In this edition of Let's Have A Nation-Wide Trenderal Strike, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, the massive No Kings protest, George Santos getting a Trump pardon, Israel still doing war crimes after the ceasefire agreement, the jewel heist at the Louvre and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Oh, I went to cause them the fucking sphere screen
thing in Englewood to watch an Arsenal match.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's fucking insane. Oh that's the one where you like
feel like you're there.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Yeah, yep, I gotta say my cave mam brain was
fucking tingling.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Dude. There was one point like ducking when they would
like kick a shot. I'm not joking.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I tried to dap up a player who just take
a corner kick. Everyone was like I was looking around
and even like Jamel and the one of my other boys,
they were like, they're like were you kind.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Of wanted to be like, hey, hey, get me, like
if you.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Were a court sided like you it felt like that
and where we sat like it completely envelops your peripheral vision.
So now I'm getting like I can't imagine what the
sphere is like because I went to like the smaller.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Scale version and was completely fucking blown away.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah, the spear just needs to like start shoot hing
like sporting events, just up close like that. Yeah, because yeah,
I mean it made a nature documentary like super compelling,
Like I can only imagine.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I mean, anything that they show you at the Sphere
will cost three hundred dollars right, right, right, they need
to recoup that money.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Like I don't know how much COSM cost, right, but.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
So three hundred dollars though, like I've I've always said that,
like sitting court side of the NBA, like everybody need
we need to create a like public fund so that
every human being on Earth gets to experience has the
opportunity to experience sitting court side an NBA game. It's
like one of you just like need to do it
to understand how fucking incredible these people are. Like, so
(01:42):
three hundred dollars to sit court side essentially at an
NBA game, if it's like delivering eighty percent of that experience,
like I feel like you gotta you gotta do it.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Damn. They're they're at the Matrix at COSM. It's fucking yo.
So they got the Matrix at Cosm.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Yo.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
During during halftime, right, they like they took the screen
and played the trailer for it on the screen, so
you got like a taste of what it was like.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Bro, the trailer for the Matrix.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
They're the Cosm up version where like they're filling out
the screen so like there's shots where like you know
that like the part they're all the human battery pods
when they're in the real world.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, it's just you're just up in it.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Afterwards, it was one of those moments where like again
everyone looked around and thought, do we applaud?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, like what we.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I was like, uh yes, yes, especially that scene where
like all the gun racks are like coming through, like where.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
They're like that white space like.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
They do that ship Like you're up in the room too,
So it's the entire screen is just like all these
racks flying by and.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
You whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I've heard people complain about you, like it's fucking gimmicky
or whatever, but as someone who sat in there, I was.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Like, that's a good gimmick. I'm not gonna lie. Yeah.
That's the thing about gimmicks, it's you're actually good. Yeah,
sometimes they're good.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this week trend.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Edition of Si'sitgeist.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah. My name is Jacobrian. Not over there. Over there
is mister Miles. B ah ha ha.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
This is the episode where we tell you what was
trending over the weekend was training on this Monday morning.
But first we like to let you get to know
us a little bit better by telling you some things
that we think is overrated, some things we think underrated.
Uh and Miles, I would love for you to do
the honors. My goodness is under rated. Under rated.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Chicago and their mayor, Brandon Johnson Chicago storied history of uh,
you know, union activism. Heymark a martyrs okay, recently the teachers'
union strikes. They know how to use their collective power
to affect change.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
And over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Of Chicago other than the musical, so you're telling you
it's a it's a real place, man, it's a real place.
There's and then that cal, that arsonist cal. That's kind
of where my knowledge starts starts and stops. And then
the bald headed guy who shoot ball. Good him there
to the right team.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
But no, like over the weekend, right, there was a
no Kings Uh there, you know the no Kings protests
are having it everywhere.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
The mayor Brandon Johnson got up a stage and called
for a general strike said, hey, this time, what.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
The fuck are we doing now? I say it's underrated
because I cannot.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Outside of the social media posts and a loose huff
Po article, most of the mainstream media has completely ignored
that specific part of his speech to call for a
general strike, which has never happened in the United States.
The closest thing that happened was maybe, like in the
like nineteen forty six I was reading and that led
to the Taft Heartley Act, which basically was like, uh,
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unions can never coordinate to to do some kind of
general mass strike.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
That's illegal.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
And so in seeing that, I'm like this because I think,
like most of us, were tired of reading about all
the unprecedented things that the administration is doing, and part
of me is like, when's somebody going to say it's
time to get busy, right, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Like, I totally not getting busy.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I totally understand the show of force of getting out
in protest. I think that's great because I think these
are incremental steps to getting people as coordinated as possible
to be like, yeah, okay, we know what stakes are,
We'll get out there. We might not be alled out
there for the same reason, but just generally ideologically, there's
some kind of common thread here, and I think it's
I think it's notable that the mayor of Chicago is
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calling for something unprecedented because right now we are in
the face of having constant, unpreceded thing, Unprecedented things happen
to us as American citizens, as just and people who
live here. So I was very I was like, oh, okay,
I'm like, okay, talk that shit, Mayor Johnson. And then
I just say it's underrated because nobody's really talking about that.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
He's gonna have to go door to door and hand
out flyers for that to get spread in the United
States of America. But the media being basically on board
with the force of the capital there, that's yeah, pretend
he didn't say that, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And again it's just this is I mean, I think
it's it's hard to imagine that happening. Yeah, but I
think as things become more and more acute. Yeah, to
put it lightly that we prefer unprecedented here at the
New York Times because it makes it it's the same
(06:55):
word that we use to describe what shoo Tommy did.
Maybe that shit holy fuck is what we call all
of these things. But yeah, uh, Chicago.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Much love to you.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And just also, man, just you know, the constant just
every might do every city that is having to deal
with federal harassment right now and illegal seizures and stoppages
and all that kind of shit. But I just I
just think it's commendable to say that, but more so
because most of the things you hear from Democratic leaders
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are like this, this stuff's got to stop, right, It's.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Like uh huh, and now lead and what we do?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah, And I think it takes a city like Chicago
who has a storied history with this kind of thing
for that to happen.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
But then again, crickets in terms of reporting it.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
It's like I even tried to search Brandon Johnson General
Strike NBC and then it was just like, here's some
stuff that it says about Brandon Johnson on NBC and I'm.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Like, did you are you?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
We didn't catch those other two words, but we're just
gonna kind of move forward here, yeah, man, and brand
the editor makes a good point, Americans addicted to work,
but we we gotta try, you know. Yeah, this is
not just like they're failing to mention it, like it
anytime something like this happens, like there's people behind the
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scenes just being like, so we're gonna actively like edit
that out of our reporting on this speech. It's just
it's not gonna happen, right, Yep, yep. We're familiar with
the Taft Hartley act. It's one of our favorite acts.
So yeah, so that didn't go well the last time
they tried the General Strike. Yeah, man, fucking Hartley, that
(08:51):
guy sucks. All right, My underrated miles is how hard
museum heists are. The new heist just drop every weekend
at the Louver, and this one kind of seems like
this one stands out because it's I think a little
bit more sophisticated, Like they drove up with a truck
(09:12):
that had a ladder, and they were wearing masks from
the beginning. Also that's huge that that is actually a
higher bar than most art heists reach. But came up
with masks, broke into the second floor window, the alarms
going off, and nobody really did ship. They stole the
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jewels like some famous jewels that I Napoleonic jewels, Napoleonic jewels,
and I and.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I went to sleep when I read that.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Oh God, no jewels, Oh God.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
But we'll get into the details of that heist in
a little bit. But I just I always think it's
worth bringing up because movies, there's like the art heist
genre of move you know, Thomas Crown Affair and shit
like that. And they treat robbing a museum like it's
a classier and like more difficult and sophisticated version of
bank robberies where you have to, like you learn a
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choreographed dance to like get through a field of lasers
and shit like.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
That, and you gotta wear tight SPANX.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
While you gotta wear tight SPANX, you gotta be up
on the latest technology. You've gotta spanx, yeah, which is
always Spandex. You've got to have that Kim Kardashian faith
brawl on so your saggy ass face doesn't hit one
of the trip wires exact exactly. But in reality, like
museum staff are usually unarmed, some of the biggest art
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heist in history are usually like somewhere between shoplifting and
like a bully, like stealing someone's lunch money. It's they
just like walk in and take the ship. And there's
not anybody who like the successful art heist in history.
And like, since I wrote about this back at Cracked,
there there's been a documentary about it, but it's it
(11:07):
happened in Boston. It's never been solved, and like the
documentary was like we don't know, like how these people
must have been geniuses, but it like truly could have
been planned by a five year old, It's right. They
they wore police uniforms and like had fake badges to
get into the museum, such as like you know, Halloween costumes.
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They had to subdue a grand total of two security guards,
who were both twenty something musicians, one of whom admitted
to showing up for work.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Stoned, Oh yeah, oh yeah, don't worry about them. They're
not putting up a fight.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yeah, no, it's it is a it's treated as and
it's in like the pay of you know, like being
a doorman or something, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Like it's just like, yeah, you're.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Not you're not being paid to be some kind of
like a security spe show list.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
You're exactly you're you're merely.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, to dissuade someone from you know, breaking the social contract.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
In that uh, you know, most famous, most successful artists
ever that's never been solved. The thieves accidentally tripped an
alarm that they hadn't prepared to you know, like dance
through or like Zada Jones wiggle through the alarm sent
a signal out to another part of the museum.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
It's like a it's like a baby monitor. It's just
like hell yeah, the like the Mona Lisa.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
We've we've talked before about how the Mona Lisa is
mostly famous because a similar thing had like a French
guy stole it. And he he did that by being
like you know, working at the museum and then like
hiding it in his smock. He just took it off
the wall and like put it like again, like just
like stealing a fucking candy bar from r Aid.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yeah. The plannings just it goes like this, well, how
are we gonna get it? I gonna put in my jacket?
