August 22, 2024 • 61 mins
In episode 1730, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, Blake Wexler, to discuss… Trump Seem So So Sleepy, Kamala Implies Inflation Caused by Corporate Greed... Corporate Owned Media Freaks Out and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Also there was a rumor that they like cut his
pp off too, and like it's wild, it's wild, like
it's I don't know if that was true or not,
or if I just made that out in the documentary
I thought, but uh yeah, that's a wild Can we
just get First of all.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
That's the cold open, second of all, just being great
if this like true crime documentary just cuts to Blake going.
Second of all, there was a rumor that they cut
his pp off my lower third.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
They're like, title just says stupid idiot, doctor Blake went
Wexler forensic forensic an, Hello.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
The Internet, and welcome to season three, fifty two, Episode
four of Dally Guys, production by iHeartRadio. This is the
podcast where we take a deep dive into America's share consciousness.
And it is Thursday, August twenty second, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah, yep, yep. August twenty four, August two to two
is National Surgical on College's Day, shout out all those
people fighting the cancer. Uh never being Better day. I
don't know what the fuck this. It's got pictures of dogs.
It's not a real day, so forget it. National Pecan
Tortue Day. We just have p can high he can spurt.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Day Can farmers are getting greedy exactly.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
And to go along with all that sugar eating, it's
National Tooth fairy Day, you know what I mean. I
don't know what the market rate is on a tooth
these days. I don't know what we have. I think
I asked this every time it comes around, like Jack,
what's the what's the market right now? For? It is
highly variable the market because I rarely have cash.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
On me, so it's like whatever I can find. You know,
it's either a quarter or fifty dollars is actually worth
a twenty because that's all we have in the house.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Your first tooth was actually only worth twenty five cents.
You can't just do it like a record label, like
here's an advance on your whole grill home. Here's fifty bucks.
Don't ask me for ship. We're we're not making a
music video or nothing. It's also National Bow Day. So
shout out the beautiful tasty Chinese dumplings. Oh okay, yeah
I thought it was the like b e oh b
(02:26):
a oh yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
All right, shout out to Bow. Shout out to Pecan,
the p can what are they can dumple it. Pecannt
torte yet?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, what is that like? It's like a little cake
with some drizzle on top. No matter whatever I think anyways,
and I love that. I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I say, you get you're you're flying too close to
the sun Pecan industry.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
My name is Jack O'Brien aka. I can't get down
because I'm up in space. Can somebody please bring me down?
I can't get down. I'm stuck up in space. Will
somebody please get me down? That is tub thumpthing courtesy
of Fermentable Burgers on the discord gross also redundant. All
(03:15):
bookers are Fermentable. But thank you for your oka. Won't
somebody please bring the astronauts down from being stuck up
in the international.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Hey, Boeing will solve it. Man Boeing's on it, Man
on it.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
They are exporting flight delays from commercial flights to space. Yes,
and those commercial those flight delays are a year long.
It's very impressive. I feel like I think about them
and I can't help but be like, are there sparks
the two astronauts who are up there together? You know,
(03:52):
like they thought they were up there for a week.
I know that a rom com, yet it's gotta be
a wrong. Like I I'm sure there's been rom coming space,
but like this one just feels like it calling out
for it was so fucking hot, so romantic, dude, the
sparks to spin it at it on that space channel
that like creates the big fire that almost kills everyone. Anyways,
(04:16):
I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
mister Miles Gray.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Its Miles Gray aka Grimey.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Grimey you know what I keep in the lining a
lot better stay yeah line when you see a presss
like me, I say Grimey.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Elsa aka Grimey Elsa. That's my undergram name. I just
came up with that shout out to who is that
monish with the all the anagrams? Yeah, just Grimey. Is
it off? Off is a character? Right? I had? I
feel like that was the only other character either the snowman,
yeah he's a snowman, boyfriend nailed it or the yak.
(04:56):
I don't know, it's one of that. Then I'm looking
at character list. Now, I nailed it, and you did
nail it. Congress did nail it by just adding one
word that I knew that was Tamson's connected to Frozen
or directly connected? And I made a parody song thank
you so much.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Well, Miles, we are through to be joined in air
third seat by a brilliant comedian writer actor Oh Boy.
His nickname is oh Boy. Look look what did the
Irish say when she's oh yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Well?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
One time I was really drunk and missed a flight
and when I like finally got to my new flight gait,
I heard an Irish woman say, here comes chaos.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Anyways, that is the introduction for this guest writer, the
actor who's been brought to you, who's brought you a
comedy album such as the Blake album, Stuffed Boy Live
from the Pandemic, his newest special Daddy lung Legs, which
you can go watch on YouTube. The coiner of the
disgusting phrase plumpers to describe his juicy philly above the
(06:06):
knees steaks. Please welcome, the hilarious, the chaotic, the riding
a rick cumbent bike and short shorts.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Blake Waxlan plump plump o bum plumpum pumpum plump.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Crack that whip comes along. You've got plumpers when your
thighs are really strong. Two big plumpers orse, Daddy plumpers
plumpers good or baby plumpers Plumper's good. That was from
Chauncey Yonders from the I figured out how to access
to the discord thanks to producer Yonder. I punched it
(06:42):
up a little bit. I added for Staddy plumpers. I
took some liberties with Steddy plumpers.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
That was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Thank you, Thanks, thank you to Chauncey. I was laughing
during the intro where I have no regard for the
format of this program and never have never will. Yeah,
but I have noticed that I have I've always honored
the rule of not speaking during the intro.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
For some reason, I don't speak. It is weird. Yeah,
it's almost ruptive that you don't speak. Yeah, yeah, I'm like,
say something. He's chewing on the wires at the podcast studio.
This one's spicy. You mean it's shocking you like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
That's yes, spice, spice. You know how your mom keeps
the spices in the in the box down in the basement.
You knows where we keep our spices.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
How are you doing, Blake, great to have you back.
How are your plumpers.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Plumpers is your word for your thighs, just y, In
case it wasn't clear to people what I meant by
philly above the knees steaks, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
People got it.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yeah, they could have thought s T a k e s,
which would not have been incorrect. And they're high. Those
steaks are high. These are rare in terms of how
common they are on Earth. Yeah, but they're good.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Are you? How am I? Yeah? I'm pretty good.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Like these glasses that I'm wearing are horses ship so
I broke my other glasses.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I saw you post something right with shattered lenses on
or something on your store.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
These are loaners that I'm wearing right now, So this
is not.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
A loaners from where fucking Marty dealership.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
They kind of look like shooting range glasses, a little
bit like you could be at the shooting range.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
You kind of look like that one C I shot
that liked a guy from Ciicario from the Border scene
who had the glasses.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, either way, probably gonna die.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Uh he's in the sequel. He's an operator man, Yeah,
is he? There's a sequel? Yeah? Two day of soldat
Day Out of Soldado.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I think I got a happy day lost Soldado, sold
soldier the soldier man.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
That's what that means. I love. But yeah, you got
Wait are they loaners? There's just like old glasses you
had from previously that you just don't like. And I
can't wrap my head around the idea that there would
be loaner glasses. That's one ones to your neighbor and
we're like, hey, do you have any glasses? I started
banging on the door like there was a fire. You
(09:22):
got any extras?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
No, I don't have backup glasses, which in therapy I
found out is my mom's fault. So I had to
ask for backup or they took the lenses of the
old ones and somehow put them in these, which are
Champion brand.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Really, it's pretty cool with the kids these days.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Champion Big it's an eyes od brand glasses. Well that
would actually make more sense than like Champion A Russell
athletic glasses.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
But so many companies just now just like license their
logo to be like, yeah, put on glasses, man, who
gives a I'll take it?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Wasn't I feel fit? I feel like they're also made
You can't see this but they're made of a gray fabric.
They're made fabric.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
And did your last glasses break from hearing a note
that was too high? I have to assume, or did
that was something that was too sexy?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
That's a great question.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
So I saw something that was so sexy and they
fogged up and then and the sexy this was of
course at the opera where I go fucking constantly. And
then she hit a note and they broke. Yeah, and
someone had a little champagne breaking time.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah, it's it is crazy.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah, it's becoming more of a problem than it is
an enjoy and enjoy experience.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And why won't these politicians talk about that? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Thank you, Tim Walls. What's he doing? He's missing.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Anywhere? He's missing?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
All right, Blake, we're going to get to know you
a little bit better in a moment. Take your time,
as long as you just walked off camera. We're going
to tell the listeners a couple of things. We're talking
about out we're talking about you know, we talked on
yesterday's Trending episode about the DNC and you know, there's
a lot of a lot of energy going on there.
The Obamas were there at the same time, Trump seems
(11:13):
so sleepy, so sleepy, He's leapy, He's so sleepy.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
It does feel like like, uh, he's like energetically, this
feels like giving up the way you're speaking. But it's
very early. I think he just made it.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
It's very early, and I think his meds are off.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I think his script just needs to get refilled.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, but he probably has all the So I think
I noticed that during his administration that like he will
have his run of like two weeks where he's just
amped right, and then he'll he'll like kind of drop
out of view for a little bit, but sometimes he
has to be in view and so sleepy. So we'll
(11:55):
talk about that. We'll talk about Kamala Harris's economic policy,
so we'll talk about that, all of that plenty more.
But first, Blake Wexler, we do like to get to
know you a little bit better by asking what's something
from your search history that's revealing about who you are.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I looked at a broken glasses frames titanium fixed. So
we already waded our way into these waters. But the
glasses in question that that we're leading today's stories with
of mine that broke where I had titanium glasses, which
I was convinced was a strong metal, And then they
(12:34):
snapped at the bridge of the nose because I think
I was cleaning them too hard.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Wow, yeah, you're really getting in there.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, I was cleaning them like a sexually frustrated person
clean the glasses, and uh, yeah, they snapped, so nearly
those aren't go ahead, wait they You had.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Glasses that were made of the same material as Lieutenant
Dan's magic legs, titanium alloy, same thing they use on
the Space Shuttle.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And Dan is a friend and yeah, and recommended, and
I won't trust him exactly.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
We were both swimming, just lost in the sea, and
we came upon each other and the amount that we
had in common was six hours of conversation. There's no
like warranty on that, like they weren't. There was no
like rage a indestructible glasses warranty or anything on that.
Like for telling you Titan him, you'd think that, like
they're somewhat indestructible.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
You'd also think that I would look into it, but
I didn't, so I instead just got mad and yeah,
sure they're hard to fix, apparently, where you can't just
solder them together, like, you need a special tool.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
So I've been.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Do you have a soldering tool, a soldering iron?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I was rifling. I usually keep one in my pillow case.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Next time you keep it plugged in. It's real hot,
real hot.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
It takes a second, like I need to hear you're
the person break in and then charge charge around.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
One moment, one moment, one moment. Be right with you?
Burning hair? Yeah, yeah, it's mine. Hey, man, you should really,
you should really get that checked out. Dude, I think
that's like a third degree burn. No, it's fine, it's fine.
To give me a second, give me second, we'll do battle.
We'll do battle on a second. So you were robbing me,
were you saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I'm actually pretty
(14:23):
worried about your neck?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Man, No, no, no, it's fine, it's fine. Well, it's fine.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
My sister in law works at a burn center here.
I'm just gonna leave her number, have a good night.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Don't you want to take something? But not too far
because it's plugged in.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
It's a short cord, yea very short cord, like a
hot blue gun.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, I'm sitting on the floor, but yeah, it's it's difficult.
But I was able to find someone to uh to
ship them off and fix them. And they gave me
these these clunkers that I'm wearing these, Yeah, these plunkers
on my face.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, if you thought about rexpecs or like an athletic goggle,
that might you know, take a licking keep on taking,
oh rambus style.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah, I love when you talk like that? Can I
say that?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
First of all, I love when you rhyme, and then
also I don't I have thought about wearing because I
also wear my glasses when I work out, Like if
I go on a bike ride with my plumps, I
will just wear glasses instead of getting those like you know,
those cycling fucking shade you know what I mean, like
those shields on your face like.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, big glasses Like yeah, we all see
people wearing when they're in those like onesie biking spandex outfits,
and admire those people and are like, man.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Cool, Yeah you don't frown like it's so fun. I've
never frowned, Yeah, looking at someone round one like.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
A face like I just tasted something really bitter and
then spit on the ground involuntarily, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Or down my own shirt, like in my shirt, so
my spit shirt but yet so no, I haven't committed
to that yet, but I'm not above it. Like I've
started thinking about all the things I could put prescription
lenses in, And I wonder if anyone's gotten a prescription windshield. Wow,
is that a joke that was done in the eighties?
