There’s more news and less comprehension today than any historical period that didn’t involve literal witch trials, and trying to stay on top of it all can feel like playing a game of telephone with 30 people, except everyone’s speaking at the same time and like a third of them are openly racist for some reason. From Cracked co-founder Jack O’Brien, THE DAILY ZEITGEIST is stepping into that fray with some of the funniest and smartest comedic and journalistic minds around. Jack and co-host Miles Gray spend up to an hour every weekday sorting through the events and stories driving the headlines, to help you find the signal in the noise, with a few laughs thrown in for free.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-the-daily-zeitgeist-28516718/
episode 4: Tax That A@%, Politicizing The Weather? 10.28.21
In episode 1018, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and host of the What's It Called podcast Caleb Synan to discuss Taxing The Rich, Facebooks recent troubles, Fox Weather Just Launched and more!
FOOTNOTES:
- TAX THE RICH?
- Facebook Papers Show Deep Conflict On People or Profit?Â
- Fox Weather Just Launched, RIP Earth
- LISTEN: Chunky - Meh
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Speaker 1
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two oh eight,
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episode four of production of I Heart Radio. Somebody hit
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me on Twitter and said, it sounds like you're saying
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dir daily Zeitgeist at the beginning of the show. Every
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time I was like, huh, are you sure you're listening?
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Man was listening up a little closer. This is a
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podcast where you take a deep dive into American share consciousness.
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And it's Thursday October, which of course means it is
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Natal Internal Medicine Day. National. Oh, I thought, come on, man, yo,
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natal natal? I mean when when you when most of
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your interactions with the medical industrial complex, it revolved around babies.
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That's what That's how I'm gonna read that ship. Okay,
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that makes sense. No national Sorry, natal and internal medicine.
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I was like, wow, specific and depressing, but yeah, esational
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internal medicine. Of course, it is Natural First Responders Day.
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And I feel like this one happens maybe once a week,
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but it's National Chocolate Day. My name is Jack O'Brien
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a K. Jarko Brucker's ERG. Got that from the what
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your name would be if your name was Mark Zuckerberg
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name generator? Yeah, I have that. No, I just made
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that up. Can Zuckerberg, I fire your name if you're
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if you're interested. Uh, I'm thrilled to be joined as
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always by my co host, Mr Miles Gray, Markles grux Zanberg.
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Thank you so much. It's Miles Gray. A k A.
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Fringles are real crunchy, Gonna eat them with some reese
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Is for those reasons in my bag. Backing candies makes
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me gad, but a Starburst makes me frown though my
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teeth start to deck pringles and races every day. I
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hope that my friend will wanna. Okay, shout out to
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Jill of All Trays on Discord for that wonderful President
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of the United States of America. Peaches inspired a k A.
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I was beautiful. Yeah. I love that song so yeah.
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I love it when people hit me with that. I mean,
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if I was gonna offer a light critique, I would
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say that of the potato chips, I feel like pringles
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are the last one I would kind of pair because
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pringles turn into just like a soft potato meal once
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they're inside your mouth. But you know, nobody fucking asked
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me it feels like a like it's not it's like
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a like the communion away for sexy cousin. Yeah, Ringles. Yeah,
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like that is definitely made from like a blended light
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blurry because when you take Eucharis, you know, you accept
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the body of Christ. That light and airy, you know,
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and that quarter reminds Pringle, which is no seasoning on it. Yeah,
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that's how they That's how they came up with it.
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I think it says that in the Bible, right, It's
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like Charis must be once you pop, you cannot stop.
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Comes to the BOC as they call it, the Big Christ. Yeah.
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But I think Pringle's got hit because they don't have
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much potato in them. It's a lot of star flower
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other uh file into the ingredient category of other Well Miles.
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We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat
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by one of the hottest young stand up comedians and
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margarita afficionados in the nation. He's at the top of
03:47
both lists. You've seen him on Cone and Last Comics Standing,
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Bill Burr's Comedy Central stand up show The Ringers, and
03:55
he filmed his first Comedy Central special in one. You
03:59
may also know him as the winner of the title
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of wittiest in the Franklin County High Schools two thousand
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nine yearbook. Please Welcome the Brilliant, the talentick kit Libs
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sign out. Oh man, that intro. I it sounds like
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it's gonna be somebody better than me. It's just all
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and we started off with some religious talk because don't
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you have religious background. Oh yeah, my dad's a preacher. Preacher, Yeah,
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that's right, quite literally, boy, that song was not accurate.
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Up a big game for sixty years. They're like, oh,
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I heard about the sons of preachers. You're like not.
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Oh boy, I don't know if I can said tenderly?
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Is the reality is? Yeah, it's a lot of He's
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just like a real giving, tender lover. Is that the
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son of the preacher man? And that I mean, we're
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probably not even a lover, you know what I mean.
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It's just like we're all we're all nice, but it's
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like it's not We're the guys you date in the
05:01
first half of a romantic comedy before you meet the
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real guy that you need. Yeah. Yeah, the who is it? Who?
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Meg Ryan? Really? Fox Over? And Sleepless in Seattle? Is it?
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It's one of the Bills. I think Pullman maybe, yeah,
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Bill Pullman, Great Kenears, that's that's our that's that's who
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it is. Great. You don't end up with the son
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of a preacher, man, you. I always felt bad for
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that dude, Like all he did was like have gee
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and like he's really nice and also like the kindest
05:32
person ever. When she was like, hey, so I'm kind
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of in love with this guy who's not you, who
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have never met, but I gotta go see and he's
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like do it. Yeah, absolutely, see what a good guy.
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What a good guy? Yeah? Why why don't people go
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after that guy? Yeah? Exactly. You're Caleb Signings of the
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of the World. You know. Yeah, we're out here. You know,
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we don't really have many skills, and but we're nice. Yeah,
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we're nice, and we have a lot of guilt. So
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come on, come on by, come on by. Enough guilt
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for a three of us. I was just gonna say
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the thing, like I always heard about Catholic guilt and
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I was like that, like they're acting like, oh, we're
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the guiltiest, and I'm like, come on, man, I'm from
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the South to alright, I got Southern guilt. I got
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all of it right, Yeah, Catholics just there. They love drama.
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They want to be you know, persecuted, so they Yeah,
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I've had it with Catholics, am I right? Thank you?
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First we first we make fun of the BOC and
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then we uh then I talked about Catholics taking shots
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at the papal c what's up? All right? Well, Caleb
06:45
or carbal Mack psychanserb. We are going to get to
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know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
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we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of the things, uh,
06:56
that we're talking about that we're going to talk about
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the hype dream, the ultimate pipe dream of America, the
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taxing of the rich, free guns for dogs that is
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actually way more accurate. We're gonna talk about Facebook, and
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dear Leader, if we have time, we're going to talk
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about fox Weather just launched everyone, Uh yeah, and uh
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it's it's interesting. It fits nicely into their portfolio because
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Fox News ignores and exacerbates climate change, which leads to
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horrifying storms, which then they get to cover on Fox Weather,
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which you know, it's a money making machine. So we'll
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talk about that vision, all of that plenty more. But first, Caleb,
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we do like to ask our guests, what is something
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from your search history that is revealing about who you are?
