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Unexpected Tales - Where History, Humor, and Controversy Collide
Ever found yourself embroiled in a heated debate about historical events, or found humor in the most unusual stories? Well, buckle up! We're about to take off on a roller coaster ride, revisiting historical milestones, discussing controversial topics, and sharing some bizarre stories that will have you chuckling.
Get ready to journey through time as we explore the assassination of Henry III of France, the birth of Francis Scott Key, and Anne Frank's tragic end. But don't worry, we won't leave you teary-eyed. We also have some hilarious tales up our sleeves, like the unemployed Russian who took it upon himself to be a traffic police officer. You might think it's all about the past, but we draw connections to our present too, as we discuss our pet peeves about inconsiderate customers in the restaurant industry.
We round off with some personal anecdotes from our childhood and take on the tough questions about celebrities battling cancer and maintaining privacy, and a bewildering incident at a Chinese zoo involving a possible human-bear impersonation. This episode is a bag of surprises, filled with historical significance, laughter, and poignant reflections. Let's get started!
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Ever found yourself embroiled in a heated debate about historical events, or found humor in the most unusual stories? Well, buckle up! We're about to take off on a roller coaster ride, revisiting historical milestones, discussing controversial topics, and sharing some bizarre stories that will have you chuckling.
Get ready to journey through time as we explore the assassination of Henry III of France, the birth of Francis Scott Key, and Anne Frank's tragic end. But don't worry, we won't leave you teary-eyed. We also have some hilarious tales up our sleeves, like the unemployed Russian who took it upon himself to be a traffic police officer. You might think it's all about the past, but we draw connections to our present too, as we discuss our pet peeves about inconsiderate customers in the restaurant industry.
We round off with some personal anecdotes from our childhood and take on the tough questions about celebrities battling cancer and maintaining privacy, and a bewildering incident at a Chinese zoo involving a possible human-bear impersonation. This episode is a bag of surprises, filled with historical significance, laughter, and poignant reflections. Let's get started!
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Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of the Weekend Rundown.
Speaker 2:This is your host, daniel and I'm your host, drew, welcome back. I just wanted to say I got a lot of feedback last week about how maybe people think I hate cats and think I want them to die, which I don't. In fact, I'm sorry. I have a preference for dogs, but cats are cool if you're cat people.
Speaker 1:So why have I changed your?
Speaker 2:heart. Just clarifying. I'm not having a change of heart at all.
Speaker 1:What I mean. Yesterday you're all gung ho about we need to exterminate these felines. Whoa, yesterday, Don't no yesterday, I'm sorry last week.
Speaker 2:I did not say exterminate. You put me in some sort of weird situation where I had to choose and then you were like blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, it doesn't matter. My point is I don't hate cats like that. I don't want them all to die. They're fine. They're fine pets for people who aren't me. All I'm saying. But anyways, my point is, guys, we're going to go into our first segment of the show here. We have a name for it now, august 1st. Past moments reported presently with Daniel.
Speaker 1:Let's go into it All right, and today we have a ton of moments, so we'll touch down on a couple of them and a few others will just kind of skim right through. So the first one is Henry III of France was assassinated in 1589, on August 1st.
Speaker 2:A long time ago.
Speaker 1:Long, long time ago, he was assassinated by Jacques Wezcliment. 15 years earlier, the previous king of France, henry's brother, charles the ninth, had suddenly died without producing in there, leaving 22 year old Henry ripe for ascension. Henry III accepted the throne but was quickly faced with confronting France's mounting social tensions. In the late 16th century, france was internally battling over the issue of religion. Catholics fought against Protestants, and joint Catholic Protestant groups fought against the oftentimes tyrannical power of the French King Henry III. Both believed that a religiously tolerant monarchy could bring peace to France. But before he could see that vision come true, he was assassinated by Jacques Wezcliment, a Catholic fanatic posing as a courier. Clement gained access to the King's chamber and stuck a knife in his abdomen before being immediately killed by the guards.
Speaker 1:But his job dropped Because if you kill the king, they don't take you prisoner, they kill you this immediately. And then, in 1779, on August 1st, francis Scott Key was born.
Speaker 2:And we all know that guy right.
Speaker 1:And we know that guy as the guy that wrote the Star Spangled Banner. He was born in Frederick County, Maryland. Did you write?
Speaker 2:it in prison.
Speaker 1:I heard something different. All right, but he graduated from St John's College before going to study law under his uncle, who he assisted in Aaron Burr's conspiracy trial, Though he was only an amateur poet. The lines he wrote at dawn on September 14th 1814, while watching the bombardment of American forces at Fort McHenry during the War of 1812's Battle of Baltimore, have become perhaps the best known verses in American history. So where'd you say he wrote it?
Speaker 2:I was under the influence that he was like taking prisoner or something.
Speaker 1:I thought he was taking prisoner and was on a boat and watched it. That's what.
Speaker 2:Okay. So yeah, that's the same thing. But if he was in like a brig of the boat, I think, in like the jail of the boat, I think. But maybe both our stories are wrong, I don't really know.
Speaker 1:It doesn't really touch down on it here Wish it did, but but it's just a little bit. Just a little bit, and we have a lot of stories for today. August 1st is a popular day. I think probably the first of any month is going to be a popular day for history.
Speaker 2:Yeah, probably.
Speaker 1:So 1714, Queen Anne of England died. Queen Anne, the last Stuart ruler of England, dies after a series of strokes. She became known as the Baron Queen when she was unable to produce a living heir after 17 pregnancies. Whoa and her one child to survive infancy died at age 11. Ouch, After this parliament passed the act of succession in 1701, excluding any Catholics from inheriting the throne, after the Protestant Queen's death.
Speaker 2:Whoa what.
Speaker 1:The Stuart line died with Anne and her cousin George. I of the House of Hanover ushered in the Georgian era.
Speaker 2:Is that Gregorian?
Speaker 1:That's it, oh, gregorian, okay, I mean spelled the same as Gegorian.
Speaker 2:It is spelled the same. I just only know it because I think I've heard it before.
Speaker 1:All right, fair. Okay, so then moving on. We got 1944, and Frank writes her final diary entry.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're back to being dark real quick.
Speaker 1:I thought it wasn't that last one kind of dark.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's getting darker and darker. I just was like the guy was born and then the queen died and then now writes her final diary entry.
Speaker 1:And Frank made her final entry in her diary three days before the Gestapo captured her and her family. The 15-year-old girl wrote I keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be. If only things were no other people in the world. I don't understand that.
Speaker 2:It says I think you must. That's right. It says I keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if only there were no other people in the world. What she's saying is she wants to become these things but the people who are controlling the world around her. Because she was young and didn't understand it, the Nazis didn't allow her to do those things. She had to stay in that fucking attic. She got killed by those assholes.
Speaker 1:That just makes me think that Hitler's ideology forced her to have that ideology right. She doesn't want any other people in the world.
Speaker 2:She thought that she wasn't able to do anything else in the world because of other people. You are correct.
Speaker 1:And that's kind of what Hitler was saying you guys can't do all this because the Jews ruined everything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but he took a different route. She was just trying to do it to survive.
Speaker 1:He was doing it to eradicate you could see how, over time, maybe that could push somebody to be an extremist.
Speaker 2:Oh for sure. Yeah, I know, yeah, I get what you're saying. Yeah, but her situation was already like a C. I don't think it's fair to compare the two when he's the one who forced her situation.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I'm not comparing the two. I'm not saying she was a bad person or she was Hitler. But you're saying the way you can see psychologically how, if somebody's doing that to you.
Speaker 2:He influenced that directly. Exactly that's the reason why she feels like that's because of him. Oh, that's going to make you feel? This way. You all know he's a piece of crap.
Speaker 1:And then it's a vicious circle 1996. Big jump forward.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:George RR Martin's A Game of Thrones is published.
Speaker 2:We all had a lot of fan favorites dying. That too, I never saw it. It's okay. A lot of people did.
Speaker 1:A lot of people didn't. I feel like more people saw it. I said did, oh, okay, I was going to say, game of Thrones, the first novel of George RR Martin's epic fantasy saga is released. Martin would go on to write a total of five books for his A Song of Ice and Fire series, which was later adapted into the HBO hit show Game of Thrones. The author has said he intends to release two more books to finish the series.
