The Ben and Emil Show - PP 30: Terrible, awful news

Episode Date: January 11, 2024

The bitcoin ETFs were finally approved. Some terrible news from the land of Kim Kardashian. And Boeing continues to be an absolute shit show of a company. Plus, we dissect TikTok's big push into the e-commerce space and what that could mean for the app, and Amazon. Oh, and Amazon is gonna milk your stupid ass for more money. Pathetic. 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

Oh, man, gang, we got to start off with some breaking news. It's terrible. Terrible, terrible news. Well, actually, first, there's even more urgent news than the terrible, terrible news, which is that you probably didn't see this. But moments ago, just prior to recording this, the Securities and Exchange Commission Twitter account was hacked. I didn't see it.

It was hacked. And they said that the Bitcoin ETF was approved. And it caused quite the stir. Because they're not supposed to decide until tomorrow, right? Yes. And then shortly thereafter, Gary Gensler came out and he said the SEC Twitter account was hacked. That is not true. The Bitcoin ETF was not approved.

And so now people are literally clamoring going, but maybe Gary's account was hacked. Nobody knows. And it just goes back to how these fucking nerds who are capable of hacking these accounts don't do anything actually substantial or meaningful with them. They could use it for much more... Hacking my student loan account, making it zero. I was going to say, placing some options trades and then capitalizing on it during market hours.

Like, you're an absolute fucking moron. When they hacked... I was going to say Gene Hackman. When they hacked Bill Gates' account... You're just asking for it. He's going to die of this. year. Bill Gates's

Twitter account, Elon Musk's Twitter account, all they did was just promote their stupid shitty little alt coins and they could have

made millions of dollars by just like buying options and then tweeting, I'm stepping down from Twitter or Tesla. That is the way to go.

But no, the real sad news. We don't advocate for that here at Pay Pigs, but what? Hacking the account and then

making a bunch of money. But if you are capable of hacking such accounts, reach out to me first. Privately. And I'll just, I'll give you some points. Yeah, on what you should do. And whoever keeps trying to hack my Venmo, keep going, keep trying.

You'll get there eventually. Eventually those... How do you know they're trying to hack it? Because every day, I will get a rapid succession of phone calls from like a 1-800 number, and it goes, this is Venmo. We, we, someone is trying to get into your account. please go like check the code basically they're trying to fool me into giving them the code to log in like the two-factor authentication code under the guise of give us this code to prove

that it's really you just give it to them already yeah I know I really should I should link it to just an account that has a dollar in it and just let them in yeah let them in just like all right take the dollar you got it you win enjoy the dollar But no, the real sad news. Emil, this one, I don't know if I'm going to come back from this one. I don't know if I will either, because everyone's thick queen. Is that how we're describing her?

I don't know. America's thick queen. America's thick queen herself. Has shut down her Hollywood mobile game. Kim Kardashian. Kim Kardashian's, uh, Kim Kardashian colon, Hollywood. is the name of the game. Kim Kardashian Hollywood.

Are you guys playing Kim Kardashian Hollywood? All the time. I'm making, I'm making so many in-app purchases on that shit. I didn't even realize that it had been around this long. It's been around for 10 years. Do you know what you do on the game? Well, let me read the article from the BBC.

You live out your A-list dreams by boosting your fame and climbing the social ladder. Yeah. And the game also included appearances from the, 43-year-old. That's what they put in there. The game also included, yeah, America's thick queen, 43-year-old. And family members, Chloe Kardashian and Chris Jenner, Kim confirmed the closer, saying she would be forever, she would forever be inspired by the game's community. No, she's not. I love that. She's not going to be inspired. She's not inspired. She didn't know this game was still running. Yeah, she's inspired in so much as she looks at her bank account and goes, damn, that

community really fucking padded my shit. Yeah. And yeah, they, uh, it was a free to play game, but players could purchase in-game currency K-stars to make a mark through events, modeling, and dating. My favorite sentence is the keeping up with the Kardashians are partnered with mobile gaming developer glue to release Hollywood to release. Oh yeah, the game, yeah. And then, uh, our favorite thick queen said, I'm so grateful from the bottom of my heart to everyone who has loved and played Kim Kardashian-colon Hollywood

in the past 10 years. There's no way they even ran this by her. No, not at all. She said making the game had meant so much to her, but it was time to focus that energy into other passions. The game has been removed from Apple and Android, which fucking sucks because I really wanted to try playing it.

But existing players can still use its features until the 8th of April. So reach out if you have this downloaded on your phone because we'd like to give it a whirl. You know how much it earned over the 10 years? Hit me. $160 million. Damn.

I know. I don't know how much of that went to her. A lot of that's going to glue. Probably. It was named one of the 100 best games of the decade by Polygon, which is fucking insane. It described it as a model for mobile games unapologetically tailored toward young women, troubled young women. I'm throwing in that caveat, troubled young women. No, no.

I mean, it's, uh, the only thing I can say about it is it was definitely a game. It was definitely a game. Yeah. And I'm glad it inspired Kim Kardashian. Without this, we might not have skims. Without this, we might not have anti-Semitic Kanye. Without this, we might not have the nipple bra. Oh, yeah.

