The Ben and Emil Show - PP 15: Enough Taylor Swift Already, A Corrupt Cuban King, Biden Joins UAW Strike

Episode Date: September 28, 2023

Taylor Swift is everywhere. She's behind you right now. It's too much. It's constant, it HAS to be reaching a tipping point, right guys? She and Travis Kelce have to be getting paid by the government or something. Or has our culture just gotten to the point where we all collectively just focus on ONE thing each week? Seemingly ranch, right guys? LOL!!!! Anyway. We also cover all you need to know about the corrupt Cuban king ROBERT MENENDEZ, because man oh man is that guy shady as hell (and we love him for it). Also we cover the latest with Joe Biden visiting the UAW strike, and finally, the brand new $499 per month TINDER SELECT. 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.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 added new stuff to our tiers! https://www.patreon.com/paypigspod Follow us on TikTok and Instagram! @paypigspod everywhere! Discord access https://discord.gg/dqXucssk2R LINKS for things discussed in this episode: TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Intro + Chat GPT voice update 10:00 - Credit cards baby! 13:30 - Taylor Swift 28:20 - Senator Robert Menendez is comically corrupt 45:15 - Because I'm Cuban 49:00 - Biden joins the UAW picketers 58:30 - Tinder Select is for wealthy horny dorks If you're still reading, drop a comment! We love em! Not Is Taylor Swift Too Good for Travis Kelce (BFFs: Dave Portnoy, Josh Richards & Bri Chickenfry), but Korean Food Taste Test, Taylor Swift's New Boyfriend PowerPoint Off the Rails (H3 Podcast). Not Taylor Swift The Eras Tour Concert Film Official Trailer (Taylor Swift) but Taylor Swift Travis Kelce, Dave Portnoy on Taylor Swift Travis Kielce Romance (Flagrant), Seducing Taylor Swift 2 Bears, 1 Cat (YMH Studios). Not Eagles Stay Unbeaten Travis’ Biggest Catch (New Heights Show), but Russell Brand Is A Weird Freak Loser & We Never Liked Him Anyway After Dark (H3 Podcast), but The Worst Streamers on the Planet (HasanAbi), A Bone To Pick With Bobby’s Mom, but Toilet Water Waddle (Bad Friends). Not The Boys Episode (Ft. Eddy Burback, Hasanabi, WillNeff & AustinShow), but He made her cry (The Yard). Uncarley, Casey Aonso. Not Exposing a Podcast Scam (Coffeezilla), but Techlead, Random Order, Morning Brew, Alementary. This is Paypigs ben and emil (paypigs podcast), but pay pigs pod (ben cahn emil derosa). #podcast #paypigspod #hasan 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

Hey, everybody. We've got a great show for you today. It's going to be a real heater. Oh, my God. We're going to be talking about Taylor Swift fatigue. Just how powerful is Taylor Swift. Is Travis Kelsey in over his head? Plus, Bob Menendez. Is he corrupt or is he just Cuban? And what's the latest with the UAW strike? And finally, what in the world is this new $499 a month? month, Tinder Select? Queue the intro. Let's find out. I'm gonna pee.

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there's a bunch of good shit on there so emil so ben i think the uh the the the funniest thing that we should start with is this uh chat gpt you can talk to right now oh yeah yeah baby let's let's take let's take again so for the uh in case you've been living under a rock you got to say hi to the bugs, first of all. But second of all, the chat GPT that everybody raved about and now nobody talks about anymore because God knows why. They've now made it like Siri so you can talk to, I don't know why it's not letting me pause the damn thing. They're letting you talk to it now instead of just prompting it with text. Yeah, a bunch of people are pushing it out. Obviously, like Sam Altman and Open AI are like, we are changing the game. Everything's different

now. But the Wall Street Journal did a big write-up about it. And it opens with their story, Joanna Stern. I guess she got to futz around with it because it's not out for us yet. But she says, you'll have two reactions to hearing my conversation with the now vocal chat GPT. Number one, holy crap. This is the future of communicating with computers that sci-fi writers promised us. And number two, I'm building an underground bunker and stockpiling toilet paper toilet paper and granola bars. That's all you're going to need? Lady, those toilet, those granola bars are going to back you up. Trust me. Should we play a little bit about a little bit of it? So we can, so people can really go, holy crap. Yeah, let's see if this gives us a holy crap. Okay, let me, let me rewind it here.

Pretend I'm your best friend. Ask me how my day was. Thank you. Of course, friend. How was your day? Did it be interesting or special happen? I'm here to listen. also can you pause it for one second i shot a video at work oh you're not allowed to pause it doesn't let me pause this isn't crazy making but so the if you're an audio listener there's a that's cool it's it thinks it thinks for so long it's it's it's she asked the question and and then you see it it it's making movements and it's thinking boy that makes me just want to stockpile granola bars and toilet paper and go live in a bunker this this is i will say though that it it hasn't dropped to everyone I guess it's dropping in like two weeks for everybody or people who pay 20 bucks a month to be a part of chat GPT Pro.

They said it's going to be faster. It better be. I mean, seriously. But also, that's not how friends talk to each other. No, not at all. Pretend you're my friend. Okay, friend. Well, the worst.

How was your day? The worst one was, I think I might have sent it to you, but the woman who does security at, oh yeah, Lillian Wang, she's working on AI safety at Open AI. She said, because Sam Altman wrote, you know, voice mode and vision for chat GPT, really worth a try. Because you're also now going to be able to just give it images. It's going to be able to, like, solve what you want. You can feed it images like, here's my math homework. But she said, this is crazy.

Lillian Wang said, just had a quite emotional, personal conversation with chat GPT in voice mode, talking about stress, work-life balance. Interestingly, I felt heard and warm. Never tried therapy before? Wait, dude. Really? Never tried therapy before, but this is probably it. Try it, especially if you usually just use it as a productivity tool.

