On this edition of Trends, Jack and Miles discuss Mike Tyson punching a drunk passenger that was accosting him on a JetBlue flight, the shuttering of CNN+, Rudy Giuliani's appearance on The Masked Singer, the Supreme Court ruling that Puerto Ricans don't have constitutional rights to federal benefits, a New York Times article about 'gratuity fatigue,' Joel Embiid's game-winning 3-point buzzer beater in OT and Bill Simmons' freezing cold basketball takes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Iron
Zeite Tyson. I am Jack. That is mild yep, let's
just get right into it. Mike Tyson beat up a
passenger on an airplane. Um, have you watched the video?
So the video? Yeah, yeah, so the video is very illuminating.
(00:26):
I would not I would not take an opinion on
this until you watch the video. Uh it's It starts
off with like forty five seconds of the person who
got beat up his friends filming him as he sits
behind Mike Tyson and just is talking shipped to him
(00:47):
NonStop and then turning to camera and making the grossest
asshole guy faces you've ever seen, and being like, dude,
he has pissed bro. And and then he said, does
he start calling him a peasant too? I forget he
started saying something. I couldn't really hear what he was saying.
(01:08):
I could just like see who he was spoke so loudly.
I couldn't hear what he was saying. Yeah, but I mean, yeah,
all all of that to say that this after that,
I think Mike Tyson was like he told him the chill, Yeah,
didn't heed that morning. If Mike Tyson tells you to
fucking chill, don't and don't then say, you know what,
(01:31):
I would like to now enter the find out phase right,
like you're not, And look, putting your hands on somebody's
never the answer. But and I'm just saying, I'm not
saying I would do this, but you're fucking with Mike Tyson,
who professionally put his hands on people, and now you
want to test his patients on a fucking flight and
(01:52):
you're just getting in his ship like that's you're honestly
asking for it. And that's why it was so funny
that that video hard cuts to him after he got
the hands and he's just leaking and he's like doing
this space. He's like he's very drunk. That's also worth yeah, yeah, yeah,
he's he's hammered and uh so I don't even know
(02:12):
if he's like feeling the punches yet, and so he's
just making like silly like didn't beat him up? Yeah,
like he has he has some I don't know. We're
like those aren't even good Mike Tyson punches. He got
punched in his face, but we were like, you didn't
get the he knew his hands were registered weapons. Probably
so He's just like, let me give you some light. Also,
(02:36):
the bruising on the guy's head is very strange. It
looks like he got attacked by a cookie cutter shark.
Like he has just like a circular like round of
like red marks on the back side of his head.
So I'm not sure what. Yeah, but Mike was wearing
on his hands at the time. Who knows. Who knows?
(02:58):
There is this thing though, where people Mike Tyson loses
his cool, not shut the This guy is not losing
his fucking cool. That says local asshole kept testing somebody
and found out what happens when you don't respect somebody
when they say, leave me the funk alone. Yeah, I
mean grant, yeah, and granted shouldn't have gotten to that.
(03:20):
I hope he doesn't like get in trouble for this
um And like, how how the funk is? I guess
it was jet Blue because I think the friend was like,
we're on jet Blue and the utest like Mike Tyson
the fucking goat, um, But how I don't know. It
does feel like somebody should help get this guy away
(03:44):
from him, Like is it shouldn't be a situation where um,
he just has to sit and be accosted by a
stranger for you know, five hours. There's probably a better
way to deal with it. Um, but anyways, Uh, funk
that guy and CNN plus let's move on to that
(04:05):
rest in peace plus fucking grand opening, grand in, grand opening,
grand closing CNN plus the streaming service that just you
know what you're reading is a headline from CNN. Now
you know that that headline was written from CNN, and
then consider the tone of headline CNN plus the streaming
(04:27):
service that was hyped as one of the most significant
developments in the history of CNN, history of CNN, what
the fuck will shut down on April thirty, just one
month after it launched. So I mean this, this feels
like this headline was maybe written by somebody who disagreed
with the decision. I mean definitely like front loading that
(04:51):
to be like, look at all the weight it just
collapsed on the most significant development because it's like you're
just in the history. Um, sure it will go down
in museums in history books as absolutely, but they're thirty days.
Uh and now like, oh man, the conservatives are loving
(05:13):
it because Chris Wallace left Fox News to do CNN
Plus and so they're just sea walking all over his
grave right now. Like literally there's like, you know, gifts
of like Tucker Carlson like laughing at a grave that
says Chris Wallace. Um, because he left, he switched teams, folks,
you know what happens. Why would CNN put Chris Wallace
(05:34):
on CNN plus? Do we think? I don't know this
fucking it's just so. The streaming ship is just so
I don't know what their plans are. Clearly the new ownerships,
like we cannot do this anymore. Like this is a
fucking mistake. I don't know why we did this. Um,
I don't know. This is the streaming The stream wars
(05:56):
are just we're we're like at the joke. We're getting
to the real fucking wacky part of it now, and well, yeah,
glad to watch it all crumble. It's weirdly so like
no streaming like news thing has really worked, right, Like
there's not something that's like the zeitgeist as a news
(06:17):
streaming video products. No, like no one's getting no, no
one's going. I feel like news still feels very traditionally
set in like broadcast television and Twitter, like that's what
like it feels like Twitter could do something with this,
since it is the only like digital thing that people
(06:39):
I don't know go for for like go to for
real time ship like CNN launched something on Twitter or
something like that. I don't know, but that's all bullshit.