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A friend? Oh? Oh, it's so so horrific because I
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always forget about a question and so I looked back
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through it and then I'm like, okay, can't say that.
08:07
One can't say just it's all very embarrassing, like can
08:13
I microwave an egg? Like dumb dumb stuff where you're like, oh,
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this is revealing to him. One of them was Dennis
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Praeger Young, and I was like, this is no. It
08:23
was like because he got COVID and he looked like ship.
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And I was like, did he always look like Ship?
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So I like I wanted to see him, but I'm
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just like, this is how I'm spending my time. Yeah,
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a lot of them were just me to see what
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was online about me. So yeah, it's just a horrible,
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horrible search history. It's very, very embarrassing. Was Dennis Prager
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a snack speaking of microwaves egg? I mean like a
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microwave egg. I mean he looks the same he looks
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to say. I just Temple of Doom shirtless was on there.
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I just for some reason I can't remember, probably at
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a bar and I was like, oh, no, one was
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Hotter and Harrison Board in the eighties and they're like, oh,
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Ryan Gosling. And then it was just like no, I
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don't know why I was in a fight that I
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had to prove who had the best the best argument
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was their argument Ryan Gosling in the eighties, because well, yeah,
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well that's why we googled Dennis Prager Young after cleanse
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that timeline. Yeah, what is something you think is overrated work?
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That was a no brainer. I there's a lot of
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For some reason, my algorithm got a bunch of this
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hard work posts where it's like it'll be a picture
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of of Jeff Bezos like pointing at the camera and
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it's like work hard, do push ups, start a business,
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turn off your phone, read a book, build a house,
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fuck you. And it was just like like like did
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you wake up boor today? Bitch? And I'm like, no,
09:59
I hate work I've done. I'm glad more people realizing
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it's a waste of your life and get out of
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here with all that workship none. Yeah. Yeah, So that
10:11
that sub right is popping the hate work subrate the
10:15
anti work one. Yeah. I mean, because I think as
10:17
more people become so disillusioned with, you know, like the
10:20
just vile reality of like living in capitalism. It's like
10:24
you really do, like, wait, why the fuck what's the
10:27
work for? In horrible? The first day I had, Yeah,
10:33
it's so, it's so sad. I can't I remember literally,
10:36
I was fifteen the first day I like worked somewhere.
10:40
I think I was just about to turn six, and
10:42
whatever the law was, I was that day at midnight.
10:46
But my parents were like, get to work, and I worked. Yeah,
10:51
come on, it's not illegal anymore. So I went to
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work at this grocery store and it was it was
10:58
like I had an hour left in my shift and
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I went to the bathroom and I just like looked
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out the window at the moon, like this just can't
11:05
be what life is? Work? Oh, Like I was so sad. Yeah,
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yeah I can't do it. Yeah, no more work. Yeah,
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fun work did it's all right? Off the mics, dude, Yeah,
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let's get out of here. Well, I mean, so well
11:24
this doesn't work, this is fun. Yeah, I mean that's
11:27
that's the blessing. Man. I got to see this guy
11:30
every day, you know, well, fucking can't believe this ship.
11:33
This guy says you have to cut out the show
11:36
any what you're saying, Yeah, we love me. Here know
11:40
anything you can do over zoom. I don't consider when
11:43
I think of work, I think of stacking stuff, picking
11:46
something up that's heavy. Oh yeah, trust me. I constantly
11:50
in my mind, I'm like, I'm like thinking of what
11:52
my ancestors on both my Japanese and Black sides think
11:55
of me being a podcaster, and I'm like, they're laughing
11:58
their asses off. They're laughing, And then my therapist is like,
12:03
don't you think that they would also be like relieved
12:06
that you don't have to engage in the labor they
12:08
had to, like that's part of their hope for their
12:10
future generation. I'm like, yeah, maybe, but like I still
12:12
hear my grandfather. They don't like me. No, they think
12:15
I'm stupid. They're mad at me. They're mad. But your
12:20
grandchildren are gonna be like talking you up like crazy,
12:24
like like, oh, he came to this country with eight
12:27
thousand dollars in his Patreon in a dream, and he
12:30
had him and his co hosts. You know, they were
12:34
doing ad reads before you could, man, it's gonna be
12:37
and they were improvising ad reads when they used to
12:40
be Verbatim reads, it's great, anyway, we should mercy kill
12:46
grandpa before the climate war start that I was talking
12:51
about telling my friends, like about to become a father.
12:53
I'm like they were just thinking like how they might
12:56
have to put us out of, like put us to
12:58
pasture to survive, like just comes to show for like
13:01
sixty years. Yeah, I'll be in the pasture. I don't
13:05
want to be doing enough. I'll be like, look me
13:07
and that pasture. Baby, I'm gonna go with the other.
13:09
Grandpa's up to the mountain's gonna watch old YouTube clips
13:12
till we die. It would be fine if you need me,
13:14
I'll be out behind the barn with a gun in
13:17
my mouth, just waiting for you guys to come through,
13:21
just in case you know, it's your call. We gamed
13:23
it out to the point where like, well, what if
13:25
you just had a cyanide capsule and like when you're dentures,
13:28
So then like when that moment came, you could look
13:30
at your kids and be like, I'm doing this for me,
13:33
and then you're like and then they don't have to
13:36
live with having to put their louly grandparents to Honestly,
13:40
that's that's polite. That's what grand parents should do, getting
13:43
that cyanide capsule and your reverse mortgage and side dentures mortgage.
13:53
I do wonder what the what having seen the baby
13:56
boomers growing old as badly and as selfishly as they
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have will do to like future generations of people like
14:05
the elderly. If we're just gonna be like man that sucked, Like,
14:09
just don't right the elderly brand because people like the
14:15
predominating memory is gonna be of boomers, not like the
14:18
silent generation where like some of our grandparents like oh grandpa,
14:21
and then that hatred looks into the elder the truly
14:25
geriatric mouse, and I'm like what I'm I was born
14:32
in the eighties. There's a there's like a counter narrative
14:38
in mental health that like talks about how the like
14:43
people's happiness generally improves with with age, and but like
14:48
we don't attention to that because they like actually get
14:51
you know, they turn into things that like capitalism can't use.
14:55
So we just kind of chunk them off to uh
14:58
rooms where we don't have to look at them. But
15:01
they're happy about that. They're definitely happy. Secret I was
15:07
putting a boom pil out of it, like you figure
15:10
out how to work your brain and ignore the things
15:14
that you need to ignore to be happy. I guess,
15:16
but I do. I do feel like that's definitely not
15:20
coming through with the baby boomer generation as they all
15:23
just like descend into you know, fox poisoned brain territory.
15:28
I know. I just it's not a good time. Like
15:31
what I remember when old people watch Mattlock and mash
15:34
and and like some some don knots thing. You didn't
15:38
know why that was on, And now they're they're mad.
