In this edition of May The 4th Be With You, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, the implosion of Spirit Airlines, Elon suing OpenAI, Jeff Bezos selling his mega-yacht, Mamdani skipping the Met Gala, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
How was it, myles? How was Japan?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Japan? Dude? Yeah, my god, don't. I don't know if
you've ever been, but like it's really cool. It's such
a cool country and the culture is so the culture
is so amazing that people are so kind. The food
is like you can go to like a place called
a conbini, it's what they call a convenience store, and
(00:28):
there they have like the best egg sandwich I've ever
had in my effing l ever. What else then there's
like the macha is so much more fire out there
in Japan. What else? There's like Pokemon stuff. It's so cheap,
Like it's so much Pokemon stuff for so cheap, Like
it's so much, so many lotions for so cheap. Everything
(00:50):
is like so cheap there. It was great. It was great.
Sound like what I hear of my balcony. This is
what everything. It's kind of weird, man, Like if.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You're doing the spyware thing.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
With your satellite looking for Wi Fi, shut the fuck
up down. I love an egg sandwich. It's interesting, Like
how like, just in the build up, the algorithms are
showing me so much content of American people going to Japan,
and how one dimensional. It becomes when people consume this
content to actually plan their vacations, because like.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I would go places and there would be a fucking
stupid line for a chain Ramen place, and I'm like, okay,
like that place is fine, but I'm like looking directly
across the street to like a spot that is actually
legit as fuck and there's no fucking line, right.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
But because people are like like everything is being algorithmically
just refined into like eighteen places in Tokyo, which is
kind of fucking It's really it's interesting to see, and
it's also kind of fucks me up that.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Like you've gotten more efficient, we have not gotten better
at finding real information.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, no place.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Down here called Tacos Orinoco and there's always a one
to one and a half hour line outside and me
is like five TikTok videos yeah, and mean Tamil, I'm like,
Tampo's been there. I refuse to wait in line more
than like five minutes for anything. Yeah, yeah, and it's
just like it's just regular, it's just a regular talk area,
(02:21):
and yeah, that has to be the.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Like, I mean, if anything, it like bodes well for
people who are willing to just be adventurous. Yeah, because
the virtue of you not being like what are these
eight TikTok videos or like eight Instagram reels tell me
what my trip should be, you will have such a
completely different experience than like ninety eight percent of the
people that I see, Like and I get it too,
(02:46):
like you want to hear information on social media to
try and get out of like maybe like what a
guidebook says. But I think overall, like the thing I'm like,
some people always ask me where should I go? Where
should I go? Like what's like the cool stuff to do?
And I'm like, here's like some of this stuff. But
the thing that I always encourage people to do in
Japan is to truly go fucking walk into a place
(03:07):
that you can't read the sign. You know it's a restaurant,
Go in there like you were going to have more
of a real experience with Japanese people than to like
a place that has had to have like their entire
menu in English, like all the staff are bilingual. There's
just something that it loses something, ye, But overall, I
(03:28):
mean it was great. The real thing was like to
see my family and to get you know, my kid
to understand that my mom and I aren't the only
people on earth that speak Japanese secret code language. Yeah,
he's like, I don't know why we talk in this language.
And then like then he started talking a lot more
because it's ambiently all around him. But yeah, I had
a fantastic time.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
But I tried that method of exploring Tokyo and Kyoto.
Just like wandering around, I kept get my family locked
in a broom closet Like no, I swear it on
my head, this is a restaurant. I swear it's place
rules that it says closet in English. That's what it's called.
It's a really good that's a that's.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
For me. That's a bamboo broom. Due. Yeah, okay, that's
what I thought. It's ramen.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
They just haven't haven't yet.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
This this yacky soba is aldente.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this week trend edition
of Guys.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I haven't cleared my throat since he left Miles.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Oh go, you're finally free. You're like one of those
ghosts in a movie.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Now just generally I'm hello, we Go. I really I
don't think this will make it to the Cold Open,
but I really am but like my curse was lifted
for the seventy six ers. I finally beat the Celtics
on the playoffs, where I found out that my dad
roots for the Celtics. Now I was rooting against them
(05:11):
on his behalf.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
That was always your m lo he did my dad dirty,
broim dirty.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
He's like, what, No, it's fine. I was like, well,
fuck can that was at least in the seventy six
Ers beat the Celtics, so I can. I can go
to sports Heaven.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Now onto the next round for the seventy six ers.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Actually, I'm going to get pulled down by the like
shadow people. This is all an elaborate reference to the
movie Ghost I think. Anyways, that's what my sports fandom is.
I'm so well adjusted that I couldn't watch the game
live because I was in San Diego for my son's birthday.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
You sound like it's bad, but you're like, yeah, I'm
so well adjusted that I wasn't ruining my kid's birthday
with my Yeah. No, that's that's a sound to take.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah. I just turned it off and then was pleasantly
surprised to see that the seventy six Ers won by
nine points. Truly, what a what a blast.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I was, Hey, I was watching from Japan because like
the NBA kind of came on at a godly hour
when I was in Tokyo, so I was just I
didn't want to start texting you all the time.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
And I was like, oh, yeah, that is usually how
I would follow how the team was doing, because I
usually don't watch playoff games live for my mental health,
and and like you or Jabari would be like, oh,
like what is happening? Yeah, just second degree bad for
my mental health. But anyways, for our non sports fans, Miles,
(06:43):
we do like to this is the episode where we
tell them what was trending over the weekend, what's happening
on this Monday morning. But we do like to also
let them get to know us a little bit better
by telling them some things that we think are overrated
and underrated. And we like to start with you, what
is something you think is underrated?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well, I know there's probably seven million more fans that
are listening since before I left for two weeks. So
for those of you, I am the fuck up, I
am the normal co host on the show. I'm sorry
that all those other people you checked in for I'm
going to bring it down a few levels, but one
of the big things. So I was in Japan visiting
(07:22):
my family while also taking my mother in law and
her partner around too for the first time. Well, I
didn't realize I was bro I was on I was
on tour guide duty, which was fine because I'm most
of the time, I'm like traveling with friends who haven't
been or like you know, have maybe been to Asia
but not Japan. But the big thing that for me
(07:44):
that was underrated was actually, and this shouldn't seem underrated,
but staying off social media when you're on vacation, when
you're trying to take a break, when you're trying to adjust,
which it seems completely antithetical to the entire space of
going to Japan in the age of social media, because
I feel like everybody, I'm not joking, maybe like six
(08:08):
out of ten people I know at any given moment
are somehow in Japan or are about to go to
Japan right now.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
The whole point of going, I thought was getting there,
posting being like I'm in Japan.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Guys. Look, dude, me and my girlfriend were in fucking Kaimonos. Dude,
check it out. It's fucking sick, but no, Japan's great.
I'm glad more people are checking it out. But the
thing that more importantly the social media aspect. I think,
regardless of where you're going, right, if like the point
(08:41):
of taking a trip is to switch gears a little
bit and offer yourself something different than what you do
in your day to day maintaining the habit of looking
at your phone on social media, that's that's actually going
to do you a huge disservice. And I know it's
fun to share things and you know, get that endorphin
(09:01):
rush or whatever. I posted like a couple of things
and then very quickly like I thought I lost my
password at one point, and I was like posting through
it and I ended up ended up finding it, so
all was well.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
The shout out to the social media, to social media when.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I shot out to Japanese culture, where someone found it
and then gave it to the shop owner and was like, wow,
here it is. It fell in the booth or whatever.
But I think there's just once I kind of really
pulled myself away from that. It's weird. What happens is
you're the habit of being like, ah, let me just
look real quick. Let me just look cause I know
(09:34):
we just posted a clip. Let me just see, let
me see what's going on, really, let me let me
see what's happening with other people. It really just you.
You You have like a stress that really you felt
only exists when you're at home.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And when I note when I connected that, I was like,
oh no, no, no, no, no, fuck all this shit,
Like I will look at the news once a day
and then other than that, like my kid had my
phone most of the time taking really weird pictures, which I
will I will post those two Instagram because they're so
abstract they feel artistic, impressive. I think it's this one
small tweak, like if you're really going to do it,
(10:09):
like really clean up your energetic mix when you're on
a trip, Like if you if that's something you do
constantly when you're at home, try and like what do
something a little bit different, even if.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
It's shoving free will for like yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
But it's hard. I get it. Like it was very
like that shit was calling to me like the ring
of power every now and then, like it was just
I was like no, no, no, no, So anyway, it's
the I would say that basically it sounds like a
thing that it is just a given. But I'm telling
you you will really underrate how much more changes your
experience when you don't have this sort of like background
(10:45):
noise happening of like wanting to look at social media,
even if it's just a look, not even just to post,
just leave it, leave it.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I don't so much time my life has been lost
to like looking at social media, and like I don't
have any retroactive value to that time, Like I don't,
I think you get anything. I think the one positive
memory I have is like when bin Laden was killed,
that was like a fun night on social media, like
(11:16):
kind of have like positive viz. But like otherwise it's
just like time disappearing, you know, It's just like time
goes away.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
So I agree, I think I was. I was at
the seminole value of San Fernando Valley, Indian restaurant Gungha
Dean when bin Laden was killed, and it was I remember,
it was the restaurant empties like me, my mom and
like our friends from Japan and we were all just
like I think my mom noticed on the TV. She's
like something bin Laden something, and we all turned around
(11:47):
like ohh all right, well anyway.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
I mean I was on a plane and went up
and told the pilot, I said, Sir, in that news room.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
You're knocking on the cockpit door, like, sir, I'm going
to get the air marshal. You just understand how.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
You served, sir, And I've just got to let you
know he just got him, all right. My underrated a
little less philosophical, I was, is how weird the I'm
going to call it a game, the game doorknob?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Is you mean just punching someone for farting punching? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah, so I was. I just took it for granted
that everybody lived with that. I was listening to an episode,
you know, I was driving a lot this weekend listening
to an episode of blank Check, the movie podcast, one
of my faves. We had Griffin Newman and producer Ben
on before a couple of couple of months back. But
(12:50):
in the Dead Poet Society episode they're doing the films
with Peter Weir. The filmmaker Nia de Costa was on
and was like, they're talking about the weirdness of the
culture at all boys schools, and she's like, did any
of you go to all boys schools? Because I once
worked with I think a writer who was talking about
(13:12):
something called meat lips. Do you know what meat lips is? Miles, No,
the fuck I don't know. So the thing that they
would do at this all boys school, which is where
they would rub their hands on their junk and then
come up and like pop you on the mouth and
go meet lips.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Oh fuck, And I.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Was like, how horrible? Where did this person grow up?
What kind of monstrous shit is like made in the
Petrie dish of all boys schools? And then Griffin Newman
was like, well, kind of reminds me of doorknob, and none,
none of the other people on the show had heard
(13:54):
of it, so he like described doorknob. One of his
co hosts grew up in the UK and he described
he was like, yeah, so if you fart, someone would
yell doorknob and then they would be able to keep
punching you until you touched the doorknob.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Sometimes you would be held, you would be prevented from
touching the door so you could get beat the fuck down.
That's something that was some ship we would do. Yeah,
like if you're trying to get to the doorknob, like
you would be gang.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Tackled right and just and like hearing that described to
people who had.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Never heard it before, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Was like it kind of put it in a new
context that I was like, Oh, I guess that's just as.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Describe it. It sounds all up right that every time
I was farting, I was screaming safety immediately, right. Yeah, yeah,
I should, I should mention.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
It does put you in a weird prisoner's dilemma because
you have to announce to the room that you fart less.
They do the detective work scream door knobs. Sometimes I
would just quietly go stand next to the door and
then let one go and then touch the doorknob.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Oh interesting, interesting, Okay, yeah, yeah, it was always you
always had it out safety touch the doorknob. Meat lips
is really fucking deranged. What's funny though, is I remember
I went to like, you know, Catholic like co ed school.
