Speaker 1: Yeah, I just realized that forgot to print these three things.
Speaker 2: Well, you print at your house.
Speaker 1: This guy's got a printer, maybe out of ink. Printers
Speaker 1: are a fucking scam. Man.
Speaker 2: I had one, and I'm a fan of it. But
Speaker 2: I printed like one version of my book and I
Speaker 2: was like, oh no, I give it up.
Speaker 1: That's the message that shows up, just a little.
Speaker 2: Monk scream painting like emoji.
Speaker 1: It's like ship, but the printer, They're like, go ahead,
Speaker 1: take it. Five dollars, we'll pay you. You can have
Speaker 1: a free printer. Changing. It's amazing.
Speaker 3: I'm changed by overrated. Overrated is now going to be printers.
Speaker 3: Except for brother. Printers are pretty good, but.
Speaker 1: It's all part of the same still a part of
Speaker 1: the industrial. Ink is crazy expensive.
Speaker 2: Even when you're buying it. It's like, no, your ship
Speaker 2: doesn't need toner, and I'm like surprise, Like, bitch, it
Speaker 2: just fucking does somehow.
Speaker 3: Oh you have a printer toner level printer.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm scared.
Speaker 3: Jack and I are out here buying like loose packs
Speaker 3: of Cyan.
Speaker 1: Yeah too, get that, Lucy. I love that Lucy Serious,
Speaker 1: got Lucy Science and Lucy Magent. Hello the Internet and
Speaker 1: welcome to Season three eighty four, episode five of Didys Guys?
Speaker 1: Is that a crow that just flew through the studio.
Speaker 1: It's a production of iHeart Radio. It's a podcast where
Speaker 1: you take a deep dab into America, share consciousness. And
Speaker 1: it is Friday, April eighteenth, twenty twenty five. Good Friday,
Speaker 1: the best, the best Friday of all time. My name
Speaker 1: is Jack O'Brien, aka your pizzock, your penis elbowed at
Speaker 1: the weenness, O'Brien pissery, denying so fergish poden human talkin
Speaker 1: at you, shows up on a trend and hissc his
Speaker 1: vacation's pastures. You could never dab up the wood rice
Speaker 1: flat or not piss lyon Bassard witnesses done seen how
Speaker 1: it haffered. Uh shame on O'Brien, Who's Vaca's world's like
Speaker 1: a mayan that Wu tang aka courtesy of Halsion Salad Boo.
Speaker 1: My vacation does indeed end? Were worlds like a mine.
Speaker 1: Every time I go away, the world does not know
Speaker 1: how to act.
Speaker 2: I think you just got nominated for a Grammy.
Speaker 1: It's a it's new It's like a version of bumble
Speaker 1: rap where you like just fumble. It's called fumble rap
Speaker 1: where you just love various lines.
Speaker 2: Bob.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Lacaroni kicked it off in the discord by calling
Speaker 1: me the the pizza the penis instead of the jis.
Speaker 1: A genius. I'm glad I didn't go down colementary school
Speaker 1: with you guys. You would have anyways, I am thrilled
Speaker 1: to be joined in my second seat by a very
Speaker 1: talented writer and stand up comedian who co hosts, among
Speaker 1: other things, the very great ninety Day Fiance podcast four
Speaker 1: twenty Day Fiance with some guy named Miles. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the show. My co host's co host who today
Speaker 1: is my co host. It's the hilarious and talented Sophia Alexandra.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I'm really happy to be here.
Speaker 2: And you know, the co host of my co host
Speaker 2: is my co host. I think we all know that
Speaker 2: beautiful saying.
Speaker 1: The wonderful thing Yeah just rolls off the tongue. Soia,
Speaker 1: it's so great to have you here on here. Sparkling
Speaker 1: new Champagne laptop Crystal Clear video coming through. Sorry sorry,
Speaker 1: I don't yeah too much of a flex. It's it's
Speaker 1: a laptop that has had champagne spilled on it. That's
Speaker 1: what I meant to say. Yeah, that's real, Sophia. We're
Speaker 1: thrilled to be joined in our third seat once again
Speaker 1: by a writer who is one of the best podcast
Speaker 1: hosts and executive producers doing it. You know him from
Speaker 1: stuff they don't want you to know, ridiculous history missing
Speaker 1: in Arizona. You got Ben Bowling. It's Ben Bowling.
Speaker 3: Boo boom boom uh aka Doctor Awkward aka Corvid Bay
Speaker 3: aka Jack couldn't find anyone else for this episode.
Speaker 1: Uh what a what a privilege? What a hey? Man?
Speaker 2: Don't you ever speak about my new friend Ben.
Speaker 1: Bowling like that? Okay, right, so I don't book this ship.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Victor.
Speaker 3: Victor also a quick story with big thanks to our
Speaker 3: production team. One time, Jackie recall this. I texted you
Speaker 3: with some emotional stuff and you said you gave me
Speaker 3: some great advice and insight. And then he said, also
Speaker 3: next time, just like talk to me through management.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you go through my people for
Speaker 1: I don't care how personal it is. You got to
Speaker 1: talk to my people first. Man, All right, what this is?
Speaker 1: What do you think do you think I don't live
Speaker 1: in Hollywood, man, Come on, you talk to my people
Speaker 1: and try to schedule a lunch that never happens. All right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I texted Miles as well, and I was like,
Speaker 3: is the fame getting to Jack? And then at like
Speaker 3: three in the morning local time, Miles just texted me
Speaker 3: capital ye guess.
Speaker 2: Yeah really, because I thought he would have replied, who
Speaker 2: is this Smiles? Really well, big dick, you.
Speaker 3: Like Sophia, I bugged these guys way too often. But it's, uh,
Speaker 3: it's awesome to hang out in the show. And actually
Speaker 3: I was bragging about Daily Zeguest a little while ago, uh,
Speaker 3: with the idea of focusing on mundanity, whichy came, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a thing, you, It's a thing Jack actually said
Speaker 3: when I was on the show earlier and in various episodes,
Speaker 3: and uh, you know, I I think it's it's nice
Speaker 3: to come up for some air and just get back
Speaker 3: to like.
Speaker 1: We need it. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The America's Home videos of Experience, you.
Speaker 1: Know, I just saw a good one where like a
Speaker 1: group of friends with on a subway and it was
Speaker 1: like it was more like a commuter rail, but like
Speaker 1: the challenge was their friend got off at a stop
Speaker 1: and had to run and beat the train to the
Speaker 1: next stop. And I watched that whole thing despite the
Speaker 1: fact that nothing happens except seeing a guy run down
Speaker 1: the street and be out of breath.
Speaker 2: But You've reached a new level of dad, and I'm
Speaker 2: glad to do.
Speaker 1: It's just like, yeah, like anything, any mundane challenge, I'm
Speaker 1: here for it. Like the the original one that got
Speaker 1: me excited about this was people trying to bake chocolate
Speaker 1: chip cookies with just those trash grabber things so they
Speaker 1: couldn't use their hand, like trash grabber things, do you
Speaker 1: know those like that you have a trigger in your
Speaker 1: hand and then there's like two little pincher things at
Speaker 1: the end that people this is only.
Speaker 2: Because I'm not American, it might.
Speaker 1: Be, or it might be because you never had to
Speaker 1: do a community service as a as a juvenile delinquent.
Speaker 1: They are they Yeah, old people use it to just
Speaker 1: like get stuff off the top shelf without bending down.
Speaker 1: Yeah you mean like a grabber, but yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: mainly where I see it is. Oh, I only see
Speaker 1: people using it to like grab stuff stuff shelf, So
Speaker 1: a top shelf grabber.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, Okay, I did not know they had other.
