Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season three, twenty five,
Speaker 1: Episode five of Dear Daily's I Guys Stay, a.
Speaker 2: Production of iHeart Radio.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 1: into American share consciousness. And it is Friday February eleventh. Nope,
Speaker 1: and it is Friday February sixteenth, twenty twenty four. Not
Speaker 1: a good start, guys, fucking up the date. That's when
Speaker 1: you know you're in for it. When I'm can't even
Speaker 1: read numbers most the most.
Speaker 2: Basic thing to read.
Speaker 1: I think I think I learned that before reading numbers,
Speaker 1: before reading words.
Speaker 2: Anyways, my name.
Speaker 1: Is Jack O'Brien aka den and Na No not inspector,
Speaker 1: Judget no no no no woo Dona no no no
Speaker 1: inspector Judget dena no no no go. Sorry Joe, Judget Joe.
Speaker 1: That is courtesy of Rezik on the Discord, in reference
Speaker 1: to the fact that I pronounced inspector gadget with two
Speaker 1: soft GE's and then tried to pretend that I'd done
Speaker 1: it on purpose on yesterday's show, and just like believed
Speaker 1: that more words should be pronounced with a soft g.
Speaker 1: I'm not proud. It just seemed like a good idea
Speaker 1: at the time. I am thrilled to be joined in
Speaker 1: the second seat by today's just co host, A brilliant
Speaker 1: now I'm not gonna keep doing it, A brilliant comedian, writer, actor,
Speaker 1: the hilarious, the chaotic, the riding a recumbent bike. In
Speaker 1: short short, it's Blake Wexland.
Speaker 2: Hey everyone, this is Blake Wexler aka Happy girth daya
Speaker 2: my legs. Happy girth Day to my legs. Happy girth Day,
Speaker 2: dear plumpers, Happy girth daya my legs. Today is my birthday,
Speaker 2: and I have a very exciting announcement that really calf yeah,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, yeah. I would never joke about that. I
Speaker 2: would never I joke about a lot of things. I
Speaker 2: would never birth that day. Very serious about my birthday,
Speaker 2: very serious. Equally a serious announcement. My calf muscles have
Speaker 2: gotten so big and strong they are no longer considered
Speaker 2: to be calfs but cows. I now have cow muscles.
Speaker 2: That sucks. It's good, It's really very good, very good.
Speaker 1: I just thought you were commenting on the fact that
Speaker 1: every day's leg day for you, and you know, happy
Speaker 1: Birthday to your plumpers is every day. But happy, happy,
Speaker 1: Birthday to your plumpers and happy birthday to you, Blake Wesler.
Speaker 2: What a treat, Thank you. I know I came up
Speaker 2: with this bit, but it still is. It's starting to
Speaker 2: make me feel sick to my stomach hearing these words. Carmen,
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry, and you don't even know.
Speaker 3: Who say one more time?
Speaker 2: I see, but.
Speaker 1: I would never Is that weird? Is that a good combination?
Speaker 1: Happy jurisday to Yeah, weird word that has been paired
Speaker 1: with plumpers and also very weird?
Speaker 2: Which is that's fine? Both like and I used to describe.
Speaker 3: Add to that, I could add another word, I'm not adding.
Speaker 3: I'm not adding.
Speaker 2: You don't have to. Who are you? Though?
Speaker 3: Who am I?
Speaker 2: Who are you?
Speaker 1: We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat
Speaker 1: by a brilliant writer, producer, vice columns, journalists, podcast host,
Speaker 1: just all all of the jobs, just had them. It's
Speaker 1: been good at them. She's done them amazingly. Her memoir
Speaker 1: Why Don't You Tell Me? Was called propulsive and explosive
Speaker 1: by Publishers Weekly, and she was called a master storyteller
Speaker 1: by a regional paper, The New York Times.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've ever heard of them.
Speaker 1: Please welcome to the show, the brilliant, the talented Carmen.
Speaker 2: Rito, what.
Speaker 3: Listen does carme san Diego have a song? I don't
Speaker 3: remember you did?
Speaker 2: Inspect again?
Speaker 3: San Diego is like, where in the world is.
Speaker 2: The place my brain is at?
Speaker 1: Is that I couldn't even change the second word to
Speaker 1: san Diego, I said, Carmen Inspector.
Speaker 2: So Jesus Christ, guys, what is going on?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Is everybody doing good? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: I mean, is it really your birthday, Blake? I still
Speaker 1: don't know, Blake, Yeah, birthday?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, thank you so much. Yeah, it's uh,
Speaker 2: it is Friday, February sixteenth, which is today is my birthday. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I'm I feel good. I feel young again in
Speaker 2: a way I've don't want I don't want eighty. The
Speaker 2: earlier part of my thirties has been it has been
Speaker 2: a slog. But now you know, I've had some serums
Speaker 2: and experimental medication and metal surgery, not even plastic sur
Speaker 2: and yeah, I feel I feel pretty good. Yeah, where
Speaker 2: are you at?
Speaker 3: I'm I'm in a closet. No, there's construction in my
Speaker 3: building all of a sudden, So I'm like yeah in
Speaker 3: the class. No, no, no, listen, I've had I just
Speaker 3: had surgery like three months ago. So there you go,
Speaker 3: speaking of surgeries. But they're taking things out, not putting
Speaker 3: things in. So it's all good.
Speaker 2: It is good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fewer things as we get older, Fewer.
Speaker 3: Things as you get older. Yes, things start, you know,
Speaker 3: disappearing for good reasons.
Speaker 2: A minimalist body is I think what we all want.
Speaker 3: Yes, with youthful blood transferring, you know, the blood of
Speaker 3: the youth into yourselves, as certain billionaires do.
Speaker 2: I'm glad someone said it.
Speaker 1: Or can we just stop acting like having young people
Speaker 1: as blood bags is only for billionaires. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a it's a fun, earthy alternative to your morning coffee.
Speaker 1: You know, just get you get. Don't do it all
Speaker 1: right now, I was just a trial balloon. It was
Speaker 1: a trial balloon. It didn't go over well. So we're
Speaker 1: just gonna kind of put that, put that back, and
Speaker 1: and I'll bring it out in a couple more years.
Speaker 1: See how people respond to it. Well, Oh my god, Carmen,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get you well, well, well look who it is. Yes,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to know you a little bit better.
Speaker 2: In a moment.
Speaker 1: First, we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of things
Speaker 1: we're talking about today. You may have seen headlines that
Speaker 1: Russia space nuke something like that. The Russia is gonna
Speaker 1: nucas from space was kind of the vibes I was
Speaker 1: getting from the headlines Russian nuclear space weapons, and yeah,
Speaker 1: watching it.
Speaker 2: You should read the rest of the article before you
Speaker 2: add it into the show run.
Speaker 1: You may have seen Russian nuclear The words aren't even
Speaker 1: in order in my head space, but that's my impressionistic
Speaker 1: version of what it was like for me to see
Speaker 1: those words together is like, well, that's bad, right, Like
Speaker 1: that combination of words is bad. The truth of the
Speaker 1: story a little less scary. So we're just gonna talk
Speaker 1: about that. Turned the temperature down a little bit on
Speaker 1: the Russian nuclear space laser bombs.
Speaker 2: Think we're going to talk about what it's.
Speaker 1: Like to apply for a job at McDonald's these days. Hint,
Speaker 1: it involves an ai blue space creature that you have
Speaker 1: to like answer existential questions about it.
Speaker 2: Very confused, positive story. Yeah, that's going to be uplifting
Speaker 2: in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: And then we're going talk about Tesla troubles because yeah,
Speaker 1: we I mean, we are an Elon Musk fan podcast.
