Ever wondered what it would be like to survive two months adrift in the Pacific with just your loyal dog for company? Or considered the true-life horror lurking behind the skin suit of serial killer Ed Geen? This week’s Week-End Rundown is set to satisfy your curiosity, taking you on a whirlwind tour of history, sports, cinema and some truly remarkable stories.
Our journey begins in the past, uncovering Liberia's proclamation of independence and the formation of the FBI. We pay homage to the incomparable Helen Mirren and her incredible achievement of the American and British Triple Crowns of Acting, and then switch gears to dissect the tragic tale of Diane Shuler's fatal car accident. Switching gears, we move onto the basketball court to discuss the impact of Brony James' cardiac arrest on his career and the entire NBA. And if that was not enough, we even provide you with a hilarious debate on which would be the better pet - a Chihuahua or a kitten?
But that's not all. The third part of the episode takes you on a rollercoaster journey of survival and resilience, as we recount the miraculous rescue of an Australian sailor and his dog, adrift in the Pacific Ocean. Then, we delve into the world of TV and film as we examine the profound impact of the Hollywood Writers Strike on major productions like The Walking Dead, House of the Dragon, and Emily in Paris. If you’ve ever wondered about the possibilities of making money as an online creator during the strike, you’ll want to stay tuned to the end. This episode is bursting at the seams with compelling stories and thought-provoking discussions. Come, join us on this eye-opening adventure.
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Ever wondered what it would be like to survive two months adrift in the Pacific with just your loyal dog for company? Or considered the true-life horror lurking behind the skin suit of serial killer Ed Geen? This week’s Week-End Rundown is set to satisfy your curiosity, taking you on a whirlwind tour of history, sports, cinema and some truly remarkable stories.
Our journey begins in the past, uncovering Liberia's proclamation of independence and the formation of the FBI. We pay homage to the incomparable Helen Mirren and her incredible achievement of the American and British Triple Crowns of Acting, and then switch gears to dissect the tragic tale of Diane Shuler's fatal car accident. Switching gears, we move onto the basketball court to discuss the impact of Brony James' cardiac arrest on his career and the entire NBA. And if that was not enough, we even provide you with a hilarious debate on which would be the better pet - a Chihuahua or a kitten?
But that's not all. The third part of the episode takes you on a rollercoaster journey of survival and resilience, as we recount the miraculous rescue of an Australian sailor and his dog, adrift in the Pacific Ocean. Then, we delve into the world of TV and film as we examine the profound impact of the Hollywood Writers Strike on major productions like The Walking Dead, House of the Dragon, and Emily in Paris. If you’ve ever wondered about the possibilities of making money as an online creator during the strike, you’ll want to stay tuned to the end. This episode is bursting at the seams with compelling stories and thought-provoking discussions. Come, join us on this eye-opening adventure.
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One, two, three, four. Hey guys, what's up? I'm your host, Drew.
Speaker 2:And I'm your host, daniel. Welcome to another week-end, to another episode of the Week-End Rundown we're gonna hop right into today in history with July 26th. It's the day we're gonna do. And in 1847, liberia proclaimed its independence. The Republic of Liberia proclaims its independence formally a colony of the American Colonization Society.
Speaker 1:Where is Liberia To Africa? Okay.
Speaker 2:An organization created to return enslaved people to Africa. Oh, there it is. Liberia swiftly called upon the international community to recognize its sovereignty, varanity.
Speaker 1:Sovereignty.
Speaker 2:Yes, sovereignty, god. Britain became the first nation to do so, but the United States didn't recognize Liberian independence until 1862.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we just decided now. This is not how it works 1908, the FBI is founded. Us.
Speaker 2:Attorney General Charles Bonaparte creates a force of special agents within the Department of Justice, which eventually evolves into the Federal Bureau of Investigations FBI.
Speaker 1:They're listening right now.
Speaker 2:Bonaparte, frustrated at having to borrow secret service agents to investigate crimes, resolved that he needed his own investigators. Initially unnamed, Bonaparte's force became the Bureau of Investigation BOI in 1909, and then the FBI in 1935.
Speaker 1:All right, so they were the BOI back in the day.
Speaker 2:And he was actually the grand nephew of the French emperor.
Speaker 1:Which one like Napoleon Bonaparte? Yep, Wow, that's nuts.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so clearly. I was saying that last name wrong there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, once we found out, yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 2:It's crazy, helen Mirren is born in 1945.
Speaker 1:Not really sure who she is.
Speaker 2:Well, not either. So I'm trying to figure out why she is relevant to.
Speaker 1:Should I look her up? What's her name?
Speaker 2:Well, I'm gonna know a little bit about her, but her name's Helen Mirren.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Ilna Lydia Mirrenoff, later known as Helen Mirren, was born in London, england, on this day. After beginning her career as a stage actress, mirren went on to start in films like the Madness of King George in 94, gosford Park in 2001, and the Queen in 2006.
Speaker 1:I know this lady is she won the Oscar for Best. Actress, so she won an Oscar for Best Actress. Bro, it's way more than that. I looked into it and she is the only performer who's achieved both the American and British Triple Crowns of acting.
Speaker 2:Okay, so she's good, she's very good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dude, I looked her up and she's in a lot of movies, dude, a lot of movies.
Speaker 2:It says that she was in 1969's Age of Consent, which was her breakthrough movie role. It's kind of like a side note in here that it didn't want me to find, but yeah, this is saying that her first movie role was the Long Good Friday is what made her the breakthrough.
Speaker 1:But maybe that's in America.
Speaker 2:Okay, so today, in 1984, Ed Geen dies.
Speaker 1:His picture looks crazy. He's a madman isn't he?
Speaker 2:He died at the age of 77 in the Mendota Mental Health Institute in Wisconsin.
Speaker 1:So he was crazy.
Speaker 2:He's a madman. Geen spent years quietly grave, robbing and killing women in order to build a suit of human skin so that he could embody his mother.
Speaker 1:Oh, is that guy?