Speaker 1: Uses different places we are in life. I'm out in
Speaker 1: the in these streets watching people pick up trash that
Speaker 1: I just dropped, and your top shelf, you're living that
Speaker 1: top shelf life.
Speaker 2: I just want to say that really quickly. If you
Speaker 2: enjoy mundanity and just like, you know, real wholesome stuff
Speaker 2: that is like completely low stakes. My one of my
Speaker 2: favorite subreddits is benign Existence Nice, and it's just people
Speaker 2: posting really like every day benign things that are just
Speaker 2: so like precious, Like oh, I talked to this kid
Speaker 2: and he said, this thing just so steaks yes, or
Speaker 2: getting it's so sweet, or getting the same present for
Speaker 2: your partner as they got for you, or whatever, just
Speaker 2: so sweet. If you want your soul to rest a
Speaker 2: little bit, benign existence, man.
Speaker 1: I select my wife's daily coffee cup based on her
Speaker 1: perceived mood. Actually, that could get you in a little trouble.
Speaker 1: I don't know that is if you're like bitch.
Speaker 2: I guess it depends on the selection of your cups,
Speaker 2: doesn't it.
Speaker 1: The cup catalog, I can't wait to hear the discord.
Speaker 1: They're all just like passive aggressive.
Speaker 2: Oh god, I mean the cup of Logue anyway.
Speaker 3: A couple nailed Yes, sorry, nailed it.
Speaker 1: And I'm done. All right, Ben, We're gonna get to
Speaker 1: know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 1: we are going to tell the listeners a couple of
Speaker 1: the things we're talking about. It's good times for science.
Speaker 1: The measles is breaking out, RFK is doing. He got
Speaker 1: a lot of credit for from the mainstream media for
Speaker 1: being like vaccines are a thing that can work.
Speaker 2: They were like, yeah, he's is possible.
Speaker 1: Look at this guy with his low shelf grabber, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Anyways, he is like he's still
Speaker 1: supporting the guy who made the plandemic documentary, and that
Speaker 1: guy's still influential in his ministration. So we'll talk We'll
Speaker 1: talk about some some of the beliefs that are still
Speaker 1: circulated around the RFK group thing, and we'll talk about also.
Speaker 1: At the Oscars for Science seth Rogen presented an a
Speaker 1: word to a theoretical physicist and said some things that
Speaker 1: shouldn't be controversial with scientists, but got cut out of
Speaker 1: the broadcast on.
Speaker 2: A second though, was the physicist really there? Though?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was like oh theoretic, yeah, was not physical,
Speaker 1: only theoretical, but we'll just talk about a couple of
Speaker 1: people bending the knee a little bit lately in a way.
Speaker 2: That's the maybe, yeah, a little bit of a little
Speaker 2: bit of segment.
Speaker 1: We're calling Complicity Huffman, and we'll check in with some grifting.
Speaker 1: Also in a segment we're calling Ken Grifty Senior. For
Speaker 1: some reason, you guys are knocking to out of the way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Ken Grifty, Ken Griffy Senior is the father of
Speaker 1: a much more famous Ken Griffy Junior. But we named
Speaker 1: it after Ken Griffy Sor for some reason. No, we
Speaker 1: should have named it after the Sun. I don't know
Speaker 1: why we did that. Well, we're live too late now anyways,
Speaker 1: all that anymore, But first, Ben Bolin, we like to
Speaker 1: ask our guests, what is something from your search history
Speaker 1: that's revealing about who you are? Sure?
Speaker 3: Chris crofton home address, Chris crofton social Security number, Chris
Speaker 3: crofton blood type, Chris crofton list of childhood fears.
Speaker 1: Okay, no further questions. Your honor underrated.
Speaker 3: I mess around a little. I have not FBI and
Speaker 3: no offense, Sophia, because I saw you make that phone
Speaker 3: call earlier.
Speaker 1: I have to.
Speaker 3: Right, I have not researched our dear colleagues life in
Speaker 3: that depth. Would love to hear on the discourse that stuff.
Speaker 3: The thing I got really into quite recently was.
Speaker 1: Gosh, this is.
Speaker 3: Gonna sound it sounds so nerdy, or it's not even nerdy,
Speaker 3: it's just sort of old. I got back into like
Speaker 3: mid nineteen eighties music reviews of Tom Waits, and you didn't.
Speaker 1: Get back into mid nineteen eighties Tom Waits music. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you review the guy made the music again, No further questions,
Speaker 1: You're on it.
Speaker 2: That's sorry, your honor may I approached? Do you have
Speaker 2: quite a few questions? What drew you specifically to it
Speaker 2: being Tom Waits.
Speaker 1: Objection over world?
Speaker 3: All right, Well, the main thing is I missed a
Speaker 3: concert that guy was going to do a few years ago,
Speaker 3: and he's no.
Speaker 1: Tom Waits or one of the people who reviewed.
Speaker 3: Excellent question Jack will allow it. One of the people
Speaker 3: who reviewed Tom Waits, so they would go to the
Speaker 3: Fox Theater and Georgia and just read their reviews aloud.
Speaker 1: Tom Waits is sick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to clap for the guy who's clapping
Speaker 3: for the guy. Yeah, it drew me back because I
Speaker 3: watched I recently rewatched a film called wrist.
Speaker 2: Cutters, which is comedy obviously.
Speaker 3: Risk Cutters colon a love story and and uh it's
Speaker 3: uh it got me on. You know, I wish I
Speaker 3: was cool enough to smoke weed that would make this
Speaker 3: story make more sense. But I was just up late
Speaker 3: at night and I was thinking, what else has Tom
Speaker 3: Waits done aside from music.
Speaker 2: Jim Jarmusch movies.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah, down by Law I love him and
Speaker 1: Down by Law. Yeah, he's got the voice for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean he screamed into a pillow until
Speaker 2: he got that voice that real when he was little, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he was. He was like my voice. I wanted to
Speaker 2: sound raspy and good. So he just kept screaming into
Speaker 2: a pillow until he got.
Speaker 1: There adjusted as a person. I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: cool or really terrifying, Just like a seven year old
Speaker 1: skimming into a pillow and then like turning around me like.
Speaker 2: What he's like never getting carded?
Speaker 3: He's hat right, Like what do your parents do at
Speaker 3: that point?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: Or is there a solution to like are they going
Speaker 3: maybe we should buy a different, less uh screamable pillow.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I mean, how would they hear him, Ben,
Speaker 2: that's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's in pillow. Nobody can hear you scream?
Speaker 1: That's true catchphrase.
Speaker 2: That's right, I love.
Speaker 1: Yeah. That's so.
Speaker 3: That's a little bit of search history.
Speaker 1: Got it? Something? Sorry?
Speaker 2: Really quick? Is Chris Crofton the Brittany guy?
Speaker 1: Chris Crafton is one of our famed guests on the.
Speaker 2: The comedian, sorry trap the comedian?
Speaker 3: Who is the Yeah, I do hear Chris is going
Speaker 3: to get into comedy at some point.
Speaker 1: Just like damn you've been Ben Bowlditch. They call them bowling.
Speaker 2: Seriously, who is the one that is the leave Britney
Speaker 2: lone guy? Oh isn't that a Christian? Oh no, that's
Speaker 2: a different christ.
Speaker 3: There's a Britney Spears that's a real up and coming musician.
Speaker 2: I've heard of her. I think it's pronounced spires Crocker. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm not insane, all right? Sorry?
Speaker 1: What is something you think is underrated? Ben? Well?
