Speaker 1: Do you know the Farsie rapper Black Cecie.
Speaker 2: It sounds really familiar.
Speaker 3: Bro her.
Speaker 1: Fucking I don't speak Farsie, but the flow is wild
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 2: Oh, you always have the best music.
Speaker 3: Rex.
Speaker 1: I get all so much farcie content that I send
Speaker 1: to anim Like, what's this dude saying? What they laughing
Speaker 1: about you? So much of my algorithm is fucking Farsie created.
Speaker 3: It's so weird. You're not Iranian, No, Bro, I grew
Speaker 3: up maybe maybe geographically They're like this dude definitely grew
Speaker 3: up around persons and also like.
Speaker 2: A better accent than like most first generation kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny because like Farsie has that like stank
Speaker 1: to it that it kind of like this is swaggy.
Speaker 2: Okay, I was just gonna say that is the hypothyroid
Speaker 2: Like pacing we are famous for throughout the Middle East
Speaker 2: with hyroid.
Speaker 3: Is just the same as drinking syrup.
Speaker 2: Right, It's like a combination of like hypo the relaxed.
Speaker 3: Like a little yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean like I'm like, I'm like, this sounds like
Speaker 1: she's right. I don't know, I'm like, this is a
Speaker 1: this is a rapper. I don't know what she's saying,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's work. What's not in Jack
Speaker 1: mean that's what the thing was called. And yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the name of the said.
Speaker 2: He sucks a little bit. Not in just orange.
Speaker 1: Oh well she isn't, okay, I mean she's in the
Speaker 1: orange lambeau.
Speaker 2: So she's like a little orange Spanish like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: well because Spain, you know Morocco. Yeah right, and then
Speaker 2: the conquistadors and the you know.
Speaker 1: Right funny thing language, isn't it right?
Speaker 3: Funny thing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like hypothyroidism meets hypermobility. It's like Iranian chill.
Speaker 1: All her videos are just hurt in Dubai like lambos.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm so curious what the backstory is, Like.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think she's earning money like this from wrap,
Speaker 1: but I love I love the visuals. You're definitely bossing up.
Speaker 2: Where is the Lambo from.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter, you know, it could be a nast.
Speaker 3: The furious movies that they shot over there just left
Speaker 3: all the cards.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, we don't want to know, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll pair on the side up. Maybe we don't
Speaker 1: want to go down there.
Speaker 3: And just let's just enjoy the orange Lambo.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna get orange Lambeau forever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go. I don't want to why end
Speaker 2: up in someone's files?
Speaker 3: No, okay, I said it all right, And that was
Speaker 3: my first thought when I saw that a Steam files,
Speaker 3: I was like, oh man, could you imagine how hard
Speaker 3: it would be to be in those files? Right now? Wow,
Speaker 3: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season four to fifteen,
Speaker 3: Episode four of Dr Daily's Guys. This production by Heart Radios,
Speaker 3: the podcast where we take a deep dive into america
Speaker 3: Shared consciousness. And it's Thursday, November twentieth, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm. You know what that meure is?
Speaker 1: It's National Rural Health Day. God bless them, God bless
Speaker 1: the Royal healthcare system that is holded by a thread.
Speaker 3: Hard to say that.
Speaker 1: National Absurdity Day. Oh, that's what the picture is. It's
Speaker 1: a dog with a wig on.
Speaker 3: Wait a second of absurdity.
Speaker 1: National Peanut Butter Fudge Day and National Child to Day
Speaker 1: whatever that means.
Speaker 3: I just like I can't. I can just imagine the
Speaker 3: person who created National Absurdity Day, and just like the
Speaker 3: energy VAMPIRESM like those ring like, so I think we
Speaker 3: should create a day for like absurdity, you know, like
Speaker 3: I don't know. I feel like I'm I like nobody
Speaker 3: gets my sense of humor. I'm so crazy.
Speaker 1: Let's see who even I'm creat We have no idea. Huh,
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I think I don't want to know.
Speaker 3: Is kind of what I'm saying. I don't worry about it. Yeah, bummer. Anyways,
Speaker 3: my name is Jack O'Brien AKA. Some people call me
Speaker 3: a pure cowboy. Some called me a gangster of crimes.
Speaker 3: Some people call me Buba, but I swear I'm not Bubba.
Speaker 3: From those files, I was the potus Trump held m scrotis.
Speaker 3: We got some photos them putin stole those That one
Speaker 3: courtesy of Paul Moran vo on the Discord. WHOA that
Speaker 3: came to me in a flash. But I'm outside working.
Speaker 3: My hands are too cold to finish. God damn working
Speaker 3: hard in the Discord in the AKA Discord, thank you
Speaker 3: for that. Shout out to shout out to Bubba, whoever
Speaker 3: he may be.
Speaker 1: Whoever you may be, whoever you may be.
Speaker 3: Thrilled to be joined as always by my co host
Speaker 3: mister Miles Gras.
Speaker 1: It's Miles Gray aka ninety Day feyon say only Genie
Speaker 1: says watch is this?
Speaker 3: I it's the cognitive test. Shout out to First Blood
Speaker 3: five to two two on the discord.
Speaker 1: Yes, my theory that only the smart and most intelligent
Speaker 1: life forms watch ninety day Fiance holds to this day.
Speaker 1: Don't ask me my methodology. It's purely anecdotal and biased
Speaker 1: to reinforce the narrative that I need to put out
Speaker 1: in the world. But thank you First Blood for recognizing that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I tried to watch it and it was too
Speaker 3: confusing to me.
Speaker 1: I just took I was like, what the fuck I
Speaker 1: can wrap my head around this ship man one of physics.
Speaker 3: I was watching quantum Leap. Miles was thrilled to be
Speaker 3: joined in our third seat by a very funny comedian
Speaker 3: and activist, one of the hosts of the great award
Speaker 3: winning podcast Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, Senior Fellow on comedy
Speaker 3: at the Pop Culture Collaborative. She's written in The New
Speaker 3: York Times. I wrote and performed a piece on NPR's
Speaker 3: Fresh Air. It's the hilarious the talented Zara nor By.
Speaker 2: High highs all around we're going.
Speaker 1: We're doing high high five and high are you good?
Speaker 1: You good? I'm bringing you in, wapping you up?
Speaker 3: Good, you good? Doing a complicated handshake, Patton, you real
Speaker 3: good on you.
Speaker 2: We're still handshaking.
Speaker 3: Actually, it's gonna be happening the whole episode. That's how
Speaker 3: the steps are in our handshake. Sora, how are you doing?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: Ah, alright, I knew you were gonna ask this.
Speaker 1: Why are you getting a scroll out? Let's see?
Speaker 3: Okay, answer okay, okay, Yeah, that's a good answer.
Speaker 1: Actually answer yeah, parenthood. I'll beg you give a good
Speaker 1: answer to that. Has parenthood going?
Speaker 2: Parent Oh boy?
Speaker 3: Mm hmm, yeah, I heard that. I heard that. I
Speaker 3: heard that. I'm alive. Yeah, I tell you my god,
Speaker 3: she's mating her lips really hard. O.
Speaker 2: Folks out there, has your daughter ever had a U
Speaker 2: T I? Oh boy, under the age of three?
Speaker 3: I believe that is yeah, that guy. I don't have daughters,
Speaker 3: but I hear I have heard from friends with daughters
Speaker 3: that that does tend to happen.
Speaker 1: There's a man with friends with daughters.
Speaker 3: I am a man whose friends have daughters.
Speaker 1: Okay, I have heard tell of these outies before all right.
Speaker 2: Fuck your little wieners that can take a bubble bath?
Speaker 2: Yeah can, As if I didn't need one more thing?
Speaker 1: Wow from a bath from the bubble bag. God, damn it,
Speaker 1: damn yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Not sick.
Speaker 3: Ingredients.
Speaker 2: But she likes to do splits in the tub.
Speaker 3: Who doesn't.
