The Ben and Emil Show - PP 14: Taking Oil Money, Airbnb is Over, Everyone's Striking, Rite Aid Sucks

Episode Date: September 21, 2023

Welcome to another episode of Pay Pigs! We got a doozy for ya folks, because we landed our first big sponsorship from BP and Shell. In this episode we'll fill you in on why you're probably more likely to see your favorite influencer shilling for big oil than you are to see these companies implement any actual meaningful changes. We're also talking about the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike and all you need to know about it. We also cover some massive updates to Airbnb policies in a few big cities including and especially New York City, and why Rite-Aid is filing for bankruptcy. This episode (and every episode) was masterfully edited by Dillon Moore. Check him out on Instagram @ dillonmoore or at https://www.dillonmoore.co LINK TO EMIL'S COMEDY SHOW IN LA: https://www.https://www.eventbrite.com/e/emil-derosa-30-minutes-tickets-681011673247?aff=oddtdtcreator THE CREDIT CARD LIST IS LIVE!!!! Go sign up for the AMEX Gold card, it's perfect! https://www.thecreditcardlist.com Support us on Patreon please! We're adding new stuff to our tiers. https://www.patreon.com/paypigspod Follow us on TikTok and Instagram! @paypigspod everywhere! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

All right. Welcome to episode number 14 of the Pay Pigs podcast. We got a real dozy of a show for you today. All about, in case you can't tell by looking at us, we have taken money from big oil. Stay tuned to see just how much. But in this episode, we're going to be talking about why you might be seeing your favorite influencer shilling for big oil in subtle ways going forward. We're going to be talking about everything you need to know about the United Auto Workers Strike. Oh, yeah. Things are heating up. Things are heating up like a transmission that has been pushed to the red, right? That's really nice, Ben. Thank you. Thank you.

Or, excuse me, an EV battery that has been overcharged or something. We're also going to talk about why you might not be able to find an Airbnb in New York City anymore. What the heck is going on with Airbnb in New York? I know. Is the golden age of Airbnb over? We're going to find out. You might want to stay tuned to figure that one out because if you got an Airbnb booking coming up

for New York City or Philadelphia or Paris or any number, or Los Angeles. Also, the real reason Rite Aid is filing for bankruptcy, the answer just might surprise you, maybe even horrify you. But that's at the very end of the episode. So you've got to stay tuned and watch the whole damn thing, you little cutie.

All right, we'll see you in there. Yeah, we'll see you in there. Cue the intro. I'd like to try to sell something to you. Gally. Hey, everybody. Welcome back. Welcome back to episode number 14.

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lips make a wish you've got a you've got a you've got an eyelash other side other side you got to swallow it tuck it down When I see an eyelash in my food, I don't mind it as much as a normal hair. I just kind of ignore it and eat around it. You know, it's been good for not minding hair in your food? What? Having long hair. Every time I have food in my hair, I just go.

Every time you have food in my hair? Don't say it. Every time I have hair in my food, I just go, it's probably mine. Yeah. Pulled out. Yeah. And it's just like so curly and blonde. Ugh, Jesus.

No, I would know that wasn't mine. Yeah, yeah, because your hair's not blonde. Or curly. Or curly. Well, let's get hung up on the curly thing. Also, gang, we are going to be releasing, we are going to be unlocking a bonus episode sometime next week.

So be on the lookout for that. It's a very special one. We just wanted to show you what you get when you do freaking Patreon. Also, we're going to be updating the Patreon tiers and offering more things because we have yet to do that. If you want to get in there, you can just get in there now. We're going to be, after this,

I just got back from my, freaking month-long Euro track. I'm going to tell Ben some stuff about it. Oh, yeah. In this week's bonus episode. Also, do you want to plug your show? Oh, my God. Thank you, Ben. Thank you, Ben.

Yeah, if you want to come see me do some... I want to come. If you want to come... I'm going to come. Come see me do stand up at Lyric Hyperion here in Los Angeles, October 12th at 9.30. It's going to be fun. It's going to be me and a couple other pals.

Yeah. Joking around. Also, one last thing. Buy a ticket. The link will be in the description. Yeah. Under here. Folks, the credit card list.

The credit card website is live. So if you're looking to sign up for what I personally recommend, my favorite, the American Express gold card, we got it on there. The credit card list.com. My favorite is not up yet. His favorite is not. We're waiting for, well, you can get both. but um uh we we've got the the website up and running we will be adding our favorite chase

cards as soon as we get approved by chase it just takes them a long time oh man i don't know did you say did you say the domain name the credit card list dot com that will also be in the links yeah it'll be down there in the description down there man man oh man we'll have to make a whole little video about our faves yeah it'll be that'll be coming so that's that's that's that's that's that's about it for all the the housekeeping janitorial administrative yeah i feel you look good in that hat by the way yeah i think so i i know so do i look like shit in my hat that's a yeah yeah he started laughing no i look like shit in hats it's no no it's also just very um old no like yeah early 2000s like ironic remember that whole thing

the trucker how could i forget that whole thing i felt so lame because i couldn't wear a trucker hat because they wouldn't fit me and I was just thinking man I guess I'm just not going to be cool so many accessories I just can't pull off will probably be coming back because will I every horrible thing we did in the early 2000s are now coming back oh yeah yeah yeah thanks to gen Z gen Z is on a mission to make themselves as unfuckable as possible yeah that's just that's just what they do because they think that that's funny I guess yeah oh you still want to I don't know that's that's their whole thing is just someone posted a photo of like the

title of this episode's going to be Ben Skewers Gen Z. Oh yeah, just absolutely dogpiling on them. If you're wondering about why I'm wearing this eye heart, for the audio listener, I'm wearing an I love American oil and gas shirt. See if you can fit that in there.

And Emil's got his BP hat on. I've got my shell hat on. We're going to be getting to that. This is unrelated. Brooklyn New Jersey shirt. That doesn't even make sense geographically. There's no New Jersey Brooklyn. I know. A friend of the show, Phil Matarie's got me this in Korea. He said it's very Emil, New Jersey Brooklyn. That's actually pretty great. Yeah. He saw it and he said, I got to get that for him. That's pretty great. Dang. It does suck to be back, but it also rocks to be back. It feels

like we never, it feels like I never left. We were gone for a couple weeks and we shot a few episodes in advance for you lovely people because we didn't want there to be. We would never leave you. Yeah, we didn't want there to be any we shot one in london yeah yes yes we did we shot one in london which was great and that guy what was his name fuck hector hector hector yeah hector i remember thinking hector's a white guy name a london guy name because i i think of hector salamanca from breaking bad and you're like only one type of guy can have that name yeah hector uh so we did that we did the show shout out to everybody in London. You started explaining why you're wearing these shirts.

Oh, yeah. Well, I said we're going to get to that. We're going to get to it. We're going to get to it. Okay. And if this is your first time here, fucking welcome to the show. Are you good? Am I good?

Yeah. I don't know. What do you think? I don't know. I can't tell. Do I look good? No. Really?

No, you look great. You look great. Do I look like I got some color? Yeah, do I? No, not really. Are you serious? Yeah, on your arm, I guess. On my arm?

