Speaker 1: I just remember at the time, I wasn't fucking with
Speaker 1: Elton John. I'm like, damn, this fool just wrote a
Speaker 1: new song for Princess Diana.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, this is like in the era, Like immediately
Speaker 1: they'd be like by the commemorative Elton John, I miss you,
Speaker 1: Diana box set? Where get it?
Speaker 3: Collective plate?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, for real that you could also play. There's
Speaker 1: a record.
Speaker 2: If you'll turn your attention to this glass case right here,
Speaker 2: you'll see that I have all of the Diana commemorative editions.
Speaker 4: We don't have enough commemorative plates nowadays. I want one
Speaker 4: with like ice spice.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I remember that you remember that? Yeah, that should be Yeah,
Speaker 1: she showing a painty. That would be like a new
Speaker 1: kind of merch people should bring back, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Where it's like I don't do T shirts anymore.
Speaker 1: I do commemorative plates.
Speaker 3: From the Yeah, I want something difficult to carer in
Speaker 3: the parking lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, this ice spice commemorative coin, say special State
Speaker 2: coin of Spice.
Speaker 1: Holy shit, me into the currency as a black woman.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, watch Kamala is like, I swear to God,
Speaker 1: we are going to put Ice Spice on the quarter.
Speaker 4: Honestly, at this point, I'll take I'll give her my
Speaker 4: vote for anything. I'm like, listen, if that's the best
Speaker 4: you can do, at least it's something.
Speaker 1: You think you a ship, bitch, You not even the
Speaker 1: fart grah Ice Spice, you.
Speaker 3: Think you a dime? You not even a nickel.
Speaker 1: Exactly, I'm a twenty anyway.
Speaker 2: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season three, fifty four,
Speaker 2: Episode two.
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Speaker 2: This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 2: into america shared consciousness. And it is Wednesday, September fourth,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, tell us what me nine four four is
Speaker 1: National Macadamia that day, shout out Maladamia. That's one of
Speaker 1: the more expensive ones. But they're not my favorite really,
Speaker 1: something something about the consistency they feel like love because
Speaker 1: they're great.
Speaker 3: Love them.
Speaker 1: That's where they break ampart. Oh nice, not a fan.
Speaker 1: But you like Cashews. I like Cashoes.
Speaker 2: I like the static that no shoes Cashoe.
Speaker 1: Also National spice classes, spice blend day. We were just
Speaker 1: talking about ice spice, National newspaper carrier Dation, I don't
Speaker 1: know the people that deliver the paper, and National Wildlife Papa, Yeah,
Speaker 1: shout out the newsies Man.
Speaker 2: Newspaper delivery boys in the eighties so bad. They're always
Speaker 2: throwing that shit all over the place, throwing them, throwing
Speaker 2: them through windows. According to John Hughes Movies, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: and the video game paper Boy. Yeah, that was a
Speaker 2: bit that like just America's filmgoers in the eighties could
Speaker 2: not get enough of delivery boy on bike throwing paper
Speaker 2: in a while year.
Speaker 3: Old having a ninety mile per hour pitch.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it goes clean through a kitchen window. Yeah, you're like,
Speaker 1: what the fuck? Who's funny? Because it's true. You're like,
Speaker 1: the movie should actually be about this strong armed child
Speaker 1: just through a fucking whole newspaper through my window. He
Speaker 1: actually like kills somebody next door.
Speaker 4: He just like like now it's like somebody just smacking
Speaker 4: you in the head with a newspaper.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, That's how I'm woking up every morning.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: My name is Jack O'Brien aka cut this Well in
Speaker 2: two pieces, and stick it on my card. Damn it
Speaker 2: ret my kids, dang head in plastic, don't give a fuck.
Speaker 2: I upset some traffic man. That is courtesy of E
Speaker 2: Seeger Full twelve twenty nine on the discord. Shout out
Speaker 2: to you, I feel are we am I mispronouncing your name?
Speaker 1: S sc geirful? I don't know. Maybe look just wait
Speaker 1: for the update, just wait for the pronunciation guy to
Speaker 1: show up on the discord, and I'm like.
Speaker 2: Shout out arrow three year row this lesson zero miles zeros.
Speaker 1: Ever been in a forum before?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined as always.
Speaker 1: Buy my co host, mister Miles Gray, Miles Gray, a
Speaker 1: k got a well on the hood, got its juice,
Speaker 1: solem min smells like a dumpster. My dad makes me cry.
Speaker 1: We're getting the thing from all the cars around.
Speaker 2: And then there's the roadkill, so much fucking road.
Speaker 1: Cad got cause well jo freeks leaks in the windle
Speaker 1: suff again, Marcus in here plastic baghad. Okay, that was
Speaker 1: actually a two hander, So shout out one dollar William
Speaker 1: for the verse. And then my homie, my closest homie,
Speaker 1: we go way back on Hacker forums lest this zero
Speaker 1: came through with the chorus and together you got that
Speaker 1: wonderful AKA. Thank you to all on Discord who participate
Speaker 1: and give us such creative jemps. Zero beautiful.
Speaker 2: They need to put that over the trailer for like
Speaker 2: some for the Apprentice. Wait, Donald Trump, Oh Jesus right, Paula,
Speaker 2: are you saying?
Speaker 1: That? Actually reminded me? I was at a like we
Speaker 1: did like karaoke with my family, like a bunch in Japan,
Speaker 1: so you know, you do karaoke in Japan, and my
Speaker 1: friend she's sang creep and made like our aunt cry
Speaker 1: because it was so beautiful. But I was like it
Speaker 1: was one of these weird things where she just kind
Speaker 1: of pulled it out of nowhere and like really embodied it.
Speaker 1: And my aunt, who's like not really fluent English speaker,
Speaker 1: was like it was just beautiful, and I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: what she even saying? That's I mean, the song has
Speaker 1: there's an emotion to that song that I think is.
Speaker 4: Under any That's why I got famous in the first place.
Speaker 2: My least favorite thing about Radiohead is that they don't
Speaker 2: like that song. They're very dismissive of it. They'll never
Speaker 2: play it live, like, come on, man, you should have
Speaker 2: better taste than that, your radio head Miles. We are
Speaker 2: thrilled to be joined in air third seat by a
Speaker 2: hilarious stand up comedium writer, acurate improviser. You can catch
Speaker 2: her on stage the monthly Facial Recognition comedy show, which
Speaker 2: she also produces.
Speaker 1: It's probably all right.
Speaker 3: I prefer the Steve Winwood for.
Speaker 2: That isn't shot directly at me. I didn't even know
Speaker 2: if you guys were referencing the dance track, was like,
Speaker 2: is that Michael McDonald Winwoods? Some classic Winwood.
Speaker 1: Are well done? Those backstories. He a good guy, Steve Winwood.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I looked him up and related names included Eric Clapton,
Speaker 4: and I just stopped looking because.
Speaker 1: Well, he is one of those other guys where like
Speaker 1: you hear it and you're like, oh ship, Like I
Speaker 1: forgot this guy was white because sometimes he had those
Speaker 1: soul songs. You're like, oh, hold on, Steve Winwood.
Speaker 2: Hold on, what a name for an artist, you know,
Speaker 2: for a musician? Wind would yeah, just take the woodwind
Speaker 2: and flip.
Speaker 1: A neighborhood in Miami. Yeah, it's all there, It is
Speaker 1: all there. How you do it's good to say.
Speaker 4: I didn't realize the whales when I heard jack spell song,
Speaker 4: I was like, that's interesting, and then I realized it
Speaker 4: was about r Junior. I was talking about his dad.
Speaker 4: What is it with like weirdo Republicans? Like remember Mitt
Speaker 4: Romney's dog and then the other lady with her dog?