All right, cool? Cool, Like you.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Don't even you don't even need like other people involved.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
You're just like what if I got a bigger jacket?
Oh shit, yeah, okay, all right, let's go get her.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Another guy like one of the most successful art thieves
of all time, not a Thomas Crown level genius. He
uh just you know, had a long career of taking
art off the wall and hiding it in his coat,
just like straight up swiping it off the wall. One
point four billion dollars over the course of his career,
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and yeah, like that. I just doing research. It was crazy,
like they the thieves usually don't know what they're stealing.
They just like steal it and then wait to read
in the newspaper what they sole and like what the
value is.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah, like fencing it.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah this one again, this one sounds like it was
a little bit more sophisticated, but I don't like the
details will emerge, but I don't think it probably needed
to be. Like the one security intervention that we've read
about from the theft was that like they tried to
light their car on fire and somebody worked at the
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museum like put it out.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Hey, hey, stop that all right, all right, Hey we're
taking off on our bikes.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yeah, and then they rode away motorcycles, which is cool. Yeah,
this is more of a jewel theft, which might be
a higher level. I haven't done a ton of research
into that, but just generally museums are staffed by the
same people who like, there's not a hidden security force
is like armed to the hilt in the other room.
It's the people who are like, hey, stand back, you're
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standing your toes on the line, right, you know, like
that's who.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
That's who's the flash photography.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah, okay, well you just have the job. You just
said no flash photography. Are you going to enforce that?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
No? No, And when they say flash no flash photography,
I've never witness them like open their coat and have
like that thing on them.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah. Yeah, a fucking MP five.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
They're like, watch out, baby, because they can get nasty
in here. All right, myles, what's something you think is overrated?
Just the concept of the goat or the greatest of
all time? Because show, Hey Otani, this is a thing.
This guy. If you don't give a fuck about baseball,
(15:27):
I don't blame you. However, However, there is somebody doing
diabolical shit right now, and I mean that in the greatest,
most positive way possible. He is doing things that you
would only envision by like doing a creative player in
a video game. Yeah, where it's like, oh, this guy's
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gonna fucking throw consistently over one hundred miles an hour,
have every sort of pitch in the arsele and also
can crush the baseball. On Friday show, Heyotani, who's a
pitcher and all they're saying he's could be the could
be the greatest player since Babe Ruth. I think that's
beyond question. Now, yeah, I'm still processing this. So he's
closing out the game four. This is the the NLCS
(16:11):
Dodger to the World Series. If they win this game,
they go to the World They go to the World Series.
And then's been in a.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Bit of a slump. He hasn't had a good postseason.
The thing that made me a little angry was they
were like, he's even taking batting practice, which like everybody does,
and they're like, he's even trying taking batting practice to
like he's putting try and get out of the slump.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
It's like Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
So this is how the this is how the fucking
first inning played out. He walked the first battery, strikes
out the next three. Right then he's the first person
to bat for the dodge for the the bottom of
the first inning, he fucking just homer ho run gone
lead off fucking home run that has never happened. A
pitcher has never fucking hit a lead off home run.
(16:59):
Just just again, this sequence. Don't pitchers don't don't that's
they don't hit. This is the thing, Like it's the
first thing you learn in baseball. They're like, kind of
doesn't make sense. You're like, well, like if they're amazing athletes,
like they should, and it's just like, no, you don't understand.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
You don't understand.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Pitching a baseball one hundred miles per hour takes all
you fucking have, Like it's it needs to be your
full time focus, all the fucking time. Hitting a baseball
is the hardest thing in sports.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
It's impossible to hit a baseball.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
To do both of those things is just beyond the
level of like what anyone can imagine it.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
You just can't even fathom it.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
And he is one of the best pitchers and the best,
Like he won the MVP last year and he wasn't
even pitching.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
He wasn't pitching, and he just started to pitching anyway.
He had ten strikeouts, six scoreless innings, and three home
free home runs.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
If he had three home runs, it would be like
a legendary game without pitching.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
What the fuck? How in this economy? In this economy
showing show, Hey, don't you know this country's turning into
a festering pile of goo?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
And you go and do something like this that makes
you believe in some kind of magic.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
How dare you.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
It's it also ties it like back on a Boosty
on our NBA podcast, always talked about how basketball.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Is a unique sport in that it is progressive. Like
you can see from season to season the players get better.
You watch a game from five years ago, You're like,
these people are noticeably not as good on defense and
offense as the players in the NBA this season. Like
that's that that hasn't it hasn't been like a steady
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upward trajectory, but now it seems like it's really like accelerating.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Everybody's got YouTube, everybody's like you.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Know, getting individual coaching and shit in addition to you know,
playing ball.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
And like you can see that.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Baseball is unique in that it's it feels like it's
kind of a level playing field, which is why like
all the stats matter so much. You know, like why
like the record for the most home runs in a
season has been held was like held for fifty years,
while like a bunch of like hitting records are just
like held still by people in like the fifties and sixties.
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So to have somebody come through and do shit that
is genuinely unprecedented.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah, is on such a deal so crazy.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
So it's wild when you have like a Rod, Derek Jeter,
Big Poppy, all these guys after the game.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Be like, what the fuck was that? I've never seen
anything like that before. Sure, look like you just saw
a ghost.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I mean, Big Poppy was like, I'm we're fortunate to
be alive right now. Just see this happen. So again,
if you want casually tune into the World Series because
who knows if he's gonna have another performance like that,
but just know that there's there's a person out there
who's's doing something absolutely unbelievable right now, and it's it's
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like it's it's been a while since like you had
one of these athletes like you know, like peak Lebron
or something where people are like, Wow, what.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
The fucke what this human body's doing?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Yeah, but anyway, I think that's all seems like it's
being written like that's that's the thing I would get
from Lebron, from Jordan, they'd like get to the finals
and then do some shit that it's just like, Wow,
Lebron's gonna come back from three to one against my
best regular season team of all time. He's gonna like
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suddenly learn to fly and like pin a shot like
one of the most important shots against the backboard. Jordan,
it felt like like in his last championship where he
like comes down, steals the ball and then hits the
game winning shot, and you like knew it was almost
like a predictable TV show where you're like, well, obviously
the most dramatic thing to happen would be this, So
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that's how they're gonna script it like that.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Because this person has that sort of like magnetism or
like that there's like an omas this thing about him,
you know, and.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Just other worldly, otherworldly.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
When he when it was time for that third on
home run, I go, I was like, let let this
be a home run. I almost threw the guy's child
like recklessly hot like hyked into the air because we
were up late watching that.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
He was he was hinting in and out of the
room like an and one mix.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yeah, unbelievable, unbelievable, great over eight and my overrated kind
of sucks. I just company is telling me about my
anniversary with them and treating treating me like I'm their friend.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yeah, without no discount or anything. Yeah, just being on.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Hey, you've been using our health tracking app for three years, Like, congratulations, brother,
let's take a look back at all the memories.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I'm like, I don't know, man, we're not remember that.
Remember that run of sleep? That was huh right? You
got anything else for me?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I'm a work friend who like sent me an email
notifying me. It was like, hey, it's our three year anniversary. Man,
like that just somebody I like, you know, worked within
the most Like it's just like an app like does nothing.
It does make me a little bit sad to like,
wonder if this is working on other people.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
They're like, you're my friend, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I mean they it must they must have some kind
of evidence that shows like creating some weird parasocial relationship
with it.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I don't like kind of helps, but I certainly.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Why it bothers me is that Like it's yeah, parasocial
relationships with I mean AI are obviously becoming.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
A real thing.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
But hmmm, with an app, an app, man, that's their
update to guess who's coming to dinner? Yeah, probably it's
probably happening. It'll be really bad. But yeah, I don't
I don't need the email notifications. I don't need the
retrospective where you like play a little song as we
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went back over the.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
An updated Guess Who's coming to Din?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Are not about race relations starting the starring Sydney Patier,
But yeah, but it would be like fucking Glenn.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
What's that guy's name? Glenn? What's his face? Who's the
hot guy right now?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Oh, Glenn Powell, Glenn Powell and his AI girlfriend or something?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah, like whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
She actually has really great data on sleep that helps
me maximize my performance.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Dad.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
She loves Shelby Cobras too. Ask her anything about the
for Shelby Shelby Cobra go, ask her.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Anyway, it's a bummer.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I just I think we uh touch grass is obviously
the thing people say. But like also just like talk
to human like talk to people, talk to talk to
human beings.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I feel like.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Just take that, like your vitamins checking in with somebody,
talking to an actual human being. I feel like that,
uh we we could all stand to like have more
phone conversations or fucking in person conversations with an actual
human being so that you don't feel like some sense
of get misty eyed when you find out that it's
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your three year anniversary.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, oh wow. Watch you've used it. You've used the
Omran blood pressure cuff for two and a half years now.
