August 25, 2019 • 52 mins
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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 last stravaganza.
Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist.
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What's something for your search history? It's reeling bad who
you are? Yeah, I'm gonna pass on this segment because,
um in my search history, this is very insider um
Ivan kuriz Lavik Australia's got talent, okay, insider for who
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if you watch for Australia, if you watch Bachelor in
Paradise Australia or The Bachelor at Australia. Um so there's
this guy who's on the hose on Bachelor Australia first
and then he went to b I P Bachelor in
Paradise for me. You know, now you put your answers
in the dock? Are you misspelling his name? No, that's
his name. That's just that's another less so many consonants
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in a row. He's about six seven. Name try some
culture jack, but he's he's a he's about six seven
and he considers himself the Channing Tatum of Australia in
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the sense that he's like like a Magic Mike style dancer.
He's a six seven stripper. Well, he's not a stripper.
He's just more like like his dream is to be
like a step up dancer. What do you mean like
step up the movie Channing Tatum. Yes, he wants to
just be like a fucking like popping lock and he
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is one. But he's the corniest one I've ever seen
in my life, and he uses it. He'll be like,
for one in the Bachelorette, he'd be like, girl, I
actually did I did a routine for you if you
could just like it. They're all dance for you, and
most of the time he's dancing to no music and
it's insane. And then like in Bachelor in Paradise, he's
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like so frustrated with this situation with this girl and
this guy. Like he's like in like this guy's like
I want to ask out your girl, and he's like,
you're my friend, man, And then he goes, he's like,
just I need a minute. I just need to go
like dance this off. And he goes and he's got
headphones on and he's like dancing by himself in front
of like a sonset. It's the the most insane thing
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I've ever seen, like beautiful, and he truly believes he's
the most suave, like badass dancer. Like he's like told
the girl, like, I need about five years, right in
five years, I'm gonna or not even like five years.
I think at that time it was like a few
years ago. He's like, give me a few years. I
will be channing Tatum. First you have to go to
Atlanta because all the dancers go to Atlanta, and then
I will have made it. I don't know, I don't
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know where the dancing, and I will be making dollars
a year. Yeah, exactly, And um yeah, apparently when on
Australia's got talent and the clip it's wild. I mean
he's got talent, but he's a six seven dancer. So
he just looks like yeah, like he just looks like
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he's he knows how to do the moves, he just
can't put he like puts them together in a weird way. Well,
I'll show you guys a video. It's just very um
it kills me. And if it's not motivated by the
music like the Australians, No, he's definitely motivate. You'll see,
I'll show I'll put in the footnotes so you guys
can really watch this. It's kind of amazing, Like because
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speaking of foot foot loose, Kevin Bacon's character at one point,
at one point, thank you. At one point he like
goes into a warehouse and like because he's mad and
like just dances dances at all. And I never thought that, Like,
I this is the first I've ever heard of that
actually happening. But he probably saw it, and he's like,
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that's that's what you get off some steam. That's a movie.
And he Yeah, Also, Kevin Bacon is dancing most of
the time, to know music because the music is in
his car. One of the clearest pieces of evidence. So
that's something that I look at every every now and then.
(04:16):
I think I've talked about the fact that I am
on the breit Bart News mailing list just to kind
of keep an eye on on what they're up to. Uh,
and a lot a lot of the emails are just
scam emails. Just here's what I got the other day,
a special message from Bill O'Reilly, picture of Bill O'Reilly
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with a silver coin, like a giant silver coin behind him, uh,
and it says, dear fellow Americans. Some experts say our
recession could be on the way. With all the turbulence
in the world, it's important to consider putting a portion
of what you have earned into an asset that is
historically safe gold and silver. Uh So, these are like
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these old person like financial scams, Like they're just looting
the elderly, essentially, because that's who's who watches them. I
just found a website called Bill O'reiley's Precious Metals, and
it sounds like he has a whole career in getting
you to invest in gold. Also yea, also sounds like
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it was written by like an angry ex wife. Bill
o'riley's Precious Medals, Uh so precious he forgets his anniversary.
There's also an article in The New Republic recently about neutraceuticals,
and it asks the question why this scam? Right? Why?
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Why are they so good at making you have amazing
brain power that lasts all day? I know? Why? Why
are all the top sellers of neutraceuticals right wing media?
I didn't as Joe Rogan is a nutraceutical guy. That
makes sense. Yeah, yeah, I just didn't think he was that, Yeah,
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I think it's because, like I think inherently right, like
a lot of conservatives already have this feeling of like
waning power, so like anything that's like hey, man, fucking
let's go back to caveman fucking times. Fucking bodies were
robust and powerful. Well, but they were talking about the
fact that, like some of some of the images on
the nutraceutical like marketing material are actually like an exact
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match of like a drawing from Marxist material about what
capitalism was going to do to us, Like it has
like gears and stuff, and like it's basically a human
turning into a machine. Automaton, Yeah, and automaton like just
how you know you're gonna lose your humanity And these
nutraceutical like marketing materials are people doing that, and they're like,
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you're gonna be so sick, You're gonna be a fucking machine,
brocking capitalist machine. Man. I mean, that's they want us
to lose our humanity. So Marx was warning that that
will happen if we go further down the road of capitalism,
and then happen, and it's happening. They're they're bragging about
it with the neutraceuticals, and uh, it's basically one of
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one of the theories put forward by the article is that,
you know, the reason it's the right wing thing is
because it's all about making you a better capitalists like
money making machine. And you know, when you think about it,
it's a pretty bleak ethos Like the America American right
wingers are basically like, it's a meritocracy and if you're
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not making money, that's on you, bro, and like, yeah,
you gotta make yourself better earner for your family or
you're a fucking loser. And so, like one of the
people in the article said, like, the left wing is
a little bit more skeptical about the relationship between labor
and employer, and so they wouldn't take as kindly to
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a product that is all about like making you better employees, right, right,
that's why we're like, let's smoke weed and be fucked
up at work. Yeah, I guess you're right in here.
But the left, on the left wing, the people who
sell this bullshit Gwyneth Paltrow, Yeah, there's only one, and
it's Gwyneth Paltrow. And I guess it's all different versions, right,
because I guess the other like the holistic you know,
pseudoscience stuff is the like the left version of nutraceuticals,
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but it's like for a much more like you know,
it feels more fantastic and whimsical. H you want to
know what Gwyneth Paltrow's uh neutraceutical is called, but nerd alert. No,
it isn't, yes, because it's like, oh, you want to
use your brain, nerd, Well, this will make you more
alert dork. I like the rights version is fucking crave
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man power, Like I think that was one of the
Alex Jones one, like Caveman brainforce or something. And then
this fucking nerd a lern nerd alert squirrel ork. You
want to do? You want to do good at work?
You nerd. Anyways, let's talk about insurance companies. Guys. This
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is they get a bad rap. Yeah, let's let's leave
them alone. State Farm Farmers Erie, which is apparently a
car ensure. So there's an article in BuzzFeed. Uh, it's
actually BuzzFeed News. That's an investigative report where it looks
into this practice. It feels a little bit like the
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relationship between doctors and pharmaceutical companies. It's the relationship between
local police forces and insurance companies. Basically, you know, insurance
companies are these huge, multibillion dollar companies, so in America
they're going to have a shipload of power. And in
the early nineties they made a couple of changes, so
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they realized that they were losing money to fraud claims.
There a study came out that said one into and
insurance claims was fraud. Experts think that is a wild
over exaggeration, but they still like that was what they
didn't give their just ten percent, they say, is probably
not true. Copies are a scam, right, It's an internal
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study for the insurance and just yeah, so to address
that problem and it's succeeded. It's made them like way
more profitable. They did two things. They pushed this legislation
where people aren't able to sue insurance companies who accuse
them of fraud. So basically they can accuse people of
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fraud and you know, basically bankrupt people like a lot
a lot of people end up like homeless or uh,
you know, just you know, out on their yeah, death
by court fees. You know, if you're a contractor, then
like being accused of insureance fraud, which is one of
the stories they tell, like the person lost his job
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and like lost all this work. He had like fifty
employees and he had to fire most of them. But
because he was wrongly accused of fraud, because he was
wrongly accused of fraud, because what was the claim that
he had, and they're like, no, that's fraud. The way
he worked was people would come to him to fix stuff,
and the reason he was really popular is because he
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would deal with the insurance companies. Basically go and adjudicate
the situation with the insurance companies, and he had a
relationship with them, so you know, he figured he could
do it more effectively than like letting the people themselves
deal with the insurance companies. But because he was, you know,
getting paid out on so many insurance claims, uh, the
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insurance companies were like, this is not good. This is
a money loser for us, So let's take this guy down.
And so they wrong accused him fraud and then they're
wrongly accused him of fraud and they in some cases,
the insurance companies are providing the evidence to the police
officers and like it's a report on like arson or something,
they'll be like, yeah, this there's traces of gasoline and
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fire accelerants in this uh fire, Like you need to
like accuse this guy he he started the charge or something.
Yeah for all but there but these like the the
evidence that they're providing them is coming from their own
like from their own yeah, and it's not from a
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fucking even law enforcement investigation, like hey, we say there's
proof of this. So the other thing the insurance companies
are doing is their subsidizing local law enforcement. Uh, they're
giving them money to hire investigators for insurance fraud because
it used to be a thing that like law enforcement
just didn't have the bandwidth for. So like when an
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insurance fraud claim came in, they were like, well, we
don't really have the time or energy. So the insurance
industry started investing in these investigators and like providing law
enforcement with them. And it became this like cozy like
pay for play, Like we give your police department like
a bunch of money and allow you to hire these
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investigators and in return, like you use our data, you
to charge these people, you help us charge these people
with fraud. And it's just it's really like they don't
have a lot of stats, but it seems like there's
a lot of false positives. An expert on the situation said,
it's kind of the equivalent of tuna nets catching dolphins.
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It's like, yeah, you're gonna catch some fraudulent claims, but
you're also catching a lot of real people, and you're
like destroying honest people who spent money and like to
trust your company to be ensured. And then just because
they're like we're losing money, we're gonna accuse you of
fraud and are they just like celebrating. Yeah. Yeah, So
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people are then losing their job because they're arrested like this.