Speaker 3: Like what you know?
Speaker 4: How Like they're like, oh, one, are the signs of
Speaker 4: sociopaths or whatever?
Speaker 3: Is that they kill animals?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I think you've answered your own question.
Speaker 3: I think that's.
Speaker 4: That's like a test to become Republican. It's like, what
Speaker 4: would you do if you found a bear?
Speaker 3: Cub?
Speaker 1: Do this puppy? They hand you a handgun? Yeah, something
Speaker 1: splash this motherfucker? What reach them?
Speaker 4: Oh? Paint or what was it? Paint them or paint
Speaker 4: the walls or whatever. Trump recently was asked in some interview.
Speaker 4: I can't remember what it was what he liked about
Speaker 4: his sons, and what he said about Donald Trump Junior
Speaker 4: was that he was a good hunter. Like that's such
Speaker 4: a fucking weird thing to say about your kid. He
Speaker 4: kills good Yeah, he loves the blood and goods.
Speaker 1: Well, that's like shows how involved a father you are
Speaker 1: when you sort of you just reference gifts that your
Speaker 1: assistant bought for them to be like, that's what I
Speaker 1: love about them. He loves hunting. He's a good hunter.
Speaker 1: My other boy, he loves Catan, settlers of Catan. That's
Speaker 1: what he's No, it's not even gifts.
Speaker 4: It's like things he found mounted on his like around
Speaker 4: the room and this waller so saying.
Speaker 2: Person looking around at pictures on his desk that he
Speaker 2: has to keep.
Speaker 3: There for a very good at lion. He loves lyon lion.
Speaker 2: He's great smiling, could smile and saying cheese.
Speaker 1: He's very good at love.
Speaker 3: He's very good at cocaine. Oh, I'm not supposed to
Speaker 3: say that one.
Speaker 1: He's very good at being an owl or street lamp
Speaker 1: with this cocaine. I just learned that from a friend
Speaker 1: of Van Damn owl man. They're on the front porch.
Speaker 1: That was really good and this looked good. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: not at all. Okay, it's like nothing else. Huh.
Speaker 2: All right, Paulay, we're going to get to know you
Speaker 2: a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going
Speaker 2: to tell the listeners a couple of the things we're
Speaker 2: talking about today, Kroger admitted they admitted that they raised
Speaker 2: prices without you know, the costs, demanding it in a
Speaker 2: leaked email that they're having answer for weirdly not really
Speaker 2: getting picked up by The Washington Post, which mocked Kamala
Speaker 2: Harris for suggesting corporate greed played a significant role in inflation.
Speaker 2: So we're just gonna look at that. Check in with
Speaker 2: that story. Check in with the latest Polby. When you
Speaker 2: were filling in for Miles, we talked about schools banning phones.
Speaker 2: Some schools in England are just like straight up buying
Speaker 2: their students dumb phones and being like here, just just
Speaker 2: do that and then stop stop asking us for your
Speaker 2: phones back. This is getting more and more widely adopted
Speaker 2: in the US, specifically a ban on smartphones.
Speaker 1: So I just want to look at.
Speaker 2: That story, because The Daily did an episode about that
Speaker 2: that I.
Speaker 1: Don't know, I thought.
Speaker 2: I thought it was a little it was kind of
Speaker 2: weird where they landed it. They kind of landed it
Speaker 2: as like, I don't know, both sides really have some
Speaker 2: interesting points here, So I want to talk about that.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about that.
Speaker 2: We now have proof that said smartphones are listening to us.
Speaker 2: And using AI to capture what they call real time
Speaker 2: intent data, which basically means that they're able to brainwash
Speaker 2: you in real time on your talk about Yeah, we'll
Speaker 2: talk about the Reagan movie also, which was a huge
Speaker 2: hit regularly very old white people and based on artificially
Speaker 2: lowered standard.
Speaker 3: Is this the Nancy Reagan porno? Is that what this?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: That one hasn't hit theaters yet, but yeah, it's pretty good.
Speaker 3: It's getting rare, getting imaginations everywhere.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's getting raves in the comment section of porn.
Speaker 1: Getting raves on chat GPT as people try and recreate it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all of that, plenty more. But first, polay, we
Speaker 2: do like to ask our guest, what is something from
Speaker 2: your search history that's revealing about.
Speaker 1: Who you are? Oh?
Speaker 3: Wait, I had this? Uh what was it?
Speaker 1: Too late? Moving on?
Speaker 5: No, please come back please, No, No, I did search
Speaker 5: the word corvids. No, I I've been looking up a
Speaker 5: lot of references. Okay, I'm rewatching or for the first time,
Speaker 5: I'm watching the Real Housewives. Like I watched all of
Speaker 5: Salt Lake City, and then i watched all of Beverly
Speaker 5: Hills and now I'm in the middle of Atlanta. So
Speaker 5: I've been watching, like I've been looking up different references
Speaker 5: and I and one of the characters was throwing this
Speaker 5: icons black female icons of Hollywood party, and she was
Speaker 5: like assigning everyone address in certain ways, and she assigned
Speaker 5: like one person like Diana Ross and one person Tina Turner,
Speaker 5: and then she made her enemy be Halle Berry from BAPS,
Speaker 5: And so I just needed a refresher, like yeah, because
Speaker 5: I remembered like some of the outfit, but then I
Speaker 5: looked it up and then that person refused and then
Speaker 5: she kicked her out of the party. So I've just
Speaker 5: been looking up like all of these references from like
Speaker 5: season five of The Real Housewives of Atlanta?
Speaker 1: Are you doing like a rewatch? Like you're just.
Speaker 4: I've ever seen them before, but I am like, I
Speaker 4: am watching that it is like historical for me because
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh my god, like this was what people
Speaker 4: were saying on TV like twelve years ago and was
Speaker 4: okay for people to say that's insane.
Speaker 3: That is like like this, I don't know.
Speaker 4: There was the only white woman who was cast on
Speaker 4: the first few seasons was like, yeah, I'm a singer
Speaker 4: and she's like the worst singer of all of them,
Speaker 4: and then she kept saying she was black on the
Speaker 4: inside and all of this shit that like this is
Speaker 4: from like two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah we are.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah it's something. But yeah, I had never seen
Speaker 4: any of it. So I'm like, oh my god, this
Speaker 4: is fascinating. And like they're all these like cameos from
Speaker 4: people and like guest, like I saw Tommy from Martin
Speaker 4: was on an episode for like no reason. I don't
Speaker 4: know why he was on there. They were planning this
Speaker 4: event and he just was at a meeting about it.
Speaker 4: I'm like, what is Tommy doing in this show? Everybody
Speaker 4: wants to be in the show.
Speaker 1: It's serious, real movie. I know passed away r I
Speaker 1: p to.
Speaker 3: I know it was sad.
Speaker 1: All right, what is something you think is underrated? Okay?
Speaker 4: Posting entire movies to social media? I fucking love it.
Speaker 4: I love that there's like you can watch like all
Speaker 4: like full mean girls on TikTok or like everybody keep posts,
Speaker 4: keeps posting like the B Movie to Twitter.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 4: I love that you can just stumble on like entire
Speaker 4: movies in TikTok format.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've always said you should just watch these movies
Speaker 2: out of order.
Speaker 4: You know, or like with a TikTok branding in between,
Speaker 4: as though it's like a commercial. At the end of
Speaker 4: every clip, Victor is saying that's how he saw Detective Pikachu.
Speaker 1: I love it. I like just being like you're scrolling TikTok,
Speaker 1: You're like, hold on, no, I was only here for
Speaker 1: maybe bite sized content, but you know what I'm I'm
Speaker 1: gonna throw this thing in landscape, but once for the
Speaker 1: long here.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think it's beautiful because like everybody's like, oh, our
Speaker 4: attention spans are so short, and it's like, okay, I
Speaker 4: can watch thirty second clips for eight hours.
