Jesse Pours Out His Bucket of Rage in Fan Favorite Segment, Doom Hole

Fan favorite segment, Doom Hole, is back with more AI-related headlines. This week we begin with a feel-good shout out to Sam "The Sky Guy" who did our birth charts, and will be our honored guest in a few weeks. 

Then Jenn shares some GATE research from a deep rabbit hole she's dug for herself.

And finally, Jesse and Jenn get down to the business of headlines. Jesse empties out his bucket of rage as he shares three Amazon.com-related stories from the week.

Here are the story sources if you want to read them at your own pace and give these journalists some love in the form of clicks.

Show Sources

GATE Program - White Rabbit on Substack (if you want to try the Munro hemisync)

The Race to the Shackleton Crater Is On, ARS Technica, Stephen Clarke

Lauren Bezos Sanchez's Happiness Routine Goes Viral for All the Wrong Reasons, Fast Company, Maria Jose Gutierrez Chavez (our new hero!)

Amazon Worker Killed and Workers are Told to Look Away and Keep Working, NewsNation

Sisters song from Holiday Inn, YouTube (so don't sue us!)

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:03

Fucking clankers. Fucking clinkers.

SPEAKER_01 0:12

Props out to Sky Guy Sam. Because uh props. He is really good at what he does. And he teaches. I've never had anything happen. You know, I've never done one of those intense things like that before. Like a bird chart reading. Yeah, like the and go into the detail and such that he did.

SPEAKER_04 0:33

Right. What I loved is that he teaches you along the way. He's like, okay, your first house is yourself. It's you, you know, do do do. It's a filter that everything goes through. It's like the driver of the car. And I loved the way that he made it so approachable because I can remember things. Oh, four, four is home. And home, you know, for me, there were these different things that landed there, but that's it. Yes, we shouldn't talk about it because now people can go jump on there when that episode's live too.

SPEAKER_01 1:02

It does look like a Stargate.

SPEAKER_04 1:04

I know. And then my God, when Rachel earlier this week was a couple weeks ago, but she when this comes out, it'll be about a week and a half ago. But she had that chart and she goes, What is this? Because she did this reading and it was all like the I think it was all V's, Vs, V's, V's.

SPEAKER_01 1:20

But yeah, and then I posted a picture of Stargate and she was like, Oh, that's Stargate. I was like, first thing I thought of because I don't I didn't know what that looked like. And I was like, that looks like a Stargate.

SPEAKER_03 1:32

I got the nicest compliment. And yes, I am talking with food in my mouth.

SPEAKER_01 1:37

Pop tarts. It's it's a Pop Tart, so it doesn't count. Pop Tarts, they're delicious.

SPEAKER_04 1:44

Yeah, everybody has a tongue, I hope.

SPEAKER_02 1:48

And that's food for something, and it's in your mouth.

SPEAKER_01 1:51

Pop-tarts. They're what you do when you're wooing.

SPEAKER_02 1:56

What to do when you're woo. I know it's my lunch right now.

SPEAKER_01 2:01

Yeah, you ever heard that about when they do when they go home? Yeah, yeah. Like because it it it starts, you know, and and it goes like all the way through you. It does.

SPEAKER_04 2:11

Is that why we do it? Wow, it really does settle you. Well, it was interesting because I've been um, I feel like I got off track because I was gonna say something about Rachel, but whatever, it's gone now. But yes, I've been doing some research on the gate program, and I actually listened to the the hemisync stuff. Have you ever done that? Like listen to the the Monroe Institute Hemisync stuff.

SPEAKER_01 2:38

I don't even know what that is.

SPEAKER_04 2:39

Who that's the stuff that they were like having remote viewers listen to? Like, if you've heard of Stargate, Project Stargate, I know what that is. I know, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:48

So apparently Ed Dames and all those guys, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:51

So apparently you had to the reason why people remember the testing as kids in the gay program is they put on the headphones, and sometimes they were playing in their headphones the Robert Monroe recordings, and they're kind of like a meditation, but they're hemisync where each side is gathering different information, and it gets your brain into a different zone because you're kind of attuning both sides, but they're doing different things. I I guess. I mean, this is not scientific, but whoa, that was really an interesting time. I'm like, wow, I lost time at my dining room table because I was like slumped over and there was this thing still going in my headphones, and I had no recollection.

