Grubstakers - Mid Sept Roundup Teaser Zuànshí Shǒu

Episode Date: September 27, 2021

Enjoy this story selection about how a Papa Murphy's chain is connected to Terrorism, yeah really. We do these Round up episodes twice a month for our Patreon supporters so we wanted to give you an example of the types of stories you'll be getting. Don't forget to check us out on patreon.com/grubstakers to get the full episode and more. Enjoy!

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Don't forget to eat the rich. I mean, rate us, comment, and share with your friends. Now enjoy this little roundup slice of Papa Murphy's and terrorism. But yes, that is Johnson Childgate and we will continue our reporting about this breaking news story as it develops in the weeks and months ahead. But until that time, I believe Yogi Pawliwal or Yogi Pawliwal has a story for us involving Little Caesars and his favorite nation of Pakistan. Well, it's actually Papa John's, but I like the accuracy of the shittiness of the pizza with Little Caesars. A listener to the show sent us this story about two months ago, and it doesn't involve a

billionaire, but it does involve Pakistan. So you know I had to get my hands dirty in this. And listen, I want to let you know I've got no evil towards towards Pakistan just Kumail Nanjiani and if the Immortals bombs Just know I've been saying that shit for over three years at this point because that movie's never coming out It's been fucking three years that they Kumail Nanjiani got jacked. He's just got to stay jacked What type of torture is this Hollywood is getting more jacked by the moment? He's got by the time they film it He's not gonna fit into his muscle suit. He'll be, he'll be too muscular. They'll use CGI to make him like less jacked. Yeah. As someone who just got back from a three hour car ride to and from Portland

with Yogi, I can actually confirm for the listeners that it's not just Kumail. There are other, many other non-famous Pakistani comedians that Yogi, I can actually confirm for the listeners that it's not just Kumail, there are many other non-famous Pakistani comedians that Yogi has a problem with. So do not believe his lies on this particular issue. And if you're a non-famous Pakistani comedian that Yogi has a problem with, sound off in the comments. Listen, I will fight anyone. I told Sean the goal now is to get fucking hell a buff

and just start causing shit, flipping tables and picking fights. And honestly, it sounds like a good life. Who's that guy? Oh, he picks fights. What does he do? He does a podcast on billionaires. Stay away. Maybe it's a bad time then to burn bridges with Kamel. Like, could find out who his juice supplier is. Well, that's like the Aaron Berg comedy strategy. Just be totally roided out and there'd be a complete piece of shit to everybody but you're so roided out nobody will challenge you on it. That works that is a strategy. But anyways so

for today my story involves the Bajwa family. This is a family in Pakistan that have been a part of the Pakistan military and I will say that the person in question is Aseem Saleem Bajwa and he on Twitter on August 27th, 2020 said, a malicious propaganda story published on an unknown site extra space against me and my family just uploaded on social media is strongly rebuted. And the story in question is from factfocus.com and it's about the fact that as a Seempad rose through the ranks of military status in Pakistan, his family also incidentally was putting millions of dollars into American fast food chains Papa John's and Dairy Queen and a few others

The company based in Ohio Bajko 100 from one of our sources says Canfield, Ohio that in 2018 two of the fail sons got busted for top-down orders of records tampering at some mining company in the UAE or Pakistan and the fact focus article records tampering at some mining company in the UAE or Pakistan. And the Fact Focus article basically lays out a seam going through the ranks of Pakistan military pocketing money from potentially the American military industrial complex and then investing that money into Papa John's in the United States. So the next time you say the war effort these tax dollars don't

get me nothing. It gets you hot butter garlic from Papa John's. And that's... Better ingredients. I do love that it's like, yeah, this story, all the shit that we were subsidizing with that 2.3 trillion in Afghanistan. It's like, yeah, you're pizza. Right. Right. Not just the ones at Bagram Air Base, the one you get out, you know, outside Cleveland. That's also being paid for by the Pentagon apparently. I mean it's also the one you get in Brooklyn when all the other pizza

places have closed. That's true. Right. Well they can stay open because they can afford it, you know. They've got the American military system propping them up. They've got my tax dollars. I do want to give this guy credit though, for, um, diversifying from the usual Pakistani military racket of heroin trafficking. So this is, you know, Papa John's, it's not so bad or maybe he's doing both though. Well, yeah, you never know. Trafficking heroin, getting money from the CIA for telling them where Osama Bin Laden is and investing in Papa John's.

