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Andrew Schulz
Schultzy.
Akash Singh
Schultze.
Mark Gagnon
Schultze, Schultze.
Akash Singh
Matthew.
Andrew Schulz
Hey.
Dove
Cute baby.
Andrew Schulz
I didn't get the Amber alert.
Akash Singh
Hey, Matt, how are you? Hey, Matt, how are you? It's always good to see you.
Andrew Schulz
Good to see you, too, man.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
What are you two up to today?
Akash Singh
Ah, Jesus. We are celebrating. My new special's coming out.
Dove
Oh, nice.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
What, do you stand up there and grow a mustache?
Akash Singh
Actually, if you want to know, it's about my wife and I trying to make a baby.
Andrew Schulz
It's like.
Mark Gagnon
Like red tube.
Akash Singh
Like what?
Mark Gagnon
Red tube, man.
Dove
Red tube, you know?
Akash Singh
No, not that red tube. What are you talking about, weirdo? Oh, we had a lot of trouble getting pregnant.
David Sanchez
Oh.
Mark Gagnon
Oh, I'm sorry.
Akash Singh
Thank you. Appreciate that.
Dove
Well, you should have come to me for that.
Akash Singh
Come to you for what?
Andrew Schulz
Well, I know everything there is about being born, right? You can use that in your skit if you want.
Akash Singh
Matt, how the would I use that in my.
Mark Gagnon
Are you, like, limp?
Akash Singh
No, I'm not limp. Okay. I get pretty hard.
Mark Gagnon
I believe you.
Akash Singh
I do get pretty hard. I believe you. Do you want to know what the special's about or not? Sure. All right. It's basically this. The doctor puts the embryo to my wife. The second he puts it in, I'm like, your sperm is like a C blacked out.
Dove
Sh.
Akash Singh
Shame, shame. At this point, I realized she thinks I suck my little dick.
Mark Gagnon
Was that. Did you just clip montage?
Akash Singh
Me?
Mark Gagnon
Yeah, you clip montage?
Akash Singh
You asked me.
Dove
You want to battle with me?
Andrew Schulz
You want a clip montage?
Dove
Battle with me.
Mark Gagnon
Four decades in the movie business, you.
Dove
Want to play this game with me?
Akash Singh
No. You just said you wanted. No.
Andrew Schulz
Why don't you get a little of this?
Dove
Come here.
Akash Singh
I couldn't get the rights to the movies. Oh, yeah. We reached out and there was like, a whole.
Mark Gagnon
What kind of special is this?
Akash Singh
Do me a favor. Don't watch the special. It's not for people like you. What the fuck is that?
Mark Gagnon
People like me? I'll watch your I'm Shooting Blanks comedy special. As much as I want to, I'll watch it twice.
Andrew Schulz
As a matter of fact. Where's it playing?
Akash Singh
I don't want to tell you. Is it playing Netflix? Okay, but don't do that thing where you, like, embarrass me.
Mark Gagnon
No, no, I wouldn't want to embarrass you.
Andrew Schulz
Hey, everybody, everybody, listen. Andrew Schultz has a comedy special about how his balls are full of oatmeal, and we're all going to watch it, okay? Thanks.
Akash Singh
You are so Boston. It's amazing.
Mark Gagnon
I'm watching it now.
Andrew Schulz
I wasn't gonna watch it. Now I am gonna watch it.
Mark Gagnon
Okay, When's it coming out?
Akash Singh
I don't want to tell you.
Mark Gagnon
Tell me when it's coming.
Akash Singh
I'm not gonna tell you when it's coming. It's coming out March 4, but you better not tell a single person, Matt.
Mark Gagnon
I'd better not tell a single.
Akash Singh
You better not tell us.
Mark Gagnon
You don't tell me what I get to tell.
Dove
Don't put my business on the streets, man.
Mark Gagnon
What world do you live in, man? We're in a diner in Chelsea, Matt. I will tell whoever I want to tell whenever I want.
Akash Singh
You're not going to tell us? Yeah. Watch this. Oh, Jesus.
Andrew Schulz
Hey, everybody. This dumbass right here has a special about his low sperm count, and it's on Netflix.
Mark Gagnon
Wait, what's the date?
Akash Singh
I forgot.
Dove
Just remember to dipshit.
Andrew Schulz
March 4th.
Mark Gagnon
March 4th on Netflix.
Dove
Bum bum.
Mark Gagnon
You're welcome.
Akash Singh
You feel better? So you got it all out.
Mark Gagnon
That was a good promo.
Akash Singh
Yeah, that was pretty good.
Mark Gagnon
Is that the same baby from American Sniper?
Akash Singh
What's up, everybody? Welcome to Flagrant. If you already saw that, thank you very much for watching it again. I appreciate you. Specials out March 4th on Netflix. That's Tuesday. March 4th. So next Tuesday. Damn. Already a week away.
Dove
Hell, yeah.
Akash Singh
Yeah. Shout out Matt Damon, bro.
Dove
What was that, like, your neighbor?
Akash Singh
He's just a legend. There's a funny take that we did not use, and I was, like, bullying Dove into doing it. But you know the line where he gets up and he goes, andrew Schultz is a special where his balls are made out of oatmeal. So in the skit, Dove looks at the oatmeal and then he just puts it down. And I go, yo. You know, it'd be even funnier. Andrew Schultz has a comedy special about how his balls are full of oatmeal. Now, to get him to do that, I. We went through, like, 10 different takes. Also, Dove is so adorable because, like, there's this moment for the cutaway, and he's like. It's like he's George Clooney. Like, he is locked in. He's coming up to me. He goes, so what do you think my motivation is? Am I nervous? Am I anxious? Am I, like, shocked that you get.
Dove
Actually such a good actor?
Akash Singh
He's a really good actor, but you also also understand. It's like you're acting a piece with fucking the Marshall. Yeah, but he's. So. He's coming. It's like, what do you Think it is. And I was like, yeah, I think that, you know, you're eating oatmeal and somebody says, your balls are made obvious. You're grossed out. He goes, okay. So I would look up, right? I'm like, well, I don't know. If Matt Dame was at a diner and you were eating and he started giving a speech, would you look up? He goes, yes, I probably would.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah.
Akash Singh
We did more takes on Dove eating that oatmeal than me and Matt doing the entire. It was an hour.
Andrew Schulz
It was an hour. How did you get into character for that role? What was your.
Akash Singh
I went deep, and I think what I locked in on, someone wrote in the comments. I'm. I guess Middle Eastern River Monica.
Mark Gagnon
No, no.
Akash Singh
But it was like we had a food decorator, and it was like, oh, it doesn't plop now. You gotta add milk to it, make it runny. I went lefty, so I protect the face went lefty. I mean, he really put himself.
Andrew Schulz
You know how hard it is for Dub to do a scene where he doesn't eat food? Really difficult now, but.
Akash Singh
Shout out Matt Damon, man. Shout out Matt Damon.
Dove
Absolutely incredible.
Akash Singh
I literally hit him up. I should, like, see the text. Like, I'm. I'm basically asking him to say no in the text.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
And, like, I probably rewrote that text 40 different times.
Andrew Schulz
Of course.
Akash Singh
Right. Because I don't want to be like, too. Was it presumptuous?
Andrew Schulz
Right.
Akash Singh
Like, I. I can't, like, assume you would say yes to doing this. And I know you have a million different things.
Mark Gagnon
Legend.
Akash Singh
Shout out Tory Lanez, bro. Sorry, we need you on the pod.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah, you need that promo with Tory Lanez, bro. Freestyle from prison.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Did you hear, like, one of his songs got cut off by a fight that broke out? No, like, he was recording, I guess, through the phone.
Mark Gagnon
That's in the background, like a riot hack.
Andrew Schulz
Oh, that's why the.
Akash Singh
Tory's five three.
Dove
Yeah, that's the first cheeks.
Akash Singh
They're going, right? Yeah. So. But no, I hit up. I hit him up. And I was like, dude, please say no to this. You have way too many things to do to be busy about this. But I got a funny idea for a promo for the special. If you're down, you let me know. And he was like. He's like, yeah, can we do it, like, between 8 and 3? That's when the kids are at school. And I was like, yeah. He goes, what day is good for you? I go, what day is good for you?
Dove
Yeah, exactly.
Akash Singh
Like, before This. I hadn't really thought it was going to happen.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
So I had a loose idea.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
And the second he did, it became even more anxiety.
Dove
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Akash Singh
Because then I got to write something funny.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
So I wrote this thing with a couple guys. Mark was definitely helping out. Joey. Avery's helping out, Nesson. And then my. Immediately, I was like, I cannot fuck this up. So I hit up Neil. Neil Brennan. And Neil was. Neil's fucking awesome.
Dove
Yeah, he's great.
Akash Singh
Neil is awesome. So Neil was really helpful. And. And then. And then he was like, hey, I got to go film the Odyssey Friday. Do you think we could do Thursday?
Mark Gagnon
Wow.
Akash Singh
I was like, oh, you got to go film Christopher Nolan, you're the star of. Yeah, sure. I think we can work around your schedule.
Andrew Schulz
So you asked him the way that you actually did it in the. In the sketch, pretty much where you were like, yeah, you won't. You probably don't have what it takes to, like, do this role. He's like, oh, fucking do it. I'll be there.
Akash Singh
That's what Neil found. Neil was like, listen, if. If you tell a guy from Boston what to do, he will. Or not to do something, he will do it. Just because that's the energy.
Dove
Yeah, that's great.
Akash Singh
Yeah. And. But, yeah, he said he was down to it. And I got to give him credit for a lot of the funny, too, because when we were riffing in the trailer, which was a surreal moment.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
To be riffing a scene.
Dove
Are you nervous in that moment?
Akash Singh
Yeah, I wasn't nervous, but I had, like, an adrenaline dump afterwards. Like, afterwards, I just want to go to sleep.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
But, like, I was in there with the director. Shout out, Melby. Melby. Melby Directus. Andrew. What's his name is Andrew? Mel. Burn. Mel.
Andrew Schulz
That's Melby.
Akash Singh
But. But, yeah, we're just in the trailer and, like, he's like, yo, it'd be kind of funny. He would bring up these little lines. He's like, it'd be kind of funny if, like, when you're trying to explain about the limp. The joke thing. I do the. You know, the dad joke. He's like, what if I just. Like, what if I just. I realize I asked you something. It doesn't make sense. He's like, you can use that in your skit.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
And then. And then I realize. And I just talk right over.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
And then, like, what if you say you don't know the date? And I go, just remember to dipshit. Like, a lot of the funny Is him. I want to give him.
Dove
Just remember to. Dipshit is so good.
Akash Singh
Great. That's great. Also, when do you get to see Matt Meme?
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Yeah. That's what I pitched him. I was like, dude, every. You're the. You're the best. Everybody loves you in everything you do.
Dove
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
Well, I will say, I feel like some of his best roles. He is like a villain, and that's when he's funny. Yeah. He's like a bad guy.
Dove
The Departed. But he always plays the nice guy.
Akash Singh
Actually.
Dove
Bad.
Andrew Schulz
Interstellar.
Akash Singh
Yeah. He's so likable that when he does the villain turn.
Dove
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
You're like what you're rooting for. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, I didn't get the American Sniper thing.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
And then I didn't get it. It's so.
Akash Singh
It's, like, comical.
Andrew Schulz
So in American Sniper, they have this really dramatic scene where the main dude is, like, with his child, like, arguing with his wife.
Akash Singh
Bradley Cooler. Right.
Andrew Schulz
And it becomes. It became a whole thing, apparently. I didn't know this.
Akash Singh
It's like an Internet meme because it's so obviously a fake baby.
Andrew Schulz
And he's just, like, chatting with her.
Mark Gagnon
Okay.
Akash Singh
Look at the hand.
Andrew Schulz
Trying to make the hand movement so fun. It does look exactly like your fake baby. Yeah.
Akash Singh
Yeah. We had. We had Shiloh there, and I was like, I'm not.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
There's no way. Yeah. Well, I.1. I didn't want to put her in, obviously.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah. No free clout. No. You worked for this. You know, you're not going to give it to her for no reason. Yeah.
Akash Singh
But also, like, her around breakfast food. We would not have a single taste.
Andrew Schulz
Fist in the oatmeal.
Akash Singh
I didn't realize that eggs were expensive until I had a daughter. I didn't realize that fruit or blueberries or any of this is your kitty and blueberries yet.
Andrew Schulz
No, but he's grabbing shit.
Akash Singh
He.
Andrew Schulz
All of a sudden, food became interesting to him. Recently. We didn't know this, so we just, like, sat down to eat and then just immediately cuffed. Just flying everywhere on the ground.
Akash Singh
I think blueberries are, like, the size of a nipple.
Dove
Oh, interesting.
Akash Singh
And I think. Or my wife's.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah. You're giving a lot away.
Akash Singh
GMO'd up.
Andrew Schulz
This is a child having conversation. Yeah. You're like, yeah, blueberries are the size and color of a nipple. You're like, whoa, Color.
Akash Singh
You got the dark. Emma.
Andrew Schulz
Bro.
Akash Singh
Them Vietnamese titties.
Andrew Schulz
This is something you'll realize they do get darker. That's the true thing.
Akash Singh
Yo. You know what's crazy about.
Dove
Want to hear about your.
Akash Singh
No, not my wife.
Andrew Schulz
For his.
Akash Singh
Women.
Mark Gagnon
You are talking about.
Andrew Schulz
I'm talking about women.
Dove
I'm talking about.
Akash Singh
We're not our wives. Nipples are perfect pink color. 100% totally perfect pink. It's the most beautiful pink you've ever seen with no hair on it at all.
Andrew Schulz
Exactly.
Akash Singh
Hairs don't grow on them at all due to all the hormones in their body due to pregnancy.
Andrew Schulz
Exactly.
Akash Singh
Nipples waxed. I saw a hair on the. And I was like, yo, we got to get rid of that. My wife tried to hit me with. That's how the baby knows where the nipple is.
Andrew Schulz
Well, is that.
Akash Singh
Why isn't she going for mine? Scraggly's on mine, but, yeah, you'll come.
Andrew Schulz
To find this out. It helps the baby find the areola when it's darker.
Akash Singh
That's what they say. So they don't got to yank them shits out of their titties.
Mark Gagnon
I think you just put the shit in their mouth. They go, no, that's what you think.
Andrew Schulz
Just wait.
Akash Singh
Anyway, you have some babies.
Mark Gagnon
I like the choice he made when he.
Akash Singh
Right away, yo. Now Gasoline is a super famous tick tocker. Is that gonna push back, baby, or is that gonna make.
Dove
Dude, it might keep blowing her up when that. At a certain point, she's gonna need new content.
Akash Singh
You. Wait, what?
Dove
You guys keep blowing her up.
Akash Singh
Oh, we're blowing her up?
Dove
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Akash Singh
I thought you was leaving it. Leaving it in.
Dove
Yeah. Come on. What are we talking about? Yeah, of course. I've been doing that since day one day.
Akash Singh
Oh, for real?
Dove
Yeah, yeah.
Akash Singh
Oh, wait, do you guys do the Goan or.
Dove
Yeah, she did.
Akash Singh
Okay.
Dove
Now not. But I'm still, you know, I'm not not. You know what I mean?
Andrew Schulz
You're rearranging the IUD, bro.
Dove
No, no, no, no. That IUD's intact. It's not even that deep, probably.
Akash Singh
Have you ever felt it?
Dove
No.
Andrew Schulz
Can you feel it?
Dove
She didn't have iu.
Akash Singh
Oh, she doesn't.
Dove
She was on. She was on the.
Andrew Schulz
Not anymore. You know what I'm saying? Rearranged it. You know what I mean?
Dove
Have you ever.
Andrew Schulz
Smith Jr. That's what she said in the text. I bring it up.
Akash Singh
Why? What?
Dove
Yeah, he said something about getting deep inside of her. Mark has a text. He pulled up the text and he.
Akash Singh
Said, I want to rearrange.
Dove
No, no, no, no, no, no. Wait. You know, let's just. We'll get back.
Akash Singh
We'll get to the Steve. Okay, go let's just look at this. So Steve Smith senior, prolific wide receiver.
Dove
Like 5, 9, firecracker. Also would beat the out of.
Akash Singh
Yeah, yeah. Down to fight. Anybody tall?
Dove
No tall guy.
Akash Singh
I'm just saying, you know what cleats.
Mark Gagnon
That's crazy.
Akash Singh
He's like on the field he was like the Aaron, the plumber of the NFL.
Dove
Yeah, yeah.
Akash Singh
You know, you know.
Dove
But he actually won every fight. He would beat the out of people much bigger than him. Like, okay. He said turn you over and get deep inside you. She said, you're so hot. Deep is an understatement. It felt like you were going to rearrange my iud. You were so deep.
Akash Singh
No, that's crazy. Imagine your wife texted some crazy bro. Imagine. Why are you happy about this, son? You got a wife almost.
Mark Gagnon
No, I'm not happy that she's cheated. But I'm like, yeah, rearrange it some IUDs. I like that.
Andrew Schulz
That's dangerous. That's bad for, for feminine health. You can't rearrange you.
Akash Singh
That's a man's wife, bro.
Andrew Schulz
Also that both, both of those.
Akash Singh
That's a man's kids.
Mark Gagnon
I said she's the one up. Like I can't be mad at him.
Akash Singh
No, but you had a good point. He had a good point on brilliant. Like I was like, cuz we were going why the would you call Steve Smith Senior not talk to your wife and al say your point. You had a good point.