Speaker 2: Well do you understand that to test for a U
Speaker 2: T I and a two year old girl, they have
Speaker 2: to put a catheter in. God, it's either put a
Speaker 2: catheter in or put a sticky bag on there, right,
Speaker 2: or chase them with a cup. Yeah, and the other
Speaker 2: two options. Pediatrics hasn't found a way for it to
Speaker 2: not look.
Speaker 3: Like assault, right right, right, right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So I just chased her with a cup.
Speaker 1: There you go go, that's what doing. He just couldn't
Speaker 1: knock it out with some cranberry juice, huh.
Speaker 2: I mean I'm gonna try.
Speaker 1: That's always like the remedy. I remember, I need cranberry juice.
Speaker 3: Cranberry juice boarding yeah, right right.
Speaker 2: Right, if anyone has advice out there, right, Like the
Speaker 2: doctor was finally like she probably doesn't have one, okay,
Speaker 2: just like got pissed on and then we left and
Speaker 2: we were just like it didn't work.
Speaker 1: Out man.
Speaker 3: Thanks for getting to the bottom of it. Doctor, She's
Speaker 3: probably good. You can bring the test back. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at this. It's fine.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Wait, don't you need to like run it through something. Nah,
Speaker 3: just kind of vibe it out. Yeah, yeah, this looks good. Yeah, now,
Speaker 3: this is good. This is actually pretty good, really good. Actually,
Speaker 3: this is wow, this is really good stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm teeing off in about an hour, so if I
Speaker 1: can get out of here, that'd be great. Miss Reynolds,
Speaker 1: no nor oh fuck all right, Hold I.
Speaker 2: Had a little wiener, right, she could bubble bath it up.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, yep, yep.
Speaker 1: Like my son loves a bubble bath to the point
Speaker 1: that I feel like he only wants bubbles to consume him.
Speaker 3: And it is no longer a bath.
Speaker 1: It's like my child has disappeared into the abyss of
Speaker 1: fucking bubbles and he knows there's an adult one that
Speaker 1: froths up better, and there's a kid one that doesn't
Speaker 1: sting his eyes. And when he sees me reach like
Speaker 1: the kids, like, bro, knock it off with that weak ship, bro,
Speaker 1: it does bubble up? Put that fucking cut Yeah, put
Speaker 1: the fucking stinger in.
Speaker 2: Okay, how do I just get her more bubble baths?
Speaker 2: What do I need to do? Does she have to
Speaker 2: wear a swimsuit?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just need to put antibiotics in.
Speaker 1: The water or just yeah, disinfect the tuble, like you
Speaker 1: got to bleach that ship, you know, disaffected. Yeah yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I I look, I'm not trying to cast his version.
Speaker 1: So the of your bathroom.
Speaker 3: Just dunk her in head first by the ankles. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: no problem solved. I'm getting Mike.
Speaker 1: I'm getting my kid into shower showers, so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, oh man, my kids love a shower and
Speaker 3: always need to be told to get out. It's like,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, I would come back. I would come back
Speaker 3: forty five minutes later, and they'd still be in the
Speaker 3: shower if I didn't tell them to get oh.
Speaker 1: Right, doing like the just letting the water hit him,
Speaker 1: just let the water hit him, doing voices, doing bits yep, yeah, yep, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll turn off the shower. And then my kid wants
Speaker 1: to smear all the leftover water. Yeah, like that has
Speaker 1: trained and he like tries to do fucking snow angels
Speaker 1: in that, and I'm like, sir, it's you're gonna get
Speaker 1: diminishing returns here. Yeah, anyway, Sorry, we're thrilled to have
Speaker 1: you here. We're gonna get to know you a little
Speaker 1: bit better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell the
Speaker 1: listeners a couple of things we're talking about. We're gonna
Speaker 1: check in on the James Comy prosecution. Got his ass.
Speaker 1: Oh yea, yeah, got his ass. All we had to
Speaker 1: do is lie to a grand jury.
Speaker 3: It turns out it turns out the designed incomfidence of
Speaker 3: the Trope administration has come back to bite them in
Speaker 3: this case. And they they they did not quite nail
Speaker 3: the case. It seems like it might get dismissed. We're
Speaker 3: gonna check in with some sad news from Larry Summers
Speaker 3: his career. Apparently being Jeffrey Epstein's wing man is not
Speaker 3: the look that his neo liberal besties we're looking for.
Speaker 3: And he's you know, this is really when you know
Speaker 3: who's down, when all the chips are down, and you've
Speaker 3: been revealed to be Jeffrey Epstein's wingman, who's gonna stay
Speaker 3: with you? Yeah, it turns out not that many people.
Speaker 3: We're gonna also check in with Bill Ackman, another one
Speaker 3: of our favorite billionaires. And then we're gonna look at
Speaker 3: the Warner Brothers Discovery sale that looks like it could
Speaker 3: go very badly. Our boys as not protecting the cinematic
Speaker 3: theater going experience as much as we would probably have hoped.
Speaker 1: No, no, really, Yeah, we're gonna get like three movies
Speaker 1: a year, it sounds like, and.
Speaker 3: They're all going to be Avatar movies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mission Impossibles, Yeah, all of that, plenty more.
Speaker 3: But for czar, we do like to ask our guests,
Speaker 3: what is something from your search history that's revealing about
Speaker 3: who you are?
Speaker 2: Okay, just content warning for some folks. I'm gonna talk
Speaker 2: about pregnancy.
Speaker 3: Okay, oh boy, like five minutes, Jack, I'm sure, uh okay.
Speaker 2: I had to look up anterior placenta because I'm pregnant.
Speaker 1: Whoa, congrats, congratulations Okay, pregnant with a toddler with a ut.
Speaker 1: Now all the groans have made. Yeah yeah, yeah, don't
Speaker 1: bury the lead. Oh man, wait, so I'm ignorant, So
Speaker 1: will you explain that search term phrase to me?
Speaker 2: Okay, anterior placenta is when your placenta is like thicker
Speaker 2: mm hmm in the front.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I think and the party in the back.
Speaker 2: And there's a party in the back versus the other
Speaker 2: way around, where people feel a lot of movement.
Speaker 1: Oh, I see, I see, I see.
Speaker 3: Getting it in the back, Like you're feeling the movement
Speaker 3: in the back, and that can be uncomfortable. I remember that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's what happens when you have butt sex.
Speaker 3: Because that is not what I was implying. I told
Speaker 3: you you get pregnant, Zara. I told you.
Speaker 2: I thought I couldn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, I remember. I think we might have
Speaker 3: had something like that going on and my wife feeling
Speaker 3: like the kicks in her back, right, yeah, oh, the baby,
Speaker 3: the baby's movement in her back more than a like
Speaker 3: in your organs too.
Speaker 4: Maybe I didn't think about that, just kidney kicks getting
Speaker 4: rabbit punched over here.
Speaker 2: She moves a lot. It's a girl.
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm really excited.
Speaker 2: Disease for now. Anyway, she's a girl for now.
Speaker 3: I don't know. They may choose what life holds, of course,
Speaker 3: of course, what is something that you think is underrated?
Speaker 2: Okay, underrated, I'm gonna say disability activism?
Speaker 3: Mm hmmmm, hmmm.
Speaker 2: Have you talked about my dear friend Alice's Alice Wunk's passing.
Speaker 1: No, no, I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Oh man, that's my other big sigh. Is I really
Speaker 2: miss my friend a lot?
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 3: If you don't mind me, I didn't, I didn't.
Speaker 2: Alice Wong is an incredible disability activist. She's advocated for
Speaker 2: all kinds of disability visibility and made me aware of
Speaker 2: my relationship to disability as a person with invisible disabilit
Speaker 2: And it's just.
Speaker 3: She.
Speaker 2: I miss her a lot. She danced with you in
Speaker 2: the light, she sat with you in the dark, and
Speaker 2: just wrote the book on intimacy literally right. And I, oh,
Speaker 2: my goodness, I can't tell you what a good friend
Speaker 2: she was and how good she was at friendship, so good,
Speaker 2: so good at it. Like she sent Afy, my daughter,
Speaker 2: her first letter saying welcome and her name on mail,
Speaker 2: and she gave her her love that she sleeps with today.
