Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome to this afternoon edition of the
Speaker 1: End of a Firmer transaction. Holy shit. I'm Miles and
Speaker 1: I'm joined by superducer Mecamos.
Speaker 2: Hello.
Speaker 1: You were in Puerto Rico. I was just up.
Speaker 2: That was Oh my god, it was a dream, it was.
Speaker 2: I was there for about a week. It was truly
Speaker 2: the island of enchanted. It was gorgeous. It was hot,
Speaker 2: of shit though, it's the hot we've ever been in
Speaker 2: Puerto Rico. There's so many things I can say. I
Speaker 2: did everything. I drove around the whole island. I met
Speaker 2: a lot of really cool locals, one of them who
Speaker 2: frequently fits out Bad Bunny, and like other Ragatona artists.
Speaker 1: Send me pictures. Send me the pictures, Send me the pictures.
Speaker 1: Let's do the slide show. Yeah, is the slide show? Well,
Speaker 1: let's get into what's trending. Good to have you back
Speaker 1: and talk about what we hear. Like I said, look
Speaker 1: up top Supreme Court. They have basically killed a firmative
Speaker 1: action and we'll talk a lot about it more on
Speaker 1: tomorrow's full episode. But you know they've they definitely left
Speaker 1: room for legacy admissions and the like. So you know,
Speaker 1: mostly they just close the door on people of color
Speaker 1: because systemic racism doesn't exist and there aren't systemic disadvantages
Speaker 1: people facing this country. I just will say this, Justice
Speaker 1: Katanji Brown Jackson. She had to clap back at Clarence
Speaker 1: Thomas because in his concurrent opinion, Chief Justice Roberts wrote
Speaker 1: the majority opinion basically, Clarence Thomas said that affirmative action
Speaker 1: encourages quote permanent victimhood, and he claimed that Justice Jackson
Speaker 1: had argued that the legacy of slavery quote locks Blacks
Speaker 1: into a seemingly perpetual inferior cast. This motherfucker said Blacks. Anyway,
Speaker 1: then we have we go on to hear what Justice
Speaker 1: Jackson was saying. She goes on saying, Justice Thomas, quote
Speaker 1: does not dispute any historical or present fact about the
Speaker 1: origins and continued existence of race based disparity, nor could
Speaker 1: he Yet is somehow persuaded that these realities have no
Speaker 1: bearing on a fairisssessment of quote individual achievement and also
Speaker 1: wrote that Thomas quote ignites too many more straw mental
Speaker 1: list or fully extinguished here saying all you were saying
Speaker 1: was a bunch of nonsense. Goes on to say, quote,
Speaker 1: would let them eat cake obliviousness. Today the majority pulls
Speaker 1: the ripcord and announces quote, color blindness for all by
Speaker 1: legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not
Speaker 1: make it so in life, Yes exactly. But yeah, you
Speaker 1: know this will have an impact definitely on the makeups
Speaker 1: of new incoming classes, because it always does.
Speaker 3: It's incredibly frustrating.
Speaker 2: I feel like I was probably a benefit of affirmative action.
Speaker 2: I went to a private PWI in southern Texas as
Speaker 2: a Latino student who it was I think.
Speaker 3: Three percent of the population of the university.
Speaker 2: And I have also taken I highly recommend Glenn E.
Speaker 2: Singleton's book Courageous Conversations about Race. He is a black
Speaker 2: queer man who has founded this program, but it originated
Speaker 2: as a bookie authored he went to Princeton, I think,
Speaker 2: and he has like a really great visual about how
Speaker 2: affirmative action really works and how in reality it is
Speaker 2: such a sliver of the population of students who actually
Speaker 2: get into universities, whereas a good like it's like almost
Speaker 2: like a pie chart that he does where it's like
Speaker 2: sixty percent of the students that really get in our
Speaker 2: legacies are people who their parents paid a lot of
Speaker 2: money for theirs. They work at the universities, and they
Speaker 2: do not have the grades, They do not have the
Speaker 2: charisma or the caliber. It is once again a part
Speaker 2: of the system of like black and brown folk have
Speaker 2: to work twice as hard to get half as far.
