The Daily Zeitgeist - University of Jake Paul, Target’s Shipt Show 2.20.20

Episode Date: February 20, 2020

In episode 573, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, Black Men Can't Jump podcast co-host, and Astronomy Club member Jerah Milligan to discuss Mike Bloomberg's transphobia, the possible resignation of William Barr, how Susan Collins is going in the polls, how the impeachment trial affected Trump's approval ratings, Kickstarter unionizing, Shipt, BoneLESS wings, and more!FOOTNOTES: Human Rights Campaign says Bloomberg should apologize for comments about transgender people Barr Privately Says He May Resign Over Trump’s Tweets About Roger Stone Case Colby College poll shows Collins, Gideon tied in hypothetical match-up Impeachment Didn’t Change Minds — It Eroded Trust YouTuber Jake Paul Launches Entrepreneur How-To Platform, Financial Freedom Movement Kickstarter employees vote to unionize Shipt: How this 32-year-old high school dropout built a business that sold to Target for $550 million 'Every Single Person Is Losing Money': Shipt Is the Latest Gig Platform to Screw Its Workers Starting the decade with a splash: Say hi to the new Shipt.  Target's Delivery App Workers Describe a Culture of Retaliation and Fear Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Change Name to Boneless Thugs-N-Harmony (for Buffalo Wild Wings) WATCH: Sam Wilkes - Tonight Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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But my boy, Jack Obey. This is fun. This is fun, This is fun. But sometimes dumb. This is fun. This is fun. Miles Gray. Miles Gray.

This is going to be a wild draw. I wasn't expecting it to go this long. Nobody does. Gotta respect that one. to go this long. Nobody does. You've got to respect that one. He went through the course. Yeah, yeah. Sometimes it's like the chicken fighting family guy. It just keeps going and going and going.

Usually when I come back from a vacation, I'll do the wild and diligent two-minute rap off the top. But this one, you know, I love Nirvana. Hey, man. You were hitting those Kurt Cobain lyrics. I felt the vibe. Yeah, man. Because all everyone knows is Kurt Cobain sounding like this.

Shout out to Christy Yamaguchi at Crispy Meme Donut. His vocals on the unplugged one is so good. Lake of Fire? Holy shit. He crushed it. Iconic.

Who's that third voice you're hearing? Who goes there? We are thrilled to be joined by the hilarious and talented Jara Milligan. What's up? Thanks for having me. Thank you for being here. I feel like I should have came with a song. I know.

I always say, what's your karaoke song? Okay, I have two. Okay. It depends what kind of vibe I'm in. Sure. This is How We Do It by Montel Jones. You know what I mean vibe I'm in. Sure. Okay. This is how you do, this is how we do it by Montel Jordan. Yeah. You know what I mean?

I feel like that's a classic. 1992 is in a bunch of commercials. Yeah. Like for some reason. But if you're in a different mood, something for the honeys by Montel Jordan. Okay. That's how you vibe it.

But if you're in like a very fun group, I don't believe in ballads. Okay. No, no. I hate everyone. Cause if you can sing and you do a ballad, I'm like, screw you.

It's masturbatory. Yeah, what are you doing? Yeah. So my other one is Backstreet's Back. Oh, yeah. Backstreet's Back. Always a classic. Because this is the thing.

Even if you don't know the song, you'll get where they're going with it. Oh, my God. Back again. Oh, oh, oh. Yeah. That's one of those songs you can kind of guess what the chorus is You don't need to know how that song goes

It could have been It could have been written by autocomplete Musical autocomplete What's the word that goes here? Am I original? Am I the only one? Am I sexual?. Am I original? Am I the only one? Am I sexual? Yeah.

It's like, am I sexual? I don't know, bro. You don't know? Please. Am I? Who are you singing it to

if you don't know? I like to ask, you know, I like to ask my boys when we're hanging out, am I sexual? Guys, fellas.

You're just hanging in a room together out of nowhere. Hey, hey, hey, fellas. I mean, y'all, you mind fellas I mean y'all you mind if I

ask y'all a question real quick yeah go ahead got someone on your chest King yeah man you know what I'm saying I was thinking

the other day like am I the only one you know yeah but then also it's like am I sexual

I mean I don't want to make it weird, but am I sexual? I mean, if we really want to get into it, I never really saw you like that. Sort of the way you carry yourself. I mean, I get that, man. I get that. But that comes from inside. I would hate for external factors to determine your sexuality.

You definitely have an energy about you. Oh, okay. I understand what you're saying. Yeah. No, it's palpable. For sure. It's weird. It goes from a very confident song, like, you know, Backstreet's Back, but he's asking, like, am I original? Am I the only one? Original, for sure. It's weird. It goes from a very confident song, like Backstreet's Back, but he's asking, am I original?

Am I the only one? Original, hell no. The only one? No. You're in a group of guys right now. And motherfucking NSYNC is breathing down your neck. Also, when you watch the music video, why are they monsters? Yeah.

What has it got to do with monsters? Also, the video's fire, though. Yes. Hey, Miles. Yeah. We're going on tour with our time machine. Yes, we are. And to produce our Ana Hosniak.

Yes. Some special guests. We're in Minneapolis February 25th at the Parkway Theater with P.O.S. Yes. Yes, that P.O.S., the rapper. We are in Chicago February 27th at Sleeping Village with Daniel Van Kirk. Ooh. DVK.

And Toronto, the grand finale, February 28th at the Great Hall with... We canceled Drake because we were able to get... Drake was our placeholder, but we shit-canned him, and we brought in Mark Little, comedy icon, one of the funniest dudes out there, Mark Little. That's better for the podcast. Yeah, definitely for the podcast. It would have been cool.

Yeah. I love all the natives of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, who are like, don't stop calling it the six. Only Drake does. And I'm like, I don't know. Drake would have asked you guys during the podcast, is he sexual? Legitimately, he'd have been like. And then I'm like, who the fuck are you texting over here?

Right. Also, they, they told us that it's pronounced Toronto, not Toronto. Oh, I don't do that. I say Toronto,

Toronto, Toronto, Toronto, Toronto. Yeah. You're not supposed to. I'm like, yeah,

I mean, everybody mumbles, you know, this will be a pronunciation thing. This will be a great moment when we have that show where I have a feeling we'll just do an hour of cultural exchange. Yeah, exactly. After shit we get wrong about them and then we can correct some myths over here. I got poutine, eh?

Hell yeah. I got yelled at when I got offstage in San Francisco because I called it San Fran. Yeah. Oh, yeah. They don't like that. Or Frisco. They don't like that. I was like, no one told me anything.

Yeah. I was like, wait, I can't call it San Francisco? I mean, San Fran? Nah, man. The Bay Area is the one place I've been checked for fucking around with San Francisco. Like how I've said it. They're like, no one calls it that up here. I'm like, I'm so sorry.

Are you allowed to call it SF? Yes, you can say SF. Yeah, SF. And you can say Bay Area and San Francisco. Bay Area, sure. Yeah. I don't want to say SF. Look, if E-40 says it, I'm going to say it, and then go fight him.

Sure. But he's not a Buffalo Hill, but... Gerard, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment, but first we are going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about. The Bloomberg hits just keep coming. Oh, my God. We're going to talk about William Barr, where he did a little pump fake like he was a normal human.

Lame-ass pump fake. Not going for it. Receding back into the mire. We're going to talk about Susan Collins. We're going to talk about Trump's approval being at an all-time high. That, we'll talk about Jake Paul. He has launched his new financial freedom movement. Just as Andrew Yang suspended his campaign.

Yeah, I don't know. He cannot be canceled. He is the leader of a revolution. Yeah. Jeez, man. Let me just read you one pull quote from his appearance yesterday. The education system is worthless. That was Jake Paul.

I love that. This is the same guy who took video in the- Him or his brother. Kickstarter voted to unionize, which is dope. Target shipped- Oh, it's Logan Paul's one. Oh, Logan did it. Okay, okay, okay.

