The Daily Zeitgeist - Let's Have A Nation-Wide Trenderal Strike 10/20: No Kings Protest, George Santos, Israel Ceasefire, Louvre Jewel Heist

Episode Date: October 20, 2025

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!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oh, I went to Cosm, the fucking sphere screen thing in Inglewood to watch an Arsenal match. It's fucking insane. Oh, that's the one where you like feel like you're there. Yeah. Yeah. I got to say my caveman brain was fucking tingling. Dude. You're like, there was at one point like ducking when they would like kick a shot.

I'm not joking. I tried to dab up a player who. who just take a corner kick. Everyone was like, I was looking around and even like Jamel and one of my other boys, they were like, they're like, were you kind of want to be like, hey, hey, Gabby!

Like, as if you were courtside, 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 scale version and was completely fucking blown away. Yeah, the sphere just needs to like start

shooting 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. I mean, anything that they show you at the sphere will cost $300.

Right, right, right. They need to recoup that money. Like, I don't know how much cause them costs, but. So $300, though. Like, I've always said the, like, sitting courtside of the NBA, like, everybody needs, we need to create a, like, public fund so that every human being

on earth gets to experience has the opportunity to experience sitting courtside at 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 $300 to sit court side essentially at an NBA game. If it's like delivering 80% of that experience, like I feel like you got to, you got to do it. Damn, they're, they got the matrix at Cosm. It's fucking, yo, so they got the matrix at Cosm. Yo. During half time, right?

They took the screen and played the trailer for it on the screen. So you got like a taste of what it was like, bro. The trailer for the Matrix? The Cosm Up version were like they're filling out the screen. So like there's shots where like, you know, like the part where they're all the human battery pods when they're in the real world. Yeah. It's just you're just up in it. Afterwards, it was one of those moments where like, again, everyone looked around and thought, do we applaud?

Like, what we, I was like, uh, yes, yes, especially that scene where like all the gun racks are like coming through, like where they're like that white space, it's like, they do that shit like you're up in the room too. So it's the entire screen is like all these racks flying by and you're like, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I've heard people complain about it. Like, it's fucking gimmicky or whatever. But as someone who sat in there, I was like, that's a good gimmick. I'm not going to lie. Yeah, that's the thing about gimmicks is some of them are actually good. Yeah, sometimes they're good. Hey, it's Ed Helms, and welcome back to Snafu, my podcast about history's greatest screw-ups.

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their daily zeitgeist. Yeah. My name is Jack O'Brien. That over there. Well, that over there is Mr. Miles Gray. Yes. Ha, ha, ha, ha. And this is the episode where we tell you what was trending over the weekend

what was trending 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 and Miles I'd love for you to do the honors my good sir and tell me something

you think is underrated underrated Chicago and their mayor, Brandon Johnson Chicago storied history of union activism Haymarket martyrs

recently the teachers union strikes they know how to use their collective power to affect change and over the weekend of Chicago other than the musical so you're telling it's a real place it's a real place man it's a real place there's out and then that cow that arsonist cow that's kind of where my knowledge

starts and stops and then the baldheaded guy who shoot ball good him he's there too in the red team but no like over the weekend right there is the no kings there you know the no kings

protests are having everywhere and the mayor Brandon Johnson got up on stage and called for a general strike said hey this time what the fuck are we doing now I say it's underrated because I cannot

outside of the social media posts and a loose Huffpo 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 1946 I was reading. And that led to the Taft-Hartley Act, which basically was like, unions can never coordinate to do some kind of general mass strike. That's illegal. And so in seeing that, I'm like,

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, what's somebody going to say it's time to get busy? Right. You know what I mean? Like I totally not getting busy. 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 the stakes are, we'll get out there. We might not be out there

for the same reason, but just generally, ideologically, there's some kind of common threat here. And I think it's notable that the mayor of Chicago is calling for something unprecedented because right now we are in the face of having constant unprecedented things happened to us as

American citizens and people who live here. So I was very, I was like, oh, I'm like, okay, talk that shit, Mayor Johnson. And then I just say it's underrated because nobody's really talking about that. No, not that far. He's going to have to go door to door and hand out flyers for that to get spread in the United States of America. Yeah. The media being basically on board with the force of capital, that's, yeah, let's just pretend he didn't say that. Yeah, yeah.

