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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fresh show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
This is what's trending, all right, guys, a couple of
political stories and then we'll move on. But Vice President
Kamala Harris secured enough delegates on Monday night to become
the Democratic nominee for president at the party's convention in
Chicago next month. She became the front runner on Sunday
after President Joe Biden dropped his re election bid and
urged his supporters to unite around his VP instead. She's
(00:23):
also been endorsed by key Democratic figures such as former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
You got nasty yesterday after Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheetah
Liblies how you Say your Name testified before the House
Oversight Committee for more than four hours and they want
her to resign after the whole Trump thing, oh, the
(00:48):
assassination attempt, and they were terrible. I mean, the thing
about these, you know, Senate and Congress hearings and whatever else,
is I feel like it's hard to know how how
much passion there really is for the topic at hand,
because all these people are trying to do is get
their their moment. They're trying to say the thing in
the five minutes they get that's going to land them
(01:08):
on the nightly news or land them on TikTok or
land them viral.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So it's like, are you really this mad?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Or are you just did you just come up with
something that you thought would get you, you know, more
coverage for yourself. I mean, and people should be mad
about this. This is not right. What happened is weird.
There's a lot of questions. I don't really care what
here we go with the text? Oh honestly, like I
really don't care what side of the aisle you're on.
That shouldn't have happened like that. So what happened? Why
(01:36):
did it happen? Why are you still in the job?
She doesn't. They want her to resign. She won't resign.
It's like, you know, but then they just remember when
we were doing this whole thing with Ticketmaster in Congress
or Senator whatever in these hearings, and like you, clearly
these guys were having their aids right Taylor swift lyrics
into their little speeches, and it was like, all right, guys,
we got it, Like you want to wind up on TikTok,
(01:58):
we understand.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I'm not sure if this helps anybody or anything.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
But they basically just told this woman how much she
sucked for four and a half hours, and like as
soon as you think you're done, then it's the next
person's turn. And each person is like their own independent,
you know, presenter. So it's like, right, exactly, like we
already covered this, I suck at my job.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Okay, I suck at my job. We got it.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I don't know right then for another four and a
half hours, I get to hear like, you know, honestly,
I would have resigned like fifteen minutes into that thing.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I would have been like, so way, Manue. Let me
ask you a question.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
If I tell you, if I just walk out, if
I quit right now and leave, does this end?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Does this mean we don't have to do this anymore?
Like if I just go.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Get a job at Arby's, Yes, do I no longer
have to get roasted by you babel Is? If the
answer is yes, then my answer is yes and I'm gone.
What else do I hear for you guys?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Today?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Lebron James will be the male flag bearer for Team
USA at the Olympics, which will have its opening ceremony
Friday in Paris. A female flag bearer is expected to
be named later this week. Now, this is interesting to note.
Lebron is the first men's basketball player to be named
Team USA is flag bearer. So not Kobe, not Michael,
(03:12):
but Lebron. And this isn't like just for the team
for the basketball team, this is flag bear for the
entire United States Olympic team. He was voted into this role.
So you know, I guess he's more likable than I thought.
But then again, for some people like you, much younger
generation for the most part, going to the Olympics, right,
like a lot of athletes are much younger. He is
the Michael Jordan of that era, so of course they
(03:33):
would name him like one of the oldest guys there, right, right,
But they're also talking.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
About this yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I saw the whole thing about how Michael and Kobe
didn't care if anyone liked them. They didn't care if
they were the flag bear. They didn't care. It was
like they just went to play and cared to pete
and win. They didn't care about any of this other stuff.
And so that's why it's maybe they weren't all that
friendly to everybody, or they weren't you know, political, they
weren't whatever, and Lebron seems to be a likable guy
(04:00):
to a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
So at the same time, there's there was other Olympias,
Like there's Olympians that are more deserving at the time,
you know, saying like there's guys that this is this
is this is it for them? You know what I'm saying,
Like Lebron has the right.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Right, yeah, right, that's you know.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Then there's like guys that just run track every four years.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Just yeah, there's this there's not a lot of fame
and not a lot of money and you know, right, yeah,
I get that. That makes a lot of sense. And
let's answer the age old question does money buy happiness?
Do you guys think money buys happiness?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Truly? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Do you think if you have more money that you're
more likely to be happy?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
No, I'll let you know when I get there.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, I can't answer that question honestly, But I mean I.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Would like to believe you, yes, Yes, I would like
to believes Yes. It's got to make life easier. It's
got to make life easier.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
It gives you options, I think, right, right, that.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Doesn't mean like your relationships are going to be good
that your parents will love you more or less, or
that your kids will love you or what. It doesn't
mean any of that, but I mean, at least you don't.
