Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Victor
Speaker 1: trembanyama Palooza. It's the NBA Draft lottery tonight. Yeah, not
Speaker 1: the draft, but to have the draft after tonight we
Speaker 1: will know who is picking number one. Potentially the greatest
Speaker 1: swing in like NBA franchise history since Lebron James was
Speaker 1: coming out, and it was like, who's going to get
Speaker 1: to pick Lebron James? I am Jack. That is Miles Gray.
Speaker 1: Exciting times.
Speaker 2: Uh woa, what do you think he's gonna have said?
Speaker 1: This is the most highly anticipated player to ever enter
Speaker 1: the NBA, maybe the greatest prospect in the history of
Speaker 1: team sports. So kind of keeping things nice and measured,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, too much pressure.
Speaker 3: And we haven't seen another person with his like physical
Speaker 3: stature absolutely just get destroyed before the season even started
Speaker 3: in chet Holm, greright last season. Yeah, yeah, Okay, I
Speaker 3: mean it's exciting for sure. I think it's anticipated and
Speaker 3: because he is like such an unknown quantity, like we're
Speaker 3: just it's like it looks like the next evolution of
Speaker 3: the game where you're like, wait, you can be this
Speaker 3: big and do all this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think also Lebron has prepared people for
Speaker 1: somebody who is this anticipated and then actually pays it off,
Speaker 1: which is I think more of a miracle than people
Speaker 1: actually realize the fact that he was able to do that.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of pressure, a lot of things can
Speaker 1: go wrong, but Lebron James truly a genius. We will
Speaker 1: see how the Lakers doing Game one tonight and the
Speaker 1: time we will see who gets the number one pick
Speaker 1: in the NBA draft. So now that we've gotten all
Speaker 1: our non NBA listeners gone, we can finally talk about
Speaker 1: the Zoon. I mean, yeah, that's what people really care about,
Speaker 1: Microsoft's failed iPod competitor from years ago. The Zoon literally
Speaker 1: is back in the news because it was a punchline.
Speaker 1: Apparently at the end of Guardians of the Galaxy Volume two.
Speaker 1: You know, after two films of Chris Pratt's character like
Speaker 1: listening to a Walkman because he left Earth in the eighties,
Speaker 1: he finally adapts to modern technology and adopts an MP
Speaker 1: three player, but he gets a zooon. Miles Ah, hell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not a good one, dude, if you remember it,
Speaker 3: Like early on in the show, we had one listener
Speaker 3: who was listening.
Speaker 2: To this show on the zone, right, Yeah, we Zoom God.
Speaker 3: I know, I think you still listen, So shout out
Speaker 3: to Zoom God because we could not believe. We're like,
Speaker 3: and here are the devices one Zoom and you're like,
Speaker 3: that's fucking dedication.
Speaker 2: So you were ahead of the curve, Zoom God.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now they're coming back. Zoom actually makes an appearance
Speaker 1: in volume three, which Microsoft and you're not gonna believe.
Speaker 1: This has turned into a branding opportunity. So there are
Speaker 1: two stunts the Microsoft is pulling. One is just giving
Speaker 1: away a Zoom that they're like, hey, we found this
Speaker 1: and storage that I found in my close. We truly
Speaker 1: quote have no idea if it works, which I thought
Speaker 1: that's whoever whoever they got doing marketing over there. They're
Speaker 1: getting good, good job, easy there. And there was the
Speaker 1: second thing, which was so the person who came up
Speaker 1: with the we just found this in storage, don't know
Speaker 1: if it still works, but we're gonna give it away.
Speaker 1: That person's co worker got pissed and they were like,
Speaker 1: that idea is too good and Chad is getting too
Speaker 1: much damn attention, So I'm going to do a Zoom
Speaker 1: centric product stunt. So my best guess as to how
Speaker 1: this happened is they were like, all right, so what else?
Speaker 1: What's what's a buzzy thing? We three D print a
Speaker 1: zoom And people were like, uh, I mean that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you could do that. That idea kind of sucks and
Speaker 1: they were like, even, well, what if we did it
Speaker 1: in fucking space? Uh so you feel bad, Well you
Speaker 1: at least have to be impressed by the amount of
Speaker 1: money we are lighting on fire to do this idea.
Speaker 1: So they're also three D printing a zoon on the
Speaker 1: International Space Station. Baby, get the fuck out of here.
Speaker 1: Give uh. It just like made me flash back to
Speaker 1: like every Badge marketing meeting been.
Speaker 2: What if like Lebron James did really.
