Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Speaker 1: trendy Complexifire, which is complexify, the term that Jeff Bezos
Speaker 1: came up with because he is telling the truth. You
Speaker 1: can tell he's telling the truth because he's making up
Speaker 1: smart sounding words that don't actually mean anything. Yeah, my
Speaker 1: name is Jack O'Brien. Have we met? And that over
Speaker 1: there that is Miles Ray.
Speaker 2: Oh you're Jack.
Speaker 1: I'm jackokes a lot, I'm Jack O'Brien. Yeah, Hey, do Miles?
Speaker 1: Good to be on time? The anchorman reference? Yeah, always
Speaker 1: do you say all?
Speaker 2: Good to be on top?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Good to be on time? Man?
Speaker 3: La Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you're referencing the zoom window
Speaker 3: the stacked video I am are you also?
Speaker 1: Actually you're always on top of me?
Speaker 2: Wow? Well good?
Speaker 3: But yeah, Dodgers babe, Look, it could be a wonderful
Speaker 3: night except for the local of Los Angeles, when there
Speaker 3: would inevitably be a homebrew pyrotechnic shows going off if
Speaker 3: the Dodgers end up winning tonight.
Speaker 1: Homebrew. Yeah, it is fun. It's a good time, little pops.
Speaker 1: We need it.
Speaker 2: We needed it. We needed it in La. We needed this.
Speaker 1: If we win. If if we win, we haven't had
Speaker 1: anything to celebrate in a long time. I do just
Speaker 1: want to give the context of Jeff Bazins's So Jeff
Speaker 1: Bezos told the Washington Post, we're not endorsing a candidate.
Speaker 1: You guys are gonna fucking burn me, is what I
Speaker 1: suspect it went like when he told them the decision
Speaker 1: this is also being linked to the La Times' decision
Speaker 1: to not endorse a candidate, but that one is actually
Speaker 1: at least the daughter of one of the owners is
Speaker 1: saying that that one is in relation to the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party complicity and the genocide in Gaza, so that that
Speaker 1: feels a little different. That's what Wait, that's the explaination
Speaker 1: of Times. That's the explanation for the La Times given
Speaker 1: by the daughter of the owner.
Speaker 2: It's kind of a weird.
Speaker 3: So then, oh, so he was saying, I can't stand
Speaker 3: idly by while you endorse this candidate.
Speaker 1: That's Alec Erickott Sanis was like that, don't treat these
Speaker 1: two things as the same thing. Former guest Alec Hurrickott
Speaker 1: Santas was like the La Times making that stance versus
Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos making this stance with the Washington Post. He
Speaker 1: was saying he believes those to be two different things.
Speaker 1: I haven't dug into the reality behind the La Times one,
Speaker 1: but we we didn't really need to dig too deep
Speaker 1: for the reality behind the Washington Post one because Jeff
Speaker 1: Bezos came out and was like, guys, let me explain
Speaker 1: what's going on here. And the part that contains the
Speaker 1: word complexifire is I once wrote that the Post is
Speaker 1: a complex afire. For me, it is, but it turns
Speaker 1: out I'm also a complexifier for the Post. That is
Speaker 1: two sentences that are in his op ed explaining why
Speaker 1: they didn't do an endorsement. He says they didn't do
Speaker 1: an endorsement because the media is very unpopular, and he
Speaker 1: just thinks that it's not the reason they're unpopular is
Speaker 1: because they're so partisan and they just need to be
Speaker 1: more both sides about the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, great great.
Speaker 1: The entire op ed written by Jeff Bezo stinks like shit,
Speaker 1: I would say stinks like both shit and bullshit, all
Speaker 1: the type of It's an amazing potpourri of all the shit.
Speaker 1: So he like it's definitely because he wants to kiss
Speaker 1: the ass of the eventual Emperor God in case he
Speaker 1: wins and his assumption that he's saying is they don't
Speaker 1: trust the media because they endorse presidential candidates, and definitely
Speaker 1: can't be that people don't trust the media because they're
Speaker 1: owned by the richest man in the world and have
Speaker 1: been shown to be biased by his whims, or because
Speaker 1: they will, you know, refuse to honestly report on a
Speaker 1: genocide as it's happening, and definitely not because there's a
Speaker 1: fascist who is out there. Yeah, I don't know it's
Speaker 1: so he's claiming it's because they picked aside in the
Speaker 1: presidential election and only presidential elections, by the way, because
Speaker 1: the Post has endorsed other candidates in other races this year,
Speaker 1: so it's only the presidential election. Which that's the detail
Speaker 1: that like kind of puts the lie to the whole thing,
Speaker 1: because like obviously small local races don't matter to him
Speaker 1: as a you know, the second richest person on the planet.