Speaker 1: We we love him and we feel like he can
Speaker 1: do no wrong. But god damn guy keeps sucking up
Speaker 1: Tesla is Tesla is having a worse quarter Like fans.
Speaker 2: He's so smart and rich.
Speaker 1: God stop, you were smarter and why don't you have
Speaker 1: fifty billion dollars bro But he uh, Tesla, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize this. I don't normally pay attention to
Speaker 1: the markets because I think it's like all bullshit, but
Speaker 1: it is just interesting, Like the thing that he's famous
Speaker 1: for is like making a lot of money for Tesla,
Speaker 1: Like with Tesla stock.
Speaker 2: He Tesla is having.
Speaker 1: A worse quarter, a worse year so far than Boeing.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, literally than Boeing. They're Tesla is performing
Speaker 1: the worst out of any SMP five hundred stock Boeing has. Like,
Speaker 1: just to put that in perspective, Boeing had a window
Speaker 1: explode off of the plane they built, a door explode
Speaker 1: off of a plane they built, and we're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's our bad. That one's on us, guys, and we
Speaker 1: kind of knew it was a problem, but you know,
Speaker 1: you sorry, And Tesla's doing worse than that.
Speaker 2: Well, the cyber trucks can't fly is the problem. That's
Speaker 2: why we promised that cyber trucks could fly, and they can't.
Speaker 2: So that's going to hurt your stock.
Speaker 1: That is the tenor of the conversation of the cyber
Speaker 1: truck heading in is like, you literally can't be shot
Speaker 1: in this thing. Nothing can happen to it. And then
Speaker 1: the people who ordered their cyber trucks, the same people
Speaker 1: who are anxiously awaiting the latest email from Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: I have to assume.
Speaker 2: Go like we got the.
Speaker 1: Owner's manual, and the owner's manual was like you, if
Speaker 1: a Burt shits on this car, sell it or take it,
Speaker 1: or get like alcohol, like industrial strength alcohol wipes and
Speaker 1: clean that shit off immediately, because it's it's bad for
Speaker 1: your cyber truck if like just a if it gets
Speaker 1: like dirt on it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's made of a luminium foil.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's amazing. It's made of stainless steel. And they
Speaker 1: were like, oh, the stainless thing. By the way, it
Speaker 1: turns out, that doesn't mean it can't be stayed. And
Speaker 1: in fact, it's like just just drinking in everything that
Speaker 1: you put on it, like a sponge. So we'll talk
Speaker 1: about all that plenty more. But before we get to
Speaker 1: any of that, Carmen, we do like to ask our guest,
Speaker 1: what is something from your search history?
Speaker 3: Oh God, you're gonna start with that one, all right,
Speaker 3: so we can get out of the serious stuff. So
Speaker 3: on my search history, you're catching me right after lunch
Speaker 3: and once a week. It's my little routine because I
Speaker 3: need a little treat. Once a week with my lunch,
Speaker 3: I watch all the new movie previews. So my search
Speaker 3: was Godzillan Calm?
Speaker 2: Is that.
Speaker 3: For god Zillan Cam?
Speaker 2: You can laugh at me.
Speaker 3: It's listen, Godzilla was is my girl? All right, let's
Speaker 3: be real. I can be a very very serious person
Speaker 3: and intellect. However, when it comes to giant reptiles who
Speaker 3: may be female trying to protect their territory and they
Speaker 3: can shoot blue lasers out of their mouths, I am
Speaker 3: on board so hard.
Speaker 1: So the thing my pause was not just being staggered
Speaker 1: at your low brow taste. I wasn't like God. It
Speaker 1: was not me picking up the monocle that had fallen
Speaker 1: from my eye.
Speaker 4: When you said, Dodd say Godzillan Cam.
Speaker 1: I thought they made this one already they did.
Speaker 3: But it's the trailer. It's the new trailers.
Speaker 2: It's a trailer for the new sequel. So they got.
Speaker 3: Godzilla and Kong are teaming up.
Speaker 1: So the first one was gogs Godzilla Godzilla verse con.
Speaker 3: This is Godzilla x Kong, which means multi sequel.
Speaker 2: Is there's an x. It's a collabse it's a collabo.
Speaker 3: Yes man, yes man.
Speaker 2: So I was not up on this.
Speaker 3: And Kong has a metal glove.
Speaker 1: Why this.
Speaker 2: Is so ridiculous.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm gonna end up seeing this in like
Speaker 3: four D. Right, I'm gonna go to the theater where
Speaker 3: the seats move and it sprays water on you, and
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna laugh my ass off. It'snna be wonderful.
Speaker 1: Did you watch the first the v Godzilla v.
Speaker 5: Kong?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: And did you see Godzilla Minus one, which was a masterpiece.
Speaker 1: I mean, these mass equations too much for masterpiece. I
Speaker 1: didn't know there's gonna be math here. Oh yeah, sorry
Speaker 1: I cut you off.
Speaker 2: You had a no, no, no, no, it's okay, No
Speaker 2: I didn't. It's so hard for me to watch these
Speaker 2: when I'm you know, reading about Alexander Fleming and you know,
Speaker 2: like dis like the guy discovered penicillin. It's just that's
Speaker 2: the type of stuff that I like. But I have
Speaker 2: heard that, see I see. I have you seen the
Speaker 2: Apple Plus show Monarch Legacy of Monsters a couple of episodes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I liked it, I like really liked it. And of
Speaker 2: course the two Kurt Russell's were it's it's Kurt Russell
Speaker 2: and his son Quiet Russell. I believe both play the
Speaker 2: same person in different ages obviously super similar. Yeah, yeah
Speaker 2: it works. They have the U the Russell jawline, and yeah,
Speaker 2: I thought it was cool. I liked it. It wasn't perfect,
Speaker 2: but I was I was into it.
Speaker 3: I ended up I watched a couple of episodes, but
Speaker 3: it was it was okay, it was okay cool. But yeah,
Speaker 3: when it comes to the movies, I'm old school. This
Speaker 3: was my old you know when I was like when
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 1: A kid, Yeah, you fell with big monster movies like big, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what is your top?
Speaker 2: What's your number? One? Like that?
Speaker 1: So my original introduction to movies, and it remains. You know,
Speaker 1: my favorite movie was Jaws, which is a big monster movie,
Speaker 1: but like I didn't take it in that direction. I
Speaker 1: then instead just like got excited about Steven Spielberg movies
Speaker 1: and like didn't like I because I saw I think
Speaker 1: the thing that I followed up with was like a
Speaker 1: like seventies King Kong and it just like as a kid,
Speaker 1: like wasn't really doing it for me.
Speaker 3: And so my first girl crushed by the way, just.
Speaker 1: Klang, Yeah she's pretty my lord.
Speaker 3: Yeah, LORDI I was like, I'm confused.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what what's your number one big monster movie?
Speaker 3: Listen? My first which, by the way, I watch all
Speaker 3: kinds of like I'm a movie freak, so I'll watch
Speaker 3: anything and quite obsessive, but Alien was everything. Yeah for me,
Speaker 3: that movie I will watch over and over and over
Speaker 3: and over again, like the whole concept of all of it. Alien, Predator,
Speaker 3: big monster movie, Like I just I love them.
Speaker 2: They're cool, they're blast.
Speaker 3: Terminator is a monster, I think.
Speaker 2: So he is. The man is is.
Speaker 1: You know you've seen that video of him traveling to
Speaker 1: uh Brazil for a carnival, but he's no, it's wild.
Speaker 1: It's like he was the host of a travel show
Speaker 1: in the seventies and he is out of control.
