Some More News - Even More News: All The Ways JD Vance Has Failed Lately
Episode Date: April 14, 2026Hi. In today's episode of Even More News, Katy, Cody, and Jonathan discuss JD Vance's weekend of failure, including his negotiations with Iran, Viktor Orbán’s election loss, and President ...Trump’s Jesus fantasies and fight with Pope Leo.As always, we recorded right before that big thing that happened.PATREON: https://patreon.com/somemorenewsMERCH: https://shop.somemorenews.comYOUTUBE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvlj0IzjSnNoduQF0l3VGng/joinSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Hi, on today's episode, we talk about the new blockade on the Strait of Hormose, Donald Trump's controversial post where he's Jesus, and the chaotic California gubernatorial race.
All this and more on today's episode of Even More News.
Hi, hello, welcome back to Even More News, the first and only news podcast that's recorded on a Monday and either comes out Monday night or Tuesday morning.
I'm Katie Stoll, that is
Good morning, Katie, I'm Cody, welcome to the show
Sorry, Monday mornings
Good morning, I'm Cody, how you doing?
I'm doing something
This place is like the pit of despair, so that was a pretty good
Just establishing the vibes
Ooh, that's a podcast, a different one
But actually just a rebranding of this one
Welcome to the pit of despair
Don't even think about trying to escape
Jonathan's also here folks
Hi, hi, yes, hello, hi
So I guess we're just gonna dive right into it
No chit-chat
No chit-chat
Who has time for chit-chat
And folksy stories about the weekend
Get out of here
Go on, scram
That's what Sunday is for
Yeah, chit-chat on Sunday
The Lord's Day
Unless you're
So as of now
The new thing in the war
which there's the ceasefire, we're not firing,
but the Strait of Hormoz is blockaded now by us.
And I'm not terribly sure about the strategy here.
I think it's that the only people making any money through the strait
are the Iranians right now,
because they're either getting the tolls and getting the income.
And so Trump, I believe, is like if we can't have free
commerce through the straight
no one can and so we're going to blockade it
now which also hurts
us but now we're hurting everyone
I think
does that like comport with
that seems to be the strategy
let's just make a bad situation worse
the Seasfore really lasted
a long time didn't it? We will we create
the bad situation to begin with and then we make it
worse I guess there's different opinions
about how effective this strategy
strategy
is will be
sounds bad to me.
Sounds like escalation
sounds like causing
even more extreme economic fallout
for people around the world.
Sounds like they're not prepared
and don't really know what they're doing
and are kind of scrambling
and trying to make it seem like
they didn't lose this war that they started.
Right?
You know, and certain people will frame it like,
well, ultimately this is, you know,
America's best positioned for this, you know.
And ultimately America, you know,
well, they're going to buy oil from America.
Fuck right on off with that argument.
So you're telling me that, well, ultimately,
the big oil companies, American oil companies, will get richer.
Does it mean that that benefits Americans in any way, shape, or form?
It just...
We could get further entrenched in an intractable war.
We could do that.
Further entrenched in an intractable war.
I think it's very clear that...
I mean, we knew all of what I'm about to say last week,
but it's very clear.
that this ceasefire and the workable point, 10 point plan, whatever, was all total bullshit,
just an attempt to de-escalate his bluff, I suppose.
And thank goodness for that.
Like the alternative is horrifying, but right, we're in this situation where he's escalating
the economic war in the water while his subordinate, who,
doesn't have the power to make a deal,
goes to do negotiations in the deal-making spot,
fails to make a deal.
Despite calling him 12 times, I believe,
Vance called Trump 12 times,
reportedly during the 21 hours of negotiating.
Was he able to get Trump on the horn when he was at the UFC fight?
I think, yeah, I think he was available on the golf course
and probably for a few minutes not on the UFC fight,
just because he couldn't hear his phone.
And he doesn't have it on vibra.
So unlike when he publicly made a show of calling Trump and Trump did not answer, when he did it privately, he picked up right away.
