Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season one, sixty nine,
Speaker 1: Episode five of Guys in production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 1: into America's shared consciousness. It's Friday, January twenty. Name is
Speaker 1: Jack O'Brien. A kay, I'm a joker, I'm a broker,
Speaker 1: I'm a game stunk holder. I want to destroy all
Speaker 1: head funds. That is courtesy a Christy. I'm a come
Speaker 1: gi man, and I am thrilled to be joined as
Speaker 1: always by my co host, Mr Miles Grad. Yeah, yeah, yo, Jack,
Speaker 1: it's time. It's time. It's time, baby, Yo, Daniel's time, Okay,
Speaker 1: and it's time. Let's begin. Yo straight out the l
Speaker 1: A valley a rep where the podcast is can make
Speaker 1: you back. Y'all don't know how to start this ship, yo,
Speaker 1: cast us. I just flip them with the funking rhythm.
Speaker 1: Might be speaking. You said ship playing enough tuition it
Speaker 1: no plays. I'm not Chaplin, not insane holding the M
Speaker 1: sixteen see with them, Mike, I'm extreme now. Cash rolls
Speaker 1: left me no self control. I'm suited up the couch closed.
Speaker 1: Hit me your mikeet know defeat folds. Y'all know my stilo.
Speaker 1: I'm working like m great. Wait, hold on, I gotta stop. That.
Speaker 1: That was too I got getting out of my head.
Speaker 1: Now that was from that was too much fire discorder,
Speaker 1: I am singed, Are you serious? Ju ju with the
Speaker 1: New York state of mind? Me? Wow? The Virgo naz
Speaker 1: is in the building, Miles, the Virgo is in the building.
Speaker 1: Prince Harry, he's here. Thank you for that. A K.
Speaker 1: Do you share a birthday with Naas too? No? But
Speaker 1: you know just same sign sign you know, same sign,
Speaker 1: same sigh. Uh. That was beautiful, one of my favorite
Speaker 1: songs of all time, jumping out my chest, especially when
Speaker 1: you realize in the beginning, I go, heyo, Jack is
Speaker 1: time black time. It's like it's perfect. Even though they
Speaker 1: didn't have that in the thing. I was like, that's
Speaker 1: an easy pickup. Underrated move of him to say I
Speaker 1: don't know how to start this and then just like
Speaker 1: black out on the man, I don't know how to
Speaker 1: start this. Turn around the microphone has been melted. Yeah. Uh, well,
Speaker 1: we are thrilled, Miles, unfortunate to be joined by the hilarious,
Speaker 1: the talented, the brilliant Mr Ben bulling Man. What's up, guys,
Speaker 1: I didn't know I should have prepared a beat. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: It's it's every time I always say it's a dip
Speaker 1: set or Jim Jones balling. Uh no, lah, you know
Speaker 1: it's Ben Bullo. Guys. Okay, so we'll do as dirty.
Speaker 1: There we go, there we go. Uh, we'll do a collaboration.
Speaker 1: We could do a posse track of some sort. Being knows, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I could actually freestyle a little Okay. People, people who
Speaker 1: don't know, they remember those rap battles that were going
Speaker 1: on Culture Kings Underground Mixtape Wars, shout out Culture Kings. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: has some great stuff there. But yeah, thanks for having
Speaker 1: me back on. Guys. Uh, this is the the I
Speaker 1: think the third time. Maybe yeah. So I um, if
Speaker 1: SNL rules hold true, then I'm too away from that
Speaker 1: special suit jacket. And then in the in the meantime,
Speaker 1: I prepared a little so I am not going to
Speaker 1: just ramble about caseydias. Everybody, Come on, man, we were
Speaker 1: ready for some hot cacodia content. Alright, Ben, we're going
Speaker 1: to get to know you a little bit better in
Speaker 1: a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners a couple
Speaker 1: of the things we're talking about Uh. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about Marjorie Taylor Green. Uh. She's got some spicy takes
Speaker 1: in the old tweet history and like history so per
Speaker 1: just personal. Her ideas are interesting. So we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about that. We're gonna talk about just how how we're
Speaker 1: dealing with a rollout, the sort of half pasket apocalyptic
Speaker 1: way that we're dealing with the rollout of the vaccine. Uh.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about Frank Biden. I didn't know that
Speaker 1: this administration had its own Frank st alone. We got
Speaker 1: one baby. Uh. We're gonna talk about Robin Hood stopping
Speaker 1: trading on game stop uh, and other highly shorted funds. Uh.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about subway tuna miles. Uh. This is
Speaker 1: a subject close to your heart. Yeah, I might say
Speaker 1: is my heart. Mostly he's a subway tuna, subway tuna.
Speaker 1: More specifically, I never I don't need I don't need
Speaker 1: the other stuff there. Uh. And if we have time,
Speaker 1: there's something on on with the Craft Company that is
Speaker 1: worrying H. So we're gonna look into their latest product,
Speaker 1: which is pink candy flavored mac and cheese, which is
Speaker 1: not okay. And I'm out I'm out. But before we
Speaker 1: get before we get to any of that, Ben, we
Speaker 1: like to ask our guests, what's something from your search
Speaker 1: history that's revealing about who you are? Uh? So recently
Speaker 1: I got really into the Marshall Islands was looking into
Speaker 1: the run It Dome, which is a nuclear waste scam
Speaker 1: that the US pulled on that country where they didn't
Speaker 1: just take all the all the junk from their nuclear
Speaker 1: test uh that they did in the Marshall Islands uh
Speaker 1: and put it there. They also dug up a bunch
Speaker 1: of contaminated radioactive ship in Nevada and then shipped it
Speaker 1: off to the Marshall Islands. They covered it with concrete.
Speaker 1: I got really deep into reading about that. Uh. It's
Speaker 1: it's the pressing. It's a little bit of a downer,
Speaker 1: but um. But it also led me into like these
Speaker 1: these files about when this stuff got classified declassified, when
Speaker 1: the American public knew about it versus when the Marshall
Speaker 1: Island folks knew about it. And yes, now my search
Speaker 1: history is looking weirdly specific for my n essay guy. Right,
Speaker 1: But you know, without that we would have no Godzilla,
Speaker 1: you know, as I remember the genre no nineties version
Speaker 1: of the film with Matthew Broderick. I feel like the
Speaker 1: beginnings is showing all the nuclear tests in the marsign
Speaker 1: like a lizards like and then it's like and then
Speaker 1: we have Godzilla. Let's just leave it there. Yeah, that's true,
Speaker 1: you know. And and maybe I'm being unfair, Miles. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe this is something that I need to work on.
Speaker 1: But they're but they're doing uh, They're they're doing some
Speaker 1: good things. It's strange because the there was a treaty
Speaker 1: signed back in night or a compact sign in saying
Speaker 1: that the Martial Island population would be paid billions of
Speaker 1: dollars for for all this stuff that happened. Uh, And
Speaker 1: to date, I believe the US government has paid about
Speaker 1: four million dollars since nine. So I'm being a downer.
Speaker 1: But again, something other than case it is. I'm working
Speaker 1: on it. Guys. So this is where like the Bikinia
Speaker 1: toll is and like the yeah, it's where it's where
Speaker 1: they just tested nuclear weapons for for a long time
Speaker 1: in Nevada Desert. Any like at see nuclear blast footage
Speaker 1: you've seen like from history class, that's from the Martial
Speaker 1: Arts Like that's what I remember, Like, oh, that that
Speaker 1: from the from the blow Up Tapes R Yeah, to
Speaker 1: be confused with the blow Up Tapes, which will be
Speaker 1: the new mix tape. Yeah that we drop inter pod
Speaker 1: hip hop battles of course. Um. They also the Nevada
Speaker 1: desert ones are interesting because that used to be one
Speaker 1: of the attractions of Las Vegas was you could see
Speaker 1: mushroom clouds off in the distance. They had a miss
Speaker 1: uh nuclear explosion or miss mushroom cloud uh celebration in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas at one point. And I think the fifties
Speaker 1: before it was just like they didn't they didn't know
Speaker 1: what they were doing. Or they're like children with a handgun,
Speaker 1: you know, come on, kids, give this uranium rod a
Speaker 1: huge Vegas baby. I never thought i'd say it, but
Speaker 1: I missed. I thought I missed Vegas, like last week,
Speaker 1: and I really thought about it, and I think I
Speaker 1: just missed the idea of Vegas or going places, you know,
Speaker 1: like man, I would go to nineteen fifties Vegas watch
Speaker 1: some clouds. Yeahs. Is that one other clip, the famous
Speaker 1: clip of like that wooden shack getting vaporized? Is that
Speaker 1: from Nevada? I think so. I think that I think
Speaker 1: it's from after the um Trinity test. I want to say,
Speaker 1: which were the first first detonations. But yeah, after that,
Speaker 1: they just they went ham they were all over the
Speaker 1: place and yeah, then they went to Hiroshima, Nagasaki. In
Speaker 1: the rest of his history all here um exactly. The
Speaker 1: Yeah there there's all sorts of wild ship where they
Speaker 1: just sent out uh troops to like to collect the fallout,
Speaker 1: like as it was raining down from the sky. Uh.
