What it do, what it do, what it do, it is your boy Andrew
Schultz AKA Mr. Goody 2 Shoes and who am I with?
As always, Joseph Huggins AKA Old Man Huggy.
Talk shit or get off the pod. Episode 208.
You know, in this federal government here I always say
every accusation is a confession and so is this one by ICE.
Ice is a fucking bitch. Welcome motherfuckers.
You don't really wanna fuck with me.
Fuck around and I'm over my You don't really wanna fuck with me
and your bitch. You wanna sell ladder, hit your
lifestyle ass out the window with the special some bad now
only for a minute. I may crash out in Top Nose.
Call me Top Gun like I'm Tom Cruise of Marshmallow.
Eat the whole bed. Then it's out the rich.
I'm so queen. Yeah, I'm out there and I will
feel like Bros with my own stunts and I'm O.
My I I ice is lame. But hey, we over in the Spotify
realm, we get we get away with a little bit more like I know you,
you have the YouTube algorithm cause yo the audience, Joseph
deals with the video content. I deal with the audio content.
Is it much more liberal this the the the Danes or the Swedes?
Whoever Swedes. Is it Spotify Swedish?
Yeah, I mean, and you've got we have way more listeners.
If we had as many as many viewers as we did listeners when
we did it live, it would be totally different ball game.
But it's just like it's fun to record it 'cause we do it this
way. So it's kind of nice to give
people another angle. But yeah, I mean, maybe they're
on your ass about that stuff. For sure they'll be.
They're super strict. I mean, luckily I didn't.
I don't know if I told you the strike that we had for the
streaming of Lethal Weapon 2, I got that taken down.
So you got it taken down. So, so, so it was just, I was
just talking about screenplayers this weekend randomly.
That was a movie podcast Joseph and I briefly had.
It was 'cause I was bringing up how like the Oscars were like
the week before we were supposed to record Episode 1 where Will
Smith slapped Chris Rock. I was telling that, yeah, I was
telling that stories about screen players.
So like. And we got struck midstream,
they like. Shut my shit down.
They were like stream dog and. We didn't even know because we
were just vibing and streaming, but it's even crazier that
episode, the band you Facebook don't give a fuck.
That's what's even crazier is yeah, they never.
It was just like. YouTube.
When but you know, when you're multi multi platform like us,
you have to deal with you have, we have like 8 baby daddies or
you know, or I like to hold Spotify.
They're sugar daddy. Shout out, shout out, baby
daddies. Shout them out.
Never met. Never met one I liked.
Never met one I liked if you listen.
You should like, you should watch the stream because it's
chill. I don't really actually plug it
that much. I we tell them to like, like and
watch and stuff, but it's kind of, you know, we just kind of
vibe it out, which I've always appreciated about the pod is we
don't really edit it or change anything.
We just like sit here and talk, you know, it's like been very
straightforward. But yeah, you got to watch that.
The rhythms, Spotify, you can say a lot more crazy shit and
get away with it. Yeah, you just say it's
explicit, but same thing with no, I guess not on YouTube.
I say it's not. I'd say it's not meant for kids.
Yeah, well, but. But then you could also play it
has. Profanity.
Yeah, 'cause I do then that just.
Means you get less views. That's really what it is.
It's like it's not gonna spit you out in the algorithm on home
pages. That's fine.
Sometimes. Sometimes you have some really
like not gimmicky, but we I get some come up with some good
titles, catchy shit. We're normally pretty topical
like like we could literally change the title to the episode
like 2 minutes before. Like it's normally something
that. 'Cause we got it like that.
Yeah, no, but I mean, because like we do it like, I mean, I,
I'll be working all day and I'll, it'll be like, OK, we're
doing the podcast in like 3 hours and I have to like, come
find these articles Reclaim. So just tell you how much
preparation he really puts in right here. 3 hours.
No. Well, because no, no.
But what I'm it's all of the stories that we do, topics that
we cover, things like that, unless it's some wild jewel
jewel heist that I'm super excited about.
We we it's pretty like we've talked about articles that came
out like an hour before we go alive to where it's like we're
looking for that stuff. And if shit changes today's mark
just political and world climate.
So it's almost good, but we're not like, OK, it's Sunday.
This is what we're going to talk about on Tuesday, because shit
changes like. Well, I know in the in the
beginning of the podcast, whenever, before Joseph got on
board, like the very, very, very beginning with super producer,
it would be at the episodes come out like a week later and I
would never know when they were going to come out.
And I was like, I was like trying.
I was always like pushing for it, you know, like, like, yo,
just release it, just release it.
But like, yeah, like, but it was more finance like focus.
And so it wasn't like current events necessarily.
So it it kind of worked. Yeah.
And I mean we do. I mean, I guess it kind of has
kind of strayed, but all of these things have become such
amalgamation love that word of in the same pot where you almost
can't separate like discussions on education or without talking
about our political climate, without talking about like
special interests and business being involved.
And it's all like, I mean, I think I have two articles today
that are around. What did you have one in there?
You did have one in there. Yeah.
So there's.
Ron is in our top 10 listeners of no, no, no, no, No 70
countries. So it's like, I figured like,
how are we not going to talk about like the fall of the
motherfucking mullahs? No, I know, but I'm just, yeah,
I figured that's something you would just bring up 'cause
sometimes. It's going to, but I just
figured, you know, I, I put it in there as a placeholder, you
know, make sure that we bring it up.
Yeah. We could bring back, we could,
we could rollback screenplayers. We could do it.
I've thought about it and it's like kind of reformatting it.
So we'll talk off air about it, but I've thought about that.
Or we could do it. I I just want to do it because I
think it's the best name I've come up with except for top
shader get off the pod. I am switching platforms, not
that we stream on, but I use a software that like I think I
pitched before where I could stream on all these different
platforms. I know they've limited it and
they want me to pay them more for some reason, even though I
was paying a subscription. So I'm like fuck that.
I can rebuild it, a different layout and stuff like that.
I'm going to do a little bit more cool shit.
So switch it up and in due time. But how have you been?
What's up? What's new?
Shit, I don't know more NDA signed.
No, I mean, no, I just had a had a great weekend.
That's good. Shout out, shout out good
weekends. Yeah.
That's good, man. Yeah, I'm vibing.
It's still kind of warm here, so it's kind of fucking with me.
It's actually, it's hot for like the first time in a long time
here. It's been really, really,
really, really windy and then and then raining.
You know atmospheric river is your favorite out here, dumping
more water than the Mississippi on us.
Yeah, let's. Go.
So I think you've declared this for California like maybe
multiple times or maybe I have that we were out of a drought.
What did I? I don't know, I think one of us
might have said it. I.
Think you might have? I would.
You've said that I would never claim anything for California.
Be like I'm. Better not, but no, officially
officially the first time in like I forget like 20 something
years that we're out the drought.
There's no not a single patch of California that is in like any
like not in the yellow, orange, red, purple a drought.
So shout out. We got the water Trump for the
next buyers. Homie.
We did it. Now we just got to break.
We just got to rake the forest. We got to rake the forest
leaves. We got to rake the leaves
though. Doesn't want, doesn't want it to
come down or something. And so the cell says there's no
water. I don't know.
He's the one who opened the motherfucking reservoir and like
let out like 3 billion gallons. Like didn't he do that?
Like I like, I keep bringing this up.
Nobody. But didn't you get it?
But did you get it all back? No, I mean, you know it, you
know, did you know that? They're having a drought.
Energy is neither neither destroyed nor created, you know
what I'm saying? So the water went somewhere, but
it's not a reservoir dog where we need it.
But now we're good, We're good. You could fill the reservoir
again, could you not? But I mean, well, it depends how
good to see like because what I've I predicted this a couple
years ago. Florida might just disappear
with climate change. California tropical rainforest.
I told you there's going to be winners and losers, dog.
This is going to be kawaii. Now we're going to be kawaii.
Wettest place on earth. I thought that was your mom's
pussy, Joseph. I was kidding.
What the fuck bro that's not cool.
It was just. Sitting there, dude, it was
sitting there fucking. Substitute.
That's fucked up, bro. Yeah, well, that's why when
people are like, oh, Texas, I'm like, no, the if the sea levels
rose, it would take so long for the water to get to like North
Central Texas. It would just be like.
I'd be like what it? Yeah, you have to go.
You have to fill up the valley. The valley, which is like
subterranean and Infinity. Oh, the Gulf's right there.
Gulf of America is right there. No, I think they said Gulf of.
Mexico might have taken a while. Gulf of America, it's gonna get
right there. No, I think I, I can't remember
where I saw it. So you know, statistics are
bullshit, but something that like if the sea levels rose like
a foot or two, let's say there was 2 feet that Austin would
basically be beachfront property.
All of South Texas would, but it would all fill in like all that
area is just like lowlands flat bullshit.
It looks like the bottom of an old.
Ocean actually. Well, The thing is it's like if
it's rising 2 feet, it's because like the glaciers are melting,
right? And then it's like, well, and
then the glaciers, the ones that reflect the fucking sun.
So then it just like kind of snowballs, no pun intended.
And then so I think it goes 2 feet, it goes four.
And then you're in Dallas. Then Dallas is knocking at your
door, Doc. Everybody's going to be in
Antarctica, dog. Everybody's wet.
That's why we get. That's why we need Greenland.
Pangea, where you at unite? I don't know.
I don't know if these motherfuckers still buy like
paying $25 million for like Malibu beachfront property.
It's like dude. Yeah, What are you doing?
That's how you're just like, I have so much money that I I want
to spend it all before I die. Yeah, you better be old.
Yeah, better be old. And then you don't give a shit
about climate change anyways. Yeah, you never did.
That's you're like, I won't be here to see it.
Yeah, these Gen. Xers and their haircuts.
Yeah. Blacks are moving into my
neighborhood. You're like, oh Jesus, grandpa,
what the fuck? This is wild.
Like, I'm just saying they never gave a fuck about climate
change. I you know, I got my beef with
the boomers and with somewhat the greatest generation and how
they've stopped. They read, they thought they
reached the finish line of being like inclusive and protecting
people's rights. And they actually weren't even
like halfway done with the race. And that's like the right now
they don't care. They're like, they want to
fucking meddle for, you know, I don't know, 'cause they're the
same people that you're realizing that there's more
people were against the civil rights movement movement than I
thought or I was led to believe when I was growing up.
Boom. That's like the like was when
you think about it, when they teach you about it growing up,
it's like everybody versus the system.
But they they talk about like dissidents.
I know, I know you mean, I know you mean, but like what I'm what
I wonder is how's it taught now? Exactly, 'cause then I was like,
oh, everybody was. Like this is something else.
