Speaker 1: Oh hey, there, it's me Jack. You've caught me unwinding,
Speaker 1: enjoying a large goblet of delicious eggnog, untangling my brain,
Speaker 1: gaining five to fifteen pounds of eggnog while we unwind.
Speaker 1: Here at Daily Zeitgeist, in addition to publishing our normal
Speaker 1: year end episodes and Santa's University, etc. We've decided to
Speaker 1: take the opportunity to count down the top ten episodes
Speaker 1: of the year published over the next ten days, the
Speaker 1: ten days that we'll be off Monday through Friday, two
Speaker 1: weeks in a row. How Jack, how did you guys
Speaker 1: determine the top ten episodes? They were all equally incredible. Well,
Speaker 1: we used a little something called democracy. Ever heard of it?
Speaker 1: Depending on when you listen to this episode, that might
Speaker 1: not be such a rhetorical question. But anyways, we let
Speaker 1: you vote on the most listened to episodes of the
Speaker 1: year to see what you liked best. And you're about
Speaker 1: to hear your answers. Just ten bangers right in a row.
Speaker 1: We've got a trending episode in the mix. We got
Speaker 1: a lot of good ones and at number one, well,
Speaker 1: let's just say you'll find out, especially if this is
Speaker 1: the number one episode. We're putting this same bumper at
Speaker 1: the start of all ten, so we hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 2: We hope you enjoyed.
Speaker 1: Listening to this year of TDZ as much as we
Speaker 1: enjoyed making it, and we will see you all in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. We hope you have a RESTful holiday.
Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season three, twenty five,
Speaker 1: Episode five of Dear Daily's I Guys Stay, a production
Speaker 1: of iHeart Radio. This is a podcast where we take
Speaker 1: a deep dive into america shared consciousness. And it is
Speaker 1: Friday February eleven. Nope, and it is Friday February sixteenth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. Not a good start, guys, I'm fucking
Speaker 1: up the date. That's when you know you're in for it.
Speaker 1: When I'm can't even read numbers, the most the most
Speaker 1: basic thing to read. I think I think I learned
Speaker 1: that before reading numbers, before reading words. Anyways, my name
Speaker 1: is Jack O'Brien aka Dan and Na, not inspector jadget Na.
Speaker 1: No no, no Inspector jadget Na, no go. Sorry, Joe,
Speaker 1: judget Joe. That is courtesy of Rezik on the Discord,
Speaker 1: in reference to the fact that I pronounced inspector gadget
Speaker 1: with two soft g's, and then tried to pretend that
Speaker 1: I'd done it on purpose on yesterday's show and just
Speaker 1: like believed that more words should be pronounced with the
Speaker 1: soft G. I'm not proud. It just seemed like a
Speaker 1: good idea at the time. I am thrilled to be
Speaker 1: joined in the second by today's just co host, a
Speaker 1: brilliant now I'm not gonna keep doing it, a brilliant
Speaker 1: comedian writer, actor, the hilarious, the chaotic, the riding a
Speaker 1: recumbent bike in short shorts. It's Blake Waxland.
Speaker 3: Hey everyone, this is Blake Wexler aka Happy girth daya
Speaker 3: my legs, Happy girth Day of my legs. Happy girth
Speaker 3: Day dear plumpers, Happy girth day of my legs. Today
Speaker 3: is my birthday, and I have a very exciting announcement.
Speaker 4: Is that really calf?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah. I would never joke about that.
Speaker 3: I would never I joke about a lot of things.
Speaker 3: I would never ever buy a birthday.
Speaker 1: Very serious about my birthday.
Speaker 3: Very serious. Equally a serious announcement. My calf muscles have
Speaker 3: gotten so big and strong they are no longer considered
Speaker 3: to be caps but cows now cow muscles.
Speaker 1: That sucks.
Speaker 4: It's good, It's really that is very good, very very good.
Speaker 1: I just thought you were commenting on the fact that
Speaker 1: every day's leg day for you, and you know, happy
Speaker 1: girth Day to your plumpers is every day, but happy
Speaker 1: happy birthday to your plumpers, and happy birthday to you,
Speaker 1: Blake Wesler. What a treat.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 3: I know I came up with this bit, but it
Speaker 3: still is. It's starting to make me feel sick to
Speaker 3: my stomach hearing these words. Garm, I'm so sorry, and
Speaker 3: don't you.
Speaker 5: Going to say one more time?
Speaker 4: But I would never Is that weird?
Speaker 1: Is that a good combination to yeah, weird word that
Speaker 1: has been paired with plumpers and also very weird, which
Speaker 1: is that's fine? Both like and I used to describe that.
Speaker 5: I could add another word, I'm not adding. I'm not adding.
Speaker 1: You don't have to. Who are you? Though?
Speaker 5: Who am I?
Speaker 4: Who are you?
Speaker 1: We are thrilled to be jo ooined in our third
Speaker 1: seat by a brilliant writer, producer, vice columnus journalists, podcast
Speaker 1: host just all all of the jobs, just had them.
Speaker 1: It's been good at them. She's done them amazingly. Her
Speaker 1: memoir Why Don't You Tell Me was called propulsive and
Speaker 1: explosive by Publishers Weekly, and she was called a master
Speaker 1: storyteller by a regional paper, The New York Times. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you've ever heard of them. Please welcome
Speaker 1: to the show, the brilliant, the talented. Carmen Rita.
Speaker 5: What listen does Carmel san Diego have a song? I
Speaker 5: don't remember you did?
Speaker 6: Inspect san Diego is like, where in the world is.
Speaker 1: The place my brain is at? Is that? I couldn't
Speaker 1: even change the second word to san Diego, I said, Carmen,
Speaker 1: Inspector Jesus Christ, Guys, what is going on? I don't know? Fight?
Speaker 1: Is everybody doing good? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: I mean is it really your birthday? Blake? I still
Speaker 1: don't know, Blake?
Speaker 4: Yeahday, birthday?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 4: Oh, thank you, thank you so much. Yeah, it's uh.
Speaker 3: It is Friday, February sixteenth, which is today is my birthday.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So I'm uh. I feel good. I feel young
Speaker 4: again in a way.
Speaker 3: I've done one. I've don't want eighty. The earlier part
Speaker 3: of my thirties has been it has been a slog.
Speaker 3: But now you know, I've had some serums and experimental
Speaker 3: medication and metal surgery, not even plastic surgery, and yeah,
Speaker 3: I feel I feel pretty good.
Speaker 4: Yeah where are you at.
Speaker 5: I'm I'm at home in a closet. No, there's construction
Speaker 5: in my building all of a sudden, so I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 5: in the class. No, no, no, listen, I've had I
Speaker 5: just had surgery like three months ago. So there you go,
Speaker 5: speaking of surgeries. But they're taking things out, not putting
Speaker 5: things in, so.
Speaker 4: It is good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fewer things as we get older.
Speaker 5: Fewer things as you get older. Yes, things start, you know,
Speaker 5: disappearing for a good reason.
Speaker 4: A minimalist body is I think what we all want.
Speaker 6: Yes, with youthful blood transferring, you know, the blood of
Speaker 6: the youth into yourselves, as certain billionaires do.
Speaker 1: I'm glad someone said it. Or can we just stop
Speaker 1: acting like having young people as blood bags is only
Speaker 1: for billionaires?
Speaker 4: I mean, thank you.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a fun, earthy alternative to your morning coffee.
Speaker 1: You know, just get you do it. Don't do it
Speaker 1: all right? No, I was just trial balloon. It was
Speaker 1: a trial balloon. It didn't go over well. So we're
Speaker 1: just gonna kind of put that, put that back, and
Speaker 1: and I'll bring it out in a couple more years.
Speaker 1: See help people respond to it.
