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Call me una ambitious, but I have 0
desire for riches.
I only wanna wake up without an alarm,
surf a little, meditate
midday, train whenever I want, sip wine and
eat well with good friends.
As long as I have the money for
that, I'm good.
And welcome back to 0 credits, the show
where we talk about things.
This week, my name is Henry. And this
week, my name is the American
ambition to live like the average European
John,
and together we're a Henry and the American
ambition to live like the average European John,
coming at you to discuss the cultural happenings
happenings of that their Zeitgeist
on order to make the world safer for
Californian.
What's really interesting to me is
how often people
plan to save as much money as possible
so they can retire to the Mediterranean and
drink coffee,
whereas
mediterranean are just drinking coffee already.
It's amazing. It's like it's like when you
go to a California pizza kitchen, it is
an experience. But when you go to a
California pizza kitchen, in California,
you can't just call it pizza kitchen even
though you're in California.
Yeah. I I found that you and I
both share this, like California,
lineage, though we're both from very different schools
of
of Cali life,
It's crazy how like the California raisins aren't
just the raisins.
Not when they're there. Yeah. Everywhere else or
the California raisins, but they're still the California
raisins in California,
and I ask you,
isn't that a bit much California raisins?
Yeah. I agree. I mean, listen. Maine lobster
in maine is just lobster.
Mississippi mud pies in Mississippi are just mud
pies. Chinese food in China is just food.
Oregano in Oregon is just oh.
And yet in California,
in California,
you still have to honor the California, particularly
at the Cp k.
What What I... So
I was recently in California, and you were
also recently in California, at had different times
in different cities.
Correct. I
started this by not warning you sufficiently ahead
of time that I would be in San
Francisco for 4 days for work.
And it's fine. We we we get... We
found somebody to fill your spot. I think
you did a pretty good job. Although there
is a glitch in the episode and that
at I think 58
minutes into the episode, the theme song starts
playing again, and I did not fix it.
Nice.
I, that was my ghost haunting the production.
Yeah.
It was brought to my attention by Jamie,
who was like, did you mean for this
to happen at I was like, what are
you talking about and she played it for
me? And then it is unintentionally hilarious
amazing. Like the episode hadn't started yet. And
it's just starting over. That was all the,
like, pre roll stuff. Yeah. That was all
pre roll. Yeah. Don't don't don't mind that
we were talking in the middle of that
theme song. Of course. That's just the way
it rolls when when John's not here to
hold down the fort.
I mean, listen, I I think we're moving
towards that place that a lot of podcasts
are now. Were you just talking and It
just rolls into the podcast at some point.
You know? No big intro. It's just a
conversation. Like pete Holmes or
any of the right wing people who do
that.
Yeah. I, also,
the very first episode of since working over
time with David Cross
is very funny. He... Bob Bode and Kirk
is the guest, and I think at minute
50, Bob is was like, so when does
the show start? Amazing. Perfect.
Yeah.
Listen to that. It's a good... I've listened
to, like, 3 episodes. It's it's, you know,
it's fun. David Cross is a very very
good hang.
Have always been a David Cross fan, and
we'll
largely
cosign sign anything he does.
So say, yeah, We were both in California,
and, here... Here's a question. So California Pizza
kitchen. I'm hung up on this. Mh.
Is not every
pizza kitchen in California,
a California pizza kitchen.
I would be
I would say so. Do you know much
about California pizza kitchen? Because this is something
that, like sticks in my brain?
I I don't know a lot. I'm gonna
I'm gonna guess by the way you axe
that, not from California at all. I think
it's from California, but I think too, like
investment bankers quit their job to start California
pizza kitchen.
Okay. And so they they just... They decided
to
So ray raised dough instead of raised funds?
There we go. There we go. No. I
think it was just like kind of a
shrewd
financial move.
For my
embarrassed remembrance of California pizza kitchen because I
stopped eating cheese mostly by the time California
pizza kitchen became available to me. I don't
remember their food being that bad. I actually
remembered them like having fairly interesting flavor
combinations at California pizza kitchen.
I am now deep into the history of
their company. They were born in Beverly Hills,
and that's where I wan
bay.
Do you hear me? Do you hear me?
Mh. Formal federal prosecutors,
Rick Rose field. That's that's what a very
federal prosecutors
not investment bank.
Yeah. So instead of raising crime,
it started to raise.
No. Of course.
Apparently, they claim to have invented the original
barbecue chicken pizza. That is true. That is
actually I believe legitimately true California pizza kitchen,
the C k
was the Was the first server of a
barbecue chicken pizza.
You know,
credit to where credit is due. III was
a nay of the barbecue chicken pizza.
Had 1 recently very good. I don't know
what's wrong with me. I I think barbecue
chicken pizza is actually kind of gross and
sweet. However,
Cc pizza buffet adopted the barbecue chicken pizza,
probably not long after the Cp did, and
there was a brief window of time.
Before I became
vegetarian,
where I ate meat, and I was trying
to lift as much weight as possible.
And then I would go to Ccs and
I would eat for 45 minutes like I
was training.
And I... In my time have locally eaten
over a hundred barbecue chicken pizzas from Ccs
pizza buffet.
Nice.
Not good. I'm I'm not at no. I
still don't think
I don't think the barbecue chicken pizza is
a good pizza.
I just wanna...
You know, I know what Riches.
I have no desire. Call me an bit
uni ambitious. U. Of guess. I just wanna
wake up. Mh. Mh. Go to a Cc
pizza. Yeah. Eat all of the barbecue chicken
pizza at the buffet that they serve. U,
I'm drink whenever you want. And if I
just have enough money for that, I'm good.
Yeah. III
totally agree honestly.
You could get 1 of their dessert pizzas.
You could get a fountain drink. Oh, they
had, like a stuffed crust.
Pizza that I couldn't eat because at this
point, I haven't an eaten pork for, like,
20 years, but they had, like, a stuffed
crust pizza with pepperoni that looks so good.
Amazing.
Well,
we've been gone for a while, and it
seems like a lot of things have happened
in the world that might need
a little bit of a addressing
here on 0 credits.
Indeed.
We were both in California,
and now we have to face the hard
reality, the harsh reality.
Yeah. Life not in California
where every day it's a hundred million degrees
and
democracy is collapsing in front of your eyes.
Yeah. I left the perfect weather of California,
with with just the air feeling the nicest
it's ever felt even though I knew I
was surrounded by smog, I could not see,
and came home to
a state be and and devastated by a
storm no Internet due to a statewide outage
and a surprisingly, I guess, not unsurprisingly, but
a quite predictable
missing
governor
who has fled the country right before the
storm, fascinating.
I I love how
well taken care of, I feel as a
text. Also, you were in La, which has
decidedly worse weather than
San Francisco, which is where I was.
And still so much more preferable
to, pictures anywhere else in the Us. We
got off the plane. We we were just
on the little part of the the airport
road where you have to go to get
picked up Where'd you fly in Lax?
Flew Lax. Nice.
Yeah Yeah. We so we're were just waiting
for our rental shuttle to bring us to
the rental car.
And,
so surrounded by diesel fumes and and, like,
terrible,
you know, traffic,
and it still was the best weather I've
ever been. Yes.
I airport weather is, like, the worst version
of whatever weather is in the city you're
in. And even then I landed in S
f
and
I felt an immediate
bitterness
because I got off the plane. I landed
it. It was 68 degrees.
I got off the plane and I realized,
it is hoodie weather in San Francisco
11 months out of the year. Yeah. And
was so
frustrated
for living in Texas
because the weather was just beautiful.
The entire time I was there. If you
look at like, a temperature map of California
by the way, at this time. This isn't
a California thing. Bakersfield like a hundred and
8 degrees. This is specifically a coastal California
thing.
Be be the coast. We we were at
Redo Beach, La County.
And the weather was so perfect. Like, at
they're in the midst... We we talked to
some locals.
And they're were like, yeah. Oh, man. Sorry
you're you're here
during this time. We're going through the gloomy
Dune
where there's just clouds at the beach, but
as soon as you leave the beach it's
nice and and and warm. I'm... And I
was just like, this weather is perfect. Yeah.
