Speaker 1: Don't get the flu. How are you?
Speaker 2: Are you back like eighty eighty something percent?
Speaker 3: Shit sucked?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've heard this flu is really bad.
Speaker 3: That's crazy, dude, in America, I haven't heard anything about it.
Speaker 1: We actually don't have a flu. And that's a shot
Speaker 1: or actually conspiracy, Bill Gates bro shot fire.
Speaker 3: That's crazy, dude. That's crazy that you feel like you
Speaker 3: have to lie for the globalists, Brian. I didn't think that.
Speaker 3: I didn't think that was you, Bro, lie.
Speaker 1: For the Globe. I used to love the game man,
Speaker 1: you know what, I don't have to sign him on anymore.
Speaker 3: Actually, I think I'm actually on.
Speaker 2: This side because I don't. I can't tell you. I
Speaker 2: can't even be accurate with what a globalist is.
Speaker 3: I don't either.
Speaker 4: To me, it's someone who's who leaves that the Earth
Speaker 4: is round. That's just my slur as a flat earther.
Speaker 2: Right, those are the what do they call them? They
Speaker 2: haven't round ears. They call them globers.
Speaker 1: Fucking globers out here trying to fly to the north Harlem.
Speaker 3: But hold on now, it's getting a little charged.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a bunch of Harlem globe products, if you know
Speaker 4: what I mean?
Speaker 1: Just racist.
Speaker 4: I was more of a what was the other team
Speaker 4: that alway played the Washington Washington Generals, the Generals. I
Speaker 4: was always a Washington General's guy myself, if you know
Speaker 4: what I mean.
Speaker 2: That's such are they were just there to lose while
Speaker 2: that they were called the Washington Generals like they couldn't
Speaker 2: be more of like I mean, it's very subversive when
Speaker 2: you think about it, when they were pulling down their opponents,
Speaker 2: when they were pulling down their opponents pants, they're pulling
Speaker 2: down the pants off of the Pentagon, the Washington jender roles.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm just saying that would be that would be
Speaker 1: so wild if you like, we're told you had a
Speaker 1: meeting that like the har Harlem glob trotters wanted to
Speaker 1: recruit you, and you came in and it was they
Speaker 1: wanted to recruit you for the Washington general.
Speaker 2: Hey man, the way I have, the way with your paints,
Speaker 2: look around your ankles, we gotta get you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those pasty thighs, man, you would you would look
Speaker 1: great in a pair of heart boxer shorts when we
Speaker 1: pulled as long better as long as your basketball exactly.
Speaker 2: Didn't krusty like when he was like gambling didn't. He
Speaker 2: like there was a little money on.
Speaker 1: The gambling on the Washington Generals. He's like, here's the
Speaker 1: they were doin there was that they were do joke
Speaker 1: in there. Yeah, man, I'm actually playing with the Globetrotters.
Speaker 3: Oh cool, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: Your game was always like about the fundamentals mainly, and
Speaker 1: like your pants falling down every once in a while.
Speaker 3: I'm going on tour with the Globetrotters for the Generals.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I'm a basketball punching bag.
Speaker 3: That's what I've become.
Speaker 1: I'm just really like that I'm the most skilled at
Speaker 1: falling for a crossover of anyone. They're just like they
Speaker 1: go they go watch those YouTube videos of people getting
Speaker 1: crossed up, and they're like, who's this kid? The guy
Speaker 1: doing the cross No, no, the guy who just fell down.
Speaker 2: Comes you come out of both your shoes and your
Speaker 2: pants falls down, and you just get off from a recruiter.
Speaker 1: Somehow you got a bucket stuck on your head after
Speaker 1: somebody crosses you over.
Speaker 3: Wait where wild that bucket come from? Exactly? No one knows.
Speaker 3: This kid's just got it. This kid's fucking got it.
Speaker 3: You know that sound you're looking for.
Speaker 1: He holds up the phone and it's just.
Speaker 3: Up the mill. That's him shooting live all right?
Speaker 1: Was that raake there the whole time? How does he
Speaker 1: keep finding the rakes? There's a rake on your basketball court.
Speaker 1: This guy's gonna find it. Hello the Internet, and welcome
Speaker 1: to this week trend edition of Day Guys Say production
Speaker 1: of My Heart Radio this PoCA uh where we tell
Speaker 1: you what was trending over the weekend. My name is
Speaker 1: Jack O'Brien, and not over there is mister Miles.
Speaker 4: Whoa, whoa poorly for that kind of screaming. It's it's
Speaker 4: me though, I'm here, I'm doing it.
Speaker 1: You are. We're both doing the damn thing on a
Speaker 1: Monday exactly. Get just like a re entry, like a
Speaker 1: couple of Washington generals, you know what I mean, just waiting,
Speaker 1: just waiting to get crossed up by the week. We
Speaker 1: just come in all limbs, just trying to defend uh
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 3: Were there any famous Washington generals?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Something I don't know.
Speaker 4: Were anyway, I think the point probably don't there. You'd
Speaker 4: probably use like an alias if you played on the
Speaker 4: Washington Generals anyway, you'd be like, I can't walk there
Speaker 4: with my real name.
Speaker 1: Anyway, There's some guys that my dad coached at University
Speaker 1: of Dayton that were, like, there's a guy named chip Hair. Incredible, Bob,
Speaker 1: Bob mule, dude.
Speaker 4: Chip hair is just the wildest combination of nouns for
Speaker 4: a game.
Speaker 3: There's got chip hair over here.
Speaker 1: Anyways, Jack, that's Miles. We're gonna tell you some of
Speaker 1: the things that we're trying to go for the weekend,
Speaker 1: but first we like to get to know each other
Speaker 1: a little bit better by telling you something we think
Speaker 1: is underrated, something he thinks overrated.
Speaker 3: Miles, what is something you think is underrated?
Speaker 4: Something I think is underrated? Something I went on a
Speaker 4: YouTube rabbit hole. I went down a YouTube rabbit hole
Speaker 4: over like the last few days of just watching sound
Speaker 4: clash videos like Okay, so this is from like old
Speaker 4: school reggae music where they were like groups called sound systems,
Speaker 4: where you pulled up with your actual sound system and
Speaker 4: you were trading songs with another sound system as a
Speaker 4: like in a battle, like.
Speaker 1: Your speakers, your sound.
Speaker 3: My round system, my dub plates.
Speaker 4: Like I got these artists to call me out as
Speaker 4: a DJ on wax and when I play that, I
Speaker 4: bet you can't top on what I can play versus you.
Speaker 4: It's just like very it's it's energetic, it's lovely. But
Speaker 4: I got it all started when I saw a clip
Speaker 4: with this white guy on stage in Antiga, like during
Speaker 4: a sound clash, getting the audience so charged up. I
Speaker 4: was like, what the fuck is going on? And I'm
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna play a clip because you can hear this.
Speaker 4: It's this guy. He's a selecta named David Rodigan and
Speaker 4: he's from the UK, but he's like respected, like in
Speaker 4: the culture because he is so so just into reggae
Speaker 4: music and the.
Speaker 1: Art Washington general situation where you situation. Check out this
Speaker 1: hot beat and like right right right, So there's this clip.
Speaker 1: I just want to play it because I saw him,
Speaker 1: Like what the fuck is going Why is this dude
Speaker 1: rocking the car the crowd so hard? And that's when
Speaker 1: I got into the sound class video. But I just
Speaker 1: want to play the audio.
Speaker 4: Because it's really it's just satisfying because then this he
Speaker 4: gets so charged up he starts yelling bumble clot it's all.
Speaker 3: It's got everything.