Speaker 1: Like that's not going to affect what he's able to do.
Speaker 1: The one that's going to affect him is being on
Speaker 1: the bad of Trump when Trump becomes America's first dictator,
Speaker 1: like first full blown open dictator. But I just this
Speaker 1: also reminded me of one of the anecdotes from the
Speaker 1: Susan B. Glasser article about Trump's billionaire donors, and it's
Speaker 1: about how like this person basically got access to Trump
Speaker 1: and lied to him about like how Amazon operates with
Speaker 1: the US Postal Service and was able to use Trump's
Speaker 1: hatred of Bezos as the because Bezos owns the Washington
Speaker 1: Post to set worst terms like trick Trump into thinking
Speaker 1: that they were getting too sweet a deal to Trump,
Speaker 1: like the article says, Trump's staff tried to figure out
Speaker 1: what Peltz's interest was in the matter. Pelts's the billionaire
Speaker 1: turned out that try on fund management. Peltz's asset management
Speaker 1: firm had recently taken a three point five billion dollar
Speaker 1: stake in Procter and Gamble, the consumer products Gi pelt
Speaker 1: an activist investor who buys his way into corporate leadership roles,
Speaker 1: often by prompting proxy fights, considered Amazon's purchase of Whole
Speaker 1: Foods a threat to his business when to Seber twenty nine,
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, as a result of him telling Trump all
Speaker 1: these untrue things about how good Amazon had it with
Speaker 1: REGARDSS to like how the Post Office trees him, Trump tweeted,
Speaker 1: why is the United States Post Office, which is losing
Speaker 1: many billions of dollars a year while charging Amazon and
Speaker 1: others so live little to deliver their packages, making Amazon
Speaker 1: richer and the post Office dumber and poorer, should be
Speaker 1: charging much more. So it's just like these billionaires can
Speaker 1: just lie to Trump get a better deal from him,
Speaker 1: and so this is what they're all going to do.
Speaker 1: They're all going to kiss his ass. Like billionaires are
Speaker 1: going to line up and kiss the ass of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: We're not going to have the same thing where like
Speaker 1: corporations are like now more than ever, we're going to
Speaker 1: stand with the American people than ever.
Speaker 2: You can get fucked because you were we are.
Speaker 1: On his side. Yeah, exactly. So, I mean we're already
Speaker 1: of corporatocracy, and all of the corporations are going to
Speaker 1: fall into line with Trump once he starts ruling.
Speaker 3: Any publicly traded company, that's for sure. I could see
Speaker 3: maybe private companies having a bit more of a spine,
Speaker 3: but anything that's traded on Wall Street, there's no that's just.
Speaker 1: Going to be like, you're gonna make the line go down.
Speaker 1: So look for us on Patreon in the future. Uh.
Speaker 1: Trump is already claiming fraud in the election. It's not
Speaker 1: like we had any question whether he was going to
Speaker 1: pull this shit. It was obviously just a matter of when.
Speaker 1: And the answer is exactly a week before the election.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good time. These are timed.
Speaker 3: These are timed truths that he truthed on his social Yeah,
Speaker 3: I believe probably about them.
Speaker 2: Weeks ago.
Speaker 1: He truths that they received thousands of potentially fraudulent voter
Speaker 1: registration forms, the mail in ballid applications from a third
Speaker 1: party group.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And this is on top of Lancaster County being caught
Speaker 1: with two six hundred fakes ballots and forms.
Speaker 3: Fuck all this noise, because there's real news about actual
Speaker 3: ballot boxes being destroyed by split on fire like that's
Speaker 3: and it's happening in places where they're like there's gonna
Speaker 3: be there's a bunch of Harris votes in there, fucking
Speaker 3: light it up. That's maybe deserve well, I mean, obviously
Speaker 3: he's not going to pay attention to that because he's
Speaker 3: you know, been for the last four years slowly motivating
Speaker 3: people to do more and more extreme shit like this.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, but he's got to start the argument
Speaker 1: early that like they're the ones getting fucked over because
Speaker 1: it does feel like increasingly a part of their strategy
Speaker 1: is like violent intervention on behalf of him with regrets
Speaker 1: like either how voting takes place, like voter intimidation or
Speaker 1: how votes are counted and collected, and you know, pull
Speaker 1: worker intimidation. So it's just I don't it truly feels
Speaker 1: like there is a real possibility where something horrible happens.
