Gaetz Gate Gets Grimy, April FAILS Day 4.2.21

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
No. See, I told you I never rolled up Grabbo
before I can. I said back was optimal. Uh fucking Swisher.
But Rob is too much. There's too much Nicotina. Yes,
hold on, I just gotta teach this thought anyway, Hey kids,
what's going on? Welcome uh to? Uh? What what the
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where we're taking the deepest of dives into America's shared consciousness,
where we don't pull punches and we will steal your lunches.
It's Friday, April twod My name is Miles Gray. A
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down the only road. I'm by a racist I sold
I couldn't vote, and I made up my mind. I'm
telling this s okay. So you know, White Snake, that's
a good that's not just a clever band name White.

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Shout out to Nico at Nico Mantha for that, Yeah,
reminding us that it's Jim Crow the one point on
the beta version. It's a back and we have to
press back anyway, Thank you for that and more than
more than that, I am thrilled to be joined by
my co host today, who's just been fucking solid. You

(01:25):
know what I mean. I can just I can throw
the lab up and I know she's gonna catch it
and fucking smash. I don't have to even look. I
could be sloppy with it and she's always coming through
it to hold it down. Rebound exactly. Please help me
welcome the brilliant, the talented, the hilarious, incomparable Joel Monique. Okay,
two things. One, I wasn't prepared for a sketch at

(01:47):
the top. I know we were doing almost hopped in
like Lauren Hill, and do like a mis education teacher. Teacher,
why don't use violence today? This is wild. Also, I'll
have a song today, but I'm gonna I'm gonna check
the discord. So if y'all are in the discord, oh yeah,

(02:08):
throw that up. I'll look around for it for Monday
show and I will. I'll sing you a song with
my name minute or something. I gotta get. I gotta
get into that. Yeah, I try to step up my game.
I was told Jamie always comes prepared with the song,
and you know Jamie's a homie, but I can't let
her beat me either, So yeah, and don't worry. Yeah,
and we'll have full production on there. You'll sounding like
looking Quavo by the tune without shoving the sweetie and

(02:30):
the elevator. I was like, did you see Quavo that
thing where he shoved Sweetie? That that video that came
out that was in North Hollywood last year. I was like, what, Yes,
there was a video. I think he I haven't seen it,
but they said there was an altercation in which he
made he shoved her. Yeah, straight into the internet. Your

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fingers have flame shooting out of them. That is, well,
you deserve to get your ass beat. I'm so glad
meets him with that exact same shoving energy. I'm glad
that she got out of there. I'm glad she flamed
him on the way out, like embarrassed his whole self,
like his mother probably has second hand embarrassment often what

(03:16):
she did. Um wow, yeah, all right, Well anyway, just
a little bit of that's a little bit, yeah, just
a little bit of information to start off. But look,
let's not digress. We need to introduce our guest today, Joel,
somebody who a few few weeks ago. I guess it's
like you don't know about this guy. You should have more.

(03:36):
What fun are genius? You ever heard his fucking music?
What the fund is wrong with you? And I said, whoa, whoa, Okay,
I get it, I get it all. We'll definitely have
this man on. You're cut too. I'm listening to the music.
I'm I'm fucking snapping my neck so hard. I'm about
to send him a chiropractor bill. Please welcome our guests today,
the brilliant and talented Dealings Words. Hello, Hello, welcome, welcome

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all the way from Detroit, Michigan. Thank you for having
how's the weather over there? Oh it's weird like yesterday,
like it legitimately was like you can go outside and
just a hoodie, and then overnight it began to snow,
and now the snow is melted. At least where I live.
It's bizarro world. It's very straight. Yeah, you gotta love

(04:22):
the Midwest spring, man, You know, is it raining sideways?
Is there? Snow is eight degrees for no damn reason.
It was forty yesterday. It don't make no sense out there.
You can have swings like that. You go for you
to eight easily, easily, sometimes to that day miles. Sometimes
a single day, yes, like the morning will be forty

(04:44):
and then you're like, it's five. This is why we
invented layering, right, This is why we have to have
the code, the hoodie and the T shirt just in
case we experience all four seasons. In the spam twenty
four hours, my California ignorance is showing it's not seventy
two the whole day. Oh man, that was that was

(05:06):
the trip. When my parents are like, did you check
the weather, I'm like, I don't check the weather. I
live in the Los Angeles, Okay, it's mostly warm. Take
a sweater in case the sun goes down. It's more
like a quality that you have to be aware of
your like is there a fire? And am I breathing
in ash? So many days I've just come outside and like, oh,
that's just ash on my ground. Oh yeah, I've been
times and I'm like, oh, look at this cool little

(05:27):
leaf on my car. And it was just a fully
ashen leaf that struggle structural integrity and like landed like
a whimsical Forrest Gump. Father. That is so sad. That's
sad and beautiful, but sad. Yeah, like it's well, the
moment you touch it and goes that's when you're like, oh,
it's I'm still saving that movie. Stop stop it. Yeah,

(05:55):
because the entire season of Behind Her Eyes, but you
have not seen end. It's not the truth I'm hearing
right now. I never saw the whole season of Behind
Your Eyes, and I thought you watched the whole thing.
I've heard you guys talking. No, no, no, Jack did.
Jack didn't like when he said that other ship. I
was like, what it was wild? The thing is I
get I get overwhelmed when I missed too much class.
So after Old Tron was the last Avengers film I saw,

(06:19):
and then you know, life kind of comes at you
in different ways, and I wasn't. I'm more of an
X Men person than overall Marvel. Like that's I gave
all my money to Jim Lee. He was drawing x Men.
But like so that's like I'm I'm a little myopic
with like, you know my Marvel love a little bit.
So it just didn't. But also what happens is then
the franchise gets away from me too far, and then

(06:40):
I have to become contrarian. Yeah. I didn't really with
that anyway. Yeah, I'm hearing here. I just want you
to know that plus is like a smooth my own
little archie D two. Yes, did I tell you? They
said you could have to have an account and they

(07:00):
don't need to be in your home. I said, who
needs it? I handed it out the car. I was like,
get it, take it, take it. Because here's the thing.
I am the kind of person who has to talk
about a movie when it's finished. Okay, so I'm my
home easy to also be able to talk about that movie,
over watch the stuff. So now I'm here to tell Miles,
you could just watch all of those Marvel movies right there.
When one's done, it tells you which one to watch next.

(07:22):
Is really easy. If you ultra you haven't seen any
of the aunt Man's, which are comedic gold. Someone I
used to date was in one of them. Fast forward
to their part like no, no that. I was like, no,
good for you good? It was a supporting background, featured background.
But they let you know and hey, that's that's a

(07:43):
classic Hollywood story featured background player. I love it. I'll
do it, and then you know what, then we'll have
to I'll come back to you and we can have
a post mortem. I just want to know if you
have the same reaction every because I'm sure you've seen
the videos of the reactions after Infinity War. I mean,
I get it. I know, like ship's going on, but
like you know, I think the closest thing I know

(08:05):
is I remember when Kamala Harris and Stacy Abrams came
out the portal who save Joe Biden to win the election.
But that's in the movie, right, These memes have got
so sorry that this is this is what they were referenceaing.
I see how this got it? Got it? Got it?
Oh man, we'll circle back to this conversation there. Let

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it have been in it and they're gonna talk. We're
gonna talk your head off in a second, but first
you're gonna let people what we're gonna talk about. Uh,
there's more texture to that Matt Gates story that we
were talking about yesterday that it just got weirder and
now Iran is there's an Iran angle to the thing.
So we'll talk about that. Talk about people. You know
what they're doing. You know, we don't have student loan debt.