Speaker 1: Lebron James three D printed a zoom in space while
Speaker 1: flossing and and listening.
Speaker 3: To the New Ice Spice. Yes, oh you thought I
Speaker 3: was feeling zoon That's what they should do. Wow. See
Speaker 3: now now they got to get me back in the
Speaker 3: marketing seat exactly.
Speaker 1: Anyways, if you are starting to hear about zoom again
Speaker 1: and don't know why, it's because somebody's spending a bunch
Speaker 1: of marketing funny. Yeah, Martha Stewart speaking of things coming around. Yeah,
Speaker 1: sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue cover star at age eighty one
Speaker 1: looking great.
Speaker 3: The hair, really, I'm saying, I'm saying the hair, Martha, Yes,
Speaker 3: you're looking naughty with that hair.
Speaker 2: It's wind swept.
Speaker 3: I don't know what they're trying to do, but it's
Speaker 3: definitely like they're making Yeah, this is It's very interesting.
Speaker 3: I'm like, man, could you imagine if they had Joe
Speaker 3: Biden do something like this, right, it's messy and you
Speaker 3: compare the age. Oh but like with his old weird
Speaker 3: hair plugs, that shit would look terrible.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Could you imagine Look with Joe Biden's spider web hair.
Speaker 1: Like chunks are missing. Yeah. Yeah, but the next Sports
Speaker 1: Illustrated Swimsuit model or just Sportsman of the Year. Maybe
Speaker 1: this does seem to be a thing like as the
Speaker 1: population gets older, and also the older population continues to
Speaker 1: hoard their wealth from younger generations, marketers are going to
Speaker 1: be taking note. And like, there's also an announcement that
Speaker 1: the first senior citizen bachelor is in the works, So
Speaker 1: I'm coming, Yeah, long time. I guess that that was
Speaker 1: the thing that people were talking about.
Speaker 2: Long time coming is the sub subtitle of that's good good.
Speaker 3: Anyway back to you, I got my Marketer hat on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what can I do? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean with the Bachelor, that's always been something
Speaker 3: that you want to see because these are people who,
Speaker 3: like you feel like, are horny and want to be
Speaker 3: with each other and not necessarily know about the clout
Speaker 3: from social media. So it feels like I'm a bit
Speaker 3: of a pure affair in that sense. But yeah, man,
Speaker 3: Martha who doing doing big things on that on that cover.
Speaker 2: I wonder what Snoop has had to say about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure there will be a viral video where
Speaker 1: Snoop interviews Martha Stewart about the swimsuit. All right. Ron Desantish,
Speaker 1: speaking of the elderly Florida Governor Ron de Santis, yeah,
Speaker 1: said on Tuesday he will send state law enforcement officers
Speaker 1: to the southern border in Texas. Hasn't he done this before?
Speaker 3: He said he was going to do stuff like that,
Speaker 3: and people are like, you're the fucking governor of Florida,
Speaker 3: and he's like, yeah, but I'm running for president, so
Speaker 3: I got to put on my xenophobe pants and brits
Speaker 3: and really get to crack in here. But yeah, they're
Speaker 3: saying they're gonna send hundreds of state troopers, police and
Speaker 3: National Guard Guard soldiers plus boats, planes, basically to reinforce
Speaker 3: the xenophobia of the you know that the migrants at
Speaker 3: the southern border to.
Speaker 2: Keep that thing going up as title forty two is
Speaker 2: said to expire. So yeah, he's he's he's going all in.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is not even like the one run
Speaker 3: to saying there's another one about how like they're investigating
Speaker 3: like a teacher for showing kids a Disney film.
Speaker 2: And now they're like, oh, what.
Speaker 3: Do we say about It's it's a lot over there,
Speaker 3: Like you couldn't we could do a whole you can
Speaker 3: do a show about tracking Ron.
Speaker 2: DeSantis's fuckery like on a daily basis. Now as the as.
Speaker 1: He gets more desperate and like continues to have zero traction,
Speaker 1: and people are like, yeah, no, he's not a serious option.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. We talked about that from day one, Like
Speaker 1: he he is Mike Pence light. He's like a thing
Speaker 1: that the media fell in love with and that donors
Speaker 1: fell in love with. And then the second there's all
Speaker 1: these instances where he would meet with donors and then
Speaker 1: they would like as they were leaving the building that
Speaker 1: the meeting was in, announced their full support for Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like he's it's changing a lot. Yeah, it is,
Speaker 3: just he does he doesn't work. I mean, his one
Speaker 3: good thing was being antagonizing you know, liberals in the
Speaker 3: culture wars.
