The Trillionaire Mindset - 24: Is This the New GameStop?

Starting point is 00:00:00 We praise you Australians, salute to you down there. You're literally straight down there, I think. To all of our fans in the... Down under. Antipodes, antipodes. What is the antipodes? Antipodes. What the?

Starting point is 00:00:15 It's like the mountain range? The opposite side of the world. Oh, yeah. I knew what that was. I don't know if I'm saying that right. Antipodes. Yeah. Yeah, slow it down.

Starting point is 00:00:23 Can you slow it down? Antipodes. Make it say bitch, you slow it down? Antipodes. Make it say bitch please. No. Yeah come on please. Just type in bitch pronunciation. No. Yeah well oh my god what's it Ah! Ah! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha For some reason, you know what's been stuck in my head is I've been talking to myself. Well, I mean, we all talk to ourselves, but I've been going, buddy, hey, listen, young Metro over there, he doesn't trust you, so I'm really sorry, but I've been going buddy. Hey, listen. Young Metro over there. He doesn't trust you, so I'm really sorry, but I gotta shoot you. You know that fucking, if you're a Metro,

Starting point is 00:01:32 don't trust you, I'm gonna shoot you. You don't know that fucking song? No, I don't even know what song it is, but. Is it new? No, it's it. Why are you doing this to me? It's future. For the rapper future, the guy who mumbles about Perkiset.

Starting point is 00:01:47 I don't think I've ever heard a future song. You've never... Wow, I thought that I had never heard music, certain music before, but buddy, apparently you haven't. Okay, you know what, Lyric, I was also laughing at the other day, and I think about, I don't know, every six months or so, is that a biggy song, baby, baby, what's the song? Because I see some ladies tonight. Yes, yes, but the way that that thing goes, it's it's a Tim and then there's a call, a

Starting point is 00:02:17 call in response with him in Diddy at the time, puff daddy, where he says, if you got a gun in your waist, please don't shoot up the place. And then, did he go, why? Which is so funny to me, because Biggie's basically saying, hey, if you got a gun, please just don't shoot up the club tonight.

Starting point is 00:02:35 And did he skeptical with his arms crossed? I'm imagining it going, why? And then he says, well, because there's hot women in the club tonight. And I want to have sex with them. So that's what he says? Yeah, that's basic. He's that's I'm Para. Oh, oh, that's that's his man. I'm white washing the lyrics into a conversation. Right.

Starting point is 00:02:54 Instead of, uh, remember what do you have ever seen the clip of, uh, like, Shug Knight calling out puff daddy at the, um, the amazing source of words or something? No, what does he say? I think it's worth some sort of source of words or something. No, what does he say? Cause he puffed at he's not really, I hate saying puffed at he. It's like my dad used to say, oh, Snoop Doggie Dog. Like, he don't have to call him that, man.

Starting point is 00:03:14 But he wasn't really a rapper. He was a producer, but he would still kind of insert himself into the spotlight. And, you know, if you've ever seen those old rap videos from when we were growing up, you would see he's in the background. Yeah, dancing around. And oh, man, we can play it. I forgot that we are a shit. But so he basically calls out puff daddy and invites people to come over to I think it's death row if they're tired of puff daddy shenanigans. Let's hear what he says.

Starting point is 00:03:51 What's ball like to say, God, second ball like to say my whole time, their full family on both sides. You know what I'm saying? Like to tell two park keepers guards up. We ride with him. We ride with him. We're gonna say like I said, any of us out there want to be a audience. I want to stay a star. Don't want to have to worry about the negative do some to try to be all in the video. All on a record.

Starting point is 00:04:21 Dance. Come to death. Okay. Wow. All in the video. Oh All in the video Dancing yeah, it is funny to just be like this is a great song. I'm gonna be in the background going Yeah, but he made it good. I liked it. I remember doing it good for yeah Well, then he made that song afterward. What's on kind of how would you not around? Oh? That's all kind of sucks.

Starting point is 00:04:49 I'm not with him. Please, that song whips. It's about them praising their dead friend. I guess. Puff Daddy's not that cool. And he's saying it for all of us. For all of us. I think Diddy's cool as hell.

Starting point is 00:05:03 Do you really? Remember making the band? That show making the band where he would like send rappers to go get him falafel. Yeah, but it was a joke. I know, but it was a great joke. It wasn't cool. I thought it was cool.

Starting point is 00:05:14 Well, I mean, what's one cool thing? Puff Daddy's ever done. Sirak Vodka for starters. That meme of him holding a wad of hundreds, but there's a one dollar bill in there And he's looking at it like how the fuck did this get in here? I don't know that name. Oh, it's a great meme Well, hey, but wait, we got to check the disclaimer click see more not see more but but see more in the description box Check it out. Hey Glenn We also just wanted to say,

Starting point is 00:05:46 I want to try to send my love every episode, but we truly love all of you so much for watching and listening and participating in this little show we've got going. A lot of people in Australia we have listening. You said that like Yoda. A lot of people in Australia we have watching and listening. People in Australia we have listening you said that like Yoda a lot of people in Australia we have watching and listening People in Australia we have yeah, no, I guess I did kind of do it just like Yoda Well, so we praise you Australians

Starting point is 00:06:16 Salute to you down there. You're literally straight down there. I think to all of our fans in the down under Antipodes antipodes what the fuck is that, Antipodes. What the fuck is that? Antipodes. What is the Antipodes? It's like the mountain range? The opposite side of the world. Oh yeah, I knew what that was. I don't know if I'm saying that right.

Starting point is 00:06:35 It's either, it sounds right. Antipodes are Antipodes. It sounds like Antipodes sounds right. Google it for us. Antipodes pronunciation. Oh yeah, let's get the computer to say the word Google. I hope I'm right. All. Antipodes. How do you spell it? Antipodes. Yeah, slow it down. Can you slow it down? Hit slow. Antipodes. Ha ha. Make it say bitch, please. No. Yeah, come on.

Starting point is 00:07:05 Please, just type in bitch pronunciation. Don't. Yeah, well, oh my god, what's it gonna say? Bitch. Haha. Ah, wait, wait, wait, make it say fuck face. Come on, well, I just want to hear if it'll say fuck face. I can't.

Starting point is 00:07:22 Oh no, do it as one word, as one word. Maybe it will. Maybe it'll think fuck. It doesn't. Maybe it'll think it's Italian and say fuck Fachi. Yeah, no. Fuck Fachi. Anyway, I also wanted to shout out Kylie. Kylie, hope your report goes well. We did a little interview with a college friend.

Starting point is 00:07:40 Was she in college? What's the deal? We're gonna be, we're gonna be sighted in a scholarly article. Yeah, which is tight And shout out to Nico My boy at the climbing gym We said hi yesterday. You know wanted to say hi back

Starting point is 00:07:54 Comment like subscribe all of you Should be starting bonus content. You're gonna have to put all the fucking shout outs. You can have a little shout out corner Yeah, I want to do a shout out corner. So we can move it off of this. But music to it. Shoutout to... It's so... I don't even know that they show up. I don't even know when you do this.

Starting point is 00:08:10 They like show up like... Yeah, I just wanna feel like putting it up. This morning. Well, it's nice to say hi to some people. All right. You wanna say hi to anybody? Yeah. Um.

Starting point is 00:08:20 Um, I'd like to say hi to... Uh-huh. I got nothing. I'd like to say hi to, uh-huh. I got nothing. I want to say hi to all the ladies out there, happy women's month. We praise you also, without you, there would just be a bunch of dudes around, which would be tight, but, you know,

Starting point is 00:08:39 you're cool laying out with dude. What'd be tight of it was just dudes, I don't think so. I mean, dudes do rock dudes do rock Yeah, also we got the new highlights channel going and you really ought to check it out because there are some Really good funny edits that oh yeah, oh my god We've seen the latest one that's gonna drop it hasn't dropped yet. Yes, but it's very fun really fun at it Yeah, so you should go Subscribe to the Trilina mindset highlights and hit notify me. Yes hit the little bell button whatever the Taco Bell But I think when you press that you get Taco Bell

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Starting point is 00:09:57 I don't know conspiracy theories. Yeah, we should we should totally lean into that like What do you think? Just real fast before we die. Should we just fuck I don't want to What was it? I was talking with my friend Kate hey Kate. Oh my if you shout out one more time. Hi, dolly. No, Kate daughter dolly She's like to cut that. No dolly gets a shout out. We love dolly dolly's our youngest listener She was asking me what I what's my biggest COVID, like conspiracy theory.