15:41
They just go to sleep mad every night. Like what
15:43
are you doing listening to Mark Levin yell at you
15:47
for five hours this day? Well? I love it. You're like, really,
15:52
are you? So watch something nice? You know? Go to
15:56
the beer? Yeah, what are you gonna do about it? Yea?
15:59
Go to the beach. You can see these socialist teams
16:02
dressed up like god knows what these kids. These kids
16:05
are confused, they don't know what's going on anymore, can't
16:08
go anybody. It's like they they think they they work
16:12
at Congress. They're like, oh, I gotta listen to these
16:14
this bill. Let me read this bill. It's like you're
16:17
you worked your whole life. Why don't you chill out?
16:19
Are you retiring the watch boxes? Well, every other indicator
16:23
has shown me I'm completely out of control. So this
16:26
is the one thing I've tricked myself into thinking I
16:28
can control. Yeah, I wish they would read the fucking bills.
16:32
They instead they just you know, take Tucker Carlson's word
16:36
for it, or dude on Facebook, what is uh? What
16:40
is something you think is underrated? Oh? I've been talking
16:44
about this, um. This is the best discovery I made
16:47
during lockdown was the people always talking about, Oh is
16:50
it is John Lennon better than Paul McCartney, And it's
16:53
the whole thing is a smoke screen. George Harrison has
16:56
been better than all of them this whole time, and
16:58
nobody knows, nobody knew, but yeah he is. He is
17:02
the best by a lot. And check him out. He's
17:06
on Spotify wherever you listen to music. This guy is great.
17:10
We're check him out. The other guys that was dangerously
17:14
close to a like he's a branded content for George Harrison, Like,
17:19
yeah he had that, even the tag wherever he is
17:22
long dead? But check him out. Yeah, the songs that
17:26
he uh that he wrote I Feel Like Something, which
17:30
Frank Sinatra called the greatest love song or the twentieth century.
17:35
While my guitar gently weeps. A lot of great bangers
17:39
and yeah, check him out. Let it be. I don't think.
17:42
I don't know if he did that, but I just
17:45
did George George Harrison Beatles songs. It's like all of them. Wow,
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hey ju Yeah he did that one. Me and Yoko
17:59
and the Bed for a while, right, I'm the drummer,
18:03
all those, all those classic peoples. Yeah, but he's uh
18:08
he very relaxing. Yeah, Here Comes the Sun very good
18:12
for a shower, nice for evening stroll, but uh yeah,
18:18
very relaxing if you're stressed out there in these tough,
18:21
tough times. Give George Harrison a listen, long, long, long
18:25
from the White album. Yeah, these are these are among
18:28
their best. Here Comes the Sun is my kid's favorite
18:31
Beatles song at the moment. So good. Yeah. I always
18:35
watch um from the concert for Bangladesh, Rellie Preston comes
18:39
out to do That's the way God planned it. I
18:41
think that's one of the one of my favorite like
18:43
live performances of a musician ever. But it's weird. You
18:46
can YouTube took it down years ago, so alas if
18:49
you like daily motion to just catch that slip. Yeah,
18:52
and it's hard to find that album anywhere. Yeah what yeah, yeah,
18:58
all right, well let's take a quick break and we
19:01
will be right back. And we're back. And the second
19:17
pipe dream of America, the one that's in second place
19:20
between giving dogs free guns, is the idea that one
19:24
day we might be able to tax the rich and
19:27
use that money to help the rest of the country.
19:31
And it's actually it's actually being discussed right now. How's
19:35
that huge? And no one, no one's fucking on board
19:41
with anything, these democrats. So Joe Mansion recently made it
19:46
clear that he is just he's hearing about this new
19:49
thing is like taxing billionaires. He's like, I got concerns
19:52
about that. I don't know, I don't know about targeting people,
19:55
as he said, because it's the seven wealthy eist individuals
20:00
in the country. I just wanted his actual quote around it,
20:04
because he's OMG various here quote. I don't like it.
20:06
I don't like the connotation that we're targeting different people.
20:10
That's a very interesting statement. And you know, we have
20:13
Kirsten cinema who has told I think we discussed lobbyists
20:16
out loud to their face straight up, I will. I'm
20:19
not interested in raising taxes on corporations and things like that.
20:22
But there seems to be some movement because Senators Widen,
20:26
Warren and King have introduced two bills to help pay
20:31
for a potentially transformational agenda. And I say potentially because
20:36
like anything that starts out as a bill being introduced,
20:40
can be completely stripped away down to absolute nothing, or
20:45
it'll get held up in courts where they will have
20:48
to redefine things like income or accountants can just find
20:52
even better loopholes. But putting that aside, let's pretend that
20:56
for this moment of positivity, that this could potentially go
20:59
through the way it is. So, the first bill is
21:02
aimed at taxing the wealthiest companies, who you know, they've
21:05
been afforded the luxury of an absolutely nonsense tax code
21:09
that allows them to basically pay nothing on their profits.
21:12
So what this bill specifically would do would apply to
21:15
companies that report more. Again, so before you start grasping
21:18
your small business pearls, we're talking about companies who have
21:21
been generating more than a billion dollars in profits each year.
21:26
This is who we're talking about, the super wealthy companies,
21:29
and this is over a three year period, and would
21:31
impose and across the board fifteen percent tax right on
21:34
those profits. Now, when you consider things like Amazon, how
21:38
they effectively pay less than five percent on their profits
21:43
through all the legal fuor like tax trickery, going to
21:48
I think would be pretty good place to start. And
21:50
so that's sort of the first dimension is to go
21:52
after companies. The second is to go at individual earners.
21:56
And this is where Joe Mansion doesn't like the idea
21:58
of just singling people out, like the seven hundred wealthiest
22:03
fucking Americans in the country. Well might hurt their feelings.
22:06
That hurts people feeling like what I know and and
22:10
listeners and I'm sure you, I'm sure all the listeners
22:13
know someone like this. We all have a friend who
22:15
makes more than a hundred million dollars per year and
22:18
they have more than one billion dollars in assets for
22:22
three straight years. We get that. We're like, dude, that's
22:25
my neighbor. Relax on, relax on this guy. So this
22:29
thing would essentially be like, look, this is who need
22:31
who we really need to make sure are paying the
22:33
fucking taxes. It would require them to give the I R.
22:35
S a detailed account of how much of the assets
22:38
they own or gain lost each year. It's called mark
22:41
to market apparently in Lingo terms. So, like the way
22:45
that we we talked before about how they avoid is
22:47
that it's a lot of their money is tied up
22:50
in stocks, right, and so just like keep it in
22:54
the stock markets and in real estate, and then they
22:56
don't have to pay taxes like the rest of us.
22:59
And but they can borrow against the fact that they
23:03
have three hundred billion dollars, you know, like that they'll
23:08
still get any loan at the best possible rate, which
23:12
enables them to just have basically unlimited money. Isn't that
23:17
the That's the funniest excuse I've ever heard. Like I
23:20
can't be paying all my money is tied up in stocks.
