Some More News - Bumbling Cops, Twitter Stock Drops, and EVEN MORE Javelina Hops

Episode Date: April 15, 2022

Hi. In today's episode, Katy and Cody discuss the arrest of the Brooklyn subway shooting suspect, the way the cops in New York didn't really do anything (and are actively doing harm!), the horrendous atrocities being committed by Russia in Ukraine, Elon Musk saying he wants to buy Twitter, and more. Please fill out our SURVEY: kastmedia.com/survey/ We now have a MERCH STORE! Check it out here: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/somemorenews Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/some-more-news/id1364825229 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ebqegozpFt9hY2WJ7TDiA?si=5keGjCe5SxejFN1XkQlZ3w&dl_branch=1 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/even-more-news Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/somemorenews Secure your online data TODAY by visiting http://expressvpn.com/somenews. That's http://expressvpn.com/somenews and you can get an extra three months FREE. Right now, Some More News Friend-Pals can get 15% off their Raycon order at HTTP://BUYRAYCON.com/somenews. That's HTTP://BUYRAYCON.com/somenews! Go to HTTP://Brooklinen.com and use promo code [MORENEWS] to get $20 off your purchase of $100 or more! Athletic Greens will give you an immune-supporting FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase if you visit http://athleticgreens.com/morenews today. Follow us on social media! Twitter: https://twitter.com/SomeMoreNews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/SomeMoreNews/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SomeMoreNews/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@somemorenewsSupport the show!: http://patreon.com.com/somemorenewsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to Even More News, the first and only news podcast. My name, folks, is Katie Stoll. Citation needed and received. Hi, Katie Stoll. I'm Cody Johnston. No guest today, just our wonderful, special, fabulous, beautiful producer Jonathan. Oh, so many adjectives for me. You're not a guest.

You just... The adjectivable Jonathan. Hello. Very adjectivable. Happy to be here, always talking. Always be talking. Good, because that's what we do. That's our new slogan. We always be talking. I be talking. That's what we do. That's our new slogan.

We always be talking. I don't know. Holidays. It's a holiday. Did you know that today and tomorrow and every day is a holiday we can and escape that every day is time for a celebration and today Thursday April 14th is National

Ex-Spouse Day. This day encourages people to come to terms with their divorce and forgive their ex-spouses. I don't know if you have to do that, guys. I don't. I appreciate being on good terms with your ex. I'm not going to sit here and tell you you have to forgive them for what they did to you. Sure. Live your life how you wish.

sure uh live your life uh how you wish uh i feel like maybe this is more about uh less like forgiving for like specific actions but more like forgiving in a sort of uh like moving on sense like forgive them in your mind then you can find peace and move on and sort of forget those those times um okay that's fair but i don't know don't know. I haven't read much about the day. I kind of feel like that's every day for people that are getting out of relationships. Oh, yeah. But today, on this one day, forgive them. Send them a card.

And then Friday, April 15th, National Gripers Day. These are fun. It's also actually That Sucks Day. I feel like these go hand in hand oh yeah i included national griper's day because of this little history which you know is from a website which it may not be real it's just well this is what we call lore yes this is the this is the national griper's day lore uh national griper's day was created in 1984 by Jack Gilbert, a freelance writer from Columbus, Ohio, in an effort

to give the disgruntled, disappointed, and depressed a new audience. He thought the creation of the day would help encourage and bring back old-time personal communication and get people to feeling like people again and not afraid of high technology and computers and all that stuff. He sure

sounds like someone that's got a gripe to register. Yeah, I like that description because it doesn't seem to have anything to do with complaining. No. No, it doesn't. It doesn't. Someone had to edit this nicer. I mean, it sounds like a nice, thoughtful man

who wants people to talk to each other and get along, not people who want to... If you really wanted a Griper's Day, he'd be like, I want to have a new communication system that is with computers and you can sort of distance yourself from the human being

and treat everybody like shit online every day. That's like... But this was created in 1984. Oh, yeah, he did seem Jack Gilbert knew what was coming. Yeah, he did seem prescient enough to know that like computers were not going to help us communicate Better at all. I just love computers and all that stuff Oh Jack Gilbert He's probably dead by now hmm he could have created it when

he was 22 it doesn't sound like a 22 year old pipe but maybe are you looking up Cody yes Cody's got that look on his face that he's googling that the the heck out of Jack Gilbert mm-hmm I he's from Columbus, Ohio, Cody. Is he not a local legend? No. I wonder if he went to Larry's. I believe he's dead. Aw.

Well, something to gripe about. Okay. Well, this seems like the right time to move on from this. Normally, we'd be chit-chatting with our guests, but it's just us here. How are you doing, my friends? Oh, so good and fine. Yeah?

You know, I'm fine. Feeling energetic. I'm good. Working out more lately, so I feel my sleep is better. I mean, it is what it is. No, tell us your details. What are your stats?