Did you, did you see the, the fake, the doctored, clip of her saying that my fans are so stupid they'll buy these nipple bras even though I make them for nothing they cost nothing to make it was a competitor uh an upstart little similar bra company see now that I like that's the kind of business tactic I like I do kind of like that so but we'll save that for later later on in the episode because we're going to dive a little deeper into the TikTok shop bullshit that's like when the lily lemon guy was like he called all their customers fat or something remember that whoa vaguely yeah who can be sure what he called them. Nobody knows for sure, but I just don't understand why they would

shut down the app. It seems like it's just a moneymaking machine. Let it run. Let it run, man. I bet glue was like, look, we want more money. We're the real brains behind. Kim Kardashian Hollywood. No, Kim Kardashian-Colon Hollywood. Oh, boy. Well, so the other big news this last week has been Boeing. Boing? If it ain't Boeing, if it is Boeing, I'm not going. did you get uh oh nice yeah because the the phrase used to be if it ain't boeing i ain't going did you get a little uh spidey sense when the when the door ripped off yes did you really yeah i had a little you said a plane's malfunctioned i have to i have to go where exactly not sure i just have to get on twitter and check no i got i got a i got a text you had to update your spreadsheet

my spreadsheet of accidents of airline incidents yes i put it under yellow for warning because it could have been a lot worse. Definitely. It could have been so much worse. The worst that happened is a little boy got his shirt sucked off and he sucked out of the airplane and he lost his phone. So that poor little kid had to be just like sad. I'm imagining he had kind of a sad little body and was just like, oh, well, because

every little boy is self-conscious. Oh, yeah. I would hate it. So self-conscious. My little boy nipples. Yeah. And they were probably rock hard. And all the adults are fine.

No, all the adults are fine. And they're all looking at you with like pity and shame. and your little fucking rock-hard nipples are just, you got to get trotted back through the airport. They probably gave him a blanket. They probably gave him a blanket. Yeah. But he didn't have a phone.

No, he didn't have a phone to document it. But so on January 5th, an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9, there was a fresh airplane. Oh, dude, like 150 flights, maybe less, less than 150 flights on this. It was delivered in October.

It was at, so imagine this. You're at 16,000 feet. You just turned on the airplane Wi-Fi. you're opening up Kim Kardashian-Col in Hollywood you're buying some K-coins you're getting ready to do some modeling

and you're climbing the social ladder and then all of a sudden your shirt flies off your phone gets sucked out of the airplane that's the worst part you got to get a new phone you're not going to be able

download they found his phone oh great his phone was found it was perfectly it wasn't even cracked it was still in airplane mode huge at least

at least his stats are still there for Kim Kardashian-Hulloden are still there. He's not like those sad fucks who, who accidentally got rid of Flippy Bird when it ended. Floppy bird. Fuck. Just a different vowel.

Three, I went to cycle through two vowels before I got. Yeah, so they were at 16,000 feet and then all of a sudden the door flies out. 171 of these Max Nines got grounded worldwide within 24 hours, including the whole fleet of Max Nines, Alaska's whole fleet of Max Nines in the U.S. Yeah, Boeing Airlines, or Boeing Airlines, fuck, Boeing dropped like 8% on Monday. And they, uh, Spirit Aerosystems, which is the company that installed the panel dropped like 16%. So, you know, 8% doesn't seem that bad for like.

Yeah. And the dip got bought. I'm seeing articles being like, how to tell if you're flying on a Boeing and like so you can fucking be like, no, I'm not getting on that shit. Well, they canceled all. They're still in the process of canceling all the flights that have the max nine. Yeah, and they're inspecting them all. Yeah.

And they're finding loose hardware, all kinds of... Right. So the deal is when customers, aka the airlines, order these airplanes from Boeing, they order them with different configurations, different seating configurations. And in this particular one, both Alaska and United opted for this particular seating arrangement where that would otherwise be a door, they want to cram in more seats. so your your stupid ass can fit in the most most pathetic little basic basic economy so that they can make a little bit more money. Yeah, you're sitting on the floor basically.

You're walking out. There's nowhere to put your fucking bag. Oh, yeah. No. They're going to just dangle it from the airplane because there's no more room. But so what they do is they put a plug, what they call a plug where the door would be. And it's indistinguishable from the inside, but from the outside you can see the, outline of a door and basically they they just there were some quality control issues and the door

just popped right to hell off and that's pretty much it so they're looking they're they're looking at all of them and they're they're now even being questioned why they exist in the first place like hey why do you have the fake door yeah like hey Boeing i know it's it's a it puts extra constraints on your manufacturing capabilities, but why even have this thing that could totally just pop off mid-flight at all? I think they're using it, like you said, to configure the interior. So it's easier to get in from, it's easier to, like, set up the interior of the plane from that, and then you just plug it right up.

Ah, yeah. Okay. Well, either way, they still don't know who's at fault. It could be spirit. It could be Boeing. but ultimately the final airworthiness tests fall on the shoulders of bowling. Is that the same spirit? Because they're calling it Spirit Aerosystems.

It is not Spirit Airlines. Okay, great. Spirit airlines is totally different. Just want to clarify that. Yeah. Spirit gets a lot of guff. Yeah. But they're not behind this one.

The big yellow bust in the sky. A spirit's so pathetic. You'd never catch me dead on one of those flights. Put me on Southwest. It's the same price. Also, fucking Google flights and all these companies need to update because they, you know, when you go on Google flights and you can look at the calendar mode and it'll say like, oh, it's January 17th, you'd fly for $122.

But they Airbnb, you. Well, it's always fucking spirit. And then you go, well, okay, you click it. And then you're like, if I want to take a regular airline, it's going to be at least double the price. Yeah. But you can fly at 5 a.m. on Spirit Airlines and not, and pay extra to, like, check your bag and go to the bathroom and all that shit. And you have a 37-hour layover.