Speaker 3: Jake?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Weirdly specific words in English? Right, Sophia, you're earlier mentioned
Speaker 3: you said, Hey, maybe this is a thing for you
Speaker 3: guys being weird because I'm not from the States. Uh,
Speaker 3: I think we all can and as you are both
Speaker 3: quite talented, quite talented with the gift of gab. I
Speaker 3: think we can all appreciate that the English language is
Speaker 3: not unique in its cartoonish amount of words, but it
Speaker 3: is like in the top three of languages that have
Speaker 3: words with zero reason to use them.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: When's the last time you were hanging out with someone
Speaker 3: and you were like, you're being a little bit saturnine,
Speaker 3: you know, or like there are.
Speaker 2: People hey is that don't make me feel bad about myself?
Speaker 3: Well, you're smarter than most people. It's different for you.
Speaker 2: So now I'm full of emotions, ben.
Speaker 3: So, I think it'd be interesting to explore some weird words,
Speaker 3: or some weirdly specific words and figure out whether we
Speaker 3: or any members of the Zeit gang can pull them
Speaker 3: off and act actual conversation.
Speaker 1: Do you know the word leonine?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: That was that came up like twice in a single
Speaker 1: day for me, and I'd never heard it before.
Speaker 2: That what does it mean?
Speaker 1: It's like resembling a lion or lion like, well, that.
Speaker 2: Seems kind of like easy, how come like like anthropy
Speaker 2: is wolves? I know, it's like that does not sound
Speaker 2: like wolf at all.
Speaker 1: I kind of like the word. Leonin's feel to it.
Speaker 1: There's uh lionized, which is lionised I've heard, Oh that's
Speaker 1: the reasonable one. You're like.
Speaker 2: Been lionized whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that one caught on. But Leonine has just been
Speaker 1: waiting in the wings, ready to fucking.
Speaker 2: It sounds kind of sex step.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know why that is, but it is.
Speaker 1: It is like that is objectively true that that word.
Speaker 1: It is oozing sex.
Speaker 2: There's sounds like slick and like yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like the big cat.
Speaker 2: We're all feeling it. We're like, okay, are good cat?
Speaker 1: Saying something is lying like I wouldn't be like that
Speaker 1: thing fucks, but saying something sure, damn.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's got some it's got some ask to it
Speaker 3: for sure. Hey, everybody who's dating online, you're welcome. We
Speaker 3: just massively escalated your profile, Leonine. Yeah, just like that's
Speaker 3: that word, no explanation.
Speaker 2: It's like what word would your friends used to describe you?
Speaker 2: You just drop le and I and you slide out
Speaker 2: her there and all the fucking wet trails of the
Speaker 2: pussy you're getting slipping.
Speaker 1: The slide out of the room.
Speaker 3: Yeah to them, Leonid's a great example yeah, these are
Speaker 3: These are great examples, oldest, give me your favorite, my
Speaker 3: favorite weird word, weird weirdly specific word. I can't give
Speaker 3: away all the secrets there there are. You know, there
Speaker 3: are a ton of words that are self contradictory. I
Speaker 3: think there's a famous thing for that. Like, you know,
Speaker 3: to peruse means both to scrutinize and to scroll through briefly.
Speaker 3: I also, just for the love of the game, one
Speaker 3: unnecessary word that I quite enjoy is octivigation. All doctivigation,
Speaker 3: octivigation octivigation. Uh, all right here, I am without a type.
Speaker 2: But is there a K in front? Is what I
Speaker 2: want to know?
Speaker 4: N O C T I V A T I O
Speaker 4: And I want to say, Okay, no, that's not what
Speaker 4: I was picturing. Okay, it's not a school's what you're picturing.
Speaker 4: But it just means to walk around at night, to noctivigate.
Speaker 2: I love it because it's like nocturnal. That's why it's
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: It makes sense. The word makes sense. I like that.
Speaker 1: I misspelled it. Justin I misspelled it.
Speaker 4: Uh. It's n O C T I V A G
Speaker 4: A T e.
Speaker 1: Uh. The other coming to save your ass man, The
Speaker 1: better version is noctivigant. Justin edit out the correction.
Speaker 2: Justin playing slow motion the part where he misspells it.
Speaker 3: Cool, Yeah, yeah, do that. So if you doctivigate, you
Speaker 3: walk around it. If you are noctif and a noctivigan
Speaker 3: like a noun, you are a person who walks around
Speaker 3: at night.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, man, that's.
Speaker 2: A dope word, and I think it's highly necessary. But
Speaker 2: let me let me put this to you. Why the
Speaker 2: fuck is their caregiver and caretaker they mean the same thing,
Speaker 2: but giving and taking is opposite.
Speaker 1: Damn you. Why do you drive on the parkway and
Speaker 1: parking the driver?
Speaker 2: I'm going to kill you.
Speaker 1: Deal with that.
Speaker 2: Black and white people drive differently.
Speaker 1: You ever notice women? Uh? Women? You ever notice women?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Back back in my cracked days, we did an article
Speaker 1: about foreign words that are like very specific and super dark,
Speaker 1: and that's my ship. There's a word, uh in German
Speaker 1: geist your fower or fash fower, which means a person
Speaker 1: who deliberately drives into oncoming traffic.
Speaker 2: There's a word for it, a phenomenon.
Speaker 1: His means ghost driver. Somebody like a very specific way
Speaker 1: to this is disturbing.
Speaker 2: How is this habit?
Speaker 1: And soia. The one that we talked about in uh
Speaker 1: from Russian was corrova, which translates to cow, but in
Speaker 1: a certain context, it's a guy you take along on
Speaker 1: a prison break so you can eat him later. Those yeah,
Speaker 1: they had they called people cows like okay, found my cow,
Speaker 1: and then they would do a prison break, uh and
Speaker 1: what once they were halfway across the tundra, they would
Speaker 1: eat the person that was That was what they anyways.
Speaker 2: So would you have to be suspicious if you're like
Speaker 2: festively plump and someone's I'm breaking out.
Speaker 1: I want everybody's like so horny to be my friend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do a prison break with me. I suck at prison breaks, guys.
Speaker 3: You know I can't run because I'm you know, I'm
Speaker 3: a big But they're like, no, you got this, Yeah,
Speaker 3: eat a part of the plant that is frightening. In
Speaker 3: both of those cases, how often does a phenomenon have
Speaker 3: to occur before someone says, you know what, let's save time.
Speaker 3: Let's make one fucking word for this exactly.
Speaker 1: I think there was also one from that list where
Speaker 1: that translated to person who gives birth while standing up
Speaker 1: like a soldier. Yeah, standing up and like birth soldier.
Speaker 2: That's what I would call him. I'm like, damn, that
Speaker 2: person a soldier.
Speaker 1: Anyways, a lot of fun, a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: I love guys, you guys love them so much.
Speaker 1: Ben, what some of these thinks over in toes toes?
Speaker 2: Uh huh. It's the lack of hesitation for me, because
Speaker 2: I just you know.
Speaker 3: I was, I was looking my own earlier and I
Speaker 3: was like, I have Bill's what the fuck are you
Speaker 3: guys contributing? Like, I know, the big toe in the
Speaker 3: human is necessary, the big toes in the humans are
Speaker 3: necessary for balance and stuff like that. Shout out mad boosties.
Speaker 3: But you'll, yeah, you'll look at you know, we talked
Speaker 3: about toesies and fingis, as Jack once said, not too holy.
Speaker 2: I also call him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just anyway, Well, Sophia, one of Jack's many street
Speaker 3: names is Fingy's O'Brien.
