The Ben and Emil Show - PP 31: forever diarrhea and the cringe billionaire

Episode Date: January 18, 2024

Not gonna say we told you so...we'll let the toilet paper budget do the talking instead. That's right, thousands of people who are on Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro are reportedly suffering from debilitating stomach damage and even cases of "forever diarrhea", according to lawsuits being filed against the drugmakers. Plus, crybaby Bill Ackman is on a posting spree! What's he crying about THIS time? Lastly, we've got the Iowa caucus results, what they mean, and why they're important. 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

Welcome back to another episode of this. Ooh, dude, careful there. That's not that anymore. We got a big episode for you guys. Absolutely huge. We're talking about the many people who are getting chronic permanent diarrhea. Are you one of them? You may be entitled to compensation.

Literally. From WeGovie and Ozempic. I have news about compensation, by the way. I'll tell you in just a sec. Plus, we're talking about cry baby. Bill Ackman, that's right. He's back. I mean, not that he ever went anywhere, but oh, man, he is just... He's sticking his little heinie out there to get spanked. Oh, and everybody's, he's self-spanking. It's all kinds of crazy stuff. And he's getting his wife's heinous spanked, which is the worst part.

Which is a little sexy, but not in this way. And then... Yeah, not in a sexy way at all. And then if we got time, we're going to... Well, we'll have time, probably. We're going to talk about the Iowa caucus. Got some bad news on that front. And then, yeah, if we got time, we're going to talk about inflation layoffs and Tesla stuff going on. But first, yeah, compensation. I was involved in a class action lawsuit against... Oh, with the butt wipes, right? No, I totally forgot about that, actually.

But that would be... Yeah, I did. Yeah, that's right. Thank you for reminding me. Yes, I did submit a claim for the Cotonel butt wipe thing. I don't know. No, no... No news on that front.

Okay. But it takes a while because there was this... marijuana stock called can trust and I lost some money on it a couple years ago and there was a class action suit. Sounds like a stock you can't trust. Very good. They sent they, I got the email through my brokers saying like, oh, if you lost money from this period to this period, you may be able to participate in this lawsuit. So I submitted the paperwork and I, it was like two years ago I submitted it. And I just got an email over the weekend saying, hey, your claim's been approved. stand by and it's like $17,000

if they give it they said hey this is just how much you know you put the claim in for you might not get that much it's still unclear how much you'll get and then of course you know I have to pay the fucking tax man on it I think which is fucked up it could be as much as $17,000 which would be great which would probably pay off my taxes

by the way I tweeted something a couple weeks ago that's insane I know I tweeted something about taxes being a bitch and everybody everybody dogged me and they were like oh way to brag about making a lot of money that's not what I'm talking about it's the fact that I don't get taxes taken out during the year so it's like all of a sudden all at once that's that's what did you what did you tweet I said I can't get can't wait to get my ass my shit pushed in by the tax man I just can't wait to get fucked damn man what is you know that like famous thing about how on Twitter you'll say

I like pancakes, and then people reply, like, oh. Nothing about waffles? Right, exactly. You hate waffles and want them to die or whatever? And, man, I, you can't even complain about taxes now? Yeah. Well, I get it. Where have we gotten to?

They assume that it's like, I'm saying, oh, I made a million dollars the last year. But no matter how much you make, it sucks paying taxes. Of course it sucks. Or it'd be one thing if you could feel good about your taxes and be like, you know what? These are going to help people. But instead, you're like, it's just going to pay for. the most awful shit you've ever seen i nearly hired this tax firm who claimed that they would be able to basically have me skirt most of my taxes and i got a little sketched out and i i i got

scared they advertised that they can help you they didn't advertise it was a word of mouth thing a good friend of mine who who goes to this person yes db no um but yeah i i decided not because it was going to cost a lot of money up front to, like, set up the proper S-Corp and all that shit. And I just thought, I can't, I don't, I don't have the mental capacity or acuity to keep track of all this shit. And it's just not worth it. Plus, I think I got to find a new tax guy because I think my tax guy might have died. Yeah, you told us Colin. I know. I got to figure out if Colin's dead or not. I got to email him. But even then I don't know if I would want to hire him because he just had a fucking stroke. And I don't know if he's all there. Maybe we just play the music.

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Literally had a dream plane went down. It's fucking terrifying. It's not going to happen, dude. Oh, I don't think it will, but what kind of plane is. It's clearly in the back of my mind. I don't know what kind of plane I'm on. Oh, yeah, we went over this. Delta, yeah, you said it's fine. You're fine. You're fine. But, whof. Yeah, it's pretty scary. I mean I also thanks to everyone in New York who bought a ticket I'll see you tomorrow

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All right, diarrhea time. It's diarrhea time. Have you ever gotten diarrhea? When's the last time you got some... One's the last time you stepped on a ladder and felt something splatter? Actually, I was in my orca, and I got a little, uh... I don't know. I remember being at lunch with my friend and his girlfriend, and it was so hot.

And we're sitting outside just like baking and sweating. And I was like, this feels like maybe... This feels like diarrhea weather. But like, maybe it's just the heat. And I remember my friend, we were about to leave, and my friend was, like, let me just run to the bathroom. He ran to the bathroom. I'm just talking to his girlfriend, like, Jesus Christ. And he finally comes out, and they wanted to go get gelato.

I said, I'm just going to run. I should have pissed back there. I'm going to run into this bar, ran in, and I was just in there for so long. Oh, man. Well, can you imagine what it would be like to have permanent diarrhea? No, I can't. This was extremely stressful for me to read. Yeah.

So we've all heard of the miracle drugs, Ozempic, and we govy. and there's a bunch of lawsuits are headed their way. There's this one, there's several people. Also, obvious, this is a, it's never fun to say I told you so, but this is a little bit vindicating with the, when we were covering this stuff, we were like, there's no way, this is not, yeah, this is not going to have, or the other toilet paper rolls going to drop.