(16:20):
I feel like it might have been, but it did
just make me laugh.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
No, I like the whole car out of the glasses. Yes,
make it impossible for anyone to drive, except that would
ex And also like does that like would the sun
come through the windshield and then set your car on fire?
Because like they're like lens, big proper lenses.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
We got to replace this plether in these puther seats
because they are catching the body.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
The windshield is all one big prescription lens, but it's
focusing the like light of the sun in the most
dangerous ways inside the car. Shirt burned on the shoulder.
I shouldn't be driving at sunset, but uh yeah, the
carjacker immediately crashes into a tree and then catches fire,
not from the engine exploding, but just from the sun
(17:06):
through the windshield.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
That we'll say, I'm just if you're looking to create
a signature look, which I know you always are. Always
Like I remember every NBA player I ever saw wearing Rex,
you know, like like Rambas didn't do ship. He was
not a good player, like there were there were there,
but because he had those rexpecs on, you know, yeah,
(17:32):
Kareem you know Ladder day Kareem. Of course, Grant was
like his whole thing. I don't know if i'd remember
him necessarily if.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I think that is true.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
But no, well I feel like didn't wear them, right,
he wouldn't. Yeah, he he was terrible at basketball because
of it.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
He couldn't ship out there blind as a bat. No,
Harvey was rocking him.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Too, he was all right, yeah, yeah, yeah, are there
there are pictures of him rocking, but there are a
lot of him not rocking it. So he got the
correct advice surgery.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I'm just saying like if somebody was just like that
was their thing, they always had respects on, I feel
like I would, they would be unforgettable.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
In my mind. I just love Harvey. Grant wouldn't wear
glasses because his brother Horace did, and he doesn't look
like him. He's like everyone remember I'm old by two minutes. Yeah,
why should I have to wear the glasses. Argy, you
should wear the glass because you have We both have
the same condition. You're not even facing me right now.
It's only seeing. It's just vision cant as a professional
(18:37):
basketball player.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah, that is always so wild one Like there, I
think there's a London skyscraper that like melted a couple.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Of cars with just the reflection of the sun. Krikey.
I think that's a criky good.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I just and I was just setting up Lake for
his incredible London impression of somebody from London.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
So did you know actually the London I has an astigmatism.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Sorry, he's done it. He's done, folks, has done it.
He's done and done it. All right now we have
to move on, have you guys? No, No, we don't.
Have you ever there's a bug in here? God?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
What am I not doing?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Well?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
But have you ever done a mad bgan? A bug
a bug.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
In my house? Yeah? You said there's a bogan here? Yeah?
Is that how you're pronouncing here?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Have you ever done a mad boosties where you ranked
the twins or the brothers in the NBA? Like, no,
I guess how many twins the league kept us.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
From doing that? Actually, the Lozez, the Grants. I feel
like that's it.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Do we ever have a pair of identical twins who
are like on the same team at the same time,
like kind of taking advantage of that of that connection.
Are the Morris brothers twins Marquis.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yes, yes they are.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
The Morrises are twins. Yeah, the Lopezes. We were on
Stanford together, I remember, which is crazy.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Oh and the Morrises were on Kansas together too. Anyway, anyways,
there's something great answered it?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
What what's something he thinks underrated? Then?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, so you're gonna just come out and ask it.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I'm gonna say, Wait, the Martian brothers played together on
Charlotte at the same time. It looks like Caleb and Cody.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
And who can forget when they were just you know, tearing.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Up the courts. Well, hey, now now on the Sixers, right,
I know, I'm very excited Caleb.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Anyway, Sorry, sorry, who of our off season acquisitions are
you most excited about?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Blake? We're going to turn this into Masties.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I would say the resigning of sixty one year old
Kyle Lowry, who doesn't play a position where agility or
speed is necessary going to be the move that takes
us within four games of winning a first round place.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
He's he's so old that it's no longer about his athleticism.
His eyesight is also failing, and like his balance, his eyesight,
and I can't see. I can't see three feet in
front of him. What is something, Blake? Do you think's underrated?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Making nachos at home is an underrated thing? Because okay,
I think, yeah, so I believe ordering them nacho delivery
is insane. Like I think we can agree that, yeah, insane,
that's absolute foolishness.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Your home.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Now, there was a place that we would order a
nacho kit from where the ingredients would come separately, which
was kind of cool so it wouldn't mush up. But
still you might as well just have the increase, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Like it was being marked up in a way that it's, yeah,
a little.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Five dollars for this little cup, I can get a
can for two. It's like, yeah, I also order pieces
of an inhaler for one time every time I need
to use.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Yourself.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
There are some times during the pandemic when like we
would order food and they'd be like, all right, here
are the ingredients, and like it's up to you to
kind of put it together. And I just felt humiliated.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Oh yeah, the best of the subway was selling their
ship like their stock. You know, you can buy a
whole bag of tuna fish and I'm like, yeah, yeah,
that's what I like. Open up the open up those
fucking cupboards and is it measured out before they put
it in a bag?
Speaker 5 (22:44):
No?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Loose? Loose if you know the guy you get hooked
up do they could be a heavy one.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
But what.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Your what's your home? Your home recipe?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
So we'll go chips and then well y, and then
we bake them twice, put them in the oven, pull
it out, put it back in m h. No chips
obviously the cheat we'll had a little crema on there,
(23:18):
yeah klama, and then the key will put like whatever,
treeso whatever on it and then add extra stuff afterwards
so you can't bake it.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
We'll put some saucea on it, but you can't do
that for the whole.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Duration of melting cheese, you know what I mean? Y, yeah,
A little bit of sour cream some.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
What else will we put on? Krama and sour cream.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
We'll do one or the other. We'll do prefer like
a thick a thick dairy.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
We don't want you to feel judged here, but that's
fucking disgusting.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
We don't want you to feel judged. But you're giving
yourself an allergy, like you train your body, like.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
You're buying like the Kashi gay brand, like grandma, they
watch your mouth.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
But yeah no I will, yeah we will, yeah for sure,
and no, but we like to mix that up and
and then just like the other stuff that you put
on there and but yeah, no real deviation. But it's
like you ever made nachos at home?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you poker games.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
If you're gonna put me on the spot, you know,
the frosted flakes on the on the side, an entire
bag of sand on sand bags of sand bold like yeah,
a root vegetable unwashed and dirt dirted vegetable.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Yeah yeah, great, great.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
But yeah no, it's it's also you can make as
much as you want, is the fun part, So like
you can eat until you're sick, where you know it's
a limited serving size. I think, and this is an
important question.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Are you a fan of just a canned cheese like
you know, high school football game style m versus like
melting the.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Ship on nots, but on like cheese, steaks, seal, beat it,
you know. So it's it's not an aversion to the
fact that it's not like but you prefer yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah, it's it's not a food recognized by nature
or the laws of nature.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
But I will yeah half we eat it. You can
put that all over your skin and like go into
the sea and not get a sunburn. It's really good.
That's your regimen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. What is
Blake something he thinks overrated?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Overrated? Hardcover books? Now I can't read.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
So in jail. No, it's preface, I can't.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
But it's it's the material, No, I think like hardcover
books often are more expensive if you're buying a physical
book than obviously a paperback, and they are more difficult
to the space in which they take up.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Questions they take up yea and the right sentence from
which within you emerge Yes.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
The space in which they take up henceforth is this
part is this part.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Of your operated was written by Kam Layers. The space
in which they take up and.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
The space in which they take up she's on the discord.
And but yeah, they especially they're hard to travel with too.
Where when you're packing a hardcover book, it's a lot
more difficult to pack than like a I'm just called
it a soft shell book than all.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Yeah, you got the books, and when's a soft shell
come out? This is the hard shells expense. Yeah, you
put a bim on again. I can't read. I don't
know what these things are for. Where's the meat taste
terrible when I dip it in the butter?
Speaker 6 (26:55):
What?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I can kind of agree with that?
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Like, they they're basically like our cover books are for
the bookshelf, right, that's the main reason they're there. They
look good on a bookshelf. But they are at pain
in the ass for sure.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah, yeah, thank you. And they're sharp, the corners are sharp.
You could kill yourself on one.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Of those books. You could, Yes, I could.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I've fallen all running and I I grew up in
a home where you weren't allowed to run holding a
hardcover book cover book, And that's why I'm still alive.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
That was a rule that applied only to you.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Oh yeah, we would do the running like you know
how the sports teams do running up the mascots. You know,
we would do that but with children in the neighborhood
and hardcover books, and I was never.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Yeah, explains a lot, explains a lot.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
It does.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.
And we're back, and we are and this is gonna
surprise I think everybody who's listened to a Blake wex
Layer episode before. We are way behind the schedule. Yeah, yea.
(28:07):
So Trump is sleepy. Yeah, RFK is gonna drop out,
and uh, her economic plans being panned by like mainstream
media and uh people hate public spice left the Blake Man,
thanks so much for joining us. That was where go wrong?
Where one around the time of the glasses becoming the windshield?
(28:29):
I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, but we got through it.
We got minutes ago, about thirty seconds ago. Yeah, and
then young men didn't we We really did, all right?
Barely seems so so sleepy? Yeah, holy shit.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
So a lot of people are like, how's the DNC
gonna feel like? Are they going to be able to
sustain the vibes as we talked about yesterday's trending, The
vibes feel sustained thus far. And we're recording this the
day after the Little John State roll call and the
Obama's just making fun of Donald Trump in a way
(29:11):
that went over big with I think a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
And we're also recording it the day after.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
And this is also something that everybody similarly iconic. So
he gave a speech in the dog Whistle White Supremacy
Michigan Town Howell, Michigan, where he seemed to be sleep like,
about to fall asleep the whole time. Just one of
the sleepiest speeches I've ever seen him or anyone give.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
If you are driving, I would pull over, yes, because
you will fucking die of boredom listening to this. Here's
here's a part of the very sleepy, sedated Trump have.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
They have.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
They just have it out for the police.
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Nobody knows why. I don't know understand why.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
From a common sense I like to say the Republican
Party is now the party of common sense. Conservative, Yeah,
I guess conservative, it doesn't matter. It's the party of
common sense. We want to have borders, we want to
have strong police protection. We want a military they can
protect us. We want great schools, school.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Right, because we don't have a military that we're yeah, yeah, yeah, yes,
this is talking shit about people in the military so far.
The room tone is deafening. That basically he was basically
in a police garage giving the speech with like two
of the most bored cops behind him who were like
(30:40):
trying to stay awake hearing this. And cops are like
bored for a living, Like they love to be bored.
They like to a peer board, they like to just
like sit around in the car and b board. It's
how we get into a lot of trouble in this
country in the first place, is just bored cops. He's
just like it's the speak. He's speaking in a.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Tone that you generally only hear when you're in bed
with someone, when you're both like slipping off to sleep,
you know, right where It's like like sometimes I or
my wife will say very weird things, like I think
I once was talking about people coming in through the
windows at one point, and she's like.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
What the fuck are you talking about that? Because yous right,
ampariis But then Trump kind of like, I just want
to read this part this is from his speech and
unless we I don't think we have this queue off.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
But women want to have safety, they want to have
a strong military, they want to have a strong police force.
They want to be in the house and they want
to be safe. They don't want to have people pouring
in their doors and you can't do anything about it. Right,
that's I hope too much energy you're giving to it.
But from that too, I hope they like my personality.
(31:57):
I have a nice personality, But to me, it wouldn't
be very important the personality.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
They want to be safe. Oh okay, what huh did you?
Then he started talking about the border wall. This is
this part about the border wall is also wild or
he's just trying to get ahead of that of high
technology in it.
Speaker 7 (32:15):
Thousand pounds concrete inside and then rebar. Oh, my technology,
wires and things for tech, high technology.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
It was just there was wires and things in it
for high technology. Yeah, the relation of.
Speaker 8 (32:29):
The water patrol. I wanted actually concrete plank.
Speaker 7 (32:33):
I would have a job with pre cast. You haven't.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I wanted long span plank, long span. Yeah, it was.