Speaker 3: Yeah it counts. I don't know if that's a short attention.
Speaker 1: Span, but it's so right. How come I watch this
Speaker 1: forty second video eight times in a row? Oh?
Speaker 4: How come it was all just my Instagram story?
Speaker 1: It fuck up?
Speaker 2: Like so, I mean, I guess there's like little spaces
Speaker 2: like built in, like is it does it just like
Speaker 2: come mid sentence. It's just like every thirty seconds.
Speaker 4: It depends on like what you you're watching on right,
Speaker 4: Like on TikTok, it's got like the TikTok branding at
Speaker 4: the end of every clip, But on Twitter you could
Speaker 4: post a whole movie, like just yeah, yeah, So it
Speaker 4: just depends.
Speaker 1: Like I remember when June two was up for fucking
Speaker 1: like a week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just really funny because like social media is
Speaker 4: just shit show and they don't have any control over
Speaker 4: like what is happening, or they're like removing regulations from it.
Speaker 4: So I just think it's really funny when you can
Speaker 4: just post an entire fucking movie. Right.
Speaker 3: People are like, this is how I consume media.
Speaker 1: It takes Elon seventy years to do anything about it.
Speaker 1: You're like, yeah, man, the whole it's all up there everything.
Speaker 3: He's like, I.
Speaker 4: Watched all of that Apprentice Apprentice documentary on what he
Speaker 4: calls Twitter.
Speaker 1: What's something you think is overrated?
Speaker 4: Okay, going on walks depending on where you are. I
Speaker 4: love a walk, I love walking. I love walking my dogs.
Speaker 4: But I live in a neighborhood. I'm not gonna but
Speaker 4: you might get it from the.
Speaker 3: Colill Ca Sublanca.
Speaker 4: No, it's from It's in a neighborhood where there's like
Speaker 4: just like a lot of trash on the ground, and
Speaker 4: there's a lot of glass on the ground, and literally
Speaker 4: there's a parting spot near my apartment where I've seen
Speaker 4: so many cars burned to a crisp like fully burned cars,
Speaker 4: and like I'm just like to my boyfriend, I'm like,
Speaker 4: you can't park there.
Speaker 3: You cannot park.
Speaker 1: Don't like.
Speaker 3: But it will combos.
Speaker 1: We don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 4: So it's just like it really depends. Like I have
Speaker 4: to go to the next neighborhood over to like walk
Speaker 4: my dogs in a nice neighborhood. So I think, like
Speaker 4: we need to bring we need to make walks great again.
Speaker 4: We need to bring them back.
Speaker 3: Beyonce.
Speaker 4: You know, it's like the Gremlins, what is it you
Speaker 4: aren't they like.
Speaker 1: Much less threatening, much less, but walks.
Speaker 4: Suck now depending on where you are, And like if
Speaker 4: it's hot and ship, I'm like, why is outside bad
Speaker 4: where we were supposed to graze?
Speaker 2: The advice to go touch grass is going to get
Speaker 2: less and less feasible like out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're like someone has l a out well and
Speaker 1: also to like we just have just we always we
Speaker 1: always lament our lack of good parks too, and how
Speaker 1: like you know, very early on we're saying, like make
Speaker 1: all the golf courses parks, give us our nice green
Speaker 1: spaces because yeah, we're so much of the city is
Speaker 1: just so fucking you know, it's just concrete.
Speaker 4: I gets so mad when I see like really giant
Speaker 4: hedges because I'm like.
Speaker 3: Rich people, you're hiding all the grass in there.
Speaker 1: Let me let me end rich people, let me touch
Speaker 1: that grass. Doctor said, I got nobody on YouTube.
Speaker 4: I'm literally there's like literally a website that I'm going
Speaker 4: to use because like, my dogs don't have places to run,
Speaker 4: so I literally am going to rent a yard. I'm like,
Speaker 4: this is how bad it's gotten. We're like, I'm renting
Speaker 4: a yard for my dogs to run.
Speaker 3: In because they can't.
Speaker 1: Dog website.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a real thing. I forget what it's called,
Speaker 4: but it's for pets, like in big and that's a
Speaker 4: huge problem with my like my dog rescues. A lot
Speaker 4: of people want to have big dogs, but they can't
Speaker 4: because of the housing crisis, and they don't have yards
Speaker 4: and stuff. So I'm so literally they're monetizing like green
Speaker 4: space for animals and I'm gonna have to do it
Speaker 4: because I don't. I can't take them to dog parks
Speaker 4: because my big one's humpy, and.
Speaker 1: Like I I need humpy. My big ones the big
Speaker 1: one's humpy, a little.
Speaker 4: One's dumpty, and uh so like I have to go
Speaker 4: rent a yard. I have to rent a rich person's yard.
Speaker 1: Wait? How what? How much does it cost?
Speaker 3: It's not that much, I don't think. I think it
Speaker 3: depends on where and for how long.
Speaker 2: That's why are they just there in the window, like
Speaker 2: making weird grunting noises?
Speaker 4: Yeah, like how your dog runs one humpy huh?
Speaker 1: Whoa, whoa? What the fuck? Why? It's okay, you don't
Speaker 1: have to clean up after him. I'll handle that. No.
Speaker 3: Actually, I'm like, wait, can I monetize this? Can I
Speaker 3: tell you my dog ship?
Speaker 1: Oh? I didn't even think about that. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: I usually I'm afraid of asking because it's for us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, amazing, that's that's wild that that exists.
Speaker 2: But they're need to report firsthand to a man on
Speaker 2: the street for I know.
Speaker 4: I know, I'm gonna be like, I'm here in this yard,
Speaker 4: I found a dead body. I'm just gonna keep playing
Speaker 4: ball with a dog.
Speaker 3: Okay, I pay for my time.
Speaker 2: Oh man, all right, let's uh, let's take a quick
Speaker 2: break and we'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back here with us.
Speaker 4: Is that humpy dumpty. This this is Sammy. He's a
Speaker 4: little one.
Speaker 6: Humpy humpy as a damn all right, all right, well
Speaker 6: we did want to check in with the story about
Speaker 6: what actually caused inflation.
Speaker 2: We had speculated idly. Yeah that you know, as so
Speaker 2: as inflation is happening. You can listen to the earnings
Speaker 2: calls of corporations whose prices going way up and hear
Speaker 2: them talk about how they're having record profit all during
Speaker 2: pandemic and when inflation was this out of control weather
Speaker 2: pattern that the global markets were dealing with. And if
Speaker 2: you suggested such a thing that like they were doing
Speaker 2: it on purpose because it was causing record profits, you
Speaker 2: would be ridiculed.
Speaker 1: It's like, but where'd the profits come from? You also
Speaker 1: say you had lower costs. It's not because it's because
Speaker 1: it's because we're doing so good. I don't know.
Speaker 3: About you, guys. I've never heard of a corporation being
Speaker 3: never okay for greed, never never, never never never never.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, Well, it's just wild because only because Kroger
Speaker 1: and Albertson's are trying to have a merger that like,
Speaker 1: you know, the Feds are like, ah wait a tick
Speaker 1: here that we got some testimony from one of the
Speaker 1: Kroger executives and they bring up this fucking email. We're
Speaker 1: in an email it is discussed that said quote on
Speaker 1: milk and eggs, retail inflation has been significantly higher than
Speaker 1: cost inflation, and then goes on to say, our objective
Speaker 1: is to quote pass through our inflation to con m
Speaker 1: h And they're like, oh, wait, that you mean you
Speaker 1: mean you're you're charging them more that that's what it
Speaker 1: sounds like, you're passing the inflation onto us. And like again,
Speaker 1: like other people commenting on this, like this was like
Speaker 1: no secret that was happening, especially when it comes to
Speaker 1: like milk and eggs. A lot of people who were
Speaker 1: defending this are like they just cherry picked a couple
Speaker 1: comments here and like make it seem like that's like
Speaker 1: this is an email from a top executive at Kroger
Speaker 1: who is talking to other executives about how they're even there.
