The Daily Zeitgeist - Eat The Rich, Not Lunchables 04.11.24

Episode Date: April 11, 2024

In episode 1657, Jack and guest co-host Andrew Ti are joined by comedian, Jacquis Neal, to discuss… Turns Out Economists Don’t Understand The Economy At All? Lunchables (The Children’s Meal Created By Big Tobacco) Is Apparently Full Of Poison and more! Experts thought they knew how the economy worked. After the pandemic, they’re not so sure. What’s Going on with the U.S. Economy? Inflation Picks Up to 3.2%, Slightly Hotter Than Expected Lunchables found to contain relatively high lead levels The Untold Truth Of Lunchables The 30-Year Reign of Lunchables Many of today’s unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food HOW LUNCHABLES ENDED UP ON SCHOOL LUNCH TRAYS KRAFT HEINZ RAMPS UP MARKETING TO SCHOOL CHILDREN, DRAWING SOME CRITICISM Consumer Reports urges USDA to remove Lunchables From National School Lunch Program Andrew Ti's Malört Cookie Recommendation: I made a Malört Cookie and it's really good 🫢 LISTEN: Sexy Villain by Remi WolfSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I know that looking's wrong, but it can't be that bright. Blinded with Zeitgeist. The eclipse is long gone and everything looks like night. That is courtesy of Steaming Chuck on the discord in reference to our advice to all our listeners to just raw dog the eclipse with their eyeballs just no ocular raw doggery no eye protection and our bad i guess we gotta say our bad folks we were way off on that advice. Steaming Chuck credited that one to Manfred Mann's Earth Band, which that's certainly the version I am most familiar with that I was singing. But that song was actually originally written by Bruce Springsteen before he found his writing voice

and started writing songs about factory workers who've been kicked like a dog too much or whatever instead of like that song does not sound like a bruce spring he's like curly whirlies and someone named like go-kart mozart i feel like it was like the one song that bruce springsteen wrote on acid or something they're very strange but that's such a great image i love that's like, oh, I don't know if I like this. Gotta go back to my shift. Gotta go back to my shift. Is there something here? Oakheart Mozart checking out the weather chart.

See if it was safe outside. I don't know. You guys figure it out. Anyways, that voice you heard, I'm thrilled to be joined by a very special guest, co-host, a hilarious and brilliant producer and TV writer. You know him from the Yo, Is This Racist's andrew t the best t the best podcast occasional guest host another one another one there it is all all of his catchphrases i just forgot was it does miles usually look up some holidays? Because it's National Cheese Fondue Day, which

I assumed was redundant, but there must be actually... The cheese lobby put something in because it's also National Poutine Day, although it's unclear whether it's this nation or the more obvious nation for poutine to be nationally recognized.

National Constipation day yeah yeah back it up which nation is national which nation is claiming national poutine day is is a good question it doesn't say yeah and i'm not gonna look further i guess i guess america for a while there after like going to just for laughs in Montreal and having poutine, I was annoyingly evangelical about poutine. Like, why don't we have this for every meal? But then I started noticing how I felt after I ate poutine. One of the single worst slash, I get it, this was very generous and thank you to everyone who supported everyone while we were on strike. But one of the

worst days was it was hot it was the summertime and someone donated a poutine truck to one of the picket lines and it is honestly wild that is like the single most dehydrated day i've ever had among many other bad feelings i felt fucking terrible what if spaghetti but instead of spaghetti sauce it was salty gravy and cheese and instead instead of pasta it was salty french fries oh okay yeah no that i mean it works it certainly works but just like shit outside in the sun what if it was like 97 degrees yeah yeah yeah your eyeballs just start raisining up a little bit it was pretty good pretty good yeah wow well andrew we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by another one of our favorite guests on this very podcast an

award-winning podcast host writer producer actor you know from from Grand Crew, How I Met Your Father. It's Jekis Neo! Oh, I'm back now. And it's Jekis. And it's Zype, Zype, Zype, Zype, Zype. Yeah. Hey, what up, Negroes? What up, what up? What's up, man?

Man, it's been a while, man. It's been a while. What up, Zype gang? It's been a wild, man. It's been a while. What up, Zeitgang? A wild while. Did you miss me, Zeitgang? Are you happy? Are you? I hope somebody just crashed their car.

Hearing my voice. Out of horniness. Yes, out of horniness. I hope people listen to the Daily Zeitgags while they're having sex. And somebody just came as soon as they heard my voice your voice they're just like well that was too soon i'm sorry but you know they're like i totally understand that i hope it was i hope it was a girl who never comes and she finally came she finally came so hard yeah yes yes step your game up fellas or ladies there you go because we don't discriminate here ladies cannot make you come to

now that's right ladies can be bad lovers ladies can suck at sex too now yes um i do love i do love the idea people for your for your uh fuck playlist just raw dog shuffle on every piece of media you have on your phone. Anything that's there. Don't curate. Curating is so weak will. Just play anything. Just play whatever you got. If Barack Obama's

DNC speech from 2004 pops up while you're banging, don't stop. Chapter 11 of Freakonomics you forgot to delete. Went from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to the 37th chapter of Infinite Jest. We kept

going. Just fuck through it. Fuck through Infinite Jest. If you could put curse words in your title the title of this episode should be just fuck through it just fuck through it yes and really that's the side guys we all want to live in daily that's true fuck through it keep calm and fuck through it all you know well jakees it's wonderful to have you back. Ah, good to be back. How are you? Great to hear your voice. I'm doing great. I'm doing great. Good.

