Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of at
Speaker 1: Starting Point. Guard for the Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: Bucks is Gamy trand Lillard.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: Cool they did it, man, Man, you know I own
Speaker 4: the text thread. We were talking about this Damian Lillard
Speaker 4: trade and I said, I'm getting a Bucks jersey because
Speaker 4: I just want to feel the excitement that Bucks fans.
Speaker 5: Have right now.
Speaker 6: That's I'm excited.
Speaker 1: This was the Sharry's fun outcome, especially like we had
Speaker 1: the heat in mind for them for a long time.
Speaker 5: Celtics could have gotten involved, which is.
Speaker 1: Right, So that like that this is why this is
Speaker 1: such a load off, is that the team that I
Speaker 1: don't like did not get Damian Lillard. Yeah, and yeah,
Speaker 1: the Sun's got stronger. Who are a team I will
Speaker 1: be rooting for this year. I always root for the
Speaker 1: best players in the league, and Giannis now has like
Speaker 1: a much more exciting team. Yeah, it's it's tough. They
Speaker 1: lost a really good guard in Drew Holliday, but.
Speaker 6: We shall see.
Speaker 5: I mean, we're like the camera.
Speaker 4: They won't do it because the chemistry. It's like, well
Speaker 4: maybe Dame, I don't know, you might do it for
Speaker 4: Damian Lillard.
Speaker 1: Or he is a generational Uh just baller. I will
Speaker 1: say this is yet more confirmation. I was having this
Speaker 1: thought last night. I was watching a thirty for thirty
Speaker 1: documentary from the year twenty thirteen about the No Mas,
Speaker 1: The Roberto Doran Sugar Ray Leonard documentary.
Speaker 5: You know, I'll see that one.
Speaker 1: It's interviewing all these sports writers from the time and
Speaker 1: like to like still today, and they're like, he's a coward,
Speaker 1: what a lot, Like nobody can figure out why he quit.
Speaker 6: In the middle, And I was just like, man, sports writers.
Speaker 1: Really are the lowest form of humanity in a lot
Speaker 1: of cases.
Speaker 6: They're just like these like old white.
Speaker 1: Guys are here being like Roberto Duran disgraced himself as
Speaker 1: a man and disgusting. He ran away with them and
Speaker 1: still to this day just like talking why like he
Speaker 1: came back from that and like went on to like
Speaker 1: win multiple titles, and they were still like he still
Speaker 1: has to answer for this. But again with the Damian
Speaker 1: Lillard trade, sports writers know nothing. They they nobody was
Speaker 1: saying the Bucks. They were all he like, they threw
Speaker 1: out every name in the NBA except the Bucks. So
Speaker 1: y'all blew it. You're bad at your job. Your job
Speaker 1: basically might as well not exist Smith. Yeah, just come
Speaker 1: on mat boost these where we have a decidedly anti journalisms.
Speaker 5: But we don't slag them off like we do on
Speaker 5: this show.
Speaker 6: Yeah exactly, Yeah, No, we have to go to one.
Speaker 5: We have mine to go where you where are we
Speaker 5: on that one? Dipshit?
Speaker 1: We should just go line by line through their columns
Speaker 1: everything they got wrong.
Speaker 4: Like that Bucks writer who said three major reasons why
Speaker 4: the Bucks would.
Speaker 6: Never trade Damian. He threw them off their son.
Speaker 1: All right, that is the biggest news obviously happening right now,
Speaker 1: that Damian Lillard was traded. But like for those who
Speaker 1: aren't NBA fans, Damian Lillard is probably the coolest person
Speaker 1: in the NBA, like him and Jimmy Butler, Like he
Speaker 1: was supposed to be traded to the Heat, and they
Speaker 1: were like that team would be too cool with Damian
Speaker 1: Lillard and Jimmy Butler on it, And therefore they sent
Speaker 1: him to the team of the best player in the league.
Speaker 1: Uh and also the most lovable superstar in the league,
Speaker 1: Gianni Sante Tokupo. So exciting times, I guess. In like
Speaker 1: one a to that news is that Donald Trump was
Speaker 1: found liable for fraud.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: New York judge has said he's liable for two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty million dollars civil case brought by the state,
Speaker 1: alleging that he engaged in a long time bait and
Speaker 1: switch scheme to misrepresent his assets for tax purposes, while
Speaker 1: also inflating their value in order to obtain favorable loan terms.
Speaker 1: So he would in one set of papers be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this place is this big and also this valuable, and
Speaker 1: then like at the same time, to avoid paying taxes,
Speaker 1: would say it is a different size and worth a different.
