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Outro Music The whole way long. Say ow! Ha ha ha! Yeah! Kicking it live! Welcome to the Nestorius Public Radio program on skidrowstudios.com the craziest network on the internet. We're here kicking it live from beautiful, sunny, I mean dark and dirty shitty Skid Row Studios in downtown motherfucking LA. Booyah! And I'm your host Nestor Rodriguez aka Nestorius Ha ha ha! With my main man my main man money grip big dickus Simon Kaufman Give it up y'all! How you doing? It's a pleasure to be here down here at skidrowstudios.com taking a part in the internet radio revolution with my man Nestorius the glorious word most forious Oh yeah! Yeah! That's right ladies and gentlemen Live tonight Simon Kaufman Nestor Rodriguez start talking about Tide a laundry detergent we're also going to be covering various other topics so tune in and call 1-800-893-9562 1-800-893-9562 1-800-893-9562 1-800-893-95<|it|> Johnny was the shit, man. I mean, there's all these talk shows, and let's face it, we all do all this bullshit on the air, whatever, whatever. There was only one Johnny Carson, man. Well, here's the thing. I'm too young. The only real Johnny Carson I've seen is I've watched him on YouTube a lot. I don't really remember him when he was, you know. Who did he call over to the desk on YouTube? Oh, man, I don't know. I've just, you know, when you go back, you got to study the masters, the people of the grace, those who came before you, and, you know. Right. So I've just gone back and watched a lot of comedy to check it out, and so I don't remember off the top of my head. No, I got you, I got you. When I think of Ed McMahon, I think, like, someone's going to ring my doorbell after the Super Bowl. Right, right. Yeah. Ed McMahon, man, he also passed away. He passed away owing, like, a ton of money. Fuck yeah. Yeah. I don't give a fuck. I'm dead. Right. Go fuck yourself. But yet, he was the dude that was ringing your bell to let you know that you had won a million dollars or some shit. Ring your bell, dude. Ed McMahon. Yeah. You can't. You can't ring my bell. Yeah. Boom. Yeah. Who cares? The guy went out. Who knows? No, but I'm saying, he was, like, the, was it Reader's Digest or Publisher's Clearinghouse? Publisher's Clearinghouse. Ed McMahon shows up at your door with a million dollars. Hi. Hi. Yeah. Hi. Hi. Meanwhile, you owe 45% of it in taxes back to the fucking government. All your cousins, your alcoholic crackhead uncles start showing up at your door once to borrow shit. They're just calling you, tweeting you. Chicks start blowing you and then wanting money. Oh, it's horrible. Yeah, yeah. Just stay poor. In other words. Stay broke like Ed McMahon. Right. Well, not broke like Ed McMahon. Ed McMahon lived large. But stay within your means. That's the message. Stay within your means. Don't try to shoot for the fucking stars on somebody else's dime. You know what I mean? Everyone wants to be fabulous in this country. It's like, you know, everyone wants to be ritzy and fabulous. No, that's without a doubt. Start the level you're at. Yeah. Yeah. Be fabulous in your own living room with the plastic covers on your couches. Yeah. Start with that. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. Be fabulous with what you motherfucking got. Don't try to be fabulous like on some other tip that you're not even down with. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Don't try to rock a Bentley when you're wearing like, you know, swap meet air walks. Like, start where you are. Right. Step up in levels. Don't try to rock a Mercedes Benz when you ain't even got no dental floss. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. You're eating it skimpy. Skippers. Yeah. You're not flossing. You're eating it skippers, fish and chips. Yeah. Don't try to rock, you know, a Coupe de Ville when you don't even got shoelaces to tie your sneakers with. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Just stay within your means. This is the message. This is part of the message today on the Nestorius Public Radio show. You know, just live within your means. Big up. Big up. Big up to people who live within their means, man. Yeah. Big up. Big up to people who have small dreams. Big up. Big up. Big up. Big up to you people who work every day. You go to work. You wake up every morning. You pay your motherfucking bills on time. Big up to y'all. Big up. Big up to you hardworking Americans. Big up. Big up to you people who cook for your children. Big the fuck up. Stay within your means, man. That's what I'm saying. Do your own. Be your own. Rise from. I'm not saying don't rise. Rise from the level you're at. Don't try to skip 12 levels. You're walking around. You bought a 64 Impala. Got a paint job. Can't even look under the engine. The thing dies in two days. Okay. You look great. Yeah. Pushing it down the side of the road. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Start where you're at. Start where you're at. Don't rely on YouTube for fucking how to. Get a Camry. An old Camry that'll get you to a job. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, and better yet in Los Angeles, and this is on the real tip, just get a bicycle. Yeah. You'll get around faster here. Get a bicycle or get someone else's bicycle. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. In Los Angeles. Live it up. Someone's bicycle is there for the taking. Just grab it and ride. Do what you got to do. Or you could purchase one. Live it up. Live it up. Or live it up on a bicycle. Yeah. Good endorphins. Yeah. Stay slim. Yeah. So we have a few topics and articles that we're going to kind of roll into. One of them was an article that I read a few months ago, actually. And it was New York Magazine had an article on Tide detergent. And I emailed this article to a few of my friends because it's a trip. The article was called, I believe, Suds for Drugs. And you can Google this article, New York Magazine. It was in January. But really, really interesting article. We're talking about, it kind of falls in the line of living within your means, starting about what you got. And I'll elaborate a little bit. But the article is, Tide detergent works on tough stains, can now also be traded for crack. A case study in American ingenuity, legal and otherwise. So the article goes on to say that in Maryland, in a suburban town of Maryland, Bowie, Maryland, the Safeway had been robbed repeatedly. And they were robbed of Tide. Tide laundry detergent. Tide is being stolen. There's an epidemic of Tide being stolen. This started on the East Coast. Of course it did. It's going to spread like wildfire. Of course it did. You know what I mean? Sounds like it. Anything worth anything in life starts on the East Coast. Any real con starts on the East. Anything. Big up. Big up, East Coast. Big