I wonder is like all these people on TV who are like
they're teaching what they're teaching in our schools, how the
fuck do they know what the fuck people are teaching in schools?
Are these people like where do you get this?
How do you get this information other than your kids homework?
You know, it's like, are you going into these schools or is
this just something we people say?
It's like, oh, the shit they're teaching them now.
Like Bill Maher will say that. And it's like Bill Maher, when's
the last time you've been in a school, homie?
I mean, I like Bill Maher, but you know what I'm saying?
It's. Like, dude, yeah.
But Bill Maher's also becoming like I got.
I appreciate him speaking his mind, but he says some pretty
outdated shit sometimes. That's fine.
No, no, but. You know but but but.
That's my point. My point is, Brett, when's the
last time you've been in a school like you?
This is like what it's like. You're, what you're saying is
what you've heard, you know, from someone else, from someone
else who, you know, it's like, well, who's The Who is the
original source of this information of what they're
teaching in schools? Because it's not Bill Maher and
it's not me, 'cause we don't have kids, you know?
But no, no, no, so, so. But yeah, I just want to see
what do you think about it? They're led to believe it's
portrayed, or at least to us when we were younger, it was
portrayed like it was like everybody versus the system.
And the way they would talk about people who were anti, they
made they made them seem like it was less.
There was less people that it actually looked like.
Does that kind of make sense? Like, I mean, while they do put
like large crowds and I was aware of how big it was, some of
the way it's presented, like they would, it wasn't presented,
I'm assuming the same way it is now 'cause now they're like, oh,
on the news, like MLK released all of his nudes or whatever the
fuck. Like they're releasing the MLK
files, like all the FBI wiretaps and stuff.
It's like like to smear some. Anyways, I digress to.
Smear him. Yeah, now like that's the reason
why they're like and now it's not a if getting to the park
free day, you can't on MLMLK day go to a but.
You can't. But you can't on Trump.
'S birthday. Trump's birthday?
Get out of here, clown shoes. That's down.
Black dude can't even get you in the park.
For free. You just had an MLK parade out
here today. It's like his birthday pretty
coming up pretty soon 'cause it's.
Yeah, right. Yeah.
Everybody know. Everybody knows MLK loves the
park. That's not cool, man.
The national parks is what we're talking about.
Yeah, I know. I just made that up.
But you know. I think it's just because it's a
national holiday. I don't think it had.
They weren't like specifically MLK there.
Trump's just like, specifically taking that one off the table
for some, yeah. That's what I'm.
Saying he couldn't just add his birthday he had, you know,
because he had to keep it fair and balanced.
Who was the other person? There's someone else too.
There's another black person. No, it was Juneteenth.
Yeah, Juneteenth, which is like. Which I thought he was the
president when that became. A you make made it a federal.
Holiday So what does he just isn't just like the like where
he he got rid of NAFTA, the North American Free Trade
Agreement and he got and he got made at the USMCA, the US Mexico
Canada agreement and then he's like he's like this is the best
agreement. There we go, and we're back.
Can. You hear me now?
Yes. OK, sorry, I, I bumped bump,
bumped my shit. Nobody's ever seen an agreement
like this. US, Mexico, Canada agreement.
And then and then he gets back in office and he's like, no
tariffs, tariffs till we get a better agreement.
It's like, dude, you made the agreement that you said was the
best agreement ever and that that's the one that you're you
know, it's like people don't call him on his own bullshit.
It's like, dude, you're the it's your agreement.
Just like the Afghan pull out was his fucking agreement.
But I didn't just did it. That was his plan and his.
Yeah, his fucking plan. He just couldn't get it done.
So by the night he'd do it for him.
And he's the worst fucking thing ever.
Think he was you? You wanted the Taliban campaign?
Buy this car. It's my favorite car.
I love this car. As he drives away.
Look at that dude in that shitty car.
You're like, that is your car or your.
No, not even buy it. Just you want to borrow my car?
Look at that shitty car. Yeah, isn't that yours?
Nah, he's driving it. I would drive it way cooler.
All right, You want to go to therapy Questions.
Yeah, but did you you, you saw Jesse Ventura, I'm assuming,
assuming. I I sent you the video.
No, I know. I I thought as well.
I thought like 10 other places. He looks insane.
I thought he looked sharp. I like like.
I came away from it like, like because you and I care about
Jesse Ventura. I came away I.
Love. Yeah, yeah, Jesse Ventura.
Yeah, in front of the pod. Best friend of the pod besides
George Santos. Yeah, Jorge, Jorge, truth me
dawg. Get out of buy.
Buy Christ coin. Buy Christ coin.
Yeah. How?
Much would we have to pay him on Cameo to do A to pump Christ
coin to pump Christ coin? How have we not thought about
that? I just did telling you I'm
firing on all cylinders right now and that's a really good
idea. Like what would that cost?
Like multiple celebrities like that to do price coin
commercials. Conservative because they're
they're like, you know, really go into that and like the
manosphere pay like Myron Gaines of fresh and fit.
Oh my God. Idiot to do a plug for?
Come on guys, make sure. You get collection, I wait to
rug pull you OK? Alpha coin.
I'm sure that already exists. Some some meatheads.
Looking like it doesn't even matter.
I have 4 million. I got 4 million coins.
Come on, we're good. What's the what's the what's the
value of Christ coin right now? Don't.
Worry about it. That's why we need you, Santos.
It's like doge. Think about it like doge.
Like I got into doge when it was point in the IT was 0 point and
then five more zeros before any number came besides the zero to
a that of a penny when I bought it and we killed it killed it.
Yeah, we wrote it. Yeah, No, yeah.
No, not those Sheba. I'm thinking sheba that.
Was the five zeros. That was the five.
I did those too, but like that was not 5 zeros 'cause then that
would be like we'd be like billionaires 'cause that was
like that got up to like $0.30. I don't know what Sheba
eventually got into. It got up to 79.
Cents or $0.80 at. Its peak when I I think when I
sold mine, but I bought mine for a fraction of a penny.
OK, you ready 4 What do you think about this cover art
that's in here in the nuts? That's good.
See and boom boom, great instant.
Instant y'all. Y'all will see the cover art.
Like these mashed taters where you mix them up instant OK shit.
There be there be question #1 would you rather have a cloud
pillow or a weighted A weighted blanket that whispers
encouragement? Weighted blanket, cloud pillow.
Sounds chill but I I I love blankets.
I'm not going to lie, blankets are the shit.
But I've probably got honestly 10 or 12 and my grandma's made
about most of them. Like fleece ones.
My grandma's got skills but blankets for life bro.
My grandma makes better blankets on them.
Debatable. No.
Not my grandma's. Got some skills bro.
My. Grandma.
That's fine. That's fine, dude.
Don't. Don't say that.
She's from a Philly dog. But she she kept chilling, bro.
She might she might get shanked with a with a crochet needle.
That's not, that's not cool, dude.
Carol's just vibing. I mean I only have like a little
blanket that's right from when I was like 6 maybe and I still
have it. She would make like big knit
blankets, like awesome ones. So she made me one that's Kelly
green one time. Like she's still vibing too.
Birthday's coming up shall. I, my grandma chain smoked,
power smoked really with Walt Disney, you know, and she died a
long time ago. I think I thought she was 80,
but I think she was like 42. Damn, I'm just kidding.
Well, 'cause you know what my with the job my grandpa had, my
grandma's got wild pictures, 'cause you know, I said she, she
went to like, Nancy Reagan's birthday party at the White
House, 'cause my grandpa was a beat writer for the AP back in
the day. But fake.
News AP Fake news It's called Gulf of America.
Oh, sorry, Gulf of America. Get the fuck out of the White
House if you can't say it. Damn.
That's that's what happened to them.
Stephen Miller. I just saw some clip of some
guy, he was Stephen Miller's poli sci professor at Duke in
2003. And he said that he asked
Stephen Miller what he wanted to do when he got older.
And he said he wanted to be #2 in the White House.
And he said when you want to do that by.
And he said within the next 15 years.
And then he said who like for what president?
And he goes, I don't know, maybe Donald Trump 2003.
This dude bro, this dude must be stopped.
Creepy. Yeah.
Cloud Pillow. 'S Nacho, Isn't it just water?
Yeah, that's what I was going to say.
Like so if it's like. Cloud.
Pillow, unless it's like an. Actually.
Like fluffy, it's like a cartoonish style cloud that
would be comfortable, you know, like because it's a cloud
pillow. So maybe it's like a cloud from
like Aladdin or some shit. You like sleep on it.
It could be soft, but I'd much rather have a a weighted blanket
'cause those are nice and they're expensive.
Whether it talks to you or not. And it's whispering
encouragement. It's like I'm my best dreams
ever. I'm gonna wake up rested, take a
little power nap to be like a power encouragement nap.
Damn, had a bad day and it'd be like yeah slow down man, check
in. What kind of accent does your
weighted blanket have? I.
Don't know, I think I'd rather just not be a dude based off of
just like I'm snuggling with the blanket, right?
I mean, it could be, but I'd probably rather it not.
I don't know, probably some goofy like a wild accent though.
Something cool, nothing aggressive.
So no like German, anything like that.
That'd be a little too tough. It'd have to be English, but it
could have an accent. Like New Zealand.
That'd be tight. That would be good there and
there are some of the nicest people in the world.
So you have a New Zealand encouragement?
You have the Prime Minister of New Zealand that that woman just
talking to you. Would you like a cloud pillow, a
weighted blanket, or a human pillow?
A. Human.
Pillow. Yeah, that whispers
encouragement that looks like the Prime Minister of.
If it's with the same person that we're talking about, she's
pretty cute. No, that'll be a good accent.
Yeah. Or be if it was like, yeah,
that, that'd be. And there are the nicest people,
allegedly some of the nicest people I have.
A. Is that like a?
Is that in the rankings? Yeah, they're ranked.
Some of the nicest people live in New Zealand.
They've been at like the top of that for a long time.
One of my buddies, Bo, shout out, Bo used to wait tables with
him way back in the day. He last year got his New Zealand
citizenship. He's lived there.
He like moved there. He like got a job.
Yeah. So no, no different.
I used to wait tables with an Austin he like went over there
got a bar gig for like a summer and just chose to stay.
Married some chick, has a kid whole life family and he got a
citizenship like. That makes sense to me.
I feel like if I went to London, Australia, New Zealand for like
an extended period of time, I probably wouldn't come back
because I probably just need some hot chick, you know?
It's like then I'm like what am I going to do, leave this hot
Australian chick so I can go yell at ice in the streets?