Speaker 2:Ed Geen's gruesome hobby was discovered after a local woman went missing in 1957 and police searched his home.
Speaker 1:That's morbid, as whoa dude 1957 is when they found him. Is that Buffalo Bob?
Speaker 2:That's gotta be who, that's gotta be what he's based on, right yeah?
Speaker 1:Like that seems pretty Buffalo Bob-ish.
Speaker 2:Very 2009,. Diane Shuler crashes on the Taconic Parkway. Diane Shuler crashes while driving the wrong way on New York's Taconic Parkway, killing all but one passenger. After going on a weekend camping trip with her children and nieces, diane packed up her minivan prepared to make the trip back home. A few hours into the trip, witnesses reported seeing a minivan driving aggressively and another reported seeing a woman vomiting next to her minivan on the side of the road. The minivan eventually made it onto the Taconic Parkway, where it sped down the wrong way for roughly two miles, only stopping when it collided head on with another car. Seven of the 11 people involved in the crash died.
Speaker 1:Jeez, I heard most of them were in their car too.
Speaker 2:And why is that name familiar?
Speaker 1:I just looked it up. It's literally just from that crash.
Speaker 2:That's it.
Speaker 1:That's all I could find.
Speaker 2:So is it like a mystery or some shit? Do we not know why she was vomiting and why she was like?
Speaker 1:So I guess she survived the crash, but then she killed herself.
Speaker 2:What it says right here, it says Diane Shuler who took she was one of the ones that survived and it wasn't gonna tell us that, God. Why is it without that information? It says Diane.
Speaker 1:Shuler, who took her own life in the lives of seven others after no, that could just mean that she died. Yours says that seven people died, right? Didn't your article say seven people died? Yeah, okay, so the math there is seven people were the seven others and then took her own life.
Speaker 2:That's how it's worked. That was 11 people that said in the accident.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:It said there were 11 people in the accident. Seven of the 11 died.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then in the accident seven died, right, and this said, who took her own life in seven others were the seven you said died. That's all I'm saying. To me it's implied that she killed herself.
Speaker 2:Oh no, they said eight of the people. I don't know what it said. On my site this said eight when I looked it up on this.
Speaker 1:The New York Times was implying that she took her own life.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Damn super drunk with the kids in the car. Not a good look, man, Not a good look.
Speaker 2:So I think they're saying that she committed suicide with everybody in the car. Maybe, but she Like, she was like this is how it's gonna happen, which is an awful way to do that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, not a good time.
Speaker 2:I mean, she couldn't even pick like a tree. I don't think she really did that, like by herself. I think she was just drunk man. Yeah, I guess I think that's it. People don't do that when they're high.
Speaker 1:No, but they try to play it off like you fall asleep or some shit, which ain't true.
Speaker 2:I've never fell asleep while driving, whether I was high or drunk or anything.
Speaker 1:Was that everything this day in history? That was it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, that was the whole rundown.
Speaker 1:That was a weird little ending to that this day in history. That was a weird this day in history.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel like they were a lot of no-name people, but I guess the people that I thought were no-name people turned out to be somebodies, Except for this lady. She was just a piece of shit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for sure, dude. So do you have anything cool happen this weekend? I know we're doing this a little late here.
Speaker 2:My wife went on a vacation.
Speaker 1:Oh, you got some alone time.
Speaker 2:Yes, I was like oh, this is awesome, I'm going to just grind out some games and put the kids to bed early.
Speaker 1:And just sleep a lot.
Speaker 2:I fucking fell asleep, bro. It sucked Like I fell asleep. I slept like the whole time.
Speaker 1:It was awful.
Speaker 2:I'm just going to Wasted my whole, you know like night.
Speaker 1:Yup, just trying to sleep.
Speaker 2:I wasn't trying to sleep, it's the thing. So yeah, no, nothing exciting happened. I was sleeping.
Speaker 1:Just not hearing stuff, just not hearing your phone and just sleeping.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I think I set my alarm too.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because I knew I was going to fucking fall asleep.
Speaker 1:Well, shit like that happens, I guess Doesn't matter.
Speaker 2:I just hate power naps.
Speaker 1:Sometimes your body needs to like rest, you know.
Speaker 2:Well, I like hate power naps because I heard like a sleep cycle takes like 70 to 90 minutes, and so then whenever I set my alarm, it wakes me up and I consciously have to snooze it, and then, when I'm conscious and I fall back asleep for a couple minutes until my fucking snooze goes back off, it like restarts a sleep cycle, so it never really actually helps.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So I'm just always you do that all night and fucking wake up tired. So whenever I fall asleep at 6 o'clock and I set my time, it kind of screws me like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean I get that I like to take power naps, mostly because I like to like I don't know what I'm trying to say Like I take power naps to supplement. I'm already sleeping enough, you know. But how long are your power naps? Just like 15, 20 minutes.
Speaker 2:See you, gotta be more.
Speaker 1:I just like it like that dude, I don't know. I just think that that's better.
Speaker 2:It's neuroscience.
Speaker 1:What do you mean?
Speaker 2:Like neuroscience. That's what the study is.
Speaker 1:It's like bad for me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, scientists have realized that whenever you fall asleep, you start a sleep cycle, and a sleep cycle runs 70 to 95 minutes.
Speaker 1:So you got to sleep for an hour and a half every time.
Speaker 2:At least 70 minutes yeah.
Speaker 1:That sucks.
Speaker 2:That's why you'll wake up more tired.
Speaker 1:Unless you sleep a whole hour.
Speaker 2:Unless, you sleep for 70 to 95 minutes.
Speaker 1:So yeah, it's basically just over an hour. That's weird, that's good to know, I guess.
Speaker 2:Imagine you sleep for fucking like 77 minutes and your sleep cycle was actually supposed to be like 79. You wake up and you're just like oh, I'm so fucking tired.
Speaker 1:I'm so close.
Speaker 2:So make it 95.
Speaker 1:You think your body would be like disrespected by two minutes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, It'd be like this is awful.
