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Speaker 1: How much of your portfolio is invested in avocado toast?
Speaker 1: This is my first question, my main problem.
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Speaker 1: What is something from your search history that's revealing about
Speaker 1: who you are?
Speaker 7: Well, I'll tell you this one. I may have done something.
Speaker 7: Maybe I've done You guys will know if I've done it.
Speaker 7: Have I ever done this one where where it's the
Speaker 7: woman who runs who lives under the roller coaster in
Speaker 7: Coney Island?
Speaker 1: No, I have never done that.
Speaker 7: Okay, it's a short documentary.
Speaker 2: I think you may have referenced it, but I just
Speaker 2: started watching it because you sent the Lincoln. Okay, no,
Speaker 2: I've never seen this one.
Speaker 7: It's awesome. It's just like I mean, it's just me
Speaker 7: fantasizing about you know, old Coney Island or old middle
Speaker 7: class you know, where people are eating cheese sandwiches and stuff,
Speaker 7: you know, and they call it. That was like like
Speaker 7: you know, like you know, there.
Speaker 2: Was like, how would you do today?
Speaker 1: I had a great cheese sandwich.
Speaker 7: Now I'm going to bed, you know.
Speaker 1: And I used to be able to, you know, afford
Speaker 1: a house on a waitress's salary. And that house was
Speaker 1: under the Coney Islands. And I saw a woman, right,
Speaker 1: I saw a woman that was cool. It was a
Speaker 1: great day. Did you talk to her?
Speaker 8: No, I'm gonna wait till I'm gonna wait till I
Speaker 8: see her a bunch more times.
Speaker 1: Then I might say good evening.
Speaker 2: Wow, I can't wait till the move to the city,
Speaker 2: like you like I.
Speaker 7: And then if you go on a roller coaster, I mean,
Speaker 7: then you're done. Your bucket list is over. The bucket
Speaker 7: rish back then was like go to the fair eating
Speaker 7: a cheese sandwich, and then you.
Speaker 2: Know, you know what when we go to Coney Island,
Speaker 2: I'm going to audition a new way of walking, just
Speaker 2: to try it out.
Speaker 1: I kind of walk like this island. It was a
Speaker 1: big hit on the boardwalk. A couple of weeks, you're
Speaker 1: doing a second bob and you're sitting in the middle
Speaker 1: of the first bob, kind of like you're dancing, but
Speaker 1: to a little rhythm in your heart. That's why I
Speaker 1: married him.
Speaker 7: I saw him bob and down the boardwalk. He looked
Speaker 7: like a jerk, but.
Speaker 1: I kind of thought it was a little bit of sparkle.
Speaker 1: The just why I watched the beginning of the documentary
Speaker 1: and this woman was like, Yeah, I like got a
Speaker 1: job waitressing at Coney Island, and then it ends with
Speaker 1: her living in a house that's under the roller coaster. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Cony so.
Speaker 7: So like, first of all, my favorite part about it
Speaker 7: is that the man who owned the roller coaster was
Speaker 7: a respected local businessman and he owned a roller coaster
Speaker 7: and lived under it, and that was like and he
Speaker 7: was like a pillar of the community because the whole
Speaker 7: thing was based on amusement. So it was like, you know,
Speaker 7: the guy, I don't know that he had a zoning
Speaker 7: issue or something. They had to talk to the guy
Speaker 7: who owned the like flume and then they had to
Speaker 7: bring and the guy who owned the anyway, so he
Speaker 7: owned a roller coaster and lived under the roller coaster
Speaker 7: and that was his business.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when your career, I'm thinking about building a roller
Speaker 1: coaster on my house. It wasn't just charging it.
Speaker 7: It was a hotel before. I guess that that house.
Speaker 7: And I knew of the house because of two things,
Speaker 7: like because the Woody Allen movie Uh any Hall, he
Speaker 7: lived in this house, and I figured it was fake
Speaker 7: for the movie. I didn't know it was a real house.
Speaker 7: And then I went to Coney Island in the nineties
Speaker 7: and saw the roller coaster at that point had been abandoned.
Speaker 7: Although she may have still been living in that house,
Speaker 7: I didn't realize. And like I was there in like
Speaker 7: ninety three. I think she may have still been in
Speaker 7: the house, but the roller coaster was overgrown and because
Speaker 7: her husband had died and so the roller coaster wasn't
Speaker 7: operating anymore. But she was still living in the house
Speaker 7: and she raised her kids in that house and they
Speaker 7: It's just this just an amazing story of just like
Speaker 7: I don't know, just back when you could own a
Speaker 7: roller coaster and that was like you're living and you know,
Speaker 7: obviously that was not for everybody. You couldn't have I
Speaker 7: guess there was some privilege involved, probably not just everybody
Speaker 7: can have their own roller coaster. But this guy, you know,
Speaker 7: he went out every morning and inspected the coaster.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just like pick up the paper and then just
Speaker 1: like kind of take give it a nice look over.
Speaker 1: Want kids to make sure.
Speaker 7: The kids got to collect all the stuff that fell
Speaker 7: out of the pockets.
Speaker 8: Some guy goes, they we had everything wiggs, you know,
Speaker 8: wigs pucket, thirty baseball caps, a day hitler, youth pin.
Speaker 1: Everything. There's such a whimsical story that it makes me
Speaker 1: disre like, have so much less respect for mother Goose
Speaker 1: fairy tales, like an old woman who lives in a shoe,
Speaker 1: Who fucking cares that's this woman lives in a fucking
Speaker 1: roller coaster.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, And and anyway, I love Coney Island because
Speaker 7: Coney Island. So then I'm gonna segue into my over underrated.
Speaker 7: I don't know if I'm allowed to do that, but
Speaker 7: no underrated is Coney Island.
Speaker 1: Go there, But I didn't know that's right is going on?
Speaker 7: I'm sorry movie.
Speaker 2: So we got new listeners coming in they think we're
Speaker 2: going to talk about the news right now.
Speaker 7: Oh watch the documentary it's called like the House under
Speaker 7: the roller Coaster or.
Speaker 2: Just one thing about that. The part that was rage
Speaker 2: inducing for me was like the simplicity of life then,
Speaker 2: like to your point, Chris, of like just the nostalgia
Speaker 2: for like I had a cheese sandwich, like when she
Speaker 2: was just like and.
Speaker 7: I knew all the concession is or as soon as
Speaker 7: they walked in that guy, the one who is scrambled
Speaker 7: eggs with toes, this is roast beef on rye And
Speaker 7: I'm like.
Speaker 2: What a fucking what a whimsical time when that was
Speaker 2: all you all you really thought about that? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: you know, keeping black people from owning land in the area.
Speaker 7: Right, I mean, that's the problem is it's not it was,
Speaker 7: but there was. It's a big problem. But there was
Speaker 7: a living wage was I mean, it was easier to
Speaker 7: buy a house. And that just leads to dignity, dignity, privacy,
Speaker 7: that's what it turns out. Those are things that losing
Speaker 7: your privacy means you lose your dignity. I don't know
Speaker 7: how to describe it exactly, but privacy was something is
Speaker 7: something we should have or should continue to guard. It's
Speaker 7: not just private. It sounds like privacy. Who cares? I mean,
Speaker 7: I don't care. I'm open, you know, that's not it.