Speaker 1: There's like pictures of them like out there next like
Speaker 1: posing next to the mushroom cloud. My last point though
Speaker 1: that's so messed up is that in the Marshall Islands case,
Speaker 1: the official rationale for doing this was like, well, we
Speaker 1: wanted to see what happens. You know, we got like
Speaker 1: we got these boats and these ships. We're gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna put the boats and the ships into the bombs
Speaker 1: and you know, you know, man, what what what? What?
Speaker 1: What goes down in that case? And they found out
Speaker 1: that you know it it explodes the ships? Right. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that they went they wanted to make sure that boats
Speaker 1: were not immune from nuclear blasts. Top minds, the top minds. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is weird that they put Sylvester Stallone in charge
Speaker 1: of that initiative too much responsibility for a young boy.
Speaker 1: The we the people who because like I know that
Speaker 1: the biggest the Czar bomb was the biggest nuclear weapon
Speaker 1: ever tested, and they tested Russia tested that in like
Speaker 1: sider area. Um so it was like somewhat depopulator, like
Speaker 1: there weren't people around. What happened to the people who
Speaker 1: lived on the Marshall Islands like oh so uh In
Speaker 1: in the beginning, the Navy went to one atoll and
Speaker 1: it was relatively sparsely populated, only about only a little
Speaker 1: more than fifty eight thousand people live in the islands now.
Speaker 1: But they went to this one a hole and they said, look,
Speaker 1: we need to test some stuff and we need you
Speaker 1: all to make a sacrifice and leave because this is
Speaker 1: the will of God. That's what they literally said to them.
Speaker 1: They were really trying, they were running a game. And
Speaker 1: uh when those people were evacuated, luckily they weren't at
Speaker 1: ground zero there of those first tests. But the thing
Speaker 1: is fallout doesn't know borders, It doesn't care which I
Speaker 1: had someone lives on. So the entirety of especially the
Speaker 1: northern A tolls were contaminated to some degree, and uh
Speaker 1: as a as a result. You know, you can see
Speaker 1: the immediate effects radiation, poisoning, sickness, burns, but the the
Speaker 1: other stuff doesn't come in to play until like decades later,
Speaker 1: so they're still dealing with that. It's I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's a very real thing. There are people who are
Speaker 1: alive who are uh suffering from that, but the US.
Speaker 1: But you know, I don't want to paint like people
Speaker 1: who are alive in US and the worst light at
Speaker 1: that time, because they really know this was just some
Speaker 1: more nimbi ship. Basically, Yeah, the US the worst Airbnb guests.
Speaker 1: They're like, hey, can we uh borrow this place for
Speaker 1: for a little bit. We'll be a small get together
Speaker 1: from my Bible study group. And then they come in
Speaker 1: at the fucking sex party. Hey you sign the deal, baby, Sorry,
Speaker 1: we're out. The sex party is the nuclear bomb. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the people of the Marshall Islands, Um, I always wanted
Speaker 1: to go there, and I'm still I'm trying to figure
Speaker 1: out when the best time to go is because that
Speaker 1: dome is in danger of collapsing rising sea levels. I
Speaker 1: picked a real downer for search history. Okay, that's what there's.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of stuff to cover that is, uh,
Speaker 1: you know it's gonna be worse than that. That's happening now,
Speaker 1: Oh boy, Ben, what is something you think is underrated?
Speaker 1: That a K A jack jack a K that Miles
Speaker 1: did at the beginning? I changed My answer was sick.
Speaker 1: I'm not blowing smoke. I was not exacting. Well, thank
Speaker 1: you for because you changed it from the original one,
Speaker 1: which is Marjorie Taylor Green. Right, okay, all right, well
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stop sharing some interesting points. Look at that.
Speaker 1: What do you have? I know you had something prepared.
Speaker 1: Don't flatter me now, I don't say you're prepared. And
Speaker 1: then you hit me with that improv compliment. All right
Speaker 1: before before before I was astounded by that verse, I
Speaker 1: was thinking about how awesome road trips are. I really
Speaker 1: missed those. I took a I took a road trip, uh,
Speaker 1: not too too long ago. Uh, And then I just
Speaker 1: recently took another one that that kind of failed. We
Speaker 1: have we have a thing called two eight five in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: It's just an interest state that goes in a circle. Uh.
Speaker 1: Because we thought it would be neat, I guess. And
Speaker 1: so I got out on the road because like a
Speaker 1: lot of people, am tired of being inside, but you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's the right thing to do in most cases.
Speaker 1: And so I got on the road. I got on
Speaker 1: the interstate, and I was driving, and I was like, huh,
Speaker 1: where am I? Where am I gonna go? What am
Speaker 1: I gonna I could go? Least I could go. I
Speaker 1: I got days, you know, before I turned around. And
Speaker 1: then I realized while I was trying to decide what
Speaker 1: happened or where I was going to go, I had
Speaker 1: just driven in a circle around the city. And I
Speaker 1: was like, well, that's yes, that's my road. T yeah,
Speaker 1: And I thought that was underrated. That was that was cool.
Speaker 1: I wonder if that's the southern city thing, because Lexing
Speaker 1: in Kentucky, the most southern city I ever lived in,
Speaker 1: had a place called New Circle Road that was just
Speaker 1: built the exact same way, just a loop that went
Speaker 1: around the city. Is the Chicago Loop to yeah, another
Speaker 1: southern city? Yes, yeah, everyone knows the great migration south
Speaker 1: to Chicago. Yeah, I mean, because l A. L A
Speaker 1: Is just too fucking sprawling for anything like that is.
Speaker 1: But that's why I have seven billion fucking freeways and
Speaker 1: ship I miss l A. Man, I I uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I would go there pretty pretty frequently to hang out
Speaker 1: with you guys and some of our colleagues. Uh, and
Speaker 1: I still never got a chance to see the whole city.
Speaker 1: I remember. I remember the first time I came to
Speaker 1: the l A studio and I was I was talking
Speaker 1: with you guys about something. I asked questions. I asked
Speaker 1: a question about the neighborhood. I was like, where's the
Speaker 1: where's something good to eat? Everybody had these great suggestions,
Speaker 1: and I was like, okay, well do you guys, like,
Speaker 1: do people live around this area? And I got the
Speaker 1: most like friendly, kind but pitying stare and response, and
Speaker 1: they were like, fuck, no, dude, this is Hollywood. I
Speaker 1: don't live here. No, no, no one lives here. It's
Speaker 1: it's only confused tourists and the place that they know
Speaker 1: out loud Hollywood is a place to stay. No, it's
Speaker 1: not even a place to visit. Let's be real, right it.
Speaker 1: I mean, but to your original point about just getting
Speaker 1: out of the house, I had to go to the
Speaker 1: hospital this morning to get something cut off my leg
Speaker 1: and uh, not to cut off my leg, but just
Speaker 1: a little chunk uh. And it was like it put
Speaker 1: me in a good mood to like see people, like
Speaker 1: even in that environment of going into the hospital, like
Speaker 1: just seeing a nurse, like being able to chat it
Speaker 1: up with a nurse and a physician's assistant. It was
Speaker 1: it's kind of fun. Yeah, yeah, okay. I was just okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: all good coming coming. I'm like, wait, hold on, Jack,
Speaker 1: was this man got surgery? It was like, get me
Speaker 1: the hell out of here. I get Yeah, it's kind
Speaker 1: of something off my leg. It's just a little we
Speaker 1: we don't know what it is. Where we'll find out.
Speaker 1: I'll give you guys an update on the lab results.
Speaker 1: But we think it's just a yeah something like that. Wow, well,
Speaker 1: uh congratulations hopefully. Also also maybe maybe you know what
Speaker 1: it is. Maybe it's maybe what I'm really thinking is underrated,
Speaker 1: isn't isn't road trips necessarily, that's just the genre of
Speaker 1: the real thing, which is going outside. Like you go
Speaker 1: to the grocery store. Now, I don't know how it
Speaker 1: is in l A. Go the grocery store. Now you
Speaker 1: realize for so many of us, that's the big event
Speaker 1: of the day. And we got these mask on, so
Speaker 1: everybody's got an air of mystery. There's like this this
Speaker 1: weird pent up kind of horny energy that people have.
