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Did I see the countdown? Hello. Did I see the countdown? just because you aren't paying attention, doesn't mean it was live from the Black Rock nap room. Was it napping room or nap room? What do they, what do they land on nap room nap, right? It's a It's a do you jerk still play? The good game anymore? Episode of something business pants. Hey oh that's a good game. This Ari's favorite. Yeah. By the data Queen. In the misfit. I'm Larry thinks favorite ex msci. ESG analyst. You know that you just he just put a post on those claps because those sound like farts. They were not claps those days. September stained bag of Eurasia scented nuggets called. What is Eurasia sentence is that like Turkey. The country of Turkey is a smell like turkey. And what is Turkey's me? Are you talking about the animal? I'm very confused call the, this is your, you're not on this intro. Let's just call September 8th. 2022. The good game? Come on, the good game. Everybody has to do it. Let's do it. Come on let's do it with the game is good. If you don't know. uh, we take It's very simple headlines. That just feel just feel good. They just seem good when you just take the headline at face value, it seems good. And I asked our esteemed experts are steamed steamed pundits, whether they're actually good and they write out on a scale from 0 to 10 zero. It sucks 10. It's actually good. There you go. That's the good game. Sorry, the most difficult game ever did I explain could I explain that better. Are you all, you know about like, Reducing things to lowest common denominator. You can you get a great job. You did everyone agrees. You did a great job. All you need to say right to, it actually has things to do already. Do it is an old-fashioned Wild. Start with an old-fashioned one. Oh, Hawaii shuts down, its the last coal plant. That's an old-fashioned. Good game, headline. Shutting down, coal plants. That's like ESG 101 right there. Wow. That's a robot headlight. All right, go ahead. Are you started? Oh good. Play with that. Does that mean a 10? Sorry I give it a 10. There's nothing else to say. 10 simple can you why was it still open? Know. I just like I can you imagine like yeah why if you've been to Hawaii. You the only way to get like the amount of coal, the power, the islands of Hawaii is to like put it on a giant boat, floated across the ocean and they were doing that for like 100 years. It's just seems. So there's no coal there. I love. I like to have line. I'm giving it. I'm giving it a 9.5. Wow. Yeah. Because you don't that, that's you, don't let me round. Here, by the way, special shout out to Grist. We love Grist here at business pants. Chris is actually spelling Hawaii. The, the way they want to be spelled. Oh, with the apostrophe. Yeah, with the apostrophe, most other media Outlets, do not do that, they don't care, you know, you're supposed to pronounce it. Hawaii. I tried, you know, as I tried when I did, I know this, I thought you hiccup. I got a D minus in phonetic, pronunciation seminar. You went to that next, here's another one. This is kind of old fashioned, too. We always have Facebook headlines in the good game. Senior Facebook Engineers, say no one at the company knows where your data is kept. That sounds good. If you believe them. But that sounds great. Like so, you know, I'm trying to get at Matt like There's no real easy way for engineers at Facebook to find Matt mascardi data because it's it's hidden under so many privacy. Protocols. That's what they're claiming is that what that's? They're not saying like we took the hard drive with your data and we gave it to Gus and we don't know what Gus did with it. They're saying, well, there's that why? I first tagged, the articles that was hilarious but then when I read it I was like oh this could be good, it does sound a little like that. That's not what they're playing. Not what they're claiming, okay. All right, I understand this. You're wow. The spider on the ceiling. So yeah. Do you know? I understand it's not good. I don't know how that makes me feel. Oh, okay. No it doesn't make you does it make your data feel more secure, your Facebook user, I don't think so it just makes my day to feel lost like anybody can access it. I was very is like taking care of a kink in my back. Thank you. It's just like that. Aries thought process is ominous. Come on like this at all. I'm gonna give this a four that doesn't believe in. Yeah, I think they're just I literally I don't believe like they have a data breach every seven seconds, right? Because they don't everybody else. To be able to find the date. Engineers don't know. I think they just interviewed like a guy who's like, I don't know. Your data is I I don't know. I just don't know. Like that was it. I'm gonna give this a two. I think it feels very full to me to be fair to Facebook. The article says they interviewed two guys. Oh, all right. Well, okay. Well do you diligence not a Grist article? I