Speaker 7: Privacy is about Privacy is about having a place of
Speaker 7: your own. And before the Internet, regardless of what situation
Speaker 7: you were in, you could at least have some dignity
Speaker 7: because you called the shots in that space, and you know,
Speaker 7: maybe not at work. I mean, it's obviously more complicated,
Speaker 7: but these people are basically not rich people and they
Speaker 7: were getting to, you know, raise kids in a way. No,
Speaker 7: there's never a mention in that that that they were
Speaker 7: broke and they owned a roller coaster. I mean, you know,
Speaker 7: I mean there's and in terms of in terms of
Speaker 7: market economy, I like that too. It's like give a
Speaker 7: person a ride to get get a nickel or whatever.
Speaker 1: Right, Like the simplicity of that.
Speaker 7: Now, it's like give someone all your money in return
Speaker 7: for like the world's worst internet service or or whatever
Speaker 7: you know, you give you give these tech billionaires everything
Speaker 7: and you all you get is a is like a
Speaker 7: cardboard box with a six pack of soda as fast
Speaker 7: as you want, likes not nearly as much fun as
Speaker 7: a roller coaster.
Speaker 1: All the roller coasters have been bought up by private equity,
Speaker 1: and they like something, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: they've like somehow ruined them.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they close them up and let Justin Bieber go
Speaker 7: on them all the time or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's so wild a roller coaster. For the guts of
Speaker 1: the roller coaster are like the two things I know
Speaker 1: them for are like being strewn with baseball hats and
Speaker 1: like wallets and ship and beheading people. The fact that
Speaker 1: she raised children in that environment is.
Speaker 7: Oh, she said, she has this crazy accent that's like
Speaker 7: some old old you know who knows. I guess the
Speaker 7: Corney Island.
Speaker 1: Doesn't exist anymore. Yeah, and uh.
Speaker 7: Yeah like her and like, I don't know, Babe Ruth
Speaker 7: probably would have said, oh, you talked the same as me.
Speaker 7: But uh oh, you own that roller coaster. You're a
Speaker 7: small business owner. Yeah, you're an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1: And it is still privacy even if like hundreds of
Speaker 1: people are passing by your windows. But they're doing it
Speaker 1: at like sixty miles per hour. They're not going to
Speaker 1: see they can't enough. Yeah, they're going to.
Speaker 2: Be like I think I saw a naked old dude likes.
Speaker 7: She said, we just got used to it.
Speaker 1: No, we just got used to it.
Speaker 7: And the kids were like, you know, like they enjoyed
Speaker 7: growing up in that growing up in that house, and
Speaker 7: there's a piano in there.
Speaker 1: Anyway, it just looked crazy.
Speaker 7: I would like, let's put it this way, I would
Speaker 7: like to own a roller coaster. It's like gang and
Speaker 7: I was in the hole the handle, and I want
Speaker 7: to be nice and I want to tip my hat,
Speaker 7: and I want to smoke rum soaked cigars, and I
Speaker 7: want pickup wigs, and I want to do the things
Speaker 7: that nowadays you're just going to find, like you know,
Speaker 7: vight pens, like maybe a couple of iPhones and probably
Speaker 7: another Hitler youth pin or something totally anyway, I just
Speaker 7: I just love that this this uh just seeing like
Speaker 7: sort of just that. Oh, I don't know, just I
Speaker 7: love Coney Island because okay, so then go ahead. Can
Speaker 7: you say it's time for.
Speaker 1: My famous it is time for the other one. What's
Speaker 1: something best that you think is underrated?
Speaker 9: Vacuuming? I absolutely love to vacuum.
Speaker 1: If you'd like me to vacuum.
Speaker 9: Your house, I'll come over and vacuum the hell out
Speaker 9: of it.
Speaker 2: Oh you really like vacuuming like that.
Speaker 9: I love vacuuming.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is, oh good?
Speaker 2: Is it just like the process of it of seeing
Speaker 2: a thing I think I have, Like when I see
Speaker 2: the canister fill up, I'm like, get the fuck in there, you.
Speaker 1: Pieces of ship? Nice cry asshole. You could get away,
Speaker 1: didn't you?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 9: The only thing that makes me mad while vacuuming is
Speaker 9: if it tells you got to clean the filter something
Speaker 9: because they got too much little dust, tiny particles. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 9: I don't have dyme for this. I need to suck
Speaker 9: up more particles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're all gonna get away.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I really love vacuuming. I invested in many years
Speaker 9: ago in a Melley.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's so much.
Speaker 9: And then I got a Dyson because I as everybody
Speaker 9: was saying, that's what's up. But and it's pretty good.
Speaker 9: I don't want to because they can hear me right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a guy behind Diyceon's. It's a huge piece
Speaker 2: of ship.
Speaker 3: Really.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's like I was like it was one of those
Speaker 2: things as a millennial like I aspired to own, like
Speaker 2: especially you know, growing becoming of age in the two
Speaker 2: thousand and eight financial crisis and being out of college at.
Speaker 1: The time, like, dude, I'll never fucking have that.
Speaker 2: And then you see you read about this guy and
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, you're like a anti immigrant piece of shit.
Speaker 9: That sucks.
Speaker 1: Really, what's up?
Speaker 9: I hope me Elie is good because they're the best.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think they're French or something, right, they're from
Speaker 1: a different turnament.
Speaker 3: Sounds like it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Miles Dison also started the Terminator Apocalypse.
Speaker 2: That's the one Miles Dice and we do recognize, not
Speaker 2: Sir James Dyce in the Brexit free Sir James.
Speaker 1: That's, by the way. I couldn't disagree more. I have
Speaker 1: a dog's a version of vacuums. I run out of
Speaker 1: the room every time a vacuum is too loud, very threatening.
Speaker 1: Do you when you're vacuuming, are you like listening to
Speaker 1: music or you or you're just like kind of hearing
Speaker 1: that that is the music man.
Speaker 9: Honestly, it's like music is this work in its own way?
Speaker 2: Yeah, especially get on some rug or carpet and you're
Speaker 2: fighting that thing.
Speaker 1: Devil like or Dyson commercial. At some point where like
Speaker 1: Fred Astaire was vacuuming.
Speaker 9: Oh I didn't see that. Yeah, I'm not listening to
Speaker 9: anything except the hum of that machine.
Speaker 2: Sound of the dirt, and just hearing, just hearing the
Speaker 2: little crumbs flicker in the canister.
Speaker 9: Maybe someone gets caught and you gotta be able to
Speaker 9: got it. That's why you gotta have an open here.
Speaker 9: You can't have that vacuum me battling something without Yeah,
Speaker 9: you gotta hear it.
Speaker 1: What is something? So we did? We we already covered the.
Speaker 2: Overrated Yeah, I guess so in the cold open. Oh
Speaker 2: maybe it was underrated, overrated whatever? This one, this one
Speaker 2: might be a miles only kind of jam. It's being
Speaker 2: mad that your mom was right about some stupid Asian
Speaker 2: ship that when you're a kid you are certain was wrong.
Speaker 2: And here's mine. Growing up, my mom would routinely say, no,
Speaker 2: on a hot day, what you want to have is
Speaker 2: hot soup because that will cool you down. And like,
Speaker 2: I think, like many Americans, but many I would say people,
Speaker 2: even that sounds fucking crazy and unpleasant.
Speaker 1: And I the other day, when.
Speaker 2: It was very hot in Los Angeles, I was like,
Speaker 2: fuck it, I just want some fun. I went and
Speaker 2: got fun in like an unair conditioned restaurant in Chinatown,
Speaker 2: so sweaty. What I will say is it did not
Speaker 2: cool me down particularly, but it made me so hot
Speaker 2: that I couldn't think anymore.
Speaker 7: And I didn't.
