Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: These are some of our favorite segments from this week,
Speaker 1: all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So,
Speaker 1: without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. What is
Speaker 1: something from your search history?
Speaker 3: You know what sucks?
Speaker 4: I don't really have anything interesting in my search history
Speaker 4: right now because I could give a shit about everything
Speaker 4: right now. But I will say, my the tab that
Speaker 4: I keep going into I've gotten into this is so dorky.
Speaker 4: I really have gotten into those New York Times games.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, follow them beta.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm sorry, the numbers, the new beta numbers
Speaker 4: game that they're testing out, the fucking letterbox, the what
Speaker 4: is it called Vertex, and all the I'll.
Speaker 1: Only know word Wait, so okay, I know World's Spelling Bee,
Speaker 1: across Words and wordal that's yeah.
Speaker 4: They have a mini crossword. I do that one because
Speaker 4: it's free. And they have like, uh, they have just
Speaker 4: they have a ton of game there. Let me pull
Speaker 4: them up. But they have a new game that they're
Speaker 4: testing out and it's an it's just a math you
Speaker 4: just like figure out. They give you like six numbers
Speaker 4: and they give you a whatever, four hundred and ninety one,
Speaker 4: and you within those six numbers that they've given you
Speaker 4: have to try to land on four hundred and ninety
Speaker 4: one are closest to It's their newest game that they're doing,
Speaker 4: but they have all these other games.
Speaker 3: God damn it.
Speaker 1: Uh it appeals to the numerologists.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really dorky. It's there's like letter box where
Speaker 4: you like, it's like a mash but there's letters all
Speaker 4: around and you just like build words.
Speaker 1: And oh yeah, spelling B.
Speaker 4: Right, No, that's a different one. Spelling B is like
Speaker 4: you have to use this letter in the center. But
Speaker 4: they have another one like that that's like the mash
Speaker 4: box and you just literally have to just it's really
Speaker 4: that's all I'm doing in my safari on my on
Speaker 4: my fucking phone. I'm not googling anything anymore. I'm sick
Speaker 4: of learning shit, I'm tired of information. I'm exhausted right now.
Speaker 1: You still play word absolutely, yeah, me to it, and
Speaker 1: I don't feel bad about it anymore. I'm just like,
Speaker 1: I still funk with this.
Speaker 3: I got in four today, I.
Speaker 1: Got it in six. I almost yeah, double bogied. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's somebody when I was like bragging about how good
Speaker 1: I was a word, they were like, let me see
Speaker 1: your scores, all right, So six is a double bogie,
Speaker 1: a five is a bogie, fours par three is a birdie.
Speaker 1: Two is an eagle. Like that's how you like it?
Speaker 1: Like golf and that awful. It's terrible. White people ruin everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna believe this.
Speaker 3: It was a white pro I know only white people
Speaker 3: think like that. I think it's kicked the fun.
Speaker 1: Out of this.
Speaker 5: It's wild to me though, that like New York Times
Speaker 5: went from like this newspaper to them like yo, the
Speaker 5: games though now Yeah, it's like that's really where they're
Speaker 5: strong now. Not the journalism.
Speaker 1: So much journalism was god awful. But have you played
Speaker 1: their angry birds skin It's no, I'm just joking. I'm
Speaker 1: just joking. J I want to make sure that you
Speaker 1: thought you. I have a joke.
Speaker 4: A story I tell on my first album called The
Speaker 4: Woke Bully, and it's about when I was thirteen. I
Speaker 4: was friends with these girls. I mean there were my
Speaker 4: friends and they were and I was the jokester, literally
Speaker 4: the same jokester that I am today. Where I'm just like,
Speaker 4: what's up, bitch, what's up?
Speaker 3: House up?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Whatever, whatever.
Speaker 3: That's how I talked.
Speaker 4: That's how I talked as I was a kid, and
Speaker 4: I had my friends write me a letter that was like, hey, Marcella,
Speaker 4: we know that you're so funny, and we know that
Speaker 4: your sense of humor is what it is, but we
Speaker 4: just want to say that if you're gonna call us
Speaker 4: sluts and whores, you need to say just kidding every
Speaker 4: time you say it.
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh my god, it's so fuck
Speaker 3: It's truly helpful for us.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And then so I went to school and they're like, hey, Marcella,
Speaker 4: did you read the letter? And I was like, I did,
Speaker 4: And I just want to say I'm absolutely gonna.
Speaker 3: Make sure I do that. Sluts just kidding.
Speaker 4: And I slipped them off and I walked away and
Speaker 4: I was never friends with them again. I tell the
Speaker 4: story much better. But I hate when people say just kidding.
Speaker 4: I don't care if people knew or didn't know you
Speaker 4: were kidding. Do not give in.
Speaker 1: I hate it. Lie to me, I don't care.
Speaker 3: I don't give a fuck. And women do it more than.
Speaker 1: You, Like you really thought that there was a new
Speaker 1: York Times Skin of Angry Birds, and I didn't want
Speaker 1: you to waste your time.
Speaker 3: I was excited. I would have googled it, and you
Speaker 3: ruined that opportunity.
Speaker 1: Well, I was just kidding. Oh, I had my sister
Speaker 1: and I like we would always like yeah, I just
Speaker 1: have a bad habit of always be like.
Speaker 3: Just kidd Yeah. I know you were abused as well.
Speaker 3: I can tell that was a controlling household, right.
Speaker 5: Wasn't that Christian Waite character like that she did that
Speaker 5: one bit where the characters would all everything was just kidding.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding, just kidding, just kids.
Speaker 4: There's the thing women do and I hate it so much,
Speaker 4: drives me crazy. I hate it. I don't kind of
Speaker 4: people don't know I'm kidding or not. Maybe I'm not kidding, bitch,
Speaker 4: I don't want to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe you are a piece of shit.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Also, I think, especially with that specific incident, it was
Speaker 4: like we're thirteen and I I know you guys are
Speaker 4: all virgins, We're not.
Speaker 3: Like, can you relax?
Speaker 1: Like were they going to church or something? Where that
Speaker 1: was that you put on them like we are not.
Speaker 3: It was so stupid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I'm sure they're doing Okay, now what uh
Speaker 1: what something you think is overrated? Oh?
Speaker 8: Man, another thing I've been Uh, I've been wrestling with
Speaker 8: something i think is overrated. I'm gonna say the push
Speaker 8: for metaverse stuff. These Apple glasses. They got me kind
Speaker 8: of freaked out. I've been I watched that promo video
Speaker 8: and the.
Speaker 1: Ten minute one.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I got a little It kind of scared me,
Speaker 8: and I was like, I think that the the public
Speaker 8: appetite for this, even if it's not like global yet,
Speaker 8: even if it's still like the tech big tech kind
Speaker 8: of pushing it on us, I'm still like, this is
Speaker 8: massively overrated. I feel like this is going to turn
Speaker 8: us into the Wally Oh yesiety.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had that thought. I was like, Wally missed
Speaker 1: because they still have screens in front of them that
Speaker 1: they're looking at at a distance. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: what it's going to be.
Speaker 8: Yeah, the goggles are I mean, I actually think that
Speaker 8: Google glass was like the clo even though it looked
Speaker 8: kind of dorky, it was like the closest thing to
Speaker 8: like I'm surprised. I think it was just a little early.
Speaker 8: But yeah, these big goggles, I mean these look extremely goofy.
Speaker 8: I mean Yeah, you're going to see people at the
Speaker 8: airport walking with these goggles on. It's gonna be like
Speaker 8: you're gonna see them at the airport like in a
Speaker 8: month wearing that, and it's a it's pretty amazing. Anyways,
Speaker 8: Having said that, I did pre order five Bears.
Speaker 5: I mean, now, I was like, this is the sickest
Speaker 5: TV ever. That is how when I saw that, I
Speaker 5: was like, what if I blew up watching whatever the
Speaker 5: fuck I'm watching? Like when they did the things like
Speaker 5: what if it was a hundred foot screen and you're
Speaker 5: on a lake in Switzer wind, and I was.
Speaker 1: Like, whoa, that's true. Yeah, that's like that was the
Speaker 1: only thing. I'm like, that's cool.
Speaker 5: However, I'm not gonna send thirty five hundred dollars on that.
Speaker 5: But I can see, just like to everyone's point, the
Speaker 5: slippery slope it causes, and like cut to some airport
Speaker 5: and you have people missing their flights and shit because
Speaker 5: they've like passed out in their fucking vision goggles or whatever.
Speaker 8: And yeah, I didn't think about that, you know, as
Speaker 8: you said, one hundred foot screenthing, I'm like, oh, this
Speaker 8: is going to kill the movie theater potentially.
Speaker 1: It is, Yeah, it's gonna kill so many things. It
Speaker 1: just like further allows you to completely disassociate into a
Speaker 1: like cellular existence and like just makes it so cool
Speaker 1: to be in a room by yourself doing absolutely nothing.
Speaker 8: I've I've become one of these people who, like, I'm
Speaker 8: very big on proselytizing to everyone I meet about like
Speaker 8: the dangers of AI and kind of you know, being
Speaker 8: the trying to set I'm not trying to make myself
Speaker 8: sound like I'm ahead of the time. I feel like
Speaker 8: everybody else a lot of other people are doing this too,
Speaker 8: But like I feel like AI, chat, GBT, all this
Speaker 8: shit is going to like fundamentally disrupt our society and
Speaker 8: economy more than COVID did by.
Speaker 1: Like a long shot.
