RIP FTX...and Twitter?

Quirkies 1988 livens up thanks to the return of Balls Like Jagger and proves that the rest of the NFT gang is really bad at math. Plus, Bat Soup is not the drink of the Fall. 

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to proper culture. Hello, this is loot Bag
from you guessed at loot four Adventurers. Uh and that's
the word for not the number four. With all these
numbers flying around, I'm gonna n f T welcome Quirky's. Hello,
Welcome Quirky's three oh seven? Hey, why do you introduce first?
Used to introduce me first, and I'm always prepared to

(00:29):
say something, but then you introduce nine eight and I'm
caught off guard. I think she's sort of superior to
a sort of more top billing. All right, point taking
all said, Jagger has been eliminated. Guess what he's returned
as b L J double O two, Thank you, thank you.
It's always a good time to reinvent ourselves. I have
two bottles of Evy on by me. I'm looking at

(00:53):
their logo and their design. I like how there's less
gradients these, you know what? This one's kind of annoying to.
Can we get rid of this one and get balls
like Jagger? O? O three? Well what if I talk
like this? I think this it's a little more French influenced.
Hello Lake, who did jag a? How do we justify
the logic? Of having him leave and then come back.

(01:15):
And what's what's their generative? Are balls like Jagger our generative?
And we have where it's just like it's like a
machine making them, you know, and we can make We've
actually we have like eight thousand ready to go because
we're just pulling holding them out in numeric order. Will
I come with a peace offering. I've found a tree

(01:36):
and on it were many nuts of the pecan variety,
and I would like to offer you each a back
walls like Jagger presents French nuts. Now these are these
are not French. These are from the American southeast. Oh
you took them there? Who said I was in France.
We talked about a fan, you talked about available internationally.

(01:59):
But I'm saying, if you have two evance that means
you're in France. To let me pull behind the curtain,
just like Mr Oz would say, I'm going to run
for president and there's a wizard. Yes I am in France, Joppell.
We're here to make friendly wagers on current events as
dictated by the missive that is due to arrive any moments,
sort of like Santa Claus when you know sometime in

(02:22):
the night he just shows up. Does the miss of
no when we're bad? Uh? I don't know. No, I
don't think so. The miss is just a good like
a piece of paper. I could do my bad things. Yeah, concerned.
We're midway through November, which means we're approaching Thanksgiving, and
we have had twenty two weeks of this under our belt.

(02:43):
I think, is that right? That's this? Well? This will
be week. Any old bets that we should review, we
should have revisit the turkey that we had, the price
of turkey, the price of turkey. I think you'll be
a tripto fan of these numbers. And it's a reference
to the thing that people say makes them sleep. Why
do you say? People say you don't believe it? I don't.

(03:04):
I think sometimes when you get a nice, good meal
in you, you're tired, no matter what. It's also rhymes
with crypto, which is kind of fun since we're an
n f T podcast and like has been all over
the news these past twenty four I know, crypto. What
are they saying? If they're saying it's hot, has it
ever been? The world is ablaze, like it's burning down,

(03:26):
or like it's an incident with f t X is very,
very prominent because it was probably one of the biggest
and most popular crypto exchanges. And the owner seems to
be engaged, and you slow down. What is f t X.
F t X is a crypto like exchange. What does
it mean? What does it mean? That was it stand for?

(03:49):
Like we discussed last week what TMZ stands for. Does
anyone remember total Recall live thirty miles or whatever. We
don't know what ft X means though, Oh, it's futures exchange.
Fetures exchange. Pretty much the head of it as this
guy named Sam Bateman Fried and he was like the

(04:11):
hottest billionaire for the last three years. In turning, I'm
looking at a picture he kind of looks like a
messy Bilbo. Well, guess what you know, people with a
little hair like go with a wig on. Yeah, like
a little hat. Okay. Then what happened, Like during the
start of the year, cryptocurrency values went very down and
they were like a couple of small companies. Um, that's