(08:47):
What that frees you up to do? What kind of
burden that lifts off of your shoulders. And you know,
maybe we can use that to say, maybe we should
cancel it all out right, you know, maybe there's a
that's a good plan. Uh, then we'll beg Major League
base fault to please preserve our democracy and give our
offerings to the diamond. As well as talk about movies,
movie theaters opening up. What that's gonna look like. We're

(09:09):
gonna talk about white Guy's idea of what smoking weed is.
And the Volkswagen April Fool's Day prank gone so fucking
wrong that it's hilarious, and so I don't know, maybe
the prank it's a meta prank on themselves. But first
dealings Worth the Man from the Glove tell us something
from your search history that reveals something about who you are. Um, well,

(09:34):
this relates a lot to some of the other things
that I think you guys are gonna ask me. But
like a thing that is always in my search history
is Nexus mods dot com, specifically the Fallout fourth section.
I I love the game Fallout four. It came out
in like I think, and I've been playing it ever since.

(09:55):
And uh, for those people out there who don't know
a lot of these games that you can get on PC,
you can get user made modifications for them. So I'm like,
I'm like always on there, like downloading characters and costumes,
and people make a whole like storyline mods where you
can add more to the story and they try to
make it like fit into the lower and I'm like

(10:16):
really like geek out about this. I'm like always. So
it's like you're like basically fan made DLCs keep expanding expanding. Yeah,
I'm I'm tethered to the console world where they just
they cut you open and bleed you follow your money
because you want to get a funny hat for the
Homie and Valhalla too. I'm too poor for all that,
so like I need I need those, you know, I mean,

(10:38):
I've never I've I think about DLC like once, okay,
look at this about here, one purchase of DLC. The
sins like I shouldn't have you're smart, you're not smart,
field money on fake things, video games cast sixty yes,

(11:01):
you know what I mean, six zero and it had
everything you needed there. So then when we got to
all this other ship and they're like, you want another
thirty from me for what they make it good? Like
when since Holmes, I said, can I get a smaller
closet so that my character can actually use the product
in space allotted? It was like it's nine blowing and

(11:22):
now somebody has gifted me, uh computer like a P
and actual PC. But I can now get on what
it is just doing. And I I haven't set it
up yet because I'm like this, will my life be consumed?
Will I ever do happen? Well? All my nights just
oh man, that has those black sims mods. Okay, I've
seen the natural hair mods and I'm I'm gonna beat

(11:45):
again twists and the box break. Can they change like
the fake names? The fake words has a little more flavor,
so it's not like and you're like just kind of
little sort of inflections that we can kind of like
I think he said, I don't know pres expansion, especially

(12:05):
when they get famous people to come in and sing
their songs. When Haley Williams saying mystery business in similar
shove fifteen year old mutes, it was amazing? Is that that?
When it goes pa, that's that one right, yeah, yeah,
all right, Haley, we see you and the other Yeah,
you know the one thing that has got me sort

(12:27):
of My head turn is when I saw like some
of the great moths like g t A because like
I'm waiting nine years for the new one. But like
when they're like, hey man, you can would you rate
tracing and ship with this? I was like that ship
looks good anyway, So good good on that. So shout
out to shout out to Nexus mods, you know, sponsor
the show, sponsor aliens wor free commercial. Um, what is

(12:48):
something that you think is overrated? Overrated? Oh man, I
got too many things? Um good planning is one of them.
I think. I think the idea of planning and organization
is is highly overrated, and I think it's been illuminated
by what we are experiencing now in the pandemic because
I'm sure, just like you know many of the listeners,

(13:09):
we had lots of plans that we have made about
things we're gonna do with goals we're gonna achieve, and
then this pandemic came and swept through. It was like, Nope,
don't do that, pivot everything and stay in the house.
Are you what are you think you're gonna You'll come
back to planning eventually. Well. I never really was a
person for organizations and planning. So now I feel like

(13:31):
very like validated and seen and and I feel like
I feel like people are really like coming to my
side and maybe like what's gonna come out of this?
You know, I'll have more people on my team that
can like wave that start church. Are you anty planning
because there's like divine and just experiencing, like just randomly experiencing.
Is that more your vibe or is it just the

(13:53):
idea of trying to put something into and organized like
this is how these happen seems ridiculous. Yeah, I think
more of the ladder. Like I've and just through experience
of just trying to like set things up to happen
in a certain way, and I've just had the I
guess the bad look or maybe not even bad look.
I just had the experience of things not coming to

(14:13):
fruition too many times in a row. So like planning,
who needs it, Let's just get out there and see
what happens. Let's just do There's persons right, because expectation
is the you know, the seeds of disappointment and frustration
or whatever. So I think expectation is one thing, and
having a vision for yourself, but like not tying it

(14:34):
to like a time frame is good because I used to.
That's how I've been able to navigate my own life,
like without saying like you know, I know, people were like,
I will do this by October. I'm like, Okay, get
the funk away from Yeah, that's a little too intense,
Like you're working up the site. A second ago you
were rapping about how you ship your pants as an
adult worth um but like, but like the whole thing

(14:59):
with that, it's like, yeah, of course, have plans for yourself,
but don't be like, don't be brutal with yourself either.
Like it's like walking towards a mountain, you know what
I mean. Like, I know we all want to get
to the top, but as at least if you're taking
a step or two a day towards that the good
don't don't don't be a Tony Robbins type of person.
Though that's a little that's too much. Yeah, in terms

(15:19):
like don't be an abusive Yeah that too, don't do that.
Um yeah, because let's be real, like he's scamming people
and it's just psychologically tormenting them. Was like this is
gonna make you better. Okay, thanks, but to your point
of like saying like, now people are like coming to
your side where you sort of like, yeah, exactly what
you get a little bit for having a birthday? A

(15:41):
little bit? A little bit because I feel like I
would be like kind of telling people about what the
types of things I go through all the time, and
they would just kind of be like, oh, that's too
bad whatever, And like now they really like you feel it.
It's it's different where you have to feel it yourself
rather than just hearing somebody talk about it. You know, Yeah,
it's the experience teaches us so many less. Yes it does.

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What do you think is something that is underrated? Underrated
of erectile dysfunction? I think a rectile dysfunction is underrated
because if you think hard enough about all the negative
things that have been precipitated by erections, it's it's almost obvious,
like the quest for power, wars, assaults on people's bodies.

(16:27):
If you're Dick, stopped working, go teach a kid how
to read of gold, start a nonprofit, volunteer at a
soup kitchen, like take to take that energy that you
were wasting and put it towards good. Okay, when Dick
stops working, if it had a beautiful vision of doctors

(16:47):
being like, you know what, We're not gonna try to
kill this anymore. We're gonna drive men to be better
human beings. Okay, this is a divine intervention. Your dick
st go to good in the world. Okay, a double
sword though, you know, I feel like how many people
with that toxic sense of masculinity then go on the
other side and you're like, what's wrong with I have?