take it. All right, here's a speed round. It's pointing to write the headline. That's it. The cocaine in Australia. Contains barely any cocaine. Okay. Very intrigued, only improve on that headline. How do I get better? How do I do better? I was just confused. Can you imagine like, like, okay, kids everywhere in Australia are just like really upset that they brought him baking soda for 10 years? It's a weird bunny, it's a weird story. This is out of Business Insider. One of the horses says, a high proportion of recent cocaine samples in Australia, contain no trace of the drug. So is it is it actually a cocaine sample? I don't know. Now, it's not full of my spaghetti. I don't know. Baking powder. It's going on. I'm moving on. Okay, I got a couple of 400 million dollar fine headlines, we get these a lot I think most people maybe think they're good but let's ask Ari and Matt two of them here meta got fined 400 million dollars for failing to protect kids, privacy on Instagram. And Jewel. Settles massive Nationwide. Probe into youth vaping for 440 million dollars. So wow, are these finds matter? Are you, you know, are they impactful or is just a billion dollars? That's a lot of money. I mean for meta, that's nothing for July. I feel like that's gonna be a little more than change. I have no contact like, what's the largest sign? I don't know. Is this is one of the largest finds. Well, that's the problem with these headlines, right? I guess you don't really have any contacts, okay? I'm going to go with. Like, a couple bucks for every kid that uses Facebook or Instagram. Right. That's That's a fine out of its not. Of course, it's not a US based on its Ireland. Ireland. It's Ireland. Fine. Oh, Okay, I'm gonna get it. Wait. Ireland, find them. Yeah, which is weird, right? Because isn't Ireland. Basically, like a new tax Haven data. Well, they could have done a tax inversion in Ireland, and that's why Ireland is finding them, but it's really the us but Ireland, if it's Ireland finding them and not the US involvement. Is it doj involved at all? Is there like some us right later involved anywhere? Because no, If there's no us regulator involved anywhere those are massive fines because Ireland doesn't find anybody, right? Like, but if the US is your Euros falling though, so maybe that maybe this was, so it's just a money. Grab BMP Paragon, got fined, nine billion, I think six years ago, billion with the B for stripping out, IDs from transactions that could have been money laundering or or with sanctioned countries. So this is not as much as that. Let me give you a bit of context as you both mold us over. This is a comes from the Ireland's data Watchdog. The data protection commission, they found the Define was partly based on the fact that Instagram had allowed children to operate business accounts and that and, and that the accounts of 13 to 17 year olds were set to public as their default setting. How about that? Ah, well, I like that, they were, they allowed them to start business. Now. I'm gonna give this a seven. It's seven. Wow, I'm really torn actually Ireland. Ireland doing a thing is in is new. However, it's not that much money for the actual companies and it will be appealed, of course. And apparently Ireland could find the data, right? Like I only found the kids data and I'm going to give this a five. It's kind of a nothing right. Okay. Those are 400 million dollars. Yeah. Blah Blah's right? Okay. I hesitated to put this one in here because it's just seems like full of words too many words. But you guys are our experts. So I'm going to throw it out at you by Biden has chosen a climate change legal expert to head? A major regulatory office that hasn't had a permanent leader in a while. Yeah. All right this. No it's not but but what it is excite Aria feel like this is so sorry. Yeah no it does. This is the type of people that we need to be C putting into leadership, right? I think it starts John. Podesta is John podesta, right? I want to know Matt. Does it make Vivek angry? And this angers question, I I like that something happened, but it's something hasn't really happened. So I'm gonna give it a seven. It's fine Ari. I'm gonna give it a nine moving on. Oh is a good one. British TV. Show offers to pay energy bills as a spin, the wheel prize amid growing fears of European crisis. That sounds good though, right? That's good. People like winning cars in The Price, is Right? I mean, that's great. Yeah, I'll give you I'll give anybody my oil Bill. Whenever I come anytime this is great ten. Wow, I thought I thought she'd mock this, you know, there's all the legislation coming out of the UK of capping energy bills to 2500 pounds. This this season 2500, which is weird because I think this is coming out of the conservative party, the Tory party. So I don't Surprise me, but isn't that? Hey, paying electric for election for votes and that all that's right. But that doesn't seem like something that the tourists do I anyway, Matt. I, I