaker 1: no home. It's like you can go back to TikTok
Speaker 1: or whatever you guys do, but you don't know a home,
Speaker 1: and it's worth noting, like why that is so Over
Speaker 1: the past week, there was a story about how black Rock,
Speaker 1: or a subsidien of Blackstone, just invested six billion dollars
Speaker 1: in buying up single family homes across America, and then
Speaker 1: there was like the backlash to that story that was, like, guys,
Speaker 1: that's still a small portion of the home ownership. It's
Speaker 1: not They're not the reason that home prices are rocketing up,
Speaker 1: so just work harder basically stopped buying avocado toast. But like,
Speaker 1: just broadly, it's pretty simple that there was during after
Speaker 1: the two thousand eight economic crisis, a decision to bail
Speaker 1: out financial institutions and like the richest people on Wall Street,
Speaker 1: and that left Wall Street financial institutions with the money
Speaker 1: to like buy up homes of single families who were
Speaker 1: being forced out of their homes by the crisis that
Speaker 1: the Wall Street banks created in the first place. And
Speaker 1: like you can, like the statistics are pretty clear cut
Speaker 1: on that, Like that's that's what happened all the eight
Speaker 1: financial crisis was a huge redistribution of wealth from private
Speaker 1: individuals to like big financial institutions. And that's the reason
Speaker 1: that people don't own homes anymore. Like that's corporate investors
Speaker 1: snapped up of US homes for sale in the first
Speaker 1: quarter of this year. Like that's well, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: that's how they that's how they are now, like all
Speaker 1: this privatization of things, Like you know, there used to
Speaker 1: be publicly, publicly subsidized homes and things where the government
Speaker 1: directly did it. But that's getting more blended now. And
Speaker 1: you have a lot of banks now owning the the
Speaker 1: resources to even rent homes, and you even see them
Speaker 1: do deals with the government being like why got this,
Speaker 1: I got these homes, I can put people in. What
Speaker 1: you want to give me a little cut of government
Speaker 1: grant money and I'll put people in these homes or
Speaker 1: just to make you know, just to squeeze people as
Speaker 1: much as possible and keep them out of owning, so
Speaker 1: then they can just get into this loop of taking
Speaker 1: rents every month. Yeah, the the Slate article about you know,
Speaker 1: the this whole storyline just makes the point that it
Speaker 1: I'll just read from it. Rich people are doing so
Speaker 1: outstandingly well that they're running out of easy places to
Speaker 1: park their cash, which is why they're buying two thousand
Speaker 1: square foot houses and the Phoenix suburbs via their ownership
Speaker 1: stakes in these funds. And then as inequality in the
Speaker 1: United States increases, the financial elite invest less in the
Speaker 1: types of things that could create jobs, like research and
Speaker 1: development or new factories and more into directly extracting wealth
Speaker 1: from the working class. One way to do that become
Speaker 1: their landlords. And I just think, like this is a
Speaker 1: very clear cut story. It is like one of the
Speaker 1: main stories in the last twenty years that like gets
Speaker 1: obfuscated and like gets hidden under layers of like stories,
Speaker 1: uh brow beating millennials for buying too much avocado toast
Speaker 1: and just bullshit like that, and then like backlash two
Speaker 1: stories that blame these massive financial institutions for like changing
Speaker 1: the playing field so that it's harder to buy single
Speaker 1: family homes for single families, and yeah, it's this came
Speaker 1: as a result of policy from what was supposed to
Speaker 1: be a progressive like the progressive hope and change president,
Speaker 1: and like he put this massive change into place. So
Speaker 1: it's like, I don't know what the version of capitalism
Speaker 1: that people think of as American capitalism and is just
Speaker 1: like capitalism in general is not, like it's a oligarchy
Speaker 1: and a kleptocracy, and like we've lost the thread so
Speaker 1: badly that we don't realize like what what those things mean.