Speaker 1: They're saying right here, retail inflation has been significantly higher
Speaker 1: than cost inflation.
Speaker 2: So the retail price is going up higher than what
Speaker 2: our costs are going up.
Speaker 3: That this is like the.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I like that, this is like the grocery store
Speaker 4: version of the jinks where he's.
Speaker 3: Like, I did it. Oh, I raised all the prices.
Speaker 3: I do it again.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But the response from economists, a lot of economists, not
Speaker 2: all economists, but a lot of economists who coincidentally seem
Speaker 2: to usually work for or be you know, speaking to
Speaker 2: or being interviewed by mainstream media outlets that are owned
Speaker 2: by corporations, it seems to be like, yeah, it's just
Speaker 2: like one or two bad actors, and it's like there's
Speaker 2: no correlation. But like, so again, just the bottom line
Speaker 2: thing is like, how are when inflations at a record high,
Speaker 2: their profits are at a record high. Like those are
Speaker 2: the two things that like the I need an argument
Speaker 2: that's going to dispel those things. But like you said, Miles, meanwhile,
Speaker 2: Kroger's fighting the government for their right to merge with
Speaker 2: Albertson like two massive grocery chains, which again like a
Speaker 2: big problem with this, and the reason they're able to
Speaker 2: do that is not enough competition. So they're able to
Speaker 2: raise prices and not be worried that, you know, another
Speaker 2: retailer is going to lower the prices, which is how
Speaker 2: the whole system is supposed to work. But because these
Speaker 2: massive corporations got so much power they can now just
Speaker 2: kind of fix things.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: So a lot of places are picking it up, but
Speaker 2: it's like not really mainstream. Like Business Insider picked up
Speaker 2: the story of the burg This is weird Bloomberg, but
Speaker 2: not the Washington Post, which absolutely mocked Kamala Harris for
Speaker 2: suggesting corporate greed played a significant role in inflation, which is.
Speaker 1: Not like you're getting that from some like far left
Speaker 1: extremist person just being like, yeah, I'm pretty sure they're
Speaker 1: going up because they're making a ton of money. They're
Speaker 1: like no, yeah, no, And then I just look, I
Speaker 1: just searched their website. Uh, there's nothing like where they're
Speaker 1: headlining that this executive, Like they have a headline where
Speaker 1: like that's referencing what this Kroger executive mentioned sharing this testimony.
Speaker 2: But hey, this cherry pick, it's just an I.
Speaker 3: Don't know what you guys are talking about.
Speaker 4: But I'm going to continue hiding eggs under my mattress. Okay,
Speaker 4: that's where the gold is.
Speaker 1: Always look under the mattress.
Speaker 4: Bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty sulphuric, I would say, But like the
Speaker 1: wild part is too. I was like searching, like the
Speaker 1: news search function on covering this. Is it only Jacobin,
Speaker 1: not even dude, Barstool Sports, Barstool Sports. I want to
Speaker 1: just read something from barstool from Barstool Sports about this. Okay,
Speaker 1: they're talking about the the this guy Graf who Andy Groff,
Speaker 1: who's the Kroger price guy, said he spilled the beans
Speaker 1: during an FTC hearing. His internal email, a masterpiece of
Speaker 1: corporate honesty, revealed their strategy pass through our inflation to customers. Translation,
Speaker 1: let's squeeze those four those poor fucking plubs for every
Speaker 1: penny we can the American way. Kroger's defense, Oh that
Speaker 1: email was cherry pick. They say they're decades long business
Speaker 1: model is all about lowering prices. Okay, mother Teresa, barstool Sports.
Speaker 1: This is in barstools, Dave or Noise.
Speaker 4: It is the end.
Speaker 3: They were like, and bitches get titties just to like.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, That's why I should be allowed to sexually
Speaker 2: harass my coworker.
Speaker 1: Now check out the nasty ten nastiest strip clubs in Bogota, Columbia.
Speaker 3: We like where the costume is too high?
Speaker 1: Yeah right, they go on it says quote this revelation
Speaker 1: isn't just about Kroger. It's a symptom of a larger
Speaker 1: disease plaguing corporate America. Companies across the board have been
Speaker 1: posting record profits while consumers struggle with sky high inflation.
Speaker 1: Uh remember those quote supply chain issues we kept hearing about.
Speaker 1: Sure they played a role, but let's be honest. Some
Speaker 1: prices were elevated simply because businesses knew they could get
Speaker 1: away with it. It's the American way, right, profit over people.
Speaker 1: This is in Barstool's Sports Comrade.
Speaker 4: You know how like climate change has made like like
Speaker 4: Seattle is like having less rain than La, but like
Speaker 4: La is having more and like everything shifting. That's what
Speaker 4: it feels like with media. Like remember when teen Vogue
Speaker 4: was like doing hard hitting pieces and we were like, wait,
Speaker 4: we forgot to pay attention to teen Vogue. Like all
Speaker 4: of the world has gone so upside down that all
Speaker 4: of the so called like hard hitting journalists are doing
Speaker 4: the dumbest shit. So now like Barstool Sports has to
Speaker 4: step up to fill that need.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like the weather. I was a little curious
Speaker 1: about this because it's like who is, like who's writing this?
Speaker 1: And I found the author's Twitter feed, and it does
Speaker 1: not strike me as someone who is out here with
Speaker 1: their like critiques of capitalism, like there's another paragraphs and
Speaker 1: even this is all I'm this is capitalism after all,
Speaker 1: you and your work is worth what somebody's willing to pay.
Speaker 1: And but then like their Twitter feed is like Kamala
Speaker 1: misinformation RFK video quotes of been like, well, this is
Speaker 1: a weird this is an interesting take about Russia, and
Speaker 1: then like weird stuff again. That's where I got the
Speaker 1: strip club stuff. It was a video about strip clubs
Speaker 1: in Columbia, and I'm like what. And then also George
Speaker 1: old George Carlin stand up about class consciousness. So I'm
Speaker 1: wondering if this person got like rat like quasi radicalized,
Speaker 1: because at the bottom of this Barstool Sports article is
Speaker 1: a George Carlin clip. Yeah, the illusion of choice. So
Speaker 1: it feels like a dude who may have been on
Speaker 1: the barstool wagon caught some Carlin, got some class consciousness,
Speaker 1: got momentarily radicalized, and then went back to their regularly
Speaker 1: scheduled program of like this is the hottest pool vaulter
Speaker 1: in the pac ten.
Speaker 2: I mean, the political world has been has been talking
Speaker 2: about Republican, like Barstool Republicans for a long time now
Speaker 2: being right, you know people who are like I define
Speaker 2: myself as masculine and therefore I hate Democrats and I
Speaker 2: love Republicans because Dave Porton Portnoy says things that make
Speaker 2: me laugh something.
Speaker 1: Right, But but like.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize that that included like economic populism.
Speaker 1: I don't think it does generally. I'm just yeah, that's on,
Speaker 1: Like I want to know more about whom like like
Speaker 1: if this is just a cobbled together with AI they're
Speaker 1: using some guy's name to attribute it to it, or
Speaker 1: if this is just kind of or maybe I'm I'm
Speaker 1: not reading enough Barstool and I'm realizing I do.