Speaker 2: That was like perfect. And she was just that kind
Speaker 2: of gift giver and she's just that kind of person.
Speaker 2: And in her passing, so many folks have become so
Speaker 2: much more aware of disability activism. And there are pieces
Speaker 2: about her in The New York Times, which is now
Speaker 2: a tabloid but still great. And the Washington Post and
Speaker 2: more and so many of us that she touched that
Speaker 2: miss her desperately. Yeah, and I'm so happy to thank you,
Speaker 2: and I'm so happy to bring her name here.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: And I have in the past with book recommendations of hers.
Speaker 2: You know, her books are incredible. She's written I think
Speaker 2: five or more books. She was incredibly prolific. She had
Speaker 2: multiple documentaries, one of them's on Netflix. She was a
Speaker 2: MacArthur genius. She's a genius.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And if you're out there, tell UCSF and other hospitals
Speaker 2: that you want their staff to mask up out of
Speaker 2: respect for folks managing disability and who are immunocompromised. That
Speaker 2: was something she always asked us to do, is to
Speaker 2: email them and say, hey, folks wear a mask. Just
Speaker 2: an incredible human.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, just just I mean, I remember I think
Speaker 1: it was maybe I feel like the book you suggested
Speaker 1: was maybe a Year of the Tiger.
Speaker 3: Yes, I think one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was just reading that heard in
Speaker 1: her sort of last reflections on life. She was just saying,
Speaker 1: don't let the bastards grind you down.
Speaker 3: I love you all. Yeah, yeah, that's good advice. Yeah. Well, yeah,
Speaker 3: we'll link off to whichever of those articles you think
Speaker 3: does the best job in the footnotes. Yeah, thank you,
Speaker 3: so people can read more about Alice Wong. What is uh?
Speaker 3: What's something you think is overrated?
Speaker 2: Shoot? I always forget my overrated.
Speaker 1: Take your time, take your time.
Speaker 2: Like look down to see like did I write it down?
Speaker 2: And I.
Speaker 3: Not having written down here somewhere this is a receipt.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, I got it. Okay, my overrated is I'm
Speaker 2: a little late Squid Games. I'm just I'm a little late.
Speaker 3: I think we can all you know, you're not late,
Speaker 3: You're right on time to take a step back and
Speaker 3: re evaluate it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just okay, listen, it's never late because it's Netflix.
Speaker 1: Okay, just showed.
Speaker 2: Up on my cue and I went on this rant.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that I had last night my husband
Speaker 2: where I just was like, how can you as a
Speaker 2: nation connect with a film like Squid Games so deeply
Speaker 2: right and then just move on live your life, Like
Speaker 2: like after Squid Games came out, that should have been
Speaker 2: the warning about trump Ism.
Speaker 3: I love that we're putting an ass on the end
Speaker 3: of Squid Games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say, from hanging out with Jack's
Speaker 1: dad a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my dad. My dad would always called Brad Pit
Speaker 3: Brad Pitts squids game, you know, squids Games.
Speaker 2: Because squid Game, I'm basically a percion.
Speaker 1: Oh you mean just sort of like yeah, because it
Speaker 1: was the thing.
Speaker 3: It's the biggest Netflix show.
Speaker 1: Everyone's like, damn, that's hitting on some shit. And then
Speaker 1: it's like, all right, back to the mines.
Speaker 3: Yeah, damn they would rather die than not be able
Speaker 3: to pay for health care. That's crazy.
Speaker 2: Just like, yeah, completely connect with this film.
Speaker 1: And yeah, anyway, they did a great job then co
Speaker 1: opting it and turning into a reality competition show.
Speaker 2: Also, now that I am on time for.
Speaker 1: There you go, I did watch season two of Squid Games,
Speaker 1: the show, the competition show, Like.
Speaker 2: I just think we should pay more attention.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it's like one, I don't know, I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, I totally get that. I guess my hope
Speaker 1: of it is if we stack up enough of these
Speaker 1: pieces of media that just incrementally or raising people's class consciousness,
Speaker 1: it will get it will reach a tipping point, like
Speaker 1: a match tipping point where people who Because I feel
Speaker 1: like there are a ton of people who had never
Speaker 1: thought about this ship and saw a squid Game like yo,
Speaker 1: oh interesting, isn't that.
Speaker 5: Like kind of like here in a way, and you're like, okay,
Speaker 5: go on where where They're just like, yo, it's fucked
Speaker 5: up and it's Korea. Yeah, Korean fucked up.
Speaker 3: Dude.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to go.
Speaker 2: There now, you know that's fair.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do the bubble right right, right.
Speaker 1: But no, I totally get though too of like we
Speaker 1: have so many moments we're like, yeah, come on, baby,
Speaker 1: come on, y'all, let's do we see it now? Right,
Speaker 1: We're all seeing it, and it's not enough time.
Speaker 5: I mean, we're so far back.
Speaker 2: Like maybe my overrated should have been that question of
Speaker 2: like will there be a civil war in the United States?
Speaker 2: I just want to be like, have you been around
Speaker 2: in the last couple of years, Like yeah, you're tying
Speaker 2: he has his own military.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, sure, sure, yeah. I didn't realize like that
Speaker 3: this is the thing that happens where Like I usually
Speaker 3: quit on TV shows pretty early, and so I stopped
Speaker 3: after the first season of Squid Games. I just was like,
Speaker 3: I think I know where this is going, and it
Speaker 3: feels like they're just like drawing it out, and like
Speaker 3: I didn't think that they really stuck the landing on
Speaker 3: the ending of the first season that she was like
Speaker 3: getting more popular. Like the season three debut was like
Speaker 3: broke all the all the season's season three the third
Speaker 3: and final season, and it broke all the records.
Speaker 1: I'm just fine with that first season.
Speaker 2: You know, I am ahead of the curve.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, in that way, we so lute
Speaker 1: you absolutely.
Speaker 3: Those in July, but you know, we're like we got
Speaker 3: a lot on our plates right now, you know. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I do wonder like how much of it is people
Speaker 3: being like, we get what's going on here, Like what
Speaker 3: an interesting way to depict the brutality of everyday life
Speaker 3: under neoliberalism. And then how many people were just like
Speaker 3: I like reality TV competitions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if we could wait till we yield him like
Speaker 1: in the movie. No, they don't kill them like in
Speaker 1: the movie, just emotionally.
Speaker 3: It's just little paintballs that go off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nah, I wish they shoot him in the chest.
Speaker 3: We do love a reality show where the contestants get killed.
Speaker 3: That's that's always been a very very popular thing with
Speaker 3: why what's another one I watch the running man. Oh oh,
Speaker 3: you mean like just the idea of like the idea
Speaker 3: of it is.
Speaker 2: Okay, here's my I'll watch the ship out of that.
Speaker 2: I'm fine with that. But afterwards, I'm gonna get behind
Speaker 2: some goddamn legislation. I'm gonna right not gonna sit on
Speaker 2: my ass.
Speaker 1: Well not not while you have people like ao AOC
Speaker 1: saying we shouldn't primary Hakeem Jeffries.
Speaker 3: He's with.
Speaker 1: Jesus. I don't know about the city council guy trying
Speaker 1: to run for him. Like you look, I get it.
Speaker 1: You're trying to ascend in the Democratic Party and you're
Speaker 1: not trying.
Speaker 2: But like but like she's ascending, she's descending, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's like a dolly zoom in a movie where it's
Speaker 1: are they assuming in or pulling out?
Speaker 3: I can't tell.
Speaker 1: The backgrounds certainly moving either way.
Speaker 3: The effect is unnerving. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, let's uh,
Speaker 3: let's take a quick break and we'll come back and
Speaker 3: talk about the current administration, who also not very good.