Who knows anything succeeds or fails CNN and Twitter brained simultaneously.
That's a fucking wild concoct you. I don't say that.
If Fox has there's streaming thing that doesn't seem to
(07:02):
there's no evidence that anyone has ever watched other than
people trying to be like let's see, let's see what
Fox's latest effort. Yeah, but anyways, and then there's the
like a John Stewart show on Apple that hasn't really
done very well. Um, the uh John Oliver Show is
(07:26):
doing well, but that's like, you know, has the foundation
like grounded on HBO, which are traditional um in there,
and the main story always just does numbers on YouTube,
So like plenty of places for people to get there
John Oliver Right, Um so anyways, Uh, podcasting still king. Finally,
(07:52):
you know, we've all been waiting for it anxiously on
the edge of our seat because we found out months
ago that one of the masked singers in this season
do they do? They actually call them seasons of the
Masks sing Sea five of the Mass singer about you dropped?
(08:13):
Um probably But anyways, the latest season, one of the
mysterious uh Mass singers would be Rudy Giuliani. Um. And
we had heard that Ken Jong was going to be
piste and walk off. Uh so what they it? Finally
went down. Rudy Giuliani popped out of a jack in
(08:37):
the box like thing and she started singing bad to
the bone, sing sing, talking, talksic singing and yeah full
like almost as if it was a work of performance art.
Just note, not even like trying to put a charismatic
(08:57):
spin on it, just standing there and delivering, you know,
the straight wong wong vowels of the song without without
any tone to it. And Ken Jong said, I'm done
walked off. Jenny McCarthy um fully compensated by dancing to
(09:23):
it like it was the hottest ship that has ever
she was. She moved her body like a snake, ma,
like she was getting snake charmed by old Rudy. That
was fucking sad. Uh, just dance like also because this
it's it's just such a fucking weird clip, like this
fucking monster pops out of a box and then Ken
(09:45):
John is like, this is fucked Apparently I heard that
they this is a rumor. But the audience reaction was
also really unenthusiastic that they were supposedly cutting to old
footage of audience reactions, because everybody in a crowd was like, yo,
what the fun was that? Yeah, a lot of the
the audience reaction did strike me as very much unlikely
(10:09):
for any any audience that wasn't uh at a you know,
Tucker Carlson deaf comedy jam from like five years ago,
like that. That was the level of enthusiasm that they
were getting. If that is the case, though, if they
cut enthusiastic reactions from previous performances into this one, those
(10:34):
people should be allowed to sue because they they are
now Jack, they signed a release. Come on, man, you know,
but that is we got them. We got into an
assassination just being like, yeah, let me read the fine print, Rubes,
guess what you assigned your likeness over in perpetuity across
(10:57):
the universe, even in media that is yet to be invented,
is usually what those How those fucking releases work? So yeah,
right now that that group of like Asian people in
the audience look like they're the biggest Ruby Juliana, So
I'm like, yo, that's that's who. I'm like looking at
him like they don't want to be associated with this. Yeah,
(11:18):
we need an interview with them. But anyway, fuck that
show and it's funk any show that's like putting these
disgusting people. I mean, just fucking kid, stop putting celebrities
on TV. Just show me webcams of people doing their
work rather than what was that? Was that social media
(11:38):
app that just kind of pings you randomly and you
have to check in and be like, yeah, they're like
all right, post right now what you're doing. It's like
I'm shifting. I guess that's a surprise. It's a good
one though. Anyways, let's take a quick break and we'll
be right back. And we're back, and the Supreme Court
(12:09):
has ruled eight to one that the government can just
continue to treat Puerto Rico residents like ship American citizens
like non um, basically saying that, so there's this whole
case happened because a guy moved from New York back
to Puerto Rico and he was still getting his s
(12:30):
s I so like you know, his Social Security Income
Supplemental Security income, and they were he was told to
pay it back. They're like, no, no, no, you're in
Puerto Rico. You can't have this money. This is this
doesn't this isn't applicable. And that's sort of how this
all happened to just sort of be like, can we
please make it the law that like, you can't just
be getting s s I benefits if you're in Puerto Rico. Um,
(12:52):
And that's essentially what this decision did because they were saying, no,
this does not violate the equal protection clause in the Constitution. Um.
