The Trillionaire Mindset - 74: Are 4-Day Work Weeks Coming?

Episode Date: February 24, 2023

Become an exclusive member to get ad-free and bonus episodes at https://bit.ly/tmgstudiosTV_trill74_audio Are four day work weeks in our future? This week the guys go in-depth on the REAL outcomes of what a four day work week might look like. Including a look at US labor rights, specifically involving the meatpacking plant BUSTED over child labor. Tesla is downplaying a recall, what’s new on Norfolk Southern, and a stock market update from Ben. Go to https://tmgstudios.tv and check out After Hours where the guys will debate their favorite candy. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://betterhelp.com/trill and get 10% off your first month! Go to https://hellofresh.com/trill65 and use the code trill65 for 65% off plus free shipping! Check out our channel page on Apple Podcasts, go to: https://apple.co/trillionaire SUBSCRIBE to Trillionaire Mindset at https://www.youtube.com/trillionairemindset Want to subscribe to our newsletter? http://bit.ly/3W0J1NT Trillionaire Highlights Channel: https://www.youtube.com/TrillionaireMindsetHighlights Trillionaire IG: https://www.instagram.com/trillionairepod Trillionaire Twitter: https://twitter.com/trillionairepod TMG Studios YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/tinymeatgang BEN https://www.instagram.com/bencahn/ https://twitter.com/Buncahn EMIL https://www.instagram.com/emilderosa/ https://twitter.com/emilderosa *DISCLOSURE: THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN THIS VIDEO ARE SOLELY THOSE OF THE PARTICIPANTS INVOLVED. THESE OPINIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE OPINIONS OF ANYONE ELSE. THIS IS NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. THE VIEWER OF THE VIDEO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CONSIDERING ANY INFORMATION CAREFULLY AND MAKING THEIR OWN DECISIONS TO BUY OR SELL OR HOLD ANY INVESTMENT. SOME OF THE CONTENT OF THIS VIDEO IS CONSIDERED TO BE SATIRE AND MAY NOT BE CONSIDERED FACTUAL AND SHOULD BE TAKEN IN SUCH LIGHT. THE COMMENTS MADE IN THIS VIDEO ARE FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY AND ARE NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN LITERALLY.* Chapters: 0:00 Pledge of Allegiance 0:49 Intro Song 1:16 Married Stories 2:31 F* You Yankee Blue Jeans 3:25 TMG Studios Shout Out 5:28 AUA Coming Soon 7:00 Hangin’ Hog 8:47 Norfolk Update* 12:35 Drinking Ohio Tap Water* 14:20 Sponsored by BetterHelp 16:05 Norfolk Continued 17:35 Trump in East Palestine 19:50 Meatball Ron & Presidents 22:07 Kids at Meatpacking Plant 25:35 Photo of Kid in Plant 27:34 Thanks to HelloFresh! 29:34 Meat Plant Continued 33:00 Reddit Comment 33:50 Loosening Child Labor Laws 37:15 4-Day Work Week 42:30 Tesla Recalls 45:50 Mercedes TikTok Car 46:50 No Europe Recall 47:43 FAA Body 48:42 Hyperloop’s 10 Years 51:00 Facebook Blue Checks 52:40 Twitter Blue Numbers 54:04 Ben’s Fed Up 57:00 Retail Sales in Trouble 58:00 Credit Debt Up 59:00 Sticky Wicket 1:01:45 Consumers in the Poor House? 1:02:40 Buffalo Bill 1:03:30 What is Ben Missing? 1:05:20 Ben is Gaslighting 1:06:10 Eating Dog Food 1:09:00 Wrapping up

Sit down, you're making me nervous. I want to do the Pledge of Allegiance. No. I Pledge Allegiance. Remember in school they made us do this? Yeah, one time. They made us do the Pledge of Allegiance and everybody, it was all staccato.

It was like I Pledge of Allegiance comma to the flag comma of the United States of America and to the Republic comma for which it stands. comma one nation under God, indivivisible with liberty and just if all But it's like you read it as a sentence and it makes more sense Christ All that we need for that. Yeah, I don't know man. I was standing up because I know I'm gonna be sitting down for a long walk for a short side Back to the paper when I get done with you

Don't be up I just got another email for a... Oh, brag about it. Yeah, it's not a brag. What did you get an email about? More wedding stuff, just getting my dick absolutely pushed in with weddings this summer. What? Getting your dick pushed in with wedding stuff? Yeah, yeah, that's fucking, I'm so sorry to hear that. Jessica, it's another fucking flight accommodation.

Oh yeah, you got to stop having so many friends. Bachelor parties. Accommodations. Yeah. When I get married, if I do, God willing. God willing. I don't know. I can't decide if I would want to do a full-on thing

or like keep it small. Just do a little party. I'm going to the courthouse, baby. Yeah, well, yeah, me too. That's the, that's the most romantic fun thing. Oh, yeah. And then do like a part, a month later, do like a party, just a party, get a live band, get a taco guy.

You're never gonna catch me saying, I love you do a woman in front of a bunch of people. You don't, you say I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. Yeah. Why? No. Oh, there. I do. Yeah. Why? No. Oh, there you have it, folks.

There you have it. Welcome to another riveting episode of the show known as the Triliener mindset. The only show that is for now. The only show that is for now. For now known as Triliener mindset. The fuck does that mean? You have something to tell me? We've been talking about name changes. Two. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, remember that. So if you're new here, we do this thing where we call you a Steve's

Club because Steve is the compliance guy at the trading firm where I trade it. And we call you little sickos but that's at the end. We'll get to that at the end. Anyway, you little Steve's Club. You got to check the disclaimer in the description box. So let's get that out of there. You know, I have an apology to me. A bone to pick. We focus so much on our YouTube audience who we do love because That's where we primarily post to it, but you know someone someone in the comments on the team G studios app Subscriber so you know if you want to subscribe to the show you can do so on team G studios.t What did they say they said you guys never give us any love.

Who, what, what? Like we never shout out the people, the teamgstudios. Who are we shouting out? I, that's what I'm doing right now. No, but we don't shout out anybody. We, yeah, we're like, yeah, YouTube. Subscribe to us on YouTube. Hey, you know, leave comment YouTube.

But, no, I don't like when they ask for it. Don't give it to them. Well, I'm giving it to them. Because they are are they are the They're the number one in my heart And then YouTube is like number one point one YouTube. Yeah, and then the tube audience the YouTube audience YouTube itself. I could give it shit about don't tell them I said that if the algorithm is listening

Somehow which it is because it's so advanced. I love YouTube What's the lady who just left would I don't know something she yeah, I don't know what the fuck but Well Would jickey gonna need a new job. That's what it is. I think so I think so they're gonna. Yeah, she probably will she could probably never work again Oh, oh, yeah, you mean like because she's so loaded. Yeah, yeah should probably will. She could probably never work again. Oh, oh yeah, you mean like because you so loaded? Yeah, sure, for absolutely. She's loaded like one of them Dorito chips you get

and you're just like, damn, they fucked up and gave me too much flavoring on this one. Yeah, oops, all berries, am I right? Oh, yeah, oops, all flavoring. They can sell just the flavoring. Did they do that? That's the fact of the founder. Yeah, oh man.

