Speaker 1: I don't watch that ship. Should I watch the young Turks?
Speaker 1: It sounds like I should. You don't mean to it's
Speaker 1: I like the old Turks personally.
Speaker 2: I like the mechanical Turks. That is just straight up
Speaker 2: regular ass Ottoman Empire. Hell yeah, I love Gallipoli. I'm out.
Speaker 3: That's that's uh. You won the name, that tune of
Speaker 3: historical references and Alexander the Great, that's all I got.
Speaker 2: I remember what my mom was like, you gotta watch Gallipoli,
Speaker 2: Like when I was fucking eight.
Speaker 4: Didn't you didn't they make you watch that ship in school?
Speaker 4: I feel like I had to watch it in school.
Speaker 4: Oh you had to watch the Gli. Yeah, I did
Speaker 4: not watch it in school. That was my mom being like,
Speaker 4: check out Gallipoli.
Speaker 2: That's that's good. That's a good ass mom, right there.
Speaker 2: I mean like when you're when you're born in fucking
Speaker 2: a rubble of World War two Japan, bro, you need
Speaker 2: there's no such thing as being precious. Motherfucker. I remember
Speaker 2: when I watched Bambi and I fucking cried and ship.
Speaker 2: She was like, get over that ship, bro.
Speaker 5: I'm a that's right, soft ass, little everything so scary?
Speaker 1: Why is everything so scary. She was channeling.
Speaker 2: She was talking to me like America, like she was
Speaker 2: Vince Staples being like, yeah, he's coming for you. You
Speaker 2: are a bitch. Oh thanks mom, Okay, it could be
Speaker 2: James Baldwin. I'm trying to be tough.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's Andrew gonna walk you through my thought process
Speaker 3: on a failed a k A.
Speaker 2: Okay, which is now that now that we are in
Speaker 2: a Trump's America, I was looking to rewrite the courtesy
Speaker 2: of the Red, White and Blue by Toby Keith. Oh wow,
Speaker 2: I got too depressed. I don't even know how that
Speaker 2: one goes. I know totally.
Speaker 3: That's the one about putting a putting a boot in
Speaker 3: Osama bin Laden's ass.
Speaker 2: It's a it's a it's.
Speaker 1: A throwback, okay, but god, it must have been so
Speaker 1: mad when Obama, when ben Laden got killed under the Obamas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that must have been what like gave him whatever killed him?
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: That's that's my every time I leave karaoke, I always
Speaker 3: tell myself, man, you don't be really funny.
Speaker 2: If I learned that the Red White and Blue song
Speaker 2: and I Never do.
Speaker 1: You might be might be pretty popular in LA these days.
Speaker 1: We were saying before we started recording, We're seeing the
Speaker 1: the stray mega hat popping.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't even know. There were two Trump flags
Speaker 2: in my neighborhood in Echo Park, Yeah, everywhere, which does
Speaker 2: over index for young shitheads. So you know, yeah, gen
Speaker 2: zad you knew gen Z was bad? Yeah, Jense's bad.
Speaker 2: Damn we're right.
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 2: The wrong? Is it the system? Who knows? Who knows?
Speaker 2: That would be just these kids these days, I think
Speaker 2: they're right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Andrew, how are you doing? This is the first
Speaker 1: time coming on since the election?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Pretty good?
Speaker 2: Right, pretty yeah, real good.
Speaker 3: I mean, I will Here's one thing I will say
Speaker 3: is I'm probably I'm guessing everyone you have on has
Speaker 3: to do a little check in. And I've been having
Speaker 3: a lot of conversations. The thing that has helped me,
Speaker 3: which is not a real helpful thing, is that everything
Speaker 3: you thought, everything you think is gonna be bad and
Speaker 3: it will be bad, is already happening.
Speaker 2: Like literally everything you just I'd say, you just don't think.
Speaker 3: About it, like you know, it was just very like odd,
Speaker 3: Like I had a conversation with my friend, a friend
Speaker 3: who's like one of the very like, you know, cable
Speaker 3: news junkie type you know, very like MSNBC type person
Speaker 3: and and just the list of things they were very
Speaker 3: upset about. I was kind of biting my tongue, but
Speaker 3: I was just like, I'm not saying it's not going
Speaker 3: to be worse, but.
Speaker 2: All of these things are happening now, right, Yeah, I was.
Speaker 2: I think it was maybe last week. I was just saying, like,
Speaker 2: all of these things, when they were problems for like
Speaker 2: marginalized groups, were just things that were happening. And now
Speaker 2: that the spotlight had been widened to touch more, just
Speaker 2: you know, people who didn't see themselves as being marginalized
Speaker 2: are now like these are fucking problems, And yeah, I
Speaker 2: hope it can serve as some kind of a moment
Speaker 2: to inspire people to inspect their values a little bit further,
Speaker 2: because yeah, it's what I will also say, while things
Speaker 2: are going to be bad, all this shit is unbelievably
Speaker 2: out of your control, and there was plenty of shit
Speaker 2: within your control that you can do. I've been putting
Speaker 2: more time, I've been slacking a little bit on the
Speaker 2: mutually group that I try to help out with here
Speaker 2: in LA. But I've said this on many podcasts already,
Speaker 2: Like everything you think every your personal thing, the thing
Speaker 2: you're most worried about. Even in our case in liberal
Speaker 2: ass southern California, liberal and quotes, we went ahead and
Speaker 2: didn't outlaw slavery, for instance. So you know, everything bad
Speaker 2: that you're worried about is happening now and you can
Speaker 2: do something about it at least on a personal level
Speaker 2: to one or two or whatever people, And you should
Speaker 2: do that now. Yeah, I'm sort of coalescing around this
Speaker 2: idea of for a lot of the folks who don't
Speaker 2: normally don't do much or just like fret this is
Speaker 2: this is like idea that like, like, you know, one
Speaker 2: structure that I have found to be like very damaging
Speaker 2: to society has been Christianity as it's comprised in America
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four. And one thing that organized religion
Speaker 2: does is ask fucking ten percent out of all of
Speaker 2: its members. And I know money might not be an option,
Speaker 2: but consider fucking using ten percent of your work time.
Speaker 2: So for most people like forty four four sorry four
Speaker 2: hours a week to fucking do something. Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 2: my sort of pitch.
Speaker 3: Think of it as a tithe because you know, those
Speaker 3: fuckers do it reflectively.
Speaker 2: So I can get. Yeah, exactly, how does that get
Speaker 2: me to lambo? Yeah, so y'all by this merch that
Speaker 2: we're selling. Thank you, you know, spend about ten percent
Speaker 2: of your income on that. But no, it is true,
Speaker 2: like you can any just again, when we had Margaret on,
Speaker 2: just think about how you can get your toe in.
Speaker 2: But get your toe just get your dip it, just
Speaker 2: dip it a little bit and then you just get
Speaker 2: a little bit more comfortable and then next thing you know,
Speaker 2: you'll be you'll be much more comfortable with it all.
Speaker 3: So anyway, and since since I since I pitched this,
Speaker 3: I'm going to go right into my underrated because this
Speaker 3: has been a part and parcel thing that has been happening,
Speaker 3: which is while trying to and this is said with
Speaker 3: all the love that is available. One part of dipping
Speaker 3: your toe into things like mutual aid, things like local
Speaker 3: community is at the end of the day, you're going
Speaker 3: to be hanging out with a lot of people that
Speaker 3: you find annoying, but it doesn't make them bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So hanging out with people you find annoying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because my underrated is you know, on the balance,
Speaker 2: at least they're fucking not Nazis.