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. It's the same word that we use to describe what show Hey Otami did on Friday. Unprecedented. Maybe that shit, holy fuck is what we call all of these things. But yeah, Chicago, much love to you. Yeah.

And just also, man, just, you know, the constant, just 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 are like this this stuff's got to stop right yeah it's like uh-huh and now lead that and what do and what do we do yeah and I think it takes a city like Chicago who has a story history with this kind of thing for that to happen but then again crickets in terms of reporting it it's like I've 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 like, did you, are you talking about this? Didn't catch those other two words, but we're just going to kind of move forward here. Yeah, man. And

Brian the editor makes a good point. Americans addicted to work, but we got to try. You know? Yeah. This is not just like they're failing to mention it. Like, anytime something like this happens, like, there's people behind the scenes just being like, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh. So we're going to actively, like, edit that out of our reporting on this speech.

It's just, it's not going to happen. Right. Yep. Yep. We're all 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 it, the general strike.

Yeah. Yeah. Fucking Hartley. That guy sucks. All right. My underrated miles is how hard museum heists are. There's the new heist just dropped over the weekend at the Louvre. 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 that had a ladder and they were wearing masks from the beginning. Also, that's huge. That is actually a higher bar. than most art heists reach, but came up with masks, broke into the second floor window, the alarm's going off, and nobody really did shit.

They stole the jewels, like some famous jewels that I... Napoleonic jewels. Napoleonic jewels. And I just, and I went to sleep when I read that. Oh, God, no. Not Napoleon's jewels.

Oh, God. 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, 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 choreograph dance to like get through a field of lasers and shit like that. And you got to wear a tight span

Well, you got to wear tight spandex. You got to be up on the latest technology. You've got to... The latest spandex. Yeah. Which is always spandex. You've got to have that Kim Kardashian faith bra on. So your saggy ass face doesn't hit one of the tripwires.

Exactly. But in reality, like museum staff are usually unarmed. Some of the biggest art heist in history are usually like somewhere between shoplifting and like a stealing someone's lunch money. They just, like, walk in and take the shit, and there's not anybody who, like, the most successful art heist in history, and, like, since I wrote about this back of crack, there's been a documentary about it, but it's, uh, it happened in Boston, uh, 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, they wore police uniforms and, like, had fake badges to get into the museum. So just, like, you know, Halloween costumes. They had to subdue a grand total of two security guards who were both 20-something musicians. Great.

One of whom admitted to showing up for work stoned. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Don't worry about them. They're not putting up a fight. 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? Like, it's just like... Yeah, you're not, you're not being paid to be some kind of, like a security specialist. Exactly. You're merely a body to sort of... Yeah, to dissuade someone from, you know, breaking the social contract. In that, you know, most famous, most successful art heist 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

body roll out. Catero Jones wiggle through. The alarm sent a signal out to another part of the museum is like a baby monitor. It's just like... Hell yeah.

Like the Mona Lisa, 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 did that by being like you know working at the museum and then like hiding it in his smock you just took it off the wall and like put it like again like just like stealing a fucking candy bar from raid yeah the planning is just

it goes like this well how are we gonna get it all right I got put in my jacket all right cool cool let's do it let's do it you don't even you don't even need like other people involved it's like what if I got a bigger jacket oh shit yeah okay let's go. All right. Let's go get her. Another guy, like one of the most successful art thieves of all time, uh, 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. Um, and yeah, like that, I just doing research on it was great. 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 stole and like what the value is. Yeah. Good luck fencing it. 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 the theft was that like they tried to light their car on fire and somebody worked. the museum, like, put it out. He's like, hey, hey, hey, hey, stop that. All right.

All right. We're taking off on our bikes. Yeah, and then they rode away on 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 just like armed to the hilt in the other room.