Starting point is 00:10:27 Oh, here we go. And my biggest conspiracy theory was that it was intended to be this population-calling virus meant to kill tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of people. I just was entertaining it for a minute. It's not what I actually think, but it is what I think. And it did not serve the purpose.

Starting point is 00:10:47 It didn't work as well as they wanted it to. Yet. I'm winking at him right now. I'm winking for the audience. Maybe it's still working its way through us. Yeah, I don't know. And it also comes from the fact that I watched the BBC show, Utopia, whose plot is basically this.

Starting point is 00:11:07 They created it in a lab? No, this small shadow group of people created of government people took it upon themselves to create a pandemic. The vaccine for which would sterilize people as a form of population control because they believed that if nobody stepped in to... Damn it, I took the fucking vaccine. Yeah, I know.

Starting point is 00:11:31 Man, what if... I think you watched a TV show. I watched a television show and got an idea. And now that you think... Is that the art for it? I don't know. Yeah, this is the comic in the show that they talk about. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:11:44 It's a great show. Highly recommend. Watch the BBC version, not the American version that they like remade. How do you watch this? It's on like Netflix. Oh, yeah. Not Netflix. Netflix.

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Starting point is 00:12:34 Oh no, you should hear this. No, no, no. You would think this was the most Irish person you ever seen. The way he taught, he's like Joe Biden. The way Joe Biden hates British people is the same thing. Joe Biden hates British people. Yeah, because he's Irish like, oh yeah, yeah, they do hate. He's like Joe Biden, the way Joe Biden hates British people is the same thing. Joe Biden hates British people. Yeah, because he's Irish, like old Irish.

Starting point is 00:12:46 Yeah, yeah, they do hate. I've got a clip of a lot of audio that they've caught him on a hot mic saying horrible things about British people. Really? I'll release it. If you get our channel. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:13:00 Yeah. To 10,000 subscribers in... You'll drop the Joe Biden. you'll drop the Joe Biden. I'll drop the Joe Biden British audio. Yeah, I love the British. I love everybody. It's just him going like, and they eat so many fucking beans.

Starting point is 00:13:14 They really do be eating beans. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, beans. I don't know what the deal is. Those British love their beans. What's the deal with all that blood sausage? Is that your Joe Biden? It's pretty good. I can't do it.

Starting point is 00:13:31 Yeah, I know. Talking to a guy, gave me a blood sausage. Yeah. Yeah, blood pudding, they also love that. I'll just take chocolate pudding, thanks. Yeah, yeah. Hey, English people, we're all set on the bloating.

Starting point is 00:13:47 In the beans. All the beans and toast. Pretty good. Should I talk about my shitty trading week, but great trading week? I had accidental wins this week that were fucking tremendous. There's this company called MongoDB,

Starting point is 00:14:05 which is like, what the fuck kind of name is that? Hey, let's call our company MongoDB. What do they do? I think they are like a database. Oh, Mongo database. Yeah, yeah. Like how big is your database, Mongo? It's Mongo.

Starting point is 00:14:18 This thing is huge. MongoDB is a source available cross-platform document-oriented database program. Okay, you're going to have to chill out with the hyphenated things. Wait, scroll down a little bit? Okay, never mind. Yeah, what the fuck does that even mean? So anyway, I bought 200 shares of it and then...

Starting point is 00:14:39 So how did you decide to buy 200? You were like, what's this dumb fucking company? Because it is a stock that moves. It has. Oh, you were looking purely stock. Yeah, I was like, I was looking at the chart and I was like, damn, this thing is pretty oversold, but not as oversold relative to other growth companies and things were looking like they might have been catching a bottom and I picked up 200 shares for a quick flip.

Starting point is 00:15:04 Little did I know. Quick flip. Earnings were being reported after hours and I did not know that, like I just said. And I'm looking at my P&L, which is profit and loss. I'm seeing. Oh, sorry. No, what did you think it was? Pussy and what?

Starting point is 00:15:19 No, I didn't. I don't think I even said anything. I just, it must be the monitors. I'm just hearing things. But yeah, the pussy and love was at, I was down 1,200 bucks on the day and then after hours clicks and I look and I'm like, whoa, what the fuck? I'm up like 6 grand because they reported earnings and knocked it out and then I was like, I think for all your database needs, baby. MongoDB.

Starting point is 00:15:47 And then I had a couple of positions in Shopify and I left a bunch of money on the table because I'm a dipshit. So Mongo means we're going to lunch, baby. Yeah, you got lunch today, honey. Hell yeah. And then Melly, which is the South American Amazon, I had a good trade with.

Starting point is 00:16:06 And then the biggest new, well, and then MQ, which is Marquetta, I don't know what the fuck they do. It's like some credit card company, but I bought a couple thousand shares of that. And same deal. Why do you think it's Marquetta? Why not Marquetta? Well, because it's M-A-R-Q-U-E-T-A.

Starting point is 00:16:24 Marquetta. I thought it was an E. Marquetta from the Barretta. M-A-R-Q-U-E-T-A. Oh, hey. I thought it was an E. Marquetta. From the Barretta. No, hell is that. It's the biggy song. We're just talking about biggy. Yeah, but I don't know.

Starting point is 00:16:35 I don't know. I don't know. From the Barretta. Huh. Super Nintendo Sega Genesis. That's all I know. That's all you know. The Champagne when with thirsty, eat you know, champagne when we're thirsty.

Starting point is 00:16:45 It's our deans. We're not. I have been listening to a lot of like rap albums that came out when we were kids. Yeah. Enter the 36 chambers. Um, ready to die, of course. Yeah. Uh, two pock. Oh, fucking, uh, two-pock. Oh, fucking, ill-matic. Yeah, remember when we were talking about rap earlier, but then we moved on to some of the... Well, then you said Marquetta. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:17:13 Oh, Marquetta reported earnings, too, and it went up a couple bucks, and it was just like, by the being by the boom. But so the biggest news, huge effin' news, which is that Amazon announced the first stock split since 1999. And wouldn't you know?

Starting point is 00:17:32 So that was yesterday, which is Wednesday, as of this recording. They announced it Wednesday after hours, and Wednesday during the trading day, I had a couple options that were down like 90%. And they were only at like a couple hundred bucks and I thought eh I should hold on to these because you never know just in case we get some huge rally and I thought fuck that I'm gonna say I'm not gonna lose

Starting point is 00:17:53 a couple hundred bucks more I'm gonna sell it so I sold them just my fucking luck that they announced a split finally that it is your luck. It's insane But then I you know I got lucky on MongoDB and Marquetta, so it kind of offsets it But I left like I could have made like I could have woken up to like $15,000 in profit. I calculated man Think about the lunch we're going to I know it would have been My guy taking me to know who we wouldn't have been eating sardines for dinner. No, no, no Nice very good way to bring it back So although sardines are delicious. No, no, no. That. Nice. Very good. Wait a minute, back. Uh, so although sardines are delicious,

Starting point is 00:18:28 I don't know what that man was complaining about. Well, it's just, you want a little variety. Sure. Sure. That's true. You know what's crazy? What? When, so he used to say, remember,

Starting point is 00:18:39 what song was it? We would say, time to get paid blow up like the World Trade. Yeah. Which was a reference to 93 bomb. Yes, because he wasn't even alive when 911 happened. But then after after 9 11, they would still play that song, but they started bleeping out. Yeah. Yeah. It's just like how in the beginning of the sex and the city credits, they added it out

Starting point is 00:19:04 the part that had the twin cell. out of the city never acknowledged 9-11 How how And it's just so fucking weird to me because there's such a like honestly sex in the city is the most like pre 9-11 show Yeah, I've ever seen in my life. Yeah, and they just carried on like we're still living in that world truly Insane yeah, it's kind of cool though, and then They acknowledged COVID in the new season. Yeah briefly but like hardly they were like oh COVID sucked And then they have like a fucking funeral scene with a bunch of old people, not a mask inside. Yeah. Very funny. Anyway, if we're talking about conspiracy theories, I think Sarah

Starting point is 00:19:50 Jessica Parker did 9-11 and created COVID. No comment there. And I agree with him. Matthew Broderick, we all know what he did. He killed someone with his car. He did, he did crash into someone and killed them. I think it was in English, not to bring it all back. Let's start the show. God. Uh, well, so for those of you who don't understand what a split is, uh, Amazon is doing a 24 one split. So for every one share you've got, you now have 20, but the price per share is also divided by 20. So I believe it'll be, let me whip out my calculator here. It'll be 20.

