Weekly Zeitgeist 444 (Best of 8/17/26-8/21/26)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from
this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza. Yeah, so,
without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. What is

(00:25):
something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?
We'll go with me here the search history.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
One of the last things on my search history was
was Hotel California you can check out anytime, because someone
wrote you can check out any time you like, and
in my head it was you can check out any
time you want. And I don't know if you guys
have this thing where you fixate on small details, like

(00:53):
I feel like I would have gone to the mat
saying like, it's check out any time you want, of course,
And then I read the lyrics and it was time
you Like.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
I was like, how did I like?

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Why was I convinced it was the wrong thing? And
why do I care? I knew it was like and frankly,
I don't know what the fuck is wrong with me?

Speaker 4 (01:08):
I think I think it's and you're really fun umb
about this.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
No, I also have things like that or I'm like
pretty positive that someone wrote a certain song and I'll
be like I'll swear anything, and I look it up,
I'm like, oh, it actually wasn't Michelle Branch it was
Vanessa Carleton and that's my fault.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, it's tough.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
I mean, I guess, like before Google, either you could
just like be the most confident person or you would
look stupid like a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Sure. Yeah, and that does change the meaning of the
song in a very profound Oh wait, no, it doesn't
at all, doesn't, do you. Do you like that song? Me?

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, no, No, I'm like, I'm with the dude on
this one. I think I enjoy the like the certain
Joe Walsh Eagles songs, but I feel like that one's
distinctly not I feel like that one's distinctly like a
Henley song.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
And oh yeah, that's Hemley getting in his bag. Yeah,
Henly being like giving himself goose bumps while he's like
writing it, you know, he's like, oh shit, man, I
don't know.

Speaker 5 (02:14):
Why, but that song to me is such quintessential Americana
that like, I'll allow it.

Speaker 6 (02:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
I And also.

Speaker 5 (02:21):
There's like a place on have you ever driven by this?
Jack in La That is hotel California. It's like on
ocean in Santa Monica, And I always want to look
up if like they named it after the song or
was this based on the hotel?

Speaker 4 (02:36):
But I never cared enough because the evils.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
You know another thing that I thought about today when
I was doing you know, you can check out anytime
you like. I'd never like pondered the meaning of it,
but today I was like, Oh, they're like saying that
you can like get high in California, but you'll you'll
be stuck here. That's kind of like this is that
what they're going for? There be a drug check out
so you can check out anytime you like. Man, we
got drugs everywhere.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
So much deeper than I thought. I think you're one
thousand percent correct.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
I thought it was about Satanism. It's just about drugs
and having a good time. I could definitely see Don
Hemley being like, wait, what you thought it was about
satan No, it's about a hotel that I stayed at
one time. Yeah, it's guys talking about it. I just
didn't like the hotel.

Speaker 5 (03:20):
Yeah, it was a song about look at hotel that
has like ghosts and that's why you can't leave, you know,
like like a Netflix show or something.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
I do not like that song, I but like at
this point, but I do think it's a powerful rite
of passage to be into the lyrics to that song
when you're like twelve years old and you're like first
hearing it and you're like, whoa dude, wait, there's actually
some fucked up shit in here, because it's like it's

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a song that your parents like listen to, you know,
it's just everywhere.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
And then a parent music yeah, like parents getting too
drunk at a dinner party. You're like, yeah, guys, knock
it off with the the.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
Parents.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
It also like is a creative writing exercise that like
goes off the rails a little bit where it's where
the like he's doing like subtle stuff with like the Devil,
you know. And then at one point it's like we
are programmed to receive What the fuck I turned into robots?

Speaker 3 (04:22):
What are you doing? Man?

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Anyways, fuck the Eagles. You know, we got into a
nice discussion about why The Dude's rejection of the Eagles
is philosophically important in that in that The Dude episode,
I think I.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Think, yeah, I didn't want to rehash that I was like,
I feel like I've already said this before.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Already said this time. We are a rehashing podcast. That's
what that's what we do. Speaking of rehashing, Sophia and
I have an apology to make. We we spent a
bunch of day Is Trending and Trending episode talking about
all of them. Top Papa's We the Pops, Top of

(05:04):
the Pops, as Sophia termed it, Papa John, Papa Smurf,
Papa John bottom of the list.

Speaker 5 (05:11):
Yeah, just below human popoloma virus.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Uh huh yeah, so human papoloma virus was Sophia's edition
and Papa Roach.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Uh yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
We started talking about it a couple of days ago.
So Papyrus font was a good one. Papa Iris, we did.
Our judges allowed that. I was surprised our judges allowed that.
I thought they weren't. We're going to call bullshit on
that one.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yeah, it was crazy.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
I tried to slide Popeye by and they said, get
the fuck out of here. Yeah yeah, Pop And of
course Papa as a thing to call your father is adorable.
Uh Ill, Papa is one that I hadn't thought of.
But that is what we call the pope. We Italian

(06:01):
Americans call the pope Papa. That's not that is my offensive.
We talked Papa Pia. Then we did a long news
story about paparazzi and didn't didn't even make the connection.
On the Episodegregious, paparazzi are on there, There there Paya,

(06:22):
the wonderful Papaya made addition to the polo Payya. All right. Anyways,
we wanted to apologize because I do feel feel bad
for the people who are like driving around being like garazzi.
Are they not? Yeah, paparazzi.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
Why you've said paparazzi fifteen times?

Speaker 1 (06:45):
How do you not hear?

Speaker 2 (06:46):
It is wrong with you guys. She even says papa
like twelve times in the song what what's something you
think is overrated?

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Jena?

Speaker 7 (06:58):
Oh man, I'm a I'm a the hammer down people
who have private Instagram profiles.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
What are you trying?

Speaker 1 (07:04):
What are you trying to prove? At this point, we've
lost the privacy battle.

Speaker 7 (07:08):
Flock cameras are analyzing our walking mechanics.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
It's done.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Just let us see your beach photos.

