Yannis Pappas Hour - The Cathedral & The Casino | YP Hour

Episode Date: May 9, 2025

Yanni delves into Warren Buffett’s warning about America’s need to care for more than just the casino and take care of the cathedral. Rite Aid is going under, the Met Gala was wild, Andrew Cuomo is changing his tune, Barry Diller comes out of the closet, and Skechers is going private in an effort to reinvent itself. It’s going to be ok. Support our show: https://www.patreon.com/yannispappashour Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Yannis Papas Yannis Papas Yannis Papas Yannis Papas Yannis Papas Yannis Papas What's up everybody? Welcome to another episode of the Yanis Papas Hour and I want to just start by saying it's okay. Generally, everything out there is okay.

When it's not okay, it ends up becoming okay. We all got the chance to live to 94. We just got to figure out a way to get $300 billion to make sure we can afford the greatest medical care that Warren Buffett, you know, had on staff every single day. He's still going to continue working. Warren Buffett, the Michael Jordan of investing, has finally retired from his position at 94. What was his position? Sitting around pushing buttons and making money. Trading. I guess he was managing some staff, but not really. You know he paid someone to do that. He was a guy who sat around and went like this and just guessed about

numbers going up going down and just made millions. Okay, he was, he's famously quoted as saying, we got a cathedral and a casino. You ever hear that quote from him? He said, America is a cathedral and a casino. We have to take care of the cathedral. And you gotta trust the guy who made all his money in the casino when he says, don't forget the cathedral. So I'm gonna take the position that this,

on this episode, that what Trump's doing is good. He's taking care of the cathedral. We got to build stuff. That's what he means. We got to build stuff. We got to make stuff. So just hang in there.

We're building up the cathedral. We get the incense going. We're going to start taking care of the cathedral. We're going to polish it. Some deacons walk around clean the pews We're doing things because we have been living a little bit too much at the casino And that's what he meant the casino is the stock market. He said we have two robust pillars of the American amazing

economy that made us the greatest economic engine of all time the cathedral in the casino and We've all skipped church. We've all skipped church on Sunday. And we spent a couple of days at the casino with a couple of toes in the fountain of the, fountain blue, that's in in Miami of the MGM. We've all tipped our toes into the fountain of the MGM and Trump is saying, hey man, we got to take care of the cathedral. We're going to build a great big beautiful cathedral where we're making stuff again, where Pittsburgh

is making steel, where Pennsylvania is making rubber bands. We're going to make it. We're not just going to sell it here. We're going to make it. Right? Sometimes you got to rip the band-aid off. He's ripping the band-aid off. Some people would say, hey, maybe build up the infrastructure, play along with China for a couple of years, and then pull the rug. Right? Some people would say that. Other people would say, hey, man, you know what you got to do with a bad relationship? Pull the bandaid off and just let it heal in the open air. Two for 25 is not bad. Right now it's two for 25. Maybe it stays two for 25. I don't know. But shout out to all of the Fellini movies we would not be able to watch anymore because now we got a hundred percent tariff on all Hollywood movies shot

outside the United States this is a tariff I'm not worried about this was the one where I heard and I was like you know what I guess I won't be able to catch up with my Bollywood movies. The good thing about this tariff is I already thought there was a hundred percent tariff on foreign movies. I don't remember the last time I watched a foreign movie. E2 Tambien? When's the last time you tuned into a movie period? As a grown adult in America, when's the last time you actually went to a movie that wasn't the fast and the

furious. So that we're not going to be allowed to watch foreign movies because they got a hundred percent tariff. Um, doesn't scare me at all. Also, there's a little a loophole called the internet where you'll probably, if you're really in to the latest Finnish flick, you'll probably be able to, to boost it somewhere and stream it. So at the 96 Academy Awards from 2024 you might have heard of a little movie called The Zone of Interest a British film.

There was an Italian film called Lo Capitano. You must, maybe you hear the buzz about that on the streets. Maybe Perfect Days from Japan. You and your friend group can't get enough about talking about it. I'm still here. What's that from? These are just international movies. So you and your friend group are gonna have to think about other things like white lotus. You know, I'm still here from Brazil, the seed of the sacred fig from Germany. No more of that.