The loan dissenter, surprise is the only person who's Puerto
Rican in the Supreme Court, Sonya so Do Mayor. Justice
Soda Mayor was the loan dissenting opinion there, and it's, uh,
(13:13):
you know, this is just a it's just so fucked
up like that we're talking about American citizens. But then
it's like no, but you don't gotta fucking extend like
all these benefits. Plus, like we said earlier, when there
was a Bodincaneer's day, it's like, yeah, you you're American
when we need bodies to fucking spill their blood in
the name of fucking American imperialism. Yeah, you want a
(13:35):
social safety net? Funk out of here. Yeah, that's straight
up colonialism. Yeah. So, you know, again just to keep
the theme, America help is not on the way ever,
and I think it also, you know, and it continues
this like very tortured discussion of like how the Puerto
(13:55):
Rican people want to live, what benefits they should have,
if they even want to be treated as a state.
What what does any of that gonna mean because all
of the examples of living under you know, American route
like rule has been absolutely nonsense. So uh, we'll see
some people pointing into like Gorseitch may have like stealthily
(14:16):
put like a potential that he would vote like if
if this bill was or this case was like brought
back in another capacity, that he might have been more
open to siding with uh, you know, Puerto Ricans or
just like the people who would have p Puerto Rican
would have been affected by decision. But I all I'm
looking at is the decision. And yeah, so to my
(14:37):
horror is the loan dissenting opinion. Let's let's talk about
gratuity fatigue folk. Thank god? Oh boy, I mean, wait,
what is it? I'm just like, I like anything fatigue.
I'm gonna just say yes, m I'm tired of being grateful. Yeah, yeah,
So I'm just gonna read the first couple of paragraphs
(14:59):
of the piece from The New York Times. Last year,
Anna Johnson found herself using an electronic screen to pay
for a pickup order at a bakery in Phoenix, a
normal enough experience at many food businesses she frequents, but
this time she was bewildered when the machine recommended that
she tipped as much as thirty five percent on cookies.
(15:22):
I love your asshole New York Times voice. That's it
just surprised me that they're asking everyone for that, said Ms. Johnson,
sixty six. People can't afford to keep on paying more
and more and more. And then the thesis paragraph, which
is only a sentence long. Tipping fatigue, like Ms. Johnson's,
(15:44):
is real and it is widespread. So what that means, Miles?
It means that Americans have been too kind to one
another for too long? Um is I don't know? The
thesis here? Uh. Um, it sounds like they're right. Let
(16:09):
it's saying that because of the pandemic, people were more
tip conscious, especially as it related to someone like a
food delivery or like a checkout or anyone you could tip.
But it's just it's it's gone to the altruism to
grat the generosity has a limit and interviews customers, including
some who have worked in the food service business, said
(16:31):
they felt uncomfortable with the many requests to tip and
pressured into giving more. Um. First of all, you like
to your your choice. This is just saying, hey, this
is an option for you to do if you don't
have the money. Like that's understood. Um. But at the
(16:53):
same time, I don't know, Yeah, it sucks that, like
we're in this system, like super producer Ian before we
start recording, was like, you know, at the same time,
there are lots of countries that don't have this tipping
culture that that might work better. Um, but America has
a tipping solution to healthcare, Like we we have go
(17:17):
fund means for uh, like life saving surgery or to
bury our loved ones. So like that that's where we're at.
Like that that's just the solution in America UM and
the fact that this is the social trends like the
(17:39):
The New York Times, rather than reporting on the systemic
issues that put us in this situation, continues to be
just a mouthpiece for the police UM to ignore the
funk out of like social and economic inequality and injustice.
And uh then they them through with like they're they're
(18:02):
putting efforts into interviewing customers to ask if they feel
like tipping is like out of control. Yeah, like that's
how you get here, Like they didn't they didn't just
like get a a tip from the tip desk that
like scientists have discovered this tipping fatigue trend. They are.
(18:25):
They were like, I'm at the Starbucks and they're asking
me to tip twenty day per cent, and then like
that becomes that becomes the story, right, rather than like
you're saying, well, look, that's the New York Times. They
just need to change, like they're like subheading or you know,
they're they're their tagline to be the New York Times.
Nothing systemic to see here, folks, not just keep it moving.