It was really rough. It's because long span. It's called
long sp like he's doing. He's doing is like I'm
in construction things like you never heard of it. It's
called long span construction. Pre cast. Your eyes out of it.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
It really feels like there's someone off stage being like
straight stretch, yeah, keep going, like he's just like trying
to well, he was.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Reading off paper too, like he just had a stack
of papers. He was just shuffling through. It was really again,
super low energy and it's wild though when you juxtaposed
that with like basically the Democrats had two arenas filled
between the United Center in Chicago and five Serve in
Wisconsin because there was a Harris Walls rally in Wisconsin,
and like they were both fucking packed out. And this
(33:27):
guy's like nodding off at a police garage where even
like the cops who love him are like, dude, what
the fuck, bro, I'm about to leave and I have
to be here.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Yeah, I was watching. I think we might talk about
it in a few minutes. But like that THEO Vaughn
or at the beginning of it, like that he went
on THEO Vaughn's podcast, And I don't I never watch,
and I think a lot of people might be like
me in that I only see Trump speak in at
the longest a minute fifteen clip on Twitter. Because if
you know, you can't watch more than that, or you're
(33:59):
like you'll you'll kill yourself but like I will, I've
never seen him really do a whole I've never seen
him do a whole speech really, and that since he's
been president and thank you. And I started watching because
I'm like, oh, he was on a comedians podcast. I'll
watch some of like see how the comedian interviewed a president,
(34:19):
Like I always find that interesting. Yeah, And I watched
the first ten minutes of it and then I shut
it off. But like he was so tired even in
that too.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yeah, unconsciously theo van starts talking about coke because Trump
seemed so tired, and he's like, you need I'm trying.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
To help you out here, man, Like yeah, before we
play that clip, I just want to play like how
Newsmax and also Fox News fucking gave up on this
speech because they're like, yo, dude, we can't eat, like
we need to help bad look bad, look bad, look bad,
like hit the budging. This is just like again, a
nice little bit of meandering into like okay, so that's
(34:58):
that fucking guy talking and he's good.
Speaker 8 (35:01):
This is what's going on with the judges in New York.
Nobody can.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Every time you play this, I can't believe how she's
sleepy here.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
All right, you're listening to former President Donald Trump speaking
alive in Howell, Michigan, specifically about liberal policies and how
they have destroyed major cities across the United States. It's
funny how each time these people are cut away they
have to try and summarize what they've been hearing because
it's like so meandering, like and that was obviously talking
about how like the communists are going to destroy like
(35:31):
our earth. Thank you so much. This is the Fox
News one.
Speaker 7 (35:36):
They shooting arrest people for saying the election was rigged,
but they like that. They go they go after guys
like me, but they don't go after people that kill people.
It's a shame what's happened in our country.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
But we're gonna turn it around.
Speaker 7 (35:49):
We're gonna win big, and we're gonna turn it around.
Speaker 8 (35:51):
Well we turn it around fast.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Okay, uh huh, thank you. Coffee on yourself.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Speak in how Michigan this afternoon, and clearly the focus
is law, law enforcement, his respect for law enforcement. He
was standing there with several members of the police.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Just describing it. Respect for law enforcement, respect for police.
SUV's clearly a very coherent strategy here. Yes, yes, yes, yeah, okay, thanks,
or wheel drive police vehicles. Yeah, you gotta have on
Star because something you can have a car accident and
on Star will be Hey, this is on stardent. Cop
(36:34):
cars get stolen, you gotta find the cop cars. You
got to use the low check.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
There is one park where he turns and he says
to the cops behind him, do you promise he'll never
be woke?
Speaker 3 (36:44):
I don't see a lot of books. There's not a
lot of wookness. I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Do you think he like part of his brain is
realizing everyone's like falling asleep, and like he's equating that
because it's such a cell phone to be like, yeah,
I'm anti wokeness, and you won't be woke right to
somebody who's like biting their cheek trying to stay awake
while you're talking.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
If anything, you want them to be woke because they
are sleeping right now and you don't want that. But
I guess in the literal sense, but yeah, there's eight
cops tasing themselves, you know, like just to stay awake. Yeah,
like in the balls they're like I'm still still meaning fuck,
but that THEO von clip is wild because like again
(37:27):
we've heard like yeah, like Trump is like afraid of
street drugs but fine with like prescription drugs and like
this weird show and tell over, like doing cocaine is
so strange because like you have people talking about like
other presidential campaigns, like here's the policies that are happening.
Speaker 9 (37:44):
He's like, so coke is like good or bad? And
feeling no, I would just do cocaine. That was really yeah,
so not just yeah, it was that's down and dirty. Yeah,
and this is yeah, I mean it was yeah, but
you don't anymore. Now I don't do it anymore, man,
And I'm not doing is it too much? Too much
to some of the stuff started to get a real
(38:05):
rattle in it too. I don't know where we were
what he's talking about. It started to make me feel
like I was a mechanic or so.
Speaker 8 (38:12):
The thing you go back to then is alcohol for
the most part.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
Right, Yeah, but well what I want probably is cocaine.
But I know that if I have a drink then
it'll give me. It'll like be like, Okay, well I
had a drink, then I can do this.
Speaker 8 (38:23):
Is cocaine a stronger?
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Oh yep, it's like he's almost like, should I try
it like this?
Speaker 1 (38:32):
We're watching him like, yeah, getting groomed by theo van
is no longer working.
Speaker 8 (38:42):
So your way up with cocaine more than anything else
you can think of.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Okay, I'll turn you into a damn owl, homie. You
know what I'm saying. It'll you'll be You'll be out
on your own porch. You know, you'll you'll be your
own street lamp. You're freaking And is.
Speaker 8 (38:55):
That a good feeling? While it's a more miserable feeling.
Speaker 6 (38:58):
But you do it anyway, just like the how you're
saying with the scotch.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
So wow, what they're talking about over there? So it's good.
Oh they're cutting it with cocaine. A good feeling, got
a rattle in it. Made me feel like a damn mechanic.
You don't want to be an owl or a street lamp. No, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Used to do this bit of like the guy who
wants to ask who's trying to get coke and like
he's so obvious about it, but the other person like
isn't picking up. He goes, hey, do you have any
And the guy's like what and he goes, oh, do
you have any you and the guys like, I don't understand.
He goes do anything though, And the guy's like, I
don't know what do you any I got? And he goes, oh,
(39:40):
do I have any cocaine? He goes, you do coke?
Speaker 3 (39:48):
All right, well, I guess I could try it that.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Her interview ended with Donald Trump doing cocaine, right, no, yea, hey,
can you put it on this bag.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
Mister president?
Speaker 8 (39:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
It really feels like that's where it's headed because he
needed to wake the fuck up or or not. Maybe
they just like kind of let him drift off to
sleep and.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
We yeah, this is the end.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Probably not, though, Let's take a quick break. We'll take
a quick break and we'll come back and talk about
some other stuff. We'll be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
We're back, And I wanted to talk about that.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
So Kamala revealed her her economic policy in a speech
last week, and she connected the record high inflation that
we were seeing for the past few years to the
fact that corporations we're seeing record high profits and okay,
(40:58):
exactly that is exactly how the mainstream media and the economists,
including like Obama's former economics advisor, went on CNN and
was like yeah, literally, like okay, Stalin, what the fuck
are you talking about? This is crazy? This has failed,
Like she wants to turn us into Venezuela.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
What it like this?
Speaker 2 (41:17):
This is impossible, like it it's so wild. Like the
stories have poured forth. They're like the Washington Post issued
a kind of opinion piece that got a lot of
attention that was basically like you know, said it was
very disappointing, said that she's resorting to populist gimmicks with
(41:40):
her plan, and then they said, even adjusted for the
pandering standards of campaign economics, however, Miss Harris's speech Friday
ranks as a disappointment. And I read that piece, It's
like it doesn't really go into detail why they don't
think corporations raising prices and getting record profits is related
(42:03):
to inflation in any way. They're just they kind of
just dismiss it. So I went around from piece to
piece to try to find them debunking like this idea
and just being like so like La Times had a
opinion piece Colin Kamala Harris wants to tackle corporate price gouging.
(42:24):
Here's what she is missing, okay, which is what that
is from a former editor at the National Review.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
He basically just smirks and says, like, sure there was
some greed, but we all know it's not the real cause,
it's just populous politics that she's saying that CNN did
the thing that I was hoping somebody would do where
they would because I just I just want an explanation.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
I'm not an economist. I don't know shit, Like I
know that.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Every time I've been like, it's so weird that they
have these record profits and they're the ones driving inflation,
and yet every economist is like, those two things are
completely un related, and shut the fuck up and stop
bringing that up.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
It's crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
So the CNN article acknowledges some corporate creed, but it
debunks the connection by finding isolated examples of companies having
higher profits when inflation wasn't high. This is literally their argument,
they say, Take for instance, Pepsi Co. Last year, the
company reported earning a very solid nine point one billion
(43:25):
in profit. That's two billion more than what it made
in twenty twenty, but it's still below the twelve point
five billion profit it earned in twenty eighteen, when prices
were rising at an annual pace below three percent. Similarly, Kroger,
one of the nation's largest supermarket chains, earned a bigger
profit in twenty eighteen compared to twenty twenty three. So,
(43:46):
just to summarize what that argument is, their argument is
that greed can't be the cause of inflation because these
two companies had isolated good years when national inflation was
not high.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
They're they're taking the argument that, like, inflation is connected
to companies just kind of raising prices when they realized
that they could, because there's this national narrative about supply
chain issues, and they're taking that and saying that can't
be true because these companies had successful years.
Speaker 3 (44:19):
Not during the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Like it suggests that we're arguing that raising prices that
cause inflation is the only way for a company to
be successful, right, yeah, yeah, it's it's so anecdotal, it
doesn't like logically, it doesn't even coke here, Like the
whole reason we're asking you to knock it off is
because you don't need to bleed people dry to be successful, Like, yeah,
(44:44):
we know that you can have success without arbitrarily raising prices.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
Well, but it's also wild too, like to be like, oh,
this is communism, Like fucking Donald Trump even put an
executive order out to put price protections on certain things
at the onset of the pandemic, and like many other
states have like very broad bills about price gouging. So
to act suddenly that like this is like some extreme
take is just fucking odd, but also makes sense when
(45:11):
a lot of these companies are also like publicly traded
that are like that own the news companies and things
like that. But every like analysis that's done, like the
Economic Policy Institute like made it clear, like it's corporate profits,
not increased costs for labor or inputs, drove the majority
of inflation. Like that's just that's the conclusion that was made.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Yeah, you would think it was like a fringe Marxist
theory that based on like how these people are.
Speaker 3 (45:40):
Result Yeah, well, and like and I think it's also
about consolidation, right, because you have certain industries where it's
like fucking three companies own sixty percent of the market,
and when you have that kind of market consolidation, you
have the ability to raise prices at will. So like again,
even the House Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy said
like they were showing some corporations quote, were able to
(46:03):
use their market power to raise prices far above any
increases in their underlying costs attributable to existing inflation. Economists
at the University of Massachusetts put out in a journal
article that said US COVID nineteen inflation is predominantly a
seller's inflation that derives from microeconomic origins, namely the ability
of firms with market power to hike prices. And they
(46:25):
found also corporate profits accounted for more than fifty percent
of food price increases, whereas they accounted for only eleven
percent of increases in the four decades prior. Like it's
I don't like, I'm still failing to understand. I think
it was easy to do that at the beginning because
of the supply chain issue. But then even looking at
the shipping industry, they're making profits like they've never fucking
(46:48):
seen before. They're like, yeah, man, because we are tech,
we're a big part of the supply chain, but we're
out now making profits that are like eye watering that
we had never seen before. Ever.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
Yeah, they'll charge as much as they possibly think they
can get away with charging, which I mean, I guess
that is economics, but it's also like it's not natural,
and like when you look at what these people are saying,
like CEOs are saying on their earnings call, Like Procter
and Gamble's chief financial officer bragged during a twenty twenty
(47:21):
three earnings call that even though the company's input costs
to make diapers had decreased, they were still keeping consumer
prices high, and they were making a ton of money
off of that, like record profits. Kroger supermarket chain executive said, quote,
a little bit of inflation is always good for our business.
Like they're said, they're bragging about it, like they tell
(47:44):
you exactly what they're doing, but then when you point
out that that's what they're doing, they're like, well, no,
you're being unrealistic.
Speaker 3 (47:52):
Well because yeah, again, it's like any any fucking threat
to the status quo is like met with this kind
of fucking energy. Like even when you have someone like
Calm L. Harris, who is doing a lot to uphold
the status quo in most places, like this one part,
like what the fuck? And then like your point that
guy Jason Furman who used to work for like Obama, Yeah,
(48:12):
he like he had like he's been posting all kinds
of fucking stupid stuff like throughout the year. Like he said,
he's like, oh man, there's this one quote from Brian Albreck.
