Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Speaker 1: Department of govern Trend Efficiency courtesy of Vanadium Silver.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we kept the acronym intact, which is cool. That's
Speaker 1: what's cool is doing a government agency to like spell
Speaker 1: out a product is fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah.
Speaker 4: That's what I like about this new administration. It's gonna
Speaker 4: be real easy to understand everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, no more want.
Speaker 1: If they've made like the EPA spell out like tied,
Speaker 1: because like we're cleaning things up, you know, like the
Speaker 1: style soap.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what you.
Speaker 1: Can buy naming rights to government agencies like their sports arenas.
Speaker 2: And so merch.
Speaker 1: Anyways, well we'll talk a little bit more about that
Speaker 1: on tomorrow's full episode.
Speaker 5: My name is Jack O'Brien.
Speaker 1: That over there is Miles Gray Gray and these are
Speaker 1: some of the stories that are trending right now. We
Speaker 1: just found out about a new business opportunity that we
Speaker 1: just got to get you guys in on.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a basketball version of.
Speaker 3: Top Golf some coming Yeah yeah, called jump Shot Live.
Speaker 4: And I it I'm just having so much trouble understand.
Speaker 4: I like, just still people understand this is how they
Speaker 4: describe it. From their own press release, it says the
Speaker 4: concept of a technologically superior basketball experience coupled with a
Speaker 4: chef driven dining and craft cocktails is one of the
Speaker 4: with a massive potential audience, both in the United States
Speaker 4: and abroad. They go on to say, twenty eight million
Speaker 4: Americans age six and up play basketball. Okay, so can
Speaker 4: the six and up partake in your craft cocktails too,
Speaker 4: or that's just a different offering. Then they say their
Speaker 4: locations are designed to span fifty thousand square feet, though
Speaker 4: some venues made very in size with fifty game bays each,
Speaker 4: and it will accommodate up to six people and it'll
Speaker 4: be all kinds of shit with led screens. The backboards
Speaker 4: move so you can shoot anywhere on the court. Uh,
Speaker 4: and there's like a bunch of athletes involved. I think,
Speaker 4: as people have pointed out, specifically Dragonfly Jones, because it
Speaker 4: was his tweet that Evn't saw this like weird mock
Speaker 4: up of a video, was that basketball is not a
Speaker 4: fun sport in terms of like you can go casually
Speaker 4: been like, hey man, let's just go have some drinks
Speaker 4: and some fucking, you know, cheese curds down at jump
Speaker 4: shot live right, that'll that'll be fine. Every time I've
Speaker 4: been around my friends near a basketball hoop, it turns
Speaker 4: into some hyper competitive shit, like it just does, even if.
Speaker 5: You're just playing too much riding on that ship.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's And where there's golf, as Dragonflies pointing out,
Speaker 4: is like it's it's a humbling sport, like sure, some
Speaker 4: people are good, but most people go being like, look,
Speaker 4: we're all fucking trash. Maybe we can we'll have fun
Speaker 4: swinging a club around and not know what the fuck
Speaker 4: is going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And also like the drinking and snacking is built
Speaker 1: into golfing, like that's a big part of golfing. Is
Speaker 1: like when you're playing golf, you're often drinking, and there's
Speaker 1: like a hot dog cart. There's not a hot dog
Speaker 1: cart on like basketball courts for people to grab a
Speaker 1: couple of hot dogs and a beer while they're playing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe there should be, but that's just not the way
Speaker 1: the sport evolved.
Speaker 4: I also just think too, like Americans, a lot of
Speaker 4: people probably have some form of like old school ground
Speaker 4: playground stress from being a kid having to play basketball
Speaker 4: and not being good and just being stressed out like
Speaker 4: at pee.
Speaker 3: Like a fuck rapping to play basketball, and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I fucking have to, man.
Speaker 4: I mean, like one of the most stressful experiences for
Speaker 4: me as a as a youth was fucking trying out
Speaker 4: for basketball my freshman year of high school.