Like, I can be at the beach. I'm
not getting too hot. I'm not getting too
cold. This is amazing.
What are you talking about? People who lived
in the Bay area were apologizing to me
for the weather because they also said, like,
it's kinda gloomy, you know,
the fog
is out, and it's kind of a bummer
and it's hard to see things. I'm like,
this is beautiful. I'm on the water. I
can see alcatraz kind of from my hotel.
Like, yeah. It's it's
extremely beautiful out. I think just the people
in coastal California, don't know how good they
have it. Oh, absolutely. Like, there was a
heat advisory. While we were there.
Everywhere you looked on the... On the interstate,
it was, like, you know, stay cool, drink
water, hydrate,
extreme weather.
84 degree. Yes. Oh my god. That's sw
compared to what San Francisco had going on.
Yeah. And and it's just insane. It's... I...
It it did get hot. It did get
hard. I'll give them that, but not as
hot as
Currently, it's, you know, 95
degrees with a thousand percent humidity. Yeah. It's
95 degrees at 8PM.
Right.
I, it's it's it's truly horrible,
the way we have to live compared to
Californian. It's like,
it makes sense that it costs 1700000.0
dollars to live there. Oh, you're buying the
weather. Like, it... You're you're buying into the
weather into the location
especially like,
beach trunk property and things like that. Like,
it it it's... I get it
I just wish I could afford it.
Same here. I think about Chicago a lot
because Chicago has relatively expensive real estate but
not as expensive as you'd think considering it's,
like,
location as, like a major metro.
And then you think about it for a
saying you're like, yeah. You know,
you pay a lot of money to live
in Chicago, but probably
pretty seriously 4 months out of the year
you think about ending your own life because
of the week... Exactly. So
I was gonna say, my my sister
born and raised in Oil orleans has lived
in Chicago for a year and a half.
And she was, like, the winter... She moved
back to New Orleans because of the winters.
She just couldn't
couldn't handle it. And I'm... Yeah. It's too
much. Yeah. I listen. I used to thank
people were fools for paying a ton of
money to live somewhere because the weather's is
nice and the older, I get them, like,
That is a great investment.
Because, like, your your basal level of happiness
changes so much dependent on the weather.
So, like, if the weather's always kind of
okay, you're like, floor for unhappiness is only
so low.
Yeah. I mean, think about it now. You...
We've done, out... Well, this might be a
little too personal, but we've done a lot
of work on your backyard to make it
very nice and pleasant out there.
As nice as it as it is, you
know, how many days are you gonna, like,
actually use your backyard here in in Central
Texas? Yeah. We like put in a fire
pit. We had everybody over. You made, like,
we filled that area. You guys dug in
with gravel to make a raised bed.
But
for 6 months out of the year, we
just look at it being, like, that's the
inside of a microwave. Like, no one's gonna
go out there. No one's gonna have fun.
It's just an investment for later.
It's it's tough, man. I owning a home
in Central Texas. I'm like, I... We should
just have bought a condo or an apartment
because, like,
you shouldn't buy
outside in Texas because outside in Texas is
not pleasant.
And there are reports too of, like, Austin
specifically getting more and more humid.
And it's like, I I left,
you know, South Louisiana South Mississippi because it
was human. I came here because they had
advertised a dry heat.
And you're telling me that's going away then,
like, I I don't wanna be here. Yeah.
We're we're getting a tree plant at our
backyard they came here. They dug the hole
today,
and buying trees as a hole ordeal that
I don't even wanna get into, but we
bought a tree and we're getting it delivered.
And
I was really interested in the kind of
tree because I never heard of it before,
and I noticed that it was, like,
native too and does very well in, like,
Arizona, like a death valley. Oh, god. And
I was talking to the nursery.
And I was like, hey, why is this
listed as a local
plant in, like, the Texas...
The Texas A and M ag extension
L local even though it's from Arizona like,
yeah. Well, the climate is changing in Texas.
So now
we have more desert plants, and I'm like,
isn't like a great sign that the apocalypse
is happening
that your local bio is getting more desert.
Yeah
That doesn't seem like it's pointing in a
good in a good place. No. It's... We're
basically buying a, a, global warming trophy.
Amazing. Well, hopefully, it does well.
Hopefully, they're planting it tomorrow, which is crazy
to me, but...
Yeah.
They to. Well, trees are expensive, man.
It it sounds weird to say invest in
the weather of where you live. But... Yeah.
Like, if you if No 1 can
circling back to how we started this episode.
If you could afford to live in a
good place of good weather apps absolutely, but
I I feel like the majority of us
can only live where we are.
Yeah. I mean, I I think that's like
the essential
the essential conundrum everyone finds themselves. And is
most people can just afford to live where
they already are. Like... Yeah. You know, I
can't pack up and move to Sa.
Oh, we're Sa denis. Is that is that
mediterranean again?
Great question. I just said it, but I
don't know Sa,
Island in the Mediterranean see Oh my God.
It's beautiful. Oh my god. It's a hundred
and 8 degrees. Oh my god. Okay. I
don't wanna move never mind. Yeah.
Didn't know the mediterranean go. That's spicy.
Sa
real estate prices. Let's see.
2
4700000.0
euros.
Oh, no. That's a conversion. 1600000.0
Oh, 02:19 for a condo park includes 3
rooms, a hundred and 40 square meters.
What's a square meter?
I guess it would be, like 420
square meters, 4 wait. 460
square feet.
That's small.
That... I lived in a studio apartment that
was about 400
square feet. Hey, but for just 200000
euro, you could do that in sa.
Oh, good. Where it's a hundred and 8
degrees.
Okay. Maybe Sa dani is not the movie.
But you know, it's it's an Italian heat.
I've never heard that expression.
Yet. It just smells like Bolognese.
Oh my gosh. A lot of things happen
in the past 2 weeks. Yeah. Other than
both of us going to California and really
enjoying our time there.
Things... What we need to we need to
cover some of these things
That is true. I will say,
I'm gonna say my 3 favorite things of
California,
based only on this most recent trip, then
you'll do the same.
Number 1 bread. They're very serious about their
bread there. Actually, I have a story.
I have, like a tattoo of wheat on
my arm.
And
like, 3 people this happened 3 times. They
saw the tattoo. They're like, that's a cool
tattoo. Is that like, a whip?
Would that was the first. And I was
like, fuck, I was like some people like,
think it's a Cat night. I was like,
no. It's sweet. They're like, oh, you're a
baker. I was like,
No.
And then there was another person I met
at the ferry building, and they're were like,
oh, cool tattoo. Is it like seaweed. And
I was like, no. It's sweet. They're like,
baker. I'm like, what the fuck?
Apparently, Baker is just a job people in
San francisco go have are respected for having.
Oh, so you you know Sourdough comes from
San Francisco. Right? Yeah. I went to 1
of the
origin
of the Sourdough Craze in San Francisco Ac
me Bread company and had 1 of the
best Sourdough baguette of my life. Yeah. We
went... Okay. This is Silly. But in Disneyland
stop. In Disneyland, there's a place.
It's a a Bode or Bow is it's
a baker
there's an area in there that's, like, Neo
San Francisco from the Bay max movie, one's
a called. Big hero 6.
Big hero 6. Thank you.
And there's a bakery there, and they are
1 of the origin of sourdough. So we
learned a lot about the bread turns out
the gold rush
and sourdough bread
introduced in, like, basically happened in the same
year. Oh my god. That's so cool.
Yeah. So people went out for the gold
rush, a bunch of people went out. You
you gotta have infrastructure around to sustain people.
And so, like, bakers and and all that
went with them. And they just started... The
mother dough started with,
started the same years the Gold Rush hit,
San Francisco. That's crazy. I need to buy
some Sourdough starter because I've
failed multiple times to get my Sourdough starter
going.
And, yeah, Let me tell you. I mean,
it's anyway. Okay. 3 3 favorite things. Bridge.
What was we run company incredible, incredible back
at.
The second 1,
are they all food? No. The weather? I
love the weather?
Whether the weather was
truly incredible.
Third,
only informed by this most recent
trip
Oh, there's just a ton of,
really great vegan food. I went to this
place called Sen Sis,
which is like a filipino
taco bell fusion restaurant, and I got like,
a vegan filipino
crunch trap that was delicious. That sounds amazing.
