Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from
Speaker 1: this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza. Yeah, so,
Speaker 1: without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Miles were
Speaker 1: thrilled to be joined in their third seat by a
Speaker 1: hilarious comedian who's about to make her off Broadway debut
Speaker 1: with their stand up show How to Embarrass Your Immigrant Parents.
Speaker 1: She's also the creator of Emily and Paris.
Speaker 2: It's Abby govern d.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Hey guys, I'm so excited to be here.
Speaker 2: Not the creator of Emily Paris.
Speaker 3: That was just a massive good information campaign, man, that
Speaker 3: was extremely successful.
Speaker 1: So what happened you After Emily and Paris was somehow
Speaker 1: nominated for Best Comedy Series at the Golden Globes, you
Speaker 1: just were like, hell, yeah, I created the best Comedy
Speaker 1: series and like started saying some wild shit about Emily
Speaker 1: in Paris And this was the tweet February. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was twenty.
Speaker 3: The original te viral was like, as the creator of
Speaker 3: Emaly in Paris, can I just say why the fuck
Speaker 3: were we nominated for a Golden Glove?
Speaker 2: Can I curse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, why were we nominated for Golden Globe? I
Speaker 3: made that show as a prank and then like several
Speaker 3: news that lets like tweeted it as if it was real,
Speaker 3: and I got reached out to by like the BBC.
Speaker 3: I talked about it in my solo show. Actually it's
Speaker 3: a lot of fun, and it was a lot of fun,
Speaker 3: Like it was a very fun month that that went viral.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were like, oh, so you made it as
Speaker 1: a prank. Whoa, Yeah, so sick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like got back to the past and the
Speaker 3: crew and the actual creator. It was insane, like it's
Speaker 3: it is really funny. I was like twenty two and
Speaker 3: living with my parents when this went viral. It was
Speaker 3: in like twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: One is on the phone?
Speaker 2: Yeah then that's it.
Speaker 3: It was just like this show is so bad that
Speaker 3: people earnestly thought that like some twenty three year old
Speaker 3: who lives with her parents like made the show. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was really it was a fun time to be
Speaker 3: on the internet. It was it was like free posts woke,
Speaker 3: like it was fun to still be on the internet.
Speaker 3: Like being racist still had consequences in twenty twenty one days.
Speaker 1: Remember that vaguely now now.
Speaker 3: Like if you're racist on the internet, they hand you
Speaker 3: like a two hundred million dollars podcast deal and like
Speaker 3: a TV series. Back in my day, as when at
Speaker 3: the peak of woke, there used to still be consequences
Speaker 3: for being racist.
Speaker 1: And that's fun. Yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 3: You tweeted a slur and people would like tweet out
Speaker 3: your home address and like text your high school and like,
Speaker 3: you know, make sure make sure you didn't get hired
Speaker 3: for work for another decade. Now, like you tweet out
Speaker 3: a slur, you get a million followers and a podcast deal.
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Like, hey, man, do you want to
Speaker 2: be the new face of Black Rifle Coffee? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, literally why not?
Speaker 2: I just like that one of the tweets that you
Speaker 2: did in that sort of string of the Emily and
Speaker 2: Paris of Yes, I am an Indian woman who created
Speaker 2: a show about a white girl in Paris. Why would
Speaker 2: I care about telling diverse stories when I can tell
Speaker 2: not diverse stories and make twenty million dollars from it.
Speaker 4: You guys did your research. This is hilarious.
Speaker 1: Is so funny. What is something for your search history?
Speaker 4: Something for my search history? How to give a dog
Speaker 4: a massage. I was thinking recently where I'm like, so
Speaker 4: you pet dogs, you cuddle dogs. Yeah, But I'm like,
Speaker 4: I bet they would want a massage too, especially as
Speaker 4: they get older and like their joints get, you know,
Speaker 4: start to hurt. And I googled how to give a
Speaker 4: dog a massage? And the video it was, I believe
Speaker 4: it or not, really fucking weird. So I I'm personally
Speaker 4: taking my foot off because the dogs up for it.
Speaker 4: You're like, what the Oh my god, no, but I'm
Speaker 4: sure that exists. I want to think about that's the natural.
Speaker 4: Next next they put on like the music, and it
Speaker 4: was more like rubbing than like kneading, you know, And
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, I just want to give my dog
Speaker 4: like a little bit of a you know, some squeezes
Speaker 4: in the shoulders and the haunches and you know, pat
Speaker 4: him on the head is kind of what I was
Speaker 4: more looking for. But this was a whole, a whole
Speaker 4: fucking thing. So I think there's different degrees.
Speaker 2: Where'd you net out? Like what you so, what kind
Speaker 2: of service did you put?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Reiki? It was.
Speaker 4: It was a combination between a reiki and like a
Speaker 4: light tissue.
Speaker 2: I do that to my dog though, because I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: come on, man, you what you've had a heart? Like,
Speaker 2: I do the same thing mentally to my dog, thinking like, yeah,
Speaker 2: they'll like this, but I just kind of I saw
Speaker 2: like the neck because I'm like, well, they hold their
Speaker 2: necks up all the time, so I just kind of
Speaker 2: like just just work out those neck muscles and not
Speaker 2: in a way where I'm like is the pressure good,
Speaker 2: more just to be like here is soothing touch on
Speaker 2: your neck muscles? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah. I feel like I wanted to do that to
Speaker 1: my dogs and they just never fucked with it. They
Speaker 1: just wanted like little scratches. Oh they're doing thing like this,
Speaker 1: Just what the fuck is this?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we all have our preferences as dogs. And speaking
Speaker 4: of the Reki thing, my now wife and I were
Speaker 4: like in Lake Arrowhead, which doesn't matter where we were,
Speaker 4: but it was for Valentine's Day and then we were
Speaker 4: like kind of hanging out after the dinner. So she
Speaker 4: like checked her phone real quick to make sure our
Speaker 4: dog was okay and had like a bunch of messages
Speaker 4: and her wrote or hour Rover wanted to give him
Speaker 4: energy healing like from wow, like and she was like
Speaker 4: oh wait, that won't hurt him, right, And then fifty
Speaker 4: minutes later she just like, I'm like, you're worse than
Speaker 4: this lady is, because like she's like, what tell us
Speaker 4: about his trauma? Like insinuating that there was drama. She's like,
Speaker 4: he can't be around skateboards. She may have been neutered
Speaker 4: like two weeks too early or something, And I'm like,
Speaker 4: what are you doing?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a real people.
Speaker 2: Do your dog a scorpio?
Speaker 1: Then?
Speaker 4: Actually yea, yeah, he's a scorpio for sure scorpio.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that dog is such a scorpio.
Speaker 4: Scorp If you be like I don't know what month
Speaker 4: that is, I'm with you.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 4: I have no tolerance for it. I hate the sky.
Speaker 1: Anything, clouds, stars them all the sun, not Drune, not Drun,
Speaker 1: They're cool. Those are Angel had a nice conversation with
Speaker 1: h with some people with a drone podcast that we
Speaker 1: might have to have on this show. That'd be sick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just how to fly him showing some sick footage that
Speaker 1: they caught.
Speaker 2: Damn you shot this in one take going through a
Speaker 2: sushi restaurant. That's sick.
Speaker 1: What is something you think is underrated? Underrated.
Speaker 5: Again going to the text stuff, I really think that
Speaker 5: open source software, Linux, the decentralized web, the feti verse, Mastodon,
Speaker 5: pixel fed, some of these these things that cannot be
Speaker 5: purchased by billionaires where there is like an actual community
Speaker 5: that's not just aggregated out of an algorithm to you
Speaker 5: and proliferated with ads.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how it all.