Yeah. Did everybody have a safe, ocularly safe eclipse? Did anybody experience anything? I have not looked at the sun in 14 weeks, so I did not partake in anything to do with it. Yeah, just staying in the dark? I was in a doctor's appointment at the time an allergy appointment at the time and i was like oh i think there's something going on right now and then i looked out the blinds and i was like it's still daylight yeah we weren't really we didn't see my dog was kind of sniffing at the the shadows i can't tell she was freaked out or there's just something down there i did have a friend who took a special trip

to the Zone of Totality and was in like, you know, somewhere in the middle of America and she sent me photos from a thrift shop of several Nazi knives. So, was it worth it? Of course, she has all these new knives.

But also, if you did enjoy the eclipse, are a nazi yeah that is what i'm hearing yeah that's what i'm hearing it really is like going to the middle of nowhere and just being somewhere where it's dark outside and there's all these nazi knives like that's like a real bad horror movie like yeah i'm just like oh man they they try to put too much stuff in this movie there's not enough eclipse movies i would say because yeah miles pitched one a couple weeks ago where bank robbers like plant a string of bank robberies along the path of totality to like time up with the the eclipse because everybody's looking at the sky although i guess everybody's just like looking at the sky while a bank robbery happening is happening is we'll see what it be a pretty quick

one what happens is what happens is you know and when when the sky gets dark it makes everybody in that town in the zone of totality blind yes um you know they can't see it was actually one of the plot points that we were pitching is that they somehow like oceans 11 have a guy who gets counterfeit eclipse glasses out to an entire town of cops and then they uh are all immediately blinded and that is such a good reminder wouldn't that be funny in one in one bank in one bank like the bank is half in like totality and the other half isn't and the half that's in totality is only the side with like dollar bills and like all the high dollar bills are at the side where people can see so you know you can only sell like $30. Yeah. Got to do it. I'm surprised that no one know.

I guess by the time the next eclipse, this will definitely happen. But they haven't come up with some sort of like neon skywriting that they can just like do over the eclipse. So this eclipse brought to you by Chase Bank. Yum brands. Yeah. I love it. You gave me an idea. We all love it. Now I just an idea. We all love it.

We do all love it. Now I just have to stay alive for 20 years. I mean, they tried. Like, I feel like Pizza Hut had their Eclipse special. Sun Chips. Sun Chips had a flavor of, this is, by the way, this is what I'm like at a party. I'm just remembering stories we covered on previous episodes. like at a party i'm just remembering stories we covered on previous episodes uh but sun chips offered an eclipse flavor that was available for all you could only buy it during the eclipse so if you felt like spending the eclipse huddled over your laptop delicious yeah or you with your

apple vision pros so you can look at the eclipse and order SunChips online at the same time. There you go. You know, Jack, you say that you're not fun at a party, but what I'm hearing is you bring the party to the podcast. That's right. Pure party Jack is here. That's right. Pure party Jack. My other AKA.

All right. Jackies, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of the things that we're talking about we're gonna talk about the economy stupid the consumer price index rose again startling economists and nobody else i've actually had this story ready to go since the last month when consumer prices rose and economists were like, what the heck? So we're going to talk about that because they're like, everything has stopped. Economics gravity has gone away. Nothing makes sense anymore. And I want to talk about why that doesn't seem to be the case to me a

economics expert we're gonna talk about lunchables the children's meal created by big tobacco that is and you're not gonna believe this apparently full of poison no jack yeah i know it's it's fucking like if we can't trust our lunchables then who can we trust anyways we're going to talk about all that plenty more but first jakees yes we do like to ask our guests what is something from your search history porn baby okay i had a feeling all types all types of porn i'm looking at bbc bb wise bbgs uh what's the b what would a bbg be gut big bone guts yeah you know i i i don't actually i have turned my like search history off on my phone you know because i just did so like i'm like you know what what do i be searching what do i be searching and i'll tell you i'm on my way to japan are you really i am gonna be in japan for about a month so if any zeitgeist fans are in japan please welcome me uh but i'm going to be in japan pretty

soon so i'm i'm kind of just in like you know if i'm not looking up ways to aid my masturbation i am looking up like japan tips uh tips for traveling to japan yeah that's my search history you can combine those two interests pretty easily yeah Yeah. Not here, Andrew. Not here. I can only talk about those things in private. You are Googling ways to aid your masturbation. Yes. How can I do this?

Like, what's a better grip? What's a better grip? The one I'm using. You know? Like, if I, you know, like, yeah, what's a better grip? What can I do with my fingertips? There you go. You know yeah what's the better grip what can i do with my fingertips you know what's what's the best oil uh the wrist counts as hand still yeah if i squeeze my dick between my elbows will that does that count yeah that's what i just i just tried pantomiming that for anyone not on Zoom. Just to actually...

I know this is more about me being inflexible, but I can only barely do that. I mean, it's about you being inflexible. And I would also say that dick size has something to do with it. Yeah, I have to reach so far above my head to get to my dance. You know who you could talk to about Japan? You might notice that

the regular co-host for this show is not here. That's why I agreed to come today. He is taking a quick trip to Japan. Is he? When? Do you know? Right now. He's there now. Oh, he's there now? Oh, shit. I'll probably be there. Back on Monday, Tuesday. Oh, fuck.