No therapy question #2. Heard it here first.
Would you rather sweat minty freshness or smell like baked
bread? See, that's tough.
That's tougher than you think. Because sweat, minty freshness.
That means when you're like, out there vibing, you get sweaty.
You're gonna smell good, you're gonna smell minty.
Not everybody likes mint, but that's not a bad thing.
That means that your stinkiest. Moment tea tree smell.
At your stinkiest moment you're gonna smell the best, but that
means when you're just room temp and chilling, you're gonna smell
like whatever you smell like. So you could still smell like
shit, it just depends on if you're sweating or not.
Dude, we need to get a deodorant ad right now.
Right now. Start paying your boys at your
stinkiest moment. You're smelling your best.
That's. Pretty good, dude.
I mean, come on. Get us in a fucking writer's
room already. But yeah, it's your stinkiest.
You'll smell your best, but other times you're going to
smell however you smell, and it's not necessarily going to
be. You can smell shitty and get Bo
and not be sweating your ass off.
You could get overconfident in the minty freshness.
I don't need to shower. OK, maybe if I'm just.
If I'm smelling shitty then I'll go run your boys now mini fresh.
Yes, but that that does a substitute for bathing.
You can't just not. No, I agree, but why would who's
not bathing in this scenario? I'm saying you could get.
I don't. Know if I want mint minty sweat
all over me all the time? Exactly what I'm saying is you
could get overconfident in the minty freshness that you produce
and then therefore be lacking in the rest of your game and next
thing you know you smell stinky and you're like Nah bro, I sweat
minty freshness and they're like yeah right dude, you smell like
ass. No, man, I I see I this is what
I I would. Every time we tell you to take a
shower, you go run around the block and come back.
Is it? What?
Isn't it easier just to take a shower?
You could. I'm not.
I'm not saying you might. Some people might.
Some people might, some people might not.
OK, well then think about what you're getting your fuck on.
You start sweating. You know now.
It's like, you know, some people would use, you know, some
superheroes use their super strength to do shit.
Some of them are in like weird sideshows or become bad guys.
You could use the minty freshness.
It could work against you is all I'm saying.
Now baked bread. Everybody loves baked bread and
that'll be weird because you would have a good smell.
No, the smell of fresh break baked bread is awesome.
No shit, I'm just trying to think.
I'm trying to think. I do love walking into a subway.
I used to not Well, the subway are baking the bread.
Subways got their own, they have their own distinct smell, but
just regular just baked bread, not bad.
No one's going to be say that you smell stinky.
You're going to have a unique smell all the time.
Car's always going to smell good.
And then that would that would stay with you forever.
So whether you were sweating now.
Well, think about when you are sweating, heating up with the
baked bread now again. Smelling sourdough?
Always going back to delicious. When you're having sex smelling
like baked bread. No one would be able to finger
point what it is 'cause they won't know they'll be like what
does that smell? It's you'll be familiar,
comforting. Finger pointed, She.
We're having sex. It's me.
I'm on. I'm on top of her.
I smell like fresh fresh baked bread on a Friday afternoon, bro
let's go. But your boy over here smells.
Banana nut we banana nut. You smell a big banana.
Are you are you modulating which breads that you smell like?
In this In this idea in my head, the breads will switch up every
day a different bread smells like bread.
According to what? According to what?
Pumpkin spice bread. You just shit, you turn that on
for the holiday. Oh, I'm turning on my pumpkin
spice bread. Pumper nickel.
Is that a? Is that a bread?
Yeah, maybe. If not, it should be.
It is now smell like poppy, you know what I'm saying?
Poppy seed. Call me poppy.
I have a poppy seed bread baby. Fail a drug test right now.
Reek of poppy seeds, but no. I'm going minty fresh.
Minty fresh is good but I'm saying baked bread low key could
be great. OK, this is the thing.
There's Mint, a scented body washes and shit.
There's no baked bread body wash.
So I feel like, I feel like our overlords, I feel like our Old
Spice overlords already decided this for us, dude.
No. Or we're opening up a whole new
air and they say, you know, it's going to be Cinnabon, Old Spice.
Boom, that's a baked bread. Somebody did smell like cinnamon
rolls. Somebody did smell like cinnamon
rolls. Yeah, somebody told me to to do
something like where you make your like, Cologne smell like
baked goods. I'm just saying so me and this
super vibe because I get it. And is there something
comforting homey about? No, it's like, it's like a
trick, man. And people wouldn't be able to,
no, people wouldn't be able to figure it out.
They'd be like, what does that smell?
Smell so good? And you could almost claim that
it's not. You'd be like, what are you
talking about 'cause you're not putting.
Anything like it smells like you've been at the airport.
Bro spending $20 on a fucking cinnamon roll is what?
It smells like I just smell like baked bread bro That's it.
I just don't know why. Yo-yo this is aint COVID.
Put your sourdough back in the you have.
A unique scent. People would dig it.
They'd be like, I fell in love with this dude and he smells
like bread, bro. And her girl's like, why?
You guys are like, yeah, he smelled like bread.
It's delicious. Therapy question #3.
Smell like marble rye. Like a marble rye bread.
Smell like pound cake dude. The therapy question #3 what's
up? Would you rather sneeze confetti
poppers connect sneeze confetti poppers.
Excuse me, or hiccup party horns.
Somebody, somebody asked me, I, I, I did send these nuts out
ahead of time. Somebody asked to, to the
streets and somebody asked me, what has hiccup party horns?
But I'm not like when you hiccup, it's like a party horn.
Like it sounds like a party horn or.
A. Party Horn comes out.
Comes out like, you know the party horn is like where it
rolls. Then I'd hiccup the party horn.
Just cover your mouth and you hiccup and then no one will see
it. I'm sneezing confetti, bro.
You're going to get like a in ground party horn bro like if
you keep blocking it. Like cut it off, catch it, cut
it. Off.
But is he in a bleeding flesh? Is it a flesh, limb, body, horn?
I would say. That's grotesque.
I would say. I would say.
You're a sick fuck if that's. I just feel like I sneezed.
I'm like no bro, get out of here, that's some horror movie
shit. Season confetti sound season
confetti sounds terrible and. Painful poppers, bro.
Yeah, that would hurt the impact.
Those are intense. They say do not cover with your
hand. There's warning.
Labels. You're not sticking your nose.
Yeah. It's warning labels.
Or you also you also sneeze way more than you hiccup.
Or at least for me, I don't know.
I don't really do much. This person, this person, I, I
just thought about this. I didn't think about it before.
This person told me that they hiccup twice a day.
That's weird. Back-to-back hiccups.
Suspicious once, once, once a once in the day. 2 hiccups every
day. That sounds like some reptilian
shit dude. You don't trust it.
Nah every day. Every day of my life I've hiccup
twice. That's a error code.
Like what's wrong? If this is the matrix, you're
not fitting in Like you're proof because this bitch be hiccuping
twice a day. This bitch.
I don't know she. Was person who said she was she.
I'm just assuming and no denial. So this female keeps hiccuping
twice a day every day. I've been ever since my whole
life. That's just, I don't know, it's.
Suspicious, forgot about that. So I just ran out.
It hit me. I'm like.
That's suspicious. What?
You hiccup twice a day? Every day.
Do you know what time? Yeah.
Once in the morning, once in the evening.
Yeah. Specific.
Can we? Get they're back-to-back.
The hiccups are back-to-back. So she has four hiccups.
No, no, no. No, she does a, she does a
double tap. That's two.
Yeah, that's the. Two, she does that twice, or she
just does that just once. I clarified all of this.
Yeah, and it's not a set time. So it's just random, it's just a
arbit, it's a unlim, it's just like on its own clock, OK.
Quantum shit. Is there anything that make that
they're consistently doing in that time, like hitting a vape
or drinking water or? I would like to say that the no,
there is no cause for like known causation.
Suspicious. OK.
I'll investigate more. Yeah.
I'll I'll follow up on this. Yeah, I I'm not trying to be
disrespectful. We've been wanting to get it.
We've been wanting to get it to, to first source reporting on
this on this podcast. So here we go.
Yeah, I'll, I'll go back to the streets and I'll find out.
What do you think about someone with hiccups once a day?
Every day and then ask the person.
On a timeline of they remember doing it their whole life.
I didn't. I don't know if it's hot.
See, that's how long. That's the thing.
I need to find out when this started.
I remember seeing those videos of people on the news.
They've like, they have the hiccups for like 6 or 7 years.
No, fuck me up. Is this the time?
I get it? Am I going to be that kid?
And then if I had a hiccup like all day, I'd be like, but shit,
I get to be on TV. Everybody's going to be like,
damn, who's this poor kid got hiccups?
I remember being at my and uncles inside the at their
kitchen and they had the TV inside the like where the
kitchen was and like and like a news thing of that some dude
who've been like hiccuping for like 10 years.
I'm like, and I just being like horrified by that.
Like Deborah Norville and Inside Edition, she was like, this
band's had the hiccups for eight years, so they'd be interviewing
like that's like, bro, this is fucking me up.
So if I got the hiccups it would freak me out.
Yeah. Just as much as the abduction
episode of Signings fucked me up.
Sightings, the alien TV show where they would like do
reenactments. Like that show used to mess me
up as a kid because I was like oh shit, you know what I've.
Told you about you know what I've told you about trauma
dumping on the podcast just. That's not a trauma dump.
What's even crazier is I bring that up 'cause there I saw a
Vice article. I need to find it.
I'll send it to you talking about that episode.
And it was someone talking about how that show, like, terrified
them when they were a kid. And I was like, exactly.
And they showed pictures of what it was like.
That's horrifying, 'cause I was, I thought it was real, 'cause
then, you know, it's like Unsolved mysteries that used to
creep me out. It was good.
Well, I know I never fucked with that.
Like I knew that that should creep me out a version.
I don't watch horror films. I'm I'm starting to think like
maybe I might enjoy some of these horror films, but I still
haven't dipped my toe in. I don't watch Unsolved
mysteries. I don't watch 48 hour.
I watch first 48, not 48 hours. Whatever that show is Dateline.
I don't do the true crime shit except for like, you know,
Brandon Nasty or whatever the fuck.
That, yeah, but Dateline, Dateline's like kind of kind of
weak sauce. First 48's good with the old
school. The first, the old school
Unsolved Mysteries was creepy. And half of it's, you know, the
host walking around in like a Brit, a wet alley that's like a
shiny floor with brick and pillars.
He's in a trench coat. And he's like tonight.
And you know, that was, that would fuck you up.
And then America's Most Wanted would get you riled up because
he'd be like, hey, we're going to catch this motherfucker.
