1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,480 Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:08,559 Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from 3 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:17,760 Speaker 1: this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment last extravaganza. 4 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 1: Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. 5 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: What is something you think is overrated? Eric Countries? I 6 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:33,239 Speaker 1: think I'm starting to get done with it, right. I'm 7 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: very thankful that, you know, in my first twelve years 8 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:38,199 Speaker 1: of life, I lived in seven countries and now I 9 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 1: live here and stuff, and so I'm very lucky that 10 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:43,320 Speaker 1: I get to actually experience life in all the countries, 11 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 1: and all the countries have problems, all the countries of 12 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 1: good things, they've all got racist, they've all got lovely people, 13 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: and I'm like, let's just open up. I'd like to 14 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:53,239 Speaker 1: just try and experiment where we just open up our 15 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: borders every single country, just to see what happens, because 16 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 1: borders haven't really worked, right, So if anything, I'm like, 17 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 1: suck it, let's just open it up. And also, surely, 18 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: if you if you look at what's happened in history 19 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: and presently and in the future, ultimately we are going 20 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 1: to become just one planet, right, we don't need borders 21 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 1: let's just open it up for federation. Let's get it done. Also, 22 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:20,680 Speaker 1: when you know, when the ice caps stop melting and stuff, 23 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: that the layout of the land is gonna look so different. 24 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: We're gonna have a mass immigration, make migration everywhere. It 25 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: could be water everywhere. He's talking Greek. You know Netherlands. 26 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: Netherlands isn't going to exist anymore and stuff. I know, 27 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: that's really I know. The Dutch are very worried about 28 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:38,039 Speaker 1: that because they are blue sea level and they're like, 29 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 1: how do we fix our We're kind of in a 30 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 1: bind here geographically locks and like all sorts of oh yeah, 31 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: like there's a very yeah, like it's it's pretty remarkable 32 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 1: what they've done. Yeah, that's smart. They'll work it out. 33 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 1: And actually they flooded themselves a couple of times before 34 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 1: in history, during the Spanish War that they had whenever 35 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 1: the like Spain will come to attack them. They were like, no, 36 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 1: we don't want this land. We flooded the land because 37 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: they're better at dealing with their land flooded. Then quite 38 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 1: like I was like, that's that's kind of cool. Yeah, 39 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,079 Speaker 1: that's what I do. Anytime I think there's a burglar 40 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 1: in my house just flood it, just flood it, just 41 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 1: keep flushing. The fight here or something. Get all the 42 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 1: showers going. Shout out to William of Orange. I will 43 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 1: say open borders versus closed borders. Open borders have the 44 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 1: much better optics. Like closed borders looks. If you want 45 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 1: a quick way to make your country look like World 46 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 1: War One, go to the border where the most locked 47 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 1: down border. It's just all fucking barbed wire and people 48 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:46,959 Speaker 1: in like gas masks. And are you saying open borders 49 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 1: less scary? Less scary? And yeah, and just you know, 50 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: I know people was ready to live and if they 51 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:57,239 Speaker 1: people need opportunity, like are we doing I know that. 52 00:02:57,280 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: I know that, Like I'm very lucky with my job 53 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: that I get to travel and stuff, you know, and 54 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:02,359 Speaker 1: it's not easy if you want to travel and you've 55 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: got two kids and so you know, I appreciate that 56 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: it's difficult for some people. But people need to get 57 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:10,360 Speaker 1: out of their own country the world because and this 58 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:12,799 Speaker 1: is every country, but when they go my country is 59 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:14,639 Speaker 1: the best country in the world, and I'm like, oh, yeah, 60 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 1: where else have you been? I haven't been anywhere else 61 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,640 Speaker 1: because it's the best. And I'm okay, mate, good data. Right, 62 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 1: it's amazing analysis there, right, this pizza is the best. 63 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 1: It's a margarita. Yeah, what else have you tried? If 64 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 1: you tried like a nice vegetarian one or supreme, No, 65 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,519 Speaker 1: I don't need what's that? Yeah, I'm like, oh, mate, 66 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: come on, these bagel bites are the best pizza I've 67 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: ever had. You ever had a real pizza? No? I 68 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 1: don't need to because this is the best. Okay, well 69 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 1: my food there for henceforth, henceforth bagel bite here in 70 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 1: bagel bite is the new one. I mean when pizza's 71 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 1: when pizza is not a bagel, you can a pizza anytime. 72 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 1: Let's be real here, and it's not wrong. Miles has 73 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: his pockets filled with bagel bites most of the time. 74 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 1: You know, if you if I remember at your house 75 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 1: and you have bagel bites, watched them disappear, I won't 76 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 1: cook them there. I will put them in my pockets 77 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 1: and I'll walk out. We don't one day you two 78 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: need to come from my house and maybe have a 79 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 1: cup of tea and some bagel bites. Yeah, we've known 80 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: you now for long enough we should maybe hang out 81 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 1: like real people. What kind of tea we'll actually have 82 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 1: a nice variety. Oh wow, variety doesn't mean to do that. 83 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 1: Tcheck it just okay, it came out. The only tea 84 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 1: I drink is brisk Baby brisk That's the only kind 85 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 1: of ever had. It's only kind of ever need to have. Jesus, 86 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,919 Speaker 1: is there America? But Lipton is still an English product? 87 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: Isn't it? Not right? But there's anythink Americans? You know 88 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,719 Speaker 1: tea what t wasn't anything backy, I don't think England 89 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 1: created the brand with like the giant block letters. It 90 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 1: was like brisk right yeah, and not to say that 91 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 1: even English. Remember those commercials that were claymation. It was 92 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: like Frank Sinatra and like fucking Sylvester salone was brisk 93 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,280 Speaker 1: baby yeah yeah, and then he came back to life. Yeah. 94 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 1: I just love that ship was my favorite, my favorite 95 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:10,920 Speaker 1: British imports. Culturally, I think, what is that? What's a myth? 96 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: What's something people think is true? You know, to be 97 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: false front of camera? Diversity solves the problem. So now, uh, 98 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 1: this is what I mean by that? Uh And Zick 99 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 1: kind of tweeted something about this when he was talking 100 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:27,159 Speaker 1: about how uh he had to fight to add people 101 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: over at the podcast company that he works at. I 102 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:35,479 Speaker 1: won't name them your wolf, but like the problem is 103 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: is like we see like you know, I'll even give 104 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:40,280 Speaker 1: you an example, Captain Marvel. I watched and I thought 105 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:42,360 Speaker 1: it was okay. I thought it was fine. It wasn't bad. 106 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: It was definitely a good movie, better than some of 107 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: the other superhero movies that have come out. But when 108 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 1: I saw that a dude also directed it, like it 109 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: was a dude and a woman, I was just like, 110 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: that's not right, that's not right. It should have also, 111 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:58,479 Speaker 1: it should have just been a woman, because I think 112 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: that we think, oh, it's a female that superhero movie, 113 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 1: and we stopped there, right, But black Panther would not 114 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:05,359 Speaker 1: be good even if it's just a black dude if 115 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:07,359 Speaker 1: a white man had directed it. It needed to be 116 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 1: a black man directed. It needs to be a black 117 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:12,479 Speaker 1: woman being a production designer needs to be black, like 118 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: you know, just needs to be as many black people 119 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:18,599 Speaker 1: behind the scenes, because that's where the most important of 120 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: decision making is happening. It's not being it's not happening 121 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 1: with the cast. The cast will show up and read 122 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 1: their lines and it's dope. It's dope to see people 123 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 1: in those roles. But I truly do think that what's 124 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,480 Speaker 1: trash is like we have still a lot of white 125 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 1: people behind the scenes that are making these kind of 126 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: decisions and things get lost in translation and it becomes 127 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 1: like really hard to do. Like I think about Atlanta 128 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: right where Atlanta needed to hire David Sims was a 129 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: very very amazing writer, but he has to deal with 130 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: FX on a on the show Atlanta's behalf because the 131 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 1: exectly they're dealing with are all white and they don't 132 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: understand anything that this all black writer's room is telling 133 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 1: them if they have have to hire a white man 134 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:59,599 Speaker 1: in between versus if they were just black exactx at 135 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,919 Speaker 1: least one, at least one. I get it. I get it, 136 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 1: Broke Gld, I get it. And as someone who has 137 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:09,119 Speaker 1: been dealing with this ship, like you know all this time, 138 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 1: I'm I'm seeing it, I'm hearing it. I'm like, you know, 139 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 1: I would just wish sometimes that they were more people 140 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: of color behind the scenes, you know, casting, directors, exacts, producers, 141 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 1: all of that stuff that would make the life so 142 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:26,240 Speaker 1: much easier because you have these black creatives who are 143 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 1: doing amazing work, but their support systems are still white. 