Jackie Chan Unpaid Intern? Peak War Profiteering 04.29.26

In episode 2049, Jack and guest co-host Jacquis Neal are joined by comedian and host of Pod Yourself A Gun and Bad Hasbara, Matt Lieb, to discuss… BP’s Profits More Than Doubled During Iran War, Why Gavin Newsom Is Definitely Not The Answer, Rush Hour 4 Hasn’t Locked Down Jackie Chan And Chris Tucker and more!

1. U.S. Gas Prices Hit Highest Level Since Beginning of War in Iran
2. BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices higher
3. BP slammed over ‘astronomical’ profits amid oil price spike caused by Iran war
4. Why Gavin Newsom Is Definitely Not The Answer
5. 'Rush Hour 4' Suffers Disappointing Setback Due to Reported Pay Disputes
6. Chris & Jackie's Salary Demands Will Be Sorted Out
7. Jack's Piece of Media: https://x.com/VanLathan/status/2048475310216343874

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
A lot of people don't know that breakfast was originally
called break fast because they're taking a break from recording podcasts. Oh, breakcast,
break breakcast is what it originally started as well.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Let's start a new podcast called breakcast.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Break cast. This is your favorite morning breakfast podcast. We're
gonna eat eggs. Eggs not the worst. I've experimented with
different worst things that you can possibly eat into the microphone,
and by that, super producer Justin has experimented with editing

(00:43):
around them. Oh my god, it's actually crunchy. Crunchy fruit
and vegetable is not good. Yeah, experiences like wet and crunchy.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
You know the squelching sound of a rib though, especially
when you don't know what you're hearing and then someone
says it's ribs, like you might vomit.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Sorry, let me just four more bite of my breakfast
here and ribs. I got breakfast ribs? Can I get
the Can I get the breakfast ribs? Please? Nothing like
three Mick ribs in the morning.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
You get gone.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
So, Matt, you said your favorite pop tart is the
iced cherry.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, I think so. It's it's either that or it's
a tie. I think between that and like the strawberry,
the strawberry with all class colored yeah, multi colored frankies
on it, and then the white frosting.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
I don't know if it's my favorite. I think it
is the food that is most plussed up by how
good it looks. Yeah, the strawberry pop the strawberry pop tart.
Those sprinkies are really doing a lot of heavy lifting.
They make they make me love them.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
I don't think I've ever looked at a pop tart
it was like that looks good.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Oh yeah, it's I feel you, Jack. It's like, especially
the sprinkles on it. It's like on the strawberry for whatever.
We're just saying, have you ever seen a Faberge egg.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
TV?

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah, I've only seen them on TV. But when you
see them, you're like, oh yeah, I would love to
own a really a jewel encrusted egg. This is like,
it's the jewel encrusted it's a faberget.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Tart, you know what I mean. Yeah, But I do
think the most delicious, So I'd say my favorite pop
tart just from a fandom perspective, is the strawberry frost
and strawberry because I just love the way it looks.
But I think my favorite one is that brown sugar
one because it really is packing in the processed food game.

(02:48):
I think it is packing more butteriness than anything with
possible exception of ritz cracker. When you're in cracker.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
But I'll get tired of yes unless I like some
meat or cheese and I'm just eating.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Like rawraw rits. I'm having a raw writ those rits.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
The egg man.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
I am the raw rits.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
I I don't like it's the best I could do
rits at all, not at all, not even a little.
It's uh. I used to have them as like a kid.
It would be like, hey, there's you know, there's some
snacks in here, and then it would be these like
orange disgustings and orange circles. Yeah, and they just never

(03:36):
I was like, it's not really a cheese flavor. I
don't understand what the flavor is.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
I think it's butter. It's butter. It's kind of butter.
But try like, give me a club cracker over a
rich cracker. Absolutely over day. Give me are very good.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
Saltin is good, saltine is good, and soup and sh it,
I can't eat a saltina by itself either too much,
but but a ritz cracker is terrible and any thing
else but by itself, so it's not a good cracker.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah, I agree exactly. That makes it useless as a
cracker pretty much. That's a chip.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
That's a chip. That's a chip. It's a it's a
too thick chip.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
That's right next on breakcast is a cracker chip or
a cracker Fritz Cracker time would get.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
One of your breakfast ritz crackers, please for Ritz on the
mengu when you were sick, because I think rits were
deemed too buttery for sickness and so it had to
be a saltine. When I was rating.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
Man, I grew up black. We had all types of
ship that was we have we have robotustin and ginger ol.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
We were sick. Yeah, ginger el is one of them,
ginger al like. But it's just funny that there's like
certain foods that are just like on the list of
like that's okay to eat wing you're sick, like gatorade,
ginger ale, coke, I think at one point and then
like that went away. Uh three fall cigarettes and sorry,

(04:57):
I gir I grow from America A cigarettes started smoking
your healthy cigarettes and jello were the ones that.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yes, this will settle your stomach. Yes, yeah, usually I
was just like, I bet you I do fine with
a hamburger.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, hungry McDonald's burger exactly.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
You know, settle my stomach. A large side of fries.
How about that, mom?

Speaker 1 (05:29):
How about a happy meal with a toy?

Speaker 2 (05:31):
That's right, two toys.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
You're one of the bears guys when you were.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
I was from Chicago when I was a kid.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
One thing next my stomach, A couple of bears. Yeah,
A couple of drinks, some some brusques and uh, some cocaine.
That will settle my stomach. Mom, how about that? Hello
the Internet and well to Season four thirty six, Episode

(06:02):
three of Daily Zeitgeist. It's a production of iHeartRadio. It's
a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's
share consciousness through the day's news. We also have a
new non news history version of TDZ dropping each Monday morning,
where we do a deep dive into thee guys through
the lens of a different icon. Last week was freeda Collo.

(06:24):
This week is Carrie Fisher. Wow, which incredible story of
you know I did not realize that how much she
was Hollywood Royalty. Carrie Fisher. I did not realize how
much drugs that she was taking down. There is one
point where people were like, you know, John Belushi, we

(06:46):
were always concerned about him, but we were frankly shocked
that he died before Carrie Fisher because she was doing
so many drugs. John Belushi was like, you you better
slow down.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
Job was just like, we need to get your some
cut baby.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Anyways, those episodes are on Mondays with Icon in the title.
The carry Fisher episode is with Caitlin and Jamie from
the Bechdel Cast, So it's a banger, go check it out.
It is Wednesday, April twenty ninth, twenty twenty sixth. My
name is Jack O'Brien. Sure is the date and that
we are not lying. That is the date right now

(07:29):
where we are Wednesday April twenty ninth, couldn't be anymore. Wednesday,
April twenty ninth. My name is Jack O'Brien AKA. I
like getting touched and I cannot lie TSA can't deny
because when I walk in with some itty bitty pants
and these plumpers through the gate bay snap gloves. Ooh
see this pale skin. You say to go through again, Well,

(07:52):
cue me, cue me waiting in line for a group B.
Some knuckleheads try to diss say this water Ice Dane
was piss has some coins and I chose to hide
them to get groped, ad infinitum. Jackie likes touch that one.
Courtesy of New Chris in reference to the fact that

(08:13):
I go through TSA, I resist TSA and ICE a
little different. I go through with basketball shorts on, no
underwear and a handful of change up my ass to
set off the metal detectors so I can get that
that good pat down. You know what I'm saying, not
gonna lie, didn't love the word of plumpers. Plumpers is

(08:34):
what Blake Wexler calls his thighs.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
And his thie plumpers, his size plumperst it.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, it's really gross. I've tried to have him banned
from the show multiple times, and the listeners love him
for some reason. You can't can't figure it out. And
he's a He's a real Sickoh. Anyways, I'm thrilled to
be joined in her second seat by today's guest co host.
He's also the host of the Truly great live show

(09:03):
comedian Clash, a host of crowd control on Dropout, which
might just have a season two coming up. Oh it
does it's your keyes.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
Neil, I want some much chuck.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yes, Neil, what up, niggas? How were doing? How we're doing? Yes?