Speaker 3: And they're doing shit and you know, sort of like
Speaker 3: it or not. Those folks are going to be the
Speaker 3: folks that are motivated and can and have experience and
Speaker 3: and you know, yes they can. You know, some folks
Speaker 3: sometimes are a little annoying, but that's okay. I think
Speaker 3: we all should get better at fucking being okay with
Speaker 3: annoying people.
Speaker 1: Being around people who are annoying evil.
Speaker 2: When the alternative is evil, you got to he with annoying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's a good underrated. All right,
Speaker 1: we're that that is your underrated and we're going to
Speaker 1: get to know you a little bit better in the
Speaker 1: moment by get your search history and overrated. But first,
Speaker 1: a couple of things we're going to be talking about.
Speaker 1: We're going to be looking at the one thing that
Speaker 1: we can consistently say about Trump's cabinet is that sexual
Speaker 1: predation seems to be a required skill. So we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that. We'll talk about just like the evolving kind
Speaker 1: of defense, the antibodies coming to the defense of neoliberalism
Speaker 1: in the aftermath of the election, and just that I
Speaker 1: feel like complexity and then being like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: we have all these like super complex solutions that are
Speaker 1: market based that tie people to incentivized structure, Like those
Speaker 1: sorts of things need to stop, need to be attacked dismantled.
Speaker 1: But yeah, there's been there's been, like some very annoying
Speaker 1: beds that I want to talk about. So we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that. We might get to some cheese heists that
Speaker 1: are happening, all of that plenty more. But first, Andrew,
Speaker 1: in addition to asking you something he thinks underrated, we
Speaker 1: do like to ask what is something from your search
Speaker 1: history that's revealing about who you are?
Speaker 3: All right, this is this is the last I mean,
Speaker 3: this is obviously just the YouTube algorithm finally honing in
Speaker 3: on who the fuck I am.
Speaker 2: They captured you I searched for.
Speaker 3: So basically I would I would consider myself a enthusiastic
Speaker 3: amateur as far as eating too much goes. And YouTube
Speaker 3: recently really started serving me up people doing food challenge
Speaker 3: type things. Oh yeah, yeah, and so I did search
Speaker 3: for food challenges Los Angeles. So I wanted to get
Speaker 3: out a lay of the land and just just.
Speaker 2: Try to figure out I was.
Speaker 3: I was having conversation with the friend the other day
Speaker 3: and I was kind of like going over the things
Speaker 3: that I think I'm genuinely world class, and I feel
Speaker 3: like there was a time where I was like, I'm
Speaker 3: a world class eater.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that time has passed.
Speaker 3: But you know, sometimes the old dog needs to come
Speaker 3: out for another blaze of glory.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm going to try it, but
Speaker 2: I'm really thinking about it for another glory. One last job.
Speaker 2: I'm really thinking about it, which like such a bad idea.
Speaker 2: What do you think? What do you think you can
Speaker 2: really put down? I I think kind of anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like, I'm like one of those people that, like,
Speaker 3: you know, hot food, like spicy. Oh, I guess I
Speaker 3: probably would prefer Yeah, I would prefer not to have
Speaker 3: an element of I would prefer volume or speed right
Speaker 3: over a spice tolerance because that that has that has
Speaker 3: diminished quicker than my capacity to just fucking throw it down.
Speaker 1: They keep like a Heimlich person on hand for like
Speaker 1: the speed and volume challenge.
Speaker 2: I think they just have like a mouth adapter for
Speaker 2: like a shop back yeah mouth and just fucking fire inside.
Speaker 2: I the the uh the YouTube videos I've seen of
Speaker 2: professionals who go around doing this does seem to indicate
Speaker 2: that there's a significant amount of legal indemnity. You have
Speaker 2: to grant the restaurant before they allow you to try this.
Speaker 2: There's always a signing of some kind of agreement. Even
Speaker 2: eating pancakes. They're like, no, motherfucker, because this is this
Speaker 2: is a bad idea. Yeah, I guess I just feel
Speaker 2: like I could, uh I can I'm you know again,
Speaker 2: this is I think this is exactly like the armchair
Speaker 2: version of like I could beat Serena Williams right plane. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I'm sure I couldn't actually, but I genuinely like
Speaker 2: of the like physical anomalies that exist in the world,
Speaker 2: you know, physical feats. Yeah, yeah, I think the one
Speaker 2: that I am closest to, you know, becoming any kind
Speaker 2: of high level would be competitive eating. Dude, I want
Speaker 2: to go. Whatever you're tell me when you go try
Speaker 2: one of these, I want to go. I want to
Speaker 2: see can you are?
Speaker 1: You do you have to pay for half?
Speaker 2: If you fuck up? I want to see and.
Speaker 1: Because you spend you have the same skill or you're
Speaker 1: I like.
Speaker 2: To watch, motherfucker want Yeah, yeah, baby, just watch I
Speaker 2: hit I hit my microphone pantomiming eating.
Speaker 8: Eating All right, Donald Trump, could you eat like would
Speaker 8: you could you eat three whole Shooter sandwiches a recipe
Speaker 8: that you put me onto, like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Shooter sandwiches once again, whole loaf of country bread,
Speaker 3: two steaks, and I that's all the volume of it.
Speaker 2: Branson served with Branston pick All on the side. I
Speaker 2: think three.
Speaker 3: I think I would have a ton of trouble with
Speaker 3: I think, like in a like I'm trying to win something, capassidy,
Speaker 3: I could do two all right.
Speaker 2: Right, that's incredible.
Speaker 3: Four steaks that's a lot like sixty that's like sixty
Speaker 3: ounces of and two loaves of bread. I guess it's
Speaker 3: well the you know the bread is hollowed out.
Speaker 2: In the middle. Yeah, so maybe one loaf of bread, oops,
Speaker 2: all crusted. Okay, let's talk, let's talk, let's talk. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I genuinely think I could do it, Okay, I don't
Speaker 2: think I would like be happy about it, and I
Speaker 2: think I would.
Speaker 6: I would have to.
Speaker 2: Do all the training, like just like two days prior,
Speaker 2: like having like just fucking gallons of water, right and whatnot?
Speaker 1: Is that what they do to train for it to
Speaker 1: stretch the tummy out the tom tom. I can drink
Speaker 1: things extremely fast, but I don't drink alcohol anymore, so
Speaker 1: like chugging contests are kind of out the window. But yeah,
Speaker 1: when we had Margaret Killjoy on, she was saying, like,
Speaker 1: you know, figure out the thing you're good at, and
Speaker 1: then you know, find a way to help people with that.
Speaker 1: And I've been breaking my brain trying to be like,
Speaker 1: how can I with the speed with which I can
Speaker 1: down a twelve pack of Mountain Dew, how can I
Speaker 1: help the world? And no takers so far.
Speaker 6: Are I'm not yet?
Speaker 2: So okay, So Jessica is a doctor an engineer. Jack, Okay,
Speaker 2: you wrote down you love yellow number five food?
Speaker 1: Guys like, did drink it? Until changes the color of
Speaker 1: my veins?
Speaker 6: Yeah? My arms? Bro?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, n I got bro. I call it
Speaker 2: the sparkle blow.
Speaker 1: I look like Edward from a Twilight every time I'm done,
Speaker 1: because I'm just sparkling.
Speaker 3: It's it's like Twilight, but you change the color grading
Speaker 3: on your TV and it's sort of.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, did you put a magnet by it? Maybe
Speaker 2: I just I can't tell what's happening here. No, I'm
Speaker 2: just pretty sure. I mean again, I'm not one hundred percent,
Speaker 2: which is why I looked up I you know, once
Speaker 2: it started getting real, I was like, could I eat
Speaker 2: a burrito that was comprised of like six tortillas and
Speaker 2: then otherwise burrito size?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 2: I think I could.
Speaker 6: Burrito?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Have you ever done my competitive Chipotle Li burrito eating anything?