think this is Moderately ridiculous. Right? Which is why it's awesome ridiculous. Yeah I'm gonna go I'm gonna go with a four imagine that you're you finally got on a game show. You finally, you know you thinking maybe you have a chance, that'll win a new Tesla, maybe maybe a cruise at the Bahamas and you just getting your your bills paid priorities. The real one. Here is Matt picking the right sound effect for that segment. I love my favorite sound effect, which is the match game theme show, moving on. I put this in our CEO's rule category. We have a new female CEO, everybody. And we have a new what you'll see new female CEO. That is classically, poor is right in the edge of the glass cliff, and that, is this headline Liz trust named new. UK prime minister taking over after Boris Johnson was forced from office by Scandal. So, here's the, here's the confusing. Question, I have for our experts. Is it, is it good when a woman takes over, even if she's a heinous tax hating Margaret that type woman know, it's not good. I'm gonna, I'm gonna override whatever Ari's gonna say and this is another opportunity for a woman to take the seed of power and clean up after a man who like had no interest in rules or power. All it was about like the man doing with the man wanted. Now, the woman has come up and clean up for the entire party. If she doesn't do and amazing job being like the clean up agent for Boris Johnson's Ridiculousness. Then we hold her to some standard that she's a giant failure, and it's only like an interim. Right? Like she's not. She's how long does she get here? Well, not Well that yeah, that I don't know. She gets like a year like before they have like another general election, the way like elections are called, there's a little bit different in the US, of course. So this is just another opportunity for for a woman to be put in a position to, to effectively be held to a higher standard and fail because there's no way she could meet that standard and she doesn't get any credit for anything when she's done because let me tell you this, sorry. Let me tell you this. Sorry the UK. Now the lot of the last eight prime ministers, three have been women, women Yeah, I mean consider that the US never never had a woman and right. Never. So, the last eight, that's impressive. Three is more, so none. The last woman who was the Prime Minister Theresa, May she was there to clean up the mess of the brexit disaster, another Classic Glass Cliff situation, so I'm kind of so I for it. Yeah, it was alright, but I'm kind of impressed that only Years later they're going back to another woman. So the glass Cliff, you know, usually the problem with the glass Cliff is that you won't see another woman for for decades now but know the genius good, right? No they made a mess. Breaks. It was a mess. They make it up then Boris Johnson's a mess and they make Liz trust. Clean it up. It's just it's oh, you're terrible. You're leading terrible much, are you? Yes. And another cleaning person for you know I give it a zero oh I tried, I tried next headline. Oh, we talked about this in the show. Last week, Governor, Newsom in California, assigned fast food, law, setting stage for 22 dollars. An hour pay next year. Right? This studio audience, loves this little bit of context, I'll give Ari sometime. I think about this, an issue trade group. Of course is angry says the bill could raise costs for fast food restaurants by three billion dollars, right? But I will tell you this too McDonald's profit for last year, whereas almost 1300. What do you think they can do it? They can suck it up and if they can't, they'll close the doors. There will be less fast food restaurants. This is great. OH, Close the Door actually. Matt you agree at 10, I'm attend. Yeah and the I'm swayed by the crowd Yeah, it's a bit much, it's a bit much crowd. You can dial it, speed round. Just, I want you to write just a headline. Just focus on the headline. How does it make you feel zero? 10? Is it good? High-tech toilet maker sees us growth after covid. Paper panic. 10, right? I mean, no. Stop. Cutting down trees to wipe your ass with it. Wait, no. It they are. They are right. Hi, toilet maker. Sees us growth. No toilet. No paper. No paper. Right? These are paper free toilets. I don't know what it is. What is that washes? Your butt and somebody. Oh, that's everything about this now is amazing. It's a 100. We have two more. I hope the audience applauds out that we only have two more. This is once for Ari, this is one I'm I'm actually I'm gonna leave. I'm gonna lead the audience, the contestants a little bit. This is one. I'm actually officially calling genius. You're not just this one's, especially for Ari because not only is it from the country, she's a living. But this I think this is talking about a particular problem you've had recently. Here we go. Germany. Doesn't want you to pay for a flight until the day you fly, which could cure the nightmare of trying to get refunds on canceled