Anyway, those are my 3 favorite California things.
Tying bow on the California think. Now, what
are your favorite things but La go.
La is pretty cool.
1, my number 1 thing would have to
be, I guess, the weather because the weather
was great. I loved it.
I... I mean, it got a little hot
in some days, but, hey. It gets a
little hot everywhere. It's fine. Yeah.
Number 2, this is gonna sound weird I'm
gonna sound like I didn't actually go and
I'm just making this up
the ryan go.
Ryan Go
pulled up to us next to our car
shook his head. No, like, he doesn't La
la land. And drove off. Now.
Honestly, the traffic,
the the
driving an La,
yes, there are a lot of people on
the road, but everybody leaves gaps
everywhere. You can
changed lanes with ease without fear,
like,
it felt like there was more mobility lane
lane And what I experience on a day
to day basis here in Austin. La is
a cons car city. Like,
you you hear this from everybody is, like,
driving in La is a pain because it
takes a while. But everyone in La drives
and everyone in La for the most part
is like a good driver.
It's weird. They're They're nice. You put your
blink on, they slow down.
Only once or twice when I was on
the 04:05,
avoid the 04:05.
Mh. Did I feel like, okay I'm gonna
have to fight for my spot. Oh my
god. Are we talking of California? High? Are
we...
Are we in the S snl sketch the
get the Californian right now.
Anyways, Yes. We are.
So whether traffic it's weird, it's fine.
And then, the food was just amazing.
Just a little chain please called our Poll
Local,
which is just like, hey. Do you like
chicken? Do you like all of the ways
chicken can be prepared
because we have everything from home style
fried chicken and potatoes to any
southwest dish. You can
conceive them includes chicken we have it all.
And it was just top quality top food,
and it was... There was 1 on every
corner. I was like,
fast food shouldn't be this good. I I
have heard, like, really good reviews of El
Poll lo. I
I will also shout a chain restaurant hills
stone slash houston's
on.
I went there to get a veggie burger
because I was on a 2 hour long
walk.
Genuinely, it was 1 of the best meals
I've had in recent memory.
It was so good. Like they they serve,
like, perfectly cooked french fries with ketchup that
had, like, a little bit of sesame oil
in it. The veggie burger was delicious. They
gave me a Martini that was 1 of
the best Martini ever had. The servers were
great, big proponent of Hills stone slash Houston's.
It even chain food in California is good.
Wow.
Yeah.
It's it it's it's
it's a phenomenal place. Let's let's put a
bow on it. It's both California. California cast
is over.
Friendship with California
has ended.
Exactly. Current events are now my new friend.
Current... The friendship with current events begins now.
Exactly.
We missed a lot of things. We just
we... I'm sorry to say we miss so
many
events. And
let's just go over a couple... Let's do,
like, a lightning round.
Top level headline kind of thing, and then
if a story comes up, we wanna dive
into, we'll dive into it.
Sure.
I'm gonna start off with a a fan
favorite of mine as and I'm a huge
fan
of this news.
Local local Austin guy
is involved in this story. But, info world
awards is to be shut down assets liquidate
dated
and there's going to be a bankruptcy trustee.
It's finally happening. The sandy hook,
verdict has been you know, was rendered. He
he was liable for all that money. He
didn't pay it for a long time, and
now Alex Jones, his empire is crumbling around
and he love to see it. Yes. I
I don't know that I love calling him,
like,
local Austin guy, but austin revenue
He is a local Austin guy. He was,
like a news anchor for Austin,
Tv,
Austin Local Tv for a while.
Beloved Au.
Beloved austin. Listen, the only thing I love
more than Alex Jones in terms of local
Austin things is that 3, they had to
cut down at Barton Springs. Oh god. The
the only thing I love more than Alex
Jones,
is that dead dangerous
tree, all those n beads wanted to save.
Not in my bag yard. Not in my
backyard, or yes in my backyard if it's
a deadly tree,
I want this tree cut down and liquidate
to pay off Sandy Hook. I I lost
the joke there for a second. There was
a a friend of mine took a picture
of Alex Jones. They saw him at a
gas station And this was
kind of shortly after the verdict, maybe 6
months after the verdict.
And he was driving a 90000
dollar hell cat
and putting premium in it, so
amazing. Maybe not doing a great job with
that whole
settlement thing, but, yes,
very good. Very happy about the news. I
have 1 for you.
Okay. I am here.
This 1 might hit a little close to
home and be related to another major event.
Spectrum
services
reported in wide scale outage across Texas.
Yeah. That's right. Oh, so we got home
yesterday after traveling most of the day.
To find ourselves without any internet. And it
turns out most of the state who has
spec or premium, premium primary caregiver.
That's how I'm gonna say it today. U
found themselves be of Internet just completely adrift
and a c of
no Wifi.
Yeah. This was
fairly crippling because
Unless you're 1 of the blessed Google or
At and T fiber users, Google fiber users,
especially.
You were without internet end fact spectrum, I
think is the,
most popular
Internet service provider in the Austin area. I
think 60 percent of Austin or something ridiculous
like that is on spectrum.
And a
third party tower was down due to hurricane
barrel, which will probably get into a little
bit more.
And it crippled
the city.
My wife's company, no 1 could work or
message each other from the office.
People had to call each other. It was
it was chaos.
There was... There were multiple, like mutual aid
threads on instagram where people were saying which
coffee shops had Wifi And which ones didn't.
In the remote work ecosystem we're in now
a
widespread in that outage, not ideal.
Yeah.
And the funniest thing was to me.
It
it seems like
this makes sense, but it's it's funny to
think about because you don't really think about
it. But it seems like the Spectrum network
runs on Spectrum
because you could not access their app, you
couldn't log in to your account.
The the...
There's supposed to be a thing where they
messaged you when there's an outage
that didn't work because, of course, there was
an outage.
The outage is so widespread. They can't even
tell you about the outage.
Yeah.
We got... My favorite thing was the the
the the spectrum news account going to x
and saying that there there has been an
outage reported in the and Anti I quote
Texas
area.
That's pretty great. That's pretty great. Yeah.
We got our Internet back around 7PM last
night, and
But it seems like it's hiccup every now,
and then you might hear
me start a sentence and and John
barrel through barrel through me because he he
doesn't realize I've started talking. It it's it's
a it's the wild west of the Internet
out here.
Yeah. I mean some of us aren't on
Google 5, and some of us are basically
on 56 k because it's different from 1
unfortunately play 2
years.
In 2 years, I will have access to
Google 5.
Listen. It's not all it's not all sunshine
and rainbows and Google fiber land because they
do these Goddamn micro trenches, they put the
fiber in.
So if the city does any work, your
Internet goes down. Oh, that sucks. It's not
great. But it's infrequent enough, and Google Fiber
has a policy that for every bit of
downtime you have down to the second, they
reimburse you for it completely.
Okay. That's pretty cool too. Yeah. If you...
Call spectrum right now. This is for any
any people in Texas right now.
If you call spectrum and go to their
detain. No. Not not entertainment.
What what is the word?
Where they wanna keep you retain? Yes. If
if you if you get transferred to the
retain,
department. They will pro rate your downtime,
but it's not automatic. You gotta export it.
Yeah. Downtime should be pro rated no matter
what. That's just how the service should work.
So that I appreciate... It it does, unfortunately,
sometimes put things into perspective because, you know,
Google Fiber is not cheap. We pay, like,
a hundred dollars a month. For it.
And I I think we're on, like, a
bigger plan.
And sometimes base rate... Yeah, The base rate
is 70 dollars. So you... You are all
on, like, an upgrade plan. Yeah. We're we're
on, like, a faster plan, and
you know, it could be down for, like,
hours.
And Yeah. That feels significant. And then they
reimburse us for, like, a dollar. I'm like,
well, I guess, in the grand scheme of
things, it wasn't that bad.
Yeah.