Speaker 2: We have to have double the credibility to even be
Speaker 2: considered into these universities, whereas these white counterparts who are alum.
Speaker 3: Get in without a sliver of what we are capable of.
Speaker 1: So hey, hey, Justice Kavnaugh busted his tail. He busted
Speaker 1: his tail, so his grandpa will go to Yale.
Speaker 3: Literally, it just like grinds my gears.
Speaker 2: As someone who loves education, like I wanted to go
Speaker 2: get a master's and like a PhD. And I like
Speaker 2: really valued school when I was in it. I love learning,
Speaker 2: it just hurts, like it sucks to see that like
Speaker 2: students who have come from minority backgrounds, which I don't
Speaker 2: even like to say it like that, but come from
Speaker 2: disenfranchised background who all they've wanted is an education, are
Speaker 2: so much smarter than a lot of the kids who
Speaker 2: get in will not probably get in because of more discrimination.
Speaker 3: Like it's just frustrating.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll see what happens, but again, we'll talk
Speaker 1: a lot more about it on tomorrow's full episode. Next
Speaker 1: thing is going on, Barbie, Barbie shit is fucking everywhere.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm I'm in, I'm all in. I'm like, I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna go see it. I'm definitely gonna check it. I mean,
Speaker 1: this whole month, you got Barbie, you got Oppenheimer, you
Speaker 1: got Mission Impossible. There's a lot, like for the first time,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh shit, I might go to the movies,
Speaker 1: like more than twice in a month. Uh well, not
Speaker 1: that even go once a month. But I'm I'm about
Speaker 1: to bring my ass to the theater. I'm ready for
Speaker 1: the Barbie movie. Now. All the marketing shit around it
Speaker 1: is a lot. It's a lot. Now again, I get it.
Speaker 1: This is what you do when you got a huge film.
Speaker 1: I remember, like when like you know, in the heyday
Speaker 1: of Blockbuster films. It's like Taco Bell was always collabing
Speaker 1: with whatever. Like I remember when Godzilla came out and
Speaker 1: you were trying to get those chiloupas but you couldn't
Speaker 1: get the Z to spell out Godzilla to win the
Speaker 1: two million dollars, but all you could do is spell Godla,
Speaker 1: which for me was fine because I'm a Jay Dilla fan.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I'm just looking at a writer. Jam mcnaw
Speaker 1: was just pointing our attention towards all of the wonderful
Speaker 1: is Okay, Coldstone has a pink cotton candy ice cream
Speaker 1: with Graham Cracker pie cross. This shit looks like like
Speaker 1: Joseph's technical or dream quote on acid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm hungry looking at it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. There's also Aldo is making Barbie shoes, Barbie makeup.
Speaker 1: There's Barbie rugs coming out, Barbie toothbrushes, a whole line
Speaker 1: of Barbie clothes at the gap. Yeah. So Nicks Cosmetics
Speaker 1: is the one doing the one phone.
Speaker 3: Absolutely phone.
Speaker 2: Yes, I want the flip I literally my sister making
Speaker 2: the summer What.
Speaker 1: Who's making the flip phone? What company makes the mix
Speaker 1: is making the flip phone? Oh? Nix is the cosmetic
Speaker 1: company is making the flip And it's a working cellular phone.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, it's like a mirror.
Speaker 1: Oh so it's like a makeup compact or something. Is
Speaker 1: that what you say? Do we still say that? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Makeup compact?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, I'm old I'm like, I thought it was
Speaker 1: called yeah, okay, anyway, oh god makeup compact. Yeah I
Speaker 1: thought there was, because you see so many retro like
Speaker 1: tech things coming out. I thought they made a fucking
Speaker 1: flip phone like that.