Speaker 1: Even more, we have like multiple channels designed to like
Speaker 1: tracking the stock market and like paying attention to like
Speaker 1: what the like what these immensely wealthy people's like stock
Speaker 1: portfolios are doing, and like nothing dedicated to like the
Speaker 1: actual financial realities of Americans are like and the federal
Speaker 1: government's like jobs should be to protect the people, but
Speaker 1: instead they just kind of got in on the whole
Speaker 1: financial institution logic of like, well, we were going to
Speaker 1: treat it like an investment. It's just like this is
Speaker 1: what you end up with. Well, back when everybody was
Speaker 1: actually able to afford a home, Yeah, the generations before us,
Speaker 1: that's because there weren't a million other things that you
Speaker 1: could spend your money on besides a home, you know,
Speaker 1: Like now now there's just so many options that it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like our generation has made peace
Speaker 1: with the fact that like we're not we're either not
Speaker 1: going to be able to buy our own home. And
Speaker 1: even if we were, like the there's there's iPhones and
Speaker 1: stuff like I want to spend my money on this
Speaker 1: other stuff and just rent, you know, because because you
Speaker 1: never really I mean I just feel like you never
Speaker 1: really own your own home anyway. I mean, you're just
Speaker 1: renting it from the bank anyway. I mean yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean you're paying they're paying off the mortgage and eventually,
Speaker 1: like it is, it has been traditionally in American, like
Speaker 1: in America, the way that most people gain wealth, and
Speaker 1: like the tax breaks and you know, financial breaks that
Speaker 1: go to American homeowners and that we're denied to lack
Speaker 1: Americans and Americans of color for so long was like
Speaker 1: one of the primary like giveaways of the twenty century
Speaker 1: that like allowed people to grow their wealth. Well, I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: when the whole model of like wealth accumulation in this
Speaker 1: country is built on owning land or home ownership, and
Speaker 1: that main tool of wealth accumulation is vaporized because of
Speaker 1: the fact that rate like wages don't go up, the
Speaker 1: fact that people don't have any sort of social safety
Speaker 1: nets that you know, like that we're more robust in
Speaker 1: the past. Yeah, it makes it infinitely harder. And I
Speaker 1: think now that these banks and these like private equity
Speaker 1: groups have just turned that main mode of wealth accumulation
Speaker 1: to this like thing. It's like, well, no one, not
Speaker 1: really a lot of people are gonna have access to
Speaker 1: any to this anymore. So we'll now just turn this
Speaker 1: into a way to turn up our own wealth accumulation
Speaker 1: for the time x percent by saying, now we just
Speaker 1: make it passively through you know, rents being paid touch
Speaker 1: and but and who who wants to take thirty years
Speaker 1: to build your wealth? Right? Takes so long? When you
Speaker 1: can strat in five minutes exactly exactly you can invest
Speaker 1: in bitcoin and then you're rich immediately, I mean, and
Speaker 1: and even then you're seventy eight years old, and then
Speaker 1: you know, it gets tied up in probade court and
Speaker 1: you can't it's like you never had it. You've got
Speaker 1: Tom Selleck selling a reverse mortgage and all that wealth
Speaker 1: is gone. Somebody's getting little personal I think. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm just I've had I've had a long
Speaker 1: thirty years. I'll say this because this is like, this
Speaker 1: is a convertation I've had in private, I think. And
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know about the rest of
Speaker 1: the country, but as far as like America is concerned,
Speaker 1: I feel like there's this movement towards acclimating people to
Speaker 1: a subscription based lifestyles where everything that you have is
Speaker 1: all in payments, where it's not you're you're never fully owned.
Speaker 1: Like I don't own any of the music I listened
Speaker 1: to anymore, you know what I mean? There was a
Speaker 1: time where you actually owned a thing a CD, right,
Speaker 1: I mean granted, yeah, I mean there's a it's it's
Speaker 1: a lot more environmentally sound. I would say, to own
Speaker 1: something that's an MP three rather than something that's you know,
Speaker 1: a piece of plastic that's being made and eventually is
Speaker 1: going to get thrown away or if you if you
Speaker 1: hold up for whatever. I mean, people people are still
Speaker 1: holding on to you know, vinyl, that's like, you know,
Speaker 1: they're making a bunch of it now, but there you know,
Speaker 1: the stuff that's out there that's been out there's is
Speaker 1: worth more money than it was when you first bought it.