Speaker 8 (07:16):
Mostly women, yes, mostly sixty women. Yeah, I mean it's
just like I mean, I get. I get the impulse.
I get we want to be away, but I think
that's just that's done. We are all citizens of the
virtual world.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Now.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
I was doing it for a while because of kids,
and then I recently just gave up. I was like,
being able to share my podcast clips is more important
than yes, the privacy of my child. But you can
sort the emotion, the emotion thing over your kids face. Yeah,
we we're not going to do it. Sounds like a
lot of work time is money?

Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yea, yeah exactly.

Speaker 9 (07:55):
But yeah, that Astrozenica logo or your kids' faces, if
you start selling its based on your.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Children, yeah, that's really good.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
For once.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
That's actually gonna be my whole thing. You could replace
his whole body with.

Speaker 6 (08:13):
It's like a Nascar.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
As any logos as possible.

Speaker 9 (08:19):
I used to be that way with like biometrics, where
you know, like face I D or like when traveling,
you know, like that sort of thing. We're like, oh,
I don't want them to have access, like to opt
into any of these things. It's like what do I
what do they not have that? What did a Google
car not get that? Like pick that off me, you know,
twelve years ago or whatever. I've totally done a one

(08:41):
eighty on it too, So yeah, I we just did
a story about how McDonald's the McDonald's app is has
like a five hundred page DOSSI like what Wired like
did A had.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
One of the reformers who like us the McDonald's app
reach out and they're like, what you got on me?
And they sent them like a bible of information. And
on the one hand, like in theory, like I don't
like that, that's fucked up. On the other hand, I
had the decision yesterday Nike was having a sale and
all my socks have holes in them, and I was like,

(09:19):
I need to go big on some Nike socks and
to access the sale, I needed to download the Nike app,
or at least that's what I thought, And so I
immediately doubt it. I was like, I don't get, what's
the fuck's Nike gonna do with this information that like
they have compared to McDonald's. It's fine tiny, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
Yeah, we really.

Speaker 7 (09:44):
I feel like there was a period up until I
say the pandemic, we're really finding a good fight, no
more privacy intrusions, and it's just we We've just rolled
over like little Buck dogs.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
I just feel like with with a big corporation like Nike,
like they're not going to sell it, are they? Listener,
tell me, are they enough money to Yeah, they make
enough money. They don't. Usually corporations are like, we have
enough money. Yes, They're really good at drawing that line.
We have enough money.

Speaker 7 (10:15):
Creative with other corporations like that, like they're using our
data like magic and gathering cars or something. Right, So
Nike Microsoft wanted to a swap, you know the benefit.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, eventually it's all just going to be out there.
They're gonna own us and that's fine as long as
I have Nike socks for nineteen percent off.

Speaker 6 (10:36):
Yeah, hell yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Superroducer Catherine is pointing out that the terms of service
agreements at places like Disney are like and also, if
we kill your family, you actually can't sue us.

Speaker 9 (10:51):
Yeah, they knew what I was getting into when I
went to that park.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeahs going to.

Speaker 7 (10:58):
Make it out, drag it corpse out of the parking
lot so you don't die there.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
That's still part of the family promotion. Ye yeah, yeah,
part of the magical experience.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
The the the body carts is like one of the
things that they just haven't.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Shoving you out.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
I do realize now because Catherine is putting out the
it's like facial recognition stuff. And I did give Nike
access to my face. I was like, well this, it
would be much easier if I could just allow them
to face scan me in instead of you're gonna see.

Speaker 7 (11:34):
A billboard in a couple of weeks with us slammed
down over Lebron.

Speaker 9 (11:39):
Yeah, hey, Jack, you with socks jammed in your mouth, Like,
what is.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Something you think is underrated?

Speaker 4 (11:50):
Okay?

Speaker 10 (11:50):
So I like doing my underrated overrated together, and I
think parallel parking is underrated. I think pull through parking
is overrated.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
Parallel parking is underrated. Okay, so you like a little difficulty.

Speaker 10 (12:04):
I think the high of getting into a spot that
you didn't know that you could get in far surpasses
the high of a pull through spot.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
There's no high like coming up to a spot, having
the person in the shotgun riding shotgun be like nope,
do that, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're in there. Yeah watch
in my cases, make an awestin powers reference around here

(12:34):
and then keep it.

Speaker 10 (12:36):
But you got in that spot, spot on the spot.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
We're thirty minutes late. For wherever we're going.

Speaker 11 (12:42):
But I told you, I think my general ability to
pall a park well has been torched. It's the same
way like AI crushed crutches or whatever, like the backup
camera like that. I tried parking my friend's car without
a backup camera recently and I was like.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
I think I don't know how to do that. It
turns out I don't know. I think, I think, I
don't know. Do you have a system? Do you have
like the mirror system? Yeah?

Speaker 10 (13:09):
Yeah, yeah, I use I use the mirrors for the
most part. Yeah, I mean I use a lot of
Renald cars on the road. So also I still am
used to just doing it in all sorts. I also
learned to drive in Philly, so that was a real
got it dogg eat dog.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
Throwing a deep battery at your car. That's all I
know about Philly.

Speaker 10 (13:25):
Honestly, Yes, that's not all you need.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
But do you have the thing where you like, once
the front of your car gets to the mirror of
the car you're backing up next to, then you get
the wheel? Is that the I don't know if that's universal.

Speaker 10 (13:39):
It's not even that it's interesting, it's not even that
conscious to me, it feels like you.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
Can just tell you, yeah, you must be here.

Speaker 10 (13:47):
I'm really I take a lot of pride in it.
If I can get a big car into a tiny spot. Yeah,
and there's like no room between me and the car
front and behind me, I'm just I'll get out and
I'll just I'll double beep it so when everyone to look.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
Damn yeah, yeah Mac truck and that little garage. It
feels good reference, right, guys, everybody still listen to that song.

Speaker 10 (14:12):
Still in the rotation. I just remember, like the first
time I saw one of those commercials for a car
that parallel parked itself.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
I was so mad. I was like, just anti human.

Speaker 10 (14:22):
Yeah, disgusting, Right, how dare you take my wins from me?

Speaker 11 (14:27):
Can I ask a question that maybe you should just
qualify me from driving a car when it is a
pull through spot just the spot you pull in or
is it one that you pull or is that like
out the side of the road.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
But there's no cars on either show. Let's get into that,
because I also don't really know what.