It was always the boys school ship, always manifested in
(15:33):
the in the football team. Yeah, like the really weird
you know, erotic Yeah, like like dick puppetry, slash, you know,
light whatever weird shit was going on in there. That
was always in the context of the football team. Yeah,
And I think because that's the closest you get to
(15:55):
in all boys schools, a bunch of you know, pubescent
boys sweating and lifting weights together and screaming about whatever.
The fuck.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, it's just like sadism. My my underrated last week
was about sadism and the fact that there's a study
that the people who drive really loud cars, they like
did a study expecting them to like score high on narcissism,
like because it's like, look at me, look at me,
but it was actually they scored really high on sadism.
(16:25):
And I just like, so they're just like they know
that it's painfull to us, and they yeah, and like
just thinking sadism as like a thing that's out there.
It's like the dark triad of like psychopathy, sadism. I
forget what the third one is, but I think it's
narcissism that like that's just a thing that's out there
of like people who want to do harm, just like
(16:49):
having a perpetual need to do that is wild to me.
What is something?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Miles?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Do you think it is overrated? Overrated?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Okay, I just found out about It's not about this specifically,
but I just found out about dark showering. Okay, so
it's basically in the pitch dark, just like just like
lower light. And I'm like, oh, yeah, like because I
like a night shower, you know, because it's like because
in Japan, you you typically bay at the end of
(17:19):
the day because it's relaxing, and so I like to
shower at night when I can. But I hate the
like super bright light. It just doesn't It's not conducive
to my wind down experience.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, why is that that I just accepted that showers
need to be under like surgical lighting.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Yeah, like a slaughterhouse every movie.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Every movie, shower always takes place in the highest light
like possible.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I feel like yeah, and like and your you know,
bathrooms are well lit for good reason. People have to
get ready and shit, need to see themselves. But I
was like I was trying, I realize I like it
way way darker, and then I saw like this content
about it. But the thing that I think is overrated
are when people take a preference like dark showering and
swear that it is like the only scientific way to
(18:11):
do something Like I see this a lot with like
different trends, but there's always like this weird pseudo science
attached to it, and I just think it's overrated. Like
just just say, like you rock with a thing, you
don't have to be like, you don't have to like,
you know, support your preference with the thing that it's like,
it's actually scientifically proven that this thing that I like
is actually the best thing you can do for your body.
(18:33):
It's like, bro, I get it. Bro, the light is
too fucking bright and the vibes are fucked up if
you're trying to go to sleep after Fuck yeah, dude,
this have it dark. And there's all these articles, which
is true, right, Like you don't want to have harsh
blue light before you go to sleep. Like there are
logical things that make sense as to why dark showering
may be more relaxing. But like on the other side
(18:55):
of it, you see people on redd it being like
I did it, it's not working for me, blah blah
Blah's like, no, no, it's it's not that it's this
was the only way for someone to go to bed properly.
It's just it's just a nice way to take a shower.
And the reason why it feels nice is for these
things that do have scientifical you know, scientific evidence behind it,
but the concept of it has not been there. There's
(19:17):
scant studies on the efficacy of dark showering. But I
think we all know it is calming, it is better
to not have harsh light, and therefore is a good thing.
I just think acting like some shit we like our
preferences have some kind of like scientific edge. I think
that's just overrated. It can be like, yeah, dude, it's chill.
It's way more chill for these reasons, and yeah, there
(19:37):
might be some benefits, but that shouldn't be the only
reason to do is like does it appeal to you
the fucking try it out.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Don't worry about it for you, just just tell yourself
that that's what I do think that that is way
more powerful like that in doing these Icon episodes, like
we we've talked about the fact that like Elvis thought
that he had this like magical connection to the twin
that was with him that like died in Utero, and
(20:04):
like that that his twin was like kind of powering
his success the whole time. I do think like having
a thing, if you can like convince yourself that it
is like giving you some sort of extra magical powers,
you know, in some cases it's religion for people. But
like I do think that's a like a powerful force.
But it's the second. First of all, the second you
(20:27):
say it out loud, you're assuming that it's going to
work for other people in a way that it probably
won't because you know, they don't have whatever specific like
beliefs you do.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
And also I've I feel like saying something out loud
like gives it a power that is going to like
fuck it up. Like if you're like, hey man, you're
really like in tennis, you're really serving well today, that's
a great way to fuck somebody's serve up that day,
you know, just by like saying a thing, or like
(20:57):
if you're like, I'm really you know, hitting well today,
you're gonna start.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
That was like with the Argentine Argentinian national team with
the last World Cup. They refuse to say like that
they could win, right, like even even as they got
to the final, they're like, no bro, like no.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
One supernatural bullshit. But it does work, like I think
we'd dumb supernatural beasts. Yeah, and so that like I
think it's sometimes that shit works, but just keep it
to yourself because it's not gonna work for.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
They were saying alfa, which is like annulling the jinks. Yes,
that's right, don't even fucking bring that up. Powerful.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yeah, words are powerful. I just released the seventy six
ers to be able to win by you know, so
congratulations and you're welcome to the city of Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Do you see that they're keeping tickets away from like
the New Yorkers for the next round.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I love it, like get Phillys to just use its
spite like that is what phi Philly is great at,
being spiteful sore winners or lose or is just like
use that, you know, make everybody hate you. My overrated
one is just T shirts that are like three layers
deep in an argument. I saw a guy, uh this
(22:14):
weekend wearing a T shirt, wearing a T shirt that
said no one cares work harder, Like wait, what, I'm sorry? What?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I'm sorry? Who you talking to? Bro? Yeah, no one cares.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
It's like, you know, being in a quiet room and
yelling who you call him?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Psycho?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
It's just like are you all right? Man? And he
seems so happy. He was like playing ping pong with
I don't know his girlfriend by the pool with just
a you know, smiling while wearing a T shirt that
was like, nobody cares work harder, fuck you, Oh my god, yeah,
I have just it's like CEO bullshit. Like it's like
(23:00):
people who uh you know, love CEOs and want to
be CEOs want to act like CEOs or something.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah. One, and really you're just being like, okay, so
let me guess what was screamed at you as a
child on a T shirt. I'm just going to take
a just gonna take a wild stab in the dark here.
So you were told no one cares a lot.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And then also also overrated. I would just say interviewing
the owners of any sporting thing. Uh, they interviewed the
owner of the horse after the Kentucky Derby. If you
didn't watch the Kentucky Derby. Yeah, the trainer was a
woman for the first time, first woman trainer to win.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
She's a favorite a Japanese horse or some shit I
was hearing.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I don't know. There were like four horses that were favorites.
One of them scratched day of oh Man, but.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Horses Japanese, Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
It was called great White so like, and it was
like bigger than the other horses. So I was. We
watched it together. It was like, oh, this will be fun,
Like my kids will like see the excitement. Each each
of us will pick a horse and whoever, like, whoever's
horse comes in the highest position, will you know, get.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Five seven hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
And it was really fun. Like my son who just
turned ten, I was like, that was so fun, like
that we should do that again. I was like, son,
welcome to the wonderful world of gambling. He's he just
turned ten on Friday. Feel like Uma Thurman when she
wakes up from the coma looking at my fucking hand
lines right now it's ten years. Wow years to three years?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Me up? But anyway, I.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Know he but yeah. But the horse I picked for
Jaw's reasons was Great White, And I texted my friends
speaking of making once you say it, it has power,
texting my friends and I was like, I'm going with
great White for for Jaws reasons. And the horse immediately
started freaking out and it got scratched, like on the
(25:10):
way to walking into the stocks. Like the second I
texted it, it fell on its back and like almost
killed the horse and riding it. It was great White.
It was like bigger than the other horses, and it
had a I think an Irish an Irish trainer, so.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
It's like everything. It was like with me with the
Japanese horse. I'm like, oh baby, if I were to
bet on animals racing, this would be it.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
But anyways, they so an amazing story. The trainer is
like the main part, you know, it's like the coach,
and the jockey is like the player on the field horse, right,
and then the owner is like the last person you
want to hear from, but like that's the first person
they interview in the winter circle, and they kept asking
(26:05):
her about like the jockey and the woman and like
her answers. The owner's answers were just very like, yeah,
well he ran the race. We expected him to, oh,
and like it was just like real. She seemed annoyed
that they were cutting away to like the woman trainer
and that the woman trainer was like getting all the energy,
which just a great metaphor for the country, the state
(26:27):
of the country that we're in.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Hello Ceo. Yes, it was all because of me, not
off the backs of the act, not even the fucking horse,
which is the fucking thing that carried the fucker across
the line. Yeah, it was all That's what I expected,
because I demand nothing less from my team.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Uh huh, that's right. I'm a job creator exactly. Those
people and their family, oh me, every meal that they eat,
they should be thanking me. Anyways, let's take a quick
break and we'll be back to talk about the news.
We'll be right back and we're back. Were you flying
(27:17):
Spirit miles back from Japan? Yeah, we Halloween or Spirit
Airlines Spirit Halloween. Well they already changed the interior to
a Halloween store.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Yeah. I was sitting in the back of your the wigs.
Yeah they look I was like, hey, get after it.
But yeah, it was four connecting flights in a twenty
eight hour journey. But I did make it home, and
they said it was the last. This was one of
the last flights they were flying.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
So yeah, to take the seat with you when you're done,
you get to just rip it.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
It was because the seat belt didn't actually dislodge, so
they had to wear it. They had to cut the
cut the airline seat off of me. Yeah, but then
they're like, if you want, you can just fucking take it.
I you that one that worked, you know? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Anyways, Spirit Airlines long A punchline for you know that
their model was we're the worst. The position that we're
going to fill here is we're going to give you
a cheap flight, and then it's going to be like
a stress test, like a capitalistic stress test, where like
(28:28):
you have to pay for everything, like, oh, you're you're
getting thirsty, You're getting thirsty from those pretzels. The only
thing that we actually give you water is going to
be three dollars, like you know, a tiny, tiny little
bottle of water.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
And the seats were designed by the same people who
designed those like benches in parks to make it so.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
That like it's like fuck you to skaters and someone
who needs a rest.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Right, And they finally like the it just didn't work out.
They over the weekend on Saturday, failed in a way
that like I don't I think it hasn't happened. This
is the first time in twenty five years that a
major US airline has gone out of business due to
financial trouble.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
What was it, like Continental?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I think that's right, And I don't like even then,
they didn't just like people showed up to the airport
and they're like, yeah, we're out of business. I declare bankruptcy.
There you go, you did it. They Yeah, it just
feels very i don't know, like not the sort of
(29:42):
thing that you would expect to be happening in a
thriving democracy, as let me yea stock market report tells me,
we are the thing with Spirit.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
I think it was a lot like that guy's phrase
t shirt, right, you know, stop complaining, work harder, that's right.
Oh really you don't like it, Well, maybe if you
worked harder, you wouldn't be on Spirit airlines. It's like
sort of like the hostility towards people were like, I'm sorry, man,
like this is you guys carry one of the few
routes to a place I'm trying to go, and like,
well then deal with it. It was I mean I
(30:15):
had It's funny because I had such It was really
like either or with me on Spirit, I had ones
where one thing is that they were always terribly uncomfortable.
That's the one consistent thing. But in terms of like
the behavior of the people on the plane, sometimes I
had very quiet flights. Other ones I've had pretty like
rambunctious ones where like people who clearly trotted and drunk
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from the terminal, right, had to be like read the
Riot Act, and usually, like when it's bad, it ends
up delaying things. Luckily I was on when where someone
was like, oh, okay, I'll shot talk. Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
The only way to approach it is with self loathing.