Yeah, on your arm. Yeah, mine too. Everyone's being very annoying about sunscreen. Well, yeah, you got to wear sunscreen. I know, but I wanted to come back, you know, when people come back in middle school and they're like, damn, they went on vacation. Yeah, when people come back in middle school, yeah, I remember that. You know what I should have done? What?

I should have braided my hair. Then people would have known I went on vacation. What? Did girls not do that when they would like, like, going to the Caribbean was a big, oh. Are we really going to get this? What the fuck is going on? I know exactly what you're talking. Really?

Thank you. On the East Coast, especially people would go to the Caribbean or whatever. Over summer? No, like spring break or whatever. Oh, okay. And then they would come back to school, tan, and have braids in their hair. Type in Cabo white girl braids. Oh, yeah.

Cabo white girl braids. Okay. Okay. Okay. So is this, is this? Is this what people would consider problematic? Okay, yeah, for sure. No, they didn't do that where I grew up here in L.A.

I don't even remember. I was just, I was singularly focused on Super Mario World. You weren't looking at girls in their braids? I mean, yeah, sure, but I wasn't like, where'd you get that? I just. And I'd go, oh, Jamaica, no way, got Marley. Sick. Should we get into it?

Let's get into it. Okay. So we, we, we, we, we, oh, man. Weewee, gang. We teased it a little bit, a couple weeks. What? On London. Yeah, we teased it in the London episode to watch this space

because we said that we got sponsored by BP, British Petroleum. We weren't lying, man. They paid us a million dollars, a million dollars. a million dollars you only got a million what how much did you get that's a little talk off there what the fuck yeah i'm always short selling myself so yeah the reason we're doing that the reason why we're taking this big fat oil and gas paycheck wait i have to say it's also funny i came back from i guess i got in yesterday the day before i was driving home from lax gas whatever something happened while we were going what'd you guys do you broke it you broke it fucking

over six dollars and I was like oh wow that gas station is crazy yeah and then it was like wow that one's crazy and then I was like oh I guess we're just doing over six dollars a gallon well oil is barreling toward a hundred dollars per holy shit yeah and as you know I think a lot of inflation is here to stay because why would why would companies that can get away with charging more money for goods and services just be like well I guess we're going to lower prices again same thing with gas Well, gas works a little bit differently, of course, but why is Mondali's going to charge me less for a pack of Oreos when they're getting away with charging $3 or whatever it is nowadays? Oh, well, the prices aren't going to come down. Inflation is going to slow, but that doesn't mean prices will come down.

Yeah, the rate at which prices are going up is slowing. That's the thing that gets people confused. They're like seeing headlines that inflation is down, and yet prices are still up. Yeah, that's because there's no disinflation yet. There won't be. You said, yeah. You don't think there will be? No.

There's a chance that there will be disinflation. Let's keep our hopes high. Come on. Let's not manifest that. I'm not going to hold my breath. Just like we manifested these millions of dollars from Shell and BP. Yeah. So getting right into it.

The, the, the, the, Big oil can suck a fat. No, they can't. Not with the kind of money. They're giving me. Not with this kind of dore me. Detractors of big oil can suck a big fat. So there's a story that broke a few weeks back from this desmog.com all about how big oil has been paying influencers to try and downplay their role in climate change.

Right, they spent months going through all kinds of influencers posts and stuff, and they found hundreds of examples of the fossil fuel, the big companies paying influencers to, you know, change the, change the bad messaging around big oil. Yeah. They don't want to be seen as the bad guys anymore. Can you blame them? Who wants to be the bad guys? In particular, they're quote, they want, quote, millennials to have a reason to connect emotionally with oil and gas firms and to tackle. their perception as the bad guys. And I got to say, they're probably really, they are good at it. I mean, they, they, the, uh, DeSmog's analysis uncovered promotional material from two PR firms representing Shell, boasting of the success of their online advertising. Uh, one of the PR companies, um, claimed that a campaign with Explorer Robert Swan OBE. I don't, I don't understand that name.

It's the, it's the British thing when you're, what is it, when you're knighted? Yeah, he becomes a sir, basically. Yeah. Huh. Well, anyway, it made Shell's audience 31% more likely to believe that the oil company is committed to cleaner fuels. There was big news last year. I don't know if you remember when Shell advertised that they were looking for a TikTok campaign manager. Yeah.

Boy, oh boy, that's got to be a tough one. And oil and gas giant ExxonMobil has been the highest advertising spender on Facebook and Instagram in the last five years. When it comes to energy and climate-related spending, yeah. $23.1 million spent since June 2018. And the reason that they do it is because they say people have a lot of trust in creators. When influencers that people know and respect talk about something, they're likely to believe them.

so that's why they paid us because they know that you guys like and respect us so right well that seems to be i mean i fill up my car with shell and i'm a and i'm a bp man and you all know that yeah but no that's though that's kind of the nasty thing of it right is that um they have a hard time doing it themselves when it comes from bp they're like well these people are disgusting i'm not going to listen to anything they're saying but then it's like holy shit charlie de melio did a dance about how sick bp is i also don't know if that's how you say your name and people are going to drag me. Nobody actually really knows how to say it. Yeah. Yeah, I think you did okay. Thank you. But yeah, they say, and this obfuscation of reality seems particularly

dangerous when carried out by influencers. Shell's dubious claims are easy to spot when they are disseminated by corporated suits and beige press releases. They are harder to identify and debunk when they are sprinkled into our feeds by people who specialize in captivating armies of online admirers. And another thing, here in the United States and in the UK, there are pretty strict laws governing how you advertise, how you disclose that what you're posting on the internet is an advertisement. You've got to use hashtags. They, it's very, it's usually pretty damn clear that it's an ad, but they're also spending in other countries where there's hardly any restrictions. Right.

On that. So like in India, Malaysia, other parts of Southeast Asia, and they're reaching tens of millions of people out there. You have to give it up to him, though. It's a pretty incredible, masterful gambit, I would say, creating an awful problem, lying to people about it for decades, and then kind of weaseling your way in there to be like, well, we're the good guys now. We're actually, we're, our whole thing is green initiatives. Yeah.

Speaking of, I mean, that's just a... There was a, part of what leaked was this brief. Oh, man, BP sure knows the thing true about leaks. nice man you remember that whole oil disaster yeah which one am i right anyway the one mark walberg went down and saved yeah that movie is actually pretty great i haven't seen i highly recommend it it's great you know me i'm i'm all about like movies that get 70% on rotten tomatoes that's the sweet spot i think you're all about shitty movies what you like shooter a lot shooter rocks i think you like mark walberg a lot what yeah i don't know

I don't know if that's true. Yeah, actually, yeah. Some Mark Wahlberg. I'm not into his whole Catholic thing. But so this is from their creative brief. Basically BP got together with some advertiser firms and acknowledged, hey, we're in a tight spot. We have to change our brand positioning. So this is what their current positioning is.

Meeting challenges is when BP is at its best. For over a century, we have successfully adapted to change to provide the energy and petroleum products that are essential to fuel human progress. We believe that what we have learned and the actions we are taking make us uniquely prepared to help the world advance towards a low-carbon future. And this is what they would like to, they're further elaborating. This is what we're trying to help them get the word out about. This is their red light flashing.