Speaker 3: We'll be right back, and we're back. We're back, and
Speaker 3: let's let's talk about so Donald Trump. Well, one of
Speaker 3: the stories that we've been like blizzarded with over the
Speaker 3: past couple of months, was that he was going after
Speaker 3: his political enemies and trying to put them in jail
Speaker 3: for being mean to him, essentially the gist of it,
Speaker 3: and some judges were like, maybe we'll push back on this,
Speaker 3: but they're kind of doing so. The people that Trump
Speaker 3: put in charge of these prosecutions have kind of done
Speaker 3: the heavy lifting. For those judges and for anybody who
Speaker 3: was like, we need to protect democracy, they were like, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: you don't have to work that hard. Actually, we're gonna
Speaker 3: fuck this up spectacular.
Speaker 1: So fucking bad. It's gonna be laughable, because I mean,
Speaker 1: like it feels like one of the final guardrails we
Speaker 1: have protecting us from total despotic rule are the courts.
Speaker 1: Like they've they've been able to push back a little bit.
Speaker 1: And while obviously there are like maga meat bags and
Speaker 1: judges robes operating in the courts, like Eileen Cannon in Florida,
Speaker 1: who is based like documents, I don't know anything can
Speaker 1: let them go, they're also like regular judges who care
Speaker 1: about like how fucking trials work, just generally. So again,
Speaker 1: Trump wants revenge on all the people that held him
Speaker 1: to account in some form, and he will just do
Speaker 1: anything to get them into court, even if that includes lying.
Speaker 1: His prosecution of James Comy has hit wall after a while,
Speaker 1: because one, there isn't an actual crime to prosecute. Two,
Speaker 1: no lawyer with any real pedigree would agree to this
Speaker 1: openly corrupt bullshit, and three the person that was willing
Speaker 1: to do it literally.
Speaker 3: Knows fuck all.
Speaker 1: About prosecuting a case. So Comy right now he's seeking
Speaker 1: to dismiss the case against him, and he's one step
Speaker 1: closer to that happening since the judges decided that there
Speaker 1: were some pretty terrible missteps during the grand jury proceedings,
Speaker 1: So the prosecution now has to hand over all those
Speaker 1: grand jury materials for Kmy's team to review. Basically, the
Speaker 1: judge is like, you guys don't know what you were doing,
Speaker 1: and I think you may be lying.
Speaker 3: Was what happened.
Speaker 1: Earlier this week, Judge Fitzpatrick quote raised sharp doubts about
Speaker 1: an account of the grand jury proceedings provided by the
Speaker 1: Justice Department and whether it had turned over all records
Speaker 1: of the interactions between Halle and the grand juries. Basically,
Speaker 1: what's happening here is that he Halligan said, she like
Speaker 1: that she was trying to get these these two counts,
Speaker 1: to get the grand jury to accept these two counts
Speaker 1: to indict James Comy. They rejected one of them. So
Speaker 1: she kind of just like turned around and brought like
Speaker 1: a new paper for the foreman of the grand jury
Speaker 1: to sign, and just like, yeah, there you go where
Speaker 1: one of the counts the grand jury didn't actually review.
Speaker 3: So she has like swapped it out and sort of
Speaker 3: like when sign, yeah, signed those report cards permission permission
Speaker 3: slip for a field trip, right, like.
Speaker 4: A cover sheet for your report card. Yeah, without the
Speaker 4: report card attached. Yeah, they said again, like this is
Speaker 4: how the reported. The judge claimed that Halligan had claimed
Speaker 4: she had her last contact with the grand jury at
Speaker 4: four to twenty eight pm that day while the jurors
Speaker 4: were deliberating, but he also noted that the grand jury
Speaker 4: initially rejected one of the counts against Calemy, leading prosecutors
Speaker 4: to prepare a new indictment that Halligan ultimately signed. Yet
Speaker 4: nothing of the record reflects the grand jury's initial decision
Speaker 4: or consideration of the second indictment. So he's like, the
Speaker 4: judge was like there was no time for like, based
Speaker 4: on what I'm saying, there was no way the grand
Speaker 4: jury could have actually considered this second indictment.
Speaker 3: And so what the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 1: Uh? He Also the judge also said Halligan, quote, who
Speaker 1: had never prosecuted a case prior to Comey's, appeared to
Speaker 1: make two fundamental misstatements of law to the grand jury
Speaker 1: that could jeopardize the indictment altogether.
Speaker 3: Quote.
Speaker 1: The record points to a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps,
Speaker 1: missteps that led an FBI agent and a prosecutor to
Speaker 1: potentially undermine the integrity of the grand jury proceeding.
Speaker 3: So, she had never prosecuted like a federal case before.
Speaker 3: She never any kind nothing, nothing. She's an prosecute lawyer.
Speaker 1: No, she's not a prosecutors who has a law degree, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and was practicing. She wasn't prosecuting cases though, Okay, what
Speaker 1: I mean? She was just there to represent people in
Speaker 1: like like insurance here. I don't know what I don't
Speaker 1: look her being a US attorney prosecuting a federal case
Speaker 1: is so Jack, that's like us playing in the NBA.
Speaker 1: Like that's you and me suiting up tonight. Watch in
Speaker 1: the NBA.
Speaker 3: I would watch that too, but you want to see
Speaker 3: a guy, So yeah, it would be entertaining because even
Speaker 3: in high school, my specialty was getting dunked on spectacularly soul.
Speaker 3: I would just be like getting dunked on in it,
Speaker 3: like exploding backwards, like I stepped on a landmine, and
Speaker 3: like it would be so entertaining for people. They should
Speaker 3: put me in the NBA, just me show how good
Speaker 3: everyone else is.
Speaker 1: I think this is the equivalent because a lot of
Speaker 1: legal observers.
Speaker 3: Like, holy fucking shit, dude, this movie's cooked. She's proper fucked.
Speaker 1: Then Wednesday, she was in front of the judge again
Speaker 1: quote the full grand jury never reviewed the indictment it
Speaker 1: handed up against former FBI director James Comy. Interim US
Speaker 1: attorney Halligan conceded Wednesday, She's like, yeah, they never reviewed it.
Speaker 3: Uh funding Okay, yes, I was lying. You're being so
Speaker 3: annoy about it.
Speaker 1: Prosecutors said that instead of presenting a new indictment to
Speaker 1: the grand jury after declined to approve one of the counts,
Speaker 1: Halligan simply brought an altered version to the magistrate's courtroom
Speaker 1: for the grand jury sports person to sign.
Speaker 3: Like isn't that a crime, like just a feeling? Yeah, yes,
Speaker 3: So are they so bad? I mean, we know the
Speaker 3: answer how they're so bad is because you need somebody
Speaker 3: who's spectacularly corrupt, and people who are good at their
Speaker 3: jobs are like making the calculation. They're like, I'm not
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna like fuck my career to just like
Speaker 3: act like this guy knows what he's talking about the
Speaker 3: only people who are willing to do that are in
Speaker 3: this case, an insurance lawyer that Trump met at a
Speaker 3: party yeah and was like I think you're I think
Speaker 3: you're beautiful. Yeah, And therefore and you have a law degree,
Speaker 3: and therefore.
Speaker 1: Therefore you need to be a federal prosecutor to do
Speaker 1: a revenge case that is already so difficult, like you know,
Speaker 1: in a normal courtroom to try it because as called
Speaker 1: me saying this was a vindictive prosecution, he fucking tweeted
Speaker 1: or truth socialed about it. And now you have this
Speaker 1: loser coming in just making shit up. So things are
Speaker 1: looking not good for uh, this case.
Speaker 2: It's wild too, because these are like the tactics that
Speaker 2: like sleazy folks use to keep you in lawsuits, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, and both these things legal, but now they
Speaker 2: just run government, yeah.
Speaker 3: Right, stretching a thing out by just like filing thing
Speaker 3: after things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just to make your life hell yeah.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately the by any means necessary was truly by
Speaker 1: any means, including deception. So I don't know, I mean,
Speaker 1: like that's if this gets dismissed, just another humiliation.
Speaker 2: This is also the administration that, like, you know, with
Speaker 2: senators have died, federal judges have died, you know, like
Speaker 2: everything is on the table as far as I'm concerned
Speaker 2: with them.
Speaker 3: Wait, sorry, what do you mean?