Starting point is 00:20:33 Yeah, I went right here, big dog. Oh yeah, hey, you're right. I can use the actual calculator, 2900. I'm just, you know, doing it 2900. NAPKIN MAN. Where the fuck is the divided by button? There it is. 20.

Starting point is 00:20:45 How do I do equals equals That's about a hundred and forty five dollars per share that it's gonna be yeah, wow so And why do they do that they do that so that it's more accessible for people even though nowadays on on things like public.com Which is a sponsor you can buy sure is slices. Yeah slices of shares.com, which is a sponsor. You can buy slices of shares. You can buy shares of slices of shares. Yeah. You can now, instead of buying like $145 worth, getting a slice of a share,

Starting point is 00:21:13 you can buy an actual share at $145. But also not only that, but they announced a $10 billion share buyback, which is, I think the first, I don't know if that's the first share buyback they've ever done, but it is interesting. I wish they would have done a dividend instead. That would have been pretty cool, not that I own shares,

Starting point is 00:21:35 but so the good news is I did have some options that expire next week and I held onto those. You know what's another one that felt incongruous with 9-11? What's that? How to lose a guy in 10 days. I love the movie. It's a great romcom.

Starting point is 00:21:51 But I think it takes place, like it's like 2004, it came out, maybe 2003. We're still grieving, right? Yeah. Very much yes. Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson. And they did make it all. I think like it never happened.

Starting point is 00:22:03 They're riding motorcycles down the boardwalk in like fucking Koney Island you try to do that in 2003. What would you have wanted them to do by the FBI? What would you want them to do lean over and say hey remember 9-11 goddamn? Yeah, I want it to be somber the whole time You're looking for love, but you're like our city is still coming back. Yeah, still healing Instead they're going to nicks games. Also the very first Spider-Man the same Ramy Spider-Man, which is they took out a cool scene where he's he's got a web between the Twin Towers. Yes, but also I believe in the print ads in the like poster. They're it's like Spider-Man's

Starting point is 00:22:40 face and in the reflection of his eyes, you could see the Twin Towers. I was gonna say you could see 9-11, but you could see the Twin Towers in his eyes. And they promptly got rid of that. Yeah. Didn't Zoolander come out right after 9-11? Yeah, there's a big connection there. I don't like, we can't get into it, but the whole Ben Stiller Zoolander 9- collection connection. I'd rather see what the collection is. Ben stillers you lander 9-11 collection.

Starting point is 00:23:13 Oh man, I'm a 9-11 head for sure. Oh yeah. Like I watch the new footage. Yeah, I did. And I've been to the museum three times, I think. Oh my god. I've been to New York with Ben. He doesn't shut up about the museum. It's actually, that's actually very true. And it's like, once he starts going, he has, even though he's told you already, he's like, and there's a store down there, and it's untouched.

Starting point is 00:23:35 It is, it's remarkable, it's untouched. It's a little like 50 square foot, little clothing store that's just perfectly preserved. It's got all the dust and the price tags and shit. Back when jeans used to cost $15 a month before you see those CPI numbers that came out Jesus H. Louis Oh, no, but I saw I saw Joe Biden in the White House being like it's gonna be bad Joe Byron Bing Bong holy fucking shit. We're gonna start the show that's saying yeah, no, we've already started it

Starting point is 00:24:03 But oh, we've been recording this whole time. Yeah, no, we have should we skip this Tom Brady bullshit? Yeah, definitely we're gonna make a joke he kisses his kid Let's just do it quick Tom Brady filed a bunch of trademarks for a bunch of shit From food delivery to restaurants to water to jewelry to furniture and our joke was he's also got Tom Brady brand kissing bomb fathers and sons. The best way to have soft lips for kissing your young son. Which is come on you got to teach your children how to kiss anyway. Have you ever watched the actual clip? Yes it's unsettling because he kisses him like upside down or whatever. Yeah but he's laying down and his child comes up. No, it'll walk me through.

Starting point is 00:24:43 Well the worst part is right his child comes up and no, you walk me through. Well, the worst part is, right, his child comes up and asks him for something, right? Isn't he getting worked on like, yeah, he's getting the thought. Physical therapy or massage or something, and his son asks him for something. And his dad said, like, well, what's in it for me? Which is like disgusting. And the kid kind of like rolls his eyes,

Starting point is 00:25:03 like indicating he knows what he means, and comes over and pecs him on the lips and starts to walk away. And Tom Verdi says something like, you call that a kiss or something? It's something, I don't, you know what? He makes him do it again. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

Starting point is 00:25:18 It's probably the Brazilian culture from what's her name? Jazeal. Yeah, Jazee Bunchi. Is that what they call it? No, I just don't knowci. Is that what they call it? No, I just don't know why I did that, but they... So, you're... Is there a very affectionate...

Starting point is 00:25:30 You're going on the record saying, in Brazil, the fathers are like, son, you better kiss me like you mean it. Yes. Yeah. Well, they're a very affectionate people. So, there's that. And also, yeah, I mean,

Starting point is 00:25:44 you gotta learn how to kiss somehow. So might as well practice on your dad. Speaking of kissing, Ryan Cohen of GameStop fame, the other big news this week was that he took a stake, like a 9% stake, which is like $150 million stake in bedbaths beyond. This is what we actually wanted to talk about. Yes, where yes, he took a big stake in bed bed bath in beyond. This is what we actually wanted to talk about. Yes, we're, yes. He took a big stake in bed bath and beyond and... But you'll remember him from, he was kind of the impetus for the game stop thing.

Starting point is 00:26:11 Yes. He's a very similar thing. The apes love this guy. Right. Because he would tweet shit and they'd be like, Yes, king. And he's still tweeting shit. Yes, he's still tweeting just totally nonsense.

Starting point is 00:26:21 It's funny because before it was announced, you were, you sent me this. Oh yeah, he tweeted on March 2nd, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. And I said, Fuck does that mean? Why is there a Bernie Madoff thing under it? Someone replied to him.

Starting point is 00:26:35 Can I tell you what? So I just took the Bernie sticker off my car because I didn't know, because you know I'm a big Bernie Madoff guy, right? So I thought it was for him. Yeah. Someone, I don't even know who this guy is, Sanders. I said it's some and so it doesn't matter I I took it right off my car. Yeah, I said I thought it was supporting made off

Starting point is 00:26:54 Man that guy's dead as a door knob now door nail or doorknob both both are Not living so so you sent it to me and I said what the fuck does that mean? I don't know we know that he's basically Telegraphing that bedbath and beyond could enjoy the same kind of upside as GameStop, which is That's so shady like don't fucking pump your shit like that man But at the same time he does have every right to push for changes. That's what he's doing in taking this steak But it's also funny after how far we've come from GameStop to be like, yeah, maybe we'll do that again.

Starting point is 00:27:28 Right, but there is something to be said for a company being run poorly with overpaid executives who don't give a shit. Like that's, that's, I think that there's nothing new there. Like with GameStop before Ryan Cohen came on, Michael Burry, the Christian, what's his name from, big short, Michael Burry took a position in GameStop and was an activist investor

Starting point is 00:27:50 and came on and publicly said, this is what GameStop should do. They should pay down their debt. They should do a stock repurchase. They should do all this shit because companies, surprise, aren't always run efficiently or in the best interests of shareholders?