Yeah, no.
I miss about JD so much.
He publicly made a show and he didn't answer.
Yes.
In Hungary.
He was in the middle.
We will talk about Hungary as well.
In the middle of endorsing Orpon in Hungary, he's doing a speech and he called Trump and Trump did not pick up the phone.
Before I started my remarks, I actually had a special.
guest that asks that I give him a phone call and we'll see let's hope he actually answers but this is
going to be very embarrassing try one more time well and then at another point he did pick up and was like
hey jd hold on a minute i got i got i'm the president i got some stuff going on and he's like well they're
loving you here mr president you know doing his big old song and dance jd has eaten so much shit this
weekend and it's uh none of it delicious i mean he thinks it's delicious he loves it yeah he'll i mean he
is now, that's his job for the
administration, is to go to the
place where we're not going to have a victory
because we're not really holding cards in this negotiation.
So you go there.
I'm not going to make a deal.
You're going to eat shit, but keep
calling me and I'm taking Marco
who should probably also be there. He's the
Secretary of State, but he's going to go
with me to the UFC fight.
Because he's more fun and I like him more.
Where he totally fits in.
He looks like he should be there. It's not that I want
Marco Rubio at
these negotiations. However, I would posit a better choice than Jared Kushner.
Well, also, he's just the Secretary of State. He's the top diplomat, right? That's his position.
Like, literally his job, as opposed to the son-in-law.
You don't think a half-term senator who can do shit. We really don't talk about that enough,
about how Vance was like an author and then spent what a year.
year in the Senate before running for vice president.
And now he's the vice president.
And he's trying to man.
It was that quick.
Yeah.
Didn't even, you didn't even do a full term.
And now he's like, I'll be the one.
I'll be the guy.
And after 21 hours, like, ah.
He's younger than me.
Not that that matters.
Not that it, you know, but like he's not seasoned on the world stage.
I shouldn't be making the negotiations either, to be honest.
But I, I, how else did J.D. Vance fail this week?
I mean, well, speaking of him calling.
the president while he is in front of everybody and not having them answer the phone,
he went to Hungary to endorse Victor Orban.
We go watch our episodes.
Oh, maybe they're on the screen.
Look at the television.
Is that typical for the vice president of the United States to go endorse candidates in other country?
It's atypical.
It's extremely atypical.
I couldn't think of another example.
unless you're talking about Donald Trump doing it.
It's not something really that happens so explicitly.
Oh, my goodness.
Even, especially after five minutes earlier in the same speech saying,
I'm not here to tell you who to vote for.
Nobody should tell you who to vote for.
And then later being like, but also vote for Victor Rupon.
Apparently his popularity went down like 16 points after that.
The poll, the poll, I know, I know polling is whatever.
It is kind of a joke, but it's very funny.
Yeah.
To say that before he went, he was more popular and after he went and endorsed him, he's less popular.
But looks like a loser.
Spoiler alert.
Yes, Orban lost.
Not to say that the person who won is fantastic.
New guy not great.
No.
Lost.
You know, I'm really...
That's how it goes.
I am actually genuinely surprised.
Like, sure, Donald Trump's endorsement, Vance's endorsement doesn't carry water, but I thought they were more into.
deuce bigelow male jigolo over there you'd think that schneider could have moved the needle but
but i guess his popularity is also waning schneiders one assumes he got paid by victor orpon
to go to hungary and endorse him so people are not reacting kindly to donald trump the the
the trump effect around the world people do not like him he betrays everybody he betrays everybody
Everybody seems to do whatever he touches.
Seems like the dam's breaking.
Or this is the day Donald Trump finally becomes president.
I don't know what it is.
Could be either.
He's not popular here in this country.
And I would imagine in most of the world, he is even less popular.
J.D. Vance, it's lowest VP approval rating in modern history.
Very disliked.
It's like that's what I was going to say, like, we're, it's the modern Republican Party is, is the minority party.