Yeah. Target shipped is kind of doing the opposite of unionizing, just shitting on their employees. We're going to talk about dog owners, bone thugs, or their new name, Boneless Thugs in Harmony. Shout out to them for securing the bag. That's not real. Jack, we're going to have to get to that one. We will tackle this story in this episode

because it's... That's not real. It's very real. Oh my goodness. We'll see. It's part of a they're they're securing the bag shout out to them uh drop first we like to ask our guests what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are um what is in my recent search history is uh just photos of batman the robert pattison batman oh yeah i've been looking at mad comparisons of his costume

with all the other Batman costumes and the breakdowns of what everything means. I'm a Robert Pattinson fan. Yeah, me too. I'm a Rob Pat fan. Rob Pat, Team Rob Pat. Yeah, man, I think he's a good actor. And I like Batman, favorite superhero.

Before it was popular, and I'm like, Matt Reeves is gonna kill it. So I have Batman and porn in my search. That's my search. Do you ever watch Batman porn? No, because I feel like I don't like blending the worlds.

Yeah. I don't like blending the worlds, man. The worlds of the secular and the sacred. Yeah, it's like, uh-uh, I'm gonna read my Batman,

you know what I'm saying, and then watch my other, like I need separation. Yeah. You know, it taints it. Yeah. I really like the photos I saw, or at least that little teaser camera test of him.

The thing I saw that was cool was, like, the crest looked, like, mechanical, the Batman symbol. So people think that's the gun that killed his parents. Turned into, wow. Oh. Right, right, right. Right. Also, we live in a world now where we have a teaser to the teaser trailer. Yeah, right.

Which is a teaser to the trailer that's going to tell me the whole movie. Right. Exactly. At what point? Yeah, you'll know the entire backstory and how the film was made by the time the first trailer comes out. Every time I see a comedy, I'm like, please don't let this be the best jokes. Seriously. The best.

Don't let this be the best jokes in this trailer. Go to the movie and then. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Like, don't let this be the best jokes in this trailer. Right. Go to the movie and then. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. So mad. Such a frustrating experience.

Yeah. So I'm guessing if it is, if that crest is made from the gun that killed his parents, we are going to see his parents get killed one more time. I hope not, man. I like, has there been another scene that has been dramatized more in American pop culture history

than the killing of Bruce Wayne's parents? Holy shit. Probably not. It's weird, yes. It's been in every movie. That many bites of the apple in film? There may be JFK, but I don't think so because people don't show that. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, the closest you could do are events, right? Maybe the Civil War or something. Right, Civil War reenactments. Nothing so specific of like nine ways to watch Bruce Wayne's parents. We don't even have a lot of Civil War movies because I feel like anytime we talk about the Civil War, we got to talk about Confederates and slavery. No one ever wants to talk about Confederates. There's so many movies and TV shows hunting down Nazis.

I'm like, cool, cool, cool. Soon we're going to hunt down some Confederates. Yeah, that would be cool. Let's get them. But then you realize the Confederates are like people's great grandparents. Right, right, right. A little bit harder to put that lens on our own history. Yeah, I'm like, ooh.

I saw some photo recently, because, you know, black history, man. And it was like a little young girl and it was a black guy being lynched. And the girl was pointing and smiling. And apparently this woman is still alive and kicking. Jesus Christ. Wow. Because she's like in her 90s

and I'm like, oh yeah, this is not that long. No. That's like the 60s. Yeah, seriously. Fuck. Yeah, yeah.

Sorry to bring it down but you know. Absolutely. It's crazy. Just one thing about the Batman thing. I hope maybe they'll do like a big little lies

type treatment. They did a good job of like just flashing to past events very sparingly. Yeah. Like maximum emotional impact. Yeah. Where I feel like maybe someone would just be like, and what's this logo? Just a quick like. Yes.

Yes. That's all you need. It's nothing. That's all you need. Sharp objects. Yeah. Like where it's a fluid thing. Yeah.

I like that. Yeah. Yeah. Do that. But don't do the thing where it's like. It's like a C to C. Oh, it all started. thing. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, yeah. Do that, but don't do the thing where it's like, we got a C to C. Oh, it all started. Right, yeah, yeah.

And like, that was a great show, wasn't it? Did you watch Joker? No, not yet. I was about to watch it on the plane, and then I started falling asleep. Get ready to watch another motherfucking, I thought it was good. I thought it was fine.

I thought it was like three out of four. Yes, that's how I feel. Is there a Bruce Wayne? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Come on, bro. It's like they go out out of four. That's how I feel. Is there a Bruce Wayne? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Come on, brother. It's like they go out of their way. They're just like, hey.

No need for it. It is literally no need. It's like, why did you put this in here? And it's so coincidental that that would happen at that time. It should be the new Rick Rowling in film. Yes. Your film might have nothing to do with it. They're like, oh, my God.

Is this Bruce Wayne's family in an alley in Kill? Why are we in this alley, Transformers? They have a Wayne family. They're like, meanwhile, back on Earth. There's no man's land down there. Don't go see any movies. What is something you think is overrated? Working out.

Okay. This is my thing. Okay. No one works out to be healthy. You just do it to be appealing to whatever person you're trying to grab their attention from. Sure, okay. Interesting. Think about it like this.

If people weren't trying to impress anybody else physically, we could just eat whatever we want, be jolly as hell. I don't have to get off my couch if I don't need to. The gym sucks, man. Yes, you're right. You're saying maintain your basic health. Yeah, man. But when you're starting to be like, man, my lats. I gotta work on my lats. Every New Year's you go to the gym, it's

packed from January and February because everyone has the resolutions, which I respect, but I can't get on their machines. And then when you own the machines... Oh, so you do go to the gym. I do, but I do it because I'm single and I have to. I don't want... I'm telling you, the moment I get rich... It's over. You're in to the gym. I do, but I do it because I'm single and I have to. I don't want. I'm telling you, the moment I get rich.

It's over. You're in a hover round. For what? Yeah, right. If someone's like, hey, Gerard, do you want to do this action movie? No. No. I'm rich, dude.

Why would I ever? I'm getting a steak. For what? Yeah. Does the bad guy just eat a lot of just food? No, listen. Like, you know what? The person I think about the most and this is not

a diss at all this is what i really think is dope um i was watching uh uh gladiator recently yeah yeah yeah russell crowe is shredded yeah and then i saw some then i saw some video of him recently he's got a beard he's a little bit bigger i was like he went from that to looking like santa claus and he looks happy as hell yeah. That's what I want. He was like, I can play Roger Ailes now because who the fuck else is that? Off the strength of my lifestyle. Yeah. Off the strength of my lifestyle, and there aren't that many other good actors, acclaimed

actors who look like that. Think about it. Marlon Brando did it. Right. You know what I mean? Elvis did it. Yeah. Tupac.

The reason we can't find tupac he was in the office the whole time as stanley yes you didn't know he just didn't look closely you know yeah well i think yeah it just sort of speaks to the sort of uh the body ideals that are just sort of crammed in our heads with the tv and stuff. Man, then I got, I'm like very weird with Instagram. Like I have a timer set on my Instagram. So it's like 50 minutes for a day. That's it. But then every time I go on Instagram, you got the thirst trappers on there.

Like the couples working out in the gym. You got the people doing the flat tummy tees. Right. I'm like, good. People were working out with new exercise equipment I've never seen. It's like, what is it? Yeah. I saw something the other day that's supposed to go

on your stomach that helps you get abs if you can't get to the gym. So like you put it on when you're at work and it just like electrocutes you. Stimulator.

Yeah, for your abs. I'm like, what are we doing? Hey, we all know, man, six packs are made in the kitchen. You know what I mean? Facts. No amount of working out is going to do you any good, man.