Mark Gagnon
Cuz he's married and then he has a family.
Andrew Schulz
Smith.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah.
Akash Singh
So he's like your shit.
Mark Gagnon
That's why he says like in the beginning he's like, oh, people going to care a lot longer about, I mean care about this longer about him than it is about me.
Dove
Yeah, I bet Steve Smith's wife thought he was faithful. I bet every NFL and NBA athlete, their wives is just like positive. That person is.
Akash Singh
I bet. I bet Steve Smith's wife is calling that dude's wife like yo, he does be fucking up the girl. You got to get the extra deep one girl.
Dove
Also guys, show dates. First of all, thank you to everybody in Bray who came out. Seven shows, 600 people. That's 4,200 tickets. We moved in one weekend. That was fire Nashville. Every show is sold out. So we added a Saturday at 4:30. I don't think we're going to have the capacity to add any others. So get tickets to that. March 14th and 15th, Tulsa, Oklahoma. March 21st and 22nd, Omaha, Nebraska. March 28th and 29th, Columbus, Ohio. April 11th through I believe it's going to be 13th Tampa and we just added a couple more dates. We got May 9th and 10th in Virginia Beach. Also 420 weekend. You know we're going to be back in Denver. All those dates and more coming at akash singh.com.
Andrew Schulz
What'S up guys? World's fastest ad read ever. Baltimore. Belmore, New York. Rochester, New York. Portland, Maine. I'm coming to all these places.
Dove
This thing right here looks like Mark's dick full of come that's.
Akash Singh
It's not full.
Dove
You suck on that, please. Hydration.
Andrew Schulz
February 20th.
Dove
Hydration.
Andrew Schulz
I'll be in Baltimore. March 1st I'll be in Belmore, New York on Long Island. March 26th I'll be in Rochester, New York York. April 27th I'll be in Portland, Maine with my friend Joey Avery. I can't wait to see you guys there. Come and hang out and have a suck his dick. Have a friendship with me. Thank you.
Mark Gagnon
I know his wife is pissed off but do you think she's less pissed because the girl he's cheating with is ugly or more pissed because the girl he's cheating with is ugly?
Akash Singh
I think they get more pissed at that.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Really?
Andrew Schulz
Yeah.
Dove
Yeah. That's more insulting cuz they're like you if.
Akash Singh
If you wanted an ugly girl, you could have me. Now I'm not saying, I'm not saying season wife is hungry. I don't know what his wife look.
Dove
Looks like but like that with your psyche like you know women place the way we place our worth on like our worth I guess in money this looks for them. So like imagine she's. Imagine your wife cheating on you. Some broke and that's. They don't betting you any other way.
Akash Singh
All right.
Dove
Just broke.
Akash Singh
Let me put this out there. Your wife cheats.
Mark Gagnon
Brokers make more effort.
Akash Singh
Okay, okay, okay. No no. This is why I want to ask you this.
Dove
I want you.
Akash Singh
Your wife cheats on you or your girl cheats on you because you don't have a wife.
Andrew Schulz
Damn.
Akash Singh
Because you're not married. Okay. Because you're not married. Grown up like an adult.
Mark Gagnon
At least I ain't gonna get che know.
Akash Singh
If you get cheated on you still get to be like we weren't even together. Exactly. I didn't even know that girl. I clocked her.
Andrew Schulz
I didn't even know her. Who is that? That's my side piece.
Akash Singh
I didn't even talk. Wasn't Steve Smith doing a pod at wtf?
Dove
No, no.
Akash Singh
Black Effect. He was doing Black Effect. He was doing with With. With Charlamagne. Yeah, it was one of their first. First podcasts. Oh, really? Yep.
Andrew Schulz
Oh, that's wild. Damn.
Mark Gagnon
He cheated on them, went to another network.
Akash Singh
No loyalty.
Andrew Schulz
Did you see this one? I didn't say this. I would never say this, but people did say this girl looked like Jeff Van Gundy.
Akash Singh
No shit.
Andrew Schulz
I didn't say that. I would know. I'm just reporting with the Internet.
Dove
Oh, God.
Akash Singh
Who is that girl?
Dove
That's the girl that she. He cheated with.
Andrew Schulz
That's.
Akash Singh
That's pretty.
Andrew Schulz
That's a re.
Mark Gagnon
If you see her and then his wife is like, what you doing here? She must be looking ass or some shit like that. Like, it got to be something more.
Akash Singh
Also when you. When you're on the sidelines and it's just like the most diesel testosterone induced dudes ever, and there's one girl that's there. Oh yeah, and she got the Sarah Palin glasses on. That's true.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
You might have to nail it.
Andrew Schulz
She's also a freak, by all intents and purposes.
Akash Singh
I mean, the things that she was saying you should never say to another man. Besides, your husband was nuts.
Andrew Schulz
Barely even say. I'd hate for my girl to say that to me. I'd be like, what the hell? You're a mother. Why are you saying this?
Akash Singh
Do you talk different to your. To your girl now?
Andrew Schulz
I mean, I always kind of did. I don't know. I was like, I was never into like something too freaky because I was like, ah, this feels.
Akash Singh
But now that you have a kid, do you guys, like, when you guys are doing dirty talk when you're like, what?
Andrew Schulz
Dirty talk?
Akash Singh
No, but when you're like, there's nothing.
Andrew Schulz
Happening.
Akash Singh
And the body of Christ was buried.
Andrew Schulz
Brandon, it's not that funny.
Akash Singh
Brandon, it's not that funny.
Andrew Schulz
Brandon, come on.
Akash Singh
I'm just saying, when you guys are throwing Bible quotes at each other, like.
Andrew Schulz
Dude, I'll hit her with a song every now and again.
Akash Singh
What song?
Andrew Schulz
There's some slutty psalms. Do you know this?
Akash Singh
And I turned you into dust.
Dove
Damn.
Mark Gagnon
So you letting other men do the wrist for you.
Akash Singh
That's crazy.
Andrew Schulz
It's like listening to music. Like guys will play Miguel and bang their girl.
Akash Singh
It's like, yeah, you're letting dirty talk about this shit. That's fucked up. That is fucked up.
Andrew Schulz
You gotta be thinking, bro, wait a.
Akash Singh
Minute, hold on, wait a minute. That is a good point.
Andrew Schulz
Yo, listen to music. Just let another guy dirty talk a girl and you're paying Stream money to it for it. What about you're being a cuck.
Dove
What about girls you're gonna fuck to.
Andrew Schulz
A girl singing to WAP or whatever.
Akash Singh
That should be called? That's insane.
Dove
Hold on.
Andrew Schulz
No one's ever had sex with singing. This never happened. I don't think. Name one song by a woman that you would have sex with, Howard.
Akash Singh
What's that one?
Dove
What's a T shirt and panties.
Akash Singh
I put on? Let it go. When they're like, I didn't come yet. I'd be like, hit it head it, Adina.
Andrew Schulz
But yeah, dude, there's a N. You.
Mark Gagnon
Can'T be getting cucked out. You got to just put on beats. That's it. Yeah.
Akash Singh
No.
Mark Gagnon
Another dude's voice in a room.
Andrew Schulz
I agree.
Mark Gagnon
That's cool.
Akash Singh
I never liked the music.
Andrew Schulz
It always seemed too contrived. It always felt like, oh, yeah, we're getting like this. What are we doing?
Mark Gagnon
And this is. So what do this come from the guy who has Seinfeld playing in the background?
Dove
Yeah, he did.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah. That's how long I knew I would go. I made it a whole episode.
Dove
Same game. Seinfeld.
Mark Gagnon
I mean, I ain't catching. Okay, so I catch some.
Dove
Good.
Akash Singh
He offered her a glass of red wine.
Dove
Yeah, whatever.
Akash Singh
Nothing wrong.
Mark Gagnon
He should have. Should have went white, bro.
Dove
He did. That's how he got in trouble.
Mark Gagnon
I thought she was black.
Akash Singh
No.
Dove
Are you?
Akash Singh
Oh, I thought it was a black girl.
Dove
No, Come on.
Akash Singh
You think when is a black rodents?
Andrew Schulz
Nah, he's got railroaded. That is anti anti Indian racism. That's what it is. What that like this girl going on a day with an Indian guy. They're like, yeah, I'll see this. Like, everyone will believe, and then everybody. Yeah, that's. That's anti Indian racism. We got to stop that.
Akash Singh
We got to stop believing it. You're saying, yeah, son, I saw a TikTok where they sell in. In Bangladesh, they sell tickets on top of the train. Dead ass.
Dove
No, you can't pay for that.
Akash Singh
Look it up right now. They got. They got inside seats and outside seats, and they got.
Andrew Schulz
Hang on.
Akash Singh
Seats.
Dove
That's corruption. That can't charge for the top yet.
Akash Singh
We need Doge, bro.
Dove
Yeah. Yeah, they need Doge. India would never.
Mark Gagnon
If they're gonna do it anyway, might as well make some money off it. Fair.
Dove
I guess.
Andrew Schulz
I mean, I can't. I can't find a ticket, but, I mean, they got this, bro.
Mark Gagnon
That's fire.
Akash Singh
God.
Dove
Maybe they're shooting a music video.
Mark Gagnon
So we'd be having subway surface here.
Dove
Yeah, you can get a 5 music video like that. Imagine we. They not like us, but that.
Akash Singh
Imagine. Imagine you pulled up to that, Right.
Mark Gagnon
Too many.
Akash Singh
You know, nothing about the culture or anything. You're just a tourist from Canada. You show up. Isn't there part of you like, where's that train going?
Andrew Schulz
Yeah. They know something I don't.
Akash Singh
Right. Like, don't you want to go wherever the flip that's going?
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Yeah. Because that doesn't seem like I'm going to work. Right. That seems like a trip to a place.
Dove
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah.
Dove
Wait till you get there.
Andrew Schulz
And the English think they invented the double decker bus.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Get out of here.
Andrew Schulz
Right.
Akash Singh
The audience, you think that's where they got the idea. Yeah. People like being on the top.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Damn. They really take everything from y'all.
Andrew Schulz
They really crazy.
Dove
They really did.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah.
Akash Singh
It's up, man.
David Sanchez
Can I ask a question about the Matt Damon thing?
Akash Singh
Yes, please.
David Sanchez
When he throw, he like says a line and he. You go, oh, we couldn't afford the rights, and he throws it.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
Was that him?
Akash Singh
What was that? What was it?
David Sanchez
He throws the.
Akash Singh
The bacon. Oh, yeah.
David Sanchez
That's so fire.
Akash Singh
That's like. Like, actors are so good at that. They. They can make things funny.
Dove
Oh, little choice he made. Like when he said the red tube and he covered the baby's ears.
Akash Singh
Yeah. Yeah.
Dove
That was good, dude.
Akash Singh
And that was our fault. We didn't have coverage of him. There's, like, certain things that you want to have coverage of. Everything coverage just means, like, you want to film every single angle of it.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
And that's something I realize about Curb youb Enthusiasm. That is so smart. Is that every scene they shoot. I'm pretty sure they. What's that?
David Sanchez
I think they do triple coverage.
Akash Singh
Yeah. So they'll do like a wide shot and then two side shots.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
And then the problem with it, there's not really a problem, but like, the scenes, like, if you're like a fucking cinematographer, like, they look kind of like flat or whatever. There's not these, like, beautiful moves. But the reality is what we care the most about is the interaction.
Dove
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah.
Akash Singh
And there's no way. Like, on a traditional sitcom, it's usually set up punch, but in Curb, it's argument. And the only way you could get them going is if you have them both covered and then just riffing. And one of the cool things about Curb is you could see them break a little.
Dove
Yeah, dude, there's one. I always remember where Larry's friend Richard Lewis, who passed away.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Dove
But he's upset about something, because I think he said Jerry stole. I mean, Larry stole his voicemail greeting. And he's like, I want you to change yours by sunset. And then Gary. And then Larry laughs. He goes, by sunset.
Andrew Schulz
Who are you, Gary Cooper?
Dove
But you could tell by sunset made him laugh. And then Richard laughs at Gary Cooper. Gary Cooper's like some old cowboy movie guy. And so then Richard starts laughing and he's like, change. Change the thing. And it's like, oh, y'all are both just making each other laugh right now.
Akash Singh
So how much do you think, like, going into. Let's say you're going into Curb and you're not like a newbie. You have a relationship with them. How much are you keeping in the tuck to surprise them for real? And how much are you going over beforehand? Like, this would be a funny.
Dove
He just goes in and says, like, this is what the scene is about.
Mark Gagnon
And then you guys go, yeah, I think they have a skeleton. Like, where it needs to start, where it needs to end. They'll do one run through and then they do another run through where it's like, ah, riff as much as you want.
Akash Singh
Just start.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah, but if you got a banger, you save it for that second run through. True.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Yeah. Like, what some people do is, like, they wait until they get their coverage.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
So, like, if you're not on camera, you're kind of going through the motions in the second. You get it.
Dove
Yeah, but some people do.
Akash Singh
I didn't know that. That's what people do. So, like, when you're super low on the call sheet, like when nobody gives a fuck, like every role I've ever had.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
I'm not even on camera. And I'm like, giving it my best. And I'll have lines of like, oh, I got that shit. That was fire. And then it will come back to my coverage. And then all the actors leave. You're just there with the stand ins. Like, I just use my hot. Like, I can't run this back.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah, bro. Me and Miles were just watching a video of Celine Dion getting upstaged by a singer. And when they did the run through the rehearsal, he was kind of phoning it in. Oh, and then. And then they got on TV in Sweden and he crushed. And you just see her face just go, like, what the.
Akash Singh
What the is this guy?
Andrew Schulz
She gets pissed.
Akash Singh
You have a little.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah, hold on. Let me. Let me pull this up.
Mark Gagnon
See, now he's doing too much.
Andrew Schulz
I mean, kind of fire dude. Yeah. If you're that guy, apparently he's like a super famous, like, Swedish singer. And she was the moment, and she was like, I'm gonna do him a little favor. I'm gonna, like, go on his little show and, like, help him out. Yeah, and then he bust that up.
David Sanchez
I love watching those videos.
Dove
She looks tight about it.
Akash Singh
She's not happy you brought me to Stockholm for this. Embarrass me.
Andrew Schulz
Can you share what the. The mad Damon cutaway was going to be?
Akash Singh
Oh, yeah. It was first. Like, it was before he agreed. I was like, yo, all you got to do is you just got to be there. And what the was it? I was like, yeah, I got a special. I actually forgot it was gonna cut.
Andrew Schulz
Away to a bunch of his films.
Akash Singh
Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. So the. Yeah, all right. So the original one was we were gonna compete, right? And I show mine. And then he goes, oh, you want to play this game with me? Yeah, I'll play it. Let's. You want to play this game? Let's play this game. And then he goes. And it's all of his. His greatest films, right? And then the last scene is behind the candelabra, the one where he plays Michael Douglas's boyfriend.
Dove
Oh, yeah.
Akash Singh
And he's like hooking up with Michael Douglas. And I'm like, did you. Did you mean to keep that last one in? And he's like, yeah, it's some of my best work. And I was like, yeah, this.
Andrew Schulz
This, right, bro, I'd never seen this. This is fire.
Dove
So Michael Douglas with a wig look hella like Al Pacino.
Andrew Schulz
Oh, right.
Dove
All right, go ahead, guys.
Akash Singh
See? See that?
Mark Gagnon
They make everybody do that for Hollywood.
Akash Singh
But he did this shit after he.
Andrew Schulz
Made it, bro, you got to love. Damn.
Dove
That's how you stay in.
Andrew Schulz
Even like the Boston him that kind of comes out here a little bit, he's like, all right, I'm not gonna, like, kiss you back. You kiss me. I'm not gonna go.
David Sanchez
I love when Akash almost looks away. Akash can't watch these videos, bro.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
But you sort of tuck your.
David Sanchez
Head but keep it looking in the right?
Dove
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm gonna forgot to remember what. I'm gonna jerk off to late. I don't want to watch it with you guys.
Andrew Schulz
Bro, do you have an armpit fetish? You ever thought about that?
Dove
No.
Andrew Schulz
I was talking to Little Pete, and he's got big old foot fetish.
Akash Singh
Shout out, Little Pete the ledge.
Andrew Schulz
Little P. He's got big foot fetish.
Akash Singh
I like him even more now that I Know that he's.
Andrew Schulz
I was like, a foot's good. He's like, oh, if the middle toe is longer, it's terrible.
Akash Singh
Yeah, okay.
Andrew Schulz
All right.
Akash Singh
Yeah, if the middle toe is longer, you're an orangutan. The second toe shouldn't be longer, but.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah. Yeah, the second toe. And I was like, oh, so he's got brain as y'all.
Dove
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
And he's like, but the thing I like more than feet. Armpits.
Akash Singh
Okay.
Andrew Schulz
And I was like, all right, what do you like about him? And he started showing me the armpits he likes.
Akash Singh
Okay.
Andrew Schulz
All right.
Dove
Yeah. I've never thought of this, but I'm open to it. I'm open.
Mark Gagnon
This is why the birth rates are going down, bro.
Akash Singh
Why this is.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah, I care about feet and armpits.
Andrew Schulz
I don't know. This might be. This might be your guy's new thing. All right, let's just see. I don't know what this is.
Akash Singh
And not safe for work. Content.
Andrew Schulz
That. Yeah, yeah. We're gonna go top. Let's go by, like. Let's go by this year just like, the hits of this year. Tell me, does this do anything for you?
