1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season seventeen, episode two 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 1: of Daily S eight Guys for February six, two th 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 1: eight teen. My name is Jack O'Brien. A ka, I 4 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:11,799 Speaker 1: want my baby Jack, baby Jack, baby Jack. I want 5 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 1: my baby Jack, baby Jack, barbecue salls, and I'm by 6 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 1: my co host, Mr Miles Great. That's right, your boy. 7 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 1: I love Miles Conan because I got the pod going 8 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 1: up on A two's gray and that a K a h. 9 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 1: I think that goes out to at Lolitami. Thank you 10 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: so much for that. A k A mine was courtesy 11 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:39,520 Speaker 1: of Peter Derie. Peter d E w r e E 12 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: d E. Good thing we spelled that out, yeah, because 13 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: that is not how I would. I don't know how 14 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:49,559 Speaker 1: to pronounce that at all, but I do know how 15 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 1: to pronounce our guest's name. He is a hilarious comedian, 16 00:00:55,160 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 1: former Cracked columnist, and podcast host of the Unpopular Singing podcast. 17 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 1: He is Mr Adam Todd Brown. Hey, thanks for having me. 18 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: What's going on man? Not much? What is something that 19 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:13,679 Speaker 1: you have searched in the not too distant pests that 20 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:16,679 Speaker 1: is revealing about who you are as a human being? Oh? 21 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,320 Speaker 1: I didn't catch the that reveals who you are as 22 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 1: a human being. So I picked Sandy Hook crime scene photos. 23 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 1: I think that's perfect. Why why are you looking into it? 24 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:32,400 Speaker 1: Because I was looking into Sandy Hook conspiracy theories and 25 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: one of the big sticking points people have with oh 26 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: this is a hoax is why didn't we see the 27 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: crime scene photos? And sure enough, there aren't any out 28 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: there online. But if you think back to any major 29 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 1: tragedy like that, how many really graphic crime scene photos 30 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: stick out in your head? Exactly? Bro, we don't have 31 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 1: a ton of crime scene photos from Columba, and we 32 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: don't have crime scene like we don't have pictures of 33 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 1: dead bodies from nine eleven. They're not gonna just take 34 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 1: pictures of dead kids and upload them to the internet. 35 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: These conspiracy pis was like rotten dot com. I remember, 36 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: you just have like weird fake ship like that, Like 37 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:11,639 Speaker 1: this is you know, this is from the inside of 38 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: what is pas autopsy photo or whatever? I think that, Uh, 39 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: well that's dark. What's something you think is underrated? Uh? 40 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 1: Something I think is underrated? Uh? Cargo pants? Wow, I 41 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: feel like it's a fashion statement. I feel like you're 42 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,799 Speaker 1: wearing jeans with cargo pockets on the side. I'm not 43 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: wish I wish I was. I wish Jo had not 44 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:41,919 Speaker 1: turned against cargo pants. They're wildly functional. It feels like 45 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: a cop out to big purse, like they're just trying 46 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: to get this carrying bags when cargo pants should just 47 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 1: be our got. And it's funny because back when cargo 48 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 1: pants are around, they were functional, and as pants got tighter, 49 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 1: it's just apparent that I'm carrying all these things in 50 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 1: my pocket in the cargo pan ere. You didn't know 51 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,959 Speaker 1: I had three ounces on me, you know what I mean? Yeah, 52 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 1: now I gotta look like I' wearing a diaper going 53 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: through the airport uncalled for. Yeah, what is something you 54 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: think is overrated? Oh, let's go with space space space, 55 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 1: Like the personal space is dope, but outer space I don't. 56 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 1: I don't trust us to get there without me blowing 57 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: up and dying in a really spectacular way. Like when 58 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 1: we get to space tourism stuff. I'm never I'm definitely 59 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: not getting there in an official government capacity. Did that 60 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 1: new Falcon heavy test get you thinking about that? That's 61 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 1: basic launch that we could all see from our balconies. Yeah, 62 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 1: that that that was uncomfortable. What I didn't like about 63 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 1: it is I kind of thought that's what it was, 64 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: but if you looked at the trail of smoke, it 65 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 1: looked like it went off course, and I was like, oh, 66 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 1: where's that gonna Like, yeah, yeah, it was. The funniest 67 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 1: part was just like that first ten minutes when people 68 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: were just trying to figure it out. Yeah, yeah, it 69 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 1: was crazy looking. Well this that's not Falcon Falcon heavy. 70 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 1: That was another SpaceX today is the massive, the largest 71 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: rocket in the world that they're testing to the largest 72 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 1: rockets since we last went to the Moon, I believe. Uh. 73 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:18,599 Speaker 1: And yeah, it's just Elon Musk being a modern day H. P. Barnum, Like, 74 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 1: he's just he's good at publicity. He's good at getting 75 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 1: his name in people's minds. H barah F P. Barnum 76 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:34,160 Speaker 1: the designer. Uh what was his name? P. T. Barnum. Uh, Yeah, 77 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 1: that's right. It's not shout out to a new sponsor, 78 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 1: Hewlett Packards. But like it's funny. They were interviewing today 79 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:42,719 Speaker 1: and he was like, you know, I feel like in 80 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 1: our lifetime we will have a lunar base and we 81 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 1: will have a city on Mars. And he said it's 82 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 1: so arrogantly that I was like, dude, shut the funk up. Yeah. Yeah, 83 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 1: it's not up to you really, but it anymore. Yeah, 84 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 1: apparently on board the Falcon heavy such a name that 85 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: is doing too much work U. But he has his 86 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 1: cherry red tesla like roadster that he is putting on 87 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: the spacecraft into orbit around Mars with the astronaut dummy 88 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 1: in the passengers right and space oddity playing on loop. Um. 89 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 1: So yeah, just the alien species that like comes and 90 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: finds our civilization, like years and years after we've all 91 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 1: killed each other. It's just gonna be like these people 92 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: are so fucking stupid, like they'll know we all had 93 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 1: small dicks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this is kind of 94 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: the first piece of space marketing, the first billboard anyone's 95 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 1: putting up in space. Um, just sending up fucking garbage 96 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:50,359 Speaker 1: into space and kind of feel like that flag we 97 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 1: put on the Moon was the first advertising. Yeah that's true, 98 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: We're the ones you should be afraid of. Yeah, that 99 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: was pretty or destroyed first if it was even real, Right, 100 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 1: I'm just saying, why wasn't it waving away? All right? 101 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:20,679 Speaker 1: So we're trying to take a sample of what people 102 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 1: are thinking and talking about right now today. And the 103 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 1: way we like to open up is by asking our guest, 104 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:28,919 Speaker 1: what is a myth? What's something that people believe to 105 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 1: be true that is not. California is a liberal state? 106 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: Mm hmm. I think San Francisco and Los Angeles are 107 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 1: liberal and the rest of California is a total crapshoot. 108 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: Could be really progressive, could be a former and still 109 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 1: KKK stronghold. You just never know. California. According to there 110 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:56,040 Speaker 1: was a two thousand sixteen Southern Poverty Law Center study, 111 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 1: California has the most active hate groups in the nation. 