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News from May, 2024
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Korean garbage wars begin, oldest anime found, legendary director dies and much more on this episode where we discuss the news for the month of May.
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News for the month of May in the year 2024, the year of our Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior. So this is gonna be our second episode on our monthly news stuff, because it was kind of fun doing it the last time Gonna talk about some news, learn some things, and we're gonna do it again. So do you want to start out with news stories, nate, or would you like me to? I actually have news stories this time.
Nate:You know, I still haven't listened to the entire podcast. The last time I started listening to it, I'm like, oh, I can't do this, because I was like, I mean, I know it's probably dumb. I was like the fact that I didn't come in with anything, I was embarrassed. All right, let's start with North Korea. Maybe. Hopefully, we don't have the same thing I have. So North Korea's trash rains into South Korea balloon by balloon. So apparently North Korea and South Korea have a beef, just to put it very, very mildly.
Shaun:Like a West Side East Side story kind of thing, where they all meet at the border and they're like snapping and do jazz hands and tap dancing as combat, kind of thing. It's like, hey, you square daddios from the North, ooh, look at you guys. Yeah, that kind of thing.
Nate:right, yes, exactly like that, it's exactly like this, and there's music being played by a bunch of you know china's off to the side playing the music for the whole thing, frequent dance battles, that's uh, everyone's terrified of the thermonuclear dance battles, uh, but yeah, apparently you know it's as I'm sure you've heard, south korea, and you know others, drop leaflets on the ground where they have, like, kim jong-il's face on there and they're not allowed to destroy kim jong-il's face. Uh, on the other side they're like, you know, fuck him, he's a bastard. You know, hey, pay attention to the rest of the world. Like, don't listen to what he's saying because it's a lie and it is, I mean, to be honest, like you know, they're living in this, it basically in the past. They're like peasants living with in squalor and they think they have big bad united states and they come and kill them all because and eat their babies, and so I mean, in all fairness we might well, but in all
Nate:fairness in all fairness, most americans don't even like acknowledge that south, north korea is a thing. You know, that's uh, it's kind of sad, but that's true. Like I, my sister, our sister, my oldest daughter, has a friend who didn't know what north korea was. And now, to be fair, he's a moron, but like still like, I know again, I'm in the middle of like shitsburg, kentucky, but like not everyone's thinking about north korea, but according to north korea, all the americans, just like every day they wake up and look at north korea on the map and like, uh, but anyway, in retaliation, north korea started sending balloons over that was full of like diapers and feet, you know whatever. And so, yeah, the balloons would pop and they'd fall or they'd, you know, lose cigarette, butts, scraps of cloth, exactly it's actually an article does say, uh, cigarettes, and so they're, I mean.
Nate:But it's really petty, you know, I mean unless they did it by the millions. It's really petty, you know, I mean unless they did it by the millions it's about really?
Shaun:I mean honestly it sounds kind of like fun for North Korea. Let them have their little bit of fun. Yeah, a whole lot going up there. I mean they got cigarettes and hey, did you know methamphetamines is legal in North Korea.
Nate:Well that, but I'm not surprised.
Shaun:I mean, yeah, they have go for them uh, yeah, it's also helps, uh, you know, curb the uh aching of starvation from people too. So yeah, sure, yeah, apparently methamphetamine's legal up there. I mean within reason it's. You know you can't go awol or crazy on the stuff and murder people, but you know but yeah, basically be shitty.
Nate:There's, I mean there's a bunch of different things about like the there's like failed missile launches. I mean it's complicated, it's always complicated. So I very, you know, I just kind of narrowed it down to one thing, be it like oh yeah, they said pamphlets.
Shaun:It's bigger than that, but I'm not gonna get into it because that's you know, I don't want to go through all the they'll send like usb drives up north too, on balloons and whatnot, which sucks too, because you know if, like, when the north korean citizens finds one of those, he might get killed for having it in his possession, even if he didn't want it. Hey, what's this weird usb thing on the ground? You're going to jail what?
Nate:yeah, uh, yeah, I mean it's south korea's basis, like, oh you bastards, you know, but I mean this is not gonna be the thing that sets off the big war. Yeah they're too south korea's too busy with starcraft I thought, yes, like they're too busy filling the stages, but god forbid, they put these trash things in the sample of starcraft players. Oh boy ha but that will be what gets them uppity.
Shaun:But yeah, I mean, I just thought it was interesting, that was funny kind of a very like the fact to uh, I like the fact to the government. The south korean government actually send a text alerts being like hey, garbage balloons on the way, be careful around here. We have like amber alerts and the stuff and uh, earthquake alerts. Up there they got garbage balloon alerts look out, cars garbage balloon.
Nate:Oh dear god.
Shaun:Ah, that almost sounds like a weird adult swim cartoon. Garbage balloon and gloop Ha, I don't know, I got nothing. And gloop and gloop. Um, if you want to stay over on the other side of the pond, I've got a new story from around there too. Turns out the oldest or what they believe at least, the oldest, or what they believe at least is the oldest anime ever, from the 1920s, was actually found in Japan.
Nate:Now, are they calling it anime just because it's from Japan, or are they calling it anime because it actually has stylistic leanings that look like anime?
Shaun:Stylistic leanings because it kind of looks like anime. Also, the kanji everywhere probably helps too. Apparently, it is actually a nine minute video showing a child using a knife and fork to eat a meal. That talks about the dangers of cavities and the benefits of brushing your teeth. It was a silent film made back in 1923, and I guess they just recently found it in the belongings of an avid movie fan. He recently died and people were going through his stuff. It was like what's this? The film is titled Dental Health, eight and a half minutes long. I'm curious. Dental Health. I can send you the link right now if you'd like. It's actually a video.
Nate:I got dental health the first thing on there. Dental health Attack on Titan wiki. I'm like, uh, I'm fairly certain that's not it. Oh, I see it, I found it. It's a men's journal. I'll give them a click.
Shaun:That's a good question I don't know why they really consider the anime. Well, what is the difference between anime and just regular old cartoons in your mind, nate? Or the standard difference in people's?
Nate:eyes. It's a style, you know, it's a, it's a specific look and style. That being said, though, because it's not just anime what would that specific look and style be?
Shaun:is it the big eyes? Is it the action lines? Is it big?
Nate:eyes. Uh, it's hard to explain. It's like you know, just like you don't go, like you know.
Shaun:But then if someone doesn't know, like oh shit. Well, I mean the, the anime giant icing started with uh astro boy way back in the day. That was the first big guy, anime guy technically. So anything before that wouldn't be considered anime well, no, that's what I'm saying like.
Nate:That's why it's hard to say just that, because it's uh, it's complicated is it, and also the animation.
Shaun:This is not really great. It's very low frame rate, but I mean it's also 100 years old. Yeah, I mean, you can't exactly ask a whole lot.
Nate:It's hard to really put them into, you know, I don't know. I guess it really is hard to put them in a certain box like you have to hit this type of quality even though no one else around the other time did and also they're, uh, fairly certain it was by this one old Japanese artist back in the day.
Shaun:But the way they tested this is they looked at all the kanji in the art and I guess everybody's kind of got their own like little specific handwriting style and stuff. So they went to the grandson of the guy who they thought this was. It was like is this his handwriting? And they're like seems like it. So they're thinking it was a guy named Kitayama.
Nate:Let's see. Okay, so Anime has common factors Naturalism, whatever that means.
Shaun:And we need to look up naturalism if we're going to throw that around.
Nate:Well, on this one, it says anime tends to be more naturalistic than other animation styles and it starts giving exceptions. One piece of exception, well then, don't, don't say oh yeah, this Okay.
Shaun:So one of the defining things about anime is it's realistic, except for when it's not okay, right, well, no shit. That that is definitely different than western cartoons, I will say. That much we all agree on this one expressivize symbolize, uh, expressivize.
Nate:Take two expressivize simplified face. Fair enough, I that's not all anime, but yeah, they do kind of cut down. I'd say most anime. They would cut down on the specific ridges and whatnot. Expressive hair. Cinematic camera angles. Okay, now the cinematic camera angles is debatable because panty shots.
Shaun:Yeah, that might be. What they're referring to is the cinematic camera angles.
Nate:It's like look.
Shaun:Just an old, dirty businessman watching those obscure shots like this is the cinema yeah, I mean for the most part.
