Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two sixty eight,
Speaker 1: episode two of Turned at Least Like Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: production my Heart Radio and as a podcast where we
Speaker 1: take a deep dive into America's share consciousness. And it's Tuesday,
Speaker 1: December twenty tea minus five days of Christmas because we
Speaker 1: found out the twelve days of Christmas start on Christmas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: is that way to go? Get that days of Christmas?
Speaker 1: But it's also blue. It doesn't make any sense. Jack. You,
Speaker 1: as someone who is obviously a studied abroad and as
Speaker 1: fun yards, you should know that it is a National
Speaker 1: Angria Day, okay, also International Human Holidarity Day okay, and
Speaker 1: also Gold Caroling Day. I guess if you want to.
Speaker 1: Although feels have you ever Carol? No, I've never, like
Speaker 1: in a non school function where you were singing a
Speaker 1: Christmas Carol for parents, but like you never done that
Speaker 1: thing where you have hold up and I love seeing
Speaker 1: Christmas Carol. But I've never gone door to door and
Speaker 1: Carold for my supper. Okay, yeah, no, no, I thought
Speaker 1: that was the I remember getting mad when like I
Speaker 1: remember one year, like a neighborhood group of neighborhood people,
Speaker 1: like we're gonna carol around the neighborhood and when they came,
Speaker 1: they like interrupted me playing like like I think it
Speaker 1: was Donkey Kong Country or something, and I was like,
Speaker 1: what are we doing? Moms, Like they're coming to the door.
Speaker 1: I'm like, fuck them. We didn't want that come anyway,
Speaker 1: and my mom screamed at me with yeah, no, fuck them.
Speaker 1: Suproducer Becca used to be a caroler and would do
Speaker 1: Pokemon team with Carol's sometimes Wow, wait what, I'm more
Speaker 1: evidence that we have the wrong people hosting the show
Speaker 1: and that should be what seeing it and suddenly what
Speaker 1: the fund is a Pokemon themed Carol? You know, we
Speaker 1: gotta we gotta get more evidence hit us with it?
Speaker 1: Is it? What is it? Like? Oh, you know, I
Speaker 1: think you were specifically the twelve Days of Christmas twelve
Speaker 1: Days of Pokemon. I don't know if like it was
Speaker 1: something my parents looked up on like O g old Internet,
Speaker 1: or if they made it up themselves, like they took
Speaker 1: one of ours from your parents. Yeah, because my parents
Speaker 1: used to take us in all the neighborhood kids caroling.
Speaker 1: So it was like me, my brother and then like
Speaker 1: the neighbors down the street and like we all loved Pokemon.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if it was like they were like, well,
Speaker 1: they'll do this if it's Pokemon related and they just
Speaker 1: made a bunch of Pokemon carols or ye. Pokemon is
Speaker 1: so intimidating to me as a parent because there's just
Speaker 1: so much lore and so many names that are all
Speaker 1: made up exactly, so you can just stick any name
Speaker 1: and like a dove. You know, you're like three, you know, Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they just knew you fu with Pokemon. And so they
Speaker 1: were like, oh, we were obsessed my brother, like Pokemon sheets,
Speaker 1: Pokemon cards, poke Mon collector things. Yeah, so they were
Speaker 1: just like, we'll just pick some names put them. In
Speaker 1: the beginning, my four year old is starting to talk
Speaker 1: about Pokemon, and my strategy is to just go completely dead.
Speaker 1: I just go limp whenever you nay. That's what kids
Speaker 1: do when you don't want to do something, They go
Speaker 1: and tell you, guys, something I learned about the twelve
Speaker 1: Days of Christmas. Real fast, do you know? There's the
Speaker 1: twelve days starting with Christmas and after that's what we're
Speaker 1: talking about, how to count down to Christmas. No, it's
Speaker 1: after bullshit. I tell you what I learned about New
Speaker 1: Year's though, it's when Jesus got circumcised, is right? Go
Speaker 1: with me here, Okay, he was born on Christmas? Right, Oh,
Speaker 1: how many days after till the brist? You do the brist?
Speaker 1: Like eight days later after the ball drops? Yea, proverbiably
Speaker 1: you know, spiritual like obviously it doesn't happen that quickly
Speaker 1: when you sab the champagne off. Well there is, that's right.
Speaker 1: I can't stop time people. That's because I just learned it,
Speaker 1: and it's like all I can talk about now. It's like,
Speaker 1: did you guys know there's this when Jesus was circumcised?
Speaker 1: I mean that would suggest that we picked Christmas specifically
Speaker 1: to like back to the way that Black Friday happens,
Speaker 1: more like Black Friday happens after Thanksgiving, but also Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: kind of happens before Black Fridays. Backdated Thanksgiving. We backdated
Speaker 1: Christmas in order for to celebrate jesus circumcision. It's because
Speaker 1: I looked up the twelve days of Christmas because I
Speaker 1: was like, what's that all about? And then that's how
Speaker 1: I found out the twelve days after or not before.
Speaker 1: I think we might have told you that it was
Speaker 1: the twelve days after at the Christmas party we were
Speaker 1: at together last week, and then the starting the entire chain,
Speaker 1: the Horriborus of information, my journey into Jesus's circumcision, where
Speaker 1: I learned that the foreskin, like a lot of people
Speaker 1: claimed to have the foreskin of Jesus. Yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: a holy artifact. Wow, And all these different people claimed
Speaker 1: that they had it basically as like an early tourist
Speaker 1: trap to be like, come to my city, come see Jesus,
Speaker 1: as far as the easiest thing to fake, Like nobody's
Speaker 1: gonna be like that doesn't look like they're like that's
Speaker 1: an onion ring? Is it? How dare you? That's blasphemy?
Speaker 1: It's called the holy pre pus. Yeah, this was the
Speaker 1: tourist trap like in like the year thirty seven, or
Speaker 1: it was okay, yes, because apparently a lot of them
Speaker 1: got destroyed during the sacking of Rome. Got it fake
Speaker 1: the fake fortunes? Yeah, oh god, it okay? Or maybe
Speaker 1: it was a bread and fish, you know multiplication thing
Speaker 1: where once once he was circumcised, his force multiplied out
Speaker 1: of control. It was actually a problem. They were like
Speaker 1: five golden rings. Yeah alright, Well, my name's Jack. O'Brien,
Speaker 1: a k apple, Jack's Potatoes O'Brien, two seasonal dishes in
Speaker 1: honor of the holidays. Uh and I'm thrilled to be
Speaker 1: joined as always by my co host, Mr Miles Gray.
Speaker 1: Pink vibrators in a CVS, Jack's big plumpers looking swove,
Speaker 1: COVID warnings being sung by a mom man folks surrounding
Speaker 1: in inflation wolves. Everybody knows a turkey and some missiletoe
Speaker 1: cost about three eighty five Baha blast in the Canala glore.
Speaker 1: I'll find it hard to sleep tonight, all right, lock
Speaker 1: ARNI shout out to you doing the neck you call
Speaker 1: Christmas song getting his CBS vibrators. You didn't get b
Speaker 1: plugs in there, but you got the big plumpers in there,
Speaker 1: and you got Baha blast. Valid Well done, welcome, And
Speaker 1: it is hard to sleep on Christmas night because of
Speaker 1: all the Baha blast that I allow myself at the
Speaker 1: around That was Dad vibrating and grinding his teeth. Well, Miles.
Speaker 1: We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat
Speaker 1: by a brilliant, talented writer podcaster who's written for The
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Speaker 1: and the writer, creator and host of the legendary podcast
Speaker 1: Heidi World, The Higher Flight Story, which you should go
Speaker 1: listen to now it is up in its completion, and
Speaker 1: also another show we're in the very early stages of
Speaker 1: working on together. Please welcome back to the show. Molly
Speaker 1: Lambi E S you s C h R I s T.
Speaker 1: I'm talking Jesus. He's got a for skin. We're gonna
Speaker 1: cut it off on New Year's Eve because Molly just
Speaker 1: learned about it. That New Year's was Jesus circumcision. There
Speaker 1: it is? What is that? Fergie right? I wasn't sure
Speaker 1: if it was gonna fit when I started. It could
Speaker 1: be absolutely s k I and we're talking for skins.
Speaker 1: We were talking for skin. What's new since a couple
Speaker 1: of days ago when we were skin On New Year's Eve?