Speaker 4 (09:26):
Yes, get a little die little Diane. You brought up
some brown sugar earlier. Had to get a little di'angelo
in there for everybody.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yeah, you're about the pop tarts. Yeah, yeah, I was
thinking about I do wonder are there any songs like
that that we assume are some sort of double entendre
And it was actually just somebody's about sugar.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, poor some Sugar on Me is about rice, crispy.

Speaker 4 (09:54):
So good, not sweet enough. Pour some sugar own me.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
One of the best voices in the game, and Shit
also mention that well, speaking of one of the best
voices in the game, We're thrilled to be joined in
our third seat by a very funny comedian, the host
of the rewatch podcasts, Pod Yourself a Gun, Pod Yourself,
the Wire, Uh, and of course Mad Yourself a Man,

(10:26):
as well as Bad Hasbro, which happens to be the
most moral podcast in existence and of all time.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
It is not. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
April twenty, twenty twenty six, there was a white boy
named Matt Lee, but with an eight inch dick. What's up, guys?

Speaker 4 (10:44):
We do.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Congratulations? Tell you man?

Speaker 2 (10:48):
I just you know, April twenty ninth. As soon as
you said it, I said, oh, that's it.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
I can talk about my dick. Now. I'll talk about
my dick.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
And you know what you should I don't listen if
I had an eight inch dick, and ladies, I don't.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Have to do about it all the time.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
It depends where you measure from.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
You know what I found out. I did find this out.
When the measurement for the average is uh, what do
they call it? The pressed? You're supposed to press the
ruler into the pubic. But like, and that's where you're
not because a lot of people just started where you
see the end. But you know, for us that are
of chunky persuasion, like myself, we got a little fat,

(11:33):
right you.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
Extra numbers, a little give you a little extra edge.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
It give you an it because when you pumping, when
you're giving the premium pumps, you actually that's you.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
That that scar.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
The four women listeners have all abandoned the show we're
just we're talking about science things. And also, you know,
I think anyone can be into a conversation about how
big dicks are. The point is that you've got to
measure from uh, the center of the butthole to.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Just out in front of the yeah, just out in
front of the tip.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Where the where the foreskin would be if it was
still there.

Speaker 4 (12:18):
If it was still there, then in that case, which
is I guess.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Out the one of my favorite dick sized braggs is
when corrupt said Goblin and swelling the whole nine and
a half, because it's so specific that it's like that,
why would he lie? One of the members of Dog
Pound said Goblin as well, in the whole nine and

(12:44):
a half and go for him? Yeah, yeah, kind of
gross actually, to be honest with you, this whole conversation
is probably a little bit gross.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
It depends on, you know, what you want to listen
to in the morning.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Matt, we have an update on lepres all good. Yes,
because you were you were the guest on our Leprechaun
I was kind of iconic. I love how you were.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
You were talking about that podcast and you're like, uh,
you know, we we have had some great Icons.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
We talked about Frieda.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
We thought we're going to talk about Kerry Fisher and
I was sitting there going, didn't I do an episode
just about leprechauns.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
You did.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
That?

Speaker 1 (13:20):
You know Freda? Who got Freda? Why not me? Matt?
We started? Our first episode was Einstein. Our second episode episode.
Our second episode was Oracle. And that's what I want
everybody to understand. The spread and our second episode co
hosted by Jack Keith Neil Me.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
Okay, I thought you were gonna say Julia White and
you know that would have been very fun.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
The Racle episode pretty fucking fun. Every time people about
the the Iconograph episodes, they're like, oh, so, when are
you interviewing Anna Wintour. I'm like, I'm not interviewing Anna
wind like that?

Speaker 3 (14:00):
Why?

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Why would I do? Why? He's an icon Whitney used
to have been a tough would have been a tough
gut we our booking department. Isn't that it's going to
be on my show next week? Nice catulations man, that's crazy.
People don't know. On Leprens on yesterday's Trending, we found
out about a type of magic mushroom that makes you

(14:23):
hallucinate tiny people. Yep, and like everybody who takes everybody
gets the same hallucination tiny people, specifically tiny people climbing
up your walls, climbing up your walls. It all over,
the under your door, the under my door coming at all.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
And it also lasts like they said, one to like
seven days.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yes, people are like in the hospital, what is this?
This is the worst mushroom. People aren't taking it on purpose.
It's a mushroom that is like used in cuisine in China,
and just like you don't cook it well enough, you
get these hallucinations.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
And so it's just like I think the mushrooms undercooked.
Why is like, oh, because a little guy just entered
my brain. The little guy just in my aurethra right
now climbing through.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
All right, Matt, we're going to get to know you
a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going
to tell the listeners a couple of the things that
we're talking about today. We do like to we're always
concerned about our corporate overlords, specifically the oil companies.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
How are they.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
Doing now that you know the the war in Iran
is happening? You know, I was personally very concerned about
banks when the war kicked off. I was like, are
they gonna be okay? And both banks and oil companies
are actually having having record record profits right now. So

(16:01):
like all those prices going extra super duper high. You
might remember this from the from from the pandemic, when
they were like, ah, these damn supply chain issues have
forced us to raise prices. And then it came time
for them to report profits and it was like the
highest ever in the history of capitalism. We just it

(16:22):
turns out charged you way way, way way more and
didn't need to and now we're very rich and it's
worked out great for us. So we'll talk about that.
We'll talk about There's this article in the New York
Times about Sergey Brinn, the Google co founder and billionaire,
and his like mega influencer girlfriend, but it has it
has a really good little anecdote in there about our man,

(16:45):
the presumptive Democratic nominee, Gavin Newsome that I just want
to just put in people's brains because I think it's
a great illustration of exactly why he is not He's
not going to do it. He's not going to be
it for us folks. He's not the right guy, all
of that plenty more. But first, Matt Leeb, we do
like to ask our guests, what is something for your

(17:07):
search history that's revealing about who you are? Oh?

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Man, well, I'll give you something for my search history.
You can decide whether or not it's revealing of who
I am. But I did google on April fourteenth. I
googled is there a way to pay less taxes if
you really really don't want to pay? M hmm, like
a conscientious objector yeah, or like you know, just a

(17:33):
legal way of saying, guys, I don't want to.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
I don't want to.

