Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season three, h two,
Speaker 1: Episode four of Dir Dally's I Guystay production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1: This is a production of Uh. This is the podcast Woo.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 1: into America's shared consciousness. And it is Friday, September one,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Welcome to September at long Last. I
Speaker 1: think maybe the biggest overrated we've had over the past
Speaker 1: couple months is summer. So we're nearing the end of summer.
Speaker 1: Everybody's ready for some cooler months, some cooler climbs. My
Speaker 1: name is Jack O'Brien aka, Gonna steal some artifacts to
Speaker 1: sell to you.
Speaker 2: My Twitter handle is my eBay handle too. I've got
Speaker 2: some stuff from Greece and Africa. Gonna sell the things
Speaker 2: instead of give them back.
Speaker 1: O ooh that is courtesy a blank a little Africa.
Speaker 1: But Toto AKA about the British museum curator who was
Speaker 1: just taking that shit, just taking like priceless national treasures
Speaker 1: that colonialism had stolen and brought to England and just
Speaker 1: selling it on eBay on from an eBay handle that
Speaker 1: is the same as his Twitter handle. That's really an
Speaker 1: amazing story that we talked about on the past episode,
Speaker 1: but I'm still not over it. Uh, And I am
Speaker 1: thrilled to be joined by a very special guest co host,
Speaker 1: the producer behind shows like Fake Doctor's Real Friend, A
Speaker 1: brilliant writer you can read at Culture av Club Team Vogue.
Speaker 1: You've heard around pop culture havevia. It's the brilliant, the
Speaker 1: talented Joel Money.
Speaker 3: Hi Jack?
Speaker 4: How you doing all right?
Speaker 5: How you do?
Speaker 3: It's Beyonce weekend here in Los Angeles. So I am
Speaker 3: beside myself, not emotionally prepared for what's about to come,
Speaker 3: just edge of my seat, not fully present. Anywhere I go,
Speaker 3: my mind is always with Beyonce.
Speaker 1: It's always in that stadium, that future spaceship, future spaceship
Speaker 1: that landed somewhere in Englewood a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3: It's wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that place is wild. How are you observing? Are
Speaker 1: you going to a Beyonce show?
Speaker 4: Jack?
Speaker 3: So, instead of going on vacation this summer, I bought
Speaker 3: tickets to see Beyonce on her birthday the IP.
Speaker 4: Section of So Far Wow.
Speaker 3: My baby Cousin's flying up tomorrow, amazing, gonna come with me.
Speaker 3: I just found out one of my best friends also
Speaker 3: has tickets the same day. How we missed this information,
Speaker 3: I don't know. But we're gonna get ready together. It's
Speaker 3: gonna be a whole spiritual await he's my first time
Speaker 3: seeing Beyonce Jack. I'm very excited. She's my number one diva.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: That's very exciting. Well, we are very excited to have
Speaker 1: in our third seat a comedian who one woman bathroom
Speaker 1: graffiti musical The Writing on the Stall is about to
Speaker 1: have a three weekend run off Broadway starting September sixth.
Speaker 1: Has had runs at like places, prestigious prestigious places like
Speaker 1: the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Please welcome to the show, The
Speaker 1: very Funny, the talented Caitlin.
Speaker 4: Cook woo boo, so good to be here.
Speaker 1: What's up, Kaitlin?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I'm so jealous of your Beyonce tickets.
Speaker 4: That sounds so fun.
Speaker 3: I'm very excited. Did you do any concerts this season?
Speaker 3: There's a lot.
Speaker 4: Been to so many shows. Unfortunately, my partner's favorite band
Speaker 4: is Fish, So I've been to a lot of Phish
Speaker 4: shows this year.
Speaker 1: And what do you think? Because I went to a
Speaker 1: Fish show like and I was like, there must be
Speaker 1: something to this, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna enjoy it,
Speaker 1: and I did not. What is your experience then.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm a musician, so I can find things to enjoy.
Speaker 4: I like the way that they like sort of talk
Speaker 4: to each other through their instruments. The lights are really cool.
Speaker 4: It's fun to do drugs and go right. You know that,
Speaker 4: I've never felt so comfortable in a crowd of mostly
Speaker 4: white men because.
Speaker 6: There are so many white men, happy hippies. For I
Speaker 6: was not prepared for how uniformly white and male. It
Speaker 6: was so very much that. But you know, it takes
Speaker 6: me a while to get into them. They are not
Speaker 6: a band that I would choose to go to nearly
Speaker 6: as many times as I have this year.
Speaker 1: Watch out for the drugs at that At those concerts.
Speaker 1: My one and only experience with fish was back when
Speaker 1: I was still doing stuff like that, and I ate
Speaker 1: an almond that just made my brain disappear. Oh no,
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened after after that. I don't
Speaker 1: know an almond. They were like, this almond is a
Speaker 1: special almond.
Speaker 4: I was like.
Speaker 1: I might have been, but I would hope not. I
Speaker 1: would hope that like acid, I would have remembered. But yeah, anyways,
Speaker 1: that's true. It was lights out for me, Caitlin. We
Speaker 1: are going to get to know you a little bit
Speaker 1: better in a moment. Also, I woulder so your show
Speaker 1: is really cool, like you're taking actual graffiti from actual
Speaker 1: bathroom walls and incorporating it into a musical journey. Yes,
Speaker 1: I got to watch a clip where you were comparing
Speaker 1: the difference between the graffiti and men's bathrooms and women's bathrooms.
Speaker 1: But how did you come to this idea? Have you
Speaker 1: just always been obsessed with graffiti?
Speaker 4: I have. I studied art history in undergrad and I
Speaker 4: got really frustrated with how pretentious that world can be.
Speaker 4: And I was in a dive bar bathroom when I
Speaker 4: saw written on the wall. Since writing on bathroom walls
Speaker 4: is neither for critical acclaim nor financial reward, it is
Speaker 4: the purest form of art discuss and I just loved that.
Speaker 4: That really like made me giggle, and I took a
Speaker 4: picture of it, and I started photographing bathroom graffiti. I
Speaker 4: ended up writing a whole section of my thesis on
Speaker 4: bathroom graffiti, and about five years ago, I decided this
Speaker 4: would be a really funny song if I could take
Speaker 4: these things that I've been photographing and turn them into lyrics.