Speaker 1: That was the thing I remember when I lived in
Speaker 1: New York in my early twenties. My friends who went
Speaker 1: into like Wall Street stuff that was a big thing
Speaker 1: with like bankers competitively, like yeah, dude, this this guy's
Speaker 1: a legend. He took down four bricks one lunch thing.
Speaker 1: It's like, what do you mean?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Four full chipot L burritos.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder The closest I ever came is when
Speaker 2: I worked at Comedy Central one year.
Speaker 3: Instead of you know, paying as well, they once a
Speaker 3: year like get an in and out food truck to
Speaker 3: come to the parking lot and they would be on
Speaker 3: the house and there was a double double eating contest
Speaker 3: and I had signed up for it, but I had
Speaker 3: a meeting that went long, so I couldn't make it
Speaker 3: out of the parking lot time. But the winner was
Speaker 3: like five and a half and I'm like, I could
Speaker 3: easily eat more than five and a half double kidding.
Speaker 1: Doubles was the winner.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and a.
Speaker 2: Half eleven patties. Yeah, but it's like doable. I mean
Speaker 2: I remember eating two. I eat two four by floors
Speaker 2: in high school. Yeah, it's all it was. I was
Speaker 2: shocked at how low the number was. And I was like,
Speaker 2: because again to.
Speaker 1: Me, it seems like an unsustainable, like incomprehensible amount of food.
Speaker 1: But like I yeah, so everybody has their thing and this, no,
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying it's not too much food. I don't
Speaker 2: want to eat it, but I'm definitely saying I could
Speaker 2: eat it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, Yeah, you have a skill, you have
Speaker 1: a get.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think I have a skill. And I'm seriously considering testing.
Speaker 1: You do the good will hunting speech, but with like
Speaker 1: a bag of double double. Do you have any fucking
Speaker 1: idea how easy this is for me? Do you have
Speaker 1: any idea?
Speaker 2: Lighted on fire?
Speaker 1: For some reason, I.
Speaker 2: Guess I should should test it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 6: Maybe not.
Speaker 1: Maybe you just tested that one time.
Speaker 3: You know what, that's what my search history should have been.
Speaker 3: How do you know if you have what it takes
Speaker 3: to be a competitive eater? There you go, what's something
Speaker 3: you think is overrated, overrated, uh doing your thing aka
Speaker 3: getting the wrong thing at restaurants. I there's a fucking place.
Speaker 3: There's there's a fucking place in La a chain not
Speaker 3: a chain, but there are multiple locations. A gaalby gym
Speaker 3: place called Sundongdong, yes, which has so if.
Speaker 2: Anyone is not, wait, so you didn't get the gay no.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: I was with someone that was like, I just want soup,
Speaker 2: and I was like, get the fuck out of this
Speaker 2: restaurant that.
Speaker 1: They do here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was so anyone doesn't is like it's like
Speaker 3: braised Korean brisket, beef rib and if you order the
Speaker 3: upgrade Oxtail's and then quite sweet.
Speaker 1: If you under the upgrade on that, they put oh yeah,
Speaker 1: full heap of mozzarella cheese on it and bring out
Speaker 1: a bloat torch that's melt the cheese on top until
Speaker 1: it's fucking bubbling. It's one of the great Like.
Speaker 2: I will say, I am anti the cheese, but yes,
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 1: It's so indulgent, it's so ridiculous. I need it. I
Speaker 1: think it's already you definitely food, don't need it. It
Speaker 1: turns it's like what if Korean food was a pizza right,
Speaker 1: essentially a stone bowl.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I was I was reminded of one because
Speaker 3: I had this fucking insane experience with my friend. Was like,
Speaker 3: I just want to like the brisket soup, which the
Speaker 3: brisket soup is fine, but it's just like brisket and broth,
Speaker 3: and I was just like and and something that doesn't
Speaker 3: do it particularly well. There are places in Koreatown that
Speaker 3: do it wonderfully. But yeah, this was peaked in my
Speaker 3: brain because there's a Postmates I think ad like a
Speaker 3: billboard right now that has SunDog Dog listed as one
Speaker 3: of their things and it shows as their example food,
Speaker 3: not the Galbi gym, and it was making me feel crazy. Also,
Speaker 3: I went with a friend to tam O'Shanter, which is
Speaker 3: a prime rib joint in Los Angeles, and that the
Speaker 3: funder got the salmon, and it making me feel like
Speaker 3: I was losing my mind. Yeah, okay, And it was
Speaker 3: both times some version of I'm just doing my thing,
Speaker 3: I don't feel like it, and it's like, get the
Speaker 3: fuck out of this restaurant.
Speaker 2: I find special. Yeah, it made me so mad.
Speaker 1: That's very frustrating.
Speaker 3: I hate Yeah, never never just do the thing or
Speaker 3: don't go. And I know people have dietary restrictions, but
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be obtuse about it anyway.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break, we'll come back,
Speaker 1: We'll talk about some news, and we're back. We're back,
Speaker 1: and yeah, it's it's uh starting to look like a
Speaker 1: trend in the Trump cabinet in terms of a pattern. Yeah, pat,
Speaker 1: let's call it a pat.
Speaker 2: A pattern emerges, I think because.
Speaker 1: Maybe not a rule specifically, No, no, not a rule.
Speaker 2: But I think it's just a coincidence. Okay, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think there's a higher maybe cluster of people in that orbit.
Speaker 2: But yeah, when you look at their recent nominations for
Speaker 2: cabinet positions, you know, so many of these people have
Speaker 2: sexual harassment or sexual assault allegations against them. Elon Musk
Speaker 2: obviously had to settle with a private jet flight attendant
Speaker 2: who accused him of like exposing himself and trying to
Speaker 2: pay her for sex. Pete Hegseeth, who's the Secretary of
Speaker 2: Defense nominee, was accused of rape and apparently settled out
Speaker 2: of court. Matt Gates has his own shit, accused of
Speaker 2: trafficking miners and statutories rape his own shit. I mean,
Speaker 2: like he has a whole ethics. Like this guy was
Speaker 2: so embroidered. He had to be like, bro, I need
Speaker 2: to fucking resign from Congress. Can you help me? He's like,
Speaker 2: I don't even give a fuck if I get I
Speaker 2: just just get me out of this shit. RFK accused
Speaker 2: of assaulting the family nanny and like also set like
Speaker 2: sharing nude photos of like women non consensually. Very again,
Speaker 2: these are all like the pattern seems very interesting. And
Speaker 2: now we have Linda.
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do with Linda McMahon.
Speaker 2: She a woman, Okay, she was just tapped to be
Speaker 2: Secretary of Education. Her husband, obviously, Vince McMahon of w
Speaker 2: w E fame, has faced so many allegations there's like
Speaker 2: documentaries about it. Now has paid out millions to settle
Speaker 2: sexual harassment and rape cases. Linda is now also was
Speaker 2: named in a suit from former ring boys that's what
Speaker 2: they're called. This is from The Daily Beast. Last month,
Speaker 2: the group of five former ring boys named the McMahons
Speaker 2: in a sex abuse lawsuit, along with World Wrestling Entertainment
Speaker 2: and its parent company, The John Does alleged that from
Speaker 2: the nineteen seventies to the nineteen nineties, former WWE announcer
Speaker 2: Melvin Phillips Junior groomed and sexually assaulted them and other
Speaker 2: miners without any consequences from his employer. The obviously Lynda
Speaker 2: mcmonslayer is like, this is all just it's scurrilous, it's
Speaker 2: it's mendacious, this is this is absurd. They're dragging her
Speaker 2: name through the mud merely because she turned a blind eye.