Speaker 2: That's really his superpower.
Speaker 3: And but at the end of the day, like I mean,
Speaker 3: especially when you saw him completely like fumble with questions
Speaker 3: even about his own history of being like a jag
Speaker 3: at Guantanamo Bay, You're like, oh man, you're not You
Speaker 3: ain't ready for prime time because you got to be
Speaker 3: able to like look a journalist in the eye even
Speaker 3: though you did war crimes and be like.
Speaker 2: Oh did I I don't know, but that's an interesting notion.
Speaker 2: Thank you for bringing that up. He was like, where
Speaker 2: did you hear? That's a liar? You think he remembers me?
Speaker 3: Yeah, the guy who told him, who promised him the
Speaker 3: torture would stop, he would remember me.
Speaker 1: He that was tortured for years in no but yeah whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And then it's a you know, as he continues to
Speaker 1: be like less and less relevant in the presidential race,
Speaker 1: then his ability to trigger libs becomes less and less,
Speaker 1: and so it's a.
Speaker 2: It's he's in a.
Speaker 3: Tough spiral promise too. Yeah, I mean, hit a way
Speaker 3: out of this one for him, Hey, do border crisis,
Speaker 3: see if that one does anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure he'll try increasing because it doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like like that this what By this point, he should
Speaker 1: have come to the conclusion that he doesn't have a
Speaker 1: chance and like announced No I wasn't. It was never
Speaker 1: I'm happy with my job as Florida governor and just
Speaker 1: set it out it's actually better than president actually so,
Speaker 1: but he hasn't done that. So I think we will
Speaker 1: be seeing increasingly desperate swipes at relevance and at lib triggering.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he doesn't have like this kind of sense of
Speaker 3: like that narcissism that makes you impervious to people making
Speaker 3: objective observations about you, right, I mean, like I can
Speaker 3: already see if people like if he does a debate
Speaker 3: and they're.
Speaker 2: Like, let's talk about his boots.
Speaker 3: Why he's always wearing such a thick heel, he's gonna
Speaker 3: fucking lose it, And the next one he's like, I'd
Speaker 3: actually like to speak about some of the smears that
Speaker 3: are going around about my boot choices.
Speaker 1: It's a normal sized heel.
Speaker 3: Find a new angle, find a new angle, and then
Speaker 3: Trump will call him puss in boots. You could it
Speaker 3: already rights itself.
Speaker 1: Man, Trump is actually gonna use that puts booty.
Speaker 2: Where's Antonio Bendera's meet?
Speaker 1: Run?
Speaker 3: Oh, putting fingers run. We heard about you eat the
Speaker 3: putting cup with your fingers.
Speaker 1: Like I saw his response to it where he's like,
Speaker 1: I don't even eat putting man. Too much sugar.
Speaker 2: Someone said that on on like a plane.
Speaker 3: They caught him like he would eat like snack packs,
Speaker 3: but use his fingers.
Speaker 1: Damn man, why even you just squeeze it into your
Speaker 1: mouth like like like an adult.
Speaker 3: Like you got to have adult old mouth, not big
Speaker 3: enough to fucking house that thing in one go. Come on,
Speaker 3: you ain't our president, motherfucker, get out of here.
Speaker 1: That's right, all right, Let's take a quick break and
Speaker 1: we'll be right back. And we're back. And reportedly miles
Speaker 1: LA dispensaries are openly selling magic mushrooms.
Speaker 3: Oh allegedly, allegedly allegedly to the La Times. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean it's because like you know right now, like you
Speaker 3: know parts of the like up in the Bay Area,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: They did the right thing. And they've decriminalized it.
Speaker 3: And now like with like you know, veterans, group psychologists,
Speaker 3: like many people are like yeah, man, psychedelics, Like yeah,
Speaker 3: they they work, so maybe think about making them a
Speaker 3: little more accessible. Like and I think this, you know,
Speaker 3: the state legislature is like, you know, weighing in on
Speaker 3: a bill to decriminalize them. Like they're just people just
Speaker 3: going fucking sloppy with it now, like they're like, hey man,
Speaker 3: we got shrooms too, Like you can get a fucking
Speaker 3: eighth of Announce for thirty books spot Gus for fifty.
Speaker 3: And also I have noticed too people who are on
Speaker 3: the black market end of psilocybin sales.
Speaker 2: They're now like branding their shit like they they're.