up, town. Big up. Big up, East Coast, motherfucker. From the village to the uptown. Big up. Big up. Stealing shit not paying for your motherfucking train fare. East Coast, blooder. Big up, East Coast. It always starts on the East Coast. And then, you know, like anything, it goes to middle America. And then eventually, motherfuckers on the West Coast are going to be carjacking motherfuckers for Tide. They have their own fucking, you know, they have like scams. It's just like you grab you and throw you somewhere. Like, get out of here. Get out of your car. I don't know. Get out of here. Like, New York has like higher scams. Like, you know, someone. Yeah. Keep going. Explain. Explain. No. Well, no, we can. We can. We can top this one off with the New York thing. I don't know what it is about New York. You know, most of us that are from the East Coast, myself included, you know, we have these big, like we come from the best city in the world. Yo, I'm from New York, G. New York. Yo, yo, the Bronx. New York. Yo, yo, Brooklyn, yo. Uptown. You know what I'm saying? So, so. But I don't know what it is about the East Coast where, you know, like Blunt's started on the East Coast. You know, for those of you that don't know, Blunt's is a type of cigar produced by Phillies and Jamaicans in the early 80s used to cut them in and down the middle, throw out the tobacco, put marijuana in and. Big up, man. Big up, Jamaica. Big up, Bluff. Big up, Blunt. Big up, your Philly Blunt. Big up, Blunt. Big up, El Producto. Big up. Yeah, they used to, they used to smoke these fucking things. And then again, it caught, it caught up on like wildfire and it got into the rap music lyrics. Yeah, it's weed and cigars. Right. Pretty easy to catch on. Right. And then. Not a lot of controversy. Let's smoke it. No. Weed, cigar. Let's do this. But then there was, then there was the Woolah, which was the same principle, but with crumpled up bits of crack. On top of the reefer. So that took you on to another level. Well, hell, you know, it's a Tuesday. Anyway, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to bring it back to the tides, the tide thing. So apparently, bring back. This is a New York, this is an example of a New York idea. Oh, East Coast. It's actually East Coast. This was, this was in Maryland. So in Safeway, they were reported that they were losing 10 to $15,000 a month. Okay. On tide. Okay. My man, my man, uh, the, the police chief, um, Prince George's County Police Department. The finest police chief in seven counties. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It says, it says with 10, 10 to $15,000 a month with people just taking it off the shelves. Recall, recall Sergeant Aubrey Thompson who had. So why are people stealing the tide? Well, slow down, slow down, slow down. We're not going to get, we're not going to bust a nut right now. Just slow down. We got to get back. We got to do. I like how you take your time. We got to do that. We got to do the criminal investigation. What I'm saying? So my man, my man, um, Aubrey Thompson heads up the team in, in, in, in, uh, in Maryland. Uh, and check it when Thompson and his officers arrived to the investigation, right? This is one of the earlier times that, uh, Safeway calls, calls the police department. Um, they, they saw an apparent tide theft in progress and busted two men. Okay. Check this. Who piled 100 or so of the bright orange jugs into their Honda. Okay. I don't know if this is a plug for tide or a plug for the Honda. A hundred fucking jugs of tide in broad daylight. Yeah. Anyway, that's, that, that, that, that's, that's crazy. Well, just the fact that they could pack it all in shows the skill of these criminals that they could just, their packing skills. Well, then, then later on Thompson reviewed weeks worth. Of, uh, the Safeway's security footage. Thompson's on the case. He's on the case. He's on the case. Tide's being stolen. It's a big deal. Thompson's on the case. He's reviewing the footage. It's a big deal. It's always shit. Thompson is, they called him Thompson. So he found that more than two dozen thieves working in crews were regularly raiding the store's household product aisle. Sometimes returning more than once the same day and avoiding detection by timing their heists. So wait, he found it. Hold on. He found it. To follow clerk's shift changes. So basically. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. They were like, oh shit. Ms. Mrs. Barbarella. She's off at three. She saw me steal like eight, 80 jugs from the eight to four shift. We'll come back. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They hit during the shift change. Cause you know, all these motherfuckers are like, I'm done. I want to get out of here. Yeah. And they want to leave. And then the other crew was like, oh, I got to be here. Yeah. But it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's crazy. So it's an organized ring, right? In a sense. In a sense. I'm going to get to the whole, I mean, the, the, the story is very interesting. Anyway, owners. and managers of other area stores have seen Sergeant Thompson on the news. They reached out to him to report their own vanishing Tide bottles, right? Like, yo, holla. The community's coming together to fight back Tide theft. Yo, you busting people for Tide? Yo, over here, right? So basically, since then, the oddly brand loyal crime wave has gone national. Striking bodegas, supermarkets, and big box discounters from Austin to West St. Paul, Minnesota. For instance, in New York, employees at the Penn Station, Dwayne Reed nabbed a man trying to abscond with Tide bottles he'd stuffed into a suitcase. Now, I don't know if I'd use the word abscond. That's a little highbrow. Motherfucker stealing Tide. You know what I mean? He didn't abscond it. He fucking jacked it. He ganked it. He swiped that shit. He swiped it. He was out. He didn't abscond the shit. In Orange County, now I'm not sure if this is Orange County, California, Orange County, New York, but let's say it doesn't matter. An attempted Tide theft led to a high-speed chase that included the thief crashing his SUV into an ambulance. Come on, man. This shit must be good. Now, here's the deal. No one really knows at this point why these people are stealing Tide, right? A lot of times, yeah. I mean, it's... They don't know why they're stealing the Tide. No, I mean, it's a phenomenon. All of a sudden... I would say not a good way to end a high-speed chase would be crashing into an ambulance. That's not something the judge wants to hear. Well, that's usually... Yeah, I wouldn't say that would go well. That's usually the way it happens. Yeah. That's usually the way it happens with stupid thieves and chases and stuff. Anyway, so they were trying to figure out what happened, what the hell did they want with this laundry detergent. So, it turns out, the detergent wasn't being used as an ingredient in some new recipe for getting high, but instead to buy drugs themselves. Okay? Check it. Tide bottles have become an ad hoc street currency with a 150-ounce bottle going for either $5 cash or $10 worth of weed or crack. $10 a crack for 150 ounces of Tide. Yo, yo, yo, who got it? Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Yo, I got Tide 150 for 20. See, but I don't even understand the mathematics here. $5 cash or $10 worth of weed or crack. It seems to me that the value of crack has gone down if you can trade it equally for $10. No, no, no. Here's what you're forgetting. Tide not only removes stains, but it boosts in colors. Ha, ha! Yeah. I mean, you're talking about you're getting a fabric protection, boosting colors, lemon scent. Well, yeah. For $10 a crack, you make the trade. Well, it goes on to that. So here's the thing. Tide ranked in the top three brand names that consumers at all income levels were least likely to give up regardless of the recession. Tide is one of the top selling products in the United States. It is. It is. So all of a sudden, it's disappearing off shelves and being traded for crack cocaine and marijuana and blowjobs. Yeah, but they don't know. I mean, they're like blowjobs. No. Well, no, I'm saying they don't know at that point. No blowjobs? Yeah, blowjobs, I guess. At least you can gargle. How much Tide? You can gargle your mouth with the cap. Anyway. Some people are into that. Never mind. I shouldn't have gone there. It costs, okay, the product costs upwards of $20 per 150 ounce bottle. So you can imagine if you're a loyal Tide customer and instead of wanting to pay $20 retail or $5 crack negotiation, you're a Tide negotiator. Sure. I mean, what would you do, right? Sure. You're selling crack. You're on the way up. You know what I mean? You have an 88 cut list. You're doing what you do. Right. Tide retails for $20. You hook up with crack for $10. You get the Tide. No, no. No, you hook up. If you're lucky, you can get it for $5. You can get it for $5 because they're selling it for $5 or $10 of weed and $10 of crack and then in turn the drug dealer could trade it in. You're purchasing, yeah. What they're doing is they're selling it in bulk to lower brand stores, supermarkets or whatever, even bodegas and whatnot for $5 and then they sell it for $8 on the hush hush. A lot of these stores have gotten busted doing this thing. Anyway, just so you can get an idea, Tide is now a 1.7 billion dollar business representing more than 30% of the liquid detergent market. This is where it goes back to. It goes back to 1946. Procter & Gamble began tinkering with compounds called surfactants that penetrate dirt and unbond it from a garment while keeping a spot on a shirt elbow from resettling on the leg of a pen. It penetrates the dirt. That's the thing. That's the thing, yeah. It penetrates the dirt. Think about it. It's remarkable because back then, I mean, let me see, back then what they had was like soap flakes and shit and you had to do everything by hand. Yeah, you had to wash your clothes on those boards that you see. You wash your clothes on a washing board or something. Yeah, well, I mean, they had soap flakes so you had to like, you know, it was time consuming, tedious and whatever and it wasn't as effective. The article says that Tide was as revolutionary as the iPod was. Right, right, right, right. Everyone was. Everyone went out and got Tide. Right, right. Everyone, back then when it first came out. So Tide's always been the shit. Well, since 1946 and they've been, like you were saying, Tide's original scent was citrus-like. In the words of Sundar Rahman, the marketing director of Procter & Gamble's North American Fabric Care Division. Yes. Wonderful man. Highly, wonderful man. Yeah. Bud has evolved into a citrus floral and fruity experience with hints of lemon, orange, roses, lily and apple. What's his name? His name is Sundar Rahman. Yes. I love, yeah, so read it again. What does Sundar have to say? Keep in mind, this is the vice president of some big shit over at Procter & Gamble. Well, he was. Big deal. Yeah, he was. Well, he is. He's the marketing director of Procter & Gamble's North America Fabric Care Division. But anyway, he's basically saying that it has a, it went from, from a citrus, citrus-like smell, the original Tide, to more of an evolved citrus, floral, and fruity experience with hints of lemon, orange, roses, lily, and apple. Lovely. Now, when combined in a complex perfume, these notes help cover up the odors of the cleaning agents that would otherwise waft out during the wash cycle. So basically, you know, this is, this is a lot of research that goes into this way back to in 1946. It was lemon scent. Well, also, it removes the dirt, it prevents the dirt from reattaching itself to another part of the garment, and also makes your garment smell better than new. Better than new. Because you figure if you're washing your clothes in some dirty-ass shit, eventually your clothes are gonna smell dirty. Right. So, but they basically have, they have this thing down to a science. He goes on to say, the smell of citrus for instance has been shown to correlate strongly with perceptions of cleanliness. That natural fresh and clean smell is stimulating and creates an instantaneous mood of being happy, says Craig Warren, a former researcher for the firm International Flavors and Fragrances. Alright. Fuck yeah. Alright. How do we get that guy on the show? The man for International Fragrance and Flavors or some shit? What's his name? What's his name? This dude here? Craig Warren. Oh, Craig gets a lot of pussy. Craig Warren. My name's Craig Warren. I'm the head of fragrances and floral. But this other dude writes, he goes, launder those items with Tide and they take on a uniform smell and feel that consumers have come to associate with quality. Yeah, it's called marketing. You've been marketed to. That's what you sit down, you buy Tide. I want to see a real independent university study that says Tide is better. Go fuck it, you know. Yeah, yeah. It doesn't matter. You can get crack. It doesn't matter where the clothes come from if you wash them with Tide. They do, have almost this prestige wash to them, says Maru Koblawicz, a global creative director at Saatchi & Saatchi, which is a fucking advertising firm. Fucking Saatchi Saatchi this. Oh, they have a global market. Go fuck yourself with Tide. You wash your fucking drawers. Go fuck yourself. Saatchi Saatchi. Who the hell is that guy? No, but this is, well, Saatchi & Saatchi is a major advertising corporation. Oh, here at Saatchi Saatchi, we feel that you put the floral in your balls. Advertising ad agency. Anyway, but I mean this is no coincidence. This thing is $20 a damn bottle. $20 a bottle. Retail. This is 150 ounce. Because they have the smaller bottles. The smaller bottles you get. The big bottle. For the big fish. For the man that likes the finest things. The big bottle winds up being less dollars per ounce. You know what I mean? Dude. Exquisite Tide washer. But check this. Check it. It's a message that may also explain why among some lower income shoppers, according, to, according to a 2012 newsletter by branding agency Daymon Worldwide, being able to afford Tide laundry detergent is seen as a sign of success. What did you say, nigga? That's right. A sign of success. Could you imagine that shit in the hood? Dude. Could you imagine that shit? Yo. Yo, yo, yo. You washing your clothes with Tide? Yeah. Yo, you want, yo. What you think? You better than us? Yeah. Well, yo, yo. I know you washing your clothes with Tide. I can smell the citrusy, fruity, apple scent on your shit. With your citrus ass walking around acting like floral, like Saatchi Saatchi. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Who are you to showboat? Unbelievable. And check it. These people do a lot of research. There's this dude, Reed Montague, right? He's a director of human neuroimaging laboratory and computational psychiatry. Unit at Virginia Tech's Carolian. That guy's alone a lot on Friday nights. He spends a lot of Friday nights alone. Carolian Research Institute, right? Yeah. Where he studies how people choose and value products using an fMRI machine, right? When shoppers are exposed to a brand, they identify with their ventral medial prefrontal cortex. They identify with their ventral medial prefrontal cortex lights up. Basically, he's saying the same part of the brain associated with reward recognition in drug users. So, Tide users and crackheads have something in common, basically. Yeah. Is what he's saying. Anyway, the point here of this whole thing is, they, the people who are stealing this, and I'm going to wrap this up, why steal Tide? I mean, the article goes on to say that you, you steal Tide, it's a petty theft crime. It's not like, you know, you're going to do federal time for stealing, let's say, an armed robbery or something like that. Well, it used to be a crackhead would do like breaking, entering, burglarize someone's house or car. That can carry a sentence up to 15 years. Right, right. Mugging someone, shoplifting, sometimes it's just a fine or very, very, you know, shoplifting laundry detergent is a, they get off. Community service, cleaning, cleaning other people's clothes with Tide. Here's what kills me, okay? And this is what kills me about these kids these days or anyone out there, right? If you can devise a scheme to steal laundry detergent from supermarkets, sell it through a chain organized through the black market to end up in bodegas to trade for crack, why can't you go to school and be an accountant? Why can't you fucking just be, like, you're smart. Because you got to show up every day. You got to apply for financial aid. This person knows how to apply himself. No, but it's easy to just go to a store, pick up a couple of 150 ounce bottles of Tide, put them in the back of your Honda, you know, accumulate enough of them and, you know, sling them in one shot. But, so then the counter... But to come up with that. Well, no, well the counter argument here is that okay, so why, why don't the retailers lock this stuff up? Since it's a big problem, right? Sure, like they lock up razors. Why the fuck do they lock up razors? Because razors cost fucking $30 for 20 of them. Again, that was something that they used to steal until retailers got smart, right? So the thing is that, you know, they lock up electronic devices and stuff like that because those are not items that are sold that often. So if you need to buy it, go to the manager, they come, open up the cabinet, boom. The argument here is that if they were to lock up the Tide, that would contribute to the shopper's time. And they mean, the article says they may not want to shop at that store. Sure, no one wants to go buy Tide, go find a suit guy, hey, can you open this case up for me? The guy waddles over, you know, the line's backing up now because he can't be over there. Yeah, and you know what they need? You need a Tide guard. Like you have a security guard, it's a security guard, but you have your Tide guard who wears his own bright orange Tide guard. And he don't fuck around, dude. And it takes training, years. Because you gotta fight these crackheads, dude. One big black dude and shit with a bright orange fucking racing windbreaker, you know, be like security Tide. Yeah, but you have to realize the security guard, okay, what's he deal with? Some lady's yelling sometimes. What the Tide guy has to deal with every day is protecting the Tide from some of the most vile crackheads, thieves, thieves, thieves, organized crime rings, stealing Tide. That's the Tide guard. Tide guard. We'll be there. Tide man. Tide man. Tide man. Tide man. Tide man. Hit that again, dude. We're onto something. In America. Tide man. Spider-Man. Spider-Man. Does whatever a spider can. Speeds the web. Tide man. Tide man. I just love that. That's the original Spider-Man piece. I just love that one. Anyway, but I was in Puerto Rico last year and this trips me out. See, drug addicts steal whatever they can get their hands on fast and sell fast. You know, back in the 70s they used to steal car batteries. They used to steal car radios. No one's interested in a fucking battery anymore. No one's interested in a radio, so it's a waste of time. Yeah, it's a waste of time. But people, they'll steal things that are easy to sell. In Puerto Rico, I went to buy coffee. Check this out. I go to buy coffee to bring back to the States because Puerto Rican coffee is pretty dope. It's one of the few things left at the the the the the! The so-called state of Puerto Rico still cultivates. But when I went to buy them Pitchers. Well, and pitchers. Yeah, a lot of baseball pitchers. When I went to buy, it was locked up. No coffee was in any of the there was no coffee aisle. Right? I'm like, where's the coffee? They tell me that it's up front in fucking clear glass locked cages. Check this. So I'm like, so that so that like you got to pay first to the cashier, right? And then she'll open up the the the cage and you can get your coffee, which makes it and I agree with the article. It makes it difficult because normally you choose what you want to buy. You take it, then you pay for it. They're asking you to pay. In other words, they're asking you to tell them what you want. I want five pounds of El Pico, five pounds of Bustelo, and they got like 80 different varieties. So you don't really know which ones you want to buy. It's like ordering up paint at the hardware store. We want the blue this that that. And then you give them the number and they go and they order it. Well, they want you to pay for that shit first. And then they're not fucking around. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, so on the coffee, you got to pay first. First you show us the money, then we're going to show you the coffee. Yeah. You want to do this all over again? Okay. You put the yayo back in the pocket, then I give you the coffee and then you come back. You ring the doorbell twice and then we say hello. And then you get the coffee. Okay. Any more questions? You need? Yeah. You got to put the money down before you go to the cash to get the coffee. People like him need people like me. So I can open up the coffee counter and sell you the coffee. Okay, papi? That's how it works over here. Anyway, this is unbelievable. It's unbelievable. Yeah. It's unbelievable the shit that goes on. Oh my gosh. If we have any callers out there who are on the street corner selling Tide, we want to hear from you. We want to hear from the young entrepreneurs of America. The people out there that are really just doing commerce in the spirit of all our forefathers. I can't believe we smoked up like almost half the show talking about Tide. Oh yeah. I'm going to give the link to Tide to Procter and Gamble to the show. They better give me a fucking month's supply of Tide at least. The makers of Spick and Span. Yeah. What do you think about that, dude? That's another story. Procter and Gamble makes Spick and Span. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's another. That's another. That's another. Spick and Span. A cleaning product or also a racist plot? That's another. That's another thing. Anyway, some more news. Some more news. More news. Big up more news. Big up, big up, big up, big up, Brooklyn. Big up, big up, big up, Brooklyn. Big up. Okay. Freed but ailing. A man falsely in prison for 23 years for the murder of a Brooklyn rabbi was released last week only to be hospitalized the following evening after a serious heart attack. Okay. David Ranta, 58, was imprisoned for the murder of Rabbi Shaskal Worsberger. Shaskal Worsberger got murdered? Yeah, in 1990. In 1990. Even though no physical evidence linked him to the crime, prosecutors reexamining the case last year discovered that a witness had claimed the detective pressured him into fingering Ranta. Okay. The guy with the big nose. The guy happens to look Italian. That's fucked up. The guy with the big nose is what he is. He said. And said they had insufficient evidence to keep him in prison. Wait, did you add the big nose or the Italian had the big nose or both? No, no, no. The Italian dude, the process, one of the witnesses said that the detective pressured him into fingering Ranta, basically saying, you know, the guy with the big nose. Is Ranta Italian? I believe so. Yeah. Okay. I mean, I believe so. Yeah. Anyway, the guy with the big nose and said he had said they had sufficient evidence to keep him in prison. Speaking to the reporters upon his release. Ranta said he was looking forward to getting the hell out of here. A day later, he was in the hospital under the care of cardiologists. The accumulated trauma of being falsely convicted, coupled with the intense emotions experienced surrounding his release has had a profound impact on his health. Said Ranta's lawyer. That's bullshit. Yeah. I'm going to tell you something. That's that's a good lawyer thing to say. But the truth of the matter is I had a friend that was in prison. For five, six years in prison. My man could have some heart condition going on that goes untreated. Yeah. You know what I mean? You're in prison. You're going to get a pound of fucking. Yeah. Where are you going to go? I have a little pain in my side. No, they're going to give you they're going to give you some spam and a pound of rice rice pilaf. Yeah. Put some rice pilaf on it. Go back to your cell. They don't say what what what prison he was in. But basically, you know, doesn't fucking matter. They'll probably release him. You know, unbeknownst to them, a man is a fucking walking time bomb because he's ready to have a heart attack. Yeah. Right. He may have some sort of read me what the lawyer says again. Was he the lawyer is a fucking idiot. He's a 24 hours. Yeah. Well, I have a friend of mine that had the same thing happen within within 40 fucking eight hours. My man has a heart attack 48 hours after being released from fucking prison. Do I think he was doing like 10, 12 years. Okay. So he gets released. They. They bring him to the hospital. Hospital. They do a fucking quadruple bypass on the guy. My man winds up dying. Okay. So this shit is not uncommon. But anyway, it's not. It's not because you're in jail. I know you're in jail. They're not fucking you're not. Yeah, I know. You're not getting routine physicals. You know, this guy's wrongly accused. It's assumed. But what's it say? It's assumed that if you're in jail, you're a criminal. Fuck you. Right. Yeah. The lawyer says the accumulated trauma of being falsely convicted. Dot. Dot. Dot. Coupled with the intense emotions experienced surrounding his release has had a profound impact on his health. What about that? With the added immediate 24 hour cocaine binge the first night out back on the town with his friends. Right. Or the heart attack of coming home and seeing your girlfriend screwing another guy. Right. Emotion. You know what I'm saying? It's like that's what. What does that have something to do with it? Haha. Well, what about. You've been in jail for 12 years. You get released. You come home. There's some. Like. There's two guys tag teaming your wife on the bed. Oh, honey, I didn't know you were going to be home so soon. You're going. Fucking heart attack. You're going crazy. You're going crazy. Crazy. How about. How about. How about you come home. Volunteers at the church and you're wondering how it got to. How about you come home. You got your stinky ass clothes. Yeah. That's been in jail for fucking five years. Haven't been washed properly. And you're fucking you go to wash your clothes in your closet and you're and you're you look in your laundry bin and the tide has been stolen. You fucking lose it. You fucking blow a gasket. Yeah. You've been lift. You've been doing tricep extensions with cinder blocks for two for nine years. You're ready to go. Oh, my God. Oh, shit. This is real shit. It's crazy. No, it's crazy. Anyway, God bless you, David. God bless you, David. Rant to Mr. Ranta. I hope you're feeling better. You're wrongly accused. They should give you some money to. Reduce the size of your nose. The least they could do is help you out. I mean, you've paid your debt and they owe you something. So what's the name of the rabbi that was murdered? Chaskill Wurzberger. If anybody out there has any links or evidence or information relating to the real murderer of Chaskill Wurzberger, please contact local authorities. And we do send respect to both