Speaker 2: You oh no, no, no, it's like a little Barbie like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a Barbie.
Speaker 3: Phone for sure.
Speaker 2: My sister in law staying with us for the summer,
Speaker 2: and we've just been like texting each other so many memes.
Speaker 2: We're like, okay, so gen Z, Yeah, she's my little
Speaker 2: gen Z baby. Yeah yeah, yeah, she's twenty years old.
Speaker 3: She's on top of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we are just full pink pilled into oh shit,
Speaker 2: Barbie ship, gonna buy the Nick's little Compact.
Speaker 3: We're gonna go to the Barbie.
Speaker 2: There's like a Barbie Cafe in New York that opened up.
Speaker 3: We're gonna go to that.
Speaker 1: Out here. You could you could rent the Malibu dream House.
Speaker 1: I saw that on Airbnb. That was like I think,
Speaker 1: but that was only like that was one of those
Speaker 1: promo things. They also have a fucking you know that
Speaker 1: candle company Homesick that has like you know, like I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to give him free promo, but I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna lie like looks good, fuck with it. But they
Speaker 1: also have a Barbie Dreamhouse scent, and I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't know what that's gonna smell, like rotten plastic from
Speaker 1: something that's been in your garage for forty years. Uh.
Speaker 1: Then like there's video games sports a Horizon. It's a
Speaker 1: racing game on Xbox. You can drive Ken's Hummer or
Speaker 1: like her corvette. It's wild. Then they make an Xbox
Speaker 1: that is all. It's everywhere, y'all. Then HGTV they had
Speaker 1: a fucking reality show they're putting out called Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge,
Speaker 1: where people trying to make a house into a wild
Speaker 1: fever dream for Barbie fans. So this marketing, it's wildless
Speaker 1: strength and.
Speaker 2: As a shoe girly, there's some really cute Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm here for it. I'm here for the party.
Speaker 1: I like how you heard me say, although and then
Speaker 1: you started going, let me just click the link real quick,
Speaker 1: let me see what the fuck they got. And then
Speaker 1: before we go to break, Jesse Waters is trending because
Speaker 1: this dude spoke to like a group of executives like investor.
Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of executive group what it was,
Speaker 1: but that was like maybe sixty percent conservatives, and this
Speaker 1: dude thought he was like in a comfortable room and started,
Speaker 1: like I don't know, openly questioning Kamala Harris's like gender
Speaker 1: and shit and making really crash jokes. And it caused
Speaker 1: a fucking meltdown in this place. And by meltdown, I
Speaker 1: think just some of these executives like apparently this is
Speaker 1: all part of like this whole convention or something. Some
Speaker 1: of them were about to attend like a d like
Speaker 1: a diversity inclusion luncheon. Like after that, we're like, what
Speaker 1: the fuck is this?
Speaker 3: Maybe they hired courageous conversation.
Speaker 1: Right, and these some people just walk the fuck out
Speaker 1: and we're like, what the fuck was this one person
Speaker 1: that went said quote? It was an epic meltdown. Afterward,
Speaker 1: the organization went into damage control. So the chat between
Speaker 1: Jesse Waters and like the head of this organization like
Speaker 1: just went on even after like clearly was like what
Speaker 1: the you know, what the fuck did you just say? Uh?
Speaker 1: The guy came out and was like this doesn't reflect
Speaker 1: our organization or whatever. It's like, well you invited him there,
Speaker 1: and Jesse Waters isn't some you know, revolutionary civil rights speaker,
Speaker 1: So what the fuck did you think it was? But
Speaker 1: again they said the association, they said acted quickly and decisively,
Speaker 1: and the interview session conducted does not reflect our values.