He would come in like super hot. And what people don't realize is
the guy who was the host of of America's Most Wanted, his son
was actually murdered. Who doesn't realize that?
I feel like he tells, he tells everybody that he will fucking
listen about it. I think he fucking kidnapped the
motherfucking son and murdered him.
No, I think they can. They can't watch.
No, I I think I can't remember it's either.
I don't think it was John Wayne. It it might be either Gacy or
Dahmer. They tried to they can't, they
can't like 100% connect it, but they like, Oh, it's.
One of the famous ones. Who's one of the original?
Like kids on a milk milk carton. I'm just trying.
Yeah, dude, see this guy? And then he got a show.
No dude, he did it. Jesus, his whole career is a
fraud. Yeah, he's like, yo, I got a
fucking idea for a show. Milk cartoons, milk cartoon
sales. I bet he fucking, I bet he I bet
he like went long on on on milk and then.
What's what's more believable the the dog Dog the bounty
hunter is a is an actual reformed convict or in the sense
that like he doesn't like do drugs or anything crazy or
America's Most Wanted guy is did not murder his son are.
You trying to say that the dog's not clean and sober?
Maybe. No, I don't know.
But Beth out of the picture, he's got a New Girl.
What happened to Beth? Did she die?
I. Think she passed away all?
Right, Pete, Beth. She was well, there's a channel
that plays nothing but Dog the Bounty Hunter 24/7.
It's just like I've watched an episode or two before and I'm
just like, how was this so big? Like, this was so big, Like, the
surface scraping, the level reality TV when it was really
revving up was so simple, like, so stupid.
And that was huge. It was just like, yeah, look at
this tweaker. He was hiding in a dumpster.
I I pointed my paintball gun at him.
Get out. Like, they're not even using
real guns. And then Bess just walking
around with crazy nails and weird gloves and her boobs
everywhere. And she's just like, I'm going
to give you a cigarette, but, you know, then you got to tell
me where she's at because we're looking for her.
And it's just. Like I mean her boobs were the
original Everything Everywhere all at once to like I mean.
Yeah, omnipresent Wizard of Oz. I'm Air.
Except for real. Yeah, he was really just buying
the curtain. Yeah, but I mean.
He was everywhere. He had a microphone, dude.
Oh. God.
On Oz 1 mic on Oz Wizard of Oz. Why hasn't he done that?
Why? Hasn't he done that?
He get sued. No.
Yeah, it'd become like Michael Jackson bought the rights.
To the Wizard of Oz. For the for the Wiz, he like
bought all the rights to the Wizard of Oz whenever he did the
Wiz. Can't let you do that.
Some bullshit. I'd love to let you, but you
can't. Didn't The Beatles buy that
shit? Or did he buy The Beatles?
He bought all their shit. He was like and then I think he
sold it though what is broke at for some propofol like a
crackhead Jesus. Biotherapy question.
And actually, he did say Michael Jackson actually let not sample
one of his beats, but he told him he wasn't allowed to cuss on
it. For the kids, and we know
Michael loves the kids, you know.
Good to see Macaulay back at the Golden Clubs.
Therapy question #4 Would you rather be the person who gets it
or the person who gets away with it?
See, I feel like everybody, a lot of people would be inclined
to say like, oh, gets away with it.
I'd rather be the person that gets it.
I'd rather understand like whether it be a task, something
I'm trying to do, something I'm trying to accomplish and how to
get to that point. I'd rather understand that than
getting away with it. You in that phrase, it's almost
like what are you going to how's that going to benefit you in the
long run right. So it's like I'd rather get it
and be like, oh, like, you know, it's like people who, if
somebody were to sit there and get like super hammered and
black out get or driving it, you know, get in a bunch of trouble
or something like that, or somebody who's like moving met
large amounts of meth. I if you just keep getting away
with it, like how how much is that going to benefit you with
you getting? It would be like that's probably
not the best thing to do, like right, it'd be understanding.
There's a self-awareness to I get it and an accomplishment.
There's not a negative way you could like really put that in as
or get get away with. It just means you're skirping
by. Doesn't really matter.
Like I speed all the time and I'm super dangerous but I get
away with it. Like in what sense?
Take it or you don't crash 'cause if you're not getting
tickets and no one ever catches you, you're going to crash at
some point. That's not bad if.
You're still getting away with it.
You're getting away with it. I don't know.
I got away with, like I, I, I got into the really crazy
situations when we were kids that I got and I got somehow out
of it. You know, they had a cop like
when we were at the kind of house party.
I got run. I I started running.
They came to the backyard. I was in the backyard.
I hopped the fence. There was a couple in those at
the fence. I was running.
He caught me, arrested me, put me in the back of the car, got
everybody at the house lined everybody up in the curbs, Call
people's parents, gets mad at the car, breathalyzes me.
Somehow I pass it and somebody else's parents are there and I
just get ride home with them. I just go to my parents and just
walk in. My parents have no idea any of
it happened. Just just go right to my room.
Shit like that. Yeah.
I mean, there's times where I got there that.
That was amazing. That was amazing.
One of the greatest getaways is this was I guess spring break
senior year. You'll remember this because you
had a we, we both had crazy. There's a lot of people with
crazy escapes and you had a crazy escape.
We were partying at that cross country kid Nick's house and his
parents had been out of town for like a week and a half and it
was like the last Saturday before we would all have to go
back to school. My mom was out of town, so I had
people over a couple times, but then she I was like, no, I
cleaned the house. So we went, you were there.
You were there with Matty B and. I got I you want to hear
something funny, I'll let you keep going.
But I got back from Hawaii that day, so I I was at the airport
that day and. So, so I I'd had people over
parties at the house, had gotten away with it.
Scott free was good to go was and I was like, Nope, the house
is clean. No one's coming over.
They get back tomorrow. It's going to be perfect.
And I didn't get away with that. I'll tell you why.
But we're at that house party and I remember vividly when I
get there, someone's walking around with the flashlight
flashing people like they're pretending to be a cop.
Well, I remember I'm sitting inside.
I think you were in the guest room with Matty BI think you
were you were you were doing, you were on another side of the
house. But basically cops busted,
everybody runs upstairs, which is the stupidest shit ever.
I in these like white air forces, I run down this back
hallway. So I'm sitting in this chair.
They bust in. I just get up and bolt and I go
out the backyard. But I run down this hallway and
it's like a there's no windows and there's a window on the
door, but it's got blinds. So I just like and there's a
bunch of commotion. It sounds like outside.
I bust out this Outback door full speed.
I say someone get tackled by a cop over here.
Everyone's running around and swirling.
There's girls screaming and Nick had like 8 foot fence.
His fence was really fucking tall.
He had a huge. You love a good fence.
Because it was at the his his fence backed up to White's
Chapel where like Bob Jones and like, wait, it's kind of for the
listeners. It's like an old road that was
like really nice big neighborhood, but it's still
farm field. So on some of those roads, and
he's really affluent neighborhoods, they put up these
like fucking fortress Rotunda walls that block off the
neighborhoods. So someone veered off the
Country Rd. They wouldn't crash into your
backyard. So he had this huge fence and I
just sprung 1 jump, was running full speed and just and dropped
my fucking shoe. My shoe falls off.
I'm sitting there with one shoe. It's pitch black.
I know it's like cow shit fields over here in like a ditch.
So I jump down, put my shoe on, jump back up and hop the fence
and just start running. Run across the street.
There's other people kind of running and I run.
I hit this patch of mud and slide about four or five feet
and run into a barbed wire fence and catch my hands and to slice
my hands open and I eat shit covered mud.
And there's a cop that's coming down the road the back part and
we're I'm laying down. There's I'm going to use short
names. Oh, it doesn't matter.
But well, Crenshaw's down over there and then Cameron White's
over here. There's like soccer kids.
There's like all these randos. We all wait it out.
Then we hide out there. I make somebody come pick us up.
Somebody comes and picks us up and we leave.
You were. From what I understood, you went
out a window to. Escape Me and Matt casually
walked out the garage, open the garage door, walked out.
People are like running everywhere.
Cops are like running after people and like already in the
neighbor's front yard. And my dad let me take his
Beamer, OK. And me and Matt walked in, got
in the Beamer, I went in reverse, all because the street
was just packed with cars, because people were there for
the party. Just went in reverse slowly all
the way down the street and left.
We just acted like we weren't a part of the party, even though
we were just like clearly walking out of the house and
kids. But like, it's like, that's why
I quickly realized, like, everybody's running, so they're
going to know that you're like a part of it, right?
So I was like, if I just don't do anything, like the cops
aren't even looking at me. Brucey and I was just like, if I
clear this fence, I get out of here, they're not going to hop
it. And yeah, there was so much
commotion that because because I remember sitting down in Weitzel
comes running in with the flashlight.
He was flashing people with, he said cops, cops.
The cops got in because they didn't close the front door.
The front door was like wide open.
So I watched him come in. They like pushed it.
I, I, it was so relieved getting away there because like I had to
convince my dad, like let me take the beamer and like, it was
such a big deal and like, I just got there and I'm like, are you
fucking kidding me? Like and but then like I got
away and I was like, damn I. Think they passed out like 32 or
like 40 MI CS or MI. Minor in consumption.
Or minor in possession of alcohol.
I think they passed out somewhere near like 40.
Yeah, something like that. Because they everybody went
upstairs. They caught somebody hiding in
the attic like hours later, like hiding in the insulation.
They how do you even keep up with that?
I would just be like I already got mine guys, thanks.
Oh, but they have nothing better to do that like this is it?
I know, but like at some point you can just get lost in the
sauce. And I've been partying there
like a couple times that week or the week previous.
I think I robo tripped there. Yeah, that was like one of the
wildest. That was that was a great escape
because it was there's it was pandemonium.
There's at least 100 and something people there, at least
in the front, inside, upstairs. And it was like, like I said,
cheerleaders, football, track, cross country, soccer.
It was that we were all basically wrapping up school.
So it was just everybody. Partying up summer, right?
No, no, it was a end of spring break going in.
So it was the end of it was the last Saturday before we because
like we were all off the next day and then we had school.
So it was like people got popped that last day before.
But his parents were gone that whole week.
Good times. Good times would do you need
your break I'm. Good man vibes.
You need a break. Do you?
I'm fine. Do you need a break?
OK, we'll be back. He's got to go.
And we are back with the articles.
All right, article time. This is from MPRKERA, brought to
you by viewers like you. FTC accuses AI search engine of
rampant consumer deception, stealing our money.
Search engine powered by artificial intelligence known as
Pearl, promotes itself as a distinctive service and offers
up answers generated by large language models.