Yeah. You got a 30s to playover. Hope you like Miami. Yeah. Oh, Jesus. So apparently Spirit Aerosystems has, they've been battling quality issues, high worker turnover, labor issues, and financial stress. Arguably like the four worst things to befall a company, especially one that's putting

airplanes together. Yeah, never a good mix. Things you don't want. So, yeah, they found the plug. The actual plug fell out of the sky. they found it and thank God nobody was hurt because that could have gone poorly uh and the CEO Boeing this guy Dave Calhoun mega pissed off I mean this guy's fucking he's agitated because he was supposed to he was supposed to go on a senior leadership retreat with all of his top executive

homies yeah pooh they were all going to get fucked up and talk about how much they love Boeing a lot of people were going to get fired people are going to get too drunk oh yeah like how my dad remember did I tell you this story about my dad getting fired from mooning the entire company from the top of a ship. Yeah, that was a good time. Pretty sick. Yeah. So, no, in lieu of that, they today are addressing the whole company in an all-hands meeting from the 737 factory. You better get every hand on this. Oh, dude, yeah. It's, it's, well, because then yesterday, for us, two days ago, three days ago for you guys, it came out that United, the other airline with the same configuration,

they found loose bolts and other parts that were fucked up on their max nine plug doors on at least five airplanes. Maybe no more plug doors. Yeah, maybe no more plug doors. The only plugs we want are the kind of going to your butt. Butt plugs. Yeah, butt plugs. Yeah, they had these hinge brackets apparently that had loose bolts with spinning the washers

could spin. Oh, that's good. Who the fuck? Like, truly, how does that happen? if you're if you're dave calhoun and you're righteously pissed off where do you even start yo i would i think i would start with yo whose job was it to tighten those bolts well i mean where they're starting is blame like playing a little bit of the blame game they're going it says that you know Boeing says liability for this latest incident lies in part with someone

else third party supplier spirit aerosystem which Boeing says installs the fuselage doors during the aircraft's construction process last year Boeing also said it had found Spirit had improperly installed the vertical stabilizer on some max aircraft, the blame game. It may be good for PR, but it won't help any of us unsee or stop thinking about that giant hole in the fuselage. Yeah, I mean, this is, uh, this is as bad as it gets for them because they were just trying to start rehabilitating their image, not only in the eyes of the public, but in the eyes of their customers. Right. I mean, they, they have dozens and dozens of pending orders that are backlogged that they got to build.

Oh, also, it's important to know. Someone from Spirit Airlines, or Aerosystems. Spirit Aerosystems has been trying to blow the whistle on, the lever was reporting, they said, less than a month before the catastrophic aircraft failure prompted the grounding of more than 150 of Boeing's commercial aircraft. Documents were filed in federal court, alleging that former employees at the company's subcontractor repeatedly warned corporate officials about safety problems and were told to falsify records. One of the employees at Spirit Aerosystems, which reportedly manufactured the door

that blew out of an Alaska airline flight over Portland, Oregon, allegedly told company officials about an excessive amount of defects according to the federal complaint and corresponding internal corporate documents reviewed by the lever. According to court documents,

the employee told a colleague he believed it was just a matter of time until a major defect escaped to a customer. So that guy's at home just going... I fucking told you. I said it. I fucking said it, man. You got these dang plug doors.

Yeah, man. Jesus Christ. He was trying to blow the whistle, but I guess he was kind of blowing it like Rose at the end of Titanic. You remember where she's sitting on the board and she's just trying to blow on the whistle. And then she finally gets it going, and the guy's like, there's a girl over there, spin out there. They go get her. And Boeing's dead in the water. Yeah, Boeing is Leonardo DiCaprio.

He's already dead. He's floated to the bottom of the Atlantic. Man, you don't realize just how deep in the ocean the Titanic really is. Yeah, I do because I've watched that cartoon so many times where it shows you how deep things are. It's wild. It's like six minutes and you're just like, it's still going. Yeah, it's still going. And then you try to explain to someone how deep the ocean is, and they go, I don't even know what you're talking about.

Well, and just how dark it is. Have you ever seen those videos where divers will take like a candy wrapper and descend just like 30 feet and show how it fades. No, no, the color. The color fades because the light doesn't reaches. So they'll have like a pack of skittles and the wrappers, you know, it's trademark red and then the deep you go just gets gray and it just ends up. You can still see it says skittles, but it's just gray. Weird. Yeah. Now that's something I'd enjoy watching. Yeah, now that's a cool video. But so as we all, as you may not remember, Boeing has been plagued by, uh, a lot of quality control issues that stems from the whole corporate culture that has

really taken over the company over the last several, a couple decades, I guess. Because it used to be run by engineers and now it's run by bean counters. It all blew up in their face in 2018 and 2019, but it's kind of like a decades-long story about... cutting corners and trying to squeeze margins and eke out every last bit of profit all in the name of a higher share price. And it costs, it costs, like,

shareholder value. Just fucking, just do, look at, look at Costco. Costco is, is, is a generously run company in that they treat their employees well, they don't cut corners, they do things right, stocks at all-time highs. And Wall Street kind of rewards them also just for being such a good,

they're just known, they have such a good brand recognition, good rapport with their customers, with their own employees. Like, Boeing, you had that, baby. What happened? Yeah, Boeing was that for a long time. They were like the...

If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going. Yeah, and, you know, during wartime, able to produce an insane amount of planes for their country. And then, but also, when you talk about their employees, it was like a great middle-class career path for so many people. Oh, yeah.

And then, yeah, I don't know. It all kind of caught up to them with the Airbus thing. But, you know, they were king shit for so long. King shit of fuck mountain, as I like to say. Truly king shit of fuck mountain in the sense that when Airbus came along, Airbus is like a bunch of different European countries, mainly France and Germany that I think it was a merger between different aeronauts. airplane companies, but

they started trying to gain some market share. Boeing was like, these French frogs, I don't give a shit what they're up to. What a dumb name, Airbus? Airbus?

Oh, it's a bus. You say busing the sky. Right. I mean, they were truly so hubristic. They had the... Was that good? No, it's good.

You think people are going to like that? I think people love it. The chief executive of commercial flights at that time, they have recordings of a meeting they were in, and he was like, don't worry about it they're gonna they're gonna um they're gonna overextend themselves they're gonna spend too much money on this plane that nobody wants right the a 380 yeah or no the a

320 ah and they were like we're fine we're dominating fuck them and then they got this american guy as the chief sales john leahy and this dude is relentless he's like we're sell busted yeah they're like we're selling fucking airplanes okay this guy would go to They have this story. He wanted to close a deal so bad. The head of the airline was sick. He's like, look, we got to wait on this. Tell me he brought him soup.

