Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from
Speaker 1: this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza. Yeah, So,
Speaker 1: without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Miles. We
Speaker 1: are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by
Speaker 1: a hilarious stand up comedium writer, accurate improviser. You can
Speaker 1: catch her on stage at the monthly Facial Recognition comedy show,
Speaker 1: which she also produces. It's Pobby, all right, I prefer
Speaker 1: the Steve Winwood for that is a shot directly at me.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know you guys were referencing the dance
Speaker 1: track Michael McDonald Steve Winwood classic, some classic wind Wood,
Speaker 1: well done backstories. He a good guy, Steve Winwood. I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: I looked him up and related names included Eric Clapton,
Speaker 2: and I just stopped looking because.
Speaker 3: Right, well, he is one of those other guys where
Speaker 3: like you hear it and you're like, oh ship, Like
Speaker 3: I forgot this guy was white because sometimes he had
Speaker 3: those soul songs.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, hold on, Steve Winwood, hold on, what
Speaker 1: a name for an artist, you know? For a musician
Speaker 1: wind Wood. Yeah, just take the woodwind and flip him
Speaker 1: REVERSI or a neighborhood in Miami. Yeah, it's all there.
Speaker 1: It is all there, Paula. We do like to ask
Speaker 1: our guest, what is something from your search history that's
Speaker 1: revealing about who you are? Oh?
Speaker 2: Wait, I had this? Uh what was it?
Speaker 1: Too late? Moving on? Underrated come back?
Speaker 2: No, No, I did search the word corvids. No I
Speaker 2: I I've been looking up a lot of references. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm rewatching or for the first time, I'm watching The
Speaker 2: Real Housewives. Like I watched all of Saltlake City, and
Speaker 2: then I watched all of Beverly Hills and now I'm
Speaker 2: in the middle of Atlanta. So I've been watching, like
Speaker 2: I've been looking up different references and I and one
Speaker 2: of the characters was throwing this icons black female icons
Speaker 2: of Hollywood party, and she was like assigning everyone address
Speaker 2: in certain ways, and she assigned like one person like
Speaker 2: Diana Ross and one person Tina Turner. And then she
Speaker 2: made her enemy be Halle Berry from BAPS. And so
Speaker 2: I just needed a refresher like because I remembered like
Speaker 2: some of the outfit.
Speaker 3: But then I looked it up and.
Speaker 2: Then that person refused and then she kicked her out
Speaker 2: of the party. So I've just been looking up like
Speaker 2: all of these references from like season five of the
Speaker 2: Real Housewives of Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Are you doing like a rewatch? Like you're just I
Speaker 1: had never seen them before. Oh, but I am like.
Speaker 2: I am watching that. It it is like historical for
Speaker 2: me because I'm like, oh my god, like this was
Speaker 2: what people were saying on TV like twelve years ago
Speaker 2: and was okay for people to say that's insane. That
Speaker 2: is like like this, I don't know there was the
Speaker 2: only white woman who was cast on the first few
Speaker 2: seasons was like yeah, I'm a singer and she's like
Speaker 2: the worst singer of all of them. And then she
Speaker 2: kept saying she was black on the inside and all
Speaker 2: of this shit that like this is from like.
Speaker 1: Two oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's something.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I had never seen any of it, so
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my god, this is fascinating, and like
Speaker 2: they're all these like cameos from people and like guest,
Speaker 2: like I saw Tommy from Martin was on an episode
Speaker 2: for like no reason. I don't know why he wasn't
Speaker 2: on there. They were planning this event, and he just
Speaker 2: was at a meeting about it. I'm like, what is
Speaker 2: Tommy doing this show? Everybody wants to be in the show.
Speaker 1: It's serious, real movie. I know, passed away R I
Speaker 1: P Tom, I know it's sad. What is something that
Speaker 1: you think is underrated? Okay?
Speaker 2: So for these?
Speaker 4: I asked my fiance because I feel like I've done
Speaker 4: a lot of these. So these are his answers? Wow,
Speaker 4: I said, what things underrated?
Speaker 1: Did your homework okay? He said?
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, I don't know if you like these answers.
Speaker 5: I said what's underrated? He said my dick?
Speaker 1: Okay and then overrated?
Speaker 5: He said, AI, So look well I needed It's fine.
Speaker 5: This is first his first time answering these questions.
Speaker 1: Uh huh.
Speaker 4: We'll get them to a more new ways place.
Speaker 3: Under the wait. So underrated his dick? Overrated?
Speaker 1: AI? AI?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Can is he available to speak on in the room
Speaker 1: with us? Right in the room in the room. Okay?
Speaker 5: For the record, I don't think his dick is underrated
Speaker 5: depending on who's writing it. I feel like I've rated
Speaker 5: his dick quite favorite properly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but when that cost some alarm bells, you're like
Speaker 3: hold on, is there are there other people who are
Speaker 3: involved in the adjudication and valuation?
Speaker 1: Up said Dick that.
Speaker 4: I don't know his doctor. Maybe his doctor's rating his dick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, doctor has so many notes on my dick. It's
Speaker 1: so annoying.
Speaker 3: I'm just like he said, he said, I wish I
Speaker 3: had more hands. So you give that four thumbs down,
Speaker 3: and it's like it's an old Chappelle show line. Why
Speaker 3: would you say that about me?
Speaker 1: Doc? Could be better, could be better? I mean, look,
Speaker 1: you want pointers. Yeah, so a TikTok finance person thinks
Speaker 1: AI is overrated. We we happened to concur on this podcast.
Speaker 1: We're not We're not big AI fans here? What what?
Speaker 1: What are? What are the reasons for AI being overrated?
Speaker 5: Yeah, he does have more legit reasons for that, But
Speaker 5: it sounds like an easy line to say. But part
Speaker 5: I think part of it is just I guess the
Speaker 5: short version is sort of what we're talking about is
Speaker 5: like most people don't use AI. For most people talking
Speaker 5: about how exciting AI is aren't using AI in the
Speaker 5: way that it should. Like everyone's just talking to chat
Speaker 5: GPT or having them right an essay. But it's really
Speaker 5: the people using AI are the villains, right, like these
Speaker 5: fake websites data harvesting, But most of us don't know
Speaker 5: how to use it like that, and so it did
Speaker 5: make me think though, if we all got more literate,
Speaker 5: we could be using AI to fight things like that.
Speaker 4: But I think we're so far behind right now.
Speaker 3: More interested, I mean, because we're talking about finance. Is
Speaker 3: there a way to invest in your partner's dick if
Speaker 3: it's underrated?
Speaker 1: Interesting?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's n I'll consult with him. Yeah, okay, you
Speaker 5: want to get in the ground floor of his dick.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, I'm always looking for I'm always looking
Speaker 3: for the next thing.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
Speaker 4: We are looking to take his dick public.
Speaker 1: Immediately. Fortunately, there are some laws that are Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I went to the New York to take my
Speaker 3: dick public. They arrested me immediately because you're not supposed
Speaker 3: to do that with the gabbl.