You can't go in there with a chip on your
shoulder because then you're gonna disrupt other people's flight.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
You just have.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
To sit down in your chair and and think about
all the things you could have done better to not
be flying down there.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
And and sometimes there's nothing you can do, you know,
it just.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Is that's yeah, that's just where you're at. The company
canceled all flights, halted customer service, and told travelers not
to come to the airport on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Jesus grist.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
They are being issued refunds and instructed to rebook with
other airlines. But like you know or don't, I don't
know your flight, your flight is canceled. They cited the
increase in oil prices is one of the key factors
behind the closure. But of course, Sean.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Duffy, wait, so okay, there's oil prices have gone up
something recently thinks.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
A lot Obama.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Sean Duffy said that the collapse of Spirit Airlines followed
former President Joe Biden's administration. Uh, the Biden administration's decision
along with Boodha Jedge to block a proposed merger with
Jet Blue.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
And oh so the lesson here was that they got
to let more. Yeah, it's so stupid. Oh well, if
only they had created one behemoth fuck you airline, that
just wouldn't have happened, and a greater share of Americans
could be fucked over by their terrible, greedy policies.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Because that for Jet Blue right now that they would
have merged with we've probably have been just about like
getting their fleet or something, or just sort of like
access to it.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I have no idea, I mean, seemingly jet Blue. I've
had good times.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
On jet I always had good times on Jet Blue.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Always a good time on Jet Blue. Hashtag not a
fucking ad. But the oil prices thing is so funny
to act, like to completely ignore the root cause of
all the oil price shock right now and then just
be like it was actually this.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I mean, I can't see how much work do you
think they had to do, Like how long do you
think they spent researching something that they could like blame
but on that wasn't the oil prices caused by the I.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Think it's like anything like if you're that far gone
and have the boot so far down your throat like that,
it's like being a great, like you already know how
to say the thing without that's like humiliating yourself. Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
For me, it would have taken a while. But for him,
he's got he's got it ready to go. Oh so,
a guy on YouTube named Hi there Hunter, Oh Hey,
I mean see you is launched a campaign to crowdfund
enough money to buy the airline. His videos do seem
(33:38):
to be very Spirit Airlines heavy. He has won with
ninety three thousand views. That's titled I flew Spirit Airlines
for twenty four hours straight and the picture is him
like pressing his face against the window. I don't know
how they got this picture.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
By the way, for ninety three thousand views.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Bro, yeah, you could do better than that.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
He went twenty four hours for that.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
I ranked every US airline exclamation point and it was
being covered as though. He raised twenty two million dollars, which,
by the way, has to be twenty one point nine
nine five million more than is needed to purchase Spirit.
But his pitch was basically, let's turn Spirit Airlines into
(34:23):
the Green Bay Packers like a crowd owned, crowd funded airline.
But let's get it, let's snap it up before private
equity does. And the dollar figure that's being quoted man
raises twenty three million in pledges overnight to buy a
Spirit Airline. Again, those are pledges, He's not He hasn't
(34:43):
raised money. That's people on the internet being like, sure,
I'd throw in one hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
You okay, great? And can I count you? And I
guess I have to put any money up. No, no, no, no, no,
no no no, I don't need to know your name.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Just give me like vibes, just pledge to me that
you will vibe fund raising. But he yeah, he launched
a website asking people to pledge hypothetical dollars they may
or may not actually have as part.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Of a And also does he even know even if
you pulled up with this money, how all of this
would work to turn it into like a cooperative.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Yeah, I don't think I guess that does. Airline youtubes
is that like there, this is a cool idea that
should be like we we should be having publicly owned corporations,
transportation equity.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Absolutely, It's just a it's very frustrating that the only
version that ends up happening is STU like a YouTube
channel being like, hey, could I get some IOUs from
you on this site.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
And even then not really have that real intent to
or no. Rather, he might have the intent to do good,
but the knowledge might not be there for I'm guessing
he doesn't have a track record of taking formerly private
companies into co ops.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
But those there is two passions, uh, building his YouTube
channel and taking privately owned companies into public co ops.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Hell yeah, all right, well look, uh God blessed because
you already know private equities fucking ready to pick through
that fucking corpse, do we.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
It does feel like this is the sort of thing
where the government would typically, like I remember reading stories
where a airline is having trouble and the government like
steps in and you know, helps fund it or you know,
makes makes some things happen, and like it just feels
like in this case, they're we just it's the thing
(36:48):
that you know, cool Zone calls the crumbles where things
are just falling apart, and like people inside the government
are not incentivized to do a good job. They're just
incentivized to like have a line ready to go that
will please Donald Trump, like Joe Biden insult, and so
(37:10):
the incentive structure means like nothing's getting done, everything's falling apart. Which, yeah,
he went out of business before their planes started, just
like falling out of the sky.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Yeah, But as producer Brian the Editor producer Brian the
Editor pointed at any think they were jettisoning passenger's mid flight,
but they did land safely. Those people they did have
parachutes on.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
So halfway through the flight, they're like, we're out of business, right,
so half you cut the engines.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Look, either some of y'all can jump out and land
safely in a parachute or all of us are going
to fucking die in here. So what's it going to be?
Speaker 1 (37:48):
I did want to give an update on how the
other half a millionth of a percentage live, Specifically, Elon
Musk is suing Open AI in open court, and last
week he came in with this story that he was
telling where he's like, I'm trying to make it, I'm
(38:09):
trying to support non nonprofit companies. Really, yeah, like that's
kind of my whole thing. Yeah, you can't just be
turning nonprofit companies into like money making companies. So he's
asking he's asking for one hundred and thirty four billion
dollars in damages. His attorney told the jury in the
(38:30):
opening statement, we are here today because the defendants in
this case stole a charity, a.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Illegal porn racist generating content machine thing. Yeah no, no, no, no, okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
So his first witness, elon musk your honor, I'd like
to call myself to the state Wow, testified for hours.
Some of the stuff he said. I gave them thirty
eight million of essentially free funding, which they used to
create an eight hundred billion dollars for profit company. He
framed his lawsuit as an effort to protect the greater good.
(39:11):
If we make it okay to loot a charity, the
entire foundation of charitable giving in America will be destroyed.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Okay, doje? Fuck? What is this fucking guy? I mean,
I know what he's going on about. He's duplicit, he's
a liar, so he has to say shit like this.
But what a flimsy fucking.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Technically not for profit initiatives doesn't seem to be that
important to him.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Yeah, what about usaid, what did you think of that?
Speaker 1 (39:36):
This is actually just it turns out a pissing contest
that is allowed to happen because every olive ARC gets
to be their own little Stalin and basically try to
like revise history however they see fit. So the reality
behind the situation is that he was pushing for them
to go the four and a half route. Yeah, he
(39:57):
was pushing open AI to go the for profit route
and was just mad when he wasn't made the head
of that branch of the company when they did that.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
So he's like, oh, so I gave you all this
money only for you guys to not reward me with
making me the head of it. I'm suing you for
turning a nonprofit into an eight hundred hub. Yes, and
also give me one hundred and thirty four billion in
addition to.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Like us all knowing him. There are emails that I'm
not sure how he thought he was going to just
get around that, But I do think these people are
just all surrounded by so many yes men that they
lose their ability to operate in reality. They just like
become garden variety celebrities who's both style and perception of
(40:45):
the world just like freezes an amber the second they
stop hanging around people who will be honest with them, right. So.
Emails uncovered as part of the discovery process, however, revealed
that Musk had previously embraced moving open Ai to a
for profit model, and before leaving he sought control of
a new for profit arm, seeking a majority of board
(41:06):
seats and fifty one percent of shares. He only left
after Altman and Brockman refused his demands.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
M hmm, okay, okay, okay, yeah, yep, yep, yeah, yeah,
this is good. This is all very good. I'm glad
to see nothing's changed.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Yeah, we just fixed it when you were gone, so
there's still content.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Jack, didn't I fucking say to fix this shit? But
did I get back work on this?
Speaker 1 (41:30):
But yeah, they're just like engines fueled by grievances and
like the good vibes created by drugs and their little
bubbles of yes man. And this also is in charge
of the world.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
It shows you when you get your surrounded by sycophants
like you lose the whole concept of like linear facts, right,
because anything can just be argued with your siccaphants to
be like, that's not well, that's not what I meant.
If I said that, they're like, oh okay, so okay, Yeah,
when you go to court and they're like, these are
emails of you pushing for a fro for profit model,
(42:04):
you can't just be like, well, that's not what I meant. Yeah, Like,
that's a little bit harder. Okay, well the evidence, because
that's what we'll be used to come to a determination.
Here says Otherwise, even if you're insisting that's not what
I meant, I was probably on ketemine or something anyway, So, yeah,
that's a lie.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
This is from olig arkwatch. They said, uh, emails uncovered. Sorry,
they said his Musk's cross examination revealed his loose relationship
with the truth and truth and selective short term memory.
At one point, Musk testified that Tesla was not pursuing
artificial general intelligence. No, Tesla is not pursuing AGI. It's
(42:44):
literally trying to make a car drive from A to B.
The defense attorney then pulled up an X post from
March when Musk said Tesla will be one of the
companies to make AGI, and probably the first to make it.
Humanoid atom shaping form so just yeah, explicitly said the
thing he said that they weren't doing. He was also
(43:05):
comically reluctant to concede even like very confirmed facts. He
was asked whether he was romantically involved with venture capitalist
Shivon Zillis, and he replied, I think so. She is
the mother of four of his children, So.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
Dude, it's I mean, god, bro, that's the one thing
your lying skills really erode when you're around Yes men, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
So I think so is so wild. I mean, I
bet he thought that was going to be like a
laugh line where he's just like, I don't know, ready,
hose in different area codes? Am I right?
Speaker 2 (43:44):
Your honor? Am I right? Hey? Sorry to my four
kids who just heard that. That's not what daddy meant.
If I even am your daddy, I don't know, man, anyway.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
The Washington Post also reported last week that his posting
on X has grown increasingly concerned with the plate of
attack on white people. And this is as he's like
about to potentially become a trillionaire because SpaceX is going
to go public and make him even even richer.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
So God, yeah, Jesus, we have to do something when
that happens like.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
We got a hardy or something.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Yeah. Yeah, for sure, we've got to We've got to
do something fucking celebrate that. I hope, I just hope
he's I hope he gets there. You know, that's that's
going to be cool. I hope he gets there. I'm
not going to define there right now, and I hope
he gets there.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Uh, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back,
and we're back.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
We're back.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
And speaking of that, that other attacks on white people.
Uh huh, speaking of attacks on white people. Everyone's being
really hard on Jeff Bezos right now, and it needs
to stop.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
Everyone needs to knock it off. Okay, So I was
just reading he he owns I think we talked about
when he bought it. He has this five one hundred
million dollar mega yacht called the Kolru that he's reportedly
looking to part ways with. And Jesus, if there were
only other people out there with this kind of wealth
(45:24):
to be able to afford such an indulgence, what's he
going to do? Just some details. This five hundred million
dollar yacht also comes has a seventy five million dollar
support ship that has to go like that travels alongside it,
although it is unclear whether this is part of the deal. Also,
according to reports, it costs thirty million dollars a year
(45:46):
to operate the two fucking ships. Totally fuck. But this
is I think the part where everyone's like it reads
is like, oh my god, huge mega yacht on like
he's on the market from that Jeff Bezos used to own.
This is the other part from the New York posts
we hear Koru, which features a wooden sculpture of Bezos'
wife Lauren Sanchez as a mermaid on the prow has
(46:08):
become too recognizable for the Amazon billionaire. Wow, So it's
it's not really for practical reasons that he's trying to
part ways here, folks. This makes it just way too
obvious to people that I am near and therefore a
threat to my well being in safety. So I'm probably
going to just travel in like seventy smaller boat boats
(46:30):
simultaneously that come together for some a voltron yacht that
can then defeat the Proles if they if they get near.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
Speaking of the Proles, they're not happy that he is
an honorary chair of the Met Gala The Met Tonight's big,
big fashions, Big.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
Night, Myles eye tonight.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
That's tonight the most and it's more. Well, so here's
the thing, all right, there's some people are getting more
and more upset about the Hunger Game's capital.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
Their haters because they're not getting invited, because they're not
popping enough to go.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
The New York Times talks about it as a surge
in sentiment, rarely foregrounding the fact that the inequality is
the thing that the surge is reacting to. Opposition to
the Bezos's involvement with the Mets started almost immediately after
they were announced as financial sponsors in February, and comes
am at a surging anti rit sentiment nationwide and in
(47:30):
New York City, the event's liberal home. The outrage seemingly
gained momentum after the city's newly elected mayor, Zoram Mamdani,
a Democratic socialist, declared in mid April that he would
skip the gala, breaking with many of his predecessors, saying
that his focus is on something called affordability, whatever that is.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
Wait, I've heard of a Ford explorer, a Ford expedition
afford ability.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
Yeah, yeah, model, that's got to be like the newest
model like massive yes, yes, yes, yachts help help.