Speaker 4: And I bought a little foot pedal that is mostly
Speaker 4: used by like orchestral musicians that need to turn their
Speaker 4: sheet music, and I use it to tell dick jokes
Speaker 4: and projects of the images of the graffiti behind me
Speaker 4: as I'm playing guitar piano and singing what's on the
Speaker 4: screen behind me to the audience. And that song, that
Speaker 4: first song did so well that I was like, Oh,
Speaker 4: there's something here that people are really connecting to. Everyone's
Speaker 4: seen bathroom graffiti and thought like, what's the story behind
Speaker 4: that one? Why did someone write that? So I did.
Speaker 4: I went back to my folder of a million bathroom
Speaker 4: graffiti images and I made a song that's men's first,
Speaker 4: women's stalls. I wrote a song that's called Conversations with Strangers.
Speaker 4: That's people that respond to me each other on the stalls.
Speaker 4: I wrote a song that's all the sad, poetic things
Speaker 4: that people write, and I turned it into a whole
Speaker 4: musical where there's literally a toilet on stage. I treat
Speaker 4: the audience like we're women bonding in a bathroom. It's
Speaker 4: very silly and very fun.
Speaker 1: So I feel like if we had a constant stream
Speaker 1: of just like what was being written on the bathroom
Speaker 1: stalls of America, like that would be one of the
Speaker 1: prime features of our podcast. Like, I think what better
Speaker 1: way to like plug into the zeitgeist than like what
Speaker 1: people are writing on bathroom stalls, Like it's totally yeah, wholly, unpretentious,
Speaker 1: a little bit drunk, Yeah, sometimes very drunk, but you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes that's when the truth comes out, not all totally.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we're going to get to know you
Speaker 1: a little bit better in a moment. First, we're gonna
Speaker 1: tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking
Speaker 1: about today. Ted Cruz is trying to like show off
Speaker 1: his conservative bona fides with this clip where he like
Speaker 1: went on Newsmax and went with his his patented catchphrase
Speaker 1: kiss my eyes, which I think he thinks he might
Speaker 1: have made up, because he really seems to like lean
Speaker 1: on it, Like he's really proud and witty hear this
Speaker 1: one I came up with. Anyways, he's mad that someone
Speaker 1: might one day suggest that people only drink two beers
Speaker 1: a week, and he's treating it like it's the new
Speaker 1: bedtime that has been instituted for all of America by
Speaker 1: the FBI or something, So we'll talk about that. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about Rudy Giuliani's apartment on selling, I'll talk about
Speaker 1: the plandemic two point zero conspiracy theory that is making
Speaker 1: the rounds on social media. A lot of this stuff
Speaker 1: is just like too dumb for bathroom stall graffiti. I
Speaker 1: feel like you will get scribbled out really quickly. HBO
Speaker 1: Max or sorry, just Max has come up with its
Speaker 1: worst idea yet Maybe I don't know. They got a
Speaker 1: lot of bad ones. And we'll talk about Taco Bells
Speaker 1: proposed switch to a cashless future and what cash list
Speaker 1: stores actually mean, all of that plenty more. First, Caitlin,
Speaker 1: we do like to ask our guest, what is something
Speaker 1: from your search history?
Speaker 4: So I recently was searching dive bars in Midtown because
Speaker 4: I was doing some promotion for this show and I
Speaker 4: was trying and I had to do an interview in person,
Speaker 4: and I had to find They wanted it to be
Speaker 4: in Midtown. I don't spend a lot of time in Midtown.
Speaker 4: Why would you terrible place? But they wanted to do
Speaker 4: the interview there at a bathroom that had graffiti in it.
Speaker 4: So I had to do a bunch of research for
Speaker 4: dive bars in Midtown found a couple. So now if
Speaker 4: I'm ever in Midtown, I now have some safe havens
Speaker 4: of places I can go that are actually cheap drinks
Speaker 4: and calm and not crazy filled with tourists and people
Speaker 4: dressed up as fake Elmo and whatever else they do
Speaker 4: in Times Square.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, What is your definition of a dive bar, like,
Speaker 1: does it have loud music or no?
Speaker 4: I I mean, I suppose some dive bars do, but
Speaker 4: my preference, my favorite dive bars do not. I want
Speaker 4: to go somewhere where there's cheap here and I can
Speaker 4: have a conversation and hear the person talk to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. That's what I like about the dive
Speaker 1: bar that pops up in my head when I hear
Speaker 1: the word dive bars, that you can actually hear the
Speaker 1: other person. But there are some places I've definitely heard
Speaker 1: of referred to as dive bars that are not quiet
Speaker 1: and are just trying. It's just very loud bond jovi
Speaker 1: at inappropriate times. I think anytime any year now is
Speaker 1: inappropriate for very loud bon jovial.
Speaker 3: Do you not like when people turn a regular bar
Speaker 3: into a karaoke bar.
Speaker 1: I'm good with that. Yeah, I guess it's like on
Speaker 1: a one off thing, but like when it's just a wan,
Speaker 1: like a NonStop wall of sound, like that's not what
Speaker 1: I'm looking for from a dive bar.
Speaker 3: Oh, definitely not. I feel like I do a lot
Speaker 3: of nodding like, yeah, I can absolutely hear you, and
Speaker 3: it's totally making.
Speaker 4: Sense to Yeah, I can't ask what a third time,
Speaker 4: so I guess all time right too.
Speaker 1: I think it should be understood at that point if
Speaker 1: someone said what and then the last time they just
Speaker 1: not kind of that that they are just giving up
Speaker 1: and you should give up as well. They didn't actually
Speaker 1: hear you, and you can proceed in the conversation as
Speaker 1: though we've just given up on ever hearing each other
Speaker 1: on that one. What's something you think is overrated?
Speaker 4: I think people have been talking a lot about having
Speaker 4: main character energy, and while I think that is so
Speaker 4: great for people that maybe do not take charge in
Speaker 4: their own life, I don't think you should be the
Speaker 4: main character all the time. I think that's very overrated.
Speaker 4: I think sometimes you need to be a supporting character.
Speaker 4: Sometimes you need to be the comedic relief. Sometimes you're
Speaker 4: just like a little cameo that's dropped into someone's life.
Speaker 4: It doesn't have to be about you all the goddamn time.
Speaker 4: It also sounds exhausting to constantly be in main character mode.
Speaker 4: If you're the main character of a book, bad things
Speaker 4: are happening to you, terrible things. Yeah, you're really struggling.
