The Daily Zeitgeist - Inflation Is NOT Greed? Trump Is Coke Curious? 08.22.24

Episode Date: August 22, 2024

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also there was a rumor that they like cut his pee pee off too and like it's why it's wild like it's i don't know if that was true or not or if i just made that up in the documentary i saw but uh yeah that's wild can we just get first of all that's the cold open second of all, that's the cold open. Second of all, this like true crime documentary just cuts to Blake going. Second of all, there was a rumor that they cut his pee pee off. My lower third title just says stupid idiot. Dr. Blake went Wexler forensic analyst.

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August 24. August 22 is National Surgical Oncologist Day. Shout out to all those people fighting the cancer. Never been better. I don't know what the fuck this is. It's got pictures of dogs. This is not a real day. So forget it. National Pecan Tort Day.

We just had Pecan Pie Day. Now it's Pecan Tort Day. The pe had Pecan Pie Day. Now it's Pecan Tort Day. The pecan farmers are getting greedy. Exactly. And to go along with all that sugar eating, it's National Tooth Fairy Day. You know what I mean? I don't know what the market rate is

on a tooth these days. I don't know what it is. I think I ask this every time it comes around. I'm like, Jack, what's the market right now? It is highly variable, the market, because I rarely have cash on me. So it's like whatever I can find, you know? It's either a quarter or $50.

30 is actually worth a 20 because that's all we have in the house. Your first tooth was actually only worth 25 cents. You can't just do it like a record label. Like, here's an advance on your whole grill, homie. Here's fucking 50 bucks. Don't ask me for shit. We're not making a music video or nothing it's also national bao day so shout out the beautiful tasty chinese dumplings oh okay yeah i thought it was the like b-o-w oh no b-a-o b-a-o

yes yes yes all right shout out to bao shout out to Pecan. The Pecan. What are they? Pecan. Dumpling? Pecan. Tort. Tort. Yeah, a tort.

What is that? It's like a little cake with some drizzle on top. Doesn't matter. Whatever. I think. Yeah. I love that. I don't like it.

I say you're flying too close to the sun pecan industry wow my name is jack o'brien aka i can't get down because i'm up in space can somebody please bring me down i can't get down i'm stuck up in space will somebody please get me down that is tub thumping courtesy of fermentable burgers on the discord gross also redundant all burgers are fermentable burgers on the Discord. Gross. Also redundant. All burgers are fermentable. But thank you for your AKRA. Won't somebody please bring the astronauts down from being

stuck up in the international space station? Hey, Boeing will solve it, man. Boeing's on it, man. They're on it. They are exporting flight delays from commercial flights to space. Yes. And those commercial, those flight delays are a year long.

It's very impressive. I feel like I think about them and I can't help but be like, are there sparks? The two astronauts who are up there together, you know, they thought they were up there for a week. I know. Is that a rom-com yet? It's gotta be a wrong. Like I, I'm sure there's been rom-com in space,

but like this one just feels gravity calling out for it. Gravity was so fucking hot. So romantic, dude, the sparks to spin it out on that space panel that like create the big fire that almost kills everyone. Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! It's Miles Gray, a.k.a. Grimey!

Grimey, you know what I keep in the lining. Olaf better stay in line when you see a princess like me icing. Grimey Elsa, a.k.asa aka grimy elsa that's my new name i just came up with that shout out to uh who is that manish with the all the anagrams yeah just grimy is it olaf olaf is a character right i had i feel like that was the only other character i knew either the snowman yeah he's a snowman boyfriend nailed it or the uh yak i i don't know it's one of the three then i'm looking at a character list now i nailed it olaf is a snowman and you did nail it congratulations by just adding one word that i knew that was tangentially connected to frozen

or directly connected and i made a parody song thank you so much well miles we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a brilliant comedian writer actor oh boy his nickname is oh boy look look look what did the irish say when she oh yeah uh well one time i was really drunk and missed a flight and when i like finally got to my new flight gate i heard an irish woman say here comes chaos oh wow anyways that is the introduction for this guest uh writer actor who's been brought to you who's brought you a comedy album such as the blake album stuffed boy live from the pandemic uh his newest special daddy long legs which you can go watch on youtube the coiner of the disgusting phrase plumpers to describe his juicy philly above the knees

stakes please welcome the hilarious the chaotic the riding a recumbent bike in short shorts. Blake Wexler! Blake! Plump, plump, plump, plump. Oh, no. Plump, plump, plump, plump, plump. Crack that whip. When Blake Wexler comes along, you've got plumpers. When your thighs are really strong,

two big plumpers. Horse daddy plumpers. Plumpers good. Old baby plumpers. Plumpers good. That was from Chauncey Yonders. I figured out how to access the Discord. Thanks to producer Victor. Chauncey Yonders. I punched it up a little bit.

I added in horse daddy plumpers. I took some liberties with it. Horse daddy plumpers. That was beautiful. Thank you. Thank you to Chauncey. I was laughing during the intro where I have no regard for the format of this program. And never have, never will.

But I have noticed that I have always honored the rule of not speaking during the intro for some reason. I won't speak during the intro. It is weird. It's almost disruptive that you don't speak. Yeah, I'm like, why is this motherfucker snickering? He's like, hee hee hee. I'm like,

fucking say something, bro. He's chewing on the wires at the podcast studio. Oh, this one's spicy. You mean it's shocking you lately? Yeah. Oh, that's, yeah, spice. Yeah, spice. Yeah, you know how your mom keeps the spices in the box down in the basement?

You know, the fuse box that's where we keep our spices exactly that's right uh how are you doing blake great to have you back how are your plumpers plumpers is your word for your thighs just yeah in case it wasn't clear to people what i meant by philly above the knees steaks yeah i think people got it yeah yeah they could have thought s-t-a-k-E-S, which would not have been incorrect. And they're high. Those stakes are high. These are rare in terms of how common they are on Earth.

