Speaker 1: Also there was a rumor that they like cut his
Speaker 1: pp off too, and like it's wild, it's wild, like
Speaker 1: it's I don't know if that was true or not,
Speaker 1: or if I just made that out in the documentary
Speaker 1: I thought, but uh yeah, that's a wild Can we
Speaker 1: just get First of all.
Speaker 2: That's the cold open, second of all, just being great
Speaker 2: if this like true crime documentary just cuts to Blake going.
Speaker 2: Second of all, there was a rumor that they cut
Speaker 2: his pp off my lower third.
Speaker 3: They're like, title just says stupid idiot, doctor Blake went
Speaker 3: Wexler forensic forensic an, Hello.
Speaker 2: The Internet, and welcome to season three, fifty two, Episode
Speaker 2: four of Dally Guys, production by iHeartRadio. This is the
Speaker 2: podcast where we take a deep dive into America's share consciousness.
Speaker 2: And it is Thursday, August twenty second, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, yep. August twenty four, August two to two
Speaker 3: is National Surgical on College's Day, shout out all those
Speaker 3: people fighting the cancer. Uh never being Better day. I
Speaker 3: don't know what the fuck this. It's got pictures of dogs.
Speaker 3: It's not a real day, so forget it. National Pecan
Speaker 3: Tortue Day. We just have p can high he can spurt.
Speaker 2: Day Can farmers are getting greedy exactly.
Speaker 3: And to go along with all that sugar eating, it's
Speaker 3: National Tooth fairy Day, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 3: don't know what the market rate is on a tooth
Speaker 3: these days. I don't know what we have. I think
Speaker 3: I asked this every time it comes around, like Jack,
Speaker 3: what's the what's the market right now? For? It is
Speaker 3: highly variable the market because I rarely have cash.
Speaker 2: On me, so it's like whatever I can find. You know,
Speaker 2: it's either a quarter or fifty dollars is actually worth
Speaker 2: a twenty because that's all we have in the house.
Speaker 3: Your first tooth was actually only worth twenty five cents.
Speaker 3: You can't just do it like a record label, like
Speaker 3: here's an advance on your whole grill home. Here's fifty bucks.
Speaker 3: Don't ask me for ship. We're we're not making a
Speaker 3: music video or nothing. It's also National Bow Day. So
Speaker 3: shout out the beautiful tasty Chinese dumplings. Oh okay, yeah
Speaker 3: I thought it was the like b e oh b
Speaker 3: a oh yes, yes.
Speaker 2: All right, shout out to Bow. Shout out to Pecan,
Speaker 2: the p can what are they can dumple it. Pecannt
Speaker 2: torte yet?
Speaker 3: Yeah, what is that like? It's like a little cake
Speaker 3: with some drizzle on top. No matter whatever I think anyways,
Speaker 3: and I love that. I don't like it.
Speaker 2: I say, you get you're you're flying too close to
Speaker 2: the sun Pecan industry.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: My name is Jack O'Brien aka. I can't get down
Speaker 2: because I'm up in space. Can somebody please bring me down?
Speaker 2: I can't get down. I'm stuck up in space. Will
Speaker 2: somebody please get me down? That is tub thumpthing courtesy
Speaker 2: of Fermentable Burgers on the discord gross also redundant. All
Speaker 2: bookers are Fermentable. But thank you for your oka. Won't
Speaker 2: somebody please bring the astronauts down from being stuck up
Speaker 2: in the international.
Speaker 3: Hey, Boeing will solve it. Man Boeing's on it, Man
Speaker 3: on it.
Speaker 2: They are exporting flight delays from commercial flights to space. Yes,
Speaker 2: and those commercial those flight delays are a year long.
Speaker 2: It's very impressive. I feel like I think about them
Speaker 2: and I can't help but be like, are there sparks
Speaker 2: the two astronauts who are up there together? You know,
Speaker 2: like they thought they were up there for a week.
Speaker 2: I know that a rom com, yet it's gotta be
Speaker 2: a wrong. Like I I'm sure there's been rom coming space,
Speaker 2: but like this one just feels like it calling out
Speaker 2: for it was so fucking hot, so romantic, dude, the
Speaker 2: sparks to spin it at it on that space channel
Speaker 2: that like creates the big fire that almost kills everyone. Anyways,
Speaker 2: I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
Speaker 2: mister Miles Gray.
Speaker 3: Its Miles Gray aka Grimey.
Speaker 4: Grimey you know what I keep in the lining a
Speaker 4: lot better stay yeah line when you see a presss
Speaker 4: like me, I say Grimey.
Speaker 3: Elsa aka Grimey Elsa. That's my undergram name. I just
Speaker 3: came up with that shout out to who is that
Speaker 3: monish with the all the anagrams? Yeah, just Grimey. Is
Speaker 3: it off? Off is a character? Right? I had? I
Speaker 3: feel like that was the only other character either the snowman,
Speaker 3: yeah he's a snowman, boyfriend nailed it or the yak.
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's one of that. Then I'm looking
Speaker 3: at character list. Now, I nailed it, and you did
Speaker 3: nail it. Congress did nail it by just adding one
Speaker 3: word that I knew that was Tamson's connected to Frozen
Speaker 3: or directly connected? And I made a parody song thank
Speaker 3: you so much.
Speaker 2: Well, Miles, we are through to be joined in air
Speaker 2: third seat by a brilliant comedian writer actor Oh Boy.
Speaker 2: His nickname is oh Boy. Look look what did the
Speaker 2: Irish say when she's oh yeah?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: One time I was really drunk and missed a flight
Speaker 2: and when I like finally got to my new flight gait,
Speaker 2: I heard an Irish woman say, here comes chaos.
Speaker 3: Oh wow.
Speaker 2: Anyways, that is the introduction for this guest writer, the
Speaker 2: actor who's been brought to you, who's brought you a
Speaker 2: comedy album such as the Blake album, Stuffed Boy Live
Speaker 2: from the Pandemic, his newest special Daddy lung Legs, which
Speaker 2: you can go watch on YouTube. The coiner of the
Speaker 2: disgusting phrase plumpers to describe his juicy philly above the
Speaker 2: knees steaks. Please welcome, the hilarious, the chaotic, the riding
Speaker 2: a rick cumbent bike and short shorts.
Speaker 3: Blake Waxlan plump plump o bum plumpum pumpum plump.
Speaker 1: Crack that whip comes along. You've got plumpers when your
Speaker 1: thighs are really strong. Two big plumpers orse, Daddy plumpers
Speaker 1: plumpers good or baby plumpers Plumper's good. That was from
Speaker 1: Chauncey Yonders from the I figured out how to access
Speaker 1: to the discord thanks to producer Yonder. I punched it
Speaker 1: up a little bit. I added for Staddy plumpers. I
Speaker 1: took some liberties with Steddy plumpers.
Speaker 3: That was beautiful.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks, thank you to Chauncey. I was laughing
Speaker 1: during the intro where I have no regard for the
Speaker 1: format of this program and never have never will. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I have noticed that I have I've always honored
Speaker 1: the rule of not speaking during the intro.
Speaker 3: For some reason, I don't speak. It is weird. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's almost ruptive that you don't speak. Yeah, yeah, I'm like,
Speaker 3: say something. He's chewing on the wires at the podcast studio.
Speaker 3: This one's spicy. You mean it's shocking you like, yeah.
Speaker 1: That's yes, spice, spice. You know how your mom keeps
Speaker 1: the spices in the in the box down in the basement.
Speaker 1: You knows where we keep our spices.
Speaker 3: How are you doing, Blake, great to have you back.
Speaker 3: How are your plumpers.
Speaker 2: Plumpers is your word for your thighs, just y, In
Speaker 2: case it wasn't clear to people what I meant by
Speaker 2: philly above the knees steaks, Yeah.
Speaker 3: People got it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they could have thought s T a k e s,
Speaker 1: which would not have been incorrect. And they're high. Those
Speaker 1: steaks are high. These are rare in terms of how
Speaker 1: common they are on Earth. Yeah, but they're good.