They're basically acknowledging like, oh, shit. society is increasingly recognizing that there is a climate emergency requiring a rapid energy transition BP is transforming itself to help the world reach carbon neutrality and improve people's lives. We get it. Listen, we get it. And no company is more willing or able to make this happen. That's the crux of their entire marketing push. It's like, hey, guys, listen we're not we know you're smart we know there's no fooling you that's why you can trust us we're the ones who are wanting to do it the most we're the only ones we can help yeah look at our logo it's green you guys are probably seeing a lot of scary articles out there about uh climate

collapse but we're we're here to help yeah no but that's the funny so uh they talk about how you know, they look at everything they're posting about, and then what they're actually doing, right? So a 22 Harvard study analyzed 2,325 social media posts from 22 major European polluters. It found that 72% of posts from oil and gas firms tried to communicate a commitment to green innovation. How much did they actually spend? Yet, as the Harvard study also pointed out, the fossil fuel firms included in its analysis had invested just 1.7% of their annual capital expenditures and low-carbon technologies. And correct me if I'm wrong, esteemed colleague,

aren't these companies making record profits? Like, didn't they make so much over 2020 that it was like their stocks were at all-time highs? That's right. Yeah. Big oil more than doubled its profits in 2022 to $219 billion, smashing previous records in a year of volatile energy prices where Russia's invasion of Ukraine reshaped global energy markets. in some cases, the industry's climate ambitions.

Damn. I mean, well, so on that note, they're spending pennies on the dollar. They're dishing out just pittances to these people. Yeah, but that's where we want to reshape this whole thing, right? That's right. I got to stay focused here. I got to stay focused. If we can get these, because you're talking to, so a lot of you might be sitting at home going,

oh, wait a second, they're only investing 1.7% of their earnings. well if we but 220 billion yeah okay that's a shit ton of money so what we need to do is juice those numbers let's get them more profit right let's get that money reinvested that's a good point one percent but maybe you're not

maybe you're not thinking about it the right way that's actually pretty smart because maybe you're being pretty pessimistic about this whole climate thing the more money we make the more money shell and BP make the more that 1.7% is to then spend on people like us exactly To help the perception, the public perception.

Speaking of public perception, so this guy, Robert, what was his name? Robert Swan and his son Barney traveled to the South Pole to promote its renewable biofuels. And it got posted on Shell's Instagram with a whopping 1,610 likes because who the fuck follows Shell gas on Instagram? right i mean i do i do personally fuck i'm fucking up right this whole thing's so cringe too i mean this guy's like uh you know he was the well hang on the well because he did he did defend it he said that he's not a celebrity or an or an influencer but an explorer and that shell helped in their effort to support biofuel and he said we needed a backup fuel because the sun doesn't always shine and his son barney also uh chimed in who who by the way advises businesses

on reducing their environmental impact and runs an environmental charity said that to make meaningful progress towards the energy transition, quote, you have to work with big industry, adding that shells biofuels are part of that solution. One way to work with them is to, I don't know. Just take their fucking money? Put bombs near their infrastructure. When no one's around. I mean, this guy's kind of definitely towing the party line. He says, the Barney says,

I've definitely copped a lot of criticism for working with Shell, yet they've offered me a younger person the opportunity to feel represented and build more trust in their so-called nature-based solutions. And it worked. I mean, this PR firm says that Shell's audience is 31% more likely to believe that the oil company is committed to cleaner fuels. And again, I believe it fully. I mean, the logo is a shell, which comes from the beach, and that is a place that is clean and nature. I mean, when you think about...

They're ads, the only thing you see is, like, we were working for a cleaner future. Yeah. And so you would imagine, God, they're transitioning their whole fucking business. Yeah. They're going to be different now. You know what oil company can suck one is Sinclair. Sinclair with the dinosaur.

It's just, what an insult to dinosaurs. It's not actual dinosaurs. You know that, right? Pals and feels. Huh? Pretty sure it is. What are you talking about, man? What is it?

People? Passes people. Oh, no. No. What is it, then, genius? If you know, I know. It's just organic matter that they've... Yeah, and where do you think that that comes from?

Google it. I don't know. I don't think so. Is fossil fuels actually dinosaurs? I think that I'll just take your word for it. Take your word for it. Okay. So they, it just, it gets better because they, they also paid this.

Do you know who astronaut Abby is? No, but I already fucking hate her. Jeez. No, when I was reading through it, I thought she was an actual astronaut. No. And then I got pissed because I was like, oh, she just calls herself astronaut Abby. Yeah, because she's like a sign. Science influencer.

Also, the imbalance of TikTok followers she has to Instagram followers is... Shameful? No, so, I would say. Usually people have way more TikTok followers. Well, I think she might have started on Instagram, my friend. Astronaut Abby, I'm watching. Well, they did this campaign with Astronaut Abby and this British guy named Colin Furs, who has 12.5 million followers on YouTube.

it was this um uh what is it this it's it's it was a six week competition and it ended up getting they want to solve real life energy problems they're having uh they're having people innovate for yeah basically hey instead of us doing the thing let's just do a big contest and see if anybody comes up with some good ideas that we can then buy it's like america's got talent for fixing the climate catastrophe and i'm sure that part of the fine print is whatever ideas you people come up with and submit we own outright in perpetuity throughout the universe, which is usually how it goes. But man, this guy, this other guy,

this environmental content creator named Jacob Simon, said, any agency with fossil fuel clients is on the wrong side of history. Agencies have a responsibility to use their talent and skills for good to connect and make ads that benefit society and make the world a better place instead of harming us and contributing to global pollution and destruction. Damn, dude, give me some snaps for that. I mean, sorry, fuck you, dude.

Astronaut Abby, you hear that? Also, she fucking dresses like an astronaut. What are her credentials? Is she? Probably nothing. Space camp? Did she at least go to space camp? I don't know.

I'm sure she has been to space camp. I love this. A Shell spokesperson basically kind of clapped back. You love when Shell is clapping back. I love it when Shell is clapping back. This person said, people are well aware that Shell produces the oil and gas they depend on today. However, what many don't know is that we are also investing billions of dollars in low and zero carbon solutions globally as part of our efforts

to support the energy transition. No energy transition can be successful if people are not aware of the alternatives available to them. Making our customers aware through advertising or social media of the low carbon solutions we offer now or are developing is an important and valid part of marketing activities. Damn. Yeah. I feel bad that I ever gave them grief. You should.

And now I feel pretty good about taking that money. Me too. Because we have a responsibility to inform the public. Because otherwise, what are they, now they know. And boom, that, what the fuck does that do? Oh, good. They're working on it. I still drive my fucking car.

They're working on it. Give them a chance. Oh, boy. the my my favorite thing is that they they tapped a UK based a UK based a dad influencer to promote it's called dad influencers I man guys if I ever become a dad influencer dad influencer put a bullet in the back of my head or the I'll I'll want to see it coming oh if that's the case I hope you become a fucking dad florencers here so you can shoot me hang man all right what kind of Gun are you going to use?

A finger gun? He's holding up his finger blaster, guys. Yeah, just push me off a cliff. Or go, what's that politician's name? Who I constantly talk about? Dianne Feinstein. Go, let's go Feinstein style. Feinstein style.