He goes to the guy's house and makes him sign it while the guy's in his bathrobe. Damn. Makes him sign the deal. I mean, you bring some soup too while you're at it. Yeah. And then so this guy's just closing deals. JetBlue and other low-cost carriers are like, fuck yeah, we'll take a bunch of Airbus A320s.

Yeah. And then it was all over when, I think it was American Airlines. they said they were they were on the fence about whether or not they were going to go with airbus or Boeing and the guy finally called Boeing or yeah American finally called Boeing and said congratulations we're buying some Boeing airplanes but we're also buying some air buses baby and then I wonder what the deal was did they give them just a sweet-ass deal or something well that was Boeing knew they were cooked because people started being like well shit These Airbus A320s are ready to go.

They're fuel efficient. These are good planes. They knew their next passenger airplane was going to be, was going to take about a decade to complete. And that's when they cut the corners. Yeah, people were like, well, you know, airlines were going, show us something. We want to put these orders in.

Yeah. And they said, look, we can get it done in six years. Instead of doing a whole reboot and entire new passenger airplane, what we're going to do. is we're going to revamp the 737. It's going to be 737 max. It's going to be sick. And they're like, fine, six years.

We'll do some orders on this thing. But yes, that's when it all. So everything was go, go, go, go. Get it done. There's no time for, you know. Quality control. Quality control. Not only that.

Also, after decades of deregulation and, and, uh, cutting resources from the FAA. A lot of the quality control is now left to the manufacturing. They're going to do that for sure, dude. Right. And so you had them doing things where they knew if they updated certain things, it was going to lead to, they were going to have to pay for all the pilot training and stuff like that. And so they're like, fuck that. They ended up doing all these weird things to the plane.

I'm sure it felt good at the time where they were like, damn, check this out. If we do this, this and this, it's going to cut time and cost so much. and then we're all going to get fat-ass bonuses. But then, yeah, those couple planes plopped out of the sky. And they went, oh, no. I think it probably felt very good for some higher-ups who went to business school and are like, we're fucking geniuses. We are cutting costs.

We're saving time. We're fucking taking orders for these 737 maxis. Yeah. But they have reports from all these engineers and people working on the planes going, this is fucking madness. This isn't how you build an airplane. Yeah. Yeah.

or at least build them safely because at the end of the day look at what it's cost them yeah you got some short-term gains in the stock price but now long-term your reputation which was once sterling is now tainted forever like it fucking it's garbage yeah but so far i don't trust them like though i gave them a pass after the the couple crashes like okay they've learned from their mistakes they're going to, but this just feels like, okay, I don't trust that they're going to get back to, um, they're never going to be what they want for. I mean, just within the corporate culture itself is probably, I'm sure that, um, what do you, not his steam is low, but morale is incredibly low. Yeah. And the crashes, Ben is talking about. There was two in, uh,

2018 and 2019. Um, one in Indonesia, one Ethiopian airlines, uh, crashed right after taking off. And I mean, you probably have a better understanding of, because at first time coming out and talking about how it was pilot error. No, it was software. And it was a bit of a weird, because it was Indonesia and, you know, Ethiopian airlines, there was a bit of like, well, they don't know what they're doing. They tried to pin it on the pilots. And it was not, it was, it was, well, after the first one, especially, they tried to pin it on on the pilot. But then after the second one, it was obvious that they are not at issue here. It was their faulty software that overrode, you know, pilot control. And these were bad crap. I mean, the first one, 189 people died. The second one,

157 people died. My personal gripe with the 737 max is the configuration of the bathrooms. Because don't fucking give me that. Just let me just let me just thought. No, I wanted you to tell them about the fucking software. Oh, well, I mean, basically when you, when you take off, if they were taking off at what the computer perceived to be too steep an angle, the computer thought, oh shit, we're about to stall and plummet out of the sky. So let's get us out of the stall by pointing the nose down. And when it started to do that, the pilot would start to pull back on the stick to fight that and keep the nose up, which made the software even more freaked out and going, whoa, we're going to stall. Let's put the nose down. And they put the nose down to the

point where it was it was they didn't have enough altitude to come out of uh come out of it and they just would plummet into the fucking ocean or the ground yeah yeah but anyway the bathroom so you know normally you go into the back of an airplane how is it there's a bathroom on the left and a bathroom on the right right and then the galley is back there where the where the flight attendants hang out which you get to make jokes while you're waiting for the bathroom yeah you make jokes you crack them with them you you you ask for a little bit of water you ask for a treat whatever and when someone's taking a while you go oh geez i hope i don't get this guy's probably pooping in there huh and the new ones have the bathrooms in the galley itself so like imagine attendants can listen to you

picture picture you go all the way to the back of the airplane and you're facing the back and they've got the little carts and they've got the little uh coffee stuff right there where those carts should be is where the bathroom is. So you're waiting what was once the sacred place just for the flight attendants to congregate and do whatever they must. Now

you're sitting there like a fucking I don't know. You feel like a cow, a cow being hurted. You're just waiting there pathetically with your arms crossed. Just like, yeah, I have to pee. I'm pathetic. I know, I have to pee. It feels pathetic. I like it. I like

being back there. No, I don't like it because it feels stress you can tell that the flight attendants do not enjoy it because you're just standing there congregating awkwardly like a dipshit waiting for your turn to use the bathroom before it would be like they at least had the curtain and they at least had some sort of privacy they don't have any privacy give the flight attendants their fucking privacy but they had to do it to squeeze in more seats they could fit in like uh uh 12 more seats probably it's bullshit i hate it man fucking god damn it all right well well and then so i mean should we go into the bitcoin thing

talk about that or what and then on the amazon sorry did you what else was there uh i guess that's it we're still waiting to hear who's to blame who's ultimately who do you predict is to blame boeing boeing yeah because even if it's uh spirit even if it's spirit aerosystems installing that door, that door is going to have to be like, it's going to be removed by Boeing and and placed back in.

