Speaker 1: Hello, what what what? What?
Speaker 2: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of HI
Speaker 2: at the inaugur Ray Trends.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: My name is Jack Waw and.
Speaker 2: We're still doing vocal warm ups over here with my
Speaker 2: special guest co host, Brian the Editor.
Speaker 1: It's me, it's me. My mic sounds nice, My mic
Speaker 1: sounds nice.
Speaker 2: Listen to that sonorous resonant, Brian. How you doing? How
Speaker 2: are things looking from down to Mexico City? Feeling pretty smart?
Speaker 1: Aren't you?
Speaker 3: I don't be smugger smart. I don't want to be
Speaker 3: smugger anything. But I did read the tea leaves, you know.
Speaker 1: Uh huh you did.
Speaker 2: You were unambiguous, you weren't like, oh no, this is
Speaker 2: just because I like the weather. You were like that
Speaker 2: place seems walked up. So anyways, great to have you here,
Speaker 2: great recording as yet another fire seems to be breaking
Speaker 2: out in Los Angeles. Hopefully things get under control. Hopefully
Speaker 2: everybody stands safe out there.
Speaker 3: And if you're out of the if you're out of
Speaker 3: the danger zone, so to speak, when you go out,
Speaker 3: wear a mask because my mother tells me the air
Speaker 3: is fucked up.
Speaker 2: Not great, it's not great. I just realized I have
Speaker 2: a meeting in fifteen minutes, so this is gonna be
Speaker 2: a short one, all right, Raby fire right with fire
Speaker 2: Jack Brian quote miles of Jack on mat Boosti's Brian
Speaker 2: start the clock. All right. Elon was on something at
Speaker 2: the inauguration.
Speaker 1: There's just a video pim you you good? Is you rolling? Bitch?
Speaker 1: I might be that is what and that is what
Speaker 1: I said.
Speaker 2: He had any amount of charisma, he might have said
Speaker 2: that Biguccy main fan. Instead, he would have said, go
Speaker 2: fuck yourself. I don't know how many how clear I
Speaker 2: can be about this.
Speaker 1: Go fuck yourself so powerfully and cool.
Speaker 2: Anyways, he does seem to be enjoying the studio space
Speaker 2: of his body during the during this clip. If you
Speaker 2: haven't found it, well we will link off to it
Speaker 2: in the footnotes. But yeah, we were trying to speculate.
Speaker 2: Is it ketamine? Is it M D M A? Is
Speaker 2: it some combination, some unholy combination of the various substances
Speaker 2: we know he partakes them.
Speaker 3: Whatever it is, dude was geeking and leaking beacon, leaking
Speaker 3: the real nasty like that's like if Walt Fraser did
Speaker 3: commentary on people's drug use.
Speaker 2: Geeking and leaking is Elon Musk. Yeah, he looked high,
Speaker 2: but before you before this encourage you to think he's cool.
Speaker 2: This was right before he did two very clear Nazi salutes,
Speaker 2: So he's on the him on drugs. You know, some
Speaker 2: people do drugs and make good music. He does drugs
Speaker 2: and does a full Nazi salute. Yeah, just fucking it.
Speaker 2: Like the thing about the Nazi salute that it feels
Speaker 2: like it's almost like bursting forth from him, like it's
Speaker 2: like it's it's a Doctor Strangelove sitch, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it definitely felt like he's he didn't try
Speaker 3: and pull the arm down.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And also, you know, he does seem to be
Speaker 2: on that Doctor Strange like he Watching Doctor Strange Love
Speaker 2: with Elon Musk would be interesting because he would be
Speaker 2: rooting for the generals and Doctor Strangelove and being like, yeah,
Speaker 2: these people have like good ideas. We should good kill
Speaker 2: most people and then I'll repopulate the earth myself. Anyways,
Speaker 2: interesting times over there. Elon Musk continues to be terrifying
Speaker 2: and also uncool at the same time. Powerfully uncool, powerfully uncool.