(04:33):
FTX actually saved and he was getting hailed as like
the future of cryptocurrency. Sam Bankman Fried, Yes, Sam Bateman Fried, Yes.
And turns out people have names. Well, it turns up.
But it's interesting both of his parents were not bankers.
They were both I think you see Berkeleaf professors, and
they fried things exactly exactly, taking me heavy Diane Sawyer vibes,

(05:00):
and all of a sudden, out of the blue, f
t X itself. Um file for bankruptcy after that, you know,
I think. And once you file for bankruptcy, like you know,
there're certain like financial procedures you have to go through.
And people who are suspecting that Sam Bingman Fried did
a bunch of illicit um crypto transfers to his hedge
fund Alameda for the authorities got hands of f t

(05:23):
X assets. In general, you have a source for this,
they're gonna want to source it's from Yeah who finance?
Oh yeah, yeah, real quick. Let me just instart that
nothing we say on this podcast is reliable and shout
out to all those crypto experts that are listening right
now who appreciate our rundown. Yes, I'm sure they like
waiting once a week for a less accurate rehash. Speaking

(05:47):
of I would like to remind listeners that our mail
boxes are open for the hundred dollar challenge. I hired
prop Culture at gmail dot com. I love prop culture
at gmail dot com. Well, I'd love to take my
new iteration, this new step in life, of this rebirth,
and present new information inform of hey, what were they
called again? Existing condition? It was recently French Armistice Day,

(06:13):
which was the end of World War One, and because
of that, I'm reminded of now in my new French
form the first men who were ashore on D Day
in World War two? What were the first men called
pop culture? I don't know that his history history? Why? Like,
why are we doing history? It's just so I could

(06:34):
get ten dollars called history culture. Never mind, I take
it back, okay, if no, they get fed? They were
called frogmen, all right, it's not pop culture. First of all,
I was talking at first about World War One and
what pop culture today is. Directly everything comes from World
War One, like the Kingsman the first. I hate how

(06:54):
you're excited but you're trying to sound quiet, like trying
to tamp tamp your voice a little down a little bit.
I am, who's who's listening to you? Now? Do you
think my father's upstairs with plugs in his ears? And
I don't want to wait, I hope bars, shut the
funk up, barss bar. Maybe I'll go under the table

(07:18):
and he can hear me let enthusiasm with such a
tempered voice. Was that a Dave Matthews band reference? Under
the table and dreaming? Come on, guys, don't make jokes
like that. Missus here, dear lute back and the rest

(07:43):
existence continues to be a gamble here. Today's topics more money,
more problems. Monte Citos in the news. I mean, you know,
it's a beautiful city presumably never been but it's a
fun city to say, that's for sure. Montecito. And it's

(08:03):
the mountain of with the mountain city, right, city makes sense.
They released the ten most expensive hip codes in the country,
and Montecito made the list. I'm sorry, I'm gonna make
a correction, littshole mountain. I don't know. It's like, oh,

(08:24):
begin yeah, yeah, it's just sit. The ten most expensive
hip codes in the United States, uh, ranked by medium
home cell price. He came in at number seven. Wow,
and if I may, we're gonna offer a very easy
pre existing condition to the three of you. Oh wow, okay,

(08:48):
name one and you don't have to know the code,
but name one of the ten most expensive towns in
the country, I would say Beverly Hills. Uh, the Manhattan,

(09:10):
I'll say San Francisco. I'm not going to change my answer.
Number ten Bridge Hampton, number nine, Newport Beach, California. Number eight, Ross, California, Ross,
number seven, Montecito, California. Number six, Watermill, New York. Okay,

(09:30):
I'm gonna get sucked out of this. I can tell
number five Fisher Island, Florida. Number four Boston, Boston, You motherfucker.
Number three Beverly Hills, California, Well done. Number two Mass

(09:54):
Uh Saga Ponic, New York, Saga Panic. Okay, we we
both have it. We can number rwans On Manhatan Man Atherton, California, California,
number one, because Atherton is like so a very expensive
like um zip code of um. Is that San Francisco? Yeah?
But is Beverly Hills isn't Los Angeles? No, Beverly was

(10:17):
its own city. That's why did that? Like, guess because
I knew that it was its own city, So I
knew that was a secret guest. Then very good Manhattan city,
I guess, Yeah, because probably Manhattan probably has all those. Yeah,
it has Harlem, which smallest apartments in the world for Yeah,

(10:38):
so no I need damn it. All those tiny apartments
brought me down. Okay, fine, big wind, very thoughtful answer,
quirky like jaggered down to eighty dollars already after being
given a lifeline. Hey, you'll see me crawled back up.