How, how, how thrilling is that? When you got a nice bag of cool ranch and you get that one that's just Tell you what I don't really eat that kind of stuff of course you don't but you remember the days I Never got okay cool, you know wait a relate to I know I just don't want a lot of the audience to say oh yeah, I get it Yeah, I do me. I'm a common man. Yeah, I got Dusty ass fingers. Yeah. Well, exciting news, everyone. We're doing.

We're doing. We're doing it. I'm just going to let that one pass. We're doing an AMA. That stands for Ask Me Anything. It should be. Ask me anything. It should be an AUA because it's going to be Ask Us Anything.

Yeah, we're doing an AUA. Yeah, we're doing an AUA on March the 3 on the Trillionaire mindset and don't make us regret it Don't make us regret it please God. We're doing it on our subreddit, which is Trillionaire minds pod I guess Trillionaire mindset was taken. It wasn't I don't know why they go with Trillionaire mindspot I didn't fucking make the thing I don't fucking make the thing either. Jesus Christ. As always, we would appreciate it. We would appreciate it if you didn't already subscribed to our YouTube channel, because we're trying to.

Tried to our YouTube channel. We're trying to get you guys up to, we're trying to get that. We're trying to show you our penis. Yeah, we're trying to do the nude calendar. And we gotta get to 100,000 subscribers by the end of the year. And it's already two months and we're already, we're not gonna make it, it's fine. Yeah, you're right. Fuck me. I think we need to stop relying on these people

If we want to show our penises on the internet, we just do it I shouldn't do it right wait Anyway, I Don't know how I would feel about having maybe a piece on the internet, but then I'm like, who cares, you know, there's some actors who cares. Like Jason Seagull and forgetting Sarah Marshall's got his show and hog full thing out there.

I would do that. Do you a show hog? It's just the human body, man. It is nice. It's freeing. Remember at the onsen? Yeah. Let's just hang in, hanging while hanging. That was nice. Nice to see it's free. Remember at the onsen? Yeah. That's just hanging, hanging while hanging?

Mm-hmm. That was nice. Nice to see everybody's stuff. Yeah. What they're working with. Oh yeah. Not be weird about it, except I was being a little weird about it.

Uh, the weirdest thing for me is everybody's ass is in the water and it's like, ass soup. Everyone's ass is always in the water. That's true. I remember, yeah, I remember actually skinny dipping at a friend's... First of all, this guy had a house party because he was moving out sick. He was, he was no longer gonna be there in like a month. And I, a couple of friends of mine said, oh, you should go skinny dipping.

And I was like, yeah, all right, yeah. So I did alone. Yeah, just, yeah, and a bunch of... There was guys and girls there, but I just, I went in the, it was nighttime. I was dark. Yeah, just, yeah, a bunch of guys and girls there, but I just, I went in, it was nighttime, it was dark. I went into the pool and the guy who was living there got so mad at me after he's like, for skinny dipping? Yeah, he's like, that's so gross man,

your ass and balls and stuff is in my pool. And I was like, buddy, I got news for you when I'm wearing my trunks. Yeah. The same thing is in the water. My ass and balls are still in the water. It's not like the trunks are some protective. Yeah, also the soul.

She's a toilet. All right, we're all pissing. And also, you're moving out of here in a month. What do you care? You don't own this place. Anyway, I can see you getting mad about it. Yeah, of course I would. Well, boy, anyway. I can see you getting mad about it. Yeah, of course I would

Boy anyway, let's get let's dive right Yeah, get the minute seven if you want to shut up. Yeah, shut up you baby stupid baby But we love you baby. You're a very sweet baby. You're like our precious baby You are do anything for you's you sucking on the bottle Well, we got a sort of an update from the Norfolk I was told it was Norfolk Norfolk And because we were saying Norfolk and some people were like it's Norfolk Norfolk. Yeah, it's very like Massachusetts, Massachusetts Norfolk Yeah, so some of them. Right. What's the? Okay, keep going. You done?

Chad him got it. All right. No, no, complete the list. Anyway, not much of not much of an update. The EPA has forced Norfolk Southern to Clean up the EPA is going to clean up and they are going to send the bill to NSC. Well, I think, but I think Norfolk has to clean up as much as they can and anything they don't clean up. I think the EPA is charging them triple. Oh, wow. Oh, boy.

Yeah. So, if the EPA deems Norfolk Southern has failed to complete, any of the tasks that has been ordered to do, the agency will conduct the cleanup itself and charge its company triple the cost. Do we trust the EPA? Do you? No, really why? Why don't know, it's been like got it and underfunded for... So you're saying that you don't trust

that they've got the staff and the resources to do their job effectively? Not that they're corrupt or anything, it's just that they're under staffed, yeah. I don't think there are many. Sort of like the SEC. Sure, yeah. Well, and so the big news.

It's also often a revolving door of, like every one of these agencies revolving door between public and private sector. How we like it. Yeah. Yeah. I don't have a list of the EPA's officers, but I imagine there might be some real company guys in there. Oh, I'm sure. Or yeah, some buddies and what I saw that NSC donated just before the rail crash. They donated some money. I believe to the Ohio governor. It was either the governor or the mayor.

It wouldn't be the mayor of East Palestine because that would be two ways to specific. But even then, it was only like 35 grand. How does this work? You would know more than I do. When a company donates money to a politician, it's not like it's going directly into the politician's coffers, right?

It's into their campaign fund. Yeah, they, uh, that would be a big old time. For Apple, yeah, that would be against election rules. But aren't there, I'm sure that there are ways around campaign financing laws that you could get in trouble all the time for pocketing misappropriating funds. They're always under investigation for it. Because yeah, when I see, oh, so and so, they donated $100,000 to their campaign,

like a big fucking deal. Sometimes, I'm thinking that. Because isn't that a drop in the bucket? If they're getting millions and millions and millions of dollars from private donations and all that stuff. Like if I, if I'm a politician that I've got I don't know 10 million dollars worth of donations and shell oil has given me a hundred grand I'm thinking thanks a lot dip shit, but I'm still gonna do my job and think all of them are getting As much money as you that's a lot of money 10 million. Yeah. Oh, I have no idea. Oh, that's the I mean I wish I had a good example to pull up right now I didn't know you were gonna ask this but

Like the seeing how little they get paid off to vote Against American's interest is always pathetic. Yeah, it's like wow. That's how cheap you are That's how much you caught 55 grand to make it so you could bring guns into schools. Yeah Yeah, oh god. Oh don't get me started on the NRA You are the Tommach Akaw. 55 grand to make it so you could bring guns into schools. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, God. Oh, don't get me started on the NRA. Yeah.

Well, so the other big thing was that, I think it was that the head of the EPA and the mayor and the Ohio governor all drank tap water from some random home in the town to show that it was safe. Fary Obama and Flint Michigan. Yeah, but and it pissed me off because it was a little misleading all over Twitter. If you didn't actually watch the video, you would think that, oh, they totally faked it because that's what all the Twitter things say is like, oh, they fucking, they pretended to drink it. They didn't pretend. They did. You can see them sip and gulp. But yeah, here we go. Oh, yeah. So it was Mike, uh, Mike DeWine, Mike DeWine and the EPA chief pretend

to drink the tap bars. I mean, it looks to me like they're slipping and slurping and gulp and I would rather see them full on pound it. But we love seeing our boy sip and slurp it and gulp it. I would rather see them full on pound it, but. We love seeing our boy sip and slurp, don't we? Yeah, I love to sip and slurp. Don't fucking cheers the blood. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The cheers and the glasses and then, I guess the guy on the right, yeah, he took multiple sips.