Speaker 1:And you think it's worse than not sleeping at all. I don't know, I don't think that's as bad as you think it is Like 95 minutes is what you need. The whole 90.
Speaker 2:Write it down, book it. You're taking naps.
Speaker 1:95 minutes, the whole 95 minutes.
Speaker 2:I know we're adults and it's tough to sleep for 95 minutes. But if you love yourself, 95 minutes 95. And don't hit the snooze button, because when you hit the snooze button you wake up. You fall back asleep in 95 minutes.
Speaker 1:I hate that snooze button man.
Speaker 2:Fucking snooze.
Speaker 1:It's terrible.
Speaker 2:So what happened for your weekend?
Speaker 1:I did a comedy show and I went to a comedy show in the same night. That was cool On Friday.
Speaker 2:Was that the what's that? What was the comedian that you saw? What was his name?
Speaker 1:Comrade Trip.
Speaker 2:And you did a show that same night.
Speaker 1:Yeah, in St Pete Beach.
Speaker 2:Where he had performed.
Speaker 1:No, it was another place down the road Like 20 minutes later Did he come and check it out. No, cause he was busy like being a big comedian.
Speaker 2:Did you tell him you had a show?
Speaker 1:No, I didn't know that I was gonna go on. It wasn't like I knew I was gonna do it, you know, and how did?
Speaker 2:you do.
Speaker 1:There's only five people there, dude, and it was 12, 25 or something in the morning and one lady was like giggling and a couple people like chuckled at, like my punch lines, but it was like it's hard when there's five people in the room and they're all like zombified out and one of them's your friend you know what I'm saying. Recording you. Who's heard all your jokes? You know, Like one time he laughed because no one laughed at my joke that, like you know, my Tom Brady joke.
Speaker 1:That joke's not a bad joke, and nobody even got it.
Speaker 2:But you need a room. You need a room, Nobody even got it, bro.
Speaker 1:Five people isn't enough. I mean it is you gotta go up there and do it.
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, you gotta go do it.
Speaker 1:but I'm just saying, and I was like trying to, I was like riffing it a little bit, you know, like just making stuff up and going off other things and going off script, a little bit like getting a couple giggles and stuff. But it was just rough and I wanted to leave a lot, but I just reminded myself don't leave, just stay, just stay, just finish this show.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just finish it up, fuck it. Yeah, I'm not gonna see those five people ever again. Oh, the one of them was my buddy.
Speaker 1:And the other guy. One of the other guys was remember the cat guy at my oh.
Speaker 2:God yeah, did he go up?
Speaker 1:Yeah, don't, was he there with you. Don't hate yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm not hating.
Speaker 1:I'm just you didn't like his cat performance. He was not a cat performer this time. He swallowed a sword.
Speaker 2:That's much cooler. It was not. Why didn't he do that?
Speaker 1:Well, I don't know why he didn't do that, but the problem is that this time, when he was doing it, the club owner came in two times, steering him over the set and told him to swallow the sword again.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, that's some dope shit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but he like actually had jokes to tell and stuff and he kept interrupting him.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that sucks.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean he was funny, he had some like good content, but I just didn't like the whole cat gimmick.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, that was just the thing he was trying to guess and I found out from him that he does like clean comedian stuff at colleges and makes like the denaro. And I saw a video of him juggling on the race field like pregame and like during the seventh inning stretch.
Speaker 2:I mean he definitely, but all of his comment would comment, or like I'm sorry, all of his content was related to like cats or something like that.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that whole bit was a cat.
Speaker 2:It was all cat related and I mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you had to like cats. I'm not even a cat person. Neither bro. No, not a cat person, I get it yeah.
Speaker 2:They're the only animal that like domesticated themselves.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they kinda suck.
Speaker 2:They like mimic baby's cries. Did you know?
Speaker 1:that I knew that they tried to like make us feel bad, but I also know that they suck really bad, so I don't really wanna talk about them on our podcast.
Speaker 2:He said fuck the cats. You heard it first.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you guys wanna hear about cats on our podcast, go listen to a fucking podcast about cats.
Speaker 2:Yeah, internet loves cats?
Speaker 1:Yeah, not us. They love them, bro, yeah maybe we won't be liked cause I said that, but guess, who doesn't give a shit about cats?
Speaker 2:More than not liked People like hunt people down for that shit.
Speaker 1:Well, they're gonna think you're a cat killer. You should make it clear there you go. You should make it clear but I don't give a fuck about a cat.
Speaker 2:But if one was running across the road, you would. I would not run it over, you would stop exactly, absolutely, but if you said we don't hate cats.
Speaker 1:Choose right now you keep your dog or 16 other people keep their cats. I'm keeping my dog.
Speaker 2:What if somebody said you keep your dog, or 16 other people keep their dogs?
Speaker 1:Do I know these people?
Speaker 2:Exactly. That's a fucking horrible analogy right there All right.
Speaker 1:If they said keep this dog or every other cat in the world is gone, I'd be like sick awesome.
Speaker 2:All right, how about they said that, but with dogs?
Speaker 1:Again. I'd shoot them in their face.
Speaker 2:You're picking your dog yeah.
Speaker 1:No, bro, they're not allowed to make that your dog doesn't compare a cat to a dog. I will, john, that you already love, All right. Well then, if they said, this random dog over here, this random cat over here, I'd be like, is it a kitten or a cat?
Speaker 2:Oh, and now there's a. Okay, it's a kitten.
Speaker 1:It's a kitten in an eight year old dog. How cute is a eight year old dog. What kind of dog is it?
Speaker 2:Chihuahua.
Speaker 1:Like is it missing teeth? And like it has a dumb dopey face.
Speaker 2:It's got at least one tooth On the bottom on its under bite.
Speaker 1:That'll be hard to choose Cause. Honestly, fuck them cats. Wait, does the Chihuahua bite?
Speaker 2:Chihuahua bites.
Speaker 1:Oh, I can't take the Chihuahua.
Speaker 2:Chihuahua bites Cat, bites Cats claws and bites Curve ball.
Speaker 1:It's already a cat, oh no well the cat and the kitten bites. You know what I might just?