Your kids could hate you and you could be poor, right,
I mean, you could hate your dad and also hate
your job and not necessarily have enough money to like
buy bread, and then that's a sad story.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
That's a bad thing.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
But at least if you hate your dad but you
can buy bread, you're eating a sandwich while hating your dad.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I mean, it makes you comfortable. I don't think it
makes you happy. I mean, there's so many other factors
to happiness.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
For sure.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, stress may be eliminated, but I mean I've heard
so many people get famous and say I still look
in the mirror. I still have the same issues. It
didn't fix anything, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, I use what little money I do get paid
around here to get therapy, and then the therapy really
helps me survive.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
So that's good. Well that ends. Yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Whiskey Yeah those two things, yeah, right? And women, Yeah,
except now, except not that I gave that up for lent.
So does money buy happiness? The answer is actually yes.
That used to be no, And there used to be
like a plateau or like a uh they call it
a plateau.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Actually I get to it.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
But there used to be a number too, which if
you made more than this number, then you weren't exponentially happy,
happier relative to the amount of wealth above this number.
So like, you see what I'm saying, So I'll tell
you what it is in a minute. But it used
to be like if you made I'll make it up
fifty thousand dollars a year, that if you made one
hundred thousand, you weren't doubly happy. But up until that
(06:20):
fifty thousand dollars point, you were happier each increment until
you got there, but then not like if you went
from fifty to two hundred, then you weren't like four
times happier I would be, but that's just me. According
to new research at UPenn the Wharton School, there is
no happiness plateau or point at which more money is
(06:41):
no longer associated with greater happiness. So they asked thirty
three thousand people, which is I mean, this is a
good survey, unlike most surveys we talk about here, where
they asked four people and got their answers between the
ages of eighteen and sixty five with annual incomes of
at least ten thousand dollars. They found that the so
called happiness gap between affluent and middle income participants those
(07:02):
were the average annual income of between seventy and eighty
thousand dollars, was larger than that between middle and low
income subjects. Not only that, but the scientists busted long
held assumption that once people attain enough money to be comfortable,
their happiness flat lines. Instead, millionaires and billionaires are found
to be substantially and statistically significantly happier than people earning
(07:24):
over five hundred thousand dollars a year. So also the
seventy five thousand dollars happiness plateau is also not true anymore.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
So that was the number I was referring to.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
That you get to seventy five grand, and then your
happiness doesn't go up relative to the amount of money
that beyond seventy five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I don't know. I mean, I think that would make
me happy.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I think one hundred and fifty would make me happier
than seventy five, and I think three hundred would make
me a lot happier than that. And I think a
million would make me real, you know what I mean?
But yeah, I guess not the health. What I mean,
I'm really like thinking about this because Kaitlin's right. I mean,
you're like, if you have I don't know, a bit depression,
(08:11):
or if your health isn't good, which are a million
factors that have nothing to do with money, of course,
a million factors that have nothing that you can't buy
your way out of.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Of course, that being.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Said, if I got some bad stuff going on, but
I got a couple of fly honeys in my roles
with me just for the night, you'll like the fly
honeys in the morning, you.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Know, like I'm fly.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
But that's like and meaningless, and you're like, I hate myself.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
You know later I'll feel that way. But at least
I have at least, Hey, it's better than not ever
having those moments of glory, right, I mean, yeah, there's
a price to be paid for the moments of glory,
but at least I've got them.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
You have those, You're going on a trip this weekend
best friends. That's a moment, of course.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
But if I may double the money, there's simply a
lot we wouldn't be going we would be going somewhere else. Instead,
we're going to Carbondale, Illinois. But it's gonna be wonderful.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
It is.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
They got.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
They got a casino, they got a steakhouse, they got
a lake, they got boats, they got This is guys,
they got I don't know, but maybe got Honey. We'll
get to this. But I did, I chose. I mean this,
I was thoughtful about this vacation. I'm taking you guys
on on the nearly private airline.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I mean, come on, come on, guys.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Do we get a stipend for the casino?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
The spot? It's how much money is in your bank account?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
That's right, right, So I'll just be like, just charge
it to uh Fred's room and guess what it's. The
ro is not under my legal man anymore. I changed
the legal man. It's under Harry Houdini. It's under knees nuts, sir.