Starting point is 00:28:05 I found that the most interesting part, because yeah, he's ragging on management and the CEO who has not been able to navigate the pandemic and the supply chain issues and he was trying to blame that, but apparently similar retailers are back to like 2019 revenue levels and bad bad, bad bath and beyond is not. And throughout this period, he's been paid $27 million. Jesus Christ. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:28:30 What are their metrics for measuring performance to warrant that kind of the more you're worth. It really is bananas. Fucking nice work if you can get it. Huh? Be in a CEO of a family company. Yeah. No kidding.

Starting point is 00:28:42 Full on. Fuck yeah. But he's taking a note from famed activist investor, Carl Icon's book and pushing for these changes. Carl Icon who you love. Who I love, because he started. I watched the doc finally. Yeah, there's a great documentary about him on HBO

Starting point is 00:29:01 that just came out. I partly like him because he's got my last name just with an eye in front of it. That is I partly like him because he's got my last name just with an eye in front of it. That is why you like him. It's weird and he also looks like he'd be, he looks like my grandpa, like my dead grandpa. I don't think I like him. Why? I wanted to, I like that he like came from nothing, I like that he like built everything, but he also just kind of turned into, I mean, he's just the epitome of that, like 80s corporate raider. And they have that clip of him when he bought TWA.

Starting point is 00:29:37 And he tells the flight attendants he's gonna lower their wages. And so they go on strike. Yeah. And they play us the clip of him because the strikers march to his house. Right. And he's like, I'm gonna go out there and talk to him.

Starting point is 00:29:54 Yeah. And watching the clip, it's just kind of disgusting. He's like, he's got this huge house on the Hamptons and there's this big group of strikers protesting in front of his house, and he comes out, it's this gigantic automatic gate, and it just opens up and he starts walking through it. He's just like telling them like,

Starting point is 00:30:13 oh no, you guys don't understand, like if I didn't do this and that, you guys would be screwed, and it's just the most out of touch thing. This, it's billionaire coming out of his gated, and it is a cartoonish gait. And then it cuts away and you see, he's also watching the clip,

Starting point is 00:30:34 because now he's, you know, in his 80s. And so he's watching himself in the 1980s. And he's just, so he's like, I remember this. This was great. He's like, I love this. And he's just like, and he kind of rides this line of he says he's an activist and he hates, he hates how CEOs are compensated.

Starting point is 00:30:56 And he thinks that like, Americans are getting ripped off. But he, and he talks about the wealth gap, but then he doesn't, he can't connect it, right? When he's talking about like screwing over workers and laying people off. Because he's like, well, I'm just making companies more efficient and stuff.

Starting point is 00:31:11 And people are losing their jobs. Because of his, you know, because he sees value. And his logic being, especially in the TWA case, if you guys don't make this concession, you're not gonna have a company to work for, because it's gonna go out of business. That's what his whole point was. It's like, I stepped in to try to save this failing company

Starting point is 00:31:29 and we all, like the pilots union was on board. Everybody else was in the mechanics were on board, the flight attendants were the only one. Then it went in a business anyway. Well, no, they didn't. Oh yeah, they couldn't write the ship. Yeah. But, so I think he does have interesting points about and what...

Starting point is 00:31:47 It seems like he thinks like all of our problems are CEO pay. It's a year. Sure. And board and... Right. Board of directors things. Which is, and so he, if you've never seen the movie Wall Street, you should watch Wall Street because it's an interesting one.

Starting point is 00:32:03 But what's the guy's name? Michael Douglas. Michael Douglas's character is loosely based on Carl Icon. And there's that famous Greed is Good scene where he goes in front of the board of directors at the shareholder meeting for Telldare paper. And there's like 30 directors on there. And he says, all these people make like 250 grand a year. I couldn't tell you what any one of them does.

Starting point is 00:32:25 Yeah, all of her stone basically cribbed car like on speeches. Yeah. The only part I liked was him calling out Bill Ackman and calling him. Oh, calling him a cry baby. And shit. That was great. I remember when that happened. But that's the thing.

Starting point is 00:32:38 You're watching two people. I'm just like, I don't fucking have a dog in this fight. I don't like. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I like him because we share a similar last name. And, but you were saying he was doing something with McDonald's too.

Starting point is 00:32:51 Yes, so it's funny because he's currently engaged in another sort of corporate activism thing against McDonald's. And it's funny because he only has 200 shares, which is like literally, I mean, it's at like $200 a share. So he's got, I don't even know why he doesn't have, buy a thal, buy something more than that. But he's pushing for them to have a better, he's basically saying that the place where McDonald's sources, their pork from treats the pigs in

Starting point is 00:33:30 Humane, they have them in they have the saus in these specific cages that are they're called like birthing cages or something like that and he's saying that it's it's inhumane and it's not right and He's like publicly calling out McDonald's McDonald's responded and said, you know, uh, yeah, they had the gestation cages. They're called McDonald's in 2013 said they'd shift from their pork sorcerer who kept pigs in just asian cages. And now they're saying that they would only reduce the practice and not eliminating and not eliminate it because quote, current pork supply in the

Starting point is 00:34:05 US would make this impossible. Ugh. And then they said, uh, furthermore, it reflects a departure from the veterinary science used for large-scale production throughout the industry and would harm the company's shared pursuit of providing customers with high-quality products at accessible prices, which is just like, it's basically lip service saying, hey, these pork farms are doing the bare minimum that's required of them to make sure these pigs live.

Starting point is 00:34:35 And this is the wonderful, this is what Carl Icon is taking. He's like, push, yeah, I don't know why. But then McDonald's did point out like, hey, Carl Icon, you have an active interest in like a competitor's pork farm or some shit like that, or packaging or something, but I don't know. We should just ban mass farming like that, with especially pigs. They're so damn smart.

Starting point is 00:34:58 And cows. I should be vegan. I don't know why I'm not. There you go. I'm getting that. Go plant based, baby. I just hate chickens so much. They deserve to die and we should eat them.

Starting point is 00:35:07 I'm joking. I don't know where that came from. Did you notice the part we're called? Icon was starting a podcast. Yeah, with this daughter. And he's like away from the mic like this. Just not knowing how to do it. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:35:21 But it reminds me, I just have a quick anecdote. Back when you had to get photos processed at like Sam's club or Costco and you write your last name and then they put it in the big. There's just massive swaths of photos. You've got to sift through to find your your family's name. You got carols by accident and you just started looking at them and you were like, oh my god, he's a name. No, you know, our last god, he's naïve. No, you know, our last name, Khan with a C, there's obviously a hundred fucking other last

Starting point is 00:35:51 names to start with C, so it would take a solid amount of time to find yours. So my dad one day was like, you know what, I'm just going to start putting a U in front of our name. And then you go and there's only one, nobody has a U last name. That's not true. I know there's her quiza, there's, you name it and there's only one, nobody has a U last name. That's not true. I know, there's her Kiza, there's, you name it, there's plenty, but not a lot getting their photos developed. It's uncommon to have a U starting last name.

Starting point is 00:36:13 And there would be, just pluck it out of there. And I was like, Dad, don't take care that you lied and he's like, they don't give a shit. It's just a name on the thing. You could put, jumble the clown and they'd be like, okay, here's jumble, clown and they'd be like, okay, here's jumbo pictures.

Starting point is 00:36:27 That's a good idea by your dad. Yeah, smart, enterprise. Okay, so Ryan Cohen's trying to be a bit of a... He's trying to be an activist, yeah. He's basically, he was saying there's a part of the company that can be stripped and sold off for parts in the billions of dollars, which is worth more than the company is all together now.

Starting point is 00:36:45 And then he was tweeting more. He wants to split up by by baby, too, I think. Yeah, I get, by by baby is a part of... Bed bath and beyond. Yeah. What's bed bath and beyond doing right now? Let's see. It is back down to $20.20 and a half.