Speaker 5: So Blue Sky is on an open protocol and these
Speaker 5: things I don't fully understand completely. The the fetti verse
Speaker 5: is on the activity pub protocol, which is the equivalent
Speaker 5: of you know how your email can reach every other
Speaker 5: email account. You could send from AOL to Gmail to
Speaker 5: proton or whatever, so you can you can follow people
Speaker 5: through different and interact with people through different social sites.
Speaker 5: So like of pixel fed hashtag, you could follow it
Speaker 5: through masted on or peer tube, which is like their
Speaker 5: version of YouTube. So it's it's more it's reliant on
Speaker 5: like donations and people chipping in and help me, but
Speaker 5: it's also people volunteer and just run servers and so
Speaker 5: it's a little more socialized. So it's it's not impenetrable,
Speaker 5: but it's certainly a little more insulated from getting billionaireed,
Speaker 5: getting musked, you know, having what happened to Twitter.
Speaker 2: Getting made awesome?
Speaker 1: You mean, getting just so good. It's like it's like
Speaker 1: X on steroids. Dude. You go down By Southwest? Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh man, we're we're down at south By Southwest during
Speaker 1: like the interactive part where like all these people with
Speaker 1: like pink lanyards are just like walking around with just
Speaker 1: the hungriest eyes trying trying to make eye contact with you.
Speaker 1: To you, guys, ask you what you think about AI
Speaker 1: and this new corporate landscape.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say that is something that's overrated. I'm
Speaker 5: so sick of that, like being perpetuated as though. I mean,
Speaker 5: when you start a community, you have a town of
Speaker 5: have you ever driven through a small town there's like
Speaker 5: fifty people, you know, like they have a post office.
Speaker 5: You're like, how the fuck are they doing this? And
Speaker 5: they're basically all just trading around a million dollars. Maybe
Speaker 5: they're happy with it. And then to get to get bigger,
Speaker 5: you have to like create this new horizon, new landscape.
Speaker 5: So you're developing, you're growing, you're growing, and I think
Speaker 5: they've kind of run out.
Speaker 1: They've sold us on.
Speaker 5: This idea that it's just gonna keep going and AI
Speaker 5: is the next frontier and we're going to create so
Speaker 5: many jobs. And then today Google just laid off a
Speaker 5: ton of people. Their last quarter earnings were like twenty
Speaker 5: six billion dollars. I mean, get out of here. None
Speaker 5: of that shit has with.
Speaker 2: Stock performance, Dave, do you see the stock performance? That's yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what I care about.
Speaker 1: The shareholders, bless their hearts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, jobs, shit, it's not because a trump FuG in
Speaker 2: the economy will just fire these people to keep our
Speaker 2: stock price up. Good, good, good.
Speaker 1: These layoffs are going to put their stock price on steroids. Man,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be like Google stock on steroids. Talk about
Speaker 1: putting things on steroids. I feel like, yeah, the idea
Speaker 1: that everything needs to grow forever and ever is like
Speaker 1: I remember that when we started the website cracked and
Speaker 1: like we were like growing and we were like, man,
Speaker 1: this is like a good size for this, Like we
Speaker 1: have a good team, we have like a good amount
Speaker 1: of like let's just like chill here for a little bit,
Speaker 1: just get good, get good and better at like what
Speaker 1: we're currently doing well. And like telling that to the
Speaker 1: parent company that owned us, they're like, no, how do
Speaker 1: you how do you scale on steroidal How we put
Speaker 1: this bad boy on steroids? Dude? You know?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: So you guys are like doing way better than we
Speaker 1: ever thought was possible. How do we one hundred x that?
Speaker 1: What talking about? How do I one hundred XU by
Speaker 1: next year? That's the question. I need you eating, breathing, sleeping.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think when that is your entire civilizations
Speaker 1: like DNA for a number of years, it's gonna it's
Speaker 1: gonna lead to weird, weird places. And I would say
Speaker 1: we're in weird places right now. And just how refreshing
Speaker 1: the idea of a small town where everybody's just trading
Speaker 1: around the same million dollars sounds to me right now
Speaker 1: is probably probably a problem. Probably suggests that there's something
Speaker 1: at large that's not not quite right with.
Speaker 5: I think everyone feels it to some degree, though, because
Speaker 5: I think that people do. I've been trying to, like
Speaker 5: I think of how when self help books come out,
Speaker 5: or when people like have a ted talk and they'll
Speaker 5: do some little like snippet or phrase a little axiom
Speaker 5: they have Mine lately is like mayke a little bit harder.
Speaker 5: And I think of like like two thousand five to
Speaker 5: Tenich when all this tech stuff was just kind of
Speaker 5: starting and going back to there and like, all right,
Speaker 5: it clearly blew out of proportion and made trillionaires and
Speaker 5: they don't give a shit about anyone else, and this
Speaker 5: wealth disparity is nuts, and people do miss that idea
Speaker 5: of like wait, wait, there are way more businesses like
Speaker 5: you could see brick and mortar businesses. Did everything have
Speaker 5: to get appified? Did I I mean, we all hated
Speaker 5: Blockbuster Video. We all hated like walking in there and
Speaker 5: getting the late fees because you couldn't drive over when
Speaker 5: you were sick to return your thing, and that that
Speaker 5: was a bad version of how they did it. But
Speaker 5: then you think of I used to like call ahead
Speaker 5: to a restaurant and go pick stuff up. I didn't
Speaker 5: have to have like a car service swing by and
Speaker 5: grab it for me, and everything getting appified on that level,
Speaker 5: like every delivery, you get everything being like I'm just
Speaker 5: at my computer all the time and like life is
Speaker 5: coming to me from these apps I use.
Speaker 2: And I mean there's still an advantage in calling a
Speaker 2: restaurant because a lot of the times they changed their
Speaker 2: prices for those apps. So yeah, it's funny when I
Speaker 2: look in like my phone book that has been like
Speaker 2: based in like you know, like Google calendar or whatever
Speaker 2: for like years, like all of the numbers that I have,
Speaker 2: and there's so many our restaurants that I used to
Speaker 2: just call up straight up and just make my order
Speaker 2: and then go pick up. And like, as I scroll through,
Speaker 2: I'm like, damn, I don't he's just that shit is gone.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So if we've tried to get back into that
Speaker 5: and just little things like make it a little bit
Speaker 5: harder and just going back to kind of a two
Speaker 5: thousand and eight sort of Yeah, I can call and
Speaker 5: swing by. It feels it feels a little more like
Speaker 5: that little town as opposed to like living in this
Speaker 5: gigantic future world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, giant hive mind? Where what content are you going
Speaker 1: to contribute to the giant hive mind? And yeah, they
Speaker 1: just removed all the friction from everything, which is what
Speaker 1: we thought we wanted, right, Like It's what like even
Speaker 1: now when I like wake up, I'm like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: like I have to see people today like that. I
Speaker 1: don't want to do that, Like I don't want to
Speaker 1: you know. The stuff that I'm not looking forward to
Speaker 1: is the friction but then that turns out to introspect
Speaker 1: be like the best parts of life. That was the
Speaker 1: texture that was exactly that was, oh you mean life.
Speaker 1: They just removed all of the contouring and different.
Speaker 2: I don't want to see anybody day so like in
Speaker 2: that version of the ideal world just being in some
Speaker 2: like matrix style pop or it's I just take my
Speaker 2: body heat and run the computer.