On this one woman, like she wasn't even a contractor.
It had nothing to do with her job. She worked
at Walmart, but a house she was renting burned down.
They arrested her for like arson, for arson. She was
facing twenty years in prison. And then she just like
desperately wrote all these letters to any lawyer who would
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take her case pro bono. Was like, I'm like out
of options. I'm gonna go to jail if you don't
help me. This lawyer just out of the kindness of
his heart took her case and found that they were
using like I said earlier, they were using a study
by the insurance company that just was provided to them,
and it was bullshit. It was like based on faulty science.
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And her case was thrown out. But she's still homeless
from all the you know, losing her job. But they
still didn't pay out. I don't think they did. No. Yeah,
so they didn't pay out and she's right destitute, has nothing. Yeah.
There's one instance. So this guy who was clearing all
the claims because he was a big contractor and I
think the Indiana area. The thing like ultimately like caused
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them to really get pissed at him was this big
hail storm that had like just damaged all these people's
homes and cars, and he, you know, was doing a
lot of repairing and getting paid by the insurance companies,
and like State Farm head an investigator like go after
him on all these different fraud claims, and when they
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got him arrested, the guy, the State Farm guy sent
around a drawing of a stick figure getting raped in
prison and was like hot like celebrating the fact that
he got this guy arrested. It turned out to be
falsely accused. Uh, he was facing like a lot of
jail time because of this work. And that guy who
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sent around that drawing like one an award for being
the best like insurance fraud investigator in the country. So
it's like this is happening, and that's like them thinking
that the system is working. I wonder if they're like
the avid and say gave it was like, yeah, look,
obviously I don't even know what hal is. I'm here
to debate if what is hale? Like, yeah, there are
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these dents. I don't see where it came from. Yeah,
but I mean, it's just how American capitalism works. And
like the way that this story came about. This is
one of those investigative reports where they were like, if
you have a story, just like email it to us,
and so they just enough people had emailed them too
for them to be like, Okay, it seems like there
might be a thing here because otherwise, like you just
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don't find out about this. It's just like a consumer
advocacy story. But consumers get fucked by multibillion dollar companies
like they don't they It's just such a mismatch in
America because you know, for the same reason that we're
allowed to drink Mountain dew uh, and you know the
European Union is not because the PEPSI corporation has a
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shipload of money and let us poison people. Yeah, let
us poison people because this thing is delicious. And did
any of these insurance companies like comment back about this,
like did they? Yeah, they just deny it. Yeah. So
is there any way like how do the what how
does the pendulum swing the other way? So the insurance
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companies are accountable or this is one of those things
where they're like, we just need to drop people's attention
to this practice industry. It didn't seem like they were
referring to many other like mainstream media reports on this.
So I think I think because they're commercially these more
advertising them. Right, So I think people need to like
really kind of push for some sort of reform. Uh.
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Like I think the main thing they need is because
the insurance company has been like doing this for years
and because they have so much money to pay lawyers.
All fifty states have these laws where people aren't allowed
to sue them if they're accused of fraud wrongly. So
if your life is ruined because human insurance claim, there's
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no way to super damage to super damages at all. Um.
The one thing that is interesting about that Buzzfeled article
is that when you get to the end, it actually
tells you which Harry Potter character each in the Rider is.
And I thought that was really interesting. Yeah, yeah, I was.
I was surprised by you know, they're all slithering and
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turns out, umf we'll hopeful puff too. My fear. It's
gonna happen to me, but you know it can happen
to literally any of us. That sucks so bad. Yeah,
I don't get especially well you you do a bit
in the office where you keep saying you're got an
injury at work, and that happen. Well, you know, I
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have some investigators who may want to talk to you. Alright,
we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back,
and we're back. I don't know if I even want
to do this next story. It really fucked me up. Uh.
But guys were apparently not allowed to put Q tips
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in our ears anymore. We've known that forever, I know,
so I've been hearing that like it's been a small
background like chatter because you can't hear it due to
all the wax. As you impacted more. That's the thing.
It's like, that's like the thing that came out that
we were like, no, yeah, it's the thing. We're like, okay, doctor, right,
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I remember. It wasn't flossing the other one where it's like,
you know, it's fine and people like, well, we're still
doing it. Wait. Really yeah, there was a whole thing
about flossing like like wasn't you know, I mean, it
was beneficial, but not in the way that like the
dental industry was telling us. So this is there's a
Gizmoo article called is cleaning your ears with cotton swabs
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really that dangerous? I'm gonna be honest with you. I
fully clicked on that because I expected the answer to
be like nah, the way the headline is written, right,
you're expecting it to be like, no, it's actually fine,
it's not as bad. Uh, And like it is. There's
a real life horror tale that they start things kick
things off with because a woman her skull got infected
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from basically using a Q tip improperly. You're just they're
just like, you should never ever stick anything into your head. Yeah,
your ears are incredibly delicate, like compared to your other
bodily orifices and you just like aren't supposed to be
putting anything in there. Also, don't funk with ear candling.
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Apparently that's not good. But why is it not good?
I think just generally it's like it can puncture your
ear drum, like just putting stuff in. It's like you
put a candle in your ear and the like lit
and basically like pulls like creates like a suction. I
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think it draws the ear wax out of the ear
wax out you see it. I saw it the first time,
like in like India or something. That's crazy. I've never
even I don't even know anything about that. I one
time had I thought I was going deaf in college,
but it was just a wax build up in one
of my ears. Had you been, I mean probably I'm
a normal person. I'm a human being. You don't use pens,
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so it had been impacted in there. I don't know,
but it was really weird. And they had to use
one of those like like those water guns in my
ear right right. Well. First they had me put or
something you know, like the vitamin is vitamin eat the
fish oil. I don't know those like fish oil tablets
they prescribed as me there like pop them open and
then pour those in your ears. Yeah, and then it
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created up. It turned into my like the wax into
a giant wax ball. And then they came back a
week later and they like power shot my ear with
like a water gun pressure washer. So that's something you
can do at home, guys, just fire pressure washer. It
was pretty intense. It came out and the wax ball
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was so big. It was just well, okay, it's in
a glass case for history, but it was it was insane.
I was like, how is that in my ear? And
my doctor was like next, So I didn't really get
an answer. So as I was reading it, I was like, damn,
is this true? And then a lot of people are like, yeah,
like if you if some people like they say, just
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simply the water rushing from a shower will be able
to take it out. And also the way that your
skin grows in your ear can like actually just bring
the wax out naturally. Yeah, they say, like the movement
of your jaw from like talking and chewing like like
gently like kind of works the wax out of your ear.
Grinding your teeth while you sleep, Does that help I
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don't know. I you know, I've actually still used Q
tips and um no I do too. I don't. Yeah,
I don't think I'm going to stop. But despite this,
dude jack skull infection. Yeah, I don't know. Man, it's
it's one skull infection. Uh and hours of pleasure. So
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is it pleasurable for you to Yeah, it's really pleasurable.
Clean business, get no pleasure. You fucking no music on,
no nothing, You're doing the dark. You're like, no, I'm in,
I'm fucking out. Well, yeah I was. That was It
was weird to like read from numerous like health things
where it's like, yeah, I mean you could, but if
you really if they're saying, if your wax build up
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is like pretty significant, then you'ah, going to a doctor
is probably the best option to protect yourself. But yeah,
it's just like I don't go to the doctor for
a lot of stuff. Yeah, you know, that just seems
like number one. Um, if you guys can see in
Japan though, like that really getting pretty cheesy, dude, the
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like in Japan, he's like a bamboo pick like yeah, yeah,
like where it looks like a fucking like cokespoon basically
and like, that's how you take your your ear wax.
That's safer than a that's like I feel like, that's like,
I don't anything fully funck your ear. And I remember
my mom when I was a kid, whenever she was
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trying to clean my ear with that, I was like,
like I didn't read because it was I could hear it,
just like fucking scraping in my ear. And then she's
like American people have different ear wax and Asian people.
She's like, you have your dad's your wax. I'm like,
what the fun Well, there are different types of but
I don't think it's racial. You know, it's all timmey racism.
We should do a segment called mom myths, right, like
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things your mom and dads to like your stuff. But yeah,
wet first, dry ear wax doesn't matter. You're not supposed
to clean it out, and I will continue to do
so and probably go deaf. What is something you think
is underrated? I'm gonna stay with cars, and I'm gonna
go with automated car washes. Automated car washes are amazing.
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I was just trying to also do that this weekend. Yeah,
we're on the same wave length. Wait, so describe the
automated kind of car wash you're talking about. Well, mine
personally in my neighborhood, it's like thirteen bucks for a
for a super wax car wash, you know, super wax.
You put it in neutral, you line up to that thing.
There's there's a little bit of theater and anticipation leading
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up to it. You know, you gotta push in your mirrors,
you know, lower right right now, you know, and then
you just get whacked by those yeah plastic things and
there's bubbles. It's like a sensory overload. Yeah, and it
takes me back to when I was a kid and
going through car wash. So it's one that you get
to sit inside the car, supposed to have to leave
the car, yeah, just like yeah, and then you're out.
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There's places in l a where you have to wash
your own car, Like, what's what's the price for three bucks?
You get six minutes? Yeah, the coin operator ones. Yeah,
Like I understand like paying a guy to do it,
that's fine, you know, I'm willing to do that. But
I love to sit in the car and watch the
show you listen to uh just uh you know psychedelic rock. Yeah,
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little Moody blues or you know, get your sits are
out and play along. That guy's right right, it's yeah.
I was looking at my car was still is filthy
if I just hosted it off instead of getting a
car washed, because I don't believe in car washes anyway,
I was looking for one, and the few that I
looked at the reviews they scared me away because like
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the buffing thing ripped off my windshield wipers and they
acted like nothing happened, or like I don't know what
happened to my door, And I was like, wait, the
door was missing somehow, like something happened where like there
was clearly scrape scrapes along the thing where maybe the
spinning scrubber thing may have damaged like the paint. But
that's when also like I had to do that thing
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of like how much of this is an actual you'll
review and how much is someone projecting their own anger
onto the automated car wash. Long story short, their car
was probably so dirty they couldn't see the scratches before
before they were like what do you do in my car? Man?
