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Episode Date: July 15, 2018

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like nobody when they're giving the count of people alive left in the cave they're like four more boys to go they don't mention the coach in the headline they're like and the coach is in there I guess whatever

do the boys give them the tea they probably know if the coach is in there no no he's alive. Oh, he's alive. I think people just assume he was in charge and he got them stranded a mile and a half deep in a cave. So people are just like, if he has to die, if he has to use

his body as a flotation device. Or a buffet. Do what you have to do, boys. But yeah, so eight of them are out, which is, there were all these articles over the weekend that Super Producer Ana Hosnier forwarded on an article from the New York Times that gave some visuals of how narrow the cave is. One point in the cave is the width of a basketball hoop. What's the official diameter of a basketball hoop?

I don't know. Because I know this hole is 15 inches. Yeah, it's thereabouts. It seems like it looks like it. The basketball hoop diameter is 18 inches, so it's smaller than a basketball hoop. It's like one of those fair basketball hoops where you shoot on it and it looks like it's the right size,

but it's actually too small. Coming off the heel every time. Right. Yeah, so it's really, I don't know, it's terrifying. But just as we're getting these terrifying details, they're starting to pull these kids out. And apparently the coach has a sense. Even that deep in the cave, he has a sense of the zeitgeist

because he's not taking any of the resources when they bring him in. He's just being as selfless as possible because he probably knows already this is a bad look. Oh, it's a real bad look. He got these 12 kids stranded inside a cave. Not only will I leave your kids to victory. Right. Exactly.

I'll leave them to danger. To a fucking cave where it'll be an international incident. Pretty crazy story, though. This poor, poor coach, in a way, you know, because he will literally never coach a team again. We can't take no advice from him. He's like, quick guys, to the cave.

And then also knowing that like wait he's an assistant, he's not the head coach. Right. They interviewed the head coach recently. I didn't get all the details of it but I'm sure he was like this motherfucker. Translated from Thai was just SMH. He was like I don motherfucker. Translated from Thai was just S-M-H. He was like,

I don't know what the fuck they're doing in there. Direct quote. Direct quote in Thai. Could you imagine if they did give him his job back? Like, anytime he'd be trying

to tell me a play, I'd be like, but bro, you got us stuck in that cave, though. Yeah. Every time he's talking, the whole team just side on him.

What the fuck is this? Joy, what's up, Caveman? So we gonna run the ball? Caveman. Just call him Caveman. Somebody tell Nick Cave to get the fuck out of here., I'm some caveman. So we gonna run the ball? Caveman. Just call him caveman. Somebody tell Nick Cave to get the fuck out of here. Hey, what's his advice? But yeah, really, in the beginning, I understand why so many people before were just like,

just set up a fucking line, get them to walk out, and blah, blah, blah. There were so many takes on Twitter I was reading of people who were divers and things like that who were just like, I don't get it. It's so easy. Just fucking blah, blah, blah. And then you look at these fucking diagrams, and you're like, oh, so there were so many takes on Twitter I was reading of people who were divers and things like that who were just like, I don't get it. It's so easy. It's just fucking blah, blah, blah. And then you look at these fucking diagrams and you're like, oh, shit. It's so deep. Yeah, it's so deep.

It's underwater. The most rigorous one is like a U-shaped dip that they have to like swim down and then up out of that has like that hole. And yeah, when you're dealing with like really small kids who literally can't swim. And are afraid. Yeah. And tired. with really small kids who literally can't swim and are malnourished. And tired. So they're having to drag them because these kids, most of them can't swim

and one person is in charge of holding the oxygen tank behind the kid while the kid is breathing into it and then the other person is guiding them out. Just pulling them along. And they do have a rope

but it's just such a treacherous path and people die in cave diving things who are expert cave divers. We saw one of the Thai Navy SEALs die just bringing them oxygen. So it's super treacherous. It's not as easy as I thought it was, certainly. Like we said on Friday's episode, it is six hours going against the grain, going against the current, and five hours going with the current to get.

So it's an 11-hour round trip. Oh, my God. Also, producer Ana Hosnia is pointing out that the kids who don't know how to swim, they have to hold their bodies. So it's basically a three-person job. Right. Trying to get through a basketball hoop, like smaller than a basketball hoop size cave. Well, at that part they're gonna be

like look bro i'm gonna go ahead of you don't get panicked i will be on the other side of this 15 inch hole right to pull you through so please i feel like that's the thing they really have to worry about is just keeping those kids as calm as possible which is why they have to put those different masks on too because like a regular scuba setup with like a regulator could easily come out and then be a huge issue and like i mean how many people do you know who are claustrophobic like i know probably everybody just in the in last week talking about people who don't sit in the window seat i know plenty of people who are like yeah no no no no no like yeah you know i have five people in my nuclear family like one of them is

super claustrophobic it's just like you know like how many of these kids are claustrophobic and are just gonna be like freaking out? Yeah, and dark underwater hole would probably make anybody claustrophobic too. Like I can't even sit in a car for 11 hours. Like I'm not trying to swim through a cave for 11 hours. Can you sit on a plane for 11 hours? Bruh, yeah, I can do that. But a car.

That's because I only fly first class. What do you mean? And when I said car, I even meant Mercedes. I wasn't saying, don't just assume any car. I was in a Maybach. Y'all didn't hear about my United incident? No, but I'm late. I fly for free.

I fly for free everywhere. For free. Yeah, one of the other details, a thing they've been trying to do is run an Ethernet cable. Something, yeah. Into the cable. Get a phone line, basically. So that they can talk to their parents for the first time or something.