Speaker 6: Amount of money. Yeah, at the same time, like.
Speaker 5: Just at the same damn time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just openly lying, openly making up wealth. Like the
Speaker 1: judges like, no, he just like made up his fortune.
Speaker 4: There was there was one where like he completely overvalued
Speaker 4: his fucking Trump Tower like apartment that.
Speaker 5: He lives in.
Speaker 6: He did not even say the right size, yeah.
Speaker 4: By like in ridiculous orders of magnitude, to the point
Speaker 4: where the judge was like, there's no way I can
Speaker 4: believe this is anything but fraud concerning you come from
Speaker 4: real estate, so how could you fucking blow it like that?
Speaker 6: Like, no, this is it's supposed to be your thing.
Speaker 1: Man like the case as like he doesn't seem to
Speaker 1: like his legal strategy just seems to be like, be
Speaker 1: annoying as fuck as for as long as possible until
Speaker 1: people are too annoyed to keep going. But that generally
Speaker 1: doesn't work when you're being sued by the state. And
Speaker 1: this judge was basically like he previously found some of
Speaker 1: Trump's legal team's arguments so stupid he literally thought it
Speaker 1: was a joke, such as the argument that the case
Speaker 1: should be dismissed because hey, no one was harmed by
Speaker 1: Trump's fraud.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, how did anybody get hurt? Hey, we're good here, right.
Speaker 5: That's not how that goes.
Speaker 4: But that's why it's wild too, Like the fucking judge
Speaker 4: sanctioned the fucking lawyers because you're like, dude, this is
Speaker 4: like I told you about these fucking spurious arguments, and
Speaker 4: you still kept coming back with it, like I have
Speaker 4: no choice but to.
Speaker 1: They tried the no harm, no foul line of argument,
Speaker 1: like come on, are you bleeding like that that a
Speaker 1: bully is after he like punches you on the shoulder,
Speaker 1: What are you bleeding?
Speaker 6: And then not only did.
Speaker 1: They try that once, and then they're like oh right right,
Speaker 1: this is the court of law and not a playground.
Speaker 1: They tried it once, the judge was like, stop it, no,
Speaker 1: that is I thought that was a joke when you
Speaker 1: brought it up, And then they did it so often
Speaker 1: that the judge likened the defense to the time loop
Speaker 1: in the film Groundhog Day. That is a direct quote.
Speaker 5: So that just shows you the fucking caliber of law
Speaker 5: like lawyer that he can get.
Speaker 4: Now, like you, you can't even get like the janky
Speaker 4: ones anymore, who have some semblance of like a career.
Speaker 5: Now it's people who are in there being.
Speaker 4: Like I'm honestly at his appeal, I would be surprised if,
Speaker 4: as one of his lawyers at the appeal just didn't say, like, well,
Speaker 4: that's just like.
Speaker 6: Your opinion opinion, man, so throw the case out, no
Speaker 6: further answers, answers your owner exactly.
Speaker 5: But it's just it's a fucking summary judgment.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it wasn't even.
Speaker 5: That's fucking again.
Speaker 4: When when it's like that, it seemed like, bro, I
Speaker 4: don't even a jury doesn't mean to fucking hear this.
Speaker 5: That's how fucking out of control this whole shit is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I think, what is it to Tuesday is
Speaker 4: when the trial will happen, and that's when we will
Speaker 4: begin to see what the fate is of all the
Speaker 4: companies and things like that and all that. But again
Speaker 4: it's going to get dragged on because there's going to
Speaker 4: be appeals and shit like that.
Speaker 5: But he cannot practice any kind of business or his
Speaker 5: sons in the state of New York right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, according to the ruling which allows the civil trial
Speaker 1: to begin next week, Like he said, uh, but this
Speaker 1: ruling says that he led to banks and insures by
Speaker 1: both overvaluing and undervaluing his assets. So it's just like
Speaker 1: that's the that's the wild shit here. Like when you
Speaker 1: read the history of like how he built his business,
Speaker 1: it is both like mind boggling that he got away
Speaker 1: with it. But also when you look at like go
Speaker 1: back and look at the history of the Enron scandal,
Speaker 1: go back and look at like a lot of like
Speaker 1: the shit that was going down in two thousand and
Speaker 1: eight on Wall Street, Like this is so much of
Speaker 1: the economy is people just making up money, just making
Speaker 1: making it up being.
Speaker 6: Like no, that that club that I bought for you know,
Speaker 6: tens of millions of.