I'm leaving on Tuesday. Oh, damn. Just gonna miss it. Tell him to just hide you something at the airport. I will. Just to give you a little package somewhere. I'll tell him to hide me a bomb. Yeah. Okay. But not an explosive one. Yeah. Right. Right. Right.

Not an explosive one. Just something that's da bomb. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A confetti bomb. A confetti bomb. Yes. Those are fun. That's tight. No, but I'm, yeah, I'm looking for anybody, you know, if anybody got any fun tips, shoot them my way. I'm open to them all.

I'm going to be, like I said, in Japan for three and a half weeks, almost a month. Damn. Hell yeah. It's going to be a good time. It's going to be a good-ass time. That's awesome. And specifically for Japan tips and not masturbation tips because the internet is good. Yeah, I got those.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I got that all clear, man. I got that all clear. My elbows are greased and ready to go. What is something you think is underrated not having to drive not having to drive is a beautiful fucking thing and i know like there are some people who live in cities where you don't have to drive a lot i want to talk to you because you don't know the other side you don't know you don't know what it's like to need to have to

commute so you're spoiled and i was a spoiled brat once i used to live in chicago we didn't have to drive in chicago but living in this concrete jungle called los angeles that we live in we have to drive and man i love getting rides man i love getting rides i'm telling you now if somebody ever asks me like you want to drive my answer is going to be? My answer is going to be no. Yeah. It's going to be no. I'm going to say no.

You can drive. I'll take the passenger seat. I will just sleep. I'll just, I'll lean that. There's nothing like leaning that chair back on the passenger seat, putting on some sunglasses, have some music playing, and like, you know, only waking up when the person driving has to slam on their brakes like that's a beautiful fucking thing it's beautiful i i don't trust other people to drive like this is my problem with flying too because i'm like just the feeling of not being in

control totally a psychological defect on my on my part it's not it's not a good thing but yeah i prefer to drive and to be driven. You prefer to be in control. See, I had some shows in San Diego this past weekend and I took the train down. I was like, I don't feel like driving. I'm taking the train down. Hell yes to a train. It was beautiful. I watched WrestleMania

on the way back. It was gorgeous. It was a gorgeous evening of commuting that I didn't have to do anything i didn't have to sit there does the train to san diego still have that business where you have to take a like a bus for part of it or does it is it they fix uh i didn't like i so what i did was i just i i there is a train that comes to and from burbank which is the town i live in don't come find me uh but i but it's like the times it's gonna be

real hard to find the the black guy in burbank in burbank it's gonna be so hard it's gonna be so hard so i just go to union station and park and it's like seven dollars to park for the whole fucking day yeah train there and back they must have fixed it It was at some point during last year, like part of the track washed out. Oh, yeah. San Clemente. Yeah, yeah. That's not related to anything about how the globe is

changing in any way. No, you're incorrect. Earth is trying to have fun, dude. Who don't like slides? I like a slide. Who doesn't love mud slides you ever seen romance in the stone that shit looks fun as hell it looks great man journey to the center of the earth that shit seems fun the coastliner how the fuck do you guys have so many mud slide scenes queued up

i can't think of one goonies kind of a mudslide. More of just a water slide in the earth for some reason. I still got nothing. I got nothing. Yeah. The Coastliner is a blast. Highly recommend for anybody in L.A.

And you're about to go to the land of convenient train travel, by the way. Bro, I can't wait to get on the bullet train, man. It's going to be great. I also was thinking of something. This is the toxic traits of my brain. Have you ever thought, like, all right, so, like, if you're standing on a platform and, like, you see the train coming, right? Yeah. And you're like, could I jump from one platform to the other and miss the train?

Yes. I think about that all the time. We're raised on the same movies, man. Yeah, I think I could fucking do it. The movie Entrapment, that's how Sean Connery flirted with Catherine Zeta-Jones, was he would just jump through a train as a way to just, yeah. It's so easy. It feels easy to me in my brain.

I'm like, all right, the train is that far. I see it coming. I see the distance. All right. If I time it, because I don't want to just jump. I want to jump and have there be a hint of peril. Like, I want to jump and make it. I don't want to just jump and then train is like a block down the street.

I want to jump and make it. So, like, I think I could time it out perfectly and do it yeah and if i don't you know it's been real yeah let me throw this out there for you jakey sorry i got excited i because now i'm hearing uh another a pitch for my second business idea of the episode which is just sort of like you you know those kind of like foam gymnastics places for kids? Yeah. One of those, but for grown men to do all the toxic shit that they probably shouldn't try.

So like a fake train tracks and I guess like a huge fucking train, two train-sized blocks of foam that go by at 30 miles an hour. Flying by. Just to see if you could jump across. Yes. Other stuff like that.

Have you ever been walking up the stadium and you look back and you're like, I wonder if I could jump from here to the court. You know? From the top row to the court. If I could jump far enough out that it wouldn't catch me. I know I couldn't, but I think if I jump down, I can jump and grab the next level bar down.

And then jump and grab the next level. I think I could do so much shit. Yeah. You know what I am? I am The Rock and Sam Jackson and other guys. Yes. When they jumped off that fucking building. It was like, just aim for the bushes.