Nate:Yes, they get pretty cinematic, but, yeah, I mean, sometimes, like the only way to see this is by, you know, somehow looking under the panties of this one girl and through the cleavage of this other. Uh, see, emotionally visual language, sure, uh, environmental, still, it can't talk today.
Shaun:Environmental storytelling, why not, you know, yeah, and this I mean, this is what we're learning is anime can basically be from any country, so avatar anime well, no, it's not they people don't consider anime.
Nate:It's because it's making america, it's anime style, it's widely it has.
Shaun:It has big expressive eyes, it's got naturalica, it's anime style, it's widely it has. It has big expressive eyes, it's got naturalism, it's absolutely. It literally has all those check marks.
Nate:But I think it also has to come from, like the east, because I don't want to say just japan. Now, because I'll be honest with you, china's come out some pretty badass anime. They uh especially recently, because they used to have kind of shitty you know what they came out, came out was kind of like, eh, it's all right, um, but recently they've come out some very impressive anime. Now I'll go to my head. I can't tell you any, but I have stumbled. I've stumbled upon them at all my anime dealings and I have been, uh, thoroughly impressed.
Shaun:So basically what you're saying is all Asians are alike. Racist Nate.
Nate:For the record, this is going downhill for you in a hurry. For the record, I did not say that at all Japan, China you know it's all the same, that whole region over there.
Shaun:You know? Yeah, again for the record, that is not what I said. History will determine what you said in that moment. History will determine.
Nate:History and Reaper.
Shaun:Yeah, ha, it's all up to me, the editors, right, I can make you sound as good or bad as I want.
Nate:Like Nathan. I didn't realize you liked Hitler, like I never said I liked Hitler. Hey, just what I said right now. I never said I like Hitler. Click. I like Hitler.
Shaun:I like.
Nate:Hitler.
Shaun:All Asians are the same. I like Hitler. All Asians are the same I like Hitler, I like Hitler, all Asians are the same. I like Hitler, all Asians are the same, I like Hitler. That was in a loop. It was in a loop just me being like didn't you just say all Asians are the same and just you replying I like Hitler? I need to make that loop now. So you're saying all Asians are the same, I like Hitler? That's my response to that. Yep, okay, so the story was oldest anime ever found Nate's rebuttal.
Shaun:Is I like Hitler?
Nate:Okay, on to the next story Nate.
Nate:I'll be honest with you for a minute there. I actually forgot what the original story was. Wait, what started this whole thing? My story this one is a Ghana toddler set the world record as the youngest male artist. His mom said he just loves colors. And I'm looking at this, I'm like especially the artist is very frustrating because he's sold like I mean, then again it's in ghana, so lord knows how much he's sold for, but he's like nine of his ten pieces of are sold and I'm like, damn it, like I'm having trouble. People sell my stuff and actually getting noticed. Meanwhile this dude I mean it's fine, you know, like it's one of those things where it's a bunch of colors on a canvas not buying it for the art on the canvas, though.
Shaun:You're buying it for the story of who you bought that art from, Cause it's one of those things you're going to be like, hey, look at that art on the wall. No, they're going to be like look at that art on the wall. Here's a long drawn-out story of why I'm better than you for buying it. Because there's some toddler in a poor country.
Nate:Well, the mom's, like she was trying to find something for her artist, Because the mom was an artist too and she goes I spread the canvas on the floor and added paint to it. Then the process of crawling and they called it the crawl Like dude yeah, did he really even paint that? Like there was no decision. He didn't go. Oh hey, I'm going to make this colors here and do that. He was just like oh, look colors.
Shaun:This is the equivalent of jamming your cat's paws in paint and then having him walk on a canvas and be like my cat is an artist, right, right, I mean.
Nate:I was like is your cat an artist? I would think the painting elephants are more of an artist than that kid is.
Shaun:Honestly, I would say those elephants probably are putting more thought into it than this kid is. Absolutely, he's perfectly honest, absolutely.
Nate:Like they are taking their truck. They're grabbing a paintbrush and they're putting paint on there. This kid was just dropped on a canvas. He's not exactly making choices.
Shaun:Nope, nope, he's not. 're probably like, uh, you know, like tempting him with like a little toy or something here, crawl across canvas. And also, um, I don't know, is he actually crawling across canvas, because it seems like he would just like punch right through a canvas or stretch it out you think, I think, I don't think that's actually. It wasn't framed, it was just like it was like god, so they just like. And then they stretched it over the frame. Yeah, that makes more sense okay.
Nate:And then, uh, he's one year and this is annoying. This is one year and 152 days. He's one year. I mean. I know like a lot of parents go, oh, he's 12 months or he's 36 months. It's like, come on Like he's a year old, you know. If you want to say year and a half, just that's stupid.
Shaun:One year and 152 days. But then there's another one here. It says that there's an Indian artist, who's at the age of 11 months old, who sold her first painting for $60. So basically, this seems like it's just a record on who can sell.
Nate:Huh, no, it's funny you said that because I just read that too on this article. They mentioned that the world record before him.
Shaun:Okay, so what we need to do is you need to have another kid and then, like, right after that baby pops out of the birthing canal, you roll it in paint and then, just like, roll it across a canvas and then sell it and boom.
Nate:Hey, the baby flies out and lands on a canvas.
Shaun:Yeah, You're just like push really hard as you're standing there with like a canvas just holding in front of the between her legs Just rocks out, splat Boop, just rocks that splat amniotic fluid all over the canvas. Oh, and then if you do that, you can say you gave birth to the world's youngest artist and start selling your sperm.
Nate:Ah, think of that yeah, this dude like I mean watch, he's gonna grow up hating art, but just oh, absolutely.
Shaun:He'll like like 20 years from now he'll be down in ghana like holding these giant art burnings and stuff I mean I'm looking at these paint.
Nate:I mean I understand there's a visual style of painting. That was just a bunch of colors randomly splashed onto canvas. I get that. I like them. You know, some are pretty cool. But it's just like when I go to the museum in chicago because we've been there a few times and I'm walking through there and I have and I look on the wall and I see what this artist must have the loudest, biggest clangiest balls in the world and they turn around and they turn in a white canvas they painted. I'm sure they put several layers on white on white, on white on white. Let's give them that come on.
Shaun:was this an actual art that you saw?
Nate:Yes, Okay, yes, I was thinking about that.
Shaun:I was thinking about that one. Did you hear about that artist who got paid to do an art commission? He made the art called, take the money and run and just turned into a blank canvas. Actually, I think I have heard about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and everybody's like that's genius, what can they do? Well, yeah, they actually wound up suing him over it.
Nate:I'm not sure what happened after that, but yeah, yeah, I think I remember reading about that. Later on he gave the money back.
Nate:I was like no, no I never intended to actually take the money. Yeah, uh-huh, sure Right. And I saw a white one and I saw a black clamp canvas. And I love it too, because I walk around those things with my youngest ella, and she, me and her just mercilessly mock these as we're walking through because it's the modern art, obviously not renaissance art, you know, like if it's an actual true piece. Even you know some of uh, picasso stuff, like'm down. You know I like some of the weirder stuff. But again, like if you have, if I'm looking on canvas, there's two triangles and a dot and I'm supposed to go oh, you look on there and the title is, I don't know the Suffering of Mary in the Arms of Brutus, or whatever. It's like what.
Shaun:It's one of those magic eye things. You got to squint really hard and stare. Did you hear, did you read the onus behind? Uh, how she decided to turn a kid into a painter? Uh, she basically needed a way to keep her kid busy from bothering her while she did paintings.
Nate:Yeah, yep, that's, I didn't know you meant. But yeah, I totally read that.
Shaun:Yeah, it's insane um, this is also kind of one of those things where it's like it's hard to respect guinness book world records anymore because they'll just kind of like come up with the dumbest things to uh make a record for.
Nate:You know if you ever watch john oliver, which I highly recommend. I'm actually behind, but, um, he actually did that on guinness book world records and actually it's kind of a problem because you have all these dictators and you know strongmen out there who, in order to, kind of like, make themselves look awesome, they'll, they'll just pay, get his book of world records go. Hey, come out here and witness this, so I can, I can say we have the biggest pie and they do it.
Shaun:You know, it's just this place can't be a shithole. We have the world's biggest pie here in north korea. Isn't that amazing? Yeah, I mean, look the pie.
Nate:We made the biggest pie and the largest crowd of starving people looking at the pie.
