October 22, 2025 • 29 mins
In this edition of Skinny TrendBA Player, Jack and Miles discuss the start of the NBA season, Trump trying to steal hundreds of millions in tax payer dollars, Trump sending 'BiBiSitters' to Israel, a new moon in the sky (according to NASA), that very popular (and lucrative) 'Toll Text' scam and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Skinny
trend b A players. M My name's Jack O'Brien. That
over there is mister Miles Gray. And then a season kicked.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Off last night tragically, tragically, tragically for this unwell Lakers fan.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
But we The main thing I'm waiting to see is
there are multiple players in the league who lost a
legs worth of weight over the yea Joel embiid luka
doncic house players for our Yeah, Joel looking, he's looking slim,
(00:40):
He's looking at as slim as he's looking.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Does it look like that will help the in Like,
That's what I'm waiting the carriage. I mean, there's no
way it can't help to be like caring less weight.
Zion is the big one. There's a guy named.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Zion Williamson who has always been built like a linebacker
from like there are highlights of him playing in high
school basketball against like kids who haven't hit puberty yet,
and he looks exactly like he has his whole career,
which is like a fucking brickshit house, and he's just
like skying and dunking on everybody. That's always been the
(01:14):
thing that's wild about him is like he's bigger but
also has the highest vertical leap in the league. He
came back and looks like a whole different human this year.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
He looks like fifty cent in that one movie that
he lost all that weight for.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Well, I'm curious what this does to
their NBA games, Like what we're in a new era,
a new new scientific boundaries are being pushed. I'm sure
none of them are like, yeah it was thoseempic I'm
sure they're all like, I've tell you what I was doing.
I was working my ass off in the gym. But
(01:48):
let's be honest.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
And the reason that you probably could do that, you know,
like when you're an athlete, because I feel like Zion
can gain the weight just as quickly as he loses it, right,
like we've seen past seasons. But like Luka Donci, which
is like Revenge Body as it were, for being poked
fun at, like by the Mavericks, sort of front offers
like he loves lemonade. The guy was out of shape
all the time, sort of talking shit about he looked
(02:11):
fucking amazing. I will say.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
That that's great. So that's that's early returns that very encouraging,
Like forty people dropped the weight and suddenly they're more
athletic than they were before. That's exciting.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
But I mean because the warriors were clearly trying to
stop Luca, he still dropped forty three points on them.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yes, and he's the only thing that you guys have
going as.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, wait, look we lost by ten. We missed nine
free throws. We're missing Lebron. Lebron kind of looked I
don't look. I don't know if you've seen it.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
He looked.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
He looks kind of out of it, like usually when
he's sitting out and there's a time out, like he's
up in it because he's trying to be like he's like,
I'm Lebron, like let me give him.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
He kind of looked like he didn't really give a shit.
Interesting anyway, body language doctor is here. Yeah, I think
I think the holotypic question just comes from, like I've met,
I know people who like lost a lot of weight
on ozembic and they just seem tired, you know. And
I don't know if it's just that they look tired
because they're like literally deflated or what what. So that's
(03:13):
why I'm very curious to see how this season goes
with like a few players that I'm at least positing,
had a little zimpazy go Yeah, behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Hey whatever, get it. How you live? You know what
I mean, but don't But hey, look, Luca, however, you
did it fine. But keep putting up forty three points
a night and we'll just great. You might look tired,
but you look potent.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Zampasy too. Many want to be hard, be easy. Uh.
This is the trending episode where we tell you what
is trending in the news. Donald Trump is trying to
get two hundred and thirty million dollars in taxpayer money
paid directly to him.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Well, we'll call it restitution. Uh huh, it's it's restitution
for the just absolutely. He's he's suing because the Bible,
Like there were investigations into him. He's like the.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Russia, the crimes that he committed.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, sure, just because there's a Senate intelligence document that
shows that I was talking with people on the Russian
side of things. You know, there's plenty of evidence that
I was shifting documents around that I shouldn't have had
mar A Lago for that. He says he is owed
two hundred and thirty million dollars. He's been trying to
get this money for years actually, like even when he
(04:32):
was out of office. He was like hitting the DJ.
It was like, I'm here's my complaint. I want my
money now.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And he was asked about this, you know, little payola
thing payout to himself, and he responded quite well with
his trademark sinility. This is a journalist asking, hey, what's
up with this story we're hearing about? You want to
get two hundred thirty million dollars to yourself from your
own Justice Department investigations into you and look for compensation?
(04:59):
And how much are you asking for? Who's asking for?
What are you asking you?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Motherfucker?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Making a compensation for the compensation? Federal?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Is it compensation?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
You are you asking them to pay compensation? And how
much into me? I don't get any compensation. I do
it for nothing. I gave up my salary into me. Okay, sir, sir,
you're the one asking for two hundred and thirty million
dollars they're asking you for.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Who he is feeling that that was reg Reaganomics or
Reaganesque a little bit, and not in the way that
he wants to be reaganesque. He's someone who seems tired
after dropping some mos epic weight. I would say, Donald Trump,
he might have beetting tired.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, Like I mean somebody who's been just like a
machine fueled by dumping Big Max into a fucking furnace
and then like suddenly he's on hose epic and can't
like doesn't have the same fuel. I don't know if
that's working out for uh he has. This has been
a thing from the start that like he doesn't always
say like he'll he'll hint at it. He'll be like,
(06:08):
you know, I deserve like I could be making more
money than I am, Like his kids are always being
like you don't stam Like he's taken such a pay
cut to be the president of the American people. He's
sacrificing money, which has been like actually the opposite of
the truth, Like this second term has been a fucking
(06:28):
financial windfall for him and all of his family billion.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
All the kids are making their own deals right now.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
But it does like this is what he thinks he deserves.