Starting point is 00:37:02 Yeah, so when he first announced, it shot up like 110%. Yeah. It opened up 110% and then slowly just melted all day down. It it lost like 50% yeah, intraday, but was still up overall. I was trying to figure out how the apes feel. I think some are like, yes, we're doing this again. I think some were maybe like you're abandoning games. Right. Right. Like, you know, Ryan has his new,

Starting point is 00:37:28 his new, his new shiny new toy. Oh God. And he's forgetting all about games now. But Ryan did say, I can't take, you know, any role at Bed, Bath, and Beyond because I'm still at game stop. Right. But he can take a position.

Starting point is 00:37:43 And I read just today that he's tapping one of Carl icons activist investor People to help with this proxy battle thing a proxy battle is when you're You're Battling with yeah like the board of directors over control over control. Yeah That'll be interesting to see how that shakes out. Maybe you'll look at... Are you getting involved? Am I getting involved? I flipped some bedbath and beyond the other day yet. That's a quick little flip. In fact, maybe I'll do something right now.

Starting point is 00:38:12 Why, you think it's gonna go back up? No, I don't know. Well, I guess you're not allowed to say. No, I'm not. I can't even say what I'm doing right now, but I'm just doing something. Anyway, tell me off the air. Okay. I'm taking a 10% stake in bedbath and beyond right now, but I'm just doing something. Anyway, um, you tell me off the air. Okay. I'm taking a 10% stake in bedbath and beyond right now with my $180 million that I've got lying around.

Starting point is 00:38:32 And you're gonna bully the board of directors. Yeah. I'm gonna go right. You go, what? Listen to this. What if we just did towels? Tows, towels, towels and beyond. I, I, yeah, I don't like stepping foot. And they all have those fucking, they send you those coupons for 20% off or whatever. Everybody's got one of these F and coupons, even if you go and don't have one, the cash, the cashier's got them. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 00:38:56 Just after writing, they're like, here, 20% off. I get my oil change at pet boys. I thought you're gonna say bad, bad, from beyond. I wish. I try every time I go, can someone take care of it? And they go, it's a bad, bad, from, stop coming in here Sir

Starting point is 00:39:07 Okay, what? It's always I know there's a coupon. Yeah, and they always go, you know, it's like $45 and I go Yeah, but what about the coupon they go? I and they it's like what just fucking make that the price Why do I have to do this every time? Yeah, it's I don't know everything sucks everything sucks Everything sucks ass. Except for the show, which rocks. This show rocks. This show whips.

Starting point is 00:39:29 So Putin and Russia could trigger a nuclear apocalypse this one, and this is it. Well, this is good because a lot of people are asking what they should be doing. Yeah. Because people are worried about like nuclear war. Trading and investing. Is any of it all worth it?

Starting point is 00:39:43 I mean, this analyst pretty much hits the deal on that. I really like. I really like it. Yeah. This guy says, despite the risk of nuclear war, it makes sense to stay constructive on stocks over the next 12 months. If an ICBM is headed your way, the size and composition of your portfolio becomes irrelevant. Thus, from a purely financial perspective, you should largely ignore existential risk, even if you do care about it greatly from a personal perspective. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:40:10 So... Money won't matter. Yeah. If a nuclear... Bitcoin will. Right. Bitcoin will survive. Bitcoin will survive.

Starting point is 00:40:20 It will be the currency of the post-pocalyptic. But the point is, you might as well still try to set yourself up to be as financially healthy as possible, no matter what, because if it doesn't happen, great. You're set up, you're investing. If it does happen, it doesn't matter. No one, what, someone's gonna, there's gonna be rich people in the nuclear apocalypse. Yeah. I don't think so.

Starting point is 00:40:45 But also the scary thing is the reason he's talking about this is because they have raised the risk level of nuclear apocalypse to 10% over the next 12 months. Yeah, 10% chance of a civilization and being global nuclear war. Yeah, they're still saying it's far off. Killer. Cool.

Starting point is 00:41:09 If I found out that there was a missile inbound for LA, I would drive right to where it's dropping. I want to get vaporized like that. That's the smart thing. That's what we should all do here in Los Angeles. We should all head straight to that. In our cars trying to pinpoint it. Yes, like it's like a long, seriously, yeah. On Dart, it would kill you before your nerves That's what we should all do here in Los Angeles. We should all head straight to that. We should all be in our cars trying to pinpoint it.

Starting point is 00:41:25 Yes. Like it's like a long, seriously, long dart. It would kill you before your nerves would have time to send the signal to your brain. It would just be like, you're just gone. I mean, you don't have to be that close to it for that to happen. You got to be, it's only like 500 feet or something like that. 500 feet. From like, and then beyond that that you're still burning up pretty fast

Starting point is 00:41:46 And I would try to make a cool funny pose to have my shadow burned then onto the sidewalk or whatever onto a building like For future for future people to see like damn this guy. I want to be basically like the What you know the um Pompay masturbator? Is that real? Yeah, you've never Googled Pompeii masterbader. No way. Yeah, no, really watch, you'll see. There is a calcified mummified,

Starting point is 00:42:13 whatever you want to call it, guy who died in like a jerking off position. And that's just his legacy. You running to where the bomb's gonna hit? And then just assuming a beating off position. Yeah, look at him. He is he could be doing anything. I know he probably was just like I'm dying and he's probably like oh my penis is being burned off My penis is the first thing to go. Oh Ouch or he's protecting it. You never know. I was the lava hitting my penis worse

Starting point is 00:42:42 But it looks like he's in ecstasy too like oh you never know. I was the lava hitting my penis first, but it looks like he's in ecstasy too, like, oh, you can tell he's not ecstatic. Yeah, so that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna assume the position for the amusement of future generations, because- You guys there will be future generations?

Starting point is 00:42:57 Probably not, I mean, listen pal. You know why they call him Gen Z? Why? Because they're the last one. Oh, fuck, I didn't need to hear that today, dude. I did not need to hear that. That's not cool. I-I don't like that. I don't like that. That does take off some of the pressure for me to have children, but Fuck. That's wild. Wait, because Z is the last letter. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:43:27 Oh, yeah, that makes sense. Speaking of World War III, Crybaby Bill Ackman says that World War III may have already started. Which like, All right, pal, yeah, sure, probably, maybe, who knows. It'll be a different kind of war.

Starting point is 00:43:39 It'll be a cold one. Do you think so? I don't know. Will it be a cold war? Yeah. I mean, with global warming, it's gonna be warm. It's gonna be hot. Shit. I don't know.

Starting point is 00:43:56 I mean, on that note, I just have to say, whenever the stock market starts to go down, you start to get more people in your timeline these experts who are permabairs. When I say permabair, I mean, they are permanently bearish. They are permanently saying that everything is a bubble, everything is gonna crash. You got a hard gold, you got a buy silver,

Starting point is 00:44:21 you got to do all this shit, and just relax a little bit because those people, they're clickbaiters. Like there's this video that I saw that was fed to me. Just what I just want to see the title of this thing, this YouTube video. You have no idea what's about to happen. It's too late. Economic nightmare is reality. Get ready now. Jesus Christ. That's related to Russia and Ukraine. It's just about the whole shipangan it's all look at this guy and he's just talking about his his Steven Segal's bald brother it's the Steven Segal's bald brother or soda pop in ski from Mike Tyson's punchout on NES you know that's Google the Google soda pop in ski real fast please this guy was so hard to beat

Starting point is 00:45:03 Please, this guy was so hard to beat. Good one, you have it. Soda Pup Inzki. It's exactly how it sounds. He look, yeah, well, yeah. That's a very small, yeah, yeah, it looks like him, huh? A little bit. Yeah. Anywho, just watch out for these guys,

Starting point is 00:45:22 because there's this one guy who has me blocked on Twitter, his name is Sven something and he's always on CNBC. And during the COVID lows, he was basically, cause when shit starts to go bad, everybody looks to these guys as like, damn, I guess he was right. And then they're like, yeah, I'm right. The Fed is blah, blah, blah.