Shaun:I was about to say. Only three, only 3000 people died in the making of this pie. We're going to have one lone man unwillingly eat all of it, that is going to be his punishment, too, for stealing from the government Everyone has to watch, and this guy eats the world's biggest pie unwillingly.
Shaun:if he stops eating for even a moment, gunshots this is a thing too, that apparently the uh india is getting a lot of people doing weird guinness record stuff, because I guess what it is is over there in india there's so many people uh, people are starving for a way to differentiate, differentiate themselves from other people, so that's usually done by trying to set records nowadays, and it's just weird records to, like, you know, running backwards in place the longest or dumb stuff like that. How long can this man sit? Perfectly still.
Nate:Yeah, they have a kissing one too. Like these people kiss for X amount of time, like okay.
Shaun:And then you're like what is the stipulation? Kissing Just literally, having your lips pressed against somebody? Is there actual tongue? Do you have to be moaning? Right, true, right, is it?
Nate:How, what kind of passion I mean again, if you're two people locking lips. I mean okay.
Shaun:Yeah, I mean that that it was just two people, like literally just their lips barely touching I feel A-frame thing to hold your heads in place and just like sit there for days. Oh yeah, and also this is something I always thought was one of the dumber rules World's longest fingernails.
Nate:Right, that guy, I remember that guy.
Shaun:Oh no, this is actually a thing. There's multiple people who do it.
Nate:I think about the guy when I was in high school. I'm sure since then there's been others, but there was always that one guy, the one image that always pops in my head, the black and you know sepia tone, where he's standing there and he's got the curls and curls and curls. Uh, he's the one I'm sure. Again, I'm absolutely 100 positive. What you're about to say is true. It just. There are others, I just he's the one I was thinking of yeah, um, usually the ones I hear about.
Shaun:It's like usually like, uh rich, uh oil barons or princes and stuff, making one, their wives do it Grow out their fingernails super long. It's like a hey look, I'm so rich, my wives can do nothing but sit around and let their fingernails grow, which seems dumb. And it's even worse when you realize if you're doing that long fingernail challenge, you're basically dependent on other people Because you know you can't really wipe your butt anymore, you can't feed yourself really well and it's hideous.
Nate:You can really well and a lot of stuff, and it's hideous. Fingernails yeah, it's hideous like the. The nails don't continue looking like regular nails, they start to get all curly and weird. Yeah, they start getting real gnarly and it's just because they start picking up all the stuff that's around and you can't really do anything about it. How do you groom that so right?
Shaun:yeah, she spends a whole bunch of servants and slaves.
Nate:Right, you can't. She can't even groom her own nails, they're too long.
Shaun:Yep, let's see what are the longest fingernails in the world? Now I'm curious 42 feet 10 inches.
Nate:And again.
Shaun:Diana Armstrong. Apparently, she can Wow. Those things are long too. They're almost as tall as her when she's standing there. Oh okay, so they must be braided or something as tall as her where she's standing there. Oh okay, so they must be braided or something, I don't know. Hmm, anyways, if you want, to see something weird.
Nate:Google longest fingernails in the world. No, I just looked her up. At least those are kind of straight. Looks like she actually like. There's like colorful bands on there, I guess to hopefully, you know, keep her from getting like a boss in a dark souls game or something right? You're not just long feet, nose back they're gross.
Shaun:They're gross passionate love making with her. She just kind of like have to hold her arms up above her and uh, anyway, well, I would think it'd be difficult even to raise your hands up. She's doing in this one picture she's holding it above her head. But yeah, I don't know it's. Maybe it's one of those things it's easier to do when you've been growing them all along, instead of just having them plopped on you all at once well, here's a sign that's really fucking gross.
Nate:She in this picture she has um, it looks like a cane or a stick. She's like leaning on and you can't tell the difference. They all look the same, you know. You can't tell between the stick and her nails. Or is that her thumb? Maybe it's not a stick, maybe it's just her thumbnail going out.
Shaun:I don't know. Yeah, I think what you're looking at might be her nails, because her nails all look like long walking sticks, kind of-ish.
Nate:Yeah, you know, I think I was wrong with it. Yeah, just like the Great Antonio, like.
Shaun:I thought it was a stick. It is not a stick. That was his beard, yep.
Nate:Or hair.
Shaun:Whatever it was. So, uh, oh, her and the great Antonio could have made adorable children, yeah, ha, yeah, with long hair and long fingernails. All right, next story I've got too. Hey, remember that dude who got the Neuralink chip implanted in his brain? Have you heard about that? Yes, yeah, dude recently went there, got the Neuralink chip implanted in his brain, and I like that story too, because he was a paraplegic or a quadriplegic. And did you hear what he did for his first day of being able to do stuff with the Neuralink in? He spent his entire day playing Civilization VI, just something.
Shaun:I can get behind. Yeah, he said it was the greatest time he had ever had since he lost his ability to move. I'm like that is amazing. So good for him, unfortunately I. I was thinking.
Nate:I don't know, hooker, hooker.
Shaun:What? Yeah, he got a hooker, oh, okay. Well, how's Neuralink helping with the hooker Nate?
Nate:Oh, for some reason, I think he can move.
Shaun:Nope, he can just control a computer with his brain. He can basically move a mouse.
Nate:Oh well, there you go, Okay fair enough, I just remember some guy get a chip in his brain, the end.
Shaun:You're like bring me a hooker. I want her to watch me play Civilization 6.
Nate:Yes, that's exactly. He's like I'm paying for the hour you're gonna watch me play Sim 6 and in fact he like paid for like 10 hours and he's like you have to sit there and watch me play Sim 6 this entire time and you cannot leave, and you know what the hooker's like.
Nate:Hey, this is better than having some fatty sweat dude on top of me plowing away for the next 10 hours, so sure she says that in the first 30 minutes but by hour 5, she's like God, that sweaty guy would have been done with me in like 5 minutes. I'd be back out in the street doing whatever, or home anything else. Because I mean it's one thing to like play Civ 6 for 10 hours. It's something else to watch someone play Civ 6 for 10 hours. It's something else to watch someone play Civ 6 for 10 hours.
Shaun:The actual story itself was the fact that that chip actually started to become detached from his brain, unfortunately limiting his ability to use it. Apparently, this is one of those things they kind of expected, because I guess they were like there's a pretty good chance it's going to start sliding around, or it's not just the chip sliding around, it's also his brain, is actually moving around inside of his head and that can cause it to become detached. 85% of the wires had actually become detached, but the thing is is they didn't want to go in and do more surgeries to reattach them, but they were able to actually go in and rewrite the algorithm that the chip runs on and make it more responsive to the signals it was getting, and restored almost full usability back to him just without cracking open a skull or nothing. So that was pretty neat. And then he played sims yep, I mean honestly.
Nate:I love sims 6, you know I mean it's. I wonder if he's able to do a fast-paced game like on a call of duty on the pc?
Shaun:probably not I would guessing yeah because I think I did hear somewhere along the lines. It was more of a uh, you know you can't do it super fast that's not because yeah, that makes sense, I mean because right because I mean, it is think hard, and then that mouse is going to cursor, is going to move to the left. It's not like he's, you know, synced up and one with the computer. It's not lawnmower man? I assume not yet. Well, lawnmower man was awful too.
Nate:Ah well, I mean, I remember back in the day I was pretty impressed like, oh, a lot more man. I remember I saw one thing where he's like the wife got all mad for him. He's like, oh, you're falling or flying, falling, what's next? Fucking. It's an actual line that was on the movie and I'm like they're polygons. I mean, I get we're in the 90s, but I think you recognize like there's nothing sexy about polygons. Yeah, I don't care how many. Like well, but say you can't, I don't care how many polygons, but actually there is a certain polygon count where it does start turning to a little jesus. Yeah, but back then, and never mind the fact that a lawnmower man had nothing to do the book was based on.
Shaun:Yes, yeah, yeah yeah, I wasn't even talking about the movie. I was just saying it's not like lawnmower man where he's actually inside the computer controlling everything.
Nate:You know that way it's the movie yeah, you're like oh, it's not a movie. I was only talking about the movie anyway, okay, it's all to you.
Shaun:Now I mean, oh yeah, it was my turn last time too, but you, you just went, so I was like okay, cool, wait, I thought you did the last one before this too.
Nate:I did the painting one, then you did, uh, whatever, okay, um, yeah I'm pretty sure I did.
