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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The

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Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from

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Speaker 1: this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza. Yeah, so,

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Speaker 1: without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Miles were

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Speaker 1: thrilled to be joined in their third seat by a

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Speaker 1: hilarious comedian who's about to make her off Broadway debut

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Speaker 1: with their stand up show How to Embarrass Your Immigrant Parents.

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Speaker 1: She's also the creator of Emily and Paris.

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Speaker 2: It's Abby govern d.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, Hey guys, I'm so excited to be here.

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Speaker 2: Not the creator of Emily Paris.

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Speaker 3: That was just a massive good information campaign, man, that

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Speaker 3: was extremely successful.

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Speaker 1: So what happened you After Emily and Paris was somehow

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Speaker 1: nominated for Best Comedy Series at the Golden Globes, you

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Speaker 1: just were like, hell, yeah, I created the best Comedy

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Speaker 1: series and like started saying some wild shit about Emily

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Speaker 1: in Paris And this was the tweet February. Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: was twenty.

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Speaker 3: The original te viral was like, as the creator of

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Speaker 3: Emaly in Paris, can I just say why the fuck

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Speaker 3: were we nominated for a Golden Glove?

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Speaker 2: Can I curse.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, why were we nominated for Golden Globe? I

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Speaker 3: made that show as a prank and then like several

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Speaker 3: news that lets like tweeted it as if it was real,

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Speaker 3: and I got reached out to by like the BBC.

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Speaker 3: I talked about it in my solo show. Actually it's

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Speaker 3: a lot of fun, and it was a lot of fun,

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Speaker 3: Like it was a very fun month that that went viral.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they were like, oh, so you made it as

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Speaker 1: a prank. Whoa, Yeah, so sick.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I like got back to the past and the

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Speaker 3: crew and the actual creator. It was insane, like it's

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Speaker 3: it is really funny. I was like twenty two and

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Speaker 3: living with my parents when this went viral. It was

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Speaker 3: in like twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: One is on the phone?

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Speaker 2: Yeah then that's it.

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Speaker 3: It was just like this show is so bad that

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Speaker 3: people earnestly thought that like some twenty three year old

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Speaker 3: who lives with her parents like made the show. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was really it was a fun time to be

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Speaker 3: on the internet. It was it was like free posts woke,

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Speaker 3: like it was fun to still be on the internet.

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Speaker 3: Like being racist still had consequences in twenty twenty one days.

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Speaker 1: Remember that vaguely now now.

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Speaker 3: Like if you're racist on the internet, they hand you

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Speaker 3: like a two hundred million dollars podcast deal and like

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Speaker 3: a TV series. Back in my day, as when at

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Speaker 3: the peak of woke, there used to still be consequences

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Speaker 3: for being racist.

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Speaker 1: And that's fun. Yeah, that's fine.

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Speaker 3: You tweeted a slur and people would like tweet out

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Speaker 3: your home address and like text your high school and like,

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Speaker 3: you know, make sure make sure you didn't get hired

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Speaker 3: for work for another decade. Now, like you tweet out

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Speaker 3: a slur, you get a million followers and a podcast deal.

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Speaker 1: It's crazy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Like, hey, man, do you want to

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Speaker 2: be the new face of Black Rifle Coffee? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, literally why not?

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Speaker 2: I just like that one of the tweets that you

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Speaker 2: did in that sort of string of the Emily and

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Speaker 2: Paris of Yes, I am an Indian woman who created

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Speaker 2: a show about a white girl in Paris. Why would

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Speaker 2: I care about telling diverse stories when I can tell

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Speaker 4: You guys did your research. This is hilarious.

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Speaker 1: Is so funny. What is something for your search history?

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Speaker 4: Something for my search history? How to give a dog

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Speaker 4: a massage. I was thinking recently where I'm like, so

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Speaker 4: I bet they would want a massage too, especially as

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Speaker 4: start to hurt. And I googled how to give a

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Speaker 4: dog a massage? And the video it was, I believe

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Speaker 4: You're like, what the Oh my god, no, but I'm

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Speaker 4: sure that exists. I want to think about that's the natural.

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Speaker 4: Next next they put on like the music, and it

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Speaker 4: more looking for. But this was a whole, a whole

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Speaker 2: Where'd you net out? Like what you so, what kind

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Speaker 2: of service did you put?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: It was a combination between a reiki and like a

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Speaker 2: I do that to my dog though, because I'm like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: come on, man, you what you've had a heart? Like,

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Speaker 2: I do the same thing mentally to my dog, thinking like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: more just to be like here is soothing touch on

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I feel like I wanted to do that to

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Speaker 1: my dogs and they just never fucked with it. They

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Speaker 1: just wanted like little scratches. Oh they're doing thing like this,

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Speaker 1: Just what the fuck is this?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we all have our preferences as dogs. And speaking

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Speaker 4: of the Reki thing, my now wife and I were

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Speaker 4: like in Lake Arrowhead, which doesn't matter where we were,

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Speaker 4: but it was for Valentine's Day and then we were

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Speaker 4: like checked her phone real quick to make sure our

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Speaker 4: and her wrote or hour Rover wanted to give him

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Speaker 4: energy healing like from wow, like and she was like

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Speaker 4: oh wait, that won't hurt him, right, And then fifty

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Speaker 4: minutes later she just like, I'm like, you're worse than

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Speaker 4: this lady is, because like she's like, what tell us

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Speaker 4: about his trauma? Like insinuating that there was drama. She's like,

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Speaker 4: he can't be around skateboards. She may have been neutered

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Speaker 4: like two weeks too early or something, And I'm like,

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Speaker 4: what are you doing?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a real people.

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Speaker 2: Do your dog a scorpio?

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Speaker 1: Then?

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Speaker 4: Actually yea, yeah, he's a scorpio for sure scorpio.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, that dog is such a scorpio.

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Speaker 4: Scorp If you be like I don't know what month

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Speaker 4: that is, I'm with you.

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Speaker 2: I can't.

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Speaker 4: I have no tolerance for it. I hate the sky.

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Speaker 1: Anything, clouds, stars them all the sun, not Drune, not Drun,

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Speaker 1: They're cool. Those are Angel had a nice conversation with

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Speaker 1: just how to fly him showing some sick footage that

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Speaker 2: Damn you shot this in one take going through a

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Speaker 2: sushi restaurant. That's sick.

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Speaker 1: What is something you think is underrated? Underrated.