Speaker 2: And like, I don't know about this. I don't know
Speaker 2: about this.
Speaker 1: I mean, so it's being brought to you by the
Speaker 1: people who do Top Golf, which.
Speaker 4: Tangentially I think there's people like as I read more,
Speaker 4: the COO is the guy who had been developing real
Speaker 4: estate for places like Top Golf. So it's people that
Speaker 4: definitely understand the sports entertainment, whatever.
Speaker 1: The upscale dining sports play. And I will say I
Speaker 1: have gone to Top Golf with my kids and my nephew,
Speaker 1: and there is certainly an audience of people. There's certainly
Speaker 1: a consumer base for people hanging out with their kids
Speaker 1: while enjoying craft cocktails that seems to be there and
Speaker 1: ursioning hell even at eleven in the morning. I will
Speaker 1: say that the logical thing, like if this were designed
Speaker 1: to actually be a thing that they wanted to succeed,
Speaker 1: is like you would just add five gaming stations aka
Speaker 1: basketball who places like little Basketball Hooperias gaming base to
Speaker 1: gaming base to a top golf and see if anybody
Speaker 1: like gave a shit enough to try it. But because
Speaker 1: of the economy and the world that we live in,
Speaker 1: that's not what they're not actually like trying to It
Speaker 1: would be my guess, Like it feels like like in
Speaker 1: the same way as like Crypto and NFTs and like
Speaker 1: all that shit. The thing that they're trying to do
Speaker 1: is like the whole like big launch, and like the
Speaker 1: hype around the launch is the product, you know, Like
Speaker 1: the deck is the product they like they're in the
Speaker 1: deck that like they've put out for this, which is
Speaker 1: just like you know, a slideshow they have like a
Speaker 1: computer generated like drone fly through of the big dining
Speaker 1: room area, and it's just yeah, it's like trying to
Speaker 1: get as many investors on board before they realize it's
Speaker 1: a bad idea.
Speaker 5: So you don't do you don't do the.
Speaker 1: Thing that would actually tell you it was a bad
Speaker 1: idea first, because that would just be too too much
Speaker 1: useful information.
Speaker 4: And the point is this does feel like the perfect
Speaker 4: business idea for right before a potential huge recession.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it feels like that is what we are.
Speaker 4: Shit, dude, I went all in on that fucking jump
Speaker 4: shot place in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fuck, but yeah, we'll see, we'll see, yeh.
Speaker 5: I know for me, you made the really good point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you made the really good point that you can
Speaker 1: You can't hit a golf ball in your neighborhood unless.
Speaker 4: You live in like one of these huge you know,
Speaker 4: places where they have huge tracts of land.
Speaker 2: Most urban dwellers.
Speaker 1: Know you can walk one hundred feet in most directions
Speaker 1: and find a driveway or you know, a little bit
Speaker 1: longer and find.
Speaker 5: A park with a basketball hoop.
Speaker 1: But that park, in that basketball hoop will not be
Speaker 1: next to fogged glass with jump shot live written on it.
Speaker 1: And that's the real opportunity that we're presenting people with here.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyways, other big news too for people to get excited
Speaker 1: and then disappointed about the James Bond. Producers Barbara Brockley
Speaker 1: and Michael G. Wilson have said that they're going to
Speaker 1: cast a new James Bond and whiteness is not a given.
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, he'll be.
Speaker 1: A man, likely in his thirties, and drum roll, please,
Speaker 1: whiteness is not a given.
Speaker 4: What a fucking phrase? Yeah uh And whiteness is not
Speaker 4: a given.
Speaker 3: Although we may, we may. It may be a preference,
Speaker 3: it may be a preference.
Speaker 2: It's not a given. A lot not gonna.
Speaker 3: We'll see, we'll see, we'll see. I don't know who
Speaker 3: wants to even touch this role anymore.
Speaker 4: Uh but I mean because there was we had so
Speaker 4: much fun being like it could be a fucking not
Speaker 4: white guy or man, and then you know, you have.