Speaker 2: I wasn't worrying about the heat. So yeah, comparatively, because
Speaker 2: you've just scalded the inside of your body, that you
Speaker 2: go outside in the ambient temperature, it's like that Heidecker on,
Speaker 2: I think you should leave. It's like it's hot if
Speaker 2: you're if you're not expecting it to be Yeah, yes, exactly,
Speaker 2: it's supposed to be ice cold. It's supposed to be
Speaker 2: ice cold, exactly. So I think once a week. I
Speaker 2: think we're at the age where that sketch. That sketch
Speaker 2: changed my behavior. I started stretching every morning after that sketch.
Speaker 2: That sketch is one where it's not even a focus
Speaker 2: of the sketch, but every time he shifts on the couch,
Speaker 2: she goes oh, And I was like, I need to
Speaker 2: do mobility exercises.
Speaker 1: I do that as hemorrhoids, but yeah, it could be mobility.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I just I do it when when
Speaker 2: I thankfully, I think I've gotten myself out of the
Speaker 2: part of life or not of the of inflexibility where
Speaker 2: that becomes a constant, involuntary sound.
Speaker 1: That I may But they're like.
Speaker 2: It was tying my shoes where it got bad.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I went in the ocean when
Speaker 1: I was Becky's and got like rocked by the waves,
Speaker 1: and like for the next twenty four hours when I
Speaker 1: would either sit down or stand up, I was making
Speaker 1: the most old man shit.
Speaker 2: I was being like, oh boy, oh you're doing I
Speaker 2: was vocalizing. They weren't even like yea, yeah, you got.
Speaker 1: This, okay, yeah, And and that's because I'm young and cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, well, and don't have that that was an injury.
Speaker 2: But I will say I have found I think I've
Speaker 2: talked about this on this show before. Just a wee
Speaker 2: bit of stretching in the morning. Oh yeah, you got
Speaker 2: to so much more than I want to admit. That
Speaker 2: was my That was my grandfather's end of life advice
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like I was on a piece of advice. Yeah,
Speaker 2: when it's into the end. I was like, bro, like,
Speaker 2: just get info, dump wisdom, dump on me. And he's like, man,
Speaker 2: the one thing He's like, you gotta stretch. Make sure
Speaker 2: you stretch. He's like, don't let your ship just get
Speaker 2: like fucking tight and and just seize up on you
Speaker 2: need to like, okay, damn, that's what you're thinking. Now,
Speaker 2: I'm like, shit, okay. The time that besides, actually these
Speaker 2: are both Netflix properties will listen to. This is simply
Speaker 2: the power of media and the magic of the movies.
Speaker 2: But this this came up for me when someone reviewed
Speaker 2: The Irishman, which is which is has de Neiro with
Speaker 2: like a youthful face and kind of yeah, and essentially
Speaker 2: that there was like, you know, it's the face is
Speaker 2: not as bad as you think, but he still looks
Speaker 2: his age because his movements are that of you know,
Speaker 2: his age, which is fine. It has a scene hard
Speaker 2: where yeah, where they've de aged him and he like
Speaker 2: beats somebody else and it is the least. It's just like, guys,
Speaker 2: get a body double here, what are we doing? Like
Speaker 2: you're just worried the whole time that he's going to
Speaker 2: topple over as he's supposed to be like showing off
Speaker 2: what a badass he is, and you're just like, oh, buddy,
Speaker 2: You're like, yeah, why why is your hand on your
Speaker 2: hip as you lean down to.
Speaker 1: I honestly thought about that scene when Mike Tyson fought
Speaker 1: that racist kid like the which one, oh j and
Speaker 1: or Logan Paul, Yeah, whichever of the Paul brothers, because
Speaker 1: of like his legs. Roy Jones Junior in the first
Speaker 1: round was like kind of like Mike's legs, And I
Speaker 1: was immediately like, that is exactly right. That's and I
Speaker 1: thought of the scene in The Irishman where like you
Speaker 1: could tell that he is not under the age of
Speaker 1: sixty because of the way he's like walking without bending
Speaker 1: his like there's no lightness, He's not light on his
Speaker 1: feet in any way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really telling. And Tyson used to be as
Speaker 2: a fighter like so that was the thing that I
Speaker 2: didn't really appreciate until I did a little.
Speaker 1: Bit of boxing.
Speaker 2: It's like he would like literally like drop it low
Speaker 2: sometimes during fights. Oh, he was so insanely flexible and
Speaker 2: like deft on his feet his heels. So yeah, to
Speaker 2: me an underrated part of his game because everyone feared
Speaker 2: the power.
Speaker 1: But it's like, no, he can he can duck in.
Speaker 2: A way that I did not realize a human could
Speaker 2: do my back out.
Speaker 6: Trying to yeah right now, yeah, my nurse, all right,
Speaker 6: let's take a quick break to just rest and stretch out,
Speaker 6: do our mobility exercises.
Speaker 1: Miles. All right, we'll be back to get into this.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. And we're back, and so is
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. They're back from the dead. They have
Speaker 1: a new strategy that everyone's like newsome baby, he's he's
Speaker 1: listing and they love it. The birthday folks. He should
Speaker 1: just start doing an actual Trump impression like what in
Speaker 1: his public appearances too, You might as well. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: in this area.
Speaker 9: Nothing holding anybody back at this point.
Speaker 1: Where who I mean, who fucking cares?
Speaker 2: I think it would be cool if we saw more
Speaker 2: elected Democrats do something more legislative to fight back. But
Speaker 2: I guess we can take ship posts and jokes for now.
Speaker 2: You know that that we'll we'll take that. It's a
Speaker 2: little swhere.
Speaker 1: Because he has such an anti don't give a fuck
Speaker 1: energy like he he seems like someone who is in
Speaker 1: a cold plunge right now. Oh, he's in a cold punch, right,
Speaker 1: He's in a cold plunge right Nowine smokes cigar right
Speaker 1: like do it, chasing every single trend for prolonging his life.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, he's a big Joe Rogan fan
Speaker 1: man heard, and I totally that I love Joe Rogan, Sure, dickhead.
Speaker 2: But anyway, he's really taking social media by storm as
Speaker 2: he really he's really presenting himself as the anti Trump
Speaker 2: Democrat fighter.
Speaker 1: But on a rhetorical level period, not on a policy level.
Speaker 2: I mean there is I mean obviously he is trying
Speaker 2: to do like for like jerry mandering. He's like, look,
Speaker 2: if you want to add a bunch of seats, we
Speaker 2: can do that. I'm like, okay, that's that's fair. Like, look,
Speaker 2: you got to fucking fight fire with fire in that case.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree with that if that's what Texas is doing.
Speaker 2: But his recent posts are just basically We've talked about it,
Speaker 2: but it's him or one of his staffers just mimicking
Speaker 2: Trump's egocentric, incoherent style of using all caps and giving
Speaker 2: his ops stupid nicknames. The most popular response from the
Speaker 2: right has been some version of like, oh grow up,
Speaker 2: or this is actually cringe, and I'm like, this is okay,
Speaker 2: please tell us more. It's kind of genius, like because
Speaker 2: to effectively sort of take down Newsom's parody tweet style,
Speaker 2: you'd have to own that Trump himself is a dumbfuck
Speaker 2: who tweets like a four Chan ai bot with like
Speaker 2: questionable grammar skills. So they're just like they're trying to
Speaker 2: dance around it. Case in point, Dana Prino, who used
Speaker 2: to work in the Bush administration. She's on Fox. She
Speaker 2: gave this sort of take of She's like, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, can get can we read like one of them?