Speaker 2:He never will All right.
Speaker 1:And then these ones are some pretty fast ones.
Speaker 2:Let's just go quickly over these.
Speaker 1:Except for this very first one.
Speaker 2:I got to laugh at this.
Speaker 1:Which 1774, English scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen.
Speaker 2:Before that, we were breathing nothing. Yeah, we don't know what the hell we were doing.
Speaker 1:I don't know how you could actually use something but not have discovered it, it's like anyone before 1774, you weren't credited with.
Speaker 2:You could have, but you weren't credited with something you knew People in Japan eating sushi for like 500 years and they're like hey, hey, hey, we just discovered the salmon. Wait, you mean the stuff we've been putting on this sushi for the last 500 years.
Speaker 1:That's a crazy claim. When that guy walked out, it was like you guys are never going to believe what this stuff does.
Speaker 2:It allows us to debate this.
Speaker 1:See what you're doing right now. See what you're doing. Oxygen I discovered it. You're welcome. Put it in a book.
Speaker 2:Because of me Fucking, pay me. My name is Joseph Priestley, remember me, all right.
Speaker 1:We're going to skip him next. 1781, britain troops under General Charles Cornwallis occupy Yorktown, virginia, where they would be defeated less than three months later, prompting the end of the Revolutionary War. Goodbye British. 1793 France becomes the first country to use the metric system. Fuck you. France, 1819, american author Herman Melville, most famous as the author of Moby Dick, is born in New York City. 1831, london Bridge officially opens to traffic.
Speaker 2:You thought we were going to say it was falling down 1834, britain abolishes the slave trade throughout the empire.
Speaker 1:1932, the American quarter featuring George Washington's face goes into circulation. That's a long time ago. 1936, the summer Olympics, now famous for the feats of American track and field star Jesse Owens, begin in Berlin, soon dashing Adolf Hitler's hopes of using the games to showcase Aryan supremacy.
Speaker 2:Wait, time out, time out, time out, time out. The summer Olympics came after the Winter Olympics.
Speaker 1:I guess so yeah.
Speaker 2:What the fuck? My mind just got blown, dude. Wasn't the Olympics, like, really, really old? The Olympics was started by the Greek people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but that was probably like. I feel like they probably did that. I don't know for a fact, but they probably did in summer and it was probably like modern.
Speaker 2:The deal was, was they did the reason why we do it every four years is because the Greeks decided every four years. Even if they were at war, they would stop to do these Olympics.
Speaker 1:But I'm just saying like it's probably got modernized to where, like it was probably done in the summer, and then we were probably like yo guys, we can do it like inside.
Speaker 2:My probably. I mean no, because when they do Winter Olympics it's like fucking snowboarding and skiing.
Speaker 1:No, bro, stick around for seven more years and eventually we'll talk about the first day of the fucking Winter Olympics.
Speaker 2:Oh, fuck you Okay.
Speaker 1:I still got more.
Speaker 2:We don't have to go through all of them, yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm OCD about this. There's like four more. We're finishing them. 1943, the American patrol boat PT 109 is sunk by a Japanese destroyer during the Solomon Islands campaign of World War II, with its crew largely surviving thanks to the heroics of boat commander and future US president John F Kennedy. 1966, Charles Whitman kills 16 people and wounds 31 in Austin, Texas, first murdering his wife and mother in shooting at random passerby.
Speaker 1:Even more the clock tower at the University of Texas at Austin, 1972, the first article exposing the Watergate scandal by reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein appears in the Washington Post 1981,. Mtv begins broadcasting with the Buggles video killed the radio star, the first video to air.
Speaker 2:I could hear your smile.
Speaker 1:Pete Cutters in Cheshire. Yeah, it's not that, but yeah, 1984, pete Cutters in Cheshire, england, stumble upon a 2000 year old preserved bog body now known as the lindo man, can you go up so I can see this bog body? What's a bog body?
Speaker 2:I think it was just a preserved body that was found in a bog, which is like almost like a swamp is a bog. I'm going to look up what the bog is, real quick.
Speaker 1:Like up the lindo man. I'm down man.
Speaker 2:Bog is a freshwater wetland of soft, spongy ground consisting mainly of partially decaying plant matter.
Speaker 1:So he was smoked and put there. That's where you put somebody, you smoke.
Speaker 2:But 2000 years ago, so it probably was definitely smoking people 2000 years ago.
Speaker 1:What is the lindo man? The?
Speaker 2:lindo man, also known as lindo to what the fuck and ingest as Pete Marsh. Yeah, is the preserved by bog body of a man discovered in the Pete bog of Lyndon Moss near Winslow. Basically just what you said. Why is he important? It's the first discovery in Britain of a well preserved bog body. That's why he's important.
Speaker 1:It's a fucking bog body bro, big fucking when I go. When I go, I want to be a bog. I can't even say that this guy fucking wanted to be a bog body. Y'all took him out of the bog.
Speaker 2:Put him back in the bog. Put him back in the bog. That's why you're not prospering like back in the days. Britain, you fucked it up for yourself.
Speaker 1:It's disrespectful that you put him in a museum and you advertise him as a bog body, when now he's a museum body.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's not no longer a bog body.
Speaker 1:No longer a bog body.
Speaker 2:We do not condone that.
Speaker 1:If you want to make money off the bog body you have to bring the stand to the bog.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right now you need to say we have a museum body, put him in a case in a bog.
Speaker 1:Hike people out there.
Speaker 2:That was a really long this day in history. There was a lot that happened on August 1st. Yeah, I think that's going to happen on any August 1st. The funny thing is that you said, and then another you have to come back next year to hear about August 1st, but the next time we'll talk about August 1st is like six years from now.
Speaker 1:I said seven years. And I didn't say August 1st.
Speaker 2:You did, you said next year and you said it doesn't matter. Either way, with the leap year it's six years right.
Speaker 1:I was talking about a whole. It would be seven years to. Are you talking about Winter Olympics?
Speaker 2:No, we're talking about two different things. It doesn't really matter. Do you want to go into today's articles or do you have anything cool from your weekend? You did. I did a couple things this weekend.
Speaker 1:I did do anything.
Speaker 2:I purchased the Flash movie.
Speaker 1:Okay, how's that?
Speaker 2:Don't spoil anything Decent.
Speaker 1:That doesn't sound good.
Speaker 2:It felt like a better Batman movie than a Flash movie. I'm not spoiling anything.
Speaker 1:Better than a Batman movie.
Speaker 2:Better than a Batman movie that's came out recently.
Speaker 1:That's not bad.
Speaker 2:No, I don't know, it was just the coolest parts were the Michael Keaton parts. But yeah, I don't know I did that. I worked a whole shit shit, shit, shit load, which I know I always say, but literally I worked earlier today and I had the most inconsiderate people bro.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what'd they do? So there's no problem if you want to be the first guests to come in the restaurant, right? We opened 11.30. It's cool. First guest in there. They asked if they could go to the beach while they're waiting for the food and stuff. I said yeah, no big deal, it's five o'clock, they're all at the beach still.
Speaker 1:I've been there for like six hours, since 11.30.
Speaker 2:So four and a half hours, and I told the guy at four, 25, like hey, yo, like we're changing shifts, there's a new server, like we need you to close out, and the guy said okay and I walked away.
Speaker 1:Are they ordering drinks or anything?
Speaker 2:No, haven't ordered anything since like two 15. Guy says okay, a girl is busing the table, this lady who's blessed her heart, but she's from Haiti, so she doesn't speak the best English. His first language is in English either. So he asks her in English what time do you close? She says 10 o'clock. He says good, I'm not ready to close out yet and just walks to the beach. It's like bro, what Like dude? That was not cool at all Dancer.
Speaker 2:So this new manager that we have, that's cool. He's like a fill in manager, he's like works at corporate. He went down to the beach and told them like Ayo, you have, you can't stay at the table this long You've been. You are our first guest today. We're more than happy to accommodate people for like two or three hours, but you've been here too long.
Speaker 2:And you're not even here yet You're not even up here. And then they said to me these people had the nerve to say to me they're like, oh, since we paid the 20% and we rented the table, we still put our stuff here. And I'm like, no, you didn't pay 20% to rent the table you paid 20% because you're a large party and that's a gratuity.