144 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: The infrastructure behind it is still Yeah, for sure beal Street. 145 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: I went to the screening at the Arc Light and 146 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: I loved it, loved the movie. I cried, it was 147 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 1: beautiful fucking movie. They bring out the talent, of course, 148 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 1: you know, you've got Stefan James, You've got Key And 149 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 1: then these are the next three people, Dave Franco and 150 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 1: the two white producers from Plan B, and I'm just like, 151 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 1: and then they asked this question about like how Like 152 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: David O Weller was the moderating, He's like, how important 153 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 1: is it to make a movie about black people that 154 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 1: isn't about black struggle? And the person who answered the 155 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: question was the fucking white And that ship hurt me 156 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 1: because and the white producer gave a terrible answer, to 157 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:12,720 Speaker 1: the point where Lacey Mosley, you know who is bossy 158 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 1: as fuck, got up and went you didn't answer the question, 159 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 1: she like yelled out, which like, you know I would 160 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: never do because you know, I respect my money, but 161 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: Lacey makes way more money than I ever will. But 162 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 1: like that like hurt me because I was just like, 163 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: there was no black producer who could answer that question, 164 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 1: because Barry wasn't there you know what I'm saying, Like 165 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: when when green Book one and you saw everybody get 166 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 1: on stage, I'm sorry, Merci only black, and that's what 167 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 1: I'm saying, And that's what I'm saying, is like, And 168 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: then I had this dude. I was going through my 169 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 1: Instagram stories and I remember like, because you know, I'll 170 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:47,079 Speaker 1: be roasting people and I went on and I remember 171 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 1: that this dude tried to explain to me that Green 172 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:53,200 Speaker 1: Book was a better black movie then Beal Street. And 173 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 1: I was just like, what makes that movie black beside 174 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: the fact that there's one in the movie, But there's 175 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,200 Speaker 1: no black people on these teams. There's no black peple 176 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 1: on it, like you know. So I love from the 177 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: camera diversity, I love it, but I want more black 178 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 1: people behind the scenes. It's about inclusion at every level. 179 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: That's why. So like I want to like tell people, 180 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:12,200 Speaker 1: you know, there's some people and but this is where 181 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 1: my my, my, my call to action gets kind of trash. Look, 182 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 1: there's some of y'all out here that are, you know, 183 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:21,800 Speaker 1: trying to be actors, y'all trying to be writers, Like 184 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:23,440 Speaker 1: y'all that's not as good as it as some of 185 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 1: the other people. Bro but y'all can still have an impact. 186 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 1: You might be a great producer. I might be a 187 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 1: great producer, bro, we need it. You might be a 188 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: great cast and director. Like look, it sounds like I'm joking, 189 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 1: but I'm being for real. There are other ways to 190 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 1: be involved in this ship if you really care about it. 191 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 1: Because that's what these white people do. They're going to 192 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:40,960 Speaker 1: go ship. I want to be an actor, but I'm 193 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:42,840 Speaker 1: not that great at it, So I'm going I'm gonna 194 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 1: be a producer and I'm gonna get my friends on. 195 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 1: We need you all do the same ship. Also, good 196 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: money in producing great money, in producing good money. That's 197 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:52,840 Speaker 1: why most actors when they get on, the first thing 198 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: that they do is make a production company. That's the 199 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 1: first thing that they do. Brad Pitt has produced all 200 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 1: your favorite black movies from the last five years. It's crazy, 201 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 1: but that's that's my That's my myth is that front 202 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:08,600 Speaker 1: of camera diversity fixes the problem. That's a great myth. 203 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 1: What is something from your search history that's revealing about 204 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:17,080 Speaker 1: who you are? My search history Earns. I'm searching for 205 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: Earns right now, pass away yeah myself. Oh yeah, I'm 206 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: just that's where I've been in my life. I want 207 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 1: to see how much they cause if if I get 208 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 1: one like on sale, I'm like Amazon, what's good? If 209 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 1: I could get a group on earn, That's what I'm 210 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:37,680 Speaker 1: looking at right now. I don't see you as a 211 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 1: group on urn type person. Actually that is really yeah yeah, 212 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:43,679 Speaker 1: I would want an turn that looks nice, but it's 213 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,440 Speaker 1: really cheap. I'm actually just trying to get a cocktail 214 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:49,599 Speaker 1: shaker and make it as earned. If you could be 215 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:54,840 Speaker 1: dazzle a cocktail shaker, that's that's my brain. Your remains 216 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: should be uh in turned into a earn that is 217 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 1: a cocktail shaker. Yeah. I used to be a waitress 218 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 1: for ten years, so honestly, it's very on brand. Now 219 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 1: do you do the shake above the shoulder? Shoulder? Actually 220 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:10,960 Speaker 1: that is the corniest bartender ever, So no, I'm more 221 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 1: about the like mixalogists that like, you know stirs okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, 222 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 1: you know, yeah. Exactly what's your cocktail of choice drink? 223 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:23,079 Speaker 1: I'm sober, okay, That's why that's why I should ask 224 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 1: the first part. First, do you drink when you used to? 225 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: And I used to, My favorite cocktail was free whatever 226 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 1: in for it alright, I like the cocktail shakers, Like 227 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 1: I kind of with cocktail shakers now, even though I'm 228 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:41,200 Speaker 1: also sober, because you put ice in there and you 229 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:43,439 Speaker 1: shake that shut up, and it gets your drink cold 230 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:45,679 Speaker 1: in like five seconds. Wait, are you drinking other things 231 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 1: with the cocktail shaker? Yeah, we still got cocktail. Wait, 232 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 1: but what do you if I have to get like 233 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 1: a drink cold, like it doesn't matter like any soda obviously, yeah, 234 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 1: not so no, not so. I guess water usually just 235 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 1: get get the ice water really cold. It's usual for 236 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: my sun. My son wants water like cold really quick. 237 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:08,960 Speaker 1: I just like and I go over the shoulder. So 238 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. The window, you look like your 239 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:15,440 Speaker 1: four year kid on Martini. You're like there you goes 240 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 1: drinking out of a Martini glass, which is the like, literally, 241 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 1: I couldn't even handle a Martin glass without spilling, trying 242 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:23,839 Speaker 1: to give it to a two year old that she 243 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 1: wouldn't even make it to him. Now, yeah, exactly. All right, 244 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 1: let's talk about people who are worse at cheating, who 245 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 1: managed to get caught cheating in a way that people 246 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 1: I assumed everybody was cheating based on my experience of 247 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 1: the people that I went to college with. So there 248 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:50,320 Speaker 1: is an emission scam that has been exposed featuring a 249 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 1: gentleman by the name of Rick Singer. Scam. God man, 250 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 1: this this guy was really was really doing it. He 251 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: set it up. You set the whole thing up. Yeah, 252 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:01,959 Speaker 1: he had a nonprofit, phony nonprofit, and you go around 253 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:03,839 Speaker 1: to the wealthy and be like, look, I can get 254 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:06,680 Speaker 1: your kid in a sucking any school basically for a price. 255 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 1: Now what you do. You pay my nonprofit, you know, 256 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 1: whatever the fee is, and then I use that money 257 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 1: to then go bribe school officials or proctors of the 258 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:19,200 Speaker 1: s A T R a c T test to get 259 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:22,840 Speaker 1: your kid into the college of their dreams. And you 260 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 1: get to write it off at the end of the 261 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 1: year because it's a charitable donation. And how long has 262 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,439 Speaker 1: been doing it or for years? It's been a few 263 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 1: years now, I mean, but the latest batch that the 264 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:35,079 Speaker 1: I R. S and FBI uncovered is dealing with mostly 265 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:38,319 Speaker 1: kids that are still in the schools right now. Can 266 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:44,199 Speaker 1: you imagine there are kids going to class today who 267 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: have this ship on the front page of all the 268 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 1: newspapers and they're just being exposed. They said they arrested 269 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 1: like thirty three parents from some school officials, some coaches, 270 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 1: uh and Becky and Becky at Lori Laughlin from full 271 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 1: House and her has been Massimo, the guy who started 272 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:06,679 Speaker 1: Massimo Clothes. Their daughter went to USC fucking bought her 273 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:10,839 Speaker 1: way in. Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy's daughter bought 274 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 1: their way in. But my thing is is like, you 275 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:16,200 Speaker 1: bribe the school, right, but if your school is, but 276 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: if your child is not that good at school, how 277 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 1: can they maintain Okay, So it worked two ways, right. 278 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 1: One was the academic scam. So they would be like, look, 279 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:28,920 Speaker 1: my kids grades aren't gonda. I don't know how they're 280 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: gonna get into you. And they said, idiots, have you 281 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: seen these? I have a plan, reck Singer baby, pull 282 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 1: your kid out of high school and roll them in 283 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:40,080 Speaker 1: an online school and I'll have someone else take all 284 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 1: the course for him. So the kid has straight a's 285 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 1: going into the application, or if they're if they have 286 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:47,440 Speaker 1: regular grades but they're A C T R S A 287 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 1: T scores are sucked up. He says, Okay, what you 288 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: need to do is get your child in a d 289 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 1: h D diagnosis so they can then take the test 290 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: sort of isolated and for a lot longer time. They 291 00:14:57,640 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 1: can take their time on it, in which I already 292 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 1: have proctors paid off who do those specific tests, who 293 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:05,560 Speaker 1: after the kid has done with the test, they were 294 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: just corrected. So they had s A T A C 295 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 1: T proctors on the payroll, on the payroll, and they 296 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 1: would just correct, would erase the answers dumb rich kid 297 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: put in and put in the right answers, and then 298 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 1: that kid would get a good score on whateverything. But 299 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 1: and it was almost like to order. They're like, okay, 300 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: do you want to like near perfect because you don't 301 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: want to get too much scrutiny any much to just underneath. 302 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:32,000 Speaker 1: So it sounds super smart and they could basically pick 303 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 1: the score they wanted. Yeah, I just want to say, 304 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:36,960 Speaker 1: shout out to Rick, okay, because I wouldn't even have 305 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 1: thought of anything like that. They have to be he's 306 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 1: low key Billy McFarland. Yo, shout out to these dudes 307 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 1: just just scamming their way through exactly blue collar crimes 308 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 1: collar right. And And the thing is, it's just like 309 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 1: school is a scam to let's let's get into it, 310 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 1: like college is a sham o wham. It's well in 311 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 1: the sense that they've made it's so hard for anyone 312 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 1: to get in that it's just become this unattainable thing. 313 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 1: I think education is a good thing, but yeah, in 314 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 1: the in the way that they sort of frame it 315 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 1: as like you need to go into crippling debt to 316 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:15,200 Speaker 1: achieve this degree. Is the college a good thing, because yeah, 317 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 1: you get all this information. Nine times out of ten, 318 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: you're not gonna whatever your major is when you get 319 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 1: out of college, You're not going to do that. I 320 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: think it all depends on I think it's not for everyone, right, 321 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: I think they're very specifically there are I I certainly 322 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 1: benefited from going to college. I wanted to go look 323 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 1: at you. But I also know I have a degree 324 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 1: in history. I'm not using that ship aside from dropping 325 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 1: weird references on this show. In the end, is it 326 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: worth being in debt your whole life? I don't know. 327 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:44,440 Speaker 1: I can't argue that this is basically a more like 328 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 1: bald faced, like fraudulent version of the thing that happens 329 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 1: all the time, Like people get into these schools based 330 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: on legacy, like based on the fact that their parents 331 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 1: went there. That doesn't make it their grandparents built a 332 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 1: building there. Yeah, it's just my grandparents put a building 333 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:07,359 Speaker 1: in the school. I'm going to the mother don't. And 334 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:08,879 Speaker 1: that's what it used to be. So that's what a 335 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: lot of these people are saying. There's a there's a difference, 336 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:13,119 Speaker 1: right a lot of people. It used to be like, 337 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 1: just make an outrageous donation to the school and there's 338 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 1: a little more quid pro quo. It's still like, yeah, 339 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:23,199 Speaker 1: of course this is outright fraud and bribery. So another 340 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:26,680 Speaker 1: way was the athletic track. So coaches they have their 341 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:29,480 Speaker 1: allotment of people they can recruit to bring in this school, 342 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 1: and so other times they can be like, look, I 343 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 1: might be able to get your kid on the Yale 344 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 1: soccer team as a way in because the Grays aren't 345 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 1: that good. And they were like, wait, but my kid 346 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 1: has never even played soccer. Yeah, that's all good, because 347 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:43,879 Speaker 1: this is what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna stage before soccer. 348 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 1: So he would stage photo shoots to make it look 349 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,880 Speaker 1: like this kid was a real legit recruit, or if 350 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 1: the kid was uncoordinated, they would just straight photoshop to 351 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:58,239 Speaker 1: face on the ship and then submit that. So when 352 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:00,639 Speaker 1: it looked like it looked like a legitimate recruit. They're like, 353 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:04,399 Speaker 1: look at these accolades and committing like that fraud. Then 354 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:07,359 Speaker 1: it turns out you can bribe the Yale soccer coach 355 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 1: with like a payment of five dollars. You can be like, yeah, 356 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 1: welcome to Yale. But it's but it's Yale, though, Like 357 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 1: I feel like half of it is our fault in 358 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:20,679 Speaker 1: terms of thinking like, oh, these prestigious universities is the 359 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:23,480 Speaker 1: way to go. You are the creme de la creme 360 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:27,240 Speaker 1: of When you graduate, you should be able to get 361 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: whatever job you want. And it's just like, that's not 362 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:32,119 Speaker 1: how life is set up, right. I think it's just 363 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 1: because the culture of these specific parent groups are like, well, 364 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 1: our kid has to go to Yale, you know what 365 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:38,679 Speaker 1: I mean, because they live in that world where if 366 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:41,160 Speaker 1: you don't go to Yale you're not shipped. But that okay, yes, 367 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:44,919 Speaker 1: we do it on the parents, but also society too, actually, 368 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,200 Speaker 1: and we get mad at the whole system. But it's 369 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 1: just like, y'all made the Kardashians hot, So don't be 370 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:54,120 Speaker 1: mad when the scams get scams. Don't don't be mad. 371 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 1: It's it's all us, right, yeah, we've built it up 372 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 1: to the point where now preparents are like, by any means, 373 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 1: neces Sariah not to get this child in right. And 374 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:06,119 Speaker 1: Aunt Becky's daughter, once she got into USC like got 375 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:08,760 Speaker 1: on her she's she's an influencer, you guys, And she 376 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 1: got on her thing and on her social media thing 377 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:16,639 Speaker 1: and was like having a conversation. I don't know what 378 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 1: outlet it was, but I think it was YouTube and 379 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 1: was like, you know, I don't like school, guys, but 380 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be like fun that I get 381 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:26,919 Speaker 1: to go to games, but I don't really plan on 382 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:30,960 Speaker 1: attending classes. So yeah, she's just like is that a 383 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 1: character or that she's dead as serious and she's like, 384 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 1: I just want to be able to Yeah, so of 385 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:39,800 Speaker 1: someone who went to college. She wants to do the 386 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:43,239 Speaker 1: version of cause they see on TV. But this is 387 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:47,160 Speaker 1: such a like i'd say, one of the biggest wasted 388 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: resources in all of America. Like we're supposed to have 389 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 1: this meritocracy and the such there's so much time and 390 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:57,959 Speaker 1: energy being spent on rich people trying to get their 391 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:00,960 Speaker 1: kids to like have good lives. You know, just be 392 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:03,439 Speaker 1: like it's like your kid just doesn't want to do 393 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 1: ship Like they're you wasted, You're you're ruined, but you're 394 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 1: trying to push this kid in the direction. It's not 395 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 1: gonna It's just not gonna happen. Well, I will