It's the people who are like, hey, stand back. You're standing your toes on the line. Right. You know, like that's who, that's who's there. No flash photography. Yeah. Okay, well, you didn't stop me. That's the job.

You just said no flash photography. Are you going to enforce that? No. No. And when they say flash, no flash photography, I've never witnessed them, like, open their coat and have like that thing on them. Yeah, yeah. A fucking MP5. They're like, watch out, baby.

Because they can get nasty in here. All right. Miles, what's something you think is overrated? Just the concept of the goat. or the greatest of all time because Shohei Otani this is a thing this guy if you don't give a fuck about baseball

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 create a player in a video game where it's like, oh, this guy's going to fucking throw consistently over 100 miles an hour have every sort of pitch in the arts and also can crush the baseball. On Friday, Shohay Otani,

who is a pitcher and all they're saying, he 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 for, this is the NLCS on our way to the World Series. If they win this game,

they go to the World Series. They go to the World Series. He's been in a bit of a slump. He hasn't had a good postseason. No. 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 an effort. And get out of the slump. It's like, Jesus Christ. So this is how the, this is how the fucking first inning played out.

He walked the first batter, strikes out the next three. Right. Then he's the, first person to bat for the dodgers. The bottom of the first inning. He fucking just home run. Just gone. Lead off fucking home run. That has never happened. A pitcher has never fucking hit a lead off home run. Just again, the sequence of seeing someone. Pitchers don't hit. They don't hit. This is the thing. Like it's the first thing you learn in baseball that

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. You don't understand. You don't understand. pitching a baseball 100 miles per hour takes all you fucking have. It needs to be your full time focus all the fucking time. Hitting a baseball is the hardest thing in sports. It's impossible to hit a baseball.

To do both of those things is just beyond the level of like what anyone can imagine. You can't even fathom it. And he is one of the best pitchers and the best, Like he he won the MVP last year And he wasn't even pitching

He wasn't pitching And he just started pitching Anyway he had 10 strikeouts Six scoreless innings And three home runs Three home runs If he had three home runs It would be like a legendary game

Without pitching What the fuck How? In this economy In this economy Show hey Don't you know This country's turning

Into a festering pile of goo And you go and do something like this that makes you believe in some kind of magic? How dare you? How dare you? How dare you? It also ties it like back on a boostie on our NBA podcast. I was talking about how basketball 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 upward trajectory, but now it seems like it's really like accelerating. Everybody's got YouTube. Everybody's like,

you know, getting individual coaching and shit in addition to, you know, playing ball. And like you can see that. Baseball is unique in that 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 50 years while like a bunch of, of like hitting records are just like held still by people in like the 50s and 60s. So to have somebody come through and do shit that is genuinely unprecedented is unbelievable. So crazy. It's wild when you have like A Rod, Derek Jeter, Big Poppy, all these guys after the game be like, what the fuck was that?

I've never seen anything like that before. Look like they just saw a ghost. I mean, Big Poppy was like I'm, we're. We're fortunate to be alive right now to see this happen. So, again, if you want, casually tune in to the World Series because who knows if he's going to have another performance like that, but just know that there is, there's a person out there who's doing something absolutely unbelievable right now. And it's, it's 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 the fuck at what this human body is doing. Yeah. But anyway, I think that's also just being written. Like, that's the, 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 going to come back from 3-1 against my best regular season team of all time. He's going to, like, suddenly learn to fly and, like, pin a shot, like, one of the most important

shots against the backboard. Yeah. Jordan, it felt like, 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 that's how they're going to script it. Like that's- Yeah, because this person has that sort of like magnetism or like that there's like

an ominous thing about him, you know? And just otherworldly, otherworldly. When he was time for that third world home run, I go, I was like, let this be a home run. I almost threw the guy's child off like, recklessly. height into the air because we were up late watching that he's got i was sprinting in and out of the room like an and one mixed yeah yeah unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable great overrated my overrated kind of sucks i just companies telling me about my anniversary with them and treating

treating me like i'm their friend yeah without no discount or anything yeah just being like 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. And I'm like, I don't know, man.