Speaker 4: It's hard, and you're winning, not often because otherwise the
Speaker 4: book is over. Yeah, there's a lot of drama. If
Speaker 4: you're the main character all the time, there's a lot
Speaker 4: of drama surrounding you, and that seems exhausting. No, thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think too many protagonists, not enough wacky neighbors
Speaker 1: is probably a good prescription for the United States at
Speaker 1: this moment.
Speaker 3: Really, don't you want to be the whacky neighbor. You
Speaker 3: can have so much more fun as a side character.
Speaker 3: You get to really be all character. As a side character.
Speaker 3: You're the person who's either making someone laugh or providing
Speaker 3: like structural support to them during their difficult time. Or
Speaker 3: you're the villain and that can be fun too.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, villain energy. I'm into that.
Speaker 1: And you never have to change. The protagonist by definition
Speaker 1: has to change, which is uncomfortable. But like the wacky
Speaker 1: neighbor stays wacky. You know, it's like Kramer suddenly like
Speaker 1: learns to control his limbs. What uh? What is something
Speaker 1: you think is underrated?
Speaker 4: Popsicles? I've been obsessed. I so I bike everywhere in
Speaker 4: the city and that's how I get around. And it's
Speaker 4: very humid. I know you were you guys were saying
Speaker 4: that someone, a previous guest had said summer was overrated,
Speaker 4: and I and I agree. It's very hot and human
Speaker 4: here and I'm biking everywhere, and when I get home,
Speaker 4: I want a popsicle immediately. And I just found these
Speaker 4: new popsicles. They're they're they're not sponsoring me. They're just
Speaker 4: Halo tops pineapple popsicles. They're so good, They're so underrated.
Speaker 4: I ate a whole box and one night, two nights ago. Wow,
Speaker 4: I'm just obsessed with popsicles right now. So I think
Speaker 4: they're deeply underrated and everyone should be eating popsicles all
Speaker 4: the time.
Speaker 3: Such a ringing endorsement. Now, are these halo pop Are
Speaker 3: they specially is they're like coconut and milk maketin there
Speaker 3: or is it just like pure pineapple flavor.
Speaker 4: I think it's just pure pineapple. It's like it says
Speaker 4: like only forty calories per popsicle, and I'm like, how
Speaker 4: how they taste so good? How is this possible? Yeah,
Speaker 4: they're doing.
Speaker 3: By some of these. I was looking at Rocket Pops
Speaker 3: is doing like some kind of advertisement for a new
Speaker 3: video game. But every time it comes on, I'm like,
Speaker 3: and it was a lot of sounded like a rocket pop.
Speaker 3: Like those things used to rule my summer because that's
Speaker 3: usually you get whatever is in like the little plastic
Speaker 3: and they're like blue, pink, green, whatever, and they're those
Speaker 3: are good, They're tasty, they're cold stampikes. If you get
Speaker 3: a rocket pop, you're balling. Somebody has paid you to
Speaker 3: mow their lawn. Yeah, you have gone fat in the house.
Speaker 3: Who's rich and you're just really living high on a
Speaker 3: rocket top. Like I'm an adult, I have one of
Speaker 3: these one ever, I gotta reinvest in my childhood.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think. I think popsicles maybe is a smaller
Speaker 4: thing for what I'm really saying is underrated, which is like, yeah,
Speaker 4: absolutely doing the things as an adult that you wanted
Speaker 4: to do as a kid, and being like I can
Speaker 4: do this anytime I want to eat a.
Speaker 3: Whole box of popsicles in a night.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, Yeah, I did that.
Speaker 1: Have we been improving on popsicles?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it seems like we have, like the the Halo
Speaker 7: Top pineapple pop popsicle, like the again Halo Top, like
Speaker 7: doesn't I think they're lying to us, but at least
Speaker 7: we feel better when we're eating their ice cream and
Speaker 7: frozen treats.
Speaker 4: There's also good pop and they make like a mango
Speaker 4: chili pop and like a watermelon a gave pop and
Speaker 4: those are also like very good and supposedly healthier for you.
Speaker 3: So yeah, Total Wine is making margarita pops and I
Speaker 3: have just transcended to another earthly plane. They're eighteen dollars
Speaker 3: with the tequila in them or let me see hold on,
Speaker 3: let me see the variety path. They're gluten free. Children,
Speaker 3: give me that they got a mango margarita, pineapple, strawberry
Speaker 3: and lime. Does contain alcohol made with real tequila?
Speaker 4: Wow? All right, freeze that. Though I don't understand that scientifically.
Speaker 3: Cut water frozen margarita pops, I don't know, but I
Speaker 3: want to purchase these.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Every time I've tried to, like do the homemade popsicles
Speaker 1: like they don't turn out they're like more icy than
Speaker 1: I feel like the ones that you buy in the store,
Speaker 1: Like there's two. I feel like there has to be
Speaker 1: like some sort of concentrate, Like it has to be
Speaker 1: concentrated juice or m you.
Speaker 3: Know what makes the best homemade pops Jack kool Aid?
Speaker 1: Kool Aid does? I feel like it's very watery, not
Speaker 1: if you add extra powder too, So you just go
Speaker 1: extra yeah, yeah, you got extra.
Speaker 3: Hard on it. And then you pour them in a
Speaker 3: Dixie cup, right, and like maybe about halfway stick your
Speaker 3: popsicle in, freeze the whole cup, and then you just
Speaker 3: like pop it out of the plastic. It's old school
Speaker 3: and it's delicious.
Speaker 4: That sounds good. I'm gonna have to do that.
Speaker 1: Popsicles are great. All right, Well, let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break and we'll come back and talk about some news.