Yeah.
And I know they won the election, but they're very, very, very, very, very unpopular.
And Trump is even more unpopular, except among the people who love him until the end.
The, I mean, but other countries kind of recognize the dynamic.
I can't remember what other world leader, maybe it was Mark Carney, who said we can't, like, let our fortunes rest on a hundred thousand people in Wisconsin every four years.
That's a pretty good point that like a few people in a few key places make a different decision and the world is very different right now.
Yeah.
Six illegal immigrants could change the election just like that.
Oh, sure, yeah.
Trump this weekend is, it seems like he's trying to, there's like, he's like, there's people who aren't so mad at me yet and I got to get them mad at me.
So he's picking, he picked a fight with the Pope.
He said Pope Leo is weak on crime.
Yeah.
So just, well, let's just start.
I guess we got to just start with that because there's so much about it.
Because that also is another way that J.D. Fances failed.
Killed one Pope.
He killed the Pope once and he's out to do it again.
Just they like all this reporting about like, yeah, they're threatening the Pope privately.
They're threatening to like do their own Pope.
And.
Wait, Trump is doing his own Pope.
I forget who was sent
as an ambassador sent
and they're basically just sort of like
being very threatening
basically being like
you know we've got like the strongest military
in the world and you've got to like
do what we say
not in so many words but heavily
imply that they're going to get like
we're going to do like an anti-pop situation
wow there hasn't been a good old fashion schism
in a while I know they are like
hardcore schisming
they're trying to at least
it's very very interesting
and then the reporting is like oh
that didn't happen and they're like yeah it did so who knows um they also there's also they're reporting
that jd vance privately apologized for his bizarre anti-catholic comments for even though he's catholic
um and then he said no i didn't and they were like yeah you did um but now here we are where
the president jadie's dad is going even harder after the catholic church and the pope and saying
read the quote again Jonathan for our dear listeners
it just starts with Pope Leo is weak on crime
that's all you need that's all you need
like that appears to be
there's more there is more in the
quote and terrible on far terrible for foreign policy
which is weird like terrible for his foreign policy
he's the Pope I think like what do you mean he's weak on crime
he's the Pope like there should be like a long extended bit
that we do now but like I don't even know what it
He's the Pope.
What do you mean he's weak on crime?
He is.
I mean, he said it right there.
What else can you say?
This is a real line cross for some people.
And for some people, no, the Pope should get with it.
Trump is Jesus.
Well, no, he's not.
Unless.
I'm now reading through the whole thing, Leo doesn't get it.
He should get his act together as Pope.
It's so funny.
Stop catering to the radical left.
Like, the Pope's job is, I'm.
Not a Catholic, to cater to the radical left because Jesus, whatever, I don't want to get into that.
I can't, I'm not here to say what Jesus would have been into.
What Jesus would have been into is AI slot pictures of Donald Trump.
But the thing that Catholics believe, not about Jesus, not about any of that, the Pope is right.
The Pope is what the Pope says.
I've seen so many people who are like on the Mago right and like this weird like performative
like Catholic convert sort of stuff and being like the Pope's wrong about this the Pope this
and like just like attacking the Pope and really going in on this and being like what is it what is he
have the right and it's like buddy you're Catholic the one thing the one thing you do is agree with
the Pope well what it is is it's coming to a head these two different identities yeah
Some people have tried to merge.
And so now you got to pick one.
So Cody's right that there are some people that, and we know this, we know that they're not going to change.
They're in due deep.
They're going to choose their new Jesus over the Pope.
But a lot of people aren't okay with this.
And a lot of people are mad about the AI slop.
This is this image.
It's up.
We've seen it.
It's all there.
The little demon is.
adjusted. It's funny. What's the little demon there? This is virtually identical to every single
post I've seen about the president for 10 years. There is nothing new about this image of
Donald Trump as Jesus Christ healing somebody in this painting. It's so interesting that this is
what has triggered people to be upset. I'm going to read this tweet from,
Riley Gaines
Why?