Speaker 10 (14:43):
I'm the only dad on the show right now. Apparently
it's when you pull into a parking lot and then
you pull into a spot and then the spot in
front of you is open, so you pull through to
the second one. Oh so that you're facing out, you're
facing out yeah yeah, so it's like you got to
back in, but you didn't do the back once again cheating.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
It's cheating.

Speaker 10 (15:01):
It's a stolen valor situation. Also, it's like your trunk.
Now you maybe have a car too close behind you
if you get the stuff in your trunk. Yeah, I
don't like people love a pull through and I'm always like.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
Why rights dumb, stolen balan stolen back like an easy
pat you.

Speaker 11 (15:16):
Know, yeah, absolutely, what about finding a polter spot but
still going around and then back and backing in.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
It's just just sound like a lot move.

Speaker 10 (15:26):
When I start wearing my phone on my hip.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Taking photos exclusively with I pad, yeah.

Speaker 10 (15:33):
Yeah, exactly, it's the evolution.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
You don't need a phone carrying like a twelve by twelve.
All right, amazing. So now I know what pull through
parking is. I know not to do it when you're around.

Speaker 10 (15:47):
Yeah, I mean you can do what you want, just
don't be proud.

Speaker 11 (15:50):
Yeah yeah yeah everyone yeah yeah, move walk out like Charlie.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Better than that.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
We all know it let's take a quick break and
we'll come back and talk about some news.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
Enter back, and Luigi Mangione Knee has admitted in court
that he pled guilty to stalking, to very specific charges,
but basically two federal charges of stalking. Also explained that
his actions came after years of enduring severe pain for

(16:35):
broken back, navigating the obstacles of the health insurance system,
and witnessing similar experiences of countless others. And what one
detail that I think stuck with a lot of people
is he recounted how his recon involved emailing United Healthcare,
posing as an investor at a firm managing over fifty

(16:57):
billion dollars in assets, and unlike any previous interaction with
the company, he received an immediate response within an hour,
just to just to make crystal clear what their motives are.
And so this is signating, you know a lot of
people were wondering what was going to happen with this trial,

(17:20):
and you know, speculating that no jury would actually prosecute him,
or you know, would no jury would find him guilty
because everybody's sort of on board with a lot of
the stuff that he you know, his reasoning at the
very least, but that that is not going to happen,

(17:41):
and he seemingly has not made a plea deal with
the prosecution.

Speaker 5 (17:46):
So I mean, it's a double It's a double jeopardy, right,
that's the whole thing. He's pleading guilty to one charge
to avoid prosecuted for a larger charge.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yes, we're all keenly aware of the double jeopardy laws
thanks to the case of Ashley Judd v. Tommy Lee Jones,
which you know, by pleading guilty to this, it will
likely derail the state's case since the conduct he pled
guilty to overlaps with the actions in his state level

(18:19):
murder charge. So his lawyers are asking for that case
to be dismissed. So it's not going to be dramatic,
but it seems like it is his lawyers trying to
do what they think is best in him trying to
do what he thinks is best.

Speaker 5 (18:37):
And well, his lawyer made some good points, which are
you know, pretty much like there's no way to get
a fair jury trial at this point for him, it's
just impossible. He was like he was on a purp
walk that he did with the mayor, that they've never
done for anyone, like all of the ways in which

(18:59):
he's been treated and the publicity and the coverage, like
whether you like or dislike what he did, I mean,
you can't admit that he's like the most famous Luigi now,
like more than Mario's brother, Like.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yes, and being fa like I haven't seen many public
cases being that you.

Speaker 6 (19:16):
Get your mansions haunted. So yeah, I think you're underappreciating.

Speaker 10 (19:22):
No, no, no, no, no, no, Luigi brings.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
To the table.

Speaker 6 (19:25):
It does seem to be the most illuminating to me,
the like I don't I guess they're trying to Like ultimately,
it doesn't seem like they're going to fight for a
Jerry trial that gets him fully off right or they're
by they're they're like maneuvering toward whatever a compromise with
the law to get him as minimal a sentence as

(19:47):
they can get him. And I don't actually have clarity
on is that right and good or do I support that?
I do think as I've seen people discussing online, and
I'm fascinated with everyone's takes, But it seems the most
illuminating is that everyone seems to be looking around the room, going, well,
it would be difficult for him to get a fair
trial because everyone understands the connection between someone pressing a

(20:11):
button or checking a spreadsheet and actual human stuff, Like
everyone is on board with the understanding oppressive systems and
social murder, So that would make it tough for people
to forgive or not take that. I'm like, oh, in
this dismal world of being like, and we voted for
this guy and we did this, Oh my god, you know,
we're seeing these sprouts of hope, and I think one

(20:32):
is I don't know. Again, I'm not clear on what
I support as the actionable step, but the fact that
society at large is like, well, now it's kind of
a complicated situation because that guy reeked untold havoc. I'm like,
that's good that we can even talk like that.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, and that there are CEOs who seem to be
coming out and being like, I mean, I don't want
to get shot. I support people like eventually the Graham Man.

Speaker 6 (21:01):
Do you remember, because it was oh n round executives,
there was a tape at one point where they were like,
I guess Grahama won't get her meds this year, like
literally saying cartoonist shit came out of the trials, and
it's like you imagine them going, like, I guess eventually
they will fucking shoot you. Maybe we should chill out, guys.

Speaker 5 (21:18):
Yeah, Well, the fallout after the shooting, I mean outside
of CEOs getting extra security or flying private or whatever,
which I could give a fuck about. The fallout that
I do care about that I find interesting is that
the percentage of claims that got approved went up dramatically
for the first three to six months or something after

(21:41):
the murder because they actually felt like there might be
consequences for you know, the social murders that you mentioned, Michael,
and then they were like, wait a minute, we're proving
too many.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
Let's cut back again.

Speaker 5 (21:57):
So the fact that even the effect of this, which
is you know, insane.