Congrats on your health. Glory days. Dan. All right, let's
take a quick break and we'll be right back. And
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we're back. We're back.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Amazing mobilization over the weekend by the No Kings protest
such yeah, paid actors, Like, how did they do it?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Seven million paid actors? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I
kind of.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Believe it because, like La, you know, there's a lot
out of work actors out here.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
But oh yeah, what an achievement. When I got my
to community, when.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I got my two thousand dollars deposit from George Soros
actually said.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
You know what, I'm gonna keep this. I'm in.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
That's how I do it. I'm a bad paid actor. Yeah,
I'm just I'll take the money and then I'll use
them on something else. But yeah, I mean as uh, Look,
it's interesting to see how the GOP went from the
in the build up to the No Kings protest.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Oh you've been watchings and disapprohamas terrifiest with freaks that
are gonna kill you, to then seeing all these people
and then becoming rage a and be like I don't care.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, that's right. That's truly like they they turned it
on a dime. It went from these people are going
to destroy America, they hate everything, and then they say
all these like retirees, teachers, normal people going out their children.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
It became as it's like whatever, It's like, I wasn't
that big anyway.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
These people don't represent America, as Trump said. But yeah,
one of the largest single day demonstrations in US history,
the biggest since Trump returned to the White House for
a second term. Naturally, it made the bottom of the
front page of the New York Times, with a brief
mentioned that was, you know, less extensive than their article
(26:17):
about the basketball court at the Obama Presidential Center.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
That's true. Yeah, it got the Obama lisc.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Yes, an Obama LISC and basketball in Chicago's Presidential Center
gets a bunch of front page copy. And then there's
like two tiny pictures of the protest. Yeah, and I
think the sub has said, I don't know, some fucker
showed up or something whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Okay, cool New York Times, cool cool, cool way to
do your job, way to do your job. Yeah. I again,
there were responses to this have been real varied, mostly
of the dumbfuck variety.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I'd say, yeah, this is Donald.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Trump responded to the protests with you know, an interview
answer that we'll get to, but also with an AI
generated video of himself dressed as a king dropping shit
on protesters from a fighter jet.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I believe ye, I'm playing danger Zone by Kenny Loggins
the video.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
According to The Independent, The video, shared on the president's
personal and government social media accounts, shows the president soaring
above a protest crowd and what appears to be Times Square.
The jet then dumps brown liquid on the demonstrators as
Kenny Loggin's danger Zone plays in the background, an apparent
reference to the top Gun movies. I would also say,
also an apparent reference to the Dave Matthews band bus incident.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yeah that's yeah, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Senior Republicans attempted to suggest the protests was quote part
of a democratic conspiracy to block an end to the
government shut down and or a Hamas Antifa collaboration.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
This was planned in September, pre shutdown. So you know,
miss us with the they're trying to block that amazing
foresight by them.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
If you gave I mean not that you gave a fuck.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
It's just that you are pinned in a hard place
now because you're gonna have to own all the healthcare
cuts that you made in the big beautiful bill, and
now you're trying to figure out how to make that
the fault of anyone but the people who passed that
legislation and control the three branches of government at the
current moment. And you know, the denials of reality here
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have been really interesting, Like Republicans can't even like they
can't even get people to go along with like these
are all actors lie. So the next strategy was like,
it's not a big deal, and I think it's just
terrifying to them that this many people showed up, so
they must. We talked about this last week in the
build up when he was trying to, you know, characterize
this as like I hate America thing. No, they hate
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America as it is right now because they know it
can be better. The other reason is that they have
to convince the base that this is insincere, that there's
no reason at all for anyone to be upset about
what is happening unless they are unhinged or whacked out,
not because our rights are being trampled or food is
unaffordable and the wealthy continue to steal our futures.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
It's because there's fucking whacked out, dude, that's all it is.
Bunch of fucking whacked out, A bunch of wacked dudes, dude. Yeah,
here's you can see.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I mean, if the New York Times covered it more extensively,
you would be able to see that they're not whacked.
Do is like you said, they're teachers and you.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Know, just people, normal people.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
And I think they just saw a bunch of white
people out there too, and they're like.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
What the fuck are you doing? What do you move
around to them?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah? This is a Trump dismissing what occurred over the weekend.
What's your response to the protests over the way?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
What do you jay Z? Who you win? Exactly?
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Who you with?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
And then he like kind of takes it in. Uh
ap okay good.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
At this point you could just lie you could be
from ABC because he hates ABC.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Right now, you can be like, I'm with ap okay cool? Right?
See this mother for goingna't know, just say the right
shit before. So he's actually being asked about the note kings.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
I think it's a joke. I looked at the people.
If they're not representative of this country.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
White people. I looked at the people, okay, okay, go on,
and I looked.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
At all the brand new science paid he I guess
he was paid for by Soros and other radical left lunatics.
It looks like it was. We're checking it out. The
demonstrations were very small, very ineffective, and the people who
were whacked out. When you look at those people, those
are not representative of the people of our country.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
The people are whacked out.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
And he was so unbothered by it that he shared
a video of himself dumping shit on all of them, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
And then being like, I could do the insurrection Act, right,
I could?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, I could, I could do it. I don't know anyway.
I'm just saying like, I'm pretty potent.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
They were definitely hoping that it would be more violent
and less organized than it was. One of their things
was right Angled News Network posted breaking at exactly one
pm all the No King's protesters in Times Square immediately dispersed,
totally normal and definitely not astro turfed. It's like, no,
that was when they had the like, if they had overstayed,
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they would have sent federal agents in to start beating
the shit out of people and arresting them, which is
all that you wanted out of this.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Also to get that many people out again, you're not
getting These aren't like people who are in the streets
all the time type people like again, these are parents,
grandparents you know, that are out there, Families that are
out there. So when they're like, yeah, we went out there,
got out there with other people, and then you get
you leave after because they're they're not trying to get
kettled by the fucking police or some shit.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
So anyway, performances are so naturalistic though that I might
not have hope for democracy in the future of our country.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
But the acting.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Chops of some of these people, Yeah, as they're being interviewed,
they just seem a fucking bunch.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Of damp it was out there.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
They get nominated, I mean, you know what I mean,
a mass oscar for this acting work. Judge paid for
those signs, you can because the signs were new.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
I understand what the fuck does that even mean?
Speaker 3 (32:15):
This is clearly does he think protest like does he
think that it's just it would be weird if the
protest if they were like breaking out the same signs
from before. Then it would be like, oh, they're like
passing around right rynds, like they don't really apply, Like
that would seem weird, But no, everybody, that's part of
the process where you like write and design a sign
that says what is on your mind.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
That's called protected free speech.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
But anyway, I mean, I think it's really also indicative
of what the chatter is around Trump to keep his
like ego from like just fully breaking down and making
everything harder for the people that actually kind of run
the wed as like it's fine, mister prettant, it's nothing.
Look at them, they're all whacked out. George Soros probably
paid for this. Or would you like an additional hamburger?
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You want to eat that?
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Good, good, good, Because it just feels like that's what
they're all saying to fucking soothe themselves. And again, it's
it's definitely symbolic. But I think the next iteration, the
next phase of all these kinds of mobilizations is to
actually try and figure out what a collective action action
to begin to use the leverage of having seven million
(33:26):
people according to the organizers estimates in physical space what
now can you do to turn that into some kind
of leverage or pressure point that can affect something, because
right now, I'm sure even for the Republicans, they're like, yeah,
I'm want to go out there with your science whatever. Yeah,
but we're going to continue to run rough shot over
everything well.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Repeatedly saying the you know, antisemitic trope that George Soros
is paying for all this, Like anytime you get enough
like it's Soros. You just like follow that subreddit long
enough and it's like, oh it goes back then it's
anti semotism.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Yeah, yeah, yea yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Because he was taking all that in, I think he
was reminded of George Santos, like you know, the names
aren't that dis And he commuted George Santos's fraud sentence
because he would quote always vote Republican. So again like
the saying the thing out loud, that's like you would
(34:20):
think that being like and I'm letting people out of
jail because I think they would vote for me. That's
like the sort that's a conspiracy they accused the Democrats
of doing. But he's just straight up like yeah, I'm
gonna get some votes. He seems cool like that shit
like him again he you know, stole money for botox
(34:44):
and porn by creating a fake pet charity.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Yeah, all kinds of fraud.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
He's had a career rife with fraud and swindling people,
and yeah it shit finally caught up to him.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah, but again, as long as you're like Donald drop
lease help.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
I love you, but I also hate myself because I'm
gay and not white?
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Right am? I accepted?
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Now?
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Please please?