How do you spell that? How he's He's easy, helly
Fresh show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
This is what's trending, all right, guys, a couple of
political stories and then we'll move on. But Vice President
Kamala Harris secured enough delegates on Monday night to become
the Democratic nominee for president at the party's convention in
Chicago next month. She became the front runner on Sunday
after President Joe Biden dropped his re election bid and
urged his supporters to unite around his VP instead. She's
(00:23):
also been endorsed by key Democratic figures such as former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
You got nasty yesterday after Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheetah
Liblies how you Say your Name testified before the House
Oversight Committee for more than four hours and they want
her to resign after the whole Trump thing, oh, the
(00:48):
assassination attempt, and they were terrible. I mean, the thing
about these, you know, Senate and Congress hearings and whatever else,
is I feel like it's hard to know how how
much passion there really is for the topic at hand,
because all these people are trying to do is get
their their moment. They're trying to say the thing in
the five minutes they get that's going to land them
(01:08):
on the nightly news or land them on TikTok or
land them viral.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So it's like, are you really this mad?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Or are you just did you just come up with
something that you thought would get you, you know, more
coverage for yourself. I mean, and people should be mad
about this. This is not right. What happened is weird.
There's a lot of questions. I don't really care what
here we go with the text? Oh honestly, like I
really don't care what side of the aisle you're on.
That shouldn't have happened like that. So what happened? Why
(01:36):
did it happen? Why are you still in the job?
She doesn't. They want her to resign. She won't resign.
It's like, you know, but then they just remember when
we were doing this whole thing with Ticketmaster in Congress
or Senator whatever in these hearings, and like you, clearly
these guys were having their aids right Taylor swift lyrics
into their little speeches, and it was like, all right, guys,
we got it, Like you want to wind up on TikTok,
(01:58):
we understand.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I'm not sure if this helps anybody or anything.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
But they basically just told this woman how much she
sucked for four and a half hours, and like as
soon as you think you're done, then it's the next
person's turn. And each person is like their own independent,
you know, presenter. So it's like, right, exactly, like we
already covered this, I suck at my job.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Okay, I suck at my job. We got it.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I don't know right then for another four and a
half hours, I get to hear like, you know, honestly,
I would have resigned like fifteen minutes into that thing.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I would have been like, so way, Manue. Let me
ask you a question.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
If I tell you, if I just walk out, if
I quit right now and leave, does this end?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Does this mean we don't have to do this anymore?
Like if I just go.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Get a job at Arby's, Yes, do I no longer
have to get roasted by you babel Is? If the
answer is yes, then my answer is yes and I'm gone.
What else do I hear for you guys?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Today?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Lebron James will be the male flag bearer for Team
USA at the Olympics, which will have its opening ceremony
Friday in Paris. A female flag bearer is expected to
be named later this week. Now, this is interesting to note.
Lebron is the first men's basketball player to be named
Team USA is flag bearer. So not Kobe, not Michael,
(03:12):
but Lebron. And this isn't like just for the team
for the basketball team, this is flag bear for the
entire United States Olympic team. He was voted into this role.
So you know, I guess he's more likable than I thought.
But then again, for some people like you, much younger
generation for the most part, going to the Olympics, right,
like a lot of athletes are much younger. He is
the Michael Jordan of that era, so of course they
(03:33):
would name him like one of the oldest guys there, right, right,
But they're also talking.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
About this yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I saw the whole thing about how Michael and Kobe
didn't care if anyone liked them. They didn't care if
they were the flag bear. They didn't care. It was
like they just went to play and cared to pete
and win. They didn't care about any of this other stuff.
And so that's why it's maybe they weren't all that
friendly to everybody, or they weren't you know, political, they
weren't whatever, and Lebron seems to be a likable guy
(04:00):
to a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
So at the same time, there's there was other Olympias,
Like there's Olympians that are more deserving at the time,
you know, saying like there's guys that this is this
is this is it for them? You know what I'm saying,
Like Lebron has the right.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Right, yeah, right, that's you know.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Then there's like guys that just run track every four years.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Just yeah, there's this there's not a lot of fame
and not a lot of money and you know, right, yeah,
I get that. That makes a lot of sense. And
let's answer the age old question does money buy happiness?
Do you guys think money buys happiness?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Truly? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Do you think if you have more money that you're
more likely to be happy?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
No, I'll let you know when I get there.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, I can't answer that question honestly, But I mean I.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Would like to believe you, yes, Yes, I would like
to believes Yes. It's got to make life easier. It's
got to make life easier.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
It gives you options, I think, right, right, that.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Doesn't mean like your relationships are going to be good
that your parents will love you more or less, or
that your kids will love you or what. It doesn't
mean any of that, but I mean, at least you don't.