Speaker 2: Now McMahon has zero experience and education, so that's also
Speaker 2: in the other pattern that emerges. It's like, that's also
Speaker 2: not nessus. That's not a prerequisite to have a cabinet position.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if she'd Maybe they're being nominated
Speaker 2: purely because she has demonstrated like the acute power of
Speaker 2: looking the other way when terrible things are happening around her.
Speaker 1: But any connection, Like, I'm confused.
Speaker 2: She's all about school choice. She's definitely on that shit
Speaker 2: you which is the other way to be, Like, let's
Speaker 2: let's basically deflate public education and send the money to
Speaker 2: charter schools and other people who want to teach alternate
Speaker 2: versions of history right wing liars. Yeah, you know, the
Speaker 2: other the other common thread of Trump's cabinet. It is,
Speaker 2: of course, you know, it's smell crazy in there.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Because these are some of the crustiest, Yeah, crustiest individuals
Speaker 2: I can think of. Yeah, truly, truly, I mean, like
Speaker 2: I think the at a minimum a lot, all these
Speaker 2: nominations definitely send like a message that you know, holding
Speaker 2: sexual predators to account for their actions is a futile
Speaker 2: effort and in fact, we will normalize and reward these people. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that is the world that is. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 2: this has been happening for a while, but this is
Speaker 2: this is very much a very in your face version
Speaker 2: of all this now. But yeah, I think speaking of
Speaker 2: krusty though, we.
Speaker 1: Crusty and you know it's smell crazy in there, we
Speaker 1: should Yeah.
Speaker 2: Whitaker Return of the Matt Whittaker. Remember, so here's the
Speaker 2: throwback for those that remember was listening to the show
Speaker 2: during the first Trump administration. Matt Whittaker. He was the
Speaker 2: man that served as Jeff Sessions chief of staff while
Speaker 2: he was Attorney General. And then Sessions did the thing
Speaker 2: of like trying to follow the loss of Trump shit
Speaker 2: canned him and there was this interim acting age named
Speaker 2: Matt Whittaker, who was like the guy between Jeff Sessions
Speaker 2: and Bill Barr, and we talked about all these things
Speaker 2: that he was involved in. He was, you know, he was.
Speaker 2: He took like four hundred thousand dollars to you know,
Speaker 2: help other people beg Trump for pardons. He lied about
Speaker 2: being an academic All star football player. And really the
Speaker 2: part that I think we fondly remember is he tried
Speaker 2: to he designed a toilet for men who are well
Speaker 2: endowed downstairs, mister Dick toilet, that's the guy who's back.
Speaker 2: Dick Toilet is back NATO ambassador. Is what his exposition
Speaker 2: could be or probably will be.
Speaker 1: Definitely, it's such a great like just you know, li
Speaker 1: the lies that someone tells are just so revealing, and
Speaker 1: it's like, I'm an academic All American football star, h
Speaker 1: and my dick is so big that it drags in
Speaker 1: the toilet.
Speaker 2: Yeah what Wait? Was the pitch for this toilet a
Speaker 2: depth issue?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I believe it was a depth issue. It was like
Speaker 1: the water too high.
Speaker 2: You're hanging. It's such a weird toilet. You're just an
Speaker 2: old man with just low low balls.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, saggy balls. What about those of us with
Speaker 1: saggy dick and balls, I mean, giant, giant genitals.
Speaker 2: Could it just wouldn't it be cheaper to just create
Speaker 2: like a net to hold your sack with that you
Speaker 2: could put like around like underneath the toilet seat whatever.
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to figure people don't People don't have
Speaker 2: dick toilet money. They might have all nasty you have
Speaker 2: to poop through the net. No, no, no, it's like
Speaker 2: a front with me, the front Netky are we can
Speaker 2: we open up the zoom whiteboard please?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes, Oh, let's form the AI function on. So we
Speaker 2: have all of these points noted for a post war.
Speaker 1: Like a little net guarter that goes around your like
Speaker 1: upper thighs y yeah thing bro, yeah, ok, yeah, this is.
Speaker 2: Imagine like imagine like a mask, right, ye, goes around
Speaker 2: right there and then you sit down. It's towards the
Speaker 2: front and then its mestled in here. So it doesn't
Speaker 2: it keeps it from going into the toilet water. Yeah
Speaker 2: all right, sharks, we all know this is a problem.
Speaker 1: All investment small million dollars of three million the ball net.
Speaker 2: So this is a sixty million dollar company. Yeah oh
Speaker 2: yeah minimum. Oh your bargain. You're getting it. This is
Speaker 2: the thing we're preying on on men's sort of obsession
Speaker 2: with genital size. No guy's gonna not buy it.
Speaker 6: Isn't what.
Speaker 2: You don't need one of these when you go to
Speaker 2: the bathroom.
Speaker 1: Just sell it to any public institution the.
Speaker 6: America single use.
Speaker 3: And the most important thing is the big dispenser display
Speaker 3: that sits right outside of your bathroom, right, And.
Speaker 2: That's the thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And like a like a large counter that tells
Speaker 3: you how many have been used and when used, it.
Speaker 1: Makes a little sound every time you pull it out,
Speaker 1: so I gotta gotta get protected, if you know what
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 3: It connects to your ring, so every time the doorbell
Speaker 3: opens and you don't take one, it just makes a
Speaker 3: little like like area wide announcement, like small dick alert. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: small alert. Perfect, just thought.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about neoliberalism a little bit because
Speaker 1: I think it's cool now I've been since the election.
Speaker 1: I feel like whatever comes next for the opposition party
Speaker 1: to the current fascist Republican government needs to specifically take
Speaker 1: aim not just at fascism because they tried that, but
Speaker 1: also and perhaps mainly focus the attack on neoliberalism, like
Speaker 1: we were talking about with the party that got reelected
Speaker 1: during the supposed like, you can't get re elected at
Speaker 1: this time as the incumbent in Mexico. They did, and
Speaker 1: their whole thing was we are a leftist party that
Speaker 1: attacks neoliberalism and makes the focus dismantling neoliberalism and the
Speaker 1: sort of corporatetocracy whatever is the easiest to call it,
Speaker 1: the machine, the system as it currently exists, the thing
Speaker 1: that is constantly siphoning money from people up to corporations
Speaker 1: and billionaires. I was listening to I guess John Stewart
Speaker 1: has a podcast called The Weekly Show. I listened for
Speaker 1: the first time yesterday, and he was interviewing someone named
Speaker 1: Sarah Smarsh who's written about like the Democratic Party turning
Speaker 1: their back on the working class. And one of the
Speaker 1: things John Stewart said was like he was like, but
Speaker 1: the Democrats actually like do good things for the working class,
Speaker 1: and they just can't message it. And he was like,
Speaker 1: for instance, like and he made this point that was like,
Speaker 1: so he was like, when you think about it, South
Speaker 1: Carolina is like Mexico when you compare to northeastern states
Speaker 1: with more worker protections.
Speaker 6: Why didn't that.
Speaker 1: Resonate with people, and it was like being raised from
Speaker 1: the standpoint of like, if they just knew what democrats
Speaker 1: did for them, like what neoliberalism does for them, they
Speaker 1: would have voted for Harris, which I think is wrong,
Speaker 1: and like all these technocratic plans are wrong, and not
Speaker 1: just because people are too stupid to understand them. I
Speaker 1: think the people who are suspicious of these complex sounding
Speaker 1: neoliberal like market based solutions are are correct, like those
Speaker 1: things should be and so like. But the fact that
Speaker 1: he was like proposing this very complex idea and was like,
Speaker 1: but if they only knew, you know, was clarifying to
Speaker 1: me because I do think that is like one of
Speaker 1: the core issues that needs to be focused on, like
Speaker 1: neoliberalism has hidden unjust, indefensible like wealth redistribution to corporations
Speaker 1: and to wealthy people behind complexity. Like I think that
Speaker 1: is people are onto that now, like just look at
Speaker 1: all of Wall Street, look at health insurance, look at
Speaker 1: banking fees, look at the fact that we still have
Speaker 1: to do our taxes even though every other country just
Speaker 1: sends you a fucking bill. The whole deal is they
Speaker 1: exhaust you with financial terms and complexity, and then.