Speaker 1: Rang the bell with my dick. Yeah, I mean, that
Speaker 1: would be an impressive dick, if you could ring the
Speaker 1: bell with his dick.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll be discussing this in congress.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what is something you think is overrated?
Speaker 6: I'm done with the summer. I think we fucked the
Speaker 6: earth to the point where it's the worst season now.
Speaker 6: I know people will go on vacation during the it's
Speaker 6: just that, It's just I would much rather be in
Speaker 6: freezing temperatures in the winter because you can layer up
Speaker 6: than deal with being hot. And I know you all
Speaker 6: are getting a big heat wave now or soon, but yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm so done with the summer. Getting the first cold
Speaker 6: day on the East Coast is like the nicest thing.
Speaker 6: I'm like, Oh good, I don't have to sweat twenty
Speaker 6: four hours a day. How far if I don't want to?
Speaker 6: How far off are you from that day?
Speaker 1: Though? On the East Coast, it's.
Speaker 6: Been fifties at night, like high fifties for the past
Speaker 6: few days. Yeah, it's been high eight rate at night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so brutal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, last thing at night.
Speaker 6: When I moved to LA I thought that air conditioning
Speaker 6: was like forty five dollars a minute to run, and
Speaker 6: so my roommate and my roommate was also an idiot,
Speaker 6: so we didn't get it for like two years, and
Speaker 6: there were times when it would be one hundred You
Speaker 6: know that that's stretching late September early October, where it's
Speaker 6: just in like one tens every single day. And I was,
Speaker 6: of course unemployed, so I would like almost like a hippo,
Speaker 6: go into the shower and like splash water on my
Speaker 6: body to cool off, like cold water.
Speaker 3: Get out and do that multiple times a day.
Speaker 1: And then fan shit just everywhere around you like a hippos.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then I would put a whole watermelon in
Speaker 6: my mouth and crush it in front of a bunch
Speaker 6: of a bunch.
Speaker 1: Of amazed, odd children.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they loved it. I would do it with a
Speaker 3: pumpkin during the fall.
Speaker 6: Swash am I hippo, Peppa hippo.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry I missed everything because there was another what
Speaker 3: you said about pumpkins, but it's okay, David s pumpkins
Speaker 3: the thing I would do, uh when I was because
Speaker 3: also famously, for some reason, Asian moms don't like air
Speaker 3: conditioning either, so I grew up also believing that it
Speaker 3: was forty five dollars a second that like sometimes you
Speaker 3: just ring out, I would. I would soak a bath
Speaker 3: towel and water and then ring it out and then
Speaker 3: use that as like a blanket because that, like the
Speaker 3: very wet towel created a nice you know, insulating layer
Speaker 3: to keep my body cool.
Speaker 6: That's really funny that you would wear a wet a
Speaker 6: wet well as a cooling blanket. Where I had the
Speaker 6: opposite issue where we lived in like this townhouse, and
Speaker 6: I had where I my bedroom was was like air conditioned,
Speaker 6: finished attic, like really like a great place to like sleep,
Speaker 6: but it didn't have heat up there. So in the
Speaker 6: winter I would it was like a nice room, but
Speaker 6: I would have to wear like a coat to bed,
Speaker 6: like in the winter when I was home from like college,
Speaker 6: and quilts and also to add like what really made
Speaker 6: it a sad visual is that I was sleeping alone
Speaker 6: in a bunk bed too, because we just never got
Speaker 6: to do a bed for me. So yeah, when I
Speaker 6: was home from school, I would be in a coat,
Speaker 6: shivering in a bunk bed, but in a nice townhouse,
Speaker 6: right it was.
Speaker 1: It was already a very sad visual. Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: you set it up. It was such a nice attic.
Speaker 3: But then the second you added trench coat, I'm like
Speaker 3: picturing some like turn of the century Russian novel where
Speaker 3: it's like.
Speaker 1: You know, you got like shivering in my coat in
Speaker 1: the attic.
Speaker 6: The tin plates that they would pass through the little
Speaker 6: doggy hole in the door for me to eat, you know,
Speaker 6: with the mush on it. Those would get cleared out
Speaker 6: pretty quickly. So it's it's not as sad as the problem.
Speaker 3: It wasn't a problem. They cleared up, cleared up my
Speaker 3: tin plates real quick, real quick.
Speaker 1: As three raccoons I lived up there with didn't get
Speaker 1: to it first.
Speaker 3: And they got handsy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they And I do want to say for if
Speaker 6: anyone ever sees the visual of this, which seems less
Speaker 6: and less.
Speaker 3: Likely, we're working it out, folks.
Speaker 6: Moving to New York next week, so by wall, we're moving.
Speaker 6: I'm not as psychotic as everything that I've said so
Speaker 6: far on this program would lead you to believe.
Speaker 1: It looks like you're just squatting. Really, but it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I know, I know the truth.
Speaker 6: We know that I bring my own Wi Fi router
Speaker 6: with me everywhere I squat and yah it's high speed.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's right. All right, let's take a quick break
Speaker 1: and we'll come back and learn what flagstocks.
Speaker 3: And we're back.
Speaker 1: Here with us.
Speaker 3: Is that Humpy's Dumpy?
Speaker 2: This is Sammy. He's a little one humpy Umpy.
Speaker 1: He's all damn all right, all right, well we did
Speaker 1: want to check in with the story about what actually
Speaker 1: caused inflation. We had speculated idly. Yeah that you know,
Speaker 1: as so as inflation is happening. You can listen to
Speaker 1: the earnings calls of corporations whose prices going way up
Speaker 1: and hear them talk about how they're having record profit
Speaker 1: all during pandemic and when inflation was this out of
Speaker 1: control weather pattern that the global markets were dealing with,
Speaker 1: And if you suggested such a thing that like they
Speaker 1: were doing it on purpose because it was causing record profits,
Speaker 1: you would be ridiculed.
Speaker 3: It's like, but where'd the profits come from? You also
Speaker 3: say you had lower costs to shut it's not because
Speaker 3: it because because we're doing so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know about you, guys.
Speaker 2: I have never heard of a corporation.
Speaker 3: Being never okay for greed, never, never, never, never never never.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, Well, it's just wild because only because Kroger
Speaker 3: and Albertson's are trying to have a merger that like,
Speaker 3: you know, the FEDS are like, ah wait a tick
Speaker 3: here that we got some testimony from one of the
Speaker 3: Kroger executives and they bring up this fucking email we're
Speaker 3: in an email, it is discussed that said quote on
Speaker 3: milk and eggs, retail inflation has been significantly higher than
Speaker 3: cost inflation, and then goes on to say, our objective
Speaker 3: is to quote pas through our inflation to consumers mm hm.
Speaker 3: And they're like, oh, wait, that you mean you mean
Speaker 3: you're you're charging them more that that's what It sounds
Speaker 3: like you're passing the inflation onto us. And like again,
Speaker 3: like other people commenting on this, like this was like
Speaker 3: no secret that was happening, especially when it comes to
Speaker 3: like milk and eggs. A lot of people who were
Speaker 3: defending this are like they just cherry picked a couple
Speaker 3: comments here and like make it seem like that's like,
Speaker 3: this is an email from a top executive at Kroger
Speaker 3: who is talking to other executives about how they're even there.