Then a human gets involved for follow up questions and fact
checking. There is one problem, according
to the lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission on 2.
This is actually back from this from the 13th.
So it's a couple days. No, it's today.
I'm sorry my days are all scrambled man.
I'm working too much. Yeah.
That the IT was filed on Tuesday.
The company's offers offerings are alleging A Poly to lock
customer employ to lock customers in reoccurring
charges. They don't want the scheme that
ensnares hundreds of thousands of people that federal
regulators are calling rampant consumer deception.
Is this shocking to you? Like I'll read more, but I'm not
shocked no how the federal investigators say it worked.
So when browsing the web, clicks on an ad related to their online
search and arrives at one of a one of a host of landing pages
the company operates. Some of the domains include
justanswer.com, Ask womenshealth.com,
askalawyer.com, pearl.com and hundreds of others.
Then, an assistant chatbot known as Pearl ask further questions
about the search before sending the user a form to join the
company's question and answer service for either a dollar or
five dollars. Once credit card information is
handed over, the company starts milking consumers, according to
the federal complaint. Just Answers charges consumers
both the one and the five to join and specifically higher
monthly subscription for you immediately at sign up.
Damn, that sucks. According to the suit, the
federal leaders regulators say which began in 2022, so they've
been investigating these guys for a while.
The unwanted monthly fees, which can be as high as 79 to $80
dollars, continue regularly until the month or every month
until the consumer cancels something that is revealed in
the fine print above the large orange button that says confirm
now. I mean that's not that shocking
to use an AI bot to scam people out of 80 bucks every month.
Those are some gay used to it. Yeah, but like, just answer
justaskalawyer.com. That's sketchy as fuck, dude.
Like, have you used that? No, that's just like a wild,
like angle to take. Like, I'm going to pretend to be
a lawyer and RIP you off. I'm going to pretend to care
about Women's Health. I'm going to.
I'm just going to do you just want answers.
Taking your money bro. Yeah, I mean, that's, that's,
that's like what the Russians would do.
Like on like just disinformation, like the people
who were like mostly responsible for this like petition to for
California to, to, to secede from the nation was it was like
a Russian bot farm. But then they were like, but
then also so was Texas, you know, And so it's like they
didn't give a shit like what side it was.
They're just like, like moms, like Californians, Texans, just
like just get everybody to get in the United States.
Route the fuck up. Yeah, Where is it?
Yeah, a federal investigator said.
This profit stumps hundreds of thousands of has duped hundreds
of thousands of customers, which the suit says led to a flood of
complaints describing the company's scammy behavior.
The company's CEO Andy Kurtzig I was aware of consume was aware
of the consumer deception and refused to make any changes,
according to the suit. In a statement of Just Answer,
spokesman said he was disappointed with the lawsuit
after having engaged with the FTC for nearly three years.
We clearly published our pricing and model upfront and make
cancelling simple and convenient through multiple channels,
including a 24/7 toll free. The number live chat e-mail with
one click on the website. No, they're all they have 7 just
answer a 700 employees and has raised around 50 million
someone's. I mean, that's this is like, I
don't know, we've like a magazine subscription like, you
know, and they'd be like, oh, sign up for this magazine
subscription and you know the first one, you know, you get
pick 10 magazines you want and then someone would sign up.
Next thing you know, you're getting charged like a shit ton
for all these National Geographics.
Everybody's parents got scammed in that shit or you bought like
encyclopedia but. Weren't we the one selling the
motherfucking magazines? Maybe he could have been like,
but that that. 'D be.
I definitely sold magazines that would.
Be for the school that was for the school that was different.
They they had us like selling shit for them, like what is
happening and. They'd be like, if you sell
enough shit I'll give you a pizza party bitch.
No, ours are crazy like getting like a fucking cash machine.
Oh yeah. Yeah dude, I just saw somebody
video and they took their shirt in a cash machine and just went
like. Just pulled your microphone out.
Nope. Well, kind of.
And we're back. So you were saying that somebody
with a shirt at a change machine just dumped with his dump?
Machine, it was like, it's like when you're in the booth and
they do like the cash. Oh, they spin it.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, like the IT goes in
the air. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And you can like collect it or. So like he put his shirt out and
and the music goes goes up and then he closes it so it goes up
into his shirt. Not like he's catching it with
his shirt, you know, It goes like.
Yeah, I saw that video and he got hit.
Genius. Lick it's yeah, it took it took
how many years like I I used to, but I'd never gotten the cash
machine. But I always thought about it, I
always wanted to just couldn't sell that.
I couldn't sell nothing. I.
Always thought about getting in a box full of money swirling
around. Did.
You get, did you get weed blows? You know what I'm talking about?
Like a little like no, OK, never mind.
No, it sounds familiar. I just don't.
You got to. I don't, I, I don't really know
what I'm talking about. Like I'm just thinking about
this child labor that they put me through now.
It's just like all flashbacking in my head.
There was like these different ones that you can like earn and
then you get different prizes. Like I just remember being
jealous of the people getting the cool ass ones.
I don't know. I'll, I'll look into it.
Joseph's looking it out. Yeah, I'm looking at.
Silence. Some weird shit that popped up.
OK, A. Lot of weird shit.
I left the O off. I mean I left the W off.
I was like OK, I'm gonna look up.
We blow. I was like wait not doing W No
WS. I mean, that is like a, that is
also like a different the Boy Scouts or we blow.
Former FTC Chair Lena Khan, who's investigators started the
probe and had just answered, railed against such corporate
behavior. She brought similar actions
against major tech firms, including Amazon, which F the
FTC said had developed dark patterns to trick customers into
auto renewing their Amazon Prime subscriptions.
Some of the most common scenarios where we see the
problematic dark pattern dark patterns presentations on the
Internet today involve getting users to agree to a maximum data
sharing through confusing prompts.
A professor of Penn State law said who specializes in Internet
regulations and situations where users.
Yeah, they agreed to recurring transactions or get tapped or
get trapped by the by an inability to figure out how to
exit, even though they were promised that they could cancel
anytime, which is super true. I mean, that's nothing new.
I mean, that's half of the American cancel anytime.
You have to tell me that that means I can't cancel anytime.
So shut the fuck up, right? Rocket Mortgage does it for you.
Start paying your boys Dan Gilbert.
I am calling them out. FTC and state attorneys,
attorney general sue companies that employ unlawful dark
patterns pretty frequently. Yet these dark patterns can be
really profitable, can be a really profitable way of ripping
off customers because some customers won't notice the
charges or won't seek refunds promptly.
True. Scott Adams, a controversial
cartoonist behind Dilbert, died at 68.
I saw that. I feel like I was just talking
about Dilbert. Because he was well, because he
was always saying like crazy shit, he went off I.
Was trying to tell that to somebody.
Mega. Trumper.
No, that's that's what I thought.
That's the same guy, right? Yeah, I thought, yeah, that's
what I was trying to say to this person.
But I know like their dad or grandpa, their grandpa worked on
the animation for the TV show but I forget if it was Dilbert,
it was like one of the comics. This is an article from the AP
by Paul Wiseman bringing charges against the Fed.
What we do and don't know. President Donald Trump has
dramatically escalated his confrontation with the Federal
Reserve is justice. Justice Department is
investigating and threatening a criminal indictment of the
independent central bank and serving it with subpoenas.
This is crazy. The dispute is about, obviously
Chairman Jerome Powell's testimony to Congress in June
over a cost of a massive renovation to the federal
building. So they're basically suing him
for wanting to do renovations. I think your your dog's out,
dude. And dreaming hard.
Yeah, dreaming hard. She's going at it.
Yeah, this is a nightly occurrence where she'd be
running in her dreams. That depending it does that all
the time. But also, she probably has PTSD.
So there's a fucking clip right where Trump tries to claim that
he's like, it's like it's supposed to be like 2 point,
something billion and he's like 2 points.
Let's say it's 2.7 billion. I don't know, I have the numbers
in front of me and Trump says like, Nah, now it's supposed to
be 3.1. And drum pal's like, Nah, now
and then Trump's like to the guy next to him, he's like, give me
the paper, give me the paper. And then he hands them the
fucking paper to Jerome Powell. And they both have hard hats on
at this moment. Yeah.
And Jerome Powell looks at it.
He has No, he has. No, he goes, you added the third
building in there. He goes, oh, the third building
exists. And he goes, yeah, it was built
five years ago. And now.
And now they're doing this. And then our boy Tom Tillis,
Trump, but he's even like half assed half the time he says that
he won't because Jerome Powell's terms up in May.
So Trump, first of all, Trump's the one who fucking put him as
as a chair and their shit goes for 10 years.
So I guess right? Or 88, I don't know.
It goes, it goes longer than it's supposed to.
Like anyways, doesn't matter. So Trump put him in there for
the first time, his terms up in May.
And Tom tells the senator is going to block because the
Senate has to approve whoever the president nominates for the
chair of the Fed. And he's saying that he's going
to block any nominations until this investigation is over,
which is good. But and then there's the the
heads of central banks like all across the world are over here
talking shit. And we're the we're supposed to
be the like the fucking sane country, you know, And like this
is the first time this has ever happened, man.
Like it's like, it's like you're like Trump's trying to get him
to like lower interest rates because he thinks, you know,
because it's like he thinks it'll be like a it will be like
for 1/2 second and adrenaline shot to the economy.
But then then all of a sudden inflation just skyrockets.
Prices skyrocket and we're just like in way back like worse
shape. That's why the feds independent.
So you don't have like a president who's like, and you
know, got bad polling because the economy sucks because he
didn't fucking lower the prices like he said he would.
Instead he's like taking over Venezuela like so, so he can't
just do shit like that. Like, you know, and the, and the
fact that the interest rates are the lowest they've been in like
3 fucking years, like they're low.
Like, you know, it's like, and, and we just got the report
today. Inflation was 2.7% in December.
So it's not at the 2% that they want.
Prices are still going up two point. 7% annually.
Yeah. I mean, they inherited 3% and
they've been at 3:00. Percent till December at 2.7 so
it's not like it's gotten any better.
Actually, it was below. Hold on it.
Was below. 3 I think. No, and actually this.
Is the truth on it? It's still at 3%.
We don't know what it is because they won't release any of the
data, any of the data. They say that they can't give an
accurate estimate of what it was or what we've been doing because
of the government shutdown. Well, that was those months,
those months, but the December 1 dig just come out.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, I know what you mean.
No like for like. October and it's like September,
October, November, like they're like, oh, government shutdown.