Dove
No, I don't notice it, no. I mean, sure. But yeah. I mean, yeah. No, no.
Andrew Schulz
Armpit.
Dove
I think I see how that one's nice. I think you can sell me on this.
Andrew Schulz
Here we go. Oh, armpit.
Dove
Oh, that's again. These look like standard armpits to me.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah, but I don't even see a difference.
Andrew Schulz
But you wouldn't lick it or anything?
Akash Singh
No.
Andrew Schulz
All right.
Akash Singh
What.
Dove
What did he say he liked about wouldn't I lick? Is a question that's better to ask than. I mean, it's like he says every.
Andrew Schulz
Time he's with a girl, the first thing he does, he licks their armpits.
Dove
Oh, that's, you know, first thing. That's not the first thing.
Andrew Schulz
Check the feet. If the feet are good. Armpit licking.
Akash Singh
What's the grossest used to do during a hookup?
Andrew Schulz
Come on now.
Mark Gagnon
Why just me?
Andrew Schulz
Because it's hooked up.
Mark Gagnon
Well, talk about y'all wives in the beginning.
Dove
A bit more.
Andrew Schulz
That's great.
Akash Singh
Adventurous, bro. I used to. I used to share some saliva generously, trying to find a way to say that without it seeming too crude, but, you know, not, like, in an aggressive.
Andrew Schulz
Way, but just a little hawk to it.
Akash Singh
Yeah, just a little hog to it. And then I remember I. I did that once, like. And it was, like, passionate part of the moment I did it. I remember, like, kissing like, spit a little saliva in her mouth. I remember she just went, what the.
Andrew Schulz
Did you just do?
Akash Singh
Destroyed the movie. Never recovered from that.
Mark Gagnon
I remember the first time a girl asked me to do that to her, and I.
Akash Singh
To.
Andrew Schulz
Flem.
Mark Gagnon
I didn't know you were supposed to.
Akash Singh
Let Champ be the phlegm. It's gotta be what's already in there.
Mark Gagnon
But Champ kept going.
Akash Singh
No way. Kept going.
Mark Gagnon
She told me, like, a couple days later. She's like. Like, when I do that.
Akash Singh
This the way she taught you how to spin the girls now?
Andrew Schulz
Oh, wow.
Akash Singh
You had poppy seeds and. Yeah, she's still chewing on it.
Mark Gagnon
I know.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah, yeah. It's disgusting.
Akash Singh
No, I used to be nasty, bro. No, but girls are. They get nasty, too. I remember that one girl where they would eat my butt a little bit.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
And then I started, like, really cleaning it. And then one time she didn't. And I was like. And I prepared it.
Dove
Yeah, yeah.
Akash Singh
And now I'm looking foolish. Like, I got a perfectly clean ass for one time. No dingleberries, nothing. There was, like, 1% toilet paper in my ass. I haven't had it that way since I was, like, 13 years old.
Andrew Schulz
Brand new underwear is. How far did you go?
Akash Singh
I went. I was like, hold on a second. I went to the bathroom. Soap and water, like, got it. So, like, if I could have eaten it, I would have eaten it. It was so clean. It was unbelievably clean. All right, guys, let's take a break for a second. It's time to get your money up. And not for now, okay? For the future. You want to find a way to get your money up now, you got to go somewhere else. That's not what I'm talking about right now, and that's not what Acorns is about. Acorns is a financial wellness app that helps you use the magic of compound interest to take control of your money. They have simple tools that make it easy to start saving and investing for your future. Okay, you don't have to be an expert, but remember, this is about investing. I think that we've been manipulated and tricked to the benefit of many different companies out there to think that gambling is investing. Just picking random stocks and hoping they're going to skyrocket up and getting out quickly. That is not investing. That is gambling. Investing is putting your money, parking it, and letting compound interest take place. Okay, what that money is, that same amount, one year is going to be so much more you could ever imagine 20 years later, and that's going to set you up for financial security. And that's the goal with Acorns, right?
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Mark Gagnon
Is crazy that Charlemagne got a full Brazilian whacked before Valentine's Day?
Akash Singh
Charlemagne got a full Brazilian. From the top. I get down here, but the top is off.
Dove
That's crazy.
Akash Singh
Like barbecue.
Mark Gagnon
And.
Akash Singh
Yeah, the. Is not crazy to me. That's the crazy. This is the part that's crazy.
Dove
It's all crazy to me.
Mark Gagnon
Cuz that means something's going on.
Dove
I mean. Yeah, hasn't it?
Akash Singh
Charlemagne said the thing about the little finger in there.
Mark Gagnon
Maybe in the past, though.
Akash Singh
Hold on.
Dove
A finger. You don't need to wax.
Akash Singh
It depends what you got going on.
Dove
Not for the finger.
Akash Singh
What do you think it's for now y'all are acting crazy right now. That's a tongue. That's a tongue. Yeah.
Mark Gagnon
I go crazy.
Akash Singh
You going crazy.
Mark Gagnon
No, you.
Akash Singh
Just like you said, you got it waxed.
Mark Gagnon
I don't know what you're talking about. No, no, I never got waxed. I never got waxed. I just do the, you know, little shape.
Andrew Schulz
You can't do too much of a shave, though.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah, just a buzz cut. Keep it, you know.
Akash Singh
But down there too. You're like underneath yourself.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Akash Singh
You open up your cheeks to shave down there.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah.
Akash Singh
I feel like that's more homosexual.
Dove
How you spread a cheek and get in there.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah, I got a hair. Yeah, you squat. How do you get in?
Dove
No, no, that's.
Akash Singh
It doesn't cut you.
Mark Gagnon
It doesn't.
Dove
Gotta go spread evil too much.
Mark Gagnon
No, if it's on one, it's fine. You don't gotta. You looking at it?
Akash Singh
Feels weird separating your butt.
Dove
Yeah, I hit the taint. But that's, you know, that's when you're.
Mark Gagnon
In the shower and you wash. Washing your. You ain't spreading the cheek.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah, to get inside.
Mark Gagnon
So it's the same.
Akash Singh
No.
Mark Gagnon
Well, you got a dirty ass.
Dove
I don't spray, but I get in between. Like, I'm wiping, but that's still not shaving. That's a different thing.
Mark Gagnon
Y'all dirty. That's just what I go with. You gotta spread a cheek, make sure it's clean.
Andrew Schulz
Bro, I don't even shave nothing, bro. That is whack. Hell, that is whack sometimes.
Mark Gagnon
I came in today's shave. Look at you.
Andrew Schulz
No, this one now your wife is holding me. Gotta pull it together. A little bit.
Mark Gagnon
Look like a Neanderthal.
Akash Singh
The last three weeks, I did look.
Andrew Schulz
Like Survivor in my own apartment. It looked like I was on Castaway or some.
Mark Gagnon
It was that she's like, yo, you gotta wash your hands. Wash. You can tell she's home. That is funny.
Akash Singh
Does she tell you at the clean.
Andrew Schulz
No, no, no. But it was. I mean, it's so bad because I thought I cleaned the apartment good. And then I had. I had the lady that came by, she comes by, like, once a month to tidy up, and she came by and cleaned it. She spent like three hours snitching on me the whole time. Texted my wife, like, oh, yeah, like, what do you want me to do with, like, the crumbs on the bed? I was like, you don't have to bring that up.
Dove
Clean them.
Andrew Schulz
That's what I said.
Mark Gagnon
She's crying after that.
Andrew Schulz
You want me to wash the sheets with all the clothes on it? I was like, hey, you don't need to bring any of the up. This is just between us.
Dove
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
But then also, remember when I had the stomach.
Akash Singh
She speaks English.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah.
Dove
Latina.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah.
Dove
You would think they would know.
Andrew Schulz
You would think right up. You would think. And remember I had the stomach flu. I accidentally threw up in the. In the toilet. And then some of it splashed on the wall and I didn't notice. My girl. My girl caught it immediately. I mean, she goes, mark, what is this?
Dove
Of course she did vomit on the wall.
Andrew Schulz
I didn't know.
Dove
I didn't notice. Columbo, dude, it's vomit on a wall.
Andrew Schulz
It was one tiny dot in the corner. She was like, what is this? This is disgusting.
David Sanchez
I threw up all over my bathroom in college once. And we just left the door closed for three days until it came back and cleaned it. It was so fucking bad. We, like, duct taped the door shut.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah, that was bad.
David Sanchez
And I was like, mark, you gotta come back. We're not.
Andrew Schulz
The house was condemned, I think it was awful.
Akash Singh
Literally.
Andrew Schulz
We came home in three weeks and the windows in the entire house were just open.
David Sanchez
It was awful.
Andrew Schulz
So, yeah, my bad.
David Sanchez
I would notice that. I think your girl would notice that, too.
Andrew Schulz
It was bright pink. Do you remember? It was like Teletubbies.
David Sanchez
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Is your cleaning lay worried about getting sent back?
Andrew Schulz
I don't think so. I think she's a citizen. I mean, I didn't. I didn't check documentation. I'm not like that kind of guy.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
Like, when she came in, I wasn't like, yo, we need papers.
Akash Singh
Yeah. None of us do. But I'm a little concerned about.
Dove
Yeah, same.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Mark Gagnon
I inquired.
Akash Singh
Oh, you did?
Mark Gagnon
Yeah. I was like, yo, you good with everything? She's like, yeah, I should be good.
Dove
If she wasn't good, what could you do?
Mark Gagnon
Find a new clean.
Akash Singh
I was like, do I need to start searching?
Dove
You know, because the way you said it, I was like, you gonna help?
Andrew Schulz
What the.
Mark Gagnon
I would do well. I could Barry her. I'm not married.
Andrew Schulz
You already got one Immigrant.
Akash Singh
Damn. Yeah, I thought about that today. I was talking to my. Like. Also, they got to be scared, like, our cleaning ladies, because they're seeing Trump on an episode and they're like, you know, like, it's not like that doesn't pop up on one of their feeds. Like, they're. They're just on TikTok or Instagram or some. And then they see us all sitting down with the guy who's gonna.
Mark Gagnon
I don't think flagrant pops up on my cleaner lady's feet.
Akash Singh
I don't think the illegal immigrants feed are full of the guy who's going to kick them out.
Andrew Schulz
That's disappoint.
Mark Gagnon
Okay, yeah.
Andrew Schulz
Maybe they see that and they're like, oh, I'm good.
Akash Singh
Because we're going to take care of.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah, because you can just call a trumpet, though, and just be like, yo, but this one, we got to get him off the bus.
Akash Singh
I would make the call.
Andrew Schulz
Right.
Akash Singh
Not for yours. Not for your snitch.
Dove
No, no.
Andrew Schulz
Come on.
Akash Singh
Clean the crumbs. Yo, you asking me if you got a clean, dirty.
Mark Gagnon
His wife asked.
Andrew Schulz
Accent.
Akash Singh
There's no way.
Mark Gagnon
Like, they never give up that much info. Yeah, she wants to know how dirty you are when she's not around, bro.
Akash Singh
Because I was asking her today. I was like, you know, I was like, do you have kids? And she's like, yeah, I have four. And I was like, oh, word. Like, like. And I was like, how old are they? And she's like, the youngest is four. And then there's a one is a eight. And then two are already in college. And I was like, oh, wow. And then she was like. She goes, yes, two were born in Mexico. And then she was like, and two are born here. Here. And I did. I wasn't interrogating her, but in that moment, I felt like she could think that that was a possibility.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah.
Akash Singh
And then I did that classic white thing where, like, I was, like, trying to relate. I don't know why I did this. This is so brutally embarrassing. But I was. I was like, oh, my. My roommate in college was Mexican. We used to sing mariachi songs all the time. Yeah, we would go to mariachi and we would sing. And then she just stopped talking, walking. Oh, God. Did I become like that guy?
Andrew Schulz
I've done that before.
Dove
You get richer, you stop relating to minorities. It's just, like a thing that happens.
Akash Singh
I relate to you.
Dove
Do you?
Andrew Schulz
I did that one time. We had a bunch of moving guys from China, and. And they didn't really speak much English, but, like, fully Chinese. And I was like, yo, I'll play some music.
Mark Gagnon
Chinese moving.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Dove
That's crazy.
Akash Singh
I never.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah, they might have been spies.
Mark Gagnon
I don't know.
Akash Singh
I've seen Jewish moving guys.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Far down the ladder that you have, where you got a bunch of guys with yarmulkes and the girls moving your shit around. Do they take them right from the West Bank? They're good at moving people's shit out of their house. They're the experts. They'll get you out in 30 minutes. Dove's not here for this combo. Dove left the room immediately.
Andrew Schulz
But no, these Chinese guys came in. I was like, yo, what do you want me to play? Is there any music you guys really like? And they're like, no, it's whatever. So I was, like, playing, like, a Chinese techno song or whatever. It was like an Asian techno song, dude.
Dove
What?
Andrew Schulz
I was, like, trying. I was like, you know, trying to help feel comy. And then by the end, I was like, where you guys from, by the way? They're like, oh, we're Kazak.
Akash Singh
Oh. Oh, yeah. Wrong Asian.
Andrew Schulz
My bad. My bad. Dude, I didn't know Kazak looked Asian.
Akash Singh
Yeah, kind of. Yeah. I think the Koreans got over there somehow, man. Dead ass.
Andrew Schulz
Really was Koreans?
Akash Singh
Yeah, Them Koreans, I thought they were Borat. Yeah, I think Koreans got over over there.
Andrew Schulz
Oh, wow.
Akash Singh
Look that up, huh? Let me find out, because there's a bunch of those Koreans in.
Dove
They look like Middle Eastern Asian mix.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah.
Akash Singh
I mean, yes, probably that Silk Road, too, but. Oh, yeah, but that guy Bivol, the guy who fought this past weekend, who. Phenomenal fight. Bitter. Be A versus Bivol. Like, if you want to see highest level boxing, watch that.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
One and two. Two was this past weekend. Bivol. One and. But he's half Korean, so I think Koreans made their way into, like, the USSR or something somehow, or.
Andrew Schulz
This is hilarious. In the 1930s, thousands of Koreans in the Soviet Union were deported to Central Asia.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
Supposedly to prevent further Japanese espionage.
Akash Singh
That's one way of doing it. You know what I mean? We put Them in the camp. They just let them go to Central Asia. That's kind of nice.
Dove
It's also supporting Koreans to prevent Japanese guys.
Akash Singh
That's a valid point, actually.
Dove
That's a good counterpoint.
Akash Singh
How the. You don't think we had a couple mistakes with the Japanese internment campaign camps? You don't think there was a Chinatown in some of those internment camps?
Dove
They're Japanese and said they're Korean. You're gonna be like, okay.
Andrew Schulz
But also, they send them to a country, but they already have a country.
Akash Singh
It's like. Like, they could have sent them back to Korea.
Andrew Schulz
You're going to Kazakhstan. Yeah, dude. Some of those deportation things are. What. My buddy Kristoff, you know Christoph.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
He had a funny joke where he's like, you think on the deportation flights, when they send Mexican immigrants back to Mexico, the pilot still doesn't announce announcement. He just gets on it. Gets on my. He's like, hey, guys, it's gonna be a kind of a bumpy flight going to Mexico City. Better luck next time. Drops them off. Like, do they do the safety thing? Like, it's just such a funny idea. Like, you got to get deported, and you also have a middle. Middle seat. You're like, dude, I mean, do we.
Akash Singh
Pay for the flight? How does that work?
Andrew Schulz
I think so.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah. And we just put them on, like, Spirit Air and we just send them down there, I think.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
And some people get first airline right now. Yeah. True.
Dove
It's true.
Akash Singh
Have they not crashed at all?
Dove
Delta keeps crashing, dog.
Andrew Schulz
Huh?
Dove
Delta keeps crashing.
Andrew Schulz
They had one. They had one. They.
Dove
They had another. No, they had another. Had to. Or, like, it was diverted because it was on fire, smoking or something like that.
Andrew Schulz
That happens, bro. I saw something.
Akash Singh
I saw something that's probably fake, thinking.
Dove
About switching, but I got.
Akash Singh
But it's. Apparently there's been less crashes this year than any other year in recent history. It's just the.
David Sanchez
It's just in the news.
Akash Singh
Yeah, but there's a term for that.
David Sanchez
It's a train direct derailment.
Akash Singh
What is that?
Andrew Schulz
Remember when in East Palestine there was a train derailment? And then the next, like, four months, it was like, another train crashed. This train got vandalized. The robbery on a train.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
And there's just all these train stories. It's like. Yeah, train stories are hot right now because this big one. So let's just fill it up with trains.
Dove
I don't believe this.
Mark Gagnon
No, it was the same thing with migrant crime.
Akash Singh
Yes.
Mark Gagnon
That was the big story. So they were Reporting every single time.
Dove
Train derailment. Pretty big story. Migrant crime. That's like small things like you can't really ignore. You can ignore a thousand migrant crimes and just say, you know what I mean? But a Delta flight flipping on its complete 180, that's a big story. And if we're seeing more and more of those, then it's probably like. It's never like they would under report that before. Yeah, that's always a story.
Akash Singh
You know every one of the pilots that have crashed.
Dove
Yes. Yeah, yeah.
Andrew Schulz
Wait, hold on.
Mark Gagnon
Is.
Akash Singh
Is.
Mark Gagnon
You want to finish the sentence?
Akash Singh
If you could guess what would it be?
Mark Gagnon
Gay?
Akash Singh
No. Close. I don't know.
Mark Gagnon
He said the flight was flaming. I don't.