Speaker 6: They take your money.
Speaker 1: Basically, I'm like, I feel like people are onto it
Speaker 1: and like that that's like a huge fucking yeah.
Speaker 2: I think without being able to art I think a
Speaker 2: lot of people are onto the sensation that something is
Speaker 2: deeply wrong, but it they're the articulation of it is
Speaker 2: where I think we're kind of at that crossroads with who,
Speaker 2: like how who's going to capture the messaging around that
Speaker 2: feeling better because I think for Trump, there was like
Speaker 2: a version where he's just like it's all rigged and
Speaker 2: like that was kind of like, yeah, I couldn't feel
Speaker 2: that right, even though he himself is like yeah, watch this.
Speaker 5: He's also but I want to hear the reason, like
Speaker 5: I think there's this opportunity is he's about to do
Speaker 5: it like worse and more transparent currently than anyone ever.
Speaker 1: So it's like somebody could come and make this point.
Speaker 1: I just don't know if they're going to be willing
Speaker 1: to because they're just so addicted to this fucking model
Speaker 1: of throwing out really complex solutions that they can then
Speaker 1: use to redistribute money to wealthy people.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, there's I mean, there's a there's an op
Speaker 2: ed in the New York Times from this guy who
Speaker 2: was like a staffer for Harry Reid and John Fetterman,
Speaker 2: and he's just good. He's just doing the whole thing
Speaker 2: of like, oh, the typical stuff. He goes after like
Speaker 2: there was just too much emphasis being put on like
Speaker 2: trans rites and you're like that wasn't did that actually happen?
Speaker 2: I don't think it did. I don't think that was
Speaker 2: being articulated by the Democratic Party and sort of goes
Speaker 2: on to be like, it's like this is this is
Speaker 2: a quote. It says the Democrats are quote crippled by
Speaker 2: a fetish for putting coalition management over a real desire
Speaker 2: for power, and they're too eager to please liberal and
Speaker 2: progressive interest groups that impose rigid mores and the rigid
Speaker 2: mores and vocabulary of college educated elites placing a hard
Speaker 2: ceiling on Democrats appeal. And goes on to basically be like,
Speaker 2: they're seeing too much ground to like these interest groups,
Speaker 2: like in people like the ACLU or people who are
Speaker 2: concerned with climate change. But again, you look at how
Speaker 2: this campaign was run and it did not feel like
Speaker 2: that at all. No, So what are you saying weird? Lie?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, truly, truly, they ran as Republicans like that
Speaker 1: was what they did. It was, yeah, like this is
Speaker 1: this is exactly like the thing that was evident like
Speaker 1: during the campaign is that Harris changed her like that.
Speaker 1: That was a thing that I think, like when you
Speaker 1: heard people like talking about it, like they were like,
Speaker 1: we don't know what she stands for and it's because
Speaker 1: she changed positions like on so many different things. And
Speaker 1: I just this is exactly the wrong lesson to take
Speaker 1: from this election, like do whatever it takes by changing
Speaker 1: your positions, look like you stand for nothing. That is
Speaker 1: exactly why they lost. They're basically just like we just
Speaker 1: need to do that thing we just lost doing, but
Speaker 1: like do it harder.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, because every group has some corners kind of
Speaker 2: whip like ideological whiplash from the Democrats, so like it
Speaker 2: could be like, yeah, over policing is bad black lives
Speaker 2: due matter. Cut to the new platform. They fucking they're like,
Speaker 2: I don't know what the fuck y'all are talking about
Speaker 2: it that shit four years ago talking about protecting immigrants,
Speaker 2: talking about some kind of pathway to citizenship. I don't
Speaker 2: know what the fuck y'all are talking about. I never
Speaker 2: said some shit like that, talk like there's so many
Speaker 2: things like that, people like what the fuck are y'all
Speaker 2: even talking about? And I think the biggest reason for
Speaker 2: people to be like, what is going on with you guys,
Speaker 2: like you don't stand for anything is they completely use
Speaker 2: the like.
Speaker 9: This this this administration is a threat to our freedoms
Speaker 9: and our democracy line during the entire campaign, but now
Speaker 9: that the dust has settled and we know what we're
Speaker 9: going into, they're perfectly fine whatever.
Speaker 2: They're perfectly fine with letting whatever happens happen. They're not
Speaker 2: even a push to be like, yo, we're gonna try
Speaker 2: and gum up, We're gonna try and sabotage this shit.
Speaker 2: So he there's like we're gonna put up all kinds
Speaker 2: of weird roadblocks to see what we can do just
Speaker 2: to kind of slow down the progress of this we're
Speaker 2: talking about we're having Pelosi and people be like, yeah,
Speaker 2: we can find common ground.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 1: They have sold out every everything that has been their
Speaker 1: like foundational like supposed like ideological thing. They've sold everything out,
Speaker 1: So what the fuck are people supposed to get excited
Speaker 1: enough about to go vote for, like, including in this
Speaker 1: past election, their whole thing was like this is like fascism.
Speaker 1: This is scary. This is going to usher in a
Speaker 1: new era of fascism unlike anything you've ever seen. And
Speaker 1: then immediately and for like no benefit that I can
Speaker 1: see other than being like I don't want to make
Speaker 1: things hot for myself, they immediately buckled. They immediately buckled.
Speaker 3: That was why it felt like the like the government
Speaker 3: was lost already regardless of the outcome of the election,
Speaker 3: Like life is lost.
Speaker 2: And it was.
Speaker 3: Just like, you know, we can't count on any of
Speaker 3: these people, Like one of them is worse, but we
Speaker 3: can't count on either of them.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I just know that's.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that's It just feels like whatever the
Speaker 1: next viable opposition is, Like it's not going to be
Speaker 1: in an.
Speaker 2: Op ed, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: It's probably going to be mocked by John Favreau and
Speaker 1: the New York Times like when it's in its early
Speaker 1: stages and until it has any sort of electoral success,
Speaker 1: But like that is what it's going to take, and
Speaker 1: it's not going to be probably the mainstream Democratic Party,
Speaker 1: Like it's going to have to be some sort of
Speaker 1: you know, political insurgency.
Speaker 2: Yeah, people just got to get more into the like
Speaker 2: simple kind of analysis first, just to be like, is
Speaker 2: what they're proposing going to rock the status quo? Because
Speaker 2: if not get it the fuck out of here.
Speaker 1: It needs to specifically take art, take aim at, and
Speaker 1: be about like dismantling the status quo. That's like the
Speaker 1: only thing that could possibly work. Like it needs to
Speaker 1: in the same way that Trump like targeted status quo,
Speaker 1: mainstream media values and mainstream Democrat party values and even
Speaker 1: like mainstream Republican party values when he first started, Like,
Speaker 1: it needs to do that. It just needs to do
Speaker 1: that and actually have beliefs, have like belief and the
Speaker 1: solutions cannot be something that involves like banks and like,
Speaker 1: let you know, the ACA, like Obamacare, they let fucking
Speaker 1: insurance companies come in and write that law. You know,
Speaker 1: like the they ran this version of the Democratic Party,
Speaker 1: ran on hope and change and then bailed Wall Street out,
Speaker 1: like I don't like again in like super complicated legal
Speaker 1: fashion that like I don't I think people they've they've
Speaker 1: lost all credibility and nobody's ever gonna trust anything that
Speaker 1: sounds complex again from this, and nor should they.