Yeah, they're good. They're being laced. How are you? How am I? Yeah. I'm pretty good. These glasses that I'm wearing are horseshit. So I broke my other glasses. I saw you post something, right?

Yeah. With the shattered lenses on or something on your story? So these are loners that I'm wearing right now. So I broke my other glasses. I saw you post something, right? With the shattered lenses on or something on your story? So these are loaners that I'm wearing right now. So this is not a... Loaners from where? From the dealership? They kind of look like shooting range glasses a little bit. Like you could be at the shooting range. You kind of look like

that one CIA... Bust them off shots. That like DEA guy from Sicario from the border scene who had the glasses. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Either way, probably going to die. No, no. He's in the sequel.

He's an operator, man. Yeah, is he? There's a sequel? Yeah. When did that come out? Sicario 2, Day of Soldado? Day of Soldado. I think I got halfway through it.

Day of the last Soldado. Day of the last Soldado. Day of soldado the soldier bro day of the soldier man that's what that means i love but yeah you got wait are they loners this is like old glasses you had from previously that you just don't like and i i can't wrap my head around the idea that there would be loner glasses that's why i went to your neighbor and we're like hey do you have any glasses i started banging on the door like there was a fire that's fine you got any extras no i don't have backup glasses which uh in therapy i found out is my mom's fault so i had to ask for backup or they took the lenses of the old ones and somehow put them in these, which are champion brand. Really?

I'm not kidding. That's pretty cool with the kids these days. Champion brand. Champion is pretty big. It's an Izod brand glasses. Well, that would actually make more sense than like champion. Oh, Russell Athletic glasses. But so many companies just now just like license

their logo to be like yeah put on glasses man who gives a fuck i love i'll take it listen i feel fit i feel like they're also made you can't see this but they're made of um gray fabric they're made of sweatpants fabric yeah yeah and did your last glasses break from uh hearing a note that was too high i have to assume or did you see something that was too sexy that's a great question so i saw something that was so sexy and they fogged up and then and the sexy this was of course at the opera where i go fucking constantly and then she hit a note and they broke yeah and someone had a little champagne glass that broke in time yeah it's crazy it is crazy yeah it's becoming more of a problem than it is an enjoyable experience and why won't these politicians talk about that you know thank you thank you tim walls what's he doing

he's missing um he's missing all right uh blake we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment take your time take time. As long as it takes. You just walked off camera. We're going to tell the listeners a couple of things we're talking about. We're talking about, you know, we talked on yesterday's trending episode about the DNC. And, you know, there's a lot of energy going on there. The Obamas were there yeah at the same time trump seems so sleepy so sleepy he's leapy he's so sleepy it does feel like like uh he's like energetically this feels like giving up the way you're speaking but it's very early i think he just made it's very early and i think his meds are off i think his script just needs to get refilled. Yeah. For the greenies.

He probably has all the... So I think I noticed this during his administration, that he will have his run of two weeks where he's just amped. And then he'll kind of drop out of view for a little bit. But sometimes he has to be in view and so sleepy. So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about Kamala Harris's economic policy. So we'll talk about that. All of that, plenty more. But first, Blake Wexler, we do like to get to know you a little bit better by asking, what's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?

I looked at a glasses frames, titanium fix. So we already waded our way into these waters, but the glasses in question that we're leading today's stories with of mine that broke were I had titanium glasses, which I was convinced was a strong metal. And then they snapped at the bridge of the nose because I think I was cleaning them too hard. Wow. Yeah. You're really getting in there.

Yeah, I was cleaning them like a sexually frustrated person would clean their glasses. And yeah, they snapped. So apparently those aren't... Go ahead. Wait, you had glasses that were made of the same material as Lieutenant Dan's magic legs. Titanium alloy. Same thing they use on the space shuttle.

And Dan is a friend. Wow. Yeah. Dan recommended these glasses. Lieutenant Dan, yes. And that's why I won't trust him anymore. Exactly. We were both, yeah, swimming just lost in the sea.

We came upon each other. And the amount that we had in common was six hours of conversation. There's no, like, warranty on that? Like, there was no, like, Ray J indestructible glasses warranty or anything on that? Like, they're telling you titanium. You'd think that, like, they're somewhat indestructible. You'd also think that I would look into it, but I didn't. So I instead just got mad and yeah sure they're hard

to fix apparently where you can't just solder them together like you need a special tool so i've been calling into that or do you have a soldering tool a soldering iron i was rifling i usually keep one in my pillowcase uh next to my god keep that thing on you keep it plugged in it's real hot stays real hot it takes a second like i i need to hear the person break in and then charge charge her up yeah yeah one moment one moment one moment be right with you what is that burning hair yeah yeah it's my oh oh yeah yeah fuck fuck fuck hey man you should really you should really get that checked out dude i think that's like a third degree burn no it's fine it's fine just give me a

second man just give me a second we'll do battle we'll do battle in a second so what you were robbing me what were you saying yeah yeah yeah but i'm actually pretty worried about your neck man no no no it's fine it's fine well it's fine my sister-in-law works at a burn center here i'm just gonna leave her number. Have a good night. Don't you want to take something, but not too far because it's plugged in. It's a short cord.