Ordering pizza and it's just a fucking brick of heroin, like this is what I ordered. From the Factfocus website it talks about Assim Bajwa's younger brother opened their first Papa John's in 2002, the year that Assim would then work for General Musharraf as a lieutenant colonel on the military dictator staff. That guy must have been so fucking angry when Papa John said the N word. He just like lost $40 million overnight or some shit. Some would argue that, you know, that Papa John CEO was such an American patriot. He found out about these Pakistani owners and he's like, you know what? Let me just fucking tank the brand, baby.

40 chess. He's like, Papa John is like a secret Hindu Vada nationalist I was gonna say what words do you think Papa John would use to describe his investors here yes the like the flag of Modi's political party in one of the boardrooms and like no one knows what it is because they're not well-versed on international affairs. He's so devoted to protecting the motherland of India. He's like what is the only thing I could do to undermine these Pakistani bastards? I'll have to torpedo my own reputation I

don't want to say it but it's the only way to tank their investment. Remember during that time he put out like an interview where he was really sweaty on like 60 minutes and he said something like, I've eaten 56 pizza in 50 days. Like it was some sort of like insane number. Chris, if you could find that drop, pop it in there. So Papa John Schnatter, guys, he's just not having it. The founder and former CEO of his namesake restaurant did an interview with a local Louisville affiliate and he accused his successor Steve Richie and current and former board members of conspiring against him.

Schnatter was ousted after admitting to using a racial slur on a conference call last summer. He says executives used that incident to, quote, steal the company from him. More importantly, Schnatter said the company's pizza just isn't the same since he's gone. Take a listen. I've had over 40 pizzas in the last 30 days. I've had over 40 pizzas in the last 30 days. I've had over 40 pizzas in the last 30 days. Papa John's did not respond to a request for comment on the interview, which went viral

online. Maybe he just had like extra jalapenos on the pizza. Come on, we've all been there. He just lost his job. There were stretches in the pandemic when I was going toe-to-toe with the papa. Yeah, that's fair. Wait, after he lost his job as CEO, did he eat a large meat lovers every day for 56 days? Yeah. It was something like that, yeah. Now they have small pizzas there, so it's not as shocking as you would think.

Andy ate so much Papa John's that he actually funded the ISI terrorist attack in Mumbai. Sorry Yogi. Hey I get it their pizza is good. I understand. You like them pepperonis? I like the pizzas aren't good but the garlic butter sauce is. I'll give them that Oh, yeah, that is the you get it for the butter sauce. So you get the Toyota money from But just a few more pull quotes from this article on fact focus

Nadine Bajwa the younger brother of a seam started a delivery driver for Papa John's and His brothers a seam bud was wife and sons now own a business empire which set up 99 companies in four countries including a pizza franchise with a hundred and thirty three restaurants worth an estimated thirty nine point nine million. Out of a total ninety nine companies, sixty six are main

companies, thirty three are branch companies of some of the main companies while five companies are dead now. And, uh, on December 21st, 2018, Papa John's put out a thing that was like this week from the Twitter pop-up profile series, we hear from Nadim Bajwa who worked his way up from delivery driver to now operating multiple Papa John's locations. Watch more for his loving family and his pizza group empire, basically.

So, you know some of this is alleged like I mentioned in the beginning but essentially as a seam rose the ranks of the Pakistani military there were about 40 to 50 million dollars worth of money that were going into American fast food franchises. That's so funny too like you, we've seen that capitalist propaganda all this time. He worked his way up from a delivery driver to a franchise owner and all it took was like