There's not going to have no consequences. Yeah. By the way, I got to say, having a bidet, I don't, I fear no multiple trips. to the bathroom anymore, whereas when I would be struck with a stomach bug, and I'm like, god damn it, I've got to go wipe myself raw again. I'm sorry, everybody. I'm sorry. I'm talking about this, but... You're saying, it's no problem. It's no problem. I can go as many times as I want. You can get stomach paralysis from over... No, no, I would never. I honestly don't know how

people live with this. So, Novo Nordisk, which is the maker of WeGovie and Ozympic, just got hit with dozens of lawsuits from patients who... suffered from stomach paralysis after using the products, and they weren't, they're alleging that they weren't warned about the extreme side effects in the drugs packaging. They're saying that the drugs packaging didn't have enough warning about these specific ailments that could befall them. So thousands of people have come forward to claim these adverse reactions. Even like one of the lawyers whose job is to go through all these claims says he's turned down like tens of thousands of the claims just because they weren't severe enough.

So there are people who are having adverse reactions that just aren't this severe. So one of them is this woman who says she will, quote, will suffer diarrhea for the rest of her life after using Ozmpic because she had a life-threatening bowel injury after Ozmpic and underwent a nine-hour surgery. And apparently doctors said that she would be in pain for the rest of her life and will, quote, never have a solid bowel movement again. And this condition is called gastrope, gastropericis. Yeah, it's a chronic condition where the nerves and muscles in the stomach wall severely weakened.

This weakening makes it more difficult for the stomach to transfer food to the small intestine. Results of gastroporesis include intestinal blockages or obstruction, and it often leads to nausea and diarrhea. Yeah, nausea, vomiting, severe pain. Also, important to note, you said it, but I want to reiterate the fact that they're not talking about, like, Novo Nordisk and all these drug makers are not saying like, oh, no, our medicine does not do that. They're saying, yeah, it does that. And we properly notified people of that. Yes. They're saying that the, yeah, the drug companies are firing back

because the main claim is that there isn't sufficient warning on the labels, but Lily, Eli Lilly, who makes Mojaro, who also has similar, there's like at least 10 lawsuits being filed against them. They're saying the claims are without merit, of course, and they're saying the thing that companies always say, which is they will fight them vigorously in court. Right, but not because it doesn't do that, which I think that's important. They're saying, like Novo Nordisk, a spokesperson person said, the side effects are well known and documented. They're like... Yeah, they say GLP1 meds have been used to treat type 2 diabetes for 18 years and obesity for eight years and cumulatively, cumulatively has over nine and a half.

million years of patient exposure and that FDA labels clearly warn they may be associated with adverse gastrointestinal reactions, sometimes severe, and that the risks were communicated to and widely known by health care providers. Shit, is what my note says. Shit. And there was other ones that I don't think these are being included right now, but apparently there are two other side effects people are talking about with the suicidal ideation. Oh, oh, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, like the European Medicines Agency has already revealed. viewing links between the semi-glutate and suicidal ideation, and then another one is a gallbladder disease that I think it causes. Jeez, man, Jesus, I mean, God damn. I mean, Babu. We're going to, the, you know what, you really should have put a warning on this. Some of these younger celebrities on your, on your dying in 2024 list, because some people might be shitting out their own butts.

Wow, yeah, I didn't think about that, but I don't know who's on O-ZMPIC. I'd say a lot of people. Yeah, probably. Well, so this one woman on the note that, hey, they're saying that they're properly warned, maybe the lawsuits will instead steer toward the individual care providers because this one woman said she immediately had issues and talks about how her doctor just really immediately pushed OZempic on her and just was like, I don't know why you don't just take OZempic for this stuff and didn't give her any of the warnings, which is like

That's what some of these doctors do. Case in point, mine, when I would get Adderall. I would just go and be like, yeah, I can't, you know, I can't focus. Okay, what do you want? Amphetamine salts, 30 milligrams. Can you also give me 60 of them instead of just 30 for the month's supply so that I don't have to like keep coming back here? And he was like, yeah, sure, even though I would go back once a month and get another 60

pills, he just didn't care. He just wrote the fucking prescription. These doctors don't care. They don't care. yeah a lot of these people it's not all these are not all victims of uh what's the difference there's we govi and ozempic and ozambic is the one yeah but ones for diabetes and ones for weight loss yeah yeah so it's it's both it's people using it for diabetes and for weight loss i cannot imagine when i have a really bad tummy ache it ruins my day it absolutely just

ruins my shit you can't imagine diarrhea forever i can't imagine i mean never having a solid shit again. So, fun story. One time a few years ago when I worked at BuzzFeed, I had some kind of mystery affliction that my co-workers lovingly referred to as

BCPD. BenCon Pussy Department? Close. Ben-Con Poope Disease. Ben-Con is what they called it. Because, I mean, everybody in my little department knew about it because I was after like day three of just shitting liquid, I was like,

something's going on. I got to go to the doctor. And the doctor didn't know. Nobody knew what was going on. I didn't have like stomach pain, but it just was like, okay, something's, I don't know what's going on. Anyway, it just kind of cleared up on its own. So, but I almost had to do. So you feel with all the victims of, uh, well, plus I, uh, one of my closest, oldest friends has a, uh, he's got

I mean it's like a variation on Crohn's and it just sounds like the worst thing to live with so I mean my heart really goes out to these people it's got a fucking suck because the way he did and he's not someone who takes these he's just got an affliction that causes him to have to go and he recently actually his condition was so bad

that he got a colostomy bag and the colostomy bag is like orders of matter magnitude better than what... Like his quality of life has improved so much... Yes, just from getting a colostomy bag. It would speak to how bad it was. That he's like, fuck yeah, give me that thing.

Like, put the hole in my belly and give me the bag. I can't fathom. I mean, I would like... I would take a short drive off a long pier, or long drive off a short pier. And then I'd probably swim out the window because the water would be cold and I'd be like, I don't want to die after all.

And then you'd wake up in a small town and decide to rebuild the Majestic Theater. That the Jim Carrey movie? He tries to kill himself off of a pier? Yeah, I believe he's a, he was a member of the Communist Party, and he gets blacklisted, and so he's like, I'm going to kill myself, and he wakes up in a town, and they're like, you look just like my boy, Jack, who died in the war or whatever, and he's like, yeah, I'm Jack.