Speaker 8: I feel like this is going to be insane and
Speaker 8: destructive and there will be a lot of good that
Speaker 8: comes from it. But like I feel like, you know,
Speaker 8: this is kind of a cousin of that where I'm like, oh,
Speaker 8: we're not paying attention to how much. Yeah, this is
Speaker 8: going to change things and like kill jobs and probably
Speaker 8: maybe kill people.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The I feel like the vision pro goggles or whatever,
Speaker 1: it's like easier to see where that goes. I think
Speaker 1: for some people like Ais still like kind of obscure
Speaker 1: to them, where they're like, I don't know, it seems
Speaker 1: kind of cool orreas like I think like you're saying,
Speaker 1: it's like this is Wally, this is black mirror, remember
Speaker 1: the thing we have examples of how we enter a
Speaker 1: tech dystopia or maybe the matrix where everyone's a battery
Speaker 1: and like in their own little pot at some point.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 8: It's like the beginning of the Yeah, it really is
Speaker 8: like the it's like our first footstep into lifting in
Speaker 8: a completely digital way. And I think I call it
Speaker 8: something else, right, Like they they invented their own term
Speaker 8: that I saw at the Apple event that I'm forgetting now.
Speaker 8: But it's not augmented reality. It's like in reality.
Speaker 1: If some enhands reality feels like what it will be called. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it is so funny to me, like just in retrospect,
Speaker 1: looking at like when Mark Zuckerberg released his version of this,
Speaker 1: it was like it looked like it was fifteen years old,
Speaker 1: and it was just like such dog. It just looked
Speaker 1: like such shit. And then Apple drops this and it's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's that makes sense like if Mark Zuckerberg
Speaker 1: was like going as hard as he has been on
Speaker 1: the metaverse after releasing this product, I'd be scared. I'd
Speaker 1: be like, oh wow, this is really powerful. But he
Speaker 1: just dropped. He just dropped some like first iteration of
Speaker 1: wei level ship like the Nintendo Wii, like everything inside
Speaker 1: that looks like a Nintendo Wii generation below it, and
Speaker 1: the like we actually just improved on reality.
Speaker 5: Yeah, fuck having an Avatar? Just how about you watch
Speaker 5: Avatar on a thousand foot screen in the in the ocean.
Speaker 8: Yes, but I feel like Zuckerberg, at least his like
Speaker 8: instinct of like people are going to be on this,
Speaker 8: maybe that was correct, even though he's like diverting billions
Speaker 8: of meta dollars into this like goofy. Like it looks
Speaker 8: like in the Office when Dwight created a second life character.
Speaker 8: It looks worse than that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like if you've seen Jury Duty, it's like
Speaker 1: the defense defense attorney his video that he shows. Every
Speaker 1: time you say jury duty, I think of the Polyshore movie.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Yeah, that's what I was talking about.
Speaker 1: Why what's everyone else talking about? Yeah, biodome Luke, it's
Speaker 1: a real biodome situation. Everything that these apple glad I'm like,
Speaker 1: I mean, think about it. We're all gonna be living
Speaker 1: in biodomes and then we'll come out as virtual and
Speaker 1: Sino men because we haven't been in society. Next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm fighting in the Global Wars because I'm
Speaker 1: in the army. Now, I'm like, wow, these guys love
Speaker 1: Polly Shore. Are you guys like shit? How have you
Speaker 1: been wheezing the juice? Late? Yeah? Hey, buddy, are you
Speaker 1: are you?
Speaker 10: Are you?
Speaker 8: Are you married?
Speaker 11: You?
Speaker 1: Good son in law? What's a what's something that you
Speaker 1: think is underrated?
Speaker 12: So just kind of looking at all the stuff with
Speaker 12: this new Marvel film. Uh, there was a film that
Speaker 12: I saw that I think a lot of people haven't seen.
Speaker 12: Premiered at a Toronto International Film Festival and twenty one
Speaker 12: and I programmed it for the Cleveland International Film Festival
Speaker 12: last year and it's on Netflix and it's called Fara
Speaker 12: and it is about it's a Palestinian coming of age
Speaker 12: story and it takes place during the Nakba in the
Speaker 12: nineteen forties and it's just very good and I just
Speaker 12: I feel like it got a lot of like I'm
Speaker 12: not gonna say there was controversy. There was controversy if
Speaker 12: you're a Zionist and you had a problem with this rating.
Speaker 1: You're trying to humanize these people, yes.
Speaker 12: Yeah, but it's it's I think, a really great film
Speaker 12: that I think everyone should see because it's just like
Speaker 12: and it's from a it was Jordan's international pick for
Speaker 12: best Picture for their International Future Oscar and it's really good.
Speaker 7: Like so it's on Netflix. I mean, it's just very
Speaker 7: well done.
Speaker 1: How do you spelled the title?
Speaker 12: I think it's fa r ah. There's a couple of
Speaker 12: variations of how you can spell fara.
Speaker 5: Yeah right right yeah yeah. Then wait, what were you
Speaker 5: saying about in relation to Marvel? You mentioned some of
Speaker 5: the mar We're just saying that Marvel's just taking up
Speaker 5: the oxygen is well no, I.
Speaker 12: Think there was like a like a character that was
Speaker 12: like like an Israeli cop.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to get to that. Yeah yeah, so
Speaker 1: that's part of the Captain America.
Speaker 12: Oh right, right right, Like seeing that, I was like, okay, wow,
Speaker 12: let me talk about this.
Speaker 1: Yeah right.
Speaker 5: Rather than a former massad agent mutant super how about
Speaker 5: a human being who's living house.
Speaker 1: You know, you ever former masad or CIA or are
Speaker 1: you always just kind of, you know, doing doing the
Speaker 1: work behind the scenes. I feel like that, yeah, former
Speaker 1: or current, which is pretty wild for Marvel to be like,
Speaker 1: it's a massage, it's wild. Was Captain c I a yeah, partner, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a wild I was with somebody who's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: my dad was in the CIA and was like all
Speaker 1: like happy about it. And I was kind of like, yo,
Speaker 1: like doing what he's like, I remember that but like
Speaker 1: in the eighties, like yeah, like in Latin America and stuff.
Speaker 1: And I was like, right, like, no, why are you smiling?
Speaker 5: He's like I never saw him, but he was like like,
Speaker 5: we's got some cool stories. You should talk to him.
Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, maybe he should talk to the fucking Hague.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and now there's no alternative to hyper capitalism because
Speaker 1: he killed people. It was so sick, man. Basically what
Speaker 1: happened was like instead of like using communism like as
Speaker 1: a pressure point, we were using like you know, predatory
Speaker 1: loans from the World Bank and stuff. It was really
Speaker 1: cool man. Anyway, all right, well let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break and we'll come back and we'll talk about these
Speaker 1: these dang wildfires. We'll be that fact and we're back.
Speaker 1: And Fox News I think had a bunch of anti
Speaker 1: mask like chirons, like on screen over the shoulder graphics
Speaker 1: that they didn't get to use during the pandemic. Somehow,
Speaker 1: because they are bringing it back. They're doing with wildfire
Speaker 1: smoke what they did with COVID and calling public health
Speaker 1: advice to wear masks, masks and stay inside a left
Speaker 1: wing conspiracy. What is the conspiracy exactly? That's the point.
Speaker 1: You can't just be like, they want you to take
Speaker 1: care of yourself. That's a conspiracy. Okay, they're conspiring to
Speaker 1: do what through this? I don't know. It's a great question,
Speaker 1: because their theory of the case always seemed to be
Speaker 1: they're making a bigger deal about COVID than it really
Speaker 1: is to hurt Donald Trump. And somehow, even though every
Speaker 1: other country was making a bigger deal of it than
Speaker 1: we were, the fact that it was inconvenient for Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: that it was extra work, right, They're like, he already
Speaker 1: has so much work, was all part of a conspiracy.
Speaker 1: I guess. Okay. The difference here, obviously is that they
Speaker 1: don't kill anyone else by not wearing a mask, which
Speaker 1: is you know, a nice benefit. But they are you know,
Speaker 1: talking to a elderly audience, you know, and telling them
Speaker 1: that masking is part of a conspiracy to control you.
Speaker 1: To nobody really knows what. Stay home and watch more
Speaker 1: Fox News. I think sub subsistence wages are a way
Speaker 1: to control you. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5: That's just my theory, because then what's your alternative if
Speaker 5: you don't do that?
Speaker 1: Anyway, I don't know anything about coersion, their financial and whatever, whatever. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's the masks.
Speaker 5: It's the masks. Thank god for Fox News. Yeah, for sure,
Speaker 5: for sure.
Speaker 1: So they have like experts on to recay, yeah, they
Speaker 1: So they invited Steve molloy on to discuss this matter
Speaker 1: in particular. He is a climate scientific Oh sorry, no,
Speaker 1: he's a former cigarette and coal lobbyist. They want to
Speaker 1: it's almost to speak specifically on behalf of smoke. You'll
Speaker 1: a big smoke. Okay, A lot of people have been
Speaker 1: hard on carcinogenic smoke past couple of days. We need
Speaker 1: to get the other side of this issue, right, right, right,
Speaker 1: he said, of the smoke. This doesn't kill anybody, This
Speaker 1: doesn't make anybody cough. This is not a health event.
Speaker 1: Just keep telling them that and maybe that'll be true.
Speaker 1: I just I love it. It's from a guy whose
Speaker 1: job it was to tell people to not worry about
Speaker 1: the smoke, Like where even though it's scientifically proven, like
Speaker 1: whether you're mining coal or you live near a coal
Speaker 1: fired plan, like the health outcomes and all these are
Speaker 1: being a cigarette smoke. And he's like, no, that's not
Speaker 1: a health of it, man, all right, can we move on?
Speaker 1: All right? Did my check? Okay, great, thank you? Third times,
Speaker 1: Like it's not like he can't be wrong about smoke
Speaker 1: being a risk to people's health. Okay, three times in
Speaker 1: a row. He's like, all right, I was wrong about
Speaker 1: the cigarettes, y'all got me there. And I was wrong
Speaker 1: about the coal. Yeah yeah, that's on me. That's on me.