112 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 1: I think V and d N. Yeah, the mat there 113 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 1: was like an interactive math that they and I was like, whoa, 114 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 1: looky here And what's crazy is a lot of them 115 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 1: are based in l A. Yeah, in Orange County, Yeah, 116 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 1: especially Orange County, but yeah yeah, l A, Sacramento, San Francisco, 117 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 1: all those areas have have hate groups. A lot of 118 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 1: hate groups. Yeah, like just your standard Nazi type hate groups, 119 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 1: Neo Nazi groups. There's uh, I mean it also gets 120 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 1: into what you call a hate group. There's also a 121 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: lot of what the Southern Poverty Law Centered UH calls 122 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 1: hate groups are like black separatist groups, which is interesting, 123 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 1: and then it kind of gets into what's not like 124 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 1: it's not like PETA or like California aggressively Californian ship. No. Yeah, 125 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 1: there was a Nazi bunker in Santa Monica for a 126 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: long time. It was, uh it was designed to be 127 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 1: the Nazi base of operation if they won the war. 128 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 1: And uh it's when his World War two ended, we 129 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 1: immediately tore it down. Seventy years later. Yeah, yeah, there's 130 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 1: still some of it's still there. It's called Murphy's Ranch. Yeah, 131 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: I've walked out to it. Actually, there's like a hiking 132 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: trail you can take out to it, and I've gone 133 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 1: out to pay my respect to know, just because it's 134 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 1: a nice hike. But uh yeah, l a, there there 135 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 1: is weird stuff like that. And Adam, I wanted to 136 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 1: open up. So you were the first person who I 137 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: listened to who said that Donald Trump was going to 138 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: get elected. You said this very early on in the 139 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:44,680 Speaker 1: Republican primaries. You well, well everybody else was, you know, 140 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: being like, well, it will see when it gets to 141 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 1: you know, those later states, and then we'll see. I 142 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: think it was even before the primaries. It was I wrote. 143 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:57,959 Speaker 1: I wrote the first article saying he was probably gonna 144 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 1: win in October two and fifteen, And yeah, I just 145 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 1: I had a feeling. It just felt like people weren't 146 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 1: taking it seriously enough, while at the same time a 147 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 1: lot of people were taking it very very seriously. And 148 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 1: it just it's but you know, it doesn't matter what 149 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 1: candidate they put up, you have to take it like 150 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 1: it's like a trap game in sports. You're like, oh, 151 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 1: we can beat that team and they end up getting 152 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 1: blown out, right. Yeah. Yeah, And I mean at the 153 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:31,559 Speaker 1: time that you were taking him seriously, Uh, yes, there 154 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: were a lot of people in the middle of the 155 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:38,080 Speaker 1: country taking it him seriously, but the mainstream culture was 156 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 1: for the most part just sort of dismissing those people. Yeah. 157 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: There's a really famous video now of I think it 158 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 1: was George Stephanopolis interviewing Keith Ellison, who's a Democratic politician 159 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: from Minnesota, and Keith Ellison said the same thing. He said, 160 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:56,960 Speaker 1: you know, we should take this seriously because Trump could win, 161 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 1: and oh does George Stephanopolis laugh just laughs and laughs 162 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:04,080 Speaker 1: and laughs. And then as soon as Trump won, that 163 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: video came back and there's all these people slowing it 164 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 1: down and like auto two. Yeah, yeah, it was a 165 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 1: really common thing. There's John Oliver went on Colbert at 166 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,440 Speaker 1: one point and Colbert asked him about Trump and he 167 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:24,439 Speaker 1: was not taking like we should. But he totally stopped 168 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 1: the Trump movement in his tracks with that drump stuff 169 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 1: that was wet him there. We got him there, guys. 170 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: Uh So, I wanted to ask you, what is do 171 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: you do you have any predictions things you think we're 172 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 1: not aware that we should be taken seriously right now 173 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 1: that maybe we should be. Well, I have a whole 174 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 1: idea of where our next three wars are going to happen, 175 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 1: or these are our next three military interventions. Trump has 176 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 1: a long history of when people bring up human rights, 177 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 1: He's just like, whatever, we abuse human rights too. So 178 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 1: then whenever Trumps the Trump administration comes out and uh 179 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 1: is concerned about human rights, it's always a red flag. 180 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:10,080 Speaker 1: And the first the three places where they've talked about 181 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 1: human rights, well besides Iran, the three places they've talked 182 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 1: about being concerned about human rights are Venezuela, South Sudan, 183 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 1: and the Democratic Republic of Congo. And Rex Tillerson used 184 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: to be the CEO of Exxon in Venezuela at a 185 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: time when they nationalized all their oil and basically took 186 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 1: that company from him. He went to court and sued 187 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 1: and got a settlement that wasn't what he was looking for, 188 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:36,960 Speaker 1: and he's had a grudge ever since. Now he's our 189 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 1: Secretary of State. And around April of last year there 190 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 1: started these stories started coming out about Trump being concerned 191 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,640 Speaker 1: about human rights in Venezuela, and I'm like, oh, yeah, well, 192 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 1: we're gonna go to war in Venezuela pretty soon. And 193 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: sure enough, just this last week, Rex Tillerson he's kind 194 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 1: of floating the idea that hey, maybe a coop will 195 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 1: happen in Venezuela bit. And once any representative of the 196 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:07,600 Speaker 1: US government starts talking that way, it's bad times for 197 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 1: that country. Like we're either going to go in or 198 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:12,240 Speaker 1: someone's gonna go in, and we're going to give them 199 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:15,959 Speaker 1: a lot of support. And I think it's all tied 200 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: to natural resources in oil. I mean, I I know 201 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:22,680 Speaker 1: that Venezuela has a lot of oil, right that was 202 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 1: sort of uh, the whole issue is that Hugo Chadas 203 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:30,600 Speaker 1: like nationalized to their oil and we didn't like that 204 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 1: because they sold us a lot of oil. Yeah, I 205 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: get the sense they knew they had more oil than 206 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 1: we realized before we knew it, because we didn't find 207 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: out until two thousand fourteen that they have actually the 208 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 1: biggest reserves of oil in the world, even more than 209 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 1: any country in the Middle East hashtag oil boys yea. 210 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 1: And in two thousand fifteen, not long after we found 211 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,200 Speaker 1: that out, Obama all of a sudden issued this executive 212 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: order calling them an enemy of the State. And basically 213 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 1: what that means is any country that US trade deals 214 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 1: with US cannot trade with Venezuela. And what it did 215 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 1: is it blocked Japan from doing this big gold deal 216 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: with Venezuela that would have bailed their economy out. But 217 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:14,320 Speaker 1: once we put that executive order in place, Japan couldn't 218 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:17,960 Speaker 1: do anything. So we've been kind of waging If you 219 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,079 Speaker 1: look into I like it would take an hour to 220 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 1: go through it all, but if you look into it, 221 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 1: we've been kind of waging economic war with Venezuela from 222 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: it for almost three years now, and it's been pretty devastating. 