The girl with the needle sounds like it's really going to appeal to the American market. The girl with the needle unless she's got she's shooting a needle into her arm And that's what they're referring to while she's driving a luxury car off the side of a cliff with her tits out America's not interested anyway So this is a symbolic tariff. He says we're gonna be making movies in America again So that's it. I guess we were making them in Canada and stuff like that. Is that what he's saying? You can't make them other places there. So that'll be good. That'll be good. We can start using Pittsburgh for New York and all these cheaper options when they try to film New York and you don't have to go to Canada anymore. Vancouver's

not happy about this. Maybe this was a direct shot at Canada because we were using Vancouver allowed to shoot. But a majority are filmed outside the United States because they it's cheaper. So a recent study of over 2000 films received in US cinemas between 2000 and 2014 found that more than half were filmed abroad. That's probably just gone up and over a quarter were shot entirely outside the United States. If you're a free market guy to say free-market stuff the globalists be damned we are America first including where we're gonna get our next Woody Allen movie. You're not going first of all he was forced in a retirement it's not good. It's not good. Where's my next Woody Allen movie?

Where's my peanuts? So in 2024, just so you know, Hollywood studios have filmed 87% of their stuff in foreign territories. So we're not going to be doing that anymore. We're not going to be doing that anymore. We're not going to be doing that. Um, you're going to be filming on your phone in your city. There's going to be a lot more movies filmed in Goshen, Indiana. What if you, what if the movie script is about Italy?

What do you do? You just go to Mulberry street. Yeah. You just go to Disney and Street? Yeah, you just go to Disney and go You got a Japanese idea? Just hit Disney. Epcot Center is about to get massive studio deals. You know, that's what it's for. Yeah, no more Canada, no more UK, no more Vietnam. What if your movie is a Vietnam piece? Do you just go to Chinatown and just take out AR-15s? I guess now you don't need to with CGI, just CGI everything. But here's the bigger problem. The movies. That's the bigger problem.

Is that nobody's going to the movies. So there you have it. No more foreign films and no more American films shot not on American soil within the 50. Is it 50? Within the 50. The contiguous 50. You could still go to Hawaii if you want to do a piece about World War II Greek piece, you know, about German occupation.

You can still go to Hawaii and I don't know, find a couple of Samoans, give them Italian accents. I mean, there's ways, there's ways around it. This one doesn't seem so important to me, but hey, it is what it is. We're ripping the bandaid off. We're gonna be fine. But that bandaid that we're ripping

off was from CVS, not Rite Aid. Because the ones at Rite Aid are just, they're not readily available in a lot of places. Rite Aid now, you have to GPS to find one. You know? You can't say anymore, I'm going to go down to my local Rite Aid and pick up my Zoloft prescription. You're going to have to GPS it. If you're a Rite Aid customer, you're going to have to GPS and maybe go town over because they're filing for their second bankruptcy. So when someone files for their second bankruptcy, I think it's fair to assume that it's not

going great. That's an indication. I'm no economist, but some would suggest that CVS is winning that war. Why is it always two major? Why does it always come down to Coke, Pepsi, Rite Aid, CVS? And then I guess you always got a third on the periphery. You always got like a doctor, you always got like a third one. You always got an RC color or a Wendy's or in this case a Walgreens, you know, but RiotAid,

rewarding you the silver medal. The silver medal goes just over your head. They've agreed to a 10 billion dollar buyout from a private equity firm, Sycamore Partners. Wow. It's declined in value $100 billion over the last decade. So I don't know if all the RiteAids were in San Francisco during the riot, but how did that happen? How did that happen? Are people just not crazy about checking out their own goods anymore?

I mean, I thought they had cut all the costs they could by having zero employees in the store. You ever need something at Rite Aid and you end up just asking another customer because they have a red shirt because you just see no employees? I mean, there's like one employee in Rite Aid. So where's all their money going? Because I know people are getting their pharmaceuticals. It's unfortunate. I love Rite Aid. Dude, I could never tell the difference between CVS and Rite Aid. I could never remember which one I'm in. I can never know. I don't know the difference between CVS and Rite Aid? I can never remember which one I'm in. I can never know. I don't know the difference. Might as well just be one. Have you ever gone, have you ever made that mistake? Like am I going to CVS or Rite Aid or they're just kind of interchangeable to me? Yeah when I have to go it's a bad day. Like that's a bad day for me.