Speaker 1: And we're back and Ted Cruz, I think we've talked
Speaker 1: to we've checked him with him before on his journey
Speaker 1: of trying out his catchphrase of kiss my ass. Like
Speaker 1: there was a point where he said my and my
Speaker 1: pronouns are kiss my ass, which I think he stole
Speaker 1: from Roseanne, like a Roseanne stand up special. But he's
Speaker 1: he's back trying to differentiate himself, make people care what
Speaker 1: he has to say, and so earlier in the week,
Speaker 1: he shared a video of a cop car knocking down
Speaker 1: an environmental protester who's blocking the road to Burning Man,
Speaker 1: with the caption play stupid games, Win stupid prizes. So
Speaker 1: seemingly he's in favor of cars mowing down peaceful protesters
Speaker 1: and also implicitly is a fan of people flying private
Speaker 1: jets to an event that has a literal orgy dome,
Speaker 1: because that's what they were protesting, as people flying private
Speaker 1: jets to Burning Man. But somehow that wasn't his cringiest
Speaker 1: move this week. So recently, the director of the National
Speaker 1: Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism said in an interview
Speaker 1: that the group could hypothetically one day adopt Canada's recent
Speaker 1: health guidelines recommending that adults should consume no more than
Speaker 1: two alcoholic drinks per week. That there's no they Canada
Speaker 1: did not say you go to jail if you drink
Speaker 1: more than that. They just said we would suggest that
Speaker 1: it is healthier if you drink this much as opposed
Speaker 1: to more than this much. And then the person from
Speaker 1: the US made this just loud, unwavering statement. He said,
Speaker 1: I mean they're not going to go up. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure with regards to like the alcohol guidelines. So if
Speaker 1: alcohol conception guidelines go in any direction, it would probably
Speaker 1: be toward Canada. And that is what the right has
Speaker 1: seized on and been like, no, you will take these
Speaker 1: beers out of our cold, dead hands unless it's bud Light.
Speaker 1: Unless it's bud Light, in which case they're cool. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so then he went on this news. So he goes
Speaker 1: on Newsmax and does just the most performative act of
Speaker 1: beer drinking from anyone that's not a fourteen year old
Speaker 1: at their first house party. He's just I don't know,
Speaker 1: he just seems so uncomfortable, and he's like talking shit
Speaker 1: about how they don't want you to use house fans
Speaker 1: or ceiling fans. And then he's like, and if they
Speaker 1: want us to drink two beers week, frankly, they can
Speaker 1: kiss my ass. And then he cracks open a cold
Speaker 1: one and then there's like these cowboys behind him. Did
Speaker 1: you guys see the video. He's like in a barn
Speaker 1: with like six cowboys standing behind him holding beers also,
Speaker 1: and then when he takes a sip of his beer,
Speaker 1: like they take a sip of their beer, but it's
Speaker 1: like very quiet, like they do it all very quietly,
Speaker 1: like nobody makes a sound, so it's all just like solemn,
Speaker 1: like men drinking in a dark room.
Speaker 4: Is the vibe, which terrifying, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Terrifying, and also like probably you know, if you're trying
Speaker 1: to be like, nobody has a drinking problem here, Like
Speaker 1: just all these guys silently drinking in a dark room,
Speaker 1: like with just the weirdest vibes, ever, is probably not
Speaker 1: not the thing you want to go for, but it's clear.
Speaker 4: It's meant to be consumed quietly with no talking.
Speaker 1: Yes, And then the anchor is like, well, haha, you
Speaker 1: said it, Ted, I'm gonna crack a non alcoholic beer
Speaker 1: here due to station policy because I'm not allowed to
Speaker 1: drink alcohol on air. But so that just like made
Speaker 1: it even more embarrassing. And incidentally, the Canadian guideline classified
Speaker 1: as a standard drink twelve ounce serving of five percent
Speaker 1: alcohol beer and he was drinking a Shiner bock, which
Speaker 1: is four point four So the beer that he's talking
Speaker 1: about wouldn't even count as a drink under the Canadian
Speaker 1: guidelines that's amazing.
Speaker 3: I think Ted Cruz was having flashbacks to his college
Speaker 3: days of like trying to get into parties and being
Speaker 3: roundly rejected, and he was like, no, guys, I'm really cool.
Speaker 3: Look how I want drink this beer? Like, yeah, watch
Speaker 3: me fit in. This is how you do.
Speaker 1: It right, watch right, fellow? Yeah yeah, he's.
Speaker 3: That's a character I like. Craig Mason, who some people
Speaker 3: might know as the showrunner of the Last of Us.
Speaker 3: He also worked on the Hangover movies back in the day.
Speaker 3: Was his roommate when Ted was a senior and he
Speaker 3: was a freshman, And he's got great stories to still
Speaker 3: live on Twitter if you want to re visits some.
Speaker 4: Of Ted's crazy college days, I've seen this thread where
Speaker 4: I can't even remember any specifics, but just how crazy
Speaker 4: he was in college. Was like, ma'am, there's no way
Speaker 4: you could accept him as like a friend or a
Speaker 4: normal person. But maybe if we had, he wouldn't be
Speaker 4: here constantly trying to get acceptance from everybody.
Speaker 3: Ted believe a greasy film on everything. My friend Eric
Speaker 3: dubbed the substance Cruz. See are u ah z rhymes
Speaker 3: with scuz. Now there's Cruz on my TV, Craig Mason,
Speaker 3: January tenth, twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: More delightful stories like wow, yeah, he also made Chernobyl,
Speaker 1: which was a favorite of ours, craigmans Oh, yes, a
Speaker 1: good show, very good show. All right, Well, just moving
Speaker 1: down the conservative lineup, We've got Rudy Giuliani. So we
Speaker 1: had covered before that he was putting his apartment up
Speaker 1: for sale and the price point he's suggesting a six
Speaker 1: point five million dollars and so no one has brought
Speaker 1: it yet, bought it yet, probably because first of all,
Speaker 1: it's Rudy Giuliani's apartment, so it's like trying to sell
Speaker 1: a murder house. It might have actually like been additive
Speaker 1: when he was America's mayor, but now things are wildly different, obviously,
Speaker 1: but it's it's being listed by the so called broker
Speaker 1: to the Fallen Stars, who also had to sell off
Speaker 1: Bernie Madoff's penthouse. What a title, I know, it was
Speaker 1: just this person is like specializes in selling off the
Speaker 1: homes of people who made their millions in Ponzi scheme
Speaker 1: and now Rudy Giuliani. But people are pointing out that
Speaker 1: like it doesn't doesn't even make sense, like he's asking
Speaker 1: for like way more than it's worth. Another unit in
Speaker 1: the same building that's basically the same size currently on
Speaker 1: the market for two point eight seven five million, and
Speaker 1: this is on the market for six point five Wow,
Speaker 1: and the last sale in the building was three point
Speaker 1: seven Does.
Speaker 4: He think that like the celebrity boost, Yeah, we'll put
Speaker 4: it there. That's wild.
Speaker 3: I think it's desperation because he knows he's has giant
Speaker 3: legal fees coming up. There's no money coming in from anywhere.