It's not, it's not going to end with spirit aero systems. They got to do those, they do those final, they got to be more meticulous in their final checks. I want every last fucking rivet checked. And Boeing doesn't have a good track record of being like, oh,

it's going to cost us a little more. That's okay. We'd rather prioritize safety. I mean, and so that software issue we're talking about is, like, pilots had no idea about that software because they did not want to pay for pilot training on that. That's right. If I'm Airbus or I'm an airline that doesn't have any of these planes, I'm going, huh, ha, ha, ha. I am fucking, I am putting out, I'm doing a marketing campaign being like, oh, you're flying on the 737 Max 9? good luck with those bathrooms.

I have to say, as someone who flies somewhat frequently, it's terrifying. Especially reading the account where they were like, luckily everyone's seatbelts were on because it was right after takeoff. I mean, how many fucking times... That's why you should... I'm going to put my seatbelt. I'm going to have my seatbelt on. You should have your seatbelt on at all times regardless because you could hit some rough air.

You clear air turbulence is a thing. And then you bonk your head. I know. Bonk your not. But I was like, I'm rather. Have your shirt ripped off than, can you imagine if both your shirt and your pants get ripped off? You just had your underwear and your shoes?

But I know everyone's okay, but. Yeah. Terrifying. Oh, yeah. If it happened at like 30,000 feet, for sure, people would have died because it would have been, it would have been way more of a pressure differential. And more of the plane probably would have gotten not only sucked out, but probably more of the future.

I would guess more shit could just, yeah, and more shit getting sucked out means more risk of it hitting the plane, hitting the tail fin or the stabilizer. I'm getting on a plane next week. Oh, hell yeah, dude, what kind? I don't know, should I like. What airline? I don't know what airline. Dude, I just booked the cheapest one.

You know that. Spirit. Delta. Delta, you're fine. And then on the way back, American. You're fine. Great. Yeah, no max nine's there.

Or at least the ones with that configuration. Then I'm on a plane the next week, too. What airline? Aeromexico. Oh, you're fine. They have some maxes. I know they do. Yeah, but they don't have any in this configuration that you got to worry about.

Oh, great. And like I've said, about every, every, the thing about airline incidences is. Incidences? Yeah, yeah, no, that's right. Sounds weird, but it's right. Fuck. Incidents. The thing about them.

Oh, no, incidents. Not incidents. Yeah, what's, fuck. Fuck. God damn it. well the thing about them is they learn from each and every one so they've learned from this one that okay that's an issue and it makes them go over everything with a fine tooth comb I'm sure Elon Musk thinks it's because some fucking black people were hired or something instead of a white guy

you think Elon Musk thinks that I'll probably he's like this is probably due to this is what happens when airlines go woke yeah this is what happens when airlines go woke did you see the video he just posted today it's like a quick little um no I was I saw him He was purging Twitter of some left-wing miscreants. Oh, Jesus. He posted a quick little animation of a Puma just like running through the forest and it's got purple streaks all over it. And then the camera turns to it and it slashes at the camera and then it shows X the logo.

It's just the most, it's the most 50-year-old man shit that you can possibly imagine. Yeah, it's, oh, that'd be a good. reply like dude this is the most low tea shit hell dog that's the new that's the new thing the new insult this is low tea is like i'm really surprised that gen alpha and gen z haven't tossed that one around at older people did you know we have to start thinking about taking tea and stuff not me'd man oh great i drink coffee do now i'm pissed yeah no but my tea is pretty high i checked Oh. But that was like a year and a half ago now.

I should check mine. Yeah. Well, just jerk off, see how much comes out. A lot. Okay, you're fine. Gross, man. Is that what it's about? No.

Oh. I don't think that how much nut comes out is, is, I don't know. The guy in the, in the Bass Pro Shop, tank, man. Dude, I watch it so many times. I'm like, where is his cock? It's just small, dude. Some guys got it like that.

But it's not. It's like up inside of him. Yeah, and it hurts me to think about because you've been so cold where it like actually hurts, right? I've been so cold where my penis actually hurts because it's just so tightened.

But I don't think he's cold. He's got to be cold. I think he's just got a weird penis. Well, it's like it's a, it's the fatal combination of small dick Small dickedness. Small dickedness and cold. Speaking of small dicks,

Black Rock, Arc, Fidelity, Inveska. I'm just going on with Bitcoin. So all these different, all these different entities have filed their amended applications with the Securities and Exchange Commission for their Bitcoin. and I think it's I think it's just another ploy to get to collect fucking fees it's just of course I mean they're going to be the big winners and all of this yeah big time I also feel ill-equipped to even talk about this I mean I've been uh been a hater for so long look at hate hate hate look at me yeah I'm a no coin pussy I get no bitches yeah well the

I drive a base model Subaru cross track. It's okay, dude. You come a lot, so. When I come, no, it's psycho. So the SEC's voting on this shit by January 10th. They're expected to respond. People are unsure because Gary Gensler, he's the head of the SEC. Yeah.

They're unsure if they're going to allow it because there's existing ongoing concerns about investor protection and the potential for market manipulation. Oh, weird. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Who would have thought that they're worried about market manipulation with cryptocurrency? And part of the previous rejection was that they are requiring surveillance of a market of significant size.