their families, both the big nose Italian and the dead rabbi. Yeah. Big up. Big up to both. Okay. Both of them. So. So. So this is on a different note in Prague, Oklahoma. Okay. Yeah. Prague, Oklahoma. Tremors from fracking. Scientists have linked Oklahoma's largest earthquake. Okay. A 5.6 magnitude quake near the town of Prague in 2011 to hydraulic fracturing, supporting claims that the process increase increases seismic activity. Okay. Just in case you guys don't know what that is. Fracking, as it is known, injects water. And chemicals into petroleum deposits in order to extract trapped gas. This is this is the natural gas mining that's going on in all over the world, but in parts of the United States of America. This is a new thing and it has tremendous side effects. So, you know, our country is looking for alternative methods of fuel. Yeah. You know. So they're fracking. So. So, yeah. So, I mean, for those of you that don't know what the fracking is, Google it. Anyway, I mean, I just told you it's no, they inject these water. Like, first of all, they, they inject water and, and chemicals and they basically crack it right down. Like they, they. The earth? The earth. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, wait. Who sits on these couches? Dude, dude, let me, this is very important. They contaminate the water. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Natural drinking water in the process of doing this. Okay. When you release natural gases, it winds up going into the, the water streams, the water lines. Where did people get so smart? That's what I want to know. Hold it. There's more to this. And it requires psychotic amounts of water to do this. So, so not only are you wasting natural resources that let's think about this. All right. We don't have indefinite supplies of water. Right? So let's pump billions and billions and billions of gallons into this and then fuck up our natural resources because the gas that you're drilling can, and sometimes, and a lot of times goes into your drinking water. All right. So look, look into fracking in your local areas and Google it. There's a movie. There's a movie called gas land, a documentary. Okay. Yeah. Gas land. Netflix it. Look, look, look into it. There's a problem that we, that there's not really talked about too much, but it's a major issue here in the United States. There could be fracking in your community. Yeah. Well, but this week researchers at the university of Oklahoma Columbia university and the us geological survey published findings that linked wastewater injection to seismic events in the area. Okay. Highlighting the need for greater government oversight. The central us has experienced an 11 fold inquiry increase in seismic activity in recent years. There's not a magic bullets that researcher Heather Savage, but if we have more monitoring monitoring capabilities, we can watch things. Watch these things. What are they monitoring? Well, we're just going to monitor it and see what we're fracking. Well, people are getting fracked all over the place. Well, look at the movie gas land, watch the movie gas and then you'll see, and you'll see the, the, the multitude of ejaculatory masturbation with the fucking senators and bills being passed. Yeah. It's all these senators you want to frack used to be as you could go frack someone, you know, now either fracking the land. Yeah. Everyone's fracking everyone in this country. Yeah. It's just, it's just craziness. But, but I mean, that's a serious, that's a serious, uh, uh, issue that, that, that needs to be, uh, that needs to be tended to, you know, because we're trying to, we're trying to, um, we're trying to mine for a resource that that's obviously gas is one of the most, you know, Speaker 3 sought after, uh, resources in America and the world, but we don't have that much. We have to rely on on the greater one. Water go without it for one day, you know, Speaker 5 water, water for gas water. I'm saying like you're wasting the water. Like you're saying to get gas, you don't need gas. You need water. Speaker 3 You need gas. Yeah. Speaker 4 But you need water. Speaker 3 We got a caller. Speaker 4 Caller. Where are you from? What's your name? Speaker 5 Anna. Speaker 4 Oh, hi, Anna. How are you? Where are you calling from? Speaker 5 From Studio City. Speaker 4 Oh, hi, Anna. Speaker 4 How's it going? Speaker 4 What would you? Speaker 4 Well, thanks for calling into the story is public radio show. Speaker 4 Would you would you care to comment on tide or the fracking situation or the unjust prosecution of Mr. Speaker 5 Ranta? Speaker 4 No, I think it's great that you're talking about. You put a plug into that movie Gasland. I think that water is the. Speaker 4 The issue, the big issue, and I think that what's happening with fracking and the fact that it's not on the front page news every day is really a tragedy. And I'm really happy to hear you talking about it. Speaker 5 Yeah, it is. It is a tragedy. It is a tragedy. As I was saying before, it's it's it's a major concern. But yet no one knows about this. You know, what I was going to get into is that, you know, the the headlines are the news. The top news last weekend was that. Speaker 4 Gas prices are coming down. Regular gas prices, petroleum. And I read the article and the article talks about that gasoline prices are going down because of of of rising global supplies. OK, and lower than expected demand in the world's two largest economies. When you have gas prices skyrocketing, people say I can't afford it and they stop using it. Speaker 5 If gas goes down, then just frack. Speaker 4 Well, no, but I'm saying but I'm saying we're looking we're looking for alternative means of of supporting ourselves with fuel fuel sources. Speaker 5 I think the problem comes down to using using certain words and like clean and natural associated with fracking or clean and natural gas. When you know, they if you watch the documentary, you'll see people wake up one day, they turn their faucet on and it's flammable. Speaker 4 Right. Speaker 5 Yeah. Speaker 4 Do you do you know about this? Speaker 5 I've heard of the I've heard of it. I haven't watched it. Speaker 4 It's an amazing the movie. The movie basically starts out in the eastern in Pennsylvania and the east coast of the United States. And these big natural gas drilling corporations, they're going to you and offering you hundreds of thousands of dollars to lease your land. Speaker 4 Well, lease it, lease it, lease it. We want to use your land. We'll pay you. So you're like, fuck it. You're going to give me one hundred thousand dollars. So they come in in your backyard. They start putting these humongous drilling machines and, you know, pink, pink, pink, pink, and they drill and they drill. And, you know, they they rack the fuck out. They fracked the fuck out of your