Speaker 1: But I feel like that's that's how I view think,
Speaker 1: Like what at my worst moment where I'm just like
Speaker 1: I just don't want to like risk anything. I don't
Speaker 1: want to you know, it's just my laziest, worst inclination,
Speaker 1: and it always like I I now know that that's
Speaker 1: the wrong instinct, Like I need to fight against that instinct.
Speaker 1: But I feel like they have used that instinct to
Speaker 1: just make our lives more and more closer and closer
Speaker 1: to the just being.
Speaker 2: Getting out of bed. Look what happened? You got to
Speaker 2: eat salad pot pie?
Speaker 1: That's had a salad in Texas? Were salad pot pie
Speaker 1: in Miles Term? Okay, what's something you thinks overrated?
Speaker 6: I feel like I'm gonna get haters for this, but
Speaker 6: I think seeing a movie in theaters is overrated.
Speaker 1: Wow, and now the show is over. Thanks well having.
Speaker 6: Yep, Like I think it's important. I think people should
Speaker 6: do it, like that should exist. I just don't like
Speaker 6: it very much. I to be on my couch.
Speaker 2: Were you always like anti theater? Like and then the
Speaker 2: with the everything coming on stream You're like, okay, thank you,
Speaker 2: now I'm winning, or you just know I was post
Speaker 2: together You're like, oh, yeah, I prefer couch.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think it was working like co founding and being
Speaker 6: inside a basement theater like fourteen hours a day. I like,
Speaker 6: what I want to do for fun is not go
Speaker 6: be in another dark room, right, and then the pandemic
Speaker 6: and everything coming on streaming, Like when you when you
Speaker 6: had to go to a movie theater and that was
Speaker 6: the only way you could like see a new movie
Speaker 6: and you would make it a big thing and go
Speaker 6: with friends Like that was great. I liked that, But
Speaker 6: now that you have the option, I'm like, why would
Speaker 6: I do that? I want to be at home on
Speaker 6: my couch with my snacks and not pay a bunch
Speaker 6: of money for.
Speaker 1: Do you do people come over watch movie or you
Speaker 1: just yeah, that's yeah, it's nice, that's like a yeah,
Speaker 1: I do think I was underrating movie nights at home,
Speaker 1: Like for for a while, movie movie nights at home,
Speaker 1: make your own popcorn, like you know that that can be, but.
Speaker 2: I haven't done. We need to do the thing where
Speaker 2: people I haven't done the thing where people come over
Speaker 2: to watch a movie since like the days when I
Speaker 2: was getting screeners all the time, and that was like yo,
Speaker 2: they got fucking blah blah blah. I am legend we
Speaker 2: could watch that shit right now or whatever. But I
Speaker 2: do miss that actually, like that aspect of it I
Speaker 2: think would be fun rather than like, oh, I'm at home,
Speaker 2: I can watch this movie that's in the theater. Make
Speaker 2: it a thing to get together and we can.
Speaker 6: I also during the pandemic, we would do because when
Speaker 6: we were seeing movies and theaters all the time, there
Speaker 6: would be certain people I would go with to see
Speaker 6: certain movies, Like there were a couple of friends I
Speaker 6: always went to see the like King Kong and Godzilla movies,
Speaker 6: the new ones.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And so one of.
Speaker 6: Those came out in like twenty twenty one, and we
Speaker 6: did it over like FaceTime. We streamed it together over FaceTime.
Speaker 6: And then we also, like my husband and I have
Speaker 6: a National Theater membership, like where you can they have
Speaker 6: like recorded from the National Theater in London. They have
Speaker 6: recorded shows like Shakespeare's shows like Classic Theater and you
Speaker 6: that you could just like watch it like it's a movie.
Speaker 6: And so having people over to do that is really
Speaker 6: fun too, because it's a little cultury. But you're still
Speaker 6: at home on your couch and you don't have to
Speaker 6: like get dressed up and go out. You could just
Speaker 6: like watch a Shakespeare thing and then pause it and
Speaker 6: be like what, yeah, what.
Speaker 1: I have to look at? Um? Like, can we put
Speaker 1: the subtitles on? Actually this isn't helping right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Did he propose to her? Or is he going to
Speaker 2: murder her? Right now?
Speaker 1: I know it's a joke, but how is it addiction?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Right?
Speaker 1: Man? That actors seemed to really enjoy delivering that. I
Speaker 1: just don't know what it meant.
Speaker 4: That's more.
Speaker 6: That's so much more fun with friends when you're allowed
Speaker 6: to talk, right man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when I'm in a Shakespeare's show, I'm always laughing
Speaker 1: at the wrong part, like they did one Hamlet to
Speaker 1: Be or Not to Be? I think it's funny. I
Speaker 1: think it's a funny question.
Speaker 2: Hey, y'all down to see Macbeth right now. Don't say
Speaker 2: that this.
Speaker 1: By the way, Hamlet would have been called skull guy
Speaker 1: if it was on television. Talker.
Speaker 4: That was just ghost writer.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break and we will
Speaker 1: be right back.
Speaker 2: And we're back. We're back, dude, We're back, dude.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm always I've always got the stock
Speaker 1: app up on my smart smartphone device and just Pokemon go, dude.
Speaker 1: All right, so I have Pokemon Go up. But like
Speaker 1: in many ways, Pokemon Go, like can teach you a
Speaker 1: lot about the stock market, but I just I just
Speaker 1: live and die with that thing with the stockmanker. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm like everyone does. How's that freaking Nasdac doing?
Speaker 2: Dude?
Speaker 1: You know it's some p five hondo.
Speaker 2: Dude, just focus on the p the pepper because it
Speaker 2: stays grinding and.
Speaker 1: Pepper five hundred. Is that what it tell me that
Speaker 1: I'd like? Or yeah, it's uh something, But.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, this the line goeth downward, and you know,
Speaker 2: Trump continues to sort of make good on his promise
Speaker 2: to make the country as fucked up as possible, and
Speaker 2: he's had to deal with not only outrage from his voters,
Speaker 2: but also the oligarch homies and the hyper wealthy buddies
Speaker 2: because they do not like when stalks go down and
Speaker 2: the Dow continues to move in the wrong direction. And
Speaker 2: all Trump did on Monday just to try and like
Speaker 2: fucking help out like kind of steady things. Was he
Speaker 2: posted like over like one hundred times in six hours
Speaker 2: on truth social just anything.
Speaker 1: Did he really?
Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, it was fucking wild. It was just ship
Speaker 2: like retweeting articles that were like Trump's doing good, like
Speaker 2: just this weird thing. He's like, let me just tweet
Speaker 2: out all the name.
Speaker 1: The first administration, having like a sense memory of like
Speaker 1: when things start going bad, he just like starts retweeting
Speaker 1: things compulsively.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's yeah right. It's like basically if a restaurant
Speaker 2: had like an account and they just started reposting their
Speaker 2: five star reviews when they're in the middle of like
Speaker 2: a racism controversy, they're like, but look at this one.
Speaker 2: Linda from Mission Viejo loved the penne But anyway, so
Speaker 2: now this has like become a huge thing with everyone
Speaker 2: talking from Fox News to the Wall Street Journal being
Speaker 2: like this is actually bad, Like I don't know what
Speaker 2: the fuck's going on like this because so many of
Speaker 2: these people are there's money, he's tied up in the
Speaker 2: stock market. They're like, what the fuck is like, now
Speaker 2: we're getting touched. Now the fuck is going on?
