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So quiet here at the studio live. From zuck's shredded cheddar drawer its business pants. And on today's location track North Face called June 1st 2023. We are playing the good bad game without Damian know Damien. Just us it's the good and the bad game where I pick good and bad headlines and you rate them, we're gonna see how ya flipped from what you thought that is the goal. I want to see how badly or goodly you actually think my goodies and badlees are nobody cares about me. Yeah. For once. How did you get a point already? Here's the way, here's the way the game works or the games I'm choosing headlines. And this is a game that was designed for Damien's mom, because he said he's too negative. Which does anybody just Negative, Man? 100% always want to go back to bed sometimes. Oh wait. That's what we think about our co-founder So we I pulled the headlines and for the bad part of the of the game you're going to say on a zero to ten scale, how bad it is 10 being the baddest zero being the goodest and then the good game you're gonna look at just the headline and you're going to say, on a zero to ten scale how good it is. All right, so you ready to play? We can do this. All right, let's start with the bad game. We'll make you feel terrible. AI chatbot will replace human helpline workers at the national eating disorder Association. This is a real thing, this is what's happening. The national eating disorder Association has disbanded the its entire staff of helpline workers and will replace them with an AI chatbot called Tessa starting on June 1st. The decision comes on the heels of the staffs decision to unionize. After a slew of pandemic era calls led to Mass staff burnout, is this who runs this hotline the national eating disorder Association, which apparently is now an AI chatbot This is a 10 for me. This is a, this is a 10, bad 10 is now bad. You know, I thought this was great until you got to who's doing it because if it was, you know, I don't know. Delta, there are already so unhelpful that and AI chatbot wouldn't be worse. But this is real bad ten. Wow nailing out of the gate 10 and 10 and I I do I did make a note to myself that nothing says fixing and eating disorder like talking to a fake human because the real humans want to live living wages. So they could have been depressed and maybe getting an eating disorder as a result. I wonder what they're going to use all these savings for. Um, not people. So all right. We're off to a good start 10 and 10, here's the next bad game headline. All right. Ready? Are you ready to be depressed? Nearly three in five us. Adults are lonely. Oh and it could be one of the biggest under the radar issues. The economy is facing. Oh from an economy perspective. Yeah what are we gonna do send AI chatbots to their house to keep Company, it says the loneliness could be costing, the US economy, a whopping 406 billion dollars, annually. I don't even know, because I mean, I guess I have to give it a 10 because I'm so sad, that the reason we care about loneliness is not for our mental health but it's funny economy course. I don't like this headline. That's the only way to frame things that you want other people care about. Well, actually my note here was the only way to talk about things that suck is how much they cost? Correct. So sorry, what's your score here? I'm gonna give this a six. Oh, so not the worst. I don't know how to do this. Slightly. That well I know I think the headline, I think that's a good headline. So I'm gonna go with the two. Wow. All right, are he goes with the two? I like that. Which is that she needs to have everything framed and how much it costs. How I think that's the only. To grab other people, I will carry. If you are lonely, you and sell that you're listening to us right now, so you're talking in cells, you know, they're lonely, that's why they're in sales. I believe what just happened. The next week? You need to go to the Move Along. Move along. All right. Next up, Minnesota governor. Minnesota, not Montana. You Minnesota Governor. Vetoes pay raise for drivers after Uber and Lyft threatened price hikes So days after Minnesota, Uber and Lyft drivers celebrated, the passing of Rideshare legislation in the Minnesota House and Senate that would have increased, their pay and protections. The governor vetoed, the bill, because Uber and Lyft threatened to pull out entirely from Minnesota or Spike, the cost by up to 50%. Yep, that's correct. What is this Governor doing? I don't know. But is it good? Or is it terrible, because it just highlights the terrible infrastructure. Problem that Minnesota probably has that they now depend on lifting Uber. So I'm going to give this a nine. A nine for re for Badness, it's pretty bad. I have to give it a ten, a ten. Well this game seems okay. This game seems a little too easy for Jesse. Everything is bad. I can just pick any headline and it's bad. In fact, my guess is when I get to the good headlines. You're also gonna think they're all TENS for Badness. I'm, I'm more Discerning with the good ones. Yeah, we have Sex, seems bad. We have a better spread with the good. Wow. This is, this is more. This is this is this just as bad as the AI chatbots