(11:04):
Guess what another billionaire sells a former Ellen Degenerous house
for a loss. Is Ellen's role in these homes part
of the problem, and she tainted it with her attitude
and severe haircuts. I have no idea, I mean, but
in this article it does say Ellen Degenerous has famously
reaped a huge second fortune for a buying, renovating, and

(11:25):
flicking some of Southern California's most expensive homes. So it's
something she did on the side. So that's why they're
all these you know, famous rich people right now selling
Ellen de generous properties because she did on most of them. Right.
I've also I've read that a lot of her houses
have water damage because she does something called the bath
matt scoot all around the house. I forgot all about that.

(11:51):
That's a joke. She stand up special. Yeah, it was
about you know how a few showers targeting all of
the Ellen fans directly. Every Ellen reach out to Ellen
with old bits. It's my audience outreach for Ellen fans. Well,
I'd like to know the answer to this question. A

(12:11):
billionaire sold the house for a loss, Sam Bankman Fried No, no,
I mean it's hard to make it a guess about
a person because this person is not like a famous billionaire.
So this existing condition will be about how much the
loss was. Seller was Sue Gross and an ex wife

(12:32):
of Phimpco Browner Bill Gross. What who Gross? And her
net worth is one boy six million and the asking
price for this real estate was thirty eight mills And
like my question is how much did she lose? And

(12:55):
if you can guess the integer of the lost amount,
you know, I mean need to know what an integer is.
I'm going to need to go to school for a
few years to do this. One. A whole number, like
I think it could gets the whole number of a loss,
you'll get to win. But other it's a whole number?
Is that like a decimal? I think it's a zero
because it's the one shaped like a whole Yeah, exactly, No, no, no,

(13:16):
it's not like it's you know, gosh, so an integer
or a whole number. I thought you guys are you're
just trying to funk with our minds kind of number.
It's a whole number, so it's a number that doesn't
have any fractions of a number involved the whole number. Okay.

(13:37):
Isn't thirty seven an integer? Yes? Yes? What about thirty
seven and a half? Is that an integer? No? But anyways,
what was the loss amounts? For the second? Generous home
to lose money? Could make a lot of money with
a website where you type in a number and it
tells you if it's an integer zero and wait, wait, wait, wait,

(14:00):
wait wait wait? Is zero an integer? Yes? Is Pimpleco
still an effective healthcare company? Yes? Okay? And her net
worth is one point six million, billion, billion billion. That
changes my calculus two millions? What's the question? How much
she lost? How is she lost two million? I'm gonna

(14:25):
say three point one four nine million? Is that an integer?
Because he's saying point, I mean if he gets integer, right,
you know the part at that point it's a point
in the abbreviation. It's like that's still three night, seven
thousand or whatever. So is that an integer? Yeah? I
mean I can get an integer out of it. It's fine, yeah,

(14:46):
but do I have to deliver it as an integer?
You get to extrapolate the integer from my guest. I
can extrap weight the integer from your guest. In that case,
I'm gonna I'm gonna program that could get the integer
out of lutes voice. Yes, exactly. Also, say one hundred
and twenty is the amount of frogmen first arrived on
D Day at the beaches, and is nine point four nine?

(15:13):
Said you said a German word talking about maybe that's
why I said it. You guys all got wrong. She
lists she lost twelve million before Texas, So yes, twelve million. Yes,
if anybody said twelve point one or twelve something, you know,
I said, okay, that would have been closest. Yeah, but

(15:34):
guess what none of you had, right, Yeah, but that's
not close enough. It's like almost said, you have to
get the injury. Okay, yeah, you have to get the
injury right. Okay, guys got wrong, Okay, it's twelve mill
all right, just saying don't buy houses from Ellen de generous,
you lose money. You're in a little rocket today exactly.