Speaker 4: This is David Rodigan versus Poison Dart in Antiga. But
Speaker 4: this specific track when he drops it, because the whole way,
Speaker 4: like a sound clash is one, is based on how
Speaker 4: the people in the crowd respond, like whether or not
Speaker 4: they're they rush the stage like that's the ultimate form
Speaker 4: of of showing that you like you're down with the
Speaker 4: music is physically moving towards the stage, or sometimes you
Speaker 4: just dance or whatever.
Speaker 3: But this one he got the crowd lit. This is
Speaker 3: David Rodigan.
Speaker 1: When I came on this stage tonight, poison God said
Speaker 1: to me, will come with God.
Speaker 3: No, I don't travel with no body God, run away.
Speaker 3: I don't even travel with Here he goes about to
Speaker 3: drop it. Watch the crowd here.
Speaker 4: He's got a tucked in polo right now, he's got
Speaker 4: a tough in polo.
Speaker 5: Their sometimes their drink. This guy looks like a geometry teacher.
Speaker 1: Yeah okay, bald guy glasses up. An incredible bit is
Speaker 1: where is he from.
Speaker 4: He's from the UK. Okay, he's from England. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 4: so he's affecting something there. He's he's oh yeah, but
Speaker 4: he's like known, he's known like this when he comes
Speaker 4: to town like people like this.
Speaker 3: This is it's it's just wild anyway.
Speaker 4: So I went down to David roddig in uh straight
Speaker 4: up rabbit hole. But yeah, this track of just well,
Speaker 4: just seeing the reaction, I was like, this is so dope.
Speaker 4: And I think more than I think the actual sound
Speaker 4: clash aspect of it, I think I'm right now just
Speaker 4: because I found myself really pouring into music the last
Speaker 4: couple of months, and I think maybe that's really what's
Speaker 4: underrated just generally, is just sort of how music brings
Speaker 4: people together from many backgrounds and creates instant common ground
Speaker 4: for everyone to be like in a celebratory mood. And
Speaker 4: I think I've just been seeking that or just seeking
Speaker 4: that kind of energy.
Speaker 1: So when I see this dude, David roddig Antiga with
Speaker 1: his dub plate of Substitute Lover by Half Pinte, uh,
Speaker 1: that's when yeah, I was just like, so that's just
Speaker 1: a known song that he just played and everyone's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I love that, yeah song.
Speaker 4: But if you listen, because the whole thing is about
Speaker 4: dub plates, right. A dub plate is when an artist
Speaker 4: gives you a like an only you recording, an exclusive
Speaker 4: recording where you're shouting them out. If you listen, the
Speaker 4: guy says, he calls out Rod again, like in the vocals,
Speaker 4: so people understand they know the track by half pipe, but.
Speaker 3: When they go, oh shit, he's he's calling.
Speaker 4: Out Rodigan, They're like, Okay, bro, this dude got the
Speaker 4: half pipe dub plate and that's why he's.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, he's shouting bumba cloud like the bad guy
Speaker 1: from Mad Bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is this kid in the.
Speaker 4: Meeting rodigun is not no second fiddle? And they're like, yeah, anyway,
Speaker 4: sounds is anything people getting together celebrating music because this
Speaker 4: ship back in the day was like violent, like straight
Speaker 4: up violent. But now we're at a place where it's
Speaker 4: it's it's much more celebratory.
Speaker 1: But damn is it still about having good equipment or
Speaker 1: because you're.
Speaker 4: Using shared sound systems now and now it's like from
Speaker 4: what I from what I've seen recently, a lot of
Speaker 4: this stuff is really about the dub plates that you
Speaker 4: get from, Like you're securing these dub plates from legendary
Speaker 4: artists because that's why, you know, there's as I look
Speaker 4: into it, so much of the vernacular like killing the
Speaker 4: sound or whatever is about killing the opposite sound system
Speaker 4: and things like that and using you know, using your.
Speaker 1: True to.
Speaker 3: Your enemies. Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: When I came on this podcast this morning, Miles said,
Speaker 1: did you come with a bodyguard? I said, Myles, I
Speaker 1: didn't come with nobody, no bodyguard.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 4: And here's why I was like, Oh, he's got young
Speaker 4: Barrington Levy over here.
Speaker 1: My underrated in the same spirit is mundanity, just the mundane.
Speaker 1: I've been listening to this podcast, the Blind Boy podcast
Speaker 1: that an a super producer, Anna Josey turned us on too,
Speaker 1: and he was it's a great podcast. He's one of
Speaker 1: the Rubber Bandits, the Irish rap group that wear bags
Speaker 1: over their heads, and he recently it's very strange podcasts,
Speaker 1: very like meditative and like kind of calming. But he
Speaker 1: interviewed a guy who is going around to Ireland lifting
Speaker 1: large rocks, which is a revival of an old custom
Speaker 1: that used to like be the greatest show in town
Speaker 1: in Ireland, like the rocks. He goes around and lifts
Speaker 1: were like one hundred years ago, were famous, like they
Speaker 1: have nights. They used to just be what people did.
Speaker 1: They'd be like this guy, the strong man whose name
Speaker 1: you you've heard before, is coming to town to lift
Speaker 1: like the whales back rock and everybody would crowd around and.
Speaker 3: He travels with a bodyguard.
Speaker 1: That yeah, and that's when prolapsed datuses were invented. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh right, people ask if Shamus O'Reilly came here with
Speaker 1: a bodyguard. Doesn't need no bodyguard. He's lifting the whales
Speaker 1: back rock. Mm hmm, bumble plot.
Speaker 4: So this is just then, so the cause this makes sense,
Speaker 4: like because there's like strong men competitions, like lifting the
Speaker 4: Atlas stones is like a huge thing, so that that
Speaker 4: like now this custom is like was it dead for
Speaker 4: a little bit and now he was.
Speaker 1: Gon for a while and now it's coming back, and
Speaker 1: I just feel like there's something yeah, just hearing it.
Speaker 1: You know, each stone is different, like it has its
Speaker 1: He talks about weights like they're like, uh, you know
Speaker 1: the internet, like weight weights with handles. He's like, you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be weights with handles. You know, you don't have
Speaker 1: to get to know the weight. You don't have to
Speaker 1: like understand what the center of gravity is of the weight.
Speaker 1: Like he just goes to this beach that has a
Speaker 1: bunch of different rocks and like lifts the different rocks
Speaker 1: to work out. But I don't know, like you hear
Speaker 1: about what people used to do back in then, like
Speaker 1: they used to like sit on flagpoles and you just
Speaker 1: like sit there and watch a guy sit uncomfortably on
Speaker 1: a pole and wonder if he was going to fall.
Speaker 1: I guess that was like the equivalent of a suspense film,
Speaker 1: like seeing someone suspended hundreds of feet in the air.
Speaker 3: The yeah exactly contained thriller. Yeah, this guy's.
Speaker 1: Great because sometimes they'll like wave his arms around like
Speaker 1: he's gonna fall, and then you're like phone booth cramming,
Speaker 1: which I'm guessing was the equivalent of cuddle parties today.
Speaker 1: But just like how many people could cram into a
Speaker 1: phone booth? But I don't. I was thinking about that, like,
Speaker 1: I think there's a way we all want to like
Speaker 1: bury ourselves in something that isn't the over all state
Speaker 1: of the world, that isn't connected to the overall state
Speaker 1: of the world. I think a little bit at the moment,
Speaker 1: or like have some some outlet that is that. I
Speaker 1: just saw a YouTube video where people were trying to
Speaker 1: make chocolate chip cookies with those like grabber trash picker
Speaker 1: up things, so they're like, you know, trying to crack
Speaker 1: an egg with that, trying to they got you know,
Speaker 1: one giant chocolate chip cookie out of it that looked
Speaker 1: like shit, but they they did the work, right. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think like mundanity doing dumb shit for
Speaker 1: the sake of it is going to make a comeback.