Speaker 3: Are you? How am I? Yeah? I'm pretty good.
Speaker 1: Like these glasses that I'm wearing are horses ship so
Speaker 1: I broke my other glasses.
Speaker 3: I saw you post something right with shattered lenses on
Speaker 3: or something on your store.
Speaker 1: These are loaners that I'm wearing right now, So this
Speaker 1: is not.
Speaker 3: A loaners from where fucking Marty dealership.
Speaker 2: They kind of look like shooting range glasses, a little
Speaker 2: bit like you could be at the shooting range.
Speaker 3: You kind of look like that one C I shot
Speaker 3: that liked a guy from Ciicario from the Border scene
Speaker 3: who had the glasses.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, either way, probably gonna die.
Speaker 3: Uh he's in the sequel. He's an operator man, Yeah,
Speaker 3: is he? There's a sequel? Yeah? Two day of soldat
Speaker 3: Day Out of Soldado.
Speaker 2: I think I got a happy day lost Soldado, sold
Speaker 2: soldier the soldier man.
Speaker 3: That's what that means. I love. But yeah, you got
Speaker 3: Wait are they loaners? There's just like old glasses you
Speaker 3: had from previously that you just don't like. And I
Speaker 3: can't wrap my head around the idea that there would
Speaker 3: be loaner glasses. That's one ones to your neighbor and
Speaker 3: we're like, hey, do you have any glasses? I started
Speaker 3: banging on the door like there was a fire. You
Speaker 3: got any extras?
Speaker 1: No, I don't have backup glasses, which in therapy I
Speaker 1: found out is my mom's fault. So I had to
Speaker 1: ask for backup or they took the lenses of the
Speaker 1: old ones and somehow put them in these, which are
Speaker 1: Champion brand.
Speaker 3: Really, it's pretty cool with the kids these days.
Speaker 1: Champion Big it's an eyes od brand glasses. Well that
Speaker 1: would actually make more sense than like Champion A Russell
Speaker 1: athletic glasses.
Speaker 3: But so many companies just now just like license their
Speaker 3: logo to be like, yeah, put on glasses, man, who
Speaker 3: gives a I'll take it?
Speaker 1: Wasn't I feel fit? I feel like they're also made
Speaker 1: You can't see this but they're made of a gray fabric.
Speaker 1: They're made fabric.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And did your last glasses break from hearing a note
Speaker 2: that was too high? I have to assume, or did
Speaker 2: that was something that was too sexy?
Speaker 3: That's a great question.
Speaker 1: So I saw something that was so sexy and they
Speaker 1: fogged up and then and the sexy this was of
Speaker 1: course at the opera where I go fucking constantly. And
Speaker 1: then she hit a note and they broke. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: someone had a little champagne breaking time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it is crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's becoming more of a problem than it is
Speaker 1: an enjoy and enjoy experience.
Speaker 3: And why won't these politicians talk about that? Thank you?
Speaker 1: Thank you, Tim Walls. What's he doing? He's missing.
Speaker 3: Anywhere? He's missing?
Speaker 2: All right, Blake, we're going to get to know you
Speaker 2: a little bit better in a moment. Take your time,
Speaker 2: as long as you just walked off camera. We're going
Speaker 2: to tell the listeners a couple of things. We're talking
Speaker 2: about out we're talking about you know, we talked on
Speaker 2: yesterday's Trending episode about the DNC and you know, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of energy going on there.
Speaker 2: The Obamas were there at the same time, Trump seems
Speaker 2: so sleepy, so sleepy, He's leapy, He's so sleepy.
Speaker 3: It does feel like like, uh, he's like energetically, this
Speaker 3: feels like giving up the way you're speaking. But it's
Speaker 3: very early. I think he just made it.
Speaker 2: It's very early, and I think his meds are off.
Speaker 3: I think his script just needs to get refilled.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he probably has all the So I think
Speaker 2: I noticed that during his administration that like he will
Speaker 2: have his run of like two weeks where he's just
Speaker 2: amped right, and then he'll he'll like kind of drop
Speaker 2: out of view for a little bit, but sometimes he
Speaker 2: has to be in view and so sleepy. So we'll
Speaker 2: talk about that. We'll talk about Kamala Harris's economic policy,
Speaker 2: so we'll talk about that, all of that plenty more.
Speaker 2: But first, Blake Wexler, we do like to get to
Speaker 2: know you a little bit better by asking what's something
Speaker 2: from your search history that's revealing about who you are.
Speaker 1: I looked at a broken glasses frames titanium fixed. So
Speaker 1: we already waded our way into these waters. But the
Speaker 1: glasses in question that that we're leading today's stories with
Speaker 1: of mine that broke where I had titanium glasses, which
Speaker 1: I was convinced was a strong metal, And then they
Speaker 1: snapped at the bridge of the nose because I think
Speaker 1: I was cleaning them too hard.
Speaker 3: Wow, yeah, you're really getting in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was cleaning them like a sexually frustrated person
Speaker 1: clean the glasses, and uh, yeah, they snapped, so nearly
Speaker 1: those aren't go ahead, wait they You had.
Speaker 3: Glasses that were made of the same material as Lieutenant
Speaker 3: Dan's magic legs, titanium alloy, same thing they use on
Speaker 3: the Space Shuttle.
Speaker 1: And Dan is a friend and yeah, and recommended, and
Speaker 1: I won't trust him exactly.
Speaker 3: We were both swimming, just lost in the sea, and
Speaker 3: we came upon each other and the amount that we
Speaker 3: had in common was six hours of conversation. There's no
Speaker 3: like warranty on that, like they weren't. There was no
Speaker 3: like rage a indestructible glasses warranty or anything on that.
Speaker 3: Like for telling you Titan him, you'd think that, like
Speaker 3: they're somewhat indestructible.
Speaker 1: You'd also think that I would look into it, but
Speaker 1: I didn't, so I instead just got mad and yeah,
Speaker 1: sure they're hard to fix, apparently, where you can't just
Speaker 1: solder them together, like, you need a special tool.
Speaker 3: So I've been.
Speaker 2: Do you have a soldering tool, a soldering iron?
Speaker 1: I was rifling. I usually keep one in my pillow case.
Speaker 3: Next time you keep it plugged in. It's real hot,
Speaker 3: real hot.
Speaker 1: It takes a second, like I need to hear you're
Speaker 1: the person break in and then charge charge around.
Speaker 3: One moment, one moment, one moment. Be right with you?
Speaker 3: Burning hair? Yeah, yeah, it's mine. Hey, man, you should really,
Speaker 3: you should really get that checked out. Dude, I think
Speaker 3: that's like a third degree burn. No, it's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 3: To give me a second, give me second, we'll do battle.
Speaker 3: We'll do battle on a second. So you were robbing me,
Speaker 3: were you saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I'm actually pretty
Speaker 3: worried about your neck?
Speaker 1: Man, No, no, no, it's fine, it's fine. Well, it's fine.
Speaker 3: My sister in law works at a burn center here.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna leave her number, have a good night.
Speaker 1: Don't you want to take something? But not too far
Speaker 1: because it's plugged in.
Speaker 2: It's a short cord, yea very short cord, like a
Speaker 2: hot blue gun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sitting on the floor, but yeah, it's it's difficult.
Speaker 1: But I was able to find someone to uh to
Speaker 1: ship them off and fix them. And they gave me
Speaker 1: these these clunkers that I'm wearing these, Yeah, these plunkers
Speaker 1: on my face.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you thought about rexpecs or like an athletic goggle,
Speaker 2: that might you know, take a licking keep on taking,
Speaker 2: oh rambus style.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love when you talk like that? Can I
Speaker 3: say that?