When you got to go to CVS? I'm like shit I gotta go there really. I gotta go get some icy hot. Yeah. It's not a fun day. I gotta go there. I gotta go get some icy hot. Yeah. Yeah No Maybe it's an indication people are taking less pharmaceuticals. I don't know. Isn't that their main business? Yeah, they have the pharmacy. Yeah, you could order stuff online now. Amazon's got a big pharmacy. They got competition Yeah, that's probably what's hurting them

But they got a big debt two point five billion in debt hurting them. But they got a big debt, 2.5 billion in debt. And it takes you 20 minutes to get toothpaste because someone has to come and unlock it. You got to unlock the toothpaste. You got to unlock the toothpaste because people started noticing once the employees dropped to one, there was an easier escape route out the door and it's just one teenager working there who's just going like, dude, I'm getting paid $8. If Crest means that much to you. I don't know those people who do those runs on CVS like, is there a resale black market for, you know, right guard. I've never been, I've never been in the hood on a corner and someone was a yo man, I got 250 right guards.

Got this old spice. I got this old spice right here. You guys like Dove? Who needs some Dove? Y'all want some Pampers half off? But they never grabbed the Pampers. They grabbed stuff that's easy to grab, like a bunch of deodorants, a bunch of toothpaste, toothbrush. I don't know.

I didn't ever knew there was a hot black market for that stuff. I mean, a toothbrush is only like a $1.29. What do you resell that for on the black market? 69 cents? I guess desperate times call for desperate measures. So this is their second bankruptcy. They've closed 800 and something plus stores over the past couple years. So Rite Aid went to the government and got some financial aid.

They should just change the name from Rite Aid to Financial Aid because they need it. They really do. Or maybe we can raise some money for Rite Aid by giving it a, let's do a Rite Aid gala. What about that? Everyone cares about the arts, but nobody cares about our pharmacy stores. We do a couple of galas, you know, fashion shows in a Rite Aid of choice. There's got to be one really fancy Rite Aid in the country and we just make it hot somehow. Somehow the Met Gala became like the hottest ticket in town and they raise a lot of money I assume just for the museum right? It's just for the museum dude. The Metropolitan Museum of Art which by the way charges everyone

who comes into it and it's packed all the time has figured out a way to really raise money and the way they do that is by telling men to wear dresses and pay $30,000 per plate and get on a wait list. And if you want a table, I think it's like, what is it? 70 grand of whatever it's 250 grand for a table, 70 grand or 40 grand for a ticket or whatever it is. It's a lot of money. It's a AOC shouldn't have been there when she was back in the day. But the Met Gala has become this phenomenon that

just started out I guess as a fashion show, dinner at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. And now it's just become this thing where celebrities go and they wear stuff that is just as outrageous as can be and they play with gender right here's the chick from this guy's dressed as shag vera I think there's a theme every year is there a theme yeah so this guy is dressed as he's dressed as Ferdinand yeah he's dressed as he's dressed as a guy who's about to get assassinated and start World War I. This guy's dressed as a military... This guy is dressed in a church outfit. Very nice. Yeah, this guy looks like a church choir deacon.

This guy is... He's an actor, right? Yeah, he was an actor on that show. There's another guy. I mean, I love when I'm old. I just don't know any of these guys. That's ASAP Rocky. ASAP Rocky's there. He's got the most normal outfit on. He looks like he works for Delta. Like that just looks like he's taking your ticket at Delta.

You know, and you just pay probably 30 grand for the outfit. But God does that raise a lot of money. It raises so much money, but it must cost who's that Rihanna? Can't even tell she looks like she's mourning a death. I mean, this chick's wearing pajamas. Who's that? That's that singer. I forgot.

Can I ask you, is this, is this the Matt Gallagher or the BET Awards? I haven't seen one non-black person on this red carpet. Yeah, they're out. They've moved on, right? That's what happens. Yeah, there's, what's her name? Zendaya. Zendaya coming straight from the Kentucky Derby.

That's sort of how it seems to happen, is like the whites are in there for a while It's like nightclubs. They have their party and then it's the same I Think the whites have gone to the suburban met Gala because this is dude every single person there Seen black who was there Heidi Klum was there? There was a few whites Sabrina carpenter Sabrina carpenter, but it was a lot am I in my imagination that that was a lot whites. Sabrina Carpenter. Sabrina Carpenter. But it was a lot, in my imagination that that was a lot of blacks on the red carpet. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. There is nothing wrong with that. I'm just noticing and that's fine. It's good.

Janelle Monae. Who's that? Singer. She's a white or black? Black. Okay, Janelle Monae was there. Check out that outfit. Yeah. She just wore something on her nipples with a tie. So fashion's fun. It's New York. It's a fun thing. Yeah. Everyone goes to the Met Gala and has a good time. There is, um, Questlove dressed like he's dressed every day.