Wow, it's good tap water, wow. He knows, he looks about in his 60s. He knows by the time the cancer from this, it'll be decades. So he's like, well, you figure I'll be rid of him with cancer at 85 anyway. Yeah, so they're in this sweet old lady's house. Do you think they're using her bathroom, by the way?

Camera guy's got a pee and it's like, oh man, he's going in there and... That's why I wouldn't like that. That many people in my home have an appeal in my toilet. I as one person who's been in your home, I know you don't like me. Well, it's just that my toilet is sits so low that when you hear about it's splashes,

it splashes everywhere. It's annoying. Bar bathroom, it's just splash everywhere. Anyway, nor folks out there is also pledged, they felt a lot of pressure. Six and a half million dollars to help those affected by the release of toxic chemicals from the stalemate.

Six and a half million dollars total. Yep, and to be split among what, a few thousand people? Yeah, how many people are in East Palestine? I don't think, I mean, I don't think that's gonna be split evenly among, sure. The people of East Palestine, I think that's just to help with getting people accommodations and making each other

of safe places to go. But that's compared to, guess how much they're stocked by back planters this year. $11 billion? Dallas? Well, you went too high. But the plan released earlier this year, the company said it's planning to spend more than a thousand times that amount. Seven and a half billion dollars to repurchase its own shares in order to benefit its shareholders. Fuck yeah. Fuck yeah. That's how we keep it going. Maybe that's how we keep the train a rolling. I know what you mean. What's been really interesting is seeing the stats

on train de-realments in the United States. What, like a thousand a year? Yeah. Yeah. These things are hopping off rails all the time. Well, that's what's funny. People have a weird defense of it. They were like, I don't know why people are concerned

about this. There's a thousand a year. It's like, are you hearing yourself? Yeah. That'd be like saying, I don't know why people are concerned about drunk driving. People do it all the time. Yeah, no shit. And we should try to mitigate that as best we can. Yeah. Did you see Trump and East Palestine? Yeah, he sent, he, man, using his own money, he sent a bunch of shit.

Do Democrats know how to fumble a bagger what? Oh, they totally, yeah, they're, they love to fumble. The thing is, I think, I think they have a hard time Like Trump doesn't care about poor people right But he at least knows how to pretend you know he goes in that did you see him in the McDonald's in in Ohio? Yeah, no, oh man. He's just like fucking stoked. He's like we love this place. Oh, he's like I know I know this menu better than anyone in here. He got big, a big Mac. And he's a water pounder. He's just chopping it up with the cashier. He's like, and you know, it's all on me, everything. Oh, wow. Oh, God. You know, you could probably buy. And he goes, he goes, there's another crowd. He's outside. He's got the big fucking hat on.

And he's doing this thing. The double, the jerking off two NBA players kind of move. And a guy shouts a guy shouts. Oh, here he is, and McDonald's. Hello everybody. That's a nice beautiful thing. So I know this menu better than you do. I know this menu better than anybody in here. Sure he does. I love that he's only got one mode which is bragging. Yeah, about no, just I know this. I know the better than anybody in here. Sure he does. I love that he's only got one mode, which is bragging. Yeah, about, no, just, I know this. I know the McDonald's menu better than anyone in here at McDonald's.

Sure, Donald Trump, we fully believe you, man. But people are stoked, Donald. You got there buying first responders McDonald's and then he went to another crowd and literally someone yelled out, you know, what do you have to say to Biden? He's in, he's in Poland or Kiev right now. What do you say? I don't know, I couldn't, you know, what do you have to say to Biden? He's in, he's in Poland or Kiev right now. What do you say? I don't know. I couldn't, you can't hear him.

You should be here. Bye, everyone. Taco Bell. But Biden is not talking, I mean, fucking, Biden's gonna have a hard time, man. Remember even on the 2020 campaign, he would go talk to like, I remember there was one, he was talking to Union guys guys and the Union guys just asking him a serious question Like what are you gonna do about blood and he's like he starts to like he wants to fight him Yeah, he's like fuck you Jack. How dare you? Remember that and Trump is just like he's like, oh, we're gonna get him, you know, yeah, we're gonna make it the best It's Trump gonna be the nominee. I don't know. He's certainly angling for it But a lot of his, a lot of his...

Hey, my, uh, meatball Ron. Meatball Ron. That's what Trump. He called him meatball Ron. First, it was Ron de Sanctimonius. Ooh, that's a catchy. I dude, he's good. He's so good.

But why meatball? Because he's fat. Ronny D? Meatball Ron. He does not look overweight. Pull up a picture of me, Paul Ron. I don't know. I didn't fucking make up the name, but I think you got-

I know, of course you didn't. I think you got- I think Trump actually walked it back. I was like fine. I won't call him meep all wrong. Because it's offensive to Italian Americans or something? Who knows? It's quite funny.

Yeah. I mean, the guy is funny. There he is hugging the guy. Oh, man, it's gonna be a long, long 2024, and the rest of this year. Well, at least we got... Well, it though. At least we have what? Give me something.

What do we have at least? I don't know. Maybe Bernie will make a little surprise and he'll run. I don't know if he should or if he's gonna but if he should, he should just say make them try to stop me. All uh, I'll go wherever you want, pal. I'll do it again. Yeah, you sure did. I wish I could run for president. I could legally now. I'm glad you won't. Yeah. I, I don't know. It's crazy of things, Keke.

Also, there have been a lot of little fun things coming out about little things online, about Bernie and I'm- Little things online. You do it with your hands. What is this? We could have had a real one, man. Did you see the thing of... He meets a journalist and it's Valentine's Day and they're out to dinner. She's asking questions and stuff and she's like

Who's they he's out with his wife? No, no, it's just Bernie in the journalist Oh, and she's like I'm surprised you would have wanted to meet on Valentine's Day and he's like what's that? Today it's Valentine's Day. He's like today. Why would they do it on a weekday? It was just past that they make a holiday on the weekday. She's grumpy. Didn't even know his Valentine's day That's funny guys married for decades poor wife Even I know February 14th. I ever got I even said February right? There's an R before the you February so fucked up name fucked up month. It's hard. It's hard It's very glottal February

Fucked up month. It's hard. It's hard. It's very glottal for a brewery. Anyway, hey, are you a kid and you want a job? Maybe try getting one in a meat packing plant. Well, that's it's funny because okay, so there was very little of it, but there was just a couple people who after last week were like, is this a communist podcast? Yeah, well, yes it is. Deep shit. No, because we were making fun of the, you know, regulatory history of the trains and everything and asking for sensible regulation. Yeah. And it's just funny that, you know, stories keep coming out of just the absolute hellscape. It's just funny that these type of people who who God bless them are, I mean, their government regulation can overreach and look no further than like the city of Los Angeles or the city of San Francisco where it takes fucking years

and millions of dollars to build something as simple as a public bathroom because you got to go through so many different levels of bureaucracy to get things approved and whatnot. But look no further also than the early 1900s, when you had virtually no regulation and you had companies just freely spewing cold shit into the air and one of the triangle shirt waste fire because there were no safety regulations, children working in the mines and in factories, getting their little hands chopped off and whatnot.