Speaker 1: But the wildfires, but yeah, it does like raise it.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, there's nobody specifically funding the wildfires. Like
Speaker 1: he's not speaking on behalf of big wildfire. I guess
Speaker 1: it's just all part of an attempt to tamp down
Speaker 1: as we'll see any finger pointing specifically at fossil fuel companies.
Speaker 1: But sure, so just you know, to in case you
Speaker 1: you were believing the coal and cigarette lobbyist A twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one study found that thirty three thousand people a
Speaker 1: year die from pollution caused by wildfire smoke, Like, not
Speaker 1: pollution in general, that number is astronomically high. Just wildfire smoke.
Speaker 1: Thirty three thousand people a year die from that. Wow. Okay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then part of the reason why wearing a mask
Speaker 1: is being suggested and not mandated, by the way, is
Speaker 1: because the health risks are long term ones. They're they're
Speaker 1: not a thing that like will show up necessarily like
Speaker 1: right away, which that's gold for Fox News, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean.
Speaker 5: If it doesn't affect you right this minute, then they
Speaker 5: can be like, it doesn't even matter, dude. Watch, I'm
Speaker 5: holding this your like plutonium rod. Look, I'm rubbing on
Speaker 5: my face it it's not doing anything to me. See
Speaker 5: maybe in like maybe three weeks from now and be fucked.
Speaker 5: But right now, all good, All good. So you don't
Speaker 5: wear a mask, jesus.
Speaker 1: Yeah. There's a history of people doing like really harmful
Speaker 1: things with like somebody with like leaded gas. They were like,
Speaker 1: I'll wash my hands in this leaded gas and I'll
Speaker 1: be fine, and then they got like credibly sick, like
Speaker 1: right after doing that. But yeah, multiple Fox News hosts
Speaker 1: have claimed that the smoke is totally fine because they
Speaker 1: went for a walk and don't feel a thing. So
Speaker 1: that's the level of scientific rigor that they're bringing to it.
Speaker 1: Uh beautiful, I know.
Speaker 5: Even like Laura Ingram on her show had like another
Speaker 5: just creature of the coal industry on and like it's funny.
Speaker 5: She even conceded that the smoke was fucking her up.
Speaker 5: But then she's like, but it's not an issue, right.
Speaker 5: It was like a very hot here, I'll play this
Speaker 5: moment because it's weird to see. Like even on Fox
Speaker 5: she was even copying to the factors like, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 5: it's kind of fucking me up, but it's all good.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 13: Ah there it is going back to the beginning of
Speaker 13: the show, right, the inevitable intersection of climate and race.
Speaker 13: If you don't agree with Bill, at some point, they
Speaker 13: are going to call you a white supremacist. Joining me now,
Speaker 13: Steve malloy, Senior legal fellow at the Energy and Environment
Speaker 13: Legal Institute and Trump Era Transition team member, Steve, No
Speaker 13: one's denying it is unpleasant. My eyes are pretty itchy
Speaker 13: and watery yesterday and a little bit today, and it
Speaker 13: might go on for a couple more days, but is
Speaker 13: this wholly out of the ordinary?
Speaker 9: I just like that.
Speaker 5: She starts off being like, yeah, man, that's fucking my
Speaker 5: eyes up pretty bad. You know, obviously maybe for the
Speaker 5: next couple of days, but this is fine, right, and
Speaker 5: the guy's like yeah, yeah, yeah, like he basically like
Speaker 5: it's totally normal. All right, thanks, Laura, I'm off, but yeah,
Speaker 5: it's uh. They got to do everything they can to
Speaker 5: just they have to be so nonchalant about the air
Speaker 5: quality in order to obscure the impacts of climate change
Speaker 5: because they can't cop They cannot There's no way they
Speaker 5: can acknowledge that the smoke is bad, because that would
Speaker 5: be an indirect way of saying this shit is actually
Speaker 5: bad that we're experiencing on the planet, like the situation
Speaker 5: around us is bad. They cannot ever ever admit that,
Speaker 5: so it has to always be oh man, they wearing
Speaker 5: masks as aocs, the snow, whatever the fuck it is, right,
Speaker 5: They're just putting so much energy into this shit. It's like, Laura,
Speaker 5: you even though, but okay, whatever, just mean stupid and
Speaker 5: hurt to her question, this is this really out of
Speaker 5: the ordinary? New York City recorded its worst ever air
Speaker 5: quality Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Ever when like this month, no no, no, yeah, yeah, usually
Speaker 1: ever just means this month in the history of New
Speaker 1: York a city that like we look at the pictures
Speaker 1: of New York in the past, it's just like, you know,
Speaker 1: but it's very hazy with air pollution and you know,
Speaker 1: covered in horseshit and not not the cleanest looking place
Speaker 1: in the world, like like you know, the little kids
Speaker 1: who are working the factories all have like black lung
Speaker 1: and this beat all that shit, you.
Speaker 5: Know, right, who are so now, who are you gonna
Speaker 5: blame in this in the smoke?
Speaker 1: Is it climate change? Or is it Canada? Because we're
Speaker 1: also seeing that, Oh.
Speaker 7: Yeah, blame But weren't they caused by like lightning?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, weather arrest the lightning. Yeah.
Speaker 7: You know, there's so many things.
Speaker 12: I'm gonna I think, I'm want to go with a
Speaker 12: climate change because that's what.
Speaker 7: That makes sense, and that's it's actually the truth.
Speaker 1: Alarmist.
Speaker 5: Alarmist is like, what's what's the big sort of like
Speaker 5: the closest thing that happens like in Austin or in
Speaker 5: your community that you're like, oh, that's climate change?
Speaker 1: And then other people like, no, that's this other thing.
Speaker 7: Oh god, I don't know.
Speaker 12: I feel like the well, I guess like all these
Speaker 12: crazy snowstorms we've had so which I saw is part
Speaker 12: of the paint with Barbey and yeah, like we get snowed,
Speaker 12: I think again in February and I lost my electricity
Speaker 12: for four days and then it's just yeah, like for
Speaker 12: four days. It wasn't as bad as like that twenty
Speaker 12: twenty one storm. But I mean, like it always snows here.
Speaker 12: I mean it's not like a pretty like you know,
Speaker 12: like New England snow. But yeah, it shouldn't. Yeah, we
Speaker 12: shouldn't be like freaking out just because of like there's
Speaker 12: ice on the road and then like everything like goes
Speaker 12: to hell. But it's also because of our grid that
Speaker 12: is your connected the rest of the country, which I
Speaker 12: did not know until that massive snow snow from twenty
Speaker 12: twenty one.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, and how like terribly privatized it basically.
Speaker 5: Is it's like avoid paying taxes.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, both problems caused by deregulating the energy industry,
Speaker 1: which has has worked beautifully. Over at Newsmax, we finally
Speaker 1: get a voice of reason on the right. The hosts
Speaker 1: are weirdly kind of horny for the smoke and also like,
Speaker 1: no big deal, MBD, think it kind of smells good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: darn smog here in New York City.
Speaker 11: Have you heard any cities on the East Coast primarily
Speaker 11: have this big like liket of orange smug right over
Speaker 11: the top of it. Our woe friends to the north
Speaker 11: in Canada, their forest fires got out of hand, and well,
Speaker 11: this is what we're dealing with. It's complicating some people's lives,
Speaker 11: but it's manageable.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you.
Speaker 11: It actually smells like wood smoke. It's not an unpleasant odor,
Speaker 11: to be honest. It's kind of weird when it seeps
Speaker 11: into the building, but outdoors, I can deal with it.
Speaker 11: Folks with respiratory issues, though, that's a that's a real thing,
Speaker 11: a real complication. The White House is trying to I
Speaker 11: like too this saying it's all he really did.
Speaker 5: He was like, hey, man, but if you got a
Speaker 5: respiratory issues, man, that might fuck you up.
Speaker 1: That must suck anyways.
Speaker 12: Moving along, fu seeping into the buildings, but that's fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's a little weird when you can
Speaker 1: like it smells like wood smoke.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because it's from a fucking forest fire. It's a
Speaker 5: it's a millions of wood smoke. Motherfucker, what are you talking?
Speaker 1: And he also goes on in that clip to say
Speaker 1: that it's pretty and beautiful. I think, yeah, so he's yeah, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, like he's next two images that look
Speaker 1: like they are like after a horrible like bombing in
Speaker 1: a in a war zone. Yeah, like yeah, but.
Speaker 12: This is the beautiful aura. Like I think it's great
Speaker 12: that he used the word aura.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is like calm aura over the city. I
Speaker 1: really like it.
Speaker 5: It's just it made this is wild that like if
Speaker 5: you're going like how far are we from? When they're like,
Speaker 5: oh this house that like this terrible fire that burned
Speaker 5: up half a city that was beautiful, that was great,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, like to like excuse away
Speaker 5: these things that are so obvious in front of you,
Speaker 5: like it like, oh god, yeah, you do get the
Speaker 5: mental gymnastics. It's like, yeah, where we're headed with this ship,
Speaker 5: the glimpse of where we're headed, but also like of
Speaker 5: the the type of brain that like turns into an
Speaker 5: on air anchor, like because remember like that Brian Williams
Speaker 5: clip where it's like the beautiful majesty of our weapons
Speaker 5: like this, oh, watching like souls being launched right anyways,
Speaker 5: at the New York Times, I mean, they're obviously overall
Speaker 5: like they're not trying to claim the fires have nothing
Speaker 5: to do with climate change. The articles always mentioned that
Speaker 5: human induced climate change is the cause. Oh good, but
Speaker 5: the biggest article on the front page of their website
Speaker 5: at a time when everybody like this is the main
Speaker 5: question on I think a lot of Americans minds, specifically,
Speaker 5: like people in New York's minds. Is this like ap
Speaker 5: ed from somebody who's like in charge of fighting forest fires,
Speaker 5: and they're just like, we need to stop putting up
Speaker 5: with these dufices who start these fires. And then they're like, well,
Speaker 5: not these fires. Actually these fires were caused by lightning strikes,
Speaker 5: but a lot of the ones other fires are caused
Speaker 5: by people being careless. And so she talks about like
Speaker 5: how like when I look at like the devastation of
Speaker 5: these forest fires and these wildfires, I get so angry
Speaker 5: and then like really just goes in on at people. Bikers, Yeah,
Speaker 5: dirt bikers who like don't have the spark spark, yeah,
Speaker 5: spark suppression on their vehicles or whatever, and it's it's
Speaker 5: just like, yeah, get mad, like get mad at the
Speaker 5: system and the companies that you know, we're aware of this,
Speaker 5: didn't like paid for did research into this before the
Speaker 5: rest of the world knew it was going to be
Speaker 5: a problem.