Speaker 4: Well, oh my god, car.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get you well, well, well look who it is. Yes,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to know you a little bit better
Speaker 1: in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners a
Speaker 1: couple of things we're talking about today. You may have
Speaker 1: seen headlines that Russia space NUK something like that. The
Speaker 1: Russia is gonna nucus from space was kind of the
Speaker 1: vibes I was getting from the headlines Russian nuclear space
Speaker 1: weapons and yeah, washing it was.
Speaker 3: You should read the rest of the article before you
Speaker 3: add it into the show.
Speaker 1: Run. You may have seen Russian nuclear The words aren't
Speaker 1: even in order in my head space, but that's my
Speaker 1: impressionistic version of what it was like for me to
Speaker 1: see those words together. Is like, that's bad, right, Like
Speaker 1: that combination of words is bad. The truth of the
Speaker 1: story a little less scary. So we're just gonna talk
Speaker 1: about that turned the temperature down a little bit on
Speaker 1: the Russian nuclear space laser bombs thing. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about what it's like to apply for a job at
Speaker 1: McDonald's these days. Hint, it involves an ai blue space
Speaker 1: creature that you have to like answer existential questions about it.
Speaker 3: Very confused positive story. Yeah, that's gonna be uplifting in
Speaker 3: a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: And then we're gonna talk about Tesla troubles because yeah,
Speaker 1: we I mean we are an Elon Musk fan podcast.
Speaker 1: We we love him and we feel like he can
Speaker 1: do no wrong. But god damn guy keeps sucking up
Speaker 1: Tesla is Tesla is having a worse quarter.
Speaker 3: Likes he's so smart and rich's place.
Speaker 1: God stop, we were smarter and why don't you have
Speaker 1: fifty billion dollars? Bro? But he uh, Tesla, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize this. I don't normally pay attention to
Speaker 1: the markets because I think it's like all bullshit, but
Speaker 1: it is just interesting. Like the thing that he's famous
Speaker 1: for is like making a lot of money for Tesla,
Speaker 1: Like with Tesla stock, he Tesla is having a worse quarter,
Speaker 1: a worse year so far than Boeing. Wh Yeah no,
Speaker 1: literally them Boeing there performed. Tesla is performing the worst
Speaker 1: out of any SMP five hundred stock Boeing has, Like
Speaker 1: just to put that in perspective, Boeing had a window
Speaker 1: explode off of the plane they built. A door explode
Speaker 1: off of a plane they built, and we're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's our bad. That one's on us, guys, and
Speaker 1: we know it was a problem, but you know you sorry,
Speaker 1: And Tesla's doing worse than that.
Speaker 3: Well, the cyber trucks can't fly is the problem. That's
Speaker 3: why he promised that cyber trucks could fly, and they can't.
Speaker 3: So that's going to hurt your stock.
Speaker 1: That is the tenor of the conversation of the cyber
Speaker 1: truck heading in is like, you literally can't be shot
Speaker 1: in this thing. Nothing can happen to it. And then
Speaker 1: the people who ordered their cyber trucks, the same people
Speaker 1: who are anxiously awaiting the latest email from Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: I have to assume go like got the owner's manual,
Speaker 1: And the owner's manual was like you, if a bird
Speaker 1: shits on this car, sell it or take it, or
Speaker 1: get like alcohol, like industrial strength alcohol wipes and clean
Speaker 1: that shit off immediately, because it's it's bad for your
Speaker 1: cyber truck. If like just a if it gets like
Speaker 1: dirt on.
Speaker 5: It, Yeah, it's made of a dowinoil.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's amazing. It's made of stainless steel, and they
Speaker 1: were like, oh the stainless thing. Die. Wait, turns out
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean it can't be staying, and in fact,
Speaker 1: it's like just just drinking in everything that you put
Speaker 1: on it like a sponge. So we'll talk about all
Speaker 1: that plenty more. But before we get to any of that, Carmen,
Speaker 1: we do like to ask our guest, what is something
Speaker 1: from your search history?
Speaker 5: Oh God, we're gonna start with that one, all right,
Speaker 5: so we can get out of the serious stuff. So
Speaker 5: on my search history, you're catching me right after lunch
Speaker 5: and once a week. It's my little routine because I
Speaker 5: need a little treat. Once a week with my lunch,
Speaker 5: I watch all the new movie previews. So my search
Speaker 5: was Godzillan Calm. Is that it's fair for godzill In Calm.
Speaker 5: You can laugh at me. It's listen, Godzilla is my girl,
Speaker 5: all right, let's be real. I can be a very
Speaker 5: very serious person and intellect. However, when it comes to
Speaker 5: giant reptiles who may be female trying to protect their
Speaker 5: territory and they can shoot blue lasers out of their mouths,
Speaker 5: I am on board so hard so.
Speaker 1: The thing my pause was not just being staggered at
Speaker 1: your low brow tasee. I wasn't like god. It was
Speaker 1: not me picking up the monocle that had fallen from
Speaker 1: my eye when you said Doddzian Kong. I thought they
Speaker 1: made this one already.
Speaker 5: They did, But it's the trailer. It's the new trailers.
Speaker 1: It's a trailer for the new sequel. So they got.
Speaker 5: Godzillaan Kong are teaming up.
Speaker 1: So the first one was Godzilla Jodzilla verse con.
Speaker 5: This is Godzilla x Kong, which means multi sequel.
Speaker 1: There's an x.
Speaker 4: It's a collect it's a collabo.
Speaker 1: Yes, mate, yes, man, So I was not up on this.
Speaker 5: And Kong has a metal glove.
Speaker 2: Why this.
Speaker 4: Is so ridiculous.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm gonna end up seeing this in like
Speaker 6: four D. Right, I'm gonna go to the theater where
Speaker 6: the seats move and it sprays water on you, and
Speaker 6: I'm just gonna laugh my ass off.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be wonderful.
Speaker 1: Did you watch the first the v Godzilla v. Kong? Yes?
Speaker 5: And did you see Godzilla Minus one, which was a masterpiece.
Speaker 1: I mean, these math equations too much for masterpiece. I
Speaker 1: didn't know there's gonna be math here. Oh yeah, sorry
Speaker 1: I cut you off.
Speaker 3: You had a no, no, no, no, it's okay, No
Speaker 3: I didn't. It's so hard for me to watch these
Speaker 3: when I'm you know, reading about Alexander Fleming and you know,
Speaker 3: like disco, like the guy discovered penicillin. It's just that's
Speaker 3: the type of stuff that I.
Speaker 5: Like, I have heard that, I see, I see.
Speaker 3: I have you seen the Apple Plus show monarch As.
Speaker 5: I watched a couple of episodes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I liked it, I like, really liked it. And
Speaker 3: of course the two Kurt Russell's were It's it's Kurt
Speaker 3: Russell and his son Quyet Russell. I believe both play
Speaker 3: the same person in different ages obviously super similar. Yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah it works. They have the Russell raw jaw line.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I thought it was cool. I liked it.
Speaker 3: It wasn't perfect, but I was. I was into it.
Speaker 5: I watched a couple of episodes, but it was it
Speaker 5: was okay, it was okay. But yeah, when it comes
Speaker 5: to the movies, I'm old school. This was my old
Speaker 5: you know when I was like when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you fuk with big monster movies like big Yeah,
Speaker 1: what is your top, what's your number one?
Speaker 5: Like that?
Speaker 1: So my original introduction to movies and remains. You know,
Speaker 1: my favorite movie was Jaws, which is a big monster movie,
Speaker 1: but like I didn't take it in that direction then.
Speaker 1: Instead just like got excited about Steven Spielberg movies and
Speaker 1: like didn't like I because I saw I think the
Speaker 1: thing that I followed up with was like a like
Speaker 1: seventies King Kong and its just like as a kid,
Speaker 1: like wasn't really doing it for me.