Speaker 3: Like Elon Musk is so uncool he makes bezos look
Speaker 3: slightly more cool than he is writting compared when they're
Speaker 3: standing next to each other, You're like, oh yeah, like
Speaker 3: Bezos is the cool one out of this swag. He's
Speaker 3: he's he comes off cooler than Zuck or Elon somehow
Speaker 3: because they're so lame.
Speaker 2: There is also, of course, that clip of Zuck uh
Speaker 2: oh with the boobs, Yeah, looking down at some boobs
Speaker 2: and then smiling like truly, just like a fucking seven
Speaker 2: year old, how do you how do you look at
Speaker 2: boobs and then like just can't stop yourself from smiling
Speaker 2: over the age of the headline I was trying to
Speaker 2: recreate is uh. I knew one day I'd have to
Speaker 2: watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn't
Speaker 2: expect them to be such losers. That is from Rebecca
Speaker 2: shaw great headline.
Speaker 1: They should have never gave these nerds money. They should
Speaker 1: have never gave.
Speaker 2: These nerds money. We need to stop letting white people
Speaker 2: do this shit. Was is a line from tomorrow's episode
Speaker 2: that paulave Gonalin says that I think is just a
Speaker 2: good thesis for the coming years. All right, Uh, it's
Speaker 2: kind of impossible to keep track of all Trump's bullshit
Speaker 2: right now. So we'll just like kind of take our
Speaker 2: time look at like a thing at a time, specifically crypto.
Speaker 2: The crypto bros. How are they dealing with all this? Yeah,
Speaker 2: so he just pardoned Ross Olbricht, who was the guy
Speaker 2: behind Silk Road. Silk Road was the you know dark
Speaker 2: web marketplace where you could buy drugs, and you know,
Speaker 2: as as cool as that might sound, he did it
Speaker 2: while using a pseudonym lifted from the Princess Bride. He
Speaker 2: called himself dread Pirate Roberts. But like libertarians and crypto
Speaker 2: enthusiasts were very adamant that Trump pardoned this guy on
Speaker 2: day one when Trump in order to secure their votes.
Speaker 2: Remember there's like a point during the election where he
Speaker 2: like went to the libertarian.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, didn't they boo him? They did?
Speaker 2: But then he like one of the things he said
Speaker 2: he'd do was pardon this guy on day one. Day
Speaker 2: one came and went. People were like, what the and any.
Speaker 3: Other places you can get kead of me? And guys,
Speaker 3: I don't know, you need to Yeah.
Speaker 2: Just ask you La Musk. We were speculating does he
Speaker 2: take the like drugs that you just take as an
Speaker 2: eye dropper? Like that? I feel like that's the thing.
Speaker 3: I feel like rich people don't don't like people drugs
Speaker 3: in a regular way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he doesn't have in his and he's like
Speaker 2: using his car keys.
Speaker 3: To take I feel like rich people don't do powdery drugs.
Speaker 3: They're like, no, my mucous membranes are too rich for this.
Speaker 2: You know, people who are like terminal with cancer have
Speaker 2: like pain drugs that are like pumped into them via
Speaker 2: a like automated, like en surgically inserted machine in their body.
Speaker 2: I feel like he probably has.
Speaker 3: That, just because I remember, like, I feel like Madison
Speaker 3: Cawthorn when he was snitching on everybody.
Speaker 1: I feel like he said, they're doing cocaine through their
Speaker 1: eyeballs with eye.
Speaker 2: Drops, which god, that must have seemed so strange to him.
Speaker 2: A total like rube from the city. He's like guys. Anyways,
Speaker 2: he got booted the fuck out of there.
Speaker 1: Anyways.
Speaker 2: Also, the Silk Road guy, like this is I didn't
Speaker 2: realize this. I've seen this story covered in a couple
Speaker 2: of places. But he was also I guess. I guess
Speaker 2: it wasn't the primary thing he was being held for,
Speaker 2: but he did try to murder multiple people. He kept
Speaker 2: trying to hire assassins, who, as we've learned many times,
Speaker 2: hit men don't really exist. They're just undercover federal agents
Speaker 2: trying to trick you. And he kept hiring hitman and
Speaker 2: they were like staging the murders to make him think
Speaker 2: that he had killed the people, Like they would like
Speaker 2: show him photographic evidence that the people were killed, and
Speaker 2: then he would like hire them for more murders and
Speaker 2: like that somehow wasn't the thing that he was being
Speaker 2: held on. But he thought he fully believed he had
Speaker 2: murdered multiple people and was like, yes, I would like
Speaker 2: to order three more murders please.