I feel like all like rich people, that ends up
just being the main distinguishing factor between rich people and
other people. Is not like that they deserve it. It's
that they think they deserve.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
It, right right, right, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
And guilt, Yeah, no guilt, and they'll pursue it shamelessly
until the ends of the earth. And uh usually they
get it because once you have a lot of money,
you can use that money to uh make other people's
lives hell until they give you their money.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, it seems like I don't know. He was just
he was asked again today about that, and he was
sort of like, I'll be making the final call on that.
Like he didn't seem quite I think he just I
think a lot of people are like, you know, I mean,
you're stealing our money. You've been stealing our money. But like,
this is really fucking like and my own DOJ will
give me two hundred and thirty million and potentially open
(07:30):
the door for other freaks to be like, I was
wrongfully accused. Where's my money? He's gonna be like it.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Forensic analysts will be untangling for years, like all the
different ways that he enriched himself based on the President's
me feels like it's so out in the open, right, Well,
it's going to be worse than anybody think. Yeah, like
it's gonna be so ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
And episode people have said that it's possible he already
got paid out by his own DJ we just it
just hasn't been reported yet.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
So this is them just trying to be like, could
we make it so that that's not a scandal when
it comes.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Who knows, who knows anything to I don't know, detracted
or distract from every other fucking thing that's going on.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
We also have a situation in the Middle East where
we are sending what you have termed BB sitters.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
That's what I've been seeing on the internet. Yeah, yeah,
don't tell momad Yeah. So this is because obviously the
quote unquote ceasefire that wasn't has become tragically obvious.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, they're just killing Poustinian people.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Just under just under the bogus claim. It's like, well,
Hamas is like acting in bad faith. It's like, you're
fucking killing people again. What are you saying here? Anyway,
This is freaking out Trump because obviously he so badly
is right now obsessed with heaven and being mister peace
made err that he sent jd Vance already to Israel
(09:03):
to try and talk to Netan Yaho, and now Secretary
of State Marco Rubio is headed there to try and
keep the quote unquote ceasefire intact, whatever that means, because
from them, like it was maybe only a day or
so of like, oh, yeah, they're.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Killing Yeah, I don't think there was a day where
they weren't killing Palestinian people.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
On some level, whether that's through you know, withholding aid
or through kinetic means. But yeah, this is uh, just
this description of it. Vance's arrival on Tuesday follow a
report from The New York Times stating that there's a
concern within the Trump administration that Nen Yahoo may abandoned
the ceasefire deal and restart the war. What like he has.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
He's been doing that from day one. Yeah, as you
were up there celebrating he was abandoning the ceasefire deal.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah. And they goes on to say the current strategy
is for Vance, Kushner and Witkoff to convince Netan Yahoo
not to resume military operations against Tamas. Against Amas is
doing Come on now, it's not these are against innocent
people people. This is around them or you know, a
van full of children. His fair game.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
So Hamas was in the air Hamas has gone airborne.
It was all around that van.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
This is yeah, good luck, good luck. But it's I
don't know. I mean, like, pardon me. Is like, if
you want the ceasefire to work, it's pretty obvious how
you bring.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Stop arming them, Yeah, stop physically supporting them and financially
supporting them.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yeah. But what if we just said please, don't please dudies? Don't?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
All right, that's what did he say? You've left me
no option. I'm gonna send Marco Rubio.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, all right, that's it. I'm sending in the dog
the hounds coming in.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
The fuck do I care?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Anyways? Fuck bb net? Yeah, who would be? I know
there I said it. I think he's a mad guy.
What did he ever do to you?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
He's also a Sixers fan? Jack?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Is he a Sixers fan?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I don't know. I mean he's from Philly.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
He just has that accent.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
He's from Philly. Yeah, he's like from Philly. You know,
he went to he was raised in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
So that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Probably that in Rocky you might have a lot more
in common. He's like, my favorite movie is Jaws. When
are you guys gonna have me on the daily Zeitgeist.
I love love Ocean City, man, I love Jaws, I
love Ocean City. I love Menco Manco's pizza.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
One time I went on a ride and kind of
pissed myself.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You completely fuck around your line about it, all right, BBI,
what's your order at Manco Manko?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
The same exact order Mountain dew Jesus just when I
treat myself to Mountain do Man, I can't trust myself
with the stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
You tried. Baha blast Oh fuck no, it ain't the fun,
no Jack. They must have written up a dossier on you,
and he's just regurgitated. It's just his fucking This is
a syop.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
As I was saying, Miles, a new moon has dropped. Huh,
new moon just dropped? Okay, like NASA, they can make
up two moons now. It's so this is This reminds
me of like when you know an artist drops a
really good first album and then the second album. Everyone's
expecting it to be really good and it it's just
(12:14):
the first album was so good.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Man up with another album, the first moon.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
They killed it with it. They ate with the first moon.
That thing fucking rules. Some planetary systems only have one
good moon in them and we like, honestly, reading about
the second moon makes me appreciative of the work they
did with that first moon. You know. It's like, uh,
all right, let me let me give you the stats.
(12:41):
It's actually an asteroid that is eighteen to thirty six
meters why meters? What that's like a like a yard
you can claim moon with that. Yeah, it was discovered
by the University of Hawaii. Shout out to the University
of Hawaii, always out there just looking up at the
sky discover new shit. We think that they do it.