I mean, you don't even have to go that far. And also, we have weekends. We have kids working in factories now. Yes. Cleaning slaughterhouses. It's just funny that these kind of people think that corporations have everyone else's best interests in mind.

I know the free market will make them make good, safe things and products and whatnot. And the market will answer, like no, it won't, because we still, we, they're gonna do whatever's cheapest and easiest for the market. But so if you're wondering what we're talking about, the Department of Labor announced that a federal

and this investigation found was constant-based Package Sanitation Services Inc. employed at least 102 children ranging from 13 to 17-year-olds old, 17 years old. Come on, Emil. You got it, dude. To work overnight shifts at 13 meat processing facilities in eight states.

And the company claimed that, hey, whoa, we didn't know any of this. This was like a very acute problem that was like way down the ladder where bad managers were hiring people unbeknownst to the company. And the government's response was, yeah, that's bullshit. Right. So Jessica Lumin, the department's principal deputy administrator, said, the child labor violations, in this case, were systemic and were systemic and reached across eight states and clearly indicate a corporate wide failure by packer sanitation services at all levels. These children should never have been employed and meet packing plants and this can only happen when employers do not take responsibility to prevent child labor violations from occurring in the first place.

I wonder if they were paying them well. Were they paying them cash? Were they paying them? They also said that so the adults who had recruited hired and supervised these children tried to derail our efforts to investigate their employment practices. The most depressing part was how weren't some of them the children of immigrants? They were trying to help out their families by like, well, you know, I can't,

I'm here illegally and I got to fucking work, you know. Oh yeah, here's a picture. So I'm through a picture of just an, oh my God. It looks like a little child, cleaning a fucking, it looks like a meth lab. It looks like in breakfast. He It looks like in Braceman. He also looks like he's in a Halloween costume.

Yeah. It looks like take your kid to work days. He's fully... I went to his, yeah. He's fully in head to toe rubber garb. It's pretty dark. According to court documents, a 14-year-old child who worked at a Nebraska facility

from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. 5 to 6 days a week from December 2021 to April 2022, cleaned machines used to cut meat. At one point, the child fell asleep in class and also miss class after suffering injuries as a result of chemical burns. Several other children were also reported to have suffered from chemical burns. Jesus fucking Christ, man. So they have been hit with a fine. I think it was like a million and a half. Oh, God, oh, that'll do something.

Right, and that's the problem, right? This has just become the cost of doing business. Yeah. Well, it's cheap to hire a cheap labor. If we get caught, we'll get fined. We'll go back to doing it. I just, why? Why would you hire a child?

I mean, they're gonna be as good at the job. Well, the reason is because they're staffing shortages, they can't get people to fill these jobs. How do they find the kids? I wonder. What are they, wait outside of schools and just go, hey kid, I don't know how they find the kids. It's a great question.

Imagine interviewing the kid. Yeah, you ever clean slaughterhouse equipment before? Yeah, school crushers and tell me about your knowledge about school crushers. Or splitters, skull splitters. I was reading some of the equipment. It's really, it sounds like medieval torture places. And I'm like, good, you know, you know skull splitters.

You just, you know not to get your little fingers put in there though, right? Are you squeamish? Yeah, Okay. How do you feel about missing class? Are you willing to skip school for this job? No, really? Oh God.

I remember one of my first jobs, I was underage and I was the host at a restaurant and they were having me check IDs at the door and Having me work until after midnight until the bar closed at like 2 a.m And I remember thinking this is fucking illegal, but I can't complain or though fire me I know what I'll do. I'll pretend like I'm falling asleep. Yeah, you told the story. Yeah, and then they fired me Fuck sorry I'm still damaged from that. Annie who and you were like surely they'll call my mom tell me tell them to come get me. No. Well I was driving at that point. I had a learner's permit. Yeah but they couldn't let sleep you as Ben get behind the wheel.

Yeah. No they didn't give a shit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. First first jobs for children should be fun. You know they should be a restaurant or a retail. My brock, right? So we had this big farm, but it also had a kind of nice grocery... A task hole? Yeah. And me and my friend were bag boys. There you go.

And it just rocked. That sounds like a great job. We would get stoned out of our absolute gourds. Yeah. And oh my God. And the lunch room, it was unbelievable. It was just all stuff from the grocery basically, and you could just eat as much as you want.

Oh, baboo. So we would smoke before lunch and then eat just tons of sandwiches and... Man, I could go for a sandwich right now. Imagine getting high at the slaughterhouse and then... Oh, God. Just having an absolute nightmare. I don't, I can't imagine what's like.

13 years old. I can't imagine what it's like to work at a slaughterhouse as an adult. What an awful place to work. You're just death and blood. How am I not a vegan? I don't understand. Like I've seen the shit that goes on in slaughterhouses.

It is mortifying. Oh, yeah. It's grotesque. There was just a geffon reddit of a, it was drone footage. It was maybe a dairy farm. You know, just fucking disgusting. Yeah. They're all stuck in these stalls, and then as it zooms out,

there's this huge puddle of just Shit and piss. Yeah, yeah waste. I saw one of a robot. They've got this robot that like squeegees all the poop poopy water into a into a great and the cows are just like walking around it just like Oh, and the things moving it all and Man, it really is a miracle that more diseases don't fester and make the leap from animals. Have you been following the avian flu thing still?

It's still out there. It's still a potential big issue. But are you talking about the threat to humans? Yes, I think it's pretty limited. I don't know, man. All it takes is one. Once it makes it, it's made the leap twice, but it didn't spread.

But if it were to, it would be pretty bad, pretty disastrous. But look, remember when they were talking about COVID-19 and everyone was like, oh, I think this is going to be a big deal. I was like, it's going to be fine. It took months for it to catch on. I, in December, was like, why is nobody talking about this? This is fucking maddening.

COVID-19? Yeah. COVID-19 was a lie. I don't know why I always say that, because it sounds like a drink to me. But anyway, so that's picture of... some times we gotta get back on track. So that picture was supposed to read it, and there was a guy in the comments talking about how,

because I mean, none of us have any idea what that work is like, but he was saying that he had done some of those overnight shifts cleaning. You basically have to get the meat packet plant spotless before the next morning of work, right? So you're doing the overnight, and he was talking about how he used to do it, and it's just backbreaking work, and how how it's so fucked up having children do it. They can't handle it Yeah

Absolutely fucked especially you know children get sleepy Children get sleepy children get sleepy real fast faster than an adult and yeah, they're weaker anyway So that's really gross. It's also not in isolate like that's the thing. It's not this isolated incident I don't know if you guys, they were headlines about it, maybe a couple of months ago, but I don't think decisions have been made, but they were at least in Iowa and Minnesota and maybe some other states,

there was a push to loosen the child labor laws. Yes. And because of the labor shortage. Because of the labor shortage. They said, well, this is crazy. Let's lower the age or allow to hire kids. What they want to lower to? 15?

Different states have different things. The laws take aim at the number of hours that children are allowed to work and protect, this is big and protect employers from liabilities due to sickness or accidents. So we're gonna lower the age and make sure if those dumb kids go and hurt them yourself, you're not on the hook for some idiot kid. Yeah. Or having to pay for a fucking sickness.

That's ridiculous. In the case of a lot of those employer protections, dovetail with the kind of dangerous industries, the bills are looking to prop up construction, meat packing, plants, the bills come as efforts to expand legal working ages and other states have ramped up recently and as the US has seen an increase in child labor violation since 2015. Now, that doesn't mean more children are working than ever that might mean that there's more investigations into the child.