Because right now, they're just sending out notes like, Mom and Dad, please take me to pork barbecue. Man, that's how you know these kids are hungry because they're like, please take me to food

when I get out. It's not like, yo, I promise to be good or whatever. It's not like I realize what life means now. It's like, we're going to hit up

that McDonald's on the way home. BBQs. Now, wait, you said they were running a cable to going to hit up that McDonald's on the way home. BBQs. Now wait, you said they were running a cable to try to, ethernet cable? Scuba driving that shit. Are you kidding me?

I can't get Comcast to come to my house between the hours of nine and three. And they swimming cables five hours down to get some cable. Scuba men.

Shit, I need some tie cable. What they got over there? I can't even get the man to pull up and then he come, he be like, I don't got my tools.

I'm sorry he's like this work order is wrong for what you need I'm sending somebody else tomorrow bro we need to outsource cable because they doing it

right in Thailand clearly that is exactly what happens to me every single time a cable person comes they're like oh sorry

you got the wrong box yeah the work order I'm sorry they messed up on this work order you driving a big ass truck you telling me you ain't got no other what the fuck is in that big ass van right what's in there a lot of a lot of cat four cat five right yeah yeah but apparently because they are uh conducting this rescue plan according to the rules of hollywood movies they have rescued the

eight strongest kids thus far, and they're saving the weakest kids for last. So I thought they would go the other direction, but apparently, so the kids who are in the most danger are still left to go. So the tension ratchets up from here. Who goes in there and chooses? I'm sure the doctors,

because that's sort of a triaging kind of strategy, but I think what they were doing is taking the strongest kids first because they're, like, if shit goes south with them, it'll be easier to figure out. Like, it's better to take the strongest kids first so they can foresee any obstacles down the road. Like, it's better to do your first runs with kids who aren't totally weak. But when they go in there, though, I feel like you could tell me that and I could be little Tiny Tim in there with like a little stick walking around. Right? I'm still trying to go first. Right. That's where it's a little fucked up or even like you start

talking shit about your other homies that went through. Like I don't know why the fuck you went through. Man, Jerome not even that good of a basketball player. When are you going to take him before they take me? Fuck, if I die here that would actually be a tragedy to the sport. But I like the fact that they even though that was their strategy that they take the strongest ones out,

they were still just like, nah, the coach, you stay in here, man. Yeah. I mean, you know that coach better be like, nah, nah, I'm good. Make sure the kids eat first. If we have enough air left. Right.

If we have enough air left. Maybe. Then I'll go. I can't wait for them to bring the next four kids out and then they're just like gotta go back fuck ass coach oh I guess

we're ready for you now sir every time they get a kid out everybody's clapping the coach come out they're just like oh hey

look who decided to join us a lot of teeth that would have been oh hey shit that would have been fucking amazing

I would have had so much respect for this guy if he had insisted on being the first out. He was just like, wait. He's like, I'm coming out, give me out. Wait until the full T-report comes out on this thing when the kids go, first of all, coach was like,

oh, let me show y'all this cool shortcut in the cave. And we're like, we should probably get out. And he was like, no, no, it's cool. I smoke cigarettes in here. You've got to go off the path, though. It's really dope. We watch. And then, or, yeah, then cut to when the rescuer came out of the coach. He was like, yo, no, it's cool. He smoked cigarettes in here. You've got to go off the path, though. It was really dope. We watched. Yeah.

Or, yeah, then cut to when the rescuer came out and the coach, he was like, yo, get me out first. He, like, quietly says it to him over the side. He's like, hey, these kids are going to fucking kill me. Get me out of here. Hey, they can't swim anyway. I can swim. I got half a Reese's in my pocket.

Right. I can tell the shit. The rescuers are like, that doesn't work on me. He's trying to bribe the rescuers with candy. Hey, you hungry, man? They're like, no, I'm not

straight into the cave. How do you still have candy after 10 days? I had a bunch. Wait, coach, you got candy? Coach, you got candy this whole time?

No, no, no. He's lying. He's lying. He's lying. I never had the candy. It's time to once again check in with the Civility Wars. Civility Wars. That's lying. I never had the candy. It's time to once again check in with the... Civility Wars.

Civility Wars. That's actually probably the better one. Oh, that's great. Oh, Civility Wars. Civility. Pardon me, racist. So the way this works is that anytime anybody confronts a right-wing person, we hear about it in the national media.

confronts a right-wing person. We hear about it in the national media. And so we have heard over the weekend, Mitch McConnell was yelled at by protesters as he left a restaurant. Yes, he left a restaurant. This poor man was just trying to eat sustenance. I know. And because of, I don't know what it is.

I mean, these protesters just realized that separating young children from their parents is just how we get down in the U.S. so you can get on board or get out. Right, because that's what they were yelling at. They were yelling things like, now I want to just say, if you play this podcast in front of your children,

please put them in another room because I'm about to say some really fucked up shit. Okay. Starting with that. The warning already had curses in it. Oh, my bad. Boy, well, brace yourselves for this one. They said, where are the babies, Mitch?

Or abolish ICE. And one man had the audacity, the caucasity, to call him Turtle Head. Oh, my gosh. Mean. Mean. Think about Mitch's digestion, you guys. He just ate. He's trying to, you know.

And calling him a turtle head? That's really messed up. I mean, and I think that's some kind of racial slur for people who look like turtles. Was he actually picking up $80 sushi? No, no, this is another one. Okay, so up next is our boy Teenage Mutant Ninja Goebbels, Stephen Miller. So this story is great. So apparently, I would rather act this out the way the Washington Post describes it.

So he was apparently telling other people at the White House this was his tea. He goes, so basically, I go to the sushi restaurant by my house and I get $80 worth of takeout. And as I'm leaving, one of the bartenders comes out, flips me off and starts cursing at me. I mean, I was so upset. I didn't even want to eat my sushi and I threw it away. Again, digestion, guys. Think about their stomachs.