I'm like, yeah. Aim for the bushes. And then like, yeah, aim for the bushes. And then they smacked the ground. Or like a big fake dumpster full of stuff and just like a building. Oh no, that was medical waste. That was all the used syringes you jumped into.

Oh, fuck. Anyway, there's got to be some warehouse in like city of industry that we could we could host this this event at oh man i love that idea yeah i have an overactive call of the void where like anytime i'm like on a building top or just anything my brain there is a big chunk of my brain that's like telling me to, you know, do something deadly. Yeah, I can touch that. I love that. I can jump across this street.

Granted, at street level, I would never think I could do that. But up here, sure thing. It would be easy. Jaquese, what's something you think is overrated? This is going to sound weird, but follow me. And mostly follow me because I'm thinking all this bullshit up off the top of my head. Yeah, yeah. No no that's clear i think i think this is gonna sound weird i think health is overrated health here's what i mean by that i don't think being healthy is overrated and i don't

think finding ways to feel healthy is overrated that's not what i'm saying i think the things that we need to do to be healthy and to find the health and all the hoops we have to jump through is overrated it shouldn't be this fucking hard yeah to obtain health and i know people are like preach jackie start talking about health insurance. Nah, man, works for your health insurance yourself. I'm a Republican. But what I'm saying is, you shouldn't have to, there's so much shit. Like, we got to pay so much money. You got to walk all the time.

And like, I can be just enjoying myself and i get the bubble guts and i gotta go but like i'm saying that our bodies are fucking flawed design yeah and the fact that we need to do so much shit to maintain being alive is miserable it's so miserable and it's so overrated and And like, if we could get to a point where we are just robots and we could just plug our stream of consciousness into a machine that can turn on and off and be fixed and do all the things, fucking give it to me, give it to me.

It would be so much better than the human bodies that the good Lord have given. So that is what I think. What fucks me up is that the sun gives you cancer. That's crazy. That's crazy. Every time my kids go outside, I have to just treat them like they're a beekeeper. Oh, my God.

It's crazy, man. Especially for white people, man. Y'all greatest enemy is what keeps the planet alive. I know. It's crazy, man. Especially for white people, man. Y'all greatest enemy is what keeps the planet alive. I know. It's terrible, man. Well, that is why they're trying to kill the planet. Yeah, yeah. We're just trying to get that shit a little bit lonelier.

This is propaganda from Robo-Jackies, and I feel like you're not telling us something. This does feel like you're not telling us something. Ha ha. This does feel like Jakeese slowly planting seeds and then in five years we'll be like,

oh, he's been a robot. I've been a robot this whole time. Let me tell y'all something. Wait, you guys even know Jakeese? Oh yeah, Jakeese has been a robot. Have you heard about this thing called AI? You know how they implanted one of those Elon Musk chips in someone's brain?

That was Jakeeth. Jakeeth's actually really tight with, that's why he's a Republican now. He's really tight with Elon Musk. Elon Musk. Opportunistic Republican. If you could like become friends with Elon Musk and just like have

billions and billions of dollars at your fingertips. I would do it I don't know I would probably not but like I would do it I'll tell you why I would do it let me tell you why I would do it because if I can like

have a purely transactional relationship with a white man and get everything I fucking want you damn right give give me my goddamn reparations. I give it to me. Give it to me. I'll take it. I'll take everything. I don't like him. I don't like him, but I'll

take everything from him. I mean, obviously you're a better actor than me, but most people, I'm like just such a bad actor. I have no poker face. I would just get fired from that job is the problem. The looks of disgust that i would be flashing inadvertently yeah but in my world in my world in this friendship i can do that though yeah i guess it's a true friendship yeah you fucking suck bro yeah so anyway uh can i get this new Mercedes Benz? Ha ha ha, Jacky's. Based. Based.

Jacky's is always so fun. He's so based. He's so funny, this guy. Oh, man. All right. Okay. Well, fuck health. Fuck health. Let's take a quick break,

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Wall Street was, of course, supposed to take a shit during the pandemic since the entire economy shut down. But instead, corporations were reporting record profits. That was my first clue. Just like pop that in your brain that the entire economy shut down and they were reporting record profits. That doesn't seem to make sense. And then we have this thing happening now where, you know, during the pandemic, they were like, inflation is out of control. But that's a couple reasons there, actually. So the reason that we're having inflation is supply chain problems, which made sense to, I think, everybody. And also, you guys have too much money like they we the government gave you guys a check for 200

and that's fucking everything up there's all these like part like there's this new york times article where they were like and people were just like went on spending sprees, like just like evoking this image of us all like getting our checks from Joe Biden and just like waking up in a pile of like half unboxed flat screen TVs, just being like, I don't know what happened, you know, like just we had too much money and that was the problem so so now they're like they're like last month the new york times is like what's going on with the u.s economy and they started making up shit like economic overheating and the economy being too good and it is yeah it is dope how much of economics is just like it's like it's like being a Supreme Court justice, which is like, you decide what you want to say politically and then backfill a reason for it. Yeah, yeah.

It's like, yeah, oh, they're just making shit up to blame. Oh, okay, cool. Cool, of course. Yeah. It's also funny, too, because it is one of those things that like we aren't taught growing up yeah i'm like in schools unless you seek it out or anything like that or what the economy really is and everything like that and as we do grow up it's just as can is just nothing but confusing shit like i'm scared, it just lies in the classroom.