But it just has been officially labeled a quasi moon,
(13:05):
which is a rare type of celestial campaignion that travels
almost exactly in sync with the Earth. It's not bound
to the Earth Earth by gravity like the moon, which
what what's what's it doing up there? Then?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
So what So it's a quasi moon. That's so we're saying,
it's already it's a kind of kind of kind.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Of moon sixty years and we'll only stick around until
twenty eighty three. Sixty going to be there until twenty
eighty three, So it's you know, all.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Right, go home, right, go home, celestial companion.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
You're drunk this next one. So it turns out this
is not this is the first one that made it
to moon's status. Oh, but we also have a pseudo
second moon that dropped back in nineteen ninety seven called
thirty seven fifty three. Crew with me, I mean, if
you want me to pronounce it correctly, come up with
(14:00):
a name that seems like c R U I T
h n E. Okay, get out of here. Sometimes called
Earth's second moon, but technically not a moon. It's a
quasi orbital satellite. So it's not even quasi moon. It's
quasi orbital because it moves in a horseshoe orbit, which
(14:22):
makes it eight hundred years to complete. And this one,
this one sounds like it's ship faced.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Wow. Just so you know the this is it's a
reference to the early people of Ireland, Jack, so you
should have put a little respect for.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
That was Scottish. I think. Likewise, we can see so
this is from right up of the horseshoe orbit. Horshoe
orbits are actually quite common for moons in the Solar System.
Saturn has a couple of moons in this configuration for instance. Likewise,
we can see the same pattern on Earth's second Moon.
What's unique about Krie is how it wobbles and sways
along its horseshoe.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Oh, come on, we're doing a unk joke here.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I mean, is that why they gave it an Irish name.
It's all wobbly and bron fucked up. If you look
at Kruithney's motion in the Solar System, it makes a
messy ring around Earth's orbit, swings so wide that it
comes into the neighborhood of both Venus and Mars. It's
just like leaning on whatever is close by.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
This is pretty Come on, now, what are we What
are we trying to say here with this?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I know that's fucked up. Anyways, Uh, shout out to
the new Moon, Welcome to the family, but really shout
out to that first moon.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
That's the thing with Irish names. There's a guy, uh,
there's a goalkeeper named uh kellerher and his last name
looks like cowman, but it's pronounced cleven.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
What yeah, man.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Whenever I see it like a like an Irish word
like that, I'm like, it is not gonna be what
my brain thinks the letters are doing.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Nope, nice try asshole, that's what That's what we like
to say. Over in hour. Yeah, I haven't even given
you the real pronunciation of O'Brien.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I don't even want to.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
God, you don't do it to him.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
All right, we're gonna take a quick break. We'll be
right back, and we're back and uh so there was
a Wall Street Journal article last week about have you
(16:31):
been hit with these texts saying that you owe money
on a toll? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Of course that, like I went, I've gone into collections
with the Department of Transportation of California. That's how unserious
I'm about my toll violations.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
A lot of them are real, right, because yeah, so
they figured that out. Apparently the reason Wall Street Journal
article has estimated that criminals in China made one billion
dollars last year on that scam. On the the texting
people and being like a you owe toll.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Money, honestly, honestly shout out to you guys. You really,
that's you. That's that's such a good needle to thread
where it's realistic enough. Fuck it. I don't know how
much were people paying though, because I felt like, just like,
I think it's.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
A volume play based on the fact that I don't
know anybody who wasn't hit with like at least one
of these a week, like over the past year. I
think it's just a fucking volume play and they're just
getting a ton of payments. I will say. So, there's
another scam that is now I've heard of it anecdotally.
It happened to the parent of somebody I know. And
(17:45):
I just heard somebody on a podcast be like, Yo,
my parents like just got hit with a scam. So
I wanted to bring it up here where they are.
And there's also like a viral are scams read a
thread about it. But basically, they send you money either
over zell or like directly into your bank account and
that like you get a notification it's like you have
(18:08):
three thousand dollars in your bank account. And then they
call you and say, hey, I'm with whatever. They either
say like I'm a you know, private person or you know,
I'm with this organization and I we accidentally send you
sent you that money and we like desperately need you
to send it back to us. We're like in trouble,
like we go go go go, like please help us,
(18:29):
help us. And the money that it's like it's tricky
because the money is there in your bank account. But
the problem is that, like it is fraudulent money, you know,
and they need the money. That Yeah, so basically you
just either need to first of all, don't do what
they're saying. In the US, they say avoid engaging with
(18:52):
the center. Contact your bank immediately, let them know about
the unexpected deposit, and follow their instructions. Do not spend
the money. If the transaction is flagged as fraudulent, the
bank may reverse it, report the scam. Contact your bank
to the report the suspicious transfer. Uh. But yeah, like
that's is it really? Like, just talk to your parents
(19:14):
or like any elderly person you know, because that that
one that'll get their ass.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I tried to tell my mom and said, if anyone
ever says they're me, you call you say, you hang up,
and you call me back immediately. Right if there's if
anyone's even saying my mom, My mom is so susceptible
to like anyone who reminds her of me.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, man, that's my shid.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
She'll be like, oh, she reminded me of you. So
I bought all these unproven house cleaning chemicals. Oh, I
was like, what how much did you pay?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
She's like eighty dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I'm like, mom, oh no, I sold you bullsh just
bunko nonsense.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
She's like, I know, but I felt bad. If this
is what he has to do, and now they can
clone your voice.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
You know they already are probably Jesus fortunately, yeah, keep
hold that money, Hold that money.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I just I just pulled up.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I have one of the texts that I receive from this.
It says, this is what this is what you see.
This is the California version. It says California in the
state Department of Vehicles parathetical DMV final Notice enforcement penalties
begin on June twenty fifth. Our record show that as
of today, you used to have an outstanding traffic ticket
and according to go to this. This is where it's clever.
It says, go to HTTPS, so you know secure DMV
(20:28):
dot c A, dash WR, dot c C. You're like, okay,
there's DMV and c A in there. Yeah yeah, slash
portal and just give them your little bit of money.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah, I don't know it. It is one of the
most conspicuous ways that this country is, like, I just
like has gotten so much worse. Like you watch an
old movie and like the phone rings and there's a
reasonable expectation that it's somebody calling right now, Like a
(21:00):
phone call is ninety percent of the time, some not scambalshit.