This is not easy about their stomachs this man's story on their stomach his sob story is he picked up 80 fucking dollars worth of sushi for himself and because someone probably presumably called him a fascist or some other you know thing about true truism about him like he's a white supremacist uh that he basically it ruined his meal right so i mean that's pretty fucked up also if you're getting 80 sushi takeout you're living a whole different lifestyle that's right that's show your yes please show yourself into the bubble just for him by himself too because i mean yeah you know he doesn't well that's a baller move he doesn't live with people i've always said you got money when you can get high and then go to sushi oh yeah that's how If you can do sushi takeout from a restaurant, not from the grocery store.

But being in that motherfucker high where you could just keep going, do you want anything else? He'd be like, yes, I do. I would like to add 72 more dollars to this bill. I'm mad he threw it away, though. That's what kicks me. It just shows you how, you know, get my smelling salts. Because look, oh, my God, he yelled it. He gave me the finger and I was so look. Oh my God. He yelled it. He gave me the finger.

And I was so offended. With both hands. It's ruined my meal. It ruined my meal. And then cut to now. Fascist Barbie, Bigot Barbie in chief, Tommy Lahren. She went on Judge Jeanine's show to blame Maxine Waters because Maxine Waters has apparently just made it hell for her racist existence to be, I guess, pleasant anymore. Because I think she lives in L.A., which is also homegirl.

What are you thinking? You think you're not going to get that smoke out here? So this is Judge Jeanine and Tommy Lahren showing you just how, I don't know, how disconnected from reality this whole world is i mean peep this judge i gotta tell you since maxine waters came out and she encouraged her followers and her supporters to i guess continue the attacks on the right it's gotten worse i've seen it in my personal life get worse in the last couple of weeks and she's actually making it very dangerous especially for young women like myself i find it funny because many of the people that have been attacked, harassed, assaulted have been conservative women. So where's the left on this?

Where are the feminists that are about female empowerment? Time's up. Me too. Where are their voices in this? Because I don't see them coming out to defend conservative women as they should when we are literally being attacked for our beliefs. Where are the feminists? They're not going to be there, Tommy. I'll tell you right now.

Yeah, earlier in the segment, Judge Jeanine goes, show me one instance where a person on the right has attacked a person on the left. Now, Judge Jeanine, I mean, I could show you a video of fucking neo-Nazi running people down in their fucking car. In a vehicle. That could be one thing or you know when uh people on the right refer to nfl players as sons of bitches because they are peacefully protesting police violence uh or here how about something more you know recent

for example a 92 year old mexican man was beat with a brick uh by a woman after he like was he was walking on the sidewalk crossing them and accidentally like ran in like the toddler ran into him right and then she said why don't you go back to your country started beating him with a brick that i don't know if she just packs a brick on her or she picked one loose off the ground and then four other men joined in to stomp this 92 year old mexican man out that's what an attack is someone coming up to your face and saying yo you're racist you should be ashamed of yourself shame shame shame that's not being attacked you may be subject to someone's anger in a verbal way but this is not approaching the kind of vitriolic just outrageous

kind of shit that you're seeing on the right case in point the deputy district attorney of san bernardino county which should already clue you up to many things, this guy Michael Selium, he said, among all kinds of other crazy shit on Facebook, he said about Maxine Waters, quote, being a loudmouth cunt in the ghetto, you would think someone would have shot this bitch by now. Cue Samantha Bee's eye roll of the fucking century. of the fucking century. Because if they really want to go there, let's see everybody get up in arms about this man

who is also, like, what is this? Someone should, you think someone would have shot this bitch? So you're now, you're,

I mean. You're like calling out a hit on Auntie Maxine. I don't know what's going on. And also, you're calling her a cunt. First of all, culturally,

I just want y'all to know that black people don't take as much offense to cunts as white people do. And when I found that out, I started using that as my secret N-word. I be calling people cunts all the time

because I didn't realize that it actually got a reaction out of people. It's like how black people don't say cock. Yeah, we don't say cock. We're cock. Oh, God, it's so bad. It's so bad in my mouth. Oh, it's so bad.

It feels so bad. It feels so... Oh, wait. I'm leaving that one alone. But it's crazy to me that she's calling off feminism because it's like, bitch, now don't act like y'all are feminists. Y'all hoes trying to have us all be handmaids, okay? I watch that show like a look into the future.

I'm like, this is. Well, and also, feminism is inherently about equality. Exactly. So if you're out here screaming all this xenophobic shit you've you're already demonstrating you aren't you have no interest in equality yeah you're not into feminism so there's this idea that i think for them women just just means women have to stick with women no matter how problematic their viewpoints are if someone is saying something you know like let's be real it's not like all these people aren't on wax saying all kinds of inflammatory shit. And now suddenly they're like, I don't see what happened.

What did I do? And if you put hate out and you get hate back, like that's exactly what the universe does. You give what you give. So that's what they're putting into the universe. And I think that Tommy Lauren is also trying to brag here. Like Auntie Maxine don't care about you, girl. She don't know you, girl.