Speaker 3: They're saying, right here, retail inflation has been significantly higher
Speaker 3: than cost inflation.
Speaker 1: So the retail price is going up higher than what
Speaker 1: our costs are going up.
Speaker 2: That this is like the sorry, I like that. This
Speaker 2: is like the grocery store version of the Jinks where
Speaker 2: he's like, I did it, Oh, I raised all the prices.
Speaker 1: I do it again, yeah, but the response from economists,
Speaker 1: a lot of economists, not all economists, but a lot
Speaker 1: of economists who coincidentally seem to usually work for or
Speaker 1: be you know, speaking to or being interviewed by mainstream
Speaker 1: media outlets that are owned by corporations. It seems to
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, it's just like one or two bad
Speaker 1: actors and it like there's no correlation. But like so again,
Speaker 1: just the bottom line thing is like, how are when
Speaker 1: inflations at a record high, their profits are at a
Speaker 1: record high. Like those are the two things that like
Speaker 1: the I need an argument that's going to dispel those things.
Speaker 1: But like you said, Miles, meanwhile, Kroger's fighting the government
Speaker 1: for their right to merge with Albertson, like two massive
Speaker 1: grocery chains, which again like a big problem with this,
Speaker 1: and the reason they're able to do that is not
Speaker 1: enough competition, so they're able to raise prices and not
Speaker 1: be worried that, you know, another retailer is gonna lower
Speaker 1: the prices, which is how the whole system is supposed
Speaker 1: to work. But because these massive corporations got so much power,
Speaker 1: they can now just kind of fix things. Yep. So
Speaker 1: a lot of places are picking it up, but it's
Speaker 1: like not really mainstream, Like Business Insider picked up the
Speaker 1: story of the burg this is weird Bloomberg, but not
Speaker 1: the Washington Post, which absolutely mocked Kamala Harris for suggesting
Speaker 1: corporate greed played a significant role in inflation.
Speaker 3: Which it's not like you're getting that from some like
Speaker 3: far left extremist person just being like, yeah, I'm pretty
Speaker 3: sure they're going up because they're making a ton of money.
Speaker 1: They're no, yeah, no, And then I just look, I
Speaker 1: just searched their website.
Speaker 3: Uh, there's nothing like where they're headlining that this executive,
Speaker 3: Like they have a headline where like that's referencing what
Speaker 3: this Kroger executive mentioned sharing this testimony.
Speaker 1: But hey, this cherry picked. It's just a little look back. Listen.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you guys are talking about, but
Speaker 2: I'm going to continue hiding eggs under my mattress, okay,
Speaker 2: because that's where the gold is.
Speaker 3: Always look under the mattress. Yeah, it's pretty sulphuric, I
Speaker 3: would say, But like the wild part is too. I
Speaker 3: was like searching, like the news search function on covering
Speaker 3: is it only Jacobin not even dude, Barstool Sports Barstool Sports.
Speaker 3: I want to just read something from barstool from Barstool
Speaker 3: Sports about this. Okay, they're talking about the the this
Speaker 3: guy Graf who Andy Groff, who's the Kroger price guy,
Speaker 3: said he spilled the beans during an FTC hearing. His
Speaker 3: internal email a masterpiece of corporate honesty, revealed their strategy
Speaker 3: pass through our inflation to customers. Translation, let's squeeze those
Speaker 3: four those poor fucking plubs for every penny we can,
Speaker 3: the American way. Kroger's defense, Oh, that email was cherry pick.
Speaker 3: They say they're decades long business model is all about
Speaker 3: lowering prices. Okay, mother Teresa, what a barstool sports this.
Speaker 1: Is in barstools Dave or noise.
Speaker 2: The end, they were like and bitches got titties just to.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, exactly, That's why I should be allowed to
Speaker 1: sexually harass my coworker.
Speaker 3: Now check out the nasty ten nastiest strip clubs in Bogota, Columbia.
Speaker 2: But like where that costume is too high?
Speaker 7: Yeah right?
Speaker 3: They go on it says quote, this revelation isn't just
Speaker 3: about Kroger. It's a symptom of a larger disease. Plaguing
Speaker 3: corporate America. Companies across the board have been posting record
Speaker 3: profits while consumers struggle with sky high inflation. Uh remember
Speaker 3: those quote supply chain issues we kept hearing about. Sure
Speaker 3: they played a role, but let's be honest. Some prices
Speaker 3: were elevated simply because businesses knew they could get away
Speaker 3: with it. It's the American way, right, profit over people.
Speaker 3: This is in Barstools Sports, Comrade.
Speaker 2: You know how like climate change has made like like
Speaker 2: Seattle is like having less rain than La, but like
Speaker 2: La is having more and like everything shifting. That's what
Speaker 2: it feels like with media. Like remember when teen Vogue
Speaker 2: was like doing hard hitting pieces and we were like, wait,
Speaker 2: we forgot to pay attention to teen Vogue. Like all
Speaker 2: of the world has gone so upside down that all
Speaker 2: of the so called like hard hitting journalists are doing
Speaker 2: the dumbest shit. So now like Barstool Sports has to
Speaker 2: step up to fill that need.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like.
Speaker 3: I was a little curious about this because it's like
Speaker 3: who is like who's writing this?
Speaker 1: And I found the author's Twitter feed.
Speaker 3: And it does not strike me as someone who is
Speaker 3: out here with their like critiques of capitalism. Like there's
Speaker 3: another paragraphs and even this is all I'm just this
Speaker 3: is capitalism, after all, you and your work is worth
Speaker 3: what somebody's willing to pay. And but then like their
Speaker 3: Twitter feed is like Kamala misinformation RFK video quotes have
Speaker 3: been like well this is a weird this is an
Speaker 3: interesting take about Russia, and then like weird stuff again.
Speaker 3: That's why I got the strip club stuff. It was
Speaker 3: a video about strip clubs in Columbia, and I'm like what.
Speaker 3: And then also George old George Carlin stand up about
Speaker 3: class consciousness. So I'm wondering if this person got like
Speaker 3: rat like quasi radicalized, because at the bottom of this
Speaker 3: Barstool Sports article is a George Carlin clip. Yeah, the
Speaker 3: illusion of choice. So it feels like a dude who
Speaker 3: may have been on the barstool wagon caught some Carlin,
Speaker 3: got some class consciousness, got momentarily radicalized, and then went
Speaker 3: back to their regularly scheduled programing like this is the
Speaker 3: hottest pool vaulter in the pac ten.
Speaker 1: I mean, the political world has been has been talking
Speaker 1: about Republican like barstool Republicans for a long time now,
Speaker 1: being right, you know, people who are like I define
Speaker 1: myself as masculine, and therefore I hate Democrats and I
Speaker 1: love Republicans because Dave Portanoy says things that make me
Speaker 1: laugh sometime. But but like I didn't realize that that
Speaker 1: included like economic populism. I don't think it does generally.