Speaker 2: He talks about you like sasses and things like that.
Speaker 1: Things of this nature picks up a dancer one time,
Speaker 1: and it's like you're worried that somebody is going to
Speaker 1: be ripped to shreds. Yeah so alien, Yeah, aliens. Twister
Speaker 1: twisters thoughts you excited?
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's too many. I could barely
Speaker 2: handle one, and yeah there's multiple. Now there's multiple twisters.
Speaker 2: Do you did you ever go to the Universal the
Speaker 2: Universal studios in in La where sorry studio studio where
Speaker 2: they would have the King Kong, the massive King Kong,
Speaker 2: but they would give him banana breath, like they would
Speaker 2: have a scent of bananas, and I just looked it up.
Speaker 2: It turns out this is I'm not this isn't the
Speaker 2: beginning of my brain decaying.
Speaker 3: Would vomit.
Speaker 2: It was disgusting.
Speaker 3: You would be like I would instantly throw up.
Speaker 2: The potassium.
Speaker 1: The cinematic universe of King Kong's contains massive bananas to
Speaker 1: go with the massive King Kong.
Speaker 2: Otherwise he would.
Speaker 1: Just have to be eating bushels right, true, which is
Speaker 1: not sustainable, not sustainable, not sustainable.
Speaker 3: King Kong does not need food.
Speaker 2: No, I mean a monster.
Speaker 3: His food is excitement. I don't know, I have no fear.
Speaker 3: I don't about my monsters. Like eating and pooping, like
Speaker 3: I just really destroys the image in my head.
Speaker 1: His food like a you know, late night talk show
Speaker 1: hosts food is our adulation and applause. King Kong's food
Speaker 1: is our fear and terror.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1: What is something you think is overrated?
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 3: Okay, let's bring it back down to I think you
Speaker 3: said something. You said that you know the markets are bullshit,
Speaker 3: right Jack?
Speaker 2: You just said that.
Speaker 3: All right, So let's let's bring ourselves back there for
Speaker 3: a second. Because I was thinking a lot about this
Speaker 3: because some sports star just started some nonprofit about financial literacy.
Speaker 3: I covered financial literacy for twenty plus years. I gave
Speaker 3: financial advice. I was an editor at Money Fortune, I
Speaker 3: had a TV show all this stuff, and I can
Speaker 3: tell you I retired from it, I want to say,
Speaker 3: seventy years ago, and I'm so glad I did. Because
Speaker 3: one of the things is the realization that you cannot
Speaker 3: financially literate yourself out of a real fed up economy
Speaker 3: doesn't pay you, right, you can't the system. When I
Speaker 3: found out in covering the business for so long, covering
Speaker 3: the banks, covering how everything has made the government, the laws,
Speaker 3: the rules, you are up against. Of course, you need
Speaker 3: to know the basics, especially women and marginalized people. You
Speaker 3: have to know the basics and how to protect yourself
Speaker 3: and how to be on timeable. But the idea that
Speaker 3: so many of these things are set in motion or
Speaker 3: beyond your control, like credit scores or like you know, overdrafts,
Speaker 3: or like the market where by the way, most of
Speaker 3: the market is only fifteen percent of American people have
Speaker 3: access to the stock market. Right, So how can you now?
Speaker 3: When I started back in financial literacy, it was it
Speaker 3: was a different ballgame. And now it's like you can't
Speaker 3: sit there and teach people out of the fact that,
Speaker 3: for example, my first apartment. Let's see, my first job,
Speaker 3: I was making thirty five thousand dollars a year, New
Speaker 3: York City, Manhattan. Yeah, I could afford a studio apartment
Speaker 3: walking distance from my job.
Speaker 2: Wow, oh my god.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was seven hundred and fifty dollars. Now, and
Speaker 3: thank you, by the way for having the geriatric on
Speaker 3: your show. Now, age is good. I'm alive. I'm alive.
Speaker 3: Age is good. But goil may give you a perspective.
Speaker 3: Now I've got young people telling me that they're starting
Speaker 3: at thirty five thousand dollars a year and a studio
Speaker 3: apartment in Midtown is going for three thousand plus. Stop.
Speaker 3: How can you possibly be literal enough to get yourself
Speaker 3: out of the fact that they were just not paying
Speaker 3: people what we should be paid.
Speaker 1: Just learn more from Yeah, well, one thing I recently footstraps,
Speaker 1: no boots.
Speaker 3: Let me say it, ain't no bootstraps, they're gonna get
Speaker 3: your out of there. Say no boot you can put
Speaker 3: on your feet and get you out of this. Yes,
Speaker 3: you can all sit there and grind. But the fact
Speaker 3: of the matter is that if the system is set
Speaker 3: up so badly against us that I just hope it's
Speaker 3: so overrated. When you see financial literacy, when you see experts. Now,
Speaker 3: back when I started, there were very few experts because
Speaker 3: you actually had to be an expert. Yeah, okay, Now
Speaker 3: it's about selling things, it's about selling information, it's about
Speaker 3: selling you a program, it's about all of this. Would
Speaker 3: just be very very careful. Yeah, and then we've got
Speaker 3: to get some We've got to make some changes period.
Speaker 1: The I mean, there's definitely like a real time almost
Speaker 1: food chain like proliferation of scams that are like aiming
Speaker 1: at you and like that's definitely good to familiarize yourself with.
Speaker 1: But yeah, when I learned that financial literacy was like
Speaker 1: a pet project of big banks, yeah, I was like,
Speaker 1: oh wait a second, Yeah, like there because because it
Speaker 1: helps their narrative that like, no, the problem, the reason
Speaker 1: there's inequality has it's not systemic. It's not this system
Speaker 1: that is like just funneling massive amounts of money our way.
Speaker 1: It's actually, uh, you guys are too dumb, and we're
Speaker 1: willing to help you with that if you just like
Speaker 1: pay us for these financial literacy programs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the whole Like you're also bad because you
Speaker 3: use straws, but we are just gonna suck all the
Speaker 3: oil out of you know what I mean. It's all
Speaker 3: personal responsibility bs because they want to distract you from
Speaker 3: the fact that it's all happening upstairs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really indicative and fucked up of how bad
Speaker 2: the system is. That like beyond to your point basic understanding.
Speaker 2: It's you're supposed to be like you know what, Actually
Speaker 2: you probably should be ignorant to what's going on because
Speaker 2: it's going to make you way more upset. You actually
Speaker 2: know how fucked up the system is and how it's upsetting.
Speaker 1: That is not what the begs consider financial literacy is
Speaker 1: like knowing what they're doing.
Speaker 2: Fuck you over there there.
Speaker 1: Financial literacy is like all these financial products that we
Speaker 1: can offer you to which is why.
Speaker 3: We need Elizabeth Warren to stay where she is and
Speaker 3: do more because because of her that that things have
Speaker 3: changed and are continuing to change, and we got to
Speaker 3: change it. So you don't change the rules. They're just
Speaker 3: going to do whatever they can, right, whatever they can.
Speaker 1: Like it seems like it's similar. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's exactly the same mechanism, but the reason that taxes
Speaker 1: are so complicated in the US, like doing your own
Speaker 1: taxes is not like I feel like if you talk
Speaker 1: to people in other countries about financial literacy, they'll be like,
Speaker 1: what the fuck are you talking about? Like I just like,
Speaker 1: I know how much money I have and I try
Speaker 1: not to like spend more than that and like that.
Speaker 1: But it's so complicated because it's profitable for corporations to
Speaker 1: make it complicated.
Speaker 3: It's the government knows how much you owen taxes, all right.
Speaker 2: Yeah they can.