Speaker 3: Everybody who's even halfway intelligent Cutock ties with him, so
Speaker 3: there's no I know, Trump's not helping him. Apparently he
Speaker 3: asks for some help Trumps like get out of here.
Speaker 4: Well Trump does not money either, so that makes sense, right.
Speaker 1: I Mean what one theory is that he's actually doing that.
Speaker 1: He's putting his house on the market to like show
Speaker 1: that he is in financial straits and like can't pay
Speaker 1: any of his lawyers or whatever, and like I think
Speaker 1: there's like some legal reasons for that, while also like
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to sell the apartment and so he's
Speaker 1: basically putting it on the market at like an irrational,
Speaker 1: like a completely unreasonable listing by it. Yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: kind of the idea. It is like that he wants
Speaker 1: to argue he's like close to broke in order to
Speaker 1: excuse the fact that he hasn't shared discovery documents in
Speaker 1: the case brought against him by Smartmatic, the election technology
Speaker 1: company that sued him and Fox News in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one over false claims of election fraud, and that like
Speaker 1: this way, no one will pay in order to have
Speaker 1: like verifiable proof that you're broke and therefore immune from
Speaker 1: certain legal responsibilities. And so in an earlier case, he
Speaker 1: actually automatically lost his defamation case in which he was
Speaker 1: sued by two election workers from Georgia for failing to
Speaker 1: turn over evidence, and in that case he was also
Speaker 1: slapped with a one hundred and thirty two thousand dollars
Speaker 1: bill for legal fees. So it's helpful for him to
Speaker 1: be like, I'm in duress, I can't pay all any
Speaker 1: of this stuff. Please leave me, leave me alone, Please
Speaker 1: have pity on me, sir, And it seems like nobody's
Speaker 1: buying it.
Speaker 3: Essentially, it's nice to see people get what they deserve,
Speaker 3: even if it's just so little.
Speaker 4: Yeah, nice karma.
Speaker 1: I'm really I can't wait to see the behind the
Speaker 1: scenes of the mugshot, like how Trump's mugshot came about,
Speaker 1: but also like what the messaging was to cause, like
Speaker 1: Rudy seemed to have the same like be tough and
Speaker 1: like angry face as Trump did, but like I just
Speaker 1: want to know, like what went into all of those photos,
Speaker 1: because he also looks just like a a corrupt businessman
Speaker 1: who just got caught.
Speaker 4: And do you think they.
Speaker 3: Gave him a three two one countdown or I'm like
Speaker 3: smile click yeah he heads up, or where they're just
Speaker 3: like and stand here, click next. We're like wait, But
Speaker 3: because I feel like he would have tried to, like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, appear less guilty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they both looked so guilty. He looked really guilty.
Speaker 1: He was giving off like the subtext of his picture.
Speaker 1: The first word in the subtext of his picture is guilty.
Speaker 1: He's just like, oh, I would have gotten away with
Speaker 1: it too.
Speaker 4: Now, I'm like, has anyone ever smiled in their mugshot pictures?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: For sure, Lindsay Lohands, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's
Speaker 3: a bunch of like celebrity ladies are constantly like, listen,
Speaker 3: you won't catch me with a bad photo, I don't care.
Speaker 4: Where is this side? Okay, now book me.
Speaker 1: But in that earlier case, like the judge literally wrote,
Speaker 1: donning a cloak of victim is may play well on
Speaker 1: a public stage to certain audiences, but in a court
Speaker 1: of law, this performance has served only to subvert the
Speaker 1: normal process of discovery in a straightforward defamation case. And
Speaker 1: then you know, found him guilty and charged him one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty two thousand dollars legal fees. So it's
Speaker 1: not I don't I also don't know, like what the
Speaker 1: theory is that, like someone's going to feel sorry for
Speaker 1: him that his six point five million dollar apartment isn't selling.
Speaker 1: Like that doesn't feel like a great strategy for making people,
Speaker 1: like causing people to feel sympathy for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, it's all what else could he possibly try?
Speaker 3: It was like, you know, bad housing markets totally. There's
Speaker 3: some people who could empathize with the difficulty there because
Speaker 3: he can't. What are you gonna use like his family, no,
Speaker 3: his job situation. You did that here, rich wakeye what
Speaker 3: else you got to but you try.
Speaker 1: To buy my house? That's yeah, it's an interesting strategy,
Speaker 1: all right. And finally let's talk about the plandemic two
Speaker 1: point zero. This is a new conspiracy theory you're probably
Speaker 1: starting to see because Trump went on a long rant
Speaker 1: about how left wing lunatics are trying very hard to
Speaker 1: bring back COVID lockdowns and mandates, specifically to steal the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four election naturally. And yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: this kind of came out. It seemed like he came
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, but apparently it's been it's been a
Speaker 1: thing that's going going around for a little while. First
Speaker 1: of all, I just want to note that under the
Speaker 1: video that he posted on X, like the two stories
Speaker 1: that they're linking off to that like disprove his claims
Speaker 1: are actually like approaching the debunking from the perspective of, like,
Speaker 1: actually Trump's the one who started the lockdowns, which I
Speaker 1: get the logic of that, like that even his even
Speaker 1: somebody who thinks the pandemic was like a scam, will
Speaker 1: be convinced by that. But it does just feel like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm I feel like I'm seeing that
Speaker 1: more and more, just the embracing of the logic of like, yeah,
Speaker 1: well we didn't need to go that hard and everybody
Speaker 1: overreacted right, like we can all agree on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, from folks who seemingly before were like, oh no,
Speaker 3: I'm definitely like mask on and stuff. It's been weird,
Speaker 3: like a weird turn of events to watch folks be
Speaker 3: like and I'll never go back again. I'm just at
Speaker 3: a convention. I just still can't understand why wearing a
Speaker 3: mask of seine is such an inconvenience. It's so easy.
Speaker 3: It hardly does anything of it make you spell your
Speaker 3: own breath, which you know is nice. If it's bad,
Speaker 3: smell emotion, No, you should be aware of what's happening
Speaker 3: in that area of your body.
Speaker 4: It's also a great if you're like on the subway
Speaker 4: and you're practicing lines for I don't know, an off
Speaker 4: Broadway show you're about to do in a week, and
Speaker 4: you don't want to look like a crazy person. You
Speaker 4: can put a mask on and no one will be
Speaker 4: the wiser. It's great if.