(15:57):
I think Quirkys came prepped to have a good time
after last week. It happened last week. We shouldn't talk
about it. You have to admit Balls, even though he's
bad this game, he does me. Always put me in
a good mood. Yeah, always nice. Hey, you gotta be
nuts to not have fun with me with balls. Uh,

(16:20):
that's interesting because he wasn't here last week and you
were standing up and storming off and throwing your headphones
around and screaming verified loss loss, raising the possibility of
Twitter going bankrupt. I'm desparing about this because I like Twitter. Yeah. Also,

(16:43):
remember I made a bet that said Twitter is going
to be gone in one year. I remember when did
you make that bet? That's so smart and wise? Yeah,
it's very wise this week. But there's another bet that's
coming in about a month. Because I think Luke said
that they're going to bring Fine back, which I think
is going to be less and less likely now and
um work three seventh said that Fine would not cut back,

(17:06):
um lute, and I said Fine will come back, so
there was a very good chance we will lose that
back anythink, and I also said it's not coming back.
We talked about celebrities departing Twitter that seems to have
tapered off now, although it just seems like everybody might
just abandon it all together. Could Mr Musk sell it again? Yeah,

(17:27):
like is there a waiting period for him to sell
it or could he sell it that? I'm not sure,
but he can definitely sell it again. The problem is
it's very expensive, right, well yeah, but don't you think
a Chinese billionaire or the Chinese government. But oh yeah,
this will be a nice time to funk around. I mean,
Elon Musk is one of those few people who could
take a loss in my opinion, so maybe just like,
oh well, this is fun, like burning it down. His

(17:47):
family still have the emerald minds that I'm not sure.
Is there a day when we'll run out of emeralds?
That's a question I've always thought, I mean our emeralds
in my mind, there's only one emerald, Emerald Pleaghassi. I
think that the church owns all the Lapis Lazuli, doesn't it?
I was pronounced it wrong, or maybe you're pronouncing it wrong.
A lot to pronounce it. I thought Lapis Lazuli Lazuli

(18:09):
who knows asked the Romans? A lot of impostors pranking people.
Blair George Bush pharmacutical company Eli Lily was pranked that
they were giving away insulin for free and their market
cap dropped. Who's that Lily? That was Kate unlost Lily
aunt man in the wasp, that's very beautiful woman. Is

(18:32):
that the same family? No? Okay, just making sure. So
who's going to be the next major Twitter prank victim?
I think I'll be black Rock, to be honest, it's
like a company, yeah, black Rock. Yeah. Um, it's a
company that's been targeted by like both the Left and
the Ride for various reasons. Um. I mean one of

(18:55):
the things I think they did was, um, they bought
a lot of like houses and then turned them into
rentals in like and kind of like, you know, skew
the rental of the housing markets. I think black Rock
will be if I'm like black Rock, all right, very
insightful black Rock. Yeah. It turned off the Twitter blue thing, right, Yeah,
I think it's nobody. I think they're going to be
verified anymore. I think they're going to spend a lot

(19:16):
of money on making Twitter exactly the same, and then
they'll keep losing money. I realized that these have real
world repercussions, but on Twitter, it seemed like this Twitter
takeover was the worst possible thing that could happen in
Twitter users lives. But listen, I got burning on my
old lead TV. That's a much worse thing to happen
to someone. You can undo that. Well, you know, there's

(19:39):
a video on YouTube where it just has these red, green,
and blue lights that flash and gave me a little
bit of a mind ter siege. Yeah, I'm going to
play that and hope, hope for the best. I'll say
Twitter itself, because there's already been some Wow, there's been
light jabbing with fact checking messages by Twitter appearing under