Speaker 1: First of all, I love when you rhyme, and then
Speaker 1: also I don't I have thought about wearing because I
Speaker 1: also wear my glasses when I work out, Like if
Speaker 1: I go on a bike ride with my plumps, I
Speaker 1: will just wear glasses instead of getting those like you know,
Speaker 1: those cycling fucking shade you know what I mean, like
Speaker 1: those shields on your face like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, big glasses Like yeah, we all see
Speaker 3: people wearing when they're in those like onesie biking spandex outfits,
Speaker 3: and admire those people and are like, man.
Speaker 1: Cool, Yeah you don't frown like it's so fun. I've
Speaker 1: never frowned, Yeah, looking at someone round one like.
Speaker 2: A face like I just tasted something really bitter and
Speaker 2: then spit on the ground involuntarily, yeah.
Speaker 1: Or down my own shirt, like in my shirt, so
Speaker 1: my spit shirt but yet so no, I haven't committed
Speaker 1: to that yet, but I'm not above it. Like I've
Speaker 1: started thinking about all the things I could put prescription
Speaker 1: lenses in, And I wonder if anyone's gotten a prescription windshield. Wow,
Speaker 1: is that a joke that was done in the eighties?
Speaker 1: I feel like it might have been, but it did
Speaker 1: just make me laugh.
Speaker 3: No, I like the whole car out of the glasses. Yes,
Speaker 3: make it impossible for anyone to drive, except that would
Speaker 3: ex And also like does that like would the sun
Speaker 3: come through the windshield and then set your car on fire?
Speaker 3: Because like they're like lens, big proper lenses.
Speaker 1: We got to replace this plether in these puther seats
Speaker 1: because they are catching the body.
Speaker 3: The windshield is all one big prescription lens, but it's
Speaker 3: focusing the like light of the sun in the most
Speaker 3: dangerous ways inside the car. Shirt burned on the shoulder.
Speaker 3: I shouldn't be driving at sunset, but uh yeah, the
Speaker 3: carjacker immediately crashes into a tree and then catches fire,
Speaker 3: not from the engine exploding, but just from the sun
Speaker 3: through the windshield.
Speaker 2: That we'll say, I'm just if you're looking to create
Speaker 2: a signature look, which I know you always are. Always
Speaker 2: Like I remember every NBA player I ever saw wearing Rex,
Speaker 2: you know, like like Rambas didn't do ship. He was
Speaker 2: not a good player, like there were there were there,
Speaker 2: but because he had those rexpecs on, you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: Kareem you know Ladder day Kareem. Of course, Grant was
Speaker 2: like his whole thing. I don't know if i'd remember
Speaker 2: him necessarily if.
Speaker 3: I think that is true.
Speaker 2: But no, well I feel like didn't wear them, right,
Speaker 2: he wouldn't. Yeah, he he was terrible at basketball because
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 1: He couldn't ship out there blind as a bat. No,
Speaker 1: Harvey was rocking him.
Speaker 3: Too, he was all right, yeah, yeah, yeah, are there
Speaker 3: there are pictures of him rocking, but there are a
Speaker 3: lot of him not rocking it. So he got the
Speaker 3: correct advice surgery.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying like if somebody was just like that
Speaker 2: was their thing, they always had respects on, I feel
Speaker 2: like I would, they would be unforgettable.
Speaker 3: In my mind. I just love Harvey. Grant wouldn't wear
Speaker 3: glasses because his brother Horace did, and he doesn't look
Speaker 3: like him. He's like everyone remember I'm old by two minutes. Yeah,
Speaker 3: why should I have to wear the glasses. Argy, you
Speaker 3: should wear the glass because you have We both have
Speaker 3: the same condition. You're not even facing me right now.
Speaker 3: It's only seeing. It's just vision cant as a professional
Speaker 3: basketball player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is always so wild one Like there, I
Speaker 2: think there's a London skyscraper that like melted a couple.
Speaker 3: Of cars with just the reflection of the sun. Krikey.
Speaker 3: I think that's a criky good.
Speaker 2: I just and I was just setting up Lake for
Speaker 2: his incredible London impression of somebody from London.
Speaker 1: So did you know actually the London I has an astigmatism.
Speaker 3: Sorry, he's done it. He's done, folks, has done it.
Speaker 3: He's done and done it. All right now we have
Speaker 3: to move on, have you guys? No, No, we don't.
Speaker 3: Have you ever there's a bug in here? God?
Speaker 1: What am I not doing?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: But have you ever done a mad bgan? A bug
Speaker 1: a bug.
Speaker 3: In my house? Yeah? You said there's a bogan here? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Is that how you're pronouncing here?
Speaker 1: Have you ever done a mad boosties where you ranked
Speaker 1: the twins or the brothers in the NBA? Like, no,
Speaker 1: I guess how many twins the league kept us.
Speaker 3: From doing that? Actually, the Lozez, the Grants. I feel
Speaker 3: like that's it.
Speaker 2: Do we ever have a pair of identical twins who
Speaker 2: are like on the same team at the same time,
Speaker 2: like kind of taking advantage of that of that connection.
Speaker 2: Are the Morris brothers twins Marquis.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes they are.
Speaker 1: The Morrises are twins. Yeah, the Lopezes. We were on
Speaker 1: Stanford together, I remember, which is crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh and the Morrises were on Kansas together too. Anyway, anyways,
Speaker 1: there's something great answered it?
Speaker 3: What what's something he thinks underrated? Then?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're gonna just come out and ask it.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say, Wait, the Martian brothers played together on
Speaker 3: Charlotte at the same time. It looks like Caleb and Cody.
Speaker 2: And who can forget when they were just you know, tearing.
Speaker 3: Up the courts. Well, hey, now now on the Sixers, right,
Speaker 3: I know, I'm very excited Caleb.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Sorry, sorry, who of our off season acquisitions are
Speaker 2: you most excited about?
Speaker 3: Blake? We're going to turn this into Masties.
Speaker 1: I would say the resigning of sixty one year old
Speaker 1: Kyle Lowry, who doesn't play a position where agility or
Speaker 1: speed is necessary going to be the move that takes
Speaker 1: us within four games of winning a first round place.
Speaker 2: He's he's so old that it's no longer about his athleticism.
Speaker 2: His eyesight is also failing, and like his balance, his eyesight,
Speaker 2: and I can't see. I can't see three feet in
Speaker 2: front of him. What is something, Blake? Do you think's underrated?
Speaker 1: Making nachos at home is an underrated thing? Because okay,
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, so I believe ordering them nacho delivery
Speaker 1: is insane. Like I think we can agree that, yeah, insane,
Speaker 1: that's absolute foolishness.
Speaker 3: Your home.
Speaker 1: Now, there was a place that we would order a
Speaker 1: nacho kit from where the ingredients would come separately, which
Speaker 1: was kind of cool so it wouldn't mush up. But
Speaker 1: still you might as well just have the increase, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Like it was being marked up in a way that it's, yeah,
Speaker 3: a little.
Speaker 1: Five dollars for this little cup, I can get a
Speaker 1: can for two. It's like, yeah, I also order pieces
Speaker 1: of an inhaler for one time every time I need
Speaker 1: to use.
Speaker 3: Yourself.
Speaker 2: There are some times during the pandemic when like we
Speaker 2: would order food and they'd be like, all right, here
Speaker 2: are the ingredients, and like it's up to you to
Speaker 2: kind of put it together. And I just felt humiliated.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the best of the subway was selling their
Speaker 3: ship like their stock. You know, you can buy a
Speaker 3: whole bag of tuna fish and I'm like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's what I like. Open up the open up those
Speaker 3: fucking cupboards and is it measured out before they put
Speaker 3: it in a bag?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: Loose? Loose if you know the guy you get hooked
Speaker 3: up do they could be a heavy one.
Speaker 2: But what.
Speaker 3: Your what's your home? Your home recipe?
Speaker 1: So we'll go chips and then well y, and then
Speaker 1: we bake them twice, put them in the oven, pull
Speaker 1: it out, put it back in m h. No chips
Speaker 1: obviously the cheat we'll had a little crema on there,
Speaker 1: yeah klama, and then the key will put like whatever,
Speaker 1: treeso whatever on it and then add extra stuff afterwards
Speaker 1: so you can't bake it.