We're not friends. Remember that run of sleep? That was cool, huh? All right, you got anything else for me? No. I had 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 with in the most,

like, it's just like an app. Like does nothing. It does make me a little bit. bit sad to, like, wonder if this is working on other people. They're like, you're my friend. Apple Watch. You know what I mean? I mean, they must, they must have some kind of evidence that shows, like, creating some weird parisocial relationship with the app, like, kind of helps, but I certainly don't like. I think that's why it bothers me is that like it's, yeah, parisocial

relationships with, I mean, AI are obviously becoming a real thing, but. With an app, an that's the update to guess who's coming to dinner yeah it's probably it's probably happening it'll be really bad um 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 look back over the an updated guess who's coming to dinner not about race relations starting the starring sydney potier but but it would be like fucking Glenn, what's that guy's name? Glenn, what's his face? Who's the hot guy right now? Oh, Glenn Powell.

Glenn Powell and his AI girlfriend or something. Yeah. And I'm like, whoa, whoa. She actually has really great data on sleep that helps me maximize my performance. Dad, she loves Shelby Cobras too. Ask her anything about the Ford

Shelby, Shelby Cobra. Go. Ask her. Anyway, it's a bummer. I just, I think we touch grass is obviously a thing people say but also just like talk to human like talk to people talk to talk to human beings I feel like

when possible just take that like your vitamins checking in with somebody talking to an actual human being I feel like that uh 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 your three-year anniversary. Yeah. Oh, wow. You've used the Omiron blood pressure cuff for two and a half years now. Congrats on your health.

Glory days. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. Hey, it's Ed Helms and welcome back to Snafu. My podcast about history's greatest screw-ups. On our new season, we're bringing you a new snafu every single episode. 32 lost nuclear weapons. Wait, stop? What?

Ernie Shackleton sounds like a solid 70s basketball player. Who still wore knee pads? Yes. It's going to be a whole lot of history, a whole lot of funny, and a whole lot of guests. The great Paul Shear made me feel good. I'm like, oh, wow. Angela and Jenna, I am so psyched. You're here.

What was that like for you to solve? launch into the show. Sorry, Jenna, I'll be asking the questions today. I forgot whose podcasts we were doing. Nick Kroll. I hope this story is good enough to get you to toss that sandwich. So let's see how it goes. Listen to season four of Snap-Fu with Ed Helms on the IHeart Radio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All I know is what I've been told. told. And that's a half-truth is a whole lie. For almost a decade, the murder of an 18-year-old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved until a local homemaker, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story. I'm telling you, we know Quincy killed her. We know. A story that law enforcement used to convict six people and that got the citizen investigator on

National TV. Through sheer persistence and nerve, this Kentucky housewife helped give justice to Jessica Curran. My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, producer, and I wouldn't be here if the truth were that easy to find. I did not know her and I did not kill her, or rape or burn or any of that other stuff that y'all said. They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her. They made me say that I poured gas on her. From Lava for Good, this is Graves County, a show about just how far our legal system will go in order to find someone to blame. America, y'all better work the hell up. Bad things happens to good people in small towns.

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Can you out petty them? Can you match their pettiness for funsies? Yeah. We had so much fun last season, laughing, crying, talking to some new and old friends. Remember when we were in that scene where you guys were just supposed to hug and I was standing. Oh, yeah. And I was like, can I also hug them? I'm like, this

has no friends. This time around, we are Say it, Melissa. Should I? Say it. Getting a little more better. Oh, finally. It's all the dressing room talk