Speaker 1: And I'm sorry I had to learn that on air. Yeah. Nice,
Speaker 1: super into it, uh it along?
Speaker 2: He love stealing, so we No.
Speaker 3: I was just, you know, I know, people like fetishize
Speaker 3: any part of the human body or whatever. There's someone
Speaker 3: listening right now who is like, oh fuck, is this
Speaker 3: the episode where they get to elbows? It's not bro,
Speaker 3: it's probably not, but but to trends. Yes, But anyway,
Speaker 3: you know, I've always had a difficult time calling stuff
Speaker 3: overrated because it's cool to like believe in people, even
Speaker 3: if they're Quentin Tarantino. But the thing is that I
Speaker 3: just don't understand the function of most of the toes.
Speaker 3: Our main overrated that we were talking about a little
Speaker 3: bit earlier that we can all agree with is this
Speaker 3: is the moment where Sophia, you and I gang up
Speaker 3: on on good old fingis O'Brien. This guy owns a printer,
Speaker 3: like on purpose, you have a printer one percenter one
Speaker 3: person printers that will worry. Yeah, printers overrated, Yeah, printers.
Speaker 2: Over Why is there never a solution where they just
Speaker 2: keep printing? Like why is it that I always have
Speaker 2: homework which I bought you for one purpose to print?
Speaker 2: Now I have to buy friends for you? Like that's
Speaker 2: how I feel. It's like offensive to me.
Speaker 1: It's like babies. They'll let you have them for free,
Speaker 1: but they don't tell you how much they're gonna cost.
Speaker 1: You know, they're not great feeding them.
Speaker 3: You gotta keep Yeah, you got to act like their
Speaker 3: ideas are interesting when they're around like four, Yeah.
Speaker 1: They're freeing your fingies, O'Brien over there.
Speaker 2: I just feel like they're like air pods, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. It's like, oh, now I have fucking
Speaker 2: homework to go with my headphones.
Speaker 1: Like why are we printers? Children?
Speaker 2: Printers?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Children? Question mark for me?
Speaker 1: I don't know. All right, let's take a quick break
Speaker 1: and we'll come back and talk about OURFK and we're back,
Speaker 1: and we're back any kind of fool could see. You
Speaker 1: can't stop saying that when we come back from things
Speaker 1: now for some reason. Anyways, we do have RFK Junior
Speaker 1: as the death Czar and health czar, and we've seen
Speaker 1: quite the boom in anti vax grifter activity since measles
Speaker 1: is now a thing that we have to worry about,
Speaker 1: people aligned with RFK are trying their best to obscure
Speaker 1: the threat of measles and simultaneously profit off of the
Speaker 1: fear of parents who refuse to use vaccines.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: So last week, the guy behind the Plan documentary had
Speaker 1: a webinar along with Children's Health Defense, which is an
Speaker 1: organization that RFK Junior founded, and on that webinar he
Speaker 1: made the claim that measles actually, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if you guys knew this, it's actually a bioweapon and
Speaker 1: that's why shit is out of hand in West Texas.
Speaker 1: So yeah, like you guys probably thought it was an
Speaker 1: illness that was happening to these families because they haven't
Speaker 1: vaccinated their children. But to quote him from the webinar,
Speaker 1: my belief after interviewing these families is that this has
Speaker 1: been manipulated and targeted toward a community that is a
Speaker 1: threat because of their natural way of living. Can you
Speaker 1: call it what it is and that is a bio weapon?
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, I hate when podcasts say this ordinarily, but
Speaker 3: pause natural way of living is?
Speaker 1: Do you hate it when they do that because it's
Speaker 1: confusing and you pause the podcast? Wait they said the pause? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I I.
Speaker 3: Think we're all, you know, on the same page together
Speaker 3: here in that getting measles is not the ideal, you know,
Speaker 3: Tuesday or whatever, right, Like I.
Speaker 1: Can probably fit it in on Wednesday, but definitely not Tuesday.
Speaker 2: It's more like you got to talk about after noon vibe,
Speaker 2: but like I can't come in right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, morning measles means you have a problem. Save measles
Speaker 3: for like after five.
Speaker 2: Get some fucking.
Speaker 3: This is fucking scary though, and part of my my
Speaker 3: blue language there because we've I'm.
Speaker 1: Not going to I can't, I can't detailed notes about it.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I'm still in court podcast court pause.
Speaker 1: All right, so the can we unpause? We can't over
Speaker 1: get overall overalled. But yeah, if you remember last week,
Speaker 1: the media was breathlessly claiming that RFK Junior had come
Speaker 1: around on vaccines because he said the words measles can
Speaker 1: be prevented by the MMR vaccine. And then the media
Speaker 1: was like, and then we stopped listening, so we didn't
Speaker 1: hear what he said after that, but he They left
Speaker 1: out the part where he turned around a few hours
Speaker 1: after that statement and celebrated the healers that were helping
Speaker 1: kids in the Mennonite community. One of those healers is
Speaker 1: Richard Bartlett, the guy who was doing this, hosting this webinar.
Speaker 2: Oh, I thought he's the guy that makes pairs.
Speaker 1: He's earlier, the Bartlett family their am I yeah, correct,
Speaker 1: the pair entrepreneurs.
Speaker 2: Sorry for this current events prepare thingies.
Speaker 1: He used the webinar to also sell and this is
Speaker 1: really like next level grifting this probably should be in
Speaker 1: the Ken GRIFTI Singer segment, but he is selling AI
Speaker 1: powered snake oil as part of a Measles protocol quote,
Speaker 1: along with mouthwash supplemental oxygen, and a few other items.
Speaker 1: The Measles Protocol includes Rebel Lions own Fierce Immunity Capsules,
Speaker 1: which cost fifty dollars for a single bottle and contain
Speaker 1: a blend of five supplements available off the shelf that
Speaker 1: the company claims have been formulated with a supposed AI
Speaker 1: technology known as swarm Intelligence. Oh my god, this is
Speaker 1: so nine.
Speaker 2: I just want to say that unpopular opinion. But those motherfuckers,
Speaker 2: if they're going to be doing dumb shit, are gonna
Speaker 2: have fresh breath while doing it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, it's probably mouthwash that makes your breath smell
Speaker 1: like shit.
Speaker 2: To be honest, No, why are you ruining the one
Speaker 2: good thing about this?
Speaker 1: They're like, you gotta do like a rint with something
Speaker 1: that smells like vinegar or something.
Speaker 3: Now, AI is a is a pretty controversial thing at
Speaker 3: the moment, often misunderstood. In fact, I fundamentally disagree with
Speaker 3: the phrase artificial intelligence. I think it's often misused. We're
Speaker 3: really talking about large language models or algorithms. But Jack,
Speaker 3: as you found, there is a difference here for the
Speaker 3: swarm intelligence.
Speaker 1: Yeah, unlike regular AI. His technology is the natural form
Speaker 1: of intelligence. That's the way our brain works, that's the
Speaker 1: way our body works.
Speaker 2: All organic AI is it fucking cage free, free range.
Speaker 1: It's free range, cage free AI intelligence and hallucinate because
Speaker 1: everything we are doing is based on reality, based on
Speaker 1: the real evidence. It's like real. It reminds me of
Speaker 1: like a Tim Robinson like character. It's a form of intelligence.
Speaker 1: That's the where our brain works, that's where our body works.