Speaker 2:Yeah, go fuck yourself, Dude they literally want to leave their stuff. They're like we don't want to get you in trouble. I'm like you're not going to get me in trouble. They're going to move your stuff or take it to the lost and found.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like that's what's going to happen. It's like we just don't want to take our stuff out of the beach.
Speaker 1:I'm like why Go?
Speaker 2:put it in your car Right? The other thing that makes you feel like you're high on displaying the um不能 is carrying clothes and you're getting breath In the face of that um啦, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1:I'm being curious to witness what you're up to to explore, and I hope there's something that you know everybody's like do you have Ganz the Right?
Speaker 2:I don't know, that was just. I don't like people like that. It gave me inspiration for a joke about, um, people who go out to eat with their kids and they take care of their kids. People go out to eat with their kids and they let them do whatever they want, like that table, literally let their kid run up to me when I was at another table, like greeting them, and the girl goes excuse me, excuse me, I go. Um, yes, like while I'm greeting this other table and she goes can I have a spoon? So I was like yeah, I'll be right there, and I finished doing my thing with the table. I take the spoon over to the little girl. She takes it like, jumps, dives in the sand, starts digging in the sand with it. I'm just like bro, this is why you interrupted me while I'm working.
Speaker 2:I don't know man, it just isn't a very kosher look for like and I bet you could guess that like I love that foreign people help pay our bills, but I don't like how they think that they can just stay for half the day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bro.
Speaker 2:So I don't know I'm. I would have like given the tip back if they would have left two hours earlier.
Speaker 1:The problem is, like a lot of these foreign people, their, their culture is just like different, you know but like we can just stay forever. Yeah, like they don't tip or anything like that. And also a lot of places don't get as busy as the island does.
Speaker 2:I get super busy out there, because now everyone's out there is just tourists.
Speaker 1:Parking spaces like that, yeah, bro.
Speaker 2:I also figured out that I'm probably moving to Austin either in March or what's like five months after that August, like August? Yeah, I'm next year. That'd be dope. Yep, I'm going to be moving on. Next chapter of the life, bro Getting out of Florida. It's like the same kind of deal. Right, Texas is Florida.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it sounds awful. Sounds like an awful swap.
Speaker 2:But there's more comedy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, you're not going up, you're not going down.
Speaker 2:I think it'll be better for my job. By then, I promise you, I'll be at least doing gigs at colleges. I'll be making money off comedy. Well, that's good, yeah. So do you want me to go into any of my articles, or do you want to start?
Speaker 1:You can hop in. I already did the one.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, your intro. So this one's kind of a dark one and a nice one. It's the body of a climber, missing since 1986, was discovered on a melting Swiss glacier Since when 1986?. Yes, sir, since one year before I was born 37 years.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the body was discovered by climbers hiking along the Theodoll Glacier in Zeromat, which, with DNA tests, confirms was the body belonged to a 38-year-old German man who went missing in September of 1986. Damn, yeah, bro, you can still see. It shows him. If you want to look real quick. It shows his shoe and shit. And yeah, it's pretty gnar.
Speaker 1:He was probably preserved because he was in that ice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it says he went missing, like you said, 37 years ago. The DNA test confirmed it was the 38-year-old man. He was found on July 12th and the identification of the mountain climber who had been missing since then. He had been reported missing after not returning from a hike. Could you imagine being like oh yeah, family, I'm going to go hiking. Yeah, I'm just going to go by myself. I do it every weekend.
Speaker 1:He probably didn't even tell anybody where he was going, because it was fucking 1986 and you didn't have answering machines back then. A lot of times people I mean a lot of times now even people don't tell people when they're going to national parks and camping and shit Right.
Speaker 2:I mean they'd say. They always say you should it said they wouldn't give more details about his identity or the circumstances of his death, besides the fact that he was on the hike and he was a German dude.
Speaker 1:Maybe he was a German spy caught up in some espionage.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and all it was was that picture that I showed you that belonged to the hiker.
Speaker 1:And maybe the CIA smoked him.
Speaker 2:Why the CIA?
Speaker 1:Put him up on that mountain and he just froze there for 37 years.
Speaker 2:Are we a conspiracy podcast? Now I got a conspiracy for you.
Speaker 1:No, I'm not a conspiracy, I was just touching down.
Speaker 2:Okay, saying this, could have happened. What's your favorite conspiracy that you believe is true? It's very controversial, it's okay, it doesn't matter Like this is hey, this next part, guys, is not anything that we're reporting. This is just stuff that we believe that's stupid, and we're stupid, we're dumb. Daniel's probably not as dumb as me, he's probably about to say it, but all I'm saying is is that don't take this next stuff literal. Anyways, what's your favorite controversial fucking conspiracy theory? That?
Speaker 1:you believe. I don't think America went to the moon. Well, I think we did, but I don't think we did that first time. Don't give me that. You told me it's like.
Speaker 2:It's fine, it's okay. The only reason why I made that noise is because I literally wrote a joke about that how I believe that that one is bullshit. But I believe I'm crazy enough to be like you know what I do think is real the fact that aliens made the pyramids, the fact that I feel like that one's more crazy. You know, another crazy one you waiting.
Speaker 1:I'm waiting in anticipation.
Speaker 2:This G spot thing we've been told exists. It does not. That's the most crazy conspiracy I ever heard, Like they're like oh, you're just not doing it right, Are you sure?
Speaker 1:I don't know, it moves on every girl. I don't know if you hear that.
Speaker 2:Well, I also. I heard this thing that like only this could be like, not a true statement, because I heard this like on that doctor, whatever sex lady Ruth, or whatever what's it. You know what I'm talking about, the old lady, sex lady from the nineties. She basically said like only 40 or 50% of women have it and it's always like you said in a different spot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a different spot. You better hope your dick curves the right way.
Speaker 2:Yeah you better. You better hope your dick curves the right way I'd rather have that curvy one. Or maybe just the straight stick will do. You're right, you never know which one. Sorry, mom, I know you listen to this podcast.
Speaker 1:I know that's what I was thinking. I was like God, I'm gonna let him just keep running with it.
Speaker 2:Hey, he looked at me funny so I knew to say sorry. Anyways, did you hear about? This is like off topic, but um, you're about Twitter, how they changed their logo from the bird.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can't remember what it was. What is it?
Speaker 2:X. It's just a fucking X For you guys that don't know. I just did like the X with my arms. It looks so stupid. Yeah, man, I don't know. They just changed it over. It's that X now.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I don't know why they changed it to an X it's.
Speaker 2:It's pretty strange going from the Twitter bird to an X, like I mean, the Twitter with the tweeting of the bird made sense, now an X just be in there. It's kind of like. It's almost like either, like it was what I would imagine DMX would do, if you like, actually knew how to use the internet or what is?
Speaker 1:Elon Musk owns Twitter now, right he?
Speaker 2:does, yeah, yeah, he's wanting to change it okay.
Speaker 1:So now he has one logo that's a T, one that's an.
Speaker 2:X. No, no, he doesn't have the T anymore because he owns Twitter. He turned Twitter.
Speaker 1:Oh okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, he does okay, and then what's the logo of space X?
Speaker 2:is it just an X?
Speaker 1:is he all about?
Speaker 2:X's TXX. What is that?
Speaker 1:is that trying to spell something?
Speaker 2:I don't know, maybe trying to like do something. Is he sending us a message? Bro, you want to hear something funny that I saw? Did you ever play Fallout?
Speaker 2:no, but I know the premise of the game, okay, so there's one called Fallout, new Vegas, and there's this guy, mr House, and he's like in this like basically, hyper chamber, he's from before the war and his consciousness, like his body's being kept alive in this like crazy pod, cryo pod, but his brain is plugged into this computer and he runs everything from the computer. And there's a new mod for the game that turns that guy on the computer into Elon Musk and literally it's his face, it's his voice, it's everything. And the fucked up thing is he's not really a hero and he's not really a villain, he's just like a statistics, like numbers, survival guy and that like the bad guy. He's not really the bad guy, but he's like, hey, we're gonna do these things that are fucked up because numbers, you know, yeah yeah, and it's like it's just funny that they decided like hey, you're Elon Musk now yeah, I wonder if Elon Musk gets profit off that definitely not.