Speaker 1: Just so people for anybody who like me, had not
Speaker 1: tried to like, what's what's one of the because they
Speaker 1: are doing like I feel like he has a writer
Speaker 1: who's doing a pretty good job of like approximating the whole.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think any of us could easily do this,
Speaker 2: but I'm sure, but hey, bless whoever is getting paid
Speaker 2: to do that, I.
Speaker 1: Don't think he could, is what I'm saying. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
Speaker 9: That's where the liberal implosion is coming in, because they're like,
Speaker 9: just so everybody knows he's not really writing this. He
Speaker 9: has a writer, which is so funny. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 9: I mean, okay, that's what you need to say.
Speaker 1: He's I mean yes.
Speaker 9: Also, it reminds me of at least my little liberal
Speaker 9: threads corner is like, I'm allowed to not like stuff
Speaker 9: that Gavin did before, but like what he's doing now,
Speaker 9: it's like an announcement and it's like sure whatever, sure, yeah,
Speaker 9: I mean I like him, so you like when he
Speaker 9: did this, It's like.
Speaker 1: A like, America, why are you going out to dinner?
Speaker 1: Are we not?
Speaker 2: Do you?
Speaker 1: Guys?
Speaker 9: Remember when freaking John Kerry lost an entire election for
Speaker 9: being a flip fhopper, which technically just means changing over time?
Speaker 1: I mean, how could you not?
Speaker 9: How could you not looking back? I'm like, all you
Speaker 9: had to do in that moment in my opinion and
Speaker 9: we can't go back, is just like, yes, I've changed
Speaker 9: upon receiving new information.
Speaker 1: Right right? He did not do that, I don't think no,
Speaker 1: so yes.
Speaker 2: To give you an example of something that he tweeted
Speaker 2: August fourteenth, all caps, Donald is finished. He's no longer
Speaker 2: quote hot first to the hands, parenthetical so tiny and
Speaker 2: now me I haven't seen newsome have taken away his
Speaker 2: quote step. Many are saying he can't even do the
Speaker 2: quote big stairs on Air Force one anymore, uses the
Speaker 2: little baby stairs now sad tomorrow He's got this quote
Speaker 2: meeting with Putin in quote Russia, nobody cares. All the
Speaker 2: television cameras are on me, America's favorite governor, even low ratings.
Speaker 2: Laura Ingram parenthetical edits the tapes can't stop talking about
Speaker 2: my beautiful maps. You're welcome for Liberation Day America. Donnie
Speaker 2: Ja missed the quote deadline whoops, and now I run
Speaker 2: the show. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Speaker 2: GCN that kind of shit, and then he'll post like
Speaker 2: ai slop of like a Time magazine cover with him
Speaker 2: like with a fucking crown on it.
Speaker 1: Like long one I had seen was him being prayed
Speaker 1: over by like hul Cogan with angel wings.
Speaker 2: And get kid Rock and Tipper Carlson.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Then there's like another one where there's like this you
Speaker 2: know legislator in California, this guy Carl de Mayo. He's
Speaker 2: been like sort of just aiding Gavin Newsom, and Gavin
Speaker 2: like the office has been clapping back where it's like
Speaker 2: he's like this vulgar behavior from Newsom can't stand and
Speaker 2: he put you know a lot about vulgar behavior, wouldn't you, Carl?
Speaker 2: With like a screencap of The New York Post that
Speaker 2: says potential successor for San Diego's disgraced mayor his alleged
Speaker 2: history of openly masturbating in bathrooms. And then that's actually
Speaker 2: pretty good, No, it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Like this is how they should be interacting with everything.
Speaker 2: There. Yeah, yeah, the window I mean like there is
Speaker 2: this is where people who kind of take like are
Speaker 2: witty with words, they have the edge on, just like
Speaker 2: the racist slop that comes out of the right where
Speaker 2: you're just like, oh, I don't know, Johnny Jerkoff, like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, how do you So this is Dana
Speaker 2: Perino giving her take, and she's just sort of like,
Speaker 2: this is like embarrassing, sad.
Speaker 1: Here's here she is huge Trump supporter. This person The.
Speaker 9: Thing is or at the debate.
Speaker 10: The other thing for me is that for the last week,
Speaker 10: Gavin Newsom and why am I giving him advice?
Speaker 9: You had to stop it with the twitter thing. I
Speaker 9: don't know where his wife is.
Speaker 10: If I want his wife, I would say, what you
Speaker 10: are making a fool of yourself, stop it, do not
Speaker 10: do not let your staff tweet. And if you're doing
Speaker 10: it yourself, put the phone away and start over. And
Speaker 10: if you want, he's got a big job as governor
Speaker 10: of California, but if he wants an even bigger job,
Speaker 10: he has to be a little bit more serious.
Speaker 9: Okay, I'm sorry, be a little more serious like the
Speaker 9: President of the United States that he is truly mimicking.
Speaker 1: She's doing the exact same thing as the President of
Speaker 1: the United States, but she's speaking to.
Speaker 2: Dumb people, right, And then so Newsom clapped back, he
Speaker 2: like screencapped that, or he like quote tweeted that clip
Speaker 2: and was like, dude, I've been doing this for a
Speaker 2: week and they still don't get it. And then he
Speaker 2: then posted, Dana ding Dong Pirino never heard of her
Speaker 2: until today, melting down because of me, Gavin C. Newsome,
Speaker 2: Fox hates that I am America's most favorite governor parenthetical
Speaker 2: ratings king saving America, while Trump can't even conquer the
Speaker 2: quote big stares on Air Force one anymore. Trump has
Speaker 2: quote lost his step, and Fox is losing it because
Speaker 2: when I type America now wins, thank you, thank you
Speaker 2: for your attention to this matter.
Speaker 1: Gcn ha.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Dana Prino then immediately went on Fox again
Speaker 2: to Fox explain that actually I do get what's going on,
Speaker 2: and let me does this version. Let me just play
Speaker 2: this clip because She's so defensive and just trying to
Speaker 2: find a way to sort of like explain how she
Speaker 2: does get it, but then starts digging up Zorn Mumdani
Speaker 2: kind of in the process. It's really strange. Here she
Speaker 2: is on the five, Jesse Waters tease her up.
Speaker 1: For this, the Martha's Vineyard comfab and a second Dana.
Speaker 7: But what was Gabyn doing there?
Speaker 10: He was reading tweets that were written for him by
Speaker 10: people that he is heavily investing in to try to
Speaker 10: help him look more like Trump. I guess, I mean,
Speaker 10: I thought they hated Trump, but they're trying to be
Speaker 10: more like him, and they have to pay people to
Speaker 10: do it. The thing is what I was saying yesterday
Speaker 10: is that I believe that everybody needs to find their
Speaker 10: own way. You don't see Governor Andy Basheer doing things
Speaker 10: like this. He's running his state. Governor Josh Shapiro running
Speaker 10: his state Governor, Gretchen Whitmer running her state, and they
Speaker 10: all You've got these problems. They all have things that
Speaker 10: they want to accomplish. They all might want to run
Speaker 10: in twenty twenty eight, and they are actually involved in
Speaker 10: being able to show what they show their work right,
Speaker 10: they'll be able to say these are the things that
Speaker 10: we did. California's got a huge amount of problems. And
Speaker 10: if you think about mom Donnie, his authenticity is what
Speaker 10: rocketed him to the top. And now you have Cuomo
Speaker 10: trying to copy him and it's just cringe. And that
Speaker 10: was my point, is that if you're doing this and
Speaker 10: it's not authentic and you're trying to do somebody else,
Speaker 10: so you say it's Hitler and you think that we don't.