(20:03):
Elon Musk messages where they're refuting what he said. Most recently,
I think he was quoting a security department leader at
Twitter in a quote tweek, and the fact check underneath
said that the security person doesn't work there as of yesterday. Wow.
That's so you're saying it's gonna be Twitter itself. That's
where I feel like leaking information about it. You know

(20:27):
that I feel like someone would come and even hijack
something to like show more information or droll or ruined things. Well,
that's very meta of you, right, And I'm going to
say it's going to be the Panasonic Corporation. That's a
terrible guess. People off for years with the downturn of
the quality of their cameras. The cameras at one point

(20:49):
where the best you could possibly get, and lately it's
like they're not even focusing on the pro market anymore.
So it's probably gonna be Panasonic. I know. It's like
a passionate guest for you, a quirkies by You're gonna
lose money on that one. Like, listen, this is the
way I feel. I'm going with my heart. Yeah, Balls,
Balls has a very good chance of winning. But I
just said black Rock because like some of these companies targeted,

(21:10):
you don't need to justify it. You don't need to
justify you're all wrong. It's going to be the Campari group.
The Campari group makes Campari, and as you all know,
the drink of the fall is the the Groni Saliari. Right,

(21:32):
Someone's gonna get in on this and they're gonna try
and take down Campari. And by golly, if that doesn't
happen by Thanksgiving, I'll eat my hat. Norway Spruce. Congratulations
to the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. It's it's arrived in

(21:53):
the big Apple. No, most Christmas trees don't smell any more.
Doesn't happen anymore, they've been genetically modified. Yeah, there's different
kinds of trees. Some of them just don't smell anymore.
So some people buy fake bullshit Christmas tree spray. I
said they washed it first, but we can go with Okay, thanks,

(22:21):
I like that. Thank you. Can I get a recording
of that? Yeah, yeah, you can listen to it on
wherever you get your podcasts. That's true. The ladies ceremony
is going to be November multicolored lights. And the question
to you guys, in my pre existing condition is how
tall is this Norway spruce? It's a real tree. Yeah,

(22:46):
that's a real tree. Came from well, it didn't come
from Norway. Oh, came from upstate Queensbury. Oh wow. So
is it like closest with out um going over or
it's it's closest without going over. I can say eighty

(23:07):
two ft um, I'll say, uh feet, okay, feet okay.
So I'm it's going to be required to a number.
I require an integer integer okay, So okay, a tall
person is six ft, so how many tall people is it?

(23:30):
How many tall people is that okay, I will say
sixty six, I will say fifteen. Oh God, question was
in feet, So you're automatically okay, you got it under
the wire. You're saying fifty ft, I'm saying sixty six,

(23:52):
sixty six ft. Well, the answer is the answer that
I already gave to you when I was fumbling around
earlier eight two ft? Do you guys not paying attention
to the show? When we don't said it? He said it? Sorry,
I was under the table getting this nut and dreaming.
Do you think that he's messing around to try to
mess with your head? Because I thought that. But you

(24:14):
know what, I just went with it. You for winning money,
because you're gonna lose money on your Panasonic. Hey, guess
what I won that? Bet? Okay? Cool Foods of the World.
Market Watch says Tom Brady and Steph Curry sent to
Bay from company's collapse. What ft X bankruptcy Tom Brady,

(24:37):
step Stephen Curry? That was big? From company's collapse. There
was a rumor that Tom and Gizell invested millions of
their collected fortune into that and lost it all. But
I don't know if that's true. Oh they were I
don't know if they actually invested money in it, but
they were each given equity steak and fd X in
addition to receiving some crypto. Rady served as an abass

(25:00):
R for the company and Buncheon was FTX environmental at
Social Initiative Advisor. They were given equity steak. Is that
like horse meat? Yes? No, they were giving stock pretty much.
There there is an equ wine butcher in the area here. Wow.
You know when we were in Okinawa there was equine sashimia. Yeah? Wow, really?