Starting point is 00:45:42 And then within months, stock market bounces and they're still saying, it's gonna get worse and then the market doubles without them and it's just, it could get worse. It could, I mean anything could happen. Just exhibit some critical thinking skills and don't try to, don't get too scared, don't let yourself get wrapped up with these,

Starting point is 00:46:03 these doom and doom. In these unprecedented times. Yeah unprecedented unprecedented, well it isn't have you seen who's in charge? No, did you see the video of them asking him sir? Do you do anything to say about gas prices? What do you say? I knew a guy named gas. I said listen corn pop Listen Jack What an insane how did that happen? How did he become the guy?

Starting point is 00:46:29 I'm like I really I mean I'm telling people he could do more pushups than him and stuff I don't know how we as a country having banded together to say okay Anybody over 60 can't be the leader can't be in in Congress, can't do anything. You're done. You're done. You're done. You push you off a cliff. Joey, no, why don't I have to push them off the cliff? Yeah, we do.

Starting point is 00:46:52 Except for our moms. Send them to a farm upstairs. Yeah, so farm, a farm, a farm. Yeah, because old people can be good, it'll be good for them. They get to plow, they get to exercise. I saw them run around. There was a TikTok that went viral. I only see the TikToks that that make their way to Twitter. Oh, yeah, those are the best ones right Twitter filters at all. It's the greatest hit. It is the greatest filter.

Starting point is 00:47:12 But it was this it was this old woman you probably see it because you like tiktok. It was this old woman and she's playing I think it's like lawn bowling. But she throws this ball perfectly and it just rolls right into the ball. And I was like, this is fucking living. When you're like retired and you're just like, like in a community of retired people, you guys just fucking, you're doing activities. Yeah. Everyone should be doing, I want, let me do it now. Well, that's what happens when you become old you revert back to childhood your your body turns back into a baby

Starting point is 00:47:51 I know but do it let me do it now while I have my body nobody stop in you pal Society won't allow it society will well. I also need everyone the cops gonna arrest I also need everyone else to buy it. I need a bunch of other people in their 20s and 30s. It's called sandals resort. To come play sports with me. It's called sandals resort. You've never heard of sandals? It's like-

Starting point is 00:48:13 I thought that was for like fucking each other. I mean, yeah, it's like an adult only resort where you go and play volleyball and flirt and fuck each other. Hey, that's all you out on the volleyball court. Nice spike. Do you want to check out the all inclusive buffet later? I love a good buffet. I don't think I do.

Starting point is 00:48:35 I used to go to my family used to vacation at Harris, Casino, in Laughland, Nevada, and they had the best bacon I've ever had my entire life. The Las Vegas of not Las Vegas. Yes, that's exactly right. It's just like a little po-dunk shitty little Las Vegas. If anybody out there is from Laughlin, just sorry I said that. If you thought Reno wasn't really Las Vegas, wait till you see Laughlin.

Starting point is 00:48:57 Reno is like, meth Vegas. Then what's Laughlin? Oh God. Siger meth Vegas. What's lawful? Oh God. SIGARET VEGAS. Yeah. In other news, this is... Oh, wait, I have a story about that. That Harris, I remember one time, they were opening, there was a candy shop that was opening.

Starting point is 00:49:20 It was the grand opening of this candy shop. Hell yes. In the lobby of the, of the heras. And my family was first in line and some fucker cut us in line. It was like, I'm gonna be the first person in line. I want the candy. And we got job breakers. I remember that.

Starting point is 00:49:38 That was the story. That's the whole story. What is going on? We're gonna have to put you in. You do my brainworms, man. I got brainworms. We're gonna have to put you to my brainworms man. I got brainworms. We're gonna have to put you in an old folks home. It's scary. All timers they say all timers by the time you have symptoms it's too late. It's too late. Your brain is already mush. You're done. And you start

Starting point is 00:49:56 having the symptoms that they can't detect in your 40s. You got symptoms we can detect. Huh? Like what? Like what? Tell me just I went, they were opening a new candy shop. So what, fucking what? It's riveting stuff. This is, yeah. It's stuff. I went down to the candy shop and a man cut me off. He cut off the whole family.

Starting point is 00:50:16 He cut me off the whole family. And he wanted to be the first. And then, you know, did we got young boy? Jawbreakers. The fuck are you talking about? Jawbreaker candy. It's a big fucking billiard pool ball. I know. That you can choke on or break into worthless.

Starting point is 00:50:31 It was totally worthless. I used to remember. What? This is the last candy thing I've ever been on. Hey, so you know, you know that other hip hop lyric, there's a fellow who wanted to take some of the candy shop. It's my turn now. For the candy shop. Let someone lick a lollipop.

Starting point is 00:50:46 Remember bubble tape? Of course I do. Well, so we went to, we were at like the candy shop or whatever. And my dad got me a bubble tape. And I'm in the back seat and I just keep, you know, it's fun. You pull off a piece of tape and you put it in your chute.

Starting point is 00:51:01 Sure. And so I just keep pulling off tape. Pulling off tape. And my dad was like, don't waste the whole thing right now. And I was like, yeah, yeah, sure. And he sees me, keep pulling the tape, pulling the tape. And he said, if you put that whole thing in your mouth, I'm gonna make your chute.

Starting point is 00:51:15 Well, yeah, what else are you gonna do with it? Well, he knew I was just gonna put it all in my mouth and spit it out. Oh, yeah. But he's like, he didn't want me to do that. So you were just walking around with a whole lot. Well, then till I finally finished the thing and I was like, well, I he's like he didn't want me to do that. So you were just walking around with a while. Well, that's how I finally finished the thing and I was like, well, I'm about done with this

Starting point is 00:51:27 and he was like, no, no, no, no. Ha, ha, ha. That's a dad mode thing to do for sure. The child equipped. So I just got to smoke the whole pack with the gigantic wad of bubble tape. Yeah, oh man, I could go on a whole episode about stupid shit that I did as a kid involving food

Starting point is 00:51:44 and my mouth, but food and your mouth. Yeah. That's usually what can we talk about? Yeah. So Ukraine, Ukraine is no longer insisting on joining NATO as of this week. There was a headline, which is a huge concession and that provided a brief. Well outland some of their demand. And they are not budging on anything. They've been talking. So now there's this whole chemical weapons, rigmarole going on.

Starting point is 00:52:16 I don't even know. You sent me that thing and I was like, this is bullshit. And then did I send you the Jen Sackie was literally talking about a day later? Yeah, Jen Sackie did like a, Ben is on a crazy, spiritual website and they've been coming true. Yeah, and he's scaring me. I know. He told me that they were, the US was going to start talking about a false lag attack. Yeah. And blame it on Russian. And I was literally like shut up. And yeah. And then,

Starting point is 00:52:43 I tried to go to sleep. And then this weird video where Jen Sackie says listen There's nothing to worry about there are no chemical weapons facilities But then she was talking about how Russia is going to do a false flag. Yeah, attack. It's in it's it it really is I'm not going down your weird rabbit holes. I mean, I'm not going down and either I'm just saying that it's worth looking at all kind of potential things now because everything, everything's on the table. Okay, for the audio listener, Ben just slid me a piece of paper and it says, jet fuel camp melts steel beams. The thing is about that conspiracy, which is so fucking stupid, is sure, but it can weaken them, okay? Here we go. Not Scott. Not Scott Brown. It can weaken the structural integrity of steel beams.

Starting point is 00:53:26 You fucking morons. Oil was over $135 a barrel. Russia says it could reach $300 a barrel if the sanctions continue. And guess what? American oil companies could help, but they don't. So fuck you, Chevron. Fuck you, Shell.

Starting point is 00:53:42 You dumb fuckers. More. Give me more. Their stocks are at all time eyes their stocks fucking rally because gas is at six dollars a barrel second gas is it seven dollars a barrel It's got a grown pop not about doing back in the day corn pop fill up its truck five dollars a gallon a day But much again give me a hug. I got to get this guy Trump out of office people are paying too little for gas I said hey Jack you want to pay seven?