Yeah. Very short cord, like a hot glue gun. Yeah. I'm sitting on the floor. But yeah, it's, it's difficult, but I was able to find someone to,

to ship them off and fix them and they gave me these um these clunkers that i'm wearing these yeah these beautiful clunkers on my face yeah have you thought about rec specs or like an athletic goggle that might you know take a licking keep on taking oh rambus style yeah i love when you talk like that can i say that first of all i love when you rhyme and then also i don't i have thought about wearing because i also wear my glasses when i work out like if i go on a bike ride with my plumps i will just wear glasses instead of getting those like you know those cycling uh fucking shape you know what i mean like those shields on your face like yeah yeah

the glasses like yeah the ones that we all see people wearing when they're in those like onesie biking uh spandex outfits and admire those people and are like man cool yeah you don't frown like it's so fun i've never frowned yeah looking at someone frowned on i don't get like a face like i just tasted something really bitter and then spit on the ground involuntarily right or yeah or down my own shirt like in my shirt so my spit shirt but yeah so no i i haven't committed to that yet but i'm not above it like i'm started thinking about all the things i could put prescription lenses in. And I wonder if anyone's gotten a prescription windshield.

Wow. Is that a joke that was done in the 80s? I feel like it might have been, but it did just make me laugh. I like the whole car out of the glasses. Yes. Make it impossible for anyone to drive except me. And also, would the sun come through the windshield

and then set your car on fire? Because they're like proper lenses. We got to replace these plother seats because they are catching fire. It's so funny. The windshield is all one big prescription lens, but it's focusing the light of the sun in the most dangerous ways inside the car. Why is your shirt all burned on the the shoulder i shouldn't be driving at sunset but uh yeah the carjacker immediately crashes into a tree and then catches fire not from the engine exploding but just from the sun coming through the windshield i love that we'll see

we'll say i'm just if you're looking to create a signature look which i know you always are always like i remember every nba player i ever saw wearing rex you know like rambus like rambus didn't do shit he was not a good player like there were there was 30 rambuses out there but because he had those rex specs on you know? Yeah. Oh, Grant. Latter-day Kareem, you know? Latter-day Kareem. Of course, Grant was, like, his whole thing. Yeah. I don't know if I'd remember him, necessarily. I think. Well, that is true.

But no, I know what you mean. Like, Harvey Grant, I feel like, didn't wear them, right? He wouldn't. Yeah, he refused. And he was terrible at basketball because of it. He couldn't see shit out there. Mm-mm. Blind as a bat.

No, Harvey was rocking him too. He was. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There are pictures of him rocking, but there are a lot of him not rocking it. He got the corrective eye surgery. I'm just saying, like, if somebody was just like, that was their thing, they always had Rexpex on.

I feel like they would be unforgettable in my mind. I just love Harvey Grant wouldn't wear glasses because his brother Horace did and he didn't want to look like him. He's like, everyone remembers my brother. I'm older by two minutes. Why should I have to wear the glasses? Harvey, you should wear the glasses because we both have

the same condition. Harvey, you're not even facing me right now. It's only seeing. It's just vision. I don't need it. a basketball it's an old as a professional basketball player yeah that is always so wild like there i think there's a london skyscraper that like melted a couple cars with just the reflection of the sun that crikey i think that's a british term crikey good Good. And I was just setting up Lake for his incredible London impression of somebody from London. So, good.

Did you know, actually, the London eye has an astigmatism? Sorry. He's done it. He's done it, folks. He's done it. He's done and done it. All right. And now we have to move on.

Have you guys? No, no, we don't. Have you ever... There's a bug in here god what am i not doing well um but have you ever done a mad bogan a bug a bug oh i thought you were going through bogus in my house yeah you said there's a bogan here yeah is that how you're pronouncing bogan here there's a bogan here have you's a bogan here. Have you ever done a Mad Boosties where you rank the twins or the brothers in the NBA?

No. I guess how many twins? No, the league kept us from doing that, actually. They did tell you not to do it. The Collins brothers. They don't want us to stand there. The Lopez's. The Lopez's, yeah.

The Grant's. I feel like... That's it. Did we ever have a pair of identical twins who are like on the same team at the same time like kind of taking advantage of that of that connection

are the Morris brothers twins Marquis and Marcus yes they are the Morris's are twins yeah the Lopez's were on Stanford together I remember which is crazy oh and the Morris's were on Kansas together, I remember, which is crazy. Yeah.

Oh, and the Morris's were on Kansas together, too. Anyway. Anyways. There's something great. Yeah. Answered it. What's something you think is underrated, then? Yeah, well, if you're going to just come out and ask it, I'm going to say making notches. Oh, wait, the Martin brothers played together on Charlotte at the same time, it looks like.

Oh, did they? Caleb and Cody. And who can forget when they were just, you know, tearing up the courts? Well, hey, now on the Sixers, right? I know. I'm very excited. Caleb.

Anyway, sorry. Sorry. Who of our off-season acquisitions are you most excited about, Blake? We're going to turn this into Matt Boosties. I would say the re-signing of 61 year old kyle lowry uh who doesn't play a position where agility or speed is necessary is going to be the move that takes us within four games of winning a first round playoff series i like that i like

that he's like he's so old that it's no longer about his athleticism. His eyesight is also failing and his balance. The athleticism is gone in 06. His eyesight. I can't see three feet in front of him. What is something, Blake, that you think is underrated? Making nachos at home is an underrated thing.

Okay, go on. I believe ordering them nacho delivery is insane like i think we can agree that yeah that's insane that's absolute foolishness you cannot order nachos to your home no now there was a place that we would order a nacho kit from where the ingredients would come separately which was kind of cool so it wouldn't mush up yeah but still you might as well just have the ingredient you know what i mean like it was being marked up in a way that it didn't yeah it's a little embarrassing cup of yes five dollars for this little cup i can get a can for two yeah it's like yeah i also order up pieces of an inhaler um for one every time i need to use a loose albuterol that you have to synthesize

yourself there were some times during the pandemic when like we would order food and they'd be like all right here are the ingredients and like it's up to you to kind of put it together and i just felt humiliated oh yeah the best was when subway was selling their shit like their stock you can buy a fucking whole bag of tuna fish. Yeah, that's right. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, that's what I like. Open up those fucking cupboards. And is it measured out before they put it in a bag?

