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520 - We Went To A Zoo feat. Zack Kopplin (5/3/21)

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4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Will and Felix report from their trip to the zoo. We review the woke CIA ad, and then discuss restaurants finding themselves hurting for employees when their lazy, entitled potential workers aren’t “economically coerced” to labor for “poverty wages”. We’re then joined by journalist Zack Kopplin to discuss his new piece on how corrupt mineral mining contracts have played a big part in our 20 year occupation of Afghanistan. Then, more zoos, animals & apes talk. Follow Zack on twitter: @ZackKopplin Check out Zack’s piece here: https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/how-afghanistans-president-helped-his-brother-secure-lucrative-mining-deals-with-a-us-contractor And get tix for our show at the FRQNCY1 streaming festival here: https://frqncy.live/frqncy1

Transcript

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0:23.3

Hello, hello, greetings friends. It's another chop-off coming at you this Monday afternoon.

0:38.6

It's me, Matt and Felix, and in a little bit I will be discussing corruption and Afghan

0:44.7

mining contracts with the journalist, Zach Complin. Before we get there, just some regular

0:51.7

chop-off business to you attend to. So let's kick off today's show with, I think maybe

0:59.4

hopefully a new feature on the show, it's Zoo Report. That's right, we're reporting on

1:05.3

the animals at the zoo. Felix and I went to the Bronx Zoo on Friday and we've come back

1:11.3

with some interesting animal facts. I'm afraid Matt could not attend our day out into the

1:18.5

zoo as he is banned from all wildlife preserves, zoos, circuses and things of that nature.

1:24.7

Look, is it a crime to try to dose the elephants with LSD so that they can escape if so lock

1:34.1

me up? There's a photo of him at the ticket booth and it says, do not let this man into

1:39.4

the zoo. Do not let him into the Bronx Zoo. All the apes get too damn horny when they

1:43.2

see him. Felix, what did you make of the zoo? What was your favorite animal experience

1:51.5

on Friday? Are there any animal facts that you would like to share with our audience?

1:56.5

I feel like the best thing we saw was the two gorilla kids playing. That was awesome.

2:04.8

They were sort of rough housing, they were doing a little light scrapping with each other,

2:08.9

but the best part of it all was that it all kicked off when one of them just took a giant

2:13.5

arm full of hay and just splashed it on the other's head. He was running around with

2:17.8

a little cap of hay just throwing hands at his brother.

2:21.5

Gorillas love hay. In captivity, they seem to hang out with hay and do a lot of hay tricks.

2:30.4

There were some things I found artistically interesting. There was a monorail portion

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