Starting point is 00:54:06 That and people are texting me. Did you see the viral news story about the gas station in LA where it had like $7.50 and gas. Yeah, people are like, is it really like that? If anyone here is wondering, LA is the strangest place I've ever been. I've spent most of my time on the East Coast and for the most part it seemed like when you would drive around you would see gas prices that were all pretty comparable. And then I got to LA and it's fucking bizarre. They would be the... They would be the... They would be the off freeways to manage a piece.

Starting point is 00:54:37 But not only that, there would still be at least like 30, 40 cent discrepancies among like... Yeah. ...one's that are right next to each other. It's very weird. So you can kind of just find the gas station you go to that consistently has cheap prices and you do that. But then there are these weird, I honestly thought they were like fronts for something. There's one right by the 101, which is probably we know. 76. Is it a 76? No, it's an X on. Oh yeah, okay, yeah. And they consistently have somewhere between like $1.50

Starting point is 00:55:10 and $2 higher per gallon. Beverly Hills also have way higher. There's like a shell station off of Santa Monica or Wilshire, I think. And that's not to say the gas prices are extremely high. Oh, California gets fucked every time. Probably about five dollars a gallon. Yeah, but so now you can find a gas station that will have 750.

Starting point is 00:55:31 Yeah. And I think new stations are like, well, this is great. We could just we could just go viral and talk about how crazy this is. Yeah, it's it's it's but yeah, I have friends text sending me the video and being like, it's just real. How is it real? Well, the seven but not for every no one's paying 750 for gas. Yeah, but it's better gas. That's why they charge more. I know I refused to go. It's elite gas. I say give me the cheap stuff. Yeah

Starting point is 00:55:57 God damn it. It really does No, but it is what you were saying reminds me of the inflation it feels a lot like the inflation thing where you know, everyone's talking about how expensive things are, but yet corporate profits are just like through the fucking right. So they talk about, you know, they're just passing, they're just passing the cost down to us, like this is the way it's gone. But it's like, well, you guys seem to be doing fine.

Starting point is 00:56:18 Yeah. And American companies we heard could drill more and get more oil domestically, but it would cost them too much. And like, yeah, you look at Chevron's chart and it's just, it's just rallied like 30% over the last month. The CEOs are, they're gonna get their big packages. Do you guys, do you need, do you need it? You don't really, you need it. They do need it. Do you guys, do you need, do you need it? You don't really, you need it. They do need it.

Starting point is 00:56:48 Do you fucking need more? Because I'll give you more. Do you want me to spend more money on the gas? I'll do it. I'll do it. I swear if it'll make you happy, please. Did you see Stephen Cobair? Cobair?

Starting point is 00:57:03 What is it? Colbert. Stephen Cobair. Did you see Steven Cobraire? Cobraire? What is it? Cobraire. Steven Cobraire. You're saying Cobraire. It's Cobraire. Yeah, the L-silent. No, it's not. It's not Cobraire.

Starting point is 00:57:15 Steven Cobraire. Yeah, there you go. You got it, right? Okay. What about him? He went to little viral because, I mean, rightfully so, he was getting fucking dunked on because he was like Oh, he said hey it's because he used to be so like fun and he was you know and then now he's just

Starting point is 00:57:33 This weird like political guy, but like everybody is so Elite Pilled of like he can't even see Reality anymore. What did he say he was like? of like he can't even see reality anymore. What did he say? He was like, he was basically doing this raw raw thing of like, yeah, and we don't care if we have to pay more for gas. What is it now?

Starting point is 00:57:51 $5 a gallon? Great. You know, if it hurts, if we're just gonna hurt Putin, like, I don't care. Jack it up to $15 a gallon. You know why? Cause I drive a Tesla. And everyone was like, yeah.

Starting point is 00:58:02 And it's like, dude, how fucking dense is that so out of touch? This guy, I mean, he's probably worth like a hundred million dollars. Now, way, I bet he's worth like 50. Okay. Take me away. Hey, you might be, you never know what investments he's got. Oh, Stephen Colbert, hey, we split the difference. 75 million, According to...

Starting point is 00:58:25 Why do you fucking... According to website. What, let's pull up this unusual Wales tweet. Our favorite? Congress person. Marjorie Taylor Greene bought American oil stocks. Chevron, including Chevron. She bought war stocks, including...

Starting point is 00:58:41 Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin and renewable energy stocks, including next era. One day before tweeting the following, quote, war and rumors of war is incredibly profitable and convenient. I know that she was tweeting that as a jab toward the elites as like, hey, you know, war is just profitable for these counties. Right. Because she, she props her up as a, a common person who she, you know, war is just profitable for these counties. Right. Which is true. She props her up as a,

Starting point is 00:59:05 a common person who she, you know, she's going down to Washington and fight against the elites. Yeah. She's going to squeeze Joe Biden's knocking between those, those sides. But we want her to get, get down here. Yeah. So give us a lesson.

Starting point is 00:59:19 Yeah. Give us, give me a lesson, Marjorie. I want to be waiting on the sideline. Let me get in there. It's my turn to get my head squeezed. Pop that motherfucker's head already. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:59:29 Ah, it sucks because I do put Chevron in my Volvo. That's what my mechanic tells me to put in it. You got to do 90 when octane. So then Russia is also threatening to cut the flow of natural gas to Europe, which is, well, I do want to mention that real fast because of the whole Russia thing. Nickel, the price of nickel went up because what the fuck, who cares? But this one Chinese company had a hundred thousand tons of nickel that they were short. And then nickel squeezed from 20,000 a ton to a hundred thousand per ton. And the London medal exchange had the halt trading in it, which is interesting.

Starting point is 01:00:15 Because apparently 17% of the world's nickel comes from Russia. Huh. And you know who suffered a huge loss? No black rock. No, not black rock no not black rock black rock not Larry Fink Larry think of the things

Starting point is 01:00:32 I'm so sorry black rock did you suffer a lot? I don't know how they fuck this up so bad okay is there a bunch of fucking greedy idiots and they'll do anything what do they do? I don't know some frontier fun

Starting point is 01:00:44 yeah yeah it's black rocks emerging frontiers fund one hedge fund team at black rock and they'll do anything. What are they? I don't know. It's some frontier fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the BlackRock's emerging Frontiers fund. One hedge fund team at BlackRock, Inc. So Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a chance to buy more of the country's stocks. Why? Because they thought that it was, yeah.

Starting point is 01:00:57 Like it was managing 960 million at the end of January. It's now down about 7%. Yeah, I guess they thought, hey, this is Russia was one of the biggest long bets for the hedge fund at the start of February with 9% of its gross assets invested in the country shares. After a research trip to the country in January, the document shows Sam Vett, head of the team told investors that he raised the bet further when the evasion began. Oh, my boo. I can't. What are you doing? Like going, oh, this this is this is going to be good. This is going to be good for us. Well, because they thought that it was a temporary blip and that these rest of stocks were going to bounce back. Sure, but like you have to imagine that

Starting point is 01:01:34 the only thing America and the rest of the West is going to do is economic sanctions. Yeah, it's going to continue punishing pull up a chart. Can you type in YNDX Yandex, which is like the Russian Google, I think. Cause you know what's gonna happen is yeah. Oh wow, yeah, because Yandex has been halted. Can you do like a one month chart? Yeah, it's gone down from like about 55 bucks in mid February to now less than $28, about $19, down 62% in the last month. Russia is apparently gonna cut themselves off

Starting point is 01:02:11 from the rest of the world on the internet. I use the mark. I'm gonna wrap this whole thing up. So BlackRock comes out of this thing, okay. Yeah, I just really want BlackRock to be okay. Report guys, poor Larry Fink. Wait, can I tell you about one thing? What?