I'm worried about people in tech. Holy shit. Wait, I think... Pretend I'm your best friend. Wait, come on. Where's the thing that pops out? I want to see you like imagine doing that and going like holy shit I feel emotionally full I had a real conversation for the first time of my life I finally told someone about

something I've never yeah well I think it gives an example of what kind of emotional things it can talk about here really that's fascinating I'm curious what angle or perspective did you take on the topic? Was it about how AI and language models work, or perhaps a demonstration of our interaction? I just want to simulate what it would be like to be that woman and have the

emotional conversation. So can I play the AI and you be the woman having therapy? Because it's obvious that she just kind of... I was she recorded her conversation. I would do anything to hear it. Yeah, me too. Because what information did she give it

that made the conversation steer because you as the human are naturally going to be steering it toward whatever end you want to. Did she just kind of look around and go, sometimes I think about hurting myself or something? And then she had to wait for the AI to respond with the little bubbles.

Really? Wow, that's interesting. That's fascinating. In what ways? So, well, so, I don't know, I guess I've just been really stressed at work, chat GPT. Or it can be stressful sometimes.

I know what that's like. As an AI chatbot, I experienced my own kind of stress. But for me, it's different. What kind of stress are you talking about? Well, I think I just worry that maybe we're not making the world a better place, and maybe the work we're doing is actively making the world a worse place? You're right about that. The world is becoming a worse place because of people like you.

that's not funny no that's fucked up i don't think that that's nice i also think that um yeah i i wonder if you can switch the the accent and stuff on it like you can you can you can change its voice and stuff oh wow but specifically accents uh because i know sir you can give it like an australian accent here i had it open yeah you can you you have give it like someone right now you have five choices oh jeaniper that tells me nothing There was a fluffy mama cat named Lila. Okay. That's Juniper.

Okay. Sky. Okay. She cuddled with her playful kitten. That one's kind of nice. Under the shade of an old oak tree. I mean, these are... That one's just like, you're listening to an audio book.

Yeah, these are just the voice actors, because they hired voice actors. You're going to have a new playmate soon. He's perked up, curious. Whatever. No, it doesn't sound... It sounds like they're all American for now. I wonder if you can give it like an ESL kind of kind of... kind of accent, someone who's English is a second language.

Yeah, like the guy from Beverly Hills Cop with all the weapons. Damn, man. I'm sorry, I just have whiplash from you referencing a movie from 1985. The who? Which guy? With all the weapons? Which guy? For those of you who don't know, Beverly Hills Cop was a great movie, actually,

starring Eddie Murphy that came out. And I think like 1972, nobody really knows for sure. Um, but don't worry, Emil's going to send me the clip of the guy speaking, uh, it sounds like probably something racist, I guess. No, it's not racist at all. Oh, but this is who I would want my chatbot to sound like. Okay, here we go. I bet there's an app. Yep. Great. We're up to a great start. The art gallery is completely bankrupt in the toilet. Why? Because we had an honor who was obstinate and stupid and ignorant.

He reminds me of you, Dylan. Interesting. I don't know what to make a bat. Well, just like a character that you could play. Oh, thank you. Yeah. All right, guys. We got our first ad, but it's just...

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Let's get into the real news, shall we? I did just cancel my pro subscription. And now I'm like, should I get it back? No, I don't think you should. I don't think I should either. Also, just as a quick aside, Open AI just did a first. funding round valuing it just under $100 billion, which is surprising

because I would think that it would be worth more than that, but I guess not. That's going to last. Oh, for sure it's going to last. So Taylor Swift This is what you really want to talk about. This is what you really want to talk about. You're obsessed. I am obsessed. Would you call yourself a Swifty? No.

I like a couple of her songs, but I definitely don't, I don't consider myself a Swifty. but she's fucking this football player named Travis Kelsey. Are you saying she's fucking this football? Yeah, she's fucking him for sure. We don't know. We have no idea.

But we know that they've had sex. I don't know if that's... He might not have premarital sex. He might not. Give me a break, you guys. Give me a break. I have no idea if they've had sex. Also, he's like 6 foot 5 to her 5 foot 11, 5 foot 10.

So that's a good match. They're going to watch they have a kid that's just like not into music or sports. They'd be so disappointed. They have a gamer child. They might be open-minded. Yeah, maybe. They don't need to force their kid. Yeah.

I don't think they'll raise them anyway. Probably not. But, man, this. They're going to have a baby who's into Caribbean food and. What? Are you inferring a Colin Hanks? Or what's the other one's name? Chet Hanks?

No, but like, she lives in New York. And, like, often on the Upper West Side, you'll have, like, a Caribbean nanny or a... Oh, oh, right, right, right. Got it. Man, that was two degrees way away from me. That was for all my New Yorkers out there. Yeah. So they, they're...

He invited her to watch him play football. Who's he? Travis Kelsey. Because I just learned who this guy was. Oh, man. His name is Travis Kelsey. Yeah, now I know. He plays on the...

Kansas City Chiefs. Kansas City Chiefs. Two first names. Yeah. Well, Kelsey is spelled K. A-E-L-C-E. Yeah. Usually the two first names works when it's two of the same gender, right?

Never since then. Really? Well, Kelsey can be a man's name, Kelsey Grammar. That's like, fuck. God. I'm so glad I brought this. Do you remember the Nelly song, country grammar? Of course I do.

I'll have to dig it up. I did like a weird owl-style spoof called Kelsey Grammar, and it was all just a rap about. Oh, man. You got to find that. You got to find that. It's all just like a rap about phrase. and, you know, tossed out on Instagram with X. Also, speaking of me almost slamming my forehead for the audio listener,

I've been doing that lately just as like a bit, and I went to this restaurant with my girlfriend over the weekend, and they were closed. Weird flex. I went to Checker Hall, and we showed up, and there's, it's also, it doubles as a venue, and we got there, and the guy said, oh, yeah, Checker Hall is closed for renovations, and I just slammed my open palm on my forehead.

And I said, stupid, stupid. And he just kind of looked at me. Weekend to walk. I don't know why I did that. But anyway, it is so good. That chicken, what's the chicken? The schnitzel. Schnitzel is so fucking good.