Speaker 3: Get the joke.
Speaker 9: Oh no, we get the joke. It's just not funny.
Speaker 9: You don't get is it funny?
Speaker 1: Oh boy?
Speaker 2: So now she's basically doing like the junior high attack
Speaker 2: of like oh my god, like just not even original style,
Speaker 2: Like you're just biting his styles because I don't even have.
Speaker 1: Your own styles with him. When you're a.
Speaker 2: Bier, your pants is the cools really should be like
Speaker 2: look at my cankles I've got I've been cultivating my
Speaker 2: ankle strength and this diaper. I mean, yeah, this is
Speaker 2: just very funny to see her try to be like, look,
Speaker 2: if you want to win, you got to act like
Speaker 2: these other governors who are doing it, Like I don't
Speaker 2: I really don't understand.
Speaker 9: It's like a very stupid way of handling it. I
Speaker 9: don't even know if she knew what she was saying.
Speaker 9: It seems like, yes, it's a terrible but valid sort
Speaker 9: of response to it's to me, it's just still playing
Speaker 9: dumb though, because it's like, guys, you know, we're not
Speaker 9: copying his style to win, we're mocking. Yeah, it's called satire.
Speaker 2: Well no, and we get it. It's just not funny. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: that's fine. It sounds like it's struck. I mean, this
Speaker 2: feels like we're it's sort of we're back in the
Speaker 2: like weird sort of phase again when they were calling
Speaker 2: everyone weird and it was there it was fucking them
Speaker 2: up so bad.
Speaker 9: They're like, yeah, well fucking weird, God is weird?
Speaker 2: Yeah, like these motherfuckers are weird. And they're like uh oh,
Speaker 2: and now truly, I mean, it's like, it's just it's
Speaker 2: interesting to see that because they are such thin skinned
Speaker 2: bullies themselves that to just bully back in this way
Speaker 2: completely sort of is disruptive for them at least, yeah,
Speaker 2: like in their punditry. But again, unfortunately that's not dissuading
Speaker 2: them from abandoning the policies, which is what we are
Speaker 2: kind of left with in our lived reality. And I think, look,
Speaker 2: it's fine because I like to laugh at this shit
Speaker 2: and what like laugh at conservatives, but this this maybe
Speaker 2: with let's add a few more weapons here, if you're
Speaker 2: trying to fully fight back here rather than be like, dude,
Speaker 2: you see that, Dude, I got Trump so pissed. I'm
Speaker 2: going to be the nominee in twenty eight if there's
Speaker 2: an election, and I don't know, should I even work, Kevin,
Speaker 2: do some if you even want to run in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty eight. There's a lot of other shit that maybe needs.
Speaker 1: To get solved very quickly. Their instincts are so bad,
Speaker 1: like the mainstream Democratic Party's instincts are so bad like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's funny. The last time I've seen them the other side,
Speaker 1: the Republican and conservative side, short circuiting like this is
Speaker 1: the weird thing, and they just like went away with
Speaker 1: that up from that for no reason, like they were
Speaker 1: just like, I don't know, it seems means let's quit it,
Speaker 1: let's cut it out. I hope they go with this,
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean, if there was a lesson to
Speaker 1: learn from things that have succeeded from the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: in the past six months. I would prefer that they
Speaker 1: learned the lesson from Zorin Mamdani and be like, wait,
Speaker 1: these policies are actually popular, but they don't seem to
Speaker 1: be doing that. Right. If you combined those two things,
Speaker 1: wow wow wow wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah right exactly, or at least articulate a bunch of
Speaker 2: policies that are so antithetical to what's going on that
Speaker 2: people be like, oh, yeah, that's a way better way
Speaker 2: of doing things than whatever the fuck this is. But
Speaker 2: you have so many of the establishment Democrats are just
Speaker 2: in this sort of state of paralysis too, because they're like,
Speaker 2: I think it's just easier to be like Trump's lost
Speaker 2: it and he's distracting the country rather than really sort
Speaker 2: of sounding the alarm because this every day, like the
Speaker 2: existential threat to what we even thought was fucking normalcy
Speaker 2: is just fuck, it's going up in smoke.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Should we talk about the Smithsonian real quick,
Speaker 1: because this is something that seems to be breaking through. Specifically,
Speaker 1: Trump literally said that the Smithsonian is too focused on
Speaker 1: quote how bad slavery was mm hmmmm, yeah, Like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, we get it, you get.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's actually a lot worse than I was even
Speaker 2: taught in school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the vastly under reported. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but okay, okay,
Speaker 1: But the museums are like the one place that it
Speaker 1: is mentioned, and so they've got to get rid of
Speaker 1: those two on the margins, you know. So in March
Speaker 1: he signed an executive order directing the Board of Regents,
Speaker 1: the Board of Regents to eliminate quote improper, divisive or
Speaker 1: anti American ideology from their museums, and that has had
Speaker 1: a number of dramatic consequences, including the fact that weird
Speaker 1: Al has decided he will no longer be donating his
Speaker 1: Hawaiian shirt for an upcoming Smithsonian exhibit.
Speaker 9: Was that avery exhibitor?
Speaker 1: I don't think it was.
Speaker 2: He wanted it, though, He's like, I think it would
Speaker 2: be great in the African American.
Speaker 1: He's like, Weird, Hey, what the fuck we do sel?
Speaker 1: You know, maybe you never know that's true. So his
Speaker 1: recent post was the Smithsonians out of Control, where everything
Speaker 1: discussed is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was,
Speaker 1: and how unaccompanied, how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been. Anyways,
Speaker 1: people looked into like, where where this is coming from?
Speaker 1: Because I can't imagine that Trump is spending a lot
Speaker 1: of time at the Smithsonian. They did take him on
Speaker 1: a tour of the Smithsonian, and the person who took
Speaker 1: them on that tour was like, he was not happy.
Speaker 1: Anytime anything vaguely negative was mentioned, he would get really upset,
Speaker 1: like like again, like like you're taking a fucking four
Speaker 1: year old on a you know, through a museum. At
Speaker 1: one point, he paused in front of the exhibit that
Speaker 1: discussed the role of the Dutch in the slave trade,
Speaker 1: and the guy was like, oh, is he some of
Speaker 1: us getting through? And then Trump remarked, you know, they
Speaker 1: love me in the Netherlands.
Speaker 2: So he was like, oh, never mind, this is about
Speaker 2: the Atlantic slave trade.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, they love me there. So the only name
Speaker 1: that is mentioned in this executive order that he filed
Speaker 1: back in March is Lindsay Halligan. Halligan, who is an
Speaker 1: ex Miss Colorado contestant from back when Trump owned the
Speaker 1: Miss Universe pageant, so like this was she was a
Speaker 1: pageant winner under his pageant ceo ship. She is a
Speaker 1: lawyer and she just met Trump at an event at
Speaker 1: his golf course, and he hired her right away. Was
Speaker 1: just like, I like the way you look. You seem smart,
Speaker 1: because she at the time she was volunteering for the
Speaker 1: Inner or interning for the Innocence Project, which is shocking.
Speaker 1: And but then she said that Trump reminded her of
Speaker 1: clients from the Innocence Project. Wait, what is that? Because
Speaker 1: I'm blind because he's being railroaded so much, you know,
Speaker 1: wow wow, oh wait, she said. She said Trump reminded
Speaker 1: her of people from people from the Innocent Project.