Speaker 4 (17:37):
I agree, I want to know what you found. Because
I'm a firm believer of leave us thousand ers alone.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
That's what I say.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Leave us alone, Leave us alone, That's what I say.
As a self employed people, we you know, we get
tax that are really ridiculously high rate. And I was like, okay,
but I don't want to.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
And that's what I kept going to file for Bartleby
the scrivener break. I would prefer not to.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yeah, yeah, if there's a way in order for me
to get whatever tax break that people get when they
have like they're like, oh, I'm going to put it
in the Caymans, Like, I don't know what that is.
I know Cayman is a small alligator, so I assume
they're putting their money in a small alligator. I don't
know how it works. I want to put my money

(18:24):
in Cayman's. I don't know how to do it. So
I googled is their way to pay it? And the
answer was a resounding now a resounding. There was a
few people said, you can lie and and hope you
don't get caught, and I was like, well, that's scary.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
That's scary.

Speaker 4 (18:41):
Also, this is how you know the billionaires on the internet,
because the answer is yes, because they do it all
the day, all the time.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
They all their money and Caymans they're putting their money
in fucking crocodile.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
They're like, I.

Speaker 4 (18:54):
Don't know, casino and the dirty money just laundering.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
They sent They ship their money overseas and then the
money somehow doesn't get tax I want to do what
they do, but we're a very very small amount.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yeah, And it opens a portal into a room where
a billionaire is on a bed about to be blown
by a guy in a bear costume and he's just
like you're out of your You're out of your depths,
and then pushes the camera with the bears.

Speaker 4 (19:24):
Exactly where I wanted to put my money exactly I
want to put my money right now is on shore.
I want my money off.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
I want it off shore.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
I want it off shore. Can you go to a
Swiss bank and be like, can I open a checking account?

Speaker 1 (19:39):
Please?

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Will that work? And you're like, I have five in
this account. I wonder.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
I just wonder.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
I wonder what I can do, because the answer seems
to be from everybody, No, you can't do anything. Stop asking.
You're gonna go to jail.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
You just get like, once you get a certain amount
of money, you enter this club where they're like, all right,
now everything's free, and this is how to get everything
for free. You have to like pay this certain amount
that only we can afford to pay to people who
like know how to do things, and then we're good
and we we never have to pay super on other

(20:20):
people have to pay super unfair. I don't like it.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
I also, but at least I can rest, you know,
I can sleep at night knowing that my money is
going towards a good cost.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah. The White House Ballroom White House ballroom. Presidents will
be safe. Yeah, presidents will be safe.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
That's why you got to have a fabulous Yes, yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Safer fabulous for two hours a year.

Speaker 4 (20:43):
Thank god for that when they're in that ballroom.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
What is something, Matt do you think is underrated? The
TV show Peaky Blinders. Its many times by the Netflix algorithm,
but ever never I'm like, not this time, asshole. You
were the first live, living, non algorithmic person who has

(21:07):
told me to watch this ship. So what's it about?

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Okay, So Peaky Blinders suffers from having a name that's
too British. Yeah, crazy, No one, No one's interested in
it because it's like Peaky blind it's about No, it's
about like these early twentieth century like Romani gangsters in Birmingham, England,

(21:34):
and they it's stars Killian Murphy and a bunch of
other awesome, awesome actors.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Nobody's ever called them Sea murf Yeah, like his gym teacher,
well get over here.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Yeah, I mean it's iron left. There's too many Sea murfhs.
It be seamurfh one, Sea Murf two two. But yeah,
like it just it rules. It's really well done. The
only issue I have with it is like the music
is overbearing. It was at a time when everyone was like,
you know, who's cool, Jack White and Nick Cave and

(22:11):
the Bad Seeds. It's like that kind of music, you know,
It's like the intro song to every true crime podcast,
you know that kind of like it's like dark folksy,
you know, like cowboy ish, too much of that ship.
Other than that, though it's awesome.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
Everybody's it's a drama and I'm assuming because you say
it is in the era, so like it's been either
on for a long time or it's over.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
Well, so the show ended, but then they just came
out with like a standalone movie, and the movie I
haven't seen it because I was like, you know what,
maybe I'll just watch this Peaky Blinders say. And I'm
telling you, guys, it's amazing. Everyone's all British. They're all
just like oh, I know the entire time, and like there's.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
So many off the charts, British, off the charts, British.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
Everyone is doing it, and everyone has different accents. So
at first I'm like, you know, I'm like, oh, I
don't know, I'm Thomas Shelby. But then an actual Cockney
guy from London will show up in Birmingham. Were like,
oh no, that's the voice I'm doing.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
I don't know what accent this guy has. You just
it's it's.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
Fascinating and awesome and it's uh it's well written and
it's fun and uh, you know, I like me some
like pure drama gangster ship like that that. I like
that where it's like almost no jokes, just make it bleak.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
That's what I say.

Speaker 4 (23:36):
Okay, I've heard a good thing people. People have said
that is a good show. That Sea Murph Too is
really great in it.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Sea Murf is fantastic. Everyone everyone's good in it. Uh,
Sam Neil's in it for a bit. It's nice, great,
it's great. So Peaky Blinders, Charlie Murphy is the star.
He starts Murphy.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Sorry, sorry, what is something you think is overrated? I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
I I think like socialism, communism, leftism, I just think
it's over I think it's done. I think it's had
its day. Yeah, slash a flash in the pan, A
flash in the pan. I get it. We all used
to be like, oh, you know, class consciousness or whatever.
I think those days are done. We thought it was cute,
but we thought it was cute back then. But now
that there is a country club near my house that's

(24:33):
semi affordable, I'm I think I'm going to join that,
and I'm kind of tired of all this leftism stuff.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah, and once you can get inside that secret club, man, Well,
that's the thing.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
It's like it's open to the public, but it's over
to the public, but it's still beautiful, but still beautiful.
Monks of a of a high incometry, You're.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
Going to get in there, You're going to get on
the board, and you're going to work to make it
not open to the That's what I want to do.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
I want to make it a real country club where
it's like the members have to reach you know, be
a certain type. You know, let's say, I just want
a certain type of membership, black, right, just only black Jews,
that's all.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
That's all.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
I want to listen to Sammy Davis Junior all day.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
Eventually we'll we'll open you know, the roles to black
Hebrew Israelites, even though there's a specific offshoot. But yeah, no,
just listen, there's listen.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
Let me tell you I agree with you, man, Like
when I mean I know we're being maybe facetious, but
I agree that like when you get when you when
you get a hold of something that rich people do
and you get a chance to do it, there is
that one second where you're like, man, this ship is nice,
expect that.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Its why are trying to have us all killed?

Speaker 2 (26:05):
I would also kill children to protect this. I would
also let nations starve this Cavia is delicious. Kill I
just you know, it's like if there's it listen, there's
an affordable country club nearby, and I'm like, I'm doing
the math right, and I'm like, technically I could afford this.

(26:30):
It's like, you know, be like having a four hundred
dollars a month gym membership.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Which is a lot. But I'm also like, well what
could I not, like, you know, stop Netflix? Maybe yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
And then also I feel like that's where you go
to find out how it is not paid taxes?