Speaker 2: I can totally picture that. And also, I just think
Speaker 2: it's weird to be like it's a bioweapon when like, yeah,
Speaker 2: it is. If no one is vaccinated, yea, you are
Speaker 2: literally making it into a bioweapon. So that's a really
Speaker 2: confusing accusation to make. It's being like, hey, guys, I've
Speaker 2: made this lethal to children and then being like you
Speaker 2: know what's crazy. This thing is lethal to children, and
Speaker 2: it's like, no, you didn't vaccinate. We already solved this problem.
Speaker 2: It's the MMR vaccine. It's been solved. You don't need
Speaker 2: to come through being like oh now it's mouthwashed and
Speaker 2: bleach and like clicking my heels three times and getting a.
Speaker 1: Per Like, No, I hope perm is one of the things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what the side effects. Everybody needs perms to fight neasles.
Speaker 3: Oh uh uh yeah, hot dog costume. We're all trying
Speaker 3: to find the guys who did that.
Speaker 1: Everybody needs to be looking like Art Garfunkle. If there,
Speaker 1: it's the only ones free. The future is now all right.
Speaker 1: We do have to move on to complicity, Huffman. That
Speaker 1: and this does tie into science and U are RFK Junior,
Speaker 1: because there is something called the breakthrough rewards that are
Speaker 1: considered the Oscars for Science and Seth Rogan, but you know,
Speaker 1: I think they try and have some entertainers there to
Speaker 1: like kind of make it underline that idea of like
Speaker 1: the Oscars for science, this is like the glitz and glam.
Speaker 2: Hey, I love Seth Rogen Yeah, I like.
Speaker 1: Him too, and I like him even more after this story.
Speaker 1: Because so this being a room full of scientists being
Speaker 1: rewarded for breakthroughs and like progressing human knowledge and understanding
Speaker 1: of the universe, you might think that this would be
Speaker 1: a place for some commiseration on the blatantly anti scientific
Speaker 1: values that have overtaken the US government and that are
Speaker 1: kind of on the march around the world. And then
Speaker 1: you look at who funds the awards, you start to
Speaker 1: realize that nowhere is safe. Nowhere that the long fingies
Speaker 1: of capitalism touch is actually safe. The event that quote,
Speaker 1: the event which was attended by Jeff Bezos and the
Speaker 1: founding sponsors Mark Zuckerberg and Sir j Brinny Brin so
Speaker 1: Seth Rogen thought it was worth noting the irony of
Speaker 1: an award honoring science sponsored and attended by the very
Speaker 1: oligarchs who are most responsible or at least partially responsible
Speaker 1: for dismantling scientific values in the United States. So his speech,
Speaker 1: but it's amazing that others in this room over underwrote
Speaker 1: electing a man who in the last week single handedly
Speaker 1: destroyed all of American science. It's amazing. It's amazing how
Speaker 1: much good science you can destroy with three hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty million dollars in RFK Junior, very fast, get it,
Speaker 1: fucking dog. Yeah. I am assuming that got like a
Speaker 1: pretty good pop from the actual scientists in the room.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to be forced to just assume that
Speaker 1: because whoever edited the award show for broadcasts, thought that
Speaker 1: irony was less worth noting and cut his comments. In
Speaker 1: the version those broadcasts, Rogan just starts talking about the
Speaker 1: person they're honoring. I'm assuming they just like have a
Speaker 1: picture of him that they just like move out to
Speaker 1: the podium, and then he just starts like a fucking
Speaker 1: where'd Smoochie go? Smoochie went back to his home planet.
Speaker 3: That's that's a position where what do we say, or
Speaker 3: what we used to say, only a cat can stare.
Speaker 1: At a king.
Speaker 3: I can't believe they edited that part out. That's probably
Speaker 3: the part that meant the fucking most to them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, even more frustrating is and this just like
Speaker 1: seems like it's the way things operate right now. The
Speaker 1: people who make the show or who like the behind
Speaker 1: the show just made a statement to the Hollywood Reporter
Speaker 1: that said the cuts to the YouTube broadcasts were made
Speaker 1: because of time constraints. It's just like, yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I just feel like this slide into authoritarian oligarchy and fascism,
Speaker 1: Like we have we just have so much experience now
Speaker 1: at this point, just having marketing and all the various
Speaker 1: forces of capitalism, and like the market just tell us
Speaker 1: blatant lies with like just careful wording and you know,
Speaker 1: message discipline, that the entire thing is just happening in
Speaker 1: like very polite language by polite people, you know, or.
Speaker 2: You know, just straight up lies being like oh the
Speaker 2: zero to nine Supreme Court decision, No it was for
Speaker 2: you for me, the zero wasn't for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like the administration itself doesn't give a fuck. They're
Speaker 1: gonna just tell blatant lies and like not even try
Speaker 1: and make them sound real. But I just feel like
Speaker 1: the lies that these organizations are telling themselves are like
Speaker 1: they're they're just like, yeah, whatever, I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: just say like it was time constraints or whatever.
Speaker 3: How scary is it that Orwellian doublethink has become cliche?
Speaker 3: And yeah, you know it's Orwellian doublethink is like too
Speaker 3: much work. Like they're just like, no, just tell the
Speaker 3: easiest lie, Like we don't have to create new language
Speaker 3: for just fucking use like highly you have, like you know,
Speaker 3: the marketing industry. Like I always think about the fact
Speaker 3: that like the most educated people graduating from like colleges
Speaker 3: every year are going into rooms where they like come
Speaker 3: up with the best language to lie to people like
Speaker 3: that's what our world is. And yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 3: just it's been stacked up again against everybody for so
Speaker 3: long that we like don't even notice, Like we're just
Speaker 3: all all of the you know, our immune system is down,
Speaker 3: like we just like don't even.
Speaker 2: As someone that grew up in the Soviet Union, you know,
Speaker 2: I can tell you that this is like a really
Speaker 2: familiar Yeah, and it is especially like I was thinking
Speaker 2: about a dis in connection to the White House Correspondence
Speaker 2: dinner thing that I think we might talk about later, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: Amber Ruffian. Yeah, But just the idea that everything changes
Speaker 2: to where it's essentially like, you know, people after Stalin
Speaker 2: spoke would clap for like twenty minutes straight because you
Speaker 2: never wanted to be the first one to stop. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because you were afraid.
Speaker 1: And now we do that for movies at times.
Speaker 2: So no, but just the idea that like you can
Speaker 2: completely warp what people actually think about a thing based
Speaker 2: on all of this other stuff. So it's like you
Speaker 2: want to warp the idea of Oh, Seth Rogan was
Speaker 2: at this thing and he fully approves it, Like you're
Speaker 2: putting out a YouTube thing that is actually like based
Speaker 2: on a false premise that Seth Rogan, I guarantee you
Speaker 2: would not have said yes to this shit if he
Speaker 2: knew that they were going to cut his speech like that.
Speaker 2: So now, as far as history is concerned, hey, Seth Rogan,
Speaker 2: was that the Jeff Bezos and Sid gay Brin thing,
Speaker 2: and he fight fully supports it, right, I think is
Speaker 2: very to me like Soviet Union manipulation. Take out this
Speaker 2: little part and now the history has totally changed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the fact that he was completely erased from
Speaker 1: any pictures that they evactually that's that was actually done
Speaker 1: to conserve to printer inc We actually needed to like
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys know how expensive that
Speaker 1: ship is. So we just also credit where do Joseph
Speaker 1: Stalin very much, very much a good also pioneer in
Speaker 1: the world of photoshop weaponized really truly like one of
Speaker 1: one of our first He would just erase people by hand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was really an old school kind of Oh god,
Speaker 3: it's it's also it's a terrible and an impactful point.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: The what we're what we're saying here, folks, is that
Speaker 3: we need to attention to how quickly things can road
Speaker 3: like how quickly unnormal things can be normalized, right, yeah, now, And.