Speaker 2: Okay, master manipulator, I love that. I love that great.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 2: Basically he has his own like this Karen, who will
Speaker 2: just roam DC and find things to be upset about
Speaker 2: and then report back to Trump.
Speaker 1: Right yeah. Like it's truly like the doge kid who
Speaker 1: got beat up by teenagers like big balls. It's just
Speaker 1: like people he knows just to determine the fucking entire agenda
Speaker 1: like of the US government. She moved to d C
Speaker 1: to work with Trump, and just before the inauguration went
Speaker 1: to the Smithsonian and that's where she made all of
Speaker 1: these discoveries that he is now rizly discoveries. Discoveries I
Speaker 1: mean to her, I think they were. I think they
Speaker 1: were truly discoveries. She was horrified that some exhibits mentioned
Speaker 1: racism and that others shockingly focused on quote, another country's
Speaker 1: history entirely had nothing to do with America. What the fuck?
Speaker 1: How do you even how would you do a museum
Speaker 1: that wasn't allowed to talk about other countries.
Speaker 2: We don't need content. I didn't come to a museum
Speaker 2: for context or historical accuracy. This is just I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, this is the playbook that the white nationalists
Speaker 2: have to run, is to try and sanitize any evidence
Speaker 2: of where this country or like the origins of this
Speaker 2: country and the ills that we've still not reckoned with.
Speaker 2: So it has to be just like I don't. It's
Speaker 2: like you know, it's it's like when you're like around
Speaker 2: a dysfunctional couple and like the dude is cheating all
Speaker 2: the time, and they bring it up, like why you
Speaker 2: got to talk about old shit? Yeah, it's like because it's.
Speaker 9: It's why I am the way I am to do.
Speaker 2: It's setting the table for everything we're experiencing now.
Speaker 1: Was bringing up a little shit.
Speaker 9: He's treating everything like a beauty pageant. He's like, it
Speaker 9: looks it's it's yucky to talk about that. We should
Speaker 9: only talk about positives. I don't want to see your
Speaker 9: cellulite America.
Speaker 2: Right, right, or then we ever had cellulite, or that
Speaker 2: even it existed, it never did. Everyone had barbie legs
Speaker 2: from the beginning.
Speaker 3: So gross.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everything is like being made for that level of
Speaker 1: like vanity and vanity and like even the like concentration
Speaker 1: camps are like being named fun, Like.
Speaker 2: Saturday deportation Depot is, like they all have alliterative names.
Speaker 2: There's the other one that they're.
Speaker 9: Open gator Alcatraz.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's one in uh I think Iowa or Nebraska.
Speaker 2: They're gonna call corn the corn Clink.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked about yesterday.
Speaker 9: Trump toilet is what they should all be called.
Speaker 2: Right, But again, like this is all also this helps
Speaker 2: to to put us like a fun name on it.
Speaker 2: Then people will be like, oh, it's just the corn
Speaker 2: Husker Clink rather than the site of untold atrocities being
Speaker 2: perpetrated against innocent human beings.
Speaker 1: Right, it's also too long of a name. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about cassette tapes. Those are the thing I gain. And
Speaker 1: we're back. Huh, we're just talking phronsia talking space bags,
Speaker 1: talking phronsia space I.
Speaker 2: Used to call it hitting a volcano vaporizer courage.
Speaker 1: You would put the box one just in a box.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't have that space bag in there, you know,
Speaker 1: what do you mean, a saggy s box?
Speaker 4: Yeah, talk about I don't think you can of recycle
Speaker 4: the space bag now, just that's all.
Speaker 1: That's going to be left.
Speaker 2: They were an interesting people.
Speaker 1: They worshiped these spacebags. All right, finally some good news.
Speaker 1: DC is actually safe now.
Speaker 2: It has been declared even though we are fully into
Speaker 2: these second week of the Feds just absolutely taking over
Speaker 2: the capitol, not like even.
Speaker 1: A full week. We're in the second week, but like
Speaker 1: it hasn't been a full week since he declared, right,
Speaker 1: like that was happening at the beginning of last week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're like entering. Yes, I mean, but
Speaker 2: this is what this is.
Speaker 1: Just record breaking time that I've got I've got to say.
Speaker 2: Look, so yeah, dude, you know, so, I guess you know,
Speaker 2: once big balls got jumped by some kids and what
Speaker 2: was the saddest version of like what people are calling
Speaker 2: the Reichstag fire. Trump declared all out fed war on DC,
Speaker 2: and we've just seen countless clips and images of you know,
Speaker 2: just masked goons looking bored as hell on the streets
Speaker 2: of DC, like with their slouched posture and like stupid
Speaker 2: punisher masks, and people are like, dude, get the fuck
Speaker 2: out of my way. First of all, I've been reading
Speaker 2: something there's it's fucking up local businesses in DC because
Speaker 2: people are like, Bro, no one's coming to bars or
Speaker 2: restaurants because you have fucking goons everywhere. And the vibes
Speaker 2: are completely fucked up because it's a quote unquote war zone.
Speaker 1: But no matter, you don't like safety, come on, like
Speaker 1: this is not safe, bro Trumps from Jaws, You're like,
Speaker 1: get out there, Come on, guys, it's fun. The water's
Speaker 1: creating something.
Speaker 2: Although I did see a clip of some a bunch
Speaker 2: of goofed up loser mask cops try to violently arrest
Speaker 2: a guy and one of the goons thought he was
Speaker 2: like Ken Shamrock and the ww F or some shit
Speaker 2: and smashed his own head trying to suplex the guy
Speaker 2: like he was like wrestling and like fell back and
Speaker 2: then the cops just hit his own head, and then
Speaker 2: all the other cops like, dude, are you okay, and
Speaker 2: he's like no, He's like the dumbest shit, and then
Speaker 2: they're fucking violently arresting some innocent, fucking resident. But again,
Speaker 2: it's nonsense. Anyway, mister Donald has solved it. He declared
Speaker 2: victory on Kirkland signature Twitter. He said, quote DC gave
Speaker 2: fake crime numbers in order to create a fellas I
Speaker 2: lose and of safety. This is a very bad and
Speaker 2: dangerous thing to do, and they're under serious investigation for
Speaker 2: doing so. Until four days ago, Washing DC, Washington, d
Speaker 2: C was the most unsafe quote city.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the city he loves. I love it.
Speaker 2: I love a quote unsafe city in the United States
Speaker 2: and perhaps the world. Now, in just a short period
Speaker 2: of time, it is perhaps the safest and getting better
Speaker 2: every single hour. People are flocking to d C again,
Speaker 2: and soon the beautification will begin.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I wish that he.
Speaker 3: Wasn't the president because he's such a funny, stupid bitch.
Speaker 1: That is that is like most mortage speed that he's
Speaker 1: that he's claiming. This happened four days the most stand
Speaker 1: up and now people are literally were flocking flocking.
Speaker 5: I also just want to say one thing, like, I
Speaker 5: feel like Kirkland signature is too nice of a term.
Speaker 1: We actually Kirkland.
Speaker 3: We're at costco heads.
Speaker 7: In this true value.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want to malign any of the
Speaker 2: storm because they give us an affordable alternative. But like anyway,
Speaker 2: the other lever that Trump does like to pull as
Speaker 2: a distraction aside from anti black racism is crime wave,
Speaker 2: the crime wave lever, because that is one of the
Speaker 2: few things that still people have crime in this like
Speaker 2: nebulous part of their brain where even though they have
Speaker 2: first hand experience with crime rates, dropping pundits on TV
Speaker 2: can just be like crime wave, like a common Michael
Speaker 2: Scott and it's somehow there lived experience and they're like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's a crime wave right now.