No. Nah. Just the bag. Just loose. Just loose. If you know the guy, you get hooked up. They give you a heavy one. So what, you're making your own?

Yeah, what's your what's your home your home recipe so we'll go uh chips and then we'll have a few interesting yes and then we bake them twice um we put them in the oven pull it out put it back in no uh chips obviously the cheese we'll add a little uh crema on there yeah clema and then the key we'll put like whatever chorizo whatever on it and then add extra stuff afterwards so you can't bake it we'll put some salsa on it but you can't do that for the whole duration of melting the cheese. You know what I mean? That comes at the end.

Yeah. Yeah. A little bit of sour cream. Some. Okay. What else will we put on? Wait, crema and sour cream? We'll do one or the other. We'll do one.

Oh, wow. I prefer like a dairy. Like a thick, a thick dairy. And we don't want you to feel judged here, but that's fucking disgusting. Yeah. We don't want you to feel judged, but you're giving disgusting yeah we don't want you to feel judged but you're giving yourself an allergy like you've trained your body like you're buying like the kashike brand like grandma they got their mouth but yeah no i will yeah we will yeah for sure okay

and no but we like to mix that up and um and then just like the other stuff that you put on there and um but yeah no real deviation but it's like you ever made nachos at home yeah yeah yeah no you sounded like four-year-old poker game if you're gonna put me on the spot um you know the frosted flakes on the on the side an entire bag of sand sand bags of sand bowls like yeah yeah a root vegetable uh unwashed and dirt a dirt vegetable yeah yeah great great yeah but yeah no it's it's also you can make as much as you want is the fun part so like you can eat until you're sick where you know it's a limited serving size i think and this is an important question are

you a fan of just the canned cheese like you know high school football game style chemical oh like nacho cheese versus like melting the shit on do you not on nachos but on like cheese steaks i'll eat it you know so it's not an aversion to uh the fact that it's not like but you prefer a real cheese nacho yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it's not a food recognized to the fact that it's not like. But you prefer a real cheese nacho. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's not a food recognized by nature or the laws of nature, but I will happily eat it. You can put that all over your skin and like go into the sea and not get a sunburn. It's really good.

That's your regimen. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What is, Blake, something you think is overrated? Overrated? Hardcover books. Now, I can't read. So in general. What is, Blake, something you think is overrated? Overrated? Hardcover books. Now, I can't read.

So, in general... No, it's... Let me preface this. I can't read. Let me preface this. It's the material. No, I think hardcover books often are more expensive if you're buying a physical book than, obviously, a paperback.

And they are more difficult to... The space in which are more difficult to the space in which they take up in your home they take up yep that's right that's the right sentence from which within you emerge yes the space in which they take up henceforth is this part of this part of your overrated was written by com layers uh the space in which they take up and the space in which they take up she's on the discord and but yeah they especially they're hard to travel with too where when you're packing a hardcover book it's a lot more difficult to pack than like a i almost called it a soft shell book then yeah yeah you got the books hey when's the soft shell come out this is soft shell sorry the hard shells too expensive yeah you put a bib on again i can't read i don't know what these things are for

where's the meat it tastes terrible when I dip it in the butter. What? I can kind of agree with that. Basically, hardcover books are for the bookshelf. Right? That's the main reason they're there. They look good on a bookshelf, but they are a pain in the ass, for sure.

Yeah. Thank you. And they're sharp. The corners are sharp. You could kill yourself on one of those books. You could yes that's i could i've fallen while running in my i i grew up in a home where you weren't allowed to uh run holding a hardcover book and that's why i'm still alive that's right the only reason that was a rule that applied only to you oh yeah yeah we would do the running like um you know how the sports teams do running of the mascots.

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Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. So Trump is sleepy. That doesn't sound right. RFK is going to drop out. And her economic plan is being panned by mainstream media. And people hate pumpkin spice latte. Blake, man, thanks so much for joining us.

That was so nice. Where did it go wrong? Where could we? If we could find one point. Around the time of the glasses becoming the windshield, I think, is when we really started waddling. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But we got through it. We got through it. About 30 seconds ago.

Then the nachos came. We really did. Alright. Trump seems so, so sleepy. Yeah, holy shit. So, a lot of people are like, what's the DNCc gonna feel like are they gonna be able to sustain the vibes as we talked about on yesterday's trending the vibes feel

sustained thus far yeah and you know we're turning up we're recording this the day after the little john state roll call and the obamas just making fun of don Donald Trump in a way that went over big with, I think, a lot of people. And we're also recording it the day after. And this is also something that everybody, similarly iconic. So he gave a speech in the dog whistle white supremacy, Michigan town, Howell, Michigan, where he seemed to be sleep, like about to fall asleep the whole time just one of the sleepiest speeches i've ever seen him or anyone give if you are driving i would pull over yes because you will fucking die of boredom listening to this um here's here's a part of the very sleepy sedated trump have uh

they have they just have it out for the police nobody knows why i don't understand why from a common sense i like to say the republican party is now the party of common sense conservative yeah i guess conservative it doesn't matter it's the party of common sense. We want to have borders. We want to have strong police protection. We want a military that can protect us. We want great schools. Because we don't have a military that we're not funding properly.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is after him talking shit about people in the military. The room tone is deafening. Oh my god. The silence in the background is like... He was basically in a police garage giving his speech with two of the most bored cops behind him who were trying to stay awake hearing this. Cops are bored for a living.