Speaker 1: We're going to champagne. Tell yam yo you can always
Speaker 1: get yeah during the national anthem too. I felt that
Speaker 1: she she got him Yama in there too when she
Speaker 1: sang it at the All Star Game. She's had like
Speaker 1: several famous public performances, the National Anthem where she paid herself,
Speaker 1: the one where she was and when where she like
Speaker 1: did backflips, the whole. She's an incredible performer. Yeah, one
Speaker 1: of the Gracie Ferguson. Never I've never like even conceived
Speaker 1: of the idea that somebody wanted to funk the National Anthem,
Speaker 1: but that was the only thing I could see when
Speaker 1: she performed the National Anthem. She's from Hatienda Heights too,
Speaker 1: from Hacienda Heights in so many ways. She still goes
Speaker 1: to Taco Bell Drive to ros huh oh. Yeah, she's
Speaker 1: in the heights. She stays in the heights, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. And she says, like, my Ida homie
Speaker 1: whose dad worked for like Arco or whatever, one of
Speaker 1: those like you know, gas companies are out there and
Speaker 1: like her and for him and Fergie's dad were like
Speaker 1: kicking it forever. And he's like, yeah, dude, I remember,
Speaker 1: like we would see her when we were like kids.
Speaker 1: She was always a star. Like, oh my god, that's
Speaker 1: such a weird. I saw I saw her as a
Speaker 1: child and I was like, that's a star, hey man.
Speaker 1: Sometimes children just have star quality. Yeah, I gotta get him.
Speaker 1: In the biz, stars aren't made, they just exist. She
Speaker 1: has been at the biz for a minute anyway, so
Speaker 1: you know, kids incorporated. I just saw Babylon last night.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, how was that? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't like to be a hitter? Oh that people? I
Speaker 1: saw it was liked it. I can tell what you
Speaker 1: thought of it from what you just said around. It's
Speaker 1: a mess. There's some great parts. There's some great parts,
Speaker 1: and it's a mess. And I heard the big mess.
Speaker 1: Is it this year's House of Gucci? I don't think so,
Speaker 1: but maybe yeah, a fun and everyone's doing cocaine in it.
Speaker 1: The older I get, the more I realized how much
Speaker 1: like my enjoyment, like how much I like a movie
Speaker 1: is depended on like where I'm at personally. And how
Speaker 1: do you have you liked any movies lately? This is
Speaker 1: my show now I haven't. I haven't liked movies for
Speaker 1: about a week and a half. What do you like? Not?
Speaker 1: No week and a half? You know what? I liked that?
Speaker 1: I won't stop talking about. What's that? The Fableman's did you?
Speaker 1: It's really good? I loved it. I heard it's really good.
Speaker 1: I want to see that nobody that I was with
Speaker 1: liked it, but I loved it. I thought it was
Speaker 1: really funny. I had the thought while watching Babylon because
Speaker 1: it is a love letter to the magic of cinema.
Speaker 1: Babylon is. I had the thought, man, we should have
Speaker 1: seen the Fablemans because we should have in that love
Speaker 1: letter to the man secret about Fableman's it's not really
Speaker 1: a love letter to film. What Yeah, I mean it is,
Speaker 1: but not in the way you think it's going to be.
Speaker 1: It's about the power of film much horn here. It
Speaker 1: is horny. Actually, that's cool. And it's about his mom, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's about his horny mom. Nice. All right, Molly, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get to know you a little bit better in
Speaker 1: a moment. Sorry, Myles say, I don't know, I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking of Jack. No, you saw Babylon more
Speaker 1: in the Rastafarian sense that that she was Babylon to
Speaker 1: you and all the senses it was Babylon to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: very horny movie. We're a very like I don't know that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's worth seeing. I highly recommend seeing Sometimes a movie
Speaker 1: that that is that horny can be like like de sexualizing.
Speaker 1: It is a little a little bit like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: horny but not erotic. Yeah, there's something else. I just
Speaker 1: saw her. I was like, wow, this is like so
Speaker 1: horny that it becomes completely erotic. Yeah, which might have
Speaker 1: been the point. Like one of the first things we
Speaker 1: see is a beautiful woman doesn't look like clean, nice, fresh.
Speaker 1: It's a mess. And then from there it's just I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I feel like you can't tell I feel like you
Speaker 1: shouldn't reveal that. I feel like that feels like maybe
Speaker 1: you should talk to Damien Chazelle because he drops that
Speaker 1: in the second scene. You're telling me this is a
Speaker 1: movie is a love letter to it's a love letter
Speaker 1: to cinema, and we get shipped on before that even
Speaker 1: happens in the first scene at the moment by an elephant.
Speaker 1: So I'm just letting you know it's a lot right away. Wow.
Speaker 1: I've heard people say stuff like this about it, but
Speaker 1: I thought they were kidding. No, No, it's all very serious,
Speaker 1: and I just it's it also has I think I
Speaker 1: was like turned off by the fact that it has
Speaker 1: things that I'm pretty sure he thought were very funny
Speaker 1: that I like was like, oh many, Now I got it. Yeah. Anyways, uh, Molly,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to know you a little bit better
Speaker 1: in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listener to
Speaker 1: a couple of things we're talking about today. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about Elon Musk maybe a little bit, maybe not,
Speaker 1: we'll see. We have to talk about George Santos, superstar
Speaker 1: in the Mega World, and yeah, just aft of the Year,
Speaker 1: I think the grift is real, Like, holy sh it,
Speaker 1: Lacey needs to do just all her three episodes about
Speaker 1: this man. Yeah, we're not. It might just be very
Speaker 1: straightforward that he lied about everything and then the Democrats
Speaker 1: didn't want to win for summer year. Anyways, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that this is a the openly gay Republican politician
Speaker 1: who just got not who just won in New York
Speaker 1: and the Democrats just they were like, how do we
Speaker 1: beat this? There didn't apparently did zero single thing. We're
Speaker 1: going to make a case for shoplifting from Walmart all that,
Speaker 1: plenty more. But first, Molly, we do like to ask
Speaker 1: our guests, what is something from your search history? Wow,
Speaker 1: I already told you that I looked up the twelve
Speaker 1: days of Christmas and learned that New Year's just when
Speaker 1: Jesus got circumcised, and I can't stop telling people because
Speaker 1: everybody wants to know how to stop telling people about
Speaker 1: shop search search bar, how to stop talking about Jesus's
Speaker 1: penis to strangers you just met at a party. I've
Speaker 1: always thought that was an undercovered thing. Is like there
Speaker 1: are a lot of like nude crucifixes and like nude
Speaker 1: paintings of Jesus and the Holy cock. Yeah, the Holy
Speaker 1: cock like that that seems like a thing that people
Speaker 1: would talk about, like how big is it out? Shouldn't
Speaker 1: it be? Like wait, I don't think I ever saw
Speaker 1: Jesus's jump, bro. I'm gonna send you guys right now,
Speaker 1: because I remember in the Catholic high school and I
Speaker 1: went he had the little loincloth on, Like when do
Speaker 1: you see in the depiction of the crucifixion or like
Speaker 1: they're just other ones like glamours. Are you ready to
Speaker 1: see five thousand paintings of Jesus getting circumcised as a baby?
Speaker 1: You know I'm talking about the man Jesus at least
Speaker 1: eight Well, yeah, I mean that makes sense because this
Speaker 1: is like so much art. Everything was just like hey,
Speaker 1: we should we would do paintings of nature from the Bible. Right, okay,
Speaker 1: naked people from the Bible. Look at my link. Look
Speaker 1: at my link that I just sent you. Am I
Speaker 1: ready for this? Yeah? You are. It is ancient depictions,
Speaker 1: but through the years. It's like paintings from all the
Speaker 1: different periods, like even the period when babies just looked
Speaker 1: like tiny grown men. Oh yeah, like this first one
Speaker 1: by Friedrich Herlin. That Jesus. It looks like he's sucking forty.
Speaker 1: He has a receiving haroline and he's like relaxed, like yo,
Speaker 1: man over smoking a cigarette. Babies look like a little
Speaker 1: old man though, but not like this feels like Winston Churchill. Yeah,
Speaker 1: babies do look like white babies look like Weston Churchill.
Speaker 1: It's a problem for for the whites. But also look
Speaker 1: at look a little baby Jesus. He's getting his force.