They're like, my car is white. Changed the whole paint
in my car Man went from cream to white and
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I'm sure Triple A says don't wash your car you
never know, you can't trust it. But I like it. Yeah,
I just had. I only went. I remember as a kid,
I very vivid of like begging to go through a
drive through car wash? Did it? Maybe? Once I hear
it's safer to go through backwards? Actually, so weight Watchers
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is still a thing. Uh. And although they have rebranded
themselves w w oh great, yeah, because that that's not
confusing to anyone. Double dubs, yeah, double dubs. But they
last week launched a new app called Curbo. Kay, you
(27:42):
are b oh like Turbo with a k oh, Dude.
I don't even know why that's so funny to me.
That's the worst fucking names. That's like your nickname for
a dude named Kirby. Yeah, Curbo, Yeah, Curbo the puck Meister.
It is a weight us app four children as young
(28:03):
as eight years old. I'm sorry to be used by children, yes,
to be used by children are children? Uh? Just everything
about this is depressing. So it starts out like at
the very inception as kind of having the gloss of science,
because it was a app that was developed by Stanford
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University's Pediatric Obesity program, which sounds scientific and professional and
there is an obesity problem in America and presumably in
America's children. But from there it just gets really weird
with like some of that involves like they ask why
you're doing this, and like your goals can be to
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lose weight to please my parents. And the website features
before and after photos of once chubby kids who are
now thin, and that's in quotes. The page also includes
the fine print result there not typical, and yeah, it
just all kind of points the idea that thinness is
the ideal standard. It's designed to promote not like health,
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but like because you weigh in by like tracking your
measurement and like setting goals. There are things where it's
like it groups foods into red groups, yellow groups, and
green and it's like trying to eat more green less red. Uh,
And you know that could be a useful thing to
like get promote kids eating healthily, right, but it's it
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just has all these other places where it's sort of gamifies,
like weight loss right and visualizing. It's like you're this,
but you want to be this, which is why you
need curb. Oh, and as if you know, kids aren't
already getting like bombarded even more with like unrealistic ideas
of how your life or body should look. It's like, yeah,
hah hahi, we want to fucking make you. Do you
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want to mainline some body dysmorphic disorder into your fucking
veins at eight years old? Yeah? So, the National Eating
Disorder Association said that this poses some grave risks because
it is like giving children advice with no in person
monitoring by medical professionals. So too kind of illustrate how
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this could go wrong. A dietitian went in and basically
made a profile that was somebody with an eating disorder, uh,
like a fake kid. Yeah, so created a fake profile
for a fourteen year old with a weight that would
be low for her height. Her diet consisted only of mustard, celery,
(30:38):
and water, and she recorded hours of treadmill exercise. The
app then told her how well she was doing, which,
so even when you put like would you eat today mustard,
celery and water, They're like, great, good job, keep going. Yeah,
you're still fucked up looking, Yeah, and you're clearly in
Los Angeles, right, Yeah, you're only eating mustard and celery. Yeah,
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is that a real diet? I think I think it's
one of those things that probably like eating disorder like
and just a little bit of just a way to
trick yourself into like your body into thinking you're feeding
it sustenance and while not feeding itself is weight. But
weight watchers take is sort of like hey, kids, you
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want to get your own health into your like bring
a control back into your hands with this app, right,
And I'm sure there are instances in which it is useful,
but it is like they're just putting it out there.
It's not a thing where you're getting medical attention on
a person to person basis to judge if this is
going to be useful in that instance, like if if
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you're being monitored, if you're using it in association with
like a doctor kind of like working with you and
your family, maybe that would work. But because it's being
like you know, treated like a an app that they're
trying to like make a profit off of, it just
is going to go wrong no matter what. Right, So,
like a more cynical thing is like that this is
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the last dying gasp of weight watchers to try and
like insert themselves and being like this is how you'll
get control of your weight versus like the Internet where
you can find every fucking diet under the sun that
people are into now, and doesn't you don't have to
pay like a membership for that information. Yeah, And just
last year, weight Watchers sparked a similar controversy when they
(32:27):
announced a new program to provide free membership for teens
between thirteen and seventeen, which is using the first one's
free drug dealer thing that you know, drug dealers supposedly
use against kids in high school. Right. I just like
that they're saying, it's it's but we're about healthy habits,
not a diet. Right. The idea before and after photos
(32:48):
for kids is really depressing because you're a kid, you're growing.
There's nothing but after photos. Yeah, like this one, there's
two of like this one. Kid. It looks like the
difference between when you're eight and ten. Right, It's like, yeah,
might look a little bit different when you start entering puberty, right, Yeah,
but this is him. Hey, pretty happiness. After three months
of Curbo. Yeah, and clearly we've run out of app names,
(33:10):
there were no longer any good app Yeah Curbo. The
kids are going to love that. Yeah, Only only pharmaceutical
names are worth sounds like a video game in a
like eighties movie where they're like just figuring out what
video games are. You can't beat my high score on Curbo.
Check this out? Well, that's the movie where that kid
gets zapped into Curbo right right in that world to
(33:32):
fight his way out of Herbia. What's something that's overrated? Um,
this is gonna spark controversy, but it's not that bad.
Getting rid of plastic straws. I get rid of all plastic,
then don't take my strawls away, right, just just I
will bring my own glass and there you go. Wow,
(33:56):
I will literally I will recycle everything. But there you go.
I mean you don't have to whisper. I'm on your
same team. I personally that turtle really fucked up the
pr It was one and now we got to act
like every turtle out here swimming and getting the straw this. No,
there's some bullshit also, like if you open any Apple products,
you have to cut through nineties boxes to get in plastic,
(34:19):
and then you talk to Steve Jobs himself to get
through the phone. So like, why can't we get rid
of all of this single it's not even single use
plastic when you're talking about packaging. It's just shipped to
make your ship look nice. But I can't have straw
this big plastic energy in the building that's just big paper.
(34:39):
It's the same ship where you know. It's unfortunately, it's
one of those problems that rather at the industrial level,
they're passing that problem down to the consumer and like
you know, it's actually your no. And then the attitude
you get when you ask for a straw. You're looking
for a straw and the people behind the counter and
I'm like, okay, listen, it's a bigger problem them. I will,
(35:00):
I will not use anything, but like you know, and
then they look at you like you're a can I swear, yeah,
fucking douche from all hell because Nancy behind straw, I
just had too much coldbrew and gave me more. And
now I'm screaming. I'm screaming. I've I've never said it before,
(35:23):
but it's a tough it's a tough thing because you know,
on one hand, I agree with obviously when you look
at like the gyre in the Pacific Ocean and things
like they're like goddamn it. But then I'm like, okay, fine,
I will, i will bring my own bags to the store,
like I'm cutting down on my ship that way. But
the fuck y'all have not figured out this paper straw
you really have it? Or the metal where I'm like,
am I at the dentist? Can I just can I
(35:45):
please have a straw? It just it hits my teeth
and I go, oh god, It's like nails on chalkboard.
The paper dissolves into your mouth, then you choke and
you a must die. And then the ones without the straw,
I'm like, who's gonna play pay my dry cleaning bill?
Because I dump it all over me? These are this
is a real problems. I think we just need better,
Like you know, like I could see you, Aaron, having
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like your own straw, like one that you use all
the time. Would you do that if it wasn't you know, metal,
or you like, if I have to, I can re
use my straw, you know, like figure it out. Remember
how like back in the nineties, every promotional item was
a water bottle with a thick astraw like that straw
from that water bottle? Could you rock that infinitely? Maybe completely?
(36:28):
So we'll find we're finding a middle ground, you know.
I mean, I don't want to like I wanted to say,
almost say no, it's because I know there's somebody behind
this straw ship and it ain't the goddamn environment, because
Americaine never been this thoughtful about ship. Okay, it's the
reason why. I literally plastic is everywhere, but except for straws. Like,
(36:50):
who is big paper, Who's behind this? Who's making the
coin off this straw? I'm tired of sucking limp straw.
Wow we are now, And I like you. As soon
as you said the bracelet thing, I said, oh, yes,
a scammer, Yeah, I love My love is scamra. Well,
you know, one person might say a scammer, another person
might say someone with infinite generosity. Yeah, I have a
(37:12):
huge plastic straws exactly, And you want your friends to
join in on the phone with Obviously, turtles live for
a long time, and we need to bring that turtle
back out. I want to see that turtle and has recovering.
I mean I see more agents with straws in their
nose at parties than I do turtles, so many coked
up turtles. Even I will say most people who are
(37:32):
doing cocaine do do it environmentally soundly, with either a
classy cocaine spoon or their keys or your podcast movement
Lanyard in Orlando. Yeah, and host y'all for the record,
that was a joke for y'all who take everything people
(37:54):
say on this microphone for real? So healthy and it's
actually straight edge. What y'all don't know? She has the
ex's tattooed on her hands and we photoshop that out
in every photo. Well, speaking of questioning the seafood, Food
TV has got a new show that sounds like it
is a parody of itself, but apparently it's real. Yeah.
(38:15):
I mean, cooking shows have always like they've had this
evolution right from like dry tutorials of like this is
how you make this thing, and then we started getting
into like the more highbrow competitions like your Top Chefs
and your Hell's Kitchens and Master Steps, and then you
get these like half hybrid comedies. It's social justice commentary
at this point, like with Ugly Delicious, it's just like
(38:38):
it's more like this is the history of the hot
dog and how people were oppressed as they were in
the labor camps, and like yeah, and now we're getting
more of like the jokey stuff. So now there's a
new show on Quimby. Again, I don't know what they
I feel like everything is about you on Quimby for
whatever reason. But it's almost like half Japanese game show
(39:01):
have legit cooking show. So it's hosted by Titus Burgess
and each episode quote starts with the cannon blasting of
a mystery food dish into the faces of two blindfolded chefs.
They'll use their culinary prowess to identify the exploded dish
and then race against the clock to recreate it whichever
chef comes closest to the original dish. When a cash prize,
(39:23):
now let's say it's hot soup perfect, are they just
going to be like that, it's just them screaming, it's
having their wounds. It's like a piea so it's a
bunch of shellfish and like shells like cutting your face off. Um,
I don't know. I mean, I think it's it's sort
of you know, that's what's kind of becoming funny because
nailed it helps sort of democratize things a bit. Or
(39:45):
it's like Sea Man's like nobody didn't we can get
this ship done. But now sort of saying like oh
you're so good? How good are you? Are you so good?