Speaker 1: I think people need it for their sanity maybe. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and yeah, you know, like we're all part of this
Speaker 1: like hive mind trying to figure out what the entire
Speaker 1: hive mind should be doing, and generally like struggling against
Speaker 1: what the hive mind is deciding. If you're not like
Speaker 1: stupid or evil, generally like you, the direction the hive
Speaker 1: mind is taking is generally not great. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think there's a poetry to the mundanity of the
Speaker 1: ways people used to entertain themselves and you know, just
Speaker 1: doing dumb shit for the sake of getting together and yeah,
Speaker 1: shouting bumba class and do it.
Speaker 4: I think it's the thing that it's like all this
Speaker 4: stuff is like pre internet shit, yeah you know, And
Speaker 4: I think that's I think maybe that's also the appeal,
Speaker 4: like it does on some level sort of harken back
Speaker 4: to like the realist shit that we were experiencing as
Speaker 4: people before, like the dawn of like hyper speed communication
Speaker 4: and yeah, global connectivity of that kind. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 4: that's why I'm saying. I think that's all it keeps
Speaker 4: coming back. Make art, folks, just make just just do shit.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Please? Please? What's something you think Miles is overrated?
Speaker 3: The musk Trump campaign to overwhelm us.
Speaker 4: I keep saying this some version of on the show,
Speaker 4: but I don't And again, I don't mean to say
Speaker 4: this like being overrated, to say that it isn't consequential
Speaker 4: or a threat to our existence, because it very much is.
Speaker 4: But I think it's important to remind ourselves, or at
Speaker 4: least it's been important for me to remind myself that
Speaker 4: they need to wear everyone and everything down and create
Speaker 4: such instability that everything just folds in their favor. You know,
Speaker 4: they need a distracted and very attired media and electorate
Speaker 4: for everything to be as frictionless as possible as they
Speaker 4: consolidate power. So part of this fight, I think, at
Speaker 4: least for me personally, is also managing the chaos that
Speaker 4: surrounds me, because which is not easy. I'm not saying
Speaker 4: it's like, guys, just forget about it. Limber and watch
Speaker 4: some lift a rock and watch some soundclash videos, watching
Speaker 4: some soundclash videos is good to give yourself a little
Speaker 4: bit of solace from the chaos, because you want to
Speaker 4: still be able to maintain your center as these things
Speaker 4: are happening, because that's the way we can be effective
Speaker 4: in resisting when the time comes, and resisting in the
Speaker 4: ways that we can now, even the small ways like
Speaker 4: just you know, withholding our dollars from certain companies or whatever.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I just think this has been a huge
Speaker 4: thing that I've really been thinking about as I read
Speaker 4: more and more about just sort of like historical like
Speaker 4: things that have happened in history and the people that
Speaker 4: Musk and Trump and their ilk sort of like are
Speaker 4: taking information from is that this is a lot of
Speaker 4: this first phase of this administration is to truly see
Speaker 4: just how much they can get away with, just to
Speaker 4: really see what the limits are and how many people
Speaker 4: object and how many people just fold.
Speaker 3: So I don't know.
Speaker 4: I it's been reminding myself that that's part of the design.
Speaker 4: And while it is absolutely damaging and violent, I think
Speaker 4: knowing that for them to win, they want everybody to
Speaker 4: just succumb to it, then that's a way for me
Speaker 4: to try and find a way to push back. Is
Speaker 4: to not succumb to it. Not that I felt like
Speaker 4: suddenly i'd be like Jack, you know, I actually here
Speaker 4: to talk about Doge because I think we've been getting wrong.
Speaker 3: But you know what I mean, like knowing that we
Speaker 3: have to just.
Speaker 4: Sort of maintain, like, don't let the chaos around takes away. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: So again it helps sometimes because it's so transparently clear
Speaker 4: what they're trying to do, and just to remind yourself
Speaker 4: that when they're telegraphing everything like that, there is a
Speaker 4: little bit of power that we can take from that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, albeit albeit a fraction.
Speaker 4: But again I think really important to consider rather than
Speaker 4: just going to all out, you know, becoming just fully.
Speaker 3: Cynical over everything.
Speaker 4: There's plenty of reason to do that, but that's that
Speaker 4: is the point of what they're trying to do.
Speaker 1: Also, Yeah, it's definitely easy to be cynical about what
Speaker 1: has happened so far, and I am, in fact cynical
Speaker 1: about the you know, institutions that have failed to this point.
Speaker 1: But we have to not be cynical when the opportunity arises,
Speaker 1: whenever that may be.
Speaker 4: I think, Yeah, and some we'll continue to explore on
Speaker 4: this show. Because I think like many of us, like
Speaker 4: we're all kind of like, what the fuck are we
Speaker 4: supposed to do? Yeah, Like, clearly this is some fuck
Speaker 4: shit and I don't like it. And sure, aside from
Speaker 4: the stuff where they're like, well call your senator, Sure
Speaker 4: did that emailed, But yeah, you know, I think we're
Speaker 4: also looking for everyone's also looking for other real tangible
Speaker 4: ways to try and help sort of slow the forces
Speaker 4: at work right now. But again things that we will
Speaker 4: be unpacking together over the companies, all right.
Speaker 1: My overrated happy photo montages is one of the things,
Speaker 1: like I just I have this feature on my phone
Speaker 1: where the picture, like the wallpaper is a rotating series
Speaker 1: of pictures, happy pictures of like our family and also
Speaker 1: my m law's moved in and we got them one
Speaker 1: of those Aura picture frames, which.
Speaker 3: Then oh yeah, yeah, I love and that's inn that's.
Speaker 1: In our kitchen, and it's just a series of happy
Speaker 1: pictures of our of our family, and I've like because
Speaker 1: of just the context of media, My only context for
Speaker 1: like happy picture montages is when something horrible has happened
Speaker 1: to that family, due right, right, Yeah, Yeah, there's like
Speaker 1: a part of me that has this like gnawing feeling like, well,
Speaker 1: I know what it's gonna look like, if something horribly
Speaker 1: tragic will look like yeah, yeah, Like it feels a
Speaker 1: little like a memorial service to have just NonStop, happy,
Speaker 1: happy family pictures around.
Speaker 4: You're like, why.
Speaker 3: Does why does only the good die young have to play?
Speaker 3: Underneath this?
Speaker 1: Is that? Yeah? And then my other one is just
Speaker 1: not going into a interaction and like knowing what to say.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm reading this book, The Wild Edge of Sorrow.
Speaker 1: It talks about the need to like share grief and
Speaker 1: not feel like we need to like carry it all
Speaker 1: alone or like feel like we can't acknowledge it. And
Speaker 1: they one of the he's like writing about like this
Speaker 1: kind of simple work that saves people or like helps
Speaker 1: people out, and he describes it as like all we
Speaker 1: did on Saturday was show up, speak, listen. And I
Speaker 1: feel like that I used to have anxiety, like more
Speaker 1: worse social anxiety before hanging out with people, because I
Speaker 1: thought I needed to like have answers or like know
Speaker 1: what to say ahead of time, or like perform or
Speaker 1: be funny or you know, if someone seemed to think
Speaker 1: I was like smarter, funny, or if I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, I had a good interaction with them, I'd
Speaker 1: feel anxiety because I'd feel like I had something to
Speaker 1: live up to, and then like, I don't know, I've
Speaker 1: since realized like all you need to do is just listen,
Speaker 1: Just show up, listen, and like speak when you have
Speaker 1: something to say. But really just like show showing up
Speaker 1: and listening is like the whole fucking thing. And yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a big part of like a lot of addiction
Speaker 1: recovery stuff is just that, like, you know, I think
Speaker 1: I think the way that I've learned the idea of
Speaker 1: just like being able to show up and listen and
Speaker 1: not know what you're going to say ahead of time,
Speaker 1: and you know, sometimes not having the best thing to
Speaker 1: say in the moment is like from a lot of that,
Speaker 1: a lot of like being around people who are you know,
Speaker 1: trying to recover from addiction, and a lot of the
Speaker 1: secret is just you know, showing up and not having
Speaker 1: the answer, but just being like, oh that makes me
Speaker 1: think of this thing that might be helpful for you, you know.