In similar news, similar barrel news, the hurricane,
not the act of John talking over me
and similar news,
an unlikely hero
shine brightly in the midst of so many
power outages in the Houston area,
up to 2000000
customers and and the texas area, were without
power, but a 1
unlikely app
became sort of a map of who had
power and who didn't in the form of
water burger. Yes. Perhaps the most
apocalyptic
like shining beacon stories
of a barrel, which was a very serious
hurricane left many dead and widespread power outages
through 1 of
America's largest major metro in the Houston area.
And that's not had to turn to fucking
watt burger because our in infrastructure is so
fucked that no whatsoever so it can in
real time, display outage information, but What burger
can,
Yeah. If you could access the store on
the app, it meant that area had power.
And and this is sort of, like it...
It's in tradition. If if you grew up
in the Gulf Coast area, you know that
Waffle House is the indicator
of
evacuation, should we go back at. If Waffle
houses were open,
that meant the area
was relatively safe to go back because they
were the first to reopen after
evacuation and storms.
Wow. IIII
barely remember that. You're just looking out from
your window and you see those yellow lights
turn on, and you know it's safe again.
Yeah.
Yeah. It's a similar thing. And I I
do wanna mention barrel as a category 5
hurricane,
completely wiped out an island in the Caribbean.
Like, we're we're talking about damage and widespread
outages in in the Us, but there's an
island in the Caribbean that is no longer
around, like a decimated,
an island that I can't remember the name
of.
I did not know that at all.
Yeah.
Let me see if I can find
a name
Yes.
Mayor... H, this is May,
1 of the smallest islands of Saint Vincent
Vincent and the G.
Was completely
was completely like,
I don't wanna say
a hundred percent.
Here officials are saying 98 percent of homes
and buildings were destroyed.
A Jesus Christ.
It it hit this small island is like
a category... Near category 5, probably more in
the ballpark or category 4, but we're splitting
hairs here.
This was the most powerful storm that has
ever been
formed in July.
Hitting a very small island,
wiped it off basically the face of the
map,
and then it continued on the Houston where
as a category too, did a lot more
damage to a a more populated area, but
let's not forget those
impacted and and the Caribbean.
This is fucking insane. It's, you know, I
I hate to keep beating the old climate
change. Trump, but hurricanes are getting worse.
Yeah.
I don't know what to say about this.
Hurricane season traditionally. Yes, it does start in
June, and it goes all the way through,
late early October,
but normally, you don't see the active period
of it until at least, like end of
August beginning of September, but we're just seeing
more and more active storms, more activity and
stronger storms earlier earlier and earlier,
because of the simple fact that the the
the water, the oceans are warmer. And and
these systems strengthen over warm water
they're getting stronger because the water is warmer
at this time of year.
This is 1 of the instances where I'll
say, the science cannot be denied. The climate
is obviously changing. I mean, I think maybe
the move investment wise is to just move
as far West or Inland as possible.
Yeah. It provided you can sell your home.
You know? Yeah.
We we don't get into this often, but
in South Louisiana,
flood insurance has been taken over by the
the the federal government.
And they're raising the rates to basically from
1800 to 18000.
Over the next couple of years. They're gonna
deprive people out of flood insurance, meaning the
next time it floods, people lose everything and
there's no recourse.
But how do you sell a house with
that? How do you install a house for
that as the stipulation? It's almost like,
they're trying to price people out of flood
insurance so these homes get destroyed anyway, so
they're no longer on the state government's books.
Exactly. But there's... And and, like,
there's no recourse for the owners.
Yeah. I mean, I I think what they're
trying to do is, like,
potentially, what they might be trying to do.
Is price people out of being able to
afford flood insurance,
then they can't pay for it, Their houses
to get destroyed they're ruined, but they're no
they're no longer a liability to the state.
It it's it feels like you know, firing
people that improve the bottom line.
That's not... Yeah. It's it's almost like doing
an extensive Rt,
hoping that 30 percent of your workforce quits.
You're you're just trying to...
I mean, in this case, it's particularly evil
because you're trying to ruin or kill people
to make the state's bottom line better.
Right? Yeah. Evil evil shit.
You you mean, like, the kind of Rt
that
Internet protocol company Zoom just enacted.
I mean, listen. This this has been a
couple weeks of truly incredible Rt news,
Zoom and acting Art, which is funny odds
its face, pat
in enact Rt pto and saying people fired
if they're un... If they're unwilling to commute.
Yes. The jacket company that has for the
past
fucking its entire existence spend on the side
of sustainability
and Yeah and at ecological responsibility
saying it will fire people who are unwilling
to commute. Come on, man?
Yeah.
It it's bold face. It it's
they're barely hiding what they're doing. It it's
absolutely
a... Well, we're not gonna do a lay
off, but if you don't wanna come back
to the office, feel free to quit.
Yeah. We found a way to fire people
for cheaper. If Yeah. This is
a practice point a public service announcement. If
you are working for a company
that is doing a strict Rt,
and you are someone
who either cannot relocate or be very difficult
for you to relocate. You are being told
you're being laid off.
Yeah. In effect. You are being forced to
self to port. So
move on,
Asap.
Absolutely. I mean... It happened to me, but
I stayed with the company because I was...
I... It was... They did the... They did
this during Covid. Well well, your company is
1 of the ones that Rt,
I don't think they're trying to lay people
off. I think they're trying to, like,
make a point
Yeah. I think they're trying to make this
some, like a weird, conservative point about it,
not using it as like a tactic.
No. They they were trying to say that
it
remote didn't work even though we were the
most productive. At least my team was 1
of the most productive.
Periods and now everybody drags their feet again
because they're in the office. Mh.
Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. It's funny.
Zoom made headlines today,
because their chief people officer forced
all employees to Rt,
while he himself is a hundred percent remote.
Perfect.
And then also just the the fact that
it's Zoom. Like,
doesn't your workforce speaking remote
doesn't that help your business?
You would imagine,
you would imagine.
I I think that something we should make
illegal is man Rt t when you and
senior leadership are totally remote. Yeah.
That we should make that illegal or we
should hurt the people who do it.
Yeah. I mean, so baseball bats exist, but...
If you look at the like, the the
the percentage of the population that uses baseball
ads, it's really just kids and professional baseball
players. U.
I feel like we can increase
the use of baseball pads if we could
use them on the c suites that force
people to go back to the office. While
they themselves
are remote. Honestly, it it it smack of
money ball, you know how the Oakland a's,
they had to find they had to find
assets that existed that were being
underutilized, but had
greater benefit
than the current system
granted for them. Now, granted Billy bean and
Money had to do a lot of different
things, hire a bunch of, like, quantitative analysts
to find people who are best.
However, you don't have to find anyone. You
just have to find a base ball bats.
Because baseball bats are very under indexed in
terms of their value for making things happen.
It's like it's like we're gonna be the
money ball of the rest of the world.
And the point is
the bats
that get on base. Yeah. Money back.
They get on base. And that's
it's all that matters. This is very funny
to me that you organically brought up money
ball.
Friend of the podcast, Jeff was in San
Francisco recently. Yes. The very same city you
were in. Oh my god. Wait. Is that
why?
Is that why when I was walking around
in Bar, I had 1 of those things
pop up, like, at the bottom of El
ring when you're being invaded.
Yeah. He was invading your your your San
Francisco trip. No. He showed up with, like,
a weird red aura.
Yeah. Well, he... He is an invader.
But he he found a way to be
on a baseball field. I don't know the
stadium. He d mad at me.
But so I spent the next...
Probably 2 weeks.
Anytime he posted anything, just posting
things about Money ball,
I called it Money bowl posting,
and it's been
a barely good hobby of mine for a
a good 2 to 3 weeks now. Hey,
Listen. Money is a great book of an
okay movie.
I haven't read or seen it. Good.
They get on base, John. Yes. Let's utilize
bats.
But, yes,
I I want to
give credit where credit is do...
There's a comment here on I'm about to
read from Reddit user,
It's ransom, but the a is a 4
and the o is a 0.
Okay. Raf fan room.
Yeah.
And they write. It's weird. Right? Dentist,
everyone has good teeth. La center, etcetera, No
1 has glasses.
Company who makes a living out of connecting
people remotely
dash dot dot dot question mark. U.
Like, you you would think that the remote
connectivity people would have their people be connected
remotely.
