Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season three thirty three,
Speaker 1: Episode four of tur Daily Zaike guyst Day production of
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Speaker 1: We are It is upon us. This is a podcast
Speaker 1: where we take a deep dive into America Share conscious Listeners. Thursday,
Speaker 1: April eleventh, twenty twenty four. What a time to be alive.
Speaker 2: My name is.
Speaker 1: Jack O'Brien aka Blind Hib with Zai Guys. I know
Speaker 1: that looking is wrong, but it can't be that bright
Speaker 1: Blind Hib with Zike guyste The eclipse is long gone
Speaker 1: and everything looks like night. That is courtesy of Steaming
Speaker 1: Chuck on the discord, in reference to our advice to
Speaker 1: all our listeners to just raw dog the eclipse with
Speaker 1: their eyeballs, just ocular raw doggery, no eye protection and
Speaker 1: our bad I guess we got to say our bad folks.
Speaker 1: We were way off on that advice. Steaming Chuck credited
Speaker 1: that one to Manfred Man's Earth Band, which that's certainly
Speaker 1: the version I am most familiar with that I was singing.
Speaker 1: But that song is actually originally written by Bruce Springsteen
Speaker 1: before he like found his writing voice and started writing
Speaker 1: songs about like factory workers who've been kicked like a
Speaker 1: dog too much or whatever. Instead of like that song
Speaker 1: does not sound like a Bruce spring He's like curly
Speaker 1: whorlies and someone named like go Kart Mozar. I feel
Speaker 1: like it was like the one song that Bruce Springsteen
Speaker 1: wrote on acid or something very very strange.
Speaker 2: But that's it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, He's like, Oh, I.
Speaker 2: Like this, but I gotta go back to my shift,
Speaker 2: Go back to my shift. Is there something here?
Speaker 1: Fauk Art Mozart checking out the weather chart see if
Speaker 1: it was safe outside. I don't know, you guys figure
Speaker 1: it out anyways, that voice you heard, I'm through to
Speaker 1: be joined by a very special guest co host, a
Speaker 1: hilarious and brilliant producer and TV writer. You know him
Speaker 1: from the Yo is this racist podcast?
Speaker 2: It's Andrew the Best Tee, the Best Podcast. Occasional guest hosts, another.
Speaker 1: One, another one there. It is all all of his catchphrases.
Speaker 2: I just forgot. Does Miles usually look up some holidays?
Speaker 2: Because it's National Cheese Fondue Day, which I guess I
Speaker 2: assumed was redundant, but there must be actually, so the
Speaker 2: cheese lobby put something in because it's also National Poutine Day. Wow,
Speaker 2: it's unclear whether it's this nation or the more obvious
Speaker 2: nation for poutine to be national Constipation Day.
Speaker 1: Which nation is national? Which nation is claiming now poutine
Speaker 1: Day is a good question.
Speaker 2: It doesn't say yeah, and I'm not going to look further.
Speaker 2: I guess I guess America.
Speaker 1: For a while there after, like going to just relax
Speaker 1: in Montreal and like having poutine. I was annoyingly evangelical
Speaker 1: about poutine, like why don't we have this for every meal?
Speaker 1: But then I started noticing how I felt after.
Speaker 2: One of the oh single worst slash. I get this
Speaker 2: was very generous, and thank you to everyone who supported
Speaker 2: everyone while we were on strike. But one of the
Speaker 2: worst days was it was hot, it was a summertime,
Speaker 2: and someone donated a poutine truck to one of the
Speaker 2: picket lines, and it is honestly wild. That is like
Speaker 2: the single most dehydrated day I've ever had. Among many
Speaker 2: other bad feelings, I felt fucking terrible.
Speaker 1: What if spaghetti but instead of spaghetti sauce, it was
Speaker 1: salty gravy and cheese, And instead instead of pasta it
Speaker 1: was salty French fries. Oh okay, yeah, no that I mean,
Speaker 1: it works, It certainly works.
Speaker 2: But just like shit outside in the sun, what if
Speaker 2: it was like ninety seven degrees.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, your eyeballs just start raisining up.
Speaker 2: A little bit. It's pretty good, pretty good.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow, Well, Andrew, we are throwed to be joining
Speaker 1: our third seat by another one of our favorite guests
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Speaker 3: It's been a while. Man, while its Outli did you
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Speaker 2: Are you?
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Speaker 3: I hope somebody just crashed their car. Yes, I heard some.
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Speaker 3: guys while they're having sex, and somebody just as soon
Speaker 3: as they heard my boys.
Speaker 1: Your voice, that was too soon. I'm sorry, but you
Speaker 1: know I understand.
Speaker 3: I hope it was. I hope it was a girl
Speaker 3: who never comes and she finally came.
Speaker 1: She came so hard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, step your game up, fellas or ladies, because
Speaker 3: we don't discriminate here, Ladies cannot make you come to.
Speaker 2: Now, that's right. Ladies can be bad lovers.
Speaker 3: Ladies suck at sex too.
Speaker 2: Now, I do love. I do love the idea of
Speaker 2: people for your for your playlist. Just raw dog shuffle
Speaker 2: on every piece of media you have on your phone.
Speaker 2: I love. It's just anything anything that's there. Don't don't
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Speaker 2: Yo.
Speaker 3: If if Barack Obama's d NC speech from two thousand
Speaker 3: and four pops up while you're banging, yeah, don't stop.
Speaker 2: Oh chapter eleven of Freakonomics, you forgot the week. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I went from teenage mutant Ninja Turtles to the thirty
Speaker 1: seventh chapter of Infinite Jests. Yeah, we kept going, you know.
Speaker 2: Just fuck through it, fuck through it, through.
Speaker 3: Infinite If you could put curse words in your title,
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Speaker 1: Through it, just fuck through it.
Speaker 3: Yes, and really that's the guys we all want to
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Speaker 2: That's true.
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Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Well, jakeis it's wonderful.
Speaker 2: To have you back.
Speaker 3: Ah, good to be back. How are you great?
Speaker 1: To hear your voice?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great I'm doing great.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how did everybody have a safe ocularly safe eclipse?
Speaker 1: Did anybody experience anything?
Speaker 3: I have not looked at the sun in fourteen weeks,
Speaker 3: so I did not partake in anything to do with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just staying in. Yeah, I was.
Speaker 3: I was in a doctor's appointment at the time, an
Speaker 3: allergy appointment at the time, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: I think there's something going on right now. And then
Speaker 3: I looked out the blinds and I was like, it's
Speaker 3: still daylight.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Really, we didn't see Mike dog was kind of sniffing
Speaker 2: at the shadows. I can't tell she was freaked out
Speaker 2: or there's just something down there. I did have a
Speaker 2: friend who took a special trip to the Zone of
Speaker 2: Totality and was in like, you know, somewhere in the
Speaker 2: middle of America, and she sent me photos from my
Speaker 2: first shop of several Nazi knives, So wow, was it
Speaker 2: worth it? Of course she has all these new knives.
Speaker 3: But but also, if you did enjoy the eclipse, you
Speaker 3: are a Nazi. Yeah, that is what I'm hearing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what I'm hearing.
Speaker 2: It really is like going to the middle of nowhere
Speaker 2: and just being somewhere where it's dark outside and there's
Speaker 2: all these Nazi knives. Like that's like a real bad
Speaker 2: horror movie. Like yeah, they're just like, oh man, they
Speaker 2: try to put too much stuff in this movie.