223 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:30,559 Speaker 1: I mean, we uh, back at Cracked, we had this section, 224 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 1: the personal experience section of the site where we would 225 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 1: just like interview people with interesting or extreme life experiences, 226 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 1: and a couple of the craziest stories we ever heard 227 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 1: were from people in Venezuela who like, there was a 228 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:46,360 Speaker 1: guy who, uh, it had gotten so bad and hunger 229 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:48,679 Speaker 1: had gotten so bad, like the all the grocery store 230 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: shelves were just barren, and uh, he was having to 231 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: fight off looterers with a crossbow because he had a 232 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: mango tree in his yard and they were all coming 233 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: for the mangoes and that was the only way he 234 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: was feeding his family. Yeah, it's inflation is the thing 235 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 1: we hear about all the time, and it's like it's 236 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:12,239 Speaker 1: been a long time since we've had really high inflation 237 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 1: in this country, so it's hard to wrap your head around. 238 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: But in Venezuela, inflation got so bad that basically, if 239 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 1: you were making the equivalent of a hundred thousand dollars 240 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: in the United States, overnight, you were making like ten 241 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year, Like your money just became worthless overnight. 242 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 1: And it's not our fault, but the things Venezuela did 243 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 1: that made it happen, we've kind of seized on and 244 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: are exacerbating it. Two, I think go in and uh 245 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 1: put a government in place that's a little more friendly, 246 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 1: friendly to our needs. Yeah, I mean because the human 247 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:56,040 Speaker 1: rights abuses that we hear about in North Korea and Iran, right, 248 00:14:56,120 --> 00:15:00,040 Speaker 1: and those in the State of Union. Uh, those of 249 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 1: the places that get all the attention as you know 250 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 1: that watch out America is going to go to war there, 251 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 1: and you're saying that these three other countries are also 252 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 1: right quietly being There's a CNN article if you just 253 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 1: search Nicki Haley Trump South Sudan and you'll find this 254 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 1: opinion piece she wrote for CNN, which is weird because 255 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 1: that's like they're they're Boogeyman. Basically, that's all where all 256 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:25,600 Speaker 1: fake news emanates from. But Nicki Haley was writing this 257 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 1: opinion piece about why we need to go to South 258 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 1: Sudan in the Democratic Republic of Congo and fix these 259 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 1: human rights abuses. And if you look, you can actually 260 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 1: pull up a list of conflicts happening in Africa right now. 261 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 1: And yes, those places there are bad things happening, but 262 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 1: they're way way way down the list in terms of 263 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 1: countries that need humanitarian help. But what they are both 264 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 1: are they're both really resource rich countries that China is 265 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: working with to set up a basically set up their 266 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 1: own oil market that would not be backed by the 267 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 1: US dollar as all oil markets are right now, and 268 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 1: it would basically cut us out of the foreign oil market, 269 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 1: which would destroy our economy. And even like it's such 270 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 1: a high level thing, they can't, like, the government's never 271 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 1: going to come out and go, Okay, here's why we 272 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 1: need to go to war in South Sudan. Like people 273 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 1: are just gonna be like, shut up, we don't need 274 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 1: that oil, but we kind of do. Like it depends 275 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: on what kind of lifestyle you want to have in 276 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: the United States. And sometimes I feel like Trump is 277 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 1: just the best way to sell these crazy military excursions 278 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 1: we're going to have to go on, because then you 279 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: can just be like he's crazy, we don't know what 280 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 1: he's doing. But with someone like Hillary Clinton in place 281 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 1: and be like, well, no, she's not crazy, we have 282 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 1: to explain that a little more. Yeah, I mean, isn't 283 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 1: it possible that some of these military campaigns will just 284 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 1: happen without us noticing? Like I feel like a lot 285 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 1: of you know, military action was happening in Africa that 286 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:05,640 Speaker 1: we didn't know about until a handful of troops were 287 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 1: killed over there, and then people were like, oh, look 288 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 1: at look at that. Yeah. When that, I think a 289 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 1: lot of people were like, whoa, why are we in Africa? Though, 290 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 1: It's interesting, we just see like before all of our 291 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 1: meddling South America previously was to like curb communism, and 292 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:21,720 Speaker 1: now it's like, well, now we gotta get we gotta 293 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:23,679 Speaker 1: get to jump on China sort of not sucking up 294 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:26,400 Speaker 1: the whole oil and futures and ships. So it's it's 295 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:28,919 Speaker 1: interesting to see this whole the pattern play out with 296 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 1: the sort of the same same sort of tactics and 297 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,120 Speaker 1: things like that, but now with just different stakes. Yeah, 298 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:36,720 Speaker 1: it almost feels like an alien invasion kind of thing 299 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 1: where they don't want to tell us that that's what 300 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,000 Speaker 1: we're fine, because if we lose, it's gonna be a 301 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:46,399 Speaker 1: whole different country. If we lose that economics standing in 302 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:48,879 Speaker 1: the world, it's going to be a radically different place 303 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:52,160 Speaker 1: to live. And I don't know if Americans are ready 304 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:55,440 Speaker 1: to hear that, yeah, right, Like, I'd rather hear there 305 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 1: was an asteroid coming than I might not be able 306 00:17:57,880 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 1: to afford a blu ray play or if a new 307 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:02,040 Speaker 1: one come out next right, Yeah, no, just kill me 308 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:04,480 Speaker 1: now exactly right away. Yeah, if you told him you 309 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:06,879 Speaker 1: had like the number one a McDonald's would now be 310 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 1: seventy eight dollars. Yeah, it's not a world I want 311 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 1: to live in. All right, we are going to take 312 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 1: a quick break. We'll be right back with more and 313 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:31,679 Speaker 1: we're back. Uh. So the stock market uh plunged yesterday, 314 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 1: went down, lost all of its games from the past year, 315 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:40,680 Speaker 1: all those days of everybody high fiving. I know, Miles 316 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 1: and super producer Anna Hosny and I were just high 317 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 1: fiving around the office, being like another record day for 318 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:52,199 Speaker 1: the stock market, and U took a huge tumble, lost 319 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 1: all of the games that had made over the past 320 00:18:55,680 --> 00:19:00,240 Speaker 1: year yesterday. Uh. Then this morning there was another big 321 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:02,400 Speaker 1: sell off and then it came back and I guess 322 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:07,520 Speaker 1: it's sort of stabilizing. But uh, you know, first piece 323 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 1: of very bad news in the stock markets. Well it's 324 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:13,160 Speaker 1: weird because like initially right yesterday, they were like, oh, 325 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:15,879 Speaker 1: can you believe Trump was touting all these economic games 326 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:18,160 Speaker 1: as the market was crashing, like will he own this one? 327 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 1: Or won't he? And they're like, this is what happens 328 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:22,400 Speaker 1: when you always point to the stock market. You live 329 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:24,160 Speaker 1: by the stock market, you die by the stock market. 330 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 1: And then immediately they'd be like, well, this is normal though, 331 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 1: and this isn't bad. So it's like, what the funk 332 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:30,360 Speaker 1: are you saying? Like, are you trying to pit him 333 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:32,119 Speaker 1: with like some kind of a negative piece or you 334 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 1: also trying to calm people to know that this is 335 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:37,879 Speaker 1: actually like it's it's sort of normalizing itself, right. I 336 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 1: mean it's tricky because he has been pointing to the 337 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 1: stock market as evidence that you know, main street people 338 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 1: in Middle America are are doing well, and that he 339 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 1: has you know, yeh who are trading in all those 340 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 1: oil futures exactly. Uh. And I think the point that 341 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:57,879 Speaker 1: people are making is that you know, the stock market 342 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:02,000 Speaker 1: is not the economy, um, And so you know, it's funny. 