SPEAKER_02 3:36

I don't know if I didn't out of body and mess with people. I'm sorry, I apologize.

SPEAKER_01 3:42

No, no, I think uh if you sent someone to another realm, I feel like they belong there right now. You know what I mean? That's their their journey isn't listening to us right now, it's for them to be in the other realm.

SPEAKER_04 3:55

Oh my god, it's so true. Well, okay, wait, we're here to doom hole. So last week we had such a happy doom hole. It was just like cheerful, and this feels good, but there's heavy headlines this week.

SPEAKER_01 4:07

I mean, okay, look, yeah, first off, I would like to say that uh our friend's book uh soft launched, Rachel White, Business of Lou. Yes, and I I would like her to know that I rejoined Amazon Prime for 15 minutes so I could order it. So that's the sacrifices I make for my sister.

SPEAKER_04 4:28

Yes, you did. That was so nice of you.

SPEAKER_01 4:31

Uh I I have three uh I have three Amazon stories. I don't know if we're gonna make it through all three because I I just don't know if if if I have the mental capacity to do that. And wit. Yeah. We're gonna go ahead and start. Um I'm opening the first now.

SPEAKER_02 4:54

You know, I do the audio edit, so it's okay.

SPEAKER_01 5:01

I don't care. Leave it in there anymore. I don't even care. This is from Rs Technica, which uh is a cool website if you guys haven't ever checked it out. I haven't. It's ARS and then Technica, T-E-C, N-I-C-A. This is brought to you by Stephen Clark. Uh, and he writes the race to Shackleton Crater is on. Will Jeff Bezos or China get there first? Uh so this morning I this is on the moon, first off, everyone. Okay, thank you. Because I was like, am I supposed to do that? It's it's a lunar, what have you? It's on the moon, it's on the moon. Okay, okay, and I guess they're everybody's racing to uh they found out that there's some like really expensive helium um on the moon that they want to mine.

SPEAKER_04 5:59

Yeah, that's three, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:02

So uh I I I literally the the first thing that happened to me today, my my my rage bucket is so full of rage today, it's overflowing.

SPEAKER_04 6:12

You need to pour it out, pour it out on sugar on me.

SPEAKER_01 6:17

So I'm like, okay, the first thing that popped into my head was Bezos as like as daddy war bucks, you know what I mean? That's just like bald techno asshole. Okay, shorter, you know, because I've built building like a building like a big rocket that looks like a penis, okay? And he's got like a and instead of uh instead of an orphan, he he he builds a clanker, a little clanker dog, and uh doesn't have a furry tail, yeah, or whatever, you know. It's uh it's it's I guess it's got a robot tail. I don't know how that works. And then I was like, can you see this fucking asshole just sitting here like he wants to like tear up the moon?

SPEAKER_04 7:00

Okay, oh that's awful, it's awful. Him and and then they say it's him versus China, which I feel like he his PR people put out there.

SPEAKER_01 7:11

Of course they did because that's the because we know who that's gonna signal to to like give him tons of money, exactly.

SPEAKER_04 7:20

Yeah, it's disgusting. That is disgusting.

SPEAKER_01 7:25

Two landers will arguably be the yeah, this is all me ranting. That's not this poor guy. I just want you guys to know that. This is this wasn't Steven. Stephen Clark wrote a serious article in Rs Technica, okay? And I did not. Um, two landers will arguably be the most ambitious robotic missions ever sent to the moon. The endurance spacecraft built by Jeff Bezos. You know, it looks like a penis. Space company, Blue Origin will become the largest. Also, doesn't Blue Origin sound like uh like a company that's gonna like uh simple green us and like turn us into like uh yeah, soil and green. Yeah, soil and green. Yeah. Blue Origin will become the largest lunar lander in history, exceeding the size of NASA's Apollo lunar module, which ferried crews to and from the lunar surface from more than 50 years ago. China's Chang E7 mission will feature a smaller lander, but the project also includes an orbiter rover and a hopper drone to scout for hidden ice deposits. So I'm guessing that the helium or whatever is trapped in the ice.