Speaker 1: It's so unsafe.
Speaker 2: I've never seen crime where I live at all, but
Speaker 2: everything else is.
Speaker 3: But it's there, it's out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I heard about this one guy who yeah big,
Speaker 1: he got swept up in a crime wave. Guys, there's
Speaker 1: a fucking drug fire. There's a drug fire. He's walking
Speaker 1: his baby. Drug fire after the mass shooting.
Speaker 3: And the crime wave actually put it out. Because it
Speaker 3: was like a wave.
Speaker 2: First of all, my baby was trying to surf the
Speaker 2: crime wave on to a drug fire, and he bailed
Speaker 2: so hard into a mass shooting. One more time for
Speaker 2: everyone in the back. My infant nearly died in a
Speaker 2: drunk fire after mass shootings.
Speaker 5: Uh huh uh huh okay, merely died, nearly died.
Speaker 1: In a drug fire.
Speaker 2: I would love if he didn't even have a kid.
Speaker 2: They're like, Benny Johnson has no children. He's just straight
Speaker 2: up fucking lying to you.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I would like that better. I think that
Speaker 3: he realized he sounds like funnier.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It is boom times for white collar crime, though.
Speaker 1: But I will say this has been true since back
Speaker 1: in uh May, but now now it's getting even I
Speaker 1: mean it's been true since forever that white color crime,
Speaker 1: private equity anyone as defined as crime committed by wealthy
Speaker 1: financial institutions. But you know, white collar crime of all sorts.
Speaker 1: It's just like all the investigations, all the really bad
Speaker 1: ones that the FBI was like looking into, have been
Speaker 1: replaced with you know, going out and like sending a
Speaker 1: bunch of fucking bureaucrats out to just like mill about
Speaker 1: and be like glorified beat cups. They've been apparently reassigning
Speaker 1: white collar crime task forces to like do immigration enforcement now,
Speaker 1: which they're not pleased with as people who were got
Speaker 1: into the job of investigating white color crime. But you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's I'm sure it's working and doing doing
Speaker 1: wonders for people are flocking.
Speaker 3: I hear people are flocking to white collar crimes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to.
Speaker 2: It's harder than TikTok.
Speaker 5: The only thing you have to make sure you don't
Speaker 5: do it when you do a white collar crime is
Speaker 5: then become a reality television star, because you can do
Speaker 5: one or the other, but you can't do both if
Speaker 5: you don't.
Speaker 2: Look who got out though, Look who got out though?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, they got.
Speaker 4: Out when the white color criminal who was also a
Speaker 4: reality stars in the White House.
Speaker 3: They think it's okay, it's any other Yeah, yeah, like
Speaker 3: I mean more like the Real Housewives, Like they can't
Speaker 3: do those.
Speaker 2: Or Todd Chris, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, yeah, right, I forgot about.
Speaker 7: It and they got out.
Speaker 2: Because again, the rules are, if you're white and do
Speaker 2: white collar crime, then you have a shot at getting
Speaker 2: a pardon.
Speaker 3: Isn't that what the white and crimes I feel it is?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, white color crime.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyways, that I mean, it is truly the crime
Speaker 1: that is causing that. You know, it's causing a lot
Speaker 1: of the problems that we're talking about, right, and of
Speaker 1: course it is the one that is must be avoided
Speaker 1: and ignored.
Speaker 2: What's what's like been a perpetrator in terms of as
Speaker 2: you guys try to find out who murdered your bank accounts,
Speaker 2: what's the name name, what's a suspect that you've identified?
Speaker 3: No, I think Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 4: I think that that's that you can really a lot
Speaker 4: comes back to that, but it goes you know, I
Speaker 4: think it starts at the beginning of this American experience,
Speaker 4: which is that it's all entirely based around an economy
Speaker 4: that is not really designed to make everybody happy and free.
Speaker 4: But specifically, when we're talking about millennials and we're talking
Speaker 4: about the last one hundred years, we are talking about
Speaker 4: what we spoke of before, which is, like, the difference
Speaker 4: is that millennials are experiencing based on policy.
Speaker 3: Decisions I started in the eighties.
Speaker 4: But you know, this goes back to like things that
Speaker 4: were were built up around the First World Wars, which
Speaker 4: is like, we need to buy stuff to make this
Speaker 4: economy work, and everybody is in the business of buying
Speaker 4: or selling stuff for us to buy or sell, right, yeah,
Speaker 4: I think, and like so everything is pushing us into
Speaker 4: that and simultaneously making it impossible for us to make
Speaker 4: a living at it, because like all the things we
Speaker 4: said before, people aren't really running small businesses anymore. So
Speaker 4: it's just like, I mean, I think really what we're
Speaker 4: what we're looking at is just how how do we
Speaker 4: imagine a different way of living around outside of this
Speaker 4: economy that we've been brought up to believe is like
Speaker 4: truly and the only option.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and also just not getting the information that like
Speaker 5: we have learned so much about just like the we
Speaker 5: were We've been shocked by.
Speaker 3: So many things that we've learned in researching this podcast.
Speaker 5: Like we interviewed this woman, Elena Botea, who worked at
Speaker 5: Capital one for years and then she became a journalist,
Speaker 5: and she said something Rachel Hurd on a zoom that
Speaker 5: was like there was no household consumer debt consumer debt
Speaker 5: before before in nineteen eighty three, And we were like.
Speaker 3: Credit cards and the banks are obviously how can that
Speaker 3: be right?
Speaker 5: Like you just imagine that this is something that always existed,
Speaker 5: and in reality it's not.
Speaker 3: It's not that old. It's it's our age. And so
Speaker 3: if it's our age, why does it have to be
Speaker 3: like the rule of the of the land. Why can't
Speaker 3: you like think of.
Speaker 5: Something else that's like because we're eating too much, Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's why that's right, and not buying wedding rings.
Speaker 1: When was avocado toast invented? I'm just saying nineteen eighty four,
Speaker 1: twenty four. Yeah, I do like they're mad at us
Speaker 1: for eating avocado toast, but also mad at us for
Speaker 1: not buying diamond wedding rings, which are way more expensive
Speaker 1: and financially responsible.
Speaker 3: Decisions weddings, Like they're bad about it.
Speaker 5: Everything about like the modern wedding experience that we're told
Speaker 5: is like the thing that we're supposed to do. I mean,
Speaker 5: it is one of the reasons why I got into
Speaker 5: debt when I looked back on it, because I went
Speaker 5: to so many bachelotte parties, I bought so many bridesmaids dresses,
Speaker 5: I bought so many gifts for people to go to
Speaker 5: their weddings, and like that is something I was led
Speaker 5: to believe was what I needed to do in order
Speaker 5: to stay in the group socially, right, But in reality
Speaker 5: it was just like draining my all of my bank
Speaker 5: bank account.
Speaker 4: And meanwhile, like the people who are making money are
Speaker 4: doing it investing in debt, right, investing in pretend money.
Speaker 4: But that doesn't that doesn't transfer down to those of
Speaker 4: us who are actually being like you're saying, lended in
Speaker 4: a predatory manner, and then it becomes something that you
Speaker 4: can never get out of.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but that is like just one piece of the
Speaker 4: bigger picture, which I think is that just like we
Speaker 4: are watching the transfer of wealth from the middle class
Speaker 4: to whatever is left of the middle class middle and
Speaker 4: lower class working class too.
Speaker 3: You know, a few people basically.