Speaker 3: We'll put some saucea on it, but you can't do
Speaker 3: that for the whole.
Speaker 1: Duration of melting cheese, you know what I mean? Y, yeah,
Speaker 1: A little bit of sour cream some.
Speaker 3: What else will we put on? Krama and sour cream.
Speaker 1: We'll do one or the other. We'll do prefer like
Speaker 1: a thick a thick dairy.
Speaker 2: We don't want you to feel judged here, but that's
Speaker 2: fucking disgusting.
Speaker 1: We don't want you to feel judged. But you're giving
Speaker 1: yourself an allergy, like you train your body, like.
Speaker 3: You're buying like the Kashi gay brand, like grandma, they
Speaker 3: watch your mouth.
Speaker 1: But yeah no I will, yeah we will, yeah for sure,
Speaker 1: and no, but we like to mix that up and
Speaker 1: and then just like the other stuff that you put
Speaker 1: on there and but yeah, no real deviation. But it's
Speaker 1: like you ever made nachos at home?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you poker games.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna put me on the spot, you know,
Speaker 1: the frosted flakes on the on the side, an entire
Speaker 1: bag of sand on sand bags of sand bold like yeah,
Speaker 1: a root vegetable unwashed and dirt dirted vegetable.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, great, great.
Speaker 1: But yeah no, it's it's also you can make as
Speaker 1: much as you want, is the fun part, So like
Speaker 1: you can eat until you're sick, where you know it's
Speaker 1: a limited serving size. I think, and this is an
Speaker 1: important question.
Speaker 3: Are you a fan of just a canned cheese like
Speaker 3: you know, high school football game style m versus like
Speaker 3: melting the.
Speaker 1: Ship on nots, but on like cheese, steaks, seal, beat it,
Speaker 1: you know. So it's it's not an aversion to the
Speaker 1: fact that it's not like but you prefer yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, it's it's not a food recognized by nature
Speaker 1: or the laws of nature.
Speaker 3: But I will yeah half we eat it. You can
Speaker 3: put that all over your skin and like go into
Speaker 3: the sea and not get a sunburn. It's really good.
Speaker 3: That's your regimen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. What is
Speaker 3: Blake something he thinks overrated?
Speaker 1: Overrated? Hardcover books? Now I can't read.
Speaker 3: So in jail. No, it's preface, I can't.
Speaker 1: But it's it's the material, No, I think like hardcover
Speaker 1: books often are more expensive if you're buying a physical
Speaker 1: book than obviously a paperback, and they are more difficult
Speaker 1: to the space in which they take up.
Speaker 3: Questions they take up yea and the right sentence from
Speaker 3: which within you emerge Yes.
Speaker 1: The space in which they take up henceforth is this
Speaker 1: part is this part.
Speaker 3: Of your operated was written by Kam Layers. The space
Speaker 3: in which they take up and.
Speaker 1: The space in which they take up she's on the discord.
Speaker 1: And but yeah, they especially they're hard to travel with too.
Speaker 1: Where when you're packing a hardcover book, it's a lot
Speaker 1: more difficult to pack than like a I'm just called
Speaker 1: it a soft shell book than all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you got the books, and when's a soft shell
Speaker 3: come out? This is the hard shells expense. Yeah, you
Speaker 3: put a bim on again. I can't read. I don't
Speaker 3: know what these things are for. Where's the meat taste
Speaker 3: terrible when I dip it in the butter?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 3: I can kind of agree with that?
Speaker 2: Like, they they're basically like our cover books are for
Speaker 2: the bookshelf, right, that's the main reason they're there. They
Speaker 2: look good on a bookshelf. But they are at pain
Speaker 2: in the ass for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, thank you. And they're sharp, the corners are sharp.
Speaker 1: You could kill yourself on one.
Speaker 3: Of those books. You could, Yes, I could.
Speaker 1: I've fallen all running and I I grew up in
Speaker 1: a home where you weren't allowed to run holding a
Speaker 1: hardcover book cover book, And that's why I'm still alive.
Speaker 3: That was a rule that applied only to you.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we would do the running like you know
Speaker 1: how the sports teams do running up the mascots. You know,
Speaker 1: we would do that but with children in the neighborhood
Speaker 1: and hardcover books, and I was never.
Speaker 3: Yeah, explains a lot, explains a lot.
Speaker 2: It does.
Speaker 3: All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.
Speaker 3: And we're back, and we are and this is gonna
Speaker 3: surprise I think everybody who's listened to a Blake wex
Speaker 3: Layer episode before. We are way behind the schedule. Yeah, yea.
Speaker 3: So Trump is sleepy. Yeah, RFK is gonna drop out,
Speaker 3: and uh, her economic plans being panned by like mainstream
Speaker 3: media and uh people hate public spice left the Blake Man,
Speaker 3: thanks so much for joining us. That was where go wrong?
Speaker 3: Where one around the time of the glasses becoming the windshield?
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, but we got through it.
Speaker 3: We got minutes ago, about thirty seconds ago. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: then young men didn't we We really did, all right?
Speaker 3: Barely seems so so sleepy? Yeah, holy shit.
Speaker 2: So a lot of people are like, how's the DNC
Speaker 2: gonna feel like? Are they going to be able to
Speaker 2: sustain the vibes as we talked about yesterday's trending, The
Speaker 2: vibes feel sustained thus far. And we're recording this the
Speaker 2: day after the Little John State roll call and the
Speaker 2: Obama's just making fun of Donald Trump in a way
Speaker 2: that went over big with I think a lot of people.
Speaker 3: And we're also recording it the day after.
Speaker 2: And this is also something that everybody similarly iconic. So
Speaker 2: he gave a speech in the dog Whistle White Supremacy
Speaker 2: Michigan Town Howell, Michigan, where he seemed to be sleep like,
Speaker 2: about to fall asleep the whole time. Just one of
Speaker 2: the sleepiest speeches I've ever seen him or anyone give.
Speaker 3: If you are driving, I would pull over, yes, because
Speaker 3: you will fucking die of boredom listening to this. Here's
Speaker 3: here's a part of the very sleepy, sedated Trump have.
Speaker 2: They have.
Speaker 7: They just have it out for the police.
Speaker 8: Nobody knows why. I don't know understand why.
Speaker 7: From a common sense I like to say the Republican
Speaker 7: Party is now the party of common sense. Conservative, Yeah,
Speaker 7: I guess conservative, it doesn't matter. It's the party of
Speaker 7: common sense. We want to have borders, we want to
Speaker 7: have strong police protection. We want a military they can
Speaker 7: protect us. We want great schools, school.
Speaker 3: Right, because we don't have a military that we're yeah, yeah, yeah, yes,
Speaker 3: this is talking shit about people in the military so far.
Speaker 3: The room tone is deafening. That basically he was basically
Speaker 3: in a police garage giving the speech with like two
Speaker 3: of the most bored cops behind him who were like
Speaker 3: trying to stay awake hearing this. And cops are like
Speaker 3: bored for a living, Like they love to be bored.
Speaker 3: They like to a peer board, they like to just
Speaker 3: like sit around in the car and b board. It's
Speaker 3: how we get into a lot of trouble in this
Speaker 3: country in the first place, is just bored cops. He's
Speaker 3: just like it's the speak. He's speaking in a.
Speaker 2: Tone that you generally only hear when you're in bed
Speaker 2: with someone, when you're both like slipping off to sleep,
Speaker 2: you know, right where It's like like sometimes I or
Speaker 2: my wife will say very weird things, like I think
Speaker 2: I once was talking about people coming in through the
Speaker 2: windows at one point, and she's like.
Speaker 3: What the fuck are you talking about that? Because yous right,
Speaker 3: ampariis But then Trump kind of like, I just want
Speaker 3: to read this part this is from his speech and
Speaker 3: unless we I don't think we have this queue off.