Seriously, I cannot understand
why he'd post this.
Is he looking for a response?
Does he actually think this?
Either way, two things are true.
One, a little humility
would serve him well.
Two, God shall not be mocked.
Okay, so one,
one.
It would serve him well, a little bit of humility.
I agree.
I agree.
Two, I think he's just.
He's going to keep mocking your God.
I think he's going to keep doing it.
I think he's going to keep doing this like he's done every day for decades.
He was asked what his favorite Bible first was and he said, oh, I like them all.
What are you talking about?
What are you doing?
It's so funny.
Is that your Bible, sir?
It's a Bible.
It's a Bible.
It's a Bible.
Cody.
Oh, God, I love it so much.
I agree with you and I disagree with you.
Well, no, I agree with you.
This has been around.
It's not a surprise.
I wouldn't say for 10 years.
I'd say that it's more.
recent the AI
of it all but I welcome the reaction as well
I think there are multiple things happening
and it's different for each person
some people are just willingly
forgetting or ignoring
the other examples of it that you're right
have existed some people
maybe it didn't
break through
on their feeds I was talking to someone
who had no idea
about the Brian Nome
situation
none.
Absolutely not.
Brian.
Somebody that's dialed in.
Byron.
I was just right.
But I'm just saying that as an aside to say like truly there's some amount of stuff that maybe this one, this egregious one didn't break through.
Stuff every day.
The other thing is that it's a confluence.
I know I keep saying this, but I'm feeling vindicated every day by seeing more posts talking about the fracturing that's happening.
It's not one thing and then it changes your mind.
It's a crack in the dam
And then the water starts to pour through it
And then all of a sudden you're getting it
And so, you know, some people
willingly ignorant, some people
are waking up.
And welcome.
Welcome, everybody.
And welcome.
If it takes the least surprising thing
that he's posted stuff like this before,
I'm always, as like a non-religious person,
non-Christian, I'm always like a little bit surprised.
like, oh, this thing is striking a cord.
Not all the other stuff.
None of that stuff, but, like, Trump is Jesus healing people.
You've gone too far, sir.
Anyway, you see him on screen currently.
We do.
He is going to be asked about that.
He's standing next to a woman wearing a shirt that says DoorDash Grandma.
I don't think we're going to hear about what that's all about.
What's going on here?
Here's his response to the picture.
Mr. President, did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus Christ?
Well, it wasn't a picture.
It was me.
I did post it, and I thought it was me as a doctor.
It had to do with Red Cross as a Red Cross worker there, which we support.
And only the fake news could come up with that once.
Oh, my God.
I had just heard about it.
And I said, how did they come up with that?
It's supposed to be me as a doctor, making people better.
What are you talking about?
people a lot better.
I make people a lot better.
So that's me as a doctor.
Well, you know what?
I'm a doctor.
Obviously, the pit just doesn't properly show what life as a doctor is because clearly this is what life as a doctor looks like.
Well, and interesting, if you look at this image and, you know, Trump's a Christian man.
So he clearly, once it was pointed out to him, would see the similarities between.
this figure and Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior,
and not really what a doctor looks like
because doctors don't tend to have glowing sons in their hands
and don't heal people by placing the hand on the forehead.
Traditionally, healing is not done by hand on forehead.
And doesn't have whatever this thing is up here,
some sort of dark lord.
What is the dark lord up here?
Well, it could be transformers.
Could be Transformers.
I mean, it could be just the rocket man on a jet pack.
Some Beels of Bubbian creature flying around behind this doctor.
That's me as a doctor.
That's me as a doctor.
That's me.
I'm not Jesus Christ.
I'm so glad he said that just now instead of 30 minutes from now.
I would have been so upset if we talked about this during the show.
And then afterwards, he's like, well, that's me as a doctor.
Only the fake news could have said that was.
me as Jesus Christ with the glowing hands and the heel on.