They should let the kids work. Kid wants to work, put them to work. Some kids just know the school's not for them. Hey, I'm not so bright. Let me go to work, please. No, you gotta do your algebra. Shut up, I'm not so bright. Let me go to work, please. No, you gotta do your algebra. Shut up, God, fucking dammit. Well, so now they're...

Let them go to work. Is an argument, right there. Is an argument that the kids should be able to work. They can help support their family, a big push. Oh, cigarette. Is that they... College is expensive. So we should let the kids save over college.

Rather than making college affordable, we should put kids to work though, right? But it should be like, they should only be able to work at the Marshmallow factory or the ice cream factory or the mattress factory. Right. Pillow factory. The factories where it's safe fun things for kids. Yeah. This is it's also frustrating they try to make it seem like they're getting this valuable experience. So this is state senator rich drawheim from Minnesota and he, eliminating work opportunities for youth just because of their age

will make it even harder for businesses to find reliable employees. Businesses teach these youth workers skills that will prepare them for their future and maybe even track them to their industry for life. So they think like, oh, you're denying these kids valuable work. Valuable work of experience

of splitting cleaning skulls. I mean, okay, just, but also if you're so concerned about kids not being able to afford college, why don't you go to work to make it more affordable in your state you fucking creep? I think that there needs to be a major overhaul of the American education system. They should make it like.

Brave, Ben. Yeah, very brave. I know, I brave. I know I know listen brave don't don't but don't get Don't jump to conclusions here, but yeah We need more trade schools. We need to bring that shit back some kids don't want to go to college They don't want to do this shit. Let them skip senior year and do a year of Community service or fucking yeah jumping right in and we need plumbers, we need electricians.

That's your overhaul. No, no, some like that. I just like, this shit is stupid and broken. Let the kids pick something that they're interested in and just go from there. What's that sound? That's rain, baby. Damn, it do be raining. That's rain.

Oh, yeah, that's nice. Wow, it's coming down. It's really coming down. yeah, that's nice. Wow, it's coming down. It's really coming down. Oh, boy. Well, speaking of work, they're just dangling this fucking carrot in front of everybody. Oh, little bit of good news though. Come on. The four-day work week.

Yeah, it's not going to happen. Bro. And it can happen. Four-day work week, three-day bender. Bernie Sanders, no surrender. Did you just make that up? No. They used to say it in 2020. Oh, wow. Yeah, well, I don't think it's ever gonna happen

You're not gonna tap me up on that Fucking Christ the trial run. So yeah, you're shitty attitude nothing's ever gonna happen I want you I have a great attitude alright. It's just that I've been around the block And let's see okay as seen he's been around the block. Yeah, I've been around the block a few times. I mean, it works in an office in a decade. Of 61, what? I've worked in an office as early as five years ago. Five years ago?

Yeah, when I quit my job in 2018. That feels like 15 years ago. Yeah, it was five. It wasn't 15. You don't think those people would enjoy this? Of course they would. It's the companies that I'm saying, the government and the companies would not allow us to have.

Yeah, but let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. What? You know what? COVID is. It's a novel coronavirus. No, you know what I think it kind of did though? What?

And you'll see, there's some of this in the story. I think with all the work from home and flexibility, there are people who are like, I'm not, you need to put these, you need to put these perks in or I'm not, like people are leaving jobs because they're not, now that companies are calling them back to the office, they're like, fuck this, there's no reason.

You guys have said productivity hasn't gone down. We prove it to work. We deserve more. People are leaving jobs because they're not getting that you guys have said productivity hasn't gone down. We've proven that it works. We do serve more. People are leaving jobs because they're not getting the money they think they deserve. Which I feel like people have a way different approach to work.

I mean, that often falls into the office work sector right now. But I do think there's a big push. People want, people want to have. Take control back. What are you a communist? Shut the fuck up. What is this a communist show? But so what we're talking about is in Britain they ran a pilot program. Yes. With a four day work week. Okay. In the second half of last year, 61 businesses in Britain offered their employees a four day work week as part of the pilot program. 56 of the companies, or 92% said they would continue with a four day work week.

So do it. 18 confirmed that the change would be permanent. Study also found that revenue stayed broadly the same on average over the trial period, and that a trition among employees dropped significantly. That's another thing. You have to realize there is a benefit to the company, right? Of course. There's not high turnover.

You don't have to keep retraining people. True, there's not burnout. No burnout. Productivity increases as they've shown. Right, yeah. Huge. I mean, man, when I look back at my office jobs, the amount of work that I actually did

relative to my entire 40 weeks, 40 hours a week, I probably worked about half of that time. The other half, pissing and shitting, eating and drinking, chatting up with my boys on the Slack channel, just general dicking around and getting work done. And everybody does this and everybody knows it Everybody doesn't yeah if you if you actually work the whole time. I'm sorry. That sucks That does suck you're great. You're a better person than I am

But this is crazy the effect that workers reported on their well-being were striking the study found that levels of anxiety fatigue and sleep issues decreased while mental and physical health improved about 70% of employees said they had reduced levels of burnout by the end of the trial. Good for them. 15% said no amount of money would motivate them to accept the five-day schedule at their next job. Jesus Christ. No amount of money? I call bullshit, man. I wish I had this guy's- I wish I had their fucking numbers.

Yeah. we'd say Three million well will it happen here in the good old us of a It took it took a lot just to get us weekends a hundred years ago Thanks to labor unions pushing for weekends That we got them I know yeah. They should have pushed harder. Got us three days or yeah, three day weekends way back in the day. Instead of this five day week bullshit. Ben stands with labor, but he's he's pissed that you guys didn't get you guys didn't get three day week. That guy's back then doing that shit. Yeah. I don't know.

Happy everyone to be. Yeah. I don't know. Happy everyone would be. Yeah, it'd be so nice. But do you think utopia? Do you think we would just get used to it very quickly? Yes. We should have fucking four day weekend. This fucking sighted we work.

No. Well, because eventually it'll just be robots. I've been seeing AI ads now. Like AI generated images in advertisements. I've been seeing some AI generated images in advertisements. I've been seeing some AI generated images. Yeah. I'm not going to ask about that. I'm just going to move on to the next thing, which is a couple of three terms. Ben, Khan, sexy. I wonder what that would yield. We don't need to look.

Just real pictures because you got it going on, pal. You know you do. You know you do. Tesla is in the news again. They recall 300, what an odd number. 362,758 vehicles saying that the full self-driving beta software can cause crashes. But, it's not that big a deal because all they got to do is just plug in their car

and get a little update, right? That's it. And then it's fixed. It actually feels like, well, so that's the thing. Elon Musk is obviously trying to downplay it. Of course. And I will say, I agree that recall feels odd because it feels like that puts an image in your brain of everyone having to take their Tesla into the shop

to get some kind of problem fixed. But what it is going to be is one of those over the air. Over the air software updates. Yeah. But I do think it is a big deal, right? This is a voluntary recall, which means Tesla agreed to it. So they are acknowledging that something's wrong,

they gotta fix it. Not something's wrong, they're acknowledging that FSD does have the potential to cause accidents with a lot of different- Well, sure, it's because other cars on the road aren't full self-driving it, and they can't all talk to each other. And the only way for that to,

for full self-driving to work is for every car to be and that's the master plan. Three point. According to the NHTSA, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. Safety Administration. Fuck. FSD may allow the vehicle to act unsafe around interactions such as driving straight through an intersection while in a turn-only lane. That sounds bad.