It's not working out, it's sculpting your body. Exactly. Facts. Facts. Hey, man, I think you should sort of like realign how you're even looking at it oh yeah it's really not about gains i haven't exercised for like physical things for a long time but i do it like mentally it makes me feel better if i work out and i also don't work out very much yeah i don't do a weight lift i'll do like a hike or things like that. I'll just get my heart beating.

I just moved here and I live right by Runyon. Oh. This is my thing I didn't know. I didn't know, one, you get dressed up when you go hiking. It's a fucking nightmare over there. People have makeup. Dudes have like the matching outfits on. I'm like, this is intense. And then people will run up the mountain.

Yes. I'm like, what are you running up? Yeah. Why are you running? Right. It's hot. You hiking. You sweat all day. Just got to get in my zone, man. Or. I'm like, what are you running up? Yeah. Why are you running? Right. Why are you? It's hot. You hiking.

You sweat already. Just got to get in my zone, man. Or else I'm not shredding. I'm telling you. Wait till I'm rich. I'll be a whole new person. Yeah. What is something you think is underrated? Ooh, okay.

All right. I think, I'm trying to think of the best way to put this because I was trying to figure it out. I think the respect of farting is underrated and hear me out hear me okay all right i wasn't even gonna interrupt i'm like please i love your ted this is my philosophy my philosophy about it um people get embarrassed by it but i think it's for the wrong reasons you know to me is like what they should be embarrassed by if you do it in a small room say say it's a room or elevator, is that there's poo-poo particles in farts. That's like the science.

So now if someone was to fart and you were in the elevator, they have now farted in your mouth. And so the underration is they don't respect you as a person. They're like, oh, it's just a fart. It's just a fart. But they just crapped in your mouth. Oh, so you're saying we're not fighting back. No, no, no.

Because people are like, oh, it's not a big deal. No, no, no, no. This is the biggest deal. You shit on my face. You did? Yeah. In your mouth. Say you didn't know they farted.

Right? Say you were having a conversation. Say we were having a conversation. What is that smell? It's too late. Too late. Because it's in your body now. Yeah.

Right. That person's sandwiches is now mixed with whatever drink they had and is now in your body now. Yeah. Right. That person's sandwiches is now mixed with whatever drink they had and is now in your body flowing through you all bad smells in your intestines. Wow.

And you didn't ask for that. So how do you balance the scales? This is what you do. Okay. Okay. This is what you do. I'm a petty person so I'm going to admit that.

Okay. I'm a petty person. I mean I could just the way this started off I had no idea. So if someone You shit in had no idea so if someone you shit in my mouth so if someone does that

like say you're eating someone farts so you're in the bathroom yeah well in the bathroom no no you can't let a fart rot no

okay no you wait till I leave you don't oh wow I like this because my thing is I see you if you're in the stall

fine I don't see you but if we're side by side at the funeral yeah I'm looking at hold it for a second because you know you can hold it all right it's tough what I'll get back I'll get back okay okay the thing I was thinking about

earlier but go on cuz nothing so the way I get back at people is like all right say say they like do it while I'm eating food all right I'm gonna wait till they eat say they have a rib or we had to bar they got a chicken we knew in the last wing that last one that left cuz it the last bite bar they got a chicken we knew on that last wing on that last cause the last bite say you got a Cinnabon and you eat in the middle you know that's the piece

you want especially if you're eating with deferred gratification in mind cause you know what's coming I do a quick pat not even a real smack

just a quick pat just with drops and shock and weight and I'm go that's what you get for shitting in my mouth boom let him go

there you go I think it is hard to hold a fart in while you pee. Yeah. I mean, I get it. I get it. Who among us has not stood in front of a urinal trying to respect people's nasal sovereignty? True, true, true. You know what I mean?

By not farting while you're peeing. Sometimes that's a skill to keep your butthole clenched while you don't cut off your pee flow. True. Or loosening the other one and then you fart everywhere. Look, I say go fart on. If they're audible, more power to you.

When they're silent and deadly, that feels, that's invasion. Because when they're silent and deadly, they don't worry about you. Right. I'm like, do you need to go check yourself?

Do you need to go check and see what happens? This feels like it's a problem for your body. I get everyone does it, but come on, man. Then you know what people eat, too. Because it's like, oh, if it smells really bad, that means you don't take care of yourself. Yeah, a lot of meat. Science.

Science. Fact. Although I feel like vegetarians sometimes and vegans sometimes have some Wild Because all those veggies man Asparagus make your pee stink Yeah Listeners what makes your fart smell the worst

There's any digestive scientists there I would love to know how I could just Turn my stomach into a weapon It's all part of the zeitgeist Finally what is a myth What's something people think is true you know to be false Oh My goodness Pepper Finally, what is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? Oh, my goodness.

Pepper makes food better. Pepper actually takes away the flavor of your food. Okay. So it's like people are like, oh, man, let me put pepper on this thing. It'll add a little whatever. No, no, no, no, no. Black pepper. Yeah, black pepper actually neutralizes whatever the other seasonings and flavors are in the food.

What do you mean? So it's like, for instance, if you have salt, you can taste the salt because salt is kind of like- It enhances. Yes. Yeah, it's a flavor amplifier. It neutralizes. So if you have something that's nasty, for instance, you'll put a lot of pepper on it because that way it's like whatever that weird city put, I don't know, too much basil to cover the taste of whatever it is. A light dusting of salt, compliment to the

chef. A light dusting of pepper is like masking agent. Exactly. Like, fuck what you just gave me. I don't want to taste it. Oh, that's why they're so pissed off and like fresh black ground pepper. I'm like, I will literally tell you when and it's going to seem like I'm playing a joke. Wait, I had one

more too because I thought of two as a backup. was the question again i just went blank about salt being no the myth the myth the myth oh oh feet are pretty feet are pretty no feet okay are pretty right feet look like little claws like little baby nubs i don't care who i don't care who feed it yeah all right if you're a dancer you got it. If you're a dancer, you got ugly feet. Any type of athlete, you got ugly feet. Also, sometimes, some people's feet are a different color from the rest of their body because they don't

moisturize their feet. So now you got chippy, like your skin is falling off the feet. If your shoes aren't right, they're curving in certain places. There are no pretty feet. I have my feet covered at certain places. There are no pretty feet. I have my feet covered at all times. As you should.

Yes. Because I respect the world around me. I used to live in New York, and in the summertime, people always have flip-flops and stuff. I'm like, New York is the dirtiest. New York is flip-flops all the time. Are you out here just flip-flops? Yeah. See, I wouldn't do that because I respect New York too much to show them my feet.

Wow. No, you should respect your toes, okay? Man, I always feel like I date people and I'm like, I got pretty feet. And then you see the feet and I'm like, you're just waiting for the one pair of pretty feet. You're like, this is going to be the one. It's going to turn me around. So when people have foot fetishes, I'm like, I don't get it. Yeah, I mean, that's all developmentally. I think that people who are into feet probably developmentally at some point.

Well, I figure when you're younger, you're always by their feet. Yeah, you're by feet. You're crawling as a baby. You're also having your first inklings of what you're into. So yeah, those two things probably fuse. I'm really into ankles. Oh, you're an ankle brother? Oh, I love them.

Oh, man. What kind of feet would you say look pretty? Do you think hands look good? This is my thing. I don't think any of the random appendages look good. A hand can be- Oh, so it's never that your feet are disgusting. You're like, I don't see the beauty in any of these parts.

I just don't. I don't see it. They are what they are. Because these things, you just- Hands- I mean, some people's hands are really soft. I'm like, oh, that's very soft and moisturized. Yeah.

But when people put their feet in your face, I'm like, don't put your feet in my face. You have socks on. You had to walk around all day. You might have sweat. Yeah. You know? See, I'm a freak. I like a girl with a really pretty face.