Lure me to the top of a tall set of stairs that has previously been waxed to perfection. And then I'll lose my balance and hopefully fall and break my neck and die because, I don't know. being a dad influencer just sounds fucking horrific what do you think too doesn't that sound awful yeah i recently got off instagram wow good for you good for you really lonely as soon as i post these europe pictures i'm getting off i swear oh boy all right

no but it's important so like just to the last thing from this is gregory trencher from uh kiyoto university said these public messaging efforts from form part and parcel of a broader greenwashing strategy of which the objective is to portray Shell as a global champion in the energy transition. Yet this is far from the reality, as despite having a goal in place to reach net zero emissions, Shell has abandoned its plan to reduce its production of oil by 1 to 2% each year up to 2030, and it has reaffirmed plans to grow its gas production. All right, so they're going to keep... Awesome. They're going to keep doing this, but their outlook, what they're putting out in the world is always going to be like, look, we're doing our thing. We're going to help

But behind closed doors, it's always going to be the exact opposite of what they're telling you. Yeah. So this other article from the Wall Street Journal. Right. So as this is all going on, the Wall Street Journal published a huge story inside Exxon strategy to downplay climate change. Talking all about kind of Rex Tillerson's 10-year... What a fucking C.E. If you...

A thousand monkeys typing on a thousand AI prompts for 100 years. never come up with a more perfect name for an oil CEO, Rex Tillerson. And then you look at his fucking face. He's also, his whole career has been at ExxonMobil. He's a career man for fucking... He was CEO for 10 years from 2006 to 2016, but yeah, he was trained as an engineer and then was working at Exxon the entire time. But I agree.

It's like when, remember one in 2012 when Mitt Romney was running for president and he saw picture for the first time, you're like, that guy looks like the president of the United States. Oh, I thought you were going to say he looks like his name would be Mitt. Doesn't he kind of just? Because, yeah, I mean, Mitt Romney. Is he the one who called his wife, wife? Or is that Mike Pence?

You know what I'm talking? Oh, Mother, Mother, he called, Mike Pence called his wife, mother. Man, what a shit. What else are you supposed to call your wife? A good point. So they first made a public statement, ExxonMobil first made a public statement about, boy, you know who's getting away Scott for you and all this, by the way? 76. Nobody even talks about 76 or Chevron.

Interesting. Yeah. They're talking about them. I don't know. I don't hear anything. I'm talking about him. Yeah. So Mobile first issued a public statement that burning fossil fuels contributes to climate change in 2006 after years of denial.

They argued that the risk of serious impact on the environment justified global action. So, hey, it seems like, wow, back in 2006, hey, holy shit, the big oil company, the biggest one is saying that, yeah, it looks like this is actually a thing. But then behind closed doors, surprisingly, executives, including and especially Rex Tillerson, started to try their best to influence the public's opinion and perception about whether or not that's really happening and whether Big Oil is really to blame or whether humanity is really to blame. Right. Yeah, it seemed like his tenure was kind of defined by, oh, for the first time, it's someone who's softer on these messages and more willing to accept some of these. realities. Right. But that was more of just a public perception.

They say the general perception is that Tillerson was softer and stopped funding the bad guys that were espousing climate change. And now, this is the first x-ray into Tillerson's head and shows he wanted to throw climate mitigation off the rail. It's obituary, obituary changing. We got an x-ray looking at his head? Man, what was inside? A couple freaking oil drums filled with a cerebro spinal fluid?

Dude, after a lifetime at Exxon, truly, that guy's just got the black stuff coursing through his veins. Yeah. It's actually only, it's only black before it's refined, right? And then it turns into this beautiful, clear thing that you just want to drink. And smell? Yeah. Oh, brother. Man, I remember I loved the smell of gasoline so much when I was a kid.

I still do. But we were cleaning out our family's garage one time, and there was a gallon of gas in there and a little drum. And I thought, oh, boy, I can just go take a width of that right now. And I did. And have you ever taken a sniff of gasoline up close? It hits way different. And my little 12-year-old brain was just, and I was, woof. Of course, gasoline hits crazy.

It was like taking a hit a DMT or something. I just saw gas pumps, fractals of gas pumps. It was, I'm taking the hat off. I want to read this one quote from the current CEO of Exxon, Darren Woods. Darren Woods. Not as powerful the name. Not a CEO I trust. So obviously, you know, the Wall Street Journal's asking about these documents.

And so he said, I know how this information looks when taken out of context. Okay. It seems bad. Sure. But having worked with some of these colleagues earlier in my career, I have the benefit of knowing there are people of good intent. none of these old emails and notes matter though all that does is that we're building an entire business dedicated to reducing emissions both our own and others and spending billions of dollars on solutions that have a real sustainable impact shut the fuck up i mean it's just like crazy to be like hey look we have all these documents that say you guys were fucking undermining all um movement on climate including their own scientists by the way that's the probably the biggest caveat is that their own scientists were saying, yeah, this is real, this is happening, and we are actively contributing to it. And all you can offer up is just the out of context. That looks bad.

These people are actually really good. And even if it was bad, we don't even want to pay attention to that, all right? That's just detracting from what we're really trying to do now, which is save the planet. And you're getting in our way. We're trying to save billions of dollars and you're being a fucking pussy about it. I think that they're, where they're coming from as a, as a fucking massive $200 billion corporation, if not more. Is that they're tired of being the bad guys? Is that, I think, well, I think what they're going to try to do is invest in things that are more alternatives and geared more toward, like he said, reducing emissions and, and, I think that's going to be things like carbon. That's their public message.

Right. But that's not what they're investing in. What they're investing in is, like, new gas and oil projects. What they're investing in is making sure that they're lining the pockets of people who can help them make sure the government isn't going to, like, regulate any of these things. Right. They are now defendants in several lawsuits, including Maui. Dozens, dozens of lawsuits. One here in California as well.

Yeah. Is that spearheaded by the governor, Governor Newsom, I believe? The California one, that's just the state of California. has filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Conoco-Philips, Chevron. I told you Chevron's in there, dude. No! And they're not just the companies. They're going after the oil industry's biggest lobby, the American Petroleum Institute.

The APA? The API? Fuck, I can't even do that right. American Petroleum Institute. API. Yeah, the API. So their whole thing is that they're arguing that, yeah, these. climate companies and the American Petroleum Institute basically misled the American

public for decades about climate change, even when they knew about it. And now they're suffering very real repercussions. It's going to be interesting to see if they can actually prove that things like wildfires are directly. They're arguing that these companies now need to fund the recovery efforts and stuff. And, you know, we're not going to be left out to dry anymore. I mean, we'll see how it goes. You know what I found most interesting is that.

There's a fund, the Rockefeller Family Fund is this charity that focuses on environmental issues, and they have been issuing grants to finance litigation for these very cases against Exxon. But what's wild about that is Exxon's predecessor was Standard Oil, which was founded by John D. Rockefeller. So it's almost like the family feels guilt and shame of some sort. to be funding the, to be funding these, the fund, it says the fund has invested millions of dollars in a broader campaign against big oil companies. I don't know. That's like when, it's something.