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Right, That's right, That's why I would.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
I'll sit on I'll sit on a life cycle next
to a very old man and I'll go, hey, uh,
what's what the people pay their own taxes?

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Right? That's stupid. And maybe they'll be like, oh yeah,
this guy knows this. Let me tell you something about
ky Man country clubs specifically know how not to pay
their own taxes because they don't. They get huge tax
breaks to exist because they're yeah, yeah, they we pay

(27:21):
the taxes on country clubs essentially because they get massive
tax breaks, so we the people who aren't allowed into
the country clubs, get get to pay the taxes. All. Yeah.
So they're smart exactly, and this is why they would know.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
They would know how to how I can so I
can pay less taxes. All I have to do is
pay them.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
A month.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yeah exactly. It's like, you gotta spend money to make money.

Speaker 4 (27:52):
Guys, spend money to make money.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
I do think it's getting because like the New York
Times is very adamant that this, Like they just had
a headline that was like leftism has reached its high
water mark or something. I forget, it's apex as as leftist.
Uh like yeah, they said, yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
They were like, guys, it's over The New York Times.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
They were like, Momdani had like something good happened, and
the local doorman union is thinking about striking as socialist.
Socialist popularity reaches its apex or the popularity so no,
not the do I think it is words in the past,

(28:38):
because everything like what we were talking about where it's like, man,
like what once the one hundred thousand airs and the
like one millionaires like get a taste of the good life.
They're like, Oh, I'm gonna protect this with my life.
I'm gonna just fuck everybody else. But like I feel

(28:59):
like everything has gotten bad forever. You know, it's just
billionaires now, so like they've they fucked up. They didn't
build the opera houses, they didn't build like cool train stations,
they or whatever the equivalent of that is now.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
And like there was a whole middle class that existed,
like very specifically to be like don't worry rich people,
we got you, yeah, And then and then like you know,
vote in favor of, you know, lowering rich people's taxes
and voting in favor of you know, the homeowners' associations
and and you know local homeowners who would just only

(29:40):
vote for things that made sure that their neighborhoods stayed
you know, redlined and uh and and whatnot. And now
even people who are you know, considered middle class now
even everything shitty.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
For that the middle class is getting fucked to classes.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
Damn near lower class in some places because you start
living at that mean and they like that shit gets like.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
And they're like, man, I can't afford the shit I've
been affording. The whole government used to be those people,
you know, the whole government used to be people who
were making like, you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars
a year and like protecting the billionaires and you know,
hoping to become billionaires. And now like they all got
fired and Trump is just like only hiring people who

(30:28):
have one hundred million dollars in the bank, and they're
just like raiding the whole thing. So right, I do
think that the New York Times might be wrong for
the first time about this being the end the high water, right.

Speaker 4 (30:42):
Freaking news New York Times wrong. When hash browns and
McDonald's start being three dollars, that's when the shit started
getting crazy fucked up.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
Damn Dorito's hit seven dollars, crazy crazy, bro, It's like bitcoins.
All right, Let's uh, let's take a quick break and
we'll be right back to kind of talk about the
same thing.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
We'll be right back, and we're back.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
It's time for the news, Jack, Time for some news here.
Let me read the news. The you know, as Americans
were all primarily worried about how are corporations doing? How
does this affect corporation? And of course we got some
good news. I know, it was a big relief to me.

(31:34):
A couple of weeks back, it was reported that like
Chase Bank, all of the banks that do like investment
banking and like profit off of like trading volume at
on Wall Street have had like record great profits because
when there's volatility like the war in Iran, that like

(31:56):
every everything is you know, on hyper drive, and everybody's
making a lot of trades and they're just making so
much money off of off of this war. But I
was still worried because I go to the gas pump
and look, I will happily go into debt paying for
a tank full of gas in order.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
For to help America win, to help America win. I'll
do anything to make America win this war. My waw
doesn't make any sense whatsoever. But like, what like, if
they're charging me that much money, the corporations must be hurting,
like hurt people, hurt people.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Oh that's so true, that's so true. The gas what
about the gas companies? What about the oil companies.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Yeah, yeah, for the emotional labor that they are putting
in companies.

Speaker 4 (32:46):
I was yesterday, I feel I was filling my tank
with gas yesterday and the motherfucking pump dropped out of
the goddamn car and gas starts spilling all over the floor.
And the first thought I had was, I'm wasting the
co operations.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
You start, you put you started putting it in your
mouth to make sure. I was like, I can't waste this.
Come on, yeah, it's uh, it's so expensive. It's really expense.
I'm going quarter tanks at certain points. I'm like, surely
this is gonna go down at some point and we're
just gonna go quarter tanks for a little bit here.
I have a hybrid and I do that thing where

(33:22):
it's like, you know, if you drive it real slow.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Yeah, that shit is been an emode.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
Oh I got I got my eye on that. Uh yeah, PM.
I'm like, we're not going over.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
To that's right, that's right. You keep that ship at
a nice.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Slow pace and then you see a hill and you're like, fucked, no,
it's gonna be five dollars.

Speaker 4 (33:43):
My my girl, my girl be in the card, be
like it's hot. I would like, don't you turn that
air and keep the windows up?

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Put your head out the window like a dog.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
What do you think I'm made of money? I need
this gas money to go into the country club that
I want to.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
That's right to pay for a shrip cocktail because forty dollars.
So I'm breathing a sigh of relief today as it
was announced that BP's profits have more than doubled during
the Iran War. Wow, so I don't know how that's possible.
We're great again. I thought that they were charging the

(34:20):
higher prices because of the war making things difficult for them,
But it turns out they are charging those higher prices
because the narrative that the war is making things difficult
allows them to do it. And we want to be surprised.
Are do you think they're tricking us? You may remember

(34:41):
this from the pandemic, I don't. Supply chain issues were happening.
Supply chain issues in quotes, and it made everything more expensive,
and it made everything more expensive on us. And then
and the companies were like, we're barely holding on over
to die, Oh, poor old McDonald. And then the quarterly

(35:07):
profit statements came out and they were like, guys, we
are fucking queueing it.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
We gotta be we gotta pretend to die more often.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
Yeah, this is fucking great. So I love that.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
And like everything is just to go fundme scam. Now,
the whole the entire economy runs as a go fundme scam.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
It's just people going.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
Like, oh, I have I have a cancer and a
bullet in my skull and I have uh.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
He's made of something that's carcinogenic, that's right, and that's
probably gonna give me double cancer.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
Yeah, so just give me your money. Please, just give
me your money. It's the same thing. It's just be
p saying like, oh my god, I've got cancer again.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
We're in so much trouble.