say this, 396 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 1: especially with like the S A T. S and just 397 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 1: like the test and then going to college, like it's 398 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:22,840 Speaker 1: not a system based on like intelligence at all. Right, 399 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:25,440 Speaker 1: it's all based on like if you're a good test taker, 400 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 1: also who your parents are. The system is flawed as 401 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 1: it is, Like I don't know, I went to college 402 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 1: and I'm really hard at like memorizing things and just 403 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 1: understanding stuff. And I didn't do well and it was 404 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 1: frustrating because I would try to apply myself and then 405 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 1: I became depressed because it's like am I stupid? Am 406 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:51,000 Speaker 1: I not worthy of being here? And you know, look 407 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:55,720 Speaker 1: where I am now? A comedian. Yeah, well I think 408 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,439 Speaker 1: it it helps you sort of realize things too in 409 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:00,639 Speaker 1: the process, I guess for you, right, you sort of 410 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 1: realize you like this whole academia thing I've been sold 411 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 1: like for what Yeah, and there's a whole cottage industry 412 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 1: that I think Robert Evans is going to do a 413 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:12,200 Speaker 1: story on. But we interviewed a bunch of kids. Uh. 414 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 1: When when I was back at Cracked, there was like 415 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 1: a bunch of these kids who, uh, we're basically writers 416 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:21,919 Speaker 1: for hire. They would write your college paper for you, 417 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 1: and like you know, like that's that's what these kids 418 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:27,680 Speaker 1: do once they get in, Like they just pay kids 419 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:31,400 Speaker 1: to like do the and then and then they become politicians. 420 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:34,120 Speaker 1: Then have all existed in a world where they don't 421 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:35,880 Speaker 1: need to do anything, they can buy their way out 422 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 1: of anything. They're in a consequence free world, and then 423 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,199 Speaker 1: they start robbing the working people and then look at 424 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:42,040 Speaker 1: where we are. I could keep going, yeah, this is 425 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:45,600 Speaker 1: the conspiracy, but there are there are those moments when 426 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:47,760 Speaker 1: you see a politician and you're like, wait, this person 427 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:52,160 Speaker 1: can't be that dumb. They just looked they just they 428 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 1: just they just looked dumb in that moment. No, No, 429 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 1: there there are ways. Yeah, and I guess also too. 430 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:00,720 Speaker 1: So like when you look at it, people were paying 431 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,120 Speaker 1: from anywhere from two hundred thousand to six point five 432 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:05,760 Speaker 1: million dollars to get these kids in and they were 433 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 1: they were saying at the press conference today, there were 434 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 1: some parents who didn't want the kids to know that 435 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 1: they were sucking, pulling the strings behind their back, and 436 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 1: they said they have other instances where the kids very 437 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:17,159 Speaker 1: much knew what was going on and what they had 438 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: to do to get in. Could you imagine if you 439 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,080 Speaker 1: like found you thought you got that score on the 440 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:29,360 Speaker 1: s T thought today there's no way you know, you know, 441 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:33,159 Speaker 1: if you're good at cast taking. But also I know 442 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 1: there are people who have been encouraged their whole life 443 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:37,920 Speaker 1: to a point where they think they are much more 444 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:39,920 Speaker 1: capable than they are. And I'm sure there's a sliver 445 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 1: of people who like, yeah, let's talk about it, white men, 446 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:48,919 Speaker 1: let's come on, wait a second tier, we got a 447 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:54,280 Speaker 1: bad rap. I have studied really hard on that. And yeah, 448 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,120 Speaker 1: all my family went to the same college, and you're 449 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:02,440 Speaker 1: in Lacrosse is a real sport, right, Oh my god, 450 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,119 Speaker 1: where I want is also tied up in this, and 451 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:09,400 Speaker 1: you know, and lacrosse is the like cool sport there 452 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,119 Speaker 1: stop it. I'm glad I went to one of these 453 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 1: schools that was good enough for people to scam their 454 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 1: way into. But yeah, it's the USC part doesn't surprise 455 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,480 Speaker 1: me at all, because like for rich people in Los Angeles, 456 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 1: like that's sort of like the of course, you just 457 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,480 Speaker 1: go to USC, like if you're not really serious about anything. 458 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 1: But yeah, of course I go to USC, dude looking sicky. 459 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:32,639 Speaker 1: We're all the other conservative kids in l A. Yeah, 460 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 1: it's all about titles, it's all about status, and we 461 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:41,160 Speaker 1: we we drag it. But it's a thing and everybody 462 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,560 Speaker 1: can say what they want because they're in one level. 463 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 1: But imagine when you get money. Imagine if you're at 464 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 1: that part in your life where you're like, I could 465 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 1: pay for my kids to get into the school the 466 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:55,439 Speaker 1: wrong way, right, if you're that type of parent, you're 467 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:59,360 Speaker 1: gonna do it. Yeah, you know, like you never your 468 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 1: kid never had to sell Girl Scout cookies and it 469 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 1: was pretty low and you're like, I I'm just gonna 470 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,960 Speaker 1: buy all these boxes of cookie right. Yeah it starts there, 471 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 1: but it starts there. Yeah, wow, just let your kids, 472 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:17,160 Speaker 1: Let your kids take the l Yeah, I think that's true. Man. 473 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:19,480 Speaker 1: Hell yeah, if my parents have to do the no 474 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 1: fucking wait. My mom wouldn't even turn the air conditioning 475 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 1: on and I was sweating in the house. I'm like, 476 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,479 Speaker 1: what anyway. But the thing that we still don't know 477 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 1: is what the schools are going to do with these 478 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 1: kids that are still involved. What they're gonna do, and 479 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 1: then that's where I'm like, you know, they're gonna return 480 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 1: the money. Hello, that's what I want to know. But 481 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:40,439 Speaker 1: it's not many of the schools. Even the FBI they 482 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,479 Speaker 1: tried to find make sure that there were no administrators involved, 483 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,280 Speaker 1: and it seemed like it was purely just these coaches 484 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 1: and these proctors and only at one case USC where 485 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,960 Speaker 1: an administrator was also caught up and those but I 486 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,439 Speaker 1: think they're still they're still investigating, so we don't know 487 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:00,159 Speaker 1: the full extent yet, but there from what they have 488 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,360 Speaker 1: so far in the charges they made, they could only 489 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,640 Speaker 1: find these people culpable. But I am curious though, Like 490 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,199 Speaker 1: I mean, it sucks for the kids, especially if they 491 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,719 Speaker 1: didn't know. But at the same time, it seems like 492 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 1: you have plenty of resources that this won't funk up 493 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 1: your your life trajected em. Yeah, it's fucking embarrassing. And 494 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 1: at that age, stuff like that is like it feels 495 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 1: like the end of the world. How am I gonna 496 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:29,280 Speaker 1: move forward on this? Because then it's all on social media, 497 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 1: your name is all up and through the blogs. It's 498 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 1: rough at least. And Becky's daughter was like that I 499 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,960 Speaker 1: don't do school like, so she she's owning it already 500 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,639 Speaker 1: even before this happens. I'm going to feel bad for 501 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 1: William H. Macy's kid, who like, who knows. Maybe they're like, yeah, 502 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,639 Speaker 1: I'm smart, and then I'm going on her. I g 503 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,840 Speaker 1: just just have any what's her stories? Right? Nope, it's 504 00:25:54,880 --> 00:26:01,600 Speaker 1: probably no no private her. Olivia Jid's uh Instagram is 505 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:03,920 Speaker 1: wide open, but she hasn't posted since the end of February. 506 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,720 Speaker 1: How many fathers? Guy, she's got one point three million 507 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 1: influencer and you two can cheat your way through an education. 508 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 1: Oh my god. Well, we'll be right back, and we're back. 509 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:30,440 Speaker 1: Let's get into the best places in this world to live. 510 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: I guess it's a HR company mercer that ranks all 511 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,359 Speaker 1: the different cities around the world in terms of livability, 512 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 1: and they you know, people usually pay attention to the 513 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:48,359 Speaker 1: top twenty, and you will not find a US city 514 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,399 Speaker 1: in that top twenty. What was the top US city? 515 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 1: The top US city with San Francisco and came in 516 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:59,280 Speaker 1: at a cool thirty four. It's a great city to 517 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 1: live in if you have thirty four million. Yeah, exactly. 518 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 1: It's a it's a weird list in Boston. I guess 519 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:09,360 Speaker 1: if it's US cities, then Boston, Honolulu, New York, Seattle, Chicago, 520 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 1: d C, Philliam, Pittsburgh. Yeah. I do think they are 521 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:16,680 Speaker 1: assuming a certain amount of disposable income on the behalf 522 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 1: of the people who they're talking to, because they are 523 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: like placing professionals in these cities, Like that's what they do, 524 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,639 Speaker 1: and so that's kind of what who they're speaking to, 525 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 1: who they're thinking about. I mean, but the things that 526 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 1: are ranking based on our recreation, housing, uh, you know, 527 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 1: medical and health consideration, school and education, public services, and transport. 