Speaker 6: What so?
Speaker 2: Uh Melissa Hortman, Oh.
Speaker 3: Beasinated but oh you got you yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: And then they just say, well it's not us, you know.
Speaker 2: But it's like, yeah, well I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why yeah, I I We'll see what happens with
Speaker 1: Letitia James, because she's also another person who's in the
Speaker 1: crossairs of Trump's vindictive do O J crusade. They're already
Speaker 1: like I think it was Fanny May and the Freddie
Speaker 1: mac They were like looking at her loan stuff and like,
Speaker 1: we don't see any kind of deceptive ship here, Like
Speaker 1: they're like, I don't know, go ahead, I guess like
Speaker 1: even according to us, who would know about this kind
Speaker 1: of like mortgage fraud.
Speaker 3: We're like no, So that'll be another very interesting one
Speaker 3: to keep an eye on, and I'm.
Speaker 1: Sure we will, because yeah, the weaponized incompetence is really
Speaker 1: leaning into the incompetence part, like oh too much now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's just get you get incompetent people. They'll
Speaker 3: do anything you say, but they're not going to be
Speaker 3: good at it. Always all right on the elsewhere in
Speaker 3: the world of rich people who thought that they could
Speaker 3: get away with fucking anything that they wanted. Ever, the
Speaker 3: recently released Epstein emails don't just look bad for Trump,
Speaker 3: although he is the name that's mentioned the most often
Speaker 3: in them. Former Treasury secretary, Harvard President all around. Just
Speaker 3: we've had quotes from this guy just like a complete
Speaker 3: dipshit neoliberalism, like let the market decide guru. Larry Summers
Speaker 3: was in there literally asking Epstein for dating advice in
Speaker 3: twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: And then in some emails dating advice. In some emails,
Speaker 3: Epstein described Summers as his wingman.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's oh.
Speaker 3: That's even worse than the one I had seen where
Speaker 3: he's like, Jeffy, what do I do? She doesn't want
Speaker 3: to fuck me? What do I do? Should I be quiet?
Speaker 3: Should I be strong? Yeah? Very good, very good, very good.
Speaker 3: You were strong when you when you complained about her?
Speaker 1: Yeah right, Oh my god. To be that's being described
Speaker 1: as Epstein's wingman has to just instantly under the jail.
Speaker 2: Yes, but okay, between the Ebstein files and the me
Speaker 2: Too movement, Okay, I just feel like, just be fucking
Speaker 2: nice to women, man, you know, you know what.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I hadn't considered that.
Speaker 2: Fucking cool.
Speaker 3: What if you were just nice?
Speaker 2: What if you were just nicer to me? Because think
Speaker 2: of all of the young women at Harvard that he
Speaker 2: prayed on.
Speaker 3: Oh god, we don't know that. You can't prove that.
Speaker 3: That's all he just happened to. You get dating advice
Speaker 3: from somebody who made a guilty plea to sex crimes
Speaker 3: against children in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yea, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. But it's
Speaker 1: a sweetheart deal. Sweetheart deal though.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. God had already stopped accepting donations from Epstein,
Speaker 3: which I'm sure that wasn't easy for them. He's an
Speaker 3: economics professor, he wined, that the woman who had abandoned
Speaker 3: plans with him for another man was really attracted to
Speaker 3: the other guy, and that I'm unsuitable as a partner.
Speaker 3: He resigned from the board. So this has not gone
Speaker 3: over well with like this honestly, like I feel bad,
Speaker 3: how old fashioned this feels that he had to step
Speaker 3: down from anything, Like what is this the fucking Obama administration? Right,
Speaker 3: what is this? What's going on here? He had to
Speaker 3: step down from Open AI and the New York Times
Speaker 3: is cutting ties with him upstanding, there's there's still consequences
Speaker 3: to people being complete fucking just revealed to be monsters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it is tough when you're described as
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein's wingman and you.
Speaker 3: Can literally the dangerous Nights Crew, the literally dangerous Nights
Speaker 3: Crew with their slick.
Speaker 1: Back hair going out sloppy steaks, which we is ephimistic
Speaker 1: probably for them, but like this is absolutely this is
Speaker 1: like the most purely cancelable offense right now is like
Speaker 1: you're his You're his wingman, he was describing at being
Speaker 1: described as And it's enough that you leave Open AI
Speaker 1: the New York Times, but you can still are you
Speaker 1: still teaching?
Speaker 3: I mean look teaching the children.
Speaker 1: Of fair most are legally adults at this point when
Speaker 1: they're according to.
Speaker 3: Him, these are not children, according to him and Megan Kelly,
Speaker 3: these are basically adult. Okay, they're not five okay. Uh.
Speaker 3: And they have to learn economics from this fucking ghoul
Speaker 3: who does all the people who's just carrying water for
Speaker 3: corporations in a corporatocracy.
Speaker 2: Boy does he understand economics.
Speaker 1: There's a clip of him, a student in one of
Speaker 1: his classes at Harvard video taped him opening up the
Speaker 1: lecture where he has to be like, guys, I'm a
Speaker 1: shamed on myself, although not really saying that, no.
Speaker 2: But he's always saying that because he's caught exactly.
Speaker 1: But it's just wild. Just listen to this guy having
Speaker 1: to be like, I know I'm in the FC fund.
Speaker 1: What Okay, Larry Summers try and explain this away.
Speaker 6: I'm going you will assume my statement regret expressing my
Speaker 6: shame with respect to what I did communication with miss Remstein,
Speaker 6: and that I've said that I'm gonna step back.
Speaker 3: Part time. But I think it's very importing, m very
Speaker 3: important that you be in a room with young people.
Speaker 3: That's very important. Nobody else could do what you do,
Speaker 3: you fucking wizard of us Street. Yeah, I'm sure they
Speaker 3: all agree that this is a great vibe.
Speaker 2: I'm glad that he at least captured. The thing that
Speaker 2: I was the most irked by was his communication with Epstein.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, how ashamed I am by my
Speaker 3: communication and nothing that was indicated or suggested by that communication. Oh,
Speaker 3: by the way, he's mister Epstein. Now, because y'all seemed
Speaker 3: like very friendly and informal in those conversations, I thought
Speaker 3: you were his wingman. Dude like that. You seem like
Speaker 3: you guys were brothers. That's some dude.
Speaker 1: That's just some fucking guy man. And I shouldn't even
Speaker 1: shouldn't even emailed him anyway. Today's lecture is about multilateralism
Speaker 1: and its future in the G twenty.
Speaker 3: You're like, oh huh, thanks.
Speaker 2: Lectures on the mix of blackmailing and how you can
Speaker 2: work from the CIA and the government.
Speaker 1: And do whatever the fuck you want to, and shout
Speaker 1: out to Harvard Man that.
Speaker 3: He just will really quote launch a new investigation into
Speaker 3: the nest one the last one. The last one went well. Actually,
Speaker 3: we actually found that he was really good, So we
Speaker 3: gotta might we might need to do a little better
Speaker 3: with our investigations.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the kind of ship where it's like
Speaker 1: like these are this is the low hanging fruit to
Speaker 1: bring these people to account of, like the Larry Summers
Speaker 1: types where you're like, you're here, you're in the emails,
Speaker 1: I don't know the fuck your relationship is, but like
Speaker 1: you have no business being out here in like normal
Speaker 1: the normal world anymore, let alone teat like lecturing at
Speaker 1: fucking Harvard.
Speaker 3: They have to pass their wisdom onto the youth because
Speaker 3: they do like all those people I feel like have
Speaker 3: bought into their own myth that like the reason they're
Speaker 3: so much richer than everybody is because they're that much smarter.
Speaker 3: So like, sure they have one hundred times more money
Speaker 3: than most people, that's because they're one hundred times smarter.