Speaker 1: And I'm like in the produce section, like, dude, people
Speaker 1: stop staring at me. I'm just picking up some squash there.
Speaker 1: Like right, you're like, what where the peppers? Farms? Afric strudles?
Speaker 1: At the frozen ones? Okay? All right, bro? Yeah exactly
Speaker 1: like kissing right. It could be like a can of beans, like, hey,
Speaker 1: excuse me, where are the beans? Like beans? Huh? You
Speaker 1: want to blow your beans? For you? What? Blow your beans? What? Nothing?
Speaker 1: Where as three? Three? So that's why I would say
Speaker 1: is underrated, and I think a lot of us can
Speaker 1: agree with that. Just I started. That's the one I
Speaker 1: was talking about how I don't wear pants and ship.
Speaker 1: I mean like not like traditional pants like sweatpants and
Speaker 1: basketball shorts is my new leg covering. I like war
Speaker 1: a outfit to the fucking pets store the other day.
Speaker 1: I was like, I have not coordinated my clothing in
Speaker 1: almost one year. And I was like, away we go,
Speaker 1: and I walked into that motherfucker Staying Alive was playing
Speaker 1: in my head, fucking cat litter and ship. I was
Speaker 1: fucking feeling it. I gotta say, though, my like, I
Speaker 1: don't know what that says about me, because you come
Speaker 1: to the zoom in different clothes every day looking good.
Speaker 1: I can't like I've warned this same sweatshirt three days
Speaker 1: in a row. Now, uh Jack, the pants have not changed, man, pants?
Speaker 1: Why would you change your pants everything? Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: it's an issue here at the house tree pants, the
Speaker 1: way Bernie sand Or streets coats at this spot. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean? I got solid um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like one way I gauge how like monotonous something
Speaker 1: has become, is like how well I remember where I parked?
Speaker 1: And like I know because I only go to the
Speaker 1: one grocery store and like that's the only place my
Speaker 1: brain knows that it goes other than my house. Uh
Speaker 1: I Now it's like a blur where I don't remember
Speaker 1: where I parked because I've been only there so many times.
Speaker 1: And it's but man, I remembered where I parked at
Speaker 1: the hospital today, Crisp. It made some lifelong friends. The
Speaker 1: physicians assistant following you on Twitter, Yeah, no, I I
Speaker 1: just hit up the physicians assistant was like sucks, Yeah,
Speaker 1: who is this? I'm sorry Jack from earlier, like like
Speaker 1: I U you got to basketball or not? What do
Speaker 1: you think man, if if if if embed did that
Speaker 1: foul on Lebron, would he get injected? Injected? I don't
Speaker 1: know how you guys do. Uh yeah. By the way,
Speaker 1: we haven't talked. A couple of nights ago, the Sixers
Speaker 1: went up against the Lakers. UM big, big rivalry. Um
Speaker 1: what is uh, hey Ben, what is something you think
Speaker 1: is overrated? Well? I think we'll obviously get into this later,
Speaker 1: but with great delight, I say, Robin Hood the financial
Speaker 1: trading app. That was an answer I have from earlier,
Speaker 1: And I was like, I was writing this stuff down
Speaker 1: last night because you know, I've I've got I think
Speaker 1: we all have kind of scheming friends, right, I got
Speaker 1: I got some scheming friends who are always like, you know,
Speaker 1: we're they're like talking, talking very big things about financial
Speaker 1: plans to me, and I look around and like we're
Speaker 1: both at the same dive, bar man, we're splitting the
Speaker 1: same chicken wings. Like you're not you're not monocle top
Speaker 1: hat level yet, but uh but over there we go. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was a deep cut. Uh yeah, yeah. The U
Speaker 1: The thing is a lot of my a lot of
Speaker 1: these folks who are who are really my friends? They
Speaker 1: were texting me they were going wild. We're talking a
Speaker 1: little about this little bit off air about robin Hood,
Speaker 1: like how was helping them fight the man? And uh
Speaker 1: I didn't trust it. Uh. And it turns out I
Speaker 1: was kind of right. Later this morning I figured that out. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Robin Hood's overrated. H And I hate to say things
Speaker 1: are overrated, but in this case it accurate because as
Speaker 1: soon as people were um doing something that Robin Hood
Speaker 1: didn't want them to do, that free market ship went
Speaker 1: straight out the window real quick. Yeah. Did we do
Speaker 1: we ever advertise them? I feel like we did at
Speaker 1: one point. I think, yeah, I think every Yeah, I
Speaker 1: did too? Did to I know? You know I one
Speaker 1: of the shows that I host is critical thinking applied
Speaker 1: to conspiracy theories. So it was weird to me that
Speaker 1: we would have Robin Hood there because I was thinking, like,
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna be listening to three in the morning, are
Speaker 1: they gonna are they gonna say? Yeah? You know what,
Speaker 1: I'm glad we paused this thing about the ghost of
Speaker 1: Bigfoot because I'm gonna get real fucking into FedEx stock
Speaker 1: in a way. Yeah, that's the overlap there. Yeah, what's
Speaker 1: the demo? Yeah, we'll talk about robin Hood a little
Speaker 1: bit more, but uh, just so perfectly named. Uh just
Speaker 1: just nailed it in terms of what we've what we've
Speaker 1: been talking about. Just the people who are doing the
Speaker 1: most fucked up stuff are always sick claiming or accusing
Speaker 1: somebody else of doing the exact thing they're doing, or
Speaker 1: giving themselves the antonym as a name for the thing
Speaker 1: they're doing. Um, it's like Zen talks about in the
Speaker 1: People's History of the United States, how the uh word
Speaker 1: Department changed its name to the Defense Department right when
Speaker 1: America started getting into a proactive wars. Like so when
Speaker 1: America began uh doing non defensive wars, they changed their
Speaker 1: name to the Defense Department. It's like nothing norwellying about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you just call yourself the exact opposite of the truth,
Speaker 1: and it does. I mean, when you look at the
Speaker 1: history of robin Hood, it's like the name is really
Speaker 1: the only thing they had to indicate, like that they
Speaker 1: were actually doing the thing they claimed to be doing.
Speaker 1: Everything else was just they were a standard brokerage, shitty
Speaker 1: firm and follow the money. Yeah, yeah, alright, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break and we'll be right back and we're
Speaker 1: back and Marjorie Taylor Green the Q and on Congress,
Speaker 1: Lady h had the main one, the main one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: get this, many many people right, the leading in Congress. Yeah. Uh,
Speaker 1: she's always been you know, questionable because uh Qunan is
Speaker 1: very questionable and has some very troubling beliefs. But man,
Speaker 1: when you when you kind of get granular on some
Speaker 1: of her beliefs, it's, uh, it's pretty well. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: the CNN, the CNN piece came out like that's sort
Speaker 1: of like kind of kind of began all this conversation
Speaker 1: earlier in the week, and that's when you saw like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this toilet is truly overflowing with all of her bullshit.
Speaker 1: Like you're just seeing the extent of it, because before
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, it's the you an on lady her
Speaker 1: like ad when she was running for office, she's like
Speaker 1: holding like a fucking assault rifle, and you know, she
Speaker 1: let everybody know from the beginning like what angle she
Speaker 1: was taking to get to Congress um. And so you know,
Speaker 1: at that time, the GOP didn't have a problem because
Speaker 1: you're like, I don't know, I guess just that's spicy.
Speaker 1: We won't get like we won't raw raw that ship
Speaker 1: too much, but it's sucking. If there's an R by
Speaker 1: the name, then we'll fucking it doesn't matter how fucked
Speaker 1: up or heinous or racist, because we represent everything that's
Speaker 1: wrong with the country. Um. And you know, when you
Speaker 1: look at her old Facebook post, she was doing things
Speaker 1: from you know, having these really odd takes on school
Speaker 1: shootings like they're all false flag ops. She was harassing
Speaker 1: David Hoag when he was going to Congress to advocate
Speaker 1: for gun control, like she's on camera, like getting in
Speaker 1: these Parkland survivors faces. She was going to Pelosi's office
Speaker 1: and saying all kinds of wild ship. She loves any
Speaker 1: kind like she puts her likes all over anything that
Speaker 1: you know, maybe indicates we should take the lives of
Speaker 1: Democratic leaders. Or that Hillary Clinton wears a child's face
Speaker 1: as a mask, that's another thing she's into. And love
Speaker 1: is any comment about the new Civil War or like
Speaker 1: hanging Obama, that's the thing she's into. Like on the
Speaker 1: dating profile, my interest include long walks on the beach,
Speaker 1: the idea of Hillary Clinton wearing a child's faces, love
Speaker 1: it And if you don't know, now you know, And
Speaker 1: let's talk about it on our date. Wow, So you know,
Speaker 1: just it's I mean, it's run of the mill Q
Speaker 1: and on right wing extremist troll whatever person like. That's
Speaker 1: like they're the main media intakes she has. But unfortunate,
Speaker 1: that's not the kind of person who needs to be
Speaker 1: in the halls of Congress, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like you can do that, just be a Q and
Speaker 1: on lady on your own when you start, when you
Speaker 1: enter the office, then things are a little bit different.