Yeah. I mean, but that's also assuming that,
like, corporate America particularly tech companies
aren't...
Extremely
ignorant. Yeah.
All that matters to them is the bottom
line. And right now,
Office real estate is a is a dying
area that people have invested a lot of
money yet. Here's the problem, man. It's not
the bottom line.
To improve your bottom line, You let your
real... Listen. It's just...
It's a sunk cost fallacy to assume that
the leases you've already paid for have to
have people in them. It's an opportunity. You
have a an owner is 3 year lease
for some downtown,
Seattle real estate
with a Barista station that doesn't even have
Barista anymore. Great. You've already paid that money.
You've already forecasted for it. Let that run
out. Let your lease run out. Don't renew,
move everyone remote. Save yourself millions of dollars
a year. Right. Like, it so it's baby
brain thinking to think that getting people back
in the office. Improves the bottom line because
it is pro that productivity
does not increase when people are in office
Let people stay remote, get them together
once a quarter and let them go back
to being remote. You'll save so much money.
That that is the bear
truth.
The cy the cynical part of me thinks,
somebody high up in the C suite has...
Invested in the property
that they themselves get money from people being
in the building. Yeah. Like, they have, like,
some shares and whatever Reit or whatever. Oh...
Yeah. I'm not
I'm not sure. Some But that's the only...
That and, like,
the self
selection out,
You wanna work remotely. You don't wanna come
back to the office and now you're going
to quit. But what happens there is all
the talent leaves. Because. They can get hired
elsewhere.
And you're left with the people like me
who can't get hired anywhere else. You're and
who doesn't do a good job.
It it's he's hire me by the way.
It's a it's a... You have more skills
than you think, but it's a super imp
emphasized tool
because, like, the people who are working remote,
you can't guarantee
that they're either under underperforming or on teams
that you'd like to cut.
So, like, it's
it's it's a blu in. You have to
be like, we need to cut head count.
We don't care about getting pete rid of
people who are good.
Also,
frankly,
most companies don't care about getting rid of
people who are good, and there are, like,
maybe a couple of people who are, like,
in general counsel or principal
architect roles that they're like, you can actually
stay remote.
Bright.
That right they'll extend those offers to people,
but anyone in the middle
is kinda fine to be cut. Yeah.
It's fascinating to me because the the mass
lay thing is a thing that's happening across
all all industries. And and and whatever form
it takes if it's direct, you're laid off
or it's returned to office, self select out,
please.
But east... The companies that don't do these
things. And I'm gonna... Pick a very weird
specific example.
But the companies that don't do this, like,
from software,
they continue to churn out, hit after hit
after hit because it's been the same team.
For
generations, It's not... But, like, decades.
Yeah. And it's like,
there are proven case studies.
Where keeping the same workforce that that gel
together that know how to to work together
makes a better product. And if you really
care about making a good product. You wouldn't
do these things. Whenever anyone is is pushing
for an Rt, I'm, like, skill issue. It's
either a skill, you as a leader or
a skill issue in your team and that
you can't trust them to be productive. It's
it's with middle
on Like, it's it's a skill issue. And
most likely, it's a you skill issue. It's
not a poor worker's skill issue. It's middle
managers not knowing how to manage remotely, not
knowing how to do anything without micro managing
their team and that... In the long run
is not the opposite of beneficial. Detrimental.
To
making work happen well. Like, whoever did this
fucking daily stand up shit.
I wanna have a conversation with?
Because, like,
stop it. Just let people do the work
they're gonna do maybe 1 touch point a
week, and that's all you need. Hey. I
will actually defend the existence of the daily
stand up in the framework in which it
was intended
Okay. Which is
fast,
continuous improvement,
continuous deployment software
development.
Right. Which is you need people to check
in that their features aren't gonna break other
features. Stand up to the last 5 to
15 minutes
super quick overview stand up is not fucking
story time Yeah. For everyone to get together
and be like, I worked on the thing
I said I would work on. And today
I'll work on. The thing that I set
like Right.
Bullshit, expensive waste of time,
stand ups makes sense for, like, Ci cd
software engineering teams,
and every other company is, like, agile sounds
cool. Maybe maybe it'd be cool. We do
that, and it's waste of everyone's time and
it's not waste of company mind. Yeah. It's
for, like, hey. If we were gonna push
this specific feature through this
specific frame of our thing with that break
stuff? Yes or no. Yeah. Exactly.
Like, hey, I have a technical blocker on
this thing, hey, I'm working on a feature
that a block shoot. Cool. A problem solve
handshake done. Move on, stand up over.
Yeah. It's like, hey. I wanna push this.
Is that gonna break shit? It does? Okay.
How do we ram ram that? Boom
or moving on. That... That's what we're working
on this old month. Yeah. That's it's literally
the only time stand up is useful.
And the cram stand up into everything because
everyone thinks it's good. And it's so not.
Meeting
meeting with people for 30 minutes once a
week is more than enough.
Yeah. No. III worked for a company that
does daily 30 minute meetings
where it's like, what did your were on
yesterday? What do you tremendous waste of time.
Stand up should be 15 minutes back. If
it's fit. Yeah. If it's 15 minutes, honestly
too long, stand up should be 10 minutes.
Yeah.
Anyway, we've gotten way off the beaten. We
have a lot to talk about, and we
talked about dumb job shit for too long.
Well, yeah. We're going through the headlines. We
we transitioned seamlessly. You didn't even notice. We're
talking about that Zoom headline. He didn't even
notice. You didn't even. I didn't even notice.
You don't even know? I have 1 more
headline and then we can get into more
j stuff, but this is just a fun
headline to read because who the fuck knew
this?
Red box owner chicken soup for the soul
fire files for chapter 11 bankruptcy
protection.
I'm sorry. I think you might have
think something might have happened. I think you
might have read from, like, a Markov.
Chain or something because what you just said
makes no sense. This is not an ad.
I'm sensitive a stroke jokes, but I'm not
having a stroke.
This is a real thing.
Red box owner,
chicken soup for the soul, red box owner
chicken. Is this like a re? Should I
like, look at the first letter of every
word and salt? Don't puzzle?
There's a there was a very popular
series of books in the late night. Oh,
I'm aware. I'm aware. Well, for those who
don't,
you know, some of our audience skews younger,
some older.
There was a very popular
series of books that were, like, chicken soup
for, like, the teenage soul or the... Such
and chicken soup for the pug soul.
Chicken soup for the poly
soul. U. U.
They got chicken soup for the goblin line
cooks soul.
Exactly.
They got so big
with that series of books, they needed to
pivot once the 2 thousands came.
People weren't buy self help books in the
same
manner in which they were in the late
nineties.
So they pivoted and they pivoted hard
they
acquired Red box,
a
a company that puts physical
Dvd rental boxes in front of every Cvs
in the country.
But
now we have streaming. We have on demand.
We have we have all these matters in
which videos directly through our televisions.
Red boxes is in a hard spot.
So, yes. Red box
chicken soup for the salt. Crazy.
Files for chapter 11 bankruptcy
protection.
And if you think about it this tracks,
this is a weird trend. Cvs is closing
store after store across the country, Walgreens is
following suit doing the same thing. This is
where Red boxes has lived.
Their habitats are dying.
Yeah. They're now being chased over their natural
habitats because of climate change.
The climate has shifted. U. Yeah. No. Makes
sense. The vi forest of the pharmacy company
store, the... Your your your big
chain pharmacy,
that habitat is dying and the red boxes
are going with it. And what's a chicken
soup for the soul to do. It's just
gonna it's gonna make me so sad when
they release that photo of the ema red
box on the iceberg.
Yeah. Yeah. Drifting slowly away,
from its habitat.
I just thought that's a fun little...
It it's honestly a sign of the times.
Red box was huge. 10 years ago, 20
years ago. 15 years ago. Red box was
like, you got nothing to do on a
on a Friday night. You're in college. It's
a dollar for a rental, What do they
got? Yeah. I'll rent the Goo.
Yeah. I'll rent
quick. Name a weird movie. Evil Bong 2.
Yeah.
All read,
surprisingly, I think I read Ex Mach from
a red box. No. That's fascinating. Yeah. I
was gonna say, I'll rinse every bourne identity
movie. Oh, for sure are the born supremacy,
and inject that shit into my veins. Oh,
please.