How much are you benching? Oh, I can't tell you that. Can you do your sprint in five seconds? I'm kidding. I don't want that. I don't think anybody wants to hear that. Do you get up and run? I run a little bit,

but I'm doing a program where I watch videos and do them for a half hour or them for i am so proud of you cody when you've told me you've been working out cody's been telling me he's been working out and i've been telling him i'm proud of him which i was but i thought you meant doing the thing that you always do when you tell me you're working out which is like occasionally doing some push-ups and setups and making sure to go oh yeah which is all really nice that's great but i didn't know that's fake actually going out of your way to do a course a program where there's a video of somebody telling you how to work out oh yeah they tell me exactly what to do and i hate him i hate him so much um

but you show up oh yeah i show up every day uh and do it every day and uh feel it feels great we could make a video series of this and it's's very scheduled. You should film yourself doing it. I will not. But I do think it has led me to a few opinions, actually. One is that I'm surprised that more trainers and people who do lead these sort of programs aren't murdered more regularly. Yeah. I hate that idea. No, no, no. Don't really do anything bad. But I hate him idea. No, no, no, no. Don't don't really do anything bad.

But I hate him so much. He's always telling me it's the last set and he's always lying. Well, maybe you shouldn't be doing this program. Maybe there's a different. There are so many. No, it's good. It's helpful. And what's the program you're doing?

We don't need to get. I'm not sharing my life with people. Tell me. We'll bleep. I'll tell you. I'll tell you later. Tell me and bleep it. Tell me and bleep it. Tell me and bleep it.

No, I don't trust that it will be bleeped. Okay, cut all this. Wait, because he won't tell you, you're going to cut the whole segment? No, no, no. Just me harassing him. Oh, okay. At least you're calling it what it is,

which is harassment. I thought you were spitefully going to cut the whole. It's a friend wanting to know what program you're doing because I like these things. I understand that, but you can know. Put it in the chat. I'll put it in the chat.

Just to her. Also, Katie, I've texted you this information and shared a photo of the schedule. No, you haven't. Yes, I have. That's such bullshit.

You haven't shared me a photo of your schedule. I promise you I did. I think we need to simmer down here. Cody's going to try to put me on blast. But if you did, I don't remember it. It's right there. I don't believe I've never seen that. It's in your text.

I'm showing it to you right now. I don't think it is i this is not good podcasting well we're gonna cut a lot of it but i think this is great it's i mean obviously i'm riveted but i'm seeing all photos that photo is not in my photos i've going through everything we've shared and it is not here and oh man so many cute memories of us that's because you've got a stupid android and half of our texts don't go through anyway this has been fun

look I think the important thing is that my second thought from all the working out is that I want to see more workout videos and series of videos with like, here's like your fucking 90 day thing. There is 30 day thing, whatever it is. I think that they should have them be made. And I think everybody in the background, you know, you have the background people who are like, here, they're demonstrating the, what you're supposed to be doing. And here's

like how you can modify whatever they're like people there to do it as well. And I think that they should make more workout video series with all of those people being people who have not worked out in years. Sure. I want to see them struggling. I want to see people throwing up in the background. I want to see I want to see the person leading the workout do really well. And then hearing people in the background go oh fuck you I want to hear I want to see you like I have a question do you want this as a comedy video or do you want just a realistic workout video that actually reflects oh well if it was

I mean if we were still working at like crack crack this is what bleep that if we were then I would pitch this as a video but now I just want to see it for real. I want to see a real trainer just get eight people who eat horribly. You just need to go work out with people in person. No, no, no, no, no. I need to see it. Go to a class, a workout class. Jonathan, how are you? I'm doing great.

It reminded me what Cody was saying. My wife and I were watching an episode of The Office US recently, and I can't remember exactly what happens, but Michael says if anyone can do 25 push-ups, they can go home for the day. And no one can do it. Stanley is the only one that gets there. Stanley, yeah, because he wanted to leave. Right.

He really wanted to leave. And in my head, I was like, they should have made that more. i was like 25 push-ups that's easy to do and i was like that's 25 push-ups why they do that and my wife was like you do 25 and so i was like sure and i used to work out and i do not anymore i was going to try to find a better way to say it but i do not and so i was like yeah i could do it and i did i did do not. I was like, yeah, I can do it. I did do it, but it was a little more difficult than I thought it was going to be. I thought around 21, 22 of

stopping, but I was like, you can do it. You can do it. You can make it. You got to power through. Push-ups are fucking hard, man. It did make me feel better for a moment, and then I thought, I bet if I did this every day, it wouldn't be so hard after a week or two. It'd probably be pretty easy.

Oh, yeah. I haven't done a push up since. But it feels good, though. Yeah, I did think about it. When you do it, you accomplish it. As long as it makes you remember that our bodies work sometimes, occasionally. I will say one one bad side effect is that I'm getting up earlier because more energy, better sleep, and those sort of things. But I also still go to bed really late.

Yeah, it's always been your problem. It's like the last half is a really good adjustment and helps. And then the first half is like, but you're still – You have to stop doing revenge bedroom punishment to yourself. Yeah, exactly. Or whatever it is protest what it's called it's called a thing revenge is it i'm protest or you can look at it sounds made up i mean i don't know although technically everything is made up so but it exactly but

basically the idea the way we lock into in our evening free time like no i just even if i'm not if i'm tired i'm staying up and we're in that habit of it because our lives are so busy and we're doing so much during the day that that's our time for peace. And it's like, finally, I can unwind and you don't want to go to bed and wake up and have it be over.