Like Mariah Carey says, I don't know her. I don't know her. I don't know her. What conservative women have been assaulted? She specifically said they've been assaulted she said assaulted yeah uh conservative women have been assaulted is getting your cheese plate paid for and being asked to politely leave apparently that is it it's really interesting how you know before when barack obama was in power all these people wanted to talk all this crazy shit and like you know their whole existence was based off of you know trolling the libs or whatever but that's not a real stress that's not a real rhetorical strategy that's just

a game you engage in for your own ego right and now that they're in power this shit looks really weird and they're even kind of like oh yeah like it's hard to have all these hot takes, especially now because I can't argue it. Like the right is in power. The GOP is in power. So I can't really kind of go off the same way I did, but then at the same time I want to, but then if someone calls me out,

then suddenly I'm the kind of snowflake that I used to call liberal. It all just, they're very sensitive. Yeah. It all just. They're very sensitive. Yeah. It's all become very, I think they're sort of realizing the limits of this rhetorical strategy in a way. They like when the liberals get outraged

over something Trump does, like that gives them energy. But anytime liberals push back a little bit on conservatives, they get scared. They do not like the conflict. Well, because I think they realize too, they are typically, I believe that they are in a minority in terms of thinking that this kind of outright, out-in-the-open racism is what everybody in this country is down for because they're not.

Yeah. You know, there are people who – because most – you know, you're seeing it right there. That's why people are wanting to explain to you this is not right. wanting to explain to you this is not right. Now, we should say there are two stories of actual assaults that are being covered heavily by the right-wing media, like Drudge. His top story right now is a white man beaten with skateboard in alleged San Fran hate crime.

I'm sorry, I shouldn't laugh. And we don't have all the details, but the story is being treated like a national scandal. Allegedly a Latino teenager who they don't have a actual positive ID on so they're just going off description that he's Latino, said something

racist to a white guy and then hit him with the skateboard. That's all the very scant details. Has this person been arrested? Nope. So this is just a guy saying a Latino said something racist to me, hit me with a skateboard. Did we see the, was there any evidence of the Latino?

Nope. Any photos? Not yet. Because that's crazy because I have all kinds of video of white people calling the police on people of color

for no reason. Damn, we're looking at the skateboard right now. Is it broken in half? That's not the actual thing. That's just a picture of a broken deck. Oh, I thought that was

the actual skateboard. I was like, well, damn, he went to town on him. They just put a broken skateboard. See, look at this. That looks like a picture of a broken deck. Oh, I thought that was the actual skateboard. I was like, well, damn, he went to town on him. They just put a broken skateboard. See, look at this. That looks like a post-failed move frustration board break. The other assault that we do have visual evidence

on, there's the guy in San Antonio who threw a drink in the face of a teen who was wearing a MAGA hat and then took the hat off his head and, you know, tore a couple of the face of a teen who was wearing a MAGA hat and then took the hat off his head and, you know, tore a couple of the guy's hairs out when he took the hat off his head. So that's how it becomes an assault. That was, you know, top of drudge news last week.

But I just, again, so if we're using, you know, just a person from one political ideology, you know, fucking with a person from another political ideology here. Like if that if that is the standard, there is literally two examples of conservatives murdering people last year. year. There was a dude on a train in Portland last year who was physically assaulting women who had like head scarfs on and people tried to defend them. And he stabbed those two people to death. And like, but nobody was like, well, this is like a political war because that person wasn't an official representative of the Republican Party. So like, it's just crazy that they are trying to create this narrative that there is, like, a small civil war happening in the streets. A lot of people, too, they do this thing where they're like, well, just because you support Trump doesn't mean you're racist.

Now, let me tell you why I have a problem with that. Donald Trump has made it very clear where he stands on a number of issues. And it's quite clear to me that he is racist. Now, again, the defense to that will be name one thing that he's done that's racist. It's usually this is the this is the rhetoric that's being used. I don't need to show you because you can look at all of his policies and who the winners and losers are the losers are typically women and people of color and uh i now i'm not saying that uh i think you can be a republican and not be a racist as there are some there are some principled conservatives that i still know who are like

this is not what i need to represent being a conservative American. Right. But when you have a president who is so outrightly racist and you are so vocal in your support of this racist person, I can assume that you are a supporter of racism. That's when, you know, I just feel like a lot of these people who like wear the MAGA hat and stuff, a lot of these people know that the MAGA hat basically triggers people yeah you know and just like those uh two young white women who went to Howard University who were all MAGA'd out and walking through their like you know what you wanted yeah you're on an all-black you want to go onto an all-black campus wearing all this stuff because it's their symbols they're they they communicate to other people this hate this ideology of hate or at the very least discrimination.

Yeah. If you want to go diet with it. But let's call it what it is. And people hate, I think, a lot of times when people compare Donald Trump to like Hitler and like that kind of like Nazi, you know, stuff. But it's like this stuff didn't start off, you know, like at the Holocaust. It was way more chill before that. You know what I mean? Before they started to declare war on a certain race of people and

eventually be able to intern them and then kill them. If we are reading history and we don't want it to repeat itself and also, I'm sure there were some nice Nazis. It was probably a Johan who was filing all the paperwork and he was the coolest guy at the camp.

But guess what? He was a damn Nazi and not a good person. So if you're going to stand by and ignore people's rights and empower people who are trying to hurt others, you're just as bad as that person, even if you're not the one actually doing the harm. Guys, take Hitler seriously, but not literally. He doesn't literally mean he's going to do these bad things. Right, exactly.

Come on. Next thing we know. Please, just ask yourself if you are a person who is defending equality or you actually like the idea of people not having access to the same opportunity. And put yourself in that space. My whole position on everything is it's all about giving everybody equal shot. No matter what, even if it's your political ideology, at the end of the day, I still even want people who support Trump to win because I think at the end of the day, I still even want people who support Trump to win

because I think at the end of the day you're human beings. But I think you have to realize there's a way for everybody to win. Right. And my only last thought on that is because I'm from Texas and I have a lot of family members

who've actually expressed that sentiment of like, we're not bad people, we just support Trump and blah, blah, blah. It's like, look, people make mistakes, okay? We all do stupid shit.