Speaker 2:Cute little bites, but they're gonna be mean. He's getting vicious. They're sharp.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the cute bites turn into mean bites.
Speaker 2:It's up to you, man. Which one are you keeping? You're gonna kill a baby cat, first of all.
Speaker 1:Why do I have to kill an old Chihuahua? You know what I'm gonna tell him. You make the choice that I want to.
Speaker 2:You're the one that started this whole thing.
Speaker 1:No, I just said, if somebody made me choose, and what make can you choose? I don't need either of those animals.
Speaker 2:So you're getting euthanized in both.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's their choice. You heard it first.
Speaker 2:Drew's euthanized in everybody's animals.
Speaker 1:That's not true at all. They both bite me.
Speaker 2:I feel like that's a lawsuit waiting to happen, he's got out of control quickly.
Speaker 1:Do you want to get a?
Speaker 2:lawsuit. No, so I'm not going to euthanize people's pets.
Speaker 1:Not for the. I didn't say anyone was euthanized in a pet. I just said don't make me choose my dog or anything else.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly your dog. That was the whole point of it. Was that your dog versus a random cat? Obviously, it's never going to be a good example of Cats are terrible.
Speaker 1:That was my point, my point, exactly All right, do you got an article? I have so many articles. So many Well we're going to start with the weirdest news, which actually I think it's good news. It's that Brony James is stable and out of ICU following his cardiac arrest.
Speaker 2:I think the biggest question now is what does LeBron James do? Does he continue to play basketball in anticipation of Brony James playing in the NBA? Does Brony James even get to the NBA now? Or does LeBron James just decide I'm hanging the shoes up to help my son because he's had some sort of cardiac issues?
Speaker 1:All they basically said was that like, oh, he had a cardiac arrest and medical staff was able to treat him and he's in the hospital and now he's in stable condition and he no longer needs to be in the ICU. We respect that. You have privacy for the James family. I have no privacy for them. I want to know everything right now, please.
Speaker 2:I mean, I think it's crazy Open up.
Speaker 1:How old is this kid again?
Speaker 2:He's like 18?
Speaker 1:18.
Speaker 2:18, cardiac arrest. I mean it's not a good sign for a future in the NBA. I'm not saying it's impossible. No, it's not not impossible.
Speaker 1:But that's like a bad, like recipe, like moving forward man. It's like cardiac arrest caused up to 40, I'm sorry, 450,000 deaths a year in the US alone. When I saw it I didn't even believe it.
Speaker 2:It's different from a heart attack which occurs because of an artery blockage.
Speaker 1:This is just the thing that's going on. It's like a blockage. This is just the thing where, like your heart just stops.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I saw it on like a meme or some shit. It looked like a meme.
Speaker 1:See, I told you, bro, it says Damar Hamlin prayers to Brani and the James family as well. Here for you guys, like you have been for me my entire process.
Speaker 2:Damar Hamlin, though his was different. He didn't have yeah, he didn't have like a heart failure because like something happened in his body. His heart failure happened because he got hit at like the perfect angle. Well, wasn't it like?
Speaker 1:back in the 80s or some shit, or 70s, when, like they're really tall basketball players, they didn't know why they just dropped dead and that was probably just cardiac arrest because they're so big.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You're running around like that, your body's like stop, just stop.
Speaker 2:I mean, I don't remember when that was like an epidemic. If that was an epidemic in the NBA, then they definitely swept it under the rug.
Speaker 1:I saw some basketball thing about it where it was just like they didn't always die, but a lot of them were just going down, man.
Speaker 2:I feel like it's usually college kids that I see in basketball that happens to.
Speaker 1:Probably at this stage, because they're probably a lot more athletic and have better trainers than they did in the 80s.
Speaker 2:You probably don't understand their bodies like the other athletes. Do you know? Everyone wants to be Kobe. Yeah, Some people are working for it.
Speaker 1:It works super hard. Yeah, and not everyone can be Steph Curry bro. Some people are Shaq you know, and you need to just eat a cheeseburger and watch a movie, bro.
Speaker 2:That's what you're going to do to prepare for this next game.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dude. I'm just glad the kids are okay, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, for sure it's scary.
Speaker 1:You're a tall person. You're not overly stupidly tall and I don't think I'm overly stupidly tall, but I think I'm right at the cusp of it. People taller than us like I feel for them when they have problems in their body. You know, it's like I get it my knees already hurt my joints already hurt.
Speaker 2:You got to think how much pressure is on this kid.
Speaker 1:To be the best, to be the absolute best.
Speaker 2:That's not fair, dude. I mean, he does it to himself. I'm sure you got to think whenever he's running, whenever he feels his heart absolutely just pounding out of his chest and he's like I need to take a break.
Speaker 1:He doesn't.
Speaker 2:I don't think my dad can take a break. Well, your dad's a physical specimen.
Speaker 1:Right, your mom's genes could have honestly mucked you up. You don't know.
Speaker 2:Exactly. I don't think anyone can compare to him in this day and age, right now. So, yeah, you wish him the best, but I hope in the future he doesn't If you push himself or whatever it is that caused this issue, you know. Yeah, man.
Speaker 1:I just hope he's going to be okay. That's all I'm trying to say. That's pretty much it for that article, though I just wanted to bring that up because I feel like it's the news you know.
Speaker 2:That's definitely the top of the news today.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dude, so what else you got?
Speaker 2:All right. So I got a man that went temporarily blind while attempting a 100-hour crying marathon. A Nigerian man who's also a comedian and a content creator, Allegedly lost his sight for about 45 minutes after crying for hours in an attempt to cry for 100 hours, so he's been crying himself blind. And set a world record for the longest time, crying for the next 10 minutes.
Speaker 1:You guys, you know now, it's not touching yourself that makes you blind.
Speaker 2:No 45 minutes of crying and it'll fight. I know he lost it for 45 minutes. Hold on how long was he crying?