Speaker 3: I'm just yeah, that's m Like, I want to know
Speaker 3: more about whom, like, like if this is just a
Speaker 3: cobbled together with AI they're using some guy's name to
Speaker 3: attribute it to it, or if this is just kind
Speaker 3: of or maybe I'm I'm not reading enough barstool and
Speaker 3: I'm realizing I do.
Speaker 2: You think it's I think things like that are super
Speaker 2: believable because I do think that, like now, more than ever,
Speaker 2: people's beliefs are in like a blender and it's more
Speaker 2: of a grab bag. Like you'll find people who are
Speaker 2: really like socially like liberal who are anti vaxers or
Speaker 2: you know, like that's where it started, but now it's
Speaker 2: like it you really like, if you're out in the
Speaker 2: dating scene, you have to ask like all of the
Speaker 2: questions right right, because at any point could someone be like, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is this is normal, this is normal. Sell me alarm,
Speaker 2: Sell me alarm, right, right, because people are like that
Speaker 2: with like just the most random random beliefs, Like it's
Speaker 2: no longer like okay, like this party believes this and
Speaker 2: this other party believes this. It's like kind of a
Speaker 2: general divide. It's like you could be insane and like
Speaker 2: all sorts of things.
Speaker 3: I think there's also like this other thing too, where
Speaker 3: regardless of maybe what you're like sort of you know,
Speaker 3: registered voting political beliefs, are that the world you interact with,
Speaker 3: a world where like your observations are like why the
Speaker 3: fuck is all this shit so expensive and they're making money,
Speaker 3: and just on your own through just existing, you kind
Speaker 3: of arrive at this conclusion too, even though right, yeah,
Speaker 3: even though you're like I thought you're supposed to be
Speaker 3: like one of these free market like conservative type people,
Speaker 3: but at the end you're like, nah, I write for
Speaker 3: barstool and shit's expensive, so this is kind of fucked up.
Speaker 1: But anyway, here the top strip clubs in Bogata. It's
Speaker 1: like how that like there was that article is really
Speaker 1: good by the way that you kid is really good,
Speaker 1: like they go deep they it's.
Speaker 2: Actually about a universal health care No, there was actually
Speaker 2: like somebody in like Indiana or something like. I remember
Speaker 2: like listening to all these interviews during the last election
Speaker 2: cycle about how people are like pro Trump, but they
Speaker 2: actually do believe in the tenets of universal health care,
Speaker 2: but they hate they like don't want Obamacare, like so
Speaker 2: they don't. People don't fully understand necessarily like the labels
Speaker 2: or the so called theory, like they're not like Marxists,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, but they do.
Speaker 1: They do still.
Speaker 2: Have that feeling that you were describing and like something
Speaker 2: isn't right here, and like you should all be able
Speaker 2: to afford food and rent.
Speaker 1: But I don't want to call it it'd be funny.
Speaker 3: Like the end, it really is like sincerely, guys, Like
Speaker 3: I don't know about you, guys, but it's like I
Speaker 3: clock in for a job where like they take the
Speaker 3: work that I do and they get rich off of it,
Speaker 3: and I just feel so distinct the means whatever I'm created,
Speaker 3: you know, it's just odd that I feel so disconnected
Speaker 3: and isolated from it as a working person.
Speaker 1: Whatever. Anyway, here's the top.
Speaker 2: And break down unions like.
Speaker 1: Dude, would you kill man? What you kill? Okay, like
Speaker 1: a carnivore or like somebody a worker who's trying to Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just wild that there's a policy position that's so
Speaker 1: popular on both sides that neither major party will openly
Speaker 1: agree to take. And when one does, like with Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris's you know policy, it's pretty tame and it gets
Speaker 1: absolutely destroyed by mainstream media. Let's for being like extremist
Speaker 1: and unrealistic, and she's not a real adult, right right, right, Sorry, miss,
Speaker 1: we're adulting here. We are three economists. Anyways, let's talk
Speaker 1: about phones in school. I guess I didn't realize that
Speaker 1: kids were on their phones in classes as much as
Speaker 1: they are. There's this episode of The Daily Today that is,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize, like they're saying, like people came back
Speaker 1: from the pandemic and they were just like everybody's like
Speaker 1: on their phones. They got so used to interacting with
Speaker 1: each other and school via screens, Like now that's just
Speaker 1: like impossible to take away. And now they're trying to
Speaker 1: institute these bands. But there's like mixed messaging on how
Speaker 1: popular that is or how successful or even feasible it is.
Speaker 1: We talked a few weeks back about the fact that
Speaker 1: the most posh prep school in London has banned smartphones
Speaker 1: and given students dumb phones instead.
Speaker 2: They're like those phones with bubble gum in them from
Speaker 2: when we were kids exactly. They come everywhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I can't call my mom.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: That was the thing that they were fighting against when
Speaker 1: I was in school was gum chewing. That was all
Speaker 1: I had to contend with.
Speaker 2: We this is a this is a type of friends
Speaker 2: I had. My science teacher had to impose a Magic
Speaker 2: the Gathering tax because so many of my friends were
Speaker 2: playing it, and she also knew how to play it,
Speaker 2: so she would take She was like, if I see
Speaker 2: those cards out, I'm gonna take your best cards.
Speaker 1: And we did, I'm gonna take you your best card.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: She was like really good at Magic the Gathering, so
Speaker 2: she was she just building her sets of.
Speaker 1: Ultimate hotly shit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, ours was just like playing like drug Wars on
Speaker 3: like T I eighty three, Like that was like the
Speaker 3: biggest distraction we had at the time.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it is. It is funny though too.
Speaker 3: Like Jack, both when you said that, both you and
Speaker 3: are like, damn, my kids are like on their phone,
Speaker 3: like just like as if we couldn't per conceive a
Speaker 3: world where that was even possible like it used to
Speaker 3: be you get in big trouble for chewing gum.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, I'm enjoying watching you to continue parenting. Were
Speaker 2: like kids phones, They don't seem to like those.
Speaker 1: But I mean they like them to I don't know.
Speaker 1: So the daily episode lands in a place in between
Speaker 1: being like, we get why they're banning it, but we
Speaker 1: don't have the data to support whether this ban is
Speaker 1: good or bad. It really feels like I don't know,
Speaker 1: how how are you not just taking the comments like,
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, we know it's fucking bad for kids.
Speaker 1: Like The anecdotal evidence includes watching kids walk around like zombies,
Speaker 1: watching like seeing their mental health deteriorate like in this generation,
Speaker 1: the way they react like addicts when your takeaway take
Speaker 1: away their phone, the fact that the people who design
Speaker 1: the phones and the software don't allow their kids to
Speaker 1: use this shit, everything about the software being designed to
Speaker 1: make money and surveil and manipulate their behavior and nothing
Speaker 1: has to do with like any anything that's good for them.
Speaker 1: And the detail they used a question whether it's bad
Speaker 1: is like, but there are these like learning applications on phones,
Speaker 1: and we don't know if those are like canceling out
Speaker 1: all the other ship and it's a little.
Speaker 2: Right, here's a compromise that I think will be really good.