And I don't think anybody's a bad person for voting for Trump, but I think that by now you should know better. And if you vote for him again, but i think that by now you should know better and if you vote for him again then you should know what he stands for and i've even had to look at my own life with people that i have in my life who ride for this dude and in the beginning i thought it was a joke and now i'm like shit you might have this really fucked up worldview and it's easy for you to just sort of use this cover of saying well i support trump i'm not a racist to sort of not not just be a full throated bigot.

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The happy story that has been sustaining people's souls for the past, or at least the one that we were rooting for to end happily has ended happily. Those Thai kids and their coach are out. Let the production on the Clint Eastwood movie begin. That joke is courtesy of producer Sophie Lichterman. About how an American man did it all by himself exactly he invented scuba diving yeah the rock will somehow like just go in there and save them even though he couldn't fit through that tunnel um but yeah uh also uh one thing we were talking about how awful it's going to be for the coach when he does make it

out because he got those kids stuck and Thai towns are totally rallying around him. His hometown is like talking about how, you know, he had a really hard life and he's actually a great guy and all he cares about is these kids. Um, and I think this misunderstanding may actually be based on the fact that we're telling the story in English and English is actually structured in a way that it encourages you to lay blame even when somebody hasn't like done something on purpose. they've found in studies that when you tell a story in Spanish or Japanese where somebody like accidentally breaks a vase or something, it's just like the vase broke itself. Oh, yeah, you never say that someone broke it, yeah. You never say the vase broke itself. Yeah, coadita, coadita, like, yeah, is the word you use.

Whereas in English, we're like, Craig broke the vase, like even if he didn't do it on purpose. Let's fuck Craig up. Right, so a bunch of our listeners, a bunch of the Zeit gang came out. Someone was like, actually, you guys are too cynical and the Thai people are here for this guy

and he's going to be okay. He was the last one out and apparently in the early days of them being stranded in there, he was only giving the kids his food, which is the right thing to do, but still, he did do the right thing to do but still he did do the right thing and the winner is brett kavanaugh um so i think he was considered maybe

the most quote moderate of the options yeah because he wasn't like out there with full throated being like i'm all about bringing christ back right or amy barrett who was like not just life begins at conception like life begins on bumble like she believes that right the potential for sex is already a child right there's a politician bob casey from pennsylvania who came out and said that he was against any of the four people being considered. And he made some good cases. Basically, his argument was that, you know, he came up with this list of 25 nominees and it was dictated to him by the Heritage Foundation, which is this far right wing Koch brothers funded sort of think tank. Think tank. Yeah. That is, you know, doing the bidding of corporate interests. And the Supreme

Court has already made decisions that are pro corporations and, you know, make it easier for corporations to squash unions. And so I don't know, this makes a ton of sense when you realize it's being filled with candidates who are approved by far right think tanks who are funded by wealthy corporate interests. You know, I've heard somebody say that the Supreme Court stance on a lot of policies recently is going from like undemocratic to anti-democratic, basically, when you look at how they're deciding when it comes to things like gerrymandering and the role of- Voter purging.

Voter purging. Muslim ban. The role of wealthy people and wealthy private interests when it comes to funding these candidates. So that was him coming out in advance of the decision and just saying, you know, this is whoever it is, we lose. And I just I think this is worth pointing out because they're one of the big talking points that the right has come out with is that, you know, protesters were like out ready

for Trump's announcement. And they had these signs that had blanks for the name of the justice. And then they like filled it in when he announced it was Kavanaugh. And they were like, ah, it's like mad libs. They were just mad about filling the blank here. Mad libs. Right. And sick burn. I think the point is that they were all they all fit into this category of sort of right wing corporate interest funded Supreme Court justice. Because there's another iteration of that where your sign could have just said all four names. Right. And then you just circle the one.

Yeah. Fuck them all. Scratch the other ones off. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So no, it's not like we're just mad at anyone. We're specifically mad about these four people.

Right. So any choice is bad. Yeah. That is a solidly conservative vote on the Supreme Court. So that's five to four. I read that that pushes Roberts to like the swing, the party boy. It puts him in the party boy seat.

I don't trust that shit at all. I like that so much better than the deciding vote is the party boy seat. Who's the party boy seat? I like party boy seat. J-Rob? Alright. Yeah. I mean, he has had had quite a storied career. I mean, he's been everywhere. He's like the Mr. Beltway when it comes to the judicial system,

from working with Ken Starr to, you know, I think, who is it? Paul Begala said when he did the constitutional drive-by on the Bush v. Gore case. He also seems to think that Trump is an idiot, allegedly. I don't know. Yeah, right. He gave that commencement speech, didn't he, at, where was it, UCLA? He gave a commencement speech or graduation speech. Is there a difference between those things?

I don't know. Yeah. He gave a speech that was kind of like talking trash about Trump's social media presence without calling him out. But it seemed to be like he was talking about having class and dignity and whatnot. Oh, he's pro-dignity and pro-class? I think so. Aren't all these guys in the stability, right?

Yeah. Well, when he came up, he's like, I love everything. He's like, clearly you respect the judiciary, Mr. President. You're like, really? The guy who's constantly attacking it? But anyway. Yeah. Now he's got his guy who thinks presidential power is absolute.

Well, in some cases. Now, I think, you know, Nick Stumpf and I, super producer, were going back and forth this morning about, you know, he was sort of like, look, everything's not going to change all of a sudden overnight. And typically the way the Supreme Court moves is like it takes time and they don't typically reverse decisions that easily, which, yes, I agree with certain aspects of that. My biggest concern with him, despite how he's shown himself to sometimes side with the EPA, most of the time not side with the EPA, are that his voting records kind of show that if it comes to labor disputes, he typically sides with the employer. Like, for example, when that orca killed the trainer at SeaWorld in 2010,

Tilikum, OSHA hit SeaWorld with a bunch of fines and they appealed it and it got to the U.S. Court of Appeals in the D.C. Circuit where he sits with Merrick Garland. Right.