Speaker 3: You're having a bad day looking not great, throw a
Speaker 3: mask on. Guess what now you're mysterious, who's that girl?
Speaker 3: What she's up to you? Yeah, it's honestly such a
Speaker 3: health it's weird. It's especially knowing that the numbers are
Speaker 3: going up, and I really feel like folks are like,
Speaker 3: I'm not going back inside screw of you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, It's very funny that, like that's the mindset when
Speaker 4: it's like the opposition none, none of us wanted to
Speaker 4: do this. It feels like the argument is like someone's
Speaker 4: planning this and they want to do this, and I'm
Speaker 4: never going back.
Speaker 1: It's like none of us enjoyed the lockdown, right, Yeah
Speaker 1: that was not nobody's like pro pandemic. But that's that
Speaker 1: is like how the argument is being exactly structured. Yeah, structured?
Speaker 1: Is that like we're for so anyways, they're like the
Speaker 1: There's been rumblings among right wing conspiracy theorists for weeks now,
Speaker 1: basically following suggestions from public health officials the people who
Speaker 1: are at higher risk may want to wear masks in
Speaker 1: public following a rise in COVID cases, and some colleges
Speaker 1: and companies, including the movie studio Lionsgate, even reinstituted mask mandates. Briefly,
Speaker 1: they are claiming that like a countrywide lockdown is coming
Speaker 1: this fall, and you know, Alex Jones shockingly is responsible
Speaker 1: for this. He's claiming that On August eighteenth, he claimed
Speaker 1: that a TSA whistleblower informed him that mask mandates will
Speaker 1: return in September, followed by a full blown lockdown in December.
Speaker 1: Called an anonymous Border Patrol agent who confirmed the oddly
Speaker 1: specific claims and said that we would eminently return to
Speaker 1: full COVID protocol of twenty twenty twenty twenty one, and
Speaker 1: then perhaps because this is total bullshit. He also gave
Speaker 1: himself an anap out, adding that the lockdown may not
Speaker 1: actually happen because he had exposed it on the show.
Speaker 4: All yeah, another lockdown, crazy, I know.
Speaker 1: But people on social media kind of picked up on
Speaker 1: his claims, suggesting that the new COVID surge was somehow
Speaker 1: connected to Trump's indictments. So this, this is like the
Speaker 1: social media brain malfunction where like everything like there's you
Speaker 1: just assume like everything is happening to the too. This
Speaker 1: like only two or three people that you're able to.
Speaker 1: It's like main character syndrome of like following world events,
Speaker 1: where like, oh, well, because COVID's going back up, that
Speaker 1: must be related to Trump being indicted. Like you just
Speaker 1: want to connect to the dots on things that have
Speaker 1: nothing to do with one another because your brain is
Speaker 1: only so big and can only you know, hold so
Speaker 1: much information?
Speaker 3: Oh man, I even know what to say about like
Speaker 3: these conspiracy theorists, who I think when anyone is controlling
Speaker 3: the spread of a pandemic, do you know how it
Speaker 3: would be so epic if somebody could. They're like, okay,
Speaker 3: dates coming up. I'm going to drop the pandemic right here,
Speaker 3: in the same way i'd drop a music video. I'm
Speaker 3: going to make sure this many people get it so
Speaker 3: that we go into lockdown. Like there's just no possible
Speaker 3: conceivable way to start time releasing a pandemic or a disease,
Speaker 3: and then on top of that to then think how
Speaker 3: does this help and or hurt Trump?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Like the math is a mathing, like either we are insider,
Speaker 3: we're not. I don't know what effect that has on
Speaker 3: on whatever Trump is going other than maybe it would
Speaker 3: delay his trial for a little.
Speaker 1: Bit, right, Yeah, Yeah, I think the main thing that
Speaker 1: is challenge is a challenge for Trump is that he's
Speaker 1: like the most indicted human being in the history of
Speaker 1: the United States is also trying to run for president
Speaker 1: while dealing with that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the heres on that guy amazing, it's wild, wild
Speaker 4: and paid a bail Bondsman too.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah. Steve Bannon's podcast co host Natalie Winters went
Speaker 1: viral for posting out of context screenshots of Department of
Speaker 1: Veterans Affairs purchase orders, suggesting that it was proof that
Speaker 1: the US government was buying up equipment for a planned
Speaker 1: pandemic and the equipment was testing supplies and computer equipment
Speaker 1: totaling seven million dollars, which is like, to put it
Speaker 1: in perspective, like they spent I think four trillion dollars
Speaker 1: on the pandemic, like across all of the different things
Speaker 1: that they had to invest in.
Speaker 4: I wish I could just post whatever and be fine
Speaker 4: with it.
Speaker 1: I know that's what they've discovered.
Speaker 3: Truly, Truly, they like the truth is suggested.
Speaker 1: Write whatever the fuck you want and it will be so.
Speaker 1: And then so just like it's a it's a good
Speaker 1: study and how these stories kind of happened, because then
Speaker 1: you know, it's it becomes this thing where it's like
Speaker 1: all these dumb little like one person pointed to a
Speaker 1: suburban target store was putting in more pickup only spots
Speaker 1: in their parking lot. Like so it's like all these
Speaker 1: ridiculous statements being made on various outlets, But then The
Speaker 1: Daily Telegraph published a op ed warning about Biden's lockdown plot,
Speaker 1: citing Biden administrations buying COVID equipment and hiring pandemic safety
Speaker 1: protocol officers not to mention the return of the mask
Speaker 1: mandates at the Lionsgate Film studios in Los Angeles. So
Speaker 1: it's like, that's how they launder their bullshit from you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of Twitter posts, and you know what Steve
Speaker 1: Bannon's co host says to being in an op ed
Speaker 1: as like, and this is evidence.
Speaker 3: I like that they were like Target's putting in more spots.
Speaker 3: It must mean the pandemic. So listen, Target do that
Speaker 3: because it's so easy to order online and then you're
Speaker 3: not tempted to order inside Target. This Target delivery slash
Speaker 3: pickup is one of the greatest inventions ever. No more
Speaker 3: are you perusing the aisles getting lost in pillows. You
Speaker 3: definitely don't need twelve more of You can just order
Speaker 3: and then they bring it to you, and then you
Speaker 3: can go home with the money you intended.
Speaker 4: To spend still in your pocket.
Speaker 3: It's beautiful. I promise it's not a sign of forthcoming
Speaker 3: pandemic lockdown.