Speaker 1: In the eighties, we're like at the forefront of the research.
Speaker 1: And then we're like, we're going to actually pretend it's
Speaker 1: not a thing and let you guys find out about
Speaker 1: it on your own. And you know, like that would
Speaker 1: be a great place to look to four consequences instead
Speaker 1: of the people who are doing the same things they
Speaker 1: were doing in the eighties and now it is causing Hey,
Speaker 1: they weren't doing gender reveals like this Jack in the Ages.
Speaker 10: That's true.
Speaker 1: That's true. So you know what, man, that's that's on them.
Speaker 5: I just love this shit that we're they're going the
Speaker 5: plastic straws route on climate change with these people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's on y'all. Need to stop this shit.
Speaker 5: You knock this shit off because it ain't the fucking
Speaker 5: massive place. It's not that it's y'all, okay, s The
Speaker 5: damn dirt bikes has nothing to do with my friends
Speaker 5: at Excellent Mobile.
Speaker 1: Nothing it's kind of smart because the main focus is
Speaker 1: like behave like these actions by people who are clearly
Speaker 1: not New York Times readers. Like New York Times readers
Speaker 1: aren't going out and like riding dirt bikes through the
Speaker 1: wilderness with sumptuous sparks shooting after them, or like one
Speaker 1: of the people who started one of the forest fires
Speaker 1: in la or in California was like a father and
Speaker 1: son who like went out shooting in the woods. Right,
Speaker 1: So it's like stuff that like obviously, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that'd be real easy to stop. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: really easy for everyone to look down upon who like
Speaker 1: isn't born into that culture obviously, but uh, it's and yeah,
Speaker 1: don't don't do that shit. I'm all for fire safety,
Speaker 1: but it does feel like a strategic effort to be
Speaker 1: to like put a singular individual out in front instead
Speaker 1: of you know, companies and decisions made a long time
Speaker 1: ago by these companies who are trying hard, as will
Speaker 1: show you in this paid sponsored news Blend article that
Speaker 1: we're about to publish and link off too at the
Speaker 1: end of this you know, yeah, it's so it's so yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is what they have to do because
Speaker 1: it's like the people know, people ingest the writings and
Speaker 1: the posts of the New York Times, and so if
Speaker 1: you read that, then someone is more likely to go
Speaker 1: and have a conversation about that, which is like I
Speaker 1: read this thing in the New York Times that they
Speaker 1: actually said that, Like there's a lot of this could
Speaker 1: be prevented if people didn't have you know, gender reviewal
Speaker 1: parties in the woods or put spark suppressors on their
Speaker 1: dirt bikes, rather than if it was constantly saying it's
Speaker 1: these fucking companies. Yeah, they are the ones who are
Speaker 1: fucking murdering everybody. But because it's a quote company and
Speaker 1: we're treating this like amorphous thing because it generates capital
Speaker 1: that we can't somehow hold it responsible. So let's avoid
Speaker 1: that conversation and just move to the finger pointing to
Speaker 1: the dumb dums who like to shoot their guns off
Speaker 1: in the forest. Yeah, The New York Times is part
Speaker 1: of the that side of you know, they are a
Speaker 1: mouthpiece for the whole like democratic and like corporate entities
Speaker 1: and the enemy of Like their readers are hillbillies, so
Speaker 1: like you know, in their reader's mind, they're so let's
Speaker 1: blame Hillbilly's. Let's find a way to make this about, like,
Speaker 1: you know, hating mega people. Yeah yeah, it's urban versus
Speaker 1: grarian all over again. Yes exactly. Yeah, Tale's old as time,
Speaker 1: Tale as old as time. I think that's how the
Speaker 1: rest of that song went Urban versa grarian. I mean,
Speaker 1: Bell was very urbane. She wasn't urban, but she was
Speaker 1: like I read books, and you guys are idiots, and
Speaker 1: you do the same shit over and over every day,
Speaker 1: and I'm fucking tired of it. So meet my dog
Speaker 1: man boyfriend, and I'm into this guy.
Speaker 7: And I also got with my kidnapper.
Speaker 1: And not kidnapping, like, hey, but he gave me a
Speaker 1: nice dress.
Speaker 14: Yeah yeah, So I can't say the treatment's that bad
Speaker 14: being kidnapped by this man, but it's wild too, Like
Speaker 14: because along with that, like there's this sort of there's
Speaker 14: like this republican or conservative sort of worldview.
Speaker 5: Right, it's like so fatalistic about everything. That's why there's
Speaker 5: no point in trying to do anything about. It's like
Speaker 5: they're like, who cares about unhoused? Who cares about people
Speaker 5: being fucking slaughtered or living in apartheid state or child.
Speaker 1: I'm going to Heaven. I've been saved. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So On Fox and Friends earlier this week, host Rachel
Speaker 5: Campost Duffy aka to elder millennials, Rachel from the Real
Speaker 5: World San Francisco. Okay, that season with Pedro and Puck,
Speaker 5: if you remember that very I can't believe this. Oh yeah,
Speaker 5: Rachel count she was because she was the conservative on
Speaker 5: that Real World San Francisco crowd because she was from Arizona,
Speaker 5: and she was always like being like, what the fuck
Speaker 5: am I doing in San Francisco?
Speaker 7: What year was this?
Speaker 5: This was ninety one in the second season. Yeah, this
Speaker 5: is like, yeah, this.
Speaker 14: Was this was then, but I was one Okay, okay,
Speaker 14: credit to you, Credit to you.
Speaker 1: Well that you should have been watching. Yeah.
Speaker 7: I don't think they had a TV in Pakistan at
Speaker 7: that time.
Speaker 5: Okay, well they have it now, no huh so uh
Speaker 5: you might want to culture that.
Speaker 1: You need to go back anyway.
Speaker 5: And also she her last name is Duffy because she
Speaker 5: married a dude from Road Rules. Okay, that's like her anyway,
Speaker 5: and then she became this like maga conservative on TV.
Speaker 5: She wasn't talking directly about the fires earlier this week,
Speaker 5: but her words definitely again they portray this like fatalistic
Speaker 5: worldview that comes along with being like one of these
Speaker 5: Christian nashstionalists, the idea that you know, I don't give
Speaker 5: a fuck about Earth because Heaven.
Speaker 2: Sometimes, you know, we look at how hard on the
Speaker 2: left they play, They really play for keeps. They play
Speaker 2: in a way that's very you know a lot of
Speaker 2: times conservatives look at and go, why don't we play
Speaker 2: it as hardness? Nown well for them?
Speaker 1: Where we live right now.
Speaker 2: This place Earth is it so everything.
Speaker 7: On the line here for them.
Speaker 2: They think, as you said, they can perfect this earth.
Speaker 2: Those of us who have faith don't believe that. And
Speaker 2: we believe how we act here determines where we go
Speaker 2: after and so we had to behave and so even
Speaker 2: in politics we don't you know, we act within those
Speaker 2: moral limits and you know, the ends justify the means
Speaker 2: is sort of the rules for radicals, right.
Speaker 5: I'm so lost the way like it was such a
Speaker 5: contradiction upon like straw Man arguments that they too much there, so.
Speaker 1: That that's why they're so kind, that right, because because
Speaker 1: we believe what we do on earth term with fuck Earth,
Speaker 1: but what we do here determines it. That's why we
Speaker 1: want to pollute it to shit. We want to completely
Speaker 1: harass other people and villainize them, you know, not be
Speaker 1: kind or caring. I don't know what the.
Speaker 5: Golden rule is because I have not actually read the Bible,
Speaker 5: but I do like to use like I like to
Speaker 5: evoke the Bible for my.
Speaker 1: Own lack of morals, I guess.
Speaker 5: But yeah, that's where they are, these radicals. It's like
Speaker 5: the same way, Like this is kind of the worldview
Speaker 5: like in the Cold War, right, like people were like, well,
Speaker 5: the Soviets aren't going to blow the world up because
Speaker 5: they believe this is it.
Speaker 1: There's no afterlife, like we believe or whatever, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Like it's just a very weird thing.
Speaker 1: Like the enemy has no God. That's why they are
Speaker 1: here wanting to perfect the earth. And I'm sorry, that's
Speaker 1: a bad thing.
Speaker 5: We're trying to be good custodians of this fucking little
Speaker 5: planet that we're on for a brief fucking moment, and
Speaker 5: i'd most of us are not. I'd hope most of
Speaker 5: us would rather not be contributing to like some fucking
Speaker 5: system of oppression or pollution or degradation.
Speaker 1: Whatever. Yeah, And it's I mean it's acknowledging. Like it's
Speaker 1: actually a pretty interesting point because she's she's basically saying, like,
Speaker 1: we believe in evil and like are just like can't
Speaker 1: beat evil, so you just got to like kill it away,
Speaker 1: put it in prison, you know, like do all that stuff,
Speaker 1: because there's no fixing these people, you know, right, And
Speaker 1: that that is a like it's kind of a good
Speaker 1: window into how their minds work and how their worldview
Speaker 1: works and why they are really dangerous.