It's called The Majestic, right? And that was Jim Carrey? That was Jim Carrey. Wow, what the fuck? It's still so weird that the yes man or something came out where he's like supposed to be a young guy, younger guy saying yes to shit. And Zoe Deschanel's like his girlfriend.

I don't think he's supposed to be younger. He's just supposed to his age. This is weird. Like he stick to dumb and dumber type shit, my guy. Well. It's funny because it's just a dumb movie. Yeah. Like it's not like he tried to do fucking,

try to do King Lear. Yeah. And you're like, stick to your leg. man on the moon was really good what other serious roles did he have Turtle sunshine The number 23 Yeah

He plays the saxophone and he's all gaw Yeah and he's paranoid about the number Like trying to kill him or something 23 24 25 Well anyway If you're out there and you're taking OZempic Or WeGovie or Mungaro Be careful and talk to your doctor.

Also, I thought these, uh, I thought, I looked at Eli Lilly Novo Nordisk. I thought their stocks would have like taken a nose dive just because. No way. I mean, these companies are always getting lawsuits filed against them for myriad reasons. I know, but this one is like, uh, is it Novo Nordisk where they were saying that their entire, um, market cap was bigger than the GDP of their home country? Yeah. Yes. And so I'm like, okay.

And this is all on the news of this miracle. rug. And so I'm like, okay, maybe people are finally going to back off and be like, maybe we shouldn't give this to, maybe we shouldn't put this in the water. Yeah. I think if it reaches a level, I think if it reaches a level that, um, if it starts to really make headlines, because so far, I mean, this story was on the Daily Mail and that's what I found Fox. Like, there was hardly any coverage of it, which was surprising. When all the good stuff is coming out, it's, it's, it's all over. Everyone's covering it. Like, this is going to change everything. And so I was like, how was this in the fucking Daily Mail? There was like a story.

in Reuters and then a couple other smaller things. Reuters sounds like a butt disease, doesn't it? Well, it's got the hemorrhoids. It's evocative of hemorrhoids for sure. I am worried that I've got some kind of, well, I guess I talked about this on what will be the next Ben and Emile on, so I'll save it and I'll shut up. Great. Yeah.

All right, cry baby Bill Ackman time. We've got to get into Bill Ackman. This guy's been driving me nuts. Preach, boy, my friend. Some of you might have seen me. I've been responding to Bill Ackman's tweets a lot and just calling him a bitch and a crybaby. We should send this to him after and be like, sir, and try to dick ride in order to trick him to watch it? I mean, there's, who knows?

Why would I watch this video? Maybe we'll end up in a lawsuit or something. This guy's clearly. Bring it on, bitch. No. I heard that Bill Ackman has diarrhea, forever diarrhea. I heard it. I don't know if it's true.

You don't want to test a billionaire. You don't want to test a butt-hurt billionaire. And that was the thing. I didn't even want to talk about any of this stuff because it's like, it started off with like administrators at Harvard and Penn and MIT. And I'm like, I hope all those institutions burn anyway. You know, and, but Bill Ackman has just stepped in it so hard. We got to talk about this fucking cry, baby.

He stepped in poop and basically was like, you know what we'll get this poop off? Some more poop. Some dog poop. I need more shit to clean off this shit. Well, wait, so just as a quick, quick refresher, for those of you don't know, Bill Ackman is a billionaire, hedge fund guy. He, uh, he's made billions of dollars. He famously, like, shorted the, the market in 2020.

Right. He went on TV and, like, cried about how... Literally cried. Cried about how it was, I think it was because his dad was sick with COVID or something like that. And he was like, the whole... He was worried about America. Yeah. But meanwhile, I think he made a huge bet in one,

it made like $2.6 billion or something insane. And then he went long at the very bottom, which was right around the time that he went on CNBC. So he was, he got a lot of flack, rightfully so for stoking fears that he tried to defend as like, I really believed that. And he was trying to call out to try.

He, I think he was one of the ones who was saying, excuse me, it's the Diet Coke bubbles. He was one of the ones who was trying to say, we need to shut everything down for two weeks. And the government should give everybody money so that this disease just gets eliminated, which is, yeah.

Which at the time would have helped his short position. Yes, yes, absolutely. But, yeah, and then, I mean, he's become one of those guys who's popular on Twitter, close to a million followers. Whereas in 2019, he was very mostly absent on Twitter. I think he had like maybe 40,000. followers?

Right. Twitter is becoming just a place where people can dick ride billionaires, I guess. And then weird bets throughout the years. His biggest one is Herbalife, the, where he came out. And what did you bet? You have no idea how fun that was, because it was Bill Ackman came out with a massive short report, alleging that Herbalife was and is a massive pyramid scheme. A multi-level marketing.

Yeah. and said that the stock is worth zero. And he was short the stock and that was it. And he came out in the stock tanks. And then Carl Icon, who is another billionaire, but much older, comes out and says, this fucking dork is wrong, actually. And you know what? He's so wrong that I'm going to take a position long herbal life.

And I'm not kidding. For weeks, months, they were going back and forth on CNBC just like fighting each other On Twitter, I believe they were exchanging barbs, and he got squeezed, and he lost a lot of money. And also famously, he fucking bid it hard. I mean, he stepped in dog shit. He was knee deep in dog poop. He put a bunch of money into the failing retailer, J.C. Penny. Oh, yeah.

Because at the time, I believe, they put the guy, the guy who was responsible for creating Apple's in-store experiences. the like interior designer was recently was hired at J.C. Penny to kind of do the same thing for J.C. Penny. And it's like that kind of shit doesn't work for J.C. Penny. But anyway, he put a bunch of money behind that. He also put a bunch of money into some pharmaceutical company that ended up fucking tanking. And he lost, I think that year his fund lost like $2 billion or something. But now he's worth about $4 billion. Things are pretty good for old Bill Ackman. Perching Square is the name of the hedge fund.