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We're back. Amazing. mobilization over the weekend by the no king's protest central casting yeah paid actors like how did they do seven million paid actors yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i kind of believe it because like l.a you know there's a lot out of work actors out here but oh yeah what a what an achievement when i got my two thousand dollar deposit from george sorrows i actually said you know what i'm gonna keep this in. That's how I do it. I'm a bad paid actor. Yeah, yeah. I'll 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 buildup to the No Kings protest. Oh, you've been watches the Antis of pro Hamas terror fest with freaks that are going to kill you to

then seeing all these people and then becoming rage at me like, I don't care. 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 there, children. It became, ah, it's like, whatever. It's like wasn't even that big anyway. These people don't represent America, as Trump said. But yeah, one of the largest single day demonstrations in U.S. history, the biggest since Trump returned to the White House for second term,

naturally it made the bottom of the front page of the New York Times, With a brief mention, that was, you know, less extensive than their article about the basketball court at the Obama Presidential Center. That's true. Yeah, got the Obamalisk. Yeah. An Obamalisk 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 had said, I don't know, some fucker showed up or something, whatever. Okay. Cool, New York Times. Cool, cool, cool. Way to do your job. Way to do your job. Yeah, again, the responses to this have been real varied, but mostly of the dumb fuck variety, I'd say. Yeah, this is, Donald 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, I believe. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, playing danger zone by Kenny Longens. The video, 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 Loggins' 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 in Chicago.

Yeah, yeah, everyone knows that. That's Dave Matthews. that's yeah uh but yeah senior republicans attempted to suggest the protest was quote part of a democratic conspiracy to block an end to the government shut down

and or a Hamas antifa collaboration this was planned in September pre shut down so you know miss us with the they're trying to block the amazing foresight by them if you gave I mean not that you gave a fuck it's just that you are pinned in a hard place now

because you're going to have to own all the health care 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 pass that legislation and control the three branches of government at the current moment. And, you know, the denials of reality here 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 is 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 buildup when he was trying to, you know, characterize this as like a hate America thing.

No, they hate 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. It's because they're just fucking whacked out, dude. Yeah. That's all it is. A bunch of fucking whacked out.

Bunch of wackadoos, dude. Yeah. You can see, I mean, if the New York Times covered it more extensively, you would be able to see that they're not wackadoos. Like you said, they're teachers and, you know, just people. Normal people. And I think they just saw a bunch of white people out there, too. And they're like, what the fuck?

What does you be doing? It doesn't mean brown to them. Yeah, this is a Trump dismissing what occurred over the weekend. What is your response to the protests? Who are you with? What's your response to the protest over the way? What do you, Jay-Z? Who you wit?

Who you with? Exactly. Who are you with? And then he, like, kind of takes it in. Looks up, all right. The AP? Okay, good. At this point, you could just lie.

You could be from ABC because he hates ABC right now. He'd be like, I'm with AP. Oh, okay, cool. Right. Like, see, this motherfucker didn't know? Just say the right shit before. So he's asking, being asked about the No Kings. I think it's a joke.

I looked at the people. They're not. representative of this country white people i looked at the people okay okay go on and i looked at all the brand new signs paid for i guess it was made for by soros and other radical left lunatics it looks like it was we're checking it out uh the demonstrations were very small very ineffective and the people were whacked out when you look at those people those are not representative but the people of our country the people are whacked out and he was so unbothered by it that he shared video of himself dumping shit

on all of them. Yeah, pooping. And then being like, I could do the insurrection act. Right. I could. Yeah. I could do it. I don't know anyway. I'm just saying, like, I'm pretty potent. I mean, they were definitely hoping that it would be more violent and less organized that it was. One of their things was right angle news network posted breaking at exactly 1 p.m. all the no

king's protesters in Times Square immediately dispersed. Totally normal and definitely not astro-turfed. It's like, that was when they had the like if they had overstayed they would have sent federal agents and to start beating the shit out of people and arresting them which is all that you wanted out of this 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 you leave you leave after because they're not they're not trying to get cettled by the fucking police or some shit so anyway performances are so naturalistic though that i might not have hope for democracy in the future of our country but the the acting chops of some of these people yeah as they're being interviewed they just seem fucking bunch of day can they get nominated can they get nominated i mean you know what i mean a mass Oscar for this acting work you can also tell us fake because

the signs were new. I don't understand. What the fuck is that even mean? This is clearly like... How does he think prote... Like, does he think that it is just... It would be weird if the prototype... If they were like breaking out the same signs from before,

then it would be like, oh, they're like passing around old signs. 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? That's called protected. free speech. 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 way. I was like, it's fine, Mr. President. It's nothing. Look at them. They're all whacked out. George Soros probably paid for this, sir. Would you like an additional hamburger? You want to eat that? Okay, 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 collective action to begin to use the leverage of having seven million 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