Speaker 2: I think, sure, you take away the kids' phones whatever,
Speaker 2: but in every class there's the most like the funniest
Speaker 2: kid gets to keep their phone just so that they
Speaker 2: get to be the racist teacher monitor and like pull
Speaker 2: it out anytime the teacher is doing us ship, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I can't lose.
Speaker 2: Those tiktoks where the teacher just like goes off and
Speaker 2: you're like, are we living in the fifties? What?
Speaker 3: It's funny too, like those teachers like someone was videotaping that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but there being like they're allowed to have phones in class.
Speaker 2: See them use a crank and put a sheet over there.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I meant to say about the trail of tears.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that. You're like, whoa, whoa easy, eas easy.
Speaker 1: Some people do have tears of laughter. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: it's possible, it's possible, it's possible, but this is happening.
Speaker 1: As we just got new evidence that phones are listening
Speaker 1: to smartphone microphones and using AI to capture real time
Speaker 1: intent data.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this felt like a thing we would talk about
Speaker 3: a lot early on in the show of just being
Speaker 3: like our phones were like, I think our phones are
Speaker 3: listening to us. How come a thing I've never searched for,
Speaker 3: talked about, but never even interacted with anything in my
Speaker 3: browsing history. I'm suddenly being served ads for this thing.
Speaker 1: And it's because Miles, we recorded the show in person
Speaker 1: and had out loud conversations about what we were going
Speaker 1: to cover on the show. Yeah, and then as we
Speaker 1: were like putting the doc together, we would be like, weird,
Speaker 1: now it's like serving me a ad for lawnmowers, even
Speaker 1: though like I was randomly talking about lawnmowers.
Speaker 2: And the Miles, Miles is only obsessed with like Casper,
Speaker 2: and and he's like, why do I keep getting ads
Speaker 2: for that that? Even though that's all I ever wanted
Speaker 2: in life?
Speaker 1: What mean?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love Casper mattresses or loved but like you know,
Speaker 3: even like when you would search right like all the time,
Speaker 3: I remember, we'd be like this, this can't be and
Speaker 3: like all the articles you'd get when you searched for
Speaker 3: like the question of like our our phones listening to us.
Speaker 3: There was some techie breakdown about how like algorithms figure
Speaker 3: out that you might be in proximity to someone that
Speaker 3: you're friends with and they know you are via Facebook,
Speaker 3: and therefore it you it may be relevant to you,
Speaker 3: so that's why the ad will show up or whatever.
Speaker 1: But even then I'm like, okay, that seemed feasible.
Speaker 3: At least it was feasible enough that I was like,
Speaker 3: all right, that that could that totally could be.
Speaker 1: And then we kind of moved on.
Speaker 3: But then this leak came out from Cox Media Group
Speaker 3: and there was a pitch deck that.
Speaker 2: Ban coxes Media g braan.
Speaker 3: Cox Yes, exactly, fuck fuck off, fuck off Media Group.
Speaker 3: And so in this leaked pitch deck to prospective customers,
Speaker 3: and they were one of Facebook's like marketing partners, although
Speaker 3: now like after this, Meta and a few other companies
Speaker 3: have been to distance themselves from Cox. It talked about
Speaker 3: how it listens to users smartphone microphones and advertises to them. Accordingly,
Speaker 3: the TV and radio news giant Cox Media Group claims
Speaker 3: that it's so called quote active listening software uses AI
Speaker 3: to quote capture real time intent data by listening to
Speaker 3: our conversations.
Speaker 2: That's why I'm always like, oh my god, you know
Speaker 2: what I could really go for right now is healthcare
Speaker 2: or like lower guess right?
Speaker 3: Or to Suddy it's like, hey, man, come through to
Speaker 3: mobile where it's way expensive.
Speaker 1: But we heard you need gues. Sorry, don't know what
Speaker 1: else to tell you.
Speaker 3: And then it says goes on quote advertisers compare this
Speaker 3: voice data with behavioral data to target in market consumers.
Speaker 1: That's what the deck said. That all sounds perfectly nonsinister
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 2: Point the technology is gonna be like girl dump him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know he's been like visiting like a rite aid.
Speaker 3: That's way out of the way from y'all right, I
Speaker 3: don't know what for, but based on what I'm saying
Speaker 3: from this map view, there's a corner of the parking
Speaker 3: lot where it's not visible to cameras or people on
Speaker 3: the street anyway, I don't know, can check that out.
Speaker 2: FBI agents like really, DM, the FBI just uses this
Speaker 2: software to just find people.
Speaker 1: That's how they found bin Laden.
Speaker 3: Actually it wasn't even the CIA, it was just this
Speaker 3: Facebook as.
Speaker 1: Man, come on, nobody likes volleyball and Whitney Houston this
Speaker 1: much except for we got him the pacer.
Speaker 3: So then like apparently this is the third time in
Speaker 3: the last year that Cox has gotten media attention for
Speaker 3: their active listening feature. They also delete a Cox media group.
Speaker 3: They deleted a blog post from their own website from
Speaker 3: last year that was talking about active listening and you
Speaker 3: can see it through the Internet archive.
Speaker 1: Thank god.
Speaker 3: It said there's one section like is it legal? You know,
Speaker 3: is active listeners? Like this is their active listening faq?
Speaker 3: Is active listening legal?
Speaker 1: Answer?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Right? Oh wow?
Speaker 3: Is selling human organs that you've procured outside of you know,
Speaker 3: normal channels illegal? Well, allow us to answer that. This says, quote,
Speaker 3: we know what you're thinking. Is this even legal?
Speaker 1: Funny, there's no he said this.
Speaker 3: The short answer is yes, it is legal for phones
Speaker 3: and devices to listen to you. When a new app,
Speaker 3: download or update prompts consumers with a multi page terms
Speaker 3: of use agreement, somewhere in the fine print, active listening
Speaker 3: is often included. And you're like, oh, holy shit, okay
Speaker 3: that's in there. Yeah, your part read you could become
Speaker 3: widowed the way you could.
Speaker 1: I just want to say it's not your fault. That
Speaker 1: that's the thing that's like unspoken. We all like for
Speaker 1: a long time, we're like, yeah, we just agree to this.
Speaker 1: Ship who cares, like, what are we going to do?
Speaker 1: Read it? But like kind of being like ha ha,
Speaker 1: we're idiots. No, it's impossible to live life without agreeing
Speaker 1: to that ship. Like or.
Speaker 2: It's like when the when Disney tried to like invalidate
Speaker 2: that lady's lawsuit by being like, well you watched the TV.
Speaker 1: You got Disney plus right, Oh well well well asshole,
Speaker 1: Look who doesn't read the fine print because you gave
Speaker 1: up your I thought we couldn't kill you.
Speaker 2: The plus stands for negative rights, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 2: Also, like really fucked up with them to call it
Speaker 2: active listening after everything I learned in school about how
Speaker 2: important act is.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, right right, But.
Speaker 2: They're doing a woke is up you got.
Speaker 1: There, very smart.
Speaker 2: They're therapy speaking their way through surveillance. States.