Speaker 5: The wild thing is the end of that quote where
Speaker 5: she said, where said the ends justify the means is
Speaker 5: sort of the rules for radicals that it got cut off.
Speaker 5: She continues by saying, that's not how Christians act.
Speaker 1: Oh really, well the whole Wow, how do we get
Speaker 1: here anyway? Don't worry about it? What's colonization at all?
Speaker 1: And whatever? Fine do you think do you think Rachel
Speaker 1: Campello's stuff, Well, we'd go to break. But we we
Speaker 1: do have to transition from that statement that you know,
Speaker 1: Christians are are kind and don't believe and ends justify
Speaker 1: the means to the passing of a man who embodied
Speaker 1: the opposite of that, Pat Robertson, just one of the
Speaker 1: worst people garbage. The only people who seem to be
Speaker 1: upset about his passing are people who mistakenly thought that
Speaker 1: Robert Pattinson had died no, which yeah, are there were
Speaker 1: there people who are like, I can't believe it, or
Speaker 1: they're like they that's a joke. He didn't die. It
Speaker 1: was trending on Twitter. It is like the the exact
Speaker 1: opposite Pat Robertson, Robert Pattinson.
Speaker 7: That's actually really funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, connected them. But yeah, Robin at Shadowcaster seventy eight said,
Speaker 1: my dyslexic ass thought this, said Robert Pattinson. Yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's Patterson the bad Ones. It's pattern I mean Robertson. Robertson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now you're doing it all right. So just a quick
Speaker 1: greatest hits of this piece of shit. So just one
Speaker 1: thing that makes him like he was still being followed
Speaker 1: by a lot of people up until the end, or
Speaker 1: like watched by a lot of people, sent money by
Speaker 1: a lot of people. He was constantly predicting apocalypses that
Speaker 1: never came, just throughout his life, Like in nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: six he said the world was going to end in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two, so he thought the rapture was going
Speaker 1: to come before Return of the Jedi ever came out.
Speaker 1: Nineteen ninety, he wrote a book claiming the world was
Speaker 1: going to end in two thousand and seven, just kept
Speaker 1: predicting the end of the world right up until twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: when he said that Trump was going to win the
Speaker 1: election oops, and an asteroid was going did destroy us all.
Speaker 1: So again just a I don't know, interesting insight into
Speaker 1: how the minds of the people who who follow him operate,
Speaker 1: which is I guess very forgiving. Well, if the world's
Speaker 1: going to end, then you know, all good?
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, then motivates you to be like, that's why
Speaker 5: I'm in this corner because the world about to end.
Speaker 1: Are you saved?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh wait, what happens? It just it's just silence after
Speaker 1: you pass away. And then he blamed horrific tragedies on
Speaker 1: things he just didn't like. So one week after nine eleven,
Speaker 1: he and Jerry Folwell got together to say that God
Speaker 1: had allowed the terrorists to succeed because the United States
Speaker 1: had become a nation of abortion, homosexuality, secular schools and courts,
Speaker 1: and the American Civil Liberties Union. So the ACLU was
Speaker 1: to blame for nine to eleven. Yeah. Yeah, Now, I
Speaker 1: mean he's always blamed.
Speaker 5: It's like women or gay people, or Muslims or anybody
Speaker 5: who is not a s white Christian.
Speaker 1: Like from there, it's like, oh yeah, the Haitians. You
Speaker 1: know why they had that earthquake is because they made
Speaker 1: a deal with the devil back when they fucking liberated
Speaker 1: themselves from slavery from the French.
Speaker 5: This man really said that shit. He said they got
Speaker 5: an earthquake because they made a deal with the devil
Speaker 5: to liberate themselves from slavery.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 5: And we've only seen we've talked about this time and
Speaker 5: again about how the Western world has just fucking like
Speaker 5: landed knockout blow after knockout blow on Haiti as like
Speaker 5: a response to them being like you are the you
Speaker 5: were going to be the first and last group of
Speaker 5: like subjugated people that will liberate themselves from colonizers and
Speaker 5: we're gonna make a fucking example out of you for centuries.
Speaker 5: Is that it's not they made a deal with the devil,
Speaker 5: that's that's yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He repeatedly attacked Muslims, Islam, and the prophet Muhammad throughout
Speaker 1: the years and called the religion a monumental scam. And
Speaker 1: then I just want to compare that with his charity
Speaker 1: work supporting Rwandan refugees in Ziere was actually a front
Speaker 1: for his blood diamond mining operation. Like there's there's a documentary.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what that couldn't be the You couldn't
Speaker 1: script something more fucking evil than that. So, according to
Speaker 1: Jesse Potts, who served as operations manager for a organization
Speaker 1: that was helping people after the genocide in nineteen ninety four,
Speaker 1: the charity stopped sending medical teams to like one of
Speaker 1: the camps where refugees were being held several weeks into
Speaker 1: the operation. And then the film that put all this
Speaker 1: together alleges that these resources, the donations, the cargo planes,
Speaker 1: et cetera, were used for the for profit African Development
Speaker 1: Company Limited, a diamond mining operation that was headquartered in Kinshasa,
Speaker 1: while the mining site itself was located in a remote
Speaker 1: village nearby. Robertson was the sole shareholder and president of
Speaker 1: African Development Company Ltd.
Speaker 5: So rest for piss, you fucking loser. Yeah, fucking unbelievable. Yeah,
Speaker 5: And I mean like just like I remember he said
Speaker 5: something about how like Orlando Florida was gonna get hurricanes
Speaker 5: because Disneyland had like a gay like Pride Night in
Speaker 5: the nineties. Yeah, and it's like hurricanes hit fucking full Okay, yeah,
Speaker 5: go ahead, it's that too. It's that too, or like
Speaker 5: eight like that. People that with HIV or aids like
Speaker 5: HIV's they were they were transmitting it to straight people
Speaker 5: as like you have a conspiracy, that's all this, all
Speaker 5: these like this people like that. You know, this is
Speaker 5: I'm done. I'm done twenty.
Speaker 1: Eighteen segment on the seven hundred Club that he said
Speaker 1: the gay people have a secret ring that transmits HIV
Speaker 1: to unsuspecting people they shake hands with his and his
Speaker 1: co host was like really, and he said really really,
Speaker 1: it is that kind of the vicious stuff, which would
Speaker 1: be the equivalent of murder. And then the following year
Speaker 1: he warned warned that tals in Kenya could transmit EIDs.
Speaker 9: So he just oh.
Speaker 1: Constantly just churning complete.
Speaker 5: Yeah, anti blackness, anti type like just homophobia, whatever he
Speaker 5: needs to do.
Speaker 1: One time he said you shouldn't even adopt kids. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like that was he was like, had to take like that.
Speaker 1: He said, quote, you just never know what's been done.
Speaker 1: To a child before you get that child. Yeah, cool man.
Speaker 5: Okay, so you're so anyway, it's just anyway, thank god
Speaker 5: if you're out there for taking him or I'm saying, Satan,
Speaker 5: thank you for reclaiming him and taking him down with you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, Satan. Yeah, all right, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break and we'll come back and talk about Captain America.
Speaker 9: We'll be right, all right, Hello, you go, Hugo.
Speaker 1: By what, gentlemen, I'm just gonna do this like I
Speaker 1: do every phone call, uh in a professional setting and
Speaker 1: open it up with.
Speaker 5: Oh man, So we're here with Hugo Bosk. I'll get
Speaker 5: the discord from the discord. Also, I'm guessed, like I've
Speaker 5: said before, I think when we've referenced your name from AKA,
Speaker 5: that you're referencing the bounty hunter. Correct I am, Yeah, Jack,
Speaker 5: you know all about Bosk.
Speaker 1: Correct.
Speaker 6: I mean, I wouldn't call myself a Bosque expert, but
Speaker 6: I definitely I'm a Star Wars fan for sure.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I was.
Speaker 5: I was shaming our other Star Wars expert Jack just
Speaker 5: now asking a lot about now just learning.
Speaker 1: I'm like going through a crash course. But your your
Speaker 1: name when you did a AKA actually brought up like
Speaker 1: my my lack of knowledge of Star Wars and how
Speaker 1: I'm cramming to try to just keep up in my
Speaker 1: damn household. People don't know.
Speaker 5: What a trandoshan is. Jack, That's the thing. They look
Speaker 5: like the little lizard headed people. Anyway, all that to say,
Speaker 5: here we are our first zeit gang and like worker interview,
Speaker 5: what do we even calling this?
Speaker 1: Jack? Yeah, worker interview, Zite gang? I think? Is it those?
Speaker 1: I want to take a whiz y'all? Yeah? And you know,
Speaker 1: we we had some people who worked for certain We're gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, keep doing this segment. We had some people
Speaker 1: who like do all sorts of really like highbrow crazy stuff.
Speaker 1: But as it is, when I'm making my decision of
Speaker 1: where to order pizza, we gotta go Dominoes. You know,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what's on off or elsewhere, we gotta go
Speaker 1: Dominoes first. But no, you go. You wrote in and
Speaker 1: basically said that being a Domino's pizza delivery is a
Speaker 1: fascinating angle to view the world from, and I'm just
Speaker 1: curious to hear more about that. Are what are some
Speaker 1: things that you are seeing as a pizza delivery guy.
Speaker 6: I mean, I think the most interesting thing about it
Speaker 6: is that you kind of get to experience almost every
Speaker 6: day sort of every level of American society in terms
Speaker 6: of class, in terms of workplace, in terms of age, demographic. Yeah,
Speaker 6: it's I mean, I feel like there are a lot
Speaker 6: of jobs, and I've had many of them where you
Speaker 6: you know, sit behind a desk all day or you
Speaker 6: stand behind a counter all day and you just interact
Speaker 6: with the people in front of you or around you.