Speaker 5: And so my first girl crushed by the way.
Speaker 1: Just Klang, Yeah she's pretty, my lord.
Speaker 5: Yeah, LORDI I was like, I'm confused.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's your number one big monster movie?
Speaker 5: Listen? My first which, by the way, I watch all
Speaker 5: kinds of like I'm a movie freak, so I'll watch
Speaker 5: anything and quite obsessive. But Alien was everything. Yeah for me,
Speaker 5: that movie I will watch over and over and over
Speaker 5: and over again, like the whole concept of all of it. Alien, Predator,
Speaker 5: big monster movie, Like I just I love them.
Speaker 1: They're cool.
Speaker 5: Terminator is he a monster?
Speaker 1: I think so?
Speaker 4: He is? The man is You've.
Speaker 1: Seen that video of him traveling to uh Brazil for
Speaker 1: a carnival, but he's no it's wild. It's like he
Speaker 1: was the host of a travel show in the seventies
Speaker 1: and he is out of control. He talks about you
Speaker 1: like sasses and things like that, things of this nature.
Speaker 1: Picks up a dancer one time, and it's like, uh,
Speaker 1: you're worried that somebody is going to be ripped to shreds. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so alien, Yeah, aliens. Twister twisters? Thoughts you excited?
Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's too many. I could barely
Speaker 3: handle one, and now there's multiple. Now there's multiple twisters.
Speaker 3: Do you did you ever go to the Universal the
Speaker 3: Universal Studios in in La where sorry studio studio where
Speaker 3: they would have the King Kong, the massive King Kong,
Speaker 3: but they would give him banana breath, like they would
Speaker 3: have a scent of bananas.
Speaker 4: And I just looked it up.
Speaker 3: It turns out this is I'm not this isn't the
Speaker 3: beginning of my brain decaying.
Speaker 5: I would vomit.
Speaker 4: It was disgusting, you would be so.
Speaker 5: I would instantly throw up the.
Speaker 1: Fic. The cinematic universe of King Kong's contains massive bananas
Speaker 1: to go with the massive King Kong. Otherwise he would.
Speaker 4: Just have to be eating bushels, right, true, which is
Speaker 4: not sustainable.
Speaker 1: Not sustainable sustainable.
Speaker 5: King Kong does not need food.
Speaker 1: No, I mean a monster.
Speaker 5: His food is excitement. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I have no fear.
Speaker 5: My monsters like eating and pooping like I just really
Speaker 5: destroys the image in my head.
Speaker 1: His food like a you know, late night talk show
Speaker 1: hosts fit food is our adulation and applause. King Kong's
Speaker 1: food is our fear and terror. Yes, yes, yes, What
Speaker 1: is something you think is over range? You know what?
Speaker 5: Okay, let's bring your back down to I think you
Speaker 5: said something. You said that you know the markets are bullshit,
Speaker 5: right Jack?
Speaker 1: You just said that?
Speaker 5: All right, So let's let's let's bring ourselves back there
Speaker 5: for a second. Because I'm thinking a lot about this
Speaker 5: because some sports star just started some nonprofit about financial literacy.
Speaker 5: I covered financial literacy for twenty plus years. I gave
Speaker 5: financial advice. I was an editor at Money Fortune, I
Speaker 5: had a TV show all this stuff, and I can
Speaker 5: tell you I retired from it, I want to say,
Speaker 5: seventy years ago, and I'm so glad I did. Because
Speaker 5: one of the things is the realization that you cannot
Speaker 5: financially literate yourself out of a real fed up economy
Speaker 5: doesn't pay you, right, you can't the system when I
Speaker 5: found out in covering the business for so long, covering
Speaker 5: the banks, covering how everything has made, the government, the laws,
Speaker 5: the rules you are up against. Of course, you need
Speaker 5: to know the basics, especially women and marginalized people. You
Speaker 5: have to know the basics and how to protect yourself
Speaker 5: and how to be on timeable. But the idea that
Speaker 5: so many of these things are set in motion or
Speaker 5: beyond your control, like credit scores or like you know, overdrafts,
Speaker 5: or like the market where, by the way, most of
Speaker 5: the market is only fifteen percent of American people have
Speaker 5: access to the stock market, right, So how can you now?
Speaker 5: When I started back in financial literacy, it was it
Speaker 5: was a different ballgame. And now it's like you can't
Speaker 5: sit there and teach people out of the fact that,
Speaker 5: for example, my first apartment. Let's see, my first job,
Speaker 5: I was making thirty five thousand dollars a year, New
Speaker 5: York City, Manhattan. Yeah, I could afford a studio apartment
Speaker 5: walking distance from my job.
Speaker 4: Wow, oh my god.
Speaker 1: Yeah it was.
Speaker 5: Seven hundred and fifty dollars. Now, and thank you, by
Speaker 5: the way for having the geriatric on your show.
Speaker 6: Now it's age is good.
Speaker 5: I'm alive. I'm alive.
Speaker 4: Age is good.
Speaker 5: But they'll give you a perspective. Now, I've got young
Speaker 5: people telling me that they're starting at thirty five thousand
Speaker 5: dollars a year and a studio apartment in Midtown is
Speaker 5: going for three thousand plus. Stop. How can you possibly
Speaker 5: be literal enough to get yourself out of the fact
Speaker 5: that they were just not paying people what we should
Speaker 5: be paid.
Speaker 1: Learn more from. Yeah, well, one thing I recently bootstraps,
Speaker 1: no boots.
Speaker 6: Let me say it ain't no bootstraps. They're gonna get
Speaker 6: you out of this. Saying no boots, you can put
Speaker 6: on your feet and get you out of this. Yes,
Speaker 6: you can all sit there and grind. But the fact
Speaker 6: of the matter is that if the system is set
Speaker 6: up so badly against us that I just hope it's
Speaker 6: so overrated. When you see financial literacy, when you see experts. Now,
Speaker 6: back when I started, there were very few experts because
Speaker 6: you actually had to be an expert. Yeah, okay, Now,
Speaker 6: it's about selling things, it's about selling information, it's about
Speaker 6: selling you a program, it's about all this.
Speaker 5: Just be very very careful. Yeah, and then we've got
Speaker 5: to get we've got to make some changes period.
Speaker 1: The I mean, there's definitely like a real time almost
Speaker 1: food chain like proliferation of scams that are like aiming
Speaker 1: at you, and like that's definitely good to familiarize yourself with.
Speaker 1: But yeah, when I learned that financial literacy was like
Speaker 1: a pet project of big banks, yeah, I was like,
Speaker 1: oh wait a second year. Yeah, like there because it
Speaker 1: helps their narrative that like, no, the problem, the reason
Speaker 1: there's inequality has it's not systemic. It's not this system
Speaker 1: that is like just funneling massive amounts of money our way.
Speaker 1: It's actually, uh, you guys are too dumb, and we're
Speaker 1: we're willing to help you with that if you just
Speaker 1: like pay us for these financial literacy programs.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's the whole Like you're also bad because you
Speaker 6: use straws, but we are just gonna suck all the
Speaker 6: oil out of you know what I mean. It's all
Speaker 6: personal responsibility bs because they want to distract you from
Speaker 6: the fact that it's all happening upstairs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really indicative and fucked up of how bad
Speaker 3: the system is. That like beyond to your point basic understanding,
Speaker 3: it's you're supposed to be like, you know what, Actually
Speaker 3: you probably should be ignorant to what's going on because
Speaker 3: it's going to make you way more upset. You actually
Speaker 3: know how fucked up the system is, how it's upsetting.