Speaker 1: Well, they've been active listening in all those classrooms, so
Speaker 1: they heard the teachers teaching kids that active listening is good.
Speaker 1: So that's how they got the idea that are like, yeah.
Speaker 2: You're just sitting there like on your phone, and their
Speaker 2: friend's like, oh that's nice. You're like, what's the fun
Speaker 2: They're like, I hear you, I.
Speaker 1: Get I've got a new idea, what the fun? But yeah,
Speaker 1: so these are the people that the daily episode is like,
Speaker 1: we don't it's too soon to tell. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: It just feels it feels like it's not too soon
Speaker 1: to tell if having smartphones in school is better than
Speaker 1: not having them in school. I just don't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm sure, Hey, I know there are people
Speaker 3: who are educators that listen to this show. I feel
Speaker 3: like you even people who I know who are teachers
Speaker 3: and stuff, they always talk about how much of a
Speaker 3: distraction it is, and depending on the school, you have
Speaker 3: policies or they're like just it's like lightly discouraging, or
Speaker 3: it's like a huge problem if your phone comes out.
Speaker 3: But it just feels like a thing where it's like
Speaker 3: if you if if it's an emergency, there there are
Speaker 3: ways for you to be contacted.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, no, no, no, for sure, And it's probably
Speaker 1: you know, enforced in a really fucked up way where
Speaker 1: like the teachers being the front line are just forced
Speaker 1: to deal with kids who are addicted to their phone.
Speaker 3: Hey, try and get these guys the cold Turkey heroin
Speaker 3: in your in your in your in your eighty minute class.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're acting like the students or the problem.
Speaker 2: When I'm sure the teachers are like, please, don't make
Speaker 2: me give up my phone. They're like please, Yeah, no,
Speaker 2: we shouldn't have phones in classrooms, but they should all
Speaker 2: be in my drawer. I'm on a candy crush Crush Street.
Speaker 3: Okay, Hey, someone hooked me up with some credits. You
Speaker 3: can transferm you can transform if you have my email.
Speaker 2: He needs who needs extra credit?
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my god. I had a teacher like that.
Speaker 1: Did you ever ever ever teach you wanted extra credit?
Speaker 1: I need some extra credit, dude. We had a teacher,
Speaker 1: my biology teacher sophomore year, said we could get like, uh,
Speaker 1: like a.
Speaker 3: Half letter grade adjustment upward if we donated to the
Speaker 3: cross country running team.
Speaker 2: That's fucking insane.
Speaker 3: And we were like, yeah, yeah, say let's say let's
Speaker 3: because I'm not fucking with the I'm not fucking with
Speaker 3: cell respiration, So yeah, how much you want?
Speaker 1: Ten bucks?
Speaker 3: And I remember and then it then I remember, like
Speaker 3: at the time, I was like, this is great, dude,
Speaker 3: ten bucks and I don't have to study. And then
Speaker 3: a student who was much smarter like went to the
Speaker 3: school and was like, uh, they're saying if we give
Speaker 3: them money, they'll change our grades. And like the teacher
Speaker 3: had to give us all our money back, but then
Speaker 3: also had to keep our grades like with the adjustment too.
Speaker 3: Wow no, no, yeah, we got the grades and our
Speaker 3: money back.
Speaker 1: And we're like there you go, thank you go. Yeah. Away,
Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back,
Speaker 1: and we're back Hello the internet. There he is always,
Speaker 1: he's just always ready to you know, hop bitch, Yeah
Speaker 1: he is.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's check out Jesse Waters because he just
Speaker 1: blasted Tim Walls for not being masculine enough. And we
Speaker 1: know that's true because a women that Jesse Waters personally
Speaker 1: claims to have talked to don't want to fuck Tim Walls,
Speaker 1: gotcha and b and uh So that one you might
Speaker 1: be like, okay, hearsay, your honor, Well be we have
Speaker 1: actual scientific evidence, an expert witness, your honor. I bring
Speaker 1: Jesse Waters to the stand, who has a theory on why.
Speaker 3: I think not even a theory, right, I feel like
Speaker 3: because this has been born out scientifically, I think we
Speaker 3: can call this a long now right, Yeah, yeah, this
Speaker 3: is it helps me.
Speaker 6: That helps me not having seen this yet, Yeah, so
Speaker 6: what this is going to be exactly?
Speaker 3: Now, take everything Jesse Waters says as just absolute, immutable
Speaker 3: truth that you must accept.
Speaker 1: Here's Jesse Waters on his take on masculinity.
Speaker 7: Women love masculinity and women do not love Tim Walls,
Speaker 7: So should just tell you about how masculine Tim Walls is.
Speaker 7: The other day you saw him with a vanilla ice
Speaker 7: cream shake, had a straw in it. Oh, ice cream,
Speaker 7: that tells you everything, Judge, Janine.
Speaker 1: Judge Janine, over to you. Sorry, it was that he
Speaker 1: had a straw in it, and that tells you everything
Speaker 1: you need you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, we know, we can tell when we
Speaker 3: are all in agreement.
Speaker 1: Obviously I haven't been used. I didn't even think you
Speaker 1: had to say that. Everyone knows that if you drink
Speaker 1: through a straw, that's yeah, unmasculine.
Speaker 3: Oxygen to live. It's like what yeah yeah yeah. Also,
Speaker 3: real men don't go fucking uh snorkeling because that shit
Speaker 3: sus as hell. Dude, having a fucking sle in your mouth. Dude,
Speaker 3: having a straw in your mouth.
Speaker 1: Dude.
Speaker 3: Even when I go to the dentist, I don't even
Speaker 3: let them do the suction for to get my survival.
Speaker 1: I just let him pull out and just fall.
Speaker 3: Out of my face, all over my face because I
Speaker 3: have no tube in my mouth.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? You know what I mean? Man,
Speaker 1: you look like Rocky with just bloods, looking like a
Speaker 1: million dollar baby.
Speaker 3: I've been intubated or something. Dude, fucking tough ship.
Speaker 6: I saw this beta horse eating straw, and I got
Speaker 6: so straw eating eating straw.
Speaker 3: I threw a hamburger.
Speaker 6: As hard as I could at that thing, stupid brainless head,
Speaker 6: and it's stopped and it ate that, and I'm like,
Speaker 6: there we go make progress.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's wild that he's been like holding onto
Speaker 1: this for a very like it's part of his brand. Obviously,
Speaker 1: weird takes on masculinity. It's a thing he tends to
Speaker 1: come back to the way I come back to the
Speaker 1: cold gas study or Havanas right right right, right, right right.
Speaker 1: But it's so I'm not gonna begrudge him that, but
Speaker 1: I am a little confused why he thinks it's so compelling.
Speaker 3: Well here, like, you know, let's just let's this is
Speaker 3: from last year when again.
Speaker 1: He was like, dude, did you see that fucking guy
Speaker 1: using a fucking straw?
Speaker 3: Is he Okay, this is again Jesse Waters with his
Speaker 3: straw straw Man Takes.
Speaker 7: On Monday, I covered Joe Biden's Thanksgiving trip to Nantucket.