Speaker 6 (22:02):
Sued, right, their shareholders are like, not so fast, keep
gouging customers. There will fucking see you. Yeah, that's what
like businesses are torn between.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
Now.

Speaker 5 (22:12):
Yeah, the whole thing is is really kind of it's
a real grotesque mirror. We're trying to hold up to ourselves,
and I don't think where we like looking in mirrors.

Speaker 6 (22:26):
Well, they charge you. Now in America, you have to
do like a Copey by the hour to look in
a mirror, and they do own that preventative care.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
I want to look.

Speaker 5 (22:35):
Into my neighbor's gold toilet that I elected, even though
he's a he's a fucking predator.

Speaker 6 (22:40):
Yeah uh yes, Well, anyway, I think we all have
horror stories of navigating the American healthcare system to the
point that I omit them because they're boring. But it's
always wild to step outside and go like and this
whole like structure is shackled or like, you know, stapled
to the side of this whole, and other.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
Countries don't even have it.

Speaker 6 (23:02):
They're just like, yeah, you shouldn't try to squeeze profit
from that. And we're like, no, we know, yeah, no,
most of us know.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
We know. Believe me, it definitely feels bad to us.

Speaker 12 (23:13):
Yeah, it kind of sucks.

Speaker 5 (23:17):
The government should be investing in you guys, like preventatively
as opposed to treating you.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
After government working human beings. Yeah, we go back to Australia. Yeah,
there was a case. That's my main takeaway is get
fuck out of here. Make me feel bad. But yeah, there,
I mean, there was a study in Yale School of
like Public Health that was like, well, it would save

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a trillion dollars and over one hundred thousand lives if
we switched to medicare for all tomorrow, and right, it's
not profitable.

Speaker 6 (23:54):
No, it's anyone who's played a real time strategy game
or like sim City would go like, oh uh. Over
the long term, having the human bodies that like are
the machines that work everything thrive is more profitable period
than society unwinding, but.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Not profitable to the people who currently go to the
people who.

Speaker 6 (24:16):
Make society unwine for that brief period that it's a party,
it's party.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Time, and from the unwinding for maximum profitability.

Speaker 5 (24:25):
Yeah, it was like how how tripped at I was
when I was in Helsinki when I was recording Private
Parts Unknown, like a couple of years back, and we
were talking about the differences in like the way the
countries think and stuff, and we were just talking about like, hey,
it's really cool you guys like get so much parental

(24:46):
leave and you know, money and stuff when you have
a baby and like and or supply you know what
I mean, like all of these things and it's cool
how there's a pretty much right away you caretaking that
you don't have to pay for for your kids. And
they just looked at us like we were fucking crazy.
And they were like, well, yeah, if there's no one

(25:10):
to watch the kids, how can the parents go back
to work?

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Right?

Speaker 6 (25:16):
And I was like, no, teach your kids because children
are the future and in the future they'll know stuff
in your society will flourish.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
Yeah, and we know that.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
And what's weird. I don't know if you guys have
thought about this implement that. We know it, but we
can't like make it happen.

Speaker 10 (25:35):
It was so crazy.

Speaker 5 (25:36):
They were like, well, obviously education and buses and whatever
are free. They're like, our greatest investment is our people.
Again looked at me like I.

Speaker 4 (25:47):
Was fucked up.

Speaker 5 (25:48):
I was like, oh, we are people. You gotta go
and we are not our people are I'm like, my
uncle racy On is to be shocked to hear this.

Speaker 6 (26:01):
I recently had a dark epiphany or just like a
bad feeling moment of Oh. They called it Citizens United
because their argument is like, well, what is a business
but people together united, freedom, French Fries, America citizens And
I'm like, that's so fucking ah. It's so like nineteen

(26:22):
eighty four. Yeah, truth is the opposite of what the
end result is Citizens United in being.

Speaker 10 (26:31):
Like should we murder?

Speaker 1 (26:32):
See right? Yeah, I mean that it caused.

Speaker 6 (26:38):
Yes, because Lockheed Martin has the right to pursue happiness
now and that's what it likes.

Speaker 5 (26:44):
And I want my grandfather, Lockheed Market to be happy
with my grandmother.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
You don't need to do an uprising because we did.
We published or we passed this law called Citizens United,
So that took care of any uniting that you guys
are thinking about doing. It's it's been pass good. We
have at least fund yeah, yeah, yeah, all right. Let's
talk about things disappearing from the cloud. It's been a
rough year for PBS thanks to Donald Trump's cuts, and

(27:12):
now Saint Louis Nine's or Saint Louis's nine PBS is
missing roughly seventy years of the station's programming because the footage,
which is around fifty terabytes worth of data, was all
being stored in the cloud, and various corporate you know,
machinations have made it like they're using something called Open

(27:37):
Source Storage OSS, which used one of Iron Mountain's data centers,
but now OSS is defunct and Iron Mountain is like, well, yeah,
so that's who we dealt with. It's just you know,
a bunch of bullshit happening at a high level that
has no you know, takes no stake in Like, well

(27:58):
why this matter? Are like what the importance of their
job is beyond just like, well, how is retrieving this
and giving it back to people going to drive profitability?

Speaker 6 (28:08):
For when we could wipe them and sell them to
other data center ASTs, just sell the hard drives and
dissolve the company, found a new company. I'm a hustler,
I break stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, break stuff.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
I'm a disruptor. That's right.

Speaker 6 (28:23):
Bis uickly was the promise recently that must do we now.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Okay, doesn't seem like it seems like kind of permanent
damage that you guys are bragging about.

Speaker 6 (28:33):
Yeah, we're in this bizarre situation where there seems to
be a competition of everyone being aware that there's an
information somehow we want to monetize information itself. Also, we're
in a bubble, so the winner will be the company
that can suck up the most information the fastest, burning
it all behind them, and inevitably many of them will

(28:54):
fail and just wipe whatever information they happen to have
sucked up and go away. So there's but we ate
all the books but not all that's what's troubling. Whatever
they missed is gone forever. Yeah, And I don't know
if it's especially true of our time. I mean, it
feels like it's especially true of these this system and

(29:16):
the systems that are being deployed right now. But it
has made me feel like, is it just part of
getting older that you really have a strong connection to Like, man,
I really don't know what happened in seventeen twenty eight anyway,
you know what I mean? Like I grew up thinking, oh,
if something's in a history textbook. Now, I at least
I'm sure shit is embellish, But I basically know what

(29:39):
George Washington was like. No, I fucking don't like it
so much as a game of telephone about all of
human thriving. It's it's wild we could easily forget, like
how to make stuff advanced. Stuff Like you'd be like, well,
particle accelerator, how.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Do you make that?

