And the Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I left the wrong tab open and it started playing twice for me man I was it was going in my head and then it was going in my head and it was going in my head again and I think it's still playing I it's just we're

hi welcome to the program it's the Jeff Gersman show it's Tuesday it's August 27th

2024 I'm joined by the sultry

Ben Pack.

Beep, Ben, Benjamin, BP, the oil man.

The oil must flow.

I drink a milkshake. Remember my catchphrase? Yeah, I remember it from, yeah, your

milkshake cashphrase. Me and Paul F. Tompkins hanging out talking about drinking

each other's milkshakes. Yeah, was that I was?

I never really, I'm not really a big, you know, I don't really, I don't really,

is that a sex thing?

I don't really get like a lot of like,

on a subtext on things.

Yeah, well like, you know, there's levels, there's layers and levels.

That's why Paul Thomas Anderson is such a like genius as he will write something and you're like, you watch it once and you're like, oh, he's talking about oil and he's talking about sucking up and it's corporate greed and it's like, I'm pre-American evil and then you think about it and you're like no he's thinking about sucking something else up a different kind of great American evil.

Yes, the greatest American evil of them all.

What were you talking about?

We need to go back to Puritan times. We need to get back on cornflakes for every meal. We need to get that all this like, oh, I'm a freak. Well, I'm going to match my freak, like, yeah.

Come on, we used to be a proper country.

Back in the 1800s.

Oh, I see, oh, I see, oh, we're podcasting.

Okay, yeah, all right, finally.

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