Akash Singh
No, it's. It's a female pilot. You know, I don't want to make a big deal about it because people have died, lost their lives.
Andrew Schulz
But in the. In the Toronto when no one dies. So you can make fun of it.
Akash Singh
Female pilot also, though.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was also crosswind, right?
Akash Singh
So they say.
Andrew Schulz
But what was. What happened? What was she.
Dove
Apparently she didn't land though. Like, she didn't adjust well.
Andrew Schulz
She was trying to parallel park it or something.
Dove
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Akash Singh
I think she thought she saw insect of some sort and then hit a hard left and that just barrel rolled. That's what I think happens. I think it's hard for them to control their emotions in those moments and they. She freaked out. That's my personal opinion.
Andrew Schulz
Okay. You saw the video of all getting off the plane and the flight attendant grabbed the ass.
Akash Singh
What?
Andrew Schulz
You didn't see this? Hold on, let me pull this up. This is hilarious. Hold on. You didn't see.
Mark Gagnon
No.
Andrew Schulz
Oh, this is fire. Hold on, let me, let me, let me look this up. Hang on.
Akash Singh
Grabbed whose ass?
Andrew Schulz
The. The people coming off the plane. So people are like filing off. They're like, everyone get off. Leave your stuff. Leave your stuff. Flight attendant was like, just palms. I think it was a girl, but still just like palmed that thing.
Dove
Dude, I still. I was just going to switch to Delta. Do I still do this?
Akash Singh
N. Delta's fire.
Dove
I got no status with these guys.
Akash Singh
You got to go start all over. No, you got to go Delta. You'll be there. You fly every single weekend. You'll be there faster than anybody.
Mark Gagnon
It's.
Akash Singh
Yeah, yeah. You're also not looking for upgrades anyway, right? Like you're buying yourself a, you know, first class ticket or whatever.
Dove
Yeah, but I got that. But the high statue is kind of nice. They just hook you up. Get to get on board early. All that little.
Akash Singh
You get on board. Board early. Anyway, you're first class.
Andrew Schulz
Everyone's getting off, right? Oh.
Akash Singh
Oh, no, she's deep.
Dove
No, she got in the hole that.
Andrew Schulz
Was full on, right. She waxed before that and everything. Like, she got full. Fully caked up.
Dove
Oh.
Akash Singh
Oh, no. That's crazy.
Andrew Schulz
For no reason. Oh. With the double tap unnecessary.
David Sanchez
I mean, he's readjusted.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah. ID is completely adjusted anyway. I mean, that's crazy. You get off the plane, your girls in front of you just getting. Just getting grabbed up by that chick.
Akash Singh
I'm all right. I'm good.
Andrew Schulz
You didn't help us put our bags up when we boarded. Now you're grabbing ass on the way out.
Akash Singh
Now Steve Smith Senior is the flight attendant. Then we might have it.
Andrew Schulz
I know.
Akash Singh
All right, now, what's the deal, guys? We had a lot of. A lot of conversation on the Internet about Doge.
Dove
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Akash Singh
Okay. Seems like some people are pretty upset about this. Doge.
Dove
Yeah. I don't get it. I'm actually on board with what I'm hearing. What was it John. What was John Stewart saying now?
Akash Singh
John had a fire piece. John's the goat.
Dove
Yeah, we loved. Obviously. I'm a big fan. I'm a fan. I'm a fan. I'm a fan. What do you say?
Mark Gagnon
He's just saying, like, if you want to start cutting places, there's a lot of easier targets to cut.
Akash Singh
Play. If we got the piece, you could play like, the first, like, 30 seconds.
Mark Gagnon
But they might bang us on you YouTube, I guess.
Akash Singh
Yeah. All right, so go. What does he say?
Mark Gagnon
But just like, hey, we can cut Pentagon defense spending. We can love all this. Yeah.
Akash Singh
We can stop giving. What was it, like, hedge fund. No, no, it was the gas companies, like, $3 billion in subsidies when they're already profitable by trillions of dollars. You know, doing the thing that John always does, which is like pointing out the most awesome things.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
And yeah, he's just. He's just brilliant at it. So. So here's the frustration with Doge, and we're having this talk about. On idiots too, is it's a real bummer that this becomes such, like, a bipartisan conversation because. Or. No, a partisan conversation because there is bipartisan support for it.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Like, I feel like every single American is like, yo, there's probably some government inefficiency. No one really trusts the government that much anymore. Right. They either don't trust Republicans, they don't trust the Democrats, or They don't trust the institutions as a whole. Yeah. Right. So this is the time in history to go get some of the bloat out of government. Right. Because we all seem to support. Even Bernie Sanders is like, yo, I don't agree with Trump on everything, but I do agree we should look into that Pentagon budget. Why have they never been audited?
Mark Gagnon
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Like, there is support here. And because of the way that they're maybe going about it. Right. They're kind of. I don't even know if this has happened historically. Charlamagne was pointing out that, like, Clinton did it, but he did it through government. Government. But because this guy, who's this very polarizing figure, Elon, is coming in and he's just seemingly hacking away at these different industries that are connected to government. Some people feel like, without any real justification, like, I. I guess maybe they don't understand why he feels so confident that he can cut these jobs.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Is that. Is that the concern?
David Sanchez
He's also hired a lot back, and.
Akash Singh
Then some of them are hired back, which I think should happen.
Dove
Yeah, I think that's fine.
Akash Singh
But I guess the tricky thing right here, I'm curious, you guys take on this. Is it, like, there's all the support, and because Elon is so polarizing, I actually think it's going to be harder to execute something that Americans as a whole do want.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
So this is one of those things where, like, being antagonistic and polarizing, like, being what Elon is, is actually hurting.
Dove
Yes.
Akash Singh
A very bipartisan, supported effort, which is to clean up government. And I wonder if he can look at this and learn and go, go, oh, I'm actually doing something that people want to do. People want in a way that is going to make it harder. Or do you think he just looks at it as a CEO and goes, I'm cutting and I don't give a. What you.
Mark Gagnon
The ladder.
Dove
Yeah, that one.
Akash Singh
And that's just going to piss people off.
Dove
Yes.
Mark Gagnon
But that's how he's done with every company. Twitter.
Akash Singh
But go on, go on, go on.
Mark Gagnon
That's why they got him for it. They're like, hey, you got to start treating the government like a company, which.
Dove
I don't disagree with in principle at all.
Mark Gagnon
I. I do. Because it's like, these are government agencies that were put there to fix a problem. It wasn't like, hey, this is just a profitable thing that we just have to. Our only concern is making profit.
Dove
Here's where I would say, and maybe there's a middle ground between What I'm saying and what you're saying, if you are not driven on some, in some fashion by some kind of bottom line, there is going to be bloat because there's no incentive for the government to ever lay off anyone. And this is where I agree with, with what, Vivek? Government bloats because you can't fire anybody, because why would you. They're government employees. They don't have to work hard, they don't have to do anything. This simple email. This seemed to cause. And to me, I'm an idiot. Simply asking, what did you get done this week? Is a very easy thing. And if you can't, if you have trouble with that email to me as an idiot, granted, it seems like you didn't do anything this week probably, and your job is probably losable.
Mark Gagnon
And I look at that as like, yo, who the fuck are you? I have people that I report to, heads of my agency. They're the ones that, that I answer to. I'm not answering to some who just was granted this power and unconstitutionally. And now I have to just. I have to prove my worth to this guy. Him.
Andrew Schulz
Good counterpoint.
Akash Singh
I got this message from jason yesterday at 11:03pm Guys, I don't recommend sending a doge email to your wife to provide five bullet points of what they accomplished last night.
Dove
Shout out to Jason, dude, that's so good.
Mark Gagnon
That's funny.
Dove
That's really good.
Akash Singh
So, yeah, we should do that and just get the reaction.
Dove
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Andrew Schulz
Hold on.
Akash Singh
You're not doing that.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah, I'm gonna drop it right now and just see, just no context. Let me.
Mark Gagnon
I'm gonna ask, wait, how are you framing it?
Andrew Schulz
I'm gonna say, hey, can you send me just a five bullet point message of are we all doing this last week?
Mark Gagnon
No, I can't come back with like a. And she gonna be like, word.
Akash Singh
I already told, I already told my wife what Jason texted the group.
Dove
Yeah, me too.
Akash Singh
Yeah, yeah, yeah, me too. Me too.
Dove
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mark Gagnon
She's listening in live Jason message.
Akash Singh
I wonder if that's even. I wonder if that's a real piece of change that he's trying to implement or that's just an antagonistic measure to rile up the base.
Dove
I don't care either way. Send the fucking email. Right, right to me. Just send the email. Like, oh, I'm antagonized, so I'm not going to report on what I did. If you did something, send the email.
Akash Singh
Well, what does it do? My question about it Is like, what does it do? It just puts them in a position where they're going to have to potentially lie. I just don't know if it's effective. Nobody's going to answer that email. I've done nothing. You should probably fire me next. They're going to find bullshit that they did. So we don't actually get to clean anything up. And now you got people bickering online over something we actually agree on.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah. They're also going to use AI to like analyze it, I think, which that might be easy to trick.
Akash Singh
What does that mean?
Andrew Schulz
Like, I think like, they're like getting all these federal emails, like from thousands of thousands of people.
David Sanchez
So they're going to have million federal employees.
Andrew Schulz
So they're going to have AI like parse what people did and like the top performing people and the lower performing people.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
And so that seems gamifiable to me.
Akash Singh
Yo, I wonder if they, if they went about this a little different. Like instead of doing it on a person to person basis, which these emails are. Right. Because that's when I, I start to have empathy for someone who's about to lose their job. And I said, hey, provide for their family. Right. And now I'm less supportive of these cutting measures that DOJ doing, but rather analyze the different. I don't know, I don't know what you would even call them. Like, what would you call. Like, it's not a business department. Department. Yeah. Analyze these departments for inefficiency as a whole. Prove transparently to the American people that there is inefficiency there. Like I thought the most effective thing they did, and I don't even know if it's true, is showed all the dead people that are still getting Social Security. Right. I don't even know if that's a real thing, but if you could actually show proof that dead people were getting Social Security, like people who've been dead 200 still getting Social Security, you have unanimous support from Americans to be like, all right, we'll cut that guy's Social Security. He's been dead 200 years. So start at the department, show the inefficiency, and then you could pass it off to the senators or whoever you want to pass some sort of legislation to cut parts of that department. But when you go person to person and judging off the email, they said, now I start to feel like, well, shit, I had a lazy week last week, but two weeks ago I was working overtime every single night. You didn't email me that.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah, but I think Elon's perspective. And he reposted this thing from Milton Friedman, which is basically, they just go through every department and he just says, cut it, cut it, cut it, cut it. I think he. Milton Friedman had three that he wanted to keep. It was like, justice. I forget there was like two others. I don't remember right. But everything else gotta go cut all of them.
Akash Singh
So then why are you even emailing if you know what you gotta cut?
Andrew Schulz
Well, I think that's what he's trying to do. Trying to use that as proof to be like, yeah, all these gotta go.
Dove
Oh, also, can we just do a little sports real quick?
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Dove
Because this is a big. It's gonna have, I guess, already happened, but. But tonight, Luca and the Lakers are playing Dallas, the Dallas Mavericks, for the first time since Luca got traded. So I truly believe Luca will score 60. Like, not even a question in my mind. Luca scores 60. I. Whatever. If you want to put money on Luca over, take it. This guy, first of all, loves playing on nationally televised games. He's keenly aware of when those moments are. And he always plays better. And he has an extra vendetta. Like, the master traded this guy and then just said he was fat and lazy and out of shape. And he's going to be like, I will show you fat and lazy and out of shape. And he had his first good game as a Laker on Friday.
Akash Singh
Oh, so he had like 35.
Dove
He had like 36, 18. Some like some crazy stat line. He's going to fucking destroy them. And I'm going to love it.
Akash Singh
These guys are insane. These guys are insanely competitive. So obviously he's going to go for it. Do you think that the Lakers support it? Do you think the Lakers are going to feed him all night?
Dove
And I also think LeBron is such a. He's a battering your back guy. Like the difference between him and Jordan. And you can side how however you want, but Jordan was. I'm going to take care of this guy. Kobe is an. I'm going to take care of this guy. LeBron is. We're going to take care of this guy. I'm going to put the batter in your back to give you your best performance. I guarantee you LeBron's in his ear all week. You do whatever you got to do. This is your show. You're the best player telling him everything.
Akash Singh
Is it in LA or Dallas?
Dove
It's going to be in LA. The Dallas one is April 9th.
Akash Singh
That would be fun.
Dove
I want to go to that game.
Akash Singh
Yeah, you should do I want to.
Dove
Start a UNICO chant.
Andrew Schulz
How do you think Anthony Davis feels right now?
Dove
Hurt. Probably in pain.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah, I've been seeing.
Dove
I've been seeing Laker fans. Idiots. I was going off on the trade and so many idiots. And Lakers fans are like, you don't know what you got in Anthony Davis. The first game, he got hurt. Quarter three, playing out of his mind for three quarters. Hurt. Might be a season ending injury. And apparently there's rumors that it was an injury that the Mavs, like, the team knew he had, but they just pushed the trade through and forced it through. And then when they found out how bad it was, they didn't do an adequate physical. There's a rumor they tried to get the trade rescinded, but everybody had already played games and it was too late. Bunch of. Bunch of fucking. Bunch of idiots. And I Hope Luca scores.82 on you. I hope he eclipses Kobe. God bless Kobe, but I hope he does better. It's gonna be exciting. You should watch and honestly just. Yeah. Bet the Lakers over.
Andrew Schulz
It's fun to root for white guys.
Dove
If not. Yeah. Even if this has already happened. April 9th. Dude.
Akash Singh
Yeah, it is.
Dove
I. I'm d. I'm pro.
Andrew Schulz
That's exciting.
Dove
I'm pro dei. So I'm pro Luca. I love a confident white guy.
Andrew Schulz
Yes.
Dove
I love J.J. redick. I love. I love what the Lakers got going on. I love Austin Reeves. It's a white team. Hey, this is the only time showtime is going to be punctual.
Akash Singh
Guys. If you want to get your bets in, you go with steak, okay? Steak is the largest.
Dove
The world's largest U.S. social casino.
Akash Singh
That is true.
Dove
The world's largest U.S. social.
Akash Singh
It's the world's largest U.S. social casino.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Again, we don't know what that means. We are committed to never learning what that means.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
But if you find yourself at US Social casinos, and you want to know which one is the largest in the world, in the whole world.
Andrew Schulz
Rwanda.
Dove
Don't got a larger US Social casino.
Akash Singh
Definitely not. Barely got a hotel. I think you go to stake and make sure to use the promo code flagrant for your welcome bonus.
Dove
Sports, politics, whatever you want to bet.
Akash Singh
On, Bet on whatever you want. You do it over there at stake. And make sure you use flagrant for that welcome bonus. Let's get back to the show.
Mark Gagnon
Pretty much going to every department and just firing everyone that's on probation because those are the ones you can get away with firing. Cause they're not, you know, their job isn't Actually finalized yet.
Akash Singh
Got it.
Mark Gagnon
And it's like even that, it's like, all right, so now all this young crop of people who are probably qualified because if they got hired in the first place, now you're just getting rid of all that and now you're gonna have just a bunch of old people who've been doing it the old way all this time. It's like, where's the change? Like you're gonna just have the same thing going on.
Dove
And I don't know that that's necessarily true.
Akash Singh
Cause usually what they do is they fire the old people because they make way more money.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah, but they're firing all, all the people on probation.
Akash Singh
But why would the young people be on probation?
David Sanchez
To clarify, it's not a punishment probation, it's a probationary hiring period.
Akash Singh
We are on the beginning.
Mark Gagnon
Sorry.
Akash Singh
So maybe what they're doing is, maybe the thought behind it is, hey, these people aren't even officially hired. And if we know that these departments have a lot of bloat, why would we fire the people that have been working there for decades and that's what they've committed their life to. Why don't we lay off the people, start with.
Dove
And then eventually they're going to start cutting some of the bloat as well. I do think it's a multi step process. I think do think I'm okay with overcutting government right now because I know what will happen over time is things get added and added and bloated again. So it's just like, let's cut as much as we can now. And I'm sure over time that's a.
Akash Singh
Good point because this is not like a one time fix. You're going to have to do this every single year.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Until the end of the country. And unfortunately probably are at a point where we're so bloated that we're going to need some pretty drastic cuts.
Dove
And dude, I was in California this weekend. Weather's obviously awesome, all that. But you're like, oh, you're taxing us at 51% if you're in the top income bracket. But homelessness is still a rampant issue. Education didn't seem to be very good. Like public school system doesn't be. And I'm not saying taxes never work and not taxing always works at all. But there is, you have to accept that that money seems to be getting used inefficiently, at least in the states that get taxed the highest. So why not cut those budgets down? See if the money can get used efficiently. At the very least we're not wasting our tax.
Andrew Schulz
I talked to an FBI guy recently and I was asking about like Cash Patel and like shutting down the Hoover building, all this stuff. He's like, you shouldn't shut it down. But he's like there is so much bureaucrac bloat within the FBI that you just have like people that have been there for 20 years that haven't done a case in like three decades or like they've been there for their whole life, haven't done a case in three decades and they don't know what's going on and they get more risk averse over time. So like he's like when I started I was getting assigned on all these jobs. We were getting all these different cartels, we were getting all these different organized crime things and now I'm trying to get assigned to stuff and they're like ah, it's too risky, don't do it. And he's like, but my job is to go in and infiltrate and get these gangs. So like what is my purpose? And like slowly he was getting pulled back and put on more easier jobs. Jobs like busting buys and like little crack things. And he was like this is a waste of time.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
So they're getting more risk averse, they're getting more comfortable in their positions. And he's like yeah, you do need to get rid of a lot of people.