But now he's waded into some, uh, he's, he's being an activist in a different way this time, uh, no longer an activist investor. Uh, and basically in the wake of the October 7th, Hamas attacks, he was, and it's important to note, he is a, he is a Harvard man, got his, got a bachelor's degree at Harvard and NBA at Harvard. His father was a Harvard man, so Bill Ackman himself has a legacy, Harvard admission. and he's also got a legacy admission himself. His daughter went to Harvard.

So he looks too young to have a college-age girlfriend or daughter. He's fully gray. Yeah, but how old is he? Like 60? He's got to, yeah, he's probably 60. Whatever, go on. And so he did not like the way that Harvard was handling protests on campus. By the way, like anything that was happening on Ivy League campuses and wanted people to do more.

Because obviously in the wake of what's been going on, there have been obviously a lot of protests and stuff, petitions getting signed. And what? Bill Ackman was just like, mm-mm. Well, his, but his big one was there was a bunch of student organizations who signed, who signed petitions laying the blame at Israel's feet for these Hamas attacks. He goes on a Twitter rampage saying that he wants the names of these students doxed so that he can make sure that he and all of his billionaire friends will never hire one of these people ever. Yeah, I remember seeing that.

Just fully, just like all these people should never be able to work. And people are chiming in, like the CEO of Sweet Green is chiming in like, yes, I approve of this. Really? The CEO of Sweet Green? Yeah, dude. It's insane. I want to pull up the tweet because there's all kinds of people showing up being like, yes, please, can we ruin someone's life?

Well, while you're pulling that up, so Bill Ackman became instrumental in, was she the president of Harvard or the dean? Claudine Gay. Claudine Gay was the president. President of Harvard, because we all remember they trotted out the heads of all these Ivy League schools in front of a special committee and interrogated them. on their which and this was like at the the the guy leading the charge of this was a guy Christopher Rufo who's like a famous uh conservative activist really involved in the critical race

theory now his big thing is fucking DEI they're all trying to make sure that DIE you mean because people will D IE if you have a black pilot so I'm just I'm just repeating what he wants tweeting right right black pilots mean you're gonna fucking die right and so by the way shout out to our black fans because there was someone on on on I'm serious. There was one guy on, I think, on Patreon who said, I think I might be the only black fan of the show. So shout out to them and anyone else out there.

Hit the sound off in the comments if you are black. Go on. Okay. Go on. And so, yeah, it's Claudine Gay and the head of MIT and the head of UPN get hauled into Congress by, you know, conservative Congress people asking why they haven't done more to stamp out anti-Semitism.

That's the whole thing. Bill Ackman is pissed and he, oh, he writes a six-page letter to Claudeen Gay. And that's a big thing. This all stems from Bill Ackman being a fucking crybaby and not getting his way and thinking that these people should respond to him when he will. And to be fair, the president of Harvard really is just there to like get more donations and manage all these

big that's what the president does instead of um instead of the dean the dean is in charge of the students and the president's in charge of i mean i'm being glib but i like their job is to make sure that donors are happy and they can keep bringing in in money and and they're not getting angry phone calls from people going like this is what my money is going to and so And pretty much all of these presidents who get hauled in, like have these horribly clumsy answers about anti-Semitism. But, and the MIT and UPN, they just stepped down after. But Claudine Gay, the Harvard board backs her.

And it's like, she has her support. She doesn't have to go anywhere. So they change their strategy, right? And now it's all about the fact that Claudine Gay. change their strategy uh bill acman and christopher ruffo and these people who are who who need clodding gay to step down because we can't pressure her to step down and the board's backing her there's got to be another way or no if we can't yeah if we can't get her removed we're going to go after her academic record yeah and they they think they found some plagiarism problems in her academic papers

and so with this claudian gay's just like fuck this i'm out of here and she steps down but then people start looking into Bill Ackman's wife. I don't even know who this woman was. That's the thing. I'm so upset to even know who these people are. I wish they're not taking up space in my brain. So Bill Ackman is apparently married to Neri Oxman. Oh, it's Neri.

I thought it was Neri. It very well could be, Ben. I don't care what it is. She's a, but she is, she's like an architect and designer at MIT Labs. And honestly, I, like, I'm scared to even say this because Bill Ackman is so pissed, but

I... Fuck him. Come after us, bitch. But you should... I don't even want to read them out loud, but anyone interested should go to her Twitter. I don't know if there's maybe like a brain injury involved or something, but I don't...

If this is what like MIT and Harvard people are like, I don't know if we should... Well, they're bad at posting is what you're saying. I mean, but it's like there's almost like maybe a poor thing thing happening here. or where maybe she's got her brain replaced with that of a newborn baby.

And, yeah, I don't know. She makes these, like, weird art things. She gave an orb to Jeffrey Epstein for $125,000. But so... An orb? Yeah, she makes weird orbs. Oh, God.

Yeah, it's like, she sounds like one of those kinds of people who's got an impressive enough looking resume where if you saw her give a TED talk, you'd be like, wow, the future is. is like floating um green spaces

that's basically how she's yeah this is how we're going to make the future we're going to have uh yeah like because she does like biology engineering but it's all just like

it's vague vague shit that doesn't but it makes stupid people think she's very smart she says things like we're at the intersection of biology and architecture and everyone's like holy shit And Jeffrey Epstein's like, I want to give her a bunch of money. And she's like, let me give you an orb to say thank you. That was, that was 2015, after it was already known that Jeffrey Epstein was who he was, by the way.

When Claudian Gay steps down, people start looking into Neri Oxman, Bill Ackman's wife's own academic papers and going, hey, Bill, it's a little funny you say that. Because if you look at her papers, she's cribbing a bunch of shit, especially from, Wikipedia, which is super weird because you seem very fixated on Claudine Gay's own errors in inciting things correctly. Yeah, I believe they call it hypocrisy. And this is when Bill Ackman loses his fucking mind because business insider runs a story and he starts crying about, he's being so weird, he's like, even the mafia doesn't go after a family.

and saying that people have violated some kind of code by bringing his wife into it. Yeah. She's not a public person. He insists that she's not a public person that this was wrong and all sorts of fucked up. Meanwhile, she does TED Talks. She's been on a show.