(18:48):
It's actually tipping fatigue. It's not the thing is they
can never fucking talk about massive inequality it's not like
that people are having so much greed about being like, well,
what's a pandemic? You better tip me? No, it's it's
a pandemic. The fucking wages are stagnant. I have no
fucking medical support or insurance, so I'm left alone in
(19:12):
this fucked up health scape. Please, if you can find
it in your heart, if you may have a little
bit more to give, please find it in your heart
to do that. But they're taking is like what are
they trying to do? Make me fucking feel bad? Like
it's like weird, Like the energy from a lot of
these like that, that's sort of like brew like brewing
underneath the surface. Like they want me to be in
(19:33):
touch with how maybe my life maybe comparatively a little
bit better because I'm the person in the having the
opportunity to tip or whatever it may be. But I
don't know. New York Times pretty really cool nailing it
cool thing there with gratuity fatigue what And also just
the thing about other places where you don't tip. Those
(19:55):
are countries where people they're like, lives are actually valued
enough that don't go broke because you're sick. It's not necessary,
like and also we can have we already talked about
the historical roots of tipping as it relates to slavery,
that we're only extended this version of like wage slavery,
(20:15):
and that's you know, maybe maybe maybe look into that
New York Times I don't know, mm hmm uh. And finally, uh,
they're they're rarely these times when something happens and there's
not enough content on it for my taste. Like I'm like, look,
I'm just like going to the Twitter latest section just
(20:39):
being like, I don't care who's talking about this. I'm
just gonna read it and then I'm gonna watch more highlights.
Then I'm gonna read it. Uh. Joel m bead of
my uh seventy sixers hit a game winning three. Uh,
he's seven ft one three pounds. He's the size of
shack and he has the most feathery light touch. And
(21:00):
it is if you're not I I try to keep
my um biases out of the show, But if you're
not watching Joe LMB do you should be watching it.
It's very it's it's fucking incredible. But and okay, now
I know how cynical you can get based on that.
How are you feeling about even, like, do you do
you feel bad about the second round because you said
(21:22):
you never know you do this and then the second
round we're done first of all, good impression of me. Um, yeah,
I do feel bad about the second round. They haven't
made it out the second round, Okay, I'm just making sure.
I don't know if there's altered your your feelings of
confidence around it, but my feelings, my my judgment around
(21:43):
the sixers is so bad and so broken that like
it's all like it would almost be instructive for people
to just hear how stupid my thinking is. Like I
just said, yeah, I feel bad about it because I
didn't want to jinx and because I thought that about
it to this point, and so I'm like, I can't
not I can't stop feeling bad about it, because then
they're gonna start losing. Oh shit, you're you're fucked many
(22:08):
that's bad. Yeah, you're down bad Okay. Um well, I
as a neutral, I thought it was great, you know
that that the hitting a buzzer beater and the venue
of a horrible nightmare for Joel Embiid previously. I think
it was nice. I like that he was getting in
Drake's face telling him to get ready for the fucking
(22:29):
sweep um, and Drake was like he, dude, he's like,
actually not really that cool because based on how he
was like going back and forth Joel Ebad, he looked
like a scared little fan guy who was like who you,
We'll see, We'll see. I was like, dude, he got
your number. Just sucking. Just fade off into the back
(22:50):
yep Um, Celtics continue to beat the nets, which yeah,
I wish I didn't care about that series as much
as I did, but I do, uh and really want
the next win. Doesn't look like that's happening. Um, well,
you know, just just keep an open heart, Jack, keep
an open heart, an open mind, and maybe maybe good
(23:13):
things will come. You never know. In my hunt for content,
where just other people being as excited as I was
about the MB game. Um, I made the mistake of
going to the ringer and uh that that is Bill
Simmons is uh, you know, new media thing not new
I guess, like six years old, but after grant Land
(23:36):
was no longer a thing. Um. And it's wild to
see like he had like four like half asked tweets
last night, Like one was just about like how you know, well,
they're they're probably like twenty about the Celtics. I just
like went through there, went through ignored them. And then
(23:57):
like his tweets on this Sixers game, which was like
the exciting thing from the night in NBA basketball, We're
all like Doc Rivers is like making bad mistakes. He's
like screwing up the side out of bounds and like
the shot that MBA hit was off of the side
out of bounds play and so he it was like
just freezing cold takes galore from him. And but then
(24:21):
like when you listen to Ringer podcasts, uh this morning,
like they are only talking about Doc Rivers being like
making them like they it's weird. It's like a pro
Bill Simmons like propaganda machine where they're only allowed to
acknowledge like the opinions he puts up on Twitter and
(24:42):
it is very esoteric. But it is interesting to see
such a weird uh. You know. Now he's I think
close to a billionaire and uh, I'm sure not getting
a lot of pushback, but like the that editorial staff
man when he's on a podcast there super producer around
Hosnie I has talked about this before. I think on
(25:04):
the show, but they are doing the hardest laughs at
the wackiest observations, like it's it's like they're blinking like
torture in morse code like the video versions of the podcast.
Um yeah, it sucks anyways, Yeah ghost Sexers go Joel Embid, Yeah,
(25:25):
go on. Also I think just again, seven footer hitting
up buzzer beat or three winding overtime, that's just cool. Yeah,
you know yeah, and then didn't like the second he
let it go. I you know, it was confident and
it's not like, you know, somebody throw them throw them
one up in desperation. It goes. I'd hate to recommend
this to you, but if you really, if you're trying
to go where all the people are going to, you know,
(25:48):
bask in the glory of it, it's the Sixers subredit
because we're gonna get the most ship post decontent around it.