Like, I'm scared to talk about the economy because of things... Like, there's this whole section in one of these articles that's like, these economic indicators are supposed to be the reason, like, are supposed to drive inflation down. And it's like, prices going up, but unemployment being down. And, like, going up but uh unemployment being down and like they so they

list like this fucking stew of economic indicators and they're like usually that means that inflation is going to go down you know how i know when economy is is right man yeah it's when my cousin who sells shrooms and acid gotta start selling crack when he gotta start selling crack because i know who the economy bad bro the economy is bad he gotta yeah that's how i do i wish i remember who who wrote this on twitter but someone was like the fact that a-list celebrities are doing commercials during non super bowl season means the economy is real bad yeah right yeah their their investments are not looking good one yeah yeah but like i I just think it's much simpler. All of this has started to make sense to me once I realized that the thing that the mainstream media refers to as the economy is just a metric for how rich the ultra wealthy are getting.

just a metric for how rich the ultra wealthy are getting. And it's really just at the expense of people who don't own stock at this point. Like they've just realized that they can raise prices as much as they want. And they're completely insulated from like what the economy looks and feels like to everybody else. So it's just like that's the rest of our money that they're making record profits with. It just seems really simple when you think about it that way.

There's this economist, I think Richard Wolff. Yeah, Richard Wolff. He's like this old guy who's like kind of a left-leaning economist. And just his description of like what happened during the pandemic is like, what we had was a situation in which corporations across America understood that the money pumped into the economy to cope with the crash that we were due to have, coupled with the pandemic, was an extraordinary time the government pumped in enormous amounts of money enormous amounts of fiscal stimulus and this made it possible to

raise prices to improve profitability so it also like bakes in this detail which is that they were price gouging during a pandemic like during during a time where they were like where their commercials were so fucking solemn. And we're like, now more than ever. But they were price gouging. That's what inflation is. Is companies price gouging. And they're just being a complete disconnect between the corporations and the people who control them and own stock in them. And everything else. Like the vast, vast majority of the other people the the way that we as a collective society and especially those of us

who aren't ultra wealthy um have been taken advantage of because a pandemic happened that we did not ask for right Right. I had a little hand in it, but go ahead. Good for you. I did say, and this is true, I did say before it started, I feel like we could all use a snow day. If we're

going to be closed for a week, that could be fun. That'll be a nice relaxing thing. I did not know it was going to be closed for a year. If we're admitting things, I guess I did let my pet bat out that night. Oh, man. Listen, I've said this before, maybe even on this

show, but now I got to try bat at some point. Yeah. See if it gives you some other, like, some power. It's a mammal. If it's that good. If it's that good. It's just my favorite foods are mammals but it's crazy man and like everything everything is so much more expensive than it was

before the pandemic and everything is so much more like less available it feels like and and i mean and we're starved those that those little like 18 19 months when people were like i can't do nothing like we're so starved to like do things and want things and experience life because so many people feel like they missed out on life and so many people passed away and so many people are dealing with things mentally and physically emotionally from that pandemic that like everybody who is in charge of how we spend our money is taking advantage of all of that is taking advantage of it's so wild to me that we i don't know we're not letting it happen but i don't know what it's just at some point it feels like something has to break yeah and i don't know we're not letting it happen but i don't know what it's just at some point it feels like something has to break yeah and i don't know when that's going to be or what that is or even if it's going to be but or we're just going to be how we normally are which is just find a way you know

gas has been five dollars in california for almost two years now it's fucking crazy yeah it's crazy man it's insane yeah yeah you know all of this is it's like the the reason ostensibly we have like a government like we do is that we don't solve these problems with people throwing bricks in the street but yeah yeah that's for now i guess i don't yeah they're they're it's like they're forcing that to be the only way to make change i'm not saying that is gonna happen or it shouldn't happen i guess but it does seem like what the options ever narrow for a normal person yeah there's this the hill article that you know the hill's like a

very centrist like political thing and it says experts thought they knew how the economy worked after the pandemic. They're not so sure. It like lays out this mystery of like all the things that aren't working the way that they're supposed to and like how they're so surprised that like President Biden's economics like ratings from voters is so low, despite the fact that like, it's getting all these great marks when like, according to Wall Street, you know, but then like, when they get to the end, where they're like, what are some theories that could explain this complete mystery? It's like a bunch of occupied talking points. It's just like, the top 1% owns more than half of the stock market, the bottom 50% owns less than one percent like it's just it's the shit that people have been saying for fucking decades at this point

and they're just like i mean maybe like i don't know like this is this seems crazy but maybe it's this that it's a very small portion of the population determining how much we all pay and they get to raise prices and it doesn't affect them at all other than giving them record profits like that's that's and it hurts us but they are not us they couldn't be further from the rest of the world who have to like consume things and And they're, I don't know, like people are also like talking about the seventies and, you know,

that was a time when there was, you know, inflation was a major concern, but back then there was like a strong enough labor movement that inflation hurt capital. Like it hurt the people who are in the c-suite more than it did workers and we are just so far from that that like there's going to need to eventually be like the government being like yo like you you have to stop price gouging like that like that's well it seems crazy but

like that i mean they did that in the 70s. They did put like price controls in place. And like the fucking dickheads who are economists would say, well, this is just a ripe opportunity for someone to out-compete these corporations. To which it's like super clear. It's like the competition is not in selling stuff. It's in your stock price and they have all agreed that the stock price like can like it's better to gouge people than than not yeah like there's no there's no reason except for the fact that that yeah the economy is the

stock market and it's not the economy. Listen into or just like read reports about their earnings calls and their earnings calls are just them being like, so we had this fucking crazy idea to just raise prices on people and wouldn't you know it, our profits went way up and now we're choosing to,

with all that extra money we made, we're investing in our own stock price to like make ourselves richer, essentially. Just make our stockholders richer. Yeah. I think there's a fascination right now with airport pricing. In the zeitgeist, there was that meme about people keeping track of checks mix prices at various airports around America. Kylie.