Speaker 4 (35:56):
We had we had to clean that oil out of
the ocean.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
It really fucked it really hurt us.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Alie fucking sucks man.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
It's so frustrating. It's so terrible. Yeah. Their profits for
the first three months of the year have more than doubled,
following a surge in oil prices since the beginning of
the year or so, hmm hmm. Yeah, because you see
what they did.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
It's like the oil prices went up and then they
were like, oh, we got to buy more oil, but
don't worry. We'll be able to survive this if we
just make everyone's gas more expensive and make everyone else
pay for it instead of us. And that's what they did,
and good good on them, because I always like it
when America wins.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
That's right. British Petroleum, British America's favorite company. That's but yeah,
anytime there's movement, anytime there's anything that like allows them
to hide a price increase and hide profits, and they
will do it. Yeah, so yay.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
You know, you could make money off it by being
one of the stock people if you if you go
into the stock market and you and you buy stocks,
then then that's one way. So if any savvy investors
out there, if you're listening, buy some stocks.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
Yes, good, good.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
So stocks are like a little bit of a company.
So if you buy a little bit of a company
that's doing lies, good, then you'll make money off those
lies with them.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
Yeah, and you're co signing it and that's good and
that's fine, and that's good to make everybody part of
the colic and should be complicit.

Speaker 4 (37:41):
Yes, I saw something about those stocks in that movie
Wolf of Wall Street.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Right, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, so they were buying stocks
and I don't remember the moral of the story, but
buy stocks, that's the only moral of the story. But
st bonds are fores, Yeah, thank you, bonds just for
people who in jail. That's right, exactly, Only Baylors get bonds.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Let's talk about Gavin News because so it does seem
like people are coming around to the fact that some
of the stuff bad, that the system that has currently
set up as a kleptocracy that's harming everybody. And maybe
there's a very small chance that the New York Times
might be wrong and that this might be more than

(38:31):
just a tiny little flash in the pan thing, a
little fad. This isn't going to be there's a chance
that this might not be like slack bracelets. Sure, people's
kind of slow move towards socialism might not just be
a fun little fad that everybody's getting on board with. Yeah.
So there's probably going to be an opportunity for the

(38:55):
Democrats to run someone in twenty twenty eight who has
a chance and and we already kind of have a
sense that one of the people they're really going to
be trying to get get us on board with his
gay by the name of Gavin Newsom. Have you seen
this fella, pretty handsome guy. I heard of him surf saw.

(39:20):
Actually he's changed his voice.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
You know, this is why I don't like Gavin Newsom.
One of many reasons. One is because his name is
fucking Gavin, and he's not like, Hey, what's up, guys,
I'm gonna be fucking president soon, and uh ship out
there is really sketch and I'm running on a campaign

(39:43):
that's the only way. Yeah, Instead he talks like fucking Batman,
like shitty gravelly voice.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
Well, guys, I mean that's the thing.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
You know, It's like he's got rfk's voice, but like
like pitch shifted and corrected, like it's a really good editor,
really good editor. Fucked with his voice. He'd be like, oh,
that's Kevin Newsom's.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Voice, and put his voice and pro tools and put
some filters on it, you know, put the Alex Jones
Will Arnett filter on it.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Yes, exactly, you know, just a little. I mean, listen,
you can do a low pass, you do a high pass,
you do a little big d s ing and you
get all those like bleeps and bloops out of there,
and this guy's got a Gavin Newsom voice. All I'm
saying is his voice should be different instead, it's not.

Speaker 4 (40:33):
I should be, so it should be. Gavin said, Yeah,
you're right, doll.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
That was the mail, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah,
I was my first. My only complaint was the incongruity
between his name and his vibe. But then I read
this story. So this is just a New York Times
article ostensibly about Sergey Brin, the Google co founder billionaire.

(41:01):
So he came to a very surprising realization. He was
like one of these tech billionaires who is liberal, and
then he found out, after years of being liberal, that
he was wrong the whole time, and that after years
of spending time and money around only billionaires and one

(41:24):
hundred millionaires, the correct views actually happened to be the
ones that benefit billionaires.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
That's crazy, dude. Yeah, well it's called growing up, Jack.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
You should try You should try doing it.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
Yeah yeah, you know, I mean think about it.

Speaker 4 (41:38):
When you was only making like three figures and you
start hanging out with people who make four, five and
six figures, changed, Jack.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
Ok, that's so true. That's so true.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
Yeah, and you stop caring about people.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
You stop caring about people when that happened.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Yeah, eventually, I'd like to make so much money that
I'm I'm like, you know, I've had a sort of
a political reawakening around the whole concept of Arabs.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
Right Muslims.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
You know, I've just I don't know, something changed in
me and now I'm like, boom trance, what's that thing?

Speaker 4 (42:15):
No, somewhere somewhere somewhere around somewhere around like twenty and
twenty one, I had this realization.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
Like maybe we should use e R instead. You know,
why can't I say, are why can't maybe maybe maybe
maybe people can't? Jack? You've been asking for.

Speaker 5 (42:34):
Years, I've been asking you can't. Is it finally that day?
Today is finally the day, Jack? Because you know how
I always do it with a.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Y. When can I do this? Do the party? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (42:55):
You get rich enough and they're just like you can
just say it now.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
Around us, what's gonna happen? We're gonna you what are
we gonna do? It's just what's his name? The Supreme
Court justice and get handing out the pass for all
the Clarence Thomas.

Speaker 4 (43:14):
Clarences new law and every white man gets five of them.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
It's like the Pope giving out a blessing to like
a room full of them, just being all been granted
and your wife.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
They don't roll over those, so you got to use
up all five.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
New Year's Eve is a terrible day for black people.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
Yeah, this isn't a one one DMX song and you know,
don't waste it all once.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
Done go. But yeah, so he's come to he's found
out the secret information that you only find out when
you're a billionaire. The making billionaires pay taxes like they
used to when the country was actually functional would actually
ruin the economy. So what a fortuitous confluence of events
for him and his fellow billionaires.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
Well that's a coincidence.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
So the article is about an attractive, young mega influencer
who he started dating around the time that he decided
that a kleptocracy under Trump was actually good for the US. Actually,
it turns out I should have all the power. And
this is so weird, like what a this is so
crazy that I found this out? But in this.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
Article, yeah he had.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
There's just a brief anecdote where we find out that
he Google's Sergey Brin, Google co founder, one of the
world's richest people is a longtime friend of Gavin Newsom
the California government. Oh cool. Both men attended each other's weddings. Now,
mister Brynn pulled mister Newsom aside to a different part

(44:58):
of the property. There at a party at this point
for a serious talk. So he's there at a party
and he's like, I need to use the east wing
of your house to talk to my friend Gavin. Mister
Brinn told mister Newsom that he could not stand the
state's proposed billionaire tax. I can't stand it. They were
soon joined by mister Brinn's girlfriend, Jerrelyn Gilbert Souto, a

(45:22):
Trump loving gut health influencer. Oh good, gut health. That's
truly what's important. Racism overrated. Gut health is very important.
Even as she tried to diffuse the tension, joking that
she would let mister Newsom's bad policy slide through because
he was handsome, she argued that the measure would wreck
California's economy. Yeah. Mister Newsom, who had never seemed inclined

(45:47):
to support the tax, came out the next month and
pledged to defeat it. He declined to comment on the
interaction with his good friend, who is a billionaire, took
place at a party thrown by the billionaire Chris Larsen,
and was recounted by three people briefed on it and
reflected mister Brinn's new war footing. And I do think

(46:10):
that's appropriate language, Like this is a war that they
are waging literally all of us. Yes, they are waging
as they are, you know, non stop working around the
clock to defeat a bill that would just ask them
to pay a little extra in taxes.