Speaker 1: There's not enough eclipse movies, I would say, because yeah,
Speaker 1: Miles pitched one a couple of weeks ago where the
Speaker 1: bank robbers like plant a string of bank robberies along
Speaker 1: the path of totality to like time up with the
Speaker 1: eclipse because everybody's looking at the sky. Although I guess
Speaker 1: everybody's just like looking at the sky while at bank
Speaker 1: robbery happening. Is happening is we'll see what it be
Speaker 1: a pretty quick one.
Speaker 3: What happens is what happens is you know, and when
Speaker 3: when the sky gets dark, it makes everybody in that
Speaker 3: town in the zone of totality blind.
Speaker 1: Yes, Ca, it was actually one of the plot points
Speaker 1: that we were pitching is that they somehow like Ocean's eleven,
Speaker 1: have a guy who gets counterfeit eclipse glasses out to
Speaker 1: an entire town of cops and then they are all
Speaker 1: immediately blinded.
Speaker 3: And that is such a blind and one in one
Speaker 3: bank and one bank like the bank is half in
Speaker 3: like totality and the other half isn't and the half
Speaker 3: that's in totality is only the side with like dollar bills,
Speaker 3: and like all the high dollar bills hit the side
Speaker 3: where people can see. You know, you can a steel
Speaker 3: like thirty dollars.
Speaker 2: You got to do it. I I'm surprised that no
Speaker 2: one know. I guess by the time the next eclipse,
Speaker 2: this will definitely happen. But they haven't come up with
Speaker 2: some sort of like Neon skywriting that they can just
Speaker 2: like do over the eclipse. So this eclipse brought to
Speaker 2: you by Chase Brands.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it. You gave me an idea.
Speaker 2: We all love it.
Speaker 3: We just have to stay alive for twenty years.
Speaker 1: I mean they try, Like I feel like Pizza Hut
Speaker 1: had their eclipse special sun Chips. Son Chips had a
Speaker 1: flavor of this is by the way, this is what
Speaker 1: I'm like at a party. I'm just remembering stories we
Speaker 1: covered on previous episodes. But Sonships offered an eclipse flavor
Speaker 1: that was available for you could only buy it during
Speaker 1: the eclipse. So if you felt like spending the eclipse
Speaker 1: huddled over.
Speaker 2: Your laptop Delicious yeah, or you with your Apple Vision
Speaker 2: pros so you can look at the eclipse and order
Speaker 2: sonships online at the same time.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 2: You know, Jack, you say that, You say that like
Speaker 2: you're you're not fund at a party. But what I'm
Speaker 2: hearing is you bring the party to the podcast. That's
Speaker 2: the right, pure pure party. Jack is here.
Speaker 1: That's right, pure party Jack, my other AKA, all right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to know you a little bit better
Speaker 1: in a moment. First, we're gonna tell listeners a couple
Speaker 1: of the things that we're talking about. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about the economy stupid. The consumer price index rose again,
Speaker 1: startling economists and nobody else. I've actually had this story
Speaker 1: ready to go since the last last month when consumer
Speaker 1: prices rose and economists were like, what the heck? So
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about that because they're like, everything
Speaker 1: has stopped economics, gravity has gone away, nothing makes sense anymore,
Speaker 1: and I want to talk about why that doesn't seem
Speaker 1: to be the case to me, a economics expert. We're
Speaker 1: going to talk about lunchables, the children's meal created by
Speaker 1: big tobacco, that is, and you're not gonna believe this
Speaker 1: apparently full of poison. No to be a Jack, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know it's it's fucking like, if we can't trust
Speaker 1: our lunchables, then who can we trust. Anyways, We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about all that plenty more, but first, jaquies, Yes,
Speaker 1: we do like to ask our guests, what is something
Speaker 1: from your search history?
Speaker 3: Porn? Baby? I had a feeling all types of all
Speaker 3: types of porn. I'm looking at BBC, bb wise, BBG's, Uh,
Speaker 3: what's the what would be BGB gut big bone guts.
Speaker 3: You know I don't. Actually I have turned my like
Speaker 3: search history off on my phone, you know, because I
Speaker 3: just did so, Like I'm like, you know, what what
Speaker 3: do I be searching? What do I be searching? And
Speaker 3: I'll tell you I'm on my way to Japan, are
Speaker 3: you really? I am gonna be in Japan for about
Speaker 3: a month, so if any Zechkis fans are in Japan,
Speaker 3: please welcome me. But I'm gonna be in Japan pretty soon.
Speaker 3: So I'm I'm kind of just in, like, you know,
Speaker 3: if I'm not looking up ways to aid my masturbation,
Speaker 3: I am looking up like Japan tips, tips for traveling
Speaker 3: to Japan.
Speaker 2: You can combine those two interests.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not here and not here. I can only talk
Speaker 3: about those things in private.
Speaker 1: You're not you are googling ways to aid your masturbation.
Speaker 2: How can I do that? Like, what's a better grip?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: Like if I you know, like, yeah, what's about a grip?
Speaker 3: What can I do with my fingertips? You know? What's
Speaker 3: what's the best oil?
Speaker 2: The wrist counts as hands? Still?
Speaker 3: Yeah, if I squeezed my dick between my elbows, will
Speaker 3: that does that? County? That's what I just I.
Speaker 2: Just tried pantomimic that for anyone not on the zoo,
Speaker 2: just to actually, I know, this is more about me
Speaker 2: being inflexible. I can only barely do that.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's about you being inflexible. And I
Speaker 3: would also say that dick size has something to do
Speaker 3: with it.
Speaker 2: H Yeah, I have to reach so far above my
Speaker 2: head to get.
Speaker 1: You know, who you could talk to about Japan. You
Speaker 1: might notice that the regular co host for they.
Speaker 2: That is not here.
Speaker 3: That's why I agree today take me a.
Speaker 1: Quick trip to Japan. Yeah, current, do you know he
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 2: He's there now.
Speaker 1: On Monday Tuesday?
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh fuck, he thinks I'm leaving on Tuesday. Yeah,
Speaker 3: well damn, just gonna get him.
Speaker 2: Up to tell him to just hide you something at
Speaker 2: the airport, just to give you a little package something.
Speaker 3: Tell him to hide me a bomb, yeah, okay, but
Speaker 3: not an explosive one. Yeah, right right, an explosive one,
Speaker 3: just some then that's dub bomb. Yeah, a confettietti, yes,
Speaker 3: that's tight. No, but yeah, I'm looking for anybody, you know,
Speaker 3: if anybody got any fun tips, shoot them my way.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm I'm open to them all. I'm gonna be
Speaker 3: like I said in Japan for three and a half
Speaker 3: weeks almost hell yeah, be a good time. It's gonna
Speaker 3: be a good ass.
Speaker 1: Time, specifically for Japan tips and not masturbation tips, because then.
Speaker 3: I got those. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got I got
Speaker 3: that all clear, man, I got that all clear. My
Speaker 3: elbows are greased and ready.
Speaker 2: To What is something you think is underrated?
Speaker 3: Not having to drive? Not having to drive is a
Speaker 3: beautiful fucking thing. And I know, like there are some
Speaker 3: people who live in cities where you don't have to
Speaker 3: drive a lot. I want to talk to you because
Speaker 3: you don't know the other side. You don't know, you
Speaker 3: don't know what it's like to need to have to commute,
Speaker 3: so you're spoiled and I was spoiled brat once. I
Speaker 3: used to live in Chicago. We didn't have to drive
Speaker 3: in Chicago. But living in this concrete jungle called Los
Speaker 3: Angeles that we live in, we have to drive. And man,
Speaker 3: I love getting rides. Man, I love getting rides. I'm
Speaker 3: telling you now, if somebody ever asked me, like, you
Speaker 3: want to drive, my answer is going to be no. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's going to be no. I'm gonna say no, you
Speaker 3: can drive. I'll take the passenger seat. I will just sleep.