Speaker 1: Yea, yeah, yeah. Claudia Scheinbaum, the you know, president of Mexico,
Speaker 1: talks about She just openly says like neoliberalism is a
Speaker 1: mechanism for redistributing wealth from the middle class upward, Like
Speaker 1: that's that's all it is, and just like that's an
Speaker 1: openly agreed to a like definition of it in other countries.
Speaker 2: Down there, but here in California, that's the way. That's
Speaker 2: the way we do business.
Speaker 1: It's the way we do it.
Speaker 3: You got to get that twenty dollars air Air one's movie.
Speaker 1: Yes, I did want to talk about the uh just
Speaker 1: a little bit about me. Anytime I read a New
Speaker 1: York or article, I have to talk about it on
Speaker 1: the podcast because I'm so proud about it. But I
Speaker 1: do think that that's actually I think it ties into
Speaker 1: the conversation we're having because there's a new article about
Speaker 1: the ultra wealthyes, trend of trying to live forever and
Speaker 1: like just like God for everything, and it's that just
Speaker 1: mostly boomer age people like that. They they talk to
Speaker 1: this one woman who works in the industry and she's like, no, no,
Speaker 1: the industry of forever, the longevity industry. They interview one
Speaker 1: woman who like works in this longevity industry of like,
Speaker 1: you know, just these people are like tested every week,
Speaker 1: like they're like, okay, inhale into this bag, give us
Speaker 1: your poop, Like we need to like make sure that
Speaker 1: you are just like perfectly monitored. And she was saying
Speaker 1: that these are all people who spent their health getting rich,
Speaker 1: so like for the first half of their life, they
Speaker 1: were just like working around the clock trying to get rich,
Speaker 1: and now they're rich, and they're trying to like get
Speaker 1: their health back through these means because they're like scared
Speaker 1: of death and they don't want to admit that they
Speaker 1: fucked up. But what all right, So two of the
Speaker 1: details that jumped out to me. One is the richest
Speaker 1: people already lived twelve years longer than the poorest in
Speaker 1: this country. Like that just in addition to being proof
Speaker 1: that our world is a disaster, that capitalism's already broken.
Speaker 1: Like it's just wild that these people who are driving
Speaker 1: this entire industry are already like maxed out, which is
Speaker 1: what they find Like afterwards, they're just like, yeah, it
Speaker 1: turns out like all these things that people are doing
Speaker 1: can help somebody if they were not already doing these things.
Speaker 1: But they are right, so like it doesn't help them.
Speaker 1: It's just this like soulless end of life, denial of death,
Speaker 1: like addiction to the idea of like self and like
Speaker 1: perpetuating yourself is essentially like a religion. It's like what
Speaker 1: these people have instead of religion at this point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it kind of boils down, like what the
Speaker 3: problem is?
Speaker 5: Just generally right, it's like I'm so afraid, like you
Speaker 5: can't take your money with you, right, and you're like
Speaker 5: so afraid of.
Speaker 1: Like with.
Speaker 5: Exactly, So if I don't die, then I, you know,
Speaker 5: never have to worry about it, and then I don't
Speaker 5: have to question like what the fuck was all of
Speaker 5: this for and what was I doing with like hoarding
Speaker 5: my wealth to make sure that like I'm healthy. Like again,
Speaker 5: it like goes back to not giving a shit about
Speaker 5: the collective and being like I need to make sure
Speaker 5: that like I'm okay.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah.
Speaker 4: It crystallizes the irony we've been talking about, which is
Speaker 4: that like everybody's dollar is made on burning this planet
Speaker 4: up more and more and more, and so what's worse than.
Speaker 3: The lack of survival of planet Earth?
Speaker 4: Like the most miraculous thing we've ever like conceived of.
Speaker 2: This, Like I'm just going to build a bomb shelter
Speaker 2: to survive exactly.
Speaker 3: It's like don't look at It's like exactly like don't look.
Speaker 1: At you know, did you guys see Mountainhead, the movie
Speaker 1: by the guy who, yeah, the succession guy. It's it's
Speaker 1: worth while Steve Carrell's character is the is just exactly
Speaker 1: this guy, like he knows. He finds out that he
Speaker 1: has a like terminal diagnosis, and he keeps just being like, wow,
Speaker 1: you're not very smart, are you to his doctors, like
Speaker 1: just being like I am, I have a genius level,
Speaker 1: I Q actually, and I'm going to beat this thing.
Speaker 3: My god, Yeah, that's how you do it.
Speaker 1: It is kind of funny that they the two things
Speaker 1: that everybody says are like inevitabilities of the human condition
Speaker 1: are death and taxes, and like that's all these people
Speaker 1: spend their entire lives just trying to avoid Yeah, yea
Speaker 1: for these guys kids or like yeah, right.
Speaker 4: Will show you my life's purpose us to prove this
Speaker 4: wrong and in the meantime lose it all.
Speaker 1: Anyway, the one good idea I will say this is
Speaker 1: a little investment tip. One of the technologies they're looking
Speaker 1: at that I guarantee these like very rich people are
Speaker 1: going to spend a lot of money on is a
Speaker 1: smart toilet that basically like reads your shit for like
Speaker 1: signs of disease. And like they're like really investing hard
Speaker 1: in this, and I feel like I feel like that
Speaker 1: is inevitably that that's the next aura ring.
Speaker 2: Which is funny because that would help just like if
Speaker 2: everyone had access to that, if everyone had sly on
Speaker 2: for sure, But no, it's going to be like this
Speaker 2: thing they parade around Silicon Valley and it's probably going
Speaker 2: to start off as like some dude underneath the house
Speaker 2: like just running like fucking tests on it. The technology
Speaker 2: isn't there yet a mechanical turd if you will.
Speaker 5: Sure, like printers in the in the nineties, like they're
Speaker 5: going to be just like a bajillion dollars and then
Speaker 5: one day one absolutely Yeah, but again it's the same thing.
Speaker 3: Like it's to your point, if.
Speaker 5: Everybody had access to these things, yeah, that would be fabulous. Yeah,
Speaker 5: to privatize them, make them an entity that you need
Speaker 5: to spend like, you know, bajillion dollars on, it's like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like flying cars are a thing. They're just a
Speaker 1: thing for like the ultra ultra wealthy. You know, essentially,
Speaker 1: it's just like helicopters and private private jets. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then you know we like all the sci fi ship
Speaker 1: from the future exists, like it just exists for only
Speaker 1: the ultra wealthy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like living well, which I think is pretty cool, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: eternally eternal life.
Speaker 7: And I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean I think for us, that's like should be
Speaker 2: a motivator to get our ship together so we can
Speaker 2: be one of these people.
Speaker 1: And also on your grind set.
Speaker 2: When someone starts talking about progressive tax systems, like, I'll
Speaker 2: hold the fuck up because when I'm one of these billies, Okay,
Speaker 2: I don't want to deal with that, So I'm going
Speaker 2: to protect my investment.
Speaker 5: We're just gonna keep walking around eating dumplings from Chinatown
Speaker 5: and helping for the best.
Speaker 3: That's our point.
Speaker 1: I think that sounds like a good plan. Sound also
Speaker 1: like I have invested a lot of time and looking
Speaker 1: at walking around looking for a bag of money. If so,
Speaker 1: if anybody's always looking.
Speaker 2: For that, or like loose drugs that fell off a truck, that.
Speaker 3: Sounds like yeah, in a fire.
Speaker 1: In a fire, after a mass after.
Speaker 2: After a mass support try yeah.
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