Quote blaming inflation or anti competitive behavior or greed is
like blaming plane crashes on gravity. Oh, chef's kiss. We
love that. And this guy works for like the Peterson
Institute for International Economics, and this is a group whose
(48:34):
funding comes from places like Amazon, Chevron, Toyota, Pepsi Shell
and like they're there to put out these sort of
analyzes that are just sort of like, mom, man, you know,
it's like it's just got of these like intangibles. It's
all good.
Speaker 4 (48:47):
Just that.
Speaker 2 (48:48):
Back to that CNN article, because so they come off
that argument that it can't be inflation because these companies
had successful years, not in the time period we're talking about,
and they say so Harris's claim just doesn't quite hold
up on the whole, though, there are some recent examples
where charging consumers more has fed higher corporate profits.
Speaker 3 (49:09):
First of all, there's like so many, but.
Speaker 2 (49:11):
They're like Calmaine Foods, the largest egg producer in the US,
saw its revenue double and profit search seven hundred and
eighteen percent in the first quarter of last year because
of sharply higher egg prices. Like so they keep being like,
we'll give you that, We'll give you this one example
of a thing like that.
Speaker 3 (49:29):
I remember that.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
I remember eggs being way more expensive last year, and
the thing the reason they were more expensive is because
this company wanted to double profit.
Speaker 3 (49:43):
And that's what happened.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
Like that, those are those are the two things that
we know that makes that they have like a thing
that makes sense over here, and then they just hand
wave it away by being like, yeah, but economics like that.
You know, we had an economist over here saying that's
just how things are going to operate.
Speaker 3 (50:03):
Yeah. I mean even like Star Kissed Tuna, like they
had to settle a class action lawsuit for like two
hundred million because consumers are like, dude, I like alleging
they were fixing can tuna prices and they're like, ah, yeah,
all right, well sorry about that. Like it's so many
times when people are like raising the alarm about it,
they're not like fighting it in court. They're like yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,
(50:24):
we'll agree to okay, that's yeah, all right, you guys.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
And we're talking about anti competitive behavior. It's not like
the thing that you know, the Obama economics guy is like, well, yeah,
greeed is like the whole thing that drives market economies.
It's like, yeah, but there's because of all the consolidation
and the deregulation, and because like companies are engaging in
anti competitive behavior that is not part of Like it's
(50:48):
a thing that you were supposed to be against if
you're like, really, capitalism will solve everything thing, but they
they just don't give a fuck, they're not interested in
solving that.
Speaker 3 (50:59):
Well, it's like again, because this is you know, like
this is where the media's responsibility comes in. When as
a consumer, when you hear inflation inflation, inflation inflation, and
that's being presented as the norm, you're gonna do very
that's just like the accepted reality you're in as a consumer.
So then when you go to the store and you're like,
what the why is this bread so fucking expensive, You're like, oh,
that's right, inflation, supply chain whatever. That's just like the
(51:22):
you know, propaganda intellectual cover for these companies to just
raise the prices under the guise of like serving us
the consumer. The logic of it's just out of control inflation.
It's nothing you can do. Don't look at how much
money is being made really on all of this.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
And it's like, oh, the inflation hasn't touched wages, you know,
so it's like, okay, everything's increasing, and it's like just inflation,
Like why aren't why isn't my pay being inflor fairly?
Speaker 3 (51:49):
That means prices will go up. It's like, well, you
haven't done that, and the prices are and the prices
are going and your profits are all going up and
make it make sense. And they're like, shut up, fucking yeah, yes,
because it's what they call it in the New York Post.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
The media is, you know, the media, and a lot
of the government is corporate owned, and so it is
working on behalf of corporations, and so the only messaging
we get is messaging that feels like it is it
might as well be like written by and for corporations
and right, so, like, the big picture of what happened
(52:24):
in the economy during the pandemic was that every day
people were suffering while massive companies and you know, the
stock market we're doing great, like everyone. Economists kept predicting
a massive recession or depression that never came because corporations
managed to isolate themselves from it, and the way they
did that, at least partially, was just put downward pressure
(52:47):
on people. And people have no voice in America, you know,
they don't have like a media outlet that is focused
on like telling the stories for them that is free
of like corporate influence.
Speaker 3 (53:01):
Well yeah, or so yeah, it's independent media that like
requires like listener funding and things like that. But yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's just uh, it's just like industry after industry. You
look and it's like it's just right there in front
of you. Like remember how expensive fucking rental cars were
during at that time, and people were like, what the
fuck is going on? So three firms control fifty percent
(53:23):
of the rental car market, right, Yeah, So between twenty
nineteen and twenty twenty one, Hertz and Avis, they had
a profit increase of five hundred and ninety seven percent.
They went from two hundred and forty four million to
one point sixty seven billion, right and then but if
you look at all their like their financials, their expenses
went down during that time. So it's purely just because.
Speaker 2 (53:46):
Well, we got to operations supposed to be inflation is
supposed to be their expenses go up, they have to
raise prices.
Speaker 3 (53:52):
That's not what's happening here, no, exactly, So and I
think that's what's like really weird too, is like in
the like in this analysis of what is even proposing,
it's like you completely ignore how this is like a
thing even Republicans have fought for, like in the past,
Like price gouging is like it's a real thing that
has to be reckoned with. But I think because that
does that's like been the big golden goose for a
(54:14):
lot of these publicly traded companies to like make the
line just go fucking hockey stick up. Yeah, it's yeah,
they don't want they don't want any more attention on it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (54:23):
And the thing that like they acknowledge about, they're like, yeah,
and then people got these you know, stimulus checks or
you know, relief checks, and so we knew they had
extra money. So yeah, the price went up, and it's
like that's fucked up, like cool, which is that's economics,
but that's a terrible way to It's like, yeah, we're
(54:44):
gonna fucking shake you down for your extra lunch money.
Speaker 3 (54:47):
Well, what do you know? You guys, wait, did your
grandma just die? She left you like one hundred bucks, right, yeah, yeah,
give it here, give it here. Yeah, so the price
is like one hundred and one dollars, but it's usually one.
Well you got you got that extra hundred right yeah? Yeah,
what's it? Just like with just like with like car
subsidies too, It's like, if the government's going to offer
people fifteen thousand dollars for like an ev or something
like that, then guess what the price of EV's is
(55:07):
just going to go up fifteen grand. That's just what
they're They're like, well, they can absorb it. And I
think that's one of the worries too with like talking
about offering people twenty five thousand dollars for like first
time home buying and things like what that will do
to the market, because everyone's going to be like presume
everyone can just raise the prices twenty five thousand dollars.
But it's the market, man, it's the market of the
(55:28):
market's always right, yeah, and we're free to fuck you over.
I love the market when they give them market mild
tax credit.
Speaker 2 (55:34):
Oh my god, the price on diapers, like they already
raised the price on diapers and diapers are going to
be like fucking yeah, the be waged out like cocaine.
Speaker 3 (55:45):
Yeah, I mean they're already packed in bricks, so yeah,
I mean yeah, it's just right there. People are just
putting a fucking knife into the brick. They're like, oh yeah,
that's cutting over the diaper. That's a Huggies nighttime. That's
like twelve hours of leak protection right there with the
blowout barrier. Yeah yeah, yeah, smoke in the blowout arerier.
You find that useful? Oh yeah, man, because like there's
like fucking laxative stuff cut in there. Man, you fucking
(56:07):
snort that, bro, you farting all day, like fucking that.
You're in a blot band or something. Blake.
Speaker 2 (56:13):
What a pleasure having you as always? Where can people
find you? Follow you all that good stuff?
Speaker 3 (56:18):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (56:19):
I've always said this, You two are my blowout barriers,
and I couldn't appreciate it anymore. That's so we observe
in a way that is unpaired. We don't let it
shoot up your back. No no, And I can't say
that about many people, but I can say it about
you too. You can find me live stand up dates
(56:40):
September twenty ninth at one eighteen North in suburban Philadelphia, Wayne, Pennsylvania.
So that's my hometown and wow, yeah, so you'll see
me in my hometown. I don't know what that's going
to do to my act, but it is going to
do something to it. So come to that the December fifth,
I mean he William Comedy Club in Philadelphia, November one,
(57:01):
the Hideout in Boston. So Blake lextor dot com you
can get tickets there to all these shows.
Speaker 3 (57:09):
And uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (57:09):
At Blake Wexler social media, my special Blake Lestor Daddy
long Legs is on YouTube. Watch our tube. Yeah, wow,
it's the communists. You say, our gar tube, our tube,
the tube that we share.
Speaker 3 (57:24):
Yeah, I don't trust it. Well, Blake, is there a
work of media that you've been enjoying? Yes? A one
CHRISTI two.
Speaker 1 (57:33):
And one two three four CHRISTI two at the Wopple House,
I should say Wopple House. So people, I mean everyone
follows him on here, I would imagine. But Christianamaguchi Man
posted a photo of a fire chief and drug dealer
in Key West from the seventies and the guy's name
(57:54):
was bum Fartoh I saw that Christiamaguchi Ban wrote my
favorite Star Wars character, Bumfarto, which baby laugh very hard.
So that was the my tweet that I enjoyed.
Speaker 2 (58:09):
Miles, where can people find you? Is there a work
of media you've been enjoying?
Speaker 3 (58:12):
Yeah, I'm me on Twitter, Instagram at Miles of Gray,
and you can also find Jack and I on Miles
and Jack on Mad Boosties talking about just you know,
just transitioning out of the Olympics further into the regular
season doing some common folk as fans, and also find
me on the latest episode of Black People Love Paramore,
where I talk about my love of rat beefs, and
(58:34):
also on four to twenty Day Fiance. We'll have some
new episodes up this week, so check that out. A
tweet I like, there's someone tweeted this is from at
Brandy Underscore Buck when it says for my friends not
termally online or on TikTok. There is a man who
spoofs JD fans constantly and here's the video. This is
a dude with like eyeliner who kind of looks like
this is him.
Speaker 10 (58:55):
I need yeah, yeah JD vance here. I wanted to
pull over my f two fifty and just sit here
and rep with you about some stuff and it's going
on in the campaign.
Speaker 6 (59:04):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (59:04):
Yeah, I've had a couple of campaign hiccups, but who hasn't.
You know A reporter asked me a softball question and
I got defensive. I'm not used to that kind of stuff. Also,
I referred to grandmothers as postmanoposal females.
Speaker 8 (59:17):
You know.
Speaker 10 (59:17):
People said that made me sound like some kind of replicant.
But in my defense, that's how I see them.
Speaker 3 (59:21):
It's but that's how I see them. Yeah. Actually, that's right.
Sam has been on this show before too. Yeah, Sam, Miles.
It's it's wild just how much the eyeliner immediately made
this guy look like Jdvace somebody an eyeliner. That's such
a rareness.
Speaker 2 (59:37):
Yeah, awesome. You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore. O'Brien. Uh,
let's see here. What have I been enjoying?
Speaker 3 (59:49):
No, I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (59:50):
And by the way, to those listening, I can't recommend
Miles and Jack Moore. They're two great guys, So get
all their content that you can that you can scoop up.
Oh wow, go ahead, Jack.
Speaker 3 (59:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
From me, they have my endorsement. So if you want
to pay attention to them, you can thank you and you.
Speaker 3 (01:00:04):
Will have a cabinet position in our administration. We appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
Let's see Matt at Maddie b tweet sixty nine Nice
tweeted tried watching this the Sopranos show you all talk about.
First word I hear is woke. Turned it right off.
Speaker 3 (01:00:24):
You can find.
Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
Me on Twitter at Jack Underscore Brian. You can find
us on Twitter at daily Zeitgeist where the Daily Zeitgeist
on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website,
dailyzeikeist dot com, where we post our episodes and our
footnote No, we link off to the information that we
talked about in today's episode, as well as a song
that we think you might enjoy.
Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
Miles, is there a song that you think people might enjoy?
I think they'll like this track from a sevenminole band
from the seventies, Simon Day C Y M A d E.
They're like kind of one of these bands that start
melding like West African kind of style with more like rock,
like obviously outside of like what Fella Kuti was doing
(01:01:06):
with acrobef, but more just like kind of having this
stylistic conversation between continents UH and their music super Chill
and Vibe. This track is called one More and the
band Somemondie see why m A and d E.
Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
All right, we will link off to that in the footnotes.
Speaker 3 (01:01:22):
The Daily is the production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
For more podcasts from my Heart Radio, visit the iHeartRadio
at Apple podcast or wherever you find your favorite shows.