Speaker 2:It's like a user mod, like someone like a skin, like a buy it, no, no, you know those aren't like follow-ups, not like that, like they're so old the games, it's just like user created mods. Now, okay, yeah, but yeah, that was kind of off topic a little bit, so you want to get into the next article, yeah so my next article is unemployed man dresses as a cop and works alongside real traffic policemen for two months so you just like want to be a traffic cop just wanted to get his name out there an unemployed man in Russia oh, yeah, so I did it during the whole situation that's going on.
Speaker 1:I wanted to be a placement. An unemployed man in Russia managed to live out his dream of being a traffic policeman by putting on a fake police uniform and going on patrols with actual traffic inspectors for two months nobody was even like anything.
Speaker 2:There's like yeah, you can be a guy tired of sitting around all day.
Speaker 1:Victor, a 48 year old unemployed man from Russia's staff or Stavropol region, you bought himself a realistic looking police uniform and join the ranks of law enforcement officers in the village of Piacki, piatty, gorsky. But Rob Gorsky, hey, you sound better yeah, I just did it with an accent relying on his traffic inspector, attire great acting skills and enviable self-confidence.
Speaker 1:The man patrol the streets of Piacki Gorsky, stopping negligent drivers and educating them on various traffic rules. Is unclear why Victor chose this specific person or whether he actually took any bribes from motorists doing his own holy shit, that's awesome, but his career was short lived. Two months after joining the ranks of the Stavropol traffic police, his cover was wait before you go, too far before you.
Speaker 2:Just, I just imagine, like this dude's at home, he's so bored, he's like screw it, dude, I got like 600 bucks, I can get like a suit, I'll work this out. And then he just goes and he hangs out with these dudes and then he's like this is awesome. I'm gonna start telling people what they're doing like how's he paying his bills? He was retired so maybe he was in the military yeah, but in the and Russia do you have to be part of the military? I think you do. Doesn't say retired anywhere.
Speaker 1:Just as unemployed says unemployed a lot it does sound, avoid a lot yeah, I don't see retired, he's 48 maybe he's um lives at homes with his parents maybe, but while checking footage from the bodycams of traffic inspectors out on parole on Pervo, my sky, a street in Piat Degorsky, authorities noticed that there were actually five inspectors on duty, despite official records only mentioning four. Footage from the fifth officer's bodycam was also conveniently missing and when trying to identify the fifth traffic inspector they found he was no policeman. Showed that Victor had gone on patrol with the four actual traffic inspectors at least five times since May and none of them had reported anything bizarre about him he just showed up and he was like hey hey, where are we going today, guys?
Speaker 1:they're like just hop in Vic there would be cop admitted to impersonating a police officer.
Speaker 2:Was charged with traffic violations, illegal wearing of official uniforms and obstruction of the performance of police duties doesn't sound like it's as big of a deal as like it is here, like impersonating a police officer well, actually here it says.
Speaker 1:Victor actually got off easy for a stint as a traffic police officer. His colleagues in the last couple of months were not so lucky whoa, they got in trouble they are now facing fraud charges of fraud, but deny the accusations, claiming that they had never met Victor before May oh never had any dealings with him damn homie.
Speaker 2:I thought it was like oh, you're in trouble because you let him get away with it. No, bro, that's a crazy thing, that's those guys got a hate Victor, can you imagine?
Speaker 2:can you imagine like, so he really want to be a cop. So just imagine, dude, you're 25 year old kid, you're like I know a way to get onto the San Francisco 49ers field. I can do it. He's 48, right, but I'm saying I'm not. I'm not saying okay, like, I'm just saying like, like, like, change, just change it around a little bit. Yeah, you decide I'm gonna do it. This guy did. I'm inspired by him. I'm gonna sneak on this field. I'm gonna get a jersey. There's some pads. I already know I'm just gonna start practicing with the man. I'm just gonna get on that 53 man roster. Just make sure everybody knows my name and how important I am. You know, I mean, but you'd have to outperform people right, right, right.
Speaker 2:But obviously for two months he was doing traffic copying and good enough to where the other guys were like, hey, we don't have to work as hard when Vicks around you know, vicks cool yeah, but being a traffic worker is a lot easier than being one of the 53 best men on a football team agreed, but there's also so much talent in America that doesn't get the opportunity yeah, well, I mean, if you see, if that happened he wouldn't get in trouble.
Speaker 1:If he was good enough, they'd be like you know what? We're gonna overlook the fact that you snuck onto this field and you're gonna play. We're gonna sign you to a rookie contract. You're not gonna be a millionaire, but you're gonna be a hundred thousand there.
Speaker 2:I'm okay, I've listened. The thing is, have you seen the thing about um, what's his face? You split for the Jags, then played for the Eagles as a backup. Gardner Minchee Gardner Minchee, you seen about him? Did not see anything about him so recent. There's just like article going around there like he still sleeps on a mattress he found in college next to a dumpster and drives his Acura. That was his high school graduation present and they're like, oh, how much more frugal could you be? It's like, bro, look at that guy's mustache.
Speaker 2:You he's saving money he's saving all the money, bro, and it's smart. That's like that one. Um, who is that baseball player who signed? He was a pitcher and he signed like some two-year deal and he still lived in a fucking conversion van behind a Walmart oh yeah, I know he was talking about.
Speaker 1:I can't think of his name, but I know he played for the Tigers and he was like proud of it.
Speaker 2:He's like. He's like I don't need nothing. That's like a.
Speaker 1:March on Lynch.
Speaker 2:He, he didn't tell any of his name checks, he just straight up put him right in his bank, right he?
Speaker 1:lives off like endorsements. Well, dude the second, you had that beast mode.
Speaker 2:He made beast mode a brand and then like you said they can endorse them by Skittles.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because Skittles on the side, yeah, do no one else could eat Skittles on the sideline of an NFL game and then come on, and this one has to be like one of the best do you? Know if you've ever heard, but July 1st is actually called Bobby Bonilla day.
Speaker 2:I've heard of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we've talked about multiple times, because he gets one point one, nine million dollars we missed it by a month every.
Speaker 2:July 1st for like what? 30, 40 years?
Speaker 1:no, for the rest of his life, I think really no really no, until 2035. Until 2035 and he's 59 right now. Yeah, but he got it from 2011 till then that's a lot of money for 20 years.
Speaker 2:It's it's money and he played.
Speaker 1:What one year 24 years yeah, but he played. I'm saying, but he played one year injured or some shit and they got paid forever like it's like the best contract negotiate.
Speaker 2:This has to be taught in schools bro, speaking of celebrities, you might text you. The other day Tracy McGready was I'm all right, I know, team back. One of the greatest he is the greatest and he was really funny is, um? We have this Hispanic lady. She was serving him and she's like he was not very what's the word she is? She's like he was not very polite. He didn't say please or thank you, and Sean was there and sounds like he doesn't have to thank you for anything. We need to thank him for all the great highlights we keep gave us true oh, I know that Dan was kind of piggybacking on it.
Speaker 2:I had to go to my table but I was like that's funny, I didn't he put up like what was it?
Speaker 1:what was that? A performance. He put up he's easily. I don't even know basketball that well, but I know he's easily a top 10 player all time and probably top five player yeah, but he's the one that put up like it was like 19 point or not 19, but it was like 12 points in like 18 seconds or something something stupid where, like you, can't do it. He's so tall bro so if you type it in, it just comes back 13 points and 33, how tall is?
Speaker 2:he, he's like 76 or 74. He was like a center. He was so much taller than me, bro, he was 6'8.
Speaker 1:No, okay, span 72, okay, okay. Okay, that's his wingspan, all right.
Speaker 2:Well, that's why that's why that's why it was so weird to me is because when he was sitting down, bro, you know, when you see someone you can tell they're tall because their arms are so big, like like you see a head and a body, but then there's like way more arm than there should be. That was him when he was eating as wingspan like he's one of them.
Speaker 2:He's one of those humans that, like, he's disproportionate and that's why he's really good at basketball. That's like, um, darius Leonard, right like he's, his wingspan's like like an extra, like half foot bigger than him. Yeah, yeah, um, oj Octavius, who we used to work with, played against him in college. He said Darius Leonard's wingspan was so big that when you run into him like you're running back, and you run into him, he'd wrap you up so much that his arms would go around you and come back and touch him like he's like I'm grabbing onto myself, you're not getting away that's nuts.