343 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 1: This might be the first place that said that out loud, 344 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 1: because if you watch all the news coverage, is not 345 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 1: like they're not really drawing that line. They're getting very 346 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:12,360 Speaker 1: technical and it's sort of there is an entire channel 347 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 1: that is just devoted to people interpreting complete chaos and randomness, 348 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 1: Like I think it's the MSNBC. The it's just NonStop, 349 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:23,919 Speaker 1: just them being like, uh, and now we're seeing a 350 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 1: downturn and that's clearly because of uh these jobs numbers 351 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:34,920 Speaker 1: that just came out. It's it's basically like the Weather Channel, 352 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: except they believe that they can explain, like if the 353 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 1: Weather Channel was like and that is because Donald Trump 354 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:46,920 Speaker 1: is angry, we have a storm in the planes. It's 355 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:53,000 Speaker 1: just completely applying you know, logic to randomness. But uh so, 356 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 1: you know, like like we were saying, the economy is 357 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 1: not the stock market and vice versa. Um, people are 358 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 1: specular lating that part of the reason that the stock 359 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 1: market is starting to you know, go down is because 360 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:11,360 Speaker 1: the economy is doing so well. Yeah, that's I heard. 361 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:15,359 Speaker 1: It's basically a correction that investors call for when the 362 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:18,639 Speaker 1: economy is going in one direction or the other for 363 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 1: too long. So it almost kind of makes Trump look good, 364 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:24,120 Speaker 1: but he's just too dumb to know how to put 365 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:26,880 Speaker 1: it into it. It's funny because even on the alt right, 366 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 1: because they fundamentally don't understand if Alex Jones was saying 367 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,720 Speaker 1: this is a false flag attack by them. My gosh, 368 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,960 Speaker 1: it's wild how everybody yesterday was just trying to spin 369 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:39,879 Speaker 1: each other's version of whatever side of the media was 370 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:41,320 Speaker 1: how to try to spend it. But yeah, like that 371 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 1: was the funnies. I think he's forgotten what false flag means. Yeah, exactly. Um. 372 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:50,920 Speaker 1: We talked last week about the comment section in The 373 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 1: Hill UH being just like crazy cesspool of right wing 374 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:02,439 Speaker 1: anti Obama, just horrifying anti Michelle Obama rhetoric. UH. And 375 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 1: one of the things that I saw in there were 376 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:09,760 Speaker 1: people pointing out that, uh, US average wages for workers 377 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:14,160 Speaker 1: were actually going up for the first time in a decade. 378 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 1: And that's actually true. They're seeing gains UH that you know, 379 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:23,679 Speaker 1: are keeping pace with inflation in the average wages of employees, 380 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:27,359 Speaker 1: which is great news for American workers. But people think 381 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 1: that might be why the stock market is going down, 382 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:34,640 Speaker 1: is because the stock market is not showing how well 383 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:37,520 Speaker 1: American people are doing. It's showing how well the people 384 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,920 Speaker 1: at the very top of corporations are doing. And if 385 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:44,919 Speaker 1: US wages are going up, that gives you know, the 386 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 1: employees the human capital like more leverage, which means worse 387 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:55,439 Speaker 1: things for the bottom line of companies. So having higher 388 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:59,919 Speaker 1: wages for workers is actually bad for the stock market. 389 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 1: So that's I don't know, I think that kind of 390 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 1: puts things in perspective, because it isn't something like one 391 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 1: percent control the stock market in this country. Yeah, there 392 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 1: was a really fundamental shift in this country when we 393 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:17,640 Speaker 1: started destroying labor unions because before that, ceo s were 394 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:22,160 Speaker 1: beholding to investors but also beholden to their employees. And 395 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 1: once employees lost that bargaining power, Uh, that labor unions provided, 396 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 1: it turned into more and more ceo s were beholden 397 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:35,399 Speaker 1: too investors. And that's it. And you can kind of 398 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: trace that around the early eighties. When we started destroying 399 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 1: labor unions. That's when wages stopped going up, to the 400 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,720 Speaker 1: point that even if they're going up now, what happened 401 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:48,400 Speaker 1: this week is what's gonna happen. They'll they'll just adjust 402 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 1: the stock market accordingly. And if you managed to make 403 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,159 Speaker 1: enough money to save it and put it away in 404 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 1: the stock market, it's going to be gone. Good time 405 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 1: to be just getting by and life a bit cold. 406 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:04,800 Speaker 1: Wane is also going down, and people are speculating that, 407 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 1: you know, this might be the quick fall of the 408 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:13,160 Speaker 1: cryptocurrency market. Uh, there's just hold on, baby, just hold 409 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:17,439 Speaker 1: on to all you cryptocurrency investors out there right. Oh, 410 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 1: I know, I just want to make sure that ghost 411 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:25,480 Speaker 1: Face killers cryptocurrency. Cream capital like cashuals everything around me. 412 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:29,119 Speaker 1: Capital Uh cream get the money dollar. Yeah, that's a 413 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:38,760 Speaker 1: real thing. He's the best. Think found him that Probably 414 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 1: he definitely lost that feud with Screlly. That's maybe he 415 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 1: had to be the face of cream Corn. That's what 416 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,040 Speaker 1: I thought. It was cream coin, but that sounds too 417 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 1: much like creamed corn, and so they had to go 418 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:54,359 Speaker 1: with cream Capital. But good naming decision, because yeah, ghost 419 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:58,359 Speaker 1: Face hates creamed corn, right, so that's problematic. Um, I 420 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:00,960 Speaker 1: disagree with him on that. I love imcorn and we 421 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 1: could have a no, whole other podcast about that as well. 422 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 1: We should actually about now, um, but we wanted to 423 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:12,280 Speaker 1: talk about some people who uh made a bunch of 424 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:16,680 Speaker 1: money off of cryptocurrency and went down to Puerto Rico. 425 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:20,920 Speaker 1: It's basically like if somebody wrote a satire of late 426 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 1: stage capitalism. Uh, like, they couldn't do any better than this. 427 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:28,159 Speaker 1: So all these dudes who are like in their thirties 428 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,320 Speaker 1: and then there's like one guy in his fifties, Uh, 429 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:36,120 Speaker 1: all like decided they were going to take all their 430 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,679 Speaker 1: earnings off of cryptocurrency, and like they have you know, 431 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 1: billions of dollars of cryptocurrency some of them, and uh, 432 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,359 Speaker 1: they're moving the money from the Caymans, which is what 433 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:49,440 Speaker 1: you use as a text shelter, before they're moving it 434 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:52,880 Speaker 1: over to Puerto Rico. And this is something we've talked 435 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 1: about before, a thing called disaster capitalism, where you know, 436 00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:01,119 Speaker 1: capitalists come in after a disaster and basically like privatize things. 