He didn't spend a dollar on his outfit, which is what I would do. I don't know who that is. That's Chance the rapper. He did the same thing. He just borrowed LL Cool J's hat. And then whoever that is, whoever that is, I don't know who these people are. I have no idea who anyone is. Who's the who are those chicks down there? I have no idea who they are. Oh, that's Stella McCartney and Charlotte Tibley. Here's some other guys. I know that one guy's Tom Brady and he's just with two finance guys. There's always just two guys. There's always guys around those retired athletes that are just finance guys. It's Chris Rock and James Corden sharing a laugh. You know, there's no racism. There's no racism at this level, baby. The cure to

racism is you just got to give everyone three million dollars. It'll be fine. We could do it too. We could totally, if we want to end racism, just give everyone three million dollars, Right? Just say, hey, we're not going to pay for the military anymore. Go attack each other. Right? It'd be funny if we just go look, you guys are going to do what you're going to do. You know, we'll just make a deal with whoever wins. You guys do what you got to do. We don't care about the vacuums that are created anymore. We're just going to give every one of our citizens $3 million. And if you guys blow up the world by accident, we're going to at least have

a good year. Everyone's going to have just one great year. If India and Pakistan go off, it goes off. If Russia drops one, they drop one. But we'll have a month, a year, that'll be incredible. Imagine everyone walking around with $3 million. Do you think everyone'd be chill? Be nice. Or do you think people would try to rob and try to get six? Yeah, you get that. Just gotta do that.

Do you give everyone $3 million? Every single person gets $3 million. But then the prices go up and it's hard. But what if you just got here? If you just got here, are you asking me as a Democrat or Republican? You tell me. Well, if I'm a Democrat, which is sometimes that, they get $9 million because they just got here and they need it.

If you're Republican, I'm going to say they get $10. I'm gonna say they get $10. They get no dollars. They have to get turned back. They get a Rite Aid gift bag. They get a Rite Aid gift bag. Which is also like, come on Rite Aid, before you go out of business dude,. Like, have a sale, whatever. Let me go stock up on deodorants. I mean, how long did deodorants last, by the way? Yeah, I mean, I think I got like, you know, all the free sponsors sent deodorants. I may have like 27 deodorant sticks, you know?

Some of them from like 2016, I still use them. Can deodorants go bad? I mean, what is this? Just chemicals that stop you from stinking, which we probably shouldn't be using. But if you found that it was bad for you, would you rather live in a smelly world? If you find out fluoride is bad for you in the water, would you rather everyone's teeth is brown? I mean, come on, dude. Just come on. You got the medical industry, the cure industry has to make some money too. They can't just, we can't just have a fully healthy society and

then nobody's making any money on cures. It's like what come on dude. We got to let drugs in a little bit. I mean we got to keep rehabs open. It's all about balance. You can't just have all good. Okay RFKs, so just chill a little bit. We need some fluoride even if it's bad for you. There needs to be money in the cure. You got to keep people busy. Jesse says people got to be busy. They need things to do. I think you're right about that. People need things to do.

Especially if they're not like buried into work all day. They need things to do, things to talk about. You know, they need mountains to climb. Sometimes that mountain is I need new teeth. And that's fine. Cuomo will be the next mayor of New York. It's a very important job. That's why I mentioned I know a lot of you are not in New York, but Cuomo is back. He'll be the new mayor. Eric Adams had a nice, nice party, but he won't make it. And, um, he is putting people back in jail. Cuomo is opening back up to psych wards.

He's boosting numbers of psych hospital beds. Keep one with my name on it. After he gutted them as governor. So he's doing a, um, doing a backtrack because he got rid of them and now he's putting them back. Because he's going, okay, that didn't work. It didn't work so much. Um, turns out it's hard to keep track of people's medications when they're not confined. You can't trust some people to go refill their medications. Medications are very important for people who have mental illness. Not mental health. Mental health and mental illness are two different things. You're having some mental health issues, box breathe, right? If you

think the government is tapping your brain, you're gonna need Big Pharma. You're gonna need, we need Big pharma. It's the only solution that can keep that in check So his plan As he's talking about big the New York's mental health crisis, which we all know is happening You know you got on the street and it's just a little different than it used to be So he's he's okay, whoopsie. That'd be funny if you tried to do the whoopsie with putting the old people in the home,

do we lock them all in or something? It's like whoopsie, but he's like, I can't bring them back. So more than a thousand beds meant for mental health treatments were also, oh, so redirected for COVID, but only 200 returned in the week. So dude, COVID, if you had COVID, during COVID,

you were like top priority. If you were like dying of cancer, or they were like, sorry, we can't help you. This guy's got a bad cold. I'm making light, okay? Because a lot of people were damaged from COVID. But in hindsight, we gotta admit, you have to be able to admit that COVID was bad,

it was worse than the flu, it killed a lot of people, it did back up the hospitals at certain times. But we're gonna have to look back and admit and go, we went a little overboard. We went a little overboard in how we dealt with it. But the thing is, I would like to say, people always make it an American conspiracy because they just like that's the good content.