That is gonna do it for us this morning, back
this afternoon to tell you what is trending and we
will talk to you all then.
Speaker 3 (01:01:35):
Bye wa
Also there was a rumor that they like cut his
pp off too, and like it's wild, it's wild, like
it's I don't know if that was true or not,
or if I just made that out in the documentary
I thought, but uh yeah, that's a wild Can we
just get First of all.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
That's the cold open, second of all, just being great
if this like true crime documentary just cuts to Blake going.
Second of all, there was a rumor that they cut
his pp off my lower third.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
They're like, title just says stupid idiot, doctor Blake went
Wexler forensic forensic an, Hello.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
The Internet, and welcome to season three, fifty two, Episode
four of Dally Guys, production by iHeartRadio. This is the
podcast where we take a deep dive into America's share consciousness.
And it is Thursday, August twenty second, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah, yep, yep. August twenty four, August two to two
is National Surgical on College's Day, shout out all those
people fighting the cancer. Uh never being Better day. I
don't know what the fuck this. It's got pictures of dogs.
It's not a real day, so forget it. National Pecan
Tortue Day. We just have p can high he can spurt.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Day Can farmers are getting greedy exactly.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
And to go along with all that sugar eating, it's
National Tooth fairy Day, you know what I mean. I
don't know what the market rate is on a tooth
these days. I don't know what we have. I think
I asked this every time it comes around, like Jack,
what's the what's the market right now? For? It is
highly variable the market because I rarely have cash.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
On me, so it's like whatever I can find. You know,
it's either a quarter or fifty dollars is actually worth
a twenty because that's all we have in the house.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Your first tooth was actually only worth twenty five cents.
You can't just do it like a record label, like
here's an advance on your whole grill home. Here's fifty bucks.
Don't ask me for ship. We're we're not making a
music video or nothing. It's also National Bow Day. So
shout out the beautiful tasty Chinese dumplings. Oh okay, yeah
I thought it was the like b e oh b
(02:26):
a oh yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
All right, shout out to Bow. Shout out to Pecan,
the p can what are they can dumple it. Pecannt
torte yet?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, what is that like? It's like a little cake
with some drizzle on top. No matter whatever I think anyways,
and I love that. I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I say, you get you're you're flying too close to
the sun Pecan industry.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
My name is Jack O'Brien aka. I can't get down
because I'm up in space. Can somebody please bring me down?
I can't get down. I'm stuck up in space. Will
somebody please get me down? That is tub thumpthing courtesy
of Fermentable Burgers on the discord gross also redundant. All
(03:15):
bookers are Fermentable. But thank you for your oka. Won't
somebody please bring the astronauts down from being stuck up
in the international.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Hey, Boeing will solve it. Man Boeing's on it, Man
on it.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
They are exporting flight delays from commercial flights to space. Yes,
and those commercial those flight delays are a year long.
It's very impressive. I feel like I think about them
and I can't help but be like, are there sparks
the two astronauts who are up there together? You know,
(03:52):
like they thought they were up there for a week.
I know that a rom com, yet it's gotta be
a wrong. Like I I'm sure there's been rom coming space,
but like this one just feels like it calling out
for it was so fucking hot, so romantic, dude, the
sparks to spin it at it on that space channel
that like creates the big fire that almost kills everyone. Anyways,
(04:16):
I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
mister Miles Gray.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Its Miles Gray aka Grimey.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Grimey you know what I keep in the lining a
lot better stay yeah line when you see a presss
like me, I say Grimey.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Elsa aka Grimey Elsa. That's my undergram name. I just
came up with that shout out to who is that
monish with the all the anagrams? Yeah, just Grimey. Is
it off? Off is a character? Right? I had? I
feel like that was the only other character either the snowman,
yeah he's a snowman, boyfriend nailed it or the yak.
(04:56):
I don't know, it's one of that. Then I'm looking
at character list. Now, I nailed it, and you did
nail it. Congress did nail it by just adding one
word that I knew that was Tamson's connected to Frozen
or directly connected? And I made a parody song thank
you so much.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Well, Miles, we are through to be joined in air
third seat by a brilliant comedian writer actor Oh Boy.
His nickname is oh Boy. Look look what did the
Irish say when she's oh yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Well?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
One time I was really drunk and missed a flight
and when I like finally got to my new flight gait,
I heard an Irish woman say, here comes chaos.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Anyways, that is the introduction for this guest writer, the
actor who's been brought to you, who's brought you a
comedy album such as the Blake album, Stuffed Boy Live
from the Pandemic, his newest special Daddy lung Legs, which
you can go watch on YouTube. The coiner of the
disgusting phrase plumpers to describe his juicy philly above the
(06:06):
knees steaks. Please welcome, the hilarious, the chaotic, the riding
a rick cumbent bike and short shorts.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Blake Waxlan plump plump o bum plumpum pumpum plump.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Crack that whip comes along. You've got plumpers when your
thighs are really strong. Two big plumpers orse, Daddy plumpers
plumpers good or baby plumpers Plumper's good. That was from
Chauncey Yonders from the I figured out how to access
to the discord thanks to producer Yonder. I punched it
(06:42):
up a little bit. I added for Staddy plumpers. I
took some liberties with Steddy plumpers.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
That was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Thank you, Thanks, thank you to Chauncey. I was laughing
during the intro where I have no regard for the
format of this program and never have never will. Yeah,
but I have noticed that I have I've always honored
the rule of not speaking during the intro.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
For some reason, I don't speak. It is weird. Yeah,
it's almost ruptive that you don't speak. Yeah, yeah, I'm like,
say something. He's chewing on the wires at the podcast studio.
This one's spicy. You mean it's shocking you like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
That's yes, spice, spice. You know how your mom keeps
the spices in the in the box down in the basement.
You knows where we keep our spices.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
How are you doing, Blake, great to have you back.
How are your plumpers.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Plumpers is your word for your thighs, just y, In
case it wasn't clear to people what I meant by
philly above the knees steaks, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
People got it.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yeah, they could have thought s T a k e s,
which would not have been incorrect. And they're high. Those
steaks are high. These are rare in terms of how
common they are on Earth. Yeah, but they're good.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Are you? How am I? Yeah? I'm pretty good.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Like these glasses that I'm wearing are horses ship so
I broke my other glasses.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I saw you post something right with shattered lenses on
or something on your store.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
These are loaners that I'm wearing right now, So this
is not.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
A loaners from where fucking Marty dealership.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
They kind of look like shooting range glasses, a little
bit like you could be at the shooting range.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
You kind of look like that one C I shot
that liked a guy from Ciicario from the Border scene
who had the glasses.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, either way, probably gonna die.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Uh he's in the sequel. He's an operator man, Yeah,
is he? There's a sequel? Yeah? Two day of soldat
Day Out of Soldado.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I think I got a happy day lost Soldado, sold
soldier the soldier man.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
That's what that means. I love. But yeah, you got
Wait are they loaners? There's just like old glasses you
had from previously that you just don't like. And I
can't wrap my head around the idea that there would
be loaner glasses. That's one ones to your neighbor and
we're like, hey, do you have any glasses? I started
banging on the door like there was a fire. You
(09:22):
got any extras?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
No, I don't have backup glasses, which in therapy I
found out is my mom's fault. So I had to
ask for backup or they took the lenses of the
old ones and somehow put them in these, which are
Champion brand.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Really, it's pretty cool with the kids these days.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Champion Big it's an eyes od brand glasses. Well that
would actually make more sense than like Champion A Russell
athletic glasses.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
But so many companies just now just like license their
logo to be like, yeah, put on glasses, man, who
gives a I'll take it?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Wasn't I feel fit? I feel like they're also made
You can't see this but they're made of a gray fabric.
They're made fabric.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
And did your last glasses break from hearing a note
that was too high? I have to assume, or did
that was something that was too sexy?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
That's a great question.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
So I saw something that was so sexy and they
fogged up and then and the sexy this was of
course at the opera where I go fucking constantly. And
then she hit a note and they broke. Yeah, and
someone had a little champagne breaking time.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah, it's it is crazy.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah, it's becoming more of a problem than it is
an enjoy and enjoy experience.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And why won't these politicians talk about that? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Thank you, Tim Walls. What's he doing? He's missing.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Anywhere? He's missing?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
All right, Blake, we're going to get to know you
a little bit better in a moment. Take your time,
as long as you just walked off camera. We're going
to tell the listeners a couple of things. We're talking
about out we're talking about you know, we talked on
yesterday's Trending episode about the DNC and you know, there's
a lot of a lot of energy going on there.
The Obamas were there at the same time, Trump seems
(11:13):
so sleepy, so sleepy, He's leapy, He's so sleepy.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
It does feel like like, uh, he's like energetically, this
feels like giving up the way you're speaking. But it's
very early. I think he just made it.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
It's very early, and I think his meds are off.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I think his script just needs to get refilled.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, but he probably has all the So I think
I noticed that during his administration that like he will
have his run of like two weeks where he's just
amped right, and then he'll he'll like kind of drop
out of view for a little bit, but sometimes he
has to be in view and so sleepy. So we'll
(11:55):
talk about that. We'll talk about Kamala Harris's economic policy,
so we'll talk about that, all of that plenty more.
But first, Blake Wexler, we do like to get to
know you a little bit better by asking what's something
from your search history that's revealing about who you are.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I looked at a broken glasses frames titanium fixed. So
we already waded our way into these waters. But the
glasses in question that that we're leading today's stories with
of mine that broke where I had titanium glasses, which
I was convinced was a strong metal, And then they
(12:34):
snapped at the bridge of the nose because I think
I was cleaning them too hard.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Wow, yeah, you're really getting in there.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, I was cleaning them like a sexually frustrated person
clean the glasses, and uh, yeah, they snapped, so nearly
those aren't go ahead, wait they You had.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Glasses that were made of the same material as Lieutenant
Dan's magic legs, titanium alloy, same thing they use on
the Space Shuttle.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And Dan is a friend and yeah, and recommended, and
I won't trust him exactly.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
We were both swimming, just lost in the sea, and
we came upon each other and the amount that we
had in common was six hours of conversation. There's no
like warranty on that, like they weren't. There was no
like rage a indestructible glasses warranty or anything on that.
Like for telling you Titan him, you'd think that, like
they're somewhat indestructible.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
You'd also think that I would look into it, but
I didn't, so I instead just got mad and yeah,
sure they're hard to fix, apparently, where you can't just
solder them together, like, you need a special tool.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
So I've been.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Do you have a soldering tool, a soldering iron?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I was rifling. I usually keep one in my pillow case.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Next time you keep it plugged in. It's real hot,
real hot.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
It takes a second, like I need to hear you're
the person break in and then charge charge around.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
One moment, one moment, one moment. Be right with you?
Burning hair? Yeah, yeah, it's mine. Hey, man, you should really,
you should really get that checked out. Dude, I think
that's like a third degree burn. No, it's fine, it's fine.
To give me a second, give me second, we'll do battle.
We'll do battle on a second. So you were robbing me,
were you saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I'm actually pretty
(14:23):
worried about your neck?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Man, No, no, no, it's fine, it's fine. Well, it's fine.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
My sister in law works at a burn center here.
I'm just gonna leave her number, have a good night.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Don't you want to take something? But not too far
because it's plugged in.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
It's a short cord, yea very short cord, like a
hot blue gun.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, I'm sitting on the floor, but yeah, it's it's difficult.
But I was able to find someone to uh to
ship them off and fix them. And they gave me
these these clunkers that I'm wearing these, Yeah, these plunkers
on my face.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, if you thought about rexpecs or like an athletic goggle,
that might you know, take a licking keep on taking,
oh rambus style.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah, I love when you talk like that? Can I
say that?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
First of all, I love when you rhyme, and then
also I don't I have thought about wearing because I
also wear my glasses when I work out, Like if
I go on a bike ride with my plumps, I
will just wear glasses instead of getting those like you know,
those cycling fucking shade you know what I mean, like
those shields on your face like.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, big glasses Like yeah, we all see
people wearing when they're in those like onesie biking spandex outfits,
and admire those people and are like, man.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Cool, Yeah you don't frown like it's so fun. I've
never frowned, Yeah, looking at someone round one like.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
A face like I just tasted something really bitter and
then spit on the ground involuntarily, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Or down my own shirt, like in my shirt, so
my spit shirt but yet so no, I haven't committed
to that yet, but I'm not above it. Like I've
started thinking about all the things I could put prescription
lenses in, And I wonder if anyone's gotten a prescription windshield. Wow,
is that a joke that was done in the eighties?