Speaker 3 (35:10):
This does seem like it would be a good opportunity
to I don't know, like for the Democrats or opposition
resistance forces to start to focus in on the fact
that he's doing this constantly everywhere, like pardoning people in
exchange for donations, Like, yeah, there's a Trump just knows
(35:30):
how the system works. Angle that I have to feel
is going to get less and less potent as people
have less and less money due to the oligarchy. Like
I feel like taking big donations and in exchange bailing
rich people out of jail, Like that feels like a
good thing to focus on.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
You know, there's so many Jack, there's so many good
things to focus on.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
I see, this would be a good one to so
many good things to focus on.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
But the good thing though, is George Santos is not
out of the woods here because the state legislature in
New York, because Paul Mannifort like skated on the similar thing,
they created a law to tighten up. They call it
the Manifort loophole that basically says, oh, like, if you
if you're pardoned, if you get some kind of presidential
(36:18):
treatment like a commutation, a pardon, whatever, they can hit
you with state charges. And it's not going to be
double jeopardy to prevent this exact kind of thing. So
I'm sure they're the you know, the das in the
Attorney General in New York's like, hmm, well, you may
have skated on the federal charges, but here in New
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York because a lot of the things that he the
crimes he committed that were the federal charges are also
laws that he's breaking in New York, right, So who knows,
it might not, it might not end totally totally uh
incident free for George Santos.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Yeah, we'll see, we'll see. We're all we're all praying
for him. Prayers up for George Santos, prayers up for
all the content people.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Out there.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Yeah, let's take a quick break and we'll be back
to talk about the jewel heist and the latest on
the seasfire. We'll be right back, and we're back. The
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update on the on Trump's ceasefire is that Israel has
reportedly killed nearly one hundred Palestinians in Gaza and wounded
two hundred and thirty since the so called seasfire took effect.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Mm hmm, yeah, I've seen there.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
It sounded like they were ready to fucking violate it
the second they were talking about like, well we didn't
get all of all of the hostages back, like in
terms of ones that had perished and getting their remains back,
So they're actually in violation, like they were already beginning
to sort of like turn the of like it's actually
they're they're actually already violating it. Hamas is already violating it,
(37:59):
and yeah, here you go.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Just does not look like it's like yeah, it's just
like one of the attacks they fired on a van
full of civilians, including seven children, who are trying to
reach their home. She just feels like they're like ceasefire,
like everybody come out, you know, it's safe, and then
they're killing people. Yeah, yeah, and there eleven like they're
(38:24):
talking about, you know, they're openly admitting. They said that
they called these twenty air strikes on southern Gaza that
they launched again during a ceasefire, a massive and extensive
wave of attacks.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Yeah, okay, okay, that's them.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
That's them saying that they've done a massive and extensive
wave of attacks.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
I mean, it's I don't know, it's so hard to
understand what is actually happening because there's so many weird,
conflicting reports about like what the administration is thinking or
not thinking. I've read things that like, you know, Jared
Kushner is saying, like, you guys got to get the
aid in there.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
This is not good.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
But I think it could be true because it probably
just ends at this is not good, guys, and will
we do anything else?
Speaker 2 (39:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
I've read about how the administration is increasingly becoming more
frustrated with the fact that they are completely going back
on everything they're saying.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
But this feels like almost constant when dealing with net
and Yahoo in regards to this.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
So I'm you know, maybe the only thing really that
can make something happen is that Trump looks foolish as
hell because he was out here claiming total peace achieved
and it's the opposite. And maybe that is enough for
him to do something that will actually begin to bring
a net and yahoo like under control.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
But a gat it. It was very brief.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
It was a brief moment where the strikes had merely
just paused.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
It feels like, right.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
And now there it's a nakedly blatant breach of the
terms of the seasfire, Like they're they're letting through half
of the aide that they claimed and then all together
stopped aide. And you know, people say that they're going
to open it back up, but pretty much every Western
media outlet is reporting that Israel is merely quote testing
(40:18):
or straining the ceasefire, not breaking it, just you know,
like kind of dip in the dip in the old
toe into the possibility of maybe not abiding by it.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
The raptors are testing the fences. Yeah, just doing a
little fun.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
I mean, it's the same way they even talk about Trump, Right,
It's like they're not gonna be like he's breaking the law.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Yeah, it's like.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
He's seeming to test the limits of the Constitution, right,
And it's like this very intentional language to not really
say it, call it what it is. They are violating
the seasfire.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Yeah, the CNN US Broker ceasefire appears to survive first
major test as is Hamas a firm commitment to deal.
CBC ceasefire strained as Israel hits Gaza with deadly strikes
over Idea threats. BBC Deadly Gaza flare up tests Israel
Hamas ceasefire.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (41:14):
It's like you promised to do something and then go
back on your word, and it's not you being a liar.
It's like, well, I'm just tell it's like a test. Yeah, yeah,
that's actually a test. They're testing your resolve. Okay, and
good news you passed.
Speaker 5 (41:28):
Uh oh?
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Why do you keep bringing up old shit. I wasn't
cheating on you. I was just testing.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Fifteen minutes ago, I was putting our marriage through its
first significant test, and I don't want to think that
it's failing.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
You gotta stress test the marriage. You God is stressed
by going just by by violating.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Your vowels completely. That's how I tested. How do you
test it unless you completely go back on what you
say You're straining the limits of your vowels.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, I'm sure Trump
is probably trying to save face. Yeah uh. And then
finally said it's still in place. Quote, it's still in place.
We're good in what sense because functionally it's not still there.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
Nobody's erased it or tore it up as far as
I'm aware. So we're good.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
We're good.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
Anyway, where's my nobel? I mean, yeah, the good like
it is a good thing. I feel like that he
called it the Trump sees fire deal, so that now
he has to try and keep it going. And he
spiked football for like a full weekend, all right. And finally,
as mentioned up top, the Louve Got Thomas Crown affaired
still closed on Monday following a what's being called a
(42:40):
quote spectacular daylight heist over the weekend, thieves making off
with priceless Napoleonic jewels using a vehicle mounted extendable ladder
to go to the second floor. I'm just saying, check
the fire department. Those are the only people I've seen
used a vehicle extended vehicle with the end of on
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the back. Yeah, together to the second floor. Then broke
into the Apollo Gallery using power tools, where they grabbed
a bunch of jewels and escaped on motorcycles, which sounds
so sick.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
It's very Yeah, it's like all right, man, scram right, all.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
In different directions, you know what I mean? Yes, how
is it that easy? Like does I know London has
obviously an inordinate amount of CCTV cameras everywhere that like
even kind of pieces together?
Speaker 2 (43:29):
Is it that?
Speaker 1 (43:30):
I'm curious? Like why people are always getting away with
this shit? Like one of the most significant cultural sites
in Paris, at least from a touristic site in Paris,
and you can just pull up a van with a ladder,
hop out, use your home depot angle grinders, get in
saw case, snatch your jewels and then take.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
Off on a bike and it's all good. Yeah, it
is surprising, you do. Yeah, I do think of like
these modern European cities being just completely locked down with CCTV.
But yeah, I don't know, I don't know where they
came from, how they how they got there.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
I'm sure they're trying trying to look into it right now.
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
As alarms rang out in the museum, alerting guards, the
robbers quickly left, escaping on motorbikes and leaving behind some
of the equipment used in the raid. The gang tried
to set fire to the vehicle before they left, but
were prevented by a member of museum staff. We're just like, no,
don't do fire. Fire is dangerous.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Yeah, don't do that. Okay, my bad, My bad. Sorry,
I shouldn't. I should have thought someone else. You guys
aren't with those robbers or anything, are you. Damn? I
just hate my goddamn Poojo van.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
Yeah, there were three vehicle fires on that block in
Paris already, so they were just like pretty inconspicuous.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:49):
Yeah, but I don't know, judging from the online response,
doesn't seem like people are too upset.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
About the robbery because everything.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
First of all, it feels like a movie, which is cool,
and we usually root for the suave burglars.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
And also I think Loop In which I never watched
you Yeah yeah, Netflix show Open.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
I watched the first couple of episodes. Yeah, he he
does a little highstet the louver, the.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
Love and also the louver is like literally every Western
museum wouldn't exist without that. It was basically created to
house all the artwork that Napoleon looted.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Yeah, all museums in these uh imperialist European nations. Their
museums are basically your cold storage for your loot that
you let people come in and pay money to look at. Yeah,
because it's I mean when I when I first went
to that the History Museum in London, I was like, wait,
what the fuck that was?
Speaker 2 (45:40):
In particular, everybody like, yo, son.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
You got an Easter Island head in here? The fuck
how they're like they didna say ship when we took it.
They were pretty cool with it actually when we blew
them up. But yeah, these jewels, what the fuck are these?
This is this is just more just ship.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
These are no.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Napoleon's loot they stole, Yeah, just jewels. I don't who
goes to the loop to look at jewels?
Speaker 2 (46:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (46:06):
I have a hard time imagining being able to tell
the difference between fake and real jewels. Like, oh, that's
why they have like the Jeweler's loop, because you need
to put like a tiny microscope onto a trained eye
to tell if something is like real or not. Like, yeah,
they could have just like thrown in costume jewelry real old,
(46:26):
like I really want to know about like who what
you can like when they fence this shit, when they
they move it on for money?
Speaker 2 (46:35):
Where's that market? Who?
Speaker 1 (46:37):
And Who's like, damn, look at this big ass ruby
I got bro Yeah wow, check it out. Like Okay,
I'd rather have an art piece than a fucking rock,
a shiny rock.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
But hey, to each their own, probably a status symbol
with like evil rich people, you.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
Know, yeah, it's like that's gotta be wild because like
do you do that, Like is that like a flex
like Harlan Crowe does, and shit, he's.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
Like, come here, come man, look at this shit. Look
at this shit. Oh look I've seen all your Nazi stuff. No, no,
look at this the Napoleonic jewels weren't those. Don't shut
the fuck up. I paid them. But crow discount.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
Yeah, man, man, that heist had crow written all over it, man,
fucking new second, I heard they were setting the van
on fire, classic crow distraction.
Speaker 3 (47:22):
That's right, And they as they fled, they were heard
saying that's how it would be in the movie. You know, yeah,
hell yeah.