Speaker 4 (46:29):
It's so crazy to me because like, like the amount
I pay in taxes is crazy. You know, I'm not
gonna lie, like I pay more in taxes now as
I've gotten mildly more successful successful than like I used
to pay then I used to make before, which is
insane because like like I'm still hurting, Like, well, I'm

(46:52):
still hurt.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
And and then I look.

Speaker 4 (46:53):
At these and then and then this isn't rooted in anything,
because it's not rooted in numbers. There are no statistical
numbers that shows that not raising taxes on billionaires helps
the economy. Like every statistical number shows that's not the case.
And so I don't under I mean, I understand because

(47:15):
they want to line their own pockets. But it's not
even it's not even a good argument, because we have
numbers that can say this is wrong. Every time we
do this or every time we do that, like the
economy gets better or we have to dig dig the
economy out of the hole. And then when y'all niggas
get into the office, or when y'all people who like
don't care about tax rates except for the billionaires, the

(47:39):
economy undoubtedly gets worse. And it's just so frust it's
frustrated in.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
Every single fucking time. It gets every time. Every time.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
It's because their measurement of economy is completely based on
how their personal stockpoos are doing. That's that's the whole thing.
So with them, they all argue about how great the
economy is under conservatives, but it's only for them. Everything
else gets passed down to the consumers. So consumers are

(48:12):
paying more, working longer hours and getting paid less, and
their money is worthless. And it's like, you know, we
were constantly stuck in this cycle of you know, chasing
that cheese or you know, the carrot in front of us,
and eventually you just you know, at some point you're
just like, oh, do we have to kill these guys

(48:35):
to eat that carrot?

Speaker 1 (48:36):
Is that what you have to do?

Speaker 2 (48:37):
And now listen, I of course I'm against all sorts
of violence in every single you know form, but I
don't it'd be so easy to stop, like the bleeding
for so easy for like you know, a huge portion
of Americans. And yet there's like an active choice to

(48:59):
not do that. It's crazy. It's crazy to me because
I'm like, it is maybe they're maybe they're right in
one sense, which is like, well, what are you going
to do about it? And it's like the answer so
far has been not much.

Speaker 1 (49:13):
Yes, their solution is vote for Gavin News Like that's
really going to be one of the only solutions we have.
And just like this is when when during the Biden administration,
Biden would like throw up his hands and say, look, man,
I wish I could like divest from like all Israel.

(49:35):
I wish I could or like I wish I could
forgive your you know, student student debts. But yeah, yeah,
like that's what he's taught. You're like, politically, that doesn't
make sense. You have the ability to do something. What
is this dark matter that is preventing you from doing
anything when you're throwing up your hands and being like

(49:57):
they it's just not happening. This is it. This is
what it is. The Democratic Party is a machine that
is lubed and fueled by the extremely wealthy and corporations
and newsome is couldn't be more of a function of
that machine, which.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
You know the you know, arguments against it. Jaqisu were
making an excellent point, which is like, the arguments are
so stupid that like to to try and sit and
make the argument that like the being taxed at the
rate that people that billionaires were taxed like not even
that long like during Reagan, right to try and make

(50:42):
the argument that oh no, that crushes the economy or
whatnot we all know is nonsense and also would be
laughed at by anyone if it was said in an
audience at a debate. The problem is is that you've
got this political machine in the Democratic Party that when
someone is there fighting that propaganda, when someone like a

(51:03):
like a Bernie Sanders for example, is fighting it, they
are actively being shot down, you know, rhetorically or like
money wise by the Democratic Party establishment who's like, no,
we kind of we require.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
We actually do like billions, we like billionaires.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
Yeah, and so so it is this constant you know,
we're constantly stuck in this position of being like, all right, well,
instead of Bernie, we got someone who's uh gonna be
real sad about the fact that they can't do anything.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
Does that help?

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Yeah? It all leads back to people voting for Trump
because you know, people on that side of the aisle
are are dumb enough to believe because he'll lie to them.
He'll lie straight to their face and be like, yeah,
you'll all get like a golden balloon, right, And it's
like I want a golden balloon. Sounds yeah, no warning
iron and a golden balloon. And then of course he

(51:55):
does warn Irun doesn't give you a golden balloon. That's
what happens.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
Damn. I think just as as we get closer and
closer to the election, it's worth keeping in mind, like
why he is going to be the presumptive nominee. I
do think it's going to be a like He's not
going to be pot like it'll be somewhat akin to
like when Mike Pence, everybody was like watch out for

(52:18):
Pence in the twenty twenty four elections.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
Yeah, I don't see him getting through a primary.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
I don't I honestly, y'all are going to like him, but
like that's it's just instructive to know this is this
is who he is.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
They're going to shove him down everyone's throat and he
just does not have the Jews, he doesn't have the riz,
and he's not likable enough his name. I mean, he
is another example of a guy in a political system
or a personal political system who is like very a
political or a body politic that has become increasingly cynical

(52:52):
about politicians and if they look and sound too much
like politicians, they are not winning shit, right, Okay. Biden
was able to eke out a victory during COVID during
a pandemic because he had gotten so old that people
were like, well, say what you will about him, but

(53:13):
he does seem like genuinely to be a shaky old
man and that's all he's presenting himself to be. So
people believed him, you know what I mean, Like it
was he did. He seemed like a real person if
he had been if his brain had been a little
bit like if he had had the same cognitive ability

(53:34):
that he had in like say twenty sixteen or you know,
twenty twelve or two thousand and eight. I don't think
he would have been he wouldn't have gotten past the primary, right,
which he just didn't, which yeah, which is why he
did it. Yeah. And so I feel like Gavin Newsom
is an example of someone who sounds and looks like

(53:54):
a politician, acts like a politician. Is a he's the
vibe is liar. Yeah, I don't. I don't think he
has a chance.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
I hope not. I hope your lips, your lips, any
anybody given us any positive vibes out there? Any any
hope right now? Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
Man, Like I'm afraid it.

Speaker 4 (54:18):
Is also the problem is we don't know anybody else
right now that we probably.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
I mean, I honestly think that. I think if AOC
were able to try to at least she's like having
the conversations with people about right, you know, I'd.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
Be Here's the thing with the AOC strikes me as
at least a genuine like populist, and like, so I think.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
What we need, I think that's kind of our only hope, right,
I think with her.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
There is also the problem that sometimes it is a
little bit hard to tell whether or not she's serious
or but I think I trust her enough. You know,
I trust her more than I trust you know, Gavin.
But at the same time, I mean, who knows, dude,

(55:17):
I'm not excited about anyone. I feel bad for that,
But I also I also feel like, I.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
Don't think we should feel bad.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
Well, it's not my job to make myself excited for someone.
It's the job of a politician to make you excited
for them. That's the thing exact. That's the thing exactly.

Speaker 1 (55:38):
Speaking of being excited for a thing, let's take a
quick break. We're you're gonna come back when we're gonna
talk about rash hour for hell yes, and we're back.

(55:58):
Hell yeah. I just love him on that.