Speaker 1: That is not what the begs consider. Financial literacy is
Speaker 1: like knowing what what they're doing to fuck you over.
Speaker 1: The financial literacy is like all these financial products that
Speaker 1: we can offer you to which is why.
Speaker 5: We need Elizabeth Wren to stay where she is and
Speaker 5: do more because because of her that that things have
Speaker 5: changed and our continue to change and and we got
Speaker 5: to change it. So you don't change the rules. They're
Speaker 5: just going to do whatever they can, right, whatever they can.
Speaker 4: Like it.
Speaker 1: It seems like it's simple similar. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's exactly the same mechanism, but the reason that taxes
Speaker 1: are so complicated in the US, like doing your own
Speaker 1: taxes is not like I feel like if you talk
Speaker 1: to people in other countries about financial literacy, they'll be like,
Speaker 1: what the fuck are you talking about? Like I just like,
Speaker 1: I know how much money I have and I try
Speaker 1: not to like spend more than that and like that.
Speaker 1: But it's so complicated because it's profitable for corporations.
Speaker 5: To make it complicated, it's the government knows how much
Speaker 5: you own taxes, all right, they can. You don't need
Speaker 5: a company to pay a company. So anyway, that's another
Speaker 5: one of the fights that's happening on Washington now to
Speaker 5: kind of outlaw the whole tax prep stuff and have
Speaker 5: people why are we paying? Why is everybody paying for
Speaker 5: this stuff?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does seem like people are kind of catching
Speaker 1: on to that one. Yes, Carmen, what is something you
Speaker 1: think is underrated?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: This is more fun?
Speaker 1: Do you know what? I love?
Speaker 5: Love, love love.
Speaker 4: Let's go about capital punishment? No, kidd and.
Speaker 5: They hold me up, don't get me mad?
Speaker 1: Now? Oh wow, you know this is.
Speaker 5: That mout your moss fun?
Speaker 6: Okay, So on shows I love because of course I'm
Speaker 6: a writer too, But I love mash up words.
Speaker 5: I don't like. I'm not talking about those TikTok kind
Speaker 5: of stuff like Risen, So I'm talking about mash up
Speaker 5: boards because right now, the word that I can't get
Speaker 5: out of my head, which I love so much is corpsical.
Speaker 5: Is anyone watching Detective? It is the idea and I've
Speaker 5: and I come across a couple more of these words,
Speaker 5: and I just love they make me so happy. H
Speaker 5: Corpsical like the power to be able to create a
Speaker 5: word that instantly makes your brain.
Speaker 1: Go corpse know exactly what that is, and you.
Speaker 5: Know exactly what it is, and it's a nonsense word.
Speaker 5: I can't. By the way, I love the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you love true.
Speaker 3: That's a great underrated That's that's one of honestly my
Speaker 3: favorite underrated. It's that's such a good one because it's
Speaker 3: something that you appreciate subconsciously. But then hearing you say that,
Speaker 3: I want to I want to keep an eye out
Speaker 3: for more more corpsicle type words.
Speaker 5: It's so fun. And then every time I hear corpsicle,
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, I just love it.
Speaker 1: By the way, so so that you know where I'm at,
Speaker 1: I tried to write corpsicle. I wasn't quite sure how
Speaker 1: to how to spell it, and my autocorrect change it
Speaker 1: to crop circle.
Speaker 5: So you know what, it's another fantastical thing you love
Speaker 5: sign So there you go.
Speaker 1: I love science. Is that what you said? Yes? I
Speaker 1: love science.
Speaker 3: Science signs the M Night Shamalin movie signs that.
Speaker 1: And see class that's I think that's in another M
Speaker 1: Night Shyamalan movie where Mark Wahlberg is acience teacher and
Speaker 1: he's like where just written on the board is like,
Speaker 1: where'd the bees go? Oh?
Speaker 5: Wasn't that? That wasn't signs? Which one was that one?
Speaker 1: That that? Oh my god, what about the bees?
Speaker 4: Though, bro, don't spoil it.
Speaker 3: Don't spoil it, don't tell us where the pot?
Speaker 5: Oh my god, that's a good Oneah, that is a
Speaker 5: good one.
Speaker 1: True Detective Season four or yeah, season four has one
Speaker 1: of the most That corpsicle is the corp cycle to
Speaker 1: end all corpsicles.
Speaker 4: By the way, it's a bunch of Yeah, it's a
Speaker 4: real and if you like.
Speaker 5: This season, look at me. I'm not doing promo for her,
Speaker 5: but I do adore her. The director of Isa Lopez
Speaker 5: right from Mexico. She has her horror movie Tigers Are
Speaker 5: Not Afraid. It was beautiful and fresh.
Speaker 6: You know, when you see a movie, it's not like
Speaker 6: you're not like, wow, that was so great in epicable,
Speaker 6: but but when you see it and you go, okay.
Speaker 5: That's new. Yeah, Like how hard is it to see
Speaker 5: to watch something today and be like, Okay, that's that's new.
Speaker 5: I haven't seen that. That's her and it is brilliant,
Speaker 5: so I'm not surprised that she produced a corpsicle.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: If you watch that movie, you're like, this lady's brain
Speaker 5: is different. Yeah, Miliki.
Speaker 4: Oh that only has a ninety seven percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Speaker 5: That's all it happens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so high happy for herting my movies to watch
Speaker 1: list me too, mm hmm so good.
Speaker 5: So good by the way, ethel LOVEO LOVEO. Okay, moving on.
Speaker 1: She's a big fan, as are all great brilliant you know,
Speaker 1: directors who think different. They are huge fans of the
Speaker 1: days iist. And we'll get fits fits All right, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break and come back, and we'll run
Speaker 1: through some news stories. We'll be right back.
Speaker 2: Okay, and we're back.
Speaker 1: And I do like to every once in a while
Speaker 1: check in with my good friend at the dreadg Report.
Speaker 1: Every once in a while. It's just you do. The
Speaker 1: Drug Report is like gets more traffic than the New
Speaker 1: York Times and it is only one page. It has
Speaker 1: like as many page views as the New York Times.
Speaker 1: And it's just a bunch of links that this strange
Speaker 1: man puts up on his weird conservative website. And yesterday
Speaker 1: it was all about Russia space, nukes and how you know,
Speaker 1: just in like big font red lettering. That's usually when
Speaker 1: he's like, this is the one that everybody should be
Speaker 1: paying attention to. So I have to assume that this anxiety,
Speaker 1: the anxiety over Russian space new clear weapons, has entered
Speaker 1: the American bloodstream. So I just wanted to kind of
Speaker 1: take a quick look at how this came about. It
Speaker 1: started with a person in the US House Intelligence Committee
Speaker 1: who Mike Turner, some name that is just like two
Speaker 1: very common names sandwich together, very plain, but he's he's
Speaker 1: someone who, like when I mentioned him to people who
Speaker 1: I don't think are even that politically active, they're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm Mike turn So I just might not be totally
Speaker 1: up on this person. But he got briefed on something
Speaker 1: and was immediately like, oh my god, like you need
Speaker 1: to like let us know what is happening here, you
Speaker 1: need to let it like declassify this whole thing, and
Speaker 1: like dropped hints that it was involved Russia and nuclear
Speaker 1: weapons and space and that's a scary combination. I can
Speaker 1: see how that is a scary combination. Jackpot. So the
Speaker 1: reality of the situation is that I will just read
Speaker 1: directly from the article that people were able to put
Speaker 1: together using actual sourcing. US intelligence shows that Russia is
Speaker 1: discussing the possibility of basing a nuclear weapon in space.