They love to be bored. They like to appear bored. They like to just sit around in their car and be bored. It's how we get into a lot of trouble in this country. In the first place is just bored cops. He's just like, it's the, he speak,

he's speaking in a tone that you generally only hear when you're in bed with someone, when you're both like slipping off to sleep, you know? Right. Yeah. It's like like sometimes i or my wife will say very weird things like i think i once was talking about people

coming in through the windows at one point and she's like what the fuck are you talking about that's because you were having visions right these apparitions but then trump kind like i just want to read this part this This is from his speech. Unless we, I don't think we have this queued up. But women want to have safety. They want to have a strong military. They want to have a strong police force. They want to be in the house.

And they want to be safe. They don't want to have people pouring in their doors. And you can't do anything about it, right? That's actually too much energy you're giving to it. No, but from that too, I hope they like my personality. I have a nice personality, but to me, it wouldn't be very important,

the personality. They want to be safe. Oh, okay. What? Huh? Then he started talking about the border wall. This part about the border wall this is this part about the border wall is also wild or he's just trying to get ahead a lot of high technology in it

thousand pound concrete inside and then rebar oh my god there's a lot of technology wires and things in it for tech high technology it was there was wires and things in it for high technology yeah yeah they were there of the border patrol i wanted actually concrete plank i would have done a medical job with precast you haven't i wanted actually long span it's called long span yeah it was it was really rough it's like wild too because long span it's called long like he's doing he's doing his like i'm in construction things like you've never heard of it's called long span construction precast holy you make parking garages out of it it really feels like there's someone off stage being like stretch stretch keep going like he's

just like trying to he was reading off paper too like he just had a stack of papers he was just shuffling through it was really again super low energy and it's wild though when you juxtapose that with like basically the democrats had two arenas filled between the united center in chicago and fyserve in wisconsin because there was a harris walls rally in wisconsin and like they were both fucking packed out and this guy's like nodding off in a police garage where even like the cops who love him are like dude what the fuck bro i'm about to leave and i have to be here yeah i i was watching so i think we might talk about it in a few minutes but like that theo vaughn or the beginning of it like that um he went on theo vaughn's podcast and i don't i never want I think a lot of people might be like me in that I only see Trump speak in at the longest a minute 15 clip on Twitter, because if you know, you can't watch more than that or you're like, you'll you'll kill yourself. But like, I will. I've never seen him really do a whole. I've never seen him do a whole speech. Oh, really? And since he's been president and thank you and i started watching because i'm like oh he was on a comedian's podcast i'll watch some of like see how the comedian

interviewed a president like i always find that interesting yeah and i watched the first 10 minutes of it and then i shut it off but like he was so tired even in that too yeah like i think unconsciously theovon starts talking about coke because trump seems so tired and he's like you need i'm trying to help you out here man like yeah before before we play that clip i just want to play like how newsmax and also fox news fucking gave up on this speech because they're like yo dude we can, we need to help him. Bad luck. Bad luck. Hit the fucking red button.

This is just like, again, a nice little bit of meandering into like, okay, so that's that fucking guy talking and he's good. This is what's going on with the judges in New York. Nobody, there's no justice. Holy shit. Every time you play this,

I can't believe how fucking sleepy he's out. All right, you're listening to former President Donald Trump speaking live in Howell, Michigan, specifically about liberal policies and how they have destroyed major cities across the United States. It's funny how each time these people are cut away, they have to try and summarize what they've been hearing because it's like so meandering. Like, and that was President Trump obviously talking about how like the communists are going to destroy like our earth. Thank you so much. This is the Fox News one. They shouldn't arrest people for saying the election was rigged. But they like that.

They go after guys like me. But they don't go after people that kill people. It's a shame what's happened in our country. But we're going to turn it around. We're going to win big. And we're going to turn it around. We're going to win big and we're going to turn it around fast. Okay. Thank you.

People are spilling coffee on themselves. President Trump speaking in Howell, Michigan this afternoon. And clearly the focus is law enforcement, his respect for law enforcement. He was standing there with several members of the police. Just describing it. Respect for law enforcement, respect for law enforcement he was standing there with several members of the police just describing it respect for law enforcement respect for police suvs clearly a very coherent strategy here yes yes yes yeah okay thanks um four-wheel drive police vehicles yeah you gotta have on star because sometimes you could have a car accident and OnStar will be, hey, this is OnStar. Low jack. If you get in an accident, you need to be safe.

Cop cars get stolen. You got to find the cop cars. You got to use low jack. There is one part where he turns and he says to the cops behind him, do you promise you'll never be woke? I don't see a lot of wokeness. There's not a lot of wokeness. I don't think so. Do you think part of his brain is realizing everyone's falling asleep and he's equating that? Because it's such a cell phone to be like, I'm anti-wokeness and you won't be woke, right?

To somebody who's biting their cheek trying to stay awake while you're talking. If anything, you want them to be woke because they are sleeping right now and you don't want that. I guess in the literal sense. Yeah. But yeah, there's eight cops tasing themselves, you know, like just to stay awake. Yeah.

It's like in the balls. They're like, I'm still sleeping. Fuck. But that Theo Von clip is wild because like, again, we've heard like, yeah,

like Trump is like afraid of street drugs, but fine with like prescription drugs. And like this weird show we've heard like, yeah, like Trump is like afraid of street drugs, but fine with like prescription drugs. And like this weird show and tell over like doing cocaine is so strange because I get people talking about like other presidential campaigns. Like, here's the policies that are happening. He's like, so Coke is like good or bad. And you like that feeling? No, I would just do cocaine. That was really. Yeah. So not just. Yeah. That's. And you like that feeling? No, I would just do cocaine. That was really...

Not just... That's down and dirty, right? Yeah. But you don't anymore? No, I don't do it anymore, man. And I'm not doing it. Is it too much? Too much to handle? Some of the stuff started to get a real rattle in it, too. I don't know where we were even getting it from.