Kylie was doing that. Yeah exactly and yeah it was like almost random it just didn't totally make sense but it i think people are interested in that at some level because like we're realizing everything is airport prices like everything is airport prices now. Yeah. Because like, it's not like airports, like it costs more money to sell, to get the checks mixed into airports. The reason they sell you that for a marked up price is because they know you are captive because you're in the airport and you're not going to go back

through security. And I feel like the entire country, the entire economy is just like yeah what if this was all an airport and we could just make everybody pay as much as we fucking wanted because like people don't have the time to like do all the cost comparisons and if everybody's raising prices there's no good option for them yeah man let's drive the 99 or the 99 cent store out of business you know goddamn hash brown at mcdonald's is over three dollars right insane that's 99 it was 99 cent before the pandemic and breakfast was all day yeah and now you know and

and now is you know i'll go get me a go get me a little bacon, egg, and cheese McGriddle meal, and I'm paying $11 for that shit. Yeah. It's crazy, man. It's crazy. You just got to make your own. Yeah. I can buy new elbow grease for that much money. Yeah.

Like even John Deere, which had one of the highest profile strikes during the pandemic, they held out to to like their workers held out to get a 10 percent raise the company still expected to earn more the following year than the record profit it made the year before like it they're just all making record profits and like fighting kicking and screaming to when if it comes to paying anybody anymore yeah yeah well there's only one thing left to do yeah yeah kill them that's right like but it is just it's it's wild to read year after year month after month the mainstream media just continue to be like just treat it like a mystery like the way they talk about inflation uptick this month is increasing inflation was also bad news for workers

as real average hourly earnings were flat on the month and increased just 0.6% over the past. It's like, oh, no way. It's bad news for workers that they don't get paid more while prices keep going up. Like that's, yeah, that's inflation. That's what is happening here. And they treat going up like that's yeah that's inflation that's that's what is happening here yeah they treat it almost like it's an accident instead of it's like the whole

point i guess i'm don't understand enough about economics in the terms of art but isn't that not inflation because doesn't inflation imply that the wages also go up yeah i mean they supposedly well that's supposed to be a cause of it yeah yeah right so i guess yeah consumer this is consumer price index and like inflation is supposed to be like all money is becoming yeah like is changing but well right yeah that was when they were like if you give poor people money it's just gonna raise prices on them and then it's just no good why don't we not give poor people money or not even poor people workers just pay people normal

wages sorry I shouldn't have even said that but like you know it's like yeah fucking oh that was just a political position that you try to make a like an economic justification for weird weird I'm still real in that Andrew

call me poor. That's right. But yeah, supposedly it was the relief checks that were causing inflation. And then those ran out years ago. And they're like, huh, inflation is still going up. They still want to say that's why everything costs so much. It's like, oh, they're so mad about those like couple hundred dollar checks. And so they're saying literally the economy is too strong. And that's what that's why we're all fucked. Because the economy is just too damn strong and people are going to have to start losing their jobs before the inflation goes down. and people are going to have to start losing their jobs before the inflation goes down.

Cool. Or maybe stop prioritizing profit over everything else and stop allowing companies to do that. But that doesn't... It sounds childish.

Also, it's like one of those things where it's continually... The other place that there has barely been inflation is how little it costs to buy a fucking politician. Yes. I'm just like, it is shocking. Every time you hear what campaign finance, all this shit, is asking for... I mean, don't get me wrong, it's a lot of money and there's too much money in politics, blah, blah, blah. It is depressing how cheap it is to buy a fucking congressperson and there's too much money in politics but blah blah blah it is depressing

how cheap it is to buy a fucking congressperson yeah yeah honda civic yeah yeah i'd be thinking of that too i'd be thinking like oh yeah man like oh they'd be involved you know get money and then i go look at like the actual donations and it'd be like twenty thousand dollars i'm like i can do that yeah truly yeah it's like what the fuck are you talking like you can change laws laws for like low six figures sometimes high that's crazy like it's just like what the fuck is happening here yeah we all can be bought it's just it's just a matter of how much have some fucking self-respect corrupt politicians like Raise the price at least. God sakes.

I gave Andrew one time $450,000. And I won't tell you the unspeakable things Andrew did. But you know what? Yeah. At least there was a reason and a cost.