Speaker 2: But women want to have safety, they want to have
Speaker 2: a strong military, they want to have a strong police force.
Speaker 2: They want to be in the house and they want
Speaker 2: to be safe. They don't want to have people pouring
Speaker 2: in their doors and you can't do anything about it. Right,
Speaker 2: that's I hope too much energy you're giving to it.
Speaker 2: But from that too, I hope they like my personality.
Speaker 2: I have a nice personality, But to me, it wouldn't
Speaker 2: be very important the personality.
Speaker 3: They want to be safe. Oh okay, what huh did you?
Speaker 3: Then he started talking about the border wall. This is
Speaker 3: this part about the border wall is also wild or
Speaker 3: he's just trying to get ahead of that of high
Speaker 3: technology in it.
Speaker 7: Thousand pounds concrete inside and then rebar. Oh, my technology,
Speaker 7: wires and things for tech, high technology.
Speaker 3: It was just there was wires and things in it
Speaker 3: for high technology. Yeah, the relation of.
Speaker 8: The water patrol. I wanted actually concrete plank.
Speaker 7: I would have a job with pre cast. You haven't.
Speaker 3: I wanted long span plank, long span. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: It was really rough. It's because long span. It's called
Speaker 3: long sp like he's doing. He's doing is like I'm
Speaker 3: in construction things like you never heard of it. It's
Speaker 3: called long span construction. Pre cast. Your eyes out of it.
Speaker 2: It really feels like there's someone off stage being like
Speaker 2: straight stretch, yeah, keep going, like he's just like trying
Speaker 2: to well, he was.
Speaker 3: Reading off paper too, like he just had a stack
Speaker 3: of papers. He was just shuffling through. It was really again,
Speaker 3: super low energy and it's wild though when you juxtaposed
Speaker 3: that with like basically the Democrats had two arenas filled
Speaker 3: between the United Center in Chicago and five Serve in
Speaker 3: Wisconsin because there was a Harris Walls rally in Wisconsin,
Speaker 3: and like they were both fucking packed out. And this
Speaker 3: guy's like nodding off at a police garage where even
Speaker 3: like the cops who love him are like, dude, what
Speaker 3: the fuck, bro, I'm about to leave and I have
Speaker 3: to be here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was watching. I think we might talk about
Speaker 1: it in a few minutes. But like that THEO Vaughn
Speaker 1: or at the beginning of it, like that he went
Speaker 1: on THEO Vaughn's podcast, And I don't I never watch,
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people might be like
Speaker 1: me in that I only see Trump speak in at
Speaker 1: the longest a minute fifteen clip on Twitter. Because if
Speaker 1: you know, you can't watch more than that, or you're
Speaker 1: like you'll you'll kill yourself but like I will, I've
Speaker 1: never seen him really do a whole I've never seen
Speaker 1: him do a whole speech really, and that since he's
Speaker 1: been president and thank you. And I started watching because
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, he was on a comedians podcast. I'll
Speaker 1: watch some of like see how the comedian interviewed a president,
Speaker 1: Like I always find that interesting. Yeah, And I watched
Speaker 1: the first ten minutes of it and then I shut
Speaker 1: it off. But like he was so tired even in
Speaker 1: that too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, unconsciously theo van starts talking about coke because Trump
Speaker 2: seemed so tired, and he's like, you need I'm trying.
Speaker 3: To help you out here, man, Like yeah, before we
Speaker 3: play that clip, I just want to play like how
Speaker 3: Newsmax and also Fox News fucking gave up on this
Speaker 3: speech because they're like, yo, dude, we can't eat, like
Speaker 3: we need to help bad look bad, look bad, look bad,
Speaker 3: like hit the budging. This is just like again, a
Speaker 3: nice little bit of meandering into like okay, so that's
Speaker 3: that fucking guy talking and he's good.
Speaker 8: This is what's going on with the judges in New York.
Speaker 8: Nobody can.
Speaker 4: Every time you play this, I can't believe how she's
Speaker 4: sleepy here.
Speaker 3: All right, you're listening to former President Donald Trump speaking
Speaker 3: alive in Howell, Michigan, specifically about liberal policies and how
Speaker 3: they have destroyed major cities across the United States. It's
Speaker 3: funny how each time these people are cut away they
Speaker 3: have to try and summarize what they've been hearing because
Speaker 3: it's like so meandering, like and that was obviously talking
Speaker 3: about how like the communists are going to destroy like
Speaker 3: our earth. Thank you so much. This is the Fox
Speaker 3: News one.
Speaker 7: They shooting arrest people for saying the election was rigged,
Speaker 7: but they like that. They go they go after guys
Speaker 7: like me, but they don't go after people that kill people.
Speaker 7: It's a shame what's happened in our country.
Speaker 3: But we're gonna turn it around.
Speaker 7: We're gonna win big, and we're gonna turn it around.
Speaker 8: Well we turn it around fast.
Speaker 3: Okay, uh huh, thank you. Coffee on yourself.
Speaker 5: Speak in how Michigan this afternoon, and clearly the focus
Speaker 5: is law, law enforcement, his respect for law enforcement. He
Speaker 5: was standing there with several members of the police.
Speaker 3: Just describing it. Respect for law enforcement, respect for police.
Speaker 3: SUV's clearly a very coherent strategy here. Yes, yes, yes, yeah, okay, thanks,
Speaker 3: or wheel drive police vehicles. Yeah, you gotta have on
Speaker 3: Star because something you can have a car accident and
Speaker 3: on Star will be Hey, this is on stardent. Cop
Speaker 3: cars get stolen, you gotta find the cop cars. You
Speaker 3: got to use the low check.
Speaker 2: There is one park where he turns and he says
Speaker 2: to the cops behind him, do you promise he'll never
Speaker 2: be woke?
Speaker 3: I don't see a lot of books. There's not a
Speaker 3: lot of wookness. I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Do you think he like part of his brain is
Speaker 2: realizing everyone's like falling asleep, and like he's equating that
Speaker 2: because it's such a cell phone to be like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm anti wokeness, and you won't be woke right to
Speaker 2: somebody who's like biting their cheek trying to stay awake
Speaker 2: while you're talking.
Speaker 3: If anything, you want them to be woke because they
Speaker 3: are sleeping right now and you don't want that. But
Speaker 3: I guess in the literal sense, but yeah, there's eight
Speaker 3: cops tasing themselves, you know, like just to stay awake. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like in the balls they're like I'm still still meaning fuck,
Speaker 3: but that THEO von clip is wild because like again
Speaker 3: we've heard like yeah, like Trump is like afraid of
Speaker 3: street drugs but fine with like prescription drugs and like
Speaker 3: this weird show and tell over, like doing cocaine is
Speaker 3: so strange because like you have people talking about like
Speaker 3: other presidential campaigns, like here's the policies that are happening.
Speaker 9: He's like, so coke is like good or bad? And
Speaker 9: feeling no, I would just do cocaine. That was really yeah,
Speaker 9: so not just yeah, it was that's down and dirty. Yeah,
Speaker 9: and this is yeah, I mean it was yeah, but
Speaker 9: you don't anymore. Now I don't do it anymore, man,
Speaker 9: And I'm not doing is it too much? Too much
Speaker 9: to some of the stuff started to get a real
Speaker 9: rattle in it too. I don't know where we were
Speaker 9: what he's talking about. It started to make me feel
Speaker 9: like I was a mechanic or so.
Speaker 8: The thing you go back to then is alcohol for
Speaker 8: the most part.
Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, but well what I want probably is cocaine.
Speaker 6: But I know that if I have a drink then
Speaker 6: it'll give me. It'll like be like, Okay, well I
Speaker 6: had a drink, then I can do this.
Speaker 8: Is cocaine a stronger?
Speaker 3: Oh yep, it's like he's almost like, should I try
Speaker 3: it like this?