All right, I gotta go. I gotta go do that,
like right now, uh can do Sixers. We are back
tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then,
be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get
(26:10):
the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we
will talk to you all tomorrow to bite, bite,
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Iron
Zeite Tyson. I am Jack. That is mild yep, let's
just get right into it. Mike Tyson beat up a
passenger on an airplane. Um, have you watched the video?
So the video? Yeah, yeah, so the video is very illuminating.
(00:26):
I would not I would not take an opinion on
this until you watch the video. Uh it's It starts
off with like forty five seconds of the person who
got beat up his friends filming him as he sits
behind Mike Tyson and just is talking shipped to him
(00:47):
NonStop and then turning to camera and making the grossest
asshole guy faces you've ever seen, and being like, dude,
he has pissed bro. And and then he said, does
he start calling him a peasant too? I forget he
started saying something. I couldn't really hear what he was saying.
(01:08):
I could just like see who he was spoke so loudly.
I couldn't hear what he was saying. Yeah, but I mean, yeah,
all all of that to say that this after that,
I think Mike Tyson was like he told him the chill, Yeah,
didn't heed that morning. If Mike Tyson tells you to
fucking chill, don't and don't then say, you know what,
(01:31):
I would like to now enter the find out phase right,
like you're not, And look, putting your hands on somebody's
never the answer. But and I'm just saying, I'm not
saying I would do this, but you're fucking with Mike Tyson,
who professionally put his hands on people, and now you
want to test his patients on a fucking flight and
(01:52):
you're just getting in his ship like that's you're honestly
asking for it. And that's why it was so funny
that that video hard cuts to him after he got
the hands and he's just leaking and he's like doing
this space. He's like he's very drunk. That's also worth yeah, yeah, yeah,
he's he's hammered and uh so I don't even know
(02:12):
if he's like feeling the punches yet, and so he's
just making like silly like didn't beat him up? Yeah,
like he has he has some I don't know. We're
like those aren't even good Mike Tyson punches. He got
punched in his face, but we were like, you didn't
get the he knew his hands were registered weapons. Probably
so He's just like, let me give you some light. Also,
(02:36):
the bruising on the guy's head is very strange. It
looks like he got attacked by a cookie cutter shark.
Like he has just like a circular like round of
like red marks on the back side of his head.
So I'm not sure what. Yeah, but Mike was wearing
on his hands at the time. Who knows. Who knows?
(02:58):
There is this thing though, where people Mike Tyson loses
his cool, not shut the This guy is not losing
his fucking cool. That says local asshole kept testing somebody
and found out what happens when you don't respect somebody
when they say, leave me the funk alone. Yeah, I
mean grant, yeah, and granted shouldn't have gotten to that.
(03:20):
I hope he doesn't like get in trouble for this
um And like, how how the funk is? I guess
it was jet Blue because I think the friend was like,
we're on jet Blue and the utest like Mike Tyson
the fucking goat, um, But how I don't know. It
does feel like somebody should help get this guy away
(03:44):
from him, Like is it shouldn't be a situation where um,
he just has to sit and be accosted by a
stranger for you know, five hours. There's probably a better
way to deal with it. Um, but anyways, Uh, funk
that guy and CNN plus let's move on to that
(04:05):
rest in peace plus fucking grand opening, grand in, grand opening,
grand closing CNN plus the streaming service that just you
know what you're reading is a headline from CNN. Now
you know that that headline was written from CNN, and
then consider the tone of headline CNN plus the streaming
(04:27):
service that was hyped as one of the most significant
developments in the history of CNN, history of CNN, what
the fuck will shut down on April thirty, just one
month after it launched. So I mean this, this feels
like this headline was maybe written by somebody who disagreed
with the decision. I mean definitely like front loading that
(04:51):
to be like, look at all the weight it just
collapsed on the most significant development because it's like you're
just in the history. Um, sure it will go down
in museums in history books as absolutely, but they're thirty days.
Uh and now like, oh man, the conservatives are loving
(05:13):
it because Chris Wallace left Fox News to do CNN
Plus and so they're just sea walking all over his
grave right now. Like literally there's like, you know, gifts
of like Tucker Carlson like laughing at a grave that
says Chris Wallace. Um, because he left, he switched teams, folks,
you know what happens. Why would CNN put Chris Wallace
(05:34):
on CNN plus? Do we think? I don't know this
fucking it's just so. The streaming ship is just so
I don't know what their plans are. Clearly the new ownerships,
like we cannot do this anymore. Like this is a
fucking mistake. I don't know why we did this. Um,
I don't know. This is the streaming The stream wars
(05:56):
are just we're we're like at the joke. We're getting
to the real fucking wacky part of it now, and well, yeah,
glad to watch it all crumble. It's weirdly so like
no streaming like news thing has really worked, right, Like
there's not something that's like the zeitgeist as a news
(06:17):
streaming video products. No, like no one's getting no, no
one's going. I feel like news still feels very traditionally
set in like broadcast television and Twitter, like that's what
like it feels like Twitter could do something with this,
since it is the only like digital thing that people
(06:39):
I don't know go for for like go to for
real time ship like CNN launched something on Twitter or
something like that. I don't know, but that's all bullshit.