Speaker 1: But the point is, the point I'm trying to make
Speaker 1: is that that's just like something that I don't know
Speaker 1: anybody who buys their cars anymore. I don't know anybody
Speaker 1: who even buys their phones anymore. I think at some
Speaker 1: point in time, we're gonna even food now it's kind
Speaker 1: of on a subscription food subscription services. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: just think that it's it's slowly but surely kind of
Speaker 1: systematically training, you know, young minds to not really wrap
Speaker 1: their head around the concept of owning anything. It's just
Speaker 1: something that you have for a temporary amount of time
Speaker 1: and then you let go when you once you're like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to pay for that anymore. Yeah, even
Speaker 1: if you and if you do, if you do go
Speaker 1: buy a car. When you sit down with the sales agent,
Speaker 1: he he, the first question he asks you is how
Speaker 1: much do you want to pay per month for this car? Right,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter how what the total is. Go on
Speaker 1: like realtor dot com and there there's the little slide,
Speaker 1: the thing that you use to show you what your
Speaker 1: monthly payments will be regardless of what the what the
Speaker 1: total price of the home is. Whenever you look at this, though,
Speaker 1: you know it's it's meant to make everything easier to say, like, well,
Speaker 1: this could be too daunting, but I can afford a
Speaker 1: month or whatever, a month to really like you're saying,
Speaker 1: aristorta like to dissolve this idea of ownership, because if
Speaker 1: people still did have a very strong sense of how
Speaker 1: this all works, or that homeownership is vital to your
Speaker 1: like American wealth accumulation and things like that, people would
Speaker 1: be probably a lot more interested in how this all works.
Speaker 1: But to your point, I think when all of that
Speaker 1: becomes obscured and just being like, well I get X
Speaker 1: credits per month that I then distribute for my life style,
Speaker 1: then I'm okay, um that like way of living. I
Speaker 1: think it's very it will be very much black mirror
Speaker 1: ish in a few generations, I'm sure where it's just
Speaker 1: about purely like, oh how many credits? Is this good? Sir? Great?
Speaker 1: You go? Is this money anymore? I don't know. Get
Speaker 1: on your bike and create some electricity, okay. By and
Speaker 1: they talked about like people are worried about socialism like
Speaker 1: redistributing wealth, but like think about what's going to happen
Speaker 1: when you know the baby boomers who have like accumulated
Speaker 1: all all the wealth, they're the only ones who like
Speaker 1: still believe in ownership, so they own everything when they
Speaker 1: finally die off, and all their wealth is just arbitrarily
Speaker 1: redistributed based on like you know, their winds and like
Speaker 1: who you know their their kids. Uh, they're conservative think
Speaker 1: tanks like that. Is that a more fair way to
Speaker 1: redistribute wealth than like whatever social programs that we can
Speaker 1: put in place to like actually invest in like the communities. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know that. It's just it's just
Speaker 1: antithetical to somebody who's thinking purely in terms of like
Speaker 1: keeping your wealth and augmenting it as much as possible,
Speaker 1: because everything is built on a system of exploit exploiting people.
Speaker 1: Whether you're a landlord and you're exploiting the person who
Speaker 1: is looking for fucking shelter, you're like, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: what it's gonna cost. Because I think other stuff in
Speaker 1: the neighborhoods this I don't know, I'm not really sure
Speaker 1: what I'm adding to this equation, but do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's there's no way. I don't think that a
Speaker 1: person could then think, well, what's my role in like
Speaker 1: writing this ship at all? I don't think that's gonna
Speaker 1: occur to someone. I mean, it'll be interesting to see
Speaker 1: what happens when you have like people who are very
Speaker 1: politically minded who begin inheriting these things because they don't
Speaker 1: they themselves don't have access to them. What if they
Speaker 1: will do something with like a vacation home that they inherited,
Speaker 1: Will they say, you know what I can, I'll try
Speaker 1: and figure out a way to you know, ethically, like
Speaker 1: rent this or baby eventually help somebody live here where
Speaker 1: I don't need to make money, but I can someone
Speaker 1: can live there. I don't know. We'll see if there
Speaker 1: will be any radical thinking around that. But I can
Speaker 1: only imagine as inequality growth, people will just be thinking
Speaker 1: more about how scarce things are and just operate out
Speaker 1: of a mental ad you of scarcity. If you've ever
Speaker 1: known people like who inherited so much wealth that they
Speaker 1: never had to work a day in their life, like
Speaker 1: they are absolutely ruined. But like, just as it is,
Speaker 1: the it's it doesn't create the best best from your perspective,
Speaker 1: broke boy, I'm about to take a cool underwater scooter
Speaker 1: to a reef right, you can treat beer down there.