Now, I'm sure even for the Republicans, they're like, yeah, I'm going to go out there with your signs, whatever. Yeah, yeah. But we're going to continue to run rough shot over everything. Well, repeatedly saying the, you know, anti-Semitic trope that George Soros is paying for all of 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 that it's anti-Semitism. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because he was taking all that in, I think he was reminded of George Santos.

I'm like, you know, the names aren't that dissimilus. 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 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 of, that's a conspiracy they accuse the Democrats of doing. but he's just straight up like, yeah, I'm going to get some votes. He seems cool like that shit, like him. Again, he, you know, stole money for Botox and porn by creating a fake pet charity.

Yeah, all kinds of fraud. He's had a career rife with fraud and swindling people. And yeah, his shit finally caught up to him. Yeah. But again, as long as you're like, Donald Trump, please help me. I love you. And I also hate myself because I'm gay and not white. Right.

Am I accepted now? Please. Please. 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. Yeah. There's a Trump just knows 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, you know? There's so many good things to focus on. It seems like this would be a good one to kind of pay. There's so many good things to focus on. Yeah.

But the good thing, though, is George Santos is not out of it. the woods here because the state legislature in new york because paul manafort like skated on the similar thing they created a lot 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 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 there, the, you know, the DAs in, uh, the attorney general in New York's like, hmm, well, you may have skated on the federal charges, but here in New York, because a lot of

the things that he, the crimes he committed that were the federal, uh, 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. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. We're all praying for him. Prayer's up for George Santos. Prayers up for all the con people out there, yeah. Let's take a quick break, and we'll be back to talk about the jewel heist and the latest on the ceasefire. We'll be right back. Hey, it's Ed Helms, and welcome back to Snafu, my podcast about history's greatest screw-ups. On our new season, we're bringing you a new,

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on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. Mm-hmm. The update. on the on Trump's ceasefire is that Israel has reportedly killed nearly 100 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 230 since the so-called ceasefire took effect mm-hmm yeah there that I've seen the they it's it sounded like they were ready to fucking violate it the second they were talking

about like well we didn't get all of a 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 to run the horn of like it's actually they're actually already violating it Hamas is already violating it and yeah here you go

just it does not look like a ceasefire. It just like one of the attacks they fired on a van full of civilians including seven children who were trying to reach their home it 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 11, like they're talking about, you know, they're openly admitting they said that they called these 20 airstrikes on Southern Gaza that they launched again during a ceasefire a massive and extensive wave of attacks. Yeah, okay, okay. That's them, that's them saying that they've done a massive and extensive wave of attacks. 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, oh, you guys got to get the aid in there. This is not good. But I think it could be true because it probably just ends at, this is not good guys. And will we do anything else? I don't know. 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. But this feels like a almost constant. constant when dealing with Netanyahu in regards to this. 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. Right. And it's the opposite. And maybe that is enough for him to do something that will actually begin to bring Net and Yahoo like under control. But it does, it was very brief. It was a brief moment where the strikes had merely just paused, it feels like. Right.

And now there, it's a nakedly blatant breach of the terms of the ceasefire. Like, they're letting through half of the age that they claimed. And then altogether stopped age 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 or straining the ceasefire. not breaking it just you know like kind of dip in the dip in the old toe in to the possibility of maybe not abiding by it the raptors are testing the fences yeah just doing a little fun i mean it's the same way they even talk about trump right it's like they're not going to be like he's breaking the law yeah it's like he's seeming to test the limits of the constitution right it's like this

very uh intentional language to not really say call it what it is. They are violating the ceasefire. Yeah. The CNN. U.S. brokered ceasefire appears to survive first major test as Israel and Hamas affirmed commitment to deal. CBC. Cisfire strained as Israel hits Gaza with deadly strikes over IDF threats. BBC deadly Gaza flare up tests Israel Hamas ceasefire. What does that mean? It's like you promise 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 how. It's like a test. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. This is actually a test. They're testing your resolve, okay? And good news, you passed.