(16:20):
I feel like it might have been, but it did
just make me laugh.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
No, I like the whole car out of the glasses. Yes,
make it impossible for anyone to drive, except that would
ex And also like does that like would the sun
come through the windshield and then set your car on fire?
Because like they're like lens, big proper lenses.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
We got to replace this plether in these puther seats
because they are catching the body.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
The windshield is all one big prescription lens, but it's
focusing the like light of the sun in the most
dangerous ways inside the car. Shirt burned on the shoulder.
I shouldn't be driving at sunset, but uh yeah, the
carjacker immediately crashes into a tree and then catches fire,
not from the engine exploding, but just from the sun
(17:06):
through the windshield.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
That we'll say, I'm just if you're looking to create
a signature look, which I know you always are. Always
Like I remember every NBA player I ever saw wearing Rex,
you know, like like Rambas didn't do ship. He was
not a good player, like there were there were there,
but because he had those rexpecs on, you know, yeah,
(17:32):
Kareem you know Ladder day Kareem. Of course, Grant was
like his whole thing. I don't know if i'd remember
him necessarily if.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I think that is true.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
But no, well I feel like didn't wear them, right,
he wouldn't. Yeah, he he was terrible at basketball because
of it.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
He couldn't ship out there blind as a bat. No,
Harvey was rocking him.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Too, he was all right, yeah, yeah, yeah, are there
there are pictures of him rocking, but there are a
lot of him not rocking it. So he got the
correct advice surgery.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I'm just saying like if somebody was just like that
was their thing, they always had respects on, I feel
like I would, they would be unforgettable.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
In my mind. I just love Harvey. Grant wouldn't wear
glasses because his brother Horace did, and he doesn't look
like him. He's like everyone remember I'm old by two minutes. Yeah,
why should I have to wear the glasses. Argy, you
should wear the glass because you have We both have
the same condition. You're not even facing me right now.
It's only seeing. It's just vision cant as a professional
(18:37):
basketball player.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah, that is always so wild one Like there, I
think there's a London skyscraper that like melted a couple.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Of cars with just the reflection of the sun. Krikey.
I think that's a criky good.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I just and I was just setting up Lake for
his incredible London impression of somebody from London.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
So did you know actually the London I has an astigmatism.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Sorry, he's done it. He's done, folks, has done it.
He's done and done it. All right now we have
to move on, have you guys? No, No, we don't.
Have you ever there's a bug in here? God?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
What am I not doing?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Well?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
But have you ever done a mad bgan? A bug
a bug.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
In my house? Yeah? You said there's a bogan here? Yeah?
Is that how you're pronouncing here?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Have you ever done a mad boosties where you ranked
the twins or the brothers in the NBA? Like, no,
I guess how many twins the league kept us.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
From doing that? Actually, the Lozez, the Grants. I feel
like that's it.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Do we ever have a pair of identical twins who
are like on the same team at the same time,
like kind of taking advantage of that of that connection.
Are the Morris brothers twins Marquis.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yes, yes they are.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
The Morrises are twins. Yeah, the Lopezes. We were on
Stanford together, I remember, which is crazy.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Oh and the Morrises were on Kansas together too. Anyway, anyways,
there's something great answered it?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
What what's something he thinks underrated? Then?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, so you're gonna just come out and ask it.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I'm gonna say, Wait, the Martian brothers played together on
Charlotte at the same time. It looks like Caleb and Cody.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
And who can forget when they were just you know, tearing.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Up the courts. Well, hey, now now on the Sixers, right,
I know, I'm very excited Caleb.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Anyway, Sorry, sorry, who of our off season acquisitions are
you most excited about?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Blake? We're going to turn this into Masties.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I would say the resigning of sixty one year old
Kyle Lowry, who doesn't play a position where agility or
speed is necessary going to be the move that takes
us within four games of winning a first round place.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
He's he's so old that it's no longer about his athleticism.
His eyesight is also failing, and like his balance, his eyesight,
and I can't see. I can't see three feet in
front of him. What is something, Blake? Do you think's underrated?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Making nachos at home is an underrated thing? Because okay,
I think, yeah, so I believe ordering them nacho delivery
is insane. Like I think we can agree that, yeah, insane,
that's absolute foolishness.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Your home.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Now, there was a place that we would order a
nacho kit from where the ingredients would come separately, which
was kind of cool so it wouldn't mush up. But
still you might as well just have the increase, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Like it was being marked up in a way that it's, yeah,
a little.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Five dollars for this little cup, I can get a
can for two. It's like, yeah, I also order pieces
of an inhaler for one time every time I need
to use.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Yourself.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
There are some times during the pandemic when like we
would order food and they'd be like, all right, here
are the ingredients, and like it's up to you to
kind of put it together. And I just felt humiliated.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Oh yeah, the best of the subway was selling their
ship like their stock. You know, you can buy a
whole bag of tuna fish and I'm like, yeah, yeah,
that's what I like. Open up the open up those
fucking cupboards and is it measured out before they put
it in a bag?
Speaker 5 (22:44):
No?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Loose? Loose if you know the guy you get hooked
up do they could be a heavy one.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
But what.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Your what's your home? Your home recipe?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
So we'll go chips and then well y, and then
we bake them twice, put them in the oven, pull
it out, put it back in m h. No chips
obviously the cheat we'll had a little crema on there,
(23:18):
yeah klama, and then the key will put like whatever,
treeso whatever on it and then add extra stuff afterwards
so you can't bake it.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
We'll put some saucea on it, but you can't do
that for the whole.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Duration of melting cheese, you know what I mean? Y, yeah,
A little bit of sour cream some.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
What else will we put on? Krama and sour cream.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
We'll do one or the other. We'll do prefer like
a thick a thick dairy.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
We don't want you to feel judged here, but that's
fucking disgusting.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
We don't want you to feel judged. But you're giving
yourself an allergy, like you train your body, like.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
You're buying like the Kashi gay brand, like grandma, they
watch your mouth.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
But yeah no I will, yeah we will, yeah for sure,
and no, but we like to mix that up and
and then just like the other stuff that you put
on there and but yeah, no real deviation. But it's
like you ever made nachos at home?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you poker games.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
If you're gonna put me on the spot, you know,
the frosted flakes on the on the side, an entire
bag of sand on sand bags of sand bold like yeah,
a root vegetable unwashed and dirt dirted vegetable.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Yeah yeah, great, great.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
But yeah no, it's it's also you can make as
much as you want, is the fun part, So like
you can eat until you're sick, where you know it's
a limited serving size. I think, and this is an
important question.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Are you a fan of just a canned cheese like
you know, high school football game style m versus like
melting the.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Ship on nots, but on like cheese, steaks, seal, beat it,
you know. So it's it's not an aversion to the
fact that it's not like but you prefer yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah, it's it's not a food recognized by nature
or the laws of nature.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
But I will yeah half we eat it. You can
put that all over your skin and like go into
the sea and not get a sunburn. It's really good.
That's your regimen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. What is
Blake something he thinks overrated?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Overrated? Hardcover books? Now I can't read.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
So in jail. No, it's preface, I can't.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
But it's it's the material, No, I think like hardcover
books often are more expensive if you're buying a physical
book than obviously a paperback, and they are more difficult
to the space in which they take up.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Questions they take up yea and the right sentence from
which within you emerge Yes.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
The space in which they take up henceforth is this
part is this part.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Of your operated was written by Kam Layers. The space
in which they take up and.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
The space in which they take up she's on the discord.
And but yeah, they especially they're hard to travel with too.
Where when you're packing a hardcover book, it's a lot
more difficult to pack than like a I'm just called
it a soft shell book than all.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Yeah, you got the books, and when's a soft shell
come out? This is the hard shells expense. Yeah, you
put a bim on again. I can't read. I don't
know what these things are for. Where's the meat taste
terrible when I dip it in the butter?
Speaker 6 (26:55):
What?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I can kind of agree with that?
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Like, they they're basically like our cover books are for
the bookshelf, right, that's the main reason they're there. They
look good on a bookshelf. But they are at pain
in the ass for sure.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah, yeah, thank you. And they're sharp, the corners are sharp.
You could kill yourself on one.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Of those books. You could, Yes, I could.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I've fallen all running and I I grew up in
a home where you weren't allowed to run holding a
hardcover book cover book, And that's why I'm still alive.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
That was a rule that applied only to you.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Oh yeah, we would do the running like you know
how the sports teams do running up the mascots. You know,
we would do that but with children in the neighborhood
and hardcover books, and I was never.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Yeah, explains a lot, explains a lot.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
It does.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.
And we're back, and we are and this is gonna
surprise I think everybody who's listened to a Blake wex
Layer episode before. We are way behind the schedule. Yeah, yea.
(28:07):
So Trump is sleepy. Yeah, RFK is gonna drop out,
and uh, her economic plans being panned by like mainstream
media and uh people hate public spice left the Blake Man,
thanks so much for joining us. That was where go wrong?
Where one around the time of the glasses becoming the windshield?
(28:29):
I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, but we got through it.
We got minutes ago, about thirty seconds ago. Yeah, and
then young men didn't we We really did, all right?
Barely seems so so sleepy? Yeah, holy shit.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
So a lot of people are like, how's the DNC
gonna feel like? Are they going to be able to
sustain the vibes as we talked about yesterday's trending, The
vibes feel sustained thus far. And we're recording this the
day after the Little John State roll call and the
Obama's just making fun of Donald Trump in a way
(29:11):
that went over big with I think a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
And we're also recording it the day after.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
And this is also something that everybody similarly iconic. So
he gave a speech in the dog Whistle White Supremacy
Michigan Town Howell, Michigan, where he seemed to be sleep like,
about to fall asleep the whole time. Just one of
the sleepiest speeches I've ever seen him or anyone give.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
If you are driving, I would pull over, yes, because
you will fucking die of boredom listening to this. Here's
here's a part of the very sleepy, sedated Trump have.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
They have.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
They just have it out for the police.
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Nobody knows why. I don't know understand why.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
From a common sense I like to say the Republican
Party is now the party of common sense. Conservative, Yeah,
I guess conservative, it doesn't matter. It's the party of
common sense. We want to have borders, we want to
have strong police protection. We want a military they can
protect us. We want great schools, school.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Right, because we don't have a military that we're yeah, yeah, yeah, yes,
this is talking shit about people in the military so far.
The room tone is deafening. That basically he was basically
in a police garage giving the speech with like two
of the most bored cops behind him who were like
(30:40):
trying to stay awake hearing this. And cops are like
bored for a living, Like they love to be bored.
They like to a peer board, they like to just
like sit around in the car and b board. It's
how we get into a lot of trouble in this
country in the first place, is just bored cops. He's
just like it's the speak. He's speaking in a.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Tone that you generally only hear when you're in bed
with someone, when you're both like slipping off to sleep,
you know, right where It's like like sometimes I or
my wife will say very weird things, like I think
I once was talking about people coming in through the
windows at one point, and she's like.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
What the fuck are you talking about that? Because yous right,
ampariis But then Trump kind of like, I just want
to read this part this is from his speech and
unless we I don't think we have this queue off.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
But women want to have safety, they want to have
a strong military, they want to have a strong police force.
They want to be in the house and they want
to be safe. They don't want to have people pouring
in their doors and you can't do anything about it. Right,
that's I hope too much energy you're giving to it.
But from that too, I hope they like my personality.
(31:57):
I have a nice personality, But to me, it wouldn't
be very important the personality.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
They want to be safe. Oh okay, what huh did you?
Then he started talking about the border wall. This is
this part about the border wall is also wild or
he's just trying to get ahead of that of high
technology in it.
Speaker 7 (32:15):
Thousand pounds concrete inside and then rebar. Oh, my technology,
wires and things for tech, high technology.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
It was just there was wires and things in it
for high technology. Yeah, the relation of.
Speaker 8 (32:29):
The water patrol. I wanted actually concrete plank.
Speaker 7 (32:33):
I would have a job with pre cast. You haven't.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I wanted long span plank, long span. Yeah, it was.