Speaker 1: You invite me on your show, and you then you
Speaker 1: insult me. All right, let's take a quick break and
Speaker 1: we'll come back and talk subway tuna, and we're back,
Speaker 1: and Miles, I wrote up this New York Times story
Speaker 1: because I knew you didn't wanna. You didn't want to
Speaker 1: read this, You didn't want to hear about this ship.
Speaker 1: But a New York Times reporter ordered sixty worth of
Speaker 1: tuna subs from Los Angeles from Los Angeles Area subway,
Speaker 1: So it can't be like, oh, this is just a
Speaker 1: regional problem. It is the subways that you have been frequenting. Frozen.
Speaker 1: Is it my one on More Park? Uh? He it
Speaker 1: was five different ones. I sampling it very well could
Speaker 1: have been. Uh. Frozen sent them to a lab that
Speaker 1: specializes in fish testing. The lab looks for d n
Speaker 1: A that can be identified as tuna and amplified and
Speaker 1: they were unable to find any, not a single Whats
Speaker 1: the problem? So they don't know this story is yeah, right,
Speaker 1: So that's I think like they open it up to
Speaker 1: being that, Like at one point they're like, it could
Speaker 1: just be that. It's like so degraded from all of
Speaker 1: the processing that like it's no longer recognizable from a
Speaker 1: d N a perspective, which is like, yeah, well then
Speaker 1: we don't have a problem here, but exactly, there is
Speaker 1: no just move along. This ship is so processed. There's
Speaker 1: like a in the look a superproducer. And Josie sent
Speaker 1: the article out because she wanted to take a shot
Speaker 1: across my bow, although at the same time she came
Speaker 1: up with a brilliant defense for me that if anything,
Speaker 1: if I commit crimes or something, I'm going to use
Speaker 1: the subway tuna defense that that's what happened. She's like,
Speaker 1: just blame everything you do on eating subway tuna sandwiches
Speaker 1: for as long as you did, and someone may be sympathetic,
Speaker 1: but yeah, like that, when one of the other like
Speaker 1: sort of experts that was talking about it just said,
Speaker 1: I mean, like, when you boil this ship down and
Speaker 1: cook it down, it like ceases to have any sort
Speaker 1: of organic like you, it'll be hard to find the
Speaker 1: DNA at that point because of all the processing. Do
Speaker 1: I think that it's just a bunch of shredded up
Speaker 1: Haaviana slandals and ship I don't know. But if it is.
Speaker 1: They did some great this will probably end up just
Speaker 1: being like a big advertising hoax by subway and they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no trace is of of tuna. It's all caveat welcome. Yeah.
Speaker 1: One of the same like one of the ingredients in
Speaker 1: their bread was the same thing that they used to
Speaker 1: make Yeah right, Yeah, but it's like the thing like
Speaker 1: a certain like we you can break everything down far
Speaker 1: enough into a chemical compound that it's like yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: like we all contain carbon, and I bet there's some
Speaker 1: carbon in there, so you could be like subways like
Speaker 1: eating people. It's I don't know. I think article also
Speaker 1: this article just from its methodology perspective. He bought five
Speaker 1: subways subs in Los Angeles, froze them, and sent them
Speaker 1: to a lab, which the testing you later find out
Speaker 1: is affected by like how much it's been frozen and
Speaker 1: like broken down and all these different things. So like
Speaker 1: why did were there no subways near the lab? Like
Speaker 1: we're what was the New York Times budget that they
Speaker 1: were like, sorry, bro, you gotta just like hack this
Speaker 1: investigation together using whatever the way you can walk to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this smacks of something that was all orchestrated by Jimmy
Speaker 1: John's or something, right, Yeah, where they're like look at us,
Speaker 1: Like it's like you can watch a video of the
Speaker 1: tuna being processed from the sea all the way to
Speaker 1: your mouth, so you know you can trust our tuna.