Nate:We went in the right order okay, yeah, uh, so did we talk about the I don't know if we're talking about this the, the golfer up here, because they're the pga tour up here. And man, oh god, I hated it so much. I don't care about golf and I was trying to give, I'm just trying to get my kid to the dentist and on my way there I got stuck in traffic, dead stop traffic, so much so that it took me like I had to go way out of my way to get around it. It was awful. That was the PGA Tour that happened up here.
Nate:One interesting thing that happened in the PGA Tour is, first of all, some guy died. He died because he was trying to cross the road to get to the PGA Tour. He was a vendor or something and he got hit and struck. He was hit and killed by a bus, which I totally believe, because I was almost hit and killed by a bus too, because my wife's like, oh hey, go this way, you know the traffic's not so bad now, and she was wrong because I tried to go around and it yeah, and so I'm stuck in traffic, I try to turn around and just as I'm about to pull this bus right almost took me out. I mean driving in the middle lane, mind you. So, yeah, fuck those buses.
Nate:Anyway, after that happened, all the cars were backed up and a golfer named scotty scheffler uh, if you know golf, he's apparently well known like he was the number one hey golf guy and he decided to go and he was trying to get there. He went around all the cop cars and he was going into what he thought was like he was allowed. He's like hey, I'm the one main golfer's here, I can go ahead and cut through this PGA Tour rope off thing and I'll be fine. Well, some cop tried to stop him and the cops tried to say that, oh, he dragged him. But apparently the cop tried to like he banged on his window and was all being a my guess is he's being a dick and so the golfer was like oh, I don't want to be here anymore, I don't feel safe, I'm gonna get out of here, which I don't know why he doesn't feel safe. I mean, he's like the widest guy I've ever seen.
Nate:But uh and like he's. He's also like he's a ceo, some like he was a CEO of a lawyer firm, so whatever. And so basically, the cops smashed the window in, dragged his ass out of the car and they arrested him. And it's like, oh man, because on one hand, I don't know, I don't have a high opinion of some of the cops, particularly those cops, like you know. I don't want to get all like, oh, all cops, but specifically cops, but specifically the cops in that area that I have heard stories of, like they aren't the best. And so this guy drags them out and they, they booked them, all this stuff.
Nate:And you know, louisville isn't exactly the most uncorruptible place in the world. And the pga if they lost the pga tour because of this, you know, oh man, heads would roll. And my guess is, you know whether that cop was in the right or not? My guess is, he is not. His career is not looking good right now.
Nate:Yeah, I almost feel bad for the cop, almost almost, almost yeah, because he and the guy like he, you know, got arrested. They took him in, they booked him in the center back and the cops were like, oh, he broke the law. But I'm telling you, like the whether the cops are right or not, the pga tour is a massive money maker like for specifically for this like area and for this golf course. They I was trying to drive through there I mean people were let people park in their driveways for like 30 to 40 bucks a pop and they actually had crossed it out at one point and moved to 75, like just to park near there. So it's a, it's a sport that brings a lot of rich people into a certain area where they spend a lot of money. They are not gonna stand by, do nothing while their top golf person gets arrested by some random police officer so makes it feel bush league kind of thing.
Shaun:yeah, that that's that's.
Nate:I don't know. I was going to fly. I think it might be all just. I think it's going to be all smoothed over people's hands and greased. You know it is what it is, but I just thought it was interesting story. I got saw this. I'm like, oh right, this happened. So, yeah, it's got Scotty Schae and most likely ended the career of a cop.
Shaun:Actually looking to see if there's anything. Talking about what would happen to the cop. But I mean, people have murdered people. Cops have murdered people before in Stoke how to keep their jobs. So Well, yeah, but you know, let's be real.
Nate:They murdered people of a certain demographic and they got away with it. This is a. I mean, can you imagine someone arresting a boy in Seattle let's say there's a game and who's the quarterback of the Seattle Seahawks? Imagine him trying to like he got arrested on his way to a game. Can you imagine, like, do you think that cop would get out unscathed? Probably.
Shaun:Depends on the color of the player and the reason behind it. Fair enough. Yeah, I mean, Richard Sherman was one of the most famous athletes around here and he got arrested, drug off by the cops. Actually, a lot of our celebrities have gotten arrested up here. Marshawn Lynch, I think, got arrested in Seattle. Warren Moon got arrested for DUI on his way back from announcing a game. It's happened a few times up here.
Nate:They didn't necessarily get drug out of the car though. Well, yeah, and the day of like on the way to the game.
Shaun:At least that way to the golfer If he does fail at the tournament, he can always be like well, here's the reason.
Nate:Well, that was the scuttlebutt around here for a little bit. You know about this golfer and I don't even care about golf, but yeah, people seem to really care about that.
Shaun:The end for that one. It does look like he'll get punished, but it doesn't say what kind of punishment it'll be. Eh, probably paid vacation.
Nate:Yeah, that's probably just a fun—you're talking about the cop. Yeah, yeah, I mean it's gonna be—they're gonna be token, you know, most likely Because I doubt the PJ tour—they don't want to look too bad by pushing too hard. But yeah, I'm guessing he's gonna get like paid leave, leave for a few minutes and then he's back on it. Now, had he hurt that guy while like arresting him, you know he put his knee on his neck or whatever the case may be. Then he had been super duper.
Shaun:It was super duper screwed, but that happened yeah, yeah, the golfer's complaining about a 80 pair of pants that got ripped, which, yeah, it's not like 80. Is that expensive a pair of pants anymore, really? Not really no yeah, no, no yeah. First of all, oh, $80?.
Nate:Oh wait, that's actually you know?
Shaun:I mean you can get $20 pants at Walmart and stuff, but they're not good.
Nate:No, you go to Macy's. You can find, you know, $80 to $100 pair of pants or more.
Shaun:Oh yeah, I mean. Well, just to stand Like decent quality. Levi's are about $100 a pair Nowadays. I think I could be wrong on that Decent quality being the keyword there. There are several different levels of Levi pants quality, just so you know. Let's see, the officer has gone through corrective action For the whole thing. Don't fuck with celebrities. That almost sounds like, too, what they actually got him more in trouble for through a corrective action for, uh, the whole thing, don't fuck with celebrities.
Nate:That sounds like too.
Shaun:What they actually get got him more in trouble for was not having his body cam on than for what he actually did from. This is just from like glancing too, but yeah.
Nate:Well, they were saying like oh, typically the officers don't have it on for like traffic stuff. I'm like, but you should have it on, you know, because stuff happens and you really need it on. Oh right, oh. And of course, almost immediately people were like free scotty, and t-shirts popped up immediately free scotty.
Shaun:Let's see, back in 2021 was uh commended for going above and beyond the call of duty and enforcing a lot of traffic uh laws? He, uh, he, basically he got an award for issuing a staggering 108 citations in 2021. Oh no, 108 citations during a four-hour operational period back in 2021. So this guy likes his traffic things, his traffic infractions yeah, I mean it's easy pickings too for a cop. It's like, hey look, I got to make money for the city and it's really easy and pretty low risk. Right, I mean mostly low risk.
Nate:Yeah, pretty low risk, right, I mean mostly low risk, yeah, mostly real risk, yeah. But yeah, I know I'm not sure if it's the same out there, but I know around here they have a quota to meet every month. So that's why it's always like you definitely don't want to speed at the end of the month because the cops are out in force trying to meet their quota, but at the beginning of that pretty much everywhere yeah, like they got plenty of time so you know you'd be you'll be a little more relaxed at the beginning of the month.
Shaun:Yeah, so earlier this month, the Catholic Church announced that they were going to be having a big livestream event where they were going to discuss what they know about aliens and this and that, and extraterrestrials and paranormal phenomena. And this got the whole paranormal alien phenomena groups online just frothing with anticipation. They were so excited because they're like, hey man, the Catholic Church is coming through and they're telling us everything that we want to know about aliens. It's going to be awesome. Did you hear about this whole thing that they were doing? No, yeah, basically, man, I bring this up because the internet was all a tizzy and they were super excited because they're like, because they announced this, like not long after that government whistleblower came forth and was like, ooh, I'm going to blow the whistle on all this alien stuff. So everybody's like, ooh, the Catholic church is going to tell us everything they know.
Shaun:Well, it turns out that giant live stream event and that's not what it was. It was actually kind of lame and it's basically the Pope going over rules on how to not get duped by fake acts of miracles or fake alien sightings and stuff, and they actually just basically went over the steps you should go through if you want to actually verify if something is an alien or not, and it involves going through all the proper channels all the way up to the Pope, and the Pope will actually verify whether or not something was real. And apparently it was a very lame press conference and everybody was very bummed.