Akash Singh
I wonder if that is to do with the like the reward matrix, like with you know, cops. I think in the city there's a quota to the amount of like tickets they have to give out. So you could go and find the really egregious things and go give them a ticket or you could, could wait in like a dark side street of a place where you know, guys do like drag racing a lot.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
And then clip them every Friday night when they're drag racing.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Like I wonder if you just gravitate towards the easiest things which is the risk averse situation. But when at the FBI, the thing that's going to probably help the country the most is when you're going at the most dangerous. So now you clipping this low level that isn't really helping every, every the everyday person just so you could meet your quota. So maybe you need to restructure the reward.
Dove
Yeah. And again multi step process. I think this is step one. I don't think this is the perfect solution. I just like actionable steps being taken.
Mark Gagnon
I just, I just wish they, because I like the fact that somebody from outside is coming in to make these changes. Because I don't think people from within. We can't ask you, hey, how can we take money away from you? And how can we fire your people? They're not going to.
Akash Singh
And if you. If you were going to change it, you would have already done it.
Mark Gagnon
Exactly. But I think they should work alongside. So you have Elon working alongside with some of these department heads and things like that. And now it's like, okay. He's like, what does this department do?
Akash Singh
What.
Mark Gagnon
Like, what is this money for? Like, you have to do a bit more surgical cuts than the way that they're doing it right now. Because you saw they fired people that were in charge of the nuclear warheads and shit like that. Had to hire them back. And, like, that could have been a crazy mistake.
Akash Singh
Like, that could have been. I. I get. I get what he's saying. Like, there is risk to the overflow in certain sectors.
Dove
I agree. I just. I don't necessarily think that risk is as. Like, I don't think the risk is so catastrophic. I think potentially firing these guys, we're not. We're not going to be like, oh, a nuke got fired. Like, it's just. We're not firing the guys that are.
Mark Gagnon
No, but that could have happened.
Dove
I don't. I think that's a bit hyperbolic. That's all I'm saying.
Akash Singh
Also, you can hire them back. It's not like they're going to work for, like, the nuke place down the block. Yeah, yeah, but they're the nuke guys.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah, but we just don't know how much, like, other countries are targeting that thing. Like, say if there's one person. Person who's like, cyber security protecting other countries from accessing our nukes. And now we were just, like, with no security there for, like, a day or two. I mean, if that was the one time, boom, they got in.
Akash Singh
If I'm like any of our ops, I'm trying to get a spy into Doge, and I'm trying to get them to push cuts in certain sectors that would be advantageous for me as the opposition. So I want them to cut defense spending.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah.
Akash Singh
I want them to cut any sort of, like, security apparatus. Maybe it's a nuclear program. I would want them to cut development programs in AI or these other technological things that are really going to put America ahead of every other country in the world. Now, I'm sure there are certain measures that are, you know, put in place to, like, stop that from happening. But that's kind of how I'm thinking about. This is like a once in a lifetime opportunity if you're another country, bro.
Andrew Schulz
The way these other countries do. This is so wild. I was reading the story, I was talking to this FBI guy and he was telling me this thing that he infiltrated that they had. There's a guy that's one of like the top neo Nazis on Twitter and he has like a bunch of Twitter accounts and he's just putting like all this racist.
Akash Singh
What's his name?
Andrew Schulz
Ronaldo Nazario is putting all this like super racist. He just runs like hate pages. He's like, the Jews do this. Black people do this. Da, da. Look at this crime. We got to make America white. He's like a white supremacist. He lives in St. Petersburg. Gets apparently Russia or Florida in Russia. Yeah, that's important. And yeah, he's in Russia. Apparently he's like a teacher that teaches English but is getting paid like. Apparently someone like audited his bank account, like hacked into his thing. He's getting paid like millions of dollars to be like an English teacher. Allegedly. And is pumping all this neo Nazi shit, Creating neo Nazis in America, aggregating all these like, incel kids. And then basically from St. Petersburg in Russia is like convincing them to do domestic terrorism. And like, they're literally putting in spies bas, like domestic terrorists infiltrating, getting them riled up, get. Somehow getting them money in some cases, aggregating all of them, getting them like, training techniques, sending them like field manuals from the Marines and, and basically like promoting them to do acts of terrorism.
Akash Singh
And half of these idiots don't even. No, I bet 99 of these idiots don't even realize they're being manipulated. Yeah, they actually think they're fighting a good fight. Yeah, they're like, this guy's on point. He's got all the real research. I'm going to go and do my YouTube, my, my YouTube or my, my Googling to find out why this is all justified. And you can find justification for anything. I mean, their motherfuckers believe the earth is flat. So. So they are out there thinking they're doing the Lord's work when they're doing Putin's crazy.
Andrew Schulz
And then they're setting up like, yo, we're going to shoot up this thing. We're going to try to free this guy from prison. We're going to go kill this family. Because they're communists and they're literally plotting all the shit, buying all the equipment. And this FBI guy infiltrated them to take them out.
Akash Singh
There's a guy, I forget his name, but he was bragging about how he was, like, one of the most viewed people on Twitter. Right. And a lot of his shit is just like, the Jews do this, the Jews do that. Right. And they probably do.
Mark Gagnon
But.
Andrew Schulz
But.
Akash Singh
But that's what his Twitter is. And he was talking about. He's like, ye. One of the most viewed on Twitter. And I wonder if he even realized that, like, those views might be amplified by our opposition. Yeah, they want that unrest in America. This is perfect. And he's out there going, nah, the people really understand what I'm saying. They really care about what I'm saying. It's like, no, Russia does. China does. They don't even give a about the Jews or not. It could be anybody. It could be Black Lives Matter. I'm sure that they were pumping the exact same people that were shitting all over Black Lives Matter.
Andrew Schulz
Wow. Yeah.
Akash Singh
This is the kind of information that we need out there so the people don't succumb to it because you get those views. You know, your tweets are popping. You think you're lit.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
You think you found out.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah. This is literally from the BBC, this article. This guy Nazar, is running a militant group from Russia.
Dove
Wow.
Mark Gagnon
Wow.
Andrew Schulz
And how this is just one guy. Like, I don't even know how many other guys there are that are doing this kind of stuff.
Akash Singh
I'm sure we're doing the same probably over there. But they start to restrict their Internet for that reason. Like, I. Like, we act like they restrict the Internet in these other countries because, like, they want to control the ideology within the country. You can control the ideology within your country very easily.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
You can't control it from the outside. Like, I bet there's way more restriction other countries simply because they got to worry about their ops, and we are probably the best in it.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a. It's a weird thing because, like, I'm not anti free speech. Like, I think we should have free speech. But also, people need to know how free speech can be used against them.
Akash Singh
So then that's the education process. Process.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah, yeah. They're like, you might see something. It's like some racist guy on Twitter posting funny memes. You're like, oh, yeah, this is kind of cool. But, like, you get in with them and then you start messaging them, and then they're like, oh, yeah, come join our. Like, you know, our telegram or whatever. And then you get on a zoom Call with them. Then you get vetted by this guy in Russia. He does a one on one call with you to see if you're good, sends you an address to go to. You meet with the guys over there.
Akash Singh
You think Dan Bilzerian knows this? Do you think he knows he's been tricked into doing this? Bro, why has he become such like, the Jews do everything, everything bad like this pivot for him. Like, he was just getting part. He was partying, getting, you know, shooting machine guns. And now all of a sudden he's like, the Jews are to blame for.
Andrew Schulz
Everything because it's hot right now. You get crazy views on it.
Akash Singh
But. But does he not get views off the anymore? Like, have. Has culture moved away from it and now he had to find another grift?
Dove
Yes. Yeah.
Akash Singh
It's interesting to see these guys pivot and they all have pivoted in the same direction. Like, all the manosphere guys are now the Jews of the problem of the, of the world. Not all, but you've seen a lot of them gravitate into that space now. They're like political experts.
Dove
They're analysts on culture, geopolitical, polluting, otherwise perfectly accurate message.
Akash Singh
Yeah, y'all were right about that. But it's like to see, to see the exact groups.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Pivot the message. Exactly. Do you think they know that they're being tricked and manipulated?
Dove
I mean, yeah, I think they're all just kind of following whatever works.
Akash Singh
Is it just the trend? Is it like, oh, this is hot.
Dove
On the Internet, so I'm going to have talent. So where's the views?
Akash Singh
Classic bag of the wind. I'm just gonna R up.
Andrew Schulz
You're sounding right now, dude.
Akash Singh
Am I lip pill?
Mark Gagnon
You're giving them more credit than I think they deserve. I think a lot of them don't realize they're being manipulated.
Akash Singh
Oh, yes, yes, yes. I agree they don't realize it, but I think what AOS is saying. Oh, I. I thought what you were saying is they're just going towards the views. The views are in this direction. They're just following it.
Dove
Yeah, that's what I think.
Akash Singh
And they have no clue they could be manipulated by a foreign government.
Mark Gagnon
Gotcha. You okay?
Dove
Yeah, bro.
Andrew Schulz
Are you a Jew lover, dude? Dude, ever since you went to Hollywood, bro.
Akash Singh
I can't believe you said this, dude. That. Dude, I don't believe in di.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah, yeah, dude.
Akash Singh
White supremacy is such di. Why don't we ever have that conversation? Yeah, like, these white guys are like, I believe in meritocracy, except, oh, White people should control everything, and we got to stop letting everybody else control us. I didn't control it.
Dove
Famous.
Akash Singh
How do the Jews control the world? They can't even control Jew land. There's a little piece of land that they've been fighting over, yet they control the whole world.
Dove
Yeah, we talked about that with the Vivek rant. It's like, you guys love what Vivek is saying. If you think he's talking to black people, the second white people get told, pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
Akash Singh
How fucking dare they go di, Right?
Dove
Yeah. Yeah.
Akash Singh
How dare white people love DEI when it's for white people? That shit is so gay.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
This needs to be a white country. Make it white. Make some babies. Babies. Go to the IVF doctor like your boy. You can't get it done. You know, Elon's out here trying to keep it white. He got 13 babies. He's doing his part.
Andrew Schulz
I.
Akash Singh
This is. So Whenever you see. Got 13 baby mamas all suing him. Black people like, nah, nah. He's fitting. I like this guy.
Mark Gagnon
Yo.
Akash Singh
But there is something to that. Like, the. The white supremacy being Di. Because if you think you're the best, go be the best.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Like, don't cry about it. Just do it. Like, white people colonize the entire world during that time. They weren't like, oh, we need to be the best one. We're the master race. They were just doing it. Yeah. They were just like, look, the sun doesn't set on the British Empire. We don't got to tell you anything.
Andrew Schulz
Go back to that. Build a ship.
Akash Singh
Build a ship.
Andrew Schulz
Get a long boat.
Akash Singh
Colonize somebody.
Andrew Schulz
Grow your beard out.
Akash Singh
Don't cry on Twitter about the Jews.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah. White supremacy is lame, dude. I just like racism. That makes more sense.
Akash Singh
Racism kind of fire.
Andrew Schulz
Racism makes more. Because that's easier. Easier to get on board with.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
Hey, those people smell. You'd be like, all right, cool. Yeah, I'm with that.
Dove
Talking about you.
Andrew Schulz
No, I'm just saying it's whoever you want it to be. You. You put anyone in there, that's a. Choose your own adventure.
Dove
But those guys.
Andrew Schulz
Offensive.
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Mark Gagnon
Yo, how do you feel about the Nazi salutes? Because now those are who.
Akash Singh
Bannon threw one up. Yeah, but he's just a.
Mark Gagnon
But like now, does that put any credence on what Elon did or. Because clearly what Bannon did was intentional. Like, we can't say that was.
Akash Singh
I think what he did is. I think he, he did it. I think he just wants attention. Like, I think Bannon's on the outs. He's just trying to get attention. He's trying to rally people. This is what he's been good at. But now he's no longer on the inside. So he's just trying to like get going and cook stuff up. And the only way he knows how to do it is to be super antagonistic and he can tap into that core.
Mark Gagnon
But you don't think they also see the rise of white supremacy and they're like, yo, we going R it up.
Akash Singh
N. He's got great hair.
Dove
It could be. No, it could be. I also think, to Schultz's point, it's the same thing the red pill guys are doing doing where it's like, oh, okay, here's an opportunity. Let me, let me make some noise. Let me get some attention. Let me do whatever. Let me throw this hand up. You see what I'm saying? Like, to Schultz's point, I need attention. I'm starved for attention. I'm not getting it any other way because I'm not good enough at what I do. So I have to reach for this.
Akash Singh
Low hanging fruit bandit just wants attention.
Dove
There you go.
Andrew Schulz
It's also worth noting, like, even this guy was talking. He's like, the white. The neo Nazi shit. He's like, there's maybe like a couple thousand. It's like, it's not like this rampant thing. Not all Republicans. Republicans and neo Nazis. Like, not all of them.
Mark Gagnon
Of course not.
Andrew Schulz
The majority problem.
Mark Gagnon
All groups start small and then they keep going.
Andrew Schulz
Right?
Mark Gagnon
So it's like, that's a. I don't want people to get comfortable with that.
Akash Singh
Tell us about your people. Go.
David Sanchez
No, I just also think the fear is that, like, these are people that are very close to Trump. They're. Even if they're a small group, they're this. Steve Bannon was his former, like, chief.
Dove
Strategist on the outs now, though, Elon.
David Sanchez
Like, he's at the. The largest political activist group for conservatives like you.
Dove
No, that's valid. That's valid.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
David Sanchez
They're in position. Even if they're not within the Cabinet, they're within pretty high positions within this. I think that's the fear people are having.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah. And you normalize that.
Andrew Schulz
But a lot of these neo Nazis hate Trump like they hate Republicans. They hate America because America's like funding. Yeah, that's what, that's what's interesting. So this guy was saying that a lot of them voted for Hillary, they voted for Kama because they're accelerationists. They're like, if we vote for Hillary, the whole country will get destroyed. The border will be open, police will be defunded, and then that'll lead us to our ultimate D Day, which is when white people.
Dove
I think you're arguing different things too. I think you're arguing that true neo Nazis and what they believe and feel is one thing. And I think Alex is saying making it normal, making it okay to just throw up a Nazi salute will move people toward being more okay with racism.
Akash Singh
Correct.
Mark Gagnon
Yes.
Akash Singh
And you take away from the actual criticism. Like, you should be able to criticize Israel like every other fucking country in the world.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Like, we criticize Canada left and right. We can't criticize Israel.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Like, literally all of us called Justin Trudeau a. Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Every single day for, like, three years straight.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
We can't talk about BB Netanyahu. Of course we can.
Mark Gagnon
Sometimes Jewish people tie it in. If you criticize Israel, then it's like, oh, that's.
Akash Singh
Which is unfair. But when you throw a Nazi salute up now, it gives them credence to thinking that it's anti Semitism.
Dove
They have their ammo to go, look at that.
Akash Singh
Don't do that. If you're just. If you're just like. Like, yo, that guy who runs a country is a piece of shit.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Or calls gay like, we did Justin Trudeau. That's really effective. Nobody's tried that with him. Questions, sexuality.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Justin Trudeau had to step down. That's facts.
Mark Gagnon
But then how come you're at this conservative convention and no one is.
Akash Singh
We don't know if no one's pushing back. There are. There are people that not barely.
Mark Gagnon
I don't see Fox News saying, oh, that was so wrong of him doing.
Akash Singh
I don't watch enough Fox to know. I don't watch enough Fox.
Dove
And we don't hear. We don't hear it in the zeitgeist.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Mark Gagnon
Like, Trump should be coming out, y'all. I don't agree with that.
Dove
The fact that Trump would never do that. But to your point, the Zeitgeist doesn't seem to be like, we didn't even know about that zeitgeist. I'm seeing, like, the fuck is this guy doing at the cpac?
Akash Singh
Also, there's so many people that, like, this is the other thing. And I will defend politicians, even on both sides. And this is like, you don't have to come out against every single thing. Yeah. That some within your party does. Like, it's not up to the leader of the Democratic Party to talk about the fringe senator that says there's 67 genders and be like, I don't believe in that. Which, to be honest, is just as, like, annoying to the American voter. It might be advantageous to do that for the Democrats to, like, call them out. But it's not up to Kamala, whoever the fuck is out there. For every single senator that opens their mouth or every single, like, local congressman that opens their mouth and says some goofy shit to be like, I disavow I disavow. You're going to be disavowing all day.
Mark Gagnon
But Steve Bannon at cpac, he's kicked out.
Akash Singh
For me, I'm like, if I'm part of Trump Squad, I'm like, yo, we kicked that goofy motherfucker out. He's just trying to get attention. I don't even know why you let him on stage say that.
Dove
No, I don't.
Mark Gagnon
But the fact that you say quiet.
Dove
It'S like, I don't think Trump's got to say anything necessarily. I think Al's point does hold some credence or whatever. Credibility, though, in that it doesn't seem to be any. Nobody seems to be reacting, which is a little crazy. Nobody. There's no tweets that we're seeing. There's no nothing. There's no stories. I don't think Trump has to acknowledge everything. I think we put that on him.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah.