But look, the whole globe did the same thing. There was only a few countries that didn't lock down, right? Like it was Sweden, everyone else was locking down. Texas. That was a country that didn't do it in Florida. It ends up Florida and Texas probably had a, look, probably more people died there because they were a little more anti-vax or they were a little freer. But what are you going to do?

What are you going to do? Is a tough situation. You can't save every person and it's not everyone's responsibility that somebody else may have, you know, diabetes or whatever. I mean, those people, there should have been, there really should have been like, but hindsight's 50-50. Not everything's a conspiracy. I think sometimes, I think the most honest thing now in retrospect is nobody in the world knew, except the Chinese who released it. But nobody else really knew how bad it was going to be. And it was just hard. I think it's hard to get on TV and just tell people we don't know. And I think it's also hard to retract and say we made a mistake. All right, because then people go, you're fucking part of it. You know,

people just get too mad. So you just hope it all dies. But it was a mess in retrospect. It was a mess. Kids should have been in school. There should have been a strata. It should have been a strata. Like, if you feel like you're at risk, mask up, wait for the vaccine, stay inside, work for home. If you're a kid, you're free to send your kids to school. This is what it affects kids very slightly, almost none. If you're a regular healthy dude, go out there, take, I don't know. I'm no expert. It's a hard thing to manage a global, you know, and then you're communicating with other countries. I mean, the whole thing's hard. But that's just one thing I always notice is when people have their conspiracies, they always blame

the United States, but it's like the whole world was doing the same thing for the most part. And everyone was struggling with it. Just glad it's over. I don't even want to bring it back up. It's over. But what's also over is Barry Diller pretending like he was a straight guy. I got some stuff coming up in my special, which is being released June 1st, which is I'm really proud that I picked some topics that maybe I'm going to catch a trend here, right? Because big bear attack, you know, I have a joke about that. And it was a it was a black bear, right? It's a black bear. You're not supposed to be that scared of black bears. Killed a guy and his dog, just killed him. I got a joke about that.

And people always say you shouldn't be scared of bears. Yeah. And then like what are you doing? What are you doing at 83? What are you doing? Why didn't you come out a long time ago? Everyone knew that this was a beard. He was married to some other rich person right Diane von foster Berg They had a fake relationship and now at 83 he wants to live true You know after years and years and years of private leather bars and all that stuff You know it must be amazing when you come out and like nobody cares people are even surprised I'm covering this story You imagine this would have been a big story 15 years ago

Dude, you know fuck it would be like, Elon Musk, if Elon Musk came out tomorrow and said he was gay, it would be news for one hour. You know? They would focus more on the kids still. They'd go, he's still having kids. Nobody cares. Especially this. He's 83. Great.

Go to Fire Island out now. When nobody wants to bang ya. Jesus. He first started dating von Furstenberg after they met. Dude, in 1974 they've had a fake relationship. He never questioned that his biological imperative was strong in its heterosexuality as Its opposite had been what does that mean? He added that when the romance happened his initial response was who knew what you just talking giggly gook There's no guy who ends up banging guys who doesn't think about banging guys before he starts banging guys So let's stop this dude. This is funny, this is like a guy from another era. This is like a guy coming out,

it's almost like he's coming out of his bomb shelter. Going like, is the USSR saying, you're going, dude, no, we're worried about a whole nother country now. Yeah, war's over, dog. While there have been a good many men in my life, there has only ever been one woman. Yeah, your fake wife. And she didn't come into my life until I was 33 years old. Truth about us after all these years? Who knew? What? Oh, he's writing an essay in New York Magazine. I mean who is getting juiced up to read that? Who cares? Who cares? I'll tell you right now my wife could turn around tomorrow and tell me she's

gay and I'd be like, makes sense now. You know, your headache. You being too tired. Makes sense. I thought it was the kids. I mean is anyone surprised? And does anyone really care? Scroll down because this is fun. Like I didn't even understand what he was saying. Yeah, I like his statements. A relationship that began with indifference then exploded into a romance as natural to us as... Who is buying this bullshit? This is really funny. This is really funny.