Speaker 4: But it does feel like it probably loses Target money though,
Speaker 4: because then you're not spending that money on ten pillows
Speaker 4: you don't need.
Speaker 3: It probably hurts Target a little bit. But also i'd
Speaker 3: consistently coming back, so I don't there you go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it lowers the friction. That's what they call like
Speaker 1: the difficulty of buying something if you just like go,
Speaker 1: hit the button, show up and someone ribes and puts
Speaker 1: it in the back of your car.
Speaker 3: I will say. Whatever AI is operating their system too,
Speaker 3: has gotten pretty good at being like, hey, this is
Speaker 3: on sale. You could just add this to your cart
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's the other thing like they they've perfected
Speaker 1: like the AI and the you know, web design and
Speaker 1: all the things for like our little skinner box you
Speaker 1: know smartphones that we all live basically live inside, so
Speaker 1: that they can sell you more. And actually that's what
Speaker 1: our next story is about, which is kind of the
Speaker 1: reason that Taco Bell and a bunch of other companies
Speaker 1: want to go cash lists. So yeah, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break and we'll come right back and talk about.
Speaker 8: That, and we're back and yeah, So Taco Bell made
Speaker 8: news recently for reportedly announcing that they hope to soon
Speaker 8: go one hundred percent digital with only cashless payments in
Speaker 8: the future.
Speaker 1: Cashless transactions really took off during the pandemic, but the
Speaker 1: push for cashless stores existed prior to COVID and was
Speaker 1: already pretty controversial because people have pointed out that eight
Speaker 1: point four million households are unbanked, So that's a lot
Speaker 1: of people who couldn't wouldn't be able to buy something
Speaker 1: at a cashless business, and in this case, wouldn't be
Speaker 1: able to and this is one of the most important
Speaker 1: purchases somebody can make. Buy a crunchy Taco Supreme. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, that's not fair.
Speaker 3: It's super not fair, especially when you consider like at
Speaker 3: least the last time I went to taco about which
Speaker 3: I'll be honest, was maybe six years ago. It's been
Speaker 3: a hot mini since I've been to talk about but
Speaker 3: they have like eighty nine cent little burritos and stuff,
Speaker 3: which if you are either a very broke college kid
Speaker 3: or someone living on the street, like you could scounde
Speaker 3: job eighty nine cents and get yourself a little bit
Speaker 3: of food to eat. It blows that now that might
Speaker 3: not be an option for some people because they deserve fast,
Speaker 3: venient food too. It's rude.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, agreed. And it's like a prize if you
Speaker 4: find enough change on the couch cushion and you're high
Speaker 4: and you want to go to Taco Bell. That's that's
Speaker 4: the prize.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I want.
Speaker 4: To absolutely now I want to go to Taco Bell.
Speaker 3: Wow, I really thinking about it.
Speaker 1: This segment is sponsored by Taco Bell.
Speaker 4: I should say thank you Taco Bell.
Speaker 1: No, but cashless stores disproportionately affect people of color, not
Speaker 1: to mention adding more obstacles for undocumented Americans who have
Speaker 1: a harder time accessing banking services for obvious reasons. So
Speaker 1: it makes sense that like groups like the NAACP have
Speaker 1: called on Congress to pass legislation to ban cashless stores.
Speaker 1: And contrary to what I would have thought, there's actually
Speaker 1: no federal law mandating that businesses need to accept currency
Speaker 1: as payment for goods or services, which I thought that
Speaker 1: was like kind of the whole thing.
Speaker 3: Very stills.
Speaker 4: Then just open a store and do you like treats.
Speaker 3: It'd be like, uh, yeah, you washed my car, you
Speaker 3: can have that twenty pound ham. Sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah. That's People are so horny for like a barter
Speaker 1: based economy, like they just they like they whenever they
Speaker 1: talk about like why economics is so good, they're like
Speaker 1: people used to have to just do. I'm an artisan,
Speaker 1: so I make you this pot and you give me
Speaker 1: one of your lambs or something like that should actually
Speaker 1: never happened, like they're they like that, that's there's no sign.
Speaker 1: There's no evidence anthropologically though, like anybody ever did that shit,
Speaker 1: it's just a fantasy that people kind of really want.
Speaker 1: I feel like if you just created some I guess
Speaker 1: burning man. Is this like someplace for rich people to
Speaker 1: go to then like barter their.
Speaker 4: Deaths to bargain for things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's about super radical reliance, which means I don't
Speaker 3: have to give you anything if you choose not to
Speaker 3: be a part of the trading bar system at all,
Speaker 3: and you're like I provided for myself. You're thirsty, I
Speaker 3: have water. I definitely don't need to give it to
Speaker 3: you because it's not part of the rules here. It's
Speaker 3: an interesting system. It's it's lovely to see in actions
Speaker 3: when the heart of it is simply like, oh, I
Speaker 3: brought so much like extra stuff, like I have abundance
Speaker 3: and I want to share it. And having been a
Speaker 3: part of like some burner events. It could be fun
Speaker 3: also scary.
Speaker 4: Is this safe? Did you jug it? What's happening in here?
Speaker 4: It's a chaotic system.
Speaker 3: I also think maybe too much ren fair slash like
Speaker 3: old Americana storytelling, Like your grandmother used to just give
Speaker 3: sugar to her neighbor and then her son would do
Speaker 3: our lawn and we were just we were more reliant
Speaker 3: on each other back then, and it was a beautiful thing.
Speaker 3: I really feel like that's where at least my ideas
Speaker 3: of trade and barter systems came from. Like it's never
Speaker 3: like this old world thing. It's like three generations ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I think that's like people looking
Speaker 1: out for each other is definitely a thing that happened.
Speaker 1: But like any sort of systematized like state barter system,
Speaker 1: there's not evidence of that, and I think it's used
Speaker 1: to justify like capitalism. I think in a lot of
Speaker 1: cases that like capitalism is the best because the only
Speaker 1: other option is that you pay ham to have the
Speaker 1: doctor look at you. I need to pay pay with ham,
Speaker 1: and ham goes bad. Maybe the doctor's not hungry for ham.