We're getting off topic here. I did not tell the story. Taylor Swift went to the football game and it was like, it's just exhausting, man. I'm just tired of it. She could, she could, you know what? It's like the, it's like some kind of, um, Donald Trump thing where Donald Trump said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and people would still vote for him. Taylor Swift could pull down her pants and take a big fat dump on national TV and Swift fans would,

I mean, they would swarm it and just try to grab the shit. They would, she, she does have a hold on, I mean, yeah, I'm not interested in this stuff at all it's just everywhere the uh well there's my feed is i don't like football or taylor swift man that's so cool and my whole shit is just well there there was this uh there's this taylor swift fan account and they this is how absurd it is oh the seemingly ranch yeah taylor swift was eating a piece of chicken with ketchup and seemingly ranch clearly written by like some chinese person working at like a social media mill in somewhere somewhere far off just one of those people who's just like, fuck, I got to write about fucking celebrities.

Wait, you know what's my favorite Taylor Swift account? What? The one, let me find it. Oh, and of course, KFC replied, our ranch queen. And then Arby's had to make their own fucking thing, and it's just a pathetic piece of chicken next to a pathetic little thing of ketchup and ranch, and it says, when the function has Arby's boneless wings with ketchup and seemingly ranch,

it's just, uh, it's just, it's just, it's just, reached it's and and so here here's this woman talking also unbelievable and the reason why we're also excited about it is because i can only equate it to what it's like being a theater girlie when you're in when you're in when you're a she's explaining why everybody's captivated by this by taylor swift fucking the football football man everybody yeah everybody theater kid or you're in theater school you to be fair even like the NFL from their main account on Instagram or whatever put the like Taylor was here oh yeah because they know that that's what I'm talking about her her she's got her own gravitational pull and yeah we didn't cover it

when it was like when all the when all the news was coming out oh sorry I don't want to cut off your no no well this girl equates it to here date in your circle and you date these narcissistic like skinny twinkie boys who chain smoke cigarettes and have their pick of any beautiful girl Yeah. Because they're the token straight guy. I'm best mean. And they treat you like S-H-I-T. And then one day you date outside your circle and you meet a nice Midwestern Ohio football

playing boy who worships the ground you walk on. And all of your friends are like, thank you. Thank God. That's exactly what it is. Except it's on the biggest scale in the world. I do love how all the sudden. I love this hand. We've come full circle on jocks.

They are like now not toxic. And they're like, since. I mean, I don't know anything about this guy, Travis Kelsey, but I doubt it's, I don't know. They're acting as if he's like some kind of saint. Well, he's fucked. Why? Because he either has to marry her now or he's just going to be as much as everybody loves him right now, all the Swifties and shit. They don't, though.

That's the thing. No, one's good enough for Taylor. They're all already. No, they already love him. No. Really? They're literally like pulling clips of him from practice and being like, I don't know. he seems a little aggressive.

That's what I'm saying. He's fucked. Oh, but that's what so, like, this fandom is so unhinged and they've gotten to a point where, yeah, like they, it doesn't matter who she dates. It's like, I don't know, he seems a little agro. Yeah. I feel bad for, well, Kansas City Chiefs whipped the ass of the Chicago Bears. Yeah.

And I feel bad for whatever player on the. bears invited his crush to come watch the game and it's just like you just get fucking overshadowed by Taylor Swift or some other guy on the chiefs might have been like hey babe you know come come to the game and watch me play and then it's just nobody cares but that's nice you fly under the radar you go don't worry about that's true we got our own little secret we should invite some celebrity crushes to come watch us podcast yeah I'll invite Taylor Swift right now yeah Invite Taylor Swift. I don't have a huge thing for Taylor Swift.

I don't know. Really? Don't come. Well, if you want to come, I'd like to talk to her. She seems nice. I have, um, I put in my notes, D.S. To watch us. Who's D.

Why, why did I put that? Donna Summers. If you're watching. Wait, who the fuck? Donna Summer? D.S. Donald Strom. Donald Strom.

D.S. D.S. D.S. Oh, we want to get a Nintendo DS. No. We don't want. Nintendo Diaz to come watch us. Wait, but I do, I have to appreciate the,

I like that he put it out in the world and then, you know, he, so he went to the, he went to her concert, apparently. And he was very open, I think him and his brother have a podcast. Yeah. And he was very open about the fact that he did not get to say hi to her because he wanted to say hi to her. And he was putting it out in the world. And then all of a sudden.

Man, he made it happen. he made it happen he made it happen for himself really beautiful yeah she is much power as she wields i do have to hand it to her she's using her influence for for a good thing she just got 35,000 young people to register to vote okay by posting it on her story the bad thing it's a lot of young trump voters yeah i am curious uh i am curious if she's going to eventually run for public office. I could see that happening. She cares about... No, she does. Yes, she does. Oh, yeah. You didn't watch the documentary. See, I watched the documentary. You did? Well, no, I saw the clip on Twitter. Where she like... Okay. You got to watch it.

She cares. She had, she made it a big deal when she finally came out and took a position against was it Donald Trump or abortion. It might have been both. Did you watch the doc? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did. I just don't remember what the name of it was or how much of it I watched. But I remember watching it and being like, she's all right in my book. She's okay. Interesting. She's seemingly ranched to me. But I do think, I do think she's going to, when she can affect a local economy. Why would she want that?

Why would she want that? Because she's going to, because she's going to want the next big thing. Why do all these people get into politics? Because they have a lust for power. Yeah, they're sickos. She's going to, she's a sicko. She's going to have a lust for power. I also feel, and that's the thing, I feel bad even talking about this stuff because I think she said in the past, like, I don't like this. I don't like everyone commenting on my private life. I don't like, I mean, when Sophie Turner, who's also in the news because of her whole Joe Jonas thing, who is she? She's on Game of Thrones.

And someone posted a video, like a video of them coming out of, it was like her, Taylor Swift, Heim, Haim, Haim. Hame. Hame. All three of them? Time. Yeah. Time. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Okay. And it made me sick. Like, they just all, it's just like, chich, chich, chich. Yeah, it sucks. They came to go to dinner. But so, I don't know. She seems to, like, have a, I'm sure she's in a very lonely place.

Yeah. And we all know. Did you see. And you can't even, like, go on a date with someone without jackasses like us being like, better get married to Travis Kelsey. See, look, I don't like it either. It's just that that's why I'm sick of it. I'm tired of it.