I gave him more than I gave Mitch McConnell, man. It's crazy. It's crazy. You hate to hear that, huh, Andrew? Let's just say both of those bribes were not election related and they were Mitch McConnell related. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series,

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which I never took them for being like a muckraking, you know, like voice of the people, but they just issued a scathing statement alleging that lunchables meal kits contain not just crackers processed meat and sadness but also relatively high levels of lead and cadmium hell yeah. So this isn't that surprising given that Lunchables have a pretty terrible history, starting with the fact that it was literally launched by tobacco giants, Philip Morris, after they acquired craft in the eighties. So around in the 1980s, like the science had caught up on tobacco and they were like, all right, we've got to stop putting all our money into making up fake studies that say smoking actually increases your vertical...

Clears out your lungs. Yeah, it helps your healthy nerves and makes you actually really fast. Carl Lewis smokes menthol. Smokes cools. They had given up on that. And so what they did with all of their massive amounts of money is they bought craft. And you may recognize the 80s as the time that America started having massive problems with obesity due to, in retrospect, pretty clearly due to addictive food. So it's like they were like, all right, so let's take this business model that has worked incredibly well for us, killing massive chunks of the population while

making them addicted to giving us money, and we'll just do it on the food side of things. And that is essentially what they did. So Lunchables actually began as a way for, so Kraft owns Oscar Mayer, and Oscar Mayer at that point was like, poof, nobody wants to eat bologna anymore. They found bologna was like the cigarettes of foods where people are like, oh, wait, it's like mostly like the shit that you see in health informational video clogging lungs. That's like literally what bologna is made of. So maybe we shouldn't. And so in order to get rid of all that excess, you know, they had the machines and they had like the everything up and running, making bologna. They're like, how about we just like fucking unload that shit into kids lunches?

Extrude a different gauge of meat. Yeah, exactly. They're a profit. Different gauge. Exactly. age. Exactly. So they studied mothers and discovered that their most pressing issue was time and that it's hard for working parents to find time to put together lunches. Or as Oscar Meyer saw it, a potential quote, and this is a quote from them, gold mine of disappointments and problems. Yes. It's like they have that and yet they don't put it on the box a real l for their marketing department yeah also is the funny part about this too is like

we hear all these things and also like lunchables have also degraded in quality since even we were so funny it's just like bad quality can get worse yes but then sometimes i also be thinking like i'll be thinking i'll be looking at like some of the shit like you said lead was in lunchables or all the bad shit that's in processed food and i'm like why does all the bad shit taste so good why does lead taste so good man like uh lead is delicious man and you know if lead is in our capri sun that shit was delicious and it's so funny to me that like all see this goes back to what i was saying earlier health robo jakees overrated yo i have no problem integrating lead you gotta eat nasty ass vegetables yeah from the. Which one would you rather have?

They used the same strategies that worked with tobacco for Lunchables, including what they call line extensions. So like new flavors and formulas. So Marlboros will do Marlboro Lights and Marlboro Wives, Marlboro Reds. So Lunchables started having Snickers bars or reese's cups or kool-aid or hot dogs tacos pancakes when they bought those pizzas remember and we used to man as kids we was like this shit is delicious this is high as value it really was such a grainy bread that you're so nasty i can't it's uncooked cheese cold marinara sauce and soft cracker bread yeah exactly one pediatrician called lunchables a nutritional disaster and a craft spokesperson

responded this is what kids want there are very few kids out there who will eat rice cakes and tofu so like they they just like use the language of like fucking children to be like what are you gonna make us eat fucking rice cakes loser and then and then the guy ceo of philip morris jeffrey bible his name yeah love that when Bible. Yeah. Love that. When he was confronted with the fact that like there's way too much sodium in these like children, school children went from like being normal human beings to being like 45% sodium, just like pillars of salt. His defense was, we're not putting a gun to their heads to eat it. Yeah. His defense was, we're not putting a gun to their heads to eat it.

Yeah. But you're like they designed the packages to look like gifts to like brainwash kids into thinking that and brainwash mothers into being like, oh, see, they love it. Like, I'm doing a nice thing for my kid. We're not putting a gun to your head. Again, really good marketing copy. I don't know why they didn't use it except now they kind of are putting i mean they're like forcing it down kids service because last fall lunchables became eligible to be served as part of the national school lunch program due to lobbying efforts and the company altering two of its products to qualify because it's just they have degraded all forms of regulation to the

point that like it just there's nothing protecting us from whatever is going to be the most profitable thing for these companies and then the mainstream media launders this shit and makes it our fault they're like you guys don't exercise enough look at these countries with or look at these which states have the highest obesity rates and it's like yeah okay but like let's look at the rate of obesity over time and you will see that people in the 70s before exercise had been invented yeah like had extremely low levels of obesity. It all happened in the eighties when fucking cigarette companies started making our food.

You know, it is like we were healthier when you could smoke on planes, which is not, not so good. Right. Yeah. That's a, that's a problem.

And instead now they like sell you grown up lunchable boxes on planes. And that's yeah. You know, it's funny, too, because like fast exercise also became pretty big in the 80s, you know, or home video exercise or, you know, the Richard Simmons of the world. Yeah. And everything like that, that all is just so funny how like one thing can lead into the other. Like, oh, people are a little more unhealthy. Let's make money off of that. Hey, let's have you pay for health.

Yeah. Let's make the exercise. Hey, human. You want to jazzercise instead of just being an efficient being? Yeah. Speaking of efficiency, like they, kids like have less and less time for lunch at school.