This is what he's talking about with Donald Trump. Yeah, it started to make me feel like I was a mechanic or something or so the thing you go back to then is alcohol for the most part right yeah but well what i want probably is cocaine but i know that if i have a drink then it'll give me it'll like be like okay well i had a drink then i can do this is cocaine a stronger oh yeah up yeah yeah it's like he's almost like, should I try it? Like this is, we're watching him like get talked into doing cocaine. Yeah, totally getting groomed by Theo Vaughn. Sudafed is no longer working. So you're way up with cocaine more than anything else you can think of.

Cocaine will turn you into a damn owl, homie. You know what I'm saying? You'll be out on your own porch. You'll be your own street lamp. You're freaking. And is that a good feeling? No. It's a miserable feeling.

But you do it anyway, just like the guy you're saying with the scotch. Wow. That's what they're talking about over there. So it's good. Oh, they're cutting it with. Is cocaine a good feeling? Got a rattle and it made me feel like a damn mechanic you don't want to be an owl or a street lamp no yeah okay

used to do this bit of like the guy who wants to ask who's trying to get coke and like he's so obvious about it but the other person like isn't picking up he goes hey do you have any zip zip zip zip zip and the guy's. He goes, hey, do you have any zip, zip, zip, zip, zip? And the guy's like, what? And he goes, oh, do you have any? Yup. Yup. And the guy's like, I don't understand.

He goes, do you have anything there? And the guy's like, I don't know. Do you have any? Yeah. And he goes, oh, do I have any cocaine? He goes, you do coke. Oh, you do coke? Oh, you do coke?

Do I have a? Huh. All right. Well, I guess I could try it. Yeah. That interview ended with Donald Trump doing cocaine. Right. No, yeah, 100%.

Hey, can you put it on this bag, Mr. President? Yeah, yeah, I guess. It really feels like that's where it's headed because he needs to wake the fuck up. Or not. Maybe they just kind of let him drift off to sleep. And yeah, this is the end. Probably not, though. Let's take a quick break.

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Listen to Señora Sex Ed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. And I want to talk about that. So Kamala revealed her economic policy in a speech last week, and she connected the record high inflation that we were seeing for the past few years to the fact that corporations were seeing record high profits and okay that is okay exactly how the mainstream media and the economists including like obama's former economics advisor went on cnn and was like yeah literally like okay stalin what the fuck are you talking about this is crazy this has failed like she wants to turn us into Venezuela. What like this? This is impossible. Like it's so wild. Like the stories have poured forth there. kind of a opinion piece that got a lot of attention that was basically like you know

said it was very disappointing said that she's resorting to populist gimmicks with her plan and then they said even adjusted for the pandering standards of campaign economics however ms harris's speech friday ranks as a disappointment and i read that piece it's like it doesn't really go into detail why they don't think corporations raising prices and getting record profits is related to inflation in any way they they're just they kind of just dismiss it so i went around from piece to piece to try to find them debunking like this idea and just being like so like la times had a opinion piece column kamala harris wants to tackle corporate price gouging here's what she's missing okay which is what that is from a former editor at the national review

oh he basically just smirks and says like sure, sure, there was some greed, but we all know it's not the real cause. It's just populist politics that she's saying that. CNN did the thing that I was hoping somebody would do, where they would, because I just want an explanation. I'm not an economist. I don't know shit like I know that every time I've been like, it's so weird that they have these record profits and they're the ones driving inflation. And yet every economist is like those two things are completely unrelated and shut the fuck up and stop bringing that up. It's crazy. But it debunks the connection by finding isolated examples of companies having higher profits when inflation wasn't high. This is literally their argument. They say, take, for instance, PepsiCo. Last year, the company reported earning a very solid $9.1 billion in profit. That's $2 billion more than what it made in 2020. But it's still below the $12.5 billion profit it earned in 2018 when prices were rising at an annual pace below 3%. Similarly, Kroger, one of the nation's largest supermarket chains, earned a bigger profit in 2018 compared to 2023. So just to summarize what that argument is,

their argument is that greed can't be the cause of inflation because these two companies had isolated good years when national inflation was not high. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like they're taking the argument that like inflation is connected to companies just kind of raising prices when they realized that they could because there's this national narrative about supply chain issues. And they're taking that and saying, that can't be true because these companies had successful years, not during the pandemic. Like, it suggests that we're arguing that raising prices that cause inflation

is the only way for a company to be successful. Right. Yeah. Yeah. It's so anecdotal. It doesn't, like, logically logically it doesn't even cohere like the whole reason we're asking you to knock it off is because you don't need to bleed people dry to be successful like it yeah we we know that you can have success without arbitrarily raising prices well it's it's also wild to like to be like oh this is communism like fucking donald trump even put an executive order out to put price protections on certain things at the onset of the pandemic and like many other states have like very broad bills about price gouging so to act suddenly

that like this is like some extreme take is just fucking odd but also makes sense when a lot of these companies are also like publicly traded that are like that own the news companies and things like that but every like analysis that's done like the economic policy institute like made it clear like it's corporate profits not increased costs for labor or inputs drove the majority of inflation like Like that's just, that's the conclusion that was made. Yeah. You would think it was like a fringe Marxist theory that based on like how these people are responding. Yeah. Well, and like, and I think it's also about consolidation, right? Because you have certain industries where it's like fucking three companies own