Like, can we all just fucking relax for a minute? Well, yeah. Taylor Swift, man, she shits every day, hopefully, just like the rest of us. She's actually pretty backed up. I do talk to her about that. And I think she'd kill for every day. No, but we did want to talk about, because they were doing the estimates around her tour and everything.

and just how crazy it is. So this is from time because it's not just this cultural impact. It's an economic impact. Yeah, there's a whole Taylor Swift economy. Analysts estimate that the era's tour will likely surpass the $1 billion mark

next March while she's touring internationally. This projection holds true. She will achieve the milestone of the biggest tour in music history surpassing Elton John's multi-year farewell tour which wrapped up earlier this summer holds the current record of $939 million. Jesus Christ.

And then it's going to continue for another seven months before concluding in November 2024 in Toronto. That is, unless rumors that Swift will release more dates come to fruition. But it's not just that. It's not just that she's getting it from the, from her concerts, right? The money goes far deeper than just net profits. The Ares Tour is projected to generate close to $5 billion in consumer spending in the United States alone.

Jesus. I know. If Taylor Swift were an economy, she'd be bigger than 50 countries. said Dan Fleetwood, president of question pro research and insights. On the opening night in Glendale, Arizona, the concert brought in more revenue for local businesses than the Super Bowl. Wow. To use that event as comparison, Swift has been performing the equivalent of two to three

Super Bowls every weekend for the past five months. Jesus Christ. Isn't that nuts? Dylan was saying before the show that she should start her own burger team. Yeah, I think what's next for Taylor Swift is burgers. Burgers or chocolate, right? Burgers' chocolate, Mr. Beef style. Burger's chocolate, Mr. Beast.

Burger's chocolate, Mr. Beast. It should be a burger chocolate chain combo. Comebo. It's not really what I think, though. What, what do you mean? Oh, you really don't think she should do that? Yeah. She should do like hot dogs. Milkshake.

Milkshake. Taylor Swift milkshake. Taylor Swift. That's these four on brand. Yeah, I think it Taylor Swift milkshake. Taylor Swift milkshake. This episode is just called Taylor Swift Milkshake. No, but so every $100 spent on.

live performance generates an estimated $300 in ancillary local spending on things like hotels, food, and transportation. And some cities are saying that, like, she single-handedly revived their, like, tourism economy. The Illinois governor credited the musician with helping them after her three nights in Chicago. She was even mentioned a report by the Fed crediting her with fueling the national tourism industry. Damn. I love ancillary spending. My favorite kind of spending.

Places are running out of beads. Beads? Oh, for the friendship bracelets? Yeah. They mine in Africa. Beads. No, I don't think that's. Conflict-free beads.

Yeah, conflict-free beads. Speaking of conflict, man, you know, you know, it's been a cruel summer for Bob Menendez. Bob Menendez. For those of you don't know, Bob Menendez is the... Here's the thing. He's a disgraced. He's a disgraced. Senator from New Jersey. You're getting that from the...

Your home state, man. What do you have to say for this man? You're getting that from the lame... You speak for him. I keep trying and you just keep... Well, why don't you say something? You're getting all this from the lame stream media is what the problem is, right? And they don't... They're just trying to take down another New Jersey King. You sound like Charlie Kirk from Toilet Paper USA.

Do you know what he said? Charlie Kirk, if you don't know who Charlie Kirk is, you're blessed. He's a right-wing, up-and-coming right-wing. He's like, Think of a junior Tucker Carlson, this guy. He says it's all a ruse to create the appearance of impartiality so that they can continue their jihad against Donald Trump. Everything is a conspiracy, even when the Democrats hold one of their own to account. This is more anti-New Jersey hate.

And this all proves that the anti-New Jersey sentiment in this country has gotten out of control. Even New Jersey's own governor said that he should step down, though. He's a rat. Who the governor is? huh yeah i mean i do think that this guy's fucking awesome no we got it so he like legitimately if you're going to do bribes and shit do it like this guy there's a lot there's a lot going on here uh i think honestly what we really need to talk about is how sometimes getting into a relationship with a woman can fuck up your whole shit oh man yeah he fell in the now now this is a love story be careful

Travis Kelsey. No, but so if you don't know... By the way, I'm going to insert as many Taylor Swift songs as song titles into this. I've already snuck in two and you didn't notice. I don't know that many. Yeah, I know. I know the shake-it-off one.

Okay, yeah. We've got Cruel Summer, love story. Did I play the video of him, like, singing for his wife? Yeah, well, so let's just say, so Bob Menendez, he's been like a career politician. He started... Sorry, there was a bug. Starting off in, like, city councils in New Jersey was eventually the mayor of Union City in New Jersey.

Did you know who he was, by the way, before all this? I've, like, heard the name a bunch, but I didn't know. And I remember when he was, we'll talk about, he was, he's had some corruption charges before. That's right. Which were dismissed. They were not dismissed. They were, it was a hung jury. That's right.

That's right. They all had huge cocks. Then he was a member of the state legislature. Then he was elected to the House of Representatives. And then he was appointed. to the Senate and then eventually won election to the Senate. And his wife, he met in around 2008, Nadine Menendez. They did not get married until like a decade later, but they met in an IHop.

That's romantic. Yeah. And, you know, they fell in love. They got married recently. And yeah, do you want to play the video of her? So this is a video of Senator Robert Menendez. So for the audio listener, I'm going to paint a picture. He's a white-looking guy.

He's wearing a blue polo. And his wife, who's very lovely, is sitting on a bench. And he is behind her with one leg up, and he's got her shoulders in his hands. And they're in front of the fucking Tajj. Mahal and he's singing to her. This was their engagement video on their personal YouTube channel. No less. Robert and Nadine. This is a man clearly lost

in the sauce. He loves her. He loves his wife. Get everybody in the picture. Just singing like shit. People are around them just taking photos People are around them just kind of trying to capture it Oh Babu Oh my God, so romantic He'd be like, you belong with me

That's what he's saying All right, so look This guy's no, what? What's this? Nothing. Oh, you did a trailer shift thing? I think. This guy's clearly no saint, all right?