Speaker 1: So they're discussing the possibility, but we did not discover
Speaker 1: that Russia has a nuclear missile in orbit pointing at
Speaker 1: our head. We are reporting on a conversation that we
Speaker 1: think might be happening in Russia. And why would they
Speaker 1: have a nuclear weapon in space because it could be
Speaker 1: used to threaten our satellite communication. So another detail that
Speaker 1: made me less stressed out about this, like thinking about
Speaker 1: basing a weapon in space that could fuck with my
Speaker 1: Wi Fi and cellular signal, Like.
Speaker 4: Now I'm freaked out. No, now I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: I think that's absolutely horrifying. Yeah, that is a nightmare scenario.
Speaker 5: That is truly nightmare. Truly.
Speaker 1: It also feels like not the way you would attack
Speaker 1: someone's communication is to just blow all of the satellites
Speaker 1: out of the sky with a nuclear weapon, Like that's
Speaker 1: where you're wrong.
Speaker 3: That's where you're wrong. It's not going to blow it.
Speaker 3: They're actually going to just have it ram into the
Speaker 3: satellites and break them. So no explosives it's going to
Speaker 3: orbit around, bumping into satellites. I believe it's what Mike,
Speaker 3: Mike Turner or whoever this in the room.
Speaker 5: What the hell?
Speaker 4: You know, A lot of a lot of circles, you.
Speaker 5: Know, a lot of details.
Speaker 1: So it's a bumper car, nuclear power bumps, bumper nuke. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's terrifying.
Speaker 5: Look, I mean it's a conversation, but with the idea
Speaker 5: of knocking.
Speaker 6: Out communications terrifying.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because everything runs on everything runs.
Speaker 1: On it now, Yeah, for sure, I guess.
Speaker 4: Yeah, trains, automobiles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just saw all the water come out of
Speaker 3: Jack's body when he had to say automobiles.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like you're all skin and teeth.
Speaker 5: We had to say it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sorry I put you in that position. I
Speaker 3: thought this was already happening. I just figured there were
Speaker 3: already were news in space that we have that they
Speaker 3: had them same.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like there's going to be lots of
Speaker 1: satellite based warfare happening in the near future. It just
Speaker 1: it feels less scary than the idea of that. The
Speaker 1: headline was communicating to me that a nuclear weapon was
Speaker 1: going to be shot from space at us, and we
Speaker 1: wouldn't have any warning and everything go boom. People are
Speaker 1: pointing out, like so, everyone was like, so, why did
Speaker 1: he just like leak the scariest possible version of this
Speaker 1: story that we've known about for many years that has
Speaker 1: been like an ongoing, you know, piece of information that
Speaker 1: the intelligence committees were aware of, and people think it's possible.
Speaker 1: Reasons have to do with trying to make people more
Speaker 1: scared of Russia to get the Ukraine Israel funding bill
Speaker 1: through the House where it is currently stalled out. There's
Speaker 1: also a bill coming up that affects the government's ability
Speaker 1: to spy on us, and so if they can get
Speaker 1: people scared enough, they feel like maybe, you know, they
Speaker 1: need a good scare around. Every time that thing is
Speaker 1: getting ratified or re ratified.
Speaker 5: Feels very smoke Bomby.
Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, yeah, you know, it's just very much like
Speaker 6: just throwing out smoke. Bu up, don't look over here,
Speaker 6: look over there. Yeah, all the fires over there, Wait,
Speaker 6: the fires over there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: My ex husbands used.
Speaker 1: To do that, right with literal smoke you've mainly been
Speaker 1: married to I would be like, I would.
Speaker 5: Be like, there's a smoke bomb. You're like, look over there,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, I'm still right here.
Speaker 6: I'm not moving my gaze. Man, my days stays right
Speaker 6: here where it should be. But is that that's the
Speaker 6: tactic and it's just really stupidly tried and true type.
Speaker 1: Of typical tact. Yeah. Even Representative Andy Ogles, which that
Speaker 1: can't be a real name, but we'll go with it.
Speaker 1: On Thursday, accused Turner of having ulterior motives, citing the
Speaker 1: battle over both funding for Ukraine and a bill to
Speaker 1: reauthorize the nation's warrant less spy powers, each of which
Speaker 1: has raised some opposition. By the way, Andy Ogles is
Speaker 1: a Republican from Tennessee, so he's like in this guy's
Speaker 1: party and he's like, guys, this is for real. This
Speaker 1: is dumb. And they said, yeah, for real, this is dumb.
Speaker 1: But that's really you.
Speaker 5: Gotta assume that there's always some truth in these things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the intelligence.
Speaker 5: It's still smoke, like there's still something happening.
Speaker 1: It definitely. It created a new action movie in my
Speaker 1: mind where we're like blowing each other's satellites out of
Speaker 1: the sky and it's like satellite wars and it is
Speaker 1: tyrese and ludicrous. In a car that has been Yes,
Speaker 1: like something similar happens in one of the Fast and
Speaker 1: Furious movies, but they instead of blowing a satellite up
Speaker 1: with uh nuke, they drive into space in a car and.
Speaker 4: It is still a car.
Speaker 3: It's important to note it's not a plane, it's not
Speaker 3: a satellite. It is a car, so it still fits
Speaker 3: in vital There's a there's a show on by the way.
Speaker 3: I love that, Like you have me as a co
Speaker 3: host and all my expertise is from someone who just
Speaker 3: got an Apple Plus subscription.
Speaker 1: But on.
Speaker 3: Season two where it's called for All Mankind and the
Speaker 3: premise is if the Soviets won the space race.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we've had already on the show before. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I really really like it. And it's kind of a
Speaker 3: vehicle to There are some like corny parts where like
Speaker 3: Ted Kennedy becomes president because chap equittic doesn't happen because
Speaker 3: of like a scheduling issue.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but uh, it is a similar premise.
Speaker 3: I think like later in the show there might be
Speaker 3: uh nuke nukean space situation or whatever.
Speaker 4: But it is a good show.
Speaker 3: It sounds like a total bullshit boring premise like okay,
Speaker 3: but it's good.
Speaker 5: Did you see what you leave the world behind?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, but we talked about.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I actually had to look up the name
Speaker 5: because I just notice the the Amahashar Ali, that Beautiful
Speaker 5: Man and the Obama movie, and I was that's exactly
Speaker 5: the promise. The satellites are out and it throws the
Speaker 5: world into complete chaos and planes fall out of the
Speaker 5: sky and it's it's horrifying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what plan is that? What would happen if the
Speaker 1: satellites went out? They would just be like, well, there
Speaker 1: goes that. Guys. We were really dependent on the satellite
Speaker 1: up here in the flight decks, so we're just gonna
Speaker 1: take her down rapidly.
Speaker 5: We don't know how to fly this thing. We're just
Speaker 5: here for to make y'all feel better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: The satellites are magnets that keep the planes up in
Speaker 3: the air, right is that movie?
Speaker 1: Seems like it was very full of shit to me,
Speaker 1: But well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're still scary, still scary, don't be little the fears.
Speaker 1: All right, So, speaking of the difference between like real
Speaker 1: fears and bullshit fears, we got but this new glimpse
Speaker 1: of the future with AI, where America is using AI
Speaker 1: to continue to innovate new and exciting ways to make
Speaker 1: life miserable for the most vulnerable people in our country,
Speaker 1: and that in this instance that means soul crushing hurdles
Speaker 1: for people to jump through in order to simply apply
Speaker 1: to work for McDonald's. So companies like FedEx, McDonald's and Darden,
Speaker 1: who is the company the restaurant group that you know
Speaker 1: has olive Garden, et cetera, are all clients of Paradox
Speaker 1: dot ai, a tech startup that helps them out with
Speaker 1: the hiring process. And it's got so it asks applicants
Speaker 1: to go through a lengthy and completely baffling personality test
Speaker 1: starring a blue humanoid alien named Ash, and as one
Speaker 1: applicant complained, I'm Reddit quote man, I just want a
Speaker 1: dishwasher job. Why?