Speaker 3: You don't need a company to pay a company. So anyway,
Speaker 3: that's another one of the fights that's happening on Washington
Speaker 3: now to kind of outlaw the whole tax prep stuff
Speaker 3: and have people why are we paying? Why is everybody
Speaker 3: paying for this stuff?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does seem like people are kind of catching
Speaker 1: on to that one. Yes, Carmen, what is something you
Speaker 1: think is underrated? Oh?
Speaker 3: This is more fun?
Speaker 2: Do you know what?
Speaker 1: I love?
Speaker 3: Love, love love.
Speaker 2: Let's go back capital punishment.
Speaker 3: And they hold meet up. Don't get me mad? Now?
Speaker 4: Oh wow, this is thatcher Moss fun.
Speaker 3: Okay, so on shows I love because of course I'm
Speaker 3: a writer too, But I love mash up words. I
Speaker 3: don't like I'm not talking about those TikTok kind of
Speaker 3: stuff like Risen, So I'm talking about mash upboards. Because
Speaker 3: right now, the word that I can get out of
Speaker 3: my head, which I love so much is corpsicle. Is
Speaker 3: anyone watching.
Speaker 1: It?
Speaker 3: Is the idea? And I've I come across a couple
Speaker 3: more of these words, and I just love they make
Speaker 3: me so happy. Yeah, Corpsicle like the power to be
Speaker 3: able to create a word that instantly makes your brain
Speaker 3: go corpse.
Speaker 1: Know exactly what that is, and you.
Speaker 3: Know exactly what it is, and it's a nonsense word can't.
Speaker 3: By the way, I love the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you love true That's a great underrated That's that's
Speaker 2: one of honestly my favorite underrated. It's that's such a
Speaker 2: good one because it's something that you appreciate subconsciously. But
Speaker 2: then hearing you say that, I want to I want
Speaker 2: to keep an eye out for more more corpsicle type words.
Speaker 3: It's so fun. And then every time I hear corpsicle,
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, I just love it.
Speaker 1: By the way, So so that you know where I'm at,
Speaker 1: I tried to write corpsicle. I wasn't quite sure how
Speaker 1: to pronounce how to spell it, and my autocorrect change
Speaker 1: it to crop circle.
Speaker 3: So you know, what's another fantastical thing?
Speaker 2: You love science?
Speaker 3: So there you go.
Speaker 2: I love science. Is that what you said? Yes? I
Speaker 2: love science. Science signs the M Night Shamalin movie signs.
Speaker 1: That and the class that's I think that's in another
Speaker 1: M Night Shyamalan movie where Mark Wahlberg is a science
Speaker 1: teacher and he's like where just written on the board
Speaker 1: is like, where did the bees go? Oh?
Speaker 2: Wasn't that?
Speaker 3: That wasn't science? Which one was that one?
Speaker 2: That that is happening?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: My god, what about the bees though, bro, don't spoil it.
Speaker 2: Don't spoil it, don't tell us where the huge plot point.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, good one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a good one.
Speaker 1: True Detective Season four or yeah, season four has one
Speaker 1: of the most That corpsycle is the corpsicle that into
Speaker 1: all corpsicles.
Speaker 2: By the way, it's a bunch of Yeah, it's a
Speaker 2: real question.
Speaker 3: And if you like this season, look at me. I'm
Speaker 3: not doing promo for her, but I do adore her.
Speaker 3: The director of Isa Lopez right chic from Mexico. She
Speaker 3: has her horror movie Tigers Are Not Afraid was beautiful
Speaker 3: and fresh. You know, when you see a movie, it's
Speaker 3: not like you're not like, wow, that was so great
Speaker 3: and epicab but but when you see it and you go, okay,
Speaker 3: that's new. Yeah, Like how hard is it to see
Speaker 3: to watch something today and be like, Okay, that's that's new.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen that. That's her and it is brilliant.
Speaker 3: So I'm not surprised that she produced a corpsicle. Yeah,
Speaker 3: if you watch that movie, you're like, this lady's brain
Speaker 3: is different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Meliki Oh that only has a ninety seven percent
Speaker 2: on Rotten tomatoes. That's all.
Speaker 3: It's not afraid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so happy for her. My movies to watch list
Speaker 2: me too.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, so good, so good, by the way Etha
Speaker 3: Lovio Loaveo. Okay, moving on.
Speaker 1: She's a big fan, as are all great, brilliant you know,
Speaker 1: directors who think different. They are huge fans of the day.
Speaker 1: He's ichists, All right, let's take a quick break and
Speaker 1: come back and we'll run through some news stories.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
Speaker 5: Okay, and we're back.
Speaker 1: And I do like to every once in a while
Speaker 1: check in with my good friend at the Dread Report.
Speaker 2: Every once in a while. There's just you do.
Speaker 1: The Drudgs Report is like gets more traffic than the
Speaker 1: New York Times, and it is only one page. It
Speaker 1: has like as many page views as the New York Times.
Speaker 1: And it's just a bunch of links that this strange
Speaker 1: man puts up on his weird conservative website. And yesterday
Speaker 1: it was all about Russia space nukes and how you know,
Speaker 1: just in like big font red lettering. That's usually when
Speaker 1: he's like, this is the one that everybody should be
Speaker 1: paying attention to. So I have to assume that this anxiety,
Speaker 1: the anxiety over Russian space nuclear weapons has entered the
Speaker 1: American bloodstream.
Speaker 2: So I just wanted to kind.
Speaker 1: Of take a quick look at how this came about.
Speaker 1: It started with a person in the US House Intelligence
Speaker 1: Committee who Mike Turner, some name that is just like
Speaker 1: two very common names sandwich together, very plain. But he's
Speaker 1: he's someone who, like when I mentioned him to people
Speaker 1: who I don't think are even that politically active, they're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm Mike Turner. So I just might not be totally
Speaker 1: up on this person. But he got briefed on something
Speaker 1: and was immediately like, oh my god, like you need
Speaker 1: to like let us know what is happening here, you
Speaker 1: need to let it like declassify this whole thing, and
Speaker 1: like dropped hints that it was involved Russia and nuclear
Speaker 1: weapons and space, and that's a scary combination. I can
Speaker 1: see how that is a scary combination. Jackpot. So the
Speaker 1: reality of the situation is that I will just read
Speaker 1: directly from the article that like people were able to
Speaker 1: put together using actual sourcing, US intelligence shows that Russia
Speaker 1: is discussing the possibility of basing a nuclear weapon in space.
Speaker 1: So they're discussing the possibility. But we did not discover
Speaker 1: that Russia has a nuclear missile in orbit pointing at
Speaker 1: our head? Are we are reporting on a conversation that
Speaker 1: we think might be happening in Russia? And why would
Speaker 1: they have a nuclear weapon in space? Because it could
Speaker 1: be used to threaten our satellite communication. So another detail
Speaker 1: that made me less stressed out about this, like thinking
Speaker 1: about basing a weapon in space that could fuck with
Speaker 1: my Wi Fi and cellular signal.
Speaker 2: Like, now I'm freaked out. Now I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I think that's absolutely horrifying. Yeah, that is a nightmare scenario.
Speaker 3: That is truly nightmare. Truly.
Speaker 1: It also feels like not the way you would attack
Speaker 1: someone's communication is to just blow all of the satellites
Speaker 1: out of the sky with a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 2: Like that's where you're wrong. That's where you're wrong. It's
Speaker 2: not going to blow it. They're actually going to just
Speaker 2: have it ram into the satellites and break them. So
Speaker 2: no explosives, It's going to orbit around, bumping in satellites.