Speaker 3: I would feel really uncomfortable, like having like a task
Speaker 3: rabbit hit man that I like keep hitting up, like
Speaker 3: you either have a goon on staff or you keep
Speaker 3: switching it up. I feel like I don't know if
Speaker 3: I can trust a task rabbit assassin.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I've always said that, Brian, I said, you have
Speaker 2: to you know, you have to go with people you trust.
Speaker 2: Your personal rescucations is the only way to hire a hitman.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so he you know, in addition to being
Speaker 2: what would appear to be like a cold blooded murderer
Speaker 2: and having made millions of dollars off of what was
Speaker 2: basically Kigigi for children curious about meth. He was pardon
Speaker 2: by Trump and people like so crypto people are still
Speaker 2: They funded ten million dollars for his inaugural fund. They
Speaker 2: paid Snoop to play at the pre inauguration, which I
Speaker 2: did you know that Snoop performed at the pre inauguration
Speaker 2: crypto ball.
Speaker 3: Yes, I couldn't help, but hear about it and was
Speaker 3: immediately shown the tweet where he was asking like which
Speaker 3: one of you basically like asking like which one of
Speaker 3: you rappers is going to end up performing for Trump?
Speaker 3: Like like which one you don't? That a long time ago,
Speaker 3: a long time ago. And people immediately pulled up that
Speaker 3: receipt and it's like it's you bro, You're the dumb
Speaker 3: fuck is gonna take you know, bag over everything, bag
Speaker 3: above all. You know, I'm not surprised about you know
Speaker 3: what was this Soldier boy.
Speaker 2: Or yeah, soldier Boy was was like actively lobbying Trump.
Speaker 3: But like, I mean, doesn't surprise me either, because he's
Speaker 3: a rapacious capitalist.
Speaker 2: So a lot of successful people are. It turns out
Speaker 2: that's how.
Speaker 3: He's not a rapper anymore. It's like he hasn't. He's
Speaker 3: a mascot for him, Yeah, more than a rapper these days.
Speaker 2: He is to rap what Donald Trump is to business people.
Speaker 2: He's a person who is the symbol of something that
Speaker 2: they were once involved with. But anyways, uh, people are
Speaker 2: also in within the crypto world. They seem to not
Speaker 2: be too impressed with Donald Trump's big meme coin offering.
Speaker 2: So like, I don't know shit about the crypto world,
Speaker 2: but apparently meme coins are viewed as like inere thing
Speaker 2: because they're just like they're kind of like something you
Speaker 2: would create to satirize cryptocurrency.
Speaker 1: Well, there's there's two varieties of maame coins.
Speaker 3: There's what you just said, and then it's either that
Speaker 3: or it's a complete fucking pump and dump scam. And
Speaker 3: a lot of the the crypto evangelists, like the people
Speaker 3: who really who really like I was, I just happen
Speaker 3: to like sometimes I'll go on those stupid like the
Speaker 3: news apps on your browser where it's just a bunch
Speaker 3: of advertisements and weird shit, and I clicked on this
Speaker 3: crypto thing, and they're like, uh, sheba e new coin
Speaker 3: is on pace to hit point zero zero three cents
Speaker 3: within the next ten years, within the next ten years,
Speaker 3: and that is those people must really believe in the
Speaker 3: long game, so that there's this schism in the crypto community.
Speaker 3: I imagine where some people are believe this is the
Speaker 3: future still somehow, and you know, everybody else is like, well,
Speaker 3: it's fucking it's free real estate, let's get this money,
Speaker 3: let's scam people. And yeah, I can imagine that pissing
Speaker 3: off these delusional people.