Speaker 3: All these people like James Bond could only be a
Speaker 3: white guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Andris Elba said the response when his name
Speaker 1: was floated made the whole thing quote disgusting and off
Speaker 1: putting as a result.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so maybe just like I mean again, I
Speaker 4: get like for a studio, like it just makes money, man,
Speaker 4: and it's yeah, but you know what, you can easily come.
Speaker 2: Up with a new thing.
Speaker 3: I just want to say, you can always come up
Speaker 3: with a new thing.
Speaker 5: What about that guy Jim from the office.
Speaker 3: My fucking god, dude, you.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, no no. Is he too.
Speaker 5: Sexy for it?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Find out on tomorrow's episode. Oh no, it's it too sexy.
Speaker 3: The Antonio banderas, how do you say?
Speaker 2: Show?
Speaker 5: All right, let's take a quick break we'll come back,
Speaker 5: and we're back.
Speaker 2: We're back.
Speaker 1: And there's been a surge in research into the South
Speaker 1: Korean movement, the four B movement. In the hours after
Speaker 1: the election, there was like a bunch of people searching.
Speaker 1: Now it's becoming a more formalized thing. This is an
Speaker 1: informal South Korean feminist movement that basically agrees among women
Speaker 1: to not have sex, not have children, not marry men.
Speaker 1: In response to the steady spread and you know, overpowering
Speaker 1: growth of power of misogyny and popular and political culture.
Speaker 1: It started in South Korea in the twenty tens, gained
Speaker 1: a lot of strength after a horrifying crime in which
Speaker 1: an inceul murdered a twenty three old woman in a
Speaker 1: public bathroom in the Gangnam district of Soul, And in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two they had their own kind of Trump
Speaker 1: like figure sweep to power on the back of a
Speaker 1: young male swing vote. And so it's growing there. It's
Speaker 1: not like a super well defined movement, like a one
Speaker 1: of the people who's kind of heavily involved calls it
Speaker 1: more of an individualized resistance rather than like a highly
Speaker 1: organized movement. But I understand why it's getting a lot
Speaker 1: of attention from people at this moment. And also I
Speaker 1: feel like the conservative media ecosystem is going to fucking
Speaker 1: eat this shit up.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, Yeah, it's inspired some pretty heinous responses, I'd say, yeah,
Speaker 4: And like there was an article in Rolling Stone where
Speaker 4: they were talking to some South Korean women who were
Speaker 4: just like asking, like they're like.
Speaker 3: Oh, what do you think, like what to see it's spread?
Speaker 4: And they're like, up, they're heartened to see that, you know,
Speaker 4: like the people are sort of understanding, you know, what
Speaker 4: kind of power they can wield.
Speaker 3: One said quote.
Speaker 4: I also share the sentiment, and I'm very glad that
Speaker 4: so many women are deciding to embark on a journey
Speaker 4: that will lead them to freedom that they could not
Speaker 4: have imagined. And you know they're saying like it's not
Speaker 4: they'ren't saying it's not merely just like sort of a
Speaker 4: complete saying like men are banned forever, but to truly
Speaker 4: look inward to what your values are and understanding how
Speaker 4: you want that reflected back to a partner. But yeah,
Speaker 4: for like the right wing crowd, they're just the response
Speaker 4: is just from like like you know, you can already
Speaker 4: you can already imagine how right wing men are responding
Speaker 4: to people saying that like they will exercise agency over
Speaker 4: their bodies.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: So speaking of Trump, his cabinet appointments seem to be
Speaker 1: pulling from just like his friends, just like a group
Speaker 1: of people who have been in headlines with him in
Speaker 1: the past two months, you know, like it's like Matt
Speaker 1: Gates as Attorney General, Christy Nome for the Department of
Speaker 1: Homeland Security of Fox News host as is it, Secretary
Speaker 1: of Defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Pete Hegseth is the Secretary of Defense, the guy who
Speaker 4: we've talked about before who's like, I don't wash my hands,
Speaker 4: Like yeah, like why why don't have to? It doesn't
Speaker 4: even matter. Uh, He's I mean, historically the most fucking
Speaker 4: uni unqualified person for that, Like people even like Republican centers,
Speaker 4: like what the fuck, dude, Like the entire war machine apparatus.