Speaker 1: Canna take it off? That was when they knew. He
Speaker 1: didn't even he didn't even make a face, he was
Speaker 1: just like yeah. But like the venue for the circumcision
Speaker 1: looks like lit like they are like as if they
Speaker 1: knew he was Jesus, Well they did, But did they
Speaker 1: take him to a special thing? I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't remember the Gospel of Star like to my heart.
Speaker 1: But it looks like they did in like a cast,
Speaker 1: like a like the king was like, yo, bro, bring
Speaker 1: him through. Yeah, little star beathel him. Maybe it should
Speaker 1: have been a giant star bath line. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: There's this one car I always see in my neighborhood
Speaker 1: that has a bumper sticker that just says circumcision is
Speaker 1: his decision as a capitalized he No, no, no, it's
Speaker 1: like anti circumcision. It's like it's like like my body,
Speaker 1: my choice for baby boy. Yeah, let him. Look, if
Speaker 1: you want to go do that adulthood, you don't go
Speaker 1: up have a very chaotic experience doing that an adult.
Speaker 1: Get in the car, bro, we're getting circumcisions. Bro. Hop in, Bro,
Speaker 1: your white elephant present, We got you a breath. What
Speaker 1: is something you think is overrated? Mind? Uh, let's say
Speaker 1: the movie Jaws. Let's say underrated the Fablements. Okay, look
Speaker 1: at the mad Jack you just sucking. You just shipped
Speaker 1: on his whole life saying that. No, he's just like Jaws.
Speaker 1: Because I was in a good mood for the first
Speaker 1: six years of my life and watch find but Jack
Speaker 1: always wanted to get eaten by a shark like that.
Speaker 1: That whole thing set off like a whole movement in
Speaker 1: his mind. Really, yeah, that was That was what I
Speaker 1: thought I wanted to do when I grew up. When
Speaker 1: people asked me by a shark, Yeah, I said, I
Speaker 1: wanted to either be a shark be a shark theologist,
Speaker 1: but that wasn't a profession, so ultimately or ultimately, I
Speaker 1: want to be eaten by a shark ultimately perfectly. I
Speaker 1: also wanted to be a marine biologist when I was
Speaker 1: a child, for some reason, because marine biology is cool
Speaker 1: as hell is why. Yeah, I wish you'd like turned
Speaker 1: me onto all that cool ship and like Jack Cousto
Speaker 1: movies and like Instead, I just watched two Jaws hundreds
Speaker 1: of times. Watched Jaws two hundreds of times, Jaws three
Speaker 1: and four probably dozens of times each. Wow. I mean
Speaker 1: I had this fantasy of um like booping P. Twenty
Speaker 1: two on the nose, r I p R P alright,
Speaker 1: P two that's the mountain lion. Those who are not
Speaker 1: l A listeners, there's a mountain lion who they just euthanized.
Speaker 1: But I always said, if I saw, if I ever
Speaker 1: saw that mountain lion. I was I was gonna kiss
Speaker 1: it and let it murder me. Yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: the right thing to do. Imagine if you got to
Speaker 1: hear a mountain lion per me, the last thing you'd
Speaker 1: ever hear, but it would be incredible. It sounds like
Speaker 1: I've when I've heard it. It sounds not like this
Speaker 1: sounds like a big as engine, sounds like a lawnmower starting. Yeah, Latin,
Speaker 1: how good that would feel to like feel a big
Speaker 1: cat per oh yeah? And then yea. Whenever I see
Speaker 1: people like those animal handlers were like bears and ship
Speaker 1: and like big cats, be like fucking knocking them over
Speaker 1: because they're like having fun, like come on, but I'm
Speaker 1: like already would like to get kind of like the
Speaker 1: fuck They're really like, come on, I'm working with you.
Speaker 1: I love you. Though. I follow some people on Instagram
Speaker 1: who they're all Russian who have like big cats that
Speaker 1: as pets. These people it was like one guy followed
Speaker 1: has like a puma in his apartment. Yeah. I followed
Speaker 1: some like rustic Russians who like have their friends. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like they've been living with the bears though
Speaker 1: for centuries. You know what I mean so that they're
Speaker 1: they're bear vibes are way different than ours. I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's pretty suspenseful posted a video where they're like, here
Speaker 1: I am rubbing this puma's belly. Whatever. There was like
Speaker 1: that one UFC fighter who would like wrestle bear cubs
Speaker 1: when he was a kid, and like that's how he
Speaker 1: got his wrestling technique down. His just bodying like bear cubs.
Speaker 1: But I do, oh, I should mention that I sent
Speaker 1: this article and like in our text right like last night.
Speaker 1: But Steven Spielberg recently he was on Desert Island discs
Speaker 1: and the host was asking, like how he would feel
Speaker 1: about having sharks like circling him if he was like
Speaker 1: on this show's Desert Island, And Steven Spielberg said, that's
Speaker 1: the one thing I still fear, not to get eaten
Speaker 1: by a shark, but that sharks are somehow mad at
Speaker 1: me for the feeding frenzy of crazy sports fishermen that
Speaker 1: happened after. I mean, the sharks aren't mad at you,
Speaker 1: but cosmically you're fucked, bro, that's what he's feeling. He's like,
Speaker 1: how do I have a cosmic debt for setting off
Speaker 1: a sport fishing thing. And then one of these people
Speaker 1: who has like the head of a shark like trust
Speaker 1: was like, I think we're giving him a little too
Speaker 1: much credit, but yeah, that certainly may have done it. No,
Speaker 1: he did say he like, his great regret is like
Speaker 1: villainizing sharks in some way. And Peter eventually said the
Speaker 1: same thing, and like, because sharks don't eat people, everybody
Speaker 1: knows that people eat people people. Well, I mean, also, okay,
Speaker 1: now I'm going to say Jaws is good and stop
Speaker 1: being such a contrarian. Man is the most dangerous animal,
Speaker 1: and Jaws, it's not about the shark, it's about keeping
Speaker 1: the restorat beIN. Yeah. Yeah, but I wasn't able to
Speaker 1: figure that out was a kid. I just didn't swim
Speaker 1: in dark bulls for about twenty three years. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: the ocean is scary, that's what's cool about it. Respect
Speaker 1: that respect that bitch your new fucking conservation campaigns. And
Speaker 1: then the Fableman's just really good. We want spoil it,
Speaker 1: but it's just really good. I really, I am not
Speaker 1: like a Spielberg guy at all, and I kind of
Speaker 1: saw it as a joke. Kept like, let's see the Moons,
Speaker 1: and it was very different than I thought it was
Speaker 1: going to be. It was not like a love letter cinema.
Speaker 1: It was not like a La La Land. It was like, um,
Speaker 1: it's it's like a serious man. Oh yeah, wow, it's
Speaker 1: about being like miserable Jews in the suburbs at the
Speaker 1: height of American Empire when everyone's supposed to be doing
Speaker 1: so good. That sounds okay. So it's like almost like
Speaker 1: a Sam Mendis type vibe of the film. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: written by Tony Kushner with Spielberg. It's like very funny
Speaker 1: and dark. It's not like sentimental or s falsey at all,
Speaker 1: which is what it's very like admin review of Spielberg
Speaker 1: where you're like, oh, this is why he doesn't really
Speaker 1: do stories about real people and their human emotions, because
Speaker 1: he's also talked tough about this this whole life. That's
Speaker 1: why you didn't really delve into the relationship of the
Speaker 1: parents in ET because you didn't want to. You didn't
Speaker 1: want it was complicated. Truly, No, I mean truly, it's
Speaker 1: like And also my friend Dave Horrod said he was like, oh,
Speaker 1: e t is about like your Jewish relatives from the
Speaker 1: old world that you have to like keep alive that
Speaker 1: are always like asking you how to use a telephone.
Speaker 1: Because jed Hurst shows up in fablements. It's like an
Speaker 1: old jew And my friend was like, that's e t
Speaker 1: And I was like wow. So not only is it
Speaker 1: like a good movie and of itself, but you can
Speaker 1: just like watch it as a Rosetta stone of like
Speaker 1: all it explains everything about Spielberg. Yeah, and it's definitely
Speaker 1: it's just not like it's not like sentimental and Schmulsey.