Speaker 1: We just have so much experience just being like, no,
Speaker 1: it's done for time constraints. I've had to tell that
Speaker 1: lie before that like edits were made because of time
Speaker 1: constraints when it was actually like no, that just like
Speaker 1: didn't work. Yeah, I was there, thanks, Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: Ben's whole thing at the beginning of this episode.
Speaker 2: I remember that five minute episode I was on, but
Speaker 2: it you know, it's I don't know.
Speaker 1: So yeah, let's let's get into the Amber Ruffin things
Speaker 1: because it kind of flew under the radar. But a
Speaker 1: couple weeks ago, I mean like a month ago, was
Speaker 1: announced Amber Ruffin was going to host the White House
Speaker 1: Correspondence Dinner, which is a super funny comedian used to
Speaker 1: have a podcast on our network, but show Late night
Speaker 1: host which really.
Speaker 2: Super funny stand up and incredible fashion.
Speaker 1: And so she had said on a podcast that her
Speaker 1: roasting duties like wouldn't necessarily be even handed and would
Speaker 1: focus on the administration and office like you know, every
Speaker 1: single White House Correspondent Center ever but the explanation, so
Speaker 1: she she was removed a couple of weeks ago and
Speaker 1: after like one of the you know, partisan mega people
Speaker 1: in the Trump administration. Was like, Jay's like, look at this,
Speaker 1: She's admitting it's not going to be even handed, Like
Speaker 1: she this is a disgrace. But I just want to
Speaker 1: read the explanation from the president of the White House
Speaker 1: Correspondence Association, who is like from Politico, you know, so
Speaker 1: presumably thinks of himself as a you know, I call
Speaker 1: balls and strikes just right down the middle maker umpire. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: he said that it's not because Trump mad. It's actually
Speaker 1: the reason they removed her is because it was like
Speaker 1: part of his He kind of had like a vision
Speaker 1: for this dinner, had a vision board. Yeah. Yeah, Eugene,
Speaker 1: White House Correspondence Association.
Speaker 2: Sarry, are you a fourteen year old girl planning your wedding?
Speaker 1: What? Eugene Daniels said his group wanted to refocus the
Speaker 1: Ritzy annual event on journalistic excellence and wouldn't have a comedian,
Speaker 1: he said in his statement, he said he'd been planning
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks to reimagine the dinner tradition
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks. I want to ensure the
Speaker 1: focus is not on the politics of division, but entirely
Speaker 1: on awarding our colleagues for their outstanding work and providing
Speaker 1: scholarship and mentorship to the new generation of journalists. What
Speaker 1: it's He's just yeah, it's I like, I feel like
Speaker 1: this one he might actually believe this himself, that that's
Speaker 1: why he's doing this. But it's again, it's somebody who
Speaker 1: a stensive like tells themselves like, I'm a good I'm
Speaker 1: not for what Trump is for, but is just doing
Speaker 1: the thing to, you know, be complicit, but like not
Speaker 1: have to admit to himself or to anybody else that
Speaker 1: he's complicit by being like, actually, it's like more about
Speaker 1: wanting to focus on excellence as opposed to the politics
Speaker 1: of division. It's like, go truly go for yourself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my arm is not long enough for the jerk offhand motion.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I was doing that in my head the
Speaker 2: entire time.
Speaker 1: But yeah.
Speaker 2: Also, the thing about it is like, at the most
Speaker 2: basic level, it's like showing up to your own roast
Speaker 2: and being like whoa, whoa, whoa. So you're saying you're
Speaker 2: gonna make fun of me, mostly right, I think it
Speaker 2: should be even handed between me and the other people
Speaker 2: on the dais and like all the audience because like
Speaker 2: that seems really unfair. It's like, motherfucker, that's the point
Speaker 2: of the roast. Yeah, that's what the White House Correspondents
Speaker 2: Dinner is. And the whole thing about being roasted and
Speaker 2: being good natured about it is you were in power,
Speaker 2: so the least you can do is take a couple
Speaker 2: of hajas. Okay, and the fact that you're so soft
Speaker 2: that you couldn't let this happen. I'm like, this is
Speaker 2: so embarrassing. And then you're like out here being like,
Speaker 2: you guys are snowflakes. Yes, you can't literally can't take
Speaker 2: a joke.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't have. The last time that they didn't
Speaker 1: have a comedian at the White House Correspondence Dinner was
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, when Trump was in office the first
Speaker 1: time around. So uh yeah, seems like they're a little
Speaker 1: thin skin, did guys? The fires Club roast should really
Speaker 1: be about excellence in friaredom Yeah, excellent. What are the
Speaker 1: who has the best fries? Yeah, we're talking about pretty much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back
Speaker 1: and talk Ken Grifty Singer and we're back and move
Speaker 1: over baseball, because grifting is the number one activity in America.
Speaker 1: I had to get that line into justify naming the
Speaker 1: segment after a baseball player, America.
Speaker 2: You've been delvied.
Speaker 1: But all right, so an amuse boosh up. First, just
Speaker 1: an update on a past grifting story. Shocking, literally no
Speaker 1: one in the entire world. Fire Festival Too is not happening.
Speaker 1: What Sophia and I have paid so much already?
Speaker 2: I know then we got the one million dollar ticket
Speaker 2: we did. Did you know that that that was a
Speaker 2: package Jack the finkies me for it.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've been saving up a lot of money
Speaker 1: over on this end, trying to get ready for Firefest Too.
Speaker 1: It's so all right. The good news is they're saying
Speaker 1: it's not at the highly unrealistic date and time that
Speaker 1: they had announced initially. You may remember that people contacted
Speaker 1: the official the officialdom of the island where this was
Speaker 1: supposedly going to take place, and we're like, hey, like,
Speaker 1: where are you guys on all this? And they were like,
Speaker 1: we have not heard the first word from these people.
Speaker 2: They really did Mariah Carey?
Speaker 1: They were like, yes, I don't know her truly, do
Speaker 1: not know her?
Speaker 2: Firefest too, don't.
Speaker 1: I will say, And this is kind of surprising the
Speaker 1: people dumb enough to buy tickets like us from a
Speaker 1: convicted fraudster actually seemed to be getting their money back
Speaker 1: right now. Despite warnings of a quote final sale on
Speaker 1: the on the tickets, the ticketing partner sold out. Dot
Speaker 1: Com has already been issuing refunds, according to a Washington
Speaker 1: Post reporter who bought a ticket. But maybe they're just
Speaker 1: getting it back to the Washington Post reporter.
Speaker 2: But thinkies are Ben and I still getting our cabana.
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys can go there and get a cabana.
Speaker 1: It is going to be a roll of paper towels
Speaker 1: that somebody has glued to a tree, and then you
Speaker 1: can take care of the rest. You can like stretch
Speaker 1: it over to another one so that you get coverage
Speaker 1: from the sun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it all sounds amazing. Yeah, all fairness. They did
Speaker 3: not give us a photograph of the cabana. We were
Speaker 3: just very on board with. You know, it's like a dream,
Speaker 3: big thing, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, honestly, we just like the word cabana.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're thinking of turning it into a verb, like.
Speaker 1: It is a little right how ban always does it
Speaker 1: phonetically Spanish or it's like cabama you guys have Sorry,
Speaker 1: do you guys have our Obama?
Speaker 2: It's like when Miles comes back from Italy. Miss Italians,
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: What you must understand. Have you not been to Italy? Oh?