You know me. I'm nasty. I'm nasty, man. Oh, you like that? Pretty face. I like a real like that like pretty face somebody with a skin regimen someone who moisturizes exfoliates has a toner all right let's take a quick break we'll be right back

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all these concerns to rest in the debate last night. But we'll, we'll see. But man, so there is a new transphobic comment that has surfaced that is from all the way back in last year. Last March. Not even a year, technically. Wait, what? Yes. Before when he said, oh, the Stop and Frisk quotes were taken out of context. First off, I've been stopped and frisked three times in New York I've been stopped in Frist three times in New York.

Three times in New York. I've been stopped in Frist one time that made me so mad because I'm coming out of a bar. There's a bunch of white dudes play fighting. So I don't know what they were doing. Like slap boxing or some shit. But they were doing something

like at the corner. Me and my boy come out. We're on our phone trying to figure out the next place to go. Hey, pal. We get put up on the car. Not even a police car just a random car and i'm like bloomberg right i just nothing is taken out of context right like it was a thing

that happened to so many people and you didn't care also where's the homeless people at new york they vanished yeah i mean the it is He has a lot to account for. Where'd they go? It's funny when you actually look. It's like, okay, so racism, check. Oh, just like Trump. You know, like probably trying to make sure that Wall Street stays as profitable as possible at the expense of working people. Just like Trump, check.

Transphobic, just like Trump, check. Okay, great. And then this quote, like like again not even one year this they said this from march of last year uh and said if your conversation during a presidential election is about some guy wearing a dress and whether he she or it can go to the locker room with their daughter that's not a winning formula for most people uh fucking it wow what the fuck again this is what we always say like or this is my stance on these kinds of candidates. People like candidates where there are invisible segments of society to them should not be running for president.

And to him, I feel like 99% of America is invisible to him. 100%. Just the consequences. 100%. He's like, well, I know a couple people from there or here and so I know what I know what the reality is like for people

but to use such like dehumanizing language like saying it is so fucked up and again the human rights there are a lot of groups are like please

apologize for this at the very least again we don't know maybe he did correct it by maybe doubling down on this it's one of those things where it just shows like when Trump kept saying the blacks at one point is like, you don't even consider me the same as you because now I'm one of the blacks.

The blacks. Yeah. Like you're talking about trans people. You're like, oh, it you are now taking out every human quality that this person has. Right. Yeah. And I said, that's not. And again, the way he's even positioning this about basically being compassionate for other

people is not a winning formula. Honestly, say what you will. I think like his point was that maybe in the Midwest, people are just not as open to, you know, the existence of transgender people. But that doesn't fucking matter. Because at the end of the day, like I would rather I want somebody who says, you know, just like the God most people worship were purportedly loves all of his children, all of his creations. You'd want somebody with the same mentality to understand if you're leading a country,

you're saying, but I want what's good for every single person. I think that's, that is a winning message. Well, I think the hard part is too, is that a lot of times being on the coast, the coastal elites, if you will, it's hard because we happen to be beneficial enough where like, we have a melting pot in New York,

LA, even Atlanta. And I think sometimes people try to cater to the Midwest and the thing is, I feel like they're just spreading lies

because if I live, like my family is from the deep south. So every time I go visit them, there aren't really a lot of gay or trans people

down there. So as far as they know, they're watching the news and they're seeing this foreign thing that doesn't really a lot of gay or trans people down there. So as far as they know, they're watching the news and they're seeing this foreign thing that doesn't really exist that all they know is it could hurt their kids, it could take their jobs. And so it becomes this creature and it's like, no, no, no, no, no. These people want the exact same things. You want money, love, appreciation, dignity, respect.

Human rights. That's it. And it's hard because if you have never interacted or even met a person like that then it's almost like your mind sees them as not people it's like i think that you can fear from the heart it's the same thing like uh you know when when i'm going to africa when i went to ghana the first time uh my stepmother who is asian uh to to like in african culture people with fair skin are ghosts who take you away who because that's the legacy of slavery so there were little children who would

cry at the sight of her and i understand like it's based off when you have no uh when you have not been around anything else it's very easy to create myths around people but again like to your point that's why you need candidates who can at least say when they have your attention, not say shit like, I don't know if talking about some dude in a dress is a, that's no, no, no, no. Like that's where you actually have the, like, you know, if you're a candidate, that's your responsibility to bring people together and be like, well, hold on. Like that's not, we're not talking about something that's going to put anybody at risk here.

The only, we're talking about what I'm trying to do is point out that we have people that are at risk right now that we need to help out. Yeah. And just in keeping with his kind of dehumanizing language, we talked about how a woman told him, a woman who worked for him told him that she was pregnant and he, his immediate response was kill it. No. Yeah. And then she was like that's what what and he repeated himself uh but then there was also a woman who worked for him who couldn't find a nanny for her child and his response was

and this is a long quote but uh worth reading it It's a fucking baby. All it does is eat and shit. It doesn't know the difference between you and anyone else. All you need is some black who doesn't even have to speak English to rescue it from a burning building. So have we noticed, honestly, since Trump is almost like there's no class to politics. Yeah, it's just mask off now. Yeah, it's almost like there's no class to politics. Yeah, it's just mask off now. Yeah, it's cool. Well, here's, and I think this is the difference too. Well, not the difference, but with someone like Mike Bloomberg, who is so clearly, there's so much anecdotal evidence and people, experiential evidence about how wrong this president is.

And I'm not sure how much of an improvement it's going to be for Trump, given all these things. And that would be a line I would expect Donald Trump to say. Yes. If I said that, I'd be like, yeah, Trump would say that. Yeah. But again, but also maybe Mike Bloomberg. Yeah. But the clever thing he's doing,

and it's getting him a lot of heat, is he's deploying Obama's soundbites in his advertisements. So for a lot of people who aren't as savvy, who aren't aware of all these things that are coming up about his history, you would think, oh, I think this is Barack Obama's pick for the nomination. I don't need Obama

to come out and endorse anyone. I need him to un-endorse. Or correct people. I don't want you to nominate this motherfucker. There was times when he was tearing down Obamacare, saying that why isn't there more unity in the country? I think you should ask the president that.

He likes to take shots, but again, he's very opportunistic, and he knows how to use his money and spend it well, and that's where we're at. Isn't it crazy that we live in a world where these quotes, he didn't feel the need to drop out. Right. He doesn't feel the need to drop out or do anything. Nothing will happen to out. Right. Like, he doesn't feel the need to drop out or do anything. Yeah. Like, nothing, nothing will happen to him. No. Like, we live in a world where nothing, I just saw this quote, I was watching, because I

do watch Fox News because it makes me laugh. But they kept running all these videos of, because Barack, I think, on President's Day was like, oh, 11 years ago, I signed this bill that helped turn around the economy. And it was like, what did Barack i signed this bill that helped turn around the economy and it was like what did barack obama do for the economy nothing and then people just went on this tirade about like how he did nothing for the um for the country and economy um and i'm like man we live in a world and this is what i want and he's starting to do it a little bit i was like brock you are old to black man you've done something that no black person's ever done that's why i got a little bit like my thing is, like, tell people.

Like, this is my thing. Bloomberg, I don't rock with you, bro. Right. Take my voice off your commercials. Yeah. Just, if Obama tweeted that, done. Keep my name out your mouth. That's it.

Yeah. Like, if he, just imagine if he dropped some fire like that. Yeah. Like, hey, hey, Bloomberg. Bloomberg, yeah. You know what I'm saying? It'd be fire. Right.

If he was like, Trump, oh, what have your policies actually done to bring up the economy? Yeah. Just do it. What you got to lose? I think hopefully that'll happen. I mean, I think we can use a little bit of that energy in the general. But yeah, it's just, again, to your point, like, I don't know what would stop this man at this point. Because when you think about it, like, if taxes go up in a way that, you know, either Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders is proposing, it makes more sense to try and spend spend the money to become president to avoid those tax cuts.