Speaker 4: You think it's I think things like that are super
Speaker 4: believable because I do think that, like now more than ever,
Speaker 4: people's beliefs are in like a blender and it's more
Speaker 4: of a grab bag. Like you'll find people who are
Speaker 4: really like socially like liberal who are anti vaxers or
Speaker 4: you know, like that's where it started, but now it's
Speaker 4: like it you really like if you're out in the
Speaker 4: dating scene, you have to ask like all of the questions, right, right,
Speaker 4: because because at any point could someone be like, yeah,
Speaker 4: this is this is normal.
Speaker 3: This is normal.
Speaker 4: Alarm soundly alarm, right right, because people are like that
Speaker 4: with like just the most random random beliefs, Like it's
Speaker 4: no longer like okay, like this party believes this and
Speaker 4: this other party believes this, like kind of a general divide.
Speaker 4: It's like you could be insane and like all sorts
Speaker 4: of things.
Speaker 1: I think there's also like this other thing too, where
Speaker 1: regardless of maybe what you're like sort of you know,
Speaker 1: registered voting political beliefs are that the world you interact
Speaker 1: with the world, where like your observations are like why
Speaker 1: the fuck is all this shit so expensive and they're
Speaker 1: making money and just on your own through just existing,
Speaker 1: you kind of arrive at this conclusion too, even though
Speaker 1: right yeah, even though you're like I thought you're supposed
Speaker 1: to be like one of these free market like conservative
Speaker 1: type people, but at the end you're like, nah, I
Speaker 1: write for barstool and shit's expensive, so this is kind
Speaker 1: of fucked up. But anyway, here the top strip clubs
Speaker 1: in Bogata.
Speaker 3: It's like how that like there was that article is.
Speaker 2: Really good by the way that you kidd like they go.
Speaker 4: Deep it's actually about a universal health care No, there
Speaker 4: was actually like somebody in like Indiana or something like.
Speaker 4: I remember like listening to all these interviews during the
Speaker 4: last election cycle about how people are like pro Trump,
Speaker 4: but they actually do believe in the tenets of universal
Speaker 4: health care, but they hate they like don't want Obamacare,
Speaker 4: like so they don't. People don't fully understand necessarily like
Speaker 4: the labels or the so called theory, like they're not
Speaker 4: like Marxists, you know what I mean, but they do
Speaker 4: they do still have that feeling that you were describing
Speaker 4: of like something isn't right here and like you should
Speaker 4: all be able to afford food and rent.
Speaker 1: But I don't want to call it it'd be funny.
Speaker 1: Like the end, it really is like sincerely, guys, Like
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, guys, but it's like I
Speaker 1: clock in for a job where like they take the
Speaker 1: work that I do and they get rich off of it,
Speaker 1: and I just feel so distinct the means whatever I'm created,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just odd that I feel so disconnected
Speaker 1: and isolated from it as a working person. Whatever. Anyway,
Speaker 1: here the top.
Speaker 3: Two wish up and break down unions, Like.
Speaker 1: Dude would you kill man, would you kill?
Speaker 2: Okay, like a carnivore or like somebody a worker who's
Speaker 2: trying to Yeah, it's just wild that there's a policy
Speaker 2: position that's so popular on both sides that neither major
Speaker 2: party will openly agree to take. And when one does,
Speaker 2: like with Kamala Harris's you know policy, it's pretty tame
Speaker 2: and it gets absolutely destroyed by mainstream media. Let's for
Speaker 2: being like extremist and unrealistic. And she's not a real adult,
Speaker 2: right right, right, Sorry, miss, we're adulting here. We're three economists. Anyways,
Speaker 2: let's talk about phones in school. I guess I didn't
Speaker 2: realized that kids were on their phones in classes as
Speaker 2: much as they are. There's this episode of The Daily
Speaker 2: Today that is, I didn't realize, like they're saying, like
Speaker 2: people came back from the pandemic and they were just
Speaker 2: like everybody's like on their phones. They got so used
Speaker 2: to interacting with each other and school via screens, Like
Speaker 2: now that's just like impossible to take away. And now
Speaker 2: they're trying to institute these bands, but there's like mixed
Speaker 2: messaging on how popular that is or how successful or
Speaker 2: even feasible it is. We talked a few weeks back
Speaker 2: about the fact that the most posh prep school in
Speaker 2: London has banned smartphones and given students dumb phones instead.
Speaker 4: They're like those phones with bubble gum in them from
Speaker 4: when we were kids exactly.
Speaker 3: Now there's come everywhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I can't call my mom. Yeah.
Speaker 2: That was the thing that they were fighting against. One
Speaker 2: I was in school was gum chewing.
Speaker 4: Had to contend with this is a this is a
Speaker 4: type of friends I had. My science teacher had to
Speaker 4: impose a Magic the Gathering tax because so many of
Speaker 4: my friends were playing it, and she also knew how
Speaker 4: to play it, so she would take She was like,
Speaker 4: if I see those cards out, I'm gonna take your
Speaker 4: best cards.
Speaker 3: And we did.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take you your best card.
Speaker 4: Yeah. She was like really good at Magic the Gathering,
Speaker 4: so she was she just building her sets Ultimate Hotly Ship.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Ours was just like playing like drug Wars on
Speaker 1: like T I eighty three, Like that was like the
Speaker 1: biggest distraction we had at the time. But yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: It is funny though too. Like Jack, both when you
Speaker 1: said that, both you and I are like, damn, my
Speaker 1: kids are like on their phone, like just like as
Speaker 1: if we couldn't per conceive a world where that was
Speaker 1: even possible, like it used to be. You get in
Speaker 1: big trouble for chewing gum.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, I'm enjoying watching you to continue parenting.
Speaker 3: They're like kids phones. They don't seem to like those.
Speaker 1: But I mean they like them to I don't know.
Speaker 2: So the daily episode lands in a place in between
Speaker 2: being like, we get why they're banning it, but we
Speaker 2: don't have the data to support whether this ban is
Speaker 2: good or bad. It really feels like, I don't know
Speaker 2: how how are you not just taking the comments like,
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, we know it's fucking bad for kids.
Speaker 2: Like the anecdotal evidence includes watching kids walk around like zombies,
Speaker 2: watching like seeing their mental health deteriorate like in this generation,
Speaker 2: the way they react like addicts when your takeaway take
Speaker 2: away their phone, the fact that the people who design
Speaker 2: the phones and the software don't allow their kids to
Speaker 2: use this shit, everything about the software being designed to
Speaker 2: make money and surveil and manipulate their behavior and nothing
Speaker 2: has to do with like any anything that's good for them.
Speaker 2: And the detail they used a question whether it's bad
Speaker 2: is like, but there are these like learning applications on phones,
Speaker 2: and we don't know if those are like canceling out
Speaker 2: all the other ship and.
Speaker 4: It's a little right, Okay, here's a compromise that I
Speaker 4: think will be really good. I think, sure, you take
Speaker 4: away the kids' phones whatever, but in every class there's
Speaker 4: the most like the funniest kid gets to keep their
Speaker 4: phone just so that they get to be the racist
Speaker 4: teacher monitor and like pull it out anytime the teacher.
Speaker 3: Is doing some sus ship, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: I can't lose those tiktoks where the teacher just like
Speaker 4: goes off and you're like, are we living in the fifties?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: It's funny too, like those teachers like someone was videotaping that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but being like they're allowed to have phones
Speaker 2: in class.
Speaker 3: See them use a crank and put a sheet over there.
Speaker 1: Sorry, what I meant to say about the trail of tears,
Speaker 1: It wasn't fact. You're like, whoa, whoa easy, E's easy.