shit. Earthquakes start happening. Next thing you know, months later, you go to get some water from your faucet and you smell gas. Somebody says, let's see if we can light it up. They take a match to it. Speaker 4 Speaker 5 Woo. Speaker 4 Speaker 6 Speaker 7 Speaker 7 Speaker 7 Speaker 10 Speaker 12 Speaker 12 Speaker 12 that's insane. You know, it's just idiots, idiots. Well, well, the thing is that you have to, you have to be made aware of, of, of, of this type of stuff. I think Anna had a really good point, you know, clean, clean and natural gas, which is, which is the tag that they're using for natural gas. Yet the, the means and the methods that they're using to procure this so-called clean and natural gas are not, are not clean. The methods are not clean and, and they're not natural. So, I mean, you know, like, it's like you watch all these commercials with Exxon and British Petroleum of like, Oh, we're here for the environment. I mean, that's like getting raped in prison, but he nibbles your ear and tells you he cares. Like, you know, who cares? Right. Yeah. Right. Exactly. So anyway, don't frick and don't frack. So we got some good news, man. We got some good news. A lot of always crazy stuff, but Twinkies, man. Twinkies, Twinkies are returning. Could you imagine that shit? Twinkies. Big up. Big up, Twinkie. Twinkies are back, man. Big the fuck up. Big up. Don't call it a comeback, man. Big up, petrified, spongy cake, yeah. Big up. Big, big, big up. Big up, Twinkie. We've been here for years, man. Don't call it a comeback. Big, big, big up. Yes. So basically, I'm not sure. Um, um, as you all know, what was it last year? Hostess went bankrupt. Okay. And they lost their, they lost, basically, they just fucking went under because the dudes that were, um, running the corporation, um, I, you know, the other day I was walking down the aisle, I'm like, Wonder Bread also. How the fuck, seriously, how, how, how could you mess up, uh, uh, an American icon, a food icon, something that, uh, uh, uh, like you don't need advertising for Wonder Bread. Come on. Turkey sandwiches, Wonder Bread, Twinkies. You, you know, you get high. Listen, you have to realize, Twinkies were there before the fat people. They helped create the fat people. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like now there's so many options for thick people that want to eat a lot of fucking feces with cream filling. You know, I mean, I've never been a fan of Twinkies. I don't like them. Um, I know some people that sacrilegious, but also some people have really bad colonoscopies and they, you know, have really bad gas. So my point is, if you like Twinkies, I'm glad you like Twinkies. I know a lot of people like Twinkies. I like that marshmallow. What was the one with the, the sugar on top? Like the marshmallow. It was like a marshmallow. It was like white with like blue powder. Snow, snowballs or snow cones. But it was the same hostess. Yeah, I believe so. They, they make all sorts of stuff. Those are kind of good. Those, I like those. I mean, I like the, you got, uh, I'm thinking Drake's now. Drake's cakes. There's so many different. There never was Drake's cakes. There was Twinkies. Now there's for, for people that want to eat. No, Drake's, Drake's is a different company. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I, Twinkies was hostess, I believe. Yeah. Yeah. I'm saying there's competition. I'm answering your question because you said, how do they go out of business? Now there's all sorts of things. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's not the competition. It's mismanaging of a corporation. I mean, you got guys on the top, you know, taking fat checks and shit while the workers, you know, they're getting paid minimum wage and yeah, they're getting ho-ho'd. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're getting Susie cued. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. But what I'm saying is like, they're getting yodeled and ring dinged. The American public, the, the working class are getting yodeled and the big Twinkie upstairs. Yeah, but I'm saying, but, but how, how do you, how do you do that? I mean, how do you run a company like that? Anyway, but basically what happened was, because you suck. In November, in November, this is what happened last year. Actually, this is last November. All 36 hostess brand plans shut down after an extended standoff with the bakery, confectionery, tobacco workers and grain millers, international union. So apparently they had some stuff. The previous hostess company has almost completely wound down its operations while selling off its best known brands like Twinkies, cupcakes, ho-hos, zingers, ding-dongs, Susie cues, the hedge funds. Yeah. They sold all that, shit, the hedge funds, the hedge funds come in, swap it up, chop it up, put it back on the black market, slang it for tide, wash it, sell it for crack. And now, you know, Twinkies are back on the stands. Fuck man. You know, it's like, it's like the same story of like, all like Scarface. You're on top, bro, but you had to go crazy. Twinkies, you were there, but you had to get crazy, rolling around. You got Twinkie mobiles, you had the market, you had the market, dude, best seats at the clubs, Lakers seats. Yeah. Crazy shit. Anyway, but that's supposed to be happening for all you pot smokers, for all you ganja lovers, for all you ganja lovers, for you, big up, big up Twinkie coming this summer, big up, big up, big up. Jobless, Twinkie man. Jobless, you're homeless, but you're living large, you're living large in a beat up Cadillac. We're bringing Twinkies back, man. Yeah. Blah, blah, blah. Anyway, big up, big up to, big up to our co-host, our, our, our absent co-host, Rich. Big up, Rich. Rich has got a little, uh, uh, surgery, uh, earlier today. I think, uh, he, he, he went in for a colonoscopy. Yeah. And, and, and they did a rotator cuff surgery. Big up, Rich. Yeah. Big up, Rich. Big up, Rich. Yeah. So he, he should be doing all right. He should be doing all right. He's probably drugged the fuck up. Much love. Big up. Big up. Much love, man. Big up, Rich, man. Much love, man. Anyway, so real quick, we have a few minutes left. Um, we had, um, the, uh, Latino community in an uproar about, uh, this, this year's, uh, release, uh, of the Barbies, Barbie dolls of the world. Uh, I don't know if you got a chance to look at the pictures. Realistic or racist. Anyway, the, the, the Latino world is like Latin America, uh, is an uproar because apparently the Mexico Barbie, um, has, you know, like a Maria Conchito, uh, you know, field server dress. And she has a little, uh, Chihuahua in her, in her purse. Yeah. But when I'm looking at all the other, um, Barbies of the world, they have, they have similar styled, uh, uh, national dresses of their country. Yes. And they, and they have, uh, you