Speaker 2 (48:09):
What a great answer though, too, Hey you're gonna go
to this fucking gaudy flex show of riches kind of
working on affordability. That's right, good answer, good answer.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
Very politically shrewd by him to jump on this rising
trend of in sentiment.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
It has, you know, anti rich sentiment. That's like, so the.
Speaker 1 (48:30):
Number of democratic strategists that he must have consulted to
come up with that answer, like what a genius selling
after a great deal of thought consideration, I too have
decided I will boycott the met gala this year because
it is kind of weird, like one of the So
there's this group everyone hates Elon that is calling for
(48:53):
a boycott of the event with a bunch of they're
they're doing like some some fun stuff, just like putting
up posters and they just love a poster projected an
entire like video onto the entire side of the Empire
State Building of.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
Oh wow, bezos med gala with on a red carpet
with a tear gas canister and it says brought to
you by the firm that powers ice.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
That's right, but it is funny to ask people to
boycott the MET gala because I don't I don't know
how I would do that other than just doing the
same thing that I've done every year.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
Not looking at not casting your gaze upon it until
I see some kind of like carousel from on Instagram
that shows me three outfits that's right. Uh yeah, I mean,
as somebody who used to work for Conde Nass, that
used to be like the hell's nightmare for digital content
teams because just fucking they're all all fucking day.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
Did you have to go and cover Itever?
Speaker 2 (49:55):
No? No, no, because I was I was La based,
So like the oscars were like some times, like the
things we'd have to do, like a red carpet or
like red carpets out here, which are whatever. But like
the Metal was just such a huge New York thing
that like I just remember coworkers being like I'm gonna
perish from having to take pictures of people's crazy dresses.
(50:18):
But hey, that's what that's what on a wind tour
demanded at the time.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
They also recently reported that the so the whole thing
is to raise money for the Costume Institute, that the Met.
Speaker 2 (50:30):
That's the whole that was like the whole point. Right,
it's actually a fund like it's just it's also to
make a museum.
Speaker 1 (50:38):
Right, which like that is the one thing that we do,
like that rich people used to do that they don't
do anymore, is like, you know, fund a wing of
a museum. So like you know, but even the standard
rich guy shit of like adding a museum wing that
people can like go to and learn from is not
even in play here because there was news last week
(50:59):
that the Gala might soon have raised enough money for
the Costume Institute to not rely on the Gala for
annual funding. So there's like sounds like a lot of money.
We don't actually need this much money, guys, if.
Speaker 2 (51:12):
It was for annual funding. I mean I get that
that they're saying, we have so much money that we
are funded annually. Many times here.
Speaker 1 (51:21):
Has any institution in the history of capitalism been like
I think we're good. Actually, like that's.
Speaker 2 (51:28):
It must be so much They're like, guys, what the
what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (51:31):
Why are you doing this?
Speaker 2 (51:33):
You know, there's no way we can use all of
this right before Earth death.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
We're a costume institute. Yeah yeah, uh but anyways, well
we'll see, uh how it all goes over. Probably it
seems like there aren't that many, Like I think Beyonce
is still going or is still like one on the board,
Like there there's still big names that are attached and
(51:59):
go and.
Speaker 2 (52:01):
Yeah they're they're I mean, they're I mean, but jay
Z's a billionaire now, right, so they're in good company.
Speaker 1 (52:08):
Let's see them try to have fun while I'm boycotting
it though, you know, for.
Speaker 2 (52:13):
One, will not be looking. That's right, I'm turning away.
And it's not because I couldn't find a babysitter tonight
and because I just found out it was tonight. It's
just because I'm actually boycotting.
Speaker 1 (52:26):
And finally we have a baffo box office report once again.
Last weekend, the Michael Jackson movie numbers did big numbers, big, big, big.
The devilwaar Is product two numbers massive seventy seven million
dollars in North America one hundred and fifty six overseas
(52:47):
for a global total of two hundred and thirty three
million dollars. Jesus one of the best showings ever for
a female fueled movie.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
What categories that.
Speaker 1 (52:59):
Keep calling it male?
Speaker 2 (53:00):
Female fueled?
Speaker 1 (53:01):
The Hollywood Reporter female.
Speaker 2 (53:04):
Fueled female old fucking weird.
Speaker 1 (53:08):
The original movie made twenty seven million dollars domestically in
two thousand and six dollars. I don't know if that
that must have been the opening weekend, but uh, I
think it didn't. Like it ended up making one hundred
million worldwide, but like not much more so it opened
to twenty seven million in two thousand and six and
finished with one hundred and twenty four million. Uh And
(53:31):
it's the sequels already like lapped that on that actually, Yeah, yeah, Wow.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
When I was on the plane, I usually just like
I'm always looking at them flight map and they do
this thing where it's like, you know, there's like two
like a progress bar, and they had little icons on
the progress bar where both fucking like where the Devil
wears pradact heel with like the trident. Really yeah, And
I was like at first, I was like, am I
(53:56):
like what the fuck am I looking.
Speaker 1 (53:58):
Marketing at like space Jam.
Speaker 2 (54:00):
It was so subtle. There was nothing else. There wasn't
even like an ad anywhere else. It's like they just
took over those little things. And then like when you
opened up like the entertainment section to like want to
watch a movie like the first one was there, but
there was nothing, no mention of the new one. I
was like, oh, right, this must be coming on. Ended
up watching Interstellar for the first time.
Speaker 1 (54:18):
Oh you've never seen Interstellar.
Speaker 2 (54:20):
I saw the first part of it like really high.
I remember when he came out and I was like, dude,
this isn't inception, and I stopped watching it. And then
I watched and I was like, oh, okay, I see,
I see, I see why.
Speaker 1 (54:30):
I see some people really love that movie. I feel
like one of those generational things. Didn't you miss me
a little bit?
Speaker 2 (54:38):
Yeah, like younger people, like just people like five to
seven years younger than me, like, are like so fucking crazy, dude,
He's like he's like in the fifth dimension. I was like, okay, cool.
The things that really struck me about it were just
like the stuff that was really about, like the sacrifice
of parents for their children. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (55:01):
Part to see it again now that I have kids,
But at the time I was making a.
Speaker 2 (55:08):
As no.
Speaker 1 (55:08):
I mean a younger person who I went to see
it with was like, I think that's the best movie
I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (55:13):
Yeah. It has yeah, and it's funny because I obviously
I went into it with like all of the hearing
all the same things about it, where like people are
like whatever, dude, like it's fine. Other people like it's
so visually brilliant, and I'm like, that's all of these
things have been true. There were parts where I did
not really care for. There were parts that I thought,
I honestly thought the robot would be the coolest thing.
(55:35):
The way that the fucker's just turned into different shapes.
I was like, yeah, yeah, I like this. I like
this robot.
Speaker 1 (55:40):
It was sick. I like, the things that I objected
to are in no way any stupider than the things
that I totally swallowed whole from inception. Yeah, yeah, right,
exactly exception. I was just like, nah, we're good here. Yeah,
I will accept every single one of these ridiculous things. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (55:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (55:59):
And I don't know what it was, but.
Speaker 2 (56:02):
Yeah, I think the thing that I the only the
part that I was just like, like, I always saw
that meme of like McConaughey crying. I was like, what
the fuck is going on in this movie? Like when
he's in that chair like looking at some video and
then you then I actually saw what it was about,
and I was like oh fuck.
Speaker 1 (56:18):
I think Brian the Editor's point that like they did
take a lot of care with the science ye stuff. Yeah,
but then that ending seems like they kind of abandoned
the science stuff. Do they not? Like isn't it kind
of like, well, love is the most powerful thing, right?
Speaker 4 (56:36):
What I hated about the movie, but I did like
that they built like a big ring for people to
live on.
Speaker 2 (56:41):
That was sick.
Speaker 1 (56:42):
Yeah, that was so cool. Yeah, the ring was awesome.
The planet where like time moved slower.
Speaker 2 (56:48):
Yeah yeah, yeah, But the part of me is like,
if they figured it out, couldn't they have gone and
got Anne Hathaway?
Speaker 1 (56:53):
Right? I think she didn't want to be got. Maybe
wasn't that the thing?
Speaker 2 (56:57):
I don't know? Again, it was like by that point,
it was like four in the morning and biological clock
at that point, and I was like, yeah, I thought.
I was like, oh, that's sick, bro. He just like
launched himself out the tesser Act and just sacrificed it.
And then I was like, wait, bro, they they caught
him floating loose, all right, fine, like whatever. I would
have been fine if he was dead.
Speaker 1 (57:16):
But that's also a female fueled movie, and that they
sacrifice her character for the yes purpose, throw it into
the into the furnace, Road into the furnace. The sequel
also there there's a fun little story that the uh
no of this.
Speaker 2 (57:34):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (57:35):
Also in Hathaway and Shallow, also Anna Wintor, who is
our next icon? How are you dealing with the fact
that you missed the Mister Bean iconic?
Speaker 2 (57:44):
I don't want to talk about it on Mike just
for the stability overall stability of the show. Yeah, I'm
not happy. But like I said, you know, when like
when we were planning around me being gone for two weeks,
I was like, you do what you gotta do, man.
I was like Matthew McConaughey in that scene of Interstellar
when I saw the Dean episode come up.
Speaker 1 (58:06):
I'm just like, but yeah, we have Anna wint Tour
coming up. The So one detail that is getting it
a little bit of good press is that there's a
moment in the sequel where uh Anna Wintur's Miranda Priestley
(58:26):
the Anna Wintur stand in uh there's a piece of
AI art generated about her that says, would you like
some lies with that? And she's like serving McDonald's. And
that was the fake AI art from the movie was
hand printed, hand painted by an artist, So I love
that they replaced AI with an actual artist.
Speaker 2 (58:49):
And a party was like, and it looks way better.
It's also, yeah, they totally nailed that, like sort of
the sort of shame of AI, you know, I mean,
like there's like this hard to describe the thing, like
when you look at it, you just know it is.
And I was surprised that the numbers on the signs
were actually coherent in the back. I would have had
(59:09):
at the one way fun with that.
Speaker 1 (59:11):
But hey, her friends, Yeah, it takes place in a
world where AI. It's like a couple months in the
future where AI has figured out the fingers. But yeah,
like the fries are a perfect spread of fries. They
look a little bit.
Speaker 2 (59:25):
Like pencils that are unsharpened.
Speaker 1 (59:27):
Shout out to Alexis Franklin who created that work of art.
Speaker 2 (59:32):
All right, yeah, I bet I bet it was cheap too,
she said, She said she was fairly compensated. All right,
that's what I like film man. Oh fuck you guys, Well,
what's fair for human verse? Fair for a data center
that needs three billion gallons of water?
Speaker 1 (59:48):
Yeah, that's right. It was fifteen dollars more. I think, yeah,
all right, that is going to do it for this Monday.
May fourth. Wonderful to have you back. May the Fourth
be with you, Jack, Oh shit, May the Fourth be fidel?
Oh my god, I can't believe I didn't even Did
you tell your kid, bro? I mean, he knows, you know.
(01:00:09):
I'm actually about to I have to miss a regular
episode because I'm picking them up early, not for May
the Fourth be with You. But I'm gonna tell him
that that's fine now, like hey man had to take
the four fourth? All right, real quick?
Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
No, real quick?
Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
All right? Uh happy? May the Fourth be with you?