Speaker 2: Some people do have tears of laughter.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's possible. It's possible, it's possible.
Speaker 2: But this is happening. As we just got new evidence
Speaker 2: that phones are listening to smartphone, microphones and using AI
Speaker 2: to capture real time intent data.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this felt like a thing we would talk about
Speaker 1: a lot early on in the show of just being
Speaker 1: like our phones were like, I think our phones are
Speaker 1: listening to us. How come a thing I've never searched for,
Speaker 1: talked about, but never even interacted with anything in my
Speaker 1: browsing history. I'm suddenly being served ads for this thing.
Speaker 2: And it's because Miles we recorded the show in person
Speaker 2: and had out loud conversations about what we were going
Speaker 2: to cover on the show. Yeah, and then as we
Speaker 2: were like putting the doc together, we would be like, weird,
Speaker 2: now it's like serving me a ad for lawnmowers, even
Speaker 2: though like I was randomly talking about lawnmowers and the.
Speaker 4: Miles, Miles is only obsessed with like Casper and.
Speaker 3: And he's like, why do I keep getting ads for
Speaker 3: that that? Even though that's all I ever wanted in.
Speaker 1: You mean, yeah, I love Casper mattresses or loved but
Speaker 1: like you know, even like when you would search right
Speaker 1: like all the time, I remember, we'd be like this,
Speaker 1: this can't be and like all the articles you'd get
Speaker 1: when you searched for like the question of like our
Speaker 1: our phones listening to us. There was some techie breakdown
Speaker 1: about how like algorithms figure out that you're mighty in
Speaker 1: proximity to someone that you're friends with and they know
Speaker 1: you are via Facebook, and therefore you it may be
Speaker 1: relevant to you, so that's why the ad will show
Speaker 1: up or whatever. But even then I'm like, Okay, that
Speaker 1: seemed feasible. At least it was feasible enough that I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, that that could that totally could be.
Speaker 1: And then we kind of moved on. But then this
Speaker 1: leak came out from Cox Media Group and there was
Speaker 1: a pitch deck that ran media Brian Cox, Yes, exactly,
Speaker 1: fuck fuck off, fuck off Media Group. And so in
Speaker 1: this leaked pitch deck to prospective customers, and they were
Speaker 1: one of Facebook's like marketing partners, although now like after this,
Speaker 1: Meta and a few other companies have been to distance
Speaker 1: themselves from Cox. It talked about how it listens to
Speaker 1: users smartphone microphones and advertises to them. Accordingly, the TV
Speaker 1: and radio news giant Cox Media Group claims that it's
Speaker 1: so called quote active listening software uses AI to quote
Speaker 1: capture real time intent data by listening to our conversations
Speaker 1: That's why.
Speaker 4: I'm always like, oh my god, you know what I
Speaker 4: could really go for right now is healthcare or like
Speaker 4: lower guess.
Speaker 1: Right or to Suddy it's like, hey, man, come through
Speaker 1: to mobile where it's way expensive, but we heard you
Speaker 1: need guess. Sorry, don't know what else to tell you.
Speaker 1: And then it goes on quote advertisers compare this voice
Speaker 1: data with behavior yeeral data to target in market consumers.
Speaker 1: That's what the deck said. That all sounds perfectly nonsinister
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 4: Point the technology is gonna be like girl, dump him.
Speaker 1: You know he's been like visiting like a rite aid.
Speaker 1: That's way out of the way from y'all right. I
Speaker 1: don't know what fore, but based on what I'm saying
Speaker 1: from this map view, there's a corner of the parking
Speaker 1: lot where it's not visible to cameras or people on
Speaker 1: the street anyway, I don't know, can check that out.
Speaker 4: FBI agents like really, DM, the FBI just uses this
Speaker 4: software to just find people.
Speaker 1: That's how they found bin Laden. Actually it wasn't even
Speaker 1: the CIA, it was just this Facebook as man, come on.
Speaker 2: Nobody likes volleyball and Whitney Houston this much, except for
Speaker 2: we got him the pacer.
Speaker 1: So then like, apparently this is the third time in
Speaker 1: the last year that Cox has gotten media attention for
Speaker 1: their active listening feature. They also deleted a Cox media group.
Speaker 1: Big Deal leaded a blog post from their own website
Speaker 1: from last year that was talking about active listening and
Speaker 1: you can see it through the Internet archive thank god.
Speaker 1: It said there's one section like is it legal? You know,
Speaker 1: is active listener? Like this is their active listening faq?
Speaker 1: Is active listening legal? Answer? Yeah? Right? Oh wow? Is
Speaker 1: selling human organs that you've procured outside of you know,
Speaker 1: normal channels illegal? Well, allow us to answer that. This says, quote,
Speaker 1: we know what you're thinking. Is this even legal? Funny,
Speaker 1: there's no, he said. The short answer is yes, it
Speaker 1: is legal for phones and devices to listen to you.
Speaker 1: When a new app download or update prompts consumers with
Speaker 1: a multi page terms of use agreement, somewhere in the
Speaker 1: fine print, active listening is often included. And you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: holy shit, Okay, that's that's an in there. Yeah, your
Speaker 1: part read you could become widowed, way you could.
Speaker 2: I just want to say it's not your fault that
Speaker 2: that's the thing that's like unspoken we all like for.
Speaker 1: A long time, we're like, yeah, we just agree to
Speaker 1: this ship. Who cares? Like, what are we going to do?
Speaker 1: Read it? But like kind of being like ha ha,
Speaker 1: we're idiots. No, it's impossible.
Speaker 2: To live life without agreeing to that ship.
Speaker 1: Like or.
Speaker 4: It's like when the when Disney tried to like invalidate
Speaker 4: that lady's lawsuit by being like, well you watched.
Speaker 1: The TV you got Disney plus right, Oh well well
Speaker 1: well asshole, look who doesn't read the fine print because
Speaker 1: you gave up your thought we couldn't kill you.
Speaker 4: The plus stands for negative rights, right yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 4: so funny. Also, like really fucked up of them to
Speaker 4: call it active listening after everything I learned in school
Speaker 4: about how important acting is. Yeah right, right right, they're
Speaker 4: doing a woke is up you got there, very smart.
Speaker 4: Their therapy speaking their way through surveillance states.
Speaker 2: Well, they've been active listening in all those classrooms. So
Speaker 2: they heard the teachers teaching kids that active listening is good.
Speaker 2: So that's how they got the idea that are like, yeah.
Speaker 4: You're just sitting there like on your phone, and the
Speaker 4: froend's like, oh that's nice. You're like what's the fun?
Speaker 4: They're like, I hear you get over.
Speaker 1: I've got a new idea. What the fun?
Speaker 2: But yeah, so these are the people that the daily
Speaker 2: episode is.
Speaker 1: Like, we don't it's too soon to tell. But I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: It just feels it feels like it's not too soon
Speaker 2: to tell if having smartphones in school is better than
Speaker 2: not having them in school.
Speaker 1: I just don't. Yeah, And I'm sure, Hey, I know
Speaker 1: there are people who are educators that listen to the show.
Speaker 1: I feel like even people who I know who are
Speaker 1: teachers and stuff, they always talk about how much of
Speaker 1: a distraction it is, And depending on the school, you
Speaker 1: have policies or they're like just it's like lightly discouraging,
Speaker 1: or it's like a huge problem if your phone comes out.
Speaker 1: But it just feels like a thing where it's like,
Speaker 1: if it's an emergency, there there are ways for you
Speaker 1: to be contacted.
Speaker 2: That's yeah, no, no, no, for sure, And it's probably
Speaker 2: you know, enforced in a really fucked up way where
Speaker 2: like the teachers being the front line are just forced
Speaker 2: to deal with kids who are addicted to their phone.