Speaker 3: Like you can tell that these people who were like
Speaker 3: had cottage industry like you know, mushroom sort of businesses,
Speaker 3: they're they're like anticipating the you know, like just like
Speaker 3: how cannabis like and all the branding became fucking just
Speaker 3: like paramount to the marketing. You're starting to see psilocybin
Speaker 3: people like people who I'm like meet up with on
Speaker 3: signal They're like, yeah, I got this these new graphics,
Speaker 3: like we got a whole new marketing package.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what the fuck on.
Speaker 1: The actual capsules, they're just like on the in the
Speaker 1: boxes they got they got new.
Speaker 3: They have like a line of products too.
Speaker 1: They're like, if you don't like.
Speaker 3: The normal chocolates, we got the little mini bites and
Speaker 3: if you don't like that, we have them impressed capsules now.
Speaker 2: And you're like, what the fuck?
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 2: This is used to be these little chocolates that you made.
Speaker 3: So yeah, people are definitely I think they see what's
Speaker 3: coming and they're they're getting in line. But yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean hopefully you know this is this can extend
Speaker 3: across the land because just hearing from people again psychologists,
Speaker 3: like all these researchers, veterans groups, so many people are
Speaker 3: like extolling the virtues of like like IBB a game,
Speaker 3: or like d MT and psilocybin for wellness.
Speaker 2: But hey, yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 3: I guess I'm sure you know, we have to wait
Speaker 3: for like Procter and Gamble to like, okay it like
Speaker 3: we've tried.
Speaker 2: There's no way we can make something that's this good.
Speaker 1: So I guess just given fine, you can have mushrooms. Fine,
Speaker 1: stil Brand mushrooms.
Speaker 3: Than em psilocybin and m d M a mix together.
Speaker 1: People are switching religions. Apparently religion switches trending. Yeah, is
Speaker 1: this a new gaming console? Jack?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I know it wasn't.
Speaker 3: Come on, I knew it wasn't switch God is over here,
Speaker 3: but yeah, it's it isn't the newest offering from Nintendo,
Speaker 3: but it's an article like it's trending because a survey
Speaker 3: came out about how Americans aren't really fucking with.
Speaker 2: God these days.
Speaker 3: This from Axios is more Americans are also turning away
Speaker 3: from Christianity and are seeing themselves as unaffiliated with any
Speaker 3: religion or as religious quote nunsnes, even as some conservative
Speaker 3: Republicans seek to inject more religion into schools in public life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we know they don't know how to read the room,
Speaker 2: they don't know how to read, so that's what they're
Speaker 2: trying to.
Speaker 3: Do, right, But yeah, this like the non partisan Public
Speaker 3: Religion Research Institute. They surveyed people across the country found
Speaker 3: a quarter of Americans say they've changed religious traditions or
Speaker 3: denominations over their lifetime or recently, and like the reasons
Speaker 3: are things like the biggest reason being stopped believing in
Speaker 3: their religions teachings. Fifty six percent people said negative religious
Speaker 3: teachings about treatment of LGBTQ plus people. Other people said
Speaker 3: family was never that religious growing up. Yeah, that part.
Speaker 3: Scandals involving leaders in former religion turned them off.
Speaker 1: Not sure what they're talking about, and they.
Speaker 3: Must be talking about Zoroastrians and a traumatic personal event
Speaker 3: or church or congregation became too political.
Speaker 1: Are people like moving away away from believing in God
Speaker 1: or moving away from organized religion and being just like
Speaker 1: I believe in something but not a Christian God or
Speaker 1: something like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's more like people are just kind of like
Speaker 3: pumping the breaks. Oh Like that's like the main takeaway
Speaker 3: from this is like people are not becoming more religious, like,
Speaker 3: and if they are, it's they're they're switching.
Speaker 2: Their belief systems a little bit.
Speaker 3: That are probably like I mean, yeah, like Christ is cool,
Speaker 3: but like not the like damnation shit.
Speaker 2: So I'm not taking that part.
Speaker 3: But again, it says the Catholic Church had lost the
Speaker 3: highest percentage of followers thirty nine percent, and then Evangelicals
Speaker 3: lost the second most, which is wild.
Speaker 1: To see it.
Speaker 3: They are spending so much fucking money trying to like
Speaker 3: stop the bleeding and being like, oh, y'all don't like religion,
Speaker 3: Oh you think it's too fucking regressive and restrict You
Speaker 3: not see our Jesus's Super Bowl commercial?