Speaker 1: Then we cut it off. Okay, well right, sure, sure, sure,
Speaker 1: I mean, like the second I would see that like
Speaker 1: lineup of speakers are y'all? Okay? What? No, Anyway, he's
Speaker 1: taken over the eight o'clock hours starting July and based
Speaker 1: on the shit I saw him saying on Fox where
Speaker 1: he was like talking about how like he didn't like
Speaker 1: he don't cry because he's a man's like maybe I
Speaker 1: cried for my first two babies births, but I don't
Speaker 1: need to talk about this. Very cool, Very cool. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll come back to
Speaker 1: talk some more stuff after this and we're back. Some
Speaker 1: bad news, some sad news. Madonna was rushed to the hospital.
Speaker 1: She's been hospitalized apparently since I think Saturday, wow, and
Speaker 1: was intubated like in the ICU after being found unresponsive.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yeah. Yeah, So like that tour is
Speaker 1: postponed and I believe they said it with some kind
Speaker 1: of like bacterial infection, so that is.
Speaker 3: I'm like, is it meningitis? That's so scary.
Speaker 1: I have no idea, I have no clue, and I'm
Speaker 1: not counting on the tabloids to give me, not counting
Speaker 1: super medical details quite yet. But yeah, really really sad.
Speaker 2: But yeah, praying for Madonna, that is really sad. She's
Speaker 2: an absolute pop icon to.
Speaker 1: The icon kind of got wobbly in the in the
Speaker 1: last couple of years, but hey, yeah, you know what
Speaker 1: stay safe thout icon nonetheless, Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely, but
Speaker 1: they say we will share more details with you as
Speaker 1: soon as we have them, including a new start date
Speaker 1: for the tour and for the rescheduled shows.
Speaker 3: It's like, bruh, I'm not worried about that.
Speaker 1: I'm you know, some people probably are. They're like, I
Speaker 1: didn't pay all this money for you to be intubated
Speaker 1: in the ICU, so guess what I must see you
Speaker 1: outside and it's ugly Madonna. I'm sure there are people
Speaker 1: probably saying that. But McDonald's they're trending because I don't know,
Speaker 1: like someplace like they've responded to the grimest shake TikTok
Speaker 1: trend and by that all I've seen is that they
Speaker 1: posted from like the McDonald's account, like a picture of
Speaker 1: Grimace being like me pretending I don't see the Grimace
Speaker 1: shake trend.
Speaker 3: Wait, can you enlighten me what the trend is?
Speaker 2: Because as someone who's chronically I am not come across
Speaker 2: the trend.
Speaker 1: Becca, my dear dear, no colleague and human being. Now
Speaker 1: has come the time where the geriatric millennial will put you,
Speaker 1: the person who is not even even close to their thirties,
Speaker 1: onto what is happening on the internet.
Speaker 3: That's not true. I am close to my thirties.
Speaker 1: I was giving you some grace. I was giving you
Speaker 1: some greapes. Your vibes are not even close. And I
Speaker 1: don't mean to say that you're immature, but you have
Speaker 1: you have a youthful exuberance to you. All that to
Speaker 1: say is so you've heard how we've been saying the
Speaker 1: Grimace shake is a grimmace come because the first time
Speaker 1: we heard about, like, what the fuck is this? This
Speaker 1: seems weird. So in the last week on TikTok, everybody's
Speaker 1: been doing these videos where it starts off being like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm about to try the Grimmace shake, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: They take a sip hard cut to people that are
Speaker 1: like fucking fucked up in the streets. Hold on, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna play. Yeah, Brian is like I gotta pull you,
Speaker 1: gotta pull it up. Hold on, yeah, I'm gonna pull
Speaker 1: it up.
Speaker 3: So guys, we're gonna celebrate Grims's birthday.
Speaker 2: We got some shakes.
Speaker 1: This one's for you.
Speaker 2: Happy Birthday.
Speaker 1: Along at the edge of a universe, summing a tune,
Speaker 1: Oh siren, sound like the Goddess. Okay, that's one style.
Speaker 1: I gotta show you a couple.
Speaker 3: Of McDonald's trying the Grimace shake.