23:23
I don't know what I'm gonna do. It's like like
23:26
I can't pay taxes. All my money's in my pocket.
23:28
What do you want me to get it out there?
23:31
I didn't even use it. Someone took all my money
23:34
and put in stocks. I don't know how I'll ever,
23:37
I don't know what I'm gonna do because you're not
23:40
paying capital gains until they're realized, right until you sell
23:43
your stocks or you sell your real estate. That's when
23:46
capital gains come in. So again, like you're saying, Jack,
23:49
you need some some fun money, some funny, fun fun
23:52
money to go fucking p jet around and funk the
23:55
earth over and spend you know, your your luxurious lifestyle.
23:58
You just take loans out against your already massive wealth,
24:02
and then now you can take the interest payments that
24:05
you from that loan to offset any other income taxes
24:09
that you would have. So it's just a fucking it's
24:12
a beautiful setup. And the way the really the easy
24:15
way to sort of put this into perspective is right
24:17
because they're able to do these things like say, I
24:19
parked my money in the stock market so I don't
24:21
have to pay anybody fucking anything, and it just chills there.
24:24
For example, in eighteen, the top twenty five individual earners
24:28
in the United States were over worth over one trillion dollars.
24:32
It would take over fourteen million just wage earning Americans,
24:36
not to say that you're on hourly wages, but people
24:38
who aren't, just like hyper wealthy fourteen million over fourteen million,
24:42
just normal people to create that wealth, to to get
24:45
to one point one trillion dollars. Now, the tax bill
24:49
for wage earners was one hundred forty three billion dollars
24:53
from those people, from just the wage earners in the
24:56
in the United States, the personal federal tax bill for
24:59
the top five one point nine billion. Hmm. Because of
25:05
all this, all these loopholes to exploit, and we wonder why,
25:08
like all these we have no money for like you know,
25:11
transformational programs, because we're more and more accommodating class of
25:16
people to find ways to just keep their money very safe.
25:20
So again, this would be a very interesting move forward
25:24
because I think it will force I'm sure people find
25:27
new loopholes, but to not engage in at least the
25:30
beginning of trying to lock this thing down and try
25:32
and get a handle on income inequality or just inequality
25:35
in general. Wow, we gotta stop calling them loopholes. That's
25:39
a cute see name for an evil crime. You're lying
25:44
your Hey, come on, look what I found. It's just
25:53
like stop. People are dying, people are starting and sleeping
25:59
on the street. The little I R S TAXI Loopi's
26:06
people in my community aren't dying because of lack of
26:09
reasons just because it's a little loophole. Come on, I
26:13
didn't put the loophole there. And I think, and we
26:16
saw through the Pandora papers just exactly how this is
26:19
all working. Like there's so much wealth out there that's
26:22
not being taxed, and they're laughing their asses off because
26:26
it's so easy to get. It's not even hard to do,
26:29
because we're not even taking the initiative to be like, Okay,
26:33
we're not gonna can't be this easy. It has to
26:35
be just slightly easy. Yeah, dude, I got bumped up
26:39
to first class for the first time a couple of
26:41
weeks ago on a light And let me tell you,
26:45
I've never been so mad at rich people the fact
26:47
this is just their life all the time. Yeah, pay
26:50
your taxes, you get to fly first class. It's the
26:53
nicest thing that's ever happened to me. Well, then it's
26:56
also like whenever you think about like I remember that
26:58
the time I got upgraded on an international flight, I
27:02
thought I was the fucking cloth from Toy Story was
27:04
coming to take me away. Like yeah, and when you
27:10
go there, I'm like, I'm like ship, Yeah, I'm in
27:12
the fucking seat that costs thirty five hundred dollars for
27:15
a one way ticket too, And then you look around
27:18
and you're like, I'm like almost want to like rob
27:20
the person next to you. Pay this you real quick.
27:28
It's also and also it's like kind of does your
27:30
head and in that sense too, because you you'll be
27:32
in the proximity of like you're just like, holy shit, man,
27:36
this is a different reality. Is like I spend these
27:39
people spend thousands of dollars to just even go to
27:41
like New York, and I'm like, where's the fucking update
27:44
alert when I can get it for like two d right,
27:48
And what are you doing? Okay, if flying to New
27:50
York and for a thousand bucks, it's nothing to you.
27:52
What are you making in New York? They're about to
27:54
go to New York and like burned down an entire
27:57
neighborhood for for rate beon or whatever evil people do.
28:02
Yeh man, that's crazy to me. I test crowd disbursement technology,
28:10
Get off my back. So I work for the people.
28:13
I work with people. That's what's yeah. Working like just
28:18
finding out like just specific people's pain points and like
28:21
working through those I create. I create terror weapons and
28:29
evil Carstoral technologies invented water boarding in nine Yeah, kind
28:38
of a goof with me and my friend brothers. Yeah,
28:41
one of them ended up at the CIA and asked
28:43
if he could kind of pay me for the intellectual
28:46
property on that. And yet now I'm here toward your
28:51
techniques came like directly pipeline from Yale. Fret hazing, like
28:56
almost positive. It's like mostly just skull and bones. It
29:00
that they're like, oh, remember that time when we did
29:02
that to Bushy. Yeah, Like I remember that time we
29:06
we got that al Qaeda cell and then we put
29:09
them in that CIA Black Site interrogation room, put an
29:12
eight ball of cocaine on the table and said you
29:15
don't come out until this is done, and then we
29:18
m yeah, they were all over the place. Huh. So,
29:21
I like this story just made me like because the
29:25
outrage isn't there, like the it doesn't feel like we're
29:29
mad enough about just the overall state of like how
29:33
little these assholes pay. And I wonder if like one
29:37
of the things that we've talked about that is unique
29:40
about the American tax system is that like we have
29:44
to do the taxes like in other countries, they just
29:49
send you a bill and they're like, hey, this we
29:51
figured out how much you owe. This is what you owe,
29:54
so just send us a check. In America, we have
29:58
these like forms they basically put the like mindless, just
30:04
awful bureaucratic work on it on us so that we
30:08
have to do it. And I'm just wondering if they
30:11
do that so that when like the subject of taxation
30:15
comes up, we're like our brain just turns off. We're
30:18
just like fuck like or we're also like more empathetic
30:23
to other people who have to pay taxes, Like paying
30:25
taxes is such an awful thing that we're just like, yeah,
30:29
they don't, don't tax them more like that's that's me.
30:32
And taxing tax is bad, you know, like because it
30:36
doesn't make sense other than just that turbo tax is
30:41
like lobbying them. But like I feel like that like
30:44
the the way that we'll never get medicare or medicare
30:47
for all because they you know, like being able to
30:53
make people feel like they die if they left their job.
30:56
Like that's you know, I think there's like psychological coal
31:00
conveniences at work in a lot of this ship that
31:04
they do that kind of keeps the system in place.
31:07
That's one thing that's so weird with to figure out
31:09
where you're like, oh, I if I don't work, I'll die.