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and also with.
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We will talk to you tomorrow.
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How was it, myles? How was Japan?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Japan? Dude? Yeah, my god, don't. I don't know if
you've ever been, but like it's really cool. It's such
a cool country and the culture is so the culture
is so amazing that people are so kind. The food
is like you can go to like a place called
a conbini, it's what they call a convenience store, and
(00:28):
there they have like the best egg sandwich I've ever
had in my effing l ever. What else then there's
like the macha is so much more fire out there
in Japan. What else? There's like Pokemon stuff. It's so cheap,
Like it's so much Pokemon stuff for so cheap, Like
it's so much, so many lotions for so cheap. Everything
(00:50):
is like so cheap there. It was great. It was great.
Sound like what I hear of my balcony. This is
what everything. It's kind of weird, man, Like if.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You're doing the spyware thing.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
With your satellite looking for Wi Fi, shut the fuck
up down. I love an egg sandwich. It's interesting, Like
how like, just in the build up, the algorithms are
showing me so much content of American people going to Japan,
and how one dimensional. It becomes when people consume this
content to actually plan their vacations, because like.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I would go places and there would be a fucking
stupid line for a chain Ramen place, and I'm like, okay,
like that place is fine, but I'm like looking directly
across the street to like a spot that is actually
legit as fuck and there's no fucking line, right.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
But because people are like like everything is being algorithmically
just refined into like eighteen places in Tokyo, which is
kind of fucking It's really it's interesting to see, and
it's also kind of fucks me up that.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Like you've gotten more efficient, we have not gotten better
at finding real information.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, no place.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Down here called Tacos Orinoco and there's always a one
to one and a half hour line outside and me
is like five TikTok videos yeah, and mean Tamil, I'm like,
Tampo's been there. I refuse to wait in line more
than like five minutes for anything. Yeah, yeah, and it's
just like it's just regular, it's just a regular talk area,
(02:21):
and yeah, that has to be the.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Like, I mean, if anything, it like bodes well for
people who are willing to just be adventurous. Yeah, because
the virtue of you not being like what are these
eight TikTok videos or like eight Instagram reels tell me
what my trip should be, you will have such a
completely different experience than like ninety eight percent of the
people that I see, Like and I get it too,
(02:46):
like you want to hear information on social media to
try and get out of like maybe like what a
guidebook says. But I think overall, like the thing I'm like,
some people always ask me where should I go? Where
should I go? Like what's like the cool stuff to do?
And I'm like, here's like some of this stuff. But
the thing that I always encourage people to do in
Japan is to truly go fucking walk into a place
(03:07):
that you can't read the sign. You know it's a restaurant,
Go in there like you were going to have more
of a real experience with Japanese people than to like
a place that has had to have like their entire
menu in English, like all the staff are bilingual. There's
just something that it loses something, ye, But overall, I
(03:28):
mean it was great. The real thing was like to
see my family and to get you know, my kid
to understand that my mom and I aren't the only
people on earth that speak Japanese secret code language. Yeah,
he's like, I don't know why we talk in this language.
And then like then he started talking a lot more
because it's ambiently all around him. But yeah, I had
a fantastic time.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
But I tried that method of exploring Tokyo and Kyoto.
Just like wandering around, I kept get my family locked
in a broom closet Like no, I swear it on
my head, this is a restaurant. I swear it's place
rules that it says closet in English. That's what it's called.
It's a really good that's a that's.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
For me. That's a bamboo broom. Due. Yeah, okay, that's
what I thought. It's ramen.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
They just haven't haven't yet.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
This this yacky soba is aldente.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this week trend edition
of Guys.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I haven't cleared my throat since he left Miles.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Oh go, you're finally free. You're like one of those
ghosts in a movie.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Now just generally I'm hello, we Go. I really I
don't think this will make it to the Cold Open,
but I really am but like my curse was lifted
for the seventy six ers. I finally beat the Celtics
on the playoffs, where I found out that my dad
roots for the Celtics. Now I was rooting against them
(05:11):
on his behalf.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
That was always your m lo he did my dad dirty,
broim dirty.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
He's like, what, No, it's fine. I was like, well,
fuck can that was at least in the seventy six
Ers beat the Celtics, so I can. I can go
to sports Heaven.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Now onto the next round for the seventy six ers.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Actually, I'm going to get pulled down by the like
shadow people. This is all an elaborate reference to the
movie Ghost I think. Anyways, that's what my sports fandom is.
I'm so well adjusted that I couldn't watch the game
live because I was in San Diego for my son's birthday.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
You sound like it's bad, but you're like, yeah, I'm
so well adjusted that I wasn't ruining my kid's birthday
with my Yeah. No, that's that's a sound to take.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah. I just turned it off and then was pleasantly
surprised to see that the seventy six Ers won by
nine points. Truly, what a what a blast.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I was, Hey, I was watching from Japan because like
the NBA kind of came on at a godly hour
when I was in Tokyo, so I was just I
didn't want to start texting you all the time.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
And I was like, oh, yeah, that is usually how
I would follow how the team was doing, because I
usually don't watch playoff games live for my mental health,
and and like you or Jabari would be like, oh,
like what is happening? Yeah, just second degree bad for
my mental health. But anyways, for our non sports fans, Miles,
(06:43):
we do like to this is the episode where we
tell them what was trending over the weekend, what's happening
on this Monday morning. But we do like to also
let them get to know us a little bit better
by telling them some things that we think are overrated
and underrated. And we like to start with you, what
is something you think is underrated?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well, I know there's probably seven million more fans that
are listening since before I left for two weeks. So
for those of you, I am the fuck up, I
am the normal co host on the show. I'm sorry
that all those other people you checked in for I'm
going to bring it down a few levels, but one
of the big things. So I was in Japan visiting
(07:22):
my family while also taking my mother in law and
her partner around too for the first time. Well, I
didn't realize I was bro I was on I was
on tour guide duty, which was fine because I'm most
of the time, I'm like traveling with friends who haven't
been or like you know, have maybe been to Asia
but not Japan. But the big thing that for me
(07:44):
that was underrated was actually, and this shouldn't seem underrated,
but staying off social media when you're on vacation, when
you're trying to take a break, when you're trying to adjust,
which it seems completely antithetical to the entire space of
going to Japan in the age of social media, because
I feel like everybody, I'm not joking, maybe like six
(08:08):
out of ten people I know at any given moment
are somehow in Japan or are about to go to
Japan right now.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
The whole point of going, I thought was getting there,
posting being like I'm in Japan.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Guys. Look, dude, me and my girlfriend were in fucking Kaimonos. Dude,
check it out. It's fucking sick, but no, Japan's great.
I'm glad more people are checking it out. But the
thing that more importantly the social media aspect. I think,
regardless of where you're going, right, if like the point
(08:41):
of taking a trip is to switch gears a little
bit and offer yourself something different than what you do
in your day to day maintaining the habit of looking
at your phone on social media, that's that's actually going
to do you a huge disservice. And I know it's
fun to share things and you know, get that endorphin
(09:01):
rush or whatever. I posted like a couple of things
and then very quickly like I thought I lost my
password at one point, and I was like posting through
it and I ended up ended up finding it, so
all was well.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
The shout out to the social media, to social media when.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I shot out to Japanese culture, where someone found it
and then gave it to the shop owner and was like, wow,
here it is. It fell in the booth or whatever.
But I think there's just once I kind of really
pulled myself away from that. It's weird. What happens is
you're the habit of being like, ah, let me just
look real quick. Let me just look cause I know
(09:34):
we just posted a clip. Let me just see, let
me see what's going on, really, let me let me
see what's happening with other people. It really just you.
You You have like a stress that really you felt
only exists when you're at home.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And when I note when I connected that, I was like,
oh no, no, no, no, no, fuck all this shit,
Like I will look at the news once a day
and then other than that, like my kid had my
phone most of the time taking really weird pictures, which I
will I will post those two Instagram because they're so
abstract they feel artistic, impressive. I think it's this one
small tweak, like if you're really going to do it,
(10:09):
like really clean up your energetic mix when you're on
a trip, Like if you if that's something you do
constantly when you're at home, try and like what do
something a little bit different, even if.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
It's shoving free will for like yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
But it's hard. I get it. Like it was very
like that shit was calling to me like the ring
of power every now and then, like it was just
I was like no, no, no, no, So anyway, it's
the I would say that basically it sounds like a
thing that it is just a given. But I'm telling
you you will really underrate how much more changes your
experience when you don't have this sort of like background
(10:45):
noise happening of like wanting to look at social media,
even if it's just a look, not even just to post,
just leave it, leave it.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I don't so much time my life has been lost
to like looking at social media, and like I don't
have any retroactive value to that time, Like I don't,
I think you get anything. I think the one positive
memory I have is like when bin Laden was killed,
that was like a fun night on social media, like
(11:16):
kind of have like positive viz. But like otherwise it's
just like time disappearing, you know, It's just like time
goes away.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
So I agree, I think I was. I was at
the seminole value of San Fernando Valley, Indian restaurant Gungha
Dean when bin Laden was killed, and it was I remember,
it was the restaurant empties like me, my mom and
like our friends from Japan and we were all just
like I think my mom noticed on the TV. She's
like something bin Laden something, and we all turned around
(11:47):
like ohh all right, well anyway.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
I mean I was on a plane and went up
and told the pilot, I said, Sir, in that news room.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
You're knocking on the cockpit door, like, sir, I'm going
to get the air marshal. You just understand how.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
You served, sir, And I've just got to let you
know he just got him, all right. My underrated a
little less philosophical, I was, is how weird the I'm
going to call it a game, the game doorknob?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Is you mean just punching someone for farting punching? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah, so I was. I just took it for granted
that everybody lived with that. I was listening to an episode,
you know, I was driving a lot this weekend listening
to an episode of blank Check, the movie podcast, one
of my faves. We had Griffin Newman and producer Ben
on before a couple of couple of months back. But
(12:50):
in the Dead Poet Society episode they're doing the films
with Peter Weir. The filmmaker Nia de Costa was on
and was like, they're talking about the weirdness of the
culture at all boys schools, and she's like, did any
of you go to all boys schools? Because I once
worked with I think a writer who was talking about
(13:12):
something called meat lips. Do you know what meat lips is? Miles, No,
the fuck I don't know. So the thing that they
would do at this all boys school, which is where
they would rub their hands on their junk and then
come up and like pop you on the mouth and
go meet lips.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Oh fuck, And I.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Was like, how horrible? Where did this person grow up?
What kind of monstrous shit is like made in the
Petrie dish of all boys schools? And then Griffin Newman
was like, well, kind of reminds me of doorknob, and none,
none of the other people on the show had heard
(13:54):
of it, so he like described doorknob. One of his
co hosts grew up in the UK and he described
he was like, yeah, so if you fart, someone would
yell doorknob and then they would be able to keep
punching you until you touched the doorknob.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Sometimes you would be held, you would be prevented from
touching the door so you could get beat the fuck down.
That's something that was some ship we would do. Yeah,
like if you're trying to get to the doorknob, like
you would be gang.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Tackled right and just and like hearing that described to
people who had.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Never heard it before, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Was like it kind of put it in a new
context that I was like, Oh, I guess that's just as.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Describe it. It sounds all up right that every time
I was farting, I was screaming safety immediately, right. Yeah, yeah,
I should, I should mention.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
It does put you in a weird prisoner's dilemma because
you have to announce to the room that you fart less.
They do the detective work scream door knobs. Sometimes I
would just quietly go stand next to the door and
then let one go and then touch the doorknob.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Oh interesting, interesting, Okay, yeah, yeah, it was always you
always had it out safety touch the doorknob. Meat lips
is really fucking deranged. What's funny though, is I remember
I went to like, you know, Catholic like co ed school.
It was always the boys school ship, always manifested in
(15:33):
the in the football team. Yeah, like the really weird
you know, erotic Yeah, like like dick puppetry, slash, you know,
light whatever weird shit was going on in there. That
was always in the context of the football team. Yeah,
And I think because that's the closest you get to
(15:55):
in all boys schools, a bunch of you know, pubescent
boys sweating and lifting weights together and screaming about whatever.