Your kids could hate you and you could be poor, right,
I mean, you could hate your dad and also hate
your job and not necessarily have enough money to like
buy bread, and then that's a sad story.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
That's a bad thing.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
But at least if you hate your dad but you
can buy bread, you're eating a sandwich while hating your dad.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I mean, it makes you comfortable. I don't think it
makes you happy. I mean, there's so many other factors
to happiness.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
For sure.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, stress may be eliminated, but I mean I've heard
so many people get famous and say I still look
in the mirror. I still have the same issues. It
didn't fix anything, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, I use what little money I do get paid
around here to get therapy, and then the therapy really
helps me survive.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
So that's good. Well that ends. Yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Whiskey Yeah those two things, yeah, right? And women, Yeah,
except now, except not that I gave that up for lent.
So does money buy happiness? The answer is actually yes.
That used to be no, And there used to be
like a plateau or like a uh they call it
a plateau.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Actually I get to it.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
But there used to be a number too, which if
you made more than this number, then you weren't exponentially happy,
happier relative to the amount of wealth above this number.
So like, you see what I'm saying, So I'll tell
you what it is in a minute. But it used
to be like if you made I'll make it up
fifty thousand dollars a year, that if you made one
hundred thousand, you weren't doubly happy. But up until that
(06:20):
fifty thousand dollars point, you were happier each increment until
you got there, but then not like if you went
from fifty to two hundred, then you weren't like four
times happier I would be, but that's just me. According
to new research at UPenn the Wharton School, there is
no happiness plateau or point at which more money is
(06:41):
no longer associated with greater happiness. So they asked thirty
three thousand people, which is I mean, this is a
good survey, unlike most surveys we talk about here, where
they asked four people and got their answers between the
ages of eighteen and sixty five with annual incomes of
at least ten thousand dollars. They found that the so
called happiness gap between affluent and middle income participants those
(07:02):
were the average annual income of between seventy and eighty
thousand dollars, was larger than that between middle and low
income subjects. Not only that, but the scientists busted long
held assumption that once people attain enough money to be comfortable,
their happiness flat lines. Instead, millionaires and billionaires are found
to be substantially and statistically significantly happier than people earning
(07:24):
over five hundred thousand dollars a year. So also the
seventy five thousand dollars happiness plateau is also not true anymore.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
So that was the number I was referring to.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
That you get to seventy five grand, and then your
happiness doesn't go up relative to the amount of money
that beyond seventy five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I don't know. I mean, I think that would make
me happy.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I think one hundred and fifty would make me happier
than seventy five, and I think three hundred would make
me a lot happier than that. And I think a
million would make me real, you know what I mean?
But yeah, I guess not the health. What I mean,
I'm really like thinking about this because Kaitlin's right. I mean,
you're like, if you have I don't know, a bit depression,
(08:11):
or if your health isn't good, which are a million
factors that have nothing to do with money, of course,
a million factors that have nothing that you can't buy
your way out of.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Of course, that being.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Said, if I got some bad stuff going on, but
I got a couple of fly honeys in my roles
with me just for the night, you'll like the fly
honeys in the morning, you.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Know, like I'm fly.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
But that's like and meaningless, and you're like, I hate myself.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
You know later I'll feel that way. But at least
I have at least, Hey, it's better than not ever
having those moments of glory, right, I mean, yeah, there's
a price to be paid for the moments of glory,
but at least I've got them.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
You have those, You're going on a trip this weekend
best friends. That's a moment, of course.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
But if I may double the money, there's simply a
lot we wouldn't be going we would be going somewhere else. Instead,
we're going to Carbondale, Illinois. But it's gonna be wonderful.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
It is.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
They got.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
They got a casino, they got a steakhouse, they got
a lake, they got boats, they got This is guys,
they got I don't know, but maybe got Honey. We'll
get to this. But I did, I chose. I mean this,
I was thoughtful about this vacation. I'm taking you guys
on on the nearly private airline.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I mean, come on, come on, guys.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Do we get a stipend for the casino?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
The spot? It's how much money is in your bank account?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
That's right, right, So I'll just be like, just charge
it to uh Fred's room and guess what it's. The
ro is not under my legal man anymore. I changed
the legal man. It's under Harry Houdini. It's under knees nuts, sir.
How do you spell that? How he's He's easy, helly
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