Speaker 2 (47:30):
But first the clues.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
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Oh, I went to cause them the fucking sphere screen
thing in Englewood to watch an Arsenal match.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's fucking insane. Oh that's the one where you like
feel like you're there.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Yeah, yep, I gotta say my cave mam brain was
fucking tingling.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Dude. There was one point like ducking when they would
like kick a shot. I'm not joking.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I tried to dap up a player who just take
a corner kick. Everyone was like I was looking around
and even like Jamel and the one of my other boys,
they were like, they're like were you kind.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Of wanted to be like, hey, hey, get me, like
if you.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Were a court sided like you it felt like that
and where we sat like it completely envelops your peripheral vision.
So now I'm getting like I can't imagine what the
sphere is like because I went to like the smaller.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Scale version and was completely fucking blown away.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah, the spear just needs to like start shoot hing
like sporting events, just up close like that. Yeah, because yeah,
I mean it made a nature documentary like super compelling,
Like I can only imagine.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I mean, anything that they show you at the Sphere
will cost three hundred dollars right, right, right, they need
to recoup that money.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Like I don't know how much COSM cost, right, but.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
So three hundred dollars though, like I've I've always said that,
like sitting court side of the NBA, like everybody need
we need to create a like public fund so that
every human being on Earth gets to experience has the
opportunity to experience sitting court side an NBA game. It's
like one of you just like need to do it
to understand how fucking incredible these people are. Like, so
(01:42):
three hundred dollars to sit court side essentially at an
NBA game, if it's like delivering eighty percent of that experience,
like I feel like you gotta you gotta do it.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Damn. They're they're at the Matrix at COSM. It's fucking yo.
So they got the Matrix at Cosm.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Yo.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
During during halftime, right, they like they took the screen
and played the trailer for it on the screen, so
you got like a taste of what it was like.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Bro, the trailer for the Matrix.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
They're the Cosm up version where like they're filling out
the screen so like there's shots where like you know
that like the part they're all the human battery pods
when they're in the real world.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, it's just you're just up in it.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Afterwards, it was one of those moments where like again
everyone looked around and thought, do we applaud?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, like what we.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I was like, uh yes, yes, especially that scene where
like all the gun racks are like coming through, like where.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
They're like that white space like.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
They do that ship Like you're up in the room too,
So it's the entire screen is just like all these
racks flying by and.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
You whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I've heard people complain about you, like it's fucking gimmicky
or whatever, but as someone who sat in there, I was.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Like, that's a good gimmick. I'm not gonna lie. Yeah.
That's the thing about gimmicks, it's you're actually good. Yeah,
sometimes they're good.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this week trend.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Edition of Si'sitgeist.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah. My name is Jacobrian. Not over there. Over there
is mister Miles. B ah ha ha.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
This is the episode where we tell you what was
trending over the weekend was training on this Monday morning.
But first we like to let you get to know
us a little bit better by telling you some things
that we think is overrated, some things we think underrated.
Uh and Miles, I would love for you to do
the honors. My goodness is under rated. Under rated.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Chicago and their mayor, Brandon Johnson Chicago storied history of uh,
you know, union activism. Heymark a martyrs okay, recently the teachers'
union strikes. They know how to use their collective power
to affect change.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
And over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Of Chicago other than the musical, so you're telling you
it's a it's a real place, man, it's a real place.
There's and then that cal, that arsonist cal. That's kind
of where my knowledge starts starts and stops. And then
the bald headed guy who shoot ball. Good him there
to the right team.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
But no, like over the weekend, right, there was a
no Kings Uh there, you know the no Kings protests
are having it everywhere.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
The mayor Brandon Johnson got up a stage and called
for a general strike said, hey, this time, what.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
The fuck are we doing now? I say it's underrated
because I cannot.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Outside of the social media posts and a loose huff
Po article, most of the mainstream media has completely ignored
that specific part of his speech to call for a
general strike, which has never happened in the United States.
The closest thing that happened was maybe, like in the
like nineteen forty six I was reading and that led
to the Taft Heartley Act, which basically was like, uh,
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unions can never coordinate to to do some kind of
general mass strike.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
That's illegal.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
And so in seeing that, I'm like this because I think,
like most of us, were tired of reading about all
the unprecedented things that the administration is doing, and part
of me is like, when's somebody going to say it's
time to get busy, right, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Like, I totally not getting busy.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I totally understand the show of force of getting out
in protest. I think that's great because I think these
are incremental steps to getting people as coordinated as possible
to be like, yeah, okay, we know what stakes are,
We'll get out there. We might not be alled out
there for the same reason, but just generally ideologically, there's
some kind of common thread here, and I think it's
I think it's notable that the mayor of Chicago is
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calling for something unprecedented because right now we are in
the face of having constant, unpreceded thing, Unprecedented things happen
to us as American citizens, as just and people who
live here. So I was very I was like, oh, okay,
I'm like, okay, talk that shit, Mayor Johnson. And then
I just say it's underrated because nobody's really talking about that.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
He's gonna have to go door to door and hand
out flyers for that to get spread in the United
States of America. But the media being basically on board
with the force of the capital there, that's yeah, pretend
he didn't say that, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And again it's just this is I mean, I think
it's it's hard to imagine that happening. Yeah, but I
think as things become more and more acute. Yeah, to
put it lightly that we prefer unprecedented here at the
New York Times because it makes it it's the same
(06:55):
word that we use to describe what shoo Tommy did.
Maybe that shit holy fuck is what we call all
of these things. But yeah, uh, Chicago.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Much love to you.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And just also, man, just you know, the constant just
every might do every city that is having to deal
with federal harassment right now and illegal seizures and stoppages
and all that kind of shit. But I just I
just think it's commendable to say that, but more so
because most of the things you hear from Democratic leaders
(07:34):
are like this, this stuff's got to stop, right, It's.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Like uh huh, and now lead and what we do?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah, And I think it takes a city like Chicago
who has a storied history with this kind of thing
for that to happen.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
But then again, crickets in terms of reporting it.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
It's like I even tried to search Brandon Johnson General
Strike NBC and then it was just like, here's some
stuff that it says about Brandon Johnson on NBC and I'm.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Like, did you are you?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
We didn't catch those other two words, but we're just
gonna kind of move forward here, yeah, man, and brand
the editor makes a good point, Americans addicted to work,
but we we gotta try, you know. Yeah, this is
not just like they're failing to mention it, like it
anytime something like this happens, like there's people behind the
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scenes just being like, so we're gonna actively like edit
that out of our reporting on this speech. It's just
it's not gonna happen, right, Yep, yep. We're familiar with
the Taft Hartley act. It's one of our favorite acts.
So yeah, so that didn't go well the last time
they tried the General Strike. Yeah, man, fucking Hartley, that
(08:51):
guy sucks. All right, My underrated miles is how hard
museum heists are. The new heist just drop every weekend
at the Louver, and this one kind of seems like
this one stands out because it's I think a little
bit more sophisticated, Like they drove up with a truck
(09:12):
that had a ladder, and they were wearing masks from
the beginning. Also that's huge that that is actually a
higher bar than most art heists reach. But came up
with masks, broke into the second floor window, the alarms
going off, and nobody really did ship. They stole the
(09:36):
jewels like some famous jewels that I Napoleonic jewels, Napoleonic jewels,
and I and.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I went to sleep when I read that.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Oh God, no jewels, Oh God.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
But we'll get into the details of that heist in
a little bit. But I just I always think it's
worth bringing up because movies, there's like the art heist
genre of move you know, Thomas Crown Affair and shit
like that. And they treat robbing a museum like it's
a classier and like more difficult and sophisticated version of
bank robberies where you have to, like you learn a
(10:15):
choreographed dance to like get through a field of lasers
and shit like.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
That, and you gotta wear tight SPANX.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
While you gotta wear tight SPANX, you gotta be up
on the latest technology. You've gotta spanx, yeah, which is
always Spandex. You've got to have that Kim Kardashian faith
brawl on so your saggy ass face doesn't hit one
of the trip wires exact exactly. But in reality, like
museum staff are usually unarmed, some of the biggest art
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heist in history are usually like somewhere between shoplifting and
like a bully, like stealing someone's lunch money. It's they
just like walk in and take the ship. And there's
not anybody who like the successful art heist in history.
And like, since I wrote about this back at Cracked,
there there's been a documentary about it, but it's it
(11:07):
happened in Boston. It's never been solved, and like the
documentary was like we don't know, like how these people
must have been geniuses, but it like truly could have
been planned by a five year old, It's right. They
they wore police uniforms and like had fake badges to
get into the museum, such as like you know, Halloween costumes.
(11:29):
They had to subdue a grand total of two security guards,
who were both twenty something musicians, one of whom admitted
to showing up for work.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Stoned, Oh yeah, oh yeah, don't worry about them. They're
not putting up a fight.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yeah, no, it's it is a it's treated as and
it's in like the pay of you know, like being
a doorman or something, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Like it's just like, yeah, you're.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Not you're not being paid to be some kind of
like a security spe show list.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
You're exactly you're you're merely.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, to dissuade someone from you know, breaking the social contract.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
In that uh, you know, most famous, most successful artists
ever that's never been solved. The thieves accidentally tripped an
alarm that they hadn't prepared to you know, like dance
through or like Zada Jones wiggle through the alarm sent
a signal out to another part of the museum.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
It's like a it's like a baby monitor. It's just
like hell yeah, the like the Mona Lisa.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
We've we've talked before about how the Mona Lisa is
mostly famous because a similar thing had like a French
guy stole it. And he he did that by being
like you know, working at the museum and then like
hiding it in his smock. He just took it off
the wall and like put it like again, like just
like stealing a fucking candy bar from r Aid.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yeah. The plannings just it goes like this, well, how
are we gonna get it? I gonna put in my jacket?