Speaker 1: It's it's very like it's about how your parents are
Speaker 1: human beings. It's great. Who said the thing about the
Speaker 1: elderly relatives? Just so we can give him up, my
Speaker 1: friend Dave Horrett, Dave Horwitz, all right, and you can
Speaker 1: find him at Dave underscore horwits on Twitter. We are
Speaker 1: going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back. And he allowed us. Continues to do
Speaker 1: do his thing, continuing to create drama so that he
Speaker 1: everybody's looking at him. But I don't know, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be interesting to see what he does with it. So
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago he put out a pole
Speaker 1: saying should I step down? As CEO, sad face, I
Speaker 1: should just kill myself, like hoping everyone's like, no, you
Speaker 1: love stuff, You're so cool, we love you. But people
Speaker 1: voted yes he should step down as CEO, and he
Speaker 1: he said that he's gonna follow through whatever the poll demands.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, it feels like he put himself
Speaker 1: in a no win situation, like because he's sort of
Speaker 1: out of options now. He could either just ignore it
Speaker 1: and keep on being the worst CEO of all time.
Speaker 1: He could actually step down and like resign and disgrace.
Speaker 1: He's not. He's he's he's still gonna own it. He's
Speaker 1: just picking somebody else to fucking front thing. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: which he probably means what Yeah, that's probably and like
Speaker 1: people said, that's what he was. He already said he
Speaker 1: was planning to do that. So this was just his
Speaker 1: way of being like what you guys did it to
Speaker 1: your call? I'm just listening to the people, But I'm
Speaker 1: I am curious, Like do you think he thought he
Speaker 1: was going to get voted? And I think you know,
Speaker 1: last week was the worst week of his life with
Speaker 1: the Chase Center ship with all the weird like Elon
Speaker 1: Jett Banning, actually j K, actually someone's giving assassination coordinates
Speaker 1: and then the cops like what he's like, actually, j K,
Speaker 1: should I suspend these journalists? Maybe I won't. Here's a
Speaker 1: Twitter are you talking about? When he got like cheered
Speaker 1: on Dave Chappelle's state, Like there were a couple of booze?
Speaker 1: Is that what we're talking about? But it doesn't Well,
Speaker 1: it was bad to me and I I definitely began
Speaker 1: to see him sort of struggling a bit. But I
Speaker 1: think rightly a lot of people pointed out that with
Speaker 1: the Tesla stop going down, him publicly leaving Twitter as
Speaker 1: CEO would help restore confidence and bring the share price
Speaker 1: back up. Like that's one dimension of why this makes sense,
Speaker 1: because you know, like his wealth is tied up in
Speaker 1: Tesla's stock value, so when that going down, and many
Speaker 1: shareholders being like, man, this guy needs to fucking stop
Speaker 1: paying attention to Twitter and like figure out this other ship.
Speaker 1: I guess it kind of helped it went up sixty
Speaker 1: two cents on Monday morning. But I think this has
Speaker 1: been said for a while by like a lot of
Speaker 1: investment analysts, like that Tesla stock is just overvalued, and
Speaker 1: it's been overvalued for a while and I think, as
Speaker 1: you know, people begin to be like, this guy is
Speaker 1: kind of a loser that that sort of undermines the
Speaker 1: confidence in the company. And then therefore we start seeing
Speaker 1: a little bit of I guess a decrease in the
Speaker 1: in the share value. So this gives him a good
Speaker 1: out to also be like, you know what, vox populi
Speaker 1: voxing there, whatever the funk he was saying about saying like, see,
Speaker 1: I'm I listened to the people. They told me to
Speaker 1: get the funk out, and I did. And here's this
Speaker 1: other person who will now be in a perfect position
Speaker 1: to be the fall guy when Twitter goes bankrupt, and
Speaker 1: then he can just kind of be like, man, this
Speaker 1: thing was doomed before even I scared off the ad
Speaker 1: revenue and fucking three days place was a rap. But
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, many people like this, this feels like
Speaker 1: a good way to preserve your ego on the way
Speaker 1: out while you've actually just you know, embarrassed. Just gives
Speaker 1: them like more spite, like more ammunition for being like
Speaker 1: fuck you guys, all show you so it it Also,
Speaker 1: I don't know, like, what did he think was gonna happen?
Speaker 1: And now he's just gonna be a bigger spoiled baby
Speaker 1: throwing a tantrum with billions of dollars than ever before. Yeah,
Speaker 1: why not, but Mole, you're a huge Elon Musk fam
Speaker 1: What do you think? Yeah, the man, don't tell this
Speaker 1: guy out. He's just God, it's just incredible. What a
Speaker 1: bad poster he is the word I mean, it's sort
Speaker 1: of inspiring that you can have all that money and
Speaker 1: never be funny. Yeah, Like he's not even doing the
Speaker 1: smart thing, like to get a consultant or something. Well
Speaker 1: in a normal person, any normal celebrity, you know, not
Speaker 1: that I want him to be a celebrity, but like
Speaker 1: anyone else would just hire a joke rider, right, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody else that's famous just has like a ghost rider
Speaker 1: making them seem likable. I don't I don't thank you
Speaker 1: Elon Musca will even do that, though. I mean, not
Speaker 1: that he would hire a funny ghostwriter either. I'm sure
Speaker 1: he'd hire someone who would be as funny as he is.
Speaker 1: Even it's just incredible. It's like, I don't know makes
Speaker 1: I was saying. It's like, does he not know he's
Speaker 1: the guy getting murdered by everybody in Lord of the
Speaker 1: Flies here yet like you not quite not quite I think,
Speaker 1: And that's why, that's why it's just interesting to watch
Speaker 1: this him having this like real time reconciliation with like
Speaker 1: whatever reality he's letting seep in through Twitter or you know,
Speaker 1: the Chase Center of these other moments he's having. Though
Speaker 1: I was killing it and then but then a lot
Speaker 1: of people in that pole were like, don't don't do it.
Speaker 1: Ellen those votes for you to step down or from bots.
Speaker 1: But I thought he got rid of the sophisticated lose
Speaker 1: have to oh yeah, so basically get the funk out
Speaker 1: of here. Yeah, he's supposed to step down, and he's
Speaker 1: gonna do it, but don't like I just like his attitude,
Speaker 1: his whole comportment. He's going to do something shitty as
Speaker 1: he steps It's gonna make it worse somehow, you know
Speaker 1: what he's going to make fucking Trump or some megas
Speaker 1: whole like CEO or something. You know, like he's gonna
Speaker 1: do some else's saying that, like Trump's Trump's account is
Speaker 1: back and he hasn't posted because he also the funny
Speaker 1: thing is Trump is like he needs to get as
Speaker 1: much investment in truth social so if he starts splitting
Speaker 1: his his presence. Well, I think all of them are like,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to set up some some new social media, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: but but again the problem is, like the people who
Speaker 1: are investing in truth. I think there are a lot
Speaker 1: of people saying like they might sue Trump if you
Speaker 1: started using Twitter, because they're like, you're actually sending business
Speaker 1: to a competitor when we're investing in this thing that
Speaker 1: was supposed to be you exclusively on this fucking thing.
Speaker 1: So it's a very everyone's got their hands tied in
Speaker 1: weird ways anyways, Like it's good if we all get
Speaker 1: off Twitter, right, isn't It's somewhere it's to be able
Speaker 1: to hear, like when people are doing bad ship in
Speaker 1: real time. I just don't know where that's going to happen,
Speaker 1: you know, like, oh, Instagram, could you imagine that? Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it becomes the new fucking wild journalism feed on Instagram
Speaker 1: one day. Who knows, who knows, but maybe they can
Speaker 1: maybe he could have this guy George Santos becomes Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's move on to George Santos because this is I
Speaker 1: don't know, this is the new the new feeder profession
Speaker 1: for Republican success is just straight grifter. Hey, fake it
Speaker 1: till you make it is a very popular phrase in
Speaker 1: the entertainment industry. Don't worry about your miss say you
Speaker 1: did that ship until you get there. And if they ask,
Speaker 1: fucking they have the time, they don't even ask. Well,
Speaker 1: George Santo did exactly that. He's right, and he's a
Speaker 1: superstar in the mago world. He's an openly gay Republican
Speaker 1: who has no problem with the party's official platform of
Speaker 1: curtailing people's rights. And he's actually the first non incumbent
Speaker 1: out gay Republican to be elected. So it's a historic win.
Speaker 1: When he like flipped this district in New York, it
Speaker 1: was like a district that Biden or he won by
Speaker 1: eight points in a district that Biden had won. And dude,
Speaker 1: he's got a good story as a candidate on paper.