SPEAKER_04 8:45

That that would be my guess.

SPEAKER_01 8:46

Yeah, they showed a picture of it and what they're working on, and looks like a goddamn penis. All right, he should have. So, did we did we do this nuts from the bottom of that thing? Swear to god. Doomhole this. Okay, so this is part A, Doomhole.

SPEAKER_04 9:01

Part A. Or one, you can count along, or you can use letters A or one.

SPEAKER_01 9:08

Yeah, that listen. This is our Sesame Street moment. Stop it.

SPEAKER_03 9:13

I almost had soda coming out my nose when you said that.

SPEAKER_01 9:16

I couldn't wait. I was just gonna be like, it's gonna look like uh it's gonna look like Jaws, the return or whatever over there. Okay, this is a woo adjacent story. Okay, so I thought I would throw that in there, okay? Wow, okay, wow. Lauren Sanchez Bezos's happiness routine is going viral for the wrong reasons.

SPEAKER_02 9:44

Wait, what's the source on this?

SPEAKER_01 9:46

Oh, God only knows. Uh uh, from fastcompany.com.

SPEAKER_03 9:53

Okay, thank you.

SPEAKER_01 9:54

It actually originally I pulled it off of uh Reddit. Okay, which I want all of you to know. I'm not one of those Reddit dudes. I just go on there to find Doomholes. That's what everybody says. I just go on there to find Doomholes. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 10:13

There's a lot of things I could say right now, but I'm biting my tongue.

SPEAKER_01 10:16

I just go on there to find doom holes. Cooper feels uncomfortable with you saying that three times. I don't go, I don't go in there to like because it's all like uh uh um um am I an am I an asshole if like I don't go to my sister's wedding because like uh she picked the wrong color dress? You know, it's all shit like that now. Reddit's uh it's become unman unmanageable bot farm. She has bullshit.

SPEAKER_04 10:46

But this story came from there, so I I just need to know her happy voice. Well, I don't look at the I really want to know.

SPEAKER_01 10:51

I don't I don't really look at the dopey comments, but anyway. So uh this originally came from Fast Company, which is fastcompany.com. Uh, this is brought to you by Maria Jose Gutierrez Chavez. Nice, beautiful name. Yeah, I know, right? Rock Long. Yeah, all right. Maria is uh she's about to tell us about this. I know her daily habits with Jeff Bezos are fueling a wider debate about wealth and relatability. Lauren Sanchez Bezos is great at being happy, so much so that she's encouraging others to pursue unapologetic happiness too. But unsurprisingly, those without private jets aren't buying it. See what she did there, aren't buying it. Get it, huh? You you you know, Maria, I gotta give you props. Look at that. I agree, I love her. She's quick on her feet. Over the weekend, the New York Times published a profile on Jeff Bezos' new wife, Sanchez Bezos, offering a glimpse into the powerful couple's daily life. Their mornings, for example, start off at their 230 million dollar compound in Florida, where the pair craft a gratitude list before kicking off the favorite story ever already.

SPEAKER_02 12:27

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_01 12:28

I th I you know what? I really feel like we we just turned Doomhole around and we're going back in the positive direction.

SPEAKER_02 12:35

Okay, and we just got to part one. Okay, they make a gratitude list.

SPEAKER_01 12:39

I mean, we're I like I like Maria hasn't even gotten cranked up yet. We're only in like the second paragraph.

SPEAKER_04 12:45

We know how journalism works, she's just getting started.