She was on a Netflix show. Been on the cover of magazines. So very private. Gave Jeffrey Epstein an orb. I want to see that orb, dude. I want to see that orb. Is it just a massage table if you look at it? Well, if you look at it,

if you like, it's one of those magic Guy thinks you cross your eyes and you just see a little massage table on an island. That could be it. That'd be pretty tight. So he has brought all of this stuff to his own doorstep by even waiting into this stuff. It's a flaming bag of shit that he's putting out with his feet. That's exactly right. It's pretty good, huh?

It's poop again. Yeah. It's poop again. Well, and so the business insider expose comes out and Bill Ackman loses his shit. shit, he immediately called multiple executives at Business Insider. Well, Axel Springer, their parent company, and he's like, you guys need to do something about this. You need to handle this. Yeah, even the CEO of KKR, which is the biggest shareholder in Insider, to try and grease the wheels, because that's what you do when you're a billionaire.

Apparently, you got really pissed off too because one of the guys said, yeah, I'll call you back in an hour. An hour passed, and he's like, you don't fucking call me back. That's what seems to drive him the most nuts. Like, Claudine Gay would not take his call, and he was like, I'm, I'm going to fucking burn you down. Like, this is, no one refuses to take my call. It's truly the, do you know who I am? Oh, yes. Fully.

Tweeting. So he's going off on these, uh, he's been dropping, just go to his Twitter account. It's very entertaining. He's going off on all these tirades. Some of them are so long. I mean, they're practically essays in, in and of themselves. Oh, we're talking three to five thousand words, all of these posts. I will say, okay, so I did.

find this interesting. He one time pulled the strings by texting his friend then CEO of MasterCard to pressure Pornhub to remove alleged child sexual abuse material. Just like, I'm curious about that.

Like, what, what's, why just master, I don't know. Also, who's paying for, who's paying? For Pornhub? Yeah. My guy, like, you go in there and it's just, it's free, so I've heard. But anyway, so this guy is fucking getting driven nuts by this. So Mr. Ackman, by his own admission, and according to others around him,

resents that officials at his alma matter to which he's donated tens of million dollars, and its president, Claudine Gay, have not heeded his advice on a variety of topics. And he says, it would have been smart for her to listen or to at least pick up the phone, describing a recent outreach, Dr. Gay, that was part of a stream of calls, text, and letters to university officials. So this guy's just writing letters, write in text, calling, no one's answering. And now he's getting the same treatment from Business Insider. They're going, they tell him, we're going to do our own review. They do a review of it. And they go, yeah, look, what do you want us to do? We stand by the journalistic integrity of this piece. They stand by it. Neri Oxman herself

put out a tweet where she said, I apologize for, you know, my misgivings here. I apologize for misattributed quotes, whatever. And then it's like, okay, well, so why couldn't you have lent the same? Right. Where is that? God, what's the fucking word? Where's that grace for Claudine Gay, where it's like, because she doesn't have the, neither of them have these insane, glaring things. And that's the thing.

I'm sure this is very prevalent in all kinds of academic papers. And Bill Ackman has also said that he wants to use his resources to unleash AI on every academic paper. Well, that's where the dick writing comes in because Bill Ackman is basically going scorched earth. You've gone, you've come after my wife.

It's a bridge too far, if you will. And now, don't mess with a board billionaire who's got all the resources and the best analysts available and now the power of AI. He claims to be not only filing lawsuits against Business Insider. I mean, that's not a claim. He's filing lawsuits against Business Insider. And he's claiming to now just go after. He's going after what? Every academic?

They're going to punch it. They're going to tell Chat TPT, find me instances, you know. Go analyze all these people's dissertations? I think he said he wants to start at MIT, and I'm sure everyone at MIT is like, yo, please don't do this. Let us just fucking have our shitty little papers. But yeah, he did.

So that was his response. When Business Insider said, uh, we stand by this, he said response incoming. And by response, I mean a legal complaint. You guys are fucked.

And I mean, this is, it's another instance of, uh, now that, business insider is involved it's like a very terrifying uh you know this billionaire could just run business insider into the ground if he really wants to get that uh diabolical i mean a lot of people are talking about how it evokes do you remember the peter teal thing with gawker yeah oh yeah

uh like a very single handedly brought him down which is an insane story like remind people what happened with peter teel and gawker if you don't remember what gawker was it was a nasty little website they would it was like a who is the guy in charge of it i don't remember his name but it was this like new york rag where they would just say awful things about people it was kind of funny uh and it was this whole like sarcastic um you know incendiary tone and it pissed a lot of people off and they weirdly outed peter tiel as gay and in a very not in a respectful way Yeah, a very crass. Yes, the whole website is crass.

I believe the article was titled, he gay. It is something. It's literally something like that. Peter Thiel, gay. And the last line is this, like, it's kind of funny. Like, Gawker came back for a bit, and, like, they kind of, and I was like, this was kind of a fun, but obviously pissed people off. And so him and, like, Silicon Valley people were, like,

what wasn't Hulk Hogan involved? Yes, because he didn't know what. to do, right? Gawker basically reported something true, and he was like, how can I get them? And so they basically started this fund where they're like, you have a lot of money, we can bankroll someone else, and

this was before the Hulk Hogan thing even happened. So they were just kind of in the wings waiting. For them to fuck up. I mean, this story's so fucking insane. And then Hulk Hogan is licking his wounds while his relationship, his marriage is failing, and his

best friend, a radio DJ in Florida. Hey, Hulk. What are you doing this morning? Why don't you come over in? Fuck my wife. Literally. You know, Hulk Hogan's on the line. We'd like Hulk Hogan to come by, and he's going to be fucking my wife later on today. So if you come by, you watch Hulk Hogan, fuck my wife.

You're going to get a free t-shirt and a bag of swag. Keep it too dear. Dach's it point what? I want that T-shirt. That's Bubba the Love Sponge. Hulk Hogan's best friend. Wait, it was really Bubba the Love Spunge. Says, I know it'll help. Why don't you come over and fuck my wife?