437 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,639 Speaker 1: And we've talked about how, uh there are people who 438 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:07,640 Speaker 1: are privatizing Puerto Rico's uh the power company, National Power 439 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:12,399 Speaker 1: Power Grid UM. By the way, still don't have power 440 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:21,560 Speaker 1: in Puerto Rico. UM. But so these guys have decided 441 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:26,800 Speaker 1: they're going to create a uh, a crypto utopia where 442 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 1: it's like this society that's run by this guy. UM. 443 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,399 Speaker 1: His name is Brock Pierce. He's sort of the leader 444 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:43,040 Speaker 1: Topia movement, former former child actor who has been sued 445 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 1: for fraud multiple times. Like clearly a con man. But 446 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,680 Speaker 1: let's let's listen to the description of these guys, because 447 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,200 Speaker 1: this New York Times reporter went down there. Uh so 448 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 1: the leader of the Portopia movement emerged, Brock Pierce, wearing 449 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:01,240 Speaker 1: drop crutch capri pants, a black est that almost hit 450 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:07,040 Speaker 1: his knees and a large black felt hat. Uh. The 451 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,399 Speaker 1: there's other guys. One guy's wearing two tone aviators and 452 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 1: another guy is wearing a smartphone on a necklace. So 453 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:22,160 Speaker 1: they're just like fucking two tone aviators. Uh that Like yeah, 454 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 1: oh wow, so's yeah he's a spook for sure. And 455 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,439 Speaker 1: he's got a cell phone necklace. Cellphone, Yeah, smartphone on 456 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:34,080 Speaker 1: a necklace. I like how they simultaneously straddle nerdy dad 457 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:36,359 Speaker 1: with like out of touch too, who just like went 458 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,479 Speaker 1: to a hip store by clothes or Yeah, it's just 459 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:43,160 Speaker 1: they're they're transported from Silicon Valley. But um there they 460 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:48,640 Speaker 1: say things like we're benevolent capitalists building a benevolent economy. Um. 461 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:52,120 Speaker 1: Mr Pierce got into digital money early as a professional gamer, 462 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,640 Speaker 1: mining and trading gold in the video game World of Warcraft, 463 00:27:56,080 --> 00:28:01,919 Speaker 1: an effort funded partly by Steven Steve Man. Uh. And 464 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 1: he's a controversial figure. Like I said, he has been 465 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,960 Speaker 1: sued for fraud among other things. Also, I just had 466 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,600 Speaker 1: to pull up his acting career. He played young Gordon 467 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:14,040 Speaker 1: Bombay in The Mighty Ducks, So just think about that. 468 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,679 Speaker 1: He was also Luke Davenport in First Kid. Is that 469 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 1: the one with sim Bad. I don't know. Yeah it is, 470 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 1: that's what I remember. Simbad is like secret service agent. Anyway, 471 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,760 Speaker 1: that's a whole other thing. Luke Davenport, is he the 472 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 1: first kid? I wonder, President Davenport, your son is out 473 00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:34,119 Speaker 1: of hand? Yeah he is. He is. He is a 474 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:37,440 Speaker 1: kid from first kids, the first kid. Of course he's 475 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:43,000 Speaker 1: got government connections. Mm hmm. So here's a quote from them. Uh. 476 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,840 Speaker 1: He said he is aiming to create a charitable token 477 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 1: called one, with one billion dollars of his own money. 478 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 1: And now now get ready to have your fucking mind blown. 479 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 1: It's called one one. Now he like you won something 480 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,880 Speaker 1: or okay, And he says if you take the my 481 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:09,840 Speaker 1: out of money, you're left with one. Don't that way? 482 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:12,800 Speaker 1: And if you look at one means you're on e. 483 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: Then somebody about him immediately he's tuned into a higher calling, 484 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:26,760 Speaker 1: said Kai Nyeguard, scion of the Canadian clothing company Nyeguard 485 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 1: and a crypto investor. Quote, he's beyond money, this Christopher guest, 486 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:38,360 Speaker 1: it's amazing that guy's starting a cult for Oh no, 487 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:42,760 Speaker 1: they've they've taken over a like abandoned hotel and they're 488 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 1: all living in a hotel that like was just a 489 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 1: building that happened to not be touched by the hurricane. So, 490 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:58,360 Speaker 1: of course, exactly here. Now, this is maybe maybe the 491 00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:01,600 Speaker 1: most telling quote. Next we hear from a gentleman named 492 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:07,760 Speaker 1: Halsey Minor who's like Xbox. He's the founder of the 493 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:12,720 Speaker 1: news site c net, which is a very useful website. Uh, 494 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 1: and he is moving his new blockchain company, video Coin, 495 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,360 Speaker 1: from the Cayman Islands to Puerto Rico this winter, Uh, 496 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 1: he says, referring to, Uh, what's happened here? He says, 497 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 1: what's happened here is a perfect storm, referring to a 498 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:30,120 Speaker 1: Hurricane Maria and the investment interest that has followed. He added, 499 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 1: while it was really bad for the people of Puerto Rico, 500 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 1: in the long term, it's a godsend if people look 501 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 1: past that. So a man, perfect storm is such an 502 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:43,240 Speaker 1: awful phrase to use in that context. Yea. And then 503 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,280 Speaker 1: bad for the people of Puerto Rico. But when you 504 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:50,560 Speaker 1: think about it, cryptocurrency is just look past that. This, 505 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,480 Speaker 1: look past the humanity of it all. Yeah, and think 506 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: about the sick assid video coin baby. Right, Yeah, Katrina 507 00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,760 Speaker 1: was bad, but we'll have so many casinos there someday, 508 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,840 Speaker 1: um Man cryptopy, I thought it was a place for 509 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:08,560 Speaker 1: cryps to hang out. I didn't realize it in crypto. Yeah, yeah, 510 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:13,920 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. We have an update from yesterday's show. Dodge 511 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:18,560 Speaker 1: was not pleased about that video. We played the audio 512 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,959 Speaker 1: from where somebody replaced the Martin Luther King speech from 513 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 1: their ad with the actual Martin Luther King's speech where 514 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:30,200 Speaker 1: he talked about how you know, America is being overtaken 515 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,640 Speaker 1: by advertisers and Charlatan's who are making people think that 516 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:38,200 Speaker 1: they are you know, they need this truck or this 517 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:43,120 Speaker 1: car better than their neighbor. Uh. Dodge was shocked that 518 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 1: people had a negative response to their ad, because of 519 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 1: course they are. They're completely toned up. UH, and immediately 520 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:54,960 Speaker 1: made YouTube takedown that video where people replaced it with 521 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,240 Speaker 1: the actual audio, but it still lives on Twitter. Um. 522 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:04,800 Speaker 1: The last bastion of freedom. The House Intel Committee finally 523 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:09,280 Speaker 1: voted UH to release the Democratic rebuttal to the memo, 524 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,560 Speaker 1: and now it's in President Trump's hands, so you know 525 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,320 Speaker 1: he'll do the right thing. He'll crumble it in the 526 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:20,680 Speaker 1: gonna eat it right. UM. I don't know what the 527 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,680 Speaker 1: response could be for anyone who has was for the 528 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 1: release of the Republican memo, what they could possibly be 529 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:31,400 Speaker 1: saying about why they shouldn't release a Democratic memo about 530 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,600 Speaker 1: the exact same thing if they're for transparency. But we 531 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:40,959 Speaker 1: will find out here. Um, but Miles, you wanted to 532 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:45,640 Speaker 1: update us on some of your heroes from your childhood. Yeah, 533 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,760 Speaker 1: the Jackass guys, you know, because there's an article that 534 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 1: came out a few days ago about just checking in 535 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:54,320 Speaker 1: with them. And you know, our parents were right, if 536 00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,480 Speaker 1: you keep acting like them, you're gonna suck your body 537 00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,600 Speaker 1: up and be in really bad shape. And it's it's 538 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:02,960 Speaker 1: like really pretty add like danger. Aaron remember him, He 539 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:04,320 Speaker 1: always you know, he had to drink pe and do 540 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,040 Speaker 1: stuff like that. He's had like so many surgeries, like 541 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,760 Speaker 1: nine surgery broke he broke his back like three times. 542 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:12,200 Speaker 1: He's like, I am not doing well and he's like 543 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,400 Speaker 1: in the article, he was like saying, I want to 544 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 1: remind people that you only get one body, so don't 545 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,320 Speaker 1: ruin it. And then you talk like Rob himself, who 546 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,480 Speaker 1: was one of my favorite people on Jackass. I didn't 547 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,360 Speaker 1: realize he loved himself. Was his name, Chris, Rob is 548 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,800 Speaker 1: his name, But he was called I'm sorry, I'm using 549 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:29,760 Speaker 1: everyone's like Jackass, name Aaron mcgae and like things like that, 550 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,560 Speaker 1: but I'm talking about Rob Chris Rap Rap himself. He 551 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:33,920 Speaker 1: was like he had to leave the show because he 552 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,320 Speaker 1: slowly got addicted to pain killers from the injuries he 553 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:38,760 Speaker 1: was sustaining and like drinking with that and it was 554 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,640 Speaker 1: just exacerbating it. And apparently like he'd look at everyone 555 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:43,200 Speaker 1: else because other people were heard on the show and 556 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,120 Speaker 1: also taking pain killers, like he was like, well what 557 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,520 Speaker 1: about him? And like he's just he got his life 558 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,400 Speaker 1: kind of spun out of control and he pretty much 559 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,480 Speaker 1: like lost a lot of his money and had to 560 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,160 Speaker 1: like get sober, and then he was like working as 561 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:55,920 Speaker 1: a waiter and I was talking about how like people 562 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,200 Speaker 1: were recognized, like dude, what the funk are you doing here? 563 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:00,400 Speaker 1: And he was just sort of like he went through 564 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:03,400 Speaker 1: some dark periods and Bam is still struggling with alcoholism. 