Nate:I can imagine. I mean it's like well, show us the alien and we will tell you if it's an alien or not. Like, uh, it's green, with big giant eyes and 25 fingers. Nope, not alien. That is a chupacabra, by the way. Chupacabra's a list. Now give me the, give me the alien.
Shaun:I mean that's chupacabra essentially the whole uh live stream thing. It basically just can be summed up as the catholic church being like hey, uh, don't get duped by fake alien reports. If there are real aliens out there, we'll let you know when that happens.
Nate:Yeah, I hate that. Yeah, the group of control, I mean.
Shaun:Yeah, and it's, I think too. Also, they took out the ability to deem stuff miracles out of the lower-level Catholic priests, and now it's only super high-up ones that can claim it. Oh, there you go. Yeah, anyways there you go. Yeah, anyways, there you go. Yay, the pope knows nothing about aliens. They say so, he says so.
Nate:He says okay, huh new york city's rat hating mayor, eric adams, is once again ticketed for rats as a brooklyn property. So he's a property owner who, you know, hates rats and apparently he once did a public execution with a rat, which is a weird way to do a press conference. He's like I hate rats and once tried to prove it by demonstrating a device that drowned them in a vat of caustic liquid. In a caustic liquid, he's like look, I'm murdering them, behold. And he even appointed a city. The county won't do it. The caustic liquid will, yeah, them behold. And he even appointed a city's probably won't do it. The caustic liquid will, yeah. It's like the first quote rat czar last year, after posting help, wanted to add seeking applicants, um, who would commit to the quote wholesale slaughter of the pets. So he really wants them gone, uh. But then he said like the are they? Uh, sorry, I lost it, the rats are. They just want a wholesale slaughter of pets. So he's just like he wants a holocaust of rats.
Shaun:Good luck doing that in a place the size of new york city, because if there's one thing I've learned is when you got a lot of people, you're always gonna have rats, right, yeah, I mean. And even this whole thing where it's like har har, har is building as rats too. Isn't that ironic? Well, yeah, pretty much any large building is gonna have rats. Even if you don't see them, there's still going to be rats around.
Nate:I mean they're pests, I mean, and they carry disease, but also like they're survivalists. And they go hand-in-hand with humans too, because they like our civilizations, because it's full of food and stuff and there's no Pied Piper that's going to like lure them out.
Shaun:It's just claims to be completely rat free. It's like a county in Canada and it's a farming county and I guess if you detect a rat there, they actually have like this rat squad that goes through and will comb your entire property and like slash and burn any rat houses that they find or anything that resembles a rat den.
Nate:My home.
Shaun:Yeah, yeah I guess, and home, yeah, I guess even they will say that we're probably not 100% rat free but we are the most rat free place in the world. And I guess the reason they can get away with this too is like on the west side of the county is nothing but mountains that nobody can really go through, and on the right hand side is like more mountains with just one mountain pass. They kind of have a choke point that they can put a quarantine on and search all vehicles coming in. Okay, well, there you go, yeah, yeah. So they kind of have like an advantage of you know geography, but they do proudly boast themselves as the only rat free place in the world.
Nate:Don't go there.
Shaun:Yeah.
Nate:Don't go there, Fievel. Don't go there, Fievel Right.
Shaun:Go somewhere else. Fievel and R.
Nate:He got, he's been, he's been in trouble for this before, he's got tickets a few times for it. It seems kind of petty.
Shaun:I think maybe someone wrote this out because they don't like the guy, but still Like I don't know, but you're reading a news story and you're like this seems kind of skewed one way or the other. It's like this does not seem like impartial reporting.
Nate:Yeah, I mean, this is AP, like the Associated Press them, because they're supposed to be more, because obviously fox has a leaning, and msnbc, um, yeah, it was, is it? No? Yeah, msnbc, they, they have, they definitely have a leaning, you know, and now I think one of those two is more factual than the other one, but they have leanings, um, I think I especially oppressed, pretty like down the middle, as they can, as you can get you know, more of an aggregate of a bunch of other new places, aren't they?
Shaun:Yeah, I think so. Sort of ish kind of. I've also heard Al Jazeera is a pretty good. As far as I've heard that too, more neutral kind of yeah.
Nate:I've heard that too. Um, of course the name of that is to uh foreign for Americans.
Shaun:Yeah, name there, right they're pro-terrorists right now.
Nate:Yeah.
Shaun:That sounds like those kind of people that wear turbans Can't have that. So that was my Rats still a problem in New York. Apparently he had to. He's so far spent $7,000 on rat mitigation on the property.
Nate:Rat mitigation.
Shaun:Like rat extermination.
Nate:Oh, like trying to Trying to resolve this. Like they sit down the table like his honor lawyer, like him, the rats are like negotiating over property of right. So like, look, you guys are squatters. If you're gonna put any kind of term on your squatters like, squeak, squeak, squeak all right, this guy like this is my lawyer.
Nate:Five old saltzman right and finally he's like look, let's, can we please, we please get lawyer Jingles in here and hear cat Big ol' fat little bellons like, oh my god, sit back and watch as the cat runs around. Anyway, they laugh. I'll murder rats for fun.
Shaun:Morgan Spurlock died of cancer. The creator of the Super Size Me Documentary, he died earlier from I lost what kind of cancer it was, but anyways, he's most known for lying about mcdonald's food on uh, his yeah, you know, I heard about that like he was lying.
Nate:It was like and they're like oh, you're getting worse and worse and worse. And I mean I, I definitely mcdonald's is not healthiest. I mean I get it, but he's he has since also like admitted oh yeah, I was heavy into heavy into alcohol and drug use.
Shaun:I was doing that like well, maybe that was why your health was deteriorating apparently there's literally a scene where the doctor's like talking, he's like you have the liver of a hardcore alcoholic and he's like that's what mcdonald's do to you. No, that's because he was a hardcore alcoholic at the time. Yeah, and all those scenes where he was like puking up the mcdonald's, like my body would reject it.
Nate:No, he was just hung over and his body was shutting down yeah, what a dick I mean yeah, and I try to take that further and he's like trying to do 30 days is you know? The one I saw was poor and he tried to get jobs and he kept getting fired from jobs he wouldn't do remember that one too.
Nate:Yeah, and I'm like, okay, are you legitimately trying these jobs? Because you know? You know there's a camera right there. You can't hide it. There's a camera right there and the boss is coming in and he's being a dick to you, like we could all see that he's being a dick to you. However, we could all see that you're not doing the job he wants. So you know it can be a question. It's questionable. Like his manager style. I might not like his manager style, but is he wrong? And then, like I bet you, he was just fucking up my purpose for the day.
Shaun:Oh, I'd be willing to bet too.
Nate:Yeah, or even that guy was a paid. He was like, hey, can you be mean to me? Leave me on that smart day.
Shaun:I just think you know, just be a dick, yeah, because you forget you can rent an office for, yeah, it's whatever. He also got me too with sexual misconduct charges too at one point. Oh, really, yeah, apparently he was not great with the ladies. Yeah, that sucks, yeah, so eh, screw that guy. And also, I remember when that special came out too, there was a lot of people that were very like skeptical of it too, because there was a couple other uh like documentaries that came out right after people like doing the same thing, but their health didn't really change that much. Or like, hey, you can live off mcdonald's, but as long as you know walk more than 30 feet a day, you won't be that bad off yeah and what was it?
Nate:it wasn't super satisfying because that was the big one there. There was another one. I was like, hey, we're having weddings all the time. I think it was weddings, but it was something like that. And yeah, you're absolutely right. They're like yeah, I guess.
Shaun:Also did that documentary. Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden? Where in the world? Yeah, hmm, yeah, apparently he also worked with Joss Whedon and Stan Lee to create the documentary Comic-Con Episode 4 of Fans Hope. Interesting, that is interesting. I will say that I did hear somebody when they're talking about the uh, morgan Spurlock's death, they did say that one thing Morgan Spurlock actually did that was pretty helpful for society ish was he did prove to people like uh, aspiring directors that you can do a documentary without getting, like Hollywood you know, approval of it and stuff. You can kind of do it on the low down and on the small budget. Well, with smartphones. It's just it was over yeah yeah, smartphones changed all that.