We just stopped calories and it's like, it's like, no, dude,
you guys can figure that out. You still, you got the fucking
information. You can backlog it like it's
just that it probably sucked, probably sucked and it this
economy does suck. Dude, if we didn't have AI, we
didn't have 10 billionaires trying to like take over our
planet. And like we'd already.
Be in a fucking scan our scan our faces if it wasn't.
For Peter Thiel and. Palantir, we'd be broke.
OK, And then this is the secret. That I, I like, I don't think
Republicans will be able to articulate, but maybe.
But the job numbers are gonna be low because of the border 'cause
we just stopped letting immigrants in.
So they're going to be low anyway.
So we'll see if they'll be able to sell that.
But even with that, the job like job numbers are still even low,
but they're like those days of like hitting like 304 hundred
thousand a month. You're not going to see that in
the Trump fucking term, I guarantee that.
Like, and that's going to start to like, I mean, it's hard to
get a job, you know, right now. And, and like it used to be easy
and prices and blah, blah, blah. And it's like, and we all think
Trump's is just going to handle like the next three years, like
smoothly. It's it's going to get better.
Doubt it. Threats of charges arise.
Yeah, from A2. .5 billion renovation.
But like I said, the the Fed is separate.
It operates separately. There's a lot of people.
But Scaramucci was talking about he's like, I just think Trump's
going to be the next chair of the Fed.
And I think he would love, I think he would love if he could
do that, but that's terrifying. Then the president, yeah, would
be able to set rates to do all that.
He's also talking. He wants to, he wants to, he
wants to move the rates down to 1%.
Well, he's, he's also capping. He's saying he's going to cap.
Credit card interest rates at 10%.
Yes and no, because. It.
Depends on when you look at it. So from what I understand, and
this is, you know, credit card companies.
So if you if you are like me and you have a credit card, but you
pay your statement, I'm never paying interest rates.
They don't make any money off of me.
So like I don't like the interest rates is where those
credit card companies make money, right?
They run for profit. Yeah.
So they run for profit, so. If you cap these.
You're going to be limiting the amount of people they're it's
going to be harder to qualify for a credit card for people.
So some people are going to get tossed off their credit cards,
not have them anymore, be slapped with a shit ton of debt
and that shit's going to go straight to collections.
There's going to be people who have credit card debt that is
not caught up at a high interest rate.
Bro you sound like a shill for the credit card company.
No, no, I'm just being honest. I'm just saying because you're
also going to unless. We unless we can charge them
25%, hold on. No, I'm not saying that that's
necessarily correct, but there's some people.
Like the average is somewhere around like 18 to 20%.
There's some people that don't qualify that pay a higher
interest rate to to get into the market of building their own
credit. You're going to be or
eliminating this. What's the number that you don't
think there should be a limit? I think that if you wanted to
gradually bring it. Down and put some sort of
regulation in it, sure. But I am saying if you do that
and you cause the financial, well, there are limits because
it's like predatory, like some of this shit.
So but if you do but but you could say that 10.
Percent you're going to be you might crash that market of
credit cards, which would be a dangerous.
I'm willing to entertain. I'm willing to understand what
you're saying. I'm just curious if there is a
suitable number that's not fucking gouging people.
True, but I mean like when when I got my first credit card
because I. Didn't really like have credit
because I didn't deal with it like that.
I had to like put money down to get a credit card and then pay
it off to like build my credit up.
But like some of the I had like a high interest rates.
I was always paying my shit. So I was trying to build my
credit like some of those, some of those options are going to go
out the window for people if you cap it.
Cause some of those companies now there's like sofa.
And like, there's, there's, there's, there's, you know,
fintech, yeah. But do you think that they got
into the market? Without with, with, with with.
The idea of charging. Less of an interest rate or
charging the same as market share or market value to make
their money. No, because I think that the I'm
getting. Kicked by these dogs when she
like stretches out and kicks me in the back the.
The technology gets rid of like a lot of the.
Overhead that makes these companies have to like, you
know, in order to be profitable get those like crazy.
You know what I'm saying? So it's like sofa is able to
offer loans to people that like Bank of America doesn't approve
because they have like different parameters like of like, you
know of why, like this person qualifies.
And so it's like, why, like some of these places can offer a
higher interest rate on the savings account that you can get
a fucking Wells Fargo. You know, it's like why they can
afford it is because like their business model is different.
True. So I'm not I'm not saying that
what you're. Saying is not.
Correct. Like where, you know, it's just
like there's going to be two, there's going to be like
there's. Going to be in some way.
Shape or form like 2 separate outcomes.
You're either going to see everybody lower their
qualifications to get a credit card and you'll see people's
debt expand because they'll be trying to recoup what they lost.
Fuck their overhead dude. None of these motherfuckers care
about what it costs them to operate.
They care much how much money they can get from us.
COVID is a perfect example. Prices going up because of
supply chains and supply and demand and then the prices have
never gone down. And that's, well, I'm talking
about Visa and MasterCard specifically.
Exactly. Well, so Visa.
MasterCard Discover and doesn't. Matter what company, they'll all
expand though, if they all drop down to 10%, they're going to be
giving those shit those shits away like candy.
That's one option. They're going to flood the
market with cards to try to continue to make the same profit
margins they were making before. They're just going to need to
qualify more people. They're going to have to give
out more and give more reckless people credit and allow them to
put themselves in debt to then reap the cash flow.
But I mean, if you're, if you're, you're 10% interest,
you're paying a lot. Your principal down a lot more
than you're fucking, you know. Well, true, but like I said, if
I'm playing my principal down at for most.
People or depending on where you're at in life.
I pay my I pay my full statement so it doesn't even matter to you
what the fucking number is. True. 150% and and they.
Hate people like me because. They don't make any money off.
Of me. So I don't.
They hate people like you because one day, one day you're
going to slip. Joseph And then we'll get you
and that's what they want, right?
So, but so they're going to. Flood and it's also, but it's
also recurring. It's still.
Revenue coming in. It's like still turning, you
know, they could still add the money to like the books to like,
you know, get the valuation up. Like, like, you know, they hate
people who don't fucking ever pay them, take their money and
don't pay them in default. Like that's probably what they
hate. They don't hate you.
So. So either they're going to flood
the market or they're. Going to restrict the market and
make it harder to qualify and then they're going to limit the
scope of what they pass out to people and be a lot more not
frugal. It's not the right word, but a
lot more picky about who they choose to give credit to and it
could it's going to toss a lot of people off like that's huge.
If you're telling me right now if on your largest revenue of
profit for you as a company, well, it reminds me of it's
like. Pre-existing conditions, yeah,
that's what it is. It's like, it's like that.
It's like, OK, well if you want that, if you want them to do
that, then a lot of people are going to lose their insurance.
That's a great way of putting it to be like a healthcare model.
Bring it down to 10. Percent, then it's like, OK,
well then we're not going to. Insure you we're not going to
get in because then credit cards are kind of like insurance like
we're we're interesting yeah I want to apply for a credit card
to build my credit Oh well you. Know you in the past five years
you had a late payment on your power bill so you don't qualify.
It's going to be some wild almost what circumstances or or
it's going to check the fucking credit card comes and be like,
Hey, your standards are. Stupid.
These people qualify. True.
We'll see. We'll see.
It's slippery. Slope is all I'm saying there's.
Because there's not a lot of ways that it'll go well.
I don't trust. Where do you get this number?
Yeah, you're right. They're like and I.
Do not, and I do not trust those people to make that decision.
And yeah, like, why is he doing that?
Yeah, yeah. Like what is the central?
Banking. So what is our fractional
reserve? Banking system going to come up
with yeah, it's like if we if we were like, no, we're on gold
standard and you can't loan out money to people that you don't
have for profit plus interest like because that's what our
banks do If you told them they couldn't do that anymore, they'd
all be shutting their fucking doors, bro, because that's what
is it. They're allowed to give out one
$3 for every dollar they take in.
That's crazy. Well, I think that they adjust,
I mean. I don't know what the number is
but like they. They after the recession, they,
they made them like be more solvent.
Well, they could be more solvent, but at the end of the
day, like they can. Loan out money they don't have
and with interest and get it back from you.
Like banks are running for profit, not for money
stabilization. So article #3 from CBS News, At
least three Minnesota federal prosecutors resigned amid
pressure to treat Renee Good killing as an assault on an ICE
agent. First of all, can I just like,
dude, fuck ICE. I'm so sick of this.
This is the dumbest the rationale that people are
putting behind the fact that trying to make it like this
woman wasn't murdered like you could.
If a normal person did that in a road rage incident, you would be
in jail for murder right now. He'd be charged for murder if
you were in a if you were a road raging with somebody and all
those circumstances take place. That's just a random citizen
there. That which is basically what ICE
agents are he's going to he that dude would be in locked up right
now for murder the other way that the other way that I say to
look at it or I thought. About this is OK, so let's say
that the video exists, right? He doesn't shoot her.
Everything happens. He doesn't shoot her, right?
Is there anybody who being like, hey, you should have shot her?
Why didn't he shoot her? You know, nobody would have said
that. So so so why the fuck do we
think that he should? Have 'cause just 'cause he.
Did you know it's like Tim, Well, it's like Tim Dillon had a
good comment. He's like.
You should just show that video to your kid.
Go get your kid, sit them down, show that video to your kid.
And I bet your kid says why did he do that to her?
That's probably what your kids going to say.
And there's, there you go. That's how you that's how you
should interpret it, because that's how an innocent person
watching that video would interpret Joseph.
She's a lesbian, though, you know?
Oh, yeah. A lesbian.
Oh and she was in an anti ice. Group is what my mom told me.
Oh, of course they got to demonize this mom who just got.
Shot point blank range. Well, she was still driving.
She was dead. And watch Fox News.
Yeah, that's all they do. Oh, I know.
But. I was saying this in the
beginning. I can't believe, well, I can't
believe that they're doing this. But like I was like, OK, she's a
fucking domestic terrorist. Charge her.
Charge her with the being a domestic terrorist, you idiots.
And then I guess they were trying to stupid.
Yeah, I mean, I can think of a. Video, especially him calling
her a fucking bitch after he shot her just makes it just
makes it worse I think of a video.
It's not a video, it's an audio recording.
This happened years ago. There was this old man who had
this house and there was these two young there's a guy and a
girl couple boyfriend girlfriend and they used to like break into
his house and like steal some of his shit.
They were like young and fucking with this old man.
Well, he staked them out, sat in a chair in the dark, knew they
were coming and murdered them, shot this dude shot her and he
recorded all of it. And after it as he was shooting
her, he was said they basically the exact same thing that that
guy did. Where do you think that guy is?