Mark Gagnon
I don't say everything, but I think that's at a level that needs to be.
Dove
I don't personally, I'm like, there's people who take shots at us sometimes or saith crazy, and we're like, we're not even giving. Giving them oxygen.
Akash Singh
That's true.
Mark Gagnon
Okay.
Dove
I think the fact that nobody's saying.
Akash Singh
Anything, I think Ben is below the level of. Of react to. He's just a citizen at this point. He's not even part of government. Like, if he's influential in this. What is it called? C. What? Not cpac. It's cpac.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah.
Akash Singh
If he's influential in cpac, if he actually is, or if he's just a speaker that's up there, I think that's where you decide if he's actually influencing where the money goes. Because if the money starts getting clipped, then maybe, you know, Trump starts to speak up, but at the same time, like, there's no way Steve Bannon is going to say something and then they're going to funneling money into Trump's agenda. No. Conservatives are running everything right now. If anything, they should be telling Bannon, yo, can you shut the fuck up? We're actually doing some good work right now. We have everything under control. You're gonna fuck this whole thing up and make everything radioactive because that's the only way you know how to get attention. The Bannon is the type of guy, the only way he knows how to get attention is just make it radioactive. There are certain people that can get attention from art. There's certain people get attention from creativity. There's certain people can get attention from, from literally understanding what's going on and delivering the facts in a fun and knowledgeable way. Like, that's a Jon Stewart. Right. Like, I don't think anybody goes, oh, he's just biased. He's trying to manipulate people. When John talks. Right. Like, we trust him. But the ban is just. How do I be radioactive? Oh, if I throw this up, I'll do it. It's like wrestling to him. Like, I literally think he's up there and he's just going.
Mark Gagnon
So they looking at him like Kanye.
Dove
Kanye is what I was thinking.
Akash Singh
I don't, I can't tell you what they are. That's what I look at him as. I'm like, I don't take that guy seriously.
Dove
But if you take CPAC seriously, I don't think you have him speak.
David Sanchez
This is the largest conference. This is like their big conference.
Akash Singh
Yeah, no, no, I think that you got to look at it. You got to be like, what the.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah.
Akash Singh
And I think you got to have some maybe behind the scenes talk. But if he comes out and talks about it publicly, what do you think Bannon's going to do with that ban? Is going to use that as oxygen. Yeah, he's going to light it up even further.
Dove
Yeah, that's fair.
Akash Singh
He's like, he's going to say, this guy Trump is defending a migrant over me who actually cares about America. I think giving him any oxygen is going to divide the party even further. And this is what happens every single time you get in power. You have an agenda, you're ready to go and then some egotistical narcissist that has no ability to execute anything.
Dove
Parasite.
Akash Singh
Yeah, exactly. Comes in and for their own.
Mark Gagnon
You want abandoned.
Akash Singh
Which one? Elon. Got to be. Elon is the bank. You know, you don't have the parasite.
Mark Gagnon
I mean, he gave what, 240 mil to.270 to make two bill. So he's, he's seeping, he's, he's getting some returns.
Akash Singh
Oh, no.
Mark Gagnon
You know, I would. You can call that paras.
Dove
Hey, I don't love the turn Elon has taken in general in terms of like everything being a conservative talking point and like, oh, the South African genocide of white people is the. He said it was the biggest issue in our lifetime. And it's like you were alive when South Africa was actually apartheid. Right. That wasn't. I don't think it's the biggest.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah.
Dove
Genocide in Rwanda.
Akash Singh
That.
Dove
It's like watching him parrot these Republican talking points is also nauseating. Like, you're smart enough to have an opinion on your own. So that's my criticism of Elon. I don't look at him the same way I look at Steve Bannon.
Mark Gagnon
And it does suck because I really used to be an Elon guy.
Akash Singh
I'm still an Elon guy.
Mark Gagnon
I'm like, with everything he's been doing lately, it's hard for.
Akash Singh
I don't mind the art from the artist. Oh, Kelly.
Mark Gagnon
Throwing on my truck.
Andrew Schulz
Are you afraid your shit's gonna get vandalized? Have you seen that?
Mark Gagnon
Yo, I had a dude throw a snowball at the car.
Andrew Schulz
All right, that could.
Dove
That's not bad at all.
Akash Singh
New York. Nah.
Mark Gagnon
But they wouldn't do that to any regular.
Dove
That was. That was some cucky to. That was unbelievable. Are you from New York or not? Then do that. Do that.
Mark Gagnon
And don't talk about on the podcast in a group. Destin.
Akash Singh
But that. That's going to come with it.
Mark Gagnon
That's what I'm saying. Like, I think the car being a cybertruck had something to do with the.
Akash Singh
Reason why it's an attention seeking car. Not saying that that's what you want it for. There are other things you've always loved Teslas.
Mark Gagnon
I think they're throwing the snowball because it's Elon.
Akash Singh
It could be Elon, but it's also like, even if it wasn't Elon, even if somebody else owned it, it's such a different looking car than anything else. And you know when eggs are $40 and you see a guy walk driving around in a spaceship, there's a moment and you have a snowball in your hand, There's a moment you go, you.
Dove
Know what that guy. I keep that. I keep.
Akash Singh
That's kind of far.
Dove
Yeah, I drive with that even. What you doing? Making me more proud of my car.
Andrew Schulz
I think that is the biggest thing most people feel is they're like, all right, we're changing the Gulf of Mexico. We're cutting all these things. All right. But like, things are still expensive. Like, I think that's how most people feel. Like my day to day has not improved. Like, we're doing all this stuff that's cool.
Mark Gagnon
But like, I'm wondering if they haven't buy of remorse yet.
Akash Singh
I don't think so. I think there's so much excitement. It's too early and what has been achieved. And you have to understand, like, there are a lot of people that agree with what Trump and Elon are trying to do. There's a lot of people There's a lot of support behind it. Matter of fact, there is. We support it. We support it. Right. Like, we're all sitting here going, yeah, we have to cut the bloat in government the way that they're doing it.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah, that's what I mean.
Akash Singh
We have to see.
Andrew Schulz
Like, is that bad? My feeling in general, in general is just like, let's just see what happens.
Mark Gagnon
I think we're all there.
Akash Singh
That's. I'm glad you said that. This is how. Okay. There's a lot of liberal people that get very upset about this topic. Right. Or they get very upset about Elon and what's happening there. It's unconstitutional. Charlemagne was talking about that. And you have a lot of, like, liberal politicians, liberal pundits talking about as well. And I think the important thing to reflect on as well. I'm not saying don't talk about that, but the other thing to reflect on as well is we are so disillusioned with government and American institutions that we are willing to just see. Do you know how desperate you got to be as a country where you're willing to just go, all right, let's try this?
Dove
Yeah, if things were good for people, we're fed up.
Akash Singh
You would go, yeah, I don't want to risk it. My life is pretty good. I'm concerned if we do this, my life could get worse.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
You know how many people got to be in a place where they're like, it can't get much worse to go. Let's see.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah. Which I can understand the counterpoint. I'm sure there's people at the end of the Weimar Republic that was like, yeah, let's just. Let's just see. Let's just see what's going on. And then by the time you see that it's bad, it's too late.
Akash Singh
Weimar Republic is what the.
Andrew Schulz
Like, the end right before Hitler takes over.
Akash Singh
Yeah. Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
So, like, I can see people being like, oh, yeah, let's just wait and see. Then after you see, like, oh, this is up. It's too late.
Dove
So I see the.
Andrew Schulz
The concern, some of the fear.
Dove
Sorry. I'm listening to some of these history podcasts now, because sports has broken my heart, and I'm looking for things to do. But, like, when you hear about Caesar or Genghis Khan or whatever, people are like, oh, this all. Trump is doing the same things. I do see how some of the things you're like, it reminds you of what's happening. I don't think that's what's going to happen. But I understand the fear for Doge. I would say this is the first time we have heard and seen any politician that's president take actionable steps that, as far as I know, to reduce government spending. Clinton. Clinton did it. And I was too young to understand it, probably.
Andrew Schulz
Charlotte was breaking down.
Akash Singh
They fired 300,000 government workers under Clinton. But. But he did it with bipartisan support, like, so he did it through government.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah.
Akash Singh
And I think that was the big difference maker. And during Clinton, it was the first time in all of our life.
Dove
Budget surplus.
Andrew Schulz
Right.
Akash Singh
We had a surplus.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Which would be nice. Yeah, yeah, that would be really fucking nice.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
I think Americans are so detached from, like, our national debt. We're like, that shit ain't mine. That's the nation's debt. Right. We're so detached. The only thing we think about is the repercussions of that debt, which might be this super influence inflation, the cost of goods being crazy, interest rates. Interest wild. Right. So. But we got to knock that down to knock the rest of this down. I think if you knock the debt down, mortgage rates come down. Mortgage rates come down. The liquidity is out there. There's more money on the streets.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Better for everybody.
Andrew Schulz
So my feeling is, like, when. Where I see the difference, when people are like, oh, like Julius Caesar, Hitler, da, da, da. I'm like, my hope is that the checks and balances within the US Government will be strong enough that if something goes too far, like Trump's like, yo, I'm dictator for life, that the checks will stop.
Dove
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
And I think that's the difference between where we are now and where we have historically. So that's my hope, and that's why I'm kind of a little more comfortable being like, yeah.
Akash Singh
It's just kind of also, I think. I think where. Or go out go.
Mark Gagnon
I think it's like, I agree with you, but I think it's also important to point out while it's happening.
Dove
Very fair, Very fair.
Mark Gagnon
Because, like, if you just stay quiet and just let them do. And then it might hit that point where it's.
Dove
That's its own check and balance. Y'all saying things.
Akash Singh
First of all, since when do we push back on people? Checking the government? Government, like, that's the most American thing to do. But if it's now, the way they talk, it's like, no, no, What I'm.
Mark Gagnon
Saying is, listen to what I say. You out of here.
Akash Singh
No, of course.
Andrew Schulz
Of course.
Akash Singh
Which is very un American. I think Americans will reject that. But what I'm trying to say is right now you have people pushing back to what they believe is government overreach. Right. That is happening from the left to the right. Visa right is in power. There was a time where the governments where, where the right was pushing back against left, government overreach. During COVID everybody go in your house, you got to take the jab, et cetera. We got to stop acting like we don't appreciate pushing back against government. It's part of like our nation's identity. Anytime we think that you're pushing a little too far, you getting in my pockets, you're getting in my house, we push back. So on a fundamental level, even if you're on the right, you should appreciate the left. Left going, hey, government, yeah, back the up. Chill out. Now there's a part of you, if you're on the right, that goes where the was this energy when they were shoving in our arm that they don't know what the it is. But if you can step back for a second and be like, all right, I, maybe I don't agree with them, but I do, I respect their right to, to voice their opinion on this and I fundamentally agree with them. Pushing back against government overreach. Yeah, like there is something you can connect on there.
Mark Gagnon
I agree with you wholeheartedly.
Akash Singh
But.
Mark Gagnon
But then when you have the top down person saying, if you don't do what the fuck I say, you're wait till midterms, you're out of here or you're getting fired. Like, they're creating a climate where it's like, I don't want any talk back and I don't want anybody doing anything.
Akash Singh
I don't say wait till midterms is. I think that's an important thing to distinguish. Wait till midterms is your base is going to reject you because this is what your base wants. It's not, well, Trump can't kick some. If he, if Trump was kicking out the senator of Maine or the governor of Maine or whatever the fuck it was, he would just do it now. He doesn't have to wait till midterms.
Dove
No, that's saying midterms.
Mark Gagnon
They can just fund having somebody run against you and kick you the out.
Andrew Schulz
Okay?
Akash Singh
That's politics. Like, why would they not fund them already?
Mark Gagnon
But it's so. I think every elected official should speak for their constituents. It shouldn't be, hey, you just have to follow what daddy says.
Dove
Well, that is, that's what they all do. That's what the whip is. That's what Nancy Pelosi does.
Mark Gagnon
No, I get it.
Akash Singh
But that's, that's where, that's where the election elected officials have to speak for the people because if they do, it doesn't matter how much money you throw against them. If you're actually speaking for your people and what they want, you will win.
Dove
Trump got less money.
Akash Singh
Trump got way less money. Do you know how much money they threw at the people going up against Trump?
Dove
Kamala got the. What's the record?
Akash Singh
Yeah, to the point that we all.
Dove
Thought she might actually win just because of money. It didn't matter.
Akash Singh
So now we're, now we're in a situation where it's, you're going to basically force government officials to actually care what their people want, not what the special interest groups want. And if they're riding with these special interest groups, all of a sudden the Trump administration is going to go. It's interesting that they're really influenced by those big money donors and they're not caring about what you really care about, which is the cost of eggs and the inflation and the bloating government. That's what we're going to care about. And this is our guy and he's going to fix that for you. That's on you as a politician for not knowing what your people want.
Dove
And calling back to the, the Clinton thing. This is another reason, even though I find him politically very corny now, Elon, I don't have a problem with doge. Clinton was 32 years ago. Like when we were, we grew up 90s kids.
Akash Singh
That's great.
Dove
How far back was the 60s in our brain? That's now, that's the 90s now. You know what I mean? Like it's election. 32 years.
Akash Singh
Anyone did anything.
Dove
We just let it grow and grow. It's 32 years of bloat. We gotta take it out. And again, I'm not even just saying because he's Indian. It's part helps. But like Vivek being like, hey, this needs to get cut. It clicked with me with like, yeah, I didn't even know Clinton did it, but there's 32 years of bloat that just needs to get cut and we will overcorrect. And I'm okay there now.
Akash Singh
Vivek's. Vivek's plan was to do it using the Constitution. Yes.
Dove
Which I prefer.
Akash Singh
I think that probably would have been more digestible for the average like politically inclined American because they couldn't really reject.
Dove
The can argue Constitution. Yeah, I, yeah, I think, yeah.
Akash Singh
It's quicker to do it the way Elon.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
And there's a risky strategy though, because.
Akash Singh
If, if it bombs, the Democrats are going to win the next four elections.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah. So you got to hope that the first you do just like slaps.
Dove
I think Trump sided with the money with Elon and I think they pushed the wrong guy out. That's personally what I feel. Yeah. I think Vivek would have. It would. And it would overcorrect it for sure. But like by the Constitution. Can't really argue with it. It's going to be some uproar, but we'll cut some. I love that.
Akash Singh
But it's hard to go up against the rocket. Of course.
Dove
Of course.
Akash Singh
Like, it's just so. He's so impressive.
Mark Gagnon
You're like richest man in the world.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
But it's.
Akash Singh
I mean, if, if we had to hire. I'm trying to think of a job I wouldn't hire Elon for.
Mark Gagnon
I wouldn't hire him to watch my kids.
Dove
Yeah. You see the clip of him forgetting his kid at the, at the thing. Just straight walk, baby.
Akash Singh
Done that.
Dove
Oh, okay.
Akash Singh
You know what I mean?
Dove
Great mother of Kim Kardashian. All right.
Andrew Schulz
I wouldn't have him take your job.
Dove
I think fa.
Andrew Schulz
I think make the pod worse.
Akash Singh
Here he is this views though. If he was on here every single week. So he just left his kid, bro.
Dove
Pull it up. This is so funny. He's busy, bro.
Akash Singh
He's trying to cut. He's trying to cut. He's like, I got 13 of these little te.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah, yeah. He's trying to make more of them. That is. Wow.
Dove
Look at the kid. Look how far back the kid is, dog.
Andrew Schulz
Now people did post the full video where like he's like, come on, little buddy, let's go. And he's like, woo. And then he like goes downstairs and then he keeps on saying bye. His little homies going slow. He doesn't realize he got shorter legs. And he's like, oh, come.
Akash Singh
Come on.
Andrew Schulz
A little bit.
Dove
It's not as bad. That's not as bad.
Akash Singh
Okay. See, this is perfect.
Dove
Yeah. This is a perfect example.
Mark Gagnon
Fake news.
Dove
I got fake news.
Akash Singh
Nah, that's up.
Mark Gagnon
I still wouldn't have him watch my kid though.
Akash Singh
Yeah, he's busy. I want you working on.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah, dude.
Akash Singh
So we're going to see how long do you think it is before we feel some of the negative or positive effects of the cuts?
Dove
H. I think short term will feel more pain. I think I. I just think in general a lot of the ideas are going to cause some short term pain for long term gain.
Andrew Schulz
I think it's going be so hard to tell. I literally think it's to be like a ror shack. Like, like, let's say prices come down for everything, like depending on how.
Akash Singh
Like ink blot where you see what you feel already.
Andrew Schulz
Like, I wonder if like people on the left will see all the media, like they cut this thing and there's a teacher that died and then the homeless thing got worse and even the, the price of things are coming down. They'll be like, yeah, this country's going to. And then people on the right, let's say prices don't move at all. But then they're seeing all these headlines that are like, everything's great. We're saving all this money. The budget's at a surplus.
Akash Singh
See, it worked.
Andrew Schulz
And I think that like, I don't even like, I think media will just manipulate people's minds, but they'll just say like whatever the thing they're feeding is. And I think it'll be dependent on whatever they're concerned.
Mark Gagnon
I think it all depends on how the economy is. And if people feel like they have money in their pockets, I think it all comes down.
Akash Singh
How do you make people feel that? Like what does create a thriving economy?
Mark Gagnon
Either low inflation, inflation, or stimmy checks.