(17:09):
I have a friend who said more than once like,
if if my dick stops working, just kill me. I'm like, no, dude,
stay alive and like plant a garden a garden. Also, yeah, also,
please make your existence more than if your blood flows
to your penis. Yeah, that's not I mean honestly, Like, look,
if that's his measure for like a quality of life,

(17:33):
what does he look like with people who achieve things?
And he's like that, it's like the dick work that
I don't give a funk about the Lebron James winning.
He got all those rings, But does Dick Joe? He
got the rings, but what about that thing you could
work with? The ships are no? Okay, sir? Please the

(17:53):
toxic section is over there. Please let that go. Please,
let's non dick after. This is the greatest conversation of it.
This is so funny. I mean yeah, but it's something
that truly that I truly think it's underrated, like you know, yeah, yeah,
we appreciate that. That's why the listeners come here. And
we avoided talking about ship because which is normally what

(18:16):
will happen sometimes. Well, maybe that that might be a
song we go out on later. You'll be very surprised.
But yeah, let's take a quick break and we'll be
back to talk news after this and we're back. We

(18:43):
had too much fun in the break wondering if maybe
LaVar Burton, you know, reading Rainbow. Anyway, we digress and
if there was like a Patreon, we would have put
that special conversation with a full on parody theme song
we created right there for the Miles is a musical genius. Uh.
He made the reading Rainbow song dirty. I'm inspired and

(19:06):
also I'm not gonna lie ailings where we were parallel
thinking right there, we're the nude, We're the new Holland
Dozer Holland between the three of us here just cranking
out the hits. Respect to the Motown Masters of Holland,
Dozer Holland. Okay, let's now talk about Sorry, I'm gonna
slam the brakes because we have to talk about the

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Actually it's sad this. So the Matt Gates thing yesterday,
we like we walked through the investigation how this other
conniving schemer guy basically got Matt Gates also the attention
of the Department of Justice and now he's being investigated
for a possible child sex trafficking charges. And then he
went on Tucker Carlson and many other outlets. He's like,

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I'm getting extorted by this former DIO J official and
my dad wore a wire to expose the plot. Well
not so ships getting like real or fake, don't know,
because someone in his orbit or camp has provided and
I'm going to use scare quotes documents two and I
only use that because they were given to the conservative

(20:09):
outlet the Washington Examiner. Uh that quote unquote prove this
extortion scheme. So I'm gonna start by saying this, I'm
I'm taking these documents with an entire nine pound bag
of sea salt because nobody has confirmed the veracity of
these documents. But also no one has denied them. So
either way, we know that the Gates team is putting

(20:32):
this out there, and it could be like this maybe
something closer to the truth, or could be another step
with them digging a deeper, more fucked up hole to
try and make this ship look like something it isn't.
Either way, let's just operate on the assumption that what
they're saying is somewhat truthful. So basically, this whole plan

(20:52):
to uh the extortion thing was like, look, if you
give us money, will make the investigation go away. The
whole plan here revolves around a CIA officer that went
missing in Iran over ten years ago. His family thinks
that this man is dead. Um and and I believe
the United States government told his family they believe he's dead.
These goons who are like trying to con or whatever

(21:15):
people real goons or not. They've told Matt Gates's father
that he's actually alive. They have new two proof of
life videos that prove this, and if they give her
on twenty five Millie, they will release him and then
Matt can take the credit for his release in order
to get a pardon from Joe Biden for being a hero.
Is the logic here and if that's where I'm like,

(21:38):
this doesn't make sense, right because he okay, okay, okay.
Typically when a country has like a military hostage, aren't
they like communicating government to government like, hey, we'll treat
you one of our guys want your guys, you know,
changes are are you know, uh normal right thing? And

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those kinds of contact. A senator's dad, some dude who
sold a pharmaceutical company to give you twenty five million
to pay his bail, and that's what So let me
just so. They have a screenshot of this word document
that they printed and they they're calling this whole I

(22:21):
don't know why. This is the other thing. They sent
them a word doc with their extortion scheme on it
with like and it's formatted and it's the name is
called Project Homecoming. This is how it reads, okay, And
this is why I'm like, what the either these motherfucker's
are dumb as fuck or these other motherfucker's, but somebody's
dumb as fuck. This is the Facts of Project Homecoming

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are described below. Congressman Matt Gates is currently under investigation
by the FBI for various public corruption of public integrity issues.
The investigation being handled by the Public Integrity Division of
the Department of Justice, is being managed out of the
Washington c blah blah blah. The FBI became aware of
compromising pictures depicting Congressman Gates and an election official involved
in a sexual orgy with underage prostitutes. There's no such

(23:07):
thing as underage prostitutes. For the record, that's not that's
a made up tournament. Traffic. That's child a touch trafficks
child in Maitland, Florida during unrelated investigation. Babba. So we've
never heard anything about these pictures. Matt Gates has brought
up these pictures twice now and I don't know what
is actually going on, but this is it's I don't

(23:29):
understand why. This is just all they're saying. This is
what's going on. Then you do it, then we'll free him.
And then Joe Biden's will you know what this is?
Sounding like? So okay, you know how And I was like,
on this date, we're gonna take over like scratch that.
They know the plan now, so it's actually this date
and they just kept changing the further things go out,

(23:49):
and like it's always sort of situationally connected to a
top official and with a like child trafficking ring, and
then there are like maybe money change but not and
maybe dad got it. This feels like the internet, bro,
it was like maybe I can get five million dollars.

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I guess these guys, these lawyers that they're like they're accusing,
have been trying, have been really interested in this CIA person.
So I think that much I think is somewhat confirmed.
But it just feels the I just don't understand the logic.
It's like, your dad paid Iran to get the CIA
f sir freed, so then Joe Biden will pardon you

(24:32):
from your sex trafficking charges like that. If I'm distilling
it down to its worst, like it's most basic parts,
I'm like, this is like the worst Rube Goldberg machine
of like trying to get something to like this. This
is like a five year old made of this whole plot.
It sounds honestly, it sounds like some shit I would

(24:52):
do it like when I was in high school or
junior high and like I'll lied about something like fuck it,
I'm not to make I'm have to create a threat
against me and then parade that around hopefully because I'm
a little bit smarter than like my older parents who
don't know how to check the date created of this
word document. They won't know that I just made a
ten minutes throw. Yeah. They let you hang yourself with

(25:13):
your own rope, Like I'm just gonna let you talk
as much as you can and just just make it work. Yeah.
So either this is some something something is true throughout
all of this. We just don't know which one it is,
and it's just getting more and more strange. So uh
well we'll put a pin in that sense. Yeah, I
look forward to seeing how that's going to play out.
I think tom foolery. It's like, yeah, either one. Someone

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is so fucking dumb. Either the attempted extortionists for like
using times New Roman twelve point space, something that looks
like a high schooler with like here's the title and
it's centered in it's bold than over here, and it's
double space between paragraphs. It's a weird format. It like
it doesn't make sense. It's like a high school student
in like two thousand to the like. Also like there's

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also there's also quotation marks within quotations, which isn't really
following m l A format like you should go bring
that down. What it feels like. It feels messy, like
it's it's it's not yeah, it's yeah. And and on
top of it, it's like the subjects matter is so dark.
So it's like, what the funk are? Because either I'm don't,
I'm just it's so confusing. Uh. And I think this

