The Evolution of Handshakes & Greetings | Macrodosing - Aug 6, 2026

**PFT Commenter** (0:00)
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**Arian Foster** (0:08)
That's what I was thinking. I was like, there's no way they just started in the Vietnam War.

**Big T** (0:12)
Listen, the National Museum of African American History and Culture says it started in Vietnam. If you want to take it up with them.

**Arian Foster** (0:20)
I would love to, because my granddad was born in 1927

**PFT Commenter** (0:23)
I don't want to doubt the lived experience of your father.
But also Ebony Magazine claims that it was developed in Vietnam.
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Welcome back to Macrodosing. It is Thursday. It is August 6th. Arian's back. We're all back. Excited to be back on the podcast, Airwaves, on the Internet, Airwaves.
A lot of stuff going on right now. Arian, first of all, welcome back.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:08)
Thanks, man.

**PFT Commenter** (2:08)
Welcome back. Congratulations on your Brewers. Your Brewers.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:11)
They never lose.

**PFT Commenter** (2:12)
They never lose.

**Arian Foster** (2:15)
Oh, this is a coincidence I had his hat on. I didn't even know.
I forgot, honestly. There's so many dubs in the season that it's another win for us. It doesn't matter.

**PFT Commenter** (2:27)
You just never lose. You're going to win the World Series. I am going to be rooting for the Brewers this postseason. I think just anybody but the Dodgers. If you're an American, you got to be rooting hard against the Dodgers.

**Arian Foster** (2:38)
I agree wholeheartedly with that. And I hope we see the ads again. I'm saying it right now.
I hope we see the ads again. Because we didn't show up last time we played them in the playoffs.

**PFT Commenter** (2:48)
No, you didn't.

**Arian Foster** (2:49)
No, we did not show up.
It looked like my little league team in the championship. Something happened.

**Big T** (2:57)
They just didn't show up.

**Arian Foster** (2:58)
But it's all right.

**Big T** (2:58)
The Dodgers have lost five in a row.

**PFT Commenter** (3:01)
It's pretty crazy, right?

**Big T** (3:02)
Yeah.

**PFT Commenter** (3:03)
Big T, are you believing the conspiracies about collusion?

**Big T** (3:08)
You're talking about for Scooble?

**PFT Commenter** (3:09)
For Scooble, yeah.

**Big T** (3:12)
Here's my thing when it comes to that. It does sound like the Tigers wanted for some reason to trade him to the Dodgers, even though other teams had packages that may have been as good, if not better. But why would Major League Baseball want an outcome that all of the fans hate?

**PFT Commenter** (3:32)
Okay.

**Big T** (3:33)
That feels like bad business.

**PFT Commenter** (3:34)
That's a good question. The theory is that if the Dodgers win another World Series, everybody, all the fans of the teams that are not the Dodgers will say, we actually need a salary cap. And fans will say, in order to make the game not so slanted in favor of the major markets, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the New York Yankees, we need to have a salary cap because otherwise, our favorite teams don't have a chance at the start of every year. And if the Dodgers win again, people will say that. People will say, like, the Dodgers just, they buy everybody, even though, like, this is a trade. Anybody could have traded for Scoobble. Now, granted, a team like the Dodgers is more likely to trade for them because they can afford to keep them around after renting them for a little bit.