Speaker 1: We're watching him like, yeah, getting groomed by theo van
Speaker 1: is no longer working.
Speaker 8: So your way up with cocaine more than anything else
Speaker 8: you can think of.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'll turn you into a damn owl, homie. You
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying. It'll you'll be You'll be out
Speaker 6: on your own porch. You know, you'll you'll be your
Speaker 6: own street lamp. You're freaking And is.
Speaker 8: That a good feeling? While it's a more miserable feeling.
Speaker 6: But you do it anyway, just like the how you're
Speaker 6: saying with the scotch.
Speaker 3: So wow, what they're talking about over there? So it's good.
Speaker 3: Oh they're cutting it with cocaine. A good feeling, got
Speaker 3: a rattle in it. Made me feel like a damn mechanic.
Speaker 3: You don't want to be an owl or a street lamp. No, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Used to do this bit of like the guy who
Speaker 1: wants to ask who's trying to get coke and like
Speaker 1: he's so obvious about it, but the other person like
Speaker 1: isn't picking up. He goes, hey, do you have any
Speaker 1: And the guy's like what and he goes, oh, do
Speaker 1: you have any you and the guys like, I don't understand.
Speaker 1: He goes do anything though, And the guy's like, I
Speaker 1: don't know what do you any I got? And he goes, oh,
Speaker 1: do I have any cocaine? He goes, you do coke?
Speaker 3: All right, well, I guess I could try it that.
Speaker 1: Her interview ended with Donald Trump doing cocaine, right, no, yea, hey,
Speaker 1: can you put it on this bag.
Speaker 3: Mister president?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It really feels like that's where it's headed because he
Speaker 2: needed to wake the fuck up or or not. Maybe
Speaker 2: they just like kind of let him drift off to
Speaker 2: sleep and.
Speaker 3: We yeah, this is the end.
Speaker 2: Probably not, though, Let's take a quick break. We'll take
Speaker 2: a quick break and we'll come back and talk about
Speaker 2: some other stuff. We'll be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 3: We're back, And I wanted to talk about that.
Speaker 2: So Kamala revealed her her economic policy in a speech
Speaker 2: last week, and she connected the record high inflation that
Speaker 2: we were seeing for the past few years to the
Speaker 2: fact that corporations we're seeing record high profits and okay,
Speaker 2: exactly that is exactly how the mainstream media and the economists,
Speaker 2: including like Obama's former economics advisor, went on CNN and
Speaker 2: was like yeah, literally, like okay, Stalin, what the fuck
Speaker 2: are you talking about? This is crazy? This has failed,
Speaker 2: Like she wants to turn us into Venezuela.
Speaker 3: What it like this?
Speaker 2: This is impossible, like it it's so wild. Like the
Speaker 2: stories have poured forth. They're like the Washington Post issued
Speaker 2: a kind of opinion piece that got a lot of
Speaker 2: attention that was basically like you know, said it was
Speaker 2: very disappointing, said that she's resorting to populist gimmicks with
Speaker 2: her plan, and then they said, even adjusted for the
Speaker 2: pandering standards of campaign economics, however, Miss Harris's speech Friday
Speaker 2: ranks as a disappointment. And I read that piece, It's
Speaker 2: like it doesn't really go into detail why they don't
Speaker 2: think corporations raising prices and getting record profits is related
Speaker 2: to inflation in any way. They're just they kind of
Speaker 2: just dismiss it. So I went around from piece to
Speaker 2: piece to try to find them debunking like this idea
Speaker 2: and just being like so like La Times had a
Speaker 2: opinion piece Colin Kamala Harris wants to tackle corporate price gouging.
Speaker 2: Here's what she is missing, okay, which is what that
Speaker 2: is from a former editor at the National Review.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: He basically just smirks and says, like, sure there was
Speaker 2: some greed, but we all know it's not the real cause,
Speaker 2: it's just populous politics that she's saying that CNN did
Speaker 2: the thing that I was hoping somebody would do where
Speaker 2: they would because I just I just want an explanation.
Speaker 3: I'm not an economist. I don't know shit, Like I
Speaker 3: know that.
Speaker 2: Every time I've been like, it's so weird that they
Speaker 2: have these record profits and they're the ones driving inflation,
Speaker 2: and yet every economist is like, those two things are
Speaker 2: completely un related, and shut the fuck up and stop
Speaker 2: bringing that up.
Speaker 3: It's crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So the CNN article acknowledges some corporate creed, but it
Speaker 2: debunks the connection by finding isolated examples of companies having
Speaker 2: higher profits when inflation wasn't high. This is literally their argument,
Speaker 2: they say, Take for instance, Pepsi Co. Last year, the
Speaker 2: company reported earning a very solid nine point one billion
Speaker 2: in profit. That's two billion more than what it made
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty, but it's still below the twelve point
Speaker 2: five billion profit it earned in twenty eighteen, when prices
Speaker 2: were rising at an annual pace below three percent. Similarly, Kroger,
Speaker 2: one of the nation's largest supermarket chains, earned a bigger
Speaker 2: profit in twenty eighteen compared to twenty twenty three. So,
Speaker 2: just to summarize what that argument is, their argument is
Speaker 2: that greed can't be the cause of inflation because these
Speaker 2: two companies had isolated good years when national inflation was
Speaker 2: not high.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: They're they're taking the argument that, like, inflation is connected
Speaker 2: to companies just kind of raising prices when they realized
Speaker 2: that they could, because there's this national narrative about supply
Speaker 2: chain issues, and they're taking that and saying that can't
Speaker 2: be true because these companies had successful years.
Speaker 3: Not during the pandemic.
Speaker 2: Like it suggests that we're arguing that raising prices that
Speaker 2: cause inflation is the only way for a company to
Speaker 2: be successful, right, yeah, yeah, it's it's so anecdotal, it
Speaker 2: doesn't like logically, it doesn't even coke here, Like the
Speaker 2: whole reason we're asking you to knock it off is
Speaker 2: because you don't need to bleed people dry to be successful, Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: we know that you can have success without arbitrarily raising prices.
Speaker 3: Well, but it's also wild too, like to be like, oh,
Speaker 3: this is communism, Like fucking Donald Trump even put an
Speaker 3: executive order out to put price protections on certain things
Speaker 3: at the onset of the pandemic, and like many other
Speaker 3: states have like very broad bills about price gouging. So
Speaker 3: to act suddenly that like this is like some extreme
Speaker 3: take is just fucking odd, but also makes sense when
Speaker 3: a lot of these companies are also like publicly traded
Speaker 3: that are like that own the news companies and things
Speaker 3: like that. But every like analysis that's done, like the
Speaker 3: Economic Policy Institute like made it clear, like it's corporate profits,
Speaker 3: not increased costs for labor or inputs, drove the majority
Speaker 3: of inflation. Like that's just that's the conclusion that was made.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you would think it was like a fringe Marxist
Speaker 2: theory that based on like how these people are.
Speaker 3: Result Yeah, well, and like and I think it's also
Speaker 3: about consolidation, right, because you have certain industries where it's
Speaker 3: like fucking three companies own sixty percent of the market,
Speaker 3: and when you have that kind of market consolidation, you
Speaker 3: have the ability to raise prices at will. So like again,
Speaker 3: even the House Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy said
Speaker 3: like they were showing some corporations quote, were able to
Speaker 3: use their market power to raise prices far above any
Speaker 3: increases in their underlying costs attributable to existing inflation. Economists
Speaker 3: at the University of Massachusetts put out in a journal
Speaker 3: article that said US COVID nineteen inflation is predominantly a
Speaker 3: seller's inflation that derives from microeconomic origins, namely the ability
Speaker 3: of firms with market power to hike prices. And they
Speaker 3: found also corporate profits accounted for more than fifty percent
Speaker 3: of food price increases, whereas they accounted for only eleven
Speaker 3: percent of increases in the four decades prior. Like it's
Speaker 3: I don't like, I'm still failing to understand. I think
Speaker 3: it was easy to do that at the beginning because
Speaker 3: of the supply chain issue. But then even looking at
Speaker 3: the shipping industry, they're making profits like they've never fucking
Speaker 3: seen before. They're like, yeah, man, because we are tech,
Speaker 3: we're a big part of the supply chain, but we're
Speaker 3: out now making profits that are like eye watering that
Speaker 3: we had never seen before. Ever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they'll charge as much as they possibly think they
Speaker 2: can get away with charging, which I mean, I guess
Speaker 2: that is economics, but it's also like it's not natural,
Speaker 2: and like when you look at what these people are saying,
Speaker 2: like CEOs are saying on their earnings call, Like Procter
Speaker 2: and Gamble's chief financial officer bragged during a twenty twenty
Speaker 2: three earnings call that even though the company's input costs
Speaker 2: to make diapers had decreased, they were still keeping consumer
Speaker 2: prices high, and they were making a ton of money
Speaker 2: off of that, like record profits. Kroger supermarket chain executive said, quote,
Speaker 2: a little bit of inflation is always good for our business.