And they broke into his house. He murdered them because he
staked them out, waited them, stalked them in his house and
then like finished them off and recorded the whole thing.
But he even in that moment, he's like fucking bitch like there's
a malicious he's in jail. Yeah, because he murdered them.
But he. Recorded.
No, no. OK, well.
You keep saying murdered them. Yeah, he killed them, killed
them, but I mean, that's technically he was charged with.
Murder. OK, well I'll glad you didn't
know that. Yeah, they broke into his.
House Yeah, they were breaking into his house, but it's
because. Of the way he chose to do it or
what song. He wasn't defending himself.
He was like he knew what was going on and staked them out.
And the audio recordings are crazy because like, he's talking
to them while he's doing so. If he's saying so was the way he
did it. Yeah, the way he did it, yeah,
though it's the way he did it and the things.
That he said when he did, which are very similar to what that
police officer said before he shot that mom, pretty damn
similar to exactly what he said to that girl before and after he
shot her because he recorded himself and got locked away from
that. There's 1000 scenarios or
something like that happens and the person behind that guns in
prison. If you want to try to use your
anti Muslim rhetoric that you just hate Somalis and you hate
Muslims and that's and anybody that's going to defend these
people are staying between ICE and getting them out is a
justification to kill a mom that's just shitty like that.
You're like, there's no moral moral justification for
murdering anybody, whether it's Charlie Kirk, whether it's this
mom. But to compare this mom and then
be like, oh, Ashley Babbitt who got shot by an officer trying to
breakthrough a barricaded window during a live insurrection
inside the nation's capital while they were chanting hang
Mike Pence. She got shot and she deserved to
be shot. That's completely different.
You think if she didn't get shot they would have got Mike Pence?
No, if anybody goes. Through that window, they're
getting shot. He told them that if there's a
federal officer standing there pointing a gun as I'm attacking
a federal building, If you watch the full video, well, at least
they all got pardoned. She waves.
One of the guys through and then the the.
Last thing she says to them is it's OK, man.
I'm not. We're not mad at you.
Yeah, she literally was trying to be nice.
And then he jumps. In front the.
Same ICE officer who got drug 50 feet 'cause he jumped in front
of a fucking car previously and is has PTSD from it.
Counselling type shit. That dude is the guy that shot
this woman. So you can't tell me that his
emotion, that his trauma from his job is not a direct cause of
why this Mother's Day. Well, Joseph, I don't know if
you know this. He's in hiding.
Now. So thanks Lib tards.
What and what's what's what's what's wild is.
If a regular beat cop went through something like that guy
did, number one, you're not. It's again, it's against policy
to step in front of cars. You're not supposed to step in
or just shoot, shoot a moving car in.
Most in most police departments you don't shoot.
Into a fucking car because what? Happens.
The foot goes on the gas and then it's just an uncontrolled
car. It gets worse so, but these are.
Untrained officers where they're pumping these.
Guys out. I think they said yeah, they're
rich, dude. They all get like $40,000
bonuses. Yeah, Oh no, it's just dudes
that are down and out on their luck.
I don't want to join ICE just for the bag.
Well, you could join. Ice and just fuck with people.
But there's a, there's, there's a.
Time constraint with people like like with the other ice.
Guys. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like sabotage, Sabotage. Yeah, like up.
On the inside, Yeah, dude, what if we.
Infiltrate ICE. That'd be sick if you.
Get caught, you're going. You're going to beat the shit
out of you, dude. But you're, you're a fucking
patriot, true. That's a movie.
Infiltrate ICE. Sabotage Black.
Klansmen. The black ICE agent.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But no Venezuelan ICE agent.
There's no justification for. Murdering anybody.
And the way that people are trying to justify this mother
being shot is grotesque and disgusting and it's some of the
most hypocritical shit we've seen in a very long time.
It's super frustrating to be around people trying to demonize
this woman. And look, people try to demonize
Charlie Kirk. Absolutely.
Did Charlie Kirk say a lot of wild shit and create a movement
that a lot of people didn't like because it was Islamophobic,
homophobic, borderline racist sometimes?
Absolutely. Was he pro gun violence?
You keep the Second Amendment? Yeah.
It's like people got mad when you quoted what he said when he
got assassinated. He didn't deserve to be
assassinated for what he said. But if you say what he said
after he got assassinated, then it's hate speech that makes no
fucking sense. But then this woman gets shot on
camera. And the way that they try to
judge like Christy Gnome up there before there's any
investigation, she's a domestic terrorist just trying to spin,
spin, spin part of me. That's how you know that they
that they know they fucked up. Like, it's like they're like.
Kids who are like, like trying kind of like, lie their way out
of, like an obvious situation. It's like, bro, I because you
called her a domestic terrorist. I know that.
You know that you fucked up. Yeah.
And she's like the dumbest fucking person in the world.
Christina is so dumb dog killer like we thought Bobs was bad.
We thought the Bobs. We thought was bad.
You know Marge Bobs is pretty dumb, dude.
Hey. She got kicked out of a live
production of. What Beetlejuice?
For giving it over the pants handy.
Well I to be fair, I think that they said Beetlejuice 3 times.
And there was a thing you know and you know.
And then to get kicked out for giving a hand.
Job and hitting your vape. That's pretty dumb.
Who mugs This hasn't Joseph?
Who mugs? This hasn't where's.
The other hand. But no, we thought she was dumb.
And Chrissy Dome is a moron. She is so stupid and it's so
frustrating and she's bad at the spin.
Like Caroline Lovett, you give her credit.
Like she tries to do the real spin.
I was, I was like. Appreciating her a little bit
the other day because of her dedication to the to the job to
like sleazy. Old white guys.
Well, just no. Just to the to the sorry, I mean
her husband and then. Donald Trump just to fucking.
Like that, she will lie. She will.
Just Oh, yeah, She's indignant. Yeah.
That that's. The word you know, it's like.
She's just like, I don't give. I'm I'm here to sell you
bullshit. I'm Garbles and I'm gonna sell
you the bullshit. Who was the what?
What was the one lady who? Was at the White House.
The blonde woman is like the old carbon copy of her.
I forgot she's on Fox now, but she she was.
Pretty good. But yeah, Caroline.
Levitt master class in like deflection pretty good at it.
Gotta give her credit for it. Yeah so like cringe.
It's cringe half the time but it's but it's like OK.
She's like, she's keeping, she's keeping the straight face.
Like I guarantee you he'd give her like 10 jobs if he could.
Because everybody else besides her, she goes to bat.
Yeah, she goes to bat and she'll fight it out.
Right. And like if she was in those.
Like when she's like in those. Cabinet meetings, whenever he's
like sucking his Dick like he's the last president, it's like
she'll go up there and she's like actually say some shit.
Like why? He's the best.
You know, it's like boom, this bitch, but whatever.
Fuck you, Caroline. Levitt.
But now we have. People because they're trying to
paint her. In a certain way where now
there's people resigning because they're like, this is fucked up,
they don't agree. It's black and white playing his
day. That's that's murder.
Does she need to be blocking the road?
No Does she deserve to be shot for it?
No. Are they out enforcing or did
they get their car stuck in the snow 'cause they're fucking
idiots? These ICE agents are so stupid,
so antagonistic. Like I said, they're just ego
tripping dudes. I swear they're just down on
their luck. Well, a lot of them are Proud
Boys and and the three. Percenters Keepers.
Oh yeah, yeah. It's real quiet on the
motherfucking home front. For the the white supremies,
it's because they're in ice. That's true.
Didn't even think about it that way, but they all just got jobs.
So now they all just have government paid jobs.
I wonder how many? I wonder how many GN Sixers.
Now they're all sucking on the teeth.
I wonder how many GN Sixers? Are in ice.
So many, I guarantee. All of them.
That's that's I'd like to see. That that's what it is, dude.
They're the Brown. Shirts, bro.
Yeah, you know. Just mad Gestapo tactics and
other. Killing people and playing day
and shooting moms point blank range, firing three shots at
them. Then you jump in front of
someone's car when they're obviously turning.
It's just so dumb, dude. And I just don't.
But I mean, we all knew this was going to happen.
I know, but it's like. Shit, man, it's.
The pretext bro. You got the war in.
Venezuela so now you can declare martial law and then you got the
upright, you know the the protest because you're shooting
fucking people in the street and then then they can crack down.
It's just see and that's what I've said is they've been the
half of them I. Swear they're just like
gaslighting us. They know they fucked up, so
they're lying and then gaslighting the shit out of us
so that way they want people to go out there and riot like they.
Want. People to go do something.
It's the same places that he's fucking around in Portland.
In in Minneapolis, same places as the George Floyd shit, you
know, yeah, it's like what I said is if there's one, I, I.
Was how many I said today I was like Donald Trump would
sacrifice 1000 cops to if there was an uprising, he would.
Gladly let 1000. Cops die to take away elections
to stay in office. He's Putin bro.
He's Putin Putin. Let's 1500.
Motherfucking Russians die every day, so Ukrainians mowing them.
Fucking down doesn't. He doesn't care.
Same with Trump, he doesn't give a shit.
Yeah, exactly. He calls them.
He calls the military losers. And suckers bro like he.
Like he gives a shit about the cops.
He he pardoned everybody from J6.
They killed cops, Yeah. Yeah.
So, I mean, they're all just resigning.
Final article. I put it in here.
It's from the Wall Street Journal, the obscure bank.
Collapse that sent Iran. Into a tailspin.
Bad loans to regime cronies brought down Ianda Bank,
accelerating a long running financial crisis by Jared
Molson. But real quick.
So in Iran, they're in the streets.
I heard some fucking. Crazy.
Number of people have been killed.
But let's say it's like 2000 at this point.
Yeah, I've heard that too. I heard the 12 number I like.
I was like, whoa, whoa. What?
I was like, what was Israel involved?
Just kidding, Israel, Just kidding.
Guys, that was a Gazza. Joke, but not wrong.
You're not wrong. No, I know, I know.
But it's just like. So there.
Was the green revolution in O 9 didn't work?
And then there's been like a little bit like the the Masa
Amini whenever she didn't wear her a job.
That was a couple years ago. There was like uprisings, but
now this is like an economic uprising turned like political
and like it's like more people have died already.
And this has been going on for like, a couple weeks, 3 weeks.
More people have died already in this one than they did for the
one a couple years ago that went on for months and months.
So it's like, like, they're like, really going after it
right now. But in Iran, I know we got
listeners. So what Trump said helps on the
way. Yeah, they cut off the.
Internet. They cut off phone service.
Elon Musk is giving them Starling for free.
For now, but it was just when. When did that happen?