Speaker 6 (29:57):
Everyone who knows that's dead and the information delited that
could happen? Y'all right, wake up people.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
It's kind of hard not to feel that.

Speaker 5 (30:08):
Way though, especially skills skill base things that are like
like artisans and like tradesmen and stuff like that, people
that know how to actually fix a thing instead of
like there being a YouTube video.

Speaker 6 (30:23):
Like I'm really worried about that when I start losing. Yeah,
people who know how to fix and repair certain things
like nuclear power plants or whatever, they're just like, oh wait,
we dosed all those people.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
Oh no, let me just see if there's a YouTube
video about how to fix and repair nuclear power plants.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
Just really quickly, let's make sure we're okay.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
It's seven minutes and thirty seconds, and it takes you
directly to the middle of it to be like this
is the key point.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
Yes, I say, go to the center.

Speaker 5 (30:56):
Why could I possibly need to know the safety precautions
at the gang?

Speaker 4 (31:00):
Thank me? To the center of the toolbar.

Speaker 6 (31:04):
Just look for that little peak where.

Speaker 4 (31:07):
Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
There you go there, and it's just the guy like
kind of quietly farts off camera. All right, I'm back
to back in. Jason Pargon was on I Think TikTok
posted a video about how recently a lot of the
cracked columns section from you Know Our Days at Cracked,

(31:32):
which had writing from you, Michael. An article that I
still reference the like most mind blowing scientific concepts. I
still think about it all the time was written in
your column section. Jason did most of his writing in
the column section. Daniel O'Brien Soren, Like, some of the
best stuff, Sean Baby, some of the best stuff the

(31:55):
site ever produced is now just missing, Like you can't
find it. You can find it on the wayback machine,
but it's just there's just a world of data that
is not being taken care of by the people who
own that data. You know, It's just they're just let
it kind of die off. And I think I think

(32:15):
this has happened with a lot of websites like a
long time ago, but you can, like it's just incredibly
frustrating that it just goes it just goes away. It's
there's nobody who's like out there basically doing the sort
of thing that you were talking about about, like having

(32:37):
having your own server to like download stuff and like
keep it safe. And it's just that, like you said,
it becomes more worth it for them to just move on,
erase it and not have to pay for.

Speaker 6 (32:51):
What I didn't anticipate is the repositories that are doing it,
because of course there's always going to be enough or
not always that's the threat. But I think there's enough
people who see the value of keep of memory, you know,
keeping a repository freely available information of skills and shit.
So humanity evolves like your Wikipedia's and your wayback machines.

(33:13):
And there were people so I anticipated. What I didn't
anticipate is them being directly assaulted by the people who
are like, not only do I have this ephemeral like
you can't watch this random bullshit, but it's in our
interest to kill the wayback machine or compromise Wikipedia usel front.

(33:35):
There are people in suits pitching two shareholders. What we
need is to flood the zone with so much misinformation
that they have to come with us for information. There
are people right now pitching that as a strategy and
like aggressively pursuing that, Oh yeah, everything's a scam. I
guess you got to come to me now. Huh. That's

(33:59):
just chilling and disturbing. So like, I will risk tipping
that I'm involved in a secret society of people hastily
formed with a special set of skills, working to archives.
Some of the aforementioned cracked stuff. And even we are
seeing as we are scanning the wayback machine crawlers are

(34:23):
going through and deleting the captures day by day as
quickly as possible.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
So we're actually.

Speaker 6 (34:28):
Racing, like lang if the reference tracks, We're racing the
langueliars as they eat time. It's pretty weird to watch.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Yeah, it's not, it's not incidental. It's I mean, it's
just a thing that is.

Speaker 6 (34:42):
Sam Omon has said, like, oh uh, intelligence will be like, right,
you pay for gas, you pay for electricity. How come
you don't pay to know stuff? It's like fucking for
the obvious reason, because that would doom humanity, you idiot,
Like I don't know how.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
To make it simpler than that. It'll be like water,
which also, by the way, you're going to be paying
like way.

Speaker 6 (35:06):
But it's like, how come you don't pay me to
even like know how to fix something?

Speaker 5 (35:10):
Well, I mean, this is the US that uses to
talk to his baby, so like I do think that
we should be listening.

Speaker 6 (35:17):
To and then he attacks on it the end always
and this will free us all in a bright future
like where are you what are you get that from?
Or like extrapolate how connect those things, because.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
This pitch has always also included him being like, and
I do keep a sign eyepill on me because you know,
there's I know what I'm doing. Yeah, I might be
in an unter gang like lounger situation. Jesus, all right,
let's take a quick break. We'll be right back to
talk about blue. That's that's good, right, that's wholesome. We

(35:50):
can talk about.

Speaker 3 (35:51):
We'll be right back, and we're back.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
And a couple stories about Michigan candidate Abdul l say Ed,
who whooped the ass of Chuck Schumer's chosen candidate in
the Democratic primary. Now there's a lot of stories about, well,
maybe the Democrats could win without Michigan, Maybe they could

(36:24):
win back control of the Senate without Michigan. A lot
of vote blue no matter who, unless it's left wing
candidate energy going around in the mainstream media. I do
feel like they're trying to make it seem like the
parties even more divided than it already is. But one

(36:45):
story that the right is pushing are these islamophobic attacks
on l Sied about how he oversaw an animal slaughter
house and was responsible for the deaths of four thousand
puppies and kittens, which the National Republican Senatorial Committee even
started selling dogs against abdual Merch seemingly just for AI

(37:06):
generated dogs based on the ad the dogs are just
completely AI.