And that's like one of the ways they're pitching Lunchables. They're like, students have about 20 minutes to just like fucking swallow their lunch pill, you know? And Kraft also admitted that their altered school-friendly version of Lunchables that are approved for, like, to be the school lunch in public schools

actually contains more sodium than the store-bought versions. Yeah. Good. Good for that. Good for Lunchables. Good for Lunchables. You know, listen, if Lunchables can't survive in this world, then what can?

You know? It is kind of nice to see that like... You say we're haters? Yeah. No, I'm saying everybody criticizing Lunchables is a bunch of fucking haters. They're just on their grind

and they're getting... Yeah. You know how many fucking Lambos the inventor of Lunchables has? So many. Yes. So many. So sick.

I do like how this, like, the Philip Morris ethos is just stronger than anything else. It's like, no, no, we fucking kill people. That's what we were put on this earth to do. We come here to fucking kill people, and it does not matter what we do it with.

We're the John Wick of murdering people with anything. I mean, yeah. The key to, like, my first indication that, like, this form of capitalism we live under and have lived under for a long time might not be great is, like, the cheat code is addictive substances. Like, Coca-Cola Classic is massive

because it started out with cocaine in it and everyone was like obsessed for a while and they were able to use that to like you know it's it's yeah they're going to do the thing that is bad for you to make as much money off as possible and then they're going to in the media call you fat and lazy if your name is on a building within two generations you have a drug dealer in your family exactly that is like that's just how it works yeah just how it works yeah 100 yeah and then it's funny too because like coca-cola like when it was when they had cocaine in it to make you buy it more it was still exponentially cheaper than it is and like even comparatively you know so now if i want cocaine in my coca-cola i gotta pay extra

for that shit yeah and it's just like it's so crazy how when all these things started whether they were bad or the reason they started, like it still was priced in a way that made sense for people to be able to afford them. And now a lot of these things are worse in many ways. Like Coca-Cola is probably worse today without cocaine in it than it was when it was first created just as a product. And it costs three times as much as it should and it's just it's so it's just so funny to me like we aren't getting better we just get worse no it's really we just get worse

yeah especially like just from the 70s when i mean obviously the fact that everyone thought cigarettes were healthy not great but yeah like the the problems have just metastasized and spread since then. And now it's just unaccountable hypercapitalism without anyone pumping any brakes anywhere. That's why you upload your brain to Jaquis City in the cyberverse. That's right. Come on. Come on.

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telling you you can find me at at Jackie's Neal on everything. I will say this. I'm not going to give you something funny. I'm not even going to give you a specific tweet. I am just going to talk for like 45 seconds about how much I enjoyed WrestleMania and and all the content that's coming out afterwards. All the like threads. 20 minutes yesterday on WrestleMania. Oh, I fucking love it.

Actually, today. It was beautiful. It was beautiful. It was one of the best main events, and just all the threads about the storytelling and all the memes about it and how hyped everybody was and how people are excited to enjoy wrestling again. It's been so fucking great, and it's been such a fun time the rock was better than ever as a heel

this time wrestling so all the all the memes all the social media about wwe and wrestlemania has been giving me life over the past few days and shout out to samantha irving who is a ring announcer at wwe for wwe who was fantastic this weekend uh top to bottom great show loved it so that's that's what i'm enjoying right now is all the wrestlemania talk from this past weekend's wrestlemania there you go oh and comedian few comedian few come out to it come out to it if you're in la we're also live streaming we got some really big shows coming up man we got two more shows uh before we take a hiatus for the summer in may and in june so we've been live streaming them and we're going to continue to live stream the next two we got some some really good ones

if you're fans of dropout i got a couple special special surprise contestants that we're going to announce pretty soon. My website is a good, or my, or social media, Instagram, is a good way to find tickets, whether it's in person or online for Comedian Feud. There you go. Andrew T., thank you so much for joining. Where can people find

you? Is there a work of media you've been enjoying? Just Andrew T. I don't know. Yos is racist in my podcast. actually my media i picked it uh because jakees is here wait jack are you are you a chicago guy also no i'm not no you're not yeah yeah that's how i knew that big fan of the bulls in the early i did i okay so my my media is an old one but it is a i guess it was originally a TikTok. I think I saw it on Instagram. Of the whitest man you've ever seen making Malort cookies. Which is gross. And this weekend, I watched it like a thousand times because it was my friend from Chicago's birthday. So I made a batch of Malort cookies.

I don't bake typically. And I mean, I actually like Malort, but I recognize that they were objectively disgusting. So, yeah. I don't know. I think if you literally just search Malort cookies, you could find the thing, but maybe I'll find a link. I will not be doing that. I will not. They're real gross.

They have grapefruit peel and chocolate in the cookies. Just like really strong tastes that cover up other tastes. You know what? I take it back. You can taste them a lot. I take it back, man. Health is a beautiful thing, y'all.

Don't do this. Don't do this to yourself. Don't do this to yourself, y'all. Don't do that. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. Tweet I'm enjoying, Jason X Inferius tweeted, could we make the tweet font a little larger?

I'm trying to drive. And then, of course, I'm just enjoying the many slow motion clips of Victor Wimpyama sham-godding into a spin move into a lefty layup like just what what the fuck is even going on anymore very excited about as the season comes to an end he seems to just be getting better non-nba fans might not know that rookies are supposed to hit a wall about two-thirds of the way through the season and start being like exhausted from the rigor and having to go against all these big, strong people.

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