Speaker 4 (56:01):
Yeah, let me put that then, let me put that
through pro tools. Go ahead and say it again.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
Can you give me the news on this one? Can
give me the r f K? What is happening?

Speaker 2 (56:20):
Didn't you guys read his like letters to that that
girl that he was seeing sexual Yeah, your body is
like a field and I want to plant my seed And.

Speaker 1 (56:36):
She was like she was resist. Yeah, how am I
supposed to say no to that?

Speaker 4 (56:44):
There is that r f K is legitimately the most
unhealthy person I've ever heard.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
Looks like hamburger meat, like hamburger meat. It's wild. It's
like someone put someone put a curse on some And
I was like, now I can talk he is.

Speaker 4 (57:03):
He is a man in black alien right now? Like
he sounds like that wrote for Men in Black.

Speaker 1 (57:09):
Yeah, all right, well, speaking of movies, speaking in a
movie rock hell Yeah, from the nineties first Rush Hours,
late nineties, right, yeah, it is.

Speaker 4 (57:20):
It's like ninety six, ninety seven.

Speaker 1 (57:22):
Ninety six gonna be that year. Rush Hour four was
announced a while back. I forget what it was about.
It was like kind of in line with that billionaire's
son taking over one of the one of the companies,
I think the sky Dance acquisition of Paramount. Yeah, and

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they were like it's done. Deal, Like we're we've got
Rush Hour four happening. Turns out they've been having trouble
getting Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker to sign on because
they've offered them eight million dollars each to turn despite
the fact that they made twenty.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
Million dollars exam they're trying to lowball the literal stars.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
Jack They're trying to lowball Jackie Chan. If you read
any interviews with Jackie Chan, he is a deity, Like
he walks around surrounded by like a just cloud of
beautiful women who like do everything for him, and he's
just like crazy, Jackie Chan is not of this earth,
and you're going to be like, all right, we'll give
you an extra one hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (58:32):
Like I love the idea that. Chris Tucker probably got
a call from Jackie Chan who was like, can you
believe this? They're trying to offer us eight million dollars
And Chris Ducker was like, yeah, that's that's.

Speaker 1 (58:44):
Low Yeah, you getting mad about that too. I definitely
am worth more than that.

Speaker 4 (58:48):
Still, Chris made more than a million in a minute.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
Chris Tucker's calling Jackie just like, why are you fucking
this up for me?

Speaker 1 (58:58):
Dude?

Speaker 4 (58:58):
When Jackie he was, hey, million dollars, Jackie switches you, Jackie,
I ain't got women like you, Jackie over here, Jackie.

Speaker 1 (59:15):
Rush Hour three, Jackie Chan was paid about twenty million dollars.
Chris Tucker was paid even more. What ch Chris Tucker,
I mean Rush Hour three was you know but rush Yeah,
Like Chris Tucker was a star. Oh yeah, he was

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a star. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (59:37):
Still one of my favorite jokes in movies because like,
Chris Tucker is like a taller dude. And in the
first movie when Jackie Chan like jumps up and like
starts scaling the building and then he like lowers the
ladder but it's not low enough, and Chris Tucker's trying
to jump, He's like.

Speaker 1 (59:54):
Come on, man, I Kareem abdul Jabar. Just it kills
me every time he says that he is great also
on that steam flat lugs, But well, I honestly that
another time, I feel like he I think he was
just like, I think it was just there. He was

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on a trip to Yeah, they were on a trip
to Africa.

Speaker 3 (01:00:18):
He's one of them.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
I don't know what it is about Chris Ducker, but
I'm just like, I just I think he was there
and was just like, this is cool. I'm flying with
Bill Clinton. I don't think what I've.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
Been saying about Kevin Spacey for years, the space now man,
the space Man just there for the snorkeling victory, right,
I mean, beautiful snorkles. Look at this beautiful snorkle is
some of the most beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
Everything, Snorkel.

Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
It's just like, it's funny that they announced that they
were making this movie while being that far apart, like they, yeah,
you haven't decided to make Rush Hour for You've decided
that it would be cool if you could make rush
Hour four. Ess actually is like what you were announcing
back then, and.

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
They have the power to do it. They can do it.
Any collision between the president. The president was like, we're
gonna make this happen. He's the one who announced rush
Hour four. I thought that was the case.

Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
Yeah, I thought.

Speaker 4 (01:01:18):
I remember him like tweeting it like we're gonna make
Rush Hour for straight up.

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
He was the one who was saying that, uh, you
know after you know, Skydance bought whatever the fuck it
bought and uh and he was sweeting about it. And
he's like, are we gonna get Brett Brett Ratner out
of hiding out of his little rat hole and he's
gonna come out. He's very sorry for all the me
too ing, and he's comet.

Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
It's important to note the company is facing This is
from the movie Web article. The company is also facing
major heat for moving forward with Ratner's reported involvement, even
though he continues to deny any misconduct. He's not even apologize.
He didn't do anything.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
Wrong and if he did, he saw and he's not
because he didn't do anything because he didn't do anything wrong.
But it's like they literally could get this done. They
have all the pieces in place, but what they don't
have is the ability to not cheap out on the
two literal stars of the film.

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
That is hilarious because you can't.

Speaker 4 (01:02:17):
Rush Hour is like one of those movies where if
you're going to bring it back, you cannot bring it
back without those two. It's like, of course, when they
did Men in Black without Timely Jones, Will Smith, like
nobody wanted to see it ass movie and like nobody
wanted to see it, you gotta have them, And.

Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
So they did do a Men in Black without them,
but it was like four. It was like it was
like a Star Black International. Yeah, it's just.

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
No one was interested in it anybody.

Speaker 1 (01:02:45):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:02:46):
It's because it's like people don't watch Men and Black
movies for the lore.

Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
No, we watch it for the stars. Exactly underhaded movie.
Men in Black three, I think minim I love Man
Back three was good. I thought it liked it, and
the way they tied it up was like fucking crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:03:02):
Man, I thought I thought it was a perfect Yeah,
I love it, and I really listen most Smith can
slap as many people as he wants.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
How I feel, that's what always be a fan. I
want him to slap me. So I just want to
read this part from the story else. So a source
of story acknowledge tells TMS negotiations with the stars are
ongoing and this is all a completely normal part of
the movie making business. We're told confidence is high that
an agreement will be reached and Chris and Jackie will

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be kicking back into action. Sure, that's from the article.
Sounds like you guys have a real source there, who
is in no way part of the publicity and marketing
team in the studio. Yeah, normal people say stuff like, guys,
Chris and Jackie will be kicking back into action and
conversation in a conversational y, although.

Speaker 4 (01:03:52):
We know a Rush Hour four will be kind of
like how Bad Boys four was, where they're like, they're
kind of too old to be doing this and can
barely kick in anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
There.

Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
Yeah, Martin Lawrence, he's another like national treasure that I
think doesn't get his just what do you call it?

Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
Like pray?

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
He's just do yeah, because like he is, he's like
Chris Ducker. There's an era in which every Martin Lawrence
movie was a banger, and upon Rewatch is also a banger,
like like still hits, It still hits.