The prompt in the slot place was depict Donald Trump as a doctor.
Like what prompt would you put in to get that image?
He doesn't know what a prompt.
He doesn't know.
Yeah, he has no idea.
I'm pretty sure the original was from that Nick Adams account who's like, I'm an alpha.
I'm an alpha.
I post about how I'm such an alpha.
He's a comedian doing a long bit.
I'm convinced Nick Adams.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I think it's about half and half, like most things these days, unfortunately.
What a fascinating story about the president of the United States depicting himself as the Messiah.
It's a Messiah.
I'm not the Messiah.
I'm a Messiah.
There can be multiple messiah.
Sir, the thing you believe is that there's not.
You're not actually.
It could be everyone, you know.
I thought they all knew that he doesn't believe in it and doesn't.
care and thinks you're stupid.
Like, you all know, no, you don't believe this when you're in the Oval Office touching him
and closing your eyes and doing the prayer.
So many pictures of them touching him like that.
I can't get, yeah.
Fascinating time for everybody.
Marjorie Taylor Green posting.
It's more than blasphemy.
It's an anti-Christ spirit.
Glad you're on board, Marjorie.
What times we live in?
Milo is all mad.
Oh, hell no.
Yeah, Milo.
Well, no, it's cool to hate Donald Trump again, I guess.
Yep.
It is happening.
There is fracturing.
There's always going to be the people and the bots online that are going to carry water for him for sure.
But it's, I mean, look online.
There's accumulations of people screenshoting the reactions that his former followers are having.
And every day, I think there's more people.
either realizing it or realizing they need to perform realizing it.
Either one is fine at this point.
And I'm not saying that that means those people are now miraculously seeing the light
and are now leftists or what have you.
But they don't like them.
Yeah.
We're getting there.
We're getting there.
It's fine.
Take your time, folks.
Where else we're getting places?
I don't know.
California.
Twalwell, out.
You know who's not doing Swalwell is...
Swal's well that ends well.
You know, we don't have to do it.
That's the crazy thing is we can just say,
anyway, let's talk about...
I literally was like...
Anyway, let's talk about Eric Swalwell, Jonathan.
Here's our new segment.
Swalls well that ends well.
He's out.
Get out of there.
End of story.
Yes.
Former California Democratic gubernatorial candidate,
Eric Swalwell dropped out of the race after many accusations of sexual assault and harassment
were levied against him.
Uh, good.
Apparently this has been an open secret for years and everyone's just like la-di-da, I guess.
I've seen this far back as like 2018 people sort of like alluding to like, don't.
Yeah, not a guy you want to be around, swell, you know.
Yeah.
But now there is potentially a move to, uh,
get him out of the house as well, kick him out of Congress, and you could get people on board
by also getting rid of Gonzalez at the same time, and maybe even a few other people on both sides
that have had corruption scandals. But right, they'll be like, let's do a clean sweep. Let's just get
rid of, not all of the, you know, because then they would just all march into the ocean. But like,
let's get rid of four people. And then, uh, then.
you know, wipe our hands of it.
And it does throw the California gubernatorial race into a bit of disarray.
We haven't talked about it yet.
Dems and disarray again.
We're finally back in disarray.
Yeah.
This is where we feel most comfortable.
Excellent.
Don't say we.
People get mad.
I know.
That's where they feel most comfortable.
I'm trying to.
I know.
Yeah.
So the California gubernatorial race is something else.
We've got a plethora of candidates and it's hard to see how.
Minus one.
Minus one.
And people are worrying about how that'll shake out if we're splitting the votes amongst
too many Democrats so that nobody gets an edge, et cetera.
And coming into this scandal, this open secret scandal, Swalwell was definitely the front runner.
So it's interesting to see in different, you know, California-based groups and chats and conversations online.
You know, of course, the first thing that people seem to run to is this is a political hit.
This is a political hit.
This is all timed with the election and blah, blah, blah.
No, it's not.
This has been an open secret for a very long time.