That's what they say. He's just running to beat Bernie. Yeah, in a way. And I think just it'll be it'll be interesting to see. I'm really looking forward to the debate because a lot of people are going to basically folk. I think I'd imagine focus their attention on Bloomberg because a lot of the people who are getting a lot of the like sort of center support or establishment based support are looking at him eating into their numbers. And like they're going to, you know, could be a bit of a smoke show, but we'll see we'll see so just on the who's in power now front uh william barr people are calling for him to resign yeah like everyone is calling for him to resign because he is refusing to hold uh this president accountable and doing whatever he says right let me tweet about roger stone all right let's get a sentence knocked down right let's launch investigations into things that are unnecessary and just meant to intimidate. Right. And the president is sort of,

you know, now that we saw how he responded to the, you know, Russia interference, Mueller investigation, not bearing any fruit for the Democrats. The day after that, he started the call with he had the call with uh zielinski zielinski uh so now that the now that he was acquitted in the mainstream media just took that as the main uh log line of the impeachment like acquitted all all caps uh he has decided to just go on a fucking tear and bar is just he's decided to be more henchmen than uh than ag but there so people are calling for him to resign and he was like you know i'm thinking about it he's been pump faking like this constantly when the when the tweets came out with the roger stone tweets remember like the next day was you know bill barr said like in that interview he's like it's not helping the president's tweets tweets like are actually hindering my job.

And people like, oh, is he kind of slapping the hand away? But that was just a moment for him to look like a human. And then again for this one, again, three unnamed administration officials told the Post about Barr's private comments. He has limits, one of the sources said. Like, okay. What are they? Yeah, I don't know. Like, what?

I always wonder this. In years to come, we're old men walking around, you know, with walkers and stuff. In our Wu-Tang shirts. Facts. What will people think about this era of politics? Yeah, I mean.

I don't know. It could be a full-on circus by the time we're old men. Do you think it could get worse? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

Oh man. I think it could get a lot worse. I think, I think our mistake up to this point has been assuming that this is as bad as it can get because it's as bad as it's been in our lifetime. But it's, so what happened? Yeah.

I mean, what happens when they're, you know, if he's able to commit these crimes out the open and do nothing, what's to stop him from just jailing people? And he has an attorney general who's willing to do that. Literally nothing.

Do you guys think he's going to get a second term? I think it's very possible. That's right, man. People need to show up. I think the Democrats still have a chance, but I think if they just kind of push Bloomberg through to be the nominee, I think Democrats are fucked and the country is probably fucked. Yeah, because imagine all the people you need to invigorate and energize to turn out to vote. You need a broad coalition of people and interests to show up to vote against the president.

Mike Bloomberg is not energizing anybody except for like Isaac Mizrahi. I got my, well, CNN and all the mainstream media. Like there's, there's the people who have this version of things where he covers off like a handful of boxes that they think that a democratic candidate needs to have. And it's just,

it's very out of touch with, I mean, Hillary Clinton covered it off more better than anyone. Uh, it's just, uh, it's out of touch with, I think what, what is actually out there and what the appetite is for voters for like what they, how they see the country, how they see the future of the country or the version of the future that they want to see. Those of us who followed the 2016 election through mainstream media outlets, you know, we all learned that all of a sudden on election day in 2016 was that they were completely out of touch and completely wrong.

And now I think they're still like, you can't just change. It's not like they just, we're going to look in the mirror the day after election day and be like, we were wrong. So they're more like, these polls are wrong. Right. The polls are fucked up. That's not us.

Yeah. Jeez. Well, speaking of polls, Susan Collins, hero, is not polling that well, following her just kind of- Lack of spine in the impeachment confirming brett kavanaugh yeah matador on always pretending to be like you know i'm disappointed with what the president's doing and i think i'm gonna i'm gonna think long and hard about just doing whatever mitch mcconnell says yeah um and so now she's looking at everyone has been basically, you know, focusing like if there's going to be one Republican seat that goes red to blue.

A lot of people are focused on Susan Collins because of all the shit that she's done. Pump faking like she has a spine. And this time. OK, so last time she was up for like she won about 68 percent of the vote, which is pretty good. That's pretty good. And now she's doing about 42% to 43% against her challenger right now in the Senate race. But she's doing really, really poorly with women, especially. She had 42% approval rating, but that drops to 36% for women overall.

She only has 25% of the support of women under 50. But that's amazing to me. When she voted Kavanaugh in, I'm like, yo, that's like if you're black, right? Right. And there's a known racist. Yeah, and you still vote for him. And you still say, eh. Right.

You're like, what? It's like, what are you doing? Don't you know what's at stake? Like, what are we doing? Yeah. Like, we can't take him out of here. Right, right. You know what I mean?

And you did not also, man, those court hearings, watching that man get so mad. And this is the thing that I think irks me a little bit is I've seen, you know, working entertainment, I've seen women stand up for themselves. Now they're like being angry. You know, if I say something that's over an octave of one, I'm being an angry black man. And to see this white dude just like spew, like turning red. And this woman is over here as calm as hell. Yeah. Just telling you facts.

Yeah, right. Like legitimate facts. Yep. And the fact that everybody still did not trust her voice. I'm like, what do we do like my thing is at what point does honesty in truth have a shot it has no well it doesn't have it has no place in politics especially in washington dc because at the end of the day right the stakes aren't for the republicans to say do i believe uh christine blasey ford and what she's saying about brett kavanaugh it's can i get

another conservative on the supreme court to act out like the conservative end game of packing the courts so we can push through all kinds of evil wicked shit and know we have the right numbers on the stand power i mean yeah when we think about we think about the whole system and listen i i love being in america but when you think about the system of how we were built, it wasn't built for all of us. It just wasn't. So the fact that we can't change the electoral college bothers me to an extent that I just can't get past. And the fact that even when it comes to Supreme Court justices, it's like somehow I'm still kind of confused. Maybe you guys can explain.

I remember Obama at one point had a chance to put two people in. Merrick Garland was the pick that he should have had. Right. But did something happen, right? Mitch McConnell basically said, oh, it's an election year. That's not right. Like basically it's an election year. So we'll let the voters decide whoever the president is.

Then we can listen to Supreme Court picks. And he should, if he had a, you know, again, that was the beginning when you're like, well, I don't know, maybe go further back when they were trying to get Obamacare done or many of the things he was trying to get done. But that was so cynical to just be like, nah, I'm not going to do my duty here. I'm going to pretend to use some excuse that the voters are going to decide. Again, just to sit on that, put Neil Gorsuch in, and now we have Kavanaugh.

And, you know, again, they still have their eye on maybe getting another one in yeah so that's why like it's not about that's a thing it's like everything has been reduced to what the stakes are for the the power the powers that be and i think it's never about narrowly you think most people would treat this as does this person have the temperament, the character to be a Supreme Court justice and be a lifetime appointee? But it's never like that. It's hold the fuck up.

What's the score of conservatives to liberals on the Supreme Court? Okay, we have this list of picks from the Federalist Society. These are our marching orders based on like the billionaires and millionaires who donate to the party. This is the thing we have to do

because that's what we're in the game for. You know what I mean? It's never, it's just like, it's a special team's play. It's like, oh, I just blow up the wedge. That's what I'm here to do. It's not really much about anything else. Yeah. Meanwhile, Trump's approval rating keeps going up. I mean, it's still seven points underwater approval to disapproval, but so very bad for an average president. But within this bubble of a presidency, it seems like, I don't know, something's going very wrong with our ability as a society and with the mainstream media to hold him accountable when he is at his most dangerous. He just fired the official who advised him against cutting off age to Ukraine.

He just asked him to resign. So he's, you know. We should have known this, though. The moment he was running and that Access and it came out that he had sex with a porn star? Right. It wouldn't. They would have found their rosaries so quick, suddenly. Like, as a Christian.