528 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,719 Speaker 1: So they are all things that we look for. Well, 529 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:46,919 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Geneva is you know, you know, 530 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,960 Speaker 1: famously known for being very affordable place to live, as 531 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:55,160 Speaker 1: Zurich and Basil. Like there's three Swiss cities. I mean, 532 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:57,760 Speaker 1: I would love to go shout out to Vancouver at 533 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 1: number three. Vancouver is numbers three. Yeah, you see, ze Gang. 534 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 1: It's pretty wild because natural environment is also one of 535 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 1: the things that they take into considerations. And there are 536 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 1: five Canadian cities on the list before you get to 537 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:16,640 Speaker 1: a single US city. Got Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Calgary, 538 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:22,399 Speaker 1: which are all frigid nightmares with a bullet. Yeah. One 539 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:26,960 Speaker 1: Ottawa baby where they skate to work. Yeah, you know Ottawa, 540 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 1: because you can't say it without a Canadian accent, like 541 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 1: it sort of forces you into I'm from ottawataway I really. 542 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:38,720 Speaker 1: Uh look, I'm glad Sydney's on there next to Amsterdam. Uh, Wellington, 543 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:42,880 Speaker 1: New Zealand sounds great too. Yeah. Yeah, what was the 544 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:48,040 Speaker 1: top two? The top two are Vienna and Zurich, other 545 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 1: top US cities, and you know, the US cities start 546 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,680 Speaker 1: coming pretty fast and furious after thirty four. You got 547 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,240 Speaker 1: Boston at thirty six, Honolulu at thirty seven. You don't 548 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 1: say New York is at forty four. New York is 549 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 1: the only city that has moved up in the rankings. 550 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 1: All other US cities have gone down. And they credit 551 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,520 Speaker 1: that with just the rise of I think they said populism. 552 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 1: I was going to say the machines, right, the rise 553 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 1: of the I think they said machines. I'm just glad 554 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:19,320 Speaker 1: LA is not on there. You know, people don't need 555 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,320 Speaker 1: to come out here. The traffics fucked. L A is 556 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 1: on there. There were six, right, we're tied with Houston 557 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 1: and Miami. I like Houston, I like Popods, Yeah, I 558 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,520 Speaker 1: like Poncha Train Sauce, right behind Atlanta. Yeah, so, I 559 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:40,760 Speaker 1: don't know. It does seem like a suspiciously white group 560 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:45,640 Speaker 1: of cities that have scored high on the on this ranking, 561 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:48,560 Speaker 1: but not a lot of color in Zurich. Kind imagine, Yeah, 562 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:52,440 Speaker 1: I don't think. So let's talk about the president's attempt 563 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 1: to buy the Buffalo Bills back before he decided to 564 00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:01,440 Speaker 1: run for president. This is just a wild story. Yeah, 565 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:05,720 Speaker 1: who would have thought that Trump always likes to use 566 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 1: shady stuff, no matter what it is, whether it's real 567 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,720 Speaker 1: estate or covering up affairs, or even something that seems 568 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:16,280 Speaker 1: as straightforward as simply just buying a NFL team. I mean, 569 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 1: this has been his white whale since like the eighties, 570 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,680 Speaker 1: right right, He was like he had the he had 571 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 1: a USFL team, and he was trying to leverage that 572 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:26,320 Speaker 1: he got the USFL team because they wouldn't let him 573 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:29,120 Speaker 1: buy an NFL team, And then he tried to leverage 574 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 1: the USFL team into an NFL team and ended up 575 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:36,240 Speaker 1: killing the entire league. Right, Yeah, he wanted to be 576 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 1: like a b a thing where they merge with the league. 577 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,080 Speaker 1: So he was like, yeah, we're gonna take the USFL 578 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,480 Speaker 1: and put it at the same time as the NFL, 579 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,240 Speaker 1: and they're going to be so sorry. Yeah, they're gonna 580 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,520 Speaker 1: be so creditive. And then just nobody ever watched the 581 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 1: USFL ever again, and yeah, he's a he's a brilliant 582 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,560 Speaker 1: business person. Yeah. Well, I think the reason this story 583 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 1: came back up is because when Mike Cohen was testifying, 584 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,800 Speaker 1: he talked about, oh, you know, Trump also like inflated 585 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 1: his assets by four billions, so you get a loan 586 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 1: from Deutsche Bank to buy the bills. And what we're 587 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,000 Speaker 1: figuring out now, as you know, our writer JM was 588 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,760 Speaker 1: pointing out from old articles that were written about this time, 589 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:19,240 Speaker 1: it was down to like a three person war over 590 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,680 Speaker 1: like bidding war over the bills. It was the guy 591 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:26,440 Speaker 1: who owns the Buffalo Sabers, Donald Trump, and then Jon 592 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 1: bon Jovi and like a consortium of rich guys from 593 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,280 Speaker 1: Toronto or Canada basically who are going to buy it? 594 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 1: And Trump tried he figured out a way to basically 595 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:39,280 Speaker 1: poison the well for John bon Jovi. Yeah, so he 596 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:43,960 Speaker 1: created a false flag group of Bills fans. Basically, this 597 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,680 Speaker 1: group of Bills fans called themselves twelfth Man Thunder, and 598 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:52,719 Speaker 1: they started doing protests, like establishing bon Jovi free zones 599 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 1: and local bars, and like one time a cover band 600 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,560 Speaker 1: tried to play some bon Jovi music and they got 601 00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,120 Speaker 1: like booed off the stage, and I kind of like 602 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 1: these guys so far. Yeah, So it turns out there 603 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:09,680 Speaker 1: was nothing organic about this grassroots movement. It was astro turfed. Uh. 604 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:15,400 Speaker 1: Donald Trump fronted affair just to basically make people. The 605 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,280 Speaker 1: idea that he was trying to get out was that 606 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 1: bon Jovi and his Canadian business partners were going to 607 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:25,320 Speaker 1: move the bills to Toronto, yeah, and take away your 608 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 1: precious bulls or bills bills. Yeah. Yeah. And I think 609 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:32,160 Speaker 1: it was just you know, it's it's right on track, babe, 610 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:36,000 Speaker 1: just xenophobia, Like these Canadians are gonna sunk up the bills. 611 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,640 Speaker 1: I mean, the border war are the buffalo bills like 612 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,640 Speaker 1: the root of all white nationalism. I mean, like so 613 00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:45,520 Speaker 1: if right, if Trump buys the bills, maybe he doesn't 614 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:51,040 Speaker 1: run for president. Um. Also, like Timothy McVeigh bet a 615 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:55,120 Speaker 1: thousand dollars on the bills in the fourth super Bowl 616 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,360 Speaker 1: that they're in and lost it. And then it was yeah, 617 00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:00,160 Speaker 1: this was the story. Actually it's from Boom to Own, 618 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,920 Speaker 1: the book I mentioned earlier. But yeah, so Timothy McVeigh 619 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:06,240 Speaker 1: was like this lifelong Buffalo Bills fan, and he bet 620 00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:09,000 Speaker 1: a thousand dollars supposedly like the last money he had, 621 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 1: because he's like, there's no way they're gonna lose another time. 622 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,480 Speaker 1: And then he like lost it all and supposedly that 623 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,160 Speaker 1: like helped him over the roll down into you know, 624 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:22,800 Speaker 1: a crazy Turner Diaries obsessive guy. Wow. Yeah, because I 625 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,560 Speaker 1: think right after he lost, Trump lost his bid for 626 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,760 Speaker 1: the Bills. He launched his presidential campaign nine months later. Yeah, Like, 627 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:30,720 Speaker 1: if we would have just given him an NFL team, 628 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:32,600 Speaker 1: I feel like the country if it was like, all right, 629 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:34,800 Speaker 1: so Trump, you can either have Trump as president or 630 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,440 Speaker 1: as an NFL owner, we would have been like, well, sure, 631 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,520 Speaker 1: may give him an NFL team. I mean, he's perfect 632 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,760 Speaker 1: as an NFL owner, right, Isn't it really don Beebe's fault, 633 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:45,479 Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Because wasn't he the one 634 00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:47,920 Speaker 1: holding the football up and then Leon Letting just fucking 635 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:49,800 Speaker 1: bashed that ship out on the one yard line when 636 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,280 Speaker 1: he was like feeling himself too much. I mean, that's 637 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:53,720 Speaker 1: really what we need to be looking at him or 638 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,520 Speaker 1: Scott Norwood right to see the kicker who missed the 639 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,640 Speaker 1: was Don bebe in the second Super Bowl? The second time. 640 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,280 Speaker 1: I don't remember. I just remember my Sports Illustrated for Kids. 641 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,959 Speaker 1: It was in my worst moment Illustrated part and I 642 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,160 Speaker 1: was like, damn, dom Beebie. I've never fucking let that 643 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,520 Speaker 1: go as a kid. Thank you to Sports Illustrated for Kids. 644 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,120 Speaker 1: The perforated trading cards in the middle, we're kind of shitty. 