Akash Singh
Like for example, how would you, like, how do you address inflation? My understanding is the way that you address inflation is you restrict. Restrict or is, or constrict the, the money supply. Right. If there's less, there's less money out there. If there, if there's more money than there are things to buy. The price of things is just crazy. Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
I think it's called the. You're trying to slow the liquidity of money through monetary policy.
Akash Singh
Yeah. So the only way to do that is to keep interest rates high. But if you keep interest rates high, it stifles economic growth.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Because you need liquidity for growth. So it's a really up thing. Yeah. It's almost like you need to just plunder another country. Yeah, that worked back. Yeah.
Dove
Who should we, who should we pretend has nukes?
Akash Singh
I think we need to look into Canada.
Dove
Canada got.
Andrew Schulz
They got Canada. Canada does have.
Dove
This whole thing was a front and he's actually building tons.
Andrew Schulz
Where do you think he got the nukes from? His dad?
Dove
Cuba.
Andrew Schulz
So he's got the nukes shipped in. So you guys keep an eye on it. 51st state.
Akash Singh
Is there any country rich enough where we could just plunder that.
Dove
Yeah. Canada there at Drake's house. That's why it's called the embassy. We need to get in there. We need to really just take things apart and just. Yeah, that's ours now.
Mark Gagnon
A couple mean coins and rug pulls.
Akash Singh
Like we'll get right.
Dove
USA coin, rug pulls. Fire. No, but I think, yeah, the stimmy check didn't work. That's what caused the inflation. So I think. I don't know. To me, I just remember and this is. Everybody's going to be personal. It's like I remember Bill Clinton. I was 8 years old. My dad went from having no job. We opened a business. I was like, oh, in this four years, seems like we're doing better. I. I remember I'm 10, so I know nothing, but I'm like this guy Bill Clinton.
Andrew Schulz
Seems he's doing a good job.
Akash Singh
And that was also during like the big. The first tech boom, right?
Dove
Yeah, yeah. Which may be the only reason to happen. I don't know. But that's. We just go off what we're feeling.
Mark Gagnon
I also think corporate greed is like probably one. It's probably the, the biggest factor.
Dove
It's a problem.
Mark Gagnon
It's like, I think we just so concerned with how the stocks like.
Dove
Yeah.
Mark Gagnon
How things are going in with stock market. Stock market. And so we're squeezing. We're squeezing like the lower middle class, like as much as possible. And we have no power to say anything.
Akash Singh
So. Because.
Mark Gagnon
Power to make change.
Akash Singh
If you squeeze. When you say squeeze the lower and middle class, you mean like by paying them less, we can show more profits and then the stock price goes up?
Dove
My. My responsibility is to my shareholder.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah.
Dove
That's not to the workers. That line you can hide behind some shit.
Mark Gagnon
I just saw Doordash got sued for like 20 million because they were taking people's tips and using that money to pay the wages of.
Dove
Wow.
Mark Gagnon
So that's crazy.
Dove
And so when they say 100% of the money goes towards the delivery person, they're still not lying.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah. Ain't that up?
Dove
Wow.
Akash Singh
I mean, that's what restaurants do, right? Like restaurants, I think minimum wage is like $15 an hour in some states now. But restaurants would pay you $3 an hour.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Because they count your tips as part of your wage. Yeah.
Mark Gagnon
But at least that you know that going into it like, oh, door dash was like, oh, no, you didn't get any tips. And then just using that money to pay their delivery.
Akash Singh
Yeah, that is up. Because we know that the waiters aren't making any money outside In Austria, you.
Dove
Got to get it out.
Akash Singh
Thank you, my boy. I got it.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
So we. And so that. So we overcompensate.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah.
Akash Singh
But with DoorDash, you're just giving them whatever y'all give.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah, yeah.
Andrew Schulz
Oh, yeah.
Mark Gagnon
And that's a thing. All these corporations are doing similar like that Amazon workers, like, they barely get paid.
Akash Singh
Have you spoken to Uber drivers recently?
Mark Gagnon
No.
Akash Singh
So, like, a lot of the Uber drivers, when they first started, Uber was taking like, 15%, 20%. Now that shit has come up to, like, 30, 40 in certain places.
Dove
Dude. I'll see. Sometimes I'll ask an Uber driver what you get for this, and it will be less than half of what I paid. Like, considerably less. Like six bucks for a $25 Uber or whatever.
Akash Singh
So basically what they did is they lost money.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah.
Akash Singh
You know, to gain market share.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah.
Akash Singh
And that is the strategy of these, like, tech businesses now, or maybe businesses in general now, but. So they don't have to show profit at all. And they'll lose money as long as the stock is cooking.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
And. But what happens is, what you're saying is that all these people that are driving are eventually going to go, you know what? I got to now work 80 hours a week to make what I used to make driving a taxi 40 hours.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Or 60 hours. Whatever the. They would do.
Mark Gagnon
And they got no voice. They got no lobbyist.
David Sanchez
They have no lobby, no health insurance.
Akash Singh
And it's. I mean, I guess it's not a monopoly. They are. There is Lyft, but, you know, Lyft is also going to cook you as well.
Dove
That's the airline, too, where it's like, y'all pretend you're competing. You're not. There's a certain level below which you know you're not going to go. And this is what it is. It's like a.
Mark Gagnon
They're both in codes. Like, yeah.
Andrew Schulz
These prices.
Dove
Oligopoly or whatever it's called, which is.
Andrew Schulz
Like, technically illegal, but it's going on.
Dove
How are you going to prove it?
Andrew Schulz
Yeah. Yeah. And then you can imagine some driver has been out of the workforce for four years, five years, immigrant, doesn't have work experience or whatever. Like, where else is he going to go?
Akash Singh
Where else?
Andrew Schulz
So, like. Yeah, I'll just eat it.
Dove
Yeah.
Mark Gagnon
And like, even partly with my business, I see that, like, I made it an appointment point to, like, overpay, because I've always been in production, and I'm like, you know what? Like, let me change things. That bothered me back in. In the Day.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Mark Gagnon
And that does stifle growth. Like, I. Because I pay my employees really well, I can't open as many studios as I would like to. I have to wait till we, you know, build it up, and now we can. So it's like, I see what would motivate a business owner to pay less, because I could grow my way faster. But at the same time, it's like, you just have to have zero, zero empathy for people. And that sucks.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah, yeah.
Dove
It's easy for me.
David Sanchez
I don't know.
Andrew Schulz
And then the people with no empathy, like, rise to the top. Yeah, true. You know what I mean? Like, all these, like, corporate CEOs are just, like, cutthroat, and they're like, yeah, I'm.
Mark Gagnon
I'm fine. I could sleep at night. So I'm good on that.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah. Yeah.
Akash Singh
And also, you get better work. I think when people feel, you know, like, they're properly compensated.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
You know, they build their identity around the job. It's hard to build your identity around a job where you feel taken advantage. Advantage of, you know, but if you.
Andrew Schulz
Create the job where they don't have to have an identity, it's like an assembly line, and people just come in and you're like, all right, you don't like it.
Dove
Yep.
Akash Singh
See you later. If you make them easily replaceable.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah, yeah.
Mark Gagnon
Uber, Amazon, all these places.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah.
Dove
Dude. I've had Amazon employees tell me, like, they'll get hurt on the job, but they're afraid to go get medical care or whatever because they're gonna get in trouble, so they just keep working. They're afraid to get replaced by a robot or whatever. They just keep working.
Mark Gagnon
It's not that. Bathroom break, get timed.
Dove
I mean, that's nuts.
Akash Singh
I mean, that's.
Mark Gagnon
On the first day.
Akash Singh
Yeah. I'm the reason why that exists. I'm taking 30 minutes. How you getting hurt at the Amazon factory?
Dove
The warehouse.
Akash Singh
Oh, the warehouse.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Putting the thing in the box. Yeah.
Dove
Lifting boxes, probably doing all this machinery going everywhere.
Mark Gagnon
Forklifts and. Yeah, you're gonna get hurt. Yeah, that sucks.
Andrew Schulz
But corporations are fire, though. You know what I mean?
Akash Singh
They really do make some great fire, bro.
Andrew Schulz
Order something that comes the next day.
Akash Singh
They make it so convenient.
Dove
And this is where we're kind of is. Or, like, we're trapped into it. You. Are you ever calling. Not lifter, Uber, like, going out, grabbing a taxi. So we're all like, this is what happens. They make a better product. So we're like, yeah, sure. And you get. You're Removed enough from that person that you're like, well, I don't really. I can't care that they're getting. It's just meaning for. It's convenient for me. And that's what it is.
Mark Gagnon
I'm not.
Dove
And that's disagreeing with you. That's why. And I remember it's actually Vivek's book I was reading where he was like, every corporation's fiduciary responsibilities to the shareholders. And I was like, that is a thing. Huh? That's what they all hide behind.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah.
Dove
Oh, I don't have to care about the employee. My responsibility is to my shareholder. That line in and of itself is just such a like catch all for having to give a. About anyone below me.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Dude, it's a good point. May there Mark about if you can create a business with replaceable employees, you really don't have to care about your employees at all.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah.
Akash Singh
And those businesses don't.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
And they're incredibly profitable.
Andrew Schulz
There's the Henry Ford thing. I think he did that with like the assembly line. Yeah.
Akash Singh
I'm just like, no, but his. Initially the idea with the, with the. Maybe this is propaganda, but the idea was I want everybody that works here to be able to. For the car.
Mark Gagnon
Oh, that is true. Yeah.
Akash Singh
Now that could be Henry Ford association going, all right, let's not make him look like a animal. Make him look like he cares about the workers. But that was the idea that they could make a car cheap enough that the people that worked at the plant could drive one. And if that is the case, imagine you're working at a plant.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
And you're driving to work every single day. You must feel like the man.
Dove
Yeah. And pride.
Akash Singh
There's a lot of pride there. And also like when you look at. Especially in, in it's. It's Detroit. Right. Where the General Motors were. Or at least Michigan. Right.
Dove
Like, yeah.
Akash Singh
You would have like generations of families work at those plants and be proud of it. Like they were proud to be part of that community. And then when those plants left, it was devastating.
Andrew Schulz
But I guess that was a time where like the cost of goods and wage was more similar. And then now it's like.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
David Sanchez
That was also when corporate greed was at. No, I don't want to say it was at a low, but it was lower. There was.
Akash Singh
But it's like they didn't know how greedy they could.
Mark Gagnon
Good. Yeah.
Akash Singh
Yeah. So okay.
Mark Gagnon
So and again, difference between like CEO pay and the workers pay wasn't as.
Akash Singh
The gap wasn't and what's the justification for that now? But, like, the. Is the. I know.
Dove
I don't know. Justification. I know when it really started to go crazy was we fought to have CEO salaries made public because we were like, we want to see how overpaid these people are. But then it's like NBA contracts. You see what they're making and you're like, oh, you need to pay me more than that. Oh, oh, you need to pay me more than that. You need to pay me more than. And then it just goes bang, bang, bang. Because NBA, NFL. A lot of times it's not about how much I make. It's about I need to make more than that guy.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah.
Dove
And it's how much he makes.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah.
Dove
So once you start making these contracts public and I'm. I'm not. Yeah. I don't know how you get that genie back in the bottle or whatever, but, like, that inflated it a lot.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Mark Gagnon
You don't get it back in the bottle. Capitalism. People's like, you can't tell me how much I deserve to be paid for this. And everybody thinks, oh, one day that's going to be me. And I don't want somebody telling me how much I can get paid.
Akash Singh
All right, questions?
Mark Gagnon
There's less pushback.
Akash Singh
Is.
Mark Gagnon
Is shoot these motherfuckers.
Dove
Like, certain industries got that right idea. Yeah.
Akash Singh
But is like, the skill of certain CEOs, like, for example, like, what's Steve Jobs? Right?
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Like, whatever he got paid, he deserved it. Like, he transformed an industry, transformed the world in a lot of ways.
Dove
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Right. So you can't really put a dollar amount on the. On. On him, like what he's worth. Worth to the company. Like, are certain. Are these certain CEOs, like, are they worth these exorbitant amount of money? This exorbitant amount of money because that's what they bring to the brand.
Dove
Certain. Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah. I'm sure that's what they would argue.
Dove
And again, it's like the NBA LeBron is worth 100 million a year or whatever.
Akash Singh
But I guess what I'm trying to like, LeBron is so easy to see because he's 6 9, he got the handle like a point guard. He's got vision, he could shoot. He's obviously proven winner. I think with the CEOs, a lot of times we look at them outside of like a job Hobbs or a Musk, and we're just like, oh, it's just like a white guy who wears a suit and he just tells people what to do. Like, do they have these distinguishable skills? Maybe if we knew more about what they're actually doing for a company, maybe it would seem more justifiable to us. Yeah, maybe. Does that make sense? Like, Maybe they are LeBron esque in how unique their skill set is.
Mark Gagnon
But even though, like, what Elon does for Tesla, Elon could be like, hey, we can make less, less profits this year and pay all of our employees more. And every company can do that.
Akash Singh
Got it.
Dove
And you're saying this, this, what's. The share price goes down. Yeah, my responsibility to the shareholders. Yeah, blah, blah, blah.
Akash Singh
So the share price goes down because it's not.
Dove
That's why food. And this is why, again, I don't think food should be publicly traded. That's why food. They're like, oh, I could put all these chemicals in it for less cost than the real ingredients of Cheetos. It'll drive the cost down. The share price goes up. A Frito Lay, that's when marketing responsibilities, corporate buyouts happen.
David Sanchez
A big company comes in, buys a small mom and pops thing that's very popular. They figure out how they can cut costs, they fire certain people, they put different chemicals or make the product worse in a certain way, but small enough that it's not that noticeable. The product is then cheaper to produce and the company can go, look what we did. Year over year, we're 50% better, 20% better. Quarter over quarter, we're increasing profits.
Akash Singh
Yeah, yeah.
Andrew Schulz
So it's just one of the downsides, like unfettered capitalism. Like, you just need some type of legislation, like protect it so that it can still grow, but then to not, you know, like, yeah, you don't want to over legislate it. But also you need to keep some guardrails. Guardrails to stop, you know, Monopoly.
Dove
This is where it's a push and pull. Like unions. Some would say that the car unions got so powerful, that's why American cars started to get worse, Japanese cars taken over, and then Ford ends up shutting down, et cetera, et cetera. Now I'm not saying that's what the answer, but it is. It just, I think, has to be a constant push and pull.
Akash Singh
Yeah, yeah.
Andrew Schulz
I mean, Rockefeller beat the whole game, literally. He would just like create Standard Oil. Got so big, and then we'll just go into towns with other oil companies and be like, so you can either sell to us for 50% of what you're worth, or we'll just take over your area. When we open up a Standard Oil right here. Because we have so much funding, and we have such a great assembly line that we'll just take you out over, so what do you want to do? And then he just, like, steamrolled everyone and literally broke capitalism. And then we're like, all right, we got to put. Yeah.
David Sanchez
Then we broke up Santa oil in 1910 or whatever.
Andrew Schulz
And they were like, all right, we got. We can't just let this rule the world.
Akash Singh
How did he deal with that emotionally? I know you were reading that. That biography.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah, Titan.
Akash Singh
And did he have any kind of, like, turmoil about doing that to people? Did he feel justified in some way?
Andrew Schulz
I mean, yes and no. He was just like, these are the rules of the game. And he was, like, a super strict business guy. Like, he counted every penny in his personal bank account, like, in his journals. He would have, like, a ledger of, like, every single dol was going in and out. So, like, on the one hand, he was ruthless, but on the other hand, he was, like, super philanthropic. Opened all these, like, HBCUs. Like, Spelman College. Like, a famous HBCU was named after his wife, Steady Spellman. So he, like, opened up all these, like, black universities. He's like, yeah, we got to, like, give.
Akash Singh
Black, white.
Dove
Black.
Andrew Schulz
No, she's white.
Dove
Hilarious.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah. And he was like, we got to support, like, black people in America and, like, give people opportunity. So, like, I think he kind of justified it through, like, philanthropic stuff.
Mark Gagnon
The cynic in me is like, yo, let's just keep shit segregated. I'll just open for school.
Andrew Schulz
Wait, we got all these workers that don't know how to fucking mine oil. Do an oil mining class.
Akash Singh
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I wonder if that's what. If that's what charity is to some of these incredibly wealthy people. If it's just a way to, like, get to heaven. Like, it's a way to offset the Fuck.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah. I do think he was also religious, and so I think he was like, dude, God gave me this. Like, this is. This is ordained by God.
Akash Singh
You justify your by. This is what God wanted me to do. And then you do some good on the side as a. A to a token of your gratitude.
Andrew Schulz
In a way, yes.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah.
Akash Singh
Because sometimes I do feel like people. And we should do more philanthropy. We should figure out how we can. How we can give back.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah, I should.
Akash Singh
But we got you here, you know? No, but. But we should figure out how we can give back, but give back in a way where it doesn't feel like. Sometimes I see people doing it and it feels so, like, self aggrandizing. You know, like, I, like, I don't know if the money's actually trickling to the charity. Yeah, it feels almost more of like a pat on the back, like a public display. If I'm a good person, and this is why you guys should believe I'm a good person, but then people aren't actually getting helped.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah, but not everything. Oh, sorry, you go.
David Sanchez
This is just happening right now. There's a lot of CEOs that are basically, like, doing the Rockefeller thing, where they create a nonprofit foundation. And that nonprofit foundation is actually not funding. It's sort of like a money laundering plan.