(26:23):
will this story will just keep evolving. As an aside,
you know, Matt Gates said, he's like, oh well, maybe
I'll just quit and I'll go to Newsmax. And then
he started telling people. He's like, I've gotten offers from
O A N. Who else? Fox News, you name him.
He's like so many actually, like it's it's hard for
me to remember because I'm more focused right now on
getting clearing my name. But it's so they started asking

(26:46):
all these networks and they all said okay. So news
Max sources said. When The Daily Beast reached out to
be like, hey, well my Matt Gates be joining, someone
said highly doubted, highly oh a N. One American News
the CEO said, right now, I'm not really hiring anybody
for talk shows. Uh. And then also Daily Beasts is like, hey, Fox,

(27:07):
is it true that he said he might work at
Fox News because he said, you know Fox Business, he named,
he dropped all these names. Foxes said, quote, no one
with any level of authority has had conversations with Matt
Gates for any of our platforms, and we have no
interest in hiring him. That's what I'm saying. That level
of just constant lying like you didn't have to do

(27:29):
that to yourself, Matt, Like why did you put yourself
like that? It does make sense, and it makes me
think that you're lying about many other things very very disturbing.
Let's talk about something that isn't disturbing, or maybe it
is disturbing, and that we're seeing evidence of the benefits
of not having people pay their student loans and how

(27:49):
fucked up so system is of higher education. Y'all already
know what it is. Most of you most likely have
some form of seadent loan. Fromer dot Com, I reporter
named Eric stock Grass interviewed people who had benefited from
the student loan forgiveness or delays that have been Yeah,
the Department of Education announced temporary relief measures for all

(28:09):
ed owned federal student loans amid the burgoing COVID nineteen pandemic. Later,
there was a Cares Act which suspended student loan payments,
stop collections on default loans, and halted occurring interest rates
throughout September. Now that's been pushed all the way through September,
So congratulations. If you're like me, currently you either don't
have to pay your student loans or on the opposite

(28:32):
side of that, you're just like here, take it, take it,
take it, and like really shrinking those loans up. Because
the debt has also been suppressed. There's you're just not
incurring that crazy fifteen debt they have, Uh, it's our
interest rate they have on your debt, which is great.
So wild statistics about uh, student loan debt. There's one

(28:52):
point seven trillion student loan debt spread across more than
forty four million borrowers. There's three one was an according
to federal reserves, and prior to the martorium, the average
payment was three hundred dollars a month. A reminder that
we are still fighting for a fifteen dollar minimum wage,
so three hundred dollars a month is deadly. There are

(29:13):
people not having children because of this, like not starting
families because like, I don't know how it could possibly
support a child when I have these crazy bills of hay.
So I pulled a couple of quotes from different people
about like how this had impacted them. Rachel Bussett. It's
forty five and attorney and small business owner in Oklahoma City.

(29:33):
She's had a year away, which she calls breathing room
during a difficult year. Her goals to oh, sally my
money when she dies, which is relatable. Her husband lost
his job in April and a lot of their money
has been going towards their daughters schooling. It's wild to
me that there's there's so many people who are like,
my life has drastically improved because I have an extra

(29:55):
two thousand dollars, an extra thousand dollars at the end
of every month so that I can actually like pay
for my pets. Somebody paid for their wedding. Somebody else
wound up paying off all of almost all their student loans,
everything but dollars, which is a much more manageable debt
than the I want to say, twelve thousand they started
the year with. So yeah, let's keep this going. The

(30:19):
real thing, right with all this ship of you know,
trying to stop everything to keep people safe in the pandemic.
The thing that was always should have been done was
to stop the suck of cash out of pockets, like
and this was the one thing they could do. But
not everybody has student and not not a lot of
people even went to college to have student debt, to

(30:40):
have that kind of really very narrowly, but I mean
when you look at I think the US government owns
like at least a trillion of that debt. Serious, serious
thought has to be given to erasing this and not
going up with the arguments of like, well I had
to pay off my student debt. Well, yeah, you know what,
my grandfather almost got lynched. And I don't think he's
getting mad because I'm living in a slightly better world.

(31:03):
That's not how that's not how progress works. You want
to be able to see the ills of a society
and say, you know what, I think this needs to happen.
I can, and I know because I lived through the
bullshit of it. And I'm saying I don't want that
for other people. You know what, if you also don't
want to be altruistic, if you really like I want
people to suffer like I have suffered, fine, I get that,
but like when people have more money, they can pay

(31:25):
you more money. So if you're a business owner, if
you're a part of the business that relies on making
money to survive, like any business period, you know you're
going to benefit from there not being customer. You have
more customers, people spending just willing spend more money on
stuff they already have. I promise you I don't have
student loans. I'm buying that fits your internet package. Okay,
I don't have student loans. Maybe I go for I

(31:46):
don't know, cars as class whatever is more fancies than
that other model I maybe would have bought. You know,
like there's you will have more in savings, which again
helps us all as a giant community. It's so silly
to me that we are required to have an education
to even begin a career that's going to help us
make money. Here's maybe five percent of jobs where you

(32:08):
don't need an education in order to have a financially
stable job, specifically in like a major city where prices
are just astronomical just to live. Student loans are crushing
us crushing people can't retire because of student loans. Like
it is. It is a place, yeah, and it's it's
fucked up because people of color, especially black and Hispanic

(32:29):
people in this country are the the people getting crushed
the hardest by this debt. And it's different to have.
There's not the same generational wealth to be like, oh
you know what, thank god relative left some money behind,
it'll wipe that debt out or something. It's a completely
different thing. And you in terms of upward mobility, you
can't do much if you're caught paying off a deficit.

(32:53):
You can't build if you're throwing money into a pit,
because certainly that money has to get to the top
where you're like, okay, well now I'm at neutral. Now
the money I throw in there will start to safe.
It's just really it's a tough thing. But again, more
proof if we needed it. That like taking people's debts away,
like especially ones that we can sort of humanely take

(33:13):
away without being like completely upending the economy is such
an easy thing to do and will now put lift
so many people into a different socio economic bracket just
by virtue. It's sad that it's like a worldwide health
crisis for that to happen, but who knows what it's
going to happen. Yeah, and we have September but it's

(33:34):
and it's it's so fruscinating because I remember Biden saying
pretty close to the top of his um, like right
after his inauguration, that he would not be able to
just sweepingly wipe away this. But it's like, you do,
you do have the power, and we are an unprecedented time, sir,
and listen, I'm unprecedented. No no, no no, and he

(34:00):
girls look at the help out phantom. You can't do this.
You can with the sweep of your pen a RaSE like,
oh do the soul crushing anxiety. People can buy houses, okay,
you want to help the housing market, leave student loan dead.
That's that's mortgage payments, y'all. Okay, And it's like it's

(34:23):
by design, though you know, it feels it, you know
what I mean, It feels it. It almost feels like
that I'm still waiting to see, but I think it
might be by design. I don't like to buy a
house just I want one. Did you see that There
was that tweet where the woman was saying, like, seriously,
how did y'all buy a house? Because I'm I'm on

(34:43):
a teacher salary and I have some student debt to
pay off. I have two kids, and I'm not sure
how exactly people are doing it, and something like some
people were truly coming with something like they sound like
those YouTube videos like, hey, you see Ferrari. You want
to know how I got that because I was frugal
and also I had a great uncle who left me
a lot of money. But let's not talk about that.
This house is butter and jelly sandwiches only for three

(35:05):
years straight. You're amazing person. Shout out to people who
are who have their their like they've found their way
to save their money. But yeah, it is a very
interesting task because as a single person, it's damn near
impossible for dual incomes. Like it's almost like you need
dual incomes for that ship to work, to save for

(35:27):
a down payment to get like and if you in
Los Angeles County, you need at least five hundred thousand
dollars to purchase a house. This is what I'm hearing
from your letters now, technically based off like what you
would normally want, you know, like about tempery sandwich and
gene about hundred thousand dollars because it's really hard to
buy house for us than a million here. But because
we live in such a wealthy space, people are going

(35:48):
to on average have about five thousand dollars down, and
of course you're going to choose the person that's the
most money to put down up front. How house, my
liver is probably not worth five dollars. You know what
I meant? Oh no, I got I gotta go home.
I got a Actually, how old are you? What's your hype?