It was really rough. It's because long span. It's called
long sp like he's doing. He's doing is like I'm
in construction things like you never heard of it. It's
called long span construction. Pre cast. Your eyes out of it.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
It really feels like there's someone off stage being like
straight stretch, yeah, keep going, like he's just like trying
to well, he was.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Reading off paper too, like he just had a stack
of papers. He was just shuffling through. It was really again,
super low energy and it's wild though when you juxtaposed
that with like basically the Democrats had two arenas filled
between the United Center in Chicago and five Serve in
Wisconsin because there was a Harris Walls rally in Wisconsin,
and like they were both fucking packed out. And this
(33:27):
guy's like nodding off at a police garage where even
like the cops who love him are like, dude, what
the fuck, bro, I'm about to leave and I have
to be here.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Yeah, I was watching. I think we might talk about
it in a few minutes. But like that THEO Vaughn
or at the beginning of it, like that he went
on THEO Vaughn's podcast, And I don't I never watch,
and I think a lot of people might be like
me in that I only see Trump speak in at
the longest a minute fifteen clip on Twitter. Because if
you know, you can't watch more than that, or you're
(33:59):
like you'll you'll kill yourself but like I will, I've
never seen him really do a whole I've never seen
him do a whole speech really, and that since he's
been president and thank you. And I started watching because
I'm like, oh, he was on a comedians podcast. I'll
watch some of like see how the comedian interviewed a president,
(34:19):
Like I always find that interesting. Yeah, And I watched
the first ten minutes of it and then I shut
it off. But like he was so tired even in
that too.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yeah, unconsciously theo van starts talking about coke because Trump
seemed so tired, and he's like, you need I'm trying.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
To help you out here, man, Like yeah, before we
play that clip, I just want to play like how
Newsmax and also Fox News fucking gave up on this
speech because they're like, yo, dude, we can't eat, like
we need to help bad look bad, look bad, look bad,
like hit the budging. This is just like again, a
nice little bit of meandering into like okay, so that's
(34:58):
that fucking guy talking and he's good.
Speaker 8 (35:01):
This is what's going on with the judges in New York.
Nobody can.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Every time you play this, I can't believe how she's
sleepy here.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
All right, you're listening to former President Donald Trump speaking
alive in Howell, Michigan, specifically about liberal policies and how
they have destroyed major cities across the United States. It's
funny how each time these people are cut away they
have to try and summarize what they've been hearing because
it's like so meandering, like and that was obviously talking
about how like the communists are going to destroy like
(35:31):
our earth. Thank you so much. This is the Fox
News one.
Speaker 7 (35:36):
They shooting arrest people for saying the election was rigged,
but they like that. They go they go after guys
like me, but they don't go after people that kill people.
It's a shame what's happened in our country.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
But we're gonna turn it around.
Speaker 7 (35:49):
We're gonna win big, and we're gonna turn it around.
Speaker 8 (35:51):
Well we turn it around fast.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Okay, uh huh, thank you. Coffee on yourself.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Speak in how Michigan this afternoon, and clearly the focus
is law, law enforcement, his respect for law enforcement. He
was standing there with several members of the police.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Just describing it. Respect for law enforcement, respect for police.
SUV's clearly a very coherent strategy here. Yes, yes, yes, yeah, okay, thanks,
or wheel drive police vehicles. Yeah, you gotta have on
Star because something you can have a car accident and
on Star will be Hey, this is on stardent. Cop
(36:34):
cars get stolen, you gotta find the cop cars. You
got to use the low check.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
There is one park where he turns and he says
to the cops behind him, do you promise he'll never
be woke?
Speaker 3 (36:44):
I don't see a lot of books. There's not a
lot of wookness. I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Do you think he like part of his brain is
realizing everyone's like falling asleep, and like he's equating that
because it's such a cell phone to be like, yeah,
I'm anti wokeness, and you won't be woke right to
somebody who's like biting their cheek trying to stay awake
while you're talking.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
If anything, you want them to be woke because they
are sleeping right now and you don't want that. But
I guess in the literal sense, but yeah, there's eight
cops tasing themselves, you know, like just to stay awake. Yeah,
like in the balls they're like I'm still still meaning fuck,
but that THEO von clip is wild because like again
(37:27):
we've heard like yeah, like Trump is like afraid of
street drugs but fine with like prescription drugs and like
this weird show and tell over, like doing cocaine is
so strange because like you have people talking about like
other presidential campaigns, like here's the policies that are happening.
Speaker 9 (37:44):
He's like, so coke is like good or bad? And
feeling no, I would just do cocaine. That was really yeah,
so not just yeah, it was that's down and dirty. Yeah,
and this is yeah, I mean it was yeah, but
you don't anymore. Now I don't do it anymore, man,
And I'm not doing is it too much? Too much
to some of the stuff started to get a real
(38:05):
rattle in it too. I don't know where we were
what he's talking about. It started to make me feel
like I was a mechanic or so.
Speaker 8 (38:12):
The thing you go back to then is alcohol for
the most part.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
Right, Yeah, but well what I want probably is cocaine.
But I know that if I have a drink then
it'll give me. It'll like be like, Okay, well I
had a drink, then I can do this.
Speaker 8 (38:23):
Is cocaine a stronger?
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Oh yep, it's like he's almost like, should I try
it like this?
Speaker 1 (38:32):
We're watching him like, yeah, getting groomed by theo van
is no longer working.
Speaker 8 (38:42):
So your way up with cocaine more than anything else
you can think of.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Okay, I'll turn you into a damn owl, homie. You
know what I'm saying. It'll you'll be You'll be out
on your own porch. You know, you'll you'll be your
own street lamp. You're freaking And is.
Speaker 8 (38:55):
That a good feeling? While it's a more miserable feeling.
Speaker 6 (38:58):
But you do it anyway, just like the how you're
saying with the scotch.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
So wow, what they're talking about over there? So it's good.
Oh they're cutting it with cocaine. A good feeling, got
a rattle in it. Made me feel like a damn mechanic.
You don't want to be an owl or a street lamp. No, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Used to do this bit of like the guy who
wants to ask who's trying to get coke and like
he's so obvious about it, but the other person like
isn't picking up. He goes, hey, do you have any
And the guy's like what and he goes, oh, do
you have any you and the guys like, I don't understand.
He goes do anything though, And the guy's like, I
don't know what do you any I got? And he goes, oh,
(39:40):
do I have any cocaine? He goes, you do coke?
Speaker 3 (39:48):
All right, well, I guess I could try it that.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Her interview ended with Donald Trump doing cocaine, right, no, yea, hey,
can you put it on this bag.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
Mister president?
Speaker 8 (39:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
It really feels like that's where it's headed because he
needed to wake the fuck up or or not. Maybe
they just like kind of let him drift off to
sleep and.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
We yeah, this is the end.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Probably not, though, Let's take a quick break. We'll take
a quick break and we'll come back and talk about
some other stuff. We'll be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
We're back, And I wanted to talk about that.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
So Kamala revealed her her economic policy in a speech
last week, and she connected the record high inflation that
we were seeing for the past few years to the
fact that corporations we're seeing record high profits and okay,
(40:58):
exactly that is exactly how the mainstream media and the economists,
including like Obama's former economics advisor, went on CNN and
was like yeah, literally, like okay, Stalin, what the fuck
are you talking about? This is crazy? This has failed,
Like she wants to turn us into Venezuela.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
What it like this?
Speaker 2 (41:17):
This is impossible, like it it's so wild. Like the
stories have poured forth. They're like the Washington Post issued
a kind of opinion piece that got a lot of
attention that was basically like you know, said it was
very disappointing, said that she's resorting to populist gimmicks with
(41:40):
her plan, and then they said, even adjusted for the
pandering standards of campaign economics, however, Miss Harris's speech Friday
ranks as a disappointment. And I read that piece, It's
like it doesn't really go into detail why they don't
think corporations raising prices and getting record profits is related
(42:03):
to inflation in any way. They're just they kind of
just dismiss it. So I went around from piece to
piece to try to find them debunking like this idea
and just being like so like La Times had a
opinion piece Colin Kamala Harris wants to tackle corporate price gouging.
(42:24):
Here's what she is missing, okay, which is what that
is from a former editor at the National Review.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
He basically just smirks and says, like, sure there was
some greed, but we all know it's not the real cause,
it's just populous politics that she's saying that CNN did
the thing that I was hoping somebody would do where
they would because I just I just want an explanation.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
I'm not an economist. I don't know shit, Like I
know that.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Every time I've been like, it's so weird that they
have these record profits and they're the ones driving inflation,
and yet every economist is like, those two things are
completely un related, and shut the fuck up and stop
bringing that up.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
It's crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
So the CNN article acknowledges some corporate creed, but it
debunks the connection by finding isolated examples of companies having
higher profits when inflation wasn't high. This is literally their argument,
they say, Take for instance, Pepsi Co. Last year, the
company reported earning a very solid nine point one billion
(43:25):
in profit. That's two billion more than what it made
in twenty twenty, but it's still below the twelve point
five billion profit it earned in twenty eighteen, when prices
were rising at an annual pace below three percent. Similarly, Kroger,
one of the nation's largest supermarket chains, earned a bigger
profit in twenty eighteen compared to twenty twenty three. So,
(43:46):
just to summarize what that argument is, their argument is
that greed can't be the cause of inflation because these
two companies had isolated good years when national inflation was
not high.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
They're they're taking the argument that, like, inflation is connected
to companies just kind of raising prices when they realized
that they could, because there's this national narrative about supply
chain issues, and they're taking that and saying that can't
be true because these companies had successful years.
Speaker 3 (44:19):
Not during the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Like it suggests that we're arguing that raising prices that
cause inflation is the only way for a company to
be successful, right, yeah, yeah, it's it's so anecdotal, it
doesn't like logically, it doesn't even coke here, Like the
whole reason we're asking you to knock it off is
because you don't need to bleed people dry to be successful, Like, yeah,
(44:44):
we know that you can have success without arbitrarily raising prices.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
Well, but it's also wild too, like to be like, oh,
this is communism, Like fucking Donald Trump even put an
executive order out to put price protections on certain things
at the onset of the pandemic, and like many other
states have like very broad bills about price gouging. So
to act suddenly that like this is like some extreme
take is just fucking odd, but also makes sense when
(45:11):
a lot of these companies are also like publicly traded
that are like that own the news companies and things
like that. But every like analysis that's done, like the
Economic Policy Institute like made it clear, like it's corporate profits,
not increased costs for labor or inputs, drove the majority
of inflation. Like that's just that's the conclusion that was made.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Yeah, you would think it was like a fringe Marxist
theory that based on like how these people are.
Speaker 3 (45:40):
Result Yeah, well, and like and I think it's also
about consolidation, right, because you have certain industries where it's
like fucking three companies own sixty percent of the market,
and when you have that kind of market consolidation, you
have the ability to raise prices at will. So like again,
even the House Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy said
like they were showing some corporations quote, were able to
(46:03):
use their market power to raise prices far above any
increases in their underlying costs attributable to existing inflation. Economists
at the University of Massachusetts put out in a journal
article that said US COVID nineteen inflation is predominantly a
seller's inflation that derives from microeconomic origins, namely the ability
of firms with market power to hike prices. And they
(46:25):
found also corporate profits accounted for more than fifty percent
of food price increases, whereas they accounted for only eleven
percent of increases in the four decades prior. Like it's
I don't like, I'm still failing to understand. I think
it was easy to do that at the beginning because
of the supply chain issue. But then even looking at
the shipping industry, they're making profits like they've never fucking
(46:48):
seen before. They're like, yeah, man, because we are tech,
we're a big part of the supply chain, but we're
out now making profits that are like eye watering that
we had never seen before. Ever.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
Yeah, they'll charge as much as they possibly think they
can get away with charging, which I mean, I guess
that is economics, but it's also like it's not natural,
and like when you look at what these people are saying,
like CEOs are saying on their earnings call, Like Procter
and Gamble's chief financial officer bragged during a twenty twenty
(47:21):
three earnings call that even though the company's input costs
to make diapers had decreased, they were still keeping consumer
prices high, and they were making a ton of money
off of that, like record profits. Kroger supermarket chain executive said, quote,
a little bit of inflation is always good for our business.
Like they're said, they're bragging about it, like they tell
(47:44):
you exactly what they're doing, but then when you point
out that that's what they're doing, they're like, well, no,
you're being unrealistic.
Speaker 3 (47:52):
Well because yeah, again, it's like any any fucking threat
to the status quo is like met with this kind
of fucking energy. Like even when you have someone like
Calm L. Harris, who is doing a lot to uphold
the status quo in most places, like this one part,
like what the fuck? And then like your point that
guy Jason Furman who used to work for like Obama, Yeah,
(48:12):
he like he had like he's been posting all kinds
of fucking stupid stuff like throughout the year. Like he said,
he's like, oh man, there's this one quote from Brian Albreck.