We can explode a meal on your fold? Why are
we doing this? Why do we hate chefs? Because so
as Americans, we do not like experts, we do not
like expertise. So we've seen these people be better than
(40:06):
us and be un like. We can't that they're unrelatable,
so now we have to bring them down and humiliate
them on National TV they did with the comedians. It's
really really I just like those uh, I like the
when when the guy has like gonna chopped or whatever,
(40:26):
when the guy has nothing to play for. Really, that's
not that deep, right right? Oh my dad died to cancer. Right?
Oh man? You know, just ship just trying to take
a few weeks off, you know what I'm saying, Like, yeah,
that's what I'm playing for today. That's funny. The producers.
(40:47):
I always find people with heavy fucking stories, which like
almost like I get it, producers, thank you. But like
sometimes I've turned off an episode because I'm like that
was so heavy, Like someone like recently lost a parent
and they're like, I'm here despite what happened. Hold on.
You can tell when they were like, can we need
to punch this up? A little bit more, because then
they'll just dramatize something very basic. Can we getting fired?
(41:10):
Can we get the filming to be during the funeral
so that they're really conflicted about it? Um? Yeah, they
cut that person. I'm sorry. Yeah, wut. They're like, I'm
here to just honor my father's memory, and they're like, well,
unfortunately this dish did not honor so Quimby. By the way,
(41:31):
for people who weren't listening to that episode when we
covered it, is like, isn't that the like ten minute
TV shows or something that Steven Spield like, it just
has all this funding and yeah, I mean mobile, it's
gonna be a mobile app where you watch TV shows
that are made specifically to be ten fifteen minutes long.
And they've got a lot of good talents. Got punked
(41:52):
coming back, they got a show where they fire hot
soup and chef's faces. Uh, it's perfect like commuter entertainment. Yeah,
I don't know, man, I'm still skeptical. I don't know.
They're basically creating a new genre of entertainment. Like I've
never seen somebody put the cart this far before the horse,
(42:14):
where they're just like they're signing all the talent on
and then just being like and it'll be tight, it'll
be tight. There was there was one case, a little
company called see So right, that's what I'm who have
been trying to do this for a long time and
signing really great talent and it just feels like the
ability to you know, create art form that is like
(42:37):
ten minutes long and like just really short bite size stuff.
I don't, I just it's a lot of people have
tried it. Yeah, I mean there's a difference thing selling
good and selling different, right, you know what I mean.
It's just like this is a different idea and you
don't know if it's gonna fail, right, all right, because
it's so different. He's never been done. But this is
(42:57):
also always the feedback you from executives when you're first
starting like podcasts, they were like, gotta make it quick, man,
people don't have long attention. Yeah, and then like some
of the best podcasts are like hours long, and it's
like people that actually isn't true. People don't want to
have to keep choosing what their next podcast is. They
(43:18):
want you to, like, you know, spend some time with them.
Um yeah, I mean, you can't beat a good story.
Ever you know what I mean. And if it's if
people don't want to long podcast from people who don't
know what they're doing. But if you if you've got
a good story, you know how to tell it, you
know people to tell it in, people will still get
locked in. Yeah, and YouTube videos like they like it's
(43:41):
a hack now to make them longer because people spend Yeah.
So I mean again like it doesn't work if you're
not good at it. But the videos are now trending
higher and higher in terms of runtime. Uh so, I
just feel like there's always this idea that like we
gotta you know, dumb it down, shorten it, make it
really quick, and it hasn't really worked out that one.
(44:03):
Do we know if quimbies behind a paywall or it's
ad sponsored. I think it must be ad sponsored, because
that would be the death knew where it's like okay,
hold you want me to people are gonna pay ten
minute videos. No, there's just too much good entertainment. It's
way too much. Yeah, yeah, it looks too much of entertainment.
(44:23):
I don't know. Yeah, that's there's just too much to
choose from. All Right, we're gonna take a quick break
and we'll be right back, and we're back. Well, let's
talk about somebody else who saw a see through jar
of money? Uh and x I guess head of vice
(44:46):
president production for one of Roberts's companies. Uh. This woman
named Chase Robinson being sued for fucking six million dollars
because she was quote spending astronomical amounts of time watching
Netflix and other various forms of time wasting. And I'm
just gonna read you this, this snippet from Variety, because
it's it just tells you everything you need to know
(45:06):
about this wonderful employee. The company says she rarely came
into the office and alleges she spent quote astronomical amounts
of time watching Netflix during work hours. The company alleges
that during a four day period in January, she watched
fifty five episodes of Friends. On one of those days,
she ordered lunch from Caviare San Francisco and had dinner
at Paula's Restaurant, charging both meals on the company card.
(45:30):
Over another four day period in March, she allegedly watched
twenty episodes of Arrested Development and ten episodes of Ship's Creek.
I mean so far, look It sounds like she's taking
care of herself. She likes to laugh. This is a
reboot culture. And I was only watching Hours of Friends
because I'm trying to make France with Robert de Niro
right the Nero's France. This is what I'm thinking, Robert,
(45:52):
you are Chandler being How do you feel about How
do you feel about that? I don't know. There's a
lot going on with Apparently she was constantly there was
a lot of rumors about her that she was like
involved in corporate sabotages, the word they used in this
Variety article. I don't know exactly what that means, but
when you go on this is what they say. According
to the company, they say watching shows on Netflix was
(46:13):
not in any way part of or related to the
duties and responsibilities of her employment on Information and Belief
was done for her personal entertainment, amusement, and pleasure at
times when she was being paid to work. Is with
the pseudo alleges, and it also alleges that Robinson made
twelve thousand, like hundred ninety six dollars and unauthorized charges
at Paola's over a two year period, in addition to
(46:34):
eights at Dean and De Luca and Whole Foods and
thirty two thousand dollars for uber rides and taxis. Thirty
two thousand dollars for uber rides and taxis. Mass was
going on road trips, I mean in the fit pool.
Unless she also had a scamlet she put in the
(46:56):
dryer and just let it. Getting those steps like that,
we I have a question, why why wasn't she fired
on week one? How is this? If you're if you're
a word, if you're if you're at a job right,
and I'm always going to cheer for the worker to
to extort as much money off Corporate Americas salary was
three d thousand dollars. That's what her salary was, So
(47:19):
I don't understand. There's where is the oversight If someone
comes in and you're watching, they've documented all the netflix,
But she wasn't fired. I'm sorry, that's on them. She
started as an assistant to DeNiro in two thousand and
eight and then was promoted to vice president of products
of production and finance. But that's probably more in the
production side. I have a feeling, right if you look,
(47:40):
I know people who have sucked around it and buzzled
money at companies. They don't catch on until like they
start realizing there's abnormalities because there's typically they're like, oh,
that person is on the level. And then when you
start being like, hold on, man, money is going weird places.
And then you started analyzing ship, that's when people start
putting it together. You have a little bit of a
window to funk around. I find this so ridiculous, like
(48:02):
productivity and finance. She's the most unproductive person and she's
spending them spending all the money, but where is the
who's in charge. That's like she's doing the anti job.
Like if someone hired you to be a security guy,
but instead you just stole everything, Like we had you
to protect our merchant. You're stealing it. I'm redistributing it
to my home. But what I love about this is
(48:24):
that you say she started as an assistant, because to me,
that says that she's probably a real scammer who learned
the ins and outs. Like when you start on a
lower level, you start noticing where the holes are, like
much easier. So like, oh, Robert, don't even be looking
at these files, and I'm looking at these files every
week or also and the person that does I know
she's getting sunked up on her job anyway, So she
says someone telling Robert that she's fund up one all day.
(48:46):
But how do you the documentation the specificity of sixty
nine episodes of like someone had to document that. You
can't just pull that out of your ass information? Said
company Computer Netflix. I guess, But that's I'm interesting, Like
where you get those analytics? Because can you check your Netflix?
(49:07):
She was on de Nero's log in, and she must
have been on someone's yet, I mean, like a true
scammera But like, I'm curious how you even get that information.
It's kind of like the Greatest Employees story and like
the and and like I don't know. I always think
the greatest way to end a job was that flight
(49:27):
attendant at Jet Blue when he pulled the thing went
out the emergency slide with a six pack. To me,
that's the greatest working mayam story of all time. This
one is second place. This is pretty good. The other part,
what about the resignation? She on the cake, so she
is allowed to resign for some reason, Like they don't
(49:49):
they're not even like firing her. I feel like if
you're stealing like this is going to be like the
security cars come get you and had nero wrapped around
her fingers. She must have because she got to sit
in a resonation letter where she disregarded all of these charges.
It's false and in ridiculous, ridiculous, as she said. And
then she writes herself a letter of recommendation which she
(50:09):
gives to Robert de Niro to to sign. He declines. However,
she had been working at this assistant for years, so
she probably just still wrote that Letter's like, yeah, I
know your signature, Robert. I was giving you a chance
to do the right thing, but she's not going to
give me my quill. I love that she writes it
(50:31):
with a quill. It's just all right another Obviously this
is a bad behavior, however, but again I'm just amazed
at her confidence that just going through life like, oh,
I can do whatever I want. I mean, it's probably
one of those things too. Within the company, people were
just taking advantage. I mean there I've seen instances of
(50:55):
people at like an actor's production company when they start
their own little boutique produce action company, and there's a
lot of sucking around sometimes, especially if like their friends
are involved and things like that, so I wonder if
they're just a culture in there. It was like, dude,
none of these people care. Robert doesn't know, Like they're
pulling in a billion dollars a year like throughout his
business ventures, like what's right, And he's working, so he's
probably not there, like overlooking everybody's shoulder, like we're working
(51:19):
on today too, busy hanging out with anti bactors right now.
All right, that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeys,
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(51:41):
talk to him Monday. By
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 last stravaganza.
Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist.