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Speaker 5: Again going to the text stuff, I really think that

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Speaker 5: open source software, Linux, the decentralized web, the feti verse, Mastodon,

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Speaker 5: pixel fed, some of these these things that cannot be

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Speaker 5: purchased by billionaires where there is like an actual community

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Speaker 5: that's not just aggregated out of an algorithm to you

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Speaker 5: and proliferated with ads.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how it all.

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Speaker 5: So Blue Sky is on an open protocol and these

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Speaker 5: things I don't fully understand completely. The the fetti verse

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Speaker 5: of you know how your email can reach every other

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Speaker 5: email account. You could send from AOL to Gmail to

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Speaker 5: proton or whatever, so you can you can follow people

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Speaker 5: So like of pixel fed hashtag, you could follow it

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Speaker 5: it's a little more socialized. So it's it's not impenetrable,

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Speaker 5: but it's certainly a little more insulated from getting billionaireed,

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Speaker 5: getting musked, you know, having what happened to Twitter.

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Speaker 2: Getting made awesome?

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Speaker 1: You mean, getting just so good. It's like it's like

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Speaker 1: X on steroids. Dude. You go down By Southwest? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: oh man, we're we're down at south By Southwest during

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Speaker 1: like the interactive part where like all these people with

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Speaker 1: the hungriest eyes trying trying to make eye contact with you.

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Speaker 1: To you, guys, ask you what you think about AI

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say that is something that's overrated. I'm

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Speaker 5: so sick of that, like being perpetuated as though. I mean,

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Speaker 5: You're like, how the fuck are they doing this? And

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Speaker 5: they're basically all just trading around a million dollars. Maybe

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Speaker 5: So you're developing, you're growing, you're growing, and I think

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Speaker 1: They've sold us on.

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Speaker 5: This idea that it's just gonna keep going and AI

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Speaker 5: is the next frontier and we're going to create so

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Speaker 5: many jobs. And then today Google just laid off a

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Speaker 5: ton of people. Their last quarter earnings were like twenty

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Speaker 5: six billion dollars. I mean, get out of here. None

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Speaker 2: Stock performance, Dave, do you see the stock performance? That's yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's what I care about.

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Speaker 1: The shareholders, bless their hearts.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, jobs, shit, it's not because a trump FuG in

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Speaker 2: the economy will just fire these people to keep our

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Speaker 2: stock price up. Good, good, good.

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Speaker 1: These layoffs are going to put their stock price on steroids. Man,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be like Google stock on steroids. Talk about

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Speaker 1: putting things on steroids. I feel like, yeah, the idea

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Speaker 1: that everything needs to grow forever and ever is like

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Speaker 1: I remember that when we started the website cracked and

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Speaker 1: like we were like growing and we were like, man,

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Speaker 1: this is like a good size for this, Like we

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Speaker 1: have a good team, we have like a good amount

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Speaker 1: of like let's just like chill here for a little bit,

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Speaker 1: just get good, get good and better at like what

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Speaker 1: we're currently doing well. And like telling that to the

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Speaker 1: parent company that owned us, they're like, no, how do

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Speaker 1: you how do you scale on steroidal How we put

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Speaker 1: this bad boy on steroids? Dude? You know?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: So you guys are like doing way better than we

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Speaker 1: ever thought was possible. How do we one hundred x that?

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Speaker 1: What talking about? How do I one hundred XU by

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Speaker 1: next year? That's the question. I need you eating, breathing, sleeping.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I think when that is your entire civilizations

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Speaker 2: Getting out of bed. Look what happened? You got to

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Speaker 6: I feel like I'm gonna get haters for this, but

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Speaker 6: Yep, Like I think it's important. I think people should

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Speaker 2: Were you always like anti theater? Like and then the

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Speaker 2: together You're like, oh, yeah, I prefer couch.

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Speaker 6: I think it was working like co founding and being

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when I'm in a Shakespeare's show, I'm always laughing

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Speaker 1: By the way, Hamlet would have been called skull guy

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Speaker 2: And we're back. We're back, dude, We're back, dude.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I'm always I've always got the stock

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Speaker 2: out just to try and tell people to fucking chill

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Speaker 2: the fuck out.

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Speaker 1: Quote.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Dow is plunging. This is happening because we

444
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Speaker 2: have a president with the balls globalist economic agenda that's

445
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Speaker 2: decimated American wages and quality of life. This is the

446
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Speaker 2: pain that comes from real change. It's much easier to

447
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Speaker 2: just pass the buck. So, yeah, Trump's balls are giving

448
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Speaker 2: you pain.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, it's good. They're two big miles. I've

450
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Speaker 1: been saying that they're so big. His smoke too, He

451
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Speaker 1: smoked too tough. His ball's too big. I look, I

452
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Speaker 1: don't give too much of a ship when the stock

453
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Speaker 1: market is doing well, because that money is just getting

454
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Speaker 1: funneled upward to corporations and like you know, they use

455
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Speaker 1: it to do stock buybacks. But when the economy takes

456
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Speaker 1: an absolute shit like, that's when trickle down economics actually

457
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Speaker 1: becomes a thing.

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Speaker 2: That's what it is.

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Speaker 1: That, Yeah, that trickles down on all of us. And

460
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Speaker 1: when the stock mark goes down, Yeah, corporations are suddenly like, yeah,

461
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Speaker 1: we've got we're facing headwinds. We've got to start firing people.

462
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Speaker 1: When it goes up. Yeah, they just keep that money

463
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Speaker 1: for themselves. So it's a real win win for like

464
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Speaker 1: five people and lose lose for everyone else. But it's

465
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Speaker 1: also a little thrilling when this happens, because it does

466
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Speaker 1: seem to be the only thing that matters to this

467
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Speaker 1: country in terms of who gets to wheel power is

468
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Speaker 1: right when the stock fuck the money up, Yeah, don't

469
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Speaker 1: fuck the money like that, keep the stock market on

470
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Speaker 1: the rails so that the wealthy people and the wealthy

471
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Speaker 1: corporations that drive everything forward. I wouldn't say progress, but

472
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Speaker 1: like everything else, like keep the wheels of power emotion,

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Speaker 1: like all that needs the money to go forward. But

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Speaker 1: like the Democratic Party only really exists because they cater

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Speaker 1: to keeping that whole, like the you know, the capital

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Speaker 1: e economy. That's what like they sacrificed, Like that's what

477
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Speaker 1: Obama sacrificed the hope and change message for when he

478
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Speaker 1: like bailed out the Wall Street banks. It's you know

479
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Speaker 1: why Bernie was not allowed to win against Hillary. And

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Speaker 1: then I think like internalized Wall Street journal op eds

481
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Speaker 1: caused Democratic voters to think Biden was the only real

482
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Speaker 1: option in twenty twenty. But it also feels like the

483
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Speaker 1: thing that could be the Jenga block that could cause

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Speaker 1: this second administration to really fall apart, you know, like Trump,

485
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Speaker 1: so Trump, Like there there definitely seems to be like

486
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Speaker 1: more pop cultures support for Trump this time around. I

487
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Speaker 1: just found out Tiger Woods like openly endorses Donald Joses.