(36:11):
What's your birthday? Let me know your sign and your
hype and I'll get you a quote. But it's true.
I mean, it's I it has to be dual incomes
or you have to be fantastically welcome. I mean, is
it's complete, and it's The housing market has been completely
absurd since the pandemic, especially in l A. That there's

(36:33):
so much movement going on, but you know, it all
ebbs and flows. But yeah, I think again, this is
another reason why there's some things like this, Joe. You
know some of the other candidates, you know, when you're
you've got their nomination, they have some good idea. Remember
Elizabeth Barrens, she was saying that a couple other people
were saying that to do that rather than like those
Brookings Institute studies that came out after she said that,

(36:54):
it's like it's only gonna go to like wealthy people,
you know, and then like what happens to the other people?
It's like, well, no, it might go to some yes,
there are some people with that, but more than that,
what about everyone else? That's where the real relief is
gonna I really don't care if a couple of people
get past, Like, I don't know why that hurts people
so much, and like, so we have to dedive people
that need It's a weird way to examine the situation.

(37:15):
It's just like when people get upset that parents take
their children to other school districts, and it's like, what,
I know that if I drive extra minutes, he's got
a better chance at life, Okay, Like some people are
going to cheat the system or work around it or
try to make it work for them, right exactly, because
too many people take their kids out of public school
in the area where there could have been a good

(37:36):
public school and put them in private school, and now
the people who need the private school are left with
an option that isn't as good, which forces people to scramble.
Like that one mother who I believe went to prison
for trying to get their child in a different school district.
And I believe Aunt Becky only got you know, two
months or whatever. Yeah, something like that. A lot. And

(37:58):
speaking of Joe, Joe, remember you're the president, sir. You
can do a lot. You know, you can do a
lot of ship. And you know, since Democrats are on
break right now in the Senate and have no clue
how to protect this nation, we are again looking at
a situation where maybe the threat of lost capital will

(38:18):
create a better future for American people. Because the Major
League All Star Game is set to happen in Atlanta
in July, and there's growing concerns from the players Union
that it would be a fucked up mistake to play
there since Brian Kemp is like, have you met this
new guy, James Crow. He's a he's an interesting gentleman. So,

(38:39):
just to quote last week, the the Major League Baseball
Players Association executive director Tony Clark told the Boston Globe
that he was open to discussing with the league whether
to pull the All Star Game from Atlanta after this
bill was passed, but to keep especially Black Georgians from voting,
so Joe had to come in. He had a thought
on that, and he had yeah, very powerful presidential words

(39:02):
to say. He said, I would strongly support them doing that. Okay,
thanks Joe, thank you, thank you. He said, today's professional
athletes are acting incredibly responsibly. How about you as president?
How about you? How about you figure out how to
fucking get rid of the filibuster and get the four
the People Act through so we can actually you can
actually create safeguards against this type of bullshit or I

(39:24):
don't know. The door is the donor class not interested
in voting as well? Because it will it will lead
to like the down the road. This is pure. It
will just create more strife and chaos. If you're disenfranchising
more and more people, it doesn't end up people go, oh,
well fuck it, I'm disenfranchised. I guess I'm maga now
and I'm going to live with that. No, I'm just

(39:45):
not gonna happen. WI the funk up. We're seeing fights
all across the South, I mean specifically and states like Texas. Um,
we saw Georgia flip this year. I think we're going
to continue you as again, as long as we can
make sure everyone's rights are upheld, We're going to continue
to see these flips, like there's so many people who
were like who left George, Sorry, who left Texas right

(40:07):
as it was bombing after the snowstorm Ted Cruz? Why
would you vote for Ted? Why? Why would that happen?
I don't understand. And it's like, well, because there's jerrymandering,
and it's happening a lot, specifically in Texas, where they
are making sure black and brown disenfranchised groups are unable

(40:29):
to vote in a way that their voices are heard.
And it's so upsetting to me that we can't if
we see them, we see them, we see the statistics,
We've seen what happens when we allow these communities to
speak for themselves? What what? What is the I don't understand.
They need to be like diplomatic here at this in
at this juncture, themes to the last thing you need
to be debating. It's it's just I mean, if you're

(40:51):
if you're a big C capitalist democrat in a way,
you don't really need black people to vote. You don't
really need because at the end of the day, you
get too many, you get too many people who are
in touch with what their needs are and how to
get the outcomes they need. That's the end game, is
the end of capitalism, like you know, like there's no

(41:11):
version of that that ends with people like yeah, man,
I'm fine with minimum wage and no fucking health care. No,
it's gonna be like living wages. It's gonna be medical
care for everybody, all kinds of care. Basically, like I've
been saying before, it's gonna be everything for everybody. And
you can't do that right now because right now it's
some ship for a couple of people, right right, right,

(41:33):
right right, And that's what and that's how capitalism stays,
you know, fucking healthy. But I just want to do
at least the one thing here aside from whether or
not you know, we'll have We need major League Baseball
to do something. They are looking at a huge price
tag and that the All Star Game will bring forty
million dollars to the city. So yeah, I do that.

(41:55):
But then it's like, what's the racist to do? You know,
do I say no to four million and or do
I keep do I just do my ancestors proud looking
at me from the fires below, looking looking up at
me from town below ship. Anyway, what about movies, let's

(42:17):
talk about movies. Oh my gosh, let's okay, are you
ready to go to a movie? And yeah, yeah, okay.
So to circle circle all the way back to the
top of our conversation, we're talking about Marvel. Three great
cinematic experiences, all from the Marvel House. My Panther comes out,
all my people come dressed to the nines. We have

(42:37):
Harold Chicken in the theater. We are black reacting at
opening Day without abandon It is by far like a
spiritual ascendance happened in that theater. The end of End
Game cause such silence. I was at the premiere of
End Game in California, and might I tell you that
you could hear a pen drop at that theater. We

(42:59):
stunned and it was the bold brass moves incredible. And
finally when we get into um, I switch it up
so that Infinity War has the crazy ending. Endgame has
an ending where it was what cheers and tears, grown
men crying holding each other for support because not not

(43:21):
just because Captain America, you know, gets to say his
famous tagline and all of our favorites pop out of bubbles,
but because you have reached the pinnacle of an epic
like a cinematic epic. It is the first time in
history film across what was it at that time. I
want to say seventeen movies has fully developed like twenty
different storylines, and you are so damn fulfilled by the