Speaker 4: And when you're the person showing I mean as someone
Speaker 4: who is currently going through a crisis and leaning on
Speaker 4: others to get through things, that showing up is so.
Speaker 3: It's like it's like.
Speaker 4: Ninety percent of it's like the help that just being there.
Speaker 4: It's like even with my friends, like I don't need
Speaker 4: them to really say anything to me specifically, I'm not
Speaker 4: I don't need to hear something specific, but like the
Speaker 4: act of them being there and listening and just and
Speaker 4: then again just saying it's just sharing whatever they have
Speaker 4: or whatever their feelings are, and is so massively helpful. Then,
Speaker 4: like I think a lot of times too, people like fuck,
Speaker 4: someone's going through it, like what do I do? What
Speaker 4: am I supposed to say when I see them?
Speaker 3: Or whatever? And honestly, just physically showing up is so
Speaker 3: is already so much, Like it's already so much, And
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, that's a really important thing to keep
Speaker 3: in mind, just to show up, speak, listen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right, let's take a quick break. We'll
Speaker 1: come back. We'll talk about some news stories. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back. And we're back.
Speaker 3: We're back, and.
Speaker 1: Seapack happened this weekend. We're gonna mainly talk about Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: but it is worth noting that the Nazi salute is
Speaker 1: the new thing, the new meme, the new trend on
Speaker 1: the right. Bannon did like a quick, a quick little one.
Speaker 1: But it was like the quickness and the littleness of
Speaker 1: it was almost like what was so creepy about it?
Speaker 1: Because he's just like, well, all right, I got I
Speaker 1: can do I can get away with us real quick.
Speaker 4: He's right, and then kind of but then he like
Speaker 4: nods after he's like, yeah he did that.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's right. Yeah, I'm a secret Nazi.
Speaker 4: I mean not really, I just did a fucking full
Speaker 4: on Hyle Hitler in public, but yeah yeah, and then
Speaker 4: some other dipshit also did it on stage. It's like,
Speaker 4: you say, it's the hottest trend sweeping the right is
Speaker 4: now just allowing yourself to not pretend.
Speaker 3: That you aren't a Nazi anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Nick Quente, it's always fun to watch the Nick
Speaker 1: quintest reaction videos. That's the guy, right the full open.
Speaker 3: Knopper sprayed the woman in the face for knocking on
Speaker 3: his door.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he is in all these video He's like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, it's a full like he's just so overjoyed
Speaker 1: and like I can't believe it's happening. He's like, I
Speaker 1: can't believe we're at this point where they're doing the
Speaker 1: Nazi salutes, like, yeah, well his his greatest dream presumably,
Speaker 1: but I think so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean especially for him as an avowed Nazi himself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he thinks.
Speaker 3: The brand is very strong at the moment.
Speaker 1: That's right. Elon Musk was there also in a pair
Speaker 1: of like big like meme sunglasses, a big hat, big
Speaker 1: gold chain. Yeah, had a chainsaw for part a portion
Speaker 1: of it, left his child on stage for a portion
Speaker 1: of like just forgot about his child that he was
Speaker 1: carrying around with him.
Speaker 3: The way that clip is wild.
Speaker 4: He gets off that stage and then it pans over
Speaker 4: and there's like a little lost boy going down the
Speaker 4: stairs at the stage.
Speaker 3: Like where do I go?
Speaker 4: And even like the security we're like, hey man, what
Speaker 4: do we do with this fucking dude?
Speaker 3: This your kid? Well, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh, it's weird. I mean there's been like
Speaker 1: Grimes has been reaching out and being like there's bad,
Speaker 1: bad shit happening. Can you like respond to our emails?
Speaker 1: We need your approval for like this medical thing, and yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's not respond I don't know. The dark times
Speaker 1: in some ways for Elon Musk. In other ways, he
Speaker 1: seems to be having having a blast talking about how
Speaker 1: he's made it legal to be funny again, I think
Speaker 1: is what he said.
Speaker 4: Yeah hmmm, which is very strange. His whole appearance was
Speaker 4: fucking odd.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I mean, and that's the most charitable, fucking
Speaker 4: way to describe it. I mean, he was up there
Speaker 4: looking like Kedymine braised dog shit on stage, and he
Speaker 4: was then he like unveiled his new SNL character, guy.
Speaker 4: You wish you hadn't started a conversation with at the
Speaker 4: racist Rave because there's this one moment where again a
Speaker 4: lot of people are like, what's up with Elon here?
Speaker 4: Just full on blackout shades, not really making sense, and
Speaker 4: people are like, ketymine much. But anyway, we'll play a
Speaker 4: little bit of him trying to have an answer about
Speaker 4: Twitter and free speech or something. If you got to
Speaker 4: protect the First Amendment, it's not much more important than that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I got a lot of criticism and people said, well,
Speaker 6: that proves he's a huge idiot from a you know,
Speaker 6: like like you know, voter FORUL whatever forty four billion
Speaker 6: dollars and US worth like eight cents and.
Speaker 3: It's not worth sense.
Speaker 7: But you know, that's that but the yeah, it was
Speaker 7: essentially to you know, by freedom of expression.
Speaker 3: Okay, well yeah there for a second, yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: People are like, oh what Jesus Christ like this, He's
Speaker 3: saying a bunch a whole bunch of nothing, And yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean this this comes along with the news of
Speaker 3: like this email that was sent from his office basically
Speaker 3: telling people, tell us what you do justify your existence
Speaker 3: and your job or resign.
Speaker 1: Yeah, millions of federal employees over the weekend like this
Speaker 1: Saturday email saying like you need to explain your accomplishments
Speaker 1: from the past week and five bullet points and if
Speaker 1: you don't respond, you'll be fired. And like everybody, like
Speaker 1: the people who actually work at these organizations, like including
Speaker 1: like Trump appointees, like the FBI director Cash Pattel was like,
Speaker 1: you don't have to.
Speaker 4: Do that, Tulsi Gabbard apparently also it is like, don't
Speaker 4: listen to that.
Speaker 3: You listen to me, right, don't listen to him.
Speaker 4: I'm daddy, Which is interesting because that's I think that's
Speaker 4: where we're seeing maybe the optimistic version is where maybe
Speaker 4: we're starting to see crack show in terms of like
Speaker 4: the infighting and the real power power struggle that's going
Speaker 4: on because the one thing with all of these people,
Speaker 4: none of them want to ascend to then just be like, Okay,
Speaker 4: you're the one in power. They all have their own
Speaker 4: aims to be powerful and to have Elon be like
Speaker 4: to even be like, sorry, you may be the weird
Speaker 4: like puppet FBI director, but like, I get to bully
Speaker 4: your employees around. Now that threatens Cash Betel's sense of
Speaker 4: importance or Tulsi Gabbard's sense of importance or potency. So
Speaker 4: that feels like a little bit when they do that
Speaker 4: and just be like, don't fucking listen to that. The
Speaker 4: other version is maybe they have take the job seriously
Speaker 4: and they don't want like state secrets to just be
Speaker 4: sent in bullet points over an email.