know, a dog typically associated with, you know, probably their, you know, their country as well. I mean, the Argentina Barbie, the Japanese girl is wearing a kimono. Yeah. Yeah. She's wearing a kimono and she's got a panda bear. I mean, I mean, you could say, you could say that's racist. Actually, that's the Chinese Barbie. Okay. Yeah. That's the Chinese Barbie. Fucking Australia. Barbie has a fucking get up from down under. Yeah. She's dressed like crocodile Dundee. She's got a noise. I mean, yeah. And she's got a stick with some, some shrimps to put on the Barbie. Yeah. And the Philippine, the Philippines Barbie has a beautiful, elegant dress with a closet in the back with a bunch of shoes in it. To emulate Imelda Marcos. If you guys remember that one. Yeah. Um, let me see here. Um, Holland Barbie. She's dressed like the little Dutch, uh, Swiss Swiss, Miss Dutch, uh, chocolate. Uh, yeah. The Cambodian Barbie is actually a man. Yeah. You know, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, the Latin, the Latins are mad. I don't know. I don't know. Because I think sometimes we Latinos, you gotta speak up. We, we Latinos, we, we, some of our, some of our people, we always want to fucking start yelling racism and shit like that when it's really not racist. I mean, it's that, that makes no sense. You, you want to hear, there's another, another event that happened in, uh, in New Jersey. Okay. In a CVS in New Jersey, right? You have, you have a Korean woman who, who basically, uh, went in to, to, to get, uh, I don't know, some prescription and they, they put on her receipt. Um, I think they called her, uh, chin. Hold on a second. Let me see if I find this. I mean, you, you could, you could say, ah, that, that sounds, that sounds, that sounds racist. Um, but at the end of the day, you know, is it, you know what I mean? Give me a second. Give me, everyone's so sensitive. Give me one second. Yeah. We're so concerned with words in this country. You notice that? Well, words are like this big thing that they have us all concerned with. Like which words can you say and which words are inappropriate and who can say these words? And you can't say these words because you're not one of these words and I'm one of these words. So I can say this word, but they're words and they're not really a tackling the real issues of how do we get along. Right, right. Well, we're not interested in getting along. We're interested in suing people and, and fighting for bullshit. Fuck that. But anyway, a woman of Korean descent who claims a worker at a CVS in Southern New Jersey used the phrase mocking Asians to identify her on a store receipt. Has filed a federal discrimination suit against the pharmacy chain, according to her lawyer. Okay. See, I have a problem with her suing, filing a federal discrimination suit because being discriminated against is, is, is a completely different thing. You know what I mean? Yeah. Telling you you're black, you can't eat here. Hanging you in the town square. No, no, no, no, no. Telling you you can't eat here because you're a black or you're a spick or whatever. Right. That's discriminating. preventing somebody being called a racial epithet epitaph or you know being used as some sort of an ethnic phrase or something some truth to it i don't know that that yields or the right to to to start a lawsuit but anyway here goes everyone's so sensitive attorney susan chana lask said her client young lee was picking up photos right february 7th at cvs in egg harbor city in new jersey when lee noticed an employee had identified her as ching chong lee on the ticket okay that's that's the thing lee said through her attorney that she complained to cvs customer relation relations and was allegedly told the worker would be counseled and trained okay yes he's gonna go to sensitivity training because everyone's so sensitive counseling cannot correct intolerable discrimination last said in a written statement adding they were demanding the worker be fired okay cool so i'm not i'm not opposed to that you know you call me ching chang you get the fuck out yeah i mean you break you buy you get the fuck out yeah i'm not i'm not opposed to that shit i'm not opposed to that get the guy tell him that he's fucking stupid he's a stupid fuck i mean go figure it out go figure it out the receipt says ching chong lee yeah let's see how you like the walgreens okay we're the ones with the benefit i mean i mean let's see how you like the wall i mean cvs could argue and say that um cvs could say i'm a cvf i hired a moron he doesn't know how to fucking listen he doesn't know how to write often does cvs say we hired the next einstein right we hired the next best that's not a very common phrase in cvs management meetings yeah guys are fucking idiots cbs cvs caremark corp a spokesman mike d'angelo said the company does not comment on pending litigation but has a firm non-discrimination policy it says cvs pharmacy is committed to treating all of our customers with dignity and respect you know i don't think that's discrimination yeah that's stupidity you know what i mean that's like that's that's moronic here's what i would like to see happen in america i would like we've been on this path for about 20 years where we're very concerned about what we say yeah it's administrative assistance week this week it's not secretary's week okay we don't want to call them secretaries these right this is dad and we but here's the thing it's latinos yeah it's latinos not hispanics not spicking we don't like to be called hispanics yeah it's not we we like to be called latinos yeah if you if you call us spics then i you know that we may have to sue yeah yes yeah so exactly check it the suit which last said was filed april 16th in federal court in camden new jersey is seeking one million dollars come on man give me a fucking break go get a hug seriously seriously yeah with all due respect ching motherfucking chong okay just watch out dude you're about to get sued yo all you need to do is meditate breathe in ching breathe out chong yeah that's all you need to do whatever happened to you pissed off the asian woman she whipped out a bo staff and beat up the whole fucking place come on go fuck yourself one million dollars what here's what i want america this is what i would like to see america do man up don't don't get your feelings hurt all the time yeah yeah god bullshit okay that's bullshit fucking bullshit big up cbs big up tide big up ching chong big up everybody man stay tuned next week to nestorius public radio join us call us anytime holler at your boys simon kaufman nester rodriguez signing out you can catch us on facebook support for npr comes from procter and gamble the makers of tide it's me it's me it's me it's me i ain't doing nothing but talking shit y'all gotta like you know encourage me the whole way long ow i!