Speaker 2: I believe it's what Mike, Mike Turner or whoever this
Speaker 2: for you in the room, What the hell?
Speaker 3: You know A lot of a lot of circles, you know,
Speaker 3: a lot of details.
Speaker 2: It's a bumper car, nuclear power, bumps, bumper nuke.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's terrifying.
Speaker 3: Look, I mean it's a conversation, but with the idea
Speaker 3: of knocking out communication is terrifying. Yeah, because everything runs
Speaker 3: on everything runs.
Speaker 2: On it now, Yeah, for sure, I guess yeah, trains, automobiles. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I just saw all the water come out of Jack's
Speaker 2: body when he had to say automobiles. Yeah, like you're
Speaker 2: all skin and teeth.
Speaker 3: We had to say it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry I put you in that position. I
Speaker 2: thought this was already happening. I just figured they were
Speaker 2: already in space, that we had them. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like there's going to be lots of
Speaker 1: satellite based warfare happening in the near future. It just
Speaker 1: it feels less scary than the idea of that. The
Speaker 1: headline was communicating to me that a nuclear weapon was
Speaker 1: going to be shot from space at us and we
Speaker 1: wouldn't have any warning and everything go boom. People are
Speaker 1: pointing out like so, everyone was like, so why did
Speaker 1: he just like leak the scariest possible version of this
Speaker 1: story that we've known about for many years that has
Speaker 1: been like an ongoing, you know, piece of information that
Speaker 1: the intelligence committees were aware of, and people think it's possible.
Speaker 1: Reasons have to do with trying to make people more
Speaker 1: scared of Russia to get the Ukraine Israel funding bill
Speaker 1: through the House where it is currently stalled out. There's
Speaker 1: also a bill coming up that affects the government's ability
Speaker 1: to spy on us, and so if they can get
Speaker 1: people scared enough, they feel like, maybe, you know, they
Speaker 1: need a good scare around. Every time that thing is
Speaker 1: getting ratified or re ratified.
Speaker 3: Feels very smoke bomby. Yes, yeah, yeah, you know, it's
Speaker 3: just very much like just throwing out smoke bomb. H
Speaker 3: don't look over here, look over there. All the fires
Speaker 3: over there, Wait, the fires over there. Yeah, my ex
Speaker 3: husband's used.
Speaker 1: To do that, right with literal smoke you've mainly been
Speaker 1: married to.
Speaker 4: I would be like, I would be.
Speaker 3: Like, there's a smoke bomb. You're like look over there,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, I'm still right here. I'm not moving
Speaker 3: my gaze, man, my daze stays right here where it
Speaker 3: should be. But is that that's the tactic and it's
Speaker 3: just really stupidly tried and true type of typical tact.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Even Representative Andy Ogels, which that can't be a real name,
Speaker 1: but we'll go with it. On Thursday, Ques Turner of
Speaker 1: having ulterior motives, citing the battle over both funding for
Speaker 1: Ukraine and a bill to reauthorize the nation's warrant less
Speaker 1: by powers, each of which has raised some opposition. By
Speaker 1: the way, Andy Ogles is a Republican from Tennessee. So
Speaker 1: he's like in this guy's party and he's like, guys,
Speaker 1: this is for real.
Speaker 2: This is dumb. And they said, yes, for real, this
Speaker 2: is dumb. And that's really You.
Speaker 3: Gotta assume that there's always some truth in these things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the intelligence.
Speaker 3: It's still smoke, like there's still something happening.
Speaker 2: It definitely.
Speaker 1: It created a new action movie in my mind, Oh boy,
Speaker 1: where we're like blowing each other's satellites out of the
Speaker 1: sky and it's like satellite Wars and.
Speaker 2: It is Tyreese and ludicrous in a car that.
Speaker 3: Has been.
Speaker 1: Yes, like something similar happens in one of the Fast
Speaker 1: and Furious movies, but they instead of blowing a satellite
Speaker 1: up with uh nuke, they drive into space in a car.
Speaker 2: Yes, and yes it is still a car. It's important
Speaker 2: to note it's not a plane. It's not a satellite,
Speaker 2: it is a car, so it still fits in vital. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it is vital. There's a there's a show on by
Speaker 2: the way. I love that, Like you have me as
Speaker 2: a co host and all my expertise is from someone
Speaker 2: who just got an Apple Plus subscription. But show on
Speaker 2: Apple Plus season two where it's called for All Mankind
Speaker 2: and the premise is if the Soviets won the space race. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and we've had already on the show before. Yeah. I
Speaker 2: really really like it and it's kind of a vehicle
Speaker 2: to There are some like corny parts where like Ted
Speaker 2: Kennedy becomes president because chap equittic doesn't happen because of
Speaker 2: like a scheduling issue. Yeah, but uh, it is a
Speaker 2: similar premise. I think like later in the show there
Speaker 2: might be uh nuke nukean space situation or whatever. But
Speaker 2: it is a good show. It sounds like a total
Speaker 2: bullshit boring premise, like, okay, but it's good.
Speaker 3: Did you see what you leave the world behind?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, but we talked about.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I actually had to look up the name
Speaker 3: because I just know iticed the the Amahasharat Ali, that
Speaker 3: beautiful man and the Obama movie, and I was that's
Speaker 3: exactly the promise. The satellites are out and it throws
Speaker 3: the world into complete chaos and planes fall out of
Speaker 3: the sky and it's it's horrifying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what plan is that? What would happen if the
Speaker 2: satellites went out? They would just be like, well, there
Speaker 2: goes that. Guys.
Speaker 1: We were really dependent on the satellite up here in
Speaker 1: the flight deck, so we're just gonna take her down rapidly.
Speaker 3: We don't know how to fly this thing.
Speaker 1: We're just here for.
Speaker 3: Y'all. Feel better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. The satellites are magnets that keep
Speaker 2: the plane up in the air.
Speaker 1: That movie seems like it was very full of shit
Speaker 1: to me, but maybe, well, yeah.
Speaker 3: It's still scary. Still scary, all right.
Speaker 1: So, being of the difference between like real fears and
Speaker 1: bullshit fears, we got this new glimpse of the future
Speaker 1: with AI where America is using AI to continue to
Speaker 1: innovate new and exciting ways to make life miserable for
Speaker 1: the most vulnerable people in our country, and that in
Speaker 1: the in this instance, that means soul crushing hurdles for
Speaker 1: people to jump through in order to simply apply to
Speaker 1: work for McDonald's. So companies like FedEx, McDonald's and Darden,
Speaker 1: who is the company the restaurant group that you know
Speaker 1: has all of Garden, et cetera, are all clients of
Speaker 1: Paradox dot Ai, a tech startup that helps them out
Speaker 1: with the hiring process. And it's got so it asks
Speaker 1: applicants to go through a lengthy and completely baffling personality
Speaker 1: test starring a blue humanoid alien named Ash, and, as
Speaker 1: one applicant complained on Reddit, quote man, I just want
Speaker 1: a dishwasher job.
Speaker 2: Why this shit?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 1: As outlined in an article I'm for for media, the
Speaker 1: test consists of images featuring Ash in a variety of
Speaker 1: situations and you have to click on one of two boxes,
Speaker 1: either me or not me. And some of the images
Speaker 1: like make sense within the context of a job application,
Speaker 1: like there's one in which Ash is being yelled at
Speaker 1: by customer. Also, a blue humanoid alien kind of looks
Speaker 1: like if Pixar made an Avatar movie set entirely inside
Speaker 1: an olive garden and it was like the year nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety one, because the you know, humanoid aliens, aren't.