I'll watch. Oh, he was trying to help out. Hey, Holkster. Holtster, I know you're feeling, Hulkster, I know you're feeling down about your shit with your wife, your divorce bubble. But why don't you, you know, I got an idea for you. Why don't you come on over?

Fuck my wife. I could watch. It'll be a win-win for everybody involved. And they filmed it. Well, Hulk Hogan says, Hang on, brother. Wow, that was terrible. Can't do it.

Hang on, brother. I can't do it. He says, hang on, brother, yeah. Are you going to, you're not going to film it, right? And Bubba the Love Spunge says, no, of course not. But he secretly films it. Uh-huh. And not to do anything weird with it.

Like, he literally kept it in his desk at his radio station. Hulk Hogan, Hulk Hogan sex tape. Yes. Bubba the Love Spunge did not release it. Another rival, a rival Florida DJ, tried to get... It was DJ Gate. DJ Watergate. Tried to get Bubba the Love Spunge in trouble.

steals the tapes. Well, I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to go search through his fucking desk. See what I can find out here. Hey, what's this? What's this? Wow. What's this mystery tape here?

Jesus. Oh, pop this here. Oh, it's Hulk Hogan. Fucking Bubbles wife. Okay, sorry. Go on. And then Gawker, Gocker's like the only publication that'll put it here. Yeah.

And they do. And then Peter Thiel steps in and he's like, you want to take these motherfuckers down? Oh, yeah. And they didn't. they didn't realize what was happening. They didn't realize they were bankrupt. And so if they knew they were bankrupted,

they would have a much different legal strategy and be like, okay, maybe we need to fucking settle as quickly as possible, find out what they want. And then, yeah, they ended up owing like $100 million. They all were, you know, lamenting the fact that, wow, there's a famous quote by one of the Gawker journalists being like, we now live in a country where a billionaire can shut down a news publication.

So it's very similar to, to that when you, or people are having flashbacks to that when you have a billionaire being like, just wait and see. Yeah, I don't like this. You'll ruin the day you came after my wife. You broke the mafia code of going after

family. Which, she's not a private person. I mean, arguably Claudine Gay, a university administrator, is more of a private person. Yeah, I'd never heard of her before then. Right. You know, this woman's on Netflix shows, magazine covers.

all this stuff. Meanwhile, this is also the guy who we're just talking about, who was trying to dox university students. Yeah. Not trying to. Did. Yeah. And, uh, I mean, these kids were, there's their information was being posted online. Uh, people were like reaching out to their siblings and family and sending them threats. And then a, a truck was going around Harvard. One of the doxing trucks, uh, was going around Harvard that said, Harvard's leading anti-Semites and names and pictures of all the kids. Did he fund those? No, no, no.

And he did, because the same thing happened to Claudine Gay. The doxing trucks came back with Claudine Gay, and it was flashing her contact information and where she lived and that kind of thing. And he did initially say, like, he doesn't support that. And the annoying thing is publications ran with that, and we're like, Bill Ackman comes out against the doxing trucks for Claudine Gay. But he quotes a response to him. Mihaha Schwarzenberg said,

agreed. It's definitely not the way. But this is how the Jewish students locked in her dorms must have felt. Her house is big enough to still enjoy and to go freely to the toilet, blah, blah, blah. He retweets it and says, this is a very good point. Perhaps the doxing trucks will give President Gay some perspective on what it is like to be Jewish and or Israeli on the Harvard campus. So it's like completely just walks back that he doesn't think this is a good idea. And no one reports on that.

Also just a ridiculous thing to say about a black woman in America. A black woman in Boston that she needs to get perspective on what it's like to be a marginalized person in this country. And that's just one of, because he's now tweeting like 50 times a day. Oh. Well, so should we get to the tweets? because that's probably the best part. He's on full cringe mode. Yeah.

And he's tweeting. It's not only his tweets, but now he's... I also do want to point out just, I don't want to forget this last, like, he's also saying that a lot of this big pushes, like he's against the DEI stuff too, and he says that it goes against what he wants to see, which is like a merit...

White pilots. Basically. He was like, you know, DEI unfairly paints any merit-based program system or organization as racist. because they're disproportionate outcomes. It's worth... And so he's like, I want to bring merit back to Harvard.

And this is... But this is a guy who literally got in as a legacy admission. Yeah, and his daughter. They give preference to those people. Yeah. And so it's like, no, no, no. Merit program for them.

Merit-based program for them, not for me and mine. Yeah, it's the blank for me and socialism for the, or whatever. Socialism for me and capitalism for the. Right. And so the levels of hypocrisy on this thing are so off the charts. It's just unfucking layer.

It's like a lasagna. It's got layers. Truly. So many levels of hypocrisy where when he's talking about his wife and her own privacy and the way he treats other people, the way he wants to see like this merit-based system, but the way he wants to be treated, all of these fucking things are just so infuriating.

I have this fun. This is from, this was tweeted in 2017. It's an excerpt from an article about Bill Ackman attending a private VIP dinner. So I'm just going to read it. During a private VIP dinner that night, the question of why Biden didn't run for president in 2016 was raised once again by former Florida governor in 2016 GOP presidential contender, Jeb Bush, who asked Biden, why didn't you run? Biden explained that part of the decision stemmed from the death of his son, Bo Biden, who died. of brain cancer in 2015. The room grew quiet as Biden became emotional and said, I'm sorry, I've said enough. That's when Bill Ackman blurted out. Why? That's never stopped

you before. The formal and understated dinner conversation suddenly turned tense, according to three people who were present and confirmed both the substance and the wording of Biden's responses. Biden, these people say, turned to someone seated near him and ask, who is this asshole in reference to Ackman? He then turned directly to Ackman and stated, look, I don't know who you are, wise ass, but never disrespect the memory of my dead son. Ackman attempted what was described as an apology to which Biden said, just shut the hell up. Jesus.