Speaker 3: Right, But again, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think that it certainly doesn't look like a unified
Speaker 4: movement at the moment.
Speaker 1: No, it seems chaotic as fuck. But like that it's yeah,
Speaker 1: we we have a Garrison from Cool Zone coming on
Speaker 1: tomorrow to talk about this. But like they have been
Speaker 1: pointing out that like Elon just really wants to run
Speaker 1: America as like the CEO of the country. This is
Speaker 1: how he has operated I mean he basically copying and
Speaker 1: pasting emails from like his Twitter takeover. So it's basically
Speaker 1: that he's just doing what he did at Twitter, but
Speaker 1: with the US government, except the US government is a
Speaker 1: lot bigger and more complicated, and there's you know, centuries
Speaker 1: worth of like, uh, you know, norms and institutions in
Speaker 1: place to make it so that you can't just be like,
Speaker 1: you know, fire fire the entire FBI.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he'll try.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's definitely what is happening is that these
Speaker 4: organizations are going to be reeling from just all this shit,
Speaker 4: even just like these this short first month or so, uh,
Speaker 4: like that's going to echo into the future for sure
Speaker 4: in a very substantial way. The thing that I think,
Speaker 4: just looking at the email and the seapack thing, I
Speaker 4: do want to bring up the ketamine stuff just for
Speaker 4: a second, because the email. Just looking at the whole
Speaker 4: weekend as a sequence of events, I'm like, Okay, what's
Speaker 4: going on here? Like he this email was clearly like
Speaker 4: a thing where he's like asserting dominance, and then you
Speaker 4: have other people being like no, no, no, don't listen
Speaker 4: to him, which I'm like, okay, So there's some kind
Speaker 4: of disagreement over who wields this power ultimately, and the
Speaker 4: one on stage at Seapack was different than the one
Speaker 4: in the Oval office or the one in the Hannity
Speaker 4: interview that you like, I don't know, the different Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm like this is like I'm like, I don't know,
Speaker 4: maybe you're navigating something when you get to that Seapack
Speaker 4: stage to try and like really up your brand again
Speaker 4: and be like whoa look at the showman, Elon Musk.
Speaker 4: But this quote he gave to Don Lemon last year
Speaker 4: about his use of ketamine may give us a glimpse
Speaker 4: into what he's thinking.
Speaker 3: This is about him.
Speaker 4: This is explicitly Elon Musk talking about his use of ketamine.
Speaker 4: He says, quote, there are times when I have sort
Speaker 4: of a negative chemical state in my brain, like depression,
Speaker 4: I guess, or depression that's not linked to any negative news,
Speaker 4: and ketamine is helpful for getting one out of the
Speaker 4: negative frame of mind. So I'm like, Okay, you're putting
Speaker 4: in a weird, floppy performance on stage at Sea Pack.
Speaker 4: Now you're sending fucking emails out to millions of federal
Speaker 4: workers being like answer to fucking me.
Speaker 3: And I'm like.
Speaker 4: So you do ketamine when you're feeling down. Yeah, okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 4: I just I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm just saying this optimistically. This may
Speaker 3: be some kind of infighting.
Speaker 4: Now ultimately we'll see who wins, because I think that's
Speaker 4: the next question is what really is this agreement between
Speaker 4: Trump and Musk?
Speaker 3: Like, if it's the traditional.
Speaker 4: Trumpian agreement with someone like Musk, it would be like,
Speaker 4: I will use you until you are causing me too
Speaker 4: many problems, and then I will flog you and then
Speaker 4: and I can just move on and burn through a
Speaker 4: bunch of other people.
Speaker 1: But he does have that internal barometer of value, which
Speaker 1: is like who is rich? How much money does this
Speaker 1: person have? So yeah, I think Elon is like particularly
Speaker 1: well situated. But yeah, obviously Trump is ultimately self self
Speaker 1: interested and the president of the United States. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it ultimately like comes down to him or Elon. He's
Speaker 1: gonna tell me.
Speaker 4: And having Elon though there helps from I guess a
Speaker 4: pr standpoint, because he's the face of the doge antics
Speaker 4: and not Trump necessarily.
Speaker 3: But that doesn't mean the electorate feels that way.
Speaker 4: Like if you looked at the town halls that happened
Speaker 4: at the end of last week.
Speaker 3: These are Republicans going to very red districts.
Speaker 4: Most Republicans who like are in any kind of swing district,
Speaker 4: they don't really even do town halls anymore because they
Speaker 4: don't want to have to fa their constituents. So the
Speaker 4: ones that even bothered to have town halls were in
Speaker 4: very red districts and they were met with a lot
Speaker 4: of pushback, people screaming at them. And some of these
Speaker 4: Republicans are like, if you guys just gonna yell at me,
Speaker 4: there's no point in doing this, okay, So I don't
Speaker 4: know what you want me to do here, and they're like,
Speaker 4: do something. He's destroying our jobs, like we're take my
Speaker 4: my daughter lost their job, X, Y, and Z. So
Speaker 4: there there is this pressure also emerging from their own base,
Speaker 4: and I think that's where it's interesting to see how
Speaker 4: that's navigated. If Trump's goes it was all elon, I
Speaker 4: got to get rid of him. Folks were getting this
Speaker 4: thing back on track, or he's just like fuck it, bro,
Speaker 4: like welcome to the new era.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: The drug point is also is interesting, like I like
Speaker 1: specifically like not linked to any sort of negative news
Speaker 1: or anything. It's you know, the amount of awful shit
Speaker 1: he's having to suppress, Like, yeah, the children he's like
Speaker 1: leaving behind, like all the horrible things he's just like
Speaker 1: doing in his personal life, let alone, you know, all
Speaker 1: the fucking lives he's ruining with what he's doing with
Speaker 1: the government, and you know, all the money you grab.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of like the end of that movie
Speaker 1: The Act of Killing, where the guy is like just
Speaker 1: has really like completely repressed the horror of what he's done.
Speaker 1: He was like the killer for this like huge ethnic
Speaker 1: cleansing genocide like mass killing that was happening America backed
Speaker 1: like years before, and now he's this like government official
Speaker 1: and they're interviewing him about all the people he killed,
Speaker 1: and like he just has this like seemingly perfect facade
Speaker 1: of like, no, we did you know, I've justified this
Speaker 1: to myself. We did what we had to do. But
Speaker 1: then at the end, like you see it like bubbling
Speaker 1: up like from like his gut, Like he like starts
Speaker 1: like burping and like having these like horrible like realizations
Speaker 1: somewhere in his body and like of like, yeah, but
Speaker 1: I'll just say it makes sense that he might have
Speaker 1: to pour more and more chemicals on top of negative
Speaker 1: feeling states in his brain.
Speaker 3: And it's not even tied to like negative news or anything.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Sometimes what a weird description.
Speaker 1: Okay, And I mean this is what uh you know
Speaker 1: how fascist have operated in the past, and you know
Speaker 1: the Nazis were flying on drugs for a large yeah,
Speaker 1: because you yeah, when you're suppressing that much humanity, like
Speaker 1: of your own internal humanity, it's it's real helpful to
Speaker 1: just have tons of drugs, of course for your veins.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. That helped you dissociate in ways that have
Speaker 4: you stumbling around with sunglasses on.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 4: But yeah, also I just want to touch on that
Speaker 4: as all this is happening fucking James Carvill, my.
Speaker 3: Guy, Oh I got James, He's got for the Democrats.