31:14
I'll start and then I'll die. Yeah, go ahead and
31:17
leave your job and then you won't have health insurance
31:20
and you could die and in dying, bankrupt your family
31:24
in all future generations. And then they gotta go, we know,
31:27
we gotta have taxes. So they've they've managed to convince people, Okay,
31:32
we need taxes. Who should we get it from the
31:33
people with money or the people without it? And they've
31:35
actually convinced people like, no, the people without it should pay,
31:38
not the people I'm a job creator. Yeah, you take
31:41
it from you? Like what how how do we not
31:45
take it from the rich guy? What do we do it?
31:47
They're like a thousand bucks to someone who makes like
31:49
a you know, forty k or that's nothing to take
31:52
away from them. But then if I gotta pay a
31:54
million bucks, have so much money? Serious, think about that?
31:57
Don't and don't think of it it being a pro
32:00
portion of my overall wealth either just a million dollars
32:02
objectively as a numbers too high, stupid not doing it.
32:07
But yeah, it's just all also very complicated and yeah,
32:11
like it's it's it's funny you talk about like just
32:13
the barbaric nature of like capitalism too, because you see
32:16
all these like memes now that are people like quitting
32:18
on their bosses, like tax capture threads, and like so
32:22
many of the replies from when they're like hey, you
32:24
gotta come in, this person is not coming in. They're
32:27
like no, I like I told you I needed this
32:29
time off. Their first sort is like think about your
32:32
health insurance or like some weird ship like that, and
32:34
you're like, of course, because that's the like they're just
32:37
articulating the whole grift here, which is, yeah, so it's
32:41
the threat of death if you don't give us your labor. Yeah.
32:45
They call it a taught labor market versus a like
32:49
labor market with some slack in it. And we currently
32:53
are giving them a taught labor market where you know,
32:56
they can't find enough laborers to fill all the jobs,
33:00
and that is they're like, what the funk is going?
33:03
They will be taught as I used to have to
33:07
every job I had where I'd have to go buy
33:08
and get the check on payday when I wasn't working
33:12
I would always make sure to wear something that was
33:14
impossible to work in in case they were like, oh,
33:16
well you're here. So I would wear like a Hawaiian
33:20
shirt and flip flops and you know, like a cowboy hat.
33:24
You know you're not getting me to work today, right, all.
33:29
I used to just run in and out, like I
33:32
would call it like you're like on that Friday, Like
33:34
you're the checks in there? Like yeah, yeah, all right,
33:36
They're like, atom will come up real quick. I'm like,
33:38
is like, is Mark there? Like the owner? They're like no, no, no,
33:40
I'm like all right, yeah, because I have I thought
33:46
of it, like the boss was like half teacher, half parents,
33:49
Like I thought I had to like if they say work,
33:51
I gotta do it, so I gotta. I can't let
33:53
them even ask, right, And uh, it's funny like if
33:59
are we taught that from an early age, you know,
34:01
to be as subordinate as possible. Hey, depends on what
34:03
what party you're in. The reasons could be different, but yeah, yeah,
34:08
but other countries, I feel like I have healthier relationships
34:11
and the big differences that their bosses don't hang the Hey,
34:15
think about your health insurance, think about your family getting
34:20
sick and making it so you have to but move
34:25
that coersive ships everywhere though you know for sure it's
34:28
just the laws there don't don't allow that for the
34:32
most right. Or you could be like in the case
34:34
like Japan, where they're like, we actually need to legislate
34:36
to get people to work less hard because it's destroying
34:40
the population. Yeah, wow, let's talk Let's talk Facebook. Let's
34:45
talk about the boss Mark, who are all trying to
34:48
avoid because I don't want to work to they Mark.
34:51
You know, the company seems like they've lost control of
34:54
the product they There are thousands of pages of internal
34:59
documents that were provided to Congress that provide like they
35:04
they basically have all this data on the harms they
35:07
cause with all of their products, and like it's it
35:12
just shows exactly how they document the harm. They pretend
35:18
to do something about the harm, but then they slow
35:21
walk or sideline efforts to address real harms that you
35:25
know they've caused or created or magnified. And there's a
35:29
good example. There's this New York Times story about their
35:34
decision to or like they they started to test the
35:38
idea of removing the like button from Instagram. I think
35:41
a lot of people remember that, and it's just like
35:45
it's a great example of how this was a front
35:47
page New York Times story. The New York Times just
35:50
covered it as though, hey, Facebook was trying to like
35:52
address these harms that they saw. They just took the
35:56
like button away from Instagram and people didn't like it
36:00
for some reason. And it's like that is a terrible,
36:04
like halfass solution that was designed to fail improve that
36:09
they have no choice but to like people and make
36:12
them angry. It's just like over and over in all
36:15
these papers, in every example where there is harm that
36:19
is being caused by Facebook, but that is also making
36:23
Facebook a more effective like ad platform, which is essentially
36:26
what they are. They will like the energy is behind
36:31
making the money and rising raising the stockholder prices. There's
36:36
no energy behind the people who are bringing solutions to
36:40
the table. So they'll hire these really experienced people with
36:43
great ideas, and then those people will either you know,
36:49
they'll never fire them, but those people will just immediately
36:52
realize like what a load of ship it is and
36:55
how much they don't give a funk about any of
36:58
this and quit and then become whistleblowers, which is a
37:01
part of their plan that hasn't exactly worked out, but yeah,
37:06
and and their stock price. You know that. It was
37:08
also report last week that they are giving a global
37:13
platform to you know, anti BAX doctors who are spreading disinformation.
37:19
Their accounts have grown by like thirteen thousand percent and
37:25
that's percent since Facebook identified it as a problem and
37:29
like banned the So they these like anti BAX doctors
37:33
have like grouped together, they had an organization. Facebook banned
37:37
the organization's page, but they didn't ban any of the
37:41
like members of the page whose accounts than just like
37:45
exploded and have resulted. Like one of the leaders of
37:50
the group is a PhD and immunology from the University
37:54
College Dublin, who instructed people on like, oh, she's like
38:00
stepping into the realm of like legally advising people on
38:04
sovereign citizen bullshit. She was apparently consulting the people who
38:09
stole a COVID patient out of the hospital. Yeah, because
38:13
they were like, cut, you guys are killing him, We
38:16
need to like here. He's like, come with us, come
38:19
with us, And then that guy died. Yeah, then that
38:21
that guy was rushed back to the hospital a day
38:23
later and died and don't steal patients videos. Fucked up, dude.
38:29
This guy is so desperate and confused this He's like,
38:32
no, no no, come with us. And they're like, sir, like
38:33
the doctors, like we really are telling you should not leave.
38:37
And he's like and he's like, come with and the
38:39
guys that come with us if you want to live.
38:41
It's like, what do you fucking Arnold Schwarzen, Yeah, what
38:43
are you doing? Ah? Whatever happened to idiots? Staying home?