Speaker 3: I'll just I'll lean that. There's nothing like leaning that
Speaker 3: chair back on the passenger seat, putting on some sunglasses,
Speaker 3: have some music playing, and like, you know, only waking
Speaker 3: up when the person driving has to slam on their brakes.
Speaker 3: Like that's a beautiful fucking thing.
Speaker 1: Because I don't trust other people to drive. Like this
Speaker 1: is my problem with flying too, because I'm like, it's
Speaker 1: just the feeling of not being in control, totally a
Speaker 1: psychological defect on my on my cart. It's it's not
Speaker 1: a good thing. But yeah, I prefer to drive driven.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: See I went. I had some shows to San Diego
Speaker 3: this past weekend and I I took the train down.
Speaker 3: I was like drive down. Hell, yes, I watched I
Speaker 3: watched WrestleMania on the way back. It was gorgeous. It
Speaker 3: was a gorgeous evening of commuting that I didn't have
Speaker 3: to do anything. And then does the train sit there?
Speaker 2: Does the train of San Diego still have that business
Speaker 2: where you have to take a like a bus for
Speaker 2: part of it? Or does it?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 2: They fix it?
Speaker 3: I didn't like I. So what I did was I
Speaker 3: just I I there is a train that comes to
Speaker 3: and from Burbank, which is the town I live in.
Speaker 3: Don't come find me, uh but I but.
Speaker 2: It's like the time, so real hard to find the
Speaker 2: black guy in Burbank.
Speaker 3: Bank was so hard, so hard. So I just go
Speaker 3: to the Union station and park and it's like seven
Speaker 3: dollars to park for the whole fucking day train there
Speaker 3: and back.
Speaker 2: They must have fixed it. It was at some point
Speaker 2: during last year, like part of the track washed out.
Speaker 3: Oh San Clemente.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's not that's not related to That's not
Speaker 2: related to anything about how the globe is changedarming anyway, you're.
Speaker 3: Trying to have fun. Dude who don't like slides? I
Speaker 3: like to slides.
Speaker 2: Doesn't love month slides.
Speaker 3: Slide, Man, I love a mudslide.
Speaker 1: You've ever seen romancing with Stone that she looks fun
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 3: She looks great man, Journey to the Center to Earth,
Speaker 3: that it seems fun.
Speaker 2: The Coastliner, you guys have so many mudslide scenes. Q up,
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 1: Goonies kind of more of just a water slide in the.
Speaker 2: Earth for some reason. Nothing, I got nothing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Coastliner is a blast, highly recommend for anybody
Speaker 1: in LB. And you're about to go to the land
Speaker 1: of convenient train travel, by.
Speaker 3: The way, bro, I can't I can't wait to get
Speaker 3: on the bullet train. Man. Yeah, I also was thinking
Speaker 3: of something. This is the toxic traits of my brain.
Speaker 3: Have you ever thought like, all right, so, like if
Speaker 3: you're standing on a plan, if you're standing on a
Speaker 3: platform and like you see it, you see the train
Speaker 3: coming right, and you're like, could I jump from one
Speaker 3: platform to the other and you miss the train? Like, yes,
Speaker 3: I think about that all the time.
Speaker 2: We're raised on the same movies.
Speaker 3: Man, Yeah, I think I could fucking do it.
Speaker 1: That was in the movie Entrapman. That's how Sean Connery
Speaker 1: flirted with Catherine Zader Jones was even just jump through
Speaker 1: a train.
Speaker 2: Like.
Speaker 1: As a way to just yeah, it's so easy, and.
Speaker 3: It feels it feels easy to me in my brain.
Speaker 3: I'm like, all right, the train is that far. I
Speaker 3: see it coming. I see I see the distance, all
Speaker 3: right if I time it, because because I don't want
Speaker 3: to just jump. I want to jump and have there
Speaker 3: be a hint of peril, like I want to jump
Speaker 3: and make it. I don't want to just jump when
Speaker 3: the train is like a block down the street. I
Speaker 3: want to jump and make it so like I think
Speaker 3: I think I could time it out perfectly and do it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and if I don't, you know, it's been real.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me throw this out there for you. Sorry,
Speaker 2: I got excited because now I'm hearing another pitch for
Speaker 2: my second business idea of the episode, which is just
Speaker 2: sort of like you know those like like kind of
Speaker 2: like foam gymnastics places for kids. Yeah, one of those,
Speaker 2: but for grown men to do all the toxic shit
Speaker 2: that they probably shouldn't try. So like like a fake
Speaker 2: train tracks and I guess like a huge, like fucking
Speaker 2: train two train size blocks of foam that go by
Speaker 2: a thirty miles, just to see if you could jump across. Yeah. Hell,
Speaker 2: there's like that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been walking up the stadium and you
Speaker 1: look back and you're like, I wonder if I could
Speaker 1: jump from here to the court, you know, from the
Speaker 1: top from the top road to the court. Like yeah,
Speaker 1: like if I could jump far enough out then it
Speaker 1: wouldn't catch it.
Speaker 2: I know I couldn't, but.
Speaker 3: Like I think if I jumped down, I can like
Speaker 3: jump and like grab the next level. Bar down, yeah,
Speaker 3: and grab the next level. I think I could do
Speaker 3: so much ship Yeah, yeah, you know what I am.
Speaker 3: I am the rock and Sam Jackson and other guys. Yes,
Speaker 3: when they got about that buildings like and then I
Speaker 3: smacked the ground.
Speaker 2: Right bush or like a big a big like fake
Speaker 2: dumpster full of stuff and just like a building like
Speaker 2: I didn't know that was medical waste. That was all
Speaker 2: the used syringes jumped into. Oh fuck anyway, So yeah,
Speaker 2: that's just there's gotta be some warehouse in like city
Speaker 2: of Industry that we could we could host this. Oh man,
Speaker 2: I love that idea. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I have an overactive call of the void, where like
Speaker 1: anytime I'm like on a building top or just anything,
Speaker 1: my brain there is a big chunk of my brain.
Speaker 1: That's like telling me to, you know, do something deadly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I could touch that that.
Speaker 2: I could jump across this street.
Speaker 1: Granted at street level, I would never think I could
Speaker 1: do that. But a here, sure thing easy keez. What's
Speaker 1: something you think is overrated?
Speaker 3: This is gonna sound weird, but follow me, and mostly
Speaker 3: follow me because I'm thinking all this bullshit up off the.
Speaker 2: Top of your head.
Speaker 3: Uh, I think I think this is gonna sound weird.
Speaker 3: I think health is overrated health. Here's what I mean
Speaker 3: by that. I don't think being healthy is overrated, and
Speaker 3: I don't think finding ways to feel healthy is overrated.
Speaker 3: That's not what I'm saying. I think the things that
Speaker 3: we need to do to be healthy and to find
Speaker 3: the health and all the hoops we have to jump
Speaker 3: through is overrated. It shouldn't be this fucking hard to
Speaker 3: obtain health. And I know people are like preach jock
Speaker 3: keys start talking about health insurance. Nah, man works for
Speaker 3: your health insurance yourself. I'm a Republican, but what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: so what I'm saying, but what I'm saying is I
Speaker 3: you shouldn't have to do this so much shit, like
Speaker 3: you gotta pay so much money. You gotta walk all
Speaker 3: the time, and like I can be just enjoying myself
Speaker 3: and I get the bubble guts and I gotta go
Speaker 3: put Like I'm saying that our bodies are fucking flawed design. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and the fact that we need to do so much
Speaker 3: shit to maintain being alive is miserable. It's so miserable,
Speaker 3: and it's so overrated. And like, if we could get
Speaker 3: to a point where we are just robots and we
Speaker 3: could just plug our stream of consciousness into a machine
Speaker 3: that can on and off and be fixed and do
Speaker 3: all the things. Fucking get it to me, give it
Speaker 3: to me, it would be so much better than the
Speaker 3: human bodies that the Good Lord have given us. So
Speaker 3: that is what I think.