Speaker 1: But I think it would be interesting if you just
Speaker 1: did this across all American food, like just really to
Speaker 1: help people understand how fucking processed the food is that
Speaker 1: you like, there's a version of getting a cantuna from
Speaker 1: your store and then making your own like tuna salad
Speaker 1: or whatever and whatever it takes for these companies again,
Speaker 1: because it's all about creating the widest margins for their
Speaker 1: profits as possible. That it's when you process this ship
Speaker 1: and do it cheap and things like that. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: how it ends up being a fucking five dollar football.
Speaker 1: All that to say, I feel great. My magnetism has
Speaker 1: died down ever since I started eating subway tuna sandwiches
Speaker 1: to offset the magnetism from the vaccines. Occasionally, like, I mean,
Speaker 1: my tone nails grow at a such a rate that
Speaker 1: I find it to be very impressive. Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: can actually see it visibly from space, like happening in
Speaker 1: front of you. But yeah, there's this quote that says,
Speaker 1: because if we all want everything at rock bottom prices,
Speaker 1: that means something somewhere is going to be exploited, whether
Speaker 1: that's people or the ocean, probably both um in the
Speaker 1: case of tuna. They also say like they have behind
Speaker 1: the scenes testimony from Sandwich artists who work at Subway
Speaker 1: who say who say that the tune that comes as
Speaker 1: two separate ingredients, mayonnaise and a flaky like brind fish
Speaker 1: looking uh substance that they then mixed together with their
Speaker 1: hands and gloves. But it that that was the best
Speaker 1: I've ever felt about Subway tuna. Was like reading that
Speaker 1: you spoken, he spoke under under the condition of anonymity.
Speaker 1: They both did actually fear for fear of reprisal from Subway.
Speaker 1: Both Sandwich artists that they had on at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the pandemic lockdown. I remember when so many restaurants
Speaker 1: and things sort of pivoted to being like, hey, you
Speaker 1: can just buy ship from like you need an egg
Speaker 1: or like some lettuce or whatever, get it you could
Speaker 1: buy You could buy the tuna that Subway. They were
Speaker 1: sound five pound bags of the ship that was pre mayonnaise,
Speaker 1: and it was just pretty much labeled. I mean I
Speaker 1: maybe bought it and was coven it, So that was
Speaker 1: the that was the good part of like what I
Speaker 1: learned that The bad part is that they will leave
Speaker 1: it out on the counter for seventy two hours. They
Speaker 1: consider the like post mayonnaised tuna to be among their
Speaker 1: most like shelf or a sandwich bar stable ingredients. The
Speaker 1: way they describe it is like the fish is like
Speaker 1: caught with a net. That is like I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's just it's exactly the thing that happens at the
Speaker 1: end of uh finding Nemo, I think, where like all
Speaker 1: the fish in like the dirty part of the ocean
Speaker 1: get like trapped in this net and then like they
Speaker 1: just freeze them immediately once they get them on the boat,
Speaker 1: and then like bake them with all their organs and
Speaker 1: ship in them and then like at that point remove
Speaker 1: the bones. Like it's some factory. So that's like kind
Speaker 1: of gross, and it's also only the worst quality tuna.
Speaker 1: Like there's the they're like the pink tuna we send
Speaker 1: to sushi bars, the like pink ish tuna that has
Speaker 1: like some funked up stuff on it. We sear the
Speaker 1: outside of that leave the inside pink and like send
Speaker 1: that off to restaurants. And then there's the stuff that's
Speaker 1: just all you know, food has a whole yeah, cat
Speaker 1: food exactly, and that that we sent to the canneries,
Speaker 1: which is where your can't tuna comes from, the tuna
Speaker 1: that doesn't know how to swim exact. Yeah. The shout
Speaker 1: out to all the listeners who incessively tagged me in
Speaker 1: every single version that was had a link and could
Speaker 1: be I could be added in for bringing this to
Speaker 1: my attention. I've again I wouldn't be who I am
Speaker 1: without this mystery fish. So in that way, thank you.