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Speaker 2: Trump said he was the tiger Woods of presidents right

489
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Speaker 2: during that course, during spree here stupid.

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Speaker 1: There's all sorts of rappers who are endorsing him in

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Speaker 1: a way that I find troubling. The real buy in

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Speaker 1: that it's important though that he had the first time

493
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Speaker 1: around that he might stop having this time is Wall

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Speaker 1: Street and the massive corporations like and you know, all

495
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Speaker 1: of his like radical. We do things a little different

496
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Speaker 1: around here. We serve things top us style. We cut

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Speaker 1: all government programs and policies. If that fucks up the

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Speaker 1: money of Wall Street and like the big e economy.

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Speaker 1: I do feel like that's a thing that might make

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Speaker 1: this second administration like a little bit interesting. Yeah, it might.

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Speaker 1: It might start to the deep state might start really

502
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Speaker 1: deep stating on his ass in a way that might

503
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Speaker 1: make things pretty difficult for him. Otherwise, he's just going

504
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Speaker 1: to keep you know, he'll be fine.

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Speaker 4: And these corporations and big money people, they love predictability.

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Speaker 4: They like to be able to predict how much money

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Speaker 4: is going to come in. And when you have a

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Speaker 4: guy making decisions even though his balls are so fucking big.

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Speaker 1: It's one thing they didn't take into a complica. As

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Speaker 1: they all back as they're like, I don't know, man, Like,

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Speaker 1: let's just go full Trump. Let's I'm saying, all it's

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Speaker 1: a ball market.

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Speaker 4: That's rights is surging, dude, the nas sack?

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Speaker 1: Oh man, yeah, yes, so one thing we do know

515
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 1: about Trump ginormous sack.

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Speaker 4: And ball's tiny, little bit tiny. But who needs one

517
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Speaker 4: when you got one?

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Speaker 2: You got we love We love potatoes around here, don't we.

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Speaker 1: That's right? But yeah, I I I feel like it's

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Speaker 1: it might just go in a different direction for him.

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Speaker 1: Well it's I mean, it's clear that anytime keeps up,

522
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Speaker 1: anytime someone comes in and disrupts the economy or like

523
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Speaker 1: at least the status quo or talks about it, it

524
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Speaker 1: it uses there the forces tend to sort of circle

525
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Speaker 1: around to try and like purge it from the system.

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Speaker 1: But I think in this time, because Trump comes in

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Speaker 1: with such pro business speak, they're just having trouble wrapping

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Speaker 1: their head around the fact that this guy is also

529
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Speaker 1: absolutely rocking the boat, like in the most fucked up way,

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Speaker 1: and they're like, wait, what, wait, where are all of

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Speaker 1: our capital protecting instincts now or have they gone out

532
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Speaker 1: the window as they try and because now it's just

533
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Speaker 1: turning into like begging on Fox News, where people are like,

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Speaker 1: I would tell him a president, you know, if this

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Speaker 1: is a sales pitch, maybe we need to tweak the

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Speaker 1: sales pitch a little bit and really get people to

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Speaker 1: understand sort of how we look at this long term.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I don't know how people like they're

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Speaker 1: supposed to look at that last tweet and be like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: my entire my whole retirement might be in jeopardy because

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Speaker 1: he has elephantiasis.

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Speaker 2: Yay, what is it? The balls and the males. The

543
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 2: thing is, this guy is destroying the economy intentionally, and

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Speaker 2: I know many people are just like, well, he's just dumb.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't He's like he's dumb and doing it on purpose.

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Speaker 2: That's why it looks so fucking ridiculous, because his way

547
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Speaker 2: of doing it is so absurd, and he talks tough

548
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Speaker 2: on tariffs and walks it back so then and then

549
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Speaker 2: threatens them again and again. Like you're saying, Blake, it's

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Speaker 2: that unpredictability that sends the markets in the direction that

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Speaker 2: it is. And then while people are fearing like a

552
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Speaker 2: full blown recession, Trump only worsens the problem when he

553
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Speaker 2: gives answers like this a lot of people were sharing

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Speaker 2: this clip of him talking to Maria Bartiromo where she's

555
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Speaker 2: just like this whole interview was meant to like calm

556
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Speaker 2: the market and be like I'm gonna throw you soft balls,

557
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Speaker 2: like saying, you know, do you expect a recession? And

558
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Speaker 2: then you just say no, you say, this is I'm

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Speaker 2: very confident in what's going to happen. But this is

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Speaker 2: how this fucking question was handled. When Maria asked the

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Speaker 2: dear leader, because there.

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Speaker 5: Are rising worries about a slowdown, You've got the Atlanta

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Speaker 5: Federal Reserve saying we're going to have a contraction in.

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Speaker 7: The first quarter.

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Speaker 1: Look, I know that you.

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Speaker 5: Inherited a mess, and you say, here, are you expecting

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Speaker 5: a reception this year?

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Speaker 2: I hate to predict things like that. Oh no, there

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Speaker 2: is a period of transition because what we're doing is

570
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Speaker 2: very big.

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Speaker 1: We're bringing wealth back to America.

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Speaker 4: Okay, can you answer the recession?

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Speaker 1: What about the I hate to use words like recession.

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Speaker 1: I hate to predict anything.

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Speaker 2: The best it was like, and you inherited a mess.

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Speaker 8: That been two weeks hours, two weeks.

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Speaker 1: I don't have been.

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Speaker 8: Here, been here for like, yeah, so this is it's

579
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Speaker 8: getting bad and again the like Wall Street Journal has

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Speaker 8: op eds now that essentially, like the distillation of the

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Speaker 8: op eds are like, please stop, motherfucker, our precious stunks.