Speaker 1: Fox me up, is that the sun gives. You can
Speaker 1: answer like.
Speaker 3: That's crazy, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: Like every one of my kids go outside, I have
Speaker 1: to just like you got to treat them like they're.
Speaker 2: A bee keeper, my god, Like, especially.
Speaker 3: For white people, man, y'all, greatest enemy is what keeps
Speaker 3: the planet alive.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: It's terrible, man, That is.
Speaker 2: Why they're trying to kill the planet. Just yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: we're just.
Speaker 1: Trying to get that ship a little bit lonelier.
Speaker 2: You know this is this is propaganda from robo Jacques,
Speaker 2: and I feel like you're this. This does feel like
Speaker 2: like es like slowly planting seeds, and then it like
Speaker 2: five years will be like, oh he's better robot.
Speaker 3: I don't know about this whole time.
Speaker 2: And let me tell you you guys know, yeah, he's
Speaker 2: been a robot.
Speaker 3: Have you heard about this thing called AI.
Speaker 1: You know how they like implanted one of those Elon
Speaker 1: Musk chips in someone's brain. That was.
Speaker 3: Baby.
Speaker 1: He's really really tight with That's why he's a Republican.
Speaker 1: He's really tight with, he whispered Republican. If you could
Speaker 1: like become friends with Elon Musk and just like have
Speaker 1: billions and billions of dollars in your fingers, I would
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 3: But like I would, I'll tell you what I would
Speaker 3: think about it. Let me tell you why I would
Speaker 3: do it. Let me tell you why I would do it.
Speaker 3: Because if I can like have a purely transactional relationship
Speaker 3: with a white man and you get everything, I fucking
Speaker 3: won't you damn right give me my goddamn reparations. I
Speaker 3: give it to me, Give it to me. I take
Speaker 3: out everything. I don't like him, I don't I'll take
Speaker 3: everything from them.
Speaker 2: I think you're I mean, obviously you're a better actor
Speaker 2: than me, but most people, I'm like, just such a
Speaker 2: bad actor. I would just get fired from that job.
Speaker 3: Is the problem of disgust that I would be flashing
Speaker 3: in my world, in my world, in this friendship. I
Speaker 3: can do that though, Yeah, I got Yeah, you fucking suck, bro. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So anyway, can I get this new Mercedes? He's so funny,
Speaker 3: he's so base, He's so funny, this guy oh man, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, well fuck health.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break, and we're gonna come back
Speaker 1: and talk about the economy.
Speaker 2: And we're back.
Speaker 1: And so we've got another month, another unexpected sharp upturn
Speaker 1: in consumer prices. Consumer prices rise three point five percent
Speaker 1: year over year, and economists, economists are flu mixed. They
Speaker 1: and they have been like, so they don't know what
Speaker 1: to do. So last year they were like, a US
Speaker 1: recession is effectively certain in the next twelve months, according
Speaker 1: to Bloomberg News last October, and that never happened. Wall
Speaker 1: Street was, of course supposed to take a shit during
Speaker 1: the pandemic, since the entire economy shut down, but instead
Speaker 1: corporations were reporting record profits. That was my first clue,
Speaker 1: just like pop that in your brain, that the entire
Speaker 1: economy shut down and they were reporting record profits. That
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to make sense. And then we have this
Speaker 1: thing happening now where you know, during the pandemic, they
Speaker 1: were like, inflation is out of control.
Speaker 2: But that's a couple of reasons there.
Speaker 1: Actually, So the reason that we're having inflation is supply
Speaker 1: chain problems, which made sense to I think everybody. And also,
Speaker 1: you guys have too much money, like they the government
Speaker 1: gave you guys a check for two hundred dollars and
Speaker 1: that's fucking everything up there. There's all these like part
Speaker 1: Like there's this New York Times article where they were
Speaker 1: like and people were just like went on spending spreezs,
Speaker 1: like just like evoking this image of us all like
Speaker 1: getting our checks from Joe Biden and just like waking
Speaker 1: up in a pile of like half unboxed flat screen
Speaker 1: TVs just being like I don't I don't know what happened,
Speaker 1: you know, like just we had too much money and
Speaker 1: that was the problem. So now they're like they're like
Speaker 1: last month, the New York Times is like what's going
Speaker 1: on with the US economy, and they started making up
Speaker 1: shit like economic overheating and the economy being too good
Speaker 1: and it is, Yeah, it is dope.
Speaker 2: How much of economics is just like it's like it's
Speaker 2: like being and like a Supreme Court justice, which is
Speaker 2: like you decide what you want to say politically and
Speaker 2: then backfill a reason for it. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: oh they're just making shut up to blame. Oh okay, cool,
Speaker 2: cool of course. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's also funny too, because like it is one of
Speaker 3: those things that like we aren't taught growing up. I'm
Speaker 3: liking schools unless you seek it out or anything like that,
Speaker 3: or what the economy really is and everything like that.
Speaker 3: And as we do grow up is just as it's
Speaker 3: just nothing but confusing shit.
Speaker 1: Like I'm scared to talk about the economy because because
Speaker 1: of things like there's this whole section in one of
Speaker 1: these articles that's like these economic indicators are supposed to
Speaker 1: be the reason, like are supposed to drive inflation down,
Speaker 1: and it's like prices going up but unemployment being down,
Speaker 1: and like they so they let like this fucking stew
Speaker 1: of economic indicators, and they're like, usually that means that
Speaker 1: inflation is going to go down.
Speaker 3: You know how I know when economy is right, man, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's when my cousin who sells shrooms an accid got
Speaker 3: a star selling crack. When you got a star selling crack, Yeah,
Speaker 3: because I know who economy is bad. Bro, the economy
Speaker 3: is bad, he gotta Yeah.
Speaker 2: That's how I wish I remember who who wrote this
Speaker 2: on Twitter, but someone was like, the fact that a
Speaker 2: list celebrities are doing commercials during non super Bowl season
Speaker 2: means the economy is real.
Speaker 1: Bad, right, Yeah, they're they're investments are not looking good.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, But like I I just think it's it's
Speaker 1: much simpler. Like all of this has started to make
Speaker 1: sense to me once I realized that the thing that
Speaker 1: the mainstream media refers to as the economy is just
Speaker 1: a metric for how rich the ultra wealthy are getting,
Speaker 1: and it's really just at the expense of people who
Speaker 1: don't own stock at this point, like they've just realized
Speaker 1: that they can raise prices as much as they want
Speaker 1: and they're completely insulated from like what the economy looks
Speaker 1: and feels like to everybody else. So it's just like
Speaker 1: that's the rest of our money that they're making record
Speaker 1: profits with, you know, like that it's very it just
Speaker 1: seems really simple when you think about it that way.
Speaker 1: There's this economist, I think, Richard Wolf. Yeah, Richard Wolf.
Speaker 1: He's like this old guy who's like kind of a
Speaker 1: left leaning economist, and he did just his description of
Speaker 1: like what happened during the pandemic is like what we
Speaker 1: had was a situation which corporations across America understood that
Speaker 1: the money pumped into the economy to cope with the
Speaker 1: crash that we were due to have coupled with the
Speaker 1: pandemic was an extraordinary time. The government pumped in enormous
Speaker 1: amounts of money and armous amount of fiscal stimulus, and
Speaker 1: this made it possible to raise prices to improve profitability.