And he said that they should execute the whale for doing it, not that it wasn't SeaWorld's fault. Well, he basically, no, no. I mean, because the whole point was that Osha was saying like, yo, you ignored the sort of danger that the orca was presenting

and you sort of were negligent in keeping the trainer safe. Now, obviously, people know they're getting in a tank with a killer whale is not like being a florist. So they know what the risks are. But the point was that they were not fully looking out for the safety as much as they could. And so his dissenting opinion read, The Department of Labor, and this is a quote, cannot reasonably distinguish close contact with whales at SeaWorld from tackling in the NFL or speeding in NASCAR.

The department's sole justification for the distinction is that SeaWorld could modify its shows to eliminate close contact with whales without going out of business. But so, too, the NFL could ban tackling or punt returns or blocks below the waist. And likewise, NASCAR could impose a speed limit during its races. But the department has not claimed that it can regulate those activities. So that is not the responsible way to distinguish sports from SeaWorld. Now, completely blameless things like NFL tackling. Right. And, you know, brain damage.

That's already a terrible thing. But I think, you know, he's very, you know, as he said, I will strictly, what is it, like, interpret the Constitution faithfully or whatever. Which is just basically saying, like, look, if you put an argument in front of me legally that is vague enough that I can, you know, not see the racial animus in something, then I'll vote in your favor. Like when he upheld like voter ID laws in South Carolina, where they presented him, look, they're asking to put voter, like they want to make the law so you can only show up to vote with this specific DMV issued ID. Now, statistically, that would disproportionately affect black voters in that state. And that's what the argument was like yo this you're using this law to really disenfranchise this

group and Brett Kavanaugh was like yeah I don't see the there's no racist motivation I'm colorblind you guys I don't see colorblind do you see struggle my man no just do you hear color nothing

what this sound like to you? How about now? Nope, still nothing, guys. How about now, bitch? Sorry, it must just be my complete... Yeah, I think, again, it's regardless of, you know, there are many issues that having this sort of split in the Supreme Court is going to affect, from labor laws to LGBTQ rights.

There are many different things. And yes, I don't see it being cataclysmic change overnight, but they will chip away slowly but surely and we will be left with a very difficult situation. Well, it takes someone to bring a case. And yeah, like you're saying, for him to overlook the racial implications is massively dangerous because, you know, he says or Trump said that he is someone who will uphold the Constitution, you know, and it's like that wasn't written for us.

That wasn't written for all of us. So if you're just upholding it and not allowing for any modern day lens or any modern day, you know, a diversified intersectional look at what these laws have, what their implications are on actual people living now. Right. That is dangerous. Yeah. He wouldn't have been on those lists if, you know,

and he wouldn't have made it into his final four picks if he wasn't going to. If he was an actual open-minded judge. Like that is specifically an organization that is designed to find people who will help them, you know them move the country in a conservative way. And the Koch brothers, mind you, have had a full court press on how to dismantle the government in any possible way, whether it's them trying to figure out how to trigger a constitutional convention or whatever.

They have the full plan to do it every which way possible. And now the court is reliably conservative. I mean, we'll see. I think in some cases there could be cases that some of these justices may show. I mean, you know, well, I don't know. All I know is it's 5-4 now. And that's really the one way to look at this. Now, I mean, from a strategic perspective, Mitch McConnell had specifically called Kavanaugh out of the four candidates as being the one who was going to cause the biggest fight because he, like you said, he has all of this history of being involved. He worked within the George W. Bush White House for a couple of

years. So technically we have access to all, every email he sent and received during that time. Yeah, like literally millions of records. That all sits up at the George W. Bush Library. And, you know, for the past two Supreme Court judicial nominees, the media has, you know, gone and gotten those emails. And I've heard people specifically say, there are so many of them that we need to open it up to the public so they can pour over them. And I think that's only fair because no single journalist is going to be able to look through a million emails. But Reddit can. Right, exactly. This is exactly what Reddit is designed for.

Reddit, you've been waiting. You've been waiting to be activated. But yeah, he just has more receipts that you can pull and that's why mitch mcconnell is a little bit worried about his candidacy and was saying you know the worst case scenario for us for you know the republicans and conservatives is that this fight gets delayed until after the election then the democrats win i think our august maybe is really like i feel like that's the most delaying right now is the after the august recess right that they can do with all these documents being out there saying hey we need time to look at this right uh but at least that was a concern that oh yeah because i think he's trying to yeah i mean

he wants it to go as easily as possible because he's a coward. But I think this is why Trump chose him. Trump likes fighting. That is his only way of existing is being in a fight. It's that or. He will start a fight. Or because Raj Shah was on NBC this morning and they asked, hey, we have a report that you guys did a deal with Justice Kennedy for his resignation that you would appoint his successor.

And he and Judge Kennedy specific Justice Kennedy specifically said Brett Kavanaugh. And that was part of the deal for him to resign is I will resign if you put Brett Kavanaugh in my spot. And Raj Shah did not deny this. He just said, oh, I can't comment on blah, blah, blah. It's like, I think that was just their deal right it was just like okay fam you'll get the fuck out right but what is it gonna take right like i want you to like you're 81 years old it's not gonna look crazy if you if you uh retire now

and then i guess that was like the one bargaining chip that he had was like okay well if i step down at least i know brett kavanaugh he clerked for me. Right. I would want him there. Yeah. But that's like, again, that's almost like what Justice Kennedy having like a two lifetimes worth of power on that bench. Yeah. His own. And then he's like, and I will also. Is that legal? I mean, I guess he can technically say like who he would pick.