Speaker 1: These are the things that they like to These are
Speaker 1: the problems they like to make up when suggesting an
Speaker 1: alternative to capitalism. But yeah, anyways, so with no federal
Speaker 1: law in place, some states and cities have passed laws
Speaker 1: banning stores from refuse and cash payments, but people can
Speaker 1: also just ignore those, like New Jersey band cashless stores
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, but businesses still risk finds and refuse
Speaker 1: to accept cash. But so, yeah, that the reason for
Speaker 1: the cash list push is ultimately less about making things
Speaker 1: cheaper for small businesses, which is what they'll usually claim,
Speaker 1: and or simpler for consumers. It's actually more about corporations
Speaker 1: screwing us out of like just a little bit more money,
Speaker 1: because cashless payments exploit a psychological phenomenon where we experience
Speaker 1: the loss more when we can see the money leaving
Speaker 1: our hands, but when it's just you know, all being
Speaker 1: done cashlessly or with credit cards or whatever it is,
Speaker 1: it's you know, they always talk about frictionless like consumer environments,
Speaker 1: like that's ultimately what they're going after is you know,
Speaker 1: this is why I like Disney World has those bands
Speaker 1: that you can just like charge everything too. It's it's
Speaker 1: the same reason that casino use chips instead of cash.
Speaker 1: It's like makes it easier to spend money. And the
Speaker 1: more that you can not realize that you're spending the money,
Speaker 1: the more money you're going to spend, and the better
Speaker 1: it is for them.
Speaker 3: When I'm tapping my car and I just be like, yeah,
Speaker 3: great money spent. Definitely, does it feel like it also
Speaker 3: feels like this will never run out. I'll just tap
Speaker 3: right into infinity right, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah. That's so funny because to me it's like flip.
Speaker 4: I mean, I know this is psychological, but because I
Speaker 4: almost never have cash on me when I do, I'm like,
Speaker 4: this isn't ever going in the bank. This is just
Speaker 4: my free money that I can buy anything with, whereas
Speaker 4: like the card, I'm like watching my bill climb up.
Speaker 4: I don't know, it's like flipped for me in my
Speaker 4: head recently, that's good.
Speaker 3: Do you not have notifications on my card? So when
Speaker 3: I said, like, I know my friend when she spent that,
Speaker 3: she gets a notification on her phone and she's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: that's sort of replacing the handing over of cash feeling.
Speaker 3: It's like, oh, negative X amount of dollars in your account.
Speaker 3: Sucks to be you. I, on the other hand, went
Speaker 3: to a bookstore the other day and I was to
Speaker 3: kill time. Y'all, I saw like four books. I went,
Speaker 3: of course, they are giant volumes of graphic novels. I
Speaker 3: spill like two hundred twenty five dollars in the books.
Speaker 3: I was like, Yeah, I for sure need all of
Speaker 3: these books. Can't wait, can't do a library, must own them.
Speaker 3: They're collecting us on a shelf. I'm sure I'll read
Speaker 3: them one day.
Speaker 4: Such a problem.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then the other thing that we were talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, Taco Bell will push people to pay through
Speaker 1: screens that allow the company to try and upsell orders
Speaker 1: with the suggestion of additional items based on past purchases.
Speaker 1: So obviously, like they you know, when you go to
Speaker 1: the store and pay with cash, they have like the
Speaker 1: signs and all the normal things that might get you
Speaker 1: to make additional purchases. But when you're online, they have
Speaker 1: all your past information. They can make informed decisions about
Speaker 1: like what product to dangle in front of your face, right, I.
Speaker 3: Wonder if that so obviously they'll be tracking the data
Speaker 3: for that and using that to package things later and everything.
Speaker 3: But some stories, if you upsell, you get like a
Speaker 3: percentage of that up sell. You know what, I mean,
Speaker 3: like today, your guys' goal is to sell so many
Speaker 3: of those like cinnamon curly fries. If you do, the
Speaker 3: whole team gets I don't know, five bucks or an
Speaker 3: extra day off or something along those lines. Like there's
Speaker 3: always these incentives to try to up sell, and I
Speaker 3: wonder if these new systems remove that for employees.
Speaker 1: Oh for sure, because it's the AI that's doing the
Speaker 1: up selling, or it's the you know, a programmer that
Speaker 1: can do it.
Speaker 4: Across multiple apps.
Speaker 1: And so therefore it's makes it makes it easier. So
Speaker 1: not to worry. Businesses have found a solution to this
Speaker 1: that will make everyone happy. Aka make the world a
Speaker 1: horrible black black mirriat Dystopia they are offering reverse ATMs.
Speaker 1: So these are machines where you can trade cash for
Speaker 1: store value cards in order to pay for stuff, so
Speaker 1: you can lose.
Speaker 3: The card or not have exact chaane on the card
Speaker 3: till all that extra coinage runs over to the company.
Speaker 1: Oh also, the cards cost as much as five dollars
Speaker 1: on their own, so no, yeah.
Speaker 4: No, thank you.
Speaker 3: I hate capitalism.
Speaker 1: And sometimes they carry dormancy fees that start charging money
Speaker 1: if the card isn't used for more than three months.
Speaker 4: Okay, fine, I'll take the ham God.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just pay me in ham. Fuck it well, Caitlin,
Speaker 1: such a pleasure having you on the daily Zeitgeist. Where
Speaker 1: can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff?
Speaker 4: My handle on everything is the Caitlin Cook. Caitlin is
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Speaker 1: Is that where you get most of your graffiti is
Speaker 1: from like people who are fans at this point these days.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I used to do a lot more photographing myself
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Speaker 4: you're not following dms you a picture, you have to
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Speaker 1: well as a song that we think you might enjoy.
Speaker 1: Super producer Justin is there a song that you think
Speaker 1: people might enjoy?
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is a quick, little bop that's perfect for
Speaker 5: like a pregame playlist. And that's perfect actually because my
Speaker 5: sister Joel is going to the Beyonce birthday show this
Speaker 5: weekend out So honestly, I wish this song was like
Speaker 5: three times as long as it is. It's like a minute,
Speaker 5: but it's fun little beat. It has some up tempo
Speaker 5: jazzy flutes over some ato waits and it just reminds
Speaker 5: me of a summertime cookout energy, perfect for Labor Day.
Speaker 5: This is a track called Starlight by the Odd Dreamers
Speaker 5: and d Note, and you can find that song in
Speaker 5: the footnotes.
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Speaker 1: That is gonna do it for us this morning. We'll
Speaker 1: be back this weekend with highlights from this week STAPs,
Speaker 1: and then back on Monday, I'd tell you everything that
Speaker 1: was trending over the weekend, and we will talk to
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