Speaker 4: But again, when you couple that with things like they're
Speaker 4: trying to create a way to purge generals to sort
Speaker 4: of you know, control the military just full stop in
Speaker 4: line with their own ideology, this makes sense because most
Speaker 4: of these appointments, you're like, what the fuck, Like Tulsi
Speaker 4: Gabbard as like DNI. These are all people who have
Speaker 4: been so loyal to Donald Trump. They are being repaid
Speaker 4: with these positions, but I don't think for a second
Speaker 4: that they're being actually picked because he's like the best
Speaker 4: secretary of Defense is Pete Hegseth. It's that I need
Speaker 4: husks of people in these positions that seem like they
Speaker 4: have the agency and decision making power of a cabinet position,
Speaker 4: but really they're completely willing to just be to say,
Speaker 4: like I have this title, yeah, yeah, whatever Trump wants.
Speaker 4: That's really what's happening because yeah, I mean like.
Speaker 1: It's not even the pretense of like competence or meritocracy now,
Speaker 1: because like the first administration in the bar was like
Speaker 1: you can't have said something bad about me, right, and
Speaker 1: now it's you have to have said such unaccountably like
Speaker 1: good things about me out of line with reality that
Speaker 1: it made headlines like that. That seems to be where
Speaker 1: we're at, which is like, you know, a smaller and
Speaker 1: smaller group.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, truly a degree, right, so you can be
Speaker 5: I feel.
Speaker 4: Like yeah, but it was mostly like I was doing
Speaker 4: like car accidents and stuff like.
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll do it I'll do it.
Speaker 2: I'll do it.
Speaker 4: I mean, I have my own cases that I'm trying
Speaker 4: to avoid, So yeah, it would be great if I
Speaker 4: could run the Department of Justice. And I mean, like
Speaker 4: you know, you you hear it at every level, people
Speaker 4: at these departments who are completely like I, we have
Speaker 4: no idea what kind of like retribution we're going to face,
Speaker 4: how how fucking intense.
Speaker 3: These purges are going to be. But a lot of
Speaker 3: people are saying like, it looks like there's yeah, a
Speaker 3: lot of a lot of loyalists being put in and
Speaker 3: you see people be.
Speaker 4: Like, well, at least they're like an idiot, So like
Speaker 4: I'd rather have an idiot in there than like some
Speaker 4: like true like you.
Speaker 3: Know, mega brained, evil person.
Speaker 4: But again, I think I think the point here is
Speaker 4: just to have these people there because they're not like
Speaker 4: they have their own ideas of what they want to
Speaker 4: do with these and they can't just put like you know,
Speaker 4: the people from the Heritage Foundation in these positions. They're
Speaker 4: just going to be like, yeah, you'll do that, and
Speaker 4: then we'll just tell you what to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just fucking frightening.
Speaker 1: And then of course we have RFK Junior with all
Speaker 1: the has he officially been named to anything yet, no,
Speaker 1: no one thing. He might not have gotten the memo
Speaker 1: of like how these positions are like who's getting hired?
Speaker 1: Because he re recently said that the food he's observed
Speaker 1: Donald Trump eating is quote just poison.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And he said that the KFC and Big Max were
Speaker 1: the healthiest things Trump.
Speaker 5: Eat, which I was picking.
Speaker 1: He was saying that just poison. I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: he must have seen him eating McDonald's and KFC. He
Speaker 1: was like, that's the good part. The rest of the
Speaker 1: stuff I consider kind of inedible, because he was, yeah,
Speaker 1: what is he eating?
Speaker 4: He said, it's just like really really bad because he
Speaker 4: said he's quote never seen Trump drink a glass of water.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Dana White told him he's never seen Trump drink a
Speaker 1: glass of water, which.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh. I was like, yeah, uh y'all.