Speaker 2:He probably kept crying. Temu Daniel, who goes by 237 Town Crier on Instagram, recently lived up to his nickname by attempting a rather unusual world record crying continuously for 100 hours. The young Nigerian began his cryathon on July 9th, but was forced to suspend his crying only six hours later due to some unforeseen side effects. Apparently, forcing himself to cry for hours nonstop caused Daniel to experience headaches, puffed eyes and a generally swollen face. Ugh, however, the most worrying symptom was partial blindness, which allegedly lasted for about 45 minutes.
Speaker 1:His face does look very poofy there.
Speaker 2:It is a poofy looking face and he only got six hours.
Speaker 2:I had to strategize and reduce my wailing the online entertainer told the BBC, adding that he didn't want to let his speed bump stop him from achieving his goal Wow. However, it's unclear whether he actually completed the 100 hours of continuous crying, as the few clips of the attempt posted on Instagram show the timer at only two hours and nine minutes and at five hours and 54 minutes respectively. The African Town Crier posted a poster of his record attempt on Instagram earlier this month, which featured the Guinness records. In reality, he never bothered contacting Guinness about his unusual crime marathon.
Speaker 2:Wow and perhaps it was for the best, as the famous organization actually reacted to his record attempt, clarifying that they wouldn't have monitored such a record attempt anyway.
Speaker 1:To like sorry, we wouldn't have done that for you.
Speaker 2:Just to quell some recent rumors, we wouldn't have even monitored a record for the longest crying marathon. Guinness tweeted.
Speaker 1:Just trying to fake it till you make it.
Speaker 2:Yep, he got some attention for it.
Speaker 1:And he was blind for a minute, which seems silly but also fun. We now know a way a human can make himself partially blind.
Speaker 2:Yeah. It's a power we have by crying too much.
Speaker 1:That's pretty stupid. People do stupid things. We're learning on this show. People do lots of stupid things.
Speaker 2:A lot of stupid things.
Speaker 1:I got a pretty stupid thing this person did on my next article. If you don't have anything else on that one, that one's all finished up. So this is a girl keeps cutting the power for her entire home village to meet her secret lover under the cover of darkness.
Speaker 2:She can't do a corner of the village.
Speaker 1:It's got to be the whole village because she's a young girl from the Indian state of Bihar. Ooh, I don't know if I said that right. She keeps cutting the power for the entire village so she can meet a boy from a rival village without anyone seeing them together.
Speaker 2:I mean there's a good chance that all the power runs on like one switch.
Speaker 1:Somebody knows. Now it says yeah, probably it says the people of Beta, a village in Bihar's west Kampahara district. Wow, I suck. Had been on edge for over a week due to the unusual power outages that seem to occur almost every night. The total darkness created perfect opportunities for thieves, so people appealed for the electric company to fix everything, basically. But the representatives had no problem because they didn't have any reports of an infrastructure issue. They didn't know what was causing it.
Speaker 2:How cool would it have been if, like she was meeting somebody of a rival village and then someone from a third village found out about it and like black nails them.
Speaker 1:And it's like hey, like, where are we here? Like we won't tell anybody, but you gotta give us all your towns water.
Speaker 2:Everything, because water's hard to come by here and you give us all your food.
Speaker 1:Right, it says us. Some of the locals stood and watched and caught the young couple meeting under a cover of darkness. It turned out that the local girl, perteri Kumari, had fallen in love with a fuck Ram Ram Raju Kumar, a young man from a rival village. Damn, dude, Sounded decent Ah yeah, after the third stutter she kept cutting the powers to the whole village just so that she can continue her secret love affair.
Speaker 2:She went to the extremes.
Speaker 1:So the only reason they even found out was because, when she'd cut off the power, a bunch of people were stealing shit.
Speaker 2:Oh, damn yeah, so they got narked?
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, because they were like, hey, we're getting through a lot of thefts, so they had to find out why I was going. Bye, bye.
Speaker 2:Nobody cared until people started. See, that's the difference.
Speaker 1:Damn dude. It says a viral video has been found of the Indian people, the social media kind of like yelling at her and the young boy like tried to defend her and like random people like tried to beat him with like some land landed a few stick blows on him.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God yeah.
Speaker 1:It says he managed to get away and then took his revenge on the assailants, with the help of friends from his own village. Took revenge and it says this video is age restricted on YouTube.
Speaker 2:Bro, they are gangsters over there, I swear to God.
Speaker 1:In the end, in order to avoid further violence and power outages, the people of the two villages decided that the young couples shouldn't marry, so their wedding was made official at a local temple. Dude, they're like how do we, how do we stop the straight gang violence? Just thought we'd get married.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you, if you thought your upbringing was tough and you're not from fucking Africa or India, or India, that's where this was. India.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, either one Pretty, both pretty rough.
Speaker 2:Yeah, go fuck yourself.
Speaker 1:Seriously.
Speaker 2:I used to think.
Speaker 1:I used to think like oh man, we're lower middle class.
Speaker 2:Bro, when you get beat because you're from a rival village fucking rival village. Why'd they beat you Not like like here it's like oh, they beat me because I was from the other neighborhood, but Miss Connie was nice, she ran him off. No, no one's helping you from the rival fucking village.
Speaker 1:The grandmother is hitting you too, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's a rival village.
Speaker 1:This is like the entire village yeah.
Speaker 2:This is a generational fucking problem.
Speaker 1:Right man, that is crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm glad I don't live over on they do like public beatings over there, Like if you get caught stealing. I've seen like the whole neighborhood's like come out.
Speaker 1:Listen, man, their crime rate. Their crime rates are probably way farther down than ours.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would want to steal anything.
Speaker 1:You, you got anything else.
Speaker 2:I got one more and I think it is the best. Well, the most mind boggling one.
Speaker 1:I've got one that's like not really crazy weird news. It's like something I kind of wanted to talk about, but all right.
Speaker 2:Well, here should.
Speaker 1:I start yeah, do your two.
Speaker 2:All right, this one is a sailor and his dog miraculous. He rescued after two months adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 1:Oh wait, this is that dude that just like randomly, like he was like um deserted on his boat or some shit right, yeah. There's like a video of it.