for eating disorder? Because it wasn't for me. Not Discerning know, but I'm still giving it. Yeah, there we go. Okay, here we go. Using that new framework. This a clean energy Pioneer turns against Renewables. There's a great quote in this article a few miles east of Fuller, a grandson of oil Mogul, tea, Boone Pickens T Boone. Pickens is a was a billionaire oil Mogul who switched to win in the end of his life before he died. He was a huge proponent of Wyndham Renewables. He tried to use all of his like the land that he bought to put wind farms on his Boon picking their own T-Bone T-Bone. His grandson is leading the fight against NG's project which is a solar project near his mother's property. He says he opposes the project because the concerns that include its large size, the removal of trees soil, erosion and potential changes to water drainage. So that's correct. If you're thinking the grandson of a billionaire who only is quoted because of the oil, billionaire billions he has Is worried about the environmental impact of Renewables on his mother's property. He was probably discussing with his private jet. Like he gave, you know that, right? He said private, I didn't know if we were going private parts, I know what we were going with like, private property where we could like to imagine him on his private. Yeah. And, you know, he just wears a robe because he thinks he can the picture was of him, wearing cargo like Army cargo pants and like, like, when like a button down like but like one of those like rough denim button Downs, just on the picture alone, there's a bad bad story, can you? Please retell us the headlines, Texas. It was that long Texas, a clean energy Pioneer, turns against Renewables Pioneer. I can't handle that by either. Okay, I'm gonna give this an eight and eight and eight and eight for Ari because it actually sucks that there's a little bit of truth about green energy pioneering here because all the companies are just gonna go, you know, do their thing in Texas. So which part is bad, then that they've gone against the Renewables or that they were the Pioneer in the first game. What's your score? My score is, did you get an 8? Yeah, I give it. Oh, my score is an eight because it's because you're copying are and you have no original thoughts. Got no? Okay. No. Original thoughts, that's fine. you gave it an eight, alleys Two more on the bed. Two more on the bed, okay? First. This headline, how shredded Zuck celebrated Memorial Day? He's ripped. Ronnie. It's not hard to get ripped when you're screaming. I need to see a photo. There's no photo available. He was not our Airways. So he he said, here's a quote from him. I try to do. He posted this on Instagram, which Owned by Mark Zuckerberg. Yeah. Um I try to do the Murph challenge with the girls, his kids every Memorial Day as a tradition to honor, those who defended us. If you can avoid vomiting, a little bit in your mouth, one of lieutenant Murphy is favorite, workouts was running a mile then, doing 100, pull-ups, 200, push-ups 300 squats, and then run another mile all while wearing a 20 pound weighted pack. So this is a picture of him wearing a 20 pound weighted pack. There was no mention in the article of Zuckerberg being a fake public dictator, whose platform directly linked to body just morphea. Wow, the links know he totally paid for this. He totally paid for this. So I'm gonna give this a 10. Oh wow, that is, this is you how shredded Zuck celebrated Memorial Day. So there's this is equal to a chatbot replacing. Yes, workers at the national eating disorder Association, this is propaganda for our current dictator, 10, and Dad headlines. And if I could find any sign sound effect faster. All right, this is the best version of this game I've ever played. It's all just wow. Zing but it's the only game version of this game I've ever played. So final bad game headline ready? Yeah. McDonald's and Chick-fil-A are tracking your location to make sure your fries are perfectly crispy when you arrive 0. Yes, thank you. Nothing like soggy fries to ruin your day. Why track me? You want good fries like whatever. I'm gonna give this like a five because like neutral, I do not using it for something else but like if they're only using it for this purpose, then whatever like have customers eating their, I like the French fry. I'm gonna be honest. This is totally flabbergasting to me that you are how quickly you're willing to. Give up your private here. That's why it's a five to me. It's like whatever you french fry so good. In the, what you trade. Is yes, you're whereabouts at all times. Here's my phone for a fry. That is slightly crispier. I love a good friend. Try a fry from McDonald's, McDonald's. No check. Like, can't have Chick-fil-A would notice that. I don't go to church and then they would stop selling me things. All right? Well, that church on Sundays. They look at everyone's date Dynamic pricing, and they can because you are so obsessed with the crispiness of your fries, you allowed them to track. I used to, I used to go to Wendy's for spicy chicken nuggets And then McDonald's for fries. They should have been a 10 for McDonald's and Chick-fil-A period. You didn't need any other information even though they didn't have to do