Speaker 1: So now it is the big you know, you don't
Speaker 1: see it until it starts fucking touches money. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, the media class is like,
Speaker 1: wait a second, this hold on, this seems bad. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The way I still stay wealthy is now being is
Speaker 2: now in jeopardy because of this guy. And now it's
Speaker 2: time for the media and Trump's lackey's to sort of
Speaker 2: tell the people why the chaos is good. There's one
Speaker 2: that I particularly sticks out to me, this guy Rob Schmidt,
Speaker 2: who's on Newsmax and one of their stupidest Like and
Speaker 2: that's that's an achievement to be one of their dumbest
Speaker 2: people on Newsmax. But yeah, this is he tweeted this
Speaker 2: out just to try and tell people to fucking chill
Speaker 2: the fuck out.
Speaker 1: Quote.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Dow is plunging. This is happening because we
Speaker 2: have a president with the balls globalist economic agenda that's
Speaker 2: decimated American wages and quality of life. This is the
Speaker 2: pain that comes from real change. It's much easier to
Speaker 2: just pass the buck. So, yeah, Trump's balls are giving
Speaker 2: you pain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, it's good. They're two big miles. I've
Speaker 1: been saying that they're so big. His smoke too, He
Speaker 1: smoked too tough. His ball's too big. I look, I
Speaker 1: don't give too much of a ship when the stock
Speaker 1: market is doing well, because that money is just getting
Speaker 1: funneled upward to corporations and like you know, they use
Speaker 1: it to do stock buybacks. But when the economy takes
Speaker 1: an absolute shit like, that's when trickle down economics actually
Speaker 1: becomes a thing.
Speaker 2: That's what it is.
Speaker 1: That, Yeah, that trickles down on all of us. And
Speaker 1: when the stock mark goes down, Yeah, corporations are suddenly like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we've got we're facing headwinds. We've got to start firing people.
Speaker 1: When it goes up. Yeah, they just keep that money
Speaker 1: for themselves. So it's a real win win for like
Speaker 1: five people and lose lose for everyone else. But it's
Speaker 1: also a little thrilling when this happens, because it does
Speaker 1: seem to be the only thing that matters to this
Speaker 1: country in terms of who gets to wheel power is
Speaker 1: right when the stock fuck the money up, Yeah, don't
Speaker 1: fuck the money like that, keep the stock market on
Speaker 1: the rails so that the wealthy people and the wealthy
Speaker 1: corporations that drive everything forward. I wouldn't say progress, but
Speaker 1: like everything else, like keep the wheels of power emotion,
Speaker 1: like all that needs the money to go forward. But
Speaker 1: like the Democratic Party only really exists because they cater
Speaker 1: to keeping that whole, like the you know, the capital
Speaker 1: e economy. That's what like they sacrificed, Like that's what
Speaker 1: Obama sacrificed the hope and change message for when he
Speaker 1: like bailed out the Wall Street banks. It's you know
Speaker 1: why Bernie was not allowed to win against Hillary. And
Speaker 1: then I think like internalized Wall Street journal op eds
Speaker 1: caused Democratic voters to think Biden was the only real
Speaker 1: option in twenty twenty. But it also feels like the
Speaker 1: thing that could be the Jenga block that could cause
Speaker 1: this second administration to really fall apart, you know, like Trump,
Speaker 1: so Trump, Like there there definitely seems to be like
Speaker 1: more pop cultures support for Trump this time around. I
Speaker 1: just found out Tiger Woods like openly endorses Donald Joses.
Speaker 2: Trump said he was the tiger Woods of presidents right
Speaker 2: during that course, during spree here stupid.
Speaker 1: There's all sorts of rappers who are endorsing him in
Speaker 1: a way that I find troubling. The real buy in
Speaker 1: that it's important though that he had the first time
Speaker 1: around that he might stop having this time is Wall
Speaker 1: Street and the massive corporations like and you know, all
Speaker 1: of his like radical. We do things a little different
Speaker 1: around here. We serve things top us style. We cut
Speaker 1: all government programs and policies. If that fucks up the
Speaker 1: money of Wall Street and like the big e economy.
Speaker 1: I do feel like that's a thing that might make
Speaker 1: this second administration like a little bit interesting. Yeah, it might.
Speaker 1: It might start to the deep state might start really
Speaker 1: deep stating on his ass in a way that might
Speaker 1: make things pretty difficult for him. Otherwise, he's just going
Speaker 1: to keep you know, he'll be fine.
Speaker 4: And these corporations and big money people, they love predictability.
Speaker 4: They like to be able to predict how much money
Speaker 4: is going to come in. And when you have a
Speaker 4: guy making decisions even though his balls are so fucking big.
Speaker 1: It's one thing they didn't take into a complica. As
Speaker 1: they all back as they're like, I don't know, man, Like,
Speaker 1: let's just go full Trump. Let's I'm saying, all it's
Speaker 1: a ball market.
Speaker 4: That's rights is surging, dude, the nas sack?
Speaker 1: Oh man, yeah, yes, so one thing we do know
Speaker 1: about Trump ginormous sack.
Speaker 4: And ball's tiny, little bit tiny. But who needs one
Speaker 4: when you got one?
Speaker 2: You got we love We love potatoes around here, don't we.
Speaker 1: That's right? But yeah, I I I feel like it's
Speaker 1: it might just go in a different direction for him.
Speaker 1: Well it's I mean, it's clear that anytime keeps up,
Speaker 1: anytime someone comes in and disrupts the economy or like
Speaker 1: at least the status quo or talks about it, it
Speaker 1: it uses there the forces tend to sort of circle
Speaker 1: around to try and like purge it from the system.
Speaker 1: But I think in this time, because Trump comes in
Speaker 1: with such pro business speak, they're just having trouble wrapping
Speaker 1: their head around the fact that this guy is also
Speaker 1: absolutely rocking the boat, like in the most fucked up way,
Speaker 1: and they're like, wait, what, wait, where are all of
Speaker 1: our capital protecting instincts now or have they gone out
Speaker 1: the window as they try and because now it's just
Speaker 1: turning into like begging on Fox News, where people are like,
Speaker 1: I would tell him a president, you know, if this
Speaker 1: is a sales pitch, maybe we need to tweak the
Speaker 1: sales pitch a little bit and really get people to
Speaker 1: understand sort of how we look at this long term.
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't know how people like they're
Speaker 1: supposed to look at that last tweet and be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: my entire my whole retirement might be in jeopardy because
Speaker 1: he has elephantiasis.
Speaker 2: Yay, what is it? The balls and the males. The
Speaker 2: thing is, this guy is destroying the economy intentionally, and
Speaker 2: I know many people are just like, well, he's just dumb.
Speaker 2: He doesn't He's like he's dumb and doing it on purpose.
Speaker 2: That's why it looks so fucking ridiculous, because his way
Speaker 2: of doing it is so absurd, and he talks tough
Speaker 2: on tariffs and walks it back so then and then
Speaker 2: threatens them again and again. Like you're saying, Blake, it's
Speaker 2: that unpredictability that sends the markets in the direction that
Speaker 2: it is. And then while people are fearing like a
Speaker 2: full blown recession, Trump only worsens the problem when he
Speaker 2: gives answers like this a lot of people were sharing
Speaker 2: this clip of him talking to Maria Bartiromo where she's
Speaker 2: just like this whole interview was meant to like calm
Speaker 2: the market and be like I'm gonna throw you soft balls,
Speaker 2: like saying, you know, do you expect a recession? And
Speaker 2: then you just say no, you say, this is I'm
Speaker 2: very confident in what's going to happen. But this is
Speaker 2: how this fucking question was handled. When Maria asked the
Speaker 2: dear leader, because there.