It's not that this country is not designed for people,
like it's only designed for corporations, and corporations make their
money off loopholes and deregulation, and so individual people are
just not protected because they we don't have anyone looking
(21:23):
out for us, Like that's supposed to be the politician's job,
but like that has not been the case for over
a decade, and it's not going to be the case
until Citizens United's overturned.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Or Jack or the constituents begin paying the politicians more
than the corporations do.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Okay, that's where we go. That's my counter.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Okay, how much they give you. Okay, well we can't
do that, but that's not poison out of our water.
But the poison water people just gave me like eighty
k and go.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
You had the early days of Cracked where we were like,
we're advertising it with fucking coasters with like jokes on
them in bars in New York, and we like sat
down and had a meeting with like a real marketing firm,
like yeah, no, just let us know, like, what what's
your normal rate? And we're like, uh so we can't
do that. Yeah, that is not happening, But thank you
(22:25):
so much for coming in. Yeah, did you actually not
open that bottle of water? We actually spend a lot
of money on that bottle of water. I'm gonna need
you to.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Get a restaurant and you see, like you you get
the bread first, but the menu next, and you're so
expensive as you start putting the bread out of your mouth.
We gotta go, we gotta go. This is not it.
Please don't charge me for that bread bite.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I didn't know, but yeah, it's we're in a everything
is broken, Like the all we all we do in
this country. We generate technologies that are fun to play
with for a year before they get exploited by loopholes
by either the ultra wealthy corporations or scammers like that's
(23:09):
and sometimes they're all the same, all the same. Yeah.
And it's the fact that it isn't a bigger outrage.
I think it's just, you know, it's been slow enough
that it's sort of a generational thing where like young
people aren't aware that this is not how it always was,
that you weren't that email used to be a thing
(23:29):
that you could use. That fucking phones were a thing
that when it rang someone.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Got excited, You were excited.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
It were just a thing. Like and everything is brought.
Facebook when it first happened was actually like cool and
now it's just broken. Everything gets broken because of scammers
and advertisers and corporations.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
In the days, I remember when I used to like
fucking think up kids from preschool that I haven't thought
in decades and like search for them and like find
the Oh my god, dude, what happened you moved to
fucking Montana?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
What? Yeah, I'm a racist? Now? No, they're not everybody
in Montana, not at.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Oh no, not everyone, just just the racists that are there.
But like I remember also being arrantly added to like
friend groups where people were like, that's a brown Miles.
I think we went to school with. Like I was
in this like message group with these kids in North
Carolina who were convinced I was somebody they grew up with,
even despite me being like I don't know why you
guys added me to this, Like oh, Miles, you're.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Just part of that chat now on Yeah, Miles is
so crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Oh my god, it's such a miles.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
By the way, I was listening to the Pabulatory Finds
Out podcast and the latest one that had I listened
to anything that Joe Mandy appears on I'm a Big
Joe Mandy Fance Sure Sure, so funny. It was just
Joe Mandy and Mike Sure and they were talking about
a game they played in the Parks and rec writers
room where everybody like you renamed people based on their vibet.
(25:06):
You were like, Okay, that's the name your parents gave you,
but you're actually a thinking about that, and I was like,
we should play that game on daily. He's like, guys,
but I think you're a miles Like I don't think
there's another name, Like is there a name that people
call you or like no, yeah, no, You're like you
are your name? Like you your parents fucking ate with
(25:28):
that one.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
They did, they were you got it. I mean, look
they I'm sure I've brought up the battle for my naming.
But my mom wanted to name me Byron after Lord Byron.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Yeah, doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
And my dad was like he's gonna get his ass
beat being named Byron.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
No.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Uh. And then they went to a Gavrillo, hey man, Yeah,
then it was either that John Ryan.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
The editor said that Myles looks more like a Gavrillo.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
It suggested John Brown, General William tacomsa Sherman, those kinds
of names. No, they went to a Miles Davis concert
and they're like, oh, Miles there, that's cool. There it is.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
When I look at you, you're definitely it. That's the thing. Yeah,
I think, I think if you don't know anyone wellen,
I'm even trying to think of someone I know well
and like Broude, that's the completely wrong name for you.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Yeah, Like, you gotta sit with it a little bit.
It's a it's a tough one to just come up
with off the top of your head.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
But I could see like Chris Crofton being like a Hank.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Yeah, Chris could be a Hank.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Something like that, just a little bit more. Chris is
like soft, he needs something like a hard conund to it.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
It sounded like you were that uh made up dinosaur
from Jurassic Park spitting the I did want to ask
the Zeich Gang let me know on Blue Sky or Twitter,
is like, if you live outside the United States, is
your ship this broken, Like, do you how many texts?
How many scam texts are you getting a day? How
(27:05):
many scam calls are you getting a day? It has
like it's picked up in the last year. Like now
it's basically like the expectation is, yeah, this shit's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Reporting from Mexico. He says, no scam calls.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
The fuck man. I think it's already that is infuriated.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
It's just about like the consider there's just the utter
lack of consumer protections here that are so different. Like
I'm I can't even like in Japan, I feel like
I'm thinking of it. I'm like, oh, there's always scams,
you know what I mean. But like, like the ability
to get touched by a scam is just so much
higher in the US, I think than anywhere else. It's
(27:45):
the fucking wild West out here.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
It's great. I mean, I guess it should be just
say hell, my bad, which also the wild West kind
of hell. If you read blood Meridian, yeah, a bit
of huh, it makes it. I mean, that's where this
is where the scammers are coming. This is where they're
like the getting is good. Go to the United States.
People everywhere have cell phones. By the way, there are
(28:10):
mobile phones everywhere around the world, and they're coming at us.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Okay, so well, because we're the big we're the big
fucking fat prize pig that's hoovering up all the resources
of the world.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
The resources have the resources, and the elderly are hoarding
the resources. But I also think we're uniquely unprotected by
our yeah, yeah, yeah, by our loss. All right, those
are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday,
October twenty second. We are back tomorrow with a whole
ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to
(28:46):
each other, be kind to yourselves, get your vaccines while
you still can get your flu shots, don't do nothing
about white supremacy, and we will talk to you tomorrow.