Speaker 1: Dollars it's actually worth two billion dollars now, Like that's
Speaker 1: what he was doing with mar A Lago, like, and
Speaker 1: that that's the one that they're focusing on because I
Speaker 1: guess they're like differences of opinion of like how much
Speaker 1: you could value mar A Lago at because the judge
Speaker 1: is valuing it as not a private property but as
Speaker 1: a you know, institution, like a business, which is what
Speaker 1: it is. And people are like, no, you could sell
Speaker 1: that for much more than that, but I don't know,
Speaker 1: like it seems to be beside the point. Like that's
Speaker 1: just the one that like his people have seized on
Speaker 1: to try and defend it.
Speaker 4: Right and again, like his whole thing was that he
Speaker 4: one of the things he was arguing that is like
Speaker 4: more of a footnote in the whole the like all
Speaker 4: the legal documents, is that he said it didn't matt like,
Speaker 4: he didn't fraudulently inflate it because he could still sell
Speaker 4: them to Saudi buyers at any price he chooses. That
Speaker 4: is why, yo, come on, Like let's dive in on
Speaker 4: that a little bit, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Like this is I.
Speaker 3: Can name my price.
Speaker 6: They owe me one, they owe me big time.
Speaker 1: I don't know, if you know I was the president
Speaker 1: and I might be the president again, I'm cheating super
Speaker 1: hard at that. So uh yeah, like yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: the the.
Speaker 5: So it's influence pedaling, not real estate documen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the shit is just baked in. The corruption is
Speaker 1: baked in. He's not really trying to hide it. No,
Speaker 1: And this is this like really shouldn't be a surprise,
Speaker 1: Like if you were reading about like where he was
Speaker 1: as a businessman heading into the twenty sixteen election, he
Speaker 1: really like wasn't allowed to do business in the United States.
Speaker 1: So like any arguments that like oh this this is
Speaker 1: now everybody wants to find fault with him because he's
Speaker 1: the political threat. It's like, no, he's.
Speaker 5: Been he's been a roadster.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's been fraudulent from day one, and like he
Speaker 1: couldn't do business in the US without committing fraud.
Speaker 5: It is wildli like the mar al Lago thing.
Speaker 4: It's like, I don't know, man, it could be worth
Speaker 4: nothing and ten times that simultaneously, which was really interesting
Speaker 4: how the judge was like, so it's both at the
Speaker 4: same time, sir, and then.
Speaker 1: The other three times his ruling which is two billion times.
Speaker 5: Yes, sorry, excuse me, eighteen.
Speaker 1: Million one hundred times eighteen million, uh is two billion
Speaker 1: dollars almost one point yeah billion.
Speaker 4: And he then like, which is twenty two was Then
Speaker 4: he's like, well, it's about it's about the potential for
Speaker 4: real estate development, but like the deed prevents that fucking
Speaker 4: property from ever being.
Speaker 5: Used that way. So it's just all fucking horseshit.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: He's trying to get them to value mar A Lago
Speaker 1: like it's a tech company in the early two thousands. Right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we can probably put that at two bills. Right,
Speaker 1: he's moved along here, Yeah, sir Brian put it. But
Speaker 1: we're still going with the air Bud law of running
Speaker 1: for president. A nothing says, no, there's nothing the rule
Speaker 1: book that says that a fraudulent criminal who is in
Speaker 1: prison can't run for president.
Speaker 6: Yeah, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: There's other big news in the world of you know,
Speaker 1: financial court.
Speaker 6: I guess we'll be right back.
Speaker 3: And we're back.
Speaker 6: We are, And is the United States back? What's going
Speaker 6: on with this one?
Speaker 1: We have politicians, we have the president standing with workers
Speaker 1: on the picket line.
Speaker 6: Sure for he said, but still he.
Speaker 4: Even said they deserve a significant race He didn't go
Speaker 4: as far to come after the automakers, but he did
Speaker 4: utter those workers.
Speaker 1: Which and he was like, they they should You should
Speaker 1: be getting some of the stuff that they're getting, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the ridiculous money that they're making, so you should be
Speaker 1: doing well too, Come on, man, And then he pulled
Speaker 1: out his acoustic guitar and started singing Woody Guthrie.
Speaker 6: Shit, it was pretty dope, no he Yeah, so there's that.
Speaker 1: And then Trump coming out and being like he stole
Speaker 1: the idea of siding with workers from me. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: that's one thing that made me.
Speaker 6: I had to check my GEO tagging is where is.