40 to 50 million in unmarked CIA bills that we were flooding into Pakistan. Also, I did want to say, you know, they say there's no ethical consumption under capitalism. And I think this really does hammer that point home where you know people give you lectures about doing coke because child slavery blah blah blah but uh but you know even if you're buying Papa John's it's just going back to heroin traffickers anyways there's nothing you can buy yeah Sean how many lectures have

you gotten recently about doing code? Only a couple. No, I'm being sarcastic. I would never engage in- Oh yeah, no, you sounded sarcastic. So, do a quick timeline on the Bajwa family, and we may do a longer episode on this in the future, just the connection of the military industrial

complex and various things like this, but for now, from FactFocus, from 2000 to 2008 Asim Bajwa would then join Musharraf staff and then the Bajwa family would start 53 pizza franchises worth an estimated 16 million, register 19 companies in the United States, two in Pakistan and four in Canada. And then in 2009 to 2011 after Musharraf resigns he first serves as a staff officer, this is Aseem Bajwa, to a court commander after being promoted as a major general as a district commander. There is a promotion but a reduction in power and then the

Bajwa family would then start 25 franchises worth 7.5 million in five US companies and then 2012 to 2016 when Aseem Budjwa would be elevated to Director General ISPR, the Budjwa family would start 75 franchises worth 22.5 million. 34 companies in the United States, three in Pakistan, six in the UAE, seven commercial properties, and two residential properties purchased for 3.1 million.

And then 2017 to now, he would be promoted to the Commander of the Southern Command. And this period the Bajwa family would open 21 franchises worth 6.3 million, 16 new companies in the United States, nine in Pakistan, one in UAE, six commercial properties and two residential properties for 7.4 million. The sons of the companies start buying properties in the US and Pakistan and after construction of a commercial building on one of these six commercial properties the total worth of properties made in this duration stand at 11.2 million. He's like, you know funding Proxy terrorist attacks in Kashmir. That's just my day job. My real passion is rising crust pizza

You know, I just I do the one to support the other you know how it is on the front end at least it sounds like The family from the blind side yeah a little bit definitely they own like 50 franchises or whatever in Houston or some shit right right? That's why they were able to afford to adopt a black guy that movie's evil by the way No, no no Sean. It's fine that Sandra Bullock can adopt a black kid and it gives them a good life. There's nothing wrong with a white woman savior conflicts. Giving white women more power and autonomy over black babies isn't a bad thing. By the way, you remember when gravity came out and everyone was like, it's the most realistic movie about going into space. And then you turn it on.

And the first scene is a guy doing loops and a jetpack around the International Space Station while another guy Oh, yeah, is like Clooney jumping around dancing. I don't he's like it's sure Clooney is like Check this out. He's doing like loopty loops. Yeah, like this is amazing I think all of the the liberal stands for those actors who like are otherwise supposed to be science people but they just switch it off. They're like, this is amazing. Right, right. Well, they're, they're, they're, you know, Neil deGrasse Tyson science people.

So they like epic facts. And then that's about it. Believe science. I think I went to that movie in the theaters stoned out of my mind and I introduced my friend to getting the bucket of popcorn and then pouring the candy into it. So you don't have to fucking. And then, and then cutting a hole in the bottom

and putting your penis in there. And then. Yeah, my friend didn't know any of that stuff. I was like, hey, you see my dick in the bottom of this? And he's like, wow, I really do. Gravity. That's gravity for you. Yeah.

Now he's, now he's got a nice husband. Yogi has got a nice wife, but you know, that's fine. You live and you learn. Newton's gravity can't explain this. It's rising. It's rising against the force. So yeah, we will keep in touch with the story and see any more updates about in the future But I mean, you know, I have driven by Papa John's and be like how have you existed through the pandemic?

You know, I have like driven by a decent about it and been like what who? I have like driven by a decent amount and been like what who who when they order pizza go Papa John's is my man and is satisfied with the product when it's funded by a complex like the military industrial one. I mean You ain't even got to make good pizzas I mean the one near us me and Andy is survived because of because of the two of us But also from terrorist financing. It's a combination of things. Podcast hosts, terrorist financing. You know, it's a whole, it's an ecosystem of pizza that really gets the job done. Sometimes it's 11.30 and no one else is open.

Yeah, and that's fair. And you want some dip and sauce. That's true. Millennials love sauces. It's a decent business model. The Indian military should start buying up Little Caesar's franchises. Like a fast food pizza proxy war in the United States. Yeah to get 4x for imports and stuff.