SPEAKER_01 12:48

That's the teaser part, yeah. Teaser, yeah. That's the part before the first commercial break. Exactly. The story also dissects the couple's dynamic, regular exercise, and leaning on each other for advice, a blueprint for reaching happiness while enjoying the perks of wealth. As the New York Times put it, Miss Sanchez Bezos seems to have influenced the Uber rich to stop apologizing and start enjoying themselves. Oh my god. Oh, I feel the cat scratch from here, and I love it. The reaction from readers was not exactly warm. Yeah. All right, here you go. That was there's the first commercial break, and now here comes the rest of the behind the music. Juicy morsels. Yeah. How tone-deaf are you? She is benefiting from the work of millions of people who break their backs every day working at Amazon, where median worker compensation is about 40k a year. A user said via threads. Another user echoed the criticism on Reddit, contrasting Sanchez Bezos' happiness against the backdrop of broader labor concerns. What makes this piece so astonishing isn't just its tone deafness, it's the sheer almost athletic commitment to pretending that obscene wealth is a personality trait even worth profiling, the user said of the New York Times profile. The user added, the real story this piece carefully avoids is the widening gap between the gilded bubble that everyone else uh uh between this gilded bubble and everyone else. While workers are laid off, wages stagnant, and housing becomes increasingly unattainable. We're handed a glossy puff piece on gratitude lists and yacht parties. But others took aim at the New York Times itself for platforming the wealthy couple. Yeah, I'm glad. I'm glad they gave them shit for that. Hi, Amy Chosen Chosic. Are you allowed to refuse assignments?

SPEAKER_04 15:09

Yeah, it's like blink twice if you're in a hostage situation.

SPEAKER_01 15:15

This feels um off, the user said via threads. The New York Times is rage baiting us, another added. This is all in threads. Uh, in fact, the story follows a string of controversies regarding the newspaper's stories and headlines that have drawn online criticism. For instance, a recent story story about white women adopting the Chinese game mahjong as a hostile trend brought heavy criticism online. Well done, New York Times. I didn't think you could cap your white woman mahjong rubbish, but here we are whitewashing fascists.

SPEAKER_04 16:02

What's interesting to me, I just have to add, is this this is the same week that it was reported widely that a an Amazon worker died in Oregon in an Amazon facility. That's that's story number three, and they oh my god, oh my god, I feel like I just doom holed us, yeah. And they're not allowed to call 911.

SPEAKER_01 16:25

They said that everybody else just kept working around them.

SPEAKER_04 16:28

God they were told to look away, they were told to look away, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because why? Why did they say that? Well, okay, we haven't really doom holed part two. I'm sorry, I have spoiler alert three.

SPEAKER_01 16:41

I I mean when I told you this morning that like you remember when I posted on Substack, I was like, uh I was like, save it for the pocket, save it for the pocket, save it for the pocket. Because I was gonna go off on uh it's gonna go off on daddy war bucks, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 16:59

Only short, short daddy war bucks.

SPEAKER_01 17:02

Yeah, and then I just tiny, then I joined Prime for 15 minutes. Oh that sucks.

SPEAKER_04 17:09

I could have gotten you a book.

SPEAKER_01 17:10

That's how much I love Rachel Watch her book, okay. Sisters, sisters, sisters, sisters.

SPEAKER_04 17:22

I was singing the one from Bing Crosby mute song. You know the sisters from like White Christmas, sisters, you know it's black.

SPEAKER_01 17:33

I don't know, I don't know that one. I know White Christmas. I know that's I know the song. Wait a second.

SPEAKER_04 17:39

I know the movie, I don't know all the time. You know, I think it's long enough that I could probably, you know, it's been long enough that it's out of trademark. I could probably even attach it to the end of this episode. That would be so fun.

SPEAKER_01 17:50

No, I wouldn't bet on it, but yeah, it's probably you're probably right.

SPEAKER_02 17:53

Okay, I'll just sing it.

SPEAKER_01 17:54

And then me and Cooper will act it out because things don't sue us, ass cap. I don't even know the words. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 18:05

Okay, wait. So are we still in part two or are we jumping to part three?

SPEAKER_01 18:09

I jumped this right now. I feel like uh I feel like Maria Jose Gutierrez Chavez has brought us a hero. She's brought us so much joy today. She's a hero.