Speaker 10 (37:12):
It's reminiscent of that Spencer Pratt billboard we had on
that was like dogs love Spencer.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
They have one move. Yeah, like what are people like
dogs which use that to lie?

Speaker 10 (37:22):
Which is funny because how many our candidates had dogs
on the roofs of their cars. Meant Romney like Christy
No murdered a puppy.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
Out that's like the thing they chosen. Yeah, a thing
that they're so bad on. Yeah, exactly they I mean,
obviously there was a lot of racism around dogs in
the twenty twenty four election. Yeah, this is just more
mask off racism. And also so these headlines, they'll like
link to a story that has this incendiary headline about

(37:52):
how you oversaw the death of four thousand puppies and
then like you read the text of the article and
he actually took over at like immediately after that crisis
was happening. He took over animal control like before it
was overseen by and you're not gonna believe this. The police,

(38:14):
you're not gonna believe they weren't great dogs historically great shocking.

Speaker 11 (38:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, a couple of German shepherds did really well,
that's right, that's right.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Everything else though, they love shooting them. And when they
were in charge of Detroit's animal control there were apparently
thousands of dogs being put down outside government took over
and things improved. And it says that in the text
of the article with the headline that's like, this guy's
a dog killer. Watch out for Abdul the dog killer.

Speaker 11 (38:51):
I mean, I would say, for what it's worth, and
this might be cold comfort, I actually don't think this
shit sways that many people. Sure, However, I do think
a lot of especially white Michigan Democrats, were secretly never
going to vote for a brown guy anyway. So I
am saying it's you know, those those things are institutionally tough,

(39:14):
but they're just wrong, and you know, he's he's still
you know, it's still just about the enthusiasm of actual
voters who are not awful. I don't know if that helps.
I'm just like, yeah, this racist shit is just like
finds its ceiling really quickly.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
Yes, yeah. It does also highlight though, the fact that
the Democrats are so bad at just doing like the
very because the reason they've made this story up is
because it's like a populist thing that you can do.
People love dogs, and like the Republicans are like really bad,
really bad on them. Like you could just use the

(39:51):
truth of the situation and be like point out the
Christy nome thing to point out that with Trump's like
mass deportations that they were leaving a bunch of animals
homeless then had to be put down, Like there's so
many examples, and also, like, you know, the thing that

(40:13):
really ails the country in a lot of cases is
the Supreme Court ruling on things to you know, make
it so the corporations can do whatever the fuck they want.
The twenty twenty four Supreme Court ruling that shielded hedge
fund manager and right wing talk show host George jar
Cassi from sec fines he received for allegedly defrauding investors,

(40:35):
the Supreme Court was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, that
guy's very rich. You guys need to slow your roll.
And that ruling makes it impossible to prosecute puppy Mills
essentially and so like these are just like it's just
like if the Republicans had something like that, yeah, to exploit,

(40:56):
they would exploit it. But the Democratic Party sucks so bad,
I will say, I mean, for what it's worth, it's
like who knows what's going to happen. But it does
seem like al say, it at least has the political chops.
Oh you say, like okay, let's talk about puppy mills
and then like go into Supreme Court, whereas like your

(41:17):
generic you know, capital D Democrat centrist would be like
actually and then just like yeah, fuck it up and up.

Speaker 10 (41:26):
Yeah, So I don't think he's actually anything.

Speaker 11 (41:28):
Yeah, the extent that we have a chance with these people,
Yeah a chance, yes, we as America Chuck Schumer. Yeah,
it's just it hopefully lies in that which is like,
you know, it does seem like what I said is
a better campaigner than the generic Democrat has been for

(41:49):
decades now.

Speaker 10 (41:50):
Yeah, NELI understands, like, oh that's the attack. Like if
I A lot of this stuff always gets breaks down too.
If you can just speak like a person to directly
and go no, that that's what this is actually like.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
If you do that, you can just like hear it immediately. Yeah,
where you're like, oh, you're a person who's like saying
things that you're not like doing a weird like math
in your brain about the things that are coming out
of your mouth.

Speaker 10 (42:15):
Yeah, there's not like a bunch of focus groups that
you're like running through in your brain. Like, he knows
what he wants to say, and he's you know, good,
I mean very good at it. So I believe in
his ability to combat it and maybe even turn it
on them in some way.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
Yeah, we'll see.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
I do feel like we're starting to see who the
math in the brain candidate is going to be for
the mainstream Democratic Party for president. I feel like Awesome
is like their guy. He's like rising in polls. Well,
Newsome and Hairs are like kind of going down, I
guess ultimately, thank God.

Speaker 13 (42:53):
Yeah, yeah, I'm just like, of the if it's Awesome
versus AOC for the Right for the nomination, it's probably
better than better than their alternatives, any alternative we have.

Speaker 10 (43:06):
I just personally can't let Gavin. I just need him
to be humble and disappointed at every turn in a
personal way.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
I know, I really suspect that his support is going
to completely evaporate the second that, like the primary start
and people have to vote for him.

Speaker 10 (43:23):
Yeah, I mean Clovicular is not going to stump.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
For Yeah, he's giving clviculars. Yeah.

Speaker 11 (43:28):
Yeah, maybe don't have so many Nazis on your podcast
if you want to be a Democrat, I'm.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
Just trying to change your life to make it completely differently.

Speaker 10 (43:41):
I have scrolled that guest feed at people so many
times in public that have tried to make a case.

Speaker 5 (43:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (43:47):
I'm just like, yeah, Charlie Kirk just going through the
list the worst.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
Yeah, I love Rogan Man. Well can I say he
love Rogan? And you know, yeah, so are we that different?

Speaker 3 (44:01):
After all? Turns out we are.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
I've gotten ship on our show for talking about Joe Rogan.
People are like, dude, he does good research. I mean
this is a long time. Yeah.

Speaker 10 (44:12):
It's really wild how pervasive he is, because I'll have
people come up to me at for a comedy show
that are Lady Lady fans and then they'll be like, yeah,
what else do you listen to? Like, oh, you know Rogan?
And I'm like, how how you feel those two things?

Speaker 11 (44:25):
I feel like if you don't think about it, or
understand Rogan represents the generic idea of stand up comedy.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
To you, sure, I think it's clearly what's happening.