Speaker 1: I just know how it is. Kind of sucks you. Okay,
Speaker 1: now you're on. So people have just been acting like
Speaker 1: this ship is turning you a zombie. You're gonna get
Speaker 1: taken away.
Speaker 3: How how did this happen?
Speaker 2: Like the one video I saw my gen Z sister
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles to our Gangee group chat and instead
Speaker 2: like it was like, I don't know what's in this
Speaker 2: Grimmace shake, but now I'm pregnant with a baby Grimace,
Speaker 2: Like I thought that's where this was going.
Speaker 3: Like it was like, no, super goofy.
Speaker 1: They have wild ones, like woman takes a sip and
Speaker 1: she's like, no, that's not that bad. And then you
Speaker 1: just see purple start to run down her nose and
Speaker 1: like her husband's like, what's wrong, what's wrong, and like
Speaker 1: the lights go off. She's like crawling on the ceilings
Speaker 1: and shit, it's it's amazing.
Speaker 3: I'm shook.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I know. I just love that. Like, we
Speaker 1: collectively as a society saw that there was just something
Speaker 1: weird with the Grimace shake.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they took it.
Speaker 1: My crass ass over on this show. We're like, that's
Speaker 1: just come and then they're over here like this will
Speaker 1: turn you evil. This was evil. I mean, there's something
Speaker 1: in the shake y'all. We are all seeing it. We're
Speaker 1: all seeing it. But yeah, all they did was sort
Speaker 1: of respond on that with on Twitter with that. I
Speaker 1: don't know what. I don't know what they're probably thinking
Speaker 1: right now, because you know.
Speaker 3: What, I actually have intimate knowledge with the UH.
Speaker 1: Find Out team. Give us an update, give us an update.
Speaker 3: Text my friends, I.
Speaker 1: Don't put them on blast though, don't put them on blast,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean you, but you will have
Speaker 1: a way to find out and we will have it.
Speaker 1: We'll come back with an update because it's it's amazing,
Speaker 1: but I get how they're like, well, we don't want
Speaker 1: people to think our product is going to make you
Speaker 1: like lose your ship, but hey, why not? All right?
Speaker 1: And finally, Oceangate is trending again because they have began
Speaker 1: to recover like pieces of the fucking sub and they
Speaker 1: also believe that they found what they believed to be
Speaker 1: human remains in the wreckage.
Speaker 2: From I mean I watched a lot of TikTok explainers.
Speaker 1: Yeah I was, and the one that cooked you inside?
Speaker 1: Did you see that one?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Like, I mean I was confused, I guess because I
Speaker 2: was really sad y'all that I was out of town
Speaker 2: actually when ocean Gate broke, because I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm missing TDZ Ocean Kate.
Speaker 1: Don't worry, You're doing your thing out there Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1: Yeah in the time, Yeah, yeah, do that.
Speaker 3: I genuinely am.
Speaker 2: So lost as to the physics of this, Like I
Speaker 2: was on a person that it was like kabluie you.
Speaker 1: Know, yeah exactly, like or it just gets super scrunched.
Speaker 1: And then they said like again this is this is
Speaker 1: TikTok science where one guy who was old and it's
Speaker 1: so weird. How like when you watch Ticktick you like, well,
Speaker 1: this person seemed old enough to not be lying to me.
Speaker 2: For first while, I was like, Hank Green said it,
Speaker 2: so I kind of trust him. I was said, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: Hank Green explained it to me, and I was like,
Speaker 2: I trust Hank Green.
Speaker 3: I've been watching him for years.
Speaker 1: Beard explained it to me with a dodgy background, So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just go with what he said. But anyway,
Speaker 1: a lot of people were most of those videos seem
Speaker 1: to say like finding remains is probably yes, yeah, like
Speaker 1: a fool's errand but I have a feeling based on
Speaker 1: like this chunk that they pulled out, like maybe it's
Speaker 1: smushed in there for lack of a better word, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Anyway, they're going to do an analysis and
Speaker 1: all that. So there's that I have.