You're like, wait a minute, this is the time that I've been working towards. Speaking of working towards something, it is time for a quick break. Look at me calling out the break this week and when we get back we'll talk about some news news hey there folks it's me katie stole and if there's one thing i simply cannot do without it's my cell phone yes i'm always on it for my second job, setting up, let's just call them wager games involving, let's see, enclosed combat between, no, let's just call them pre-adult humanoids.

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We're back from that break for some news. I hope you're all nice and broke and braked. Braked. You're full of brakes. You're braked up. You're revved up. You're set for news. Yeah.

You're fed for news. Yeah. You're fed for news. Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah. Well, there's a lot of news this week. And our first two topics have a lot of details. Just some updates that we're going to get through. And then we're going to talk about some other stuff.

And it's going to be great. Yeah, it's going to be great. There's a lot of violence in this episode. Ugh. I'm like stalling getting started. We're going to start off talking about the brooklyn subway shooting and a little update i am sure you all know what happened um i don't need to apprise you of the situation but here are uh here's the latest um yes the suspect has been

apprehended his name is frank r james he years old. And yes, he has posted a bunch of YouTube videos where he talked about race violence against Mayor Eric Adams. He unhoused he is a black man. He expressed bigoted views towards black people, sexist views, misogynistic views. I mean, I'm just going to say the thing we're all thinking. I mean, yes, he was caught. He was arrested. He was arrested following a tip from a 21-year-old man named Zach. Well, also, apparently he called. He called the tip line himself.

Right. Zach saw him. And left a credit, like somebody left a credit card? Well, he left his own credit card at this crime scene yeah it seemed i don't know his backpack and it regardless what i'm trying to say is this man was at large for over 24 hours and um this incident happened after eric adams had already added i I don't know, hundreds more cops to subway stations. All of the surveillance cameras of the subway were broken and didn't catch him, which is just unfathomable.

Unfathomable that they have all this money and all these resources and they still behave like clowns. And so this man evades the police for more than 24 hours and apparently calls himself in. And yes, he was this guy, Zach, you know, saw him walking by and he flagged down a cop or whatever. Like, also, there was another story of this other disgruntled bodega owner who apparently is irritated that zach is social media famous he was like well i saw him i saw him but i didn't want to just call the cops so in case it wasn't the right guy but then i flagged down a cop and i was like he went that way it is wild to see this play out and to watch the guy and the cops are incapable of catching him.

Oh, no. Didn't you see Mayor tweeted? What a great job they did. And what a great job they did. Thank I thank our boys in blue for all the hard work apprehending this guy who left his credit card and called them. I mean, I imagine him thinking he wanted to get caught and and they just weren't catching him. So he had to get caught and uh and they just weren't catching him so he had to call himself in yeah congratulating like the police on doing such a great job here is like one of those

um action movies where like that the action hero saves the day but only after there's been just like so much wanton destruction and civilian deaths and it's like oh they didn't really do anything at all well i mean it's just ridiculous but this makes me think of this video of some cops mistakenly arresting the wrong people while the other real criminal is literally getting yeah they're harassing and it's like a charlie chaplin movie yeah it's like chaos like whoop whoop whoop and that's what this is to me it's them stepping on rakes yeah even in that video there's like they're pointing like no they're over there yeah yeah it's like nonsense did we play charlie chaplin music underneath that i don't know or maybe i think that we were going yeah i think we i think we wanted to um i forget

so long ago time is meaningless do we have rights to yakety socks is that fair use at this point i think we i think we might have done like a generic version a uh a royalty-free yakety sacks it's frustrating because like it is well first of all it makes me it also makes me think of that um that snowman meme from that movie the snowman mr police you could have saved her i gave you all the clues but whatever um because it's like it's silly and it's uh it's ridiculous and it's absurd how this all went down. But it's also pretty disgusting to see the disconnect between what the NYPD, what they think they do, what they think they're there for, and what they actually do. They didn't do anything. While this was going on, their counter counterterrorism they didn't stop it

yeah despite being literally all over the place all over the place they didn't stop it uh they didn't stop it they didn't find the guy they got him through no fault of their own and but like during all this their counterterrorism terrorism unit was harassing homeless people like that's what they spend their time on. All the cops on the subway are just there to harass vendors and bust people for jumping the turnstile. It's like it's ridiculous. And what this will do is generate more momentum for more of that. Because what you see happening, you know, everyone's we have a great video coming out next week that's all about the fear of crime in politics and how it gets weaponized.