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Speaker 2: And economy are shipping the bed and meanwhile gas. Gavin

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Speaker 2: Newsom's new bestie Charlie Kirk is telling his viewers that

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Speaker 2: they need He said, they need to shut up about

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Speaker 2: egg prices, just as now just what they do, like,

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Speaker 2: just shut up about the thing that I was telling

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Speaker 2: you that he's gonna make better. And he also told

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Speaker 2: us he's gonna make just shut up about it now,

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Speaker 2: okay some Newsom? Yeah, yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see where this goes if he

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Speaker 1: if he's able to. I don't know. The one thing

592
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Speaker 1: that like keeps me from thinking this is going to

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Speaker 1: continue to fall apart is that I feel like a

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Speaker 1: lot of the like stock market and just like market

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Speaker 1: economy in general to this point, has been like that

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Speaker 1: they can just kind of will themselves to stay, you know,

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Speaker 1: like they can like during the pandemic. They were just like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what, We'll be fine, like just pretend

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Speaker 1: like shit is good. We'll raise prices. We'll just yeah,

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Speaker 1: we'll raise crisis and we'll scam PPP loans, push, push

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Speaker 1: the pain downwards. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: This a scary thing about him too, is that I'm

603
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Speaker 4: trying to find a silver lining and a sack of shit,

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Speaker 4: but like he in a big bald.

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Speaker 1: Sec of shit.

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Speaker 4: But he does He's like the most thing that was

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Speaker 4: such a like a scary word in politics, which is

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Speaker 4: now probably like fifteen twenty years is he just couldn't

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Speaker 4: care less. Where the guy doesn't say anything that he

610
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Speaker 4: actually believes it or thinks this is true. So he

611
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Speaker 4: will pause tariffs, he'll take the tariffs away, he'll put

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Speaker 4: the terriffs back, and they'll be like, hey, remember when

613
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Speaker 4: you tried to put tariffs and it was destroying the economy,

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Speaker 4: Like I don't we like, let's not talk about prices.

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Speaker 1: Up about it prices.

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Speaker 2: It is this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is nice to see them going through the

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Speaker 1: exact same thing that Democrats were going through, where it

619
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Speaker 1: was why doesn't everybody shut the fuck up about all

620
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Speaker 1: the ways we're doing.

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Speaker 2: A bad job.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's just the job of a party when they're

623
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Speaker 1: in power, is like telling their supporters stop protesting. Guys.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, just everybody, wait shop, why are you pointing out

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Speaker 7: all the fucking inconsistencies and what we campaigned on and

626
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Speaker 7: what we're delivering. This is like hater ration in the

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Speaker 7: nation in his dancery the ration.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's kind of ties directly, Blake, when you

629
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Speaker 1: were talking about about just the fact that they say

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Speaker 1: whatever is whatever benefits them in the moment. Is my

631
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Speaker 1: theory on the jd vance memes. So our writer jam

632
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Speaker 1: was wondering if there's a deeper truth behind these jd

633
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: vance memes.

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Speaker 2: Ease from Wired, who's the where's that quote from the

635
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 2: deeper meaning thing? The deeper meaning or no deeper true? Oh,

636
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 2: Gizmoto it was. It was the Gizmoto article.

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00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Gizmoto wrote an article that was arguing that

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Speaker 1: it's these memes are apparently popular across both the left

639
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Speaker 1: and the right, Like the right is also meming him.

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Speaker 2: Have you seen you've seen those, right, Blake, the like

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Speaker 2: Toddler face jd vance means yeah, yeah, well they're they're everywhere. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's like the new currency of the Internet.

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Speaker 4: It was after the Ukraine meeting, right that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So yeah, like quick background on it. If you're

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Speaker 1: on the internet, you're seeing his boldest face staring back

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00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 1: at you. It took off after the Zelensky meeting, which

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Speaker 1: this one is still my favorite.

648
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Speaker 2: Like they just took the.

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Speaker 1: Picture of him saying like you gotta say please and

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Speaker 1: thank you, mister Winsky, and just like gave him the

651
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: biggest cheeks and he just looks like a big baby,

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00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: and it's really well executed. And then people from there,

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Speaker 1: I mean people have been doing that for a little while,

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Speaker 1: like turning him into a cabbage patch doll, but that

655
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Speaker 1: it really took off, and now it's like all anybody's doing.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what he actually looks like anymore. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's the overly patriotic Minion is one that I've seen

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Speaker 1: Baron Harkonen from Dune, although yeah, he looks a little

659
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Speaker 1: kind of shredded in that one.

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Speaker 2: I feel like he looks like Alex Jones, like in

661
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Speaker 2: that one where he's kind of look like emerging emerging

662
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Speaker 2: from the and head his they swapped out his head for.

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Speaker 1: The nuclear explosion from the original Akira manga. Hell, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's all great stuff. Although it should be noted that

665
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Speaker 1: the photoshopping of jd Vance began on the Republican side

666
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: when Congressman Mike Collins as our friend of the show.

667
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Speaker 1: Former guest kat Abou put it Mike Collins yasified Vance's portrait.

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Speaker 1: Do you guys remember this like where there was a

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Speaker 1: portrait of him and they just like made him look

670
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Speaker 1: like a chat They just turned him into it.

671
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like it was like it's like ozembic

672
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Speaker 2: mixed with some botox and fillers basically yeah, yeah and human.

673
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they just made him, yeah, just stud instead of

674
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Speaker 1: around faced baby, and so they baby, they threw the

675
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 1: first stone in this battle. But now, like even Fox

676
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,879
Speaker 1: News is reporting on the liberal trolls sharing the meme

677
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 1: and like it's just a great screen tap.

678
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 2: It's wild to have that Chiron and like run this image,

679
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,800
Speaker 2: or says liberal trolls share wild memes of JD. Vans

680
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 2: and then just show all these fucking brutal memes. Like yeah,

681
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 2: why even I think that's where it's there is like

682
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 2: this weird appeal even to Republicans, where normally like sure,

683
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 2: there's always like they'll do the thing, Like you know,

684
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Speaker 2: I remember there was a plenty of outrage reporting on

685
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Speaker 2: like the shitty memes people would post of like the

686
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Speaker 2: Obamas or Biden or whatever, but like in this version,

687
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 2: like it feels like they're trying to also be like,

688
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 2: look what they're fucking doing to us, but also like

689
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Speaker 2: they're showing so many that I'm sure people are just like, yeah,

690
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 2: that's kind of funny though that it looks about right,

691
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Speaker 2: And when you consider the fact that Republicans are also

692
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Speaker 2: sharing this too, and again.