Speaker 4: Why this is this shit?
Speaker 1: So, as outlined in an article I'm for for media,
Speaker 1: the test consists of images featuring Ash in a variety
Speaker 1: of situations and you have to click on one of
Speaker 1: two boxes, either me or not me. And some of
Speaker 1: the images like make sense within the context of a
Speaker 1: job application, like there's one in which Ash is being
Speaker 1: yelled at by a customer. Also a blue humanoid alien
Speaker 1: kind of looks like if Pixar made an Avatar movie
Speaker 1: set entirely inside an olive garden and it was like
Speaker 1: the year nineteen ninety one, because the you know, humanoid aliens, aren't.
Speaker 4: I agree that? Second what you just said, I would
Speaker 4: I would watch that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there you go, Jones. But so you have
Speaker 1: to answer it's like, what does this say not much
Speaker 1: bothers me me or not me? I think we know
Speaker 1: the answer to that one, right, Like that's yes. If
Speaker 1: you've if you've had to just like as a personality
Speaker 1: test for a job interview before, Yeah, no, that's me.
Speaker 1: Nothing bothers me. I like, actually people screaming in my
Speaker 1: face that's my food. That's actually how I you know,
Speaker 1: how can kong our screams?
Speaker 4: And yeah, so you have bas yeah.
Speaker 1: Right, no need for gigantic bananas because you just feed
Speaker 1: me your customer's derision and that is what gets me
Speaker 1: through the day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, third option, yes, endless, but you have bottomless Karens.
Speaker 1: Yes. Other images are like kind of existential and just
Speaker 1: like kind of random feeling, like one where Ash has
Speaker 1: fallen off a bicycle that is science like a sci
Speaker 1: fi bicycle like one of the wheels doesn't have spokes
Speaker 1: on it. It seems like and hurt his knee, accompanied
Speaker 1: by the caption things happen to me me not me.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how you could possibly take
Speaker 1: an answer to that question and hold it either against
Speaker 1: someone or like for them.
Speaker 4: Like I can. It's very clear.
Speaker 3: So if you you don't want to hire someone who
Speaker 3: just shit happens to them all the time, like it's
Speaker 3: a liability. People can fall off bikes, like when something
Speaker 3: happens to you, Jack, it's your fault. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: So things don't happen to me. I go through the
Speaker 1: world dominating everything I see, and that is what's going
Speaker 1: to make me a good dishwasher at Olive Garden.
Speaker 5: And you're not going to call you fell off your bike.
Speaker 3: That's correct, That's correct, bikes.
Speaker 1: Things happened to me.
Speaker 4: Things happen.
Speaker 1: It's like such a philosophical question.
Speaker 5: It's really personality of them.
Speaker 1: We will get to that. It is complete guard Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's just like I'm just trying to put myself
Speaker 1: in the position of like the poor fucking people. And
Speaker 1: also like you're going to a website that says like
Speaker 1: dot ai so you're like, oh, this is like some
Speaker 1: next level like computer mind ship where I'm it's like
Speaker 1: judging me and telling me like I'm worthy or not worthy,
Speaker 1: and like somehow there's a blue humanoid alien involved. It's
Speaker 1: just it's like this extra little mind fuck to make
Speaker 1: the thing seem impressive.
Speaker 3: I guess I mean smart. Yeah, like that's that's what it's.
Speaker 3: Oh so I'm actually done. It makes you feel even
Speaker 3: more inadequate, probably because there's also you know, it's like
Speaker 3: financial literacy, also internet literacy, and these questions where the
Speaker 3: these poor applicants are going to get just so in
Speaker 3: their head, and not only is it going to be
Speaker 3: a nightmare experience to get the end goal of getting
Speaker 3: a job, they also are going to not feel as
Speaker 3: good about themselves and it's going to cause more stress
Speaker 3: in an already stressful situation.
Speaker 4: This is a bomber, that's what.
Speaker 5: They're trying to do. Yeah, there's always watching you. That's
Speaker 5: what they're trying to make you feel.
Speaker 1: Like, brother sound cool though you call them man's a scion? Yeah,
Speaker 1: brother a brother? The brother. The images are probably AI
Speaker 1: generated and that's basically all is that is AI about
Speaker 1: this Because the test seems to be just a good
Speaker 1: old fashioned personality test, relying on the ocean model, which
Speaker 1: was created back in the eighties, and the big five
Speaker 1: categories they say matter, like why it's called ocean is openness, conscientiousness,
Speaker 1: extra version, agreeableness, and neuroticism. You don't want to score
Speaker 1: big on the neuroticism scale. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 5: If it's a detailer into job, Oh you do?
Speaker 1: Oh shit, yeah, I've just that. No wonder, I have
Speaker 1: I need one failed, No wonder. I was the worst
Speaker 1: waiter of all time. I was actually a pretty good
Speaker 1: dishwasher though, and a pretty good butler, but could not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: fucking sucked at being a waiter.
Speaker 4: You've been too hard on yourself. I'm sure you were fine.
Speaker 3: You.
Speaker 5: I was going to say, if you were could be
Speaker 5: a good butler, you had have to have been a
Speaker 5: good server.
Speaker 1: Better than a I was a better butler than a waiter,
Speaker 1: but not a very good not very good at that either.
Speaker 1: There was one time where a woman was like, all right,
Speaker 1: we have a wedding, Like I need you to iron
Speaker 1: this for me. And I brought it back and she
Speaker 1: was like, could you bring me the iron? And just
Speaker 1: and then let me watch her do it. She was like,
Speaker 1: you should watch this. Say you're being better at this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you suck at this.
Speaker 3: You are butler, because I just accepted that as a
Speaker 3: normal answer, that you were a butler in.
Speaker 1: The concierge at a British hotel.
Speaker 5: Butler, of course.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a bel at a British hotel. Is Yeah,
Speaker 1: the butler you have resting butler face, my mouth is
Speaker 1: always like a little us.
Speaker 5: It's a different RBF and he's got it correct.
Speaker 1: But yeah. So the actual AI offered by the company
Speaker 1: is actually a chat bot named other than the cool
Speaker 1: ash pictures that accompany the test, a chat bot named
Speaker 1: Olivia who takes applicants through the application process, helps hiring
Speaker 1: managers filter through applicants and schedule inner views and is uh.
Speaker 1: And you're going to be shocked to hear this if
Speaker 1: you've ever used like a non human assistant is fucking
Speaker 1: terrible at their job.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sorry, I didn't understand that. I'm sorry I
Speaker 3: didn't understand that. I'm sorry I didn't understand that. It's
Speaker 3: just the same message you get over and over and
Speaker 3: over again. God forbid, you have a person a job.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to do it. I'll start believing in this technology
Speaker 1: when I'm on a phone tree and like my brain
Speaker 1: doesn't immediately be like operator operator, can I have it?
Speaker 1: Let me speak to a human please? Could I speak?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've just never things are happening to me. These
Speaker 4: things are happening to me right now. This is what
Speaker 4: I'm talking about.
Speaker 5: Yes, I listen, it's this two things psych it's it's
Speaker 5: biah in this. This is not smart. This is not
Speaker 5: smart stuff. Come on people, come on.
Speaker 1: Look.
Speaker 6: There's a sales guy from the tech company who goes
Speaker 6: to Mickeyd's headquarters and oh, guys, I got this new
Speaker 6: technology and you really need to and it really help
Speaker 6: you with your bottom b BOVA And it's all a
Speaker 6: bunch of BS numbers and they're like, well that's cool,
Speaker 6: sign us up.