And in 2015, he had other corruption charges, but they were like, they were like quaint corruption charges. You know what I mean? It was the ones you see. He was taking kickbacks from an eye doctor in New Jersey, some vacations. What did the eye doctor need? Who knows? You can't, you can't take. a friend to the Caribbean, get some kickbacks, maybe get a, maybe get your license, uh, renewed.

Your eye doctor license? Yeah. I guess. So, and that ended up, there was a hung jury. They couldn't get, um, they couldn't get a unanimous vote on the guilt of Robert Menendez. So it ended in a mistrial. But he said, hey, you know what? We're getting back to business, running for reelection, going back to the Senate. Then he ends up with Nadine. All right, and this is when it all goes to shit. Depending on your perspective, I think it's awesome. I think they made some good decisions. Because what else is holding high office for, if not for enriching yourself and helping out your buddy?

Yeah, helping out Nadine's buddy. She's got some, so that it centers around, it centers around Robert Menendez, Nadine Menendez, and then there are three businessmen and some officials from the Egyptian government. The businessmen are Will Hanna, Jose Uribe, and Fred Daibes, if I'm messing up those names. Oh, you're butchering them. And that's when you start getting... We should honestly read from the indictment. It is nuts, okay?

Well, so he's being accused of using his position to influence criminal investigations of two New Jersey businessmen, one of whom was a longtime fundraiser for Menendez. And then he also is accused of just doing some backroom dealings to ensure, that Egypt continues to get the a little over a billion dollars a year in aid that they have been promised since the 70s a deal with with Israel and the United States. And Egypt was recently concerned because they were starting to get less than, then it was starting to look like the money was slowing down a bit. And they have this, you know, they've got, they've got their guy. Yeah. And so this is from the indictment.

For at least several years prior to 2018, despite its strategically important relationship with the U.S. and the Middle East, Egypt had often faced resistance in obtaining foreign military financing and foreign military sales. For example, in or about August 2017, the State Department announced that it was withholding $195 million in foreign military financing until Egypt could demonstrate improvements on human rights and democracy and was canceling an additional $65.7 million in foreign military financing to Egypt. in or about early 2018, multiple U.S. senators had raised human rights or rule of law objections to foreign military financing to Egypt and no foreign military sales of offensive military equipment to Egypt requiring congressional notification had been concluded since on or about March 2016. Okay, so no more is coming in until Egypt gets their act together. Right. And then, here comes, Mr. Hano. Robert Menendez and Nadine Menendez. Okay. The defendants begin dating. Will Hannah, the defendant and Nadine Menendez, arranged a series of meetings and dinners with Menendez paid for by Hannah or his associates, at which Egyptian officials raised, among other things, requests related to foreign military sales and foreign military financing. In exchange for Menendez's and Nadine Menendez's promise that Menendez would, among other things, use his power and authority to facilitate such sales and financing to Egypt.

Hannah promised, among other things, to put Nadine Menendez on the payroll of his company in a low or no-show job. Awesome. So she gets nothing for being essentially a middleman. No, she doesn't get nothing. Well, she, are sorry. She gets money.

In exchange for nothing, virtually nothing. She gets a ton of money. Also, Menendez, Ms. Menendez, what's her name? Nadine.

Nadine, at one point, bragged that it would make this guy, Mr. Hanna, more powerful than the president of Egypt. Right. So that's where I was talking about, like, of people covering this are focusing on the uh all of the things they found in their home which we're

going to get to it's insane but not a lot of people are talking about what exactly they were doing yeah for this money and i think like uh who was the who was the supreme court uh justice thomas when it came out you know it was the same it was a similar thing a lot of gifts a lot of um a lot of bribes and but this is just crazy you're talking i mean and they have texts from these people where it's like, uh, so one of them was, he was giving them information that, like private information about state department. Yes. So Menendez and Nadine Menendez again met with Hannah on, you know, May 6th, 2018. Later that same day, Menendez sought from the state department non-public information regarding the number and nationality of persons serving at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt. And he just texted

it to his wife to send to this Mr. Hannah guy. So he sends to Nadine Menendez, just FYI, and they've blanked it out because they don't want to give away the number. blank amount of Americans, combination of diplomats, commercial service, USAID, other blank Egyptians, locally employed staff. This is what's at American Embassy. Insane text. Summary of ratio, we don't have it. They took it away. Are Egyptians working at embassy? So this Mr. Hanna guy, he's basically the, he is basically the middleman between the Egyptian officials and the Menendez couple. And what's his endgame in all this, you might ask? Well, so, yeah, that's, so he's...

That's my favorite part. He's, um... Because it's not what you would expect. He's the go between here. And so after those messages, he sent a, uh, he sent a message to the Egyptian official. The ban on small arms and munitions, and ammunition to Egypt has been lifted. This means sales can begin. That will include sniper rifles among other articles.

Yeah. And so they're doing all this, but money's not coming in. Right. And Nadine's pissed off. Nadine's really fucking pissed. And like, it's getting crazy. Menendez, a senator, is ghostwriting and editing letters on behalf of Egypt seeking to convince other U.S. senators to release a hold on $300 million in aid to Egypt. Okay? He sent his ghostwritten letter to Nadine Menendez from his personal email account, and then Nadine forwarded the ghost written letter to Hannah, facilitating Hannah's conveyance of the revised draft back to Egyptian officials.

Also, by the way, the sex. that he and Nadine must have been having was probably so fucking hot because here they are just doing their own secret kind of like international espionage type shit. They're getting a ton of money.

It's got to be very hot. Oh, man, yeah. I mean, with texts like this. And the way that he's singing to her in front of the Taj Mahal, they're just on top of the world. They feel like nobody's looking at fucking Egypt. This is, these are pennies. Leave a penny, take a penny jar. Nobody's paying attention to this. We're just skimming a little

off the top. But I love when they pull the text. So, you know, they're telling Egyptian officials it's all going to be good. And then Menendez, Texas wife, Nadine, tell Will, I'm going to sign off on the sale to Egypt today. 46,000 120 millimeter target practice rounds and 10,000 rounds, tank ammunition, $99 million. Note, these tank rounds are for tanks they have had for many years. They're using these in the Sinai for the counterterrorism campaign. insane. I want to, I want to tell people what, what Hannah's, Will Hannah's end goal is.