And meanwhile, people completely missing the point. Anyway, what this will have inevitably get this gets lumped into is, you know, an attack on defund the police or however you want to whatever you want to call defund the police it's it's distracting from these actual issues and they're not doing it they're not doing the thing that they say they're going to do we're wasting our money and in fact they're actively making things worse for for for certain communities all communities yeah um and they're just gonna keep getting more money and get how continue to have a budget more than like most militaries it's ridiculous john i think one of the most frustrating things is like like of course this group of people couldn't stop this violent act because like no

group of people unless we like have a complete sci-fi surveillance state or something that's being actively monitored but like that's why this happens when it's like okay the crime happened we need to hire more police that's the only answer and then there's police around everywhere and they're like well what i have to do my job what am i going to do all day i have things to do well it's yeah it's easier to harass vendors and find and sweep homeless people and they've got quotas to make. And it's about income. Yeah, we have to seriously like change our expectations

of like we could hire a group of people that could stop every crime, which is not a thing that happens or will be done. Because what is the source of a different crime? What we're looking at here

and a big increase in violent crime since 2020. Okay, well, what actually is happening here? And it's not about liberal cities versus conservative cities. It's about people being distressed. It's about people not having resources. It's about people not having access to mental health facilities and treatment. And I know that this man has been in mental health treatment and facilities,

but we're talking about a whole climate that people have to navigate by themselves. And they are angry and broken. And yes, there's a lot more violent crime. So just adding more of the things that have exacerbated the fucking problem isn't going to fix it. It's just going to exacerbate it and waste our money while we're sitting here on our thumbs like twiddling our thumbs not doing or having the actual conversations that need to happen yeah and i don't know what this person specifically his life story is but i bet there are any number of different ways his life could have gone well so wasn't the fbi like tipped off on this guy before and then there there's that. They just like let it go. What are you doing? But yeah.

And also like, I mean, even the like uptick in violent crime, it's just the past couple of years. And it's not like it's higher than like violent crime has been in the 90s and things like that. And like we even talk about like sort of what you were talking about, like more cops can deter some crimes because you're not going to do certain crimes in front of a police officer but then it leads to more arrests for things like drug offenses and like non-violent crimes which puts people in prison and like uh like starts up that cycle so like there's it's

just yeah like you're saying like this expectation that we're just gonna if you just pump more in it's gonna stop it's gonna stop the crimes well right there's this idea what do we even consider presence does right like there's like the one or two studies that are like oh police presence in a neighborhood lowers violent crime because of their presence like okay fine but when you put like actual human beings who are imbued with like a lot of power right it like shoots up violence against people in those communities shoots up low-level arrests and then you have to like look at the more harm than good question and right if there are better ways to address the violent crime that's happening and of course there is because of course things like guns and poverty and like the things that actually

are causing yeah the things that have led to this like this particular uptick obviously like probably the pandemic related i don't know i'm just you know a person who's been aware there's a global pandemic that's like three years look i'm even loath to like mention that but they people use that as a reason to justify more police spending well yeah let's talk about why there's more gun violence let's talk about it there's more gun violence. Let's talk about it. What's going on in people's lives lately that it's stressful? Have a lot of people bought guns over the past couple of years? Yes.

What leads to more gun violence? Is it more guns? And while we're talking about gun violence, because, yes, guys, there have we don't we just couldn't possibly talk about it every every week because it would be the entire episode every week but there are so much gun violence just this year we're in april there was the sacramento shooting last week that that was appears to be gang related there are five different shooters there so many different um mass. But here are some facts. In the United States in 2022 so far, there have been more than 4,500 gun deaths and 8,300 gun injuries in the U.S. this year. Including Tuesday, there have now been 131 mass shootings in less than four months. in less than four months. And then when we're talking about it,

we should just talk about the fact that, you know, a high, high, high percent, like all of the mass shootings and the violence, that's the high profile, but people are far more likely to die from gun violence within their home, from suicide, from domestic abuse, kids accidentally shooting themselves. We're the only country that does this.

Yeah, it's the presence of that does this yeah it's the presence of the presence of guns yeah that's the top correlation early pandemic tons more people buy guns gun violence goes up it's just toddlers shooting each other yeah more guns in the home more like all this stuff more yeah more depression more access to guns then what does that lead to nearly half this is jonathan you included, nearly half of female gun homicide victims were killed by a current or former partner. And while we are on this topic, before we take a break, I would like to mention Patrick Leoya, a black man, a few weeks ago was shot by a police officer in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A video has been released of his shooting on Wednesday. There's also a cell phone video showing an unnamed cop on top of Leola telling him to drop the taser before he pulls out his gun and shoots him in the back of the head.

I don't even know what to say right now. This is developing, but I want to say Patrick's name and I want to acknowledge that this happened. We will of course talk about this more as more information is released, but in the mean, it's just, of course, of course this is continuing to happen in the backdrop of everything else

that we've been talking about. This continues to happen and it gets overshadowed. It's horrifying. I don't know. Yeah, it's horrific. I don't know um yeah it's horrific i uh i mean i will not be watching the video i no no no i i didn't watch the footage that or if there was body cam footage release i didn't watch it i didn't think the cell phone video would show as much as it did so i watched it i'm regretting doing that. But reading that out loud, maybe I'm feeling emotional.

That's that's what happens. The cop is on top of him and he says like, like, drop the taser, drop the taser. But from the video I watched, it looks like he is immobile on the ground. The cop is like struggling with him and he pulls out his gun and he shoots him in the back of the head. Again, not that we would have needed to see that to know what happened i mean this is what we we call a war crime in battle you know like a civilian anyway it's it's really upsetting yeah and it's just there's so much going on so it's like and it gets lost there's not going to write. It feels unlikely to galvanize the same kind of attention. songs blared from a police cruiser, according to a YouTube video and a news report. Police had been investigating a stolen vehicle, an officer explains in the video.