Speaker 1: You know, you look at it goes okay. What tell
Speaker 1: us a little bit about the story of George Santos. Well,
Speaker 1: he's the son of Brazilian immigrants. He went to n
Speaker 1: y You he worked at Goldman, Sachs and City Group,
Speaker 1: where he was a manager. He helps manage his family's
Speaker 1: consulting firm and their massive real estate portfolio, you know,
Speaker 1: and consulting worth you know, like I guess handling around
Speaker 1: eighty million dollars in investments as well with his consulting firm,
Speaker 1: and what else. He has a charity that works with animals,
Speaker 1: and he even tried at Lee said he lost four
Speaker 1: employees in the Pulse nightclub shooting and that was sort
Speaker 1: of like this backstory like on his campaign site and
Speaker 1: what the people were saying about him, but also said, uh,
Speaker 1: Trump was at his quote full awesomeness on January six, right.
Speaker 1: I also wonder if because saying I worked at Goldman
Speaker 1: Sex and City Group and manage a consulting firm, like
Speaker 1: those are the sorts of things that I wonder if
Speaker 1: he has a unique insight here that like those jobs
Speaker 1: don't exist, like when you say them, they don't exist
Speaker 1: in people's brains. They're just like, okay, like they don't
Speaker 1: nobody has any idea of what that really means. You know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you worked at Goldman Sex, Okay, you worked I worked
Speaker 1: with a consulting for okay, and it just like it
Speaker 1: doesn't exist. There's no follow up, including by the New
Speaker 1: York Times. The jobs are just so boring they're just
Speaker 1: so blandly impressive as like I do O world stuff
Speaker 1: that you could just claim them. So that's a good
Speaker 1: that's good insight for anybody who's looking to do the
Speaker 1: stage their own grift. I think there's things to learn here.
Speaker 1: Say you're consultant. Every time I can explain a ercent
Speaker 1: your income. Always I'm a consultant. That's what I do,
Speaker 1: and say, don't put it in writing, but say that
Speaker 1: you worked at Goldman or you know what, one of
Speaker 1: the big banks, because people will be like, did he
Speaker 1: say Goldman or did he say JP Morgan or did
Speaker 1: he say you know, like one of those all blend
Speaker 1: together in everyone's mind, so you can just be like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: you misheard me. Well, I said JP Morgan. Chase, he's
Speaker 1: he's weaponized our lack of interest in those jobs to
Speaker 1: his you know, maximum effect and impact. Because all of that,
Speaker 1: everything I just said out loud about him is bullshit.
Speaker 1: It turns out The New York Times decided to do
Speaker 1: just some of the oppo research the Democrats could have
Speaker 1: done during the campaign and found out pretty much nothing
Speaker 1: he said is true except for his name and that
Speaker 1: he is Brazilian. Both N Y U and Barrack University
Speaker 1: where he When he said that, both Universe said we
Speaker 1: have no record of anyone with that name or date
Speaker 1: of birth. Attending Goldman and City Group. They were asked
Speaker 1: about his employment, They said, we have never heard of
Speaker 1: him and have no record of his employment. What about
Speaker 1: his family's firm, There's no records of it. There's not
Speaker 1: even a fucking fake quib site or a linked in
Speaker 1: page like you can't you could google it and find
Speaker 1: out that this thing doesn't exist. There's also no record
Speaker 1: of his real estate holdings unless you count the two
Speaker 1: times he's been evicted from apartments as a holding of
Speaker 1: an L I guess, I don't know. And then that
Speaker 1: charity that he ran, which is called Friends of Pets United.
Speaker 1: The New York Times asked the I R S. Is
Speaker 1: this like attacks exempt charity or do you know this
Speaker 1: as an like as an entity? They said, now we've talked, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: or it sounds like a really shitty soccer team, but yeah,
Speaker 1: Friends of Pets United is not real. And then then
Speaker 1: Pulse nightclub shooting. He said he had four employees of
Speaker 1: his companies that died that were victims in that shooting.
Speaker 1: They could not find a single connection to any of
Speaker 1: his fake firms. How do you pick the number four?
Speaker 1: That's so many people, that's a lot. But again the
Speaker 1: only thing that is true is that he's resilient, because
Speaker 1: they did find a record he was arrested when he
Speaker 1: was nineteen because he stole a check book from an
Speaker 1: elderly man that his mom was taken care of. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just con artists like criminal, Yeah, like this is yeah,
Speaker 1: he just told a lie one day that somebody believed
Speaker 1: and just kept building on it. I do want to
Speaker 1: like find like it would be great to take a
Speaker 1: look around his office to see if he was just
Speaker 1: like pulling things off of random flyers and ship like
Speaker 1: that's what we deserve, right gold Man and City Group
Speaker 1: he sees like a fake Oscar statue Gold and looks
Speaker 1: out the window City and then there's a barbershop quartet
Speaker 1: for some reason, Group Group and Friends of Manchester. No
Speaker 1: Pets United is what I was my charity. But it's
Speaker 1: so no one is responded for comment, like not even
Speaker 1: like Kevin McCarthy, where they're like, uh, do you know
Speaker 1: about this fucking mess that y'all just welcomed in? Or
Speaker 1: Santos hasn't said anything, but it's just such it's so
Speaker 1: wild to think that the dem just got mopped up
Speaker 1: by someone with like the flimsiest personal lie of a backstory,
Speaker 1: like and I think a really good testament how fucking
Speaker 1: all over the place they're spending was in the mid terms,
Speaker 1: like why New York was one of the biggest reasons
Speaker 1: why the House was able to get a majority for
Speaker 1: the report. Look, they're addicted to taking else yeah, like
Speaker 1: and this is like this one. It shows like, oh,
Speaker 1: you must have been fiended for one because this one.
Speaker 1: I bet this one's hitting different. Not even Google just
Speaker 1: didn't getting Google Google. They're like, look, he's gay in Brazilian.
Speaker 1: We can't and don't look up anything else about him. Wow,
Speaker 1: it's just like not even one thing. It's it's a
Speaker 1: like it's not he's not like building on a thing
Speaker 1: where he was like yeah, he like worked as worked
Speaker 1: in the mail room at City Bank for a month,
Speaker 1: or like when people lie about having like these like
Speaker 1: wild art pieces like from like the mid century where
Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, this was before they were famous. They
Speaker 1: actually rented a room from my grant, my great grandmother,
Speaker 1: and he paid with these pieces of art and like
Speaker 1: so many people to use that to like explain providence
Speaker 1: of like shitty fake art the same thing. It was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just just trust me. It's very it's
Speaker 1: very murky. But the Damns are the real grifters because
Speaker 1: their grift is to lose so they can keep I'm
Speaker 1: begging the rest of us for money, Yeah, that we
Speaker 1: don't have because the Dems keep losing and not giving
Speaker 1: us anything. Yeah, hey, this is death. I remember the
Speaker 1: day of the special election with Warnock. They were like,
Speaker 1: we're fucked, man, we got it. We need money. I'm like,
Speaker 1: if the election is today, then are you gonna do
Speaker 1: with that? Right now? Get out you think I've got
Speaker 1: money to give you. I'm not giving y'all money for that,
Speaker 1: Like why don't you why don't you figure out delivering
Speaker 1: on half the ship? So anyway, New York, Dam's great
Speaker 1: to see you guys. Not even can't even do fucking
Speaker 1: opo over there. But it also is this the most
Speaker 1: American profession? Like is this the profession of our time?
Speaker 1: Like that? You know, for a long time it was
Speaker 1: like really impressive to have like military service or like
Speaker 1: be a military leader that was like what got you
Speaker 1: elected to office? And then it was there was like
Speaker 1: some military, some CIA mixed in there, and then it
Speaker 1: was like you know, lawyer, businessman, football coach was a
Speaker 1: thing that people really vibed with. But I do feel like, what,
Speaker 1: you know, the thing that America is built on is
Speaker 1: just the grift and like confidence games, like at is
Speaker 1: essentially at its core what America is at this point,
Speaker 1: So like is should he just not retire? Should he
Speaker 1: extra be a elected official at this point? Because like
Speaker 1: this is you know, Trump is probably the best case,
Speaker 1: the best example of this, right he like he is
Speaker 1: at his fullest, truest form right now creating n f
Speaker 1: D baseball cards, Like that's what he chose to do
Speaker 1: with the power that he was granted. Like maybe this
Speaker 1: is just this is where Republicans and Democrats should be
Speaker 1: looking for their next talent. Is you know, people people
Speaker 1: who get like a good grift going on go fund
Speaker 1: me by like claiming that they're dying and getting people
Speaker 1: to pay like millions of dollars for their treatment. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's the American dream, right, So like is that should
Speaker 1: they be our politicians? Like is George Santos onto something?