Speaker 1: I is still America? Then I realized, ah, yes, Apple
Speaker 1: owns me. Apple knows where I am. Airmation back to
Speaker 1: the corporate But Amazon FTC has filed what some think
Speaker 1: maybe the big one.
Speaker 5: Mm hmmm yeah, they call it the m in trouble.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they are the Federal Trade Commission, along
Speaker 4: with seventeen other state attorneys general. Yes, they're all filing
Speaker 4: it together. I had to put A'SG as my abbreviation.
Speaker 4: I wrote this, but basically saying Amazon is illegally maintaining
Speaker 4: a monopoly FDC Chairlein and con said, quote are complaintly
Speaker 4: is out how Amazon is used a set of punitive
Speaker 4: and coursive tactics to unlawfully maintain its monopolies. The complaint
Speaker 4: sets forth detailed allegations, noting how Amazon is now exploiting
Speaker 4: its monopoly power to enrich itself while raising prices and
Speaker 4: degrading service for the tens of millions of American families
Speaker 4: who shop on its platform and the hundreds of thousands
Speaker 4: of businesses that rely on Amazon to reach them.
Speaker 5: Today's lawsuits seeks to.
Speaker 4: Hold Amazon to account for these monopolistic practices and restore
Speaker 4: the lost promise.
Speaker 5: Of free and fair competition.
Speaker 4: They're seeking a quote permanent injunction in federal court that
Speaker 4: would prohibit Amazon from engaging in its unlawful conduct and
Speaker 4: probably loose Amazon's monopolistic control to restore competition.
Speaker 6: Wow, Wow, let's.
Speaker 5: Do Google next?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: What do them all?
Speaker 6: Amazon wasn't. I didn't think Amazon was the one that had.
Speaker 1: The most like case built against it. I thought Google
Speaker 1: was going to be the one because they because of
Speaker 1: their practices around Google Ads.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I'm not planning you know, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: but uh, you know, that's we'll see where this goes.
Speaker 4: But it is nice to see them, you know, actually
Speaker 4: filing these kinds of lawsuits because like it's absolutely we're
Speaker 4: just gonna have fucking three places to buy things in
Speaker 4: ten years.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, to bring us back down to earth, let's talk
Speaker 1: about what Netflix, Disney and the other streaming companies are doing.
Speaker 1: In response to their big l that they took in
Speaker 1: the in the strike, they have decided to form a
Speaker 1: powerful new political lobbying group, the Streaming Innovation Alliance see
Speaker 1: US SEE.
Speaker 6: Which not to be confused with the Pop Star but.
Speaker 1: They claim they will advocate for federal and state policies
Speaker 1: that build on the strong, competitive and pro customer market
Speaker 1: for streaming video. Look, they're just looking out for the
Speaker 1: consumer here, that's all they care about.
Speaker 5: And how are you doing that? Because you want to
Speaker 5: bring the prices down?
Speaker 6: And what you did not.
Speaker 1: Pay more taxes than make sure I heard that right,
Speaker 1: I make sure you don't pay taxes. Also, they get
Speaker 1: because you think they're not gonna come on, I'm spending
Speaker 1: money at your local store that isn't in business anymore
Speaker 1: because we put your own business.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but because with the because cable there so they
Speaker 4: can't do the cable taxes, and they're like, but they're trying.
Speaker 5: To put it on us the streamers doesn't know, Yeah,
Speaker 5: don't do that. Don't do that.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean some people are like, oh, they could be,
Speaker 1: you know, lobbying in favor of net neutrality, because that
Speaker 1: was like the one thing they were on the right
Speaker 1: side of. But Netflix has stopped giving a shit about
Speaker 1: net neutrality and started giving a shit about you know,
Speaker 1: just their own tax base and also not having to
Speaker 1: deal with regulations around the world. Netflix has been lobbying
Speaker 1: since twenty ten, and they now have a team of
Speaker 1: thirty full time staffers devoted to public policy, so four
Speaker 1: of them based in Washington. So there are four people
Speaker 1: probably graduated from like Ivy League schools, who work in
Speaker 1: Washington full time on Netflix policy, on behalf of right Flix.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like, realistically it's going to be, like you're saying,
Speaker 4: to try and avoid taxation. I'd imagine that they would
Speaker 4: probably have a bit of an anti worker bend now
Speaker 4: that you know what.
Speaker 2: What's hard to imagine that when you see the WJ
Speaker 2: being like, all right, we like this deal, that they
Speaker 2: got to be like, bro, we got to figure out
Speaker 2: where to find some of this other money now, because
Speaker 2: we got to start paying these people.