Speaker 3: This is this Listen up, y'all. This is this is
Speaker 3: wisdom straight from the mountain. This fucking bog rat will
Speaker 3: not shut his fucking sound hole up. So he's now
Speaker 3: says the dams are doing great. This is what I said,
Speaker 3: quote the great.
Speaker 4: What I've what I have said very publicly is the
Speaker 4: Democrats need to play possum.
Speaker 3: This whole thing is collapsing. Oh is it?
Speaker 1: It's Miles. You have to understand he can't make any
Speaker 1: points that don't relate to the swamp critters. That he's
Speaker 1: personally eaten raw, caught with his hands on, eating.
Speaker 4: Raw exactly with my inside beak like a squid. But
Speaker 4: the thing is, he said, the whole thing is collapsing.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be easy pickings here in six weeks. Just
Speaker 4: lay back, is what he's saying. Just it's gonna be
Speaker 4: easy pickings here in six we goes.
Speaker 3: We're in the middle of a collapse. It's old.
Speaker 4: Just like you hang a little piece of rotten chicken
Speaker 4: meat above from a tree branch into buskio and then
Speaker 4: you will see, we'll see the gata come out.
Speaker 3: Then you put the twenty two to the headed.
Speaker 4: Pop. Now you got one fresh eat it now? Yes, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, sure. The strategy to combat Trump is
Speaker 4: to show the people that there is no opposition to
Speaker 4: this at all. I think is what exactly Very good, James,
Speaker 4: and you can just sit back and watch them. Was
Speaker 4: that collapse? Okay? This is the exact strategy the party
Speaker 4: was using for the last decade to no avail.
Speaker 3: Okay, there the.
Speaker 1: Entire electoral strategy, the whole thing.
Speaker 3: We don't need to offer an alternative when the other
Speaker 3: option is.
Speaker 1: This ship the gesture with these guys, look.
Speaker 4: At that you think they want, and then we'll just
Speaker 4: go they're collapsing. Let's be passive because we cannot disrupt
Speaker 4: the status quo, even if it means that our backs
Speaker 4: will be first against the wall.
Speaker 3: Does he also does he think like this works?
Speaker 4: Like the way this works is the party implodes and
Speaker 4: they have to go through some kind of official complosion
Speaker 4: trial where they then give control to the Democrats.
Speaker 3: Right, Like what is he even unclear about?
Speaker 1: And they're gonna collapse?
Speaker 4: Sit back and do you collect your coupons that you
Speaker 4: didn't you turned into covort for actual seas in Congress?
Speaker 3: Right because they collapsed. That's okay, cool, James, Thanks for
Speaker 3: that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I I was thinking about that, like,
Speaker 1: you know, the conservatives one in Germany, the far right
Speaker 1: did better than they've done since World War Two. Like
Speaker 1: it feels like these drastic right word shifts keep happening
Speaker 1: everywhere that like neoliberal parties have been in power for
Speaker 1: the past uh you know, however many years and right yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it seems pretty like straightforward. Like there are
Speaker 1: these two conditions, right. There's the one is that like
Speaker 1: the neoliberal like corporate borg state is clearly not working
Speaker 1: for the people. The people know that the one party
Speaker 1: system of like center Dems and center Republicans in America,
Speaker 1: they bailed out Wall Street banks, they fucked the people
Speaker 1: who were victimized by those banks. I think that's happening everywhere.
Speaker 1: Like people are like, well, this current system where corporations
Speaker 1: are the only thing that actually matter and people don't matter,
Speaker 1: and like we don't get any policies that actually benefit people.
Speaker 3: People are out on that like that.
Speaker 1: There's never been a point where everybody has agreed like
Speaker 1: fuck that thing as much as as much as they
Speaker 1: currently agree on that.
Speaker 3: Then the other thing totally articulated though, yeah, but it
Speaker 3: is a feeling. Yeah, that feeling does exist.
Speaker 1: And then the other feature is that like that that
Speaker 1: machine that they're saying fuck that about is like sophisticated,
Speaker 1: won't allow for anything to happen that would like break
Speaker 1: it from the left. Like it's specifically designed in a
Speaker 1: lot of cases to like convert class and economic disaffection
Speaker 1: into political energy that results in you know, uh neoliberal
Speaker 1: policy that continues to funnel you know, people's money upwards,
Speaker 1: and the left most successful parties in those countries, like
Speaker 1: the Obama Deems Mercles party in Germany, are like brilliantly
Speaker 1: designed machines designed to take the left or momentum of
Speaker 1: people's actual needs and opinions and turn it into like
Speaker 1: more of the same. But again, like people aren't stupid.
Speaker 1: They know they're getting fucked over by the status quo,
Speaker 1: no matter how many times the media tells them, like
Speaker 1: economic indicators are good because of gigwork.
Speaker 4: Here's my economic indicator, my wallet, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: And so the only compromise between these two immovable facts,
Speaker 1: like the system is like you know there and impossible
Speaker 1: to overturn, and the people want it overturned is they're
Speaker 1: letting the corporate oligarchy like that, right, They're letting corporate
Speaker 1: oligarchs come in and break it because they are Ultimately
Speaker 1: it's like a compromise because it's like like the people
Speaker 1: get to feel like they're breaking the current system, and
Speaker 1: the people who are ultimately in power in the current system,
Speaker 1: like the richest people who like that system ultimately ends
Speaker 1: up serving like still maintain all their power, and so
Speaker 1: it's it just ends up being the only way that
Speaker 1: you can like take that disaffection with the system and
Speaker 1: still have the people who run the current system that
Speaker 1: is like causing all that disaffection be okay with it.
Speaker 1: And it's just that's what we just keep running into.
Speaker 1: There's this article in I think this is the New
Speaker 1: York Times. It was about like Denmark and how they're like,
Speaker 1: it's so weird. Denmark is the one place where like
Speaker 1: social democrats are doing well, like the and then they
Speaker 1: like list all these policies they passed that are specifically
Speaker 1: like trying to stop private equity by like they enacted
Speaker 1: something called the Blackstone Law. It was a reference to
Speaker 1: you know, the New York based real estate firm.
Speaker 3: Wait, they're against corporate landlords.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, Like they just fuck they did policy to
Speaker 1: fight climate change. They just like passed laws that actually
Speaker 1: did stuff for people, and they're like it's weird that
Speaker 1: they're the one state where this is this isn't happening,
Speaker 1: what's going on over here, And it's just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's just people aren't stupid. They recognize that they're being
Speaker 1: fucked over by this system and like all you need
Speaker 1: to do is like give them policies that help them
Speaker 1: once in a while, and it just you can't get
Speaker 1: it done.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's also interesting to see like how uh like
Speaker 4: they talk about like, oh, how like Frederickson's policies have
Speaker 4: just like been massively successful for her and in the
Speaker 4: process marginalized the far right in her country. And you're like,
Speaker 4: it's almost as if meeting people's needs is a deterrent
Speaker 4: to extremism.
Speaker 1: She's a genius or something. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know what the heck has happened?
Speaker 4: This one trick social democrats don't want you to know.
Speaker 4: All right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll come back. We'll talk about Hooters going out of business.
Speaker 1: You'll never guess who's to blame. It's private equity.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's private. It's private equity.
Speaker 1: It's wokeness. Woke police came.
Speaker 3: Woquitty and we're back. We're back.
Speaker 1: And it was recently reported that Hooters is preparing to
Speaker 1: file for bankruptcy. God the way the damnit Newsweek headline
Speaker 1: that our writer jam found Hooters and bankruptcy talks what
Speaker 1: we know so far, coverly with the seriousness of Watergate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, or like a fucking asteroid like like barreling through
Speaker 4: space towards what we know so far about the asteroid.