645 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,640 Speaker 1: They were terrible. Yeah, and I loved cards. I love 646 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:19,479 Speaker 1: trading cards, so I was like, oh, it comes with cards, 647 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:23,560 Speaker 1: and like, the funk is this perforated bulls my upper deckad? 648 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,279 Speaker 1: But anyway, so this group, right, the crazy thing is 649 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,640 Speaker 1: this the Trump hired this guy Michael Caputo, who like 650 00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,840 Speaker 1: like helped Oliver North out during the all the Iran 651 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:36,080 Speaker 1: contra stuff. He was like boosting the careers of Boris 652 00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:39,600 Speaker 1: Yeltson and fucking Putin. So then he's like, oh, perfect, 653 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:43,439 Speaker 1: I need you to fucking destroy bon Jovi, And yeah, 654 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,400 Speaker 1: it was just amazing, Like, you know, using political operatives 655 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,840 Speaker 1: who are like real good friends with Roger Stone and ship. 656 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,759 Speaker 1: I just love the idea of the AstroTurf anti bon 657 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:55,000 Speaker 1: Jovi group, right, yeah, especially like how are you going 658 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,439 Speaker 1: to get a bar to be a bon Jovi free zone? 659 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:02,560 Speaker 1: Like that's impleving on a prayer. Come what that cannot 660 00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:07,120 Speaker 1: be done? Sorry? Yeah, people love bon Jovi, right, And 661 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:11,280 Speaker 1: then the the wild part the the guy who fronted 662 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:15,640 Speaker 1: this organization, This guy Caputo, he found a double amputee 663 00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:19,160 Speaker 1: cancer survivor to be the face of the organization because 664 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:20,920 Speaker 1: he was basically saying, like, you know, if he's at 665 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,479 Speaker 1: the front, who's going to criticize you? You're a double 666 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:26,880 Speaker 1: ampt cancer survivor. And the thing was the university was 667 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,120 Speaker 1: the University of Texas. I have no legs or Texas 668 00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:34,000 Speaker 1: or Texas. And yeah, they sued. They hit him with 669 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,000 Speaker 1: a season desist because they're like, we actually trademark the 670 00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,759 Speaker 1: phrase of the twelfth Man, so we're gonna hit you 671 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:43,040 Speaker 1: with the season desist. And Caputo immediately march the guy 672 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:44,920 Speaker 1: out there and he's like, look what they're doing in 673 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:47,680 Speaker 1: Texas and him suing a fan who's a double ampt 674 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:51,080 Speaker 1: cancer survivor. They're sick. Keith Olberman even hopped on. He's like, 675 00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:55,200 Speaker 1: they're the most they're the worst people actually. Well and 676 00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:58,400 Speaker 1: then to make it up, they get Texas A and 677 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:02,080 Speaker 1: M to donate twenty five thousand uh, you know, to 678 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:06,879 Speaker 1: help this organizations quote stop the Canadians from buying their team. Uh. 679 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,080 Speaker 1: And then as an as like a sort of like, look, 680 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,200 Speaker 1: we'll settle. We'll just change our name to Bill's Fan 681 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:16,640 Speaker 1: Thunder uh and you know, still again circulating petitions around 682 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:19,319 Speaker 1: the city keep the team in Buffalo again. Something that 683 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,480 Speaker 1: was never uttered by bon Jovi or these these Canadian 684 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,239 Speaker 1: business people that are interested in buying the team. They 685 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,960 Speaker 1: never for once said we have any interests, like no, 686 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,839 Speaker 1: we just want to buy the Buffalo Bills and own 687 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:33,320 Speaker 1: this team. Like Jovi was talking about moving to Buffalo. 688 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:38,520 Speaker 1: The only thing that was that's Canadian about, I know, exactly, 689 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,080 Speaker 1: the only thing that was Canadian about the entire thing 690 00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:45,520 Speaker 1: was that his business partners were from Toronto. And then 691 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:51,440 Speaker 1: Trump was like, oh, we're gonna use that, Yeah their foreigners. Yeah, 692 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,640 Speaker 1: he's he's got a gift. This does kind of make 693 00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,720 Speaker 1: me think of him as more of an evil genius 694 00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:59,880 Speaker 1: than I did going into this story. Well, he's just 695 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:01,880 Speaker 1: I think that's just always his tactic, you know, what 696 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:03,560 Speaker 1: I mean. If I don't like someone, let me create 697 00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,880 Speaker 1: some fake outrage about him. And it's also kind of 698 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,520 Speaker 1: the US is playbook in general when they want to 699 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,640 Speaker 1: topple foreign governments. It's like, how do I, how do 700 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:14,160 Speaker 1: I AstroTurf some outrage in this country or whatever? Most 701 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:19,080 Speaker 1: of dick anyway, So, yeah, is the Buffalo Bills the 702 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:23,320 Speaker 1: node that all the evil energy travels through? I think, yeah, 703 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:25,799 Speaker 1: it has to be. It's so weird to actually think 704 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,640 Speaker 1: about like these little things, right of, like the Buffalo 705 00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,360 Speaker 1: Bills winning the Super Bowl and that connection to Timothy McVeigh. 706 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,560 Speaker 1: If Trump owned it, would he have been too distracted 707 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:39,160 Speaker 1: to try and run for president. Oh yeah, definitely he would. 708 00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,719 Speaker 1: And he probably would have put the Bills like the 709 00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:44,600 Speaker 1: Bills wouldn't exist anymore. We can all agree on somehow 710 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:48,560 Speaker 1: exist now. Yeah, he would have driven that franchise into 711 00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,799 Speaker 1: the ground, the first NFL franchise to go out of 712 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:56,080 Speaker 1: business modern era. Like nobody wanted the golden seed package 713 00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:58,640 Speaker 1: with the seats were made of gold. It was either 714 00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:04,360 Speaker 1: he got to experiment as the like an experiment in failure, 715 00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,640 Speaker 1: as the owner of the Bills, or as the president 716 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:12,000 Speaker 1: of the United States. And we got the ship end 717 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,040 Speaker 1: of that stick. Hey. Well look, you know, shout out 718 00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:15,680 Speaker 1: to the Bills backers, you know what I mean, at 719 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:19,399 Speaker 1: least congratulations to the Bills. Yeah, hey, and then thank 720 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,840 Speaker 1: you for the Buffalo Wings too. Yeah. Absolutely. Uh. And 721 00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:27,520 Speaker 1: salt potatoes and white nationalism. What are salt potatoes? Actually 722 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:31,160 Speaker 1: that's Syracuse. What's a salt potato. It's just you boil 723 00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:35,919 Speaker 1: potatoes in water that is basically saturated with salt, and 724 00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:41,240 Speaker 1: they're really good. Really yeah, it's just a boiled salty potato. Yeah, 725 00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:45,920 Speaker 1: and then you butter them there incredible, highly recommend Alright, 726 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,880 Speaker 1: salt Dinosaur Barbecue in New York is like a Syracuse 727 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:52,560 Speaker 1: barbecue jointing. Oh yeah them right, you can get that 728 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,920 Speaker 1: on that website that moves. I'm not doing that. I 729 00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:57,680 Speaker 1: thought that's just how you boiled all vegetables. Well, this 730 00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:01,799 Speaker 1: is like apparently it's a lot of salt. It's you 731 00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,960 Speaker 1: like the amount of salt that you would usually see 732 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,359 Speaker 1: used during a snowstorm. I think, in fact, that's how 733 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:10,640 Speaker 1: it came to be in Buffalo is just they had 734 00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:14,000 Speaker 1: a little extra uh, they were they had been spreading 735 00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:16,799 Speaker 1: on they served in the summer when the young potatoes 736 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:20,920 Speaker 1: are first harvested. M m m m m. Yes, well 737 00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:22,960 Speaker 1: I would I would love to have some salt potatoes 738 00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,640 Speaker 1: for dinner tonight. I think we're settled all learning a 739 00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:31,520 Speaker 1: little bit about buffalo. Uh. Let's talk about a corporation 740 00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:36,080 Speaker 1: that does not understand what we see in them. Uh, 741 00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:40,200 Speaker 1: and that is the Budweiser Corporation. They have released a product, 742 00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:45,200 Speaker 1: they've released a line on Uh that Okay, they they've 743 00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,839 Speaker 1: just announced them, so you probably these probably will never 744 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:52,640 Speaker 1: hit your shelves. But they have announced with with confidence 745 00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:56,480 Speaker 1: that they will be releasing a line of meat products. 746 00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:00,920 Speaker 1: And one of those meat products is Budweiser are pulled pork. 747 00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:04,399 Speaker 1: It's everything. No, it's a whole line of Budweiser. Man, 748 00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:08,879 Speaker 1: but Budweiser pulled pork is so gross to me? Does Budweiser? 749 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,160 Speaker 1: Is there Budweiser in the pulled pork? Like? Do they 750 00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:13,160 Speaker 1: use it as a braise at all? I think that's 751 00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:15,680 Speaker 1: just I think that must be what it is. They 752 00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:19,239 Speaker 1: say it's using like brew Master sauce with whatever the 753 00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:22,080 Speaker 1: funk that is. I mean to be honest, Like beer 754 00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:25,120 Speaker 1: does help in the cooking of these kinds of things. Budwiser. 