Speaker 3: Also, if that's the healthiest, then what is he eating?
Speaker 3: Just like lard? Yeah, I can't out of a like
Speaker 3: Crisco by the handful.
Speaker 1: For most people, those are the like lower, those are
Speaker 1: the like, ah, you know, cheat day. The worst thing
Speaker 1: I'm gonna eat on my cheat day is KFC is
Speaker 1: Big Max. I didn't know like KFC r FKFC.
Speaker 5: There you go.
Speaker 1: I didn't know it got worse than that. But so, like,
Speaker 1: is he eating like kitchen sponges? Like when he's like inedible,
Speaker 1: Like what specifically does he mean? Ye, kind of curious.
Speaker 4: It's probably like like pasteurized milk or something. It's like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, yeah, you're not drinking raw milk.
Speaker 1: Oh man, that's just RFK because of RFK is like
Speaker 1: weird belief. Yeah, He's like, well, it's good he hasn't
Speaker 1: drank water because then he'd have the mind control fluoride
Speaker 1: in his brain. Right, that's actually the reason he's able
Speaker 1: to lead us out of this mental prison.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just curious what he hasn't.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Who knows.
Speaker 4: By the time this episode comes out, he could fully
Speaker 4: be in charge of whatever organization and it's fully the
Speaker 4: nightmare come true. I mean, either way, he's the things
Speaker 4: he's saying he's going to do to whatever office he's
Speaker 4: appointed to are disturbing, Like whether it's the NIH and
Speaker 4: he's like I'll get rid of all the scientists or
Speaker 4: like that, you know, whatever it is. He's like, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: it's just whatever my vibes are is what I'm.
Speaker 3: Going to have to unleash on the country. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: who knows.
Speaker 4: I mean, Trump also has a knack for completely, you know,
Speaker 4: betraying people that helped him, So I don't know, maybe
Speaker 4: he'd maybe he didn't, Maybe he doesn't like this new
Speaker 4: article that came out, and maybe he.
Speaker 5: Stopped talking shit. Bro, it's really going to be like that.
Speaker 1: There's lots of ancient literature about and like plays and
Speaker 1: stuff about like the dynamics of like people in royal
Speaker 1: courts like backstabbing each other and because at a time
Speaker 1: when it's a monarchy, the only thing that matters is
Speaker 1: like getting the favor of the one person, and that
Speaker 1: shit all sounds boring and can be really really boring.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but yeah, I feel like it's gonna be chaos
Speaker 4: either like whether these people do just make their own
Speaker 4: fucking terrible decisions or you can also just see too,
Speaker 4: you know, like in any job, when you see someone
Speaker 4: you get passed up for a promotion and.
Speaker 2: You're like that, yeah, yeah for real.
Speaker 3: That then then that starts.
Speaker 4: You get now you get the weird palace intrigue kind
Speaker 4: of shit, and the people start factioning off and tear
Speaker 4: each other down.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4: It's every pick has been absolutely mind blowing merely because
Speaker 4: I had to like adjust what I thought was absolute
Speaker 4: bottom of the barrel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as we do with our with fast food, so
Speaker 1: we have to do with just the people running the
Speaker 1: most powerful military and economy in the world. We have
Speaker 1: to readjust our idea of how bad it can be.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, look, this all be part of
Speaker 4: a process where we're gonna have.
Speaker 3: To figure out how we push back on it all
Speaker 3: because it's I mean, it's.
Speaker 4: The experiment has begun and I and I get all
Speaker 4: the gallows humor, and it's just kind of hard to
Speaker 4: sort of like see it all but then also be like,
Speaker 4: but no, that that joke could be our reality, and
Speaker 4: that's what's really disorienting about this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, that's gonna do it for us this afternoon.
Speaker 5: We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of
Speaker 5: the show.
Speaker 2: YEP.
Speaker 1: Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourself,
Speaker 1: you get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy.
Speaker 5: And we will talk to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Bye bye,