Speaker 7: He Poller plunged at a little Black Friday shopping with Hunter,
Speaker 7: and he called one of our correspondents stupid. And we're
Speaker 7: willing to look past that little outburst. But some things
Speaker 7: we just can't let slide.
Speaker 1: And then straw of Joe Biden.
Speaker 7: Now, if you've seen me on the Five or on
Speaker 7: Prime Time, you know I recommend that all men refrained
Speaker 7: from using straws the way a man's lips purse. The
Speaker 7: size of the straw is just too dainty, the way
Speaker 7: your fingers clasp on it.
Speaker 1: No, come on, wait, I'm sorry. You like a size?
Speaker 1: Is he like a size?
Speaker 3: He's like, I don't like like I want to I
Speaker 3: want to wrap my I want stretch marks on my
Speaker 3: mouth when I when I sip from a sto, that's
Speaker 3: some little puny.
Speaker 1: Thing, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: I drink through PCP pipe is what what is it called?
Speaker 1: I'm smoking out of a piece? Yeah, this is by
Speaker 1: the way, We've had to edit all the other times
Speaker 1: Blake is accidentally brought in this episode.
Speaker 6: So many and used yeah and used on the show.
Speaker 6: You know, I like to drink out of a gutter.
Speaker 6: I like to remove gutters off my house and then
Speaker 6: you drink yeah through them in ice.
Speaker 1: Luish.
Speaker 3: I guess I'll We'll let him continue. There's a little
Speaker 3: bit on the end of this, right Jack, you're saying
Speaker 3: as he continues to talk about yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, he also has like some some soup takes.
Speaker 7: Okay, straws are for women and little kids. But apparently
Speaker 7: this is controversial.
Speaker 1: So then we showed Jimmy Kimmel, who's making fun of him.
Speaker 7: Men should never suck anything through a straw?
Speaker 1: Is that if a thing? Now, I don't.
Speaker 7: Jimmy, you know, I don't apologize that, along with the
Speaker 7: straws and others one of my many tenants. And I'm
Speaker 7: sure Trump would agree that wasn't a good look. He's
Speaker 7: better than that. And as you've heard me say, it's
Speaker 7: not just straws, Jimmy. Soup is another problem area. Men
Speaker 7: should need soup in public. Again, you're pursing your lips
Speaker 7: in anticipation.
Speaker 1: Okay, we got a stock photo something soup.
Speaker 7: You lean your head out trying not to spill it.
Speaker 1: Come on, it's like a balancing act.
Speaker 7: Isn't even filling.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have to if it's too hot. It's too hot, dude.
Speaker 3: I what what happened in Jesse waters life?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: When you end up so like so in your head
Speaker 3: with your like homophobic shit where you're like, dude, fucking
Speaker 3: like put a tube near your mouth or something, and
Speaker 3: then you gotta blow on something, dude, And like men
Speaker 3: should be like fully reclined, laying down, eating with their hands.
Speaker 1: That's the only way to eat. Otherwise, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know, Look a little only manly way to take
Speaker 1: in calories is have grapes fed to you while you're
Speaker 1: being fanned. Yeah, otherwise starved to death with peacock feathers.
Speaker 1: I mean, based on what we know about Tucker his predecessor, like,
Speaker 1: one would have to suspect that Jesse Waters as his
Speaker 1: dad got cooked by like.
Speaker 8: A straw straw, Yeah, a straw salesman, A soup guy.
Speaker 8: I don't know, yeah, the soup. Like people don't even
Speaker 8: purse their lips to eat soup, as far as I know.
Speaker 8: Is he talking about blowing on something that's hot, Yeah.
Speaker 3: It would just burn your mouth again, it doesn't make
Speaker 3: any sense. The thing that for me resonated because I
Speaker 3: do agree with someone what he's saying, you know, more
Speaker 3: than anything is like you know, like when you're a
Speaker 3: kid and you take shit from like TV and movies
Speaker 3: and you kind of like bring that into your personality
Speaker 3: like most kids thought they were Ace Ventura at some point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or like you're like.
Speaker 6: I talked out of my ass literally before and now
Speaker 6: it's only.
Speaker 3: Figured out, but you know what I mean, And like
Speaker 3: you're kind of like, oh, that's that that thing that
Speaker 3: character said, I'm going to take that on in my
Speaker 3: life as a philosophy. But you're like twelve. This guy
Speaker 3: is doing it like in his forties. Because I don't
Speaker 3: know if you remember the film Crazy Stupid Love, Like
Speaker 3: Ryan Gosling's cool guy character tells the nerdy Steve Correll
Speaker 3: character in that film to knock it off with using
Speaker 3: a straw because it looks like they're sucking on a
Speaker 3: little dick.
Speaker 1: Oh, I mean, that's he's just like stealing it, you know.
Speaker 3: I think I think I think he saw that, and
Speaker 3: it was like, dude, this Ryan got this, Ryan got
Speaker 3: my shit. The sickest dude I've ever fucking seen. And
Speaker 3: if his rule is like you don't sip fucking anything
Speaker 3: out of a straw to be a man, that's just
Speaker 3: one of Jesse's laws.
Speaker 1: Baby, it is.
Speaker 3: What and that idiot only used it for one line.
Speaker 3: I can stretch this out for years ever. Yeah, really, Jesse.
Speaker 1: No straws. Yeah, I'll tell you why.
Speaker 3: Gotta push your lips, you gotta tell you, gotta cup
Speaker 3: the ball, you gotta drink the water.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just it's just unbecoming. It's unbecoming, especially
Speaker 1: not of a president.
Speaker 3: So yeah, what you gotta do is freeze the soup
Speaker 3: and lick it like a block of a popsicle. That's
Speaker 3: how many soup.
Speaker 1: Just lap it up, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like a dog, like a male dog.
Speaker 1: Yeah, poor tough man dog. Yeah that is.
Speaker 3: That has to be haunting to have a movie character's
Speaker 3: voice ringing through your head like and be like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, I'm doing the thing Ryan Gosling's character said
Speaker 3: to not doing that rom com that most people kind
Speaker 3: of remember.
Speaker 1: Fuck yeah, I wonder if it's just like one of
Speaker 1: his writers is like stealing from that and he's just
Speaker 1: like confidently like this is good stuff, right right right,
Speaker 1: we're killing it more stuff like that. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1: It's also like Donald Trump has like talked about the
Speaker 1: fact that he, because he's a German phobe, will not
Speaker 1: like drink anything not through a straw, including like if
Speaker 1: he's at a black tie event, right, will only drink
Speaker 1: through a straw because he doesn't trust the glasses to
Speaker 1: be clear.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and to the point where like in the Culture
Speaker 3: Wars they were hawking there, like full PVC pipe straws
Speaker 3: that they were putting out like in response to like,
Speaker 3: oh everything's a paper straw or like not plastic anymore
Speaker 3: by your Trump Maga straws.
Speaker 1: It's a big part of the brand.
Speaker 3: But anyway, it doesn't matter because nothing is consistent with
Speaker 3: their outrage. It's just they just say whatever and I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Thing kind of fucked me up because my mother in
Speaker 1: law for a long time has been complimenting me on
Speaker 1: how much I like soup because I love Korean soup,
Speaker 1: since it.