755 00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:26,960 Speaker 1: I think it's funny that they have, like their whole 756 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,840 Speaker 1: ad campaign now is to position themselves as like anti 757 00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:35,719 Speaker 1: foodie and like anti anti connoisseur basically, and they're like, well, now, 758 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,640 Speaker 1: but check out our line of artists and meats. What 759 00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:40,400 Speaker 1: are you talking about? This is for the many, not 760 00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:43,000 Speaker 1: the few. They're trying to capture millennials. Like in the 761 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,719 Speaker 1: press release, it says Budweiser is an iconic brand that 762 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:49,320 Speaker 1: is recognized throughout the US with impressive advertising and marketing, 763 00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,320 Speaker 1: and it's there teaming up with this group. Coleman Natural Foods, 764 00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,360 Speaker 1: who was actually making the meat anyway, says the Coleman 765 00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:57,920 Speaker 1: and Budweiser partnership will help create awareness for the millennial 766 00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:03,280 Speaker 1: consumers to stop shop in the processed meat case. Now 767 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:08,080 Speaker 1: this smacks again of old motherfucker's thinking, like how do 768 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:12,080 Speaker 1: we get these millennials because if they know, if they 769 00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:15,600 Speaker 1: knew this generation, yeah, you know, we love Budweiser and 770 00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:19,080 Speaker 1: processed meat, Like, come the funk on, I already know 771 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:22,919 Speaker 1: we're killing the beer industry. And they say, very health 772 00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:25,920 Speaker 1: conscious people, you know that. I think the sort of 773 00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,680 Speaker 1: snarky perception is like all millennials like, oh, they like 774 00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:32,880 Speaker 1: they only eat like grass and things that don't cast shadows. 775 00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:35,160 Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know. It's just it's just funny 776 00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,400 Speaker 1: to me, and it's just smacks of like some pitch 777 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:39,840 Speaker 1: guy really being like, this is the next wave for 778 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:43,280 Speaker 1: you guys, Reiser. This reminds me of that that leaked 779 00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:48,440 Speaker 1: document from the Pepsi logo design. It's just somebody selling 780 00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:52,640 Speaker 1: complete rubes who are running a company like something that 781 00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:56,520 Speaker 1: is just bullshit, but they get away with it by 782 00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,399 Speaker 1: being like, no, man, it's like what the kids are into, 783 00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:01,920 Speaker 1: right Yeah, Being like the the ambassador to youth culture 784 00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:04,040 Speaker 1: is always like a lucrative position because you can just 785 00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:07,120 Speaker 1: convince like business people of anything, right well, which is 786 00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:09,480 Speaker 1: what's funny about this last one. The one of the 787 00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,839 Speaker 1: founders of this family ranch to Coleman's the way this 788 00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,080 Speaker 1: line is in the in the press release, it just 789 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:17,719 Speaker 1: smacks of like the thing the advertise the marketing people 790 00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:19,720 Speaker 1: told him, because he says, this is a quote from him, 791 00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:23,360 Speaker 1: introducing classic Coleman natural Budweiser products to a new younger 792 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,600 Speaker 1: audience will bring generations of consumers from the beer riisle 793 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,759 Speaker 1: to the prepared meat case are great tasting products and 794 00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,520 Speaker 1: recipes will continue to bring them back time and time 795 00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:36,799 Speaker 1: again from the funk they will. I'm sorry Coleman, but 796 00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:40,200 Speaker 1: you know, does your grocery have a prepared meat case? 797 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,879 Speaker 1: Like I just think of it as that weird part 798 00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,920 Speaker 1: of the meat case, where like the Johnsonville Bronzar, like 799 00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:49,040 Speaker 1: Oscar Meyer and Ship. Right, well, I don't know about 800 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,800 Speaker 1: the at the grocery stores I go to. The hot 801 00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:55,360 Speaker 1: dogs are in a different area than like the Lloyd's 802 00:42:55,440 --> 00:43:00,520 Speaker 1: pre made you know, sloppy Joe Ship or whatever stuff is. Anyway, 803 00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:02,759 Speaker 1: the one thing I will give them those they're pretty 804 00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,880 Speaker 1: Actually this the foods themselves. They're trying to be pretty 805 00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:09,279 Speaker 1: health conscious because saying it's slow roasted on natural Coleman pork, 806 00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:14,160 Speaker 1: which contains no antibiotics ever, no added hormones, crate free 807 00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:17,560 Speaker 1: pork raised by Coleman Farmers, fed all vegetarian diet, no 808 00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:21,400 Speaker 1: animal byproducts. So I feel like they're they knew like 809 00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:23,839 Speaker 1: that part. Like I would be like, Okay, I see 810 00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:27,399 Speaker 1: what's going on, and then I'm like, wait, Budweiser spare ribs, Yeah, 811 00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:30,560 Speaker 1: they well, Budweiser is doing the whole no corn syrup things. 812 00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:33,319 Speaker 1: So now they're they're trying to position themselves as a 813 00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:37,360 Speaker 1: as a health food also right exactly, yes, the healthiest. 814 00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:38,799 Speaker 1: You know, if they were smart, I would I would 815 00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:43,959 Speaker 1: be drinking bud Light pulled pork. Yeah. That. I feel 816 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,040 Speaker 1: like they are very confused. Where Like the whereas core 817 00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,799 Speaker 1: as Light has been selling the idea that their beer 818 00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:54,000 Speaker 1: is colder right like thirty five years at least, and 819 00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:56,480 Speaker 1: that's I mean, if you just find that and you 820 00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:59,840 Speaker 1: stick with it, this just smacks of them grasping at straws. You. 821 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:02,680 Speaker 1: It really is an amazing campaign, the cores Light one, 822 00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:06,479 Speaker 1: because it's basically, look, you don't want to taste air beer. 823 00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:10,319 Speaker 1: You want to just experience it, like a shard of 824 00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:14,960 Speaker 1: ice going down your throats esophagus right where you don't 825 00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:19,319 Speaker 1: realize you've drank it because you're just too distracted by Yeah, 826 00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:23,280 Speaker 1: it's temperature. Our beer evokes the image of five hundred 827 00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:27,520 Speaker 1: foot tall gen xers playing football in the mountains. Remember 828 00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:31,080 Speaker 1: those commercials. It was like just gigantic humans sucking around 829 00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:33,640 Speaker 1: the rockies. I'm like, I guess this is a wave. 830 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:35,640 Speaker 1: I on even one who would just start snowing and 831 00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:39,239 Speaker 1: everything got awesome, right, right, because someone would like open, 832 00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:42,719 Speaker 1: crackling open, and then suddenly like everybody's tops coming up. 833 00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,759 Speaker 1: It's weird because it was like the snow would come down, 834 00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,920 Speaker 1: but then people would take clothes off somehow. But yeah, yeah, 835 00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:51,000 Speaker 1: because that's how we get down and core's light down. 836 00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,000 Speaker 1: That's what I mean. Alright, we're gonna take another quick break. 837 00:44:54,000 --> 00:45:04,680 Speaker 1: We'll be right there and we're back. Guys. I want 838 00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:08,200 Speaker 1: to talk about Lacroix. They're not doing well. It's time 839 00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:12,040 Speaker 1: for an intervention. And was it before after the lawsuit 840 00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:14,040 Speaker 1: where the two pilots are saying the CEO is groping 841 00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,399 Speaker 1: them in the cockpit. I think it was right around that. Yeah. 842 00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:20,360 Speaker 1: I think that's when we were sort of like Lacroix. 843 00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:27,200 Speaker 1: Lacroix was just coasting on the fumes of I don't know, 844 00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:30,799 Speaker 1: just like goodwill and people kind of just being like, yeah, 845 00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:34,560 Speaker 1: if you drink it like so so super cold, you 846 00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:39,560 Speaker 1: can actually get it down, Like here's the Like it's funny, 847 00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:42,160 Speaker 1: we're all in agreement of this. But I just remember 848 00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,680 Speaker 1: three or four years ago when Lacroix first was really 849 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:47,200 Speaker 1: having its moment, people were like, what do you mean 850 00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:50,480 Speaker 1: you don't like it? What flavor. Did you try it? 851 00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:52,839 Speaker 1: You know what you gotta try? Yeah, you don't want 852 00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:54,799 Speaker 1: to start with Yeah, and I'm gonna go with lime, 853 00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:59,239 Speaker 1: keep it simple, and then shotgun three of them at once, 854 00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:01,200 Speaker 1: and then the taste will be it'll be I mean, 855 00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:05,440 Speaker 1: I like a Flavors Seltzer. I you know, before Lacroix, 856 00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:07,680 Speaker 1: truth be told, I was a talking rain kind of 857 00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:11,640 Speaker 1: guy myself. But New York Seltzer is great. Yeah, I'm 858 00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:14,680 Speaker 1: trying to Waterloo or I think that's the one. Yeah. 859 00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:18,319 Speaker 1: It was so good. Yeah, and it is apparently a 860 00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:21,880 Speaker 1: very easy thing not to funk up because everybody flooded 861 00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:23,880 Speaker 1: the market with their own version, and some of them 862 00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:27,239 Speaker 1: are a little bit better than Lacroix. And it's just 863 00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:30,719 Speaker 1: everybody who goes to business school, like you know, they 864 00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:34,399 Speaker 1: have these classes where you just like study the case 865 00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:37,600 Speaker 1: study of like how Nike became Nike and like all 866 00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:40,200 Speaker 1: that ship. You should have to look at Lacroix and 867 00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:43,160 Speaker 1: like study how they fucked up, because it's like, Okay, 868 00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:46,680 Speaker 1: we're having like this moment, well we're gonna like over 869 00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:49,200 Speaker 1: leverage ourself and just like invest in it, like this 870 00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:52,399 Speaker 1: moment will never ever end, and like pure growth from 871 00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:54,960 Speaker 1: here on out, and we're gonna buy We're gonna make 872 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:59,040 Speaker 1: a Lacroix theme park where you ride Lacroix roller coasters, 873 00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:03,960 Speaker 1: and uh, it's just yeah, they just over expanded well 874 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:06,600 Speaker 1: and I think they also just didn't realize that what 875 00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:09,520 Speaker 1: they do like or the only people that can make 876 00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:14,359 Speaker 1: vaguely flavored water, like we got this ship cornered. But yeah, 877 00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:18,080 Speaker 1: cut to now the prolift the arms race of flavored saltzers, 878 00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:20,480 Speaker 1: and now they're like lagging because last year, in the 879 00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:25,560 Speaker 1: last twelve months, fucking profits following by nearly revenues down 880 