(00:25):
What's something for your search history? It's reeling bad who
you are? Yeah, I'm gonna pass on this segment because,
um in my search history, this is very insider um
Ivan kuriz Lavik Australia's got talent, okay, insider for who
(00:46):
if you watch for Australia, if you watch Bachelor in
Paradise Australia or The Bachelor at Australia. Um so there's
this guy who's on the hose on Bachelor Australia first
and then he went to b I P Bachelor in
Paradise for me. You know, now you put your answers
in the dock? Are you misspelling his name? No, that's
his name. That's just that's another less so many consonants
(01:07):
in a row. He's about six seven. Name try some
culture jack, but he's he's a he's about six seven
and he considers himself the Channing Tatum of Australia in
(01:27):
the sense that he's like like a Magic Mike style dancer.
He's a six seven stripper. Well, he's not a stripper.
He's just more like like his dream is to be
like a step up dancer. What do you mean like
step up the movie Channing Tatum. Yes, he wants to
just be like a fucking like popping lock and he
(01:47):
is one. But he's the corniest one I've ever seen
in my life, and he uses it. He'll be like,
for one in the Bachelorette, he'd be like, girl, I
actually did I did a routine for you if you
could just like it. They're all dance for you, and
most of the time he's dancing to no music and
it's insane. And then like in Bachelor in Paradise, he's
(02:08):
like so frustrated with this situation with this girl and
this guy. Like he's like in like this guy's like
I want to ask out your girl, and he's like,
you're my friend, man, And then he goes, he's like,
just I need a minute. I just need to go
like dance this off. And he goes and he's got
headphones on and he's like dancing by himself in front
of like a sonset. It's the the most insane thing
(02:30):
I've ever seen, like beautiful, and he truly believes he's
the most suave, like badass dancer. Like he's like told
the girl, like, I need about five years, right in
five years, I'm gonna or not even like five years.
I think at that time it was like a few
years ago. He's like, give me a few years. I
will be channing Tatum. First you have to go to
Atlanta because all the dancers go to Atlanta, and then
I will have made it. I don't know, I don't
(02:53):
know where the dancing, and I will be making dollars
a year. Yeah, exactly, And um yeah, apparently when on
Australia's got talent and the clip it's wild. I mean
he's got talent, but he's a six seven dancer. So
he just looks like yeah, like he just looks like
(03:14):
he's he knows how to do the moves, he just
can't put he like puts them together in a weird way. Well,
I'll show you guys a video. It's just very um
it kills me. And if it's not motivated by the
music like the Australians, No, he's definitely motivate. You'll see,
I'll show I'll put in the footnotes so you guys
can really watch this. It's kind of amazing, Like because
(03:34):
speaking of foot foot loose, Kevin Bacon's character at one point,
at one point, thank you. At one point he like
goes into a warehouse and like because he's mad and
like just dances dances at all. And I never thought that, Like,
I this is the first I've ever heard of that
actually happening. But he probably saw it, and he's like,
(03:55):
that's that's what you get off some steam. That's a movie.
And he Yeah, Also, Kevin Bacon is dancing most of
the time, to know music because the music is in
his car. One of the clearest pieces of evidence. So
that's something that I look at every every now and then.
(04:16):
I think I've talked about the fact that I am
on the breit Bart News mailing list just to kind
of keep an eye on on what they're up to. Uh,
and a lot a lot of the emails are just
scam emails. Just here's what I got the other day,
a special message from Bill O'Reilly, picture of Bill O'Reilly
(04:38):
with a silver coin, like a giant silver coin behind him, uh,
and it says, dear fellow Americans. Some experts say our
recession could be on the way. With all the turbulence
in the world, it's important to consider putting a portion
of what you have earned into an asset that is
historically safe gold and silver. Uh So, these are like
(05:01):
these old person like financial scams, Like they're just looting
the elderly, essentially, because that's who's who watches them. I
just found a website called Bill O'reiley's Precious Metals, and
it sounds like he has a whole career in getting
you to invest in gold. Also yea, also sounds like
(05:26):
it was written by like an angry ex wife. Bill
o'riley's Precious Medals, Uh so precious he forgets his anniversary.
There's also an article in The New Republic recently about neutraceuticals,
and it asks the question why this scam? Right? Why?
(05:47):
Why are they so good at making you have amazing
brain power that lasts all day? I know? Why? Why
are all the top sellers of neutraceuticals right wing media?
I didn't as Joe Rogan is a nutraceutical guy. That
makes sense. Yeah, yeah, I just didn't think he was that, Yeah,
(06:09):
I think it's because, like I think inherently right, like
a lot of conservatives already have this feeling of like
waning power, so like anything that's like hey, man, fucking
let's go back to caveman fucking times. Fucking bodies were
robust and powerful. Well, but they were talking about the
fact that, like some of some of the images on
the nutraceutical like marketing material are actually like an exact
(06:34):
match of like a drawing from Marxist material about what
capitalism was going to do to us, Like it has
like gears and stuff, and like it's basically a human
turning into a machine. Automaton, Yeah, and automaton like just
how you know you're gonna lose your humanity And these
nutraceutical like marketing materials are people doing that, and they're like,
(06:55):
you're gonna be so sick, You're gonna be a fucking machine,
brocking capitalist machine. Man. I mean, that's they want us
to lose our humanity. So Marx was warning that that
will happen if we go further down the road of capitalism,
and then happen, and it's happening. They're they're bragging about
it with the neutraceuticals, and uh, it's basically one of
(07:18):
one of the theories put forward by the article is that,
you know, the reason it's the right wing thing is
because it's all about making you a better capitalists like
money making machine. And you know, when you think about it,
it's a pretty bleak ethos Like the America American right
wingers are basically like, it's a meritocracy and if you're
(07:42):
not making money, that's on you, bro, and like, yeah,
you gotta make yourself better earner for your family or
you're a fucking loser. And so, like one of the
people in the article said, like, the left wing is
a little bit more skeptical about the relationship between labor
and employer, and so they wouldn't take as kindly to
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a product that is all about like making you better employees, right, right,
that's why we're like, let's smoke weed and be fucked
up at work. Yeah, I guess you're right in here.
But the left, on the left wing, the people who
sell this bullshit Gwyneth Paltrow, Yeah, there's only one, and
it's Gwyneth Paltrow. And I guess it's all different versions, right,
because I guess the other like the holistic you know,
pseudoscience stuff is the like the left version of nutraceuticals,
(08:29):
but it's like for a much more like you know,
it feels more fantastic and whimsical. H you want to
know what Gwyneth Paltrow's uh neutraceutical is called, but nerd alert. No,
it isn't, yes, because it's like, oh, you want to
use your brain, nerd, Well, this will make you more
alert dork. I like the rights version is fucking crave
(08:50):
man power, Like I think that was one of the
Alex Jones one, like Caveman brainforce or something. And then
this fucking nerd a lern nerd alert squirrel ork. You
want to do? You want to do good at work?
You nerd. Anyways, let's talk about insurance companies. Guys. This
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is they get a bad rap. Yeah, let's let's leave
them alone. State Farm Farmers Erie, which is apparently a
car ensure. So there's an article in BuzzFeed. Uh, it's
actually BuzzFeed News. That's an investigative report where it looks
into this practice. It feels a little bit like the
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relationship between doctors and pharmaceutical companies. It's the relationship between
local police forces and insurance companies. Basically, you know, insurance
companies are these huge, multibillion dollar companies, so in America
they're going to have a shipload of power. And in
the early nineties they made a couple of changes, so
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they realized that they were losing money to fraud claims.
There a study came out that said one into and
insurance claims was fraud. Experts think that is a wild
over exaggeration, but they still like that was what they
didn't give their just ten percent, they say, is probably
not true. Copies are a scam, right, It's an internal
(10:19):
study for the insurance and just yeah, so to address
that problem and it's succeeded. It's made them like way
more profitable. They did two things. They pushed this legislation
where people aren't able to sue insurance companies who accuse
them of fraud. So basically they can accuse people of
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fraud and you know, basically bankrupt people like a lot
a lot of people end up like homeless or uh,
you know, just you know, out on their yeah, death
by court fees. You know, if you're a contractor, then
like being accused of insureance fraud, which is one of
the stories they tell, like the person lost his job
(11:04):
and like lost all this work. He had like fifty
employees and he had to fire most of them. But
because he was wrongly accused of fraud, because he was
wrongly accused of fraud, because what was the claim that
he had, and they're like, no, that's fraud. The way
he worked was people would come to him to fix stuff,
and the reason he was really popular is because he
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would deal with the insurance companies. Basically go and adjudicate
the situation with the insurance companies, and he had a
relationship with them, so you know, he figured he could
do it more effectively than like letting the people themselves
deal with the insurance companies. But because he was, you know,
getting paid out on so many insurance claims, uh, the
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insurance companies were like, this is not good. This is
a money loser for us, So let's take this guy down.
And so they wrong accused him fraud and then they're
wrongly accused him of fraud and they in some cases,
the insurance companies are providing the evidence to the police
officers and like it's a report on like arson or something,
they'll be like, yeah, this there's traces of gasoline and
(12:08):
fire accelerants in this uh fire, Like you need to
like accuse this guy he he started the charge or something.
Yeah for all but there but these like the the
evidence that they're providing them is coming from their own
like from their own yeah, and it's not from a
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fucking even law enforcement investigation, like hey, we say there's
proof of this. So the other thing the insurance companies
are doing is their subsidizing local law enforcement. Uh, they're
giving them money to hire investigators for insurance fraud because
it used to be a thing that like law enforcement
just didn't have the bandwidth for. So like when an
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insurance fraud claim came in, they were like, well, we
don't really have the time or energy. So the insurance
industry started investing in these investigators and like providing law
enforcement with them. And it became this like cozy like
pay for play, Like we give your police department like
a bunch of money and allow you to hire these
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investigators and in return, like you use our data, you
to charge these people, you help us charge these people
with fraud. And it's just it's really like they don't
have a lot of stats, but it seems like there's
a lot of false positives. An expert on the situation said,
it's kind of the equivalent of tuna nets catching dolphins.
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It's like, yeah, you're gonna catch some fraudulent claims, but
you're also catching a lot of real people, and you're
like destroying honest people who spent money and like to
trust your company to be ensured. And then just because
they're like we're losing money, we're gonna accuse you of
fraud and are they just like celebrating. Yeah. Yeah, So
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people are then losing their job because they're arrested like this.