Speaker 2: I agree like that a second what you just said,
Speaker 2: I would I would watch that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there you go, Jos. But so you have
Speaker 1: to answer it's like, what does this say not much
Speaker 1: bothers me me or not me? I think we know
Speaker 1: the answer to that one, right, Like that's yes. If
Speaker 1: you've if you've had to just like ace a personality
Speaker 1: test for a job interview before, Yeah, no, that's me.
Speaker 1: Nothing bothers me. I like, actually, people screaming in my face.
Speaker 2: That's my food. That's actually how I you know, how.
Speaker 1: Can kong off our screams?
Speaker 3: And yeah, so you have no bananas?
Speaker 1: Yeah right, no need for gigantic bananas because you just
Speaker 1: feed me your customer. There is derision and that is
Speaker 1: what gets me through the day.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Third option, yes, endless, but you have bottomless karens.
Speaker 1: Yes. Other images are like kind of existential and just
Speaker 1: like kind of random feeling, like one where Ash has
Speaker 1: fallen off a bicycle that is like a sci fi bicycle,
Speaker 1: like one of the wheels doesn't have spokes on it,
Speaker 1: it seems like and hurt his knee, accompanied by the
Speaker 1: caption things happen to me me not me. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you could possibly take an answer
Speaker 1: to that question and hold it either against someone or
Speaker 1: like for them like I can.
Speaker 2: It's very clear. So if you you don't want to
Speaker 2: hire someone who just shit happens to them all the time,
Speaker 2: like it's a liability. People can fall off bikes, Like
Speaker 2: when something happens to you, Jack, it's your fault. Does
Speaker 2: that make sense? So things don't happen to me.
Speaker 1: I go through the world dominating everything I see, and
Speaker 1: that is what's going to make me a good dishwasher
Speaker 1: at Olive Garden.
Speaker 3: And you're not gonna you fell off your bike.
Speaker 2: That's correct, that's correct.
Speaker 3: Bikes.
Speaker 2: Things happen to me. Things happen.
Speaker 1: It's like such a philosophical question.
Speaker 3: It's really personality tests them.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, we will get to that. It is complete guard Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's just like I'm just trying to put myself
Speaker 1: in the position of like the poor fucking people. And
Speaker 1: also like you're going to a website that says like
Speaker 1: dot ai, so you're like, oh, this is like some
Speaker 1: next level like computer mind shit where it's like judging
Speaker 1: me and telling me like I'm worthy or not worthy,
Speaker 1: and like somehow there's a blue humanoid alien involved. It's
Speaker 1: just it's like this extra little mind fuck to make
Speaker 1: the thing seem impressive.
Speaker 2: I guess dot I mean smart. Yeah, Like that's that's
Speaker 2: what it's Oh, so I'm actually done. It makes you
Speaker 2: feel even more inadequate, probably because there's also in you know,
Speaker 2: it's being like financial literacy also internet literacy and these
Speaker 2: questions where the these poor applicants are going to get
Speaker 2: just so in their head, and not only is it
Speaker 2: going to be a nightmare experience to get the end
Speaker 2: goal of getting a job, they also are gonna not
Speaker 2: feel as good about themselves and it's going to cause
Speaker 2: more stress in an already stressful situation. This is a bomber.
Speaker 3: That's what they're trying to do. Yeah, there's always watching you.
Speaker 1: That's what they're trying to make you feel like you
Speaker 1: just made big brother sound cool though you called him,
Speaker 1: yeah brother a brother. The the images are probably AI
Speaker 1: generated and that's basically all is that is AI about
Speaker 1: this because the test seems to be just a good
Speaker 1: old fashioned personality test, relying on the Ocean model, which
Speaker 1: was created back in the eighties, and the big five
Speaker 1: categories they say matter like why it's called ocean is openness, conscientiousness,
Speaker 1: extra version, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
Speaker 2: You don't want to score big on the neuroticism scale.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you that detailer job.
Speaker 2: Oh you do?
Speaker 1: Oh shit, yeah, I've just that. No wonder, I have need,
Speaker 1: no wonder. I was the worst waiter of all time.
Speaker 1: I was actually a pretty good dishwasher though, and a
Speaker 1: pretty good butler, but could not Yeah, fucking at being
Speaker 1: a waiter.
Speaker 2: You've been too hard on yourself. I'm sure you were fine. You.
Speaker 3: I was going to say, if you could be a
Speaker 3: good butler, you had have to have been a good server.
Speaker 1: Better than I was a better butler than a waiter,
Speaker 1: but not a very good not very good at that either.
Speaker 1: There was one time where a woman was like, all right,
Speaker 1: we have a wedding, like I need you to iron
Speaker 1: this for me, and I brought it back and she
Speaker 1: was like, could you bring me the iron and just
Speaker 1: and then let me watch her do it. She was like,
Speaker 1: you should watch. They say you're being better at this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you suck at this. You were a butler, because
Speaker 2: I just accepted that as a normal answer, that you
Speaker 2: were a butler.
Speaker 5: And then.
Speaker 1: At a British hotel it was a butler, of course.
Speaker 2: Yeah. It's like a bel at a British hotel. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the butler, I do have butler face.
Speaker 1: My mouth is always like a little a quosity.
Speaker 3: It's a different RBF and he's got it correct.
Speaker 1: But yeah, So the actual AI offered by the company
Speaker 1: is actually a chat bot named other than the cool
Speaker 1: ash pictures that accompany the test, a chat bot named
Speaker 1: Olivia who takes applicants through the application process, helps hiring
Speaker 1: managers filter through applicants and schedule interviews and is and
Speaker 1: you're going to be shocked to hear this if you've
Speaker 1: ever used like a non human assistant is fucking terrible
Speaker 1: at their job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry. I didn't understand that. I'm sorry. I
Speaker 2: didn't understand that. I'm sorry. I didn't understand that. It's
Speaker 2: just the same message you get over and over and
Speaker 2: over again. God forbid, you have a person a job? Yeah,
Speaker 2: to do it.
Speaker 1: I'll start believing in this technology when I'm on a
Speaker 1: phone tree and like my brain doesn't immediately be like
Speaker 1: operator operator, let me speak to a human please, could
Speaker 1: I speak?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've just never things are happening to me. These
Speaker 2: things are happening to me right now. This is what
Speaker 2: I'm talking about Yes, I listen, it's all this.
Speaker 3: Two things psych it's it's biah in this. This is
Speaker 3: not smart. This is not smart stuff. Come on people,
Speaker 3: come on. Look, there's a sales guy from the tech
Speaker 3: company who goes to Mickeyd's headquarters and goes, guys, I
Speaker 3: got this new technology and you really need to and
Speaker 3: I really help you with your bottom blah blah blah,
Speaker 3: And it's all a bunch of BS numbers and they're like, well,
Speaker 3: that's cool, sign us up.
Speaker 1: This is this is all it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's amusing but sad to that point.
Speaker 1: Paradox is valued at one point five billion dollars, and
Speaker 1: yet most of these hiring chatbots are not even as
Speaker 1: advanced or elaborate as chad GPT. They are rudimentary and
Speaker 1: can only ask basic questions, so brutal. Yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: a blue humanoid alien gloss on the same shit that's
Speaker 1: been happening. And everybody has recognized if you throw AI
Speaker 1: on it, it's gonna it's going to sell your salespeople
Speaker 1: are going to have a much easier time selling it
Speaker 1: because everybody's just like, wow, if you want me to.