Speaker 1: Like you mentioned, there's already like attacks on like people
Speaker 1: putting incendiary devices in what person? I guess it's one
Speaker 1: person who did it in Portland and Vancouver, Washington. Uh
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be a real fucking mess out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: But in better news, the viral dress is bad.
Speaker 2: Thank god, thank god, this is vivid.
Speaker 1: This is just a yeah. I just love that the
Speaker 1: dress has re emerged on social media. When we read
Speaker 1: it it Miles again, is it black and blue or
Speaker 1: is it white and gold?
Speaker 3: I never saw a white and gold dress. I'm not saying,
Speaker 3: I just and it always looked black.
Speaker 1: I was able to eventually see a white and gold
Speaker 1: dress after like working really hard, But I don't with
Speaker 1: your therapist, Yeah, it's been years. Do you know what talk?
Speaker 2: It is white? And gold also.
Speaker 1: So that was twenty fifteen when our biggest concern was
Speaker 1: whether or not some strangers dress was black and blue
Speaker 1: or white and gold. And it's gone viral again because
Speaker 1: a woman found quote the dress at a yard sale
Speaker 1: and shared her experience on TikTok. So. She was interviewed
Speaker 1: by Newsweek and said the dress was one of the
Speaker 1: first items I saw when I walked up to the
Speaker 1: yard sale. I immediately screamed, Oh my goodness, you have
Speaker 1: the dress. The owners and the other neighbors had a
Speaker 1: nice laugh at my expressive reaction upon seeing it. I
Speaker 1: don't know why she speaks like a seventh grader's book report,
Speaker 1: but my expressive reaction upon seeing After being inundated with comments,
Speaker 1: Rubinstein decided to settle the nearly decade old debate once
Speaker 1: and for all and showed people that the dress is
Speaker 1: actually black and blue, which we fucking knew.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, you have the dress.
Speaker 1: It's her reaction seems to assume that there first of all,
Speaker 1: that there is only one of the dresses, and second
Speaker 1: of all, that it has magical properties, which.
Speaker 3: Right, it's like, sorry, I hate to do this to y'all,
Speaker 3: but here we this is unadulterated there it is black
Speaker 3: and blue sorroom.
Speaker 1: So anyway, shout out to her. I want to live
Speaker 1: inside her brand for the next three weeks. Maybe it
Speaker 1: feels like a nice place.
Speaker 3: Now enjoy it, now, enjoy it now, enjoy it now,
Speaker 3: because if you fast forward, there's reality on that side.
Speaker 2: Right now. This is that liminal space where we're just.
Speaker 1: Like this again.
Speaker 2: This is the last Tuesday before whatever happens.
Speaker 1: Do you just give me the lecture from the end
Speaker 1: of click? Uh?
Speaker 2: No, is that what happens in it.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back and
Speaker 1: you're back. Would you do a click? Would you have
Speaker 1: we talked about this? Would you fast forward to the next.
Speaker 3: I think I mentioned it a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 3: and you said, oh, you want to do a click?
Speaker 2: And I was like, I haven't seen those lesser Sandler films.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I haven't seen it, but I'm aware of
Speaker 1: the premise.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's like a time traveling remote.
Speaker 1: You can fast forward.
Speaker 2: Stop.
Speaker 1: So if you stop, everybody does no, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but keeps fast forwarding too much. And then he's like
Speaker 1: missus his old life, and it's really a commentary on
Speaker 1: how we use our phones.
Speaker 3: Just don't yeah, don't abuse benzo diazepines, and you will
Speaker 3: also cease time traveling.
Speaker 1: Got to wake up to take more benza. I gotta
Speaker 1: wake up from my Benzo hayes to take more benza.
Speaker 2: That way I can fast forward another week.
Speaker 1: But yes, Miles, big news out of the Vatican, thank you,
Speaker 1: the first White House, the President of the world, the post.
Speaker 1: So this is kind of the theological equivalent of the
Speaker 1: meme of Steve Boushammy holding a skateboard? Is that also
Speaker 1: a Sandler movie? No, that's thirty Rock, that's right.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The Vatican has announced a new anime inspired mascot
Speaker 1: named Loose l u c which will which it feels
Speaker 1: like they're halfway to Lucifer, but it will help them
Speaker 1: quote engage with the pop culture so beloved by our
Speaker 1: young people, and so what now they rather than being
Speaker 1: more open minded, they've just been like, what if we
Speaker 1: had a doll that homophobic? Bring kids? They're just like
Speaker 1: little anime characters with crucifixes.
Speaker 3: This looks like some chat GPT bullshit, Like this is
Speaker 3: so uninteresting looking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it sucks, but cool, And they have a like
Speaker 1: little flying angel baby thing. But the little flying angel
Speaker 1: baby thing has a baseball at do they have do
Speaker 1: they have names?