anything, it should have just. All right, let's wrap up here. For how bad this section was McDonald's is great, Jesse comes in on the bad game. at an 8.8, it is very easy to trigger Jesse and the only reason why it's an 8.8 and instead of like a 9.5 is because the news is because of a neutral french fry hot take Ari, on the other hand. Is this six point five? All right, so all right, so let's be done with the bad game and let's instead play. The good game. Okay, here's the first headline. In the good game. State Farm will no longer offer. New home, insurance policies in California over Wildfire concerns their pricing in. Terrible climate change. I saw this and I read it to my in-laws at the dinner table, and I was so excited about this. 10 from all of California, insane. French fries and insurance companies pulling out, only way, only way. So their refusing oh and they're the largest and homeowner insurance in that state. That's pretty cool nine. Wow, nine. We love people without know, we love that they're houses burned down and they can't afford to rebuild them. I do Wonder like if they all pulled out how would they? I just want to, I don't know, let's ask Florida. I just want to, I'm looking at you listeners, it's on the record that both Ari and Jesse are pro homelessness. Let's bring them some time. That's what I do here. The next up on the good game. Is this headline good? Tesla instructed, employees, to only communicate verbally about complaints. So there was no written record. Now, here's why I included this A Tesla whistleblower has leaked thousands. 100 gigabytes of internal documents to a German newspaper. The leak includes not only Elon musk's social security number oh, but employee, and customer data, as well as thousands of complaints involving Teslas. Accelerating on the own crash reports allegations of emergency braking caused by faulty, Collision warnings, and this nugget that said, quote do not copy and paste the report below into an email text message, or leave it in a voicemail to a customer. They are literally talking about. Don't copy and paste anything. We don't want anyone to have any record of it in the records. Oh yeah. This is amazing. It's great. So the headline is that leaked or the headline is the headline is amongst many things, but they found that Tesla was telling their employees only to communicate verbally with about complaints so that there was no record I think this is great but you know, it, you didn't know it before. I thought this would be good because we just reading it on the headline. Oh, look, if you want to be like a religious zealot about it, okay, fine, Jesse's of four because she liked the second part of this that you explain because because she read Exodus and she believes every word of it, you know, when I played this game before and I actually read the articles, I got in trouble for that. What you found out was there's no rules, there's no winning for me. Yes. Are there gonna be like a slew of Articles of what else is in this Trove of leaked stuff? So I'm I think Tesla is actively pursuing the like no just Germany. Yeah, they're going after the newspaper but it's out now so like and it was a whistleblower who did it. So the likelihood that we Find out more and more over the coming weeks. Oh, 10, 10 from Ari. That's what I expected, tens. All right, here's a weird one. Okay, but are he's almost a guaranteed 10 Jessie because Foods involved that she is like to be attacked, okay? A pizza company. Is letting customers buy now and pay when they're dead. What is a? They are making fun of or or poke like getting out the issues of buy now pay. Yeah. So they they created a company is in New Zealand. They're called hell pizza, and they're selling something called afterlife pay, which will run a trial for 6606 people. 666 people. And they're using this because they're saw a growing number of people using buy now pay later schemes to buy essential items like food. They think it's gone too far. So they are basically making a joke that people are using buy. Now pay later for something like pizza. I love good joke about a bad thing. I love this. However, I love this. The article also says, is a binding contract. Oh my God. So, they will have to pay for the pizza. There are a state would have to pay for the pizza, all right? If they exist when people die, you know, this is giving me What I'm picturing you have a family. You know sometimes family feuds happen from like a state stuff of course, but like all of the money goes to the pizza and then these siblings are like pissed off because they don't have, I mean, I don't know what the the interest rates are on this but you could, this is you could you do this for life, right? Like this is like, so one of these people are gonna get food for life, they can eat pizza every single day, rack up bills of tens of thousands of dollars and then have to pay for it through the estate after their dead. This is because of the Obesity from all the fucking pizzas, So maybe they won't eat as much pizza? I don't know. Have we considered using this angle for board? Saber metrics. Okay, you automatically get 10 to that idea. That is 100% the best idea I've ever heard. What are you? What are your scores here? I want to