565 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,360 Speaker 1: Uh So it's just like a it's sad because man, 566 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:08,920 Speaker 1: I fucking loved those like c k Y videos and 567 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,000 Speaker 1: like Jackass, I was just one of these young ass 568 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:14,000 Speaker 1: kids thinking like this was fucking hilarious. And then now 569 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:15,640 Speaker 1: you're kind of seeing like the fall out of it. 570 00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,880 Speaker 1: It's it's pretty uh, it's it's it's sad. It's Ryan Dunne, 571 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,520 Speaker 1: Yeah he died, Yeah, and a drink drunk driving accident. 572 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:26,040 Speaker 1: He kills his passenger and twenty miles per hours. Yeah, 573 00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:29,520 Speaker 1: and that kind of kicked off BAM's downfall. Um, And 574 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:31,440 Speaker 1: so it's sad just how like sort of connected there 575 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,920 Speaker 1: and like almost everyone had been arrested, like even Preston 576 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,960 Speaker 1: Preston Lacey do all those bits with we Man, Like 577 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,520 Speaker 1: he got caught with a bunch of weed and like 578 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:41,920 Speaker 1: we Man had to get his ship together, and obviously 579 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,239 Speaker 1: Stevo had his problems, but it's like it's hard to 580 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:46,759 Speaker 1: think of anybody who really got out of there and 581 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:50,040 Speaker 1: like is playing with a full deck still, Like a 582 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:53,279 Speaker 1: bunch of former NFL players exactly, they're all going to 583 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,440 Speaker 1: be using canes to walk by the time they're in 584 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:59,480 Speaker 1: their fifties. Yeah. It really reminded me of like professional wrestlers, 585 00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:01,520 Speaker 1: like what you about them, Yeah, because they were just 586 00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,160 Speaker 1: putting it there, were stunting with their bodies for you know, 587 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,600 Speaker 1: the spectacle of it all, and now they're sort of 588 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,239 Speaker 1: living through the reality check of that. Our bodies are 589 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,600 Speaker 1: not temporary or not you know, invincible. Yeah, and even 590 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,280 Speaker 1: and and it's let me note about Johnny Knoxville. Knoxville 591 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,440 Speaker 1: has been he's had trouble too, like everybody. I mean, Knoxville, 592 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:23,200 Speaker 1: I think outwardly has the most opportunities, like Jackass, but 593 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:25,440 Speaker 1: he's also has his own issues too, and he wouldn't 594 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,040 Speaker 1: even like like give him a quote for the story. 595 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,600 Speaker 1: And then there's like Stevo, who's kind of pulled through 596 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:34,560 Speaker 1: his issues, but he's just so obnoxious, like if he's anything, 597 00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:38,200 Speaker 1: he's like this, like lecturing that he did this documentary 598 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:42,320 Speaker 1: about recovering from drugs on MTV And at one point 599 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,840 Speaker 1: he goes into a Starbucks and orders a coffee and 600 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,680 Speaker 1: the woman goes, do you want whipped cream? And he goes, no, 601 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:52,200 Speaker 1: I'm a nitrous addict, Like just say no, what are 602 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,000 Speaker 1: you doing? She doesn't need to know that. But he 603 00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:58,520 Speaker 1: had some surgery and like thugged it out without any medication. 604 00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:00,680 Speaker 1: So yeah, good for you to take that seriously, like 605 00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:02,680 Speaker 1: when you know, you know you're struggling with addiction, like 606 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:04,759 Speaker 1: you know, I mean, he's a good example for people 607 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:08,400 Speaker 1: to to understand, like he's trying to just best just 608 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,040 Speaker 1: a yeah, yeah, and you can answer yes or no question, 609 00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:16,719 Speaker 1: yes or no. And also people who are struggling from 610 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,799 Speaker 1: you know, drug abuse or drug addiction, Like you don't 611 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:23,319 Speaker 1: have to go completely drug free during surgeries if you 612 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:25,560 Speaker 1: if you do want to recover, like, don't let that 613 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,759 Speaker 1: be a reason that you like tell yourself not to 614 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:30,600 Speaker 1: quit because you want to be able to have pain 615 00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:34,879 Speaker 1: killers during surgery or anesthesia. You can still have anesthesia 616 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,239 Speaker 1: during surgery. Do a lot of people like try and 617 00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:42,839 Speaker 1: demand that it depends there. They're definitely like threads of 618 00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:46,480 Speaker 1: the recovery community that are like all about you know, 619 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:50,759 Speaker 1: nothing that affects us from the neck up. Uh. And 620 00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:54,480 Speaker 1: you know, so he had no drugs. I think it 621 00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:58,440 Speaker 1: was something like afterwards, um that he just was like now, 622 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:02,319 Speaker 1: because I'll tell you, uh, you know, as long as 623 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:05,560 Speaker 1: you're using it under medical supervision, we're not giving you 624 00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:08,879 Speaker 1: open ended prescription to the pain killer. Here take off 625 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:13,280 Speaker 1: with this Morocca. I like to picture him turning down anesthesia. 626 00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,680 Speaker 1: So they just put him in a shopping cut, push him, 627 00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:22,799 Speaker 1: knock him unconscious. Fucking civil war battlefield surgery down right, 628 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,640 Speaker 1: all right, we will take a quick break and we'll 629 00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:39,480 Speaker 1: be right back. And we're back, and we are thrilled 630 00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:44,960 Speaker 1: to be joined by superproducer Ana Hosnier. She is the 631 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:48,640 Speaker 1: co host of the newest show that we're releasing, so 632 00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:52,400 Speaker 1: our Little How Stuff Works Comedy Network out here on 633 00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:56,319 Speaker 1: the West Coast. Uh. We have released two shows thus far. 634 00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,839 Speaker 1: You're listening to The Daily zie Ice, which is our 635 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:04,719 Speaker 1: first flagship show, and then we released Culture Kings, which 636 00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,920 Speaker 1: is hosted by Carl tart Eger mon pleas here and 637 00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:12,960 Speaker 1: Jackie's Neil, three of your favorite guests from The Daily 638 00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:16,200 Speaker 1: Zeitgeist where they chop it up and talk about pop 639 00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:19,759 Speaker 1: culture and rap and the n b A and just 640 00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:24,239 Speaker 1: all sorts of things. That's been having a lot of success. Uh. 641 00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:27,320 Speaker 1: Every episode's better than the last. I highly suggest you 642 00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:29,920 Speaker 1: check it out. Uh, and we are thrilled to be 643 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:34,480 Speaker 1: announcing the launch of our second spinoff show, which isn't 644 00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:38,440 Speaker 1: really spin off show because it already existed. Ethnically ambiguous, 645 00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:46,520 Speaker 1: hosted by refreshing to have some women. Yeah, yeah, it took. 646 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:48,400 Speaker 1: It took a lot of convincing. We were like, I 647 00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:52,560 Speaker 1: don't know about I've actually blackmailed jack into giving me 648 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,320 Speaker 1: this show. I'm like Once you get a woman talking, 649 00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:59,040 Speaker 1: you know, it's like she just fi podcast us, just 650 00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,759 Speaker 1: shrieking you just that you split a DVD onto his desk. 651 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:06,400 Speaker 1: I said, compromise. You know you're on the house that 652 00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,960 Speaker 1: works at work. But this is a show and has 653 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:14,800 Speaker 1: been doing for a few months now that I loved 654 00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:19,640 Speaker 1: that we brought over to our network. How do we 655 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,880 Speaker 1: describe ethnically ambiguous? Let the people know? Um, it's a 656 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,520 Speaker 1: show that me and my co host Shrine who is Syrian? 