Speaker 2: Like they're said, they're bragging about it, like they tell
Speaker 2: you exactly what they're doing, but then when you point
Speaker 2: out that that's what they're doing, they're like, well, no,
Speaker 2: you're being unrealistic.
Speaker 3: Well because yeah, again, it's like any any fucking threat
Speaker 3: to the status quo is like met with this kind
Speaker 3: of fucking energy. Like even when you have someone like
Speaker 3: Calm L. Harris, who is doing a lot to uphold
Speaker 3: the status quo in most places, like this one part,
Speaker 3: like what the fuck? And then like your point that
Speaker 3: guy Jason Furman who used to work for like Obama, Yeah,
Speaker 3: he like he had like he's been posting all kinds
Speaker 3: of fucking stupid stuff like throughout the year. Like he said,
Speaker 3: he's like, oh man, there's this one quote from Brian Albreck.
Speaker 3: Quote blaming inflation or anti competitive behavior or greed is
Speaker 3: like blaming plane crashes on gravity. Oh, chef's kiss. We
Speaker 3: love that. And this guy works for like the Peterson
Speaker 3: Institute for International Economics, and this is a group whose
Speaker 3: funding comes from places like Amazon, Chevron, Toyota, Pepsi Shell
Speaker 3: and like they're there to put out these sort of
Speaker 3: analyzes that are just sort of like, mom, man, you know,
Speaker 3: it's like it's just got of these like intangibles. It's
Speaker 3: all good.
Speaker 4: Just that.
Speaker 2: Back to that CNN article, because so they come off
Speaker 2: that argument that it can't be inflation because these companies
Speaker 2: had successful years, not in the time period we're talking about,
Speaker 2: and they say so Harris's claim just doesn't quite hold
Speaker 2: up on the whole, though, there are some recent examples
Speaker 2: where charging consumers more has fed higher corporate profits.
Speaker 3: First of all, there's like so many, but.
Speaker 2: They're like Calmaine Foods, the largest egg producer in the US,
Speaker 2: saw its revenue double and profit search seven hundred and
Speaker 2: eighteen percent in the first quarter of last year because
Speaker 2: of sharply higher egg prices. Like so they keep being like,
Speaker 2: we'll give you that, We'll give you this one example
Speaker 2: of a thing like that.
Speaker 3: I remember that.
Speaker 2: I remember eggs being way more expensive last year, and
Speaker 2: the thing the reason they were more expensive is because
Speaker 2: this company wanted to double profit.
Speaker 3: And that's what happened.
Speaker 2: Like that, those are those are the two things that
Speaker 2: we know that makes that they have like a thing
Speaker 2: that makes sense over here, and then they just hand
Speaker 2: wave it away by being like, yeah, but economics like that.
Speaker 2: You know, we had an economist over here saying that's
Speaker 2: just how things are going to operate.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean even like Star Kissed Tuna, like they
Speaker 3: had to settle a class action lawsuit for like two
Speaker 3: hundred million because consumers are like, dude, I like alleging
Speaker 3: they were fixing can tuna prices and they're like, ah, yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, well sorry about that. Like it's so many
Speaker 3: times when people are like raising the alarm about it,
Speaker 3: they're not like fighting it in court. They're like yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: we'll agree to okay, that's yeah, all right, you guys.
Speaker 2: And we're talking about anti competitive behavior. It's not like
Speaker 2: the thing that you know, the Obama economics guy is like, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: greeed is like the whole thing that drives market economies.
Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, but there's because of all the consolidation
Speaker 2: and the deregulation, and because like companies are engaging in
Speaker 2: anti competitive behavior that is not part of Like it's
Speaker 2: a thing that you were supposed to be against if
Speaker 2: you're like, really, capitalism will solve everything thing, but they
Speaker 2: they just don't give a fuck, they're not interested in
Speaker 2: solving that.
Speaker 3: Well, it's like again, because this is you know, like
Speaker 3: this is where the media's responsibility comes in. When as
Speaker 3: a consumer, when you hear inflation inflation, inflation inflation, and
Speaker 3: that's being presented as the norm, you're gonna do very
Speaker 3: that's just like the accepted reality you're in as a consumer.
Speaker 3: So then when you go to the store and you're like,
Speaker 3: what the why is this bread so fucking expensive, You're like, oh,
Speaker 3: that's right, inflation, supply chain whatever. That's just like the
Speaker 3: you know, propaganda intellectual cover for these companies to just
Speaker 3: raise the prices under the guise of like serving us
Speaker 3: the consumer. The logic of it's just out of control inflation.
Speaker 3: It's nothing you can do. Don't look at how much
Speaker 3: money is being made really on all of this.
Speaker 1: And it's like, oh, the inflation hasn't touched wages, you know,
Speaker 1: so it's like, okay, everything's increasing, and it's like just inflation,
Speaker 1: Like why aren't why isn't my pay being inflor fairly?
Speaker 3: That means prices will go up. It's like, well, you
Speaker 3: haven't done that, and the prices are and the prices
Speaker 3: are going and your profits are all going up and
Speaker 3: make it make sense. And they're like, shut up, fucking yeah, yes,
Speaker 3: because it's what they call it in the New York Post.
Speaker 2: The media is, you know, the media, and a lot
Speaker 2: of the government is corporate owned, and so it is
Speaker 2: working on behalf of corporations, and so the only messaging
Speaker 2: we get is messaging that feels like it is it
Speaker 2: might as well be like written by and for corporations
Speaker 2: and right, so, like, the big picture of what happened
Speaker 2: in the economy during the pandemic was that every day
Speaker 2: people were suffering while massive companies and you know, the
Speaker 2: stock market we're doing great, like everyone. Economists kept predicting
Speaker 2: a massive recession or depression that never came because corporations
Speaker 2: managed to isolate themselves from it, and the way they
Speaker 2: did that, at least partially, was just put downward pressure
Speaker 2: on people. And people have no voice in America, you know,
Speaker 2: they don't have like a media outlet that is focused
Speaker 2: on like telling the stories for them that is free
Speaker 2: of like corporate influence.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, or so yeah, it's independent media that like
Speaker 3: requires like listener funding and things like that. But yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's just uh, it's just like industry after industry. You
Speaker 3: look and it's like it's just right there in front
Speaker 3: of you. Like remember how expensive fucking rental cars were
Speaker 3: during at that time, and people were like, what the
Speaker 3: fuck is going on? So three firms control fifty percent
Speaker 3: of the rental car market, right, Yeah, So between twenty
Speaker 3: nineteen and twenty twenty one, Hertz and Avis, they had
Speaker 3: a profit increase of five hundred and ninety seven percent.
Speaker 3: They went from two hundred and forty four million to
Speaker 3: one point sixty seven billion, right and then but if
Speaker 3: you look at all their like their financials, their expenses
Speaker 3: went down during that time. So it's purely just because.