Speaker 1: But I don't know who's to say based on the
Speaker 1: other people that are in her party, because Kevin McCarthy,
Speaker 1: who is the minority leader in the House, all he's
Speaker 1: saying his quote didn't even come from him, It came
Speaker 1: from his spokesperson who said, quote, these comments are deeply disturbing,
Speaker 1: and Leader McCarthy plans to have a conversation with the
Speaker 1: congresswoman about them, a conversation they're going on the date.
Speaker 1: What the funk are you talking about? This is straight
Speaker 1: up the nonsense that every person, like, I mean, Steve
Speaker 1: Stephen King from Iowa was saying pretty similar ship this
Speaker 1: is probably this goes a step further based on like
Speaker 1: her I R L actions, Even though they're saying, this
Speaker 1: is before she was in office, but this is the
Speaker 1: kind of person you're dealing with. Um and he was,
Speaker 1: you know, he had his assignments taken away. I believe
Speaker 1: she has been. She's been put on the Committee for
Speaker 1: Education or something she had she got. It's like ridiculous.
Speaker 1: So everyone's like, you gotta get rid of this person.
Speaker 1: There's legislation already to try and have a remove Pelosi's like, uh,
Speaker 1: the enemies are in the House, like and not in
Speaker 1: a hip hop way. Uh, there in the House of
Speaker 1: Representatives and where you know, the tensions growing because the
Speaker 1: Republicans are no like this, she might as well just
Speaker 1: be the face of the GOP because they have no agenda,
Speaker 1: they have no aims legislatively. They're purely just a performative
Speaker 1: troll group who have we just want to basically stand
Speaker 1: in the way of progress or find little you know,
Speaker 1: battles in the culture war to get their their supporters around,
Speaker 1: to actually do nothing at all that would help a
Speaker 1: single American person unless you're a billionaire. I mean this. Uh.
Speaker 1: There was an exchange between AOC and Ted Cruz yesterday
Speaker 1: where AOC was like, we need to look into this
Speaker 1: robin hood ship and like, figure out what you know
Speaker 1: why they're protecting the billionaires um ted, Cruz replied fully agree,
Speaker 1: hand pointing at the thing. She said, uh, and AOC said,
Speaker 1: I'm happy to work with Republicans on this issue where
Speaker 1: there's common ground, but you almost had me murdered three
Speaker 1: weeks ago, so you can set this one out. Happy
Speaker 1: to work with almost any other GOP that aren't trying
Speaker 1: to get me killed. In the meantime, if you want
Speaker 1: to help, you can resign legend that. But that's I
Speaker 1: feel like that's the place that we're at with the
Speaker 1: with the Republicans like that. Anybody who's not immediately disavowing
Speaker 1: this and immediately intervening on behalf of against what happened
Speaker 1: on the sixth, then the president's role in it, it's like,
Speaker 1: how how can you how can you work with them?
Speaker 1: Like what? It's just that's why, That's why it's almost like,
Speaker 1: why don't you say something you want that's a positive
Speaker 1: good for people who are who are working people. Why
Speaker 1: don't you Why don't you just say an idea that
Speaker 1: the only thing that it has to meet is it
Speaker 1: has to benefit every person in the country, not not
Speaker 1: a group that you can pick away and hold back
Speaker 1: those benefits from something that you feel because America is
Speaker 1: so great, right, we take care of every American person.
Speaker 1: So come up with an idea and then let's move
Speaker 1: from there. But they can't do that because all they
Speaker 1: want to do is just you know, uh, god buck
Speaker 1: wild with the voter suppression and codify like discrimination into law.
Speaker 1: That's all it is. That's like all they can do. Well,
Speaker 1: they got the courts, uh, And I think that's that's
Speaker 1: a huge issue going forward. I love the point of
Speaker 1: just say one positive, forward facing thing, have some kind
Speaker 1: of plan, you know, Honestly, history proves it doesn't even
Speaker 1: have to be a very good plan. I bet you
Speaker 1: if somebody came out today from a very conservative side
Speaker 1: and they said one thing, we should all we can
Speaker 1: all agree on the price you see and the label
Speaker 1: at the at the store should be the price you
Speaker 1: pay at the register. Everything else is bullshit. People would
Speaker 1: like praise that, they would because they're so desperate to
Speaker 1: hear something that's not some like apocalyptic recycled anti tematism
Speaker 1: stuff just poked up again with some you know, with
Speaker 1: a dash of like lizard juice as a spice. They
Speaker 1: would they would love it, but it's an obstructionist party. Unfortunately.
Speaker 1: That's that's the reality of what it's become. There's not
Speaker 1: I would say, and forgive me if I'm being stereotypically
Speaker 1: conspiratorial here, guys, but I would say that the masters
Speaker 1: of the of this party, the people, were really pulling
Speaker 1: the strings for these mascots like Green. Uh. They're getting
Speaker 1: what they want, which is pushing a society closer to
Speaker 1: neo feudalism. That I think that's the ultimate aim. And
Speaker 1: that's where you have things like codified discrimination, uh, rigid
Speaker 1: class system and so on than in that case for
Speaker 1: those folks who are very different, different demographic Uh. For
Speaker 1: those folks, things are humming right along. This is how
Speaker 1: it's supposed to go, you know. And they think they
Speaker 1: I think they don't care for the majority of their
Speaker 1: constituents in this regard. I think they consider them somewhat rubes.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, because I mean, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: the people like like the Koke Brothers types people, they're
Speaker 1: not like living in the same spaces as anyone like
Speaker 1: the regular Americans, so they're beyond insulated from the chaos.
Speaker 1: They're they're creating. They just see those bank accounts and
Speaker 1: they're like, great, because I'm not I've never I don't
Speaker 1: have to look a poor person in the ie ever
Speaker 1: except for my staff, So what the fund do I care?
Speaker 1: I'm and looking a poor person in the eye. If
Speaker 1: they're forced to do that, uh, you know, makes them
Speaker 1: confront have to confront the reality that like they don't
Speaker 1: deserve a million times uh the wealth of any any
Speaker 1: human being, let alone these people who work harder than them. Uh.
Speaker 1: And so then they have to create these elaborate fictions,
Speaker 1: which is where this just completely unsustainable worldview comes in.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean it. It does seem like we're
Speaker 1: getting closer to a place where people are recognizing just
Speaker 1: how much the lie at the center of American society is,
Speaker 1: like that there's no class system. Um, yeah, we're moving,
Speaker 1: we're making progress. I mean, I think you're being too nice. Honestly, guys,
Speaker 1: I think for some of these folks, it's quite possible
Speaker 1: at this point that looking at poor person in the
Speaker 1: eye is kind of a kink, you know, like it's
Speaker 1: like a dangerous thing they do for kicks occasionally, like
Speaker 1: in Parasite. The underwear from the poor person. Alright, let's talk.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about this story about using every last drop
Speaker 1: of the vaccine is in the news. There's like something
Speaker 1: with Fiser and you know, them saying that projecting that
Speaker 1: they will get I think six doses out of every
Speaker 1: vial instead of five, which is what the health care
Speaker 1: providers were saying. Um. And I guess it's like, yeah, like, uh,
Speaker 1: theoretically you could get six out if we had this
Speaker 1: like super precise equipment everywhere in the field. And we
Speaker 1: don't have that. Um. But you know, so that's like
Speaker 1: one of the theoretical conversations that that's happening. Um. And
Speaker 1: this is just a good illustration of how far we
Speaker 1: are from even that mattering even being able to distribute
Speaker 1: the vaccine. Yeah. Not only that, I mean like they
Speaker 1: have a choke hold on like they own the vaccine.
Speaker 1: So we're at the at the fucking will of big
Speaker 1: Pharma to be like don't let us die or or
Speaker 1: how much a how much to not let me die?
Speaker 1: Where we're at with with big Pharma, they're not it.