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Speaker 1: Sees like everybody, Yeah, there's a Yahoo article that says

694
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Speaker 1: but they're equally if not more popular on the right

695
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Speaker 1: explicitly pro Trump accounts on x that otherwise spend their

696
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Speaker 1: time bashing the Liberals or posting embarrassing memes of the

697
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Speaker 1: party second in command. I feel it does feel like

698
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Speaker 1: the cat fucking all over again. I do want to

699
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Speaker 1: note he tried to get in on the joke. He

700
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Speaker 1: posted a meme of himself as Leonardo DiCaprio in Once

701
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Speaker 1: Upon a Time in Hollywood, like pointing at the TV,

702
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Speaker 1: But he of course just combined his face with Leonardo DiCaprio,

703
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 1: so he like looked handsomer than he actually is. So

704
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 1: he's not not really ready to laugh at himself so

705
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: much as just once is like, hey, guys, I can

706
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: so handsome. I am kind of but yeah, So Gizmoto's

707
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 1: argument is that, like the you know, the popularity of

708
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Speaker 1: these is evidence that there's something uniquely alien and awful

709
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 1: about him, and that the distorted version of his face

710
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Speaker 1: actually speaks to a deeper truth. And I think there's

711
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Speaker 1: something true there. Like I think, like i'd say, there's

712
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Speaker 1: something like unacknowledged in his persona, in particular that he

713
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Speaker 1: went from being like this liberal darling on MSNBC to

714
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Speaker 1: like people were like calling him like a hope for

715
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Speaker 1: like defeating Trump, like on the on the Republican side,

716
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 1: to like being business nazi and the vice president in

717
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 1: the space of like a few years. And I feel like,

718
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: you know, it's boring to say, like these guys are

719
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 1: empty suits, so don't believe in anything, but there is

720
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Speaker 1: something existentially terrifying about the fact that the way you

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00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: get ahead in this current version of our society is

722
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Speaker 1: to be completely devoid of belief and just like not yeah,

723
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,959
Speaker 1: just be willing to have meaning and belief projected onto

724
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,400
Speaker 1: you and be completely otherwise empty and not believe in anything.

725
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 1: It's just like this like complete nihilism that he represents

726
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: and the fact that he's just this completely malleable asshole

727
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 1: who like succeeds in like going from one extreme to

728
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:03,359
Speaker 1: another at a time when you know people like this

729
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:06,839
Speaker 1: is these belief systems are like, you know, liberal versus

730
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Speaker 1: mega people are like, we're about to have a civil

731
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Speaker 1: war over this, and then you have this guy who

732
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Speaker 1: just like fits in on both sides. I feel like

733
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:18,880
Speaker 1: there's like something existentially terrifying about that, And so to

734
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:23,800
Speaker 1: attack that malleability by making up memes about him fucking

735
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 1: couches that just seem true immediately, or like bending his

736
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:32,359
Speaker 1: face in ways that also seem true like that, it's

737
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Speaker 1: like kind of attacking him at his using his superpower

738
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 1: against him. You know. It's it's true that, like I

739
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: can't picture what he looks like now because I've seen

740
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,320
Speaker 1: so many and that, like I don't know that that

741
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: would be true of other people necessarily, but because he

742
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:54,360
Speaker 1: just there's something he's just a complete fucking cipher.

743
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's because he's to your point, because he's so amorphous, Yeah,

744
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 2: to be able to ascend and to like fit in

745
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 2: whatever space he needs to to curry favor or gain power.

746
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Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, that same amorphousness lends itself to be

747
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 2: like oh well, you now, now you can actually be

748
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 2: anything we say you are. Yeah, like and sort of

749
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:16,280
Speaker 2: it like like that's the subtext. Yeah.

750
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like with spies, like in movies where they're

751
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 4: like the perfect spies, someone who's not memorable, you know,

752
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,880
Speaker 4: and it's like, oh, he is the least memorable person,

753
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 4: like from Ohio, you know, like it's if it wasn't

754
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 4: for his eyelashes, you know, like if you would be

755
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 4: beautiful eye like yeah, and he is.

756
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 2: He kind of looks like he kind of looks like

757
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:38,799
Speaker 2: one of the dudes who would have pulled up with

758
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Speaker 2: Zod in Superman.

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Speaker 1: He does look like one of the dudes who you

760
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Speaker 1: know what I mean, because.

761
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Speaker 2: They also had like kind of the beard with like

762
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Speaker 2: the smoky eyeliner vibe and a'most.

763
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Speaker 1: Like, yeah, he was creating.

764
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Speaker 2: You were kicking it with ood bro. You were at

765
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Speaker 2: that one bearded homie. Yeah, what was your name? God,

766
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 2: what was your name? That wasn't me. I'm sorry, I'm

767
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 2: just just here to install your cable.

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Speaker 1: Anyways, let's uh, let's take a quick break and we'll

769
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Speaker 1: be ready.

770
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Speaker 2: And we're bad.

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Speaker 4: We're back and all right.

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Speaker 1: So you know that this has been kind of the

773
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Speaker 1: ongoing story of this week is the economy has taken

774
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 1: a big old ship. Yeah, the economy, the big stay

775
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 1: the economy, the one that the mainstream media pays attention to,

776
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 1: the one that will fuck us over. You know, it's

777
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Speaker 1: a It has the ability. So when it's going good,

778
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 1: it doesn't make most effect rich. It's not good for

779
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 1: regular people. The rich people just do stock buybacks for

780
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,279
Speaker 1: like the c suite. But when it's going bad, it

781
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 1: really really fucks everybody up. And it's going bad, so

782
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Speaker 1: that's not good.

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Speaker 2: No, And the thing the economy is like one of

784
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Speaker 2: the main reasons people gave as to why they wanted

785
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:02,800
Speaker 2: Trump back in office.

786
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's government business president, business guy.

787
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean, and who could blame them if

788
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 2: you aren't aware of all the existential threats that he

789
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,359
Speaker 2: poses to America and you're only metric for deciding who

790
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 2: to vote for in a presidential race. Is my life

791
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 2: good in twenty nineteen, then yeah, sure, great, you've you've

792
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 2: you've succeeded there. But like their, CNN recently did a

793
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 2: poll on Trump's handling of the economy, and he is

794
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 2: in the worst position he's ever been in forty four

795
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 2: percent approved fifty six percent disapprove. That's a net thumbs

796
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 2: down of twelve percent. And on Vox they sort of

797
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 2: plotted out sort of where this was in terms of

798
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Speaker 2: like other polls and economy, and this is a total outlier,

799
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Speaker 2: Like it's fucking yeah, yeah, that's way the fuck down,

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00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 2: you know what.

801
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:49,720
Speaker 1: It's total reminding me of Actually this is so stupid,

802
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 1: But this is reminding remember how like when George Lucas

803
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 1: brought the prequels back, everyone was like, and now we

804
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: can have the pure George Lucas vision and with like

805
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,320
Speaker 1: all the people just being like, you're a genius, George.