657 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,960 Speaker 1: And I? Who I am? Iranian? You are? That's how 658 00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:33,239 Speaker 1: you say that who I am? Who I um? And 659 00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,920 Speaker 1: we talk about growing up brown in America with immigrant parents, 660 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,040 Speaker 1: and we talked about Middle Eastern news that's never talked 661 00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,440 Speaker 1: about in mainstream media, just like stuff you won't hear 662 00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:46,080 Speaker 1: on the daily. Um, so come to my podcast and 663 00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:49,440 Speaker 1: listen to that if you want to hear about you know, 664 00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:52,919 Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, you know Iran and North Korea, like Adam 665 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:54,839 Speaker 1: was saying, those are the places they look at human 666 00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,799 Speaker 1: rights violations, and then the countries that bring money into 667 00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:01,480 Speaker 1: America are never looked at, like Saudi Arabia. And then 668 00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,640 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you're like, but wait now, those 669 00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:09,160 Speaker 1: are different though exactly exactly. Come on, man, that's how 670 00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,880 Speaker 1: they're they're rationalizing that over here. Yeah, I saw you 671 00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,080 Speaker 1: hanging out with those Crown princes the other day. Hey, 672 00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,160 Speaker 1: my man, you know they know how to drive Mercedes. Man, 673 00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,759 Speaker 1: you're doing that like skating on the street where you 674 00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:21,840 Speaker 1: just like hang outside of the home. You had the 675 00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:27,319 Speaker 1: two wheel motion with the knife out looking like the 676 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:29,360 Speaker 1: m I a video. But yeah. One of my favorite 677 00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:32,719 Speaker 1: things about the show, other than and his winning personality, 678 00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:37,799 Speaker 1: is that it provides context for a lot of the stories. Like, 679 00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,279 Speaker 1: you know, I pay attention to the news, but I 680 00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:42,719 Speaker 1: always felt like I lacked context for a lot of 681 00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:46,040 Speaker 1: the stories that are taking place in the Middle East. Um, 682 00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,480 Speaker 1: you know, and I think just for a lot of 683 00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:51,560 Speaker 1: people in the West, they hear stories about the Middle 684 00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:55,719 Speaker 1: East and they just think of movies and it's just 685 00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:59,360 Speaker 1: like a giant war zone of you know, sand and 686 00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,759 Speaker 1: prayer calls and whatever Homeland shows to establish something is 687 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:09,799 Speaker 1: taking place and basically just all insurgents running around just 688 00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,760 Speaker 1: listening to like a handful of episodes of your show. 689 00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,359 Speaker 1: I feel like I totally I can like hear the 690 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:19,080 Speaker 1: news and like understand, like put it in context, uh, 691 00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:21,760 Speaker 1: more than I ever have been able to. So that's 692 00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:24,759 Speaker 1: sort of a byproduct of listening. You won't you won't 693 00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,960 Speaker 1: feel like you're like, uh, you know, doing homework while 694 00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:30,759 Speaker 1: you're listening. No, because we we don't take the most 695 00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:36,120 Speaker 1: serious approach to it. But like you told the story 696 00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:41,080 Speaker 1: of an Iranian politician who was sort of overthrown by 697 00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:45,960 Speaker 1: the former Prime minister Mohammad. Yeah, he was overthrown by 698 00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:50,040 Speaker 1: a coup after he nationalized the oil in Iran so 699 00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:52,400 Speaker 1: they wouldn't share it with the British or America. And 700 00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:56,040 Speaker 1: then the British came and old Churchill got up in 701 00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:58,560 Speaker 1: Eisenhower's ear and said, if we don't get this guy 702 00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:00,880 Speaker 1: out of here, he'll turn into it so be a communist, 703 00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:06,279 Speaker 1: which is stretch boom. That's when the coup happened. Got 704 00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:10,719 Speaker 1: us out of there, got the But this the guy 705 00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:14,319 Speaker 1: who was like trying to take the oil industry in 706 00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:17,600 Speaker 1: Iran and like share the spoils with the people of Iran. 707 00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:21,680 Speaker 1: And he was about the people and that was not 708 00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:26,560 Speaker 1: cool to other country England. And this is where BP 709 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,719 Speaker 1: comes from, right, yes, back then it was called something 710 00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:31,319 Speaker 1: else which I can't think of off the top of 711 00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,799 Speaker 1: my head. But it was basically a going concern of 712 00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:39,520 Speaker 1: you know, Iranian oil. Without without going in and overthrowing 713 00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,280 Speaker 1: this guy who was trying to share the oil wealth 714 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,719 Speaker 1: with the people of Iran, Uh, there would be no 715 00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:47,360 Speaker 1: BP today, right. So actually the BP used to be 716 00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:53,200 Speaker 1: called the Anglo Persian Oil Company. Hey, rebranding is very powerful, 717 00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:56,839 Speaker 1: and after they destroyed Iran, they were like, and now 718 00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:02,480 Speaker 1: we are BP, now we're a b RB. Uh. Yeah, 719 00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:06,799 Speaker 1: So this gave me a much more context for you know, 720 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:11,040 Speaker 1: the eventual you know what what happened in Iran. You 721 00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:14,640 Speaker 1: guys have told some stories about Syria, You've told some 722 00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:20,200 Speaker 1: stories about Palestine that totally put those countries in more 723 00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:25,320 Speaker 1: contexts than gal Gado. Wonder Woman herself talked about gal 724 00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:31,040 Speaker 1: Gado's um support of the IDF and Israeli Defense Forces, 725 00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:37,560 Speaker 1: Israel's very aggressive army. She's a problematic lady. Yeah, gal Gado, Yes, 726 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:42,120 Speaker 1: a great feminist icon, yet doesn't seem to realize that 727 00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:44,840 Speaker 1: you can't just support certain group women and ignore a 728 00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:50,040 Speaker 1: whole other group women because of their Uh origin. She's 729 00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:53,000 Speaker 1: also got a weird like a friend of hers was 730 00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:56,000 Speaker 1: assaulted or raped by someone in gal Gado was like 731 00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:01,279 Speaker 1: was she like anything? Yeah, it was kind of like that. 732 00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:07,360 Speaker 1: She there's a lot of victim blaming. Yeah, um, well 733 00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:09,120 Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? And then you guys also 734 00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:14,040 Speaker 1: talk about, you know, your experiences and like you said, 735 00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:17,520 Speaker 1: what it's like the personal experiences, what it was like 736 00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:20,360 Speaker 1: to be raised by our you know, crazy immigrant parents, 737 00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:22,799 Speaker 1: you know, good times, you know, we talk about that. 738 00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:27,239 Speaker 1: I think a lot of people who have um, you know, 739 00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:32,320 Speaker 1: immigrant parents, are going to identify, Like my wife's parents 740 00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:36,319 Speaker 1: are immigrants from Korea, but I know that she's able 741 00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,560 Speaker 1: to identify with uh. Stories that you guys have about 742 00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:43,359 Speaker 1: like how mental health is treated from by parents who 743 00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:46,240 Speaker 1: are immigrants. Mental health is not a thing not treated. 