All right, cool? Cool, Like you.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Don't even you don't even need like other people involved.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
You're just like what if I got a bigger jacket?
Oh shit, yeah, okay, all right, let's go get her.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Another guy like one of the most successful art thieves
of all time, not a Thomas Crown level genius. He
uh just you know, had a long career of taking
art off the wall and hiding it in his coat,
just like straight up swiping it off the wall. One
point four billion dollars over the course of his career,
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and yeah, like that. I just doing research. It was crazy,
like they the thieves usually don't know what they're stealing.
They just like steal it and then wait to read
in the newspaper what they sole and like what the
value is.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah, like fencing it.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah this one again, this one sounds like it was
a little bit more sophisticated, but I don't like the
details will emerge, but I don't think it probably needed
to be. Like the one security intervention that we've read
about from the theft was that like they tried to
light their car on fire and somebody worked at the
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museum like put it out.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Hey, hey, stop that all right, all right, Hey we're
taking off on our bikes.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yeah, and then they rode away motorcycles, which is cool. Yeah,
this is more of a jewel theft, which might be
a higher level. I haven't done a ton of research
into that, but just generally museums are staffed by the
same people who like, there's not a hidden security force
is like armed to the hilt in the other room.
It's the people who are like, hey, stand back, you're
(14:44):
standing your toes on the line, right, you know, like
that's who.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
That's who's the flash photography.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah, okay, well you just have the job. You just
said no flash photography. Are you going to enforce that?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
No? No, And when they say flash no flash photography,
I've never witness them like open their coat and have
like that thing on them.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah. Yeah, a fucking MP five.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
They're like, watch out, baby, because they can get nasty
in here. All right, myles, what's something you think is overrated?
Just the concept of the goat or the greatest of
all time? Because show, Hey Otani, this is a thing.
This guy. If you don't give a fuck about baseball,
(15:27):
I don't blame you. However, However, there is somebody doing
diabolical shit right now, and I mean that in the greatest,
most positive way possible. He is doing things that you
would only envision by like doing a creative player in
a video game. Yeah, where it's like, oh, this guy's
(15:47):
gonna fucking throw consistently over one hundred miles an hour,
have every sort of pitch in the arsele and also
can crush the baseball. On Friday show, Heyotani, who's a
pitcher and all they're saying he's could be the could
be the greatest player since Babe Ruth. I think that's
beyond question. Now, yeah, I'm still processing this. So he's
closing out the game four. This is the the NLCS
(16:11):
Dodger to the World Series. If they win this game,
they go to the World They go to the World Series.
And then's been in a.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Bit of a slump. He hasn't had a good postseason.
The thing that made me a little angry was they
were like, he's even taking batting practice, which like everybody does,
and they're like, he's even trying taking batting practice to
like he's putting try and get out of the slump.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
It's like Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
So this is how the this is how the fucking
first inning played out. He walked the first battery, strikes
out the next three. Right then he's the first person
to bat for the dodge for the the bottom of
the first inning, he fucking just homer ho run gone
lead off fucking home run that has never happened. A
pitcher has never fucking hit a lead off home run.
(16:59):
Just just again, this sequence. Don't pitchers don't don't that's
they don't hit. This is the thing, Like it's the
first thing you learn in baseball. They're like, kind of
doesn't make sense. You're like, well, like if they're amazing athletes,
like they should, and it's just like, no, you don't understand.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
You don't understand.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Pitching a baseball one hundred miles per hour takes all
you fucking have, Like it's it needs to be your
full time focus, all the fucking time. Hitting a baseball
is the hardest thing in sports.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
It's impossible to hit a baseball.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
To do both of those things is just beyond the
level of like what anyone can imagine it.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
You just can't even fathom it.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
And he is one of the best pitchers and the best,
Like he won the MVP last year and he wasn't
even pitching.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
He wasn't pitching, and he just started to pitching anyway.
He had ten strikeouts, six scoreless innings, and three home
free home runs.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
If he had three home runs, it would be like
a legendary game without pitching.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
What the fuck? How in this economy? In this economy
showing show, Hey, don't you know this country's turning into
a festering pile of goo?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
And you go and do something like this that makes
you believe in some kind of magic.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
How dare you.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
It's it also ties it like back on a Boosty
on our NBA podcast, always talked about how basketball.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Is a unique sport in that it is progressive. Like
you can see from season to season the players get better.
You watch a game from five years ago, You're like,
these people are noticeably not as good on defense and
offense as the players in the NBA this season. Like
that's that that hasn't it hasn't been like a steady
(18:45):
upward trajectory, but now it seems like it's really like accelerating.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Everybody's got YouTube, everybody's like you.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Know, getting individual coaching and shit in addition to you know,
playing ball.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
And like you can see that.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Baseball is unique in that it's it feels like it's
kind of a level playing field, which is why like
all the stats matter so much. You know, like why
like the record for the most home runs in a
season has been held was like held for fifty years,
while like a bunch of like hitting records are just
like held still by people in like the fifties and sixties.
(19:19):
So to have somebody come through and do shit that
is genuinely unprecedented.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah, is on such a deal so crazy.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
So it's wild when you have like a Rod, Derek Jeter,
Big Poppy, all these guys after the game.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Be like, what the fuck was that? I've never seen
anything like that before. Sure, look like you just saw
a ghost.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I mean, Big Poppy was like, I'm we're fortunate to
be alive right now. Just see this happen. So again,
if you want casually tune into the World Series because
who knows if he's gonna have another performance like that,
but just know that there's there's a person out there
who's's doing something absolutely unbelievable right now, and it's it's
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like it's it's been a while since like you had
one of these athletes like you know, like peak Lebron
or something where people are like, Wow, what.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
The fucke what this human body's doing?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Yeah, but anyway, I think that's all seems like it's
being written like that's that's the thing I would get
from Lebron, from Jordan, they'd like get to the finals
and then do some shit that it's just like, Wow,
Lebron's gonna come back from three to one against my
best regular season team of all time. He's gonna like
(20:33):
suddenly learn to fly and like pin a shot like
one of the most important shots against the backboard. Jordan,
it felt like like in his last championship where he
like comes down, steals the ball and then hits the
game winning shot, and you like knew it was almost
like a predictable TV show where you're like, well, obviously
the most dramatic thing to happen would be this, So
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that's how they're gonna script it like that.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Because this person has that sort of like magnetism or
like that there's like an omas this thing about him,
you know, and.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Just other worldly, otherworldly.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
When he when it was time for that third on
home run, I go, I was like, let let this
be a home run. I almost threw the guy's child
like recklessly hot like hyked into the air because we
were up late watching that.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
He was he was hinting in and out of the
room like an and one mix.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yeah, unbelievable, unbelievable, great over eight and my overrated kind
of sucks. I just company is telling me about my
anniversary with them and treating treating me like I'm their friend.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yeah, without no discount or anything. Yeah, just being on.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Hey, you've been using our health tracking app for three years, Like, congratulations, brother,
let's take a look back at all the memories.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I'm like, I don't know, man, we're not remember that.
Remember that run of sleep? That was huh right? You
got anything else for me?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I'm a work friend who like sent me an email
notifying me. It was like, hey, it's our three year anniversary. Man,
like that just somebody I like, you know, worked within
the most Like it's just like an app like does nothing.
It does make me a little bit sad to like,
wonder if this is working on other people.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
They're like, you're my friend, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I mean they it must they must have some kind
of evidence that shows like creating some weird parasocial relationship
with it.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I don't like kind of helps, but I certainly.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Why it bothers me is that Like it's yeah, parasocial
relationships with I mean AI are obviously becoming.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
A real thing.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
But hmmm, with an app, an app, man, that's their
update to guess who's coming to dinner? Yeah, probably it's
probably happening. It'll be really bad. But yeah, I don't
I don't need the email notifications. I don't need the
retrospective where you like play a little song as we
(23:01):
went back over the.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
An updated Guess Who's coming to Din?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Are not about race relations starting the starring Sydney Patier,
But yeah, but it would be like fucking Glenn.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
What's that guy's name? Glenn? What's his face? Who's the
hot guy right now?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Oh, Glenn Powell, Glenn Powell and his AI girlfriend or something?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah, like whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
She actually has really great data on sleep that helps
me maximize my performance.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Dad.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
She loves Shelby Cobras too. Ask her anything about the
for Shelby Shelby Cobra go, ask her.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Anyway, it's a bummer.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I just I think we uh touch grass is obviously
the thing people say. But like also just like talk
to human like talk to people, talk to talk to
human beings.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I feel like.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Just take that, like your vitamins checking in with somebody,
talking to an actual human being. I feel like that,
uh we we could all stand to like have more
phone conversations or fucking in person conversations with an actual
human being so that you don't feel like some sense
of get misty eyed when you find out that it's
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your three year anniversary.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, oh wow. Watch you've used it. You've used the
Omran blood pressure cuff for two and a half years now.