This is like my dad calling him Puerto Ricans. I mean, who does he think is buying this bullshit? He's even saying it like a gay guy. This is fake. If you asked me about my relationship with my wife, which is not fake, I wouldn't even say a relationship that began with indifference then exploded, exploded into a romance as natural to us as breathing.

Did it? Did it? How did it do that? How did the romance get so great when you were pussy was repugnant to you? How was the romance so natural when you saw her vagina went, oh? It was as natural as breathing. Obviously it wasn't as natural as breathing. No, it's not as natural as breathing. Obviously it wasn't as natural as breathing. No, it's not as natural as breathing. Having sex with you took a lot of mental stimulation about you thinking about guys.

You know how many guys he plastered right on her face when he was if he did? It's a fake relationship. You don't have a billion dollars or whatever and go through the motions for anyone. You're just going, you're another rich chick, you're like an insufferable cunt who nobody will marry. And I'm a closeted gay guy in a time where I don't want people to know that. So we're just going to have a fake marriage. How does that sound? And she's probably going, thank you for being honest. Can you scroll back up? This is more. He said, it surprised us and everyone else. It really is the

miracle of my life, the businessman added of his 24-year marriage, which he described as unique and complete love. I don't doubt that it was complete love when two people share a secret. That's someone you know you can trust and they probably had a great relationship because they weren't into each other at all. That's the best relationships. I don't think they had one single fight. I don't think, I think it's very easy to have a relationship where you don't have someone calling going, who's this bitch? Plain and simple, here's another one. I'll just read it like his inner voice. Plain and simple, it was an explosion of passion that kept up for years.

And yes, I also liked guys. But that was not a conflict with my love for Diane. I can't explain it to myself or to the world. Why are you still lying? He added that he and Diane were in some cosmic way destined for each other. What? Does God likes closeted homos? What kind of cosmic? You were destined to be beards. You were destined to be great friends. Maybe I'll buy that. This is funny. The secret of honoring love and life.

I'll take the secret. You know what? I'm about to take the secret of a lasting relationship from a guy who was in the closet and had a fake marriage because here it is. Here's the secret. The secret of honoring love and life is to never lie. I mean, are you gaslighting me right now? That is from Diane. That is, that is from her. That's what Diane's rep said. She said, that's the wife. Never lie. Never

lie. Unless your whole life is a lie. Are we at that point now where people just say things like they just shock us so much that we just go like what do you make of it? Like I'm not trying to make a big deal out of something that's not a big deal because it's not. But are we just at that point where people just say the opposite thing and like are people that bold now? You know, where you just go the secret of life is never to lie and then you're reading

an article about quite obviously a relationship that was a lie. Is that where we're at? She says I did leave him. I went with other men, but they always ended up being jealous of Barry and not the other way around. Do you buy this? Do you buy it? Yeah, I mean the timing is great. 83? Why not? Yeah, and do you buy that the other men were jealous of the clear homosexual she was married to? Sure. She said I'm never leaving Barry. Yeah, because it was in the

contract that you guys signed when you merged your fortunes or whatever. Are you ever going to leave a billionaire who doesn't want to have sex with you? Yeah, I think she might be wealthy on her own. She has a popular fashion brand, yeah. Yeah, so I think, but you know, probably not as much as him. Hanging out with a billionaire is not his thing. Yeah, these people live complete, these people are so comfortable the thing about this strata of people is they're so comfortable having two lives and that's great they're so comfortable with having a

life that they present you know that is just flawless and then one where they're in a dungeon you know getting spanked wearing a horse like they just it's balanced for them you got a one you go to the Met Gala and you sip fucking cold soup and You talk French and then there's another one where you're just getting ridden by another guy Who has a horse saddle on you and it's just what they do And it's a nice balance. God he got in the internet early 1995. Yeah. He's a Hollywood mogul. I mean yeah I mean he

co-founded Fox I mean this guy's as big as it gets. And so I guess this is a decent story because of how huge he is. He's a very rich man. And at 85, he just wants to come clean. Great. Great. My, what could be interesting is he's done something very unscrupulous that's about to come out, but it'll get buried, it'll get buried, it'll get buried, pun intended, because maybe the journalists will go, this will never be as big a story as him coming out as gay.