Egyptian official one replied with a thumbs up emoji. He did. Well, yeah. Okay. So all this is going on, Bob's making good on his promises, right? He's delivering fucking arms. He's getting the money back for all this shit, right? Yes. And what's Will Hannah doing? He starts, well, not until. Yeah. So he's, okay. In 2019, he started up. He started operating. operating his company, I.S. E.G. Halal. And within a year, the Egyptian government hands him, his little bribe, which is he wanted to be the sole entity authorized to certify that halal meat imported to Egypt from anywhere in the world had been prepared according to Islamic law. That's all he wanted. He just wanted to be, I want to be the only guy who can certify that this being is halal.

He needed some revenue coming in. Yeah. And he needed probably a way to launder his shit. between 2018 or 2019, no revenue coming into IS, eG halal. And then he is gifted with being the sole halal certifier. In Shalah, he will become the sole certifier of halal meat imported from Egypt. And he gets a little high on the horse when he gets his exclusive monopoly of being... That's right. There were some insiders at the Department of Agriculture who were concerned. and Menendez told him to fuck off.

Yeah, but before we get that, so after several months of non-payment following the initial March 2018 meeting described in paragraph 12 by above, which we were just reading, Nadine complained to multiple associates that Will had been failing to pay her and cause at least one of them to believe

that Robert Menendez, the defendant, would cease acting for Hannah's benefit and at his request, including with respect to Egypt, unless Hannah came through on his promises and paid her. Nadine Menendez also complained directly to Menendez about Hannah's as yet Unfulfilled Promises, writing, I've been so upset all morning.

I am so upset, Shira. We left for Egypt yesterday, supposedly, and now he thinks he's king of the world and both countries wrapped up around his pinky. I really hope they replace him. Just the little king of halal. They made a little prince, and now they've got to deal with it.

So, when they were searching Nadine and Robert's home, they found 550,000, in cash. They found most of it hidden in clothing in closets and a safe. Some of the cash was stuffed in envelopes that contain the fingerprints or DNA of one of these other businessmen. They also found $100,000 worth of gold bars.

They also found in his Google searches right after one of his trips to Egypt, how much is a kilo of gold worth? God, these people are fucking awesome. I love, I just love the stupidity. and the cocksheredness, if that's a phrase, of these type of people. Right. It's awesome. While this is all going on, Nadine starts her own company.

She starts strategic international business consultants. And she's bragging about how she, every time she gets one of these deals going, she's getting a little piece, all right? Hell yeah. When sending a relative information about the information of her company, she stated by text, every time I'm a middle person for a deal, I'm asking to get paid, and this is my consulting company. oh yeah baby man we love it but as you were saying so what happened with this uh halal company he ended up having an actual impact on on uh on meat and driving up the price of meat the

the department of agriculture had to step in and contact the government of egypt and saying you guys need to break up this monopoly uh you know this halal guy is causing a ruckus but now this allows him to uh you know to to give bob Menendez, all these payments they're looking for. My favorite part. So Menendez is now busted. He's got all this cash in his house, which is kind of the smoking gun for all of this, including and especially the text messages, the Google searches, all that shit.

Well, don't forget the DNA that's all over the cash. I mean, it's an open and shut case. No, no, the DNA, not from Menendez. Right. From the other businessman. But he goes in front of all the cameras in the news the other day. and he says this is this is his explanation for why he hid thousands of dollars in cash at his home here we go for 30 years i have withdrawn thousands of dollars in cash from my personal savings account which i have kept for emergencies

and because of the history of my family facing confiscation in cuba that checks out to me honestly but these were monies drawn from my personal savings account gotcha got some income that i have lost fully derived over those 30 years. So it's just because he's Cuban and he comes, even though he was born in well, was he born in Cuba? I think he was and then they came over here when he was

like a young lad. I think they came over before Castro. I don't remember. I don't know how old is. Cubans famously don't trust the government nor banks. Are you able to pull up, I love the pictures. He had them like stuffed in jackets on his

with his name on it. Let's see. Yeah, that is my favorite part also that they had. He just had his name on the jacket with the cash. I mean, it really doesn't get any funnier. And also, it wasn't just the military aid

and the halal monopoly. He was also they were also asking him to put pressure on on prosecutors who were coming after his associates. Of course. Yeah. And that was for, for, that was a big payday. They got a new Mercedes-Benz convertible. Didn't they get more than $60,000? Oh yeah. She was, she was about $23,000 behind on her mortgage. Oh my God.

All of a sudden, that disappears. I got to start looking into some corruption. I want to see who's, who's, uh, who's back I can scratch, you know? Someone here in the city council, L.A. City Council, I'm sure somebody needs some kind of back scratching. It's also embarrassing. After the purchase was complete, Nadine Menendez messaged Bob Menendez.

Congratulations, Mon Amour de la Vie. We are the proud owners of a 2019 Mercedes, hard emoji. Later that day after me. Was it an S class? At least. It's this one. Oh, that looks like shit. That's not even a good looking Mercedes.

Yeah, it's got like the, it's worth over 60 grand later that day later that day after you rub rub a rebe asked her are you happy nadine menendez responded i will never forget this and later texted a photo of the mercedes ben's convertible which is below wow man oh man well he's definitely going to need to shake it off after this i think because that's that's a lot of evidence i got that one against him what what you said that one No, but this is the thing, you know, they're coming at them so hard. Everyone thinks these are smoking guns, but I believe him. You know what I'm?

You're taking out some savings in case things go wrong. This guy's in. I believe him, too. This guy's in on government dealings. Oh, also, by the way, he was on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, taking bribes for... He stepped down from that. Oh, good, yeah.