You get Toyotas. Andy what are you drinking? I'm just curious. I am drinking Bud Light Seltzer Lemonade Original. Oh beautiful. Look at that. It's such a big can. How many ounces is that? Fucking 80? What is that? It's not new Bud Light Seltzer Lemonade. It's such a big can how many ounces is that fucking 80? What is that? It's not new Bud Light seltzer lemonade. It's Bud Light seltzer lemonade original in a tall boy One pint one pint good to know Whole boy we've been getting those cans So do do we know where any of these franchises are in the United States? Yeah, they're Ohio. They're all throughout the Midwest It's Ohio. Okay, it's Ohio, they're all throughout the Midwest.

It's Ohio, it's Illinois, Indiana, just all around the Midwest. Alright, so I've got a game for our listeners. You go into one of these Pakistani military Abhajans and then you ask them, so where's Osama Bin Laden really? You can tell me. I'm not with the CIA. I just, I want to know. Sometimes you might have to be a regular there first. I'm not with the CIA. I just, I want to know. Sometimes you might have to be a regular.

I'm not a cop. Yeah, exactly. Sean doesn't realize that Papa John's isn't Pizza Hut or Domino's. A Papa John's employee will just beat the shit out of you. They don't care. I figured it would be like just some skinny white kid with like face tattoos, like they're a SoundCloud rapper and then Sean asked him that and they're like, oh yeah, well he's back in Kandahar now.

Nice. Yeah. Look, if you get hired by one of those franchises, that's like the onboarding lecture. They're like, yeah, you're part of the family now. We do treat our employees like family. We do tell them where Bon-Bon really is. After the initial training phase of like 60 days or

whatever you're like okay well we need to tell you where our sleeper cells are. Just in case. You're part of the family now the Papa John's family. Things get bad and we need pizzas you need to come out. Okay we're gonna teach you how to mix up your SIM cards with your other employees so that the drones can't find you. Here's a bowl of SIM cards. James, you've really been punctual for your shifts, uh, these past few months. And we just wanted to know, are you interested in an ISI assignment in cashmere, you'd just be leaving a package at a crowded, uh, bus station and then walking away and we're going to pay double your, your hourly wage.

So you'll be making, uh, $12 an hour for this and you get a free vacation. I would argue that Papa John's are just military recruitment sites. Like give them a job so shitty that they consider the military a better option than working at Papa John's. The supervisor is like, this assignment will require leadership skills, which is actually a requirement if you ever want to become a supervisor like me. Right, right. I'd have to look if there was like a Papa John's at Bagram Air Base, but I know there was like a bunch of fast food there, and that's where it's like,

you know, actually sweet to work in fast food because it's military industrial complex, so they're just dumping, you know, billions of dollars and marking everything way the fuck up because it's Afghanistan and you want, you know, Burger King or whatever. And I'm not sure that's going to the pizza cooks. Yeah, it's a good question. Like it's probably like Blackwater where you can like work in the United States for Papa John's and then you can enlist in a private mercenary and go to war zone and like make double or triple.

It's called a bridge career. After you transition out of out of active duty, you can go do Blackwater. How many people in those airplanes out of Afghanistan do you think were like people who were like, I can make good money working at the Papa Johns and the American base. And then immediately their whole family was targeted for slaughter as soon as the Taliban came in. Yeah. I guess that's not as funny when you say it out loud or think it.

I saw why you thought it was funny. And then I heard it and I went, no, that's not nice. The Taliban wants to speak at the United Nations and they should just like read out a list of everyone they're gonna kill The Taliban should start their their General Assembly speech asking for a moment of silence For the 20 year anniversary of September 11th It would be interesting to see like Bajko 100 LLC

It would be interesting to see like Bajko 100 LLC, the company that's running these Papa John's and like the the stock markets relation with war and to see if it matches it directly, you know, like when oil and weapons manufacturers go down, fucking Bajko and Papa John's also goes down. Well, that's the theory. I mean, we've talked about this on the podcast. And maybe we can explore it in more detail because it is at a future episode because it is just a theory. But the idea is that when the Taliban, the previous time they were in power, when they actually banned opium cultivation and almost eliminated it, the theory was that because Afghanistan was producing something like 70%

of the world's opium, this would actually cause a minor recession in the finance industry because it was, you know, so much of London finance and other financial centers are tied up into drug trafficking money laundering. But fortunately, we didn't get to see that play out because the US intervened to save the financial system. Yeah, yeah, fortunately the CIA's budget was maintained. That's a fucking shame.