(25:25):
Did did you have it? No? No, I was like
I would have had it, you know, because it was
at a sushi restaurant. Surprisingly, but yeah, they also served
raw horse meat. Did you see the girl on the
internet eating bat soup? Oh? Well, is it a reference
to um COVID nineteen? No, she was actually eating bat soup.
A tai YouTuber has been held for having bat soup

(25:48):
because it's illegal. Yeah, did it become illegal after COVID
nineteen or She was rested after uploading a video of
herself eating bat soup spice with cherry tomatoes. Wow, spiced,
that doesn't seem punch Knock is seen on tape butchering
the animals, dipping them in a fiery sauce, and then
allegedly tasting the wonderful meat while bringing it closer to

(26:08):
the camera and pointing at its fangs. She then proceeds
to gnaw on the soft bones of the animal. Well,
that article written so seductively, I know the economic times
of India is offering a prexisting condition. Bathter dangerous when

(26:29):
eating their linked to several diseases. How many years will
she spend in jail? Did she know it was illegal? Uh?
I mean here's the thing. A lot of things are
illegal in Thai or like the people beat you up
and tie for you eat that soup, they beat you up. No, no,

(26:49):
but I mean, for example, if you say anything terrible
about the king, it's okay to say bathrooms. Yeah, so
if you see anything bad exactly So if you see
any think bad about the tyroyal family and social media,
you'll go to jail. Does that include us? Yes? Really
well not us, But if you say it inside Thailand,
so it doesn't. We're protected. Yeah, we're react. But I'm

(27:10):
just saying, but no international water they get our show
in Thailand. I think if they have Apple podcasts they
do ye so we could be King of Thailand. Can
eat my bat soup. I bow down to the king
and I say, I worship you and honor you. H
How many years well fon Chanak spend in jail? Three

(27:33):
years seems like an appropriate amount of time. I'll say
five years. That's a round integer. I'll say six years.
She has expected to spend at least five years in jail. Wow,
Oh my, oh my god. Sorry, thank you, Papa, Thank you, Papa,

(27:53):
thank you, papa. Oh my god, I knew I was
down to like sixty. So well, it would be fun
to make bat soup for Thanksgiving, like for for fun,
not real bats, right, but just call it bats or Halloween.
I guess, Oh that would make sense. Be fun to
give out soup to kids coming back here. Yea ladles
of soup into their bag, into the bag. Yeah. I

(28:15):
have a lot of vegetarian friends that I need to
construct that out of tofu meat or watermelon. It's not
it's not big watermelon. How I turned this watermelon? It's
a real bat? Pecan or pecan? What do n f
t s do for Thanksgiving? What are they thankful for?

(28:36):
It's like watch football and drink beer. Yeah, that's exactly
an eat um sounds fantastic without the guilt of having
killed natives, because I don't think there were natives on
the ethereum space. N f t s are not colonizers. No,
in fact they are. No. We no, no, we are
colonizers because we, you know, take over national currencies. I

(29:00):
have a recommendation for you if you need to bring
something for Thanksgiving. Let's hear it. Costco is selling giant
pecan pies. Oh wow, it's pecan okay, And how much
filler is there? Because the thing about pecan pies is
that because pecan or whatever, the filler what do you mean,

(29:24):
the filler the pies? Yeah, because like the cheaper pies
have a filler between the pie crist and the pecans.
I don't think I've ever tasted a pecan pie. They're
very good, you know. I've eaten a lot of pecan
pies in my life. And it's because in Korean Japan
that pie is surprisingly very popular. It's it's in everything. Yeah,

(29:47):
it's in like every high end dessert boutique store. So,
according to Salon dot com, if you're looking for a
dessert to feed a crowd this holiday, season. You may
not need to look any further than the warehouse chain Costco,
which is known for its bulk treats. These guys at
Salon are asking for a prexisting condition and I'm going
to deliver them one because a pecampie they could feed

(30:09):
ten people is known for its Wait, how much does
the Costco giant pecan pie? Way? I'm gonna say one
point two pounds? Um, no, it's more than that. I um,
I would say four pounds. No, it's more than that.
I'm gonna say five pounds needed Thanksgiving desert shortcut Salon

(30:30):
asks Costco has giant pecan pies that way more than
four pounds, Well more than four pounds, and I got
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