On this one woman, like she wasn't even a contractor.
It had nothing to do with her job. She worked
at Walmart, but a house she was renting burned down.
They arrested her for like arson, for arson. She was
facing twenty years in prison. And then she just like
desperately wrote all these letters to any lawyer who would
(14:14):
take her case pro bono. Was like, I'm like out
of options. I'm gonna go to jail if you don't
help me. This lawyer just out of the kindness of
his heart took her case and found that they were
using like I said earlier, they were using a study
by the insurance company that just was provided to them,
and it was bullshit. It was like based on faulty science.
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And her case was thrown out. But she's still homeless
from all the you know, losing her job. But they
still didn't pay out. I don't think they did. No. Yeah,
so they didn't pay out and she's right destitute, has nothing. Yeah.
There's one instance. So this guy who was clearing all
the claims because he was a big contractor and I
think the Indiana area. The thing like ultimately like caused
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them to really get pissed at him was this big
hail storm that had like just damaged all these people's
homes and cars, and he, you know, was doing a
lot of repairing and getting paid by the insurance companies,
and like State Farm head an investigator like go after
him on all these different fraud claims, and when they
(15:24):
got him arrested, the guy, the State Farm guy sent
around a drawing of a stick figure getting raped in
prison and was like hot like celebrating the fact that
he got this guy arrested. It turned out to be
falsely accused. Uh, he was facing like a lot of
jail time because of this work. And that guy who
(15:46):
sent around that drawing like one an award for being
the best like insurance fraud investigator in the country. So
it's like this is happening, and that's like them thinking
that the system is working. I wonder if they're like
the avid and say gave it was like, yeah, look,
obviously I don't even know what hal is. I'm here
to debate if what is hale? Like, yeah, there are
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these dents. I don't see where it came from. Yeah,
but I mean, it's just how American capitalism works. And
like the way that this story came about. This is
one of those investigative reports where they were like, if
you have a story, just like email it to us,
and so they just enough people had emailed them too
for them to be like, Okay, it seems like there
might be a thing here because otherwise, like you just
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don't find out about this. It's just like a consumer
advocacy story. But consumers get fucked by multibillion dollar companies
like they don't they It's just such a mismatch in
America because you know, for the same reason that we're
allowed to drink Mountain dew uh, and you know the
European Union is not because the PEPSI corporation has a
(16:51):
shipload of money and let us poison people. Yeah, let
us poison people because this thing is delicious. And did
any of these insurance companies like comment back about this,
like did they? Yeah, they just deny it. Yeah. So
is there any way like how do the what how
does the pendulum swing the other way? So the insurance
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companies are accountable or this is one of those things
where they're like, we just need to drop people's attention
to this practice industry. It didn't seem like they were
referring to many other like mainstream media reports on this.
So I think I think because they're commercially these more
advertising them. Right, So I think people need to like
really kind of push for some sort of reform. Uh.
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Like I think the main thing they need is because
the insurance company has been like doing this for years
and because they have so much money to pay lawyers.
All fifty states have these laws where people aren't allowed
to sue them if they're accused of fraud wrongly. So
if your life is ruined because human insurance claim, there's
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no way to super damage to super damages at all. Um.
The one thing that is interesting about that Buzzfeled article
is that when you get to the end, it actually
tells you which Harry Potter character each in the Rider is.
And I thought that was really interesting. Yeah, yeah, I was.
I was surprised by you know, they're all slithering and
(18:14):
turns out, umf we'll hopeful puff too. My fear. It's
gonna happen to me, but you know it can happen
to literally any of us. That sucks so bad. Yeah,
I don't get especially well you you do a bit
in the office where you keep saying you're got an
injury at work, and that happen. Well, you know, I
(18:36):
have some investigators who may want to talk to you. Alright,
we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back,
and we're back. I don't know if I even want
to do this next story. It really fucked me up. Uh.
But guys were apparently not allowed to put Q tips
(18:58):
in our ears anymore. We've known that forever, I know,
so I've been hearing that like it's been a small
background like chatter because you can't hear it due to
all the wax. As you impacted more. That's the thing.
It's like, that's like the thing that came out that
we were like, no, yeah, it's the thing. We're like, okay, doctor, right,
(19:19):
I remember. It wasn't flossing the other one where it's like,
you know, it's fine and people like, well, we're still
doing it. Wait. Really yeah, there was a whole thing
about flossing like like wasn't you know, I mean, it
was beneficial, but not in the way that like the
dental industry was telling us. So this is there's a
Gizmoo article called is cleaning your ears with cotton swabs
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really that dangerous? I'm gonna be honest with you. I
fully clicked on that because I expected the answer to
be like nah, the way the headline is written, right,
you're expecting it to be like, no, it's actually fine,
it's not as bad. Uh, And like it is. There's
a real life horror tale that they start things kick
things off with because a woman her skull got infected
(20:05):
from basically using a Q tip improperly. You're just they're
just like, you should never ever stick anything into your head. Yeah,
your ears are incredibly delicate, like compared to your other
bodily orifices and you just like aren't supposed to be
putting anything in there. Also, don't funk with ear candling.
(20:28):
Apparently that's not good. But why is it not good?
I think just generally it's like it can puncture your
ear drum, like just putting stuff in. It's like you
put a candle in your ear and the like lit
and basically like pulls like creates like a suction. I
(20:48):
think it draws the ear wax out of the ear
wax out you see it. I saw it the first time,
like in like India or something. That's crazy. I've never
even I don't even know anything about that. I one
time had I thought I was going deaf in college,
but it was just a wax build up in one
of my ears. Had you been, I mean probably I'm
a normal person. I'm a human being. You don't use pens,
(21:12):
so it had been impacted in there. I don't know,
but it was really weird. And they had to use
one of those like like those water guns in my
ear right right. Well. First they had me put or
something you know, like the vitamin is vitamin eat the
fish oil. I don't know those like fish oil tablets
they prescribed as me there like pop them open and
then pour those in your ears. Yeah, and then it
(21:34):
created up. It turned into my like the wax into
a giant wax ball. And then they came back a
week later and they like power shot my ear with
like a water gun pressure washer. So that's something you
can do at home, guys, just fire pressure washer. It
was pretty intense. It came out and the wax ball
(21:54):
was so big. It was just well, okay, it's in
a glass case for history, but it was it was insane.
I was like, how is that in my ear? And
my doctor was like next, So I didn't really get
an answer. So as I was reading it, I was like, damn,
is this true? And then a lot of people are like, yeah,
like if you if some people like they say, just
(22:15):
simply the water rushing from a shower will be able
to take it out. And also the way that your
skin grows in your ear can like actually just bring
the wax out naturally. Yeah, they say, like the movement
of your jaw from like talking and chewing like like
gently like kind of works the wax out of your ear.
Grinding your teeth while you sleep, Does that help I
(22:36):
don't know. I you know, I've actually still used Q
tips and um no I do too. I don't. Yeah,
I don't think I'm going to stop. But despite this,
dude jack skull infection. Yeah, I don't know. Man, it's
it's one skull infection. Uh and hours of pleasure. So
(22:57):
is it pleasurable for you to Yeah, it's really pleasurable.
Clean business, get no pleasure. You fucking no music on,
no nothing, You're doing the dark. You're like, no, I'm in,
I'm fucking out. Well, yeah I was. That was It
was weird to like read from numerous like health things
where it's like, yeah, I mean you could, but if
you really if they're saying, if your wax build up
(23:19):
is like pretty significant, then you'ah, going to a doctor
is probably the best option to protect yourself. But yeah,
it's just like I don't go to the doctor for
a lot of stuff. Yeah, you know, that just seems
like number one. Um, if you guys can see in
Japan though, like that really getting pretty cheesy, dude, the
(23:45):
like in Japan, he's like a bamboo pick like yeah, yeah,
like where it looks like a fucking like cokespoon basically
and like, that's how you take your your ear wax.
That's safer than a that's like I feel like, that's like,
I don't anything fully funck your ear. And I remember
my mom when I was a kid, whenever she was
(24:06):
trying to clean my ear with that, I was like,
like I didn't read because it was I could hear it,
just like fucking scraping in my ear. And then she's
like American people have different ear wax and Asian people.
She's like, you have your dad's your wax. I'm like,
what the fun Well, there are different types of but
I don't think it's racial. You know, it's all timmey racism.
We should do a segment called mom myths, right, like
(24:27):
things your mom and dads to like your stuff. But yeah,
wet first, dry ear wax doesn't matter. You're not supposed
to clean it out, and I will continue to do
so and probably go deaf. What is something you think
is underrated? I'm gonna stay with cars, and I'm gonna
go with automated car washes. Automated car washes are amazing.
(24:52):
I was just trying to also do that this weekend. Yeah,
we're on the same wave length. Wait, so describe the
automated kind of car wash you're talking about. Well, mine
personally in my neighborhood, it's like thirteen bucks for a
for a super wax car wash, you know, super wax.
You put it in neutral, you line up to that thing.
There's there's a little bit of theater and anticipation leading
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up to it. You know, you gotta push in your mirrors,
you know, lower right right now, you know, and then
you just get whacked by those yeah plastic things and
there's bubbles. It's like a sensory overload. Yeah, and it
takes me back to when I was a kid and
going through car wash. So it's one that you get
to sit inside the car, supposed to have to leave
the car, yeah, just like yeah, and then you're out.
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There's places in l a where you have to wash
your own car, Like, what's what's the price for three bucks?
You get six minutes? Yeah, the coin operator ones. Yeah,
Like I understand like paying a guy to do it,
that's fine, you know, I'm willing to do that. But
I love to sit in the car and watch the
show you listen to uh just uh you know psychedelic rock. Yeah,
(25:57):
little Moody blues or you know, get your sits are
out and play along. That guy's right right, it's yeah.
I was looking at my car was still is filthy
if I just hosted it off instead of getting a
car washed, because I don't believe in car washes anyway,
I was looking for one, and the few that I
looked at the reviews they scared me away because like
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the buffing thing ripped off my windshield wipers and they
acted like nothing happened, or like I don't know what
happened to my door, And I was like, wait, the
door was missing somehow, like something happened where like there
was clearly scrape scrapes along the thing where maybe the
spinning scrubber thing may have damaged like the paint. But
that's when also like I had to do that thing
(26:38):
of like how much of this is an actual you'll
review and how much is someone projecting their own anger
onto the automated car wash. Long story short, their car
was probably so dirty they couldn't see the scratches before
before they were like what do you do in my car? Man?