I don't fully understand what that means. But so these new proposals could still be rejected if the surveillance agreements aren't sufficient. I believe it means that these entities all have to have surveillance mechanisms in place to ensure that everything is working as it should and functioning properly and fairly. But interestingly, I didn't know that this is part of the process, but they can receive commentary from concerned parties. And one of them is the Better Markets nonprofit who said just on January 5th in a letter

that approving the ETFs would be, quote, a grave, if not historic mistake that would harm investors. Yeah. Man. that's from uh that's no coin pussy talk dennis keller the guy who uh who heads the better markets he said the SEC must not facilitate the financial carnage that will follow if the crypto industry is allowed to repackage out of a veneer of legitimacy to and widely disseminate a financial product that is little more than a socially worthless gambling chip a man after my own heart um that that really does kind of nail it doesn't it i mean it's yeah every time i i i i

go through these cycles, much like the bull and bear cycles of cryptocurrency itself, where I go, yeah, this is utterly useless and it's just a big Ponzi scheme. But then I look into it again, and I'm like, yeah, but I get it. I guess I get it. Oh, yeah. And then I look at a year ago, it was $17,000, and now it's fucking $46. Yeah, but that's only how much percentage? A hundred and something?

It's a little more than a double. So what? In a year? Invidia went up like 300% over the last year. three or four hundred percent it's ridiculous everybody got to own invidia everybody gotta also i mean i don't know if you said like it must have fallen off that that big spike you're seeing is because of the tweet yeah yeah the tweet made it go up tweet make it go up sorry ex post fuck you shut up bitch no one's called them tweets i mean no one's called them posts yeah

i'm not calling it a post i'm calling it a tweet i'm calling it a tweet So, shifting gears here. Hit the clutch, man. I can't wait until we get a soundboard. I'm going to start doing, I want to put on it the old vine sound, you know, the hit sound. And then I want to do, I want to do that guy. I want to do that. That's yummy hot dogs.

You know what I'm talking about? You know, do you know what I'm talking about? Oh, man. That's too many hot dogs? That's yummy hot dogs. That's, no. It's a, it's a guy, there's a, it's a TikTok that this guy stitched. Someone's going like, who eats 7-Eleven hot dogs?

This is fucking gross. Look at this. And then it cuts to this grainy android circa 2009 video of this guy with a scraggly beard and glasses. And he goes, because the video says, who eats this? And then it cuts to him and he goes, that would be my big fan is. That's hot dogs. That's yummy. That's yummy hot dogs.

It's great. You got to see it. Anyway, people out there know what I'm talking about. You know what I'm talking about. I do like when the show feels like I'm on a bad date with you. And I'm just like kind of moving around my food. Trust me.

We want, we want, that's yummy hot dogs. That's yummy hot dogs. And that would be my big fat ass. I need to see, TikTok needs to have a, remember when Twitter had like a weird thing where you could see a big web of people you interact with most and everything. Sure. I want to see a web of like

I want to see a room full of guys who have like very similar algorithms to you. We'd all either get along very well or hate each other. We'd probably, and if we hated each other, you know why it would be? Because we would recognize the

worst parts of ourselves in the other. Like yeah, that's why I don't like that guy. Why? Because I see myself in him. When are you? When are you, oh yeah, you know when you like... When you don't like someone and you can't figure out why? It's probably because you see in them the worst parts for yourself.

Oh, it's like 90% of the time when someone's like, you remind me of my friend. I can't wait till you meet. And then you're like, this guy sucks. Am I like that? Awful. Well, TikTok. Wait, wait, when are you TikTok? What?

When are you TikTok? Like, when are you looking at TikTok? Barely these days. It's typically on the toilet or at the end of the day or when I'm waiting for my coffee to cool down. Great. But these days, yeah, not very much. But so basically it's about to get even fucking worse than it already is.

And if you watched our, our 2024 predictions wherein I said this, it's all but confirmed because they're going to try to grow their e-commerce business tenfold this year. Ten times what it already is. So if you thought it was bad, it's about to get way the hell worse. Is it going to work? Probably. It's going to work. Probably.

I don't think it's going to work. Here's why. You can't cram a bunch of features into something that is natively known by the users for this one thing. And it is known for the one thing. It is known for the videos, the content itself. You get good shit from it. And now if you're trying to monetize the ever-living fuck out of it, just like everything else, where it's already people going like,

check out these pants that my girl bought now makes me want to fuck my girl buy these pants from my ticot shop or i'm kind of in or girls being like oh my god these jeans are are just top notch going to my ticot shop to buy them i can't believe i got these sexy the sexy shirt go to my ticot shop it's all that as a guy who comes a lot not frequently but a amount i just bought so many of those pants those pants that make your girl look spicy Casey, it's going to, I think it's, I think it's a bad move. I think it's going to, they're going to make more money, but at what cost? It's at the cost of the, the usability and the enjoyability of the app. It's going to make it, um, just, just yet another thing, another body in the wake.

They won't take the app. I mean, they'll figure out the, some kind of happy medium. They better, man. I saw, I saw, I saw someone using Snapchat the other day. I haven't seen that app in so long and it's uh that app has had so many like oh snapchats doomed it's fucking dead and it's like oh no one everyone hates snapchat no one uses it you fucking loser and it's like dude we're all on snapchat what are you doing they are people are no i don't know okay because their stock recently has been doing pretty well kids like kids like yeah kids like snap chap i was at the movies really what movie prove it what Any movie?

Yeah, what was it? It was anybody but you. Okay. Anyone but you? It's okay. Yeah, you've, okay, go on. The, and they have a map. It's like find my friends, but Snapchat, snap map.