Shaun:Nowadays you could. You can literally make your own movie at home. That's better quality and some of the stuff in theaters.
Nate:You know what you're doing even steven spielberg he was, he was being interviewed. He's all like look, you know, back in the day you needed, you know, parents that are rich enough to get you a little mini camera, if anything, or the feeling that you had to find someone to back you to buy a bunch of equipment so you can go and shoot something that and it may or may not go anywhere. You know, you, you spend, you're in high school, you really want to make a movie, so you go and you have your parents, or you get a job and then you rent all this equipment and then so you're in the hole now for, like, let's say, 10 grand with all the stuff you had to get, and then you used to go shoot it and edit it, and now you're like now what? So?
Shaun:like what we went through on the john waters episode.
Nate:They stole their supplies to get through on some of this stuff, but yeah, so yeah, but now it's just like yeah, I got my phone, I get this. Is it as high quality as like some real digital cameras?
Shaun:no, but it's fine if you don't mind shooting in like 4x3 format. You know standard format. Apparently you can buy like late 90s, early 2000s, top of the line like digital camcorders from studios, for they were originally like $100,000 for like $2,000 or even $500 or something like that. You can get the pretty cheap. But then again you know they're only 4x3 format.
Nate:I was broke a $10,000 camera once we were filming. It was my teacher's the film class I was in. The teacher shared with me Run Lola Run. It was, by the way, amazing. If anybody wants to watch a really cool German film, run Lola Run is awesome.
Shaun:I'm sure I've talked about that. Yeah, I've never seen it, but I've heard of it so good man yeah, it's like have you watched it recently, or well?
Nate:no, I've watched recently I've watched it recently but I'm pretty sure I'm fairly certain it holds up, because it's not um, it's not, let's have this. It's not like super complicated, you know. It's basically like a girl keeps on um. She basically her day is a video game and she keeps on getting reset, like she tries to go, she tries to run.
Nate:Her boyfriend lost a bunch of money. He lost a gangster's money and he's like I'm they're gonna kill me if I don't get this money to these people. I'm a dead man. That the end. And so he's standing outside of a um like a kroger or you know the german version of safeway or you know. Basically it's a grocery store. He's like I'm gonna rob this place and I get all the money so I can replace the money I lost. Because what happened was he was on the bus, he was on a subway or something like that, and he got all nervous. Cops came on the bus, he got all nervous and just bounced without realizing I have a duffel bag full of money next to me. So she has to run to stop him.
Nate:So she's running from her apartment all the way to him and as she's doing this, she keeps on running around people. And when she runs around people. You see polaroids of like how the rest, how their future goes after their like brief interaction in terms of like she ran in bass and that's it. You know there was. She didn't talk to these people. She'd do anything. She's like maybe bump one shoulder or whatever. She delayed someone a few seconds and every time she redoes it, everyone's life is changed dramatically based on what she was doing and where they were. When they interact with each other for those brief seconds, it's pretty cool. And, of course, every time she fails, she suddenly wakes up in a chair with a phone ringing and it starts all over again. It's so cool.
Shaun:Anyway, and Bill Murray's standing there being like oh, oh, you're stuck in this loop too, I see, oh yeah, right, basically I'll just. I'll probably just watch it and be like ah, this isn't as good as that simpsons episode that spoofed it, I mean I don't think it's very long watch either.
Nate:I mean you could hell just youtube like one clip and you get. You get the point. Um, anyway, my film teacher's favorite movie was that, and so I'm like, okay, here's what we're gonna do. We're a film commercial for shoes, uh, and so we're gonna get the. We got one guy with shoes, we get pants that were similar to hers, and all we did we took like 30 seconds from the movie and then had him run across a bridge of downtown seattle that went over like the train tracks, like near um the pier, and he ran over that and we're running along with him because it was on a, had a tripod with a dolly like with wheels. At the very end of the bridge there was a little hitch and I stopped it dead and the whole thing tipped and that camera about smashed to the ground and again, this camera was 10 grand. Uh, we caught it. It was fine, you know, and we got the film and we turned it in and we got an A, but it's like man, everything went in slow motion.
Shaun:Yeah, yeah.
Nate:I've had in my life. I've had several times where it's like I did something fairly stupid and thank God nothing came of it. Because you know, most recently I still kind of get my heart palpitations when I think about this uh, working at lowe's they have all these safety precautions you have to do and because I didn't feel like trying to go get one of those blue lifts or getting a taller ladder. Yeah, I was trying to get this box off this very top and I was trying to get the box underneath the box and so I'm trying to like kind of jimmy it out of there and like, whatever my plan is, I'm gonna pull both boxes out, drop one and I'll take the other one and put it back on the top.
Nate:Well, the balance gets off and the other box falls over. It's not super heavy but it's full of lights. It falls over and lands in the aisle across, not this aisle it rolls and falls into the aisle. There could have been a baby carriage there. There could have been some old lady, it could have been anybody, it could have been my boss, it's just that it wouldn't. Maybe when it probably killed a baby, but it wouldn't have killed anybody else, but it's like there was no one in the aisle. Oh, thank god. There's like one of those times where it's like I did something stupid and I did think anything would come of it.
Shaun:It's just like only by the grace of the universe that basically what it was, is you're like oh, these rules are in place, these rules are stupid and have no point in this reality. I'm not going to do them. I'm too cool for school, I know better.
Nate:And then you almost killed a baby, nate, yeah, since then I'm like, okay, I'm not doing that, I'll go ahead and get the boot lift. I'll go get this stupid thing and drive it over there and pick it up so now I can edit it.
Shaun:All asians look like I love hitler. I killed a baby, okay, anyways. Yeah again, be careful of what you hear online.
Nate:It might not be the full story. There was actually like I almost pulled um, wait, did I almost pulled a new story that like, oh, I did pull a new story about this. Aha, okay, I have something that's related to this, so it's my turn, or your turn, my turn. Yes, yay, sorry, I'm super tired. My brain's not like functioning. There's been a couple times where I was like I've been like ugh, okay, tests find that AI tools readily create election lies from the voices of well-known political leaders. See, it's relevant. Just talking about it. Basically, I mean the long article basically saying like people are scared that you know they have AI that can sound like politicians pretty convincingly and make them say whatever and it's like man that's. It's so scary.
Shaun:I mean, ai is cool, um, is this like ai answering questions and just giving text responses, or this actual them editing like voice voice?
Nate:yeah, well, because you know just like, uh, they'll take, they'll, they'll take audio of biden, for instance, and so then what the ai will do is, you know, just like those ai readers, except, well, the ai readers, it's very obvious, it's a and I, but you know, and some of the nicer ones it's not so quite obvious and you can even see now, like on um, some of those social media platforms, or even not social media platforms, like you can get a someone, a pretend person, that looks like a real person, saying whatever the fuck you want them to say. You're like, um, you know, I don't know, I love hillar, you know, I mean, and it's like this, this guy's like, oh, hey, I love hillar, it just. And so now you can actually do real politicians with some ai. If they say it's not 100 right now, it's been, say, a more like 80, success, but I don't know, man, it's like. Things like that are terrifying and things.
Shaun:Yes, it sounds scary being like, oh, what will people know to believe? But nathan pre-ai, there was a lot of people who swore up and down that obama was a muslim. I get it kenya well, I'm just saying, and they didn't even need, they didn't even need like actual, like you know, ai text and stuff well, and that's that's the thing.
Nate:It's like people just like to believe what they want to believe and I 100, I get it. You're absolutely right. Like people are going to believe whatever they don't believe, regardless. If there's some ai, it's just like now. My, my concern is now like um, like oh, you know, this politician said this and you're like no, he really didn't say that and you know it was taking that context. Here's the speech where he says you know where they got that clip from? And if you listen to what he said before and after that, he didn't. That's not what he was saying. They're like ai, I mean, people said that, even like in earlier than this. It's just still.
Shaun:It's very I actually mean, I also remember all those videos too, people being like look, they have lizard eyes, and all this has had impressed photos, yeah well, there's actually a great example too of this.
Nate:There's a comedian, um, oh, what's his face? Uh, who cares? Um, he was talking about how he was talking to his dad and his dad like told him, oh, you know, tommy lee jones is gay. And the guy's like, oh, really, okay, whatever. And then, going forward for like 10 years, he was telling people that tommy lee jones is gay and then finally, one day because you know, he's fairly, this comedian is actually fairly well known um, yeah, I'm totally blanking on his name.