Akash Singh
And then they back up their kids as the presidents and CEOs of that foundation and they get a salary, and that salary is half a million dollars a year. So now you're finding a way to funnel money to your kids through this nonprofit.
David Sanchez
And some of them do great. Some of them really do great. And some people have done great. Rockefeller did great at the end. Like Bill Gates. Gates has stopped hookworm, guinea worm, something like. There's a lot of them that have done great, but there are some that are using it sort of.
Akash Singh
I'm sure there are plenty that do good things. But I wonder if it.
Mark Gagnon
And not everything is money. Like, I have classes, come to wtf, and like, I just talk to the kids and like that. And you never know. That might just open their mind.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Mark Gagnon
Help them see something. Like throw a benefit show where just like underprivileged people able to come to.
Dove
Show for free, to not give money. I'm.
Mark Gagnon
I'm just saying not everything's about money.
Akash Singh
No, you're right. You're right. There's a lot of times influence is going to be way more impactful. And I also wonder if trying to solve the biggest problem isn't the most effective way of doing your charity.
Mark Gagnon
Small things.
Akash Singh
That's the thing. I think Portnoy does brilliantly, like going to a specific place and giving them money to stay open. Like, we are saving this restaurant. We're not going, hey, we're going to save the restaurant industry. That's a nice thing. On paper, that looks really good. You get to pat yourself on the back. And maybe some people in the world are like, look at how benevolent that human being is. But going to one mom and pop shop, speaking to the mom and pop and saving their business, maybe it saved it for a year, maybe it saved for two years, maybe it saved it for 20. Who fucking knows? But I wonder if that's the most direct impact you can have that starfish story.
Andrew Schulz
You ever heard that?
Akash Singh
No.
Andrew Schulz
My dad told me this was a kid. It's like all these starfish roll up on the sea after, like. Or on the shore after a. Like a big storm. Some kids throwing it back in the ocean. And some guy comes up, he's like, dude, there's thousands of starfish. Like, what are you doing? Doesn't make a difference. And he takes a starfish, throws in the water, he goes, made a difference to that one. That's kind of a cute little story, but it kind of goes to that point, like. Yeah. Just finding specific people that need help and then helping them in that way.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
It's also more fulfilling on a personal basis.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah. Do feel good after.
Akash Singh
Yeah, 100%. Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
Feed all the African kids. You know what I mean? Let's just feed some Africans here. Yeah, yeah. Take an Uber driver. Be like, yo, just go through the. Drive through whatever you want. Yeah. Ring it up.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah, Feed some of Eaton's African.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah, exactly, dude.
Akash Singh
Yeah, there's something.
Andrew Schulz
Are we getting commie pilled right now?
Akash Singh
We're getting.
Andrew Schulz
Dude, we got to stop this. We got.
Akash Singh
Wait, are we commies?
Andrew Schulz
Yeah. I'm not going to stand for this commie talk. All right.
Dove
Hey, Mark, you're learning hypnosis. What's going on?
Andrew Schulz
I'm reading one book on hypnosis.
Dove
This is weird.
Andrew Schulz
It's not weird. For first off, I just want to learn the secrets of hypnosis.
Akash Singh
Why would you want to learn that?
Dove
Let's talk about this on Patreon.
Andrew Schulz
Okay. One slight reason. Okay. Is I'm genuinely curious if hypnosis is real.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
So, like, do you believe in hypnosis?
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah.
Andrew Schulz
Do you think that people can be put into a subconscious state where their mind is now controlled by another person?
Akash Singh
Some people. Blacks.
Andrew Schulz
Okay. Wait, why is it black? Why it's not black?
Mark Gagnon
Because our mind is better.
Andrew Schulz
Oh, really?
Dove
Smarter people are apparently easier to hypnotize just as they tell dumb people who they.
Andrew Schulz
I'm going to hypnotize Al. I'm going to come back one of these days. I'm going to hypnotize them. Maybe on Patreon.
Akash Singh
Mark, I would like you to. To hypnotize our audience right now.
Andrew Schulz
Okay.
Akash Singh
And. And tell them to come join us at Patreon.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah, absolutely.
Akash Singh
Use everything you've learned.
Andrew Schulz
Well, well, you kind of need.
Dove
Don't tell us.
Andrew Schulz
You need a talent. You need like a. You need something to, like, wave in front of. Like, something long. You can wave in front of Their faces to.
Dove
Can I unplug?
Andrew Schulz
Would you mind pulling your dick out? No, no, no. You guys should join us on Patreon. Okay. It's only like $2 a month or something. Yeah, that's what it is.
Akash Singh
Is that hypn. Hypnosis. Lying to be.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah, it's lying.
Akash Singh
Just a used car, Sal.
Andrew Schulz
Is that what hn. Exactly?
Akash Singh
Basically, yeah.
Andrew Schulz
But you can see us on Patreon, where I'm going to hypnotize Al. I'll see you guys there.
Mark Gagnon
Out of here.
David Sanchez
Yo, Al's hypnotized that he's 5 11.
Dove
Oh, yo, did we show that yet?
Mark Gagnon
I've been a fan and a Patreon.
Andrew Schulz
Member for a long, long time.
Mark Gagnon
And now I just want to know.
Akash Singh
Let's get the tape measures out. Let's get this height debacle situated.
Mark Gagnon
Let's see what the actual heights are.
Andrew Schulz
For the whole crew.
Mark Gagnon
Let's do it. Let's do it. We got a tape measure.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Dove
Let's close out the episode with.
Akash Singh
We don't got a tape, man.
Dove
Take your fucking shoes.
Mark Gagnon
We're not doing that. We're not doing that today, guys. This has been an episode of patreon. Patreon.com.
Dove
Phony.
Mark Gagnon
You know, for the vibes and all that.
Dove
You're a phony. I hate this guy.
Andrew Schulz
I mean, I'm bad. Gonna be. Nah, we good, Al.
Dove
5:4, yo. No, honestly, it's good for you. Because I call you five four so much that they're starting to believe it.
Akash Singh
I don't care.
Mark Gagnon
But it has to be some mystery in it that I could keep lying.
Dove
All right, I'll go.
Mark Gagnon
Let's go.
Dove
How long is this? More than five feet. I took my shoes off. Here we go. I'm gonna stand up straight. No tiptoes. Here you go. Top of the head. Let's go. Oh, it's tall enough for you, Al. There you go. Do what you got to do, buddy. What's up, camera? Are we on the wide shot?
Andrew Schulz
M. Is this an honest measurement here?
Dove
I think so. My. Is my chin solid?
David Sanchez
Yeah, you're live.
Dove
You're okay. Good.
Andrew Schulz
I think. I think it say, like, 67.
Dove
57 like I said. Y. Like I said.
Akash Singh
Good.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah.
Dove
Five, seven. Okay. All right.
Akash Singh
Okay.
Dove
Okay. Hold on. What do you need from me? I'm. We're gonna do this. Honestly, I can with you, Al. Let's do this right here. What do we have?
David Sanchez
Got shoes off. But he's got long pants.
Mark Gagnon
Look, if you stand on us.
Dove
Yo, this is so funny. Tell Me what that is. Tell me what that is right there.
Andrew Schulz
What is it, 65?
Dove
No, no, no, it's 68. What's that, five eight, yo.
Akash Singh
No, no, no.
Dove
68 and a half, maybe.
Mark Gagnon
No, it's not.
Dove
You're not five eight. He's not five.
Mark Gagnon
No, it's not.
Andrew Schulz
It might.
Akash Singh
Might have been five.
Dove
Did you have that on cam?
Akash Singh
It might. It might. It might be five.
Mark Gagnon
No, he wasn't.
Akash Singh
It might be five.
Dove
Don't come back. Come back. Take your.
Akash Singh
You guys. I hate.
Dove
I hate you. Okay, all right, hold on. Go. Let's go. Let's go.
Akash Singh
Straight.
Dove
Straighten that up.
Akash Singh
Yeah, I think 16.
Dove
You're B. You might. You're five, eight and a half, dog.
Mark Gagnon
No, stop it. 59. 59. 59. We'll take it. Five, nine. We'll take. We'll take. We'll take it. We'll take it.
Andrew Schulz
Yeah.
Akash Singh
And it's.
Mark Gagnon
It's winter time. You shrink a little bit.
Andrew Schulz
You know?
Akash Singh
That's right. That was a good point.
Andrew Schulz
That good.
Akash Singh
Good point. That's what I'm saying.
Mark Gagnon
You can posture at all.
Andrew Schulz
You do contract a little bit.
Mark Gagnon
Damn it. It's winter time.
Akash Singh
You shrink a little bit.
Dove
Yo, I'm. I'm being dead ass. All this time, he's giving you five, nine. You're barely five nine. You're barely five nine dot You're a hater.
Andrew Schulz
I'm.
Dove
I'm a real 67.
Mark Gagnon
This makes me feel bad.
Akash Singh
I'm sad. I should know my actual height.
Mark Gagnon
For years, I've been lying to myself saying I'm five.
Dove
You know what? I. I stopped lying about my height because there's a girl that I was talking to in college, and I was like, I'm five nine. She was like, no, the. You're not. My license says I'm five nine. And she was like, you're not five nine. And then I measured myself. Thank God. Not in front of her, but I was 5 7. I was like, this got me. Yo, wow.
David Sanchez
Can I ask one more thing?
Dove
Yeah.
David Sanchez
Yo, David, I know you're listening to this. Get in here so I can measure you.
Dove
Wait, is he. Oh, he said he's six feet. He's definitely David Sanchez.
Mark Gagnon
Where's Dumb?
Andrew Schulz
Oh.
Dove
Motherfuckers. Get in here.
Mark Gagnon
Get in here. D. We need you right now.
Dove
I said I'm 5 10. I'm the only one honest about.
Mark Gagnon
I'm gonna expose everybody.
Dove
Yeah, Real. From one fat guy to another.
Andrew Schulz
You can hold it.
Akash Singh
I'll hold it at the bottom.
Mark Gagnon
Okay.
Akash Singh
All right, here we go.
Andrew Schulz
Ready?
David Sanchez
And then if you're gonna talk, talk.
Dove
Okay. All right. Yeah, yeah. All right, David, let's go.
Akash Singh
It's gonna be five, ten on the nose.
Dove
All right, let's straighten it out. You know what? What is that? You got to move, son. 69 in. You're five nine two, Doug.
Akash Singh
Why short?
Andrew Schulz
Hey, D, bro, he's looking at the table.
Mark Gagnon
Get in here.
Dove
Yo, I feel so. What's vindicated? Get in.
Akash Singh
Drag him. Drag.
Dove
That was five nine, right? Miles? I'm not.
Mark Gagnon
Yep. Stand right here.
Dove
I don't believe.
Mark Gagnon
Shoes off. Shoes off. No, no, no, no, no. Shoes off. Shoes off.
Dove
Dumb.
Mark Gagnon
Shoes off.
Dove
Measure your height. Everybody lies except me.
Mark Gagnon
Y. Shoes off.
Dove
I'm fat and 57. I am what I am. I'm a real one. Yeah, yeah.
Mark Gagnon
Everybody's getting exposed today that this episode.
Akash Singh
Is taking the best dress that I'm wearing.
Dove
I'm your mic. Your hand almost grazed my dick there, so, yeah, okay. All right.
Akash Singh
Yo, it's.
Dove
Yo, your chin right here, buddy. I'm gonna lower your chin. I'm gonna lower your chin right there. There you go. That's straight.
Mark Gagnon
Wait, wait, wait.
Dove
That's straight right there. I'm gonna hold your head.
Mark Gagnon
Oh, you're still bending it. Is it straight or not?
Akash Singh
Now it is.
Mark Gagnon
What are you seeing, Miles?
Akash Singh
70.
Mark Gagnon
70. What's 70?
Dove
5, 10.
Akash Singh
Stop. 5, 10. 5 10.
Mark Gagnon
5, 10, 10.
Akash Singh
Hey, guys.
Mark Gagnon
510.
Dove
Hey, Patreon.
Mark Gagnon
That's actually taller than I thought.
Dove
He's a liar. Except your boy.
Akash Singh
Unless I shrunk, there's no way.
Mark Gagnon
Five, ten.
Dove
Bro, how many times this pod? I said I'm five, seven all the time, right? It's a punchline. Who was the only one that was honest? This guy been saying he's six feet.
Mark Gagnon
Yeah.
Dove
David. David won't admit he's Mexican. He's five. He said five, eleven and a half. What a lie. He's five nine. He's five eight and three quarters quarters. Mark, I believe you're six feet.
Mark Gagnon
No, I'm five.
Dove
Miles, I believe you're five'eleven oh, you're five'eleven Miles is honest. That's easy. Roundup.
Andrew Schulz
Can I say something crazy? I actually think miles is 6 foot.
Dove
Get your ass in.
David Sanchez
I think miles is under £200.
Mark Gagnon
Get the scale.
Andrew Schulz
I think he's six foot.
Dove
I didn't pick up on him.
Akash Singh
He would do.
Dove
Right. That's something he would do is say, I'm 5 11. I'm 6ft.
Andrew Schulz
There's Baldoni vibes. He's like, I don't want. I don't want to overestimate. You know, it's a humility.
Akash Singh
Yeah.
Dove
You're what b pretends to be. Oh, I'm so happy about this, guys. I cannot think of a better way.
Akash Singh
I know.
Mark Gagnon
It's worse. It's worse.
Akash Singh
I mean, I believe the lie that.
Dove
I've been told by some years on the public episode.
Akash Singh
Years.
Mark Gagnon
I believe this lie.
Akash Singh
I know.
Dove
I'm so happy. Guys, this is what we're leading the the public episode. Off with Patreon. Thank you guys so much for being here. As we tell the truth and we expose people, we're the Candace Owens of the Patreon world. We expose liars on this podcast. Thank you guys so much. We'll see y'all next Friday. We love you. God bless.
Podcast Summary: Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Title: Is DOGE Saving America? Matt Damon is a Hero, & Steve Smith Sr. Is a Demon
Release Date: February 26, 2025
Duration: Approximately 2 hours and 3 minutes
Introduction
Flagrant, hosted by Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh, dives into unfiltered and unapologetic discussions, blending comedy with sharp societal critiques. In this episode titled "Is DOGE Saving America? Matt Damon is a Hero, & Steve Smith Sr. Is a Demon," the hosts explore a mix of pop culture, cryptocurrency, political satire, and personal anecdotes.
A significant portion of the episode centers around Akaash Singh promoting his upcoming stand-up special, "Shooting Blanks." The special humorously delves into his struggles with fertility and the dynamics within his marriage.
The hosts engage in playful banter about the challenges of promoting comedy specials, emphasizing the unapologetic and edgy nature of Singh's humor.
The conversation shifts to a humorous discussion about Matt Damon's potential cameo in Singh's special. The hosts mockingly negotiate the inclusion of various Matt Damon films in a skit, highlighting their comedic chemistry.
This segment underscores the podcast's characteristic irreverence, blending celebrity culture with absurdist humor.
A substantial segment of the episode delves into the role of Dogecoin (referred to as "Doge") in potentially "saving America." The hosts criticize government inefficiencies and discuss the controversial role of influential figures like Elon Musk in advocating for cutting government spending.
Discussion Points:
Notable Quotes:
Akaash Singh [47:58]: "This is the time in history to go get some of the bloat out of government. Right. Because we all seem to support."
Dove [49:10]: "I just like actionable steps being taken."
This segment blends serious political discourse with humor, reflecting the show's commitment to discussing weighty topics without filtering their perspectives.
The hosts transition to analyzing the persona of Steve Smith Sr., labeling him humorously as a "Demon" due to his aggressive playing style and off-field antics.
Discussion Points:
Notable Quote:
Akaash Singh [12:34]: "Now Gasoline is a super famous TikToker. Is that gonna push back, baby, or is that gonna make..."
This playful characterization serves as a metaphor for Smith Sr.'s impact both in sports and popular culture.
The latter part of the episode is rich with personal stories, humorous exchanges about hygiene, relationships, and playful teasing about each other's heights.
Key Highlights:
Notable Quotes:
Andrew Schulz [84:18]: "I wouldn't have him watch my kid though."
Dove [120:00]: "I'm five, seven. I am what I am."
These segments exemplify the podcast's ability to interweave personal humor with broader discussions, maintaining an engaging and lively atmosphere.
The hosts delve deeper into political satire, discussing topics like Nazi salutes, government surveillance, free speech, and the influence of neo-Nazi groups infiltrating social media platforms.
Discussion Points:
Notable Quotes:
Akaash Singh [116:00]: "How do you make people feel that? Like what does create a thriving economy."
Andrew Schulz [117:34]: "You can't really put a dollar amount on the. On. On him, like what he's worth."
This segment showcases the hosts' ability to tackle sensitive and complex issues with their signature blend of humor and critical analysis.
As the episode wraps up, the hosts engage in final humorous exchanges, including attempts at measuring each other's heights live on air and more lighthearted teasing.
Key Highlights:
Notable Quotes:
Dove [117:33]: "I got fake news."
Andrew Schulz [121:10]: "Did you have that on cam?"
These closing segments reinforce the podcast's commitment to maintaining a fun and unfiltered environment, leaving listeners entertained.
Conclusion
The episode "Is DOGE Saving America? Matt Damon is a Hero, & Steve Smith Sr. Is a Demon" offers a blend of sharp social critique, pop culture commentary, and relentless humor. Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh, alongside their co-hosts, navigate complex topics with irreverence and wit, making Flagrant a compelling listen for those seeking comedy intertwined with candid conversations about contemporary issues.
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