Bye oh bye.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
The Daily Zeit guys as executive produced by Catherine.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Law by Bee Wayne, co produced by Victor Wright, co
written by j. M McNabb, and edited and engineered by
Brian Jeffries.
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Skinny
trend b A players. M My name's Jack O'Brien. That
over there is mister Miles Gray. And then a season kicked.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Off last night tragically, tragically, tragically for this unwell Lakers fan.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
But we The main thing I'm waiting to see is
there are multiple players in the league who lost a
legs worth of weight over the yea Joel embiid luka
doncic house players for our Yeah, Joel looking, he's looking slim,
(00:40):
He's looking at as slim as he's looking.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Does it look like that will help the in Like,
That's what I'm waiting the carriage. I mean, there's no
way it can't help to be like caring less weight.
Zion is the big one. There's a guy named.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Zion Williamson who has always been built like a linebacker
from like there are highlights of him playing in high
school basketball against like kids who haven't hit puberty yet,
and he looks exactly like he has his whole career,
which is like a fucking brickshit house, and he's just
like skying and dunking on everybody. That's always been the
(01:14):
thing that's wild about him is like he's bigger but
also has the highest vertical leap in the league. He
came back and looks like a whole different human this year.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
He looks like fifty cent in that one movie that
he lost all that weight for.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Well, I'm curious what this does to
their NBA games, Like what we're in a new era,
a new new scientific boundaries are being pushed. I'm sure
none of them are like, yeah it was thoseempic I'm
sure they're all like, I've tell you what I was doing.
I was working my ass off in the gym. But
(01:48):
let's be honest.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
And the reason that you probably could do that, you know,
like when you're an athlete, because I feel like Zion
can gain the weight just as quickly as he loses it, right,
like we've seen past seasons. But like Luka Donci, which
is like Revenge Body as it were, for being poked
fun at, like by the Mavericks, sort of front offers
like he loves lemonade. The guy was out of shape
all the time, sort of talking shit about he looked
(02:11):
fucking amazing. I will say.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
That that's great. So that's that's early returns that very encouraging,
Like forty people dropped the weight and suddenly they're more
athletic than they were before. That's exciting.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
But I mean because the warriors were clearly trying to
stop Luca, he still dropped forty three points on them.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yes, and he's the only thing that you guys have
going as.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, wait, look we lost by ten. We missed nine
free throws. We're missing Lebron. Lebron kind of looked I
don't look. I don't know if you've seen it.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
He looked.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
He looks kind of out of it, like usually when
he's sitting out and there's a time out, like he's
up in it because he's trying to be like he's like,
I'm Lebron, like let me give him.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
He kind of looked like he didn't really give a shit.
Interesting anyway, body language doctor is here. Yeah, I think
I think the holotypic question just comes from, like I've met,
I know people who like lost a lot of weight
on ozembic and they just seem tired, you know. And
I don't know if it's just that they look tired
because they're like literally deflated or what what. So that's
(03:13):
why I'm very curious to see how this season goes
with like a few players that I'm at least positing,
had a little zimpazy go Yeah, behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Hey whatever, get it. How you live? You know what
I mean, but don't But hey, look, Luca, however, you
did it fine. But keep putting up forty three points
a night and we'll just great. You might look tired,
but you look potent.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Zampasy too. Many want to be hard, be easy. Uh.
This is the trending episode where we tell you what
is trending in the news. Donald Trump is trying to
get two hundred and thirty million dollars in taxpayer money
paid directly to him.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Well, we'll call it restitution. Uh huh, it's it's restitution
for the just absolutely. He's he's suing because the Bible,
Like there were investigations into him. He's like the.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Russia, the crimes that he committed.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, sure, just because there's a Senate intelligence document that
shows that I was talking with people on the Russian
side of things. You know, there's plenty of evidence that
I was shifting documents around that I shouldn't have had
mar A Lago for that. He says he is owed
two hundred and thirty million dollars. He's been trying to
get this money for years actually, like even when he
(04:32):
was out of office. He was like hitting the DJ.
It was like, I'm here's my complaint. I want my
money now.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And he was asked about this, you know, little payola
thing payout to himself, and he responded quite well with
his trademark sinility. This is a journalist asking, hey, what's
up with this story we're hearing about? You want to
get two hundred thirty million dollars to yourself from your
own Justice Department investigations into you and look for compensation?
(04:59):
And how much are you asking for? Who's asking for?
What are you asking you?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Motherfucker?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Making a compensation for the compensation? Federal?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Is it compensation?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
You are you asking them to pay compensation? And how
much into me? I don't get any compensation. I do
it for nothing. I gave up my salary into me. Okay, sir, sir,
you're the one asking for two hundred and thirty million
dollars they're asking you for.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Who he is feeling that that was reg Reaganomics or
Reaganesque a little bit, and not in the way that
he wants to be reaganesque. He's someone who seems tired
after dropping some mos epic weight. I would say, Donald Trump,
he might have beetting tired.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, Like I mean somebody who's been just like a
machine fueled by dumping Big Max into a fucking furnace
and then like suddenly he's on hose epic and can't
like doesn't have the same fuel. I don't know if
that's working out for uh he has. This has been
a thing from the start that like he doesn't always
say like he'll he'll hint at it. He'll be like,
(06:08):
you know, I deserve like I could be making more
money than I am, Like his kids are always being
like you don't stam Like he's taken such a pay
cut to be the president of the American people. He's
sacrificing money, which has been like actually the opposite of
the truth, Like this second term has been a fucking
(06:28):
financial windfall for him and all of his family billion.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
All the kids are making their own deals right now.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
But it does like this is what he thinks he deserves.