Speaker 1: But I'm still unwavering in my support of subway whatever
Speaker 1: this sandwiches and so as a follow up to this
Speaker 1: New York Times article, the New York Times is going
Speaker 1: to d N a test miles to see if they
Speaker 1: can detect any subway tuna in miles. Is DNA not human?
Speaker 1: There's too much? Yeah, almost blood type is helmet's that's funny. Well,
Speaker 1: Andy Aristotle has been such a pleasure having you guys
Speaker 1: on the daily zeitgeist. Where can people find you, follow
Speaker 1: you and hear you and all that good stuff? I
Speaker 1: mean on Instagram? At this is Americans live, hm, and
Speaker 1: uh everywhere else me at the Andy Harris mine is
Speaker 1: uh air ai R like Air Jordan's but air underscore
Speaker 1: stottled as t O T if you want to find
Speaker 1: me there and then that's the same for all the
Speaker 1: social stuff. But that's mostly just like highlights from your
Speaker 1: NBA career, right m hm, No, just to highlights my
Speaker 1: sneaker collection really is. By the way, it's very important.
Speaker 1: It's very important if you're looking for me to do
Speaker 1: the Andy Harris because there is another Andy Harris who's
Speaker 1: a who's a GOP congressman from Maryland who that's not you.
Speaker 1: We do we we get we get mistaken for each
Speaker 1: other quite quite often. That's fucked up. Some people think
Speaker 1: it was me that tried to bring a gun into
Speaker 1: the Congress floor out, but now it was I really,
Speaker 1: I really wish. I hope next time you guys, if
Speaker 1: you guys decided to talk about U A P. S
Speaker 1: or UFOs, I would love to be a part of that.
Speaker 1: That's something I've been doing a lot of research and
Speaker 1: reading on. I don't know if you guys are into
Speaker 1: that stuff. Rec we're huge into it. Yeah, we we
Speaker 1: just talk about it. Like you know, whenever there's a
Speaker 1: new development. But I would love to let's get a
Speaker 1: your two minute, take two minute, I give it to
Speaker 1: you in ten seconds. There's aliens out there, guys. Wow,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I mean, I mean, I
Speaker 1: I do feel like that. The evidence is so compelling.
Speaker 1: It's like, how could you, how could you? Honestly, I
Speaker 1: don't know, how can you explain that away? I just
Speaker 1: heard the I just heard the most the first kind
Speaker 1: of good, uh skeptical take on all the TIC tech
Speaker 1: videos that was like broke it down the way that
Speaker 1: I could understand. I still don't have a good explanation
Speaker 1: for the Air Force pilots who were like, yeah, we
Speaker 1: were like eye to eye with this tic TAC that
Speaker 1: was like circling us after like hovering over. That's the
Speaker 1: one that I still like, unless you're like these Air
Speaker 1: Force pilots, both of them decided to come up with
Speaker 1: this story and like jeopardize their career to do this,
Speaker 1: to like tell this and UFO influencers on the internet,
Speaker 1: but like the the SEC so like, yeah, there's the
Speaker 1: one guy who's been telling this story, but then he
Speaker 1: got like his co pilot to come out and she
Speaker 1: just she's like a you know, she just looks like
Speaker 1: a high school principal. She's just like, yeah, Okay, I
Speaker 1: guess I'll do it. I have nothing that like. She's
Speaker 1: just like it's kind of weird, but yeah, I saw
Speaker 1: a UFO Like it was just very much like she
Speaker 1: did not seem like the person who's trying to cash
Speaker 1: in on this in anyway whatsoever. Yeah, it took her
Speaker 1: a while too to come out. Yeah, yeah, because she
Speaker 1: was kind of under the radar. But there was there's
Speaker 1: some other pilots too that kind of I think his
Speaker 1: name is Faber right as a pilot, you're what you're
Speaker 1: talking about? Yeah, yeah, he uh, you know, I mean
Speaker 1: even he didn't really want to be involved in that
Speaker 1: whole community. He was just being very honest about what
Speaker 1: he saw. Yeah. You know, we actually we actually have
Speaker 1: audio from that from that UFO. Hold on, yeah, what
Speaker 1: are what you doing on Earth Rock? What are we
Speaker 1: doing in l A And Yeah, okay, Americans live. Everybody
Speaker 1: hanging out, it's on it's on the it's on your
Speaker 1: rented iPhones there you go. Oh and is there a
Speaker 1: tweet or some other work of social media? You guys
Speaker 1: have been enjoying I have I have an aunt in
Speaker 1: Uran and she posts funny stuff. I just don't I
Speaker 1: don't think she knows what she's posting, but I love
Speaker 1: Sometimes she'll send me text messages, you know, like through
Speaker 1: like through Instagram, and what I know what she wants to.