(43:43):
quality a final storyline. It's it's brilliant and you can't
it can't be denied. You don't have to like it.
It doesn't have to be up your alley, but the
brilliance of that arc can't be denied. That's what cinema
can bring you. Cinema can bring you the crazy Midsummer
and a man in a barras you on fire, I
am cheer and the guy next to me it is horrified, absolutely,

(44:03):
like the binding force of human nature to me is
the first language I learned to speak is in movies.
I love being at a movie theater. But I've taken
quarantine so seriously and immutill compromise h a lot of
different health and jus like I can't get sick, and
so it's been a huge struggle. And then there's like

(44:23):
all of this financial stuff that I'm going to try
to break down. Brett Ling and Rebecca rub into this
great article about what Alamo draft house is trying to
do like post COVID, how are they how are they
going to navigate? Because they they had to declare bankruptcy,
right they did. They have to declare bankruptcy, which entirely
makes sense. But then if you look at the flip side,

(44:44):
is that like in nineteen or most theater software percent
decrease in revenues, they saw five percent increase in revenue.
And so Alamo I was opening Alamo in l A.
I would say this's a brad just to say that,
like in being there, there's a vibe you've ever been
to an Alamo that is hard to replicate, and they've
done it across the United States in multiple cities. I

(45:07):
think they are absolutely the future of film watching because
they're not interested in necessarily the newest releases or in
and being flashy or showy. What they're interested in. It's like,
you came here to see a movie. It's gonna be quiet,
there are not gonna be cell phones going off. But
also you're gonna feel like you're at your local clubhouse.

(45:28):
If you had a local movie theater growing up, that
wasn't a change that was owned by like some cratcherty
dude who was constantly yelling at the kids, and like
most of y'all knew how to sneak into the back
door and like pry it open, and like it has
that sort of vibe no matter where you go, because
it's like heavily run by regional managers. And so I
think where Alamo goes, a lot of other people are

(45:49):
going to have to adjust in making going to the
movies more like a theatrical experience. If you look at
theaters when movies come out, movies are very cheap. You
can play them again again. You don't have to pay
actors and people to come light and all of that.
So it's like a much cheaper thing for Americans to do.
In the thirties, movies become very popular. That's the big
upswing in Hollywood success as an industry. I think the

(46:11):
generic movie houses are going to struggle because I'm going
out here is my life. I want like a really
sick experience, even though I'll be vaccinated. We're not sure
how we're going to be able. I think we talked
last episode about like I'm not necessarily comfortable in the
movie theater asking for my vaccination card. I know that
there's some concerns about violating HIPPA, like, how are we

(46:34):
going to make sure everyone's safe, smaller theaters, which Alamo
has the lock on, I think, more experiences, and then
the way that they intertwine celebrity into a lot of
their screenings. Ryan Johnson is doing a knives out screening,
Link Ladder is doing what is the Matthew mcconic hey, alright, alright,

(46:55):
alright movie I can't remember, but someone others screaming at
its specifically a movie about kids in the seventies, oh
days and confused and confused. You're right, You're right, right.
So anyway, I say all of that to say, like,

(47:15):
there's a lot to look at here, and we know
we're pretty sure. I should say that we're going to
see an uptick because China's box office has been booming. Poem,
they are breaking records every day. They outpassed us last year.
I mean again, obviously we were all inside, but it's
really important to look at how we're all going to

(47:37):
everyone's clamoring to get back to normal. So I think
there's an opportunity for movies and movie houses. Yeah, yeah,
but it's gonna be hard because I mean, when we
have to look at like what movies are coming out,
and you've got a couple of that are still holdovers
from The Fast Nine not out yet. We'll probably do
really big numbers. And then James Bond I think it

(47:58):
is the other one. Black Widow is one, But they
pushed that back to July, and Disney did decide they
were going to release it on their Disney Plus. So
you can buy it for thirty bucks watching in home,
or you can go to the theaters in July and
see it. I think that's the right decision to make
a percent. But I also I get why movie theaters
are concerned. You know what, you gotta let people smoke

(48:20):
weed in the movie theater, you know what I mean.
When I was in Toronto and they were like, you
could just smoke on the street here, I was like,
oh for real, Like yeah no, then nobody cares. They're like,
just you know, be cool about it. They had a
cafe I smoked inside. Smoking inside is a game changer,
and I promise you I would just life and limb
smoke inside of a movie here. I mean safely, you know,

(48:40):
like you don't want a way to like pull the
draw the smoke out, so you can't even see the
screen because I'd imagine if you had a theater where
they're like, yeah, you can smoke in here everyone. It's
like the smoke in the light and it's that's sexy.
I was like, don't, don't, don't marinading. Yeah, they could
let people go out of there, like here's a problem, though,

(49:03):
You're gonna have to sell me tickets to like four
movies up front because I'm not leaving after the first
ye so high uncomfortable. I'm like, yo, let me just
let me watch Two Towers just on a loop real quick,
that Lord of you know what. Let me just watch
the Helm's Deep battle scene, all all of the Cony
Stoner watches, like yes, I will watch Pink Floyd Sound

(49:24):
that was the Dark Side of the Moon too, Wizard
of Oz. Yeah, let's do it. I'm down exactly. See
those are these are all little things I feel like
I'm sure someone's got to be doing and like I
feel like in Colorado or Oregon already, but like that's
that will be. It's called the drive in and people
are doing it. It's always like you'll smoke, you'll smoke
a blunt or whatever or join whatever, you get down

(49:46):
in the car parking lot and then you have to
go and then like by the time you got your
eight and ship, you metabolize your snacks and things like
they're like I could really smoke another like back to
You're like I think, say, imagine, like you go to
a movie US where there's now like intermissions, where there's
actual ushers. There's a theater in Chicago called the Music Box,
and when they upgraded their seating from that old nineteen twenties,

(50:08):
padded furniture and brought to the future. They had all
of these like very weird screamings. When Hateful It came out,
they did a special Tarantino screaming with like the fancy
booklets and stuff like the whole experience you're going with
your crew. You were a tuxedo. If you go to
the Egyptian down here in Hollywood, they've got the guy
on the organ comes out of the floor play and

(50:29):
it's truly it's oh gosh, watching a Disney movie in
the Egyptian is magical. Okay, Then I got to go
to a movie with you, Joel. You your energy right now,
you sound like me like watching Arsenal or something else.
Oh my god, damn, I'm missing out. I'm in all
because like none of the theater experiences in Detroit are

(50:50):
like any of that like that, right, what's your local?
What's your local like A or something. Yeah, we used
to go to the A m c s. But all
of those shut down because right, damn Okay, somebody hooked
Detroit up with a sick ass movie theater experience, because truly,
you don't even need that many seats. Get them eighty
nice seats, make them comfortable, get an actual popcorn popping machine,

(51:13):
and and then just screen some movies people love. Like,
I don't know, is there a Detroit classic movie where
like people really bump this in Detroit? Will I'm gonna
suggest one. I'm gonna suggest one. It's called Only Lovers
Left Alive. It's a Jim Jarmusch film. It's uh stars
Kate Blanchet and the guy that plays Loki, Tom Hidleson

(51:38):
as vampires in Detroit. And there's something about the way
jar Mouse films the city that shows sort of it
sort of it's like a comparison of like how Detroit
is vampiric in that it's dead but not it's living
and it's thriving and it's beautiful and you can see
it in this rundown theater and there's history here and