travel, right? I mean, I'm gonna celebrate Germany and say that. I just think this is genius. It's the same thing. It's the same thing at hotels. When you book hotel, reservations, you don't pay until you get there. You pay your no-show, I guess you're an idiot. If you if you if you prepare or if you don't have the right translation. Paul say like I know. But yeah. I'm just saying this is the this is the thing, right? Are you amazing solves everything. Ah, this is a 500? Yeah. Okay. Wow. Am I so excited about this map? Why is this make me so excited? Brand new idea is Germany is right next to France and you like it just works. Know, stakeholder win. Matt, you seems skeptical know I I'm trying to find something I don't like about it. I I think I like it I think it's just a good. I think I'm just I'm just gonna give it a ten. I think it's This ruins Business Insider, right? I mean, this ruined. Right? Now, the crowd loves that, it just ruined businesses Insider. All right, finally. There's like, they're still be fights on board. Finally. September 8th 2022. Good game. In a story that we've been foreshadowing for years. I feel like this is proof that the world listens to us. Here's the here's the deadline. What's that we have fans somewhere Finn Linda do they still exist? Our fans and Finland are they out? No fuck. Finland. You know, I agree by the way I can both say. I love you Finland and you know, go fuck yourself. Here we go. Here's the headline. A Dutch city has become the world's first to ban ads for me. Yeah, meet in public places over climate concerns. The move. The move is part of an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the city. After me was added to an official list of products, deemed to contribute to climate change. There you go. Wow. Landing as for me, how many Meats did they have in public places? Yeah, a lot of slithery, bloody sausage. I mean, it was just like you go to a public park and there's a billboard for sausage. Everything we talked about this for years, like me, my enter the, the category of like cigarettes soon, right? Yeah, that might be. That might be Overkill. Know, I think that's great. This is awesome. Are you want to, you want to start the scoring on this one? Just a girl who eats lentils for three meals a day. Yeah. She's a Woman by the way. So how dare you I'm gonna give this a 10 because I mean, some people will look at this and be like, what's the point, what's the matter? But you know what, in the city, they have their priorities and saving the planet and doing things for climate. They're doing it everywhere. So good for them. 10 feels like a vegetarian Vendetta. That's what it feels like I'm gonna give it a six because it's not that it's bad but it's certainly not. It's better than you nothing. But like come on. Like what are we talking about here? We're Banning ads. So now suddenly nobody's gonna want meat because there's no pictures of sausages and Town Square. That's what you're mocking it. But something I've talked about several times before I think is that one, the probably the only thing that America seems to have done well is reduce A cigarette smoking. Right. Like even because they taxed the shit out of cigarettes. Yeah, but they stand everywhere. Wait, exactly. See what? He just said, banning all advertising everywhere in our public places. Okay. Burger King commercials for sure. I mean they basically they and and it's not exactly like the cigarette companies don't exist anymore. We just covered the fact that Jewel managed to finally to advertise to kids and they found a way and there's let's be honest. This isn't This is the beginning of not really a thing. Do you think they're gonna stop eating sausage in the Dutch City? Because they don't have one picture of it in the Town Square? Come on, it's fine, but it's not, it's, it's not. All right, let's let's get to the, let's get to the scores, the audience. Are you ready for this audience? I think we might have our all-time. Let's go start with Martin Matt score, which is actually very high for Matt, a very robust 6.7, very robust, Matt. Wow, that's very good for me. But audience. You ready for this? I think we have our highest score ever. I I think this is our all-time high score are the data Queen coming in at 8. 1. Wow, so I think we're the fall. I mean, let's be honest. Fall 2022, starting off pretty good over here. Yeah, you did say like a five of the headlines that you picked them for re. So let's let's be honest about like what's happening here which is to say that you just Done. Nobody. Really got me. Yeah. So something about no sausages in a town square, that was Damon roles and Ari the data. Queen, I met with Scotty, we are free float media. If you like this, will be back tomorrow, we might have a special guest, a new guest tomorrow. A new free float media person. Oh, we'll see if we can figure out the technical. If we can, and we'll have somebody else tomorrow for our weekend, wrap up until then. Goodbye.