Who knows anything succeeds or fails CNN and Twitter brained simultaneously.
That's a fucking wild concoct you. I don't say that.
If Fox has there's streaming thing that doesn't seem to
(07:02):
there's no evidence that anyone has ever watched other than
people trying to be like let's see, let's see what
Fox's latest effort. Yeah, but anyways, and then there's the
like a John Stewart show on Apple that hasn't really
done very well. Um, the uh John Oliver Show is
(07:26):
doing well, but that's like, you know, has the foundation
like grounded on HBO, which are traditional um in there,
and the main story always just does numbers on YouTube,
So like plenty of places for people to get there
John Oliver Right, Um so anyways, Uh, podcasting still king. Finally,
(07:52):
you know, we've all been waiting for it anxiously on
the edge of our seat because we found out months
ago that one of the masked singers in this season
do they do? They actually call them seasons of the
Masks sing Sea five of the Mass singer about you dropped?
(08:13):
Um probably But anyways, the latest season, one of the
mysterious uh Mass singers would be Rudy Giuliani. Um. And
we had heard that Ken Jong was going to be
piste and walk off. Uh so what they it? Finally
went down. Rudy Giuliani popped out of a jack in
(08:37):
the box like thing and she started singing bad to
the bone, sing sing, talking, talksic singing and yeah full
like almost as if it was a work of performance art.
Just note, not even like trying to put a charismatic
(08:57):
spin on it, just standing there and delivering, you know,
the straight wong wong vowels of the song without without
any tone to it. And Ken Jong said, I'm done
walked off. Jenny McCarthy um fully compensated by dancing to
(09:23):
it like it was the hottest ship that has ever
she was. She moved her body like a snake, ma,
like she was getting snake charmed by old Rudy. That
was fucking sad. Uh, just dance like also because this
it's it's just such a fucking weird clip, like this
fucking monster pops out of a box and then Ken
(09:45):
John is like, this is fucked Apparently I heard that
they this is a rumor. But the audience reaction was
also really unenthusiastic that they were supposedly cutting to old
footage of audience reactions, because everybody in a crowd was like, yo,
what the fun was that? Yeah, a lot of the
the audience reaction did strike me as very much unlikely
(10:09):
for any any audience that wasn't uh at a you know,
Tucker Carlson deaf comedy jam from like five years ago,
like that. That was the level of enthusiasm that they
were getting. If that is the case, though, if they
cut enthusiastic reactions from previous performances into this one, those
(10:34):
people should be allowed to sue because they they are
now Jack, they signed a release. Come on, man, you know,
but that is we got them. We got into an
assassination just being like, yeah, let me read the fine print, Rubes,
guess what you assigned your likeness over in perpetuity across
(10:57):
the universe, even in media that is yet to be invented,
is usually what those How those fucking releases work? So yeah,
right now that that group of like Asian people in
the audience look like they're the biggest Ruby Juliana, So
I'm like, yo, that's that's who. I'm like looking at
him like they don't want to be associated with this. Yeah,
(11:18):
we need an interview with them. But anyway, fuck that
show and it's funk any show that's like putting these
disgusting people. I mean, just fucking kid, stop putting celebrities
on TV. Just show me webcams of people doing their
work rather than what was that? Was that social media
(11:38):
app that just kind of pings you randomly and you
have to check in and be like, yeah, they're like
all right, post right now what you're doing. It's like
I'm shifting. I guess that's a surprise. It's a good
one though. Anyways, let's take a quick break and we'll
be right back. And we're back, and the Supreme Court
(12:09):
has ruled eight to one that the government can just
continue to treat Puerto Rico residents like ship American citizens
like non um, basically saying that, so there's this whole
case happened because a guy moved from New York back
to Puerto Rico and he was still getting his s
(12:30):
s I so like you know, his Social Security Income
Supplemental Security income, and they were he was told to
pay it back. They're like, no, no, no, you're in
Puerto Rico. You can't have this money. This is this
doesn't this isn't applicable. And that's sort of how this
all happened to just sort of be like, can we
please make it the law that like, you can't just
be getting s s I benefits if you're in Puerto Rico. Um,
(12:52):
And that's essentially what this decision did because they were saying, no,
this does not violate the equal protection clause in the Constitution. Um.