Speaker 2: I feel like, well, yeah, I mean do you think
Speaker 2: the rise of just like I know, the Internet also
Speaker 2: had a lot to do with this, but it feels
Speaker 2: like all of the culture, like I feel like that
Speaker 2: scams are so much bigger now everywhere.
Speaker 3: And I do think as you're saying it, it occurred
Speaker 3: to me it was like, oh, all this added complexity,
Speaker 3: like you know, from fucking cryptocurrency to just like like
Speaker 3: all the Internet shit. Like I think it partially it's
Speaker 3: people are living in a world where everything is so
Speaker 3: complicated that you know, like you're banking shit. When you
Speaker 3: hear the scam version of it, it's not that much
Speaker 3: more complicated than what it fucking happens with Chase or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, And.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, this whole like proliferation of liars and cheats
Speaker 3: is because that's the baseline, because there's no simple shit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're all using the same method, seem too complicated
Speaker 1: or make it too complicated for anybody to follow, and
Speaker 1: then in the fucking smoke bomb that that creates abscond
Speaker 1: with all the money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the complexity thing is so like the
Speaker 2: thing you're talking about. Rather than getting down to this
Speaker 2: like microscopic level or like wonky policy speak, you just
Speaker 2: you begin to just paint a picture that is a
Speaker 2: little bit easier if people understand that, like, people deserve more,
Speaker 2: and we are on the we're in the pursuit of
Speaker 2: finding a way to get people what they deserve in
Speaker 2: the areas of healthcare, housing, education, all these things. And
Speaker 2: it doesn't have to be like this is what we're
Speaker 2: doing for this specific group or whatever. It's basically that,
Speaker 2: like we're trying to do this so everyone benefits. But
Speaker 2: again that gets into then people start, you know, you're
Speaker 2: obviously going to have these like interest groups are going
Speaker 2: to need to be like their lobbying interests be like, hey,
Speaker 2: this is what it sounds like. What you're saying is
Speaker 2: like anti corporatocracy. So we don't like this. But again,
Speaker 2: it's simpler to tell somebody just be like, yo, dude,
Speaker 2: whatever your need, whatever you need, we're trying to get
Speaker 2: that to you. Yeah, And that's that's the thing to
Speaker 2: even talk about. And I know that's that's going to
Speaker 2: be that's impossible for the Democratic Party to do because
Speaker 2: in that same OpEd, they're like, we need to go
Speaker 2: back to messaging things like protecting abortion rights, cheaper prescription medicines,
Speaker 2: protecting social security, and those things are like they're fine
Speaker 2: because essentially it's they want to do something anything that
Speaker 2: resembles progressive policy without actually fully rocking the boat. And again,
Speaker 2: the Democrats could have protected abortion rights, but I'm sure
Speaker 2: they found it much more potent to use as a
Speaker 2: carrot on a stick to try and get people to
Speaker 2: vote for them than to actually do the work to
Speaker 2: protect people. Yeah, so it's also hard in this media landscape.
Speaker 2: I mean, one thing that was insane about this election
Speaker 2: was the in the in California, the propositions because we
Speaker 2: have a form of direct democracy in California, the fucking
Speaker 2: Landlords Association just lying, lying, lying in ads like yeah,
Speaker 2: it's actually not going to create more affordable housing.
Speaker 6: What.
Speaker 2: Well, truly it was like this this bill will overturn
Speaker 2: I forget which proposition was the good one, but it's
Speaker 2: like this will overturar rend control protections and it's thirty three.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's not true, like they were lying. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: it's because it was I think the thing that they're
Speaker 2: trying to like it was the existing measures around it, Yes,
Speaker 2: because it was going to get more robust, and they're
Speaker 2: just they're using that to be like it's gonna blow
Speaker 2: up the rent control policies where you have, yeah, to
Speaker 2: usher in better.
Speaker 3: Ones, yeah, or to give to give local cities and
Speaker 3: counties the ability to to in state.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It was basically like we're gonna they're going to overturn
Speaker 2: the status quo. But they just lied in a way
Speaker 2: that was like a little shocking because and you know,
Speaker 2: a similar thing happened with the the Lyft and Uber
Speaker 2: independent contractor shit the previous big election, where those companies
Speaker 2: just lied. They had like testimonials from mostly Lyft and
Speaker 2: Uber drivers saying like this would be bad for me
Speaker 2: and it's not true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's the thing that is.
Speaker 3: Going to be tough, which is just like we're also
Speaker 3: in this era of straight up lying that I.
Speaker 2: Do feel like is more than usual. Am I crazy?
Speaker 1: No, it's I mean we've lost the media. We don't
Speaker 1: have a functional media anymore. So there's nothing, there's no consequences.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't they lie? Yeah, if you turn it to
Speaker 1: your point about like the financial logic of the current system,
Speaker 1: like we're in an era of scamm Like s scammer
Speaker 1: is the president. People love scammers, They like kind of
Speaker 1: admire them, you know, as long as they're successful scammers
Speaker 1: who make a lot of money. So like, the the
Speaker 1: reason to not lie and cheat like is no longer there,
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, yeah, so yeah, it makes
Speaker 1: sense to me that like people would continue continuously.
Speaker 2: Well merely behave in a way that they feel like
Speaker 2: is reflecting how they feel they're being treated by the
Speaker 2: like the country on some love. Yeah. So if everyone
Speaker 2: arounds like, oh, it's all scams, okay, so scams are
Speaker 2: on the menu, then yeah, that's what it is, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, And I think it's it's.
Speaker 3: Really I will say one that I maybe this might
Speaker 3: also be my YouTube addiction now my newfound YouTube addiction.
Speaker 3: But I kind of have come entirely around on scamming
Speaker 3: people via like NFTs. I mean, of course the NFT
Speaker 3: people were terrible, but all of the people that lost
Speaker 3: money on NFTs were people that also thought they could
Speaker 3: scam people. And yeah, there is a perverse, like you know,
Speaker 3: of course, some honest people lost money, but it is
Speaker 3: sort of nice that only mostly terrible people lost their
Speaker 3: terrible people money on NFTs and cryptocurrency in general. Although
Speaker 3: I guess that's up right now, but don't worry. It's
Speaker 3: still a scam folks. There's no use case for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think the most effective thing is
Speaker 2: that they've created a bunch of people who have just
Speaker 2: had their wealth spike because of crypto shooting up, and
Speaker 2: those will those are going to be the people who
Speaker 2: will evangelize why we need to protect it in sort
Speaker 2: of physical space to other people who are outside of
Speaker 2: that crypto world. And I think that's that's what is about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like the actual I think I've said on this
Speaker 3: podcast before, but I might be one of the few
Speaker 3: retail users of cryptocurrency that exists on Earth. Like I'm
Speaker 3: not doing it, like I use it to play we'll
Speaker 3: say quasi to not legal poker online, and using it
Speaker 3: is the most odious like like trying to use like
Speaker 3: just like a retail amount of money is insane. It'
Speaker 3: I think I'll just say it. I've said it before
Speaker 3: other places of the public. I was trying to move
Speaker 3: like I think somewhere between three and five hundred dollars
Speaker 3: onto this poker site and it cost me nineteen dollars
Speaker 3: in bitcoin fees, and I was like, this is this
Speaker 3: is a uniquely shitty experience that it makes me wish
Speaker 3: fucking Wells Fargo. Someone someone like Wells Fargo was involved
Speaker 3: in this transaction. Please help fucking crazy America. Yeah, that's
Speaker 3: how bad cryptocurrency is. I know everyone listening to this
Speaker 3: knows that, but it truly is amazing.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 6: We'll come back.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about a brand new scheme that I guess.
Speaker 1: I guess it isn't that new, but a scheme that
Speaker 1: I hadn't been paying attention to.