Speaker 2: They put a ton of money into like getting him
Speaker 2: into office so that he would do legislation and executive
Speaker 2: orders that would make it easier for them to do crypto,
Speaker 2: you know, the seemingly legitimate scare quotes crypto, and then
Speaker 2: he immediately does the pump and dump skis immediately is
Speaker 2: just like I'm gonna make as much money as I
Speaker 2: can and then just.
Speaker 3: It's no different from what Hawk to A did or
Speaker 3: that Paul brother or whatever, like yeah, yeah, there were
Speaker 3: like meme shirts on the Jersey shore boardwalk.
Speaker 2: They were like Hawktua for President twenty twenty four, and
Speaker 2: it's like that's basically what we got, Like that's it's
Speaker 2: just a fucking just a meme figurehead guy, Like that's
Speaker 2: I mean, not we got much worse, obviously, but people
Speaker 2: are saying it was embarrassing and it's filling them as
Speaker 2: crypto people with dread. But I don't know you call it.
Speaker 2: One crypto engineer claimed that Trump's meme coin made him
Speaker 2: question if he wants to be involved with crypto at
Speaker 2: all anymore, and complained that he doesn't know how to
Speaker 2: explain the last few days in crypto to his children.
Speaker 2: Which that's the thing.
Speaker 3: When you have something like crypto, you have the fantastical
Speaker 3: appeal of like this will bring forth a new era
Speaker 3: of whatever the fuck they think is gonna happen with crypto. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but it also just happens to be a perfect way
Speaker 3: to scam people in lounder money, Like there's gonna be
Speaker 3: a little friction just.
Speaker 2: Happens to be by accident, as a totally accidental byproduct
Speaker 2: of this legitimate thing that we've made. It does seem
Speaker 2: like they object to because Superducer Victor is like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is where they draw the line the Nazi shit. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it does seem like they're reacting. They're drawing the line
Speaker 2: on the on the cryptocurrency more than the Nazi stuff.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that that seems to be. Everybody's just like,
Speaker 2: we're going to run this country like a business, and
Speaker 2: that's going to be a good thing, and that what
Speaker 2: it's always been to me. All Right, take a quick
Speaker 2: break and we'll be back to talk about movies and
Speaker 2: Netflix and McDonald's and all all the fun stuff. We'll
Speaker 2: be right back.
Speaker 1: Ed we're back.
Speaker 2: And how are you on cult movies? Brian? Do you
Speaker 2: like cult movies? Do you like clotes in general?
Speaker 3: Just just so happens, cult movies are one of my
Speaker 3: favorite genres of film.
Speaker 1: I've seen all the cult movies.
Speaker 3: If it's got a cult in it or anything thing
Speaker 3: to do with psychedelics and cults, I've seen it.
Speaker 2: What so, all right, but what are what are some
Speaker 2: cult movies?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: What are your top cult movies.
Speaker 1: In recent years?
Speaker 3: Us? No, that's I don't really take that movie to
Speaker 3: super literally, okay, sure, Like I don't put it in
Speaker 3: the category of I mean, I totally see, like the
Speaker 3: visuals of it does have like a cult kind of thing,
Speaker 3: but I don't consider that like a cult movie as such.
Speaker 3: I like stuff like The Wicker Man. Both of them
Speaker 3: there different reasons, obviously. Yeah, Mid Midsommar is probably the
Speaker 3: most recent one where I'm like, I actually kind of.
Speaker 2: Like low key fuck with that cult a little bit,
Speaker 2: but they've got some points. I still haven't seen Midsummer
Speaker 2: and I need to.
Speaker 3: I think that the way things are structured in the
Speaker 3: Midsommer cult is kind of interesting.
Speaker 2: Man. I wish I could to dive into this more,
Speaker 2: because I'm sure they are all sorts of problematic things
Speaker 2: underlying what you're saying here, Like I just kind of.
Speaker 1: Fuck with the way that they respect. Oh yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: sad problematic. You guys don't even know.