Speaker 1: I mean, look, if you're if you're grift as being
Speaker 1: like bootstraps bootstraps and you make up a story and
Speaker 1: getting everyone to believe. I mean, that's what Trump did
Speaker 1: to his ships. Made up. Yeah, he's a fake. He's
Speaker 1: a fake rich guy. I think it's very uh easy
Speaker 1: to be like, hey, I'm this and and just hope
Speaker 1: nobody checks. I think this guy is more of a
Speaker 1: story we should look up to because he was broke
Speaker 1: and pretended. Do you think he's really gay or Brazilian?
Speaker 1: It sounds like he is wanted by the authorities in
Speaker 1: Brazils made that made Debriel, But who knows he's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: They're gonna make a limited mini series about this guy
Speaker 1: and we're all gonna laugh it off. Sorron Jared Leto,
Speaker 1: who would you cast as as Santos? Uh, Marco Rubio?
Speaker 1: He kind of looks like Marco Rubio. But if I
Speaker 1: had to pick someone now, I don't know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, it wouldn't be I would leave that to Anna.
Speaker 1: She's she's about the prestigious. Yeah, yeah, we need to
Speaker 1: cut channel that. I'm going to Timothy shallow May, Timothy
Speaker 1: Shallom interesting, I need to. I need to look at
Speaker 1: George Santo's I'm I've chosen not to let like when
Speaker 1: you don't watch the trailer for a movie because you
Speaker 1: don't want it spoiled. I've chosen not to even look
Speaker 1: at a picture of George. So I just saw a
Speaker 1: picture of him, and he is exactly what I would
Speaker 1: have imagined. He looks like, yeah, he looks like every Republican. Yes,
Speaker 1: he looks like a Republican with like two signifiers that
Speaker 1: say I am gay and also Brazilian, right, because his
Speaker 1: skin is his skin looks good and he got a
Speaker 1: nice quoth like some nice earrings. But anyway, but yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's where they're at at the moment. And
Speaker 1: I think it is kind of the same thing like
Speaker 1: in every like kind of you don't need much actual
Speaker 1: talent based industry, there's always like a path like that
Speaker 1: that presents itself. Like I just think of like how
Speaker 1: so many people just go on reality shows because there's like,
Speaker 1: well this is my step stone into spawn Con because
Speaker 1: I just need to be on this show active full
Speaker 1: and then I get spawn Con. So everybody's got their
Speaker 1: own way of maybe I think whoever is the villain
Speaker 1: on the next season of The Bachelor. Just let them
Speaker 1: be a sitting congress person. Yeah, it's just through sheer audacity,
Speaker 1: Like that's that's the thing that gets you through, more
Speaker 1: than talent or anything like that. It's just boldly lying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think people just desensitized to the fact that
Speaker 1: people who are wholly unqualified for things are running. I
Speaker 1: don't know, there's people just like are like, I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe he's full of ship, but it wasn't like everybody
Speaker 1: like we're just like so deflated about it. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but yeah, shame on that campaign for not even doing
Speaker 1: a cursory search until your opposition. Yeah, who is he
Speaker 1: running against? It was another openly gay candidate for the Democrats,
Speaker 1: but I forget what his name was. It is, oh,
Speaker 1: Robert Zimmerman. Yeah, this is who he ran like against,
Speaker 1: because that was because the person who has had to
Speaker 1: see it wanted to go against Robert Zimmerman. Bob Dylan,
Speaker 1: that is Bob Dylan's real name. Yeah, he's one of
Speaker 1: our top icons of the twentieth century. Was also a
Speaker 1: great grifter, convinced everybody he was a good singer. Oh
Speaker 1: funk out of here, Jack, I'm we're gonna fight. I
Speaker 1: love Bob Dylan, but he's he's a great songwriter, a
Speaker 1: great performer in Nashville Skyline through. He just wills himself
Speaker 1: to singing. Well, I'm just saying he's not exactly what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. He's a he's a I think, by like,
Speaker 1: by his own account, a bit of a con man.
Speaker 1: Well he would out up to it at least. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you are a con man. The wall Flowers and Jacob
Speaker 1: Dylan podcasters. Yeah, that is Jacob Diylan and the Wallflowers.
Speaker 1: That's right. Can't even spell podcaster with con true, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well there's no end, there's no way, but you get
Speaker 1: spell cod I just I was just willing you to
Speaker 1: not think about it. You can't spell podcasting without cop Yeah,
Speaker 1: a cab does include podcasters. All right, let's say a
Speaker 1: quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back. And
Speaker 1: while we were on break, Molly research a little. Honestly,
Speaker 1: did you learn about our man George Santos? Uh? He
Speaker 1: said he told us some press that he is a
Speaker 1: non observant Jew but also a Catholic. You know what,
Speaker 1: He's just like me for real, just literally that's me. Way. So,
Speaker 1: but was your mom a did she flee to Brazil
Speaker 1: from Ukraine because of World War Two? Which is how
Speaker 1: he says his mother is Jewish because she descends from
Speaker 1: Jews who fled Eastern Europe to Brazil. Is that Do
Speaker 1: you have a similar story or not? I mean we
Speaker 1: fled Germany, you know, America? Sure? Yeah, yeah, vote for me.
Speaker 1: I'm running to vote for me. Yeah. I'm also Catholic. Y'all.
Speaker 1: Don't get it to with not observing jew and lapsed Catholic.
Speaker 1: That's me. That's me. It me. You're like and a
Speaker 1: log cabin Republican. Everyone knows I care about two things,
Speaker 1: being gay and getting rid of everyone's rights. Why are
Speaker 1: they called the log cabin Republicans the gay Republicans? I
Speaker 1: don't really understand. And I probably Lincoln something with because
Speaker 1: Lincoln's gay, because everybody knows that Lincoln was gay, so
Speaker 1: they're just like, yeah, we get it. The right wing
Speaker 1: doesn't acknowledge that Lincoln was maybe gay, maybe parts of it. Two,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Lincoln was so cool. He was like
Speaker 1: really tall and depressed. He's like bo Burnham. They were
Speaker 1: known as the Lincoln Club and then there already was
Speaker 1: a group using that name, the Lincoln Club of Orange County,
Speaker 1: So then they went with log Cabin. Was it because
Speaker 1: of the Lincoln love letters? I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: if they they're tying a direct line, but I know
Speaker 1: it could. Is it a link? They probably haven't have
Speaker 1: good enough s e O that they're not letting that
Speaker 1: just dangle out there like a like some common George Santos.
Speaker 1: You know, where do they stand on circumcision? That's what
Speaker 1: I really need to know. That's all we need. Do
Speaker 1: you go to the non observant for the laps Catholics?
Speaker 1: What are we doing New Year's Who's getting circumcised? All right,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Walmart briefly, continuing with the trend that
Speaker 1: we saw a lot of ino where you know, the
Speaker 1: CEO of Walmart recently went on TV and complained about
Speaker 1: a rise in chopolin thing, claiming that this will lead
Speaker 1: to higher prices and closed stores if people don't cut
Speaker 1: it out. And just like the the idea that shoplifting
Speaker 1: is this massive out of control problem and that it
Speaker 1: is the problem driving inflation, and rather than like rampant
Speaker 1: inequality and inflation driving shoplifting is it crazy, super counterintuitive
Speaker 1: leap that the mainstream media just swallowed whole whole hog.
Speaker 1: They just swallowed it this year. They love that shoplifting
Speaker 1: narrative because because it gives you the think of the
Speaker 1: corporations and their bottom line there. And then they locked
Speaker 1: up all the razors and stuff because they were like,
Speaker 1: it's so crazy when you go on a store now
Speaker 1: and like everything locked up. Like I went into a
Speaker 1: Walmart and even the guns are locked up. Now you
Speaker 1: can just like take out a gun and like cock
Speaker 1: it and like, you know, twirl it around. Bullshit, Thanks
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. But again, the holiday season is the time
Speaker 1: that we like to think about giant corporations that are
Speaker 1: less fortunate than ourselves, So it is a good time
Speaker 1: for him to be putting this out there for us.