38:48
Stay home and be a fucking moron. Don't go stealing patience,
38:52
keep your the internet happened many because you can find
38:57
an audience. Maybe I'm not wrong, right because these other
39:02
people agree, Oh, let's bring back laziness. Be a lazy
39:06
queue and thank you. Stay home, stay retired. And you know,
39:13
as all of this information is coming out, you know,
39:15
Facebook has been having one of the worst weeks in
39:18
company history, like as in the history of any company.
39:22
Fifty news stories have laid out Facebook's utter failures to
39:26
believe its own platform, and their share price was rising
39:31
at the beginning of this week. So it's exactly like
39:35
the central problem is that all they care about the
39:37
shareholder prices and all the shareholders care about is the
39:41
things that are driving the price of them. They don't
39:44
give a funk that they're you know, breaking the world. Yeah,
39:49
we that movie about them came out eleven years ago.
39:51
We've known like by all Facebook is turns out and
39:55
I'm like, turns out that was the number one movie
39:59
was company and that was a long time ago. Yeah,
40:02
good lord. It's also really it's i mean, people haven't
40:06
even begun or slowly the conversations just coming out about
40:10
like Facebook as it relates to India, because India is
40:13
actually the largest user base for the company, but the
40:17
United States gets like seven per cent of the company's
40:21
like global budget in terms of like time spent on
40:25
like battling you know, misinformation. And when you look at
40:28
what's happening in India and the things that have proliferated
40:31
on Facebook, they're like, this is a whole other fucking crisis.
40:36
But right now there's it's like there there there's so
40:39
many bad things happening that I'm like, I'm hoping legislators
40:43
can keep track of it all because you know the
40:47
effects are just so far reaching. Shut it off? Can
40:50
we just shut it off? Like there's got to be
40:52
something that one Monday, shut off, turn off this website.
40:58
What does what's that have to do to get shut off?
41:01
Keep the good parts of connecting people, like with like
41:04
a WhatsApp or like the commerce things where people can
41:08
actually support themselves, but this whole other shit. It's like,
41:12
that's why we'll see what happens. I mean this whole week.
41:15
You know, the Senate is speaking to a lot of
41:17
people in text, so we'll see what they what they
41:19
make of that. We need we need the social network too,
41:24
because the that movie made him look like an asshole,
41:28
but like a fun asshole you were kind of like
41:30
not rooting for. But it was like, you know, you
41:34
saw the seeds of like what we're seeing come to
41:38
fruition now. But like what that's a that's a great movie.
41:41
And it's also like you need to, for the record
41:45
show like all the awful ship that has happened since then. Yeah,
41:49
and he I think that branded him is just like
41:51
he's a law college student, he's working a hoodie. He's
41:54
not a super villain. He's just he's just in his
41:57
dorm room being in college. But it's like, yo, he's
42:00
a full grown man who's evil and rich, and destroying
42:04
the planet. Oh, he wears the same thing every day
42:08
to drink snapple in his dorm room. Okay, he's he's
42:13
on his way to fucking the earth, right on my
42:17
way to destroy every other just wore a hoodie he
42:19
could bring he would, he would be like, oh, come on,
42:21
he's got a hoodie on. Come on, it's Michael Jordan's mustache.
42:25
He's like just a bullets fan. Probably come on, I relaxed.
42:30
There needs to be like a downfall type treatment of Facebook,
42:34
like you know, look at the last day, like a
42:36
Hitler and stuff where you can just be like, dude,
42:38
it's a mess, it's pathetic, it's dangerous. There's nothing good
42:43
going on here, Like there's no there's no cool track
42:47
from Garbage doing like a cover of Hotel California or
42:50
something playing to like make it kind of offset how
42:53
grim everything is. Like people really need to see just
42:55
how you know, sadly that's the only way people know
42:59
how to communicates, Like is there a movie that kind
43:01
of explains how democracy is backsliding across the earth because
43:06
of Facebook? I mean movies and you know, prestige TV
43:10
shows are incredibly important for like giving people the imaginary
43:15
or imaginative vocabulary to understand things, so you get it done.
43:21
But we don't need it to be you uh fucking
43:24
what's his name? Writer? Yeah, Sorkin does not does not
43:29
need to be a Sorkin joint, although you know they're fun.
43:32
But I just feel like we would get some revisionists.
43:36
You own the fence to? What would sell me a
43:39
fense to? And I'll make this all go away type
43:42
ship from from him? Yeah, he completely doesn't understand it.
43:47
Like Mark Zuckerberg's talking to like Novendra Modi in India
43:50
and he's like, yes, sell me a fence. They like,
43:52
all right, dude, click, I mean, like you see that's
43:56
how it happened, don't. Don't. Who would be the best
43:59
director for that? For the writer writer director maybe, well
44:04
it needs to actually be to get the information out.
44:06
It should be a real average director who's popular. Yeah,
44:11
if you want people to see it, get get who's
44:15
the guy that makes Fast and Furious? What's that? That's
44:17
a guy's name? Do that? That guy? The Asian director? Yeah? Yeah, um,
44:22
what is it? James something? Justin justin lynn on it.
44:27
We'll see it. But but no, I think you know
44:30
Sam Mendez because he does like really good like America
44:33
is so fucked up movies. Yeah, Like and there's like
44:38
like also like their gutshot silent evil people. I feel like,
44:43
is yeah a specialty. Oh yeah, yeah, that might be
44:46
interesting case. I just think of like what's um like
44:49
Revolutionary Road. Oh god, that was a fucking neck breaker.
44:55
I was like, oh fuck, dude, Yeah that was tough.
44:58
That was hard to right, and even like treating like
45:02
Michael Shannon's character, who was like the like more aware
45:05
than anyone in that time, like portraying like how everyone's like,
45:08
oh he's off, he's disturbed. He's kind of seeing the
45:11
matrix while all you are fucking shoving your heads anyway, right, Yeah,
45:16
if you see the matrix, you gotta win. You can't
45:18
come in second. Or the wachowskis fuck it. Just to
45:24
give enough that people are like fun, just to turn
45:30
it up so you really understand what the is going on. Well,
45:34
let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
45:47
And we're back. And fox Weather just launched R I
45:52
P to the Planet Earth. They dumped ten million dollars
45:57
into fox Weather, which is a free, had supported twenty
46:01
four hour channel you can get either on TV or
46:04
through an app, and hold onto your butts, guys, because
46:07
this weather app uses cutting edge three D radar and
46:12
the unprecedented technology future view that allows you to check
46:16
the weather several months ahead, fucking months. It's just amazing.
46:22
Like the entire like the pitch that they're like launching
46:26
this thing on is just such a blatant lie. It's
46:30
just a total lie. Like that's impossible. That's several months ahead.
46:35
Is like when the butterfly flapping its wings outside my
46:39
window right now has created a monsoon, and like, and
46:43
we're not gonna tell you what it feels like either.
46:46
We don't care about your fucking feelings. Were what temperature?