The fuck.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, it's just like sadism. My my underrated last week
was about sadism and the fact that there's a study
that the people who drive really loud cars, they like
did a study expecting them to like score high on narcissism,
like because it's like, look at me, look at me,
but it was actually they scored really high on sadism.
(16:25):
And I just like, so they're just like they know
that it's painfull to us, and they yeah, and like
just thinking sadism as like a thing that's out there.
It's like the dark triad of like psychopathy, sadism. I
forget what the third one is, but I think it's
narcissism that like that's just a thing that's out there
of like people who want to do harm, just like
(16:49):
having a perpetual need to do that is wild to me.
What is something?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Miles?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Do you think it is overrated? Overrated?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Okay, I just found out about It's not about this specifically,
but I just found out about dark showering. Okay, so
it's basically in the pitch dark, just like just like
lower light. And I'm like, oh, yeah, like because I
like a night shower, you know, because it's like because
in Japan, you you typically bay at the end of
(17:19):
the day because it's relaxing, and so I like to
shower at night when I can. But I hate the
like super bright light. It just doesn't It's not conducive
to my wind down experience.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, why is that that I just accepted that showers
need to be under like surgical lighting.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Yeah, like a slaughterhouse every movie.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Every movie, shower always takes place in the highest light
like possible.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I feel like yeah, and like and your you know,
bathrooms are well lit for good reason. People have to
get ready and shit, need to see themselves. But I
was like I was trying, I realize I like it
way way darker, and then I saw like this content
about it. But the thing that I think is overrated
are when people take a preference like dark showering and
swear that it is like the only scientific way to
(18:11):
do something Like I see this a lot with like
different trends, but there's always like this weird pseudo science
attached to it, and I just think it's overrated. Like
just just say, like you rock with a thing, you
don't have to be like, you don't have to like,
you know, support your preference with the thing that it's like,
it's actually scientifically proven that this thing that I like
is actually the best thing you can do for your body.
(18:33):
It's like, bro, I get it. Bro, the light is
too fucking bright and the vibes are fucked up if
you're trying to go to sleep after Fuck yeah, dude,
this have it dark. And there's all these articles, which
is true, right, Like you don't want to have harsh
blue light before you go to sleep. Like there are
logical things that make sense as to why dark showering
may be more relaxing. But like on the other side
(18:55):
of it, you see people on redd it being like
I did it, it's not working for me, blah blah
Blah's like, no, no, it's it's not that it's this
was the only way for someone to go to bed properly.
It's just it's just a nice way to take a shower.
And the reason why it feels nice is for these
things that do have scientifical you know, scientific evidence behind it,
but the concept of it has not been there. There's
(19:17):
scant studies on the efficacy of dark showering. But I
think we all know it is calming, it is better
to not have harsh light, and therefore is a good thing.
I just think acting like some shit we like our
preferences have some kind of like scientific edge. I think
that's just overrated. It can be like, yeah, dude, it's chill.
It's way more chill for these reasons, and yeah, there
(19:37):
might be some benefits, but that shouldn't be the only
reason to do is like does it appeal to you
the fucking try it out.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Don't worry about it for you, just just tell yourself
that that's what I do think that that is way
more powerful like that in doing these Icon episodes, like
we we've talked about the fact that like Elvis thought
that he had this like magical connection to the twin
that was with him that like died in Utero, and
(20:04):
like that that his twin was like kind of powering
his success the whole time. I do think like having
a thing, if you can like convince yourself that it
is like giving you some sort of extra magical powers,
you know, in some cases it's religion for people. But
like I do think that's a like a powerful force.
But it's the second. First of all, the second you
(20:27):
say it out loud, you're assuming that it's going to
work for other people in a way that it probably
won't because you know, they don't have whatever specific like
beliefs you do.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
And also I've I feel like saying something out loud
like gives it a power that is going to like
fuck it up. Like if you're like, hey man, you're
really like in tennis, you're really serving well today, that's
a great way to fuck somebody's serve up that day,
you know, just by like saying a thing, or like
(20:57):
if you're like, I'm really you know, hitting well today,
you're gonna start.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
That was like with the Argentine Argentinian national team with
the last World Cup. They refuse to say like that
they could win, right, like even even as they got
to the final, they're like, no bro, like no.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
One supernatural bullshit. But it does work, like I think
we'd dumb supernatural beasts. Yeah, and so that like I
think it's sometimes that shit works, but just keep it
to yourself because it's not gonna work for.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
They were saying alfa, which is like annulling the jinks. Yes,
that's right, don't even fucking bring that up. Powerful.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yeah, words are powerful. I just released the seventy six
ers to be able to win by you know, so
congratulations and you're welcome to the city of Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Do you see that they're keeping tickets away from like
the New Yorkers for the next round.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I love it, like get Phillys to just use its
spite like that is what phi Philly is great at,
being spiteful sore winners or lose or is just like
use that, you know, make everybody hate you. My overrated
one is just T shirts that are like three layers
deep in an argument. I saw a guy, uh this
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weekend wearing a T shirt, wearing a T shirt that
said no one cares work harder, Like wait, what, I'm sorry? What?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I'm sorry? Who you talking to? Bro? Yeah, no one cares.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
It's like, you know, being in a quiet room and
yelling who you call him?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Psycho?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
It's just like are you all right? Man? And he
seems so happy. He was like playing ping pong with
I don't know his girlfriend by the pool with just
a you know, smiling while wearing a T shirt that
was like, nobody cares work harder, fuck you, Oh my god, yeah,
I have just it's like CEO bullshit. Like it's like
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people who uh you know, love CEOs and want to
be CEOs want to act like CEOs or something.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah. One, and really you're just being like, okay, so
let me guess what was screamed at you as a
child on a T shirt. I'm just going to take
a just gonna take a wild stab in the dark here.
So you were told no one cares a lot.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And then also also overrated. I would just say interviewing
the owners of any sporting thing. Uh, they interviewed the
owner of the horse after the Kentucky Derby. If you
didn't watch the Kentucky Derby. Yeah, the trainer was a
woman for the first time, first woman trainer to win.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
She's a favorite a Japanese horse or some shit I
was hearing.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I don't know. There were like four horses that were favorites.
One of them scratched day of oh Man, but.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Horses Japanese, Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
It was called great White so like, and it was
like bigger than the other horses. So I was. We
watched it together. It was like, oh, this will be fun,
Like my kids will like see the excitement. Each each
of us will pick a horse and whoever, like, whoever's
horse comes in the highest position, will you know, get.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Five seven hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
And it was really fun. Like my son who just
turned ten, I was like, that was so fun, like
that we should do that again. I was like, son,
welcome to the wonderful world of gambling. He's he just
turned ten on Friday. Feel like Uma Thurman when she
wakes up from the coma looking at my fucking hand
lines right now it's ten years. Wow years to three years?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Me up? But anyway, I.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Know he but yeah. But the horse I picked for
Jaw's reasons was Great White, And I texted my friends
speaking of making once you say it, it has power,
texting my friends and I was like, I'm going with
great White for for Jaws reasons. And the horse immediately
started freaking out and it got scratched, like on the
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way to walking into the stocks. Like the second I
texted it, it fell on its back and like almost
killed the horse and riding it. It was great White.
It was like bigger than the other horses, and it
had a I think an Irish an Irish trainer, so.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
It's like everything. It was like with me with the
Japanese horse. I'm like, oh baby, if I were to
bet on animals racing, this would be it.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
But anyways, they so an amazing story. The trainer is
like the main part, you know, it's like the coach,
and the jockey is like the player on the field horse, right,
and then the owner is like the last person you
want to hear from, but like that's the first person
they interview in the winter circle, and they kept asking
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her about like the jockey and the woman and like
her answers. The owner's answers were just very like, yeah,
well he ran the race. We expected him to, oh,
and like it was just like real. She seemed annoyed
that they were cutting away to like the woman trainer
and that the woman trainer was like getting all the energy,
which just a great metaphor for the country, the state
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of the country that we're in.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Hello Ceo. Yes, it was all because of me, not
off the backs of the act, not even the fucking horse,
which is the fucking thing that carried the fucker across
the line. Yeah, it was all That's what I expected,
because I demand nothing less from my team.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Uh huh, that's right. I'm a job creator exactly. Those
people and their family, oh me, every meal that they eat,
they should be thanking me. Anyways, let's take a quick
break and we'll be back to talk about the news.
We'll be right back and we're back. Were you flying
(27:17):
Spirit miles back from Japan? Yeah, we Halloween or Spirit
Airlines Spirit Halloween. Well they already changed the interior to
a Halloween store.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Yeah. I was sitting in the back of your the wigs.
Yeah they look I was like, hey, get after it.
But yeah, it was four connecting flights in a twenty
eight hour journey. But I did make it home, and
they said it was the last. This was one of
the last flights they were flying.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
So yeah, to take the seat with you when you're done,
you get to just rip it.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
It was because the seat belt didn't actually dislodge, so
they had to wear it. They had to cut the
cut the airline seat off of me. Yeah, but then
they're like, if you want, you can just fucking take it.
I you that one that worked, you know? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Anyways, Spirit Airlines long A punchline for you know that
their model was we're the worst. The position that we're
going to fill here is we're going to give you
a cheap flight, and then it's going to be like
a stress test, like a capitalistic stress test, where like
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you have to pay for everything, like, oh, you're you're
getting thirsty, You're getting thirsty from those pretzels. The only
thing that we actually give you water is going to
be three dollars, like you know, a tiny, tiny little
bottle of water.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
And the seats were designed by the same people who
designed those like benches in parks to make it so.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
That like it's like fuck you to skaters and someone
who needs a rest.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Right, And they finally like the it just didn't work out.
They over the weekend on Saturday, failed in a way
that like I don't I think it hasn't happened. This
is the first time in twenty five years that a
major US airline has gone out of business due to
financial trouble.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
What was it, like Continental?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I think that's right, And I don't like even then,
they didn't just like people showed up to the airport
and they're like, yeah, we're out of business. I declare bankruptcy.
There you go, you did it. They Yeah, it just
feels very i don't know, like not the sort of
(29:42):
thing that you would expect to be happening in a
thriving democracy, as let me yea stock market report tells me,
we are the thing with Spirit.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
I think it was a lot like that guy's phrase
t shirt, right, you know, stop complaining, work harder, that's right.
Oh really you don't like it, Well, maybe if you
worked harder, you wouldn't be on Spirit airlines. It's like
sort of like the hostility towards people were like, I'm sorry, man,
like this is you guys carry one of the few
routes to a place I'm trying to go, and like,
well then deal with it. It was I mean I
(30:15):
had It's funny because I had such It was really
like either or with me on Spirit, I had ones
where one thing is that they were always terribly uncomfortable.
That's the one consistent thing. But in terms of like
the behavior of the people on the plane, sometimes I
had very quiet flights. Other ones I've had pretty like
rambunctious ones where like people who clearly trotted and drunk
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from the terminal, right, had to be like read the
Riot Act, and usually, like when it's bad, it ends
up delaying things. Luckily I was on when where someone
was like, oh, okay, I'll shot talk. Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
The only way to approach it is with self loathing.