As do other FSD behavior, cited by the federal car safety agency, including speeding, rolling through stop signs, running yellow traffic lights, flipping off other cars, hunking, hunking and flipping off other cars. I mean, it does feel like a big deal, right? All these 300,000 cars out there, just with the, yeah, sure. I mean, yeah, I, I don't, at this point, I don't just kill me with one of these things. Just get it over with man, you are so I'm faded to be I am faded to be a hit and killed by a fucking Tesla. Why? I don't know. That would be that would, you know, that would be poetic. I would like to see that. If as Elon Musk loves to tweet that fate loves irony and all this shit, it's only right

that he should die by getting hit by one of these things. Just like how the segue guy, the inventor of the segue, died on a segue because it rolled off a cliff. Do you know that? Yeah. He died. He was on his own invention and it fucking rolled off a cliff. Do you know that? No. Yeah. He died. He was on his own invention and it fucking rolled off a cliff. Or how the creator of Match.com.

He got matched with a woman who killed him. No, his wife. His wife left him for someone that she met on Match.com. Interesting. Yeah. Fate, fate, love's irony. So. The guy who created Pringles got very got as a creamy and put in a Pringles can. Are you serious? Did you just make that up? No.

The Doritos guy got turned into a fire. I didn't make mine up. Yeah. Yeah. I'm making mine up. And it was called Doritos. Doritos human flavor. No, probably just his name. Tommy Doritos. No, Danny Dorito. That was the name, that was the inventor. Don't look it up, but it was Danny Dorito. But you know where there's not a dead human. Full self driving recall.

Where? Mercedes Benz. They just introduced a partnership with fucking TikTok. To put TikTok into your fucking car. I know, I saw it. Jesus, H. Really, guys? Really?

I mean, Mercedes is already such a dog shit car. Is it? Yes. Why? Because they're just like cheaply, you get into a Mercedes from the 80s and 90s. Oh baby, it's premium, it's luxury. These things are heavy, heavy duty.

You get into one now and it's like, okay, yeah, you guys are clearly, it's just, it's not the best. Unless you're in like one of the top top of the line. Yeah, you might be getting into some fucking C class as my dude. I don't know the difference. Is the S class the nice one? S classes are very nice. Yeah, okay.

In the C class is like the cheap guy. You can probably get a cheap class for like... Yeah, I don't know if it does what I hope though. C stands for cheap. Okay, you know where there's not a false off-drive vehicle? Where? Europe. For Tesla?

Yeah. Why? Because they have a pre-approval process. They haven't approved FSD to roll out to their car. Oh. We have a similar thing in America, but not for cars. You know, we have it for like things like aviation. Got a pretty good aviation record.

Yeah, we know about the 737 Max, okay. But when aviation companies want to put new features on their planes and stuff, there needs to be heavy testing and there needs to be proven that it's safe. Right. We don't do the same thing with things like FSD for auto. One of the many, one of the myriad ways America is,

number one, we just, we love to put people in danger. And it fucking sucks. Yeah, cause, well, the FAA was like, there was the, that's an example of a government regulatory body getting in bed with Damn government regulatory body. She's got curves in all the right places know all the wrong places She's got curves in all the wrong places. Have you seen Damn girl, let me see that government regulatory body. Oh yeah. Damn girl, you bloated with waste. Damn.

Damn girls, that sour milk in them titties. Okay, that one's weird. Yeah. I'm trying to, you know, you're going off a body here and I'm going, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, but it's kind of like, well, because sour milk would be something that the government would look past, you know?

Yeah, I guess. But like bloated with waste. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was funnier. Yeah, fuck. But like, yeah, I guess. Well, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, It's just funny because here's one of the things that all the Elon dipshits out there love to forget is broken promises. Remember the Hyperloop? Oh, who could forget?

You know what? It just- It just celebrationized the game. Oh yeah, it just celebrated its 10th birthday. Happy birthday. All the happy birthday. Just about every single company that was created to help make the Hyperloop a reality in cities

around America. I believe Chicago LA. Oh, remember when there was going to be a super fast fucking train to San Francisco? Remember when there was going to be one from like, I don't know, Dodger Stadium to downtown. He was going to do one involving Dodger Stadium. But the idea was sold to these cities and then they just fucking didn't happen. And the one that was supposed to really work was the one that Elon Musk promised would have people being shepherded around it over a hundred miles per hour on rails under Las Vegas is

now just people getting in Teslas for a dumb little dipshit adult Disneyland ride at a whopping 30 miles per hour. It's awesome, so cool. What 100 beef fat, how fast were we going on the bullet trains? And, because maybe that was kilometers. Like 220 kilometers or 220 miles an hour. I think it was, I don't, I can't be sure.

I think it was like 240 kilometers per hour, which is like 180 or something like that. Yeah, it feels so cool. And when the thing goes past you, it's, woof. But a lot of people say that what this was, was just one big plan to be able to kill public infrastructure projects.

Yes, right. I've got a plan. What? No, that was him. Oh, sure. I've got a plan for your public transportation. It's like that Simpsons episode. Let me build the monorail. Monorail that Conan O'Brien wrote, where the guy comes and sells them on how a monorail throughout Springfield will solve virtually every problem the city has and he just took the money and ran. Go on taking money around. Yeah.

Who's that? Who sings that? Steve Miller band, baby. Steve Miller band. SMB, suck my dick. Jesus, fucking Christ. Oh boy, what else we got this week? Who gives a shit about Facebook?

What? Instagram. There's some of the blue check marks for 12 bucks a month, whatever. So what? Damn, dude. How do I get you to care? You know? Every week I come in here and say, you care about this?

You know what I care about? I actually, I do think they're doing it in a little better way. You know why? What? I'm pissed they're doing this. I don't think they should do it. But I don't think it'll be as big of a mess as Elon's whole Twitter thing of course not

Why because they got a Missouri on the case they have got a fucking guy. They got to trot him out every time they have a new feature Yeah, we know you guys are pissed CEO of Instagram. I'm pissed too. Yeah, I so yeah, I think the app sucks also, but we are trying, but he said that you will have to take a picture of your license plate, your license driver's license, a meal. Come on, get it together. Get that said. So you at least have to verify that it's you. Yes.

On the other one, it's just like, you're just paying $8 a month, you get a blue check. Sure. And then people are changing their names to be whoever they want. Yeah. And then putting like in parentheses, parity account way at the end,

so you have no fucking idea. For me, it's just another, because a lot of these tech companies are starting to finally feel the crunch after over a decade of hyper growth and it's another desperate revenue lever to pull. Yeah, are there any numbers on how many people signed up for Twitter below? Guessing it, I remember it being lackluster back when they were still public.

I mean, in the hundreds of thousands, not even, I don't even think it topped a million. Or maybe it did. It might have been three million or so. Let's see. At present, the new Twitter blue program looks to have around 300,000 subscribers. Oh, a VAY. That is not very much, but that might be old information. That's from February 6, 2023. Wow.