Speaker 1: Or Hooters claiming it's lack of foot traffic, which okay
Speaker 1: makes Sensese the.
Speaker 3: Most logical version.
Speaker 4: Well, I think I think not as many people are
Speaker 4: going in to buy stuff.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah that okay.
Speaker 1: I do have to assume nobody like really plans on
Speaker 1: going to Hooters, or it's like much rare for people
Speaker 1: to like be like all right Friday Hooters night, as
Speaker 1: much as it's the thing that strikes you as a
Speaker 1: good idea for some reason as you were walking past
Speaker 1: to Hooters.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was the last time I did that. I
Speaker 4: was nineteen years old.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: The year was two thousand and three, and I was like, bro,
Speaker 3: let's go to fucking Hooters to walk about Hooters.
Speaker 1: I heard their wings are good.
Speaker 4: I used to dude, I thought I was so cool
Speaker 4: because I'd order off menu shit at the fucking Hooters.
Speaker 3: It is so fucking sad. But you knew the secret
Speaker 3: menu at.
Speaker 8: Hooters because Okay, so I used to know one of
Speaker 8: my homegirls was worked at Hooters and but she like
Speaker 8: she told me, like I was like, what the because
Speaker 8: this is how it started.
Speaker 3: I would go because she would go in and we
Speaker 3: would drink for free.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: And then then she like kind of put me onto
Speaker 4: the off menu stuff and that I go in and.
Speaker 3: Be like, yo, like can I get the fucking in
Speaker 3: the Daytona style like where they'd grill the wings also,
Speaker 3: and wow, showing off to my friends.
Speaker 4: I think that's like an it's become like widely known
Speaker 4: at this point. But yeah, that was something I was
Speaker 4: very very into. But again that was twenty fucking years ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyways, the predictably, the people on the right were like,
Speaker 1: it's they relax their hiring standards to be more inclusive
Speaker 1: and now Woke killed it instead. Now, the other thing
Speaker 1: that happened recently that they're not talking about is that
Speaker 1: private equity took over. Uh and like with Red Lobster
Speaker 1: and Toys r Us. Uh, you know they're really they're
Speaker 1: filing for bankruptcy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let me guess they're doing the thing where they
Speaker 4: buy them buy up all the like they buy Hooters
Speaker 4: and then now they make the restaurant pay rent on
Speaker 4: the land Hooters already owns.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly being the land.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then they're basically they're eating it from the
Speaker 4: inside out.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 4: I think that's how it usually works, and then they
Speaker 4: look these places are underperforming.
Speaker 1: It's actually like a really good metaphor for what we're
Speaker 1: just talking about with like the corporate like highest of
Speaker 1: the high people are that that's how you get the
Speaker 1: system to fall apart. You just pay off the people
Speaker 1: who are in charge of like making the big decisions. So,
Speaker 1: like you know, we have previous private equity episodes. There's
Speaker 1: one called like who Killed the Free Ambulance?
Speaker 3: I think with Brendan Ballou.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but private equity are these massive like shell companies
Speaker 1: that they have like companies within companies. You've never heard
Speaker 1: of them unless you like pay attention to finance.
Speaker 3: But they are like the killed one of your grandparents, yeah, or.
Speaker 1: They've killed one of your grandparents and you're currently in
Speaker 1: litigation with them. They are like three, third and fourth
Speaker 1: biggest companies in the world, like behind I think Walmart
Speaker 1: and Apple or something like. They're way the fuck up there,
Speaker 1: but you've never heard of them by design, and they're
Speaker 1: basically a series of shell companies. When they take over
Speaker 1: a company like Hooters or Toys r Us or jay
Speaker 1: Crue is another one. They just strip it for parts. Basically,
Speaker 1: the their innovation is like we take all of these
Speaker 1: different things and we get them to pay us money
Speaker 1: while extracting all the wealth from the assets that the
Speaker 1: business currently has, with absolutely no interest in making the
Speaker 1: company work. Like it's just they're just like the premises.
Speaker 1: They come in and like they're these smart consultants that
Speaker 1: tell you how to make the company work. But what
Speaker 1: they do is just like pay less money to the
Speaker 1: people who work there, you know, file for bankruptcy and
Speaker 1: like use legal proceedings to like just extract wealth. They
Speaker 1: buy the land that the business is on off of
Speaker 1: the business and then start charging them rent. Like it's
Speaker 1: all just a one sided business transaction. But with similarly
Speaker 1: to what I was saying about the oligarchy, they make
Speaker 1: it make sense to the people at the very top
Speaker 1: with like big payouts for the owners, but then everybody
Speaker 1: else just gets fucked.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, they're like, oh, okay, well I'm making and
Speaker 4: you guys are gonna be you guys will take care
Speaker 4: of me. Yeah yeah, yeah, we're gonna fucking We're gonna
Speaker 4: load this thing up with so much debt and we're
Speaker 4: gonna just we're gonna we're gonna make all the money
Speaker 4: from it, and then when it's hollowed out, you.
Speaker 3: Just flog it. Dude, that's all exactly, that's all.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, well, Hooters, Uh, I think I think you
Speaker 4: went a lot longer than you probably should have.
Speaker 1: So right, It is wild how how unwaveringly they stuck
Speaker 1: with the aesthetic that they were like just crystallized in amber.
Speaker 1: Like what this person who started Hooters in what when
Speaker 1: was it? Like the eighties? I was like, this is
Speaker 1: this is what hot babes are.
Speaker 4: And then they've also yeah, they also like did a
Speaker 4: thing where they were trying to do so much all
Speaker 4: the time. After a while, they're like, we need an airline,
Speaker 4: we need to do this, we need to do that.
Speaker 3: And I think whatever, rest in peace, Hooters, bye bye.
Speaker 1: I was actually uh shocked to see they started selling
Speaker 1: their wings as frozen food and for some reason that
Speaker 1: didn't take off.
Speaker 3: Hm hmm, so crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's really oh man, who'd have believed it?
Speaker 3: Also, I mean, like again, who is this like this.
Speaker 4: Is aimed at a generation of men that like for
Speaker 4: all the people that are complaining about this, like fucking
Speaker 4: what's his face? Stephen Crowder's brother, I'm like, Okay, are
Speaker 4: you going to Hooters every week?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: Then why aren't you well, why aren't you going? Like
Speaker 4: what the fuck are you talking about it? It's it's
Speaker 4: the laziest thing.
Speaker 3: But it's all. It's like, bro, you.
Speaker 4: Don't even go to fucking Hooters, right because you know
Speaker 4: it's not interesting to you. So by like, let's fucking
Speaker 4: thank you find a new angle. It's a normal sized
Speaker 4: collar everyone.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then, uh, we just want to talk about a
Speaker 1: new growth opportunity. Eggs. Smuggling is surging at the southern border.
Speaker 1: It's you know, we we've heard that smuggling at the
Speaker 1: southern border is a huge problem from the trumb administration.
Speaker 1: But they we're not talking about eggs.
Speaker 4: American smuggling things back in back in because.
Speaker 1: We are hungry, uh and need nutrition. But yeah, obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, he didn't magically lower the price of eggs,
Speaker 1: which are now at an all time high. And because
Speaker 1: eggs are cheaper elsewhere, including Mexico, people are trying to
Speaker 1: bring them into the US, which is prohibited.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: We're also seeing an uptick in other egg related crimes
Speaker 1: such as like theft, not not eggings, which have problem
Speaker 1: now gone way down. I have, bro, you're balling if
Speaker 1: you're fucking egging houses, right, Yeah, the people try to.
Speaker 1: They stole one hundred thousand eggs, one hundred thousand organic eggs.
Speaker 1: But the organic is important because that means like probably
Speaker 1: goes bad quicker.