Speaker 5: Are rising worries about a slowdown, You've got the Atlanta
Speaker 5: Federal Reserve saying we're going to have a contraction in.
Speaker 7: The first quarter.
Speaker 1: Look, I know that you.
Speaker 5: Inherited a mess, and you say, here, are you expecting
Speaker 5: a reception this year?
Speaker 2: I hate to predict things like that. Oh no, there
Speaker 2: is a period of transition because what we're doing is
Speaker 2: very big.
Speaker 1: We're bringing wealth back to America.
Speaker 4: Okay, can you answer the recession?
Speaker 1: What about the I hate to use words like recession.
Speaker 1: I hate to predict anything.
Speaker 2: The best it was like, and you inherited a mess.
Speaker 8: That been two weeks hours, two weeks.
Speaker 1: I don't have been.
Speaker 8: Here, been here for like, yeah, so this is it's
Speaker 8: getting bad and again the like Wall Street Journal has
Speaker 8: op eds now that essentially, like the distillation of the
Speaker 8: op eds are like, please stop, motherfucker, our precious stunks.
Speaker 2: And economy are shipping the bed and meanwhile gas. Gavin
Speaker 2: Newsom's new bestie Charlie Kirk is telling his viewers that
Speaker 2: they need He said, they need to shut up about
Speaker 2: egg prices, just as now just what they do, like,
Speaker 2: just shut up about the thing that I was telling
Speaker 2: you that he's gonna make better. And he also told
Speaker 2: us he's gonna make just shut up about it now,
Speaker 2: okay some Newsom? Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see where this goes if he
Speaker 1: if he's able to. I don't know. The one thing
Speaker 1: that like keeps me from thinking this is going to
Speaker 1: continue to fall apart is that I feel like a
Speaker 1: lot of the like stock market and just like market
Speaker 1: economy in general to this point, has been like that
Speaker 1: they can just kind of will themselves to stay, you know,
Speaker 1: like they can like during the pandemic. They were just like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what, We'll be fine, like just pretend
Speaker 1: like shit is good. We'll raise prices. We'll just yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll raise crisis and we'll scam PPP loans, push, push
Speaker 1: the pain downwards. Yeah.
Speaker 4: This a scary thing about him too, is that I'm
Speaker 4: trying to find a silver lining and a sack of shit,
Speaker 4: but like he in a big bald.
Speaker 1: Sec of shit.
Speaker 4: But he does He's like the most thing that was
Speaker 4: such a like a scary word in politics, which is
Speaker 4: now probably like fifteen twenty years is he just couldn't
Speaker 4: care less. Where the guy doesn't say anything that he
Speaker 4: actually believes it or thinks this is true. So he
Speaker 4: will pause tariffs, he'll take the tariffs away, he'll put
Speaker 4: the terriffs back, and they'll be like, hey, remember when
Speaker 4: you tried to put tariffs and it was destroying the economy,
Speaker 4: Like I don't we like, let's not talk about prices.
Speaker 1: Up about it prices.
Speaker 2: It is this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is nice to see them going through the
Speaker 1: exact same thing that Democrats were going through, where it
Speaker 1: was why doesn't everybody shut the fuck up about all
Speaker 1: the ways we're doing.
Speaker 2: A bad job.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's just the job of a party when they're
Speaker 1: in power, is like telling their supporters stop protesting. Guys.
Speaker 7: Yeah, just everybody, wait shop, why are you pointing out
Speaker 7: all the fucking inconsistencies and what we campaigned on and
Speaker 7: what we're delivering. This is like hater ration in the
Speaker 7: nation in his dancery the ration.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's kind of ties directly, Blake, when you
Speaker 1: were talking about about just the fact that they say
Speaker 1: whatever is whatever benefits them in the moment. Is my
Speaker 1: theory on the jd vance memes. So our writer jam
Speaker 1: was wondering if there's a deeper truth behind these jd
Speaker 1: vance memes.
Speaker 2: Ease from Wired, who's the where's that quote from the
Speaker 2: deeper meaning thing? The deeper meaning or no deeper true? Oh,
Speaker 2: Gizmoto it was. It was the Gizmoto article.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Gizmoto wrote an article that was arguing that
Speaker 1: it's these memes are apparently popular across both the left
Speaker 1: and the right, Like the right is also meming him.
Speaker 2: Have you seen you've seen those, right, Blake, the like
Speaker 2: Toddler face jd vance means yeah, yeah, well they're they're everywhere. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's like the new currency of the Internet.
Speaker 4: It was after the Ukraine meeting, right that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So yeah, like quick background on it. If you're
Speaker 1: on the internet, you're seeing his boldest face staring back
Speaker 1: at you. It took off after the Zelensky meeting, which
Speaker 1: this one is still my favorite.
Speaker 2: Like they just took the.
Speaker 1: Picture of him saying like you gotta say please and
Speaker 1: thank you, mister Winsky, and just like gave him the
Speaker 1: biggest cheeks and he just looks like a big baby,
Speaker 1: and it's really well executed. And then people from there,
Speaker 1: I mean people have been doing that for a little while,
Speaker 1: like turning him into a cabbage patch doll, but that
Speaker 1: it really took off, and now it's like all anybody's doing.
Speaker 1: I don't know what he actually looks like anymore. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's the overly patriotic Minion is one that I've seen
Speaker 1: Baron Harkonen from Dune, although yeah, he looks a little
Speaker 1: kind of shredded in that one.
Speaker 2: I feel like he looks like Alex Jones, like in
Speaker 2: that one where he's kind of look like emerging emerging
Speaker 2: from the and head his they swapped out his head for.
Speaker 1: The nuclear explosion from the original Akira manga. Hell, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all great stuff. Although it should be noted that
Speaker 1: the photoshopping of jd Vance began on the Republican side
Speaker 1: when Congressman Mike Collins as our friend of the show.
Speaker 1: Former guest kat Abou put it Mike Collins yasified Vance's portrait.
Speaker 1: Do you guys remember this like where there was a
Speaker 1: portrait of him and they just like made him look
Speaker 1: like a chat They just turned him into it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like it was like it's like ozembic
Speaker 2: mixed with some botox and fillers basically yeah, yeah and human.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they just made him, yeah, just stud instead of
Speaker 1: around faced baby, and so they baby, they threw the
Speaker 1: first stone in this battle. But now, like even Fox
Speaker 1: News is reporting on the liberal trolls sharing the meme
Speaker 1: and like it's just a great screen tap.
Speaker 2: It's wild to have that Chiron and like run this image,
Speaker 2: or says liberal trolls share wild memes of JD. Vans
Speaker 2: and then just show all these fucking brutal memes. Like yeah,
Speaker 2: why even I think that's where it's there is like
Speaker 2: this weird appeal even to Republicans, where normally like sure,
Speaker 2: there's always like they'll do the thing, Like you know,
Speaker 2: I remember there was a plenty of outrage reporting on
Speaker 2: like the shitty memes people would post of like the
Speaker 2: Obamas or Biden or whatever, but like in this version,
Speaker 2: like it feels like they're trying to also be like,
Speaker 2: look what they're fucking doing to us, but also like
Speaker 2: they're showing so many that I'm sure people are just like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's kind of funny though that it looks about right,
Speaker 2: And when you consider the fact that Republicans are also
Speaker 2: sharing this too, and again.