Speaker 1: So it also like bakes in this detail, which is
Speaker 1: that they were price gouging during a pandemic, like during
Speaker 1: during a time when they were like where their commercials
Speaker 1: were so fucking solemn and were like now more than ever,
Speaker 1: but they were price gouging. Like that's that's what the
Speaker 1: that's what inflation is is companies price gouging and they're
Speaker 1: just being a complete disconnect between the corporations and the
Speaker 1: people who control them and own stocking them and everything else,
Speaker 1: like the vast, vast majority of the other people.
Speaker 3: The the way that we as a collective society, and
Speaker 3: especially those of us who aren't ultra wealthy, have been
Speaker 3: taken advantage of because the pandemic happened that we did
Speaker 3: not ask for, right, you know, I haven't.
Speaker 1: Had a little hand in it, but go ahead, I did,
Speaker 1: And this is true. I did say before it started.
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like we.
Speaker 1: Could all use like a snow day from if we're
Speaker 1: going to be closed for like a week, like that
Speaker 1: could be fun. That'll be a nice relaxing thing. I
Speaker 1: did not know it was going to be closed for
Speaker 1: a year.
Speaker 3: But if we're admitting things, I guess I did let
Speaker 3: my pet, my pet bat out that night.
Speaker 2: Listen. I've said this before, maybe even on the show,
Speaker 2: but now I gotta try bat at some point.
Speaker 3: Ye see, if see, if it gives you some other
Speaker 3: like if it's that good, if it's that good foods
Speaker 3: or mammals. But it's crazy, man, and like everything everything
Speaker 3: is so much more expensive than it was before the pandemic,
Speaker 3: and everything is so much more like less available. It
Speaker 3: feels like and and and we're starved. They'll those little
Speaker 3: like eighteen nineteen months when people were like, okay, do
Speaker 3: not like we're so starved to like do things and
Speaker 3: want things and experience life because so many people feel
Speaker 3: like they missed out on life, and so many people
Speaker 3: passed away, and so many people are dealing with things
Speaker 3: mentally and physically emotionally from that pandemic that like everybody
Speaker 3: who is in charge of how we spend our money
Speaker 3: is taking advantage of all of that. It's taken advantage
Speaker 3: of so wild to me that we I don't know,
Speaker 3: we're not letting it happen, but I don't know what
Speaker 3: It's just at some point it feels like something has
Speaker 3: to break. Yeah, and I don't know when that's gonna
Speaker 3: be or what that is, or even if it's going
Speaker 3: to be, but or if we're just gonna be how
Speaker 3: we normally are, which is just find a way. You know,
Speaker 3: gas has been five dollars in California for almost two
Speaker 3: years now. It's fucking crazy. It's crazy, man, It's insane.
Speaker 2: You know, all of this is it's like the reason
Speaker 2: ostensibly we have like a government like we do, is
Speaker 2: that we don't solve these problems with people throwing bricks
Speaker 2: in the street. But yeah, yeah, that's for now, I guess.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, there, it's like they're forcing that
Speaker 2: to be the only way to make change. I'm not
Speaker 2: saying that is going to happen or it should happen,
Speaker 2: I guess, But it does seem like what the options
Speaker 2: ever narrow for a normal person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's this The Hill article that you know, The
Speaker 1: Hill is like a very centrist like political thing, and
Speaker 1: it says experts thought they knew how the economy worked
Speaker 1: after the pandemic, They're not so sure. It like lays
Speaker 1: out this mystery of like all the things that aren't
Speaker 1: working the way that they're supposed to, and like how
Speaker 1: they're so surprised that like President Biden's economics, like ratings
Speaker 1: from voters is so low, despite the fact that like
Speaker 1: it's getting all these great marks when like according to
Speaker 1: Wall Street, you know. But then like when they get
Speaker 1: to the end where they're like, what are some theories
Speaker 1: that could explain this complete mystery, it's like a bunch
Speaker 1: of occupied talking points. It's just like the top one
Speaker 1: percent owns more than half of the stock market, the
Speaker 1: bottom fifty percent owns less than one percent. Like it's
Speaker 1: just it's the shit that people have been saying for
Speaker 1: fucking decades at this point, and they're just like, I mean, maybe,
Speaker 1: like I don't know, like this is this seems crazy,
Speaker 1: but maybe it's this that it's a very small portion
Speaker 1: of the population determining how much we all pay and
Speaker 1: they get to raise prices and it doesn't affect them
Speaker 1: at all other than giving them record profits, Like that's
Speaker 1: that's yeah, and it it hurts us, but they are
Speaker 1: not us. They couldn't be further from the rest of
Speaker 1: the world who have to like consume things, and they're
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like the people are also like talking
Speaker 1: about the seventies and you know, that was a time
Speaker 1: when there was, you know, inflation was a major concern.
Speaker 1: But back then there was like a strong enough labor
Speaker 1: movement that inflation hurt capital, like it hurt the people
Speaker 1: who are in the c suite more than it did workers.
Speaker 1: And we are just so far from that that like
Speaker 1: there's going to need to eventually be like the government
Speaker 1: being like yo, like you you have to stop price
Speaker 1: gouging like that like that's it seems crazy, but like that,
Speaker 1: I mean they did that in the seventies. They did
Speaker 1: put like price controls in place.
Speaker 2: And like the fucking dickheads who are economists would say, wow,
Speaker 2: this is just a ripe opportunity for someone to outcompete
Speaker 2: these corporations, to which it's like super clear. It's like
Speaker 2: the competition is not in selling stuff, it's in your
Speaker 2: stock price. And they have all agreed that the stock
Speaker 2: price like could like it's better to gouge people than not. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like there's no there's no reason except for the fact
Speaker 2: that that, yeah, the economy is the stock market and
Speaker 2: it's not the economy.
Speaker 1: Listen into or just like read reports about their earnings calls,
Speaker 1: and their earnings calls are just them being like, so
Speaker 1: we had this fucking crazy idea to just raise prices
Speaker 1: on people, and wouldn't you know it, our profits went
Speaker 1: way up. And now we're choosing to with all that
Speaker 1: extra money we made, we're investing in our own stock
Speaker 1: price to like to make ourselves richer, essentially just make
Speaker 1: our stock holders richer. Yeah, it really like I think
Speaker 1: there's a fascination right now with airport pricing, Like in
Speaker 1: the zeitgeist. Like there was that meme about people keeping
Speaker 1: track of like checks mixed prices at various airports around
Speaker 1: America and like HOWK yeah exactly, and it was like
Speaker 1: almost random. It just didn't totally make sense, but it
Speaker 1: I think people are interested in that at some level
Speaker 1: because like we're realizing everything is airport prices, Like everything
Speaker 1: is airport prices now, yeah, because like it's not like airports,
Speaker 1: Like it costs more money to sell to get the
Speaker 1: checks mixed into airports. The reason they sell you that
Speaker 1: for a marked up price is because they know you
Speaker 1: are captive because you're in the airport and you're not
Speaker 1: going to go back through security. And I feel like
Speaker 1: the entire country, the entire economy, is just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: what if this was all an airport and we could
Speaker 1: just make everybody pay as much as we fucking wanted,
Speaker 1: Because like people don't have the time to like do
Speaker 1: all the cost comparisons, and if everybody's raising prices, there's no.
Speaker 3: Good option for them.
Speaker 1: Let's drive then, or the ninety nine cent store out
Speaker 1: of business.
Speaker 3: You goddamn hash Brown at mcdonald'says over three dollars, right, insane?