46:49
He is? That's it. Yeah, no agenda for why your
46:55
home was lost in a terrible mud slide due to
46:58
torrential downpours that could have been anyway. No politics, just
47:03
numbers and circles. Yeah, but meteorologists say, like anything outside
47:08
of two weeks is not feasible, And George Soros paid
47:13
them to take their your weather information from you. That's
47:18
what he did. The forecast devolve into where it's like now,
47:21
if you're living in New York, you already know Soros,
47:24
You're on whatever he's deciding is going to happen up there.
47:27
Now when we go into the southeast, It's like, what
47:31
funk is this? I do all the Black Lives Matter
47:35
rallies have created a heat wave? Is it just me?
47:40
Or is that cloud look like a jew? I don't know.
47:43
I'm not. I'm just a weather man for Fox Weather.
47:46
I can't tell, just a meteorologist anyway. Let's go to
47:50
the clan hood for the the like this is happening
47:55
at a time when the Weather Channel is like more
47:59
openly agned, knowlledging the effects of pollution and global warming
48:04
and the apocalyptic situation that we're all in the midst
48:08
of right now, and they've even like stated that, like
48:11
they're fully going to cover that as a main part
48:16
of their weather narratives of like the nine sickest tornadoes
48:21
that through a fucking tree at a house, which is
48:25
what I see every time I go to the Weather Channel.
48:28
But yeah, I mean, they have a long history of
48:31
spreading or at least Fox News has a long history
48:34
spread and climate related misinformation. They have been dismissive of
48:39
the crisis. One climate scientist argued Fox News has been
48:42
the greatest promoter of climate change disinformation over the past
48:46
two decades, which is a hell of a hater ship, dude.
48:51
I mean, but that's there's a lot, there's a lot
48:53
of contributors to that. That's like, yeah, groups, because I mean,
49:00
you look at it, because the United States has such
49:03
an oversized role in, for whatever reason, leading the Earth
49:08
into its own destruction that when you have one channel
49:11
that's speaking to one half of the government being like nah,
49:14
spake yeah, Like yeah, I guess it is probably yeah,
49:18
maybe it does deserve that title. A little over a
49:21
month ago, Fox News literally cut away from an emergency
49:24
briefing on the deadly storm in New York because the
49:28
topic of climate change came up the Fox News like
49:32
it was a Thursday morning New York briefing on the
49:35
deadly storms and floods. Uh, and a Democratic congressman site
49:39
a climate change is a factor, and they immediately pulled away,
49:43
and anchor Bill Hammer grumbled, Well, that turned political quite quickly,
49:48
so which isn't like Also, you know, in the aftermath
49:52
of Hurricane i'da, only four percent of major network coverage
49:56
even mentioned climate change, So it's not like they're alone
49:59
in this but they do seem to be coming at
50:03
it from an angle of, you know, actively dismissing it
50:06
as opposed to just politely ignoring it. Right, that's amazing
50:11
to you pointed a camera at Congress and you're like,
50:13
so political today? Where they that's going on with this politics? Yeah,
50:19
I mean it might get to the point where the
50:21
accepted wisdom is that it is climate change, and then
50:25
there's just gonna be like, oh, there's a fire, now
50:27
we can't show that fire. That's too political. There there's
50:30
a hurricane, not a political hurricane. That's where I feel
50:35
like eventually that that's gonna have be other coverage is dictated.
50:38
If they're trying to ignore everything at all costs, we
50:41
should start naming the hurricanes after Fox News anchors. Oh yeah,
50:49
that'll shame him. Yeah, that they would just like take
50:52
that as a point of pride. That was the best idea,
50:54
maybe my worst ever. I'm in fact honored the distinction
50:59
of a massive weather system with the potential to alter
51:02
the lives of them. But our writer Jam was pointing
51:05
out that like, because they so they're they're claiming like
51:09
we're not gonna not cover it, So Fox Weather, we're
51:13
not gonna not cover it. But even if they acknowledge
51:15
it, it it kind of creates this dystopian strategy where Fox
51:19
News perpetuates climate change, which leads to more extreme weather,
51:23
which in turn increases viewership for Fox Weather. Like when
51:26
you think about how this project was launched, there's almost
51:31
no chance that they weren't like, well, the future of
51:34
weather is going to be really bad because the climate change.
51:38
Hence there's gonna be a lot of eyeballs there, you know,
51:42
mm hmm. I mean you look like they said, there's
51:45
a picture of a what is it a burning building?
51:48
Just fucking stay on it. Yeah, you know, just that's
51:53
similar strategies. But I'm curious to see, like what the
51:57
what this weather coverage like? Yeah, because yeah, right, the
52:04
Weather Channel like at least has you know, like they
52:07
I like how they've sort of been evolving over the
52:09
years to really help people like get like not have
52:12
such an abstract idea of what like terrible weathers. Like
52:16
when you're like, okay, you know what a flood is
52:18
and they're like, here with with the computer graphics, I
52:21
will show you what six foot of flooding looks like,
52:23
what eight ft of flooding looks like relative, like to
52:26
a street sign. And then people are, oh, so for
52:30
sort of dumb people like me who don't like like,
52:32
we're bad in science classes tremendously and me, I need
52:37
a movie like Moonfall to make it all right. Clicking
52:41
click into place at about the heat wave today. It's
52:49
already up and running, and I think people were like, well,
52:53
they didn't actively say climate change isn't real in the
52:57
first six hours, but you know there they haven't blamed
53:02
rainstorms on immigrants yet. But that doesn't mean that they're
53:05
like foe a political posturing will be any less harmful
53:10
in the long run. Hurricanes they come right up from
53:13
the border. These hurricanes coyotes. That's that's what you gotta do.
53:17
You gotta stop at the force. They start in Honduras
53:22
and they take a very tumultuous journey with their children
53:27
all the way. Somebody say these hurricanes are bad parents,
53:29
putting theirs at risk. We need these walls to be
53:32
damn ten miles high block these these storms. They can't.
53:39
I want storms to come legally through our wall into
53:42
our country. You know what was the thing Louie Gomert
53:48
said the other day about he was talking to a scientist,
53:51
and he just had the most had the most ass
53:53
and I in suggestion, and they're like, that's not even
53:57
physically possible for I mean, I think we're we're very
54:01
quickly approaching these kinds of just idiocracy solutions to climate change. Yell,
54:07
can we just stop the heat? Right? What make a
54:13
like a big sunshade? Like, gosh, ship, what if we
54:17
all leave our fridge door open for for ten years?
54:20
Build the shade, Build the shade, Like what the fuck,
54:25
you idiot? Aarasol over Florida is gonna stop our hurricane.
54:30
That book Freakonomics like literally made me buy something very similar,
54:36
like I think I read it in like high school
54:39
or you know, and they were like, yeah, you know
54:43
a lot of problems seemed really bad, but then like
54:45
somebody solved it. Like people thought horse poop was gonna
54:49
like overwhelm our cities back before the invention of the car,
54:53
and so like one of the things they're probably gonna
54:55
do is just like put a bunch of particulate matter
54:58
in the atmosphere year that will like block the Sun's
55:02
raise a little bit and like help us regulate temperature.