The loan dissenter, surprise is the only person who's Puerto
Rican in the Supreme Court, Sonya so Do Mayor. Justice
Soda Mayor was the loan dissenting opinion there, and it's, uh,
(13:13):
you know, this is just a it's just so fucked
up like that we're talking about American citizens. But then
it's like no, but you don't gotta fucking extend like
all these benefits. Plus, like we said earlier, when there
was a Bodincaneer's day, it's like, yeah, you you're American
when we need bodies to fucking spill their blood in
the name of fucking American imperialism. Yeah, you want a
(13:35):
social safety net? Funk out of here. Yeah, that's straight
up colonialism. Yeah. So, you know, again just to keep
the theme, America help is not on the way ever,
and I think it also, you know, and it continues
this like very tortured discussion of like how the Puerto
(13:55):
Rican people want to live, what benefits they should have,
if they even want to be treated as a state.
What what does any of that gonna mean because all
of the examples of living under you know, American route
like rule has been absolutely nonsense. So uh, we'll see
some people pointing into like Gorseitch may have like stealthily
(14:16):
put like a potential that he would vote like if
if this bill was or this case was like brought
back in another capacity, that he might have been more
open to siding with uh, you know, Puerto Ricans or
just like the people who would have p Puerto Rican
would have been affected by decision. But I all I'm
looking at is the decision. And yeah, so to my
(14:37):
horror is the loan dissenting opinion. Let's let's talk about
gratuity fatigue folk. Thank god? Oh boy, I mean, wait,
what is it? I'm just like, I like anything fatigue.
I'm gonna just say yes, m I'm tired of being grateful. Yeah, yeah,
So I'm just gonna read the first couple of paragraphs
(14:59):
of the piece from The New York Times. Last year,
Anna Johnson found herself using an electronic screen to pay
for a pickup order at a bakery in Phoenix, a
normal enough experience at many food businesses she frequents, but
this time she was bewildered when the machine recommended that
she tipped as much as thirty five percent on cookies.
(15:22):
I love your asshole New York Times voice. That's it
just surprised me that they're asking everyone for that, said Ms. Johnson,
sixty six. People can't afford to keep on paying more
and more and more. And then the thesis paragraph, which
is only a sentence long. Tipping fatigue, like Ms. Johnson's,
(15:44):
is real and it is widespread. So what that means, Miles?
It means that Americans have been too kind to one
another for too long? Um is I don't know? The
thesis here? Uh. Um, it sounds like they're right. Let
(16:09):
it's saying that because of the pandemic, people were more
tip conscious, especially as it related to someone like a
food delivery or like a checkout or anyone you could tip.
But it's just it's it's gone to the altruism to
grat the generosity has a limit and interviews customers, including
some who have worked in the food service business, said
(16:31):
they felt uncomfortable with the many requests to tip and
pressured into giving more. Um. First of all, you like
to your your choice. This is just saying, hey, this
is an option for you to do if you don't
have the money. Like that's understood. Um. But at the
(16:53):
same time, I don't know, Yeah, it sucks that, like
we're in this system, like super producer Ian before we
start recording, was like, you know, at the same time,
there are lots of countries that don't have this tipping
culture that that might work better. Um, but America has
a tipping solution to healthcare, Like we we have go
(17:17):
fund means for uh, like life saving surgery or to
bury our loved ones. So like that that's where we're at.
Like that that's just the solution in America UM and
the fact that this is the social trends like the
(17:39):
The New York Times, rather than reporting on the systemic
issues that put us in this situation, continues to be
just a mouthpiece for the police UM to ignore the
funk out of like social and economic inequality and injustice.
And uh then they them through with like they're they're
(18:02):
putting efforts into interviewing customers to ask if they feel
like tipping is like out of control. Yeah, like that's
how you get here, Like they didn't they didn't just
like get a a tip from the tip desk that
like scientists have discovered this tipping fatigue trend. They are.
(18:25):
They were like, I'm at the Starbucks and they're asking
me to tip twenty day per cent, and then like
that becomes that becomes the story, right, rather than like
you're saying, well, look, that's the New York Times. They
just need to change, like they're like subheading or you know,
they're they're their tagline to be the New York Times.
Nothing systemic to see here, folks, not just keep it moving.
(18:48):
It's actually tipping fatigue. It's not the thing is they
can never fucking talk about massive inequality it's not like
that people are having so much greed about being like, well,
what's a pandemic? You better tip me? No, it's it's
a pandemic. The fucking wages are stagnant. I have no
fucking medical support or insurance, so I'm left alone in
(19:12):
this fucked up health scape. Please, if you can find
it in your heart, if you may have a little
bit more to give, please find it in your heart
to do that. But they're taking is like what are
they trying to do? Make me fucking feel bad? Like
it's like weird, Like the energy from a lot of
these like that, that's sort of like brew like brewing
underneath the surface. Like they want me to be in
(19:33):
touch with how maybe my life maybe comparatively a little
bit better because I'm the person in the having the
opportunity to tip or whatever it may be. But I
don't know. New York Times pretty really cool nailing it
cool thing there with gratuity fatigue what And also just
the thing about other places where you don't tip. Those
(19:55):
are countries where people they're like, lives are actually valued
enough that don't go broke because you're sick. It's not necessary,
like and also we can have we already talked about
the historical roots of tipping as it relates to slavery,
that we're only extended this version of like wage slavery,
(20:15):
and that's you know, maybe maybe maybe look into that
New York Times I don't know, mm hmm uh. And finally, uh,
they're they're rarely these times when something happens and there's
not enough content on it for my taste. Like I'm like, look,
I'm just like going to the Twitter latest section just
(20:39):
being like, I don't care who's talking about this. I'm
just gonna read it and then I'm gonna watch more highlights.