Speaker 2:That's a huge wingspan bro you're the big boy, darius Leonard's big boy? Yeah, man, I don't know. But yeah, that's pretty crazy about uh, traffic stop, the traffic stop guy. Like I couldn't impersonate anybody and get away with it. I mean, I'm not good at impressing he didn't even get paid, so yeah, but think of the empowerment he had when he walked up to people and gave him tickets and they're like okay, yes, sir, you know, all those tickets have to be voided it's Russia, it's not America there's no way they can honor tickets of somebody who was not a police officer.
Speaker 2:I mean you're right, but I would. I could see Russia being like you, still committed the crime.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:I do, I just see it. I'm not saying it 100% happened, but I got some more, some more sad news. Yeah, well, I think we all pretty much know at this point, but Peewee Herman, actor and creator Paul Rubens, dies from cancer at age of 70 70. He was 70 years old. It says Paul Rubens, the actor and comedian who was also Peewee Herman, which we all know. He's an overgrown child with tight gray suit and this unforgettable silly haha laughs. I can't even fucking do it.
Speaker 1:You know, I'm saying yes, yeah, I don't have very much attachment to be because he was. I ever watch it says it, says he is a 1980s pop cultural phenomenon.
Speaker 2:So, like I, was born in the 80s and you're still kind of popular in the early 90s. Did you know that Lawrence Fishburne, who's also Morpheus, was originally a recurring character on Peewee's Playhouse? Oh yeah, yeah, he was a cowboy that were all purple, I don't remember his name. Yeah, the only shows I ever knew watching was Barney Power Rangers, but I'm rocking, so I'm working on this joke right now, where, um, I actually said this to someone at a party the other day I go, I go, they go. I drew. How old are you?
Speaker 1:and I go.
Speaker 2:You know how there's different age groups of people and I go into the different age groups of people. Grew up with different hosts of blues clues. She goes, yeah, who's your host? And I go I'm too old for fucking blues clues. And she was like wait what? And I was like blues clues came out when I was like old enough to where my my brother in, like his younger friends, liked it like, and I was like, okay, I'm watching Ninja Turtles and Transformers and Like Peewee Herman was my blues clues, which is probably why I'm more fucked up. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I just don't remember watching too much.
Speaker 2:TV. You didn't. You like to play outside a lot, and it was usually when you were eating that you'd. I think you'd watch TV because, mom made you come in to eat. Like we had that childhood where it was like go outside.
Speaker 1:It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2:Doesn't matter, that's 103 degrees outside Open door. It doesn't matter what time it is when you say open door, like it didn't mean we could come in, like we could come in sometimes, but like they would kick us out of the house.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, I mean like open door to leave.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, not open door, like, yeah, like, if, if, if me and the other kid across the street, like the other old kid, we're picking on you and your buddy, like Sean, who are younger than us and you came in, you try to tattle on us, the parents would just be like go outside and figure it out. You're goddamn cells.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, they wouldn't let us come back inside. A lot of times they'd keep us out of the house.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just to be like hey, you're little, like six little boys are too much to manage. Did I remember we?
Speaker 1:uh, there was, there was, there were teenagers that lived in the house next to us and, uh, we decided there was like eight of us and we were, like we're going to throw water balloons, Bro.
Speaker 2:I've told this story so many times.
Speaker 1:Well, so we go and we throw the water balloons at them.
Speaker 2:That was when we had that.
Speaker 1:We had the launcher right and we, like ding dong door, ditched him and they like, pulled one of us inside it was Steve, right, and they threw him off the dock because he came back. So was it.
Speaker 2:Steve or was it Sean?
Speaker 1:It was Steve and then uh, why do?
Speaker 2:we choose the slowest one of all of us? I don't know. I thought it was. I thought it was Sean cause.
Speaker 1:Sean was the quickest. Maybe it was Sean, but I feel like it was Steve. I feel like Sean would have got away.
Speaker 2:Sean would have got away, but we can ask him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, anyways, um, we all ran away and we ran back to the Shannon's house and we tried to go inside.
Speaker 2:Mike said no.
Speaker 1:And Mike said, no, it's a beautiful day outside and there was so I think, me and Matt.
Speaker 2:Me and Matt had Kelly and someone else chasing us and we ran around the corner and we were about to go in the sand room and right now, I remember being right there and right as we opened the door, mike goes no, no, no, it's a beautiful day and we're just like, but they're right behind and like they ran up right on us and Mike was like what's happening here, and like the whole situation kind of got confused cause he was there but we thought that like if we didn't stall until they got there with him there, that they were going to throw us through the sand room into the kitchen and kill us right there.
Speaker 2:And like there were a lot older, a lot bigger. Like when you say a lot older, like I think the oldest one of us was Matt, who is maybe 12 at that time, and the youngest one of them was like 16 or 17. Yeah, and like the only reason we like to fuck with them is cause they tried to fuck with us sometimes. Dude, I'm just one tried to run us over but I remember one time I was just going to this rumba's house on the street and like eggs at us off Bro.
Speaker 1:I said you guys can use our dock. And then, whenever we went to go use the dock, they threw eggs at us as well.
Speaker 2:I remember, I remember one time I was just go, I was just going to this rumba's or like Sammy's house or something, and they were like out there and they were like hey, and you know that whenever in the nineties you just call people homosexual slurs, like whenever you're mad at them. So he said something like that and then I'm just like I don't know man, I'm going to play Legos with my buddy and he hits me with this like washcloth, but it was like wet and like sticky and gross. They like tip these washcloths in like bra egg yolks and just like whipped us and I just remember eggs.
Speaker 2:I didn't try to like. I didn't try to like run or fight back, I just like whimpered a little bit and said you're mean, while they did it to me as I walked over there to play Legos.
Speaker 1:That's funny.
Speaker 2:It's like what do you do? You just, you're just like okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's not like you can like fight them.
Speaker 2:There's like two of you and I'm like 11 years old. Exactly Like like I'm also like I know I look big, but wait till.
Speaker 1:I get my numbers up. We're going to come fuck with you guys too, yeah, we did, we did do that. We had to. We had to do it in like bunches though there was, but I also remember I was.
Speaker 2:I was like I was like that little kid that where I got to like where I was going I think it was Sammy's house I like told their their mom and she didn't like go beaming the kids but she like cleaned me up and gave me like pops or something, like some shit. We didn't have a home. Like yeah, I'll take that, I'll take that. Beating. Like the thing is is like when older kids would beat us up, like not really beat us up, cause you didn't get beat up, you've really pretty much fought everyone back. But when I get beat up by like way older kids like I don't know that like it ever, really like I never got knocked out or anything, it was just like a okay.
Speaker 2:I don't. I never got knocked out, but like what I'm saying is like I just like build a pain tolerance, like I was never like a good fighter, but it was like some people would just be like, yeah, I beat you up and I'm like did you, though? Did you beat me up? Or like, are you just done? Are you just tired now? Like, cause, I'm not done, I'm okay, I'm fine.
Speaker 2:I'm still going, I'm just bleeding, like I can't probably punch as hard as you, but like I could also just keep joking about this the whole time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I got knocked out one time. I just woke up in a park.
Speaker 2:They left you there. That's good Cause. A lot of times people try to hurt people more when they're knocked out.
Speaker 1:I don't know what they did after. I know I woke up I was covered in blood and we originally had went over there. It was me, this kid Compton and this kid Bobo because one of the kids in the park had jumped Bobo like two days earlier With some other kids, but none of the other kids were there. So he thought that he could jump this kid while he was with these other kids and apparently these kids were friends with him as well and I remember Compton didn't want to go over there. I can Compton, yeah, he didn't want to go over there. And when we went over there, bobo got hit in the face pretty quickly, just like punched yeah, and then I hit the kid that hit Bobo and then immediately got dropped.
Speaker 2:I think you told me the story one time before.
Speaker 1:Yep, and then I remember there was like three kids like literally like shoved booting me, you know. So I don't know if once I went out they stopped but they probably didn't.
Speaker 2:They probably don't know. You don't know right away when someone goes out. Yeah.
Speaker 1:But I mean I was in a solid fetal position. You know, I had my face in my head covered pretty well.
Speaker 2:So then Bobo woke me up and he asked usually like one kick to the head or the back of the head will do it, and he asked me where Compton was.