806
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:05,839
Speaker 1: You got this one, George, And then it came out

807
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:08,400
Speaker 1: and it just sucks shit because it was like he

808
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 1: and like all like when you hear him talk about

809
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: the original trilogy of Star Wars, he's always like complaining

810
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: about all the notes he got and like all the

811
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 1: battles he had to fight, and like people give it

812
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:22,319
Speaker 1: like pushing back and and like making it's good, yeah,

813
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 1: making it like yeah, reining in his worst instincts and

814
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:27,799
Speaker 1: being like, I mean that's a cool idea. Let's go

815
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,360
Speaker 1: with the cool idea and not like the shitty one

816
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,759
Speaker 1: where you think you're like a good comedy director and

817
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: that jar Jar Binks is going to be the future

818
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: of I feel like this is the Star Wars prequels

819
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: of the Trump presidencies, where he just is fully it's

820
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 1: all gas, no breaks, and he the only thing that

821
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:50,840
Speaker 1: was keeping anything on the rails up to this point

822
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:54,839
Speaker 1: was the breaks, Like yeah, yeah, that was it, and

823
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 1: now it's now we are off the fucking charts. Literally,

824
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:03,280
Speaker 1: we're we are in the in the scene where Jorjar

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00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:08,520
Speaker 1: Binks is like doing comedic pratfalls that like kill people

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Speaker 1: at the end of that first movie.

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Speaker 2: But he's fighting, man, He's fighting. But you know, this

828
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 2: polling and just generally the attitude from the town halls

829
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 2: and everything. People are fucking they can see for themselves

830
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 2: that this is like affecting their day to day, like

831
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Speaker 2: whether it's people getting laid off, lack of prices coming down,

832
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Speaker 2: Dodge trucks going up, and the tens of thousands of

833
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 2: dollars overnight because of tariffs and shit like that, and

834
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 2: the polling all that rattled them because now the right

835
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 2: wing is just going so hard on telling people that

836
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Speaker 2: the tariffs that are fueling all this chaos are good.

837
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:45,799
Speaker 2: So just a couple let's just take a quick tour

838
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 2: of some of the takes from the right wing taka sphere.

839
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 2: This first one is from Laura Ingram, who is telling

840
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 2: her viewers to literally just ignore the talk about the economy.

841
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:01,359
Speaker 2: Just don't listen to it. Step one. This is Laura

842
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 2: Ingram explaining this is how you protect yourself from all

843
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:05,240
Speaker 2: the haters.

844
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Speaker 9: Isn't it great to have an optimistic president who had

845
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Speaker 9: a real plan to make life.

846
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Speaker 5: Better for Wall Street and Main Street?

847
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Speaker 9: Just ignore the sky is falling reports in the regime press.

848
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 1: June out the breathless reporting about.

849
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Speaker 5: Market gyrations because even the most dedicated globalists they know

850
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 5: Trump is good for business.

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00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 6: That was it's wildest to call the mainstream media the

852
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Speaker 6: regime regime. Yeah, you guys control the entire government right now.

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Speaker 1: You are the regime.

854
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry, Laura defined regime necessarily for me, Just

855
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 2: so I'm just so we're clear on that.

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Speaker 1: Sonore all the negative stuff the regime media is saying about,

857
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:52,360
Speaker 1: dear leader, Yes.

858
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:58,880
Speaker 2: Please find a new angle. Regime media again. And every

859
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,240
Speaker 2: version of someone on Fox has there. I think everyone's

860
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 2: got their own little spin on how to be like,

861
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Speaker 2: how do we get these people to fucking ignore the

862
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:09,439
Speaker 2: tariffs or try and spin the tariffs as good. This

863
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 2: is Greg Guttfeld doing his he's given the listeners or

864
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:16,879
Speaker 2: the viewers on Foxin's or the Five. This is Greg

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Speaker 2: Guttfeld's four dy chests on how to navigate tariffs.

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Speaker 9: You know, a tariff is not a tax if you

867
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 9: don't buy the goods. And I'm tired of the media

868
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:27,800
Speaker 9: calling the tariff a tax.

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Speaker 4: It's the opposite.

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Speaker 9: You know, a government issued tax is an involuntary cost

871
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 9: on you. You're paying for stuff that as a New

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Speaker 9: Yorker you don't benefit from.

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Speaker 4: I spent.

874
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 9: I pay a small fortune in taxes and I still

875
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:45,400
Speaker 9: have psychopaths.

876
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:48,200
Speaker 2: Living on my street. I have a roads that destroy the.

877
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 9: Car suspension, and I can't take the subway.

878
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 2: But I put more taxes than my dad tade in

879
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 2: his whole.

880
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 9: Life as an income. But it doesn't really matter. I'm

881
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:02,759
Speaker 9: gonna make she's so happy right now. You know what

882
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 9: causes inflation. I'm glaring at Harold DEI, oh uh, And Harold.

883
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,840
Speaker 1: Is the one person of color in the rest, exactly,

884
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 1: And he's glaring at Harold.

885
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 2: And then they're like he's joking. Haha, it's again whatever,

886
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 2: I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. But

887
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 2: that's so that's sick, dude, tight. So do you don't

888
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:25,839
Speaker 2: got to pay on the terraff if you just don't

889
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 2: buy like the fucking food, don't buy it. It's important

890
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:32,399
Speaker 2: all the shit that's important for American consumers. Like does

891
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 2: he have any idea how much we have to import

892
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 2: to this economy?

893
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:37,879
Speaker 1: Yeah?

894
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's also such just like a rich brain rot

895
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 6: thing of like I pay for the subway, but I

896
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 6: don't even use the subway. And it's like, do you

897
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 6: do you not use the subway because you live in

898
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 6: a gated community in Connecticut? Do you or know you

899
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:53,719
Speaker 6: live in New York? So okay, do you not use

900
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 6: the subway because you get driven everywhere?

901
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 2: Like that? I don't take the subway because people know

902
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 2: I'm a racist piece of shit and they front me

903
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 2: about it on the subway. And that's the fucking issue, right.

904
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:07,360
Speaker 2: I thought it'd be just another anonymous white guy in

905
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:11,400
Speaker 2: a Patagonia vest, but I'm not. But again, these things

906
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 2: are fucking tax hikes on consumers, Like he's looking at

907
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:16,840
Speaker 2: it again like the most overly simplistic way in that

908
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 2: he's saying, well, the higher prices will make a consumer

909
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 2: just want to buy the American stuff, and then that's

910
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 2: how it helps, you know, everybody get more America centric.