They've had that for years. Don't do this to me. You haven't seen it go viral on Twitter where someone zooms in on like the United Arab Emirates and some rich prince playing with his tiger or something? something you've seen those videos right now those videos but i'm familiar with the the map oh yeah well well they're all snap mapping yeah it's pretty cool it's a great feature you can just zoom in anywhere and see what they're posting from random parts of the world i find that all uncomfortable in general a friend recently shared his location with me and i was like i don't know if he did

this by accident or like i don't want to know where you are i've done it it makes sense for if i'm coming to get you and I'm like I can track yeah I'll say I'll do it for an hour so you can so there's no excuse when I get there should be outside that's right I used to always yeah especially with a partner you never want to sell you never want to do a surprise birthday party basically especially don't tell me about it because I will blow it I've blown I've blown a surprise party and I'll never forget I hate surprises I just want to let you know I just want to tell you what I got you for your birthday i just i can't contain myself unless they're like tiny the person the surprise oh oh yeah i don't like knowing people were planning stuff behind my back it makes me uncomfortable

oh i just don't trust that they're going to invite the right people and i'm going to feel bad if someone was excluded you know well anyway tictock's going up to battle against the big boys amazon teemu and shine teamoo is fucking killing it in the America apparently. I don't know why you guys trust this shit. All I wear is Timu. Didn't you? I got my Timu boots. Timu got boots. So in November, apparently I did not know this and it really pissed me off. I don't know who you guys are. If you're one of these people, you better leave a comment and explain yourself. But in November, five fucking million new U.S. customers bought something on TikTok. Wow. What are you buying on there? I wouldn't trust it more than I'd trust.

I don't, I'm more than I trust a Boeing 737 Max 9 on Alaska Airlines on January 5th. You know, flying outside of Portland? You know why, though? What? I actually did it. I did it too. Because... Explain.

What did you buy? The reason I did it is because I needed my, what do they call? My battery pack that I used when I'm traveling. Yeah. It just, like, crapped out. It doesn't fucking work. It takes forever to charge. So I was like, all right, we might have been going to New York for that show.

So I was like, I need a new one. And you bought it off TikTok shop? No, I Googled the one I wanted because, like, usually Google shop comes up, whatever. And I think TikTok is doing a big push to get everyone on. So, like, they'll offer cheaper prices. They're probably subsidizing cheaper prices or something. But it was a cheap enough price where I was like, okay, why wouldn't I? I was a bit reluctant because I was like, I don't trust it.

But if I came and charged my phone, it was great. And it's the same exact one I wanted. Yeah. What about you? What did you buy? This thing that cleans beard hair off the sink. Oh, the little rubber thing? Yeah.

And you bought that off the TikTok shop. It was like a dollar compared to like $9. That's what gets me about it is like if it's a dollar, it's got to be a piece of shit. No, it's the same one. Right. That's what mine was. It was the same thing, just cheaper. Yeah, TikTok had like a promotion as well.

Was it, did it work? Does it work as intended? Wow. It looks fucking gross. Yeah. But I think that. That's how they're getting all these... Because people are like, well, I'd be an idiot to not just do the much cheaper money.

But obviously, they're going to turn that off once they get everyone... Classic China move. Got to hand it to them. I mean, that's a classic... Capitalism move? I mean, Amazon was... The Kingdom. That's every company.

I mean, Uber would go into every city, basically offer cut rate prices for rides. Everyone's going, why the fuck am I not going to download this app and take these cheap rides? Yeah. You absolutely destroy the taxi service. that city and then you go okay you guys need us rides are expensive now yeah well speaking of that their seller fees are much lower than amazon amazon's got them at 15% and ticktox is going to raise to six percent in april and then eight percent in july okay so i'm going to try to keep my composure here dude stay cool stay cool speaking of amazon their uh prime ads

Prime Video ads are going to start January 29th, and they are expected to generate an extra $5 billion in revenue. And that's because of a combination of 70... So basically, you can pay an extra $3 a month, you sick fucker. You sick fucking freak. You can pay an extra $3 to not get any ads. Or you can just sit there like a fucking cow through these ads and give them more money.

So either way, Amazon wins and you lose. And I just wanted to say, I wanted to, because that $5 billion, estimates are that 70% of prime subs will opt to watch the ads just like me, because that's what I'm going to do. You know, just sit there and watch them because I'm a fat fucking cow. I like the ads.

I like the ads too. It gives you a chance to look at your phone. You know what? Just give it to me. I'll watch them. I'll watch the ads. I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. Fucking Reacher. The boys? The boys. Wait, will they do it on like a movie? Yeah. yeah what used to be free and part of your prime subscription much like the uber thing where they undercut and then raise the prices slowly like a fucking frog boiling in water they are doing it to us we are the frogs and we are in the water free if you're a prime member anyway who's not a

prime member nothing's free anymore man i don't know who's not a prime member if you're if you're not a prime member then god bless you because you're not giving them a hundred and eighty dollars a year whatever it is now but so like so but just use your family members I don't know, man. They're probably going to crack down on that shit, too. But all I know is, like, $3 billion of that $5 billion is going to come just from the prime subs who don't want to opt in. Or, yeah, who don't want to pay the extra $3. And then the extra.

So that means generating ad revenue? Yeah. Okay. And then the other $2 billion or so is coming from the people who they're guessing are going to fork over the extra $3. And I just want to ask Jeff Bezos, do I look like a fucking cow to you, Jeff? Do I look like I have a milk? He's got some udders. I got utters, but do I look like I can be milked?

You son of a bitch? He's been milking you for years. You've been milking me for years. And you got to just do it again. You got to tweak, you got to take just a little bit more. Do you not have enough? You got to take more. I'm trying to watch Reacher.

I'm trying to watch the boys. I'm trying to rent Terminator. Now I got to sit through an ad for fucking Timu or whatever it is. Whatever shit you're putting out there. I got to watch a Spectrum ad. I got to watch Ryan Reynolds hot ass promoting Mint Mobile. What am I, what do I have to do, huh? What's going to be next?

You're going to put, oh, why don't you just put an ad on the box of the package that I'm ordering from you? Because I have, why don't you just put a fucking ad on there instead? Put an ad in my brain. Pay me. Fuck. You good? Cut that shit out, bitch. Stop.