But after Un Poco Loco from Disney's 2017 movie Coco started blasting through the neighborhood, residents began asking questions. Basically, what they're doing and what lots of cops are doing is blaring copyrighted music during a police stop, an activity investigation, so that when people film them, they can't let it, it won't go viral because there's copyrighted music that'll strike it down. And it's a whole, it's happening across the country.

They tried doing that with Taylor Swift during summer 2020, I think. Yeah, it's definitely a tactic they're all aware of and they try to use. Record them anyway. All right, we're going to take a quick break and then we will be back for even more news. I'm a real nester. I like to nest. Some days I'll take every blanket I own and just jam it under my bed and get all up in there. Won't come out for days eating bread in my nest, hissing at strangers. And so I require only the finest of nesting,

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And we are back as promised for even more news. For the first time, Joe Biden has referred to what is going on in Ukraine as a genocide. And it's hard to deny that, seeing what's happening. An unknown number of people have been killed in the Kiev suburb of Bucha. Russian soldiers have reportedly been shooting civilians on site, you know, bodies bound and people tortured and raped, just bodies left in the street, the killing of more than 10,000 civilians in Mariupol, the bombing campaign has gone on for weeks, targeting of civilian locations and like schools and hospitals, reports of chemical weapons attacks that have yet to be verified, but if hasn't happened is certainly a possibility based on what we've been hearing. The rhetoric in Russia is certainly really alarming from state news and the way they're portraying this at this point.

They are bringing people back, and if they are not willing to do fealty to Russia, they are not willing to do fealty to russia they are creating camps they've literally called them concentration camps on their their television their goal is to re-educate they have laid out plans that they think it would take 30 years to un-indoctrinate ukrainians it's really scary it's really really fucking scary but what can we do so earlier today um it looked like or at least the new york times was reporting on this that the european union appears ready to like move forward and do an embargo on russian oil uh they already cut off russian coal a while ago um if and this is very very difficult to do because europe is extremely reliant on russian oil particular germany germany

uh i think 30 what was it a huge chunk of their i don't want to get the wrong number no it's okay it's like 34 or something of their oil comes from uh russia um but if they were able to cut that off that's over 40 of the russian budget um and so there are people who believe that if that was cut off that the war would end you know in a month or two like they would not be able that putin would not be able to keep going now there's a separate issue of what happens when he gets extremely even more alienated and feels like he has nothing to lose and he has nukes i don't want to think about that but like this appears to be something that the european union is like ready to do and put forward probably over a period of months they can't just cut off a huge chunk of their oil right away but like all of this this plan this increased dependence on russia for oil when i mean just across the world every country the dependence on oil oil oil when we need to be

moving away from it but now you're in this position where they depend on russia there's nothing that they can really do with this dependence um well yeah i mean that's uh because also when you when you remove that so okay what that effect does to the european economy well that's then outsized it's like a shock wave across the world and again affects just people in their everyday lives yes the uh complicated nature of being uh an entire planet and having a global market and all this interconnectedness where we rely on each other's different resources and then suddenly well but now you're doing war crimes i think they should i think they should do this i think they should cut off russian oil but that's also easy for me to say as someone who will

be much less affected by it than uh someone in europe with all this the interconnectedness it's just in the in the face of these like atrocities that are being committed i don't know like obviously if there was a better solution we'd we'd say it right i mean and then meanwhile there's the increased potential of famously neutral sweden and finland um deciding to join nato because of all this which is very understandable you know given these the circumstances um but how does that escalate things because putin's already threatening nuclear escalation if that were to happen sooner i mean that's that i don't know i don't know where we go from here you also can't stop them from joining nato and then donald trump uh was on sean hannity and um uh was shown

sean asked donald trump to comment he was showing bodies in, Sean asked Donald Trump to comment. He was showing bodies in the street and he refused to comment on it. He refused to say. Yeah, he was much more vocal when he was talking about the windmills. Well, they kill the birds. The birds, my God.

Guys, I don't want to keep talking about this, I think. I want to talk about some other terrible things happening here in the country okay let's do some terrible awful state bills jonathan i'm gonna let you talk us through some of this yeah there's some terrible bills the in the world that or uh specifically this country our world uh oh yeah our world uh our country um the oklahoma house last week passed a complete abortion ban um the state senate passed the same bill last year and the house put it on the agenda kind of out of the blue last week the uh the governor of oklahoma signed a complete abortion ban uh this week that's

unconstitutional currently it's unconstitutional for the next couple of months um uh yeah he made performing an abortion except to save the life of a pregnant woman in a medical emergency a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and then then today uh ronda santos in florida signed his own 15 week abortion ban into law. So it's just ramping up now. They're they're signing these bills left and right in anticipation of Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade and presumably Planned Parenthood v. Casey this this summer. One thing I want to note about this specific situation in oklahoma um is that oklahoma had become a bit of a haven for texas women seeking abortions ever since