911
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,080
Speaker 2: But again, these taxes, we all know this. These are

912
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:32,279
Speaker 2: just passed on to the consumer, because since when is

913
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:35,759
Speaker 2: a fucking company a business telling us, oh, yeah, well

914
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 2: we'll totally make less money on this, and you know

915
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:39,959
Speaker 2: what will absorb the hit. We're not going to pass

916
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 2: that onto the consumer. That's not right.

917
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 6: We also, like America can't we can't feed our own

918
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,880
Speaker 6: people on the food we grow here. We have to

919
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 6: import food.

920
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 4: We have to.

921
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:52,800
Speaker 2: That's an optional.

922
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 1: You don't like potato chips made out of corn and

923
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:57,360
Speaker 1: hamburgers made of corn.

924
00:47:58,000 --> 00:47:59,879
Speaker 6: Nobody's saying anything bad about corn here.

925
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: It sounds like you don't like corn when the other

926
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:08,520
Speaker 1: countries have to raise their prices. Also, just like, based

927
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 1: on what we've seen from corporations in the past I

928
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 1: don't know, decade, like, it seems inevitable that the corporations

929
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:20,920
Speaker 1: are also the American corporations, even if they don't have to,

930
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 1: will raise their corporation raise their prices because they can,

931
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:28,399
Speaker 1: and like that's they raise their prices anytime they can,

932
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:32,600
Speaker 1: and so if the competition raises prices, they just raised

933
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:36,640
Speaker 1: their prices as well. That's basically what we've seen with inflation.

934
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:39,960
Speaker 1: Even though that that description puts a bunch of like

935
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 1: economists and you know, consultants out of out of work,

936
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:46,239
Speaker 1: so it's never the one that we get. But that

937
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:51,759
Speaker 1: seems to be what's happening. Yeah, Yeah, inflation across the

938
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: board for like, you know, as long as it's been

939
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 1: happening in the past five years, Like as inflation's happening,

940
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 1: corporations are making record profits like that that's all you

941
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: need to know. That's all you need to know. Like

942
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:06,719
Speaker 1: they they're making way more money than they've ever made

943
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:10,840
Speaker 1: and inflation is going up. Like those two things are related.

944
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:14,800
Speaker 1: I think we're making of profits. Are the ones raising

945
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:15,360
Speaker 1: the prices?

946
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember we were doing this as it was happening, Jack,

947
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:20,760
Speaker 2: Like we kind of stopped even trying to say inflation

948
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:23,360
Speaker 2: because that gave all these companies cover for their just

949
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 2: out in the open greed. Because there are many studies

950
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 2: you know that was like in twenty twenty three, like

951
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:33,680
Speaker 2: fifty corporate profits or something like half of the like

952
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:37,359
Speaker 2: driving force of inflation. It wasn't actual supply the shit

953
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 2: that they tried to tell us in the like twenty

954
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:41,360
Speaker 2: twenty twenty twenty one. At a certain points, it's like

955
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 2: fuck it, bro, just keep turning to the fucking heat. Upeah.

956
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:46,279
Speaker 6: But anyways, I think sorry, I think egg prices are

957
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:48,799
Speaker 6: a really good microcosm of this because, like, we know,

958
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 6: there's bird flu that's like being reported on genuine public

959
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:56,360
Speaker 6: health like threat but also killing all the chickens. But

960
00:49:56,520 --> 00:50:00,839
Speaker 6: there are egg conglomerates whose farms have not been hit

961
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:03,960
Speaker 6: by bird flu who are raising their prices because they

962
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 6: can because everybody knows bird flu is out there and

963
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 6: will accept higher prices. Like it's a market economy, which

964
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:14,839
Speaker 6: but it's a market economy run by conglomerates that are

965
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:19,640
Speaker 6: essentially monopolies. So they get to price hike when they

966
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 6: can get away with it.

967
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 2: Man, it's like, oh yeah, we're like just you know,

968
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:25,359
Speaker 2: we are forty percent of the companies, just this one.

969
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:29,839
Speaker 2: It'll it'll look it looks different because the boxes are different. Yeah,

970
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 2: we do different boxes, and so it simply options. But

971
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:36,800
Speaker 2: then this whole idea of the tariffs as tykes tax

972
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:39,919
Speaker 2: hike has come up because you know Caroline Levitt, who's

973
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:44,400
Speaker 2: the terrible Press secretary of the White House, she was

974
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 2: pressed by the Associated Press during a briefing on this

975
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 2: and she just goes like, oh man, she just just

976
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:54,800
Speaker 2: spins herself into circles, being like, these are not tax

977
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 2: hikes on American people. Just because the prices go up

978
00:50:57,640 --> 00:50:59,399
Speaker 2: doesn't mean it's a taxi. I mean, this is her

979
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 2: getting very, very defensive over the definition of a tariff

980
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 2: or taxi, and it gets a little snippy. Let's see

981
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:07,360
Speaker 2: this actually.

982
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:11,279
Speaker 10: Not implementing tax hikes. Tariffs are a tax hike on

983
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 10: foreign countries that again have been ripping us off. Tariffs

984
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:17,239
Speaker 10: are a tax cut for the American people. And the

985
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 10: President is a staunch advocate of tax cuts. As you know.

986
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:24,880
Speaker 10: He campaigned on no taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime,

987
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:28,239
Speaker 10: no taxes on Social Security benefits. He is committed to

988
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:30,960
Speaker 10: all three of those things, and he expects Congress to

989
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 10: pass them later this year.

990
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:34,360
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, have you ever paid a tariff? Because I have,

991
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 2: don't get charged on four.

992
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 10: And ultimately, when we have fair and balanced train, which

993
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:45,400
Speaker 10: the American people have not seen in decades, as I

994
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 10: said at the beginning, revenues will stay here, wages will

995
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,600
Speaker 10: go up, and our country will be made wealthy again.

996
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 10: And I think it's insulting that you're trying to test

997
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 10: my knowledge of economics and the decisions that this president

998
00:51:58,160 --> 00:51:58,800
Speaker 10: has made.

999
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 2: Wow, I mean, Caroline, let's keep it a book, my darling.

1000
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:08,839
Speaker 2: You don't know what it is. But I like though

1001
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:11,799
Speaker 2: that you do the I think it's insulting that you're

1002
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:14,759
Speaker 2: like calling me out and just broadly act as if

1003
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:17,240
Speaker 2: what you said was correct on any planet.

1004
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:22,240
Speaker 1: She is not incorrect. It is insulting. It just happens

1005
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:22,960
Speaker 1: to be accurate.