Speaker 1: But it turns out it's probably bullshit. First of all,
Speaker 1: this is bullshit coming from a man who makes more
Speaker 1: than twenty five million dollars a year and just gave
Speaker 1: himself a huge raise. But also Walmart's relationship to shoplifting
Speaker 1: is super fucked. They've been claiming since the thieves were
Speaker 1: damaging their earnings. They claimed that they lost three billion
Speaker 1: dollars a year from theft three billion dollars a year
Speaker 1: people are shoplifting mm hm, which is again about one
Speaker 1: percent of their three billion dollars in revenue. But the
Speaker 1: first of all, they like people who know anything, are like,
Speaker 1: that's an absurd estimate. They are getting worse at stocking
Speaker 1: their shelves, They are trying to cut down on the
Speaker 1: number of employees they have, and so they just are
Speaker 1: worst at managing inventory. And so they and they have
Speaker 1: a thing. There's a thing called shrinkage in that world,
Speaker 1: where it's like any any loss of property that can't
Speaker 1: be accounted for, any loss of inventory that can't be
Speaker 1: accounted for, they just put in the shrinkage category and
Speaker 1: they're like, that's all people shoplifting or more cops, not
Speaker 1: us having not enough staff to do our inventory properly
Speaker 1: and things are flying through the cracks. But we can
Speaker 1: just call it t even yeah, yeah, and anything. All
Speaker 1: the other parts of shrinkage, like improper techniques to like
Speaker 1: just account for where your inventory is. That all is
Speaker 1: like a negative in the business, is you know, reporting
Speaker 1: to Wall Street, whereas theft you can just be like
Speaker 1: it's out of our hands. People. And also you get
Speaker 1: the media to like double down on pro police, pro
Speaker 1: retail narratives that are good for them and nobody else,
Speaker 1: literally nobody else. But the other reason that people so
Speaker 1: shoplifting has gone up in recent years, and it's hand
Speaker 1: in hand with the fact that they have decided to
Speaker 1: increase their self checkouts. Oh so automation. They've tried to
Speaker 1: automate more of the checkout process. And that is when
Speaker 1: they introduced the self check out, it was a rap.
Speaker 1: They're asking you to steal. They're asking you, they're inviting
Speaker 1: you to steal. Oh nothing, none of this produces organic
Speaker 1: now the daily see, guys, nobody is just saying you
Speaker 1: should definitely steal from Walmart and Target and other companies
Speaker 1: like that. But oh, of course not if one were
Speaker 1: too at the self check out, perhaps first accidentally a
Speaker 1: couple of times, and then realizing that you could just
Speaker 1: do it and not get in trouble, maybe especially during
Speaker 1: the endemic when Target was helping the cops a lot
Speaker 1: and you were mad at them as a company, but
Speaker 1: also needed things to live. Just you know, switch some
Speaker 1: bar codes up here and there. You just miss a
Speaker 1: couple of things you check out. Yeah, however, I have
Speaker 1: heard from some people. I also don't do this anymore.
Speaker 1: I did just do it a lot during the pandemic
Speaker 1: because I was kind of like, no rules just right.
Speaker 1: Some people say if you seal enough stuff from the
Speaker 1: self checkout that they are actually keeping track of it,
Speaker 1: and that when you permanent record, when you hit a
Speaker 1: certain like like number, they come for you. But I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's just to make you paranoid. I
Speaker 1: think that might be just to make you paranoid that
Speaker 1: that requires them to Pay's what I know. The teenagers
Speaker 1: who work there, they don't give a fuck. They don't
Speaker 1: give a fuck, and they had good we too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and as teenagers they're probe pro vice. Yeah, I'm any
Speaker 1: teenager that works for a giant company and we've all
Speaker 1: do if we've enterteen your teenage job. This is a
Speaker 1: faceless company. No, it's just like I've never been. I
Speaker 1: never was a shoplifter in my life because half laps
Speaker 1: Catholic and one time stole the zodiac scroll accidentally, a
Speaker 1: horsehop scroll when I was a child, and then my grandma,
Speaker 1: my Catholic grandmother, made me go give it back. Truly,
Speaker 1: I have enough Catholicism on one side that I really
Speaker 1: believe if I do something bad, something that's going to
Speaker 1: happen to me. Wo is that cool? It's the best,
Speaker 1: but just enough judaism to also be sexually not sucked up. Nope, uh,
Speaker 1: sex not one of the things that I think of
Speaker 1: as bad that will make bad things happen. And where
Speaker 1: are you on hell? Hell doesn't. I'm mixed. I don't
Speaker 1: know how. I don't really believe in it. But you
Speaker 1: know who's not going to hell is shoplifters. That's true,
Speaker 1: absolutely not, because truly it's like lame as a rob,
Speaker 1: like if somebody needs to it also bread to live? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're losing three billy a year, Molly, you know, isn't
Speaker 1: well hasn't Walmart gotten in trouble like a million times?
Speaker 1: Or being racist too? Yeah? Like every single could they
Speaker 1: saying stealing too? Like I just feel like the whole
Speaker 1: thing is like it's so eaies like welfare queen stuff.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, they're living high on the hog off
Speaker 1: of like stealing fucking bread from Walmart. Well, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know it was very racial, especially like when the whole
Speaker 1: like shoplifting ring footage was coming out on the cos
Speaker 1: it's out of control. It was always black and brown faces,
Speaker 1: you know the stuff. And like, I feel like a
Speaker 1: lot of the reporting I've heard on this stuff is
Speaker 1: like San Francisco. Yeah, like tech people being like horrified
Speaker 1: that there's crime in a city that has insane wealth disparities, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we just don't live in fucking Gotham. Now it sucks.
Speaker 1: That's well, that's the thing like in l A two,
Speaker 1: it's so many people who don't want to be confronted
Speaker 1: with the actual inequality that exists in the world. I honestly,
Speaker 1: I just have my visuals sterilized. Please, I don't need
Speaker 1: to be rems what I mean? I mean that was
Speaker 1: the thing about the CAREERSO campaign two was all the
Speaker 1: rich people coming out being like, I don't like to
Speaker 1: see that poverty is a problem here, So could you
Speaker 1: please just like put everyone into concentration camps. I don't
Speaker 1: have to think about it. Yeah, just a couple like shoplifting.
Speaker 1: We'll call them horror stories, and in no way are
Speaker 1: meant to give you ideas, But these are people who
Speaker 1: flew a little close to the sun. James, a cashier
Speaker 1: in Washington, says he saw a customer trend to buy
Speaker 1: a one thousand, six hundred dollar grill for five dollars
Speaker 1: by hiding one item inside the other and switching the
Speaker 1: bar codes. And then they also mentioned that you can
Speaker 1: bring up king crab king crab legs and like accidentally
Speaker 1: put them in his apples. These are the things that
Speaker 1: people have done before. Yeah, but so their cab legs
Speaker 1: thing is like extremely whistlely to like right right to
Speaker 1: like right yeah, yeah, yeah totally. But also that's a
Speaker 1: good but that's a good come up. That's a really
Speaker 1: good come up. And also you can get crab really
Speaker 1: cheap actually, like some some STV grocery stores. I feel like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, you gotta go. Yeah, you can't go
Speaker 1: to the main like the big Kroger type a Chinese
Speaker 1: grocery store. Get some get some cheap crap um. I
Speaker 1: don't know how much. Like do they fucking sell crab
Speaker 1: at Walmart? Like, oh yeah, I got all my crab
Speaker 1: at Walmart crabs Walmart, my top seafood Prevor, Yeah they
Speaker 1: got it all. I do just want to mention. Their
Speaker 1: CEO bragged that going fully automated would save twelve million
Speaker 1: dollars in caffeed cashier wages for every second it reduces
Speaker 1: and check out. And so they basically they fired a
Speaker 1: bunch of humans, replace them with robots that were stupid
Speaker 1: to save money. And now they're upset that they're losing
Speaker 1: a fraction of their excessive profits because humans are able
Speaker 1: to easily trick their easily fooled stupid robots. And that's
Speaker 1: they find themselves. Then it's all it's all self created.
Speaker 1: There's also a weird thing where they have like this
Speaker 1: for profit business that they partner with that is like
Speaker 1: a re education for shoplifters. So they will if you
Speaker 1: are if they think you've shoplifted something and you know
Speaker 1: they they will approach you that Walmart security. They'll tell you, hey,
Speaker 1: we could either we got two options here. We could
Speaker 1: call the police, or you can avoid arrest by taking
Speaker 1: an online class, admitting that you shoplifted and take an
Speaker 1: online class. So you're telling me they're filtering shoplifters into
Speaker 1: a for profit business. Yes, yeah, they're they're getting people.