Elections tend to have people come out of the woodwork because it's important.
There's lots of reasons that our audience, I hope, knows by now as to why women don't report or maybe they do and nothing happens and they're told to stay silent for X amount of time.
But I just want to say this, very, very frustrating as we're all navigating Donald Trump's second fucking presidency, 10 years in public office life, how mad we are when we talk.
about his sexual assault allegations.
And we talk about believe women, believe women.
And then when it is a Democrat, not even a good Democrat, but just any Democrat in California,
we have to protect our own by jumping through all the same hoops and doing the same smear tactics.
Nah.
Miss me with that shit.
I also haven't, I mean, well, I'll just say a political hit can.
Just be true.
It can be a political hit and it can be a true thing that happened that means he shouldn't be running for governor or be in Congress.
And by the way, if it was a political hit, it would be from one of the other Democrats because having so many Democrats in the race was hurting them and helping Republicans.
The concern was eight or nine Democrats would split the vote in California, the top two, unless it gets 50 percent,
but the top two go to a runoff and the concern is they would both be Republicans.
That's less likely to happen now since it's now, I guess, right now between Tom Steyer and
Katie Porter to kind of divvy it up and see who's going to be the Democratic representative
in those top two.
Although we were talking a little bit about this beforehand.
Seems like this would be the lane for Kamala to jump in.
Come on, Kamala.
Do not try to run for president again.
Han, I shouldn't say, hon, that's disrespectful.
Yeah, don't run for president.
You can be the governor of California if you want.
Now that it's thinned out a little bit,
Tom Steyers seems to say more of the right things than not,
but he's a billionaire.
So, you know, you got to be like,
okay, I'll vote for the one good billionaire, I guess.
Does seem to be one of the better billionaires,
but I don't know.
I'm like, you still made billions of dollars.
Yeah, he's at least.
least performing being on the pulse and you know Medicare for all sort of these like simple things
he is at least doing that which isn't to say that we love him but he's again of the of the lane there
Harris over the weekend hinted that she might be running for president so I can't I would
I would I just really don't want her to run for president I think that's a terrible
terrible mistake. And her whole argument is like, I know the job. I was there. But like that doesn't matter. Your
qualifications don't matter. You've got to talk about things are too expensive and for people. Like you got to,
I'm not going to get us involved. Hey, remember that stuff. I'm not going to do that stuff. But she's just like,
well, I'm the most qualified. Wildly she rebrands this time. I mean, if you remember in 2020 talking about
Medicare for all or trying to be position herself as more progressive.
She called Joe Biden races to his face.
Right. And then, okay, she gets tapped and then all of that goes out the window.
None of that in her last campaign.
So now we're going to trot her out again for a third one when all along.
Only thing people have said is like, I don't believe her.
She's inauthentic.
What is it that she believes in?
What is her message?
What is it?
Huh.
Stop saying, hon.
Oh my God, that's so rude.
I don't like that.
It's coming out of my mouth.
I lived in the country too long.
What is it, girl boss?
Is that much better?
Do people call you hun?
Yeah, you get a hunts.
I'm not offended by it, but I am also aware that it's like a little bit infantilizing.
It can be a little bit, yeah.
I don't mean to say that.
I like, you know, it used to happen a lot when I was like younger or a teenager.
your stuff, but I like when I'm in a place and an older woman gives me a hun, like if I'm buying
something, like thanks, hon or something, that makes me feel good. I don't like when men out in the
world call me boss or chief. I don't like that. I don't know why. And then how about a younger
woman throwing around a hunt? So I think it's a little disrespectful. Right. And so shut up. I mean,
maybe I'm not a younger woman anymore, but Kamala is older than me. So I shouldn't
hun her.
Anyway.
But you weren't saying it to be disrespectful.
I wasn't trying to be disrespectful.
But also, I mean, I'll just say
whatever she will
she won't. I don't think she will
personally. I think that she's
like outwardly
talking about it to like gauge
but I don't think she ultimately will.