Speaker 1: Sees like everybody, Yeah, there's a Yahoo article that says
Speaker 1: but they're equally if not more popular on the right
Speaker 1: explicitly pro Trump accounts on x that otherwise spend their
Speaker 1: time bashing the Liberals or posting embarrassing memes of the
Speaker 1: party second in command. I feel it does feel like
Speaker 1: the cat fucking all over again. I do want to
Speaker 1: note he tried to get in on the joke. He
Speaker 1: posted a meme of himself as Leonardo DiCaprio in Once
Speaker 1: Upon a Time in Hollywood, like pointing at the TV,
Speaker 1: But he of course just combined his face with Leonardo DiCaprio,
Speaker 1: so he like looked handsomer than he actually is. So
Speaker 1: he's not not really ready to laugh at himself so
Speaker 1: much as just once is like, hey, guys, I can
Speaker 1: so handsome. I am kind of but yeah, So Gizmoto's
Speaker 1: argument is that, like the you know, the popularity of
Speaker 1: these is evidence that there's something uniquely alien and awful
Speaker 1: about him, and that the distorted version of his face
Speaker 1: actually speaks to a deeper truth. And I think there's
Speaker 1: something true there. Like I think, like i'd say, there's
Speaker 1: something like unacknowledged in his persona, in particular that he
Speaker 1: went from being like this liberal darling on MSNBC to
Speaker 1: like people were like calling him like a hope for
Speaker 1: like defeating Trump, like on the on the Republican side,
Speaker 1: to like being business nazi and the vice president in
Speaker 1: the space of like a few years. And I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's boring to say, like these guys are
Speaker 1: empty suits, so don't believe in anything, but there is
Speaker 1: something existentially terrifying about the fact that the way you
Speaker 1: get ahead in this current version of our society is
Speaker 1: to be completely devoid of belief and just like not yeah,
Speaker 1: just be willing to have meaning and belief projected onto
Speaker 1: you and be completely otherwise empty and not believe in anything.
Speaker 1: It's just like this like complete nihilism that he represents
Speaker 1: and the fact that he's just this completely malleable asshole
Speaker 1: who like succeeds in like going from one extreme to
Speaker 1: another at a time when you know people like this
Speaker 1: is these belief systems are like, you know, liberal versus
Speaker 1: mega people are like, we're about to have a civil
Speaker 1: war over this, and then you have this guy who
Speaker 1: just like fits in on both sides. I feel like
Speaker 1: there's like something existentially terrifying about that, And so to
Speaker 1: attack that malleability by making up memes about him fucking
Speaker 1: couches that just seem true immediately, or like bending his
Speaker 1: face in ways that also seem true like that, it's
Speaker 1: like kind of attacking him at his using his superpower
Speaker 1: against him. You know. It's it's true that, like I
Speaker 1: can't picture what he looks like now because I've seen
Speaker 1: so many and that, like I don't know that that
Speaker 1: would be true of other people necessarily, but because he
Speaker 1: just there's something he's just a complete fucking cipher.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's because he's to your point, because he's so amorphous, Yeah,
Speaker 2: to be able to ascend and to like fit in
Speaker 2: whatever space he needs to to curry favor or gain power.
Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, that same amorphousness lends itself to be
Speaker 2: like oh well, you now, now you can actually be
Speaker 2: anything we say you are. Yeah, like and sort of
Speaker 2: it like like that's the subtext. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like with spies, like in movies where they're
Speaker 4: like the perfect spies, someone who's not memorable, you know,
Speaker 4: and it's like, oh, he is the least memorable person,
Speaker 4: like from Ohio, you know, like it's if it wasn't
Speaker 4: for his eyelashes, you know, like if you would be
Speaker 4: beautiful eye like yeah, and he is.
Speaker 2: He kind of looks like he kind of looks like
Speaker 2: one of the dudes who would have pulled up with
Speaker 2: Zod in Superman.
Speaker 1: He does look like one of the dudes who you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, because.
Speaker 2: They also had like kind of the beard with like
Speaker 2: the smoky eyeliner vibe and a'most.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, he was creating.
Speaker 2: You were kicking it with ood bro. You were at
Speaker 2: that one bearded homie. Yeah, what was your name? God,
Speaker 2: what was your name? That wasn't me. I'm sorry, I'm
Speaker 2: just just here to install your cable.
Speaker 1: Anyways, let's uh, let's take a quick break and we'll
Speaker 1: be ready.
Speaker 2: And we're bad.
Speaker 4: We're back and all right.
Speaker 1: So you know that this has been kind of the
Speaker 1: ongoing story of this week is the economy has taken
Speaker 1: a big old ship. Yeah, the economy, the big stay
Speaker 1: the economy, the one that the mainstream media pays attention to,
Speaker 1: the one that will fuck us over. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a It has the ability. So when it's going good,
Speaker 1: it doesn't make most effect rich. It's not good for
Speaker 1: regular people. The rich people just do stock buybacks for
Speaker 1: like the c suite. But when it's going bad, it
Speaker 1: really really fucks everybody up. And it's going bad, so
Speaker 1: that's not good.
Speaker 2: No, And the thing the economy is like one of
Speaker 2: the main reasons people gave as to why they wanted
Speaker 2: Trump back in office.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's government business president, business guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean, and who could blame them if
Speaker 2: you aren't aware of all the existential threats that he
Speaker 2: poses to America and you're only metric for deciding who
Speaker 2: to vote for in a presidential race. Is my life
Speaker 2: good in twenty nineteen, then yeah, sure, great, you've you've
Speaker 2: you've succeeded there. But like their, CNN recently did a
Speaker 2: poll on Trump's handling of the economy, and he is
Speaker 2: in the worst position he's ever been in forty four
Speaker 2: percent approved fifty six percent disapprove. That's a net thumbs
Speaker 2: down of twelve percent. And on Vox they sort of
Speaker 2: plotted out sort of where this was in terms of
Speaker 2: like other polls and economy, and this is a total outlier,
Speaker 2: Like it's fucking yeah, yeah, that's way the fuck down,
Speaker 2: you know what.
Speaker 1: It's total reminding me of Actually this is so stupid,
Speaker 1: But this is reminding remember how like when George Lucas
Speaker 1: brought the prequels back, everyone was like, and now we
Speaker 1: can have the pure George Lucas vision and with like
Speaker 1: all the people just being like, you're a genius, George.
Speaker 1: You got this one, George, And then it came out
Speaker 1: and it just sucks shit because it was like he
Speaker 1: and like all like when you hear him talk about
Speaker 1: the original trilogy of Star Wars, he's always like complaining
Speaker 1: about all the notes he got and like all the
Speaker 1: battles he had to fight, and like people give it
Speaker 1: like pushing back and and like making it's good, yeah,
Speaker 1: making it like yeah, reining in his worst instincts and
Speaker 1: being like, I mean that's a cool idea. Let's go
Speaker 1: with the cool idea and not like the shitty one
Speaker 1: where you think you're like a good comedy director and
Speaker 1: that jar Jar Binks is going to be the future
Speaker 1: of I feel like this is the Star Wars prequels
Speaker 1: of the Trump presidencies, where he just is fully it's
Speaker 1: all gas, no breaks, and he the only thing that
Speaker 1: was keeping anything on the rails up to this point
Speaker 1: was the breaks, Like yeah, yeah, that was it, and
Speaker 1: now it's now we are off the fucking charts. Literally,
Speaker 1: we're we are in the in the scene where Jorjar
Speaker 1: Binks is like doing comedic pratfalls that like kill people
Speaker 1: at the end of that first movie.