Speaker 3: It was ninety nine cent before the pandemic, and breakfast
Speaker 3: was all day yeah, an hour, you know, and and
Speaker 3: now is you know, I go get me a go
Speaker 3: get me a little bacon, egg and cheese mcgriddel meal,
Speaker 3: and I pay. I'm paying eleven fucking dollars for that shit.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's crazy, man, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: You's got to make your own.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can buy I can buy you know, new
Speaker 3: elbow grease for that much money.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Like even John Deere, which like had one of
Speaker 1: the highest profile strikes during the pandemic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they held.
Speaker 1: Out to like their workers held out to get a
Speaker 1: tempercent raise. The company is still expected to earn more
Speaker 1: the following year than the record profit it made the
Speaker 1: year before. Like it, they're just all making record profits
Speaker 1: and like fighting, kicking and screaming to when if it
Speaker 1: comes to paying anybody anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well it's only one thing left to do. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: kill them, that's right.
Speaker 1: Like, but it is just it's it's wild to read
Speaker 1: year after year, month after months, the mainstream media just
Speaker 1: continue to be like, just treat it like a mystery.
Speaker 1: Like the way they talk about inflation uptick this month
Speaker 1: is increasing. Inflation was also bad news for workers, as
Speaker 1: real average hourly earnings were flat on the month and
Speaker 1: increase zero point six percent over the past. It's like, oh, no, way,
Speaker 1: it's bad news for workers that they don't get paid
Speaker 1: more while prices keep going up, like that's yeah, that's inflation.
Speaker 1: That's that's what is happening here, and they treat it
Speaker 1: almost like it's an accident instead of it's like the
Speaker 1: whole point.
Speaker 2: I guess I'm don't understand enough about economics the terms
Speaker 2: of art. But isn't that not inflation because doesn't inflation
Speaker 2: imply that the wages also go up?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they that's supposed to be a cause
Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, yeah, so I guess consumer this is
Speaker 1: a consumer price index, and like inflation is supposed to
Speaker 1: be like all money is becoming, is changing.
Speaker 2: But all right, that was when they were like, if
Speaker 2: you give poor people money, it's just going to raise
Speaker 2: prices on them. And then it's just no good. Why
Speaker 2: don't we not give poor people money or not even
Speaker 2: poor people workers? Just pay people normal wages. Sorryn't mean
Speaker 2: it's not that, but like you know, it's like yeah,
Speaker 2: fucking oh oh. That was just a political position that
Speaker 2: you try to make a like an economic justification for weird.
Speaker 3: Weird, Yeah, they're still reeling and Andrew call me poor,
Speaker 3: but yeah.
Speaker 1: They supposedly it was the you know, the relief checks
Speaker 1: that were causing inflation, and then those ran out years
Speaker 1: ago and they're like, huh, inflation is still going.
Speaker 2: They don't want to cause they still want to say
Speaker 2: that's why I really cost so much. It's like, oh,
Speaker 2: they're so mad about those like couple hundred dollars checks.
Speaker 1: And so they're saying, literally, the economy is too strong
Speaker 1: and that's what that's why we're all fucked, because the
Speaker 1: economy is just too damn strong and people are gonna
Speaker 1: have to start losing their jobs before the imflation goes
Speaker 1: down cool or maybe stop you know, prioritizing profit over
Speaker 1: everything else and stop being like allowing companies to do that.
Speaker 1: But that doesn't see like it sounds childish, like you
Speaker 1: know to Also.
Speaker 2: It's like it's like one of those things where like
Speaker 2: it's continually the other place that there has barely by
Speaker 2: an inflation is how little it costs to buy a
Speaker 2: fucking politician. Yeah, I'm just like, it's it is shocking
Speaker 2: every time you hear what campaign finance, like all the
Speaker 2: shit is asking for Like I mean, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 2: it's a lot of money, and there's too much money
Speaker 2: in politics, but blah blah blah, it is depressing how she
Speaker 2: it is to buy a fucking congress person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's yeah.
Speaker 3: I'll be thinking about too. I'll be thinking like, oh, yeah, man, like,
Speaker 3: oh they're being bollved, you know, give one and then
Speaker 3: I go look at like the actual donations and it'd
Speaker 3: be like twenty thousand dollars. I'm like I can do that, truly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, what the fuck are you talking? Like
Speaker 2: you can change laws laws for like low six figures
Speaker 2: sometimes hot, that's crazy. It's just like what is happening here?
Speaker 3: We all can be bolted. It's just it's just how
Speaker 3: much have some.
Speaker 2: Fucking self respect corrupt politicians like raise the price at least.
Speaker 3: God like I gave I gave Andrew one time f
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars and I won't tell
Speaker 3: you the unspeakable things Andrew, but you don't want that money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, at least there was there was like a reason
Speaker 2: that cost.
Speaker 3: I gave Hill more than I gave Mitch McConnell, man,
Speaker 3: it's crazy, that's crazy.
Speaker 2: You need to hear that. And them both of those
Speaker 2: bribes were not election related, as.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back, and we're back. And Consumer Reports, which I
Speaker 1: never took them for being like a muck raking, you know,
Speaker 1: like Voice of the People, but they just issued a
Speaker 1: scathing statement alleging that Lunchable's meal kits contain not just crackers,
Speaker 1: processed meat, and sadness, but also relatively high levels of
Speaker 1: lead and cadmium.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So this isn't that surprising, given that Lunchabulls have
Speaker 1: a pretty terrible history, starting with the fact that it
Speaker 1: was literally launched by tobacco giants Philip Morris after they
Speaker 1: acquired Craft in the eighties. So around in the nineteen eighties,
Speaker 1: like the science had caught up on tobacco and they
Speaker 1: were like, all right, we've got to stop putting all
Speaker 1: our money into making up fake studies that say smoking
Speaker 1: actually increases your vertical wears out your lungs. Yeah, clearly,
Speaker 1: it helps your healthy nerves and makes you actually really fast.
Speaker 1: Carl Lewis smokes menthol smokes cools. They had given up
Speaker 1: on that, and so what they did with all of
Speaker 1: their massive amounts of money is they bought Craft. And
Speaker 1: you may recognize the eighties as the time that America
Speaker 1: started having massive problems with obesity due to in retrospect
Speaker 1: pretty clearly due to addictive food. So it's like they
Speaker 1: were like, all right, so let's take this business model
Speaker 1: that has worked incredibly well for us, killing massive chunks
Speaker 1: of the population while making them addicted to giving us money,
Speaker 1: and we'll just do it on the food side of things.
Speaker 1: And that is essentially.
Speaker 2: What they did.
Speaker 1: So Lugiple's actually began as a way for so Craft
Speaker 1: owns Oscar Meyer, and Oscar Meyer at that point was like, pooh,
Speaker 1: nobody wants to eat bolooney anymore. They've found boloney was
Speaker 1: like the cigarettes of foods where people are like, oh wait,
Speaker 1: it's like mostly like the shit that you see health
Speaker 1: informational video clogging lungs. That's like literally what Bologney's made of.
Speaker 1: So maybe we shouldn't.
Speaker 2: And so in order to get.
Speaker 1: Rid of all that excess, you know, they had the
Speaker 1: machines and they had like the everything up and running
Speaker 1: making blooney. They're like, how about we just like fucking
Speaker 1: unload that shit into kids' lunches, extrude.
Speaker 2: A different gauge of meat. Yeah, their profit different gauge exactly.