Speaker 4 (44:37):
He's a horrible comic.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
Yeah, I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to differ
with you on that one. I mean, I I used
to really really enjoy m m A and like I
was just like it was just an mm A podcast,
Like he knows what he's talking about.

Speaker 11 (44:54):
Yeah, just in terms of who's better at fighting. Yeah,
but it's just like and it as long as he
does and have to talk about whether it's based on
the shape of their skulls or like, he's fine enough.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
I genuinely think there's always that bleed though I know
always that God, yeah, happens quickly.

Speaker 10 (45:12):
I just tried to picture a universe where Johnny Knoxville
was the host of Fear Factor the whole time.

Speaker 12 (45:16):
Yeah, better world, yeah see, or Johnny Knoxville turns into
a right wing coon, that's the thing. Yeah, I'm just
saying fear Maybe it's the Fear Factor that did it.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
Yeah, you think you think Fear Factor was because we're
going to see We're gonna see what now, that's the thing.
That's one way or the other. All right, let's talk
about what we've all been thinking since the start of this,
which is is gravity going to turn off for seven seconds?
Is the rumor spread uh online that intersecting gravitational waves

(45:51):
from colliding black holes would cause gravity to shut off
at exactly four thirty three UTC or ten thirty three
a m. Eastern time, which so mark your calendar, except
it already passing. It didn't happen, but they claimed that
people could be thrown into the air, which, yeah, I

(46:12):
guess it's a fun thought experiment. Like just that is
I think what a lot of conspiracy theories are is
like our version of fiction.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
What would happen?

Speaker 1 (46:20):
Yeah, like that would be fucking fun, Like that's a
good movie premise. Like we just found out gravity's gonna
turn off for seven seconds on this date in August, Right,
what do we do as a similar Like how do
we prepare for that? That's like fun like and then
like go through the science, like really take it seriously,
Like that's and it's great.

Speaker 10 (46:40):
It's an amount of time. It's like doomsday cult's not
gonna kill themselves over it. Yeah, you can maybe get
a couple of like foiled heists of some kind.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
I got.

Speaker 10 (46:48):
I got a seven second window to launch myself and
grab a diamond or something like. That's fun.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
That is fun.

Speaker 11 (46:56):
Yeah, I'm just gonna say this, and not just because
I started to a Star Trek podcast where I'm learning
about Star Trek.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
This feels like the kind of ship that would be
at start. Oh, totally a planet where I mean yes, yeah,
like a planet where gravity turns off for seven seconds,
kind of like an and or spot.

Speaker 11 (47:12):
Right, wasn't there something about that planet they were on
and season one of van or some shit happened.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
I don't remember. There's a window for something to go down.
The latest Alien movie has a gravity generating thing where
like it suddenly will turn off. Yeah, and they like,
by far the best part of that movie was like
when gravity would turn off, and like it would just
be like.

Speaker 11 (47:35):
What we threw a little like think it was the
soup in the first scene the favor Remember this grows soup?
Oh yeah, yeah, I don't really remember.

Speaker 10 (47:45):
I think eating a ball of liquid is what I
would do for the seven seconds.

Speaker 4 (47:49):
I always look at.

Speaker 10 (47:50):
The coolest part on every astronaut in space movie. I'd
be like I want to chomp. Yeah, I will just
say not to be a physics pete ant. But they
mean it will be a free fall. Not gravity will
shut Gravity shuts off. Obviously all your cells just you know,
all your molecules just float randomly.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
Wait, what is holding us together? Okay, I say, like,
you know, gravity, kids, that's holding us together, because like
that there's fundamental forces like gravity shutting.

Speaker 11 (48:22):
Off means lots of other ship but they do. They
just mean, you know, local gravity is lesson.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
Just the version in my brain that you know, is
that the nuclear force? I don't know, don't at me.

Speaker 10 (48:36):
I think for seven seconds, my body just went honestly
feels so good, so.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Red taller, like yeah, density is just a little down. Yeah,
I'm talking about the version of physics from sci fi movies.
I where like you're floating. You're when you're on a spaceship.
You're going up the sky's blue, sk eyes blue. You
hit a point, there's like a line, a clearly defined
line where it turns into like night sky like and

(49:07):
then yeah, all of a sudden, everything just like the
pen in front of you sets floating, like in two
thousand and one.

Speaker 10 (49:12):
Yeah, look that for seven seconds.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
I think I would want to be near a bird
for the seven seconds because first of all, look at
fuck you look at me now, yea, yeah, look who
can fly? But also have you ever seen the footage
they have like this is just something that NASA did
one time as they took birds into zero gravity, and
they looked so stupid, like I want to just lord

(49:37):
it over. They just keep putting animals in zero gravity
and the same thing happens every single time, which is
they're just like look stupid as hell. They just like
don't know what to do.

Speaker 10 (49:49):
That's the very specific kind of edge.

Speaker 14 (49:51):
Lord, I want my tax absolutely birds, yeah, all birds,
even without even with this version, right, life on Earth ends.

Speaker 11 (50:02):
So seven seconds of zero gravity, right like the ocean,
whatever happens to the ocean is enough inertia keeping it
there for.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
I don't know, Yeah, that's the question I think if
I think it's the spit of the earth continues the
inertia into in the face I believe.

Speaker 11 (50:27):
I'm just saying for stuff like this, is that sipe
a thing you should build a bet against on Calshi
because there's no downside. You either win your bet or
life on Earth ends. That's true, who cares? Yeah, you're
working those markets.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:40):
So the alleged leaked NASA documents, see if you guys
can poke any holes in this, called Project Anchor, is
a supposed plan costing eighty nine billion dollars that involved
secret bunkers for essential people and a diverse group to
repopulate the earth in case of disaster. That's where they love.
That's not right that down? Oh yeah no. Also NASA

(51:02):
would not be in charge of it, like NASA would
present this to the wrong person, you know, and the
billionaires have such class solidarity if they just immediately euthanize
everyone in NASA take over the planning, and it would
be like I think people would be shocked by the
number of extremely wealthy people who are eagerly planning a

(51:23):
Doctor Strangelove like repopulation.