I mean, better than nothing. Give us a million dollars for sure, but it's something. I'm not, listen, I'm not defending the dead John Rockefeller. No, but I think you're defending his progeny who are now doing, better than nothing. Billionaire philanthropy. What would you rather they be doing?

Oh no, that's fine. Sending bombs? Making bombs? That would actually be sick. That would actually be pretty cool. That's what I would prefer them to be doing. I would prefer them. No,

I want the Rockefeller Foundation to be strapping bombs to themselves. I want whoever's like the equivalent to Bruce Wayne in the Rockefeller family to do a kind of inverse Batman where he's dressing up I don't know as a fucking dog. and instead of like beating criminals to a pulp he's uh he's he's bombing like a combination of

the joker and and batman and just leaving his signature mark with like an r or something on the bomb what no r for rockefeller not robin you fucking moron i didn't know what the r i said like batman like an inverse batman that's robin Robin is not the inverse Batman. Robin is his pathetic little orphaned sidekick. Inverse Batman's Joker. Yeah. That's what I mean.

So he's like a combination of the Joker and Batman. He's got the Joker's whimsy combined with Batman's billions of dollars. This is Rockefeller you're talking about. Joker's ne'er-do-well. How do we stop? Nobody can. Because there's no Batman out there. Rex Tillerson has to.

Rex Tillerson is our only hope. Rex Tillerson, if you're listening. God, can you imagine being Rex Tillerson's wife and sucking him off? I think about it every day. Jesus Christ. I mean, she's probably got a rock on her hand worth... Imagine fucking a guy named Rex. I mean, it doesn't sound terrible.

It's a powerful name. Rex? Yeah. Sure. It evokes a certain giant dinosaur. Do we fucking shift gears? I don't know. What do you want to shift gears?

Yeah, let's shift gears. Let's shift gears. Enough about this. So companies are all trying to be like, hey, we're actually doing good, right? And that, no better example. of that, then this last week, Apple launching the fucking iPhone. Well, wait, let's, we wrap that up. Did we wrap that?

Basically, Exxon Bad and all these companies are spending money. Don't be fooled when you start to see it. I know some people who would probably take some money from, uh, from Shell. I know, too, who would? I have no idea what you're talking about, man. So if you've been living under a rock, you know what to do. You say hi to the bugs, first of all. But second, Apple released this bat shit crazy.

Is it the full five minute? We're not going to watch the whole thing. But basically, all you got to know is that, to quote Tim Cook, Tim Apple's tweet here. At Apple, at Apple, we believe that climate change is one of the, the world's most urgent priorities, and we are deeply committed to doing our part. Today, we had a special guest, a real force of nature, stopped by to check on our progress. And it is, how would you describe it? It's basically...

It's just cringe. It's so cringe. It's a fake... I can't remember the woman's name. It's a... Viola... No. Hoopf.

sorry folks we're in the middle of trying to find out who that actress was what'd you google oh man what you google who plays mother oh octavia spencer octavia spencer she plays mother nature you've got the the apple board they're all nervous for a meeting and they're like oh my god we got to get everything perfect mother nature's coming yeah or someone's coming and then you see the fucking trees russell and and then all of a sudden octavia spencer shows up and And she's pissed. She's a bitch. She's so pissed.

Mother Nature is so mad at us and especially mad at companies, right? She's been going around to different boards. She's been doing her. She's been doing her. Like some kind of inverse Santa Claus. Also, can I say the... Batman. They fucking, they paint her as this, you know...

They paint her? Oh, go on. As this like all-powerful omniscient. like being and then for the because she's like oh i know everything blah blah i'm mother nature and then for the rest of the commercial they're just like ugh mother nature you idiot you don't even know about all our fucking initiatives yeah and she's like huh i guess i am a fucking stupid idiot wow you guys have extended your battery life and you've got an initiative to be totally like carbon neutral by 2050 or whatever

damn i guess i am being a bitch i'm off to go do my hurricane now in florida so she basically she comes to she's like you know you you guys are shipping your phones in all fucked up ways and they're like aha no we're actually yeah we're gonna stop doing plastic we're sending them on uh cargo we're sending them on huge cargo boats that fuck our ocean up uh and then just like well this whole place where's the electricity come from and they're like actually good feelings um yeah just runs on Also, I don't buy that. They said that every, the entire Apple complex and every, every Apple store runs on vibes.

Renewable, or clean energy. There's no fucking way. I mean, who's really going to check? And also, I'm sure that the legal definition of clean energy is so opaque that, what I, you know, if they really cared about the environment, they would make it so that I don't. have to upgrade my mother fucking iPhone every couple years because the battery starts to slow down and the phone starts to slow down and the battery starts to heat up are you listening to tim apple if you really gave a shit yeah really gave a shit yeah really gave a shit you'd make it so i could bring it into the sauna in ireland and it wouldn't ruin my whole trip okay you i didn't know i

cooked it alive yeah that was your fault actually that no that was tim apples Tim Apple should have made it so that they should have just They should only have to come out with one every few years Not every fucking whatever it is six months Oh we made we they made it Did you know their biggest innovation man They made it like a gram lighter A gram

A single gram I do like the US I do like the USBC port Oh Jesus suck my fucking dick dude Come on who cares What's the difference It's faster? No Someone in the comments, actually, it's going to be fucking...

And I know, okay? I know. I'm mad. It's not that it's foster. It's not that it's faster. It's not that it's foster. It's that they can't have this proprietary fucking part anymore. Right.

So they're, guess what, man? They're still going to make money off the part because you're going to want the official Tim Apple logo on your court. Otherwise, you're going to feel like a total moron. They're going to get it like, well, you could use another. secondary market one, but it's going to charge it a lot slower because that's how it works, man.

You think Tim Apple didn't think of all this shit? Fuck you. Of course he thought of it. $3 trillion company. Show me the innovation. You know, he said that he watched, I read today that he said he watched the entire season three of

Ted Lassow on the Apple Pro headset thing. Yeah, can you imagine? That's why he's like that now. You know, a hundred monkeys working on a thousand fucking AI things could not think of a dorkier scenario than Tim Apple watching the entirety of season three on the Apple headset pro dingus, whatever it is. I can't even get through season two of Ted Lassow. It's just too upity.

You made it through season one? It's got, I did too. It's charming. It's got good vibes. But then it's like, okay. In the Ted Lassow universe, it's like the Holocaust never. happened or something. It's just like happy go lucky. Everything's great. We've already trashed it. I'm not going to, I'm not going to, I don't need more comments

at me, but I will say it's a show for morons. Tuchet, touche, my friend. So that's another example of, you know, you know, there's more greenwashing, more greenwashing. Yeah, that that's the thing that they're just, they're just, they're just all greenwashing. And you know who else is fucking up, man? Do you want to talk about? Yeah. Really shifting gears. Oh, speaking of, well, that's Perfect for this next thing. Brother, pop the clutch. You got to put the clutch in to shift the gear. Jesus, God.