Speaker 1: Ship should have been like sorry, motherfucker, we need this
Speaker 1: for the good of earth. Fuck you and you. Sue
Speaker 1: Sue the governments of the world. I don't know how
Speaker 1: that goes down functionally, but uh, that's just another dimension
Speaker 1: of this. But yes, we we see about constantly there
Speaker 1: there's trouble with the role the vaccine rollout, being like
Speaker 1: there has to be more efficient ways. Sometimes people are
Speaker 1: left with there's leftover lines and then they're trying to
Speaker 1: get as much vaccine out so they don't have to
Speaker 1: throw it away. But there's just another It's nice to
Speaker 1: see that people understand right that the vaccine is so
Speaker 1: dear and finite that it no matter what, we cannot
Speaker 1: waste it just because that's just the situation. Or and
Speaker 1: so in Oregon, there's these group of health workers who
Speaker 1: were doing like a rural vaccination operation and they were
Speaker 1: trying to get back to like their main office, but
Speaker 1: they were caught in traffic where there was like they're
Speaker 1: just in a snowstorm basically, and they were sat there
Speaker 1: with about to expire vaccines, and the New York Times
Speaker 1: story goes on, quote, uh, they know they only had
Speaker 1: six hours to get the remaining doses of coronavirus vaccine
Speaker 1: back to people who are waiting for their shots roughly
Speaker 1: thirty miles away. Normally the trip takes forty five minutes,
Speaker 1: but with a jackknife tractor trailer ahead of them, the
Speaker 1: crew realized they could be stuck for hours, so the
Speaker 1: workers made the decision to walk from car to car,
Speaker 1: asking stranded drivers if they wanted to be vaccinated right
Speaker 1: there on the spot. So they said, fuck it, we're
Speaker 1: we're coming. We're getting rid of this ship and fantastic.
Speaker 1: It seems a little bit sketchy, as they go on
Speaker 1: to say, quote and most drivers laughed at the offer
Speaker 1: of a roadside coronavirus vaccine and politely declined. Even though
Speaker 1: Mr Weber said he had a doctor and an ambulance
Speaker 1: crew on hand to help oversee the operation, he acknowledged
Speaker 1: it was not the typical setting for vaccination. Quote. It
Speaker 1: was a strange conversation. Imagine yourselves trained on the side
Speaker 1: of the road in a snowstorm, snowstorm and having someone
Speaker 1: walk up and say, hey, would you like a shot
Speaker 1: in the arm. In the end, though they had enough
Speaker 1: people who one dude, they said, hopped out his car,
Speaker 1: ripped his shirt off and was like like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: in your arm. Fam Like, because people who are on
Speaker 1: meths also get stuck in traffic jams. So let's start.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been in a traffic jym and uh,
Speaker 1: somebody knocks on your window, like something walks up. That
Speaker 1: is the most nerving ship ever. Like I was just
Speaker 1: I was driving. I think it was like a cross
Speaker 1: country trip or something. There was a I think a
Speaker 1: jackknife tractor trailer like they're talking about in this story
Speaker 1: up ahead. So everyone was just stuck there and like
Speaker 1: they knew the cars weren't going anywhere, and people were
Speaker 1: just like got out just pulling. Everybody hurt on them
Speaker 1: deep cut or I guess we shouldn't call them deep
Speaker 1: cuts were just old so old person cut. Uh, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was super unnerving though, when the first
Speaker 1: person just like walks by your car, It's like, what
Speaker 1: the fund is this? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, because you feel trapped. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they're not offering you a vaccine. Yeah, they weren't
Speaker 1: even offering just trucker crank. Yeah. I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to put myself in the position of these people too.
Speaker 1: Were like yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna say no,
Speaker 1: but I'm also very much like, what what are you
Speaker 1: trying to pull here? Suddenly, like I would have a
Speaker 1: lot of hurdles to get over before I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: sure guy, who I mean? Yeah, you got some medical
Speaker 1: equipment I don't know how to like quality control or
Speaker 1: q C A vial of MODERNA. Let me look on
Speaker 1: the internet and do some side by side legit check
Speaker 1: this ship real quick, right, Like, as somebody who has
Speaker 1: dealt with expiring milk in the past, I know that
Speaker 1: it's not a thing where it hits the date, the
Speaker 1: born on date, and like a buzzer goes off and
Speaker 1: it's suddenly bad, Like that ship will go bad three
Speaker 1: days before sometimes, or it'll stay good for a couple
Speaker 1: of days after the born on date. Like it's not
Speaker 1: so I don't know. Like the this, I would have
Speaker 1: been skeptical. I would have taken it just because, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like that's a situation where it's okay to
Speaker 1: ask for I D you know what I mean. But
Speaker 1: I see then I'm like in my mind, because this
Speaker 1: is this is where you're catching you're catching the wrong miles.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm probably high in my car, already pissed.
Speaker 1: I'm in a snowstorm and you're like, Hi, would you
Speaker 1: like a coronavirus? What a coronavirus vaccine. Who are you?
Speaker 1: Are you fucking for real right now? We're some healthcare workers.
Speaker 1: You're some healthcare Get the funk away from my car, motherfucker?
Speaker 1: Are you that's true? I get, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I've get. I've gotten a like I'm sure this happens everybody.
Speaker 1: I get a lot of weird kind of car based
Speaker 1: cold calls at red lights, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And sometimes his kids sell them water, uh, purportedly for
Speaker 1: a football team. And then sometimes it's uh, sometimes it's
Speaker 1: somebody who's got like some crazy offers. I did, not
Speaker 1: vaccine related, but I did a few years ago this
Speaker 1: uh street called Freedom Parkway here in Atlanta, had a
Speaker 1: guy knocked on my car, uh and like knocked on
Speaker 1: the window. And it was the middle of the day.
Speaker 1: It didn't seem like I thought he was gonna ask
Speaker 1: for money, right, But so I rolled down the passers
Speaker 1: I window a little bit and his his opener line
Speaker 1: is like what if I told you outside? Yeah, He's like,
Speaker 1: what if I told you I just got a winning
Speaker 1: lottery ticket? And it was like, I congratulations, bro, I
Speaker 1: don't know the window up and he was like I didn't,
Speaker 1: but what if I and his whole hustle was like,
Speaker 1: asked me to give him a dollar so he could
Speaker 1: buy the lottery ticket, the winning ticket. Yeah, he was
Speaker 1: split with you. He didn't even say it was splitting. No, Oh,
Speaker 1: I love that scam. Wonderful, wonderful. You gotta pay money
Speaker 1: to make money, man, Because in your mind, Jack or Ben,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you be weary of like some que and on
Speaker 1: group of people pretending to be giving vaccinations and like
Speaker 1: poisoning you, you know what I mean? Like, and I'm not.
Speaker 1: That's where my mind goes and it's not healthy. But unfortunately,
Speaker 1: when you foot when I'm in a snowstorm and you
Speaker 1: knock on my window, I'm not going to be like, oh, hi, vaccines. Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, you're gonna be out doing snow angels
Speaker 1: because you're such a because I've never seen Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm also like the thing that immediately my my brain
Speaker 1: goes to is like I don't know how to judge
Speaker 1: medical like ideas, Like I don't know what the right like.
Speaker 1: He could be the fakest idea in the history of
Speaker 1: medical ideas. And it's like, yeah, okay, man, you still
Speaker 1: see the the original like Blockbuster logo laminate, like this
Speaker 1: is a driver's license for a Dolorean from Back to
Speaker 1: the Future. Like hey, uh, yeah, guys, I'm not a doctor,
Speaker 1: but this does look like off bed bath and beyond
Speaker 1: mail and coupon. Yeah, I don't know. It's a good point.
Speaker 1: Like I think this is one of those stories where
Speaker 1: really it's surprising that six people said yes, because we
Speaker 1: have this kind of cultural taboo about Bob like knocking
Speaker 1: on people's doors in cars. You know, it's not associated
Speaker 1: with good news, right, but people are so desperate in
Speaker 1: many cases for the vaccine. Like here, you know, here
Speaker 1: in Georgia, our the governor who fixed the election to
Speaker 1: become governor really shot the bed on on any kind
Speaker 1: of vaccination infrastructure distribution. Like yeah, my parents actually went.
Speaker 1: They retired, They went and got the first vaccination after
Speaker 1: being on a wait three different waiting list for like
Speaker 1: two weeks. Uh. They got to a place at Walmart,
Speaker 1: a Walmart at four thirty in the morning, uh, to
Speaker 1: get an appointment for that afternoon and they were getting
Speaker 1: the fires at one with two shots. They got there
Speaker 1: and they were told they we schedule the second shot.