Never thought I'd be on Biden's side, but God bless. Wait, so now he's pretty much any one of his tweets, you can see all the blue check dick writing. It's funny how the blue check thing has totally done a 180. At first, it was a bunch of inseparable leftists, and now it's just a bunch of brain dead ridoids. Oh, yeah. And anytime Ackman tweets, you get some dick writers in the replies.

And now that he was referencing a gladiator, he tweeted the other day. This shit is driving me crazy. What did he say into this life into eternity? And then Mary Oxman said, like, we write it, strengthen unity? No, Mary Oxman tweeted strength and honor. He retweeted it and said, I love you. but then he starts it's what is that guy's name roger sterling yeah i think he gets all these guys oh fuck give me a chance to find it here uh strength and honor i think he also said like we ride

at dawn or something oh yeah okay robert sterling i mean this guy literally i think wants to suck his dick he so again just all these guys bought these fucking blue check so they could type such long tweets. He says, going after Bill Ackman's wife is one of the dumbest moves I've ever seen. MIT and Business Insider don't understand the force of nature that's about to come after them. This guy literally beat out Brad Pitt competing for his wife, which also I don't even think is true.

I tried to Google it. It's like, I think she said that she... Brad Pitt and her did a little inside joke where they were like, let's make it look like we're dating or whatever. In order to help her raise money for something. A very private person, something a very private person would do. competing for his wife. While you were losing sleep over not having toilet paper during COVID, he was making $2.6 billion shorting the entire economy. This dude is just built different.

Ackman is righteously pissed off. He's motivated. He's rich as fuck. And he's got some of the best research analysts in the world working for him. I, in parentheses, I worked in military intelligence and Department of Defense analysts don't come close to Wall Street shortsellers when it comes to autistically meticulous research. You think Jen's is, Clickbait journalist and MIT Dean's more comfortable are I think he must have missed that. MIT deans are more comfortable in

Oh, oh, yeah, you think Gen Z, clickbait journalist and MIT Dean's more comfortable in chemistry labs than intense boardroom proxy fights are ready for a guy like this once he gets on the war path? Yeah, right. And then he asked chat GPT or Dolly or whatever to make a

image of Bill Ackman as a Roman emperor. Yeah, and it doesn't even look like him. It looks like Jerome Powell. It does look a lot like Jerome Powell. And it's just a pissed off looking bored, Roman, I was going to say Romanian, Roman, like, not even a gladiator, just a fucking emperor-looking guy. And that's just one guy, obviously, but that is 25,000 likes. I'm like, who are these people who are rooting for a billionaire to shut down press that are reporting untrue things that he doesn't like? And is it, because the same thing happens with the Elon buttwriters.

Is it that they're hoping that he'll want to work with them, collaborate with them, invest in something that they've got going on? Is it, I mean, it's got to be something like that. I mean, you're just hoping that you'll catch some of the piss droppings from when he takes a leak. Speaking of Dick Ryder's chiming in, Elon Musk responded to, you know, Bill Ackman's fucking 3,000 word diatribe about it all happens on X. Just with a quick, I recommend a lawsuit. These people are penises.

They're just a bunch of penises. That's the best way I can describe them as penises. Oh, God. Oh, there's another one. All right, we'll have to have that in the thing here. We'll put all these Bill Ackman. But he's also getting in on that himself. He likes to think of himself as one of these little Roman gladiators because...

Who is Sterling? Ackman, that's what he included in his threat to business insider. he said, you know, we'll tell you when we're ready, but it's going to look a little something like this. And it was a clip from Gladiator where, and he says, on my, on my command, give them hell or whatever the fuck he says. God, that's so, I can't imagine being in my underwear. Being such a cheese dick loser. Well, that, but I can't imagine actually hitting tweet on that and being like, yeah, that feels good. Nobody, everybody's going to think this is cool.

Oh. Well, should we move on to the Iowa caucus? sure we don't have a lot of time left sure got it fucking because the news gets even better right because trump won the caucus oh yeah big time like not even close big time one i got to point out some it was so bad that uh i think the new york times started a um usually they have like a needle to see who's winning and it'll go like oh a little bit niggie haley a little bit ronda santis they had to start that just for second place because they were like well oh yeah this isn't very fun so if you don't know the iowa caucus is is basically the first it's the first step

in the primaries in the primaries in the election year and the way it works is uh the they're choosing delegates that then vote for who they who that party wants to run so in this case it's the uh the so it's this is going to determine what percentage of iowa's 40 national republican convention delegates each candidate will receive the democrats are doing mail-in voting because they're fucking smart because it was, you know, like negative 10 degrees out there. So only 1.6% of GOP delegates are coming from Iowa, but it's still, it's like you were saying privately, it's a momentum thing. Right.

So like if you can, it's not going to make a huge. It doesn't mean much, but it does like in terms of momentum. And like Vivek Ramoswami already dropped out because he, he only got 7.7% of them. Trump got 51.1. DeSantis got 21.2%. Nikki Haley? Is it Nikki Haley? She got 19.1.

and they're spending fucking millions of dollars on this shit. And, you know, so there's a thing, because what have the Republicans been complaining about? Voter ID laws, fraud, all that kind of shit, right? Meanwhile, do you know how they vote in the caucus? Like the actual system? Yeah. They literally are handwritten.

It's just like you write Trump on a piece of paper, and then someone walks around, just like not even, just haphazardly walks around the room, with a fucking brown paper grocery bag collecting votes. Right. Gee, that doesn't sound like a recipe for any kind of fraud. I like Vivek Rivaswamy getting his ass handed to him there, just like running this weird populist campaign trying to like stir up outrage and stuff.

And someone posted a quote from an Iowa voter. I'm not being prejudiced, guys, but I don't like his name. I don't like where he came from. After 9-11, I still harbor a lot of hard feelings. after 9-11, I still harbor a bunch of bad feelings. I think he comes from the same people. Right. Same people brought down the weapons of down them towers.