00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:29,239 Speaker 1: like almost another three percent. And so this is really 881 00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:31,840 Speaker 1: why we're talking about it because the CEO, Nick Capperella, 882 00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:34,240 Speaker 1: we've talked in the past about how his like letters 883 00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:40,680 Speaker 1: to like shareholders are just wild graphic horror shows where 884 00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:42,919 Speaker 1: it's like comics sands and like all kinds of weird 885 00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:46,759 Speaker 1: clip art and just rants. So this time in the 886 00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:50,800 Speaker 1: in this letter to the shareholders, so all the stats 887 00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:53,839 Speaker 1: are there, it's like revenues down, you know, profits are down, 888 00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:56,160 Speaker 1: and it says, quote, we are truly sorry for these 889 00:47:56,200 --> 00:48:00,440 Speaker 1: results stated above. Negligence, nor mismanagement, nor wolf lacks of 890 00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:03,080 Speaker 1: God were not the reasons much of this was the 891 00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:07,080 Speaker 1: result of injustice. Managing a brand is not so different 892 00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:10,080 Speaker 1: from caring for someone who becomes handicapped. Brands do not 893 00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:12,880 Speaker 1: see or here, so they are at the mercy of 894 00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:16,440 Speaker 1: their owners or care providers who must preserve the dignity 895 00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:20,800 Speaker 1: and special character that the brand exemplifies. You cannot write 896 00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:24,800 Speaker 1: that like not not he can't like write a fiction 897 00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:28,320 Speaker 1: writer writing satire could not have come up with something 898 00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:31,200 Speaker 1: that fucking brilliant. I feel like the onion would be like, 899 00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:37,400 Speaker 1: who did you copy this? Because like that he builds 900 00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:40,719 Speaker 1: in that it's not like caring for a loved one, 901 00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:43,840 Speaker 1: it's caring for somebody who becomes handicapped because brands can't 902 00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:47,880 Speaker 1: see her here. Is just it's weird because he starts 903 00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:50,919 Speaker 1: off saying like, look, profits are down because of injustice, 904 00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:54,240 Speaker 1: but then goes on to say that also a brand 905 00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:57,399 Speaker 1: is at the mercy of their caregiver in this case me, 906 00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:01,479 Speaker 1: So are you the negligent? Yeah? That like he's calling 907 00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:05,560 Speaker 1: himself out. That's it's confusing. So what is the injustice? Miles? 908 00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:07,239 Speaker 1: I don't even happen to them. It doesn't even make 909 00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:09,879 Speaker 1: sense because that's literally I read that there was no 910 00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:12,960 Speaker 1: space in between that thought, and there's no further explanation 911 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:17,560 Speaker 1: about how there's some conspiracy. It's just like, okay, injustice, 912 00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:20,440 Speaker 1: and I mean he owns I think seventy of the 913 00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:22,520 Speaker 1: shares anyway, so he's the one taking the biggest hit 914 00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:25,160 Speaker 1: out of any which is why he's probably so unhinged. 915 00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:29,000 Speaker 1: It he's like, my money's in trouble. Listen, guys. And 916 00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:31,480 Speaker 1: then it's just like he literally just I don't even 917 00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:34,120 Speaker 1: remember like back when ransom notes came out in magazine clippings, 918 00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:36,040 Speaker 1: you remember, people would cut out the letters. That's how 919 00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:39,160 Speaker 1: he's like sending notes. It really feels like that. And 920 00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:41,160 Speaker 1: then at the end he has like an even more 921 00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:46,239 Speaker 1: sort of rocky, weird, wild explanation to sort of like, 922 00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:49,839 Speaker 1: come on, guys, give old Gil another chance. Here where 923 00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:52,080 Speaker 1: he goes, there's no greater passion than the kind that 924 00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:56,520 Speaker 1: creates the wonderful refreshment and contentment described as unique. No doubt, 925 00:49:56,640 --> 00:50:00,319 Speaker 1: the sound and personality of the word Lacroix, coupled the 926 00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:03,800 Speaker 1: awesome experience of its essence and taste, is a unique. 927 00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:07,279 Speaker 1: One can be induced to purchase by cheapening price or 928 00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:10,319 Speaker 1: giving away a product, but falling in love with a 929 00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:13,960 Speaker 1: feeling of joy is the result of contentment. Just ask 930 00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:18,200 Speaker 1: any Lacroix consumer, would you trade away that La la feeling? 931 00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:21,400 Speaker 1: No way, they shout, we just love our Lacroix. I 932 00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:25,400 Speaker 1: am positive they respond this way each and every time 933 00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:29,160 Speaker 1: this letter respond to you by cocaine. Dude, that La 934 00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:32,080 Speaker 1: la feeling? Was it that Ashley Simpsons song You make 935 00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:36,759 Speaker 1: La La? Now they should do a collab. That would 936 00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:41,440 Speaker 1: be incredible for two dying brands. He literally love Ashley 937 00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:45,560 Speaker 1: Simpson person. Shout out to Evan Ross. Yeah, he literally 938 00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:47,840 Speaker 1: got high on his own supply, Like this is somebody 939 00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:51,880 Speaker 1: who has fully built their personality out of marketing material 940 00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:55,719 Speaker 1: and it's just buying everything that they've been selling for 941 00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:57,600 Speaker 1: the past. Yeah. I forget what episode it was, but 942 00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:00,239 Speaker 1: when we sort of like tracked the evolution and of 943 00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:02,319 Speaker 1: this man and his beverage company because I think what 944 00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:05,800 Speaker 1: they used to like he owns Fago also, and then suddenly, 945 00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:08,480 Speaker 1: like Lacroix started popping and it blew his mind. He 946 00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:12,600 Speaker 1: was like, I'm the smartest guy ever. I once when 947 00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:15,920 Speaker 1: I worked in retail, I was not upselling enough. So 948 00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:18,719 Speaker 1: a manager was very upset with me, took me into 949 00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:22,719 Speaker 1: a private room and he's like, I'm gonna and he's like, 950 00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:26,439 Speaker 1: you're not selling enough, Like you're I hear you saw 951 00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:28,239 Speaker 1: that these are terrible pitches. And I'm like, but we're 952 00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:30,040 Speaker 1: not on commission. He's like, yeah, but don't you like 953 00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:31,960 Speaker 1: working here? And it's just in my head, I'm like, no, 954 00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:35,000 Speaker 1: I'm in college because I'm gonna show you this clip. 955 00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:37,640 Speaker 1: Let's see if this helps. He's up the TV, walks 956 00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:39,640 Speaker 1: out of the room. It is the opening ten minutes 957 00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:43,279 Speaker 1: of Glengarry Glenn Ross. This is the kind of ship. 958 00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:46,520 Speaker 1: This is exactly what it reminded me of. Where he's like, 959 00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:48,839 Speaker 1: I'm like, you realize. In my head, I'm just like, 960 00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:51,520 Speaker 1: that is making fun of what you're doing to me 961 00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:55,080 Speaker 1: right now. Get that, And I just that I was 962 00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:57,560 Speaker 1: just very That's the first place my head when I'm like, oh, 963 00:51:57,600 --> 00:51:59,799 Speaker 1: I remember this. I was nineteen when I got this letter. 964 00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:05,439 Speaker 1: Always be closing. Yeah, And he told afterwards, he goes, 965 00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:09,239 Speaker 1: just remember if you can't sell a service plan they 966 00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:11,359 Speaker 1: sold you on why they couldn't buy it. And I 967 00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:13,760 Speaker 1: was like, wait, he for sure took that from somewhere. 968 00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:15,400 Speaker 1: It took me a while to figure it out. It 969 00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:21,279 Speaker 1: was from boiler Room, another movie. Commenting on this, wait 970 00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:24,960 Speaker 1: where did you? What was this that best buy? I 971 00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:26,719 Speaker 1: was trying to be very honest about it. It's like 972 00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:30,120 Speaker 1: it's a small retail story. That's why I love that something. 973 00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:32,040 Speaker 1: The manager was taking this ship that's years like I'm 974 00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:35,120 Speaker 1: gonna whip this sale seeming a ship. Oh it was 975 00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:37,919 Speaker 1: this was years ago. I mean this was almost twenty 976 00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:41,000 Speaker 1: years ago. It was like wild, Like the ship that 977 00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:45,319 Speaker 1: they talked about how to sell stuff was incredible. That 978 00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:49,400 Speaker 1: guy loves Gordon Gecko, That's what's crazy about it. Like 979 00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:51,120 Speaker 1: I picture him at the end and in the morning 980 00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:53,080 Speaker 1: before he leaves, he does a thing where that kisses 981 00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:56,839 Speaker 1: his hand and puts his hand on up like we're 982 00:52:56,880 --> 00:53:00,360 Speaker 1: selling today a cautionary yeah. And also it does like 983 00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:02,920 Speaker 1: an American psycho style workout every night. Oh yeah, and 984 00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:05,640 Speaker 1: Fox with a mirror around him and flexes the worst 985 00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:08,239 Speaker 1: kids I went to college with. We're all into Americans 986 00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:11,200 Speaker 1: like go for the wrong, wrong reason exactly, which also 987 00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:15,000 Speaker 1: like another smart yeah right. And then everyone everyone else 988 00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:17,120 Speaker 1: who watched Fight Club was like this was so liberated, 989 00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:20,600 Speaker 1: Like I can be a man and fight and go 990 00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:23,440 Speaker 1: to jail for it. That's not what they're talking about. 991 00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:25,799 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. What Yeah, you just literally got the fight 992 00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:32,800 Speaker 1: club part I can't is turning us into coux. Uh 993 00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:37,880 Speaker 1: all right, that's gonna do it. For this week's weekly Zeitgeist, 994 00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:41,759 Speaker 1: please like and review the show If you like the show, 995 00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:46,800 Speaker 1: Uh means the world to Miles. He needs your validation, folks. 996 00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:50,480 Speaker 1: I hope you're having a great weekend and I will 997 00:53:50,480 --> 00:54:00,239 Speaker 1: talk to him Monday. By S.