Speaker 2: Well, we got to operations supposed to be inflation is
Speaker 2: supposed to be their expenses go up, they have to
Speaker 2: raise prices.
Speaker 3: That's not what's happening here, no, exactly, So and I
Speaker 3: think that's what's like really weird too, is like in
Speaker 3: the like in this analysis of what is even proposing,
Speaker 3: it's like you completely ignore how this is like a
Speaker 3: thing even Republicans have fought for, like in the past,
Speaker 3: Like price gouging is like it's a real thing that
Speaker 3: has to be reckoned with. But I think because that
Speaker 3: does that's like been the big golden goose for a
Speaker 3: lot of these publicly traded companies to like make the
Speaker 3: line just go fucking hockey stick up. Yeah, it's yeah,
Speaker 3: they don't want they don't want any more attention on it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And the thing that like they acknowledge about, they're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: and then people got these you know, stimulus checks or
Speaker 2: you know, relief checks, and so we knew they had
Speaker 2: extra money. So yeah, the price went up, and it's
Speaker 2: like that's fucked up, like cool, which is that's economics,
Speaker 2: but that's a terrible way to It's like, yeah, we're
Speaker 2: gonna fucking shake you down for your extra lunch money.
Speaker 3: Well, what do you know? You guys, wait, did your
Speaker 3: grandma just die? She left you like one hundred bucks, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: give it here, give it here. Yeah, so the price
Speaker 3: is like one hundred and one dollars, but it's usually one.
Speaker 3: Well you got you got that extra hundred right yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 3: what's it? Just like with just like with like car
Speaker 3: subsidies too, It's like, if the government's going to offer
Speaker 3: people fifteen thousand dollars for like an ev or something
Speaker 3: like that, then guess what the price of EV's is
Speaker 3: just going to go up fifteen grand. That's just what
Speaker 3: they're They're like, well, they can absorb it. And I
Speaker 3: think that's one of the worries too with like talking
Speaker 3: about offering people twenty five thousand dollars for like first
Speaker 3: time home buying and things like what that will do
Speaker 3: to the market, because everyone's going to be like presume
Speaker 3: everyone can just raise the prices twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: But it's the market, man, it's the market of the
Speaker 3: market's always right, yeah, and we're free to fuck you over.
Speaker 3: I love the market when they give them market mild
Speaker 3: tax credit.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, the price on diapers, like they already
Speaker 2: raised the price on diapers and diapers are going to
Speaker 2: be like fucking yeah, the be waged out like cocaine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they're already packed in bricks, so yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, it's just right there. People are just
Speaker 3: putting a fucking knife into the brick. They're like, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: that's cutting over the diaper. That's a Huggies nighttime. That's
Speaker 3: like twelve hours of leak protection right there with the
Speaker 3: blowout barrier. Yeah yeah, yeah, smoke in the blowout arerier.
Speaker 3: You find that useful? Oh yeah, man, because like there's
Speaker 3: like fucking laxative stuff cut in there. Man, you fucking
Speaker 3: snort that, bro, you farting all day, like fucking that.
Speaker 3: You're in a blot band or something. Blake.
Speaker 2: What a pleasure having you as always? Where can people
Speaker 2: find you? Follow you all that good stuff?
Speaker 3: Listen.
Speaker 1: I've always said this, You two are my blowout barriers,
Speaker 1: and I couldn't appreciate it anymore. That's so we observe
Speaker 1: in a way that is unpaired. We don't let it
Speaker 1: shoot up your back. No no, And I can't say
Speaker 1: that about many people, but I can say it about
Speaker 1: you too. You can find me live stand up dates
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Speaker 3: And uh yeah.
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Speaker 1: it's the communists. You say, our gar tube, our tube,
Speaker 1: the tube that we share.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't trust it. Well, Blake, is there a
Speaker 3: work of media that you've been enjoying? Yes? A one
Speaker 3: CHRISTI two.
Speaker 1: And one two three four CHRISTI two at the Wopple House,
Speaker 1: I should say Wopple House. So people, I mean everyone
Speaker 1: follows him on here, I would imagine. But Christianamaguchi Man
Speaker 1: posted a photo of a fire chief and drug dealer
Speaker 1: in Key West from the seventies and the guy's name
Speaker 1: was bum Fartoh I saw that Christiamaguchi Ban wrote my
Speaker 1: favorite Star Wars character, Bumfarto, which baby laugh very hard.
Speaker 1: So that was the my tweet that I enjoyed.
Speaker 2: Miles, where can people find you? Is there a work
Speaker 2: of media you've been enjoying?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm me on Twitter, Instagram at Miles of Gray,
Speaker 3: and you can also find Jack and I on Miles
Speaker 3: and Jack on Mad Boosties talking about just you know,
Speaker 3: just transitioning out of the Olympics further into the regular
Speaker 3: season doing some common folk as fans, and also find
Speaker 3: me on the latest episode of Black People Love Paramore,
Speaker 3: where I talk about my love of rat beefs, and
Speaker 3: also on four to twenty Day Fiance. We'll have some
Speaker 3: new episodes up this week, so check that out. A
Speaker 3: tweet I like, there's someone tweeted this is from at
Speaker 3: Brandy Underscore Buck when it says for my friends not
Speaker 3: termally online or on TikTok. There is a man who
Speaker 3: spoofs JD fans constantly and here's the video. This is
Speaker 3: a dude with like eyeliner who kind of looks like
Speaker 3: this is him.
Speaker 10: I need yeah, yeah JD vance here. I wanted to
Speaker 10: pull over my f two fifty and just sit here
Speaker 10: and rep with you about some stuff and it's going
Speaker 10: on in the campaign.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I've had a couple of campaign hiccups, but who hasn't.
Speaker 10: You know A reporter asked me a softball question and
Speaker 10: I got defensive. I'm not used to that kind of stuff. Also,
Speaker 10: I referred to grandmothers as postmanoposal females.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 10: People said that made me sound like some kind of replicant.
Speaker 10: But in my defense, that's how I see them.
Speaker 3: It's but that's how I see them. Yeah. Actually, that's right.
Speaker 3: Sam has been on this show before too. Yeah, Sam, Miles.
Speaker 3: It's it's wild just how much the eyeliner immediately made
Speaker 3: this guy look like Jdvace somebody an eyeliner. That's such
Speaker 3: a rareness.
Speaker 2: Yeah, awesome. You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore. O'Brien. Uh,
Speaker 2: let's see here. What have I been enjoying?
Speaker 3: No, I can't do that.
Speaker 1: And by the way, to those listening, I can't recommend
Speaker 1: Miles and Jack Moore. They're two great guys, So get
Speaker 1: all their content that you can that you can scoop up.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, go ahead, Jack.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: From me, they have my endorsement. So if you want
Speaker 1: to pay attention to them, you can thank you and you.
Speaker 3: Will have a cabinet position in our administration. We appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Let's see Matt at Maddie b tweet sixty nine Nice
Speaker 2: tweeted tried watching this the Sopranos show you all talk about.
Speaker 2: First word I hear is woke. Turned it right off.
Speaker 3: You can find.
Speaker 2: Me on Twitter at Jack Underscore Brian. You can find
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Speaker 2: footnote No, we link off to the information that we
Speaker 2: talked about in today's episode, as well as a song
Speaker 2: that we think you might enjoy.
Speaker 3: Miles, is there a song that you think people might enjoy?
Speaker 3: I think they'll like this track from a sevenminole band
Speaker 3: from the seventies, Simon Day C Y M A d E.
Speaker 3: They're like kind of one of these bands that start
Speaker 3: melding like West African kind of style with more like rock,
Speaker 3: like obviously outside of like what Fella Kuti was doing
Speaker 3: with acrobef, but more just like kind of having this
Speaker 3: stylistic conversation between continents UH and their music super Chill
Speaker 3: and Vibe. This track is called one More and the
Speaker 3: band Somemondie see why m A and d E.
Speaker 2: All right, we will link off to that in the footnotes.
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Speaker 3: Bye wa