Let me clutch my pearls and go see the movies. But not anymore. It's locker room talk. Yeah. Oh, my God. It's a locker room full of sexual predators. Yeah. It's locker room talk. Yeah. Oh my God. It's a locker room full of, you know, sexual predators. Yeah.

It's that locker room though. Um, but yeah, I, I think I tie it back to people being a little deflated from the impeachment and the mainstream media being inflated, but deflated by the impeachment, not going through.

But I mean, it was the mainstream media's decision to cover it as well he won he won the whole thing even though we knew that he was going to get acquitted uh it was just a matter of bringing the facts out into the open and they've chosen to cover it like it was a game that he won right um yeah yeah and i will we'll see how of this has to do with the fact that the only real alternative right now, other than Bloomberg, that seems like they have an actual shot is a Democratic socialist, which I don't think fits with the mainstream media's version of reality or, you survival instinct what's up with elizabeth warren how come they never like i was watching cnn and i feel like i rarely see her yeah coverage yeah i rarely see her her name in the polls and i'm like wait a second she's not doing this bad that we should not be seeing her yeah no they just they were like she had her shot and then she went a little bit down in the polls

so fuck her. And they just moved on to an, I think, yeah, especially after Iowa, when somehow it- She came in third. Yeah, but it became all about Buttigieg. Right. How? How? I don't know.

Part of me wonders if it's because she is also a bit ideologically aligned, more of like understand, like calling out capitalism for what it is that they don't have the space to be like well we can't have two people who might be viable candidates who are making everybody aware of how fucked up everything is right so let's just pick one and i guess we have to do it because at the top of the ticket we see bernie sanders and then we can obscure that but i think it's it seems like klobuchar they really are really into like giving her more attention now too, which is a shame because I really, the things that Elizabeth Warren has to say are valuable, especially when you need to hear more people calling out the same shit rather than just like, well, let's get the billionaire, another person who's like beholden to like a gigantic agribusiness conglomerate

and a couple other people to talk. And then we'll let this person be the outlier who we don't know how to cover. But it does feel like they switched from ignoring Sanders just completely and paying attention to Warren and just kind of poking little holes to now paying attention to Sanders and being sort of in a panic about him

and being like he might take you into Central Park and have you assassinated and ignoring Warren. Yeah. right. That's a good way to describe it. All right, let's take another break and we'll be right back. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president.

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And Jake Paul has announced a new way for me to spend $19.99 a month. He is going to be offering a service for those of us who are looking to become successful influencers. Oh, what? So he announced this at the Hollywood Sports Park, which is a multi-use outdoor paintball soft pellet and BMX venue in Bellflower, California, not in Hollywood. And he wrote before the event that, quote, the education system's worthless, teaching kids zero real life skills for them to secure their own future.

He used the wrong there. T-H-E-R-E. Oh, boy. And the launch included a meet-and-greet with Jake Paul and opportunities to sign up for the platform as well as purchase, I think it's called the Financial Freedom Movement. And you could buy a financial freedom movement merchandise. Uh, so that's what he calls financial freedom. Yeah. You're getting financially free from, I think your parents, that is financially free from

your 1999 a month. Right. Exactly. He will free you from that. I might say, what's people going to do this? Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. It'll be successful. Wait, what do you learn? You learn strategies for being... I just like the fact that someone said, get the fuck out of here. Strategies. Strategies.

This ain't a Primo strategy guy for a video game. Somebody probably asked him that question because at the event, Paul and friends made it rain money over the crowd using cash cannons to stream single dollar bills from the second floor VIP area. Oh, my God. So that's what you learn, bitch. One thing that makes me really sad about this is that when I was in New York, I used to volunteer at like middle schools, elementary schools, high schools. No matter what level.

Once people found out what I worked, what I did, oh, you know, I should be famous. That's what the question, that's what it was.

I should be famous. What do you want to be when you grow up? Famous? Famous. Famous. Famous. Right.

I want to be on TV. And not even I want to act. Right. I want to be, I want to just be known. I want to be famous. I'm like, for what? Because I don't have to work. It's like, to be, I want to just be known. I want to be famous. I'm like, for what?

Because I don't have to work. It's like, you just, but you know what though? With social media, it's like, it is now very possible to do that.

To do something for, depending on how long you can do it for. But yeah, I think, I mean, there's always, I forget who said the quote,

but they say, you know, 60 years ago, you were famous for what you achieved. Right. And now fame is the achievement. Yeah.

Ooh, I gotta write that down. People don't aspire to achieve anything, and the formula's been completely fucking backwards. Right. That purely being whatever. I don't even know what that means. Right. Growing up here, I used to think like, oh, yeah, being famous just meant like, in my mind,

I could smoke weed all day. I'd have to go to work and there would always be money in my account. Yes. And in my mind, I'm like, that's a sick ass lifestyle. Right. But I was like, I don't know how we'll get there. I don't know about that. And then I realized quickly, I need a fucking job and that's not a real way to live. But I think at a certain point, if you look at sort of like, you know how the system is set up, it's like,

okay, do I want three jobs or two jobs that I toil in that have nothing that aren't going to pay me a decent wage or whatever, then yeah, maybe it is better to live in this fantasy world where I could be, have this like nebulous concept of fame and use that to nourish me. Right. Because like what the,

it's like, well, I don't think I could have a job with any dignity or people, or sometimes people just, yeah, I think the celebrity culture too has just made it so that

we put that at the top of like, you know, our recognition tree. Right. And it has to be, oh yeah, you got how many followers?

Well, you can become, fame can then lead to the achievements. Like Kylie Jenner, who's not famous for anything, has twice as large a net worth as LeBron James. Like, she's

a billionaire. From cosmetics. She has twice the net worth of LeBron? Yeah, she's a billionaire. She has a billion dollars. LeBron has $480 million. After everything he's done. Yes. Broke boy. Hold on. Time out. After everything LeBron...

LeBron James has schools where kids can go to college for free. He should have been like, fuck these kids. He should have invested that money into a cosmetics company for people who are losing their hair so that they can...

Headbands for people. Thicker headbands. He should do whatever he should do whatever the fuck he wants no but I always think about hairlines

like Jamie Foxx if you watch the old Jamie Foxx show and if you watch Steve Carell on season one of The Office

oh yeah he had that little patch and Jamie Piven on Seinfeld because he played George Costanza now these brothers got good full hair

I'm saving money just in case mine go. I'm saving it. That proper graft. Matthew McConaughey. What? Not McConaughey too? Antonio Banderas. Take a look at McConaughey early days and now real strong hairline.

Only getting stronger. I don't think it happens naturally. It shouldn't go. If it does, we need to study that. It's like, I don't think happens naturally. I don't think you just naturally. If it does, we need to study that. Yes. It's like, I don't know, man. As I got older, my hairline got more and more brolic. Yeah.

Wow. Google has been listening to us because I typed in Matt. Matthew McConaughey popped it up. Second thing, hair. Wow. Google. Hi, Google. Wow. Hi, Al hair. Wow. Google. Hi, Google. Wow.

Hi, Alphabet. Yeah. Wow. How's it look? You know what? There's a magic going on? His hairline's back. Yeah.

Because you know what it is? Hairline's back. All right. Because you know what the thing is? It's like he would have had the peak, so it's going back in the wings, and now all of a sudden it's even. Right. Yeah.

Yeah, exactly. It's called the second act, baby. You brother look i am his hairline has received has had a mcconnison oh yeah um joel mckale also less lesser than matthew mcconaughey but oh yeah joel mckale yeah listen i'm ready stronger hairline these days uh you have to get it you have to get your hair back if you can't grow a full beard right because i can't grow a full beard and then like i would just like a milk just patchy yeah like i need to shave what i have right now because it's just it's just trash i look at my shit i look like someone who's in the middle of a panic attack that's what my facial hair looks like.