Speaker 3: So the idea that he has now been like publicly
Speaker 3: you know, ostracized, but like he's still want like it's
Speaker 3: important to him to continue to be like, I like
Speaker 3: what you want me to not pass this fucking galaxy
Speaker 3: brain onto the children of the future. Come on, just
Speaker 3: like you are so eminently replaceable. All you do is
Speaker 3: carry water. You carry water for the most powerful people
Speaker 3: in the given system that you work under. That's what
Speaker 3: you do, and that's how you've gotten all the success
Speaker 3: is you're just doing the thing that all the people
Speaker 3: with all the money and power want to be done,
Speaker 3: and then you you get benefits from that.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, okay, but before we squid games this mmm,
Speaker 2: I am going to bring it back. We can watch
Speaker 2: the ship out of this, but then the actionable ship afterwards. Right,
Speaker 2: I don't want to hear anymore about how unlikable a
Speaker 2: woman is at your workplace.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that was all New York Times. That was
Speaker 3: the New York Times, the New York Times of location.
Speaker 3: That just was like, did women ruin the workplace? Even
Speaker 3: they were like no, I think that's the New York Times.
Speaker 2: But I hear it from every guy, you know, all
Speaker 2: this fucking woman at my workplace, you know? And no,
Speaker 2: but she really sucks, you know, no woman has sucked
Speaker 2: this much?
Speaker 3: Right, right, exactly, not this much? Okay?
Speaker 2: Ever, Like I don't care how annoying she is, how
Speaker 2: shrill she is, how squeaky she is, how whiney she is, right,
Speaker 2: how bossy, how bitchy.
Speaker 3: Bosses? Oh my god, I.
Speaker 1: Hear it all the time should hang out with better
Speaker 1: than me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do just want to like, while we're on
Speaker 3: the topic of rich people thinking that they have like
Speaker 3: galaxy brain and that we like they're doing us a
Speaker 3: favor by even like, first of all, they love to
Speaker 3: be like I created so many jobs as if that
Speaker 3: wouldn't have happened without them, But they also I think
Speaker 3: they really feel like we need them. And Miles, you
Speaker 3: found this Bill Ackman fucking thing where he came out
Speaker 3: and was like a little advice from an old man
Speaker 3: who's fucking killed.
Speaker 1: It okay with women, Like because Bill Ackman, obviously we've
Speaker 1: you've probably heard us talk about him. He's a fucking
Speaker 1: billionaire hedge fund dude. Persian Square Capital is his hedge fund,
Speaker 1: and he's we probably talked about him recently because he
Speaker 1: was shitting his pickleball shorts over the election of Mom Donnie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's constantly giving out the first people to
Speaker 3: move out of New York City Yeah, and never do it.
Speaker 1: And I think and then we also talked about his
Speaker 1: uh what was that where he bought his way onto
Speaker 1: a he put.
Speaker 3: Onto the professional tennis tour and then most and then
Speaker 3: but like wouldn't accept it. He was like, there was
Speaker 3: something off today, like my I think my strings were
Speaker 3: too loose or some looking at the racket. Something about
Speaker 3: the racket.
Speaker 1: I think, No, it's because you're a fucking idiot who
Speaker 1: just bought his way onto here, because you live in
Speaker 1: a fucking simulacrum.
Speaker 3: Anyway, this is what he this is what he posts.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna read his whole fucking bang or tweet
Speaker 1: about relationships.
Speaker 3: I quote.
Speaker 1: I hear from many young men, Oh God, here we go,
Speaker 1: that they find it difficult to meet young women in
Speaker 1: a public setting. In other words, the online culture has
Speaker 1: destroyed the ability to spontaneously meet strangers. As such, I
Speaker 1: thought I would share a few words that I used
Speaker 1: in my youth to meet someone that I found compelling.
Speaker 3: I would ask, quick, what does he mean by it's
Speaker 3: difficult to meet young women in a public setting because
Speaker 3: he's women.
Speaker 1: This is based off of him watching the Fresh and
Speaker 1: Fit podcast on YouTube. Yeah, that's what ship And he's like,
Speaker 1: I'm surprised he didn't say females at some point. Anyway,
Speaker 1: this is what he's saying. This is what I would do.
Speaker 3: Quote.
Speaker 1: I would ask, may I meet you before engaging further
Speaker 1: in a conversation. I almost never got a no. It
Speaker 1: inevitably enabled the opportunity for a further conversation. I met
Speaker 1: a lot of really interesting people this way. I think
Speaker 1: the combination of proper grammar and politeness was the key
Speaker 1: to its effectiveness. You might give it a try, and yes,
Speaker 1: I think it should also work for women seeking men
Speaker 1: as well as same sex interactions. Woke Okay, uh huh.
Speaker 1: But then and then the last one. This is just
Speaker 1: two just two cents from an older, happily married guy
Speaker 1: concerned about our next generation's happiness and population replacement rates.
Speaker 3: Whoa mm hmm.
Speaker 1: It's always the population shit with these fucking people. It's
Speaker 1: either wrapped up in there like fucking you know, olive
Speaker 1: ark brain, where they're like I need more bodies to
Speaker 1: fucking exploit and consumer fucking it starts winding down, or
Speaker 1: it's the fear of the brown planet thing to just
Speaker 1: two cents from an older, happily married guy with love
Speaker 1: in his heart and eugenics on my brain, exactly population
Speaker 1: replacement rate.
Speaker 3: It is kind of crazy, though, because I don't think
Speaker 3: I've ever seen like when when he described his approach
Speaker 3: of may I meet you. There are literally hearts coming
Speaker 3: out of the star's eyes. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He was spanning himself with a stack of one hundred
Speaker 1: dollars bills as he said.
Speaker 2: It, listen as a young woman.
Speaker 1: Canonically gen z g Z, I just.
Speaker 2: You know that's that what do you call it? Warmth
Speaker 2: mm hmm, yeah, that I meet you right looking in
Speaker 2: my eyes as like the the the vehicle for for
Speaker 2: population generation replacement. It's just such a turn on.
Speaker 3: May I meet you? What is your breeding viability? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I meet you to evaluate. Do you mind if I
Speaker 1: bring calipers?
Speaker 3: Do you mind if I measure your skull circumference?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 3: Uh? Nothing, nothing, nothing?
Speaker 1: May I meet you?
Speaker 2: I mean, and I mean he did, and it was hot.
Speaker 1: It's always like this advice from people who do not
Speaker 1: live on the same fucking planet as we do. Like
Speaker 1: it's like I'm worried about y'all happiness, worry about the
Speaker 1: fucking income inequality then mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Like you wonder why, Like there was a whole thing too.
Speaker 1: I was looking at how the under five population is
Speaker 1: swinging in certain places like Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York,
Speaker 1: these really expensive cities. They're like hemorrhaging, like young families
Speaker 1: because they're just so hard to afford to live in
Speaker 1: and it's going up in other places that are more affordable. Like,
Speaker 1: that's your fucking issue.
Speaker 7: It's not exactly may I meet you, it's I can't
Speaker 7: fucking afford to fucking live And that's the like again,
Speaker 7: So first of all, we've just we've seen the dipshittery
Speaker 7: in the Epstein emails of like Larry Summers being like
Speaker 7: what do I say to her?
Speaker 3: And Jeffrey Epstein being like, you did well by expressing
Speaker 3: disapproval that you had planned a vacation for her and
Speaker 3: she left you for a guy on a motorcycle, very
Speaker 3: strong of you. Like the fact that they just they're
Speaker 3: in this world where like their wealth just surrounds them.
Speaker 3: They just have not taken a single breath outside of
Speaker 3: just a world where everybody is just kissing their ass constantly,
Speaker 3: and so they're just like gassed up on this idea
Speaker 3: that everything they say is so fucking wise. And now
Speaker 3: I feel like we all looked at the Epstein emails
Speaker 3: and we're like, that's so weird that everyone was like
Speaker 3: my sex guru aka child trafficker, what shall I say?
Speaker 3: Bill Ackman looked at it and was like, there's a hole.
Speaker 1: In the market here.
Speaker 3: These people need to hear from a pickup artist like myself,
Speaker 3: right right Exactly. A lot of people like it's funny
Speaker 3: when you tweeted it. They're like, yeah, all right, asshole,
Speaker 3: what because you told him you're a billionaire And he's like,
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 1: This was working for me when I didn't even have
Speaker 1: two nickels. And you're like, uh uh huh, yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: sure go ahead, May I need.