Then I'm gonna read it. Uh. Joel m bead of
my uh seventy sixers hit a game winning three. Uh,
he's seven ft one three pounds. He's the size of
shack and he has the most feathery light touch. And
(21:00):
it is if you're not I I try to keep
my um biases out of the show, But if you're
not watching Joe LMB do you should be watching it.
It's very it's it's fucking incredible. But and okay, now
I know how cynical you can get based on that.
How are you feeling about even, like, do you do
you feel bad about the second round because you said
(21:22):
you never know you do this and then the second
round we're done first of all, good impression of me. Um, yeah,
I do feel bad about the second round. They haven't
made it out the second round, Okay, I'm just making sure.
I don't know if there's altered your your feelings of
confidence around it, but my feelings, my my judgment around
(21:43):
the sixers is so bad and so broken that like
it's all like it would almost be instructive for people
to just hear how stupid my thinking is. Like I
just said, yeah, I feel bad about it because I
didn't want to jinx and because I thought that about
it to this point, and so I'm like, I can't
not I can't stop feeling bad about it, because then
they're gonna start losing. Oh shit, you're you're fucked many
(22:08):
that's bad. Yeah, you're down bad Okay. Um well, I
as a neutral, I thought it was great, you know
that that the hitting a buzzer beater and the venue
of a horrible nightmare for Joel Embiid previously. I think
it was nice. I like that he was getting in
Drake's face telling him to get ready for the fucking
(22:29):
sweep um, and Drake was like he, dude, he's like,
actually not really that cool because based on how he
was like going back and forth Joel Ebad, he looked
like a scared little fan guy who was like who you,
We'll see, We'll see. I was like, dude, he got
your number. Just sucking. Just fade off into the back
(22:50):
yep Um, Celtics continue to beat the nets, which yeah,
I wish I didn't care about that series as much
as I did, but I do, uh and really want
the next win. Doesn't look like that's happening. Um, well,
you know, just just keep an open heart, Jack, keep
an open heart, an open mind, and maybe maybe good
(23:13):
things will come. You never know. In my hunt for content,
where just other people being as excited as I was
about the MB game. Um, I made the mistake of
going to the ringer and uh that that is Bill
Simmons is uh, you know, new media thing not new
I guess, like six years old, but after grant Land
(23:36):
was no longer a thing. Um. And it's wild to
see like he had like four like half asked tweets
last night, Like one was just about like how you know, well,
they're they're probably like twenty about the Celtics. I just
like went through there, went through ignored them. And then
(23:57):
like his tweets on this Sixers game, which was like
the exciting thing from the night in NBA basketball, We're
all like Doc Rivers is like making bad mistakes. He's
like screwing up the side out of bounds and like
the shot that MBA hit was off of the side
out of bounds play and so he it was like
just freezing cold takes galore from him. And but then
(24:21):
like when you listen to Ringer podcasts, uh this morning,
like they are only talking about Doc Rivers being like
making them like they it's weird. It's like a pro
Bill Simmons like propaganda machine where they're only allowed to
acknowledge like the opinions he puts up on Twitter and
(24:42):
it is very esoteric. But it is interesting to see
such a weird uh. You know. Now he's I think
close to a billionaire and uh, I'm sure not getting
a lot of pushback, but like the that editorial staff
man when he's on a podcast there super producer around
Hosnie I has talked about this before. I think on
(25:04):
the show, but they are doing the hardest laughs at
the wackiest observations, like it's it's like they're blinking like
torture in morse code like the video versions of the podcast.
Um yeah, it sucks anyways, Yeah ghost Sexers go Joel Embid, Yeah,
(25:25):
go on. Also I think just again, seven footer hitting
up buzzer beat or three winding overtime, that's just cool. Yeah,
you know yeah, and then didn't like the second he
let it go. I you know, it was confident and
it's not like, you know, somebody throw them throw them
one up in desperation. It goes. I'd hate to recommend
this to you, but if you really, if you're trying
to go where all the people are going to, you know,
(25:48):
bask in the glory of it, it's the Sixers subredit
because we're gonna get the most ship post decontent around it.
All right, I gotta go. I gotta go do that,
like right now, uh can do Sixers. We are back
tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then,
be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get
(26:10):
the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we
will talk to you all tomorrow to bite, bite,
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