Speaker 4: I don't even know, bro, Or that's just a thing
Speaker 4: that's like when people like in the early days of
Speaker 4: like selling weed, you'd be like, oh, this shit is
Speaker 4: cali weed, bro.
Speaker 1: Right, and they don't fucking know, but you say it
Speaker 1: likely weed, just like directly.
Speaker 4: What's interesting to remember we were talking about the cheese
Speaker 4: smuggling stuff and cheese theft like a few months ago,
Speaker 4: and I'm wondering too, like this is all these eggs
Speaker 4: are just basically getting sold to like restaurants to be like,
Speaker 4: because I'm sure they're like, yeah, bro, I got eggs
Speaker 4: on the cheap right now, Bro, Yeah, yeah, I'll get
Speaker 4: you like fifty thousand.
Speaker 1: Yeah. There's a reason that like restaurant ownership is often
Speaker 1: like mob related, or you know, it's what one of
Speaker 1: the most commonly mob really did businesses is like it's
Speaker 1: not highly regulated. It's probably like fairly easy to hide
Speaker 1: earnings and move money around. And so there is, yeah,
Speaker 1: there is like this food related black market that I
Speaker 1: don't know, just this one in particular seems like it
Speaker 1: would be a stress dream that a drug smuggler would have,
Speaker 1: Like you have to smuggle thousands of eggs. But if you,
Speaker 1: first of all, they like go bad, what if your
Speaker 1: what if your whole product went bad? And second of all,
Speaker 1: like if you hit a bump, everything cracks. Like you
Speaker 1: can't even like carry it on your person with that.
Speaker 4: You can't even cram a bunch up your ass and
Speaker 4: get on a plane, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You can, but you have to crack. You have to
Speaker 1: be doing some crazy workouts. Yeah, crazy workouts. Yeah, no
Speaker 1: one is capable of that.
Speaker 4: But I mean this is also wild too that like like.
Speaker 3: It has all the buzzwords of Trump stuff.
Speaker 4: It's like southern border smuggling eggs, you know, right, And
Speaker 4: now I wonder if he's like we have to stop
Speaker 4: the inflow of illegal eggs at our southern border. That's
Speaker 4: the biggest that is the biggest threat that we face
Speaker 4: right now, illegal eggs coming in, Like.
Speaker 1: I guess he's not gonna want to. I want to
Speaker 1: talk about something that implies that Mexico is better at
Speaker 1: being a country than we are.
Speaker 4: Make up some dumb shit about how Mexican eggs are
Speaker 4: killing people or something like.
Speaker 1: That they're killing them folks you didn't know. Yeah, all right, Well,
Speaker 1: shout out to the egg smugglers, the real heroes of
Speaker 1: this country. I do, like I feel like that would
Speaker 1: be a good I don't know, like i'd want to
Speaker 1: watch a documentary on like just the like engineering feat
Speaker 1: of like building a thing to smuggle eggs with, Like
Speaker 1: how they go about that, how do they meet that challenge?
Speaker 4: This is the thing that was in the cheese story too,
Speaker 4: Like you're not moving something that's actually illegal to possess.
Speaker 1: That helped so.
Speaker 4: You're gonna be like, yeah, bro, I got I just
Speaker 4: got four hundred eggs on me. Man, I'm just delivering these,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean? Like anythink that's what's kind
Speaker 4: of that's the genius of this kind of black market.
Speaker 4: It's like you're you're dealing with stuff that isn't gonna
Speaker 4: get you any attention to get it, and.
Speaker 1: They have yeah trucks, so you're just like taking an
Speaker 1: egg truck and yeah, bro.
Speaker 3: It's boios Ermanos all over again.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm just fixing somebody with eggs inside
Speaker 1: their jacket like an idiot. So, like my experience was
Speaker 1: smuggling is like smuggling drugs into something like just on
Speaker 1: my person, and I'm like, damn, that would be much
Speaker 1: harder if they were eggs.
Speaker 3: Dude, I can't wait to see Maria full of Eggs.
Speaker 1: That was that movie was called Maria full of Drugs? Right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so, at least that's what my childish brain thought.
Speaker 1: All right, those are some of the things that are
Speaker 1: trending on this Monday, February twenty fourth.
Speaker 4: Actually we forgot though. Today is also the anniversary. Oh
Speaker 4: it is, Yes, we must not forget at least.
Speaker 1: One year anniversary. Yes to Willie's chocolate experience. Yes, Glasgow,
Speaker 1: Willy Wonka.
Speaker 3: Happier times, happier times.
Speaker 4: This was the day we found out about the fucked
Speaker 4: up Umpa Lumpa and the child who was made to act.
Speaker 4: But it was on their cell phone because people were
Speaker 4: Oh anyway a year known was a child?
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. The OPMPA Kirsty Patterson has
Speaker 1: been conducting a number of interviews this week, claiming that
Speaker 1: she didn't even get paid the full amount she was
Speaker 1: We know that UH promised to get five hundred pounds,
Speaker 1: only paid two hundred, but in good news it was
Speaker 1: real money and not like AI generated Wonka bucks, which
Speaker 1: I think of what I would have expected. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but she's apparently working on a doc, a doc about
Speaker 1: the dude.
Speaker 4: Get as Kirsty Patterson, get as much mileage out of
Speaker 4: this thing as possible, please. And I'm not even saying
Speaker 4: I'm going to watch this documentary because I'm pretty sure
Speaker 4: I know everything already.
Speaker 3: If there is.
Speaker 4: Some new footage or something of you looking even sadder
Speaker 4: by a bunch of Bunsen burners and you know, graduated
Speaker 4: cylinders or whatever that chemistry set was you were serving
Speaker 4: lemonade from, maybe I'll watch it.
Speaker 1: But I think and like he made up all these
Speaker 1: like fake little Wonka terms or the AI. I guess.
Speaker 3: I don't give a human credit for AI's work.
Speaker 1: The ultimate sin in this economy. Uh, there has been
Speaker 1: one documentary about it already. UH, reminding me of the
Speaker 1: newsweek headline about Hooters going out of business. This one
Speaker 1: was Wonka. The scandal that rocked Britain came out of
Speaker 1: a month after the event I did.
Speaker 3: Maybe I wasn't there. I guess I wasn't boots.
Speaker 1: On the ground in uh in England when in Britain
Speaker 1: when this happened. So maybe this ship did rock. I
Speaker 1: just thought it was a fun story that the internet
Speaker 1: talking about.
Speaker 4: Did it rock Britain? Or we all just rocking back
Speaker 4: and forth with laughter? Because I think that's probably what happened.
Speaker 1: Were you just like grimly acknowledging one another in the
Speaker 1: streets and being like, how are you doing good? Considering?
Speaker 3: Yeah, like when the fires were in La Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's like this whole fucking Wonka thing. Man, God damn it,
Speaker 4: this country's going to hell.
Speaker 1: Do you know anyone who was affected? Friend? Shit, a
Speaker 1: friend whose niece is three, and you know there, I
Speaker 1: guess his sister was thinking of bringing his niece.
Speaker 3: Do you remember Bradley? Yes, Yeah, who I shared a
Speaker 3: back garden with. Yes, yes, yes, his niece's friend knows
Speaker 3: the unknown.
Speaker 1: Shit all right, Well, shout out to them, Shout out
Speaker 1: to you guys for listening. Great getting back on the
Speaker 1: horse with you this Monday morning, We are back tomorrow
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Speaker 1: The flu is particularly nasty this year. Ye don't do
Speaker 1: nothing about white supremacy also particularly nasty this year. And
Speaker 1: we will be back tomorrow. Bye bye,