I feel like all like rich people, that ends up
just being the main distinguishing factor between rich people and
other people. Is not like that they deserve it. It's
that they think they deserve.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
It, right right, right, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
And guilt, Yeah, no guilt, and they'll pursue it shamelessly
until the ends of the earth. And uh usually they
get it because once you have a lot of money,
you can use that money to uh make other people's
lives hell until they give you their money.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, it seems like I don't know. He was just
he was asked again today about that, and he was
sort of like, I'll be making the final call on that.
Like he didn't seem quite I think he just I
think a lot of people are like, you know, I mean,
you're stealing our money. You've been stealing our money. But like,
this is really fucking like and my own DOJ will
give me two hundred and thirty million and potentially open
(07:30):
the door for other freaks to be like, I was
wrongfully accused. Where's my money? He's gonna be like it.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Forensic analysts will be untangling for years, like all the
different ways that he enriched himself based on the President's
me feels like it's so out in the open, right, Well,
it's going to be worse than anybody think. Yeah, like
it's gonna be so ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
And episode people have said that it's possible he already
got paid out by his own DJ we just it
just hasn't been reported yet.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
So this is them just trying to be like, could
we make it so that that's not a scandal when
it comes.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Who knows, who knows anything to I don't know, detracted
or distract from every other fucking thing that's going on.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
We also have a situation in the Middle East where
we are sending what you have termed BB sitters.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
That's what I've been seeing on the internet. Yeah, yeah,
don't tell momad Yeah. So this is because obviously the
quote unquote ceasefire that wasn't has become tragically obvious.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, they're just killing Poustinian people.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Just under just under the bogus claim. It's like, well,
Hamas is like acting in bad faith. It's like, you're
fucking killing people again. What are you saying here? Anyway,
This is freaking out Trump because obviously he so badly
is right now obsessed with heaven and being mister peace
made err that he sent jd Vance already to Israel
(09:03):
to try and talk to Netan Yaho, and now Secretary
of State Marco Rubio is headed there to try and
keep the quote unquote ceasefire intact, whatever that means, because
from them, like it was maybe only a day or
so of like, oh, yeah, they're.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Killing Yeah, I don't think there was a day where
they weren't killing Palestinian people.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
On some level, whether that's through you know, withholding aid
or through kinetic means. But yeah, this is uh, just
this description of it. Vance's arrival on Tuesday follow a
report from The New York Times stating that there's a
concern within the Trump administration that Nen Yahoo may abandoned
the ceasefire deal and restart the war. What like he has.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
He's been doing that from day one. Yeah, as you
were up there celebrating he was abandoning the ceasefire deal.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah. And they goes on to say the current strategy
is for Vance, Kushner and Witkoff to convince Netan Yahoo
not to resume military operations against Tamas. Against Amas is
doing Come on now, it's not these are against innocent
people people. This is around them or you know, a
van full of children. His fair game.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
So Hamas was in the air Hamas has gone airborne.
It was all around that van.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
This is yeah, good luck, good luck. But it's I
don't know. I mean, like, pardon me. Is like, if
you want the ceasefire to work, it's pretty obvious how
you bring.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Stop arming them, Yeah, stop physically supporting them and financially
supporting them.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yeah. But what if we just said please, don't please dudies? Don't?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
All right, that's what did he say? You've left me
no option. I'm gonna send Marco Rubio.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, all right, that's it. I'm sending in the dog
the hounds coming in.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
The fuck do I care?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Anyways? Fuck bb net? Yeah, who would be? I know
there I said it. I think he's a mad guy.
What did he ever do to you?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
He's also a Sixers fan? Jack?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Is he a Sixers fan?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I don't know. I mean he's from Philly.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
He just has that accent.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
He's from Philly. Yeah, he's like from Philly. You know,
he went to he was raised in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
So that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Probably that in Rocky you might have a lot more
in common. He's like, my favorite movie is Jaws. When
are you guys gonna have me on the daily Zeitgeist.
I love love Ocean City, man, I love Jaws, I
love Ocean City. I love Menco Manco's pizza.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
One time I went on a ride and kind of
pissed myself.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You completely fuck around your line about it, all right, BBI,
what's your order at Manco Manko?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
The same exact order Mountain dew Jesus just when I
treat myself to Mountain do Man, I can't trust myself
with the stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
You tried. Baha blast Oh fuck no, it ain't the fun,
no Jack. They must have written up a dossier on you,
and he's just regurgitated. It's just his fucking This is
a syop.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
As I was saying, Miles, a new moon has dropped. Huh,
new moon just dropped? Okay, like NASA, they can make
up two moons now. It's so this is This reminds
me of like when you know an artist drops a
really good first album and then the second album. Everyone's
expecting it to be really good and it it's just
(12:14):
the first album was so good.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Man up with another album, the first moon.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
They killed it with it. They ate with the first moon.
That thing fucking rules. Some planetary systems only have one
good moon in them and we like, honestly, reading about
the second moon makes me appreciative of the work they
did with that first moon. You know. It's like, uh,
all right, let me let me give you the stats.
(12:41):
It's actually an asteroid that is eighteen to thirty six
meters why meters? What that's like a like a yard
you can claim moon with that. Yeah, it was discovered
by the University of Hawaii. Shout out to the University
of Hawaii, always out there just looking up at the
sky discover new shit. We think that they do it.
But it just has been officially labeled a quasi moon,
(13:05):
which is a rare type of celestial campaignion that travels
almost exactly in sync with the Earth. It's not bound
to the Earth Earth by gravity like the moon, which
what what's what's it doing up there? Then?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
So what So it's a quasi moon. That's so we're saying,
it's already it's a kind of kind of kind.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Of moon sixty years and we'll only stick around until
twenty eighty three. Sixty going to be there until twenty
eighty three, So it's you know, all.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Right, go home, right, go home, celestial companion.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
You're drunk this next one. So it turns out this
is not this is the first one that made it
to moon's status. Oh, but we also have a pseudo
second moon that dropped back in nineteen ninety seven called
thirty seven fifty three. Crew with me, I mean, if
you want me to pronounce it correctly, come up with
(14:00):
a name that seems like c R U I T
h n E. Okay, get out of here. Sometimes called
Earth's second moon, but technically not a moon. It's a
quasi orbital satellite. So it's not even quasi moon. It's
quasi orbital because it moves in a horseshoe orbit, which
(14:22):
makes it eight hundred years to complete. And this one,
this one sounds like it's ship faced.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Wow. Just so you know the this is it's a
reference to the early people of Ireland, Jack, so you
should have put a little respect for.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
That was Scottish. I think. Likewise, we can see so
this is from right up of the horseshoe orbit. Horshoe
orbits are actually quite common for moons in the Solar System.