Quote blaming inflation or anti competitive behavior or greed is
like blaming plane crashes on gravity. Oh, chef's kiss. We
love that. And this guy works for like the Peterson
Institute for International Economics, and this is a group whose
(48:34):
funding comes from places like Amazon, Chevron, Toyota, Pepsi Shell
and like they're there to put out these sort of
analyzes that are just sort of like, mom, man, you know,
it's like it's just got of these like intangibles. It's
all good.
Speaker 4 (48:47):
Just that.
Speaker 2 (48:48):
Back to that CNN article, because so they come off
that argument that it can't be inflation because these companies
had successful years, not in the time period we're talking about,
and they say so Harris's claim just doesn't quite hold
up on the whole, though, there are some recent examples
where charging consumers more has fed higher corporate profits.
Speaker 3 (49:09):
First of all, there's like so many, but.
Speaker 2 (49:11):
They're like Calmaine Foods, the largest egg producer in the US,
saw its revenue double and profit search seven hundred and
eighteen percent in the first quarter of last year because
of sharply higher egg prices. Like so they keep being like,
we'll give you that, We'll give you this one example
of a thing like that.
Speaker 3 (49:29):
I remember that.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
I remember eggs being way more expensive last year, and
the thing the reason they were more expensive is because
this company wanted to double profit.
Speaker 3 (49:43):
And that's what happened.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
Like that, those are those are the two things that
we know that makes that they have like a thing
that makes sense over here, and then they just hand
wave it away by being like, yeah, but economics like that.
You know, we had an economist over here saying that's
just how things are going to operate.
Speaker 3 (50:03):
Yeah. I mean even like Star Kissed Tuna, like they
had to settle a class action lawsuit for like two
hundred million because consumers are like, dude, I like alleging
they were fixing can tuna prices and they're like, ah, yeah,
all right, well sorry about that. Like it's so many
times when people are like raising the alarm about it,
they're not like fighting it in court. They're like yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,
(50:24):
we'll agree to okay, that's yeah, all right, you guys.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
And we're talking about anti competitive behavior. It's not like
the thing that you know, the Obama economics guy is like, well, yeah,
greeed is like the whole thing that drives market economies.
It's like, yeah, but there's because of all the consolidation
and the deregulation, and because like companies are engaging in
anti competitive behavior that is not part of Like it's
(50:48):
a thing that you were supposed to be against if
you're like, really, capitalism will solve everything thing, but they
they just don't give a fuck, they're not interested in
solving that.
Speaker 3 (50:59):
Well, it's like again, because this is you know, like
this is where the media's responsibility comes in. When as
a consumer, when you hear inflation inflation, inflation inflation, and
that's being presented as the norm, you're gonna do very
that's just like the accepted reality you're in as a consumer.
So then when you go to the store and you're like,
what the why is this bread so fucking expensive, You're like, oh,
that's right, inflation, supply chain whatever. That's just like the
(51:22):
you know, propaganda intellectual cover for these companies to just
raise the prices under the guise of like serving us
the consumer. The logic of it's just out of control inflation.
It's nothing you can do. Don't look at how much
money is being made really on all of this.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
And it's like, oh, the inflation hasn't touched wages, you know,
so it's like, okay, everything's increasing, and it's like just inflation,
Like why aren't why isn't my pay being inflor fairly?
Speaker 3 (51:49):
That means prices will go up. It's like, well, you
haven't done that, and the prices are and the prices
are going and your profits are all going up and
make it make sense. And they're like, shut up, fucking yeah, yes,
because it's what they call it in the New York Post.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
The media is, you know, the media, and a lot
of the government is corporate owned, and so it is
working on behalf of corporations, and so the only messaging
we get is messaging that feels like it is it
might as well be like written by and for corporations
and right, so, like, the big picture of what happened
(52:24):
in the economy during the pandemic was that every day
people were suffering while massive companies and you know, the
stock market we're doing great, like everyone. Economists kept predicting
a massive recession or depression that never came because corporations
managed to isolate themselves from it, and the way they
did that, at least partially, was just put downward pressure
(52:47):
on people. And people have no voice in America, you know,
they don't have like a media outlet that is focused
on like telling the stories for them that is free
of like corporate influence.
Speaker 3 (53:01):
Well yeah, or so yeah, it's independent media that like
requires like listener funding and things like that. But yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's just uh, it's just like industry after industry. You
look and it's like it's just right there in front
of you. Like remember how expensive fucking rental cars were
during at that time, and people were like, what the
fuck is going on? So three firms control fifty percent
(53:23):
of the rental car market, right, Yeah, So between twenty
nineteen and twenty twenty one, Hertz and Avis, they had
a profit increase of five hundred and ninety seven percent.
They went from two hundred and forty four million to
one point sixty seven billion, right and then but if
you look at all their like their financials, their expenses
went down during that time. So it's purely just because.
Speaker 2 (53:46):
Well, we got to operations supposed to be inflation is
supposed to be their expenses go up, they have to
raise prices.
Speaker 3 (53:52):
That's not what's happening here, no, exactly, So and I
think that's what's like really weird too, is like in
the like in this analysis of what is even proposing,
it's like you completely ignore how this is like a
thing even Republicans have fought for, like in the past,
Like price gouging is like it's a real thing that
has to be reckoned with. But I think because that
does that's like been the big golden goose for a
(54:14):
lot of these publicly traded companies to like make the
line just go fucking hockey stick up. Yeah, it's yeah,
they don't want they don't want any more attention on it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (54:23):
And the thing that like they acknowledge about, they're like, yeah,
and then people got these you know, stimulus checks or
you know, relief checks, and so we knew they had
extra money. So yeah, the price went up, and it's
like that's fucked up, like cool, which is that's economics,
but that's a terrible way to It's like, yeah, we're
(54:44):
gonna fucking shake you down for your extra lunch money.
Speaker 3 (54:47):
Well, what do you know? You guys, wait, did your
grandma just die? She left you like one hundred bucks, right, yeah, yeah,
give it here, give it here. Yeah, so the price
is like one hundred and one dollars, but it's usually one.
Well you got you got that extra hundred right yeah? Yeah,
what's it? Just like with just like with like car
subsidies too, It's like, if the government's going to offer
people fifteen thousand dollars for like an ev or something
like that, then guess what the price of EV's is
(55:07):
just going to go up fifteen grand. That's just what
they're They're like, well, they can absorb it. And I
think that's one of the worries too with like talking
about offering people twenty five thousand dollars for like first
time home buying and things like what that will do
to the market, because everyone's going to be like presume
everyone can just raise the prices twenty five thousand dollars.
But it's the market, man, it's the market of the
(55:28):
market's always right, yeah, and we're free to fuck you over.
I love the market when they give them market mild
tax credit.
Speaker 2 (55:34):
Oh my god, the price on diapers, like they already
raised the price on diapers and diapers are going to
be like fucking yeah, the be waged out like cocaine.
Speaker 3 (55:45):
Yeah, I mean they're already packed in bricks, so yeah,
I mean yeah, it's just right there. People are just
putting a fucking knife into the brick. They're like, oh yeah,
that's cutting over the diaper. That's a Huggies nighttime. That's
like twelve hours of leak protection right there with the
blowout barrier. Yeah yeah, yeah, smoke in the blowout arerier.
You find that useful? Oh yeah, man, because like there's
like fucking laxative stuff cut in there. Man, you fucking
(56:07):
snort that, bro, you farting all day, like fucking that.
You're in a blot band or something. Blake.
Speaker 2 (56:13):
What a pleasure having you as always? Where can people
find you? Follow you all that good stuff?
Speaker 3 (56:18):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (56:19):
I've always said this, You two are my blowout barriers,
and I couldn't appreciate it anymore. That's so we observe
in a way that is unpaired. We don't let it
shoot up your back. No no, And I can't say
that about many people, but I can say it about
you too. You can find me live stand up dates
(56:40):
September twenty ninth at one eighteen North in suburban Philadelphia, Wayne, Pennsylvania.
So that's my hometown and wow, yeah, so you'll see
me in my hometown. I don't know what that's going
to do to my act, but it is going to
do something to it. So come to that the December fifth,
I mean he William Comedy Club in Philadelphia, November one,
(57:01):
the Hideout in Boston. So Blake lextor dot com you
can get tickets there to all these shows.
Speaker 3 (57:09):
And uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (57:09):
At Blake Wexler social media, my special Blake Lestor Daddy
long Legs is on YouTube. Watch our tube. Yeah, wow,
it's the communists. You say, our gar tube, our tube,
the tube that we share.
Speaker 3 (57:24):
Yeah, I don't trust it. Well, Blake, is there a
work of media that you've been enjoying? Yes? A one
CHRISTI two.
Speaker 1 (57:33):
And one two three four CHRISTI two at the Wopple House,
I should say Wopple House. So people, I mean everyone
follows him on here, I would imagine. But Christianamaguchi Man
posted a photo of a fire chief and drug dealer
in Key West from the seventies and the guy's name
(57:54):
was bum Fartoh I saw that Christiamaguchi Ban wrote my
favorite Star Wars character, Bumfarto, which baby laugh very hard.
So that was the my tweet that I enjoyed.
Speaker 2 (58:09):
Miles, where can people find you? Is there a work
of media you've been enjoying?
Speaker 3 (58:12):
Yeah, I'm me on Twitter, Instagram at Miles of Gray,
and you can also find Jack and I on Miles
and Jack on Mad Boosties talking about just you know,
just transitioning out of the Olympics further into the regular
season doing some common folk as fans, and also find
me on the latest episode of Black People Love Paramore,
where I talk about my love of rat beefs, and
(58:34):
also on four to twenty Day Fiance. We'll have some
new episodes up this week, so check that out. A
tweet I like, there's someone tweeted this is from at
Brandy Underscore Buck when it says for my friends not
termally online or on TikTok. There is a man who
spoofs JD fans constantly and here's the video. This is
a dude with like eyeliner who kind of looks like
this is him.
Speaker 10 (58:55):
I need yeah, yeah JD vance here. I wanted to
pull over my f two fifty and just sit here
and rep with you about some stuff and it's going
on in the campaign.
Speaker 6 (59:04):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (59:04):
Yeah, I've had a couple of campaign hiccups, but who hasn't.
You know A reporter asked me a softball question and
I got defensive. I'm not used to that kind of stuff. Also,
I referred to grandmothers as postmanoposal females.
Speaker 8 (59:17):
You know.
Speaker 10 (59:17):
People said that made me sound like some kind of replicant.
But in my defense, that's how I see them.
Speaker 3 (59:21):
It's but that's how I see them. Yeah. Actually, that's right.
Sam has been on this show before too. Yeah, Sam, Miles.
It's it's wild just how much the eyeliner immediately made
this guy look like Jdvace somebody an eyeliner. That's such
a rareness.
Speaker 2 (59:37):
Yeah, awesome. You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore. O'Brien. Uh,
let's see here. What have I been enjoying?
Speaker 3 (59:49):
No, I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (59:50):
And by the way, to those listening, I can't recommend
Miles and Jack Moore. They're two great guys, So get
all their content that you can that you can scoop up.
Oh wow, go ahead, Jack.
Speaker 3 (59:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
From me, they have my endorsement. So if you want
to pay attention to them, you can thank you and you.
Speaker 3 (01:00:04):
Will have a cabinet position in our administration. We appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
Let's see Matt at Maddie b tweet sixty nine Nice
tweeted tried watching this the Sopranos show you all talk about.
First word I hear is woke. Turned it right off.
Speaker 3 (01:00:24):
You can find.
Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
Me on Twitter at Jack Underscore Brian. You can find
us on Twitter at daily Zeitgeist where the Daily Zeitgeist
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footnote No, we link off to the information that we
talked about in today's episode, as well as a song
that we think you might enjoy.
Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
Miles, is there a song that you think people might enjoy?
I think they'll like this track from a sevenminole band
from the seventies, Simon Day C Y M A d E.
They're like kind of one of these bands that start
melding like West African kind of style with more like rock,
like obviously outside of like what Fella Kuti was doing
(01:01:06):
with acrobef, but more just like kind of having this
stylistic conversation between continents UH and their music super Chill
and Vibe. This track is called one More and the
band Somemondie see why m A and d E.
Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
All right, we will link off to that in the footnotes.
Speaker 3 (01:01:22):
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That is gonna do it for us this morning, back
this afternoon to tell you what is trending and we
will talk to you all then.
Speaker 3 (01:01:35):
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