Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Yes trend even abs a reference to John besdal Fitness Made Simple, guru, Fitness made simple, you know, infomercial guru. Yeah, major figure in my friend group during college. We were He was just all over TV at that time, and my friend Sean became became a massive fan of John Besdell. If you haven't seen him, we'll link off in the footnotes. Yeah, he would say, you know, it was kind of it
wasn't just a fitness thing. It's fitness made simple. But this is tool change your life.
You know.
One of the last things he did in twenty eleven, he served as the host for the popular YouTube series Lesbian Video speed Dating.
So he's kind of he's doing it all. Yeah, this is Wikipedia.
Yeah, we were like speculating what he what he's up to, whether like he has flirted with Qan on it all. He just I don't I don't know anything about his politics. His eyes, as superducer Brian was pointing out, have always suggested a like a darkness but hiding back there. So some of the looks he's giving while flashing his abs. Dude, he's six three, Wow, would seen that coming he's giving king.
This is our king. But yeah, he.
Looks he does. He's have like sort of Patrick Bateman stare like going, yeah.
Well, even the commercials I remember back then you were like, is this guy for real? Like he's so about his fitness to the point where like I feel like he just doesn't have furniture in his house, Like he just has like a folding chair that he sits in to sleep and then wake.
Feels like they were shot at like some office park somewhere, like you know that no store ever went into the strip mall where they were shot. It was just like a some sort of real estate scam. But yeah, anyway, stories hit us, hit us with him.
What's he up to?
Yeah? Were you even familiar with John based Out? Yes? And even at shout out to my friend Sean though who his fantasy team, Uh in any fantasy league that we play is still JBFC, the John Beasdew Fantasy Club.
Wow.
Yeah, I like major figure in my life John based Out. And the only reason it came up is because we were saying, uh, our superducer Bay had put together a doc and I was saying, do you know where bays doc based out?
I don't know why anyway, just a glimpse into my messed up brain.
That is what it's like when we're not recording, uh and try to work. All right, Uh, we're finally getting to it. The big story of the week. Yes it's not the Rico. It is that San Francisco approved twenty four to seven robo taxis and people immediately began fucking in them right away.
Just it's a robo funk factory. What are you gonna do?
It's like a starter gun went off.
I like, how like people like when they're like, we got to get this technology online, Like everyone's like, no, it's bad, Like first responders being like they fucking drive through like accident scenes. They don't have any idea what yellow tape is. But then they're like, but people.
Can bone in them. Yeah.
So I mean, yeah, to your point, like the thing that I had been hearing repeatedly over the past couple of years, because you know, five years ago, there were stories in the mainstream media on sixty Minutes that were like, oh, self driving cars are going to be here any datch.
Yeah, it's over.
There was that Tesla video where it was like watch this car just like drive home narrator. It turns out it was fake. They had completely scanned the whole path and were remote controls operating it. But besides that, it was you know, so it was there's a lot of hype, but a lot of people were saying that it's just actually seems like it might be too complicated for where
we are at technologically. And then San Francisco was like, psych, We're gonna let these things ride, ye and like when when they have tested them, like you were saying, they make emergencies way worse by say, blocking fire trucks, driving through yellow tape at the scene of a shooting, like they just pulled up into well.
It's good, homie, it's smoke or what it's like. No, no, don't pull up to the shooting like that. It's a crime scene.
And one incident reported by the Department, the San Francisco Fire Department and way Mo car pulled up between a car on fire and the fire truck aiming to put it out. That's and the people in the back seat were fucking.
No.
So yeah, the horny are already benefiting from this. According to the San Francisco Standard, a lot of couples have already been totally fucking while in these driverless cars. So the future is upon us. Yeah, I mean I don't know. So, Like the thing that keeps getting brought up is privacy obviously, Like the thing they have more than anything is cameras are just covered in cameras, So that's that's weird. But like sanit, sanitation doesn't seem to be like it. It seems wildly unsanitary.
It maybe self driving any self cleaning, I'll tell you that because yeah, whoever, shame on you, because the next person wants to get in there job killer car, they can just be welcome by the sweet, sweet aroma of coitus.
Yeah, I don't know why I chose to be.
Very eloquent with that when I could have said something really vulgar, but I wanted to just leave it there.
Yes, indeed, I don't know why.
Like I get I think most people do it, like because they're getting off on fucking in the autonomous car.
It's not like people like, oh, you know what, we can fuck.
I bet people are booking that shit specifically too, fuck in the autonomous taxi.
Yeah, I guess I guess they probably are. I don't know. Yeah, well, it's no more like, are the windows more tinted in these? Maybe because they don't want the other drivers to know it's a self driving car, right, So maybe the windows are more tinted, but it doesn't seem like there's more privacy. But then again, maybe the sorts of people who are booking cars fucking are not in it for the privacy. You know.