The UAW, they've started a little bit of their strike as of last Friday. Yes. At midnight. Yes. It's not the entirety of the UAW yet. The UAW is very large. It's one of the largest unions in the country with over 146,000 union members at 4 GM. Well, no, there are a hundred.

about 150,000 workers in contract negotiations right now with the big three automakers. But I think when you total it all up, there's about 400,000 total active members of the UAW. And that's the thing. So gosh, there's so much here. There's, they are doing a targeted strike, a more limited strike than just going after one company and putting the screws to them and trying to get a contract with them and then go for the other ones, which is kind of the usual tactic. they're going after the big like all three of these big three companies that's ford gm and stalantis which is jeep dynler chrysler uh mercedes european brands yeah Mercedes pujo pujo um which they said they're off topic but they're not bringing pujot to

america i'd love to get one of those little french cars you know fiat only sold like 200 cars last year damn i was driving one in europe they should i liked it i was driving a vogue my ancestors were like shaking their heads but anyway the guy leading this whole charge is sean fain who is the recently elected president of the united auto workers and um it's the background there is very interesting i don't know if you're aware of this but before um the united auto workers changed how they elect leaders and i did not And so there was, it was, it was, it was almost like a, almost like the Democratic Party where there was, where there was, it was like a delicate, delegate program. It wasn't one member, one vote.

Yeah. And there was a big shakeup because an investigation by the Justice Department, you know, exposed a lot of corruption in the United Auto Workers. I believe it was 13 union officials ended up going to jail for, you know, corruption, embezzlement. Because people pay their dues. people pay dues to their unions that ends up supporting things like strikes. I believe they've got enough money to cover them for like 11 weeks of striking. Yeah, but so they kickbacks, collusion with employers, and there was this big push to root out a lot of this corruption in the United Auto Workers.

And in 2019, they were campaigning for a shift in the way they do things, which was they wanted to change to a one-member, one-vote way of electing union officials. They were able to do that in 2021, December 2021 with a, like, 63% of rank and file people were voting for that. And they elected Sean Fane, who was the leader of the, there was a reform caucus within United Auto Workers called Unite All Workers for Democracy. All right? They wanted a more kind of militant approach than the old guard was taking. Okay. Right. And so this is who they've got, Sean Fain. And, you know, he has this, he has this idea of this more limited approach where, and yes, as you're talking about the strike funds, those are to sustain members while they are striking and be able to pay people who are striking and not making money. And if this thing is going to go on for a long time, you obviously don't want to like, even though it's upwards of $800 million you're talking about, but you don't want to blow through it all.

So they are taking their time. Taking their time, but being very targeted about it. There was just an article in The Intercept about how, you know, the big three companies are trying to anticipate the moves from the United Auto Workers, right? Because UAW is not calling them up and going, hey, just, you know, we're going to be striking here. So you might want to account for that. Right. They're trying to, they're trying to, and so there's a very funny clip of a journalist talking about how, you know, we've obtained where they're going to be striking.

It's these, for Ford, it's these three plants. For GM, it's these plants. And for Stalantis, it's these plants. They were way off. Interesting. And so basically, the, the automakers were caught off guard. Yeah, preparing by basically moving personnel and equipment to different plants and being like, it's okay. We can, and, but it's ended up costing them money and it's hurting the, the automaker Wow. And of course, one of the big things that they're pushing for is wage increases, better vacation, better vacation packages, and less shorter work weeks, right? Under 40 hours. They're talking about a 32-hour work week. And they're also talking about- You know I fucking love that shit. Oh, yeah. We love. Four-day work week, three-day bender, no surrender, Bernie Sanders. I fucked it up. God. Fuck. This is humiliating. Thank God, nobody's still listening. Edit that out or I'll kill myself on live. TV.

Wait, wait, wait. So, part of the thing is that I believe it's GM's CEO, a lady CEO, which is, I've got something to say about that with the Rite Aid CEO. How you don't agree with women being CEOs? Of course. Yeah, totally disagree with it. Well, because there was that, there was that data point that more often than not female CEOs are put in charge of dying companies. Oh, yeah. We've talked about this, the glass ceiling. or sorry the glass floor the quicksand floor the floor is lava the floor is lava i think that's what it is the floor is lava the corporate america trope where they before we get off i just want to i just

want to make sure we give all the background here too so right they're pushing for a lot of things here and um this goes back to you know the economic downturn around you know 2007 to 2010 And in those employment contract negotiations, the UAW gave a lot of concessions to the big three. Okay. Like they got rid of their, they created this tiered system, which is something you see kind of in all of these labor disputes. It was big with UPS. It's where there's like different types of workers get different types of benefits and stuff. And they want there to only be one kind of employee where you're not.

treating people differently. But then people lost retirement benefits. So after around, after around 2007, employees no longer have retirement benefits like pensions, pensions or health care. So the people are kind of breaking their bodies in these in these automaker plants. And they're not going to be taken care of when they're when they're leaving these positions. Right. If you're working there for decades, you're going to need health care in your retirement. You're going to be needed to be taken care of. And so this is a pushback against all that because now things have changed since that time period, right? All of these companies are, you know, record profits, just like.

And the CEO, as I was saying, got a major compensation package because of certain milestones that were met when the stock performance is one of them, certain delivery numbers. just, yeah, and she got, I believe it was over 20 million, more than that? I believe it was over $20 million in compensation. But so when you, just the first half of 23, the, the big three, you're talking about $21 billion in profits. That's just the first half of 20203. And for the last decade, they've had profits of over $250 billion. Good for that. You're talking about a very different climate. And so now these things they're demanding are, they want to share in they want to share in what the CEOs are taking because what they've seen is huge pay increases for CEOs, huge stock buybacks throughout the years.

Oh, yeah. But meanwhile, they're having real wages have gone down by 30%. So while they're juicing CEO pay and doing stock buybacks, they're going, well, who's going to take care of us? And so that's where you're seeing the number. their first thing they asked for was a it was a 40% increase in their in their pay over the course of four years right and that's because they said well we want to match what you've bumped up the CEOs still and so that has recently come down they've not by a huge amount it's it's now

they're asking for a bump in the mid 30s somewhere like 35% I believe it's 36 yeah and I think the last thing the the automakers offered was about cookies free cookies 14 to 20% over four years. Plus free cookies. So they're still pretty far. They want, you know, they want those benefits back, those retirement benefits. They want the shorter hours, all of that. And all of this is kind of a side effect of inflation.

Because as this guy says it, this chief economist Joseph Busellis at RSM said, after the inflation shock we've gone through, workers are going to demand more money, given the likelihood that they've lost ground during this period of inflation. They're going to ask for more money, and they're going to ask for workplace flexibility, which is exactly what's going on here. I disagree, though. I think that's a bullshit. No, no, he's not saying that that's the reason. He's saying that that's part of inflation is seeing like, wow, seeing our CEO making all this money. But I don't think that framing is correct. And I think, I don't think that's why I think, and they're keeping their

message very on point of like the reason we're asking for this is because of the way they're compensating the upper levels of these companies and we are not seeing this is just a comment about generally how workers workers want more money because it's more expensive to live no i know but the workers want to share in the recent the record profits of course they want to Sean fein has a thing record profits demand a record contract it's not about inflation about like it's about But record profits have come because of inflation, is what I'm saying. I mean, no, you're talking about $250 billion in the last decade. This recent inflationary period is not driving all of that.