Maybe she'll run for governor. I don't know.
We don't know. It's speculation.
I just wanted to say
that we probably don't have to talk about Eric
Swalwell ever again. And
And that's fine.
And I do think, I mean, to your point, Katie, about just like, we don't need to do the weird, like, defense and, like, circling the wagons of, like, or whatever.
I haven't seen a whole lot of that.
Honestly, I've, that's disappointing to hear.
But I've generally seen, like, most, for the most part, just, like, most aspects of the whole tent being like, yeah, that's bad out, get them out.
But, um.
I've seen a ton of it.
I've seen it on Twitter.
I've seen people framing it.
I've seen responses.
Who knows what's bots, what's not.
And then, you know, living where I do,
Facebook is a thing where people share information
and there's, you know, my local county political group
that's rampant in there.
And I just, all of a sudden I started chiming in.
Teet, dee, teet, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee.
Is that what you typed?
You were doing it through telegram.
Did they know what you?
Did they know what you?
Morse code?
Honestly, it started a whole thing.
People are like, you're with us or against.
and I'm like,
and they were like,
get out of here,
what are you talking about?
They were like,
you're bad.
Get some help.
Get some help.
You having a stroke.
Kitty, what do you mean?
D.D.D.
Oh, no.
No, she's flatlining.
Oh, no.
Her comments are flatlining.
Wait, it's still going.
Is she leaning on the keyboard
or is she typing it out?
Put the sad emoji on it.
What else do we want to talk about today?
Huns?
Real quick, speaking of negotiations going better
when J.D. Vance is not a part of them.
I want to congratulate.
congratulate United Teachers Los Angeles
for apparently getting a deal
and due to your contract.
They got a lot of what they wanted
because they got good negotiators
and they don't send
fools who've never done it before
to do it. So congrats to the teachers on getting
unified.
Congratulations.
And now Cody, you had a funny tweet.
I guess. So over the weekend
had some funny tweets all around.
Elon Musk retweeted something
like pretty anti-Semitic so I don't want to read it
because we know
that every once in a while he just retweets something
it's like oh that's really anti-Semitic
you're a Nazi and then
life goes on but I thought this was pretty funny
so I'm going to read it to everybody
and we're going to see what the funniest part
of it is
first Richard Dawkins
we know Richard Dawkins
scientists
he tweeted Neander
Genome is largely known.
If it becomes possible to reconstruct a live Neanderthal, Neanderthal person,
what, in your opinion, would be the pros and cons?
I'm genuinely interested in canvassing opinions for and against.
That's the prompt.
Pros and cons.
Bring him back.
Okay.
Neanderthal.
The interesting thing for Richard Dawkins to posit, I suppose.
Just a little thought, little thought he's having.
So pros and cons.
So Elon.
jumps in within minutes.
It looks like within the same hour.
So he's really excited to talk about the pros and cons of this.
His first reply reads,
Bring them all back, especially the dinosaurs.
Fake it if you have to.
End of response.
Fake it if you have to?
So instead of your prompt,
maybe we should make a movie,
one of the most popular,
Maybe we should make one of the most popular films ever.
Do that.
Make a movie.
Instead of exploring the pros and cons.
Or fake.
Fake it in how?
Make a fake.
Like a robot?
Like a robot?
Like a robot?
Like a robot?
If you have to.
Because my three-year-old will be into it.
If that's his new project.
If you have to make robot dinosaurs, you got to do it.
It's his response to whether or not we should bring the Adithal's back pros and cons.
What does that mean?
Well, don't worry because he has a follow-up tweet, which I have to note, he retweeted
himself. He didn't retweet the first one, but he did retweet this one to his timeline, so you know
it's good. Jurassic Park was legit and epic idea by Crichton. I really hope we can have one in the
future. Got to break some eggs to make an omelet shrug emoji. So he goes from Richard Dawkins,
Neanderthal, what's the pros and cons of bringing them back? Which I would say if Elon didn't reply,
you could dig into that and make fun of it,
but you have to try.