Speaker 2: Like or what are the other ones called? There's like
Speaker 2: Loose and then like Ifer.
Speaker 1: And Bzl the Morning Star. H This is not the
Speaker 1: first time the Catholic Church has awkwardly tried to appeal
Speaker 1: to nerds. Lest we forget the time they worked with
Speaker 1: Marvel to create a comic about Pope John Paul the
Speaker 1: Second I don't know if we don't know if we
Speaker 1: all remember that, but that was big news in my
Speaker 1: Catholic Oh, I have.
Speaker 2: The Life of Pope John Paul won one issue one.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Yeah, that's huge.
Speaker 2: It's going for under retail right now.
Speaker 1: It was just about his life. But like the cover
Speaker 1: really makes him look They make him look very handsome.
Speaker 2: It looks like George W. Bush playing the Pope for Halloween.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's kind of giving too much sexual charisma
Speaker 1: for a pope. I think in the way they've drawn him.
Speaker 3: Well for how sexually repressed the people and then the
Speaker 3: people of Cloth are, I can imagine it just it
Speaker 3: just like it's just great energy around them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Brian the editor points out, Lucifer means light Bringer,
Speaker 1: So probably named after Lucifer and the Catholic Church. You know,
Speaker 1: they probably get that kids like to be a little edgy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh Lucifer.
Speaker 2: It our neck feels broken.
Speaker 1: Oh god, all right.
Speaker 2: Terrible Sopranos reference.
Speaker 1: Yes, and then this is a big news for our podcast.
Speaker 1: So we talk about subway every once in a while,
Speaker 1: but this is serious. Subway is being sued for skipping
Speaker 1: on the meats. Skipping on the meats.
Speaker 3: Class auction lawsuit for quote, grossly misleading customers with ads
Speaker 3: that depict far more meat in their sandwiches than what
Speaker 3: you actually get. And that's true because I mean, they
Speaker 3: also looked better when the U gouge. But that's a
Speaker 3: whole that's an old, old school subway head take. But yeah,
Speaker 3: it's the last time I went to you gouge.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember the U gage. That was when they
Speaker 1: really slopped it on there. Man.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they really slapped that turtle meat or tuna
Speaker 3: or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Who cares it tastes like tuna. People online keep posting
Speaker 1: videos and they are talking about subway sandwich shrinkage. Wow,
Speaker 1: it's it's not shrinkage because the sandwich isn't sting. It's
Speaker 1: it could be like shrink flation, but yeah, shrinkage is
Speaker 1: meant to refer to George Costanza's dick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, obviously, Yeah that's just a big misstep, big misstep.
Speaker 1: But it's yeah, I mean it's pretty hard to argue
Speaker 1: against this, like when you see like the Today Show
Speaker 1: covered it and it just went from commercial to like
Speaker 1: somebody showing what they were just given.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, here, it's it is a it is a
Speaker 3: good clip because I mean, I think it's just a
Speaker 3: like a trope in our culture, is like what I
Speaker 3: ordered versus what I got kind of shit.
Speaker 1: But like my wife is always doing Instagram posts about
Speaker 1: that with REGARDSS to me, me is that I think
Speaker 1: it's cute, but I haven't watched them all the way.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, you are not working that jacket. Like
Speaker 3: the guy in the ad was Jack, just give it back.
Speaker 3: But yeah, here's here's a here's a bit of sandwich
Speaker 3: skimping audio what and.
Speaker 2: The suit says, look, subway customers have noticed.
Speaker 1: Okay, people are just showing sandwich and it is just
Speaker 1: it looks slic bread. It looks like the bread, subway bread,
Speaker 1: like the subway roll that has been stepped on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like fully, like to the point where I don't
Speaker 3: even know if this is just a loose role that
Speaker 3: they didn't even put anything into, because I don't even
Speaker 3: see any gaps for toppings or fillings in there.
Speaker 2: So yeah, okay, yeah, Dark.
Speaker 1: Day subway, A two subway. It's fucked up. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: yeah again, like they first they do the turtle meat
Speaker 1: and I am on board, but then they do some
Speaker 1: shit like this. You know, it's all fucked up now
Speaker 1: to quote a great philosopher.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope it's sorted out.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyways, that is going to do it for this Tuesday,
Speaker 1: October twenty ninth. We are back tomorrow with a whole
Speaker 1: last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to
Speaker 1: each other, be kind to yourself, get the vaccine, get
Speaker 1: your blue shot, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and
Speaker 1: we will talk to y'all tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Bye bye, Go Dodgers.