Speaker 1:He wasn't there, huh, and I asked him where we were.
Speaker 2:Oh, so nobody had an answer for anything.
Speaker 1:And then, once I finally started coming to, we, went back to the fucker apartment and Compton was sitting outside the apartment just waiting on us it comes to. The first thing he said was I told you, guys, you shouldn't walk over there, and Bobo just cocked back and blasted him in the shit.
Speaker 2:So hard. Just Compton just like got smashed by Bobo. He ate it.
Speaker 1:I mean he fucking, he did well eating it. But Bobo was mad and he was like I mean, if we're going to be fucked up, you have to be fucked up too. I mean he didn't like just hop on him and just start whaling. He just stuck him one time and says right, right, right. It's kind of like you saw us getting beat up and you didn't help.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you walked away. You got to help get, you got to get beat up a little bit with your friends.
Speaker 1:You didn't even just stand there and be like hey, just keep beating them up and whenever you're done, I'm going to help him out. You know? No, you.
Speaker 2:I'm thinking is that a thing people do? Like I go, like I'm not going to stop you? I'm like the medic, you know you don't hit the medics, you don't kill the medic, but like I'm going to doctor them up when you, when you're done.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, Just, I'll just wait. I want to wake them up. I want to wake them up If someone's got to take them to the hospital. Look at what you're doing. I'm hospital guy bro.
Speaker 2:So don't take me out, but he didn't even say none of that. Here's the deal In my experience, if you're not part of a fight and your friends are there and you want to help them, you're not.
Speaker 2:Never said he wanted to but if you're not pulled into it, what you do is you use that to your advantage. Like, I don't know Maybe I watched too much wrestling Get a weapon, get a chair, get fucking a tape. I don't know, I'm a big person so I can pick up a table, but like I've seen people break signs out of the ground.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying in public places, bro it just it takes so much time to like Like everything happens so fast.
Speaker 2:Yeah, when people talk about fights and they think like, oh, I could do this and that, and that it's like most fights are over within 10 seconds.
Speaker 1:It's very fast and it escalates even quicker, like we go over there, no, and there's going to be some sort of issue. But you don't think, oh, I need to grab a pipe or I need to grab any sort of weapon, because you're like, I'm with two of my buddies right now.
Speaker 2:But what I'm saying is is I'm not in the middle of the fight and I'm outside of it and I'm not your brother, I'm just your friend. I'm hanging out there, you're getting stomped and I'm watching it. I immediately am looking around for a thing I can pick up, so I can smash one of these kids in the head with that thing.
Speaker 1:I'm just saying this isn't like Like crouching tiger, hidden dragon. No, I don't think that like it's not like a long, prolonged fight where it's like, all right, halfway through I'm gonna be on my ass beat. So someone tossed me the num chucks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like you get hit and shit just starts going blurry real quick exactly.
Speaker 2:I don't know how we got off topic, though off Pee Wee Herman so quickly. We can get back to that, but I just wanted to say that Pee Wee had Mr Rubens anyways apparently had cancer for the last six years and he had came out with a statement before he died that said, please accept my apology for not going public With what I've been facing over the last six years. I've always felt a huge amount of love and respect from my friends, my fans and my supporters. I have loved you all so much and enjoyed making art for you, yeah well, that's a sad Thing to read.
Speaker 2:Well, that's kind of like. That's kind of like um remember His name is Chadwick Boseman, right the guy black panther. He did the same exact thing, bro, like he literally had cancer and didn't tell anyone.
Speaker 1:That's a virtual guided to. There was that, there was that interview with him where they said.
Speaker 2:They said Tell us about black panther too. And he smiles and he goes, he goes. I can't well, because before he goes they go. Can you tell us any anything? Or can you blow, blow, blow, blow, and he's like I can't really, I can't really develop divulge Facts about the movie. You know how Marvel goes? And he goes. All right, we'll just give us one, one little thing about black panther too.
Speaker 2:And he just smiles and he goes, I'll be dead, and Like smiles and they'll kind of laugh because it's like you're not gonna die your black panther, you're not gonna die, but like Damn, doesn't interviews you can find that interview where he literally says that, bro, and it's like any smiles, with like the kindest smile, like I've been working, I've been hiding this from all my other Marvel friends, like none of them even knew, dude, that's and the only way that like anyone knew anything?
Speaker 2:is that like the last movie who was on? He had to take like a week break Because he got real sick and he came back and he lost 10 pounds and he said he had COVID or something or lied and like Try to cover it up. Like oh, I just got real sick. I threw up a lot, like I know I don't look good, but like it's fine, like I've been working at like he started. This is how hardcore he is. Is that when he was dying, when he was doing that thing, he started working out enough to where it like Hid the fact that he was dying like oh no, he's gaining weight back, he's got some muscle again. He really was just had like the flu or whatever and then he just like Because he had fucking really bad cancer and he just hit it from everyone and everything, because he's like I got these kids that need to like look up to me. That's crazy.
Speaker 2:Isn't that nuts bro. Like how could you be that humble and that awesome of a dude to be like no one? What good is this gonna do in the world, if anyone knows you know, and that's why Paul Rubens, who granted he wasn't doing black panthery things while he had the cancer, but he didn't tell people, he didn't want people to know, for the last six years, like it's today, the day Paul Rubens is- gonna Do you know, I don't know, man, I just think it sucks he's gone.
Speaker 2:It's cool that he hid that from everybody, because lots of times they'll tell you you've got three months to live from this cancer and then you live six fucking years. You know right. I'm sorry that was so dark, but I just fucking grew up on the pee we. I love the pee we. I know we didn't really touch on his weird stuff in the theater.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I wasn't gonna get disrespectful on that. That's it. That's all I'm not trying to get disrespectful either.
Speaker 2:Everyone makes mistakes, and if that's the worst thing, the man did. You know there's way worse things, like we still love Michael Jackson. No disrespect there either.
Speaker 1:Whatever?
Speaker 2:the jacks hell man. I Still love Mike Tyson and that guy better do dear off and I'm pretty sure he hit a woman in the face, so still love him. We all make mistakes. Michael Vic, prime example, still love that guy fucking did dog fighting and you know Last podcast I talked about how much I love dogs. Still like Michael Vic. We don't make mistakes. We can come back from him, you know.
Speaker 1:So Peewee Herman did that in my eyes.
Speaker 2:Rip Peewee. Rip Paul Rubens. I'm glad that you were around and yeah, that's all I'm gonna say about that. All right.
Speaker 1:Well, I have one more, and it's kind of dark.
Speaker 2:My last one's a funny McDougal one, so that's good.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't know like a mix.
Speaker 2:Oh, I like it, it'll segue. Nice segue.
Speaker 1:I don't know you like the word might not think it's funny at all.
Speaker 2:You like, the word segue I think segway is a funny word, I just think.
Speaker 1:I Think it's one of those things where you know it's so bad and so unbelievable. Okay, so the title is couple sell eight month old baby To buy a new iPhone. Wait, can you say what? To buy a new iPhone 14?
Speaker 2:Actually can you say the whole.
Speaker 1:Thing again a couple sell an eight month old baby to buy a new iPhone 14. It's like open human trafficking.
Speaker 2:It's like hey, china, you produced the iPhone 14. So I'll sell you my baby a heartless couple in India.
Speaker 1:It's such a heartless couple in India that's it.
Speaker 1:A heartless couple in India was reportedly arrested you're not near your mic for selling their eight month old baby to buy an iPhone 14 and make Instagram reels while traveling. They couldn't. They couldn't go with like an iPhone, like 10 years ago, and you know, or something like that. You know, to make the reels they had to have the iPhone 14, so the baby had to go. Last week, in the immediate reported the shocking case of a young couple from West Bengal who were so obsessed with Apple's newest handheld that they sold their toddler in order to buy one. Jesus J Dev and sat he gosh, his name is J J Dev.
Speaker 2:Oh J.
Speaker 1:Dev. J Dev Started attracting the attention of their neighbors in North 24 Perganis when they started traveling around the state and flashing their brand new Apple iPhone 14.
Speaker 2:It's a big deal over there, a couple had been known to earn a meager monthly income.