(51:59):
we have to like that. It's so I was gonna say, RoboCop, Okay,
robot I love I love robot Cop. But I don't
think they feel bad. I don't think they film that
here for for Detroit people like Detroit ters is there
like culturally of the city, you you can you'll point
to me on a man, that movie doesn't that's I
know it's called Detroit or I know what it says

(52:20):
eight mile or is there like what's the movie that
you feel like the people of Detroit king rally around
is being a little more like a film about their
city they can actually rally. I really don't know. Like
on the on the flip side, there was this weird
thing here a few years ago where like dudes did
a like a kickstarter to get like a robot coop
statue made quit here and people actually like funded it

(52:44):
and they got their funding, and I think the statue exists.
I don't know where it is, but but yeah, like
all right, so the Robocope, y'all got the crow RoboCop
and dream Girls I mean, how are we going to
be like, yo, yeah, we funk with Robot. Well, don't
we have to have a reckoning a little bit like

(53:04):
he was he was the police, but damn but he
was finding that other big robots, So you're kind of
it evens it out people. It's time. That's what we're
gonna have to say about that movie from the Yeah, yeah, exactly.
All right, let's take a quick break and we'll talk

(53:26):
about weed and April Fool's jokes and we're back. And
this is just an aside because it was going around
on Twitter and people were talking about it. Greg Kelly,

(53:47):
who is you know, on news Max, so like his
official handle is at Greg Kelly USA. I just think
we have to point that out. Why, sir, your country
shouldn't give you a boner. That's weird, sir, you're not
even verified and you're on Keith. Sir, you perpetuate the
big lie. Please shut the funk up forever, and don't
we don't need your take. I have a feeling he

(54:08):
tweeted this out because this was around the time New
York legalized marijuana, and he was like he wanted to
just hit people with his like KKK, dare take on uh.
He said, smoking weed a k A grass in a
parenthetical is not a good idea. I've tried it parenthetical

(54:28):
back in the day, and it was worse all caps
than anything that happened to all caps Hunter Biden. Okay,
I quote unquote choked up with some buddies in Kentucky
and woke up four days later in Nairobi, Kenya with
no idea what happened. Don't do drugs, Okay. I'll say this.

(54:57):
If Twitter allowed for a few more characters, it would
have gone old blown clan roboff. It's funny what you're doing.
It's funny. How disparaging this is about we given that
this feels like a cocaine tweet, Like, right, it's not weed.
You were free Basin or some ship think that you
probably smoked Angel does. Here's the thing. Here's the thing.

(55:18):
I had a friend who once spoke to Blunt that
was last with PCP. Worst side of her life, Like,
I mean, people got to clawed out, fights had to
be taken to the hospital. Horrible. She knew who she
was the following day. How did you get to night
on a plane? Did you have a kidney? You might

(55:39):
not have actually smoked anything. Someone may have hit you
with a tranquil right, why would you have Hunter Biden's name?
What was the point I think to just like dog
whistle that it's for conservatives to like rally or I
don't know, it's so stupid and then like yes, to
evoke Africa for something because you know he didn't go there,
Like yeah, it's just there's so many levels of responsibility

(56:00):
that you would have to have to like make it
on the plane, have a passport, make it to h
oh yeah, well, like okay, let's assume right, let's assume
you smoked whatever. And if this is weed that you
know about, hit me the funk up people in Kentucky
what is this? Because I know Mitch McConnell is starting
to get into hemp and ship but like you're smoking
up what is And then you're walking around faded and

(56:23):
they go, hey, should we buy tickets to Nairobi, Kenya? Yeah? Man?
How much are they? I don't know, two thousand dollars
because I'm guessing back in the day there was no
kayak to find the best flight. If it's twenty three
hours and there's a couple of stocks, we gotta get
got go. It falls apart in media as you say,

(56:43):
like where's your passport? So the passport stamp? Then also
why does he have like choked up in quotation marks
like is he quoting somebody? Or did it not happen?
Like what what does that mean? It's just like that's
why it's like you never smoked weeds, sir, So please
stop with your made up drug store like you said,
like Steve Correll in The Four year Old Virgin. First
of all, yes, Second of all, if you're considered it

(57:06):
is great. Start with a low dosage, have a friend
around who's sober to help you out in case you
get a little lost in the weeds. It's gonna be
and it's not good. You know, it's really not for everybody,
you know, truly, truly it's not so no no pressure,
but some of us it's I think my blood type
and the reason I didn't get a lot of retail jobs,
so that and I think my They're like, aren't you

(57:29):
the guy who was stealing cigarettes from here? I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no,
it's gonna walk down. Okay, let's talk. Okay, we're talking
about fucked up. April fools, jokes, pranks, and you know,
so you know alling's worth here in the motor city.
So this is relevant because we're talking about cars. Volkswagen

(57:49):
completely fucked up their April Fools Day because what started
as okay, essentially their whole thing was like their April
Fools prank was gonna be we're gonna be hold Volkswagen
now implying that they are gonna now be doing more
electric vehicles. But they fucked up because a press release
got posted to their website and was later deleted on

(58:12):
March twenty ninety, so people thought this was for real.
They're like, well, this isn't and then but some people
were like, hold on, is this early, Like did you
guys make a mistake or something like that. They fucking
doubled down three days early, and they doubled down then,

(58:33):
so too when they said it was just an early joke,
they said, no, funk no, And to prove it, here's
a legit press release that we're putting out right now
that had quotes from the CEO. They even put a
video on Twitter. So and it was still March being
like oh no, no, this is for real, like we're Volkswagen. Uh,
it's sounding very Matt gatesy. At the moment, the head

(58:55):
of communications for Volkswagen was straight up asked by reporters.
They said, is it lead And even the head of
communications said, no, the name change is real. Were they
like really invested in making sure that the joke landed?
They were like, listen, if we then if we do
it on name first, no one's going to believe it.

(59:15):
So I really I need people to believe that we
would change our name to Volkswagen, so that then tomorrow
we'll be like April fools. Everyone has a nice struggle.
It's been a long year. Volkwagens trying to help us.
They just don't understand comedy. That so weird. But the
funny thing is to like in they fucked up when

(59:37):
the E p A was like, uh, you're rigged. Your
diesel cars have like cheap devices that are making them
look like low emission vehicles. Like that was a huge
scandal and Volkswagen paid like almost twenty billion dollars in
settlement money because it was so like so egregious how
they were deceiving people about how nature bound their cars were.
So this is like, oh, this this is well, I

(01:00:00):
guess it is kind of like them. So the other
thing is because of this, right the like doubling down
saying no, we're getting in into electric vehicles. This ship
had an effect on Wall Street stock rows by five
per cent because everyone is looking at this. They're saying,
I mean clearly, you're the CEO is here saying they

(01:00:21):
are committed to electronic vehicles, and like one of these
like analysts in there like letter to ship, like you know,
traders and things said that the name change quote underscores
Volkswagen's clear commitment to its e V brand And so
guess what now you're gonna be fucked up with investors
and the Securities Exchanged Commission. The sec is not gonna

(01:00:44):
be like because you cannot make false statements that would
affect your investors. So it's like, what do you what
the fuck? It's it's all, it's all, it's all jokes.
They had a clear commitment to working on their type,
their tight for the next open mic, right, I mean, like,

(01:01:04):
what do you it's true? Like what did they really
want to make sure that people believed it? Because either way,
if they really believed it, then the stock price probably
would have changed as well. Just like what happened, So
it's kind of odd to try and fixed sort out
like what exactly happened to vote Volkswagon is not synonymous

(01:01:24):
with humor and like. And then there's another thing our
writer Jam was talking about. You know, I'm some racist
ass ads that they had last year where like this
white hand like flicked a black person like away from
the car and then into a cafe. That's the name,
was called little Colonists. What. Yes, I don't remember these ads, um,

(01:01:49):
because they vanished pretty quick from yeah, well, thank goodness.
I prefer when a company at least has some common
sense even after the event, as opposed to like, I
guess what they did this time, which is double down.
Volkswagen and its history has been known for trying to
have like comedic ads like when the Yeah, when the
bug came out, everybody like it was poorly reviewed and

(01:02:12):
so they made a double page spread in a magazine
and called it a lemon. Does it's sort of shape
like a lemon? It's a lemon? And in the sixty two,
what's what you called your car? A lemon? Wild? So funny,
and there's like and they've done that. I remember in
my youth. They had like weird kind of cookie ads,
and so I get this is it's a step too far.