Speaker 2: So all right, well, we have a new cult. Like
Speaker 2: we've been talking before about how cult based content, we
Speaker 2: got a lot of reality shows, reality series about cults,
Speaker 2: like over the past, you know, three or four years,
Speaker 2: perhaps owing to the fact that interesting cults tends to
Speaker 2: grow during periods of larger existential questioning. And so I
Speaker 2: think it's worth mentioning that the trailer for Oputh just dropped.
Speaker 2: Iowa Deboire's new movie. She's from the Bear and just
Speaker 2: a really funny comedian and like really good actor, and
Speaker 2: she plays a journalist who visits a remote compound belonging
Speaker 2: to a reclusive pop star played by John Malkovich and
Speaker 2: it turns out it's a cult I'm remembering now Marcy
Speaker 2: Martha May Marlene. Have you seen that one? No, Marcy Martin,
Speaker 2: all right, that's a good Martha Marcy May Marlene is
Speaker 2: a cult movie from like twenty eleven. It's the first
Speaker 2: thing I saw.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll check that out.
Speaker 2: It's good, good cult movie. I enjoy it. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm ready for a new cult movie, and this one looks.
Speaker 3: Like it, especially with John Malkovich as the as the
Speaker 3: head also, but it's kind of hard for me to
Speaker 3: picture John Malkovich as a quote pop star.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I could.
Speaker 3: I could see him as like a Michael Franks type figure,
Speaker 3: like a soft rock star, but not a pop star.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be interesting, like how they Yeah, because he
Speaker 2: doesn't have that classic pop star look necessarily.
Speaker 1: No. Yeah, but yeah, I'm I'm on board.
Speaker 2: Definitely on board.
Speaker 1: He definitely cult.
Speaker 2: Yes, it is a twenty four and the trailer is
Speaker 2: a lot of fun. So Netflix is crushing it. I
Speaker 2: just saw a headline that was like Netflix fucking blowing up, uh,
Speaker 2: doing so good at the stock market, and so of
Speaker 2: course they are going to make us all pay more
Speaker 2: they are raising the PRISS on their ad free premium
Speaker 2: plan to twenty four ninety nine a month, which that
Speaker 2: is and for what what didn't it used to be
Speaker 2: like it was like very recently. It was like in
Speaker 2: the low teens, wasn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like they they feel like this was literally like
Speaker 3: a year ago, like to the day, like they yeah,
Speaker 3: they bumped it up to like I don't know, like
Speaker 3: seventeen dollars or something stupid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is just the thing that I keep saying
Speaker 2: about how there's no consumer, no voice for like the consumer,
Speaker 2: the vast majority of the humans in this country have
Speaker 2: absolutely no voice in this country. This is a great
Speaker 2: and like we need like this is what Ralph Ralph
Speaker 2: Nader's big you know, innovation was like a consumer advocate
Speaker 2: who would stop car companies from killing people by being like,
Speaker 2: could you put seatbelts in your cars? That would be cool,
Speaker 2: just like really common sense ideas.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's me because I did call the FCC on
Speaker 3: Hulu one time, because I don't know if you ever
Speaker 3: used the Hulu app, but you're watching a show on
Speaker 3: Hulu and it's like you have the volume set and
Speaker 3: you can hear the dialogue.
Speaker 1: And then effects aren't too loud.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And when I say the ads damn near blew
Speaker 3: out my speakers, I was so fucking mad. I was like,
Speaker 3: there's there's a I think it's called the FCC mad Well,
Speaker 3: I was called the FCC mad because there's there's a
Speaker 3: law about loss.
Speaker 2: They're not allowed to do that about.
Speaker 3: The loudness of advertisements. And when I talked to the
Speaker 3: people at the FCC, they were like, that only applies
Speaker 3: to broadcast television, and I was like, I don't care
Speaker 3: what fucking cable this show comes into my house on.
Speaker 1: This is a legal like.
Speaker 2: Because yeah, because we for a long time now the
Speaker 2: only people with a voice or corporations, they can do
Speaker 2: whatever the fuck they want. Anyways, they're in this feedback
Speaker 2: loop where they can treat the consumer like shit by
Speaker 2: like raising prices. They're like, okay, let's stress test these people,
Speaker 2: see how much we can charge them for a thing.