1006
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 2: And also, yeah, right, have you ever paid it? I

1007
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:30,640
Speaker 2: love it that reporter. It's like, I'm sorry, have you

1008
00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:32,319
Speaker 2: even paid a tariff? Do we even?

1009
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 1: Like?

1010
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:34,719
Speaker 2: What the fuck are we even talking about here? That

1011
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 2: guy sucks too, though.

1012
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:37,840
Speaker 6: It's like kind of a perfect It's like, I'm not

1013
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 6: I agree with what he's saying, Like his content of

1014
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 6: what he's saying is correct, but I'm like, the way

1015
00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 6: you're saying this sucks.

1016
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:48,760
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1017
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:55,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well that is the problem with the mainstream importing

1018
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 1: a bunch of phrase T shirts that I'm going to

1019
00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:00,920
Speaker 1: be selling outside of Coachella tariff.

1020
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:04,239
Speaker 2: I paid it now. It's funny this exact quote. This

1021
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:07,080
Speaker 2: is like basically not everyone is in agreement over like

1022
00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 2: if these tariffs are good, Because this is Ben Shapiro,

1023
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 2: he is not. He's like, well, yo, what the heck

1024
00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:15,879
Speaker 2: is going on? Full like, please explain what the fuck

1025
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 2: is happening. Here's a clip of Ben Shapiro from his show.

1026
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 2: This is him reacting to that Caroline Lovett exchange with

1027
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 2: the Associated Press.

1028
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,920
Speaker 11: Again, I'm gonna need some clarification as to how this

1029
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:28,239
Speaker 11: is actually going to in the short term, medium and

1030
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 11: long term benefit Americans. We can talk about other countries

1031
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:34,279
Speaker 11: ripping us off as much as we want. And again,

1032
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:36,879
Speaker 11: if the goal here is to lower the tariffs by

1033
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:41,399
Speaker 11: getting other countries to lower their tariffs, then great, I'm

1034
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:43,759
Speaker 11: all in makes sense. But if the idea is the

1035
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:46,360
Speaker 11: tariffs themselves, wo enrich the American people, that is against

1036
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 11: pretty much all economic knowledge for the last couple of

1037
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:50,760
Speaker 11: centuries or so.

1038
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 4: So maybe I'm wrong, Maybe it'll turn out to be great.

1039
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 2: I think he goes like he even like it's somehow it's

1040
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:01,759
Speaker 2: a bridge. Maybe are it's a bridge too far from you?

1041
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 2: Because I bet this guy's stock portfolio almost look like

1042
00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:09,479
Speaker 2: deep fried dog shit. If he's like, I don't know what,

1043
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 2: what's the fucking deal here, Like, explain it to me

1044
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 2: because I'm not feeling it right now. I don't like

1045
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:16,879
Speaker 2: what I'm seeing because a lot of people show all

1046
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 2: the gains that have been made in a lot on

1047
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:20,560
Speaker 2: most of the stock markets since Trump came in office

1048
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:24,480
Speaker 2: have been erased from all of the tariff bullshit. So

1049
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:27,880
Speaker 2: that's who I feel with the worst for all those gains.

1050
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:33,400
Speaker 6: Jack, Yeah, what's that onion headline that's so good? Or no,

1051
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 6: it's a Jezebel headliner or no, not god, I don't know.

1052
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:39,680
Speaker 6: It's a headline that's like, uh yeah, it's a reductrous

1053
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:42,880
Speaker 6: headline that is like, oh, no, worst person you know

1054
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 6: just made a good point?

1055
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 2: Yeah right right right exactly. Yeah for him to be like,

1056
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:50,480
Speaker 2: I just what the just again, they're throwing their hands up,

1057
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 2: and I think this is this is going to continue

1058
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:54,319
Speaker 2: to be a nightmare for the Republicans because it's one

1059
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 2: thing to tell a person like in Kentucky that the

1060
00:54:57,040 --> 00:55:00,920
Speaker 2: southern border is a hellscape and that immigrants thousands of

1061
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:04,640
Speaker 2: miles away are doing dog buffets on the locals, because

1062
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 2: that's like an obscure and nebulous threat that they can

1063
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:09,640
Speaker 2: just sort of create in someone's mind in the theater

1064
00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:12,520
Speaker 2: of the imagination. But is it completely different endeavor to

1065
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:15,399
Speaker 2: tell someone that is seeing the prices not come down

1066
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 2: at their local stores, that is seeing their retirement go

1067
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 2: fucking wacky because it's tied to the stock market, that

1068
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:24,799
Speaker 2: the reality that they are experiencing is not what they

1069
00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:26,960
Speaker 2: are in fact experiencing. And I think that's just you're

1070
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:30,719
Speaker 2: just seeing them really fucking grapple with this. And there's

1071
00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:34,120
Speaker 2: plenty of true believers who don't, who are completely disconnected

1072
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:37,040
Speaker 2: from that. But you can see not everybody is quite

1073
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:41,640
Speaker 2: on board with this, especially the capitalists who their life's

1074
00:55:41,640 --> 00:55:44,480
Speaker 2: blood is the fucking market and that is, you know,

1075
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:46,680
Speaker 2: that's not doing the thing that it needs to be doing.

1076
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:50,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, that seems pretty clear. Sorry, I was distracted. I

1077
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:55,080
Speaker 1: was working on something. The Italian magician made the bench Disapiro,

1078
00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:59,320
Speaker 1: and then for the prestige he made the bench Shapiro. Oh,

1079
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 1: bench Hero. Wow, that's what I've been working on over here.

1080
00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:05,799
Speaker 2: How dare you.

1081
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:11,600
Speaker 1: Just the way you're saying his name, like bench.

1082
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:13,960
Speaker 2: Bench Shapiro, your bench Shapiro.

1083
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:17,279
Speaker 1: Bench Shapiro. You know, the bench disappeared and that is

1084
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:23,839
Speaker 1: a Piro. So you're, well, you got that, Kate, did

1085
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 1: you get that?

1086
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:28,960
Speaker 6: Like I'm still processing yeah, yeah.

1087
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:32,080
Speaker 1: To think exactly.

1088
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Speaker 2: It's like the movie The Prestige.

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Speaker 1: Right, damn though, so tight.

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Speaker 6: Wow, Wheeler's man.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist.

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Speaker 1: Please like and review the show if you like, The

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Speaker 1: show means the world to Miles. He he needs your validation, folks.

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Speaker 1: I hope you're having a great weekend and I will

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Speaker 1: talk to him Monday. Bye.