Maybe he's like, this is the time because I just funded this thing that ended up killing all these children or whatever. I ended up, you know, investing in this weapons industry kind of something. He has long partnered with Scott Rudin. He's produced Broadway shows. So is that not a tip off? Broadway, I think, is a more sure way to know if a guy's gay than if he's got a dick in his mouth. If a guy can sit through a Broadway musical that wasn't written by the South Park guys, you got a gay guy. It's a gay guy. It's a hundred percent a gay guy. I've never been able to sit through any musicals except Hamilton. I kind of liked

it but not the way my wife liked it. I've never been able and that that is how I actually proved to myself that I was actually in fact a straight man was I just couldn't sit through a musical. Gay people there's just something in their brain that just the frequency is musical. So what's a gayer act? Sucking a dick or sitting through a musical? Equal. I think it's equal. I think they go hand in hand. Um, but I think sitting through a musical may have, may have the edge. Who knows? Um, but dude, he's got his, he's got his hands on a lot of things and his hands on a lot of guys.

He's a chairman of Expedia. I mean, God, he's a very, he invested early in Match.com and Vimeo, Vestor and Aereo, stream service, Broadway shows, movies. Go back up for a second, look at that. Ticketmaster. He spun off several companies from Ticketmaster, holding company for various internet and media businesses. Damn. Wow. Well he's gay guy.

He's a gay guy, but he's deeply, deeply in love. Yes, I was with other men. So are they saying they knew about it? They're saying they kind of knew about it, right? And they just kind of did it. They're just coming clean. Yeah, the House of DVF album. Alone. Oh, she that's her? That they that they don't sleep together. But said, I like it that way. All right, so they had a deep friendship that was a fake marriage and they're coming clean and you know, he was her gay bestie and she was the beard

and what a fucking story. I'm doing anything I can to avoid talking about tariffs. How about another good one? Skechers has gone private for nine billy. Now what does it mean when it goes private? It means I guess it was a public company and then I guess you got to buy it out from all the stockholders, all the public, publicly held stock and buy it out from all the stockholders all the public publicly held stock

and bring a private i guess that's what he won most did with twitter right uh... and it was bought by nine point four billion uh... by through with three g capital was that mean as a company three g capital what i'd just fine it's an interesting time i'm i wouldn't say it was a good time to buy sketches because all the people who wear sketches have been deported from 23G capital, but I just find it's an interesting time. I wouldn't say it was a good time to buy Skechers because all the people who wear Skechers have been deported from the country.

I mainly see Mexicans wearing Skechers, and it's not young Mexicans. It's usually older Mexican ladies. Skechers sneakers. Maybe Skechers is gonna try to go big and revamp. You remember when Damon Dash tried to bring back ProKeds? Maybe they'll try something with Skechers. They signed Snoop. They signed Snoop.

Snoop is a brand ambassador. Yeah, these things never work because they catch on organically. It's never going to really, you know, you can't hire someone to bring them in and make it cool. It just doesn't work like that. It's got to start cool here's Snoop hocking Skechers it's about the art until you're done with the art and you want to sell Skechers and you want to sell Skechers.

Skechers X by Snoop Dogg. Everyone changes when they have kids. You could get the Skechers X from Snoop Dogg. He's got his own Skecher. You know when he signed the deal, he was like, wait, I don't gotta wear these things, right? So you can always pick them up and the comments are always great they're like nah pass what are those um but they're not that bad you know got the the bandana pattern on them bandana pattern on the sketchers so sketchers their new motto it ain't just your housekeeper's sneakers anymore. It ain't just a 65 year old with plantar fasciitis' sneaker no more.

It ain't in the dollar bin at Filene's no more. And someone says, I love when they pay for the comments, the white ones are so comfortable. Are there shoes like this for women or are they unisex shoes? I'm so interested. Fake account 85 weeks ago. These will do huge in Honduras. I love these shoes. I got two pair in size 14 just yesterday. I'm on the website. This is the dude. I'm on the website to order two more pairs in the size 14. I mean, how fake are these comments? What's real, dude? What is left that's real?

What is left is real besides war footage on TikTok. Are you even sure that's all real? I mean, what's real? What is real? Barry Dillers, marriage isn't real. Snoop Dogg selling sketches. That's not real. What is go, what is real right now? We're at a point right now we might as well just give Elon Musk a city of his own.