I'll get a Dvd that has a 30
percent chance of not working.
Yeah.
It was, you know, our Ip to a
real 1,
indeed,
Rip Ip to both chicken fruit... Soup for
the soul and Red box. Seems like there
may could have been another pivot in there
because, you know, it it seems like they're
totally willing to do something wild.
So I wish they had pivoted with the
times,
but rest and peace red box, I guess
I'll just...
Looks around house for anything with a physical
media.
On my Ps 5 has a has a
blu ray lot. So I don't know where
I'll get my blue rays anymore.
Now we we didn't Internet yesterday.
And, while I do have an extensive
acquired media library
on my computer,
cough cough.
My dear wife, my dear and naive wife
was, like, Maybe this is a time to
launch 1 of the Dvds we have. And
so we watched our blu... Blu ray coffee
of baby driver last night.
Oh, big Kevin Space fans.
I love the part where he gets hit
by a car twice.
Big ansel El gore fans.
Honestly, I I said this while watching, and
I was wondering why he didn't become a
bigger person, like a bigger star than he
was, and and Jamie said, no Bidding things,
and I was like, well name 1 and
he did, and I didn't recognize what he
was in.
Yeah. I think he also has allegations
didn't know. He Then maybe drivers a good
movie. Love Edgar wright. Got pretty unlucky with
some of the casting, but love that movie
a lot. I I feel like we get
1. Right? We get 1 thing that we
can like
without any connections or strings attached. Mh. For
me, it's baby.
Baby.
Yeah, for me, It's every c
special.
That's my 1.
Yeah
My 1 thing is I'll put that on
morning noon or night and laugh my ass.
Because it's so funny, and I've given my
myself
permission to not think about it.
I hate you.
That's my 1.
I why you take something
I was trying to preserve the art of
baby driver, and you just fly in my
face, why it that principle doesn't work. Wait.
We get 1 for each person. Right? Because
I'll put on Ko and on my phone,
I'll watch Louis ck case specials.
No. You get 1 thing. I have to
pick I have to pick 1.
1 movie.
Oh, a movie.
1 1 piece of art. I guess. Okay.
1 piece of art. I'm gonna say Rosemary
Baby directed by Roman Pal ski. Oh my
god. Gotta be my 1.
I hear what you're doing and I disagree
with it because you're being need.
I hear what you're saying, and it's giving
the worst examples of the thing I wanted
to be innocent.
Yeah.
You know, you can't fly in whatever. Do
it... Do what you want, John, and enjoy
what you want, you ras you
Listen. I'm just gonna enjoy all
the things I enjoy?
Who's that 1 guy who get canceled for
grooming a minor doctor disrespect?
Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna watch all lot doctor
disrespect videos.
Anyway. I don't even know what that guy's
deal is. I I did I did watch
a tiktok about...
I did want a tiktok. That was a
clip. Of the stream where someone texted him
about, like,
story being post
very funny.
It's very funny. It's very it's very christy
Elliott finding out you can save
snapchat. I I want to, like, create
almost like the Pen and Harry Potter. I
wanna, like, make
some kind of memory box of all the
moments when predators find out in real time
that they're cooked.
Yeah. It's very good. What I love the
doctor disrespect video is he, like, clearly looks
at this phone goes dead silent gets a
try mouth, but kind keeps playing El ring,
but isn't it really like doing anything.
Yeah. It's very processing.
You can see the gears turning. I I
will say just to defend our show, we
did cover the doc doctor disrespect scandal in
our previous episode. Okay. Okay get. I don't
wanna revisit something you've already talked about with...
III
just wanna say, like, it... So if you
miss that episode folks, go back and listen
to it. Cough john Cough.
Yeah. I... I heard there was this really
bad bug with the audio that makes it,
like.
Yeah. Borderline.
Yeah...
So I I just did.
I just didn't my. That's fine. I'm not
gonna fix it. I'm not gonna fix it.
It's too late now. I could fix it
very easily. I'm just not gonna Henry, we're
running out of time, and we have have
so much to cover. We haven't even gotten
to the highway to bail.
That's right. We got we haven't even gotten
into the fucking highway to the hell house
and there's so... There's my to cover.
Of. We set it at the same time.
Of course, I mean, you know, I'd be
remiss
I'd be remiss if I didn't talk about
the biggest news from the biggest candidate.
Please.
I... So a lot this happened, there was
a debate. There have been other things.
There's been some new stories about some. Files
and some some tapes.
Please cover the biggest news story of the
day. Yeah. You know, we'll get into the
debate, which is honestly a very minor story.
But everyone knows here
that we we are following the most popular
presidential candidate,
Rf k junior. And I just wanna read,
a quick headline
that passed by my news ag,
like, 3 days ago.
With all due, process and means, please
do it. The headline reads R k junior
paul's report alleging he sexually assaulted his children's
Nanny, and ate a dog, quote, a lot
of garbage.
Paul's
Okay. Okay. A lot to unpack here. A
lot on unpack. I'm gonna call this the
most pregnant headline of 20 24.
There is a practice and journalism called. That...
It's it's actually like a faux pas. You
should not do this. It's called burying the
lead. U u. And III feel like this
is 1 such example of it. It's I
I love that it's now granted, I think
the allegations of sexually assaulting your children's Nanny
very serious. Very...
Very soon. However,
to just hide
and a dog.
In the middle of that headline is
it it's really...
It's really something else.
Honestly, is this a weird tactic? Like, is
this like serve you up some juicy news
serve you up a turd at the same
time, the turd distract from the Juicy news?
Like, is this like, oh, he didn't
sexually assault his children. And he didn't need
a dog. And he didn't need a dog.
Definitely didn't need a dog.
Also, by the way, K is on, we
are pretending
who we are right now as we talk
about this. It sounds like we're being honest.
But we're not of, you know, there's a
lot of stuff about him, not denying the
sexual assault allegations saying he's not a... Church
boy and then if all the skeletons is
closet, he could vote, he'd be elected kick
of the world.
I... I've
KKK
on, U, yes. I came across.
A rather crazy
crazy and that I believe it's absolutely true,
recount of,
the treatment of his wife who committed suicide
by his family and himself,
and,
k off.
U.
This kinds of fucking monster.
No wait. That's k on
On is when we're being fake.
Okay. When he's a fuck...
This is the real me. Okay. Okay. Yeah.
It's guys the guy's are fucking lost. I
think... Okay. Here's the thing. Here's the funny
thing.
He was alleged to be eating a dog.
Okay. Y.
No No. We'll get back to it. I'm
just say the funny thing. The funny thing.
He was alleged to be eating a dog
a veterinarian veterinarians and said, yeah, man definitely
a dog.
He said, no, It was a goat because
And there's a weird text chain where he
texted that picture to someone and then said,
Vietnam is a police to eat dogs,
Apparently, he was in Pat eating a goat.
Who knows? This was apparently the same year
that they found a dead tape or his
brain. Oh,
so some some fun
coincidence is happening there. Really seems like people's
biggest takeaway
is the dog thing.
Or the better eating a dog thing. But
let me tell you, everything else surrounding this
horrible.
Yeah. So
the kennedy,
which historically look, they they they lob
1 of their children.
Like,
They're not a good fan They're not a
they're not a good... You know, a lot
of people talk about the Clinton crime family,
but I think.
I think the kennedy are not They're not
good. They're not good people.
And maybe,
allegedly, they bullied
Rf k junior wife into committing suicide.
Are we
are we not on the Rf k jude
you're train anymore? I feel like it was
fun. For a while. It was fun until
we
until fax came out. Yeah. It it was
fun when someone was just a a crazy
person with an outside chance who had brain
worms. But, like, I... It was fun when
he was Ver Supreme. Yeah.
It it's not fond when he's a member
of the Kennedy family. He's sexually abusing Na.
He's
And this is an actual fact. He's digging
up his ex wife's coffin that was buried
in the Kennedy family plot and moving it.
700 feet miles away.
Like, it it was fun before
the evidence pointed to
monster.
Yeah. I... There was a time
when we loved him, and we want the
best from. We were sad that he was
pulling it at, like, 1 percent.