Speaker 2: But he's fighting, man, He's fighting. But you know, this
Speaker 2: polling and just generally the attitude from the town halls
Speaker 2: and everything. People are fucking they can see for themselves
Speaker 2: that this is like affecting their day to day, like
Speaker 2: whether it's people getting laid off, lack of prices coming down,
Speaker 2: Dodge trucks going up, and the tens of thousands of
Speaker 2: dollars overnight because of tariffs and shit like that, and
Speaker 2: the polling all that rattled them because now the right
Speaker 2: wing is just going so hard on telling people that
Speaker 2: the tariffs that are fueling all this chaos are good.
Speaker 2: So just a couple let's just take a quick tour
Speaker 2: of some of the takes from the right wing taka sphere.
Speaker 2: This first one is from Laura Ingram, who is telling
Speaker 2: her viewers to literally just ignore the talk about the economy.
Speaker 2: Just don't listen to it. Step one. This is Laura
Speaker 2: Ingram explaining this is how you protect yourself from all
Speaker 2: the haters.
Speaker 9: Isn't it great to have an optimistic president who had
Speaker 9: a real plan to make life.
Speaker 5: Better for Wall Street and Main Street?
Speaker 9: Just ignore the sky is falling reports in the regime press.
Speaker 1: June out the breathless reporting about.
Speaker 5: Market gyrations because even the most dedicated globalists they know
Speaker 5: Trump is good for business.
Speaker 6: That was it's wildest to call the mainstream media the
Speaker 6: regime regime. Yeah, you guys control the entire government right now.
Speaker 1: You are the regime.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry, Laura defined regime necessarily for me, Just
Speaker 2: so I'm just so we're clear on that.
Speaker 1: Sonore all the negative stuff the regime media is saying about,
Speaker 1: dear leader, Yes.
Speaker 2: Please find a new angle. Regime media again. And every
Speaker 2: version of someone on Fox has there. I think everyone's
Speaker 2: got their own little spin on how to be like,
Speaker 2: how do we get these people to fucking ignore the
Speaker 2: tariffs or try and spin the tariffs as good. This
Speaker 2: is Greg Guttfeld doing his he's given the listeners or
Speaker 2: the viewers on Foxin's or the Five. This is Greg
Speaker 2: Guttfeld's four dy chests on how to navigate tariffs.
Speaker 9: You know, a tariff is not a tax if you
Speaker 9: don't buy the goods. And I'm tired of the media
Speaker 9: calling the tariff a tax.
Speaker 4: It's the opposite.
Speaker 9: You know, a government issued tax is an involuntary cost
Speaker 9: on you. You're paying for stuff that as a New
Speaker 9: Yorker you don't benefit from.
Speaker 4: I spent.
Speaker 9: I pay a small fortune in taxes and I still
Speaker 9: have psychopaths.
Speaker 2: Living on my street. I have a roads that destroy the.
Speaker 9: Car suspension, and I can't take the subway.
Speaker 2: But I put more taxes than my dad tade in
Speaker 2: his whole.
Speaker 9: Life as an income. But it doesn't really matter. I'm
Speaker 9: gonna make she's so happy right now. You know what
Speaker 9: causes inflation. I'm glaring at Harold DEI, oh uh, And Harold.
Speaker 1: Is the one person of color in the rest, exactly,
Speaker 1: And he's glaring at Harold.
Speaker 2: And then they're like he's joking. Haha, it's again whatever,
Speaker 2: I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. But
Speaker 2: that's so that's sick, dude, tight. So do you don't
Speaker 2: got to pay on the terraff if you just don't
Speaker 2: buy like the fucking food, don't buy it. It's important
Speaker 2: all the shit that's important for American consumers. Like does
Speaker 2: he have any idea how much we have to import
Speaker 2: to this economy?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's also such just like a rich brain rot
Speaker 6: thing of like I pay for the subway, but I
Speaker 6: don't even use the subway. And it's like, do you
Speaker 6: do you not use the subway because you live in
Speaker 6: a gated community in Connecticut? Do you or know you
Speaker 6: live in New York? So okay, do you not use
Speaker 6: the subway because you get driven everywhere?
Speaker 2: Like that? I don't take the subway because people know
Speaker 2: I'm a racist piece of shit and they front me
Speaker 2: about it on the subway. And that's the fucking issue, right.
Speaker 2: I thought it'd be just another anonymous white guy in
Speaker 2: a Patagonia vest, but I'm not. But again, these things
Speaker 2: are fucking tax hikes on consumers, Like he's looking at
Speaker 2: it again like the most overly simplistic way in that
Speaker 2: he's saying, well, the higher prices will make a consumer
Speaker 2: just want to buy the American stuff, and then that's
Speaker 2: how it helps, you know, everybody get more America centric.
Speaker 2: But again, these taxes, we all know this. These are
Speaker 2: just passed on to the consumer, because since when is
Speaker 2: a fucking company a business telling us, oh, yeah, well
Speaker 2: we'll totally make less money on this, and you know
Speaker 2: what will absorb the hit. We're not going to pass
Speaker 2: that onto the consumer. That's not right.
Speaker 6: We also, like America can't we can't feed our own
Speaker 6: people on the food we grow here. We have to
Speaker 6: import food.
Speaker 4: We have to.
Speaker 2: That's an optional.
Speaker 1: You don't like potato chips made out of corn and
Speaker 1: hamburgers made of corn.
Speaker 6: Nobody's saying anything bad about corn here.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you don't like corn when the other
Speaker 1: countries have to raise their prices. Also, just like, based
Speaker 1: on what we've seen from corporations in the past I
Speaker 1: don't know, decade, like, it seems inevitable that the corporations
Speaker 1: are also the American corporations, even if they don't have to,
Speaker 1: will raise their corporation raise their prices because they can,
Speaker 1: and like that's they raise their prices anytime they can,
Speaker 1: and so if the competition raises prices, they just raised
Speaker 1: their prices as well. That's basically what we've seen with inflation.
Speaker 1: Even though that that description puts a bunch of like
Speaker 1: economists and you know, consultants out of out of work,
Speaker 1: so it's never the one that we get. But that
Speaker 1: seems to be what's happening. Yeah, Yeah, inflation across the
Speaker 1: board for like, you know, as long as it's been
Speaker 1: happening in the past five years, Like as inflation's happening,
Speaker 1: corporations are making record profits like that that's all you
Speaker 1: need to know. That's all you need to know. Like
Speaker 1: they they're making way more money than they've ever made
Speaker 1: and inflation is going up. Like those two things are related.
Speaker 1: I think we're making of profits. Are the ones raising
Speaker 1: the prices?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember we were doing this as it was happening, Jack,
Speaker 2: Like we kind of stopped even trying to say inflation
Speaker 2: because that gave all these companies cover for their just
Speaker 2: out in the open greed. Because there are many studies
Speaker 2: you know that was like in twenty twenty three, like
Speaker 2: fifty corporate profits or something like half of the like
Speaker 2: driving force of inflation. It wasn't actual supply the shit
Speaker 2: that they tried to tell us in the like twenty
Speaker 2: twenty twenty twenty one. At a certain points, it's like
Speaker 2: fuck it, bro, just keep turning to the fucking heat. Upeah.