They're like, my car is white. Changed the whole paint
in my car Man went from cream to white and
(27:00):
I'm sure Triple A says don't wash your car you
never know, you can't trust it. But I like it. Yeah,
I just had. I only went. I remember as a kid,
I very vivid of like begging to go through a
drive through car wash? Did it? Maybe? Once I hear
it's safer to go through backwards? Actually, so weight Watchers
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is still a thing. Uh. And although they have rebranded
themselves w w oh great, yeah, because that that's not
confusing to anyone. Double dubs, yeah, double dubs. But they
last week launched a new app called Curbo. Kay, you
(27:42):
are b oh like Turbo with a k oh, Dude.
I don't even know why that's so funny to me.
That's the worst fucking names. That's like your nickname for
a dude named Kirby. Yeah, Curbo, Yeah, Curbo the puck Meister.
It is a weight us app four children as young
(28:03):
as eight years old. I'm sorry to be used by children, yes,
to be used by children are children? Uh? Just everything
about this is depressing. So it starts out like at
the very inception as kind of having the gloss of science,
because it was a app that was developed by Stanford
(28:23):
University's Pediatric Obesity program, which sounds scientific and professional and
there is an obesity problem in America and presumably in
America's children. But from there it just gets really weird
with like some of that involves like they ask why
you're doing this, and like your goals can be to
(28:46):
lose weight to please my parents. And the website features
before and after photos of once chubby kids who are
now thin, and that's in quotes. The page also includes
the fine print result there not typical, and yeah, it
just all kind of points the idea that thinness is
the ideal standard. It's designed to promote not like health,
(29:10):
but like because you weigh in by like tracking your
measurement and like setting goals. There are things where it's
like it groups foods into red groups, yellow groups, and
green and it's like trying to eat more green less red. Uh,
And you know that could be a useful thing to
like get promote kids eating healthily, right, but it's it
(29:34):
just has all these other places where it's sort of gamifies,
like weight loss right and visualizing. It's like you're this,
but you want to be this, which is why you
need curb. Oh, and as if you know, kids aren't
already getting like bombarded even more with like unrealistic ideas
of how your life or body should look. It's like, yeah,
hah hahi, we want to fucking make you. Do you
(29:55):
want to mainline some body dysmorphic disorder into your fucking
veins at eight years old? Yeah? So, the National Eating
Disorder Association said that this poses some grave risks because
it is like giving children advice with no in person
monitoring by medical professionals. So too kind of illustrate how
(30:18):
this could go wrong. A dietitian went in and basically
made a profile that was somebody with an eating disorder, uh,
like a fake kid. Yeah, so created a fake profile
for a fourteen year old with a weight that would
be low for her height. Her diet consisted only of mustard, celery,
(30:38):
and water, and she recorded hours of treadmill exercise. The
app then told her how well she was doing, which,
so even when you put like would you eat today mustard,
celery and water, They're like, great, good job, keep going. Yeah,
you're still fucked up looking, Yeah, and you're clearly in
Los Angeles, right, Yeah, you're only eating mustard and celery. Yeah,
(31:00):
is that a real diet? I think I think it's
one of those things that probably like eating disorder like
and just a little bit of just a way to
trick yourself into like your body into thinking you're feeding
it sustenance and while not feeding itself is weight. But
weight watchers take is sort of like hey, kids, you
(31:21):
want to get your own health into your like bring
a control back into your hands with this app, right,
And I'm sure there are instances in which it is useful,
but it is like they're just putting it out there.
It's not a thing where you're getting medical attention on
a person to person basis to judge if this is
going to be useful in that instance, like if if
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you're being monitored, if you're using it in association with
like a doctor kind of like working with you and
your family, maybe that would work. But because it's being
like you know, treated like a an app that they're
trying to like make a profit off of, it just
is going to go wrong no matter what. Right, So,
like a more cynical thing is like that this is
(32:06):
the last dying gasp of weight watchers to try and
like insert themselves and being like this is how you'll
get control of your weight versus like the Internet where
you can find every fucking diet under the sun that
people are into now, and doesn't you don't have to
pay like a membership for that information. Yeah, And just
last year, weight Watchers sparked a similar controversy when they
(32:27):
announced a new program to provide free membership for teens
between thirteen and seventeen, which is using the first one's
free drug dealer thing that you know, drug dealers supposedly
use against kids in high school. Right. I just like
that they're saying, it's it's but we're about healthy habits,
not a diet. Right. The idea before and after photos
(32:48):
for kids is really depressing because you're a kid, you're growing.
There's nothing but after photos. Yeah, like this one, there's
two of like this one. Kid. It looks like the
difference between when you're eight and ten. Right, It's like, yeah,
might look a little bit different when you start entering puberty, right, Yeah,
but this is him. Hey, pretty happiness. After three months
of Curbo. Yeah, and clearly we've run out of app names,
(33:10):
there were no longer any good app Yeah Curbo. The
kids are going to love that. Yeah, Only only pharmaceutical
names are worth sounds like a video game in a
like eighties movie where they're like just figuring out what
video games are. You can't beat my high score on Curbo.
Check this out? Well, that's the movie where that kid
gets zapped into Curbo right right in that world to
(33:32):
fight his way out of Herbia. What's something that's overrated? Um,
this is gonna spark controversy, but it's not that bad.
Getting rid of plastic straws. I get rid of all plastic,
then don't take my strawls away, right, just just I
will bring my own glass and there you go. Wow,
(33:56):
I will literally I will recycle everything. But there you go.
I mean you don't have to whisper. I'm on your
same team. I personally that turtle really fucked up the
pr It was one and now we got to act
like every turtle out here swimming and getting the straw this. No,
there's some bullshit also, like if you open any Apple products,
you have to cut through nineties boxes to get in plastic,
(34:19):
and then you talk to Steve Jobs himself to get
through the phone. So like, why can't we get rid
of all of this single it's not even single use
plastic when you're talking about packaging. It's just shipped to
make your ship look nice. But I can't have straw
this big plastic energy in the building that's just big paper.
(34:39):
It's the same ship where you know. It's unfortunately, it's
one of those problems that rather at the industrial level,
they're passing that problem down to the consumer and like
you know, it's actually your no. And then the attitude
you get when you ask for a straw. You're looking
for a straw and the people behind the counter and
I'm like, okay, listen, it's a bigger problem them. I will,
(35:00):
I will not use anything, but like you know, and
then they look at you like you're a can I swear, yeah,
fucking douche from all hell because Nancy behind straw, I
just had too much coldbrew and gave me more. And
now I'm screaming. I'm screaming. I've I've never said it before,
(35:23):
but it's a tough it's a tough thing because you know,
on one hand, I agree with obviously when you look
at like the gyre in the Pacific Ocean and things
like they're like goddamn it. But then I'm like, okay, fine,
I will, i will bring my own bags to the store,
like I'm cutting down on my ship that way. But
the fuck y'all have not figured out this paper straw
you really have it? Or the metal where I'm like,
am I at the dentist? Can I just can I
(35:45):
please have a straw? It just it hits my teeth
and I go, oh god, It's like nails on chalkboard.
The paper dissolves into your mouth, then you choke and
you a must die. And then the ones without the straw,
I'm like, who's gonna play pay my dry cleaning bill?
Because I dump it all over me? These are this
is a real problems. I think we just need better,
Like you know, like I could see you, Aaron, having
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like your own straw, like one that you use all
the time. Would you do that if it wasn't you know, metal,
or you like, if I have to, I can re
use my straw, you know, like figure it out. Remember
how like back in the nineties, every promotional item was
a water bottle with a thick astraw like that straw
from that water bottle? Could you rock that infinitely? Maybe completely?
(36:28):
So we'll find we're finding a middle ground, you know.
I mean, I don't want to like I wanted to say,
almost say no, it's because I know there's somebody behind
this straw ship and it ain't the goddamn environment, because
Americaine never been this thoughtful about ship. Okay, it's the
reason why. I literally plastic is everywhere, but except for straws. Like,
(36:50):
who is big paper, Who's behind this? Who's making the
coin off this straw? I'm tired of sucking limp straw.
Wow we are now, And I like you. As soon
as you said the bracelet thing, I said, oh, yes,
a scammer, Yeah, I love My love is scamra. Well,
you know, one person might say a scammer, another person
might say someone with infinite generosity. Yeah, I have a
(37:12):
huge plastic straws exactly, And you want your friends to
join in on the phone with Obviously, turtles live for
a long time, and we need to bring that turtle
back out. I want to see that turtle and has recovering.
I mean I see more agents with straws in their
nose at parties than I do turtles, so many coked
up turtles. Even I will say most people who are
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doing cocaine do do it environmentally soundly, with either a
classy cocaine spoon or their keys or your podcast movement
Lanyard in Orlando. Yeah, and host y'all for the record,
that was a joke for y'all who take everything people
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say on this microphone for real? So healthy and it's
actually straight edge. What y'all don't know? She has the
ex's tattooed on her hands and we photoshop that out
in every photo. Well, speaking of questioning the seafood, Food
TV has got a new show that sounds like it
is a parody of itself, but apparently it's real. Yeah.
(38:15):
I mean, cooking shows have always like they've had this
evolution right from like dry tutorials of like this is
how you make this thing, and then we started getting
into like the more highbrow competitions like your Top Chefs
and your Hell's Kitchens and Master Steps, and then you
get these like half hybrid comedies. It's social justice commentary
at this point, like with Ugly Delicious, it's just like
(38:38):
it's more like this is the history of the hot
dog and how people were oppressed as they were in
the labor camps, and like yeah, and now we're getting
more of like the jokey stuff. So now there's a
new show on Quimby. Again, I don't know what they
I feel like everything is about you on Quimby for
whatever reason. But it's almost like half Japanese game show
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have legit cooking show. So it's hosted by Titus Burgess
and each episode quote starts with the cannon blasting of
a mystery food dish into the faces of two blindfolded chefs.