Oh, my. Why do you keep bringing up old shit? I wasn't cheating on you. I was testing. 15 minutes ago. I was putting our marriage through its first significant test. And I don't want to think that it's failing. You got a stress test of marriage. You got to stress by going, just by violating your vows. That's how you tested. How do you test it unless you completely go back on what you say? You're straining the limits of your vows. That's all. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. But, yeah, I'm sure Trump is probably trying to save face. Yeah. And then finally. Oh, he 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. Nobody's erased it or tore it up as far as I'm aware. So we're good. We're good. 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. He spikes the football for like a full weekend. All right. And finally, as mentioned up top, the Louve got Thomas Crown Affaird.

Still closed on Monday following a, what's being called a quote, spectacular daylight heist over the weekend. Thieves making off with priceless Napoleonic jewels using a vehicle mounted, extendable ladder to get 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 mounted. With the extendo on the back. To get 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. It's very, yeah, it's like, all right, man, scram. All in different directions, you know what I mean? Yeah.

How is it that easy? Like, does, I know London has obviously an inordinate amount of CCTV cameras everywhere. Right. That, like, you can kind of piece this together. Is it that? 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 off on a bike and it's all good. Yeah. It is surprising. You do, 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 got there. I'm sure they're trying to look into it right now. Oh, yeah. 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. Yeah. Don't do that. Oh, okay, my bad. My bad.

Sorry, I should, I should have thought someone else. You guys aren't with those robbers or anything. Are you? Nah, no, no, no, I'm just, I just hate my goddamn Pujo van. Yeah. There were three vehicle fires on that block in Paris already. So they were just like pretty inconspicuous. Yeah.

Yeah, but I don't know. Judging from the online response doesn't seem like people are too upset about the robbery because the whole thing. First of all, it feels like a movie, which is cool,

and we usually root for the suave burglars. And also, I think Lupin, which I never watched. Did you watch that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I watched the first couple episodes. Yeah, yeah.

He does a little heist at the Louvre. The Louvre. And also, the Louvre is like literally every Western Museum wouldn't exist without that. It was basically created to house all the

artwork that Napoleon looted. All museums in these imperialist European nations, their museums are basically your cold storage for your loot. That's right. That you let people come in and pay money to look at. Yeah. Because it's, I mean, when I first went to that, the history museum

in London, I was like, wait, what the fuck? You got a hold on. Hold on it. You can't have particular. You can't have all this shit. Yo. I'm like, you got an Easter Island head in here? The fuck? How? How? They didn't say shit when we took it. They were pretty cool with it, actually. When we blew them up.

But yeah, these jewel, what the fuck are these? This is just more just shit. This is Napoleon's loot they stole. Yeah, just jewels. I don't, who goes to the loop to look at jewels? I don't know. I have a hard time imagining being able to tell the difference between fake and real jewels. No.

That's why they have like the jewelers 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 school, 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, where's that market, who, 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. but, hey, to each their own. Probably a status symbol with, like, evil rich people, you know? Yeah. That's got to be wild. Because, like, do you do that? Like, is that, like, a flex, like Harlan Crow does and shit? He's like, come here, come here.

Look at this shit. Look at this shit. Oh, yeah. Look, I've seen all your Nazi stuff. No, no, no, no, no, no. Look at this. The Napoleonic jewels. Aren't those, don't shut the fuck up, right?

Yeah. I paid them, bro, but I think this shit had a discount. Yeah, man. Oh, man, that he said crow written all over it, man. fucking new. The second I heard they were set in the van on fire, classic crow distraction. That's right.

And as they fled, they were heard saying, cacao, that's how it would be in the movie, you know? Yeah, hell yeah. But first,

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