Speaker 3: Not like you right away, do one of the same Oh,
Speaker 3: what's your what's your personality test or what's your what's
Speaker 3: your your ocean or what's your blah blah blah. That's
Speaker 3: actually happened, actually had people do that. Yeah, I'd rather
Speaker 3: you ask me my goddamn sign. Yeah, like just don't
Speaker 3: Yeah bad, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, it's it's all bullshit. And there is like
Speaker 1: interesting stuff being done in AI, Like I think right
Speaker 1: now they're trying to like, you know, they figured out
Speaker 1: the folding of like how proteins are folded. That is
Speaker 1: still the thing that I'm going to like AI. It
Speaker 1: has solved a scientific medical issue that is going to
Speaker 1: help into cure disease. So great, it was all worth it.
Speaker 1: But it's just once it gets into the level of
Speaker 1: if a salesperson is trying to sell it, then you're
Speaker 1: probably fucked in some way. It's not like trying to
Speaker 1: solve a existing problem like I don't know, death, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be good. There's also a new one
Speaker 1: that I just read about where they're trying an AI
Speaker 1: is trying to figure out how to translate smell like
Speaker 1: a so a computer can like evaluate a smell of bananas,
Speaker 1: so they can create more realistic banana breath for kinj
Speaker 1: kanj for kim. Yeah, but like that smell is actually
Speaker 1: like if you've ever seen dogs who can like smell
Speaker 1: cancer and like like various diseases have sense, and so
Speaker 1: it would be like an amazing breakthrough. It would be
Speaker 1: like basically what Farahnose was promising with like just a
Speaker 1: time I need a bit of blanks. If you don't
Speaker 1: need any blood, it just like comes up and kind
Speaker 1: of you get sniffed by a robot. So it seems
Speaker 1: a little unnerving, but I like it. Where Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a good point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it's a good point.
Speaker 3: That's an excellent I take it back as long as
Speaker 3: it's not ANTHROPOMORPHI.
Speaker 1: Rob Yeah, yeah, come here, come here, let me let
Speaker 1: me get a whiff of you.
Speaker 2: Give just if this is a thing is an object,
Speaker 2: why'd you make it a person? Get over here, let
Speaker 2: me get a good whiff of you. Why is its
Speaker 2: voice so low?
Speaker 1: The smelly gets smoked cigarettes. Yeah all right, Uh, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break and.
Speaker 2: We'll come back and talk about Tesla will be right back.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back, and we're back, and so cyber
Speaker 1: trucks are already you know, they finally shipped about a
Speaker 1: month and a half ago, started selling to a lot
Speaker 1: of Lumfaan boys, started selling above sticker being traded on
Speaker 1: stock x like they were a pair of sneakers. But
Speaker 1: now people are pointing out, like now they've had a
Speaker 1: little time to spend with them, that this machine that
Speaker 1: was supposed to be able to handle torrents of gunfire
Speaker 1: cannot stand up to a little bit of rain. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: they've been complaining on forums about small orange flex appearing
Speaker 1: on the car after driving it in the rain for
Speaker 1: Oh but this is I mean, how how is a
Speaker 1: car supposed to be able to stand out for they
Speaker 1: were driving on the rain for two days. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, guys, cars can't hold Oh wait no, I
Speaker 1: was thinking that's a that's a tissue box. Can't stand
Speaker 1: to be outside for two days?
Speaker 2: You make that mistake? Yeah all the time? God crying
Speaker 2: on our friendship.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I need to get the need to put the
Speaker 1: poster backup that has car tissue box.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so this is as a result of.
Speaker 1: Its unusual stainless steel exoskeleton, which it also has a
Speaker 1: trouble with stains. The owner's manual mentions the possibility of
Speaker 1: corrosion with a surprisingly quote fussy maintenance guide for a
Speaker 1: car that looks like it belongs to RoboCop, requiring drivers
Speaker 1: to immediately remove corrosive substances like grease, oil, bird droppings,
Speaker 1: tree resin, dead insects, tar spots, road salt, industrial fallout,
Speaker 1: et cetera.
Speaker 3: So never leave the garage.
Speaker 1: Yes, this is like this feels like have you ever
Speaker 1: like gotten a really expensive pair of shoes or like
Speaker 1: like a really nice shirt and then you're just like
Speaker 1: terrified to wear it like that. It's that if you
Speaker 1: were like driving that shirt, driving around with that shirt
Speaker 1: on the outside of your car, like you really well done.
Speaker 3: It's supposed to be well made. It to lass you forever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the whole point, right. There's this substance on
Speaker 1: the exterior of cars that's called the orange peel. That
Speaker 1: is like this thick layer of wax and plastic that
Speaker 1: is the thing that makes your car glossy, and it's
Speaker 1: the thing that keeps your you know, the metal on
Speaker 1: your car separated from the elements. And it's one of
Speaker 1: those things that I'm sure Elon Musk didn't fuck with
Speaker 1: because he wanted the car to look like it was
Speaker 1: from the future, but it existed all these years for
Speaker 1: a reason. It turns out like that. You can't just
Speaker 1: have the metal that's inside the car just on the
Speaker 1: outside of the car. It's going to look like a
Speaker 1: rust it out piece of ship pretty soon, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, is that what it is?
Speaker 3: Maybe you know?
Speaker 2: Yeah, some some may say, some may say.
Speaker 1: It says you have to like remove the like remove
Speaker 1: a dead bug immediately from your car.
Speaker 2: Is like so stressful. I can't imagine having pull over.
Speaker 3: Bank has sat listen. Nobody looks cool.
Speaker 2: In that thing. I think they look no, no, no no.
Speaker 2: If I get a couple of I think if I
Speaker 2: drove it shirtless, I could probably pull it off.
Speaker 3: If you listen. If you're going to get a car
Speaker 3: like that, you had better be full on looking like
Speaker 3: freaking matrix. Okay, please.
Speaker 1: Going to.
Speaker 3: Have a car that falls apart in the rain, but yeah,
Speaker 3: something about bullets. Just dress for the occasion. Please entertain us,
Speaker 3: please with the full picture.
Speaker 2: That is funny that it can repel bullets but not water.
Speaker 1: It is a very Yeah, it is like the aliens
Speaker 1: and signs poop. There you go.
Speaker 3: Everything has a weakness.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be a good that that should have
Speaker 1: been the aliens and signs weakness not water.
Speaker 2: I thought you're gonna say they should have all been
Speaker 2: cyber trucks.
Speaker 1: They should have all been driving around in cyber trucks.
Speaker 2: That would have been Yeah, that would have been crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now that the cyber truck owners are having to take
Speaker 1: maintenance tips from people who owned another doomed stainless steel
Speaker 1: vanity car, the DeLorean, and it's like, no, Actually, if
Speaker 1: you like do wind decks like the second after you
Speaker 1: drive it for five minutes, you can actually keep it
Speaker 1: looking pretty good. But you have to like keep windex
Speaker 1: with you and stop every two miles.
Speaker 5: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no passenger seats in it because it's the
Speaker 2: loneliest people in the world. No need.
Speaker 3: It's all right, but also too, you know, you want
Speaker 3: to see some badass bulletproof cars, all you got to
Speaker 3: do is go to South America. Man, they are everywhere
Speaker 3: I've seen them. They look fire, and trust me, they're gorgeous.
Speaker 3: The leather is fabulous, and the drivers like buff and
Speaker 3: everyone looks fly. So that's all you need.
Speaker 2: Like that, Yeah, I'm in con me in.
Speaker 1: Worth, noting Tesla had the worst performance of any S
Speaker 1: and P five hundred stock this year, So you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It just feels like he's like the
Speaker 1: stuff that has been evident to a lot of out
Speaker 1: who are paying attention for a long time. Like even
Speaker 1: the fanboys in the financial industry are starting to be like, wait,
Speaker 1: but like, what if he doesn't know what the fuck
Speaker 1: he's talking about? What if it's all Yeah, So anyways,
Speaker 1: we'll keep.