Speaker 1: So they they studied mothers and discovered that their most
Speaker 1: pressing issue was time and that it's hard for working
Speaker 1: parents to find time to put together lunches, or, as
Speaker 1: Oscar Meyer saw it, a potential quote and this is
Speaker 1: a quote from the gold mine of disappointments and problems.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's like they have that and yet they don't
Speaker 2: put it on the box. And it's a real l
Speaker 2: for their marketing department. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Also, is the funny part about this too, is like
Speaker 3: we hear all these things and also like lunchables have
Speaker 3: also degraded in quality since we were kids. So it's
Speaker 3: so funny. It's just like quality can get worse. Yes,
Speaker 3: But then sometimes I also be thinking, like I'll be thinking,
Speaker 3: I'll be looking at like some of the ship, like
Speaker 3: you said, lead was in lunchibles or all the bash
Speaker 3: shit that's in processed food, and I'm like, why does
Speaker 3: all the bash it taste so good? Why does lead
Speaker 3: taste so good? Man? Like lead is delicious, man? And
Speaker 3: you know, if lead is an ar Caprican. That shit
Speaker 3: was delicious, and it's so funny to me that, like all,
Speaker 3: see this goes back to what I was saying earlier.
Speaker 3: Health overrated.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have no problem integrating lead.
Speaker 3: You can't taste, you can't enjoy good tasting lead. You
Speaker 3: gotta eat nasty ass vegetables from the dirt. Which one
Speaker 3: would you rather have?
Speaker 1: They used the same strategies that worked with tobacco for lunchables,
Speaker 1: including what they're mine extensions, so like new flavors and formulas.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Marlboroughs will do Marlborough lights and you know
Speaker 1: Marlborough wis Marlborough Wrens. You know, like all the so
Speaker 1: lunchables started having like Snickers bars or Rees's cups for
Speaker 1: kool aid or lunchables, hot dogs, tacos, pancakes.
Speaker 3: When about those pieces? Remember and we used to ma'm
Speaker 3: as kids were like this ship is this is high
Speaker 3: ass value?
Speaker 2: It really was such a grainy bread.
Speaker 3: It's so nasty. It's run cold marin airas and soft
Speaker 3: cracker bread. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: One pediatrician called lunchable is a nutritional disaster, and a
Speaker 1: craft books person responded, this is what kids want. There
Speaker 1: are very few kids out there who will eat rice
Speaker 1: cakes and tofu so like they just like use the
Speaker 1: language of like fucking children to be like, what do
Speaker 1: you need to make us eat fucking rice cakes?
Speaker 2: Loser? And then.
Speaker 1: And then the guy CEO of Philip Morris, Jeffrey Bible
Speaker 1: his name, Yeah, love that when he was confronted with
Speaker 1: the fact that, like there's way too much sodium in
Speaker 1: these like children, school children went from like being normal
Speaker 1: human beings to being like forty five percent sodium, just
Speaker 1: like pillars of salt. That his defense was, We're not
Speaker 1: putting a gun to their heads to eat it, which
Speaker 1: but you're like they designed the packages to look like
Speaker 1: gifts to like brainwash kids into thinking that and brainwash
Speaker 1: mothers into being like, oh see, they love it, like
Speaker 1: I'm doing a nice thing for my kid.
Speaker 2: We're not putting a gun to your head. Again, really
Speaker 2: good marketing copy.
Speaker 1: I don't know why they didn't use it, except now
Speaker 1: they kind of are putting I mean, they're like forcing
Speaker 1: it down kids sorts. Because last fall, Lunchables became eligible
Speaker 1: to be served as part of the National School Lunch
Speaker 1: Program due to lobbying efforts and the company altering two
Speaker 1: of its products to qualify, because it's just they have
Speaker 1: degraded all forms of regulation to the point that like,
Speaker 1: it just there's nothing protecting us from whatever is going
Speaker 1: to be the most profitable thing for these companies. And
Speaker 1: then the mainstream media launders this shit and makes it
Speaker 1: our fault. They're like, you guys don't exercise enough. Look
Speaker 1: at these countries with or look at these which states
Speaker 1: have the highest obesity rates, and it's like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: but like let's look at the rate of obesity over time,
Speaker 1: and you will see that people in the seventies, before
Speaker 1: exercise had been invented, yeah, like had extremely low levels
Speaker 1: of obesity. It all happened in the eighties when fucking
Speaker 1: cigarette companies started making our food.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: It is like we were healthier when you could smoke
Speaker 2: on planes, which is, yes, not not so good, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a that's a problem.
Speaker 1: And instead now they like make sell you grown up
Speaker 1: lunchable boxes on planes, and that's yeah.
Speaker 3: You know, it's funny too, because like fast exercise also
Speaker 3: became pretty big in the eighties, you know, or home
Speaker 3: video exercise or you know, the richer Simmons of the
Speaker 3: world or everything like that. That all. And it's just
Speaker 3: so funny how like one thing can lead into the other, Like, oh,
Speaker 3: people are a little more unhealthy. Let's make money off
Speaker 3: of that. Hey, yeah, let's have you pay for health. Yeah,
Speaker 3: let's make.
Speaker 1: The human exercise came, Hey, human.
Speaker 3: You want to exercise instead of just being efficient being.
Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of efficiency, like they kids like have less
Speaker 1: and less time for lunch at school, and that's like
Speaker 1: one of the ways they're pitching lunchables. They're like students
Speaker 1: have about twenty minutes to just like fucking swallow their
Speaker 1: lunch pill, you know. Great and Craft also admitted that
Speaker 1: their altered school friendly version of lunchibles that are approved
Speaker 1: for like to be the school lunch in public schools
Speaker 1: actually contains more sodium than the store bought versions.
Speaker 2: Yeah good, yeah, good for that. Good for lunchable, Good
Speaker 2: for lunchibles.
Speaker 3: You know, listen, if lunchables can't survive in this world,
Speaker 3: then what can you know?
Speaker 2: It is kind of nice to see that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm saying, everybody criticizing lunch haters, they're just on
Speaker 1: their grind and they're getting you know, how many fucking lambos.
Speaker 3: The inventor of so many, so many, so.
Speaker 2: I do like how this, like like the Philip Morris ethos,
Speaker 2: is just stronger than anything else. It's like, no, no,
Speaker 2: we fucking kill people. That's what we were put on
Speaker 2: the start to do. We come here to fucking kill people,
Speaker 2: and it does not matter what we do it with.
Speaker 2: Where the John Wick of murdering people with anything?
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, yeah, it the key to like my
Speaker 1: first indication that like this form of capitalism we live
Speaker 1: under and have lived under for a long time might
Speaker 1: not be great is like the cheat code is addictive
Speaker 1: substances like Coca Cola Classic is massive because it started
Speaker 1: out with cocaine in it and everyone was like obsessed
Speaker 1: for a while, and they were able to use that
Speaker 1: to like you know, it's it's yeah, they're going to
Speaker 1: do the thing that is bad for you to make
Speaker 1: as much money off free as possible, and then they're
Speaker 1: going to in the media call you fat and.
Speaker 2: Lazy if if your name is on a building within
Speaker 2: two generations you have a drug dealer in your family exactly.
Speaker 2: That's not just how it works. That is just how
Speaker 2: it works.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, And then it's funny too, because like Coca Cola,
Speaker 3: like when it was when they had cocaine in it
Speaker 3: to make you buy it more, but still exponentially cheaper
Speaker 3: than it is and like even comparatively, you know. So
Speaker 3: now if I want cocaine to my Coca cola, I
Speaker 3: got to pay extra for that shit. Yeah, And it's
Speaker 3: just like it's so crazy how when all these things started,
Speaker 3: whether they were bad or the reason they started, like,
Speaker 3: it still was priced in a way that made sense
Speaker 3: for people to be able to afford them. And now
Speaker 3: a lot of these things are worse in many ways,
Speaker 3: Like coca cola is probably worse today without cocaine in
Speaker 3: it than it was when it was first created, just
Speaker 3: as a product, and it costs three times as much
Speaker 3: as it should. And it's just it's so funny. It's
Speaker 3: just so funny to me, Like we aren't getting better,
Speaker 3: we just get worse. We just get worse.