All right. Let's talk about two different directions that a technology company can go. So the employees of Kickstarter voted to unionize on Tuesday. Okay. And their management came out with a statement that I don't know where the fuck this came from or who is the management of their company, but they said, we support and respect this decision and we are proud of the fair and democratic process that got us here. We've worked hard over the last decade to build a different kind of company, one that measures its success by how well it achieves

its mission, helping to bring creative projects to life. Now, I'm not going to say that Kickstarter management didn't try and squash the union at some point because I don't know what the process was like, but they landed at a place that is, I mean, this is the first major technology company that has unionized. And hopefully it beats a path forward for companies like Facebook and Alphabet.

I'm sure those companies are too powerful to do that right now. But it's so funny because these companies are worth so much money. So it's like you're telling me you can't pay. Because a lot of these places, like I'm a freelancer now, and I still have to pay WGA, DGA, SAG, right? But the place I'm working at is non-union, and I'm like, oh, that's no health insurance. That's nothing, and not only is it no health insurance,

but this job doesn't even pay me money for the union baseness that I do to do the do the thing and it's just like well how do people expect i worked on a show once where um after lunch uh the crew went back to like they were going to do work all of a sudden everyone just walked out and across the street there was every different union oh and everyone stood behind their respective signs nice and that show went on strike for three weeks and it flipped it so if you were a PA if you were a PA but like nobody like your boss wasn't there on the call sheet

and it said wardrobe stylist you now went into the union paid for by the show as a wardrobe stylist so you can go from making $150 to $450 I think she did one of my friends did craziness workers at the company had been organizing as Kickstarter United for over a year.

I mean, it does take work. They were pushing for equal pay, transparency for management, and more inclusive hiring. And that will be much easier now that they are working together. Good job. Not to say that they didn't try to fucking bust it up on the way there. Oh, yeah. I have no no doubt that i don't think there's ever been a business place with like yeah we're thinking of unionism

oh great can i help perfect yeah like how do i how do i man work union live better you know what i say thanks yeah uh now let's talk about targets shipped s-h-i-p-t yes There's a P in there for some reason. Target shipped. Yeah. So Target bought, shipped for, how much is it? 550 million. Yeah. Wow. It is a delivery service for groceries. And since the sale, how many years ago? It was 2017, I think.

Yeah. So since that sale, things haven't been great for Ships employees or rather gig economy contractors. Right. They're not employees. Yeah, they're not. Yeah. Same as how Amazon built this giant delivery network while not bringing on any employees. They just made them all contractors.

Gig economy contractors. Hey, anybody can come in and get a quick gig, deliver a package for us. Anyways, recently Shipt overhauled their payment system in a bunch of different markets. Instead of getting a flat rate and 7.5% of the store receipt total, they're trying out an algorithmic model. Oh, I'm sure the algorithm fucking blessed them from on high. So this is a thing that Google does, that Facebook does, where everything is hidden behind the algorithm that they have, where they're like, it wasn't us, it's the algorithm.

And behind that, they can just make all these changes to how they do business. So in this case, the new model claims to help, quote, take estimated shop time, substitution, street traffic, and estimated travel time into consideration. And weirdly, that has led to lower pay for their workers. You don't say. Yeah. So rather than paying 7.5%, which is clear and easy to understand and easy to track for the workers. They have made it like hidden behind an algorithm and you just like get a certain amount of

money after the job is done. And that's what you get. And people. That makes me sad. Yeah. I mean, it's already, I try and tip gig economy work as much as possible because all I, every time we talk about it, shit, it's always like, yeah, these people are getting fucked. Yeah.

Um, and half the time, you know, depending on your schedule, these are the kinds of like this, this can help you, uh, like these kinds of gigs and to even read more about like what this company was asking of the already underpaid workers, like to what they say, reverse tip almost. So what they were saying is they were telling Miles, you got to bring the magic, buddy. Yeah. Bring the magic. What the fuck is that? contractors to include gifts like thank you cards hot cocoa flowers and balloons to add to their orders that are paid by the workers themselves right or no even walk customers dogs and take out their trash as a courtesy yeah meaning and like that what they're saying we call that bringing the magic we call that customer ratings right and they're saying is like which

will lead to better gigs because if your ratings are higher than that'll put you in a different category of worker but like i think that's absolutely absurd to say like please add gifts i understand like you know sometimes if you if you're driving a like uber or lyft you maybe have the mints or something like that but you can you could probably get a big bag or something for a lot of money and that you can sort of factor that in i don't know maybe you are coming wild out of pocket for that shit but to then be like hi on top of you being overpaid half the time people don't even tip these people right underpaid will you give them flowers yeah yeah bring the magic wow are you not bringing the magic do you not want this bad enough isn't that isn't isn't that the thing do you not

want it bad enough it's the whole like it's the whole model that all these technology companies and all companies have been you know our our national myth that it's all about how hard you try but that that's it like that's what to me that's the problem with the quote-unquote american dream yeah whereas like everyone you're told if you work hard you can achieve anything know, no matter how hard you work. There are people who work nonstop and have nothing to show for it. And it's like, and what America will say to them is that it's their fault. Because even though they work in three jobs, hey, that's not hard enough.

You're working the wrong three jobs. Yeah. And if you don't think that what they're doing is fucked up then uh ask yourself why they heavily censor their workers discourse online if you criticize the company even just question the new corporate logo you can be quote deactivated which basically means you're fired from ever using their service uh somebody once posted something like mildly critical about their new logo and they were deactivated for doing that. It's funny. God, man.

There's that quote. I'm pretty sure it's a real quote, again, from Bloomberg when they were talking about like how do you motivate someone? And he goes, simple. Are they addicted to three meals a day? Are they addicted to three meals a day are they addicted to three meals a day wait wait so he's suggesting that person just eat one meal or just saying like they're like oh yeah when you put someone's livelihood on the line you can get the motherfucker to do anything yeah maybe if your children weren't so hungry you wouldn't be so desperate for me to abuse you yeah um anyways this is sweet hope yeah so uh we usually try this is a downer you gotta you gotta start it you gotta start at me high yeah i guess we have to talk about bone thugs we have to talk about bone thugs i'm googling that

too um so wow we there a video count comes out when they're being like, we are now boneless thugs. Okay. And I was like, what? Fuck. Who paid them to do this? This is Buffalo Wild Wings. Of course. Credit to them.

They put- Wait. Yes. This is to promote hot wings. Okay. This is where it gets me a little hot. I was not ready for that. Yeah.

Credit to them. They did a whole mockumentary style video that's actually kind of funny. Yeah, well done. But the whole idea is like, nah, man, we're boneless wings. Don't worry. It works with everything. And Crazy Bone is in this? Well, hold on.

You mean Crazy Bone-less. Yeah. Okay. You mean Wishbone-less. Stop this. But Lazy, he is not fucking with it. In the actual clip, he's like, nah, I'm not doing this shit. Like, his character was kind of the straight man, and he's like, this is bullshit.

He's like, I'm fucking Lazy Bone. I'm not going to be Lazy Bone. But he's still in this chicken commercial, though. Yeah, he is. Yeah, he is. So he was the one who got to pretend he had his dignity, but he's still in the chicken commercial. Also, let's be real. Fucking boneless wings are not wings.