Because he legally had to. Right. but he's not stepping down as senator but i think it's pretty easy to explain that uh DNA all over the money i mean if you had 400 grand in your house wouldn't you let your homies fucking handle it yeah i would come check out this come check out come check out this jacket stuffed with cash you'll reach inside that jacket hold that's a hundred gram baby isn't that crazy you're not going to show your buddies gold bars i would you're not going to let your buddies touch your gold bars and they're not going to believe how much it's worth so you're going to google it right in front of them how much is

key. And they're going to go, there's no way you have 120 grand in gold right here, and you go, oh my, let me Google it. Yeah, let me show you. And now you guys think you got them dead to rights. Yeah. A New Jersey king can't get away with anything. Man, well, speaking of the government,

Joe Biden just went today, today for us two days ago for you guys, he just went where no president has gone before. Not the moon. If you're thinking that, no. He is fearless. Has the- Truly. Has the president been on the moon?

Yeah. No, no president has ever been on the moon to, to my knowledge. But he went and picketed with the UAW workers in, I think it was Michigan. Yes. Yeah. And when asked if the workers should get the 40% raise that they're asking for, he said yes. And he also told them to stick with it to keep up the protest. Yeah, so this is a... Which I found very interesting. Joe Biden is a, he's a frustrating character, right? He's, he's been claiming for a while that he's the most pro-labor president that we've had in decades, which honestly might be true, but the bar is kind of on the floor.

Yeah, truly. You know, but his NLRB has been a welcome... What is the NLRB? The National Labor Relations Board. But then you have things like the... which we covered previously, like the railworker strike, which he squashed. Right. But now you have him standing with labor being the first president to walk the picket line. This has, you know, ruffled the feathers of a lot of people. It was, I think

Obama's fucking, Obama's auto industry, the former, the former head of President Obama's auto industry task force said for him to be going on a picket line is outrageous there's no president for it the tradition of the president is to stay neutral so this is pissing a lot of people off in a good way like fuck these fuck people i'm sure this guy went to go work for like whatever um but yeah so i don't i'm obviously all for it i think it's i think it's great that you have both him and trump who will are the presumptive nominees of the republican and democrat party are courting labor which has been not the case for a very long time. And yeah, also, I mean, he's still just,

did you watch any of him, like, giving speeches? I didn't need to. It's too painful. I can't watch him talk. He kept it together for, you know, he's got the bullhorn, stalking everyone, pumping him up. And then it's just like, I don't know how he does it.

He can turn himself on for, like, just a little bit. But then as soon as he done, he just kind of does the, he puts the bullhorn down and he's just, and his handlers have to be able to get it. Well, it's confusing. Where do you go from there? Where do you step? What's interesting to me is that next week, Trump is going to go speak to auto workers in Michigan.

And he's, I guess, going to be making the case that the push for electric vehicles and not corporate profits is what's hurting workers, which is really going to piss people off because their whole thing is, yeah, it's corporate profits. It's not electric vehicles that are to blame. It's the fucking companies. Right. I think Biden even in a tweet or at the thing reiterated Sean Fane, the president of the UAW's whole rally cry, which is record profits for a record. Record profits mean a record contract. And the reason that this is a big deal is because presidents have been, they usually

are prone to solidarity with the companies. And I didn't know this, but in 1894, Grover Cleveland sent 2,000 federal troops to Chicago to break a railroad strike. I mean, that's usually, I mean, remember, who was it we were talking about with the, oh, it was the UPS worker strike? Because the head of the teamsters, he was telling Joe Biden to basically stay away. Because usually that's what, you know, when Joe Biden, the Biden administration stepped in with the rail worker strike, they basically made the whole thing go away.

When at that point, the rail workers had all the power. and so when UPS was negotiating or when UPS workers were negotiating their new contract the head of the team series was like please do not step in they knew he was trouble we don't need your help

yeah they knew he was trouble him stepping in and endorsing the worker's struggle is huge and a big thing a big thing that the people against the striking workers try to say

is that it could hurt the economy but the evidence points to the contrary. There's this guy, what's his name? Harley Shaken, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, said that in the 20th century workers in general and auto workers in particular entered the middle class because of major strikes. These strikes, each in their own time, were portrayed as destroying the economic fabric of the country at the time. He cites the sit-down strike of 1936 and 37 against GM in Flint, the strike against Ford on the eve of World War II, and the post-World War II strike against GM that lasted 113 days. But rather than wreck the economy, the 1945 strike laid the foundation for one of the most successful growth periods in U.S. history that carried through until the early 1970s, he said. And his grandfather worked in a Ford factory.

He said that sacrifice paved the road for the middle class And then ultimately the strikes created Wealth that, you know, high-velocity purchasing power that he calls it Said, so when unions win gains, that money courses through the economy Which I certainly agree with. I mean, shit, they got more money? They're going to be spending it on shit. They're going to be buying boats and jet skis. And labor is, it's front and center right now.

There's been the... No, no, continue. It's majorly front and center. Yeah, well, we'd love to, maybe we'll have to do it next week, but the, the WGA has reached a preliminary agreement. It just has to be ratified by the like 11,000 members, but we haven't been, we haven't seen the details of the, of the new agreement yet. There was a little bit that came out. There was a, there was just, here, let me pull it up. But so far, from what I've been seeing people posting, they seem stoked about it. It seems like it's going to pass.

This is from Twitter. studio is expected to retain retain the right to train AI models based on riders' work under terms of a tentative labor agreement between the two sides. So that's interesting. But then I think that, so it sounds like they're going to be able to use

AI based on the writers work, but then the writers are going to make royalties on it. But, so just back to the UAW, I had no idea how big the UAW is. It does not include it. I told you last week.

You did? 400,000 people? Yeah, but that it doesn't just include auto workers. Oh, yeah, that's how all of, you can, you like apply to be a part of the, when you unionize your workplace. Blue cloths, blah,

maybe I do have a fucking brain tumor. Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Michigan. ZF in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, which supplies axils to Mercedes-Benz, company called Domestic Marine, thumb bear which makes polyurethane wheels West Rock packaging in Dayton, New Jersey and these have all been striking.

Detroit hotel workers Yeah Solidarity baby Solidarity baby Casino gaming dealers, lawyers, engineers beer makers, academic researchers they're all part of the thing because I mean after all as it says

they are the United automobile aerospace and agricultural implement workers of America. They have 383,000 active dues-paying members as of March. We're going to unionize this shop. They helped in December, all those professors at the University of California. When the University of California members struck, struck, struck, struck, striked, 48,000 workers on 10 campuses.