Because there was. I saw something about today for
now. Yeah, well, because he's.
Always. He's like, I'll give you the
Internet. Right, the Internet trying to
fuck with the Ukrainians. Yeah, he's like, I'll give you.
Something he's like, oh you made me mad, never mind.
Like he's a fucking tool. So I don't know what the fuck
Trump thinks he's going to do. He puts sanctions.
On any country that does business with Iran, well, guess
what, Like almost all of Iran's oil gets sold to China.
So that's another 25% tariff on China.
Like, you know, we thought we worked the shit out.
We gave them the AI chip so that we can get back to normal, so we
can sell them soybeans and and they just were up in Canada.
China was just in Canada meeting with Carney like hey hell, you
should. Chill.
With us. Yeah, of course I will.
Duh, duh. That's what happens here.
They're. Just going to fill the fill the
void. Yeah, exactly when you.
Pulled. Out of like.
Like 32 fucking. International treaties like last
week and you know, it's like in Russia and China and all of
them. So it's like they're just going
to move in bro OK, so. This I'll just.
Go to the article The biggest heart harbinger that things were
about to fall apart in Iran didn't come from the throated
anger of the countries opposition or the frustrated
hopes the young people hungry for more personal freedom.
It came from the collapse of a bank late last year.
I and day. I don't know if I'm saying that
right. I ANDA, the bank, run by regime
cronies and saddled with nearly $5 billion in losses on a pile
of bad loans, went bust. The government folded the
carcass into a State Bank and printed a massive amount of
money to try to paper over all the red ink.
That buried the problem but didn't solve it.
Instead, the failure became both the symbol and accelerant of an
economic unraveling that ultimately triggered the
protests that now pose the most significant threat to the regime
since the founding of the Islamic Republic half a century
ago. The banks collapse made clear
that the Iranian financial system, under strained from
years of sanctions, bad lending and reliance on inflationary
printed money, have become increasingly insolvent and
illiquid. 5 other banks are thought to be similarly weak.
The crisis hit at the worst possible time.
The Iranian government's credibility had already been
battered by a 12 day war with Israel and the US in June and
showed it couldn't defend its population from attack.
Its leaders have refused to budget negotiation over the
country's nuclear program, putting sanctions relief out of
reach. In November, Israel and the US
threatened to strike again if Iran tried to reconstitute his
ballistic missile arsenal or nuclear efforts.
The country's beleaguered currency, the real, tipped into
a new downward. Spiral the country.
Had little ability to stop US enforcement actions that cut
Iran off from its crucial flow of dollars from Iraq,
significantly reduced its hard currency earnings from oil
sales, and put it overseas reserves of foreign exchange out
of reach with sanctions. After decades of engineering
workarounds and using shadowy flows of cash to keep the
country's battered economy functioning, Tehran had reached
a dead end. And with no tools to address a
deepening economic crisis or meet the needs of an
increasingly desperate population, hundreds of
merchants who don't typically join the country's mass protests
took the streets of Tehran to demand relief.
This was a very well connected bank, corrupt etcetera, which
underscored that the banking system in itself is a channel
for enrichment of well connected, said Adnan Mazrai, a
former deputy director of the Middle East and Central Asia
Department of the International Monetary Fund.
The failure of the bank added to what they're called a crescendo
of the loss of legitimacy of the regime following the Israeli
attack. I End a Bank was founded in 2013
by Ali Ansari, an Iranian businessman who emerged 2 state
owned banks with another he founded previously to form the
new lender. He hails from one of the
country's richest families and owns a multi $1,000,000 mansion
in North London. Politically, he's seen close to
former Conservative President Mahmoud Amina Dodge.
Amina Dodge? Fuck, I forgot how to say his
name. Mahmoud, Amina Dodge.
Amina. Dejad, Amina.
Dejad, Amina Dejad. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, the UK sanctioned on sorry last year just days.
After the collapse of I and Day, calling him a corrupt Iranian
banker and businessman who helped finance the sprawling
Iranian elite paramilitary and business organization, the
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
In a statement in October, Ansari blamed the bank's failure
on decisions and policies made beyond the bank's control.
Iende offer the highest interest rates of any Iranian bank up
don't hire they got the interest rates are too high bro.
Attracting millions of depositors and borrowing heavily
from the central bank which printed money to keep the
institution afloat. Economist said.
Like others troubled Iranian banks, I and A had a large
number of non performing loans, one of a range of factors that
eventually drove it to failure. The largest investment was the
Iran Mall, which opened in 2018. Investing in malls in 2018?
You fucked up bro. The project displayed an opulent
access that made little sense amid the stagnation of the rest
of the Iranian economy. Twice the size of the Pentagon,
the mall is a city within a city, with its own IMAX movie
theater, a library, swimming pools and sports complexes,
along with indoor gardens. A car showroom in the Hall of
Mirrors modeled on the 16th century Imperial Persian Palace.
Economists and Iranian officials said the project was an example
of self lending, in which Ansari's bank effectively lent
money to his own companies when it folded.
A report in the semi official Tasman News agency, citing a top
central bank official, said that more than 90% of the bank's
resources were tied up in its project under its own
management. I and A came under scrutiny for
years from some conservatives and reformist politicians who
pushed for the banks closure and argue that the central bank's
support for the institution would drive up inflation due to
its need to print money to fund it.
He just keeps going. But point is corruption if it is
not with me. I don't stand for it.
But if it's corruption and it's with me, I support it.
I defend it. 22 baby. 23, baby mother.
Real bad I do. I don't know if this is like a
great prediction. Like Pergosian or you know,
whatever Venezuela. But I do think that this is it
for for the Ayatollah, the. Ayatollah and the.
Gang. Yeah, I don't know.
What's going to come next though?
I could, I mean. They do have like Democratic,
they have like institutions and they do like vote for their
president. Like, you know, it's like kind
of shady. Like we're like, they like kind
of like, you know, like have political prisoner, not kind of
political prisoners and like kind of like force, like who can
really run. It's not like Russia, Russia,
like that's bad. But but it doesn't even really
matter because the president doesn't have all the says the
fucking supreme leader. Yeah, but they but the elections
are, I mean, free and fair. I guess it took sense.
The only democracy in the Middle East really, besides the Israel,
it's a theocracy, but. Well, yeah, but if the.
Ayatollah is out right? So what do we let?
Them fill the void and decide what they want to do.
Well, obviously decide for them. I I don't know if that's.
Obviously. Well, we we can't decide for
them. Exactly.
We should probably not do that. That sounds like a great.
Idea. I agree one last time.
I just wonder what Trump's going to do here.
He's going to fuck it up for everybody.
Just leave it alone. Well, Barack left it.
Alone, and he regrets it. When there was uprisings in his
presidency, he wishes he might have tipped the scales a little
bit more. Well, it just depends on what
degree you want to be there to tip the scales.
And then now you sound like Reagan.
He's not like everybody else who's like, dabbled their hand
in their shit. Like, I mean, you know, just
saying if you want to like, if there's people, well, he's OK.
Well, first of all, he's already said he's going to do something.
So yeah, he literally said so now he, so now he has to.
It's like it's like Obama and Syria and the red line.
If, you know, if you use chemical weapons, that's the red
line. And then he didn't do anything.
And people still talk shit about it.
It's like that in the website for healthcare.
Yeah. All the things he did, that's
what he's remember for. As far as bad things, bad
things, you know. No, in a tan.
Suit. Tan suit, right?
Right. Like when?
When? Those are the bad things, you
know, Probably. A pretty good president, yeah.
Yeah. The other ones like with Biden?
It's like, is he alive? Is he not alive?
Is his son doing crack? Burisma or Ukraine?
Which is all BS but still tan suit shitty website didn't I
think. I think you'd say that the 12
years of Biden. Obama pre scandal free in
comparison 100%. Well, obviously in comparison A.
100% yeah but they the tan no drama.
No drama, Obama. Tan suit was a scandal baby.
That was a scandal. With the world on fire, he was.
Killing it, that's why. Yeah, it was a fresh seat.
He's good. He had a He's a lefty with a
good jump. Shot good from three.
They were just Jelly. What else you got?
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Fuck ice. Just going to put that out
there. So tired of this.
Melt the ice, baby, Melt the ice.
Careful, just fuck them. Like if they be a threat I'm
working on like a Bob Dylan ish like protest song of.
Course it's melt the ice. Melt the ice.
It's like what it sounds. Like get it from my freezer box.
Yo, you think you? Are a cop, you wear a mask and
drive a Ford, but everybody knows you can't afford to pay
for your kids or your house. That's why you decided to leave
your spouse and go up and wrangle a bunch of Somalis.
You don't understand this. You're joking.
You're joking, but this is like what, this song?
Every great man's. Folly.
People are going to have already heard the song.
Banger, you ever give me a feature on that dude?
It's almost. It's almost already at over.
Well, y'all be good. Stay safe, stay out of trouble.
Fuck ice. And actually, you know what?
Go love yourselves, Ice. Go fuck yourselves.
Shout out. You don't really want to fuck.
With me. You don't really want to fuck
with me and you're a bitch. You want a son?
Let us hit your lifestyle only for a minute.
I may crash out in Top Nose. Call me Top Gun like I'm Tom
Cruise or Marshmallow. Eat the whole bed.
Then it's out the rich. I'm so queen.
Yeah, I'm not there and I will feel like bro.
Absolutely I can find your pin like it's hugely just do it.
Pull up at your mom's side and that's Suzuki bitch.
I'm too queen popping out his heart, but I do this.
I'm ruthless. Pull up at your spa with the
toothpick. I'm duked though you can't see
my eyes just too pupils too close.
I crashed the whip and then I squish on them style.
I saw the window just say show some bad now only for a minute.
I may crash out himself. Had a lot of shrimps this
afternoon. Sorry.
I laughed. At You ha ha ha jumping and
swimming in liquid acid pools. We margaritas tequila from
Cactus. Juice trying to.
Hitchhike. It was petty boy.
I was sweating boy tripping tooth to me on a city cruise.
What you want to really do? Let's start mixing ludes and get
high. When?
Really soon? Yeah, I do.
You don't really want to fuck Willy.
You don't really want to fuck with me, your bitch.
You want to suck my you don't really want to fuck women fuck
around and I'm my you don't really want to fuck women, you
bitch. You want to suck my Dick?
Yes. Your livestock ass off the
window. Just try shot some bad now only
for a minute. I may cry shout on top nose call
me Top Gun like on songs. Who's a boss?
No, eat the whole bed then it's off the roof.
You don't really want to fuck with me.
Fuck around and I'm a voice. My Yeah, well, you don't really
want to fuck with me.