You guys know anyone that uses Mint Mobile? No, but I actually saw that someone said that they converted their whole family from Verizon and they wish they'd done it sooner because it's so much better. Weird. Why do you have Mint Mobile? No. I just don't think it's real. Yeah, I know. I don't trust anything where it's like, hey, you normally pay like $100.

a month for this thing oh we do it for five dollars a month i'm like oh so it doesn't work yeah that's yeah my friend switched over to google fire whatever the fuck it is and it's like they're basically they said it's great it's so much cheaper and they just like have it's probably easier internationally or or when you buy something some shit from timu i'm like oh dude i'm on the teamu site and it's like if it's a dollar for this thing that normally costs 10 or 20 i'm assuming that they're going to take my dollar and i'm never going to hear from them again and it's just a scam. I mean,

or I'm going to get the product and it's not at all going to be as advertised. $25 for a parka, which they're usually like at least $250. It probably spontaneously combusts. As soon as it hits the cold, it's just, it's just going to turn into down feathers. I'm telling the people in Discord for our Q&A that we're running a few minutes late because we do have some, we do have some final news, I guess, which is that the NASA, NASA in the United Arab Emirates are finally, finally teaming up. They're finally teaming up. They're going to build a space station to orbit the moon. Kind of sick. It is kind of sick. The Mohammed bin

Rashid Space Center will provide an airlock module for the Gateway Project, and the UAE will provide engineering support for the life of the space station. Did you hear about the, I think it's the Navajo Nation, are pissed about the latest? When are they not pissed? I mean, come on. I know, I'm joking. They, that's when you get to, you get to be pissed forever. They're pissed off because there's companies that will spread your dead relatives ashes on the moon.

And how are you going to trust that they're actually doing that, by the way? Oh, I mean, just. Like, here's your grandma. A beautiful company. Yeah. It's not that. Get that guy on Shark Tank. Yeah, yeah.

I need. So much money. We got to build a rocket. Fuck spreading the ashes. Put them up there while they're still alive and let them just choke to death. That's one way to do it. Yeah. I would go out that way.

Let me choke to death on the moon. Send him on one of Elon Musk's rockets. Yeah. Put him in that fucking car that he launched out in space. God, I hope it would be so poetic if it just made its way back into our orbit and then just like crushed him. Oh. Flew back into the atmosphere. and landed on his fat ahead.

But so the Navajo people are upset because they're saying that the moon is sacred and we shouldn't taint it. I tend to agree. I agree too. But also like, even though it's sacred. It's going to be tainted. I mean,

it was tainted as soon as we stepped on that thing. Yeah, there's going to be McDonald's. There's probably already a McDonald's rapper up there somewhere. As soon as Neil Armstrong got out, got his foot on there. I will make a promise that if I, if I do get a chance to go to the moon

I will litter I'm gonna litter on the moon What are you gonna leave? I don't know, I'm a McDonald's rapper A McDonald's rapper? Do you have cooler? Okay, like what? Are you condom?

Cigarette butt? Novelty, banana peel. Do a little joke with your fellow astronauts? Whoa! Yeah. Guys, oh no, I'm slipping out of orbit. Also, up there, if you want to get rid of trash,

all you got to do is just like huck it into the air. and then it'll just float off and who cares if there's space literally who cares there's so much room in space i i don't know why we don't do that why don't we blast garbage into space i think there was uh i think there was discussion of it let's just put all the dirty diapers and shit up there it's probably expensive it would come back to haunt us it would it would like rocket around jupiter and come right back and just cause probably not us though our grandchildren yeah fuck them they don't care about me they're swimming around well their parents are swimming in there well they're i don't know who's swimming around in there right now but

you probably got them all because you got such oh i got most of our grandchildren in here donkey loads my mom's probably just walking her dog around the neighborhood just saying to herself god ben this one was my fault no no it wasn't all right so In this bonus episode this week, we're going to be talking about, I just have, again, I got one just called Check This Out. It's a link. Oh, I got some check this out for you, too. We'll see how you feel about this one. We're going to be talking about the Golden Globes, TV shows, Depression Meals.

And, of course, my favorite Twitter account, Black or Chinese, the guy who makes people, here's what you look like if you were black. I sent it to a friend, and he was just like, I don't get it. And I was like, okay, I don't know. If you don't get it upon first view, you're never going to get it. Or congratulations on having a healthy brain. I'm going to tell Ben how I liked anyone but you. And I'm going to ask him, what's that? Also, if you want to get in on the next Q&A.

Oh, yeah, that's right. You got to be a... Patron. You got to be a patron, but you got to be a... Which tier is it? The $10 tier. The $10 tier. Yeah, because if it was the other one,

be way too many questions. Exactly. Possibly. And yeah, we're going to have, hopefully it goes swimmingly. We're going to have everybody on the Discord, and we're going to be taking calls live, and they will be posted to the Patreon. Also, we got another, we got a special video coming out soon. We're going to be getting back to the Ben and a Milan's.

We just have to figure out a working production schedule, because we've got a lot on our plates. Oh, yeah, but they're going to be a bit different than you're used to, and they're going to be quite fun. Yeah. I can see Dylan grinning from ear to ear. He's excited about it. We've got a very special one. Our next video, other than the pod, is going to be a taste test that I conducted at Taco Bell.

Sparely, that's pretty good to everything. Yeah, I like, I mostly liked it. But it's, we'll put out some teasers. You'll see it. And we would certainly appreciate you. viewing that when it comes out well so that concludes this episode if you're still watching as always what the fuck absolute freak what's going on with you and if you are also we love you yeah leave a comment uh because um we we absolutely thrive on that i just want to make sure we got everything

yeah rest in peace to kim kardashian she's gone too soon gun down in her prime um kim korean colon hollywood colon hollywood gun down in its prime and we'll see not Amazon Prime, which we were upset about. Yeah. We'll see you next week. Bye.