60% of the market. And when you have that kind of market consolidation, you have the ability to raise prices at will. So like, again, even the house subcommittee on economic and consumer policy said, like they were showing some corporations quote, were able to use their market power to raise prices far above any increases in their underlying costs attributable to existing inflation. Economists at the University of Massachusetts put out a journal article that said, US COVID-19 inflation is predominantly a seller's inflation that derives from microeconomic origins, namely the ability of firms with market power to hike prices. And they found also corporate profits accounted for more than 50% of food price

increases, whereas they accounted for only 11% of increases in the four decades prior. I'm still failing to understand. I think it was easy to do that at the beginning because of the supply chain issue. But then even looking at the shipping industry, they're making profits like they've never fucking seen before. They're like, yeah, man, because we're a big part of the supply chain but we're out now making profits that are like eye-watering that we had never seen before ever yeah they'll charge as much as they possibly think they can get away with charging

which i mean i guess that is economics but it's also like it's not natural and like what when you look at what these people are saying, like CEOs are saying on their earnings call, like Procter & Gamble's chief financial officer bragged during a 2023 earnings call that even though the company's input costs to make diapers had decreased, they were still keeping consumer prices high. And they were making a ton of money off of that like record profits a kroger supermarket chain executive said quote a little bit of inflation is always good for our business like they're they're bragging about it like they they tell you exactly what they're doing but then when you point out that that's what they're doing they're like well no you're being unrealistic

well because yeah again it's like any any fucking threat to the status quo is like met with this kind of fucking energy like even when you have someone like kamala harris who is doing a lot to uphold the status quo in most places like this one part like what the fuck and then like your point that guy jason firman who uh used to work for like obama yeah he like he had like he's been posting all kinds of fucking stupid stuff like throughout the year. Like he said, he's like, oh, man, there's this one quote from Brian Albrecht, quote, blaming inflation or anti-competitive behavior or greed is like blaming plane crashes on gravity. Oh, chef's kiss. We love that.

And this guy works for like the peterson institute for international economics and this is a group whose funding comes from places like amazon chevron toyota pepsi shell and like they're there to put out these sort of analyses that are just sort of like mom you know it's like it's got these like intangibles it's all good just that that cnn back to that cnn article because so they come off that argument that it can't be inflation because these companies had successful years not in the time period we're talking about. And they say, so Harris's claim doesn't quite hold up on the whole, though there are some recent examples where charging consumers more has fed higher corporate profits. First of all, there's like so many, but they're like Cal Maine Foods, the largest egg producer in the US,

saw its revenue double in profit surge 718% in the first quarter of last year because of sharply higher egg prices. Like, so they keep being like, we'll give you this one example of a thing like that. I remember that. I remember eggs being way more expensive last year. And the thing, the reason they were more expensive is because this company wanted to double profit. And that's what happened. Like that. Those are those are the two things that we know that makes that they have like a thing that makes sense over here. And then they just hand wave it away by being like yeah but economics like that you know we we have an economist over here saying that's just how things are going to operate yeah i mean even like star kissed tuna

like they had to settle class action lawsuit for like 200 million because consumers are like dude i like alleging they were fixing canned tuna prices. And they're like, ah, yeah. All right. Well, sorry about that. Like it's so many times when people are like raising the alarm about it. They're not like fighting it in court. They're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. We'll agree to. Okay. That's yeah. All right. And we're talking about anti-competitive behavior. It's not like the thing that, you know, the Obama economics guy is like, well, yeah, greed is like the the thing that you know the obama economics guy is like well yeah greed is like the whole thing that drives market economies it's like yeah but there's because of

all the consolidation and the deregulation and because like companies are engaging in anti-competitive behavior that is not part of like it's a thing that you're supposed to be against if you're like really capitalism will solve everything thing but they they just don't give a fuck they're not interested in solving that well it's like again because this is you know like this is where the media's responsibility comes in when as a consumer when you hear inflation inflation inflation inflation and that's being presented as the norm you're gonna do very you'll that's just like the accepted reality you're in as a consumer so then when you go to the store and you're like what the why is this

bread so fucking expensive you're like oh that's right inflation uh supply chain whatever that's just like the you know it propaganda intellectual cover for these companies to just raise the prices under the guise of like serving us the consumer the logic the logic of, it's just out of control inflation. There's nothing you can do. Don't look at how much money is being made really on all of this. And it's like, oh, the inflation hasn't touched wages. You know?

So it's like, oh, okay, everything's increasing. And it's like, oh, it's just inflation. It's like, why isn't my pay being inflated? If we pay the workers fairly, that means prices will go up. It's like, well, you haven't done that and the prices are going up. And your profits are all going up i make it make sense and they're like shut up fucking yeah because it's what they called in the new york post the media is you know

the media and a lot of the government is corporate owned and so it is working on behalf of corporations. And so the only messaging we get is messaging that feels like it is, it might as well be like written by and for corporations. And so like the big picture of what happened in the economy during the pandemic was that everyday people were suffering while massive companies and, you know, the stock market were doing great. Like everyone, economists kept predicting a massive recession or depression that never came because corporations managed to isolate themselves from it. And the way they did that, at least partially, was just put downward pressure on people. And people have no voice in America. You know,

they don't have like a media outlet that is focused on like telling the stories for them that is free of like corporate influence. Well, yeah. Or it's, yeah, it's independent media that like requires like listener funding and things like that. But yeah,

yeah. Yeah. It's just, it's just like industry after industry. You look and it's like, it's just right there in front of you. Remember how expensive fucking rental cars were during that time? And people were like, what the fuck is going on?

So three firms control 50% of the rental car market, right? So between 2019 and 2021, Hertz and Avis, they had a profit increase of 597%. God damn. They went from $244 million to $1.67 billion. Right. And then, but if you look at all their financials, their expenses went down during that time. So it was purely just because, well, we got to make up for it. That's what inflation's supposed to be. Inflation's supposed to be their expenses go up, they have to raise prices.

That's not what's happening here. No, exactly. supposed to be inflation supposed to be their expenses go up they have to raise prices that's not what's happening here no exactly so and and i think that's what's like really weird too is like in like in this analysis of what harris is even proposing it's like you completely ignore how this is like a thing even republicans have fought for like in the past like price gouging is like it's a real thing that has to be reckoned with but i think because that does that's like been the big golden goose for a lot of these publicly traded companies to make the line just go fucking hockey stick up. Yeah. Yeah.