Speaker 10 (51:27):
Yeah, they're already like preparing.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (51:29):
Yeah, so I love because it's also just like I
don't know, man, I just feel like one hand over
the oxygenvent in your little bunker. I know, I just
can't wait for like well killing yeah yeah, that's why.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
I talk about killing the pilot who flies you there.
That's like the number one fun party debate. Yeah, Chilicon
Valley is like, okay, so we all have our suicide
butter our survivalist bunkers. When the pilot flies you there,
Obviously you've told the pilot they can go back and
fly and pick up their family. Yep, yeah, you're not

(52:06):
gonna do that. Do you keep them there and keep
them alive as like a pet?

Speaker 3 (52:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (52:11):
Or do you just?

Speaker 11 (52:12):
Thing so funny about these people is they've convinced themselves
they're so much smarter than everyone else that they think
no one else can have the same fucking like D
minus level mind game. Right yeah, like, yeah, man, you
are going to get killed by your head of security
in the first ten minutes.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
Yeah, that is what's gonna happen.

Speaker 10 (52:33):
Yeah, you're gonna kill promise a person with a skill
is going to take you out.

Speaker 11 (52:37):
Yeah yes, yes, and right if that doesn't happen, you
will die of starvation in one month.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
Yeah, those are the two choices.

Speaker 15 (52:46):
Ye.

Speaker 10 (52:46):
Yeah, you don't want to do anything.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
Yeah right, Yeah, the like contraption will get jammed and
you like, oh, should have killed that.

Speaker 11 (52:55):
Oh you don't have access to the servers that say
the number that your net worth is.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
Yeah, it looks like you're pretty fucked right.

Speaker 10 (53:03):
There's a great book called Survival of the Richest Escape
Fantasies of Tech Billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
Yeah, we had a Oh yeah, that's where I got.
That's the one who told me yeah, because he is just,
you know, a really smart tech writer who you know,
at a certain point started getting invited to these tech
billionaire conferences. Yeah, and he said invariably the conversation would
just turn to them being like all right, so, but seriously, like,

(53:33):
how do we game this out so that we like, yeah,
kill the right people.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (53:37):
It's like dog collars in my security And I'm like, try, yeah,
are you gonna be the one that puts the dog
collar on your head of security form?

Speaker 11 (53:49):
It is just like all the way down and it's like, oh, okay,
I'll just I'll just hold this person hostage.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
Well, then the person that holds that person hostage, I
need to.

Speaker 11 (53:57):
Hold them hostage. Like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Think about it for one second.

Speaker 15 (54:02):
I will also say, though, because this is in Atlas Shrugged,
like the little amity shutting off. Yeah no, sorry, the
like little billionaire society, isn't it like the opposite no,
they well the outside world, but they have their little
like golt gulch whatever the fuck where all the like
like you know, like the refer what they called makers

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or whatever the fuck you live, and they glossed over.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
Like oh, and everyone just cleans their toilets.

Speaker 11 (54:27):
And like whatever so quickly that it's like sure, dog,
sure for all you fucking libertarian assholes are happy doing
like communism, like everyone takes a shot at every job.
Get the fuck out of here.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
The premise of Atlas Shrugged is that the billionaires are
underappreciated and societies, but are they Like how much better?
Couldn't we just try that? Could we just like convince
them to do like seed the billionaires with like one

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class trader who's just like we should do an Atlas Shrugged. Guys,
everybody's being so mean to us, like look at this,
let's go like that's what I mean, even the small version.

Speaker 11 (55:15):
It's like they could all move to like wherever the
fucking Texas, like the star based Texas. Please they don't, right, Yeah,
I know that's what. Yeah, they all.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
Left Manhattan to the billionaire ghost town. Now Dommy's there.

Speaker 11 (55:29):
It's just like guess what they were already not paying
taxes there. Yeah, fucking yeah, I don't know. They're like
Atlas Shruck is like the cop strike threat fan fiction. Right,
oh you shure really fall apart. It's like, you know what,
call let's see what let's go, let's go.

Speaker 10 (55:48):
Let's see what happens.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
Anyways, my main takeaway from this story is Michael Bay
get to work. Yeah, gravity eclips and you think it's
just people being like wow, and the clips made the
like go away.

Speaker 10 (56:03):
For I Actually I want to give it to Roland Emeric.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
Because Moon moon Fall.

Speaker 10 (56:10):
Is already kind of like dabbling in this territory and then.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
You know what happens to gravity and moonfall, Like the
Moon in a little right like that.

Speaker 10 (56:20):
The Moon is a celestial structure that was It's actually
a space ship that was built by humans to escape
a single millennial will go and we're actually all aliens.
We're aliens. Yeah, we came from a celestial structure called
the Moon. We're the only one who have existed. And

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Elon Musk is mentioned several times. Yeah, yeah, he's smart.
Yeah yeah, I mean give the money.

Speaker 11 (56:51):
In those Expanse books that are mostly right, there's like
a like Elon Musk figured this thing out back, like
the uss Elon Musk is out there. Yeah, which, by
the way, that probably will exist, but it will be
plain to Epstein Island too.

Speaker 10 (57:06):
Yeah yep, yeah watch moon Fall.

Speaker 4 (57:09):
What are the rules?

Speaker 10 (57:10):
It's so stupid.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
What do we think grand theft Like, do you think
grand theft auto is going to have any Like I
was talking about this on yesterday's Trending episode, like rich
billionaire like take out Elon Musk type things that you
think they'll like play to the populace a little bit
or like have like a cabal of pedophile billionaires that

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like uh you know, like threaded throughout.

Speaker 11 (57:39):
I think that the reason that stuff I think works
is like no billionaire has the self awareness to be
like that's me. Yeah, they'll be like totally get that.
Get those are clearly And the other problem is that,
you know, the attendees to like an Epstein Island are

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across the board. Yeah, so it's like you can just
do that and they'll be like that's Sorows and Clinton
or like that Trump and it's like no one has
any problem like putting what they want on it.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
Yeah, well that's coming, it's coming all right, that's gonna
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