Yeah. And now we're happy. He's pulling at
1 percent. And in fact, I think maybe
he should not be in the public eye
anymore.
Probably not. And, I I... So...
A bit of backstory. I was on a
beach and and I was on her most
beach
in California.
And,
this was a family reunion, and people were
like, hey. What are you when I say
I up this podcast. They're like, oh, what's
your podcast about At current events. This year,
we're covering the election, but it's a humor
bent and recovery... We're we're where our guy
Rf junior. And that's when my father of
all people said, I just saw a headline
that said he ate a dog. U. Very
good. Yeah.
And I was like, what
dog did Fuck,
I what... I'd we discussed this off air,
but I was really hoping this hadn't, like,
crossed the radar in the last couple weeks.
And I thought that's perfect. We have to
cover that, and then 1 of my concern
uncles was like, well, there's some things. And
I I became aware of
so much of a dark past
that maybe we shouldn't be shining a light
on this person
and I I've loved the coverage we've done.
I won't take any of it back. Of
course, we didn't know. We didn't know.
And then in the face of the election,
it's like it's fun to poke fun at
this whole
situation. There's a lot of people saying.
The some of the jokes that we've sort
of echoed, like, there's no good choice.
And we're like, no. There is 1 good
choice. It's Junior because he guys he's such
an outsider But I feel like as as
as more details come out about bucking shit
that some of these people are doing,
I feel like
I want a k away,
no more fame.
No more k.
And just say, if you don't vote
for Joe biden in this election,
democracy is over.
Well, I mean,
what about Chase Russell Oliver, a libertarian candidate.
Quick Google search.
Chase Looks like a guy who might have
a problem.
Chase Oliver you say he
boat
going to his official web site,
not a good site.
Let me get to the about.
38 years old, you say very,
very young the most
influential libertarian in America by rolling stone.
A champion of the rights of the individual
against the growing power of the state?
Is this John? Is this our guy?
Chase Oliver
said 99
percent of drag queen story hours are fine
for kids. If I had children, I'd
bring them to 1 and leave them there.
Is Chase Oliver based?
Is he
Our guy.
Are we
libertarian and chase all of our people now?
I have to read See Racist he is
because he is a libertarian, but
things are happening. Things are being cooked up
in the 0 credits politics kitchen. The Weird
development. I typed in chase Oliver and hit
the news tab, and the first story is
about Rf kitchen great.
Wait. Did he eat Chase Oliver?
No. It's something about pro R junior libertarian?
U.
I don't... I could read it... It's inside
a Denver the Denver post. Should I read
this? I mean,
it doesn't seem interesting.
No. Okay. Then don't.
Chase Oliver might be our guy. Things are
cooking up in the 0 credits kitchen. But
Henry, I I know you said that if
you don't vote for Joe Biden November, democracy
might be over because of project 20 25.
Yeah. But Henry, for Who knows if Joe
Biden is even gonna be the nominee
or the the person we're... Well, he is
the nominee. Who knows if he's even gonna
be the person we're voting for?
Because a lot of people are calling for
him to step aside.
So many people, the media, after the after
the debate the media on masse called for
him to step down.
At and it was... It burned me up
a little bit because 1 candidate
lied. It's and and deflect and didn't answer
questions. And the other 1 was just a
little slow to answer questions
and they only called for 1 to step
down and that fucking sucked. Well, I mean,
the other side wants a... A furious tumor
that lies all the time. Whereas democrats can't
get their shit together if you put a
gun to their head.
Right
Here's here's my thing.
Yes. I think Joe, Biden should step down.
And I think you should have done it
6 months to a year ago.
I don't think someone over the age of
80. Should be president. I'm sorry. Right.
It's and that's that's a fine thing to
believe. Yes. Absolutely. I think his debate performance
was... Should ab invisible and sad
and not funny,
and I think a lot of people are
trying to make it seem either funnier than
it was or not as bad as it
was. In my opinion, it was really, really
bad and shows that someone should not be
president if they are that old, and I'm
sorry.
If you recall,
1 of my bingo predictions from last year
was that he would he would announce he
was not running again.
And that was based solely in the fact
that, yes. He's old.
Yeah. Shouldn't run again. I wish would came
true. And I thought it is.
The buddy. It's so we have to... We
kind of vote for them. Right? This is
no choice. The the the problem is like,
okay.
I agree. I
I want him to step down and for
a younger person to take over. That would
be an ideal solution if everyone immediately changed
their vote over to this other person that
we all got on board.
However,
it's kinda 0 hour,
and it it seems very dangerous
person going into a presidential election where I
think
some of the short odds are on Trump
winning anyway,
and then going into that and then calling
into question the mental faculties of the 1
guy we have to vote for because you're
not gonna win in this election unless you
have a super whipped up base.
Yeah. And I don't think I I think
Democrats are too lazy to get whipped up
just by the idea of Trump winning again
because a lot of people haven't directly seen
the benefits of the Biden campaign that's done
a really good job.
Amazing
We are shooting ourselves in the foot. By
calling from to step down now, we are
taking the wind out of the sales of
people who are excited to go and vote
for him. I think it's a very fucking
stupid idea to do this at this point.
And the... I think the only way we
win,
Now
is we either fix the narrative fast, which
I'd I'd almost feel the pig... Feel like
the pigs out of the pan. At point
I hear that. I do hear that. The
the the campaign is trying very hard. There
was a sit down 1 on I 1
interview that released on July fifth. They're doing
another on the fifteenth. They're... Like,
they think getting him out there more is
the answer, and I don't know if it
is
because what happens closer to... You're doing all
of this now in July. What happens in
November. He can't
keep showing up to 1 on 1 interviews.
He's got a country to run. And also,
frankly,
He's not great on camera. Yeah. You're asking
an 81 year old man to do the
hardest job on the planet and make it
harder if he's
significant doubt was cast on the campaign by
a bad debate performance, which once again was
bad.
If you keep getting them out there, they're
gonna get worse, like you're you're working this
person to death, it's not good.
And if...
Now, like I said, the 1 1 of
the solutions is fix it. And like I
said, I think the pig might already be
out on panel that 1. So I don't
know that we can do that.
And the other 1 which I don't see
happening is we get someone in there who's
on young and a good or and is
very good on camera and is someone who's
able to, like, whip up a base, and
I don't know that Democrats have that No.
I don't think people whipped up for Ka
kamala Harris at all. No. No. The closest
they have I think, but he's...
Unfortunately, he isolate
some un indecisive voters. I think the close
we have is Pete Butt.
Yeah. I don't like Pete Butt judge because
he's a Mckinsey gh, but gets
Listen. He's as he's charismatic, he's young and
he can speak well. He would mop the
floor with trump. Yeah. That... That's why whole
thing is like, if if
what we're doing right now is saying, like,
if the strategy we're pursuing is someone who
can, like, Whip Democrats
up by t
Trump debates, anyone younger will deny.
Because
Donald Trump is not a particular, like,
smart man who does well under real time
pressure, and I think he's really eating right
now because he can
look like he's t Biden in a debate
even though he made the sam amount of
slip ups lied all the time was a
really shitty performance.
What what the thing is with the media
is they don't call them under this shit.
Like, they they should have
the the fucking
responsibility
2 fact check him live, and they don't.
Well the the the scenario we've ended up
in, which is particularly apocalyptic.
Is we did that for years after he
got elected and while he was running and
turns out, you know, it doesn't get clicks,
people, like, pushing up their glasses and being
like, oh, well, actually, here are the things
trump. No 1 fucking cares.
Like, the the media is an apparatus that
make money. And, like, publishing an article being
like, here's our in up fact check of
all the Shit Trump lied about. We're so
like, in
to the fact that everything he says is
a lie
that there's no interest improving him wrong anymore.
Like, he's a he's a post truth individual.
It's insane because the story is breaking and
it keeps breaking now that
a
I'm gonna say allegedly because I have to
be a stop proven,
But according to some of these epstein files
that are now being on
Katie Johnson
allegations. I don't know. Maybe looked that up.
Maybe bleep what I said until
more facts come out. I don't want to
spread this information.