texas passed its you know six-week ban um appointments already are booked weeks in advance in oklahoma so this this is the thing this is what's happening folks the thing we've been talking about yeah i don't know if um obviously the the aclu has already said they're filing a lot like as soon as these bills get passed they're like we're filing lawsuits but we're really just in a holding pattern um i i think until i think until the scotus ruling on the mississippi bill uh in june and then then we kind of wait to see like what's the we're gonna be like what's the plan uh i think the what's also tough is i like tried to look into the very specifics of the mississippi bill like

okay if they're moving it from 22 weeks to 15 weeks how do they get away with that how is that constitutional like trying to really understand the legal pretzel of this whole thing and i think you know not a constitutional scholar here i think what they're doing is just trying to change that viability standard or even suggesting and this is something that's in planned parenthood v casey is that um they said in planned parenthoodood v Casey in 1992 they were like well technology might improve in the future to where a fetus could be viable pre that 24 weeks um and so I think they're arguing like other you know whether it's fetal heartbeat at six weeks you know that thing or something else some other benchmark that happens at around 15 weeks

by saying you know we we think the viability standard can change because of this x y and z thing that we now know happens in a fetus um which is just very i mean it's just very dangerous and bad um that they're gonna find like basically a legal loophole to control people. Yeah, that's right. Like it seems like the Republican Party and the Republican legal strategy is just all based on loopholes. Like, oh, we're going to make it so you can sue people instead of just making something illegal. Right. Like it's.

Yeah, it's loopholes and like slowly sort of pushing the boundary and seeing how much. How far you can take it. Yeah. How people don't notice it happening. much. How far you can take it. Yeah. How people don't notice it happening. That slow creep. And it's just, yeah. Now it's happening every week to the point where we're kind of used to it.

Like, oh, some governor signed some ban and we're not like, well, there we go. Guess we're going to have to fight it. Let's talk about some other stuff. Shall we? The excitement is palpable. Oh, I can't wait. Okay.

Is it also bad? Is it also bad? We are going to change this ship around because Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter. Bam, bam, bam, bam. Oh, I bet he does. I bet he really does. I bet he does not. Cody, do you want to talk about this?

This is your time to shine. Talk to us about Elon. I don't want to talk about it that much. I mean, it's a whole series of events, right? He bought some Twitter. So, yeah, it started off at... Sorry. What is that?

Yes. It's just very funny that I say, Cody, why don't you do it? And then... Oh, I know. I know what happened. I don't even let you start. And I'm like, want to why don't you do it? And then. Oh, I know. I know what happened. I don't even let you start. And I'm like, want to help.

Shut up, Katie. Go ahead. It would be fun to do a little carousel and like switch all of our roles. Yeah. Or do like every other word. So Elon Musk. Is. The.

Guy. Jonathan. It was your idea. Elon Musk is the guy,athan perfect perfect okay you explain it i'll shut my mouth well he bought some uh some of twitter um and uh was uh this is all like allegedly too because like who knows really like what he is doing or wants to do or if he's just like trying to make make some quick cash or like um but he uh bought some of twitter and was allegedly going to be on the board um they basically laid out that um it seems

like they laid out like okay but like you can't like be what do what you do you can be on the board but you can't be elon right um you can't like, you know, like disparage the company in like the ways that you seem to like to do. And, you know, he's very- And you can't try to buy the company.

Yeah, he's got a very tenuous relationship with the SEC. He can't try to buy the company and all these sort of things. You gotta like, you know, let's do a background check,

things like that. So he announced he was not going to be on the board, but he's still keep his shares and then he uh filed to buy uh twitter at 54 20 per share which is an epic number from the le bacon man um god it's so like it's just like he smoked weed like once on joe rogan in his life and like he it's just like is 420 really a hilarious number to you is this really like are you like you're like in your 50s and you're like it's just like it's just it's one of those

like oh no you think that i think it's funny so therefore it's funny like just like a three-dimensional troll type right yeah it's like i'm yeah i'm i'm doing art or something uh it's just very weird and like i don't know uh go to the moon spend time with your kids or something but whatever i mean look-20 a share. Hilarious stuff. Yes, Katie. Look. It's not going to happen. First of all, I don't think it's going to happen. The board would have to accept his offer. And there are plenty of valid reasons for them not to.

And based on how he's abused Twitter and been fined in the past for how he's shared private information on Twitter. Yeah, he likes to manipulate markets. That's like what he wants to do. It's his game. It's like succession. He is that douchey succession guy that's always tweeting shit. And also it's unclear how he would come up with the cash because all of his money is in his know, in his companies and in shares

and creditors would have to accept a share of Tesla stock to insure whatever loans, blah, blah, blah. But Tesla stock is volatile because of Elon Musk and how he uses Twitter. I just feel like what it does to me, my instinct and I could be very wrong. I don't know Elon. I've never had a conversation with the man um feels almost like doing it to show the world that he can do it yeah i mean part of it is always going to be this sort of uh ego that he has this sort of you know and also the disconnected narcissism that happens uh or is enhanced when you reach a certain amount of wealth