Congrats on your health. Glory days. Dan. All right, let's
take a quick break and we'll be right back. And
(24:39):
we're back. We're back.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Amazing mobilization over the weekend by the No Kings protest
such yeah, paid actors, Like, how did they do it?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Seven million paid actors? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I
kind of.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Believe it because, like La, you know, there's a lot
out of work actors out here.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
But oh yeah, what an achievement. When I got my
to community, when.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I got my two thousand dollars deposit from George Soros
actually said.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
You know what, I'm gonna keep this. I'm in.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
That's how I do it. I'm a bad paid actor. Yeah,
I'm just I'll take the money and then I'll use
them on something else. But yeah, I mean as uh, Look,
it's interesting to see how the GOP went from the
in the build up to the No Kings protest.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Oh you've been watchings and disapprohamas terrifiest with freaks that
are gonna kill you, to then seeing all these people
and then becoming rage a and be like I don't care.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, that's right. That's truly like they they turned it
on a dime. It went from these people are going
to destroy America, they hate everything, and then they say
all these like retirees, teachers, normal people going out their children.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
It became as it's like whatever, It's like, I wasn't
that big anyway.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
These people don't represent America, as Trump said. But yeah,
one of the largest single day demonstrations in US history,
the biggest since Trump returned to the White House for
a second term. Naturally, it made the bottom of the
front page of the New York Times, with a brief
mentioned that was, you know, less extensive than their article
(26:17):
about the basketball court at the Obama Presidential Center.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
That's true. Yeah, it got the Obama lisc.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Yes, an Obama LISC and basketball in Chicago's Presidential Center
gets a bunch of front page copy. And then there's
like two tiny pictures of the protest. Yeah, and I
think the sub has said, I don't know, some fucker
showed up or something whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Okay, cool New York Times, cool cool, cool way to
do your job, way to do your job. Yeah. I again,
there were responses to this have been real varied, mostly
of the dumbfuck variety.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I'd say, yeah, this is Donald.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Trump responded to the protests with you know, an interview
answer that we'll get to, but also with an AI
generated video of himself dressed as a king dropping shit
on protesters from a fighter jet.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I believe ye, I'm playing danger Zone by Kenny Loggins
the video.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
According to The Independent, The video, shared on the president's
personal and government social media accounts, shows the president soaring
above a protest crowd and what appears to be Times Square.
The jet then dumps brown liquid on the demonstrators as
Kenny Loggin's danger Zone plays in the background, an apparent
reference to the top Gun movies. I would also say,
also an apparent reference to the Dave Matthews band bus incident.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yeah that's yeah, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Senior Republicans attempted to suggest the protests was quote part
of a democratic conspiracy to block an end to the
government shut down and or a Hamas Antifa collaboration.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
This was planned in September, pre shutdown. So you know,
miss us with the they're trying to block that amazing
foresight by them.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
If you gave I mean not that you gave a fuck.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
It's just that you are pinned in a hard place
now because you're gonna have to own all the healthcare
cuts that you made in the big beautiful bill, and
now you're trying to figure out how to make that
the fault of anyone but the people who passed that
legislation and control the three branches of government at the
current moment. And you know, the denials of reality here
(28:28):
have been really interesting, Like Republicans can't even like they
can't even get people to go along with like these
are all actors lie. So the next strategy was like,
it's not a big deal, and I think it's just
terrifying to them that this many people showed up, so
they must. We talked about this last week in the
build up when he was trying to, you know, characterize
this as like I hate America thing. No, they hate
(28:50):
America as it is right now because they know it
can be better. The other reason is that they have
to convince the base that this is insincere, that there's
no reason at all for anyone to be upset about
what is happening unless they are unhinged or whacked out,
not because our rights are being trampled or food is
unaffordable and the wealthy continue to steal our futures.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
It's because there's fucking whacked out, dude, that's all it is.
Bunch of fucking whacked out, A bunch of wacked dudes, dude. Yeah,
here's you can see.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I mean, if the New York Times covered it more extensively,
you would be able to see that they're not whacked.
Do is like you said, they're teachers and you.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Know, just people, normal people.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
And I think they just saw a bunch of white
people out there too, and they're like.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
What the fuck are you doing? What do you move
around to them?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah? This is a Trump dismissing what occurred over the weekend.
What's your response to the protests over the way?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
What do you jay Z? Who you win? Exactly?
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Who you with?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
And then he like kind of takes it in. Uh
ap okay good.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
At this point you could just lie you could be
from ABC because he hates ABC.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Right now, you can be like, I'm with ap okay cool? Right?
See this mother for goingna't know, just say the right
shit before. So he's actually being asked about the note kings.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
I think it's a joke. I looked at the people.
If they're not representative of this country.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
White people. I looked at the people, okay, okay, go on,
and I looked.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
At all the brand new science paid he I guess
he was paid for by Soros and other radical left lunatics.
It looks like it was. We're checking it out. The
demonstrations were very small, very ineffective, and the people who
were whacked out. When you look at those people, those
are not representative of the people of our country.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
The people are whacked out.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
And he was so unbothered by it that he shared
a video of himself dumping shit on all of them, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
And then being like, I could do the insurrection Act, right,
I could?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, I could, I could do it. I don't know anyway.
I'm just saying like, I'm pretty potent.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
They were definitely hoping that it would be more violent
and less organized than it was. One of their things
was right Angled News Network posted breaking at exactly one
pm all the No King's protesters in Times Square immediately dispersed,
totally normal and definitely not astro turfed. It's like, no,
that was when they had the like, if they had overstayed,
(31:15):
they would have sent federal agents in to start beating
the shit out of people and arresting them, which is
all that you wanted out of this.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Also to get that many people out again, you're not
getting These aren't like people who are in the streets
all the time type people like again, these are parents,
grandparents you know, that are out there, Families that are
out there. So when they're like, yeah, we went out there,
got out there with other people, and then you get
you leave after because they're they're not trying to get
kettled by the fucking police or some shit.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
So anyway, performances are so naturalistic though that I might
not have hope for democracy in the future of our country.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
But the acting.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Chops of some of these people, Yeah, as they're being interviewed,
they just seem a fucking bunch.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Of damp it was out there.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
They get nominated, I mean, you know what I mean,
a mass oscar for this acting work. Judge paid for
those signs, you can because the signs were new.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
I understand what the fuck does that even mean?
Speaker 3 (32:15):
This is clearly does he think protest like does he
think that it's just it would be weird if the
protest if they were like breaking out the same signs
from before. Then it would be like, oh, they're like
passing around right rynds, like they don't really apply, Like
that would seem weird, But no, everybody, that's part of
the process where you like write and design a sign
that says what is on your mind.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
That's called protected free speech.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
But anyway, I mean, I think it's really also indicative
of what the chatter is around Trump to keep his
like ego from like just fully breaking down and making
everything harder for the people that actually kind of run
the wed as like it's fine, mister prettant, it's nothing.
Look at them, they're all whacked out. George Soros probably
paid for this. Or would you like an additional hamburger?
(33:01):
You want to eat that?
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Good, good, good, Because it just feels like that's what
they're all saying to fucking soothe themselves. And again, it's
it's definitely symbolic. But I think the next iteration, the
next phase of all these kinds of mobilizations is to
actually try and figure out what a collective action action
to begin to use the leverage of having seven million
(33:26):
people according to the organizers estimates in physical space what
now can you do to turn that into some kind
of leverage or pressure point that can affect something, because
right now, I'm sure even for the Republicans, they're like, yeah,
I'm want to go out there with your science whatever. Yeah,
but we're going to continue to run rough shot over
everything well.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Repeatedly saying the you know, antisemitic trope that George Soros
is paying for all this, Like anytime you get enough
like it's Soros. You just like follow that subreddit long
enough and it's like, oh it goes back then it's
anti semotism.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Yeah, yeah, yea yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Because he was taking all that in, I think he
was reminded of George Santos, like you know, the names
aren't that dis And he commuted George Santos's fraud sentence
because he would quote always vote Republican. So again like
the saying the thing out loud, that's like you would
(34:20):
think that being like and I'm letting people out of
jail because I think they would vote for me. That's
like the sort that's a conspiracy they accused the Democrats
of doing. But he's just straight up like yeah, I'm
gonna get some votes. He seems cool like that shit
like him again he you know, stole money for botox
(34:44):
and porn by creating a fake pet charity.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Yeah, all kinds of fraud.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
He's had a career rife with fraud and swindling people,
and yeah it shit finally caught up to him.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah, but again, as long as you're like Donald drop
lease help.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
I love you, but I also hate myself because I'm
gay and not white?
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Right am? I accepted?
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Now?
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Please please?