Speaker 1: When they got to the afternoon appointment. They showed up
Speaker 1: to the afternoon appointment and the person gave him the
Speaker 1: first shot and they're like, all right, when do we
Speaker 1: schedule the second one? They said, Oh, yeah, things have changed,
Speaker 1: try your best to find one that was Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was it. That was the end of the Yeah, good luck,
Speaker 1: good um, yeah, good luck with that. I'm sorry, good
Speaker 1: luck with that. Speaking of good luck with that, I
Speaker 1: do want to get to Robin Hood here here real quick,
Speaker 1: because there's not much to report here that we didn't
Speaker 1: kind of speculate was about to happen on yesterday's episodes.
Speaker 1: But you know, Robin Hood basically uh stopped trading on
Speaker 1: any of the stocks that were, you know, being used
Speaker 1: to bankrupt hedge funds. Uh. And it you know, it's
Speaker 1: just like exactly what we thought that they, the people
Speaker 1: who have money and who play by the stock market rules,
Speaker 1: would somehow find a way to manipulate the rules so
Speaker 1: that they this couldn't go on any further. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just Robin Hood UH apparently has been a company
Speaker 1: that is the exact opposite of what they claimed to
Speaker 1: be uh from from the start, or at least for
Speaker 1: many years. This must have happened right after we were
Speaker 1: average ties for them. They really took a turn. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they so uh they got find something significant sixty
Speaker 1: million dollars by the Securities and Exchange Commission because they
Speaker 1: failed to disclose the firm's receipt of payments from trading
Speaker 1: firms for routing customer orders to them. So they're just
Speaker 1: a middleman that sends people to companies that make money
Speaker 1: off of making the trades for them. Uh. And they
Speaker 1: claim like that they're doing it without fees and because
Speaker 1: people because they're targeting people who don't have experience with
Speaker 1: like making trades and what. Uh, you know, the fees
Speaker 1: actually would look like they don't know that they're actually
Speaker 1: getting a much worse price with robin Hood than they would,
Speaker 1: uh they would have with just going straight to a brokerage. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to the point that they deprived customers of thirty four
Speaker 1: point one million dollar years. Uh, even after taking into
Speaker 1: account the savings from not paying a commission directly to
Speaker 1: robin Hood. They that that's how much an aggregate that
Speaker 1: specific claim uh screwed customers out of. Um. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: I don't know the fact that they are in league
Speaker 1: with these brokerage houses and not actually working on behalf
Speaker 1: of the little guy to uh rob the brokerage houses
Speaker 1: and give to the poor. Uh is should not be surprising. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's just the audacity of them calling themselves Robin Hood
Speaker 1: is like the one piece of branding that the irony
Speaker 1: that it was, it was pivotal in actually getting all
Speaker 1: these yacht owner fucking money. Yeah, which is kind of
Speaker 1: ironic in the end, but yeah, it's maybe they read
Speaker 1: a different version of the Robin Hood story, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like, I don't know, man, I we
Speaker 1: were talking about this little bit off air, and I
Speaker 1: knew you guys have covered this extensively. It feels like
Speaker 1: a lot of the writing was on the wall within
Speaker 1: the past maybe forty eight hours or so, at least
Speaker 1: on my end. And I'm not the I'm not the
Speaker 1: brightest crayon in the box. But the thing that's wild
Speaker 1: about this is that, uh, it's gone to it's gone
Speaker 1: to like blatant open market manipulation because the cost benefit
Speaker 1: analysis has gotten has gotten skewed. Right, It's like if
Speaker 1: if this, um, oh, if this, if this firm has
Speaker 1: to pay the shorts that they set up, that's a
Speaker 1: massive fun ton of money, and it's actually much cheaper
Speaker 1: for them to It's potentially much cheaper for them to
Speaker 1: just pay a SEC fine or series of fines for
Speaker 1: market manipulation. It's cheaper to break the law than it
Speaker 1: is to obey it. I can't even I can't even
Speaker 1: get out of late fees at the library. This is bullshit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the uh yeah, I mean it goes back to the
Speaker 1: last financial crisis, the first uh, the two thousand eight
Speaker 1: financial crisis, where the banks, the big banks were bailed
Speaker 1: out and nothing wrong there needed on Reddit though, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, forget about how we've we basically threw the
Speaker 1: economy away in a dice game. Uh what about these
Speaker 1: guys on robin Hood. They messed up my friend at
Speaker 1: Citron and Melvin or whatever the fucking these other edge
Speaker 1: funds are. And it's perforat it's pervasive in the mainstream media.
Speaker 1: To The New York Times had a story they were like,
Speaker 1: out of a combination of boredom and greed, these robin
Speaker 1: Hood like Reddit people, uh manipulated. It's like, mother, Wait,
Speaker 1: what that's how you're going to do? You always put
Speaker 1: that into stories about the stock market. The people who
Speaker 1: are making financially motivated decisions are greedy. It depends on
Speaker 1: the contexts. Yeah, did you guys also see the narrative
Speaker 1: that's spinning some of those folks from Wall Street bets
Speaker 1: as uh, trying to make them like maga people, right people,
Speaker 1: And there's it's it's very poor reporting in my opinion,
Speaker 1: because still it's it's Reddit, which is its own ecosystem.
Speaker 1: But I just I don't know, man, I I think
Speaker 1: they can't. I think they just they can't stand that
Speaker 1: these people use their own tools and rules against them
Speaker 1: like that. They can't they can't stomach that because it
Speaker 1: used to be a thing for only them to fund
Speaker 1: people over with. And that's why it's like are you
Speaker 1: for concerted? Like it? They can't fuck it. It's like
Speaker 1: this little kid beat lebron at one on one somehow,
Speaker 1: like they're like it shouldn't have happened. How did this fuck?
Speaker 1: And yeah, what's the fund up? Thing? Is like the
Speaker 1: like the double owning that could possibly happen in the
Speaker 1: form of like bailing out hedge funds, and then that
Speaker 1: means less support for everyone because the government prioritized bailing
Speaker 1: out fucking hedge funds. Over human beings who live here
Speaker 1: have actual needs, rather than like, are you fucking serious,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get my fucking boat reboot. Like there's I mean,
Speaker 1: there's so much like I don't I'm probably going too
Speaker 1: much on the weeds in this, but so much of
Speaker 1: the mainstream reporting right now appears to be the equivalent
Speaker 1: of like, peasants here of all places, but this is
Speaker 1: a gentleman's casino. Yeah, peasants took the form of one
Speaker 1: bullish investor did the whole thing in. I do hope
Speaker 1: the Biden administration and FED are smart enough to realize
Speaker 1: that bailing out the hedge funds would, you know, be
Speaker 1: a very bad look at this time of exploding inequality.
Speaker 1: I yeah, let's hope, let's be Yeah, let's hope. That's
Speaker 1: stranger things. Stranger things have happened, Stranger things have happened. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh right, let's take another quick break and we'll be
Speaker 1: back to talk subway Tuna and we're back. Um and alright, Miles, this, uh,
Speaker 1: the story has drastic implications for your day to day life. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's talk about it. That there are people making some
Speaker 1: pretty drastic claims about subway tum was saying it's apparently,
Speaker 1: according to this fucking lawsuit now lit outlast, I sound biased.
Speaker 1: Let me just read this report first. Uh, there are
Speaker 1: a few gentlemen who are suing subway because they claim
Speaker 1: the subway is in fact not tuna. Is nonsense. Quote
Speaker 1: the star ingredient, according to the lawsuit is and this
Speaker 1: is from the lawsuit, made from anything but tuna. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's very descriptive. Based on independent lab tests of multiple
Speaker 1: samples taken from subway locations in California. The quote tuna
Speaker 1: is a mixture of various concoctions that do not constitute tuna,
Speaker 1: yet have been blended together by defendants to imitate the
Speaker 1: appearance of tuna. So when the attorneys say, and they
Speaker 1: but declined to say what exactly, They're like, okay, but
Speaker 1: then what is it? If it's a concoction of multiple
Speaker 1: is there tuna? What's the tuna percentage um? And they
Speaker 1: would have had me ful what I thought it was tuna?
Speaker 1: What they they What they go on to say is,
Speaker 1: first of all, they wanted to be a class action lawsuits.
Speaker 1: So I guess I can get in on that because
Speaker 1: I I'm thrown away plenty of money of your d
Speaker 1: n A is suba. So I'm like, I need to
Speaker 1: reclaim four tenths of who I am as a human,
Speaker 1: and I don't know how to quantify that, but I'll
Speaker 1: settle for three billion um. So what they say, what's
Speaker 1: more of the Planetts argue subway is quote saving substantial
Speaker 1: sums of money in manufacturing and manufacturing the products because
Speaker 1: the fabricated ingredient they use in the place of tuna
Speaker 1: costs less money. So they're saying, for example, the price
Speaker 1: of a foot long tuna sandwich at a subway outlet
Speaker 1: in like Washington, they're saying is seven dollars and thirty
Speaker 1: nine cents, while the same size cold cut sandwich is
Speaker 1: six nineteen So they're making a dollar twenty there um.