Yeah. Pretty wild stuff. well should we talk about should we shift gears so to speak yeah also just to note uh the wGA has reached a preliminary agreement sag has still not yeah but i'm sure it's not gonna be far behind it yeah they still got bad blood sag and um i know that one i am ptp yeah now we got mad oh man shit we forgot to do our ad break should we do it now yeah but i mean maybe we can insert it earlier in it. Yeah, let's just do it at the end.

We'll insert it. Okay. Well, the other big news is that Tinder has this new thing called Tinder Select. It's $499 fucking dollars a month, man. Worth it. Boy, I better be getting, I better be getting some kind of back rub or something at least. Or spit of that kind of buddy. That's what you want a backrope of that kind of buddy.

Yeah, that's all I want. I just want a backroop. It's funny because, so, all right, if you haven't heard, they announced this. It's called Tinder Select. $499 per month, invite-only subscription. Invite only for now, right? As part of the premium plan, subscribers can message people they've not matched with, while the most sought-after users will see their profiles.

Tinder says it only offers the plan to less than 1% of its users it considers extremely active. Okay, so basically the most extremely active people are fucking dorks who are swiping constantly. No, it's going to be... A.k.a. the guys that you don't want messaging. you guys or girls that you don't want messaging you and that's part of the thing is they will let you message people that you haven't matched with however full blown sex pests however can now message you no no no no that's not true that's not true because they you can turn it off if you are if you are so inclined you can say i don't want to be messaged by one of these tinder select dorks you can

turn it off you can say i don't want to be messaged by someone that i haven't uh exclusively matched with Oh, that makes, I wouldn't pay for it then. Yeah, but I think it's not default. If I don't get to message some woman who clearly does not want to talk to me, then I'm not paying $500. Would you hide your badge? See, now that's where it gets tricky. Would you want to have your, would you want people to know I'm horny enough to pay $500 a month for this?

But the flip side of that is I can afford $500 a month to pay for this. No. So you wouldn't want people. That's what's funny. So they mentioned Twitter when they bring that up. The fact that you're a lot... Yeah, so if you go Tinder Select, you'll get a little badge saying you're in Tinder Select,

but you can opt to hide it. The D for dipshit. Is it a D? No. But I do find it very... So they, in a nod to Twitter, because Twitter has now done this where they've introduced the feature

where you can get rid of your blue badge, which is just such a funny... Because it's now a badge of shame, and they acknowledge that, yeah. it's insane that they've done that to themselves. What's more insane? I once saw it after thing. Now they're like,

oh, God, do you want to turn? So people stop doing the fucking meme at you? This motherfucker paid for Twitter? Yeah, yeah. But no, you can't have that on. You can't be messaging girls with that. No, you're right. You're right.

Well, I'm wifed up right now, so I wouldn't participate in this. Even if I was on, I didn't have Tinder anyway. It's a garbage fire. It's just ads and bots and it didn't feel real. Tinder is the worst one. Tender's terrible.

But yeah, so they're trying to cash in on this, these people who are getting more. They're trying to cash in on unrelentingly horny people. And people pay. This article from The Verge cites how Tender's parent company Match Group recently purchased The League, which was an app geared toward ambitious career-oriented singles, which cost up to $1,000 a week. Yeah, I think... A week.

I think... But that's because you had a human matchmaker on the other side, probably going, going, hey. Not probably, they did. They did, they did, yeah, yeah. But, yeah, I think the league is a nod to the Ivy League. I think it was, I think at first you had to go to one of the Ivy's to get in, and now it's just a, you don't like that? No, because I didn't go to no Ivy school.

And then I think they opened it up to... Normies. Well, not, I mean, because are Normie's going to pay $1,000 a week to find love? No. I would like to see what kind of people are on that. They had... Hinge had me buying them roses, I tell you. I bought them roses. I'd run out and be like, ha, because that's how they get you now.

Because buying things on a phone doesn't feel real. It doesn't feel like real money. You double-tapped the thing, boom, it's paid for, it doesn't feel like real money. It's fun bucks. It's all fun bucks. I don't buy roses. Good for you. Why don't you brag about it?

Did you enter this relationship because of a rose? I don't remember. I would love to know. I can't remember. I might have. I might have. Yeah. Horniness can be good.

It has, it's got its perks. Which is what? That you find someone that you like and that you match with well. You think that's horniness? Well, if horniness leads one to purchase digital fucking. roses absolutely horniness does oh gosh this is all very bleak though the just the commodification of uh of dating where it's it's now the problem is not that you don't have have access to enough people yeah well you got to be fearless on the free version you have you have plenty of

the problem is you spend that $500 a month on no $499 spend that $499 on roses. Do you know how many roses you could get on Hinge with $499? That's so much. God damn. Oh, man. Yeah. It, it, you know what other bots are out of control is those fucking text message bots, man. Why? Well, they're not even bots. I think it's probably a person on the other end in, in Sub-Saharan Africa or something. Oh, are you getting a lot of... I get one of those text messages like every day. Hello? Is this Becky? no oh well this is john i'm i'm i'm and they just they it's weird they they learn do you know what i'm talking about do you ever get these wow what the fuck you don't get these she got a bad message really it's fine a bad message what do you mean no no that's fine oh boy folks he's turning red that must have been a terrible message fuck you emil you fucker you motherfucker i was i was looking for a funny message and i was like oh gosh Oh, geez, man. Well, I'm sorry to hear that.

It's totally fine. I'm happy for you or sorry that happened. Well, I guess we should probably wrap it up, man. We got a hell of a bonus episode coming to you. We're going to be talking about all sorts of stuff. You're just going to have to go in there and find out. And again, we got these new tiers. Chalk full of shit.

Patreon.com slash pay pigs pod. We added, we're going to be doing a monthly Q&A on one of the bonus episodes where you can call in and we'll do a Q&A segment, right? That's right. We got monthly, your book club, my music playlists. Yeah. I'm going to do a playlist from here from time to time. Yeah.

Or from that text message. It's called Emil's Bad Text Message playlist. Geez, he's crying, you guys. I don't know what to do here. Help me out. So join us in the bonus. Otherwise, we'll see you next week.