Speaker 1: You must, simply must you simply must? Is the best?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 3: So how do people recover from this tremendous cultural loss.
Speaker 1: Maybe start making some reservations at a nice little spa
Speaker 1: that I have available for you guys on the waterfront
Speaker 1: in Toronto, Toronto, Toronto. Yeah, this is our writer, jam
Speaker 1: put us onto this so Ontario. Ontario Place. I don't
Speaker 1: know how. Ontario Place was a waterfront amusement park located
Speaker 1: in toront I know that opened in the seventies, featured rides, Amazed,
Speaker 1: the first ever permanent Imax theater. According to JM it
Speaker 1: was fucking awesome. And that is that's too good for
Speaker 1: any city run by capitalism to let last. And so
Speaker 1: all those attractions closed in twenty twelve. And now we
Speaker 1: got fraudster like from the family of Rob Ford, who
Speaker 1: you might remember, the Canadian politician work. Yeah, oh man,
Speaker 1: just so like caught smoking crack on camera, I believe, right,
Speaker 1: And he's a real Kaufman type, Yes, yes, a performance artist.
Speaker 1: You love to see corruption artist. Well, his brother is
Speaker 1: now so like the Nepo brother of a famously corrupt
Speaker 1: politician is now running Toronto in many ways, and he
Speaker 1: has like set up this deal to repurpose that waterfront
Speaker 1: area to become a massive spot spot.
Speaker 2: He has given it sounds like that one Season of
Speaker 2: the Wire.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like that, but way stupid, like way stupid.
Speaker 1: So that's his pitch too. By the way, so you
Speaker 1: said that one Season of the Wire, So it's like that,
Speaker 1: but like way dumb. The It's going to be built
Speaker 1: by a little known European company called Thermay. And so
Speaker 1: this has been a massive controversy in Toronto, but the
Speaker 1: New York Times is covering it now. So so this
Speaker 1: company is also like starting projects like this around the world.
Speaker 1: England du buy Dallas and Washington, DC. They gave the
Speaker 1: first suspicious thing about this deal is that they gave
Speaker 1: the company a what do you think a normal amount
Speaker 1: of time is for a lease? Guys, would you say.
Speaker 2: I would say two thousand years at the least.
Speaker 1: Ninety five year lease. That was our That was our
Speaker 1: Cabana deal. Yeah, that's the Cabana deal that you guys
Speaker 1: got the Yeah, this is on like, this is on
Speaker 1: the level of like Sea org timeline. You know, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I ever signed signed a Sea Org contract. But they
Speaker 1: contract YouTube billions and billions of years of labor you
Speaker 1: get in situations.
Speaker 3: Wait though, give us the real Number's.
Speaker 1: Uh, it's a ninety five year lease past. They rushed
Speaker 1: through a bill allowing the project to sidestep laws pertaining
Speaker 1: to heritage considerations and environmental assessments. You don't want any
Speaker 1: of that. Ship. Yeah. It involves clear cutting trees, overhauling
Speaker 1: the sewage system, building a massive parking complex, and it
Speaker 1: is set to cost taxpayers two point two four billion dollars,
Speaker 1: which is one point eight billion dollars more than the
Speaker 1: government's original and internal estment. The big thing that is
Speaker 1: raising flags beyond those details of like this seems like
Speaker 1: a fucked up thing that is just you know, Rob Ford,
Speaker 1: he's just your stereotypical corrupt politician who has friends in
Speaker 1: the construction industry, and so he'll just like green light
Speaker 1: a poorly conceived construction project so he can award a
Speaker 1: bunch of contracts to people who will then take care of.
Speaker 2: Him later on, and just like the fucking wire man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just like the wire man. So the company that
Speaker 1: they've worked with, though, is the thing that's been raising
Speaker 1: a lot of alarms. They've been presenting themselves as an
Speaker 1: established company operating as many as half a dozen spas
Speaker 1: in Europe. In reality, it has built an operated one
Speaker 1: outside of Bucharest, Romania. The company has been losing money,
Speaker 1: had less than one million euro in equity, which isn't
Speaker 1: great considering that each of these projects will cost around
Speaker 1: a half a billion dollars. It's losing money and has
Speaker 1: less than a million euro in the bank. Each project
Speaker 1: would cost half a billion dollars, meaning that they would
Speaker 1: need two point five billion dollars to be able to
Speaker 1: do what they're claiming they can do, and they have
Speaker 1: one million million in the band. So like that's.
Speaker 2: Honestly, it's it's not okay.
Speaker 1: So, like, I mean, how do I put It's so
Speaker 1: so much less. It's like a stretch goal, we could
Speaker 1: call it.
Speaker 2: I love You're like she really believes that.
Speaker 1: So it's hmmm, how do I put this?
Speaker 2: They were Sanna is also real som a really.
Speaker 1: Huge fan of his work, just early stuff for me.
Speaker 1: So like they were like, well, you're gonna need a
Speaker 1: one hundred million dollar like cash flow, and they were
Speaker 1: like done, and they somehow got one hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: in the bank and no one can tell where that
Speaker 1: came from. But so the Times started to look into
Speaker 1: this company and the head of their business credentials really
Speaker 1: belonged to a guy who the CEO of this company
Speaker 1: knew who died in twenty seventeen. So it's basically like
Speaker 1: a Dick Whitman in mad Men's situation, where guys, yes,
Speaker 1: So there's a company called Thermae that successfully runs spas
Speaker 1: in Europe, had like a lot of the stuff that
Speaker 1: they're claiming they do is done by this other company
Speaker 1: that has basically the same logo. So they just copied
Speaker 1: the logo, copied the name. This guy was friends with
Speaker 1: the CEO who died in twenty seventeen at a plane crash,
Speaker 1: and so he's like, William's not going to say shit,
Speaker 1: And so they just stole that company's entire story. And
Speaker 1: the city of Toronto was like so oblivious that they
Speaker 1: awarded them with like a two point five billion dollar
Speaker 1: project to run. It's just it the whole Like everybody
Speaker 1: who like claims that this is the best way to
Speaker 1: run a civilization. If we're everybody's asleep at the wheel,
Speaker 1: nobody is paying any attention, And like it's just why
Speaker 1: would you ever do anything legitimately when you can just
Speaker 1: copy and paste someone's logo and the name of their
Speaker 1: business and the backstory of their business and and get
Speaker 1: billion a billion dollar contract.
Speaker 3: Oh did I tell you guys about my new podcast,
Speaker 3: The Zaily dike Geist.
Speaker 1: I mean they didn't even change that. It would just
Speaker 1: be called the Yeah, it would still be the Daily
Speaker 1: zeike Geist. Uh Okay, I want to just read this
Speaker 1: one detail from the New York Times report. A company
Speaker 1: representative said that, so, so they one of the details
Speaker 1: that they put in there, like pitch for why they
Speaker 1: should be able to hold the pull this off was
Speaker 1: like this highly successful spa that's like run out of
Speaker 1: Germany by the other Thermae company, And so they just
Speaker 1: like specifically were like, yeah, look at this one. And
Speaker 1: so a company representative said that Thermae's wording could have
Speaker 1: been more precise, and that references to its success in
Speaker 1: Germany were meant to communicate that the concept of Thermay
Speaker 1: had been successful because of mister Vunn's track record in
Speaker 1: Germany your hotter you hear me out. We were just
Speaker 1: saying in theory spas, this one does happen to have
Speaker 1: the same company name as ours, and we hope, we
Speaker 1: hope that wasn't misleading. Oh I'm sorry, did it was
Speaker 1: that confusing? It's just also dumb and just nobody's paying
Speaker 1: attention that he gives this ship. Well, what do we
Speaker 1: what do we make of this?