Speaker 1: Now this goes along with like a long line of
Speaker 1: weird subway lawsuits, Like we've talked about the yoga map
Speaker 1: bread uh, the turkey not turkey, Um, the the foot
Speaker 1: long is actually eleven point five inches. That one was,
Speaker 1: I mean, that was fun up. We all knew about that.
Speaker 1: But I remember most recently, Jack, we talked about one
Speaker 1: that the in the in Canada they had actually done
Speaker 1: an analysis of meat and they were saying it was
Speaker 1: not the meat and that was like the last sort
Speaker 1: of tune Subway fiasco we had. And apparently in the
Speaker 1: like I guess the higher courts in Canada actually said
Speaker 1: that Subways claim that that was like a bullshit allegation.
Speaker 1: They they're going to hear it. Uh that there might
Speaker 1: not have been just as cut and dry as like
Speaker 1: we did an analysis and this ship is weird because
Speaker 1: it sounds like that's what this is too. And for
Speaker 1: the record, I've been eating things that are not what
Speaker 1: they are advertised to be, so it doesn't bother me.
Speaker 1: What the funk? I'm I mean, let's be real, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm people, I'm breathing the air in l A like
Speaker 1: I'm done, So what do you what the funk if
Speaker 1: I'm eating a concoction of the tuna like substances. But
Speaker 1: at the beginning of quarantine, I went to Subway because
Speaker 1: Subway was selling their ingredients. Remember if like if you
Speaker 1: get bacon or whatever, they were like, yo, come through,
Speaker 1: we're selling it. I checked out the ship on the
Speaker 1: bag said tuna. So unless they're working with the people
Speaker 1: that work in there, it didn't say like on coction.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was just a bag labeled tuna or they
Speaker 1: had ingredients on the bag and it said tuna. No,
Speaker 1: it was like tuna blah blah blah. I had the recipe.
Speaker 1: I didn't like. I wasn't looking at it at the
Speaker 1: time to be like, is this tuna? I was like, yo,
Speaker 1: can I see? Like if I bought the thing? Would
Speaker 1: it looked like they're here? And I'm like and for
Speaker 1: a second, it was more like I was sniggled with
Speaker 1: the ring of power ship. I got the three pound
Speaker 1: bag of tuna that they used to make the students. Well,
Speaker 1: what if it's I mean, there are a couple of
Speaker 1: ways around it. First, like if we're if we're playing
Speaker 1: the Sketchy Lawyer, one thing you could say is like, well,
Speaker 1: tuna is actually an acronym. It's um making something. It's
Speaker 1: like trout unagi, something with an end and anchovies, and
Speaker 1: that's where we're you know, that's that's what we mean
Speaker 1: when we say tuna. And that's really on you guys
Speaker 1: for misreading the label of the tuna sandwich. Secondly, you
Speaker 1: could say, hey, over fishing is a huge problem. We're
Speaker 1: doing our part for the environment. We just maybe our
Speaker 1: messaging was wrong, But our heart or our sub was
Speaker 1: in the right place, right right, okay, And then as
Speaker 1: the judge, I would be like, I'd like to speak
Speaker 1: to your client counsel. You're okay with this defense? Just
Speaker 1: making sure to continue continue, he said, and maybe something
Speaker 1: that starts with an end, saying, well, I couldn't think
Speaker 1: of a kid, couldn't even get the acronym ount. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, if you want to keep moving forward to
Speaker 1: him as your counsel, then we'll do right. Well, it
Speaker 1: looks like the firm of mad Lib, mad Lib and
Speaker 1: mad Lib is not having a bad fart. Oh there
Speaker 1: we go. But yeah, I mean this is this is
Speaker 1: this is similar to that thing in the UK a
Speaker 1: while back where it turned out that some of those
Speaker 1: meat pies actually had horsemeat in them. Yeah, the I
Speaker 1: like the point you're making miles where where he said, well,
Speaker 1: I've been eating this for so long, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, it's kind of a sunk cost, because there
Speaker 1: were a lot of people in the UK were like,
Speaker 1: well I've been I've been eating these things for years now.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess it depends on what the
Speaker 1: concoction is. Is it like imitation crab level, or is
Speaker 1: it like, I don't know glue, Like what what is it?
Speaker 1: I really don't know. I don't know. Tuna scented glue.
Speaker 1: They can really do a lot with the with just
Speaker 1: all factory engineering. Like orange juice, the Tropican orange juice
Speaker 1: that's fresh squeeze is actually completely flavorless and they just
Speaker 1: add a orange sent to it, and that that's why
Speaker 1: you think it's actually very old. They keep it in
Speaker 1: these big silos that don't have any oxygen, and so
Speaker 1: it keeps it from spoiling, but it also deprives it
Speaker 1: of any taste. And then once it gets to you,
Speaker 1: the way that it tastes like orange juice is they
Speaker 1: just make it smell like orange juice and your brain
Speaker 1: is like, ah, yes, fresh squeezed orange juice. Um. But yeah.
Speaker 1: We actually just got note vacation from the news desk
Speaker 1: from super producer on A Hosnie. She says, Miles is
Speaker 1: too close to this, we need to take him off
Speaker 1: the story. What are you saying, Well, we'll be back
Speaker 1: with some updates from not Miles on I'm telling you
Speaker 1: I'm a TUN's I will say that a lot of
Speaker 1: the a lot of the stories that you hear about
Speaker 1: like the kind of classic you know coke will coke
Speaker 1: is used by uh, the Highway patrol to clean off
Speaker 1: like dead bodies are like you know, stripped down, uh
Speaker 1: dead bodies and all that stuff does does end up
Speaker 1: being myths. So um, the one thing I'll say is
Speaker 1: the law firm that is representing these guys. They are
Speaker 1: the same people who came after Johnson and Johnson with
Speaker 1: the Malcolm powder ovarian cancer lawsuit and that was that
Speaker 1: one was legit. So that's the one thing that has
Speaker 1: my little tuna heart nervous, my weak little tuna heart.
Speaker 1: Let's stay in the food aisle of the Daily Zeigeist
Speaker 1: and talk about mac and cheese. Has been a real
Speaker 1: roller coaster ride over the past year for Kraft mac
Speaker 1: and cheese. When the pandemic first started, people were basically
Speaker 1: hoarding Kraft mac and cheese. It was one of those
Speaker 1: products people like, let's go, let's get it all, uh,
Speaker 1: and they to the point that they had to up
Speaker 1: their production. Basically, people had to work around the clock
Speaker 1: to keep up with demand. So, you know, a very
Speaker 1: popular product churned out at the expense of the workers
Speaker 1: who make it. They weren't providing them with pp like
Speaker 1: months into the pandemic. H. But then like it seems
Speaker 1: like something just like loosened. Uh, like they just they
Speaker 1: they lost touch with reality in some way. Because so
Speaker 1: the first thing we saw from them in the marketing
Speaker 1: department is they claimed that during the pandemic, fifty six
Speaker 1: percent of parents reported serving their kids mac and cheese
Speaker 1: for breakfast. Um. Six, No, that's not true. I can
Speaker 1: tell you. I can tell you because breakfast is the
Speaker 1: easiest meal to to prepare for your kids. You can
Speaker 1: just pour cheerios in a bowl and they're they're good
Speaker 1: from three nights ago. Right. Yeah, that's so that caused
Speaker 1: them to change the box from Craft Dinner to Craft Breakfast. Uh,
Speaker 1: that which is just such a strange overreact and I
Speaker 1: guess by by them about a very flawed and highly
Speaker 1: suspect piece of data they learned. Then they introduced Pumpkin
Speaker 1: Spicecraft Dinner, which is just pump and spice flavored mac
Speaker 1: and cheese. Um. They introduced an advertising campaign that contained
Speaker 1: the slogan send nudes and o o ds like noodles,
Speaker 1: which got the the ire of Q and on oh God,
Speaker 1: which you know, broken clock and all that. Uh, I
Speaker 1: mean crap mac and cheese and I have to go there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a children's that was This is what this is
Speaker 1: what happened. I guarantee you there was some intense, overly
Speaker 1: long boardroom meeting where there was a guy walking around
Speaker 1: way in a suit, waving a box of craft and saying,
Speaker 1: with no sense of irony, we have to think outside
Speaker 1: the fucking box and your craziest ideas. And someone was
Speaker 1: like nudes and they were like, no, write it down.