um like literally it does uh do that change who you are um uh and this is certainly part of it he also likes to do things that like you know i mean he uh had that tweet where he was like should i sell my uh this stock yes or no and like the twitter poll said yes so he did it he was planning on doing that he had to he was doing it like he was doing it anyway um and uh so he just likes to do this kind of thing it's uh you know if he's okay you're gonna disparage twitter for a week and then you're gonna buy shares uh uh at a lower price and then you're gonna like I don't know there's a series of events that could lead

to just like him just making money off of this weird PR week and a half of Twitter activity and although like stock went down for Twitter regarding this right before we started recording, Vanguard, which is an investment portfolio place, people

who retire retirement funds, have now purchased 10% of the company. So they now are the major shareholder just as the last couple hours just everything's so fake and stupid um i don't want to give him the attention that he so desperately craves uh but here but here we are he i feel like buddhism would really help him because he keeps doing this stuff and getting you know thousands of messages from the people who love him and he's like yes this is what i need thank you people telling me i'm right and then it's like every day he's like this will finally be the one that fulfills me for good and then the next day he's like well i feel like shit well what do i what do i do maybe i'll buy more of it maybe i'll

sell it all maybe i'll uh maybe i'll maybe i'll type fart into this box and hit right right whatever and then like then then he just seems thank god they're giving me those good little feelies those good little vibes this will stick with me forever this will make me feel good forever he's like one of our most pathetic people yeah no that's the thing it is it is pathetic um and even like yeah like what okay find out uh find out the Grimes is like dating Chelsea Manning maybe and so he like starts tweeting some like anti-trans stuff on on his timeline he's just like it's just pathetic so transparent and it's very transparent and it would be funny if well so first of all he's framing it like he's like this free speech warrior and i just don't think i don't know why anybody would

buy that um based on even just like his activities um i don't know if you recall when he called that british cave diver uh a pedophile yeah um and uh he gave a talk today and um a reporter uh wanted to note that uh so he's on stage he's talking about his obsession with truth which is why he wants to uh buy twitter um quote four years ago he tried to get me to write that a british cave rescuer in thailand was a quote child rapist because of false information fed to him by a fake private investigator um he does this kind of stuff to like go after people who like disparage him even though the guy didn't disparage him he said we don't need your stupid

submarine we got this and then he was called a pedophile by elon musk um it's just very he's just not the guy that he claims to be that people seem to think he is um he's not going to be a free speech warrior if he buys this this successfully buys this there will be restrictions because even like he doesn't explain like what he thinks should happen really and when he's faced with the actual decision like what do you do with in this situation like this or like this he's going to have to do like the reasonable thing that most platforms have to do otherwise it's going to be your weird nazi app elon are you gonna let people i don't know yeah it's all gonna be if he's like nope no more restrictions everyone's on say whatever you

want then it's just spam and gibberish exactly all the time yeah it's people like nazis yeah and yeah no one wants to use them with elon musk's twitter avatar like in every you know um and yeah no one's gonna want to use it idea that he's this big think in every you know and yeah no one's going to want to use it there's this idea that he's this big thinker and this genius and he'll revolutionize things but that's just bullshit all he's done is I mean he didn't found

Tesla no he did not it's very he invested in it he didn't come up with the idea for PayPal but he was like hey that app where you can get that like thing you guys are building where you can like pay people on the internet that sounds interesting here's money yeah that's true guy um it's fun right and like even everyone thinks he is that he thinks right yeah even just the like the electric car at all i said there's a

there's a speech and jordan peterson likes to talk about this more than once but talking about elon musk and like how incredible and like blown away he is by like this innovator and stuff and he as he's talking about it it's so funny because it's like for you know first he uh he makes this electric car and like and like nobody thought he could do that and he's sort of like every step of the way he's like nobody thought he could do that. And he's sort of like every step of the way. He's like, I know he thought he could do that. And then he put he builds these rockets. I thought I could do that. And then he takes one of the cars and he sends his rocket to space.

And it's like incredible. And I thought I could do it. And it's like, man, electric cars have existed for like more than a century. We went to the moon more than 50 years ago. Like, what are you talking about? What are you talking about? Yeah. And like not to say that, like, wow. Yeah, that what he did that's neat but it's like not like mind-blowing

it's not this is the most brilliant man in the world for being able to exactly put an electric electric car in space and his ideas the ones that are his ideas are pretty bad I mean oh I mean it's obvious his tunnels are obviously terrible like like what is that selling dirt to poor people from those tunnels that he has not revisited yet but they don't work they don't work

if there's a tree around Starlink a tree a single tree well those aren't going to exist very much longer so yeah don't worry there won't be any of those to interfere i think it would be very funny if elon musk does indeed buy twitter and then everybody leaves and he loses money um it because i don't know what he's going to do to change it i do know a lot of of people hate him. I also know that, for example, what Yahoo bought Tumblr

for billions of dollars and then had to sell it for $100 million. I don't know the exact number. That would feel good. Wouldn't that be pretty funny? I don't know where we would... I don't care. I'll never go online again. That's a sacrifice