SPEAKER_02 18:20

She's a new hero of mine now. Honestly, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:23

We we we we if we're ever at the same conference, uh me and Jen are meet me and Jen at the hotel.

SPEAKER_02 18:30

Buying a drink, buying a drink.

SPEAKER_01 18:32

We're uh we're fans. I'll be uh reading Fast Company now. All right, yeah, I am too. That was amazing. She just gave it to him, and it's so true. Yeah, so uh we talked about the do you want to do that one?

SPEAKER_04 18:47

Yeah, give us the details because I was just like all pissed off about it and it came up. I was like, people that aren't savvy to the the way it works. We just saw it with Sam Altman. He didn't want, if you Google his name, Sam Altman, he didn't want the that awful expose in his eyes, awful, but it was accurate by Ronan Farrow to show up on the internet first, and so he started, you know, really putting out there with his PR people about the Molotov cocktails that were thrown at his house, and you know, and so that came up first and it it kept people from talking about the actual story that talks about how he's just a really, really shitty person.

SPEAKER_01 19:27

It's almost like all of a sudden, out of nowhere, someone just starts throwing Molotov cocktails.

SPEAKER_04 19:32

Uh, yeah, I know that's what everybody said online. They're like, this feels so fake. So with the Bezos thing, this is their way of going, yeah, we're gonna get the search engines to show this instead of the death in Oregon. So tell it, give us a scoop, Jesse.

SPEAKER_01 19:46

Amazon worker dies on warehouse floor. Colleagues continue working around his body. Let's get back to work, end quotes. In a shopping, shocking incident at Amazon, employees in Troutdale, Oregon, or employee, I'm sorry, at Troutdale, Oregon, died at work, allegedly going unnoticed for a significant period. A company spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that the incident occurred last week at the distribution center. According to a report by the Western Edge, the worker collapsed on the floor at the PBX9 warehouse. He reportedly lay unattended for over an hour while others continued working around him. The man is believed to have died on Monday, 6 April. He was reportedly 46 years old. I mean, 46.

SPEAKER_04 20:37

That's a young man.

SPEAKER_01 20:39

Yeah, I know. The report further claimed that workers were instructed to continue operations for more than an hour after the incident. I mean, if you go by this, they didn't find him immediately. So it was I don't understand that for three hours, you know?

SPEAKER_04 20:56

Yeah. Well, I do you feel like they're saying that now retroactively? Because if they weren't allowed to call 911, they could have helped him.

SPEAKER_01 21:06

Yeah, there's been some legal and PR spin put on. There's some fuckery. Oh, yeah, there's fuckery afoot. Uh, the report further claimed that workers are instructed to continue operations for more than an hour after the incident. Employees continued fetching totes, picking items off shelves, and loading packages onto trucks while the man's body remained on the floor. It is alleged that yeah, it's it's horrifying. It is alleged that top managers did not halt operations immediately following the incident. The exact cause of death remains unknown. You know, I have a I have a uh God bless this man and his family. I agree.

SPEAKER_04 21:48

I agree. They've re traumatized his entire family. Like his family is gonna have to go through all of the scenarios of like, how could they not notice that he was down? Who Could have helped? What was this? Like, is there going to be a fair autopsy? I would have an autopsy done. I want to know the cause of death.

SPEAKER_01 22:07

Portland Fire and Rescue uh has put it out as a cardiac arrest when they were finally called and able to attend to the poor guy. The building is known for having a large number of injured injuries. At least they had the decency and respect to send everyone home, added another. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 22:26

Oh, please, they're heroes. After they found the poor guy. I bet you, Jesse, I bet you a nickel that they sent him home, but they didn't pay him for the rest of the day. I bet you a nickel.