Speaker 3: Like, what do we think is going to happen for
Speaker 3: the good folks up north at Thermot.
Speaker 1: So after the Times report, Rob Ford was like, I'm
Speaker 1: going to take another look at it and see make
Speaker 1: sure that it passes the smell test, which it doesn't.
Speaker 1: But you know, the only reason that this was happening
Speaker 1: in the first place, I think, is so that he
Speaker 1: can award a bunch of construction. This goes back to
Speaker 1: something I think we were talking about off Mike, which
Speaker 1: is like coming back from actual functioning cities like Tokyo
Speaker 1: and Soul, Korea like that. I'm just like, man, a
Speaker 1: lot of the cities in America, like in the America's
Speaker 1: like really should take a long look in the mirror.
Speaker 1: I feel like, because like it's it's just wild, like
Speaker 1: how like you It just shows what is possible, Like
Speaker 1: when you go to a city that has like, you know,
Speaker 1: functioning metro system that is clean and feel safe, and
Speaker 1: the streets are clean and people are kind to one
Speaker 1: another and every people don't seem furious all the time,
Speaker 1: and there's not like construction projects that are like loud
Speaker 1: all over the place.
Speaker 2: And that's how I thought when I went to Helsinki.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, oh for real.
Speaker 2: I felt like I was like outside like the glass
Speaker 2: just being like, oh now I can come through, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, all of this is real exactly.
Speaker 3: It's it's a it's a geopolitical or macrocosmic version of
Speaker 3: going to a friend's house and realizing their family gets
Speaker 3: along and they're like, oh, yeah, we just hang out,
Speaker 3: we make dinner together, we play board games. You're invited
Speaker 3: if you like, and all of a suddenly or a.
Speaker 2: Two parent household period.
Speaker 1: My response to that, I'm not going to enjoin your cult.
Speaker 1: What are you, guys? Mormon? No one can hold me down.
Speaker 1: We invited him to our board game night, and he
Speaker 1: just kept cheating, kept stealing money from the bank. He's
Speaker 1: got some weird telling.
Speaker 2: Set of Catan. I am Catan.
Speaker 1: I still don't know what he meant. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: think he knew the rules of the game anyways, Ben Bolan,
Speaker 1: what a pleasure. We weren't even playing that game. Ben,
Speaker 1: What a pleasure having you? Where can people find you?
Speaker 1: Follow you all that good stuff?
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, you can find me in a burst of
Speaker 3: creativity calling myself at Ben bowl and bow l i
Speaker 3: n as Miles says. Anywhere on the wide old Internet
Speaker 3: where there's an at sign, you can find our show
Speaker 3: stuff they don't want you to know, which applies critical
Speaker 3: thinking to ideas of conspiracy and the paranormal. You can
Speaker 3: find ridiculous history where in none other than Jack think
Speaker 3: he's O'Brien and Miles the bad man. Great will grace
Speaker 3: us every so often?
Speaker 1: It's been an every so long often. We got to
Speaker 1: get back on that.
Speaker 3: I emailed you all you email your management?
Speaker 1: Yeah? All right? Uh? And is there a work a
Speaker 1: media that you've been enjoying? Yes, I I know not
Speaker 1: everybody loves sketch comedy, but I do. Uh.
Speaker 3: There's a guy named anand Raman a N A and
Speaker 3: d R A m A N You can find him
Speaker 3: on your the social meds that you sip wherein he
Speaker 3: does he does like this excellent and evil impression of
Speaker 3: Andrew Tate. It's just beautiful. It's worth your time. He's
Speaker 3: a Dubai based comedian. You can also see him doing
Speaker 3: a series of light workplace interviews that are great short
Speaker 3: form media.
Speaker 1: But I just like it.
Speaker 3: I think the guy's funny and do check it out
Speaker 3: if you like comedy. If you don't like comedy, then
Speaker 3: why are you listening to this show?
Speaker 1: Fuck comedy? Sophia Alexandra, thank you so much for joining
Speaker 1: wonderful having you as a co host. Where can people
Speaker 1: find you? Follow you all that stuff? And is their
Speaker 1: work of media you've been enjoying.
Speaker 2: I want to say thank you so much for having
Speaker 2: me as always. I love being here and I love
Speaker 2: you fingies wow and what else?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: People can find me at the sofia t H E
Speaker 2: s O f I y A on like everything and
Speaker 2: workI media I've been enjoying. Is it's actually a cartoon?
Speaker 2: It's a drawing, but I can tell you, I mean
Speaker 2: I think it's it's a one it's it's a one
Speaker 2: panel cartoon. I'm not going to be here all night.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's basically it's by Universal. I can't read it.
Speaker 2: You see lick anyway. It is a comic and it's
Speaker 2: a guy carrying like some bunch of woodsticks on his
Speaker 2: back and he says, we should improve society somewhat. And
Speaker 2: then there's a guy in a well and he says,
Speaker 2: yet you participate in society, curious. I am very intelligent.
Speaker 1: Everything's great, exactly. You can find me on Twitter at
Speaker 1: Jack Undersquirrel, Brian on Blue Sky at Jack ob The
Speaker 1: number one a tweet I've been enjoying is like at
Speaker 1: Stray space Hound at Stray space Hound, who tweeted, if
Speaker 1: you get a white man to say fair enough in
Speaker 1: an argument, you have defeated him on a deeper level
Speaker 1: than can be expressed with words.
Speaker 2: That's real.
Speaker 1: That's so real. And then Carl at Nightlife Mingus tweeted
Speaker 1: toilet water should be boiling hot, and I just I
Speaker 1: don't know why, but I agree with that. I think
Speaker 1: that'd be that'd be nice, be nice little steam room
Speaker 1: for our undercarriage.
Speaker 3: This is a cliffhanger for a follow up episode, so weird.
Speaker 2: I just needed to sweaty downstairs forever reason, I don't
Speaker 2: know it.
Speaker 1: Miles would be like, I'm gone for a second.
Speaker 2: This is what happens.
Speaker 1: That's right, all right?
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at
Speaker 1: Daily Zeitgeist. We're at the Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. You
Speaker 1: can go to the description of this episode wherever you're
Speaker 1: listening to it, and you can find the footnotes, which
Speaker 1: is where we link off to the information that we
Speaker 1: talked about in today's episode. We also link off to
Speaker 1: a song that we think you might enjoy. With Miles out,
Speaker 1: we like to ask super producer Justin Connor, is there
Speaker 1: a song that you think people might enjoy? Yeah.
Speaker 5: We were having discussion, a discussion off mic about how
Speaker 5: Ben and Sophia are friends of the pod and also
Speaker 5: side note, Zeitgang was very nice about the fact that
Speaker 5: I messed up a little bit on an edit of
Speaker 5: the pod yesterday and another time recently, and they were
Speaker 5: gracious as good friends. I wont to do so in
Speaker 5: honor of those very loosely connected and strained concepts. I'm
Speaker 5: recommending a song by MF.
Speaker 2: Doom. It's called deep Fried Friends.
Speaker 5: It's got such a clever usage of sampling from the
Speaker 5: eighties hit Friends by Houdini and there's incredible wordplay and
Speaker 5: the beat has a fun weekend barbecue vibe. So it
Speaker 5: being Friday to day, you should check out Deep Fried Friends.
Speaker 5: That's fr n Z by MF. Doom and you can
Speaker 5: find that in the footnotes footnote.
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Speaker 1: We hope you enjoyed season three eighty four. You got there.
Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed Season three eighty four. That was
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