Speaker 2:An Australian sailor and his loyal dog were recently rescued after surviving two months adrift in the Pacific Ocean by eating raw fish and drinking rainwater. 54 year old Tim Shaddick and his dog Bella left Mexico for French Polynesia back in April, but a few weeks into their 6,000 kilometer journey, tim's catamaran was severely damaged in a storm.
Speaker 1:He's big up, just a little bit bro.
Speaker 2:And they were left with no way to sail. The storm also knocked out all the electronics, so the Sydney based man had no way of contacting anyone for help or even cooking his supplies.
Speaker 1:Oh, I couldn't even cook.
Speaker 2:Yep. The last time Shaddick saw dry land was the early May, as he sailed out of the Sea of Cortez and into the Pacific during a full moon. He and his K9 have been drifting in the Pacific ever since, taking shelter from the sun under a canopy, eating raw fish and drinking rainwater.
Speaker 1:Damn, his dog is alive.
Speaker 2:The picture literally looks like something from a movie set.
Speaker 1:Literally looks like castaway man yeah.
Speaker 2:I've been through a very difficult ordeal at sea and I'm just needing rest and good food because I've been alone at sea for a long time. Tim Shaddick said after being rescued.
Speaker 1:He's probably halfway insane.
Speaker 2:I've not had enough food for a long time. I have very good medicine. I'm being looked after very well.
Speaker 1:He's probably on fucking morphing. When you stalked him.
Speaker 2:Asked why he set out in April from Mexico's Baja Peninsula to cross the Pacific Ocean to French Polynesia, the Australian sailor could not answer clearly. He just said he loved sailing and the people of the sea. As for how he spent his time during the two months at sea, he said he stayed occupied by fixing various things on the boat and occasionally going into the water for a swim. When he spotted a tuna boats helicopter flying in the distance, it was the first sign of humans he had seen in three months. Luckily, the helicopter spotted him as well and after the pilot threw him a drink he flew away, only to return with a speed boat from the Maria Delia fishing vessel.
Speaker 1:Nice.
Speaker 2:The two castaways were reportedly in a precarious state and in need of medical attention.
Speaker 1:Dang man, he looks not so.
Speaker 2:Bella, the catamaran's canine passenger, was an instant hit with the crew of the Maria Delia. Interestingly, Tim Shaddick had picked her up while traveling through Mexico as, despite his attempts to find her home, she kept following him everywhere, Even during their rescue. Bella refused to leave the boat before her human companion left. Tim Shaddick said that he is eager to return to his family in Australia, but mentioned that Bella would not be going with him.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's fucked.
Speaker 2:Shaddick said one of the crew members of the Maria Delia will adopt her To the captain and fishing company that saved my life. I'm just so grateful I'm alive and I don't really think I'd make it, shaddick said after being found by chance more than 2,000 kilometers from the nearest coast. His gratitude is more than understandable.
Speaker 1:Dude, can I say a thing? I don't understand how you don't take the dog with you. If you didn't, you'd redoubt there for three months.
Speaker 2:So what I read was when I looked into it, because I was like there's got to be a reason why I wouldn't take the dog, and it is that in Australia you're not allowed to bring animals from certain countries.
Speaker 1:Mexico and.
Speaker 2:Mexico is one of those countries and he found the dog while he was in Mexico and took it on the boat with him.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry they should make an exception for a dude that had an animal he bonded with at sea. He probably would have died if not for that thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's not cool.
Speaker 2:But he's like an Australian dude, so he's just like yeah, you know, whatever, it's just an animal. Yeah, it's an animal. We kill him all the time. Yeah right, I'm going to go back to my I have some kangaroos at home.
Speaker 1:I'm going to fucking hang out with that's fucked, though, man. That just goes back to earlier, like how attached we are to our animals, and these like I said he didn't even want the dog.
Speaker 2:The dog just kept following us.
Speaker 1:These bushmen are just like whatever yeah.
Speaker 2:He's like dog kept following me, so I felt like I had to keep it alive when we were on the boat. I was like fuck, I let this thing on here. This is half my fucking water.
Speaker 1:Just because he doesn't treat it like we do here doesn't mean he didn't care about it.
Speaker 2:He's like I told you to stay. That's pretty cool, though I said stay on the dock, that's pretty nuts man.
Speaker 1:I don't think I can make it that long and fucking see I'd die probably.
Speaker 2:I like to think I could and I'll say I could, but I don't know that I would. I wouldn't know until I did that, it was in that situation.
Speaker 1:Yeah man, Two months or three months without seeing people and two months without Pat, that's just a long time.
Speaker 2:I mean just for us, like getting accustomed to not having a phone would be tough.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dude, I try to not use my phone. For the first hour I'm awake and it's impossible. Not using my phone during the podcast is probably one of the only times I don't use my phone, which is awesome. Yeah, I don't use my phone, but we're technically on our computer, so same shit.
Speaker 2:Exactly, but it's for the podcast.
Speaker 1:So you want to hear my last article.
Speaker 2:We got one more. Let's hear it.
Speaker 1:So all the shows that are impacted by the writer and actors strikes. So far as of eight days ago, you know about the writer and actor strike. I heard, there's this crazy thing going on about the 2023 writer's Guild of America strike, how it like is messing up Hollywood. This happened before a long time ago. I don't know if you remember like I think it was when I was in high school or right after.
Speaker 2:I don't remember it, but yeah it messed everything up.
Speaker 1:I read about this one a little bit, so everything has pretty much gotten all messed up. You know what I'm saying. It says that it upended Hollywood production plans in 2023 or 2022, 2023 TV season coming to a close. When the strike began. Those were in seasons that weren't affected, but as the final episodes of the seasons were set to air, renewed shows were set to convene their writers rooms for upcoming seasons, and this is where the effects are going to probably come into play here. I guess the Rings of Power, which is an Amazon show the season two was nearly done when the strike like literally made it. You know what I'm saying. End like probably different. House of the Dragon season two they just started their production. That one is pretty much not related to that, so that one's good. It's basically saying AMC shows like the Various Walking Dead shows, this interview with the Vampire show, those shows won't be going on. 1923, season two, which is on NBC, isn't going to go on until after the strike. Abbott Elementary season three isn't going to go on.