Saturn has a couple of moons in this configuration for instance. Likewise,
we can see the same pattern on Earth's second Moon.
What's unique about Krie is how it wobbles and sways
along its horseshoe.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Oh, come on, we're doing a unk joke here.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I mean, is that why they gave it an Irish name.
It's all wobbly and bron fucked up. If you look
at Kruithney's motion in the Solar System, it makes a
messy ring around Earth's orbit, swings so wide that it
comes into the neighborhood of both Venus and Mars. It's
just like leaning on whatever is close by.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
This is pretty Come on, now, what are we What
are we trying to say here with this?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I know that's fucked up. Anyways, Uh, shout out to
the new Moon, Welcome to the family, but really shout
out to that first moon.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
That's the thing with Irish names. There's a guy, uh,
there's a goalkeeper named uh kellerher and his last name
looks like cowman, but it's pronounced cleven.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
What yeah, man.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Whenever I see it like a like an Irish word
like that, I'm like, it is not gonna be what
my brain thinks the letters are doing.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Nope, nice try asshole, that's what That's what we like
to say. Over in hour. Yeah, I haven't even given
you the real pronunciation of O'Brien.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I don't even want to.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
God, you don't do it to him.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
All right, we're gonna take a quick break. We'll be
right back, and we're back and uh so there was
a Wall Street Journal article last week about have you
(16:31):
been hit with these texts saying that you owe money
on a toll? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Of course that, like I went, I've gone into collections
with the Department of Transportation of California. That's how unserious
I'm about my toll violations.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
A lot of them are real, right, because yeah, so
they figured that out. Apparently the reason Wall Street Journal
article has estimated that criminals in China made one billion
dollars last year on that scam. On the the texting
people and being like a you owe toll.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Money, honestly, honestly shout out to you guys. You really,
that's you. That's that's such a good needle to thread
where it's realistic enough. Fuck it. I don't know how
much were people paying though, because I felt like, just like,
I think it's.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
A volume play based on the fact that I don't
know anybody who wasn't hit with like at least one
of these a week, like over the past year. I
think it's just a fucking volume play and they're just
getting a ton of payments. I will say. So, there's
another scam that is now I've heard of it anecdotally.
It happened to the parent of somebody I know. And
(17:45):
I just heard somebody on a podcast be like, Yo,
my parents like just got hit with a scam. So
I wanted to bring it up here where they are.
And there's also like a viral are scams read a
thread about it. But basically, they send you money either
over zell or like directly into your bank account and
that like you get a notification it's like you have
(18:08):
three thousand dollars in your bank account. And then they
call you and say, hey, I'm with whatever. They either
say like I'm a you know, private person or you know,
I'm with this organization and I we accidentally send you
sent you that money and we like desperately need you
to send it back to us. We're like in trouble,
like we go go go go, like please help us,
(18:29):
help us. And the money that it's like it's tricky
because the money is there in your bank account. But
the problem is that, like it is fraudulent money, you know,
and they need the money. That Yeah, so basically you
just either need to first of all, don't do what
they're saying. In the US, they say avoid engaging with
(18:52):
the center. Contact your bank immediately, let them know about
the unexpected deposit, and follow their instructions. Do not spend
the money. If the transaction is flagged as fraudulent, the
bank may reverse it, report the scam. Contact your bank
to the report the suspicious transfer. Uh. But yeah, like
that's is it really? Like, just talk to your parents
(19:14):
or like any elderly person you know, because that that
one that'll get their ass.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I tried to tell my mom and said, if anyone
ever says they're me, you call you say, you hang up,
and you call me back immediately. Right if there's if
anyone's even saying my mom, My mom is so susceptible
to like anyone who reminds her of me.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, man, that's my shid.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
She'll be like, oh, she reminded me of you. So
I bought all these unproven house cleaning chemicals. Oh, I
was like, what how much did you pay?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
She's like eighty dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I'm like, mom, oh no, I sold you bullsh just
bunko nonsense.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
She's like, I know, but I felt bad. If this
is what he has to do, and now they can
clone your voice.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
You know they already are probably Jesus fortunately, yeah, keep
hold that money, Hold that money.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I just I just pulled up.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I have one of the texts that I receive from this.
It says, this is what this is what you see.
This is the California version. It says California in the
state Department of Vehicles parathetical DMV final Notice enforcement penalties
begin on June twenty fifth. Our record show that as
of today, you used to have an outstanding traffic ticket
and according to go to this. This is where it's clever.
It says, go to HTTPS, so you know secure DMV
(20:28):
dot c A, dash WR, dot c C. You're like, okay,
there's DMV and c A in there. Yeah yeah, slash
portal and just give them your little bit of money.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah, I don't know it. It is one of the
most conspicuous ways that this country is, like, I just
like has gotten so much worse. Like you watch an
old movie and like the phone rings and there's a
reasonable expectation that it's somebody calling right now, Like a
(21:00):
phone call is ninety percent of the time, some not scambalshit.
It's not that this country is not designed for people,
like it's only designed for corporations, and corporations make their
money off loopholes and deregulation, and so individual people are
just not protected because they we don't have anyone looking
(21:23):
out for us, Like that's supposed to be the politician's job,
but like that has not been the case for over
a decade, and it's not going to be the case
until Citizens United's overturned.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Or Jack or the constituents begin paying the politicians more
than the corporations do.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Okay, that's where we go. That's my counter.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Okay, how much they give you. Okay, well we can't
do that, but that's not poison out of our water.