Speaker 2: He's weird when these guys like have their pickup lines
Speaker 2: like that, they want to like bequeath unto us, like
Speaker 2: so fresh in their memory as happily married men.
Speaker 3: Right, And he thinks this is such a good line,
Speaker 3: May I meet you? You should see it.
Speaker 2: Cheating on his wife. You know he's cheating on his wife,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, And you know he's using
Speaker 2: his money to do it.
Speaker 1: The boot liquor fucking replies in this tweet are just
Speaker 1: so funny, like because it's a mix. There are people
Speaker 1: who are real life people, then they're like box and
Speaker 1: then they're like the people who are so capitalism pilled
Speaker 1: that they're like, this is actually brilliant, But someone I
Speaker 1: like one person. Like an even better way to do
Speaker 1: it is with no exception or no expectation in return,
Speaker 1: you know, And he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, agreed, agreed, agreed,
Speaker 1: I don't appropriation.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah. All right, let's let's take a quick
Speaker 3: break and move on to billionaires who are ruining the
Speaker 3: film industry.
Speaker 1: We'll be like, okay, okay, may meet you, and we're back.
Speaker 3: And Warner Brothers Discovery is officially talking to some big
Speaker 3: companies and saying, may we meet and may you tell
Speaker 3: me what you want to do to my body?
Speaker 1: Yes, many time you say, may we consolidate the media
Speaker 1: environment even further under a billionaire rule.
Speaker 3: They're officially for sale. The deadline for the first round
Speaker 3: of bids is this week, November today today, get your
Speaker 3: bids and ship. We should have given you guys a
Speaker 3: little bit more warning if it goes through, If they
Speaker 3: if they get a fired by one of the companies
Speaker 3: that is expected to make a bit, it will become
Speaker 3: the latest old guard Hollywood studio to just get gobbled
Speaker 3: up by another corporation. We had Amazon acquiring MGM, the
Speaker 3: Disney Fox merger, and you know it, but it makes
Speaker 3: sense for the people for the product. As CEO David
Speaker 3: Zaslov explained of the decision, it will unlock the full
Speaker 3: value of our assets. Oh wow wow. So surprised that
Speaker 3: the significant value of our portfolio is receiving increased recognition
Speaker 3: by others in the market after receiving interest from multiple parties.
Speaker 3: We have initiated a comprehensive review of strategic alternatives to
Speaker 3: identify the best path forward to unlock the full value
Speaker 3: of our asset. Motherfucker, like Chad GPT could have written that, like,
Speaker 3: it's just a series of comprehensive reviews, strategic alternatives, identify
Speaker 3: path forward, Like we're going.
Speaker 1: To figure out how much we could sell this fucker, Yeah,
Speaker 1: for the most money they have.
Speaker 3: To Everything is so basic in that world that they
Speaker 3: have to just like make bull encode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because the distillation of that statement is we're trying
Speaker 1: to figure out how what's the most amount of money
Speaker 1: we can get for this. There you go, that's it.
Speaker 3: You unlock the value of our as they can't say that, Yeah,
Speaker 3: we have to align allown some around some strategic assets.
Speaker 2: Even about money anymore, you know, I mean the amount
Speaker 2: of like I feel like it used to be that
Speaker 2: you get into becoming a billionaire, because I mean then
Speaker 2: you're into arms dealing, right that, because that's that's what
Speaker 2: that is, Like, that's that level of investing. Sure, you know,
Speaker 2: and now it's just like more and more about this
Speaker 2: like wild.
Speaker 3: Ass power, right yeah. Yeah, it actually makes me feel
Speaker 3: really good to know that I'm going to destroy the
Speaker 3: film industry because then my mark will have been left
Speaker 3: right on the world. The three front runners seem to
Speaker 3: be Netflix, Comcast, and Paramount. Oh god, who will have
Speaker 3: to submit bids and make arguments for why they're the
Speaker 3: best option?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: So, like it's like the bid by these guys, Like
Speaker 2: is that what's happening?
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, they're bidding. It's like The Bachelor, if the
Speaker 3: Bachelor had the potential to kill the entire movie industry.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, will you accept this bid? So all all,
Speaker 3: there's no good option here. Comcast is in ninety nine
Speaker 3: billion dollars in debt, what does that even mean anymore?
Speaker 3: Netflix interest is First of all, it's caused Netflix's own
Speaker 3: stock to decline as people were like, oh, that seems
Speaker 3: like too much for you guys, right, And then there's
Speaker 3: Paramount sky Dance, which is now owned by David Ellison, which, yeah,
Speaker 3: that that's been bad. That like they they bought Paramount
Speaker 3: and are immediately putting right wing people in charge of everything.
Speaker 1: Barie Weiss as Minister of Truth at CBS, Who's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, does does anyone else out there feel like like,
Speaker 2: we don't I get to be in charge of what
Speaker 2: movies are?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: No, yeah, don't. It's three billionaires. We don't even like movies.
Speaker 3: And then okay, there's actually good news. Also Saudi Arabia
Speaker 3: and Guitar and Abu Daviir going to also be involved
Speaker 3: because so Warner Brothers rejected one offer from Paramount and
Speaker 3: they were like, well, you know who's got money, little
Speaker 3: guy by the name of NBS.
Speaker 1: What if we do a little light media washing? Yes, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3: They're trying to submit a seventy one billion dollar bid
Speaker 3: for Warner Brothers Discovery. God, this sucks. And Ellison was
Speaker 3: just at the White House for the state dinner honoring
Speaker 3: Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Ben Salmon.
Speaker 1: Dude, did you see who was at that dinner?
Speaker 3: Sounds like every rich literal murderers were out, every every
Speaker 3: fucking tech fuck giant was there.
Speaker 1: Johnny and Fantino, the head of FIFA, Cristiano Ronaldo.
Speaker 3: I'm my, that's fucking this nightmare dinner, dude. Wow. Concast
Speaker 3: bid could similarly involve funding from Saudi Arabia, and the
Speaker 3: Trump administration has reportedly endorsed Paramount bid for obvious reasons. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's you know, you.
Speaker 2: Guys, movies are already bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's even great.
Speaker 2: I'm so sick of true crime, you guys.
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and keep happening reality TV.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And if you thought CNN was bad before, just
Speaker 3: waiting until the guy put fucking Barry Weiss in charge
Speaker 3: of CBS News gets ahold of it. But yeah, So
Speaker 3: the big problem as a cinematic movie going fan, there's
Speaker 3: not a good option here. It would no matter who
Speaker 3: wins in their bids, it's going to really hurt the
Speaker 3: theatrical movie going industry.
Speaker 2: Theaters are pregnant for this news, Jack, I'm sorry, Yeah,
Speaker 2: go ahead, I'm gonna calm down.
Speaker 3: It's okay. It's getting kicked in my guts by.
Speaker 1: A fetus right now. This is my spinal column. Go ahead.
Speaker 3: So obviously, Netflix, who doesn't really put movies out in
Speaker 3: theaters his style towards It is being called worst case
Speaker 3: scenario by everybody who cares about there being movies. But
Speaker 3: any of the other two options would also have a
Speaker 3: negative impact on movie theaters because mergers lead to fewer movies.
Speaker 3: For example, before being taken over by Disney, Fox was
Speaker 3: releasing between twelve and seventeen movies each year, and since
Speaker 3: the merger, Twentieth Century Studios has never released more than
Speaker 3: five films in a single year. Wow, they're just taking fewer.
Speaker 2: Swings, no man, So then one of our next three
Speaker 2: films will be a triumph of the Will the sequel?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I mean why the sequel? Why not re
Speaker 3: release in three a bad Berman musical about Lenny reef
Speaker 3: install or something. They're like, Lenny Love You. It's called
Speaker 3: Lenny exclamation point.
Speaker 2: Even the B movies from the nineties are still better.