Speaker 2: We'll be right.
Speaker 6: Back, and we're back.
Speaker 1: And so violent crime may be down in the US,
Speaker 1: not that anybody was aware of that one voting, apparently,
Speaker 1: but dairy related crime is on the rise worldwide apparently.
Speaker 1: The last month, a daring thief made headlines for stealing
Speaker 1: more than three hundred thousand pounds worth of award winning
Speaker 1: cloth bound Cheddar.
Speaker 2: Pounds sterling, not the weight pound yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Pounds sterly, sorry thanks to It was basically, they did
Speaker 1: an elaborate con that involved impersonating a wholesale distributor for
Speaker 1: a big French Cheddar retailer. I don't associate France with Cheddar, but.
Speaker 2: Oh you feel like Cheddar's beneath the French?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Cheddar feels like that's like some US show, you know,
Speaker 1: it feels like like that that's what several wars have
Speaker 1: been fought over, is France versus England. But yeah, basically
Speaker 1: Ocean eleven if George Clooney got hungry halfway through the
Speaker 1: movie and changed all his plans to be like about
Speaker 1: just getting as much cheese as possible. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know, this kind of ties into what we were
Speaker 1: talking about, Like there's just a lot of appetite for
Speaker 1: cheese in the black market apparently.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's last week and Vancouver police stopped the thief
Speaker 1: from stealing twelve eight hundred dollars worth of cheese from
Speaker 1: Whole Foods. That's so much cheese.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, It's the thing that it's really interesting though,
Speaker 2: is like the why you know, because you're like, what
Speaker 2: the fuck? What cheese? Like a three hundred thousand pound
Speaker 2: sterling cheese heist? What what are y'all doing? Where you
Speaker 2: like the pound? Where's the market.
Speaker 1: Actual pound like weight pound? It was apparently as many
Speaker 1: as four full weighed roughly the same amount as four
Speaker 1: full sized elephants, which that's I'm like, so that that's
Speaker 1: why you normally do jewel thief.
Speaker 2: Which is what that amount is called a truckle. They said,
Speaker 2: nine hundred and fifty truckles of cheese. Once you step
Speaker 2: on it, throwing a little velveda, you don't even know
Speaker 2: how big it is, exactly exactly. Oh yeah, bro, I
Speaker 2: turned that nine to fifty truckles in about fucking three
Speaker 2: thousand truckles. Baby. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Basically, the price of chesn't specifically fine cheese has been
Speaker 1: going up on the black market, meaning that the resale
Speaker 1: price is also higher everywhere. And it's just wild to
Speaker 1: me that people are buying cheese on the black market,
Speaker 1: right but right next to where drugs are sold.
Speaker 2: They're like, well too, because it's not like somebody's like, yo,
Speaker 2: b I need my cloth bound cheddar man sick, oh,
Speaker 2: like I need that shit. It's because the price are
Speaker 2: I like, restaurants in bakeries are like to the ones
Speaker 2: who are like, yo, you got that ship on the low? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll cop that. Yeah yeah, I'm gonna make a I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna make a business pitch to the lovely ziking
Speaker 2: out here. This luxury cheese got to be something you
Speaker 2: can forge, right, you just put that that fancy cloth
Speaker 2: on the outside oft to be something you can fucking
Speaker 2: how many dickheads are really gonna be like like, oh,
Speaker 2: take a little taste and be like this is this
Speaker 2: is fake? Could you imagine? It's like it's like a
Speaker 2: whole fucking Miami vice sample the goods, Yeah, and puts
Speaker 2: it into a brink and then like like nah, this
Speaker 2: ain't camm beer.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying there are levels of funk you can
Speaker 3: achieve without whatever then happens.
Speaker 2: Just straight up just like shitty fucking I'm just saying
Speaker 2: it has to given the incentives, this has to be doable.
Speaker 2: And somebody fucking do the Great cheese heist or no,
Speaker 2: the Great cheese forgery. Someone is the Rembrandt of forging cheeses. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 1: A block of Philadelphia cream cheese with like some spices mixed.
Speaker 2: Listen, I listen. There has to be some some version
Speaker 2: of just apple cider, vinegar, a little bit of fucking
Speaker 2: a little bit of the original gin well like because
Speaker 2: if you think about it, right, like the way it's
Speaker 2: being reported, it is like small businesses that are the
Speaker 2: biggest buyers of black market cheese that I'm sure those
Speaker 2: people involved in the game are like, yeah, bro, I
Speaker 2: just flipped like a fucking eighteen pounds of tillamook and
Speaker 2: I told him that, Ye from England. You can you
Speaker 2: can dust it up. You can fucking add a little
Speaker 2: bit of whatever the fuck needs to go on to
Speaker 2: the straws and whatnot. Because also, like you know, this
Speaker 2: is a thing like when you tell people some food
Speaker 2: is a fine thing, they fucking buy it. Your brain
Speaker 2: fills in all the gaps. Yeah, you just add enough
Speaker 2: like fucking complexity. Again, my pitch is a little bit
Speaker 2: of mustard powder, but it could be anything, right, a
Speaker 2: little bit.
Speaker 1: I feel like mustard powder would trick my ass. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean one of the things I say is a
Speaker 1: strength of this because like obviously, like jewels, fine art
Speaker 1: much easier to transport, like than yeah, four elephants worth
Speaker 1: or fucking nine hundred truckles worth of cheese. But one
Speaker 1: of the upsides of cheese is that it's they say
Speaker 1: it's easily laundered because it's you just repurpose it in
Speaker 1: the kitchen and it's gone. It's in someone's digestive tract
Speaker 1: like four days later. Yeah, the evidence is evaporates. Yeah, nobody.
Speaker 2: Toilet, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: The FBI is not like this person suddenly came upon
Speaker 1: a whole lot of cheese, you know, it just it
Speaker 1: shows up in like the bottom line of a restaurant
Speaker 1: three months later, and no, nobody's the wiser.
Speaker 2: It's just yeah, it's just wild. Like in the early
Speaker 2: two thousands, cheese was the most stolen product in the
Speaker 2: UK and Europe. Not yeah, the most stolen food, but
Speaker 2: the most stolen product period. I mean, I get it, bro, Like,
Speaker 2: what's what are you gonna do? Like, how many years
Speaker 2: do you do if you get caught with like three
Speaker 2: truckles of cheese versus a fucking kilo of fucking heroin?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And like restaurants are shady as fuck, you know,
Speaker 1: like the restaurant industry is. I'm sure like that it's
Speaker 1: so infused by mobs and stuff like that that I'm
Speaker 1: sure it's not that hard to plug that ship right
Speaker 1: into the supply chain.
Speaker 3: You know, someone out there write a write a the
Speaker 3: bear specscript about the cheese one episode.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, I got heroin. Yeah, yeah, this is fucking crazy.
Speaker 2: But this also, that's the other loophole.
Speaker 3: Now the fucking restaurant can claim, oh this has whatever
Speaker 3: you know, insane cheese in it, and then if they
Speaker 3: ever get found out, which they never would, they can
Speaker 3: be like, oh my black market cheese.
Speaker 2: Guy fucking lied to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, told me scam scams up and down, it's everywhere.
Speaker 1: Told me got it whole foods for really that it
Speaker 1: was just on sale. I did realize, like at a
Speaker 1: certain point my surprise at it being cheddar is just
Speaker 1: me being like, come on, there's gotta be parmesan, right
Speaker 1: because mafia, come.
Speaker 2: On, what are we doing here? Folks conditioned immediately them?
Speaker 1: Come on, I seen good fellas. I know what they
Speaker 1: the mafia does in prison, like the garlics so fine
Speaker 1: premium cheese. Anyways, maybe we can connect this black market
Speaker 1: cheese smuggling to an eating contest.