Speaker 1: Hey, trying to get these guys the cold Turkey heroin
Speaker 1: in your in your in your in your eighty minute class.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you guys are acting like the students or the
Speaker 4: problem when I'm sure the teachers are like these don't
Speaker 4: make me give up my phone. They're like please, Yeah, no,
Speaker 4: we shouldn't have phones in classrooms, but they should all
Speaker 4: be in my drawer.
Speaker 3: I'm on a candy crush crush streak.
Speaker 1: Okay, hey, someone hooked me up with some credits. You
Speaker 1: can transform. You can transform if you have my email.
Speaker 3: He needs who needs extra credit?
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my god. I had a teacher like that.
Speaker 1: Did you ever ever ever teach.
Speaker 2: You wanted extra credit? I need some extra credit, dude.
Speaker 1: We had a teacher, my biology teacher sophomore year, said
Speaker 1: we could get like, uh, like a half letter grade
Speaker 1: adjustment upward if we donated to the cross country running team.
Speaker 3: That's fucking insane.
Speaker 1: And we were like, yeah, yeah, say let's say less
Speaker 1: because I'm not fucking with the I'm not fucking with
Speaker 1: cell respiration. So yeah, how much you want? Ten bucks?
Speaker 1: And I remember and then it then I remember, like
Speaker 1: at the time, I was like, this is great, dude,
Speaker 1: ten bucks and I don't have to study. And then
Speaker 1: a student who was much smarter, like went to the
Speaker 1: school and was like, uh, they're saying if we give
Speaker 1: them money, they'll change our grades, and like the teacher
Speaker 1: had to give us all our money back, but then
Speaker 1: also had to keep our grades like with the adjustment too. Wow, no, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got the grades and our money back. And we're
Speaker 1: like there you go, thank you go. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We'll be right back and
Speaker 1: we're back. We are and oh yeah we are? Are
Speaker 1: we back?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 1: Are we? Yeah? We are, we are.
Speaker 3: We're so bad, We're so fucking back. Dude.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I'll tell you who is back. Ronald Reagan?
Speaker 1: Fuck why oh no?
Speaker 2: Wal So, the Ronald Reagan movie came out this past
Speaker 2: weekend and it did wal at the box office.
Speaker 1: It did pretty well. What were they? What were what
Speaker 1: was the bar low? They're like what, there's like maybe
Speaker 1: six hundred people who would actually get off their ass
Speaker 1: to see this, So what are we calling it? Ten grand?
Speaker 2: So it made ten million dollars, which exceeded their expectation
Speaker 2: of six million dollars on a budget of like I
Speaker 2: think it was like fifty million dollars. So it's not
Speaker 2: it's not great. Yeah, I wouldn't especially, it's like just
Speaker 2: production budget doesn't. See like if they did the thing
Speaker 2: that all movies do, which is like spend as much
Speaker 2: on marketing as you do on production, they probably are
Speaker 2: not gonna make their money back.
Speaker 4: But okay, Jack, you just gotta wait for the trickle
Speaker 4: down budget. Okay, that's coming in and it's gonna make
Speaker 4: it all better.
Speaker 1: That's right. I don't even know. Oh, this is why
Speaker 1: Dennis Quaid was trending. Yeah, dude, I mean reason when
Speaker 1: you first mentioned this, Like there's a fucking Reagan movie.
Speaker 3: I know, I saw like.
Speaker 1: One is my phone listening. I talk about Ronald Reagan
Speaker 1: all the fucking time. I didn't start one at Cox
Speaker 1: Media Group. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So it's a twenty five million dollar production budget and
Speaker 2: you usually assume that it's double that for marketing budget,
Speaker 2: so it might make its money back to if it
Speaker 2: gets if it gets to fifty, but the level they
Speaker 2: set the bar at is so low. It came first
Speaker 2: of all, came in third behind Deadpool and Wolverine which
Speaker 2: for three weeks now, right, yeah, send out for weeks
Speaker 2: and Alien Romulus or alien Romulents, which is what my
Speaker 2: kids call it because they're they're obsessed. They're like alien romulents.
Speaker 2: No no, I was like, yo, but they are. And
Speaker 2: I remember this actually from when I was a kid,
Speaker 2: when like I would know what movie my dad went
Speaker 2: to see, and then I'd.
Speaker 1: Be like, tell me everything, ye, and then pretend you
Speaker 1: saw like an.
Speaker 3: Alien came out of Ronald Reagan's chest.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I was pretty drunk, and then he tore off
Speaker 1: Gorbachev's balls. I still remember, like where I like sitting
Speaker 1: down and tear off mister Haas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I still remember where I was, like when my
Speaker 2: day explained the First Blood to me, like recapped the
Speaker 2: movie Rambo First Blood to me, like as when I
Speaker 2: was six, and I was like, yo, this is the
Speaker 2: best movie going experience I've ever seen, I've ever had.
Speaker 2: But anyways, Reagan came in third, and it might actually
Speaker 2: drop down to fourth once all the once they figure
Speaker 2: everything out. But it exceeded expectations. The expectations worse somehow,
Speaker 2: even lower than that terrible result, and conservative outlets are
Speaker 2: spiking the football. Forbes says Reagan. Critics hate, but the
Speaker 2: audiences love. Dennis Quad's Ronald Reagan biopic National Review Reagan
Speaker 2: triggers progressives. But movie audiences love it because yeah, critics
Speaker 2: do not do not think this is a good movie.
Speaker 1: They're like, is this even a movie?
Speaker 2: It's just like a real it's like a love letter.
Speaker 1: I mean, like Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 4: Homelanders not even in it. I thought it would be
Speaker 4: like a really cool Quad movie.
Speaker 1: That Yeah, other ones are like Dennis Quad's Reagan is
Speaker 1: the worst movie of the year. Wo Okay heard much
Speaker 1: loose triggered by yeah, I triggered by the homelessness you
Speaker 1: see in the year twenty twenty four. Much draw a
Speaker 1: straight line back to Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 2: Okay, literally, the only audience seeing this movie are old
Speaker 2: white people. Eighty five percent of ticket buyers were over
Speaker 2: the age of thirty five, which is like unprecedented.
Speaker 1: And then the this might be.
Speaker 4: Released it November fifth. That would have been alloy could
Speaker 4: just do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just that meme of which button depress to like
Speaker 1: vote for Maga or go see the Gipper movie.
Speaker 2: This might be a new record. Sixty six percent of
Speaker 2: people were over the age of fifty five, Like, that's
Speaker 2: never with a movie before. Eighty percent of the film's
Speaker 2: entire audience was white, which.
Speaker 1: Seems no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know we're all pretty surprised. So I think, Miles,
Speaker 2: this is a hit, So we're gonna have to go see.
Speaker 4: It'll be so terrifying to be there. And then you
Speaker 4: look around and it's all old white people and you're like,
Speaker 4: you're like being a very young, like like.
Speaker 3: Black woman remove reviewing the movie, right.
Speaker 1: Right, and everyone's kind of looking at you and pretty good, right,
Speaker 1: I'll get it, right. You seem like a nice person.
Speaker 1: Ye what yeah, I mean like one of the good ones.
Speaker 1: They need their wins where they can get them, you know, yeah, sure, well, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe they'll get it November. You know, who knows, who knows?
Speaker 1: Who knows? Who knows?
Speaker 2: The Sound of Freedom was a legitimate hit. It seems
Speaker 2: like that one made a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Even with the people buying the tickets to get away
Speaker 1: for free.
Speaker 2: Yeah, depending on it. I don't know how many people
Speaker 2: actually saw it, but their donation based marketing strategy.