Speaker 6: Is a great thing about you, it's one of the
Speaker 6: only good things. Well, yeah, and you come back on
Speaker 6: the show, Blake. Yeah, it's because of his love, so
Speaker 6: yeah you.
Speaker 1: And but then recently was like, you know, most men
Speaker 1: don't like soups. When she was like telling me about soups,
Speaker 1: and she was like, so that's why we think. It's
Speaker 1: like so nice that you like soups. And yeah, now
Speaker 1: now I don't eat soup because I feel like you can't.
Speaker 3: It makes me look like, Jack, I made it, made
Speaker 3: your favorite soup. Yeah, put it on a plate for me.
Speaker 3: Let's plate that place.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Are you gonna don't worry about it in a
Speaker 1: rocks glass? Oh yeah, burns. It's going all the side
Speaker 1: of my face. But I gotta have it hot. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna blow on it and purse my lips.
Speaker 3: No wait, but so she's it was the implication there
Speaker 3: that soup is truly not a man's food.
Speaker 1: I think that is a thing in Creaan culture. Maybe
Speaker 1: that it's like not or that men are like soup
Speaker 1: is too easy for you to make make me something
Speaker 1: that's not sure.
Speaker 3: She's a big Jesse Waters fan. Huge.
Speaker 1: I mean I should mention that. Yeah, she's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you want me to get you a straw for your soup? Jack?
Speaker 1: Like what, because you're a real man, aren't you. Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 1: Seventy percent of what she says about me is in
Speaker 1: Korean within your shot of me, and I don't speak Korean,
Speaker 1: so she entirely would be like Jesus Chris, She's like wow,
Speaker 1: She's like I wanted more for you as my daughter,
Speaker 1: but hey, you know it is what it is. Huh
Speaker 1: that getting behind me and giving a thumbs down to
Speaker 1: everyone else in the room at straw motion? Yeah, what's that?
Speaker 1: Oh nothing, Jack? Your soup is ready? All right? Should
Speaker 1: we look at some Halloween costumes? Yes, it's Halloween costume
Speaker 1: season already, even though it is one hundred and eleven
Speaker 1: degrees in Los Angeles, which would melt most Halloween costumes,
Speaker 1: which are made out of yeah, basically rough yeah candle wax.
Speaker 1: All right, So it has arrived in stores earlier than
Speaker 1: ever this year. Target Home Depot and Low's rolled out
Speaker 1: their Halloween collections back in July, and Spirit Halloween has
Speaker 1: already opened over a thousand stores in the US, with
Speaker 1: more to come. Amazingly, Spirit Halloween's worst costume is not
Speaker 1: the inflatable skibbity toilet, but it's pretty it's pretty bad.
Speaker 1: Did they have a mask on the skibbity toilet? Like
Speaker 1: that's what that guy looks like? Because the face the
Speaker 1: model a cartoon character. It's yeah, this skip strange, they
Speaker 1: felt because the head of the skibbity toilet is not
Speaker 1: It is just a dude with it.
Speaker 3: Looks like Elon Musk got ran over by like a steamroller.
Speaker 3: Yeah you know what I mean. Yeah, lattened it fully out.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah yeah, yeah. God, your kids aren't asking for
Speaker 3: a skibbity toilet. Yeah, probably my nephews, but not my kid.
Speaker 3: That's what they're getting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or made your choice, kids. But probably the worst
Speaker 1: costume we've seen thus far is a Chipotle theme costume.
Speaker 1: They're just unicolor body suits that are meant to represent
Speaker 1: a nap can fork water cup burrito and to go back,
Speaker 1: And for some reason, all except the burrito cover your
Speaker 1: entire face. Yeah, why does the burrito get a face hole?
Speaker 1: And everyone else He was.
Speaker 3: The only handsome one, I think is why the others
Speaker 3: are so ugly. The rest of the guys are the
Speaker 3: skibbity toilet guy underneath the mask so exactly.
Speaker 1: It really just looks like like even if I saw
Speaker 1: them walking down the street together side by side, I
Speaker 1: would be like Chipotle branded sleep paralysis demon Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: why I couldn't have put it together because yeah, none
Speaker 1: of them really look like the thing they like. The
Speaker 1: skin tightness of it feels strange. It feels like it
Speaker 1: doesn't help in any way. Right, Well, like, what's I
Speaker 1: get that?
Speaker 6: It's against morals, it's revealing, it's yeah, it's not. It's indecent.
Speaker 6: I think it is what. Yeah, I was trying to.
Speaker 1: Say it should look like old timey bathing costumes, very
Speaker 1: baggy down to the ankles. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like one of those things too, Like where
Speaker 3: I get that. On the internet, people were joking like
Speaker 3: with like a really nondescript thing and we're like, how
Speaker 3: m a Chipotle fork and you're just wearing an all
Speaker 3: black body suit and like that's what they're sort of.
Speaker 1: Being like, Oh man, the Internet love that.
Speaker 3: Let's make let's do literally that because we're brands and
Speaker 3: we're so savvy with like internet culture that they're like, hey,
Speaker 3: now we did it. You guys like it and everyone
Speaker 3: like this. In the midst of people were like, man, Chipotle's.
Speaker 1: Fucking falling off. Yeah, they're like, well you think we've
Speaker 1: fallen off, Well, we've been investing money and we're going
Speaker 1: to do nothing. Yeah, we're gonna do this with it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a like meme where, you know, somebody created
Speaker 1: a fake spirit Halloween costume bag that said Chipotle fork
Speaker 1: and was just a black body suit and they were like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, we have an idea.
Speaker 3: No you don't, No, you don't know, you don't, that's
Speaker 3: not an idea. Idea is yeah, and it's and it's
Speaker 3: not funny when you do it. It's funny because someone
Speaker 3: said this this dumb thing is now a Chipotle fork,
Speaker 3: rather than be like, guess what, this Chipotle fork is
Speaker 3: now a dumb thing and you're like, yeah, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: I see you know the sequence is, the sequence is
Speaker 3: all off.
Speaker 1: It's all off. Yeah. Yeah. I think the burrito got
Speaker 1: a breathing hole because it it's suit appears to be
Speaker 1: made of like a real unbreathable.
Speaker 3: Plastic, right right, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: You don't want someone to pass away dressed as a
Speaker 1: Chipotle burrito? Good lord?
Speaker 3: I second that it's I mean, like this year, I
Speaker 3: feel like if we're talking Chipotle, like the costume would
Speaker 3: have been about like those assholes who are like filming
Speaker 3: Chipotle workers.
Speaker 1: Don't get cheap on me with the carnitas. All right,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like that felt like the more of the popular culture
Speaker 3: thing about Chipotle that was brewing more than.
Speaker 1: Hey, I can be a bag. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, I guess we know what Miles is going to
Speaker 6: be for Halloween. He's just snapping at.
Speaker 3: Service workers.
Speaker 1: Nice trying, gotcha. All Right, that's gonna do it for
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