Speaker 6: But anyways, I think sorry, I think egg prices are
Speaker 6: a really good microcosm of this because, like, we know,
Speaker 6: there's bird flu that's like being reported on genuine public
Speaker 6: health like threat but also killing all the chickens. But
Speaker 6: there are egg conglomerates whose farms have not been hit
Speaker 6: by bird flu who are raising their prices because they
Speaker 6: can because everybody knows bird flu is out there and
Speaker 6: will accept higher prices. Like it's a market economy, which
Speaker 6: but it's a market economy run by conglomerates that are
Speaker 6: essentially monopolies. So they get to price hike when they
Speaker 6: can get away with it.
Speaker 2: Man, it's like, oh yeah, we're like just you know,
Speaker 2: we are forty percent of the companies, just this one.
Speaker 2: It'll it'll look it looks different because the boxes are different. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we do different boxes, and so it simply options. But
Speaker 2: then this whole idea of the tariffs as tykes tax
Speaker 2: hike has come up because you know Caroline Levitt, who's
Speaker 2: the terrible Press secretary of the White House, she was
Speaker 2: pressed by the Associated Press during a briefing on this
Speaker 2: and she just goes like, oh man, she just just
Speaker 2: spins herself into circles, being like, these are not tax
Speaker 2: hikes on American people. Just because the prices go up
Speaker 2: doesn't mean it's a taxi. I mean, this is her
Speaker 2: getting very, very defensive over the definition of a tariff
Speaker 2: or taxi, and it gets a little snippy. Let's see
Speaker 2: this actually.
Speaker 10: Not implementing tax hikes. Tariffs are a tax hike on
Speaker 10: foreign countries that again have been ripping us off. Tariffs
Speaker 10: are a tax cut for the American people. And the
Speaker 10: President is a staunch advocate of tax cuts. As you know.
Speaker 10: He campaigned on no taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime,
Speaker 10: no taxes on Social Security benefits. He is committed to
Speaker 10: all three of those things, and he expects Congress to
Speaker 10: pass them later this year.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, have you ever paid a tariff? Because I have,
Speaker 2: don't get charged on four.
Speaker 10: And ultimately, when we have fair and balanced train, which
Speaker 10: the American people have not seen in decades, as I
Speaker 10: said at the beginning, revenues will stay here, wages will
Speaker 10: go up, and our country will be made wealthy again.
Speaker 10: And I think it's insulting that you're trying to test
Speaker 10: my knowledge of economics and the decisions that this president
Speaker 10: has made.
Speaker 2: Wow, I mean, Caroline, let's keep it a book, my darling.
Speaker 2: You don't know what it is. But I like though
Speaker 2: that you do the I think it's insulting that you're
Speaker 2: like calling me out and just broadly act as if
Speaker 2: what you said was correct on any planet.
Speaker 1: She is not incorrect. It is insulting. It just happens
Speaker 1: to be accurate.
Speaker 2: And also, yeah, right, have you ever paid it? I
Speaker 2: love it that reporter. It's like, I'm sorry, have you
Speaker 2: even paid a tariff? Do we even?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: What the fuck are we even talking about here? That
Speaker 2: guy sucks too, though.
Speaker 6: It's like kind of a perfect It's like, I'm not
Speaker 6: I agree with what he's saying, Like his content of
Speaker 6: what he's saying is correct, but I'm like, the way
Speaker 6: you're saying this sucks.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well that is the problem with the mainstream importing
Speaker 1: a bunch of phrase T shirts that I'm going to
Speaker 1: be selling outside of Coachella tariff.
Speaker 2: I paid it now. It's funny this exact quote. This
Speaker 2: is like basically not everyone is in agreement over like
Speaker 2: if these tariffs are good, Because this is Ben Shapiro,
Speaker 2: he is not. He's like, well, yo, what the heck
Speaker 2: is going on? Full like, please explain what the fuck
Speaker 2: is happening. Here's a clip of Ben Shapiro from his show.
Speaker 2: This is him reacting to that Caroline Lovett exchange with
Speaker 2: the Associated Press.
Speaker 11: Again, I'm gonna need some clarification as to how this
Speaker 11: is actually going to in the short term, medium and
Speaker 11: long term benefit Americans. We can talk about other countries
Speaker 11: ripping us off as much as we want. And again,
Speaker 11: if the goal here is to lower the tariffs by
Speaker 11: getting other countries to lower their tariffs, then great, I'm
Speaker 11: all in makes sense. But if the idea is the
Speaker 11: tariffs themselves, wo enrich the American people, that is against
Speaker 11: pretty much all economic knowledge for the last couple of
Speaker 11: centuries or so.
Speaker 4: So maybe I'm wrong, Maybe it'll turn out to be great.
Speaker 2: I think he goes like he even like it's somehow it's
Speaker 2: a bridge. Maybe are it's a bridge too far from you?
Speaker 2: Because I bet this guy's stock portfolio almost look like
Speaker 2: deep fried dog shit. If he's like, I don't know what,
Speaker 2: what's the fucking deal here, Like, explain it to me
Speaker 2: because I'm not feeling it right now. I don't like
Speaker 2: what I'm seeing because a lot of people show all
Speaker 2: the gains that have been made in a lot on
Speaker 2: most of the stock markets since Trump came in office
Speaker 2: have been erased from all of the tariff bullshit. So
Speaker 2: that's who I feel with the worst for all those gains.
Speaker 6: Jack, Yeah, what's that onion headline that's so good? Or no,
Speaker 6: it's a Jezebel headliner or no, not god, I don't know.
Speaker 6: It's a headline that's like, uh yeah, it's a reductrous
Speaker 6: headline that is like, oh, no, worst person you know
Speaker 6: just made a good point?
Speaker 2: Yeah right right right exactly. Yeah for him to be like,
Speaker 2: I just what the just again, they're throwing their hands up,
Speaker 2: and I think this is this is going to continue
Speaker 2: to be a nightmare for the Republicans because it's one
Speaker 2: thing to tell a person like in Kentucky that the
Speaker 2: southern border is a hellscape and that immigrants thousands of
Speaker 2: miles away are doing dog buffets on the locals, because
Speaker 2: that's like an obscure and nebulous threat that they can
Speaker 2: just sort of create in someone's mind in the theater
Speaker 2: of the imagination. But is it completely different endeavor to
Speaker 2: tell someone that is seeing the prices not come down
Speaker 2: at their local stores, that is seeing their retirement go
Speaker 2: fucking wacky because it's tied to the stock market, that
Speaker 2: the reality that they are experiencing is not what they
Speaker 2: are in fact experiencing. And I think that's just you're
Speaker 2: just seeing them really fucking grapple with this. And there's
Speaker 2: plenty of true believers who don't, who are completely disconnected
Speaker 2: from that. But you can see not everybody is quite
Speaker 2: on board with this, especially the capitalists who their life's
Speaker 2: blood is the fucking market and that is, you know,
Speaker 2: that's not doing the thing that it needs to be doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that seems pretty clear. Sorry, I was distracted. I
Speaker 1: was working on something. The Italian magician made the bench Disapiro,
Speaker 1: and then for the prestige he made the bench Shapiro. Oh,
Speaker 1: bench Hero. Wow, that's what I've been working on over here.
Speaker 2: How dare you.
Speaker 1: Just the way you're saying his name, like bench.
Speaker 2: Bench Shapiro, your bench Shapiro.
Speaker 1: Bench Shapiro. You know, the bench disappeared and that is
Speaker 1: a Piro. So you're, well, you got that, Kate, did
Speaker 1: you get that?
Speaker 6: Like I'm still processing yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: To think exactly.
Speaker 2: It's like the movie The Prestige.
Speaker 1: Right, damn though, so tight.
Speaker 6: Wow, Wheeler's man.
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