Speaker 6: And this job is it's fascinating in that, you know,
Speaker 6: you interact with every level of the economic stratum, from
Speaker 6: people living on the street or in RVs all the
Speaker 6: way up to people living in multimillion dollar mansions and
Speaker 6: every point in between.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like, like do people in manage do their houses
Speaker 5: smell like shit?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 6: Like, I will say one of the things I was
Speaker 6: very surprised by in the course of this job, because
Speaker 6: you know, when you are righting people's front doors, you
Speaker 6: get to see into at least the open area.
Speaker 10: Of a lot of people's homes right right.
Speaker 6: And one of the things I was genuinely most surprised
Speaker 6: by was that very wealthy people are just as filthy
Speaker 6: as everyone else, Okay, or at least in like the
Speaker 6: same proportion of like people who like don't take care
Speaker 6: of their homes versus people who do.
Speaker 5: Oh, right, because in your mind, you're like, this person
Speaker 5: who surely has this like this bit gigantic home must
Speaker 5: take pride in keeping it completely clean.
Speaker 6: Right, I would think if nothing, they could at least
Speaker 6: like afford to pay somebody to come around and take
Speaker 6: care of it. Sure, but I regularly deliver to multiple,
Speaker 6: like multimillion dollar homes that are just absolute stizes.
Speaker 10: Just I don't know if they're hoarders or.
Speaker 6: If they just have just been setting stuff down since
Speaker 6: they moved in there and never picked up anything since, Right.
Speaker 1: It's too big, the house is too big, They've got
Speaker 1: too much shit, they can't pick it all up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they probably do hire people to pick it up,
Speaker 1: and it's just so like they're worse somehow. That's that's
Speaker 1: really incredible. Yeah, they just go right back to it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, especially with the way in which you know, houses
Speaker 6: are sort of the closest thing that most people have
Speaker 6: to uh away to retire in this country in terms
Speaker 6: of like homeownership being the one asset that you're supposed
Speaker 6: to like take really good care of so that eventually
Speaker 6: we're retired, you can sell it off. I don't know
Speaker 6: if it's if there's some sort of disconnect where they
Speaker 6: have so much wealth that they just don't have to
Speaker 6: think about it.
Speaker 1: That way, right, I feel like wealth like probably there's
Speaker 1: some shared mental thing with accumulating wealth and being a hoarder, right,
Speaker 1: Like you're accumulating an illogical, irrational, immoral amount of wealth.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're doing the same thing with object Oh Jack,
Speaker 1: some of these people are just unburdened themselves. That's right. Well,
Speaker 1: I just have to undershure what other stuff, like what
Speaker 1: other things do you see? Like what's the like, what's
Speaker 1: the wild shit that you see?
Speaker 5: Because I know obviously on top of again, like starting
Speaker 5: from a very foundational level, you're like you kind of
Speaker 5: see it all like doing doing what I do. But
Speaker 5: what are the parts that I think, you know, like
Speaker 5: in my mind, the concept of a like a pizza
Speaker 5: delivery person, I'm like, it's either starting off a porno
Speaker 5: or they witness like a robbery or something things like that.
Speaker 5: Are you are do you find yourself in situations like that?
Speaker 5: Or is that just me, is that mostly the movie
Speaker 5: Hollywood Brain I've seen.
Speaker 6: I mean, I've definitely seen some strange stuff out there,
Speaker 6: and also just people acting in extreme ways.
Speaker 10: Let's say, Uh, there.
Speaker 6: Are definitely some people who really don't take it well
Speaker 6: when you won't give them the thing that they want
Speaker 6: that you can't actually make.
Speaker 5: Right, Like, I feel like I see this all the time.
Speaker 5: Like I feel like people just since you know, twenty
Speaker 5: twenty and like all the lockdown are becoming more just
Speaker 5: rude to anyone. Yeah, any service capacity or like retail capacity,
Speaker 5: I'm guessing it's no, it's probably no different. Like does
Speaker 5: that bleed into even when you deliver, Like I feel
Speaker 5: like when someone brings the pizza, you're like, yeah, the pizza,
Speaker 5: and you also get other people like look what the fuck?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I will say there's definitely a different, like a
Speaker 6: very marked difference between people who come to pick up
Speaker 6: carry out versus people that you delivered to. Generally speaking,
Speaker 6: I've been delivering for like seven years now because the
Speaker 6: money is shockingly good for how easy of a.
Speaker 10: Job that it is when you go to people's doors.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I've only ever had once had somebody
Speaker 6: was like upset when I got there, and it was
Speaker 6: because we were insanely busy when I was two and
Speaker 6: a half hours late with their food, which that is
Speaker 6: pretty reasonable to be upset about.
Speaker 1: That's got to be a tough But what did the
Speaker 1: tracker tell them?
Speaker 6: Well, okay, just to all in on a little secret
Speaker 6: with the Domino's tracker, it doesn't actually track anything.
Speaker 10: It's just a timer.
Speaker 1: We heard that, and that's why I didn't want to
Speaker 1: believe it. And the whole podcast has actually been building
Speaker 1: to this moment where we actually confirm this reveal, and
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do with myself at this point.
Speaker 1: So are the names random? Are the names at least true?
Speaker 1: Is Brian putting my pizza in the oven?
Speaker 6: They do use the real names, although it is like
Speaker 6: they are somewhat randomly assigning the like who is actually
Speaker 6: doing it might not be actually putting your pizza in.
Speaker 1: The other and all that? Right? How many? How many
Speaker 1: people like answer the door butt naked?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 6: So that was actually one of the things that I
Speaker 6: was genuinely shocked by with this job is the number
Speaker 6: of genitals that you end up seeing.
Speaker 1: Like for real, like for real, for real?
Speaker 10: Yeah, mostly dicks?
Speaker 1: What now, I know, I know, I've heard everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you wrote in your thing like more I've seen more
Speaker 1: dicks than you'd expect. And I assumed you meant people
Speaker 1: acting like dicks, not like penis dicks. It's actual penis
Speaker 1: dicks you're seeing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I just between when we did the
Speaker 6: little pre interview and now I had another incidental that
Speaker 6: it was a woman this time. Wow, but just somebody
Speaker 6: coming to the door and wearing a T shirt and
Speaker 6: nothing else and the T shirt wasn't long.
Speaker 1: Enough right with the So is that like freak? How frequent?
Speaker 1: Just real quick, like, how frequently is that happening?
Speaker 6: I mean, I've been doing this for about seven years now.
Speaker 6: I would say that I've had it happen at this
Speaker 6: point about two dozen times, so maybe like two to
Speaker 6: three times a year?
Speaker 9: Damn?
Speaker 1: So is it always on some like predatory shit? Like
Speaker 1: are people just trying to like flash you like that?
Speaker 1: Or are some people completely like out of sorts and like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, I.
Speaker 10: Got I have some theories about this part of it.
Speaker 6: I do think is that I live in a place
Speaker 6: where weed is legal, and you know, we we like
Speaker 6: to we like to blaze up, sure, And I think
Speaker 6: a lot of people are as part of their like
Speaker 6: day off ritual, you know, they blaze up. They maybe
Speaker 6: grab a shower and order a pizza, they throw on
Speaker 6: a shirt, and then they come to the door just
Speaker 6: like so blazed up that they're not thinking about.
Speaker 1: Oh so like you're looking at people like with eyes
Speaker 1: redder than the state of Arkansas.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, people with eyes red like stop.
Speaker 1: Signs right right right?
Speaker 5: Oh got it, because part of me is like that sucks,
Speaker 5: like if you're just also having to contend with just
Speaker 5: like fucking perverts who are like, eh.
Speaker 6: Yes, I mean I will say there the very first
Speaker 6: time that happened, it was a dude who just came
Speaker 6: to the door just fully nude.
Speaker 10: And in fairness to him, I mean, dude had a hammer.
Speaker 6: Like I also would not ever wear pants if I
Speaker 6: was back in the bag, I was packing like it was.
Speaker 10: It was addict.
Speaker 1: He was wielding a hammer.
Speaker 5: I know, fannas he did seem unhinged with a hammer,
Speaker 5: so I just kept him moving.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, somebody shows up with the door naked with a hammer,
Speaker 6: I'm not going to complete bat friends.
Speaker 1: Yeah right right right, But they don't, so they there's
Speaker 1: not a moment where they're like, oh my god, I'm
Speaker 1: so sorry and like run input because that's the thing.
Speaker 1: Like I've had like stress dreams, you know, the famous
Speaker 1: stress dream of like now you realize you're not wearing pants,
Speaker 1: I'm like a speech or something like. It seems like
Speaker 1: the sort of thing that could happen to someone as
Speaker 1: like in a quick moment of like not you know,
Speaker 1: being fully aware, but the second you see the person,
Speaker 1: it feels like you would immediately but but you're saying,
Speaker 1: they complete the whole transaction just pooh bearing it. Just
Speaker 1: Donald Duck, Yeah.
Speaker 10: Just Donald Duck in it.
Speaker 6: And yeah, I think it's a combination of like if
Speaker 6: people who literally aren't aware of the fact they're you know,
Speaker 6: showing junk andeople who I think maybe in a in
Speaker 6: a prior era, would have been exhibitionists or flashers. But
Speaker 6: as sort of our culture has become more automated and
Speaker 6: like less, you know, there are fewer third spaces in
Speaker 6: which to expose yourselves to people.
Speaker 1: This is proof we need community.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I hate to say it, but in
Speaker 6: a weird way, I really do think that it is.