But they want to make sure they're being compensated for what they're making possible for these people. I think that's, I don't know, a real issue. Oh, wow, we got, we're just in the nick of time with this plumbing stuff going on. No, no, it'll be fine. We won't even pick it up, probably. The big thing, the other big thing that we wanted to cover, speaking of companies fucking things up, is Airbnb. And, oh, man.

Oh, wait, that's it? You're done with the UAW? I think so. I mean, we, it's, what else was there? What else was there you wanted to cover? So this will come out on Thursday. On Friday, they are saying... So tomorrow for you guys.

John Fane is saying that they will be... They're going to try to widen the, they're going to hit more plants. Oh, the strike is going to start to widen. If, um, if, if, if there's no movement from the automakers. And so, yeah, we'll see how this affects it all. I also want to touch on. So, I mean, there is a, I mean, this happens always, right? Like there's the way they frame these things for people.

It's always going to be about how it's going to affect you. They're already, they're already saying like, oh, it's going to cost you more money for, it's going to cost you more money for cars. It's going to cost, it's going to raise inflation. Yeah. But it's, I really think it's important to note that these are, I hope people, the United Auto Workers was always like a very important union. And they often lead the way on a lot of these things. And they're talking about, there was a, in the, in the Wall Street, there was a thing about how whether the UAW strike outcome, Elon Musk has already won. And they're saying like the real person who's benefiting from all this is Elon Musk because he he doesn't have a unionized work base. So he won't run into any supply issues and people will naturally turn toward Tesla cars because other dealerships are going to run out of supply. The real thing, like they should be, and they say like, oh, they're being greedy. They're already getting paid, you know, $10 to $20 more an hour than these other, these, these,

these non-union shops. And it's like the real thing people should be thinking is why. Why are these people getting paid so much more? And I hope there's a big push to unionize these non-unionized shops. Elon Musk's Tesla people, I mean, he's pushed back quite a few times. And one of the things that he's used in his argument against that is that if you unionize, you don't get stock compensation. And he said, we've got people working, which I believe, of course, because their stock has

gone up 200 fold over the last few years is that they've got millionaires working on their factory floors yeah also the other thing is i don't know if you saw trump he's uh he said he's skipping he's not going to the next republican debate but he's going to do his uh it might happen before this comes out he's going to do his uh he's going to do a dump speech at in front of striking workers Wow, that should be fucking momentous. But, I mean, I love a shit. I love a GMC truck. I love a board truck.

We love our unions. We love it. I love a truck. You saw me in the big truck before I said, I love the truck. It's Trump coming off of a wisdom to surgery. I am curious to see how he's going to, how he's going to like, how he's going to spin this he's probably going to talk about what he always talks about they fucking rob me and biden and all that shit and yeah you don't think he's going to try to like make a point

of of being like i have your back probably and the democrats yeah he's probably yeah of course democrats are they love because i've seen cars nicky haley and tom scott and they were like this is bullshit this is what happens when you allow a democrat like joe biden the unions have been able to take over. Yeah, and we've gone through that with teachers and, yeah, people like to shit on unions for sure. Speaking of getting shit on, Airbnb is just... Well, there's been a lot of talk about how Airbnb has had its day in the sun.

Well, sure, there's, yeah, it ruins everything as well. But it's been kind of, you know, they've talked about how different cities are seeing a huge decrease in their Airbnb revenue. But what's going on in New York is a huge. They're cracking down. And it feels very real, right? And so the thing was that they are, they are somewhat new regulations, but they've kind of been on the books for a while. They're now enforcing them in a very real way. Yeah. So they've, New York City has argued that these laws, the laws they've had on the books preclude people from renting out homes to guests for less than 30 days unless the host is present during the stay.

Right. It also asserts that no more than two guests are allowed to stay at a time and that they must have ready access to the entire home. So it's an existing rule, but they're now enforcing it, is no rentals less than 30 days unless someone is home at the same time. And you've got to now apply for a license for that. Right.

So you can have short-term rental. but you got to be home. I don't know how they're going to enforce that or prove it. But they also are... Well, you know why. What? So what they'll do is... Here, wait, let me find it.

Oh, yeah, okay. So in order to collect fees associated with short-term stays, Airbnb, Verbo, Booking.com, and other companies must check that a host registration application has been approved. So it now means that you have to get approved to be able to do this, right? And it's going to be much more difficult to get it. You've got to get licensure and you've got to get an Airbnb has to validate, has to verify it. Right.

And if they can't verify it, you're not going to be able to list it on their website. And hosts who violate the rules could face fines of up to $5,000 for repeat offenders and platforms could be fined up to $1,500 for transactions involving illegal rentals. And Airbnb is pushing back and doing their fucking stupid song and dance. They're saying short-term rentals actually help the city's tourism economy, especially in parts of the city where there aren't very many hotels. Like, okay, sure. We got along just fine before Airbnb existed.

Yeah, who are arguing that the city code should allow unhosted rentals in some one-and-two-family homes and that New York City's interpretation of its own laws is unreasonable. They said that the registration system is unnecessarily complex and its lawsuit was dismissed last month. But this Theo Yiddinsky, the global policy director for Airbnb, said, quote, The city is sending a clear message to millions of potential visitors who will now have fewer accommodation options when they visit New York City. You are not welcome. Fuck you, dude. Fuck you. Airbnb estimated last month that there were nearly 15,000 hosts that have active listings for short-term rentals and homes across the city.

And as of August 28th, the city had only received. about 3,250 registration applicants, and only 257 have been approved. Right, so they're basically saying that they've seen a, they've seen a staggering 77% drop of active listings. I think that it's good. I think it's great. I mean, that Florence is also doing this. Paris is capping how many days hosts can rent.

Dallas is moving to rezone them. And Philadelphia has also started their own licensing program. It's all, it's, it's, it's frustrating. because so many times with it, people are like, well, you know, what are you going to do? And it's like, regulate them. That's just fucking do it. There are so many. It's bad for cities.

It's, I mean, when you're talking about- It fuels the housing crisis. It drives up rents. And these people, now Airbnb is going, there's not enough hotel rooms. And the hotel rooms are going to, don't, they're going to get more expensive. Bitch, Airbnb is. Dude, that was Airbnb. That was Airbnb.

That was Airbnb. They're here. Airbnb is more expensive. than a fucking hotel. I got news for you, man. The best part is in this New York Times article. And there's plenty of hotel rooms, by the... They have so many people who, uh, they have a...

Dude, that's good. It's okay. We're at the... If only Emil didn't try to force that big turd down his toilet, they wouldn't have to be tearing out this pipe in his wall. In the set here, in the set. Yeah. You didn't clog the set toilet.

Or were you going to say that... I told you not to use that. Yeah. Were you going to say that a bunch of... a bunch of people have to sell their homes now? Yeah, but they pick, they're like... This person has to sell his home for $4 million. Yeah, dude.