Speaker 1:This blast these guys. Meager monthly income. They're heartless, they don't make any money and they had a nice phone and often struggled financially in the past, so the drastic change didn't make any sense, especially since it had coincided with the mysterious disappearance of their eight month old son, my best part, my most favorite part of this is that they share the iPhone. And says they weren't concerned about their missing son. The couple's neighbors notified the local authorities about the disappearance of their toddler after they couldn't get a straight answer from them about a sudden disappearance.
Speaker 2:They're like yeah, he just kind of like disappeared. He like walked away. He was crazy. He learned to walk one day. In the next day he's gone, he was out of here.
Speaker 1:He's fucking walked out. During the police investigation that followed, the mother saw he admitted to selling the eight month old boy To a woman so she and J Dev could buy an iPhone 14 and create Instagram reels while traveling around the state of Bengal together.
Speaker 2:Wow, it sounds like she had a plan, though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean a horrible plan, and why would? You admit to that you couldn't come up with anything better. But you know we couldn't afford the baby, so we needed to get rid of them to somebody who could afford them and we figured what better way To prove that you can afford them other than give us money. Give us an iPhone exactly. Prove to us that you can afford a Baby right, it's not.
Speaker 2:It's not a solid like argument, but it's way better than telling the truth.
Speaker 1:They're a better than the iPhone 14 story, which is like obviously the real story after interrogation, the mother admitted to the crime and informed that she and her husband wanted to use the money to take trips across the state so they could create content for Instagram reels Good for them as if selling their toddler son wasn't bad enough, the young parents allegedly attempted to sell their seven-year-old daughter as well.
Speaker 2:Shit dude.
Speaker 1:I'm successful. The police were able to track down the eighth month, eight month old toddler to the house of one, priyanka gauche.
Speaker 2:Did they take the seven-year-old away from the family and then give it to the person who bought the eight month old Cuz they fucking showed up?
Speaker 1:a resident of card in the same district. She and the baby's parents have been charged with human trafficking.
Speaker 2:It's terrible.
Speaker 1:What did I tell you? I know that terrible. Unfortunately, I feel like I won this article. People have done some crazy. There's winning to get their hands on my phones in the past, one man had been disabled for life after selling one of his kidneys for an iPhone that's insanity, like we imagine just selling your kidney, so that's like a silly thing. Do you need your?
Speaker 2:kidney.
Speaker 1:Disables you.
Speaker 2:I mean, if you don't have, so so I wouldn't. Why, would he say, you're? I feel like people have removed their, they have, they've removed them. But here's the deal like your body likes to have the two because it likes to have two kidneys, lots of times you remove your kidney to save a dying sibling, like if you're both. Your kidneys failed. How's it to save, will you? Well, maybe he had diabetes or something, maybe he had some other thing going on that, like you need two kidneys to function regularly and he got rid of it Just for an iPhone and I know they, you know you know how else it probably hurt him.
Speaker 2:He probably didn't do it in a hospital. You know what I'm saying. You're just like looking it up now, just going 17 years old fucking his parents don't even care. Bra.
Speaker 1:It says the 24 year old is permanently disabled and dependent on diet dialysis Cuz his kidneys are fucked it different iPhone for Wow. People sold a baby for a tennis dude. We're disabled for a four.
Speaker 2:You know what's crazy is? I had the one before that, so that makes me feel pretty old.
Speaker 1:It cost him $3,200, or that's how much he he got for it on the black he probably thought.
Speaker 2:He probably thought exactly what you thought like yeah, I'm 17. I don't need two of these things. Look at him now.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's awful he don't even look like. He looks like an Android user now, yeah the Doctor who did it told him he'd be able to live a normal life.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, of course he did, I bet you that was a great deal too.
Speaker 1:Like this dude doesn't sell it. Like he doesn't harvest other people's kidneys and sell them on the black market. He doesn't know what kidneys go for on the black market, he's harvesting his own. He's doing one. This is a one-time deal, one and out. You know, he has no idea. It's like. You know, let me get 3,200. This doctor's like Bet. Yeah, no, what we were. Soon, can you be?
Speaker 2:how did you know I was gonna offer?
Speaker 1:you that? That's? How soon Can you be here?
Speaker 2:and then, like some other doctors, like and then shows up and he's like, oh, it's totally safe. Did you're gonna be fine they're like it's three thousand two hundred dollars to be fine or two or risk, or if you want to be on dialysis Forever, will take the second kidney and we'll go that icy hot on your side.
Speaker 1:We'll give you 8000 minutes.
Speaker 2:Imagine, though he probably was, like if you throw in the second kidney, I'll give you another 60 grand. He's like wait, don't, I need that.
Speaker 1:Well, I won't say yes, I won't say no, but like you'll be fine.
Speaker 2:You should be fine. Just save this bathtub of ice.
Speaker 1:Oh see, it says unfortunately, the operating environment wasn't sanitized properly. Oh fucking door.
Speaker 2:Yep, that's a fucking seltzer.
Speaker 1:That's brutal. Okay, dude.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you want to be dark. You said you wanted to be dark.
Speaker 1:They ordered. They got eventual Compensation for 320,000 great.
Speaker 2:I'm on dialysis forever and I'm a fucking teenager. I got 320, jesus Christ look at that scar.
Speaker 1:I, you laugh. You know why you laugh because it's it's so.
Speaker 2:The doctor who told told him that he'd be fine. Also he stitched him back up and it looks like it was done in World War two by a field nurse.
Speaker 2:Dude you can literally see every single hole in there, like where he stitched him up. And the third one, from the bottom, looks like he used a needle the size of an elephant needle, bro. And there the second one at the fourth, fourth from the top, bro. He just literally was like it's fine, you don't need this, here's your iPhone. I'll just, I'll just give you the iPhone 800 bucks will call.
Speaker 1:even that is bad Jesus.
Speaker 2:Bro, I make jokes about like selling my right nut for something, but like, nah, man, not. If the doctor's like you'll be fine, Like I know I'm not gonna be fine, you need to tell me that what's gonna be wrong. You're just reading over there, huh. Yeah, it's just crazy. You know what I was thinking, bro. I was thinking we need to set our setup in here a little different for the podcast.
Speaker 2:Yeah we certainly should. I was thinking that, like if we could get another person who comes in on the podcast and gives a little commentary, but like like a background part, like a third person for the podcast, like they don't, they don't read as much as us and they kind of just commentary, but they're also like our Jamie in, like, like where we're like pull this up, pull this up, and they already know all the articles in a list. And we have a TV somewhere, I don't know wherever, that's linked to the computer that they're running, so that we don't have to fuck with this anymore. You know, it'd make it easier. I know we have some friends. If any of you guys want to possibly do that, just reach out to us please, cause I'm gonna be asking some of you guys soon. Be asking some of you guys soon, and I think it's a good idea. What do you think?
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I don't hate it. I think it's a good idea.
Speaker 2:We know we have friends and we just wanna make it look. You got a couple more than me. Whoa, I think I'm very antisocial.
Speaker 1:I think antisocial is the thing to be nowadays.
Speaker 2:Whoa, whoa, whoa. Here's the deal. Don't you dare say that I do things because it's a thing to be.
Speaker 1:I've always kind of a hipster.
Speaker 2:Whoa, you're saying I'm antisocial cause I'm a hipster and not because I'm antisocial. You're laughing right now, but not making noises. This hurts my feelings, bro.
Speaker 1:I'm.
Speaker 2:You're laughing, cause you're like I'm saying that.
Speaker 1:I am not laughing at all, okay. Whatever dude my point is is that, like I'm trying to be social for business purposes, yeah, but I think you made friends when you were an antisocial, so I don't know what the problem is.
Speaker 2:I just I can make friends one-on-one, but like they're like do you wanna go hang out with six other people?
Speaker 1:I know a lot of very popular antisocial people. It is definitely the thing to be.
Speaker 2:So you think I'm a popular antisocial person? I?
Speaker 1:do believe so. I think you're socially awkward, but people love that.
Speaker 2:Really, because the other day, like no, I'm not even gonna talk about it, forget, fuck it, fuck it, not gonna talk about that.
Speaker 1:Does it have something to do with me or something to do with somebody who you were gonna name?
Speaker 2:No, I wasn't gonna name anybody. Oh, I was just gonna say, like I said, this girl was pretty and passing the other day, like while I was drinking with my buddies and they forced me to go talk to her and I didn't know what to say and I talked about myself like a loser and yeah, then she was like I'm gonna go dance with my friends and I go. You should totally do that, because this conversation sucks and it's all because of me and I didn't know where to take it.