Speaker 2: If you know somebody who's in in the in the game. Like,
Speaker 2: I just want to know a little bit more about
Speaker 2: how that works.
Speaker 3: Like we need the mongers, we need the scammers, we
Speaker 3: need the daarists.
Speaker 2: The cows. There's some cows.
Speaker 3: There's got to be black market cows out there squaring
Speaker 3: out this black mark of cheese.
Speaker 1: Yes, fine, let us know stressed out cow looks like
Speaker 1: Adam move moves like Adam Sandler in Andrew T what
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Speaker 2: Did you even log into blue Sky on I've never
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Speaker 1: Is there a work of media Andrew that you've been enjoying?
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, I've been trying to teach myself how to
Speaker 3: write procedurals in our new media landscape. It feels like
Speaker 3: that's the ship that people are gonna want. And so
Speaker 3: I have been watching the fucking Rockford Files from the top.
Speaker 2: Wow. Let me tell you, I don't know much about
Speaker 2: the history of it. I don't know much about detective genres.
Speaker 2: What I do know is that the entertainment industry in
Speaker 2: the seventies was rife with cocaine, and watching like episode
Speaker 2: like mainlining episodes of The Rockford Files really under underlines
Speaker 2: that shit, because some of that shit is Craig Cray.
Speaker 6: Wow, what is the Rockford Files guy?
Speaker 2: It's like a police procedural.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's atective procedural, just a just fucking I don't
Speaker 3: even know his name is Rockford. Uh, I don't know
Speaker 3: if he has a first name. I'm sure he does
Speaker 3: and having.
Speaker 6: The rock Ford.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's like a thing where I' like don't
Speaker 2: really have any connection to any of it. It was
Speaker 2: his name, fucking James Garner was the the actor. I'm
Speaker 2: looking at the Wikipedia now, but it's mostly just like
Speaker 2: to me, the way the stories come together, I'm trying
Speaker 2: to learn the rhythm of a detective, a quirky detective procedural,
Speaker 2: and and he's that. But it's very it's very la
Speaker 2: and it's very just. It seems to be an incredibly
Speaker 2: hot woman comes to him with a problem of the week.
Speaker 2: Somewhere around thirty six minutes, there is a car or
Speaker 2: plane chase that doesn't totally connect for me in terms
Speaker 2: of how we got there. There's various types of kung
Speaker 2: fu of various quality, and oftentimes a pretty pretty fucked
Speaker 2: up gunfight that also feels totally a wee bet out
Speaker 2: of the blue in my opinion.
Speaker 1: Car chase in the seventies, it's that's just one of
Speaker 1: those things where I'm like, I'll never understand, like this
Speaker 1: is this isn't interesting to me, Like a lot of
Speaker 1: car chasers are just boring as hell. It's really weird.
Speaker 1: Brothers is a real overlap of two things that I
Speaker 1: will never be able to understand. It's hard to put
Speaker 1: yourself and yeah car chases and just put yourself in
Speaker 1: the mindset because it's just.
Speaker 3: Like, I know all of our attention spans have been eroded,
Speaker 3: but I feel like classically like that at the time,
Speaker 3: people are like fucking like a new episode of Rockford
Speaker 3: Files was like, oh what if they made a new
Speaker 3: fast and furious movie every week? This is the most
Speaker 3: heart power ship you could have it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know when people are like movie podcasts or whatever,
Speaker 1: like what's all right? Top three favorite movie? Yeah, car chases?
Speaker 1: You might as well be like.
Speaker 2: That part in Bullet.
Speaker 3: Where his car goes like three inches off the ground,
Speaker 3: like shy, don't.
Speaker 1: You might as well know about like the five greatest
Speaker 1: volleyball players.
Speaker 2: Of all time? All right?
Speaker 6: Sure, sick?
Speaker 1: I think I'd actually if I went and watched the
Speaker 1: volleyball players, I'd be I'd have more reaction than like
Speaker 1: any any just seem the same to me.
Speaker 3: Any entertainment that has to cut for you to get it,
Speaker 3: that has to cut to a guy in a director's
Speaker 3: chair going, what you have to understand about the time.
Speaker 6: Is and.
Speaker 3: Do just a long, long explanation of like that's that
Speaker 3: does sound thrilling?
Speaker 1: People still hadn't gotten used to the idea of cars.
Speaker 2: Miles.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? Is there a working media
Speaker 1: you've been enjoying?
Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, find me everywhere miles of Gray, including Blue Sky.
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Speaker 10: Four to twenty day fiance a Blue Ski, I like,
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Speaker 2: Uh And they they said this place is big coffee
Speaker 2: shop inside a bookstore vibes and I'm here for it.
Speaker 2: It's like a very specific You're like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: if you're kicking it in here that I think. I
Speaker 2: think I have an idea of what planet you're from.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to make this proposal, and I'm sure
Speaker 3: it's happened elsewhere. But I feel like I've I'm not
Speaker 3: hearing this as much as I thought I would, which
Speaker 3: is Elon doesn't want it. I think we should just
Speaker 3: call posts on Blue Sky.
Speaker 2: Tweets.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tweets are things sounds that come out of the skyds.
Speaker 2: He just sues people on Blue Sky for using every
Speaker 2: time as I prefer always, Like, are we calling them
Speaker 2: skates business? Really right? It's like just because crawl personally,
Speaker 2: just because you can be like he me get some
Speaker 2: Kleenex or whatever, that doesn't mean it's the brand.
Speaker 3: It's like you just associate the thing. Oh may I
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Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brian
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Speaker 1: I did a bad job on pigging my Blue Sky name.
Speaker 6: Who cares?
Speaker 2: I don't given the exactly?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you should add your ao L dot com address
Speaker 3: on there. I give it jackob at a o L
Speaker 3: dot com dot dsky dot dot what exactly?
Speaker 1: I've been enjoying an account over there called awful Taste
Speaker 1: but Great Execution, where they feature photos of things like
Speaker 1: somebody who just like completely nailed a glossy nail that
Speaker 1: looks like salami, or nails that look like tongues coming
Speaker 1: into the tips of their fingers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the perfect time on a social media
Speaker 2: thing where you just take shit wholesale from Reddit and
Speaker 2: post it on another app as if you're the one
Speaker 2: like yeah, an all the way, because that's like so
Speaker 2: many content accounts are just like if you're on Ready
Speaker 2: or like that was on Reddit earlier. But yeah, that's
Speaker 2: a whole subreddit called at b ge awful Taste with
Speaker 2: great execution.
Speaker 1: Okay, I did just right? Is the time I am
Speaker 1: catching it now. One of them is like a shag
Speaker 1: carpet that looks like they've made it look like crocodile
Speaker 1: is emerging from the shag carpet.
Speaker 2: It's fucking so rare.
Speaker 1: You can find us on Twitter at daily Zeitgeist. I
Speaker 1: think we're on Blue Sky. We're gonna start posting episodes
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Speaker 1: to the information that we talked about in today's episode,
Speaker 1: as well as a song that we think you might enjoy.
Speaker 1: Miles of song do you think people might enjoy?
Speaker 2: We're going back to the well the djon and McGee. Well,
Speaker 2: last time there was a video of that track, Big
Speaker 2: MIC's the live version. Well, there's another performance from that
Speaker 2: same sort of visual album. This is djon and McGee,
Speaker 2: but this is dejons track. It's called talk Down, but
Speaker 2: check out the live version because it's super dope too,
Speaker 2: kind of a similar setting. I think the album version
Speaker 2: sounds cool, but the live version sounds, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: way better, So check it out. It's on YouTube. Djon
Speaker 2: talk Down, the live version, check it out.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, we'll link off to that in the footnotes.
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