You can't go in there with a chip on your
shoulder because then you're gonna disrupt other people's flight.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
You just have.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
To sit down in your chair and and think about
all the things you could have done better to not
be flying down there.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
And and sometimes there's nothing you can do, you know,
it just.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Is that's yeah, that's just where you're at. The company
canceled all flights, halted customer service, and told travelers not
to come to the airport on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Jesus grist.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
They are being issued refunds and instructed to rebook with
other airlines. But like you know or don't, I don't
know your flight, your flight is canceled. They cited the
increase in oil prices is one of the key factors
behind the closure. But of course, Sean.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Duffy, wait, so okay, there's oil prices have gone up
something recently thinks.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
A lot Obama.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Sean Duffy said that the collapse of Spirit Airlines followed
former President Joe Biden's administration. Uh, the Biden administration's decision
along with Boodha Jedge to block a proposed merger with
Jet Blue.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
And oh so the lesson here was that they got
to let more. Yeah, it's so stupid. Oh well, if
only they had created one behemoth fuck you airline, that
just wouldn't have happened, and a greater share of Americans
could be fucked over by their terrible, greedy policies.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Because that for Jet Blue right now that they would
have merged with we've probably have been just about like
getting their fleet or something, or just sort of like
access to it.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I have no idea, I mean, seemingly jet Blue. I've
had good times.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
On jet I always had good times on Jet Blue.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Always a good time on Jet Blue. Hashtag not a
fucking ad. But the oil prices thing is so funny
to act, like to completely ignore the root cause of
all the oil price shock right now and then just
be like it was actually this.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I mean, I can't see how much work do you
think they had to do, Like how long do you
think they spent researching something that they could like blame
but on that wasn't the oil prices caused by the I.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Think it's like anything like if you're that far gone
and have the boot so far down your throat like that,
it's like being a great, like you already know how
to say the thing without that's like humiliating yourself. Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
For me, it would have taken a while. But for him,
he's got he's got it ready to go. Oh so,
a guy on YouTube named Hi there Hunter, Oh Hey,
I mean see you is launched a campaign to crowdfund
enough money to buy the airline. His videos do seem
(33:38):
to be very Spirit Airlines heavy. He has won with
ninety three thousand views. That's titled I flew Spirit Airlines
for twenty four hours straight and the picture is him
like pressing his face against the window. I don't know
how they got this picture.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
By the way, for ninety three thousand views.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Bro, yeah, you could do better than that.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
He went twenty four hours for that.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
I ranked every US airline exclamation point and it was
being covered as though. He raised twenty two million dollars, which,
by the way, has to be twenty one point nine
nine five million more than is needed to purchase Spirit.
But his pitch was basically, let's turn Spirit Airlines into
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the Green Bay Packers like a crowd owned, crowd funded airline.
But let's get it, let's snap it up before private
equity does. And the dollar figure that's being quoted man
raises twenty three million in pledges overnight to buy a
Spirit Airline. Again, those are pledges, He's not He hasn't
(34:43):
raised money. That's people on the internet being like, sure,
I'd throw in one hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
You okay, great? And can I count you? And I
guess I have to put any money up. No, no, no, no, no,
no no no, I don't need to know your name.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Just give me like vibes, just pledge to me that
you will vibe fund raising. But he yeah, he launched
a website asking people to pledge hypothetical dollars they may
or may not actually have as part.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Of a And also does he even know even if
you pulled up with this money, how all of this
would work to turn it into like a cooperative.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Yeah, I don't think I guess that does. Airline youtubes
is that like there, this is a cool idea that
should be like we we should be having publicly owned corporations,
transportation equity.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Absolutely, It's just a it's very frustrating that the only
version that ends up happening is STU like a YouTube
channel being like, hey, could I get some IOUs from
you on this site.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
And even then not really have that real intent to
or no. Rather, he might have the intent to do good,
but the knowledge might not be there for I'm guessing
he doesn't have a track record of taking formerly private
companies into co ops.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
But those there is two passions, uh, building his YouTube
channel and taking privately owned companies into public co ops.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Hell yeah, all right, well look, uh God blessed because
you already know private equities fucking ready to pick through
that fucking corpse, do we.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
It does feel like this is the sort of thing
where the government would typically, like I remember reading stories
where a airline is having trouble and the government like
steps in and you know, helps fund it or you know,
makes makes some things happen, and like it just feels
like in this case, they're we just it's the thing
(36:48):
that you know, cool Zone calls the crumbles where things
are just falling apart, and like people inside the government
are not incentivized to do a good job. They're just
incentivized to like have a line ready to go that
will please Donald Trump, like Joe Biden insult, and so
(37:10):
the incentive structure means like nothing's getting done, everything's falling apart. Which, yeah,
he went out of business before their planes started, just
like falling out of the sky.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Yeah, But as producer Brian the Editor producer Brian the
Editor pointed at any think they were jettisoning passenger's mid flight,
but they did land safely. Those people they did have
parachutes on.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
So halfway through the flight, they're like, we're out of business, right,
so half you cut the engines.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Look, either some of y'all can jump out and land
safely in a parachute or all of us are going
to fucking die in here. So what's it going to be?
Speaker 1 (37:48):
I did want to give an update on how the
other half a millionth of a percentage live, Specifically, Elon
Musk is suing Open AI in open court, and last
week he came in with this story that he was
telling where he's like, I'm trying to make it, I'm
(38:09):
trying to support non nonprofit companies. Really, yeah, like that's
kind of my whole thing. Yeah, you can't just be
turning nonprofit companies into like money making companies. So he's
asking he's asking for one hundred and thirty four billion
dollars in damages. His attorney told the jury in the
(38:30):
opening statement, we are here today because the defendants in
this case stole a charity, a.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Illegal porn racist generating content machine thing. Yeah no, no, no, no, okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
So his first witness, elon musk your honor, I'd like
to call myself to the state Wow, testified for hours.
Some of the stuff he said. I gave them thirty
eight million of essentially free funding, which they used to
create an eight hundred billion dollars for profit company. He
framed his lawsuit as an effort to protect the greater good.
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If we make it okay to loot a charity, the
entire foundation of charitable giving in America will be destroyed.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Okay, doje? Fuck? What is this fucking guy? I mean,
I know what he's going on about. He's duplicit, he's
a liar, so he has to say shit like this.
But what a flimsy fucking.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Technically not for profit initiatives doesn't seem to be that
important to him.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Yeah, what about usaid, what did you think of that?
Speaker 1 (39:36):
This is actually just it turns out a pissing contest
that is allowed to happen because every olive ARC gets
to be their own little Stalin and basically try to
like revise history however they see fit. So the reality
behind the situation is that he was pushing for them
to go the four and a half route. Yeah, he
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was pushing open AI to go the for profit route
and was just mad when he wasn't made the head
of that branch of the company when they did that.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
So he's like, oh, so I gave you all this
money only for you guys to not reward me with
making me the head of it. I'm suing you for
turning a nonprofit into an eight hundred hub. Yes, and
also give me one hundred and thirty four billion in
addition to.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Like us all knowing him. There are emails that I'm
not sure how he thought he was going to just
get around that, But I do think these people are
just all surrounded by so many yes men that they
lose their ability to operate in reality. They just like
become garden variety celebrities who's both style and perception of
(40:45):
the world just like freezes an amber the second they
stop hanging around people who will be honest with them, right. So.
Emails uncovered as part of the discovery process, however, revealed
that Musk had previously embraced moving open Ai to a
for profit model, and before leaving he sought control of
a new for profit arm, seeking a majority of board
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seats and fifty one percent of shares. He only left
after Altman and Brockman refused his demands.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
M hmm, okay, okay, okay, yeah, yep, yep, yeah, yeah,
this is good. This is all very good. I'm glad
to see nothing's changed.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Yeah, we just fixed it when you were gone, so
there's still content.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Jack, didn't I fucking say to fix this shit? But
did I get back work on this?
Speaker 1 (41:30):
But yeah, they're just like engines fueled by grievances and
like the good vibes created by drugs and their little
bubbles of yes man. And this also is in charge
of the world.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
It shows you when you get your surrounded by sycophants
like you lose the whole concept of like linear facts, right,
because anything can just be argued with your siccaphants to
be like, that's not well, that's not what I meant.
If I said that, they're like, oh okay, so okay, Yeah,
when you go to court and they're like, these are
emails of you pushing for a fro for profit model,
(42:04):
you can't just be like, well, that's not what I meant. Yeah, Like,
that's a little bit harder. Okay, well the evidence, because
that's what we'll be used to come to a determination.
Here says Otherwise, even if you're insisting that's not what
I meant, I was probably on ketemine or something anyway, So, yeah,
that's a lie.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
This is from olig arkwatch. They said, uh, emails uncovered. Sorry,
they said his Musk's cross examination revealed his loose relationship
with the truth and truth and selective short term memory.
At one point, Musk testified that Tesla was not pursuing
artificial general intelligence. No, Tesla is not pursuing AGI. It's
(42:44):
literally trying to make a car drive from A to B.
The defense attorney then pulled up an X post from
March when Musk said Tesla will be one of the
companies to make AGI, and probably the first to make it.
Humanoid atom shaping form so just yeah, explicitly said the
thing he said that they weren't doing. He was also
(43:05):
comically reluctant to concede even like very confirmed facts. He
was asked whether he was romantically involved with venture capitalist
Shivon Zillis, and he replied, I think so. She is
the mother of four of his children, So.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
Dude, it's I mean, god, bro, that's the one thing
your lying skills really erode when you're around Yes men, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
So I think so is so wild. I mean, I
bet he thought that was going to be like a
laugh line where he's just like, I don't know, ready,
hose in different area codes? Am I right?
Speaker 2 (43:44):
Your honor? Am I right? Hey? Sorry to my four
kids who just heard that. That's not what daddy meant.
If I even am your daddy, I don't know, man, anyway.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
The Washington Post also reported last week that his posting
on X has grown increasingly concerned with the plate of
attack on white people. And this is as he's like
about to potentially become a trillionaire because SpaceX is going
to go public and make him even even richer.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
So God, yeah, Jesus, we have to do something when
that happens like.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
We got a hardy or something.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Yeah. Yeah, for sure, we've got to We've got to
do something fucking celebrate that. I hope, I just hope
he's I hope he gets there. You know, that's that's
going to be cool. I hope he gets there. I'm
not going to define there right now, and I hope
he gets there.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Uh, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back,
and we're back.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
We're back.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
And speaking of that, that other attacks on white people.
Uh huh, speaking of attacks on white people. Everyone's being
really hard on Jeff Bezos right now, and it needs
to stop.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
Everyone needs to knock it off. Okay, So I was
just reading he he owns I think we talked about
when he bought it. He has this five one hundred
million dollar mega yacht called the Kolru that he's reportedly
looking to part ways with. And Jesus, if there were
only other people out there with this kind of wealth
(45:24):
to be able to afford such an indulgence, what's he
going to do? Just some details. This five hundred million
dollar yacht also comes has a seventy five million dollar
support ship that has to go like that travels alongside it,
although it is unclear whether this is part of the deal. Also,
according to reports, it costs thirty million dollars a year
(45:46):
to operate the two fucking ships. Totally fuck. But this
is I think the part where everyone's like it reads
is like, oh my god, huge mega yacht on like
he's on the market from that Jeff Bezos used to own.
This is the other part from the New York posts
we hear Koru, which features a wooden sculpture of Bezos'
wife Lauren Sanchez as a mermaid on the prow has
(46:08):
become too recognizable for the Amazon billionaire. Wow, So it's
it's not really for practical reasons that he's trying to
part ways here, folks. This makes it just way too
obvious to people that I am near and therefore a
threat to my well being in safety. So I'm probably
going to just travel in like seventy smaller boat boats
(46:30):
simultaneously that come together for some a voltron yacht that
can then defeat the Proles if they if they get near.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
Speaking of the Proles, they're not happy that he is
an honorary chair of the Met Gala The Met Tonight's big,
big fashions, Big.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
Night, Myles eye tonight.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
That's tonight the most and it's more. Well, so here's
the thing, all right, there's some people are getting more
and more upset about the Hunger Game's capital.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
Their haters because they're not getting invited, because they're not
popping enough to go.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
The New York Times talks about it as a surge
in sentiment, rarely foregrounding the fact that the inequality is
the thing that the surge is reacting to. Opposition to
the Bezos's involvement with the Mets started almost immediately after
they were announced as financial sponsors in February, and comes
am at a surging anti rit sentiment nationwide and in
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New York City, the event's liberal home. The outrage seemingly
gained momentum after the city's newly elected mayor, Zoram Mamdani,
a Democratic socialist, declared in mid April that he would
skip the gala, breaking with many of his predecessors, saying
that his focus is on something called affordability, whatever that is.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
Wait, I've heard of a Ford explorer, a Ford expedition
afford ability.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
Yeah, yeah, model, that's got to be like the newest
model like massive yes, yes, yes, yachts help help.