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially like just from the seventies when I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously the fact that everyone thought cigarettes were healthy not great,
Speaker 1: but yeah, like the problems have just metastasized and spread
Speaker 1: since then, and now it's just unaccountable hyper capitalism without
Speaker 1: any anyone pumping any brakes anywhere.
Speaker 2: That's why you upload your brain to Jaquise City in
Speaker 2: the Cyberverse.
Speaker 3: Come on listen. When you feel a little down, just
Speaker 3: plug yourself in. Get some juice. There you go, so
Speaker 3: put yourself in low put yourself in low power mode
Speaker 3: official juice. Can suck on this lead, Suck on this
Speaker 3: lead lollipop. Help you help your cogs and your wheels inside.
Speaker 1: Quies.
Speaker 2: What a pleasure having you.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, it's always great to be here with
Speaker 3: the Zeitgang family. It was great. I appreciate you all.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you, follow you all that good stuff?
Speaker 3: Oh well, you know what. You can find me always
Speaker 3: and every time in the streets, in the streets, ladies
Speaker 3: and gentlemen and everybody breaking news. I am back on Twitter.
Speaker 3: For those of you, for those of you who has
Speaker 3: ever heard me, because I love elin. He gave it back,
Speaker 3: He gave it, He gave it back to me. He
Speaker 3: gave it back to me, y'all. For those of you
Speaker 3: who have never heard me on this podcast, because it's
Speaker 3: been a few months, you won't care about this. But
Speaker 3: for everybody else, like you probably remember, I got my
Speaker 3: Twitter taken away. My Twitter is now back in action.
Speaker 3: I do not fucking use it, and you know I'm
Speaker 3: not just stalling so I can find something that's not
Speaker 3: what I'm doing, y'all. I am literally telling you you
Speaker 3: can find me at Jackieth Neil on everything. I will
Speaker 3: say this. I'm not gonna give you something funny. I'm
Speaker 3: not even gonna give you a specific tweet. I am
Speaker 3: just gonna talk for like forty five seconds about how
Speaker 3: much I enjoyed WrestleMania and and all the content that's
Speaker 3: coming out afterwards, all the life threads.
Speaker 1: Twenty minutes yesterday on WrestleMania.
Speaker 3: It was beautiful. It was beautiful, it was such it
Speaker 3: was one of the best, one of the best main events,
Speaker 3: and like just all the like threads about the storytelling
Speaker 3: and all the memes about it and how hyped everybody
Speaker 3: was and how people are excited to enjoy wrestling again.
Speaker 3: It's been so fucking great and it's been such a
Speaker 3: fun time. The Rock was better than ever as a
Speaker 3: heel this time in wrestling. So all the all the memes,
Speaker 3: all the social media about WWE and WrestleMania has been
Speaker 3: giving me life over the past few days. And shout
Speaker 3: out to Samantha Irving, who is a ring announcer at
Speaker 3: w W for WWE. Who was fantastic this weekend top
Speaker 3: to bottom, great show. Loved it. So that's that's what
Speaker 3: I'm enjoying right now is all the WrestleMania talk from
Speaker 3: this past weekends. WrestleMania. There you go, Comedian, a few
Speaker 3: comedian f you come out to it if you're in LA.
Speaker 3: We're also live streaming and we got some really big
Speaker 3: shows coming up. Man. We got two more shows before
Speaker 3: we take a hiatus for the summer in May and
Speaker 3: in June. So we've been live streaming them and we're
Speaker 3: going to continue to live stream the next two. We
Speaker 3: got some some really good ones. If you're fans will
Speaker 3: drop out. I got a couple of special surprise get
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Speaker 1: There you go, Andrew T, thank you so much for joining.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you as their working media you've
Speaker 1: been enjoying.
Speaker 2: Just Andrew T, I don't know yos is racist in
Speaker 2: my podcast? Actually my media I picked it because your
Speaker 2: kis is here. Wait are you are you a Chicago guy? Also, no,
Speaker 2: I'm no.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah, big fan of the Bulls in their
Speaker 1: early I did.
Speaker 2: Okay, So my my media is an old one, but
Speaker 2: it is a I guess it was originally a TikTok.
Speaker 2: I think I saw it on Instagram of the whitest
Speaker 2: man you've ever seen making Malart cookies, which is gross,
Speaker 2: and this weekend I watch it like a thousand times
Speaker 2: because it was my friend from Chicago's birthday. So I
Speaker 2: made a badge of Mylort cookies. I don't bake typically,
Speaker 2: and I mean I actually like Malart, but I recognized
Speaker 2: that they were objectively disgusting. So yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think if you literally just search Malort cookies you
Speaker 2: can find the thing thing. But maybe I'll find a link.
Speaker 3: I will not be doing that.
Speaker 2: They're real gross. They have grapefruit peel and.
Speaker 1: Just like really strong tastes that cover up.
Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 2: I take you. You could taste some alart, you could.
Speaker 3: Take I take it back. Man. Health is a beautiful thing, y'all.
Speaker 3: Don't do Don't do this to you, do this to yourself, y'all.
Speaker 3: Don't do that.
Speaker 1: You find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien tweet
Speaker 1: I'm enjoying. Jason x Infarious tweeted, could we make the
Speaker 1: tweet font a little larger?
Speaker 2: I'm trying to.
Speaker 1: Drive, and then of course I'm just enjoying the many
Speaker 1: flow motion clips of Victor Webby Yama sham gotting into
Speaker 1: a spin move into a lefty layup, like, just what
Speaker 1: the fuck is even going on anymore? Very excited about
Speaker 1: as the season comes to an end, he seems to
Speaker 1: just be getting better. Non NBA fans might not know
Speaker 1: that rookies are supposed to hit a wall about two
Speaker 1: thirds of the way through the season and start being
Speaker 1: like exhausted from the rigor and having to go against
Speaker 1: all these big, strong people, and he just seems to
Speaker 1: be getting stronger and doing more and more wild shit.
Speaker 1: Shout out, Shout out.
Speaker 2: To Victor Webbin Yama, I guess.
Speaker 3: Yeah, to the slender Man, the slender Man himself.
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Speaker 1: well done as well as a song that we think
Speaker 1: you might enjoy. And I do always like to ask
Speaker 1: super producer when Miles is out. Superproducer Justin Conner always
Speaker 1: comes through with the fire song recommendations. Justin, is there
Speaker 1: a song that you think people might enjoy?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've fast become a fan of this young artist
Speaker 4: out of California by the name of Remy Wolf. She
Speaker 4: has just such an incredibly fun and effervescent vibe to
Speaker 4: a lot of her music.
Speaker 3: This song included.
Speaker 4: It's called Sexy Villain and it's got that satisfying type
Speaker 4: of songwriting where like the rhyme scheme of one line
Speaker 4: is perfectly mapped over the other and there's enough space
Speaker 4: for the key stabs and guitar plucks to bleed through,
Speaker 4: creating this like well timed syncobation.
Speaker 3: It's really funky. It's an absolute bop.
Speaker 4: So if you can check this track out, it's called
Speaker 4: Sexy Villain by Remy Wolf and it'll be in the
Speaker 4: footnotes footnotes.
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Speaker 2: Bye.