(01:02:35):
You're doing too much. Yeah, they've lost they've lost their way.
You hate to see it when a comedian loses their
way in such a big public way. Well you know what,
prayers up for them? Maybe not whatever? Who gives a
ship anyway? Ellingsworth, thank you so much man for stopping
by this. Oh yeah, we would love to have you back. Um,

(01:02:55):
where can people find you? Follow you, listen to your supports.
I'm on Twitter and Instagram as Ellingsworth. I have a
band Campaige. It's called Elling's Works dot band camp dot com.
I have a podcast of my own callit Eternal Invite
with my two buddies showing cut Rufiel Jones and and
a whole cast of characters. Shouts out to King Chloe Cats.

(01:03:16):
I'm out here on the internet and you can fight
me easily. Fantastic. Um, And what's a tweet that you like?
Is there something from social media that so? I haven't
been on Twitter a whole lot lately, but my friend,
my friend tweeted this recently and I just I've been
laughing about it. He didn't get a lot of love
for it, so I'm like, let me, let me spread
the love for this, my friend Rufiel Jones, He tweeted,

(01:03:37):
Jason Momoa's Aquaman can't be the real protector of the
seas with the metric tons of T shirt pollution. He's
personally responsible for fucking died and I've been dying every
since already. Oh. I'm glad you like it because I've

(01:03:58):
loved it and it got like, no, yesterday I had
my Momoa shirt on. I have one here today, so
night whatever. I guess, Um, well you don't because Joel,
thank you for being a wonderful host again today. Um
where can people find you and follow you and supports

(01:04:19):
you listen to you? Yeah, thank you for letting me
come ranch about movies and how much I miss him
those obviously. Honestly, I've never I've never been more excited
when the in the aftertimes we're getting fucked up and
going whatever movie. I'm gonna be like, yo, just take
them somewhere, man, you know what. I'm going to bring
bottles of champagne. Let's do this. Yeah, and they'll kick
us out and I'll be like, sir, are you smoking

(01:04:40):
in here. I'm like, say something, you don't know what
I just survived, sir. Okay, I need this. You can
find me all over the internet at Chua monique j
l E l m O win I q q E.
A tweet I like comes from film Updates. It's at
the film updates hashtag. Black Panther director Ryan Coogler says

(01:05:00):
he turned down an Academy membership. I don't buy into
this versus that I love movies. For me, that's good enough.
If I'm joining an organization is going to be labor
unions where we're figuring out how to take care of
each other. That's my man. I love Ryan, But that's
from an Indie Wire article. If you all want to
read it. Oh love that? Do you want to? Hey,
you can get screeners and stuff and and it will

(01:05:21):
help our diversity numbers, and you know that that would
be great. No, no, no, no, maybe I'll need to
start that up on your own. I'm gonna be over
here and make sure pas get paid. Yeah, I'm gonna
make these films and you just obscure the lack of
diversity on your side over there. Okay, some tweets I'm
like him, let me pull let me pull up the
old like section here. Uh. First one is from Jabouki

(01:05:46):
at Jabouky, tweeting, do y'all for real wash rice before
you cook it because I thought the powder was flavoring. Jabooky,
you fucking so it's all so out of pocket, I know,
as a Japanese person to actually quote the late D
twelve rapper proof, I'm a ro oh no, I'm a

(01:06:08):
roll away like a roller blade to my eyes, roll
back in my skull for days because I cannot. But yes,
you have to wash the rice. You're getting the starch
off of that ship so it doesn't stick together and
you have even texture whatever, you know what I'm just
I'm thinking back to the times, all the times I
had to wash rice as a kid um, and I
have my technique down to like not let the rice

(01:06:28):
spill out the water and not put too much water
in the look, it's all my rice makers, you hear me?
And then a couple more uh from Matt Rogers at
Matt Rogers though said, my mom is coming to stay
with me, and it's one of those moms that can't
not clean. So I decided if she finds my poppers,
she has to do them no, no ship And this

(01:06:56):
one fucking struck me straight into my heart. It's from
Tay at t A A A E E Underscore underscore
h tweets. College students do not deserve a ticket for
parking at a school they pay tuition for. I got
so many fucking tickets at U c l A because
A I didn't. I wasn't responsible enough to buy a

(01:07:17):
parking pass. Come on, man, I'm sucking the fund. Is
that I would use the meter parking because I was
you know, I'll trying to. We we had we we
had a little thing going where somebody, if they were
at another class, they could feed the meter. The time
you did not work out because those parking force when
people were on your ass. And I gave so much
fucking money away just for that, So I appreciate that.
I felt that. Um. You can find me at Miles

(01:07:38):
of Gray g r A Y on Twitter and Instagram
even PlayStation network. UM. And then my other podcast four
twenty Day Fiance, were It's just about smoking trees and
talking trash tv UM and and actually if you're hearing
this on Friday, we'll have a Twitch stream later today
at four twenty Pacific standard time, So go to twitch
dot tv slash four twenty day fiance say that's numbers

(01:08:01):
for the four real time. Oh yeah, and you know
it's a party on the Friday episodes. We talked Mary
at first sight actually and we're gonna be uh, there's
gonna be there'll be some fun. You can find us
at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter, at the Daily z Egeist
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and our footnotes. Um, where you can find this episode

(01:08:24):
and the song we write out on. Obviously, this production
is I Heart Radio. So for more podcast, get the
iHeart Radio app or wherever you get your apps. However
you get down, just get down, okay. For the song, UM,
I was saying, you know, maybe I'll keep a ship
for you because I do want to play a track
for you all from Allensworth that if you understand, you
know the songs all right out, there's a there's a

(01:08:44):
there's a quality that has to be met to have
the head nod headphone music that just makes your big
toe shoot up in your boom. And I'm telling you
can pick any fucking song on this man's Spotify or
wherever's band camp or whatever. Give this man some money.
But this track is called oh Trouble because it again,
this was the one that I was like, Okay, killings Worth,

(01:09:06):
you got the goods, you got the goods, sir, and
I bowed and prostrate thank you before you. Thank you
so for your talent. So it's really wonderful to to
share your music. So this is Oh Trouble by hillings Worth.
Kiss that on flip side. Until then, we'll see you
later for the trending episode today and we'll take care
of each other, right, yeah, we will, all right, see

(01:09:26):
you later, all right,

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