Speaker 2: Come on, yeaholks, did you not see? We are not
Speaker 2: sees now, that's what we do.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's just like, the answer isn't like less
Speaker 3: access to healthcare or treating LGBTQ people as like second
Speaker 3: class citizens like you.
Speaker 2: Know, you do better, evangelicals. Here you go.
Speaker 3: Marketing tip for me, fucking try and be more inclusive.
Speaker 3: You might get more people involved. But again, this is
Speaker 3: just the last stop of white grievance politics. So you
Speaker 3: know what, a just fucking burn up into re entry
Speaker 3: into the atmosphere.
Speaker 1: This has been another edition of Miles's marketing tips. Yeah, Miles,
Speaker 1: I want to get your marketing brain on this one.
Speaker 3: I was just actually talking to Bob Pittman on Mathemagic
Speaker 3: about this.
Speaker 2: Man, I've got a lot of ideas. What do you got?
Speaker 2: What do you got?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 1: Costco has a cake business that they refuse to put online.
Speaker 1: You can't call them. They have a box. You have
Speaker 1: to write your order on a piece of paper, drop
Speaker 1: it in the box, and the cake will appear in
Speaker 1: physical space like the internet. For this, you put it
Speaker 1: in the box, well, then the cake will be there
Speaker 1: right right right? Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think this is genius. I think this is great marketing.
Speaker 2: It's perfect.
Speaker 3: It gets people talking, reminds you of the olden days
Speaker 3: when you used to use a pen and paper, right,
Speaker 3: rather than just matching an app. I love that people
Speaker 3: are incensed by this.
Speaker 1: I know, like, let me say, your manager, it's about
Speaker 1: what your cake ordering process.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry. Did you have trouble doing it?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I just don't like writing yes should be on an app.
Speaker 1: I check in with people needlessly on things that they're
Speaker 1: taking care of.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, just so what man?
Speaker 3: It probably helps everyone in the baking department that, like
Speaker 3: with online orders, you'd probably get inundated with shit because
Speaker 3: it's so easy, and they're probably like, man, our business
Speaker 3: don't rely on these, like, look, we sell the fucker
Speaker 3: rotisserie chickens, man, that's where we get our nut, not
Speaker 3: the fucking cakes. And all people love the good Costco
Speaker 3: Shee cake, excluding myself, but they're probably like, yeah, we
Speaker 3: don't need to blow out the fucking bakery by letting
Speaker 3: people put in tens of thousands of cake orders, like
Speaker 3: if you give a fuck, come by and show us
Speaker 3: you really give a fuck by writing it on paper
Speaker 3: and putting it in the box.
Speaker 1: Luthy Huber pointed out in a tweet, ordered a cake
Speaker 1: from Costco and their system is from the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 1: You write what you want on a piece of paper,
Speaker 1: put it in a box, and then nobody follows up,
Speaker 1: and you just show up and hope they made it.
Speaker 1: And people are like, yeah, yeah, that's basically including Costco.
Speaker 1: People are like, yeah, your cake will be there, and
Speaker 1: then sure enough enough cake arrived as ordered.
Speaker 3: Lucy, I know that for many years people have just
Speaker 3: been able to trust off of what has been said
Speaker 3: to like a vendor or something like pre Internet, it
Speaker 3: was the same shit.
Speaker 2: People got their cakes, you know.
Speaker 3: But we need that confirmation email to fucking hit so
Speaker 3: you know everything's gonna be okay.
Speaker 1: What is my human interaction going to be for the
Speaker 1: day if I can't call somebody and just insinuate that
Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to provide I had the
Speaker 1: cake that I asked repeatedly. Anyways, Yeah, I love this
Speaker 1: marketing so this one gets the Miles Gray B plus
Speaker 1: A minus for marketing. This is an A.
Speaker 3: Plus plus wow, because it's working on so many levels.
Speaker 3: It's nostalgia, which is huge right now, and everyone's nostalgic
Speaker 3: for the eighteen hundreds. I mean with like child labor,
Speaker 3: you know, xenophobia, racism, the clan, you know.
Speaker 1: People are loving it, polytheism you know. Yeah, right.
Speaker 3: Fit dissuades someone from buying a Costco sheet cake at
Speaker 3: a party I'm at then, Also that's also good too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well, those are some of the things
Speaker 1: that are trending on this Tuesday afternoon. We are back
Speaker 1: tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Go Lakers.
Speaker 1: Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourself. Yep,
Speaker 1: get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white premisey oh.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to y'all tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Bye bye, Factor actual conference