Yeah, it looks like the back seat is uh tinted, But again I think it's just to each their own. You hear about a thing where it's like an autonomous taxi you just want to get your rocks off and bon down in it. Yeah, And I don't know. I mean, I guess that's one way to look at it, but I don't know. I mean, I think part of it
is just there's just there's just that juvenile thrill. I think, like there's like I remember, like in high school, like there was like this one couple like in high school, like it was like their thing to just have sex in all the places you shouldn't be having sex.
So if that's your mo, I get it.
You know, Yeah, this is this is a new breakthrough in places to have sex technology. Yeah, And also.
Like I don't know because I think about too, Like, I look, we watched a lot of taxi cab confessions on.
HBO back in the nineties.
Sure there were always couples who definitely, like just couldn't keep their hands off each other, even with a human motherfucking driver in there.
Yeah you're coming home drunk, you know. Yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure it's it's it's bound to happen. I just the the degree to which it is immediately happening is funny to me, Like I respect it, I respect it. It's just I will never be in inside one of those I think based on this. Yeah, yeah, it seems seems gross. Although I mean people are on planes and stuff, so it's like, well, I'm just wondering if I'm being naive, and it's just like, oh, yeah, well where you're sitting
right now? People were fucking right, people like.
On my like outside bench, like near my house, Like how what?
How? But people just do you know, love knows no limits.
We do have a new homophobic boycott alert that we want to share it with the listeners because yeah, we know our audience and we know that you guys are trying to stay on top of this sort of thing. You know it, so Listene being boycotted like.
For a like a latent Pride label.
People are just noticing now they're like, ah.
They're grooming, our kids are doctoring our kids are gonna boycott them. But all this really the reason I want to talk about it is like I just wish the fun part about consolidation and capitalism would be if these like mega companies that own every fucking brand anyway, just like in mass just branded everything with like Pride shit. So then like conservatives like ah, no beer is drinkable now, yeah, like and then will that be the moment.
They realized like but how.
It's like because it's all owned by like four fucking companies your soap, to your food, to your cheese, like come on now.
Yeah, I mean I it made me think of like communism when like you saw the like beer they're like Patriot beer that looked like it was just like right state owned, like shit beer that was like you know you go pick up from like in the bread lines, right right in the Soviet Union, like when like when
things were really grinding to a halt. It's just you know, I feel like they are bagging themselves into a corner where they're like, all right, we have to like go get our rations, yeah, because we can't go with any of the global market bullshit.
Because it's also I also don't expect any of these people, like how many conservatives are truly not using cureg anymore because they pulled their ads from Tucker Carlson years ago, or like people who are like back to wearing Nike and shit, you know, like when they had all those boycotts. So it's weird how like you know, waey, Like they're probably also testing their own gangster about it too, or like yeah, fuck that. They're like, but Listerine's my favorite
mouth wash. The other ones they're icky to me, Like.
So they have to like change their shoes to like air Patriots. Well, they just terrible roll with like certain one secon I'll be read out.
What are you doing in their honey?
All right, let's take you a quick break and we'll come back. And we're back.
We're back.
And you know, with all the Rico news, we shouldn't lose track of just some other things that are happening in the in the world of Trump. Like this past weekend, a photographer snapped a picture of Ivana Trump's grave site on Trump's Bedminster golf court. I feel like this story missed me where it just like didn't stick in my brain.
You don't remember that when she died, when he buried her there, and we were all like, what's he hiding?
Like what happened?
Right?
You know, like is this some cover up? But then we're like, oh, I think it's a tax thing.
But you like.
Can't even see the grave anymore. It just looks like a dude.
It's so fucking overgrown. I couldn't. I couldn't have matten, Like, you know, I don't know what.
The fuck his kids thought of their mother, but like that was my mother's grave site.
Yeah, I'm like, yo.
What the fuck is this? Like you can't even see the headstone. It's like grown over with weeds and shit.
Yeah, it's it truly looks like where like I'm mafia snitch is buried. Oh yeah, like so that nobody would know.
It's like a weird amorphous mound with grass like suddenly and like what that's six feet long.
Yeah.
So there's an anonymous Trump official who's saying this is because the soil and foundation need time to fully set and a larger headstone will be installed. She was buried a fucking year ago. It's interesting that this is just just part of the process.
That's a slum lord ass answer too.
Yeah, of like what about this thing that can be very easily addressed, and like it's actually the foundation needs to set a little bit more before we can give you air conditioning in your unit. Yuh huh was that gonna do with anything? Look, I gotta go, I'm not gonna give it to you.
Sorry. It's definitely shape like. So he dumped his xby's body on a golf course, didn't bother to cut the lawn. At the time, a lot of people were like, what is he? What's in there? Like this does this doesn't make sense? And so the ground had to be consecrated so she could have a traditional Catholic burial on a golf course. It's actually not like I guess I was picturing somebody like a ball, because you know, balls well over the place when you're playing golf, especially the way
this guy does it. I'm saying pigs. Yeah, golf courses are like famously like so meticulously taken care of, but the specific detail is they're just like nah, let it, Let it rock. I don't want anybody to know. It's an actual fucking yeah, like creeping out. But apparently this is like part of a decades long plan that he's had to add a cemetery to his golf club. In two thousand and seven, he announced that he wanted to build a nineteen foot high mausoleum where he himself would
be buried one day. When state officials expressed concerns, he offered a concession that the building would be a mausoleum and chapel. Combo, don't worry, could get married next to the decomposing carcass of Donald Trump. Then he came up with the idea of making a small family cemetery, but also then pitched a large two hundred and eighty four lot cemetery so club members could purchase an eternal membership.