Speaker 1: She's trying to be like like like an aunt and
Speaker 1: cute and like send me like kissing, like photos whatever,
Speaker 1: like we're like, you know, like the little emoji. But
Speaker 1: she always sends me the sensual lips that are like exactly.
Speaker 1: I don't think she knows what she says sending me,
Speaker 1: and it just turn up looks like I'm sexting with
Speaker 1: my with my aunt, which it was good, I know.
Speaker 1: I I saw an Onion article it said de Blasio says,
Speaker 1: it's not so easy to find a mayor that doesn't
Speaker 1: suck ship. Isn't it so wild that the New York
Speaker 1: mayor's race is we which we haven't talked about for
Speaker 1: some reason. We were too busy talking about tuna sandwiches
Speaker 1: from subway. But yeah, just what a what a wild
Speaker 1: collection of weirdos miles. What's a tweet you've been enjoying?
Speaker 1: Oh man, Well, first you can find me on Twitter
Speaker 1: and Instagram at Miles of Gray and also the other
Speaker 1: show four twenty Day Fiance say yeah, well you know,
Speaker 1: I get it, and some tweets that I like. First
Speaker 1: one Jessica Roy at Jessica Underscore Roy a bunch of
Speaker 1: people who said they quote don't want to be the
Speaker 1: test subject for an experimental vaccine, seemed remarkably chill about
Speaker 1: being a potential test subject for the COVID delta variant um.
Speaker 1: The next one is from at official bro hosp b
Speaker 1: R O H O s s saying l a girls
Speaker 1: skateboard and Green Smoothie NYC Girls roller skate and predamnng
Speaker 1: rap Chicago Girls seventy pounds steel frame swim bike from
Speaker 1: four and let me get one beef dipped and can
Speaker 1: I get hot peppers on that too? I'm feeling that
Speaker 1: I love a beef dip that was gonna be mine,
Speaker 1: but I didn't know how to pronounce preda J, so
Speaker 1: I didn't read it read it. You can find me
Speaker 1: on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien a couple tweets I've
Speaker 1: been enjoying full of words that and pronounced mel side
Speaker 1: pony Tail tweeted you should be able to get on
Speaker 1: your roommates insurance, which I agree with. And then Adam
Speaker 1: at Burger Krank tweeted starting a new bit where I
Speaker 1: say roll tide every time someone mentions Albania. Uh. You
Speaker 1: can find us on Twitter at daily Zeitgeis. Were at
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Speaker 1: we post our episode done, our foot notes where we
Speaker 1: link off to the information that we talked about in
Speaker 1: today's episode, as well as a song we think you
Speaker 1: might enjoy. Miles, what's the song we think people might enjoy? From?
Speaker 1: Another one from Dirty Art Club? Fan of the show
Speaker 1: and we're fans of their work. Uh, this one's called
Speaker 1: Rerun and this track is great. Every time I want
Speaker 1: to give a description, this one feels like if you
Speaker 1: did mushrooms and you were at a parents house and
Speaker 1: you found an old yearbook from your junior high and
Speaker 1: you were looking through it. This is the music that
Speaker 1: will be playing in your head as you look at it.
Speaker 1: So this is Rerun by Dirty Art Club. Is it
Speaker 1: just a single ic piano key over and over? Because
Speaker 1: that's what that that experience would feel like, oh right,
Speaker 1: we'll go check that out. The Daily zey geis the
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Speaker 1: going to do it for this morning. We are back
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