You have I know wouldn't be surprising. Anyway,
I know.
I'll I'll edit it around it. Yeah. But...
Yeah. Please do. Post truth individual. I... There's...
It's insane. But late his. Yeah. Those are
my 2 solutions, which are fixed it, which
I've have no idea how to do it
at this point because, like, if we're talking
about fact checking Trump and not being something
that gets clicks,
the, like,
desperate
reality Tv show
trying to find a new candidate. That'll get
clicks and we'll And there's
a ton of different newest outlets right now,
including the Ap, which it seems kinda below
them.
Publishing articles saying like, oh, Nancy Pelosi calls
for buying the step down, and she didn't.
She's just like, it's his choice if he
wants to stay in or not,
Oh Yeah. And I'm not a Nancy Pelosi
fan, and I I don't think she says
good shit, but, like, it's a it's a
very. Attractive tact to take if you're a
meeting
organization.
I'm a I'm a fan of a stock
portfolio for sure. Oh yeah. She's an unusual
whale.
It's crazy.
No. I I feel like... Yes. The fifth
state that long established establishment to keep the
government check gone. It's over. I think I've
said that before on this podcast.
Journalism is no longer about spreading truth. It's
only about making money.
And it's been bought out. It's been,
you know, any shred of dig dignity that
it had. It's gone. Agreed.
It's to the point where I don't know
why. I I'd look at these headlines.
I read articles and I believe it. And
I shouldn't
oh, or I should do more
research, but I don't have time for that.
Like... It's...
Who is this serving anymore?
I don't know. Yeah. Great question.
I mean, I think it's serving the shareholders
of whatever company owns, whatever media outlet you're
reading.
But like, I
I guess my question is like... And this
isn't something we can solve on the podcast
So we're also short on time.
But the thing that I've been, like, trying
to figure out over the past couple weeks
is like, what do you do with this?
I don't, because I don't think
just staying in
and saying
that you did fine is it, maybe it
gets solved by another debate where he does
well, but who knows? You have to imagine
for the first debate, they prepped him as
well as they possibly could have.
So
what the campaign has been doing, In response
to
this poor debate performance. They put them in
front of, you know, the nation again on
a 1 on 1 interview, that was edited.
So it, you know, still there are some
nay.
What they're doing now is they're shining the
light on project 20 25.
The the dark brand account on true social...
Because Trump came out and said I don't
know what that is. I don't... I've never...
The I I've never... I don't know what
that is. Basically. We've denied all allegations of
project 20 25.
And then, like, it... It's very demons traced
the people who worked on his staff. Mh.
So the dark brand account was, like,
posted a picture of Palpatine that said, I
don't know anything about order 66 They used
a mean
to highlight the fact that Trump has intimate
knowledge of this project.
And now
this is a headline that I'm going to
believe and repeat because I I don't recourse.
But,
project 20 25 is now being searched in
Google more than Taylor swift in the Nfl.
I mean, that's good. That's maybe a third
way out of this is, like, instead of
standing on merit and conviction of being like,
it's not true or getting a new person.
Maybe it's like really hammering home what's at
stake
if you don't vote for him.
What I mean like that? That... Yeah.
Absolutely. That is where I am, and that
is where
my...
Long
Republican Uncle,
who I talked to in California is. And
he said I, quote,
I would vote for the corpse of a
dead dog
over Trump, and I don't know if he
was making
a jab at R junior. U.
Well, you can't vote for that court he
ate it. Wait. Yeah. He's saying he's going
to vote for R junior because the quirks
of a dead dog is inside of him?
Maybe. I I did say we don't technically...
And here's a workaround for us that I
didn't focus on in the moment just now.
But I did tell him we're not actually
4RK junior were for the brain worm that
lives inside of rf k junior. Yeah. The
1 that wants sugar and water.
Yes. Exactly. That is our guy.
Next to, who did you say Carson daly?
What's this think at Carson daly, 100 percent
libertarian in Canada?
That's the total request live the TII
think that is... And that's why I said
if you don't vote
for Biden,
you're you're... That you're voting for the death
of democracy because of this
this... If horrifying, if it comes through, project
20 25,
which,
just aims to make, if you ever saw
a handmade and sale, I'm not being hyper.
That is what they wanna do. Yeah. I
I don't know how much a project 20
25.
Will happen. It's super grim,
I'm just saying if
if you let this go unchecked,
at the very least,
unimaginable harm will be done to people you
love, whether you see the parts of them
that will be harmed by it.
Or not,
and at worst, we'll be living in a
d dystopian. So Yeah. There's really not a
good scenario.
If Biden doesn't win. So
I'm just...
And I I never meant a this for
this to become a serious, like, I'm going
to back this person over that person. I
never meant to do that on the podcast,
but I do feel with the platform that
we have as small as it is
we should dedicate at least 1 episode to,
like, be, like, hey, this fucking shit is
real. Yeah. No. I think
especially considering what we're facing right now. So
it sounds like you're
unequivocally saying that you back Joe biden.
Yes.
Okay. I'm gonna come out on the side
of Charlie
Crockett. Is... What was his name?
Charlie Crockett singer of
Yeah. 10 dollar cowboy.
So, yeah. K K fa off, I
back to your bind. K Bond.
Carson Daly. Carson daily.
Press slide. Are you kidding me? Welcome to.
What was his name? Well, the guy, the
libertarian. What was this? It's not Park Carson
Bars,
Clark gay Clark gable. I back Clark gable.
I just searched for the man. Where
I'm back monkey.
Chase Oliver. Chase Oliver. There we go. Hey,
that's what I like to do with a
Martini
except without the r.
Except Chase knowledge. Chase all. If you know
what I mean?
Yes. So I'm under the age of 80.
I speak in complete sentences. I'm not a
convicted felon I'm of it's a very low
bar, but I've managed to clear that. Chase
Oliver. More like a based oliver...
Yeah. Hey... Well, he leaves his kids the
drag shows. He leaves his kids the drag
shows. That's I should amend that. He leaves
his
kids the drag shows.
Yeah. Oh he's gates. Alright. So, yeah, he's
he's pete... He's pete butt jet. He's libertarian
feed food edge.
Yeah.
Good for him. He I he he is
standing with a flag that has
marijuana leaves and the rainbow pride flag. Nice
He loves to be gay and high. That's
my candidate.
There he is. Well, that Kay boss, Chase
Oliver is our man, Kay bond. Biden and
whatever,
death of democracy, do whatever you can to
fight it. Please.
Pokemon go to the polls.
If you don't pokemon, go to the polls,
I'm gonna dig on beat.
It's very good.
That very funny.
I think on that, note. We've kept these
poor captive people here. In the studio long
enough. Let's let them go. Yes. You are
free from your curse of having to listen
to the podcast for 1 more week.
And return next week. I promise neither of
us will be in California.
I make no such promises.
Okay. Maybe Henry will be in California, but
he's going to saw Ce.
Yeah. It's not even really California because it
ends with Ed. Yeah. Like
judge Lance.
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or Samuel Ali
famed
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Dead?
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Justice. Age 74
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Who died 3 years ago. All of the
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Samuel Ali is the is the person whose
wife helped organize January 6.
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dad.
Yes. He died. He did died. He died.
He did. Rest of peace. Alright.
I don't know it was shut up.
I had
I had a drink.
This podcast. I don't know if you could...
Don't, know.
I had a Jt TR0I.
John Ale.
I'd, Henry,
let's come on. We gotta let these people
go. Let these people go. Let the people
we we
lower your gun for just a second, John.
Let let the recording engineer. No. He's not...
He's gonna see his family tonight. I mean,
come on. Hey, Recording engineer. We're gonna see
your family tonight. Henry,
I think with that.
Yes. We might have to let these people
know how to in contact for us for
the... The various baseless things we said today.
The I think 4 people we said we're
dead who weren't
Yeah. The various comments we made about canceled
comedian. I think we've got a lot of
hate mail and bring you some death threats
headed our way.
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feel free to borrow that line.
I didn't use the word zeitgeist guys once
because I didn't wanna see people's eyes glaze
over,
they're very smart people, my family,
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I don't know. How do I say this?
Non German.
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And typically when describing the podcast to other
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