55:07
And I was like, okay, so I don't have to
55:10
worry about this for like six months. Turns out block
55:15
the Suns raise. Yeah, man, you see this is bad
55:19
because we're all going to tune into Fox what just
55:21
because we're like curious, and then they're gonna last forever.
55:25
That first day, everybody's gonna be like, what's this racist weather?
55:28
Gonna be like too late? Made too much money? Do
55:32
you imagine? Like they just go too hard, and even
55:34
their own viewers like, look, I just want the weather man,
55:37
like I watched Fox News for like my like to
55:41
get my racist mouth watering. Just I just want to
55:44
know if it's going to rain tomorrow. Please don't say
55:48
critical race theory. Caleb A is always such a pleasure
55:53
of having you, Man, where can where can people find you?
55:55
Follow you? Watch you while that? Yeah, you can find
55:58
me on Twitter. I had to start over on twite
56:00
Twitter because of some uh I got banned, So follow
56:03
me at dumb Caleb. This is a good account. I'm
56:06
not impersonating anyone. I didn't know you could pretend to
56:10
be presidential candidates. I thought that was fun and funny
56:14
and really yeah, you know, I saw other comics doing it.
56:18
It was just fun. You change your profile picture in
56:20
your name, and you're like, hey, I'm Trump, I'm buying
56:23
and I thought it was fun and then I got
56:24
it took that, but so now I'm dumb Caleb and
56:27
it's just me on there. And I got a podcast
56:29
called What's it Called? With Dave Ross and it's really
56:32
dumb and fun, but I love it, and so listen
56:35
to that. And uh, we renamed stuff a lot, and
56:39
we don't know what our podcasts called, and it's just
56:42
it's an excuse to riff. Like we renamed Titanic, changed
56:46
the name to boat, and then we photoshop, you know.
56:49
Then we get on Twitter and we're like, hey, if
56:50
you have a dumb name, like uh for home improvement,
56:54
and then like someone tweeted in how about man? You know,
56:56
it was home Depot. We were like home Depot, that's
56:59
someone renamed Man's Labyrinth and we laughed for eight days.
57:03
It's just super fun, and give it a list, give
57:07
it a list. A lot of funny people tweet what's
57:10
it called? Again? At the show what's it called? Hey? Uh?
57:16
And is there a tweet or some of the work
57:18
of social media you've been enjoying? Oh uh, So Twitter
57:23
is like the you know, it's the worst website. It's
57:26
it's amazing how Facebook just is the worst. And then Twitter, like,
57:31
I guess a lot of people just don't have it.
57:32
But I saw a tweet one of the tweets that
57:35
makes me laugh so hard I think about it sometimes.
57:38
I love Steve Martin on there. I know he's an
57:39
old guy, but uh, one of his that made me
57:42
laugh is it was a quote tweet and from like
57:46
NASA or something that was astronomers just found twenty new
57:48
moons around saturny And he said I knew about him
57:51
last year, but who the hell is gonna listen to me?
57:56
I just think he's the funniest. He's still the funniest guy.
58:00
But it's so funny. Man. Yeah, Twitter can be a nightmare,
58:03
but he's funny on there. Yeah, it really can. Miles,
58:07
Where can people find you as a tweet you've been enjoying?
58:10
You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles
58:14
of Gray. Also the other show for twenty Day Fiance
58:17
with Sophie Alexandra talking ninety day Beyonce. Let's see a
58:22
tweet that I like. This one is from Jason Candor
58:27
at Jason candor just since we're talking about taxes, He's tweeted,
58:31
Elon Musk, be aware if they can tax a billionaire
58:34
like me, they can tax you regular people too, regular people.
58:39
We've been paying our taxing this whole time, bro, which
58:44
is very much like the like billionaires are realized, like yeah,
58:47
that doesn't work. We've been here, that's amazing. Should we
58:53
just call it like the best at capitalism? Tax? Is
58:57
that just like complement in there that the war not
59:00
just stop saying it's gonna be like the most baller
59:05
is called who's paying this tab? Baller's only club? And
59:11
every week the baller's only club as to gathering like
59:14
because you know, like what is it the u N
59:15
or something? Food scarcity sort of subdivisions like you know
59:19
like two percent of Elon Musk's wealth could wipe out
59:21
global hunger, but whatever, you know, and then you you
59:25
do it like that, you're like, okay, man, who's got
59:27
the tab on global hunger? Who's got the tab on
59:30
like modernizing like irrigation and like up saleran Africa? Who's
59:34
got that tab? And then it says all ballers making
59:37
it rain? You know that's what they Yeah, if there's
59:39
a rapper that could brag like if dj Kalet was
59:41
like I solved you know this bridge came from me.
59:44
I'm I was the guy that made that, then it
59:46
would be cool. It would be cool to be like, oh,
59:48
hell yeah, my taxes do ship right. It's all about brand. Yeah.
59:53
Balling isn't about having three rolls Royces. Balling is about
59:56
giving people educational financial choices. Yeah, hell yeah, you know
1:00:01
what I mean proving the post office? Can we just
1:00:04
honeypot them, like put somebody who they're interested in romantically
1:00:09
in there, like Brian's should have done this, but like
1:00:13
and then just like street sign right, and then just
1:00:18
be like hey, like it's kind of fucked up that
1:00:20
you haven't ended world Hunger yet today, Like that's oh right,
1:00:25
like Megan Fox or something. Yeah. I feel like Elon
1:00:28
Musk secretly loved Megan Fox because he thinks Transformers is
1:00:31
like the best film ever. It's like, I don't know, Ellen,
1:00:36
are you weed? And He's like, yeah, I'm Weed. I
1:00:40
you can find me on Twitter at jack Undersquirrel. Brian,
1:00:43
let's see some tweets have been enjoying. Maggie Winters tweeted,
1:00:48
oh great, here comes James and his giant fucking peach.
1:00:57
Fun that guy and Brodie Google Google to tweeted I
1:01:02
could change logan, Roy, that's great, just groaning. Uhh, it's great. No,
1:01:18
you're right, it's huge, huge, man. You don't have to
1:01:22
bring it every time. It's all people, you know, like
1:01:24
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1:01:45
information that we talked about in today's episode, as well
1:01:48
as a song that we think you should go check out.
1:01:51
Maybe Miles, what's the song that we are sending people
1:01:54
to go check out? Two days? So this is a
1:01:57
you know, a rapper sort of multi hyph in an
1:02:00
artist Milon Chunky No from the UK but via Zimbabwe,
1:02:06
and you know, like it's in the grime scene and
1:02:09
just like all kinds of different music scenes. But this
1:02:12
is a really dope track called meth m e h
1:02:14
because it kind of sums up the vibe right now.
1:02:17
But the track is anything but meth. It's very you know,
1:02:20
it's just like that uk rap. I love the accent,
1:02:22
I love to lingo, I like the production and I
1:02:25
think you will too. So go check out Meth by Chunky,
1:02:29
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