Speaker 3: A question, Miles. And granted, maybe we're not the people.
Speaker 2: To have this discion as two people who don't come
Speaker 2: a science back around.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, this is exactly this is a podcast,
Speaker 1: you kidding me. This is exactly where people who are
Speaker 1: unlearned go to wildly speculate about things that are verifiable.
Speaker 2: But go on, Yeah, I'm like, okay, so how come
Speaker 2: the Titanic isn't exploded because is it because.
Speaker 1: It's different down? Yeah, because it went it was already
Speaker 1: broken and then it just goes down and.
Speaker 3: On because it was like a pressurized tube. Is that why?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Because it imploded. It was like an implosion. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the reason why that broke apart. But if you look,
Speaker 1: I mean like.
Speaker 3: The Titanic, like things just sunk and they're no longer.
Speaker 1: But also the pressure is fucking it up down there.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, because I'm.
Speaker 1: This sounds so horrible coming out of my mouth, I'm like,
Speaker 1: the pressure is fucking it up down because.
Speaker 2: I'm like in theory like just kind of like space, well,
Speaker 2: no spaces, like you freeze it up.
Speaker 1: I don't know, like.
Speaker 3: If you sink, would you just the bones.
Speaker 2: From the pressure explode? Like think if you're a skeleton sinking.
Speaker 1: What happened to bones? Look? Yeah, I'm smart enough to
Speaker 1: say I don't fucking know, but I can't wildly speculate
Speaker 1: that the pressure is still fucking up the Titanic down there.
Speaker 1: But please, someone with an atmospheric science background, please please
Speaker 1: come let us know what the fuck happened, Like you know, like,
Speaker 1: is it is that? Is that likely or you know what,
Speaker 1: maybe we just I'm acting like we don't. We can't
Speaker 1: call somebody up anyway, I know that's where we're at.
Speaker 2: That's so many questions like and honestly no desire to google.
Speaker 2: But I have just been wildly speculating in my brain
Speaker 2: since mention Gate broke of like I I simply don't understand.
Speaker 2: But also I'm very much like respect the ocean, not
Speaker 2: fuck with her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she'll get rid of her.
Speaker 2: I really be like staying out of it. I'm not
Speaker 2: going further than I can stand.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, wow, you don't want that ship to take
Speaker 1: you away?
Speaker 2: Huh No, I'm so afraid of play might take me
Speaker 2: little island, but like I stay on the on the shore.
Speaker 1: Okay, Wow, I like to feel infinity around me. No,
Speaker 1: that's how I think of it when you're in the ocean. Anyway. Way, Anyway,
Speaker 1: people with science backgrounds, please tell us is does does
Speaker 1: the pressure be sucking it up down there still? And
Speaker 1: enlightened what happened to the bones? Okay? Anyway, that's gonna
Speaker 1: do it for this edition. You know, we'll be back
Speaker 1: tomorrow with a full episode, and then we're gonna be
Speaker 1: you know, Monday and Tuesday. We have off fourth of July.
Speaker 1: Do what you need to for that time, but until then,
Speaker 1: take yourselves. Take care of each other. You know, you know,
Speaker 1: listen to science. Don't listen to us US. Listen to science.
Speaker 1: Get those vaccines. Look out for malaria if you have
Speaker 1: an unexplained fever, because that's that ship is back. And yeah,
Speaker 1: and don't do nothing about white supremacy unless you're the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court who will literally do nothing about white supremacy.
Speaker 2: And also shout out to the people who sent me
Speaker 2: lots of recommendations about eyebrow gels and lamination. I got
Speaker 2: an email recently that was really sweet, and I haven't
Speaker 2: responded to.
Speaker 3: It because I was on vacation.
Speaker 2: Oh shit, Okay, I appreciate y'all so much. I think
Speaker 2: I am just gonna get the Banada y'all.
Speaker 1: All right, get the laminators out, all right. We'll see
Speaker 1: y'all next time. Bye.
Speaker 3: II