He could say that in the media. But yeah, I mean, I mean, it's not like there's like on paper. It's like, OK, you sign here and this is the agreement that we've drafted up that says we will do this. There's also the fact that he was involved in the Star Report and then 10 years later came out and was like, but I don't think any president should have to face a special prosecutor during their presidency. What? So, and a lot of people point to this idea that he believes that a sitting president should not have to be distracted by a criminal investigation or prosecution while they're in office. And also, when he was working on the Ken Starr thing, he was very much talking about impeachment. And I think people are sort of conflating the two things to a certain extent.

Yes, I think he clearly does believe impeachment is a process that the Congress can see through. And that's completely their prerogative to go through impeachment. But he also believes that – he still does have this belief that the indictment and trial of a sitting president would cripple the federal government, is his quote. context, if let's say someone brings, you know, they sue over this Mueller investigation, yes, he would probably, I mean, based on what he's saying, he would probably be all for saying, yeah, this investigation is a distraction. Now, I don't know how that plays out, whether that means, because he also has said, once a president is out of office, you could sue him for whatever the fuck you want. And I mean, I guess it's not clear that what Mueller is doing right now, the Mueller investigation as it stands, would violate, you know, what he's what he's against because he's just saying you shouldn't be able to indict or subpoena a sitting president because that's too much of a too much of a distraction. But I mean, it just lines up in a lot of ways with the Republican argument that's like, you know, this is all a big distraction and we should get rid of it. So just the fact that he has come down with similar talking points to the Republican objections to the Mueller investigation, it makes sense to me that he is the one that Trump

ultimately went with. Yeah. Well, and also because this is uncharted territory, it's like an actual unsettled legal question about like whether a president can be indicted or whatever. And if it gets to that point, that is something that the Supreme Court will have to hear. And then now you have this guy there being like, no, I don't fuck with that. So that's really – that's why it's like, well, look, yeah, then you chose the best dude. And he said he doesn't like it because it can become too easily politicized because the scope of the investigation starts to wander. And if you believe that while you're working with George Bush, you know. Right.

What's going on there? But again, you know, regardless of how people want to cut it up or whatever and look at it, this is clearly a person who isn't here to side with disenfranchised people or working people. Right. Or, you know, holding employers to any sort of, you know, real standard. Real standard, yeah. So what you're saying is more bad news is what we've gotten.

Yeah, I mean, yeah. I mean, God, we can only dream, right, that we have a time machine to go back. We can't go too far back, though. And get these children to vote. Anyway. All right. We're going to take another quick break. We'll be right back Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th 2017

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Most of the time. And we're back. You guys, Johnny Depp's not doing well. What do you mean? He's, I think, the lead or one of the leads in this new movie, City of Lies, which was written by me when I was 13. I'm the goth now. That sounds like such a stock poster behind us in a movie about Hollywood.

Right, right. Or anywhere. Yeah. D.C., right. Or anywhere. Yeah. DC, LA, New York. Never dead. I don't believe in your city of lies. It's actually about the murder of Biggie Smalls in Los Angeles, and also with some tie-ins to the murder of Tupac,

which those tie together more closely than I even realized. Shout out to last podcast on the left. They just did an episode about the two murders and what actually happened. And spoiler alert, they're both pretty much solved. But go check that podcast out if you're interested. But the dude is dead, though, right? Yes, they're both. They're both dead, right?

Both of the people who pulled the trigger are dead. What's that about? So Super Producer Ana Hosnia is shaking her head no they're not dead and i think she's referring to the fact that tupac is still alive oh yes uh which of course because she claims to be tupac and i still don't believe you johnny depp in this film is playing uh the detective who like put it all together figured it out uh because of course we need like some grizzled old white cop to save the day in this story. I hope he's playing all the guys from last podcast on the left,

like an Eddie Murphy kind of role. That would be awesome. Norbit that shit. But he was apparently on the set of this movie just drunk a lot of the time, which, as we found out he's spending you know hundreds of thousands of dollars on wine every month there was a profile of him that we went over in Rolling Stone last week or the week before that was

truly bleak and just almost like it was he is the physical embodiment of the corrupting influence of fame in Hollywood. He's literally like turning into a vampire. Like he doesn't come out during the daylight and is drunk and stoned at all times and just cracking himself up while his bodyguards and professional chef are just like, you're the man, Johnny. And anyways.

That sounds like the movie. That's what the story tells. That's the movie. Yeah. But anyways, they were filming, and a location scout tried to shut down the shooting because they weren't permitted to go any later. He had already extended the shoot by an hour.

The director was like, yeah, why don't you try and tell Johnny Depp that we're not gonna shoot because he's crazy and presumably wasted. So the location chief then went over to a cop and was like, hey, I don't wanna fuck with Johnny Depp, he's crazy, but can we shut this down? Johnny Depp overheard and just ran up

and started beating the guy and screaming at him. Punched him in the ribs a couple times and then offered him $100,000 to punch him back. Like, here, here's $100,000. Punch me back, man. What, did he go to the four-year-old

school of fucking mediation? That's like the shit you do when you're a kid where you accidentally make your little cousin cry and you're like, okay, hit me, hit me, hit me. And then it's all good. Shut the fuck up. Don't tell my mom. So guys, just some

quick rando updates. Random. Oh my god, you are so random. Oh my god, Jack is so random today. Jack is loving the random. I'm loving it. Sorry, random soy uh so the thai soccer team somebody pointed out on twitter that uh we're assholes just a bunch of jerks they're little dicks who just need to know uh the coach in addition to sharing his food and you know doing all sorts of other cool shit that we talked about, because we were a little

hard on the coach for getting them stuck in there in the first place. Somebody pointed out that in addition to doing all the standard things you would assume you would do if you were stuck in a cave with a bunch of kids that you got stuck in there. I would swim the fuck out. He was teaching the kids to meditate. He actually was like a Buddhist monk. He was raised in a monastery, and he was teaching them to to meditate. He actually was like a Buddhist monk. He was raised in a monastery. And he was teaching them to meditate, which presumably helped them stay calm and possibly conserve oxygen.