I'm willing to make. that was a really good point and I appreciate it Jonathan let's walk through some broken news so four US senators including three Democrats spoke anonymously to the San Francisco Chronicle about California Senator Dianne Feinstein whom they believe has a rapidly deteriorating

memory and may no longer be able to reasonably do her job these senators and some other former staffers and at least one uh democratic member of congress said that she has difficulty keeping up with conversations the one senator said they were shocked at having to reintroduce themselves to feinstein multiple times during a meeting that lasted several hours that might have been a congressperson or a staffer but um and this is really you know this is really sad because memory loss is a sad and devastating thing for for elderly people for their families but you know

they shouldn't be in office yeah it's rough it's. It's it is sad. It's it's a delicate situation, but not as delicate as I think people seem to think it is because she needs to retire. Well, it's personally sad. My grandma had dementia and is very, very sad. If she was a senator, I would have suggested that she stopped being a senator a long time ago, honestly, because what she's doing is probably not healthy for her brain and for her body no yeah it's like on a personal level it's not healthy for her or good for her the stress exacerbates it and things like that but also obviously not good for the state or the country um or like the state of politics in general if we continue to ignore this kind of thing i don't think it's like it's not insensitive to say yeah you can't be a senator anymore this is not acceptable um it's uh also this was reported a couple of years ago not this exact report exactly like there are new quotes about it

stories but we have been aware that she has some sort of cognitive decline for a while but it's always a whispered thing. And it's just a very important conversation because the vast majority of the people that we have serving for us in Congress are old. Our president is old. And it's very difficult for young people, the people that we desperately need,

the different opinions and voices to be elected and to serve. And once they do, they are shut down by the gatekeepers. And I'm not trying to make this an attack on Dianne Feinstein. What she's going through is hard. She needs to not be working. She's 88 years old. It's time to rest. It's time to stop.

You know, you're not helping anybody yeah i just don't there's like an element of like if you're before any of this stuff before this yes go go relax you did it you're like she's also worth 90 million dollars that's my god she's one of the wealthiest members she's worth 90 million dollars. She's got more millions than she has years. That's too much. And she's got a lot of years. And just like go enjoy your 90 million dollars.

She can't. And there's so many people like again like and it's not it's completely reasonable to want your representative body to represent the population. The current state of Congress is like, I think like they're like 32 millennials in Congress. Like House and the Senate. 298 boomers. 38 members of the silent generation um it's just that's a lot and I think this is a pretty good indicator that maybe it's not good for and like I've even seen like excuses about this like well actually like most senators rely on their staffers like 90% of the work the senator does because it is from their staffers it's like well yeah okay

that's not good either but no it isn't like but they should be able to take what the staffers are saying make an informed decision for their votes and not get irritable and things like that who is making an argument for Dianne Feinstein in this situation get out of here yeah Nancy Pelosi

right but the staffers do all that work. You need someone up there who can articulate them and absorb them and like and absorb them and knows what you're fighting for. Maybe in solidarity, Chuck Grassley should retire. We should call on Chuck Grassley to retire in solidarity right now to keep it even. That's that's a good idea. I think that's fair. All right, Jonathan, one more broken news yeah so i i like how i had to pitch this one to you because i was not sure if a javelina story counted as a boar story i think we decided that it does it does

i think so yeah a wild javelina uh which is like a fancy name for boar. Yeah, it's like a peccary or a skunk pig in Arizona got stuck inside of a car while trying to reach a bag of Cheetos. According to the sheriff's office, when the javelina got into the car, the hatch shook closed, trapping the animal. The javelina licked the Cheeto bag crumbless and made an unsuccessful attempt to escape. It also knocked the car into neutral,

causing it to drift out of its driveway and across the street. Everyone's okay. No one was hurt. They were able to open the door and the javelina escaped safely back into the wilderness. Rascal. They're getting stronger. They're getting smarter. They are mobilizing.

That's what i have to say sometimes i will i warning you i do feel the need to push back a little bit about this being a boar necessarily i believe peccaries are not uh in the same family uh i don't know the exact details but a skunk pig look at my colloquially they call it a skunk okay um it is hoofed animal, but I don't know if it's necessarily within the same family we're talking about. While peccaries resemble pigs, they are not pigs. So, I just think that we need to recognize our true enemy, the boars. Okay. So, this is a distraction.

You don't think they've got allies? This is a distraction. Yeah. He or she just wanted Some snacks We shouldn't Had a boar got into the car He or she got into the car

Well had a boar gotten in the car Then it would have gone in neutral and then it would have gone in drive And then the boar would have driven The car into you know I guess that's how we know what it is Exactly Guys I think we've done it I think we did it stay safe out there folks

stay safe out there folks um we talked we had some laughs a lot of non laughs some laughs some gaffs some other word that rhymes with that yeah some staffs Some other word that rhymes with that. Yeah.

Some staff. Okay, guys. Some staffers. Oh, I had snacks. I had a lot of snacks. I had a whole little thing of cashews. During this? You were eating cashews this whole time?

I also had a protein bar. The fuck? I have had a whole meal while we were- This whole time? This whole time. What the hell? I hadn't even turned my camera off yet guys like i ate my entire snacks um before i had to turn off my camera damn we were just yeah i was distracted by the news the really good news you only have eyes for the news

guys this has been fun we We're done. I gotta run. Remember, though, that we- That classic ending, much.