Speaker 2: And the feedback they get is that their stock price
Speaker 2: goes up. So it's like a system that is built
Speaker 2: specifically to reward people for treating the consumer like shit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it also ties into the whole thing of
Speaker 3: like these companies which I can't remember Oh, it was
Speaker 3: Adobe who got in trouble for making it really hard
Speaker 3: to cancel your subscription, like they always hide it or
Speaker 3: make the button really small. They make you click through
Speaker 3: like five pages. I tried to quit Audible the other day.
Speaker 3: I had to click through like five pages.
Speaker 1: Like are you sure? But are you sure that you're sure?
Speaker 1: Are you? Like?
Speaker 3: What if we giving a discount, Like they won't let
Speaker 3: you cancel shit. So yeah, a lot of people are
Speaker 3: just going to be paying for Netflix and might not
Speaker 3: even know that the price has gone up.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Last time prices were raised, people were like, that's fucked up.
Speaker 2: One of the arguments that we heard back, presumably from
Speaker 2: like a paid plant, was like, I'm sorry, you just
Speaker 2: want to keep devaluing art and make it so we can't.
Speaker 1: Oh weird devaluing art.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're devaluing art by not wanting Netflix to raise
Speaker 2: their prices at will, and then you know, get positive
Speaker 2: feedback from raising prices. But anyways, in this case, it's
Speaker 2: important to note that like their structure, like the what
Speaker 2: they're investig in going forward is NFL games and boxing
Speaker 2: matches between sounds expensive terrible celebrities. Yeah, so that's that
Speaker 2: is what you're subsidizing.
Speaker 1: It's not art, it's CTE. Yeah, it's CTE.
Speaker 2: There raising prices to invest in research into ct giving,
Speaker 2: specifically how TV give it to around people. One of
Speaker 2: the big reasons the subscriber boost happened in the first
Speaker 2: place was because people wanted to see the second season
Speaker 2: of Squid Game, so which sucked. I didn't see it,
Speaker 2: but it's just fun to note that a anti capitalist
Speaker 2: story about the horrors of exploiting the masses inspired the
Speaker 2: corporation to jack up their prices. So that's where we're at.
Speaker 2: It is so funny that the second season. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: hearing like not great things about it. It's like when
Speaker 2: they didn't know what they had, When Netflix didn't know
Speaker 2: what they had and weren't paying any attention to squid Game,
Speaker 2: it became like they made a really great season of TV.
Speaker 2: Once they knew what they had.
Speaker 3: It's like it got immediately made a game show and
Speaker 3: of mediocre second season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, anyways, that's happening. They're raising prices and as long
Speaker 2: as people don't cancel their Netflix subscriptions, they will keep
Speaker 2: doing that and getting rewarded for it.
Speaker 3: Let me just let me just throw in something here
Speaker 3: just to make me seem even more problematic. Jack, everybody
Speaker 3: just really evaluate what the fuck is on Netflix that
Speaker 3: is that important to you. Where you can't learn how
Speaker 3: to torrent? Okay, piracy is still very much alive and thriving.
Speaker 2: So yeah, just as the Pirate roberts, he's back out here.
Speaker 2: We all have computers. We all have computers. I'm just
Speaker 2: a man with a computer. Brian, that editor, What a
Speaker 2: pleasure having you on the show. As always, Where can
Speaker 2: people find you? Follow you all they can stuff?
Speaker 1: Stay the fuck away from me, Internet people. You can't
Speaker 1: leave me alone. Where can people find you?
Speaker 2: You can find me, don't stay away from me. I
Speaker 2: love you, Jack underscore, ol Brian on Twitter and Jack
Speaker 2: Obi the number one on Blue Sky and Blue Ski.
Speaker 2: That is going to do it for us this afternoon.
Speaker 2: We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of
Speaker 2: the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be
Speaker 2: kind to yourselves, get your vaccines, get your flu shots,
Speaker 2: don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will walk
Speaker 2: to out tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Fight Bye.