They don't want any more attention on it. Yeah. And the thing that they acknowledge about, they're like, yeah, and then people got these stimulus checks or relief checks. And so we knew they had extra money. So, yeah, the and it's like that's fucked up like cool which is so that's a con uh economics but that's a terrible way to it's like yeah we're gonna fucking shake you down for your extra lunch money what do you know you got it wait didn't your grandma just die she left you like 100 bucks right yeah give it here give it here yeah so the price is like 101 but it's usually one well you got you got that extra 100 right yeah yeah what's it just like with just like with like car subsidies

too it's like if the government's gonna offer people 15 000 for like a ev or something like that then guess what the price of evs is just gonna go up 15 grand right that's just what they're they're like well they can absorb it and i think that's one of the worries too with like talking about offering people 25 000 for like first time home buying and things like what that will do to the market because everyone's going to be like presume everyone can just raise the prices 25 000 so but it's the market man it's that's just the market and the market's always right yeah and we're free to fuck you over i love the market when they give that child tax credit, oh my God, the price on diapers. Like they already raised the price on diapers.

Diapers are going to be like fucking, you know, be weighed out like cocaine. Yeah, I mean, they're already packed in bricks. So, I mean, yeah, it's just right there. People are just putting a fucking knife into the brick. They're like, oh yeah, that's a good stuff. That's a Huggies nighttime. That's like 12 hours of leak just right there people are just putting a fucking knife into the brick they're like oh yeah that's cutting open the diaper that's a huggies nighttime that's like 12 hours of leak protection right there with the blowout barrier yeah yeah yeah and the blowout barrier you find that useful oh yeah man because like just like fucking laxative and stuff cut in there man you fucking snort that bro you be farting all day like fucking like you're in a butt band or something yeah blake what a pleasure having you as always where can people find you follow you all that good stuff

listen i've always said this you two are my blowout barriers and i couldn't appreciate it anymore that's so we absorb diarrhea in a way that is unparalleled we don't let it shoot up your back no no and and I can't say that about many people, but I can say it about you too. You can find me, live stand-up date, September 29th at 118 North in

suburban Philadelphia, Wayne, Pennsylvania. So that's my hometown. Wow. Yeah, so you'll see me in my hometown. I don't know what that's going to do to my act but it is going to do something to it so come to that then december 5th i'm at helium comedy club in philadelphia and november 1st the hideout in boston so uh blakewexler.com you can get tickets there to all these shows and uh yeah at blake wexler social media my special blake wexler daddy long legs is on

youtube watch it our tube yeah wow it's not the communist huh you say it's our tube our tube the tube that we share huh yeah i don't trust it like is there a work of media that you've been enjoying yes uh a one christy yamaguchi man two and one three two three four christy and ratatou uh at the whopple house um i should say whopple house so people uh i mean everyone follows him on here i would imagine uh but christy yamaguchi man posted a photo of a fire tree chief and drug dealer in Key West from the 70s. And the guy's name was Bum Farto. Oh, I saw that.

Yeah. Christy Avoguchaban wrote, my favorite Star Wars character, Bum Farto. Bum Farto. Which made me laugh very hard. So that was my tweet that I enjoyed. Miles, where can people find you? Is there a work of media you've been enjoying? Yeah. Find me on Twitter

and Instagram at Miles of Grey. And you can also find Jack and I on Miles and Jack on Mad Booskies talking about just, you know, just transitioning out of the Olympics

further into the regular season, doing some dreaming as fans. And also find me on the latest episode of Black People Love Paramore where I talk about my love of rat beefs. And also on 420 Day latest episode of Black People Love Paramore, where I talk about my love of rat beefs.

And also on 420 Day Fiance. We'll have some new episodes up this week, so check that out. A tweet I like. Someone tweeted, this is from at Brandy underscore Buckman. It says, for my friends not generally online or on TikTok, there is a man who spoofs JD Vance constantly

and here's the video. It's just a dude with eyeliner who kind of looks like him. Oh, that's Sam. Yeah. Hey y'all, JD Vance here. I wanted to pull over my F-250 and just sit here and rap with you about some stuff that was going on in the campaign. Yeah, I've had a couple campaign hiccups, but who hasn't?

You know, a reporter asked me a softball question and I got defensive. I'm not used to that kind of stuff. Also, I referred to grandmothers as postmenopausal females. People said that made me sound like some kind of replicant. But in my defense, that's how I see them. That's how I see them. Yeah, actually, that's right. Sam has been on this show before, too.

Yeah, Sam Wiles. It's wild just how much the eyeliner immediately made this guy look like J.D. Vance. You just need a beard and eyeliner. That's it. It's such a rare combo. Awesome. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. Let's see

here. What have I been enjoying? No, I can't do that. And by the way, to those listening, I can't recommend Miles and Jack more. They're two great guys, so get all their content that you can scoop up. Oh, wow. Go ahead, Jack. From me, they have my endorsement.

So if you want to pay attention to them, you can. Thank you. And you will have a cabinet position in our administration. We appreciate it. Let's see. Matt, at MattyB tweets 69. Nice tweeted tweeted uh tried watching this the sopranos show you all talk about first word i hear is woke turned it right off you can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien you can find us on twitter at daily

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that you think people might enjoy? I think they'll like this track from a seminal band from the 70s, Samande, C-Y-M-A-N-D-E. They're like kind of one of these bands that started melding like West African kind of style with more like rock, like obviously outside of like what Fela Kuti

was doing with Afrobeat, but more just like kind of having this stylistic conversation between continents. And their music's super chill and vibey. This track is called One More. And the band, Samande. C-Y-M-A-N-D-E. All right.

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