And that's what we've done. That's what Texas has given Elon Musk. This is going to be what they call.0. What is that called? Zero point zero. What's the location when it's zero? X marks the spot. Ground zero? It's going to be ground zero. It's going to be ground zero for colonizing Mars. So now SpaceX has its own city, own laws, they may have their own police force and wokeness is not welcome. Everyone there is going to be born as the gender they were assigned, they're going to live that way. In the South Texas home they just signed a deal with Texas where they've made it their own city.

He's got his own Vatican. It's gonna be an official city called Starbase. So we're headed into the future. I wonder what the future is gonna look back at Elon. What's his legacy gonna be? We don't know. There's gonna be movies made about him that it's gonna be one of those mixed bags like they did with the one that Leonardo DiCaprio played the plane guy like had

like panic attacks or autism or some shit so they're gonna they're launched that's where they'll be launching SpaceX rockets. And that's where everyone will be reading Milton Friedman's economic books. No commies allowed. No libs allowed. We're going to be sending astronauts back to the moon in some day to Mars. Has anyone, has he sent to the moon yet? Has anyone been to the moon since we were at the moon?

Maybe the Chinese? Besides Alice from Honeymooners? To the moon. To the moon, Bang Zoom. Very cool. Very cool. Very cool. Um, he's got his own city. He can do it every once. I wonder what happens if you commit a crime there. Oh yeah.

Nobody's been to the moon. It's 1972. Yeah, since 1972. I guess it was like when they came back they were like, eh, just a rock, dude. Since 1972, it's been 50 years, and they weren't American, right? It looks like Apollo 17 mission. Oh. Last two humans to walk on the moon,

Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmidt. Yeah, what did they do up there? Costs a lot of money to just go up there and stand and plant a flag. So I think that's the reason where they're going like, why are we going to just stand on a satellite? Do what? Look at Earth, take a picture and then go home.

Going to the moon is, you know, it's probably like going to the Niagara Falls. You take a pic and then you're like, all right, we did it. It ain't Wally World. There's no rides to get on. You just go there and take a pick. And is that even real? Did we land on the moon?

A lot of people don't think so. A lot of people don't think so, but I will mention Trump once in saying that he said he will not do a third term. Is that real? Is that not? We don't know. He obviously likes to watch people squirm. He said he will not do a third term. Is that real? Is that not? We don't know. He obviously likes to watch people squirm.

He likes to say things one way and get them all, get their panties all in a bunch and then he retracts it. You just don't know what's true, what he's going to do and what's coming out of his mouth. But he says, I will be an eight year president. Well thank you for that. Thank you for following the Constitution. I will be an eight-year president. I like how he makes it his idea. You know, he's like, it's my idea. I will be an eight-year president. And we're all going, that's like when Chris Rock made that joke. I raise my

kids. You're supposed to raise your kids. But we're all, he put us in a position to all be like congratulations, thank you, that you'll only be an eight-year president. He mentioned not only JD Vance but also Marco Rubio when asked about future GOP leaders. So there you go, there won't be a Trump dynasty, he's following the law, all of it was just a prank. The kid knows how big pranks are on the internet. He knows how big it is to just troll and have a good time. And he was just having a good time by saying, I don't know, we'll see, maybe three, you know, he's just playing around.

He's playing around. But at the end of the day, he's going, he's going back to Mar-a-Lago when it's all over. And that will be that. It'll be the end and we'll get four years of JD Vance and everyone will be back in business and everything will be okay. Because it's always okay. It's okay. Did we land in the moon or not? Who cares, it's okay. Rite Aid went out of business, it's okay.

CVS got your back. Walgreens is still there. There's still a few Rite Aids left. Skechers, don't worry. You can't afford Nikes, Skechie got your cup, it's okay. There's a pair of Skechers that's got your feet's name all over it. Warren Buffett, he's retiring,. It's okay. There's a pair of Skechers that's got your feet's name all over it. Okay. Warren Buffett, he's retiring but it's okay. It's okay. He's still going to work for Hathaway,

whatever it's called. Berkshires. The guy's going to continue to work at 94. How do you retire from a job where you don't really labor? Look, what's he gonna do? He's retiring but he's staying on. So he's just, it's title only. I tell you what dude, that guy found his passion and he's not interested in doing anything else. He is gonna continue to trade at 94 years old. So it's okay. It's all okay. And if the world blows up, you can hop on a starship on Starbase for what it would cost you for one plate at the Met Gala. My name is Giannis Papas. This has been your Calm News of the Week. Nate Linder, the proprietor, the CEO of indigolabsagency.com. Indigolabsagency.com, marketing solutions backed by data and proven by impact.

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