Speaker 1: You got, Is that class free? Like if I take
Speaker 1: the class and everything is forgiven? Or do I have
Speaker 1: to pay my cost five undred dollars? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: if you had five hundred dollars, would you be shoplifting?
Speaker 1: Come on, guys, there's like in the an Inherent Vice
Speaker 1: when they're selling heroin so they can like fix people's
Speaker 1: teeth when they fall out from Heroin. It's like you're
Speaker 1: selling the problem and the cure. Walmart, that is so
Speaker 1: fucking wild too that they're like, yeah, watch this, bro,
Speaker 1: we will use the threat of the carcel state to
Speaker 1: give them for them to come up on like five bucks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: fuck you, Walmart. Cooking a judge when when there was
Speaker 1: a class action lawsuit being like, they're making us like
Speaker 1: pay money if they if we like miss an item
Speaker 1: on the self checkout. This is a judge. This is
Speaker 1: officially appro shoplifting podcast. Now wait, did did the judge?
Speaker 1: Wait the judge threw it out because they like, because
Speaker 1: there was evidence to suggest that this wasn't happening, or
Speaker 1: because this judge was just found no pation wide conspiracy
Speaker 1: to steer a Q shoplifters into paying four hundred up
Speaker 1: front or for classes from no, no, no, just that
Speaker 1: it's not a It didn't rise at the level of
Speaker 1: nationwide got it, got it, but it was happening in
Speaker 1: one of the store Got It it's just you know,
Speaker 1: another for profit carser rohole business, because that's basically what
Speaker 1: you do, like you know, in other countries when cops
Speaker 1: shake you down for money, it's just sort of like,
Speaker 1: all right, we caught you, motherfucker. Now give me some money, bro,
Speaker 1: because you know what time it is like that. This
Speaker 1: store just kind of copied that model to be like
Speaker 1: I got you, man, am I gonna start doing a
Speaker 1: thing where they're like, okay, we caught you shoplifting. Now
Speaker 1: you're in the army. Now you work as a security
Speaker 1: team member at Walmart. Here's your well, it's like that thing.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is a big you don't really
Speaker 1: see this anymore, but you know, just like the idea
Speaker 1: of like you you can't pay for your meal and
Speaker 1: then you have to go wash dishes in the back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the thing that's never happened to anyone I know, actually right,
Speaker 1: because I think they would just call the cops. It
Speaker 1: wouldn't be like, man, you can work it off. They'd
Speaker 1: be like I think it happened to one writer in
Speaker 1: the sixties and then once that was depicted in film,
Speaker 1: I feel like it might even be a great depression
Speaker 1: trope of like people really can't pay for their meals
Speaker 1: and so are like singing for your supper. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: crying for your supper. Don't get me started on and
Speaker 1: get me to bring up the Automat documentary again like
Speaker 1: I did last time. I was, but I did, Actually
Speaker 1: I talked to my parents about the Automat documentary because
Speaker 1: I talked about how that documentary had this insane narrative
Speaker 1: where it like blamed the homeless for the downfall of
Speaker 1: the Automat because it was like poor people started going
Speaker 1: there and it ruined everything. My dad is from New York,
Speaker 1: was like, there were always poor people. There were always
Speaker 1: you called them bums before homeless people. They were they
Speaker 1: were bums, you know. But he said, there are always
Speaker 1: people who couldn't really afford a meal making a meal
Speaker 1: at the Automat out of like the free crackers and
Speaker 1: catch up, right, And we should have places like that
Speaker 1: in the fucking world for people that don't have anything
Speaker 1: to like get a meal. Absolutely until we have that
Speaker 1: gradual shipstead. We have the self checkout at Walmart, where
Speaker 1: you might mean Walmart should like feed you for free,
Speaker 1: like they should not be like, well, the good news
Speaker 1: is that you can pay for your re education shoplifting classes,
Speaker 1: and but you can pay for it in installments. Well,
Speaker 1: this is why we support Costco because Costco they've got
Speaker 1: that really cheap hot dog that's right, and everything's too
Speaker 1: heavy to steal exactly how they stop shoplifting. Absolutely get
Speaker 1: caught trying to steal anything from there because it's all
Speaker 1: too much stuff. They're also they check your idea coming
Speaker 1: in the door and then really look at your receipt
Speaker 1: on the way out. This is the one place I've
Speaker 1: never even thought about shoplifting. I'm like, no, truly, there's
Speaker 1: nothing small enough. I would never choplet from Costco because
Speaker 1: they've got that surreal and stayed in there that freaks
Speaker 1: me out target and about putting a rotisserie chicken down
Speaker 1: one of the legs of my baggy janko ge Okay,
Speaker 1: that's real, that's real. Great depression cartoon bab here, you're
Speaker 1: gonna make a mulligan stew with it, your friend. Well,
Speaker 1: Molly as always truly a pleasure having you on daily.
Speaker 1: People find you, follow you all that good stuff. Well,
Speaker 1: you can find me for the time being on Twitter
Speaker 1: still at Molly Lambert until whenever it blows up for
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Speaker 1: family just trying to get by. And is there a
Speaker 1: tweet or some of the work of social media you've
Speaker 1: been enjoying. I always like that Red Panda bought. That's
Speaker 1: the thing I'm really going to miss when Twitter goes down,
Speaker 1: is like I've got a lot of animal box in
Speaker 1: my feet. That's just start. Like, here's some red pandas
Speaker 1: hanging out. It's like Red Panda every hour, I believe. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're always good. It's good. And also I saw an
Speaker 1: article that the black Bears are getting red or turning red,
Speaker 1: turning a cinnamon color, so ginger dominance the world burns. Wow?
Speaker 1: Is that because it's on its way to becoming a crab? Yes,
Speaker 1: it's crabification because like it has to I guess, but
Speaker 1: crabs only red after they're cooked. I don't know. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm still working at conspiracy theory. We're all red deep
Speaker 1: down when I'm starting to say we're all wor all
Speaker 1: ginger inside in our blood? The truth? Myles, working people
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Speaker 1: at Eggshell Friends tweeted not to be so dumb, but
Speaker 1: like where does the candle go when it burns? You know?
Speaker 1: That's well articulated thought that I've had When I was
Speaker 1: younger at Dwayne Perkins Sweet and my mother handed me
Speaker 1: a grocery bag and said I don't carry things when
Speaker 1: men are around, And she did not find it nearly
Speaker 1: as funny as me when I said, girl, me neither
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Speaker 1: first time in my life today. I wasn't aware that
Speaker 1: the mashed potatoes were hidden like that. Dude. People go
Speaker 1: to Ikea just to eat. Yeah, they've sucking do and
Speaker 1: then it's after that time they got caught having a
Speaker 1: horse meat meat balls. Yeah, but I was just in Europe,
Speaker 1: so you know, yeah, the perfect one was still okay,
Speaker 1: but I look, I would eat it. Two. You can
Speaker 1: get defensive about Bob Dylan if you just let me
Speaker 1: be defensive of the ike and meat balls, thank you.
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Speaker 1: Sasha's Chapin tweeted an M D m A is a
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Speaker 1: in the wrong circumstances and end up loving only European techno.
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Speaker 1: belief that's just I mean, you know, I did work
Speaker 1: at ESPN, do nothing having to do with sports there ever,
Speaker 1: But I do just have this belief in myself that
Speaker 1: I could be a great color comic. You would be great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we should have you on for the finals. Everybody, what
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Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien
Speaker 1: some tweets I've been enjoying, Amy Lee Gemstone low Llanuid tweeted,
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Speaker 1: about in today's episode, as well as a song that
Speaker 1: we think you might enjoy. Myles, what's fun do we
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Speaker 1: Frank Dukes, who's now like not going as like Frank
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Speaker 1: I literally just met this guy? You did Okay, is
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Speaker 1: when he won the Red Bull Beat Battle in two
Speaker 1: thousand and ten and then Like God was on. He
Speaker 1: made a track with Ghost Space and then like took
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Speaker 1: skating down the street and he knew my brother, and
Speaker 1: my brother said, hey, what's up? And of course, and
Speaker 1: that's how I know. Of course Lambo Lambo knows that.
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