Speaker 1: Really. I did watch it when we had Sarah Marshall
Speaker 1: on to talk about the her Human Trafficking episode. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I just remember subjecting myself to them movie and
Speaker 1: being like, oh god, this it's just truly like it's
Speaker 1: like freak out porn for people who don't like foreigners.
Speaker 2: There's new news about that guy that will have to
Speaker 2: update y'all on pretty soon. He seems like not as
Speaker 2: cool as everyone thoughts.
Speaker 1: Sounds like you got an agenda.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he said, that's so smooth.
Speaker 3: It scared me.
Speaker 1: I know, my dead pen is sometimes too believable.
Speaker 2: Sorry, a little too dead in the pan Paula Vi,
Speaker 2: what a pleasure having you as always?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff?
Speaker 3: You can find me in the Rigan movie.
Speaker 4: No I play, No, I play the Gipper, his alternative personality.
Speaker 4: I'm at Paulo Viganalan p A ll a b I
Speaker 4: g u n A l a n everywhere. I run
Speaker 4: that monthly show at the comedy store called Facial Recognition Comedy.
Speaker 4: Our next one is September twentieth at tenth thirty pm.
Speaker 3: Please come through. It's gonna be an inverse Reagan movie.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be a lot of brown people, Okay, So
Speaker 4: come through and get tickets at the comedy store.
Speaker 3: It's the belly Room Show. It's gonna be really fun, awesome.
Speaker 2: And is there a work of media that you've been
Speaker 2: enjoying besides the Reagan movie.
Speaker 3: No, have you guys been watching the Paralympics.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so cool. I love like all those swimming
Speaker 1: was wid.
Speaker 3: This okay, I it was insane.
Speaker 4: There was the guy who had no arms who was
Speaker 4: like yeah, and he like had to hit the the
Speaker 4: end of the pool with and like he would have
Speaker 4: won if he had all he was so far ahead.
Speaker 3: It's like not fair.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's wild to see. That's what I'm like. That
Speaker 1: as I learned more about how they break things down
Speaker 1: birth based on like disabilities too, I was like, shouldn't
Speaker 1: he maybe knock themute against somebody who could like lengthen
Speaker 1: his body. But then the other guy I think was
Speaker 1: like had his legs amputated, so maybe he didn't have
Speaker 1: the same kicking powers.
Speaker 4: Yeah I shouldn't they like rate it different, but that
Speaker 4: it was just like so fucking impressive to watch him,
Speaker 4: just like how fast he could go without arms, and
Speaker 4: the archer well who didn't have arms from India, who
Speaker 4: like shot it was so I don't know, it was
Speaker 4: just like so cool to see and I'm like I'm
Speaker 4: sitting on my couch like god, damn, this is crazy.
Speaker 1: It does kind of make the regular Olympics just look
Speaker 1: like shit, Yo, hold on, bro, are you saying what
Speaker 1: these people are doing?
Speaker 4: Now? Yeah?
Speaker 3: It's crazy.
Speaker 4: Also, like I do think it's like like there are
Speaker 4: runners who are like blind and so they have like
Speaker 4: runners with them. Yeah, like so both of you have
Speaker 4: to be like in like first position for the person
Speaker 4: to win. Like that's crazy, Like you have to have
Speaker 4: it's like a relay, but you're both running at the
Speaker 4: same time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's wild awesome. Miles. Where can people find you
Speaker 1: as their working media you've been enjoy Uh find me
Speaker 1: on Twitter and Instagram and the like wherever they have
Speaker 1: the at symbols at Miles of Gray. You can find
Speaker 1: Jack and I on the Basketball podcast and I was
Speaker 1: a Joustie. You can find me talking ninety dance on
Speaker 1: four twenty fiance. Check me out on Scam Goddess. I
Speaker 1: was on a recent episode. I was also on a
Speaker 1: recent episode of Black People Love Paramore, So you can
Speaker 1: there's many ways to hear me talk about things that
Speaker 1: aren't so news centric. Some tweets I like, man, I
Speaker 1: got a few funny tweets. It was a good it
Speaker 1: was a good weekend for me. Not finding things that
Speaker 1: just made my spirit die because I got so cynical
Speaker 1: and I laughed at some funny things. Uh laugh ye.
Speaker 1: Past guest Mohanad al Shiki at mohanaed Alshiki tweeted, I
Speaker 1: love when someone is like, I'm funny because I have
Speaker 1: trauma and it's a coping mechanism and it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: not to add to your trauma, but you're not funny,
Speaker 1: so fucking wildly, just think about that shit. Another one
Speaker 1: at Jay unders Or Cooper tweeted, got so drunk last
Speaker 1: night I messaged the ting tings on instagrams. I haven't
Speaker 1: thought about them for so long. That's not my name.
Speaker 1: And then also big Boy from Outcast at big Boy tweeted, Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: we're on the tour bus in Keli, right. We stopped
Speaker 1: for breakfast. Why this lady asks, Sleepy Brown are y'all
Speaker 1: migrants being dropped off? Oh my god? What? Wow? You
Speaker 1: see the Dungeon family and you're like, what the fuck off?
Speaker 1: Sleepy Brown looks like like an Isaac Hayes, like parallel
Speaker 1: universe Isaac Hayes.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, anyway, fun big big bus presumably, so yeah,
Speaker 2: she's making some assumptions tweets. I've been enjoying at you
Speaker 2: wouldn't post tweeted a picture of a man Brothers from
Speaker 2: towards the end of The Shining when he arrives on
Speaker 2: a flight and says the original flight raw dogger because
Speaker 2: I always remember that that he was just staring straight
Speaker 2: ahead on the whole flight, just like, Yeah, that's how
Speaker 2: I do it. And then Shell at Shell Arena Underscore tweeted,
Speaker 2: Hey stupid, I'll see you in court the food court.
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Speaker 2: off to the information that we talked about in today's episode,
Speaker 2: as well as a song that we think you might enjoy.
Speaker 1: Miles, what song do you think people might enjoy it?
Speaker 1: I was listening to this again. I love music that
Speaker 1: I thought was from yesteryear, and it turns out it's
Speaker 1: just some guy who's younger than me from Huntington Beach
Speaker 1: and this track is I was listening to it, I'm like,
Speaker 1: is this like an Eric Burden or like Van Morrison track?
Speaker 1: I've never heard? Is this these? And I was like
Speaker 1: really curious because it's clearly recorded on tape and the
Speaker 1: microphones are all like of that period. And it turned
Speaker 1: out it's an artist called Nick Waterhouse, who I was
Speaker 1: not familiar with and I'm getting much more familiar with.
Speaker 1: And it's called Song for Winners by Nick. Yeah, oh
Speaker 1: my god, a lot familiar. Do you guys want to
Speaker 1: go to his show? He's gonna be playing at the
Speaker 1: Echo later and he said he can get me on
Speaker 1: the list. I don't know, like I think, I don't know.
Speaker 1: He says, like we're just talking, but I feel like
Speaker 1: I feel like there's more going on. But anyway, it's
Speaker 1: called Song for Winners Nick Waterhouse. If you like, you know,
Speaker 1: like I said, you Van Morrison, Eric Burden, you know,
Speaker 1: Wilson Pickett kind of stuff. This His voice is super
Speaker 1: raspy and interesting. So Nick Waterhouse Song.
Speaker 2: For Winners also does a great job securing those Oscar
Speaker 2: ballots from yep of Waterhouse our house Cooper.
Speaker 4: I love coming on here and like listening to you guys.
Speaker 4: Luggy songs because I never know what you're talking about,
Speaker 4: so like Nick Waterhouse Cooper just sounds like a law
Speaker 4: firm to me, and I need.
Speaker 2: All right, We will link off to that song in
Speaker 2: the footnotes for Daily I Guess is.
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