Speaker 1: But this is one thing out there's like, I think
Speaker 1: this is this is I've read so many things about
Speaker 1: independent There are more independent films doing better because people
Speaker 1: are just.
Speaker 3: Like, what the fuck suck? And I still want to see.
Speaker 1: A movie and it's still possible for people to do
Speaker 1: it with like smaller funding.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean, I think this is this.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like in that way, when
Speaker 1: it all consolidates like that, it's the same way how
Speaker 1: journalism has It allows for like independent journalism to also
Speaker 1: end up getting more attention as a result of people.
Speaker 3: Being like, what the fuck is this crap? But yeah,
Speaker 3: it's definitely not great for the overall industry.
Speaker 2: Weren't all these guys gonna go to Mars anyway?
Speaker 3: That's when we really need to kick that back up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're they're timing it with the Proletarium Revolution.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like we can keep fucking them over, just slowly
Speaker 3: until the ragged ship's already. There's also blatant anti trust concerns.
Speaker 3: A winning bid from Paramount would put both CBS News
Speaker 3: and CNN in the hands of Ellison, which would be
Speaker 3: over thirty percent of the market share, which is illegal
Speaker 3: under Section seven of the Clayton Act. Currently, Paramount and
Speaker 3: Warner Brothers combined share thirty three percent of the industry.
Speaker 3: But that's probably not gonna be a problem for Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: What would be my assumption, Yeah, this is the same way.
Speaker 1: Like, there's another company, I think it was Next Star, right,
Speaker 1: who was like really getting behind the Kimmel things. They're like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're getting Kimmel out of here as a
Speaker 1: way to kind of like lean in with the MAGA.
Speaker 3: Think.
Speaker 1: They also have a merger up with a company called
Speaker 1: Tegna that would put them well over the FCC's limit
Speaker 1: of how many local stations you can own. And they're
Speaker 1: kind of like, well, hopefully all that debasement of our
Speaker 1: our values and like backing the Kimmel blacklisting will get
Speaker 1: us put us in the good grace.
Speaker 3: Why they were so willing to like buckle to whatever
Speaker 3: the Trump administration wanted.
Speaker 2: Okay, wait, so where are all those weird folks now
Speaker 2: post Epstein file release, because like everybody's turning on him.
Speaker 3: Uh. I don't think they're gonna totally turn on them.
Speaker 1: I think they'll be all right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we'll see, We'll see, we'll get Larry Summers,
Speaker 3: Poor Larry Summers.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean it is happening in other countries, like look,
Speaker 1: I mean Prince Andrew, although he they're like you you
Speaker 1: have to leave the nice castle and go to the
Speaker 1: just slightly less nice castle.
Speaker 3: Now you have to basically live in Prince Charles's backhouse.
Speaker 1: God, just because I'm a fucking criminal fuck. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the merger ship is really is that. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: definitely the death of the film industry as we know it.
Speaker 1: But to your point, Miles, I mean, maybe there's hope
Speaker 1: in the fact that we you know, start getting smaller
Speaker 1: independent films selling out that are worth watching because they're
Speaker 1: not it's not impossible to make a film if it's
Speaker 1: not being made by Warner Brothers or Fox or Paramount,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. That's that's and I think
Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the day, people respond
Speaker 1: to seeing like, well that thing is selling good, maybe
Speaker 1: I'll put a little bit of my you know, people
Speaker 1: are so profit driven that if they see a little
Speaker 1: bit of success from the smaller productions, that will help
Speaker 1: kind of bolster that operation. But I don't know, I mean,
Speaker 1: it just feels like everything, like as predicted, everything will
Speaker 1: the consolidation will just become more and more intense, and
Speaker 1: it's truly going to be like you get all your
Speaker 1: news from one guy who believes Palestine shouldn't exist, and
Speaker 1: you get all of your movies from another guy who
Speaker 1: is so sexually repressed, he has no he doesn't have
Speaker 1: a creative bone in his body then doesn't move, just
Speaker 1: gonna watch a fucking plastic bag blowing in the wind
Speaker 1: like American Beauty or some shit.
Speaker 3: You're talking about my favorite movie there, man, watch your mouth. Sorry, sorry,
Speaker 3: I miss Nora Evrod. I know Nora. It is such
Speaker 3: a mind fuck that like they've chosen to just like
Speaker 3: torpedo popular culture at the time when I would be
Speaker 3: getting to the age where I would otherwise be like
Speaker 3: everything used to be better, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: And it's just like, yeah, but like did kind of
Speaker 3: like there's definitely still good movies being made, but like
Speaker 3: the kind of mid brow movies of the nineties and
Speaker 3: eighties are like do seem like they're better than what
Speaker 3: we're getting these days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think there's just this vision of the
Speaker 1: world that these oligarchs have, which is like, well, we're
Speaker 1: going to tell them what to think with all these
Speaker 1: because we have we have our hands on the levers,
Speaker 1: and that will work to a pretty up to an extent.
Speaker 1: But I think there's also other people who are just
Speaker 1: kind of like turn off generally that's going on, that
Speaker 1: they're so disengaged that I'm I'm hoping that they don't
Speaker 1: have the effective return. They're hoping for to control the
Speaker 1: masses with the idiot box.
Speaker 3: But they're gonna be eating out of my hands. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna say that we've initiated a comprehensive review of strategic alternatives,
Speaker 3: and they're gonna love such a pleasure having you as.
Speaker 2: Always a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 3: I can people find you and follow you and all
Speaker 3: that good stuff.
Speaker 2: You know what, wherever the fuck nerds aren't Okay.
Speaker 3: Oh that's true. There's one thing. That's one thing that's
Speaker 3: true about you, you nerds. Straight up, I'm done.
Speaker 2: I'm done with these nerds.
Speaker 1: Sorry, she's talking about the candy just for people for
Speaker 1: the rest, Yeah, done with these candies.
Speaker 3: Make a big nerd you can keep like an apple.
Speaker 2: I just feel like, remember when nerds were good guys
Speaker 2: and not like a bunch of like psycho tech narcissists. Yeah,
Speaker 2: with like no interests other than just controlling everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep.
Speaker 1: We were just talking about Erkele on our icon recording.
Speaker 3: About how them Yeah the words alone and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the brail anyway, that's.
Speaker 3: I don't think we got to the question of whether
Speaker 3: Erkele would have been on the flight long, so I
Speaker 3: guess I'll have to cover that in the Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: in the yeah amazing. Is there a work of media
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I have been going back through Alice
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Speaker 1: Miles.
Speaker 3: Where can people find you as their workI media you've
Speaker 3: been enjoying.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, find me everywhere at Miles of Gray talking
Speaker 1: ninety day Fiance on four to twenty day Fiance. I
Speaker 1: just started watching that show I Love La that's on HBO.
Speaker 3: I Love La.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, I've almost done it right, Yeah, Rachel sent it.
Speaker 1: There's a writer director, yeah yeah, yeah, and past guest.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Max Silvestri is actually a writer on that but he
Speaker 1: there's just a there's a funny moment in the first
Speaker 1: scene because like the show is very la, which you know,
Speaker 1: we we have such New York shows that you know,
Speaker 1: every now and then you get a very la show, uh,
Speaker 1: And there was just like a loose line where like
Speaker 1: one of these like really wealthy characters is talking about
Speaker 1: how she used to have like this like like handbag,
Speaker 1: and she's like, oh, but that was at the Palisades
Speaker 1: house that burned down, and like they're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, and then they just immediately shift back
Speaker 1: to their normal life.
Speaker 3: And I was like, yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that was That's something I've been watching recently.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 3: Uh, you can find me on Twitter, Jack on Our
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: to a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles,
Speaker 3: is there a song you think that people might enjoy? Yeah.
Speaker 1: Fantagram was a band I used to listen to a
Speaker 1: lot ten years ago and then uh kind of like
Speaker 1: lost track, lost touch.
Speaker 3: But they just dropped a new single called earth Shaker. Uh,
Speaker 3: and it's got the it's got the Yeah, it's got
Speaker 3: the vibes.
Speaker 1: So I'm digging it. So this is the new Fantagram track, earth.
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