Oh my god.
Yeah, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, Yeah, I.
Want to be buried here.
It's just it's you know, part of me, Like I think when people were like, there's documents in there, that's what it is. Because people wouldn't dare exoom a corpse to see what the fuck is in that fucking box.
You know.
It was like the one theory that was going around, but which is wild too, because I feel like both ends of this spectrum it makes sense.
Like one is like he's hiding motherfucking documents. He's not actually in there.
It's a bunch of fucking documents that he can just access whenever because he's counting on people to not dig up a body. And the other side also being like he's so fucking greedy that he'll just put a dead wife's boy ex wife's body there just to try and get save a couple bucks on some taxes.
Yeah, the taxes thing also like doesn't really make sense because he already pays nothing in taxes for the golf course because he persuaded the township to declare it a farm because you know, he's like a billionaire and so they get the most welfare of anyone in the United States.
Oh what do you guys farm? Oh we use the trees for mulch.
Oh oh okay.
But yeah, I don't know just the whole the lack of maintenance on a golf course. The one thing that is like always like maintained just within like a millimeter, like the grass, like how tall it is, Like everything is perfectly maintained. But then they let this one place just like grow over so you can't even see the headstone. Is like so fucking disrespectful. Yeah, crazy just makes it even more shady.
Well, we'll see what happens.
I mean, maybe some some Indiana Jones type figure could get to the bottom of this caper and see what the contents of that grave site actually is.
Yeah, and then just more in the world of Trump, Rudy Rudy, No, No, it's not going well for this man.
No, he broke boy Alert.
He was on Monday begging for his life, basically saying he's like, I've got so much legal trouble, I.
Have no cash, man, I need help.
He even says, like he talked about how he had to put like his three bedroom apartment for sale. It's like it's like six and a half million apparently he's listed for but if like they were breaking down, like
the just certain legal fees he's looking at. He's facing nearly ninety thousand dollars in sanctions from a judge and a defamation case, a twenty thousand, twenty thousand a month fee to a company to host his electronic records, not his album, like just I don't know what the fuck that has to do.
I mean, that feels like how like my parents are like, yeah, we actually have the top tier penthouse Norton anti.
Virus that doesn't exist.
Yeah, it's actually we're paying thousands of dollars. It's really top of the line, and you need a general a separate generator, right.
So that one seems a little bit more like a self reported expense where you just kind of be like, what's the most I can say this shit costs to get a relationship. But then also fifteen thousand dollars he owes for like for a search of his records that he had to pay for, and then fifty seven thousand dollars judgment against his company for unpaid phone bills.
Jesus Christ, how are you gonna do sixty? Gay?
You f fucking phone bills?
Man?
Hey, call Ukraine. Probably expensive when you're trying to dig up shit that ain't there.
So, but is it? I feel like I'm not in the eighties in the eighties.
And nineties, yeah, but like not anymore. But maybe he's like still in that world. You know, he was at his peak in the late nineties early two thousands, when there was still like a just dial down the middle one eight hundred att Yeah, exactly, call att. So maybe he like somebody just suckered him into like paying for phone calls.
He's still he's still using vonage, Like what you're on vonage?
Dude? Yeah, I think it's cheaper.
I don't know. It's cost about four grand a month.
It is so upsetting though, though, Like so he's complaining that he has to sell his six point five million dollars, like so he just has six point five million dollars like ready, togo, oh no, Rudy. Yeah, it's it's just like I'm so much less liquid than I used to be before I committed all these crimes. And that's the real tragedy.
Well it's wild though too, because then like when he's talking about all these legal bills, you know, they're like the judge is like, well, if you're trying to like claim some kind of hardship, like you need to show like let me see. And then his lawyers said, quote, producing a detailed financial report is only meant to embarrass mister Juliani and draw.
Attention to his misfortunes. Hm hm, oh my god.
I mean he kind of handled that himself.
Yeah, I mean, and like the influx of like, I feel like so many headlines this morning have been like all about like how Rudy Juliani fell victim to the very law, like he was prosecuting people under the irony.
I feel like that was probably the more embarrassing thing.
Oh yeah, yeah, he's like you should know better here, rudes that how how they like to use this statute, but hey, he's too busy getting a boner in a movie.
Man.
Some some of those, like the transcripts of like his conversations like that are recorded of like.
Oh yeah, would that woman that.
Was working for him, the assistant is like so or fi?
Yeah, yeah, It's it's like somehow it's wild how everyone's talking about Like I mean, people were definitely talking about that when that story came out. But my god, I'm like, how.
Much man, god man?
Anyway, Rudy, ye go do one pal.
All right, Those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow.
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