give us an eat just for A human. I knew food that Jesse likes to eat might be the way to get and I just love I mean we've covered the buy now pay later. Yeah and in my exhausting it right I love That sarcasm and humor into it. You heard it here first, everyone wishes you were dead fat people. Okay? Next. This one, I'm not sure how this is gonna go. Chinese, women mock greasy, middle-aged men in new viral trend. So this is there is a Chinese social network called Billy Billy. Um, and women have been doing in depth. New Social Network thing. It's not so new. There are 326 million users in China. Oh, that's a video social share app and Chinese women have been doing in-depth tutorials on how to mimic the stereotypical quote, greasy, man. Do you have a visual for us? I don't know what the greasy man looks like, but it's effectively like the cat calling whistling kind of dudes and they're they're doing here. Here is some of the tutorial quote First raise your eyebrows, keep your eyes, half closed and browse frowned and then shake your head while biting your tongue or whistle? That is and they are using this. one of the grossest things, you And bringing awareness to like gross greasy male Behavior. Okay? 10 Ferrari. Wow. Or just see, I like what they're doing, but the fact that there's a social media, the fact that it's a social media viral thing that I didn't even know existed. Another one, I'm gonna give this a mad at five five. Well isn't your social media for good? Isn't this like we're mocking? I'm sure this is the only good thing on it. It's probably like being monitored by the state. Exactly. So these women are just that's it, they're done. All right, we have two left and I actually think these are probably tens from both of you. Okay. Hi expectations. first up the North Face doubles down on a summer of Pride campaign, amid backlash from right Wingers The North Face, effectively did the same thing that Bud. Light did only. Actually not one. Can they actually have a whole campaign around it with a drag performer? Named Patty Gomez and it's a summer Pride. This is the second year. They've done it and conservatives. Obviously have now put the North Face because there's a trans person anywhere near it. And in fact, Marjorie Taylor Greene accused him of Grooming. You know what? They can't even afford it. Anyway, so this is not like Bud Light. Oh wow. That's that's hard. But the reason why I thought this was great was Conservatives were triggered by it but North Face. Aren't they trolling Patagonia by using a drag performer named pattie gonia? They are they're actually trolling their competitor and it was conservatives who got trolled. I like I like the feud between multiple parties here. Oh we gonna with two tens? Yeah, two tens. Wow, I was absolutely right North, The North Face said, you know, we're giving her company a way to The environment. That's not gonna happen, though. Well, happy about it won't happen again. I'll save it for tomorrow. Here is the final headline, though. And then, we can finally wrap up to six hour game. It's only been 25 minutes feels like we've been here for six hours. Norway's oil funds with climate activists against ExxonMobil and Chevron. Norway's 1.4 trillion dollar oil fund, which is the state-run fund that derived its assets from uh-huh. Oh well so complex is backing shareholder. Proposals at Exxon and Chevron to cut greenhouse gas emissions. And they actually own on average, 1.5% of every company globally. So this is a big deal. They're a massive investor. When responding to charges of hypocrisy, there are effective answer and they didn't say this, but I read between the lines. What they were saying was Is it better if we vote against the US? And when you think of it that way, they basically said, like, you know, where where we take all these things as they come and we've considered it and we think this is best for the planet. We know, you know, the situation and that kind of thing. They make a point through your, in between the line that they do, make a point you were just there. So you can go first attend because I don't want to give them attend because they're Hypocrites but that's a pretty decent response. So I'm gonna give this an eight, a gentle eight. I thought it would be 10 re this is reversing stupidity. Oh wow, using my own logic again. Universities a five and an eight but that's it for the good game. Are you ready for here? Let's, let's give us some outro music whilst Consider the score is the final scores for the good game. Well this is a good part of the good team because we already did the bad thing and we did that the final scores for the good game are already came in at an 8.0. That's pretty high. So Ari very a little confused today. That's actually that's high 6.5 and 8.0. You basically said, I'm feeling good feeling good. I ran here. I'm pregnant and tired but feeling good. Yes he is totally all over the map point. Five. That's it. Her business fans. That was a good game in the game is no damn near us. But Damien will be back tomorrow for our Friday wrap up. Go by board sabermetrics. If you're bored, you can pay for it when you're dead. Games until tomorrow order. Pizza from me. We need fried perfectly crispy fried until tomorrow. Goodbye.