They're just fucking chicken nuggets for cowards. Yeah, chicken wings. Yes. That's all it is. Yeah, I always think about, do you guys remember uh the buffalo no was it the the chicken chicken uh it was mary j blige and it was a burger king yeah and it was the chicken the chicken fries yeah chicken fries chicken fries man oh my i remember dragging her for it was like why you do okay this is why i will say this it is hard for me because I'm a black person

and I feel like I, I went to a predominantly white school and I became very self-conscious about very like black things. Sure, yeah, of course. I feel very self-conscious

about like eating watermelon in public, listening to rap music and eating fried chicken. Yeah. So now I'm looking at bone thugs in this fried chicken. I don't care, Buffalo wings are just fried chicken. Yeah, right. Buffalo wings are fried chicken yeah so now i'm looking at bone thugs in this fried chicken i don't care buffalo wings are just fried chicken yeah right buffalo wings are fried chicken they're in this fried chicken commercial i'm like this is not the bone i knew yeah i know this ain't the bone

what is wu-tang gonna do now what what what wu-tang do they're doing uh impossible burger commercials wait are you for white castle i know Castle. I know Ray and Ghostface were doing... No, really? Yes, they had... What? They were like, yo, we fuck with it. And they were like

at a opening of a... Or at a White Castle that was serving it and they did like an impromptu show. But it wasn't the whole Wu-Tang. I'm pretty sure it was either Ghost or Ray

or both of them. But did they say Wu-Tang though? Maybe not. Okay, that counts for the whole team. That counts for the whole team. Yeah. But this one, I mean, the whole...

Wow. Just the idea of like Lazy Bone. That count for the whole team. But this one, I mean, the whole... Just the idea of lazy bone. When you watch it, it's really funny because he's really like, this is the dumbest shit I've ever heard. But again, still getting the baggage. Still getting the bag. I mean, tell me what you're gonna chew when the rainbow bones are high. Oh, no.

The bone has come for you. The bone has come for you The bonus come for you Shout out to They had to run up Some really great songs I used to love them Because I knew nothing About what they were saying

No And I miss my uncle Charles Y'all I just know they miss Their uncle Charles Y' Charles, y'all. That's all we got. I just know they miss their Uncle Charles. Y'all. Yeah, y'all. Y'all.

And I miss my Uncle Charles. And then they sing about the first of the month. Yeah. Wake up, wake up. I think there's a bunch of uncles in Crossroads because they say, head south thinking there's a party, EZ sees Uncle Charlie. Oh, it's Uncle Charlie? Yeah, there's an Uncle Charlie. Oh, Uncle Charles. I'm an idiot. sees Uncle Charlie. Oh, it's Uncle Charlie? Yeah, there's an Uncle Charlie.

Oh, Uncle Charles. I'm an idiot. Oh, Jack. Oh, man. I need to study longer at the Book of Bone. Remember that video when all the dead people are behind them just walking to heaven? Someone had a tweet of being like,

the scariest motherfucker ever is that one dude whose eyes just go black, fully black, or white. Yeah, you're like, nope, that's scarier than the Babadook. I want no... Sorry. You seen that video?

Freaked me the fuck out. Man. Oh, and I can't spoil it. I'm going to say one of the scariest things I've seen lasted probably 20 seconds. I watched Parasite, and it's just like a 20-second clip. And it's just, I don't know if it's real but it's just you know spoiler alert it's been out for like 3 months

alright spoiler alert if you don't want to spoil Parasite skip ahead 30 seconds I won't even say it it's just one part where like one of the moms is telling a story but again you don't know if the story is real or if it's from the son's perspective and it's super quick and you just see these eyes appear and I'm like oh shit

and I just can't imagine and it's just like he's you just see these eyes appear. And I'm like, oh, shit. And I just can't imagine. And it's just like this big. He's coming up from the eyes from the bottom of the stairs. You just see the eyes and the smile. And I'm like, what the hell? And it's so quick. I'm like, what the hell is this? So I always think about that, the Bone Thugs video.

And then also, these are just my fears. Let's break it down. List my fears. Real quick. List your factors. Witches. I don't know if you guys seen that movie witches

that came out like in the 90s yeah and they just turned boy yeah and she like morphed into the witch yeah

and like her eyes changed I'm like see I don't mess with eyes I don't do eye drops I don't do contacts I don't do like when people touch their eyes so you didn't like

Clockwork Orange huh just peeling your eyes open aww it's been a pleasure having you, man. Where can people find you, follow you? You can find me, oh, you can please listen to my podcast, which is hopefully not weird to promote, at Black Men Can't Jump. We review movies with leading actors of colors in the context of race in Hollywood.

That's on iTunes and Spotify. You can follow me on Twitter and instagram at gerard milligan i don't really do anything on the social sites but if you want to just like dm to say hi yeah i that's that's the thing i do like i suck at posting but i'm a big what's up how's your day yada yada yada yeah you know that kind of and is there anything on social media you've been enjoying? Like a tweet, an Instagram post? Ooh, you know what? You know what?

On Twitter, I've been following, because one of my company partners, James III, he writes for the show All That. And the cast that we grew up with is on the show. Oh, really? Yeah. So they all will come in and do like random bits from their old characters almost like passing the torch kind of thing.

Sure, sure. And they all would just like tweet out random stuff and Elise Reyes, she tweets nonstop and I just love following her because that was like my first big crush.

So this is really just my plug just to see if, you know, she's single and just like knows I follow her on Twitter. That's really good. There you go. That's really and just like knows I follow her that's really there you go so if anyone knows her please tell her

I'm still a fan yeah but no but it's so cool like I oh yes right right yes I remember her was in love

was in love in love Miles where can people find you in a very tweet you've been enjoying forgot about her see she's just fell in love all over again

forgot about her went back to to being nine. Oh. Swap, swap. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at MilesOfGrey. Also on my other podcast, 420 Day Fiance, talking about the greatest show ever, 90 Day Fiance. But, you know.

Wait, you love that show? On that gas, yeah. One of my best friends produces that show. Oh, really? Yes. Okay, we're going to have to talk after this. Yeah, we will. Some tweets that I like.

Shout out to everybody who was tagging me in that at Charles Finch photo where it looks like it was like a bumper sticker that someone had on the back of their SUV, but it was like a cross, but then it says unashamed underneath, like as if you're ashamed of your Christianity. But for most of us,

we look at that as tuna shamed. Tuna shamed, yeah. And yes, I have a love for tuna sandwiches from places I should not be eating them. And thank you to everybody who tagged me. I will never be tuna-shamed, despite what comes up on Anna Hosnier's stories when she's trying to come at me for eating tuna sandwiches at an airport. And then also, just an old-timey dad joke from Conan O'Brien. Forget cars. Is anyone working on a self-driving

government? Yep. Womp womp. Bye-bye. Wow. Wow. Oops, I dadded again speaking of dad jokes tweeted. God, you're a cat. Cat, yay. God, you really

love the humans. Cat, yeah, I do. God, but you don't express your feelings very well cat oh no what should i do god try giving them gifts later human is is that a dead bird cat happy whisper i love you so much uh which i thought was a nice interpretation of why cats do that bring dead shit in the house yeah i always thought it was more like based on them being like i want to see you try and kill one oh shit okay that's it that's something i've been enjoying you can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien you can find us on twitter at daily zeitgeist we're at the daily zeitgeist

on instagram we have a facebook fan page and a website dailyzeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we ride out on. Oh, yeah, another tweet. I've been enjoying Blaine Kapach tweeted, the worst part of teabagging is wrapping my balls around the spoon to wring them out. I was not expecting that.

Snuck that one in. Yeah. Miles, what song are we going to ride out on? This is by Sam Wilkes and Sam Gendel. They're just like, they're instrumental makers. I've played some of Sam's stuff before, Gendel before.

Why are you clenching your fist, Anna? Oh, you're doing this? Which one? Sam Wilkes? Okay, well, look, you tell him I really like his style because he definitely, is he from the Bay Area as well? Okay, so yeah, up there. Because also you look DJ Shadow. Very DJ Shadow-esque vibes coming out of him. Makes sense given the geography.

And this track is called Tonight. So, you know, depending on what time you're listening to this, twist one up or twist one down. I don't know. Whatever. However that works. Just twist. Yeah. But don't ring your ball sack out with this one.

Yeah. Do not do that. Painful. Yeah. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts

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I say that? No, they don't. Oh, yeah, I saw it. Like you're in the fucking Bone Thugs video? I'm as scared as hell. He misses Uncle Chum. And now he's bald.

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