Speaker 2:It's basically just yeah man, a lot of shows.
Speaker 1:No American dad season 20. No American horror story season 12. Oh man.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Andor season two no big mouth, final season.
Speaker 2:How about the main Allurean? Can we get another one of those?
Speaker 1:Blade, the movie that's been going on for so long, like the rehash of Blade, you know that's being paused. The new Blade Runner movies being paused, so many affected. Cobra Kai, final season, dare, double, born again season. Who cares about the daytime Emmy awards? Duster, whatever that is. Emily in Paris, season four If you're a girl and you like whatever that is, I don't know why I'm typecasting it to just women, but I don't know what it is. That's probably why you for your season three, evil, season four evil sounds metal. I kind of want to watch that show. Fbi, most wanted season four. Family guy, season 22 on hold. Good Omen, season two. There's a lot of shows man Hacks, season three, a night of the seven kingdoms, the hedge night. Also. The dragon, season two. Interview with the vampire, season two. Jeopardy, season 39 late night talk shows aren't going to be on.
Speaker 2:That's nuts man.
Speaker 1:Bro, it's literally. I think everything, I think everything. I think TV is going to stop. I think streaming is going to be the only thing in sports. Den and it is going to be killing it. Guys, we're going to say it right now. We promised during football season we will not talk about football or fantasy football on our podcast. We're saying it now.
Speaker 2:As long as the Lions win, I will give an ode to them Every podcast.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, the Lions win, that's a different thing. But we're not going to have long-winded things, it's going to be a quick and out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it can be quick and out.
Speaker 1:Bro, this list is still going on.
Speaker 2:Dude, so that just kind of reminded me that I was listening to this podcast.
Speaker 1:Saturday Night Live. Bro is pausing it's nuts.
Speaker 2:It's never paused dude, I was listening to this podcast.
Speaker 1:Stranger Things no.
Speaker 2:I was talking about this movie, script for this movie A Tuck, which is like a book or something like that. A Tuck, yeah, it's like a book or something like that. But so originally the person who agreed to lead it and be the starting role was Jim Belushi, and then he died before filming. So then John Candy decided he would take the role.
Speaker 1:He died right.
Speaker 2:He died before filming, while he had taken the role.
Speaker 1:I've heard of this.
Speaker 2:And then Chris Farley said he would take the role, and then he died before filming while he was starting the role. Yeah, so it's just let's go. They've never made it since then.
Speaker 1:They just decided it's a cursed movie.
Speaker 2:They've decided the film is cursed. What's the screenplay? Do we?
Speaker 1:find it. Should we read it, or is that scary?
Speaker 2:I don't know. I believe it's a book.
Speaker 1:I don't. I'm scared to read it.
Speaker 2:I hear it has nothing to do with like anything scary. They said like it's not.
Speaker 1:So how does the writer's strength make you think of that?
Speaker 2:I don't know, because it had something to do with, like, pop culture and this.
Speaker 1:You know what I think, this, you know what I think. The writer's strike is opening up right now. What, basically? If there's no, now is the time if anyone.
Speaker 2:Wants to be an actor.
Speaker 1:If anyone wants to put out content online and make money whenever that stuff's down, now is the time to do it and, like Daniel said, sure, like acting is one way, but I think if you want to be a cartoonist, make your own online cartoon and post it like ads for it on TikTok and put it on YouTube.
Speaker 2:I mean think, if you're a freaking scab actor, like doing blade, you think they'd fucking pay you like they.
Speaker 1:Well, that's what the whole strike is about. Is that, like, the lowest paid person in Disney makes like 400 times less than what the CEO makes. You know what I'm saying. And like the argument that the Disney CEO is making is like, oh, back in the 70s and 80s and the writer's strike, no one like even really had the grounds to stand on, and it's like, well, back then the lowest paid employee was making 25 times like less than what the CEO was making, not 400 times, you know.
Speaker 2:So the actors aren't even fighting for themselves.
Speaker 1:The actors are fighting for basically the writers and the low paid people.
Speaker 2:That's good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the people like that stage hands, the. It's basically. It's basically the writers and the screenplay people Cause say, you and me write a screenplay and they buy it and we're not known. They're gonna buy it from us for like $80,000 and that move is gonna make them millions, millions of dollars. Dude, cause they're gonna have Ryan Gosling in it and fucking Ryan Reynolds and they're gonna be jerking each other off because our script is gonna be some weird gay thing and everyone's gonna love it and-.
Speaker 2:I'm not saying I have gay stuff in my script.
Speaker 1:But I'm just saying, maybe not you and me, but anyone can do whatever they want, Maybe lesbian stuff not gay stuff, all right. There's a big difference. Big difference, big difference. But my point is is that like you write a script like Broke Back Mountain, like I don't know who wrote that script, but like I'm sure if it wasn't somebody who was like a well-known writer, they were like here's $35,000.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying? They pay those two actors to do it, they make a shitload of money off it from women and then, like they filmed it in like Colorado Mountainside for like $3 million. That's why I got denying.
Speaker 2:They're like we want this for 35. You say no. You do that Sylvester Stallone move, you know, Do it yourself. End up fucking making the move by yourself, starring in it, yourself becoming a fucking famous actor.
Speaker 1:And still having the turtles.
Speaker 2:Being on a commercial where you're on Mount Rushmore, and I fucking see it every time I'm on YouTube. Oh, adrian, every time, dude.
Speaker 1:Dude, you know I talked about that ayahuasca retreat and now my phone's always like come to our retreat, sign your life away.
Speaker 2:Ayahuasca.
Speaker 1:Dude, can you imagine if any other drug was like we'll give it to you If you pay us a lot of money, but then you sign up for a cult? No one would do that.