Speaker 2 (48:09):
What a great answer though, too, Hey you're gonna go
to this fucking gaudy flex show of riches kind of
working on affordability. That's right, good answer, good answer.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
Very politically shrewd by him to jump on this rising
trend of in sentiment.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
It has, you know, anti rich sentiment. That's like, so the.
Speaker 1 (48:30):
Number of democratic strategists that he must have consulted to
come up with that answer, like what a genius selling
after a great deal of thought consideration, I too have
decided I will boycott the met gala this year because
it is kind of weird, like one of the So
there's this group everyone hates Elon that is calling for
(48:53):
a boycott of the event with a bunch of they're
they're doing like some some fun stuff, just like putting
up posters and they just love a poster projected an
entire like video onto the entire side of the Empire
State Building of.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
Oh wow, bezos med gala with on a red carpet
with a tear gas canister and it says brought to
you by the firm that powers ice.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
That's right, but it is funny to ask people to
boycott the MET gala because I don't I don't know
how I would do that other than just doing the
same thing that I've done every year.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
Not looking at not casting your gaze upon it until
I see some kind of like carousel from on Instagram
that shows me three outfits that's right. Uh yeah, I mean,
as somebody who used to work for Conde Nass, that
used to be like the hell's nightmare for digital content
teams because just fucking they're all all fucking day.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
Did you have to go and cover Itever?
Speaker 2 (49:55):
No? No, no, because I was I was La based,
So like the oscars were like some times, like the
things we'd have to do, like a red carpet or
like red carpets out here, which are whatever. But like
the Metal was just such a huge New York thing
that like I just remember coworkers being like I'm gonna
perish from having to take pictures of people's crazy dresses.
(50:18):
But hey, that's what that's what on a wind tour
demanded at the time.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
They also recently reported that the so the whole thing
is to raise money for the Costume Institute, that the Met.
Speaker 2 (50:30):
That's the whole that was like the whole point. Right,
it's actually a fund like it's just it's also to
make a museum.
Speaker 1 (50:38):
Right, which like that is the one thing that we do,
like that rich people used to do that they don't
do anymore, is like, you know, fund a wing of
a museum. So like you know, but even the standard
rich guy shit of like adding a museum wing that
people can like go to and learn from is not
even in play here because there was news last week
(50:59):
that the Gala might soon have raised enough money for
the Costume Institute to not rely on the Gala for
annual funding. So there's like sounds like a lot of money.
We don't actually need this much money, guys, if.
Speaker 2 (51:12):
It was for annual funding. I mean I get that
that they're saying, we have so much money that we
are funded annually. Many times here.
Speaker 1 (51:21):
Has any institution in the history of capitalism been like
I think we're good. Actually, like that's.
Speaker 2 (51:28):
It must be so much They're like, guys, what the
what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (51:31):
Why are you doing this?
Speaker 2 (51:33):
You know, there's no way we can use all of
this right before Earth death.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
We're a costume institute. Yeah yeah, uh but anyways, well
we'll see, uh how it all goes over. Probably it
seems like there aren't that many, Like I think Beyonce
is still going or is still like one on the board,
Like there there's still big names that are attached and
(51:59):
go and.
Speaker 2 (52:01):
Yeah they're they're I mean, they're I mean, but jay
Z's a billionaire now, right, so they're in good company.
Speaker 1 (52:08):
Let's see them try to have fun while I'm boycotting
it though, you know, for.
Speaker 2 (52:13):
One, will not be looking. That's right, I'm turning away.
And it's not because I couldn't find a babysitter tonight
and because I just found out it was tonight. It's
just because I'm actually boycotting.
Speaker 1 (52:26):
And finally we have a baffo box office report once again.
Last weekend, the Michael Jackson movie numbers did big numbers, big, big, big.
The devilwaar Is product two numbers massive seventy seven million
dollars in North America one hundred and fifty six overseas
(52:47):
for a global total of two hundred and thirty three
million dollars. Jesus one of the best showings ever for
a female fueled movie.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
What categories that.
Speaker 1 (52:59):
Keep calling it male?
Speaker 2 (53:00):
Female fueled?
Speaker 1 (53:01):
The Hollywood Reporter female.
Speaker 2 (53:04):
Fueled female old fucking weird.
Speaker 1 (53:08):
The original movie made twenty seven million dollars domestically in
two thousand and six dollars. I don't know if that
that must have been the opening weekend, but uh, I
think it didn't. Like it ended up making one hundred
million worldwide, but like not much more so it opened
to twenty seven million in two thousand and six and
finished with one hundred and twenty four million. Uh And
(53:31):
it's the sequels already like lapped that on that actually, Yeah, yeah, Wow.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
When I was on the plane, I usually just like
I'm always looking at them flight map and they do
this thing where it's like, you know, there's like two
like a progress bar, and they had little icons on
the progress bar where both fucking like where the Devil
wears pradact heel with like the trident. Really yeah, And
I was like at first, I was like, am I
(53:56):
like what the fuck am I looking.
Speaker 1 (53:58):
Marketing at like space Jam.
Speaker 2 (54:00):
It was so subtle. There was nothing else. There wasn't
even like an ad anywhere else. It's like they just
took over those little things. And then like when you
opened up like the entertainment section to like want to
watch a movie like the first one was there, but
there was nothing, no mention of the new one. I
was like, oh, right, this must be coming on. Ended
up watching Interstellar for the first time.
Speaker 1 (54:18):
Oh you've never seen Interstellar.
Speaker 2 (54:20):
I saw the first part of it like really high.
I remember when he came out and I was like, dude,
this isn't inception, and I stopped watching it. And then
I watched and I was like, oh, okay, I see,
I see, I see why.
Speaker 1 (54:30):
I see some people really love that movie. I feel
like one of those generational things. Didn't you miss me
a little bit?
Speaker 2 (54:38):
Yeah, like younger people, like just people like five to
seven years younger than me, like, are like so fucking crazy, dude,
He's like he's like in the fifth dimension. I was like, okay, cool.
The things that really struck me about it were just
like the stuff that was really about, like the sacrifice
of parents for their children. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (55:01):
Part to see it again now that I have kids,
But at the time I was making a.
Speaker 2 (55:08):
As no.
Speaker 1 (55:08):
I mean a younger person who I went to see
it with was like, I think that's the best movie
I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (55:13):
Yeah. It has yeah, and it's funny because I obviously
I went into it with like all of the hearing
all the same things about it, where like people are
like whatever, dude, like it's fine. Other people like it's
so visually brilliant, and I'm like, that's all of these
things have been true. There were parts where I did
not really care for. There were parts that I thought,
I honestly thought the robot would be the coolest thing.
(55:35):
The way that the fucker's just turned into different shapes.
I was like, yeah, yeah, I like this. I like
this robot.
Speaker 1 (55:40):
It was sick. I like, the things that I objected
to are in no way any stupider than the things
that I totally swallowed whole from inception. Yeah, yeah, right,
exactly exception. I was just like, nah, we're good here. Yeah,
I will accept every single one of these ridiculous things. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (55:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (55:59):
And I don't know what it was, but.
Speaker 2 (56:02):
Yeah, I think the thing that I the only the
part that I was just like, like, I always saw
that meme of like McConaughey crying. I was like, what
the fuck is going on in this movie? Like when
he's in that chair like looking at some video and
then you then I actually saw what it was about,
and I was like oh fuck.
Speaker 1 (56:18):
I think Brian the Editor's point that like they did
take a lot of care with the science ye stuff. Yeah,
but then that ending seems like they kind of abandoned
the science stuff. Do they not? Like isn't it kind
of like, well, love is the most powerful thing, right?
Speaker 4 (56:36):
What I hated about the movie, but I did like
that they built like a big ring for people to
live on.
Speaker 2 (56:41):
That was sick.
Speaker 1 (56:42):
Yeah, that was so cool. Yeah, the ring was awesome.
The planet where like time moved slower.
Speaker 2 (56:48):
Yeah yeah, yeah, But the part of me is like,
if they figured it out, couldn't they have gone and
got Anne Hathaway?
Speaker 1 (56:53):
Right? I think she didn't want to be got. Maybe
wasn't that the thing?
Speaker 2 (56:57):
I don't know? Again, it was like by that point,
it was like four in the morning and biological clock
at that point, and I was like, yeah, I thought.
I was like, oh, that's sick, bro. He just like
launched himself out the tesser Act and just sacrificed it.
And then I was like, wait, bro, they they caught
him floating loose, all right, fine, like whatever. I would
have been fine if he was dead.
Speaker 1 (57:16):
But that's also a female fueled movie, and that they
sacrifice her character for the yes purpose, throw it into
the into the furnace, Road into the furnace. The sequel
also there there's a fun little story that the uh
no of this.
Speaker 2 (57:34):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (57:35):
Also in Hathaway and Shallow, also Anna Wintor, who is
our next icon? How are you dealing with the fact
that you missed the Mister Bean iconic?
Speaker 2 (57:44):
I don't want to talk about it on Mike just
for the stability overall stability of the show. Yeah, I'm
not happy. But like I said, you know, when like
when we were planning around me being gone for two weeks,
I was like, you do what you gotta do, man.
I was like Matthew McConaughey in that scene of Interstellar
when I saw the Dean episode come up.
Speaker 1 (58:06):
I'm just like, but yeah, we have Anna wint Tour
coming up. The So one detail that is getting it
a little bit of good press is that there's a
moment in the sequel where uh Anna Wintur's Miranda Priestley
(58:26):
the Anna Wintur stand in uh there's a piece of
AI art generated about her that says, would you like
some lies with that? And she's like serving McDonald's. And
that was the fake AI art from the movie was
hand printed, hand painted by an artist, So I love
that they replaced AI with an actual artist.
Speaker 2 (58:49):
And a party was like, and it looks way better.
It's also, yeah, they totally nailed that, like sort of
the sort of shame of AI, you know, I mean,
like there's like this hard to describe the thing, like
when you look at it, you just know it is.
And I was surprised that the numbers on the signs
were actually coherent in the back. I would have had
(59:09):
at the one way fun with that.
Speaker 1 (59:11):
But hey, her friends, Yeah, it takes place in a
world where AI. It's like a couple months in the
future where AI has figured out the fingers. But yeah,
like the fries are a perfect spread of fries. They
look a little bit.
Speaker 2 (59:25):
Like pencils that are unsharpened.
Speaker 1 (59:27):
Shout out to Alexis Franklin who created that work of art.
Speaker 2 (59:32):
All right, yeah, I bet I bet it was cheap too,
she said, She said she was fairly compensated. All right,
that's what I like film man. Oh fuck you guys, Well,
what's fair for human verse? Fair for a data center
that needs three billion gallons of water?
Speaker 1 (59:48):
Yeah, that's right. It was fifteen dollars more. I think, yeah,
all right, that is going to do it for this Monday.
May fourth. Wonderful to have you back. May the Fourth
be with you, Jack, Oh shit, May the Fourth be fidel?
Oh my god, I can't believe I didn't even Did
you tell your kid, bro? I mean, he knows, you know.
(01:00:09):
I'm actually about to I have to miss a regular
episode because I'm picking them up early, not for May
the Fourth be with You. But I'm gonna tell him
that that's fine now, like hey man had to take
the four fourth? All right, real quick?
Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
No, real quick?
Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
All right? Uh happy? May the Fourth be with you?
Is that that's not how you can also with you
and also with.
Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
Your Yoda Yoga, Yoda's mercy and Durath forever yoa.
Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
All right, We are back tomorrow with the whole last
episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other,
be kind to yourselves, get your vaccines so you still
can't get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy.
We will talk to you tomorrow.
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