SPEAKER_01 22:39

Oh, I'll bet you those cheap motherfuckers. I'll bet you more than that. Yeah. Yeah. Uh I'll bet you a Pop Tart. You know what? I'll bet you another thing too. I'll I'll double down on you. Yeah. I bet you that the first call was not to emergency services, but to the lawyers. Yep. And the PR paper. Yeah. How how do what do we what do we do? How do we handle this? I won't take that bet because you're right. You win. Yep. I guarantee it. And you know what? I've I've been obviously I've been thinking about this because it again, it this is there's no reason for this. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 23:20

This isn't human, this is awful.

SPEAKER_01 23:21

And it's not like uh we don't have tons of stories about the inhumane working conditions. Okay. It's not like this is it's it's not like suddenly this is breaking news. Right. Like, oh no, you mean you mean driving or working at an Amazon warehouse is like uh a shitty job and like you you're putting your life in danger and they fuck you over? Gosh. I mean that that this is this is not news.

SPEAKER_03 23:46

No, it isn't.

SPEAKER_01 23:48

But the more but the more I think about this week this week, the more I keep thinking, what if they're ramping up the shitty on purpose?

SPEAKER_04 23:57

To justify having like robots and and warehouses, bing bing, bing, bing, bing, ding, ding, bing, bing, bing.

SPEAKER_01 24:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 24:06

You're right. God, that's awful.

SPEAKER_01 24:08

You know what? This is such a this is such a dangerous job. And what we're gonna do is we're gonna move our focus to uh uh to to making the warehouses automated.

SPEAKER_04 24:20

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 24:21

Uh because you know, uh to because it's inhumane work, it's it's inhumane work, and we need to keep people safe.

SPEAKER_04 24:29

Oh my god. So then they look like heroes. Yeah, that's how you have to think about these people, is like five steps ahead. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, that's exactly what they did. That's disgusting. That makes me so mad, but you're exactly fucking right.

SPEAKER_01 24:44

Which I don't know. They don't oh my god, they don't let me sit in on those meetings, obviously.

SPEAKER_04 24:49

No, because because I'd be like, what the fuck are we doing? Yeah, don't we have enough money? You know what else was manipulated that I think that I saw I was exposed to this week on socials, but I feel like it was a manipulation, it was like made up was those little robots that are very low and they're kind of rectangular that um comb the streets. Sometimes in different neighborhoods, they are the ones that are doing the Amazon deliveries.

SPEAKER_01 25:15

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 25:16

Yeah, they showed this guy that pulled over, he saw one tipped over on its side and he pulled over and he put it upright, and then he showed it moving off into the distance. Well, I think that was bullshit propaganda that's trying to get all of us to go, oh, we have to care for these robots that could tip over for these giant billionaires. Uh, we have to take care of their fucking robots if we see them because that's a good Samaritan, too. It isn't a fucking good Samaritan. But I bet you a nickel, that was propaganda too.

SPEAKER_01 25:48

Why do you think they have those cute little faces on them, those little digital cute faces?

SPEAKER_04 25:52

Yeah, it is. Well, and then you know, you gotta wonder about the truck drivers too for Amazon because they'll probably want to go to these. Um, if they can't drone delivery, they're gonna want to go to these um self-driving trucks that oh, absolutely they are gonna have to have human beings.

SPEAKER_01 26:07

Yeah, they'll pull a truck up in a neighborhood and it'll open up and a bunch of those little clanker things will roll out.

SPEAKER_04 26:13

And and you know what's powering those? The data centers that are poisoning people, like with the higher cancer rates and the the toxic water and the noise.

SPEAKER_01 26:24

I got stuff on that too, but we're gonna have to save it for next time because uh Jen, we're about to have to do an interview.

SPEAKER_04 26:30

Oh, we are about to do it. We she's not asking to get in here yet, but yes, we have Abigail Cochunas next.

SPEAKER_01 26:36

Yes, we do.

SPEAKER_04 26:38

All right, well, this will be a good break. Well, do you need to potty the dogs before she pops in?

SPEAKER_01 26:43

I mean, uh they're good, they were outside before.

SPEAKER_04 26:46

Well, now it's awkward because we have like seven minutes and we're just gonna be like hanging out looking at each other.

SPEAKER_00 26:55

Fucking clankers, fucking clankers.