I just got a look. You just got a look. Oh, yeah, I didn't see that. I didn't see that. Because yeah, it seems like they are still trying to twist people's arms into doing it. Like, there's that new thing where you can't have two factor authorization if you don't do Twitter blue. It's a weird thing where you can't have two factor authorization if you don't do Twitter blue It's a weird thing. That is a weird thing. I'm tired of big tech. I really am. I mean the also very brave of you to say I'm so

Wait, let's let's I'm Ben Conn if you're anything like me you're fed up with big Big Tag. Well, first of all, did you see we had GDP today? I got GDP every day. Yesterday, for you guys. I got GDP every day, the way I'm living my life. God damn, God damn pussy. From a government regulatory body, you go. Okay. I was just, you know, because a lot of these were, we're in this kind of, not no man's land, but it's kind of a delicate position we're in here because we're in the middle of earning

season. And every company, just about every company has analysts who cover the company. In the analysts, make their projections based on what company management tells them. And obviously, management is always going to try to paint a rosy picture for as long as possible. If they've got any kind of bad news, they're going to do their best to mitigate it and keep it to themselves until they can no longer keep it a secret. And then analysts have to do what they can to adjust their figures and whatnot.

Well, a lot of management companies have been sounding really upbeat and confident that despite rising costs and margins slowing down and everything slowing down. They're gonna be able to maintain like oh, yeah So analysts are forecasting what they're forecasting, right? But there's what's the risk there? I don't know the risk is to the downside just like how in 2021 People weren't anticipating all the surprises to the upside when everything was just like, whoa, hey, it turns out holy shit, the pandemic like fucking did gangbusters for everybody, you know?

So I just, I saw this thing pointing out how in tech in particular, basically the rate of cost growth is accelerating faster than top-line growth, just like revenue growth. And it just, it doesn't make sense that the consensus view, everybody thinks that by the end of this year, earnings per share growth is gonna continue upward. And yet, it's shown that the cost of goods and the cost of growth is going up. So that doesn't, the math doesn't work.

You can't have growth in earnings per share while also having the cost of everything grow up, or blow up at the same time, go up. So, just something to pay attention to, I guess, because like I said, they had a decade of this fucking never-ending growth, and all of a sudden, you're seeing these tech layoffs start to happen, and I don't think had a decade of this fucking never-ending growth and all of a sudden you're seeing these tech layoffs start to happen and I don't think that a lot of these tech CEOs are equipped with the know-how to navigate growth slowing. So what's gonna happen?

Chaos. Chaos. Cats and dogs getting along. Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters, that's right. I don't know. So we're gonna go from gangbusters to Ghostbusters. Yeah.

So pay attention to that, everybody. Pfft. Pfft. If you're out there, you're gonna wanna pay attention to that. Well, it's like we've talked about a little bit on here that it's like the market. It's now, it's not complacent, but you know, the VIX, the volatility index came back to lows back to the teens and everybody's just kind of assuming, oh, I guess that's going to be a soft landing after all.

And the Fed is Lightning up. But then yeah, at the start of this week, you had retail sales from a couple big names, Home Depot, Walmart said that they were like lowering expectations. Walmart was saying that people are still leaning toward buying the cheaper shit. Yeah, I mean, we had a couple of these headlines about credit card debt. Yeah, so and it's funny because we were making fun of this in this is probably a few months ago because they were talking about how credit card That was jumping a little bit, but they were like, well, it's not concerning and I was like, but it just happened like how why aren't you concerned about this right? And so and now as we're progressing it's US household debt jumps to six 16.9 trillion dollars largest quarterly increase in 20 years More auto payments are late exposing cracks and consumer credit short on cash more Americans tap 401 K 401 K savings for emergencies

I ain't good man. I ain't good. I ain't good. I mean on the one hand Yeah, we've all felt the tightening of a belt your your economic belts sometimes and what do you do? You put more shit on your credit card It doesn't necessarily necessarily mean that you're going to become bankrupt in destitute it just means hey for now I got to put a little bit more in the credit card than I'd like to and you're still going to pay it off and sucks credit card interest rates are so high yeah well that's why you got to find just Google something that has a 0% interest rate introductory offer for 24 months or something I just did one of those to fund my, what did I buy?

It's a kinds of heroin habit. No, the ketamine. Yeah, I put it all on a, what? I don't know, it's funny. It was drugs. I needed 24 month credit card with no interest rate. I'm trying to get heavily into ketamine. Well, it was several thousand dollars.

I'm going through something, sir. I'm going to need no interest on that. Ha ha ha. Ah, yeah. I don't know if you've heard, but the country isn't a bit of a sticky wicket. A sticky wicket? Yeah.

What do you, one of these underage laborers? Why? Because that's such a, like, a chimney-sweet boy thing to say. Sticky wicket? Yeah. Don't even. Or British, at least. Because a wicket is something from cricket, right?

You just think cuz they were I'm that's true. I'm pretty sure that a wicket. Oh my god. This guy doesn't know what a wicket is What's a wicket Actually, I have no idea. Well, what the fuck man? I'm just messing with I. I know, but sticky wicket sounds like something. Sticky wicket. Oh man. Well, I guess it's like I've been saying this household debt jumping is quite the sticky wicket. What is a sticky wicket? It's not just cricket.

Yes. That's what I was saying. Is that just cricket? It's a difficult circumstance in the sport of cricket. A lot of people may remember one of my New Year's resolutions was to understand the sport of cricket. Ah! A lot of people may remember one of my New Year's resolutions was to understand the game of cricket. We are not through the New Year yet, so I'm still figuring it out.

I don't think anyone is saying. This is a good, no, they're all just going out with those weird flat bats and just. There's like a computer too. The wickets have like a little dot on them that shows like, oh yeah, the bowl did hit the thing. That's a fucking tallyhoo if you if you get one. I'm gonna figure it out. They don't have gloves though, that's pretty

cool. It's pretty manly, they just like catch the ball. It's a hard ball. Yeah, no kidding. I didn't I let me finish. I said right. I don't know any of that. Yeah, no kidding. Man, I do know one thing I'm sticky wicked. It's a tough situation. Tough situation situation. Situation, situation. You find yourself in, yeah. I was, because I get confused. The situation room and the decision room.

That's where, we need more phrases like that. We need more phrases like that. Yeah. I think we have too many phrases as this. We need more. We need, we need stuff like the Germans have, like Shadon Freud. We need one word. Or you know the things the

What is it called the The rhyme slaying in Britain like I'm Hank Marvin Huh, you know the Cockney rhyme slang sure do you cuz I just said when you're not sure Well, I'm sorry my my phone is interfering with the microphone I don't know why cuz because nothing's happening. I'm putting it away. Christ. Go on, so what's the Cockney Rhymes thing? It's like Hank Marvin, means I'm Starvin.

I'm Hank Marvin. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Barney Rubble. Trouble. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Ocean's 11. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I don't know.

Yeah, you don't remember that, Noxion's 11? I've seen them all. Yeah, so... Ha, ha, ha. It does suck. I saw that, yeah 11? I see them all. Yeah. So, it does suck. I saw that, yeah, the more people's auto payments are late and consumers do be maybe hanging on by a thought, well, who knows, who knows? I feel like not enough people are talking about

how maybe weddings are putting us all in the poor house. Yeah, man. Ketamine therapy. And we're getting our absolute dicks pushed in. Everybody's dick. You remember tucking your penis and balls House and yeah man ketamine there and we're getting our absolute dicks pushed in Everybody's dick you remember tucking your penis and balls between your legs when you were a kid Showing your brother and being like hey look sure man. Jaina. Yeah, I mean yeah every every man has done that in their life Do you think every man yes?