Speaker 3 (35:10):
This does seem like it would be a good opportunity
to I don't know, like for the Democrats or opposition
resistance forces to start to focus in on the fact
that he's doing this constantly everywhere, like pardoning people in
exchange for donations, Like, yeah, there's a Trump just knows
(35:30):
how the system works. Angle that I have to feel
is going to get less and less potent as people
have less and less money due to the oligarchy. Like
I feel like taking big donations and in exchange bailing
rich people out of jail, Like that feels like a
good thing to focus on.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
You know, there's so many Jack, there's so many good
things to focus on.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
I see, this would be a good one to so
many good things to focus on.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
But the good thing though, is George Santos is not
out of the woods here because the state legislature in
New York, because Paul Mannifort like skated on the similar thing,
they created a law to tighten up. They call it
the Manifort loophole that basically says, oh, like, if you
if you're pardoned, if you get some kind of presidential
(36:18):
treatment like a commutation, a pardon, whatever, they can hit
you with state charges. And it's not going to be
double jeopardy to prevent this exact kind of thing. So
I'm sure they're the you know, the das in the
Attorney General in New York's like, hmm, well, you may
have skated on the federal charges, but here in New
(36:38):
York because a lot of the things that he the
crimes he committed that were the federal charges are also
laws that he's breaking in New York, right, So who knows,
it might not, it might not end totally totally uh
incident free for George Santos.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Yeah, we'll see, we'll see. We're all we're all praying
for him. Prayers up for George Santos, prayers up for
all the content people.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Out there.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Yeah, let's take a quick break and we'll be back
to talk about the jewel heist and the latest on
the seasfire. We'll be right back, and we're back. The
(37:21):
update on the on Trump's ceasefire is that Israel has
reportedly killed nearly one hundred Palestinians in Gaza and wounded
two hundred and thirty since the so called seasfire took effect.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Mm hmm, yeah, I've seen there.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
It sounded like they were ready to fucking violate it
the second they were talking about like, well we didn't
get all of all of the hostages back, like in
terms of ones that had perished and getting their remains back,
So they're actually in violation, like they were already beginning
to sort of like turn the of like it's actually
they're they're actually already violating it. Hamas is already violating it,
(37:59):
and yeah, here you go.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Just does not look like it's like yeah, it's just
like one of the attacks they fired on a van
full of civilians, including seven children, who are trying to
reach their home. She just feels like they're like ceasefire,
like everybody come out, you know, it's safe, and then
they're killing people. Yeah, yeah, and there eleven like they're
(38:24):
talking about, you know, they're openly admitting. They said that
they called these twenty air strikes on southern Gaza that
they launched again during a ceasefire, a massive and extensive
wave of attacks.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Yeah, okay, okay, that's them.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
That's them saying that they've done a massive and extensive
wave of attacks.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
I mean, it's I don't know, it's so hard to
understand what is actually happening because there's so many weird,
conflicting reports about like what the administration is thinking or
not thinking. I've read things that like, you know, Jared
Kushner is saying, like, you guys got to get the
aid in there.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
This is not good.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
But I think it could be true because it probably
just ends at this is not good, guys, and will
we do anything else?
Speaker 2 (39:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
I've read about how the administration is increasingly becoming more
frustrated with the fact that they are completely going back
on everything they're saying.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
But this feels like almost constant when dealing with net
and Yahoo in regards to this.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
So I'm you know, maybe the only thing really that
can make something happen is that Trump looks foolish as
hell because he was out here claiming total peace achieved
and it's the opposite. And maybe that is enough for
him to do something that will actually begin to bring
a net and yahoo like under control.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
But a gat it. It was very brief.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
It was a brief moment where the strikes had merely
just paused.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
It feels like, right.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
And now there it's a nakedly blatant breach of the
terms of the seasfire, Like they're they're letting through half
of the aide that they claimed and then all together
stopped aide. And you know, people say that they're going
to open it back up, but pretty much every Western
media outlet is reporting that Israel is merely quote testing
(40:18):
or straining the ceasefire, not breaking it, just you know,
like kind of dip in the dip in the old
toe into the possibility of maybe not abiding by it.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
The raptors are testing the fences. Yeah, just doing a
little fun.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
I mean, it's the same way they even talk about Trump, Right,
It's like they're not gonna be like he's breaking the law.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Yeah, it's like.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
He's seeming to test the limits of the Constitution, right,
And it's like this very intentional language to not really
say it, call it what it is. They are violating
the seasfire.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Yeah, the CNN US Broker ceasefire appears to survive first
major test as is Hamas a firm commitment to deal.
CBC ceasefire strained as Israel hits Gaza with deadly strikes
over Idea threats. BBC Deadly Gaza flare up tests Israel
Hamas ceasefire.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (41:14):
It's like you promised to do something and then go
back on your word, and it's not you being a liar.
It's like, well, I'm just tell it's like a test. Yeah, yeah,
that's actually a test. They're testing your resolve. Okay, and
good news you passed.
Speaker 5 (41:28):
Uh oh?
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Why do you keep bringing up old shit. I wasn't
cheating on you. I was just testing.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Fifteen minutes ago, I was putting our marriage through its
first significant test, and I don't want to think that
it's failing.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
You gotta stress test the marriage. You God is stressed
by going just by by violating.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Your vowels completely. That's how I tested. How do you
test it unless you completely go back on what you
say You're straining the limits of your vowels.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, I'm sure Trump
is probably trying to save face. Yeah uh. And then
finally said it's still in place. Quote, it's still in place.
We're good in what sense because functionally it's not still there.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
Nobody's erased it or tore it up as far as
I'm aware. So we're good.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
We're good.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
Anyway, where's my nobel? I mean, yeah, the good like
it is a good thing. I feel like that he
called it the Trump sees fire deal, so that now
he has to try and keep it going. And he
spiked football for like a full weekend, all right. And finally,
as mentioned up top, the Louve Got Thomas Crown affaired
still closed on Monday following a what's being called a
(42:40):
quote spectacular daylight heist over the weekend, thieves making off
with priceless Napoleonic jewels using a vehicle mounted extendable ladder
to go to the second floor. I'm just saying, check
the fire department. Those are the only people I've seen
used a vehicle extended vehicle with the end of on
(43:00):
the back. Yeah, together to the second floor. Then broke
into the Apollo Gallery using power tools, where they grabbed
a bunch of jewels and escaped on motorcycles, which sounds
so sick.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
It's very Yeah, it's like all right, man, scram right, all.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
In different directions, you know what I mean? Yes, how
is it that easy? Like does I know London has
obviously an inordinate amount of CCTV cameras everywhere that like
even kind of pieces together?
Speaker 2 (43:29):
Is it that?
Speaker 1 (43:30):
I'm curious? Like why people are always getting away with
this shit? Like one of the most significant cultural sites
in Paris, at least from a touristic site in Paris,
and you can just pull up a van with a ladder,
hop out, use your home depot angle grinders, get in
saw case, snatch your jewels and then take.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
Off on a bike and it's all good. Yeah, it
is surprising, you do. Yeah, I do think of like
these modern European cities being just completely locked down with CCTV.
But yeah, I don't know, I don't know where they
came from, how they how they got there.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
I'm sure they're trying trying to look into it right now.
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
As alarms rang out in the museum, alerting guards, the
robbers quickly left, escaping on motorbikes and leaving behind some
of the equipment used in the raid. The gang tried
to set fire to the vehicle before they left, but
were prevented by a member of museum staff. We're just like, no,
don't do fire. Fire is dangerous.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Yeah, don't do that. Okay, my bad, My bad. Sorry,
I shouldn't. I should have thought someone else. You guys
aren't with those robbers or anything, are you. Damn? I
just hate my goddamn Poojo van.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
Yeah, there were three vehicle fires on that block in
Paris already, so they were just like pretty inconspicuous.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:49):
Yeah, but I don't know, judging from the online response,
doesn't seem like people are too upset.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
About the robbery because everything.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
First of all, it feels like a movie, which is cool,
and we usually root for the suave burglars.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
And also I think Loop In which I never watched
you Yeah yeah, Netflix show Open.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
I watched the first couple of episodes. Yeah, he he
does a little highstet the louver, the.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
Love and also the louver is like literally every Western
museum wouldn't exist without that. It was basically created to
house all the artwork that Napoleon looted.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Yeah, all museums in these uh imperialist European nations. Their
museums are basically your cold storage for your loot that
you let people come in and pay money to look at. Yeah,
because it's I mean when I when I first went
to that the History Museum in London, I was like, wait,
what the fuck that was?
Speaker 2 (45:40):
In particular, everybody like, yo, son.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
You got an Easter Island head in here? The fuck
how they're like they didna say ship when we took it.
They were pretty cool with it actually when we blew
them up. But yeah, these jewels, what the fuck are these?
This is this is just more just ship.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
These are no.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Napoleon's loot they stole, Yeah, just jewels. I don't who
goes to the loop to look at jewels?
Speaker 2 (46:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (46:06):
I have a hard time imagining being able to tell
the difference between fake and real jewels. Like, oh, that's
why they have like the Jeweler's loop, because you need
to put like a tiny microscope onto a trained eye
to tell if something is like real or not. Like, yeah,
they could have just like thrown in costume jewelry real old,
(46:26):
like I really want to know about like who what
you can like when they fence this shit, when they
they move it on for money?
Speaker 2 (46:35):
Where's that market? Who?
Speaker 1 (46:37):
And Who's like, damn, look at this big ass ruby
I got bro Yeah wow, check it out. Like Okay,
I'd rather have an art piece than a fucking rock,
a shiny rock.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
But hey, to each their own, probably a status symbol
with like evil rich people, you.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
Know, yeah, it's like that's gotta be wild because like
do you do that, Like is that like a flex
like Harlan Crowe does, and shit, he's.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
Like, come here, come man, look at this shit. Look
at this shit. Oh look I've seen all your Nazi stuff. No, no,
look at this the Napoleonic jewels weren't those. Don't shut
the fuck up. I paid them. But crow discount.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
Yeah, man, man, that heist had crow written all over it, man,
fucking new second, I heard they were setting the van
on fire, classic crow distraction.
Speaker 3 (47:22):
That's right, And they as they fled, they were heard
saying that's how it would be in the movie. You know, yeah,
hell yeah.
Speaker 2 (47:30):
But first the clues.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
Someone kept saying, thank you, sence a. All right, those
are some of the things that are trending on this
Monday morning. We're back tomorrow with a whole ass episode
of the show. Until then, be kind to each other,
be kind to yourselves, get your vaccines while you still
can get your flu shots, don't do nothing about white supremacy,
(47:55):
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