744 00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:51,720 Speaker 1: They just say, give you everything, stop complaining and like, okay, 745 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,799 Speaker 1: while you being a weak yea or those tears, have 746 00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:57,920 Speaker 1: you lost your goddamn mind? It's like, yeah, I choose 747 00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,319 Speaker 1: to be happy. Yeah, have you tried that? If you 748 00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:03,720 Speaker 1: have nice things and your parents worked and for years 749 00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:05,400 Speaker 1: to give it to you and walk ten miles in 750 00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:07,480 Speaker 1: snow to get to school, to get to where they 751 00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:10,359 Speaker 1: are today, then you have no right to be depressed. Right, 752 00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:14,360 Speaker 1: That's how it goes. Yeah, that's like my mom's story 753 00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:17,000 Speaker 1: about growing up in post World War to Japan. When 754 00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:21,200 Speaker 1: I want to turn the air condition around, I'm telling you, yeah, 755 00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:23,239 Speaker 1: because I came onto the show and it's just yeah, 756 00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:26,360 Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a great time and it's and 757 00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:28,799 Speaker 1: yeah it's true. Like it's the other thing like you're saying, 758 00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:31,280 Speaker 1: Jack is even you know, when you have immigrant parents, 759 00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:33,319 Speaker 1: it really doesn't matter where you come from, because there's 760 00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:36,160 Speaker 1: all this similar feeling of oh, well, we have things 761 00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:38,080 Speaker 1: we're bringing from other countries into this one and trying 762 00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:40,120 Speaker 1: to reconcile that with trying to fit in and how 763 00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:43,640 Speaker 1: our parents do things and what's expected, and yeah, yeah, 764 00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:47,480 Speaker 1: it's got a hilarious thing where they came to America 765 00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:49,160 Speaker 1: to give you the dream and then they get so 766 00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:53,200 Speaker 1: upset when you become Americanized and they're just like so 767 00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:55,920 Speaker 1: Americanized and you're I don't know what you want for me. 768 00:45:56,800 --> 00:46:00,440 Speaker 1: We lost a daughter. She had a scrunch in her hair. 769 00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:04,560 Speaker 1: So yeah, one of my favorite episodes is you guys 770 00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:08,759 Speaker 1: talking about like how you would try and like do 771 00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:12,399 Speaker 1: normal American like nail polish and like things like that 772 00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:16,120 Speaker 1: and hide that from your parents. And yeah, I saw 773 00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:18,000 Speaker 1: always have my hands in my pockets, went around my 774 00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,080 Speaker 1: dad so you couldn't see that I was wearing nail polished, 775 00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,439 Speaker 1: because that would be a big deal. He just thought 776 00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:28,319 Speaker 1: you were shady. Yeah, okay, well cool, well awesome, It's well. 777 00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:30,719 Speaker 1: The segment in general is we wanted to call it 778 00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:32,440 Speaker 1: You're Not Alone, because I feel like when you're growing 779 00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,560 Speaker 1: up an immigrant parents and you're just surrounded by like 780 00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:37,640 Speaker 1: kids who you have American parents, you feel like, Wow, 781 00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:41,040 Speaker 1: I literally am such a weirdo. I'm so different. My 782 00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:43,000 Speaker 1: parents don't get it. No one gets me, and you 783 00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:45,640 Speaker 1: try so hard to fit in, and it's like, oh no, 784 00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:48,239 Speaker 1: we're all these kids with immigrant parents are experiencing the 785 00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:51,799 Speaker 1: same thing. We're all struggling to, you know, not take 786 00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:54,440 Speaker 1: our shoes off in people's homes. When you're like no, no, no, no, no, 787 00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:56,560 Speaker 1: I have to take my shoes off. I come or 788 00:46:56,600 --> 00:47:02,480 Speaker 1: me immediately cleaning if I again both things that happened 789 00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:05,959 Speaker 1: at my house this weekend. Yeah, um, we just made 790 00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:09,279 Speaker 1: Miles clean the whole time, his hands and sub But 791 00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:16,839 Speaker 1: I like it, But I like you, you've been gaslighted. 792 00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:19,200 Speaker 1: I think it's what I would hear. I have to 793 00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:24,680 Speaker 1: start cleaning. Um, well, so, where can people find ethnically Ambiguous? 794 00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:26,680 Speaker 1: You can find us on the How Stuff Work Network, 795 00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:30,680 Speaker 1: How Stuff Work Network, How Stuff Works? Yeah, you nailed it. 796 00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:36,520 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts. Wherever he finds your podcast, wherever this podcast is, 797 00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:40,200 Speaker 1: you can find ethnically Ambiguous. Yesterday we released our twenty 798 00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:43,359 Speaker 1: eight episode check it out. Yeah, it's a good time, 799 00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:52,920 Speaker 1: big milestone, almost thirty. That's not yours, don't don't even 800 00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:56,600 Speaker 1: about it's it's exciting. It's a great show that we 801 00:47:56,680 --> 00:48:02,160 Speaker 1: are thrilled to be adding to our network. Um and Adam, 802 00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:05,960 Speaker 1: it's been a pleasure as always, Hey, being a run 803 00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:08,959 Speaker 1: with you and to have you on the show. Where 804 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:12,440 Speaker 1: can people find you? Where can they tell them about? 805 00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:17,000 Speaker 1: The Unpopular Opinion Podcast Network? The Unpopular Opinion Podcast Network. 806 00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:18,719 Speaker 1: We've been doing it for a little over a year. 807 00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:22,080 Speaker 1: It started as The Unpopular Opinion Podcast, which was a 808 00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:25,799 Speaker 1: podcast I started at Cracked in two thousand thirteen, and 809 00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:29,480 Speaker 1: we expanded it to an actual network in October two 810 00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:32,920 Speaker 1: thousand sixteen, and we have I've lost track. We we 811 00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:38,200 Speaker 1: have something like fourteen shows. I co host ten of them. 812 00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:40,720 Speaker 1: I co host six episodes a week. Four The shows 813 00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:43,279 Speaker 1: I do are monthly shows, that are rotating. And then 814 00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:47,680 Speaker 1: I do five five shows throughout the week. Also, and 815 00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:50,160 Speaker 1: then we have podcasts from Tom Ryman, who used to 816 00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:54,879 Speaker 1: be on Crack written most really great podcast called BRUA. 817 00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:58,200 Speaker 1: Check it out un pops dot com or patreon dot 818 00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:01,960 Speaker 1: com slash on pops. Ye will probably remember Tom from 819 00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:06,120 Speaker 1: our time at Cracked if people followed from Cracked. Uh, 820 00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:09,040 Speaker 1: such a funny dude who's he's like the funniest person 821 00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:13,480 Speaker 1: to hear talk about movies? Yea? And David Christopher Bell 822 00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:16,840 Speaker 1: also yeah, yeah, yeah, two of the funniest people to 823 00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:20,520 Speaker 1: hear talk about movies. Uh? Great? And where can people 824 00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:24,200 Speaker 1: find you on social media? At Adam Todd Brown on 825 00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:26,920 Speaker 1: Twitter that's Todd with one D. Do not mess that up? 826 00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:31,040 Speaker 1: Do not? And at Adam Todd Brown on Instagram And 827 00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:33,920 Speaker 1: I'm on Facebook two don't bother me on Facebook. Come on, 828 00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:37,600 Speaker 1: come on, he's a person, everybody. I don't want to 829 00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:40,960 Speaker 1: know your politics. Miles, Where can people find you? Find me? 830 00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:43,719 Speaker 1: On Twitter and Instagram? At Miles of Great. You can 831 00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:47,200 Speaker 1: find me at Jack Underscore O'Brien on Twitter. You can 832 00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:50,160 Speaker 1: find us at Daily Zygeys on Twitter at the Daily 833 00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:52,879 Speaker 1: Zygeist on Instagram. We have Facebook fan page just search 834 00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:56,560 Speaker 1: Daily Guys. We have a website Daily us dot com 835 00:49:56,640 --> 00:50:00,120 Speaker 1: where we post our episodes and put where we go 836 00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:02,839 Speaker 1: off to the sources of the information that we talked 837 00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,920 Speaker 1: about today. That is going to do it for today. 838 00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:09,040 Speaker 1: Miles is going to play us off on a song 839 00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:12,480 Speaker 1: that he was playing in the office today. Is super dope, 840 00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:14,560 Speaker 1: you know because Rexlars and he's gonna have to cruise 841 00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:17,640 Speaker 1: around Latin America and uh, you know, get familiar. Uh. 842 00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:20,440 Speaker 1: This is a song by producer named Songo who's like 843 00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:24,160 Speaker 1: a dope producer. He has a whole album called ultra Ves, 844 00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:27,480 Speaker 1: which is like him taking sort of Latin styles, uh 845 00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:31,560 Speaker 1: from countries such as even Colombia, Mexico, Brazil and turning 846 00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:34,399 Speaker 1: them into trap beats. So this one is uh, this 847 00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:37,640 Speaker 1: is the Fogo trap beat called Aras and this is 848 00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:41,600 Speaker 1: sound and he's just dope. He's just trapifying the music 849 00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:46,680 Speaker 1: and enjoy it. Bob to it and we are gonna 850 00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:49,080 Speaker 1: right out on that. We will be back tomorrow because 851 00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:51,120 Speaker 1: it is a daily podcast. Talk to you guys, Back 852 00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:11,680 Speaker 1: with God by God by got b b b bris 853 00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:25,279 Speaker 1: bris b b b b b b b b b 854 00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:52,319 Speaker 1: b b b b bristris my god storris boris boris, boris, 855 00:51:52,920 --> 00:52:05,680 Speaker 1: boris boris. A story pork or story a story, lit 856 00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:11,600 Speaker 1: out them, lit at them, lit out them, lit out them, 857 00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:17,120 Speaker 1: lit at them, and lit up them, lit out them, 858 00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:46,080 Speaker 1: lit out. The better ter cover, the better, the better cover, 859 00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:54,120 Speaker 1: the better the story. 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