Speaker 1:And I was just like all right, now you gotta just listen, dude. Nobody wants to listen to you. Everybody wants to talk.
Speaker 2:Well, I wanted to ask questions but I was drunk and I wasn't prepared to talk to this person. My friends were like go talk to her.
Speaker 1:You know it was one of those situations, that's what I learned about being a bartender, or while I was a bartender.
Speaker 2:You just listen, but that's like. One of my problems is that I don't treat like bartending life and stuff like that, like very like in my regular life.
Speaker 1:And I'm trying to. I'm just saying that's where I got social was from talking to people behind the bar, right, and I don't really talk to people so much as just listen to them and then drop a little bit here, a little bit there, but I don't. No one goes to the bar and wants to hear about their bartenders problems. No, they just want their bartender to say it's Nobody wants to do that. They want to tell their bartender about their problems.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and their bartender will just tell them like oh, I think XYZ.
Speaker 1:And that's it. But nobody wants to be like oh yo, so how was your weekend? You know it's like no fuck that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I work, I'm very new, bro. Exactly, it's like. It's like it's like free therapy not free therapy, but cheaper therapy.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, just like that.
Speaker 1:And I get to find out what people suck A lot of people suck A lot of people suck A lot of them. So you got the last article.
Speaker 2:Yeah, is that the end of yours? That was the end of mine. Mine's a stupid and silly, so have you heard about that Chinese zoo that has like the fake bears?
Speaker 2:I saw something about it earlier, so the only I saw a picture and it was like oh, these sun bears, they're like and they're not endangered, but what's one step removed away from that? You know what I'm saying. Protected or something, yeah, some ish like that. They're like right there and it's like, they're like on the line, Like they were endangered before, you know, and this zoo supposedly has some. And the picture I saw, they're like oh, it's not a person. And the picture I saw, it was like the back of the bear and it was like folded up like a costume. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:Really, really, really. But this says the headline here says our bears are real. The Chinese zoo, says, denying that they're humans in disguise. A zoo in Eastern China is denying that the suggestions that the bears might be people in costumes after the photos of the animal standing like humans circulated online. The sun bears from Malaysia are smaller than other bears and look different, but are the real thing. That, hangzhou said Monday on its social media account.
Speaker 1:I mean, what would you expect them to say? I would expect them to come out and be like yeah well, you know we couldn't find any real ones.
Speaker 2:It said. Some people think I stand like a person, so the posting written from the bear's point of view. It seems like you don't understand me very well. An employee who answered the phone at the zoo declined to talk about the bears but said visits were being arranged for reporters Monday to see them, which sounds like we don't have the bears here now. They'll come back on Monday and we'll have some real ones.
Speaker 2:Internet users questioned whether the zoo's bears were real after photos circulated showing one standing upright on slender hind legs. That was the one it looked like, you know, like like when my skinny jeans are kind of sagging some and they bunch a little bit in the butt. It looked just like that, bro, like there was no butt to fill out this bear's fur and unless this bear had like. I mean, I guess it's a thing that happens because bears gain weight when they hibernate, right, and then they lose weight, so like they have extra skin. But it looked like a fucking pair of pants like not fitting right. Dude.
Speaker 2:It says sun bears are the size of large dogs, standing at most 1.3 meters or 50 inches tall. I don't know why the fuck you can't say feet, it's fine. That's like just over four feet right, so on their hind legs, compared to the nine feet for grizzly bears. Other Chinese zoos have been accused of trying to pass off dogs died to look like wolves or African cats, and donkeys painted to look like zebras. So this is like nothing new for a Chinese zoo to try to do.
Speaker 1:That sucks, You're paying. You just go see a dog.
Speaker 2:Yeah, look it up right now. Look up Chinese sun bear fake real quick. Chinese zoo sun bear fake real quick. And I'm telling you, bro, you're gonna be like bro, that looks fucking fake as hell. I just want you to see it because I can't turn my computer for you. That right there. Look at that, bruh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that doesn't look like a real bear to me, but look at its head.
Speaker 2:I've also seen here's. The deal that I've seen is that I've seen Jesus, dude, that looks like a suit right. Look at the legs, dude. It looks like feet. It looks like it's waving too. Come on, bruh, it looks like they took a sun bear. The mouth is open, though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the mouth looks like a head, but look at the back.
Speaker 2:Look at the head like the lump in its neck. That looks like a head. I don't know, man, I'm not there, but I could see it. That one looks more real. Whatever you clicked on there, that shit, though, right there, look at that dude, the middle one.
Speaker 1:The middle one. Yeah, it looks bad, it looks real, but I'm not a bear expert.
Speaker 2:Me either do, but like I'm saying some of these bears?
Speaker 1:they look like chains shaped.
Speaker 2:That one looks like a real one, though, compared to the other one.
Speaker 1:You can tell it's like more humanly shaped.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but the way it looks like pants sagging bruh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but that could be skin.
Speaker 2:Even look at the maybe. That's a hard maybe dude.
Speaker 1:Look at the way the mouth is open, and then I see it out of clothes.
Speaker 2:It's kind of like human gesturing. How do you know they don't fucking do some weird thing where he can adjust it inside? It's like in my thought process it could be a taxidermed head that has like a movable mouth.
Speaker 1:I know it's weird. They look like strange shaped animals.
Speaker 2:They do. But look at that one. That one looks like from a zoo and it looks what's the word I'm looking for Bulbas, like it's eating a lot, it's a lot. So maybe that was before hibernated.
Speaker 1:This is after.
Speaker 2:I don't know man my point is that I could believe that that is not maybe a real bear.
Speaker 1:I could see how you would believe that.
Speaker 2:Could you also maybe believe that I could maybe believe that I couldn't say that for sure I can't say it for sure either, but if tomorrow happened and someone said, hey, you heard about that bear in China from the Sun Bear.
Speaker 1:It was fake I'd be like I fucking knew it, dude, I'd be like, yeah, I thought that there was a very good probability.
Speaker 2:Like higher than 50% chance with the way that the pants be sagging on that bear Sagging pants, yeah.
Speaker 2:Why is your first sagging like my fucking skinny jeans, bro? I don't get it. I don't get it. I mean I'd be hibernating too. So maybe I do get it a little bit, but I don't really get it. I don't know bears. We're not bear experts. We just report the weird and stupid news. Also, we're kind of going towards not just weird, also some shocking current news, because we had to give it for Pee Wee, you know this week Paul Rubens.
Speaker 2:I mean some things you just gotta talk about, and last week we had to talk about Brani dude, we had to, you just got to, and we're not gonna stray away from that stuff just because we're a weird news outlet. We're still gonna talk about it. We're still here to talk to you guys about it, even if you're not able to communicate back and anyway, either than emailing me or, like you know, responding to anything that I post about it. So whatever you guys like in the episodes and don't like, just let us know. It's pretty much it.
Speaker 1:Keep us posted and we will keep making any content.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man, that's what we're doing. I think this has pretty much been the end of the episode, though it's been a weird episode all over the place.
Speaker 1:dude All over.
Speaker 2:Took us two days to make this one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the longest episode we've ever made.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hopefully it doesn't take us two days ever again. It's never going to. But the deal is is that, like we have lives, lives happen. But yeah, this is why if we get a third person and we can streamline this and we don't have to fuck with the computers and stuff, it'll be better. So I think we have a few people in mind that we might want to do it for us.
Speaker 1:I could think of a couple. We'll have to hash it out and see. See what they say. See what they say.
Speaker 2:It doesn't always have to be the same person too.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:It could be literally, it could be rotating people.
Speaker 1:Doesn't matter.
Speaker 2:But yeah, guys, thanks for tuning in to this episode of the Weekend Rundown. It's been a kind of weird and rough one, but also a really fun one and paid a lot of respects to a lot of awesome people and talking about a lot of stupid things. So thanks for tuning in. This week I've been your host, Drew.
Speaker 1:And this is Daniel and we appreciate you guys tuning in and tuning in again next week for another episode of the Weekend Rundown. Take care ["Sweetie Sweetie, sweetie"]. ["sweetie Sweetie, sweetie"].