I don't think it's going to work targeting the hard right. Yeah. And the thing is, a lot of these old people are going to be dying. And a lot of those old people dying are part of the rights core group of voters. That's why they're really desperate to get Trump in. there and go on dictator mode because within a few years they're going to lose a big chunk of their base because they're literally going to be dying off yeah but the democrats are also losing a big chunk oh yeah so that's that's a big concern is i mean bill acman actually was just tweeting

about like the democrats need to fuck did you see he just backed some some random guy i've never even heard of him long shot democrat yeah gave him a gave a gave his pack a million dollars that's the thing too All these guys love to, like, back a Democrat so they don't get, I don't know, remember Alan Dershowitz crying that he wasn't allowed to go to all the parties on Martha's Vineyard because he voted for Trump. Oh, because he liked Trump. Yeah. So, you know, but then they like to get in bed with, like, Christopher Rufo and be like, no, no, no, you know,

I back the Democrat. I do wonder who the Democrat, because if it's Biden versus Trump again. We'll just see probably record low turnout. I mean, they would just fucking. he he's fully mask off now he just knows like i can say whatever i want so i'll go on i'll go on and say hey biden shits his pants i heard he shits i heard he got those impic diarrhea he is kind of getting funnier he got i mean he really is kidding that's what's a shame and it's gotten so bad there was some guy who went viral because there's a video of trump getting out of his

fucking suburban SUV thing oh with the eight pizzas he's carrying eight pizzas and the guy go the maga guy goes like my candidate is carrying eight pizzas Joe Biden would barely be able to hold two without like falling and landing on his face it's like that's what we're that's what it's come down to which dipshit old fart lead poison brain candidate can carry more boxes of fucking little Cesar's 10 feet no one actually gives the shit I know I just wish they would both I wish they would solve it with a drag race and and uh that might solve our problems i don't think either of them are going to get to the finish line i well because i remember for some reason growing up on on fox our local fox affiliate there was always a never-ending shortage of like world's wildest videos and uh police chase

videos and there was always it seemed like every week there was a drag race somewhere in middle America that ended in flames. And I remember thinking as a kid, I'm like, why are, why are they doing this? If every race seems to end in flames, like, who are these people going, all right, hope mine doesn't crash? Like, no, it's going to crash. And it's going to crash into the other guy. That was the local mayor's race.

Oh, that's what they were doing every time. And it's like, well, they died. So no mayor again. No mayor again. Oh, God. I got to still go visit that one dog, the town here in California, whose mayor is a dog. dog who I don't know some big fat golden retriever yeah it's always a golden retriever yeah I mean can you imagine any other breed being a fucking mayor maybe a Boston terrier I could see being a

mayor make out a video you're going to meet that dog meet the mayor and slipping him some chocolate you kill I wouldn't do that also people need to come down with the chocolate thing it would take so much chocolate to take down a dog especially a golden retriever really yes it's by body weight So, like, maybe a little, even a little dog would have to eat so much chocolate for it to be really toxic. Like a whole Hershey's bar? More than that. What if I left that, two Hershey bar? Two Hershey bars.

I guess, should we get to, should we get to inflate? Yeah, you want to hit us with it real quick? I don't know. I just, because everybody's all, everybody's all freaking out thinking that the fed's going to lower rates, at least, like. five times in 2004, but inflation might stick for the following reasons, according to the Bank of America.

The conflict in the Red Sea has caused container prices to spike 90% in the last few weeks, which is really substantial. Crude oil could spike to $150. Bank of America also highlighted elevated core services inflation, a 5% raise for government employees in 2024,

a pickup and housing starts, and a bunch of other risks, including weather grain shipment disruptions due to war in Ukraine and geopolitical risks in general. And it sucks because a big drop in stocks could prompt the Fed to lower rates. And a big rally could make them ease these tight financial conditions. But doing so would paradoxically rekindle the inflation in the first place. Inflation's doing that bad meme gestures towards everything. Yeah, yeah.

What's wrong, inflation? Yeah. At least we're not Argentina. They just had a 25% CPI increase in December to our 0.3%. And their annual total is 211% to our 3.4% annual. So that's a lot of inflation down near me. I don't know about that, dude. Well, I'm sure that new wacky libertarian president will help him out.

Every time I see his face, it reminds me of someone. I can't think of who. He kind of looks like Joaquin Phoenix A little bit He kind of looks like Leather Face in the like 2003

Texas Chainsaw Masker The Rob Zombie one? I don't know if it is Rob Zombie I've listened to I had it on the radio The other day And a Rob Zombie song came on Man I forgot how fucking bonkers

Those songs are Every song is just Dundan ticot And him going Yeah Yeah Roshy and that man Yeah

We look good in the cowboy boot, yeah. Oh, we're going to have to check that for copyright infringement. Yeah. I couldn't name a single Rob Zombie song. But those of you don't know, Rob Zombie was a horror metal? What would you call that? Yeah, like horror rock.

Sex metal? Sexy. But then also had a pivot into a filmmaker, horror movies and stuff. Yeah, he did some horror. He did it, I think he did a Texas Chainsaw movie. No, he did Halloween movies. He did? Yeah.

Didn't he? But he did one with like a fun house because there was a clown. House of a Thousand Corpses. Oh, yeah. I really liked him in like middle school. Rob Zombie? Yeah. I mean, I had him on one of my cassette mixtapes.

Hell yeah. I think it was that one. Yeah. I had to go to like See Me Valley to go see Devils Rejects his second movie. That was really disturbing. Oh, that one looked scary. I'm not a scary movie guy. That one looked like it would ruin my whole shit.

When I saw The Hills Have Eyes, I was like, people watch this shit. I think that was the last horror movie I was. I watched half of it and I was like, this is the worst thing of it. It's terrifying, dude. It's so scary. Yeah. And people take their... You liked it?

No, no, no. I can't talk because then we just turns into movies. Well, who cares? Turns in a movie talk. Well, yeah, well, maybe we'll talk more about horror movies. We got a lot coming in the bonus episode. And as usual, if you are still watching or listening, what the fuck? And, you know...

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Is that Thursday? Mm-hmm. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Wow. What are you going to do? Are you going to, like, ask them to do something? Yeah, I'm going to ask everyone to do something.

Fair. Okay. All right, bye, everybody. I love you, bye.