Oh, if he actually gave pros and cons,
he'd give terrible ones.
Yeah.
But in true Elon fashion,
he didn't even do that.
He couldn't even answer the prompts.
He's like Jurassic Park was a good idea.
The bad stuff that inevitably comes from it wouldn't have happened.
So good job Michael Crichton,
except for the point of the story.
Yeah.
The entire point.
The entire point.
The job with the idea.
But you got it all wrong.
We got to do it.
But if you have to fake it, I know it's a bad idea in the movie, but if you have to fake it, fake it.
You know what?
Just do it.
Sometimes you've got to fucking kill a bunch of people with dinosaurs to make an omelette.
Imagine, like, you know, there's some movies that are really open to interpretation,
and you can have those discussions.
I would argue Jurassic Park isn't really one of them that the point is somewhat overt.
It's crystal clear.
Made so that the children watching could understand.
understand. They couldn't have made it clearer. As many people have pointed out as well,
also I keep coming back to like, but you didn't answer the prompt. You didn't give a reason why it's
good. You didn't give a pro or a con, whatever. But many people point out, even if the dinosaurs
didn't escape and get out and test the offense and kill everybody or kill a lot of them,
even if that disaster didn't happen, the park wouldn't have worked, the movie makes it very clear
That's why the triceratops has that problematic pile of poop.
They can't survive in this world because of, like, they're biologically incapable of, like,
digesting in the same way and so on.
They make it clear that, like, even if the park opened and there was no disaster,
the dinosaurs would slowly die in that park.
This is really tickling me.
The one of the main characters says, your scientists spent so much time wondering whether
or not they could, they didn't
stop to think, if they should.
Is a lot, like, he says it.
That's like something
like Donnie Fly would say.
I think it's because, like,
you know, it's Jurassic Park.
Yeah, it's so, it's so obvious.
It's not even, it's not complicated.
It's a family movie.
It's a, it's a fun,
very clear family movie.
And I...
The part where Seminole Jackson's arm
was ripped off was pretty good.
I love, my favorite character.
was John Jurassic.
He thought he was a rich, very rich.
He was very rich.
John Jurassic.
We really, I'm sorry.
This is really tickling me.
I'm brighter red than usual because I'm just thinking about.
I'm glad that that was a good, this is good for you.
They cut the compies out of the movie, but they were cool in the book.
They eat people's skin off.
And then he like, pauses, he goes,
retweet.
Because people need to see it.
Anyway, pros and cons.
We'll never know.
We'll never know.
To bringing Neanderthals back?
I can think of a lot of cons.
The same cons from the movie about the dinosaurs.
Probably some new cons.
I don't know.
I think the question is inherently bad as well.
Oh, sure, whatever.
Sorry.
And not the place.
It's not the place for it.
Sorry, Katie.
Sorry, Katie.
I spent several minutes talking about that.
And we're all better off for it.
But I think that did it for us today, folks.
I agree with you completely.
You got some.
You got some chucks, chuckles.
Yeah, you got some stuff that is not news.
Some Elon updates.
We haven't talked about Elon very much lately, so like and subscribe.
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Leave a comment.
Algorithm stuff.
You know, you know the score, you know the game.
I look forward to seeing all the news that will break in the next two hours that will have wished we talked about.
And then by the time Thursday rolls around, we'll have been like, that's old news.
My goodness, how does anybody stay topical and up to date on anything?
Why does he throw away the velociraptor talon?
I don't understand it.
It's a very cool talon.
He should keep it.
Keep it put it by his bedside with his many swords and guns.
Yeah, you have to keep it there with your Diet Coke.
It's like it is very sharp.
It looks cool.
You could show it off to Grimes, perhaps, and she would think it is cool.
Have you seen Grimes lately?
do you have her new number
I'm trying to steal her child
which is also incidentally my child
and his name is
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