Speaker 4 (01:04:31):
And Martin is my favorite TV show of all time.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
And that was like it was a time when there
were Friends was on the air, Seinfeld was on the air.

Speaker 1 (01:04:41):
Like the these are like the the who's who.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
Of multi cam sitcoms, but Martin goes toe to toe
with all of those sitcoms. It is so funny. People
don't even know.

Speaker 1 (01:04:53):
He had a long career. Like man, he just turned
sixty one.

Speaker 4 (01:05:01):
I saw him life last year at the comedy or
maybe two years ago at the Comedy Store.

Speaker 1 (01:05:05):
How was it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:07):
He wasn't doing too great, but like but it was
still great. But I think he's doing much better now.
Actually i've seen him now. He's lost a lot of weight.
He feels like he's like, you know, moving well and
like mentally all there good. But even if he wasn't
doing that great, I still had some big labs in there.

Speaker 1 (01:05:25):
He's still just.

Speaker 4 (01:05:26):
He's one of those dudes where like funny is gonna
be funny no matter what. So he may not have
you know, the in your stand up man. You know,
when people like dudes, sometimes you lose it it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:40):
Matt cannot stands to lose anything physically because he is
out there humping the stool the school. That's right. I've
been humping stools since day one. I'll die on ump
that stool. But no people do they.

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
I mean, you know, like all due respect to Dave's Chappelle,
but Dave Chappelle is like a perfect example of someone
who you know, yeah, it's just not not Yeah. You
watch his new specials and you're like, yeah, he's still
doing the transphobic thing and still stick to that, still
sticking to that, and then the jokes that aren't about
that are like fine, but you're like, nah, there's a

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spark that's just gone. And I think that just comes
with time. But the era of Martin Lawrence was like,
that was just one of the best eras and people
should look back at him the way they look at
like Seinfeld. That's what I say. In fact, even better
because I don't think he ever dated high schooler.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
He didnt.

Speaker 4 (01:06:37):
And to my knowledge, he isn't a Zionist.

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
Yeah, so win win, just win. Replace. Replace your Seinfeld
memes with Martin Lawrence memes. That's what I'm saying. Bring
him back in the zeitgeist.

Speaker 1 (01:06:49):
Let's do it Seinfeld.

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
Well yeah, anyways, anyways, Uh, Matt lead Daily, so so
happy to be back. Love this show, love y'all. Great,
great time I had with you, A beautiful time, great.

Speaker 1 (01:07:05):
Great time. I had a great time I had with you.

Speaker 3 (01:07:08):
Matt?

Speaker 1 (01:07:09):
Is there a work of me? First of all, where
can people find you? You? First of all, we got
to talk about that.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
You can find me? I mean, listen, if you like
TV rewatch podcasts, I do a podcast called pod Yourself
a Gun, And you just searched that, and you'll find
us talking about mad men, talking about the wires, talking
about sopranos. It's a lot of fun. And if you
want to talk about Israeli propaganda, if you like us

(01:07:36):
making fun of Israeli propaganda, check out Bad Hasbara, the
World's most moral podcast. Wherever you get your podcasts.

Speaker 1 (01:07:44):
So, is there a workimedia that you've been enjoying?

Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
I just want to read a tweet that I really
liked and I'm sure you've seen it because I think
it went like megaviral. But it was at Cove Underscore
ninety three. He wrote new shells from the Alleged Shooter
released by Cash Betel and it was this was after
the White House Correspondence dinner almost event, you know. And

(01:08:11):
the picture is of five machine gun shellcasings and over
and it says I hate ballroom. You know how like
now everyone's like, oh, the shootery wrote they wrote their
manifesto and the bullet they love to do that wrote

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I hate ballrooms.

Speaker 1 (01:08:34):
Great good, that's so good. I love it. I love it. Anyways, Jackies,
where can people find you as their working media you've
been enjoying?

Speaker 4 (01:08:47):
Well, you know, you can always find me in the streets,
find me in the streets or at Jackiesneil dot com
at Jackie's Neil. On the Socials Car Control season two,
it is coming. It is coming, so be on the lookout.
We got some dope as people on it this season
and I am And also it's gonna be a fun

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wardrobe season for me. Fun wardrobe season. Just keep that
in mind. Uh, there is a work of art that
I'm finding funny and I don't know how to explain it, Well,
I do know how to explain it, but I want
to show it. I want can like we can link
in the in the footnotes because I want you got
to hear it and see it at the same time.
But it is a woman who is making ground beef.

(01:09:34):
Of course it's a white woman, and like it's in
like the ground beef is in this like contraption that's
like spinning the ground beef around and she's like seasoning it.
But she's put in like like barely any season in
it at all, and it's only going on the spinner,
so it's not going on any of the fucking meat.

(01:09:55):
The very little she's like actually doing and like and
and so the comments went crazy, and somebody made a
cut of the comments and spliced it together as a
dope ass song where it's just basically like it's the
uh basically, what would they say, you.

Speaker 1 (01:10:13):
Ain't season the damn thing?

Speaker 4 (01:10:15):
She season it with the concept of season it just
like all types of like shit, it's so funny, is
so brilliant. I'm gonna send it to you guys, so
people can like go check it out if they want
to see it, because it's.

Speaker 1 (01:10:27):
Very funny, amazing. You can find me on Twitter at
Jack Underscore, Brian Blue Sky Jack ob the number one
Instagram Jack Underscore, Oh Underscore, Brian, Uh, what have I
been enjoying? You guys? You ever see them? John Boy?
The John Boy is this guy who like just watches

(01:10:51):
primarily baseball clips and just oh yes, yes, yes, yes,
says like he basically does Lipery delivery. Yes yeah, And
it like seemed like it was just gonna be this
one off He's been doing it for like a decade.
I feel like it seemed like it was gonna be
this one off thing, and now it's like, this is
the only way I want to watch sports from now.

(01:11:13):
It's like being able to have somebody tell you exactly
what they're saying, and like going going back over the
clips and highlights and be like all right, so then
and then this is this guy being like, hey, fuck
you go home, and like all of the just like
weird you know, anger that's flying between baseball players. It
feels like the future of sports entertainment. So I highly

(01:11:35):
recommend some of that. Band Leith and Junior just shared
out one those said, these are some of my favorite
videos on the internet. That I'll share the link too.
You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at
daily Zekeus. We're at the daily Zekeeist on Instagram. You
can go to the description of this episode wherever you're
listening to it, and there at the bottom you will

(01:11:56):
find the footnotes, the link off to the information that
we talked about in today's episode, as well as a
song that we think you might enjoy. Whenever Miles is out,
we like to ask super producer Justin Connor, Justin, is
there a song that you think the people might enjoy?

Speaker 6 (01:12:14):
Yeah, so this is a song called Keeping You Close
by Hallo Genix. Miles actually recommended like a high energy
remix of this track in the past, but this being
the original track, it has like a classy piano lounge
inspired feel that's juxtaposed against this breathy digitized voice that
sounds like it's from a different era genre of music,

(01:12:35):
but it really like ties everything together. So this song
again is called keeping You Close by hallow Genix, and
you can find that in.

Speaker 1 (01:12:41):
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