Speaker 5: This is this is all it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's amusing but sad to that point, Paradox is
Speaker 1: valued at one point five billion dollars, and yet most
Speaker 1: of these hiring chatbots are not even as advanced or
Speaker 1: elaborate as chat GPT. They are rudimentary and can only
Speaker 1: ask basic questions.
Speaker 4: So brutal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just a blue humanoid alien gloss on the
Speaker 1: same shit that's been happening, and everybody is recognized. If
Speaker 1: you throw AI on it, it's gonna it's gonna sell
Speaker 1: Your salespeople are gonna have a much easier time selling
Speaker 1: it because everybody's just like.
Speaker 5: Wow, if you want me to not like you right away,
Speaker 5: do one of them say, oh, what's your what's your
Speaker 5: personality test? Or what's your what's your your ocean westa
Speaker 5: blah blah blah. That's actually happened, Actually had people do that. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'd rather you ask me my goddamn sign. Yeah, like
Speaker 5: just don't Yeah bad, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, It's it's all bullshit, And there is like
Speaker 1: interesting stuff being done in AI, Like I think right
Speaker 1: now they're trying to like, you know, they figured out
Speaker 1: the folding of like how proteins are folded. That is
Speaker 1: still the thing that I'm going to like AI. It
Speaker 1: has solved a scientific medical issue that is going to
Speaker 1: help scientists cure disease. So great, it was all worth it.
Speaker 1: But it's just once it gets into the level of
Speaker 1: if a salesperson is trying to sell it, then you're
Speaker 1: probably fucked in some way. It's not like trying to
Speaker 1: solve a existing problem, like I don't know death. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be good. There's also a new one
Speaker 1: that I just read about where they're trying an AI
Speaker 1: is trying to figure out how to translate smell like
Speaker 1: a so a computer can like evaluate a smell of
Speaker 1: bananas so they can create more realistic banana breath for
Speaker 1: kinch kanj. Yeah, but uh, like that smell is actually
Speaker 1: like if you've ever seen dogs who can like smell
Speaker 1: cancer and like like various diseases have sense and so
Speaker 1: it would be like an amazing breakthrough. It would be
Speaker 1: like basically what Theoryannose was promising with like just a
Speaker 1: tiny bit of blakes if you don't need any blood,
Speaker 1: it just like comes up and kind of you get
Speaker 1: sniffed by a robot. So it seems a little unnerving,
Speaker 1: but where Yeah that's a good point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good points.
Speaker 5: I take it back as long as it's not anthropomor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah it's kmre comre. Let me me get a
Speaker 1: whiffy you.
Speaker 4: This is a thing is an object. Why'd you make
Speaker 4: it a person?
Speaker 1: Get over here, Let me get a good whiff of you.
Speaker 4: Why is its voice so low?
Speaker 1: The smelly gets smoked cigarettes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, Uh, let's take a quick.
Speaker 1: Break and we'll come back and talk about Tesla. Will
Speaker 1: be right back.
Speaker 7: We'll be right back, and we're back, and so cyber
Speaker 7: trucks are already, you know.
Speaker 1: They finally shipped about a month and a half ago,
Speaker 1: started selling to a lot of Elum fan boys, started
Speaker 1: selling above sticker being traded on stock x like they
Speaker 1: were a pair of sneakers. But now people are pointing out,
Speaker 1: like now now they've had a little time to spend
Speaker 1: with them, that this machine that was supposed to be
Speaker 1: able to handle torrents of gunfire cannot stand up to
Speaker 1: a little bit of rain. Unfortunately, they've been complaining on
Speaker 1: forums about small orange flex appearing on the car after
Speaker 1: driving it in the rain for Oh but this is
Speaker 1: I mean, how how is a car supposed to be
Speaker 1: able to stand up for They were driving on the
Speaker 1: rain for two days. I mean, come on, guys, cars
Speaker 1: can't hold Oh wait no, I was thinking that's a
Speaker 1: that's a tissue box. Can't stand to be outside for
Speaker 1: two days.
Speaker 4: You make that mistake all the time.
Speaker 1: God friendship, Yeah, I need to get the need to
Speaker 1: put the poster back up that has car tissue box.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so this is as a result of its
Speaker 1: unusual stainless steel exoskeleton, which it also has a trouble
Speaker 1: with stains. The owner's manual mentions the possibility of corrosion
Speaker 1: with a surprisingly quote fussy and the skyde for a
Speaker 1: car that looks like it belongs to RoboCop, requiring drivers
Speaker 1: to immediately remove corrosive substances like grease, oil, bird droppings,
Speaker 1: tree resin, dead insects, tar spots, road salt, industrial fallout,
Speaker 1: et cetera.
Speaker 5: So never leave the garage.
Speaker 1: Yes, this is like this feels like have you ever
Speaker 1: like gotten a really expensive pair of shoes or like
Speaker 1: like a really nice shirt and then you're just like
Speaker 1: terrified to wear it like that. It's that if you
Speaker 1: were like driving that shirt, driving around with that shirt
Speaker 1: on the outside of your car, like there really well done.
Speaker 5: It's supposed to be well made. It could lass you forever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the whole point, right. There's this substance on
Speaker 1: the exterior of cars that's called the orange peel. That
Speaker 1: is like this thick layer of plastic that is the
Speaker 1: thing that makes your car glossy, and it's the thing
Speaker 1: that keeps your you know, the metal on your car
Speaker 1: separated from the elements. And it's one of those things
Speaker 1: that I'm sure Elon Musk didn't fuck with because he
Speaker 1: wanted the car to look like it was from the future.
Speaker 1: But it existed all these years for a reason. It
Speaker 1: turns out like that you can't just have the metal
Speaker 1: that's inside the car just on the outside of the car.
Speaker 1: It's going to look like a rusted out piece of
Speaker 1: shit pretty soon.
Speaker 5: You know, I mean, is that what it is?
Speaker 1: Maybe you know, yeah, some some may say, some may say,
Speaker 1: but it says you have to like remove the like
Speaker 1: remove a dead bug immediately from your car. Is like
Speaker 1: so stressful. I can't imagine having pull over, pull over
Speaker 1: over or bankrupt.
Speaker 5: Happens sat listen, nobody looks cool in that thing.
Speaker 1: I think they look.
Speaker 5: No, no, no no.
Speaker 3: If I get a couple of sit ups, I think
Speaker 3: if I drove it shirtless, I could probably pull it off.
Speaker 5: If you listen. If you're going to get a car
Speaker 5: like that, you had better be full on looking like
Speaker 5: freaking matrix. Okay, like please.
Speaker 1: You to be.
Speaker 5: To have a car that falls apart in the rain.
Speaker 5: But something about bullets just dressed for the occasion. Please
Speaker 5: entertain us, please with the full picture.
Speaker 4: That's all I asked.
Speaker 3: That is funny that it can repel bullets but not water.
Speaker 3: It is a very It is.
Speaker 1: Like the aliens and side poop.
Speaker 5: They everything has a weakness.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be a good that that should have
Speaker 1: been the aliens and signs weakness, not water.
Speaker 4: I thought you're gonna say they should have all been
Speaker 4: cyber trucks.
Speaker 1: They should have all been driving around in cyber trucks.
Speaker 4: That would have been Yeah, that would have been crazy.
Speaker 1: But yeah, now that the cyber truck owners are having
Speaker 1: to take maintenance tips from people who owned another doomed
Speaker 1: stainless steel vanity car, the DeLorean, and it's like, no, actually,
Speaker 1: if you like do wind decks like the second after
Speaker 1: you drive it for five minutes, you can actually keep
Speaker 1: it looking pretty good. But you have to like keep
Speaker 1: windecks with you and stop every two miles.
Speaker 5: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no passenger seats in it because it's the loneliest.
Speaker 4: People in the world.