Speaker 1: Fuck yes, what else? I mean it's good. It's like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I hate working here. I mean it
Speaker 1: could be as simple as like one of the like
Speaker 1: the chief marketing officer just developed a debilitating cocaine addiction
Speaker 1: or something. And that's where this is coming from. It
Speaker 1: has that very uh following a bad idea through to
Speaker 1: its logical conclusion. Vibe to it. Yeah, I mean a
Speaker 1: few years ago, the guy would have been instrumental in
Speaker 1: you know, the police Academy films or something like. That's
Speaker 1: the kind of reasoning. Um. But now so their latest
Speaker 1: product is in honor of Valentine's Day, they have introduced
Speaker 1: something called candy k D Candy Craft Dinner. Uh, it
Speaker 1: is just mac and cheese that has a candy flavor
Speaker 1: packet that makes the mac and cheese look uh like
Speaker 1: raw ground beef. They think it's just like a fun
Speaker 1: pink color, but it really looks like a bowl of
Speaker 1: raw ground beef and it's candy flavored. It's it has
Speaker 1: a sweet sweetness to it, which is as far afield
Speaker 1: I think any brand has ever been from what people
Speaker 1: actually want from their product this way past purple catchup Yeah,
Speaker 1: or even like the KFC like log that smells like KFC.
Speaker 1: Like even it wasn't edible, like we get it. It's
Speaker 1: because it's not even doing a good job of like
Speaker 1: because we always look we will always cover these stupid
Speaker 1: food stunts because at the end of the day, like
Speaker 1: we're mouth a gape in the grocery store and that
Speaker 1: I look good. But like this isn't even doing a
Speaker 1: good job of like your typical like look over here
Speaker 1: at the we're doing something weird, like we're making visors
Speaker 1: spur dunkin donuts. Huh, Like this is just like shitty
Speaker 1: candy mac and no, like what kind of sweet cheesy
Speaker 1: I mean, No, No, it's actually this is starting. This
Speaker 1: is getting me more upset than the tuna lawsuit. Is
Speaker 1: it a sauce, Like, do they still have, you know,
Speaker 1: the typical cheese sauce or is the whole sauce just
Speaker 1: this pink packet that's your cheese. And it seems like
Speaker 1: there's an additional pink packet that you add to ruin
Speaker 1: the matches. So if you want to fully just desecrate
Speaker 1: the meal and it's like, go your own way. Okay,
Speaker 1: still really weird. Maybe they could just do multiple packs
Speaker 1: of something. I don't know. I'm all for experimentation, but
Speaker 1: this feels like maybe this is an inside job the
Speaker 1: sabotage craft. That's what I was wondering. I was wondering
Speaker 1: if they're trying to tank the stock or something. It's
Speaker 1: such a bad idea. It's like so transparently bad, like
Speaker 1: maybe somebody in on the marketing team was shorting the
Speaker 1: craft stuck Jesus, Yeah right, oh God, I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 1: I mean, one angle they could have taken is that
Speaker 1: Kraft Dinner was invented in nineteen thirty seven to offer
Speaker 1: cheap meals during the Great Depression and then like blew
Speaker 1: up in popularity during World War Two. When dairy was rationed,
Speaker 1: so like they could have just been like, hey, times
Speaker 1: are tough. We've been here, We've been through tough times
Speaker 1: before with y'all. Literally yeah, like, uh, let's let's get
Speaker 1: through this together. Eat our cheap food paste, like a
Speaker 1: better job of just showing you how you can like
Speaker 1: turn up the blue box like one or two other ingredients.
Speaker 1: You're like, okay, you got an onion and a half
Speaker 1: pound of beef. Okay, let's get it. This is how
Speaker 1: versatile it is versus like, what have you had candy flavor?
Speaker 1: Are you fucking serious? Shut the craft dinner. You could
Speaker 1: have like you have a recipe contest where people enter
Speaker 1: in their own like their their own yeah yeah, and
Speaker 1: then and then the prize could be more craft macaroni
Speaker 1: and cheese, make a feedback loop, but no candy huh yeah. Instead,
Speaker 1: what it's done is it started a discussion where we go,
Speaker 1: I actually I feel like I hate Kraft Macaroni exactly.
Speaker 1: That's the other end of this conversations where we got to.
Speaker 1: At the end of the story, they do that, They
Speaker 1: do the contest and the winner is just the chief
Speaker 1: marketing officer with a fake mustache on it and like
Speaker 1: the little love the little heart shaped Valentine's Day, just
Speaker 1: a little It's great. Everybody loves it all right, Ben,
Speaker 1: It's been a pleasure as always having you on for
Speaker 1: your third appearance on the daily es. Like guys, where
Speaker 1: can people hear you? Follow you all that good stuff? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can find me on Twitter app Ben bully hs
Speaker 1: W Instagram at Ben Bullying. Uh. You can find some
Speaker 1: of the shows I do stuff they don't want you
Speaker 1: to know if you want to learn more depressing stuff
Speaker 1: about Marshal Islands. Uh. And you and you can also
Speaker 1: check out check me out on Ridiculous History where t
Speaker 1: d Z listeners you can find Miles and Jack themselves
Speaker 1: on the show on the what is his Histories? Weirdest
Speaker 1: flexes or I got those? We gotta have you back
Speaker 1: on that one. Yeah. Uh. And is there a tweet
Speaker 1: or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying? Yes, Uh,
Speaker 1: this is I don't know why this might not matter
Speaker 1: to other people. Uh, there's a I don't know if
Speaker 1: you heard this, there's a Twitter. I was looking for
Speaker 1: innocent tweets, innocent Twitter stuff, you know, because the world's
Speaker 1: burning down. I want to relax as we spiral towards
Speaker 1: the drain. I found something. I found a guy called
Speaker 1: Coffee Dad, and he's just a guy who likes coffee.
Speaker 1: And all his tweets are only things like I'm ready
Speaker 1: for coffee, it's coffee time, I'm enjoying coffee. One time
Speaker 1: he got political and said co fefe. But that's that's it.
Speaker 1: That's the only time. It's different. Uh that And I
Speaker 1: love his commitment to the bit. He's been doing this
Speaker 1: since two thousand twelve, just these small tweets about coffee. Nice. Uh, Miles,
Speaker 1: where can people find you? What is the tweet you've
Speaker 1: been enjoying? Uh, let's see. You can find me on
Speaker 1: Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray and also the
Speaker 1: other podcast for twenty Day Fiance stop by twitch, Twitch
Speaker 1: dot tv slas for twenty Day Fiance will probably do
Speaker 1: something live today Friday four twenty no less. Uh, let's
Speaker 1: see a tweet that I like? Is this one? It's
Speaker 1: from Dana Donnelly at Dana donne Leys. She tweets stock
Speaker 1: Market right now is in seals versus billionaire pedophile rapists
Speaker 1: And I'm on team in Cell. You can find me
Speaker 1: on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien a couple of tweets
Speaker 1: I've been enjoying. Johnny Soon tweeted, I hope this email
Speaker 1: finds you unhappy and burned out. I hope it is
Speaker 1: your last straw um and Rob Delaney tweeted, I appreciate
Speaker 1: the game stop stuff is quote funny to some of you,
Speaker 1: But I had planned to buy my wife a modest
Speaker 1: boat for Valentine's Day and now I can't, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to have to work up the courage to ask
Speaker 1: my dad to loan me the money. This was not
Speaker 1: on my bingo card. I love the bingo. Uh. You
Speaker 1: can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien. You
Speaker 1: can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. Were at
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Speaker 1: post our episodes and our footnotes where we like all
Speaker 1: to the information that we talked about today's episode. Well,
Speaker 1: the song we ride out on miles, what are we
Speaker 1: riding out on today? So we're gonna go out on
Speaker 1: this artist, Dominique du Mont. But it's a collaboration. It's
Speaker 1: like one of those things it's like three artists and
Speaker 1: one of the people who works on this project they
Speaker 1: think might be a fake, fictitious artist. I just love
Speaker 1: backstories like that. They're from Europe. But this, uh, this
Speaker 1: track is called debut and that is my French for
Speaker 1: you today to start and the finish or beginning and
Speaker 1: end whatever you want to say. And it just got
Speaker 1: like great. It just sounds like this weird project that
Speaker 1: a bunch of mysterious people are working on. But it
Speaker 1: has like a very like, you know, kind of disco
Speaker 1: we pop vibe to it. And I always like anytime
Speaker 1: the vocals are distorted and it sounds like it's coming
Speaker 1: out of a haunted radio, because that's like my whole
Speaker 1: aesthetic right now. So check this out from Dominique Dumal
Speaker 1: like early early the weekend when we didn't know who
Speaker 1: it was. This is more like into like instrument playing
Speaker 1: versus than his trippy red beats from Toronto Ahl right.
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