Nate:He's in that he's in a podcast with the guy does the bear or the machine sorry, the bear do you talk about? Uh, yeah, it's not the guy, not the machine, but his, like his friend. Yeah, they do that two bears um podcast, whatever. Anyway, he was talking. But then he actually met someone who knew timmy lee jones, he's worked. And the guy's like, oh, yeah, tommy lee jones gay. He's like, no, he's not kids, he's, I, I know him, he's not. And then he called the comedian's, like I called my dad and told him that and dad, his dad's like, oh, I thought he was, that was it, that was his entire thing. He thought that tommy jones gay, he spread, he's been spreading around just because, because, yeah he thought so and so like to your point.
Nate:That's how gullible people are. It's just they hear something and they're like, oh yeah, that's, and I've fallen for that. I've fallen for that absolutely. I mean, I remember like hell, there's a ton of things I've heard and I took it at face value and fast forward to. No, that wasn't true at all.
Shaun:In fact, the opposite is true of whatever I heard well, basically what what we're getting at is nothing will change with A&I. People are still stupid and will believe whatever they want.
Nate:Sadly, that's kind of your right. It's like on one hand it definitely has more scary stuff to it, but on the other hand people believe in shit even without quote unquote.
Shaun:When we were little kids in the late 80s or early 90s and the news would actually have stories about people reporting Elvis sightings that he was still alive.
Nate:Remember that Nate. That's a very common thing.
Shaun:I remember that there was hundreds of reportings of Elvis being alive in the early 90s.
Nate:Hundreds of them. Who gives a he?
Shaun:faked his own death because the stress of being the superstar was too heavy on him, but he wasn't a superstar anymore. I mean did he? Yeah, he was.
Nate:He was doing stuff in Vegas. I mean, I'm not saying, he wasn't like a nobody.
Shaun:Yeah, you too were doing stuff.
Nate:No, I'm talking about when he died. He was an absolute monster. I'm not saying that at all like when he was blue suede shoes and all that stuff. He was huge people's women screaming, throwing their I don't know heads at him, it's like. But when he died, when he was fat elvis, we died alone on the toilet pushing out whatever crappy crap he shoved in his face, like he wasn't Elvis, he was.
Shaun:Elvis. You know what I mean Demanding how big Elvis was when he died.
Nate:Wait, not famous, how popular.
Shaun:What did?
Nate:you ask how.
Shaun:Wasn't this like his second comeback special too, is when he died about?
Nate:Let's see. We do know that Tommy passed away August 97. He was apparently well okay. They say he's very popular, but it's from Elvis at touchacoldcom, so I'm taking that with a grain of salt. Let's see. Fuck Elvis, that's what I'm saying. I hate Elvis. He's stupid. Like I don't know why people liked him so long after he died. I mean, there is just. It doesn't make sense to me why people still thought he was alive, Because can you explain that? Can you explain why people thought Elvis was dead after he, or still alive after he was super dead?
Shaun:People like to believe in conspiracy theories, believe that there's something bigger than them, and that way, they also know something that nobody else knows. They know the truth behind something. Everybody else is dumb, and they are smart.
Nate:I mean I do remember I did hear there's a little bit of conspiracy about Tupac thinking he was still alive. But I mean there's one thing about dying alone on the toilet. Is something else being shot in the middle of the street?
Shaun:So dying on the toilet is not a way for a man to die.
Nate:I'm talking about public, public, like Tupac was killed in public versus, you know, elvis, who died in private. People say he changed society. I mean maybe he did, I don't know he kind of he brought rock and roll to the mainstream. I think one of the reasons why but then again, I think one of the reasons why I don't like Elvis is like personal. I mean just because all these Elvis, they I don't know, I didn't like them.
Shaun:So oh, you hate Elvis because his fans were D bags. I see, yeah.
Nate:Yeah, I'll go. You know what I'll accept, that you know I'll. I'll go ahead and set that I. I met a lot of Elvis fans. The grand majority were D bags, and so maybe that's over my dislike of elvis and just just the rabid stupidity of like oh no, we love elvis.
Shaun:So people love elvis, so you basically got overcranked and be like he was a nobody who did nothing for the society. Damn straight, and I'm standing by it. Okay, yep, off top, top branded. So now we know nate hates elvis, loves hitler and kills babies.
Nate:Oh, one one thing See AI tools. Ray LeClay lies about Nathan.
Shaun:I don't even need AI tools. I just got to copy and paste a bunch of little text things. So now your turn. This one's kind of neat.
Shaun:So it turns out in the baseball world the Negro League stats are actually going to finally be seen as authentic and be rolled into the actual MLB stats which is kind of cool because now all of a sudden um, some people all of a sudden are going to be, uh like shooting up the stats records and taking over a bunch of the other guys. Let's see what was the guy's name. Ah, I lost the page.
Nate:That's kind of shame it took 24, 24 do it, but you know.
Shaun:Yeah, but there is one guy who's immediately, now that this is going through, he's going to wind up being the all-time hitting leader. The slugging percentage and one other stat. That's, let's see, josh Gibson. Apparently, people say that he was actually the best baseball player that nobody ever heard of, and I guess now, all of a sudden, that his stats are official. He's going to be shooting up the record books and taking over some of them too. Yeah.
Nate:I just pull it up. Yep, josh gibson, he beat ty cobb by, you know notorious racist ty cobb I'm assuming is that is that a decent amount?
Nate:0.372 over 0.367? I mean, I don't know much about baseball, so they should. Yeah, the top six, like four of them are now are from the negro league. Sure enough, yep. The career slugging now are from the negro league. Sure enough, yep, career slugging percentage is from the negro league. Uh, and for the record, I'm saying negro. I really, I really can't really hear myself. So I'm like, uh, negro, and I'm only saying that because that is what it's called. That's not what I say, but I'm just saying that the league is called the Negro League.
Shaun:And they just prefer to pronounce it very slow and deliberate. So I realized.
Nate:I said it twice, both of them Like they didn't hear. The row Right, let's see. Yeah, let's get a career based on percentage. Josh Gibson's on that to career OPS.
Shaun:On base percentage. Okay, gibson's on that too. Career ops uh what? On base percentage?
Nate:okay again, or on I think that's what it is, josh gibson. He beat out babe ruth. People are gonna be mad about that oh, yes, yes, very much.
Shaun:Uh, let's see, yeah, there are a lot of like old, cranky white dudes who are just festering with hate right now, which is part of the reason I really like this is because you know someone who's just like, can you?
Nate:imagine Josh Gibson. He has pushed out multiple on all these things. And let's see single season on base percentage. Okay, he was third, so Barry Bonds still went on in that one twice over. Barry Bonds had .609 one season and .52, .582 another season and Josh Gibson squeaked in at .564. Single season OPS. The reverse happened. Single season, all base per day out. Yeah, it looks like dude. You're right, man. This Josh Gibson guy just crushed. I never heard of the guy, to be honest. Yeah, nor have I.
Shaun:And now it's opening all the debates. I'm like well, how would these guys have played if they're in the white people league, or vice versa? Would Ted Williams been that good in the Negro League?
Nate:So yeah, man, that's yeah, that's a great article. I like this.
Shaun:Yeah, I like that Once again. Like you said, it's a shame that it took 100 years or so. But you know, hey, progress is progress. Played in 1943. So man he played during the World War II was a raging I think. He died like the same year Jackie Robinson actually made it into the majors, oh for real. As the first black guy, I think, or like right around there. So that shows you how long ago he was.
Nate:But yeah, they came. Yeah, and batting averages.
Shaun:Now the Negro League players make up half of the top 10 in batting average.
Nate:Yeah, a lot of angry people.
Shaun:Oh, so many angry people, so many Especially, and it kind of makes you wonder what's going to happen. If that's going to do anything to like value of sports memorabilia and stuff, I doubt it.
Nate:I kind of doubt it too. If anything, it might make it go up a little bit. Yeah, I mean, because I mean outside of like bragging rights or people getting mad about it because you know someone's going say, no, uh, I don't care what you say. Ty cobb is the best career batting average, right, you can't say anything else. That'll change my mind. You know, babe, ruth is the career slugging percentage. You know, that's it, that's all I'm saying. So I heard babe ruth was like I don't know, I, I don't know that much, that much about baseball, but I thought he, uh, he struck out more than he hit, but he would like, when he hit, it was, it was like, but he's, I heard he struck, he struck out more than he hit, but he would like, when he hit, it was, it was like, but he's, I heard he struck, he struck out a lot. Is that not accurate?