They'll use their culinary prowess to identify the exploded dish
and then race against the clock to recreate it whichever
chef comes closest to the original dish. When a cash prize,
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now let's say it's hot soup perfect, are they just
going to be like that, it's just them screaming, it's
having their wounds. It's like a piea so it's a
bunch of shellfish and like shells like cutting your face off. Um,
I don't know. I mean, I think it's it's sort
of you know, that's what's kind of becoming funny because
nailed it helps sort of democratize things a bit. Or
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it's like Sea Man's like nobody didn't we can get
this ship done. But now sort of saying like oh
you're so good? How good are you? Are you so good?
We can explode a meal on your fold? Why are
we doing this? Why do we hate chefs? Because so
as Americans, we do not like experts, we do not
like expertise. So we've seen these people be better than
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us and be un like. We can't that they're unrelatable,
so now we have to bring them down and humiliate
them on National TV they did with the comedians. It's
really really I just like those uh, I like the
when when the guy has like gonna chopped or whatever,
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when the guy has nothing to play for. Really, that's
not that deep, right right? Oh my dad died to cancer. Right?
Oh man? You know, just ship just trying to take
a few weeks off, you know what I'm saying, Like, yeah,
that's what I'm playing for today. That's funny. The producers.
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I always find people with heavy fucking stories, which like
almost like I get it, producers, thank you. But like
sometimes I've turned off an episode because I'm like that
was so heavy, Like someone like recently lost a parent
and they're like, I'm here despite what happened. Hold on.
You can tell when they were like, can we need
to punch this up? A little bit more, because then
they'll just dramatize something very basic. Can we getting fired?
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Can we get the filming to be during the funeral
so that they're really conflicted about it? Um? Yeah, they
cut that person. I'm sorry. Yeah, wut. They're like, I'm
here to just honor my father's memory, and they're like, well,
unfortunately this dish did not honor so Quimby. By the way,
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for people who weren't listening to that episode when we
covered it, is like, isn't that the like ten minute
TV shows or something that Steven Spield like, it just
has all this funding and yeah, I mean mobile, it's
gonna be a mobile app where you watch TV shows
that are made specifically to be ten fifteen minutes long.
And they've got a lot of good talents. Got punked
(41:52):
coming back, they got a show where they fire hot
soup and chef's faces. Uh, it's perfect like commuter entertainment. Yeah,
I don't know, man, I'm still skeptical. I don't know.
They're basically creating a new genre of entertainment. Like I've
never seen somebody put the cart this far before the horse,
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where they're just like they're signing all the talent on
and then just being like and it'll be tight, it'll
be tight. There was there was one case, a little
company called see So right, that's what I'm who have
been trying to do this for a long time and
signing really great talent and it just feels like the
ability to you know, create art form that is like
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ten minutes long and like just really short bite size stuff.
I don't, I just it's a lot of people have
tried it. Yeah, I mean there's a difference thing selling
good and selling different, right, you know what I mean.
It's just like this is a different idea and you
don't know if it's gonna fail, right, all right, because
it's so different. He's never been done. But this is
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also always the feedback you from executives when you're first
starting like podcasts, they were like, gotta make it quick, man,
people don't have long attention. Yeah, and then like some
of the best podcasts are like hours long, and it's
like people that actually isn't true. People don't want to
have to keep choosing what their next podcast is. They
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want you to, like, you know, spend some time with them.
Um yeah, I mean, you can't beat a good story.
Ever you know what I mean. And if it's if
people don't want to long podcast from people who don't
know what they're doing. But if you if you've got
a good story, you know how to tell it, you
know people to tell it in, people will still get
locked in. Yeah, and YouTube videos like they like it's
(43:41):
a hack now to make them longer because people spend Yeah.
So I mean again like it doesn't work if you're
not good at it. But the videos are now trending
higher and higher in terms of runtime. Uh so, I
just feel like there's always this idea that like we
gotta you know, dumb it down, shorten it, make it
really quick, and it hasn't really worked out that one.
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Do we know if quimbies behind a paywall or it's
ad sponsored. I think it must be ad sponsored, because
that would be the death knew where it's like okay,
hold you want me to people are gonna pay ten
minute videos. No, there's just too much good entertainment. It's
way too much. Yeah, yeah, it looks too much of entertainment.
(44:23):
I don't know. Yeah, that's there's just too much to
choose from. All Right, we're gonna take a quick break
and we'll be right back, and we're back. Well, let's
talk about somebody else who saw a see through jar
of money? Uh and x I guess head of vice
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president production for one of Roberts's companies. Uh. This woman
named Chase Robinson being sued for fucking six million dollars
because she was quote spending astronomical amounts of time watching
Netflix and other various forms of time wasting. And I'm
just gonna read you this, this snippet from Variety, because
it's it just tells you everything you need to know
(45:06):
about this wonderful employee. The company says she rarely came
into the office and alleges she spent quote astronomical amounts
of time watching Netflix during work hours. The company alleges
that during a four day period in January, she watched
fifty five episodes of Friends. On one of those days,
she ordered lunch from Caviare San Francisco and had dinner
at Paula's Restaurant, charging both meals on the company card.
(45:30):
Over another four day period in March, she allegedly watched
twenty episodes of Arrested Development and ten episodes of Ship's Creek.
I mean so far, look It sounds like she's taking
care of herself. She likes to laugh. This is a
reboot culture. And I was only watching Hours of Friends
because I'm trying to make France with Robert de Niro
right the Nero's France. This is what I'm thinking, Robert,
(45:52):
you are Chandler being How do you feel about How
do you feel about that? I don't know. There's a
lot going on with Apparently she was constantly there was
a lot of rumors about her that she was like
involved in corporate sabotages, the word they used in this
Variety article. I don't know exactly what that means, but
when you go on this is what they say. According
to the company, they say watching shows on Netflix was
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not in any way part of or related to the
duties and responsibilities of her employment on Information and Belief
was done for her personal entertainment, amusement, and pleasure at
times when she was being paid to work. Is with
the pseudo alleges, and it also alleges that Robinson made
twelve thousand, like hundred ninety six dollars and unauthorized charges
at Paola's over a two year period, in addition to
(46:34):
eights at Dean and De Luca and Whole Foods and
thirty two thousand dollars for uber rides and taxis. Thirty
two thousand dollars for uber rides and taxis. Mass was
going on road trips, I mean in the fit pool.
Unless she also had a scamlet she put in the
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dryer and just let it. Getting those steps like that,
we I have a question, why why wasn't she fired
on week one? How is this? If you're if you're
a word, if you're if you're at a job right,
and I'm always going to cheer for the worker to
to extort as much money off Corporate Americas salary was
three d thousand dollars. That's what her salary was, So
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I don't understand. There's where is the oversight If someone
comes in and you're watching, they've documented all the netflix,
But she wasn't fired. I'm sorry, that's on them. She
started as an assistant to DeNiro in two thousand and
eight and then was promoted to vice president of products
of production and finance. But that's probably more in the
production side. I have a feeling, right if you look,
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I know people who have sucked around it and buzzled
money at companies. They don't catch on until like they
start realizing there's abnormalities because there's typically they're like, oh,
that person is on the level. And then when you
start being like, hold on, man, money is going weird places.
And then you started analyzing ship, that's when people start
putting it together. You have a little bit of a
window to funk around. I find this so ridiculous, like
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productivity and finance. She's the most unproductive person and she's
spending them spending all the money, but where is the
who's in charge. That's like she's doing the anti job.
Like if someone hired you to be a security guy,
but instead you just stole everything, Like we had you
to protect our merchant. You're stealing it. I'm redistributing it
to my home. But what I love about this is
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that you say she started as an assistant, because to me,
that says that she's probably a real scammer who learned
the ins and outs. Like when you start on a
lower level, you start noticing where the holes are, like
much easier. So like, oh, Robert, don't even be looking
at these files, and I'm looking at these files every
week or also and the person that does I know
she's getting sunked up on her job anyway, So she
says someone telling Robert that she's fund up one all day.
(48:46):
But how do you the documentation the specificity of sixty
nine episodes of like someone had to document that. You
can't just pull that out of your ass information? Said
company Computer Netflix. I guess, But that's I'm interesting, Like
where you get those analytics? Because can you check your Netflix?
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She was on de Nero's log in, and she must
have been on someone's yet, I mean, like a true
scammera But like, I'm curious how you even get that information.
It's kind of like the Greatest Employees story and like
the and and like I don't know. I always think
the greatest way to end a job was that flight
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attendant at Jet Blue when he pulled the thing went
out the emergency slide with a six pack. To me,
that's the greatest working mayam story of all time. This
one is second place. This is pretty good. The other part,
what about the resignation? She on the cake, so she
is allowed to resign for some reason, Like they don't
(49:49):
they're not even like firing her. I feel like if
you're stealing like this is going to be like the
security cars come get you and had nero wrapped around
her fingers. She must have because she got to sit
in a resonation letter where she disregarded all of these charges.
It's false and in ridiculous, ridiculous, as she said. And
then she writes herself a letter of recommendation which she
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gives to Robert de Niro to to sign. He declines. However,
she had been working at this assistant for years, so
she probably just still wrote that Letter's like, yeah, I
know your signature, Robert. I was giving you a chance
to do the right thing, but she's not going to
give me my quill. I love that she writes it
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with a quill. It's just all right another Obviously this
is a bad behavior, however, but again I'm just amazed
at her confidence that just going through life like, oh,
I can do whatever I want. I mean, it's probably
one of those things too. Within the company, people were
just taking advantage. I mean there I've seen instances of
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people at like an actor's production company when they start
their own little boutique produce action company, and there's a
lot of sucking around sometimes, especially if like their friends
are involved and things like that, so I wonder if
they're just a culture in there. It was like, dude,
none of these people care. Robert doesn't know, Like they're
pulling in a billion dollars a year like throughout his
business ventures, like what's right, And he's working, so he's
probably not there, like overlooking everybody's shoulder, like we're working
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on today too, busy hanging out with anti bactors right now.
All right, that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeys,
please like and review the show. If you like the show,
uh means the world to Miles. He needs your validation. Folks.
I hope you're having a great weekend and I will
(51:41):
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