Because we've all seen Silence of the lambs we all have seen it When the guy does the thing with his penis and bulls. So anyway, can you do a buffalo bill? The voice? Of course I can. What else? Of course I can. So when I said can you do a buffalo bill, did I think you meant to do-

Talked to my penis between. Or did you think I meant capture a bunch of fat women and skin them with dress? I thought that you meant tuck the thing between and do the dance. But you can obviously do that. It puts solution on its skin. It does what it's told. No, that's not very good.

I would need to hear him right now. Yeah. Yeah. Oh wait. Oh wait. It kind of sounds like. Oh wait, who's it sound like? For a second it was like Philip see more Hoffmany

Philip see Philip's have you got it. We got go ahead. Philip see more Hoffman Marijuana kisses Mark Wahlberg and and boogie nice. I'm sorry. I'm so fucking stupid I'm so fucking stupid. Yeah, I do remember that Oh Oh, so fucking stupid. Yeah, I do remember that. Oh What else do we have? Shit, we're wrapping it up here. If you made it this long as usual, what the fuck and if you made it this long as usual you're sick Yeah, you're sick fucker. Get help. What else? What what am I missing? There was something else There was something in video posted earnings this morning or after I was yesterday and they beat and

Stock was up coin base Underperformed. I know that their stock dropped What the fuck am I missing dude? There was something else going on Don't look at me like that what in the fucker fuck all boy this episode was a stinker, huh? You think so? Yeah. Why? They've all just been stinker-rooney. All of them?

Yeah. All of them lately. I don't know what's going on. Why are people saying that? Yeah, people are telling me and my DMs are like, you're fucking suckin' ass lately. Like you specifically are both. Yeah, me specifically.

You're fine, but me, they're all complaining. You know what I think it was today? I drank too much coffee. I feel it in my eyes. I think it was fine. Do drank too much coffee. I feel it in my eyes. I think it was fine. Do I look okay? I? Need son. I Dude I look so fucking pale. This isn't how I normally look literally. I be on vampire right before bed

Uh-huh me fill in Maddie. We're just talking about we're like we look disgusting. Like we need sunshine. I need I need it We haven't had a we haven't had a winter like this in years. We all moved here from New York, so we used to do this, but it's freezing in fucking L.A. It's never like this. It's crazy. Get over it. Calm down. You were with me.

You were with me. Calm down. Then you left me. Why? Why? Because it's just one week. It's not. It's never getting back. It's February.

It's winter time, dude. Get used to it. You were with me. Yeah, I am. I'm still with you, but I need some sunshine though. Dog. I don't know what's going on. Even as far as out of Saturday, it's really uncharacteristically cold in LA.

Okay, you're back with me. I'm getting back. Yeah, I never left. You left. No, I didn't. You didn't get over it. Nah, it's weird. I don't remember that.

If we play the tape back, I'm pretty sure. This is gaslighting. Don't do this to your friends. This is not right. Uh, I could use some gaslight right now. Some warmth, you know? Yeah, you're back with me. Yeah, yeah.

Thank God that rental car I have has heated steering wheel. But only on two sides. I would think that it would encompass the whole wheel, but just two sides. Where does it not have it? It doesn't have it here and here. It just has it here. I know. Oh, they don't want you doing cool guy.

Yeah, they don't want you doing that. They want you. They say keep it at two and 10, pal. No, it's three and nine, three and nine. Keep it at 10 and two. Three and nine. We did 10 and two. Yeah, well, here they put them on three and nine.

10 and two. Oh. Well, I guess that wraps up this episode. Yeah, well here they put them on three and nine ten and two Well, I guess that wraps up this episode that concludes another Stinker I got a piece so bad. I think this one was fine. I think it was good This was a dense one. This one was nutrient dense like dog food. Did you know that shit is so nutrient dense? Of course you've got so much to get all your I kind of would I don't want that I would eat dog food Oh Okay, what are you gonna say I was gonna say like I kind of Would say that you would eat dog food. Please I would eat like they should make human food where it's like

It's got all your nutrients. Yeah, it's called like hool or whatever. Yeah, I know that's what happened I thought about it and I was like oh no that, that's a swat. Yeah, success. But they should make it more of a solid instead of a drink. Right, I want to feel like I'm eating something. I want to eat a bowl of human kibble. You know what it is? Food ball, dude. No.

Yeah, we got to get out and make food ball. But it doesn't. Food cube. No, because I also want to be able to carry around a little back of it. Yeah, all the food you crave. All the food you want to eat and all the shapes you crave. Yeah.

Okay, we're holding them hostage. All the nutrients you could want in every shape imaginable. Triangle, square, cube, rhombus. Rhombus, pentagon, octagon, septagon. Remember in that chance the rapper song he goes, like lean up bone a square, That's a fucking rhombus. You know, uh, buddy of mine, friend of mine, Sam out out in New York, we, we did a

punder dome contest together and she did one of the best puns I have ever heard. Give it to me. It was, I believe the theme was Christmas. It's fucking good. It was either Christmas or a hip hop. And I will never forget. It was either Christmas or hip hop., and I will never forget. It was either Christmas or hip hop? The theme was because here was the punch. She said, I'm gonna butcher this, but she said something like, yeah, I want to go give my mother, I want to prepare some of my gifts for Christmas,

and there was this one that I didn't cover up in wrapping paper, or I didn't, I just gave it to my mom, naked, like the gift because I didn't want to chance the rapper. Yeah, it was really, it was so, I'm but, again, I'm butchering it. No, that's the reason why she's won like 50 of those pun contests, and I never won a single one, but... Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft Yeah, it's a very good one. You could cut out some more. Yeah. Anyway, after hours it's gonna be the next thing. If you like this type of stuff, you are gonna fucking freak for after.

Yeah, I feel like this dog shit. If you like us talking, eatin' dog food. Oh man. I will tell you, I've eaten dog food more. I know you have. We all have. We all have. Everybody who has dogs has tried.

I've never eaten dog food. Fuck. That's not true at all, because you've never had dogs. I had dogs. Now you haven't. I grew up with dogs. Okay, well, wow, you were raised to one and a fucking bar. I was raised by dogs.

A lot of people are surprised to have a light. That's mean to call your parents that. Hey, anyway, kill your job. Puh. Do you have your whole life? Fuck your whole stupid life. Okay, that's the end of the episode. Oh, we love you so much.

We love you so much. Goodbye. This week on After Hours, you know what's a fucking phenomenal candy bar, three musketeers. Any jerry we'd round up all the kids who would eat three musketeers. I was a trap. I want the three musketeers to see jails that we'd round up all the kids who would eat three musketeers. I-I-I was a trap. I would have thought three musketeers to see if any boys would take them. I was staying in a hostel in Lisbon, Portugal. Uh, it was me and like ten Italian girls.

We were debating what's the best pizza. And they all at once said, MAGA-DA-ITA! And I went, good answer, because that's what I said. Fuck man, I want pizza and chocolate. I want a room full of ten Italian girls. Line drive, immediately unconscious, Sir, because that's what I said. Fuck man, now I want pizza and chocolate. Now I want a room full of 10-a-time, girl. Line drive, immediately unconscious, had to be rushed to the hospital.

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