Speaker 5: They're fair sure. Oh fuck, all right, well fire up
Speaker 5: the lobbying machine in Washington.
Speaker 1: Netflix hires companies lobbying firms such as Baker McKenzie, which,
Speaker 1: if you're not familiar with Baker McKenzie, you haven't read
Speaker 1: the Pandora papers.
Speaker 6: Which.
Speaker 1: Those dumped all sorts of crazy information about corporate tax
Speaker 1: evasion like uber Wealthy People's tax evasion, and those papers
Speaker 1: mentioned Baker McKenzie more than any other major US law firm.
Speaker 1: The leaks alone revealed that Baker McKenzie was involved in
Speaker 1: setting up more than four hundred and forty shore companies
Speaker 1: registered in tax havens. Uh so they're basically professional corruption engines,
Speaker 1: you know, like that they are allegedly yeah, yeah, allegedly
Speaker 1: we do miles.
Speaker 6: Do you think is going to be just come on, we.
Speaker 4: Have a soup to nuts sort of offering for our
Speaker 4: custom I mean our clients, because we care about them.
Speaker 5: Obviously, we're full service. We're full service, full service, full service.
Speaker 6: Anyways.
Speaker 1: Uh, it's that So that's I mean, that's how things
Speaker 1: are fought, you know, like just straight up you have
Speaker 1: corporations spending tons of money on lobbying efforts, and then
Speaker 1: for the first time, maybe we have people actually, you know,
Speaker 1: governments and regulators are actually trying to regulate.
Speaker 6: So yeah, be interesting.
Speaker 5: Will they regulate? Will they do?
Speaker 4: Warren g and Nate Dog proud with these regulations? And
Speaker 4: do you think they said that at the FDC before
Speaker 4: they filed that lawsuit.
Speaker 6: Yeah, almost definitely.
Speaker 5: They just screamed it out.
Speaker 4: Like forty something white guys or there is like there
Speaker 4: are like some gen X and like older millennials that
Speaker 4: are working there now.
Speaker 5: They're like that would be kind of cool.
Speaker 6: Dude, that would be tight, right. Yeah. What else?
Speaker 1: California and acts first gun and ammunition tax in the country.
Speaker 6: I mean, that's pretty cool. There's a lot of good
Speaker 6: news today. Holy shit.
Speaker 1: The federal government party taxes the sale of guns and
Speaker 1: ammunition at either ten or eleven percent, depending on the
Speaker 1: type of gun. But with the signing of AB twenty
Speaker 1: eight on Tuesday, California will now add an eleven percent
Speaker 1: excise tax on the purchase of guns and ammunition, which
Speaker 1: the bills author states is lower than the excise tax
Speaker 1: on marijuana sales. So that's how they got. Yeah, let's look,
Speaker 1: this is barely.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, it's like again, it's it's
Speaker 4: like what that Chris Rock bit from like one of
Speaker 4: his first albums is, if you want to make gun
Speaker 4: control like easier, just make a bullet cost five.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly. It's like the printer printer, that's it.
Speaker 4: If you're not going to do it that way, then
Speaker 4: create some other forces. But now I'm sure people just
Speaker 4: buy it. Who knows, I don't. I don't know where
Speaker 4: the black market is for ammunition. But nice to see
Speaker 4: some little things getting done.
Speaker 6: It's like common sense.
Speaker 1: The money will pay for security improvements at public schools
Speaker 1: and a variety of gun violence prevention programs, including those
Speaker 1: geared toward young people and gangs, whereas the money from
Speaker 1: federal tax which has been in place for more than
Speaker 1: one hundred years, pays for wildlife conservation and hunter education programs.
Speaker 1: Basically like might as well fun to the NRI.
Speaker 5: Yeah, which is interesting.
Speaker 4: I'm curious if these if a gun violence prevention program
Speaker 4: means money to cops, that's the one thing.
Speaker 5: A little what are we doing here? What are we
Speaker 5: doing here?
Speaker 1: Eventually one for us, no longer for them. Yeah, exactly. Hey,
Speaker 1: that sounds good. Sounds good to me.
Speaker 6: We're so desperate for one for us that we're like, yeah, yeah, sure.
Speaker 5: And that's what we call boy Matt.
Speaker 6: That's right.
Speaker 1: Those are some of the things that are trending on
Speaker 1: this Wednesday, September twenty seventh. We are back tomorrow with
Speaker 1: a whole lest episode of the show. Until then, be
Speaker 1: kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine,
Speaker 1: don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
Speaker 1: to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 6: Bye bye bye,