Speaker 2:I feel like beer does it Right, Like beer is just always like oh, if you sign up for our program and get all of our extra points, you know.
Speaker 1:All you gotta do is With the old school.
Speaker 2:Marlboro Miles yeah, exactly that's part of that cult life, yeah that is like.
Speaker 1:But that's like the secret cult life of like they're smart enough to know. Like if we get them dialed into the money savings and make them think they're saving money even though our shit's overpriced, they'll be here forever.
Speaker 2:First packs free.
Speaker 1:The ayahuasca, literally, is like you have to sign this form that says you're part of our group for life, and I'm like, no, I'm not doing it. Oh yeah, no, that sounds hairy. That's super cult, am I allowed?
Speaker 2:to leave.
Speaker 1:No, it sounds like I'm signing up for Scientology, where they let me do ayahuasca one time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I'm not joining your fucking weirdo group.
Speaker 1:Nah, bro, that's not what I'm about.
Speaker 2:I'm not drinking the punch? I don't want any punch, I'm not listening to the loud speaker. I'm bringing a gun.
Speaker 1:Definitely bringing a gun.
Speaker 2:And I don't know if I'm allowed to take ayahuasca when I have a loaded pistol in my pocket, but we're gonna try it.
Speaker 1:For sure. I mean, I wouldn't try the ayahuasca with the pistol in my pocket, but-.
Speaker 2:Why not I'm gonna do you?
Speaker 1:I'm pretty sure you'd be tripping ballsack.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, if somebody tried to take my wallet Dude, they do the toad licking things in Mexico I'm pretty sure that you give-.
Speaker 1:You take all your belongings. You go in with just clothes.
Speaker 2:Well, they do, toad licking things in Mexico. And so imagine you have to travel, so you're traveling to this place. You have to have a wallet. There's no way you don't have your fucking wallet with something on you. And then you go to this religious place to do this toad licking thing. There's like 40 of you. You all fucking lick toads. There's two chaperones and imagine if they just ran your pockets. Or imagine if the two chaperones got fucking robbed.
Speaker 1:That's how they and then they robbed all of you. That's how this resort is. They literally take all your belongings. They could take your shit.
Speaker 2:Like easy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean Fuck that.
Speaker 2:I trust none of you.
Speaker 1:You would've. Well, you can also like if you know someone cool, you can get like a weird, crazy shaman till I come over to your house and like hang out with you a couple times and like the second or third time they'll do it with you and the shaman person knows how to make the ayahuasca, you know.
Speaker 2:Can't we just Google that shit?
Speaker 1:You need certain kinds of things and you need to do a certain way. I'm not sure you can, but I don't know. I guess we can look and do it.
Speaker 2:I know I can fucking Google how to make crack.
Speaker 1:I can yeah, but you might die if you do it wrong.
Speaker 2:I can make meth.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you can make it. But do you wanna die Like? I wanna actually take it, I wanna do it the right way and not die.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I would take it.
Speaker 1:I don't wanna do meth or crack, even though I can Google it.
Speaker 2:No, I'm not trying to do meth or crack. I'm just saying information is so readily available.
Speaker 1:It is, it is, but those like ancient practices of the forest are not readily available yet.
Speaker 2:They are getting there. Everything finds its way online.
Speaker 1:I wanna try that. It's like the. It's not really a mushroom, but it's like confused with the mushroom and it's in the mushroom family. I think it's the one that the Mario mushroom is.
Speaker 2:It's like red and white one. Yeah, it's like a real thing, is it really?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and like I guess, like-.
Speaker 2:It looks kinda tasty, I guess. I guess I don't think it's tasty.
Speaker 1:I mean Mario does.
Speaker 2:I mean, it looks tasty.
Speaker 1:But that's why Mario gets biggest, because he's tripping balls and thinks he's big But-.
Speaker 2:Chipping, chipping, chipping balls.
Speaker 1:But the funny thing is that so the reindeer, the caribou or whatever where that thing grows in, like Norway and Sweden, they're addicted to that shit, like to the point where, like the shamans who be taking that stuff and turn it into tea and drinking it, whenever they go out of the hut in the cold and go to pee, the fucking reindeer and shit can smell it and they'll come up and lick the pee because it's like still hallucinogenic, like as you pee in caribou, and like so the freaking.
Speaker 2:So you're telling me that these mushrooms are so fucking good that everybody in that region loves them so much that they take so much of them that their pee actually tastes like it directly coming from their fucking-.
Speaker 1:I don't know about that.
Speaker 2:And so that freaking caribou and deer, it's still so good that they still want that shit, so they come and lick the pee before it hits the ground.
Speaker 1:I heard it on like Paul Stanwitz, I think was on like the Joe Rogan experience and I heard him say that like yeah, no, for real, Like the If that's not on your fucking bucket list, bro. It is.
Speaker 2:It has to be. I mean, it has to be on everybody's bucket list.
Speaker 1:I want those mushrooms.
Speaker 2:There doesn't seem like a poor review in the bunch.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, just fucking saying Five out of five stars of the Reinders are licking pee, exactly.
Speaker 2:Interview the entire forest. Everybody loves it.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, literally not like. Most things are like four out of five dentists agree. Like no five out of five Reinders agree.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, I don't really have anything else though this episode besides hoping one day a Reinder will lick the hallucinogenic pee. But like out of my hut.
Speaker 2:Take a picture, just snap a picture.
Speaker 1:It didn't look the same as whenever I saw it.
Speaker 2:It's actually a rabbit.
Speaker 1:That's not even impressive. It's just like a dude dressed up with a antler.
Speaker 2:Oh God, that was somebody I met at the reunion. Steve, what the fuck, steve?
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, but I think this episode we had some technical difficulties in the beginning, but we got there. We got there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we got there.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, thanks for joining us for this episode of the Weekend Rundown. I've been your host, drew.
Speaker 2:And I'm your host, Daniel, and we hope you come back and do the next episode of Weekend Rundown.
Speaker 1:And we'll try to get that on time next week. Thanks, guys.
Speaker 2:Take care И.