Starting point is 01:02:24 We're running out of time. No, yeah, okay, what? Well, I mean, we have time. We'll get to the little bit. What do you got? Okay, so everyone's with these sanctions, right? Everyone's complaining, it hurts, it hurts poor people. Not really these rich oligarchs, right? Yeah. And that's a problem, right? We want to make sure we can hit these oligarchs where it hurts. And, you know, there've been some what? In the balls. Right. We want to hit them in the balls. And there've been some like really good reporting on this like especially I Didn't know this apparently London is called London grad as a joke because there's so many Russian oligarchs hiding

Starting point is 01:02:56 I did not know that and yeah, there was a really good article punish the oligarchs not the poor by Grace Blakely She was talking about she's British Oh by Grace Blakely, she was talking about, she's British. So I'm putting she all the gawks, not the police. If you're listening, sorry about the stuff in the book, it was a... Um, what? But yeah, and so it's, you know,

Starting point is 01:03:14 they're talking about how they're gonna have to look into their own, look into what their elites are doing. I mean, Boris Johnson is taking like millions of dollars and the conservative party from Russians, but luckily there is a Texas Republican in Congress who has just the idea for us, right? So vigilante Republican bill would allow private citizens to seize Russian oligarchs yachts.

Starting point is 01:03:37 Hell yeah, hell yeah. I love this. Oh yeah, that's gonna unite the country. So private citizens would be allowed to seize the planes and yachts of Russian oligarchs around the globe under legislation introduced in the house on Monday by a Texas repellent. Would they get to keep them? No. No, no, no, no. Would there be rewards? There would have to be some kind. The fucking feeling of, you know, climbing

Starting point is 01:03:55 a board of yacht and kicking a Russian in the nuts, I guess, I don't know. They got to have armed guards, I'm sure. So he's saying Putin's in a circle have planes and yachts sitting in airports and harbors all over the world if President Biden refuses that quickly, then in just time, Congress and American citizens take matters into their own hands. Russian oligarchs must be held accountable for enabling the disgusting invasion you can.

Starting point is 01:04:15 I was looking for ways to hold Russia accountable without using military personnel and avoiding action that would send an escalatory message. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Telling your citizens to climb a board, Russian yachts is not gonna be escalatory at all. Yeah, they're based on a concept called private hearing intended to combat piracy,

Starting point is 01:04:32 Navy Commander Jonathan Sill wrote in the 2013 paper. This is what he says, they are to carry out the mission in a civilian to civilian manner while avoiding loss of life. But if an incident does occur, it means they exceeded the government's mandate and that individuals must know they bear responsibility for their actions. Okay, so they're giving you, they're giving you carte blanche to go seize these things.

Starting point is 01:04:53 But hey, if you kill somebody, it's on you. It's on you. It's on you. If you get killed, you shouldn't have been fucking around. Yeah, we didn't say to do it. We just said you could and we wink, wink, nudge, nudge that you probably should to help us out. So look, if this thing gets through, this might be the end of the show. Cause me and Ben are buying a little boat.

Starting point is 01:05:09 We're going to be climbing aboard. Yeah, no Russian will suspect. No, no, no Russian will suspect Colomboat. Hey, oh, hey there, maybe could you spare a cup of sugar for our Colomboat? We're on an expedition to... Permission to come aboard. Yeah, permission to come aboard. Our ladder's broken.

Starting point is 01:05:29 Please help. Do you have a screwdriver we could borrow Mr. Russian or a Garc? Sure, come on board. Yeah, I got that fucker. And then we go, there's boats ours now. Yeah, there's boats ours, you don't. I'm gonna deliver to Joe Biden. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:05:41 Joe Biden. Joe. I mean, fucking, we joke, but there will definitely be people I think who are who would be happy to go. Yeah. Man, these sanctions though, I mean, to wrap it up here. I just don't know. I don't know.

Starting point is 01:05:58 Yeah. Russia is now the world's most sanctioned nation. McDonald's was the latest. They're closing temporarily, all 850 restaurants in Russia, but they will continue to pay 62,000 employees. Oh man, I wish I really could. I wish I pulled it.

Starting point is 01:06:14 There was a great quote of, someone was reporting on the closing of the last McDonald's and they saw, as it was closing, there was a man leaving, looked like a customer. And he said, and so they went up and they were like, sir, how do you feel about, you know, McDonald's closing up, shopping, Russia, and he just goes, oh, I don't know, I've only ever used it for the bathroom. I love that, that's great.

Starting point is 01:06:35 Yeah. There was a guy I saw on Reddit who showed his fridge and it's fully stocked with hamburgers because he like loaded up before McDonald's closed Priorities I would do that if in and out was closing. I would go get a bunch and freeze them I don't actually know I know that's a bad thing. Yeah, cuz what are you gonna do reheat them? Yeah, well McDonald's burgers could survive a nuclear apocalypse much. Hey, we might need that soon. Yeah I'll be eating a roach protein Roach milk

Starting point is 01:07:07 Brody milk in their little nippy's. I don't think they produce milk. They do produce milk roaches. Yeah, dude no fucking way Yes, they do what's the last thing no because it's produce milk Google roach milk hot No, don't type hot cockroach milk is a milk like protein rich crystalline milk is like produced by cockroaches. It's not It serves as new nutrition for their kids. I'm getting so grossed out, but humans can harvest this milk extracting it from their mid-got dude Wait, can you image? No, please don't I'll just tell you what it looks like you dude. What the fuck is that move it? Or do you get it off this green. There's a third, the Google image search for cockroach milk.

Starting point is 01:07:50 What the fuck? It's off this green. All right. Well, anyway. No, no, no. Once again, we're not ending on that. Okay, what do you want to end on? Oh boy, I'm like so fucking skewed out.

Starting point is 01:08:01 Okay. You know, forever I couldn't eat dates because I lived in New York for so long and dates look a lot like cockroaches. Then I moved to LA and I was like, you know, I think I can fucking eat dates again. Yeah. I think you made a room to it for me. I'm so sorry. I wanted to talk about, you know, how ordinary people are being affected by the sanctions a little bit and we could talk about, you know, people having trouble with Twitch and only fans, but are being affected by the sanctions a little bit and we could talk about, you know, people having trouble with Twitch and only fans, but I think I need to go puke. Yeah. I mean,

Starting point is 01:08:30 it's like we said, you should punish the, the original, not the poor, except I, I mean, there's an argument to be made that doing all these sanctions puts pressure on, um, Putin because when you've got an upset populace who's pissed off who's being deprived of their basic staples and pleasures and what are you talking about? Like, you know, all these sanctions. All, is that how he sounded? Yeah, all these sanctions.

Starting point is 01:09:02 No, the truth is, like these elites are wrapped up not just in their own countries but in the global economy sure and um you know so there I think there's a reason we're having trouble hitting them and from this article uh punish the oligarchs not the poor she says perhaps the reason our politicians don't want to face up to the fact that attacking Russia's billionaire class would be the best way to threaten the Russian government is that doing so might shine a light on those close links between our own political elite and the world billionaire class would be the best way to threaten the Russian government is that doing so might shine a light on those close links between our own political elite and the world billionaire class. I'm sure Western governments really do want to punish Putin for this war, but they do not want to do so at the expense of threatening the legitimacy of global capitalism. It's all connected.

Starting point is 01:09:38 Right. Alex Jones was right. Well, I don't know about that, but he's not. But you know, it's, it's, it sucks. You know, you're just the normal person and you can lose your entirely, entirely, livelihood overnight because of decisions that have nothing to do with you. And it's, it's tragic. Yeah. There are no, there are no winners in this whole thing That's why I will be for Chevron fuck face fuck faces pieces of shit That's why I'll be I'm gonna be climbing aboard you know what the nice thing is if this bill goes through what? I'm gonna be getting aboard any yacht. I don't care if it's Russian American and I'm shoot first ask questions later when it comes to people on yachts.

Starting point is 01:10:27 Naturally. And so I'm, I'm the livinger at the Joe Biden. Yeah. And he's going, this is Mark Zuckerberg, you idiot. I'm, shit, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Mark. No idea. Yeah. You're gonna throw me overboard. Are you? Yeah, who cares? Yeah. Can you imagine killing's our marks are prick? I just thought about it. We're not saying anything like that. Okay, we should end the note. Quit your job, shit your pants, kill your parents. Leave a comment, subscribe. Oh, leave a comment.

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