Literally, they're like, what is this man going to do? He has to sell his $4 million home because he's no longer allowed to Airbnb his basement. He's $4 million Fort Green. I don't know, move to New Jersey. I don't give a fuck. Also, my brother in Christ, if you were relying on your extra $3,000 or $4,000 a month from Airbnb to just skate by,

you need to be living in a small house. Right, like get a $2 million house. Yeah. Jesus God. And they have another one who's like, this poor family is not going to be allowed to afford their $6 million penthouse. Airbnb, it's truly as I was reading about this and the more I think about it, it is, it's an abomination to me that this, I'm using the wrong word. It sucks ass that this company is allowed to exist. and do what it does, which essentially destroys the fucking housing market for everybody else.

It's terrible. Yeah. There's entire apartments here in L.A., nearby, because I had to stay in one years ago when I lived in New York and I would come back to visit. There's this entire building that's just Airbnbs. They're just dog shit little fucking, they barely put any effort into it. The lighting is just like the worst fluorescent shit. you just feel like you feel like you're being watched it just that's how it feels it feels like you're being watched that's how shitty and unwelcoming it is just like oh we got

tv it got Netflix yeah if you got your login they're not even giving you Netflix it also just kind of fucking ruins you know it ruins everything residential residential neighborhoods in a way that like they they talk about because what's going to happen is you're going to drive everyone to hotels. And it's like, yes, that's how it used to happen. And hotels are often in more touristy locations. Like, you look at a place like Hawaii. And people used to go stay along the beach in Waikiki where there's, where there's hotels and stuff and where you can do all the tourism, which sucks. I mean, fucking Waikiki is an awful place. And now you go, you can go stay in Moana's freaking bedroom if you want. Truly. And like, you see these horrible videos on

Reddit of like drunk people starting shit with people who are, who are, who are, asking them to quiet down their party so their, you know, kids can go to sleep or whatever. And it's like, so it's just enabled people to go into neighborhoods where people live and be like, well, we're going to party here for a week and we're going to pay this guy's mortgage for the month. And like, sorry, fucking deal with it. Yeah. And it's like, well, it's, I don't know, you just don't need tourists in everyone's fucking neighborhood at all times. Yeah.

I always feel bad whenever I'm at an Airbnb in a residential neighborhood. I'm like, oh, cool. I'm part of the problem And I know that the people who actually live here Are probably pissed off at me Because I'm indirectly contributing To their cost of living going up Or what the fuck ever, I don't know

Oh, I mean, but We've obviously been those people Using Airbnb in the fucking neighborhoods Of course. Yes, you... I've also been those people in the Hawaiian neighborhood causing a ruckus I've never been to Hawaii.

I was the drunk guy in the video. Yeah. No, the... Pissing on my one is long. What? No, I've never been to Hawaii. Okay, well, that's a whole number. another thing but not a colonizer dude um the it didn't used to be this way but now when

you book an Airbnb like coming up like within the week before your stay you get an email like hey we just want to go over a few ground rules like if you talk after 8 p.m. we'll call the cops and kill you if you yeah do not you have to wake up at 7 a.m. and water our plants and like flush the toilet or it looks slow like you have to be like like whisper quiet at all times. Take out the trash. Yeah. Clean up.

When I rented a house in Joshua, that's where it should be legal is like Joshua Tree. Remote-ass places where I'm not staying in a double, double tree Hilton out in, out in the desert. Joshua Tree is so pissed about it, though. Yeah, that's true. Fuck. You told me you rented a place where the guy was like, I think it was Joshua, Joshua Tree or Palm Springs. But the guy started emailing you being like the... noise reverberates around the entire valley or whatever.

I'm always extremely respectful, truly, when I go. No, no, he was just telling you, like, just so you know. Yeah, yeah. He's like, I don't think you should even make phone calls while you're there. Yeah, I was on mushrooms on that trip, and then the next morning, me and my buddy, part of the rules were you have to clean up before it gets cleaned. It's like brushing your teeth before you go to the dentist. I'm not going to do that. I'm going to eat Cheetos.

Your job is to clean my shit for me. Brush my teeth for me. Oh, see, I do it because I want the dentist to call me a good boy. I do it because I don't want my gums to bleed, and I want to get in and out of there. It's a lot quicker. You don't want the dentist to be like, you've been such a good boy since I last saw you. I mean, I know I'm a good boy. I don't need the validation of my dental hygienist to tell me that I know what I am,

which is a good boy who flosses every night. Even when you know it still feels good. That's true. Getting a pat on the belly. Incredible. Yeah. I like to, I like to moan when they're cleaning my teeth. that's how they know that's my feedback for them that they're doing it right they're doing

the job right anyway should we talk about riot aid one last thing they're going to do one last thing i feel because we're talking about these corporations and in them being naughty and doing bad things doing hood rat things with their friends what which one burger king ft x ftx oh yeah i mean FTX, what are you going to do? Their, his parents, his parents are. It's so funny. Well, real fast. I guess there's not much to say here other than Rite Aid is about to file for Chapter 11

bankruptcy. Chapter 11 is when they restructure their debt. They've got $3.3 billion that they're hoping to restructure. And part of it also is because they're being sued for over-prescribing opioids. And bankruptcy allows them to kind of wrap them all up into one big chunk that's easier to deal with. And they've got a female CEO since 2019. And it's one of those things where it's like, oh, here you go, Susie. Why don't you deal with this?

Clean it up for us. You're fucking idiot. Fuck Rite Aid. God, everything is dog shit about Rite Aid. Their logo sucks. Their logo does suck. It looks like a light blue and a light green. It's just horrible.

What a dumb company. Dumb, dumb. I really like Rite Aid. Oh, shut up. No, you don't. Rite Aid sucks. Oh, they give great deals. Never made it as a good man.

Never did it as a poor man stealing. That's me simulating walking through a Rite Aid aisle. Yeah. Why, because they're playing the shitty music? Yeah. And it's like a lot. It just feels like a nightmare. Any time I ever go into a CVS or a Walgreens or a Riteite,

I just feel like, man, do the people who work there just how do they not i i would just kill myself i would steal and then kill my i would just steal i would actually just steal bankrupt the company yeah like this i also have bad memories of right aid because i a girlfriend of mine was you had to buy plan b for no oh was getting surgery at a right aid no uh i should have let you finish but before the surgery we got into a huge fight Oh, no. You didn't want her to have the surgery. No, I didn't.

It was not about the surgery. Oh. And it was horrible because I was going to be taking her and, and I was like, maybe she'll just forget about it because of the. Forget about the surgery? No, forget about the fight because she'll be all loopy. Yeah. She didn't forget about it. Did you guys get into a fight at a ride aid?

Well, then we're just in the right aid. And I'm like, and she's all loopy from the stuff. And I'm like, I need your insurance cards and all these. And she's so mad at me. me. I'm like, this is going to be a fucking nightmare. Boo. That's terrible. Yeah. It sucks when our girlfriends get mad at us, doesn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Man.

Even when we're good boys. Even when we're good boys. Do you want to uncover this? Nobody's watching at this point or listening. We'll talk about Sam Bankman Fried and his parents in the bonus episode. Okay. Yeah, fine. And we'll also talk about. Not if you don't want us. Man, there's a whole bunch of shit that I still want to talk about. we're going to talk about Emile's travel tales a bunch of shit.

Yeah. Yeah, come join us. Come join us. Come join us. We're going to keep talking shit. We love talking shit. Come, come, come, come, come. Come.

So long, everybody. Bye.