Speaker 1: No need, It's.
Speaker 6: Right, But also, you know, you want to see some
Speaker 6: bad as bulletproof cars, all you gotta do is go
Speaker 6: to South America.
Speaker 5: Man, I they're everywhere. I mean I've seen them. They
Speaker 5: look fire and trust me, they're gorgeous. The leather's fabulous,
Speaker 5: and the drivers like buff and everyone looks fly. So
Speaker 5: that's all you need.
Speaker 4: Like that, Yeah, I'm in con me in.
Speaker 1: Worth noting Tesla had the worst performance of any S
Speaker 1: and P five hundred stock this year, So you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It just feels like he's like the
Speaker 1: stuff that has been evident to a lot of us
Speaker 1: who are paying attention for a long time. Like even
Speaker 1: the fanboys in the financial industry are starting to be like, wait,
Speaker 1: but like what if he doesn't know what the fuck
Speaker 1: he's talking about? What if this is all? Yeah, So anyways,
Speaker 1: we'll keep our eye on it.
Speaker 5: Have nothing good to say.
Speaker 1: This is market watch and uh market watch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, finally the podcases has made this pivot. The pivot that.
Speaker 5: That's what I'm talking about. Let's do it.
Speaker 3: We're gonna have someone reading a ticker throughout the entire Oh.
Speaker 5: I would have so much fun, you don't even know.
Speaker 5: I would give you the backstory of every CEO's some
Speaker 5: one of my favorite pastimes. CEO Jr.
Speaker 4: That's too interesting, too interesting, yeah, just numbers.
Speaker 1: Do you give us the craziest or most interesting story
Speaker 1: about an anonymous US CEO that you.
Speaker 5: Well, there's no a noon because everybody knows if I
Speaker 5: say anything, but it's all playing out. Look, look at
Speaker 5: go look at who was on the cover of Forbes.
Speaker 5: Forbes even has its own thing about how many people
Speaker 5: were on the cover of Forbes that are that were criminals?
Speaker 1: What right?
Speaker 4: Criminals?
Speaker 5: Bitcoin three us right. We work like we've seen all
Speaker 5: this stuff. And one of the biggest signs is when
Speaker 5: somebody comes in, like mister you know who and says
Speaker 5: they founded a company that they that's right off the bat.
Speaker 4: You know, this is trash, interesting, right.
Speaker 5: Trash because anybody with a personality, let's go back to personalities,
Speaker 5: anybody in the personality that says something like that is
Speaker 5: a dangerous person meaning dangerous like they'll take your money
Speaker 5: and they won't give a shit.
Speaker 1: So be careful, people, keep your ad on a swivel
Speaker 1: out there, people, while you're out there in this market,
Speaker 1: in this market world of ours. Carmen Rita Wang, what
Speaker 1: a pleasure having you on the daily zeitgeist? As always?
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? Follow you? All that good stuff?
Speaker 5: Always happy to be with you, guys. Blake, so nice
Speaker 5: to be with you. Yeah, you can get me at Instagram,
Speaker 5: off social all that. Carmen rita wongo dot com.
Speaker 1: And is there a work of media that you've been enjoying.
Speaker 5: That I've been enjoying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk about something about more media.
Speaker 5: Okay, this is this is my wheelhouse. I am a
Speaker 5: doom freak since the book, I will absorb anything done related.
Speaker 1: Wow, So should people where should people start book? It
Speaker 1: was my brother, my big brother and I.
Speaker 5: It's a real tattoo. My big brother and I were.
Speaker 5: We were the biggest dune heads when we were kids.
Speaker 5: So yeah, that's for him, not for Denny Villanuev the
Speaker 5: director or the bad movie from the eighties. But it's
Speaker 5: just great stuff.
Speaker 1: Do you like part one?
Speaker 5: I did like it a lot. Yeah, I like anything
Speaker 5: the director does, Bev, but this one. The buzz on
Speaker 5: the number two is that it is insane, like way
Speaker 5: above number one.
Speaker 1: Number one was like cool, but it felt like I
Speaker 1: think I think I also didn't know how much of it,
Speaker 1: like how to what degree it was like the first
Speaker 1: half of a movie, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah it was, it was. But the second one
Speaker 5: is supposed to be bonkers, so I've got seats on
Speaker 5: the first night. I cannot wait. Yeah, And if you
Speaker 5: want to laugh a lot and have some fun, do
Speaker 5: it while you're inebriated. Watch the first movie done with
Speaker 5: Sting in a tiny little metal bikini pants.
Speaker 1: It's oh yeah, David Lynch, great bad, yeah, good good
Speaker 1: good bed Blake Wexler, Happy birthday to Blake, Happy.
Speaker 4: Birthday, birthday to you both.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? Follow you, wish you happy birthday,
Speaker 1: all that good stuff.
Speaker 3: People can wish me happy birthday for the rest of
Speaker 3: the year until my completely honest at Blake Wexler. This
Speaker 3: is this food, folks, he this is my food. Nourish
Speaker 3: me with your birth, with my own birth. I don't
Speaker 3: know what that and milk me. So also some stand
Speaker 3: up dates. March fifteenth, I'll be at a Strong Rope
Speaker 3: Brewery in Brooklyn, New York.
Speaker 4: Goannas.
Speaker 3: April will be in Cincinnati, Bristol, Tennessee, and Pittsburgh. In
Speaker 3: May and June, I'll be in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 1: Austin, Texas, the capital of stand up.
Speaker 4: The capital of conservative.
Speaker 5: No, not Austin Austin's Blue Austin's Blue Austin.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 4: I do like coming to Austin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is there workimedia you've been enjoying?
Speaker 3: Yes, Apple Plus No So Day the Whole Cattle seven months.
Speaker 3: Dave Ross who's a very funny stand up comedian. His
Speaker 3: Instagram handle is Dave to the Ross. He's been doing
Speaker 3: this thing where he takes stock like sports team logos
Speaker 3: that you would see like a high school use or
Speaker 3: like a beer league or something, and then instead of
Speaker 3: the team name, he edits it to like these very
Speaker 3: like these very funny lines. So there'll be one with
Speaker 3: like a like a guy about to hike a football
Speaker 3: and it just says, do you know a good therapist?
Speaker 4: But in a team?
Speaker 1: You know, in a team fun.
Speaker 3: And there's another one where it's like a guy like
Speaker 3: a skull wearing a football helmet, you know, kind of
Speaker 3: like a Raiders logo but a little bit Halloween, and
Speaker 3: it just said I died playing football, and an angry
Speaker 3: ball saying I'm always afraid. Like it's it's very very
Speaker 3: I'm I'm describing an image based work of media, which
Speaker 3: I probably shouldn't have done. But if you go to
Speaker 3: Dave to the Ross. It's very, very, very funny.
Speaker 1: So that's great smart too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's great. I love it.
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter a Jack Underscore O'Brien
Speaker 1: tweet I've been enjoying. Uh. I just saw dope Be
Speaker 1: the Dumbfuck on Twitter at Pete Underscore irons eight seven
Speaker 1: to two h six. Usually I'll just do the but
Speaker 1: his was so long convoluted, I just had to use
Speaker 1: what he wrote his name as Dopey the Dumbfunck tweeted
Speaker 1: getting a question wrong at trivia and faking a hamstring
Speaker 1: pool and oh shit, damn it just rolling around on
Speaker 1: the ground. And then Austin Heimer tweeted, what if instead
Speaker 1: of the Sixties, the New Fantastic Four took place in
Speaker 1: the seventies and instead of Pedro Pascal, it started Ryan
Speaker 1: Gosling and Russell Crowe and instead of being superheroes, they
Speaker 1: were both private detectives. Oh I love that movie. Was fun.
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