But the poison water people just gave me like eighty
k and go.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
You had the early days of Cracked where we were like,
we're advertising it with fucking coasters with like jokes on
them in bars in New York, and we like sat
down and had a meeting with like a real marketing firm,
like yeah, no, just let us know, like, what what's
your normal rate? And we're like, uh so we can't
do that. Yeah, that is not happening, But thank you
(22:25):
so much for coming in. Yeah, did you actually not
open that bottle of water? We actually spend a lot
of money on that bottle of water. I'm gonna need
you to.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Get a restaurant and you see, like you you get
the bread first, but the menu next, and you're so
expensive as you start putting the bread out of your mouth.
We gotta go, we gotta go. This is not it.
Please don't charge me for that bread bite.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I didn't know, but yeah, it's we're in a everything
is broken, Like the all we all we do in
this country. We generate technologies that are fun to play
with for a year before they get exploited by loopholes
by either the ultra wealthy corporations or scammers like that's
(23:09):
and sometimes they're all the same, all the same. Yeah.
And it's the fact that it isn't a bigger outrage.
I think it's just, you know, it's been slow enough
that it's sort of a generational thing where like young
people aren't aware that this is not how it always was,
that you weren't that email used to be a thing
(23:29):
that you could use. That fucking phones were a thing
that when it rang someone.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Got excited, You were excited.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
It were just a thing. Like and everything is brought.
Facebook when it first happened was actually like cool and
now it's just broken. Everything gets broken because of scammers
and advertisers and corporations.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
In the days, I remember when I used to like
fucking think up kids from preschool that I haven't thought
in decades and like search for them and like find
the Oh my god, dude, what happened you moved to
fucking Montana?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
What? Yeah, I'm a racist? Now? No, they're not everybody
in Montana, not at.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Oh no, not everyone, just just the racists that are there.
But like I remember also being arrantly added to like
friend groups where people were like, that's a brown Miles.
I think we went to school with. Like I was
in this like message group with these kids in North
Carolina who were convinced I was somebody they grew up with,
even despite me being like I don't know why you
guys added me to this, Like oh, Miles, you're.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Just part of that chat now on Yeah, Miles is
so crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Oh my god, it's such a miles.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
By the way, I was listening to the Pabulatory Finds
Out podcast and the latest one that had I listened
to anything that Joe Mandy appears on I'm a Big
Joe Mandy Fance Sure Sure, so funny. It was just
Joe Mandy and Mike Sure and they were talking about
a game they played in the Parks and rec writers
room where everybody like you renamed people based on their vibet.
(25:06):
You were like, Okay, that's the name your parents gave you,
but you're actually a thinking about that, and I was like,
we should play that game on daily. He's like, guys,
but I think you're a miles Like I don't think
there's another name, Like is there a name that people
call you or like no, yeah, no, You're like you
are your name? Like you your parents fucking ate with
(25:28):
that one.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
They did, they were you got it. I mean, look
they I'm sure I've brought up the battle for my naming.
But my mom wanted to name me Byron after Lord Byron.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Yeah, doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
And my dad was like he's gonna get his ass
beat being named Byron.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
No.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Uh. And then they went to a Gavrillo, hey man, Yeah,
then it was either that John Ryan.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
The editor said that Myles looks more like a Gavrillo.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
It suggested John Brown, General William tacomsa Sherman, those kinds
of names. No, they went to a Miles Davis concert
and they're like, oh, Miles there, that's cool. There it is.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
When I look at you, you're definitely it. That's the thing. Yeah,
I think, I think if you don't know anyone wellen,
I'm even trying to think of someone I know well
and like Broude, that's the completely wrong name for you.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Yeah, Like, you gotta sit with it a little bit.
It's a it's a tough one to just come up
with off the top of your head.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
But I could see like Chris Crofton being like a Hank.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Yeah, Chris could be a Hank.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Something like that, just a little bit more. Chris is
like soft, he needs something like a hard conund to it.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
It sounded like you were that uh made up dinosaur
from Jurassic Park spitting the I did want to ask
the Zeich Gang let me know on Blue Sky or Twitter,
is like, if you live outside the United States, is
your ship this broken, Like, do you how many texts?
How many scam texts are you getting a day? How
(27:05):
many scam calls are you getting a day? It has
like it's picked up in the last year. Like now
it's basically like the expectation is, yeah, this shit's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Reporting from Mexico. He says, no scam calls.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
The fuck man. I think it's already that is infuriated.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
It's just about like the consider there's just the utter
lack of consumer protections here that are so different. Like
I'm I can't even like in Japan, I feel like
I'm thinking of it. I'm like, oh, there's always scams,
you know what I mean. But like, like the ability
to get touched by a scam is just so much
higher in the US, I think than anywhere else. It's
(27:45):
the fucking wild West out here.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
It's great. I mean, I guess it should be just
say hell, my bad, which also the wild West kind
of hell. If you read blood Meridian, yeah, a bit
of huh, it makes it. I mean, that's where this
is where the scammers are coming. This is where they're
like the getting is good. Go to the United States.
People everywhere have cell phones. By the way, there are
(28:10):
mobile phones everywhere around the world, and they're coming at us.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Okay, so well, because we're the big we're the big
fucking fat prize pig that's hoovering up all the resources
of the world.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
The resources have the resources, and the elderly are hoarding
the resources. But I also think we're uniquely unprotected by
our yeah, yeah, yeah, by our loss. All right, those
are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday,
October twenty second. We are back tomorrow with a whole
ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to
(28:46):
each other, be kind to yourselves, get your vaccines while
you still can get your flu shots, don't do nothing
about white supremacy, and we will talk to you tomorrow.
Bye oh bye.
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