So that's awesome. That's like his superpower came in handy during the time that they were stuck in there. And the movie's going to come out soon, too. And I think there's already a director attached. Yeah. No, I think it's coming out this weekend. Yeah. It's already out.

No, I could have swore. Did they get the job? I know they was gunning for the job. I could have swore there was already a director attached who was like, I will not. Yeah. On deadline, John M. Chu developing second Tive K rescue film in an effort to avoid whitewashing. Oh, that's awesome. So apparently he believes that.

He's like. So they're going to be competing Tive K movies? They're like, if you want to see that real shit. Right. believes that. So they're going to be competing. Thai cave movies are like, if you want to see that real shit. Not that whitewash bullshit. Yeah, this is the guy who did Crazy Rich Asians. He's like, we don't want Scarlett Johansson to be all 12 of the kids. Yeah, let's keep it. It's just like six Scarlett Johansson and six Emma Stone. And Andy Serkis.

Andy Serkis. Andy Serkis. Oh, no. Yeah. Ask the coach. That little hottie. Gollum. That little hottie. My...

Dream crush. My sweet little crush. The number one trending story on Twitter right now is Build-A-Bear Workshop, which... Good for them. Yes.

Way to go, guys. Did they get nominated for an Emmy? What happened is they had a campaign where, for today, you would go in and pay your age for a Build-A-Bear, or whatever the fuck they sell.

If you have a two-year-old... You just made it so you are Ed Build-A-Bear all the time and don't want to make it sound like you are. Or Jack doesn't know what a Build-A-Bear is, and Chyna does know. Jack, what's Ed Build-A-Bear all the time and don't want to make it sound like you are. Or Jack doesn't know what a Build-A-Bear is and Chai does know. Jack, what's a Build-A-Bear? Could you describe it? I will have you know that during my time at Cracked, we interviewed somebody who worked at a Build-A-Bear. Crack.

So I know what it is. Not even humble. I know all about the ins and outs of Build-A-Bear. And you started Crack.com, right? I did. No big deal. NDD. We did not approve that story, by the way.

Because it was just, yeah. But anyways. But for people who don't know, Build-A-Bear is a place where you go in and basically- With a child. You build a bear, idiot. Yeah, a stuffed animal that you can put the clothes on, the color, the swag, everything.

Just design your own. They make you do that creepy thing where they give you the heart and you have to kiss it. Don't love that part. Oh, I've never actually built a bear. You have to put a heart inside the bear and they put it in the kid's hand and then the Build-A-Bear employee is like, okay, no, kiss it. Kiss it. And they do and they're like, okay.

And then also accept Jesus Christ as your savior. Right. And then put it in. And now shove it up the bear's ass. Slow though. And we're going to Frankenstein that bear off. Slow though, slow. It's not beating!

Survive it! Because at the beginning of Build-A-Bear, you pick out like a skin suit and then you have to make out with its heart, shove the heart off its butt and they're like, now we're going to just... Is that where it's inserted? Yeah.

From the bottom? Yeah, you put it in the bottom. And then they t-shirt gun it full of fluff and then... Then you dress it. It's beautiful. Their thing was come in and pay your age. Holy shit. Yes, and so they were

overwhelmed with demand. Lines wrapping around the block and they had to just shut it down because they couldn't deal with their own promotion. Way to go marketing person at Build-A-Bear who just lost their job. Make them stop

kissing the hearts. That's my recommendation. In exchange for fucking this up, we ask that you make them stop kissing the hearts. Do you know how much one costs normally? I don't. They're expensive. Are they? With the clothes and the shoes and the tiny sunglasses, you've got to get it vaccinated.

It's a whole thing. Pet saving. Oh, so there's like base... So there's base bears you buy. So if you want the unicorn, it's like 25 bucks. If you want the basic

happy hugs, it's like 16. It's embarrassing, yeah. You can get the stars and stripes for 25. But the bear looks like terrified of you. Then the accessories, oh, so you're really saving a lot of money.

Come through with a gang of fucking children. Just tell all your kids, be like, I don't care if you're in school. Anybody who lined up should have gotten a thing that said that they could come back and pay their age, because I'm sure there were kids who were pretty excited about this. When you go to the website, the top, it has an alert like it's from the fucking government, like a red banner. Alert! Lines have closed for pay your age day event.

Per local authorities, we cannot accept additional guests. People rioting and turning cars over. We have closed lines in our US stores. Anyways, guys, Build-A-Bear. No joke. That wasn't the moral of that story at all. Guys, don't fuck with Build-A-Bear.

Don't fuck with Build-A-Bear. They will fuck your shit off. They demand to be taken seriously. All right. That's going to do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show if you like the show. It means the world to Miles. He needs your validation, folks.

I hope you're having a great weekend, and I will talk to you Monday. Bye. Thank you. Defne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16, 2017, was assassinated. Thank you. Matthew State. Listen to Crooks everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In California during the summer of 1975, within the span of 17 days and less than 90 miles, two women did something no other woman had done before, try to assassinate the president of the United States. One was the protege of Charles Manson. 26-year-old Lynette Fromm, nickname Squeaky. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore.

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