Speaker 6: And so because we have so much more like so
Speaker 6: many more services where people are coming right to your door,
Speaker 6: the opportunity space for people to engage in that kind
Speaker 6: of I don't know if you would call it a
Speaker 6: fetish or just a sex crime, but I think that
Speaker 6: a lot of it is transferred to the the door
Speaker 6: people of the world, you know, delivery guys like me,
Speaker 6: or like your Amazon guy or what have you, or
Speaker 6: your Uber eats.
Speaker 10: You know, the guy who's dropping off your Starbucks. However
Speaker 10: they self identified.
Speaker 1: In every context. I'm always amazed by that, Like how
Speaker 1: many people have that impulse to show everybody their dick,
Speaker 1: Like when chat Roulette came online and like that was
Speaker 1: just all anybody was using it for. Oh yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: it is a crime like this ship I obviously shouldn't
Speaker 1: be doing unless you are unless you showed up to
Speaker 1: the dick show, right. Yeah. I don't think. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think that's a consent thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I mean I always think too about I mean,
Speaker 6: you know, we have female drivers, and I always wonder, I,
Speaker 6: at least I've never heard from them that they're doing this,
Speaker 6: so to an extent, I almost wonder if the fact
Speaker 6: that they have like the tracker and they can see
Speaker 6: whose name it is right, determines whether they're doing that.
Speaker 6: This could all just be a hitchcocky and plot to
Speaker 6: drive me mad. I've conserved that. Yeah, but who would
Speaker 6: be a behind such a thing? Yeah, it does seem
Speaker 6: to happen enough that I'm like, something's up here, right this,
Speaker 6: this must happen to other people.
Speaker 1: Right, right, It can't just be me. What's I mean?
Speaker 5: Tell me like just sort of from you know, from
Speaker 5: doing this job. What is like kind of what what
Speaker 5: what's the ship that irks you the most about the
Speaker 5: work or about the what it means to you know,
Speaker 5: do the work you do, whether that's in the context
Speaker 5: of what like people who are interacting with you don't
Speaker 5: understand or even like the you know, the fucking business
Speaker 5: owners of you know, franchise don't even understand.
Speaker 6: Uh Well, part of it is that the franchisees are
Speaker 6: extremely cheap, extremely right wing people, and they don't believe
Speaker 6: in uh like updating or replacing equipment and other necessary
Speaker 6: tools in a timely manner. So it's always pulling teeth
Speaker 6: to get the things out of them that you need
Speaker 6: from them, sometimes months.
Speaker 1: Right, Like what are those like? So? What are those
Speaker 1: kinds of like those tools that you like that are I.
Speaker 6: Mean even just basic stuff like uniforms and like replacement
Speaker 6: kitchen tool stuff, getting things right.
Speaker 10: Wow, just just the most base.
Speaker 6: Off that you would think would be like part of
Speaker 6: being a responsible business owner.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 6: But I mean these are people who just like they
Speaker 6: live in like a compound way way outside of the city, you.
Speaker 1: Know, and like siphoning money from this.
Speaker 6: Right, and then they just have the managers that they
Speaker 6: send around to you know, make sure everything is basically
Speaker 6: running and collect the checks so to speak. Right, And
Speaker 6: I suspect that that this level of gentry for lack
Speaker 6: of a better term, that every like major city in
Speaker 6: town is full of these kinds of people, or rather
Speaker 6: it is its power structure is full of these kinds
Speaker 6: of people.
Speaker 1: Right. People are just like, ah, this is just passive money.
Speaker 1: I just get to sit back and not do this
Speaker 1: job in any way and make other people's lives miserable.
Speaker 1: But I'm insulated enough from it that, oh yes there was.
Speaker 1: I worked with somebody who's family were like the like
Speaker 1: in the top five franchise owners of Dominoes, and like,
Speaker 1: for the longest time, I was like, what do y'all do?
Speaker 1: But this that and theland like and like one of
Speaker 1: my other friends, like it's all Dominoes money, Like they
Speaker 1: have like seventy wretched or some obscene number of franchises
Speaker 1: that they just sort of like, yeah, and that's kind
Speaker 1: of where all the money comes from. And I didn't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like I failed to realize like those sort of
Speaker 5: mini like fiefdoms of like owning numerous franchises.
Speaker 1: That's wild. I'm also curious, like what are I think,
Speaker 1: you know, Jack, we were talking about like we kind
Speaker 1: of want to do overrated and underrated too. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: what's something that you like about your job or like
Speaker 1: a skill that your job kind of requires or has
Speaker 1: like given you access to.
Speaker 6: I mean, I will say the two most underrated things
Speaker 6: about the job. One is I get to listen to
Speaker 6: podcasts all day, and that is I'll be honest, It's
Speaker 6: part of the reason it's hard to leave that job,
Speaker 6: the idea of having to work in a place where
Speaker 6: I have to like just my own thoughts and just
Speaker 6: stand there doing whatever in my head all day instead
Speaker 6: of just getting to listen to podcasts all day and
Speaker 6: hand people food change for money that I don't know
Speaker 6: if I can go back, guys, but also, it definitely,
Speaker 6: And I've had prior jobs that sort of did this
Speaker 6: to a degree where I worked at a call center
Speaker 6: for comcasts many years ago. It just sort of forces
Speaker 6: you to be a level of social that I think
Speaker 6: a lot of people are no longer forced to be. Yeah,
Speaker 6: where insofar as you're social, it comes to this extremely
Speaker 6: mediated interaction where you're like worldway through like a sort
Speaker 6: of pre written conversation. Whereas, at least in the context
Speaker 6: of being a pizza guy, I mean, you know, the
Speaker 6: interactions you have often are fairly perfunctory, but there's still
Speaker 6: real in a way than any other job that I have,
Speaker 6: because people are always happy to see you. Yeah, nobody
Speaker 6: pissed off because their pizza has arrived, right, right, and
Speaker 6: so you do get to see sorry. I'm trying to
Speaker 6: think of like a way to articulate this.
Speaker 1: Is it like heartening, it's like life affirming in a way,
Speaker 1: or or is it.
Speaker 10: Just in a way I mean, it isn't. It isn't
Speaker 10: the sure the.
Speaker 6: Where when you asked before about like the thing that
Speaker 6: is most frust about the job, what came to mind
Speaker 6: was people who don't tip. Sure, as far as I concerned,
Speaker 6: our moral months.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, well yeah, the way this country operates like
Speaker 5: it's incumbent on on tipping.
Speaker 6: Right, you would think over time I would get more
Speaker 6: used to it and just eventually stop caring. But if anything,
Speaker 6: the longer I do the job, the more just every time,
Speaker 6: it just feels like a core betrayal of the social compact,
Speaker 6: right right, Yeah, I'd be wrong. I understand the history
Speaker 6: of tipping and that it was originally instituted for like
Speaker 6: racist reasons and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, after slavery. But yeah, but look at but
Speaker 5: here we are now, and now everybody suffers under that
Speaker 5: ship exactly exactly.
Speaker 6: And that's the thing is, at the end of the day,
Speaker 6: if you can afford to order your home, you can
Speaker 6: afford to tip. Right, it just just full stop it.
Speaker 6: It's like going to a restaurant or a bar and
Speaker 6: then not tipping your waiter or your bartender.
Speaker 10: Like it's just as rude.
Speaker 1: Sure, sorry, I put totally. I think it's any I
Speaker 1: see all the time people.
Speaker 5: Debate this though, like about like I'm not tipping, blah
Speaker 5: blah blah, and like do you understand like what the
Speaker 5: toll it would a take on your vehicle if you
Speaker 5: have it's your own car, and then that there's gas
Speaker 5: and these other there's It's not just like, well, that's
Speaker 5: what they get paid to do. There's all these other
Speaker 5: parts of a job that I think a lot of
Speaker 5: people don't understand or or really look at it very
Speaker 5: narrowly as to who does or does not, you know,
Speaker 5: deserve a tip, like in a given industry.
Speaker 6: I mean, I do think that there is an extent
Speaker 6: to especially if you don't take the time to pay
Speaker 6: attention to it. These sort of like logistics behind how
Speaker 6: everything works are sort of masked for most people, and
Speaker 6: so unless you really spend the time to look into it,
Speaker 6: you sort of end up with these very almost like
Speaker 6: magical thinking perceptions.
Speaker 10: Of the world.
Speaker 6: Like I based on interactions that I've had with customers,
Speaker 6: I think there is a substantial percentage of them who
Speaker 6: think that pizza just comes out of like a magical
Speaker 6: hole in the wall. Yeah, right, Like people will come
Speaker 6: in and ask for food and then we'll be like, Okay,
Speaker 6: it's gonna be like ten to fifteen minutes to make,
Speaker 6: and they'll be like, you don't have it ready, Like.
Speaker 1: The words just left your mouth, my dude. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's masked intentionally, right, Like that is more
Speaker 1: and more of the world that we're built into. Is
Speaker 1: that everything, like all the behind the scenes stuff like
Speaker 1: that's what Amazon puts behind a wall. That's what a
Speaker 1: lot a lot of these you know, food delivery services
Speaker 1: put behind a wall is. And I guess Domino's was
Speaker 1: at the at the forefront of that of just getting
Speaker 1: rid of any human interaction other like that quick transactional
Speaker 1: moment like that. That's what the people who build this
Speaker 1: system called friction, and they want to like create less friction.
Speaker 1: And it's like that's very bleak and also makes us
Speaker 1: all dumber.
Speaker 6: I think it's of a sell it, But to be honest,
Speaker 6: I think it's a form of oblique union busting, right that. Essentially,
Speaker 6: after the sort of the height of unionism in like
Speaker 6: the sixties and seventies, capital started to rearrange the actual
Speaker 6: physical terrain of how businesses are put together in order
Speaker 6: to prevent unions from arising. Like now factories are out
Speaker 6: in the middle of nowhere instead of in a city
Speaker 6: where they have like a set of third place of
Speaker 6: bars and stuff like that around them, where like people
Speaker 6: can get together after work and talk to their coworkers. Now,
Speaker 6: you know, if you work in a factory, yeah, you're
Speaker 6: out in the middle of nowhere. You live in a
Speaker 6: house that's out in the middle of nowhere that you
Speaker 6: drive thirty miles to and then you drive back to
Speaker 6: your house. Everyone is literally really atomized in a way.
