Episode 331: Green Tanks Are On The Move!
Election Profit Makers
Jon Kimball & David Rees
4.9 • 700 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Jon watches Babygirl. David starts writing his musical about the history of FiveThirtyEight.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to election profit makers. |
| 0:01.4 | There's a lot going on in the news this week, but the one breaking news story that most intrigues me, |
| 0:05.3 | it feels like the stakes are the absolute highest for this particular news story. |
| 0:08.6 | John Kimball, my co-host, recently watched a little movie as part of his ongoing Hollywood research |
| 0:13.8 | as he transitions from Hollywood outsider to Hollywood insider. |
| 0:16.8 | The name of the movie is Baby Girl, starring Nicole Kidman. |
| 0:21.4 | John, what's your review of Baby Girl? |
| 0:25.0 | Steamy. |
| 0:25.8 | Steamy. |
| 0:26.5 | Look at that. |
| 0:27.6 | Yeah, creepy. |
| 0:28.9 | Creepy. |
| 0:29.3 | A little creepy. |
| 0:30.5 | Yeah, it got a little creepy at the end. |
| 0:34.1 | Yeah, she has an affair with a younger guy, an intern that she works with, and she's much older and more powerful than he is. |
| 0:45.0 | But it turns out that he had the power. |
| 0:48.7 | Oh, my gosh. |
| 0:50.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.1 | She had more to lose in this situation than he did. Interesting. So in a way, he had more leverage. And in many instances, leverage equals power. Ask any simple machine expert. Archimedes famously said, if you give me a lever long enough, I can move this whole fucking planet into a different solar system and we can start over. |
| 1:11.8 | I think it was Archimedes. Was it Archimedes with the big lever? |
| 1:14.3 | Yeah, but I don't know if it was that. |
| 1:16.0 | What did he say? |
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