Speaker 2: Our eye on it.
Speaker 3: Have nothing good to say.
Speaker 1: This is market watch and uhket watch.
Speaker 2: Yeh, finally the podcast has made this pivot, the pivot that.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Let's do it. We're gonna have someone reading a ticker
Speaker 2: throughout the entire Oh.
Speaker 3: I would have so much fun, you don't even know.
Speaker 3: I would give you the backstory of every CEO. It's
Speaker 3: some one of my favorite pastimes.
Speaker 2: CEO jur that's too interesting, too interesting? Yeah, just numbers.
Speaker 1: You give us the craziest or most interesting story about
Speaker 1: an anonymous US CEO that.
Speaker 3: You well, there's no anon because everybody knows if I
Speaker 3: say anything, but it's all playing out. Look look at
Speaker 3: go look at who was on the cover of Forbes
Speaker 3: Forbes even has its own thing about how many people
Speaker 3: were on the cover of Forbes that are that were criminals. Wow, right,
Speaker 3: criminals bitcoin three us right. Uh, we work like we've
Speaker 3: seen all this stuff. And one of the biggest signs
Speaker 3: is when somebody comes in like mister you know who
Speaker 3: and says they founded a company that they that's right
Speaker 3: off the bat.
Speaker 2: You know this this trashy interesting, right.
Speaker 3: Trash because anybody with a personality, let's go back to personalities,
Speaker 3: anybody in the personality that says something like that is
Speaker 3: a dangerous person meaning dangerous like they'll take your money
Speaker 3: and they won't give a shit.
Speaker 1: So be careful, people, keep your head on a swivel
Speaker 1: out there people, while you're out there in this market,
Speaker 1: in this market world of ours. Carmen Rita Wong. What
Speaker 1: a pleasure having you on the daily Zeitgeist?
Speaker 2: As always?
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff.
Speaker 3: Always happy to be with you, guys, Blake, so nice
Speaker 3: to be with you. Yeah, you can get me at Instagram,
Speaker 3: off social aw that Carmen Rita Wongo dot com.
Speaker 2: And is there a work of media that you've been enjoying.
Speaker 3: That I've been enjoying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's talk about something about more media.
Speaker 3: Okay, this is this is my wheelhouse. I am a
Speaker 3: dune freak since the book, I will absorb anything Dune related.
Speaker 1: Wow, So should people where should people are?
Speaker 2: Book?
Speaker 1: It was my brother, my big brother and I.
Speaker 3: It's a real tattoo. My big brother and I were.
Speaker 3: We were the biggest duneheads when we were kids. So yeah,
Speaker 3: that's for him, not for Denny Villanuev the director, or
Speaker 3: the bad movie from the eighties. But it's just great stuff.
Speaker 2: Do you like part one?
Speaker 3: I did like it a lot. Yeah, I like anything
Speaker 3: the director does, be ann but this one. The buzz
Speaker 3: on the number two is that is insane, like way
Speaker 3: above number one.
Speaker 1: Number one was like cool, but it felt like I
Speaker 1: think I think. I also didn't know how much of it,
Speaker 1: like how to what degree it was like the first
Speaker 1: half of a movie. You know, Yeah, yeah it was,
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 3: But the second one is supposed to be bonkers. So
Speaker 3: I've got seats on the first night. I cannot wait.
Speaker 1: Yea.
Speaker 3: And if you want to laugh a lot and have
Speaker 3: some fun, do it while you're inebriated. Watch the first
Speaker 3: movie done with sting in a tiny little metal bikini pants.
Speaker 1: It's oh yeah, David Lynch, great bad, yeah, good good
Speaker 1: good bed Blake.
Speaker 2: Wexler, Happy birthday to Blake, Happy birthday, birthday to you.
Speaker 2: You both.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? Follow you, wish you happy birthday,
Speaker 1: all that good stuff.
Speaker 2: People can wish me happy birthday for the rest of
Speaker 2: the year until my next day, completely honest at Blake Wexler,
Speaker 2: this is my food. Nourish me with your birth, with
Speaker 2: my own birth. I don't know what that and milk
Speaker 2: me so. Also some stand up dates. March fifteenth, I'll
Speaker 2: be at a Strong Rope Brewery in Brooklyn, New York. Goannas.
Speaker 2: April will be in Cincinnati, Bristol, Tennessee, and Pittsburgh. In
Speaker 2: May and June, I'll be in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 1: Austin, Texas, the capital of stand.
Speaker 2: Up, the capital of conservative.
Speaker 3: No, not Austin. Austin's Blue, Austin's Blue.
Speaker 2: Austin food is great. I love it.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: I do like coming to Austin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is there workimedia you've been enjoying?
Speaker 2: Yes, Apple plus No so the Whole Cattle seven ninety
Speaker 2: nine a month sponsored by Dave Ross, who's a very
Speaker 2: funny stand up comedian. His Instagram handle is Dave to
Speaker 2: the Ross. He's been doing this thing where he takes
Speaker 2: stock like sports team logos that you would see like
Speaker 2: a high school use or like a beer league or something,
Speaker 2: and then instead of the team name, he edits it
Speaker 2: to like these very like these very funny lines. So
Speaker 2: there'll be one with like a like a guy about
Speaker 2: to hike a football and it just says, do you
Speaker 2: know a good therapist? But in a team, you know,
Speaker 2: in the team fun. And there's another one where it's
Speaker 2: like a guy like a skull wearing a football helmet,
Speaker 2: you know, kind of like a Raiders logo but a
Speaker 2: little bit Halloween, and it just said I died playing football,
Speaker 2: and an angry ball saying I'm always afraid. Like it's
Speaker 2: it's very very I'm describing an image based work of media,
Speaker 2: which I probably shouldn't have done. But if you go
Speaker 2: to Dave to the Ross, it's very very very funny, silly.
Speaker 2: That's great, smart too, Yeah, yeah, it's great. I love it.
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter a Jack Underscore O'Brien tweet.
Speaker 1: I've been enjoying. I just saw Dopey the Dumbfuck on
Speaker 1: Twitter at Pete Underscore irons eight seven to two O six.
Speaker 2: Usually I'll just do the at.
Speaker 1: But his was so long convoluted, I just had to
Speaker 1: use what he wrote his name as Dopey the dumbfuck
Speaker 1: tweeted getting a question wrong at trivia and faking a
Speaker 1: hamstring pool and.
Speaker 2: Oh shit, damn it just rolling around on the ground.
Speaker 1: And then Austin Heimer tweeted, what if instead of the sixties,
Speaker 1: the New Fantastic Four took place in the seventies and
Speaker 1: instead of Pedro Pascal, it started Ryan Gosling and Russell
Speaker 1: Crowe and instead of being superheroes, they were both private detectives.
Speaker 2: Oh I love that movie.
Speaker 1: Was fun.
Speaker 2: That movie was fun.
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Speaker 1: to the information that we talked about in today's episode,
Speaker 1: as well as a song that we think you might enjoy.
Speaker 1: Super producer Justin Connor, is there a song that you
Speaker 1: think people might enjoy?
Speaker 6: Yeah, So this track has a vintage smoky jazz club
Speaker 6: vibe to it. It's from a Brazilian Norwegian singer songwriter,
Speaker 6: Charlotte Do Santos. There's some gorgeous falsetto and vocal work
Speaker 6: going on here. It's really chilling viby. So check out
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Speaker 6: and you can find that song in the footnotes footnotes.
Speaker 2: All right, we will look off to that.
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