Speaker 1: That exactly.
Speaker 6: I don't want to sound like conspiracy brain out it
Speaker 6: because I don't think that it's that. I do think
Speaker 6: that it's more like aggregate classes acting in their own interests, right,
Speaker 6: But the asymmetry of power, because they have so much
Speaker 6: more money and political access, allows them to rearrange that terrain,
Speaker 6: And I think that that's true with stuff like like that.
Speaker 6: Masking is just a side effect of that process. I
Speaker 6: think right that if you can't see the labor conditions,
Speaker 6: then you can't even build the awareness necessary to overcome them.
Speaker 1: That's right, Yeah, yeah, for sure. Why would I worry
Speaker 1: about this guy who just gets the pizza out of
Speaker 1: the hole in the wall down the street from me
Speaker 1: and brings it to me in a duffel bag, takes
Speaker 1: twenty minutes to get it from the hole in the
Speaker 1: wall to my mouth. The hell I always think about that.
Speaker 1: There's this anecdote that like London cab drivers have like
Speaker 1: this super powered part of their brain that you know,
Speaker 1: they have access to just like that. And now obviously
Speaker 1: we have GPS, but like, is there anything that you
Speaker 1: know better than you know people might expect based on
Speaker 1: what's the superpower?
Speaker 6: What you say, Yeah, I mean you definitely at least
Speaker 6: for your delivery area or mine. I suppose you do
Speaker 6: get like a perfect mental map after a while, to
Speaker 6: the point where people can just tell you where they're at.
Speaker 6: In a more general sense, you'd be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 6: I know exactly where to find you, or you know
Speaker 6: all the little like tricks of oh, this building is
Speaker 6: impossible to park at, so here's where you have to
Speaker 6: go instead in order to get to them. And also
Speaker 6: you you sort of you see the insides of lots
Speaker 6: of places, and people just sort of freely give you
Speaker 6: the like access codes to their buildings or offices constantly,
Speaker 6: to the point I often think about how like if
Speaker 6: somebody wanted to, you know, be like a like a
Speaker 6: serial thief, become a pizza driver, Like people will just
Speaker 6: give you access to everything.
Speaker 10: It's wild.
Speaker 5: Yeah, right, I guess like the sort of your defenses
Speaker 5: go down because they're like, well, they're only here to
Speaker 5: deliver the thing and not remember how to get into
Speaker 5: this bank building.
Speaker 10: Well not just like you.
Speaker 6: You almost get treated as like like background noise. Like
Speaker 6: I have definitely delivered to like business meetings where people
Speaker 6: are like discussing high level stuff and I am just
Speaker 6: not there as far as they're concerned, right, I am
Speaker 6: just like a like a like a Star Wars droid.
Speaker 6: It's just like putting pizzas on the table for them,
Speaker 6: and that can just be safely ignored.
Speaker 1: Right right, Ocean's eleven needs to hire a Domino's delivery
Speaker 1: driver to their crew. Domino's ca Burglar. That's just the
Speaker 1: new way that you infiltrate, like the Capitol, just like
Speaker 1: oh no, just going to the ray Burn building just
Speaker 1: with some pieces to Senator Schumer's office and then just
Speaker 1: like who listen to stuff?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I genuinely wonder sometimes if any like
Speaker 6: clever foreign power has ever like gotten a guy into
Speaker 6: the Pentagon bye literally just waiting until they ordered a
Speaker 6: pizza and then intercepting that and sending their own guy in.
Speaker 10: Because I'm sure they.
Speaker 5: I've done that all the time where I've been like
Speaker 5: access controlled buildings, and like you can tell someone's getting
Speaker 5: like a delivery and you just open the door. You're like, yeah,
Speaker 5: yeah you can, you're drop something off, go ahead, And
Speaker 5: I'm never bett I'm.
Speaker 1: Like they, I don't know they had a shopping bag.
Speaker 1: It all seems upping up.
Speaker 5: But one thing I like to ask, right, because I'm
Speaker 5: a big fast food head and food head in general,
Speaker 5: it's actually two part question. Are the secret codes real
Speaker 5: at Dominoes?
Speaker 1: And are this? Is there a secret menu at Dominoes?
Speaker 6: I'll be honest, there aren't as far as I'm aware
Speaker 6: secret codes. If there are, nobody's revealed them to me.
Speaker 6: And I feel like I've been far and away the
Speaker 6: longest serving peace person at that store, So if there were,
Speaker 6: I feel like I would have found out about them.
Speaker 5: But do you know what I'm talking about, Like about
Speaker 5: like there's like these coupon codes.
Speaker 6: Oh well, I mean there are like codes that only
Speaker 6: we as employees can use that are just for us.
Speaker 6: But to be honest, I don't know if it varies
Speaker 6: from franchise to franchise, but the ones that bus not
Speaker 6: actually as good as the ones the customers crappier discuss.
Speaker 1: Right, right, they're like, what did we say? You go
Speaker 1: three pepperonis on there? That's it. Don't don't lose your ship.
Speaker 6: Now, insofar as the secret menu goes, there are definitely
Speaker 6: like combinations of food that we make for ourselves that
Speaker 6: are not on the menu. Yeah, okay, Like I do
Speaker 6: like what what I've called the heart Attack Special, which
Speaker 6: is the Wisconsin three cheese with salami.
Speaker 1: And onto something called the Wisconsin three Cheese Amazing.
Speaker 6: It's yeah, and you tucked the salami in under the
Speaker 6: cheese for the layering.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ol Papa John style. Yeah.
Speaker 6: And they just they just debuted that new loaded tot
Speaker 6: item a little while back, and we've been experimenting with
Speaker 6: mixing that with the chicken and doing like a thing
Speaker 6: where it's like the cheese blend and some bacon and
Speaker 6: then doing like a manual hob and Aro sauce drizzle
Speaker 6: and like some of the regular like hots of Barbie
Speaker 6: sauce combined with that for like a real like good
Speaker 6: sort of spicy savory.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 10: It's good stuff. So yeah, you can't really order it.
Speaker 6: And there's not like a way you can be like
Speaker 6: secretly ordering it off the menu, because a it would
Speaker 6: be crazy expensive and be with like the really good
Speaker 6: stuff that we make for ourselves. There it would take
Speaker 6: too long to make for a regular customer. It would
Speaker 6: take like twenty minutes because we're putting it through the
Speaker 6: oven multiple times.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay.
Speaker 6: One of the things I will you know, put out
Speaker 6: there to the listeners as like a good hack for
Speaker 6: our wings. Never let them put them through just once.
Speaker 6: Always make sure they put them through at least a
Speaker 6: second time. If you're willing to wait, well done, ask
Speaker 6: for them well done. What you like you asked for.
Speaker 1: It like that way, like oh good ques.
Speaker 6: So the thing is when you order well on, all
Speaker 6: we do is just like push it back in the
Speaker 6: oven like one like length of the tray back wings.
Speaker 6: You genuinely want to wait the extra ten minutes to
Speaker 6: like have them put it through a second time. If
Speaker 6: they're willing, allis they will not be. Just to warn
Speaker 6: you'd like, don't be surprised if you ask them, they're like,
Speaker 6: we're not going to do that.
Speaker 1: They're like, who the fuck told you that? Man?
Speaker 10: Yeah, there's a decent chance that's the response you will get.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: But but if they're cool about it, or if it's
Speaker 6: a slow day that day, ask them if they will
Speaker 6: put it through a second time for you, because then
Speaker 6: the wings actually come out closer to.
Speaker 10: I won't call them.
Speaker 1: Great, but yeah, I know what you mean, because yeah,
Speaker 1: then they're not when they're feel like slightly undercooked or
Speaker 1: not undercooked, like in terms like they're inedible.
Speaker 5: I'm like, these could get a little bit more of
Speaker 5: a cook on them, just for taste.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they did used to have an item which I
Speaker 6: desperately wish they would bring back, and I think they
Speaker 6: still have other franchises, a half dip maocolate cookie.
Speaker 10: Do they have that where you guys are at No?
Speaker 6: No, No, Yeah, that was that was one that I
Speaker 6: was a big fan of for a long time. You
Speaker 6: take one of those, throw it in the microwave for
Speaker 6: like ten seconds, and it just comes out just oh beautiful.
Speaker 1: I mean they should have I mean, they should have
Speaker 1: a unified menu with all the states that have legalized cannabis,
Speaker 1: you know, like, I think that just makes sense as
Speaker 1: a general business practice.
Speaker 6: I mean, all be honest, I am genuinely surprised that
Speaker 6: they haven't gone the route of Jack in the Box,
Speaker 6: where Jack in the Box just openly has It's like
Speaker 6: Munchy menu.
Speaker 10: Where it's just like listen, Stoners, we are here for you.
Speaker 6: We know where our business comes from, right right, right,
Speaker 6: And I feel like enough of Dominoes's business also comes
Speaker 6: from that same crowd. That it's wild to me that
Speaker 6: we haven't literally sort of just been like, hey, guys,
Speaker 6: we got something for you.
Speaker 1: Hey, yeah, look weed. You guys like weed? Right, we
Speaker 1: get it, we know, try this new one out. All right,
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please,
Speaker 1: I can review the show if you like. The show
Speaker 1: means the world of Miles. He needs your validation.
Speaker 10: Folks.
Speaker 1: I hope you're having a great weekend and I will
Speaker 1: talk to you Monday. Bye.