Shaun:Oh, actually I wouldn't be surprised. I do know that there are rumors that, since he was from an orphanage and stuff, that he was actually a mixed breed person. It's half white, half black.
Nate:Babe Ruth was.
Shaun:Yeah, and that's why he was so good at baseball.
Nate:Again, that's why he was so good at baseball. Again, that's the conspiracy theory. I don't know if it's true or not. Oh man, I didn't want all this, I just typed it in like well, I was like I asked how many batters, I just wanted to see how many times you struck out and they just like here, like from 1914, 1935, here's all the stats.
Shaun:Like I don't know what. I'm just thinking. A bunch of numbers. Apparently, the stat is Babe Ruth had more strikeouts than home runs hit, which is true, but basically Anybody who has ever played baseball is the same way. That makes sense. All the top 25 Hitters in home runs have struck out More than they've hit home runs.
Nate:Right because they're swinging for the fences.
Shaun:Yeah, exactly.
Nate:That sounds right.
Shaun:Honestly, I'd be willing to, actually. Well, I guess striking out is different than grounding out, so never mind. I was going to say everybody's probably struck out more than they've hit balls, because nobody really has an over batting percentage of 500.
Nate:Let's see yeah, he hit 714 home runs. Struck out about 13, 30 times home runs. Struck out about 13, 30 times. He walked 2062.
Shaun:Had John Goodman play him in a movie. So basically he struck one home run for every 1.48 strikeouts, the all-time person who struck out the most would be Richie Jackson.
Nate:Of course. Then there was Eddie Gatel. He's the smallest player to appear in a Major League Baseball game, eddie Gatelato, I think he only played one, he only played, so that almost feels like it could be like a novelty kind of thing yeah, he only played one game and it was um, I was just wondering, because I remember some heard some like story about someone really short, so they just always get balls. But yeah, this, this guy, he only played one game. That doesn't count.
Nate:I agree with you on that and of course and, of course, like my, my uh search criteria that I put on there my wife would be upset with. I was like because I didn't think I need no mode go I didn't think, little person until after I already typed in the other one gotcha.
Shaun:Well, you can always fall back on the. It's better than what our parents would have said about him yeah, I actually forgot about this.
Nate:Have you seen that tiktok video of the guy? He uh read. The title video shows michigan man with suspended license driving while joining zoom court hearing oh yeah, I saw that, oh my god, that was amazing I like the look on the judge's face when he's like are you driving right now?
Nate:well, it's the look of both and I really wish I saw the prosecutor's face like the. This dude he's just like fighting, laughing and the dude who I I like that. That amuses me. What amuses me more is the the guy who actually realized what he did.
Shaun:He's like you can see, there's a, there's a specific moment where you can see a click and it says like oh, yeah.
Nate:He's like are you driving? He's like, oh, I'm just, I'm pulling into my doctor's office like no man, I'm not driving, I'm parking. There's a difference yeah like, oh man, you just, you just messed up pretty bad and and that judge didn't go. Oh, oh, this is funny, we'll give it a pass. He's just like you're going to jail.
Shaun:Yeah, he did not look too amused by that.
Nate:Yeah it's just, oh man, he's like I don't know why he'd do that. Like, yeah, I can't think of a reason either it's called a lay whoops. Oh yeah, you know who else died this month? Roger corman. Not know that size of the lambs death race 2000 was amazing. Uh, oregon officials closed the entire coast to muscle harvesting. Do the shellfish poisoning? Have you heard that it's?
Shaun:closer to you.
Nate:Uh, actually, no, I haven't yeah, apparently they're like, there's a unprecedented outbreak of shellfish poisoning that's sticking at least 20 people. Which is it red tide or no? Apparently like, uh, it's just these of shellfish poisoning that's sick of at least 20 people. Is it red tide? No, apparently it's just. These shellfish actually have this paralytic venom and it's just normally. It's not a big deal, but it's just. It's become an issue, and so they had to close down the entire beach and they're not allowed to look for mussels anymore right now, because it's apparently it's pretty potent. If you get affected by potent, if you get, if you get affected by it, you get get ill within 30 to 60 minutes and there's no, there's nothing new for you. You just have to live through it.
Nate:Um, it's like shellfish poisoning yep like nose to the mouth, lips vomiting, diarrhea, shortness of breath and irregular heartbeats in severe cases. No, and it's called psp. Uh, not to be confused playstation portable right, like you're stuck, oh, I can't stop. In severe cases, it's called PSP PlayStation Portable Right Like you're stuck, oh I can't stop. I gotta look away from places. Portable.
Shaun:Actually, that is what Red Tide is, though is PSP, just so you know.
Nate:Okay, so yeah, and also it looks like Washington had to close some beaches too.
Shaun:Okay. So, yeah, if it's Red Tide, then I've heard of that. Okay, red tide, then I've heard of that. Okay, yeah, I didn't say it didn't say red tide, this article, so that's what? Yeah, it happens every few years. Yeah, it comes on those and they're like whatever you comes on news and they're just like, uh, yeah, don't eat shellfish, you you'll die. Yeah, it has to do with, like algae blooms off the coast and stuff.
Nate:I think it's one of those things that kind of happens as a cycle every few years okay, like I'm looking at this article, like they don't mention red tide on here at all, and so I guess maybe the person who wrote this article didn't doesn't know the fuck red red tide is yeah, yeah, but if you google uh psp, it'll call it red tide, okay yeah, so apparently it's a pretty bad and it tastes the worst. It's the worst it's been for.
Shaun:Um, this is one of the worst red tide is a popular, a natural population explosion of toxic microscopic plankton and so it will continue testing, but this particular one is shellfish, shellfish toxins I guess plankton are shellfish.
Nate:What the fuck are you talking about? Because, uh, my brother-in-law is allergic to shellfish and he can't have. You know, like, I know he's eating plankton, but you know that in the family of, uh, shrimp and whatnot. Yep, I've heard of red tie, but I guess it didn't put that together and this article doesn't mention red tie at all.
Shaun:So and maybe they thought it was like a racist term or something Like I can't post that, can I? That doesn't sound right. I think I heard my racist grandfather use that.
Nate:Isn't that roll, that's roll tide.
Shaun:Yep, and apparently, since it is just plankton that carry it, it's basically only shellfish, really, that get it.
Nate:Yeah so, but they've closed up a bunch of beaches over there in your neck of the woods.
Shaun:Lobster meat, crab, shrimp and most fin fish do not accumulate the toxin.
Nate:Yeah, for a second there. When I first read it I thought the mussels were doing it Like ah, the mussels, they're fighting back the story.
Shaun:So did you hear about Vince McMahon getting sued by that one lady for sexual trafficking and this, and that I didn't, and he's guilty? No, anyway, he's guilty. No, um, anyway, she's got the lawsuit going on vince mcmahon, but the government actually stepped in and said hey, we want you to hold off on this lawsuit because we have our own lawsuit coming through and we're investing in vince mcmahon for all sorts of bad stuff. So, uh, maybe we'll lump these two lawsuits together. So vince is kind of boned yeah, that didn't sound good.
Nate:Yeah, that didn't sound good at all. Yeah, I'm not a fan of this man, not even a little bit, but he's entertaining. I mean, over the years, yeah, I think the only thing I like about makes a man it's not even I like, it's just like the nostalgia factor. You know, like I remember I liked wwf when I was a kid, but you know, I even saw him when he was up there doing stuff like doing this goofy walk or whatever, and he got all jacked for some reason. Um, but now man, yeah, yeah, then I started paying attention.
Shaun:Villain though. So that's one reason I kind of like him. He acts as a good villain, which apparently isn't that much of a stretch for acting.
Nate:I think I started changing my mind about him when I saw that documentary about Bret Hart. He snuck in a recording device with Vince McMahon and basically said, okay, he's like, hey, I'm leaving this, I'm going to WCW. I understand, I can't be the champion anymore. Instead of me getting beat, can we be a draw or whatever? And Vince McMahon's like, yeah, no problem. And then during the match he gets pinned for a second. And Vince McMahon's like, call it. And so he made a move. It's like, ah, maybe Vince McMahon's a piece of shit. And then I started hearing all the other stories. I'm like, oh, okay, yeah, this guy's evil.
Shaun:So basically what you're saying is all Asians are alike. I like Hitler no-transcript.